Steven opened his eyes to sirens and his ears ringing.

Questions rose in the viewers.

His vision was blurry, he looked at the broken teacups ride. Then to debris and people as his vision focused again.

"Two Weeks Later" appeared on screen.


"Is that going to be explained?" Lars thought out loud.

"Were you in some sort of freak accident?" Connie asked the boy.

Steven sighed. "Kind of? How is this even relevant?"

"Ohh" Pearl laughed. "I forgot this even happened."

"Pay attention, Steven. This is going to be your first serious mission." Garnet said in the warp stream. "You need to be ready."

"Yes. I'm ready. I'm so ready!" Steven yelled being upside down.

"It took me a longer time to get used to the warp stream than for you, Connie." Steven mentioned.

"I thought it was because you were fooling around." Pearl said.

"No I wasn't used to it yet."

"Steven, come on. You're going to make yourself sick." Pearl turned him right side up. "Why did you bring that?" She said as Steven's ukulele hit her in the face.

"I don't know. I was excited and it's mine and I like it." The ukulele floated off his shoulders. "Wha-" He went up after it.

"You should be careful with that." Greg said.

"Yea, I'm lucky it didn't break." Steven replied. He needs to take care of his things, especially the ukulele his dad gave him.

"Steven, get back here! You could get seriously-" Pearl yelled as the warp pad reached his destination. "-hurt!"

Steven was pushed out of the stream and fell into some strawberries.

I wonder how exactly that thing works. They must be placed all over the world. Sadie thought.

He groaned as he sat up.

"Steven, are you-" Pearl worries as the Gems ran over to him.

"I'm fine. I'm good. I'm just gooey. Mmm." He licked his arm when a bunch of butterflies stuck to his face. "Aah, they're in my eyes!" He tried running from them and started screaming.

Lars held in his laughter but saw Peridot laughing so he let it out.

He ran back over and fell.

Connie giggled. "They're only butterflies, they don't even bite."

Garnet waved them away from him. "They're just butterflies, Steven."

Steven laughed. "Well, they looked a lot bigger when they were on my eyeballs."

Sadie stifled a giggle.

"Steven, you're a riot." Amethyst laughed.

"I'm suddenly having second thoughts about bringing Steven on this one." Pearl told Garnet.

Garnet put her hand on Pearls shoulder. "Shh. Just look at him."

Steven had his arms crossed.

I wasn't ready for this mission. Steven thought. It was way more intense than he thought it would be.

"Now, let's go recover the gemstone." Garnet announced.

They walked through the field where there were swords and shrubs covered in strawberries.

"Unbelievable. This was once a gem battlefield. Now it's wild strawberries as far as the eye can see. Oh, that's what I love about the Earth." Pearl said radiant.

Garnet stopped in the shadow of a temple.

"How did the strawberries grow so big? Sadie wondered.

"Maybe this will be a light mission after all. Oh!" Pearl bumped into her.

"Maybe not." Garnet said as they looked at the upside down triangular structure.

"How is that even possible?" Lars thought out loud. It was weird knowing places like this existed around the world.

She summoned a smaller triangular prism and inserted it into a square in the temple. The door glowed and disappeared.

"Whoa!" Steven yelled as they walked inside. "Whoa!" He yelled even louder seeing murals across the walls.

"Wait! Hold on, is that mom on the wall?!" Steven shouted.

Garnet quickly paused the episode.

There was definitely a picture of Rose Quartz.

"There is." Connie saw.

Steven looked at Pearl. The rest of the room wanted to know as well.

"Errr... Well I-" Pearl didn't know what to say.

Steven knew she was keeping something from him.

"I really don't know why she's up there." She said.

Steven's face showed disbelief. He sighed.

"It looks like she's holding a diamond." Sadie analyzed obliviously.

Steven looked up at the mural. Pink Diamond.

"And who is she fighting? Connie wondered.

"Is that... White... Diamond?" Steven asked.

"Who?" Lars wondered.

"Let's just continue watching." Garnet held up the remote.

"But-"

Garnet didn't let him finish.

Steven grew irritated. He couldn't even go back and look at it because the place blew up.

How was she supposed to tell him? Tell everyone? It was literally impossible for her to speak about it. She was afraid how they all would react.

Why couldn't they just tell him? It's not like it would cause any damage. Connie speculated. She recalled the time with the journal and the palanquin.

"Steven's the best!"

"Steven's the best!" The building echoed.

"Why, thank you, temple." Steven winked.

"You're a doof." Amethyst told him.

Steven looked around at all the drawings and then to a floating, upside down pyramid.

Steven was able to get another look at the mural. Was she using Pink Diamond to fight off White Diamond? But when she was poofed? He didn't understand.

"Hey. What's this thing? It's like a cool floaty triangle thing." He moved his hand under it.

"Whatever it is, you probably shouldn't touch it." Pearl said looking at something.

Amethyst yawned.

Steven touched it and it flipped. The temple started shaking.

"Hm." Why didn't I ever listen?

"She literally said not to touch it." Peridot pointed out the obvious.

"Steven! What have we told you about touching magical things?" Pearl asked the others coming over.

"Definitely always never do it." He replied.

They all got pulled upwards and went through a hole in the ceiling. "Whoa!"

The Gems landed on their feet but Steven fell on his stomach.

"Ouch."

"That triangle controls the gravity." Garnet stated.

Garnet looked up at the hole as it closed. Torches lit up around the circular room with multiple doors.

"Looks like we're gonna have to split up." Amethyst suggested.

"Right. Steven and I will stay right here where it seems to be safe while you guys go and solve the mystery of this place." Pearl held onto him.

"Wait. I want to help solve the mystery."

"Yeah. Come on, Steven. Let's solve the mystery." Amethyst picked him up and started walking.

"Yeah! Mystery solvers!"

Pearl took Steven back. "Nope. No, no, no, no, no. You two are a disaster waiting to happen." She put him under her arm.

Sadie found this funny. They all acted like his moms, and they pretty much are.

"Steven goes with me." Garnet said.

"Really? Awesome!" Steven exclaimed.

"But remember this is a serious mission." She told him.

"Understood. Serious Steven- Pearl, can you put me down?"

"What? Oh, yes. Of course."

"I need to be standing, or else it doesn't work. Serious Steven activate!" He yelled and walked off with his arms in front of him.

"That's the opposite of serious." Steven said.

Garnet followed.

"But this could be the teacups all over again." Pearl said from the center.

"Hey! I've put that behind me." He walked backwards into the doorway.

"Was that the thing in the beginning?" Lapis asked.

"Yea."


"Ohhhh." Steven sang. "We're on a magic treasure hunt for some magic treasure junk something, something, magic something." They walked into a room and the door closed behind them. "Huh?"

The door on the other side glowed then some of the tiles on the floor glowed as well.

"This mission was really unique because the gem attached itself to the structure which affected the entire building. Pearl admired.

"That happened with the lighthouse." Steven said.

"Really?" Amethyst questioned.

"That was freaky." Lars remembered.

"So does that happen when the Gem is inside the building when they become corrupted?" Connie asked.

"Well the building that we were in was a gem structure so it would make sense. Can't say the same for the lighthouse." Garnet said.

"Since the lighthouse wasn't around when the Diamonds attacked." Pearl added.

"It was probably built around it then." Connie said.

"We need to stay on the glowing panels." Garnet told Steven.

This doesn't seem like a dangerous mission. Greg was always worried about Steven when he went on missions.

"Right. Serious Steven go!" Steven and Garnet jumped on the panels to the other side of the room. "Oh, yeah!" Steven danced.

"I thought you would've messed up." Lars said bluntly.

The building shook and Steven fell onto a tile that wasn't glowing. "Uh whoa."

"Oh."

The panels glowed red and they started collapsing into a fire.

Greg was proved wrong.

"That's bad." Peridot said.

Steven jumped off the one he was on and was hanging on to the edge of another. He struggled to hold on.

"Steven!"

He lost grip and screamed as he started falling into the fire.

Greg gasped.

Garnet jumped along the sides of blocks as she grabbed Steven before he hit the fire. She landed on the side of one burying her feet into it. She held Steven by his leg.

That was really cool. Sadie thought.

Lars thought so too.

"That was close, I can't imagine what would've happened if you went with Amethyst." Pearl said.

"I would've caught him." Amethyst told her.

Steven was laughing. "Whoo-hoo! That was- uh, seriously dangerous. Thank you, Garnet." He said in a "serious" tone. His hair caught on fire.

"Almost dying is fun?" Peridot asked.

"You'd be surprised."

"Right..." Lars didn't know what he was talking about.

They walked into another doorway and Steven stayed back to put out the fire on his head. He sighed in relief as the door slammed behind him. He got startled and jumped away screaming. Bars went over the door and the temple shook again.

Steven groaned.

"We can take a break if you're not feeling well, Steven."

"Huh? Oh, no. I-I'm okay. Let's keep going." He threw up his arms in a flexing position.

"All right, but be careful. You might trigger a trap with that gun show." She joked.

Connie giggled. Garnet would be the last person she would think to make jokes.

"Right. I'll put these babies away and use my minds." He walked over to the wall. "Maybe there's a clue hidden in these ancient drawings. It looks like there's lots of triangles hidden somewhere in this room."

"Yea spikes." Steven remembered.

The part of the wall he was touching moved inward.

The ceiling opened up to spikes.

"Run!" Garnet yelled. The spikes behind them slammed to the floor.

"Woah." Sadie said a little nervous.

Steven stopped right when spikes hit the ground taking part of his shirt and the ukulele strap with it.

"That was close." Pearl said.

Maybe they shouldn't have took him on this one. Sadie thought. He was a little kid here but I guess he needed to learn what they wanted him to.

Garnet summoned her gauntlets and stopped the spikes from hitting the floor and Steven.

Steven sat up. "Oh, my ukulele!" He started to retune it.

"Steven! Now is probably not the best time for that." Garnet said struggling with the spikes.

How does she have that much patience for him? Especially at that moment. Lars wondered.

"Oh. Uh uh, right." He ran to the other side.

Garnet cartwheeled her way to the other side after him.

"Now, that was a pretty close one." She told him.

Steven laughed nervously.

The door opened and they continued on.

"Yeah. That was a pretty close one." He said slowly. They came into another room and saw huge swinging axes. "Uh." Steven looked petrified as the door closed.

In front of them was platforms divided by the swinging weapons.

"Oh my goodness!" Pearl saw.

Lava was oozing onto the platforms and spikes continuously slamming onto the platform then erupting in a blaze.

"That's a little much." Sadie said.

"I would've just turned around." Lars admitted.

"You can't." Steven told him.

Amethyst giggled. "I think you guys got the worst rooms. Well, one I went into was filled with liquid nitrogen."

"Is all that even necessary?" Lapis asked.

"The structure is protecting the gem." Garnet said.

Greg wondered how Steven even got across safely."

Steven looked like he couldn't take it anymore.

"Get ready, Steven. This is gonna be intense." Garnet said seriously.

"Two Weeks Earlier" appeared on the TV.


"Get ready, Steven. This is gonna be intense." Garnet said to him smiling.

Amethyst giggled. "We get to see this again."

"It wasn't funny, Amethyst."

"No one was hurt."

"I'm ready!" He exclaimed.

Him and the gems were at Funland in front of the teacups.

"What happened to that ride." Sadie said rhetorically.

"You're about to see." Amethyst smiled.

Mr. Smiley chuckled and pushed the ride lever. The teacups started spinning. People were enjoying the ride.

Amethyst was snoring.

"I misunderstood the point of this ride." Pearl admitted, holding a tea kettle.

"You thought it would have tea?" Peridot asked.

"The name of the ride is 'teacups'."

"This is fun, Steven." Garnet smiled.

Steven's stomach growled. "I think I need to get off this ride now." Steven jumped out of the teacup.

Amethyst chuckled. "I still can't believe you just jumped off."

Steven facepalmed.

"Steven, no!" Garnet reached out.

Mr. Smiley was still laughing as Steven fell on top of him and broke the lever. Mr. Smiley laughed nervously.

"What's wrong with you? Why would you jump?" Lars said. This kid's crazy.

"It wouldn't have been so bad if I could've floated back then." Steven said.

"Didn't they have seatbelts up there? Or like a safety bar?" Greg wondered.

"No." Pearl said.

"Isn't that illegal?" Connie guessed.

"I wouldn't have wore it anyway." Amethyst said.

The ride started spinning faster and all the cups broke off, some landing in the water. The people on them came to the surface. The other cups landed on the boardwalk.

Mr. Smiley grabbed Steven and laughed nervously again. "Steven, you are banned from all the rides forever!"

"Not a lot of people liked that ride anyway." Sadie said.


Steven woke up in Garnets arms.

She put him down and he saw they were on the other side.

"Whoa. We made it?"

"I carried you while you took a nap."

"I think I fainted." Steven said.

"N-n-nap?!" He ran after Garnet.

They walked into the room where they first were. "We're back where we started." Garnet pointed out.

"What?!" Steven said.

"Garnet, there you are! The doors and rooms here make no sense. They all bring you back here." Pearl told them.

"It's like a maze." Greg said.

"Yea, kinda." Steven said.

Amethyst came out of a door and grew frustrated "Get me out of here!" She went into another.

"There are 16 doors, and we entered from the Northeast and went through three consecutive rooms in a straight line-"

Amethyst came into the room"Ow!" Amethyst pulled a bear trap off her head and ran back in.

"You're fast at it." Connie noticed.

"-but arrived back here out the Southernmost door, which can only mean w-well, I don't know what it means." Pearl said hysterically.

Amethyst came out of a room frozen in ice.

"This is a death trap!" Pearl said frantically as she pulled out her spear and hacked at the ice.

"What?! what do we do?" Steven wondered.

"We go back in again and again and again and again." Garnet said as Steven started sweating.

"I don't think there was ever a way out through those doors." Pearl said.

"I can't!" He yelled.

"Steven." Pearl said.

"It's okay." Garnet tried to reassure him.

"No. No, it's not. You were all right about me. I wanted to do this so bad, but now I feel like I'm gonna throw up." He clung onto his shirt. "This is just like the teacups!" He exclaimed.

"Oh, Steven. I didn't really mean that." Pearl admitted.

"Wait!" Steven yelled. "Ah! Wait, you guys! What if this is just like the teacups? That's why we're getting so lost. That's why I'm feeling so sick. All the rooms are spinning us around so we end up here." He explained.

"That makes a lot of sense." Peridot said.

"And that's why that incident was shown." Pearl added.

Garnet walked to the middle and summoned her gauntlets and started punching the floor. She kept punching until the floor collapsed.

Garnet landed on a floating triangle and caught Steven. Pearl landed on one and the ice broke as Amethyst held onto another.

"Woah!" Steven and the others looked at the prisms circling around the Obelisk in the middle of the room.

Lapis was surprised, she never saw anything like this at all on homeworld. It was the work of a corrupted gem and there were none there, the gems on homeworld had no idea there were others on this planet suffering.

"This is unbelievable." Pearl pulled out her gem hologram. "This gem-powered mechanism it's manipulating the rooms above. Every room we entered spun us until we came back to the central chamber." Her projection showed her explanation. "It's just like the teacup ride at Funland." The teacups flashed in her projection.

"Steven already figured that out." Garnet shouted.

"He literally just said that." Peridot said.

"You don't need to say anything, this already happened." Pearl told her.

"Oh." Pearls head came out of the spew of the tea kettle in the projection. Pearl forced her hologram back in her gem.

Steven saw a gem on the pole in the middle of the prisms. "Garnet, I need to get off the ride now."

Garnet nodded. "Serious Steven go! She threw him towards the gem."

He landed on it and slid down to where the gem was. "Whoa!" He started to pull it but then the triangle prism turned and the gem glowed yellow. "Huh?" He fell off taking the gem with him. All the prisms stopped moving.

"I'm thinking the gem was put inside the structure." Pearl was thinking.

Like what happened to Lapis. Steven thought.

"Huh?" Amethyst moves her hair from her face.

The gem glowed yellow again, then the prisms started turning yellow and deteriorating. Steven held onto the gem as it got brighter. The entire temple turned yellow and made noises before exploding. Pieces fell all over the strawberry field.

"And without the gem, the host object can't sustain any longer." Pearl explained further.

So it is like Lapis. Steven remembered how the mirror broke when he pulled out her gem. Except this gem was corrupted and she wasn't.


"Steven?" Pearl popped out of a bush. "Steven!"

Garnet appeared behind her.

"Where is he?" She worried.

"Oh, he's over here." Amethyst saw Steven laying in a bush, covered in strawberry holding the gem.

"The gem." He said.

Pearl encased it in a white bubble. "I'd say you handled that adventure very well." She made the gem disappear.

Sadie wondered where the gem went.

"Yeah. Nice job, Serious Steven." Amethyst agreed helping him up.

"I prefer regular Steven." Garnet handed him his ukulele.

"Hey! My ukulele." He took it and re-tuned it then started singing. "Oh, that's the end of another day, it was mighty serious, I'd have to say, the Crystal Gems looked really cool when they made the temple explode." He screamed when the butterflies returned. "They're in my eyes again!" He ran off screaming.

The room laughed.


Tiger Millionaire is next.