Infinity Train Book SU: Gem Shards (Steven Universe AU)

Chapter 1: The Beach Car

"LEAVE ME ALONE" Steven screams.

As he shouts, a pink blast radiates from him, shaking the entire room and leaving Steven blindsided. When Steven returns to his senses, everything around him begins to slow, until eventually everything is completely motionless. Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl slow their approach until they are barely even moving towards him.

"I-I'm speeding up again." Steven says while looking at his hands and the slowing of objects around him, realizing that his super speed powers have activated again.

I've gotta get out of here" Steven says to himself in a desperate attempt to avoid talking to the gems. He begins to go down his stairs, his movements creating a pink shadow behind him with every movement. Steven is about to exit the door, but looks back at the slowly approaching gems.

"Should I leave, where would I even go" Steven thinks as he reconsiders whether he should leave or not, he eventually decides to leave out of fear.

"They can't help me" Steven says, "I don't even think I can."

Steven opens the door and runs out, slamming the door in front of the gems who are too slow to catch up with him. He runs down the stairs connecting his house to the beach. Once Steven is on the beach, he begins to run towards the town, hoping to get away from the gems. As he runs on the sand, he creates a cloud of sand behind him, each step propelling a large amount of sand into the air as he speeds down the beach. He continues to run, refusing to let himself think about his actions or the greater consequences of his decisions. The gem's words to him beginning to echo around his head.

"Steven, you have got to calm down and talk to us" Garnet says,

"We need to do something about this before someone gets hurt." Pearl exclaims.

Soon, these thoughts are the only thing Steven can hear, drowning out any sense of reason, but he keeps moving forward, hoping to outrun his thoughts.

Steven makes it to Beach City, passing the big donut. He sees Sadie and Shep together, slowly eating donuts as Steven passes by, only making him run faster. He runs through the town, hoping to find a place to go. He runs into the streets, dodging cars that pass by in slow motion, even jumping over some in opposing traffic. He runs by a paper stand, blowing all the papers into the air as he passes by. To the pedestrians, all they see is pink blur speeding through the town without a second thought.

Eventually, Steven makes his way outside of beach city and into the woods outside of the town. Steven's super speed subsides, not being able to maintain that amount of speed for that long. He slows down and bends over, huffing into the ground as he places his hands on his knees.

The events of the past few months begin to take a toll on Steven's well-being, beginning to recall events within that time. His fight with Jasper, The incident at the reef, his doctor's appointment gone wrong... His proposal. All of these thoughts begin to swirl around Steven's head, drowning everything else out.

"Stop... Thinking," Steven thinks, trying to calm himself down. A small part of his reason still remains, and Steven begins to think where he can go get help.

"This all started when I fought Jasper," Steven thinks, "Maybe if I find Jasper, she can help me fix this."

"It's worth a shot," Steven says to himself, hopeful yet apprehensive at the thought.

With a large pull from his growing reasoning, Steven begins to head towards Jaspers cave, about 10 miles outside of beach city. Steven attempts to reactivate his super speed to get there faster, but to no avail. He continues on foot, his feet beginning to hurt now that he is a few miles in. Steven eventually makes his way into the rural forests outside of Beach city, getting closer to Jasper's cave.