Cherry's Adventures of Steven Universe

chapter 2

Flashback to Beach City

We are shown younger Patrick and Emily with their toddler daughter who was trying to walk.

"Oh, careful, little one..." a large woman with bouncy pink curls in a white dress giggled as she kept Jessica from falling on her face in the sand.

"Thank you for the help, Rose." Emily smiled.

"Of course..." Rose smiled back and gently picked up the tiny little girl in her large arm. "Hello, there, honey..." she cooed to the little girl and tickled her chin.

Jessica giggled and smiled up to the larger woman. Rose then walked back to the couple and gently handed Jessica back to them.

"You're so good with kids." Patrick smiled.

"Oh, yes..." Rose smiled gently back. "I adore children... Especially... Humans..." she then looked in the distance as a young man with his hair in a dated mullet was sitting to himself and playing his guitar. "That Mr. Universe is a very interesting one."

"Then why don't you go and date him?" Patrick asked.

"Date...?" Rose tilted her head as though she had never heard that word before.

"You know," Emily replied. "You go out together, spend some time together, maybe eat some dinner, go out to dancing, just have fun for an emotional bond...?"

"I wouldn't want to be a bother..." Rose replied. "After all, he is a human and I am a Gem."

"Oh, come on, I'm sure you won't be a bother." Emily smiled.

"Hm..." Rose rubbed her arm, she then picked up her skirts and walked over to a gated spot which separated her and the other Crystal Gems away from the other humans.

"I hear that Mr. Universe has a concert tonight," Emily said as she took out a sandwich from the picnic basket and handed it to their daughter. "You think anybody will show?"

"Maybe Rose will..." Patrick replied. "Just as long as Garnet or Pearl don't find out..."

"Oh, don't worry, I have a plan." Emily smirked.

"Emily..." Patrick looked to his wife.

Jessica ate the sandwich, totally unaware of what her parents were talking about. Emily began to whisper her plan to her husband. Patrick listened, then smiled.

"So, you like it?" Emily asked.

"Count me in." Patrick approved while they enjoyed the rest of their picnic.

"I thought you'd like to be a part of it." Emily smiled.

"You're pretty sneaky, Emily." Patrick chuckled.

"I'm a young mermaid, give me a break." Emily teased.

"I will when you stop being sneaky." Patrick teased back.

"Nope." Emily stuck her tongue out.

"So we're even..." Patrick narrowed his eyes slightly to her.

"Yep." Emily opened up a bag of potato chips.

"Great, too bad you can't just hypnotize them and make them fall asleep until Rose gets back from the concert." Patrick said.

"Don't worry, I got this..." Emily smiled like a laid back teenager.

"Ooh, boy..." Patrick sighed, then smiled down to Jessica. "You want some juice, Jessie? Let's get you some juice!"

Later that night...

"Okay, time for the plan to come into affect." Emily whispered.

Patrick nodded.

The young couple sneaked along together to set their plan into action.

"Da da da duh da, we are sneaking~" Patrick sang to himself.

"Really?" Emily asked.

Patrick shrugged innocently.

"Grow up." Emily rolled her eyes with a smirk.

"Aren't you from Never Land?" Patrick smirked back.

"Nyah!" Emily stuck her tongue out and looked out as it was getting dark in Beach City, around time for Greg's concert.

"Are we a go?" Patrick whispered.

"Aye-Aye." Emily nodded, whispering back to him.

"Perfect." Patrick whispered back.

Emily and Patrick got straight to work as Greg's band was setting up.

Rose wandered out of the gate and looked down to see a folded up paper. She then bent down and picked it up and opened it up to see a poster for the show. She looked at the moon to tell her the time and saw that she should get going as soon as possible so she wouldn't miss a thing.

"Okay, she's on the move." Patrick whispered through a walkie-talkie.

"Great, I feel bad for taking down all the other posters, but no one seems to even really wanna come to this show." Emily replied as she was next to a trashcan.

"Time for phase two." Patrick whispered through his walkie-talkie.

"Copy that." Emily replied like an agent.

Rose was walking through the beach as she left the gate with a small hopeful smile on her beautiful face. After she left the gate to go to the concert, the next part of the plan could start. Patrick and Emily smiled and hoped for the best. There were dozens and dozens of chairs, but there would only be one attendee to the show. Greg started playing his guitar and turned as he began to sang one of his signature songs.

"He sounds really good." Patrick whispered.

"Yeah, he's actually not bad," Emily whispered back. "Let's just hope that Miss Quartz approves."

Patrick nodded in agreement.

Eventually Greg finished. Rose clapped lightly.

"Thanks for coming, everybody," Greg smiled nervously at the little turn-out. "I'm Mr. Universe, if you like what you just heard, go check out our merch table! My manager Marty can hook you up with T-Shirts, CDs, oh, wait, he's not there... I guess I'm the one doing that now..." he then jumped off the stage and walked over to his table and sat down.

"We'll leave them alone." Patrick whispered.

Emily agreed. Rose didn't even notice Patrick or Emily and just walked over to the table and had a conversation with Greg about the CD titled 'Space Train to the Cosmos'. Patrick and Emily began to make their way to the beach. They went back into their cabin.

Patrick then offered to drive the babysitter home and Emily agreed. Emily smiled as she saw Jessica asleep in her room and she looked out into the ocean from her window as she felt like she and Patrick did something very good and beautiful.

After a short while, Rose began to make her way back to the HQ of the Crystal Gems. Greg knew one thing for sure: He had to see Rose again and as soon as possible. And where he decided to follow her. He walked down the boardwalk.

Patrick was then coming back from dropping off the babysitter, then saw Greg was wandering around. "What is that guy doing?" he asked himself quietly. He saw that Greg was going down on the beach.

"Emily, wake up..." Patrick whispered.

"Huh?" Emily woke up and sat up. "Honey, what is it? Is it Jessie?"

"No, that Mr. Universe guy is going to the forbidden zone on the beach." Patrick replied.

"What?! Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no." Emily panicked.

"Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes..." Patrick nodded frantically.

"Get Jessie in the car and let's go!" Emily said.

They were then suddenly in the car and Jessica was in the back in her car-seat, luckily, still fast asleep.