"Stop it." Steven frowned to the evil Gem. "Then stop me!" Spinel taunted. "You wanna attack me. Just admit it. Or better yet, just try it!" "No!" Steven and Cure Star replied. "Why not?" Spinel demanded. "Because that's not the truth!" Steven said. "Spinel, this has gone on long enough!" Star cried out. Steven broke Spinel's weapon in half. Star looked a bit startled from that as she didn't expect it to happen. "The truth," Garnet blinked and with an unprecedented force, she was able to suddenly break free from a surprised Spinel's grasp. "I've known hardships and confusion, but love can live through it all if you face the truth together." she said and as her her memories began to flood back, she was soon able to finally regenerate, getting engulfed in a bright white light. "That was the missing piece." Star smiled. "No. Stop! Don't you dare!" Spinel called out, about to hurl a boulder out to crush Garnet, but she had no avail as the Fusion simply broke it apart with a simple punch. "Oh, Garnet's gonna sing," Cure Soleil smiled to the other Cures. "I wish I could sing like her." "She does have a great singing voice" Cure Selene agreed. "Oh, when a difficult day goes by~," Garnet began to sing as she glowed, going through different forms until she was back to her normal form with her visor back over her three eyes. "Keeping it together is hard, but that's why, You've got to try, You've got to try~" "Ooh." Fuwa and Prunce smiled. "And when there's a thundering storm outside~," Garnet continued to sing before helping Steven back up to his feet. "Underneath the covers you huddle and hide, Open your eyes, Open your eyes~"
Spinel's expression suddenly changed. Amethyst and Pearl soon came out to see what was going on. "It's the true, it's the true~," Garnet sang as the other Crystal Gems soon came into a group hug altogether. "It's the true kinda love, It's the true, it's the true, It's the true kinda love~" Spinel lunged out only for Garnet to spot her and try to keep her from going any further. "Stuck in the middle of fear and shame, Everybody's looking for someone to blame, Like it's a game, Like it's a game~" Garnet sang as she blocked the attack with her gauntlets and tossed Spinel to the side. Spinel tried to attack the Cures and theCrystal Gems, but Amethyst swung from the Injector with her whip, and kicked Spinel toward one of the injector's legs, looking like a spring coil. Star snickered from how Spinel looked right now. Spinel scowled and lunged out to punch both Cherry and Star. Soleil grabbed Spinel with Garnet and they both grabbed the Gem by her ankles and stretched her out for Amethyst and Pearl to grab her wrists. "Going up?" Soleil smirked at Spinel. Spinel growled at her as Pearl and Amethyst grabbed her wrists tightly. "And now I am better than 'win-or-lose'~," Garnet sang before Pearl and Amethyst joined in. "There's a new direction that I like to choose, It's called the truth, It's called the truth~" Soleil to Garnet who nodded and soon, they let go of Spinel along with Pearl and Amethyst which sent the stretchy Gem to go flying around like rubber. Undefeated, a grinning Spinel bounced to the top of the Injector and blew a massive horn from her shape-shifting hands, causing all the bio-toxin to flood Beach City. "Oh no~lun" Cure Milky mumbled. "Crud~de purunsu..." Prunce added.
"What do we do~fuwa?" Fuwa asked. "We have to stop Spinel." Garnet added. "Wait. You guys have your powers" Steven remembered. "You've gotta go save everybody. I'll deal with Spinel." "She'll crush you, dude." Amethyst warned. "You can't fight her." Pearl added. "One of us has to go with you." Cosmo said. Star rubbed her arm a bit. "Star..." Cosmo said, looking over. "You tried to show empathy with Spinel." "Yeah, but it wasn't successful" Star frowned. "No, but I'm sure that empathy is all that she needs to change to good." Selene said. "Star, you have done so much for us, so if anyone of us can get through to Spinel, it's you~lun" Milky said, trying to lift her spirits to get her to help out. "I don't know, Milky" Star sighed. "She's pretty mad at me and Steven." "Which is why you and Steven have to talk to her." Soleil told her. "Only you two can save us" Selene added. "But... I..." Star stammered. "Right," Garnet soon said. "Move out." "Come on, Hikaru, I mean Cure Star." Steven told the Pretty Cure. "You have to help me." Star gulped a bit before replying "Okay. I'll do it" So she went with Steven to confront Spinel. "You guys should Fuse into Alexandrite~de purunsu" Prunce told Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl. The three Gems fused into Alexandrite and roared, though that scared Fuwa a bit. "We need to get the people to Little Homeworld~lun" said Milky. Alexandrite nodded to that as they worked together to help the residents of Beach City. Alexandrite moved residents out of certain danger, carrying them to safety as Greg took some people to his van, getting hit by the toxic sludge, but was still able to drive off. Connie rode off on Lion to help some people out. Milky, Soleil, Selene, and Cosmo did their best in helping people out. Soon, they all got the civilians to Little Homeworld.
Meanwhile, Star and Steven were on their way to Spinel and weren't too far off now as they climbed up the Injector together. "Hey, you, show me that solvable problem~," Steven sang on the way to Spinel. "We can get through this, I'll do the hardest part with you~" Steven looked back at his home in worry before they continued to climb up together. "It's the true, it's the true, It's the true kinda love, It's the true, it's the true~," Garnet's voice sang as Alexandrite helped the other Beach City residents to safety. "It's the true kinda love, It's the true, it's the true, It's the true kinda love, It's the true, it's the true, It's the true kinda love~" Steven and Cure Star soon got to the top of the injector. Both of them collapsed to the top. Then they stood up and approached Spinel as she was shown on the other edge. "Spinel, come on" Steven panted to the evil Gem. "We can talk this out." "I don't wanna play anymore." Spinel replied without looking at them. "Spinel, we're not playing, we just want to talk." Star told her. Spinel punched both Steven and Star in their faces, leaving bruises. "Ow! That hurt!" Star complained. "Shows what YOU know!" Spinel scowled as she went to continue beating them up, nearly pushing them to the edge. Steven frowned as he wiped his nose and soon found blood. Spinel stretched her arms out, grabbing a hold of the two and dangled them high above Beach City. "Spinel, please..." Star begged in desperation. "You know, I came here to take my anger out on a bunch of strangers, but now that I know you, I wanna kill you even more." Spinel growled as she began to let go of them, finger-by-finger.
"Steven, how's your gem doing?" Star asked. "Probably not so good." Steven said as he was nearly slipping as Spinel caught his sleeve. Steven's gemstone was shown to be flickering on and off again. "I don't get it!" Steven cried out. Star and Spinel both looked confused at why he cried out suddenly. "Huh?" Spinel blinked. "Why aren't my powers back?" Steven began to cry with his tears falling a long way down. "Aren't I reliving every horrible thing that's ever happened to me? A Gem I barely know is trying to kill me. I'm paying for stuff my Mom did that had nothing to do with me. I'm struggling with my powers. The world's about to end! What piece could I be missing? This is the story of my life!" This caused Spinel to start laughing. "What's so funny?" Star asked. "Wow! I knew that I was gonna set you back, but this is how you started?" Spinel laughed. "The legend, Steven Universe? You gotta be kidding me. How did a powerless loser like you become savior of the galaxy?!" "...I changed," Steven said until he realized what was meant to be happening. "That's the final piece. All those struggles; I learned from them, and I grew. Oh, my gosh. It's not just my Gem powers I've forgotten. All of this happily ever after stuff has made me forget the first power I ever had the power to change." Spinel looked unimpressed and soon began to let Star and Steven fall to their deaths.
But, Steven's powers finally reactivated as he made a bubble come out from his gemstone, engulfing himself and Cure Star. They stopped in mid-air. Steven wiped the blood from his nose as he and Star went back on top of the Injector to get back at Spinel. "I can make a promise~," Steven began to sing calmly. "I can make a plan, I can make a difference, I can take a stand~" "I can make an effort, If I only understand~" Cure Star added. "That I, I can make a change!~" Spinel tried to punch them again only for them to bring out shields from their powers. Star glared as she wasn't going to let that happen again. Spinel soon spun around like a spinning top. Star glared, deflecting by putting her wrists over her chest making a shield. Steven did the same with his. Spinel sent them flying as she broke out of her spinning top form. "Spinel, listen to us" Star told the evil Gem. "We understand how you feel. After everything you've been through, you must be in a lot of pain." "No, no" Spinel said almost emotional until hitting herself on the head. "You two can't change way I feel!" Steven had bubbles on his fists while Cure Star had stars on hers and they began to brawl against Spinel as she tried to beat them up again. "That's right!" Steven soon told Spinel. "Only YOU can!" Spinel grabbed the two of them and spun them around and around before sending them flying. Spinel morphed her lower half into a coil and bounced in after them. "You can make it different~," Steven sang. "You can make it right~" "You can make it better~," Star added. "We don't have to fight!~" "You can make an effort~" Steven sang. "Starting with tonight!~" Star added. Spinel looked tearful at first as they passed by the full moon. 'I think it's working.' Star thought to herself. Spinel looked right at them. "'Cuz you can~..." Star began. "You can make a~..." Steven added. "A change~..." Star and Steven concluded together as they fought Spinel even if they really didn't want to.
They soon saw that the song wasn't changing a thing as Spinel looked ready to punch them both back down. "Spinel, please, for goodness's sake!" Star begged. "Just can it, won't ya?!" Spinel glared as she cocked her fist and aimed it down at them. "You can't just make everything better by singing SOME STUPID SONG!" Spinel's fist soon shot down at Steven and Star. The two careened down the Injector's surface. The impact was enough to shake the Earth and damage the machine, yet as Spinel descended from the sky, seeing her two victims unharmed from the blow, bearing his shield. "Spinel... Please..." Star begged as she began to sound broken on the inside. "All that stuff's easy for you to say," Spinel soon continued. "When you change, you change for the better. When I change, I change for the worse!" she then lunged out at the two who luckily defended the blows with their Gem Shields. "I used to be just not good enough! just not good enough for Pink, but now... Now... I'M NOT GOOD AT ALL!" "But you could be and you still can." Star told her. Growing her fists to ridiculous sizes, Spinel slammed them down at Steven's and Star's shields, further cracking the injector's surface. "I think we need to chat," Star said. "Please... Talk to us. We can work this out" Spinel looked at her before laughing, but it sounded more like crying. "That's funny, r-right?" she then spoke emotionally. "A-At least you found me entertaining. You actually liked me, didn't you? What am I doing? Why do I wanna hurt you so bad? I'm supposed to be a friend. I just wanna be a friend." Star frowned before walking over to Spinel. Steven began to lower his defense. "Spinel..." Star spoke very softly.
But before she could comfort a sobbing Spinel, the injector began to explode from the damage it had sustained. Only capable of looking at each other, Steven, Star, and Spinel were all engulfed in an Earth-shattering explosion, which the Crystal Gems, Greg, Connie, and the residents of Beach City and Little Homeworld, along with the Cures and aliens, watched in shock from the safety of the latter. "Steven! Star!" everyone gasped. Debris fell from the skies as some smoke clouds cleared. Cure Star, Steven, and Spinel were shown in a Rose Quartz/Opal bubble as Steven and Star seemed to survive the explosion as they held onto Spinel while floating over to the damaged crater. "Well, that's one way of getting rid of an injector." Star said as she looked all around before waving while Steven held onto Spinel. The bubble soon dissipated once they landed. "Oh, no, no, no, no, no. What did I do? I've wrecked everything," Spinel stammered nervously. "But what about the poison? What about the planet? What about your happily ever after?" "I'm afraid that life is not perfect no matter how much you want it to be" Star replied. "All we can do is live through every day with what ever life throws at us." "Star's right" Steven agreed. "We'll always have more work to do." Spinel began to look guilty until Steven held out his hand for her and he helped her up into a standing position. "I'm sorry." she told both of them. "It's okay." Star said softly.
"Steven?" Connie's voice called. "Star!" Milky's voice added. "Connie?/Milky?" Steven and Star blinked. Connie and Cure Milky approached in the distance with Lion. "Guys, where are you?!" Connie called out. "Come out, come out, wherever you are~lun!" Milky added. "Connie! Milky!" Star's voice replied. The two looked down to see their fallen friends. "We'll be right back" Steven told Spinel before walking off with Star. "Really." "We won't be long." Star added. Spinel watched them go as Connie and Milky ran from the other side as Star and Steven began to run up to them. "We saw that huge explosion and-" Connie said before hugging Steven warmly. "I-I'm okay. I'm okay," Steven blushed a bit from the hug. "What about you?" Connie sighed happily to him. "I'm fine." "And his gem is back at full power." Star said. "Star, you okay~lun?" Milky asked her best friend. "You look a little hurt~lun." "I'll be okay, I guess." Star replied calmly. Then Lion came in between Steven and Connie. "Lion!" Steven beamed, hugging his mother's animal companion. "Are you alright~de purunsu?" Prunce asked Steven and Connie as he and the others came over. Spinel looked emotional from the friendship reunion as she would never get to experience with Pink Diamond. "I'll be fine." Steven replied. "Were you worried about us?" Steven asked. "Sure seems that way." Connie smiled. "Of course we were." Selene added.
A horn sounded off nearby, as Greg arrived in his van with the Crystal Gems. They drove down into the crater, before popping out almost theatrically. "Steven!" Greg and the Crystal Gems called out. "Guys! Dad!" Steven called back. "Is everyone from Beach City okay?" "Everyone is safe and accounted for." Garnet nodded as Pearl gave Steven a thumbs-up, while Amethyst and Connie showed him peace signs. Steven returned a relieved look before looking at Greg's blackened arm with concern. "Dad, your arm." "Hey, I just got a little careless and-" Greg shrugged bashfully. "Don't worry," Steven said as he took his father's hand. "You'll be good as new in no time." "But, Steven, you don't have your-" Greg told his son, but with a single kiss to the back of his hand, Steven was able to successfully heal his father's hand, restoring it to its regular color. "Steven! You got your powers back!" he beamed for his son. "It'd be cool if you could do that to the whole planet, heh." Amethyst smirked a bit. "Amethyst, that's not a bad idea." Steven replied as he went to try that. "Dude, I was joking." Amethyst scoffed.
Spinel was soon seen walking away. "Aw, no!" Star said before going after her with Steven. "Spinel, wait!" "We really were going to come back." Steve told Spinel. "I know." Spinel replied. "Then w-where are you going?" Star asked, a bit worriedly. "I've got work to do," Spinel stated. "Friendship isn't going to be easy for me. I'm gonna have to work at it. You make me wanna try, but..." she let out a sigh. "I've already messed up bad with you. I wish I could just start from scratch with somebody," And where her answer was soon coming from above. "Whaaa?!" she gasped as she didn't expect that at all.