"Your eyes... Are you okay?" Connie gasped.
Steven pondered this question. "I'll be fine. I'm much better now, thanks to you!"
"Yeah, but you don't look okay."
"Of course I don't. Connie, I'll be fine."
Connie put her hand un his shoulder. "Let me help you. Tell me how."
"My gem is cracked. There isn't much you can do."
"Garnet or the other Crystal gems might know what to do."
Steven paused. Crystal gems. The reason he had been forced into a mirror in the first place. Whatever they had done he had been accused of. Steven felt rage flood through him.
He turned to Connie. "Do you associate with the crystal gems?"
Connie blinked. "Yeah... why?"
Steven Stepped back. "You, You're one of them!" Just then he had memories of Jasper and her Diamond. He remembered being screamed at to answer but one question. Connie was one of them! he couldn't trust her. His face turned from alarmed to hateful.
He stopped. But she freed me, she must be different...
"Connie, those gems are the reason I was stuck in that mirror in the first place! You can't trust them!"
Some crashing was heard from the Temple, and three Crystal gems burst from the door onto the beach at the sight of Steven.
"Connie! what are you doing? Get away from that boy, he could be dangerous!" Pearl cried out.
Connie looked taken aback. "He's not dangerous, he needs help!"
Steven stepped forward. "So you are the Crystal gems whose price I had to pay. And even when you found me here on earth you didn't do anything! I was trapped, for thousands of years, and you didn't even care! My name is Steven Quartz, and I'm not going to stay trapped here anymore!" And with that he raised his hand and made vines burst from the ground, wrapping around everybody's feet except Connie's. The crystal gems were stuck.
Connie gasped. "Steven! What are you doing?!"
"I need to escape somehow. And how will I do that if they're chasing me?"
With that, Steven took off.
"Steven, wait! maybe they can help you!"
The vines fell when he was out of sight.
Connie hesitated, then ran after him.
"Steven!"