[shows Buddy Budwick's journal to the Gems] Hey, do you know anything about this thing? [Amethyst takes a closer look]
Hmm. Steven, you deserve to know the truth. And the truth is... I have no idea what that thing is, I've never seen it before in my life.
Excuse me, Amethyst, allow me. [sees illustration of the Palanquin] Uh, well... it appears to be an illustration in some kind of journal.
C'mon, you know what I mean. I had a dream where I saw this thing. Connie and I were wondering if maybe...
[stammers] S-Steven, why don't you and Connie— [Garnet interrupts her]
GarnetYou can't go there! [everyone stares at Garnet for a beat]
[shady] Yeah, why not? [Garnet hesitates. Steven sighs and closes the journal]
I thought you were going to tell me everything from now on.
[points Palanquin illustration] Does this have anything to do with Pink Diamond?! I already know Mom shattered her, so what is it about this that you can't tell me?! [Pearl winces to Garnet]
Garnet
Please! You're making Pearl very upset.
No! I'm very upset! [Connie and Amethyst back away]
Garnet
We're--not--going. Rose never wanted you to see this place.
"Rose wanted..." [growls] What about what I want?! [points at Garnet] I'm sick of everyone lying to me! Rose is my mom! Out of anyone! Don't I deserve to know the truth?! [Amethyst offers a box of popcorn to Connie, who declines]
Garnet
This isn't the time.
I don't care!! I wanna go there now!!
Garnet
[sharply] Steven!
I'm sorry... I... I shouldn't have brought the book.
Yes, you should've brought it. It's lucky something has some information that I don't have to get out of them!!! Connie, I need to borrow this book.
Garnet
That's right! Pink Diamond's insidious human zoo.
Garnet
During her reign on Earth, Pink Diamond stole humans from their families as trophies of her conquest.
Oh, no. It was very serious. When I still served… Homeworld, I saw it myself. A private menagerie deep in space. Humans in captivity. We were never able to rescue them. We had no way to get to them after the war. But, that was over 5,000 years ago.
Garnet
Lapis, Peridot, stay here. You'll have to protect Beach City if something happens while we're gone.
[Lapis gives her a thumbs up]
[The Roaming Eye rises from the ground and flies off into the sky, and into space]
[watching the Earth shrinking in the distance] Don't worry, Dad. We're on our way.
Uhh, Why do you guys look like that?
Garnet
The gravity warp seems to be affecting our bodies.
Please tell me this lasts forever.
Our bodies are made of light, and usually they form a mass dependent on the air pressure and the level of gravity in the environment. But we're in a situation where the normal laws of physics don't apply.
In what way is this funny?!
So, you guys aren't doing this on purpose? Can't you shapeshift back?
Hold on. [hapeshifts into Purple Puma] Huh, check it out. Puma cub.
Garnet
The ship seems to be putting out some kind of energy, keeping us in this shape.
[turns to the control panel] Oh, I know the problem!
Peridot said the ship was calibrated for Rubies. It must be making you all Ruby-sized.
Ugh! Why doesn't she tell us anything? This is why we don't listen to her.
[as Steven, Greg, and the Crystal Gems try to stealthily file past her] It's a shame, though. This outpost is so remote, I was beginning to think we'd been forgotten. But we haven't! Two diamonds, one day! What an honor! I don't think anything can spoil this for me! [turns and catches the group frozen while boarding the Roaming Eye] What… is… THE MEANING OF THIS?! [the Quartz soldiers appear to watch in the doorway watching behind her] Why are these two outside the containment area?!
Holly Blue, I can explain…
No need, your Clarity. Not even you could have forseen how incompetent these Amethysts are. Well, if you want something done right... [summons an electrified whip from her gem in the back of her head] you just do it yourself. [to Steven and Greg] You two are coming with me! [swings her electric whip at the, but Sapphire and Ruby fuse into Garnet and catch it, stunning her and the Quartz soldiers]
SGSteven and Greg
Garnet!
Garnet
Steven, get Greg on board.
Garnet
We'll handle this noise.
[Pearl severs Holly Blue Agate's whip. Amethyst catches it and wraps her up with it to the amusement of the Quartz soldiers]
Garnet
[approaches Holly Blue Agate, summons her right gauntlet] I've been waiting to do this all day... [hits Holly Blue Agate with her left hand, knocking her down]
[to the Quartz soldiers laughing at her] What are you doing?! They're traitors! Destroy them!
[kisses and waves to the Quartz soldiers] Famethyst for life!
[as the whip fades] I'll report you to the Diamonds! All of you! You'll all be shattered!
You're really going to tell the Diamonds that you allowed a band of traitorous rebels to infiltrate a highly secure facility and escape from right under your careful watch? [inhales sharply] Doesn't sound like a wise thing to do, Holly Blue. So do yourself a favor and keep your mouth shut. That will be all.
[Holly Blue groans in misery while the Quartz soldiers wave their goodbyes to the Crystal Gems as they take off and leave the zoo]
Thanks so much for coming to get me. That has to be, like, the third craziest weekend I've ever had.
Dad, I'm really sorry I got you into all this. This whole thing started 'cause… I wanted answers.
You don't have to be sorry about a thing. I hope you found what you were looking for.
[Steven inspects Connie, Amethyst, Pearl and Garnet's drawings of Aquamarine]
[sketch resembles Aquamarine] I think I made one eye bigger than the other.
[drawing resembles a winged creature] I was going for a feeling.
[drawing resembles Lapis and has been signed] Honestly, I can't even draw a circle. [laughs nervously]
Okay, Garnet, you just drew yourself.
Garnet
Uh, I like me.
Why is Homeworld stealing humans from the boardwalk?!
I don't know, but they're only taking my friends! They even got Connie! If we don't do something, they're going to take them up into space!
And our spaceship got jacked. So if they leave Earth…
Garnet
They'll be gone for good.
Ugh. Who were these guys?
That little Gem I saw before, her name's Aquamarine.
She's got a big friend… a fusion, named Topaz.
A Topaz fusion and an Aquamarine?
Uhh, yes! Blue and Yellow Diamond must have sent them personally!
The Diamonds? Oh, no! They must be collecting more humans for the zoo!
[Steven and the Gems square off against Aquamarine and Topaz in Funland]
We're not here for any of you rogue Gems. We'll leave you totally alone… [turns severe] IF you tell us where we can find my dad.
I don't know what you're talking about!
Let's see. Yellow Diamond asked for "uh, my dad, a Connie, a Lars, a Sadie, a mailman, and an Onion, I think". Six human variations specified in a report by Peridot 5XG.
[Steven gasps, immediately recalls back to meeting Peridot in the Kindergarten underground in "Marble Madness"]
("Oh, no. There's lots of humans. There's my dad, Connie, Lars and Sadie, the mailman, Onion... I think.")
[come back to Steven feeling shocked and upset realizing this]
The list! I gave them the list.
What are you talking about?
Aquamarine doesn't have a dad. She's looking for someone named "My Dad"! This is all my fault.
Garnet
Don't worry about that now. Our objective's still the same. Beat the Gems…
Hey, Topaz, look! They want to lose another fight.
[freezes Onion, Sadie, Connie, Jamie and Alexandrite trying to escape her spaceship; to Steven] Nice try. But it's hopeless, My Dad. I can't go back to Homeworld without getting what the Diamonds want.
[looks back at his friends frozen in mid-air; pauses and admits to her]I'm... not My Dad.
How much longer is this mission going to take?
Well, I can end it for you, right now.
I'm someone the Diamonds will want more than any of these humans. The leader of the Crystal Gem rebellion, the Gem that shattered Pink Diamond. I'm not My Dad... [lifts his shirt to reveal his gem to her] I'm my mom! I'm Rose Quartz!
[gasps in surprise, deactivates her wand] No way!
[Alexandrite un-fuses as everyone falls into the ocean]
[turns back] I get it now! I'm the only one who can stop what she started! I can stop all of it!
Garnet
You're wrong! Steven, get down here!
She wouldn't have wanted this! But I do.
I'm gonna kick your butt if you don't come down here right now!
[Steven pauses and walks back into Aquamarine's ship]
[breaks down as she watches helplessly] Steven... [the door begins to close behind Steven, Aquamarine and Topaz]
[as the door begins to close behind Steven, Aquamarine and Topaz] No! Don't you dare!
[turns back before the door closes] I love you.
NO! STOP!! [the door closes and Aquamarine's ship warps into space instantly] STEVEN!!
[Greg, Garnet, and Amethyst burst through the door]
Garnet
Also continue, Steven.
I'm not upset about what happened on Homeworld although, yeah, a lot of that was really messed up. But my relationship with Connie is even more messed up! I left her behind to go to Homeworld after promising we'd face everything together. I'm sure I really hurt her. I've been calling and texting her for a week, but she hasn't responded once. [tearing up] Connie might never talk to me again! [runs away, crying]
Garnet
Steven!
Garnet
[shaking and slowly gets up] Rose. She... She... [struggles to stay stable and defuses into Ruby and Sapphire]
[betrayed with anger] SHE LIED TO US! She lied about EVERYTHING! [freezes up the floor] She held our hands, looked us right in the eyes and told us to never question who we are as Garnet. We never questioned ourselves, or her!
No! You couldn't have known. You never know what's going on. That's what I'm for!
But I never looked into her, I trusted her. I let her make fools of us all! [storms over to the warp pad]
Please! We can just stay calm and-- and talk about this, right? Let's just talk!
Talk about what? How our relationship is based on a lie? What else is there to say? [warps away to Rose's Fountain]
Garnet
What a wonderful idea. Humans found a way to make a moment's decision last forever. I won't need future vision to know I'll always remember this.
I'm so glad. [starts tearing up]
Garnet
Oh no. I'm sorry. Don't cry.
[wipes off the tears] I guess seeing everyone together's got me really choked up. [bigger tears begin flowing out of his eyes] Wait a second. You don't think…?
Garnet
[takes off her visor, opening her third eye, using her future vision; horrified] Blue Diamond!
Garnet
And she's not alone.
[The sky darkens quickly and everyone looks up to the sky, seeing Blue and Yellow Diamond's ships approaching]
Oh, no. It's the Diamonds! [runs up to Nanefua] Nanefua, get on your Nane-phone! We've got a code blue and a code yellow!
Garnet
This is it.
[As the Diamond ships approach the beach, they fly overhead them]
WE'RE OVER HERE, YOU CLODS!
Wha- where are they going?!
If they're not here for us, they must be here for the Cluster!
It's a huge earth-destroying geo-weapon that the Diamonds made out of a bajillion gem shards!
[While the Cluster and Yellow Diamond's ship engage in an arm wrestling, Blue Diamond emerges from her ship as it faces Steven and the others in front of the temple]
Garnet
Blue Diamond.
Guess it's time to work the old Universe charm.
Alright, I'll just... be in here. [goes inside the house]
Rose Quartz. So you escaped Homeworld and crawled back here. [raises her head, angrily crying with tears of grief] This is Pink's world! How dare you use it as your hiding place?! COME! Answer for what you've done!
This is bad! This is bad! This is bad! This is bad!
Come on, you rocks! Let's put her in a bubble!
PAPearl, Amethyst & Garnet
Right!
Wait, there's no reason to fight. Let me talk to her. [approaches Blue Diamond to try and reason with her] Blue Diamond, please listen to me! I didn't shatter Pink Diamond. Pink Diamond's right here. It's pretty interesting when you think about it--
ENOUGH! [hurls an energy blast at Steven, knocking him back, only for Alexandrite to catch him]
You cannot fathom how much I've mourned, what thousands of years of grief has done to me! [unleashes her aura, de-fusing Alexandrite, making everyone fall on their knees and tear up, except Connie]
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