Steven Universe fic

pt 10 Chapter Four: Red Barrage

Steven lay next to Connie, dozing off as the two nestled themselves on Lion.
He hadn't counted the days, or hours since they left Earth but he knew it had been at least one day.
At least.
It could have been longer- all of time seemed to stand still when the only thing you see outside of the viewer and portholes is streaking stars zooming by.

The ship buckled to a halt, knocking the passengers off guard, causing Steven to slam on the ground in surprise at their sudden emergency stop.
He stood up, rubbing his bruised head, and looked out the view.

A bright green ship hovered a few fifty feet away from their own. Lars's ship.

Steven paused for a moment, trying to figure out why Lars would be in space again. His breath caught in his throat, as a jolt of panicked flashes through his head.

"That's Lars! See if we can talk to him!" He ordered, Pearl nodded and pulled up the holoscreen. The gems patiently waited for the connection to be made.
A small light blipped on the screen before a blocky red face appeared.

"Rose Quartz!" The gem growled, glaring through the screen at Steven.

Steven's mouth dropped open in both astonishment and dread. Eyeball stood at the captain's chair, of Lars's ship.

His brain fired off scenario after scenario as he attempted to understand what caused such a thing to occur. It wasn't that long? He wasn't gone for very long, did Earth get attacked? Did anyone get hurt?
Panic began to set in, he tried to breathe, tried to come up with a plan.

"Steven!" He was pulled from his thoughts by Garnet's voice, just before a part of the ship was fired at by the Sun Incinerator. The deck shook ferociously,  leering to the side as it veered out of its path to the kindergarten.

Sirens blared, the noise nearly deafened Steven as the ship began to malfunction, dropping its artificial gravity and sending he and his organic friends floating.
He rolled in the air, peering out the window and watching as they flew helplessly away from the commandeered ship.

"We're being pulled in by a moon's gravitational pull!" Pearl's shriek bursted out from the sirens, as the ship lurched closer to the small moon they were nearing.

"We'll burn on impact!" Connie's voice nearly cracked at the thought of simmering alive on reentry. Steven met her eyes, and reached out his hand, grabbing her and pulling her close, he nodded at Pearl and Amethyst who swam themselves toward him.
Finally accompanied by Garnet and his feline companion, Steven exerted as much energy he could muster to create a bubble large enough to protect all of them.
His friends huddled close, and he watched as the ship began to break apart, melting and smouldering as it broke into the atmosphere of the moon.

The smoke cleared, streaking around the surface of his sheild and allowing him to see the expanse of odd vegetation on the moons surface.
The bubble plummeted into the dirt, creating a crater that rippled the wind and trees, he hesitantly opened his eyes, his hands clasped around Connie's arm.

"It worked!" He laughed, dropping the bubble and releasing his friends.
His smile quickly faded at the thought of Eyeball.
She had the Sun Incinerator. Which meant that Lars had been stolen or attacked. He had to find put what happened.
If Eyeball had gone to earth again, she could have gone for Steven and...no, Eyeball didn't have a ship, and she hadn't even tried to come after them.
Something worse must have happened.

Steven glanced around at the familiar vegetation, the odd birdlike alien animals that hopped around. He had been here, with Connie, as Stevonnie.
They would be safe for a time. He had to talk to Lars.

"I have to go in lion, I'll be back." He muttered, not allowing his friends to onject before he jumped into the seemingly endless expanse of space inside lions mane.
He meandered his way toward his tree, and jumped out of Lars's hair.

The pink boy screamed, taken aback by the sudden arrival of Steven. He had almost gotten used to it, though he probably never truly would.
Steven landed on the ground, spinning around a look of fear in his eyes as he grabbed Lars by the arms.

"Eyeball has your ship! What happened?!" The urgency in his voice made it clear to Lars that something had gone wrong on his end as well.
He let out a reluctant sigh, shaking the boy off of him before explaining.

"Don't know who Eyeball is, but Emerald came with that blue gem that took me prisoner once?" He paused, not sure if he was recalling correctly. "She threatened to shatter pads if I didn't give her the ship. So I did."

Steven blinked, feeling his face burn with dread and horror, the shock of the information caught his breath in his throat.
Emerald stole the ship, emerald was working with Aquamarine- but she couldn't. Aquamarine was bubbled, in the temple. It's not like anyone would let her in.
If Spinel hadn't been poofed, Aquamarine could have tricked her.
But Spinel was in the garden.
Bismuth and Lapis and Peridot were protecting the earth, the beach house.
This is wrong. All wrong.

"I need to talk to Bismuth." He muttered  blankly, intent on finding out what had happened.
Everything was happening it seemed, everything was happening all at once and entirely out of his control, if he left something alone for a moment, it was like the universe crumbled around it.
Leaving the diamonds, leaving homeworld, leaving Spinel, leaving earth.
It all seemed to get destroyed the moment it left his line of sight. It was a horrible, terrible thing. And he wanted to release it.
End all the unknowing and all the suffering and confusion. But it just wouldn't stop.

It would never stop.