The Gems have never actually gone through an inter-dimensional portal before, but you could tell that it is not an enjoyable experience.

They were still inside the portal that was created from Amethyst's abuse of the inter-dimensional device, their bodies being twisted and tangled and their screams being heard all around them, as if they were echoing off of the walls of the portal, if there were any at all.

Steven wanted to say something, he wanted to ask if everyone was alright, but he was in too much pain to even do anything beside's just scream. He was scared.

He thought the idea of traveling to another dimension was cool, and could make for some exciting adventures with him and his family. But this wasn't exciting' spinning endlessly through a black and white portal wasn't exciting at all. Just terrifying.

It proved too much for the young Gem in training, as he eventually passed out from the overwhelming fear and stress of the situation.

...

Steven slowly tried to regain consciousness. His body felt much more relaxed then it did however long ago when he was still in the portal, so he knew he was out of it by now. Slowly opening his eyes, he brought himself up from the hard ground that he was on. Once he sat up, his eyes turned as wide as saucers.

He didn't know WHERE he had ended up. He was in a city, he knew that much; he could tell by the sounds of car horns and alarms going off. But this city was... alien to him. The sky was blood red, the cars were all flying in the sky, and the buildings all looked... odd. Almost like they were shaped like demons, with red windows tinted to make it look more menacing and spikes growing out from the sides and the top, or something he would see out of a video game.

Steven then remembered; the gems! Where were Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl? Did they make it out all right?

Steven started to panic before spotting all three of the gems near a futuristic looking dumpster. Garnet and Pearl were unconscious next to it, and Amethyst was inside it, presumably also knocked out cold. Steven sighed in relief at finding that his guardians were alright. Before he did anything, he had to wake them up.

"Garnet? Gaaarnet. Wake up. Please?", pleaded Steven, trying to wake up the leader of their group of renegade gems, who had apparently lost her glasses during the fall. He tried shaking her gently, and she started to stir a bit. She slowly started to awaken from Steven's method.

Garnet's eyes opened wide all at the same time immediately, and she kicked herself up right in front of Steven. She then took a moment to study her surroundings before flashing her glasses back over her eyes.

"STEVEN!",Garnet shouted in a worried voice. She kneeled down and gave him a hug.

"Are you alright? Are you hurt?", she asked worryingly. Steven hugged her back tightly.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Don't worry.", he said reassuringly.

"Oh, thank goodness. If something happened to you when we were falling, I don't know WHAT I would have done."

Steven smiled at his powerful caretaker. "Thanks, Garnet. Are you alright too?"

Garnet smirked at Steven. "Aren't I always?"

Steven giggled in response, and looked at the dumpster to see if the other two gems were waking up. Sure enough, they were.

Pearl slowly stood to her feet, while Amethyst started to climb out of the dumpster. They both realized immediately that Steven was with them, and ran towards him to see if he was alright.

"STEVEN!", they both shouted as they ran up to him at the same time and brought him in for a huge hug.

"We're so glad you're safe. My baby's alive!", Pearl cried out.

"We thought you might've gotten hurt or something. You know, kinda liked me.", Amethyst stated as she got some garbage out of her hair.

"It's good to see you guys are okay, too. But... where are we?"

The Gems looked up at the sky with varied expressions. Garnet looked up in intrigue, Pearl looked up in horror, and Amethyst looked up like she just saw the biggest pile of junk anyone has ever made.

"Woah. That's a good question, little dude.", Amethyst said.

Pearl looked like she was in shock. "What IS this place? This isn't Empire City. This isn't ANY city I've seen or even heard of on Earth."

"Because this isn't our Earth."

The Gems looked in confusing at Garnet. She started to explain.

"The device that Amethyst used must have brought to an alternate reality Earth. From the looks of this place... I'm not really sure what happened to this version of Earth."

Steven listened as he started to look around again. He noticed something right away; a big screen in the middle of the intersection, with what looked to be some... creature eating a sandwich happily. The creature was black, had a dark green mouth, a red goatee, and great flaming eyebrows. He recognized those spikes as the same spikes that he saw on top of the architecture of this world.

"Hey guys!", yelled Steven at the gems. "Come look at this!".

The Gems ran to where Steven was at the entrance to the alley and noticed the screen that Steven saw earlier.

"Wooooow, a creepy looking guy eating a sandwich. Big deal, Steven. We see plenty of those back at home in those commercials.", Amethyst said, looking unimpressed.

Steven started getting annoyed. "No, it's not that! It's his horns! You see? This guys horns match the horns on all these buildings! And look, there are tons of screens with him on them!".

The gems glanced at the city and noticed that Steven was right; that... thing's horns WERE everywhere, and he was on every big screen.

Garnet spoke up first. "Steven's right. This creature's face is everywhere. He must be some sort of king, or emperor. If that's the case, then maybe he can help us get home."

Garnet looked at Amethyst with a glare of annoyance. Amethyst just shrugged.

"We usually get out of situations like this. No big deal."

"Actually, it IS a big deal, Amethyst. We don't know WHERE we are or how to get home. Our only chance is finding wherever that creature is and asking for a way to get back to our universe."

Garnet started walking towards the inner city. "Let's go, Gems!", she shouted. Pearl and Amethyst complied immediately and started walking as well. Steven, however, felt unnerved.

As if something bad was about to happen to them. Really, really bad.