AN: sorry it took so long to update, also I'm writing this on my phone so I have no idea what it looks like on pc, enjoy ;)

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Peridot and amber walked down one of homeworlds many almost identical streets.

"What are we even looking for?" Amber said while shoving her hands in the pockets of her dress.

"The robber, obviously" peridot replied.

"No I mean , what are we looking for right now? It's not like we will just come across her on the street" Amber looked at the grey sky, "well I mean we might, but I doubt she's that dumb"

Peridot looked at the sky in an attempt to figure out what Amber was looking at. It was the same sky she had seen every day since she emerged, she didn't ever think it needed to be looked at in great detail.'This just makes you unaware of your surroundings' she thought.

She was proved to be right only a few seconds later when she crashed into a small blue gem about the same size as Amber, holding a pile of paper. The other gem quickly pulled the paperwork to her chest.

"Be careful" the gem hissed at them. Amber looked to the ground and noticed a piece of paper had bent down to pick it up, handing it back to the blue gem who tore it out her hands.

"Sorry about that" she said, almost confused by the others behaviour.

"It's fine", she muttered quickly before running past them.

"Well that was weird" Amber said as they began to walk again.

"Certainly",peridot replied flatly.

"HEY WAIT A SECOND", Amber swiveled round sharply, and searched the street for the strange gem. She was nowhere in sight.

"What! what is it!" Peridot yelled trying to follow ambers gaze once again.

"That gem fit the description of the robber" Amber started to walk in the direction they had just carefully traced her steps making sure to check down any side streets for the blue gem. "I can't believe I let her get away" Amber face-palmed.

She looked down the street "there's just housing down that way, right?"

"I have no idea" peridots do not get housing.

"No, but higher up gems do" she said matter of factly, "maybe our robber is a high ranked gem of some sort? An aristocrat maybe?"

Peridot thought to herself before speaking "if she is then she is probably in a computer system somewhere" she paused to make sure Amber was still listening, "it would take a while but we might be able to find someone fitting her description, even if we could only get a name, it would be better than nothing."

"Ah peridot you're a genius"

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Jade had know idea why she said she would go on her own, she didn't completely know what she was supposed to be doing, other than finding the mystery gem, infact she had almost completely forgot what the gem looked again she could barely remember what her new teammates looked like. Amber and Aqua looked more or less identical to her, except for their gem, colours and hair. She realised she hadn't actually seen their gems, perhaps they were the same, who knows?

The peridot just looked the same as all the others, everything from the triangle hair to the diamond on their chests. She wondered how many other gems bore the same symbol and looked down to her own. For a moment she wondered how many didn't wear one, the rebel gem was the first gem she'd ever seen to not show the diamond insignia somewhere on her clothing.

She didn't know how to feel about that. The homeworld training in her wanted to feel disgusted at such disorder, but try as she might she knew a little bit of her felt excited and slightly envious. In a way she respected the thief, simply because as far as she was aware no other gem dared to remove the diamond from their clothes.

Even most criminals she had seen had still worn one on there clothes somewhere, not that she had seen many, and even then most were arrested for petty crimes like "disturbing the peace".

'Peace' she thought to herself 'nobody looks very peaceful to me.'

To jade everyone on homeworld looked pretty much dead inside, even the pearls' smiles didn't reach there eyes. She tried to think of a time she had seen a gem be genuinely happy. She could remember plenty of times where people had seemed happy but she wondered how sincere their smiles and laughs actually were.

Jade looked up and realised she was back at the lab. She went in and found her way to meeting room 2.

There was nobody there.

"Might as well just wait here for the others" she said to the empty room.

"Well this sucks…"

-X-

AN: hope you enjoyed And sorry it's still not very long, I'm not great at writing long things ;p

Please review to let me know what you think!

Edit: you have no idea how many times I had to rewrite this, but i think its finally perfect ;)