Steven Universe fic

pt 10 Chapter Five: Wreckage of a Home

Steven trudged toward Bismuth's forge, forcing the doors open and searching for the gem. The coals of her forge were still hot, but the gem herself was nowhere to be seen. He glanced around, his eyes drifting to the Scythe she had made for Spinel, leaned toward it, hesitantly running his finger along the blade, half expecting it to erupt into a shriek.
He thought for a moment, Bismuth surely fixed it by now. He grabbed the scythe, intent on keeping the dangerous weapon away from prying hands.

He jumped onto the warp pad, warping to his house.

The sound of voices drifted up from downstairs, familiar voices, Bismuth's voice, and Peridots. He ran downstairs, forced to a sudden halt as he met the disaster that was his home.
Water damage soaked in the walls, and books and chairs and tables were turned up and damp. But what was worse than the door to the infinity room forced ajar and the center of the ship haplessly open for all to see.
The room where he had kept Aquamarine and Antarcticite.

"Steven!" Bismuth's voice boomed and she scooped the boy up in her arms, before setting him back down. Steven was still shaken from the sight, he had nearly lost all his words.

"Who attacked?" He asked, not sure if he had said it out loud or not. Bismuth sighed, glancing back at Peridot who seemed unwilling to say.

"Jasper. She came with an Emerald, and a horde of Citrines."

Steven didn't want to believe his friend, but he had no choice in the matter, if jasper was the one who stole Aquamarine and Antarcticite, then Emerald was the one who stole back the Sun Incinerator.
And the Sun Incinerator was captained by Eyeball and her ruby squad.
All his enemies had been reunited under the wretched blue gem and he wasn't there to stop them.

"Where's Lapis, can't she just get rid of all the water?" He asked, glancing around for his blue friend.
Peridot became increasingly distressed and made small whimpering noises before her anxiety couldn't be held back any longer.

"She gem knapped her! Jasper poofed her and took her and I have no idea where she is or how she is- she could be making her fuse again!" Peridot ran to her friend and clutched his arm desperately trying to find comfort in him.
Comfort Steven had no way of providing.
If Jasper poofed and stole Lapis, then the three of them must all have been poofed.
Jasper's crew made it into his home, and destroyed it, and stole back their comrades.
Had they searched anywhere else?

Steven made his way upstairs, opening the door to his room, it was ransacked, his pillows and drawers and photos were strewn about the floor, nothing was in its place.

Then a thought occured to him.

"Spinel." He hurried out of the room and toward the warp pad, hesitating before he stepped onto it. No.
They wouldn't find her. Still...
She was in the garden, there's no way they would have even thought to look there.

"Steven!" Bismuth called him, causing him to lose his train of thought. He turned back, heading downstairs to see what she asked for.

"Don't worry about this, we can handle the clean up. Besides, you're needed out there." She smiled gently. Steven nodded, glancing out the window at the bright sky, she was right.
What happened, happened, he had to.focus on getting the gems and Connie off the Jungle moon and back into space.

"Biamuth, I know you want to help.rebuild the house, but I need you and Peridot to help me rebuild the rubies ship." He turned back, gesturing at the wreckage of the house.

"This can be fixed later, but we have to stop Aquamarine from attacking the diamonds."

Bismuth glanced back at Peridot who was picking up soaked books, still making nervous and uncomfortable quiet groans to herself as her thoughts were consumed by Lapis's wellbeing.

"Yeah- that sounds like a good plan."

Steven approached Lars hesitantly, he know that he wouldn't enjoy having three gems go through his hair. It was either that or have all of them go through from Lion's end.
Which seemed objectively worse.

"You want me to what?!" The pink boy exclaimed, looking up and down at Bismuth who was probably the largest gem he'd ever allow in his head. Peridot was a comfortable size, but the hulking rainbow gem was a tad too large for his preference.

Steven smiled half heartedly, fully aware of Lars's understandable discomfort.

"She can shape shift to be smaller." He convinced, nodding at Bismuth who shifted herself into a much smaller size, almost identical to Peridot's general height.

Lars let out a reluctant sigh, somewhat more comfortable with the compromise.

"Okay, I guess that works."