[IC] We Are the Crystal Gems

[Loony]

Evenkite turned around -more of a twirl, really- and came to face
A short, humourless laugh was followed by more banter on Evenkite's part.

"Why, yes, I suppose the ten thousand or so other holes much like the one you emerged from all just happened to be there, and your's was the only one which had another gem. A likely story. And for your information, oh ignorant one, the wind knocked me over and you just so happened to be there." She opened her mouth as if to say more, but then closed it as she heard a loud clanging. Simply wonderful. Her scowl deepened into a now teeth revealing -rather crooked and sharp teeth- one, and her ear twitched. Hands clenched and slightly hunched over, she turned towards Sodalite

"Okay, I just had to deal with this one's ruckus-Oh for the love of the sky, stop that! That's not how they're to be used." The exasperation in her tone was practically tangible, something that could be felt in the air and grasped at. She put a palm to her face and begun to shake her head. Nope. That was it. She was going back to her little hole in the wall, she decided, and she would stay there until they were quiet.

Just as she was about to do so, yet another -yes, another- gem appeared, asking what she had been doing here. She ignored this question.

"Please tell me you're smarter than these two idiots."

[21308]

"UGH." Spinel was getting nowhere fast. As soon as the most recent being appeared and began speaking of 'gems,' Spinel took a few steps away from the group that had clustered together so as not to be identified as one of them. She was beginning to get tired, and her invisibility trick hadn't accomplished anything besides confusing the large orange one even further and apparently making one of them jump.

Spinel thought about what to say for a moment, and revealed herself. "I neither know of or care for your gems, but if these awful creatures are indeed gems and are yours, please remove them immediately and leave! I'm... I am the spirit of this great canyon!" Spinel did her best, but still pathetic attempt at sounding ominous. "You, you, you, you..." Spinel uttered however many more 'yous' were necessary to name everyone in the main group besides Zircon and Howlite "and especially you" she gestured towards Sodalite "must leave... IMMEEEDAITELY! Or... um... I'll have the canyon swallow you whole!!!" Spinel did this bizarre little hand waving motion to really drive the point home.

"You and you" she pointed to Zircon and Howlite "may stay, but only if you promise to remain near similarly colored rubble, make no noise, and try to stay out of my immediate vision. THUS COMMANDS THE SPIRIT OF THE CANYON OOOOOoooooooooooooooooooOOOooOO!" Spinel immediately wished that she hadn't added the 'oooo' but it wasn't like she could change that now.

[Kronshi]

A dark red being wearing a black ripped hoodie stood over monitors that showed scans of the Kindergarten, his golden eyes becoming a crimson red from the glow. "Strange, their seems to be some activity in Sector F-284. Might be some low-life humans, but then again." Bloodstone flipped his fiery hair out of his face and looked around for the right button, summoning his drones, "Check out F-284 and contain any Gem Life-forms, any other type of life-form you are free to eradicate." He then returned to the scanners and noticed the beings converging, making for easy pickings. "So eight new gems or eight unlucky Humans, either way it just made my day better."

On Earth, specifically over the Kindergarten and Mohs, 4 Robotic Spider-like creatures could be seen in the sky, falling straight to where the gems had meet up. As they landed, they surrounded the gems and prepared to capture them. "Damn, too bad these things don't have a video feed. I would love to see the humans get ripped apart."

[HaltingBlooper]

Emerald had been listening, only half-awake, to the droning of all the other people. He really wish he could fall asleep right now, then he could stop listening to these annoying-Wha?

"What the heck are those things?" Emerald suddenly got his stuff together and started staring at the robot closest to him. "Ah! Get away!" He quickly pulled his saber from the gem on his chest and slashed the top of the robot before sort of running away, flailing his arms above his head. "WHAT THE HECK ARE THESE THINGS?!"

[Akayaofthemoon]

She was relieved at the fact that all the gems here seemed new but this was the worst place they could be to continue this conversation. She didn't know who was nearby or watching this place and now she needed to find a way to get them all out of here before something happened."I know all of you must be confused and I'll explain everything but right now we need to leave. It isn't safe here. We need to go before..." Aquamarine spoke softly but was cut off by the flying robots that were descending upon them, circling them in.
"Everyone, watch yourself. Don't get too close to them!" she warned before pulling the chain out of the bottom of her harpoon, quickly tossing that end to loop around its legs to make it unstable before jetting forward. Aqua gracefully pushed of the ground into a jump, harpoon facing downward to jam into the robots body as she used the staff to swing her body to the side, landing on the ground. A quick tug of the chain on the dirt, pulling her weapon back to her as she moved into a defensive position and ready to protect the others.

[The ghost in black]

Howlite was confused at the voice mentioning her but followed what it said and walked over to a pile of grey ruble and crouched behind it "oki doki loki" she said as she began looking for the source of the voice. As she looked the robots desended around the rather large group and began advancing. "Should I help or should I listen to the canyon spirit, what to do what to do" she said to herself before watching one of the gems in to group slash at one of the robot and run away. "Think they'll be fine"

[LizLegend]

Zircon remained standing there casually watching these gems converse with each other, some sounding quite irritated. Along the line Zircon kind of got a little lost when she perked her head and looked around when hearing the voice with no appearance. Lots of appearances of other people were coming left and right. Zircon then turned to see a tall and beautiful blue one who asked what they were doing there. She opened her mouth to speak to her but then got distracted and looked towards the others to see that whoever the voice had revealed herself, claiming to be a spirit trying to get everyone to leave. But apparently Zircon and some other one was allowed to stay under some conditions, ending it off with a big 'OOOOOoooooooooooooooooooOOOooOO'. Zircon slightly raised a brow, "Uhhhh..." she slowly tilted her head, not really knowing how to react to...well, any of this. Then all of a sudden these big robots came out of nowhere, startling Zircon and making her jump a bit and do a single dash away from the closest robot to her and turning towards it to look at it. She stood there and blinked as her eyes were slighlty wide, "Hoooooly what..."

[Loony]

This wasn't something Evenkite needed to be told twice. The gem already had intentions of leaving due to all the noise, and right now, with the sudden attack, she had more than enough reason to not get involved. After all, she had never been in a fight before, and she doubted she could fair well. Even if she could, she didn't really want to help out. There was too much going on and she wanted no part in it. Hopefully this blue gem stranger could take care of the situation, and if not, well, the loudmouth looked more than capable of fighting, even if he was a new gem. He was at least taller than them.

Having no more need to stick around, she took off, seeking shelter in a crevice that, though clearly wasn't made by a gem, was big enough for little Evenkite to slip into. She had no interest in the fight, but she nonetheless kept a look-out, in case they cam towards her. Not that it made much a difference, since they were obviously far too big to actually get into the crevice, but a small, paranoid part of her convinced her that perhaps these robots had a few tricks up their metaphorical sleeves, and it was better to be safe than sorry.

[21308]

Spinel watched her orders be mostly ignored, but she didn't really care about that at all right now because she and everyone else were being besieged by some type of horrifying spider robots. I need my pile. She did indeed need her pile. She turned invisible once more and made a beeline for the familiar pile of rubble she had hidden in a few moments ago. She only had 15 seconds of invisibility in her at best, but that was at least enough to get her to it unseen. She curled up behind the pile and hoped not to be noticed.

[Saarebas]

"Oh for the love of... HOW MANY OF US ARE THERE?" Amber exclaimed as more and more of the multicolored individuals began to seemingly appear out of the woodwork. He let out a sigh as it seemed he would be getting no where soon, everyone here seemed to be as in the dark as he was or had some sort of attitude problem. Things were finally starting to look up when a blue skinned woman appeared, she had called them Gems. Was he a Gem? Would knowing what a Gem was help him get out of this horrid valley? Unfortunately before he could ask any of these questions trouble fell out of the sky in the form of four giant robots. By the looks of it these mechanical spiders were not going to help with his questions. When the blue woman sprang into action, her weapon at the ready, Amber took it as a sign he had to do something about too. "Okay I am really getting tired of all this!" He said in an obviously annoyed tone as he stepped forward towards one of the robots. With out a moments delay Amber took hold of one of a bolder, it roughly being the size of a small car, that was next to him and in one fluent motion flung it at the robot closet to him. "Catch that yo' bloody tin can!"

[Kronshi]

The second drone attempted to move out of the way of the rock but was ultimately squished against the rock wall. The other two flanked Amber and grabbed him before attempting to take off taking him with them.

"Fuck!" Back on the base, Bloodstone brought his fist down onto the monitor cracking it, "Those damned gems destroyed two of my drones... Well, at least I got one of them. Maybe I could convince him to join my side of this war." 'It had to be gems right, what else could destroy my drones?"

[pyroman]

Once more, Sodalite stopped, this time for yet another new figure. This one had a similar skin tone as her, and seemed to be a fair bit taller. She noted how cautiously she approached them, and Sodalite just as cautiously moved away. She had called them gems, Sodalite was sure of that, and was able to say nothing as the small yellow one spoke again, this time focusing on Sodalite herself and the ruckus that she had been making just moments ago.

The the creatures appeared, making the blue gem, as she called herself now, back away again. She heeded the warning from the other blue gem and stayed away from them. Even with her arsenal, she did not participate in the fight, and instead dropped some of the weapons and offered them to others. She knew that there was a good chance that she would have to fight, but she wanted to wait until it was a necessity.

[HaltingBlooper]

Emerald turned back towards the fight, and saw two of the spiders try to leave, taking someone-Amber with them. He had to do something. He couldn't just let them take someone away, and if they were indeed this "Gem" thing, they should probably help each other out. "No you don't you stupid, ugly, spider things! We can beat you anytime, seven on two!" He ran back towards the fight and charged into Amber, knocking the drones off, and then realized something. He was turning into.......stone? No, that wasn't quite it. Whatever it is, he was turning into it. A rock-like green-speckled statue.

[21308]

Spinel peeked over the rocks and saw that one of the noise makers was being carried away, at least until another one kind of tackled the two spider things off of him. She sighed. I... don't think I can just let them die.. A crossbow appeared near her hand. She took a deep breath and focused on it, and a bolt of energy started to materialize in it. She suppressed her glow yet again and began aiming carefully at one of the spiders, trying to keep her bow hidden between the rocks.

[Akayaofthemoon]

Aquamarine focused on the next spider, ready for the next fight when one of the other gems spoke up before hurling a large Boulder at the spider she had been aiming for. She glanced back at the orange gem, a light smile showing on her features before her head turned to look at the two remaining bots only to be startled at them rushing by her and now targeting the other. The two grabbed the gem, trying to grab and run off, giving her the feeling of being sick at the horrible thought of home world getting a hold on another gem. "Oh no you don't!" Aqua stated determinedly, moving her harpoon in the throwing style of a juvalen, taking aim to toss it at the bot but halted as one of the green gem moved to knock the bots off which caused something to happen, the others body slowly turning to stone like a statue.

She noticed the boys were not open for attack, letting her harpoon fly but only managing a light scratch as it tinkled of the metal. She curse under her breath at missing, yanking the weapon back to ready a re toss.

[Saarebas]

"HA HA HA HA, HOW DOES THAT TASTE YO' CRUMBY PEICE OF SCRAP METAL?!" Amber called out victoriously as the robot he had targeted became nothing but a junk heap squished against the wall under a rock. The orange colored Gem was still riding the wave of thrill when the other two bots shot forward and grabbed him. "OI! GET YER' LOUSY MITS OFF OF ME!" He shouted as the mechanical spiders began to drag him off. He kicked and jerked as strongly as he could but it seemed to have little effect in deterring his kidnapping, he may have been taken if it wasn't for something knocking him out of the grasp of the bots. "Ow.." Amber said flatly as he laid on the ground, seemingly a large piece of stone sitting on top of him. "Did somebody toss a rock at me?"

[Loony]

From her crevice, Evenkite began to fidget uncomfortably. Things weren't at all looking good, and she was starting to wonder whether or not staying her was a good idea. They could use the help, for sure, but she wasn't sure as to how much she could do so. After all, if those bots could carry off that giant, imagine what they could do to the others, and by extension, herself?

She eyed the nearest weapon to her -a rather intricate looking white club of some sort, resembling a spikeless mace- and kept the eyes fixed on it, decided that if things were to get really bad, then she'd join in, but until then, she'd stick it out back here.

Any unease she had, however, began to fade away as the orange gem hit the floor, the noise giving Evenkite quite a shock. Surprisingly, she felt relieved not just for herself, but for the giant as well. After all, he might have been a bother, but he was a newborn gem, she supposed. With a gentle sigh, she pressed herself back against the crevice. Who knows, maybe she wouldn't have to join after all?

[LizLegend]

Zircon watched the fight scene take place as she didn't really know what to do. Well, obviously she had to do something. Or at least she should. Zircon made sure she had a good distance from the spider bots a she slowly started walking to the side, keeping her eyes locked on them. She was trying to get a good angle on them in case she needed to jump in, weaponless or not. Zircon glanced at the weapons that one gem had before quickly locking her sight one the spider-bots with no second wasted. She tried to plan out how exactly she should attack if she really had to. Currently, she's doesn't have a weapon...so that's a problem. She could be gutsy and just try tackling the thing. But there a lot bigger than her...so it's not like she can topple them over. Maybe as she's walking right now she grab one of those weapons from that one blue gem. Although...she did kind of see a couple gems "summon" their weapon. The blue one who seems to know what she's doing and the green one. Well...Zircon assumes they summoned them. She only got a really quick glance at it. Zircon wondered if she could do that too, but with this situation it didn't feel like there was enough time to figure that out.

[Pathfinder]

"Boots, check. Water bottle, check. Sketchbook, check. Brownies, double check. Music machine, check. All right, lets get this going!" Johnny thought to himself as he plugged in his headphones, locked his vans doors, and began on his journey while munching on his less than stellar breakfast. The young man had been planning to hike this place since he heard about it back at Beach City, Johnny had heard that the place was creepy and boy did it deliver. There was just something wrong about the place that he couldn't really describe, at least not in words. However the negative vibes of the place did little to deter him and in fact emboldened him to move onward.

It took a good thirty minutes of moving up hill and climbing across a steep face before Johnny stoped to take a water break. Pulling back his headphones so they draped across his neck, Johnny sat on an exposed rock before fishing out his water bottle and his bag of brownies in preparation to relax for a bit. Taking a swig of water and a hearty bite, Johnny just noticed the sounds of...struggle a little ways away. Haphazardly pulling his pack on, Johnny moved towards the sounds that quickly took a turn for the violent as it was clear that people were fighting. "Well that's not good." he thought to himself as he peeked around the bend, revealing to him something he was not expecting.

Ducking behind the corner quickly, Johnny peeked out, then back in, checked that he had grabbed the right bag of brownies before ducking out a third time. Johnny didn't know much, but he had a sneaking suspicion that he was not supposed to be here.

[Kronshi]

The drones stood up and seemed as though they were looking at each other devising a plan. Suddenly they retracted their front two legs and replaced them with these shocking things. One jabbed it's shocker into Amber causing an automatic retreat (Like what happened to Garnet) while the other started making an advance to the other gems. The first one returned to it's normal claw hands and picked up Amber's gem and started a return flight to the ship.

Bloodstone was tired of waiting and was plotting on heading to the surface but after the failure that had already occurred he decided against it, planning to make a dramatic entrance later. "But first, I should contact Home-World to send more supplies and drone replacements. I don't think I'll let Yellow know what's happened yet, I kind of want these all for myself."