STEVEN UNIVERSE - "the off colour" MALE GEM

22. Beta

"Yes, the inside is my much better," Turquoise says

"Lapis, fly us in!"

"... No." Lapis says

Turquoise moves the curtain out the way "come in, it's hot out you don't want to get a earth sun burn"

The five proceed to step into the barn.

"Welcome to our home away from Homeworld!" Peridot says excitedly

Steven runs to the previously broken wall. "Woah, you made the wall an aquarium!"

Steven stares at the aquarium when the alien plushie that Peridot previously won, its neck slightly ripped, floats by inside, startling Steven. Meanwhile, Amethyst rolls a vacuum cleaner filled with fish and water, back and forth casually with her foot.

"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." Amethyst asks dismissively

"Oh no, this was all very intentional. You see, I have this idea: What if we made music, but instead of sounds, we use things?" Peridot replies

"That's dumb."

Steven walks in. "Guys, that's art!"

"Art"? That sounds ridiculous!" Peridot says

"Quite." Turquoise says, folding his arms

"I've been calling it "meep-morp. " Lapis says, leaning against the doorframe

"Let us show you our... morps." Peridot says

Peridot snickers as she walks over to a table with several cassettes on top, along with her broken recorder with a blue ribbon placed on it.

"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!" Peridot explains

Peridot smiles uncannily after she has explained her meep-morp. Lapis then shows off a mobile, consisting of a baseball mitt, a baseball bat, and a baseball, all of which are tethered by strings to a stick

"Here's my meep-morp. This is a baseball bat. It reminds me of when I played baseball. " Lapis steps backwards, now showing off a leaf sticking on top of a pile of mud. "This is the leaf Steven gave me. It reminds me of the time... Steven gave me a leaf."

"Hey, yeah! It reminds me of that, too!"

Steven and Amethyst walk over to Turquoise, who was adjusting one of his meep-morps

"Turquoise, what's this?" Steven asks

"Oh, this is a what's the word...self portrait, " Turquoise answers, stepping back to reveal a mannequin spray painted blue with a smashed mirror for a head

"Heh...heh very...creative" Steven says nervously

Steven and an uncomfortable Amethyst glance towards a TV on a stand in the barn, with two mirrors sticking out of it and looping a scene from "Camp Pining Hearts."