Season 1 Episode 1

Gem Glows

"Nooooo!" A girl yelled at the top of her lungs in a place called the Big Donut. The girl looked like this: cgi/set?id=174214041.

"This can't be happening! This has to be a dream! Anthony, Anthony!" The girl hugged a man with dark brown hair and dark brown eyes around the waist.

"Please tell me I'm dreaming!"

"Get off me, I'm stocking!" Anthony said as he walked away.

"I'm sorry, Ellie, I guess they stopped making them." A girl with blue hair and blue contacted eyes said.

"Stopped making them?! Why in the world would they stop making Cookie Cats? They're only the most scrumptious and delicious ice cream sandwich ever made! Don't they have laws for this?!" Anthony sighed heavily.

"Tough bits. Nobody buys them anymore. I guess they couldn't compete with Lion Lickers." Anthony said as Ellie groaned, anguished.

"Not Lion Lickers, nobody likes them. They don't even look like lions! Kids these days, I'll tell ya what!" She complained. Anthony chuckled.

"Well, if you miss your wimpy ice cream so much, why don't you make some with your "magic belly button"? Ahahahahaha!" He mocked.

"That's not how it works, Anthony!... Right?" She lifted up her shirt to show a pink gem in her belly button and sighed.

"Oh, sweet Cookie Cats, with your crunchy cookie outside and your icy creamy insides. You were too good for this world." Ellie kissed the Cookie Cat freezer.

"Uh...?" Ellie said nothing as she hugged the freezer. Anthony looked at the pinkette.

"Do you want to take the freezer with you?" She nodded.

Ellie hummed the Cookie Cat theme as she walked up a small hill and into a house.

"Hey guys, you won't believe this—" Ellie was suddenly attacked by a monster, her hat falling off.

"Waaah!" A man used a whip to yank the monster off Ellie.

"Sup', Ellie?" The man looked like this: cgi/set?id=174216624.

"Scary! What are these things?" Another man that looked like this: cgi/set?id=174227221 lifted up one up and groaned.

"Sorry, Ellie, we'll get these centipeetles out of your room. We think they were trying to get into the temple."

"Please do! I am scared of bugs!" The centipeetle spit acid onto floor, making a hole.

"Um, you guys, these pieces of shit don't have gems." The blue-hatted man said.

"That means there's gotta be a momma somewhere nearby." Another guy said who looked like this: cgi/set?id=174221238

"We should probably find it before anyone gets hurt." The masked man said.

"Oh, oh! Can I come?! Can I, can I?!"

"Ellie, until you learn to control the powers in your gem," The white-gemmed man started as he snapped the centipeetle's neck.

"We'll take care of protecting humanity, got it, chickadee?"

"Aw, man." Ellie noticed a centipeetle raiding the fridge.

"Hey! Get out of there! Go on, shoo shoo! Aw, they got into everything. Not cool!" She noticed the fridge was full of Cookie Cats.

"No way... it can't be! W-Where did you get these?! I thought they stopped making them!"

"Well, we heard that too, and since they're your favorite—" The purple one jumped in.

"We went out and stole a bunch!" The masked one glared at the purple one before crossing his arms and looking away.

"I went back and paid for them."

"The whole thing was my idea." The red one said smugly as he retracted his guns back to his gems.

"It was everyone's fucking idea."

"Not really."

"All that matters is that Ellie is happy." The white one said. Ellie started to rap goofily.

"Oooooh, he's a frozen treat with an all new taste, 'cause he came to this planet from outer space. A refugee of an interstellar war, but now he's at your local grocery store. Cookie Cat! He's a pet for your tummy! Cookie Cat! He's super duper yummy! Cookie Cat! He left his family behind! Cookie Caaat! Now available at Gurvhen's off route 109." She mumbled the last part. The men burst out in laughter and applause.

"I can't believe you did this. I'm gonna save these forever! Right after I eat this one." She took one and unwrapped the ice cream sandwich.

"Hello, old friend." She bit into it.

"Oh, so good!" Ellie's gem began to glow.

"I like to eat the ears first."

"Uh, Ellie…" The purple man said.

"Wha? My gem!"

"Fuck, try and summon your weapon!"

"I-I don't know how!" Ellie started to panic.

"Ah, it's fading! How do I make it come back?!"

"Calm down, Ellie. Breathe, don't force it." The masked man guided.

"Yeah, and try not to shit yourself either."

"Please, don't." The gem glow faded away, making Ellie sigh.

"Ah, I was really close that time! Can one of you just explain how to summon a weapon?"

"Oh, I'll go first! You'll have to wait!" The masked man said in a singsong voice.

Ellie and the white masked man were in front of a pink cherry blossom tree.

"Pay attention to these petals, Ellie. The petals' dance seems improvised, but it is being calculated in real time based on the physical properties of this planet. With hard work and dedication, you can master the magical properties of your gem and perform your own dance! Or that's what Okami taught me." He summoned a Sup Guy bomb, not lit.

"Like so."

Ellie and the purple guy were next to the Big Donut. Ellie picked up a pile of petals and tossed them in the air.

"Wah!"

"Did Cry tell you the "petal thing"?"

"Yeah, I need to practice really hard so I can dance like a tree... I think."

"Listen Ellie, all that practice shit is no fucking fun. Whenever I need to summon my weapon, it just fucking happens." He summoned his whip and broke a garbage container in two.

"See? Didn't try at fucking all." Anthony ran out back and dropped a trash bag.

"What the fuck?! Again?!

"So I'm supposed to work really hard and not try at all at the same time?" Ellie asked the reddish purplish man.

"Pretty much. Or... you could link your mind with the energy of all existing matter. Channeling the collective power of the universe through your gem, which results in—" He summoned his guns from his heart shaped gems on his hand.

"At least that's my way of doing it."

"I think my best bet is to recreate what happened the last time my gem glowed. So…" Ellie pointed, the purple man sitting back on the counter with the red man next to him.

"Mark and James were here. Cry was next to the fridge. Hmm. James, I think your arms were crossed?"

"Okay, your highness." James, the blue hatted man crossed his arms.

"And Cry, your hands were like this." Ellie moved his hands into his pockets.

"I don't think it works this way, Ellie."

"And Mark, uh…" She moved his face and glasses.

"Yeah. Then I took a bite of this Cookie Cat. Oh, wait! I sang the song first. Uh, he's a frozen treat, all new taste, interstellar war, now available at Ghurven's. Aww, it was funnier last time." Ellie sighed.

"Maybe I'm not a real Crystal Gem." Mark bent down next to Ellie.

"Don't be silly, Ellie. Of course you are."

"And you're fun to have around, even if your gem is fucking useless." Cry and Mark glared angrily at the bearded man.

"I... mean, you're one of us, Ellie. We're not the Crystal Gems without you!" Cry nodded,

"Yeah, even if I don't have powers, I've still got... Cookie Cat!" She took a bite.

"Mmm, so good." Ellie's gem glowed then summoned a shield, making a collective gasp.

"Ellie, it's a fucking shield!" Cry said, his language flying over his head.

"Whoa, what?! I get a shield?! Oooh... yeah!" Ellie cheered, accidentally launching the shield which ricochets around the room, breaking a TV; James burst out laughing.

"Huh? Cookie Cat! I summon my weapon by eating ice cream!" Mark picked up the wrapper.

"What's in these things?" The house rumbled.

"What was that?" Everyone looked to the screen door to find a giant centipeedle. They raced outside.

"It's the Big Momma!" Mark yelled, leaping towards it.

"Stay in the house, Ellie!"

"No way, I'm coming too!" Ellie yelled as she went back to grab several Cookie Cats and the little freezer. The Gems chased the mother which lead them to the back of the temple and the mother attacked, the Gems take cover behind a broken hand statue as acid poured over the side.

"We could really use Ellie's fucking shield right about now!" James said in irritation. Ellie chucked a pebble at the mother.

"Hey!" She planted the freezer in the sand, it being too heavy for her to carry any further.

"Leave them alone!"

"Ellie- no!" The Gems yelled.

"Cookie Cat Crystal combo powers, activate!" Ellie ate a cookie cat but, nothing happened.

"Uh-oh. Aaaah!" Ellie retreated further back.

"We need to save Ellie!" Cry said.

"Can we fucking save ourselves first?!" James yelled.

"Goodbye, my friends." Ellie ate several cookie cats but, still, nothing happened.

"Why isn't it working?" She retreated once more.

"Ellie!" Mark held back the mother's pincers. She noticed the freezer was destroyed and gasped, tears in her eyes.

"No... Oh, no no no no no!..." She stared at it, tears trailing down her face.

"Cookie Cat, he's a pet for your tummy. Cookie Cat, he's super duper yummy!" She yelled, slow at first, but yelling at the end. She dragged the freezer by its chord aggressively.

"Cookie Cat, he left his family behind! Cookie Caaat!" She chucks freezer at the mother which shocked it.

"Now available... nowhere." She said while falling to her knees.

"Fuck yes!"

"Gems, weapons!" Cry yelled. The Gems summoned their weapons, James' a purple bullwhip from his amethyst on his chest, Cry's little Sup Guy bombs from a pearl on the forehead of his mask and Mark's duel pistols with matching 'warfstaches' from two garnets that sat on the palms of his hands. The gems burst from the cover.

"Let's do it." The gems attacked all at once, destroying the mother, a gem fell and Mark bubbled it away. Ellie buried a wrapper and put a small leaf on top of the small grave.

"Farewell, sweet Cookie Cats. I'll always remember the time we spent together." Her stomach rumbled.

"Shh, hush now."

"Are you crying?" James questioned, raised an eyebrow.

"Only a little!" She squeaked.

"Well, I guess your powers don't come from fucking ice cream."

"Of course they don't come from ice cream. Don't worry, Ellie, I'm sure someday you'll figure out how to activate your gem." Mark said.

"Yeah, in your own Ellin-y way." Cry said, ruffling her hair.

"I'm okay guys. I just—" Her stomach rumbled.

"Ugh, I think I ate too many Cookie Cats…" The Gems laughed. Ellie laughed anxiously, then vomited.

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