[via communications] "Hey, can you hear me?! Where do you two think you're going?!"
Hey, Dad! Guess where I am!
I know where you are—it's where you're going that concerns me!
Don't worry, Dad! This is just a quick test flight.
This'll be perfectly fine, just a pop over to the nearest star system. I'll give him back in 50 years.
"WHAT!?! I'll be dead in 50 years!! Pearl, you bring him back right now or I'll—" [Pearl cuts him off] Hello?! Hello!?!
Pearl, I'm not supposed to go! Pearl!!
Oh, this is so exciting! Steven, you're gonna love it. [plays keyboard keys to a discordant note, opening the ship's wings with eight engines] Hang on tight!
[the spaceship blasts through the clouds and up into the stratosphere. For a moment, Steven looks and sees a piece of debris flying past him]
What was that? [the ship's alarm blares loudly as more parts of the ship fly away] Pearl?!
We can make it! We're almost there! [the ship is starting to break apart]
I'm gonna show it to you...
[Steven hesitates for a beat. He sees a hatch release cord and pulls it, shooting out the ship's glass dome]
Steven! What are you doing?!
We need to go, Pearl! We're not gonna make it!
But we're almost there! [sees a cluster of stars before Steven comes to her face to face]
Pearl! I know you miss space, and I know you worked hard! But sometimes... you just got to know when to bail.
[Sadie, Lars and Steven walk out of the island to a seaside]
Oh, Steven... it's beautiful here.
It's a beach! We live on a beach!
[fumbles phone] Is that why my phone has no reception? Why were you even here?!
We came here to look for a dangerous gem creature that we never found...
Huh? Lars! Wait! Lars... this could actually be kind of fun!
If I'm going to be bored out of my mind and possibly die, I'm gonna go to work and get paid for it. [stops to find warp pad missing] Okay, where is it?
The teleporter thing! Where is it?!
Oh, i-it wouldn't disappear... would it?
No, no, no... Well, maybe.
It's okay! The Gems'll come to save us when they see I'm missing! Eventually...
STEVEN!! HOW COULD YOU DO THIS!?! WE'RE STRANDED!!
Calm down! Is this really the worst place to be stuck in? [view on a waterfall and butterflies]
Ugh! You calm down. I'm gonna find better reception.
Isn't this such a beautiful night, whoa
We're underneath the thousand shining stars
Isn't it nice to find yourself somewhere different, whoa
Why don't you let yourself just be wherever you are?
Look at this place, look at your faces
I've never seen you look like this before
Isn't it nice to find yourself somewhere different, whoa
Why don't you let yourself just be wherever you are?
[stroking Sadie's hand; tearing up] Sadie? Do you ever get lonely, even when you're around people? [Sadie nodes yes; presses his lips into her mouth and they both start kissing]
[singing] Why don't you let yourself just be…
[annoyed] How long have you been watching us?!
Don't you know what privacy is?!
People walk in and out of my room all the time.
[glares angrily at Sadie, realizing she hid the Warp Pad in a pile of leaves] You knew! [wrenches his arm away from her]
It's her fault we've been trapped here! [points angrily at Sadie]
Look, I panicked! I hid the Warp Pad! You were just gonna leave, but I knew how much you really needed this! Why don't you ever let me help you?!
Help me?! Are you insane?! You trapped me on an island, so you could come on to me! [sulks]
[screams in aggravation and starts slapping him] You kissed me on the mouth!
Guys, I want to be mad too, but can we do it on the Warp Pad?!
[entering the lighthouse] You're ready for what I've found... the cause of Beach City's paranormal activity.
Welcome to my office. Go that way. [Steven walks in that direction] Welcome... to the truth.
[Steven then sees a large board with several newspaper clips and "Snake People" written in large letters on it]
Snake People, or "Sneeple", control our government at the highest level. Look. [shows a dollar bill] The snake represents their hold on our country. The diamond represents their underground mines, or their sharp teeth... th-the details aren't important. They pit us mammals against each other with elections, sports, and anime message boards. We spend so much time fighting over dubs or subs that we miss the big picture!
That the world is under their control.
[on the balcony] Ronaldo?
Steven! Did you see this crater? I think the Snake People might have left it as a sign.
[turns back] Yes, Steven?
Are you... totally sure about this Snake People thing?
Steven, are you having doubts?
Not really just... doubts... I found out those weird holes in the cliff were 'cause of something me and the Gems did.
Well, okay, but those red rocks—
Maybe the truth just isn't what you thought it was.
Sure it is! Don't get so hung up on these minor facts! Truth is about more than that! Truth is a feeling in your gut that you know is true! Truth is searching for anything that proves you're right no matter how small, and holding on to that, no matter what.
That kinda sounds like the opposite of truth.
Look! The proof! This cast will show the true face of this conspiracy! [holds up cast which looks exactly like Steven] Oh, wha-huh?
That's probably from Steven Tag.
It's a game where... when I tag one of the Gems, they— [Ronaldo cuts him off]
I'm really not at the center of anything... I'm nothing.
Garnet, quick! You have to pretend to be my mom to Connie's mom. [hands her the phone]
[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!
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.
(sighs) We have no choice.
