Welcome back to another chapter, hope y'all are liking it. Anyways, let's begin.

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"WATERMELON STEVENS ARE IN TROUBLE!" Steven yelled.

"Um, what?" Peridot asked. Peridot, Mario, and Luigi were in the living room sitting on the couch. Steven looked around, it was morning.

"Steven are you okay?" Mario asked.

"Yeah, you've been talking in your sleep." Luigi added. Steven got out of his bed and went down to the others.

"Guys, I think I know where the gems are." Steven said.

"You do? That's great! Where?" Peridot said, rubbing her chin.

"It was on the island with the Watermelon Steven tribe. Remember, before I bubbled the cluster i was having weird dreams of me as a Watermelon Steven?" Steven explained.

"Oh yeah!" Peridot said.

"Um, what are you guys talking about?" Luigi asked.

"It's a long story, guys." Steven said.

"Well, if your friends are on the island, where were they?" Mario asked.

"They were in some... creature. It was brown, had brown feet, a brown body, a giant head, and the gems were fused with parts of it's body." Steven explained.

"Brown body..." Mario said.

"Giant head..." Luigi said.

The bros slowly turned and made eye contact.

"Goomba..." They said in unison.

"Um, who?" Peridot asked.

"Y'see, back in our world, Bowser has a minion species called Goombas. The creature you saw in your dream was a Goomba." Luigi explained.

"Me and Luigi have beaten millions of them! We can handle it, it'll be a piece of cake." Mario said with a confident grin.

"And we can rescue your friends in the process as well!" Luigi said, smiling too.

"I don't know, I want to help." Steven said, uneasy.

"Steven," Peridot put her hand on his shoulder, "Let them go, while they do that you and I can go to the barn and see if Lapis is back."

"Good idea, Peridot!" Steven laughed. Steven looked back at the bros. "Are you sure you guys'll be okay?"

"Psh, we've crushed millions of Goombas in our lifetime. Go out and find your friend." Mario said.

"Well, alright then! C'mon, Peridot." Steven and Peridot walked out of the house and left for the barn.

"Well bro, are you ready for some action?" Luigi asked.

"Mhmm, lets-a go!" Mario said. The Bros walked on the warp pad and disappeared in the white light.

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Lapis was flying through the air, under her was the vast ocean. Lapis's eyes still had black swirls in them.

"Must... find... Peridot." Lapis mumbled monotonously.

Beach City was appearing over the horizon of the ocean. Lapis's eyes drifted away from the small Oceanside town, out to the open acres of old, ran down crop fields. Lapis spotted her location, a small barn.

"Must...find... Peridot!" Lapis said louder. She narrowed her eyes and started flying faster to the barn.

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Mario and Luigi warped onto the island home to the Watermelon Steven tribe.

"Nice little tropical place." Luigi said, admiring the scenary.

"Yeah," Mario said, "C'mon, Luigi, let's go find that Goomba Steven saw."

"Alrighty!" Luigi grinned. The bros walked into the dense jungle.

"Ugh, this is so crappy." Luigi said, pushing huge leaves out of his face.

"It's not too ba-" Mario heard a thud. He looked behind him and Luigi had tripped over a tree root. Mario held back a laugh.

"Ouch..." Luigi groaned.

"Hahaha!" Mario laughed. "Ah geez, c'mere, bro." Mario helped Luigi up from the ground.

"That hurt" Luigi said rubbing his nose.

"I'm sorry, we'll patch it up once we get back to Stevens house. C'mon, I think we're getting close." Mario motioned ahead of him to more jungle. Luigi nodded and they continued onward.

The bros were at the entrance to the village. Buildings were down, there was bits and pieces of watermelon everywhere.

"This is a lot of damage for a goomba." Luigi said.

"I know, it's strange." Mario said. He saw a bush rustle. "Hey, Luigi, look at that bush."

"I see it, let's go check it out." The Bros walked over to the rustling bush.

"Goomba, we know it's you!" Mario yelled.

"Yeah, c'mon out!" Luigi added. The rustling stopped. Mario and Luigi grinned at each other. A little creature came out of the bush.

"Goomba?" Mario asked. The creature had the body of a regular goomba, but it had tiny black dots for eyes, had light and dark green stripes all over its body, and no mouth.

"It's a watermelon goomba!" Luigi said surprised. Mario and Luigi were circling the watermelon goomba in awe.

"How's that possible?" Mario asked.

"No idea." Luigi shrugged. More watermelon goombas were coming out. "Look bro, more of them!"

"Cool!" Mario said. But, Mario noticed they were being surrounded by them. "Wait a sec, Luigi run!"

"What why?" Luigi asked. Suddenly, a giant brown foot kicked Luigi full force into a pile of rubble.

"Luigi!" Mario yelled. He turned and saw a giant goomba. "Those are Stevens friends! How'd they get in your face?"

"None of your business, MARIO!" Gemba yelled. With a shear kick, Mario was launched into the same pile of rubble as Luigi, landing next to him. Mario saw a blurred image of the watermelon goombas approaching him before slipping into unconsciousness.

"Good job, watermelon goombas! Great distraction! C'mon, bring'em to the cave." The watermelon goombas started pushing the bros with their heads to their cave.

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Steven and Peridot were looking in the barn.

"Lapis?" Steven yelled.

"Y'see her, Steven?" Peridot asked.

"Nope, sorry." Steven replied.

"Ugh!" Peridot yelled. She walked out of the barn and sat down on the grass.

"I'm sorry, Peridot. Maybe she'll-" Steven stopped when he saw a figure flying through the air to the barn. "Look, it's Lapis!"

"REALLY!" Peridot jolted up and looked. "It is!"

"Man, you really want to see her, don't you?" Steven said. Peridot's cheeks flushed a dark green.

"Yeah..." Peridot was avoiding the subject. "Look, she's landing!"

Lapis landed in front of Steven and Peridot, making her wings disappear.

"Lapis!" Steven and Peridot yelled. They both wrapped Lapis in a bear hug.

"Found... Peridot." Lapis mumbled.

"What?" Peridot asked. Both released the hug.

"Lapis, whats up with your eyes?" Steve. pointed to her black swirled eyes.

"Moonstone will be proud." Lapis mumbled. Lapis grabbed a forceful grip around Peridot.

"Moonstone?!" Steven yelled. Before Steven could think, Lapis summoned a water fist and punched Steven away.

"Ack! Steven!" Peridot yelled. "Stop, Lapis!"

"No way! Moonstone needs you!" Lapis yelled. Lapis summoned her wings and took off in the air with Peridot in her grasp.

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*gasp* Will Peridot be okay? Find out next chapter! Please leave a review! It means a lot! Thanks in advance. I'm n00bsl3yR, signing off.