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The Gems are inside the Ward Pad.
"Pay attention Steven, this is going to be yours and Alex's first serious mission. You need to be ready." Pearl says.
"Yes! I'm ready, I'm so ready!" Steven cheers excitedly as he warps upside down. Alex shakes her head as she crosses her arms.
"Steven comes on, you're gonna make yourself sick. "She turns him upright and gets hit in the eye by his ukulele. "Why did you bring that?" She scoffs.
"I don't know! I was excited and i-it's mine, and I like it!" Steven says anxiously. His Ukulele floats away and Steven swims after it.
"Steven get back here! You could get seriously-."
The Gems warp into a battlefield and Steven warps several yards away.
"...hurt! Steven! Are you-" Pearl says.
"I'm fine! I'm just..gooey.! Steven says as he licks his arm. A bunch of butterflies flies to him and cling themselves to his face.
"Aah! They're in my eyes!" Steven yells as she runs. Alex laughs slightly.
Garnet swats them away." They're just butterflies, Steven. "She says softly.
"Well, they looked a lot bigger when they were on my eyeballs." Steven laughs.
"Steven, you're a riot." Amethyst jokes and also laughs.
"Now let's go recover them gemstone," Garnet says,
The Gems, Alex and steven walk trough the filled, the field is littered with swords stuck into the ground.
"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! Maybe this will be a light mission after all." Pearl says.
"I don't think so," Alex says as they stop in front of a Pyramid temple.
Garnet summons the missing piece in Pyramid and places it into the slot.
The temple door opens.
Alex looks at the walls. Is this Steven's mom? She thinks.
"Steven's the best!" Steven yells and it echoes back. "Why thank you, temple," Steven says.
"Hey, what's this thing? " Alex asks as she pointed at a triangle thing.
"Whatever it is, you probably shouldn't touch it," Pearl says.
"I wasn't touching it..mo-" Alex starts but was cut off as she temple begins to shake and the ceiling begins to crumble.
"Steven! What have we told you about touching magical things?" Pearl asks.
"Definitely... always... never do it!" Steven says as they all get socked down a hole.
The Gems and Alex land on their feet while Steven lands on his stomach.
"Great!" Alex says rolling her eyes.
"Looks like we're gonna have to split up," Amethyst says.
"Right. Steven, Alex and I will stay right here where it seems to be safe, while you guys go and solve the mystery of this place." Pearl says.
"You shouldn't have said "Solve the mystery", mom- I mean Pearl," Alex says blushing as she looks away. Pearl ruffles her hair.
"Wait, I want to help solve the mystery," Steven says excitedly.
"Yeah, c'mon Steven, let's solve the mystery," Amethyst says as she picks him up.
"Yeah, mystery solvers!" Steven cheers.
"Nope, no no-no-no. You two are a disaster waiting to happen." Pearl says as she takes Steven away from Amethyst.
"Steven goes with me," Garnet says
Alex looks at her pouting.
"And Alex too." She says smiling at her while Alex grins happily.
"Really? Awesome!" Steven cheers.
"But remember, this is a serious mission," Garnet says.
"Understood, Serious Steven! Pearl, can you put me down?" Steven asks.
"Wha-? Oh, yes, of course. "Pearl puts him down.
"I need to be standing or else it doesn't work. Serious Steven activates." Steven says making a pose and following Alex and Garnet.
"But this could be the teacups all over again," Pearl says
"Hey, I've put that behind me!" He says.
"Oooh, we're on a magic treasure hunt, for some magic treasure junk! Something, something magic something!" Steven sings.
"Steven... I don't think it's a good thing to sing on a mission don't ya think?" Alex says as the three enter an open room. The door closes behind them.
"This is bad," Alex says rolling her eyes.
The room begins to randomly light glowing panels all around the room.
"We need to stay on the glowing panels," Garnet says.
"Right! Serious Steven." Steven says as he jumps from one glowing panels to the other.
"I bet something bad is going to happen once he crosses them," Alex says as she follows Garnet.
"Say, Garnet.. this drawing on the walls in the room above. It was Steven's mom right?" Alex asks her.
"Yes, that was Rose Quartz," Garnet says.
"Was... my mother a Crystal Gem, too?" Alex wonders.
"Alex-"
"I know you are going to tell me when I'm older... I know." Alex cuts her off. "I was just wondering." She looks at Steven who was dancing on the panels.
Suddenly the temple shakes and Steven falls onto the non-glowing panel.
The panels change from white to red and begin to fall into a pit of open flames.
"Dang, it," Alex says as she looks at the fire underneath them.
Steven slips from the panel he was standing on and begins to fall down.
"Steven!" Garnet and Alex yell at the same time.
Alex´s Gem and left eye start to glow. Alex reacts faster than Garnet and she rushes towards Steven in full speed. She tries to catch him.
"Alex, your eye," Steven says, catching Alex off guard.
"Huh?" Alex blinks and her Gem together with her eye stop glowing. Alex and Steven both begin to fall.
But Garnet catches both of them.
"Woohoo! That was-" Steven laughs before he changes the tone. "uh, seriously dangerous, thank you, Garnet. "He says as his hair catches on fire.
The three walk into another chamber. Steven pats away the fair on his hair while Alex touches her left eye.
Another door closes behind them, this time it's startles Steven.
The temple shakes again and both Steven and Alex hold their heads.
"We can take a break if you're both not feeling well," Garnet says.
"Huh? Oh, no. I'm okay! Let's keep going!" Steven flexes.
"Y-yeah," Alex says as she puts her hand away from her eye.
"Alright, but be careful, you might trigger a trap with that gun-show," Garnet says pointing at Stevens' arms.
"Right, I'll put these babies away, and use my minds," Steven says making Alex rolls her eyes at him.
He inspects the wall." Maybe there's a clue hidden in these ancient drawings. It looks like, there are lots of triangles hidden somewhere in this room." Steven says as he feels around the wall.
"I don't think these are triangles, Steven. It kinda looks like... spikes. This is probably a trap." Alex says crossing her arms.
"I don't think so," Steven says still feeling around the wall.
"Of course! Why listening to what I say?!" Alex says as she pouts slightly.
Garnet chuckles as she ruffles her hair.
Steven pushes in section.
"Run!" Garnet shouts as spikes begin to descend.
They tear Steven's shirt as he dodged them and makes him drops his ukulele. Garnet steps in and stops the spikes with her gauntlets.
"Ah, my ukulele!" Steven yells and starts tunning it.
"Steven! Now it's not the time for that." Alex says as she helps him get up.
They both follow Garnet out of the chamber.
"Now that was a pretty close one," Garnet says though she sounded amused.
"Yeah, that was a pretty... close...one." Steven laughs nervously.
"Garnet, how did you knew that the spikes were right above us? You say we should "run" before the ceiling opened." Alex asks her.
"You said that these triangles look like spikes and it would make more sense that they came from above," Garnet says.
"Right," Alex says not believing it one bit as she narrows her eyes slightly.
They enter a room full of swinging blades, falling lava and spikes.
"Spikes, again? That's some lazy work here." Alex jokes.
Steven looks both nauseated and frightened.
"Get ready. This is gonna be intense." Garnet says.
"Steven?" Alex says as Steven fainted.
"Great!" she says annoyed.
"I take him," Garnet says and starts crossing the chamber.
"Wait, what?" Alex asks as she looks at the chamber.
She closes her eyes and tries to concentrate on her gem and her left eye.
Every time my left eye and my gem starts to glow I'm becoming faster. She thinks.
She opens her eyes again. Her gem and her left eye are glowing again. She rushes through the chamber to the end.
"Great job, Alex! You start to understand how your gem works," Garnet says smiling. Alex smiles back.
"Whoa. We made it'?" Steven says as he opens his eyes.
"I carried you while you took a nap," Garnet says as she and Alex walk-off.
"N-nap?!" Steven says as he catches up.
The three return to the main chamber.
"So, we're back where we started." Alex points out.
"Whaaat?" Steven asks.
"Garnet, there you are! The doors and rooms here make no sense, they all bring you here!" Pearl says as she runs up to them.
Amethyst runs out of a door groaning." Get me out of here!" She yells and runs into another.
"There are sixteen doors, and we entered from the northeast and went through three consecutive rooms ina straight line. But arrived back her out of the southern-most door, which could mean... well, I don't know what it means! I-" Amethyst slides in a block of ice.
Alex laughs slightly.
"This is a death trap" Pearl yells as she tries to break Amethyst free with her spear.
"This is kinda like the teacups," Alex says and everyone looks at her.
"You are brilliant, Alex!" Steven cheers.
"I am?" Alex asks blushing.
"What if this IS just like 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!" Steven explains.
Garnet punches the floor, breaking it and revealing a hidden lower room filled with spinning upside-down pyramids, orbiting around a central floating obelisk embedded with a gemstone.
They all land on the pyramids.
"This is unbelievable! This Gem-powered mechanism! It's manipulating the rooms above. Every room we entered spun us until we came back to the central chamber! It's just like the teacups ride at Funland!" Pearl says.
"Steven and Alex already figured that out!" Garnet says.
"Oh..." Pearl says embarrassed and hides her hologram.
"Garnet, I need to get off this ride now." Steven gasps as he noticed the gemstone.
Garnet nods"Serious Steven. go!" Garnet says as she throws him at the obelisk.
"Steven!" Alex yells worried.
"He's going to be fine," Garnet says smiling.
Steven lands on the obelisk, and tugs at the gemstone in the centre causing it to glow and the eject.
"We're not going to be so fine," Alex says looking at Garnet.
The Temple explodes.
The Gems and Alex emerge from the surrounding bushes
"Steven? Steven? Where is he?" Pearl freaks out.
"Ahh, he's over here." Amethyst points at him.
"The Gem," Steven says as he holds the gem. He´s now covered in strawberry juice again.
Pearl bubbles the gemstone. "Ah, I'd say you both handled that adventure very well." She says smiling as she bubbles the gemstone away.
"Yeah, nice job, Alex and "Serious Steven". "Amethyst says.
"I prefer regular Steven. "Garnet says as she hands over his ukulele.
"Please, no singing," Alex says as Steven tunes his ukulele.
"Oh... that's the end of another day. It was mighty serious, I say. The Crystal Gems looked really cool when they made the temple exploo-" he sings as Butterflies swarm him.
"-oodde! Aah! They're in my eyes again!" he yells running away.
Alex laughs.