What's wrong with the microwa—ow!! [grumbles] What is the meaning of this?! [knocking on door] Huh? [walks to the door, opens it] Mayor Dewey?
MDMayor Dewey
Hello there, young Universe. Any of your... sisters home?
MDMayor Dewey
Your caretakers, you know. The tall one, the purple one, the hot one? [Steven stares for a beat] Look, the power's out and I've been mayor long enough to know they had something to do with it.
MDMayor Dewey
Is there anyone else I can talk to about this?
Coming! [walks to him with the robonoid] Oh, can I help you?
MDMayor Dewey
Yes... oh, hi! Uh, Beach City is currently experiencing a widespread power outage— [the robonoid sparks]
Oh, don't worry about that. The power should be back on as early as tonight, or as late as... never.
MDMayor Dewey
Never coming back!?!
MDMayor Dewey
No, no, no! It has to come back! The people of Beach City can't handle a situation like this! They need their electronic distractions so they won't notice that this town is a magnet for disaster!!
Oh, don't be dramatic. I saw humans get on fine without power for millennia. You used to hunt and gather. [chuckles] What happened to that?
MDMayor Dewey
You don't understand! Sure, things seem calm now in the light of day, but when the sun goes down, so does... the town.
[beat] He's right. Mayor Dewey, this is our responsibility. We'll help you clean up this mess.
[inside] No, we won't! [Pearl goes back inside]
I'll help you clean up this mess.
MDMayor Dewey
Okay. But you're not getting paid.
Maybe when Peridot gets to Earth, she'll see how nice all the people are, and she won't want to hurt anyone.
You're just like your mother.
Yeah. But these other Gems aren't like your mother. They're not like Garnet, Amethyst or Pearl—they're not gonna start caring about people now. They didn't the first time they—
The first time they what?
I mean—it was thousands of years ago! It's— it's not like I was there! [pauses for a beat] Th-the Gems should be telling you all this stuff, but... I get it, I mean—they don't want you thinking of them like that!
[Greg is profusely sweating with fear]
Like aliens, Steven!! Aliens who invaded Earth!!
All they do was try to make up for it, but... they just can't forgive themselves! Do you understand? Look, they were doing something awful to the planet, and your mother couldn't stand it anymore. She told me that's why she had to turn on her own kind. She gave up everything just to stop what they started here and drive the invading Gems off of Earth.
So... sh-she saved the world, that's good!
Uhh, no such thing as a good war, kiddo. Gems were destroyed. People too. In the end, your mother could only save a handful of her closest friends. If it weren't for her shield, man... I don't know.
[Greg looks at teary-eyed Steven for a beat]
Bu-but hey! Let's look on the bright side! We're gonna drop by that waffle place in a couple miles.
We gotta go back! Turn the van around!!
No way! The Gems don't want you going back!
I know they're just trying to protect me, but... I have to protect them! I have Mom's shield! They need me!
Please, Dad! What if they get hurt?! [Greg is still driving straight] Dad, turn around!! DAD!! [breaks into tears and punches the glove compartment] TURN THE VAN AROUND, PLEASE!!!
You need to leave immediately!
This is not a Gem controlled planet!
Neither of you saw Rose Quartz? Oh, what a shame. I'd hoped to meet her. I was looking forward to beating her into the ground!
I won't let you risk your life!
[tearing up] But this is my home, and you're all my family! [his gem glows]
I'm… I'm a Crystal Gem TOO! [jumps in front of the firing beam from the ship and summons out Rose's shield, protecting the Gems and himself]
[turns around in shock] That shield! That symbol! [Steven collapses to the ground after his shield dispels] You! You have the power of Rose Quartz!
Now do you believe I needed an escort?
Fire a barrage, widespread! [to Steven after the ship fires a cut line across the beach] Rose, why do you look like that? Why are you so weak?
It wasn't relevant to the mission!
Forget about the mission!
Yellow Diamond needs to see this... thing.
[the red-colored Gem runs to a cell with Steven and gasps]
GGem
Oh, it's just you...
Lapis! [Lapis looks behind] Lapis, I can get you out! [moves his arms forward]
No! I don't want your help! Things are bad enough as it is! I've already made too much trouble. Once we get back to Homeworld, they're going to decide what to do with us.
GGem
ARRGH!! I don't have time for this!! [runs off]
Steven, whatever you're doing, just stop. If we do everything they say, they might go easy on us.
But they're... mean! They hurt my friends, they hurt my face! They've got you here in prison!
That's why we can't fight them.
That's why we have to fight them!
[Lapis turns herself to the right side, looking down on the floor]
This is Garnet, back together
And I'm never goin' down at the hands of the likes of you
Because I'm so much better
And every part of me is saying "Go get her."
The two of us ain't gonna follow your rules
Come at me without any of your fancy tools
Let's go, just me and you
Let's go, just one on two.
Go ahead and try hit me if you're able
Can't you see that my relationship is stable?
I can see you hate the way we intermingle
But I think you're just mad 'cause you're single
And you're not gonna stop what we made together
We are gonna stay like this forever
If you break us apart, we'll just come back newer
And we'll always be twice the Gem that you are.
I am made o-o-o-o-of lo-o-o-o-ove, o-o-o-o-ove
Lo-o-o-o-ove, lo-o-o-o-ove, lo-o-o-o-ove
Mm-m-m-m-mm, m-m-m-m-mm, m-m-m-m-mm...
This is who we are, this is who I am
And if you think you can stop me, then you need to think again
Because I am a feeling, and I will never end
And I won't let you hurt my planet, and I won't let you hurt my friends.
Well, I am even more than the two of them
Everything they care about is what I am
I am their fury, I am their patience
I am a conversation.
Lo-o-o-o-ove, lo-o-o-o-ove, lo-o-o-o-ove
And it's stronger than you
O-o-o-o-ove, lo-o-o-o-ove, lo-o-o-o-ove...
MMalachite (Jasper)
What are you doing?!
MMalachite (Lapis)
I'm done being everyone's prisoner. Now you're MY prisoner! And I'm never letting you GO!
MMalachite (Lapis)
Let's stay on this miserable planet… together!
I saw the spaceship starting to leave and then it crashed and I came back and— [sees Steven's black eye] Ugh, your eye... But you're okay! I guess those jerks were no match for the Crystal Gems!
No way! They were super strong!
But you were able to beat them back?
No, they totally stomped us! This warrior Jasper was super beefy and knocked me unconscious. Then they abducted me onto the ship because they wanted to take me away forever, and then we crashed the ship and I almost died! [Greg freaks out]
W-What do they want with you?!
Ar-are more Homeworld Gems gonna come after you?!
I— uhh... I don't know. Maybe?
Steven, I'm supportive and very proud of you... and I'll be right back. [runs into his van] Gotta calm down. Where's my— [brings a series of CDs up front] Where's my relaxing music CD?! This one? [inserts CD; starts blaring loud metal music] Wrong one!! Stop!! Eject!!
