Steven took another handful of chips from the bag, popping it all into his mouth at once as he layed in front of TV, not really caring what was on.
It wasn't a very eventful day for the young Crystal Gem. Thinking about it, it wasn't a very eventful day for any of the gems. They had no monsters to fight, no corrupted gems to bubble, and no Homeworld Gems to watch out for, at least for now.
Steven had just gotten back from Empire City with his Dad and Pearl. He was relieved to have finally fixed the issues between the two after almost a decade and a half of passive-aggresive conflict. Steven felt like he did something that his mom never really could, let alone if she ever even payed attention to what was going on with Pearl and her feelings for her. He had a great time at the end of it all, and now he could relax for his next exciting adventure. Whenever and wherever that was.
Steven wasn't too sure what all the other gems were doing. He knew that Garnet was in The Burning Room, Lapis and Peridot were at the barn probably trying to get along, and Pearl was in her room doing... whatever she does in there, but he had no idea where Amethyst could be. Is she in her room? He hasn't seen her come out all day. She's probably doing something way more fun then just staring at a screen all day.
That's when he heard the warp pad activate and a ball of grey hair zoomed right in front of his face.
"HEEEEEEEEEYYYY STEEEEEEEEEEVEEEEEEEEEEEN." shouted Amethyst, who just crashed through Steven's room and landed right in front of his face.
Steven blinked a few times to wake himself up.
"Oh, what's up Amethyst? I was just watching TV."
Amethyst looked around for a second, not noticing that Steven wasn't really doing anything.
"That's cool, but I've got something even cooler!"
Amethyst pulled out a strange looking object, which resembled a crystal but with some sort of golden bracelet wrapped around it. The crystal was green in color and had a weird glow on it.
"Uh, cool. What is it?" asked Steven, now intrigued about what Amethyst found rather than whatever was on the TV.
Amethyst started to explain. "It's a trans-dimensional time-thingy. You know how we got other worlds and stuff all the time? Well, THIS thing can take us to a whooooooole buttload of different universes. I found it in my room while I was busy trying to get all my junk organized. Me and the Gems have been trying to find this thing for years now, and it just ends up in my room! Can you believe that?"
Steven stared at it in awe. He began to bombard Amethyst with tons of questions.
"How does it work? Can we use it now? How many worlds can we go to? How much can we use it? When-"
Amethyst calmed Steven down. "Woah there, dude. Chill out. I know how to use it. All we gotta do is say some magic word and then BOOM, we can get transported to any world we want. For all we know, there could be a world where we're all evil or something!"
Steven didn't like to think about himself becoming evil too much, be still thought it was cool.
"So what's the magic word?"
Amethyst snickered. "That's the best part! It's the easiest word you could ever guess! It's-"
Before she could finish her sentence, the warp pad activated again and Garnet stepped out of it, with Pearl coming out from her room right behind her.
Steven and Amethyst looked down from Steven's room at the other two members of the Gems, who immediately noticed the object that was in Amethyst's hands.
Pearl stood tall and started talking. "Amethyst, where did you get that? Is that the dimensional portal device that we've been looking for over 5 years?"
Amethyst shrugged. "Yeah. I just found it in my room. So?"
Pearl was flabbergasted that she would find such an important device and not tell her or Garnet immediately. "So? SO? Do you know how dangerous that thing is? Give it to Garnet, now!"
Garnet agreed. "Amethyst, that device is extrememly unstable. We don't know what it could do to this world."
Amethyst looked at them with annoyance. "C'mon guys, what's the big deal? It doesn't even work anyways, I tried using the magic word and-"
"Amethyst, don't do it." Garnet said sternly.
Steven looked reluctantly at Amethyst. "I think Garnet's right, Amethyst. I'm kinda worried about what this thing can do. Can you just please give it back to Garnet?"
Amethyst grinned right down at the two gems and said the unspeakable word that activates the device.
"Homeworld."
Just then, a giant portal of black and white appeared on the ceiling of the Beach House. It started to swirl and created a huge vortex of air, attemtping to suck in all the inhabitants of the house. The Gems struggled to hold onto something so they wouldn't get sucked in.
Steven was holding onto his bed for dear life, scared and confused at what was happening. He couldn't hold on much longer, though; the vortex was too strong. Same with the other Gems. Even Garnet with her amazing strength couldn't hold up against the powerful suction of the portal.
All four were sucked into the portal, along with the device. In the portal, one could hear Pearl screaming at Amethyst for being so irresponsible. Again.
If only the knew that the world they would be transportred too would change their lives and perspectives forever.