1dndkeg: Hello everyone, sorry that I haven't been published anything in forever I was and still am busy with school and so much had hit the fan that I could not update any of my stories whatsoever. However a school friend came to me and asked me if I could co-write a story with him, and this happened a Steven Universe story. While writing this it was a small writing for fun, before turned into a vast project of cover art and actual panels and commissions with other friends. So now this has turned into a huge main project that some of my school friends and I are now doing this story in our spare time now so maybe you guys will find me posting more of these chapters later on.
Now enjoy the show!
Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End
"Is there anything worth more than peace and love in the planet earth?"
Run. That's all one sole Pearl wanted to do, just run, find a ship, hopefully has a pilot on board, she didn't care what type of gem it was, and escape before a sudden fate worse than being shattered would bring.
The Pearl herself was blue, her hair was triangular and sky blue, her eyes were light blue, as blue as the earth her nose was long and pointy. Her gem placement was on the chest, just below the neck it was a pearl with a blue sheen over it, her attire was simple but elegant and full of many shades of blue, she had a basic sleeveless top with the upper half being blue and the lower half being a lighter shade with a diamond in the center and wore a small blue skirt below with shorts underneath as well as long dark blue stockings and finally she had long light blue slip-on ballet flats.
Finally she stumbled upon a small gem cruiser ship, a basic circular ship that was used to transport troops. She ran inside and saw a male-looking green Peridot its hair was pointed upward and it was pale chartreuse, its eyes were shaded emerald and wore a pair of aviator goggles, the gemstone is located on the chest and is shaped like an inverted triangle with flattened corners.
"Hey! We gotta get out of here right now!" the Pearl ordered the Peridot.
"Wait, what about the rest of my platoon?!" asked the Peridot, oddly enough it spoke with a voice of a male.
"Listen there's no time to explain!" the blue Pearl yelled back, panic filling her voice, "You have to fly us out of here!"
Seeing that the Peridot was even more confused, the Pearl took matters into her own hands, rushing forward, she ran up to the main console that controlled the ship, knocking down the limb-enhanced Peridot. In a matter of seconds of pushing buttons the ship took off from the battlefield and up into a planetary orbit.
Suddenly a light flashed behind them but they were just out of reach from the light's initial radius. The two nameless gems watched in shock as the light consumed the planet. When the light faded, the Peridot ran forward towards another console and pushed a button which brought up a holographic screen that showed what happened on earth. What he saw gave him a look of horror. All gems, both rebels and allies of homeworld turned into what looked like savage beasts ranging from four-legged beasts, to giant snake-like beings.
"They're beyond our help now, I don't think there's a way to save them," the Pearl said her voice filled with sorrow.
The male Peridot began to panic "Then what are we supposed to do now?!"
Pearl not knowing that her future was now intertwined with this Peridot just stares at the floor and decides to strike up a small conversation, "First thing's first, what's your name? And I'm sorry about earlier! I just panicked and realized what was about to happen so I just ran to the nearest ship and well you know..."
Looking at the Pearl for a minute in confusion before finally replying in a nonchalant tone "Well if it wasn't obvious… I'm a Peridot but my platoon usually calls me 'Clod' or some other insult."
The Pearl looked at the male Peridot in confusion before deciding to let it slide...for now, and replied back, "Well I'm a Pearl! I know it all came so suddenly and I don't exactly feel too happy myself but hey I just saved our lives!"
"Yea but in turn your sudden stunt fried the ships circuits, and right now...WE'RE STUCK IN ORBIT!" the male Peridot exclaimed in annoyance.
The sudden sounds of ships flying by caught the two gems attention. Running to the nearest window in the giant cockpit, they saw the armada of Homeworld ships flee the planet, at a certain distance, it looked like space itself distorted around them as they suddenly sped off in an orb of light.
A few minutes had passed since the armada of Homeworld left the Pearl was sitting on the floor while the male Peridot was trying to at least have the ship's engines back online as they were floating aimlessly in orbit.
"There is now way we can go back home now, we'd be considered fugitives if we do go back!" the Pearl exclaimed as she stood up and panicked before getting an idea.
"This planet has a moon, and from what I have overheard is that there is an abandoned base there," with no other options the two gems head towards the moon after the Peridot had repaired the engines to a somewhat operational degree. From there they noticed the abandoned moon base, and had taken refuge there and had searched around for salvageable parts for the male Peridot's ship.
Their investigation and search inside had left them speechless from seeing the architecture to the beautiful murals of each of the Diamonds. A few hours of silence had passed when they were walking up a flight of stairs towards the command room. Wanting to break the long silence between them, the male Peridot asks the blue Pearl that had been on his mind for quite some time.
"Hey um… Pearl right?" he asked receiving a nod from the blue gem. "I was just wondering why you haven't laughed at or chastised me yet."
"Laughed at you, about what?" the Pearl asked curiously raising an eyebrow at her new companion.
"Well you see, most other gems would have laughed at me and called me names for the way I looked, as this is the only form I can turn into, I mean don't get me wrong I'm use to all that nonsense but you haven't said anything yet."
Pearl looked at the male green gem in confusion, thinking about what to say to the gem, she took a deep breath and spoke, "Peridot I really don't get why other gems would say that stuff I mean you look completely perfectly fine! Sure your initial form and whatnot is...different, but it doesn't matter what other gems say about you on the outside what matters is who you are in the inside. I know, it must sound funny coming from me a Pearl out of all gems, is giving you the pep talk but that's what I believe okay?"
Nodding his head the green Peridot contemplated on what the blue Pearl had talked about until they reached the command room. Using his limb enhancers on the keyboard, the Peridot was looking for materials and part files, when he stumbled upon the plan that Homeworld would have done to the planet if they were successful to conquer it.
"It looks like Homeworld was going to use this planet for resources to build other gems for the Diamonds' armies," the male and green Peridot said.
"I don't understand why they would do that this planet is called earth and what really drives me crazy is why they tried corrupted all of us and our friends including their own gems…That just tears me up!" Pearl begins to get emotionally upset and out in frustration slams her hand over the room which leaves a dent on the wall. "We are all gems and we shouldn't deserve this! Nobody deserves this!" Pearl yelled out.
"Pearl, calm down! Listen I know you are really torn and upset about what Homeworld did, but we can't just stand around here and wail about it!"
Pearl in silence replies back with tears in her eyes. "I know what we're going to do. We're going to go back to earth and defend it because that planet doesn't deserve what Homeworld wants! Nothing deserves that!"
"I guess we have no other choice, after all it seems Homeworld is not what we gems thought they would be…" Peridot replied, with slight anger and malice in his voice.
With their allegiance to Homeworld disregarded the two gems agreed to defend earth of the oncoming threat of their former home. After finding the materials needed to fix Peridot's ship, they have returned to the surface of Earth, their new home for the next millennia or so. This begins their incredible journey and new found lives with humanity as they form a team of gems to save it!
dndkeg: That's a wrap for this chapter guys, I hope you guys enjoyed. Please leave a review if you can, constructive criticism is much appreciated. Drop a fave, and/or follow if you like this story and want to know when a new chapter is out! Any flames received will be corrupted by the white light and come after you!
Edit 8-7-17: Changed the last paragraph as it seemed to early to give their team a name right now...