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Sardonyx turns out to be a BigFun stage magician who wields a gigantic warhammer. She's happy to meet Steven and is very efficient at knocking the communications hub apart. She defuses afterwards with no problems, and the Crystal Gems go home and get ready to search for Peridot the next day. Crisis averted!
Except that, come tomorrow, the hub is once more in use, and Sardonyx has to once more take it apart. While the fusion appears to work like a charm, Steven notices that Amethyst is feeling down. The success of Sardonyx just serves to reminder of how Sugilite failed, and she's ashamed of that and acutely aware that Garnet no longer trusts her to fuse with. Steven decides to help her out by taking her on a stakeout to catch Peridot in the act of repairing the hub.
The stakeout, as stakeouts usually are, was rather boring for a while. Steven taught Amethyst a double-vision trick (and showed that she had to brush away the bangs covering one eye to do it). They also discovered a Peridot-shaped cactus, but no Peridot. Then finally, the person repairing the communication hub shows up- and it's ''Pearl''!
The next day, the Crystal Gems are once more at the communication hub. Pearl is eager to fuse again, but Amethyst and Steven are worried about it, and spill the beans regarding Pearl's nighttime activities. It turns out, Peridot only repaired the hub the first time. The other times were Pearl, because she [[PowerHigh enjoyed the feeling of being Sardonyx]] and wanted to feel it a few more times before they got on with their Peridot-hunt.
Garnet is ''furious'' with Pearl for breaking her trust. Pearl weakly tries to defend herself, and Amethyst also tries to defend her, saying that ''both'' of them loved fusing with Garnet because they were able to share her power and confidence. This doesn't help Pearl's case any. Garnet decides to fuse with Amethyst, and, as Sugilite, they smash the tower into pieces too small to be repaired.
Back at the temple, Garnet is still not speaking to Pearl. Steven and Amethyst watch the end of a ''Crying Breakfast Friends'' episode with a similar plot wherein the Pearl-analogue is EasilyForgiven, and Steven wonders why their reality couldn't be more like the cartoons.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Amethyst was upset that Pearl got to fuse with Garnet, ashamed of how Sugilite went out of control last time, and wished to get another chance. She got her other chance, all right- when it was made clear that using Sardonyx would be even worse, as Pearl was deliberately sabotaging the attempts to destroy the hub.
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** As in "Coach Steven", when Garnet suggests fusing with a teammate, the chosen one is overjoyed while the other one sulks.
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* GodzillaThreshold: Sugilite has become this- she's extremely powerful, but after she went out of control last time, Garnet doesn't want to use her unless there's no other option. Of course, discovering that Pearl had been repairing the hub to have an excuse to become Sardonyx forced Garnet's hand.
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* GodzillaThreshold: Sugilite has become this- she's this--she's extremely powerful, but after she went out of control last time, Garnet doesn't want to use her unless there's no other option. Of course, discovering that Pearl had been repairing the hub to have an excuse to become Sardonyx forced Garnet's hand.
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Steven's favorite TV show gets interrupted by a magical disturbance. Peridot sends out a distress message to Yellow Diamond on TV, which Steven confirms is happening all over by calling Connie, who also sees the message. The Crystal Gems and Steven go to the communication hub, which was last seen in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E20CoachSteven "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E20CoachSteven Coach Steven]].Steven]]". Peridot has rebuilt it, but since the last time Garnet and Amethyst formed Sugilite was a disaster, Garnet decides to fuse with Pearl instead and form Sardonyx.
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* BerserkButton: Garnet's, as always, is misusing fusion. Pearl lying to Garnet just to have an excuse to fuse pushes it with '''extreme predjudice'''.
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* BerserkButton: Garnet's, as always, is misusing fusion. Pearl lying to Garnet just to have an excuse to fuse pushes it with '''extreme predjudice'''.prejudice'''.
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* BerserkButton: Garnet does ''not'' react well to learning that Pearl set up the need to fuse after the first time, due to her feelings on fusion (and because it distracted them from finding Peridot). She even goes so far as to bring the dreaded Sugillite fusion back.
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* BerserkButton: Garnet's, as always, is misusing fusion. Pearl lying to Garnet does ''not'' react well just to learning that Pearl set up the need have an excuse to fuse after the first time, due to her feelings on fusion (and because pushes it distracted them from finding Peridot). She even goes so far as to bring the dreaded Sugillite fusion back.with '''extreme predjudice'''.
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* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: A ([[LesYay possibly]]) platonic version with Amethyst, who basically says that fusing with Pearl will be better for Garnet. It is, until Pearl takes it too far.
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* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: GodzillaThreshold: Sugilite has become this- she's extremely powerful, but after she went out of control last time, Garnet doesn't want to use her unless there's no other option. Of course, discovering that Pearl had been repairing the hub to have an excuse to become Sardonyx forced Garnet's hand.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: A ([[LesYay possibly]]) platonic version with Amethyst, who basically says that fusing with Pearl will be better for Garnet. It is, until Pearl takes it too far.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: A ([[LesYay possibly]]) platonic version with Amethyst, who basically says that fusing with Pearl will be better for Garnet. It is, until Pearl takes it too far.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: The only reason Pearl was caught was because Steven saw how sad Amethyst was about no longer being able to fuse with Garnet because because Sugilite was so uncontrollable, and camped out with her near the communication hub to catch Peridot when she came to rebuild it, so that they could still be useful to the team by capturing her. Instead, they discovered that Peridot had ''not'' fixed the hub- ''Pearl'' had. It all went downhill from there.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: The only reason Pearl was caught was because Steven saw how sad decided to cheer up Amethyst (who was humiliated about no longer being able to fuse with Garnet because because how Sugilite was had gone so uncontrollable, and camped out with of control that she couldn't be used) by taking her near to stake out the communication communications hub to catch Peridot when she came went to rebuild it, so that they could still be useful to the team by capturing her. Instead, they repair it. They instead discovered that Peridot had ''not'' fixed it was Pearl who was repairing the hub- ''Pearl'' had. It hub, and it all went downhill from there.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: The only reason Pearl was caught was because Steven saw how sad Amethyst was about no longer being able to fuse with Garnet because because Sugilite was so uncontrollable, and camped out with her near the communication hub to catch Peridot when she came to rebuild it, so that they could still be useful to the team by capturing her. Instead, they discovered that Peridot had ''not'' fixed the hub- ''Pearl'' had. It all went downhill from there.
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More importantly, it's redundant. The "used them for sex" part gets the same point across.
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*** Further on that topic, fusion is the absolute expression of love and trust between two Gems. So when Pearl tried to trick Garnet into fusing with her, it wasn't just a lie; it was tantamount to rape. Pearl nearly ''raped'' Garnet.
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*** Further on that topic, fusion is the absolute expression of love and trust between two Gems. So when Pearl tried to trick Garnet into fusing with her, it wasn't just a lie; it was tantamount to rape. Pearl nearly ''raped'' Garnet.
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This is not a Wham Episode, it\'s just setting up a story arc.
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* WhamEpisode: ''Big time''. Peridot uses a communication hub to try and send a message to Yellow Diamond, which gets broadcast all over Beach City. The Gems head to its location, and Garnet fuses with Pearl into Sardonyx (the first on-screen appearance of this fusion) to destroy it, but Pearl goes on to repeatedly trick Garnet into fusing with her by rebuilding the communication hub and making it look like Peridot did it. Once this comes out Garnet is so furious that by the end of the episode the two aren't on speaking terms, and Steven and Amethyst can only watch helplessly and hope for things to work out, marking the first serious rift between the Gems as a whole.
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** Garnet says that she can't see them finding Peridot in her future vision, again hinting that Peridot didn't fix the tower the second time.
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** When Steven sees Sardonyx, he says "Giant woman!"
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Cry for Help" refers to both Peridot's distress call, and Pearl and Amethyst's behavior in regards to fusing with Garnet.
** It also references Crying Breakfast Friends.
** It also references Crying Breakfast Friends.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Cry for Help" refers to both Peridot's distress call, and Pearl and Amethyst's behavior in regards to fusing with Garnet.
**Garnet. It also references Crying Breakfast Friends.
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** It also references Crying Breakfast Friends.
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When Pearl is eager to fuse again, she notes that she's fine with Sardonyx ''disabling'' the tower as much as required, rather than destroying it. She soon admits that she wanted to continue the charade at least a few more "victories". Garnet tears into her for this line of thinking.
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Ugh, inelegant wording. Sardonyx would be disappointed. Feel free to make it better, I did my best.
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* NoExceptYes: When Steven asks if Sardonyx will smash stuff, she initially takes issue with the word "smash," offering a list of "proper words to describe yours truly," but then admits that she does smash things sometimes.
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* BerserkButton: Garnet does ''not'' react well to learning that Pearl set up the need to fuse after the first time, due to her feelings on fusion (and because it distracted them from finding Peridot).
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* BerserkButton: Garnet does ''not'' react well to learning that Pearl set up the need to fuse after the first time, due to her feelings on fusion (and because it distracted them from finding Peridot). She even goes so far as to bring the dreaded Sugillite fusion back.
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* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: A ([[LesYay possibly]]) platonic version with Amethyst, who basically says that fusing with Pearl will be better for Garnet.
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* PowerHigh: Amethyst explains that fusing with Garnet can be addictive because of how powerful it can make the other Gems.
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* PowerHigh: Amethyst explains that fusing with Garnet can be addictive because of how powerful it can make the other Gems. She's totally right.
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** There's a Gamecube near the TV and Sardonyx looks like a Great Fairy from Zelda: Wind Waker.
** There's a Gamecube near the TV and Sardonyx looks like a Great Fairy from Zelda: Wind Waker.
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* WhatTheHellHero: When Garnet finds out that Pearl has been rebuilding the communication hub tower, she's '''furious''', since she's been wasting their time on a wild goose chase while Peridot is still out there, trying to contact Homeworld and likely signalling for a full-scale invasion of Earth.
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* WhatTheHellHero: When Garnet finds out that Pearl has been rebuilding the communication hub tower, she's '''furious''', since she's been wasting their time on a wild goose chase while Peridot is still out there, trying to contact Homeworld and likely signalling for a full-scale invasion of Earth. Cue the return of Sugillite smashing the tower to irrevocable proportions.
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** Notably [[AvertedTrope averted]] when Sugilite appears. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] seeing as Garnet is mad with Pearl for tricking her.
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** Notably [[AvertedTrope averted]] when Sugilite appears. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] seeing as Garnet is mad with Pearl for tricking her. And Amethyst is obviously not in the best mood either.
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* TryingNotToCry: When Garnet asks Pearl to fuse with her, Pearl tries not to tear up.
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* TryingNotToCry: When Garnet asks Pearl to fuse with her, Pearl tries not to tear up.up with joy. Played for humor.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Garnet reminds the Gems how brash (Garnet) and reckless (Amethyst) Sugilite was and can be. After Pearl is found out to be fixing the communication hub so she could fuse with Garnet, Sugilite reforms and is indeed reckless in how she ''annihilates'' the hub, but with [[TranquilFury no brashness or cockiness about it]]. Pearl ''seriously'' pissed Garnet off.
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** Garnet reminds the Gems how brash (Garnet) and reckless (Amethyst) Sugilite was and can be. After Pearl is found out to be fixing the communication hub so she could fuse with Garnet, Sugilite reforms and is indeed reckless in how she ''annihilates'' the hub, but with [[TranquilFury no brashness or cockiness about it]]. Pearl ''seriously'' pissed Garnetoff.off.
** Garnet herself is outraged by Pearl's behavior to a degree never seen before, not even when Steven knocked her shades off in "Mirror Gem".
** Garnet reminds the Gems how brash (Garnet) and reckless (Amethyst) Sugilite was and can be. After Pearl is found out to be fixing the communication hub so she could fuse with Garnet, Sugilite reforms and is indeed reckless in how she ''annihilates'' the hub, but with [[TranquilFury no brashness or cockiness about it]]. Pearl ''seriously'' pissed Garnet
** Garnet herself is outraged by Pearl's behavior to a degree never seen before, not even when Steven knocked her shades off in "Mirror Gem".
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* PlotParallel: Eggcup (Pearl) and Pear (Garnet) have a conflict. Eggcup and Pear make up by the end, but Pearl and Garnet do not.
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* PlotParallel: Eggcup (Pearl) Spoon (Garnet) and Pear (Garnet) (Pearl) have a conflict. Eggcup Spoon and Pear make up by the end, but Pearl and Garnet do not.
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Steven's favorite TV show gets interrupted by a magical disturbance. Peridot sends out a distress message to Yellow Diamond on TV, which Steven confirms is happening all over by calling Connie, who also sees the message. The Crystal Gems and Steven go to the communication hub, which was last seen in [[Reccap/StevenUniverseS1E20CoachSteven [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E20CoachSteven Coach Steven]]. Peridot has rebuilt it, but since the last time Garnet and Amethyst formed Sugilite was a disaster, Garnet decides to fuse with Pearl instead and form Sardonyx.
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Steven's favorite TV show gets interrupted by a magical disturbance. Peridot sends out a distress message to Yellow Diamond on TV, which Steven confirms is happening all over by calling Connie, who also sees the message. The Crystal Gems and Steven go to the communication hub, which was last seen in [[Reccap/StevenUniverseS1E20CoachSteven Coach Steven]]. Peridot has rebuilt it, but since the last time Garnet and Amethyst formed Sugilite was a disaster, she decides to fuse with Pearl instead and form Sardonyx.
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Steven's favorite TV show gets interrupted by a magical disturbance. Peridot sends out a distress message to Yellow Diamond on TV, which Steven confirms is happening all over by calling Connie, who also sees the message. The Crystal Gems and Steven go to the communication hub, which was last seen in [[Reccap/StevenUniverseS1E20CoachSteven Coach Steven]]. Peridot has rebuilt it, but since the last time Garnet and Amethyst formed Sugilite was a disaster, she Garnet decides to fuse with Pearl instead and form Sardonyx.
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* MyGreatestFailure: Amethyst feels that Sugilite going out of control back in "Coach Steven" is hers, since she got carried away because they hadn't fused in so long and she loved the PowerHigh she got when they did so. During her song, she even says "I see a tower built out of my mistakes".
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* DarkReprise: A heavily distorted version of Synchronize/Sugilite can be heard as [spoiler:Amethyst and Garnet fuse to destroy the communication tower.]]
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** Garnet's reaction to Pearl reassembling the hub so she'll have an excuse to fuse with Garnet is similar to that of someone realizing that their partner used them for sex, or a friend that used another friend to get drugs (given the PowerHigh the others get when fusing with Garnet)..Garnet).
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* DarkReprise: A heavily distorted version of Synchronize/Sugilite can be heard as [spoiler:Amethyst and Garnet fuse to destroy the communication tower.]]
* DistressCall: The impetus for the episode. Peridot is desperately broadcasting to Yellow Diamond in order to get off the planet, which alerts the Crystal Gems that she's fixed the communication hub.
* DistressCall: The impetus for the episode. Peridot is desperately broadcasting to Yellow Diamond in order to get off the planet, which alerts the Crystal Gems that she's fixed the communication hub.
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** Garnet's reaction to Pearl reassembling the hub so she'll have an excuse to fuse with Garnet is similar to that of someone realizing that their partner used them for sex, or a friend that used another friend to get drugs (given the PowerHigh the others get when fusing with Garnet).
* DistressCall: The impetus for the episode. Peridot is desperately broadcasting to Yellow Diamond in order to get off the planet, which alerts the Crystal Gems that she's fixed the communication hub.
* DistressCall: The impetus for the episode. Peridot is desperately broadcasting to Yellow Diamond in order to get off the planet, which alerts the Crystal Gems that she's fixed the communication hub.
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* DistressCall: The impetus for the episode. Peridot is desperately broadcasting to Yellow Diamond in order to get off the planet, which alerts the Crystal Gems that she's fixed the communication hub.Garnet)..
* DistressCall: The impetus for the episode. Peridot is desperately broadcasting to Yellow Diamond in order to get off the planet, which alerts the Crystal Gems that she's fixed the communication hub.
