Isabella and Steven watch the tape Rose left for him.
"Steven, we can't both exist. I'm going to become half of you. And I need you to know that every moment you love being yourself, that's me, loving you and loving being you...because you're going to be something extraordinary. You're going to be-"
Steven rewinds twice before writing something down on his notepad, "Extraordinary...experience."
Lion plays with a crumbled ball of paper on Steven's bed before grooming himself.
Isabella types on her phone, looking bored.
"Okay, I think I've got something." Steven clears his throat to get his sister's and Lion's attention, "So, this time, I put together the first letter of the first word of every sentence. It spells "ittaisiaby."."
"Really?" Isabella raises an eyebrow at him.
"It might not sound like much, but if you rearrange those letters, it says "Bait it I say," or "I stay a bit," or "I bitty Asia.""
"Come on..."
"Well-" Steven sighs, ""I bitty Asia" could mean something. Maybe we're supposed to go back to Asia? And...bite something?"
Lion yawns, lying down on Steven's bed.
Steven puts his notepad down and ejects the VHS tape, sighing, "There has to be a clue somewhere. Mom said she wanted to have us, but, that must mean there's a reason. There has to be something we were meant to do. Our magical Gem destiny."
"The better question is where is my tape?" Isabella frowns slightly.
Lion overhears her and rubs his head against her before starting to gag.
"Lion, are you okay?" Isabella asks.
"No, no, no! Lion, at least do it on the floor!" Steven adds.
Lion coughs up something near Isabella, liquid splattering.
"Why is it always on the bed?" Steven asks in displeasure.
Isabella gasps as she notices a giant pink key, "Steven, look! A key!"
"Lion, what's this for?" Steven asks.
The pink creature points his paw at Isabella before pointing it towards the TV.
Steven gasps, "Sis! It's for finding your tape! And I know just where to look!"
...
"It's not the chest in Lion's mane?" Isabella asks.
"No..."
"Lion, where did you find this key?" the brunette asks.
...
Lion warps the two to the desert.
"Hey. This is where we found you." Steven says.
"Mom's tape to me is hidden here, right?" Isabella asks, "Take us there."
Lion begins running deep into the desert.
...
Time passes on as Steven rambles on. Isabella peers up, spotting a pair of pink structures in the distance, "Mom?"
Lion stops running, the two siblings falling off onto the ground. They weakly get up and gasp, spotting a locked door up ahead.
"So this is it." Steven gives his sister the key, "Couldn't we had just warped here?" he reaches into Lion's mane and grabs two water bottles to refresh himself and his sister.
Isabella gazes up at the pink structures as she approaches the locked door. She jams the key into the lock and opens it, opening the door to see piles of junk everywhere, "Why was my tape put here with all this junk?"
"Wha...?" Steven observes all junk, "What? Is this...just...Rose's trash dump?" he picks up a hardhat on the ground and notices a VHS tape, "Sis! I think I found it!" he picks it up, noting the tape marked for Isabella.
The teen girl looks over at it before glancing at Lion, "Lion, can you please take us to the closest VHS tape player?"
...
Lion warps them to the outskirts of Beach City.
"This is near Beach City." Isabella observes.
"Lion, are you sure this is the right-" Steven gets cut off when he hears guitar music playing in the distance.
The two siblings run toward the source only to find Greg playing by his van on a hill, "Oh, hey, schtu-ball, sweetheart."
"Dad?! What are you doing here?" Steven asks.
"Getting some songs figured out. Ah, this is sort of my jamming hill. Used to be a tree by the warehouse, but a 7th-grader with a flute muscled me out."
"Dad, we found this!" Isabella gestures to Steven, who holds up the girl's tape.
"Oh, my gosh!" Greg grabs it, "I never thought I'd see this again!" he puts it into his van TV and plays it.
A younger Greg can be seen being followed by a seagull while being filmed by Rose, "He's following me now."
Rose laughs, "Maybe he'll help you with your intro this time."
The video flashes, opening with the camera pointing down on the sand, "Okay, now!" the screen pans towards Greg, posing on the beach, "They call me..." he strums his guitar, "Mr. Universe! Get ready baby, cause you're gonna have the coolest dad this side of the cosmos!" he mimics a guitar riff.
"I press it now, right?" Rose asks.
"Do it. Woah!" Greg trips and falls off the rock.
"Greg?" Rose laughs as a seagull perches on Greg's guitar
"Can we edit this part?" Greg asks.
Rose laughs, "No, no. It's perfect."
The video cuts once more, "Isn't it wonderful, Isabella? This world is full of so many possibilities. Each living thing has an entirely unique experience. The sights they see, the lives they live are so complicated and...so simple. I can't wait for you to join them. Isabella, we can't both exist. But I won't be gone. I'm going to become half of you. And every moment you enjoy being yourself, that will be me, loving being you. Because you're going to become something extraordinary. You're going to be a human being." Rose giggles, "And that's my favorite part. A human being. A human is an action. I wonder who, how you'll be, what you'll think, what you'll want. Oh, I'm so happy for everyone who's going to know you." she chuckles, "I'm rambling. If they look to you, trust yourself. Take care of them, Isabella." the video ends and the screen fizzles with static.
"So that's it. We're just...supposed to be her kids." Steven says.
"Well...yeah. Is that okay?" Greg asks.
"Yeah." Steven has some tears in his eyes, "I think I can handle that."
Isabella wipes his tears away before wiping away some of her own as Greg embraces them.
