The rumbling stopped and Steven and Connie opened their eyes. There was piles of rocks all around the floor. They could still navigate through them but a lot of the rocks were sharp.

"What was that?", Connie asked still shocked.

"I think it might be a corrupted gem monster. Garnet said that there wouldn't be any but she only sees probable outcomes. She might not have seen this. I will call dad and tell him to tell Garnet what is going on"

"okay."

The bubble remained intact and Steven's gem still had a pink beam emmiting from it. He got out his phone and miraculously, it still had signal.

"Uh hey Dad. Can you find Garnet? it's kind of important."

Steven listened to his father as he made his way to the beach house. He heard the door open and heard him say something to someone, then the phone crackled as someone else picked it up.

"What's wrong, Steven.", It was Garnet.

"Um well, were in the cave right now and we heard a monster in the back and its roar collapsed a lot of the ceiling. We're okay though. I just wanted to let you know. Incase something comes up."

"Steven, we will be there as quick as we can. I'm sorry I didn't know that it would end up like that."

The phone clicked as she hung up.

Connie asked, "What did they say?"

"Garnet said she was on her way."

Connie nodded in the pink light and said, "We should try and impress her. I bet she would be proud if we were done with the mission by the time she was here"

"That's a good idea! We're old enough to take care of ourselves.", Steven said and he lightly dropped the bubble. not wanting to start another collapsing.

The started walking to the back end of the cave very carefully. They had to jump and climb over large rocks. Steven was better at jumping over the rocks with his floating powers but he climbed them normally so Connie wouldn't fall behind.

Connie slipped when she was climbing and she fell onto a sharp rock. She screamed as she was impaled. The rock was a jagged point on the end and it stabbed through her stomach when she fell on it.

"Connie!", the walls kept still as Steven threatened another rock slide. He jumped down from the rock and floated down to her.

She was staying still, trying not to move. "St-steven...", she was shaking now. Blood was starting to form against the spike.

"Don't say a word. I'll help you get off of there." Steven observed the wound. "This is going to hurt" he grimaced as he lifted her up from her back and pushed her body up.

Connie blacked out after screaming for a second. Steven whined as he continued to slowly pull her body off the spike. He reached the top of the rock and felt the release of the rock as he pulled her off. she gently set her body down and looked at the wound. There was a ragged hole in her stomach and blood gushed out from it. He whined as he looked at it. He didn't think it would be good to spit in it with his healing spit so he went for the next option. He looked at her face and then reached down his head to hers. He kissed her lips and made sure that there was a good amount of residue in her mouth. After a second of sorry from Steven he saw a shimmer glow around Connie's wound. It slowly closed the skin together and stopped the bleeding.

Steven sighed in relief. He looked at her chest, watching for breathing. She was breathing steadily. He sighed again and slumped down next to her unconscious body. Blood was puddled around her torso. He gently moved her body to the side, where there was no blood.

She gasped a minute later and sat up way too fast.

"Connie. Lay down. You got hurt, and need to take a break"

she seemed to understand as she grimaced and slowly laid back. "Ow.", she croaked.

Steven laughed a little. "You need to be more careful. I was so worried about you."

"We should keep going. I'm fine.", Connie said. Her voice was still strained but it was better than it was when she said ow.

"No. You need to get better. Do you want some water?", Steven asked.

"No. I'm fine.", her voice was almost normal already. He watched her examine her stomach where the spike impaled her. She sat up and looked at it. Her face was back to normal and was it's usual warm brown. "Steven, Im sorry I didn't mean to out you through that. But I feel fine now and I want to keep going.", she begged

Steven sighed at her ,"Connie. I don't think it's a good idea, but sure. We can keep going."

"Yes!", she jumped up into the air. She didn't have any problem getting up.

They tracked their way to the back of the cave once more. This time, even more careful. Steven slipped once but he managed to catch himself.

When the reached the end. They were tired. It was a long way back. At least a mile of climbing and jumping rocks. They saw an entrance to a door. Steven pushed against it and found that it was hard to break open. He summoned his shield and wacked the stone door. The door crumbled on impact and bits of rock were flying everywhere. For a moment, the dust blocked out Stevens gem and the flashlight from glowing. They stood and waited for the dust to settle.

Once, the dust settled they looked into the room. It was a long hallway shape and it had polished walls just like the big room they were just in.

They walked in together, hand in hand. The hallway was narrow but it fit the two of them side by side. They kept walking because there was nothing in the room to notice.

Suddenly the floor went out underneath their feet. They fell almost fell twenty feet before Steven managed to float. He pushed Connie's body above his as he slowed down. He didn't float fast enough as they fell and they hit the ground hard.

Steven screamed when he landed on his ankle. He broke it almost off of his leg. He screamed in agony as he felt the burn run up his leg and all through his body. It felt like it was on fire. He cried and managed to sit up and look at Connie through the darkness.

She was fine, she landed on her side. She would get a bad bruise later but she was lucky enough that she landed okay.

Connie crawled over to him. It was dark so she couldn't see much. Stevens gem stopped glowing and the flashlight was broken. She looked at him and couldn't see what was wrong.

"What's wrong Steven?!", Connie was feeling around his body to feel for anything broken. She reached his ankle and squeezed it too hard. Steven Screamed again. "Oh! I'm sorry You broke it really bad I think. She didn't feel any blood so at least the skin was intact but the ankle was twisting the wrong way and was already swelling.

Connie hurried and dug through the back pack. She had an emergency flare. Connie struck it against the rock and it hissed, letting off a bright red light.

She looked at Stevens ankle and saw that it was pretty bad. It was twisted the wrong way like she thought and it looked shorter as if the bones were all crunched together. Steven was still crying and looking at his wound.

"C-Connie! It hurts. Are you okay?", he almost yelled.

"I'm fine! all Im going to have is a bruise." she put her hand by his face. "Lick my hand"

He did as he was instructed even though it was strange. She placed her wet hand gently on Stevens ankle. Even though she was gentle, he still jumped at the touch.

They waited for the spit to heal him. Nothing happened after two minutes. Steven felt the pain lessen to a full throb.

"Maybe it doesn't work on yourself. We never really had to heal you before.", Connie looked at him concerningly.

"It's fine. The pain isn't so bad.", he looked at her. "I tried to heal a cut on my hand once. It didn't work then either but it might just be my emotions."

"We can't keep going anymore.Its too dangerous", Connie looked at him sadly.