Homeworld felt like the best place to be. It had endless armies lined up to defend it, and those armies were constantly growing. On homeworld you lived to literally fulfill what you were created for. The diamonds told you how to live, and you did it without question. Pearls served, quartz fought, and rubies worked. I thought I was happy, I completed my tasks daily to aid in the work force. As a ruby I was a builder. Welding and making metal into weapons and armor was almost always what my day looked like. Though, as i'd work, surrounded by other rubies, I couldn't help but feel different. Sure, we're all a little different, but our differences didn't usually go very far past face shape or hair-style. No, I was a bad kind of different.

I was defective.

When working, the rubies around me were always so quiet, passive, sucked into their meticulous work. If they messed up they would simply scrap their project, restarting without much of a care. But I could never hold that calm, uncaring stature. If i messed up (which was often…) I felt this rage bubble in my blood, my stomach would grow tight and I would give off heat rather than absorb it. I would feel angry so quickly. Which wasn't right for rubies. Only warrior gems showed their emotions so openly and quickly. They had to, it was important to feel passionate and rageful about taking out your enemy.

But I was no warrior. So why did I always feel myself melting scrap metal into pools just because I was angry?

Defective gems weren't welcomed here on homeworld. If you were defective you were considered inefficient, useless, and weak. If your gem was found to be defective you would be cracked and your shards were sent somewhere for recycling. Now, as you'd imagine that's the last thing I would want my gem to be used for.

So when word spread about the latest destination for the next kindergarten to be built on some far off planet known as earth I had to snag the opportunity! I could get away from homeworld and have some time to figure myself out before my defects became known. These kindergarten missions only required a sparse number of gems that often worked independently. I signed up, not having the same motivation as my counterparts to stay on homeworld and finish an endless list of projects.

Here's just the intro to beginning of my take on how Ruby and Sapphire met and how the whole Crystal Gem gang started out. This story will contain everyone's favorites at some point(Amethyst, Pearl, Lapis). You can expect some OOC in the beginning, you know, before they develop. It's short, I know. Im open to ideas for this story, I feel it could become epicly long with the right kind of motivation.