Max stares at the screen, at the edge of his seat, as he watches Yellow Diamond descend in a spaceship. His eyes are glued to the screen as the Crystal Gems, now complete with Lapis Lazuli, Jasper, and the healed Centipeetle, look on in horror. There is a huge gush of smoke, as Peridot hides behind Steven, who summons a bubble to protect her.
Yellow Diamond: I want my Peridot. Hand me the Peridot or else I will obliterate all you miserable idiots in the blink of an eye!
Max: *gasp*
Steven: W-w-we don't… don't know… where…
Pearl: Peridot is on Neptune!
Yellow Diamond: WELL WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST SAY SO? Come on Fluorite, take us to Neptune.
Fluorite: Engines revving, thrusters on, to Neptune we go!
Max: Wait.. what?
Credits roll
Max: Are you SHITTING ME? What the actual fuck was THAT? That was the BIGGEST ANTICLIMAX EVER! What the HELL Crewniverse? What gives?! Now to go bitch about this on Re-
Max suddenly awakes in his bed. It's 5:37am on the morning the season five finale airs in the US. There is still another 19 hours before it airs and will be uploaded online to watch
Max: (Thinking) That's the 5th sodding incarnation of the season 5 finale in one night! Urgh and the bloody neighbour has started drumming again. Well that's all I'll be sleeping tonight I guess.
Max gets out of his bed and boots up his laptop. He goes onto the Steven Universe Wikia and reads the page on Season 5 Episode 24 for the 200th time. This was last week's episode. He reads the vague title and description of episodes 25 and 26 yet again, knowing that tonight will finally be the night this two-parter airs. Everyone on the Reddit and Wikia is extremely hyped. Max gets out his phone, and rings his friend Aquamarine, who is currently staying in Switzerland for 2 weeks
Max: Hey, Aquamarine, are you ready for tonight?!
Aquamarine: I absolutely cannot WAIT! It's a shame that I won't be watching it till like, 2 in the morning though. Screw timezones.
Max: Yellow Diamond is coming to Earth! All KINDS of shit is gonna go down tonight!
Aquamarine: Hey isn't it like, 5:45am where you are?
Max: Yeah, my stupid bastards for neighbours have decided to start playing the drums again.
Aquamarine: Ughh ASSHOLES.
Max: So if I am even going to be able to stay up tonight I'll probably need to splat out at some point during the day.
Max looks at the crack in his laptop screen caused by where he carelessly shut the thing with a rubber inside two days ago
Aquamarine: I have to go prepare for my interview now.
Max: And I have to sit here and wait for 10 when my first class is. I'll be back at 3 then I'll try crash out on the bed. Ugh I'm so tired I've had like three Steven-filled hours of sleep tonight. And I know my neighbours, they're gonna play the drums till the cows come home. So there's no hope of getting any more sleep tonight. Might as well just draw a comic.
Aquamarine: See you later.
Max: Bye.
Max hangs up the phone, and for absolutely no reason, being the clumsy idiot he is, drops his phone. It lands hard on the ground.
Max: Shit!
Max picks the phone off the ground, and sees the screen is cracked.
Max: SHIT!
7pm. Max has just got back from hall dinner and Aquamarine is back in her hostel room. Max rings Aquamarine through Skype.
Max: Hey!
Aquamarine: Hey!
Max: Only five hours till it airs in the US! Man I have been looking forward to this episode for so long I cannot even explain!
Aquamarine: I know… I've been into this show almost as long as you, and I've known you all that time lol
Max: I remember when Chille Tid was the last episode. And when 4-month hiatuses were the norm! The Summer of Steven was cool, and now people are finally beginning to appreciate Super Watermelon Island for the top-5 material that it is!
Aquamarine: New generation of fans I guess.
Max: Well tonight better top Jail Break for all this hype!
Aquamarine: Hey, let's do something new tonight. Let's stay on the phone whilst we watch and hear each other's live reactions!
Max: OMG YEAH! We can physically watch each other drawl a river like when we watched Message Received for the first time!
Aquamarine: Now we just have to twiddle our thumbs and wait.
The fire bell rings in Max's room.
Max: That's the fourth one this week!
Aquamarine: What the fuck is up with your fire alarms?! Does WIND set them off?
Max: Probably. See you in a bit. Bye!
11:30pm. Max rings Aquamarine again.
Max: That was a bless cigarette. I'm on the Wikia Chat. It's going absolutely bananas, people getting kicked every single second from all the hype. I can barely keep up with it!
Aquamarine: Look at the timer on the front page! 28 minutes to go!
Max: It just flipped to 27! IT'S HAPPENING! IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING!
Aquamarine: Squeeee
Max: 27:45!
Aquamarine: Urgh hang on a second. My roommate is coming in speaking Spanish as usual. Hola… Por favor déjenos solos por un rato… Hemos estado esperando mucho tiempo para esto… ¡Mear fuera!
Aquamarine starts nattering away in Spanish too fast for Max to be able to tell any syllables apart from each other. She goes on and on and on to her roommate in Spanish, whilst Max sits there bored, watching the timer.
Aquamarine: Sorry about that. Heh. Roommates. I finally got him to leave for the night. He was NOT happy.
Max: FIVE FREAKING MINUTES! Now 4:55! 4:50!
Aquamarine: HYPE HYPE HYPE! 4:30!
Max: Urgh this is going TOO SLOW. Maybe if we talk about something else the minutes will just tick by!
Aquamarine: Sounds like a plan!
Max: So you know how there's a big fat crack in my laptop?
Aquamarine: The one you made two days ago? Yeah… what about it?
Max: This morning I dropped my phone. And guess what happened to it?
Aquamarine: I don't believe you.
Max: Hey look it's working, only two and a half minutes!
Aquamarine: Did you seriously crack your phone too?!
Max: Yeah. Absolutely no reason whatsoever. Just me being a clumsy wanker as usual. OMG only ONE MINUTE TO GO!
Aquamarine: 57 SECONDS!
Max: Do you want to see my cracked phone screen? Hey, I'll turn on video so you can see it.
Max turns on video and holds the cracked phone up to the laptop's camera
Aquamarine: Shit you really smashed it! THIRTY SECONDS!
Max: Look at this, two broken screens side by side.
Aquamarine: TWENTY SECONDS!
Max: The cracked screens are like, brothers. Look at it!
Aquamarine: TEN SECONDS!
Max: I wonder if I can get the cracks to kiss!
Aquamarine: FIVE! FOUR! THREE! TWO! ONE!
As Aquamarine says "zero", Max puts the two screen cracks against each other. SUDDENLY, there is a HUGE zap of electricity. The electricity shakes the air and shoots through Max's arm.
Max: AAAAAAHHWUHUIFHIUEHFUIHHFHHGHHHH HELP! I'M BEING ELECTROCUTED!
Aquamarine: MAX!? MAX?!
The electricity surges all the way through Max's body and enters the laptop. Aquamarine's laptop starts glowing.
Aquamarine: What the f-
A bolt of electricity surges out of Aquamarine's laptop and hits her square in the chest, eventually circling her body too
Aquamarine: ITHRWIUHDWHDIUHIUHDIUFHIWUH IT'S HIT ME TOO!
Max: TELL MY MUM I LOVE HEEE-
Everything fades to black for both. They both suddenly wake up on a large double bed with a price tag and a woman nearby. The word "SALE" in large red letters appears above them.
Woman: Don't miss out on our discount sale for a limited time only on this King-size double bed. Just half-price, down to $500, and super duper comforta- WHAT THE FUCK?! OOPS I swore on.. WHO ON EARTH ARE THESE PEOPLE!?
Max: AHH! (Jumps out of the bed) WHAT JUST HAPPENED? WHERE'S MY ROOM?!
Max sees there is a Cartoon Network logo in the corner of the room.
Max: Oh my god. Aquamarine, wake up! We somehow teleported into Cartoon Network! The episode of Steven Universe is JUST ABOUT TO START… And we're… IN IT!
Aquamarine: What the-
Max: It's the adverts currently, Steven is JUST ABOUT TO START!
Aquamarine: Please tell me this is a dream.
Max: DUDE this is AWESOME! We can literally change anything we want! And we get to be INSIDE THE STEVEN EPISODE! Watch this!
Max jumpscares the woman, who runs right through the wall of the room in the Advert!
Aquamarine: Wait so… we're INSIDE Cartoon Network?!
Max: YEAH! It looks like it, see the logo?
Aquamarine: Holy shit… we actually are… AND STEVEN IS ABOUT TO STA-
Aquamarine is cut short as the screen fades to black, and the two materialise in a strange location...