LAPIS

Lapis reformed, and she was in the clutches of a Plug Robonoid, one of Peridot's inventions. She summoned a hand of water and was about to throw it down on the robonoid, but it zapped her with electricity and dropped her on the beach. The robonoid crushed her, walking on her like she was a road. Jasper punched the robot, and sent it flying into the ocean.

Three more large robots came crashing into the Earth, and one of them grabbed Lapis and started to run off with her.

"Jasper, help me!" she screamed.

JASPER

Jasper was torn between her sworn duty to Yellow Diamond, and saving the life of someone she shared an experience with. Lapis had shown more than once that she was interested in being Jasper's companion, and she couldn't let her be destroyed.

Jasper summoned her Crash Helmet, and fought the robots. One grabbed her by the leg and slammed her against a rock. She jumped back up and charged at one, headbutting it so hard that it split in half. It's goo inside of it leaked out everywhere, and she stepped in it.

"Ew..." She shook her foot and ran towards the Robonoid that had taken Lapis. The second Marble Robot blacked her path, scuttling from side to side when she tried to run past it. She growled, throwing a punch towards it, but she was caught by several tendrils that shot out of the robot. They squeezed her body, trying to make her relinquish her physical form, and retreat into her gem. She grabbed the tendrils and ripped them apart. She did a spin dash right through the robonoid, and it dropped to the ground.

Jasper was soaked with the goo, and she cringed. She hated the feeling of it. She wiped it off hastily, and looked for Lapis. The robot that had carried her off was no where in sight.

LAPIS

The robonoid that carried Lapis away had climbed a waterfall, and took her into a cave. It was dark and damp, and smelled musky. Deeper in, the ceiling started to glow, and so did her gem.

"It's Lapis Lazuli..." Lapis couldn't help but smile at the blue deposits of the gem swirling around the ceiling. It looked as if the robonoid followed the path that the lazuli was taking, but it could have just been her imagination. "Oh, Jasper will never find me in here- Oof!" The robonoid threw her on the ground and shrunk towards the ground. It stopped moving. Lapis picked herself up, and when she stood, the floor of the cavern began to glow.

The robonoid released a hologram of a Gem, making Lapis shrink down in fear. It was a hologram of Yellow Diamond.

"Lapis Lazuli." Yellow Diamond sneered. "You've been nothing but trouble since the day you returned back to Homeworld."

"Yellow Diamond! Just... just let me be free! I'm of no use to you, please."

"On the contrary, Lapis, you are very important to this mission. Your hydrokinesis is a very powerful talent that I need to have on my side to battle these Earth Gems. But." Yellow Diamond's hologram stepped closer to Lapis.

"But?" Lapis gulped.

"But I need you to stop messing with my General's head. You could lead her down the wrong path, and I could lose my best warrior. I can't have that happen. So, I'm going to fix it." Her hologram reached behind her, and pulled out a syringe with a red liquid in it. The lapis lazuli stones in the cave glowed, sending blue light out, that wrapped around Lapis' body, forcing her onto her knees.

"What is that?" Lapis shrieked, trying to break free but she couldn't.

"It's a serum that I had created from corrupted Gems, that will infect y our mind and basically wipe your memories, feelings, and thoughts of Jasper from you. You'll be my perfect puppet, and you'll help me reclaim the Earth." Yellow Diamond laughed maniacally, kneeling next to Lapis.

"No! Don't! My feelings for her are all I have left! Please don't take them away!" Lapis felt estranged, and was horrified at the needle inching closer and closer to her flesh. She shut her eyes and took a deep breath. "I'm sorry Jasper! I'm sorry I couldn't tell you how I really feel!"

The room suddenly lit up with an eerie orange light. Gems on the ceiling next to the lapis lazulis lit up and shot beams of light out that cut through Lapis' bindings and released her. Lapis sat up in shock, scooting quickly away from Yellow Diamond's hologram.

Jasper, a little scratched, and very tired, smashed the robonoid, sending the hologram back into nothingness.

"Don't think for one second, that I would have let you do something like that, Yellow Diamond."

Lapis cried tears of joy and ran at Jasper, who didn't have time to act shocked as Lapis embraced her.

"I'm so happy to see you. She was going to stab me with the needle..and I.. but you..."

"Lapis." Jasper picked Lapis up and squeezed her. "You're okay now."

Lapis took a deep breath and let it out slowly. Jasper was right. The hologram was gone. No more needles, and no more thoughts of losing her feelings for Jasper. She allowed Jasper to carry her, but only because she wanted to gaze at the ceiling. She noticed that Jasper's gem was glowing a little, corresponding with the red-orange bands in the ceiling. Red jasper and the lapis lazuli gems swirled around together in a beautiful collusion of elements.

At the mouth of the cave she could only stare in awe at the green hunk of banded, raw stone hiding in the corner. It was swirled with different bands of green, and was absolutely beautiful.

"Malachite..."