Toaster had a special secret. A secret that no one knew.
It was another normal day, and the little Ruby decided to take her regular walk in the woods. She would always return several hours later, with a guilty smirk on her face. Nobody thought anything of it. Gamma knew that Toaster liked examining the wild animals, and Acapella was totally fine with the Ruby disappearing for several hours as she worked...just as long as the Gem didn't drag fauna or dirt into the home.
Today was no different. Toaster waved "goodbye" to her friends, and began her rounds outside...
As soon as the Ruby was out of site from the house, her work would begin.
Toaster began pulling specific plants out of the ground and stuffing them into her gemstone. She found flowers, and small trees, and bugs...and proceeded to place them into her gemstone too...
Several hours later, the little Ruby returned to the house- slightly filthy and proud of herself.
Acapella insisted Toaster take a bath, to which the Gem was more than happy to ablidge. Soon, Toaster was ready for bed, and tucked herself in. "GAMMA! I WANT A STORY!" The shouting gained the Keronian's attention right away. He still wasn't fluent enough in English to read a story, but he COULD recite the same fairy tales that his parents used to tell him. The frog chuckled. "Alright Toaster! Be there in a sec!"
...
Thus, The Keronian entered Toaster's room, sat on her bed, and began to weave a tale! "A-HIM! Once upon the time there was a mighty warrior who dreamed of leaving her secluded island to see the world!"
"Was she beautiful?"
"Indeed!"
"...and strong?"
"Yup!"
"...and-"
"-Toaster! Are you going to let me finish the story or not?!" The frog laughed!
"Oh! Sorry Gamma!"
"That's quite alright! Anyway, the warrior-" The Keronian stopped suddenly, looking rather surprised! Toaster's gemstone was glowing!
"? What's the matter Gamma? Why'd you stop?"
"-Erm...uh...Toaster? Your gemstone is glowing!"
"OH! It is? OH...OH NOES! Hang on a second..." The little Ruby took one of her blankets, and tied it around her forehead. "There! See? All better!" The Ruby smiled with a slightly guilty look about her.
Gamma put his hands on his hips. "Toaster...why is your gemstone glowing sporadically like that? Are you ok?"
"Yeh! Toaster's alright! Finish the story Gamma!" The Ruby looked even more guilty than before.
"TOASTER...are you hiding something?"
"N-noes! My gemstone always does that...don't you remembers?" The Ruby began to sweat nervously.
"You know I can tell when you're lying Toaster...come on now! Off with the blanket! I need to make sure you aren't sick..." At this point Gamma attempted to tug the blanket off of his daughter's forehead with very minimal results. Toaster had an excellent grip on the thing, and refused to let the item be removed!
"Come on Toaster! Take it off!"
"NOES!"
"Toaster..."
"NOES!"
"TOASTER!"
The Ruby shook her head in defiance! Gamma huffed. "Why the stars are you acting so suspiciously?! Come on! As your father, I command you to take the blanket off! I need to make sure you're feeling okay!"
"Toaster's fine!"
"Than take it off and prove it!"
The Ruby sighed in defeat, before yanking the blanket away. The gemstone was still glowing, but Toaster didn't seem to be in any pain or strife.
"What the Stars?..." Gamma poked at the gemstone curiously, and was surprised when a part of his hand went through it! "WEEP!" The Keronian retreated his hand quickly. "Well...this is...NEW..."
Toaster blushed.
In a sudden amount of excitement, something began to materialize from the gemstone! The bright item in question was...was...MOVING.
"The Hell?!" At this point The Keronian looked absolutely terrified! The light finally began to recede, and revealed a wild hare! The rabbit was sitting on the bed completely oblivious to what had just happened. It seemed to be cleaning its face with its little paws! The hare suddenly glanced around with shock! This wasn't the forest! How did he end up HERE?!
With a mighty thump of his foot to scare the enemy, the rabbit jumped back into Toaster's gemstone. The rock shined brightly again, before the creature dissapeared.
"Wha? WHA? WHA?!" Gamma was baffled! "Toaster! Have you been keeping an Earth animal in your gemstone?!"
"I-I feed thems everyday! It's ok Gamma! The Bun LIKES my pocket space!"
"Toaster! You can't just keep a wild rabbit in your gemstone! It belongs outside!"
"...but...but...the bun is safe fron bad animals in there!"
"Toaster..." Gamma sighed in frustration. "You can't have a rabbit living in your gemstone. You have to return him to the woods first thing tomorrow!"
"Awww...alrights Gamma. I'll let the bun you saw go...
True to her word, Toaster released the rabbit the next day. Feeling slightly downtrodden, she decided to sit quietly at the kitchen table, and watch Acapella cook lunch. The duo was so distracted by the activity, that neither one of them noticed when Toaster's gemstone began to glow again.
Acapella turned around in surprise! She had no clue Toaster had been watching her the whole time! "Erm...Toaster?"
"Huh?" The Ruby tilted her head in confusion.
"Toaster...you're gemstone's glowing...are you alright?"
"WHA? Glowing? Oh...OH NOES! Not again!" The little Gem quickly placed her entire head on the table-gemstone and all, so that nothing could escape!
Acapella huffed! "What the stars are you doing Ruby?!...LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!" Yellow Pearl forcefully lifted Toaster's head off the table...
...and immediately wished she hadn't.
From the red gemstone, flowed a scene straight out of a horror flick! There were THOUSANDS of cockroaches, centipedes, ants, and beetles that crawled out of Toaster's head. This was immediately followed by swarms- specifically, flies, bees, loucists, butterflies, and dragonflies!
Acapella screeched in horror as the massive cloud of insects invaded her kitchen!
"WHAT?! WHAT THE FRACK TOASTER?! AGGGHHHH! WHY?!"
The massive swarm covered Acapella's lunch, and began a feast-completely ruining the dish in the process!
Toaster sighed. "There was a reason why I was blocking my gemstone with the table..."
"UGH-I JUST...WHY ON HOMEWORLD WOULD YOU? JUST-UGHHH!" The Pearl seemed to be at a loss for words. It would probably take five exterminators to get rid of all the pests!
It seemed that Toaster's secret had been revealed. The little Ruby had still been bringing wild animals into the house...just in secret using her pocket space. Unfortunately, the pocket space was activating at random times on it's own! It was too full, and thus would despence wild animals at random intervals.
As the weeks went on, the horrors continues- mice, snakes, a skunk, several abandoned puppies and kittens, a massive barn owl...the list went on and on!
Bananas jumped in suprise while watching TV with the little Gem! A massive fully grown female deer and its fawn bounded out from the tiny gemstone!
The final straw was the bear. It was almost half of Lilly's size and looked incredibly pissed off at it rampaged through the house, dissipated Acapella's form, distroyed several shelves, and ate every piece of uncovered food in the house!
...
After the incident, Gamma seemed much more curious on how Toaster managed to coax an entire fully-grown bear into her gemstone in the first place...
"THAT IS IT! NO MORE TOASTER! NO! MORE!" Acapella began screaming again as soon as she managed to regenerate. "NO MORE KEEPING WILD ANIMALS IN YOUR GEMSTONE! SHALE!"
Toaster looked incredibly sad at this. She never enjoyed being yelled at...
"DON'T GIVE ME THAT FACE! I was just MAULED by a BEAR!"
Toaster shrugged. "He seemed much more gentle when I found him..."