Steven found out his cold had somewhat retreated for now, so he had decided to call Connie up and invite her over.
The problem was, seeing as Connie's parents would most likely not allow her to come to some sick kid's house, and it would be a stupid idea to begin with, Steven decided to go on with life as usual. A few minutes later, Garnet came back with the stomach medicine.
''Hi, Garnet!''
She handed it over. ''Hello, Steven. How are you?'' the gem fusion asked.
''My sickness is gone now, I think. But a little medicine wouldn't hurt.'' Steven took some and thanked Garnet.
''We hope you get better soon. What do you think was in those Cookie Cats that made you so sick?''
Steven sat up... to the best of his ability. ''I don't know.'' His vision started to mutate. The bedroom started turning all sorts of colors. Garnet's red-and-black color scheme became a freaky-looking mix of rainbow colors. Before long, in his eyes, she looked much like a ugly circus clown on steroids. That's right... Okay, moving on.
''You look awful yourself. Are you also as sick as me? Or am I seeing things?'' Steven realized what he was saying and cowered under his covers. ''I'm sorry, I'm sorry!''
Garnet was perplexed, alright. ''What's going on, Steven?''
''Help me!'' Steven went into a fetal position. ''Everything's going crazy! The colors..! The objects...!'' He was clearly in a little something called ''panic mode.'' He started telling her, ''I don't know whether I should-''
''Calm down.'' Garnet patted Steven on the head. ''Please... calm down. You're having a hallucination, that is all.''
''A hallucination... What's that mean?''
Before Garnet could answer, Pearl warped back into the living room, and went to Steven's bedroom to check things out with him.
''Steven, what's going on?'' said Pearl.
Steven cried to cry. "I-I don't know!"
Garnet walked over to Pearl and told her about Steven's current dilemma. ''He just took some medicine. He's not reacting very well to it."
''I know I didn't check the date on the Cookie Cats, but this is too much!'' said Steven, as his face turned a greenish color. ''This is it... I'm going to have to be contained in a bubble for the rest of my life,'' Steven tried to trigger his Bubble defense, but couldn't concentrate. ''Can I use my bubble to do anything besides protect myself?''
Pearl sighed. ''You haven't even fully mastered your power yet. And besides, your sickness will go away eventually. Garnet did get the medicine... Of course, our popularity is starting to become a little problem with Beach City, that's why she got it somewhere else..." Garnet agreed. Doesn't make much sense when you try to get into it, but this story's not necessarily meant to be the Great American Novel or anything like that.
Pearl said to Garnet, ''Anyway, as soon as we get to the bottom of this convoluted situation, maybe we can prohibit him from eating anymore frozen ice cream foods lest they harm our Steven.''
''I'll clean out the fridge.'' Garnet went to the refrigerator and started messing around in there.
The other Gem turned around to the kid's face. ''Look, Steven. If there's anything going on with you...'' She pulled out a walkie talkie. ''Here.'' Steven took it and stared at the thing. It was a promotional item for Lonely Blade III, vaguely resembling the titular main character. ''We got these at a discount store. I found them when I was cleaning the place. I gave one to Garnet and Amethyst. Feel free to contact us if you want anything.'' Pearl started to walk back to her room. ''Don't worry, it's a very long radius!''
''These things...'' Steven asked of himself. ''Am I supposed to eat it?''
