Steven Universe: Behind the Scenes Chapter 66-Rehursing for the School Show.
Greg stood there stunned and wide-eyed. He rubs his eyes. He saw Steven standing there with PUFFY AmiYumi!
"Steven…. How do you know—" Greg was stunned by them. He can't believe that he's standing in the same room with two Japanese rock stars!
"We met at school Dad, then we went to the mall," he said. Greg was still in shock. His son had met Japanese rock stars! This was officially the coolest day of his whole life!
"Hi!" Ami waved.
Greg rubbed his eyes. It felt like he was dreaming but he wasn't. But at the same time… He did meet Chester Bennington when Steven was seven.
Steven looks at his new friends, and then at his father. Who walked towards them? "I used to listen to you guys when Steven got me into your show back in 2004!"
"How old are you, Steven?" Yumi asked the boy.
"I'm thirteen."
"Nani! Your thirteen." Ami asked.
"Yeah, I know that I don't look thirteen. I'm a half ailen, So I age every eight years. My physical age is eight but I'm thirteen."
"Oh, okay," Yumi said, understanding now.
"Hey, guys. You know what we should do?" Steven asked.
"What?" Ami asked.
"A jam session! We should do it!" he said.
"Yeah!" they both say. Steven went into his room to grab his guitar.
Steven came back with his white electric guitar in his hands, Yumi almost freaked out.
"Cool!" she said.
"Yeah, It was my grandfather's. He gave it to me," he said. We all have guitars.
"Do you want to learn how to play drums one day?" Ami asked.
"Oh, that would be so cool! I want to learn! All I know is how to play, guitar, ukulele, and piano." he said.
"Okay, I can teach you," Ami said.
"You can? Thanks!"
"No problem, Steven."
The next day, He was at the school cafetera again, waiting for the bell to ring, Ben Tennyson handed out flyers for something.
Ben handed one to Steven. Steen took it and read it. He smiles. Maybe he could ask Ami and Yumi to perform with him.
He sees Gumball, Darwin, and Ainas. He looked around for his friends. Connie walks up to him. "Steven! Did you see this flyer for the school show? You are participating?"
"Yeah, who are you performing with?"
"Bubbles. Where going to her house after school to work on a magic act."
"That's awesome!" he said, his eyes going starry.
"Hey, Bubbles, how are you going to get home. since your dad is here and all? Oh, by the way, what's his name, like does he have a first name?"
"Oh, his name is Professor Alexander Utonium."
"Really? I thought his name was Drake?"
"That's only in Japan," Blossom told her, flying toward them.
"Ohhh, okay. Got it, awesome! Why didn't you guys use it for the show?"
"That's because Craig McCracken thought it wasn't necessary for the show."
"Okay, cool," he said
Steven was in Sunny Bridges' class. Ami and Yumi were also there. Steven sees that Yumi brought her guitar like she does every day.
Sunny was teaching, Steven took out his notebook and jotted down some notes.
"Alright, guys! Put your notebooks away, If anyone wants to participate in the school show next week you can. Ami, Yumi. you can grab your stuff out of your lockers, and you guys as well." Sunny told his class.
Steven didn't have anything with him, so he just sat there. "Steven?"
"Sorry, sunny. I didn't bring my guitar," he said, he didn't know that he needed his instrument.
"Oh, it's alright, Steven. You can borrow Ami's guitar." He said. Ami, Yumi, and other kids came back to the classroom.
"Ami, could I give your spare guitar to Steven?" he asked, Ami saw her are sitting on a stand next to an amplifier.
"Sure, he can," she said.
Steven grabbed it, the electric guitar has a black body and a white pick guard. It has two single-coil pickups and there are two control knobs and a switch on the pickguard. Dot inlays on the fretboard. The guitar has a classic Stratocaster-style shape.
"This is so cool! it's the same one my dad has in his music room!" Steven said, holding it. He adjusted the strap on his shoulder, plugged it into the amplifier, and strummed it.
"That's pretty good!" he said as a smile came to his face.
"Cool! Alright, guys, you can do a solo act or, you guys can pick your partners." Sunny said, writing some songs down on the whiteboard.
1. Imagine Dragons – "Demons" (2013)
2. The Black Keys – "Lonely Boy" (2011)
3. Coldplay – "Viva La Vida" (2008)
4. Foo Fighters – "Times Like These" (2002)
5. LINKIN PARK – "In the End" (2001)
6. The Killers – "Mr. Brightside" (2003)
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Californication" (1999)
8. Green Day – "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (2004)
9. Arctic Monkeys – "Do I Wanna Know?" (2013)
10. Muse – "Starlight" (2006)
11. Paramore – "Misery Business" (2007)
12. MGMT – "Electric Feel" (2007)
13. The Strokes – "Last Nite" (2001)
14. Kings of Leon – "Use Somebody" (2008)
15. AC/DC – "Back in Black" (1980)
16. My Chemical Romance – "Welcome to the Black Parade" (2006)
Ami, Yumi, and Steven thought of the songs that they were going to do together. "I think we should do Misery Business, Welcome to the Black Parade or Mr. Brightside," Yumi said.
"I want to do Starlight," Ami said.
"Well, can we do inThe End? I love LINKIN PARK!" his eyes went starry.
"Okay. Okay, how about this? we do a vote." Ami said, pulling out a pink spiral notebook from her pink backpack and ripping out a loose sheet of paper, she took out a pen and wrote it down in Japanese.
"Ami, Ami…" Yumi tapped her best friend on the shoulder.
"What's up, Yumi?"
"Steven doesn't understand Japanese!" she told her best friend.
"Oh… Sorry, Steven." She flipped it to the back and started again but in English.
"Alright, we have Misery Business, Welcome to the Black Parade, Mr. Brightside, Starlight. And In The End by LINKIN PARK." Ami said, putting a period on the last song on the list.
"We have to pick one," Steven said.
"I like Misery Business. Ami can sing and Steven and I can—Oh… I can't play drums!" Yumi said.
"But Steven can sing."
"We need a girl to sing this song, Ami!"
Ami rolled her eyes and scratched it off the list.
"How about Welcome to the Black Parade?" Steven asked.
"Alright, Ami… What do you think?" Yumi asked.
"We should do it! That'll be a cool idea!" she smiles at her best friend, and at Steven.
"Yeah! Let's do it!" he said.
"Alright, we should go to Steven's house… Ami's grandma can be a little…" she said.
"Why not your house? Ami asked.
"We can go to my house if you guys want," Steven said, looking at them.
Ami and Yumi both nod in agreement at that decision.
Steven went to lunch with everyone. Steven bumped into someone.
A teacher.
"Oh! I'm sorry!"
He said, He looked at the man.
He is fairly tall and lean but fit in build and has long jet black hair that he keeps tied in a Japanese chonmage. Jack's clothing consists of a simple white and gray gi in the style of a kimono.
"It is quite alright. Steven is it?" he asked. Steven bows slightly.
"Yes, I am Steven." Jack also bows.
"This is your first week here, correct?"
"Yes, what do you teach here?"
"I teach fighting and self-defense classes."
"That's so cool! Can you teach students how to fight?"
"Yes, I can," he said
"Awesome…"
"Alright, Steven I'm going to go eat now," he said, walking into the cafeteria. Steven also walked in and he saw his friends.
"Hey, guys!" Steven said, running into Gumball and Darwin.
Steven walked over to the ramen station. The person making it for him was wearing a crisp white button-upshirt that had the classic Cartoon Network logo on the left side. He wore a pair of black pants, Steven went onto his phone, He read a name off a slip of paper. "Lazlo!"
Lazlo walked up, he held his ramen in his hands. "Hey, Lazlo." he said, Lazlo waved.
"Hey, Steven, how are you?"
"I'm fine." He said, Lazlo grabbed a pair of metal chopsticks out of a hole that was embedded in the little bar area and put it on his tray.
Steven read the options. And there were a lot of flavors. "I'll take the spicy Buldalk," he said.
The man said nothing but simply made his ramen for him.
"Here you go." the man said, smiling as he handed Steven his lunch.
"Thank you," he said, he and Lazlo both walked together to a table.
Clam and Raj were both sitting Raj was eating a sandwich and Clam got some sushi, he broke grabbed a pair of the same stainless steel chopsticks, and picked up his noodles that were soaked in spicy broth, Steven then ate his ramen.
"This is good," Steven said, slurping his noodles.
"It is," Lazlo said. "My only complaint with ramen is that they should add more noodles."
"Couldn't agree more. Wait can you do that? You can ask for seconds?"
"Yes, you can. I did it before and they said yes." Raj said. Steven nodded. He did, he went with his bowl.
"Excuse me, can I have seconds?" he asked. The older man smiled at him as he took his bowl, he poured some pre-cooked noodles into the broth, and then gave it back to him.
"Enjoy your lunch."
"Thank you, what's your name?" the boy asked.
"My name is Kenji." he smiles at him. Steven smiled back and walked to his table.
Steven went back to his seat, held his chopsticks with his hand, and ate the remainder of his ramen.
"So, guys. How are you? Sorry I didn't talk to you for a while, Lazlo I—" Steven was cut off.
"Steven! you go to school here too?" A voice sad. He turned his head to see a boy.
The boy was moderately tall, had a thick build, and had a fair complexion similar to that of him Like his brother, he had long, blond, "fry-like" hair that resembled curly fries and a pair of tan cargo shorts that reached his knees.
"Uh… Can I help you?" he asked.
"You know my little brother, right?"
"Yeah, why?" Steven asked
"He goes to school here too. I'm Ronaldo," he said, shaking his hand.
"Cool. I'm Steven Universe."
"I know who you are, I've seen your show back at my house," he said.
"Oh, okay." Ronaldo then walked away.
Steven was now walking to Frankie's class, he was going to work on his lines. Frankie also lets the students who are doing the school-wide show, let them practice there.
But, Steven, Ami, and Yumi had the idea of going back to Steven's house to practice their song. They could do it at their houses but—Ami said that her grandma is visiting and she's…. old school traditional. And Yumi's mom works a lot. That meant that Steven's house was the only option to practice.
Frankie walked into the room. Holding a file under her arm and a bottle of water in her hand. "Alright, guys! How are you all doing today?"
"Good!" they said.
"Alright, now I know you are all excited about the school-wide show coming up but, we still have to work on our things alright?"
Steven looks at her, curiosity in his eyes. "Frankie?" Steven asked.
"Yeah, Steven?"
"Are we working on a play?"
"Yes, we are. You've seen Operation Z.E.R.O?"
"Yes," Steven said
"That's the play we're working on," Frankie said, handing them each a script.
"Can I be Numbuh 1's dad?" Steven asked.
"I don't want to be either of the Delightful Children, they creep me out," Yumi said.
"They do too," Ami said. "Remember watching that movie back on Cartoon Network, then last week? They still creep me out!"
"You got that right!" Steven said. "I remember watching it when it first came out, great movie but… The Delightful Children, still creepy."
"Alright, guys! Let's focus! We are not doing that today, that's next week when the show is finished."
"Frankie?" A boy named Jason asked. "when is the show?"
"Next Wednesday at seven in the evening," Frankie said.
"Okay!"
"Alright guys, put those in your backpacks—Oh, I have to write down your characters hand me your scripts back and you'll tell me what characters you'd like to be." She said. Steven and the others took their scripts and handed them to Frankie.
They chose what characters they wanted to play.
Steven was playing Numbah 1
Yumi was playing Numbah 4
Ami was playing Numbah 3
Mac was playing Numbah 5
And, a boy named Tyler was playing Numbah 2
Everyone else got their parts of the play.
"This is awesome! It's like I was born to play Numbah 4!" Yumi said, doing a pose like Numbah 4 does in the show.
Steven, Ami, and Yumi all went to Steven's house later that day. Greg was home The three friends went inside his house. His father was in their music room.
"Dad!" Steven said. Walking in.
Greg looked up, he held his acoustic guitar in his hands. "Hey, Schu-Ball!" Greg said. Steven sees that he is wearing the earrings that Steven got him yesterday.
"Hey, Dad, can we practice here? We have a show coming up."
"Sure! I have an idea, I can record you guys, Ami, and Yumi. Are you alright with that?" Greg asked.
"Yeah! it'll be fun." Ami said, smiling brightly.
"I'll be back!" Greg said, going to another part of the house.
Steven walked out of the room also to grab his guitar.
Ami and Yumi waited for both of them to come back.
"This is so cool! I can't believe that we're doing this!" Ami said excitedly.
"Yeah… It is pretty cool." Yumi said. Just then, Steven came back holding his V electric guitar and amplifier, it was a medium-sized one.
Steven plugged in his amplifier and his guitar in. "Alright, let's do this," he said.
Rose opened the door, and Greg walked out of the room, camera still in hand, then Ami, Steven, and Yumi all walked out of the room. After a few hours ofpracticefor the show, Ami sees Rose. "I love your hair! It's so beautiful!"
"Oh, thank you," Rose said
"Do you dye it?" Ami asked.
"No, it's natural."
"Ohhh, we have to dye ours."
"Wait, I thought it was natural," Greg said.
"When we moved from Japan after the show, we decided to keep our hair colors like this we loved them," Ami explained.
"That's awesome!" Steven said.
"Isn't it? the colors look good on us." Ami said.
"They do!" Steven said.
Steven was now getting ready for bed. He walked out of the bathroom, brushed his teeth, and took a warm shower. He went under the covers and went to sleep, excited for another day ahead of him.
A\N: Sorry this took a long to write. I don't know why this is taking me so long now, but… A chapter is better the nothing. So… I'll see you guys in the next one!