After sending the Peridot's off to Neptune to find Jasper who is still on the Earth somewhere, the Crystal Gems Steven, Lapis, Blue Pearl, Violet Pearl, Anaya, Pearl, Onyx, Yellow Pearl, Soren, Amethyst, Pink Pearl warped back to the temple with Jewel, Peridot, Garnet staying back at the barn to live there to make sure nothing else bad happens like the Cluster, as once home Steven looked ever so happy.
"We're finally home!" He shouts as reached out his hands in excitement. "Oh, hello house!" He then runs to his bedroom as Pearl flicks a switch and turns the light on. "Hello, bed!" Steven then falls on his bed in excitement and soon stands in front of the TV. "Hello, TV! We've got some catching up to do."
He told the animate object as he then comes to the kitchen and opens the refrigerator. "Hello, kitchen, hello, food-ohh!" He collapses upon the stench coming from the fridge. "Uh oh, that cake go bad?" Amethyst said as she, Soren, Pink looked in the fridge with Soren adding. "Along with the eggs, meat, cheese and anything else that's been in the fridge." Steven stands up immediately and asks shocked.
"That was a cake!?"
Outside the temple
As Steven and Lapis began to leave the Beach House, Anaya came out with them too and smiled as she said. "I'll be right back guys, I'm going to get new food and drinks to replace the spoiled ones in the fridge." Steven and Lapis waved bye to her with a smile.
"Will see you when you come home." After Lapis said that as Anaya left they both began to head to the Big Donut as Steven continued to greet everything he missed. "Hello, Temple! Hello, Beach City! Hello, town! And hello, my favorite place to get a snack, the Big Donut-is CLOSED!?"
He said shocked with Lapis becoming surprised before they both ran towards the Big Donut as fast as they can, once there Sadie noticed them and said with a smile. "Oh hey, Steven, and Lapis, haven't seen you both for a while. You missed all the earthquakes."
"We were out in the field saving the world," Steven told her panting as both and Lapis were nearly out of breath from the running. "Wow, nice," Sadie said as Lapis asked. "Wait, are you closing up? We really want a donut."
She told her as she looked at Steven worried who began to look through the Big Donut's glass pane in hopes to find a donut. "There's gotta be at least one in here," Steven said in hope for one before Sadie apologized. "Sorry, I already set the alarm for the night."
"But Sadie! I've been gone so long, and all the food in our house went bad, and I'm just starving." When he told her Sadie then looked over at the boardwalk. "Um, I think Fish Stew Pizza is still open?"
Steven and Lapis looked over at it as Steven hesitated. "I don't know if we're hungry enough for a meal." Sadie then asked. "But you're starving?" When she asked Steven shook his head. "No, I'm dying!" He then falls over. "Blaaah!" Lapis and Sadie looked at him before Sadie told them
"Well, if you're dead now, I guess you can't come by tomorrow."
Hearing this, Steven quickly stands up. "I won't be dead then, what happens tomorrow?" When he asked curiously with Lapis wanting to know as well, Sadie began to explain to them. "If you didn't know, we started baking our own donuts after that workplace safety lawsuit was thrown out. So if you get here tomorrow right when the shop opens, you can have the very first fresh donut of the day."
"What an honor. First thing tomorrow, we'll be here when the store opens just to taste the first delicious donut of the day!" After telling her she smiled and said to them. "Yeah sure, later guys." She told them before walking away from the Big Donut.
Later
Back to the Temple's balcony Steven and Lapis were both there looking at the Cookie-Cat-like alarm clock as Steven said counting the time as he sets it. "Hmm, Six fifty-five A.M. That should give us enough time to get to the Big Donut right when it opens at 7." Lapis nods in agreement as they walk to the fence of the balcony.
"And we can start another beautiful Beach City day together," Lapis told him which made Steven exhale in joy and say. "It feels so good to be home." He then looked over at Beach City. "Hello, Beach City! It's great to be back!"
He shouted as he jumps really high into the air, around the height of the Temple's face, causing Lapis to looked surprised and shocked as Steven soon noticed and said. "Whoa..." He looked down at the Beach, Beach House, and Lapis who looks at him, soon he began to smile and shouts happily.
"Did you see that Lapis? I jumped super high! I didn't know I could do that!"
After telling her he begins to float back down to the ground as Lapis goes over to him when she did he then told her with a grin. "Oh my gosh, this is a new power! It's like I'm super light!" He then starts jumping around on the beach with Lapis following to make sure he doesn't get hurt. "Whooaa. I can jump really high and float down really slow! Jump, float. Jump, float. Jump." As he does that with Lapis following him with a smile he soon reaches the top of the Lighthouse above the Temple and makes another jump. "And jump!"
He shouted, passing through a cloud while an airplane from Dhawar Airlines passes by, as the Air hostess of the Dhawar Airlines told the passengers as Lapis flew up to Steven. "The captain has turned on the seatbelt sign, looks like we got some boy and a blue lady in the sky ahead of us."
"Wow."
Steven said as he looks around himself in excitement, observing the beauty of the ocean as he descends slowly towards the ground while telling his Gf. "Lapis, Beach City looks so small from up here. Oh man." He then looks at Lapis and tells her with a smile. "Let's jump around Funland."
"Sure Steven." After telling him she then began to go down as Steven tried to do the same. "Huh?" Unfortunately, he didn't budge, not one bit from where he's at, which Lapis soon noticed, becoming worried she flew back over to him. "Everything ok Steven?"
He tries to descend but continues falling at a slow rate. "I think so?" He then looks back down. "Hmmm...I guess it might take a while to land. Maybe I shouldn't have jumped so high. Oh, how do I keep getting in these predicaments?" He asked himself before both he and Lapis noticed Soren, Pink Pearl, and Amethyst coming out from the Beach House and head towards the beach below them.
"Hey, Soren, Amethyst, Pink Pearl! Hey! Over here!" He said waving which they didn't see nor hear as Amethyst asked. "Yo, Steven, Lapis, are you still up? Last chance for some cake." She asked as Steven told Lapis. "Ugh, they can't hear me. I'm too far away." He then looks at Lapis who tells him. "Don't worry Steven, I'll help get the others."
She told him as she flew back down to get help, as when she did, the three noticed her as Pink Pearl greeted. "Hi, Lapis." Soren then asked. "Where's Steven?" After asking, Lapis looked up in which they did as well seeing Steven who waved back shouting for help. "Guys!" They looked at him for a moment before Amethyst asked.
"Wait, can Steven fly?" Soren soon told her. "I think u're talking about Lapis. We never saw Steven fly before." After telling her they all looked worried as Steven asked himself. "Can they hear me from here?" Soon as he asked Lapis flew back up to him and told him. "They'll be up here shortly."
As if on cue the three jumped up as high as possible up to the two as Amethyst greeted. "Hey, Air-Steve." Steven then told them. "Guys, I need you to..." He couldn't finish as the three fell back down to the ground. Dang, too slow. Better ask quicker." He told Lapis as the three came back up again.
"What'd you say?"
Pink Pearl asked curiously as Steven tries telling them as Lapis watched. "I could really use your assistance dealing with the sudden appearance..." They fall back down. "Ah, rats..." The three came back up again allowing Steven to continue. "Of a power previously unbeknownst to me which I can't control." They fall back down again.
"Umm..." They come back up again, looking a bit annoyed. "Dude, summarize," Soren told him as Lapis tells them. "Go get Pearl!" After shouting the three fall back down this time heading back to the Beach House to get Pearl and the others there.
Later
After getting the others, with Anaya back from shopping, Pearl began to look up at Steven, thinking on how they can get him down, while she's doing so, the others look at her or Steven worriedly as Amethyst asked. "Well, Pearl?"
"Hm..."
While continuing to think, she then asked in a worried tone. "Steven are you ok up there?" Steven looked down hearing a bit of what she said as he then shouts. "WHAT?" Amethyst then told Pearl.
"I don't think he'll be hearing us clearly from here?" After telling her that Pearl then nodded as Soren thought for a moment and said. "I got an idea." After telling them he jumps away as the sound a window shattering is heard, which triggered a car alarm along with the sound of trash cans being knocked over.
Soon he returned with a phone telling them. "I've found a phone." They looked at it confused of where he found a phone as Pink Pearl asked. "Who's phone is it?" When she asked Amethyst shrugged. "Eh, it's not that important right now." After handing the phone to Pearl who began to call Steven, when his phone vibrated, he took it out of his pocket and looked seeing it say, "Kofi" on the screen as he pressed call.
"Hello?" Pearl then called him from the phone she's holding. "Ground control to Steven Universe, are you okay up there?" When she asked Steven looked down at them and said. "Oh, yeah, I'm fine."
Upon hearing this they became relieved knowing he's ok as Onyx told everyone. "See, he's got this." After telling them Steven overheard him. "Not exactly, I think this is some kind of new power." He told them through the phone as Pearl took the phone she has away from her head and told them.
"Steven's Mother could regulate the speed of her falling."
Amethyst then told her. "Yeah, and she could control how fast she fell." Pearl then sighed and told her. "That's what I said." They then looked back up to him. "Steven, try falling a little faster," Anaya told him as he brings the phone to the side of his head. "I can't figure out how, and it's taking forever to reach the ground. Can you guys just keep me company until I land?" The Gems look at each other as Lapis told him.
"Don't worry Steven we won't leave you here." After telling him they all began to do their best to help Steven pass the night comfortably as Blue Pearl throws a soda can to Steven which he catches, but when Violet Pearl threw the chip packet she accidentally hit a seagull instead. "Oh..."
At some point, Steven in the sky began to start playing checkers with Lapis, as he makes a move, which made Lapis discover a chain and go for it as she won. "Good job Lapis." He told her with a smile as she began to smile as well.
Minutes later
As the sun rises Steven continued to float ever so slowly down to the ground, while he did he began to look at the ground as he was trying to guess what Pearl, Yellow, Blue, Violet, and Anaya drew in the sand together. "Is it a broom? No, it's a spear!" They give him a thumbs up that he guessed right, suddenly Steven's Cookie Cat alarm goes off, which they all heard confused as Anaya asked.
"Hey, Steven, why is your alarm going off?"
This made him gasps heavily and remember from before as he remembers saying. "Six fifty-five A.M. That should give me enough time to get to the Big Donut right when it opens at 7." Just then a Donut appeared in Steven imagination as it said in Sadie's voice. "Fresh."
"Oh, nuts, the donuts!" Steven then picks up his phone and calls the others below. "Guys, I need to get down right now!" He told them as Soren and Amethyst come out of the Beach House doing something to the Cookie Cat Clock. "What's the hurry, dude? You got nowhere to be."
Amethyst told him as Pearl told them. "He's clearly very tired from being up all night, and he's eager to get some sleep," Steven shouts through the phone's speaker.
"There's no time to explain, just help me down please!" After asking the Gems looked at one another before Yellow Pearl asked. "How're we supposed to do that?"
"Maybe we can weigh him down?" Blue Pearl told them as Anaya quickly went into the Beach House and came back out holding a heavy jacket as she asked. "Should this do?" When asked the Gems looked at one another Pearl told her. "Give it a try."
Anaya nodded and jumps into the air before putting the jacket on Steven saying. "Here you go, Steven." After handing it to him as he puts it on she began to wait for a second to fall back down, confusing Steven he then asked. "Anaya...You're not going back down." She then opened looked concern.
"Huh?" She then looked down and noticed she was still in the air near Steven, floating, except she was bobbing up and down slowly while in the air as Steven asked. "Anaya, are you flying?" She looked around, noticing she was she answered.
"I...Guess I am."
She gave a smile as she then flew back down to the others who noticed it too with Blue and Violet giving a smile, happy to see Anaya gaining flying powers as once she was back down both Blue and Violet Pearl surprised her with a hug, kissing her as well before pulling away fast as they all looked back at Steven.
"Is it working Steven?" Lapis shouted curiously as Steven looked and saw he was still floating at the same pace, shaking his head no. "It's not enough, keep it coming!" They gave a nod and went to find more heavy objects to help Steven as Blue Pearl will jump up and hand Steven a bowling ball, as when that didn't work he told them. "More, more."
Pearl and Onyx, soon brings a boat from the sea and gives it to Steven. "Nnnn, I don't think this is working." He told them as he struggles to hold everything while no quickness was gained, as they all climb aboard the boat while trying to weigh it down. "Nothing's working, is there anything else you could put on me?"
"Just this alarm clock," Anaya told him as she places the clock with the objects he's holding which Steven looks at the clock in disappointment and tells them. "It's past 7:00." He then sighs and tells them. "Thanks for trying guys, but there's no point anymore." After telling them Pearl told him. "Sorry, Steven."
Pearl along with Onyx then jumped down as the others began doing the same too as Lapis said as well. "Sorry, Steven." Soren then said as he, Amethyst, Pink Pearl jumped down as well. "It wasn't meant to be." After they jumped down Steven then looked up at all of the stuff he was holding and said in defeat.
"Sigh...It was 'too' meant to be."
Steven drops everything including his phone, when he did the Gems began to get out of the way of the objects as when they did Blue Pearl and Violet Pearl notices the large boat falling down towards Anaya as they shouted. "Look Out!"
"Huh?" Anaya said before noticing the boat which made her clutch her eyes closed and hold out her arms causing two blue lights to appear around her hands before blasting away blowing the boat to pieces, causing her to open her eyes and look at her hands in shock. "I shot light from my hands? But how?"
When she asked Blue Pearl began to tell her as she and Violet Pearl approached Anaya. "It must have been Jewel's healing powers." Anaya began to look at them both as Blue continued. "When you were healed and became a Gem Jewel's healing powers were able to give you powers to help you become as powerful as us." Anaya looked back at her hands and said.
"Whoa." While she did that, Steven who's still in the air begins to inhale in disappointment and continues. "My first day back, and it's already ruined. I wonder who will get my donut instead of me." He then began to imagine the scenario in the Big Donut if he's still in the air.
"Probably Peedee, he'll be up for his morning jog. Mr. Smiley will have the second donut. Lars will embezzle one." He said as his imagination shows Peedee and Mr. Smiley looking or eating their donuts with Lars hiding one to eat later. "Ronaldo will buy one that he thinks is a mutant. Onion will buy one and take it for granted."
His imagination shows Ronaldo inspecting the donut he thinks isn't a donut and Onion with the one he took. "And then-Mayor Dewey will order a dozen, and then a dozen-dozen for the whole town, and then a dozen-dozen-dozen for all the starving children of the world!" He began to imagine a small drawn-out version of kids above the Earth holding out their donuts.
"But not for Steven."
Steven said as the imagination of his goes back to the Beach City residents with a special donut on a pillow and Steven's name on a card. "They'll say, Where's Steven? We saved a donut for him. They won't see me, because I'm in the sky. And then they'll feed my donut to a dog."
He imagines a dog being given his donut and soon eaten it. "And then I'll die..." In the imagination, Steven's bones start falling from the sky with imagination Sadie picking up the skull. "Alas! Poor Steven, I knew him well." Just then the skull of Steven opens its mouth, shouting loudly.
"Noooooo!"
Suddenly, Steven wakes up from his daydream and notices he's falling towards the ground at a faster speed. "Huh? I'm falling." He asked himself before trying to slow down. "Oh jeez, I'm falling." He then shouts for the Gems. "Guys!"
He looks at the beach as he falls towards it, seeing the others began to notice as they shouted worriedly and shocked. "Steven!" As they shouted that he then said to himself while falling. "Why do my powers keep coming and going? I was just so happy to be home. Wait! That's it! Happiness, my floating power's tied to my emotions." Steven Facepalms in realization as he said to himself.
"Okay, right, I can control this! I just have to think happy thoughts and no negative thoughts. So, what makes me happy? Donuts?" He imagines a donut, which disappears with a poof in his mind. "No, I'm not gonna get any. The beach?"
He looks at him as the Gems look worriedly at him. "No, that's where I'm going to possibly die." He said as he imagines himself falling into the sand and creating a Steven-shaped hole of himself which poofed from his mind as he thought of something else.
"Mom?"
When he imagines his mother he then made it vanish and said to himself. "Oh jeez, those emotions are complicated! Come on, come on brain, time is running out! I just need something that makes me happy, something I can depend on to cheer me up!" He then at the Gems and said to himself.
"Lapis and the others...They spent all night just to keep me company. No matter how much I mess up, they'll be there to help me." He said to himself with a smile beginning to form on his face, remember all of the good times they had that brought happiness to him.
Meanwhile on the Beach
The Gems were discussing the situation that Steven's in right now as while they were Lapis asked worriedly and quickly. "Are we able to save Steven, what if the powers he has are able to keep him falling-?!" Pearl who was looking up at Steven began to notice he slowly falls down and began to give a smile and said, cutting off Lapis
"It's ok."
Lapis and the others looked at her a bit confused. "Huh?" When Lapis asked Pearl then told her. "By now, Steven has realized that his powers are tied to his emotions, just like I knew it would happen. He's using his memories of happiness of things like use to land safely right now." After telling them Onyx then asked curiously and confused.
"That sounds good Pearl, but how's he going to land on his..." He was cut off right when Steven face planted in the sand behind them as they looked at him. "It may take a while for him to land on his feet if this happens again." After telling them Steven began to get up and said with a smile. "Guys!"
As he runs to them Pearl then realized something and told Steven, stopping him from giving her a hug. "Wait! Don't you and Lapis have somewhere else to be?" She began to smile after asking as he looked confused for a moment. "What?" Pearl then told him. "Run to the Big Donut with Lapis Steven." As she points to the Big Donut, Steven suddenly remembers and said.
"Oh, I remember now! Come on Lapis!" He said as he and Lapis run towards the Big Donut as while they do Steven shouts back to the others happily. "Thanks, guys!" As they both ran Blue Pearl looked at Anaya with a smile as Violet did too as Blue told her. "Come with me and Violet Anaya, let's test your new powers." Anaya nodded and began following them
Meanwhile
Steven began to pant for air saying. "No way. No way, no way, no way, no way!" Once they both make it to the Big Donut Steven stumbles a bit before they both see Sadie just opening the shop.
Seeing this they both smiled as Steven said to Sadie, excited that he made it. "You're just opening? I thought I was late!" When he asked Sadie told them. "Late? We always open at 7:30 on Sundays." Realizing that both Steven and Lapis looked at one another before shrugging with a smile as they entered the Big Donut with Sadie in front.
Seconds Later
"Well, you're both just in time, here you go."
Sadie told them as she presents Steven and Lapis a fresh donut each with sprinkles, telling them. "My treat, a fresh baked frosted donut with sprinkles." This made the two look at the donuts in amazement as Steven said happily. "Our favorite!" Steven then jumps with joy and hits the ceiling by mistake before going down, causing the two to look at him worriedly before he told them.
"I'm ok!" He smiles as Lapis did as well before they both were handed the sprinkled donuts from Sadie as they began to enjoy the freshly baked donuts together.