Because this is just everyone's favorite episode...

Also I deleted the previous chapter because it was more of an experiment than anything and since not many people seemed to like it I just deleted it, the chapter was the side mission thing and I decided it wasn't worth keeping.

Steven woke up, a warm rag covered his head drenched with water, he sat up slowly, his muscles ached. He groaned softly, looking around and seeing a frantic pearl, 'What could she be looking for?' He thought, suddenly he noticed the game shards in her hand and shuddered, a tear nearly made its way to his eyes as he remembered the gem experiments. 'Those poor gems..' He thought of how scared Garnet looked seeing them, could those shards be the same as the ones used for experiments?

Suddenly all the memories from yesterday filled his head, that's right he heard the gems! Why were they so worried? He felt a sharp headache and instantly figured it was because he was thinking to deeply into this. He sat up and noticed Pearl hadn't even noticed he was up. He called over to her,

"Pearl~!" He cupped his hands over his mouth as he yelled, Pearl turned toward him a frantic look still crossing her face.

"Steven have you by any chance seen any gem shards inhabiting any sort of...clothing or substance perhaps?" Pearl asked. Steven shuddered, Right now Peedee was probably hording off seagulls with his giant french fry hat. Steven shook his head, he honestly hadn't, although he had an idea where it might be. He checked the piles of clothing for anything unusual, upon not finding anything he sighed and went back to his loft, pondering whether to check on Peedee and allowing the events to unfold as they would have before.

Meanwhile at the fry shop...

"Ahh~!" Peedee cried as seagulls darted at him, "I'm not fries!" He cried, swinging the costume around, he sighed as the flew off, he got lost in thought for a moment before he heard a sharp sound, like a coin being dropped onto a sidewalk, he turned around seeing a light blue crystal and picked it up.

'What's this?' He thought, putting it in his pocked and shrugging it off...well...that was until he felt something in his pocket move..or better yet, his pocket actually move itself. He noticed it was the shard! It as moving his pocket around!

And that was when he had the brilliant idea to put it in the costume.

'I won't let the events unfold any other way...' Thought a mysterious figure as it drifted off into the shadows.

Steven finally decided to head over to the board walk, even if he might run into Peedee, he decided to risk it, he didn't want to give him the shard though, not after what had happened the last time. He jumped off his loft and headed out the door. He stepped outside, it was a dreary day with clouds blocking the sun, fog seemed to drift in and out with every step, it didn't secondarily look like the fog that should come later on this week, but it was certainly enough to give a ghostly look to the town.

How fitting.

He turned the corner, everything that had happened beyond this point was expected. But certainly not this. Just like before frybo had gone off out of control and was terrorizing the city, but why? Steven hadn't given Peedee a shard like before so how did frybo have it? He shoved the thought from his mind. There was a bigger threat he needed to take care of, all he needed to do was take the shard out and bring it to Pearl! As long as she didn't show up to see that the shard had mysteriously appeared he had nothing to worry about! He didn't want to think about what might happen if Pearl, Garnet, and Amethyst caught on with what was really going on and start investigating, he couldn't have that, so he had a time limit until Pearl arrived at the boardwalk.

He stood his ground in front of Peedee, guarding the boy from the large costume. "W-what are you gonna do?!" Peedee yelled. '

"My job!" Steven yelled, allowing a smirk to play over his lips as he remembered his clever joke, he charged forward. Nearly pinning the costume down, Steven heard the citizens cry for help as the frybo's fry tentacle things started shoving fries down peoples throats, Steven thought for a moment, oh if he could just- his train of thought was interrupted as he was thrown off Frybo and crashed into Peedee. Steven reached for inside the frybo's mouth, but couldn't reach, he gave up and decided to go behind a table for cover so he could take a breather.

'Sigh this is ridiculous...' Steven heard as suddenly Frybo was sliced in half by an invisible force, Steven took this chance to grab the shard. He gasped, breathing raspy breaths as the moisture in the air grew heavy, he only had a few minutes until Pearl arrived, despite several people interrupting him, he trudged onto the home.

"Hey Pearl!" Steven cried, holding the shard in his hand and waving it around for her to see, she turned around from the piles she was digging in she turned to see the shard in his hand and breathed a sigh of relief.

"S-Steven?! H-how did you find it-" Pearl cut off from her sentence smiling. "It doesn't matter all that matters is that you and the shard is safe." She put it in her bubble and whisked it away to Garnets room. Now. To find out how exactly Frybo got the shard.

"I'll be right back!" Steven took off toward the boardwalk once again to investigate.

As he got there he heard Peedee and his father talking about promoting him, meanwhile Ronaldo was blogging the costume on his blog, but Steven asked anyway.

"What are you doing?" He asked, knowing the answer, and getting excited to hear about his blog.

"Updating my blog! Keep, Beach, City, Weird!" he announced, pausing between words for dramatic effect, Steven let out a giggle. "Its a blog about all of the paranormal that happens in Beach City!" Ronaldo explained. "There has got to be something about this that revolves around the sneaple!" Ronaldo was half talking to himself.

"Sneaple?" Steven asked, truly forgetting for a moment what the "Sneaple" were.

"Their higher beings that work undercover in our government!" Ronaldo said, half whispering, "I probably shouldn't be giving you such classified information on this subject, so I will go back to my investigation." Steven left the fry-man to finish his work and began looking for clues. He stopped, noticing something, he recognized this... It was that purple string with the gems attached to it! Except this time there were three little shards on the end, looking suspiciously like Amethysts whip, just without the studs on the long string. He picked it up, noticing how light it was compared to last time, last time it seemed to be heavy in his pocket, just barely noticeable however, it was still enough to make him wonder.

'What are these things...' He thought just before it was snatched away into Ronaldo's hands to take a picture. "W-wait Ronaldo you really shouldn't be messing with that!" But it was too late, he had already posted it.

Oh what had he done.

And that's it! Hope you enjoyed remember to leave a review on how this chapter was! Thanks~!