Lo Yin vs Steven Universe part 1

  -It is a universe filled with worlds and organic life, through out space and at this time as far as the Galactic Records are currently aware only two sapient species are known to exist. One is the human race, however to the other the human race has only just appeared and so far existed for a period of time considered negligible by the other. This other species has indefinite life spans, born fully formed and with purpose, coming into existence within a strict caste system they seem despite no current evidence of a predessor race, to be artificial in nature. They have expanded across the galaxy, developing advanced technology, all for the singular purpose of propogating their species. Forming armies with soldiers, technicians, engineers, generals, pilots, terraformers, and other wide varieties of occupations each type is born into with the knowledge, skills, build, and special powers for that purpose. But this is an army with no one to fight but animals, plants, and their own kind who occasionally rebelled against this rigid system leading up to a small number of matriarchs who ruled as they were the most powerful and the ones whose essence was combined and used to seed planets to drain away the minerals and life essence of those worlds to birth the armies. So structured it is easy to imagine that in the eons gone by the first of their kind were created to fight a war on behalf of paricipants so long extinct its doubtful that any but the oldest of them even remember they ever existed at all.

   It took one of this race finding a way to hybridize themselves with a human, reforming, resetting, reincarnating as a new being, to break the cycle, to open their eyes to the futility and pointlessness of their constant expansion, In the year since this human hybrid, whose mother/past life was one of the four matriarchs, has taken it upon himself to create a place on Earth for those of this ancient seemingly artificial race to come and learn how to think for themselves. These being are known as "Gems" for each one is at their core a rock infused with powerful life essence that projects around its self a solid light hologram based on their type, personality, and specific choices on certain aesthetics; each stone for a different job, Diamonds at the top, quartz as soldiers, garnets as generals, rubies as low level guards, sapphires as fortune tellers, lapis lazuli as terraformers, and so down the line to pearls which were created differently than all other Gems, born at a special location ratherthan popping out of the ground of a targeted planet, they were the loyal servants/slaves of other gems, a sign of status more so than anything else. Of all the Gems they have had the hardest time adjusting to this new world, where as others could translate their skills and tactical behavior to every day constructive needs; Pearls were made to be imprint on an individual, clean, entertain, take care of. Even the most individualistic among them finds herself enjoying doing the laundry and cleaning the house of the boy who would be the son/reincarnation of her previous owner Pink Diamond.

  So it is on this day in this universe on this planet that Pearl finds herself cleaning up around the house while Steven; the boy who would be a Diamond reborn, is on Home World *befitting their kind's lack of imagination in naming themselves, their ships, tech, and planets* talking with the other Diamonds about the lack of structure and new ideas of local government. She hums an old tune to herself and rolls her eyes picking up an old pizza box, "Amethyst" she mutters, "I will never understand why she enjoys eating so much, we don't need it, and it just feels...uhhhg...weird."

    She looks around as she cleans, "well that's done, better head over to little Home School for today's human interaction lesson for my students."

   Just as she is about to step on the warp pad there is a *knock* at the door.

  Pearl answers the door, "Uh, Hello," as standing there is a young woman she's never met before, a petite girl with shoulder length straight blue hair, pale complextion, wearing a blue rocker shirt with the same yellow star as Greg's logo design, daisy dukes, and blue tennish shoes with the same yellow star.

  "This is a bit awkward," says the girl with a smile, "But um, I'm new to Beach City, and saw you around Fun Land helping people, and um...would you...like to, um, go out to eat sometime."

  "Oh, I don't eat, I'm a Gem, you do know about Gems right, what am I saying, you're in Beach City you'd have to find your way to this part of the beach."

   The girl *giggles*, "So, this may be a bit forward but you wouldn't have to eat..."

   "Oh," says Pearl manifesting a piece of paper and a pen from her glowing pearl gem upon her forehead, "here, if you write down your name and number I could call you later, set something up."

  "Wow," says the girl, "okay,"

  Just as she writing Garnet comes smashing down on the walkway, battle gloves out and strikes at the girl, who *zips* vanishing like a ghost leaving an after image.

  Pearl is wide eyed, "Garnet! Why did you do that? What if Steven saw you,"

  Garnet points out into the air ahead of the door, "There,"

   The girl is floating in the air, hand on her hip holding the paper, waving it and smiling.

  "She's a gem?" asks Pearl.

  "I don't know," says Garnet, "I can't...see anything about her, I only saw..."

  Pearl screams as the girl *zips* back in front of her and hands Pearl the paper.

  "Hey!" shouts Garnet striking at her, this time stopped with one hand.

  The girl smiles and says to Garnet, "Now, now, don't be like that. I'm not here; for you."

  With that she vanishes.

  "Uhhhh, what was that all about?" asks Amethyst coming around the bend in the rocks and leaping up to the porch.

  "I don't know," says Garnet, "I saw, Pearl, then I couldn't."

  Amethyst looks around carefully and whispers, "Was she, ya'know the thing we don't tell Steven about?"

  "No," says Garnet, "I'd have seen a shard collector, besides, human's can't fly; or move super fast."

  Amethyst sips a drink she has pulled from inside the house via shapeshifting her arm superlong, "right, duh."

  Pearl opens the folded paper, "Whomever she is, she wants to meet me tonight at 8 at some place called, The Pizza Place, wherever that is, never heard of it."

  "Dude," says Amethyst, "Pretty sure she means Fish Stu Pizza."

  "Then she should have written that," says Pearl.

  Amethyst *shrugs*, "Never seen her before, probably a newbie, or a tourist, but who ever she is,"

   "Again," says Garnet, "she flew, dodged my punches, and...stopped my punch with one hand. THAT, wasn't a human."

   "That's true," says Amethyst, "Didn't see any gem though."

   "No gem I recognize either," says Pearl thoughtfully, "But she could be hiding her gem, under her clothes like you do sometimes Amethyst, clearly she isn't human."

   "And," adds Garnet, "someone who can evade my future vision, we should approach with caution."

  "Sooo," says Amethyst, "you going" *sips drink*

  "I...guess so," says Pearl, "if only so we can find out who she is."

 "and," says Garnet, "see if she poses a threat, we'll be nearby watching."

  "Okay," says Amethyst, "its a plan, like a tv show. You go out on a date with this mystery girl while we gots your back from the bushes."

  ******

  -8:20pm-
  Location: Fish Stu Pizza

  Inside Pearl is having a conversation with an unknown blue haired woman with powers, meanwhile outside, behind some bushes which don't grow directly behind a bench in the sidewalk making them even more conspicious are Garnet and Amethyst observing.

  "She can really pack'em away," comments Amethyst as the blue haired woman rolls up another pizza and litterally slides it down her throat while Pearl hands more of Steven's dad's money to the crab like gem serving them.

  "Hey guys," says Steven coming down the sidewalk, "Sooo, what's up?"

   Garnet makes a *shush* motion and waves Steven over to the pushes,

  "What are we doing?" asks Steven.

  "There dude," says Amethyst pointing.

  "Pearl?" asks Steven, "Who is that with her? Wait...is she on a date? aaand you two are watching her go on a date why?"

   "She's a gem; we think." says Garnet

   "What?" asks Steven, "but she looks, human."

  "She can fly," says Garnet.

  "and move really fast," says Amethyst

  "and block my fist," says Garnet

  "Wait, what, you fought her?!" exclaims Steven.

  "Something's wrong," says Garnet, "its that weird vision again, I can't see Pearl anymore."

  "Hold on, I'm definetly missing something here," says Steven.

  "No time!" yells Garnet standing as Pearl is poofed by a sudden flash of blue light coming from the mystery woman's finger tip.

  "What?!" yells Steven as the three of them rush inside.

  They come inside just in time to see the woman unhinge her jaw and swallow the fist sized pearl, it bulging her throat as it slides down. The woman *sighs* and pats her abdomen.

   "Give her back!" yells Steven.

  Amethyst manifest her whip, "yeah dude you better spit her out RIGHT NOW!"

  The mystery woman smiles, "If you want her, you'll have to poof me to get her."

 She points out the door, "but not here, I actually liked the pizza, on the beach instead."

  ******

 - A few moments prior.-

    "and that's where Gems come from," says Pearl finishing a story as the blue haired woman rolls up and sucks down a pizza, "but you should know all of this, being a Gem, unless, well I don't recognize you, nor see your gem. Did you emerge on your own in a Kindergarten?"

    The woman smiles, "I'm not a gem at all."

   She *sighs*, "but you Gems are so fascinating, you can feel pain, but only in a very limited regards, like an immitation pain that fades away quickly. Your bodies despite being solid light immitate an organic system internally, enough that with some shapeshifting you can even incubate a human child apparently, and so long as your gem isn't damage can reform indefinetly."

   "Well yes," says Pearl, "I just got done explaining all that. Hold on, if you're not a gem then how do you have powers?"

   "I'm a world eater." she says as she makes the tip of her finger glow blue, and with a tiny flick and a flash of light Pearl is poofed, her gem sitting on the table. To the horror of Ki Ki and the crab like gem behind the counter the stranger picks up Pearl's pearl, unhinges her jaw and swallows it whole, Steven, Amethyst, and Garnet barging through the door just in time to see it vanish down the woman's throat.

  ******

  -The Beach, at night, waves crashing against the shore, like a showdown from an anime, Steven, Amethyst, and Garnet stand in one spot parallel between the water and the boardwalk, a dew dozen feet away the mysterious blue haired woman stands.

   "No more games." says Steven, "spit out Pearl, tell us who you are, what you want, and it better not be another grudge against my mom."

   The blue haired woman laughs, "I said you'd have to poof me to get her back, she can't reform inside me. I already knew everything about you gems before I arrived on this planet."

  "you gems," whispers Steven.

  "I am Mai," says the woman, "The World Eater; in training"

  "What," mutters Garnet

  "Yeah, I'm lost," says Amethyst as she cracks her whip, "just spit out Pearl you weirdo, or do you need to wait a few hours, either way you arn't going anywhere!"

  "First off," says Steven, "Amethyst ew, and second Mai was it, okay, I don't know what you want, but this isn't funny, and we will get our friend back."

   The woman levitates as blue orbs manifest in her hands, "Bring it on."

   Steven manifests his shield, Garnet her gloves, Amethyst cracks her whip cause purple fire to spread across it, however as they prepare to charge a loud anime elitist woman's laugher echoes from the sky above. Above them is another mystery woman, this one looking more like a gem.

   "Okay, now whose this clown?" says Amethyst annoyed.

   "Don't know," says Garnet, "didn't see her when the others were being uncorrupted, Steven?"

   Steven *shrugs*, the woman is blue, has dark blue parachute pants like Lapis, light green hair, two short horns coming off and back and up a little from the sides of her head, and a long reptile like tail with a green tuft on the end.

   "Maybe a Lapis?" asks Steven.

   The woman holds her hands to her side in a pose familiar to any fan of anime and says the words, "Ka, me, ha,"  a swirling brown fluid gathers between her palms, "me, ha, Chokorētokurīmu!" and fires a massive spiraling brown blast that strikes down on the blue haired woman and splashes across the beach. Steven, Garnet, and Amethyst jump back.

   "Is that?" asks Amethyst *sniffing* the air, "chocolate?"

   "I hope so," says Garnet watching Steven scoop some up with his finger and put it in his mouth.

  "What'd we agree on Steven about eating things off the ground."

  "It's chocolate, very creamy chocolate," says Steven.

  "She helped us," says Steven indicating their opponent isn't moving.

  "Hey!" yells up Amethyst, "neat trick, we should hang out, but that gem stole our friend and..."

   The blue woman levitates down behind the chocolate covered humanoid shape where the blue haired woman had been standing. Whips out an inhumanly long tongue that wraps around the choclate covered victim and pulls her into the air.

  Amethyst yells out "Hold up," while Garnet yells out, "Wait!" and Steven "NOOO!" simulatanously as the woman engulfs the woman that had engulfed Pearl, but without unhinging her jaw, its more like the chcolate covered figure is squeezed through a portal that is the woman mouth. She licks her lips getting the flecks of chocolate.

   "Choclate covered Mai," says the woman, "with a special prize inside."

   "Yo, not cool!" yells out Amethyst, "our friend was inside her you...freak."

  "I, what is even going on!?" yells out Steven, a pink aura overtaking him, "Give back Pearl
right now!" he yells charging through the air, pink bubbles around his fists, the woman swats away each and every one his punches enraging him more, she sends out a pink shockwaves that splinters and sends the chocolate all over the beach flying all over the boardwalk and into the ocean. The woman however is unphazed.

   The woman gives them a twisted smile, "Little human creature, with your little powers, and your hard light construct friends. I am Lo Yin, the World Eater...Mai is my apprentice in a manner of speaking. She will return, don't worry about your friend Mai likes her, the rest of your world however, may not be so lucky"

   "Give, her, back!" yells Steven, his bubble fist now spike covered. The woman swats him with her tail sending him smashing into some rocks, smashing them apart, in the rubble he is bruishes and his pink aura fades.

   "Steven!" yells out Garnet and Amethyst.

   "In fact," says Lo Yin, "tell you what, if you can present us with something of equal value or greater value as a delicious and entertaining dish as your friend than we just might give her back. Expect us back in three days."

   As she levitates into the sky Steven weakly holds up his hand, "No, give, give Pearl back."

  "Yeah not so fast!" yells Amethyst as she and Garnet fuse into Suggilite, "you aint going anywhere!"

  The simples slices her hand through the air sending out a blue half circle of energy that slices through them, three gems falling to Steven's feet from the poof cloud as he passes out.

  ******


  -Two days later-

   In Steven's house, Steven, Garnet, Amethyst, Lapis, Bismuth, Peridot, and Connie are all gathered.

   "Everyone's on alert Steven," says Bismuth, "Biggs and Snowflake are leading the charge down at Funland, Little Lorimar is keeping an eye out at the board walk, and we've told everyone what these mystery gems look like."

   "Who were they?" asks Greg standing nearby for emotional support.

   "The human looking one called herself Mai," says Steven, "but the blue one who looks like a Gem called herself Lo Yin, I asked the Diamonds about them, but Blue and Yellow said they'd never even heard of something called a World Eater...White acted how Pearl used to when the subject of Pink Diamond came up so...there might be something else there...I..."

   "Steven!" yells Pearl coming through the front door, "are you alright, let me see, are you still bruised, does anything hurt?"

   Everyone is just dumbfounded,

  "P..Pearl," whispers Steven, "I..." he is choking back tears, "I...th...I thought you were.."

  "Dude," says Amethyst, "how'd you escape? That Gem whose not a Gem was crazy strong."

  "I heard," says Pearl dismissivly, "Steven can you move your arms without anything aching?"

  "I'm fine," says Steven, "its you we're all worried about.

  "So Pearl," says Bismuth, "how did you escape?"

   "I just asked that," mumbles Amethyst as Pearl clams down, before beginning however she asks Steven, "you sure nothing hurts?"

   "Yes," says Steven, "but what's going on? Who were they?"

  "Oh," says Pearl, "Amazing, it was...I never felt so clean...like every part of my body being massaged all at once?"

   Steven blushes.

  "Dude," says Amethyst, "what are you even talking about?"

  "My date," says Pearl, "but oh right, private talk. So as it turns out they're metaphysical beings. Their insides are just like the rooms here in the temple containing metaphysical spaces. Mai brought me home the second I heard what happend. Oh my goodness that boss of hers, she claims she's used to fighting, and I qoute far stronger beings than Gems, but I don't know what they could be talking about."

   Pearl pauses, "But seriously Steven, she said she knocked you through a boulder, are you sure you're okay."

   "I've gone through worse," says Steven, "but it wasn't just the impact, its like each time I hit her my strength was vanishing."

  "Well," says Pearl, "don't know anything about that, I'll ask."

  She walks over and opens up the door, yelling out, "Mai! Steven says his strength was vanishing every time he punched Lo Yin, do you know what caused that?"

  "She's here?!" shouts Steven.

  "Oh right," says Pearl opening the door as Mai steps in.

   Everyone who can brandishes weapons.

  "Oh put those away," says Pearl.

  "Are you feeling alright Pearl?" asks Garnet, "Last time we saw you, this, whatever she is, swallowed you gem."

  "I'm fantastic," says Pearl, "but yeah, that's why she waited outside, thought this might be a bit awkward what with her overly dramatic boss."

  Mai steps forward, "Yeah, sorry about that, just having a laugh with you. Being peeping toms on our date and all thought I'd have a little fun with you."

  "You abducted Pearl," says Steven, "Ki Ki and Bixbite saw the whole thing."

  "I said I'd give her a ride back to my place and show her what I can do."

 "and did she," adds Pearl.

  "Okay," says Steven, "too much information for Steven, you're fine, its fine, I'm done, I got to get ready for tomorrow's classes. Just promise me no more weird surprises; or describing to me what you two do in private please."

   "Okay Steven," says Pearl


  After everyone heads their seperate ways and a few hours later Pearl and Mai are talking in the kitching when Amethyst walks in, "Woah, what is going on here?" spotting Pearl's arm halfway down Mai's throat and whip cream open on the counter and clear up to Pearl's shoulder.

   Pearl retrieves her arm and Mai licks her lips.

  "Oh, hello Amethyst." says Pearl,

  "Dude...what?" asks Amethyst just pointing at Pearl and the whipcream.

  "I've never felt so clean, and the massaging..."

  "Dude, this is what Steven was talking about, whatever freaky stuff you are into now Pearl its fine, just...not in the kitchen okay."

   As Pearl and Mai walk away Amethyst overhears Pearl say, "Well yeah I can easily withstand those temperatures, do you really think those sauces will enhance my flavor enough that you'll savor me in your mouth slowly; everytime I cooked that recipe for Steven he just inhaled the food...hmm, being baked into a pie sounds kinda relaxing to be honest."

  Amethyst pauses in the front door way, pictuing Pearl lying back in a pie crust, then herself like its a spa, she shakes her head, "I like to eat, not be eaten...I think."