Off Colors (episode)/Transcript

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Previous: "The Trial"

Next: "Lars' Head"

Speaker	Dialogue
[Open Int. Homeworld Caverns]
(Following the events in "The Trial", after escaping in Blue Diamond's palanquin, Steven and Lars crash-landed in the dark caverns down below. The two of them slowly emerge from the broken wreckage of the palanquin.)
Steven	Lars! Are you okay?
Lars	Thanks to your bubble. *groans* My bones are only a little broken.
Steven	*chuckles* My bones too. *holds out his hand*
Lars	*grabs Steven's hand and gets up* Dude, those giant ladies were furious with you!
Steven	They're the Diamonds. They've been after my mom for 6,000 years, and now they're after me! Come on, we gotta move.
(Steven and Lars get out from the broken palanquin and begin running into the dark and desolate underground of Homeworld.)
Lars	How are we supposed to get off this planet? Do you even know where you're going?
Steven	No, this is my first time here too.
Lars	Oh, this is so messed up. What are we gonna eat?
Steven	There's tons of food if you like rocks for dinner. *hears a strange noise*
Lars	Salt is a rock, right? Maybe we could season some dirt and make a meal.
Steven	Wait!
(Steven cups his ears to listen out for the noise again, when Lars' stomach starts grumbling.)
Lars	Ughhh, sorry.
(Just then, a Shattering Robonoid comes in behind Steven and Lars.)
Steven & Lars	Aghh!
Steven	They found us! Run!
Lars	Wait! If we stand perfectly still it won't see us. I saw it in a movie once!
(The Robonoid beams a red light at Steven and Lars and begins scanning them both, when it detects Steven's gemstone underneath his shirt.)
Lars	That sounds good.
(The Robonoid then begins charging an energy beam.)
Steven	We should probably move!
Steven & Lars	Aghh!
(Steven quickly pushes Lars out of the way when the Robonoid fires its energy beam, causing a head of a Gem statue behind them to explode.)
Lars	I think that movie... was about dinosaurs.
(After missing, the Robonoid quickly turns its attention onto Steven again.)
Steven	Lars, come on!
Lars	Woah!!
(Steven drags Lars along, and they both run around a corner, while the Robonoid gives chase and scans its surrounding.)
Lars	What are we gonna do!? What's gonna happen!?
Steven	We're gonna run, and we're gonna be okay!
Lars	No!
(Steven and Lars stop running and seek refuge underneath a Gem structure.)
Lars	You just don't get it. I hate being scared all the time! I was scared of everything except baking. Actually, I was scared of that too. I never even tried baking baklava because it looked so hard! I never had the guts to stick up for anybody. Not even me! And now I'm hiding again like a big, cowardly loser under some... space building!
Steven	Don't beat yourself up like that, Lars. That's what the killer robots are for.
???	Quickly! Down here!
(Steven and Lars, startled by the sudden voice, turn around and spots a hand pointing out of a hole in the ground, beckoning them over.)
Lars	Steven? What if it's a trap?
Steven	Uhh... I don't think we have a choice!
(Just then, the Robonoid catches up, and Steven and Lars quickly jump down the hole before it can scan them. A rock covers up the hole, and a shivering Steven and Lars sigh in relief.)
Lars	Close one, huh?
Steven	Ha, yeah. But, who...?
???	Don't worry!
(A shadowy figure approaches Steven and Lars.)
???	you're safe now! We're not gonna hurt you.
Lars	Thank you! Whoever... you...
(The gemstone of the figure begins to glow, revealing a pair of twin Gems, conjoined at the waist. Lars screams at the sight of the Gems, and the Gems flinch in response.
Steven	It's okay, Lars. Thank you for saving us.
Twin Gems	*inches close and inspect Steven and Lars* How bizarre! What are they? They certainly don't look like Gems we've ever seen before.
(The twin Gems gasp as the sound of the Robonoid looms overhead.)
Twin Gems	Come, this way. This way, come!
(The twin Gems begins walking ahead into the cavern and Steven follows, when Lars halts him.)
Lars	Steven, wait! Is this really a good idea?
Steven	They seem... different. I think we can trust them!
(Lars and Steven begins walking through the cavern with the twin Gems as their guide.)
Steven	Umm... Excuse me, but umm... Where are you taking us?
Twin Gems	Somewhere... long forgotten. Where only those who don't belong... belong.
Lars	Heh, sounds like my kind of place. You don't happen to have any fast-food joints around there, do you?
[Trans. Int. Homeworld Kindergarten]
(The group arrives at the end of the cavern, at the edge of a cliff, to a place full of pillars, each full of humanoid-shaped holes.)
Steven	Whoa...
Lars	What is this place?
Steven	A Kindergarten... A really, really big one.
(The group enters a tunnel into a room inside a pillar, and the twin Gems whistle loudly.)
Twin Gems	We're back! Here we are! It's okay to come out!
???	Oh, thank goodness! I hope you weren't followed!
(A fusion Gem then emerges from one of the holes inside the pillar.)
Fusion Gem	You weren't, right, I hope, you double checked! *sees Steven and Lars, and gasps in fright* You've been followed!
Steven	Uh, hi. *approaches the fusion Gem, and she backs off* Don't worry, I'm not a threat or anything.
Twin Gems	It's okay, Rhodonite. Relax. We brought them here.
Rhodonite	Can we trust them?
Twin Gems	Sure. I think so.
(A Sapphire-like Gem then appears behind Lars, slightly startling him.)
"Sapphire" Gem	Everyone! A wondrous prediction has come before me! The twins of Rutile will bring one, no... Two... strangers to our current place of hiding!
Rhodonite	We know, Padparadscha, your prediction already happened!
Rutile Twins	They were being chased by one of those terrible Robonoids.
Rhodonite	Don't tell me you tried to fight those things.
Rutile Twins	No, no, of course not. These two were about to be scanned when we pulled them under. We were just in time.
???	Let...me...see.
(Lars looks down from behind him, spotting a giant fusion Gem, and screams in fright.)
Lars	Uhhh...
(The giant fusion Gem approaches Lars, and he runs away, yelling ad hiding behind Steven.)
Giant Fusion Gem	They...don't...look...like...Gems.
Rutile Twins	That's what I said. I said the same thing!
Steven	Hi, I'm Steven. I'm a Gem. Well, half-Gem. And this is Lars. He's all human.
Fluorite	That's...why...you...look...so...unusual.
Lars	We look unusual?!
Rhodonite	Of course you do. You can't just walk around on the surface like that! You're off-color, just like the rest of us.
Steven	What do you mean... "off-color"?
Rutile Twins	You know, wrong. Not... right. Flawed.
Steven	Wait... I don't see anything wrong with you guys.
Giant Fusion Gem	Gems...like...us...aren't...needed... Padparadscha...can...only...predict...things...that...just...happened.
Padparadscha	Here comes Fluorite!
Rhodonite	And a fusion like me... is unforgivable. When my- our Morganite found out, let's just say... we were replaced. But my story's nothin'! I mean, Fluorite, how many Gems are you now?
Fluorite	Six... Maybe...more, if...we...meet...the...right...Gem.
Rutile Twins	And then there's us.
Steven	You mean, you're not a fusion?
Rutile Twins	We're... just a Rutile that came out wrong. We survived because... all the other Rutiles ran away, when we emerged. We survived... because they were afraid of us.
Lars	Afraid of you? So you've been hiding your whole lives. What happens if they find you?
Rutile Twins	We'll be... *looks at one another*
Padparadscha	Shattered.
(Suddenly, the sounds of the Robonoid become noticeable.)
Rutile Twins	Oh! No!
Fluorite	Oh...
(The red light of a Robonoid's scanning beam illuminates a nearby tunnel.)
Rhodonite	*panicking* You were followed! They're gonna find us! They're gonna break us!
Steven	This is our fault! If it weren't for us, you would be fine!
Rutile Twins	We couldn't just leave you there. We had to do something.
Lars	*panicking* Steven, what are we gonna do?!
Steven	Everyone, hide!
(Three Shattering Robonoids pass through the tunnel and into the room. The Off-Colors, Steven and Lars begin scurrying to hide away.)
Padparadscha	Careful everyone, we're about to be found!
(Fluorite avoids being scanned by a Robonoid by circling around a pillar in the room. Steven and Lars hide in a hole, and Steven summons his shield, while Lars starts hyperventilating.)
Steven	Lars. *puts his hand on Lars' chest* It's okay to be afraid.
(Lars tears up, stops hyperventilating and looks at Steven in determination.)
Lars	A-Okay. *puts his hand on Steven's chest*
(Steven and Lars peek out of their hole, just as two Robonoids scan and close in on the Rutile Twins, hiding in a hole, in the middle. Everyone gasps in horror, as Rhodonite covers her, and Padparadscha's, eyes.)
Steven	Oh no!
Lars	We gotta do something! *runs out of the hole*
Steven	Lars!
(The Rutile Twins cowers in fear as the Robonoids' scanning beams close in on their gemstone, when Lars hurls a rock at one of them, grasping the Robonoids' attention towards him.)
Rutile Twins	Huh?
(The Robonoids begins scanning Lars as he stands perfectly still.)
Steven	Lars!
Lars	It's okay to be afraid...
(The Robonoids finish scanning Lars and move on somewhere else. Lars then gasps in relief.)
Steven	Oh my gosh, Lars! They were trying to scan your gem! They can't see you!
Lars	Alright, looks like the tables have turned-
Padparadscha	*suddenly appears behind Lars* Human Lars!
Lars	Gaaahh!
Padparadscha	I've been possessed with the most marvelous vision!
(Rhodonite uncovers her eyes and realizes Padparadscha has disappeared from her side.)
Padparadscha	You, human Lars, are gemless, and will be safe from the Robonoids, which only target Gems!
(Just Padparadscha speaks, a Robonoid scans her gemstone and prepares to fire at it, when Lars kicks the Robonoid away. The Robonoid, knocked away, fires its energy beam on the wall of the Kindergarten, causing it to explode. Lars quickly grabs Padparadscha and jumps out of the way, as rubble falls from the explosion.)
Lars	I think... that's the coolest thing I've done in my life.
Steven	It's not over yet!
(The other two Robonoids scan again, as Steven holds up his shield. They manage to scan Steven's gem through his shield, and Padparadscha's gem again. All three Robonoids loom ominously about the group, with their cannons primed and ready. At that moment, Lars quickly grabs a rock shard nearby and runs toward the Robonoid, hitting two away, but misses the third one, which evades him and comes after Steven. The Robonoid fires, but Steven deflects the beam off his shield, narrowly missing Lars's head, and hitting one of the Robonoids, causing an explosion which destroys a second Robonoid too.)
Padparadscha	Oh! The shield is reflective!
(Steven lifts Padparadscha out of the way and deflects another beam from the last remaining Robonoid.)
Rhodonite	*yelling* Padparadscha, come back, hide!
(Rhodonite's yelling draws the attention of the Robonoid and she freezes in fear as it begins scanning. Lars then jumps in the way, blocking Rhodonite's gemstones, and the Robonoid scans him instead.)
Lars	*gasps and breathes heavily* Okay... *picks up the rock shard* Okay... OKAY!
(Lars jumps, lands on top of the Robonoid and whacks its sensor with the rock shard. The Robonoid begins firing energy beams wildly in all direction, barely missing everyone while Lars rides on it.)
Lars	Whoa, whoa... *holds the rock shard up high in the air* Eat... THIS!
(Lars rams the rock shard right into the Robonoid's sensor, causing it to explode. Lars is then sent flying backwards in the air, hitting his head against a pillar with a cracking sound, and falls onto the ground, laying motionlessly.
Steven	Lars! *runs over* Lars! *turns him over and shakes him* Lars?
(The Off-Colors walk over, cheering on Lars' victory.)
Rhodonite	I didn't think we were gonna make it!
Rutile Twins	That was amazing! You were amazing! Lars, that was so great!
Padparadscha	We're winning! We're winning!
(Steven tries to listen for Lars's heartbeat on his chest and gasps in shock, hearing nothing. Steven bursts into tears and the room grows silent. Steven picks Lars up and holds him close, as he begins to grieve over Lars' sacrifice. Tears runs down his cheek onto Lar's face, and suddenly, Lars's body begins to glow. Everyone watches in shock and surprise as Lars' body turns pink, and he slowly gets up.)
Lars	Ugh... Whoa... What happened?
Padparadscha	Oh my, something incredible is going to happen to Lars!
[END]