OH MY GOSH HI IM REALLY REA LL Y SORRY. JUNIOR PROJECT IS KICKING MY ASS AND I DIDNT EVEN REMMEBER THSI STORY UNTIL MY BEST FRIEND REMINDED ME. ANYWAY HERES CHATPR 4,
Yellow Sapphire tore out of the temple and onto the beach. The sun was setting and she could scarcely make out the form of the ship in the sand. She hurried over to it and climbed in through the hole in the top.
Everything seemed to be abandoned. A few chairs were knocked over, and there were some dents in the control panel. Yellow Sapphire looked up at the screen above the control panel. It was flickering faintly. She looked over the panel and grasped the small microphone to the side. She quickly punched in the code to message the Homeworld.
"This is Yellow Sapphire, and our ship has crashed on the way to meet with the Diamonds. The Crystal Gems have taken everyone else hostage, Rubies, Jaspers, Citrines, and the other Sapphires. Send help!" she begged. The screen flashed again and Yellow Sapphire stared up at it. The indistinct image of a Citrine appeared. She was saying something, but the audio was profoundly distorted. "Yellow Sapphires – crash on – the Diamonds."
"Hold on a second." Yellow Sapphire said into the microphone. She glanced over the control panel and pushed a few buttons. The image cleared. It was a Citrine on a ship similar to the one she was on. Yellow Sapphire listened closely. "This is the ship carrying the Yellow Sapphires to meet the Diamond Court on earth. We have crash landed on the planet and are being attacked by the Crystal Gems. Please alert the Diamonds and send help."
Yellow Sapphire turned bright gold. She had been talking to a recording.
She heard footsteps coming nearer to the control room of the ship. Panicked, she scampered out of the tiny room and sprinted back to the Sapphires' quarters. She quickly found her room, slammed her palm down onto the recognition sensor, and impatiently hopped up and down as she waited for the sensor to turn green.
Out of the corner of her eye, she could see a tall, slender figure. "Pearl!" she cried excitedly. The sensor beeped twice, allowing her to enter her room. "Come in." She reached over and turned on a dim light. "I'm so glad you're here! The Crystal Gems have—"
Yellow Sapphire stopped dead when she noticed who it was. It was a Pearl, but not a Yellow Pearl like the ones that had been sent with the ship. She had white skin and peachy pink hair that curled around her face. And she was pointing a spear at Yellow Sapphire.
"Is Pearl okay?" Tanzanite asked, gazing out at the beach. "It's been like ten minutes since she left."
"I'm sure she'll be back any minute." Rose responded. "She's never failed to capture a Gem."
Amethyst, who had been stuffing her face with potato chips, pointed out the window. "There she is!"
Pearl was making her way back to the temple, holding a small silvery bubble.
"Why didn't you send it back?" Garnet inquired as Pearl kept the bubble in the air. "I just wanted to look at it," Pearl replied. "It looks like a Sapphire's gem, but she doesn't look like a Sapphire at all. I thought she was another Pearl at first. Then as I got closer, I thought she might be a Chrysoberyl. But her clothing is much too elaborate for her to be in the lower class. I have no idea what she is." Tanzanite and Amethyst glanced at each other.
"Let's let her out." Rose suggested.
"What?" everyone yelled in shock.
"Just for a little while. We can let her out, and—"
"—and torture her for daring to go against the Crystal Gems!" Tanzanite shrieked, laughing diabolically. Garnet gave her a deadly look, and Tanzanite lowered her head in humiliation.
"…we can just talk to her. We can find out what she is." Rose continued. "If she does try to escape, she'll have to go against the five of us. She can't take all of us at once."
The Gems all sat in a circle on the ground and Pearl popped the bubble.
They watched as the same process took place, Yellow Sapphire coming out of her gem, and falling on her face yet again. "Ow…" she murmured, rubbing the fresh bruise on her head. She looked up at the Gems and groaned. "There's no getting away from you! Once Homeworld hears about this, they'll-"
"Hold on." Rose said, putting her hand up to stop her. "We're not going to hurt you, we just want to know…um…"
"Well, what you are." Pearl said.
Yellow Sapphire, in a rare display of self-confidence, stood and stuck up her nose at the lower ranking Gem. "I'm a Sapphire. One of the top classes in Homeworld hierarchy, and I serve on Yellow Diamond's court."
"There's no way you're a Sapphire. At least not a regular one."
"What?" Yellow Sapphire's pride shattered and she turned to see the small indigo Gem sitting cross legged on the floor between the Pearl and the leader. Tanzanite repeated herself. "Have you ever seen a Sapphire? They look completely different. They're itsy bitsy with chubby stubby legs!"
Garnet glared at Tanzanite.
"I am a Sapphire!" the standing gem cried, stamping her foot in annoyance. "You can't say such things to me!"
"Stop it!" Rose's voice became uncharacteristically forceful, and both of the Gems were shocked into silence. They both sat down, refusing to look at each other. Rose looked back at the yellow Gem. "If you're truly a Sapphire…then why don't you look like the others?"
"Well," Yellow Sapphire began, tugging at a loose strand of blonde hair, "it all started back when Homeworld decided to modify some sorts of Gems…"