Eridium stared at the uniform that was now her form, where she had once had a simple black leotard she now a wore dark purple sleeveless leotard with purple diamond like belt that went around her exposed hips, purple leggings that covered her feet connected to the leotard two yellow diamonds on each knee, a single yellow diamond on her torso beneath her gem, on her shoulders where two black sheer puffs and two elbow high purple gloves covered her hands, the gloves had two openings, exposing her thumbs, index fingers and pinky fingers, her hair has styled in soft curls. She blinked as she looked herself over, her thoughts on her looks being cut short as two quartzes marched towards her, "hey you nine x eight?" "oh yes I am" the quartz on the left grabbed her shoulder and smirked. "You are real lucky rookie, first day out of the ground and you are getting sent right to homeworld" the right quartz laughing hardly "come on Aura, stop getting so sentimental" the two quartz continued their conversation as they lead her to a large ship "oh lighten up Lacey, I only get to spend like what a week back home and then they send me off to squish some big bugs cause a new colony reports a pearl saw a big scary shadow" Eridium looks up at the ship as they get closer and then around herself to see a bunch of other gems, a myriad of colors, all being herded into the ship. Eridium soon nearly falling over as the left quartz slapped her back "alright tall stuff, you enjoy homeworld and hey maybe we'll meet again" "oh u-um yea I'll be looking towards it" she chuckles nervously as she stepped inside of the ship, looking at all the gems in the room she was in, the door sliding shut right behind her causing the tall gem to yelp a bit.

She was bored and anxious as the flight to homeworld dragged on, Eridium rubbing her right arm as she stood and waited, the ship soon lurching a bit as it came to a halt, the door in front of her soon opening as the gems around her began to file out of the ship, Eridium stumbling to keep her place in the crowd. "Eridium nine x eight?" her eyes perked up and began to scan for the voice that was calling her name, having to push through the crowd. "Eridium nine x eight?" she could finally see who was calling her name, a bright yellow pearl that looked far less robotic than the Uranium's pearls "oh oh I'm here, I'm Eridium nine x eight" the pearl looked over to her and made a face of disgust, once she got free of the crowd she finally noticed said face "is there something on my uniform?" "eeeugh no, it's those hideous markings on your face" she stopped trying to look for any imperfection on her uniform to look at the pearl "w-what do you mean hideous?" the pearl motioned to one of the reflective walls of the hanger bay. Eridium walking closer to it and looking at the markings on the left side of her face, she had noticed them and the ones on her forearms and back, but she didn't think anything of them, at least until now, she moved her left hand to gently touch the markings "h-h-hideous?". The pearl scoffs a bit, "anyways nine x eight I am Yellow diamond's personnel pearl, I have been tasked to take you to your new station within facet 5, follow me please" Eridium shook her head a bit to snap herself out of it and began to follow the pearl, but her mind couldn't get past what she had said.

The pearl had lead her to a large arch the taller gem could see two imposing looking green gems, one looked to be jittery tapping her foot while the other looked more calm "Forest green agate and Green lace agate, meet your newest courier Eridium nine x eight" Forest green grabbed Eridium be the arm and yanked her past the arch. "Alright pebble time to work" "Forest, I believe our diamond wants us to show her which pod she'll be using before she starts getting assignments" the more jittery agate growled and began dragging Eridium behind her "u-um excuse me but yo-you're kinda hurting my arm" Green lace rolling her eyes a bit. "Please inform our diamond we are very thankful for the new courier, now I need to make sure Forest doesn't end up destabilizing her on the first day", the agate marched off after her fellow supervisor, already she could hear the shrill screaming of the overcooked agate.

"You are to salute your superiors when addressing them!" the towering purple gem yelping as she copies the diamond salute the green agate made. "L-like this?" the towering purple gem got smacked in the side of the head by the jittery agate. "You will speak when spoken to!" the Forest green agate prepared to smack Eridium again, only for her arm to be caught by nine glossy ribbons Green lace agate pulling hard to forcibly drag her fellow agate backwards to prevent her from destabilizing the poor gem, or worse. "Forest go check the gates, Tanzanite six x ninety was complaining that it keep turning on when she was trying to go through it, I will handle her training", the other agate grumbles as she pulls and tears the mint ribbons off of her dark green arm and stomps away. Green lace taking a deep breath as she looks at the purple gems, tears running down her pale purple cheeks, the agate sighing and rubbing the taller gem's tears away "dry those eyes courier, now onto business, you are a courier your task is to carry packages from the upper districts to their intended recipients". The agate leading Eridium to a hexagonal pod, "this is your work station, place your hand on the panel there and it will code itself to your gem's core…" Eridium blinked a bit and slowly placed her hand on the panel, an eye scanning her gem and beeping, the pod slowly changing colors into a deep purple. "...good now tap your gem and you will be able to summon a holo pad, this device will allow you to access a large range of features, the one you will be using the most within your task is the map". The tall purple gem tapped her gem and eeps as a purple diamond shaped screen appeared in her hands, "very good, if you need to see the map merely think of the map and where you need to go and it will lead you there, now enter your pod and await your first assignment, I will make sure you get easy ones for the next couple of cycles so you can get used to the job" Green lace turned to walk away but stopped when Eridium spoke up, "th-thank you, for helping me…" she turned to look at Eridium and smirked "don't forget to salute when you speak with a gem of higher rank", Eridium entered the pod and looked around, it was rather empty save for a console, a chair and a screen. She gently sat down and stared at her face in the dim reflection of the screen, touching her fingers to the markings and looking them over, "are they really that ugly?" she thought for a minute before deciding on a change, her soft curly locks glowed and began to smooth out, a large flap of hair going over the left side of her face, covering the markings. She smiled weakly at the change of hair style and began to wait for her first task.