Steven didn’t understand. They’d brought new gem artifacts back with them on the Warp Pad so many times before, but it had never done this.
One minute he was with Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl, and the next, the artifact was glowing, and he was falling out of the night sky, headed right for a car pulled over on the side of a lonely-looking road he didn’t recognize. Bracing himself, he managed to bounce off of the hood of the car, landing flat on his back on a nearby bush.
Raising his now-aching head to look at the car, he immediately noticed it was his dad’s precious Dondai, with a figure in the driver’s seat, and his face immediately lit up.
“Dad! Dad! Over here!“ The young boy raised his voice and started to wave, trying to get the attention of the person. “It’s me, Steven! I’m really sorry about the car, I’ll help you buff it out, I promise! I--”
When the person in the car turned around, though, Steven gasped, grinning, raising his hands to his mouth in excitement.
“Oh my gosh,” he breathed. “You’re me!“
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