Being Human

33. Political Power

It was night time as Pearl sets down a makeshift device on the sand a small distance away from the beach house and she examines it. "Hmm, this spot should be safe." She comment to herself before she then turns and shouts into the distance. "Amethyst, do you have the robonoid?"

Amethyst appears as she kicks the robonoid over to Pearl as Garnet follows her. "Yeah, don't worry about it."

Pearl looks annoyed. "Amethyst, I just repaired that."

Amethyst steps on the robonoid, as it activates and tries to get up. "Yeah yeah, it's fine."

"Ugh! Okay, we have everything we need for the experiment and Steven is back home having a sleepover with Y/n so the two should be fast asleeeep?!" Pearl looks around and sees both Y/n and Steven suddenly standing in front of her.

"I didn't want him coming alone so late." Y/n says clarifying why he had come with Steven.

"You did the right thing." Garnet says to Y/n.

Steven waves. "Hey guys."

"Steven! It's way past your bed times!" Pearl says as she fiddles with her machine. "You should really go back to the house!"

"I haven't had a bed time, for a long time." Y/n comments. 

"What? I don't want to miss... whatever this is. What is this?" Steven asks now.

"Pearl got lonely, so she made herself a robot friend." Amethyst says.

"It's not a robot friend, it's a robot disruptor. It should produce a localized energy blast so when Peridot shows up to... meet with us, we'll have something that can knock out all her robonoids" Pearl explains as she places the robonoid in front of the device. "Now stand back everyone!" Pearl presses a button on a remote control and the device activates. It then emits a powerful EMP blast that knocks the Crystal Gems off their feet and shuts off all electricity in Beach City.

"We did it!" Steven cheers.

The robonoid, seemingly inactive, gets up unaffected. Amethyst moans in disappointment and Garnet face-palms.

"Well, you knocked out all the lights in town." Steven says.

Pearl looks a little embarrassed. "Steven, that was not the point of the..." She sighs. "Alright, that was a start! Now I'm going to need to take some parts out of the washing machine. Steven, you might have to wear the same shirt for a while."

"No problem!" Steven takes off his shirt, to reveal a second similar shirt underneath. The Gems stares at him, speechless.

Y/n looks out to the blacked out town of Beach City now. "Let's just hope they can get the power back up by the morning." He says.

It was morning now and Steven wakes up in the morning in his bedroom. Y/n was on the couch of the Beach house as Steven walks to the refrigerator, half asleep and yawning, and reaches for a pack of "Microwavable Crying Breakfast Friends" in the freezer. He then pops it in the microwave and presses a button to turn it on, but nothing happens.

"What's wrong with the microw.." Steven opens the microwave by accident, hitting himself in the face.

"Ow! Ugh...!" Steven takes the thawed food pack out of the microwave, "What is the meaning of this?!" He cries annoyed.

Loud knocking is suddenly heard at the door and it wakes Y/n up now.

"What's that?" Y/n asks sleepily as he sits up.