It was a bright and sunny morning in Beach city, Steven lay on the floor in front of the TV watching Crying Breakfast Friends and eating cereal. Amethyst was sitting next to him, she was still confused about why they were crying over spilt milk. Garnet and Pearl had warped to where they thought they had seen movement in the brush, hopping it would be Peridot. They had warped home and told Amethyst to come help if they were not back soon.
"Hey Amethyst, where did Pearl and Garnet go?" Steven asked.
"Some mission. I don't know." She said eating a Mac 'n cheese packet.
Pearl warped back and looked frantically for Amethyst. "Hey, P." Amethyst said jumping from the loft area.
Steven ran down the stairs, "Pearl! Can I come on the mission?" He asked excitedly.
"Sure you can Stevman!" Amethyst said running to the warp pad.
Steven and Pearl did the same, Pearl muttering under her breath about Amethyst being to immature. They warped and Pearl quickly led them to where Pearl and Garnet had been fighting a corrupted gem, but they saw nothing.
Pearl yelled Garnet's name when they heard a faint yell from Garnet who said, "Pearl I can't do this on my own!" They followed her voice and saw Garnet held down on the ground by a black scorpion looking corrupted gem about to sink it's fangs into her.
She quickly rolled on her side when it lunged at her face. She turned back and punched it. It screeched and flung its tail at her sending her into the wall. Though the monster had failed to notice the spear coming for its head until it was to late. Pearl's spear pierced it's face making it screech and flail its tail wildly. Amethyst drew her whip from her gem and tied it around the monster's tail to keep it from swinging anymore.
Sapphire had seen this scene in her future vision, she needed to stop this as it already was on its way to destruction. Sapphire tried to take control of Garnet just for a minute so she could get everyone out of the danger she saw.
Ruby suddenly felt powerless, as if something had just drained her energy. She fought back only to feel as though she had just even kicked in the stomach.
"Sapphire? What are you doing!" She yelled. Sapphire didn't respond which made her even more infuriated.
"Steven look out!" Garnet yelled suddenly from Sapphire who was now taking control, she saw him jump out of the way of a leg from the scorpion. Sapphire felt pain in her stomach when she realized she was now on the ground.
"Ruby, what are you doing!?" She yelled as Ruby made Garnet run from the spot she was standing at, she looked back and saw that spot where she had been standing mere seconds ago had a leg stomping on it.
Steven saw Garnet's strange behavior, she was holding her head and shouting but suddenly she looked at him and yelled at him to move. He had been so caught up in watching her that he forgot the situation happening around them. A leg smashed into the wall behind where Steven had been standing. He activated his shield and blocked another leg that came his way, but it had hit him in his cheek making spit fly from his mouth.
Garnet seemed to get herself together enough to punch the monster once more. One more punch was all it took and the monster poofed into a cloud of dust.
The gem fell to the ground, unfortunately landing in Steven's healing spit. Though no one focused on the gem, as they thought they had gotten rid of the problem. They were all focused on Steven, he was rubbing his cheek where the monster had got a hit on him.
The gem silently glowed and lifted into the air, a figure wearing a dark blue-green dress with spots of a lime green fell to the ground. She shook her head for a moment then looked up to see the Crystal Gems. They were gathered around the "Steven". She got up and ran towards the forest. Unbeknownst to her, someone awaited her.
The Crystal Gems warped home and Garnet immediately went to her room, it seemed she was having trouble staying her usual stoic self but no one knew why. It all happened so quickly that it seemed like time almost wanted to skip over this part to get to the next, but the real question was why.
