The next day there was a commotion on the beach as the whole town seemed to be gathered in front of the house. When everyone had made it outside, they saw what the clamor was about. The water in the ocean was gone, dry sand as far as the eye could see, except for the little puddle in front of Mayor Dewey who was holding a hose and lamenting that all the tourists would leave because the was no beach in Beach City anymore. As soon as he spotted the Crystal Gems he asked if they knew what had happened, which they affirmed. Bismuth announced that they would travel to find the source of the issue and resolve it. The kids and gems piled in the van, with the exception of Steven and Spinel who rode Lion, and they set off in the direction that Lapis left.

They drove for a few hours before taking a break to refuel the van, and the people. Page came prepared with her gem full of food and a couple cans of gasoline, thankful there were no fumes once the cans went into her gem. They continued for a few more hours before the sun started to set and they had reached a large pillar of water. Bismuth mused that it must be because of the crack in her gem. This gave Steven an idea, which he told Page so she could help. Every time anyone approached the tower though, a water clone of that person would emerge weapons drawn. Even Sophie would have a headache when she approached, and her clone always had a large chunk of ice in her hand. Whenever they retreated, so would the clones. Eventually Sophie realized that everyone but her and Steven would have to approach at once to overwhelm and distract Lapis, and when everyone was engaged with their clones, Steven would have to jump with his floating powers to the top of the tower, which from her visions, was low enough he could still breathe, but only because of his gem body. Everyone geared up to go along with the plan, Page for Steven, and Robbie for his twin, the gems for their home. Sophie called them to action and the group charged forward. Once everyone had met up with their clones, Steven took a running leap towards the tower.

As he reached the top, he was starting to breathe heavily, but he found the strength to announce himself. He also demanded she stop the fighting on the sea floor. She complied and asked why he was there. He asked why she took the water from what looked like the whole planet. She explained she wanted to go home, but she couldn't fly, as lapises had wings. Steven replied that she was destroying his home trying to get to hers. He also explained he had a solution. His mom was Rose Quartz, and she had the ability to heal cracked gems, and he inherited that gift. Lapis was apprehensive about letting him try to heal her, as she still thought that the Crystal gems were traitors and devils. But she let him anyway, and when he licked his hand and pressed it to her back she shuddered. She blinked, an action she couldn't do before, and when her eyes reopened, they were regular blue eyes instead of the glassy mirrors they were before. She felt her gem, whole again, and summoned her wings. Steven just sat on the surface of the tower and watched her with amazement, he wasn't quite certain that his spit would work as well as it had. She told him that if he allowed her to go, she'd return him safely to the ground and give him and his group time to leave before letting the tower go. He agreed of course, and she sent him down in a bubble.

Once at the bottom, Steven told everyone to get in the van and for lion to get on top. He then asked his dad to drive forward no matter what, and Lion to open a portal home as soon as the tower started to fall, which got him a huff out of the both of them. They did both do as asked though, and the family arrived in one piece in a matter of minutes. They watched the water come in from the porch about a half an hour later. It sloshed up a little too far up the beach, but there wasn't any terrible flooding in Beach City. When they watched the news however, there were tsunamis in other parts of the world. In some reports you could see weird animals in the background playing in the water, the kids recognized the corrupted gems. Bismuth explained they must've been attracted to the latent magic from Lapis in the water. The kids wandered off to bed and Greg and the Gems talked about the day to decompress, Greg being particularly riled up since he normally didn't go on missions.