The shadow assassin (steven universe reader-insert)

Chapter 10

Pearl: (groans*) Even if it meant we could never go home.

Garnet: We chose Earth.

Steven: Wait a sec, so that means... we're just like the No Home Boys!

Pearl: The wha-?

Steven: The No Home Boys! It's a book series about these boys who have no home. So they travel around the country, living in boxcars, and riding river rafts, solving mysteries! They had a successful run, until the disastrous graphic novel adaption. But my favorite story is this classic one where the no home boys are chased across the countryside by a mysterious pursuer, which turns out to be the very fear resting within themselves.

Pearl: Steven, we are not like the No Home Boys. We are literally standing in your home right now. (walks off with Garnet*)

Steven: Aw, I wish, I was a No Home Boy. No past, no future, just the open road!

Amethyst: Yeah, sounds like fun. Let's do it.

You: What?!

Steven: Really?!

Amethyst: Yeah. Let's run!

You: Woah, woah, woah. Where do you think you guys are going?

Steven: Come on y/n, it will be fun! Don't you wanna experience being free?

You: Steven, trust me it's better if you two stay here. Amethyst, if you have a problem then we can talk this out.

Amethyst: No!

You: What?

Amethyst: Me and steven will become just like the no home boys. Right steven?

Steven: Yeah!! Let's go!!

Steven and Amethyst  now left you and pack some food in their own bindles on sticks and they begin to sing "On the run". They leave the house and walk through beach city, when jenny, buck dewey and sour cream offer to give them a ride in jenny's car. They drive Steven and Amethyst to the edge of Beach City, and the pair run off into the countryside. They encounter a raccoon and it joins them on their travel, but then attacks Steven while Amethyst looks on in laughter. They eventually come across a railroad as a train is passing by, and decide to hop aboard a boxcar. Steven and Amethyst continue singing their duet until the sunset, as they watch it from atop the boxcar.

Time skip* - Evening

Steven opens his bindle, preparing to eat his food, when the raccoon from before suddenly jumps in and attacks Steven again, while Amethyst watches.

Steven: Aah! Aah! The raccoon is back! (The raccoon eats all of Steven's food and runs away*) Um, Amethyst? Can I have some of your food?

Amethyst: (devours all of her food in one go*) Oh, uh, sorry dude.

Steven: My bindle couldn't fit enough food for me and a raccoon.

Amethyst: Why didn't you bring your backpack?

Steven: It wouldn't fit in my bindle? (climbs onto a hay stack*) Maybe I can just sleep this hunger off... Just like the No home Boys. You know, I feel like I've been misled about hay. It always looks so soft in those illustrations, but it's actually really scratchy.

The boxcar rumbles a bit, and another hay stack falls on top of him.

Steven: Amethyst, I want to go home now. (sees Amethyst sitting at the boxcar doorway, ignoring him*) Amethyst? (goes and sits next to her*) I'm done pretending to be a No Home Boy.

Amethyst: Not me.

Steven: I'm sure Garnet, y/n, and Pearl are worried sick about us. Wondering when we're coming home.