25DISCLAIMER: I don't own Steven Universe nor SuperNoobs.
"I know how about we fuse Steven?" Everyone turn in disbelief at the fact that the proposal came from Tyler!
"Um Tyler did you just say what I think you said?" Steven asked nervously.
"About fusing? Yeah. After all with our two powers, we can easily take that Virus Beast and Lady Miasma out." Tyler said with confidence.
"Yeah but," Steven backing away from his friend.
"Come on pal. Let's do this." Tyler making his way towards Steven. Only to be blocked by Pearl's spear. Tyler looked around to see that everyone was staring at him suspiciously. "Is there something wrong? Did I leave my fly down?"
"Yes to the first one and I don't even want to know what that second one means!" Pearls retorted.
Before anyone could add anything more; the giant Android Beast fired a barrage of missiles at Sugilite, forcing the giant Gem to defuse back into Garnet and Amethyst!
"We don't have time for this!" Tyler yelled as he teleported over to Steven and grabbed his arm. Steven struggled to get free, but that only triggered his natural reaction defense to fuse. Everyone gasped as both Steven and Tyler's bodies began turning into light and merging with one another. They watched as Steven's Gem and Tyler's Battle Ball circled around each other for a second or two before the two repelled, causing Steven and Tyler to reform several feet from each other.
"What jus-s-st happened?" Miasma demanded.
"The reason why Tyler or any of the Noobs would never suggest fusing!" Garnet snapped. After all fusion holds a very special meaning for her and her two halves.
"The Battle Balls still recognizes Gems as a hostile race," Mem began saying.
"Therefore it has safeguards to prevent fusion, and the real Tyler already should know that!" Zen finished. They all started staring suspiciously at Tyler.
Faced with these accusations, Tyler simply shrugged. "I guess the jig is up," Tyler chuckled sinisterly as his eyes glowed a fiery red! Teleporting to Miasma's side.
"He's infected!" Mem screamed.
"Knew it all along," Kevin boasted.
"No you didn't!" Shope called him out on.
"Sure I did. Tyler was teleporting way to good for it to be him." Kevin noted. The Noobs had to give him that one. Even though Tyler has made some vast improvements in controlling his powers, he's still terrible at teleporting. Which is ironic since it's practically all he uses.
"But how? I thought you Noobs are immune?" Amethyst wondered.
"Against most types of Viruses, but we are still vulnerable to some." Zen clarified.
"And judging by how he hasn't mutated, he must be infected by the Elimination Virus. One of the types we are still vulnerable to!" Shope added.
"You'd think the Alliance would have done something about that by now," Roach commented.
"Actually this is the infiltration Virus-s-s," Miasma jumped in. "A new prototype of mine. Unlike the Elimination Virus-s-s which was-s-s created to destroy Virus-s-s Warriors-s-s; this one was-s-s made to s-s-spy on them."
"Wow that is scary," Zen gulped. Fearing the possibility of dozens of infected Alliance members running around undetected.
"Indeed, but s-s-since my plan of infecting the hybrid failed. I will just des-s-stroy you all and take that creature to my lab!" Miasma screamed. On her orders the Android Beast resumed its attack, revealing several dozen blasters firing nonstop at them, with Tyler teleporting around hitting his friends and teammates in the back!
Shope tried using her lighting attacks at the Android but it turns out that its animal claws are firmly planted into the ground, providing excellent grounding against electrical attacks. Kevin transformed into his favorite gorilla form, only to get stepped on. Roach attempted his rocket punch attack, but since he still can't control his rockets he just ended up flying wildly and crashing on the ground.
Things weren't any better for the Gems. Since most of their attacks are melee, they needed to get really close to the Android only to be forced back by its firepower. Fortunately Steven was able to give them and his father cover with his shield.
"Should we try fusing again?" Amethyst asked.
"With that monster's endless assault and Tyler using his teleporting for sneak attacks, I doubt we'll get the time to perform the dance!" Pearl analized.
"Hey we're not far from the Galacticus, can't the Noobs use their giant robot?" Amethyst proposed.
"Yes can we?" Steven asked excitedly. Last time he was a Gem Beast and doesn't remember seeing the NooBot. He only got to see the video that Amethyst made and he really wanted to see it in person.
"We need all four of our Battle Balls for that and one is being used by the bad guys." Roach reminded them just as Tyler teleported behind the small Noob, kicking him in the back. "That's a cheap move!" Roach complained with his face still planted in the dirt.
"All fair and all that," Tyler laughed. Removing his Battle Ball he turns it into his blaster and points it at Gems. "Looks like I won this challenge."
"I think we've seen enough," a strange voice said as Tyler's body suddenly started to levitate. Not only that but his blaster was forced out of his hand, turned into an Extractor, and immediately removed the Virus from his body.
"Whoa what did I miss?" Tyler asked seeing the mayhem going on around him.
"Oh nothing, you were engaging with the Gems in childish games, got infected, and now your team is in grave trouble." the bluish alien updated him.
"General Blorgon SIR!" Tyler jumping to attention and saluting.
"Who are these guys?" Steven asked.
"These are the elders we told you about," Tyler introducing them to the Gems.
"There will be time for formalities but right now let us take care of this mess," Technut said as the three made their way towards the Android Beast.
"Oh this-s-s is-s-s delic-c-cious-s-s. Not only can I deal with the Noobs-s-s and the Gems-s-s, but I can finis-s-sh off the leaders-s-s of the Allianc-c-ce as-s-s well." Miasma gloated.
"Don't count your little snakelets before the hatch," Headees warned.
"Hah, don't be so s-s-smug. Not even you are powerful enough to beat my android!" Miasma bragged.
"She's right, this thing is too powerful!" Mem and Zen warned.
"Didn't you Noobs learn nothing?" Blorgon scolded.
"You rely so much on the powers that you are comfortable with that you neglect your other abilities!" Technut lectured.
"Ones that can easily deal with situation this like so." Headees began charging up a massive amount of power before discharging it at the Android Beast causing it to shut down.
"No...No NO NO NO NO NOOOOO!" Miasma screamed trying to reboot her monster.
"An electromagnetic pulse, why didn't I think of that?" Shope slapping herself in the head.
"Like we've told you time and time again; there are other means of achieving victory, if you just think about it." Blorgon quoted as he extended multiple robot arms from his body, each armed with Extractors to extract the virus from each of the components. Reverting the android back to the original creatures.
Seeing as how she's lost this round, Miasma activated her own teleporter and disappeared in a black shadow. A few seconds later, the Noobs and the Gems watched as her ship rises from the trees and takes off.
"Should we go after her?" Peridot asked.
"No their ships are almost impossible to track," Blorgon informed her. "Besides, we have other matters to attend to." The elders turning their attention to the Crystal Gems.
"A Pearl, an Amethyst, a Peridot," Technut identifying the Gems until he reached Garnet. "I'm sorry but I'm not familiar with your type. What are you exactly?"
"My name is Garnet," Garnet introducing herself but seemed bothered by something. "And I'm not a standard Gem. I'm actually a fusion, a perma-fuse as Peridot likes to call us." Garnet confessed before defusing back to Ruby and Sapphire. They didn't really want to split but they both knew that they needed to be honest as well as formal with the Elders if they hope to form an alliance with them.
"Strange, according to our intel, Gems are apprehensive about fusing the same type let alone different ones. Has this changed?" Headees inquired.
"No your intel is correct, but as we've explained to Mem and Zen; we're not part of the Gem empire and thus not constrained by their rules." Sapphire explained politely.
"Yeah that's right!" Ruby snapped, fidgeting uncontrollably until Sapphire held her hand, comforting her.
"And you Pearl, who is your owner?" Headees asked Pearl.
"NOBODY!" Pearl snapped. It still bugs her when people ask her that question.
"I see," Headees seemingly pleased with that response.
"Now we have been observing you Ge...I mean Crystal Gems for quite some time now." Blorgon informed them.
"How long?" Amethyst asked, worried that they might have seen her do things that she really didn't want others to know about.
"Oh about the start of this interesting game here," Blorgon replied. Seemingly eyeing the Noobs' homemade trophy cup, much to Amethyst's relief. "And from what we've observed as well as Mem and Zen's reports; we are willing to trust you."
"Thank you sir," Sapphire said bowing respectfully. Though it was obvious that something was bothering her and Ruby.
Even though it's technically unethical, Blorgon used his telepathy on the two and learned how much they hate to be separated. "If you two wish to be Garnet again go right ahead," Blorgon giving his permission. Breathing a sigh of relief Ruby and Sapphire fused back into Garnet. "Now we must know, how many Crystal Gems are there?"
"We're pretty much all there is right now," Amethyst replied.
"But there are others coming!" Steven added. "There's the Off Colors with Lars, and maybe Lapis," Steven sighed sadly at the mention of her name.
"I see," Blorgon considered this new piece of information. "For right now we can add you to our registry to identify you as friends. The others we'll have to do when they are available." The Crystal Gems all thanked him as the Elders began scanning the Gems and imputing their data into the Battle Balls. Amethyst decided to test it by touching Kevin's Battle Ball and much to her relief, it didn't trigger it's auto defense mode. "Consider yourselves honorary members of the Benevolent Alliance," Blorgon welcomed.
"That's great and all but what about Steven? Have you learned anything about his condition?" Pearl asked.
"Oh right," Headees flipped through the holographic screens until she found Steven's file. "According to our tests, it seems that his abnormalities are due to him being a hybrid of a Gem and human." Headees concluded.
"So he's alright?" the Gems wondered.
"For now it seems that his biology is working out, but we recommend that he'd get regular check ups at least once a year." Technut advised. Hearing how he's not in immediate danger gave the Gems reason to cheer.
"So I guess that means you're coming home with us," Amethyst laughed.
"Yeah about that," Steven said softly. The Gems all stopped since they know what that tone means. "I want to finish my school year here," Steven decided. At first the Gems and Connie objected, even promising to send him to school near Beach City; but after hearing how he wanted to finish what he started here, they reluctantly agreed to let him continue going to Cornbury Middle School.
As the Gems celebrated Technut approached Blorgon and whispered something into his ear. "Oh right," he said ominously. "Now that that is out of the way, I fear we have a more pressing matter to discuss." Everyone gave the Elders their full attention. "A few days ago one of our spies on the Lava Planet sent us this recording," Blorgon activating a holo-screen. They all gasped in horror at seeing Virus spores infecting Gems, forcing Gems to fuse with them and going on a rampage on one of the Gem colonies. Until the infected Gem Cores were shattered by a team of Jaspers and Rubies.
"They've created a Virus capable of infecting Gems?" Peridot said in disbelief.
"Not quite, our intel states that right now it can only infect one type of Gem. The others are still safe." Technut informed her. "But we don't know how long it will be until they are able to infect more Gem types," he warned.
"And we can't have that. Gems are dangerous enough as it is. The last thing we want is infected Gems attacking our worlds." Headees added.
"Is there anything you can do?" Steven pleaded. Even though they are at war with the Diamonds, Steven can't help but feel empathy for his fellow Gems.
"There is one option," Blorgon presented them a Battle Ball with khaki stripes. "This is the Commando Battle Ball."
"What's it do?" the Noobs asked drooling over the new weapon.
"This Battle Ball gives its user the ability to make temporary clones of its warrior like so," Blorgon activated the Ball's power causing it to make five copies of itself. "Each of which can then be used like a regular Battle Ball." Blorgon then had each of the copies change into different weapons; a sword, blaster, shield, hover board, and extractor.
"Of course, with this a single warrior can extract multiple Viruses at the same time!" Tyler realized. Recalling that was the only way to save Steven when he fused with several corrupted Gems.
"Indeed," Blorgon confirming Tyler's theory. "But the only issue is that Gems can't use our Battle Balls, them being inorganic and all, so we need to know if there's anyone you trust in Gem Space that you can give this to?"
The Gems pondered for a bit. Due to the Diamonds destroying entire worlds to build their colonies, there wasn't any organic beings that would be considered allies. That's when Steven's eyes lit up, "I know who can help!"
Over in Gem controlled Space, the Off Color ship the Sun Incinerator flew along its course towards Earth. Or at least that's where the crew wants to go except that, due to certain complications, they are heading in the opposite direction!
Lars groaned with frustration as he turned the ship's recorder on. "Ship's log star date May or something I guess. This is getting ridiculous! After realizing that our objective is to get to Earth, Emerald has set up blockades on every interstellar routes there! Now we are heading back to the Gem Homeworld to try and find another route to hom...HEY! WHAT THE!" Lars yelped as Steven once again popped out of his hair. "Steven, can't you call first!" Lars snapped. Even though he's grateful of Steven giving him updates and gift packages from home, it is kind of annoying how the boy just appears at random times.
"Sorry Lars, but you know I have no way of calling; and I have some really big news that can't wait!" Steven said with excitement.
"How big," Lars gulped. Something told him that he's not going to like this one bit.
"Oh it's very big," Steven said with eager anticipation.
"Fine get it over with," Lars sighed. Steven once again jumped into Lars head and in a few seconds later, came out with Tyler and the Elders! "What the heck?! Steven who or what are these people?"
"This is my new friend Tyler and the Leaders of the Benevolent Alliance," Steven introduced.
For the next few minutes, Blorgon explained to Lars about their war with the Virus and how the Creators seemingly made a strain that can infect Gems. While Lars and the Off Colors like to stay out of Gem issues, they have heard rumors of Gems going crazy. None of them even suspected that it's a prelude to an invasion. Blorgon then presented Lars with the Khaki Battle Ball. Lars was reluctant at first but after a reassuring nod from Steven, Lars inserted the Ball into his chest. After a quick tutorial, Lars pressed the Battle Ball and created a perfect copy of himself much to the shock of his crew. Since they had no idea that humans can make instant duplicates of themselves. Testing his limits, he found that he can only make two clones before it began to put strain in his head. Though he loved changing the Battle Ball into different weapons especially swords, a saber to be exact, since it goes well with his space pirate motif.
Satisfied with his progress, the Elders gave Lars another gift. An interstellar transmitter that will allow Lars to talk with his family on Earth. Of course Lars was suspicious at how generous they were being, that's when they told him that they wanted him to be the Virus Warrior for Gem colonies. At first Lars refused, stating how he's not in league with the Diamonds or the Gem worlds, but after hearing how infected Gems could be used as weapons against not only Earth but the entire universe, he reluctantly agreed. With that taken care of, the Elders bid him farewell.
"Hey Steven, now that I have this communicator, you don't have any excuses now. Call first before visiting." Lars teased with a wink.
"You've got it," Steven winking back. "Good luck SuperNoob No. 5."
After they've left, Lars looked down on the Battle Ball on his chest. With him being a pink zombie and now armed with a powerful weapon, he can feel himself becoming more like the legendary space heroes he's always admired and always dreamed of becoming. "SuperNoob #5," Lars whispered proudly to himself. "Hey! What do you mean Noob?" Lars yelled at his hair even though Steven is already long gone.
Back on Earth, Miasma slithered on the ground of Cornbury. Her mission to capture and infect Steven have failed but she refused to return empty handed. She'd never hear the end of it from Venamus. Fortunately she has learned of an Earthling whose genius my match her own. Miasma carefully made her way to the hospital until she found a padded room with a man in a straight jacket. "Greetings-s-s Mr. Wertz-z-z," Miasma greeted.
"Who are you? Are you an ALIEN?" Wertz chuckled insanely.
"Yes-s-s, and I want you to come with me," Miasma broke down the door and slowly made her way towards him.
"No, NO! HELP I'M BEING ABDUCTED BY AN ALIEN! HHHHEEEELLLLPPPP!" Wertz screamed in terror.
Down the hall the nurses and orderlies all heard his cries but since this isn't the first time he's said that, they just ignored him. They also ignored the sounds of the door breaking down and the explosion coming from his room as well.
The End?