So, why were there humanoid tracks out there? They weren't ours, and they weren't Pearl's... It couldn't have been the monster, unless it's just some guy in a monster suit. But that kind of thing only happens in cartoons. Usually over a property dispute.
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All we have to do is follow these tracks. [takes a handful of snow and tastes it] Yeah. These are fresh. We trail it until it stops to rest.
Wow, Connie! You're a wilderness expert.
Well, I like to be prepared. When civilization collapses and this world ends, I need to be ready to build the new one.
Yeah. I guess if Homeworld invades Earth, things could get pretty crazy for humanity.
Forget Gems! Humans are already starting their own demise! Peak oils, Steven! How do we handle terminal decline without alternate energy sources?!
[confronting Amethyst] I came here to fight Rose, not some runt!
You think you can just keep showing up and picking fights with us? Hah! Why don't you get a life?!
Fighting is my life! It's what I was made for! [points at her] It's what you were made for too, runt!
So? I've got other stuff goin' on. I can fight JUST FINE!! [lashes her whip at Jasper, who catches it easily]
Well, then... let's see it!
[she pulls Amethyst holding her whip, kicks her, spin-dashes her numerous times on the sand. She struggles to get up in front of Jasper]
You're not even trying. Is it because you know you're already a failure? [Amethyst looks up at her] You're a quartz soldier, just like me. But you're not like me, are you?
[cut to show Steven, Connie and Lion fighting the corrupted gem monster; Jasper chuckles as Amethyst gets up]
You're small! [begins rapidly punching Amethyst, slamming her down; Steven sees them]
Amethyst?! [the monster lunges its hand near them]
Are you that desperate for troops, Rose, that you keep a defect like this?! [Amethyst slowly stands up]
Rose said... I'm perfect... the way I am!
Then she had low standards. [an enraged Amethyst charges at Jasper with her spin-dash] You... could've been me! [kicks Amethyst into the air, falls down as she watches Jasper face to face] And what are you instead? [Amethyst slams into the ground]
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Amethyst! [a badly bruised Amethyst looks back at Jasper]
Just a joke.
[shocked to see Steven and Connie fused into Stevonnie] You fused?!
[catches Amethyst's gem] Whoa! I did!
You Crystal Gems would even fuse with a human?!
[facing Jasper] I don't wanna hear anything you say. [holds up Amethyst's gem] Unless it's "sorry."
[enraged after being beaten by Stevonnie] Fusion! Fusion! It's always fusion!
Are you ready to apologize?
This was just a warmup. Get ready for next time, Rose! Jaspers don't give up. Jaspers keep going, until we get what we want. [retreats into the ocean]
Huh. I guess she lives in the ocean now.
[loses to Amethyst on "Lonely Blade" video game] That was crazy good, Amethyst! Nice job!
Knock it off, Steven. I know you let me win.
[stammers] Wha— me? No, I— pfff... nooo... [Amethyst shuts TV off]
You weren't even trying.
I'm sorry. I just wanted you to feel better.
Great, and now you're even more mature than me.
Amethyst?
You're supposed to be the rookie but now you're better than me at everything! [sighs] Now I'm the worst Crystal Gem.
Wha-what?
Ugh! [mutters] You know what I mean, Steven.
Uhh, not really! I thought you guys wanted me to be strong. An-and now I am, and you're mad at me?!
No! I get mad at myself! That's, ugh, the thing I do! I get mad at myself, and then it makes me suck at everything I do even more.
[sighs] Amethyst, you don't suck. You do so many cool things. You have two whips. Two whips! And the dash thing? Amethyst, you're so much better than me!
No way. You have Rose's shield, and bubble, and the floating thing, and— [grunts] I'd just be floating all day!
Floating? I forget to use that half the time! And the rest of the time my powers aren't even guaranteed to work! I'm... I'm way worse than you!
Nuh-uh! I'm the worst!
No way, I am! I'll prove it! I'll-I'll fight you, and show you how bad I am!
Fine! Let's do it!!
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Let the worst gem lose!!
[Steven and Amethyst lie down on the floor for a beat, they start up laughing amongst themselves]
What's wrong with us? [continues laughing]
Well, I know what's wrong with me. I'm not supposed to be small. And everyone's always acting like there's no problem. "You can be anything you wanna be!" No, I can't! [sighs] I can't even be the one thing I'm supposed to be, you know?
Of course I do. I'm... not Rose Quartz.
[hits her face] Oh no! Oh, Steven—
Why do you think I've been working so hard?
Well... it's paying off.
[chuckling, gets up] I sure hope so.
[Amethyst sees Steven holding out his hand to her, smiles. She swings her arm but misses, laughing; she misses again before she finally catches his hand. She gets up and laughs with Steven]
Thanks, Steven. [Pearl gasps in horror at the entrance]
What did you two do?! You've ruined the ruins!
Whoops.
I don't think we're gonna see the prize pouch for a while.
[Steven and the Gems take Bismuth to the strawberry battlefield]
Homeworld's final attack on Earth wiped out all of the Crystal Gems.
Rose was able to protect Garnet and myself, and by the looks of it, she was able to protect you as well. [Bismuth picks up a rusty battle-axe]
I knew those Homeworld elites were twisted. How many of us did they shatter? Crazy Lace? Biggs?! Snowflake?! If I was there, I-I coulda stopped it!!
It's not like they've stopped trying.
What's that?
Homeworld still has its eyes on this planet.
We continue to thwart their plans over and over. [Steven runs over followed by Amethyst]
But they just keep coming back!
Yep. They want us bad.
Good. I thought I wouldn't get another chance to show those upper-crusts who's boss! Let's show 'em what happens when you mess with the Crystal Gems! [slams battle-axe to the ground with a loud roar; Steven smiles]
Yeah.
Rose Quartz changed my life. I came to Earth thinking this was just another colony. Build another arena for important fighters to fight in, build another spire for important thinkers to think in, and then I met her. Just another quartz soldier, made right here in the dirt, but she was different. And she was different because she decided to be. And she asked me what I wanted to build, and I'd never heard that before. And Gems never hear they can be anything other than what they are, but Rose opened our eyes.
Everybody always tells me how great Mom was. I just don't feel like I can ever measure up to her. [Bismuth chuckles out loud]
I can't believe this... that I'm the one giving the pep talk to Rose's... Rose's...?
Son.
Right. You are different. That's what's so exciting. You don't have to be like Rose Quartz. You can be someone even better. You can be you. And you know what? You deserve an even better weapon.
[Steven walks to a severely injured Bismuth holding the Breaking Point]
Bismuth... this has to stop.
So what are you gonna do, shatter me?! [grabs Breaking Point to her gemstone] Go ahead! JUST DO IT!!!
..No! Even if we don't agree, nobody deserves this! [Bismuth pauses, yanks Breaking Point from Steven. He steps back, stops at Rose's sword, draws it out as Bismuth advances—SHING!!]
[for a long beat, Steven sees Bismuth impaled holding Rose's sword]
..You shoulda shattered me back then. At least if I were in pieces, I wouldn't have to know how little I mattered to you. You didn't even tell 'em. You bubbled me away and didn't ever tell your friends... My friends...
I'm going to tell them! I'm gonna tell them everything. [Bismuth takes in a surprise, chuckles in her tears]
Then you really are better than her.
[Peridot and Lapis Lazuli are watching "Camp Pining Hearts" on the truck sticking out over the barn's entrance]
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[on TV] But Paulette, I need you!
Oh, get over it, Percy. Go make another friendship bracelet.
Seriously.
Wow, you guys are looking good. And I love what you did to the barn!
Aww, I know. But wait, wait - you guys have to see the inside! Lapis, fly us in!
[smiling] Nnnno.
[Inside the barn]
You did all this stuff on purpose? Like, you didn't just knock over a bunch of paint cans and go, "Eh, just leave it"?
Oh, no. This was all very intentional. You see, I had this idea: What if we made music, but instead of sounds, we use things!
That's dumb.
Guys, that's art!
Art? That sounds ridiculous!
I've been calling it "meepmorp".
Let us show you our... morps. [chuckles]
[She shows them something made from her broken recorder, some cassettes and a blue ribbon]
This piece is called "Wow, thanks". It represents the struggles of intercommunication. The tape is the ribbon that binds our experience on Earth together. It has no functional purpose! It just makes me feel bad! [smiles proudly]
[Lapis shows them a baseball bat, mitt and ball hanging from a stick by string]
Here's my meepmorp. This is a baseball bat. It reminds me of when I played baseball. [walks backwards to a leaf sitting on a rock] This is a leaf that Steven gave me. It reminds me of the time Steven... gave me a leaf.
Hey, yeah, it reminds me of that too! [Peridot grins; Amethyst looks nauseated]
[Next is a TV with two mirrors attached, playing Percy in Camp Pining Hearts saying "I just feel trapped" over and over]
[worried] Is this one about... the thousands of years you spent trapped in the mirror?
No. I just really like that show.
Wow, Amethyst doesn't seem to understand morps at all.
No, it's something else. Amethyst found out…she's supposed to be just like Jasper.
Meh?
Jasper took her down in a fight, and now she's obsessed with getting a rematch, to prove she's good enough.
Hmm. Amethyst, Ams, Big A. You are way better than Jasper!
What? Oh. [to Steven] What did you tell her?
I, uh…
What are you even doing comparing yourself to her? Oh, Amethyst, that's ridiculous. I should call you "Ridiculousthyst." [laughs] I mean, seriously, Amethyst and Jasper are two completely different Quartzes. Sure, you're both from Earth, but your Kindergartners are radically different.
What? Hold-- Hold on. What?!
We're both from Earth?
Well, sure. Amethyst, you're from the Prime Kindergarten in Facet 5. She's from the Beta Kindergarten in Facet 9. Have you seen that place?
No!
Oh. Well, maybe you should, so you could see how the other half was made… Poorly! [laughs] No, seriously. Let's go. You'll get a kick out of this.
Here we are, Jasper's origin: the Beta Kindergarten.
Am I underwhelmed? It's pretty bright out here.
It's red.
No kidding. Red sandstone! Ha! This is what I'm talking about. We're lucky this place hasn't blown away. Beta, am I right?
[laughs] That's a math joke, right?
Come on. It gets worse. I mean, this place has got the right growing conditions in a pinch, I guess, but it's too small! It was obviously a total rush job.
A rush job?
Halfway through the rebellion, Homeworld scrambled to generate extra soldiers on the ground. Look at this-- the holes don't even line up! [scoffs] It's like they just threw injectors down wherever. Oh, and that one? This Carnelian came out sideways. How could she not? The walls are curved! [laughs] What a joke.
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