In the Beach House, Jasper warped in with a gem bubbled. She looked around exspecting to see Connie waiting as she always did. "Hey, where's my kiddo?"

Jasper turned to the door at no sound but then heard a giggle. She smiled and turned. She walked near the door, not seeing Connie hidden in the rafters.

"Connie. I know you're here." Jasper chuckled. "Come on out. You know I can sense you."

"Connie Tsunami!" Connie yelled, leaping onto Jasper's head.

"I got you!" Connie cried.

"Yep." Jasper laughed. "You got me."

"And now, you're blind." Connie grinned, covering her eyes.

"Oh no, tiny hands?! Whatever shall I do?" Jasper laughed. She grabbed Connie and put her down.

Connie watched the bubbled gem go past her and gasped, "What did you do today?!"

"Tell me what you think I did." Jasper grinned.

Connie smiled with diamonds in her eyes.

In her mind, Connie conducted a story and it was themed after a comic book she had read once.

Jasper warped into the scene. The gem walked, not seeing the cloaked figure in the trees. She then came across a bomb. She gasped in shock and leapt away into a tree. Suddenly, three more bombs were dropped. She jumped to the ground and felt someone
/watching her. She turned to see the hooded figure. "You! Reveal yourself!" She growled.

The figure threw another bomb but Jasper made her war helmet and blocked it. Jasper ran over and grabbed the cloaked figure. She unhooded it and a frog looked back at her. "Hopper the morning to you, Jasper. Nothing like some morning training

to get the blood pumping. Am I right?"

Jasper smiled. "Hopper. Nice to see you too." She dropped the frog.

"By the way, have you seen Hoppy? She was hoppin' excited to train with us." The little frog said. Jasper suddenly heard a blade and turned. She made her helmet and the two blades resonated. A rabbit fell to the ground.

"Jasper." The rabbit said.

"Hoppy." Jasper smirked.

Hopper gasped, reading her tablet-like device. "Wow Garnet, I can tell you've been training. Your power levels are hoppin' high!"

"Yes Hopper, but they could always be higher. We should train more. I nearly had the jump on you that time." Hoppy frowned.

The frog giggled softly.

"We can train some other time, Hoppy. Right now, there's a gem artifact to recover." Jasper smiled.

"I wonder what it is this time. Maybe a magic power amulet, or a flying power carpet, or maybe an enchanted power onion!" Hopper cried, guessing.

"Ugh, I don't know what it is, but we should hurry. There's somebody at home that I need to get back to." Jasper said. She took out a small picture. She looked at it with a smile. It was a picture of her and Connie, with Connie giggling

as Jasper tickled her.

"Who's that?" Hopper asked, peeking over her shoulder.

"Just my most favorite person in the world." Jasper chuckled.

"Have you ever told her that?" Hoppy whispered.

"No, are you kidding me?" Jasper said, bluntly.

"What do you mean?" Hopper asked.

"I'm not good at expressing my feelings, it'd get too sappy." Jasper muttered.

"Will we get to meet her soon?" Hopper asked.

"Not yet. She's not ready to know I talk to animals." Jasper said, walking to the place she knew the artifact must be. Suddenly, someone landed in front of them from a tree.

Hopper hopped over and held her device over the man that fell. "His power levels are hoppin' pretty low."

"Move aside, I can revive him." Jasper grunted. She took out her gem destabilizatior that Yellow Diamond had given her in case of emergency. The thing powered up and she held it over the man. The electricity from it went into his body

and then Jasper punch him in the stomach. "Breathe, buddy!"

The man took a breath of air and awoke to see Jasper hulked over him. "Ha, ha! Thank you for saving me!" The man cried.

"Um, sure, fella. What's your name?" Jasper asked, helping him up.

"My name is Ringo. I am but a humble caretaker of the shrine atop yonder mountain." He said, pointing to a mountain in the distance.

"How did you get those wounds?" The rabbit asked. "Was it from some kind of training?"

"Well, you see. An innocent Foxman wanted to see the shrine. Such a sweet, sweet Foxman. Naturally, I obliged. Inside rested the sacred magic gem of ultimate power. It was then that the Foxman double-crossed me. He used the power of the gem

to banish me from my own shrine. Ever since then I've been searching for someone strong enough to help me." Ringo whispered.

"Ha, I'm strong." Jasper smiled. "I'll help you and get that gem back.

"Oh, you can have the gem. I just want my shrine back." The man said innocently.

"That too." Jasper grinned. Her friends behind her high fived. The gem took out the picture once again. "Don't worry, kid, I'll be home soon."

The team went to the shrine. Jasper leapt up with her friends.

"Holy hop! That mound's power is off the charts!" Hopper gasped.

"Oh, be careful Garnet. Don't hop off more than you can chew." Lapis sight

"Foxman! Give us the gem, before I make you!" Jasper growled.

"What?" The fox asked. He then saw Ringo and frowned. "You again?"

"Oh, I see what this is." The fox said, standing up. He pounded his fists togther and said, "If you want the gem, you'll have to defeat me!"

"Um, okay." Jasper shrugged. "Let's go."

Jasper gave a yell as she slammed into the foxman with her war helmet. He smirked and Jasper gave a grunt of pain as he smacked her away. She barreled into her friends and they fell right back into the forest.

"He… beat me." Jasper whispered.

"That mound!" Hopper growled.

"Well, I told you he was stro-."

"I do not lose to anyone!" Jasper growled, interrupting Ringo.

"Training time?" Hoppy giggled, leaping up.

At a waterfall, Hoppy and Hopper were mediating, not noticing Jasper had fallen asleep while sitting. What they did notice was Ringo… bathing.

"Gross! Please put on some clothes on!" Hoppy cried.

Her gasp awoke Jasper. The gem yawned then saw everyone watching.

"Ok, now that I'm rested, I can do something really cool." The gem said, standing up and cracking her knuckles. The others went in front of her and watched. The gem gave a growl as her gem glowed. Her helmet was being made, but it wasgetting so
much bigger than it usually was! Her friends and Ringo gasped.

"Weighted helmet…" The frog and rabbit whispered.

The gem gave a grunt and slammed into a tree. It immediately fell to her might.

"She just gained ten power from that one attack!" Hopper gasped.

Jasper felt exsughsted and despite not wanting to show how it, she fell to the ground, her helmet making waves.

"Come on Jasper! Don't give in!" Hoppy cried. "You can do this! You just gotta remember what you're fighting for…"

Jasper gave a grunt, and remembered Connie. She gave a yell and lifted her head, the massive helm no match for her anymore.

Jasper started to roll into a white spikey ball that got bigger and bigger.

"Whoa!" The other gasped.

"7000. 8000. 10,000! Numbers have no meaning! THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!" Hopper cried.

Jasper gave a yell and rolled into another tree. All the trees around it fell to the ground.

Jasper smirked looking at her work. "I'm more than ready."

"So cool!" The group cried.

And so, they traveled once again to the shrine.

"Back again, huh? Looks like you're hungry for another delicious beating." The foxman smirked.

"Actually that last one spoiled my appetite, your cooking skills are pitiful." Jasper smiled.

"How dare you!" The fox yelled. He attempted to punch her away but she thrust out her hand, blocking it. "What?! Impossible!" He gasped.

She smirked and leapt into the air. Her helmet appeared and she slammed the Foxman in the head. He fell to the ground. Jasper landed beside him.

"Now, I'm getting the gem." Jasper smirked. She started to walk away but the fox whispered, "But I'm the sworn protector of the gem…" His eyes widened. "What did that liar tell you?!"

Jasper frowned and realized Ringo was gone.

"No!" The Foxman cried and Jasper turned to see Ringo laughing.

"Oh, you thought you were so smart and powerful, but you have to have a brick for a brain to fall for that!" Ringo laughed at Jasper. "Now the sacred magic gem of ultimate power is mine!"

He laughed as he put the gem in his ring of hair. He was lifted up and bright colors surrounded him.

"What is happening right now…" Jasper whispered.

His apron switched sides and he grew larger, with huge musles. A staff appeared in his hands. "Ultimate Ringo!" He laughed.

"Curse you, Ringo. I'll make you pay for this!" The Foxman yelled.

"Too bad you didn't outfox me when you had the chance!" Ringo yelled. His staff glowed and turned the Foxman into a onion ring.

Ringo laughed while Jasper, Hoppy, and Hopper gasped.

"That's a horrible way to die!" Jasper growled, turning Ringo. "Come on, Ringo, let's go and see who's really the strongest!"

"Alrighty. The name's Ultimate Ringo." The man laughed, floating over. He suddenly used the gem to transport them to a strange place.

"Whoa. Wha- what is this place?" Hopper gasped.

"Welcome to my Ringo Zone!" The villain cried. "It is here where my powers are strongest. You wanna stop me? Go on. It will amuse me. And after I beat you, maybe I'll destroy the planet. Just 'cause I can."

"You monster!" Hoppy yelled while Hopper yelled, "You mound!"

"Get ready to hop, drop and roll!" Hoppy cried. Ringo laughed and fired purple fire balls at her.

Hopper leapt up and wrapped her tongue around Ringo. He easily electrocuted her.

"Welp, guess I'm doing this on my own." Jasper shrugged. She then lifted of her hair, which in Connie's mind, she might be able to.

"Weighted hair?!" Her friends gasped. Suddenly, Hopper's device repaired itself. "Without her weighted hair, Jasper's power is hop-tastrophic!"

The gem went into her spike mode and speed to Ringo. Jasper ran right into him and turned to bring on more but he swiftly used his new powers to slam her away.

"Jasper!" Her friends sobbed.

The gem grunted. "I'm so sorry, kiddo…" She whispered, taking out the picture. "I put my pride above my feelings… and now you'll never kno-" Ringo suddenly snatched the photo away and Jasper gasped.

"Ah, what a cute little photo!" Ringo laughed. "But you know, there's something not quite right. Oh, I know." The gem in his head glowed and turned the picture of Jasper and Connie into a onion ring.

Jasper watched, enraged, as he ate it.

Her mouth quivered, then she snapped. "ENOUGH!" She yelled. Her bald head glowed and her hair came back, twice as big as usual. Once again, Hopper's device exploded. Jasper floated in the air and Ringo chased after her. "This isgetting ridiculous!"

Jasper kicked him away before he could reach her and her helmet grew and grew. She screamed a war cry as she spiked up with it, catching fire. She slammed into Ringo.

"Hip Hop Hooray!" Her friends cried. Jasper grabbed the magic gem.

"And so," Connie whispered, finishing her comic book, showing the drawings to Jasper. "Jasper used the gem to return the Foxman to his original form. And as for Ringo, well, he stayed trapped in the Ringo Zone. Forever. That day

Jasper learned a valuable lesson that being strong was about more than just how many mountains you could punch in half or hiding your feelings. It was about love. And there was no greater love than Jasper's love for Connie…. The End! That's what youdid
today!" The girl cried.

"Yep, that pretty much sums it up." Jasper smirked.

"Really?" Connie cried

"No."