The Answer/Transcript

[Open. Ext. Greg's Storage Shed]

(The episode opens with the camera panning over to a truck that Steven is sleeping in.)

(A shadowy figure approaches him, waking him up.)

Garnet: *excitedly* Steven!

Steven: *gasps* Garnet! Is it morning already?

Garnet: It's midnight, happy birthday Steven!

Steven: *sits up as he grabs Garnet's cheeks* Oh man! Are you finally gonna tell me that you're a fusion of the Gems Ruby and Sapphire like you promised?

Garnet: You already know about all that, Steven.

Steven: *lets go of Garnet* It's true. *falls back into bed*

Garnet: But what you don't know is how Ruby and Sapphire first met.

Steven: *sits back up and grabs her cheeks again with stars in his eyes* *blushes* OMG I don't!

Garnet: *giggles*

[Flashback begins]

Garnet: *narrating* The Earth, 5,750 years ago; it was a promising site of a new Gem colony, but progress was being thwarted by a small persistent group of rebels. A team of diplomatic Gems from Homeworld were sent to investigate. Among those Gems was Sapphire, a rare aristocratic Gem with the power to see into the future. Assigned to her were three Rubies,

(Three Ruby soldiers jump by Sapphire and walk in front of her.)

Garnet: *narrating* common soldiers with a mission to protect her.

Ruby 1: Hey, can't wait for those rebels to get here!

Ruby 2: Haha! Yeah, when I see those rebels, I'm gonna punch them right in their faces.

Ruby 1: What're you saying? I'm gonna punch them all over their bodies, and then, it'll be over.

Ruby 2: What if I just punch you?! *punches Ruby 1*

Ruby 1: Ow!

Ruby: Oh, come on. We'll punch them together when we fuse. That's why they sent *sighs* three of us.

Ruby 2: Three this! *punches Ruby who bumps onto Sapphire*

Ruby: Oh um, so sorry uh, lemme-

Sapphire: I'm fine.

Ruby: What?

Sapphire: It's okay, it was bound to happen.

Ruby: I... Uh... Okay.

Sapphire: Now please wait here. I must attend to my duties.

Ruby: Right.

Ruby 2: Hm.

Ruby 1: Yes.

Garnet: *narrating* Sapphire had been called to Earth by Blue Diamond. Specifically to share her vision of the future.

Sapphire: My Diamond, I've arrived.

Garnet: Blue Diamond spoke: "Sapphire, tell me what will happen here."

Sapphire: I foresee the rebels attacking the Cloud Arena, before they are cornered, they will destroy the physical forms of seven gems, including two of my ruby guards and myself. Immediately after my form is destroyed the rebels will be captured. The rebellion ends here.

Garnet: "Thank you, Sapphire," Blue Diamond said, relieved. "That's all I needed to know."

Sapphire: I look forward to speaking with you again once I reform back on Homeworld.

Garnet: Sapphire knew she would be a casualty, but it did not faze her. She saw her whole life laid out before her, and she had already accepted all of it.

Sapphire: What a beautiful place to build a colony. I wish I could have seen more of this planet.

Ruby: Uh... there's still time.

Sapphire: That is a nice thought, but... no.

Rose Quartz: Blue Diamond, leave this planet! This colony will not be completed!

Ruby 2: It's the rebels! Who are you, show yourselves!

Rose Quartz and Pearl: We are the crystal gems!

Garnet: The attack was right on schedule.

(Pearl cuts four shadowed gems apart, and they poof. The three Rubies fuse into a large Ruby, who charges at Rose Quartz. After an attack, the Rubies unfuse. Ruby 1 and Ruby 2 are also slashed, and poof. Ruby groans.)

Sapphire: Thank you, Ruby. You did your best.

Garnet: Ruby suddenly realized what Sapphire meant. She had known that Ruby would fail. Sapphire had accepted it! But Ruby, Ruby could not!

Ruby: No! (Ruby runs to Sapphire, colliding into her and accidentally fuses with her to form Garnet.)

Garnet: Wha- *gasps* what? What- what is this?

(Pearl starts to slash at Garnet, but Rose Quartz grabs her arm to stop her.)

Rose Quartz: Wait. This is...let's go.

Pearl: Eh- Bye!

Garnet: Is this...? *unfuses*

Garnet: The furious crowd closed in around Ruby and Sapphire. They'd never seen fusion of two different types of gems. "Unbelievable!" "Disgusting!" "This is unheard of!" Blue Diamond's voice cut through the crowd: "The rebels have fled. Sapphire, this is not the scenario you described."

Sapphire: This is...not what I saw! I don't know what happened, I-

Ruby: No! It was me!

Garnet: "Clearly," said Blue Diamond. "How dare you fuse with a member of my court?"

Ruby: Forgive me, I-

Garnet: "You will be broken for this!"

(Sapphire gabs Ruby's arm and runs off the Cloud Arena.)

Ruby: Wait! What are you doing?! No! Why'd you do that? I have to get you back up there!

Sapphire: They were gonna break you.

Ruby: Who cares?! There's tons of me! What do we do now?!

Garnet: Sapphire had known every moment of her life; how it would happen, and when. But because of Ruby's impulsive gesture, she suddenly jumped the track of fate, and everything from that instant on was wrong, and knew she couldn't see, she couldn't move. She was...frozen.

Ruby: Ah! We have to get you - outta here! Come on. All right, we should be good for now.

Sapphire: Thank you.

Ruby: Whoa!

Ruby: What kinda Ruby am I supposed to be? Look at this! We're stranded here. How am I gonna save you?

Sapphire: You already did.

Ruby: What?

Sapphire: You already saved me. *envisions Garnet* I've seen gems fuse before, but I had no idea that's what it felt like. I always thought- I never realized that fusion-that you'd disappear like that.

Ruby: It's never like that! Whenever I fuse, it's always just been me, but bigger, I- I've never had a third eye before

Sapphire: I've never had more than one. It was nice.

Ruby: huh, yeah.

(The two sing Something Entirely New. At the song's end, the two dance and fuse into Garnet.)

Garnet: I was back. I was someone and I didn't know who. But I felt like I was getting an hang of my strength of my strange new form. And then I fell.

* Garnet trips and slides down a cliff*