Connie was sitting in her room waiting for the gems to come back from another mission. She tried watching TV, but Under the Knife and Camp Pining Hearts were currently on hiatus. She tried to read a book, but it wasn't very fun after reading every book so many times. She just sat upside down on the couch letting all the blood rush to her head.
Suddenly, the warp pad went off. Connie looked up to see all three gems standing on the warp pad.
"You're back!" Connie happily said getting up.
"Hello, Connie," Holly said pulling several feathers out of her hair.
"Skinny," Tourmaline said. "I'm telling you that all of my calculations are saying that is not going to fit in Connie's fridge."
Skinny was holding a giant egg in her arms as she tried to find a way to put it in the fridge.
"Oh, you rely too much on your precious calculations," Skinny said. "You just take out this shelf and…" Skinny slipped the egg into the fridge. "See? It fits." Skinny put her hand out the fridge door meaning to close it.
"Skinny," Tourmaline said. "No. Wait."
It was too late. Skinny shut the fridge. All the gems could hear the egg break inside.
"Oops," Skinny said.
"I'll clean that up later," Holly sighed.
"What happened to you guys?" Connie asked.
"We fought a giant bird," Tourmaline said. "We can't stay. We have to head back out."
"What?" Connie asked. "But you guys just got back."
"We're sorry, Connie," Holly said. "but we don't have much time. We need to place this moon goddess statue on top of the lunar sea spire." Holly pulled out the moon goddess statue.
"Wow," Connie said with diamonds appearing in her eyes. "Can I see it?"
"I don't see why not," Holly said. "Just be careful." Holly handed the statue to Connie.
"Cool," Connie said looking at the statue.
Suddenly, Connie's gem began to glow. It got so bright that all the gems and Connie had to cover their eyes. When they opened their eyes, the moon goddess statue was gone.
"What happened?" Connie asked looking at her now empty hands.
"What happened to the moon goddess statue?" Holly exclaimed.
"Now, Holly," Tourmaline said placing a hand on Holly's shoulder. "All my calculations say that with the amount of time that we had our eyes closed, the statue couldn't have gotten more than a few inches away from Connie.
"It ain't by her feet, Tourm," Skinny said getting on the floor and staring at Connie's feet. She lifted Connie's foot to look under it. "Not under her feet either."
"The only way this could happen is if it is in Connie's gem," Tourmaline said.
"My gem?" Connie asked looking down her shirt.
"Your mother had many powers, Connie," Tourmaline said kneeling in front of her with her hands placed on Connie's shoulders. "Among those powers, she was able to store any object in her gem."
"Tourmaline," Connie said. "are you saying that there might be a solid object inside of me?"
"Basically, yes," Tourmaline said getting up.
"Well, how does she get it out?" Holly panicked. "We have to put that statue in its shrine by midnight."
"I'm not sure," Tourmaline said. "Blue had her own way of summoning her powers."
"Can't you just like tell the object to leave your gem or something?" Skinny asked.
"I'll try," Connie said looking down at her gem again. "Okay, statue. Get out of my gem!" Nothing happened. Connie then tried to force it out with pressure. Still, nothing happened.
"This isn't working," Skinny said.
"Thank-you, Skinny," Holly said. "Thank-you for stating the obvious."
"Hey," Skinny said. "I don't see you coming up with any ideas. All you're doing is panicking."
"And all you're doing is lounging," Holly snapped.
"Hey, it's not my fault the statue's stuck inside Connie's gem," Skinny said. "Now all you're doing is squawking at me!"
"I don't squawk!" Holly yelled.
"Yeah you do!" Skinny yelled. "You're doing right now! Squawk! Squawk!"
"Really mature!" Holly retorted.
"Cut it out you two!" Tourmaline said as she tried to break up their fight.
"Guys," Connie said. It was inaudible with all the yelling.
"Why can't my gem ever do what I need it to do?" Connie said. "I need the moon goddess statue!"
A bright light appeared from Connie's gem again. The gems' arguing ceased and everyone covered their eyes once more. When the light finally died down and the gems opened their eyes, the moon goddess statue was in Connie's hand.
"Woah," Skinny said. "How'd you do that, Connie?"
"I just said I needed the statue and it appeared," Connie said.
"That's it?" Tourmaline asked. "That seems a little too simple to activate a power."
"We don't have time to ponder on this," Holly said. "We have got to get to the lunar sea spire before midnight."
"Wait," Connie said. "Can I come? Please?"
"No, Connie," Holly said. "You're still having difficulties with your powers. It will be much too dangerous for you."
"But I can help," Connie said. "I can…I can…I can carry the statue in my gem."
"No," Holly said. "No. No. No. No. No. Out of the question. We just barely got it out of your gem just now."
"Well," Skinny said. "Connie technically is the one who got it out of her gem. Besides she can do it easily. You heard her. She said that she just has to say she needs it and it appears."
"This could be a good chance for Connie to learn a little," Tourmaline said.
"You can't be serious," Holly said to Tourmaline.
"Connie can handle it," Tourmaline said.
Holly sighed. "Very well." Holly handed the statue to Connie.
Connie held the statue to her gem. The gem glowed but not as bright as the last two times. The statue disappeared into her gem.
"Oh, wait," Connie said. "I should grab some more supplies."
"Connie, there's no time," Holly said.
"Let her go," Tourmaline said.
Connie quickly went all over her room and gathered as much stuff as she could. As she grabbed each item, it swiftly entered her gem.
"Connie," Holly called. "Let's go."
"Coming," Connie said walking down her stairs and hopping onto the warp.
"Oh, stars, Connie," Holly said. "Did you bring your whole room."
"I like to be prepared," Connie said.
"Okay," Tourmaline said. "Let's warp."
The warp pad lit up, and the Crystal Gems were off.
"Do you remember how to do this?" Holly asked watching Connie float around in the warp stream.
"Woah," Connie laughed as she kept doing summersaults and spinning around. "This feels so weird." She backed up too far, and her head slightly floated outside the warp stream.
"Get your head back in," Tourmaline said pulling Connie back into the stream.
The gems all landed on a warp pad in front of the sea spire.
"Woah," Connie said looking up with diamonds in her eyes. "The sea spire."
"It seems like there is structure instability," Tourmaline said adjusting her visor.
"Oh, yeah," Connie said. "This place is really falling apart." Connie was standing at the very edge of the cliff. Cracks in the ground suddenly formed.
"Connie!" Holly exclaimed.
"What was that?" Connie asked Holly's whip, without any sparks, wrapped around her and pulled her towards the group just before the ground gave away and fell into the sea.
"Okay. Okay," Holly said clinging onto Connie. "This mission is much too dangerous for Connie."
"Chill, Holly Blue," Skinny said. "You can't make her leave after one mishap."
"Besides," Tourmaline said. "If we take Connie back, there's almost no chance of is putting the statue back on time."
"Fine," Holly grumbled.
The gems headed for the spire. They came to halt at the end of a cliff only a few feet away from a doorway to the sea spire.
"What's the holdup?" Skinny asked. "We can clear this easily."
"No," Tourmaline said. "The magic that sustains the whirlpool creates a vortex making it impossible for us to pass."
Tourmaline picked up a nearby boulder and threw it toward the sea spire. It stopped in mid air and was instantly pulled down.
"So we can't jump?" Holly asked.
"Oh, wait," Connie said. "I got it. Gem, I need those sweaters." A couple of sweaters came out of her gem."
"How are sweaters supposed to help," Skinny asked.
"Well," Connie said. "I did brig them in case we got cold, but now they're going to get us across."
Connie tied one sleeve on a sweater to the sleeve of another. She threw it out to the spire like a rope wile hanging onto one end of it. It went through a small opening above the doorway and circled back to her. Connie held onto both ends of the chain of sweaters. She took a deep breath before jumping.
"Connie!" all the gems exclaimed.
Connie hit the wall and continued to hold on to the sweaters as she felt the pull of the whirlpool.
"She's getting sucked down!" Skinny exclaimed.
Connie pulled on the sweaters and ran up the wall. Connie climbed into the doorway heavily panting with a smile on her face.
"Connie!" Skinny yelled. "Wait to go! Come on, Holly!"
"I can't believe I'm doing this," Holly said as she summoned her whip. She swung her whip to where it wrapped several times around the opening above the doorway. Tourmaline and Skinny hanged onto Holly as she jumped and swung to the doorway.
"Well," Holly said. "it worked. But don't do that again."
"Sorry," Connie said as she followed the gems up a set of stairs.
"Oh, dear," Holly said as they walked. "This place is in total ruin."
"Hey, what are these?" Connie said as she looked at weird slug-like creatures on a statue.
"Connie, get away from those!" Holly said as she summoned her whip and sliced the statue in two. The top half of the statue fell into the sea with the weird creatures on it.
"What's wrong?" Connie asked.
"Those were crystal shrimp, Connie," Holly said. "Those shards on them are deadly. You can't get near them like that."
"Hey, guys!" Skinny called from the top of the stairs. "We have a problem!"
Holly and Connie rushed up the stairs to see crystal shrimp everywhere.
"You've got to be kidding me," Holy said. "It's an infestation."
"How do we get past them?" Skinny asked.
"Crystal shrimp aren't all that smart," Tourmaline said. "All we should need is some sort of distraction."
"I need those bagel sandwiches," Connie said to her gem.
"This is no time to be eating, Connie," Holly said.
"They're not for me," Connie said. "They'll make the perfect…distraction!" Connie threw a bagel sandwich to the right and left side of the room as she said "distraction".
The crystal shrimp all went in the direction of one of the sandwiches.
"I guess that works," Tourmaline said.
"Oh, what do ya know," Skinny said.
The gems all moved forward and walked up the next flight of stairs.
"Watch out!" Tourmaline exclaimed just before water burst through a wall, blocking their path. Everyone looked at Connie.
"What?" Connie asked.
"What have you got?" Tourmaline asked.
"Yeah, Connie," Skinny said. "What ya got in your storage gem?"
"Gem," Connie said. "I need that raft." A raft formed from Connie's gem.
"Nice," Skinny said.
Connie pulled the lever to inflate the raft.
"Connie," Tourmaline said. "Wait."
Too late. Connie already threw the raft onto the flowing water. It fell right off the side and down the waterfall.
"Oh," Connie said.
From behind Holly, Skinny, and Connie, Tourmaline kicked down a column causing it to fall over and create a bridge.
"It was still a good idea, Connie," Tourmaline said as she crossed over. The other gems followed behind her. They all progressed up another flight of stairs to the top of the sea spire.
"Okay," Holly said. "This is good. We still have a few minutes left until midnight."
"Connie," Tourmaline said looking at the girl. "The statue."
"Right," Connie said. "Gem, I need the moon goddess statue." Nothing happened. "Uh, gem, the statue." Her gem still didn't respond.
"What's the hold up?" Skinny asked.
"My gem isn't responding," Connie said.
"What do you mean it's not responding?" Holly asked.
"It won't give me the statue," Connie said.
"This is bad," Tourmaline said. "We only have one minute left."
"Gem," Skinny said looking at Connie's gem. "we're through playing around. Give us the statue!" Connie's gem remained unresponsive.
"Please, gem," Connie said. "We need that statue!"
"Ten seconds!" Tourmaline exclaimed.
"Gem," Connie said. "Please."
Suddenly, the statue exited Connie's gem. "I got it!"
"Too late!" Tourmaline exclaimed. "It's past midnight!"
As if on cue, the sea spire began to shake, and the waterfalls surrounding it began to collapse.
"Hold it steady!" Tourmaline yelled. Skinny lost her balance and fell on top of Holly. Connie began to lose her balance as well. She desperately tried not to as she was standing on the very edge of the spire.
"Connie!" Tourmaline exclaimed pulling Connie away from the edge. As Tourmaline did so, Connie lost her grip on the statue, and it fell off of the spire and into the ocean.
"The statue!" Holly exclaimed.
"Hold on everyone!" Tourmaline yelled as the remaining pieces of the spire went under the water.
The gems were pulled underwater for a second. In a moment or two, they all resurfaced gasping for air.
"Is everyone okay?" Tourmaline asked.
"I'm fine," Holly said as she spat out some water.
"I'm good," Skinny said.
"I'm sorry guys," Connie said. "It's all my fault. I broke it."
"No, Connie," Holly said. "You were fine. You handled everything so well under pressure."
"Yeah," Skinny said. "Two out of four of your ideas worked. That's fifty percent."
Diamonds appeared in Connie's eyes. "Yeah," Connie said. "They can't all be winners."
Suddenly the raft from before surfaced on the water.
"Yes!" Connie exclaimed.
All the gems climbed onto the raft.
"See?" Skinny said. "You and your storage gem are awesome."
"I have to admit," Holly said. "This did all come in handy."
Tourmaline adjusted her visors. "According to my calculations, it's a three hour paddle home."
"Oh," Holly, Skinny, and Connie said.
Hey guys!
I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I will try and update at least once a week. As for plot and changes, I'm figuring it out as I go. I do want to know if you guys want me to include Holly being in love with Blue Diamond like Pearl was with Rose.
Thanks!
~Stevidot4ever