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One: Setting The Stage

It was, on the whole a very normal day when he got right down to it. It could even be called a nice day too in fact, if he was totally honest with himself. The wind carried a soft and gentle breeze in from the nearby seas, carrying the faintest hint of salt and brine with it. The temperature was that perfect mix of not too hot and not too cold that made one feel as though they could do anything from run through town full tilt merrily for the run itself, or settle down on any open space to nap. To top it all off there wasn't a cloud in the sky, the sun high and warm up above, shining brightly and cheerily on all below it. It's rays bouncing merrily off the ocean, the sands of the beach, and the twenty-foot tall, vaguely crustacean monstrosity that was at that moment trying, with a quite frankly disquieting amount of effort, to tear him into more pieces than he cared to actively consider, regardless of the round, semi-transparent, pink hued bubble shield that at that moment stood in it's way.

Yes, if anyone had bothered to ask he, Steven Quartz Universe, short-and-stocky-for-his-age fourteen years old, all around nice guy, half-human half crystalline based alien, and youngest member by several thousand years of the crystal gems, the extraterrestrial protectors of mankind and planet Earth, would have said quite plainly that today was a very normal and nice one. Obviously there could be room for improvement he would admit, as once again a large, purple, tri-fingered claw can crashing down on the top of his protective dome, forcing an indent further into both the sand of the beach and the rocky cliff face the giant, vaguely lobster like beast had somehow forced him into the front of, but he would also insist it could be far worse and that, as his father was so fond of saying, "if every porkchop were perfect, we wouldn't have hot dogs." For example he thought, as a high-pitched, nasally voice shrieked into his ear and a lime-green tinged hand pulled frantically at his curly brown hair and face, he could be alone inside his protective bubble at the moment, and while the argument could be made that that would be preferable to the large amount of shallow scratches he was accumulating, he would counter that he often felt it was easier to put more power into his shields when he had someone else to protect. And besides, he and his current companion weren't far from his home and she, and adamantly he himself, were screaming quite loudly, which meant help should be arriving right about…

It was extremely quick, one moment he and Peridot, the green-tinged, blonde triangular haired, short, and at the moment still frantically screaming figure who bore a gemstone of the same name on her forehead, were under assault by an oversized and cantankerous crustacean. The next there was the sound of a rocket strapped pile-driver hitting a egg, a flash of light and glittering dust, and the gargantuan enemy lobster was replaced by a familiar, warm, loving, and in some cases far more imposing figure of one of his family members, one hand, a deep red crystal imbedded into it, raised slightly holding reddish bubble containing what appeared to be one gemstone or another.

"Garnet!" yelled Steven happily, allowing the pink bubble surrounding himself and Peridot to fall away, rushing forward to envelop a single long leg in a tight hug. "You and the others are back!"

"I thought I told you and Peridot to stay inside today." Came the smooth, calm, lightly English accented voice of Garnet, de-facto leader of the Crystal gems, the hand not holding the shining bubble, though still bearing another stone similar to the one imbedded in the first, rising past her bodysuit to her cerise face in order to lightly adjust her ever present sunglasses.

"You did, but there wasn't much to do inside the house and Peridot wanted to get outside for awhile." Steven began, one hand laid slightly overtop the large pink gem that took the place of his bellybutton before being cut off.

"I did not!" Screamed Peridot. "I was perfectly happy reviewing your planet's primitive information network repository on Steven's portable communication array. He was the one that decided that we needed to 'get out' and look at where that got us! We were almost shattered by that corrupted abomination!" She shouted indignantly, finger leveled in as threatening a manner possible towards the young teen.

"Alright," began Steven, "I was the one who wanted to get out for a bit, it's just that with the drill done there been a lot to do, and you guys wouldn't let me come with on the mission this time…"

"It's not that we didn't think you could handle it," Garnet countered, noting the downcast tone of her young charge. "You've more than proved yourself, it just we thought you like a bit of a break with everything that's happened." She paused as if to consider her next words. "And we needed someone to keep Peridot from tearing anything apart, she's still new to the team, and we didn't want her blowing herself up or burning down the house."

Steven giggled as he looked at the slight smirk on Garnet's face, ignoring the indignant cry the last bit of dialogue produced. It was true, after getting the coordinate to the Cluster, the massive, forced together mass of former gems incubating deep beneath the planet, and Peridot's subsequent official defection from the forces of the Gem Homeworld to the rebellion, he had been feeling like he could use some rest.

"Still, sorry we didn't listen to you, guess I should have figured you'd use your future vision to know something like this would happen."

"Not really, we just didn't want Peridot running rampant through town either." Was the frank response, as Garnet lightly clenched the hand holding the former Gem monster, banishing it to a safer location for holding

"Okay, that's enough!" Yelled Peridot, finally having hit her limit for jokes at her expense. "I will have you know I am perfectly capable of interacting with the native species just as well as I do with any other Gem!" She yelled, unknowing that that there was no doubt towards that assessment and was in part why they did not want her wandering on her own. After pushing Steven's father, Greg, off the roof of the barn were they had be constructing the drill to find the cluster to see if he was capable of flight like a ladybug Peridot had encountered earlier, the rest of the Gems decided it would be best to slowly ease her into interactions with the local population, preferably over the course of several months if Pearl had her say.

"Don't worry about it Peridot, you know we don't mean anything by It." said Steven, placing a placating hand on her shoulder. "We're just joking around, right Garnet."

"Right." Stated Garnet simply. "Now come on, lets get back to the temple with the other and we can show you what we found." And with that the tall Gem leader turned around, Steven still firmly attached to her calf and shin, and Peridot following along, grumbling but mollified, as they worked their way to small raised beach house built into a great stone statue of a beautiful six-armed woman carved from the cliff face.

After making their way up the stairs and through the screen door, they arrived inside into a quaint living room, where the two figures of the remaining members of Steven's family and team could be seen.

"Yo, Ste-man, wondering were you and P-dot were." Called out Amethyst, the short, stocky, purple Gem smiling jovially while leaning against a counter, long and wild white hair draping out. She had, as always, already managed to procure some form of food from the fridge and had already taken a large bit from it, and the accompanying plate, a slight smattering of crumbs falling onto her black tank-top and leggings, but not onto the gemstone place squarely into her chest.

"Oh Steven, there you are!" The second figure, whose peach hair was in a pixie cut, pearl called out from her spot near the couch, her turning her face towards them first, giving site to her long and pointed nose, and the large white oval gem on her forehead that was her namesake. "We worried when we got back and you and Peridot weren't here, I hope everything was alright?" She continued, a slightly worried tone entering her voice as her tall and thin frame turned to face him and the rest of his group, the robin blue sash tied around her blue tunic at the waist trailing around with the movement.

"Oh Yeah! Uhh, it was pretty normal all things considered…" Steven began before Peridot stepped forward.

"Oh yes, perfectly normal if attacks by gargantuan gem-based anthropoids are common on this rock!" She bit out, obviously still bitter at the situation Steven's suggestion of 'getting out' had got them into.

"What!"

"It's fine, I took care of it easily enough." Garnet cut off, anticipating her long time friends panicked response. "It's not a problem anymore, so let's just show them what we found."

"Wha…but…she just said…oh fine!" Pearl relented, deciding this once that whatever had happened wasn't worth the inevitable panic attack it would bring on and instead just gestured towards a large metal container to her left. "We managed to find the location of an old Gem research facility up in the mountains to the Far East and decided to investigate."

"It was mostly old broke junk." Was Amethysts' helpful addition to the conversation.

Pearl shot her a dirty look for having been cut off, before making a show of coughing into her hand and continuing. "…Yes, the facility was mostly in disrepair, but there was one still functional terminal left. According to the files we were able to access, before it was abandoned at the end of the rebellion the facility focused on what it called 'Trans-Universal and Temporal Recording', which from what we found means…"

"The observation and study of different moments in time in separate universes? Interesting." Cut in Peridot, like Amethyst ignoring the glare being sent her way. "I think I recall another Peridot, 5G7Y- Cut 9TR, talking about them looking into that field again now that they had more resources during one of my off cycles. I admit I was a bit distracted as it wasn't my field, but it sounded interesting enough."

"Yes." Pearl groused out, getting progressively more annoyed. "And from what was left, they had apparently been making some head way, though not quite in the way they had hoped. Apparently they could only get "second hand" glimpses of other worlds."

"Second hand?" Asked Steven, his head tilting lightly to the side in confusion. How did you see another dimension 'second hand'?

"Yes, according to the notes we found every vision and recording they were able to pull through where, I supposed the best way to put is 'formatted' somehow, almost like one of your movies or T.V shows, despite for all entice and purposes being legitimate views into other dimensional planes. We were even able to salvage some of the recordings from the base and one of the projectors they used for it. It's actually quite fascinating and raises several interesting questions about the nature of reality, like…"

"Hold on, you mean to tell me that" Steven said pointing to the small metal box. "Has what are pretty much real movies from another dimension."

Pearl paused, unsure of where he was going. "Um, yes?"

"We should watch them." He whispered almost reverently, his pupils bright and, somehow, star shaped, before continuing louder, raising his arms up triumphantly. "We should all watch them and have an Alternate Universe Mega Marathon!"

"Steven, I'm not sure that's wise. While the projector is itself harmless and self powering, we don't really know what they could have recorded, or even if it's anything all that interesting to begin with." Countered Pearl, not really against the idea, but feeling the need to play the voice of reason nonetheless.

"I'm game" Garnet interjected, striding across the room and picking up the projector box and moving to set it up in the middle of the living room, leaving behind a confused looking Pearl.

"Wha?"

"Yeah, come-on Pierogi, it could be fun, not like we got anything better to do, you know." Cut in Amethyst, now having finished her snack moved to claim her usual spot.

"As much as I hate to admit it, Amethyst is correct, while we were able to get the necessary data from the moon base and reconfigure my old escape pod's computer to work out the location of the Cluster, it will still likely take several more days for it to finish. And besides" Commented Peridot. "While I do enjoy it immensely, I have analyzed and re-watch the 'Camp Pining Hearts' program several dozen times over, and as it only had the one 'episode', I admit some new form of 'entertainment' would be enjoyable."

"Yeah, and with Dad out of town to get new high-powered hoses for the carwash and Connie away for most days due to the classes her parents signed her up for, I don't really have much else to do either, so it's a great chance for us all to hang out together and bond like a team right?" Steven excitedly cut in, having moved to the kitchen to procure snacks and drinks, likely only for himself and Amethyst, as they were the only members of the group to eat regularly.

Seeing no way out it, Pearl simply looked up and sighed, slowly making her way to couch as well, Garnet having easily figured out and set up the projector before taking a set to the right of Steven and Peridot, who occupied the center or the sofa, with Amethyst lazing on a recliner, a bright holographic rectangle shining out of the top and spread out wide. Taking a set on the left on the sofa, she tried her best to relax and go along with what was happening. She figured if whatever Homeworld had managed to record from their experiments wasn't too inappropriate or boring, it might not be such a bad way to spend a day or two, not that she had high hopes. After all, how exciting or interesting could these recoding be anyway?

Author's notes: Okay, if anyone else is reading this that means I have actually fallen off the deep-end and wrote something that might resemble a piece of fanfiction if you squint hard enough. I am going to put this out here right now, I have never done anything like this before, which means I am going in blind and with only myself as an editor, so if you keep reading be prepared to deal with low quality along with all of the other usual pitfalls of reading a fanfic (i.e. infrequent updates, different or unliked interpretations of characters, threats of militant shipping [though not done seriously in this particular work], etc.). On top of that I do have college, so when that warning says "infrequent updates" take it very seriously. Mind you I hope not to start up and leave this whole thing hanging (I know how frustrating that happening to a story can be), but I'm not going to make promises I can't keep either. Either way, if your reading this it means it's posted, and thus I am committed. I'd say "be gentle", but we all know that isn't happening and wouldn't do much to help me get better anyway, so instead let's just send up a prayer to the muses of old, and see where this flaming puppy filled train wreck heads.

If anyone wants to know why I choose this kind of fanfic and these two fandoms, it's because I have yet to really see a full cross-over of Steven Universe and RWBY (or Steven Universe and Kamen Rider for that matter, which is weird because I could really see Fourze or OOOs working well here), and I have an odd fascination for reaction fics like this. Also from a practical stand point it allows me to focus on writing the characters personalities, which I would suspect is much more difficult than it appears, over scenery or far-reaching plot, and while there are likely better ways to go about that, well see the first part of the answer. And just incase anyone is going to ask, yes I do intend to try and include Connie and Greg into this at some point, especially Greg since I think he would definitely having an interesting reaction to Yang and Ruby's family history. The only reason Connie wasn't involved right off the back is because I'm a bit nervous on if I can actually get her character right. I figure she would be somewhat analytical of the show, like I intend for Pearl and Peridot to be, but from a more narrative and story oriented perspective, with a bit of a human touch (obviously), unlike the P&P's more, let's say mechanical perspective. Also, depending on how long it takes me to get chapters out, and when (and if) this hiatus for SU ever ends, there may be other characters joining in if I can figure out how to work it (I rather guilty saw those more recent leeks, and by the looks of things we may have yet another new and decidedly bitter member to the team), and I intend to try to get this story to go to at least season 3, again maybe further depending, but once more no promises. Either way, if there's someway I can improve the characters' personalities to be closer to cannon, or any other way I can improve, please put it in the review. I for one know I tend to miss either small grammatical stuff and write sentences that tend to be a bit too wordy, and this is my first time trying to write creatively like this, so I will probably need all the help I can get. Other than all that all I can say is thank you, for both your time and consideration, and thank you for at least giving this a chance.