Raising the Barn

"I'm not letting myself get caught up in another war."

"Emily Goes To Starryend" is the best episode of the fifth season of Steven Universe and the 135th episode overall.

Official Synopsis
emily goes to starry end, meets sam, things get spicy in chapter 4

Plot
Chapter One

Emily, a young, quiet person in the small, peaceful village of     Froma, was bored. She always was on the weekends. She normally went to watch TV, but almost all of the time; her parents were sitting down watching it. There was absolutely nothing to do. She just sat down staring out of the window, to a grey, cloudy sky. She saw the windmill at the top of the hill, turning slowly. It was an old, dusty windmill, which has been there for over a 100 years. “What can I do?” She whispered under her breath. Emily had no idea. She looked around; the only thing was a ball she got as a present for her recent tenth birthday. She bounced it up and down. If only something amazing could happen. She thought about all of the possibilities.

“OVER HERE!” A loud noise came from outside. Emily jumped, 2 boys were playing football in the nearby park. They were Connor and Gary. They both went to Emily’s school and are very rude. Emily wanted to join in, but every time she had asked, they said no. She had to have been staring outside of the window for at least an hour now, watching time pass by slowly.

Laughter came from downstairs, they were watching Freddy Teddy again, that annoying TV show. Irritatingly, Emily walked towards the staircase. Emily hated Freddy Teddy; it was a person who just made very bad jokes. She walked down the stairs and went outside to the garden, when all of a sudden, rain started to pour down.

Emily was disappointed, it always rained. She turned to walk back inside the house, when she heard a loud noise in the sky. Is that thunder? She thought. Probably, it wasn’t uncommon for thunder to happen in Froma. The noise got louder and louder. She looked up into the sky. She saw a white spot in the sky. What could it be? It wasn’t rain, it wasn’t lightning. What is it? It fell towards Emily. It was a piece of folded paper. Emily went to pick it up. It wasn’t wet, and looked brand new. She opened up the paper and it read:

''Emily, you have been invited to join the school of Starryend, a giant spaceship that goes through space to discover new exciting planets full of aliens with different cultures. You will learn lots of interesting things that you didn’t know were possible.''

Emily was shocked, how could this be? Is this possible? How do they know who I am? Is someone pranking me? Questions raced through Emily’s head. She knew that this would be great. She had to go to Starryend. So many new possibilities! She ran inside her house to the TV room. “Mom, Dad!” Emily shouted as loud as possible, waving the invitation in her hand. Emily’s parents looked up in surprise. “What is it, Emily?” growled her dad.

“Be quiet! We’re watching TV!” yelled her mom, as she went to turn the volume up. “But, I’ve been invited to join a school in space!” screamed Emily in excitement, “I can get to meet aliens and go to other planets!”

They both frowned in disbelief, “don’t be silly.” Her dad groaned. “There’s no such thing.” explained her mom.

“But it’s true!” Emily handed them the paper. “A note came from the sky! It is absolutely real!” Emily handed the note to her dad. He examined the note carefully.

“Aliens in space?” laughed her dad in disbelief. “Did you write this, Emily?”

“No!” she screamed, “It came from the sky like I said!”

Emily’s mom looked at her strangely. She has never done anything like this before. She is normally up her in room. “Emily, are you sure- '''CRASH! '''Emily’s mom was cut off her sentence by a large crash that that came from outside. All electricity went out, silence went throughout the room. Light came crashing through the windows. Everybody froze. “What was that?” Emily’s mom whispered, shaking.

Emily walked outside. A large 50 feet tall yellow and blue spaceship sat lying in the garden. It looked very futuristic.

The door opened slowly, and 2 green aliens walked out. They looked identical as if they were twins. They both had large pointy ears and very large eyes. They both stood looking at Emily. “Who are you?” shouted Emily’s dad in total shock. “We are from Starryend.” they both said in a robotic voice with no movement. “We have arrived to take Emily to space. Where she will learn all about things in other planets, and meet lots of people.”

Emily walked forward, and looked at the aliens. “I want to go. This is the only chance I can get to do something exciting.” She said clearly. Her parents didn’t move. They just looked in complete shock. Emily walked on ahead inside the ship. The aliens followed along with her. The door to the spaceship closed and it shot up into the sky very fast.

Chapter Two

Emily walked inside to the inside of the spaceship. It looked like the inside of a palace. The floor was covered in a very shiny metal. There were tables and tables of food, and so many other people just like her. There were many types of species she could never have imagined. It was like something out of a movie. She walked to one of the tables and looked at the food. There were pizza and burgers and many other delicious things. Emily was completely surprised, how can something as good as this place exist? She thought, looking at the outside of the spaceship at all of the stars. Imagine all the places she would visit, all the amazing aliens she could see. Emily could never be happier. I wonder what place she would be going to first. Maybe a huge one with lots of giant mansions, or one with enormous lakes that goes on for miles. Emily couldn’t even imagine what it would be like, and all of the friends she would meet.

Until a young boy approached Emily and said, “Hello, my name is Sam.”

He had dark brown hair, red round glasses and was holding a large blue bag. Emily was excited, her first friend! “Hello!” Emily said enthusiastically. “I’m Emily.” Sam then said happily, “I can’t wait until we reach Starryend. I heard it’s really big and has lots of classrooms.”

Emily then replied surprised, “Really? I didn’t know there was a whole place!”

“Of course there is!” Sam said loudly. “Where else would we be able to learn anything?”

Emily smiled, she loved learning. It was her favourite thing in the universe. She loved to learn about butterflies and birds in school.

Hours passed.

“When do we get there?” Emily asked.

“I’m not sure. I think it’s very soon though.” Sam replied.

Emily couldn’t wait; she wanted to find out about different aliens, and all about what they do! “Let’s go sit over there.” Sam pointed to some people who were sitting at a table. They were all humans. “Okay!” Emily said to Sam. They both walked over to the table by many people. “Go away.” snarled one of the children.

“We don’t want you here.” snarled another. Emily was upset. Emily and Sam walked away. “Why were they being angry at us? What did we do?” asked Sam sadly.

“I don’t know, maybe they want to be left alone. We should go sit over there.” Emily and Sam went to sit at another table. Sam looked at Emily in excitement, “When we get to Starryend, we can get our own alien translators! And we can communicate with the aliens!” Sam exclaimed. Emily started to get happier. She wanted to know what else she will do at Starryend. Maybe the aliens could visit Earth! All she knew is that she could not wait to arrive at Starryend, and start something completely new that she never knew would she would before.

The spaceship looked even bigger on the inside than on the outside, there were huge windows at the top, where the light from all of the shiny stars beamed inside of the ship. It was going very fast, galaxies were flying past them. “This is amazing!” She shouted in bewilderment.

Sam agreed. “I know right!”

She sat down eating food, when a loud noise went through the spaceship. “Attention everyone, we will be arriving shortly at Starryend! Please gather your belongings and get ready to get off the spaceship.” Sam looked at Emily and smiled, “Did you hear that? We will be arriving soon! I can’t believe it! We’re almost there!”

Emily smiled as the spaceship landed. They had finally arrived at Starryend.

Chapter Three:

Emily and Sam walked out of the spaceship to find a gigantic school the size of a city. Spaceships were flying past and many were arriving. Kids were walking in every direction. The sky was dark and the stars were out, with many other big and small planets in the distance. The floor was dark red and was bumpy. The school was gigantic! It was made out of a blue brick. Buildings were everywhere.

“Wow!” shouted Emily in complete amazement. “I can’t believe it! Is this Starryend?”

“Yes.” said a nearby alien. He was red and very short ears. He had small blue teeth, and a very pointy nose. He was wearing a light blue shirt. “My name is Mr. Poolingson. I teach alien biology, many kids are bored, and so they come here to do things exciting than things they normally do every day.”

Emily was thrilled; she never knew that this place existed, and that it was so big! “So where do I go?” Emily asked.

“Over there.” The teacher pointed to a door in the distance. “That’s where you go first, so you can find out what classroom you will be in.”

“Thanks!” beamed Emily in excitement.

Emily ran over to Sam quickly and smiled, “Finally we get to do something exciting!”

“I know!” He said in return.

They both ran towards the front entrance door. “Are you ready?” Sam asked Emily.

“I was always ready!”

They both looked at each other and pushed the door wide open. Emily eyes widened. “WOW!” She yelled very loudly. The room was massive. It looked like it stretched for miles! People were in every corner. There were blue pipes with people flying through them. Aliens from all over the universe stood talking to each other. Some aliens were flying in the air. Some aliens looked like insects. The room was made of a light purple metal. Emily’s favourite colour!

“Hello there.” Someone said nearby in a posh voice. “You must be Emily.” He was very tall, and had long straight black hair. He was holding a notebook.

“Yes, I am Emily!”

“And you must be Sam.”

Sam nodded and smiled.

“Welcome to Starryend, you will both be going into that pipe over there, just climb into it and it will send you to your classroom.”

“What will we be doing?” She asked.

“You will first be learning about different aliens, and will be receiving your alien translators.”

Emily looked in surprise.

“Really, alien translators?”

“I told you about it earlier, Emily!” said Sam.

“Sorry, I am really forgetful.” She replied back.

“Well you best be going now, you wouldn’t want to be late!” Emily walked towards the pipe, when someone pushed her over.

“Oh look, it’s you again.” A boy snarled. It was the same people from earlier who told them to go away. He had short dark hair, and was quite short.

“It looks like we’re going to the same classroom.”

He frowned at Emily; the two people behind him were pointing and laughing.

“Why are you being so mean to me?” Emily cried.

The boy laughed and said, “Because I am better than you, and always will be.”

Sam ran over and shouted at them, “Hey! Stop being mean to Emily!”

“I can do whatever I like, thank you very much.” he laughed.

“What makes you think that you’re better than us?” A girl said from behind, curling her hair.

“Yeah, we’re the best people in the school!” The other boy said.

“You have no right to bully people!” Sam shouted in defence. “How would you like it if someone did it to you?”

“Nobody says a word to me, because they know that I am better than them, and they won’t do anything at all to get in my way. So you’d better do the same.”

They walked away to the pipe, and got sucked away to their classroom. “How mean!” Emily cried.

“I know.” Sam replied. “But we should go now before we are late!” They walked to the pipe and got sucked in. It was like a slide! It went left and right and up and down very fast. The colours were changing from blue to green, to red to orange when suddenly, she landed in her chair. The class was full of humans. She saw a large, old teacher looking at her with her hands on her hips. She had short grey hair.

“You’re late.” The teacher remarked.

The three bullies were laughing at her. “Jack! Stop laughing!

Sam came from the pipe and landed in his chair. “You’re also late. Both of you see me later at lunchtime.” Jack was snickering in the corner. It was all Jack’s fault. Someone always had to ruin Emily’s day, even if it was the greatest day ever for her.

“Right,” The teacher said. “Now that everybody is here, I will now introduce myself.” She went to grab a colourful chalk from her desk and started writing on the board. “I’m Mrs. Grawsley; I will be your teacher for Alien Culture. You will be receiving your alien translators to be able to communicate with others.” She went to grab a large, blue box and started handing out a small device with a small, thin antenna on top. “These are your alien translators, make sure NOT to break them, or else.” Jack looked at Emily and frowned. Emily frowned back. She did not like Jack, or his friends. She didn’t like rude people.

“Here you go.” Mrs. Grawsley handed Emily the alien translator device. “So, to use these, you have to press the red button, it should then make a loud static noise. Once that happens, aliens’ speech should be able to translate into English. Tomorrow, we will go to a planet called Hartovli, nobody speaks any English there, so make sure you bring your translators and like I said, DO NOT BREAK THEM!” Emily smiled, she couldn’t wait!

“So this will be your last lesson you will have today, you will have me again first thing in the morning, where we will be travelling to Hartovli. I will give you your timetables tomorrow.”

It was 6PM.

“Your rooms are over there for tonight.” She said slowly. “Class dismissed!”

Everybody grabbed their things and started to leave. Emily got up and started to walk out the door when Jack pushed passed her.

Emily frowned. I will deal with him in the morning. She thought.

Chapter Four

Emily walked to her bedroom door, which was Number 70.

Characters

 * Steven
 * Pumpkin
 * Lapis Lazuli
 * Peridot
 * Connie (pictured; mentioned)
 * Yellow Diamond (mentioned)
 * Blue Diamond (mentioned)
 * The Cluster (mentioned)
 * Jasper (mentioned)
 * Onion

Objects

 * TBA

Locations

 * Gem Homeworld (mentioned)
 * Trial Room (mentioned)
 * Abandoned Homeworld Kindergarten (mentioned)
 * The Barn
 * Beach House
 * Steven's Bathroom

Instrumental Songs
TBA

Trivia

 * This episode's title may be a play on the phrase "raising the bar" or having a more literal meaning,
 * It is revealed that Onion owns a fresh produce vendor known as Onion's Onions.
 * This episode marks the second time Lapis leaves the Earth and it is also shown that Lapis still hasn't overcome her past trauma concerning her imprisonment during the Gem War.
 * The title card of this episode, as well as the one from "Gemcation", use the credits font for the name of the episode. However, it changes back to the regular font in "Back to the Kindergarten".
 * It is possible for Steven to convince Lapis not to leave since Yellow Diamond and Blue Diamond still believe the Cluster will get rid of Earth for them, while unaware of the fact the Cluster had been bubbled by Steven, rendering it inactive. Therefore, it is nearly impossible for the Diamonds to come to destroy the Earth since none of them know the status of the Cluster. Despite this, it seems that Steven, Peridot, and the Crystal Gems are unaware about this fact.

Cultural References

 * The episode’s title is a play on words of the expression “Raising the Bar”.

Continuity

 * Steven is still awaiting.
 * Peridot seems to know how to video chat, as seen in the short, "Video Chat". Lapis also seems to have gotten used to the idea and doesn't think he's trapped in the tablet like before.
 * Onion wears Steven's straw hat from "Watermelon Steven". He even comments on it, revealing that it is, in fact, the same hat.

Errors

 * At the start of the episode Steven leans on the hand that was destroyed by the Centipeetle in Gem Glow.