Steven Universe Oneshots

Trust

I can do this, Steven thought. Of course he could he could do it. Jasper was stuck in a bubble, poofed, and, from what Steven could imagine, terrified. She deserved another chance. After all, Pearl, Amethyst, and Garnet hadn't trusted Peridot before. But she ended up became a Crystal Gem.

As Steven made his way to the basement, he thought. Jasper was just confused, just like Peridot. She was confused and being told what to do. Jasper didn't know that she had a choice. She didn't know that she could be unique and special. She just didn't.

Steven finally made it to the basement, bubbles suspended in the air, gems, gem shards, and other strange gem related items. Steven knew one of them were Jasper's. He needed to find it. He started to look around, letting his hands hold each bubble for a moment, wondering how it ended up here, what there life was like before they were trapped here.

And finally he found it, the orange gem floating in the bubble. Jasper.

It wasn't just a rock. It was a gem with a life and choices that she could make. She could do so much for the world. She could help them in the war. She could be a hero, the hero that Steven knew that she could be, that everyone could be.

And he popped it.

Screaming. Crashing. Something slamming into the walls of the basement so hard that it shook the house. Pearl, Amethyst, and Garnet ran down, expecting the worse. Peridot followed close behind them.

Steven was too trusting. It was his one weakness. He thought everyone could have good things in them, that they had a choice like he did, to be good or bad. Pearl knew that Jasper wasn't one of those people that had a choice, whether she liked it or not.

Jasper stood in the center of the room, looming above the Crystal Gems, powerful and terrifying. Her eyes had sparks of madness in them, her hair sticking up in strange angles, and she was breathing hard.

"Steven!"

"How could you? He trusted you! He believed that you could be good, that you could be a good person!"

Pearl turned to Garnet, expecting her to be saying the words that she had just heard. She shook her head. It hadn't come from Peridot or Amethyst.

It was Rose, standing there, hands balled into fists and tears pricking her eyes.

"How could you?"