The whole family was in the living room watching a movie called Lonely Blade. The gems and Greg all had their own chairs, and the kids were strewn on a rather large sofa. Just then, the big reveal in the movie happened, the janitor was the big villain and Lonely Blade did his signature move, The Boomerang Blade. Steven and Robbie were enraptured. Page loved the visual effects, but kept mumbling that they wouldn't fight lie that with real swords, which Spinel and Bismuth agreed. The kids, as soon as Spinel and Bismuth said they could fight with swords, wanted to see and learn too. Greg had only two rules, he wasn't coming, and the kids couldn't actually use the swords, demonstration only. With everyone in agreement, the group warped off to the Cloud Arena.

Once there the kids took their seats in the stands, with Amethyst in the middle. Bismuth and Spinel stood on the area floor. Bismuth clarified that Spinel had to stay rigid to properly show forms, no stretching or noodling. Spinel handed Bismuth a broadsword, and clarified herself, no shapehifting. Page was interested to see what style they'd use, since she was familiar with kendo, but would also look up other styles in her free time. Steven and Robbie just wanted to see some fighting, and Sophie was just there for the fun of it. She did warn Spinel to keep her focus on Bismuth. The two of them stood ready, Spinel starting with a traditional fencing pose, a rapier, not foil, in hand. Bismuth on the other hand, stood with her sword across her body, and had her arm up as if holding a shield, if fact she was almost tempted to ask Steven for one. They looked like a Viking soldier fighting a French noble. Amethyst shouted for them to start and they started to clash.

Steel met steel, and the sounds reverberated off the walls. The gems went all out in their fight with one another until Spinel had Bismuth pinned to the ground, Bis complaining that she couldn't find an opening. The boys whooped in joy momentarily distracting Spinel, giving the smith an opportunity to continue the fight. When Spinel landed on the ground, her sword on the other side of the room, she called the duel. Bis helped her up, retrieved the rapier, and asked the kids what they learned. The boys said something about distracting your opponent, which was true, but not the point. The girls had valid observations about forms, mostly that they should have both had a second sword or a shield since both had one handed swords. The gems asked Page if her mother had left any training holos for swordsmanship, which there was. Page projected the holo of her mother and activated the built in training mode. The holo picked Spinel as it's opponent which worked out well for style purposes. Spinel kept pointing out her stance and footwork, which bored the boys but engaged Page and her sister. The repetitive move calls of the hologram ended up boring Amethyst as well, who decided to make a bit of a scene by eating a passing cloud. Spinel got distracted by this, and grabbed the leg of her, now floating, friend, handing her off to Bismuth. Sensing the distraction, and before Sophie could warn anyone, the hologram shouted a thrust, and the hologram's rapier went through Spinel's stomach, just below her gem. "Oh shale! Spinel!" Bismuth shouted, as she ran towards the injured gem, passing the puffy purple person to Page. She made it to her friend's side just in time to catch the rosy gem before it hit the ground, as Spinel poofed. The hologram dissipated immediately after, Page in too much shock to maintain it.

The group sadly warped home, and after comforting the boys, who momentarily forgot this could happen, the kids morosely wandered into their rooms. Bismuth took a rope and tied Amethyst to some junk in the gem's room, then took Spinel into the living room. She tried to soothingly talk to her, this was the first time Spinel had been poofed by injury. She reminded her to take her time, make sure everything was better before reforming. Maybe when she got back, they finish the movie, or even watch the new anime Page found, a reboot of the Solar Scout series. "You remember that series right? Greg showed it to us shortly after you got here. How you loved Luna, and Martia, and we'd watch it every night after sparring. This new one is like a new generation of scouts. kinda like the kids are the new generation of Crystal Gems. You gotta come back, Spin, the kids, especially the boys, are miserable with you gone." When there was no reaction, Bismuth decided to go into her own room for the night.

A week passed by with Spinel still in her gem, the boys slumped in their seats every morning, while Page and Sophie kept themselves composed, for the most part. That Sunday, the family had breakfast together, though nobody ate as much as normal, even Amethyst, who finally deflated after her incident. They had placed Spinel at her normal spot at the table, even placing a plate in front of her chair. This was Sophie's idea, and she wouldn't explain why, but she sat next to the dim gem and talked with Spinel as if she were already formed. Sure enough, just as the young girl was getting to the point of her morning prophecy, the gem lit up with a pinkish glow, and floated off the padded seat. A faint outline formed around the gem, the pulsed a bit, before flashing and landing Spinel, reformed, in her seat, like she had never left. Bismuth was the first to talk. "So I guess we're watching the reboot, you must've heard me in there." Spinel gave a questioning look, then looked down at her outfit, and giggled.

"Must have, if you had mentioned "Solar Scouts". I felt a little out of date before, this is a lot more comfortable" Her new outfit consisted of a pink sailor-like outfit, with a large bow that looked like it sprouted from behind her gem. her hair had formed into long pigtails that, laying flat behind her head. almost formed a heart. She had two pink star hair pins in front of the tails, which were tied up in orange-pink scrunchies. She had on dark pink elbow length gloves and knee high boots. Even her eyes matched the anime's style, shiny pink, and large pupils that looked to sparkle in the light. Page thought it was a nice upgrade from the old cartoon style her eyes used to be.

"As I was about to say before this happened," Sophie interjected "Spinel's coming back today, but well, ta-da" she gestured to the fact it's not a prophecy anymore "and there's a few gem monsters we have to go collect at an Empire City circus, looks like they caught a couple rubies, thought they were little animals or something. I looked a couple times, and if we don't go in the next few days, the fire those three will create will take out the entire borough." The gems contemplated the news, and decided to head out after the day's sparring session.