These are the warps that once connected us to other planets. If something tried to come from space, it would be through here. But wait—this warp pad is broken! Marked inactive by the very depressed cartoon breakfast sticker you placed here yourself!
[walks up to Steven] Look, Pearl's right, like usual. Ugh... you get used to it. [Garnet places hand on Steven's head; Steven moves her hand off him]
[beat] Well... I guess so.
[Steven places his hand beside the "Crying Breakfast Friends" sticker; the Gems all sigh]
Oh, man! Finally! That took all day.
It was important to make Steven feel secure.
Yes, Steven feels much better now. [Steven starts losing his temper even further]
I'm a little tired... of you guys telling me how I feel!! I know I saw something outside the stream!
SPSteven/Pearl
Why is it so hard to just "listen to Steven"?! / You don't tell me what I already know! [continue arguing]
..Uh, this is new. I kinda like it.
Steven, you just don't know what you're talking about.
It sounds like... maybe... YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!!
[cuts them off] Okay, Steven, that's enough. Let it go.
I don't get it! I thought I almost had it.
Nobody expects you to be able to perform fusion right away, Steven.
Yeah! It's really hard, even for us.
We'll keep working on the dance for now, and who knows, in a few years... I wonder though if Steven's body is capable of fusion. Fusion merges the physical forms of Gems, but Steven is half-human. He's organic.
Aw, come on! It's Steven! Who knows what's gonna happen? [laughing out loud]
Well, I think Steven can do it.
I have to show everybody. [shows the Gems their form back at the temple] Pretty cool, right?
[baffled] He fused with his friend, Connie?
[chuckles as she looks at Garnet] Pearl, look at Garnet.
[Garnet has her hands clapped together and a big grin on her face]
This is unprecedented. [examines Steven and Connie's fusion] A Gem fusing with a human being? It's impossible! Or, at the very least, inappropriate.
Wow! You two look great together! How does it feel, Steven? Connie? …Stevonnie?
Yes. Well, I'm glad you're enjoying yourselves, but you two should un-fuse this instant.
Wait, what?! Pearl, you were so worried Steven wouldn't be able to do this. Aren't you proud of him?
Of course I am! I... [turns to Garnet] Garnet, help me out here!
Stevonnie... [walks to her] listen to me. [Pearl and Amethyst walk away] You are not two people, and you are not one person. You... are an experience! Make sure you're a good experience. Now... go…have…FUN!
[Stevonnie runs away from the dance floor, leans against a wall to catch their breath]
I don't understand what's wrong. You have fun dancing, but this dance isn't fun! You're supposed to like this. Why don't you like this? [sighs, stands up] I wish you were here. If we were together, it would be okay. But... we are together, and it's not. I'm alone. [Kevin's hand leans on the wall next to Stevonnie's side]
Not tonight. [pan left to him smirking] Hey, baby. Why'd you leave me on the dance floor?
I don't... [pushes Kevin's hand away] I don't want to dance anymore.
What are you talking about? We're the best thing that's ever happened to this place. Come back out with me.
Because we're angels walking among garbage people. We're perfect for each other.
How can you say that?! You don't even know us!
Oh, whoa. I'm just looking for a dance! Don't get crazy.
No one is crazy, I just don't like feeling alone here!
If you're so lonely, then dance with me.
Ugh! [growls] Fine. You wanna dance? Let's go.
[Stevonnie grabs Kevin's arm and drags him onto the dance floor. Stevonnie turns around and looks down their nose at Kevin]
And it's Stevonnie; I am not your baby.
[holds the Sea Spire statue, sighs] I... I'm really sorry I forgot it on our mission that time.
If I had just remembered to pack it, then maybe the Sea Spire would still be around. But now it's gone forever 'cause of me.
Well, yeah, but... Don't worry about it, guy.
You did your best on that mission and that's what counts.
But the Sea Spire! It was a special, important Gem... place!
[walks to Steven] Oh, Steven, no, no, no. If the Spire had been crucial, we wouldn't have used it as a test for you. It's fine, really.
[beat] ..Test? What do you mean, "test"?
[Garnet and Amethyst glance at each other. Pearl gets worried with thunderous sounds]
Uhh... well, it wasn't really a "test", per se—not in the traditional sense... We just wanted to see if you were ready to go on missions.
..That's exactly what a test is!
Steven, it wasn't something we planned behind your back. We just saw an opportunity and—
[gasps] And I failed it! [long beat] I failed the test...
No way, you got at least a 50 percent.
Oh! And you had that raft so we didn't have to swim home? That's a solid 75—not failing at all! Besides, that Spire was in much worse shape than we thought. It should have been even easier.
[beat] ...I FAILED AN EASY TEST!?!
[sweating] That's not what I meant! I—
No! I need another test! A hard one!
[pause] But, Steven... you've come so far.
Let me prove it! Test me! Test me!!
I... can't believe it. Arrgh!! "It won't be easy. Good luck, you're gonna need it!" [beat] How am I supposed to prove myself if you guys keep—
[heard offscreen] What's taking him so long?
I didn't think mine was very difficult. [Steven observes the Gems in the distance] Do you think he hurt himself?
There's no way. It's impossible for him to fail.
Uggh. So what's the point?
The point is that he's come so far. He can make Rose's bubble and he's pulled out Rose's shield twice, but he's lost his healing powers. We have to give him another success. He can't lose his confidence like that again!
[Pearl and Amethyst remain silent for a long beat]
Yeah. You can't control him, and he shouldn't be taking advice from me, and we don't have Rose to tell us what to do!
But he needs us to show him how to be a Gem!
Steven is not just a Gem. If there's never been anything or anyone like Steven... we don't know what he needs.
[Steven trips on a tennis ball going downstairs that sends him flying before being catched by Garnet]
Good morning to you, Steven.
Boy, I sure am lucky you showed up when you did. [Garnet puts him down]
Luck's got nothing to do with it.
Wait... what do you mean by that?
Aw, don't worry about it.
No, seriously! How do you always know when to be?
[holds MC Bear-Bear] Mmm... I don't think you can handle that information.
Are you gonna tell me something cool about yourself? [smiles excitedly]
Aw, come on! I'm a b— large... man now!
Well... I guess you could say that I have a sort of... future vision. [shades glimmer] I'm able to see possible outcomes to most situations—which comes in handy since you seem to attract a lot of danger.
Well, danger is my middle name.
That's a lie. Your middle name is cutie pie. [touches his nose]
[enters the Big Donut] So, what would happen if I said hi to Sadie?
The most probable outcome is that Sadie will say hi back.
[chuckles] Aw, that was an easy one. What would happen if... [points to Lars at the coffee machine] I said hi to my BFF, Lars? Our friendship is deep but complicated. So the outcome of this experiment is waaaay unpredictable!
I see a single potential future where Lars gives you a high five. [starry-eyed Steven gasps at Garnet] And two more potential futures where you suffer third-degree burns all over your body.
A high five... from Lars! [runs to him] Hi, Lars!
[a startled Lars suddenly throws the coffee jar up high and falls down onto Steven before Garnet blocks it with coffee all over her body]
Criminy! Are you okay?! That coffee was really hot!
I drink coffee for breakfast. [absorbs coffee with her body]
Steven! Get off the roof!
No! [lightning crashes] If something is going to happen to me... just let it happen.
Steven! You don't understand!
No, you don't understand! Everything I do shoves me violently towards the end! The more I know, [kneels down with his hands in the air] the more I know that I don't know! I can't live like this! Why did you tell me about future vision?! What's going to happen to me on the roof?!
I knew you might do this if I told you about my power. I saw this, and I told you anyway.
I took a risk at your expense! There was a chance you'd understand this so we'd be closer! [takes off her shades] Steven, I see so many things that can hurt you. [closeup on three-eyed Garnet in the rain] I should never have let one of them be me.
[Steven pauses for a beat, Garnet puts her shades back on]
There are millions of possibilities for the future, but it's up to you to choose which becomes reality. Please understand! You choose your own future.
I do understand! I— [lightning crashes] ..What am I doing? [beat] I guess I can't really... see a future for myself up here.
[Steven slides down the roof, runs to Garnet and embraces her]
I'll watch out for myself from now on.
[for a beat, Garnet gazes at the dark clouds and blocks a lightning bolt which is about to hit Steven]
It's time to get moving, time for us to have some fun
There's no time to hang around, our adventure's just begun
We'll be thinking 'bout our friends as we chase the setting sun
BBoth
But we're leaving them behind, we're on the run.
SASteven/Amethyst
(We're on the run) I don't care about what all the others say
(We're on the run) Well, I guess there are some things that will just never go away
(We're on the run) I wish that I could say that there's no better place than home
[together] But home's a place that I have never known
That's why we're on the run.
[Steven pushes rubble to clear the entrance of Amethyst's hole, where she sits down sulking]
Go away! I'm bad and you shouldn't be around me.
What? That's ridiculous! Look, I don't know what any of this really means, but I—
Yeah, you don't. 'Cause if you did, you wouldn't be talking to me. [Steven pauses for a beat, turns to Pearl]
Pearl, get in here. You gotta help me.
[Pearl slides in next to Amethyst in her hole with Steven watching]
Amethyst? [closeup on Amethyst's tearful face] ..Amethyst, I-I had no idea you've been upset about this.
What?! You had no idea?! [scoffs] This is, like, my entire existence! You want to pretend that none of this ever happened! You think I'm just a big mistake!!
[gasps] No, no, Amethyst! You're not the mistake. You're just the byproduct of a... big mistake. [beat] No, that's not— I... I just never thought of this as you. None of this is your fault! You didn't build this place! I... I'm sorry, Amethyst. I hope you can forgive me. You're the one good thing that came out of this mess. I always thought you were proud of that.
[Steven, Lars, and Ronaldo head down into the lighthouse basement and find a pulsing flesh-like structure with Lars' name carved on the wall]
[to Lars; coldly] It should have been you.
It took her, but it should have been you, Lars!
