AN: I got 600 views on this now ;p
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Jade became more and more suspicious as they walked. She had imagined spinel lived some where basic, a small plain rest area in a small plain housing area but spinel appered to be leading them to somewhere more suited to a Sapphire or Lapis Lazuli.
They eventually reached a tall building and entered through a blue automatic door and headed to the lift. Jade watched, bewildered as spinel knocked on the metallic door.
Why would someone knock on their own door?
A few seconds later a white gem opened the door and gestured from them to come in.
Jade halted to a stand still upon seeing the others in the room. She recognised everyone but the white gem who it now clicked in her head, probably owned this rest area.
"heya, jade! Long time, no see!", aqua greeted the shocked gem.
"ok, so I knew about Aqua but, peridot? Your working with them?", jade questioned the green gem sitting statue-like on the sofa.
"only since last night", peridot shrugged.
"And we are hoping you will choose to work with us too", Iolite said, a cup of emberin in hand.
"you.." jade scowled at the blue gem, "why would I want to work with you?"
"cos we're tryna free the gem empire" Aqua was bouncing in her seat next to Iolite having clearly had too much sugar from the sweet drink Albite had been happily supplying all night.
Jade stared at the energetic gem and walked over to the other sofa. She sat down and faced Iolite, "and how do you plan on doing that?".
Spinel spoke up next, "Albite here can weaken any gem she wants!" the red gem proclaimed, "so we're going after the diamonds!"
"The only issue we are having is the case of actually getting to the diamonds to weaken them, the plan is completely figured out though, now we just need another scout to secure a path to the target. We cant have albite being attacked on her way." Peridot didn't even want to think of what would happen if such a thing were to occur.
"And so you asked me?" Jade was only slightly less confused.
"yes, well it gets rid of one more person trying to find us", Albite replied in her smooth tone.
"good point….yeah, ok I'll do it", Jade decided casually, leaning back on the sofa with her hands on the back of her head.
"oh, ok, that's great… wasn't expecting you to agree so quickly" Iolite finished her drink before informing the newcomer of the plan.
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"why is jade still not here!" Tourmaline was starting to get panicky, threats from earlier still hanging over her head and no sign the gem who was basically their leader.
"why is peridot still not here…" Amber muttered, typing into her communicator at a rapid speed, "neither of them are answering their messages".
"oh well, this is just fantastic" the scientist exclaimed, sarcastically.
"im gonna die, and its gonna be their fault".
Amber looked up at the other gem before speaking in an almost too happy tone, "lets not think of impending doom and instead try and actually do some work".
Tourmaline took a long unneeded breath in an attempt to calm herself. It didn't work.
"Amber, I don't want to die, am I gonna die!? TELL ME".
Amber reached her arms across the table and gripped tourmalines shoulders, "I already told you, I wont let that happen".
Tourmaline looked in ambers bright orange eyes and finally managed to calm herself. She missed the other gems brief grip once it was gone, ambers hold had been gentle but firm and strangely warm. She'd never felt anything like it.
"ok, enough waiting around, lets go to Iolites rest place, see if we can find her."
"uuh, yeah"
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The two arrived at the thieves rest area and amber pressed the buzzer. There was no answer. Amber wasn't particularly surprised,
"well that was a bust", amber lightly kicked the door to iolites room, hoping that by same miracle that action would grant them access.
"so what now?" tourmaline asked, possibly as close to happy as she'd ever been in her life. She had already decided to add Amber to her currently empty 'aquaintance' list.
"I guess we go back and try and find more info" Amber had decided that if push comes to shove, she would out Aqua if only to save Tourmaline. She was trying not to think what that would mean for her other friend.
Would I just be trading Aquas life for tourmalines?
The orange gem rapidly pushed the thought out of her head, "lets look at Aqua and Iolites file again, there has to be something worth noting"
They quickly headed back to their meeting area.
"okaaay, you do Aqua and I'll do iolite", amber picked up her screen and Tourmaline copied a second later.
"this file is as furtive as its owner" Amber was looking through iolites file for new info but to no avail. This gem apparently had no acquaintances, no work mates, she'd been given a pearl once and had promptly given her to someone else, she had no recreation area's listed as 'favourite RA', not even spinels. There was just nothing.
"Having any luck?" Amber looked over at the confused seeming gem across from her.
"no, I possibly have less than you" tourmaline slid her screen over to amber.
Amber expression quickly twisted into confusion. Aquas file had clearly been changed recently. It now had nothing but the words 'surveillance expert'. It didn't even say what quadrant as it should of.
"that's…odd", Amber remembered the video that had been deleted. Could this have been done by Aqua? If amber recalled aqua hadn't headed in the direction of the surveillance building. She supposed she could of come back but it seemed unlikely, she wouldn't have been able to do that without being caught on camera.
There was only one file deleted. It had to be an inside job.
"lets go back to my work place and check out the security footage again. Someone is covering for aqua."
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The rebel group decided to wait a couple of days until attacking, giving jade and spinel but mostly spinel a chance to touch up their fighting skills.
The others just casually lounging around somewhat nervously.
They all knew that this was just the eye of the hurricane.
There is a storm coming.
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Ok this is quite a bit shorter than my last chapter but hopefully the next one will be longer again. Lets see if I can keep these last chapters 2k+. I'm not entirely sure how many chapters are left. Possibly not many but we'll see how it goes.
Enjoy your day!