Sapphire took her first tentative step from the space craft, eyeing the rocky outcroppings of the kindergarten in front of her. It was bustling with gems of all sorts, some Lesser Gems were hauling around heavy machinery and Greater gem messing around on electrical control boards. From what she could see there were a few guards posted around the canyon, all seeming nervous and taunt.

"Paragon Sapphire."

Sapphire looked down the exit ramp to a Citrine bowing to her at the end. As she hurried her decent the gem lifted slightly to meet her. "Forgive my tardiness. I was commanded to greet you upon your arrival, but was unable to navigate the crowds of workers."

"N-no. I understand, its quiet alright." Sapphire said, wondering down to touch the dry ,crunching earth with her foot for the first time. "I believe the ship was early."

"Its still no excuse on my part Paragon." Citrine stated, standing still next to the blue gem, towering at least two feet above her. "I am to take you to the commander , whom will brief you upon the situation you have just entered. Speed is of the upmost urgency."

"I understand." The younger gem agreed, allowing the Citrine to take up the lead through the cluster of workers. "Though there's really no need to report this to your superior. I am still a head of schedule."

It could have been Sapphire's imagination, but the gem in front of her seem to relax minutely. As the Citrine waded them through the crowds, many of the lesser gems paused their current work to step out of their way. As a path clear in front of them and swallowed behind, Sapphire couldn't help but marvel at the efficiency of it all. The hum of mercenary and the echos of drills, with many gem hustling newly born shells to pre-set location to settle. It was amazing to see first hand.

Citrine notice when the gem behind her started to slow. "It is a bit to take in at first but the commander dearly requests to be introduced to you as soon as possible. Please follow me as quickly as you are able." The amber gem winced slightly as she began to lead sapphire up the steps towards a an overlooking station.

Sapphire easily caught up to Citrine's side on the clear stairway and looking over the rail was able to see the massive operation with better clarity. Yet she put that aside for now and followed Citrine to the large doorway.

The gem knocked on the door before opening it for the small blue sapphire behind her. "Paragon Sapphire has arrived my commander." Citrine announced, leading into the room and before a large black gem with braided grey hair. The commander was a towering entity with thick muscled arms and small red eyes. She was easily 10 feet tall, an imposing presence for the 4 foot sapphire. As the colossal leader turned to face them the Citrine bowed. "Paragon Sapphire, this is Commander Jet."

"That will be all, back toy your station Citrine." Jet grumbled watching the still bowed gem back from the room, closing the door with her. Sapphire looked nervously to the Commander as the black gem turned to the map she had been studying before their arrival. All was silent and the blue gem wondered if she should speak to the massive leader until Jet turned to her again. "Come over here." Jet snapped, causing Sapphire to catch a glimpse of a her gem hidden in her tongue.

Sapphire scurried to the table and had to clamber up on a nearby rock to look over the edge of the desk. Jet watched her struggle to her feet before commenting. "I thought they'd be sending someone a little taller."

"W-well I'm sorry Commander Jet, I was the only one available..." Sapphire stuttered, looking to her feet.

'Or the only one expendable.'

"You have the future sight I requested?" Jet asked narrowing her eyes down to the blue gem. "Don't you?"

"Yes Commander."

"Then it is of no consequence what the container looks like." Jet said gruffly, she turned to stare out the observation port windows, not moving from her place near the table. "You were brought here to help us diffuse some trouble makers. The last commander stationed here has gone rouge. She's gone insane and dragged some of the workers off with her ,some kind of twisted loyalty. At first I was only worried about replacing the substantial numbers she managed off with, but then she began to attack the facility. " Jet turned to Sapphire with a dark glare. "She's put us months behind on our quota and gem are dying. She needs to be put DOWN. Your job is to find her and her camp, as well as predict any more attacks she may send to the kindergarten."

"Commander... future sight doesn't really work like that-"

"I am well aware how it works." Jet snarled, causing Sapphire to flinch. "Keep a dam eye out for any attacks that maybe coming for us in the future and report any vision you get to me, and me alone." At Sapphire's rapid nodded the commander snorted. "Your other task I mentioned has to do with your stealth level. Your file has you listed at a level four. While its not much, its better then the rest of the dolt down there." Jet pointed aggressively to the map. "This black mark here is the kindergarten, and these red marking show us possible place the rebels could be hiding."

Sapphire felt her eyes widen behind her bangs at the sight of the massive red cloud that hung over the map. It was a daunting task, especially since she had no special training.

"Your future sight should help you dispel any possible place. It deals with fact, correct?" Jet grumbled.

"Yes Commander."

"Well since the camp is already situated, it shouldn't change its placement for future visions of its location. So long as we do not send a large amount of gem out to search for it, they should feel no need to move it." Jet pointed to sapphire gruffly, frowning deeply. "This mission calls for a lot of study and foot travel. You'll be scouting for their camp out in the wilderness. Do you think you can handle this?"

No, not really. Sapphire had no knowledge of the planet, who she was looking for or what kind of danger awaited her, but returning home a failure was not an option. "Y-es."

Jet narrowed her eyes tightly, looking down at the blue gem before nodding. "Very well. You'll have all my books, charts and maps at your disposal. You get a week of study before I send you out for your first recon."

"W-what kind of dangers could I face, Commander?" Sapphire questioned hesitantly.

"Ah yes, your battle level is low isn't it." Jet frowned, pulling up a paper Sapphire quickly recognized as her record. "Well, to be expected by some one of your size and social ranking. Your weapon is a... Spiked Knucklebuster? Hm, a bit physical and close combat for your type." Jet set the paper hastily back to the table with a grumble. "Well, I'll get you an escort."

Jet tugged a portable wailing stone from her pocket, turning it on with a harsh mash of the button. "Topaz! I need a serf gem." She paused at the garbled response Sapphire couldn't make out. "How about from the reserves? We need one that is battle trained. Any of the superfluous ones will do." the response that came caused Jet to roll her eyes, annoyed. "Any one of them. Pick the one you hate the most or one that is at closet arms reach, just send it up to me." With that the call was ended.

Jet the produced another wail stone from her pocket and threw to Sapphire, who barley caught it in time. "That is yours. Use it to contact me with any information or visions you have. Its a privet line and will only contact myself."

"Yes commander." Sapphire sighed as she examined the device in her hand. She had used them before, and it wasn't a difficult tool to understand. She had just slipped it into her pocket when there was a knock at the door.

A white gem with short, no nonsense blue hair stepped inside. She didn't bow when she settled her eyes on Jet, but merely tugged a small red gem in behind her. The smaller gem as shorter than Sapphire was, if just by a few inches. Her right arm was in the white gem's tight grip, twisted at what had to be an uncomfortable angle, not the figure was attempting protest.

"Ah Topaz, as efficient as ever." Jet nodded, barely sparing the red gem a glance.

"Yes, I have Ruby number... erhm-" Topaz paused to wrench the ruby closer and look her in the face. Sapphire could not hear what conversed between the two, or even see with the angle of the ruby's head, but she was soon push back into place. "Ruby number 'A113' "

"Just write her off the roster, she's got a new duty from now on." Jet said pulling out a stack of paperwork from her table. Topaz simple tossed the ruby into the room and left , clearly believing her duty was done.

The Ruby came to Sapphire's side and given the moment Sapphire studied her new escort. The girl was toned, but nothing outlandish, and she seemed very fit. She was dressed in what seemed to be a regulation outfit and had thick, curly black hair framing her face, with a mess of curls creating a blanket of bangs on her head. Her posture was stiff and unwinding, while her eyes held a heavy, distant gaze.

Sapphire was pulled back as a set of heavy books and papers were psuhed into her arms. "Heres some material to get you started. Your room is down the stairs and into the tunnels. Room 20. The ruby-" Jt jutted her thumb out towards the red gem. "-is your personal assistant and body guard. Just say the command and she's already started. Right?" Jet turned her glare to the ruby, who stood slightly straighter in response. That seemed to be enough for her leader however as she turned back to Sapphire with a nodded. "She's trained to fight and bend over backwards for her superiors. When your out in the field don't worry about her wellbeing to much. The Injectors pop one Ruby fragment into the ground and ten more spring up, we can replace it easily if you brake this one. Right?" Jet this time poked the ruby square in the face. It winced a bit and shut its eyes, but did nothing else. "Well its a good time to test out the hardware. She one of the first batches off the line here."

"She was born here?" Sapphire asked, looking to the ruby again around the papers in her arms. "I-I though this facility was only in operations 10 years."

"It is." Jet smirked patting the Ruby on the head. "We finally have a proper training program to mature Gem much more quickly than we ever thought possible. While it normally takes Gems fifty years to properly mature this ones 10 now and she's already a well oiled machine. Imagine how she'll be in a few hundred years."

Sapphire... was unsure of such a development. When she had been ten years old she hardly understood how to summon her weapon. "Was this approved by the Diamond authority?"

Jet chuckled darkly she looked back to the Ruby who's head she had under her large hand. "Sapphire, it was ordered by the Diamond Authority." She smiled with a shrug. "Much more organized now that we don't have to worry about the slow passing nursery phase." Jet finally hefted herself back to her feet, using the Ruby push up with. "Alright. Take those book and escort Paragon Sapphire to her room. Once that task is done she will be your new organizer. Follow her orders, unless you'd like me to retrain you personally."

The Ruby shivered slightly but took the heavy burden from Sapphire's arms, before starting for the door. Sapphire was stunned for a moment before she began after the gem, looking back to see Jet bending over her map again. She shuffled uncertainly before hurrying after the other, out of the room.

When the door shut Jet smiled darkly to the map before she reach up to her mouth, forming her weapon and pulling the large Claymore from her throat .She chuckled as she swung the weapon as easily as one would a butterfly knife, before she impaled it deep into the table, right up to the sword's rain guard. The map fluttered uselessly with sword pinning it to the table right through the red marked areas.

"The court is mine Rose Quarts."


Hey guys, *whistles* I have NOT written a story in a while! Not since the- the mysterious file deletions of twenty eleven and- and one of my finished stories over 10,000 words having its words changed over to lines,... SOMEHOW! Ah it still hurts.

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