Life was all the same for little Rub-E on planet Earth.

Today, though, she was walking around. Piling up trash and using her strength to crush it into a shape she could work with. Once that is done, she would pile it up along with others of its shape to create neat stacks of worthless and valuable items. Though while doing so she found something of interest while stacking the piles of trash, so she places her rough palms on the item that was lodged into some other stuff and pulled as hard as she could.

Eventually, when she pulled out the item she fell back slightly, quickly getting to her feet. The item in her palm was a circular metal item that must have been a top for a metal trashcan or something like that. She kept it with her and placed it in her backpack. just at that moment, a small brown insect climbed onto her shoulder, a roach it seems.

She smiled at it and continued walking through the sorta-clear paths she made. While walking she could see the lifeless buildings and extremely large monuments of the rulers of the gem race, taking short glances at them then continuing on her short journey while her small insect is friend taking refuge on her broad shoulders.

Some walking later, she made it to her home. She lives in a large piece of equipment that was once used for picking up and compressing all the trash, though it is old and stuck in place, unable to move but it still works. Its big enough to house a good amount of gems, but she stores items that she finds while cleaning within it in neatly organized compartments.

She clicked on a button outside the large piece of equipment that she calls home and waited a few seconds, the large square like door lowered like a drawbridge slowly revealing her collection of many random items that she finds quite interesting. Once the large door was opened, she entered it and walked in momentarily clicking on a smaller button on the inside flicking on white lights that hung from the ceiling and smiles warmly.

She took off her dusty boots and put them to the side, after doing so she walked through a short isle and looked over to a random toaster sitting on a shelf. She pulled down the button on the toaster and a small VHS popped out, she grabbed it and looked over to a old VHS player that she has collected from cleaning over the many years and walked over to it, inserting the small VHS into it. She pulled out a small and fat old TV that she has also found. The video began to play on her TV. There was a group of gems, identity unknown, singing and dancing happily.

She allowed that to play and turned around, slinging her backpack from off of her back and letting it hit the floor. The roach that was once on her shoulder was now silently sitting on a metal shelf and watching Rub-E throw the backpack in front of her. Rub-E opened the backpack and took out the large circular top, examining it then looking through which shelf would best house the item. Once finding a spot, she places the item down and heads back over to her backpack, she looked back at the fuzzy film playing on her TV and smiled, momentarily looking back down at her bag. It had many smaller items stuffed within it. She quickly put those to place.

While walking back to her bag she could hear the music from the film in the back round playing slower and the voices were a little softer then they were earlier. She looked over to the TV and watched the film play, two gems were close to each other, singing in sync and getting closer to each other with every word released from their voices. Eventually they interlocked hands, Rub-E watched in awe as the film went on while slowly interlocking her hands together as well. When the song ended, she looked down at her hands, they were clasped together, and she smiled.

After that she headed back to her bag, it had some left over dirt from the random knickknacks that were once in there. She walked outside the small home and attempted to rid the bag of all the dirt and dust that was within it. A slight sandy breeze blew through the not so refreshing night air, she looked up to see the stars barely shining through clouds that filled the night sky and thought back to the song that was playing earlier on her old TV, thinking {this would be the perfect moment for the song to play...} and smiled to herself. Not even a few seconds later, a red light began to flash from the outside of her metal home, making a loud beeping noise which meant that there was a sand storm coming.

She looked around to her surroundings, quickly noticing clouds of sand billowing towards her. She emptied the bag as much as she could as quickly as possible and ran inside, quickly slamming her fists into the button that pulls her large drawbridge-like metal door up to close off the sand storm. Her roach friend was sitting outside the home in front of a light to heat up, she whistled for it to hurry up and come in. Noticing that the sandstorm was coming, the roach quickly scrambled inside. The door closed behind it.

When she knew that her friend was as safe as she was, she looked to her shelves and notices that there were a few candies on it and grabbed one, opened it, and placed it down for her friend to munch on. She let out a soft sigh and looked over to a small mattress that she found in an old but still intact store not so far from here. She walked over to it and plopped down on it. Momentarily dozing off.