She waited for a long time in the dark of the empty cell. It's been quiet for a while now. At first the big gems were running back and forth through the hallways. Amethyst didn't know if they were looking for her or just patrolling. She decided it was time to look for her family.
She peeked out from behind the wall. Nobody was coming from either direction. It was so quiet she could hear her own heart beating. She stepped out from the cell. Her feet sounded loud in the silent hallway.
She started walking. She didn't know what direction she came from so she bet on left.
She shape shifted into a classical amethyst guard. If someone saw her they might let her go if she fit in.
She was sweating very badly and was walking very fast down the hallway. She saw an incoming guard of some type. She had to act natural.
She kept walking. The guard was really buff and had short green hair. She gave Amethyst a weird look and turned around to walk next to Amethyst.
"You okay? You don't look too good."
"Uh! Yep! Just uh, ya know ate something that I found in the cell. It's not agreeing with me.", Amethyst palmed her face at the dumb excuse. Regular guards don't eat garbage! Ugh!
"Oh man! You actually ate it's food? Ha! my partner dared me to eat one of those things we fed it and I lost. I couldn't do it. You brave soul!"
"Oh yeah it was a dare... haha"
"Well, feel better soon. Where are you going anyway? I didn't know there was someone else patrolling with me."
"Um! I'm not! I'm looking for the prisoners. I was ordered to find them and... show them some manners! but I don't know where they are."
The green haired gem looked at Amethyst is confusion.
"The prisoners? You mean the rebel gems? They are on the sixty-ninth floor cell eighteen. What are you doing all the way on sub level?"
"Thanks for the directions! I'm new."
Amethyst ran off. No longer caring about her walking posture. She just needed to get away before she was found out. What did she say? Floor sixty nine? That's a lot of floors!
Amethyst couldn't find any elevators or anything. she turned around another corner while running and saw that there was a staircase.
Ugh! Homeworld can't afford elevators or something?
She started running up the stairs. She was being loud but she didn't care. Her breath started getting heavy so she took a break after going up twenty floors. She sat down on the stairs and started crying. She just wanted to go home. She wanted Garnet. to carry her up all these stairs. She wanted Steven to give her a hug or maybe even just to see him.
She had to keep going she had a long way to go yet. She got up and started running up the stairs again. She sprinted. She tripped and fell twice on the way. The stairs were hard to climb while shape shifting. Her legs were longer than she was used to and yet they felt limp with no energy. There is no way all the soldiers walk up all these stairs every day.
She was almost to the top of the tower. She could see the ports from here. She wondered what they were doing with the Ruby ship that they came in. Maybe they are locating the lost rubies in space. Amethyst hoped they find them. It's been a long time.
She stopped on one of the highest floors. She didn't know what it was. She saw scribbles on the wall by the exit but she couldn't read it.
She started off on the cells. There were a lot of full cells around this area. She mostly saw a lot of small gems. Like her. They were probably going to be shattered just because they were defective. She will have to come back for them. She will ask Garnet when she finds them. She saw a nearby guard walking g in the distance. She started walking normally. The gem was a purple color like Amethyst but her hair was green and yellow. It was kind of pretty.
"Excuse me but could you tell me where the rebel gems have been taken?" Amethyst asks politely.
"They are on the floor above this one. Cell eighteen."
"Thanks!"
"Sure thing, Amethyst!"
Amethyst was a little startled at hearing her name out loud. She looked at the gem before she turned back towards the stairs. She started looking at a gem in a nearby cell.
Amethyst ran to the stairs. She got to the next floor up and started scanning the cells. There was less on this level but it was still pretty full. She saw a familiar figure curled up in the back of a cell a little ways back. It was Pearl!
"Psst!, Pearl!", She looked back and forth on the hallways. No gems in either direction.
The figure stood up and ran to the door.
"Amethyst! It's you! I can't believe you found us. It took a considerably long time to get here."
"Let's get Garnet. Where is she?"
"She's three cells down from mine. unlock the door first. You just slide the square onto the three small lines."
Amethyst did what pearl said and it shut off the door. They both ran down to Garnets cell. Ruby was where pearl said Garnet was. Sapphire was nowhere to be seen.
"Ruby? is that you? There's a lot of rubies here."
"Come on! of course it's me. Don't ya see my face! Let me out I need to find Sapphire!"
"Where did she go? They put you guys together.",Pearl asked she started looking around worriedly.
"They took her! They're goona shatter her! Don't you pay any attention!"
"We need to find her. How long ago did they take her. Even if she is shattered maybe Steven can heal her gem. If... we find Steven."
"She has been gone for over an hour now. They took her down the elevator thingy!"
"I didn't know there was an elevator!!", Amethyst said and slumped over.