Most is quiet, not much is happening. Steven sits at the barn with Peridot teaching her to play checkers. "So you see, now that I got a checker on your side, your have to king me." Steven explains. "Ok. And how exactly do I do that." Peridot asks. "Well sometimes checkers will have a crown on the other side so you can just flip them over." Peridot flips the checker piece over. "But there's no crown on this side." Peridot says. "Exactly, so if that's the case you take one of the pieces you've jumped and collected, and you stack on top of the piece over there." Steven explains. "You two having fun." Pearl says, while walking into the barn. "Yah I'm about to win!" Peridot exclaims. "No you're, ugh nevermind." Steven says. "Well it's time to go back to the temple, Garnet fixed you some dinner." Pearl says. "Ok, see you later Peridot, try practicing checkers with Lapis, I taught her earlier, she's pretty skilled." Steven says. "But not as skilled as me!" Peridot screams. Lapis comes flying into the barn. "LAZULI! I CHALLENGE YOU TO A GAME OF… CHECKERS!" Peridot yells. "We can finish up mine and Steven's game." "Sure, why not." Lapis agrees. Lapis sits down on her knees, Peridot on the other side of the checkerboard. "I'll let you go first, since I'm so skilled at this game." Peridot says. Lapis sits there silently for a few seconds. She then takes one of the checkers and jumps all of Peridot's. Peridot sitting there in shock yells, "I DEMAND A REMATCH!" "Sorry Peridot I've gotta take the board home, last time I left something here you kinda destroyed it." Steven says. Packing up the board, Steven hops on Pearl's back and she jumps into the sky.
Landing in front of the temple, Steven hops off of Pearl's back. Walking up the stairs as the sun is barely visible. "What a fantastic view." Steven says quietly. "Yes it is." Pearl says trailing behind Steven. Steven walks in the house and flicks on the lights. He opens the door to the closet under the stairs and puts the Checkerboard up. Pearl sits on the couch carefully watching Steven. "Umm, Pearl, you don't have to stick around, after I eat I'm just going to bed." Steven explains. "I know, it's just… I worry about you, humans are capable of choking" Pearl responds. "Oh yah, well you can stay until I get done eating, then I'm going to bed, and you can do whatever you do at night." Steven sits at the bar eating his meal Garnet had fixed for him. After he finishes eating he pushes Pearl into her room. Once she finally agrees to close the door Steven snuggles into bed not a sound to be heard.
BOOM! The beach house is shook, waking up Steven. The Gems come rushing out off the temple door. Steven looking over at the clock, it's flashing 12:00. In fact so is the microwave, and the stove. "Maybe the power went out." Steven thinks to himself. Steven climbs out of bed and sluggishly trots down the stairs. "Hey guys, what time is it." Steven say to the Gems. "It's 6:47." Garnet says in a hurry. "Something wrong?" Steven asks. The gems looking at each other then back at Steven. "No! Everything is-" Pearl starts only to be interrupted by Garnet. "Something isn't right this force, it's messing with my visions." Garnet says shakily. Steven finally waking up, notices a very high pitched shriek. "What's that sound!" Steven says covering his ears. What are you talking about, are you still half asleep?" Amethyst says. By now all the Gems are looking quite faint. "Is something wrong guys?" Steven asks. No one answers. Steven sits there until a strange feeling crawls over him. The gems collapse. Falling one by one until not one stand.
Steven sits there feeling worse every second. He falls his knees trying to regain his strength. Shaking Garnet telling her to wake up. It doesn't work. He can barely hear his own voice. Steven regaining some of his strength stands up and slowly walks to the warp. In the warp stream the sound is gone, Steven realizing what's happening around him. He finally makes it to the warp just below the barn. The sound is worse. Steven rushes to the barn before the sound gets too him. Coming up to the barn Lapis and Peridot lay there unconscious. He sees a small pink objects in the far part of the barn. The closer he gets to it the louder it gets. Steven on his way trips over Peridot's arm. Falling on his face, he looks up to see a hammer. He takes it and crawls slowly to the objects. He gets close enough to the object. He's never seen anything like it. He takes the hammer and beats at the objects until it the noise stops. It falls off the wall onto the ground. Out falls a Gem. Almost identical to his, except it's paler. He bubbles it, and sends it to the Temple. Looking over at Lapis and Peridot, the two still haven't moved. Steven takes their arms and drags them to the warp. Warping to the temple the two begin to float out of the stream. Steven quickly grabs their arms. Once back at the temple Steven drags Peridot and Lapis the Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl. Setting them down very carefully.
The sun just beginning to fully uncover Steven wants to check on the Gem he bubbled. But Garnet's out cold. He sits for a minute thinking about what he could do. He gets an idea and drags Garnet to the temple door. Exhausted from dragging Garnet, Steven takes a moment to breathe. He holds Garnet's hands up to the Door. He leans over to Garnets head and whisper open. Nothing happens. He then whispered open temple door. Garnet's Gems begin to glow. The door lights glow opening Garnet's room. "I'll drag you back later." Steven thinks to himself. Entering the room the door slams shut, starling Steven. He looks around trying to find the right bubble. Spotting it in the middle of the room. Steven has no clue how he's going to get to it. He jumps up flying up. Not falling. "Oh yah I forgot I had that ability." Grabbing the bubble he slowly falls. Walking out of Garnets room, he's looking at the Gem inside. Wondering why it looked so similar. But then he reminded himself there are billions of Gem's on homeworld, there's bound to be at least one that shares the same facet. Steven looks up only to be greeted by the Gems slowly standing up. Garnet sitting on the couch next to Peridot.
"Oh hey guys, nice to see you guys are awake." Steven says. "Steven what, happened?" Lapis says getting up from her knees. "Yeah all I remember is getting sick to the stomach, like worse than that time I ate that Burrito I found in my room. Then I blacked out!" Amethyst says. "Wait you guys didn't hear that noise?" Steven asks. "What noise?" Pearl asks. "There was this high pitched noise it made me feel awful. Something attached to the barn walls." Steven explains. "YES!" Peridot jumps up. "That thing crashed through the roof of the barn. It shot a wave over me and that's all I remember." "Hmm, it must have been a Homeworld device designed to emit a frequency so high it renders Gem's unmovable." Pearl says. "Yes, the tone is known as the Death Screech. It would've eventually shattered all of our Gems." Peridot explains. "Hmm that's strange," Garnet says. "Only one Gem could emit such a high sound…" Garnet trails off. The others look at her like she about said something crazy. "Yes, the only Gem who could would be Morgani-" Peridot is interrupted by Garnet who bubbles her and immediately sends her away. "Umm what's going on… OH YAH! Hey, this fell out of the machine, it-" Pearl takes the Gem from Steven and The Gems run into the Temple not saying anything. Lapis stands there next to Steven. "So wanna play checkers." Lapis asks.