Crossover Nexus 2: Fusionfall

==Plot==
The epic crossover between "Stories From Steven's Future" and "Super Lakewood Plaza Turbo" is finally here!
==Transcript==
In old, busted, run down laboratory, the faint sound of keys clacking on a keyboard could be heard echoing throughout the abandoned facility.
“Come on," the one creating the noise, a damaged black and grey robot, said to himself, “this has to work... it has to.”
He continued to type on the keyboard until a message popped up. “Interdimensional transporter activated,” a feminine, computerized voice said.
“Yes,” the robot said victoriously, “now, let’s see if you found them, Dexter.”
He then typed two names into the computer: “Garnet” and “KO.”
The computer took a moment, then made a “ping” sound. “Subjects located,” the computerized voice said.
“Great,” the robot replied, “put them on screen.”
The computer complied, and displayed live video feed of the two “targets,” both were apparently training. Garnet was training with the kids, Steven, Connie, and Amethyst and Pearl. KO was training with Dendy, OK, Iclyn, Baxter, Enid, Radicles, and Arsenio.
The robot put his hand to his chin and watched the two groups train. “They look strong, don’t they, computer.”
“Indeed, TOM,” the computer replied.
“These guys might be just what we need,” the robot, now identified as TOM, observed, “let’s bring em all here.”
TOM then pressed a button on the computer console.
“Beginning dimensional transportation,” the computer said.
The video feed then cut off, and turned back on again; the two groups were now missing.
“TOM,” the computer said, “I’m afraid there has been an error.”
“What do you mean,” he asked, “what happened?"
“The transporter suffered a malfunction when bringing the heroes to our world,” the computer explained, “instead of being transported to our current location, they have been transported to two separate locations, both approximately one mile from here.”
“Oh that’s just perfect,” TOM sighed with frustration. He then grabbed a blaster, “Well, I better get to them before ‘they’ do.”
TOM then rushed out of the base as fast as he could, hoping to save the heroes before his enemies could reach them.
***
Elsewhere, in the middle of a city, a blue portal opened up, and KO’s group before disappearing.
OK picked herself up slowly. “What happened,” she asked.
“Beats me, kiddo,” Radicles said, one “minute we’re all in the bodega, then everything went white, and poof, we’re here.”
“Where is here anyway,” Arsenio asked as he looked at the ruined city, “and why does it look like the day after tomorrow was yesterday?”
KO looked around the city, everything seemed familiar to him. “Wait a minute,” KO said, “I know this place.”
“You do,” Enid said inquisitively.
“Yeah,” KO confirmed, “I’ve been here before, twenty-four years ago.”
Before anymore questions could be asked, the heroes were approached by a group of strange people.
One was a little boy in glasses and a lab coat, followed by a muscular man with a pompadour and sunglasses, a boy in a sailor outfit, a bald kid with sunglasses, a big hairy creature with horns, a little girl with big eyes and pigtails, a weasel, and some sort of cat-bear-rabbit thing with a funny hat. All of their appearances may have differed, but they all had two things in common: green, gooey skin, and glowing red eyes.
There was an uncomfortable silence between the two groups, until OK spoke up.
“Hello,” she said with a friendly wave.
The green people responded with hostile hissing, startling the heroes. They then started to slowly close in on them, like a pack of savage animals.
“Were they this hostile the last time you were here, KO,” Enid asked.
“They were turned to stone the last time I was here,” KO explained.
Everybody look at him with confused expressions. “It’s a long story,” KO explained, “I’ll tell you all about it later, but right now it looks like we’ve got a fight on our hands.”
The green people then pounced at the heroes, like a bunch of savages.
***
Meanwhile, in a forest exactly one mile away from KO’s team, another portal opened, yet again spitting out eight people before disappearing.
“Ugh,” Rose groaned as she rubbed her aching head, “I know that definitely wasn’t part of training.”
“Where are we,” Amethyst asked.
Everyone then instinctively looked at Celeste, since portals were kind of her thing.
“Hey, don’t look at me,” she said defensively, “I know usually this kinda thing is my fault, but not this time. Heck, I don’t even have my gummiporter on me right now.”
“Wait,” Vihaan interjected, “but if you didn’t bring us here, then who did?”
“That would be me,” they heard a voice say from behind the brush.
The Crystal Gems summoned their weapons and turned to the voice.
“Woah,” TOM exclaimed, “calm down, I don’t mean you any harm.”
Steven lowered his shield. “Who are you,” he asked, “and why did you bring us here?”
“Look, I know this all seems a little disorienting, but I need your help to save my world,” TOM explained, “and I figured you guys would be perfect for this since she’s already done it before.” He then pointed to Garnet, confusing the others.
“Garnet,” Connie spoke up, “what is he talking about?”
“Wait,” Garnet interjected, “you mean this is-“
“Yep,” TOM nodded, “welcome back to CN City.”
Before any further questions could be asked, the Crystal Gems and TOM heard a loud explosion about a mile away.
“What was that,” Pearl asked.
“That’s probably the other heroes I summoned,” TOM explained before running off to the explosion, “Come on! We have to help them!”
Connie turned to Steven, “Should we trust him?”
“Don’t know yet,” Steven replied, “but we shouldn’t let our guard down just in case.”
The Crystal Gems then ran after the robot.
***
The big hairy creature slammed into KO, knocking him into a wall. “Did anyone get the number of that tank,” he coughed.
“I’m kinda busy with muscles McGee over here,” Enid exclaimed as she kicked the pompadoured man, “what about you Rad?!”
Radicles flew through the air, with the little girl with pigtails close behind him. “Nope,” he responded, “and this is probably the fourth weirdest thing I’ve ever done!”
Meanwhile, the boy in the lab coat summoned a mech suit and was trying to pummel Dendy. “I would love to study this technology at some point, hopefully after the battle.”
The bald boy flew around Iclyn, avoiding every ice blast she threw at him. “Hey, has anyone seen Baxter?”
Baxter then emerged out of the mouth of the cat-bear-rabbit thing. “THIS THING’S TRYING TO EAT ME!!!”
The weasel tried to attack Arsenio, but he batted it away with his cane. “How’re you holding up, OK?”
The sailor boy tried to hit OK, but his attacks felt more like gentle pats. OK responded with a punch, knocking him down instantly. “I’m okay.”
The hairy beast charged at KO, and pinned him down to the ground. The beast then opened it’s maw as wide as possible, preparing to bite KO’s head clean off.
Before the beast could strike, a pink disc whizzed over and hit the beast in the nose, knocking it off of KO.
KO looked in the direction of the the disc’s origin and saw Steven running over to him.
“You alright,” he asked as he extended his hand to KO.
“I am now,” KO replied as he was helped back onto his feet, “I don’t know who you are, but thanks.”
“I’m Steven, Steven Universe,” The Steven responded.
The beast picked itself up again and roared at the pair.
“Look’s like these things aren’t gonna go down that easy,” KO said.
“Yeah,” Steven added, “good thing we came when we did.”
“‘We,’” KO said inquisitively.
Just then, seven more people charged into the battle. Before KO could inquire further, the beast charged at the pair, but Steven blocked his attack with his shield.
The little girl in pigtails started to close in on Rad, but before she could attack a purple gem studded whip wrapped around her and slammed her to the ground. Rad looked down and got a look at the whip’s wielder, it was Amethyst.
“`Sup,” she said with a nod.
The mech suit controlled by the boy in the lab coat slammed it’s fist into the ground, trying to crush Dendy, but she dodged it and jumped out of the way. Before it could attack again, Connie rushed in and sliced it’s arm off with her sword.
“Thank you for your assistance,” Dendy said.
“No problem,” Connie replied.
Baxter finally managed to free himself from the mouth of the cat-bear-rabbit thing.
“How was that even physically possible,” he exclaimed.
The creature tried to bite him again, but Pearl rushed in and shot a fireball directly into it’s mouth.
“Nice move,” Baxter complimented her, “but something tells me that’s only gonna make him hungrier.”
Pearl then pulled another spear out of her gem. “He’ll have to catch us first.”
The bald boy dive-bombed at Iclyn, but was met with a smack to the face from Celeste’s keyblade.
“Ooh, I like your hair,” Celeste said with stars in her eyes.
“Thanks,” Iclyn replied, “I like your... giant key?”
“Thanks,” Celeste replied cheerfully.
The muscular man continued to dodge Enid’s kicks, making noises that sounded reminiscent of Elvis, until Garnet came in and clocked him right on the jaw.
“Thank you,” Enid exclaimed tiredly, “you have no idea of how annoying that guy was.”
Garnet adjusted her visor, “I think I can imagine.”
The weasel continued to try and attack Arsenio like a rabid animal, despite the fact that he was holding him back easily with his cane.
Rose then walked over and swatted the creature away with her scythe.
Rose then rested her scythe on her shoulders. “You’re welcome,” she said, very sure of herself.
“Just so you know, I could’ve done that myself,” Arsenio explained.
Rose raised an eyebrow, her cocky smirk still intact, “Then why didn’t you?”
Arsenio stood there for a moment, silent. “I thought it was kinda funny to watch him try.”
The little sailor boy continued to attack OK with a series of ineffective, painless slaps. Vihaan walked up to the pitiful scuffle, one of his brow’s raised. He then smacked to sailor boy with one of his clackers, causing him to explode into green goop.
“That was depressingly easy,” Vihaan said.
“I don’t think he even knew how to fight,” OK added.
The others then quickly dispatched their opponents, leaving only the hairy beast. The beast growled angrily then charged at Steven and KO.
“Look out,” Garnet exclaimed. She quickly jumped in front of the pair and punched the creature so hard, it exploded.
KO stared at Garnet for a little bit, he couldn’t believe it, was it really her? “Garnet,” he said in utter disbelief.
Garnet turned around and looked at KO suspiciously, “How do you know my name?” After getting a good look, she started to recognize him. “KO,” she said as she removed her glasses, “is— is it really you?”
“Yeah,” he answered enthusiastically, “it’s me, KO.”
Garnet and KO hugged each other, laughing gleefully and confusing everyone else. They then pulled apart to get a better look at each other.
“I can’t believe it,” Garnet said as she put her hands on his shoulders, “look at you, you’re all grown up.”
“And look at you,” KO responded, “you’re… almost exactly the same.”
Garnet chuckled, “One of the perks of being a Crystal Gem I suppose.”
The pair then erupted into joyous laughter again, the others walked up to them all confused and curious.
“Garnet,” Steven said, “you know this guy?”
“And you know her,” Enid asked.
Garnet put her arm around KO’s shoulder, “Guys, this is KO, he’s an old friend of mine.”
“And this is Garnet,” KO said to his group, “she and I teamed up to take down a really powerful villain a long time ago.”
“And that’s kinda why you’re here,” TOM said as he stepped forward.
“Now who’s this guy,” Iclyn asked.
“My name is TOM,” he explained, “I’m kinda the one who summoned you here.”
“WHAT,” Radicles exclaimed, “WHY?!”
“I’ll explain everything, but first we need to get to safety,” TOM said as he cocked his blaster, “more are probably on their way.”
Before anyone could ask any further questions, the heroes heard a low rumbling slowly approaching them from deeper in the city.
“Yeah, let’s get out of here,” TOM said with greater urgency as he led the heroes out of the city.
***
“So let me get this straight,” Iclyn said to KO as she and the rest of the group walked through the base, “you and Garnet here were summoned to this dimension along with two other heroes and defeated a villain who took out all the heroes of this world and saved it from becoming a wasteland.”
“Yep,” KO confirmed, “that’s a pretty concise summary of what happened.”
“And you guys are a group of alien rock people who defend your Earth from various threats, both extraterrestrial and supernatural,” Baxter said, referring to the Crystal Gems.
“Well some of us are human,” Vihaan clarified, “but yeah, that’s us, The Crystal Gems.”
“And you’re from a world where everyone is either a superhero or a supervillain, and you guys defend a mini mall from an black market robot mogul,” Rose inferred.
“Uh-hu,” OK nodded enthusiastically.
“Okay,” Amethyst butted in, “now that we all know each other, I’m gonna ask the big question: why are we here?”
TOM let out a pained sigh, he didn’t want to remind himself of all the losses he’d been through lately, but he needed help.
“As KO and Garnet can tell you, this world is home to many great heroes,” TOM explained, “or at least it was.”
“What happened,” Garnet asked.
“After you guys saved us, things were peaceful, but that didn’t last too long: our world was then attacked by a planet absorbing entity called ‘Fuse,’” TOM recalled, “he would go to different worlds and terraform them, eradicating all native life and replacing them with his own evil duplicates. We managed to defeat him, or at least we thought we did.”
“What do you mean,” Connie asked.
“A couple of months after Fuse was defeated, heroes started to disappear, and Fuse duplicates appeared in their places, turns out Fuse wasn’t as dead as we thought,” TOM continued, “as we searched for the source, more and more of us were replaced and our numbers were absolutely demolished. By the time we found where they were coming from, our forces were demolished, so what was left of our best and brightest came up with a new plan: we were gonna build an inter-dimensional transporter and bring back the heroes who stopped Strike.”
“Okay, but what about Raven and Ben,” KO asked,
“Well, we saw them in action in their native realities,” TOM said disappointedly, “we weren’t impressed.”
“Yeah, they did seem a little lackluster as heroes,” Garnet said.
“Anyway,” TOM said, bringing the conversation back to his story, “just as we were about to use it, our initial base was attacked by Fuse’s duplicates. We tried to fight back, but there were too many of them, they destroyed the transporter and captured everyone but me.
TOM paused for a moment, he couldn’t help but blame himself for the loss of his allies. “It took me a while, but I managed to rebuild the transporter and I brought you guys here.” He then turned to face the heroes, “I know this is a lot to ask, but please, help me save my world.”
The two groups of heroes fell silent, this wasn’t either of their worlds, it shouldn’t have been their concern, but they couldn’t just leave them. After all what kind of heroes would they be if they let this world fall to ruins.
KO stepped forward, “Alright, we’ll help you.”
Steven followed suit, “Us too, but if this is as dangerous as you say, then we should probably return our kids to our worlds.”
“Oh, come on, dad” Rose bellowed, “we want to save another world too! Besides…” She then picked up OK and held her up like baboon holding a newborn lion cub, “wook at her wittle face.”
OK then made the most adorable smile with the widest eyes, accompanied by a small giggle. “How can you say no to that,” Rose asked.
“Actually,” TOM cut in, “I don’t think I can send them back yet.”
“Say what now,” Amethyst asked.
“The new transporter isn’t exactly as ‘energy efficient’ as the original,” TOM explained, “it needs to recharge for a while.”
“For how long, exactly,” Connie asked.
TOM then pulled up the transporter’s current status on the computer monitor. “Well, at it’s current rate, it’ll probably take at least three days.”
“THREE DAYS,” all the parents exclaimed in shock.
“Well if we had the original creators of the transporter, they could fix it in no time,” TOM explained, “but they were captured, so I guess the only choices we have are either to wait three days and risk getting captured, or to rescue my friends and get the transporter fixed.”
“Wait, we may not have to wait for it to recharge,” Steven said before turning to his niece, “Celeste, do you have your gummiporter on you.”
“Gummiporter,” Baxter asked confusedly.
“It’s a personal, handheld inter-dimensional transportation device,” Vihaan explained.
Celeste shook her head, “No, it’s recharging in my room, along with my gummiphone.”
Steven pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed in frustration, “Guess that rules out calling Star and Marco to pick you kids up.”
“And statistically speaking,” Dendy butted in, “they would safer with us than they would be here alone, given the likely possibility that Fuse’s numerous minions could find this base while searching for us, not to mention the fact that we would have a better chance of succeeding with their assistance.”
Steven crossed his arms in disagreement, he may be okay with letting his kids go on missions with him and the gems, but this was a dangerous situation in an unfamiliar world, how could he protect them? He didn’t want to risk it. Connie then placed her hand on his shoulder, getting his attention.
“We don’t have a choice, Steven,” she said.
Steven finally relented, “Fine, but they need to stay close by us.”
“So now that that’s settled,” Enid said as she turned to TOM, “what’s the plan.”
TOM then pressed a button on the computer console and brought up a map of the surrounding area. “Before everyone else was captured, we sent out multiple spy drones to find Fuse’s base.”
A large red dot then appeared on the map, just outside of the city, “According to their data, his base is right here.”
He then clicked on the dot and higher resolution picture of Fuse’s base; a giant, pulsating, cocoon-like structure, comprised of a mixture of coagulated green goo and wood.
***
Both groups of heroes gagged at the sight of it. “It’s like giant booger,” Rose said, trying to keep herself from throwing up.
“According to the surveillance footage, it only has one security measure,” TOM said before double clicking the image, causing it to zoom out, “a moat…”
A bunch of monsters then popped out of the moat, “filled with some of his lesser monsters.”
Despite TOM’s description there was nothing “lesser” about these beasts, they were all monstrous; Dinosaurs made of scrap metal and goop, robotic cerberus living filing cabinets, and tiny droplets of Fuse goop with mean faces… okay, not all of them were menacing.
“If we can cross that, it’ll be a straight shot inside,” TOM elaborated as he pressed another button on the console, causing the image to change to infrared. “Apparently, the entire base is one big cocoon, and the inside is lined with all the heroes Fuse captured.”
“You mean he killed them,” Pearl exclaimed.
“No, they’re still alive,” TOM explained, “they’re probably just stuck to the walls or something.” TOM then shut the computer down, “After we get in there, we hit Fuse with everything we’ve got, no holding back. Everyone got that?”
The Crystal Gems and Lakewood heroes nodded in agreement. “Good,” TOM said, “let’s go.”
The heroes then left the base and began their trek to Fuse’s lair.
***
“Here we are,” TOM said as he and the other heroes stood before the monster-filled moat, “I guess the only question worth asking now is ‘How are we gonna get across?’”
“Rad, Enid, and I can fly everyone over, but it’ll probably take a couple of trips,” KO suggested
“Don’t worry, dude, I got this,” Amethyst said as she shapeshifted into a helicopter.
“Woah,” the Lakewood heroes exclaimed.
“Hop in, everyone,” Amethyst said confidently.
The kids and Crystal gems all filed into the “Amethyst-copter.” “You guys comin’ too,” Amethyst asked the Lakewood adults.
“I think we’re fine,” Enid said, “but thanks for the offer.” Enid then grew giant bat wings on her back and took to the skies. Rad and KO flew after her, with Amethyst and the others following them over the chasm.
After landing, KO walked up to Garnet, “Hey, Garnet, does any of this seem familiar to you too?”
Garnet put her hand to her chin and pondered for a moment. “Now that you mention it, isn’t this where strike’s fortress was?”
“Yeah,” KO said, “and he had a moat filled with his monsters too.”
“Something fishy is going on here,” Garnet remarked.
The group stood before the giant cocoon, ready for battle. But before they could slice it open, Vihaan spotted a shadow approaching them from around the corner.
“Hey guys,” he said, “we’ve got company.”
Everyone turned, saw the approaching danger, and got into offensive stances.
“I thought you said the moat was the only security measure this thing had,” Enid shouted at TOM.
“I only knew about what the drones saw,” TOM defended himself, “they didn’t see any guards!”
As the shadow got closer and closer to them, the heroes could feel a growing sense of anxiety among themselves. What monster would be strong enough to guard the entire cocoon on it’s own? Their questions were answered when the shadow’s owner walked into their line of sight, revealing itself to be… a tiny dog.
The heroes all sighed with relief, except for Baxter, he just hissed at it. “Phew, it’s just Courage,” TOM sighed.
“Seems kinda weird that the only guard is this little dog,” Connie observed.
TOM thought it was weird too: Courage wasn’t known for strength or combat abilities, he was famous for his contradictory name and his ability to… oh no. The Courage clone then took in a deep breath.
“EVERYONE, COVER YOUR EARS,” TOM shouted.
The heroes quickly did as he said and covered their ears, except for Garnet, Pearl, and Amethyst, since they didn’t have ears to begin with.
The clone then let out a long, deafening, glass shattering, massively loud scream that could be heard for miles upon miles, it even shattered Garnet’s visor. Covering their ears did little good, as it was still agonizingly loud to both the Crystal Gems and Lakewood heroes. Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl covered where there ears would’ve been, probably good that they didn’t have eardrums.
Courage clone finally ran out of breath and stopped screaming.
“Other than causing us to suffer from acute loss of hearing, does this creature possess any other abilities or skills that would make it an obvious choice for the guardian of Fuse’s lair,” Dendy asked, her ears still ringing.
“That’s the thing, he isn’t the guard,” TOM explained, “he’s the alarm.”
Suddenly, an army of Fuse’s minions, the Fuse Clones emerged from the cocoon. Each with the powers and abilities of the heroes they resembled.
“All right everyone,” Garnet said as she reformed her sunglasses, “looks like we’ve got the fight of our lives on our hands.” The Lakewood Heroes got into battle stances while the Crystal Gems brought out their weapons, “I’d say we have a quota of fifty clones each.”
“HA,” Rad guffawed, “I’ll take out fifty-one!”
“That’s the spirit,” KO exclaimed.
The heroes then charged into battle against the nefarious clones. Steven started by one-shoting a clone of a big headed old man with a propeller beanie and a fanny pack. “Huh, déjà vu.” He was then blindsided by a flying monkey in a costume. It pinned him down and was about to punch him, but KO fired a power fist, knocking the monkey off of Steven.
“Thanks for getting the monkey off my back,” Steven said as KO helped him back to his feet.
“No problem,” KO said, “helping people is what we’re supposed to do, right?”
Two little girls, one with a bow and one with short hair, fired lasers from their eyes at Connie, but she reflected the blasts with her blade and took the two clones out.
“How ya doin’ over there, Dendy,” she called out.
A baboon wearing a t-shirt with the letters “I” and “R” written on it then lunged at her, but Dendy grabbed it by it’s tail, electrocuted it, and then threw it into a crowd of clones, electrifying them all.
“I think I am doing exceptionally well, Connie,” Dendy said with in a cocksure tone, “but I would recommend that you watch your own back.”
Iclyn found herself being swarmed by a a young man with reptilian skin and features. He took a couple of swings at her, but she countered by freezing his arm and shattering it, a feat that would be more terrifying if it wasn’t an evil clone comprised of sentient goo.
The clone then blasted it’s fire breath at her, which she countered with blasts of ice. “Ya know,” she said as she kept his fire at bay with her ice, “you kinda remind me of a self absorbed hothead from my world.”
The clone said nothing, he just continued breathing fire at her.
“WATERGA,” Celeste exclaimed as she shot a blast of water at the fire breathing clone from her keyblade.
The water covered the clone, dousing it’s fire and making all the easier for Iclyn to freeze it. She then made a sledgehammer out of ice as she and Celeste approached the frozen, fire-breathing duplicate.
“Gotta say, these things don’t talk much,” Celeste said.
“Yeah,” Iclyn agreed, “and the banter’s usually half the fun.”
The pair then smashed the frozen clone to shards.
A bear with a brain in a jar on top of it’s head lunged at Pearl, but she leapt out of the way and Baxter scratched it’s face. Pearl then shoved her trident through it’s chest, causing it to explode back into goo.
“This world is so strange,” Pearl observed, “why would a bear be wearing a bow tie?”
“That’s what stuck out to you,” Baxter said, “what about the fact that it had some dude’s brains and stomach in jars on it’s body?”
Garnet and Enid stood against a clone of a young man with goggles and a jacket.
“What do you think this guy does,” Enid asked.
The clone then grew giant mechanical hands.
“That, it does that,” Garnet before she and Enid jumped out of the way of the clone’s attack.
A monkey in a t-shirt and a cap jumped at Radicles, but he blasted it with his arm cannon, while Amethyst destroyed a clone of a gorilla in suspenders with her whip.
“What is up with this place and monkeys,” Amethyst said.
“I know, right,” Radicles agreed.
Arsenio grappled a clone of a boy with flame-like hair and a shirt with a radiation symbol on it with his grapple cane and threw him at Vihaan. Vihaan quickly turned his hand into metal and shoved his fist through the clone’s chest, destroying it.
“Huh, that’s odd,” Vihaan said as he cleaned goop off his glove.
“What is it,” Arsenio asked.
“I just felt a disturbance,” Vihaan explained, “like thousands of voices just cried out in anguish, and then sighed with relief.”
OK hit a clone of a skeleton in a robe with an uppercut, launching it into the air. Rose added to the attack by slicing it in half with her scythe.
“Did we just destroy the grim reaper,” OK asked.
“Yeah,” TOM said as he unloaded more rounds into the mob of clones, “but he’s not so bad when you get to know him.”
Before Rose could come up with a smart-mouthed remark, another clone landed in front of them. It was some sort of bear like creature with a long nose, plump human lips, squinty eyes, and no ears.
“ALFAAAAAEEEEE,” it roared at them.
Rose and OK shrieked at the sight of the beast. “OH GOSH! OH GOSH! OH GOSH,” Rose screamed frequently as she frantically snatched the blaster out of TOM’s hands and shot the clone rapidly in the chest. The clone fell to the ground with a thud and then turned back into goo.
“You… can’t hurt… anyone… anymore,” Rose said shakenly.
Steven and KO punched a clone of what appeared to be a rock monster in an apron, knocking it into a few more clones.
“Is it me, or does it feel like we’re not making any progress here,” Steven asked.
“Yeah,” KO said as he punched a clone of a cow in a superhero outfit, “I’m pretty sure this is the fifth time I destroyed this clone.”
“Fuse must be making new clones the moment the old ones are destroyed,” TOM theorized as he blasted more clones.
“Then I guess we just have to kick their butts faster,” Rose said as she smacked a clone of young man with long dark hair.
Two more clones approached it; one of some sort of robot with a clear body, and another of a teenage girl with bright hair. The three clones then merged together into some sort of giant robot.
“OH CRAP,” TOM exclaimed, “I completely forgot about Titan!”
The Titan clone then lifted up it’s foot, it was about to stomp Rose in the dirt. Rose was about to get out of it’s range, but two clones, one of a boy with a unibrow in a jacket and another of a teenage girl with a streak in her hair, grabbed her arms and held her in place.
Seeing the danger, OK quickly charged over to Rose and destroyed the clones.
“Thanks,” Rose said.
Before OK could even respond, the Titan clone brought it’s foot down on both of them.
“ROSE,” the Crystal Gems shrieked.
“OK,” the Lakewood heroes wailed.
The Titan clone’s foot started to rise up from the ground; there was someone under it, lifting it with their bare hands. The person pushed the foot off of them and made the Titan clone fall back onto Fuse’s base, putting a huge gash in it.
Steven and KO mowed through countless clones to get to their daughters. They were surprised to find someone else’s standing in place of Rose and OK. She had long pink hair with brown splotches, a light red star shirt and a cape like Rose, and a red headband and gloves like OK.
“That… was way too close,” they huffed.
Steven just stood there, his jaw practically on the floor and his eyes bulging out of his head.
KO ran over to the mysterious woman, worried sick about OK. “Where’s my daughter,” he asked fearfully.
The mysterious woman raised an eyebrow at him. “What’re you talking about, I’m right here, dad.”
She then took notice of her voice. “What happened to my voice,” she said. She then looked down and noticed the rest of her body, “what happened to the rest of me?!”
“Wait a minute,” Steven said as he approached the new woman, “Rose, are you in there too?”
“Yeah,” she replied. “Wait, who said that,” she said in a different tone of voice.
“I know what happened here,” Steven said, “our daughters fused.”
“WHAT,” KO and the new fusion exclaimed.
“Gems are capable of fusing with each other, but thanks to me being half human, I’m able to fuse with both gems and humans,” Steven explained, “and since Rose also has gem DNA, that means she’s also capable of fusion.”
“I’m a fusion,” the fusion of Rose and OK exclaimed in shock and awe, “I need a cool name.”
While the fusion thought about what her name should be, KO was still freaking out. “Why are you so calm about this,” he asked Steven frantically, “how do they unfuse?”
“Fusion’s a natural part of gem life, it’s not anything to be worried,” Steven told KO calmly, “besides, they can unfuse whenever they want.”
“Aha,” the fusion exclaimed in revelation, “I’m ROK!”
Before anything else could be said, a clone of some fuzzy, lumpy creature jumped at ROK, but she countered with a fist through it’s chest, destroying it.
ROK stared at her fist. “Wow, I’m a lot stronger,” the OK side of ROK said.
“Yeah, that’s what fusion does,” the Rose side of ROK replied.
ROK then smirked at the other clones and cracked her knuckles. “Alright, snot stains, who’s next?”
All the clones just stood there, inactive, like statues.even the ones engaged in battle with the others stopped dead in their tracks.
“What, you guys scared or something,” ROK asked.
“No,” a voice said, “they stopped because I commanded them to.”
Everyone looked up to see a man with purple skin in a black and red jumpsuit floating above them, he had a cloak concealing the left side of his body.
“Is that…”TOM started to say.
“It can’t be…” Garnet denied.
“Strike,” KO exclaimed.
The others quickly joined with Steven, KO, ROK, and TOM.
“So is that the guy who you fought to save this place,” ROK asked.
“Yeah,” KO confirmed, “what happened, Strike, I thought we defeated you.”
Strike chuckled, “Oh, you did, but as they say…” He then removed the cloak, revealing that his left arm and the left side of his face were covered in fuse matter. “Things change.”
The heroes all gasped and gagged at the sight of his arm.
“What happened to you,” Garnet asked, “is Fuse controlling you?”
Strike laughed maniacally, “I’m not being controlled by Fuse, I’m controlling him!”
“WHAT,” everyone exclaimed.
“Allow me to explain,” Strike said, “after you defeated me, I was bruised, beaten, and left to wander the outskirts of the city alone. But then, Fuse invaded; and I watched as he put this world in even greater danger than I ever did. I was fascinated by it, so I took a few samples and studied them. Fuse’s spores could absorb native specimens and duplicate them, so I began working on a way to harness the samples I saved, and it’s a good thing I saved them too, otherwise Fuse would’ve been wiped out completely. I created a brand new arm with Fuse spores in it and began my new plan: Replace every hero with my cloned minions and then use the portal technology to take over the multiverse.”
Strike laughed at his maniacal machinations. The heroes knew they had to stop him then and there, otherwise the multiverse would fall to his rule.
“You’re gonna have to get through us first,” ROK taunted.
Strike chortled, “That can be arranged.” Then, faster than anyone could even see, Strike flew down and kicked her twenty feet away.
Steven and KO lunged at Strike. “DON’T TOUCH MY DAUGHTER,” they both roared.
Strike grabbed them both, banged their heads together, then threw them away like trash.
The others quickly piled onto Strike and started hitting him, but he threw them all off like they were nothing.
“You fools,” he laughed triumphantly, “the more heroes we have captured, the more powerful I am, and right now, none of you could ever dream of stopping us!”
“Hey,” ROK shouted from far away.
Strike turned to look at her, only to be met with a knee to the face.
“That was a cheap shot,” ROK said as she got into a fighting stance, “let’s see you try something like that when I’m ready.”
Strike wiped the blood away from his nose and looked at it, it was green. “So be it,” he said as he narrowed his eyes at the fusion.
Strike flew at ROK and punched her, but she blocked it and countered with a kick to his stomach.
ROK and Strike then both unleashed a flurry of blows at each other. Steven and KO picked themselves up and looked on as the pair fought. ROK was holding her own, but for how long? She was gonna get tired eventually, and at her current rate, it would happen sooner rather than later. And Strike was drawing power from an army of heroes, he could do this forever.
“There has to be some way we can stop him,” Steven said as he and KO picked themselves up.
“But how,” KO asked, “he’s using the heroes of this world like batteries, we’d need a pretty significant power boost to stand a chance against him.” That’s when he got an idea.
“Hey,” KO said as he turned to Steven, “you said you can fuse with both gems and humans, right?”
“Yeah,” Steven said in confusion, “what about it?”
The dots started to connect in Steven’s head, and he figured out what KO was planning. “Oh, I see what you’re thinking,” he said with a smirk.
Steven then extended his fist out to KO. KO was about to do the same, but hesitated for a second. “Is this gonna hurt,” he asked.
“Not if we do it correctly,” Steven reassured him.
KO, still a little unsure, extended his fist out to Steven’s, and as they touched, both of their bodies turned into light.
***
ROK and Strike where still going at it, each punch was either dodged or blocked. ROK was strong, but she wasn’t invulnerable, she was starting to get tired, and Strike noticed.
He charged up his next punch with red and green energy and punched her so hard she unfused. Rose and OK fell to the ground, and Strike stood over them.
He charged his fist with energy again, “Say goodbye, kids.”
Strike’s attempt at filicide was then interrupted when a huge pillar of light erupted a couple of feet away from them.
The three stared at it, confused as to what had happened to create such a phenomenon. A figure then leapt out of the light and kicked Strike square in the face.
They were a tall, muscular man, with hair styled like KO’s, but it was curly like Steven’s. He wore what looked like Steven’s trench coat with the sleeves torn off, and KO’s headband, gloves, and leg warmers.
“Sorry, but you were wide open,” he said in a cocky tone.
“Who’re you supposed to be,” Strike growled.
“Who am I, you ask,” the new combatant said as he crossed his arms, “I’m the fusion of Steven and KO, so I guess that makes me StevKO!”
“STEVKO,” Rose, OK, and Strike exclaimed in shock.
“Are you kidding me,” Strike roared, “I just beat the snot out of one fusion, what makes you think you’re any different?!”
“Simple,” StevKO said. Then, in the blink of an eye, he punched Strike square in the stomach, “The heroes always win.”
Strike quickly jumped back and pointed at the fusion with his Fuse hand, “Attack, my minions!”
The army of fuse clones did as they were commanded and jumped onto StevKO, burying him. A blast of blue and pink energy then erupted from the pile, destroying all the clones.
StevKO popped his knuckle, “Ya done letting others fight your battles for you yet?”
Frustrated, Strike charged at StevKO, only to be met with an uppercut to the chin, launching him into the air.
StevKO looked back to Rose and OK, “You two go find the others, and stay safe.”
Rose and OK nodded and quickly ran to the others. StevKO then flew into the air after Strike, to continue their battle.
Strike regained control and flew towards StevKO at breakneck speed. The two clashed, creating a shockwave that rippled throughout the land. The two exchanged blows, but Strike was never able to successfully land a single hit. StevKO blocked and dodged every hit effortlessly, like it was nothing.
Strike was getting even more frustrated, it was like StevKO wasn’t even trying, and he was still winning. He finally managed to land a punch on StevKO, knocking him to the ground.
Strike laughed confidently, but as the dust cleared, he saw StevKO standing there, without a single scratch.
Strike growled as he charged up and fired a blast of red and green energy at the fusion.
StevKO looked up at the blast and made a smug smile, there was no fear in his eyes. He then leapt straight into the beam, flew through it to Strike, popped out and clocked him across the jaw.
Strike rubbed his jaw in pain. “Okay, first of all: WHAT?!! Second: THE HECK?!!”
“What’s the matter,” StevKO taunted, “getting tired already?”
“This doesn’t make any sense,” Strike roared, “I have the power of all of this word’s heroes, and your just a fusion of two middle-aged men, how are you so strong?!!”
StevKO crossed his arms. “First off: Middle-aged, seriously? Second: Steven and KO are two of the strongest heroes in their respective worlds, not to mention fusing into me didn’t just combine their powers, it multiplied them exponentially.”
“But that’s not fair,” Strike roared.
“This coming from the guy who’s relying on an alien blob and the power of every hero in this world,” StevKO said with a raised brow.
Strike growled even more, but as he did, the Fuse-matter on his arm began to bubble. Strike noticed and quickly grabbed his wrist. “What are you doing,” he whispered frustratedly.
The Fuse-matter on his arm then started to spread across the rest of his body and grow. “WHAT?! NO?!,” he exclaimed in shock, “I’m in charge here, not you!!!”
The Fuse-matter continued to grow, and completely enveloped Strike.
StevKO crossed his arms as he watched the scene unfurl. “Huh, I suddenly have the strange urge to yell ‘Tetsuo’ at the top of my lungs.”
The Fuse-matter then formed into a green giant with wooden musculature, a wooden face, and three horns. “I! AM! FUSE!!!”
“So? You want a medal or something,” SteveKO remarked snidely.
Lord Fuse growled, “You make your jokes while you can, insect! You too shall fall to my power!”
“You are just the worst kind of generic, aren’t you,” StevKO said, still unimpressed. “Let me guess: After you defeat me, you’re gonna take over the multiverse?”
“YES,” Fuse roared.
“Exactly,” StevKO remarked, “the only thing that could make you even more generic would be if you had an evil laugh or some sort of cat to stroke.”
“SILENCE,” Fuse roared as he attempted to punch StevKO.
StevKO countered by blowing up Fuse’s hand with a pink and blue power fist, Fuse screamed in agony.
StevKO followed up by firing a rapid volley of blue and pink power fists at Fuse, forcing him to step back. ‘Now’s my chance,’ he thought to himself. He quickly rocketed right through Fuse’s chest, bringing Strike with him.
The fusion then turned around and shot another power first at Fuse, knocking him flat on his face.
StevKO set Strike down and turned around to face Fuse.
Fuse picked himself and glared at StevKO. “ENOUGH,” he roared as he flew into the sky, “I AM ENDING THIS INSIGNIFICANT FARCE! RIGHT HERE! RIGHT NOW!!!”
Fuse raise his hand and charged up a massive ball of energy, “I WILL DESTROY YOU AND THIS WORLD!!!”
As Fuse charged his attack, StevKO stood there, motionless, his expression was dead serious. He charged up pink energy in his left fist, and pink energy in his right.
Fuse then hurled the blast at StevKO. SteveKO thrusted both of his fists forward, unleashing a massive blue and pink power fist.
The two attacks clashed and a titanic beam struggle commenced. It looked like Fuse had the upper hand, his blast was getting closer and closer to the ground. StevKO was giving it everything he had, but it still wasn’t enough, what else could he do?
That’s when he had a brilliant idea. He quickly activated Diamond mode and felt a huge surge of power. He channeled all that energy into his attack and repelled Fuse’s blast.
“NOOOOO,” Fuse roared as he was caught up in the Super Power Fist and pushed into space.
Everything started to get could and dark, until it suddenly started to get brighter and warmer. It got warmer and brighter the farther he traveled and he had no idea why. He then realized that he was being pushed directly into the sun. Fuse struggled to escape, but there wasn’t anything he could do, he was trapped.
Fuse and the beam finally collided with the sun, disintegrating him completely.
***
StevKO looked to the skies, Fuse was finally defeated. The Crystal Gems and Lakewood Heroes ran over to him.
“Is it over,” Rose asked.
StevKO nodded, and then unfused.
“Man,” KO said, “that was… interesting.”
“You get used to it,” Steven said casually.
Behind them, Fuse’s base began to collapse, almost as if it were melting.
“What’s happening,” OK asked.
“I guess without Fuse, everything’s falling apart,” TOM theorized.
The heroes walked over to the base, seeing that it was nothing more than a giant pile of goo now. Something started to move underneath the gelatinous green substance. A boy in a lab coat with red hair and glasses popped out of the goo with a gasp.
“What happened,” the boy asked in a thick Austrian accent.
More heroes started to pop up out of the goo, all undamaged and slightly disoriented.
“Don’t think this is over,” everyone heard a voice call out to them. They turned around to see Strike shambling towards them. “You may have saved me, and defeated Fuse, but that means nothing to me! I will find a new way to get stronger, and when I do, I will—”
Strike then fell face-down into the dirt, revealing that Dendy had snuck up behind him somehow. “He was getting on my nerves,” she said while holding a glowing ball in her hand.
“What did you do to him,” Arsenio asked.
“Oh I simply removed his soul from his body via his posterior,” Dendy explained.
“You can do that,” Rose asked nervously.
“Of course,” Dendy confirmed, “all kappas can.”
The other heroes then covered their butts, except for KO, he just sighed lovingly. “I love that woman.”
***
A grand ceremony was held in the center of the city, to thank the Crystal Gems and Lakewood Heroes’ for saving the world. They stood on a stage, overlooking a crowd of the people they saved while robots fixed the city around them.
“It is my great honor to formally thank these brave heroes for defeating Fuse, and Strike,” the little boy in the lab coat, now identified as Dexter, said into a microphone. “If it was not for their actions, our world would still be in ruins.”
As Dexter went on with his speech, the Crystal Gems and Lakewood heroes conversed softly.
“I still can’t believe we can fuse,” Rose said to Vihaan.
“Uh… yeah,” he replied nervously.
“You hesitated for a second,” Rose observed, “what are you hiding?”
“Nothing,” he said quickly, “I just… I… uhh…”
Before Rose could grill him any further, UFOs appeared in the sky.
“OH NO,” an orange monkey in a scout uniform screamed from the crowd, “it’s the aliens who tried to steal all our cheese!!!”
The crowd then erupted in a panic. The Crystal Gems and Lakewood Heroes watched the panicking crowd, then looked up at the UFOs.
“Well, this is happening apparently,” Steven said before turning to KO, “what do you say; wanna team up one more time?”
KO cracked a cocky smile, “Sure, if you think you can keep up.”
The pair of patriarchs then looked back at their teams, they were all ready for battle.
“Let’s do this,” Steven and KO exclaimed as they led their teams into battle against the dairy craving extra terrestrials.
OK, Iclyn, and Baxter were all in the bodega, and they were bored out of their minds. There were no customers, no robots attacking, not even a random villain going on a rampage. There was nothing to do, and it was killing them.
“Ya know,” Iclyn said as she slouched at the checkout counter, “the bad thing about saving another world is that everything else seems really boring after.”
“Yeah,” Baxter agreed, “going back to the daily grind after some big event kinda sucks the fun out of these quiet moments.”
OK sighed, “I wish something interesting would happen.”
Just as she said that, a portal to another reality opened in the bodega. The three heroes in training, seeing something that would hopefully alleviate their boredom, leapt into action and ran to the portal, ready to fight whatever came out.
Three familiar faces then stepped out of the rift; it was Rose, Vihaan, and Celeste.
“Hey, guys,” Rose greeted.
“Rose, Vihaan, Celeste,” OK exclaimed as she ran over and hugged the trio.
“What’re you doing here,” Baxter asked, pleasantly surprised.
“Well we had a lot of fun hanging with you guys,” Celeste explained, “so we were wondering if you’d like to do it again?”
“Without evil alien snot rockets, of course,” Rose added.
The bodegamen all looked at each other and smiled.
“We’d love to go with you,” OK said, “but we’ve got to work right now.”
“We figured as much,” Celeste said as she reached back into the portal and pulled out three gift boxes, “that’s why we got you these.” She then handed the gifts to the bodega employees.
The trainee heroes opened their boxes, seeing two devices in each of them; a smart phone and some other device.
“Thanks, but what are these things,” Baxter asked.
“Gummiporters and Gummiphones,” Vihaan explained, “the gummiphones allow you to call us, no matter what world we’re in, and the gummiporters allow you to open portals to other worlds.”
“This way we can all keep in touch,” Rose said.
“Wow,” Iclyn said, “thanks guys.”
“Well, I guess we’ll be letting you get back to work now,” Celeste said as she, Rose, and Vihaan walked back towards their portal.
“Actually, things are kinda slow around here right now,” OK said, “maybe you could stay and hang out with us for a while.”
The Crystal Gem trainees looked at each other and smiled, then turned back to the heroes-in-training as the portal vanished.
“Sure,” Rose answered, “you have anything in mind?”
OK chuckled, “I think I have an idea.”
The six young heroes then followed OK to the POW Card machine in the back of the store, to get POW Cards made of themselves.
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