Another peaceful evening in New Homeworld. Listen to the scintillating tranquility.
OwO what's this? A massive creature burrows underneath the city, imploding buildings and warp pads; consuming what falls into its treacherous tunnels, leaving huge gaping caverns in its wake.
It digs south of the city and along the seashore until arrive's at the crystal gem's headquarters.
Steven sleeps peacefully with Lion laying on top of him; both of them finally free from Spinel's ownership. It had been a long time since they'd slept well. Not tonight, fuckers. Things begin to shake around them like a magnitude 6 earthquake. Lion wakes up immediately and sees the massive eldritch horror eating through the living room. He roars in terror.
"Two soups please, thank you," Steven mumbles in his sleep. The monster eats though the second floor, sending Steven tumbling in a mess or rubble onto the ground.
"You can keep the change."
Lion leaps down to him and paws his face.
"What?" Steven said, irritated. He wakes up fully when he sees the thing slithering away and tunneling down and down into the molten depths of the Earth. It disappears into the abyss and he's left alone with tattered pajamas and pieces of his house in his afro. The crystal gem's base has been decimated.
"I saw it! It was huge and wiggly - and it ate everything!" Steven explains to a crowd of homeless gems.
"That's horrible!" Connie says. She should probably be in school, but she uses every chance she can get to bunk and hang out with steven and the gems.
"It was..." Steven inhales, "an Alaskan... Bull... Gem!"
The crowd mutters in confusion. Lapis steps forward with a broken wheelbarrow "it ate my wheelbarrow!" She says in a carny accent. Peridot snickers.
"It ate my injector!" Spinel lies. Steven looks at her, concern in his eyes, "Spinel, why are you here...?"
"Don't worry about it." She answers, "go to the next person."
Whatever, Steven thinks, and his attention finally goes to Greg who is missing his right arm and steadily bleeding out on the floor.
"Oh my god - dad are you okay?"
Greg doesn't answer, because he has fallen unconscious from the pain and blood loss. Steven rushes over and kneels beside him, "dad..." He licks his hand and presses it against Greg's bloodied stump. It glows pink and a new limb begins germinating. Greg wakes up in a cold sweat. "Argh - I - oh, Steven," he rubs the nape of his neck with a new pastel pink arm, "a gem ate my arm!"
The crowd murmurs some more, their anxiety growing.
"How can we protect ourselves?" Pearl wonders aloud.
"I know!" White Diamond says - No-one had even noticed her arrive. "We should all go back to homeworld and serve the monarchy!"
The gems boo and pelt her with rocks and cars and anything else they can get ahold of. She cowers away to the back of the crowd, which isn't effective since she's so massive.
"We should lock our doors!" Garnet says, trying to distract the crowd and bring them back to the subject at hand.
"We should call the Great Diamond Authority-!" White says from behind a building.
The crowd cheers angrily.
"-We should build a moat!" Garnet interrupts her.
Amythest hops up on Garnets shoulders to get a wider influence on the crowd, "we should take New Homeworld," she said, gesturing a pulling motion with her hands, "and push it somewhere else!"
The crowd quiets immediately.
"That idea may just be crazy enough..." Pearl began "... to get us all killed!"
The crowd of gems continues fretting. "What's wrong with my idea?" Amythest mutters, crestfallen.
"Let's get someone to go after it!" A quartz yells.
White Diamond laughed from behind her mountain, "no gem is foolish enough to to take on a corrupted Alaskan Bull Worm." She says, "not even a diamond would-"
A horrible screeching sound is heard from behind them. Everyone turns to see a giant gem standing in the shadows, scraping her talons on the side of a crystal building. Her face is masked by darkness, but her smile glints, exposing white fanged teeth.
She steps forward into daylight.
"I'll catch your worm for you." Jasper sneers.
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Can You Spare a Gem? ( STEVEN UNIVERSE FUTURE / SPINEL FANFIC )
FanfictionSteven is 16 and he is the emotional support for all the traumatised gems in New Homeworld, but it's really starting to wear him down. He thought after he stopped Spinel from destroying the Earth, things would settle down. He was very wrong. Spinel...
