Connie was taking a quiz online that she had phone lit up, saying Lisa with the young hero beneath it. "Lisa!" Connie gasped, "Wow… that's amazing… I'm Lisa..." She turned to Peridot and Doug who were

fixing his car, again. Well, Peridot was fixing the car while Doug tried to help. Whenever he did, Peridot usually hissed at him, scaring him away again.

"Hey! Guys!" Connie called.

Doug smiled gratefully, "Yes?"

"You guys should take this online quiz I found. It tells you what…" Peridot suddenly grabbed a wrench beside her. "It tells you what character you are from "The Spirit Morth Saga"!" Connie cried.

"Why would you want to know what edible you are?" Peridot asked.

"It's just fun to see yourself as a book character," Connie explained. "like Archmicris, the falcon, who is a little strict at times but overall is just a big softy;" She looked at Peri and then her father. "or Plinkman,

Lisa's father who wishes he just could do things perfectly."

"Uh, maybe we can do that thing after Peridot fixes the car." Doug said, "I gotta stay here, just in case."

"Okay," Connie sighed. She then lit up, running away, "I'll go find someone else!"

After she had gone, Doug attempted to sneak the wrench away so Peridot would be forced to have him help, but Peridot snapped her head and yelled, "Get away from my stuff, Doug!"

Connie entered the house and saw Lapis making a sandwich with almost all of the fridge. She saw Connie and smiled, "Do we have any more motor oil? Jasper's on a big mission so I decided to make her lunch!"

Connie tilted her head. "Um, motor oil's for cars, Lapis."

Lapis blinked. "Yeah… so, do we have any or not…"

"Well, Dad probably has some outside." Connie said. She then remembered the quiz and gasped, "Oh! But uh... you've gotta take this online quiz! "Which Spirit Morth Character Are You?"

"Oh! Um, okay! What's the first question?" Lapis asked excitedly, flying over the counter after dropping the ingredients.

"Are you a introvert or extrovert?" Connie asked.

"... extrovert." Lapis answered, squeezing a mustard bottle until it exploded, then hugged herself with a blush. "Duh."

"Are you afraid of taking risks and trying new things?"

Lapis finished the sandwich, blushing, "Er, no, that's a silly question."

"Lapis, are you taking this seriously?" Connie huffed.

"Hm?" Lapis turned to see Connie, for she had almost been too wrapped up in sandwich making to listen. "Oh, er, of course."

"Okay." Connie grinned. She tapped yes to the question, "Are you taking this seriously?" Connie continued, "Has your past changed who you care about most at any time?" Lapis' eyes widened and stopped cold in putting

lettuce on, "No… yes? No!" She cried

"So that's a no?" Connie whispered.

"I got to go." Lapis muttered, flying to the temple gate.

"But, you haven't finished the quiz yet!" Connie protested, running after her. The temple opened Lapis' room and Jasper was looking back.

"Jasper!" Lapis cried,clearly upset. "What are you doing in my room?" She ran in and after Connie had grabbed her sword from her room, she followed close behind.

"I saw a corrupted gem, and um, I followed it, 'cause it leapt off Peri's room." Jasper explained later.

Lapis gave a sigh, "Okay, but I'm still upset.."

"Where did it come from?" Connie asked, looking around.

"Don't know, don't really care. It kinda looks like that creature Peridot was screaming her head off about describing…." Jasper said, letting Lapis freeze the water so they could search.

"You saw The Mysterious Monster of Doom!?" Connie gasped.

"But, I thought we agreed it was just Peri screaming for attention again, also, why are we calling it that?" Lapis asked softly, glancing at Connie.

"It sounds really cool!" Connie said in her defense.

"Usually it is just Peri being loud, and I believed that in the blink of an eye, but now, it's actually a real thing, plus, it's a really cool name." Jasper winked at the girl who punched her fist in the air in triumph. "Horray!"

"But, why can't I look for it?" Lapis groaned, walking behind Jasper as they looked for the creature.

"And let you take my top rank of captured gems? I don't think so." Jasper chuckled. They walked up to a hole that was dug down past Lapis' stone pavilion that was in the center. Lapis frowned and peered down it.

"How long's this thing been in here?" Connie whispered in awe. Lapis bent down and pulled out something from the edge of the hole. She cover Connie's sight and showed Jasper the skull. Once Connie tried to pry her hands away, Lapis threw

it away, letting it sink underwater…

"What was that?" Connie asked innocently.

"Oh, not-" Jasper covered Lapis' mouth.

"Quiet!" Jasper hissed.

The trio set off again, quiet, listening for the corrupted gems.

Jasper threw a rock out of their way, and Connie smiled, "Jasper's so brave and a guardian to everyone, like Rowland, Pinkman's familiar."

"Connie, now is not the time to talk about your book." Lapis whispered.

"Oh right, the quiz!" Connie gasped. She pulled out her phone and walked towards Lapis. "Do you get defensive when people ask you questions about the feelings you prefer to keep hidden?"

Lapis froze and turned. "I… Urgh, come on, let's just find this monster."

Connie couldn't help but feel hurt.

They suddenly heard a hiss and Jasper gasped. She snapped her head to it. "There!" She yelled. She took off her helmet, swung it around a few times, and let it go at a aimed spot at the water. The splash echoed as the trio ran to it.

"Did you get it?" Lapis whispered.

"What do you think." Jasper grunted. Lapis blushed, watching her leave. Her eyes suddenly narrowed. She gasped suddenly and pushed Jasper to the ground with a, "Look out!" A black tentacle emerged from the ice, grabbed Lapis

by her wrist, and pulled her under the water.

"Lapis!" Connie cried. Jasper was quick to dive in after her, leaving Connie to worry for a few moments. She emerged, but with no Lapis, only her gem clutched gently in Jasper's hand. Connie slowly took the gem. "Jasper…" She

whispered with tears in her eyes.

"Ah, don't cry, kid. Our bodies don't exist, remember? Lapis will be okay." Jasper said reassuringly, ruffling her hair

"B-but Peri took two whole weeks to come back, and I already miss Lapis so much!" Connie cried.

Jasper bent down and held her by the shoulders. "She'll be back before you know it, promise you."

Lapis' gem started to glow and then floated in the air.

"Literally." Jasper muttered.

Lapis soon appeared and flew to Connie. She then realized her legs were gone and could only use her wings to move. "W-what?"

"It's a side effect. You rushed regeneration." Jasper mumbled.

Lapis glared at her, "This is the first time I've ever poofed in front of Connie, I needed her to see I'm okay, and that you two are okay as well." Lapis hugged Connie. She smiled, "Let's go, and catch this Mysterious Monster."

Lapis soon stopped them and whispered, "Here, it's here." The ice beneath them melted and they plunged under water. Lapis made the water shove to the sides, letting them land on the cold, wet, stone floor.

"You look… so different" Connie whispered a few minutes later.

"I know." Lapis replied.

"And… you came back really quick…"

"I know." Lapis snapped sharply.

"So... why did you come back without any legs?" Connie asked.

"It doesn't matter!" Lapis growled, making Connie flinch.

"Huh…" Connie murmured.

"Lapis rushed her regeneration, she should've taken her time." Jasper whispered.

"Like Peridot?" Lapis froze at Connie's question.

"Well, yeah. Lapis needs to take time regeneraing no mater what state her peers are in, Peridot at least knew that."

"Oh, so sorry I care about you!" Lapis snapped, turning to them. "I'm sorry I'm not like Peridot, with her brains, and her dry room with no monsters in it!"

Suddenly, the monster crashed out from the stone and made another, Lapis poofing into her gem.

"She got 'poofed' again!" Connie cried.

"Whelp, this is a good opportunity for her, now she can make a better form." Jasper muttered. Lapis' gem glowed again and raised up.

She then formed, but she looked just like Peri, accept her hair was small compared to Peri's shape of hair.

"Better?" Lapis asked, smirking at Jasper in defiance.

Connie giggled.

Later, Jasper walked in front of Connie and Lapis.

"Oh Jasper, what do you think of my new look? I'm much more like Peridot now! Isn't that just splendid?" Lapis laughed. Connie had a odd feeling in her mind, that reminded her of when Lapis had shapeshifted to her mother's form to get

at her dad, was this the same thing?

"I, the great Peridot am the leader of this mission!" Lapis said.

"Okay, it's kinda funny, but we need to focus on listening for the creature!" Jasper sighed.

"I can't focus, all these rocks are different sizes, we'll have to organize them by shape and color. Didn't anyone tell nature how I want it to look? It should obey me." Lapis huffed.

Connie giggled and Jasper rolled her eyes. "Okay, you done yet? We have a mission, you know."

"Never, I constantly talk, you clod! I need everyone's constant approval, I need to loquaciously converse so I can show off… how very smart I am!" Lapis cut of sharply at the last sentence, annoyed.

"Well… you can converse with me. Let's finish that quiz! Do you need to plan ahead before you act?" Connie asked.

"No! I always just do whatever I want, on instinct!"

"Do you obsess over little details?"

"Heh, of course!"

"Wow, you're so method." Connie murmered. "Next time, can you come back as me?"

"Prehaps-"

"Oh, shut up!" Jasper yelled, snapping to them. "Can't you just be yourself? You win, okay? So stop it!"

Lapis gave a tiny smirk after her sudden fear. "And if I don't? What then?"

Jasper leapt to her as quick as lighting, grabbing her wrist. "Then, I'll make you."

"Let me go!" Lapis snarled.

Connie gasped in suprise. "Guys, stop it! The creature-"

"I thought you wanted me to be more like Peridot, I am! So…" Lapis struggled in her grip. "Put me down!"

"That's because Peri would've taken a regeneration seriously!"

"Ugh, why won't you release me?!" Lapis yelled.

"Because you're WEAK, and you never see it!" Jasper bellowed. Connie gasped and Lapis stopped struggling in shock. Suddenly, a black tentacle of the monster grabbed Lapis around the waist, pulling her away from Jasper.

"Ugh! Why do you insist on winning?!" Lapis growled, struggling against the monster trying to pull her into the water wall she had created herself.

"Because you do!" Jasper yelled.

The tentacle squeezed Lapis tighter and she poofed.

"How could you guys say that to each other?!" Connie cried, picking up Lapis' gem. She heard the monster and took out her sword insitivly.

Lapis' gem glowed, raising. Connie relized her hands were glowing. Whenever her hands glowed like that, Connie knew that she herself was not controlling it, that someone else knew when the need to destabilize gems was, when they were in very grave
/danger, from each other.

Lapis suddenly formed, but the size of Jasper.

"How's this for weak?!" She laughed darkly at Jasper. Connie felt her hand that was more toward Lapis glow brighter.

"W-Why… why are you acting like this?" Connie cried, trying to close her hands not to show the powers.

"Because of her! I'm not weak!" Lapis yelled, stepping to Jasper. "Ha! Try to force me to fuse now!"

"Lapis! Stop it, now! That was in the past-"

"I know!" Lapis snarled.

Connie gasped.

They heard hissing and Lapis gave a growl, "Just let me protect her!" She leapt into the water wall and Jasper turned to Connie, "Stay here!"

Connie's glow had faded as quickly as it had come. After a few seconds later, Jasper slammed out of the water wall, soon followed by the Mysterious Monster with Lapis holding onto a tentacle.

"Let it go!" Jasper yelled.

"No! Despite how much you annoy me right now, I have to protect you!" Lapis cried.

"Lapis, if we can fight it togther-!" Jasper insisted.

"N-NO!" Lapis screamed, her arms and body shaking, clearly not meant to be in this form.

"She doesn't want to protect herself!" Connie gasped.

Jasper turned to her and Lapis gave a short breath in shock, "What?" Suddenly, the monster poofed her. Connie gave a war cry, both her and Jasper pouncing on it. Connie stabbed it with her sword and Jasper punched it. Connie flipped backward,

landing on her feet and put her sword away just in time to leap up and catch Lapis' gem.

"I knew that thing was real! Heh, heh! And you thought I was just screaming! When Lapis gets back we have to go find it!" Peridot ran to Connie who still held Lapis' gem. "Is she back yet?"

Connie numbly shook her head.

"How long had it been?"

"3 weeks…" Connie whispered.

"Well… Lapis has always needed her space." Peridot whispered.

"I was too hard on her." Jasper sighed.

Lapis' gem suddenly started to glow.

"She's coming back!" Connie gasped.

Lapis reformed back to her normal self, but her clothes had changed. She wore a dress that had a dark blue bodice and a white skirt that was partly overlayed with the same blue material of the bodice. A black ribbon was tied round her waist and

both of her ankles, and both her arms, had bands that had pale blue crystal raindrops on them. She landed on the table. She saw everyone staring and Lapis blushed, "D-Do you like it?"

"It's perfect." Jasper whispered.

"Thank you." Lapis giggled. "It's what felt right."

"That's why it's perfect."

Lapis gave a tiny sigh, "I'm so sorry, about before."

"Eh, don't sweat it." Jasper smirked.

"Good job, Lapis! You finally fixed all that black I hated so much!" Connie and Peridot hugged her. Jaspe joined in.

"Guys, this is sweet, but-" Lapis tried.

"Nope, it's hug time." Connie whispered.

Lapis blushed. "Well, if you insist.." She hugged them back, happy to have them all in her life.

Sorry this is so late, I have a lot on my plate at the moment! I hope you guys like the new design for Lapis, it actually is the usual momswap attire that is seen in Lapis, the ankle and arm bracelets my idea. I can't wait for this next episode!