♪ We ♪ ♪ Are the Crystal ♪
♪ Gems ♪
♪ We'll always save the day ♪
♪ And if you think we can't, we'll ♪
♪ Always find a way ♪
♪ That's why the people ♪
♪ Of this world ♪
♪ Believe in ♪
♪ Garnet ♪
♪ Amethyst ♪
♪ And Pearl ♪
And Steven!
Did you see that?
Wapoosh! Just wapoosh!
That's great, Amethyst.
You're getting so fast.
No! This is worse!
This morning, it was like wsshh!
Just wsshh! Superfast, like wsshh, wsshh!
Uh-huh.
I think this is why
a day off would be good for you.
You should take a break
from obsessing over Jasper.
Ugh, are you sure we have to do this now?
Yes!
Visiting Peridot and Lapis will be so much fun!
Yeah, 'cause when I think "fun," I think Lapis.
I wonder what they're up to.
Maybe they drove each other crazy
and burnt the barn down.
Whoa.
They sure did something to the barn.
But, Paulette, I need you.
Oh, get over it, Percy.
Go make another friendship bracelet.
Seriously.
Lapis, Peridot, hi!
Steven!
It's so good to see you again!
You, too, Lapis.
Amethyst!
Something looks different about you.
Like what?
Have you grown taller
since the last time I saw you?
Nope, still short.
You're welcome.
For the joke.
Wow. You guys are looking good.
And I love what you did to the barn.
Aw, I know.
But wait, wait!
You guys have to see the inside!
Lapis, fly us in!
No.
Welcome to our home away from Homeworld.
Whoa!
You made the wall an aquarium!
Eww!
You did all this stuff on purpose?
Like, you didn't just knock over a bunch
of paint cans and go, "Enh, just leave it"?
Oh, no. This was all very intentional.
You see, I had this idea: "What if we made music,
but, instead of sounds, we used things?"
That's dumb.
Guys, that's art!
Art?
That sounds ridiculous!
I've been calling it meep morp.
Let us show you our morps.
This piece is called Wow, Thanks.
It represents the struggles of intercommunication.
The tape is the ribbon that binds
our experience on Earth together.
It has no functional purpose.
It just makes me feel bad.
Here's my meep morp.
This is a baseball bat.
It reminds me of when I played baseball.
This is the leaf Steven gave me.
It reminds me of the time Steven... gave me a leaf.
Hey, yeah, it reminds me of that, too!
I just feel trapped.
Is this one about the thousands of years
you spent trapped in a mirror?
No.
I just really like that show.
Oh, Amethyst, you'll love this one.
Check it out.
They're toilets?
Right!
What will I think of next?!
This represents the time I spent imprisoned
in your bathroom, Steven.
I call it Occupied.
It's a collaborative piece.
It's amazing.
I don't get it.
What's there to get?
It's water!
Shooting out of toilets!
I can see that at home.
All right. I see you're not impressed.
But this... hold on.
This... this is what we've all been waiting for.
With the power of my metal abilities,
I will impress the shirts right off of you!
Ta-da!
It's a one-Gem metal band.
One, a-two, a-three, and...
Welp, that's as far as I've practiced that.
Why don't you try one thing at a time?
Because we have guests, Lapis,
guests who must be impressed!
Hmm.
We can try it together.
Yeah.
♪
Isn't this great?
No.
Look at all this cool stuff they're doing.
This is all nothing!
They've been out here playing with garbage.
But you love playing with garbage.
Not anymore.
Who has time for any that when Jasper is out there?!
♪
Ah, Amethyst,
I, uh, try not to use the J-word
so loosely around here.
I'm gonna go do something useful.
Wow, Amethyst doesn't seem to understand morps at all!
No, it's something else:
Amethyst found out
she's supposed to be just like Jasper.
Meh?
Jasper took her down in a fight and, now,
she's obsessed with getting a rematch,
to prove she's good enough.
Hmm.
Amethyst, Ams, Big A.
You are way better than Jasper.
What?
Oh.
What did you tell her?
I, uh...
What are you even doing, comparing yourself to her?
Oh, Amethyst, that's ridiculous.
I should call you Ridiculousthyst.
Hah! Yah!
I mean, seriously, Amethyst and Jasper
are two completely different Quartzes.
Sure, you're both from Earth,
but your Kindergartens are radically different.
What?
Hold... Hold on. What?!
We're both from Earth?
Well, sure.
Amethyst, you're from the Prime Kindergarten,
in Facet 5.
She's from the Beta Kindergarten, in Facet 9.
Have you seen that place?
No!
Oh. Well, maybe you should, so you could see
how the other half was made.
Poorly!
No, seriously. Let's go.
You'll get a kick out of this.
That's your problem, Paulette.
You let yourself become the kayak race.
Cold.
Um, just one second.
I want to check and make sure Lapis is okay.
Hey, Lapis! Are you okay-y-y?!
Yeah!
Are you sure?
Yeah!
I'm leavin', but I'll be back!
Okay!
Do you need anything?!
No!
What season is that?!
3!
Peridot, let's go.
Okay, yeah.
Business time.
You know what to do with this!
Here we are, Jasper's origin: the Beta Kindergarten.
Am I underwhelmed?
It's pretty bright out here.
It's red.
No kidding.
Red sandstone! Ha!
This is what I'm talking about.
We're lucky this place hasn't blown away.
Beta, am I right?
That's a math joke, right?
Come on. It get's worse.
I mean, this place has got the right
growing conditions, in a pinch,
I guess, but it's too small!
It was obviously a total rush job.
A rush job?
Halfway through the rebellion,
Homeworld scrambled to generate
extra soldiers on the ground.
The holes don't even line up!
It's like they just
threw injectors down wherever.
Oh, and that one?
This Carnelian came out sideways.
How could she not?
The walls are curved!
What a joke.
Man, I-I had no idea.
I tell you, it really makes you appreciate
the Prime Kindergarten, Amethyst.
Your Kindergarten was so thought-through.
Sure, you might've spent extra time in the ground,
but everything else is stacked in your favor:
great location, great holes,
even spacing, consistent depth.
A real Kindergartener gets it right.
What happened to this injector?
What you want to see is a vertical alignment;
no angle in the exit; a clean, strong silhouette.
None of these holes come close!
What about that one?
Jasper.
This is Jasper's hole?
It's huge!
Oh, come on.
We already know she's tall.
Let's take a closer look.
A Kindergartener can tell a lot...
Anh!... about a Gem's makeup and...
Uh!... flaws by their exit marks.
Steven.
Oh.
Ah!
Oof!
Thanks.
Agh!
You see, the problem here...
Wait. Oh, wait. Oh.
No, um...
Now this part...
Hmm.
There's this thing where, if you count the steps
to the back, I can...
What is it?
She's even got frictional rock melt.
It's glass all the way to the back.
Actually, I, uh...
I've never seen an exit hole this perfect.
Ugh.
So it is true.
Amethyst, that doesn't matter.
Who you are isn't about where you came from;
it's who you want to be!
It's what you've worked hard for.
It's what you care about. That's what really matters.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're right!
Yeah! Yeah!
It's about who I wanna be.
Yeah! Yeah!
And I wanna be the Gem
that beats Jasper into the dirt!
Yeah! - Huh?
Wait, no! Don't fight her!
Are you not seeing this?
She's the ultimate Quartz!
I'm doin' it, yeah, and not just for me,
for all the weird holes out here,
like this guy, and skinny up there,
and... and... And this mess!
Amethyst, that's...
Yeah, ha! I bet she was great.
No. No, no, no, hold on.
Something's really wrong here.
These marks are new.
This hole's been dug out, recently.
Maybe it was a prairie dog?
A... really big one?
Hmm.
There's more!
Whoa.
These aren't exit holes anymore.
Then what are they?
Aah!
Steven!
Corrupted Gems, in cages?
Why?!
Who would do this?!
That's who.
Jasper.