A/N. I do not own Steven Universe except Scott Rigby and the Crystal Gods and their beast forms, without further adieu, onto Chapter 4.
A normal commute, civilians travelling to and from places, just your average day, for one cloaked figure overlooking the free way, it was just more innocent lives to take.
"Gaia, rise and claim your first victims."
The female voice says as the ground around her begins to violently shake, while she stood composed and staring coldly at the being before her as it begins to head over to the free way to cause it's destruction, all while the figure watched without a care in her eyes at the lives being cut short.
With Lapis
Silent and flying above the sky with her own thoughts for company, Lapis found comfort from flying with her wings around Beach City and beyond.
After Pearl had dropped the bombshell about Scott, Lapis found herself getting out of the house a lot by herself, sometimes without needing to tell Scott or Peridot in fear they'd stop her.
The mood was officially dead in Scott's home that day when Lapis left this morning.
"Why does this happen to everyone I care about, first Steven with Jasper and the Diamonds and now Scott with the Crystal Gods, I can't protect anyone."
That was Lapis' current mood.
With Steven, she did help in some capacity but with Scott and not being able to save him in time, her gem might as well be shattered for her failure.
"He's only a human, a really stubborn human who just happens to be one of my best friends."
Lapis was conflicted, it showed too.
Later
When Lapis had landed on a cliff side over looking a city, the sight before her shook her to her very core.
"No..."
Before her, cars and other motor vehicles were overturned and on fire, police and ambulances were on hand to try and find survivors of the war zone looking free way below her, her eyes turned to the crystallised humans.
She even saw a family crystallised together causing her to feel physically ill at the sight.
"Such a beautiful sight isn't Lazuli?"
Before Lapis had time to react to the woman's voice, she was clobbered round the back of her head and knocked out cold by one of the god crystal's golems before being carried away to somewhere unknown.
Back with Scott
"So Scotty, where to next?"
Despite the news he was going to die, Scott went to Ocean City with Amethyst, Pearl and Steven while Peridot watched the house for him.
Since Scott couldn't drive, Pearl decided to drive for them as they headed to the new theme park that had just opened in the city.
"I heard that they have this roller coaster that turns you inside out and when you stop, your eyeballs explode."
Amethyst added the actions for dramatic effect making Scott laugh at Pearl who scolded Amethyst.
Once his laughter died down, his mood went back to sombre, he was thinking back to how Lapis had reacted to the news of his impending demise, no words, nothing.
'It's hard to stomach but I have to stay strong and hope to god we can find a way to defeat these gods before I become a crystal statue."
Scott's thoughts were interrupted when he heard the car horn honking and Amethyst shouting at the drivers in front of her.
"WHAT'S THE HOLD UP YOU HOOHAA'S!?"
Scott got a look outside the car window and the sight before him made him slowly get back into the car itself and sit wide eyed.
Steven noticed this before something hit the wind shield of the car, scaring the four occupants of the vehicle before they got a good look at what had been thrown at the window, it was a severed crystal head of a human, the sight causing Pearl and Amethyst to quickly jump out of the vehicle along with Scott and Steven.
Steven being the first one to snap out of his shock and say.
"Was that?..."
Scott's worst fears were confirmed, a god crystal was at work, this one, a light brown and green to represent the earth.
With one look at the head before looking up, he noticed the sights before him.
"More victims."
Pearl says before drawing her trident from her gem on her forehead and getting ready for a fight, Amethyst was the same as well as Steven.
Scott however stood back, despite the searing pain from his red crystallised right arm, the fire from it burning.
"Something is coming."
Scott says from the glowing indicator from his right arm causing the other 3 to take notice and hide with Scott in an alley just in time.
A stone golem was shambling along with its latest crystallised victim, despite Steven wanting to save the victim, Scott held him back with his left arm and shook his head before motioning for the three to follow him through the alley way.
Somewhere in Ocean City
"Slowly waking up, I must have hit you harder than I thought Lazuli."
The voice says as Lapis is indeed slowly waking up from her deep sleep after being knocked out cold by the assailant earlier on the hill over looking Ocean City.
Despite being groggy, Lapis still asks.
"Where am I?"
The hooded figure chuckles darkly before removing her hood to face Lapis, causing the water gem to look in groggy fashion before the figure spoke.
"Don't worry, you'll soon be dead Lazuli if my master has anything to say about it."
When Lapis blacks out again, the revealed figure cracks her knuckles before she started getting to work by wailing on the chained up Lapis.
Her screams are the only thing to be heard in the room.
With Scott and the Crystal Gems
Creeping slowly to avoid detection and using every distraction in the book to get to safety on the roof of a super store from the ladder outside the building.
Steven uses some binoculars and starts scouting while Amethyst speaks to Scott.
"This is freaky dude, it's like something out of that Zombie movie I watched last night."
Scott nods before looking out towards the city, trying to find some clue on where these things had come from.
What he found, he couldn't believe his eyes.
"That's impossible, my car shattered her gem."
Scott had spotted Jasper among the golems, but why weren't they attacking her, this Pearl brought up.
"God Crystals are meant to be toxic to gems, how is Jasper not inside her gem from exposure to these crystal earth golems?"
Scott didn't have an answer but he was sure going to get some answers.
Before jumping down, he says to Steven.
"Steve, you and the Crystal Gems keep lookout, if it looks like I'm in trouble, I'll give you the signal with the light that'll shine off my cell phone."
Amethyst stops him and says.
"Nope, can't let you do that, I'll be your back up."
Scott wanted to refuse but instead nodded before the two went down to street level, leaving Steven with Pearl.
Street Level
"I count eighteen of 'em Scotty, whats the plan?"
Amethyst asks Scott.
As the two are hiding behind a local convenience store, they notice the golems converging into one place before they notice Jasper walking through them unharmed, something Amethyst was first to acknowledge.
"I really don't like whatever she is doing here, something is seriously up."
Scott nods in agreement before an idea forms after looking at the vehicles and the pipe laid next to them, with a smirk, he speaks.
"Amethyst, I have an idea."
Later
"Surely you can't be serious, this will not work Scott."
"I am serious Amethyst and don't call me surely."
The two are stood on the roof of an abandoned vehicle with pipes in hand before looking towards the completely unaware golems.
"This should distract the brain deads long enough for one of us to follow Jasper and find out what she is up to."
Despite the look of dread glowing in Scott's eyes and the look of uncertainty from Amethyst, Scott lifted up his pipe and with one swing, brought it crashing down on top of the car, setting off the car alarm below them and catching the attention of the things before them.
"HEY FREAK SHOWS, COME AND GET US!"
That got the earth golems attention.
"Step 2, Amethyst, distract them."
Scott says quickly before his arm starts to burn brightly from the crystal surrounding it.
It wasn't long before Scott was fighting to find Jasper while Amethyst led the golems away from Scott.
The last thing Scott heard was Amethyst shouting.
"THIS WAY YOU BRAIN DEAD FREAKAZOIDS!"
Amethyst used her spin attack to get herself out of there quickly while the golems shambled after her, leaving Scott to continue his mission.
Inside the Building
With his crystal arm of Helios his only light source, Scott slowly made his way through the abandoned building, his goal to find Jasper pushing him onwards.
The First Room
With something telling him in the back of his head to stay frosty, Scott took cover behind the wall next to the open door.
"OK, more than likely, she has those things guarding her."
With resolve in his head, Scott burst through the door with his crystallised right hand before keeping on his toes in case Jasper appeared, so far nothing.
"Huh? No Jasper, wait, why can I hear crying?"
Scott's ears hadn't deceived him, there really was crying coming from the rooms store cupboard.
Walking slowly towards the door at the far end of the room, Scott placed an ear to the door, confirming someone was in there before kicking the door in to find Lapis, battered, bruised, bleeding and sobbing her heart out.
She had cowered against the wall when the door was kicked off it's hinges, expecting her attacker to come back and hurt her more only to see through tear streaked eyes that it was Scott, crystal right arm and all, looking her dead in the eyes with an angered and heartbroken look on his face.
"Well isn't this touching."
Scott's head shot up and with anger in his eyes before turning quickly and throwing a punch at the gem, only for it to be blocked.
"Hello human."
Jasper sneers at Scott before throwing him against the wall.
When Lapis tries to get to him, Jasper back hands her back down to the floor before picking Scott up by his head and looking him in the eyes.
"So human, do you like my master's creations, i'm sure they make you feel right at home."
Scott looked at the gem before him before throwing a punch with his weak hand, only for Jasper to act like it didn't phase her before smirking and kicking him straight in the gut and throwing him again, this time against the desk in the building.
"Soon, the Crystal God residing in you will fully take over your body and when that happens, you'll just be like the people of Ocean City, a crystal statue and a prize to my master."
Despite the blood pouring from his mouth, Scott managed to stand and sneer at Jasper.
"So you plan on doing what your precious Pink Diamond couldn't do and kill all humanity."
Scott says groggily before receiving another hook to the jaw.
"You humans should know your place and soon, the Crystal Beasts of the gods will take this pathetic planet and shape it to their perfect will."
Jasper says this with an evil laughter soon following, not noticing Scott picking up his pipe from earlier and taking a swing at Jasper.
Only instead of it connecting with Jasper's head, with sharpened reflexes, she grabs the pip mid swing, removed it from Scott's grasp and wrapped it round his temple with a huge swing, sending him flying and crashing into Lapis, causing them to fall into a heap on the floor.
As the two laid in a heap, Jasper looked on victoriously before whistling to her cronies to see to the two battered heroes.
"I'd love to wail on you some more pathetic human, but I've been ordered not to kill you and Lapis...yet..."
Once the golems appeared, Jasper pointed over to Scott and Lapis before taking her leave.
"Scotty...OH GOD SCOTTY, WAKE UP!"
Scott was unconscious and Lapis couldn't summon a barrier since there was no source of water where she was.
"I guess this is how it ends, I am going to die with my best friend...goodbye my friends."
Lapis closes her eyes and poofs into her gem, accepting her and Scott's fate.
It seemed to be all over until by some miracle, a whip with crystals inside it sliced the five golems into pieces before his saviour and two others came to Scott and Lapis' aid.
"Don't give up on me Scotty."
Scott smirked in knowing it was Amethyst and that she was OK and that she had got to Pearl and Steven in time before coming to his and Lapis' aid.
Later That Night At The Beach
Stood watching the ocean before him with thoughts running through his head.
The sight of his arm and the sudden thought of Jasper caused him to sigh in agitation, with five weeks gone since Jasper annihilated him and Lapis, he hadn't been able to sleep easily.
"If there is something I could do to defend Beach City with the Gems and Steven, I'd love to hear it right about now."
With another look to the ocean, the thoughts soon came flooding back.
"So this is where you've been hiding Scotty."
Scott cringed a little at the sound of Amethyst's voice walking towards him while she was eating a corn dog.
When she got closer and sat down next to him on the sand, the two sat in one sided silence, Scott being the silent one while Amethyst was nearly finished with her corn dog.
Despite the silence being deafening, Amethyst finished her corn dog before speaking.
"You know it wasn't your fault that happened to Lapis, you couldn't have known it was Jasper."
Scott looks up at Amethyst before laying his head on his arms.
This one moment caused Amethyst to pry Scott out of his seat and look him dead in the eyes while gripping his collar so he faced her or risk strangulation.
"This isn't you Scott, so what Jasper got the better of you, it doesn't mean you can't still fight for what's right, what happened to that guy who would stand up for what he believed in."
"I think you've got me confused for some other guy or Steven, Scott Rigby isn't home right now, please leave a message after the beep...BEE…
Slap
With reply unfinished. Scott's eyes widened from the stinging red mark on his cheek and an angry Amethyst before him, to say he had angered the defective quartz soldier was an understatement.
"STOP IT, STOP IT RIGHT NOW SCOTT RIGBY."
Scott looked Amethyst in the eye as she continued to speak.
"You lost a fight, big deal, now is just a time to regroup and come up with a better strategy now that we know Jasper has Gaia's crystal beast crystal and when we do hit her..."
Despite the angered look, Scott softened when he felt Amethyst wrap her arms around him tightly.
All anger he had in his body melted away as he hugged Amethyst back before the quartz continued where she left off.
"...We hit her where it really hurts, once she's done, we go after the big cheese."
Scott smirks in the hug before disengaging and looking out towards the horizon.
Amethyst was right, he just had to get stronger and use his disadvantage to his advantage by finding to weaponise his crystal arm.
With new resolve and not really thinking what he is doing, Scott hugs Amethyst before heading off in a sprint to begin his journey.
"SEE YA AMETHYST, THANK YOU FOR THE CONFIDENCE BOOST!"
Dark purple blush adorned on her face, Amethyst was stood statue still with eyes wide open while absent mindedly rubbing her cheek and her mouth in a goofy smile before whispering to herself.
"No prob Bob."