Blood had been lounging around after Aqua left. He didn't have much to say to the young gems and decided to wait for Aqua to return. It had been awhile so he decided to wander through the woods and clear his head. Then there was a sudden explosion, it clearly came from the Kindergarten. Bloodstone was near the warp pad and decided to warp to the Kindergarten.

"Woah!" Blood exclaimed, not from the destruction but from the fact that a chunk of the portal was wrecked under one of his feet which caused him to fall. As he picked himself up, Bloodstone noticed the horrid disaster zone the Kindergarten had become. "What happened here?" He looked around and couldn't see much beyond a crater and a huge dust cloud

Crying, there was crying coming from nearby. Perhaps a human was injured, he smiled at that thought and then frowned, or maybe a newborn gem. Bloodstone quickly ran towards the sound, hoping that nobody special was hurt. What he found was worse then anything he could have imagined. In the middle of the crater was Aqua holding the cracked gem of Mars inside of a healing snow ball. Blood walked up behind her and put his hand on her shoulder. "Hey, is he going to be okay?" Blood asked, sitting down before her and wrapping his arm around her, "Are you going to be okay?"

Considering that nothing was happening between Bloodstone and the other gems, Candice figured that it was best if she took her leave, and she could listen to the rest of the conversation through the bug she placed in the temple. She got off of the wall and walked out of the temple and started down the trail. However, before she ran into Aquamarine, an earthquake shook the ground. However, Candice knew better that this kind of shake wasn't just a normal earthquake...something exploded. She widened her eyes as her phone rang. She fished her phone out and answered, "Ghoste, here,"

"Agent, what is going on down there?! What the hell happened?! Did an atomic bomb go off there?!"

"Quite frankly, Sir, if it was an atomic bomb, I wouldn't be talking to you now. I'm going to investigate. Where-"

"What were you doing Agent? Getting a martini?"

"I was gathering intel. They didn't seem to be suspicious of me or my presence at all. Now, where was the explosion?!"

"...It was at the Canyon, Agent. Now get going!"

"Yes, Sir! I'll report to you later!" Candice quickly hung up after she answered, and she realized something horrible.

The Kindergarten...
Mars was there!!! Was he alright? Was he...the source of the explosion.

Before she realized it, the path underneath her had become a path of ice, and before she stepped to sprint, she started slipping and she desperately tried to steady herself as she shouted "What the-?! WOAH!" She slipped and she slid down the path shouting until she reached the end of the slippery path. Once she had stopped sliding, she quickly jumped up and ran off towards the town and towards the Kindergarten, ignoring the red woman who stood there with a fan in front of her face.

Candice ran, now glad that she had gone through the rough training. She ran a fast pace of eight minutes per mile. Sure she wasn't as fast as one of the Gems, but she was certainly much more fit and faster than the average human. Before she even knew it, she reached the Kindergarten, and she soon found the crater that wasn't there before. She walked cautiously, panting heavily, up to the edge of the crater and looked to see Aquamarine and BloodStone there. BloodStone was embracing a crying Aquamarine. She also noticed the snowball in Aquamarine's hands, and noticed that Mars didn't seem to be anywhere near here. What had happened...? Where was Mars...? The words didn't escape her mouth, as she had a feeling of dread as an idea of where he may be came to her mind.

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Carnelian was startled by the sudden explosion. She looked towards the direction of the explosion and she noticed that it was coming from where she came from. She looked back to Aquamarine as the blue gem bubbled Emerald, and created an icy path for her to follow. She watched Aquamarine run towards the explosion in concern. For a moment, Carnelian stood silently debating with herself as to whether or not she should follow Aquamarine or just go to the temple and get her answers. She wanted to see if she could help, because it seemed as though something horrible happened back in that canyon.

She heard a shout and looked to see a human girl, a frumpy one at that, slide down the icy path before standing up and running off with a sort of fire in her eyes. Carnelian followed the human and reached the canyon, watching the scene unfold from behind her the fan, her face showing concern for the gems in front of her.

While everything was happening, reggie had decided that now was the time to put operation 'Snag some Grub' into action. Seeing Chromite take Eve off to the Temple, he couldn't help but feel a twinge of worry at letting Eve out of his sight, but now wasn't the time to worry about that. Walking off from the area long before Carnelian had shown up, he made his way to a small Grocery store some distance away from the general fuss. Seeing that it only had a few people inside, and their was nobody else inside, he reached into his pocket to pull out a small green crystal with a button on the top. It was a Gem stun grenade, and would knockout everyone inside, and hopefully all the security cameras, with a strong electrical pulse that will overload the nervous system.

He'd found the thing on the ship a few days in, and had inadvertently tested it out on himself one day. Damn thing sent him into la-la land for a good hour before he woke up, scaring the hell out of Eve for sure. Their had yet to be any side effects from it's use, so the only thing he had to worry about was living with the guilt of what he was about to do. Thing was, he needed some food and this was the safest way for everyone involved to go about. He wasn't desperate enough to actually mug somebody for money, and he'd never be able to face Eve if he pulled a stunt like that. He was still unsure if he'd be able to do it after this, to be honest.

Either way, he pressed the button, tossed it in, then quickly took cover behind a nearby car. All he heard was someone cry out in shock before a loud crack could be heard. he waited a few seconds before walking in, breathing a sigh as he saw everyone passed out on the ground. Wasting little time, he grabbed as much as he could, mostly healthy foods that he could make last him a few more months up in the ship along with the nutrient supplements he'd been subsisting off for the previous month. As he did so, putting it all into a bag, he checked everyone's pulse, making sure that they were ll genuinely okay before making his way out of the store, grabbing the stun grenade as he left. Luckily for him, it seemed to be reusable.

As he left the area, however, he felt the ground shake underneath him in a scary rumble.

An Earhtquake? But this is the East coast, we don't get earthquakes?

Whatever it was, the rumbling stopped as soon as it began, and as curious as it was, he ignored it for now, heading into the woods to store his stolen goods in a nearby tree that resided not that far away from the forest warp pad. As he did so, he noticed Blood warp off as well, probably going off to investigate whatever made that sound. Shrugging again, he made sure that everything was properly hidden before making his way towards the temple, feeling confused as he saw a streak of ice lead all the way there.

What the hell?

Strange as it was, he didn't stop moving until he finally made it to the temple, breathing ragged as he had run all the way their and he was not the fittest of individuals, mostly due to a poor diet than anything else. He didn't say anything as he walked in, just gave a groan as he collapsed onto the floor, feeling exhausted as the weight of both his body and guilt weighed down heavily on him.

This is going to bite me in the ass someday, I just know it.

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Aquamarine lightly flinched at a hand being placed on her shoulder, not having heard anyone approaching nor had she truly wanted anyone too so it came as a surprise to her. She should have known better,with an explosion like that of course someone would have come to investigate but she had truly just wanted to be alone and to be weak even just for a moment to let out her grief from past and present. The young gems had distracted her from the pain of the past but Howlite had dragged it all back and Mars hadn't helped with her feelings of that day either. She hadn't planned to look at the other person with her but when she heard his voice, she couldn't help but feel a jump of happiness even if he was once again asking about someone else in concern and not herself.

Aqua slowly turned, tears still gathering and this time she didn't care if Blood saw her this way. She wanted to answer his question but she wasn't sure she could find her voice at the moment to do so even if she tried and this time it had nothing to do with her upset but everything to do with him. Blood was sitting before her in the dirt and what more, she could feel his arm around her. If she had a normal human body, her heart would have started to race and even worse she felt like she was home after being away for far too long being close to him like this, having him be concerned for her. Aquamarine couldn't help but give in a bit to the feelings she once had, the ones she had tried to bury and be rid of. The ones that got harmed by betrayal and heartbreak but still wouldn't leave.

She still didn't speak, instead she slowly wrapped her free arm around him, fingers clinging to his clothes like a life line as snuggled closer to Blood and rested her forehead in his shoulder. Aquamarine sat for a second before nodding gently and finally speaking in a soft whisper,"We will both be alright with time..."She hesitated, thinking of wither to speak again but decided that just for now that she would try and so she whispered once more, "Just for this moment...Can we just be you and me? Not enemies..."

Blood didn't know what to expect but Aqua clinging to him and snuggling up to him was far from what he had thought of. There was a bit of silence as she just sat there leaning on him. The silence was comforting and Blood almost forgot there was even a world around the two of them.

"We will both be alright with time..."

The voice had caught him off guard, Blood had completely forgotten speech was even a thing. "That's good to hear, I'm glad that yo..."

"Just for this moment...Can we just be you and me? Not enemies..."

This was an odd question, were the two of them not the same people anymore. Bloodstone was pretty sure he was still Bloodstone. Sure they had become enemies but they were still themselves. "I've been offering to stop fighting for more than just this moment. But sure, whatever you want. But what exactly do you mean by us being just you and me?"

Amber found it more than a little difficult to keep track of everything that was going on in his current cloudy state of mind and lets face it the poor oaf would of had a hard time keeping up even if he had a clear head. People, both human and Gems, were storming in and out of the room with their emotions running more than a little high and that, though Amber would never admit it, gave the orange Gem a odd sense of comfort, he was relieved to see that he wasn't the only one having a hard time coming to terms with the current situation. Through all of the shuffling and hustling Amber was able to pick up one small voice be directed at him, how he was able to pull himself away from his current thoughts and worries to hear it would be anyone's guess. Looking down the massive Gem spotted Zircon staring up at him with a inquisitive expression sitting on her face. Amber bit his tongue at first, with all the stuff that was going on right now would it be a smart move to say what had happen in the Kindergarten. Who would of thought that Amber would be the one to actually think through any of his actions, these were dark days indeed. The curly haired Gem finally let out a deep sigh before he finally gave in. The few people left in the room so far seemed to be of a thrust worthy sort, well most of them anyways, so Amber didn't see too much harm and telling what had happened. He slowly moved his hand back into his pocket and gingerly pulled out Melanite's gem. "S-She got hurt real bad lass... and and she just poofed... I couldn't get to her in time..." Amber explained in a voice much to small and soft for of anyone, human or otherwise, his size should use. He slowly ran his thumb over the gemstone in his palm. "I-I don't think she's broke... _{I hope she's not broke."}

Everything was going to hell in a hand basket and nothing felt right. Being the least important person in the room actually worked out in Johnny's favor as he slipped out of the crowding room, finding a high ledge to sit on away from the oppressive air. While it didn't stop the negative energies from following him the open air helped ease Johnny's frayed nerves, the swaying of his legs over empty air stitching him together somewhat. He'd never seen Aqua like that before, so vulnerable. She was always so composed, so strong and sure. "I guess even the strongest castles eventually." he thought to himself, idling pulling out a box of smokes from his jacket and lighting it. A deep drag released a thick cloud of sickly sweet smoke, swirling in the air before fading away completely.

The sun was just beginning to bleed into the sky, soon the sun would be in full set and color would fill the sky. He thought he would wait and watch it, Autumn always had the best sunsets and he doubted that this one would be an exception. And so it went, history getting put on repeat as demons got lost in a cloud of smoke.

How many days has it been since his formation? How much time has elapsed since he first gained consciousness? What does the world outside of his gem appear to be? Many would question this to themselves as they wait in the darkness, the soul crushing loneliness or soul tearing curiosity would eventually make all come out of their shells, or gemstones for this instance. Though, Soapstone was not many as he disregarded those questions with an almost scorn-like behavior. He liked the way things were set up for him.

He liked this loneliness, this isolation, the solitary confinement that he had created for himself. The crippling cold of isolation warming up the spirit of the gem. Everything was perfect, no one shall ever know of his mistakes, the countless errors that Soapstone had already accomplished without even leaving his gem. Misguided calculations doomed him from the very beginning, since the day he was formed was the day that he had already lost to the unfair universe. Though, no one shall know of his failures, the constant feeling of worthlessness that everyone around would gather from him. He smiled, isolation shall protect him from his own misgivings.

~Rumble~

Eh? This was something new, Soapstone had never felt his surroundings shake around him. What was going on? The gem shook his head violently, this kind of curiosity shall be the death of him if not controlled, it was not his problem to worry about quakes.

Crack. Huh? What was that? Another foreign noise was starting to make Soapstone anxious, what was happening to his surroundings? What was happening to his paradise? A series of snaps and cracks continued, the rock formation surrounding the gemstone was crumbling due to a certain explosion, the face of a cliff losing stability. Soapstone rubbed his hands as the cracking continued, was he being dug up? Did someone finally find him hidden in the ground? The rocks gave away, this resulted inside of a minor rock slide as an unstable cliff feel apart due to the massive explosion shifting the formation of the rocks. This was new to Soapstone as he felt his surroundings give away.

Soapstone panicked, another feeling that he hasn't experienced in quite some time. The gemstone had no idea what was happening outside, he could be being picked up by something, or falling into the ocean! This was bad, very bad. He didn't know what to do, accept his fate and hope for the best, or try to change it? The thought struck Soapstone quite hard, change... He forgot the last time he had the desire to change something in his life. The gemstone breathed deeply, the panicking from his system ebbing away from his thoughts. Everything seemed to be heading towards one direction, accept your fate, do not change anything even if it would mean death. Soapstone closed his eyes, this was reasonable for his beliefs that he had been basing his life upon. However, something inside of his gem was saying something, it was getting louder and louder and it sounded almost as if it was saying, LIVE! Soapstone opened his eyes.

Outside of the gemstone, it was falling to its doom. The placement had been almost at the very top of the chasm, the cliff had gave away and now the weak material would be hitting the rubble shortly if nothing was to be done. However, halfway towards the rough ground, Soapstone started to glow inside of a dark green sheen. White light, tinted green, started to come out of the Soapstone. The head seemed to form first, the construct allowing the gem to rest safely upon the tip of the skull. A body quickly formed next, arms and legs coming right after. The base of the construct had been created, and soon the details started to become more apparent. Coils of light wrapped around the body, entombing the gem inside of a covering of something. The body would soon be enveloped by something else, a large trench coat seemed to cover the already wrapped body, adding even more secrecy. Goggles snapped upon the face, and lastly the final construct resembling a hat covering the gem. It shined even brighter before the figure popped into a solid form.

Soapstone hit the ground, his feet slamming into ground as large stones pattered upon his headgear, the pebbles falling onto the ground soon after. The gem opened his eyes, he squinted as light seemed to shine upon his face, this was new. He reached for his goggles, adjusting them to fit his face in a more comfortable position as his eyes seemed to adjust to the brightness. Soapstone blinked a few more times, this was going to be something he needed to get used to with his physical form. As his eyes started to do their job, Soapstone noted a few things as he looked around the place. It was completely demolished, a large crater seemed to be the main attraction, and there were living things in his sight... Shit.

Candice noticed something from the corner of her eye and she turned to see a bright light shining from a piece of rock as it fell from one of the cliffs. She watched as a figure took form and she realized that it was a gem, just like Mars. Except...this gem seemed to have taken the form of H.G. Wells' very own Invisible Man. Oh Yeah...that would definitely not make her father's Xenophobia even worse: An Alien that took on the form of a classic Horror movie monster. As she thought that her hand had raised upwards with the palm open and facing the sky before she face palmed herself with a quiet sigh. She looked back at the gem to see that it had spotted her and...the same red woman from before...?

Carnelian had watched Aquamarine and Bloodstone, realizing that the both of them had some sort of...special connection, and it was a beautiful sight. She simply had to figure out a way to make sure that that connection came to full fruition. She snapped out of those thoughts when she saw that the human girl had looked in a different direction, and she followed the girl's gaze to see that there was another gem nearby. She had thought that the appearance was quite ghastly and that he desperately needed help with his appearance. But she shoved that thought aside and she waved to the gem calling "Hello!"

Candice gave Carnelian a skeptical look as the gem waved and called to the gem. She can only hope that this gem wasn't hostile. And she needed to find Mars...if he wasn't in the crater as she suspects.

Aquamarine leaned back slightly, wanting to look at his reaction when she answered even if what she was doing was crazy but instead of going through with her plan, she stilled as if frozen. She had thought it was just the two of them in the kindergarten but the voice calling out 'Hello' certainly made it clear that they were not. She stood up quickly, taking a few steps back with a deep blue blush now dusted across her cheeks at the mistake she almost made being caught up in a moment even she still didn't understand. She turned to look in the direction of the voice, first noticing Candice which made her gently tuck Mars's gem closer to her as she wasn't looking forward to explaining what had happened to the woman's friend since she didn't even know what this human knew of gem kind. She didn't want to scare the other after all. Aqua followed the woman's gaze only stopping for a second on the waving red orange figure of Carnelian which she now guessed was the one that called out but to who she didn't understand. Her gaze continued to follow their path when she spotted another gem, one she had never met before and looking at their position on top of the rock slide and the hole just behind the green gem it was easy to assume that this was a newborn. Just thrusted out into the open world with probably not much warning or understanding on what had happened thanks to Mars's explosion.

Aquamarine carefully made her way out of the crater, moving herself closer to the new gem but not going up the rock pile since she had no plans of startling the new gem or trying to upset them. She didn't want to scare them or make them more confused than they may already be. "Are you alright? You aren't hurt are you? asked worriedly.

Soapstone's goggles glared in the sunlight, the creatures were staring back at him... Needed something to distract him from the beings, the gem started to look at his own clothes, trying to admire the way that his mind originally managed to make such a concealed outfit. Yes... This shall suffice. Soapstone, still looking down towards the floor avoiding to continue eye contact, he adjusted his goggles once again inside of the strange situation. The gem just had in mind to merely walk away, never meet these people in his life ever again, and most likely find some place to hide with no one to bother him. Yeah, that seems like a pretty solid plan. Soapstone inched away from the group of living beings, both gems and strange looking beast, though it seemed that regrettably one of the onlookers were curious about him. He froze only for a few moments, not even looking at the person who had greeted him, and continued to slowly climb down the rock pile, trying to get away from everyone. However, it didn't seem to last too long before yet another person rudely interrupted him.

Soapstone stopped once again, another gem tried to say something to him, but he could tell that this one had gotten closer in a purposeful manner. The gem tensed up, tiny clacking noises were heard beneath him, most likely more pebbles as he didn't move to figure out the noise. Soapstone moved his head to the side, his eyes glancing at the figure before looking away and continuing to step down the pile of rubble. As he turned his head, you could almost hear him scoff at Aquamarine, he truly did not wish to interact with anyone, finding a safer hole was his priory. However, as he looked down to his feet once again, there was something peculiar.

Soapstone bent down, picking up a sphere shaped object, the color scheme almost exactly as his own. When did these things get here? The gem soon remembered that when he had tensed up, the noise must have come from these things, but what were they? He turned to get several angles of the sphere, but it seemed completely ordinary, actually it was quite soft. The gem tried to apply pressure to the bead, and it burst into powder with little force... Strange. The gemstone continued to descend the haphazard pile of rocks, still trying to ignore the eyes that felt like were burning through his skin.

Bloodstone was awaiting an answer but Aqua had seemed to be stalling. Then there was a voice from behind them, Great, people were watching that. Blood looked behind them and saw one new gem pointing towards... another new gem. Well then, two more gems that I'll have no chance with. Because no matter what you do, majority rules and I'm one versus many. Blood stood up and took in the appearance of the new gems. One appeared to be wearing a kimono and seemed to have a fan for a weapon... or perhaps an accessory... while the other was fully cloaked and hidden behind a cloak, hat, goggles and bandages. But... wait... the cloaked gem seemed to want to avoid people, this was Blood's chance. He walked up to the cloaked newborn and looked him up and down, not saying a word at first. Blood then spoke up and made sure he had the gem's attention. "I see you're not very fond of interaction. What if I told you that I know of a place where the only two people that would ever bother you are me and my colleague, Chromite and even then I have a job to do and Chromite always sticks with me so we won't be around much? How does that sound?"

Aquamarine frowned, backing up a bit to give the new gem some room since the other had tensed up which his body responded by dropping what looked like pebbles or marbles. She didn't want to find out what they did plus the new gem seemed to be like Eve in the fact that probably preferred peace or even to be left alone. The kindergarten wasn't the best place to try to be alone in yet be in period but the chances of asking them to leave were probably slim. She wanted to offer that if the new gem should want to know anything where they could all be found but with Bloodstone stepping into speak to the newborn, that option might have just gone out the window. It was true that Eve had chosen Bloodstone so who was to say that the ship wouldn't be a better place for the young gem. She still believed as she did a month ago that the new gems had to choose their own fate even if she didn't particularly agree. She sighed softly, ignoring the newborn gem for a second to glance at Blood before speaking up, "You should at least introduce yourself before asking such a thing. You are a stranger in the eyes of this new gem after all."

She looked back up to the new gem and spoke,"This is Bloodstone by the way. I am not sure if you care but in case you do, Carnelian is the gem up there that greeted you in the first place and this is Mars...". She lifted up the gem that was still wrapped in her healing snowball,"He obviously isn't really here to speak for himself at the moment since he is in his gem and trying to heal. Down there is Candice, she isn't like you or me since she is a human but her kind is the dominant species on this planet. I'm Aquamarine and I promise to leave you be if that is what you want but it really isn't safe here. No one here will cause you any harm and should you need or want to speak with more gems and learn a bit more about yourself than there is a Temple that we all reside in. I just wanted to let you know in case you refuse Blood's offer though it would be better than this place where something might happen to you. The Temple is just up that way, on the cliff side, you can't really miss it."

That being said, she did what she promised and turned away from the gem to leave them be. If they went with Blood than it was their choice and they at least knew there were others. If not, than they knew they were welcome in more than one place and knew that the Kindergarten could be dangerous. It was the best she could do though if the newborn chose to just stay here than she would check up on them...she didn't want anyone else to die, not if she could stop it. Aquamarine jumped down into the crater, making sure to hold Mars secure with both hands as she landed and made her way to Candice. She took Candice's hand in her own, carefully placing the snowball in it before taking the woman's other hand so she was cupping Mars completely and securely."I don't know how much you understand about gems but Mars will be alright. The gem was cracked which is very dangerous for us but the snowball I made is working to heal that. He will be good as new when he is ready to reform his body again. You two seemed to be close so I didn't want you to worry longer than need be. Please, take care of him..." Aquamarine stated with a soft smile. Aqua didn't really want to let Mars go but if he trusted this human than so would she. That being done,she would at least wait to here the newborn's reply to Bloodstone and then she would lead Carnelian to the Temple since she had expressed a wish to go there and she wouldn't just leave Candice behind either.

Soapstone almost sighed in desperation, it was interaction after interaction! Listening to all of this talk was just getting tiring for the gem, he just needed to get away from these people and their insistent way of greeting new people. So, the gemstone tiredly watched as another stranger seemed to get even closer to him! The small marbles surrounding Soapstone seemed to almost melt against the rubble, dripping into the cracks of the rocks as it almost seemed to go towards nearby gemstones. Though, Soapstone was too busy staring to notice the development from under his feet.

He tried to back away, one foot moving backwards, climbing one step up the rock pile instead of going down. He still stared, disgust almost filling his eyes before the gem began to speak in a rather rapid succession with enthusiasm in his voice. It seemed that the person knew what was obvious, his distrust of anything else was apparent to everyone. However, the rest of this strangers speech did slightly interest him. Being alone was always something that he liked, though the catch was that he would have to live with two people, this enthusiastic gem and some other stranger named Chromite. Soapstone grimaced, he was only recently 'born' into the strange planet for only a few minutes and it seemed that he was already berated with questions of who he was supposed to live with! His mind was racing with decisions, what was he supposed to do with all these people talking to him!?

The voice behind him began to speak once again, his mind seeming to halt to listen closely to this new information. Names was something weird to him, he had only been listening to one name and that was his own... Soapstone actually sounded really weird to him due to how many times he had said it within his mind. The gemstone within Aquamarine's hands seemed to interest the other newborn gem with a sight of curiosity with the thought, "I wonder if I can do that to myself to get away from all these people." However, their seemed to be yet another important bit of information, the strange beings that didn't look like gems seemed to be called... Humans? That's a stupid name, but being the dominant species means that they had something powerful within them, wonder if they have any powers like themselves... Analysis of humans shall begin soon. The last of the words seemed to worry Soapstone, the world is not safe? What kind of ominous quote was that!? Was that supposed to make him feel better about this cruddy situation!? The fragile gem felt pretty tired at this point, the energy draining from his body from all of this new information hitting him like a train. What shall he do?

Soapstone's body began to loosen up, and as his body seemed to relax the material that was released from Soapstone reacted to his mindset. They became less defensive, ceasing to move their way over to nearby gems to attack and now moving over to the gemstone from where they had originated. The material seemed to latch onto the clothes of Soapstone, absorbing back into the gem as he continued to think about the situation at hand. One option, live alone with this Bloodstone and Chormite and hope that they will not bother him too much. Option two, live with this Aquamarine, the seemingly wiser one, but choose to most likely interact with more than two gems than just herself. Option three, ditch option both options and try to live by himself in this strange world... Decisions, decisions.

The gem looked at both Bloodstone and Aquamarine, he could tell that Bloodstone was an emotional type while this Aquamarine was the motherly type. He made his decision.

Soapstone turned his head over to Bloodstone, analyzing him once more before turning to go over to Aquamarine. The deal sounded nice, being left alone was always something that warmed his gem, but he needed answers that this gem obviously seemed to pertain. However, he wouldn't stay with them for long. All he needed was the knowledge of this world from this Aquamarine, and after he is done sucking out the knowledge from her mind than he shall be able to protect himself from the world that he has been living in for so long. When he managed to get down from the pile of rubble, his true height was shown to be an actual 4'6, he wasn't very tall. "Hurry up." He said in a monotone voice, feeling rather fresh now that the little marbles had been reabsorbed into his body.

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Carnelian and Candice watched Aquamarine and Bloodstone talk to the new gem, who seemed defensive and as though he wanted to get away from all of them, from the edge of the crater. Candice easily spotted the green substance that was coming from the new gem as a sort of defense mechanism. However, Candice was immediately caught off guard by the fact that Aquamarine knew her name. How did she know?! Was her cover blown?! Did one of the Alien Leaders know why she was there in Mohs Town to begin with?! If that was the case than that would mean that she would have to either leave immediately or....

She snapped out of her thoughts when she saw that Aquamarine had turned and walked towards her. Candice didn't move a muscle as the blue woman approached her, never daring to show any sign of the anxiety or tension that steadily increased with every step that Aquamarine took towards her. She didn't tear her hands out of Aquamarine, and allowed her to carefully place the snowball in her hands. She looked to her as she spoke, her suspicion about where Mars was confirmed, and yet she was relieved to hear that he would be alright. After she made her request, Candice nodded and promised "I will," She lifted her second hand off of the snowball, worried that her body heat would melt the snowball and adversely affect the healing that Mars was going through.

So it didn't seem as though the blue alien was suspicious of her still...So maybe her cover was still intact? She didn't ask as the new gem approached them and made his demand to Aquamarine. Carnelian, who had been watching and listening to the entire thing soon spoke up, "Dahling, that was quite rude! There's no need for that kind of speech," She then pointed out "You haven't even introduced yourself yet. Speaking of which, My name is Carnelian,"

Bloodstone was honestly, dumbfounded. This gem that seemed to hate interaction, decided to go with Aqua, where there would be tons of people. Why, why her Bloodstone just couldn't wrap his head around it. "Wait, wait... What? I offer you a safe and quiet place to live, perfect for a gem that seems to want peace, and yet you chose to go where there will be 9 to 12 gems not including any humans. I get that I didn't give you my name but I assumed that wasn't something you would worry about. So, if you don't mind me asking, why her? What makes her option better? Blood looked down at the small gem and couldn't help but wonder what was going through this gem's mind.

Aquamarine was in complete surprise when the newborn gem told her to "Hurry up" and it wasn't at the rudeness as Carnelian had put it. She was just utterly shocked that the gem had even decided to come with her or wanted to follow her in any way. Bloodstone had what she thought was the better offer, seeing as she was offering a place to go with many Gems and she offered that route out of the worry that he would stay in the Kindergarten, not because she thought the Gem would choose her over Blood. She never believed the Gem would pick her straight off the bat if ever so she was puzzled and apparently she was not the only one. Blood spoke up, asking the newborn why and she found herself just as curious to know the answer. The newborn gem didn't know that he would have his own room to be way from the others if he pleased and as far as the Gem knew they could be packed very close. She hadn't said anything worth while that she knew of.
She remained silent, wanting to hear this answer clearly.

As Soapstone barely listened to Carnelian, he responded to her opinions with a rather harsh statement. "I don't care to give out my name to any random has-been, and introductions to strangers are pointless. If you stay away from me, then we'll just be fine." The gem didn't even move his own head to face Carnelian, his attitude was already pissed due to the amount of people surrounding him, and the constant struggle of people talking to him. Flexing his shoulders, still trying to get used to this physical form, Bloodstone seemed to announce his own misgivings about Soapstone joining the other side. For this one, he decided to look at the confused face of this gem, he guessed that him offering that pretty decent plan made him have a light respect for him. Although, Soapstone was still for the plan to learn about this world, and most likely find a spot to hide once again in the earth.

"To be honest, I liked your plan of leaving me alone. It sounds nice, but I have other things to worry about rather than being secluded for now. I need to know certain things to better my chances of being left truly alone, and this lady seems to know something about this world that will allow me to better my goals. If you have something better, than I will surely join with you, but you have shown me nothing to change my mind since I had been 'born'."

Crossing his arms with a raised chin, Soapstone knew that if this Bloodstone truly wanted to him to join than he would do something, but if he was only some half assed attempt to get him to join than this man would just be a waste of time. So, he was waiting for Bloodstone to make his move.

Information, the newborn wanted information. And he still went with Aqua. "Kid, I have an entire battleship filled with gem technology, logs dating 10,000 years back, and I have personal information on this world since I'm the Commander that led the gems here in the first place. I'm the one that organized your very creation. If info is what you seek, and training on how to handle the creatures of this world then I am the best bet for you. I'll do my best to leave you to your privacy but all you have to do is ask and I will lead you through every bit of history this world has. This one doesn't even know what happened the last 1,000 years since she was in her gem." Blood backed away while explaining this, making arm gestures the entire time.

Blood looked at Aqua and then at the others in the area. "If you want friends and love and affection and all that, then go with them, they can offer that. But if you want information, or survival skills, or a higher understanding of who and what you are, then come with me and I'll show you everything you want."