Steven's Serious Mission

Chapter 13: Ending.

Greg woke up the next morning, the inside of the van was dark and messy as always he looked for Steven but he wasn't there.

He scratched his beard and opened the doors of his van, the sun beat down on him and he was parked in front of the temple.

"Dad!" yelled Steven coming out of the front door.

"What's going on kiddo?" Said Greg happily.

"I'm going on a mission!" said Steven.

"That's great!" said Greg.

The Gems followed him out.

Amethyst was wearing short hair.

"Are you ready Steven?" said Pearl smiling at him.

"I'm ready!" said Steven excitingly.

"Good." Said Garnet with a tiny smile.

Steven and the Gems leave.

"Peace out music man!" said Amethyst.

Greg walked back to the van and sat down holding his head.

"I hope he's safe." He said to himself.

When he looked up it was sunset.

The warp activated it's pillar stretched up into the sky.

Greg walked into the house, hoping to meet Steven back, however only the Gem returned, and they were downcast.

"Where's Steven?" Asked Greg.

Garnet held out a torn and dirty shirt.

"Sorry." She said quickly.

Pearl cried.

Greg took the shirt and held it tightly, he sobbed loudly into it for what seemed to be an eternity.

Heavy, barefoot footsteps approached him; he turned around to find Rose, looking at him with disappointment.

The massive curly-haired Quartz warrior in a dress moved closer to him, clutching Steven's body.

"Why did you let this happen? Why did you let his happen?" she said repeating over and over and over.

"What?" said Greg in surprise.

The sky became green and the hand-shaped ship fell from the sky, loud metal clanging and footsteps were heard and suddenly…

Greg woke up with a start in darkness, a car alarm echoing through the night along with the sound of millions of crickets.

He wiped his eyes of tears and looked to his side, Steven slept soundly next to him, snoring softly and wearing his favorite pajamas.

Going over the events of his dreams and looking outside to find the van parked at the wash, Greg realized how ridiculous that really was and after wiping some tears decided to go back to bed, however the heavy footsteps from his dreams could be heard outside, followed by groaning.

All of a sudden the wall next to him dented in and the van rocked back and forth, distorted screaming could be heard.

Steven woke up and screamed as the van violently rocked back and forth.

"What's going on?!" Yelled Steven.

"I don't know!" Yelled Greg.

Greg opened the door and fell out of the van and Steven followed, they got up and found a horrific amalgamation of limbs attacking the van.

It stopped attacking the van and slowly walked up to the two of them, it had a twisted and misshapen torso where 4 colors came together, 1 forth of the atrocity had a broad shoulder and a large pink arm and hand, the second had a similar arrangement only it was green, the bottom half of the monster was uneven and thinner, it had three legs, one Pink with a boot, one Green with a boot, and one skinny one that was orange and barefoot, the orange half was which made up another forth of the torso, the final color was a brown that made up the remaining part of the torso and colored the back it had a gem at the center that was just 4 shards stuck together in an "X" pattern, one was pink and familiar, the other was lime green and the third was dark orange and the final was a murky black, it had three eyes at the center of it's shoulders one was orange and small, the other was large and black and the final was green and had a clear large pupil, a fourth remain at it's back, brown with a clear pupil.

A ragged attempt at clothing barely managed to cover It and blew in the breeze.

"It's a Gem mutant!" Yelled Steven.

"A what?!" Yelled Greg.

The creature ran at Greg, Steven thought quickly and his Gem glowed summoning his shield and he stopped the creature before it could get to him.

"It's… UG! A weird mix of Gem pieces!" Yelled Steven struggling to hold back the creature with his shield.

Greg was speechless.

The creature reached behind the shield and grabbed Steven.

"Steven!" Yelled Greg.

Steven yelled and the shield disappeared into magic sparkles the monster grabbed him tightly and held him close it's eyes looking into his.

Steven struggled to breath the monster was squeezing him so tightly he felt like he might burst, he looked back into it's eyes in fear, but in those eyes he saw something, despair, fear, confusion?

Greg looked around for a weapon, he grabbed his waffle iron and hit the beast to no effect.

"Hang on" yelled Garnet.

The Gems came to their aid with their weapons at the ready, Amethyst wrangled one of the creature's legs with her whip whole Pearl shot at it with blasts of energy coming from the tip of her Spear, the creature only stumbled and let go of Steven, Greg caught him.

Steven gasped for air and Greg hugged him.

"Steven are you okay?!" yelled Greg.

Amethyst threw the monster into the pavement behind them and it struggled to get up, Garnet ran over with her gauntlets.

"I'm sorry." She said solemnly.

Garnet punched right through the creature's form, impaling it and destroying it in a puff of multi-colored smoke, leaving behind the gem, which she caught and bubbled.

She looked at for a moment before sending it to the temple.

The Gem's weapons vanished.

"Are you two alright?!" Yelled Pearl.

Steven opened his eyes and got up shakily.

"I'm okay." Said Greg.

"Yeah, I'm okay too." Said Steven.

"That's good." Said Pearl.

"Alright Gems. Let's go." Said Garnet.

The Gems complied and began to walk off.

Amethyst looked back.

"S-See ya dude!" she said.

Garnet turned her around and put a hand on her shoulder, saying something.

"Man, you guys need to keep me up to speed." Said Greg.

"Well, I can tell you some things until now…." Said Steven.

"Why don't you go back to bed first." Said Greg.

"Okay." Said Steven going back into the van.

Greg entered the van and pushed the round dents in the walls, they collapsed back into a wall but the bend marks still outlined them.

"Well, that's good for now. " said Greg.

When everything quieted down and Steven fell asleep again, Greg thought about what happened, how he hadn't been able to protect his son from this magical gem thing, how only the Gems could protect him.

He fell asleep.

The next morning Greg got up and assessed the damage in the daylight.

"Man, I hope this can be fixed…" said Greg.

Steven got up wiping his eyes.

"Good morning." Said Greg.

"Good morning!" said Steven.

Steven stretched and winced in pain.

"More like a sore morning." Said Steven, "Really sore." He added.

"Are you okay?" said Greg, worry appearing on his face.

"Yeah, I've been sore all over before." Said Steven smiling.

After an egg breakfast…

"Hey, why don't we take a walk to the temple." Suggested Greg.

"Um. Okay." Said Steven.

After changing to his normal clothes and noticing some bruises on his skin, Steven and Greg walked to the temple and knocked on the door.

Garnet opened the door.

"Hello Steven, Greg." Said Garnet.

Pearl came out of the temple and noticed them.

"Oh, Hello Steven!" said Pearl.

When the door closed, it opened again to Amethyst's room and she ran out excitingly.

"Alright, after seeing what happened last night, I realized that in case some big, Gem related thing happened, the only one that could protect Steven is you. And, I also realized that Steven should continue training." Said Greg going over the events of last night.

"So he can stay?!" said Amethyst.

"Yeah. He can stay." Said Greg.

"Yes!" said Amethyst.

"Really?! Thanks dad!" Said Steven.

"Just. Stay safe." Said Greg hugging him.

"I will." Said Steven.

"Welcome back!" said Pearl.

"Dude, it was soooo boring here! Plus, There was no new food!" said Amethyst, "I missed ya!" said Amethyst.

Greg watched the exchange as Steven entered the house and Amethyst hugged him.

Garnet put her hand on his shoulder he looked at her.

"You've been very worried haven't you?" said Garnet.

"Yeah." Said Greg.

"Well, don't. He's safe." She said with a smile.

She took her hand off and went inside and Greg felt better and left to get Steven's backpack.

He returned and put the backpack on Steven's bed.

"Bye Steven." Said Greg.

"Bye dad! See you soon.." said Steven.

"See ya." Said Greg he took a few steps then looked back, feeling the same feeling he felt when he left Steven with them for the first time, he walked back to the wash.

The end.