Silver Stone || ON HIATUS

Chapter 10

Various Beach City citizens are gathered on the streets, looking on with concerns at the Injector, which is still draining more of the pink fluid into the Earth. Steven, Amethyst and Spinel then arrive and run towards Mayor Nanefua.

"Steven, what is going on here?" she asks him "I'm not sure, but I'll find out. Let's open up the shelters; we might need to evacuate." at the Lighthouse Hill Steven, Amethyst and Spinel begin running up the hill, where the plant life on the hill is slowly dying, and the earth deterioration slowly spreads. They then finds Lapis, Peridot and Bismuth on the hill, surveying the Injector." lapis, Bismuth, Peridot!" he yell panting heavily and Amethyst asks what's the damage?"

peridot then says "amethyst, get away from me." she looks away and tries to shun Amethyst away "I can't stand to see you all vacant and bereft of personality. " Yo, I'm back, you dip." she says to Peridot" Oh! Well, you're just in time for the end of the world! This is no ordinary Injector. Whatever it's leaking into the ground is toxic. Let's get a scan going and see what we're dealing with." Many of Peridot's robonoids are seen scanning the Injector. Bismuth walks in, holding a shovel of soil sample and Peridot bubbles the soil sample. She then places the sample into a microwave, presses the 'Popcorn' button, and an analysis paper prints out on the side. Peridot reads the paper then speaks "Just as I thought-"

Peridot holds out her tablet and snaps a photo of the Injector, translating it into a schematic of the machine and its mechanisms. "-Bio-poison, pure and uncut." she transfers the schematic to a bigger monitor as she continues "As of this moment, the ampule has drained 15.4% of its contents, meaning the poison is releasing at a destruction rate of 5 cubic meters per hour, giving us, hmm... 41 hours until the destruction of all organic life on Earth." Steven asks "All organic life"?Peridot answeres with "Yeah, like all the animals, the plants, the insects. You know... People." "Oh no... This is what Spinel meant when she said 'Your human half won't stand a chance against my Injector.' She- She brought this thing here to kill me, and now- now it's gonna kill everything else on Earth, too?! I've gotta do something!" he then runs towards the Injector

Bismuth yells to Steven" No, Steven, wait!" Peridot also yells "Steven! Stop!" "Super Steven strength!" Steven begins to lift up the Injector by its drill, straining while slowly pulling it out of the ground.

Bismuth: "Steven!"

Amethyst: "Careful!"

Peridot: "What is that clod thinking?!"

Spinel: "yeah! Lift with your legs!"

Steven begins to struggle while lifting as his gem power falters, causing him to lose grip the Injector and dropping it back into the ground. The resulting tremor from the impact causes everyone to stumble off balance, and some of the poison to splash out, spilling a drop onto Steven's arm. Steven groans in pain, as he sees the poison has burned through his jacket sleeve, leaving noticeable scars on his arm. The ground then splits open underneath Steven, revealing a stream of poison inside. He nearly falls inside, but Spinel rescues him by grabbing onto him and reeling him over like a fishing rod.

Spinel whistling cheerfully "Well, look what I reeled in!" The other Gems run up to Steven in concern

Peridot: "Steven!"

Amethyst: "are you okay?" "My organic jacket..." he looks at his pulsating gem "I can't do anything with my powers like this. Bismuth, Lapis, can't you lift that thing? Peridot, what about your metal powers?" "You think we didn't try that?" Lapis asks. Peridot holds up her tablet "Disturbing the injector accelerates the poison's rate of release. Also, it might explode. We have to find a way to move it, without touching it, before it's too late."

"Spinel! She activated it, so she must be able to deactivate it. But, she doesn't even remember what it is, let alone how to control it..." Steven looks on in dejection at Spinel, who is simply standing there and goofily waving her hand. Bismuth then speaks" Then you gotta change her back" "No way! She's cute and harmless now, but if we bring her back, she'll kill us all!" Peridot chimes in "You're going to die anyway, if you don't get her to deactivate that thing." Amethyst the speaks "She's right, Steven. You got me back. Whatever you did for me, just do it for her." "That's different; I know you. I don't know anything about Spinel. None of us had even heard of her before! Except... Pearl! Pearl knew her!

Time skip

It is the late afternoon, Steven, Amethyst and Spinel head over to Greg's storage unit, where they talk to Pearl while Greg is making musical equipment onto his van. "I'm afraid I can't help. I'm currently in the service of my Um Greg Universe preparing for tonight's concert, showcasing a promising ensemble in the "rockinroll" genre" pearl "Pfft...!" Amethyst snickers at Pearl's antics "You're evacuating people to the warehouse?" Greg asks as he walks out of the storage unit, talking on the phone "I'll- I'll cancel the rock show. No? You're right. Sadie Killer always draws a crowd. You got it, Mayor. I'll drop the cover charge and, heck, 30% off merch!" he hangs up "dad!" "Steven, you found Amethyst!" Amethyst then acts like a robot "Who is Amethyst?" "Oh no. She's even worse" Amethyst smiles "Nah, I'm just goofin'"

Greg is relieved, but exasperated "Too soon, Amethyst!" A crashing sound is then heard in the storage unit. Everyone turn to seeing Spinel squatting beside Garnet, who had fallen and tangled into a pile of cables. "Garnet, are you okay?" Greg asks her but she ignores the question and asks her own "Did you want the red cable? Or the blue cable?" "it doesn't matter! They're the same!" Greg explaines, he then sees Pearl storing a guitar into her gem

"Pearl, what are you doing?! We need those for the show!" "who cares about the rock show!? We have to stop Spinel's Injector, or everyone on Earth is going to die! To stop it, we need Spinel back, and to do that, we need Pearl back, and to do that, we need her missing pieces. Pearl and Mom rebelled together, so she's gotta rebel with you. We've gotta stage some big, dramatic event; something to jog her memory, like- like-" Amethyst jumps in and interrupts "Like a rock show!" "Like a rock show!" Steven says after Amethyst. "like a rock show?" Greg asks

Steven and Amethyst then yell together "yes!"

At the abandoned Warehouse. It is night-time. Mayor Nanefua hand pastes a sticker reading "No Cover Charge" over a poster for Sadie Killer and the Suspects, as she marks the attendees in queue. Nanefua speaks to the citizens "Right this way, citizens. Ticket holder or evacuee?" The band begins to warm up, with Amethyst taking the role as their drummer. Sadie asks the crowd "Who's here for the show?!" The audience cheers and applause. She then asks "Who's here 'cause it's the end of the world?!" The audience cheers again. But Lars realized what she said "Wait, what?!" Sadie continues speaking into the Mike "This first song's a special request from Steven Universe!"