Fluorite The Anarchist
Part 1
"Hey she's not waking up."
"Check for anomalies."
"But she seems to have formed perfectly! The hole is fine."
"Wait- check out her teeth."
"Oh stars! Her upper front teeth are larger than the rest."
"I've seen it before. It's a mutation in the ingredients. Get her off the ground and into the nearest terminal."
A jolt of energy shocked me and woke me up. I gasped and scrambled to sit up. Standing before me was a Peridot holding a jolt baton. She smirked. "Good to see that you're awake now. Stand up." Following her order I stood up. That's when I noticed my hair. It was multi-colored with green, grey, and purple. And it was in my face. Quickly I pushed it back and got a better view of my environment. A green room with a dashboard of controls and several pieces of equipment hanging up on the walls. "You are Fluorite Cut 7W2 of Facet 3B. Follow me and I'll show you to your new manager." Without hesitation Peridot started walking out of the room and I walked along side her. "You know what you do right?" Peridot asked me. "I'm a Fluorite. We are guards for buildings and also soldiers if ever a war to happen." Peridot nodded her head, happy with my answer. "Do you know which Diamond you belong to?" She asked me. I opened my mouth to answer, but she beat me to the punch. She pointed to my uniform and poked my chest, and there it was. A Pink Diamond insignia. "Pink Diamond." The name made me smile. Pink Diamond sounded wonderful. Perfect and brilliant and amazing. "I wanna meet her." I whispered out loud. Peridot turned her head and she looked surprised. "Did you say something?" She asked. "No." I lied. She turned back around and I blushed. From what I know, the Diamonds are busy, they're important, they don't have time for a insignificant Fluorite. Stupid.
The Peridot I had followed led me to a room full of other Fluorites. In this room had a raised platform with a dashboard and screen with it. Standing on it was a Topaz and two quartz. An Onyx and a Jasper, both weeding out the rejects with their eyes. I got in a group and I saw all around me that there was more of a variety than I thought. Some Fluorites had a purple base with mint green hair, all equally long, while others were more blue with just grey hair. All of us looked as if we were confused or lost. Except for one. She was walking up to the platform and stood beside Topaz. She looked extremely different from any of us, her hair was pulled back into a minty green braid and her uniform wasn't just a standard V Neck with a diamond on it. She wore a cape that tied around her neck, her gem was in the middle of her chest and in the center of a Pink Diamond. Her blue eyes were cold and remorseless. She spoke, and her voice echoed through the room catching all of our attention. "Fellow Fluorites! I have called upon you all to assign you your manager. It will either be I or Topaz, and when we call on your serial number, step forward. I will answer questions about what will happen and how it will work before we assign you to your stations." I raised my hand first and Topaz pointed to me. "Yes?" The Fluorite asked. "Will we belong to a crew or does our manager send us off individually to different stations?" I asked her. "Both. We sometimes need a team of Fluorites, sometimes only one. Next!" Only five others raised their hands, but the answers were plain and simple as the question themselves. That's when I became curious. I raised my hand again, and I was picked again. "How did you climb up the ranks to become a manager?" I asked. The Fluorite stayed quiet, then turned to the Topaz. She nodded her head and she spoke. "She did her job right, and proved that she was worthy of the rank. Maybe one day you will become something greater than just a Fluorite, but it's very unlikely." Topaz answered. "No more questions! Time for assignments." Fluorite announced. "Cut 8H0 of Facet 6M!" Fluorite shouted. Beside me, a Fluorite that consisted of blue, grey, and purple walked forward. "Yes?" She said. "You are assigned to Topaz and will be shipped out to escort a Lapis Lazuli along with Cut 9E7, Cut 2T4, Cut 4V5 all of Facet 1C." All at once three more Fluorites stepped forward and grouped together. The Onyx above jumped down and escorted the group out of the room.
Little by little our numbers decreased, until it was only me. "Cut 7W2 of Facet 3B." Fluorite said. I took a step forward even though I was alone. "Yes?" I asked them. "You will be assigned to the newly installed Kindergarten of Facet 4. You are to stand guard and ward away any insects that try to burrow into the ground. You'll be trained on site, so get going. We don't have long." Her Jasper then escorted me quickly to the exit and shoved me into a ship. Then Fluorite and Jasper walked in. The door closed and we took off.
The ride to my new station seem like it took decades to reach. I was shoved headfirst into all of this without warning, with any briefing. I was stuck in between a Jasper and a Fluorite who both out ranked me, and no one said a word. I wanted to ask questions, but I knew that would get me in trouble. So instead I just bit my bottom lip. That's when Fluorite looked over at me. "You have a defect?" She asked me. I stopped and touched my top front teeth. They were big, and caused me to have an overbite. "I didn't notice. Is it bad?" I asked her. She smiled, revealing her overbite. "I have one as well." I smiled back, but then she returned back to her stern personality. "Don't get your hopes up. You were the Fluorite that asked how I came to be a manager of gems. This defect won't give you a leg up. I'll make you look defective. Unless you can summon your weapon." I straightened up. "My weapon? How do I get it?" Did they make me a weapon? Where was it? "No gem will give you a weapon, you have to be able to summon one. If you can't then you really just are a defective Fluorite." She told me. She then stood up and her gem had started glowing, and a stick of light appeared from it. She pulled it out and it spun out into a bow. She then aimed it at me and launched an arrow at me. I ducked, but it shot through me, right next to my gem on my torso. I started freaking out, trying to tug it out, but then I realized, it didn't hurt. "My arrows have three kinds. Spectral, arrows that can pierce through a gem's form, and disorient the gem. Lethal, they can kill. And Stun, to freeze my enemy to finish them off." Fluorite informed me. The Jasper beside me started laughing and pulled out my arrow, I yelped and covered the spot where the arrow was. "Each gem's weapon is unique to them depending of gem placement. If you can defend yourself with your own weapon, and you'll do fine." Warned me. I nodded my head and crossed my arms. This was going to be nerve wracking.