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". . . All organic life?" Steven asked, staring up at the towering injector before him in disbelief.

Peridot nodded and looked away from her screens and over to Steven. "Yeah, like the animals, the plants, the insects. You know," Peridot looked back over to her screens and shrugged. "People."

Steven felt his breath get cought in his throat. "Oh no. . ." He turned towards the rest of Beack City and frowned, his eyes wide and filled with terror. "This is what that gem meant! 'Your human half won't stand a chance against my injector.' She — she brought this thing here to kill me!" Steven concluded as he placed his hand on his chest and frowned, looking almost. . . heartbroken? Betrayed, possibly?

"And now — now it's gonna kill everything else on Earth, too?!" Steven looked back over to the gems, a look of desperation in his eyes. "I've gotta do something!"

Steven clenched his fists and ran past the gems, towards the injectors drill. The gems' eyes all went wide and Bismuth took a step forward and reached her arm out to the hybrid teen, trying to stop him. "No, Steven, WAIT!" She called out to him along with Peridot, but their cries and pleads had all gone deaf to his ears.

Bismuth frowned, concerned, and rolled her hands into fists as Amethyst took a worried step forward. "Steven!" Bismuth called out again, followed by Amethyst. "Careful!" The purple gem said.

"What is that clod thinking?!" Peridot said through clenched teeth, frustrated yet also worried for Steven's well-being.

"Yeah! Lift with your legs!" Spinel encouraged, earning a few looks from the other gems, but she once again didn't seem to notice.

Steven wrapped his arms around the drill and dug his feet into the ground. With clenched teeth, he began to pull the drill out of the ground slowly (unaware of the impressed (E/c) eyes watching him, mind you), and it didn't take long for beads of sweat to form on his forehead.

Unknowing the the gem-diamond-hybrid, however, his gem had once again began to freak out. One second it was glowing, and then the next, its glow was gone. The process kept repeating for a while, until Steven's hands finally gave in and lost their grip on the drill; causing the metal machine to fall back into the ground, and making the Earth shake beneath Steven's feet.

The gems all began to tumble over, crying out in surprise as Steven fell backwards and landed on his back on the cracked floor of the Earth. The teenager grunted and opened his eyes slowly, his vision blurry. When he opened his eyes, however, he immediately noticed the pink, acid like substance falling towards him.

Quickly, Steven lifted his arms up in front of his face protectively, allowing the pink poison to land on his jacket.

When Steven heard a hissing sound, though, he immediately turned on his side in pain and held his arm; feeling some sort of burning sensation against his skin.

"Agh! Argh!" Steven hissed in pain as he turned his arm over. His eyes went wide once he saw the damage the liquid had done to him. It had managed to burn its way through his jacket and get to his skin, leaving bleeding cuts and marks.

Steven panted, the tiredness he had felt from before suddenly coming back to him. The boy closed his eyes for a second, but when he opened them again, the Earth below him was beginning to split in half.

Steven's eyes widened and he gasped. He stood up and began to lose his balance as the crack below him began to grow and grow, when a pink hand suddenly came out of nowhere and grabbed him by the back of his jacket before pulling him away and back onto the much safer part of the Earth.