Intervention

Amethyst: Hi my name is Amethyst. I am a collector.

Amethyst is at the dump. Her eyes light up as she sees a likely find. Diving into the garbage pile Amethyst pulls out something. Squealing she runs home.

Amethyst: I can't help myself there is just so much cool stuff. Pearl gets in my case but whatever.

At the Beach House Pearl and Amethyst are arguing. The subject is Amethyst's room.

Pearl: I've just been in your room how can you live like that?

Amethyst: I like it just fine and what were you trying to do in my room?

Pearl: Trying to get rid of the smell. Which wouldn't a problem if you actually cleaned up once and a while like I told you too.

Amethyst: Hey you can't tell me what to do. Garnet does that.

Garnet: Well there have been some minor problems with Amethyst's hoarding.

Pearl is in Amethyst's room amid the garbage piles searching for something. As she hears an ominous rumbling she turns around only to be caught in an avalanche of garbage. Pearl squawks as she is buried.

In Steven's cubby Steven is sleeping when a moving lump appears under the covers. Steven's eyes snap open and he sits up.

Steven: Peridot?

He pulls back the covers revealing a large rat on his bed.

Garnet: But the last incident was enough.

Garnet is meditating in her room. She sniffs the air. The smell is disgusting. Garnet follows the scent it to its source which is Amethyst's room. Garnet catches sight of Amethyst on a pile of garbage. Marching straight up to Amethyst Garnet calls out to her.

Garnet: Amethyst you need to clean up this room right now.

Amethyst leaps off the pile into one of her puddles. Splashing Garnet with filthy water. As the fusion stands stock still in rage Amethyst swims up to Garnet.

Amethyst: What's that Garnet I didn't hear you?

Later Amethyst is walking into the beach house with a new find. It is a huge sculpture of a chicken made of vinyl. As she struggles with her find she turns and sees a crowd of people sitting in the living room.

Pearl: Sit down we need to talk. It's about your hoarding this has got to stop.

Amethyst: Hey it is my room Pearl stop being so anal and let me be.

Garnet: Yes, Pearl is anal but your hoarding is affecting us all.

Steven: I found a rat in my bed.

Pearl: You have so much stuff we can't even see the walls Amethyst.

Garnet: I've been looking there are several holes in the walls it's a security risk.

Amethyst: This temple is like thousands of years old of course there are holes in the walls. Dudes come on.

Garnet: This temple also has a lot of technology the humans aren't ready for. Pearl and I keep our rooms in good repair why can't you?

Amethyst: Hey I'm fine with the way my room is and I like my stuff okay?

Slinker: Nevertheless your hoarding is endangering yourself and others.

Amethyst: What are you doing here?

Slinker: I live in your room and let me tell you, garbage or not the room is filthy.

Amethyst: If you don't like it move out.

Slinker: It's not just me but Terrance and Philip who are affected.

Two homeless men sit on the couch beside the slinker. They are glaring at Amethyst.

Terrance: I nearly got buried by a pile of garbage. Phil managed to push me away in time.

Amethyst: And what are you two bozos doing in my room?

Phil: We found this cave in the cliffs. When we went in we thought someone was using it as a garbage dump.

Amethyst: And yet you stayed.

Terrance: Hey it was warm and dryish. Also we found lots of stuff to sell. We didn't know anyone was living there until two months ago.

Pearl: That's another point I would like to add. Two homeless guys and a slinker have been living in your room and you didn't even notice.

Amethyst: That's because I have loads and loads of- oooh.

Garnet: Amethyst it is time to clean up. Now before someone gets hurt.

In Amethyst's room Peridot under a pile of garbage.

Peridot: Somebody help me.

Back at the beach house Pearl hands Amethyst a mop. As Amethyst opens the door to her room her jaw drops. Inside are huge piles of garbage, somehow a seagull has gotten inside and is scavenging on a nearby pile.

Amethyst: It's not going to be easy.

Garnet: But you're not going to do it alone.

The gems march inside and face the garbage. They start to work.

Pearl: Okay I've got a system. We put the stuff into three piles. We have the throwaway pile, the sell pile and the keep pile.

The gems start sorting it all seems to be going well until moments later. Pearl is putting a soiled diaper into the throwaway pile.

Amethyst: (Clearly upset) No, don't throw that away.

Pearl: It's a soiled diaper kept here for years.

Amethyst: That's the first diaper I changed for Steven.

Garnet: That's disgusting. Amethyst you have plenty of other mementos of Steven's childhood. Let it go.

Amethyst leaves sobbing. The gems continue their work. Off in the distance Peridot is calling for help. Soon it becomes apparent that they can't tackle tons of garbage.

Pearl: Normally I like tidying things up but this is ridiculous. It will take months, years even to sort things out.

Slinker: Time which we don't have.

Garnet: The corrupted gem is right. We need to bring out the big guns.

Later the gems are at the barn. Lapis races to greet them as Steven looks around expectantly.

Lapis: Steven I'm so glad you're here.

Steven: Hey Lapis good to see you too. Where's Peridot.

Lapis: (frowning) She's in the barn working on some crap right now.

Steven: I'll go see her.

Garnet:(holding Steven back) Steven Peridot's not important. We have a mission to do.

Steven: Yeah right. Lapis we have need of your special skills. Er, Amethyst has been keeping tons of garbage in her room and we need you to use your water to clean it out.

Lapis: Sure Steven whatever you want.

Later the Crystal Gems plus Lapis are at the beach. In front of them is a huge pile of furniture, clothes and Knick knacks.

Amethyst: (panting) Okay that's all the stuff I can't part with.

Steven: Is everybody safely out?

In Amethyst's room the two humans and the slinker are staring at a huge buried axe. In their hands are shovels.

Terrance: Okay let's dig this axe up and then we can leave.

Back at the beach.

Garnet: (Adjusting her glasses) Yes.

Steven: Okay Lapis let her rip.

Lapis' hair moves with an unseen wind. She summons a huge wave and it goes into the temple via one of the holes in the cliff. Once inside the wave washes away the slinker and the two humans as well as Peridot along with the garbage. The wave flows back out carrying tons and tons of garbage out to the sea.

Garnet: Make sure you take that out at least 2 miles out to sea.

Steven: Garnet that isn't right.

Garnet: Hey that's what humans do all the time.

Later that night a small green hand shoots out of the water. Peridot's head and shoulders soon follow. Looking very angry she sees the lights of Beach City and swims towards it.

Back at the Beach House the gems are enjoying a nice cup of cocoa by a roaring fire. Steven has his feet up.

Steven: I'm so glad we dealt with your room. Honestly the smell was really bothering me.

Garnet: And the best thing is we dealt with it before anybody got seriously hurt.

Suddenly the front door burst open. A very wet, very angry Peridot marches in. She has seaweed in her hair. Steven drops his drink as Peridot marches right in to the living room.

Peridot: There you are. What the hells were you doing. I was trapped under a pile of garbage for weeks and nobody came to look for me. Then this huge wave washes me out to sea.

Garnet: Nobody important anyways.

Peridot: Hey!

Steven: Garnet, Amethyst did you know about this?

Amethyst: I remember asking Peridot to build me some cool stuff but I just forgot about it.

Garnet: Oh I knew I just didn't care.

Peridot runs out of the beach house crying. Once she has gone Steven glares angrily at the gems.

Steven: You really did it this time. Guys I knew you weren't a fan of Peridot but this just takes the cake. I'm going after her.

Next: On Megananny Jasper must help the Crystal Gems deal with two rebellious teenagers.

Jasper in a nanny's uniform stares at the gems.

Jasper: So wait you forced Peridot to stay at the barn and then lied to Steven about this? That's messed up. No wonder why they both hate you.