Steven Universe: Beyond The Mirror

The Past 5,000 Years

Thousands of years ago, a being of light, a Gem, vanished in a puff of smoke into the core of her well being, a crystal blue stone in the shape of a teardrop that has been embedded on her back since the start of her existence.

This Gem is a Lapis Lazuli, born a terraformer with the occupation of shaping the Earth at will with water manipulation as her superpower. This ability, however, can be honed in a two-sided network of extraordinary possibilities. In other words, it can create light or cast darkness on an unsuspecting world of life.

This Lapis was fixed into the back frame of an ancient mirror which became worn and cracked just like its residing gemstone over the past millenia. The mirror was discovered at a place composed of a dozen warp pads in which Gems use for quick access transportation.

A Pearl of pale skin and loose silk clothing with her gemstone embedded on her forehead picks up the mirror and gazes into the glassy frame, completely unaware of the stone of an ancestor on the back. She stares at her own cyan eyes with a pointed nose and curved back pink hair that sticks up towards the sky.

She shrugs to herself as her gem glows, illuminating the small space around her. She holds the mirror up to her forehead and within seconds, it disappears in a flash as the stone's glow diminishes.

The Pearl steps away from the area to catch up with her leader with her head held high, her hands attached behind her back with a smirk. The mirror floats around multiple objects inside a blank void such as police tape and a spiral tipped spear.

Meanwhile, the Gem behind the frame pounded against the other side of the glass, enraged from her imprisonment within the object. She screams and clenches her teeth as tears slip through her narrowing eyes.

She stands alone in her own void as she thinks about her mission that she has failed to complete for her mistress. She was sent to Earth, being a terraformer, to create a Kindergarten, the birth place of various Quartzes.

The Kindergartens come with their own price, however, for they have the potential to hollow out the planet's resources to create its inhabitants, leaving it to rot and whither away into nothingness. The operations were eventually thwarted by none other than a group of their own kin.

This rebel alliance is known as the Crystal Gems with the sole duty of protecting humanity and the planet from their relatives. This sparked a war that led to the demise of millions of Gems and hundreds of human beings.

The rebellion was led by a particular infamous Rose Quartz soldier who had the desire, though the reluctance, of ending the reign of one of her Homeworld's leaders, a Diamond, a tyrannical titan with superpowers, Pink Diamond.

After losing the war with a few survivors at her command, Rose decided to stay on Earth and knew that it was for the best to never return to Homeworld. Later, she met a kindhearted musician named Greg or Mr. Universe at the time.

They fell in love with each other and thought about having a human of their own out of wonder and great curiosity. However, because Rose is a Gem, she can't bear a child. At least, not without giving up her physical form for it. And so, Rose became her own human being.

Her entourage eventually found out what happened and for a time, fell into despair. They couldn't comprehend what has occurred nor could they believe it. Throughout his early years, Steven was taken care of by his dad while the Gems went to carry out the work that Rose left behind.

Now thirteen, Steven resides with them in a small wooden house attached to a temple by the beach of his beloved Beach City. He goes on missions and he does his own thing during his leisure time. He has made lots of friends and he generally spends time with his dad.

But on one fateful night, his whole routine changes forever for soon he will push past the barriers that the Gems had kept in tact to avert their greatest fears of allowing Steven to pursue the truth to his existence and the utmost extremity of the danger he is really in.