Sorry for let you all wait so long. But here´s the new chapter.

It´s a Filler Episode...and the next few episodes will also be Filler Episodes. Anyway, have fun while reading.

[Steven, Alex and Amethyst are at Funland Arcade.]

Steven is washing sand off of his feet at a faucet while Alex is standing next to him.

"You always wear Sandals, isn´t it uncomfortable wearing Sandals the whole time?" Alex asks him.

"Not at all. I really like wearing Sandals." Steven answeres smiling.

"Okay, if you think so." Alex shrugs.

Amethyst approaches them both.

"Hey, Steven, Alex. You wanna try some special new french fries?" Amethyst asks them while she offers them a cup of red french fries.

"Do I!" Steven exclaims happily. He grabs and eats a handful of fries.

"I guess," Alex says calmly and also takes a handful of fries and eats them.

Amethyst chuckles loudly and Steven joins in while Alex only narrows her eyes at Amethyst.

Suddenly Steven's face begins to turn red.

"HOT!" He screams.

"They´re special because they´re seasoned with Fire Salt!" Amethyst says and pulls outa vial of Fire Salt to show him.

Steven with a red burning face quickly attempts to turn the faucet back on but it breaks off.

So he is forced to sprint towards Big Donut.

Alex just stands there and watches him.

"I have no idea what´s gotten into him. They´re not that hot." Alex says and rolls her eyes.

"Want some more?" Amethyst asks her.

"Why not," Alex takes another handful of French Fries and follows him.

[At Big Donut]

Steven bursts into the Big Donut while Alex walks in casually with an amusing smile.

Steven rushes to the soda fountain and sprays two types of soda in his mouth.

Excess soda is spilt onto the floor, forming a large puddle on the floor.

Lars approaches him frustratedly. "Steven! What are you-" Lars slips and falls on the puddle of soda.

Alex amusing smile wides.

"Sorry, Lars. " Steven apologizes, exhausted.

"Ugh, Steven! Who do you think has to clean up this mess?" Lars says and turns to Sadie," Sadie, clean up this mess."

"You really are such a jerk, Salty Lars," Alex says as she rolls her eyes.

"No way, it´s your turn. I cleaned the last five "Stevens"." Sadies says annoyed.

"Aww, come on. That fall messed up my back. It hurts, really bad." Lars says and rubs his back.

"Move aside, I´ll take care of this. Could you grab the soap?" Sadies says as she rolls her eyes and brings out a mop and a bucket.

"Oh! It hurts" Sooo much!" Lars groans in "fake" pain.

Alex lifts up an eyebrow and crosses her arms.

"Maybe you should take a day off," Sadie suggests.

"Okay! You gonna be fine on your own?" Lars asks smiling again.

"Well, I guess so, but-" Sadie starts.

"You´re the best, Player Two!" Lars says and leaves the store.

"What an Idiot!" Alex says quietly.

"Wait, I can´t run this place by myself!" Sadie exclaims.

"I can´t believe that you actually believe him. He was absolutely faking his pain." Alex says.

"I don´t think that he was faking it. He wouldn´t do something like that." Sadie says.

Alex looks at her with a 'you can´t be serious' look but she doesn´t say anything.

Steven walks over with a large pile of napkins and drops them directly on the puddle.

"Me and Alex can help! This place has given me so many delicious donuts. It´s time I gave back." Steven says.

Alex sighs. "I suppose we could help..." She shrugs.

"Really? Thanks." Sadie says.

Sadie gives Alex and Steven Big Donut uniforms.

"I hereby deputise you as Lars-for-the-day. Now, it´s time I showed you the Employee Room." Sadie says.

"Sadie...please...never call me Lars. I don´t even want to be Lars-for-a-second." Alex says as she shudders in disgust.

Sadie, Alex and Steven enter the Employee room. The Room is populated by several supply boxes on the right, over a dozen Donut boxes lining the back left, and a CRT TV, two folding chairs and a small circular table furnishing the front left.

"Woah, this is the most magical place I´ve ever seen," Steven exclaims.

"This is the most normal and boring place I´ve ever seen," Alex says with crossed arms.

"Let me give you the tour," Sadie says

She points at the boxes. "These are the extra supplies. Cups, plastic silverware...Sometimes I sleep on the napkins when I get tired." Sadies tells them.

"Is that why they´re called, nap-kins?" Steven asks.

Alex rolls her eyes.

"Not really, no. Good joke, though." Sadie says and pats Steven on his head, and shows him the tables and chairs.

"On breaks, we chill out here. We can even watch TV," Sadie explains.

"Sometimes, Lars will cover for me so I can watch Canine Court." Sadie leans in and whispers.

Steven "zips" his lips, and then Alex´s lips. Alex rolls her eyes while Sadie smiles.

Sadie brings them to another pile of boxes." Now, most important of all, this is where we store, the donuts. They're mailed in from some corporate bake-station."

"You mean you don't make them here?" Steven asks her

"No, not since..." the accident". Sadies says and glares towards a corner of the room revealing a blast mark on the wall outlining a human body.

"Now Alex, Steven, this Job is a big responsibility, so you´re gonna have to watch this videotape. "Sadie says and shows a VHS tape.

"Great," Alex says unenthusiastically

"What is it?" Steven asks.

"It´s a VHS Tape. And this thing is like a DVD shaped box." Alex explains.

"And it will tell you everything you need to know," Sadie says and inserts the tape into the VHS player of the TV.

The tape begins playing a work safety video with upbeat music, the star being a younger Mr Smiley.

"Is...that ?" Alex wonders unimpressed.

"Mr Smiley used to work here?" Steven asks Sadie.

"No, but he used to be an actor/ R&B singer." Sadie answers.

"Oh god." Alex groans.

[The Song Do or Do Nut starts to play]

The lengthy video informs Steven and Sadie about safety procedures such as the Heimlich maneuver and fire extinguishing through Mr. Smiley's song "Do or Do Nut". Steven is seen enjoying the video, but Sadie is greatly bored while Alex looks slightly disturbed at the video.

After the video ends, Sadie steps forth to retrieve the VHS tape.

"Wow, that was great! Are all videotapes that informative?" Steven exclaims while Alex shakes her head to get the song and the video out of her head.

"In my experience, yeah." Sadie answers.

Steven, Alex and Sadie return back to the front of the store and start serving customers.

"It started out as just a summer job, but...that was two summers ago," Sadie says.

"Here are your Donuts. Please, don´t come back." Alex says while she serves Donuts to Mr. Fryman.

approaches the counter. "Hmm, I´ll have a-"

"Donuts! At the Big Donut!" Steven starts singing.

Mr. Smiley joins in surprised. "Hey! They make the world go round." Mr. Smiley and Steven sing both.

Mr. Smiley chuckles.

"Wow, I can´t believe you used to be a real actor/ R&B singer!" Steven exclaims.

"Used to be?" Mr. Smile mumbles and leaves with his donuts

"Wow, I´m impressed last time someone mentioned that song we couldn´t get Mr. Smiley to go home," Sadie says.

"To perk up, you gotta percolate, a hot cup of coffee, makes the perfect day." Steven sings and hands Sadie a cup of coffee.

"Haha, thanks. Maybe I should phone up Lars to tell him he can stay, 'cause I found his replacement." Sadies chuckles.

"Really?!" Steven asks excitedly.

"Oh, no. That was a joke." Sadie says.

"I hope so." Alex mumbles.

"I know we three love Lars..." Steven says

"Please, stop saying things like that Steven. I don´t "Love" Lars. I can´t stand him and everyone in here knows that." Alex says but she notices Sadies eyes widens.

"But... This job is the best thing to ever happen to me and we should fire Lars." Steven says fastly.

"I agree with the last part." Alex nods her head in an agreement.

"We can´t "fire Lars"," Sadie says.

"Why not?" Alex asks bored.

"Well, you know, he may do things like come in late, and leave all the really hard work for me but... Look, I like Lars, h—he's a nice guy... once you get to know him. There was this one time when the new "Army of War" game was coming out, but Lars was banned from the only place selling it. He wanted it SO bad. So who does he beg to stand in line for SEVEN hours? Me. I didn't think much of it, but when I got to his house I saw he cleaned up his room a little, and he got a big box of Oyster crackers. They're my favourite. He let me be his Player Two, and we spent the whole night together. " Sadies says and stares admiringly into her coffee.

"I think, I´m going to be sick," Alex says.

"That really is nice...Must´ve been one great video game." Steven says

"Yeah, it was..." Sadie says.

"Maybe we could do something nice for Lars?" Steven asks.

Sadie and Steven walk to Lars' house with a large box of donuts as Steven sings in tune of "Do or Do Nut".

A bored Alex is walking right behind them.

"Donuts! D-d-donuts! Donuts donuts donuts, donuts donuts donuts...!" Steven sings.

"I thought you wanted this to be a surprise? He can hear us a mile away." Sadie says.

Steven stops singing as they approach Lars' front door.

"But the Donut fever's fried my soul. Ah-hahaha." Steven's hair gets rustled by Sadie.

"Too bad guys. It seems that he's already ordered pizza." Alex says and points at Fish Pizza truck.

Steven, Alex and Sadie then hear Lars laughing from his backyard. They peek over and find him jumping and bouncing on a trampoline with Jenny, Sour Cream and Buck Dewey.

"Oof. Hey, Lars, thanks for inviting us over." Jenny as she bumps into Lars.

"It's no problem. 'Cause I got the whole day off, by faking a severe back injury!" Lars says with a dorky laugh.

Both Jenny and Sour Cream high-five him.

"Ughhh, he was faking this whole-" Steven says disgusted and he notices an emotionally distraught Sadie

"It was very obvious. I told you...but you weren´t listening." Alex says unimpressed but also notices Sadie.

Emotionally pained, and on the verge of tears, Sadie, shaking with Lars' gift in her hands, sees that she has been noticed in a vulnerable state and tosses the box of donuts on the ground.

She runs away.

"Sadie! Wait!" Steven exclaims and runs after her.

"And I thought I couldn´t hate Salty Lars more than I already do, "Alex mumbles and she glares at Lars before running after Steven and Sadie

Steven and Alex manage to catch up to her.

"Uh, don´t worry! We can handle the Big Donut. Who needs crummy old Lars?" Steven says as he grabs Sadie´s arm.

"Steven! He´s made a fool of me! IDIOT!" Sadie starts to cry," He´s burned me before...Just once, I´d like to burn him back!"

"Okay, first stop crying over, Salty Lars! He´s the one who should be crying instead of you. Second, He´s already whining about everything and he´s just a big jerk...so, maybe you should stop listening to his...words and third, I think I know a way how we can burn, the Salty Jerk," Alex says and smirks at Steven at the last part.

"Oh, right! Wait right here- "Steven looks at Alex who points silently at Sadie, "Actually, this might take a while, you better go home. See you tomorrow!" He tells her and runs off.

"And stop thinking about Salty Jerk Lars, Okay?" Alex says with a small smile, "See you tomorrow." She waves slightly at Sadie before following Steven.

[In The Big Donut]

The next day, Sadie is watching Canine Court while eating oyster crackers when Steven bursts into the room, with Alex following him with a small smirk.

"Fire Salt! Burn, burn people!" Steven yells and puts a donut in front of Sadie and attempts to add the salt onto it.

Sadie snatched the vial of Fire Salt from Steven.

"You know we can´t add anything to the donuts!" She tells him.

"It´s just a little fire salt," Steven says.

"Yeah, we are only pranking Lars. So, it´s not a big deal," Alex says as she crosses her arms with a slightly playful smirk.

"He did really hurt my feeling...a little. But what kind of person does that make you, if you try to hurt him back?" Sadie asks him.

"...Uh, a hero?" Steven tells her.

"A human being. And a much better human being than Lars. Some people will keep on hurting...or in this case burning you until you let them taste their own medicine. People like Lars do not learn with words...I am telling him to stop being a jerk to Steven as long as I can remember and he doesn´t stop. You need to burn him only that way he will learn to stop being so salty and so jerky," Alex tells Sadie.

The front doorbell goes off as Lars enters the store, groaning in false pain. Steven, Alex and Sadie are able to see him enter through the glass donut cabinet.

"Huu! Oh, my back! Sadie? I finally got out of bed but I don't think I can work today, either... Sadie? Don't make me walk all the way to the break room," Lars says.

Alex narrows her eyes at him into a deadly glare.

Sadie applies the whole vial of the Fire Salt to the top of the donut in anger.

"Sadie! This is gonna be soo funny," Steven says.

Alex nods with a smirk on her lips.

"Yo, Sadie, where you at? Are you slacking off?" Lars asks.

"Lars," Sadie says coldly as she walks out of the Employee room together with Steven and Alex.

"Hi, Lars!" Steven greets him while Alex looks at him coldly with her arms crossed.

"Why are these two wearing Donut suits?" Lars asks.

"Don´t worry about that. How´s your back?" Sadie asks him.

"Actually it still hurts like-"

"Really?" Alex asks him coldly.

"No, no, it´s cool. I know I can count on Sadie to help, right "P2"," Lars says.

"Sure. Just relax, in fact, why don´t you have a donut?" Sadie presents him the donut dosed in Fire Salt.

Alex´s eyes are having a dangerously happy twinkle in them while she tries hard to not grin.

"Yeah, alright," Lars says.

"Careful, it´s a little hot," Sadie says.

"Hey, this is pretty good, is this a new flavour or something?" Lars says as he takes a bite.

"Hahahaha, she said-she said "it´s hot"!" Steven cracks up while Alex grins widely.

At that moment, Lars' face swells up and he begins to breathe a persistent stream of fire, lighting the store on flame as he yells in panic.

"Steven, help Lars!" Sadie tells him as she runs to a fire extinguisher on a wall.

"Lars, drink this!" Steven hands Lars a cup of soda, which he burns before he can consume.

Lars flees the store while holding his breath.

"No, Lars! Come back!" Sadie yells after him as she puts out a fire before she sprinklers in the store come on, "Steven, I didn´t want this," She says.

"I know how to fix this! We just need to get Lars to calm down," Steven says.

"How are we gonna find him?" Sadie says as she and Steven leave the Big Donut.

Alex stands behind the counter with her arms still crossed and big, happy grin is on her face.

"What a great day!" She says happily.

"You too, Alex!" Steven yells after her.

"Okay, Okay. I´m coming," Alex says before she picks up the donut and takes a bite.

"What´s his problem anyway? It´s not even that hot," She says as she follows them.

[Beach City]

Steven, Sadie and a happy, donut eating Alex follow the path of flames as the pursue Lars through the streets, continuously breathing fire.

"I think he this way!" Steven exclaims.

Mayor Dewey is holding a conference by a statue of himself and a giant bowl of ice cream.

"...And of the many treasures of our wonderful city, this is certainly one of the sweetest. As Mayor, I´m proud to unveil this, the largest bowl of ice cream in Beach country! Yes, let´s all scream for ice cream," Mayor Dewey says.

The crowd applauds Mayor Dewey, when Lars suddenly charges in and flings himself into the bowl of ice cream, hoping to cool himself, but only causing the ice cream to melt entirely and cover the citizens.

He then takes off running again.

Mayor Dewey takes out his phone.

"Yeah, it melted, Gary. Well, you should've said that at the meeting!" He talks on his phone.

Alex´s grin gets wider. "This day is just getting better!" She says.

[Funland Arcade]

Lars falls on the boardwalk in front of the Funland Arcade.

Steven, Alex and Sadie catch up and find Amethyst to still be in her exact same position as the day before and eating fries.

"Amethyst!" Steven says as he tries to catch his breath.

"Hey, why's donut guy breathing fire?" She asks him.

"Steven and I pranked Lars..and maybe we used too much Fire Salt," Alex responds grinning.

"Al...tha´ts hilarious," Amethyst says as he eats fries.

"I know, right?" Alex says chuckling.

"YOU...DID...THIS...TO ME?!" Lars struggles to talk, he is getting out words in between fire breaths.

Lars walks towards Steven and Alex.

Alex quickly stands before Steven with her arms crossed and an amused grin on her face.

"Watch out, Salty Lars. Touch my brother and your burning mouth is gonna be the last of your problems," Alex tells him, "Besides, you what they say...Karma is a...(small glance at Steven)...Karma always hits you harder,"

"It wasn´t them! It was me," Sadie says as she approaches Lars.

Lars looks at her surprised.

"Ohhh, now it´s gettin' good!" Amethyst says and Alex looks at her smiling.

"After all, I do for you, you LIE to me? So you can sneak off with some other girl?!" Sadie says angrily.

"And other boys!" Steven exclaims.

"That night we played video games, I don´t know what it meant to you. But ever since, the I can´t get the thought of my head that you´re a good person, "Sadie says tearing up and she grabs Lars's hand, "That night, I really thought...Player Two. Is that just your way of saying I could´ve been anyone?"

"Ugh!" Alex rolls her eyes.

"Sa-die-," Lars attempts to speak without breathing fire but he starts to cough.

Steven hears Lars coughing and rushes towards him.

"If a customer chokes on a donut, state law requires that you assist them! Take both hands, push below the di-a-phragm!" Steven says.

He pounces onto Lars and performs the Heimlich maneuver on him, causing him to cough out a portion of the Fire Salt dosed donut.

Sadie then puts it, and all the fire, out with the fire extinguisher.

"Another day saved by Steven Universe! With bonus musical styling of Harold Smiley, "Steven says and turns to Lars, "You´re welcome,"

Lars ignores Steven as she ashamedly approaches Sadie who is putting out the fires, with his head turned away from facing her.

"I'm not apologizing," Sadie says.

"No! I wanna help. But I get it if you wanna be alone," Lars says with a strained voice.

"Oh, no no no, stay. I me- I mean, you can help. But, first, let´s get you some water, and maybe get you out of those burnt skirts," Sadie says.

Sadie and Lars start to walk off along the boardwalk as Steven, Alex and Amethyst watch after them.

Alex has an annoyed and disgusted look on her face, "And I thought this day would´ve get better and better...but at least, Lars got what he deserved...Salty jerk!" She mumbles.

"Hey, we make a pretty great team," Amethyst says.

"I agree," Alex nods.

"You two...you were absolutely no help whatsoever," Steven tells them.

"...The time when I´m going to even move one finger to safe Salty Lars...this is going to be the time when hell is going to freeze up and when I stop being a crystal gem...that means never!" Alex says.

She takes out another donut with fire salt on it, splits it apart, gives one part to Amethyst while she eats the other one.

"Thanks, Al," Amethyst says.

"You´re welcome," Alex says.