Inside the game world, the Gems were no longer in Beach City. The vibrant, cel-shaded colors of the game were bleeding into a static grey. Steven looked up, not at the sky, but at a giant, pixelated cursor hovering over him like a celestial omen.
"Garnet, what’s happening?" Steven asked, his shield flickering. "The map... it’s disappearing!"
Steven Universe and the Crystal Gems—Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl—were mid-battle with a mysterious new light-construct enemy when the world suddenly froze.