[tends to a tiny Centipeedle] Uhh, hi. Ah, it's okay. Look, please don't be scared of me. See? I'm not gonna hurt you. Yeah, just relax. [the Centipeetle soon relaxes itself] Yeah, that's it. Doesn't relaxing feel nice? You wanna... come over here and relax with me? [it growls] Yeah, we can totally just hang out right here on the floor. [it walks slowly forward] Yeah, don't be shy. We can be friends. My name's Steve—
STEVEN!! Get away from that thing!! [Garnet jumps]
Wait! It's not— [Garnet lands down in front of the Centipeedle; Pearl lands to Steven]
This was a terrible idea! And he's even managed to pop a bubble and let out that awful... thing!
[Garnet clutches her sparkling left gauntlet at the Centipeedle, which starts backing away from her]
If that thing hurt you, so help me I'll—
No! It didn't do anything! [runs and blocks Garnet] Garnet! Don't hurt it! I accidentally let it out of its bubble, but it didn't even try to hurt me. It's not like the other monsters, it's just scared and confused. [Amethyst jumps down] Please, Garnet! I'm begging you!
[Garnet stares face-to-face with Steven for a beat]
GarnetI can't say no to that face.
Excuse me?! You can't be serious!
Garnet
I think you should try and tame it, Steven. [Steven runs to Garnet and hugs her left leg]
Garnet, thank you sooo much!
Hmm... [Amethyst starts laughing]
Shut down by the G-squad! Ha ha ha ha!!
Well, let's at least take some precaution.
So, what's the problem? Amethyst falls on stuff all the time.
It'd be fine if it was just her body, but her gem is damaged.
So, what do you do to fix it?
Before... we had Rose... [Garnet walks to Steven]
Garnet
Steven, your mother had healing tears that flowed from her gem. She felt real love for those around her, and she felt real sorrow when they were hurt. You have the Rose Quartz gem now. I know that power is in you too. [Steven comes to googly-eyed purple eggplant girl who is sassy and lazy and eats salsa all day]
AMETHYST, SHOW ME YOUR GEM!!!
[vines wrap around Steven, leaps out in a burst of roses. Cut back to Steven straining in front of Amethyst]
It's not working! I guess I'm just too tough to cry.
Just today, you were crying about snakes.
They don't have any arms!
Garnet
We have no choice. We need to take Amethyst to Rose's Healing Spring.
Pssh! Guys, I'm fine! I'm not gonna get any wor-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r... [pop, speaks backwards] ...hcaeb eht no gniod uoy era tahw syug yeh?
Did you see what I did? It was magic! My tears brought the fountain back to life and saved Amethyst!
..I'm pretty sure me and Garnet unplugging the clogged chamber brought the fountain back to life.
Garnet
We saved Amethyst.
[beat] You don't think my crying was... a little related to that?
Oh, Steven. You don't have healing tears. You'll never have any real magic powers, [Steven becomes horrified] and we don't want anything more to do with you.
"She didn't really say that!"
[cut back to present]
No... but that's what it felt like.
Is that why you've been so down? [he shrugs] Oh. You can have your juice back.
Nah, that's okay. [sniffles, sighs] Everyone expects me to be like my mom. What if I never get those powers?
Then you'll be like me. That's not so bad.
But... if I don't have powers, then I can't hang out with Amethyst, or Garnet, or Pearl... [starts crying, grips pants tightly] and I-I can't go on missions! [Connie touches his hand]
You don't need any powers to be here with me.
[a gust of wind blows through; Connie slurps his juice box. She leans forward to Steven and sparkles magically appear on her head]
I think... [sigh] there's just... [take glasses off] There's something wrong with my glasses. [sees Steven clearly] My... My eyes... I-I-I can see!
I can see without my glasses!
Did I... heal your eyes? But... how?
[he looks at the sparkles around the straw of the Durian juice carton; Steven gasps, Connie drops it]
The juice box! I don't have healing tears! I HAVE HEALING SPIT!!
What am I going to tell my parents? What am I going to tell my optometrist?!
I don't even know! [hugs her] Oh, thank you, Connie! Lion, let's go tell the Gems! They're never gonna believe this!
[The Gems have just learned that the mirror is being sentient towards Steven and are horrified.]
It's talking to him? It shouldn't be able to do that. I-it should just be following orders...
Garnet
Steven. [walks towards him]
MMirror
[displaying an image of Steven, Lars, Sadie laughing and using his voice] Noooo!
Garnet
You should just give us back the mirror. It will be safer where we can watch it.
MMirror
[still displaying Steven laughing] Noooo!
Garnet
Steven. Don't make me have to take it from you.
[confused] It doesn't want to go with you. Don't you hear it screaming?
Garnet
Steven, it's just a mirror, a tool. It can't want anything.
[she reaches out to take the mirror from him.]
MMirror
[now repeatedly] Noooo! Noooo! Noooo! [Steven looks at the mirror and then back at Garnet, greatly disturbed.] Noooo! Noooo! Noooo! [now displaying an image of Steven yelling] Noooo!
Ah! [places his hand over the mirror and snaps] It wants to be with me!
[he tries to smack her hand away, but accidentally hits her face instead, knocking her shades off in the process. He stiffens in shock at this. Cut to first-person view on Steven.]
[Garnet, all three eyes exposed, looks straight at Steven in anger, giving him a terrifying furious look. Cut back to Steven, who quickly glances at the hand that he had hit Garnet with, and then looks back at her with a look of complete terror on his face.]
[gasps] Ah! Ah! AAAAAAHHHHHH! [runs out the front door] AAAAAAHHHHHH! I'M SORRY!
Garnet
[puts her shades back on, clenching her fists] That little boy is in big trouble.
[following Garnet and Amethyst, who angrily walk out of the house to find Steven] Garnet, wait! I'm sure he didn't understand what he was doing!
[Steven approaches the blue girl with the cracked gem on her back; she turns to Steven with blank eyes]
Thank you. [stands up] You didn't... oh! [Steven catches her fall] You actually talked to me. You helped me! It's Steven, right?
I'm Lapis. Lapis Lazuli. Are you really a Crystal Gem?
Garnet
[offscreen] STEVEN!!!
Wha? [the Gems run forward to them, summoning their weapons] WAIT!!
You... [Steven turns back; a huge water-arm slowly rises out of the ocean behind her; to the Gems] You three knew I was in there, and you didn't do anything. Did you even wonder who I used to be?! [slams the water-arm on the Gems, trapping Garnet; Pearl and Amethyst land down opposite sides]
I'm Lapis Lazuli, and you can't keep me trapped here anymore! [Steven gasps] They're not gonna let us leave.
Leave?! [Lapis parts the ocean apart to make a path]
B-b-but... B-but I... uh... [Lapis becomes down for a beat, closes path]
[Garnet breaks free and punches the water-arm away, runs to Steven and Lapis]
Don't trust them, Steven. Goodbye.
[a huge wave knocks Steven and Garnet back behind Lapis as she walks into the ocean; Pearl and Amethyst run to them]
[hugs him] Steven! Are you okay?!
Yeah. I'm fine. So, that was another Gem?
[sighs] Yes. [the Gems stare at the ocean for a beat]
Garnet
Steven, you're grounded.
MDMayor Dewey
Hey! It's those magical ladies! [runs at Garnet] What's going on here?!
Garnet
The ocean is gone. Obviously.
MDMayor Dewey
That's right! Now it's just a desert. No one wants to take a vacation to... Desert City! [bawling] Aww, we're gonna lose all our summer business!
And all the beach babes! Awww!
Who's gonna buy my fries?
SMr. Smiley
Who's gonna have fun at Funland?!
MDMayor Dewey
As mayor, I DEMAND YOU EXPLAIN THIS IMMEDIATE— [Garnet slaps megaphone off his hand] ..ly...
Garnet
It was Lapis Lazuli.
She's the Gem you released from the mirror.
[Pearl projects a hologram of Lapis through her gemstone; the citizens all gasp and awe in amazement indistinctly]
But she's a Gem just like us!
There's a lot you don't know about Gems, Steven.
I've never seen so many warp pads before! I hope I have enough of these Crying Breakfast Friends stickers. Where do all these warp pads go, anyway?
Well, Steven, these warp pads were used to travel off-planet. They were our connection to the Gem Homeworld and to Gem-controlled planets all over the universe.
[gasps] You mean we could go anywhere we want in outer space?!
Yeahhh, we could do that if they weren't all busted.
It's true. The Galaxy Warps have all been inactive for thousands of years.
Garnet
..No.
It's fine. I'll always have my memories of other worlds, but now I'm here... on Earth... forever.
Right. [pats his head] With you. [walks to the destroyed central pad] It really is incredible out there, though. I wish you could see it, Steven.
Garnet, quick! You have to pretend to be my mom to Connie's mom. [hands her the phone]
Garnet
[deadpan] Hello. This, is Mom Universe. [pause] Yes. The children are playing swords. Sorry, playing with swords. They're bleeding. Oh no, they are dead. Don't call again. [hangs up] Sorry, I panicked.
Man, why did Connie have to say I have one mother instead of zero... or three?
We'll figure this thing out. We just have to put our heads together.
(gets an idea) Why didn't I think of this before? It's so obvious! You can all come to dinner -- all three of you, fused into ONE! (snaps finger)
Steven, you know we only fuse in deadly situations!
It'd be like—like I'm actually bringing my whole family!
Garnet
Fusion is serious magic, not a trick for dinner parties.
I know. Then I guess this is it. I'll never get to see Connie again. Oh, Connie! I'll never know a star that shines as bright as you.
Garnet
(sighs) We have no choice.
Where's this bus taking us?
Wherever we end up. We'll find a way to survive. I've been reading about sustainable living.
Maybe it'll take us to a real apple farm!
What's up with you and apples today?
[They both hear thumping sounds and look out the back window and see Alexandrite is running after them]
STEVE-E-E-N! [Steven and Connie scream; picks up the bus] You two, come out of that bus this instant!
Aah! Okay! J-just put the bus down first.
[Back at The Crab Shack; the two kids are reunited with their families as they begin to rebuke them]
MDr. Maheswaran
I don't even know where to begin with you, young la--
What were you thinking, running off with Connie like that? You could have gotten yourselves hurt!
Garnet
Or gotten mangled in traffic.
Steven, you are in very big trouble, and we have no choice but to punish you.
Garnet
No dinner for 1,000 years.
We would never starve you, but you will lose your TV privileges… for 1,000 years.
No! The midseason pre-finale of "Under the Knife"! How can you do this to me?!
Because we love you, Steven.
MDr. Maheswaran
Wow. That was a masterful use of the "because we love you" shutdown. I'm quite partial to the "It's for your own good!" myself.
MMr. Maheswaran
That "1,000 years of no dinner" bit, was pretty funny. [laughs]
Garnet
All comedy is derived from fear.
MMr. Maheswaran
[laughs] You are too much.
MDr. Maheswaran
I did not know what to make of the two of- Excuse me, four of you, but I see that you are responsible parents. Uh, caregivers? Guardians.
So, I can still hang out with Steven?
Steven bomb! [jumps on top of Garnet and lands on her hair, still giggling] I got you!
Garnet
You got me.
[covers Garnet's shades] And now you're blind!
Garnet
Tiny hands. [picks Steven up and holds him in front of her] My only weakness.
[notices the bubbled gem that Garnet is holding] Whoa! What did you do today?
Garnet
Tell me what you think I did.
[Garnet walks forward and picks up the cloaked figure. She removes the cloak revealing a frog]
FFrog
Hop o' the morning to ya, Garnet! Nothing like some morning training to get the blood pumping. Am I right?
Garnet
Hopper, nice to see you too. [drops her]
HHopper
By the way, have you seen Hoppy? She was hoppin' excited to train with us.
[a shadow jumps high above the trees; Garnet gasps as the kitana-wielding rabbit swoops down]
RRabbit
YAAHHHH!!! WAAAHHH!!! [Garnet summons her right gauntlet, the rabbit slashes] HI-YAH!!!
[Garnet clasps and holds the rabbit's blade, with a pulsating gust of wind blows all leaves]
Garnet
Hoppy.
HHopper
[holds radar-like device] Wow, Garnet! I can tell you've been training! Your power levels are hoppin' high!
[jumps down] Yes, Hopper, but they could always be higher. We should train more. I nearly had the jump on you that time.
Garnet
[retracts gauntlets] We can train some other time, Hoppy. Right now, there's a gem artifact to recover.
HHopper
I wonder what it is this time. Maybe a magic power amulet, or a flying power carpet, or maybe an enchanted power onion!
Garnet
Whatever it is, we should hurry. There's somebody at home [takes out photo] that I need to get back to.
[closeup on the photo showing Garnet and Steven doing the peace sign. Hoppy and Hopper peek at the photo]
Garnet
My most favorite person in the world.
Have you ever told him that?
Garnet
No.
Garnet
[clenches fist] I'm not strong enough.
HHopper
Will we get to meet him soon?
Garnet
Not yet. He's not ready to learn that I have secret animal friends.
Garnet
Tell us your name, stranger.
My name is Ringo. I am but a humble caretaker of the shrine atop Yonder Mountain. [points to his shrine atop the mountain in the distance]
How did you get those wounds? Was it from some kind of training.
Well, you see, [flashback starts with him sweeping and cleaning with a broomstick before a Foxman shows up with his camera, wanting to take some pictures] an innocent Foxman wanted to see the shrine. Such a sweet, sweet Foxman. Naturally, I obliged. Inside rested the sacred magic gem of ultimate power! It was then that the Foxman double-crossed me! [Foxman then bashes him on the head with his camera, rubs his paws, and absorbs the gem's power, with a big buffed body] He used the power of the gem to banish me from my own shrine. [end of flashback] Ever since then, I've been searching for someone strong enough to help me.
Garnet
That gem must be contained. No one should have that much power.
Oh, you can have the gem. [desperately] I just want my shrine back.
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