Connie waited patiently for the postman but he hadn't come yet…

Suddenly, she saw Jamie and ran to him. "Jamie! You came!"

"Of course! Hold on." Jamie pulled out a loaf of bread. "Did you order a loaf of bread with a stamp on it?"

"No."

"Did you order a jury summons for R.J. Finkle?"

Connie shook her head. "I'm Connie!"

"Oh right! Here you are, Connie Universe!" Jamie said, giving her a package.

"Horray! This is gonna help me save the world!" Connie laughed.

"But isn't it just a backpack?" Jamie asked.

"Just a backpack?! No!" Connie huffed. "Jasper, Lapis, and Peri say I shouldn't go on adventures until I've harnessed my powers that can electrocute things,"

"That's reasonable…" Jamie said.

"But there's other ways I can help!" Connie cried.

"With a regular, normal, everyday… backpack?"

"Uh-huh!"

"Do you know how you can save my world?" Jamie asked. He showed her a clipboard. "Sign here, please."

She did so.

"Barb yells at me if I don't get signatures."

"That's horrible." There was a noise and Connie glanced at the Beach house that glowed. "Jasper, Lapis, and Peri are back!"

Connie nearly trip over herself in surprise. The gems were covered in feathers. "Hey Connie." Jasper waved.

Peridot heaved a giant egg to the fridge while Lapis protested. "Peridot, we don't need that!"

"Yes we do! We gems protect all life!" Peridot attempted to close the fridge. She did so and they heard the egg crack. Peridot squeaked in horror.

Lapis frowned then saw Connie staring. "We fought a giant bird…" She exsplained. "We've gotta get going again…"

"What?!" Connie cried.

Lapis displayed a small statue. "We have to place this Moon Goddess Statue on the top of the Lunar Sea Spire before midnight. Without it, the whole place will fall apart! Oh, Connie, you should have seen the spire in its heyday!"
Lapis sighed. Her gem glowed and water came out. She closed her eyes then opened them again. The water looked like a mirror. "It was an oasis for Gems on Earth. It's abandoned now, but we can still save it with this statue!" She touched
her head and fell back into Jasper who looked at her with concern.

"Are you…"

"Fine." Lapis grunted.

Connie bit her lip then gasped. "Oh! Perfect!"

"What do you mean, Connie?" Peridot asked, while she ran to Lapis to help her stand.

"Ta da!" Connie cried.

The gems saw her display her new, brown and rather boring backpack.

"Wow… that's something…" Lapis whispered.

"Yeah! I can carry the statue in it!"

Peridot frowned. "Connie, the probability of you surviving is-"

"I'm a Crystal Temp too!" Connie protested, showing her gem.

"Let her come, Peridot! Please?" Lapis asked, clasping her hands together.

"It would be a teaching experience…" Jasper said.

"I… Fine." Peridot sighed in defeat.

Connie cried out in triumph and raced to her room. "I'll get extra supplies!"

"But-" Peridot started, but Jasper smiled, "Let her go."

Connie grabbed a ton of stuff and put them in the many, many pockets of the bag along with the statue.

"Connie!"

"Coming!" She cried.

"Oh my stars, did you bring your whole room?!" Peridot gasped seeing the giant bag.

"It's huge!" Lapis laughed.

"Come on! Let's go!" Jasper said.

They were inside the warp and Connie floated upward. Peridot watched her head go through the warp and grabbed her. "Keep your head in! You'll blow up if you don't!" Peridot creid. Connie fell to the ground when they reached the
spire.

"This is… so run down." She whispered. Lapis nodded. "It… wasn't like this a hundred years ago…"

"This thing is falling apart…" Jasper gasped.

"I can see that…" Connie whispered. The ground suddenly cracked beneath her. Peridot yelled out in surprise and the metal pole that she always had with her wrapped around Connie and brought her back.

"We're taking Connie home! Now! Right now!" Peridot said, hugging Connie. "She is clearly not ready!"

Connie frowned. "I'm really trying!"

Peridot released her. "I suppose you are correct…"

The gems headed for the spire. They came to halt at the end of a cliff only a few feet away from a doorway to the sea spire.

"Why have we stopped?" Lapis asked. She made her wings and attempted to fly but Jasper grabbed her foot.

"Don't! Lapis, this has powerful magic…It can suck you down!"

"So we can't get over there? Ugh, what an annoyance." Peridot growled.

"Oh! I got it!" Connie took out some sweaters from her backpack. Connie tied one sleeve on a sweater to the sleeve of another. She threw it out to the spire like a rope while hanging onto one end of it. It went through a small opening
above the doorway and circled back to her. Connie held onto both ends of the chain of sweaters. She took a deep breath before jumping.

"Connie!" Lapis screamed. Peridot grabbed her before she tried to fly after the girl. "Wait… There is a slim chance she survived…"

Connie pulled on the sweaters and ran up the wall. Connie climbed into the doorway heavily panting with a look of triumph on her face.

"Yay, Connie! Let's do this!" Lapis creid. Her water made a whip that tied around the opening. It grabbed its mistress and her friends and swung them up.

"Connie, that was horrifying!" Peridot yelled.

"Sorry." The girl whispered.

"But… that was pretty spectacular… overlooking the horrific parts." The gem hybrid beamed

The four gems walked along while Lapis gasped at the ruin. "Oh…" She sighed.

"I know…" Peridot whispered.

"It used to be stunning here…" Jasper grunted. "The statue will fix this…"

Lapis cried out in panic and a fist of water smacked down on a creature climbing on a statue.

"Ha, ha… sorry." She whispered to Peridot's gaze of horror. "Lapis! This is ancient stuff! It was made long before I emerged and is sacred!"

"What was that thing?" Connie gasped.

"Crystal shrimp…" Lapis sighed.

"Can you just… kill it?" Connie asked.

"I wish. The shards on them are deadly. We can't get in direct contact." Jasper explained.

"Uh, guys?" They turned to Lapis. "It's a infestation! And we have to get through here to get to the top."

"No one freak out, I've got this." Peridot said, popping her fingers. "Lapis, if you go around to there, you can distract the shrimp with your water tricks-"

"I'm sorry," Lapis laughed. "am I some kind of circus now?"

Peridot rolled her eyes. "Jasper… you stay here, you cannot get in contact, and I'll-"

"Cheese sandwich!" Connie yelled, throwing one out. The shrimp went to them.

"How.. what… IMPOSSIBLE!" Peridot cried, pulling her star shaped hair.

"Nice one, kid." Jasper laughed.

"Yeah! That was amazing!" Lapis winked.

The gems countied onward when Lapis screamed, "Stop!"

They did and a huge amount of water burst in through the wall to thier left.

Lapis smiled at Connie. "Backpack! Backpack!" Connie laughed and looked around in the bag while Jasper and eventually Peridot chanted with Lapis.

"I have a raft!" The girl announced.

The gems cheers shortly lived when they saw it quickly float off the waterfall.

Lapis smiled weakly. "They can't all be winners." She used her powers to part the water and Connie gasped, "Why didn't you do that before?"

"You didn't ask!" Lapis joked, not revealing that she had noticed how happy Connie had been when feeling she was useful.

"Ha ha! We have arrived!" Peridot cried. "Heh heh, yes!"

Connie tried to find the statue and glanced at the moon, one minute left!

"Uh, I-"

"Connie, what's up?" Lapis asked.

"Er… Ah-ha!" Connie pulled out the statue but it was too late! The Spire crumbled.

Connie heard her tears drop into water and opened her eyes. Her brown hair grazed the top of the water and looked up to see Peridot had grabbed her and Jasper her while Lapis gasped for air to keep them all up with her wings. She groaned
in exhaustion. They all dropped and Connie found herself with a air bubble around her. She glanced at Lapis who smiled underwater. They surfaced.

"Is everyone okay?" Jasper called. They nodded.

"I failed.." Connie sighed, treading water.

"I think we all failed at some parts of this mission, I was being too much of a good leader to see you were a good one too," Peridot said, "Jasper couldn't touch those shrimp, and Lapis here," she glared at the flying
gem. "apparently needs to work on her strength!"

"Sorry! I can't carry all of you! I don't know how to get you all home-" Lapis was interrupted by Connie's raft surfacing.

"YES!" Connie yelled.