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From out of the meeting chamber doorway as it opened opened up, the council members exited out after finishing deliberating on important matters strictly known amongst themselves; every trio of gems from each court talked amongst each other as they exited out into the hallway to head to their own destinations, eventually the last ones to exit out were Pink Diamond's gems, Pink Morganite, Sapphire and Zircon.
From Pink Morganite's perspective as she walked alongside her fellow gems of Pink Diamond's court, she inwardly pondered as she headed to the hangar bays with Pink Sapphire and Zircon. While the council did do quite a bit of decision making on various matters across the board for the Diamond Empire as a whole, so side could yet come to an agreement on the matter that was Yellow Diamond's Citrine Quartz commander.
Decorated in accomplishments as she was, she posed a problem with the more traditionalist of the council members, namely Blue Diamond's Blue Demantoid, Hessonite and Pyrope; while Yellow Diamond's gems were more bias in allowing the Citrine commander to do as she wished with all the new ideas she brought forth and how well they all panned out. White Diamond's gems however were the odd bunch.
White Sapphire was keen on letting the matter of Citrine play out and see what else she could do, Forsterite more or less was adamant on analyzing the commander further, whilst White Diamond's Nosean gem commander simply wanted to wait it all out until she was given the express opinion from her Diamond that the Citrine commander was nothing but trouble.
Thus the unanimous decision with what to do with the commander was to decide after a few more centuries, until then, the council would continue to observe the young quartz gem.
Eventually the trio of gems from Pink Diamond's court made it their own private hanger within the hidden station of the council, a mere consolation compared to how the other gems of the council had their own seat whereas they had none. 'Not like we can do anything about it.' Pink Morganite thought to herself as she walked beside Pink Sapphire and Zircon. 'We lost our beloved Diamond, so now we have no chance of earning a seat.' she continued to think as she followed with her fellow court members of the 'shattered' pink Diamond.
As the three gems headed towards the available ship within the hanger bay, a ship that was angular in shape in the color shade of pink, it resembled a Sun Incinerator ship model with the exception of the needle at the nose of the ship and the wings at the side; The private ship was Tulip ship model, one meant for transportation rather than the whole on board fight systems that a sun incinerator had.
Just as the three of them were about to board the Tulip ship, a calm voice spoke up from the entrance to the hangar bay, "Morganite, might I have a word with you?" the voice of White Diamond's Sapphire echoed out through the hanger.
While Pink Sapphire and Zircon paused in entering the ship through the lowered ramp of the Tulip ship, Morganite glanced at them and nodded for them to go ahead on while she walked back to converse with White Sapphire.
Once Pink Morganite walked back and approached White Diamond's sapphire, said gem gleamed a rather simple smile as she stood across from Pink Morganite with her hands together in idle posture, White Sapphire stepped towards Morganite before she was face to face with the pink gem. Morganite sweat in nervousness if she were human, but alas she stuck with intertwining her fingers together and twiddled her thumbs as she smiled back at White Sapphire. "Was…there something you needed?" she asked the sapphire gem.
After a few moments of uncomfortable silence from the White Sapphire, the gem unclasped her hands and parted her hair away to look into Pink Morganite in the eyes with her single eyes, she smiled broadly in a rather amused manner, "You can investigate all you want, but it won't hide the fact that she's gone, you know." she said in a rather plain manner.
Something within Pink Morganite snapped, as she parted her hands from each other.
SLAP
A harsh echo of a slap echoed throughout the hangar bay, before silence fell between the two gems; Pink Morganite's face was red with rage while her arm was beside her in the air from swinging it while White Sapphire's cheek had a red mark on it. The Sapphire gem let go off her bangs and touched her cheek with a free hand while maintaining a neutral expression.
After a few moments passed, Pink Morganite's mind finally came down from her anger before switching to that of shock and fear as she shirked back from the White Sapphire as she jerked her arms to her chest, "...!" Her eyes were wide in fear while placing a hand over her mouth in shock at how she allowed her emotions to control her actions, against's White Diamond's Sapphire no less.
After another round of seconds passed, White Sapphire began to sooth her wounded red cheek but smiled as she looked back at Pink Morganite through her bangs, "I almost forgot you Pink gems take after your Pink Diamond in not just color, Pink Diamond was quite renown for her outbursts." she remarked in observation as she finished rubbing the slapped cheek of her face, but kept her hand on it to hide the red mark on her face.
Pink Morganite stepped backwards once, before standing ramrod straight and giving the Sapphire a respective bow, "I'm sorry your clarity! I-I-I-" A finger soon found its way on Morganite's lips by White Sapphire walking up to her and placing said finger over her lips with her free hand.
"Shh." White sapphire shushed Pink Morganite, before stepping back a step from the Morganite gem. "I'll let this slide for now." she said as Morganite began to stammer a bit, all the while White Sapphire continued to smile. "But let's get back to what I said." White Sapphire continued to talk.
Morganite shot a quick glare at the other gem, before correcting herself, "How long have you known we've been trying to investigate our Pink Diamond's shattering?" she asked in curiosity, "It's not like the others and I have been broadcasting our private investigation."
Relaxing both of her arms back down to interlock her fingers once more in front of her as she stood across from Pink Morganite, White Sapphire's cheek showed almost little to no red now as she spoke with the Pink gem, "I have my ways." she answered, "But you should know, and this is no lie, it was no fault amongst the council."
Pink Morganite gave the other gem a suspicious gaze, before scoffing, "As if I'd believe that!" she raised her voice in protest and pointed in the direction of the hallway entrance to the hanger bay, "Pink Diamond was the outlier of all the Diamonds, and I'm pretty sure her shattering was the fault amongst Blue Diamond's court!" she began to say as she seethed in anger, "Yellow Diamond only sent her single Citrine Commander and a battalion, while Blue Diamond sent an entire armada to help quell the rebellion on Pink Diamond's colony."
White Sapphire tilted her head a bit in curiosity, "hoh? And how has your investigation not pointed the fault towards the Citrine Quartz gem? Wouldn't she be a suspect as well?" the white gem inquired
Morganite narrowed her eyes at the Sapphire in suspicion, "I have a trusted source that the Citrine commander is doing her own investigation into the matter was well, so we've docked her off from the list of suspects for now."
At that mention of the Citrine Commander doing such a task, White Sapphire turned in place to frown, "I see." she remarked before leaving a confused Morganite.
"That's it!?" Pink Morganite hollered over at the sapphire as she exited the hanger bay and into the nearby entrance of the station's hallways, in response, White Sapphire paused in her steps just as the automatic door opened up for her to go through, and turned to glance over her shoulder at the Pink Gem.
"It seems I have some more digging as well, farewell Morganite." White Sapphire responded back in a crisp tone, before turning back around and headed back into the hallways.
As the doors closed behind the White Sapphire gem, Morganite let out an exhausted sigh, "What's with that gem!?" she asked herself, before heading to the Tulip ship. Once the Morganite gem entered the ship through the lowered ramp of the ship, said ramp closed back up once the gem fully entered the Ship vessel; After a few minutes passed, the ship began to hover up and slowly fly out to space.
While the Pink Tulip ship floated through space just outside the hanger bay entrance, the back side shifted into a blossoming tulip before an engine thruster emerged out from the middle of the blossoming backside; moments later, the space in front of the ship distorted before the ship stretch a bit from space warp before finally the Tulip ship blasted off at warp speed to its destination.
Within the space ship vessel as it traveled at warp speed to homeworld, the three Pink gems sat in silence behind their own ship consoles, after a few moments passed it was Pink Sapphire to be the one that spoke up as she turned her head to speak to Morganite who sat at the center of the three. "You're lucky that Sapphire allowed you to leave for that transgression." she said in a calm manner.
Pink Morganite, who sat straight in her own chair, let out an annoyed grunt, "Don't remind me!" she wailed out in despair, before looking back at Pink Sapphire, "But how could she have known of our investigation?" she asked.
"I think the more pressing matter is why you told her that the Citrine Quartz commander was investigating the matter as well." Pink Sapphire remarked back in a slight chiding tone.
"Gah!" Morganite threw her arms up and covered her face in shame, "I don't know! I just snapped when she said those words to me!" she exclaimed.
From the left side of Pink Morganite, Pink Zircon spoke up as she preoccupied her time with a datapad as she typed into it while looking down at it, "You're just lucky she was more concerned with information about the Citrine Commander that she didn't know about." the pink gem remarked as she looked up from her personal device and glanced over at Morganite with a raised eyebrow. "For all that she thinks she is, she's certainly not all knowing with her own future vision."
"Hmm." Pink Sapphire nodded in agreement as she glanced over at Zircon, "I believe it has more to do with her position as White Diamond's own Sapphire gem, a prestige like that can no doubt get to one's head." the gem said calmly.
Pink Morganite frowned in distaste, "Whatever." she huffed as she faced forward and watched from out of the front windows of the ships, space and stars bent and stretched from out fast they were going. "We can dwell on this matter later."
Homeworld
Above the split and shattered planet that was Homeworld, the home planet of the Diamond Empire and center of its very civilization, the space began to warp and shift into eventually an armada of ships rubber banded into existence above orbit; eventually one large orange hand warship warped into existence amongst its armada of gem ships. Attached to the wrist of the hand warship was a new weapon that was situated under its palm.
After a few moments of hovering within orbit of the planet, the entirety of the armada, including the warship, began to slowly make their descent down to the surface; eventually, the entire armada made their way down to the Yellow Palace situated within the main hub area of the four Diamond Palaces.
Behind the Yellow Palace was an open landing area meant for Yellow Diamond's personal ships, the very same of which the armada of gem ships and warship were granted permission to land on. As the ships began making their gentle landings on the flat surface, from out of the back of the palace a large doorway fit for a Diamond to pass through opened up. From out of the doorway, Yellow Diamond marched forward with her hands behind her back, countless gem soldiers lined up beside the pathway as the Yellow Diamond matriarch walked past them, all of which were giving their ruler their respect and diamond salute.
While Yellow Pearl could be seen doing her best to catch up with her Diamond, said Diamond eventually stopped her march and stood at the end of the pathway, and waited for her Citrine gem to finally exit out. Her expression was that of patience and authority as she watched from out of the palm of the hand warship, a ramp lowered down. Eventually from out of the ship came the Commander Citrine, finally having arrived back to homeworld after a century of busy work across gem space.
Eventually the Citrine commander approached her Diamond, and stood straight before giving her Yellow Diamond a respectful diamond salute, "My Diamond, forgive the lateness, I was held up with some important matters to take care of." she spoke aloud as she looked up at her Diamond Matriarch.
Bringing her arms from around her back to cross them over her chest, Yellow Diamond looked down at her Citrine gem with a scrutinizing gaze, before glancing up at the entrance of the ship's ramp, "I assume so." she drawled out with neither anger or happiness, "And what of Pink's Spinel gem?" she questioned out of curiosity with a raised eyebrow.
Citrine glanced over her shoulder to see her own Pearl in the process of doing her best to drag a crying Spinel, "No! She's not gone!" she wailed.
"She's…still coming down from the news of Pink diamond's shattering." Citrine responded as she watched her Orange Pearl struggle to pry the Spinel gem over from out of the floor of the ramp. "Her mood swings can switch quite drastically." she observed.
"Hm, Just like Pink." Yellow Diamond noted as she watched her Citrine gem's pearl struggle to pull the spinel gem up and off from the ramp, only for her to end up stretching the gem, "Pearl, go help Citrine's Pearl in getting that Spinel to calm down." She ordered without missing a beat and turned on the heels of her feet and began marching herself back to her palace, "Come Citrine, we have much to discuss and talk about." she ordered in a strict tone.
"Yes, my Diamond!" Yellow Pearl responded, before rushing off to help the orange Pearl.
Citrine watched as Yellow Diamond's Pearl rush over to help her own Pearl in getting the spinel gem to calm down, before rushing after her own Diamond Matriarch; she couldn't very well protest her Diamond's orders, thus she had given her Orange Pearl one last look before continuing on walking after her Yellow Diamond.