This is not a good choice for your form.
Lighten up, Garnet. Can't you take a joke?
It's not funny. You've made yourself ridiculous.
Keep your voice down! The creature...
Hrrr... You wanted me to be more like Pearl, and now I am!!
[low voice] Pearl would've taken her regeneration seriously!
WHAT DO YOU CARE!?! MY FORM IS MY BUSINESS!!
It's my business when it affects the strength of the team!!
..So what?! I'm not strong enough?! [gets dragged by the Slinker]
ARE YOU SAYING... I'M WEAK?!?! [poofs again; Steven catches her gemstone]
Is it weird I'm getting numbed to this?
[fights off seagulls with her violin bow] Run back to your masters! Tell them we're not afraid of your kind!
[chuckles] Thanks for saving my jam snack. Unfortunately, it's not safe from me. [munches it] You're such a good sword fighter, Connie.
Really? I was just swinging this thing around. I don't really know what I'm doing, but I'd love to learn how to use a real sword!
Oh! [gulps snack; starry eyes] Steven has an idea!
[back at the Beach House]
You should teach Connie to sword fight, she's already so good!
But you are! Y-You helped me fight the robot floaty-thing, she took down that evil clone of herself, uh... those mean seagulls just now?
You're awfully young to begin something like this. But I suppose I was only a few thousand years old when I began fighting alongside Rose Quartz. [Connie raises her hand] Yes, Connie?
Please! I want to learn! I mean, I don't know what'll happen in the future. But if something dangerous comes along... I don't wanna be a burden, I wanna help! I want to be there for Steven to fight by his side! The Earth is my home too. Can't I help protect it? [Pearl starts watering tears of joy]
Oh... okay... If that's how you feel... we should get started!
Woo-hoo! [runs after her laughing]
All right, everything begins with your stance. Remember:
[singing] You do it for him, and you would do it again
You do it for her, that is to say, you'll do it for him.
Keep your stance wide, keep your body lowered
As you're moving forward, balance is the key
Right foot, left foot, now go even faster
And as you're moving backwards, keep your eyes on me.
Keep my stance wide ("Good.")
Keep my body lowered ("Right.")
As I'm moving forward
Concentrate! Don't you want him to live?!
Yes, but put your whole body into it!
Everything you have, everything you are
You've got to give.
On the battlefield, when everything is chaos
And you have nothing but the way you feel, your strategy and a sword
You just think about the life you'll have together after the war
And then you do it for her, that's how you know you can win
You do it for her, that is to say, you'll do it for him.
Deep down, you know you weren't built for fighting
But that doesn't mean you're not prepared to try
What they don't know is your real advantage
When you live for someone, you're prepared to die.
Deep down, I know that I'm just a human ("True.")
BBoth
But I/you know that I/you can draw my/your sword and fight
With my short existence, ("Good.") I can make a difference ("Yes, excellent!")
I can be there for him, I can be his knight.
BBoth
You'd do it for her
Okay, now do that again ("Yes, ma'am.")
You do it for her, and now you say
[belly laughs] Wow, Garnet! That is the funniest thing I've ever heard!
Garnet, master of comedy.
Hehehe... Yo, Steven. [pretend-yells] WHY ARE YOU STANDING THERE ALL SAD LIKE THAT?!?!
W-well... Connie is taking sword fighting lessons from Pearl, but I think it's getting a little too serious. She wants Connie to do all this dangerous stuff for me.
Back during the war, Pearl took pride in risking her destruction for your mother. She put Rose Quartz over everything — over logic, over consequence, over her own life.
[Pearl and Rose switch to Connie and Steven, respectively. She charges at the enemy before cutting to Steven's horrified face]
I have to do something!! Thanks for telling me that, bye!!
RRonaIdo
I am now going to attempt to make contact with the mysterious, reclusive, [Steven comes out] and—ahh!
Hi, Ronaldo! Uh, hi, Peedee. Is that a camera?
Yeah. We're making a movie about—
RRonaIdo
It's an investigative report, shot camera vérité.
RRonaIdo
So... you wanna participate in a groundbreaking interview?
Hmm. Only if you participate in a glass of fresh-squeezed lemonade! [walks back inside]
[cue Ronaldo and Steven in the Beach House]
Ohh, that giant hand? It was a spaceship coming to get us.
RRonaIdo
Us?! I knew it! Steven, we know too much!
No, not "us" us. I-I meant me and the Crystal Gems.
RRonaIdo
Wait. So the hand wasn't here to snatch up humans for a human zoo? Or interfere with our subsidized Beach City wind farm?! Or thaw the cryogenically frozen pets of the one percent!?!
Uh... no, I'm pretty sure it came to Beach City for me and the Crystal Gems.
RRonaIdo
Oh. So, if you and the Crystal Gems weren't here, we wouldn't have been attacked by the giant hand?
Ohh-hoh-hoh! Definitely not.
We need to track down Peridot. We found her (escape) pod. We know she's out there somewhere. She came to Earth with a job to do and odds are, she's still gonna try to do it. That's why I've gathered you here.
Garnet, you don't think Peridot would come looking for us, do you?
We weren't her priority. She was sent here to do something in the Kindergarten.
Do you think she's still going to try to reactivate it?
Mm. If she gets it back up and running, the Injectors will turn back on.
Injectors? What're those?
You've already seen them. [projects hologram from her gemstone] Well, you've seen them disabled. If Peridot reactivates them, they'll pick right up where they left off, planting gems in the crust of the Earth, where they'll incubate and suck the life right out of the ground. We can't let Peridot restart Gem production here. If we do... [sighs] the entire planet will become…
Garnet! [laughs] That mouth! [sniggers]
Don't worry. We'll stop her.
Log Date 6-5-2. This is Peridot updating status. Still stuck on miserable planet. The fusion experiments are developing properly. A few have even emerged early- [spots Steven and shrieks; Steven stares silently at her as she looks around; whispers to him] Are the other ones with you? [Steven slowly shakes his head no and nods yes quickly, shrugging] Of course. Why not?
