[IC] We Are the Crystal Gems

[21308]

Spinel became visible again and walked back to the group. "Well that was... a whole lot of nothing, really. But now that this Bloodstone is gone I guess we can return to our work, such as it as." Spinel only sounded partially interested in the words she was saying. "Unless this guy is going to turn into a gem too." she said half sarcastically. "But uh, on the more serious side of things, should we attempt to help you, sword man?"

[Akayaofthemoon]

Aquamarine nodded to the Mayor's statement to stay behind and his reasons were completely valid but now she needed to find the others. They could be anywhere at this moment which would mean taking a little while to find them but at least no real danger seemed to be a foot which she was grateful for. They all needed to sit down and talk everything over now that they had everyone up and around, instead of waiting on anyone to reform. They had a place that they could call a home for now and they could all choose to move somewhere else if that place didn't work out. She lead the others around, looking of the group of gems when she spotted them and rushed in there direction. She thought she saw them talking to someone and by the time she arrived, she noticed they were speaking to a human. "I'm glad I found you all. It seems the Mayor evacuated everyone rather quickly so we don't have much to help out with at the present moment. He did say that there was a temple nearby that we could could check out to live in if we choose. We were also able to find Johnny!" Aqua stated, updating them on the important matters. The look on all of the gems faces had her excitement drop and one of nervous confusion before going more of a serious calm."Have I missed something?"

[Saarebas]

"Kindergarten... wait that place we woke up at? Amber asked half to himself after Bloodstone brought up the description of what his job was, which apparently had something to do with him and the rest of the Gems. Before he could continue with his line of thought Eve jumped from her spot in his hand and started to confront Bloodstone on what she believed were flaws in his story, some of which seemed to be questionable to Amber once they were pointed out. He listened to Bloodstone's reaction to them, which Amber was accepting up to the point he summoned some sort of weapon that he quickly slammed down next to Eve. "Bloody Hell is the matter with yo'?!" Amber exclaimed, he instinctively grabbed Eve away from Bloodstone and placed her back in his palm. But Bloodstone had seemingly already took off before he could answer Amber's oh so thought out question. It wasn't long after that Aquamarine appeared and asked if she missed something. "Uh Yeah! Some bloody eejit tried to take the lass here head off 'er shoulders!"

[21308]

"What I think Amber means," Spinel began, temporarily removing her focus from Reggie, "is that an individual who identified himself as Bloodstone, although he originally appeared as a human, approached us and told us some things. He offered us what he must have assumed we'd consider important information, and claimed that he was only here for our benefit. He stated that he was essentially responsible for our existence, and that there was something called a warp pad in the woods somewhere. He also said that he was a commanding officer of some sort." Spinel put a hand on her chin as she tried to think of anything else that might be important to say. "He also claimed that his human attacked him. He seemd to be trying very hard to make himself seem trustworthy, which he was doing reasonably well at until Evenkite said some things that made him upset. Now he's gone"

[Akayaofthemoon]

Aquamarine's dark eyes turned into an icy glare as her eyes slid to the human, looking him over to see weapons and assuming that he was the one responsible for almost harming Eve. She stepped forward about to draw her weapon, very much ready to question the said human in a not so nice manner when Spinel spoke up causing her to stop dead in her tracks. She eyes widened, her body feeling almost frozen as different emotions shot threw her as once and thoughts a jumbled mess that she had barely heard all that Spinel said."Did you just say Bloodstone?" Aquamarine spoke softly, not even being able hide all of the fear in her voice as pulled her arms around her mid section. She dreaded Spinel confirming it since she knew it had been said and went directly to Eve."Are you alright? Did he harm you in anyway?! Aqua exclaimed, looking her over carefully as a mother would a child since panic was rising. They needed to talk about everything right now and start training very soon if they were going up against Bloodstone. She hadn't expected it to be him out of all the Home World gems. She didn't think a Commander would be the one watching over the Kindergarten but someone lower. After she was sure Evenkite was alright, she spoke up seriously,"I need to explain everything to you now. Everyone is reformed and none of us are missing. I will answer all your question and tell you everything I know."

Aqua moved over to sit down, glancing at Reggie for a second,"You are either very lucky or very skilled to have fought with Bloodstone. If you are hurt then I would be happy to heal you. Everyone else please have a seat."

[HaltingBlooper]

Emerald found himself running after Aquamarine, not really knowing what was going on. When they met up with the other Gems he just sort of stared for a while, all this time muttering things like "What's happening?", "How much did I miss?", and "I want to go back to sleep." Emerald took a few moments to compose himself, and asked Aquamarine the one big thing that was going on in his head: "What the heck is going on?"

[Loony]

Evenkite, much to her own surprise, didn't do so much as even flinch as the glaive was brought down. If anything, she looked almost smug for being able to anger him so easily. By all means, she should have been terrified, because there was no way she stood a chance against this gem, and yet she simply couldn't help it. She was riding this high and it wasn't good. Luckily for her, Amber had taken her back, and before she could complain to Amber, respond in a regrettable manner to Bloodstone or try to go after him, the older gem had left, taking with him whatever answers she could have gotten. As much as she didn't like this guy, she had to admit that she hoped to meet him again. After all, he did seem to know what he was talking about, even if some of it was iffy, but perhaps Aquamarine would answer her questions. She somehow doubted that she'd be satisfied, though.

"Reasonably well? What do you mean, reasonably well? This guy had iffy written all over him. His anger at my calling out his nonsense only furthers my point," Evenkite huffed, examining how much of her hair was gone, which wasn't much, "I mean, I made him preeeeeetty salty," she finished, looking quite pleased with herself.

She'd probably have been riding said high for a little longer if it weren't for Aquamarine's concern, which was a little unnerving. Sure, it was probably thanks to Amber's vagueness, but at the same time, the mere mention of Bloodstone seemed to make her worried. "Aquamarine, ma'am, I assure you, I'm fine. He just gave my hair a trim. I think he was just trying to scare us. Or warn us. Either way, it's nothing to worry about: Amb got me out of the way before he could even try to do anything." She looked up at Amber and gave him a small smile.

Once Aquamarine finished worrying over her, she hopped back onto the ground, floating before hitting it as she had done earlier, making sure to stay close to Sodalite and Amber.

"My first question, which isn't quite as vague as Emerald's: Who is this Bloodstone fellow?"

[pyroman]

Sodalite sat down quietly. She would have her questions answered soon enough, but she was going to let the otehrs ask their questions, and possibly her own, before asking the straggling questions that lingered on her mind. It was obvious that Aquamarine was worried about their well being, and she found herself glad that she moved away from Bloodstone when she did. Sodalite smiled to herself. She was finally getting her answers. Her patience was being rewarded.

[Raijinslayer]

"No need to worry yourself, just don't give me that glare again and I'll be right as rain." Reggie chuckled lightheartedly, though anyone could see that he had broken out into a bit of a cold sweat under Aquamarine's glare. Standing up with a stretch, which brought a slight stab of pain from his bruised side but that'd heal up in a few days, he turned to look at the motley crew of aliens i front of him. "Now then, I supposed I should explain myself a bit, yeah? Firstly, I was stalking that Bloodstone guy, but that was because he had just come out of a portal, or warp pad as he called it, and with the fact that a giant laser had just blown up downtown, it wasn't hard to connect the dots between to impossible things. So yeah, my bets on Bloodstone pulling the trigger on this place, hell if I know why. Secondly, I didn't attack him, he just offered to spar with me after he led me hear, threaten to kill me if I tried anything funny, then gave him some food. Reason for food was because he said he was hungry and I was trying to get on his good side so he wouldn't kill me if I asked him questions about his tech." As he spoke, Reggie's eyes suddenly widen slightly as he turned his gaze to Aquamarine.

"Hey, big blue lady, my name is Reggie and I have to ask, would you happen to know anything about the technology this guy has. Please tell me you do, I don't think he'll be too glad to see me next time since I'm kinda at fault for making him look extra shady to the Crystal Quartet." He made a gesture to Amber, Eve, Sodalite, and Spinel, "That was kinda my main reason for stalking him, a poorly conceived reason, but what can I say, I'm too curious for my own good, and you know what they say about that."

[Akayaofthemoon]

Bloodstone is a Commander of Home World army, a title given to him by the rulers of HomeWorld before the invasion of Earth since that is essentially what we did. We were ordered to come to Earth and make it a Gem controlled planet but when we got here, it was all so magnificent and beautiful. It was nothing like anything before and I guess I was not the only one that thought so. Enthralled by the beauty of Earth, our leader Rose Quartz,led her friends and allies in a rebellion against the Gem Homeworld thousands of years ago my guess is that she successfully prevented the Gem invasion of the planet.The reason we stood up against Homeworld is because they saw no problems to what they were doing to the planet and effecting the humans on it. They were using the Kindergarten's to create gems which was causing death to the planet but they weren't making gems like you. Most all of them were corrupted, unable to make a natural form and sometimes having no form of thoughts or emotions. They were Homeworld experiments.... Rose's healing powers couldn't even help them. This started a war, making the Earth a large battlefield and each one chose their side. I was hurt badly so I didn't get to see the end of the war but my guess is that not many of us survived and Homeworld is back with only who knows what kind of plan. Aquamarine spoke, nothing but sorrow in her voice as her memories drifted into the past. Many friends had fought each other, killed each other and it had been completely chaos."By Homeworld standerds, everyone in the rebellion were traitors. All of you are probably some of the only good that came out of the war."

Aquamarine then turned her attention to Reggie, a sad smile pulling at her lips,"It is a pleasure to meet you, Reggie. I do apologize for ignoring you before but these gems have waited long enough for information. My name is Aquamarine and I promise not to glare at you again. I had believe you to be Eve's attacker and I don't take kindly to people who harm those that I care about. Thank you for telling us your side of the story and if you could lead me back to the warp pad then I would greatly appreciate it. I do know most information about the technology though I sadly might be a bit out to date on some. Thousands of years can advance technology greatly but I am quick on my feet at learning."

[LizLegend]

Zircon followed Aquamarine around until they met up with the rest of the group, along with some other human. Aside from the recent good news given, in which where Zircon can't wait to get to that temple mentioned earlier, something seemed off. Something was up. Zircon watched and listened to Amber and Spinel, with Spinel being more descriptive, explaining what happened and the name Bloodstone was mentioned. Zircon thought to herself for a quick second and then opened her mouth to say something, but she unintentionally stopped herself when her gaze wandered towards Aquamarine. It took her a second or two, but Zircon noticed Aquamarine's expression. Not only was something up, but it's bigger than Zircon thought. Probably still bigger than she thinks. It also says something about Aquamarine, in a good way though. It should probably be said differently about the whatever situation this is this time. Zircon glanced at one to another as she tried to process everything. Well, there probably wasn't anything to process yet except for the little details Zircon did know where the dots wouldn't be anywhere close to connecting. It seems like the new temple home will have to wait after all as everyone was told to sit down. It was question time. Zircon was going to remain standing and slowly pace around, but her mind told her to take a seat cross-legged at one of the far ends of the sitting bunch anyway. It's most likely that the other gems had the same questions as her, so she decided to stay quiet and let them ask first before she decides to ask her own distinct questions if there will be any. But heh, what are the chances of there being none?

The first question was asked, and it was answered in even more depth than expected. Zircon listened deeply and took it all in even though it was sort of a lot. This was gonna get everyone thinking. If it got Zircon thinking, which it did, surely it would get everyone else. As questions did pop up in Zircon's head, she still remained silent. She had to think about which question to ask first.

[21308]

"If you don't mind me asking, what do you think Bloodstone was planning on telling us that he presumably thought would make us side with him instead of you?" Spinel asked. Another question had occurred to her since they arrived in town, but she was aware even now that it would sound stupid and it had very little to do with the topic at hand. She hoped her question wouldn't rub Aquamarine the wrong way, but getting an answer really interested her and now seemed an opportune time to ask.

[Akayaofthemoon]

"If I had to guess, I would probably say that either he would have told you guys that you would not exist without him and Homeworld doing as they did with the Kindergartens or it is very likely that he has information on the very last part of the war which I do not have since I was forced into my gem and so badly hurt that I couldn't reform till today. It could also be something long the lines of treachery since that is how Homeworld views us. It could be as simple as him saying, I have betrayed gem kind before and what is stopping me from betraying you all. I do not pretend to hide the fact that I turned my back on some of my kind to stand up for what I believed in. I had many a friends back on Homeworld that I asked to join me in the cause to defend Earth and keep it safe. Some joined, some never gave me a chance to ask and others down said no or threw it in my face. It isn't easy to stand up for what you believe in and war is never good for either side. I know saying this will cause more doubt than you probably already have of me but Homeworld gems can't be trusted. They will lie to you." Aquamarine answered Spinel's question truthfully from her past experiences. Those were some of the only things she could think of that would be said to persuade the others.

[Kronshi]

Bloodstone ran back into the woods but then stopped and watched from the trees, "I was right, one of them is a surviving traitor, I thought if anyone survived it would be Rose or Garnet, not this pathetic excuse for a gem." Bloodstone walked out of the woods and leaned against a tree, "She always viewed Home-World in a negative light, those new-borns are going to need someone to give the other half of the story." He would simply wait there and see if any came to him, besides his dislike of groups was more of a dislike in fighting a strong gem with younglings around.

[Raijinslayer]

Reggie blinked at Aquamarine's words, not sure how to absorb the information that had just been dropped on him. Deciding that he just ignore it for now, he just focused on what had been directed at him and what she had said to the Ghostly white gem. However, his brow furrowed as he listened to her talk about the Homeworld Gems, sensing a fair bit of bias in that statement, and how it could easily blow up in the blue gems face. If she ever lied to these young gems on an issue that Bloodstone didn't, then it would make her argument lose ground. Of course, these 'Homeworlders' don't seem like the nicest people, that's just to anyone living on pod ol' earth, while these Gems have no rhyme or reason to really care about what happens here unless they are given a reason too. Wait a minute, why don't they have an opinion of this already, the way she's explaining all of this stuff . . .

Reggie's eyes turned to look at Amber, then to the rest of those in attendance, the idea ruminating in his head seeming impossible by his views as a human, yet more plausible the more he thought of the events going on and how Bloodstone and Aquamarine where talking to the other Gems.

"I have another question, this one open to the floor, but how long have all of you been alive?" He asked the question and waited to see if his theory was indeed correct.

[21308]

Spinel nodded and tried to digest everything Aquamarine had said. "I'm not even too sure I care who's lying..." she said. She turned her attention to Reggie and said "Huh, that's a good question. I can only speak for myself, but I've been alive for..." Spinel had no idea how to put the amount of time she'd been alive into words. She thought for a couple of seconds, fumbling for a reference point. "The amount of time that's passed since the big eye fired that laser into town accounts for somewhere near half of my existence. Maybe a little less." she said.

[pyroman]

Sodalite could feel how dire the situation was. She remained silent. She did in fact place her trust in Aquamarine. It was sad to hear about what happened, and she even felt bad about her own existence, but she couldn't be sad about that. It was too late to change that, and if she were harmed she would simply retreat back into her gem. However, Bloodstone was from the now enemy homeworld. They were trying to destroy the planet for the sake of growing their army, and Sodalite didn't like that in the least. She would not fight for the sake of consuming more planets. She was going to fight to end it and to find out everything that Aquamarine wasn't telling them. There was always something that people wouldn't say.

As Reggie spoke up, she looked at the human still with a light glare. He could have been a part of Bloodstones group, maybe turning against his own people. She was still silent.

[Kronshi]

Bloodstone thought someone would see him but he was apparently wrong, so he walked over to the group, "Well, if I knew this was the Home gem you were with I wouldn't have walked off. Hello Aqua, I thought I killed you, but I see you at least have a scar." He nodded towards her ribbon on her waist. "Look I understand that you wouldn't trust me after what she said but I give you my word that everything she says is biased, one-sided. Aqua, why am I so bad. I am sure I can debate all of your reasons." Blood smiled smugly, he could see the worry on her face.

[HaltingBlooper]

Emerald was always uneasy around Bloodstone, he had tried to kidnap all of them, shoot them with a giant laser eye, and know wanted them to trust him?! The hair on the back of his neck stood up as Bloodstone approached them again, and he buried his hands in his hair, glancing up towards the Gem. A green handle emerged from his Gem, and he pulled it out and pointed the saber (comparable to a Napoleonic saber, but green) at Bloodstone. "Go away," he said in a shaky voice. "You tried to capture us after trying to immobilize us, blow us up with a giant laser eye, and now you want us to join you?!" His voice took on a more crazed tone now. "I'm sorry, but if you think any of us are that...that simple, you are clearly mistaken."

[Akayaofthemoon]

Aquamarine stood quickly, weapon drawn but not pointed at the the enemy in front of her but definitely ready for defense. Her fingers gripped her weapon tightly, anger mixed slowly in with the hurt as she resisted the urge to touch the white strip she put on her dress during regeneration as a reminder. "You have no right to call me that anymore. It is Aquamarine to you. If you were more level headed than maybe you would have checked to make sure you finished off one enemy before continuing onto the next. This is a reminder not a scar....true scars aren't able to be seen." she spoke coldly, fighting off the stir of emotion that wanted to show. She knew Blood would just use it to his advantage if she did bring any look of weakness. Aqua knew what he was doing but is words struck a cord in her which pulled hard on her heart. Emotions be damned, she had been alone for thousands of years and in her gem with constant pain as she had to heal. It had been a long time for him maybe but it felt almost like yesterday to her as her last moments had played on repeat. She started laughing, tears flowing down her face as her dark blue hair fell like a curtain over it,You still don't understand?! After all this time! You don't see why I find you bad?! I am not biased when it comes to Homeworld. I stated facts of what happened and why the war happened. Homeworld gems aren't to be trusted if they are anything like they were before. They are not to be trusted when they lie to your face which has been proven very much as of late. Homeworld is all about order, everything falling perfectly into place....I miss my home planet but I don't miss how everything is ran....I miss seeing the galaxy but I will stay here and stand up for this world. I will defend the humans, the gems born here and this planet." she said shakily, her face finally looking at Bloodstone. "I..., she started, so many things she wanted to say but held back, staying silent for a good moment before changing what she was about to say. "I never stated my opinion of you to them. You are the one that brought that up."