Onyx and Tourmaline looked at each other for a while. "U-Um…I'm just gonna- Tourmaline was cut off by a sudden crashing noise coming from the ship. Onyx fell out of her chair as she felt the plane crash. "W-What was that?! The sleek black gem asked.
Tourmaline scuttled to the two doors and immediately pushed them open. Tourmaline's expression grew confused. "What is it? Is there something wrong?" Onyx asked. "W-We're back in the White Court…" The mint green gem responded. "Huh…? How..? We were scheduled to be gone for six days…" Onyx questioned. Tourmaline looked around the court. "I-I'm surprised that we haven't damaged the court; we literally crashed here…"
Then, Pearl came in. "Oh hello you two." "Pearl…How is it that we landed here safely and ahead of schedule?" Tourmaline asked. Pearl just smiled. "I guess that's just how good your ship is." She responded, and then left. The small guard looked at the ship, wondering where they're even going to keep it sitting in the court. "Eh, our room is big enough to fit it." Tourmaline said. Onyx raised an eyebrow. "O-Our room..?"
"Yeah. OUR room b-but…d-don't think that this means something, you idiot…!" Tourmaline said back as she pointed closely at Onyx's face, her finger nearly touching her nose. "I-I'm not shallow or anything my gem." "Humph. If you say so." The mint green gem said as she lowered her hand. "Now…what are we gonna do now that we're here early…?" Onyx asked.
"I suppose we could meet up with Charoite again. I mean, she IS new here and what better thing to do than to make her feel comfortable with other members?" Tourmaline replied. Her guard gave a weak smile. "Wow…that's actually nice of you…!" "Hey, I'm the best member of White Diamond's court. Of course I'm nice. Let's go." She said as she whipped one of her long mint green twintails. Onyx kept her smile and rolled her eyes as she followed. "Charoite's room is also just across from ours, so it should be easy to follow." Tourmaline said. As they reached her room, Onyx knocked on the door, anxiously.
They waited at least 10 minutes for an answer but there was still nothing. "Yeah, we should probably head back to our room. She isn't there…" Onyx said. "Maybe she's doing something for White Diamond?" Tourmaline suggested. "No…I think I remember White Diamond saying that she'll be away discussing the next colonization with Blue and Yellow Diamond." "Then where could she be?"
Suddenly, the two gems heard the warp pad that goes to the Blue court went off. Charoite was in it, tears stinging her eyes as she walked off. "Charoite…?" Onyx asked. The purple gem hadn't noticed they were there so she panicked. "I-I'm fine!" She said as she wiped her eyes as she tried reassuring with them.
"Charoite, there's something wrong with you. Why were you at the Blue court?" Tourmaline asked. "Wh-What do you mean?" "You were just coming out of the warp pad that connects to the Blue court…a-and not to mention that you came out crying…" Onyx implied.
"Really…it's nothing. Look, just let me in my room…" Charoite said. "Really though, Charoite what's wrong..?"
"NOTHING! I'M FINE!" Charoite yelled. Something was off about her… As she yelled, her voice started making a glitching and screeching noise. The two gems looked at each other in confusion. Charoite had just realized what happened with her voice and covered her mouth.
"F-Forget what I said..! J-Just let me in my room!" She panicked as her voice glitched again. "Charoite, what's wrong?" Tourmaline asked in a worried tone. "Nothing!" Her voice glitched again. "Charoite!" Tourmaline said again as she grabbed Charoite's arm. "L-Let me go! I told you! There's nothing wrong with me!" She reassured but failed, her voice getting worse and worse.
"Please..! You can talk to us! What's the matter?" The charcoal colored guard pleaded. Charoite pulled her arm away from Tourmaline's grasp as she looked at the ground. "D-Do you promise not to tell anyone..?" She asked.
"No but, Charoite how serious is this that we can't tell anyone about it?" The aristocratic gem questioned. "It's not safe to talk here…look I'll let both of you in my room, THEN we can talk about it…" The purple gem responded. "Let me ask again, Do you promise not to tell anyone?" Charoite repeated.
Tourmaline and Onyx both looked at each other and nodded. "Yes. We promise." Onyx answered. Charoite sighed and opened the door to her room and signaled the two to come in. Charoite's room looked nothing like Tourmaline's. There wasn't much furniture in sight, despite the chair sitting in front of her desk. Instead, it was filled with all the latest tech Homeworld has made so far.
"Hey Charoite…Just what exactly do you do for White Diamond?" Tourmaline asked curiously as she looked around her companion's room. "Huh? Oh, I'm in charge of the models and prototypes for Homeworld's upcoming tech. I normally have to draw out the models on my log…" She responded.
"What do you do?" Charoite asked quietly. "Hm? Oh I just plan out colonizations with the other high members of the court." Tourmaline simply answered. "Who are they again?" Charoite asked. "Okay I know you're stalling here, Charoite please tell us, What's wrong?" Tourmaline pleaded. The purple gem shakily sighed as her voice glitched again. "Charoite…?" Onyx shyly said. "Tourmaline, Onyx." Charoite spoke up as she let out her hands for them to see. They both stood in shock.
"I'm not a real gem…"