Spinel's arrow was ready now, and she had been steadying her aim for the past minute or so. Her rubble was maybe about 50 feet from the action, not a terribly unreasonable length to make an accurate shot from. She let her arrow fly at the spiderbot trying to kidnap Amber's gem. The shot was powerful enough that the recoil caused her to almost fall over, and it destroyed her pile. She really hoped that her shot met its mark, because she was now visible and a sitting duck.

Slowy, Sodalite set her weapons down and settled for just a sword for the time. There was no time to figure out how to pull out a weapon from the gem on her hand, and she had to fight sooner or later. She dashed forwards, hoping to attack the drone that held one of the gems, specifically the one that belonged to the orange fellow from earlier. She wanted to get at least a few hits in. The sword seemed simple enough, just swing and stab, she assumed. And proceeded to attempt just that.

As the drone that had captured Amber had just taken to the air, a bolt of energy struck it ripping of 3 of it's legs, including the one holding Amber's gem.

"God Dammit, just retreat you useless piles of scrap metal." Bloodstone hit a button ordering them to retreat. "Note to self, order the good drones this time."

The other drone was lashing out when the retreat came in, and both flew back into the sky getting just out of reach of Sodalite before she got close, finally leaving the gems alone.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK!!! Whoever these gems are will face an unending agony of which that are not yet accustomed to. I will end them."

Aquamarine was in a panic as Amber was shocked, forced to retreat into his gem do to the sudden damage and only to be grabbed up by the robotic spider. There was no way that her harpoon would reach it at that height even if she threw it as hard as she could. She quickly moved to chase after it, hoping to find a way down the road to stop it or maybe sneak into where ever the bot might be taking the gem. Suddenly, a arrow like energy bolt zipped through the sky, striking three of its legs and making them rip off and Amber's gem started to free fall along with the legs. She picked up speed, jumping and harshly skidding across the ground as she caught Amber's gem, curling around it protectively until she slid to a stop. She carefully uncurled, checking the gem over nervously for any cracks and relieved that it was fine. "Thank goodness, your alright."

Meanwhile, Emerald is a statue.

Inside his head:

Did it work? What happened? I can't see.......Maybe if..

Cracks started forming around the statue's face, and a few pieces fell off, and the eyes started shining again. Most of the face was revealed, and Emerald felt tired. Really tired. Maybe he would wait a bit before fully turning back. He glanced around, trying to piece together what happened. "What happened? Did we win? And could someone put me where I can see?" Emerald then promptly fell asleep.

It was then that the tiny gem finally did something, (even if it was with hesitation). Having seen what had happened to the now not-so-giant gem, and then, even worse seeing the robot that was carrying him away without any means of protecting himself, and worst of all, his gem plummeting towards the ground, Evenkite could bear not to stand back much longer.

He's going to shatter. Crap crap crap. He's going to shatter.

With a dash of abandon, she took after the falling gemstone, only to have the blue one catch it before she could. Which was good for him. But not for her. Because now she was out in the open.

Bad. Very bad.

Had they seen her? No time to think about that. Maybe if she left quickly enough, they wouldn't notice her...

And with that, she set of, as quickly and quietly as before, towards the crevice. Now it was just a matter of being seen or not.

Of course she was worried for the falling gem, but a quick glance at the other blue gem told her that her assistance was not currently needed. Instead, she walked back to her pile of weapons and proceeded to pick them back up, clanking and ringing obviously following. Upon picking them up, she looked at the strange group once again, still refusing to say anything. Hopefully the loud orange one would be alright. Sodalite didn't fully understand retreating to the gem and regenerating, but she had some sort of idea that he would be fine.

Meanwhile, the snoring began again. (Muahaha)

Aquamarine looked up from her spot on the ground, noticing another gem standing near her looking awkward. She tilted her head slightly to the side as she tucked her long darker blue hair behind her ear before glancing down at the gem resting in her hands and back to the other standing there before it seemed to click. This gem had been worried about the other and had been about to do what she had done and a gentle smile tugged at her lips. She carefully stood up, watching her movements as she held the orange gem and looked over to the green gem with a worried expression until his voice rang out only to stop suddenly which she guessed was exhaustion. She turned to the gem near her and asked softly, "Would you please hold him carefully for me until he reforms? I need to use both hands to get the other gem in a standing position so he can see."

Spinel scarmbled to her feet and ran toward the other gems, and approached the blue harpoon-wielding one who seemed to be in some position of authority. "As I was saying, I, the spirit of this canyon, would very much appreciate it if you and your... friends? would leave as soon as you can. As you can see, I have freed your giant orange thing as a sign of goodwill."

Johnny had been watching everything from his spot and honestly, it was awesome. He had never seen Gems in action before, only heard the stories from the people at Beach City, and the whole thing just kind of floored him. Without thinking he stepped out from his hiding spot and just soaked in the sight of all the mayhem, the fighting was over and everything was calming down. "I just had the best idea for an album cover." he thought to himself as his mind caught up with his excitement. "That. was TOTALLY WICKED!" he shouted as he began to gush over all the action he just saw. "Oh man, when the big guy threw that rock and it went 'BANG' or when he got zapped by that big ass spider bot an-and that lazer bolt! Woah and when the blue lady zipped through the air and caught the gem and....YOU GUYS MUST BE CRYSTAL GEMS! OH MAN THIS IS SOO COOL!!! and on he gushed as he excitedly recalled all the events that just occurred.

"Zzz-snork! Ugh......what is that loud noise?" Emerald awoke, staring lazily at the weird....pinkish....thing. The one that was somehow louder than Amber. It looked odd, it didn't have a gem, and it was boringly colored and clothed. "What kind of creature are you?" Asked Emerald, the glowing green beams pointing right at the creatures eyes. "You look so.....odd." And what is this CRYSTAL Gem? I thought we were just called Gems, at least by the blue lady.

Aquamarine gently place the orange gem in Evenkite's hands, smiling gently before being slight startled at another gem approaching her. She listened to what the other had to say only to giggle lightly before turning into a soft laugh and smiling at the new young gem before her that was talking of spirits. "What an interesting gem you are." she smiled to Spinel before continuing her tone turning a little more serious, "You need to leave this place. More robots will be back and I promise you that the spiders won't be as easy next time. I don't want anymore gems to be destroyed."
That having been said, she moved herself over to the green gem and carefully started to try to lift his heavy body up now that it was stone. She almost dropped Emerald as loud voice popped up and she forced the gem all the way in a standing position before turning to see a human. "A human? What is a human doing in a Kindergarten?" she stated, more to herself than anyone else.
She turned her attention away from the human for a second and Emerald now that he was upright before focusing on Evenkite."His gem is unharmed so he will be just fine. This is how he will be able to rest and heal from the damage. Once he has healed, he will reform his body and be as before, maybe a little different if he chooses."

Stopping mid-step, Evenkite turned around to face the blue gem, quite uneasy at her reaction. She's not angry? That had to be good, right? Either way, so much for leaving quietly.

"U-Um, yes. Yes ma'am. I'll do that." She reached her hands out, as before, and took the gemstone, having to reach quite a bit in order to do so. Suddenly feeling rather protective, Evenkite cradled the gemstone in one, drawing it close to her, and placed the other atop it. After what she saw, she didn't want anything to bad to happen to this gem. Any bitterness towards the gemstone earlier had left her after the flood of relief that he was okay, and she wanted to keep it that way. Even the noise coming from the -...what even is that thing? It certainly isn't a gem- wasn't bothering her now. She was too relieved to really pay attention to take his words in, never mind bother to question him.

The compliment took Evenkite a little off guard, and a yellow-green shade began to tint her cheeks. "...You mean I'm puny, don't you?" It wasn't hostile as before, just questioning. And perhaps a little embarrassed. Maybe just slightly insulted. But not hostile. She let out an awkward chuckle and continued to listen to Aqua, nodding. She stayed in the Kindergarten because it was safe, but with those spider robots...

"A-Anyways...He's...He's going to be fine, correct? I mean...What I mean is, he's not going to stay like this forever, will he?"
She vaguely remembered the words of an older green gemstone a while back, when she was a newborn herself, saying something about the gemstone being essential to life, but she didn't remember her saying anything about being able to grow back from the gemstone.

"And leave? How can you be so certain that they will return? After that beating, I don't think anyone would want to try their luck here again. Besides, even if they do come back, why should I leave? I'm tiny. I can hide in places they can never reach. "

Like I did just now while the orange guy nearly died.
"So what's my reason to go? Who are you, anyways? You might've helped us, and I'm sure we all appreciate your help, ma'am, but we don't know anything about you to just simply believe you, take no offense."

Okay, so Evenkite had some trust issues. Great.

Emerald glanced sleepily towards the tiny Gem holding Amber's gemstone. He then smiled slightly and began talking in a sleepy, drawn out way. "Don't be silly. He'll be back. You've seen how he is, and besides, if we couldn't come out of our gems, why would we go in? Just like me and my statue." As he said this, a bit of the rock cracked off, revealing his neck and the rest of his head. "Now I can go back to sleeping without a stiff neck." He then began to doze off again.

Spinel put a hand on her chin. Between what Aqua said and the shouting of the human who recently arrived, she realized that she had been seriously mistaken. I mean, of course she knew she wasn't really a spirit, but this gem business was news to her. I'm a gem? And a crystal gem, at that? She wasn't sure how she felt about this, but she knew she preferred the silence and tranquility she knew for the first few minutes of her existence to... whatever you call what had just happened.

"We should plan an actual strategy." she said apropos of very little, to nobody in particular. "I'm assuming we're being hunted by someone or something, is that right?" she addressed Aqua this time. "If we can't mobilize and get our of here immediately, we may need to improvise in some way."

Zircon wanted to run after the drones but they apparently retreated. She still wound up running three steps out of instinct before stopping and just looking the direction the bots took off in. Zircon sighs before looking back to the group. Zircon also wanted to run towards the orange one's gem when it was falling, but she was too far away from it to even make it. So it's a good thing the blue one was able to retrieve it safely. She walked up to the other gems where they're gathering up. She watched some words be exchanged before saying, "Soo...what were--" she was cut off as she suddenly got startled when some voice went blurting out. It made her jump before she looked towards him as he was saying whatever. She soon turned back to the other gems and then she looked to the tiny one, "Weeeeell...why do you think she helped in the first place? I mean...yea we don't know her but she has her reasons for helping us. Meaning she probably has a reason for being on our side too. I assume at least.." Zircon took the blue gem's side quite quickly, even though she wasn't really trying to go against anyone intentionally. Theoretically thinking, it only made sense to her.

"And that's exactly why you should question her. Yes, she did help us, and again, I appreciate that. Who knows what would have happened if she hadn't." She stayed silent for a few moments, as if she had registered the thought not before she spoke it, but after, and needed some time for it to sink in.

"But at the same time, we don't know her. For all we know -and again, no offense, ma'am- she might've staged the whole thing to gain our trust. After all, we never had trouble with these robots until she showed up, and she's the only one here who seems to know about them. So that alone is enough for me to doubt her, but to ask us to leave is downright sketchy, if you were to ask me. So until she backs herself up, I'm inclined to not believe her. But if you insist on hanging onto her every word, then please, do as you will. But do not expect me to follow suit." The hand covering the orange gemstone curled its fingers around it, clutching it tightly and she brought it closer to her chest and turned herself away slightly.

"She's right." Sodalite finally spoke up. It could all be a ruse to join some evil faction. Once again, she set her weapons down and looked at the blue gem-being. She inspected her and took into account everything that she had just seen. It was highly unlikely that she would be fighting for some evil cause, especially with everything she had witnessed, and assumed the best.

Sodalite took a step back and nodded, getting down on a knee with in front of her. "I'll trust you." It was the least she could do for the one who had just saved her and a number of others. Her eyes glanced back to her weapons, making sure every one was in it's place where she left them. "I'm taking them with me... And the others.."

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