Milky Way Galaxy
1800s
Era 2
Pearl's past seemed to always be knocking on the door and this time, the past barged in. The interior of this ship had nothing particularly special, the corridor's walls were white and each prison cell had the respective energy barrier. Ships like these were on the more recent end of the timeline, with Pearl only seeing the design from a couple of blueprints from the last few days she served HomeWorld. But she only saw the blueprints and her memory's not perfect. Even if there was a weakness in the design that allowed her to escape, there would be no way for her to find it.
"You put up some fight, especially for a Pearl." One of the Amethysts told her. This one leaned on the wall right beside the Pearl's cell. "That was a compliment."
"Thank you."
At least the Amethysts here are courteous.
"So, what kind of Gem we saw? Some of kind of Quartz?"
"It's a Pink Quartz, you know since she's pink." Pearl responded to the Amethysts. Rose Quartz and Pink Quartz are fundamentally different from each other of course, but the ignorant wouldn't know the difference.
This Amethyst seemed to have accepted that explanation though she didn't know how either one of the two Gems actually looked like. Of course not every Gem can keep a complete record of all the different kinds, except for Aquamarines of course. Or just about any Gem under Blue Diamond's court.
It's a good thing that there's no Aquamarines on the ship, those tiny little Gems are far too intelligent to let anyone escape, Amethysts are much easier. There's just that one last Gem in the suit that Pearl knows nothing about. Perhaps if she could see the Gem she'll know what she's up against but for now, nothing.
"So, who's that Gem in the armor?" Pearl finally asked.
"The official report sates she's a Black Onyx in White Diamond's court, but no one's seen her gemstone for some reason." Amethyst responded, not quite thinking about the consequences of revealing such information.
Why would a Gem hide her gemstone?
After a couple of minutes, the ship managed to exit the Solar System and enter Gem territory were an Imperial Warship, the Destiney Destroyer waited. This particular warship had a diamond shape with a shiny green hue, it was at least 20 times larger then the hand-shaped warship, but it could be much larger then that.
The warship moved right into the larger one and landed. Soon after, a couple of Jaspers stood right outside the smaller ship. Realizing that the shipped at docked the Amethyst brought Pearl out of the cell, and joined the other two Amethysts. Just outside, the Jaspers waited for them: they had a yellow hue with the yellow diamond insignia, they were just as buff as the Amethyst and had the same sort of hair.
"Good job Amethysts, it seems that your mission was successful." One of the Jaspers said.
When Pink Pearl looked around the docks, she could see other similar hand-shaped warships. The one belonging to the Amethyst stood out the most, due to the fact all the other ships were green.
"We understand that White Diamond has personally requested the Pearl but this region has some rebel activity. So we've have to check any ship for stowaways and account for all passengers." The Jasper told them, "Let us speak to your captain."
"Understood, she's inside." One of the Amethyst's responded, then she walked the Jasper back inside the ship.
Pink Pearl assumed that Rebel activity was only existent on Earth, but apparently, other planets seem to have some meant that Earth possibly isn't the only place to hide, if there's other rebels else where then they must be hiding somewhere too.
"Should I remain in the cell?" Pink Pearl asked the Quartz soldiers. With the ship parked up, she intended to attempt to use it for escape.
"Absolutely not, we'll take you to the much large cells in this ship. You'll wait there for now." Jasper responded. She and one of the two other Amethyst then took her down the brig.
The very design of this ship's interior was nearly identical to the warship she was in, a general diamond and triangle shape theme in which slightly different shaded overlapped. Eventually, she was placed into the cell, the same kind of energy barrier kept her in. Pearl wasn't alone though, there were two more Gems near her.
"A Pearl?" One of the prisoner from other side asked. This Gem wore a blushing cloak she was slightly taller then Pearl but nowhere close as the Jaspers.
"Um yeah." Pearl responded.
She attempted to take a closer look at the new Gem, while the cloak did cover most of her body, Pearl was able to notice the rich, light blue skin and very dark blue hair. Yet, Pearl couldn't quite make out her eyes.
"Right, I'm Moonstone, my formal job was to properly map out terrain in new colonies. I would scout and basically draw new maps."
"I didn't ask you all that." Pearl responded, much too much information was given just like that.
"I have troubles shutting up sometimes…"
Pearl looked around for a bit, Moonstone seemed to be the only Gem within her range of view but she's sure there's more here.
"Yeah, that's a problem we're woking on," another Gem added. This one was in the cell right next to Pearl's, hence Pearl couldn't see her, " I'm Zircon, the blue kind."
Two blue Gems who know each other in the same place, interesting. Pink Pearl just leaned against the wall, willing to listen to what Zircon had to say. Zircons are lawyers, whatever reason she had for being in prison had to be a good one. Perhaps she said the wrong thing, the wrong way and angered a few Gems?
"Wow, a Zircon, why is an intellectual Gem like you doing in a place like this?" Pink Pearl asked her.
"We'll explain the moment we manage to get out of here, care to join us?" Zircon asked.
"You sure, we've only met like a few minutes ago."
"Do you have any other plans, I mean if you do, we completely understand but it would be nice if we get a little extra help, since we're both like have the same goal and stuff?" Moonstone then asked.
Pearl didn't, she had no way to escape such a cell and having two other Gems to help were would definitely be useful. It seems that her options were to either trust two new Gems, or just wait in the cell. Waiting was not an option, as far as Pearl knows, she may not have any other opportunities to escape.
"Okay, I'll work with you guys. So what are we supposed to do though?"
"For now, we wait for a Peridot." Zircon replied.
Pearl did just that, while Moonstone kept talking to the others, she sat down and listened to whatever she had to say. In honestly, Pearl stopped listening to what she was saying after about fifteen minutes.
Soon enough, there were footsteps walking right to the brig, they were heavy but sounded much too metallic to be from any Quartz soldiers. When Pearl looked forward, she saw a Peridot, but she appeared much different then what Peal remembered. There seemed to be metallic attachments right around the Peridot's arms and legs. The triangular hair and green-yellow color scheme were the same though.
"Do you how difficult it was to get here, I almost got caught, TWICE!" the Peridot escalated.
"Sorry Peridot, look we found a Pearl who agreed to come with us." Moonstone informed.
Pink Pearl simply waved at the Peridot and smiled and Peridot, with her floating fingers waved back right at her.
"As long as Zircon is fine with it." Peridot replied. She then unlocked each of the cells for them.
Now that Pink Pearl was free, all she had to do was follow the Gem's guidance to escape this ship. The trees Gems, the Peridot the Moonstone and the Zircon were quite used to their company, perhaps they worked closely together. Now the story of how each of them met would be one Pearl wanted to hear.
"So, where to now?" Zircon asked them
"Follow me, I can like see a vast area like a movie in my head, like looking into the present," Moonstone responded.
While Sapphires could see into the future, Moonstones saw into the present. They're able to see a vast distance and into places no other Gem can see, perfect for mapping out terrains on planets. Moonstone led the way and everyone else followed behind her, they made it out of the brig, managing to sneak past the Jaspers and Amethysts with ease. Pearl would have never been able to sneak past the soldiers without Moonstone to guide the way.
Eventually, they made it right to the docks. There were all the ships from before and a couple of Quartz soldiers guarding the ships. There doesn't seem to be anyway to get pass them though.
"So, what's the plan?" Pearl asked.
Just then, a Jasper managed to walk up from behind them, completely by accident. Pearl looked back in an instant and grabbed her finger, then by using a specific technique, she twisted the finger and forced the Jasper into the ground. The finger snapped and the Jasper was poofed, all within about five-seconds.
"Wow, how'd you do that?" Moonstone asked, "Can you teach me, it looks really cool, I mean you were able to take down the Jasper from just breaking her finger and stuff."
"Oh, well yeah I guess I can teach you."
"Back to the mission, Peridot?" Zircon asked.
Peridot walked right into the docks, slowing heading to one of the ships like normal but she was confronted with a couple of Jaspers. These Jaspers had a more brownish, red skin tone compared to the regular ones.
"Hey yeah, my work here is done, so I'll be on my way. If you'll excuse me." Peridot said, with the cheesiest smile ever seen.
These Jaspers didn't suspect anything though, why would they? While Peridot distracted those Japers, Moonstone guided Pearl and Zircon through the area. The docks were large enough for the other Quartz to not notice them sneaking about.
Just when they were just about to reach Peridot's ship, a fairly large Gem saw them from the banister just above. This Gem was green, with thick hair that pointed upwards, her gem was right were her right eye was supposed to be and her shirt had a diamond shape, with smaller yellow diamonds up and down, and blue diamonds left and right on it. This Gem is none other then Emerald.
"Hey!" Those prisoners are trying to escape!" Emerald shouted. "Get them Jaspers!"
Each Jasper from the docks heard and looked right at Pearl and the other Gems, Peridot was still with the two Jaspers so she wasn't suspected to be involved with anything though.
"Oh, no, we're doomed, we're doomed, we're doomed!" Moonstone said over and over again while running in circles, "There's no way out of this, this is hopeless! Aarg!"
It wasn't hopeless. While the Jaspers and other Quartz circled around Moonstone, Pearl and Zircon, Peridot slipped into her ship. Within a few minutes, the gem warship took off, and began to circle the gems. Then, it fired right at each of the Quartz gems, poofing them but not shattering any one of them. In that instant Moonstone jumped right into the ship, after that, so did Zircon then Pearl.
"What! Get them shoot them all, don't let them escape!" Emerald shouted, but it was too late.
Everyone was in the hand-shaped ship within a couple of seconds and once they were all comfortable, the ship blasted through the entrance and flew into the vacuum of space. A couple of similar warships were destroyed in the process hence preventing the Gems from being followed.
The Destiny Destroyer still had all weapons functioning though. As soon as the ship was in range, Emerald ordered the Destiny Destroyer to fire right at them. Each of the four blasters along with the missiles aimed right at their ship but Peridot was just good enough to evade each attack, at least for now. Then, within a couple of seconds, the ship went into light speed.
"WHAT! I can't believe a bunch of HomeWorld traitors escaped!" Emerald complained, "Someone, gave me an explanation!"
"Upon the quick investigation, one of the Peridots was with them," A Moss Agate spoke up. This gem had a green skin tone, rather feminine yet very well built, "The Shattering Robonoids were sabotaged and the cameras were offline."
"Great, what can I possibly say to Yellow Diamond?" Emerald complained, again.
"Yes, Emerald, what can you possibly say?"