I sit there, prepping myself for another day of . Another long day. Being an adventurer is hard, and who knows what will need killing today? Oh, I almost forgot to introduce myself.
My name is Ametrine. I am a fusion of an amethyst and a ruby. My weapon is a sort of whip, like most amythyst have, but with a big fist gauntlet on the end, like a ruby. Now, that may seem like it is impossible to wield, but when you can carry 1000 pounds it's not. Right. The story.
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Suddenly I hear a beep from the screen in my living space. I walk up to it, expecting to find another message about how fusions suck and I should unfuse because there is no war, and other annoying homeworld stuff like about how I'm a fighter and should be bodyguarding some dumb gem in a higher caste than me, blah blah blah.
But it is much more than I expected. A message has popped up on my screen, one I never would have dreamed of; "You and a group of rubies will be going to earth. But you cannot go unless you unfuse. Go to central square immediately. Unfuse and take warp pad id#4465680 with the 3 rubies provided." I check to see who has sent this message. Unknown. Funny, because most of the high caste gems would put their names in due to their big egos, and low caste gems cannot give orders to a quartz/ruby.
So I unfused, got dressed, and headed to the nearest warp pad.
Then I warped to central square. It was crowded. Pearls rushing to get food for their masters, Peridots grabbing electronic parts from booths, and a few bismuth building a small temple.
Me, unfused
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Standing by our transport were three short rubies. The rubies all surrounded the two parts of me as we jumped onto the warp pad. Both of us closed our eyes, and in a brilliant flash of light, we were gone.
Chapter 2
When we opened our eyes, we were definitely somewhere else. A crazy busy city of some sort, with tall metal towers surrounding us. And humans. Humans everywhere. In their weird metal moving things, On the stone slabs we were on, entering the towers, everywhere!
"Nice costumes! What are they?" said one human.
"Costume?" Amethyst asked.
"Wow, method acting? Cool." Answered the male person. Then he walked away.
"Any idea what that was?" Asked Ruby.
"None." Said Amethyst.
The other rubies turned towards us and gem saluted.
"Greetings quartz. Greetings Ruby," The one with the bellybutton gem said. "Your mission: find who has stopped the cluster. Report back to us. Our mission: head back home. Use your portable screen to contact us once you have found the culprit. No fusing." And with that, they disappeared.
"Fuse?" asked Amethyst.
"Let's do it." said Ruby.
And I will tell you, it felt good to be me again. My purple hair whipped in the wind as I trekked towards a sign; Welcome to Beach City.
