It was a peaceful day in Beach City and Lapis was wading in the water, enjoying it.

"Lapis!" Connie yelled, running to her.

She turned and Connie breathed for air. "H-Have you seen a little man figurine anywhere?"

"I'm afraid not. What do you need it for?" Lapis asked, coming out.

Suddenly, they heard a sigh.

"Connie, why must you lose everything?" Peridot groaned, holding onto her pole as she made it float to them.

"Cut her some slack! I lose stuff all the time, but I always find them in my room." Lapis said.

"Then why haven't you found my laptop?" Peridot grunted.

"I… haven't looked for it."

"Look for it now!" Peridot cried.

"You look for it!"

"Your room is water! Just water!"

Connie sighed and slumped away.

"Connie's sad!" Lapis gasped.

"Why?" Peridot asked, turning to her.

"I'm fine, just got to break the bad news to my dad…" Connie whispered.

Connie ran up to the police station and gasped as she was nearly blinded by a light. "Ghaa!"

"Connie?" Doug gasped. "You look upset…"

"I... lost something... something precious." Connie whispered.

"Your innocence?" Doug gasped.

"I lost that figurine, Dad." Doug stared at her. "You know, the one you got me on our special day at the beach? It was the same figurines you got my age, and you bought one for me. Do you remember?"

"Oh, was this the same day we ate that awesome funnel cake?" Doug asked.

"What?"

"That funnel cake, it was amazing! Ha, I even kept the plate. Come on!"

Doug drove her to the storage lot he owned and opened it.

"Ah, let's see here. Got some cans, napkins, oh, a yo-yo! A book about yo-yo tricks, a sandwich I've been meaning to catch up on. ... Wait. What's your story again?" Doug asked.

"I lost my figurine, its very precious to me… his name is...uh…"

"Ranger Guy." Doug answered.

"Right!"

Doug smiled and pulled out a bag that jangled. "Here's a bag of quarters, you can get all the G.U.Y.S you want!"

"What?"

"The figurine, Connie! If you care for it so much, why don't you remember it's name?"

Connie then realized it wasn't about the toy, nor the name that went with it, it was about the memories… "Thank you…" She whispered.

"What was that?"

"THANK YOU!"

Connie ran to a dispenser of the toys and put in a quarter. "Come on Ranger Guy!"

It lit up one square and said, "Dave Guy!" Connie picked up the capsule.

"Dave… Guy?" Connie whispered. She looked at the boring toy and sighed. "Dave Guy doesn't hold a memory, Ranger Guy does!" Connie kicked the thing then inserted another quarter, then another, and another. Finally, after 30 Dave
Guys, the machine said, "This machine is out of G.U.Y.S. Please try again another time."

Connie cried out in annoyance but the vending machine near her shook. Little Onion suddenly came out of the hatch with a bag of chips.

"Oh, hello Onion, what are you doing?" Connie asked.

The boy ignored her. He was walking away when Connie saw a Ranger Guy in his back pocket.

"He has a Ranger Guy?!" Connie gasped. She packed up all of her Dave Guys and ran after Onion. "Wait up! Let's trade!" She called.

She then saw he was in Suitcase Sam's. She watched from the window as Onion fought with the man. "I suppose they're haggling over something…"

The man gave Onion his lunch and Onion left.

Connie followed him to see the boy sitting on the dock. He took out a cheeseburger and Connie's mouth watered. The boy started to take off the components and the girl gasped.

A boat suddenly docked and a pale man with a beard and a yellow rain slicker hopped off and greeted the boy.

"Is that… Onion's dad?" Connie whispered.

She watched the two communicate in murmurs. "I guess… they don't need words…"

She watched the man jump on the boat and sail away, waving goodbye to his son. "Does Onion just sit around and wait for his dad all day?" She then saw the toy in the boy's pocket and remembered her own father.

"Onion!" She called, running to him. Onion turned.

"How are you?"

He shrugged.

"Okay, well, you know the little man in your pocket?"

He pulled it out.

"Yes! That's it! How would you like to trade that boring old Ranger Guy for a brand new, mint in box, Dave Guy?" Connie asked, showing it.

The boy shook his head and made a hand gesture, indicating he wanted more.

"What? You want more?" Connie gasped. "Like, two more? Five more? Ten more? Twenty more? This whole bag? All thirty of these Dave Guys for just one Ranger Guy!"

The boy shook his head again, and made the same gesture.

"B-b there aren't anymore. The machine is empty; I bought them all!" Connie cried.

Onion ignored her and walked away.

"Wait!" Connie yelled.

"Ugh, stupid figurine… You have no future, your hair cut's gross, you smell bad." Connie growled.

Lapis turned to her at the beach. "Connie, why are you saying such rude things?"

"This thing… I can't trade thirty of these with Onion just to get one of the Ranger Guy!"

"I see you know his name now?" Lapis smirked.

"Uh-huh." Connie sighed, sitting down on the sand.

Lapis frowned then gasped. "Oh, here!" She cried, pulling out a wand of some sort from her hair and giving it to Connie.

"What is this?" Connie asked.

"Peri's replicator wand… It can replicate anything you want." Lapis smiled with a wink.

"And… you've had it in your hair all day?" Connie asked.

"No, I was looking for Peri's precious laptop and found it instead."

Connie nodded in thanks and was about to walk away when Lapis grabbed her shoulder.

"Be wise with it, Connie, think about what you do." Lapis said.

"Alright."

Onion threw packets of ketchup in the air, and left them lying on the ground. He walked away to get on his moped, and destroyed the packets as he did tricks. He jumped off the moped and watched it blow up, exploding in flames. He watched
until he heard a gasp of shock. He turned to Connie, who looked a bit frightened.

"Onion… I still want to trade, okay?" Connie asked. She replicated a Dave Guy and sent it to Onion. "That's 31…"

Onion's eyes widened slightly, seeing her trembling hand hold the wand.

"You want more?" Connie cried. She took it the wand as he walked stoically towards her. "31? 32? 33? 34? 35? 36? 37? 38? 39?"

He stalked up to the girl and she yelled, "40!"

The last one came out and Onion slammed it aside. Connie tried to hold back fear in her voice, "Enough! What is it that you want?!"

The boy pulled out the toy, and pointed at the wand. Connie looked at it.

"This? You want… this for that little man?"

Onion nodded and attempted to swipe it away but Connie flinched. "I… No. You can't have it! I-I won't give it to you!"

He suddenly grabbed her wrist and twisted it so hard she yelped in pain and released the wand. The boy's eyes dilated and he turned horrific. Connie felt her body go cold as he dropped the toy in her aching palm.

"H-he's a human child… He couldn't know how to use it, right?" Connie whispered, looking at Ranger Guy on the beach. "Then again, I did-" Suddenly, a capsule hit her on the head. She saw it was Dave Guy and gasped. "What
in the world?!" She saw waves of them coming closer. "Onion."

The gems saw Onion standing on a pile of Dave Guys.

"How did that human boy get my replicator?!" Peridot cried.

"Um… This is my fault, but aren't these Connie's dolls?" Lapis asked.

"I like to call them figurines." Connie sighed, popping out of the mountains.

"Explain this at once!" Peri cried.

"I traded that Replicator for Ranger Guy…."

"Connie, why didn't you just replicate your thing?"

Connie face palmed.

"Let's go before this gets any worse." Jasper sighed.

They walked away but Lapis slipped and got stuck in the capsules. "Ugh, how do you move in these?! My wings aren't working…"

"Try to act like a rich duck…" Connie whispered, sinking into it.

Lapis stared after her.

Doug popped his head up. "Oh my gosh, I was just trying to get some ice cream!"

Lapis waved. "Hi Doug."

"Um, what's going on?!" Doug gasped.

"Er, we're in trouble… but what else is new?" Lapis laughed.

Meanwhile, Jasper and Peridot climbed up a mountain of toys to see Onion.

"Little boy, give that back, that doesn't belong to you!" Jasper yelled.

Onion turned to her and shot capsules out of his wand. Jasper made her helmet and blocked them.

The boy turned to see something they couldn't block. He shot at it and Peridot gasped. "What do he shoot?!"

Onion replicated a car over them and Jasper shoved Peridot under, grabbing the vehicle. The boy made more and covered Jasper.

"At least it stopped raining toys." Doug said to Lapis. The woman gasped in horror, "Look out!" She shoved the man into the toys while she ducked, narrowly avoiding a car hurled at her.

Meanwhile, Connie snuck up on Onion who was on top of a pile of the capsules.

"ONION!" She cried, tackling him.

"Onion, please stop! Let's trade back, okay?! Take this figurine, he's the apparently best. He-" Connie glanced at the toy's feet and saw the intials C.U on them. She gasped. "This is mine! You traded me my own thing! Our trade
didn't count!" She snatched the wand and threw it to the ground.

Jasper smashed the thing.

"My stuff always gets ruined!" Peridot sighed, as the piles went away.

"Onion," Connie sighed later at the pier. "I think I know why you took my figurine… I bet you get pretty lonely waiting for your dad all day." The boy nodded. "You were probably really bored too." He nodded once more.
"And because you missed your dad, you took my figurine, which is symbolic of the relationship I have with my dad." The boy shook his head. "Oh, just the first thing?"

He nodded.

"Well, here." She bent down and gave him the toy. "You need him more than I do."

She watched him happily run away.

"That was pretty cool what you did back there." Doug smiled, wrapping his arm around his daughter.

"Thank you." Connie laughed.

"But you went through all that trouble for a toy?"

"It was more about the memories than the toy. Now we have new memories— horrific, and traumatic memories…." Connie said happily.

"That's right, kiddo." Doug laughed as he hugged her close and they walked her home.