Ruby slammed her door to her apartment shut, ignoring her roommate Rusty who yelled at her about it being rude to slam doors, she stomped to her room which she also slammed that door as well. She was pacing in her room, burning with angry, glaring down as she watched burnt foot prints start to form where she walked which only made her anger grow even hotter.
What the hell was wrong with Berry?! She was NOT trained to be a spy! How the hell was she suppose to do good on the mission if she wasn't even trained to do it!
She was a soldier, damn it!
With a growl of frustration she slammed her fist into her closet door without summoning her glove, breaking through the wood with ease. She glared down at her slightly stinging hand, choosing to ignore the slowly growing ache, she stormed out of her room to the kitchen to make something.
Ever since they had discovered Earth, some gems on Homeworld had picked up some of the habits the 'humans' did.
Some of the habits most picked up were building homes, making clothes, even creating art and music, but the most common habit picked up was cooking or baking.
Although most gems found cooking and the consumption of food disgusting, Ruby actually thought of it as an interesting pass time.
Rusty had thought it was disgusting at first, that is until she saw how it calmed down her fiery friend's temper, than she slowly actually grew to like Ruby's cooking once she tried it.
After about four hours, Ruby was finally calmed enough where she did not burn the carpet every time she stepped onto it. Although there were some places in the kitchen she had burnt while she had been cooking.
Her vivid red eyes look over at Rusty who had been standing there the whole time silently leaning against the door frame with arms folded watching the angry red gem cook countless of different foods and sweets that could probably feed every single gem in their entire apartment building, probably even more than that.
They stood there staring at each other for a moment, than Rusty very slowly reached toward a certain dish after she had grabbed a fork in her other hand. The dreadlocked rust colored gem slowly backed away out of the kitchen, keeping her eyes on the fiery gem as she retreated into the living room with the dish in her hands.
Ruby rolled her eyes smirking slightly, her roommate was such a weird gem but she was a good friend.
After giving out most of the food to their neighbors that would take some, she grabbed her own dish of food and joined Rusty in the living room to watch whatever was on.
Rusty glanced over at her bright eyed friend after they had both finished their food, she wanted to ask what had bothered her friend earlier but she did not wish to enrage her friend again. She highly doubted they had enough ingredients in their apartment for Ruby to go on another cooking spree.
Taking a deep ,unneeded breath, Rusty turned to her friend while they were washed the dirty dishes in the kitchen.
She asks gently, "So, do you wanna talk about earlier?"
Ruby narrowed her eyes as she looked at her friend "Commander wants me to get into Rose Quartz army and spy on them, to find their weaknesses, than report them back here so we can come up with a better idea of how to attack next. "
Rusty frowns, well that wasn't as bad as she expected, "Really? That's it?"
Ruby's eyes grew slightly brighter red, getting slightly annoyed at the tone of her friend's voice, she growled softly "and what do you mean by that?"
Almost instantly the rust colored gem put up her soap covered hands, ignoring the soapy water that ran down her red brown hued skin, "N-Nothing bad! I was just….I dunno expecting something bigger...like... someone mentioning your height again."
She instantly regretted bring up height as she watched the water around Ruby's hands start to boil, the red gem snarled "What's wrong with my height?"
She backed away from her friend, slightly fearful of her friend's enraged wrath, "Nothing is wrong with your height! I just thought it was something bad. B-But back to the subject, I think you'll do fine on your mission! After all you always complete a mission!"
It seemed liked hours for Rusty, but finally she let out a sigh of relief as she watched the water slowly stop boiling, she relaxed knowing her friend had calmed down.
Ruby rolled her eyes then punched Rusty in the shoulder, lightly but the other gem still flinched in slight pain, "Don't ever mention my height again Rusty, not unless you want to be in your gem for a month."
She quickly nods her head frantically at the threat, "Got it Ruby!"
Rusty quickly retreated back to her room, a light smile on her lips. She knew, whatever happened on her friend's mission, that she'd be alright. The little spit fire knew how to take care of herself in any situation.
Ruby sighed as she watched her friend run down the hallway, retreating into her room. The red gem slowly walked over to the balcony, sliding the door open so she could step out. After she closed the door she sat down in one of the two chairs on the balcony, leaning back she stared up at the night sky. There was a light breeze but where they lived it was a hot breeze since the part of Homeworld they lived was for mostly lower class, higher ups lived in the more comfortable area's of Homeworld.
But she did not really mind the heat, in fact she enjoyed the lava falls sometimes with her friend's that shared her ability to handle extreme heat, which was pretty much everyone in the area. A faint smile formed on her face as she let her mind wander to memories of the past, her more enjoyable memories of a time when there wasn't a war going on and not so much violence on Homeworld.
Ever so slowly she started to wonder what the Crystal Gems were like, she did not understand what they had to gain by protecting Earth. She was sure that they knew they needed the rich planet to help grow new gems, so why prevent it?
Berry had given her all the information she could about Rose Quartz and her army that she felt would help Ruby on her mission.
She was given helpful information, but there seemed to be pieces of the info that was missing… almost like there was something the higher ups were hiding and didn't want others to know about Rose Quartz.
As she thought about it she stared up at the sky, blinking when she saw two comets appear, she watched as a one of the comets gave off a brilliant fiery red atmosphere around the front of it.
It was mixed up of different colors of red, red-violet and maroon all seeming to mix together in some parts, with a vivid red tail trailing behind the shooting rock.
But the other comet was a stunning color of different hues of blue with a light blue tail trailing behind it as they both sped across the star covered sky towards the other.
She frowned slightly as she sat up straight, watching as the two comets grew closer and closer together, in her mind she wondered silently "Would they crash into each other?"
As she watched the two comets grow closer and closer together, she felt the inside of her chest tightened almost painfully.
The red hued gem reached up with her left hand, grabbing at her shirt over where her heart was. She did not know it but her gem was giving off a very faint glow of bright crimson, the same color as the red one of the comets she was watching.
What was this feeling? She did not understand this sense of anticipation swelling within her, was she expecting something going to happen to the two comets or was it something else?
As she watched the two comets cross over each other, the tails of red and blue seeming to blend into each other forming a completely different shade altogether; a vivid color of cerise, she felt something in the depths of her gem warm, a pleasant warmth radiated off of her gem causing a soft almost longing smile to form on her face as she continued to watch the comets. Whatever the reason for why she felt like this, she would hold onto this pleasant unknown feeling in her memory while she traveled to Earth tomorrow but for now she needed to pack some of her things and get ready for the long journey.
With one final look towards the comets, she walked back into the apartment and closed the door behind her.
