Hello ^ ^

Hope you enjoyed the first chapter X'D

And I hope you were able to guess who Cymophane was, I'd be a bit surprised if ya did actually . .

It was Jirachi X3

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I'll post the next one in the next chapter like always XD

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Just beyond the reach of Earth's exosphere, satellites and space junk circling the planet helpless against its gravity, one would see an unusual sight. An enormous, green hand to be precise. Slowly drifting further away from the planet. Aboard the oddly designed space faring vessel are 2 newly freed, small creatures. Through unknown powers, they had been brought together. With no other option, one of the two had to trust the other. The other in question she could not tell if they were aware of her uncertainty, but it was irrelevant at that time.

Steven and Cymophane have been quietly yet swiftly moving through the twisting and turning passages of the ship. Neither of the two had any real idea where to look, and weren't willing to split up else they get lost or found by their captors. Throughout their navigating, the newly "befriended" gem was having an inner dilemma.

'I should… We'd be able to escape without a problem… No, no I can't be certain that the boy wouldn't just capture us…' the gem was lost in thought, absently following Steven, she really shouldn't have been daydreaming, now of all times.

'But he seems so nice. Nicer than those monsters on Homeworld… I really should. But I did last time and look where we are…' she didn't realise that they had stopped moving, and Steven had been talking with someone. His and the new person's voices were muffled to her. Cymophane combed her fingers into her hair in frustration, unable to make a decision on what she should do.

'Ugh… Green Amber would make this so much easier… She could just-' a loud thud resonated through the gem's mind, breaking her out of the clouds. The jester like gem finally noticed that Steven had stopped them in front of a new cell, a gem she didn't recognised was inside, sitting against the wall, seemingly throwing a tantrum. It appeared to be a Ruby, a rather common soldier type gem. She wore a fairly standard uniform that most Rubies wear, a maroon tank top and burgundy shorts. A pair of similarly maroon boots and a maroon sash was tied around her square, dark burgundy coloured hair. She had bright scarlet skin and dark red eyes. Her gemstone was located in the palm of her left hand with a square facet. It looked like Steven was equally startled by the noise as he was just getting himself up from falling over. The ruby seemed less the impressed, a scowl riddling their expression as they moved their fist from the wall behind them.

"Great! This is just perfect!" the small scarlet gem exclaims, throwing their arms into the air. She begins to clutch her head, gripping her hair tightly, making Cymophane wince slightly. She moves besides Steven, the pair sparing a concerned glance.

"Uh... Do ya need help firecracker?" The jester asks, slightly amused at the fit the Ruby was throwing. Steven was hanging on the weird nickname.

"No! I mean- I don't want anything from you!" She growls at Cymophane. Steven looks a bit unsure what to do, looking from the White gem to the Red, lingering on the latter. Ruby notices he was watching her, causing her to flinch.

"D-Don't look at me!" She shrieks, curling up and rolling over so she faved away from the two visitors. "Just go away..."

Steven and Cymophane exchange uncertain and confused faces respectively. "So... I guess she ain't with ya then?" the white and gold gem asks the hybrid.

"Well-"

"Hey, wait!" Ruby had jolted upright as the situation dawned on her. Her outburst jarred the pair outside the barrier. The red gem gets up to her feet and approaches the wall dividing her from Steven and Cymophane. "You're out! How did you get out of the field?" Ruby asks, acting quite desperate for some reason. She frowns at the gem beside the boy again. "Are you with them? Where are you taking Steven!" she demands, steam starting to pour off her body, unlike with Cymophane, it there was a lot more, dense and hot. The gem under scrutiny raised her hands in mock surrender, waving them while shaking her head, the tags on her hair whiling back and forth.

"Whoa what? No no no, I'm just taggin' along!" The jester gem denies, not finding the little soldier gem funny anymore.

"LIAR!" Ruby roars, lunging towards the gem, but the destabiliser field sits between them, which in hindsight the fiery gem should of remembered. She is electrocuted, screaming more in anger rather then pain, before both the crackling electricity and Ruby are silenced as she poofs, her gemstone clacking against the cold floor.

Steven is completely aghast with what he witnessed. It was like with Garnet all over again. He's pale and shaking like a leaf. A hand clutches his shirt over his gemstone as he starts to go into shock. He should of stepped in before the gem attacked. He could of just opened the barrier for her. He could of pushed her back before she touched it. He could of...

He feels a foreign hand placed on his shoulder, another on the other. Steven blinks, and notices Cymophane before him, talking. He doesn't hear her at first, but sound soon returns.

"-ven? Hey kid? Ya there?" the gem jostles Steven softly. She didn't expect him to react in such a way when the Ruby tried to attack her for whatever reason.

"Hey, it's ok. She's just knocked out, is all." Cymophane gestures to the ruby gemstone sitting before the barrier. "Gem destabiliser tech doesn't knock out gems for long, so she'll be up in no time." Steven sniffles, wiping tears away with the back of his arm.

"I want to bring her." He says, more like stating then requesting. Cymophane nods.

"I think ya should." she regards the hybrid, smirking. "She knew your name. Isn't that funny?" Steven hadn't notice that. How did she know him? He reached into the barrier and grasped her gemstone. He used another hand to slide the hand grasping the ruby through without touching the field. He didn't want to know what's happen if a gemstone touched it. Cymophane withdrew a large piece of fabric from her gemstone, and wrapped the ruby within, then returned it to Steven who fastened it across his chest, keeping the stone safe and a lot more unlikely to get damaged. As he fastened the knot, a voice drifts down the halls, the same as before. A ghostly harmony in the air as it sings. It lasts shortly then ends.

"We gotta keep movin' kid. We need to get off before they make the jump to hyperspace" Cymophane states. Steven nods, and the pair bolt down a random corridor they hadn't yet used. As they had reached a intersection of paths, they stopped.

"Oh geez not now! Which way do we go?" Steven cries, trying to see down each path. They can't linger for long, it was too risky where they stood. "Lets try this way!" Steven suggests, the gem not having any ideas herself let him lead. Before they continued, a voice once again filled the air. However, it wasn't the one heard the first few times.

"It's a different voice." Steven points out. It was not any less beautiful then the other, but Steven couldn't help but feel it seemed kind of... Lonely.

"Fluorite?" Steven turns to see Cymophane looking around, as if trying to focus on the sound's origin. "That's Fluorite singing!" She exclaims, searching more frantically. Steven tries to help, cupping his ears and closing his eyes, moving past each corridor. He stops and opens his eyes, looking down the hall that had the strongest volume of the others.

"It's coming from here!" He chimes, causing the white and gold gem to rush past him. He follows on her heels, his stubby legs working overtime today. They were reaching another intersection when Steven noticed another voice hidden within the song. It was sort of nasaly, high and gut wrenchingly familiar. Peridot! Steven reached out and grabbed the ribbons flowing behind the gem leading them and pulled. just stopping her before she entered the intersecting pathway. She was about to protest when she heard the approaching thudding steps and voice. She pressed up next to Steven, back against the wall as they made themselves as flat as possible.

"We can't leave yet!" Peridot protested as she walked a step behind the hulking form of Jasper. They passed without noticing them, clearly distracted. As they left the view of the hall, Steven moved to the opposite wall, Cymophane mimicking, standing behind as he peeked around the corner. Probably for the best since her outrageously large hair would be impossible to hide. The technician and warrior gems stopped before a occupied cell, another beside it. "The whole point of coming here was to check on the Cluster!" Peridot continued arguing. Neither Steven or Cymophane had any idea what she was talking about, but a very abrupt smash of Jasper's fist into the wall between the two cells cut the green gem's whinging short.

"Stop singing!" She bellows. Silence rings through the hall as who Cymophane assumed was Fluorite clammed up. "Rose Quartz takes priority." She turns to Peridot, jabbing a finger at her. "Get back to the bridge and set a course for Homeworld" she demands before storming away. Peridot is unsatisfied with the results, but knows she can't convince the larger gem. So she turns around, heading back to the control panel and past the boy and jester, muttering.

"'Go to Earth' they said. 'It'll be easy' they said." her feet clanking as she leaves, sulking. Steven takes another glance, and sees two gems standing before their forcefields. Neither he recognises.

"They're gone. Keep singing." The smaller one encourages the taller one in the cell beside her. The other gem complies, and resumes harmonising. Steven and Cymophane emerge from their hiding spot and dash to the cells.

"Fluorite!" The white and gold gem giggles as she stops before the taller gem's cell.

"Cymophane! You actually got out?" the now named Fluorite asks, seemingly in disbelief. Steven approaches the other smaller gem, not wanting to repeat what happened with Ruby.

"Hi, need some help?" He offers.

"You escaped." The gem says in a almost matter-of-fact way. Steven reaches his arm into the barrier, splitting it. "Of course." She says, this time as if in understanding. Steven steps in fully and creates a doorway for her to get through.

"C-c-c'mon e-ev-verything's-s f-f-fine!" He tries to encourage the unknown gem, who lifts the hem of her dress and walks through without a inkling of hesitation.

"Thank you Steven" she says as he steps out of the field.

"You're welcome!" The hybrid puts his hands on his hips in what he feels is a heroic way. He suddenly realised that it had happened again. "Hey wait a sec, how did you know my name like that other gem?" He asks.

"'Other gem'?" the small gem returns the question? But then notices the sash with a bulge on Steven's chest, realising what had happened. "Oh, I see." She states. Before she could answer, Cymophane begins hollering for Steven.

"Yo kid! I need ya to let my bud out!" She beckons the hybrid over like he was a stray kitten.

"I'm hardly your friend." The taller gem scoffs.

"Oh hush up or I'll leave ya in there."

"Do it, I don't need your help getting out." She folds her arms and looks away from Cymophane, who also seems unamused, then shrugs, sighing.

"Same ol' Fufu." She chuckles. The taller gem's head snaps forward as she looks suddenly irate.

"I told you to never call me that!" she shrieks. Steven is a bit uncomfortable, but finds a strange joy out of their bickering, as it reminds him of Pearl and Amethyst. He cuts in between the pair as he steps into the barrier, making a doorway and startling Fluorite.

"P-p-pas-s-sage f-for one?" He smiles, but it fails to impress as the taller gem ignores the whit or simply didn't understand, instead slipping through the small space, and gracefully rising to her feet. After Steven had left the field, he took a moment to analyse the two new gems.

The shorter gem was blue skinned and had baby blue hair with bangs that conceal the top half of her face, which has only her full lipped mouth visible. She wore white gloves that reached to her elbows and a blue, flowing gown that reached to the ground. White, round puffy sleeves and a blue pinafore. The underside of her dress is a mass of frills that hide her legs. They are a plethora of tones of blue, resembling a geode. She stands around the same height as Steven and Cymophane. Her gemstone was blue and has a triangle facet in her right hand.

Fluorite has similar milky white skin as Cymophane, though only her legs, fingers and face were visible. Most of her body was covered in a unusual one piece dress crossed with a morphsuit. It was a dark faded brown in colour. It covered everywhere except those previous parts that show skin. The suit covers her face just around the jaw line, then expands into hard sort of sleeve over her hands that are highlighted with a light blue tip. They also have a split at her right thigh and convert into a dress, covering her left leg further down before tapering off. A large green sash is tied around her waist with a bow behind her back. She doesn't seem to have normal looking legs, as they end in thin stilt looking blue "boots". Her hair flows down the left side of her body, green and ends in square segments that seem to follow a pattern of lines covering her hair, reaching below her knees. There are light blue spots dotting these lines randomly, looking similar to a music sheet. On the right side of her head is a headphone with a built in microphone. There are two pieces of the headphone floating above it, what they did wasn't clear. Sharp light blue eyes scan the hall. A matching thin oval shaped gem sits in her forehead with a circlet accentuating it. She matches Pearl in height and in her no nonsense attitude.

"Have you found Pink Star?" Fluorite asks Cymophane, who shakes her head, looking worried.

"No. Me an' Steven have looked through most of th' ship already, but it's hard ta tell with all th' connecting pathways." She explains. Fluorite sighs, glancing at the small blue gem.

"Sapphire, I'll have to trust you. Do you know where a gem called Pink Star is?" The taller gem asks. Sapphire "hmm'd", then looks towards a nearby hallway.

"If we continue onwards down that way, we will find our remaining friends." She calmly states. Fluorite regards Cymophane who has a brow raised in intrigue. The group begin to quickly move down the corridor. Fluorite falls in beside Cymophane.

"She has future vision, but not as sharp" she whispers out of earshot of the other two occupants in the room. The jester nods in understanding, then looks expectantly at her tall companion, who shakes her head in understanding. "We don't know if we can trust them with it." It was all Cymophane needed to reaffirm her beliefs. Even if it was Fluorite, she was glad to have a familiar face close to her again.