Thankfully, Dirk did not decapitate himself because Peridot tripped on her way down the stairs and he had to say 'I told you about those stairs! I warned you dog!' for some reason. Crisis avoided.

After that, the Gems retreated back to the Temple to talk things over themselves. Well, Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl were. Steven had the feeling that Peridot would either lock herself in the bathroom, catch-up on Camp Pining Hearts (which just recently had a revival, though without the original cast), or head back to the barn and try to get Lapis to watch Camp Pining Hearts with her. Steven then introduced the Kids and Davepetasprite to Connie, and they spent the next hour on the beach repeating the story a third time. At least it was a bit quicker this time.

(Steven's getting tired of this, and he realizes that eventually they'll have to tell Lapis and he doesn't want to do that. Steven tells John who says that they'll get Dave to write a five-hour rap when he shows up and he can perform it for her. Steven still doesn't want to be there when it happens.)

Connie was still trying to get a hold of all this inter-dimensional travel and death stuff, but as soon as Steven finally got dressed for the day, they headed off to the boardwalk so the Kids could do normal human stuff.

". . . and that's how Casey became my daughter and a necromancer," John finishes answering one of Connie's questions on their walk to the boardwalk.

"So you basically kidnapped a salamander from her mother?" Connie questions.

"Kidnapped a strong word. I prefer adopted," John states.

"Any other questions?" Jane asks. So far they have covered why Jade has dog ears, how Jake became the leader of the Felt, how Betty Crocker is evil, why Jake's legs are so smooth, why Dirk's pants are so poofy, what doomed timelines are, what utterly generic objects are, and how Casey became the leader of an undead army; all in a very timely manner.

"Uh, yeah," Connie says. "Davepetasprite, why do you have horns?"

"Aren't they cat ears?" Steven questions. He thought they were cat ears. They said that they were part cat-girl corpse. They look like cat ears.

"Because that cat girl corpse I'm made of was a troll, and trolls have horns," Davepetasprite explains.

"Why didn't you mention it earlier?" Steven asks.

"Because I was pretty sure we all had subconsciously agreed to not tell the Gems about our relations to trolls just yet," Davepetasprite says.

"Why?" Connie questions.

"Well, according to Karkat, one of our troll friends, back in his universe Trolls and Gems were enemies. Both of them were trying to colonize the entire universe and had huge fleets. Plus, they kinda hated each other," Jade explains.

"Yeah," Davepetasprite continues. "The Nepeta part of me feels a lot of hate towards the Gems. They weren't put in a good light back on Alternia."

"And in this universe, where both Earth, Alternia and Homeworld exist, the Gems will have the same views on Trolls," Jade continues.

"Which is stupid, because the trolls I know are pretty chill. Well . . . except for Terezi. There was that time she tried to kill me," John rolls his eyes as he floats upside-down over Connie and Steven. Connie and Steven gasp, but John continues, "I've gotten over it! That was three years ago. I still don't like her though."

"Aw Johnny," Roxy coos. "You are so black for her!"

"I am not black for Terezi!" John claims, flipping right-side up as he does. Steven has no idea what 'going black for her' means but he doesn't have enough time to question it.

"Well, anyways, Karkat said that he wanted to present his case against the Gems himself so I think we should all keep out mouths shut about the trolls when around the Crystal Gems until they get here," Jade says. "And we shouldn't worry about that either-we're going to have fun!"

"Yeah!" Jake agrees. "Will there be any place to try cotton candy? I've always seen it in movies and it looks so delicious!"

"You've never had cotton candy?" Connie gasps.

"I've lived alone on an island for most of my life," Jake replies.

"Same," Jade adds.

"Me and Dirky were the last humans in the world so I guess that counts," Roxy continues.

"Then let's go get cotton candy!" Steven exclaims. He starts to run and everyone follows after him as they get onto the boardwalk.

Steven starts off by getting cotton candy, which Connie quickly questions if they are going to ride rides, but no one seems to care. Jake, Jade, Dirk and Roxy are all amazed by the strange texture of the cotton candy, but eat it all nonetheless. Even John eats some, even though he has his aversion to sugar.

They then ride every ride in Funland. It is quite the feat, but everyone has fun even though John threw up after the first three rides. There's no horrible Funland accident, and no one seems to question what the Kids are wearing or why John can fly. Actually, no one's stopped Steven to ask him about the blue wind vortex or the golden ship yet, which is strange. Or maybe that's because no one has time to, since the Kids are trying out all the rides as fast as they can.

"I can't believe we rode every ride in Funland in under three hours!" Steven exclaims as they walk the expanse of the boardwalk after an electrifying two and a half hours.

"We cut a lot of time by teleporting in between rides and only stopping to allow John to throw up," Jane points out. "Which wasn't necessary."

"Look, I think we beat a record and that's what counts," John argues.

"Now what?" Roxy questions. She's currently on a mix of a sugar high and an adrenaline rush, so she's actually floating along with John because apparently god tiers can fly. Davepetasprite is enjoying the company in the air, as they're making figure-8's around John and Roxy.

"It's getting close to dinner," Connie points out. "And I didn't have much for lunch."

"Same. All I had were ghost cookies," Steven replies. "Surprisingly filling though."

"Oh! We should go to one of those restaurants you've told us about Steven!" John suddenly exclaims. "No offense to Nanna, but I've been eating baked goods for breakfast, lunch and dinner for the past three years and it gets a bit old after a while."

"Yeah . . ." Jade agrees. "And I've never been to a restaurant before!"

"And we only ate alchemized food when we were away from Jane," Dirk adds. "Which I wouldn't suggest."

"Yes and my planet was desolate . . . I couldn't enjoy a good hunt full of bravado and moxie to gather my food," Jake continues.

"Then let's go to Fish Stew Pizza!" Steven exclaims.

"Do we have enough money for everyone?" Connie questions.

"Don't worry, I've got this," Roxy floats up to Connie's shoulder. "Can I have a dollar? I'm gonna do some majicks!"

"You are not creating counterfeit money!" Jane quickly forbids.

"It won't be counterfeit . . . it's just exact copies," Roxy argues.

"You're going to give the Fed a huge headache," Dirk comments.

"No," Jane sets her foot down.

"Well I have enough coupons to get a free pizza," Steven points out.

"Oo! Problem solved!" Roxy exclaims.

"Then pizza?" John asks the group for approval.

"Pizza!" Jake and Roxy reply.

"I'm down," Dirk agrees.

"I'm up for it," Davepetasprite throws in.

"Sounds delicious," Jade finishes.

"Then pizza!" John repeats.

Steven leads the group to Fish Stew Pizza, which is thankfully is open and not that full. There's the Buck and Sour Cream sitting in the back with Jenny hovering near-by (pretending to work) and Ronaldo's at another table. They all look up when the group enters. Jenny merely shades her eyes from Davepetasprite's quickly changing colors, Sour Cream's jaw drops, while Ronaldo instantly freezes. Steven goes up to the counter while the Kids put two tables together to fit all of them.

"Hey Steven!" Kiki steps up to the counter from the kitchen. She instantly goes silent as she sees the Kids sitting down while Davepetasprite floats above them. "Uh . . . who are your . . . new friends?"

"Those are John, Jade, Jane, Jake, Dirk, Roxy and Davepetasprite! And Connie's here too," Steven says as he pulls out his rewards coupons. "I have eight rewards cards, so two free pizzas please!"

". . . Of course," Kiki quickly writes down his order. "They'll be up in a couple minutes."

Kiki quickly disappears into the kitchen and Steven rejoins his group. He finds that Dirk, Davepetasprite, Roxy and John have already started up a conversation with Buck, Jenny and Sour Cream.

"So you're like a living rave light?" Sour Cream asks Davepetasprite, staring at them with fascination.

"Yeah I guess," Davepetasprite replies.

"Would you mind coming to one of my raves? I hold them every other week on Fridays at the warehouse," Sour Cream asks.

"You should go!" Steven interjects. "Sour Cream's raves are super cool!"

"Sure. Sounds furtastic," Davepetasprite agrees.

"So where'd you guys come from? And where'd you get the clothes?" Jenny then asks.

"We came here this morning, in that golden ship on the beach," Roxy answers.

"So you guys caused that evacuation this morning?" Buck asks.

"Yeah. Sorry about that," John apologizes. "But that was a good thing I guess. We could've crashed into the town if things went wrong."

"My dad had to get me up at nine to get me to leave!" Jenny exclaims.

"Sorry," John apologizes again. "And about our clothes . . . we kinda just woke up with them? That's the simplified version of it at least."

"Then what happened to your clothes you were wearing before that?" Sour Cream questions.

"I dunno," John answers. "Come to think of it, I never saw those clothes Vriska gave me again. Or those cool suits. Dammit they were soo cool. And all the stuff I alchemized too!"

"I still have your planet John," Jade points out.

"Yeah but haven't imps wrecked the shit out of that place?" John questions.

"Maybe? We're out of the game now but if not you can just fight them for it."

"I don't want to fight them. I'm done fighting imps."

"Just scare them with your windy thing!"

"We've just defeated Lord English I'm not going back to fighting Level 1 imps!"

"Yeah but we don't even know if they're there!"

Steven and the Cool Kids have dropped out of the conversation because it doesn't make much sense to them, but John and Jade seem pretty contempt to continue bickering with each other.

"Cool shades man," Buck says to Dirk.

"Thanks. Yours are cool too," Dirk replies.

"Man, you kinda look alike," Jenny points out. "It may just be the shades or that poker face."

"Or the gelled up hair," Roxy adds, trying to go in and mess up Dirk's hair but he swats her away.

"It just means that we both have good fashion sense," Dirk says as he fends off Roxy. "Though I prefer the jeans to the poofy pants."

"Nah, those poofy pants are cool too. Gives you character," Buck insists.

"Pizzas ready!" Kiki announces, unknowingly barging in to their conversations but she makes up for it by bringing them two pizzas. "Two pizzas, hot and ready. Enjoy your meal!"

"Thank-you!" Steven says as the rest of the table in, but he wasn't the only one to reply.

"You too," Dirk says automatically as Kiki walks away, and immediately his face goes slack.

"Not again," Jane groans, dropping the pizza in her hands onto her plate just so she could bury her head in her hands.

Dirk's chair skirts back as he jolts up and announces, "There's no way out of it, you're going to have to decapitate me."

"What?" Sour Cream says with laugh, as he doesn't understand what's going on. He almost falls out of his chair when Dirk pulls his sword out of nowhere again.

"NO!" Roxy shouts as she jumps onto Dirk and begins to wrestle the sword from his grasp. "JADE!"

"I'm on it!" Jade shouts as puts her hands in front of her like she's framing the struggle, but then she begins to bring them closer and miraculously the sword begins to shrink until it's small enough to only be used as a toothpick.

"I can still use this," Dirk insists as he and Roxy struggle over the miniature sword.

"NO!" Roxy argues. As they fight the sword slips out of Dirk's hands right into John's lap, who picks it up and makes it disappear.

"Did you just captachlogue my sword?" Dirk asks. John nods his head. "You know, if you just let me decapitate myself I would have been fine. It wouldn't have been heroic or just."

"And get blood all of this nice establishment? Nuh-uh!" Roxy says as she sits down and begins to dig into the pizza with everyone else who have continue on like this wasn't a big deal.

"Honestly Dirk, I can't tell if you're being serious or if this is some type of prank, but as the reigning pranking champion I can tell you that it's not funny," Jane reprimands Dirk as he sits back down.

"You guys talk about me decapitating myself like it's a big deal," Dirk argues.

"YOU DECAPITATED YOURSELF FOUR TIMES IN THE PAST THREE DAYS!" Jane shouts.

"And you and John had two pranks wars in the past three but nobody pointed that out," Dirk argues.

"Yeah but did anyone die from their prank wars?" Jade asks. "I may have gotten socked by a bucket of water and Fin may have lost a toe from a mousetrap (if Leprechauns even have toes) but nobody died."

"Yeah but I'm agreeing with myself to decapitate myself and nobody but me is getting hurt and I'm fine by that because I come back anyway," Dirk insists.

"You are so frustrating," Jane sighs into her pizza.

"Uh . . ." Sour Cream catches Steven's attention, as he and everyone else is wrapped up in this insane conversation. "Steven, do you know what's happening?"

"Hhm," Steven contemplates as he chews his pizza. "Not really, but they seem to understand."

John turns around, "Hey if you guys are talking about not decapitating yourself I'd love to join, so hey I have a weird question."

"Shoot," Bucks says.

"What year is it?" John asks.

"Uh . . . 2016. Why, what did you think it was?" Jenny answers.

"Well, when I started playing the game I was 13 and it was 2009," John explains. "Now I'm 16 so it should be 2012 but I guess the inter-dimensional travel and stuff messed it up. When Dave comes here I should ask him . . . but he'd probably give me a bullshit answer so I won't try to think about it too hard."

"Uh . . ." Sour Cream's lost again. "What?"

"It's been a long day I'm not explaining it again."