Connie laid on her bad, reading a comic about a girl who had to kill her own sister in order to keep her safe. Very tragic...

Two pages were stuck together and she accidentally made a tiny rip in one while turning it.

"Oh no!" Connie gasped in horror. "Ronaldo will be furious!" She cried in panic, for she had borrowed it from him. And to make it worse, she had ripped the hero transformation page! He was going to be so upset at her!

She sighed, and licked her finger in order to take the two pages apart and keep reading, but the moment her fingertips touched the page, a sparkle came out and touched the rip, healing it!

"My powers! They're back!" Connie squealed in triumph. She then realized something and beamed.

The girl fumbled down the stairs, knocking straight into Lapis.

Lapis in her surprise dropped a plate from her bubble of soapy water she was carrying it in. The plate broke on impact with the unforgiving floor.

"Lazuli, you shattered it!" Peridot screeched, running up to the plate from the soapy sink. Connie saw that she and Lapis had been washing dishes while Jasper sat idly by.

"Oh no, it wasn't her fault, it was mine, but look, I can fix it with my powers! They're back!" Connie proclaimed, licking her hand and about to touch a shard.

"Are you crazy?! You could make yourself bleed!" Peridot cried, shoving her child away from the shards. "It's nice that you got your powers back, Connie, but Jasper, clean this up!"

Jasper looked annoyed and then gave a growl. "Did you just tell me what to do."

Peridot made a petrified sound before struggling out. "I mean, you've well, um-"

"Fine!" Jasper cried, and with one jump and a scoop, got all the plate shards.

"Welp, back to lame dishes." Lapis shrugged, making a fart noise before twirling around to the sink.

"I was thinking, if I had my powers back, I mean, it would be quite logical to assume that-"

"Nope." Jasper interrupted Connie.

"But you didn't even-"

"Let me finish, kid. You told that monster friend of yours you'd be back for her, and now you think you can heal her corruption?" Jasper finished with a eyebrow raised.

"Oh yes, I suppose I made it pretty obvious." Connie smiled weakly.

"Nope, I just have a great memory." Jasper said bluntly, as if challenging her to say more.

"Would there be any chance you could change your mind?" Connie asked, placing her hands in s begging position.

Jasper stared down at her coldly.

Connie looked up at her with big sad eyes and blinked her eyelashes. "Pretty please?"

Jasper couldn't resist her kid's begging for too long and took her to the burning room.

Connie looked up at the bubbles, scanning them for her friend. She gasped, seeing her gem. "There! Right there!" She pointed at it, and tried to leap up and get it, however, she couldn't exactly fly, or float or hover at all, so she fell back on the floor.

Lapis flew up and got the bubbled gem, taking it gently down to Connie.

"Hello, old friend!" Connie beamed, hugging the bubble.

"Connie, this may not be wise, you have so much power, but I'm afraid you may be disappointed-" Connie stopped Peridot.

"I have the power of a Diamond! I can heal her, and every other corrupted gem!" Connie replied. "I'll be fine!"

Lapis then flew up again and grabbed a bubbled bag of vegetables, which were still fresh.

"Don't forget these!" Lapis smiled, holding the bubble tightly.

"Oh! She loves veggies, just like me!" Connie remembered. It had been so long, even if she had thought of Centi nearly every day. She then turned to her guardians. "Everyone, prepare yourselves, she may be in shock and dangerous at first, but I'm sure after that, she'll be fine!"

"Connie, be careful, your human body is fragile! What if you get hurt?!" Peridot cried. Jasper shushed her.

The older Temps had already mentally prepared, and made their weapons on her request.

Connie then popped the bubble and watched in wonder as Centipeetle reformed.

"You can do it, Connie!" Lapis called as Connie licked her hand, ready to heal her friend.

"Ah, be careful Connie!" Peridot moaned in fear for her baby.

Connie ran up and put her hand on her friend's gem, and gasped in surprise when she saw that Centi was gaining arms and legs looking humanoid!

The gem regenerated, and fell to the ground. She had a single eye, which was her gem. Her skin the same color as her gem and had little whi8te puffs of hair. She seemed to also wear a Homeworld uniform with a pink diamond on it.

Connie had done it! She grabbed the veggies and ran to her friend happily. "Centipeedle! I came back, just like I promised!"

Centipeedle turned, noticing she was not alone. She screeched in fear and anger.

Connie stopped in shock, she guessed that she could only heal the gem's physical form, then slowly reached for her friend, trying to take her hand.

Centi leapt away, nearly falling down. She hissed at Connie.

"You don't remember me." Connie whispered, heartbroken. "Maybe, uh, you need more of my power?"

She reached to Centi, but Peridot pulled her back.

"Don't you touch her!" Peridot snapped, and Connie realized she had never heard such sharpness in her voice before…

"But why not?" Connie asked softly.

Peridot rolled her eyes. "Y-you could hurt yourself, obviously."

"You did a great job, kid, I've never seen it work this good before!" Jasper beamed.

"It didn't work enough." Connie whispered in anger, shrugging Peridot off her. "I'm a Diamond, I want to be able to heal her, completely and entirely!"

Peridot sighed. "She's not cracked, Connie, she's-"

"Corrupted, I know… Her brain can't be fixed, you already told me that…" Connie whispered softly. Then thought to herself, "After me asking you guys for weeks, you finally told me. I mean, what kid wouldn't ask questions about all of this?

"Kid, I'm sorry it didn't work like you wanted, but we should put her back in that bubble." Jasper muttered, forming her helmet.

Centipeedle looked at her reflection in a vein of the crystal heart and squawked in surprise.

Connie shook her head, running in front of Centi. "No, Jasper, don't!"

Jasper looked at Lapis, and the woman gently used her wings to fly over to Connie and tried to pull her away. "Connie, you don't have to watch-"

"No! She's not a monster anymore, she never was one after I popped her bubble! I-I healed her this much, maybe I can heal her again! I promised her!"

Jasper narrowed her eyes.

Connie's grew big with slight tears and she pouted her lip. "Pretty please?"

All the Temps sighed in defeat, breaking at their child's plea.

"Urgh. Fine." Jasper grunted.

Connie gave a squeal in happiness. "I can't wait! She could sleep in the bathroom, or maybe in the barn with Pearl and Amethyst! Oh! Gems don't sleep…!"

Peridot sighed, listening to the hybrid gush about how excited she was. She knew she had more to tell about Connie's powers, but the girl hadn't asked, and that was their only promise, besides, the promise Peridot made with the girl's mother went deeper.

Jasper smiled. "Okay, okay, calm down. If it'll make you happy, kid, she can stay unbubbled. Just know that there's only so much we can do to help her."

Connie soon had Centipeedle sitting on the couch and had the bag of veggies beside her.

"Sorry I couldn't heal you completely, Centipeedle." Connie sighed. She then glanced up in thought, looking at Centi's green hue. "Your name isn't really Centipeedle, I just remembered, it's a gem name. Are you a… emerald?"

Centi gave a confused look, she didn't understand at all.

"Oh, nevermind… There's just so many questions I want to ask you… I can't believe you can't remember me, you saved me so many times, all I did for you was hurt you...I didn't mean to..." She trailed off and picked up the plastic baggie of veggies.

Centi perked up and her mouth drooled acid when she saw Connie open the bag. Those little things in there, what were they called? They were good! Really good! The other creature knew what they were, but Centi wanted to figure it out on her own.

"I like veggies-" Connie was interrupted when Centi tried to sing along with her own screechy tune.

Veggies! That's what they were! That thing gave her them as a treat! But what was the thing called again?

Connie gasped in surprise. "Oh! You remember the song!" She giggled and kept singing, Centi chorusing along with joy. She held out a baby carrot and Centi grabbed it, munching it down.

"Your memories are still in there, I just have to draw them out!" Connie cried with excitement. She then gasped and ran over to get a paper and pencil.

"This is called paper, Centi. Gems write on their screens I know, but this has to make due, I suppose." Connie smiled, placing the supplies down as Centi watched in confusion.

Connie neatly wrote out her name, and showed it to Centipeedle. "This is my name, Con-nie, you want to try?"

Centi nodded eagerly. Connie! Connie was her friend! That's right! The gem scribbled many symbols down, then showed it to Connie.

Connie frowned. "I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I don't understand… maybe you can't remember how to write? I can teach you-"

Centi shook her head, and pointed to the symbols again.

Connie squinted her eyes. "... I really don't get it… Maybe we can draw instead?"

Connie took out a crisp new sheet and drew herself, it wasn't too bad looking either, better than a stick figure.

Centi suddenly took the paper, and started drawing.

"What are you adding on?" Connie smiled.

Her friend showed her.

Centi had added herself, holding hands with the doodle Connie.

Connie beamed. "You remember we're friends!"

Centi made a sound that actually sounded like "Yeah!"

"Do you remember how you were corrupted? Who did it and why?" Connie had been wondering that question ever since she learned the monsters used to be gems.

Centipeedle thought for a moment, then gasped and took the paper, scribbling down a drawing.

She soon turned it back.

It was a doodle of Centipeedle, in some kind of ship.

"That's how you got to Earth, isn't it? I wonder what you were coming here for..." Connie muttered.

Centi wasn't listening, she'd already begun drawing more.

Connie tilted her head. "What are you drawing on?"

The gem turned it back and Connie saw lots of other stick gems that looked just like Centipeedle, and the drawing Centi was smiling.

"Oh! Those gems must be your crew! Centi, were you the captain of that ship?"

Centi gave a squawk in response, it sounded full of pride.

"Wow, I'm communicating to a captain of a war vessel!" Connie gasped in surprise. "You weren't on the Crystal Temps' side, were you? You were loyal to a Diamond I assume?" She made the Diamond symbol.

Centi nodded, and made the Diamond salute at her.

Connie then blushed in surprise. "Oh, no Centi, I wasn't your Diamond! Even if I have her gem. You probably wanted this gem brought to your real Diamond, right?"

Centi looked confused again. But she was a Diamond, diamonds get the salute, don't they? They do, they do.

Connie wondered if in her corruption she could remember that Yellow Diamond was who she was against.

Centi drew more.

"Okay, that's you, saulting your commander, she gave you a order to do something." Connie whispered, mostly to herself.

Centi then drew her team, and then her ship around them. Even more little ships were around that.

"And so, you and your team in your ship, oh, with a fleet of ships, headed down to the planet Earth…"

Injectors and Kindergartens were soon drawn in as well.

"You started to colonize the planet, all was going well…"

The gems soon were running, afraid of something… Explosions were around them, they were all so terrified.

"The Gem War broke out." Connie whispered with a solomness, it was no surprise.

Centi suddenly started crossing groups of gems out, her eye narrowing in anger. So many warriors, and workers, all gone except for her and her team.

"Y-You stayed to fight." Connie choked, tears coming in her eyes, knowing poor Centipeedle could never have been able to escape.

Centi tore out the section with her and her team, and then ripped that as well so only she remained.

"You got separated, but you were still fighting."

A afraid Centi ran and ran. She was so scared.

"Then, new orders came from your commander, s-she told you to flee."

Centipeedle followed her fellow gems, what was happening?! The gems soon all tried to leave in their vessels, her ship was gone!

"Everyone ran, but you don't know why, you can't find your crew, or your ship! You stopped… and heard something… a-a song? And then.."

Suddenly, the pencil snapped.

"Centi?"

Connie looked up to see she wasn't the only one crying.

Centi was soon sobbing.

"W-Who did this to you?" Connie whispered. Centipeedle picked up another pencil and slowly drew two diamonds…

"The Diamonds." Connie choked.

Suddenly, Centi hacked up acid.

"Ah! Centi! Oh my gosh, are you okay?!" Connie cried in fear, running to her friend who fell to the ground.

Suddenly, Centipeedle started to glow, and her arm reverted back to its corrupted state.

"No! I-It should last longer, why can't it last longer?!" Connie yelled, trying to apply her spit, it was glitching out and not working. "How do I stop this?!"

Centi grabbed the picture of the Diamond Authority symbol and pointed fiercely.

"The Diamonds?! B-But how?! I can't just go to them! They know what my mothe-"

Centi was angry now and upset, crying. Why didn't she get it?! Why couldn't she save her?! She just wanted her crew back! She ran to the warp pad, and started pounding her fists on it.

Connie grabbed all Centi's drawings, frantically looking through them. "Where do you want to go? The battlefield? Your ship?"

Centi gave a sound that Connie assumed was a desperate yes.

The corrupted gem pounded her fists again.

Connie leapt onto the warp pad and offer Centi her hand with a weak smile. "Don't worry, I'll get you there."

They then warped over to a gem ship which Connie had encountered only once before. She prayed this was the right one.

Centipeedle wasted no time. She ran towards the ship.

"Centi! Wait!" Connie yelled, running after her.

Centipeedle seemed to call for Connie, as if she needed her to hurry. She then screeched in pain and gripped her head, tears and acid were streaming down her face.

Connie caught up just in time to see Centi revert nearly all the way back to her corrupted form. The girl gave a gasp. "Oh no!"

The hybrid ran to her now monster-looking friend, bending down. "Your ship! We have to find it, okay?"

Centi got it and made it to the ship's door, which was covered in dying ivy vines. The gem ripped them away with her hands and mouth, clawing to get in before she was lost again in corruption.

Connie ran up, ripping vines with her tiny arms as well. She then saw a hand switch, just like the multiple others she had seen before it.

Centipeedle desperately tried to touch it with her one human-like hand that was left, but it then went back to pinchers. She gave a cry, hitting the switch, but it didn't work!

Connie placed her own hand on it and the panel went yellow, recognizing that she was a gem, and not just any gem either, a Diamond.

The two went inside.

It was a hollow room with no furniture, except the ivy on the walls. Connie glanced up at the ceiling to see 2 more Centipeedles.

"Your crew!" Connie smiled as Centi finally scuttled up the wall to reunite.

After a few minutes of watching and waving up to Centipeedle and her friends, a voice came behind her.

"You delivered her home, great job!"

Connie gave a cry in surprise and whipped around to see Lapis and the other Temps smiling with pride.

"I wish I could help her more." Connie whispered. "You guys were right, I couldn't save her."

They walked up and Jasper bent down and smirked. "Kid, look at what you did."

Connie turned to see the Centipeedles were nuzzling each other in there reunion and smiled weakly.

"You reunited her with her team, and she totally owes you one, you did save her from being all alone." Jasper said as Connie turned back. "These guys have been waiting for a long time to see her again, you know. They didn't want to leave without her."

Connie smiled up at her friend. She then was confused when she though of the previous statement and turned back to Jasper. "How did you know about her team? And how'd you know we'd even be here?"

"Oh, well we found these on the table and assumed that you went to go find her ship, we had to search a couple though, I can't see the future so it was hard to find the exact ship you were on. That's why it took us a few minutes." Jasper said, showing the papers.

Connie squinted at the papers. "Why didn't you see the right ship in the drawings?"

"Oh, we didn't look at the drawings, we looked at her writing." Jasper replied, showing Connie what she had assumed were just messed up squiggles before. "We didn't know if Centipeedle would go nuts on you when she turned back into her old form."

Connie stared at the writing and Peridot laughed. "Your friend's writing isn't even half as bad as Jasper's!"

Jasper barred her teeth. "I have big hands."

"Incredible, a whole language I didn't even know about!" Connie whispered, taking the papers back. Centipeedle then affectionately nuzzled her in her own sort of hug. Connie laughed. "You're so happy here!"

The Temps soon looked upon Connie, how looked ready to beg.

"They're free to stay here, you don't even need to ask." Jasper smirked.

Connie beamed.

They soon were walking back to the warp pad, and Connie flipped through the drawings and writings. "Peridot, can you teach me how to write gem like you guys? I've always wanted to learn a new language."

"You are very intelligent, Connie, I'm certain you will learn fast. Where would you like to start?" Peridot asked.

"Well, I'd like to learn something simple first…" Connie whispered, looking at the final drawing of the two diamonds. "I want to know how to say… I'm so sorry."