Steven Universe x corrupt gemling reader

~Newly orphaned~

MAMA!!!

With a high-pitched shriek of horror, you launched yourself onto your mother's gemstone, clawing and licking at it desperately, whimpering and whining in distress.

Mama? What happened? Where did you go? Are you okay??

You've never seen something like this happen before. Not only have you never seen your mother fight, you never thought she'd lose, let alone witness her disappear from a fatal wound. You pressed your smooth muzzle against it, wrapping your four tiny arms around the warm stone, hugging it into your small chest, trembling as tears of grief started to fall from your eyes. "Mama..." your high yet rasped voice muttered mournfully. then you looked back down at the gemstone, staring pensively at it.

Her gem was still warm... and it still had a glow to it...

...surely she'll come back..?

There was suddenly a sharp gasp.

"Th... that's... that's not what I think it is... is it..?"

You snapped your head up with a startled gasped at a voice that was incredibly close to you. Oh no...! You were so distracted by your mother's abrupt explosion, that you forgot about the assailants that were now standing just a few inches away from you.

There were four of them!

One was tall reddish-maroon gem with a cubic hairstyle with two large metal gauntlets on her hands and a shiny pair of visors over her eyes, hiding them from view. However, the more she looked at you, the more her visage started to crumble, slowly becoming more and more unnerved as her mouth parted slightly into a light gasp, making the large hand weapons disappear in a flash.

Another was a slender, pale skinned gem with slicked back peach-orange hair in the style of a pixie cut. Her nose was notably long and pointed and she had a large, shiny oval gem, smack in the center of her forehead. She had one hand over her mouth and held the sharp blue spear in her other. Wide sky blue eyes were focused on you, the look of shock, disbelief and maybe a dash of pity written all over her face. "N-No... I-It couldn't of..."

Beside her was a relatively short purple gem with long light purple, near white hair that stretched all the way to the ground, her purple gem barely hidden behind her single strapped purple shirt. She looked down, looking surprised for a split second before her face crumpled into a pitiful expression. "Aw man..."

Finally, there was... an... organic looking boy beside her, curly dark brown, near black hair, and a bright pink shirt with a large yellow star on its abdomen. He looked almost horrified, with his hands clasped over his mouth, staring wide-eyed at you.

They all looked quite shocked, and ever so slightly... guilty

"It... it can't be." The thin gem spoke again, her voice having a light shake in it. "I-I thought they stopped this b-back in..." her voice trailed off as the cubic gem crouched down, bringing a hand to her visors, and with a swift flick of her fingers, made them disappear, exposing her 3 multi-colored eyes; one red, one blue, and the center purple. All of them had the look of pity as they stared down at your small, trembling form. "So this is what it was fighting so hard for..." Your eyes just switched between the 4 figures, hunched over your mother's gemstone, in a desperate attempt to protect it from anymore harm. "It's been raiding Beach City these past few weeks in order to provide for its gemling."

"Gemling?" The purple gem raised her brow, seeming unfamiliar with the term.

"It's technically a baby gem. It's produced from a strong love between two gems." The cubic gem explained, a plaintiff note in her voice as she resummoned her visors back onto her face. As soon as the boy heard this, his eyes somehow became wider, a muffled gasp sounding from behind his hands.

"Do... Do you mean we just... poofed its mom?" He asked, his muffled voice rising in fear at the last part as he looked at the tall gem, his hands trembling. The cubic gem sighed, rubbing at her temple in distress. "Possibly, yes..." she groaned. "I didn't see this coming at all..."

The purple gem shrugged. "Well... can't we just... ya know... poof it and bubble it like we always do?"

"Amethyst! No!" The thin gem snapped, making the amethyst flinch. "You can't destabilize a gemling. Corrupt or not, a gemling is at a very frail stage of life. And a premature destabilization is very much equal to shattering for a gemling." She explained, making everyone look at her wide-eyed.

"So, what now? we just bubble them, or-?" the purple gem, Amethyst's question was suddenly cut off by an abrupt suggestion from the child.

"We could take care of it!"

"What?" All three gems stared at the boy in astonishment, clearly taken aback by this proposal. He just looked back at them, a determined glint shining in his eyes. "Yeah! Think about it guys, we take care of it, and It'll grow to be a good gem, even with corruption!" He then takes on a sheepish tone. "...And it'll make up for poofing their mom right in front of them."

"Now... Steven," the pale gem was quick protest. "I don't think that would be a very good idea... I mean... it's... corrupted.. and... we don't.." she looked down, chewing her fingertips as she searched for the right words to back her protest, but the taller gem crossed her arms. "We don't have much of a choice," she states, making her teammates look at her in surprise. "We can't destabilize them. And we did take her only care taker away." She shrugs. "It's the least we can do, until we can find a cure for their corruption. Besides... it might actually beneficial for us." The tall pale gem looked incredibly uncertain. "I... Garnet..."

"Come on pearl, I'll be great!" The boy urged, a cheery edge in his voice.

The pale gem, Pearl looked at the apperant leader garnet in a long silence before sighing in mild defeat. "I... suppose so."

Amethyst smiles, suddenly looking quite excited. "Yeah, this'll be awesome! Corrupted gem baby!"

The boy, steven smiles happily, turning to face you excitedly. "Did you hear that? You get to-- huh?"

They were so wrapped up in their discussion that they didn't realize you were half way to the forest, dragging your mother's gemstone with you in your mouth.