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"After you", amber bowed mockingly.
"Pfft, unnecessary" aqua said back. The two were meeting the rest of their team for the first time today. They had been told to meet at the building where the robbery occurred which luckily, wasn't too far from their personal chambers.
"This place is really weird" amber noted as she looked at the rooms around them, "why do all the rooms have windows?"
"Dunno but I kinda like it" aqua stopped suddenly, "this is it". The room in front of her appeared to be the only room in the building that didn't have windows rather than plain walls, the door had the words "meeting room 2" engraved onto looked around as aqua opened the door "wonder where meeting room 1 is" she muttered to herself.
Peridot and tourmaline looked up as the door opened, both feeling slightly relieved. The two had been sitting in awkward silence for the past 15 minutes and were glad someone else was gems walked in, one was wearing a dark blue dress and had light blue hair tumbling down their back while the other had short orange hair and a yellow dress with a brown band going across her torso.'those outfits seem improper' peridot thought to herself.
"Emm hello" the blue one said,"I'm aquamarine and this is amber" she gestured toward the other gem. All four gems just stared at each other for a moment before tourmaline broke the silence,"I'm tourmaline, this is obviously peridot" she said without moving, "jade should be arriving soon".
"Ok, well what should we do till then? "Amber asked the others.
"We could introduce ourselves a bit?" everybody stared at tourmaline as though she had suggested they go jump in lava. "I guess I'll go first then…my names tourmaline but you already knew that, I am a scientist who works around the clock to come up with ways to make new more efficient gems, I have been doing this since I emerged", she waved her hand at peridot, "your turn".
"I'm a peridot, I have no set job other than technician and engineer "Peridot crossed her arms and sat back in her chair, "which one of you are next".
"okaaay, I'm amber I cover surveillance of most of the 46th quadrant, in my spare time I meet up with aqua..…who is going to talk now" amber nodded in approval of her own little speech.
"my names aqua ,I cover most of the 45th quadrant in surveillance and meet up with amber in my spare time….jeez that was boring" aqua started to try and think if she had ever done anything more exiting but came up with nothing.
"Well that's it then" tourmaline added. They all continued to sit in silence after that.
A while later, the door opened again and jade walked in, everyone stared at her as she entered, "someone die or something? "She joked. "No but your late", peridot flat lined.
"Sorry lost track of time, I guess" jade replied.
Jade sat down with the others, "so what are we doing first then" she asked
Aqua pulled a small screen out of the bag she had slung over her shoulder and started typing figures onto it, "we should probably start by seeing if we can get a picture of the robber".
"But the power was off" tourmaline pointed out. Aqua thought to herself for a second, "we can check the cameras in the surrounding area to see if we can find anyone matching your description", she started going through videos in fast forward with amber watching next to her.
"STOP, go back" amber pointed at the screen, sure enough there was a blurry image of a small dark blue gem there, only just being caught by the camera's. Aqua continued typing "ill enhance it" she stated. Slowly the picture became clearer. Even with the enhanced photo you couldn't see the figures face or gem, but you could see their clothes. The gem was wearing a dark purple hoodie with a navy skirt and slightly lighter tights, she had no shoes on. "It's a start but clearly this person know how to avoid cameras" aqua said.
"What exactly did she take?" jade asked turning to other gem looked at the picture while she talked "she took all the info from my computer and the formula for a new gem I just came up with" she said slightly proud of her accomplishment.
"Why would she want that?" peridot questioned. Tourmaline shrugged in reply, "to sell?" , Amber shook her head, "that's unlikely, people sell working gems like pearls or peridots, no one would be interested in a gem that hasn't been made yet.".
"well either way, it's our job to find her, so let's get out on the streets and ask around" jade said confidently, "we should go in pairs, well I'll go alone,emmm peridot with amber and aqua with tourmaline"
"what!"
"cant me and amber just stay together"
"no way! I don't wanna be stuck with the peridot!"
Jade rubbed her temples "stop arguing and go, I am above all of you, remember?",the other stayed quiet, "think of it as a…..teamwork exercise!...yeah"
Tourmaline and aqua walked around the 45th quadrant aimlessly, "where are we supposed to go?" tourmaline asked.
"dunno maybe one of those places, what are the called, where people go to meet their friends and stuff".tourmaline looked confused for a second "oh, you mean a recreation room?"
"yeah that's it,theres one near here right?". Tourmaline nodded "it's this way".
When the two arrived at the recreation room there was almost no-one walked up to the manager, "why is it so empty in here?" aqua wondered aloud.
"it gets busier at dark" the tall gem replied from behind the counter,"names spinel, what can I do for ya".Tourmaline didn't think she'd ever seen someone be so casual. Aqua held up the picture of the gem, " have you seen this gem?" she asked. Spinel thought for a moment, " well there's a few gems who come in here dressed similar to that…" she replied.
"that's great, do you know their names?" tourmaline said.
"hmmm, tanzanite, blue topaz and lazulite, I don't know their facets or anything, just that" spinel recounted.
"ugh its fine I think I know who they are"aqua said back to spinel.
"you do?" tourmaline replied, surprised.
"yeah they're troublemakers, I've had to make like a million and one reports about them" aqua told the other gems.
"Do you know where to find them?" tourmaline asked her team member.
"yep, let's go."the two gems turned around and headed towards the door.
"did you mean yes" spinel heard tourmaline ask.
"no I meant yep" aqua said as she went out the door.
"good luck" she said as the automatic door closed behind them.
AN: okaaaaay, that's chapter two done, next chapter we will see what amber and peridot are doing, btw it's not the peridot from the show, encase you hadn't worked that out, she's on .Any way see you never next chapter!