Vision

Jasper sits down right where Garnet left her and lifts one of her hands to feel her gem.

What was going on with Garnet? Why does she have it in her head that something happened between her and Peridot?

Jasper's vision flickers and her body is jolted with pain. This isn't good.

In the background, a bluish-white light shines.

"Jasper!" Peridot calls from the distance. "Jasper? Are you here?" Peridot calls again. This is one of the last places the tracker said Jasper could be. It wasn't really good. For some reason, it kept flickering and switching locations.

Jasper stays quiet but forces herself to move. Slowly, with each painful step, her body flickers and pain shoots through her limbs.

As Jasper continues to move forward and subsequently away from the warp pad, Jasper's body flickers and where her hands were, her feet are now there.

This is bad. This is real bad.

Jasper stops and lays her distorted body against a wall. Jasper closes her eyes and allows one thought to cross her mind.

Her gem was cracked, and Garnet, whom is now on the run, is the one who did it, that's what she knew for sure.

"Jasper!" Peridot yells as she spots the gem and dashes toward her. "Jasper, I have been looking for you-," Peridot is cut off as Jasper's form flickers.

"Ugh! Nerd, leave me alone," Jasper says and swats an arm/foot at Peridot.

"I don't understand why you love that fusion. These Crystal Clods don't care about us. They only care about their precious hunk of a rock planet. Let's go home, it's only a matter of time before Yellow Diamond comes for us."

"Shut up Nerd!" Jasper yells. "Yellow Diamond left me for death. I don't have no home."

"And that filthy war machine didn't? Look at you, it left you with a cracked gem. She's just as bad as Yellow Diamond."

At Peridot's statement, Jasper snaps her head toward Peridot. Forcing herself up, Jasper stalks up to the green gem. "Don't. Compare. Her. To. Yellow Diamond."

"Why? It's true, she left you here with a cracked gem to die."

"Peridot, leave!" Jasper yells and her body flickers again.

Peridot shakes her head. As much as she hates to admit it, as much as Jasper irks her, she will not leave her, not like this.

"If you're going to stay and die, the least I can do is stay with you." Peridot leans against the wall and waits.

Both of them know how this is going to end. In a little while J's form will turn into a corrupted creature.

"Hey Nerd," Jasper says after a long moment. "I'm still your superior, leave. Once I turn into a corrupted gem monster, you won't be able to track me. If I hurt you, there's no one that's going to come and save you. I mean, Garnet might See what's happening, but she'll never make it in time."

Peridot takes in what Jasper says. She doesn't trust them Crystal Clods and though she can't see what Jasper sees in the fusion, Steven doesn't seem that bad.

"I won't leave you," Peridot says and Jasper laughs.

"As your superior, I order you to leave." Jasper's form flickers again and she screams in agony. "Leave!"

Peridot watches briefly as Jasper's body starts to change from a human figure to a distorted creature before she quickly makes her way back to the warp pad.

One thought, one name passes through Jasper's head before the transformation is complete; Garnet.