Connie and her father Doug happily washed a vehicle with Mayor Dewey's head on it.

"So, why are we doing this again?" Connie asked, scrubbing the hubs. "It's not exactly your expert job…"

"Well, Mayor Dewey has no one else to do it." Doug explained. "Plus we get political favors."

"I don't know what that means… but I like it." Connie said with a wink.

"Besides, isn't this fun?" Doug asked

Connie smirked. "I know how to make it even more fun…" The girl grabbed a hose and sprayed her father. He laughed and sprayed her back. They laughed together and chased each other.

Mayor Dewey came out and gave a growl, "Whoa! I'm not paying for father-daughter bonding here!"

Connie turned and suddenly, a huge amount of water came from the hose and at the mayor. She gasped in horror. "I-I'm so sorry, sir! I didn't even-"

"Universe! Learn to control that kid!" Mayor Dewey cried, wiping off water.

"Heh, sorry, Mayor! Connie, she's on the house!" Doug laughed, putting his arm around Connie.

"On the house, eh?" The mayor asked, looking at the van rather than Connie. "I like the way you think, Universe." He got in his van and drove away. They listened to the siren fade away.

"Political favors!" Connie cried, noticing her father was upset. Doug laughed and hugged Connie. "You little rascal! Enough hose fights!"

"Okay, okay!" Connie giggled. Suddenly, a spray of water hit them. Doug looked down to see a little blue dog. The duo ran around but no matter where they hid, the water always found them.

"What is with that dog?!" Doug gasped. The dog suddenly glowed and turned to Lapis, who laughed. "That was awesome. That Mayor is too self absorbed for my taste, he deserved that hose wash."

"Lapis! You did that?!" Connie cried.

"Heh, heh, yeah. Sorry I got you in trouble." They hugged and Doug laughed nervously. "Uh, pretty cool, Lapis…"

"Really cool!" Connie bounced. "I wish I could shapeshift like you!"

"Yeah, well you probably could…" Lapis laughed. "You do have a gem."

"Magic stuff." Doug assumed. "Should I get out of here? Is there going to be an explosion?"

Connie laughed, "It's fine, Dad!"

"Yeah, it's fine." Lapis said, shape-shifting into Connie. Doug gasped in horror.

Peridot was working on a invention when Lapis ran up. "Peri! Look!"

Lapis shape-shifted into a seal.

Connie giggled. "More! More!"

The gem obliged and transformed to a wolf. She howled. Then transformed to a bird and perched on Connie's hair. "Cool!" The girl laughed.

Peridot groaned. "Lazuli, you're over doing it!"

"But this is the first time in a long time anyone has seen my shapeshifting, and appreciated it!" Lapis cried.

"Just because you can shapeshift, doesn't mean you should." Peri grumbled.

"Can you shape-shift?" Connie asked.

"W-what? Er… I… um…" Peridot flushed. Lapis noticed and quickly interrupted. "Er, of course I can!" She shape shifted into Peri. "There is nothing the great Peridot can't do!"

Peridot mouthed a thanks to Lapis while Connie giggled. "I want to do that!"

"Connie, shape-shifting… you got to take it slow…" Lapis said, turning back to her normal self.

Peridot blushed again. "Uh, I'm gonna… go outside." She left them alone.

"Let's start with something easy…" Lapis said, thinking to herself.

"Like that dog you turned into?" Connie asked.

"Yeah, that works." Lapis shrugged. "Now follow my lead. First, think of what you wanna be, and then, just shake it out." She turned into the dog. "See?"

Connie nodded. "I want to be… a… dog!" She breathed, tensing up her body.

Lapis turned back to herself and walked to Connie. "Here… A bit less tense." Lapis help Connie gently put her arms down and smooth out her face.

"Now, feel it."

Connie tried again but couldn't get it. She sighed in defeat.

"Hey, that's okay!" Lapis said. "You tried."

Connie nodded. "But one more try!" She tried again and suddenly heard a puppy bark. She glanced at her finger and gasped. A little white puppy was there!

Lapis laughed while Connie gazed at it. "I did it!"

"Dad! Dad!" Connie ran up to her father at the station.

"Oh, hey kiddo!" Doug laughed.

"Look!" Connie displayed her puppy finger and Doug gasped in horror.

"I shapeshifted my finger into a dog!"

"Oh… is that something you can do now? Um… cool, Connie, v-very cool."

"And that'll be ten dollars, Connie." Lars said.

Connie smiled. "Okay, here's five bucks…" She gave it with her normal hand. "And five more!" The puppy finger barked at her.

Lars and Sadie gasped.

"Cute!" Lars said. He pet the finger which barked. "Are you… making it do that?"

"Nah, it does what it wants!" Connie laughed.

"Does it?" Sadie chuckled and poked the puppy. It bit her. She yelped in pain and Connie gasped. "Bad boy! Bad!" She told the finger.

"Maybe it just wants to play." Lars shrugged.

"Yeah! Poor little guy has no friends." Connie whimpered.

"Kinda like you?" Sadie asked, but Lars elbowed her.

Connie conjured up four more dog fingers and laughed in triumph.

Connie hid her fingers behind her back as she walked to the fry shop.

She ran up to see Peedee. "Peedee! You were the deep frier now?!"

"I sure do!" The boy laughed.

"Great! I need some fry bits, please!" Connie laughed.

Mr. Fryman walked up behind him. "Connie, I take my job seriously, please use the actual menu." Peedee groaned.

"The bits, please!" Connie cried again.

Mr. Fryman sighed. "Alright listen, it'll be over sooner if you just give her what she wants."

Peedee sighed and went to go work the frier.

"This isn't for me, sir, it's for these little guys!" Connie cried, displaying her fingers.

The man gasped while Peedee walked up. "Here are your fry…" He dropped the thing in the counter seeing the dogs. "...bits…."

"I can't look away." Mr. Fryman muttered.

"Connie, that is freakish." Peedee gasped.

"No it's not. It's natural." Connie replied. She put her dogs in the fry bits and they chomped happily. She then shook her other hand and five more puppies appeared. "Whoa!" The Frymans cried.

"You know who would love this?" Mr. Fryman asked Peedee. "Your brother! Yo, Ronaldo!"

A teenager who was on his phone glanced up. "What's up…." He saw the fingers and gasped. He shoved Peedee aside and Connie flinched. "I've gotta take a pic for Keep Beach City Weird!" He took a picture of Connie's fingers.

"What's that?" Connie gasped.

"Can I see the picture?" Connie asked. She took the phone but her puppies whined in agony. "Yikes! Sorry guys! I guess cat fingers don't function well as... fingers."

"I just… want… a snack!" Connie yelled, trying to get a plate out. Her puppies barked in protest.

Lapis suddenly flew in from the window. "Oh, good afternoon, Connie." She frowned. "Need some help?"

"Huh?! Uh, no…" Connie sighed.

"Okay, well, see you later." Lapis shrugged.

"Where are you going?!" Connie cried.

"We're taking the Gem Sloop out to sea to fight a living island." Lapis said calmly.

"What?!" Connie cried. She ran after Lapis, who had already flown to the boat.

She ran down to the dock and into the water to catch up to them.

"Connie! We're on the boat! Come on!" Peridot called.

Connie attempted to swim but the dogs on her fingers snapped at her. The Crystal Temps gasped. "Connie? What's going on?!" Peridot yelled.

"I turned my fingers into dogs!" Connie cried.

They could only stare.

"We gotta go help Connie, NOW!" Peridot screeched.

"We can't! This is an emergency! The world could be in grave danger if we don't go now!" Jasper cried.

They looked at Lapis and she knew what she needed to do. The gem attempted to use the water to bring Connie to them but her fingers started to bite her. Connie yelped out in pain. "Lapis! Stop!" She sobbed. "I'll figure this out!"

Lapis gasped in horror. "B-but-"

"There is nothing you can do for me, Lapis! You guys have to go!" Connie insisted.

"Lapis! You clod! This is all your fault!" Peridot cried in tears. Lapis felt hopeless and Jasper grabbed the gem's shoulder. "Gems, we have to go now. We will help Connie the moment we get back, I swear to you." She whispered, obviously
saddened too.

"GO!" Connie screamed, dogs biting her harder.

Lapis nodded slowly. "Okay." She choked. "But we're coming back soon!"

Connie watched the slope get pushed far, far away by Lapis's powers.

Connie ran home and let out a fresh batch of tears. The dogs growled at her but she ignored them. "ENOUGH! I don't want this anymore! I want my fingers back!" She yelled. The girl fell into a table in fear and her hand went under a lamp. The dogs
suddenly yelped in pain. Connie noticed. She touched her head in her sad and confused state then saw a bump of a dog grow on her head. She screamed and one of her hands turned into another dog head! "Stop!" She yelled. Her foot turned to a dog and
she fell to the floor. "Lapis! Peridot! Jasper!" She cried, more dogs growing on her body. Then she gasped in realization. "Dad."

Doug hummed along to a song as he sat in his car waiting when he heard a noise. He turned.

"Huh?! W-who's there?!"

He got his flashlight ready then saw multiple dog heads attached to a body. He gasped.

He shone the light on it and the dogs retracted for only a few seconds but revealed his frightened daughter to him. "Dad!" She sobbed.

"Connie?! What-"

"You gotta help me! The dog fingers are taking over my body!" She yelled. She cried in pain as more dogs came.

"Don't worry, sweetie, Dad's comin'!" Doug called. He grabbed Connie's dog infested body but the dogs bit him and threw the man aside.

"Dad!" Connie yelled, being pulled away by the dogs. She reached out her hand to touch her father's but the dogs pulled her away.

Doug shone his flashlight and the dogs with his daughter recoiled. "Can't you make them go away?!"

"No!" Connie cried. "My life is over! I can't go on magic adventures! I can't even open the fridge! And I'll never get to go outside and lay in the sun! Because these things hate... light! They hate light! Dad, put your flashlight on me again!"

Her father did but the dogs tried to attack. Doug thought he was going to get mauled but Connie grabbed the side of the station. "Urgh! This isn't enough!" Connie cried. She glanced up at the spotlights that were around the station if some
criminal was trying to escape and gasped. "Turn on the spotlights!"

Doug looked at his girl with horror. "No! It's too dangerous!"

"You've got to! I'm a monster! I'm an adorable dog monster!" Connie yelled.

"No, you can't be!" Doug cried. "You're my daughter!"

"Dad, PLEASE!" Connie screamed.

Her father nodded. He slammed on a button nearby and glaring spotlights hit Connie. Doug watched all the dogs melt away, leaving the girl in thier place. Connie got up and saw the tears in her clothes then hugged her Dad. "We did it!"

Suddenly, a dog finger popped up. Connie and Doug were screaming as he pointed the flashlight to it.

Later, Connie, sat at the dock when a massive wave came hurling to shore. Soon she noticed it was the Temps who ran up to her, hugging her and apologizing over and over. Peridot looked at her hand and frowned. "They are eradicated?"

"Yep!" Connie giggled. Her smile turned to a smirk, "Who wants some Woofles for breakfast tomorrow?"

The Temps burst out laughing, for they all loved puns.