Rub-E and Saf-ir both hid in the corner of the large and complicated dark room as they heard someone open the metal doors.
They could hear footsteps, the blue gem looked past the dark pillar they were hiding behind, only slightly, to see who had come it.
It was that purple gem from earlier, Ame-thys.
Ame-thys walked in, calmly, turned on all the systems to where it wasn't so dark anymore. She opened up an escape pod and pulled something out of a satchel she was carrying.
Rub-E and Saf-ir looked closer at what the item was...
It was the plant! The plant that Saf-ir had lost! How did she get a hold of it?!
Ame-thys placed the plant in the boot on the floor, gently, and walked out of the escape pod, now out of sight, Saf-ir jumped back in her spot in an attempt at not getting caught. The purple gem had left the escape pod doors open, looking to her side, Saf-ir noticed that Rub-E wasn't there.
"Rub-E?!" She looked around where she was and the red gem wasn't there, but then when she looked inside the seemingly empty escape pod, Rub-E was in there picking up the plant that lay delicately in the boot.
"Saf-ir! Look, i got the plant!" The rem gem rejoiced, she was about to walk out of the pod but right before she took a step out, the metal doors on it shut tightly, the lights went off in the large room and the pod flew off the large ship it was attached to, with the red gem and the plant inside.
The sheer power of the lift off made Rub-E immediately fly towards the walls of the pod.
"NO!" Saf-ir yelled, she looked frantically around the room to try to find a way to get the escape pod back, though the pod was getting extremely far away by every second, saf-ir had hope.
Saf-ir looked around, eventually finding a clear tube that would eject any gem into space. She went inside and clicked the small green button that lay inside to take off. She was launched to space almost immediately.
She flew towards where the pod had went, following its trail of smoke.
Though, Rub-E on the other hand, is freaking out. She got off the walls and went to the buttons on the pod, pressing every one she could find until the computer spoke "Cruising activated". The small ship slowed down, now at a slower pace.
Rub-E sighed in relief as she calmed down, then the computer spoke again " 20 seconds until self destruct".
The red gem perked up " WHAT?!" Rub-E began pushing buttons again, pacing in circles as she looked around frantically.
"10 seconds until self destruct"
Rub-E spotted a fire extinguisher inside glass to her side. She broke the glass and took out the extinguisher. She used it to break through the escape door that was in the back of the pod.
"5 Seconds until self destruct"
Rub-E used all of her strength, eventually prying the large metal door open, she jumped out of the pod quickly.
"Self destructing"
The pod exploded into a mass of fire, smoke and debris. Saf-ir was almost there.
"...no...no..." She whispered, flying at full speed towards where the pod had exploded.
But on her way there, something flew right past her leaving a trail of white foamy stuff, Saf-ir looked back at the thing.
"SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFFF-" It was Rub-E using the fire extinguisher to give herself a push through space.
"RUB-E!" Saf-ir yelled, a mass of happiness and terror fled through her, she flew towards the red gem, eventually catching up to her.
Rub-E began to experiment with the extinguisher, she let go of the small lever that turned the thing on and turned herself around, she was now floating, she had her back towards the blue gem and then she turned it on, making her way towards Saf-ir again.
They passed each other again.
"Wooahwoahwoah!" Rub-E said as she tried to stop herself.
The blue gem stopped and flew back towards the red gem, Rub-E used the extinguisher to make herself get closer to the blue gem, this time only tapping it here and there to where she isn't going too fast. Once she was a few feet away from the blue gem, she tried to stop herself from running into her by tapping it once more, some got on Saf-ir.
The blue gem giggled and smiled, making her way closer to the red gem but Rub-E stopped her and grabbed something out of her backpack.
The plant.
"Rub-E!" Saf-ir yelled in excitement, she took the plant, bubbled it, and sent it away. She lunged towards Rub-E and gave her a passionate hug. Giggling along the way, The red gem hugged her back. Sad-ir began to spin rub-E playfully in space.
When they were spinning, the red gem began to look at Saf-ir in the face as she giggled, it was beautiful, she sighed softly and put her chin on the blue gems shoulder.
But, Saf-ir pulled back, still slightly giggling, she still had her arms around Rub-E. She looked Rub-E in the eyes, staring at her for a second, then kissed her.
It was so chaste, so innocent.
Rub-E, not expecting that, her face turned bright red, her eyes widened, she sighed dreamily. Their grip on each other let go as the rem gem began to float slightly.
Saf-ir giggled " c'mon Rub-E" She said, with a bright smile on her face.
Rub-E snapped out of it, using the extinguisher, she began to launch towards the ship, the blue gem followed close behind, eventually being right next to the red gem as they went through space towards the larger ship.
They made circled around each other, explored around the outside of the ship, having a wonderful time.
-With caption quartz-
"Define hoedown" Caption quartz said with extreme interest, she was still going through all these amazing and different things about this 'Earth'.
The computer spoke "A hoedown is a type of American folk dance or square dance in duple meter, and also the musical form associated with it."
Jas-pr walked over to the pink gem.
"Jas-pr, Earth is amazing!" she said with her hands in the air, still staring at the screen. "..There are these things called farms, gems put seeds in the ground, pour water on them, and they grow food like...PIZZA!"
Jas-pr remained stoic, she clicked a button on the large screened computer to turn it off. "Goodnight, Caption" Quartz huffed.
Jas-pr walked off and caption quartz secretly turned around and turned on her computer again. "psst, computer, define dancing"