Hello, welcome back. I'm having fun writing this story. Hope y'all are liking it too! Let's begin.

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Mario and Luigi were wandering around the island, hopefully finding the warp pad back to Steven's house. The Bros were successful in getting Steven's friends back from Goomba, or Gemba, and now priority number 1 was getting them back.

"Ugh, bro, how much farther!" Luigi complained.

"I don't know, Luigi, man, how'd we end up lost?! This is ridiculous." Mario groaned.

"Man, this su-" Luigi stopped, he saw the cave that they were previously held captive in. "Look! We can follow Goombas footprints, trace them back to the village, and find the warp pad!"

"Yeah! C'mon, let's look!" Mario and Luigi ran to the cave entrance and saw Goombas tracks, and all his watermelon minions tracks lead into the cave. The bros started following the tracks.

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Steven and Connie warped on the island.

"Alright, Connie, the village is straight ahead. We'll split up when we get there and try to find Mario and Luigi." Steven said.

"Sounds like a plan!" Connie said. They both walked in the direction of the village. After a minute of walking, they arrived at the entrance of the village.

"Okay, we're here." Steven said.

"Oh no..." Connie said. Both teens looked and saw all the wreckage, bits of watermelon, and giant footprints everywhere.

"Man, that Goomba thing did a lot of damage..." Steven sighed.

"Yeah..." Connie looked down sorrowful, and noticed two sets of footprints leading to one of the destroyed huts, and to a bush, and they stopped there. "Steven! Look! These must be Mario and Luigi's footprints!"

"You're right! Good eye, Connie!" Steven hugged her, and they both followed them.

They got to the point where the footprints stopped.

"Hmm, what could've happened to them?" Connie asked. Her and Steven rubbed their chins, thinking.

"I got noth-" Steven was cut off.

"Luigi, look!" The voice yelled. Steven and Connie turned and saw The Bros.

"Mario!" Steven yelled.

"Luigi!" Connie yelled.

"Steven!" Mario yelled.

"Connie!" Luigi yelled.

They all did a group hug

"You have no idea how happy me and Mario are to see you!" Luigi said.

"Yeah, Goomba was here, and his friends were in his face!" Mario said.

"I know, i saw it in my dream." Steven said.

"Me and Luigi, gave him a pounding, aaaaaaaand..." Mario reached into his overalls and pulled out Garnet, Amythest, and Pearl. Steven's eyes widened.

"The Gems! You saved them!" Steven hugged the gems very tightly.

"Now we can take them back to the temple and they can finally reform." Connie said.

"Exactly! Thanks guys!" Steven smiled at Mario and Luigi.

"Hehe, no problem." Mario chuckled.

"We do stuff like that all the time!" Luigi laughed.

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Lapis was hovering above the group, silently. She was waiting for the right right time to strike. She was after Red and Green men, and was planning to take them to Lord Bowser.

"Must...get...men..." She mumbled. She started summoning a giant water fist.

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"Alright, lets get back to the temple!" Steven said.

"Right!" Connie said.

"Wait a second..." Mario said. Everyone went silent. "Do you hear that?" It was the sound of water, but they were far from the edges of the island, so what was it?

They all looked up.

"RUN!" Steven said. They all saw Lapis forming a giant fist.

"Mama mia!" Mario said. The fist came crashing down on him and Luigi.

"Bros!" Connie yelled.

The fist shrank down to where is was covering there body, except their head.

"Guys, run! Dont worry about us! We've been in worse!" Luigi said. Lapis started flying away.

"No!" Steven yelled.

Lapis soon was out of sight.

"Connie! We have to go to the temple and think of a plan! Hurry!" Steven yelled. They both ran to the warp.

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"Mario..." Luigi whispered.

"What..."

"We need out of this...We don't have time for this, we have to find the princess."

"I know, I know..." Mario thought for a second. "Wait!" Mario looked down and saw his whole body submerged inside the water fist. He looked up and saw Lapis flying. He moved his hand and duh through his overalls and pulled out a

bob-omb.

"Genius!" Luigi yelled. Mario pulled it out of the water and started winding it up. The fuse lit up and the bomb started glowing red.

"HEY!" Mario yelled at Lapis. She looked down at him. "Catch!" Mario threw the bomb up at Lapis.

"Huh?" Lapis said before the bomb blew up in her face.

Mario and Luigi felt the water fist let go of them. The bros were going high-speed towards the water below them. Mario looked back up and saw Lapis free falling to the water as well.

"MAMA MIAAAAAAAAA!" The bros screamed. They made contact with the water, everything went black.

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"Mario...Mario...ake up...wake up..." The voice called. Mario opened his eyes, Luigi was waking him up.

"Bro? Where are we?" Mario asked.

"I... don't know..." Luigi said. Mario got up and looked around. They were in a building underwater, with a bunch of hour glasses.

"I'm...not... done... with you..." A voice said. The bros turned. It was the Lapis girl.

"Who the heck are you?" Mario asked.

"My name is Lapis Lazuli! And you will see my full power!"

"Mama mia..." Mario groaned.

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I'm so sorry for the long wait, I kinda lost this story, and ran out of plot ideas, but I'm back now, full of ideas and energy to write. So, updates will be once a week! Another chapter will be up next week! I'm n00bsl3yR, signing off