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Stevonnie's Angels	By : TheDirtyEquestrian2.0 Category: +S through Z > Steven Universe Views: 10624 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Peridot and Lapis lounged in the threadbare sofa which lay about the old, dusty barn. Long since abandoned, the wooden building served as a kind of home to the two gems. As a former aristocratic gem, Lapis Lazuli was used a degree of freedom.
Peridot however was new to this whole freedom thing. Back on Homeworld, she'd never been more than a low level technician assigned to projects and jobs too demeaning for era one Peridots and too dangerous to send in robonoids. Even the mere act of simple shape shifting was seen as superfluous to her duty and punishable by death.
Reaching one arm around her significantly shorter significant other, Lapis looked at the green gem lovingly as they watched an old anime show together.
Onscreen, a brawny anime woman swung an impractically large sword at a creatively designed anime monster. One thing was for sure, this show didn't lack in interesting monster designs. "Ah-ha!" laughed Peridot triumphantly as the monster gorily fell in two, "Take that you clod, your inferior corrupted forms are no match for the Valkyrie!"
Lapis smiled, "I'm glad you liked this show; Steven turned me on to it and I wasn't sure you'd like it after Camp Pining Hearts."
Peridot hugged Lapis as the brawny, angry woman screamed and took out a dozen black knights with a single swing of her fuck-off big sword. "Camp Pining Hearts will always be my first great love of human fiction, but the show Black Valkyrie provides some of the most complex and compelling shipping webs that I've ever seen. The Love triangle with Martin, Lotte and Gattz alone provides me with tens of thousands of pages of dissertation and discourse regarding who the true ship is."
Lapis shook her head at how her apparently logical and clear thinking girlfriend was a hopeless romantic even worse than Steven; it made her love the mouthy green gem even more. She was about to speak when Peridot cut her off.
"Shush, Lapis, Gattz is about to rescue Lotte from the machinations of the Arch Anyellios. Now Gattz can finally see that she's destined to be with Lotte and not Martin."
Lapis winced a bit as the anime entered a trippy sequence where the angry, butch warrior jumped through a magic portal and into a hellscape that looked surprisingly like Homeworld. "Uh, Peridot, if you ship Lotte and Gattz . . . I gotta spoil it for you; you're going to have a bad time."
Peridot just scoffed as Gattz ran for a beautiful, white haired woman held prisoner by four massive demons and their combined armies of hell. "Nonsense, I've calculated every factor and the logic dictates that Gattz will be happy with the woman general who fought with her and won her respect; not the foolish man who pined for her like an idiot."
The blue gem shrugged and decided to let Peridot watch the ending of the first season. It wasn't going to be a pretty thing but something about the gory, brutal and unforgiving ending brought Lapis great joy. She decided that as much as she loved Peridots innocence and naivete, she needed to see this.
On screen, the low budget but clearly well directed anime brought the viewers into the world of the Arch Anyellios. Gattz faced off against a gigantic yellow demon as Lotte lay bruised at the monster's feet: mutilated and from the damage around her breasts and nethers far worse.
The voice actor behind Gattz managed to make a dramatic anime speech seem grounded and something that a real person would actually say. Peridot drank the whole thing in as the Arch-demon offered Lotte the world in exchange for her soul and the chance to become Queen of the Anyellios.
Lapis braced herself, this was the moment that Peridot was going to be disappointed.
"That woman, Gattz; she was my only friend. She was the only one who got in way of my vision. Oh soul is yours, great demon; I submit."
Peridot's eyes widened and her jaw dropped with shock. "No," she said softly. Then louder, "No!"
Lapis winced at Peridot's shock and outrage as onscreen, demon magic stripped Gattz of her armour and shattered her sword before conjuring a nude and bound Martin.
"No!" screamed Peridot, jumping off the couch. "You were perfect, perfect for each other! Gattz trusted you! She loved you and she put you above her own morals!" The tiny gem jumped back on the couch and started hopping up and down like a rabid frog. "She performed assassinations for you, took a poisoned arrow for you and you sacrifice not only your one true love but all your friends who trusted you and saved you from the King's Torture Tower?!" She jumped onto the ground, rolling around like a log as she did.
Lapis tried to calm down her partner as Lotte on screen transformed into a white, hawk like demon. "Peridot, if you think about it; this is logical for Lotte. She's always been about power and saw the warriors under her as tools." The words hurt to say more than she'd thought they would. "I used to be part of a royal court; love just doesn't exist in a place like that."
Peridot ignored what Lapis was saying as the green tech gem ran around the barn causing spoons and thing to fly around like a wimpy Magneto. "Oh Lotte! I hate you! If you were a real person I'd go to clodding war with you, with knives and chains!"
As the short, angry dorito ran off into the cornfield, Lapis spied Stevonnie walking in with a very silent Kiki. The blue gem stood up immediately as she spotted the way that Kiki walked and looked; like she was invisible to the whole world.
Lapis had no heart to flutter but the twin screws driving the synthetic blood in her body started spinning faster. Her mouth felt dry even though she had no saliva and a deep drive within her wanted to jump into the deepest body of water and hide. She blinked as Kiki was placed upon the sofa next to her.
"I'll be right back," said Stevonnie, "I smell smoke and I'm afraid Peridot set something on fire, and once that's done... I-I need to tell the gems. Can you watch out for her, Lapis?"
The water gem nodded and spoke with forced cheer, "Sure thing, Steven."
The large fusion left and it was just the girl and the gem. Silence dominated the space as the show Black Valkyrie finished and another low budget, retro anime project came on.
Lapis glanced at the girl out the corner of her eye, unsure of what to say. What could she say.
Hey I know that look on your face, Jasper did it to me when we were malachite—no
Hey, they used to gang ra—oh, fuck no
When I got back to Homeworld after thousands of years of imprisonment they stripped me of all my titles before torturing and ra—FUCKING STARS, NO
"Hey, uh, human," Lapis began. Kiki barely budged but watched the blue gem from out her periphery. "Look, there's going to be some rough days ahead, but everyone still loves you and they'll still love you forever."
Kiki said nothing, focusing instead of the brightly coloured kids anime.
Taking a risk, Lapis held Kiki's hand. When the girl didn't panic or scream, she breathed a sigh. "Also, I . . . I did actually go through what you did, so you an email me or something any time about it or talk."
Lapis was taken by surprise when Kiki hugged her tightly. One of her hands clamped over Lapis's gem and the blue woman had to restrain the urge to scream and freak out. When that feeling was over, a strange warmth fell over the two and at least in this tiny circle everything felt like it would turn out for the better.
Stevonnie walked into the main house where she'd left the Crystal gems lounging. It seemed like a century ago that she'd been sitting on the sofa with Amethyst watching gory eighties action movies.
"Hey dude," the purple gem greeted, "Movie finished up but I thought we could get to watching our favorite horror movie, Death Bed: The Bed That Eats! You know you love it when the bed eats the guy and makes his woman watch!"
That was as much as she could take as Stevonnie burst out crying, collapsing to the floor like a puppet with their strings cut. Amethyst looked horrified and ran to the fusion of her two favorite humans. "Oh god! I'm sorry, please tell me you're not sick, please!"
Garnet ran to Stevonnie's side and scooped them into her arms, cradling them like she did when Steven was a baby. "We're here for you," the tall gem cooed, "We'll always be there for you."
"Stevonnie," said Pearl, putting one delicate hand on their tear stained cheek. "Let it all out, take as much time as you need."
The strengh which which they'd killed the monster left them, but Stevonnie managed to wimper. "A-a monster hurt Kiki, hurt her . . . that way."
The gems understood well enough. Homeworld back in the day did some unspeakable things to prisoners.
"Stevonnie, I know this is hard, but can you tell us what happened?" Pearl asked gently.
Sniffing, Stevonnie said "Y-yeah. We were watching the movie with Amethyst when we just felt this... this pain! Just all over! I didn't know what it was! I tried to focus on it, and... I saw Kiki! I saw her being... raped! Violated!" Stevonnie grasped her head in her hands as she continued. "I tried to get there as fast as I could. I actually stopped to get a weedwacker. Wrapped the end in barbed wire. When I got there... I lost myself. I liked it. The feeling of that monster being shredded to bits."
She sniffed before continuing. "After, I had it in my hand. I pulled it straight from its body. I-I wanted to shatter that thing so BAD!"
Pearl took Stevonnie's hand in her own. "If it makes you feel any better, that doesn't make you a monster. In the rebellion, there was a standing order that all renegade Pearl's be raped and shattered. I used to find shattered Pearl's with knife tips broken off in the gems. I used to go out and get revenge for those Pearl's, to the point where I thought about raping those Homeworld soldiers right back." The pale gem gulped as her own unaknowledged pain bubbled to surface. Seeing that pain in another made Stevonnie feel not so . . . alone.
"If you had shattered it," Pearl insisted, "We wouldn't have blamed you, but speaking as someone who's stood on the brink, I'm glad you kept your dignity, your kidness. Right now, Kiki will need that from you more than any kind of revenge."
"Yeah!" Amethyst, shouted, bear hugging Stevonnie in Garnet's arms. "You're family, and now Kiki is family too! And the code of the Quartz says you don't fuck with family." The little gem's eyes widened as something psychotic stirred inside. "Believe me, you're a fucking saint for not killing that bitch. If I was there, I'd have done something REALLY scary to that thing!"
"The Gem is dealt with," Garnet explained, stroking Stevonnie's hair. "The pair of you will never return to what you were, but what you can become will be stronger than ever before."
That admission from the fusion hit Stevonnie like a punch in the gut. They'd kill to have that old innocence. But there was something else. "The corruption monster," she sniffed, wiping her nose. "something was talking to it."
Garnet paused. "What do you mean?" she asked.
"Before I pulled the gem out... There was a moment where I felt... connected to it. Like... I saw what it was thinking. I only heard a bit though. It said... It said, "Fight. Kill. For. Authority." Guys... Does that... does that mean...?"
Pearl tried to say something but the words caught in her throat. Stevonnie wanted Pearl to panic and start sqawking, to be her usual mother hen and worrywart self. But the graceful gem could only gag; choking on her PTSD.
Amethyst panicked and turned to Garnet, "Help us out, G! Don't leave us in the dark!"
Garnet ground her teeth, fighting her own unbidden memories. "The Diamonds in the past could project feelings and thoughts into gems. Think of it like the novel 1987, where the party uses screens to change people's brains. Back during the war, the diamonds used signal boosters to broadcast their powers across the entire galaxy. A gem could break free, but they had to be conscious of it and they needed community support to leave the cult of the diamonds." She paused, gathering her strength, "Even Ruby and Sapphire fought through withdrawal symptoms after leaving Blue Diamond's sphere of influence. Something like a corrupted gem would be especially vulnerable to this since they're not really sentient; but by the same tower a low powered version of the signal could do the trick and go undetected by functional gems."
"So, that song that Centi was talking about... Was that..."
"We still don't know what that was," Garnet explained. "All Gems have certain firewalls inside our minds; another method of control from the diamonds. The song that Centipeedle referenced isn't actually sound, it's some kind of . . . virus, is the best thing I can think to call it. You saw how Jasper became corrupted when she fused with that monster; the song merely was a carrier to allow corruption to spread not just across earth but across thousands of lightyears."
Pearl took over, her shaking and gagging stopped. "The corruption wave took over the entire Milky Way galaxy; it was a total scorched earth campaign. If we're feeling the song of the Diamonds on earth, then it means that they're aware of the corrupt gems and they're trying to press them into service again."
"Shit," Amethyst breathed. "Why didn't you tell us this earlier!"
"It was a possibility," Garnet almost snapped with the purple gem, "But a remote one. They're getting desperate, the resource shortages and civil disruption must be worse than Peridot let on."
"Wait. I remembered something," Stevonnie started. "Something that Peridot told Steven once. Something about a machine that... Like, if a gem got poofed then they could shove it into it and read it's mind. Find out information, like a forced interrogation. It sounds harsh, but... What if that gem was right? What if the Diamonds are making their move? Now?"
Garnet slowly put Stevonnie down, as though she was the one now who needed support. "At this point, the Diamonds are like wounded animals. They are desperate and looking at the collapse of their empire. This isn't a fight we can win alone."
"Fuck!" shouted Pearl, the last gem who'd ever use a four letter word. "This is not how we end. I didn't fight, bleed, kill and suffer just to watch those oversized, overblown piece of glass shit over everything I value and everyone I care about!"
Shrieking like an angry hawk, Pearl kicked the dining room table into splinters, cuasing Garnet and Stevonnie to flinch and Amethyst to drop her jaw in awe. "Nobody gave me anything! I broke away because I chose to! I chose to sign on with Rose! We'll fight with the humans, blow up the intergalactic warp nework, claw at them, piss on them; whatever!" Her eyes bulged and she was starting to foam with anger. "What do we do? Anything and everything! I faced them at their prime; now they've sent nothing but lone fighters with pretty toys. We've adapted to everything they've sent; Jasper, Aquamarine, the Ruby's and even Peridot. If the diamonds want to make Earth their graveyard then fine by me!"
In agreement, Amethyst kicked the TV into a thousand pieces while screaming. She was so proud of Pearl for showing wrath to make a bull-sized Jasper soldier flinch. Then she realized what she'd done. "DAMN IT! How'm I going to replace that TV!?"
Stevonnie burst out laughing as Amethyst cursed. Getting serious again, she looked Garnet. "We need to talk to Peridot. Maybe she know if there's a ship out there that has something like that, so we can see what that gem meant."
"The gem's mind will be fairly scrambled," explained Garnet, "But the data it recieved should be easy to extract. After that, it'll be no different than decoding a foreign language."
Trying to distract herself from the fact that she fucked up movie night, Amethyst whooped and flexed her muscles. "I'm ready for this. I missed the first war but I sure as hell plan to make a bang in this one!"
"Code of the Quartz's," said Stevonnie, taking Amethyst's hand in a manly shake, imitated from a much beloved action film. "You don't fuck with family."
"Let's not get ahead of ourselves," said Pearl, returning to her neurotic, logical ways. "Right now we have a goal but we need a plan to reach that goal. From what we've seen, Homeworld has a large tech gap and, despite their resource shortage, a large numbers lead on us. In the time of Rose we had Bismuth to arm us, defector Peridot's to undermine enemy communication and a host of turncoats and spies deep in Homeworld society. We need all the help we can get." She then eyed Amethyst, "I know you and Stevonnie, to an extent, are built to fight; it's in your gem heuristics. But I'll be damned if you lose yourselves in a pointless last stand."
"If at all possible, we might be able to interrogate Jasper in a similar fashion." Garnet offered. "She would be the one most likely to know about troop deployments, current weapons research and tactics. Peridot can provide us real time information on Homeworld's communications, logistics and hacking."
"And the Famethysts!" shouted Amethyst, "There's a bunch of mad mother fuckers just sitting out in space doing nothing. They helped us last time just because I asked and I know they'd help us in a fight!"
"Is there any way we could get human allies?" offered Stevonnie. "I know Rose had some at one point."
"Stevonnie," Pearl chided, "Humans are primitive and squishy and panicky. They'd be of no help."
"And that's where you're wrong, Pearl," said Stevonnie, taking a step forward to defend the other half of their herritage. "This is our planet, our home, our birthplace. MY birthplace! We all have a stake in this. Besides, humans, they've come back from the Black Death, from plagues, from wars and only gotten stronger in the long run. You of all people, Pearl, should know better than to brush someone off just because of their birth."
Pearl opened her mouth to say something, but quickly snapped it shut, knowing the fusion was right. She sighed. "I don't know if any of Rose's old contacts are even alive. It was so long ago."
"That's ok. We can cross that bridge when we get there. For now, we need to get to the barn and see if we can get Peridot to see if she can find the ship."
"What's this about ships and Rose's contacts?" came a voice behind the group. In all the excitement and hoopla of planning a counter-invasion, Greg Universe, human extraordinaire had walked into the gem's kitchen. "Also, I just fixed that TV! Eugh, doesn't matter. Just- what's going on?"
Silence followed and a pit formed in Greg's stomach. "Guys, don't leave me hanging like this."
Stevonnie put a hand on their father/uncle figure. "Greg . . . Dad. . . We think Homeworld is planning to invade."
Less diplomatically, Pearl grabbed Greg in a hug; something that would have seemed impossible a few hours ago. "Greg, the Diamonds are going to try to kill everyone. I suggest you make your ammends now while you still can."
Amethyst pried the two apart. "Take a chill pill, Pearl." Then she turned to her old human buddy. "Dude, I'm not gonna lie, shit's gonna be grim. No guarantees, if you die first, save my spot in Hell because I'm going down there a legend."
Greg's eyes widened, "Wait, wait, WHAT?! Homeworld?! Are you guys sure? Is this real!?"
"Sadly, yes," Garnet deadpanned.
Greg exhaled, the color draining from his face. "I hoped this day would never come."
Stevonnie spoke up. "We don't know if a full invasion is inevitable, but the Diamonds are making there move via proxies. Kiki was just . . . attacked a little while ago, but she's ok, for the most part. And if there was one, the we can bet there's more." Stevonnie took a deep breath before continuing, " We might have a way to figure out what they're planning."
"Do you need me to do anything?" Greg asked.
Garent spoke up and asked "Did Rose ever mention any of her human allies to you, or introduce you to them?"
"No," Greg said. "No, she never liked to talk about it, and I never pushed her or bothered her about it. I figured if anyone knew about them, it would've been Pearl."
"Well, what about the Earth Protection Force?" Stevonnie asked.
"The what?" Amethyst cocked her head.
"The Earth Protection Force. I heard Ronaldo talk about them on his blog." the fusion clarified. "He has a weird tendency to be right about alien related things, even when he doesn't have a shred of evidence."
"They're real, and not just a fiction of Ronaldo's energy drink addled mind," Garnet adjusted her glasses. "They've been around since the 1950's but it was in the 70's when they start to recieve serious funding and training. Right now they're led by a man named Griffin."
"Well need to be careful of him," Pearl said. "I met him once. He's brash, arrogant, and only answers to the President. Anyone or thing that isn't his mission is of no importants to him."
"He'll flip when we show him maps of Homeworld's territory, its numbers, and tie it into the giant floating hand that Peridot and Jasper rode in on," said Garnet confidently. "If it comes to it. We can flip over the President with promises of technological aid and rebuilding and some human gathered evidence of the corrupted gems."
"Whoa!" said Greg, "You guys better not let yourself be kidnapped and taken to Area 51 or fifty-whatever. The U.S. government can be pretty untrustworthy."
"But we don't have a choice," Stevonnie explained to Greg. "Sooner or later the humans will find out, and it's better if they find out from us than from Homeworld."
"Let's just take things one step at a time. I think right now, we need to go talk to Peridot and see where we can go from there." Pearl said.
"Pearl's right. The more time we talk, the more time the Diamonds have to plan." Stevonnie said. "So let's get going."
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