A/N: Heya guys! This chapter was kinda quick because I wanted to write a bit about what was happening to Vexus! Thanks so much for reading! 3
Vexus looked into her keyboard and frowned, she wanted company and these Jaspers weren't all that talkative. She got back to work with a sigh and flew the ship to an area which needed reinforcements. Her green fingers ran through her gray hair and then went back to the keyboard. I miss you Azurite… Will I ever see you again or will you just forget about me?
She dropped the Jaspers and Carnelians off, and flew the large ship back to Homeworld. Vexus got out and stretched, something she hadn't done before but felt good. Why am I feeling all these emotions? Is it because of Azurite?
The automatic doors opened for her as she got in the vicinity. Jasper had never acknowledged her before but she pushed Vexus against the wall. "How did the mission go?" she demanded.
"It went…good," said Vexus nervously, disliking this contact with the highest ranked Jasper.
Her eyes became wide as Peridot walked over with a smirk on her face, "You don't look so certain of your answer, Vexus. Care to explain?"
Yellow Diamond walked out and saw that her soldiers were ganging on Vexus. The ruler spoke, "Step back you two, Vexus is only doing her job no matter how much of a mistake she is, I would hate to lose another competent gem."
Peridot scrambled out of the way and Jasper stepped aside. "So how was your mission, Vexus?" Yellow Diamond spoke calmly.
"It went as expected, Yellow Diamond. All the warriors have been delivered to their stations," Vexus looked to the side as Yellow Diamond looked back to her screen, "Do you have any other assignments for me today, madam?"
Yellow Diamond's pearl looked over with a smug look and walked away to get a box. She opened the box and spaces for three blue collars were there. However there was only one actually inside. Vexus turned around and two other gems were standing still like soldiers. One was Pryoite, who had gray gloves, and a long red vest that draped down to her brown pants. The other was Tanzanite, who had yellow skin, blue dress, and a gem covering her eye. They were both wearing the collars. "I heard that you were acting different from one of my soldiers, Vexus," the ruler spoke clearly, "We are just going to fix you up."
"No, wait, I don't need one of those, Yellow Diamond, I don't have any emotions hindering me," Vexus gulped as she knew it was evident that she would be equipped with a blue collar.
Blue collars shocked a gem every time they felt an emotion until submission and remission back into a hollow gem. Just like Vexus was before she met Azurite. She started to back out of the room but Tanzanite and Pyroite held her arms. Peridot wanted to look away but watched blankly as Jasper took out the collar. They had malicious spikes all over. Vexus started to struggle as she felt how cold the other gems were, she didn't want to become like them. She felt the sting of the collar's spines going into her skin, "Please take it out, it really hurts!"
When it was attached, Vexus was immediately shocked. Peridot watched what she could have become. She promised herself that this would never happen to her. Vexus was carried out to a cell, limbs flailing from the constant shock. The green gem could hear her screaming from Yellow Diamond's office. She walked out of the room like a soldier with Jasper by her side. Vexus was shocked for several days straight until she became hollow just like her new partners.
"Vexus, how do you feel?" asked Yellow Diamond.
"I feel sublime, Yellow Diamond," replied Vexus with dull eyes and a monotone voice, one that was appreciated by her ruler.
Years passed and Vexus became an unemotional rock that reported to Yellow Diamond periodically. She didn't have any thoughts of her own and was always ready to comply with orders from her superiors. She organized bloody missions and watched gems break and creatures get slaughtered heartlessly, her inner-self gone from existence. Vexus was reserved and quiet while she took her soldiers to planets and had them murder life forms that she had never seen just to expand the colony. She never slept and her companions kept close watch, their emotionless selves having too much power.
"Fuse with us, Vexus," Pyroite and Tanzanite demanded but Vexus did not answer, she just stared blankly into their blank eyes.
She shook her head and was shocked by the collar until she agreed. They fused into a giant war machine and ravaged the planet of Terra, blood staining their arms and legs. This went on for hundreds of years, fusion was a terrible experience but Vexus couldn't call it anything like that for fear of being shocked. She emotionlessly drove the ship places she had never seen before just to destroy them and their life forms. One night on the ship, she fell asleep while thinking about the entirety of math in the world.
"Vexus, are you okay?" a voice called to her from the void "You haven't been warm for a very long time… I am good right now; I made a family of gems. If you want to come, then just try."
"Who are you?" Vexus demanded.
"It's me, Azurite, can't you see me?"
"No, I can- Now I see you, how are you here?" Vexus asked feeling the pang of emotions flowing through her veins.
"Does it hurt, the collar?" Azurite asked quietly.
"It hurts everyday, why do I see you now, it will shock me when I wake up."
Azurite drifted away as she had little time but drew a heart in the void of non-existence. Vexus reached out but her friend was too far away from her grasp.
The blue collar shocked her awake with the ardent emotion she was feeling. Her partners watched her bolt up and then sit back down in her chair. "Vexus why did you fall asleep," asked Pyroite in a scolding tone.
"My body is weak because my gem was malformed, sorry for the inconvenience," replied Vexus emotionlessly.
"So was mine and I am still much more powerful than you," Tanzanite said with monotone in her voice while rolling her eye without the gem covering it.
"I know, everyone is stronger than me, I have no excuse," Vexus spoke, "What is the point to this life?"
She was shocked once again and the other gems laughed at her pain. When will I be rescued from this place… Azurite please let me see you again.