Moonstone couldn't hold herself back. As the weeks went by, she couldn't keep her eyes off of the astronauts. She wanted to meet them. Humans interested her more than anything, even doing her job. Soon enough her friend was covering for her. Moonstones had several tasks. The first one was to clean and maintain the Moon Base. It got dusty and dirty frequently so the two had to do a quick sweep once a day. The second task was to go into the atmosphere of the moon and check it. The third and final task was to check on the corrupted gem shards that Blue Diamond and White Diamond hid from Yellow Diamond thousands of years ago.
There used to be hundreds more moonstones, but over the years they had been shattered or corrupted by the corrupted gems below. The two remaining moonstones never completed their final task for fear of being corrupted like their fellow gems. Moonstone wanted to approach the strange human that she had talked to before so she did. She snuck up behind him and touched his puffy suit. He jolted and turned around, his face fearful.
"Hiya there!" Moonstone said excitedly to the panting astronaut.
"Am I somewhere I am not supposed to be?" Jay asked, calming himself down.
"No," Moonstone thought, "Well you are not supposed to be on the moon but that is about it. I just wanted to see you scared."
"Where is the other Moonstone?" Jay asked, looking behind Moonstone.
"She is doing our duties," Moonstone said, touching the puffy spacesuit again.
"Shouldn't you go help her?" Jay asked, unsure of whether the gem would turn violent or not.
"I guess," Moonstone said, "We only have a few duties anyways. Want to help me?"
"Sure," Jay said, "But then I have to go help my teammates with the base."
"Okay," Moonstone said, grabbing Jay's space suit covered hand.
Within a heartbeat, they were in the Moon Base. Jay marveled at how filthy the place was. He hadn't been there for a while but he knew something was up with it being so dirty. Moonstone looked for her friend. She hovered up the steps instead of walking on them, but had trouble finding Moonstone.
"I do not know where she could be…" Moonstone said, "She is always somewhere around the base…"
Jay wanted to make the worried gem feel better, "Hey, Moonstone, is it okay if I call you Violet and your friend Lilac? It's better than referring to you as the same name."
"That sounds okay," Violet said, "What is your name anyway?"
"It's Jay," the astronaut said.
"It is a pleasure to formally meet you, Mr. Jay," Violet said, smiling.
"You can just call me Jay," he said holding out his hand.
Violet jumped away in slight fear, but recovered, "Okay, Jay."
Suddenly, a loud growl was overheard. Violet grabbed Jay and the two teleported in the direction of the area. Lilac was being dragged underground by a giant corrupted group of gem shards. Jay ran forward to her and grabbed her arm. He successfully pulled her body into his arms and jumped away. Violet picked up a rock and started smashing at the corruptions. Her body couldn't keep up with the rock so she rested.
When she attempted to start the rock bashing again, Lilac started yelling at the gem. Violet turned around and was hit in the back by a corrupted.
"Don't hurt them… they are our type," Lilac groaned, "Run."
Violet tried to look at her back, "Ah! Lilac my back is open!"
"Just walk away," Lilac said, covering her gaping side, "Please human, put me down and help her. She is new."
Jay shook his head and got down on his knees, "Violet get on my back."
"Wha?" Violet said, "Okay fine."
The panicked gem piggy-backed on Jay and he hopped off in his space suit. Lilac checked and saw that Violet was okay. She closed her eyes and didn't open them again.
"This is not good," Jay said, hopping away from the corrupted gems.
Violet looked at her back again, "My back hurts… Do you know if it will regenerate soon?"
"It probably will," Jay said, "Just try to calm down. Also, does your wound hurt?"
Violet took a deep breath, "Not at all. I can't see over you, is Lilac okay?"
"She is going to be fine," Jay said, entering the Moon Base, "We just need to let her rest."
Jay set Lilac on the floor of the Moon Base and Violet stood next to them. She put her hands over her face and started to bawl rather loudly.
"I should have been there for her," Violet said, choking on her tears, "I should have been doing my duties…"
"You can't change anything now," Jay said, "Just lay face down a relax."
Violet did so and uttered a muffled, "Sorry, human. I am just a big baby."
"That's okay," Jay said, daring to touch Violet's head.
Her hair appeared silky and Jay wished that he could feel how soft it was. Violet's back regenerated soon enough and Lilac opened her eyes. The frail gem sat up and looked at Violet. She frowned, but looked relieved.
"So my name is Lilac now?" Lilac asked, "I'm not sure about the individuality but I'm sure that no Diamond will come back here. Think I could take her to the Earth? She is still relatively young and wants to explore. We can't teleport from the planet together like the bunch of us could. We could leave the corrupted out to roam, it's not like anything matters anymore."
"Maybe," Jay said, "But my teammates don't really like gems so I don't know how well that will go."
He remembered Nephrite was still stuck in space and Lilac could tell something was up, "Why has your expression changed?"
"There is another gem in space… We left her all alone," Jay said, "I don't think we will ever be able to find her."
"I can fly outside of the ship and grab her if we see her," Lilac said, thoughtfully, "If it really means that much to you."
"It does, thank you Lilac," Jay said, smiling through his helmet, "Hey is something wrong with your gem?"
"There is nothing wrong with it," Lilac said, looking at the small crack in her gem, "It's good."
He nodded and wondered if he should go back to his base soon and touched Lilac's shoulder lightly. She jerked away as a force of habit but immediately apologized. Jay scratched his helmet and told her it was okay, waving good bye to her. She was about to raise her hand, but decided not to.
Soon enough, Jay was at the base. He went through the airtight entrance and closed it. He then took off his suit after oxygen was returned to the room. Jay entered the main compartment and all of his buddies were drinking.
"Guys what's going on?" Jay asked, "Why are you drinking?"
"Why were you with those bitches?" his blonde-haired teammate asked, "We saw all of it. Looks like there is something wrong with her gem. Maybe it's broken?"
"We actually set those monsters out of their space," a black-haired teammate said, "You looked like an effing hero out there man."
Jay shook his head, "No way you guys, we aren't supposed to mess with the gems. We worked so hard for peace between us and Homeworld! You could start a horrible war."
"Well, we had better go stop that information from leaving them," the blonde-haired teammate said, smiling evilly, "Grab him."
"Wait, what are you doing?" Jay asked as his arms were grabbed and he was shoved onto a chair.
"We will be right back," his thought to be teammates told him as he was tied to chair.
"Stop!" Jay said, "Don't do this! Please!"
It was too late for him to change anything and Jay was left to sit by himself in the cold chair. He stopped struggling and his feet were planted firmly on the ground. He knew what his teammates were going to do and it hurt him inside. Minutes later, he heard a yelp and his heart fell out of his chest.