"OH, MY DIMAND! JASPER GET UP, GET UP!", periodot mumbled franticly as the crystal gems approached. The mighty gem only responded with a painful moan, and a failed attempt to rise.

"Peridot! Are you squished?" she heard amethyst laugh. Fear was an understatement in this situation, suddenly she felt jaspers body go rigged at the sound of the purple quart's voice. Finally, she stood, but her weekend state was evident all over her body.

"whoa, uummm why does the look like that?" amethyst gestured towards jaspers attempt to stay standing.

"She's, hurt I think..." pearl replied, "Look!" she pointed her sphere in the direction of jaspers gem, "Her gem is cracked"

"She must have cracked it separating from lapis" Garnet said calmly. Alarm went off in peridot as the warrior in front of her, attempted to engage in battle with the gems. She darted clumsily in front of jasper as the gems prepared themselves for a fight.

"wait WAIT! You guys she can't fight," the little gem shouted sheepishly "I mean look," motioning to the stumbling giant behind her "She can barely move" out of nowhere, jasper smashed to her hands and knees sending a cloud of sand bellowing up behind perri, which caused her to fall as well. She looked behind her and something inside her felt like it shattered at the sight of the brute's wild white mane covering her defeated form. She could fill the disgrace radiating off the warrior. "jasper" she whispered.

"this is our chance to bubble her!" shouted amethyst, peridot stood up blocking jasper as the purple gem brought out her whip, garnet was trying to reach the gem to stop what she was about to do but it was already too late. Anxiety drowned periodot as she witnessed the oncoming whip, she closed her eyes in fear. But the whip never landed.

"Steven!" pearl screamed. Hope flickered inside as she opened her eyes to see Stevens pink shilled protecting her and jasper.

"Why are you guys doing this!" he shouted "She's hurt, can't you see that!" the gems doubled back looking ashamed of themselves.

"Stevens right" stated garnet "She is hurt and it looks like it is serious." She said pushing her glasses up the bridge of her nose.

"But she tried killing us first!" amethyst protested.

"It's not what rose would have wanted" replied the fusion. Amethyst huffed as she kicked the sand and walked away from the seen.

"Well what do you suppose we do with her?" questioned pearl

"She can be confined in the bathroom with me!" perri blurted out, she could fill her face heating up as the gems and seven turned to face her. She didn't realis she was leaning against Jaspers fallen form until it poofed out from under her. Hitting the ground, she panicked jerking around franticly looking for jaspers gem.

"what happened!?" Steven said shocked as he watched perriodot gently scoop up jaspers broken gem and hold it to her chest as if it was her last friend on earth.

"It seems she was so hurt, the last hope she had was to retreat back in her gem and attempt to regenerate and heal herself" garnet said squatting down to look at jaspers gem.

"When will she come back?" Steven questioned. Pearl walked up besides Steven and rested her hand on his shoulder.

"She's going to need some time Steven, she was really weak." She said.

"Actually" garnet said while attempting to pry apart perridots fingers so she could get a better look at the fallen warrior. "with a crack this deep she may not be able to regenerate." Fear jumped in peri at those words. "she has to come back," the home world gem thought. "She can't leave me with these clods"

"Oh oh! I can fix that!" Steven said excited, just as he started to lick his hands and reach for jasper, garnet stopped him.

"No Steven, we don't know exactly what needs done right now, Jasper is a very powerful gem warrior we can't risk her hurting us again."

"But Garnet- "

"No buts Steven, for now well send her to the bubble room until we can decide what needs to be done with her"

"Aaahh! No, you can't, I just got her back!" shouted perridot jerking away from Garnet.

"Perridot we must, no hand over Jasper" perridot was starting to panic now, all eyes were on her she quickly glanced at the gems and then the beach. After a brief standoff with her gem full of panic she ran the opposite direction of the gems down the beach.

"I knew I should have just grabbed instead of giving her a chance to hand it over" said Garnet as she fazed on her gantlets and started chasing after the little green gem.

Looking back over her shoulder peri saw Garnet and Pearl in hot pursuit "Oh great Dimond what have I done!" she said trying to run faster. All the sudden a purple and black blur flew out in front of perridot and the next thing she knew she was face first in the sand. Quickly trying to get back up she relised she had dropped jasper.

"Oh NO!" she panicked

"Oh yes!" she knew that voice looking up from her frenzy she saw amethyst with Jasper in hand. Anger burned inside her. "Give her back!" she shouted.

"No can do." Laughed amethyst. Before perridot could get up and attempt to save jasper Pearl pended her down with two of her shears. And then garnet walked up and bubbled Jasper.

"Good job amethyst."

"No problem" smiled the shorter gem. Pearl moved off perridot but she felt to shattered to get up, she didn't move.

"Aaaww come on Peri, she's not gone just put up, for now" amethyst said while trying to get perridot to stand up.

"Don't touch me, you clod!" she snapped back in response to the gems attempt in reinsurance. Just then, Steven showed up panting heavily.

"Man, you guys sure can run" he sputtered out, holding his side with one hand. Perridot rose to her feet, and started walking back to the temple. She felt so defeated she couldn't believe she had just let that happen. Steven started after perridot and amethyst tried following but was stopped by Garnet.

"She's had enough of us for one day, leave her be"