In the Beach House, Anaya, Blue Pearl, Violet Pearl were sitting at a couch reading a book together before the Gems warp into the Crystal Temple bringing their attention to them as Pearl scolds Soren and Amethyst for their recklessness. "How could you possibly think punching and blowing up a blood polyp was a good idea? Look at all the gunk you got on me!" She said as she flicks away gunk on her arm.
"And look at Steven and Lapis!" They along with Pink Pearl looked over at the two who were covered head-to-toe in blood polyp goo except for their faces. "It's not so bad once you get used to it." Lapis nodded in agreement to Steven. "See? They seem to like it." Soren told Pearl. "They certainly won't like it when it hardens."
The two start to get worried. "Hardens she said?" Lapis asked which Steven nodded to. "I...Think we should go and wash it off." They began to walk or waddle away towards the bathroom as Pearl continued. "They shouldn't have been so close in the first place," The two then hardened in place near the fridge unable to move.
"How were we supposed to know they pop?" Noticing they can't move Steven asked. "Uh, guys?" Pearl began to argue with the two Gems. "You two always put us in danger with your little outbursts!" Amethyst began to put fingers in ears and sticks out tongue, which Soren laughed a bit at, including Pink. "Ugh, you're just...So...CHILDISH!"
Amethyst waved her hand to her like it was nothing. "Yeah, yeah. And don't forget," She began counting her fingers. "Reckless, vulgar, "loudmouth". And that's just what makes us so awesome! RIGHT, GUYS?" The others didn't answer which they noticed.
"Uh...Guys?"
Soren asked before Onyx told them. "Pearl is right you two." Yellow Pearl then joined in. "Both of you are a Crystal Gem. You need to act like it." The two seemed to have been hurt by this before turning away "Fine. Let's go Pink Pearl." She looked at the others before following the two as the Temple Gate activates, letting them walks into their room.
"I think we really got through to them!" Pearl said giving a smile as she, Onyx, Yellow both leave the house, leaving Anaya, Blue Pearl, Violet Pearl, Steven, and Lapis. They looked at one another before Steven broke the silence. "Uh...Little help please?" He gave a small smile along with Lapis.
Nighttime
Hours after getting the two out of the hardened shell of gunk, the five have fallen asleep in the Beach House living room. Anaya, Blue Pearl, Violet Pearl were sleeping on the couch and Steven and Lapis had fallen asleep near the couch sleeping close together. That was until the Temple Door opens, waking them up as Soren and Amethyst, who are in capes, and Pink Pearl rushed out of their room and leaves.
"Where are they going at this time at night?" Anaya curiously asked, which Lapis answered. "Maybe we should follow them and find out." They got up from where they were resting at and began following the three from the beach all the way to a nearby warehouse that looked like it has been abandoned for a long time.
Inside the Warehouse
As the 5 stood hidden from the eyes of Pink Pearl, Amethyst, Soren, and anybody else in the warehouse they watched as Soren and Amethyst under their capes transforms into what looked to be wrestlers, Amethyst turning into her familiar wrestling form, Purple Puma, and Soren turning into a wrestler as well, formed into blue and red flamed boxing shorts, shirt, and mask as Pink Pearl watched along with many others.
Mr. Smiley, the M.C. of the Beach City Underground Wrestling tournament, stands in the center of the ring, introducing the two as Steven, Lapis, Anaya, Blue, Violet watched from the window. "For those of you befuddled by the events of athleticism, you are about to see the Purple Puma, and his flaming alley, Red Riot, both are the most hated wrestlers in Beach City Underground's...HIS-TO-RYYY!" The crowd boos.
"Whaaat?" Steven and the others whispered while Amethyst and Soren eggs on the crowd. "Alright, ladies and gentlemen, let's introduce their opponent, or should I say, victim." Smiley laughs. "The Loch Ness Blogster!" It is revealed to be Ronaldo wearing a suit with a Loch Ness Monster head and neck costume above and around his head. "I'm, uh, going to end your reign of terror! Aah!"
He runs at them and almost immediately gets knocked out with a double block causing Mr. Smiley to laugh. "Well, now, now that was quick." The crowd boos at them as Smiley announces. "Yeah, yeah, I don't like it either but hey, what do you do?" Puma and Riot throw Ronaldo at the crowd.
Outside the Abandoned Warehouse
Purple Puma bursts through back doors, roars in victory while Red Riot and Pink Pearl follow behind as both Red and Purple shapeshift back into Soren and Amethyst who sighed happily at their win before Steven sneaks up behind them. "Soren! Amethyst! Pink Pearl!" This surprised them as Soren flipped him on his back.
"Wait it's just us!"
The three looked to see Lapis, Anaya, Blue Pearl, and Violet, leaving them shocked as they looked around. "What are you guys doing here?" Amethyst asked curiously as Steven looks up at them, still on the ground. "Are you and Soren secret wrestlers?" There was a slight pause.
"...Yeah..." Soren answered as Steven gasps excitedly with the other 4 smiling hearing that. "But HOW? But WHEN? But WHY?" Steven asked happily as the three looked at them. "Come here. Let us explain something to you five." Pink Pearl told them as they got close to listen. "In the ring, nobody can tell us what to do! And if they try, we HIT 'EM IN THE FACE WITH A CHAIR!"
Amethyst answered with a grin. "And people...Like that?" Lapis asked as Soren raised a brow. "Like it? They LOVE it!" He then thinks about it. "Well, they hate it, but it's all part of the fun, you know?" This made him feel uncomfortable for a minute as Amethyst tried to finish for him. "E-everyone here gets that." She became annoyed.
"Urggh! You don't know what it's like having Pearl, Onyx, and Yellow Pearl on your back all the time!" Feeling a bit of the same Steven tells them. "Are you kidding me?" He then impersonates Pearl. "Oh, Steven, I told you and Lapis before not to take peanut butter and jelly on missions." This made Lapis blush with a smile, remembering that while Steven then impersonates Onyx. "I'm not going to say anything, but I expect you both to understand that was wrong."
This made all of them laugh. "Let me be a wrestler with you! I'm so stifled!" Steven asked with a smile as the three began to think about it. "Yeah let him join. It would be interesting to watch him fight." Lapis agreed with Anaya, Blue, Violet being on their side too. "Well, we haven't won a triple tag team belt yet. But you all can't tell Pearl and the others." Steven looked back at the 4 who nodded as he said happily as they shook hands.
"Deal!"
Later
Back at the Beach House Steven was preparing himself, slicking back his hair with Margarine, putting on suspenders and placing a small whisker mask on, thus becoming the wrestler he wanted to be. "Are you READY? Presenting Tiger Millionaire!" He shouted with a grin which Lapis giggled at as the 6 smiled, liking the name and intro.
"Rich feline industrialist from Jungle Island, once the single child of the wealthy Tiger Family, he clawed out his own destiny making money in the coconut mines."
Once Steven finished, Soren interrupted his imagination. "You just came up with all that?" He asked curiously. "Well, yeah. What's your backstories?" He asked of Amethyst and Soren who answered. "Pumas are cool." "And Riots are ablaze." Soren said with a snap of his fingers, lighting a flame. "What about you Pink Pearl?" Anaya asked with both Pearls, Blue and Violet, looking at Pink who answered with a smile. "I'm their trainer." There was a pause before Steven spoke.
"Uhh... we'll workshop those later.
Abandoned Warehouse
Later back at the Warehouse, Anaya, Violet Pearl, Blue Pearl, Lapis, and Pink Pearl were sitting and watching the wrestling seeing Soren, Amethyst and Steven, or as their wrestler names, Red Riot, Purple Puma, and Tiger Millionaire in the ring with their opponents.
"Three local heroes in the ring tonight, they build hospitals for the sick, and they build muscles that look slick! Give it up for...Concrete Heat, Chunk Truck, and Iron Muscle!" Mr. Smiley introduced the three who were cheered for. "Facing off against the Purple Puma, Red Riot and our newest, mewest competitor! Tiger Millionaire!" Smiley finished as the crowd boos the three.
Lars who along with Sadie were among the crowd watching the wrestling scoffed. "That little guy's gonna get creamed." Sadie tells him while chewing some popcorn. "From here, he kinda looks like Steven." Lars doubts.
"Pfft! Yeah, right."
Before Steven could prepare himself Amethyst stops him. "Steven, wait!" She and Soren block him from entering the ring. "We're just using you to get the triple tag team belt, we'll do all the actual fighting." Steven asks as he steps out of the ring. "Do I still get to wear the costume?"
"We don't care!" Amethyst said with a grin as Steven smiled and gives a thumbs up. "Okay!" After that Amethyst/Purple Puma roars as both her and Soren/Red Riot charge at Iron Muscle and Chunk Trunk. "Oh! Devastating moves by Puma and Riot!" Steven who was watching for them noticed a sneak attack. "Uh? Purple! Purple Puma! Look out!" Concrete Heat places a traffic cone on Purple Puma's head.
Mr. Smiley shouts into his mic. "What a gross usage of safety equipment, and your tax dollars." Tiger Millionaire shouts. "That's not fair!" Smiley tells him. "It may not seem fair, but hey, anything goes in wrestling."
"It DOES?!"
"Oh YES it does!" Steven tells himself. "Looks like this Tiger's gotta turn cheetah!" He then looks over at Chunk Truck. "Hey Chunk Truck! I'll give you a million jungle bucks to throw the match!" The crowd including Puma and Riot seemed surprised. "What's this? It looks like Tiger Millionaire is offering a bribe!" Chunk Truck smiled hearing this. "Why, we could fill a thousand potholes with-"
Before he could finish Tiger Millionaire hits him with his briefcase. Lars seems amazed by this surprise attack. "Oh snap! Did you see that?" During this he accidentally swatted away Sadie's popcorn making her glare at him as both Red and Purple knock out Chunk Truck, slamming both Concrete Heat and Iron Muscle on top of him like ragdolls. "Oh! I mean just wow!" Smiley stated to everyone. "Way to go, Tiger!" Amethyst and Soren said as they hold Tiger Millionaire's hands up.
Montage
Throughout the nights the three began to go through each triple tag team match, body slaming or pinning their oppenents with Tiger uses a large phone to knock down one foe while in the other using his Margarine to make the other slipup, winning each match with the crowd cheering along with Lapis, Pink Pearl, Anaya, Violet Pearl, Blue Pearl. Not only that there were also parts in the montages showing the 8 trying to head Steven's Tiger Millionaire props such as the tiger muzzle and whiskers mask and his jungle bucks.
Back at the Abanadoned Warehouse
"Record breaking heat tonight folks! Could it be? Tiger Millionaire has bought out our soda stand. Maybe he'll share with his thirsty fans..." Steven drops all the sodas on the ground. "Oh! Now there's no sodas for anybody. Wha...?" Steven began to stomp on the soda puddle with his rain boots. "And now he's putting on galoshes?"
The continued to boo him. "Wow folks, this is really hard to watch." Smiley said as Lars thought it was funny. "Aahahahaha! Classic! Tiger! Hey Tiger! Would you sign this? It'd be so rad!" Steven shouts. "You couldn't AFFORD it!" He then smacks Lars' cup down causing the soda to spill out leaving Lars crushed, blushing in embarrassment in front of everyone.
"Woah...Never thought I'd live to see the day when a contender turned down his own fan." Lars took off Tiger Millionaire's tie that he caught from one of the previous matches and throws it on the ground, soaking it in soda.
Steven shouted in defense. "I thought we were just having fun!" Lapis, Anaya, Violet, Blue, minus Amethyst, Soren, and Pink looked worriedly as Smiley said out loud. "Tiger Millionaire, you're the cruelest creature on the planet." The crowd jeers and boos at him, making him feel guilty for what he did.
The Beach House
"Hey Tiger! Are you ready to win our final match?"
Soren asked Steven who in his underwear was looking at his Tiger Mask sadly with Lapis by his side. "Soren, Amethyst...Am I the cruelest creature on the planet?" He asked curiously as Blue, Violet, and Anaya looked at the two who looked back at Pink Pearl who looked at them.
"Oh Steven, those are just words people use to describe how they feel about you." Amethyst told him, which made Steven grow sadder which Lapis noticed. "That isn't helping." She told them as Pink Pearl told him. "Listen, Steven you can't let anyone make you feel like garbage because of that little stunt."
He looked over at them. "Is that how you guys feel?" He asked Soren and Amethyst. "We only feel how we wanna feel." The three walked off as Amethyst had a bit of a mad expression.
Back in the Abandoned Warehouse
"Ladies and gentlemen, fans of wrestling, welcome to the tag team championship! In the ring tonight...They stomped their way through the tournament and into out hearts, give it up y'all! Give it up! For Dashing Danny Doober, Handsome Hank Hackleschmidt, and Tanned Thomas Tollerton!"
Mr. Smiley introduced, revealing three of the blonde wrestlers, Thomas in the middle, and both Danny and Hand on the sides. "Only one thing would make these men look better folks is the triple tag team belt! But! Standing in their way are the ruthless kings of the jungle, they'll eat your kids and fire your parents! Ooh! Yes, it can only be the Purple Puma, Red Riot, and Tiiiger Millionaire!" The crowd began booing them.
"Don't you dare hurt those men, you monsters!" One random man from the crowd shouted at them. "Man, people are really hating on Tiger M." Sadie said, feeling very uneased by this. "He's awful because he hurt me specifically."
Lars told her as he holds up a, "TIGER IS A JERK!" sign as before the could even begin, the lights turn on revealing Pearl, Yellow Pearl, and Onyx who jumped down from above which made Steven gasp seeing this.
"Pearl? Yellow Pearl? Onyx?"
Amethyst shouts at them. "What are you doing?" Pearl tells them. "What are WE doing? What is THIS?" She then holds up Steven's promotional flyer, which made Soren and Amethyst glared at him. "I thought we could use some promotion." Mr. Smiley shouts. "Looks like we have some new opponents!"
"No you don't! This match is cancelled!" Pearl announced towards the crowd, including Lapis, Blue, Violet, Anaya, and Pink. Steven asked curious and anxious. "What? Why?" Yellow Pearl tells him incredulously. "Why?! I can't believe you've been sneaking off to this...This circus of violence!"
They then looked at Soren and Amethyst. "And you!" Pearl said as she whispers. "Using your Gem powers on humans?!" Amethyst tells her. "It's not enough that you three are on our case all the time, you have to ruin this for us too?" She started to become furious, including Soren.
"We're not here to fight."
The crowd then cheers. "Fight! Fight! Fight!" Noticing this Onyx tells them. "Steven, Soren, Amethyst." They answered. "What?" "What?!" Onyx finishes. "Go back to the temple."
"We don't wanna!" Out of anger Amethyst shoves him, making everyone gasp. "Don't do this guys." Onyx warned as he clutched his fists and is soon locked in a short fight with Amethyst, same with Soren and Yellow Pearl as Soren began to squeeze her. "Guys! Stop!" Steven tried to break the fight, only for Onyx to deck Amethyst into the ground and Soren to be throw into the corner of the ring, which caused the microphone to roll over to Steven.
Seeing this he picked up the mic and began to speak into it. "Wait! I want to tell you all Purple Puma and Red Riot's backstories. Puma was the wildest cat in the jungle and Riot was the fieryest of the radicals, so wild and so fiery, the other cats and reds couldn't take it. So when they met each other one day, they went to look for somewhere they would fit in together, somewhere with other people who felt misunderstood."
"That really sounds like Steven." Sadie pointed before being shushed by Lars who's listening to Tiger Millionaire. "That's why we're all here. To be wild, fiery, and free, and body slam each other, and wear cool costumes, and make up nicknames and uh...So can't we just have this? Can't we just wrestle?"
Pearl held her hand out as Steven gave her the microphone which she spoke into. "No." Everyone gasps. "Because we are the...Notorious O-order of...Wrestling...Haters." Yellow shouts. "That's right! Um...We wanna stop all wrestling everywhere! Are you going to let us destroy all wrestling?" She laughs nervously as Lars shouts.
"You gotta save wrestling! Come on! Tiger! Puma! Riot! Tiger! Puma! Riot!" He holds up his renewed sign that says, "TIGER IS NOT A JERK" and stands on the chair to get the crowd to chant for Tiger, Riot, and Puma. "We'll stop you!" Steven said as he, Soren, and Amethyst began to fight the three.
Mr. Smiley shouts surprised. "What a stunning turn around!" Steven as Tiger pretends to defeat Pearl with one punch as she fake faints and lands on the ground of the ring. "The Jungle Trio are fighting back!" Both Soren and Amethyst pretend to defeat Yellow and Onyx, giving a punch as well, missing the two who fell stiff on the ground as a board.
"And they've taken down Captain Square, but wait wait, it's the...It's the Good Looking Gang with a ladder!" Smiley announced as Danny, Hand, and Thomas head into the ring before planting the ladder in the center right below the belt. "Are they planning to steal the belt? No! Oh, they're actually helping Tiger up!"
Mr. Smiley's words fade into the background, while Lapis, Anaya, Blue, Violet, Pink and the crowd cheer happily, Amethyst and Soren kneel besides the three that laid on the floor. "Sorry for...Uh...Sorry." Amethyst for both her and Soren said. "Same here." Pearl told them.
"Tiger Millionaire has claimed the Tag Team Belts! Tiger, Puma, and Riot have won the championship! And saved wrestling!" Sadie looked puzzled. "Lars, I'm really confused." She claps slowly while the rest clapped at a quicker pace with Lars shedding a tear saying. "I love you, Tiger Millionaire."