Ezra In Beach City (Book 1)

On The Run

At the Beach House, Steven laid on the couch in the living room, as he read a series of novels titled 'The No Home Boys'. Ezra meditated in mid air with his legs crisscrossed and in a deep trance.

"Woah, how are they gonna get out of this one?" Steven muttered before he turned to the next page. "Oh, that's how."

Steven and Ezra heard the Gems return on the warp pad. Ezra levitated down to land on the floor before he and Steven walked over to greet them.

"You're back!" Steven cheered before he noticed several Flask Robonoids the Gems carried. "Hey, it's those things from the Galaxy Warp Pad."

"Why'd you bring them home?" Ezra asked. "Is Peridot back?"

"No, she wasn't back." Pearl replied. "We can't have them reactivating and fixing the Homeworld Warp."

"Hey Steven, check this out! Kabloosh!" Amethyst said as she crushed the Flask Robonoid in her hands, that spilt green goo all around her and startled Pearl, that caused her to drop her Flask Robonoids in hand.

"Amethyst, please! This is serious!" Pearl scolded. "We need to understand these things, not squash them. If Homeworld Gems are trying to return to Earth." She panicked. "THEY HAVE TO BE STOPPED!"

"Pearl, calm down." Garnet added. "We're still cut off. The Earth is safe."

"Yeah. Don't worry, Pearl." Ezra assured.

"Safe from what?" Steven asked. "What do the Homeworld Gems want to do?"

Pearl exchanged looks with Garnet.

"Steven, a very long time ago, Gems tried to do something... very bad." Pearl explained as she looked at Amethyst, who quickly turned away. "It was something that would have damaged the Earth. Some Gems, like your mother, Garnet, and myself, felt that this was unfair to the life that already existed here, and so we swore to never let the Earth be used for their... purposes. Even if it meant-."

Amethyst approached another Flask Robonoid and crushed it underneath her foot in upset.

"...Even if it meant we could never go home." Pearl groaned.

"We chose Earth." Garnet added.

"Wait a sec, so that means... we're just like the No Home Boys!" Steven said.

"The wha-?" Pearl asked.

"Who?" Ezra added.

"The No Home Boys!" Steven explained. "It's a book series about these boys who have no home. So they travel around the country, living in boxcars, and riding river rafts, solving mysteries! They had a successful run, until the disastrous graphic novel adaptation. But my favorite story is this classic one where the no home boys are chased across the countryside by a mysterious pursuer, which turns out to be the very fear resting within themselves."

"Steven, we are not like the No Home Boys. We are literally standing in your home right now." Pearl said before she walked off with Garnet.

"Maybe she's not a book person." Ezra said to Steven.

"Aw, I wish, I was a No Home Boy. No past, no future, just the open road!" Steven said.

"Trust me, buddy." Ezra added. "Living in a new dimension can be a struggle, but it's easy to get used to it."

"Yeah, sounds like fun." Amethyst agreed. "Let's do it. All three of us."

"Really?!" Steven and Ezra asked.

"Yeah. Let's run!" Amethyst cheered.

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Steven, Ezra, and Amethyst packed some food in their own bindles on sticks.