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Steven BLUE-niverse chapters 25-30

This is the zoo arc and the first real arc in BLUE-niverse! This is when the fic starts getting good(?) These chapters are very old so I have added some new small things and fixed spellings (these where originally planned in about 2017 but published about a year ago so contain some weird stuff made by 10 year old me)

Chapter 25 the kindergarten

The crystal gems warped back to their headquarters in shock, "is homeworld going to try and attack earth again!? Is this another plan by the diamonds!?", the pearl said, panicking and pacing around. Amethyst stayed quiet, she saw Steven and blue diamond there, they seemed just as confused as they where, she wished she could speak with them but knew for sure something was up with them and the crystal gems, she knew nothing about homeworld but Pearl's mentioning of "the diamonds", confirmed her theory that this blue diamond must be someone special.

"I think I also heard that peridot or whatever she's called mention the kindergartens too!", rose said, sounding very serious, everyone turned to look at Amethyst when she said this, pearl looked disgusted, "we must never let a terrible mistake like that ever happen again!", she dramatically vowed to rose. Amethyst couldn't take how everyone was staring at her and stormed off to beach city, maybe eating some food would make her feel better, no one, not ever rose, who she felt very close with chased after her or asked if she was okay, they just kept theorising about what the peridot would be doing on earth.

"So, how are we going to fix this, my diamond?", lapis asked. Her and blue diamond stood in front of the destroyed barn. "I don't know", blue said, picking up a large chunk of what used to be the walls and throwing it, "let's just look around and see if there's anything we will like in here!".

They both surprisingly found a lot of interesting things in the barn, old tapes of TV shows, a guitar and one thing that blue really liked, white shorts with stereotypical green alien heads printed on it. "Look at this beautiful work of fashion", blue proclaimed, quickly putting on the shorts and pulling up her dress to show lapis. "My diamond you look beautiful!", lapis said, admiring blue's amazing fashion sense, "but may I ask, what is that on your legs.." She gestured down to blue's long white leg hair and strange plushie looking feet. "Oh I've been on this planet for so long I've started to grow hair!" Blue explained, lapis looked at blue with wonder in her eyes, "may I touch it" Lapis asked, "you may", blue replied.

As lapis was stroking the glorious leg hair of her diamond, the familar mr universe van pulled up right behind them, "Hey guys I'm just wondering if you want a ride home-", Greg stopped, in shock of what he was seeing, then noticed the barn, "what are you-THE BARN!", he yelled as lapis let go of blue and panicked, "IM SO SORRY IT WAS MY FAULT I DROPPED IT!!!", lapis apologised as Greg ran to the remains of the barn to see the damage. "You dropped it!?", Greg looked at lapis with shock and confusion "HOW!?". "Yeah she dropped it on me!" Blue joked, Greg looked at her horrified, "BLUE WHY DO YOU KEEP MEETING THESE CRAZY PEOPLE!".

During this, steven was walking around beach city with Connie, he was telling her about the recent events with peridot. "So, we don't know who she is but my mum said she works for yellow diamond, who is her mean sister" Steven said to Connie. suddenly, something grabbed Steven from behind and picked him up, it was amethyst! "Hey! Ste-man how ya doing?", she asked, putting him back on the ground and high fiving him. "Amethyst you scared me!", Steven said. "Who's this girl here? Is she your girlfriend??", amethyst joked, pointing to connie, both Steven and Connie blushed in unison.

"Are you another one of Steven's gem friends?", Connie asked amethyst, "I guess so, anyway it's great to see you ste-man, back with the other gems it hasn't been going so great", amethyst said, Steven wondered if the crystal gems had saw her looking at him back at the warps and she was yelled at for it. "Why? Is it because of peridot?", steven asked, his tone sympathetic. "Kinda", she replied, stuffing a hotdog in her mouth, "the rest of the gems where weird to me about it, they say peridot is trying to do something to my home", she said with food still in her mouth. "Your....home?", Steven asked, interested in what she meant.

The Mr universe van returned to the home in mostly awkward silence, lapis was terrified of Greg using his influence over her diamond to punish her for the barn, blue was scared Greg saw lapis touching her leg hair and Greg was just shocked at how blue's friends kept appearing and destroying stuff. As they got out they saw Steven, amethyst and Connie walking up to the house, blue quickly got out to greet them.

"Hey you three, perfect timing! We just got back from the barn, great to see you amethyst!", blue greeted them, she could see amethyst looked sad. "Mum, could you possibly bring us to amethyst's home?", Steven said, this peaked blue's interest, "She said the crystal gems where annoying her with questions about it and claiming peridot was going to do something with it". "Yes I could easily take you three there", blue said, making Steven and amethyst happy. "Oh mrs universe im so sorry but I gotta go soon I have violin class soon!", Connie said, checking the time on her phone and quickly leaving.

Steven blue and amethyst quickly went to the warp in the house,lapis went back to bed and Greg went to work, pearl watched them as they walked in, especially amethyst and lapis. "I can't wait to show you guys around!", Amethyst excitedly said as they got on the warp, Steven smiled at her and replied, "I'm excited too, I hope i can really learn a lot about gems there".

The three of them warped on top of some sort of hill and where surrounded by large dark mountains and old broken black injector looking things hanging off the hills and on the floor. "welcome to the kindergarten!", Amethyst said, jumping off the warp, "I can't wait to show you around!", she held Steven's hand and guided him around while laughing. It was very foggy and abandoned looking, the hills and mountains where Littered with holes, holes shaped like people.

"Steven! B.D! check it out!", Amethyst excitedly showed them a smaller hole, much closer to the ground than any of the other ones. "This is where I came out of, pretty cool right!". Steven looked into the hole and back at her, "you came out of this?", he asked confused. "Yeah it's me-sized!", she said, sliding perfectly into the hole and to the back as Steven looked in. Blue was mostly looking around at the old once grand kindergarten but then finally approached amethyst.

"Amethyst....wasn't it empty when you came out of this hole?", blue diamond asked, "yeah, I spent all my time here before rose quartz found me", she replied, sitting down in the hole. Steven looked at his mother and thought, "she was alone before rose found her! I feel so bad!", blue read his thought and just nodded, she needed to really think about what she was going to say. "So...you don't know what the other amethysts look like", blue said. Amethyst got out the hole and looked at all the other ones, "probably like me...right?", she turned to blue, who was struggling with what she was about to say.

"Not just like you.. you have the hair.. the personality....but not the tall size", she nervously said, not wanting to offend the amethyst. "Not the size? What am I supposed to look like?", she asked blue, more intrigued than offended. To show her in the least bad way she could think of, blue diamond quickly shape-shifted into the average amethyst soldier who was much taller than amethyst and towered over her, then quickly returned to her normal form. Amethyst was shocked, "I'm not right?", she asked, sounding upset, blue was scared and tried to reassure her, "no no its ok, you still seem to have the same powers and the other amethysts will love you! I know they will! They'll accept you unlike those crystal gems! They are your family!", these words stuck with amethyst, she was right, the crystal gems hated the fact she was made on earth, they saw her as a immature child, even rose, who bascially raised her was no longer treating her as kindly.

"Hey its okay", Steven said, hugging amethyst, both he and blue read all her thoughts, they knew she wasn't some kind of crystal gem spy or any potential threat, they wanted to help her. Suddenly, the warp went off, blue panicked and amethyst sighed, "here comes the fun police".

"Amethyst!, where are you! I know you're here!", a voice echoed across the kindergarten, blue recognised that voice, it was the crystal gem's pearl. She quickly grabbed Steven and flew to the top to watch, as the pearl got closer blue hid Steven in one of the old gem holes and shapeshifted to be much smaller to hide in the hole next to him.

"What are you doing in this...horrible place!", the pearl said in disgust, kicking some rocks away from her. "It's my home pearl", amethyst mumbled under her breath. "How cruel of her!", Steven said to blue as they where hiding, "she's the one I fought as frybo", blue said, "she was so dramatic and annoying". "This place is one big, horrible mistake, get back to the temple, rose has been looking for you!", pearl commanded, cornering amethyst. "We need to do something!", Steven yelled, jumping out the hole and landing on his face, landing right in front of the pearl.

"Hey you! stop that! leave My friend alone!", Steven said, getting up from the ground, he was now covered in dirt, blue just rolled her eyes and continued watching, preparing herself to kill this pearl if she ever touched steven. "Steven! There you are!" Amethyst said, pearl looked at Steven horrified, "you brought a HUMAN to this horrendous site!" She shrieked, this really offended Steven, he wasn't just some human he was basically a prince! The son of the great blue diamond! He was keeping cover right now but he really wanted to show this crystal gem rebel who's boss!

"Human, please get out of here, this place is truly terrible" pearl gestured her hand to steven but amethyst smacked it away, "LEAVE HIM ALONE!", she yelled, summoning her whip and hitting pearl away, pearl hit one of the injectors and fell to the ground. Pearl quickly got up and summoned her spear, "you leave me no choice amethyst!", she shouted as she rushed to the purple gem, they both where now putting Steven at risk as they started to fight eachother, making blue ready to jump in and destroy that pearl until....

As the pearl rushed to amethyst, Steven jumped in front of her and summoned his scythe, quickly knocking away pearl and her spear. "I knew it, I knew I saw you before BLUE DIAMOND!!!", pearl yelled at steven who was holding his scythe in front of him.As she tried to run to him again, amethyst's whip wrapped around her legs and tripped her up, "leave Steven alone!", Amethyst yelled at pearl.

Blue diamond finally flew down from the hills, clapping and congratulating her son and mocking the pearl. "Well done, you two are an amazing duo together" both steven and amethyst smiled at each other. "I'm very sorry you had to deal with that thing for so long!", she joked, amethyst and steven both laughed at this as pearl tried to plead with them, "amethyst please! You dont know who that is!", but no one listened. "Now, amethyst I'm going to be taking you to see your family, the crystal gems would definitely be mad if you came back to them after this", blue flew amethyst and steven to the warp and waved to pearl, then summoned a large ball of energy and shot it to her before leaving.

Not long after, rose quartz warped to the kindergarten, to see how pearl was. The kindergarten was now in ruins and somehow pearl hadn't lost her physical form from blues final attack but her gem was badly cracked from it. Rose ran to her, "did amethyst do this!?", she asked pearl, sounding very shocked. "It was b-blue d-diamond..." pearl said, struggling through the pain, "I can't believe it!", rose cried, "ill try and heal you! Quickly!".

Chapter 26 meeting the others

Steven, amethyst and blue diamond warped back home, Steven felt so proud of himself, he really showed that traitorous crystal gem who's boss! Amethyst on the other hand was having some doubts and guilt, Steven read her mind and saw those worries and went to comfort her. "Don't worry, my mum didn't damage your kindergarten or kill pearl", he told her, putting his hand on Amethyst's shoulder "it was mostly a fake attack to only slightly hurt her and we promise we won't lie to you and will show you all the other Amethysts"

To congratulate Steven and amethyst blue ordered them some food. Steven had never had fast food delivered and was very excited, Amethyst was too, it quickly put her mind off how worried she was and now only thought of all the food she was going to be eating. They ordered a lot of food, Greg was rich from his music career so they where able to without spending an amount that would effect them, and Greg never spent too much anyway, preferring to live a life far away from luxury.

Amethyst and steven quickly ate the food and discussed their plan to take her to see the other amethysts with blue. "The other ones are in space quite far from here but I could easily take you there in my ship", blue said, amethyst stopped eating and now dedicated all her time to listening to blue carefully, "that place where they are is also a place where humans live but also quite a sad place for me, I used to go there to mourn a lot", this peaked Steven's interest and he nearly dropped his fries when listening.

"Humans!? Living with gems!?", Steven exclaimed, nearly spitting out his fries. "Not really like that...erm the name of this place is awfully misleading they call it a human zoo but its nothing like that...", blue became quite nervous, the name and the idea of the zoo must sound terrifying to humans. "Pink diamond, really liked humans so she took them to live there in space, they just live there they're not watched and mocked like what humans do in animal zoos", she tried to explain, fearing Steven would think gems are now crazy and kidnap humans.

"Pink diamond liked humans?", Steven asked, he regretted it after as mentioning pink diamond usually really upset blue and his father always warned him to never mention her. Amethyst looked at the both of them confused, "pink diamond? Who's that?", she asked, this shocked blue, those crystal gems really sheltered her from everything to do with her true homeworld. "you'll learn at the zoo, it's a very long....and sad story", blue said, becoming quieter and sounding sadder.

Greg finally got home from work and was surprised to see amethyst still there, "what are you guys talking about?", he asked them in a friendly voice, waving to amethyst who excitedly waved back. "Greg, I need you for something", blue suddenly said, her tone serious, "what is it?", Greg asked, sounding concerned. "Amethyst spent her whole life away from her family, her fellow gems, ones who are just like her and spent her entire life with the crystal gems", blue said in a sad voice, gesturing to amethyst who was still smiling at greg "I know where her fellow amethysts are but you and steven will need to come with me", this confused Greg why would he need to come to space for gem things?

"Where would you be taking me and steven?", he asked, quite protective of his son and fearing blue would take them somewhere very dangerous. "It sounds bad but the name is a lie, it's called the zoo, the human zoo, it was a creation of pink diamond", blue knew he'd react to this badly so nudged Steven to get him to explain for her as she was known to be awful at explaining things in a good way. "NO! BLUE WE ARE NOT GOING TO SOME ZOO FOR HUMANS! ARE YOU CRAZY!?" Greg yelled, this upset amethyst and she looked away from him and crossed her arms. "DAD PLEASE!" Steven pleaded, "we need to do this for amethyst, she's my friend and she really looks up to you too! and my mum could weaken the crystal gems by doing this!", Greg rolled his eyes, "fine but I'm not becoming some attraction for aliens!" He told blue.

Blue woke up lapis and got everyone on the warp-pad, this will be a very important moment for Steven, his first time in space, his first time in the diamond ship that will one day become his. They warped to korea, where blue and Greg met. Blue diamond stood atop a mountain and raised her left arm, suddenly a giant blue ship shaped like a left arm appeared from the ground and flew into the air. "Wow mum, I can't believe I finally get to see your ship!", Steven said as he looked up in wonder. Blue summoned her wings and grabbed Steven and Greg, lapis also summoned her wings and grabbed pearl and amethyst and flew them into the palm of the hand, a small circle opened up in the very middle and they entered it, then the hand closed.

Steven looked around, amazed at all the rooms and high tech machines used to power the ship, amethyst looked out the windows of the main control room and saw that they where just above earth, she couldn't believe this was actually happening, she was finally having her dream come true!

Blue returned to her true gigantic form and sat on her throne and placed her left arm on a control panel, light covered her arm, now she could move and control the ship properly. "It's been a while since I've been here", Greg said, sitting on blue's shoulder, "I remember when you and my diamond used to have what you called make out sessions in front of the windows looking down earth", pearl wispered, this made blue blush purple and quickly tell her to go away and instead show steven and amethyst around.

Pearl went to see Steven and amethyst who where just outside the main control room. "Welcome to my diamond's ship", pearl formally said, bowing to them both, "Hey there! You're nothing like the pearl I know", amethyst loudly greeted, slightly angering pearl,"I will show you around the many rooms here and afterwards take you back to the main control room", pearl continued, in her most polite voice.

Chapter 27 Steven's first space adventure

Pearl guided amethyst to a small room where gems besides blue and her pearl stayed, it was small and cramped and felt almost like a prison cell, it had a small tablet you could use to message blue, see a map and look at other rooms. amethyst didn't care about the conditions of this small room she was just happy she'd be seeing her family soon, she could see a estimated time at the top of the tablet too, in 3 hours they'd be there.

Now that pearl only had Steven she guided him to more, "private" places like blue's music collection. It was mostly a very impressive amount of anything lana del rey themed, she had all the vinyls, put all her rarest unreleased songs on c.ds or saved them onto the ship and had every imaginable piece of merchandise. "My diamond got really into earth music because of you father", pearl said, picking up blue's favourite album, an album named paradise and showing it to Steven, "my diamond will probably start to play these songs soon, she always does when she's on this ship", pearl said under her breath, her dislike for her diamond's music taste being very clear by her tone of voice.

The arm ship formed into a fist and flew into space extremely quickly, pushing the clouds out its way. Blue pushed a button with her free hand and suddenly a large, white, diamond shaped portal opened and the hand flew in, the diamond quickly closed after they went it and they flew through space quickly in seconds, bringing them closer to the zoo and lightyears away from earth. Greg looked through the windows amazed as he saw them zoom through the portal and emerge so far away, "I have so many new song ideas now", he wispered, wishing he'd brought a notepad with him.

"So my diamond, what will we be doing at the zoo? Just dropping off the amethyst?", lapis lazuli asked, she was working with blue in the main control room, looking at maps and seeing where about in space they are. Blue's mood had changed, as they got closer and closer, painful memories started to reappear in her mind, memories of pink. Blue became quiet and covered her head with her hood, "I want to stay there for maybe some time for....personal reasons ", she said under her breath, lapis didn't ask for a explanation she understood and went back to work.

"And this is My diamond's room", pearl said, opening a huge door. Steven walked into the room amazed, "woah...this is where mum sleeps?", he asked pearl."my diamond mostly relaxes and draws here, your father stayed in here a lot with her too, she even made it accessible for humans", pearl said, touching the wall, leading to a bathroom and then touching another hidden button leading to a fridge. Steven quickly got a sandwich from the fridge and walked to the ginormous bed, "how will I get on here?", Steven asked pearl, looking up, as he looked up he noticed the entire ceiling was decorated with posters of his father.

"AAAAAH MY STEVEN DONT LOOK UP!", pearl shrieked, covering Steven's eyes, the posters of Greg where drew by blue herself and portrayed Greg as Young and very muscular."ow! Hey! Pearl! Get off me!", Steven cried as pearl covered his eyes and pulled him out the room, only taking her hands off his face when they had got out. "you did not see what you just saw my Steven! Do not tell a soul!", pearl warned him, quickly moving him away from the room and back to where amethyst was so she could take them both back to blue.

The screen now read that they'll be at the zoo in less than 30 minutes, amethyst gulped, she didn't know what the other amethysts would be like, blue did say they where like her but she also said she didn't look like them. "Hey! Amethyst!", Steven said, scaring her as he knocked on the transparent door, amethyst touched a switch making the glass door disappear and walked out to see Steven. "Hey ste-man we are gonna be here soon!", she excitedly told him, pointing to the screen. "Yes that's why we are here, you two are going back to my diamond", pearl said, quickly walking off with Steven as amethyst followed after.

"My diamond, we are nearly here", lapis said, showing blue the maps and estimated time on the screen, "oh my stars...I didn't even get a chance to play a song", blue huffed, getting out her chair and preparing herself, she moved Greg off her shoulder and held him in her hand, "it's weird seeing you big like this, it brings back so many memories", Greg said, looking up at her. As blue and Greg went to go find Steven and pearl the door opened.

"Hey b.d or.....my diamond? We are back!" Amethyst greeted blue, slightly freaked out about how tall she actually was. "Hello....amethyst", blue quietly replied, Greg looked up at her, he could tell she was upset. "Hey mum, when we get to the zoo, will the gems think me and dad are here to be kept in the zoo?", Steven sheepishly asked, pearl looked back at him like he was a idiot. "I- I don't know", blue huffed, placing greg back on the ground and going back to sit down on the ship.

"What's up with mum?", Steven asked Greg, pearl watched them as she went to stand near blue, giving them both angry looks. "She's thinking of pink diamond, I'm sure of it", Greg whispered. "Who is that again?" Amethyst asked them both quite loudly. Greg whispered in amethyst's ear, "pink diamond was a very close family member to blue who was killed and she has been mourning her death ever since", amethyst looked back at greg and nodded, realising she really shouldn't ask anything else in case blue heard and gets very sad.

"We are here", pearl said, loudly enough to get everyone to notice. Steven looked up through the window and saw it, the zoo, it was shaped almost like a pink sword and one of those eyes he saw in the sky not that long ago was floating near it. "I forgot this even was a thing" Lapis whispered as she looked out the window in wonder. "We are here", blue said, standing up and grabbing both steven and Greg in her hands and starting to walk to the exit with amethyst and pearl quickly following after her. while they did this lapis moved the ship into a opening in the zoo and landed them.

Chapter 28 welcome to the zoo

As the ship opened, blue diamond stepped out in her ginormous form, pearl stood next to her with lapis behind her and amethyst also behind, slightly scared of what she was going to see. Blue held Greg and steven tightly in her hands as she walked into the zoo's landing place for ships, the first thing they where met by was 2 harsh looking, amethyst guards standing by the door.

Amethyst gulped as she looked at her "family", they quickly saluted blue as they saw her, and then they noticed amethyst. She could see the two amethysts speaking about her as they passed by, blue told her she'll be able to speak to them later. As they where speaking with eachother a loud voice interrupted the amethysts. "What are you doing?", the voice said, it belonged to a blue skinned gem, with strange white horns that connected to her white hair, long, white, knee high boots, black pants and a sleevless black shirt, a blue shawl covering the shirt with a blue diamond in the middle and her gem on the back of her head.

"We are sorry Holly blue agate!", the two amethysts said in unison, saluting her, the agate quickly changed mood as she saw blue diamond and saluted her. "Oh my stars! My diamond! It is great to see you here!", she said, bowing to blue, Steven was going to say something but blue lightly squeezed him to keep him quiet. Holly blue kicked one of the amethysts, "why didn't anyone of you tell me blue diamond was here!", she quietly hissed to them.

"Hello there...Holly blue", blue said, greeting the gem quietly. "My diamond you haven't been here in a while, are those two humans for the zoo?", holly blue agate asked,looking at steven and greg in her hands. Lapis and pearl looked at eachother shocked, amethyst looked up at steven and was about to say something but noticed holly blue giving her an angry look. Blue diamond looked down at greg and steven who where now very scared, "yes, this one will go in first, I'll hold the smaller one for some time", blue said, handing Greg to some amethyst guards who took him away. "MUM! MUM! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS!?", Steven yelled but was squeezed after. "Those humans truly make such hideous sounds don't they my diamond", Holly blue said, mocking Steven.

"Agate can you not understand all languages like me?", blue asked, looking down at Holly, the agate started to become worried, maybe she showed off her hatred for those organics too much. "My diamond...I couldn't make out what it said besides its wailing", she studdered, blue raised an eyebrow and looked back to steven, "I could understand him perfectly", blue said, her voice sounding offended that holly would speak about her son like that.

"Agate, we are also here for another reason" blue shuffled to the side to fully reveal amethyst to her, "as you saw I found an amethyst on earth, she never knew of her kind before now so I took her here to be with her family, may her fellow amethysts guide her around", blue commanded. The agate quickly called on two other amethysts to take her and guide her away, before she left with them,amethyst looked back and gave blue a smile and thumbs up, blue did the same back and Holly looked at them both shocked."I'm suprised someone like you has such respect for such gems, especially ones from earth, you're so merciful and beautiful my diamond, you truly love everything!", Holly blue dramatically said, praising blue very loudly.

"Since we are here I think it will be good if I take lapis lazuli and pearl on a tour around this zoo", blue said, holly blue agate quickly agreed and took them around the pink building. as this happened Greg was dragged across the corridors by the amethysts and thrown into a small opening in the wall. Lapis stood next to holly blue as she went on a long explanation about the zoo, begging for her to be quiet, "this zoo was once operated by pink diamond, but because of the terrible short ending of her life", she loudly proclaimed, her voice echoing through the corridors "my diamond and her trusted agate, that's me! Preserved this place in pink diamond's memory".

Steven wanted to ask many questions but that agate really didn't seem to respect him, or even understand what he was saying eventhough he was the son of her diamond. "How do you get in the zoo?", he asked, struggling as blue held onto him tightly, blue looked down to him, enraged and hushed him. The agate turned around, looking up at steven disgusted, "why is that one so loud My diamond?", she complained.

"how do you get in the zoo?" Lapis asked, asking the question for Steven. "Oh I'm so glad you asked! There's many different important doors that allow us into the zoo, like here", holly pointed to some bigger pink doors, that looked different and had a much more intricate design than most of the other doors in the zoo "but we can also look down to watch them while still staying here", she pressed a button making the floor under them become transparent, Steven squirmed in his mother's hands to look down but couldn't, holly quickly pressed the button again turning it off and continued the tour.

"Interesting, you're keeping the zoo in great condition", blue congratulated holly, who saluted her and bowed, "now I think we should take this human and put him in the zoo now", she passed Steven to some amethyst guards who quickly grabbed him and marched off with him. "WAIT! MUM! STOP!", Steven yelled, trying to fight the strong amethyst's grip, "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM! I AM THE SON OF BLUE DIAMOND! OBEY ME!!", he cried as they threw him into the same small opening in the wall, "my stars this one is so loud", the amethyst guards joked to one another as he was thrown in.

As Steven went through the small hole, the floor became a ramp and moved him through a small pipe, strange blue fingers, that looked like peridot's started to pull on him and scan him. "MUM!!!!", Steven yelled, still trying to get his mother's attention but the fingers quickly distracted him as they tried to pull his clothes off, first his Mr universe shirt, then they tried to pull of his pants, Steven slapped the fingers and tried to run away but in the end was powerless and let them take the pants.

Now Steven was embarrassed, and nearly naked, then he started to approach a terrifying looking machine, it was slamming up and down, Steven tried to out run it but couldn't, as it slammed down on him it gave him new, odd clothes. "Ew what is this...loin cloth!?", Steven huffed, he was now wearing a white cloth and a blue sleeveless jacket. then, the machine gave him pink earrings, "ouch!", Steven yelped, snacking the fingers. Suddenly water fell from the sky and covered Steven, he swam up the water and came up from the surface. As he looked above the surface he realised where he was, the human zoo.

Blue diamond told holly to keep guiding around lapis but she and pearl stayed in the corner, planning something. Blue followed where the amethysts took Steven and found the place where humans where put in the zoo. "Alright pearl, after I do this, you go back to holly and lapis", blue told pearl, preparing herself for the plan she had just created. "Are you sure this will go well?", pearl said to blue, quite scared of even asking her diamond such a question. "I don't know but I'll try!" Blue said, shape-shifting into her smaller form she used on earth and taking off her dress and giving it to pearl. she was wearing those alien shorts underneath and a white shirt she stole from Greg. "Alright, here it goes!", blue said, jumping into the hole and shape-shifting her colours to be more human like, pearl hid blue's clothes in her gem and quickly left the scene to find lapis and Holly blue.

"And this place was specially designed by pink diamond", Holly blue explained, showing lapis around, lapis really didn't want to be here and didn't really understand why she was even here. Pearl quickly found them and ran to them, "I'm sorry, my diamond had to go somewhere", she apologised. "She has probably gone to pink diamond's old room, oh my diamond is still in such a upsetting state because of pink's tragic demise!", holly dramatically proclaimed. Suddenly two nervous looking amethysts ran to holly blue.

"Holly blue agate! We have important news for you!", they frantically told her, "WE DO NOT RUN OR SHOUT IN THESE HALLWAYS!", holly yelled at them, her voice echoing across the whole zoo."it's just we-" the amethysts tried to explain but holly interrupted them again, "How can I tell what you're saying when you're MUMBLING!" She loudly lectured them. "It's just-YELLOW DIAMOND IS ON HER WAY TO THE ZOO!", the two amethysts finally where able to speak.

"Oh my stars! Two diamonds in one day!", holly blue gasped, "we must prepare ourselves!", she quickly ran to every amethyst she could find, making sure they where standing straight and not doing anything that wasn't their job. "Where is blue diamond?", lapis wispered to pearl, "she has gone into the zoo undercover to see Steven and greg", pearl explained.

Chapter 29 gareg, stayvaan and laysuh

Steven looked at his surroundings in shock, this was it, the human zoo. As he stood in the fake water that took him here, three people caught his attention. It was his father, sitting by the fake water with two other people who where braiding his hair, all of them where wearing the exact same clothes Steven was also wearing.

"DAD!", Steven yelled, running to his father to hug him, "Steven!? She put you in here too!?", Greg exclaimed, running to his son and hugging him tightly. "Yeah! But I don't know why!? Is she trying to hide us!?", Steven asked his father, he felt so hurt that his mother was treating him, the son of a diamond in such a way.

"Gareg! Is this your friend!", one of the humans who was with Greg said, this human was a tall, dark skinned man with brown hair and the other one was a pale woman with blond hair and green eyes. "Wy-6, this is my son Steven!", Greg replied, Greg had already found friends in the zoo and had become a known name across all the other humans here. "Greetings stayvaan!", wy-6 said, "Hello there stayvaan! I am jay-10", the blond human also said.

As they where speaking, another person shot out the water, this time a woman. "Did mum bring another person here!?", Steven said, looking back at the person, "wait a minute...", Greg said, looking closer and realising how familiar that person looked as they got up, "blue-blue!? What are you doing here!?", Greg gasped and ran to see her.

"Hey Greg!", blue said, in her human disguise, "they took my shorts", she huffed. "You're also here?", Steven asked, raising an eyebrow. "Oh my! you also know this new girl?", wy-6 asked Steven. "Erm yeah...me and her are family", he replied, weirded out by how these humans acted and spoke, they sounded so fake and happy all the time. "Why did you put us in here!", Greg said to blue, he was mad but tried to keep calm. "Erm...", blue looked at the floor embarrassed, "ok...this is really stupid but I kinda got too scared to explain to the gems that you and steven are special", she studdered, trying to make eye contact with greg, "soo....I had a bit of a brain fart and just put you guys here and was planning to get you back when we're about to go home but then I felt bad right after so I came here in My disguise to save you!". Greg face palmed at this, he knew blue could be quite stupid but this was next level, "well at least you're here now", he mumbled under his breath.

Jay-10 and wy-6 quickly ran to blue to greet her and ask her name, Steven followed after them and looked at blue as they spoke to her, he was also very angry at her. "What is your name miss!", jay-10 asked blue diamond, this made her think for a while, going through all the fake human names she used over the years to find a good one. "I am.... Lisa hannigan!", blue proudly told them, Greg face palmed again and wispered "oh my god" to himself as Steven cringed. "Oh hello there laysuh welcome to our home!", wy-6 said.

Suddenly, while where all speaking, the matching pink earrings that everyone wore started to light up and a voice came from them. "Good morning everyone, you must be very hungry right now", the voice said, all the humans in the zoo quickly agreed with this and went to plants where purple fruits appeared. "What is this...", blue said, playing with her earrings. "You don't know? Don't you run this place!?", Steven questioned her as he ate the very fake looking fruit. "Gareg today the fruit is purple!" Wy-6 exclaimed to Greg, the people of the zoo really seemed to love him. "Honestly...I barely looked into this place, its my first time actually looking at the people here", blue whispered to steven.

"Laysuh! Here you go!", jay-10 said, suddenly appearing from behind Steven and giving blue one of the purple fruits, blue looked down at it and gave it to Steven when no one looked. As everyone ate the fruits the voice appeared again, "are you enjoying the fruit?", it asked, all the humans said they loved the food right after in unison, it creeped blue out. "What a strange place you made...pink" she whispered to herself, thinking back to all the memories she had of pink diamond talking about the zoo and people.

"Now it is time to play!" The voice said, all the humans started to roll down hills and laugh, Greg joined in but Steven and blue just looked at eachother. "Mum, get me out of here!", Steven complained, blue just looked at the humans and gulped, thinking about how weird this place this, "I'll try", she said to steven. "Come on you two, play along!", Greg said, coming up to see them after he saw they didn't follow him to "play". Blue reluctantly agreed and rolled down a hill, "maybe this isn't as bad as I thought", she said to Greg, Steven followed after, but he was having no fun at all.

Now everyone was laying on the floor after rolling around and the voice appeared and spoke to them again, "now raise your hands like you're going to touch outer space", all the humans once again obeyed and raised their arms to the ceiling, it was glass and revealed all the stars of space around the zoo. As everyone had their hands in the air Steven attempted to send a thought to blue, "Mum! Get us out now! You are a diamond! You can command the gems to save us!", but blue wasn't listening, she was just following the commands the earrings told her and had her hands in the air. "Mum please", Steven said out loud, shuffling towards blue, "I don't wanna wear these weird costumes anymore", he wispered to her. Blue looked down at him and sighed, putting her arms down, "I'll find a way soon OK? It's just, I want to see what this place is really like, this place....she made". "Pink diamond?", Steven asked, blue, ignored this and just turned around and went to speak with wy-6 about something.

"Now it's time to smell the flowers", the voice commanded (albeit still in a friendly soft voice), blue and Greg had their long hair braided by the humans during this. "Isn't this so fun stayvaan?", jay-10 asked Steven, he just rolled his eyes and said, what if I don't want to smell the flowers?", this seemed to have shocked jay-10 as she thought for a second and asked "why wouldn't you!?", she put one of the flowers in his hair. Steven stormed off to blue and Greg and knocked the flower off his hair, blue grabbed it and put it in her's. "Steven, come on, we will get out here soon", Greg said, trying to cheer up his son. "It better be soon, I can't take this crazy place anymore", steven said under his breath.

"Now it is time to take a relaxing bath", after all the "fun" it was cleaning time for the people of the zoo. Everyone flocked to an oasis and bathed or played in it. "Watch My splash gareg!", jay-10 said, jumping from a small hill and into the water, the splash was very small and barely made a sound. "You wanna see a real splash? Watch this! CANNONBALL!", Greg yelled as he dived into the water, making all the humans laugh, blue quickly copied him and did a much more dramatic dive, this time Steven actually joined in and jumped into the water to play with his family, using some of his water powers to splash his dad. "It seems you're having some fun now, right schtu-ball?", Greg joked to steven. "Laysuh, gareg! Your splash was amazing!", wy-6 said, as the other humans congratulated them on their splashes.

The sun in the sky was now covered by a dark sheet to represent night on earth and the entire zoo went dark, "it is now time for bed everyone" the voice said and everyone got out the pool and went to sleep. Greg sat on a Bush and quickly fell asleep with everyone else but blue and steven stayed awake. "Now is our chance to get out!", Steven said, pulling his dad awake and making him and blue look for any door. In less than a minute they easily found a pink door badly hidden by some fake plants. "mum how do you open this", Steven asked her, "there's no lock on this side, only on the other side it can be opened", she said, moving some of the plants covering it to look for a lock. "Then I guess I've got no choice!", Steven said, taking a running start and slamming on the door as hard as he could, the slamming was very loud and echoed throughout the entire zoo.

"Gareg!", wy-6 said, suddenly appearing from a Bush, "stayvaan!", jay-10 said, also appearing from a Bush, "and laysuh you're here!" They both said. Greg, Steven and blue looked back embarrassed and in fear that they got caught. "So you three where the ones making all that noise!", wy-6 said, the tones of their voices were so happy and friendly sounding all the time it sounded fake, it felt unsettling almost. "What are you three doing?" Jay-10 asked, "is it a game? If so can we play". "No we are trying to open this door!", Steven told them.

"What is....a door?" Jay-10 asked completely clueless, blue nearly yelled "what!?" Out loud but stopped herself in time. "It's like...a wall that opens!" Steven said, trying his best to explain something he never knew would even need to be explained. "Walls don't open!", wy-6 joked but jay-10 quickly responded, "I do remember hearing a story about a opening wall once!", this quickly got everyone's attention. "I remember hearing that a very long time ago a gem came through a wall to help someone who was......hurt".

"Hurt? What is this hurt?" Wy-6 asked, "I don't know", jay-10 replied, blue and Greg looked at eachother in shock, blue was shocked pink diamond was able to make such a place and Greg was shocked blue diamond was able to allow such a thing to exist and be so stupid about it! "I know what hurt is!", Steven suddenly proclaimed, jay-10 and wy-6 looked at him, fascinated. "Hurt is...like the opposite of good, its a bad feeling, like you're upset", but Steven's explanation didn't work, they where still completely clueless about any of these "bad" feelings.

"Everyone it is time for the choosening", the voice suddenly said, Jay-10 and wy-6 quickly became very exited and changed the subject. "Gareg! laysuh! The choosening is about to happen!" They proclaimed, taking ahold of Greg's hans and guiding him through the fake bushes as Steven followed after them. They lead him to a circle where everyone was standing around, Steven wasn't allowed to stand with everyone, only to watch outside. "The choosening Is a very special occasion we are so glad you are here", wy-6 told Greg as he stood next to him.

Somehow, without anyone noticing blue diamond didnt go to the circle Steven noticed this and was able to spot her through the bushes, he watched her, closely. She was going back to the walls and constantly looking around making sure no one had followed after her. She stood by one of the walls then a door opened, revealing pearl! Steven was about to run after and follow her but the door closed right after in an instant.

Chapter 30 face to face with yellow diamond

Blue diamond had now mysteriously disappeared and Greg was now stuck with all these people during some sort of ritual with Steven watching on the outside. now it was time for this "choosening". The voice in the earrings said then called the names of 2 humans to step in the circle and when they both stepped in they started to kiss and hold hands, now it became obvious to Greg and steven was this thing was. "IS THIS SOME KINDA MATCHMAKING THING!?", Greg exclaimed, steven just watched on in horror fearing his father may be next.

"Jay-10 please step into the center of the circle", the voice commanded, before walking into the circle she looked back to greg and said, "who ever is choosened to be with you will be very special, gareg!". Greg looked back to his son, terrified, "steven help me", he wispered, but Steven was powerless they could only hope he won't be chosen. "Gareg please step into the center of the circle", their hopes where sadly useless.

The humans clapped and congratulated Greg as he was chosen but he stayed still he didnt walk into the circle. "gareg! Jay-10 is waiting for you!", wy-6 said, pushing Greg towards her, Steven knew that if his mother was here she'd be literally foaming at the mouth and fighting people for Greg so maybe it's a good thing she ran away at this time. As greg was pushed further and further to jay-10 by wy-6 he yelled, "HOLD ON! This isn't how we do this!", silencing everyone who was cheering for him just moments ago.

"Back on earth we 'choosened' who ever we wanted! We fell in love on our own!" Greg attempted to explain to the humans, Steven joined in, "my parents weren't told by a voice to choosen eachother they did it by themselves!", he said. The humans all whispered among eachother, taking in what they have been told, greg took a deep breath, "good now can i-", "well them....I CHOOSE GAREG!" Wy-6 proclaimed, grabbing Greg's hand, soon after every other human ran to Greg proclaiming that they have choosened him. "NOOOOO! STOP! I CHOOSEN NONE OF YOU", Greg screamed, the humans all froze then, started to cry, some falling to the floor, some tearing their clothes in anguish and most running away. "Wait, don't cry", Greg said, trying to stop literally every other human besides himself and his son hysterically crying and throwing themselves around. Steven pulled him away, "dad what do we do", he said, looking up to his dad scared as everyone around them shrieked and rolled around on the floor. "Is this hurt???", wy-6 said, tears and snow all over his face, "Gareg has hurt us!????", "Why has gareg hurt us???", jay-10 cried, "Take this hurt away!!!" The humans sobbed and reached their hands up to space.

The doors suddenly opened and many amethyst guards ran into the zoo, trying their best to calm the crying humans down, "let's get out of here!", Steven yelled, pointing his dad to the now open door and running to it as fast as they could. "Where do you two think you're going!", an amethyst guard yelled, picking them both up and taking them away. They where taken to a room filled with all sorts of other amethysts and similar looking red and orange skinned gems, in the middle stood the amethyst Steven knew, she looked scared. "Steven! Greg!, these new amethysts they are....they are", she studdered as they all laughed. "THEY'RE ALL SO GREAT!" She yelled, laughing at how she scared Steven and Greg. "These guys are just like me! Blue was right!". Amethyst ran to steven and greg hugging them "And what are you guys wearing!?", she laughed, poking their zoo clothes.

But their reunion was cut short as the door behind them opened revealing holly blue agate. "WHAT ARE YOU ALL DOING! GET TO WORK!" She shrieked, pulling the amethysts around and pushing all sitting gems too the ground, "NOT ONLY IS BLUE DIAMOND HERE, BUT YELLOW IS! AND YOU ACT LIKE THIS!? GET TO WORK NOW!, all the Amethysts stood up and quickly ran out, saluting her, Steven and greg followed after, hiding amongst them, "get out of here now, just go through that door!", Amethyst told them, pushing them to a random door that lead to a very pink corridor.

As they opened the door they where met by a large pink room with pillows on the floor, and large pillars. the door closed as soon as they stepped in and steven wasn't able to open it anymore, they were locked in. In this room where many bubbles, with gems in them, pink gems, Steven looked up wondering what they where. "Are those gems in there?", Greg asked his son, "it seems so", Steven replied. Their conversation was suddenly cut short as Steven randomly burst into tears and fell to the floor this also triggered his powers and made Greg start to cry too.

"Schu-ball what's happening!?", Greg said, helping his son up, "These tears they must be....mum's!? She must be here!", he yelled, but Greg quickly covered his mouth and hid them both behind a pillar. Another giant door on the other side of the room opened, revealing blue diamond, she was back in her original size and was covering her eyes with her hood, pearl was also there and closed the door after she came in with blue. Blue diamond knelt down and took of her hood, looking up as tears ran down her eyes. "This must be pink diamond's room", Greg wispered as he watched blue crying, Steven tried to turn away, he couldn't bare seeing his mother in such a awful state, but Greg made him keep looking, he kept him in place behind that pillar.

Then the door opened again, revealing an equally as giant woman, standing with her arms crossed and looking annoyed, it was yellow diamond. "Please tell me you're joking", she sighed as she rolled her eyes. Blue flinched seeing yellow and quickly wiped away her tears, "yellow!?...what are you doing here", she squeaked, "I'm here to bring you back to reality blue", yellow said, walking around blue to face her. "I honestly thought you where getting better, last call I saw genuine improvement but what is this!?", she complained, blue just looked away, she didn't want to deal with this right now. Along with yellow diamond, her pearl also came with them, her pearl was dressed very similar to blue's pearl, just with high socks and large flowing fabric on her shoulders. Yellow's pearl, smirked at blue's pearl and she just looked away, similar to how their diamonds where acting. "So this is how mum's sisters treat her!?" Steven wispered to his father but Greg just hushed him.

"You said you where working but you're here at this stupid zoo, looking at these things of the past that should he destroyed", yellow said, moving around some of the bubbles with her hands. "What's next you're telling me you've been to earth? you're not that pathetic right? but then again you keep these things in bubbles", yellow said under her breath, this angered blue as she stood up and was now face to face with yellow. "They where HER gems yellow! This zoo! Her planet! All HER'S!", blue yelled, fighting back tears. Yellow just laughed, she laughed in blue's face and blue wasn't having it. "Oh my stars blue! you're such a fool sometimes, she was shattered by a rose quartz yet you keep the rose quartz gems alive in bubbles!", yellow laughed as she grabbed one of the gems in the bubbles and casually crushed it with her hands without a second thought, blue just looked down in horror, "but they where hers....", she wispered, looking at the shards in yellow's hand.

Both steven and Greg had to stop eachother from yelling or gasping at what they just saw, yellow diamond just shattered a gem right in front of blue, to prove a point too! "Now shouldn't we do this to the rest?", yellow asked blue, wrapping her arms around her and stroking her hair, "NO!", blue yelled, smacking yellow's arms off her. "WHY DO YOU THINK JUST DESTROYING EVERYTHING WILL MAKE IT BETTER!?", the pearls both flinched and looked at eachother, they haven't seen blue like this in a while, well yellow's pearl hasn't. "YES PINK IS DEAD BUT MAKING IT OUT LIKE SHE NEVER EXISTED JUST MAKES IT WORSE!". Yellow sighed again, "I guess you'll never learn", she said under her breath, "what?", blue asked, sounding furious, her eyes wide and making her look unhinged.

"Earth will be gone soon, thanks to my cluster, this zoo and those gems will be gone soon as well", yellow said before leaving, her pearl followed after too. Blue just broke down crying again, covering her face and rolling into a ball onto the floor. "Mum?", Steven asked, scaring blue, who looked back at him shocked. "Steven!? How did you get out!? I was going to get you two I just had to go here for a while....for the memories", she said, picking up Greg and steven and hiding them in her hair loop. "Let's get out of here", Greg said, smiling up at blue.

The giant door opened once again, this time revealing holly blue and a very annoyed lapis lazuli. "My 2 great diamonds! It is great to see you- oh I mean my 1 great diamond!...Only you blue are my diamond....", Holly blue studdered, shocked yellow wasn't there and sad she couldn't use her planned greetings she made just for this occasion. "You just missed her", blue said, her voice still sounding quite sad, "we will be going now, lapis will be going in my ship again, thank you for the tour", blue returned to her commanding voice, walking out to see lapis and wave to the amethysts who where thanking her for bringing over a new member of the family.

Blue took Steven and greg out her hair and let them walk alongside her as holly blue walked them back, going on one of her dramatic long monologues about how much she loves blue diamond. "How did you handle her alone?", pearl quietly asked lapis, "barely!", lapis said, laughing loudly enough to get the agate's attention, "what are you saying pearl?", she said, turning to look at the pearl. "She said nothing", blue snapped, this quickly made holly stop looking at her and go completely silent.

Now they where right in front of the ship, about to leave, the amethysts all stood behind holly blue and waved them off, the amethyst Steven and blue met on earth came up to them and thanked them, much to holly blue's, annoyance. "Thank you so much blue- or my diamond!" She said, blue smiled and gifted amethyst a diamond-line, "use this if you need me, just connect the two blue sides to call me", she said, as all the Amethysts cheered. Holly blue looked at this in horror, "my diamond!? How do you think such a disgusting chunk of earth could operate such a thing!" She yelled. Blue just glared at her, she was mad and all the Amethysts knew it, they laughed at Holly and made her blush and yell at them.

To make holly blue's day worse, she also saw that two humans where getting on her diamond's ship. "MY DIAMOND LOOK BEHIND YOU!", she screeched, "THERE'S TWO ESCAPED HUMANS AND THEYRE GETTING ON YOUR SHIP", holly blue summoned her weapon, an electric whip and attempted to grab steven and greg with it but was quickly stopped by blue grabbing the whip. "They're coming with me!", blue said, breaking the whip and making holly blue fall to the floor, embarrassed and shocked. "and I was also at the zoo, does this make me escaped too?", she joked, revealing she was still wearing the zoo clothes under her robes. Blue jumped into the ship and waved off the amethysts as they all laughed and mocked holly blue, who lay there in shock, "bye bye agate!" Blue said, taking off her earrings from the zoo and throwing them right into holly blue's face .

"So let's go back home! I hope Connie hasn't missed us!", blue said, stretching and getting ready to control the ship. Steven stood by his mother and stroked her long white hair, "mum? Is yellow diamond always like that?", he asked, blue looked back to him, his question had taken away her happy tone so suddenly, "you shouldn't have seen that, I'll tell you it all when we get home, this time I won't be too emotional", she said, she could see how much yellow had scared him, she felt awful.

"Thank the stars that's over!" Lapis said, recovering from the nightmare that was holly blue, "she's always like that, I don't understand how My diamond does it!", pearl joked, they both stood by the windows and waved off the zoo, "well they do call blue merciful for a reason!", lapis laughed, all throughout their journey home lapis and pearl spoke to eachother none stop, they joked about their time with blue and how they where much more in common than they thought, all of Pearl's suspicions about lapis had disappeared in an instant.

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