Steven's stress took a toll on him as he slept. The boy wasn't restless at all, but his mind was all over the place. he dreamed that he had been cured of his sickness by a nurse who looked suspiciously like Pearl. Then he went to the Big Donut, which looked like someone vomited rainbow paint all over it. Lars offered a dog-nut to Steven. He ate it, and then started bouncing around like he had been affected by a sugar rush.
''What the heck did you do, Lars?'' yelled Sadie, also at the counter.
''Oops!'' Lars said. He had apparently put in some drugs in the donuts, meant for some important person. Mayor Dewey?
''I'mma KILL YOU!'' Sadie pulled out a chainsaw and aimed it at Lars. But before she could kill him, Steven bounced out the door into the arms of his mother, Rose Quartz, who was outside waiting.
''My baby!'' said Rose. ''I get to see what he looks like as a 12-year old!''
''Uhh, Rose?'' asked Steven, who'd stopped being all bouncy. ''Could you put me down?''
Rose apologized and set him down. They started talking. Steven was surprised that she was alive, because she died not long after he was born.
''So... you were healed by some strange person?''
''Yes, Mom. And now I'm totally fine. I wish I was in real life though.''
Rose and Steven went back to the beach house where the Crystal Gems (and Steven) lived.
''You're still sick?'' Rose said.
''Yeah, technically I am.'' Steven sighed. ''But maybe I'll be fine when I wake up.''
The dead-but-still-alive-in-the-dream Crystal Gem smiled. ''That's cool. Godspeed, Steven.'' She made a peace sign, then disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Steven sighed and waved. ''Alright... Godspeed, Rose. Whatever that means.'' And then he saw Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl warp back from a mission inside the house. Steven opened the door and ran inside.
''Guys! Guys!'' the boy said. ''I've been cured!''
''That's... very nice, Steven,'' Garnet answered. ''How did that happen?''
''Well! I was sleeping, and then this woman, she did some sort of magic thing on me!''
''A magic thing.'' said Amethyst. ''You mean like...'' Amethyst pretended to summon a bottle of magic pills. ''THIS?''
''Yeah, like that...'' Steven said. ''But that's not the full effect. It was more magical this morning.''
Pearl had walked over to the TV and looked over the channels. ''Garnet, did you get that super-deluxe-cable-package-with-extra-bells-and-whistles package?''
Garnet nodded. ''Yes, I did.''
''There's over six thousand channels. There's gonna be a big cable bill coming soon, and there's gonna be a lot of stuff to block.''
''Bigger is better, right?'' asked Steven.
''By the time I'm through, we'll be safe from the evil of this... flat brain-melting screen.''
Pearl went to channel 21, the Strobe Channel.
''These blinking lights are possessing me!'' Amethyst made a stupid face. ''DON'T BLOCK IT PEARL! KEEP IT ON, IN NEED IT! ''
The purple Gem started to laugh uncontrollably, as Pearl stared at her in disbelief. They stared at each other for like a minute or ten, when Steven started to feel a bit... weak. ''Oh, no! Those pills are gonna kill me!'' he thought as his face turned a dark red.
''Steven!'' yelled Pearl. ''Oh my god, he could die!''
Garnet and Amethyst rushed over. ''What's happening!?'' panicked Amethyst. ''Did something happen?''
''I'll check up on him.'' Garnet looked over to Steven, observing his movements. Finally, she said, ''There seems to be a large dose of poison in the pills Steven took. He's gonna die.''
The other Gems started to weep spontaneously.
''I'm gonna send for a doctor,'' Garnet told the two, as she rushed to the telephone near the TV.
''WHAT IF HE'S ALREADY DEAD!?'' screamed Pearl.
10 AM, Gems' Living Room
Steven finally opened his eyes. He looked around drowsily.
''That's how I'm going to die? Like that!?'' Steven got up and flopped himself on his bed as he turned on Cartoon Network.
''Well, since I'm gonna put up with this... I might as well curl up in my bed."
