Hello, readers of the Fanfiction world! Today, I gift you a new story with another fandom that I've recently been getting into: Steven Universe! Feel free to buckle up and enjoy the ride down the adventurous path of the Crystal Gems, including my own Gem O.C.: Moonstone! Disclaimer: I do not own Steven Universe or any of its characters; I only own my O.C.! I hope you guys enjoy today's first debut chapter!
Garnet: We...
Pearl and Amethyst: Are the Crystal...
Garnet, Pearl, Amethyst, Moonstone, Steven: Gems!
Garnet, Pearl, Amethyst, Moonstone, Steven: We'll always save the day!
Steven: And if you think we can't...
Garnet, Pearl, Amethyst, Moonstone, Steven: We'll..always find a way!
Garnet: That's why the people (Pearl, Amethyst, Moonstone, Steven: Of this world!) of this world! Believe in...
Moonstone: Moonstone!
Garnet: Garnet!
Amethyst: Amethyst!
Pearl: And Pearl!
Steven: And Steven!
Gem Glow
In a place that looks and feels like paradise resides a bright, beautiful place known as Beach City. A city by the seaside where residents could soak up the sun, sand, and sea and enjoy living in the peaceful surroundings around them.
In the town, there was a giant donut shop called Big Donut, which had a gigantic chocolate glazed donut sign on top to signify its bakery presence, its letters in bold white letters, a pink-and-blue striped roof, and a pink donut painted on the side of the wall. All appeared quiet and relaxing, where nothing could go wrong-
"Nooooooo," a loud voice exclaimed in shock/horror with enough strength to make it feel like the Earth was shaking.
Inside Big Donut, a little 13 year-old-boy with a thick, stocky build, fair skin, curly dark brown hair, dark brown eyebrows, and full black irises in his eyes, who was wearing a salmon-pink T-shirt with a gold star in the center, cuffed blue jeans and salmon-pink flip-flop sandals was looking through the window of an empty store box with sadness, commenting, "This can't be happening! This has to be a dream"!
At the store counter, a tall, skinny who wore tunnels in his stretched earlobes, had curly, orange-brown hair styled into a sort of mohawk, wore mint and dark-green high-top sneakers, a violet T-shirt with a half-eaten donut design on it worn over a pale cream long-sleeved shirt (which appeared to be his work uniform) was opening a box while a girl with fair skin and curly shoulder-length blonde hair, who wore a periwinkle polo underneath a purple shirt, which displays the Big Donut logo (an image of a half-eaten donut that resembles the letters "B' and 'D') (the store uniform), black leggings and pink-red shoes, was watching him open the box to take out whatever was inside.
Just then, the skinny man felt the little boy hug him tightly around the waist while he wailed, "Lars! Lars! Please tell me I'm dreaming"!
Lars, the now-identified man, retorted bluntly, "Get off me, man. I'm stocking here," and walked away while carrying the box, the force of his walking making the little boy let go and drop to the floor face-first.
"I'm sorry, Steven, I guess they stopped making them," the girl commented sadly, feeling bad for the now-identified little boy.
"Stopped making them," Steven commented while standing up, saying to the girl, "Why in the world would they stop making Cookie Cats? They are only the most scrumptious and delicious ice cream sandwiches ever made"!
"Don't they have laws for this," Steven cried out in almost a begging fashion while on his knees.
"Tough bits, man. Nobody buys them anymore," Lars bluntly stated while taking out a bag of chips to put away in a nearby shelf, adding on, "I guess they couldn't compete with Lion Lickers."
In the freezer along the walls was another ice cream brand called Lion Lickers with a billboard lion sign that was licking its lips.
Steven groaned, stating in frustration, "Not Lion Lickers! Nobody likes them! They don't even look like lions," as the lion ice creams inside looked like cute smudged lions, but that didn't appease to Steven, who stated, "Kids these days - I'll tell you what"!
Lars then mentioned while standing back up onto his feet, "Well, if you miss your wimpy ice cream so much, why don't you make some with your magic belly button"?
Steven did not appreciate that remark, shouting as Lars left, "That's not how it works, Lars," before lifting up his shirt and looking at his belly button, which had a pink diamond in its place, and asking himself, feeling doubtful, "Right"?
He squeezed his stomach a bit before pulling his shirt back down and looking at the empty Cookie Cat ice cream box, saying with a sad sigh, "Oh, sweet Cookie Cats, with your crunchy cookie outside, your icy creamy insides, you were too good for this world," while making a little steam drawing of a cat on its window.
He gave the picture a kiss, much to the confusion of the girl at the counter, who asked Steven, "Uh...Steven"?
Steven was hugging the freezer box tightly as the girl then asked him while Lars leaned over with a weirded-out expression on his face, "Do you want to take the freezer with you"?
With wide sad eyes, Steven could only nod "Yes" in response.
Outside the store later, Steven, with the freezer box tied to his back so he could carry it without trouble, was humming a tune while running somewhere. He jogged across the sandy shores of the beach before scaling up a small path that led to a wooden beach house that was built right into this really tall mountain, where a lighthouse resided on top, and the facing side of the mountain had a large carving statue of a mysterious figure, who was missing three hands, but still had one intact on its top left arm, and the figure had moss growing on its shoulder and torso.
Steven pushed the door open, declaring to whoever was inside, "Hey, guys! You won't believe this-,"
Suddenly, before he could finish talking, a large dark green bug-like creature with large mandibles, a light green EYE in its MOUTH, a grass green-and-faded green stripped underbelly jumped up, growling at Steven and dripping slimy ooze from its mouth, making Stven scream in fright, especially when it tackled him to the floor while the boy tried to pry it off of him.
Suddenly, a dark purple whip with purple gem pieces on it wrapped around the creature, pulling it away from Steven.
The owner of the whip, and the one who was using it at the moment, was none other than a gutsy Amethyst, who was a few inches taller than Steven and had bright lilac skin, dark indigo eyes, thick, messy, pale lavender hair that went down to her ankles, with a large bang that obscured her left eye, plump lips, and a small, upturned nose. Her amethyst gemstone was seen on her chest, the bottom half of it covered by the shirt she was wearing. Speaking of clothing, she was wearing a mauve, oversized, off-shoulder tank top with a black bra underneath, black leggings with star-shaped cutouts on the knees, with a tear above the left star, and small, pointed white boots.
As she was tugging on her whip, she called out to Stven in greeting, "'Sup, Steven," before pulling the bug creature away from him, making it go up before it fell back and crashed somewhere else.
By a shiny circular pad, an elegant Pearl, who was tall and had a slender, thin build, an ivory complexion, light cyan eyes, a pointed nose, and thin lips. light peach-colored hair that resembled a pixie cut in the front, while in the back, her hair lead to a point, and her gemstone could be seen in the middle of her forehead and had no facets, and wore a sleeveless sky blue top that had a yellow star, and a translucent chest and transferred into a transparent silk ballet skirt around her waist, short salmon pink-colored leggings, light-green socks, and slip-on ballet flats to match.
She appeared to be moving around in a sort-of "dance" while swinging her staff around to fend off the bug creatures that crawled towards her, with one of them being sent flying.
The one that was sent flying landed in the big gigantic fist-like hands, with gold star symbols on them, of a powerful Garnet, who had medium red skin and black hair styled into a cube-shaped afro, who wore triangular futuristic, translucent peach-tinted shades, which covered her eyes, a black and crimson bodysuit with cubic shoulder pads (the right one being brink pink, the left one being crimson), and a pale pink star with a brink pink outline on her chest, as well as long, elbow-length black gloves that covered her middle fingers.
She caught the flying bug critter and slammed her knee into its back before throwing it away at another bug creature as she used her giant fists to punch the other bug creatures away. One of them landed on her head, which she easily grabbed and stretched far enough that it became split into two, making it poof away in an instant.
Three more of the bug creatures were running up to Garnet before suddenly, a purple light was seen going right through them. The creatures remained still before spoofing away, as the purple light was revealed to have come from someone who was using a lightsaber, the figure being none other than Moonstone. Moonstone was taller than Amethyst and Steven but shorter than Pearl by 4 inches, and she had light blue skin, a crystal moonstone on her head with little blue dots that went around it, making it resemble a bindi, purple eyes with blue eyeshadow, long white hair with two long strands in the front held by dark teal scrunchies while the rest of her hair in the back was tied back in a lower ponytail by a green scrunchy. She was wearing a magenta crop top with a dark magenta rim, cobalt-blue sweatpants with a purple string tie and decorated with pink, purple, and greenish-teal pixel patterns, greenish-blue sandals on her feet, and grey fingerless gloves on both of her hands, each glove had a gold star pattern on them.
All over the house, the gems were working hard to try and get rid of all of these strange bug creatures that roamed in the house.
Steven, however, looked impressed by what he was seeing, asking in awe, "Awesome! What are these things"?
Moonstone swiped her lightsaber at a bug creature who was carrying a pillow in its mouth, chasing it away, as she replied while picking the pillow up and placing it on the table, "They're centipeetles, and quite a troublesome group of them."
Pearl had picked one of the centipeetles up, saying to Steven, "Ugh! Sorry, Steven. We'll get these centipeetles out of your room."
The centipeetle roared loudly and struggled in her grip while Pearl explained, "We think they were trying to get into the temple."
Steven approached Pearl, saying as he looked at the centipeetle, "Aw, you don't have to get rid of them. They are really cool"!
Suddenly, the centipeetle spat acid on the floor near where Steven was standing, making a hole melt through the floor, one that Steven and Pearl looked at in shock.
"Note: It wouldn't really be as cool to have these things shooting acid on all your stuff, though, wouldn't it," Moonstone clarified while slicing through another centipeetle with her lightsaber, making it disappear.
By where Pearl was earlier, Amethyst had used her whip to catch another centipeetle and poofed it before she commented in confusion, "Um, you guys? These things don't have gems."
"That means there must be a mother somewhere nearby," Garnet theorized while standing by Steven and Pearl before punching away a centipeetle that tried to sneak up on her.
"It would explain why these centipeetles are easy to poof without the gems appearing once they vanish," Moonstone replied while putting her lightsaber away.
"We should probably find it before anyone gets hurt," Pearl suggested while the centipeetle she was holding still struggled in her arms.
The idea of an adventure excited Steven, who asked eagerly, "Ooh! Ooh! Can I come? Can I? Can I"?
"Note: It might not be wise for you risk facing these creatures without your gem power being unlocked yet," Moonstone commented in concern.
Steven, not wanting to be deterred too easily, replied back, "I'll be really careful! I'll promise"!
Unfortunately for him, Pearl responded by telling him as she twisted the head of the centipeetle and made it disappear, "Steven, until you learn to control the powers in your gem, we'll take care of protecting humanity, okay"?
"Aw, man," Steven replied sadly, feeling disappointed that he wasn't gonna be able to join the gems on the mission.
However, the sound of clattering got his attention and made him look up, seeing that a centipeetle was ransacking the fridge, which he shouted at while chasing it away, "Hey! Get out of there! Go on! Shoo! Shoo"!
All that was left of the centipeetle's mess was a stolen can of strawberry yogurt and a spilled carton of milk, as Steven examined the contents inside the fridge, saying, "Aw! They got into everything"!
The centipeetle tried to get away, but it was stopped by Garnet, who punched it away and made it poof while Steven shouted at it, "Not cool"!
Then, he looked up in the freezer and noticed a particular set of packed treats inside; the packed treats all had pink wrappings and a picture of a black smiley cat, with half its eye and teeth being white and the other half being pink. This was no ordinary ice cream treat; this was...Cookie Cat!
Steven was so surprised; he almost couldn't believe it himself, exclaiming while his eyes widened in awe, his pupils becoming stars, "No way! I-It can't be"!
Steven took one of the ice cream packs out and looked at it happily, asking Pearl, who came by and closed the freezer door, "What- where did you get these?! I thought they stopped making them"!
"Well, we heard that, too, and since they are your favorite..." Pearl started to explain.
"We went out and stole a bunch," Amethyst shouted out while sitting on the kitchen counter as Garnet and Moonstone walked over to where Steven was.
"I went back and paid for them," Pearl, a bit annoyed, clarified.
"Note: we figured it'd make you happy to have your favorite treat," Moonstone commented while resting her arms behind her head.
"The whole thing was my idea," Garnet added on.
"It was everyone's idea," Amethyst pointed out, while Garnet replied, "Not really."
Moonstone rolled her eyes playfully in response while Pearl stated, "All that matters is that Steven is happy."
And indeed, Steven WAS happy! His favorite ice cream treat, inside his house! It felt like all was good in the world!
Moonstone noticed the happy look on Steven's face and the way he was looking at the ice cream pack as she commented with a giggle, "Here comes the song."
And on cue, Steven started to deliver a fun rap in front of the gems.
Steven: Ahhhhhh! He's a frozen treat with an all-new taste!
'Cause he came to this planet from outer space!
A refugee of an interstellar war!
But now he is at your local grocery store!
Cookie Cat!
He's a pet for your tummy!
Cookie Cat!
He's super duper yummy!
Cookie Cat!
He left his family behind!
Cookie C-a-a-a-a-a-t!
"Now available at Gergins off Route 109," Steven added in a muffled, commercial-like voice since the rap had originally come from a commercial about Cookie Cats.
The gems all broke into laughter while applauding Steven for the fun "performance" he gave.
Steven then looked at the ice cream pack in his hands, saying to the gems, "I can't believe you did this! I'm gonna save these forever...right after I eat this one," before opening the pack he had and taking the ice cream treat out.
The treat was an ice cream sandwich with fluffy chocolate bread and a mix of vanilla and strawberry ice cream, all while in the shape of a cat, with two holes for its eyes.
"Hello, old friend," Steven said to the ice cream sandwich before eating one of its ears off, commenting as he chewed, "So good! I like to eat the ears first."
Suddenly, while Steven was eating, his gem appeared to glow from under his shirt, which was a surprising sight for the gems.
"Uh, Steven," Amethyst spoke up, alerting Steven of what was happening.
Steven looked down at his shirt and saw that his gem was glowing through it, commenting as he lifted his shirt up, "My gem"!
"Note: your power might be activating now," Moonstone commented in excitement.
"Quick! Try and summon your weapon," Amethyst suggested.
"I don't know how," Steven replied, unsure of what to do or how to do it.
Then, the glow started to fade, which made Steven panic and cry out, "Aah! It's fading! How do I make it come back"?!
Pearl tried to help Steven relax by telling him calmly, "Calm down, Steven. Breathe. Don't force it."
"Yeah. And try not to poop yourself, either," Amethyst added in.
"Ew, Amethyst," Moonstone cringed while shooting a "Really?" glare at her, while Amethyst snickered in response.
"Please, don't," Garnet added in.
Then, the glow in Steven's gem faded away, and his gem was back to begin dormant again, much to the disappointment of the gems, who all let out sad sighs.
Steven slid down into a sitting position, commenting sadly, "Aw! I was really close that time"!
Moonstone pulled out a light purple notepad and wrote something in it with a purple pen, saying at the same time, "Note: compared to the previous times your gem has reacted before, this time has been the closest since your power first started to emerge."
"You'll get it soon, Steven; you just need a little more practice," Garnet added reassuringly.
Still feeling a little doubtful, Steven placed the ice cream treat back into its wrapping before he asked the gems, "Can one of you just explain how to summon a weapon"?
Pearl eagerly raised her hand, answering excitedly in a sing-songy voice, "Oh! I'll go first"!
"No surprise there," Moonstone commented with a snicker.
Out in a grassy field, under a tall, beautiful tree with flowing pink petals and leaves, Steven was sitting and paying close attention to Pearl, who advised the boy, "Pay attention to these petals, Steven."
He watched the falling petals while Pearl explained, "The petals' dance seems improvised, but it is being calculated in real-time, based on the physical properties of this planet. With hard work and dedication, you can master the magical properties of your gem and perform your own dance"!
To demonstrate, Pearl cupped her hands around her gemstone and summoned her weapon: her signature glowing scaffold staff, which she grabbed and spun it around, making it extend to her height, before adding in as she caught a flower petal, "Like so."
Steven looked very confused by this as he scooped up some flower petals, wondering if he could try it out in the same way as Pearl did.
Later on, outside the Big Donut, Steven was trying to recreate Pearl's dance, throwing the flower petals he collected up into the air.
"Did Pearl tell you the petal thing," Amethyst, who was holding a doughnut, asked him?
"Yeah," Steven replied while explaining, "I need to practice really hard so I can dance like a tree... I think."
Amethyst approached him, telling Steven, "Listen, Steven. All that practice stuff is no fun."
She took a bite of her doughnut before adding on, saying while her mouth was full, "Whenever I need to summon my weapon, it just happens"!
To demonstrate, Amethyst reached for the gemstone on her chest, which glowed, and she pulled out her trusty whip, which she then used to slice right down the middle of a dumpster.
"See? Didn't try at all," Amethyst replied proudly.
Steven still looked confused about what to do, but his thoughts got interrupted when he heard LArs shout in shock while he dropped the bag of garbage he was gonna dump out, "Again"?!
Up on the hill a while later, Steven was sitting with Garnet, asking her, "So, I'm supposed to work really hard and not try at all at the same time"?
"Yes," Garnet replied, straight and simple.
An awkward silence fell upon them as Steven looked perplexed as ever before Garnet elaborated, "Or...," before explaining while doing some hand motions, "You can link your mind with the energy of all existing matter, channeling the collective power of the universe through your gem, which results in..."
After doing the vogue-like hand motions, her giant metallic fists formed, as Garnet replied, "At least that's my way of doing it."
Steven, on the other hand, did not understand ANY of it! It felt like his brain was lost in this lesson!
On the beach, Steven was sitting on a rock and watching Moonstone, who explained, "Note: summoning your weapon is like the flow of the ocean waves. It's a feeling; a feeling that you just have to let flow through your mind and body."
Moonstone walked over to the edge of the shore, where a small wave greeted her and covered her feet in ocean water, as Moonstone closed her eyes, saying, "Drown out all distractions and negative thoughts; anything that can trouble your mind and heart. Then, when you're in a calm state, you just breathe, and.."
On cue, her moonstone gem glowed, and a light shot out from it before Moonstone leaped up into the air and grabbed what got shot out, the light transforming into the handle of her lightsaber, which was silver with dark grey diamond designs on it, and on top, it had a grey rim that matched the color of her fingerless gloves, with little yellow light-up dots on it. When Moonstone landed back on the ground, the purple laser light appeared on her lightsaber, glowing and just as powerful as before.
"Woah," Steven uttered in surprise.
"Pretty impressive, I know," Moonstone commented while waving her lightsaber around, adding, "It just takes practice, and-,"
Just then, her lightsaber had cut right through a flying frisbee, cutting it right in half, much to her surprise. She then heard a little boy's voice shout from a distance, "Hey, you broke my frisbee, blue lady"!
Moonstone had a sheepish grin before saying to Steven, "And focus."
After the lessons, Steven decided to try an idea he came up with that just might work.
In the kitchen, Steven explained to the gems, "I think my best bet is to re-create what happened the last time my gem glowed."
"So... Garnet and Amethyst were here," Steven mentioned as Amethyst sat back on the counter and Garnet stood in the same spot she stood earlier.
"Pearl was next to the fridge, and Moonstone was standing next to you," Steven explained as Pearl and Moonstone stood by where Steven told them to.
Steven looked back and forth, trying to see if everything was exactly like it was when his gem had glowed earlier. He then suggested to Amethyst, "Amethyst, I think your arms were crossed."
"Okay, your majesty," Amethyst answered jokingly while crossing her arms.
"Moonstone, your arms were behind your head like this," Steven told her while demonstrating.
Moonstone placed her arms back behind her head while saying, "Understood, although I fail to see the logic in this."
"And, Pearl, your foot was like this," Steven told Pearl while adjusting her foot.
Pearl, however, was feeling very skeptical about what Steven had in mind, commenting in confusion, "I don't think it works this way, Steven."
"And, Garnet... uh... uh... yeah," Steven said while having Garnet positioned standing upright.
He then opened the freezer and took out the Cookie Cat he was eating earlier, saying, "Then I took a bite of this Cookie Cat. Oh! Wait! I sang the song first"!
"Uh, he's a frozen treat... all new taste... interstellar war... and now available at Gergins," he rushed through the rap before commenting sadly, "Aw! It was funnier last time"!
He looked down at his gem sadly, stating, "Maybe I'm not a real Crystal Gem."
"Don't be silly, Steven. Of course you are," Pearl told Steven reassuringly.
"And you're fun to have around, even if your gem IS useless," Amethyst replied, her comment earning a stone-cold look from Pearl and a raised eyebrow from Moonstone, which made the female purple gem recoup her words and state, "I mean... you're one of us, Steven. We're not the crystal gems without you."
"Yeah, no matter if you have a weapon or not, you're always gonna be a Crystal Gem," Moonstone mentioned happily while Garnet nodded in agreement.
The words of encouragement from his friends seemed to be helping Steven feel better, as he replied with a smile, "Yeah. Even if I don't have powers, I've still got... Cookie Cat"!
He closed his eyes and took another bite of his ice cream treat, commenting happily, "So good"!
Just then, to everyone's surprise, Steven's gem started to glow again, but this time, the light did not fade; instead, it glowed brighter and brighter, in a bright flash of light, it formed a beautiful pink shield with a light pink swirl that grew from the gem center of the shield and a blue rim around the shield.
It looked absolutely gorgeous, like nothing no one had ever seen before! Garnet and Amethyst gasped in awe, Moonstone grinned excitedly while writing down what was happening in her notepad, and Pearl commented happily, "Steven, it's a shield"!
Pearl's comment made Steven open his eyes and see the shield first-hand, which made him comment in shock/surprise, "Oh! What?! I get a shield?! Oh, yeah"!
However, in his excited outburst, he accidentally launched the shield, which then bounced around all over the house before crashing into the TV, breaking the television.
"Oh my," Moonstone commented in shock while Amethyst laughed at how hilarious it was to see the shield cause such mayhem. Pearl, on the other hand, couldn't help but facepalm in response to what had happened.
Steven looked at the ice cream treat he still was holding, and it all seemed to click to him; apparently, the power seem to come out whenever he was eating ice cream, so perhaps...that was how he could activate it! The idea set in his mind, he declared, "Oh! Cookie Cat! I summon my weapon by eating ice cream"!
"What's in these things," Pearl asked while looking at the wrapper that was on the floor.
"Sugar, lactose, chocolate syrup; standard human ingredients, but nothing out of the ordinary that would cause one's gem powers to emerge like how Steven has," Moonstone answered while looking at the wrapper afterward.
Suddenly, the moment got disrupted when the house started to shake, and a loud rumbling could be heard from outside. The gems all looked to see what, or who, could be causing such a ruckus and outside the door, the silhouettes of a bunch of centipeetles, including one very large centipeetle, could be seen scaling to the top.
The large one seemed to stand out the most, with Steven asking while the shield in the TV faded away, "What was that"?
Garnet, Pearl, Amethyst, and Moonstone ran outside to look, and they found a gigantic centipeetle with white hair on top of the cliffside, and judging by the looks of it, that only meant one thing!
"It's the mother," Garnet called out before she leaped up to meet it face-to-face.
Pearl warned Steven, "Stay in the house, Steven," as she didn't want Steven to get hurt from having to fight this beast.
However, Steven really wanted to help, as he shouted while running inside, "No way! I'm coming too"!
He went into the kitchen and got a bunch of Cookie Cat ice cream sandwiches and a portable outlet to bring the freezer with him.
Back outside, Garnet had leaped up into the air and kicked the mother centipeetle in the head, but it didn't seem like it did anything to it other than aggravate it. It chased Garnet down to the bottom of the ground as Pearl, Amethyst, and Moonstone leaped down from the house to join Garnet in the fight.
The centipeetle let out a large roar before spewing a large blob of acid at them, which the gems all jumped away to dodge. They took cover behind a gigantic statue hand that was big enough to hide them and gave them a moment to catch their breaths, but the centipeetle spewed more acid at the rock, making it slowly start to melt and wither away.
"We could really use Steven's shield right about now," Amethyst commented to the other gems while the rock was slowly becoming mush.
Just then, a loud "Hey," got the centipeetle's attention, making it turn his head to see who called out.
It turned out to be Steven, who was carrying the freezer, which was plugged into a long chain of portable plug-in cords. He placed the freezer down and shouted at the centipeetle, "Leave them alone"!
"Steven! No," all the gems shouted in concern, worried Steven was gonna get hurt, especially since his powers were still new and they were unsure if his powers were gonna activate again.
Steven didn't look afraid, as he had a game plan: to eat a Cookie Cat and activate his shield again to protect his friends so they could fight that centipeetle and save the day! Completely fool-proof and without fail, right?
"Cookie cat crystal-combo powers, activate," Steven declared, ready to power up, taking a big bite from a Cookie Cat, thinking it would help trigger his shield to emerge again, as he watched the centipeetle approach him and lifted his shirt up, waiting for his gem to glow and do its thing again.
However, this time, there was no shield; there wasn't even a glow. It just...didn't emerge.
Steven noticed this, and he realized that his plan wasn't working this time, and not only that, but the centipeetle was getting very close to him with its acid-pouring jaws. In a panic, he grabbed the freezer and ran for his life, screaming in fear while the centipeetle chased after him.
"We need to save Steven," Pearl shouted, worried about Steven getting hurt.
However, her comment got the centipeetle's attention, as it clamped its jaws and tried to grab the gems but only crushed the melted rock.
"Can we save ourselves first," Amethyst commented as the gems ducked to avoid the acid-pouring jaws.
"What we need right now is a plan, and a good one," Moonstone commented.
Back with Steven, he had opened up all of the Cookie Cat ice cream sandwiches, telling the treats, "Goodbye, my friends," before he started to eat them, thinking eating more Cookie Cats would help.
However, instead of a gem glow or a shield, all he got in response was a tummy rumble, one that left Steven panicking, "Why isn't it working"?!
He had to jump out of the way to avoid another acid blast from the centipeetle.
Garnet peeled out from behind the rock, calling out to Steven, "Steven-," but as quick as lightning, the centipeetle's tail jaws reached down to clamp around Garnet. Garnet was able to stop them from closing but struggled to keep the jaws pried open so they wouldn't close on her.
Steven got up, worried for his friends' safety, but then, he turned his head and saw that the Cookie Cat freezer was broken dn sparking with electricity, almost as melted as the ice cream sandwiches he ate.
"Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no," Steven panicked when he saw the melted freezer, trying to see if there was some way to save it. But it was no use; it was almost...gone.
Looking at the shattered window, Steven then, to the gem's confusion while they tried to avoid getting hit by the acid spews, started to rap the chorus line of the Cookie Cat commercial slowly, "Cookie Cat, he's a pet for your tummy. Cookie Cat, he's superduper yummy"!
With renewed vigor, Steven grabbed the cord of the broken freezer, shouting, "Cookie Cat! He left his family behind"!
He spun it around and with a mighty declaration, "Cookie C-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-t," he threw the broken freezer at the centipeetle's back, giving it such a powerful electric shock that stunned it dearly.
"Now available...nowhere," Steven commented softly while dropping to his knees, seeing the last bit of Cookie Cat vanish in helping to save his friends.
The gems were surprised to see how Steven was able to neutralize the centipeetle, and in such an odd but unique fashion too.
"Well, that is one way to paralyze an enemy," Moonstone commented in surprise while Pearl was jaw-dropped by what she was witnessing Steven do.
"Yes," Amethyst cheered.
"Gems, weapons," Garnet told the three.
With a strong blast of energy, the remainder of the rock they were hiding behind was blasted away, and all 4 gems, with their weapons at hand; Pearl with her staff, amethyst with her whip, Garnet with her metallic fists, and Moonston with her lightsaber, were ready to fight, with Garnet declaring, "Let's do it."
In a powerful rush, the 4 gems rushed towards the centipeetle, who soon recovered from the electric shock, but got a full taste of the weapons hitting it, creating a powerful blast of smoke.
When the smoke died down, all that remained of the former centipeetle was a glowing green eyeball-like gem that fell to the ground, rolling right up to Garnet's foot, which caught it. She touched the top of the gem, encasing it in a pink bubble, before tapping the bubble and sending it off somewhere to be stored away so that the centipeetle could no longer do any harm.
Once that was finished, all seemed peaceful and calm again, except for one pressing matter.
The gems turned their heads and saw Steven, who was burying the last Cookie Cat wrapper in the ground and placing a leaf on top of the dirt pile while saying sadly to it while tears built up around his eyes, "Farewell, sweet Cookie Cats. I'll always remember the time we spent together."
Steven felt his stomach rumbling as he shushed his stomach, saying, "Shh. Hush now."
"Are you crying," Amethyst asked Steven out of curiosity?
"Only a little," Steven exclaimed.
Moonstone commented as she approached Steven and knelt down, saying, "Note: I never imagined this would be how Cookie Cats would want to be buried: up on a hill with its number 1 fan."
Garnet and Pearl joined up with Steven as Amethyst pointed out, "Well, I guess your powers don't come from ice cream."
"Of course, they don't come from ice cream," Pearl clarified, but seeing that it didn't seem to make Steven feel a lot better, she knelt down and told him reassuringly, "Don't worry, Steven. I'm sure someday you'll figure out how to activate your gem."
"It may be tricky, but I know you'll be able to figure it out," Moonstone happily added on.
"Yes. In your own Steveny way," Garnet added on.
Steven looked up at his friends and smiled, saying, "I'm okay, guys! I just...," but then, he got interrupted when his stomach rumbled again, making him add, "I-I think I ate too many Cookie Cats."
"Just so long as you aren't lactose intolerant," Moonstone added jokingly.
Everyone broke into laughter together, while Steven too was laughing, before he felt his stomach rumble eerily again and leaned over to vomit off-screen.
Steven Universe - Zach Callison
Pearl - Deedee Magno
Garnet - Estella
Amethyst - Michaela Dietz
Moonstone - Anita Kalathara
Lars - Matthew Moy
Sadie - Kate Micucci