Let her out
"What can I do... for..."
Pearl was sitting in the living room humming her song. Steven is besides her on a phone with Connie.
"Uh-huh, Okay, Hm, Got it- Alright, talk to you tomorrow, Connie."
Steven hung up his phone
"Pearl?"
"Yes, Steven?"
She stopped humming.
"Can you help me with this school thing? I don't really know what's it about but Connie said it's a place where you go to learn and there's like.. books, chalkboard, math, and.. ..?"
Pearl's eyes widened.
"Teacher? Do you want me to teach you?"
Steven does the same.
"Yeah ya!"
"Well then! Hold on just a second, Steven."
Pearl closes her eyes and concentrate, she then pull the mirror out of her gem.
"This, Steven. This is a gem-powered mirror I found on the galaxy warp. It can display all events that had ever happened to the gem culture. I'm sure it will help you learn things you wanted to."
She handed the mirror to Steven.
Steven gasped.
"Does that mean it can talk to me?"
"Oh, of course not, Steven. It's a mirror, not a person."
Pearl explained and patted his head.
"Aw.."
Though, Steven is a little confused about the concept of the mirror, he accepted it anyway.
"I'll go outside with this little guy then."
He ran outside with the mirror.
[...]
"Let's see, from what Pearl said, I think I can ask you questions. Hmm.."
Steven stopped to think.
"What does cookie cat hawaii flavor taste like?"
The mirror took a second to process Steven's question.
"Cooke cat."
It display the moment Steven said those words earlier.
"Aw, what? Of course it tastes like a cookie cat. What I wanted to know is if it's sweet, sour, or spicy."
"Sweet."
The mirror mimics Steven's speech.
"Sweet? I thought it's gonna taste bland. Thanks for telling me anyway, you're one cool mirror!"
Steven giggled and ran to the Big Donut to show off his friends his new mirror.
While Lars and Sadie are setting up the seats, Steven confronted them.
"Guys! Check out my cool new mirror. It can answers questions. Do you want to try?"
Lars doesn't seems to be interested so he looked away and ignored them. Sadie on the other hand decided to ask one question.
"I would like to know when will Lars stop being such a dork sometimes."
Sadie crosses her arms and looked to Lars.
"Aw, Sadie.. He isn't a dork, he's a cool guy. He'll never stop loving us."
"Never."
The mirror tells the truth.
Both Sadie and Steven glanced at Lars
"What?"
He looked back at them
"Never..?"
Steven frowned and made puppy eyes.
"Ugh. It's probably just a cheap toy that repeats what you say."
Lars seems upset.
"No way. It can't be! It told me what an ice cream taste like earlier!"
Steven argues and looked at the mirror, it can't be just a toy, then he realized something.
"That's right. Pearl told me that it's gem-powered!0"
"Well, if it's sooo gem-powered. Does it knows who created it or which factory did it came from?"
Lars smirked.
Steven frowned, it looks like the mirror couldn't answer that question.
"Sorry, Steven."
Sadie said to him before walking inside the shop with Lars.
Steven frowned once again and walked back to his house, hopeless.
"Hi, Pearl."
He opened the door and went straight to the couch.
"Steven, you're back. Is something wrong?"
Pearl was cleaning the house when Steven entered.
"Yeah, something's wrong.. The mirror can't answer Lars' question."
He place it besides him, he blames it for making Lars upset.
"Oh, Steven. I think your human friend did not asked an actual question. Human can be silly sometimes."
Pearl patted Steven's head to cheer him up.
"But it answered my question. And it's not even about gems, it was about ice cream!"
Steven threw his hands up.
"Wait, what?"
Pearl take a look at the mirror.
"How did it do that?"
Steven looked confused, he thought Pearl knows how it works.
"It just repeat what I say."
He picks up the mirror.
"Here, watch. Say Pearl."
The mirror stayed silent, Pearl was frowning the whole time Steven was explaining.
"Steven.. The mirror isn't supposed to repeat what you say, it should be following orders."
Pearl was a little shocked
"It's not supposed to..?"
He took a glance at the mirror.
"Steven, hand me the mirror."
Pearl hold out her hand. Steven handed it to her without hesitate.
"Mirror, speak."
The mirror remained silent.
"Mirror. Speak."
Pearl voice sounded angrier.
"Pearl, maybe it doesn't-"
"Quiet, Steven."
Steven was quickly cut out by Pearl.
"Let. Me. Go."
The mirror finally spoke.
"Let who go?"
Pearl asked the mirror, still confused.
"Pearl, maybe you should calm down with the mirror.."
Steven slowly approach Pearl.
"Steven, you don't understand. Mirror, speak up."
"I'm. Not. Mirror."
Both Pearl and Steven went silent after the mirror said that.
"Pearl.. I think we should.."
"Steven, for the last time, be quiet. I'll handle this."
Pearl warned Steven for one last time. Steven did not listened, he decided to snatch the mirror from Pearl and ran off.
"Steven!"
Pearl quickly pursue him.
"What do I do? What do I do!?"
He asked the mirror and runs as fast as he could, but no matter how fast he ran, he could never run faster than a gem warrior. Pearl managed to catch Steven but not the mirror.
"Pearl! You don't understand!"
"You don't either!"
She tries to pull the mirror from Steven's hands but he resisted.
Steven groaned as he's trying his hardest to pull back the mirror to his side. Both of them are trying their hardest. In the end, it did not go well. Pearl's hand slipped only a bit, causing Steven to flinched and accidentally pulled out the gemstone behind the mirror. There, Lapis Lazuli has been freed from the mirror prison.
When Lapis finally formed, her body immediately fallen on the ground, her body is trembling and the only thing she can feel is fear. She then starts to talk in the shakiest voice one ever heard.
"L-Let me... g-go.."