Beach House
Steven is lying on the couch in the living room, reading a series of novels titled "The No Home Boys".
Steven: "Woah, how are they gonna get out of this one??" turns to the next page "Oh, that's how." Steven then hears the Gems returning on the Crystal Temple Warp Pad and runs over to greet them. "You're back!" notices several Flask Robonoids the Gems are carrying "Hey, it's those things from the Galaxy Warp. Why'd you bring them home?"
Dragonstone Pov
We returned from the galaxy warp holding some of the robots in our arms, since they are from homeworld who knows what this technology is capable of
Dragonstone: "Hello, Steven."looks at him with a slight smile
Pearl: "We can't have them reactivating and fixing the Homeworld Warp."
Amethyst: "Hey Steven, check this out! Kabloosh!" Amethyst crushes the Flask Robonoid in her hands, spilling green goo all around her and startling Pearl, causing her to drop her Flask Robonoids in hand.
Pearl: covered in goo "Amethyst, please! This is serious! We need to understand these things, not squash them. If Homeworld Gems are trying to return to Earth..." panics "THEY HAVE TO BE STOPPED!"
Garnet: "Pearl, calm down. We're still cut off. The Earth is safe."
Dragonstone: "Plus, they don't even know what's waiting if they do try and come here."
Steven: "Safe from what? What do the Homeworld Gems want to do?"
Pearl: exchanges looks with Garnet "Steven, a very long time ago, Gems tried to do something... very bad." looks at Amethyst, who quickly turns away "It was something that would have damaged the Earth. Some Gems, like your mother, Garnet, and myself, felt that this was unfair to the life that already existed here, and so we swore to never let the Earth be used for their... purposes. Even if it meant-" Amethyst approaches another Flask Robonoid and crushes it underneath her foot in upset. groans "-Even if it meant we could never go home."
Garnet: "We chose Earth."
Dragonstone: "Some of us for the safety of those they wanted to have a better life." looks at Amethyst with a solemn expression
Steven: "Wait a sec, so that means... we're just like the No Home Boys!"
Pearl: "The wha-?"
Steven: "The No Home Boys! It's a book series about these boys who have no home. So they travel around the country, living in boxcars, and riding river rafts, solving mysteries! They had a successful run, until the disastrous graphic novel adaptation. But my favorite story is this classic one where the no home boys are chased across the countryside by a mysterious pursuer, which turns out to be the very fear resting within themselves."
Pearl: "Steven, we are not like the No Home Boys. We are literally standing in your home right now." walks off with Garnet
Dragonstone: "I'm gonna go to my cavern." I pat amethysts head while looking down at her "We'll talk later, okay?"
Amethyst: "Whatever, you big softie." she smiles and gently hit his arm
Steven: "Aw, I wish, I was a No Home Boy. No past, no future, just the open road!"
Amethyst: "Yeah, sounds like fun. Let's do it."
Steven: "Really?!"
Amethyst: "Yeah. Let's run!" Steven and Amethyst pack some food in their own bindles on sticks and they begin to sing "On the Run". They leave the house and walk through Beach City, when Jenny, Buck Dewey and Sour Cream offer to give them a ride in Jenny's Car. They drive Steven and Amethyst to the edge of Beach City, and the pair run off into the countryside. They encounter a Raccoon and it joins them on their travel, but then attacks Steven while Amethyst looks on in laughter. They eventually come across a railroad as a train is passing by, and decide to hop aboard a boxcar. Steven and Amethyst continue singing their duet until the sunset, as they watch it from atop the boxcar.
Time skip - Evening
Steven opens his bindle, preparing to eat his food, when the raccoon from before suddenly jumps in and attacks Steven again, while Amethyst watches.
Steven: "Aah! Aah! The raccoon is back!" The raccoon eats all of Steven's food and runs away. "Um, Amethyst? Can I have some of your food?"
Amethyst: devours all of her food in one go "Oh, uh, sorry dude."
Steven: "My bindle couldn't fit enough food for me and a raccoon."
Amethyst: "Why didn't you bring your backpack?"
Steven: "It wouldn't fit in my bindle?" climbs onto a hay stack "Maybe I can just sleep this hunger off... Just like the No home Boys. You know, I feel like I've been misled about hay. It always looks so soft in those illustrations, but it's actually really scratchy."The boxcar rumbles a bit, and another hay stack falls on top of him. "Amethyst, I want to go home now." sees Amethyst sitting at the boxcar doorway, ignoring him "Amethyst?" goes and sits next to her "I'm done pretending to be a No Home Boy."
Amethyst: "Not me."
Steven: "I'm sure Garnet and Pearl are worried sick about us. Wondering when we're coming home. Also, Dragonstone will definitely find us, I don't know how he does it."
Amethyst: "That's not my home."
Steven: "But— Oh, that's right. You're from Homeworld."
Amethyst: angrily "That's not my home either!"
Steven: "Then where are you from?"
Amethyst: "I'll show you."
Prime Kindergarten
Amethyst brings Steven to a foggy, desolate canyon.
Amethyst: "Here we are!" chuckles "Welcome to the Kindergarten! What do you think?"
Steven: "Uh... It's great!"
Amethyst: "Sure is!" grabs Steven's arm "Come on!" Amethyst drags Steven along and they start walking through the Kindergarten. Steven looks up and see several machinery hanging on the walls of the canyon.
Steven: "What is this place?"
Amethyst: "It's kinda where I'm from."
Steven: "But I thought Gems were from space?"
Amethyst: "Dragonstone, Pearl and Garnet are, but I was made here on Earth, like you!"gasps "Check it out!" runs to a giant rock and laughs "Oh, man. I missed this guy. Aww! It's my climbing rock."
Steven: to the climbing rock "Uh, hello!"
Amethyst: points to off-screen rocks "And over there, that's the sitting rock. And that was the one rock that I kicked into two rocks!" climbs the climbing rock and sits atop it
Steven: "Uh, how long did you live here?"
Amethyst: "For a while, Dragonstone and I stayed here. He was the one who taught me all this stuff." she smiled thoughtfully before her smile dropped "Until Pearl, Garnet and Rose showed up. When they came all he did was want to protect the earth and stopped paying attention to me."
Steven: "What? Dragonstone knew you before you became crystal gems?"
Amethyst: "There's a LOT you don't know about, Dragonstone. He's more than just a gem who's crazy strong." She clenched her fist "He found me here and tried to help me, he was the only one who wanted me to be happy...we were gonna go home together..."
Steven: "He was gonna take you back to homeworld? What happened?" He went closer to amethyst
Amethyst: "I'll tell you that another time." She smiles again but it's clearly forced
Steven: notices one of the machinery on the ground "Woah! What is that thing?"
Amethyst: "Eh, it's just some old Gem junk, from a long time ago. It's probably busted by now." Amethyst runs off as Steven examines the strange machinery in worry, resting his palm on one of its legs and noticing some drills on the machinery.
Amethyst: "Hey, Steven! Look!" motions to a hole in the canyon wall "Here's the hole I came out of!"
Steven: "Hang on." runs towards the hole "What?"
Amethyst: "It's my hole." steps into the hole "Look! It's me-siiiiiized." slides into the back of the hole and sits down "Still got that good hole smell."
Steven: "You came out of this hole?"
Amethyst: "This is where I was made, dude. One day just, "pop" ...Right outta this hole."
Steven: glances up and notices numerous holes on the canyon wall "So... what about the other holes?" Light suddenly emit from behind Steven as the warping sounds whirs. Pearl then arrives on a warp pad on a platform in the Kindergarten with Dragonstone looking behind her with a furious look.
Dragonstone Pov
Pearl: "There you are." looks around in disgust and leaps off the platform
Amethyst: "Great." exits the hole "Here comes the fun police And the liar."
Pearl: "Garnet said you'd be here, but I didn't want to believe it. Amethyst, what were you thinking bringing Steven to a... Kindergarten!?"
Dragonstone: approaches them "Amethyst, what are you doing here?"
Amethyst: "I don't know." kicks a nearby pebble "We were in the neighborhood."
Steven: "Dragonstone? Was Amethyst really made here? Did you find her here?"
Dragonstone: "How much did you tell him?"
Amethyst: "What? You mean about the bad thing? How this bad place is where bad Gems came to grow more bad Gems? Is that what you're talking about?"
Steven: They grew other Gems here?!
Pearl: "Amethyst! He's not ready!"
Amethyst: "Oh, but don't worry, Steven. Everything's just fine now-"
Pearl: "Amethyst!"
Amethyst: "It all worked out. We won!-"
Pearl: "Stop."
Amethyst: "And we shut this place down-"
Pearl: "Stop!"
Amethyst: "So the Earth would be safe from parasites like ME!"
Pearl: steps in between Steven and Amethyst "AMETHYST! That's enough!" Amethyst walks away in anger.
Dragonstone: blocks amethyst's path "Stop, Amethyst."
Amethyst: "Why?! So you can lie to me again?! Promise me you'll never leave me behind and then run off with a bunch of other gems?!" She pushed Dragonstone away
Dragonstone: "No, Amethyst, Id never leave you behind." i step forward and look down at her "You helped me change, you helped me become something other than a monster-"
Amethyst: she frowns and pushed him away again "You're still a monster! You just don't shatter gems anymore, right?"
Pearl: "Amethyst, stop!" She stood between them
Steven: "Pearl?"
Pearl: "Steven, I'm sorry. I never wanted you to see this horrible place."
Amethyst: she becomes even more angered seeing Pearl protect Dragonstone "Then why don't you just take them and... LEAVE!!!" Amethyst summons her whip, wraps Pearl with it, and hurls her against one of the Gem machinery.
Amethyst: "Admit it! I'm just an embarrassment to you!" Amethyst swings her whip at Pearl again, who quickly dodges away, slice through a leg of the machinery.
Steven: "Amethyst! Wait!" Steven tries to stop Amethyst, but she lifts him up and tosses him away, sending him tumbling a distance away.
Pearl: summons her spear "I don't want to fight you."
Amethyst: "I wouldn't want to fight me neither!" Amethyst spin-dashes towards Pearl. Pearl quickly rolls out of the way and starts firing energy blasts with her spear at Amethyst. Amethyst avoids the energy blasts while spin-dashing, jumps into the air and swings her whip downwards. Pearl sidesteps, stomps on the tip of the whip and slices it off with her spear.
Steven: running towards Amethyst and Pearl "You guys, stop it!" Dragonstone grabs him "let me go!.
Dragonstone: "They will sort it out. Or I will." he pushed Steven back and walked toward them
Amethyst: sees dragonstone "Stay out of this!" Amethyst throws her whip like a bolas at Dragonstone but it caught Steven, which wraps around his legs and causes him to fall. Pearl jumps towards her and she, summoning another whip, tries to hit her. Pearl dodges each swing of Amethyst's whip and kicks her away.
Pearl: twirls her spear "Amethyst, stop this! You can't beat me."
Amethyst: "I... DON'T... CARE!" summons two more whips and wraps them around Pearl's spear "I'm NOT gonna let you stand there and remind me of everything I HATE ABOUT MYSELF!!!!" Amethyst lashes her whips and send violet energy waves down the whips towards Pearl, causing a huge explosion and sending Pearl flying and slamming against the Gem machinery. "I never asked for it to be this way.." starts weeping "I never asked to be made..!"
Pearl: "Amethyst..."
Dragonstone: "Stop!" I stood between them and dropped down before hugging amethyst tightly not letting her go "Please...stop Amethyst. There was never anything wrong with you, to me you were always perfect, I should have never made empty promises that only ended up hurting you. "
Amethyst: she teared up and hugged him but while sobbing into him "We were supposed to go home together, now it's Pearl and Garnet and Steven, what happened to us? Why did we stop being together?"
Dragonstone: "We never stopped, we just forgot to do it when it mattered." I held her tightly "I will never leave you behind amethyst, you're the first gem I ever wanted to help and be friends with, you are the one who made me become the gem I am today."
The "leg" of the Gem machinery, previously sliced by Amethyst's whip, gives way and begins to fall towards the group. Steven summons his bubble shield, which Amethyst quickly sidesteps away from but Dragonstone grabs her as he rolls forward, and encases only Pearl and himself.
Steven: "Amethyst! Dragonstone! Amethyst, DRAGONSTONE!" Amethyst holds onto Dragonstone and the Gem machinery collapses on top the bubble. The screen is darkened for a moment, which quickly subsides as dust clouds disperse away. Steven quickly dispels his bubble shield and looks around for Dragonstone and Amethyst, who seems to have disappeared in the chaos.
Steven: "Ame-thy-st! Dra-gon-Stone! Where are you?!" looks back at the rubble and pushes it aside to uncover Amethyst's hole but it was empty "Amethyst!" They suddenly see the rubble lift up revealing a large mass as they look up to see a giant fusion gem .Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!"
Pearl: she blushed and looked away "thank goodness, you're both okay." she looked back at the fusion gem who smiled down at the two of them
Steven: "You guys fused!" his eyes sparkled "oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!" he and Pearl approached
Pearl: she looked up at the fusion "Dragons Breath...it's been so long."
Dragonsbreath: 0Hey, y'all!" they crouched down to Steven and Pearl "You gots to Steven! It's amazing to meet you, you can call me Dragons Breath or Opal if you like that." they laugh and pet steven
Steven: "So you're more like Amethyst? Or more like Dragonstone?" they put him down as Pearl spoke with a jealous tone almost
Pearl: "They're a perfect fusion. If two gems have a very stable fusion they will be perfectly fused together, having qualities of both gems." she looks at Dragons breath opal and away again "it's...good to see you."
Dragonsbreath: "How's it going, Pearl?! I bet you missed me as much as I missed you, honey!" they picked up Pearl and squeezed her tightly "come on, gimme some suga!"
Pearl: grunts in discomfort "Oh! You're as..." gets squeezed tighter and makes a deep groan "AFFECTIONATE...as always..." she says with frazzled hair "my stars..."
Steven: "So cool! "
Dragonsbreath: puts Pearl down before smiling down at them "It was great to meet you Steven, but this old gal's gotta split." they winked before their body glowed a bright red and purple and shrunk before splitting back into Dragonstone holding Amethyst bridal style in his arms
Steven: "You guys are okay and you fused! This is way better than "No home boys"!" He ran around Dragonstone who put amethyst down before they rubbed their cheeks together
Dragonstone: "You two should sort it out." I looked to Pearl who was rubbing her arm and blushing before Amethyst walked up to her as the two were silent and I stood by Steven
Amethyst looks at Pearl hesitantly for a few seconds, before enveloping her in a crushing hug. Pearl is taken aback briefly, but returns the hug back to Amethyst before Dragonstone walked up and hugged them both tightly with a smile. The group then step onto the warp pad, hand in hand, ready to return home.
Steven: "Crystal Gems forever! Now let's go home, so Steven can sleep in a bed." The four warp out of Prime Kindergarten, as the fog in the canyon begins to clear up, revealing even more of the Gem machinery and holes deep in the canyon, while ominous metal clanging noises are heard in the background