Greetings!
I've finally gotten this thing going, and thus started Fade to Blue. For you people who need a disclaimer, here it is: I don't own Cyborg 009. Do I want to? DUH!

And so, I begin Fade to Blue!

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Diamond was tired. It had been at least a week since she finished the first two, and she hadn't slept since. Her adrenaline was still pumped, but her body yearned for sleep. No, she told herself. No, you must finish four before you can sleep. Finish up until May, and then sleep.

But I don't want to wait that long, she told herself.

It was starting again; she was fighting with herself. No, Diamond thought. She pushed the voices out of her head and continued her work on Aquamarine. Aquamarine was the gemstone of March, so after this, she'd only have to create Emerald. Then she could finally give her body that long-deserved sleep. Only one and a half to go.

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Garnet was outside with Amethyst. Garnet appeared to be meditating while Amethyst was well, being Amethyst. Having to be the second of a large series sucked. But hey, she was second oldest, but not modeled that way. Either was Garnet. They were meant to look like teenagers. They'd been told by Diamond that Aquamarine was meant to be the youngest of them all.

In addition to this, she'd have a serious amount of spunk

That meant disturbance, thought Garnet. She was a quiet person, unlike the next model. Garnet's dark blood-colored hair streamed out behind her in a sudden gust of wind. It had been made to be between shoulder and waist- length, and that was fine with her. It was Amethyst that had to take care of her waist-length purple hair.

It was about midnight now, and Diamond was starting to feel sick. Oh well, she thought, I've finished with Aquamarine. Besides, I need to go to sleep now. Not in another week, now. So instead of waiting to climb up to her bedroom, she just fell asleep in the swivel chair she had been using as a small tray.

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Aquamarine awoke with a start, already programmed to know where she was. She was in a small basement laboratory, owned by Diamond. Judging by the looks of her creator, she wasn't in the best of shape. Her white hair hung limply around her body and her face was pale. Aquamarine smiled and placed Diamond on the bed she had just been laying on. Then, Aquamarine went out to find her "sisters". When she found them, however, they were sleeping. Aquamarine checked the clock. Duh, girl, it's 12:30 in the morning. Go to sleep. So she curled up on the armchair in living room and fell asleep.

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The next morning when Diamond woke up, she felt a little better. Evidently, Aquamarine had woken up. She had remembered falling asleep on the swivel chair, not on this bed. And god damnit, she thought, I crushed a paper. Diamond decided to make breakfast for the first time in a month. Now that she had more than one person to feed, why shouldn't she make breakfast? Garnet, Amethyst and Aquamarine had been successfully made, with no glitches so far. Besides, she thought, pushing glitches from her head, I need to eat. I've been living off hard candy and soda for two weeks. Go get some decent food.

Garnet woke up Amethyst when she smelled something. She, personally, had woken up when she smelled food. Honest-to-god food. Not that cheap microwave dinner crap, but home-cooked food. But when Garnet got to Amethyst's room, she was wide-awake. "I'm guessing you smelled it to, then?" Amethyst asked.

"Yeah. It smells wonderful, compared to recent events.", Garnet replied, sounding like a normal person, not some goth.

"Well, we'll be wanted sooner or later, so let's get down there." Amethyst said with a large smile.

When they got downstairs, they were shocked to see a young girl curled up in the armchair. She had light blue-green hair that was short. It was tied up into two small pigtails about halfway up her head. She was wearing a sweatshirt that matched her hair and a pair of denim shorts. As soon as she heard them, she sat up and smiled. "Ohan gatsu! I'm Aquamarine!" Aquamarine told Garnet and Amethyst.

"The one with all the spunk. I'm Amethyst, and this is Garnet." Amethyst returned Aquamarine's greeting. "And I smell breakfast. Let's go get some?"

The three cyborgs walked into the kitchen and found a white-haired, pale- purple-eyed, not-quite-teenager cooking breakfast. Diamond seemed to not take notice that the first three of her creations had smelled her cooking. Oh god, she thought, I've spent to long at a computer. I need to go back to gemstones, she thought with a large smile. "Brea....oh, you figured it out, huh?" Diamond stated, wheeling around. "Well, sit down, for crying out loud!"

As Diamond dished out the scrambled eggs, Aquamarine looked at herself. Sure, she was a normal-looking eleven year-old, but she wasn't human. From looking at the computers last night, she had amazing underwater abilities. Not that the computer had said all of them, of course, she had to find them. It had said the same things about her sisters. Garnet had the power of shattering walls with just a touch of her palm. Amethyst was able to see people's personalities, and see if they were lying or not. "Earth to Aquamarine, come in, Aquamarine." Garnet's voice penetrated Aquamarine's thoughts. "Breakfast isn't going to be around forever. Eat it before it freezes over." The girl named for March's birthstone noticed that there was food on a plate in front of her. She began to eat.

"Did I tell you why I named you for gemstones, and why I made you in the first place?" Diamond thought aloud, asking herself. The other three at the table wondered, too. Why had she?

"Tell us!" Amethyst exclaimed, for she really wanted to know why.

"When I was very little, my parents told me I had magic. It was no ordinary magic, either, judging by their voices. I had the ability to summon and use gemstones.

"I also had a sister, named Amber. We had to be the closest sisters could get. On her seventh birthday, she was kidnapped. My parents were totally driven mad by it. All they did was look for Amber. They completely forgot about me. So I left home." Diamond told them, telling them a huge part of her. After she had said these things, she took out a large pear-shaped diamond. All around it were different types of gemstones, precious and semi- precious. In the center, there was a heart-shaped piece of amber.