White Diamond Entry Set #8107 Problem log #413

I hadn't interrupted, or pardon me, extinguished, is because they had been set as a good example for why gems should not rebel. You would think, with only 4 gems surviving out of over 3000 and them being banished to a single planet, they would have learned their place. They have over used their luck in the charity I granted them, they've taken my possession at its most crucial moment. I can feel my body decreasing in size by the second, I'm nearly an entire unit shorter and I shall get worse soon. I fear my small fleets may not be enough, but I'd fear even worse if I were to destroy them all and risk breaking my… objective. The third set is being sent out later today, 2 quartz gems and 5 common foot soldiers, lead by a yellow topaz. I hate to deploy such a high ranking fighter gem, but since it's come to this… To be updated after they arrive on Planet Blue.

W. Diamond.

"Garnet! Garnet!" Steven ran up to the tall gem and tugged her leg, "The hospital gem woke up, their name is Clear Zircon."

Said gem held up their hand in greeting the way Steven had done prior.

Garnet nodded back.

"Did you find anything at the cliffs today?" Lapis asked.

"Yeah, but nothing of importance. Pearl and Amethyst will be back shortly." Garnet stepped off the warp-pad.

[Place?] Clear scribbled down while studying the place with wide eyes, new to the Earth technology as well as the simplicity.

"Oh, this is my house! Behind the house is the temple, it's basically where we all live, usually." Steven climbed onto a bar stool, Clear played with the other, rotating it back and forth.

"Lazuli and I live on the outskirts of the city usually, in a structure humans refer to as a 'barn'." Peridot was watching the new gem with a questioning look.

"Not by choice mind you, but the Earth isn't a bad as a place as it looks at first." Lapis sat on the stool behind Steven.

Garnet leaned on the kitchen counter, "The Earth's great, you're gonna love it here."

"You mean their staying?" Steven rocked his seat back a little staring up at Garnet with stars in their eyes.

"Of course, can't very well sent 'em home."

"Great, and the Crystal Gems grow." Peridot said rolling her eyes.

The third party was off to the side staring up at the picture above the doorway, seemingly uninterested in anything else.

The warp activated, the last two absent gems appearing holding odd things respectively.

"Yoooo, guess what I got at the cliff!" Amethyst held up some assorted rusted human devices, thrown out and forgotten a long time ago.

"Ugh." Pearl looked at her with disdain then to the new gem staring up at her idolized figure, "Umm, hello?"

Clear held up their hand in greetings, pointing to the painting and then holding up the board with a large "?" drawn on it.

"That was Rose quartz.." Pearl said hesitantly, "The leader of the crystal gems… Who are you?"

"Pearl, this is Clear Zircon, but you can call them Clear. Garnet said they'll be staying here for a while, isn't that great?" Steven beamed at Pearl.

"Awesome! Another mouth to not feed." Amethyst flung and arm around the semi surprised gem, "So you talk or…?"

The gem pointed to their gem, allowing it to be in full view, the imperfection in the gem was only noticeable from the closer perspective because the gem was clear.

"Whooooaaaaaaa, so Steven spit thingy didn't work on you?" Amethyst asked.

Lapis closed her eyes and pressed her fingers to her temple, "How could I forget, you fixed my gem in the same way. Steven, do the thing you did to my gem."

"Oh yeah! Um, this might heal your gem ok?" Steven licked his palm held out his other hand for Clears arm. The quiet gem tilted their head to the side and placed their gem in Steven arm. The boy pressed his hand to the gem and let the magic do its work.

It wasn't nearly as eventful as Lapis' healing, but a flash of soft pink light and the scratch was gone. Clear stretched their arms out and looked at the gems around them.

"My… gratitude is yours… repairing my gem…" The medium white gem spoke in soft fashion with much hesitation in their voice.

A collective gasp fell through the room, followed by a pause where most beings expected Clear Zircon to continue speaking, yet nothing followed.

"Wow, you have such a sweet tiny voice!" Steven exclaimed, leading the group back into conversation.

"I never expected your speech patterns to be so close to your non-verbal responses, fascinating." Peridot studied the gem even more to check for other differences.

"It's nice to properly meet you then, I'm Pearl. On earth we shake hands to during introductions." The white gem held out her hand to the smaller who glanced down and put their own up to meet it.

"Why…?"

"That is a good question." Steven looked puzzled, "I guess someone decided it a long time ago and it just became popular." He shrugged.

"Odd." Clear looked around, focusing on Garnet, they held out their hand.

Garnet put her right hand in theirs and Clear held out their other hand, Garnet slowly put their other hand on top of it. Clear seemed to be studying the hands.

"What are they doing?" Peridot whispered to the rest.

"I.." Pearl looked at them, just frozen there, "...not sure."

Amethyst sat back down on the couch, "They're just being weirdos. Let 'em be."

After another moment the small wobbly voice muttered, "...Two." The gems froze, looking to Garnet. "Normal…?" A chill.

Garnet stood emotionless for a moment before speaking in her normal calm voice, "Yes."

"Hm…" Clear dropped the hands and went to look out the window at the now setting sun.

A light gasp of relief sounded through the room, and Peridot tugged Garnet and Pearl to the kitchen with nothing more than, "I must speak to you."