SU AU: Infinity Train Book: Cracking Beneath The Surface

Episode 2: The Canyon of the Golden Winged Snakes Car

Steven opens the door to the next train car. He opens the door in walks in and sees canyon like place. He takes in his surroundings and sees the sky is full of planets. "Am I on another planet?" Steven thinks. He shakes his head and continues to pondered. "No that can't right! Ugh I wish I had the gems with me! I'm sure they would know what to do! I'm just unless on my own!" Steven hears a scrolling sound coming from his hand. He sees number is changing. It was 432 now it went up to 433.

"Uh it went up? Is that good, is that bad, or WHAT!"He yells in frustrated confusion; Steven sighs. "Why am I talking to myself?" He continues on his journey walking in the canyon. He sees giant snakes with dragon wings flying overhead. "Whoa, those are some big snakes! I really hope they're not hungry." Steven looks at them in the sky while continuing to walk.

Steven walks on a stone formation that looks like a bridge minus the railings. He hears a struggle coming from below looks down at the pit, which goes down miles long if anyone fell down there. Steven sees a cave on the side of the cliff, deducing where the sound is coming from. He jumps off the rocky bridge floating to the cave entrance.

He sees the winged snaked about to eat some poor creature. "HEY!" He shouts, getting its attention. The snaked cocked its head towards him. It hissed and slithers quickly towards him. Steven runs out of fear but also to get more fighting room in the upper ground. The snake flys out and prepares to strike. It flys down like how a bird flys down to snatch it's prey. Steven throws his shield hitting it in the face. It crashes down on the ground.

It gets up and lunges his fangs at Steven. He dodges the attack from the winged reptile. The snake lunges again at him and this time Steven protects himself by summoning his bubble shield. It holds Steven in his mouth trying to break his bubble with its fangs. It shakes it's head left and right viciously. It throws Steven onto a giant rock where and that's when his bubble shield breaks. Steven started to get ticked off and now his whole body starts to glow pink.

The snake flies towards him at great speed. But now it was moving in slow motion. Steven manages to get behind it and grabs its tail. He jumps up into the air spins around and throws it at a giant rock. Steven manages to knock it out. As Steven floats back down to the ground. Now in horror Steven realizes he hurt a poor creature who was just hungry. He goes over to the unconscious reptile and rubs his spit on it, healing the snake from its injuries.

The snake wakes up, it looks at Steven, and flies away. Steven turns around to see the creature that was going to eaten by the winged snake. The creature runs away and Steven follows it as it goes back into the cave. He sees the creature is a white canine creature that stood on its two legs like him. Steven also sees the creature is wearing clothing as people do.

Steven was surprised by what he was seeing. The wolf creature had white fur, red eyes, and he wore punk clothing. He wore a purple hood with ripped sleeves, a long black sleeves shirt with a skull on it, A chain he wore around his neck as a necklace, and black ripped jeans. The creature's face came up to Steven's chest when standing on its hind legs.

"Um hello." Steven greeted himself assuming the creature before him could talk too. "STAY BACK!" The creature growled looking intimating. Steven looked into his red eyes. "Look I'm not here to hurt you! I saved you after all!" Steven announced. "Yeah, but why, what do you want?" The creature demanded. "I just wanted to see if you were ok? That's all." Stevens sees the creature holding it's bloody arm. "Which by the looks of it you are not." Steven walks closer to him.

"I SAID STAY BACK!" He yells at Steven. But Steven slowly approaches him like a scared wild animal. The creature bared its fangs. "It's ok, it's ok I mean no harm. I'm just here to help." Steven said in a compassionate voice. The creature was uncertain he felt like he could trust him. But the way he saw him handle that snake. He could tell Steven was a bigger threat.

"Who are you anyway?" The demanded. Steven kneels down in front of him. "My name is Steven Universe, and I just want to help," Steven says trying to reassure him. He was still a bit reluctant but decides to accept his help. He shows Steven his arm it had a giant cut and it was bloody. "Geez, you really did a number that arm!" Steven gently grabbed his arm and then spit on his own hand. He then rubbed it on the canine's arm. He understandably became disgusted by the action that was taken.

He rubs his arm to get his saliva off. "EW WHAT THE HECK! THAT'S DISGUSTING WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!" He yells in disgust. "No no it's ok!" He tries to calm him. "DUDE YOU RUB YOUR SPIT ON MY ARM HOW IS THAT GOING TO HEL-" He stops himself seeing his arm is completely healed. "See I told you it was ok!" Steven smiles at him. "What in the-...I haven't seen a denizen do that before." He says in amazement. He smiles at Steven. "Thank you though even if the healing was a bit...unorthodox!" He says feeling grateful pulling down his long sleeve.

"Oh I'm not a denizen, I'm a passenger." Steven corrected him. The wolf finally notices the glowing number and his whole demeanor changes around Steven. "Thanks now I got to go." He puts his hands in his pockets and walks away from Steven. "HEY WAIT!" Steven Shouts. The wolf groans in annoyance. "What do you want?" Steven took notice of the wolf's rude tone but decides to ignore it.

"I just need help figuring this out." He shows his glowing hand to him. "Look I probably don't know that much more than you do." He said sternly. "Well, what do you know?" Steven asked. "All I know is that you have to get your number down to zero. How you get that number down. I have no idea how though." Steven looks down in disappointment.

The denizen started to feel bad for him a little but still spoke to him in a rude tone. "Look buddy I'm sorry I couldn't help you." Steven only smiles at him. "That's okay. Hey, maybe I can still help you" A chill went up the wolf's spine with oh no expression on his face. "Uh no, I'm fine; you already helped me remember." He said.

"I know but I can still tell you look a little out of place here. You know like me, are you lost?" Steven asked. The wolf denizen was a bit hesitant to answer. "I guess you could say that." Steven smiled at him. "If you are I can help you! After all, helping is what I do best! It's what I'm good for, after all." After Steven said that he hears a scrolling sound, and he looks at his hand.

His number was now changing. It was at 433; now, it went up to 440. "You see that it went up! Is that good or bad?" Steven asked. "Look like I said before, all I know is that you have to get number down to zero. So I guess you're not making progress." Steven looks at his glowing tattoo on his hand and grumbles. Steven sighs and catches up to the denizen, who was walking away from him.

"HEY, WAIT UP!" Steven shouts. "Maybe we can help each other out. I mean I usually help others free of charge. But you live on this train right? So maybe you can help me out and I can find why whatever you're looking for." Steven suggested the denizen was pondering on what to do. But looking at Steven he can tell he won't leave alone even if he tells him. The wolf sighs not seeing any other option. "Alright alright, I'll help you! Your name was Steven right?" Steven nodded with a kind smile. "Right! What your name?" Steven asked. 

"Lycan, Lycan Howlman." He responded. Steven holds his hand, Lycan grabs Steven's hand and shakes it. They greeted each other friendly enough. They headed out of the train car. Lycan didn't completely trust this guy. So he was going to keep a close eye on Steven. After what he experienced he knows not to trust passengers.