Ezra In Beach City (Book 1)

Serious Steven

At Beach City Funland, Steven and Ezra woke up in a daze with ringing in their ears and looking really worried. The siren of an alarm was heard as they looked around and see Beach City Funland in ruins with giant teacups scattered across the park and several people including Amethyst and Pearl seemingly to be hurt, but only Garnet appeared to be unharmed as she stood up and looked at Steven and Ezra's direction.

2 Weeks After The Incident...

The Crystal Gems warp through the warp stream.

"Pay attention Steven, this is going to be your first serious mission." Garnet said. "You need to be ready."

"Yes!" Steven replied as he was warping upside down, excitedly. "I'm ready, I'm so ready!"

"Steven, come on, you're gonna make yourself sick." Pearl said as she turned Steven upright, before she got hit in the eye by Steven's ukulele and scoffed. "Why did you bring that?"

"I don't know! I was excited, and i-it's mine, and I like it!" Steven replied before the ukulele started floating away upward and Steven swam after it. "Huh?"

"Wait, uh, buddy?" Ezra called out.

"Steven get back here!" Pearl said. "You could get seriously..."

The Crystal Gems warp safely onto a Warp Pad in the middle of giant strawberries.

"...hurt!" Pearl continued.

"I got him." Ezra said as he moved out to catch his half gem friend.

Steven warped several feet into the air and several yards away from the Warp Pad, and fell into the strawberry field, that caused him to groan in pain and sprayed strawberry all over the teal mage ninja.

"Steven! Ezra! Are you boys...?" Pearl said as she, Garnet, and Amethyst ran over to them.

"I-I'm fine!" Steven replied. "I'm good. I'm just gooey."

"Are these...strawberries?" Ezra said in confusion as he wiped himself clean.

Steven found himself covered in strawberry juice like Ezra and licked his arm. He then saw a swarm of butterflies surrounding him and they cling onto his face and arms.

"Aah! They're in my eyes!" Steven screamed before he ran around while frantically yelling and tripped over.

"They're just butterflies, Steven." Garnet said after she swatted the butterflies away from Steven.

"Oh, they're not all magical evil creature butterflies?" Ezra asked.

"They're just regular butterflies." Garnet replied.

"Well, they looked a lot bigger when they were on my eyeballs." Steven said as he got up and laughed sheepishly.

"Steven, you're a riot!" Amethyst laughed.

"I'm suddenly having second thoughts about bringing Steven on this mission..." Pearl said to Garnet.

"Shh." Garnet whispered as she put her palm on Pearl's shoulder. "Just look at him."

Pearl looked over to see Steven strike a determined pose.

"Now, let's go recover the gemstone." Garnet said.

The Crystal Gems began to walk through the strawberry field, that had littered with swords stuck in the ground.

"Unbelievable, this was once a Gem battlefield, now it's wild strawberries as far as the eye can see!" Pearl said before she twirled in joy. "Oh, that's what I love about the Earth!"