5,500 B.S.U.

Tanya

I wouldn't say I formerly understood what Yellow Diamond meant when she said she would take me to get my own Pearl, but the continuous information fed into my mind from somewhere allowed me to understand more of my situation and what Pearls were. As Yellow Diamond continued to walk into the clamshell-like structure, with the Yellow Pearl of her own following close after, I made sure to keep up with both of them as Yellow Diamond stepped through the large doorways that led into a central area of the clam-like building.

While I would acknowledge the occasional glances given by the Yellow Pearl, I made sure to keep my eyes forward most of the time as I marched my way forward in step with Yellow Diamond; with a her arms crossed, my Diamond…that's still something new I am gonna have to used to imply with…My Diamond unfolded her arms and gestured for me to take a step forward with a stern look in her eyes. "Here, step forward and announce yourself." she told me in a simple indifferent tone, with her hand pointed in the direction at the center of the room.

Without another word as to not upset the large woman or disappoint my supposed new…actually, What do I call Yellow Diamond? She created me, but not in the sense an organic female would…hmm…nevermind, a thought for later, the important matter is that she's one of the matriarchs of the Diamond Authority I now serve, and the best thing I can do is play along until I can get a full grasp on my situation.

Shaking myself out of my thoughts, I quickly took a few steps forward and awaited at the center of the room until a voice spoke up. "Greetings, please identify yourself and reason for visiting this Reef Station." A calm and soft feminine voice announced itself, its voice reverberated throughout the room while doing so.

Standing at attention at the center of the room, I clasped my hands behind my back and allowed some of the information fed into my mind to aid me in identifying myself. "I am Citrine Facet 74ny4 cut v0n, and my purpose is to acquire a pearl to aid in my work." I firmly said to the voice that spoke throughout the room, which by my guess had to be some form of A.I. that was in charge of the place. I suppose that helps me a bit as well in grasping how far in technology the Diamond Authority I'll soon fully serve in the coming future.

If there was one caveat in my new life, compared to my last one, I didn't have to start over as a newborn baby…granted I'm once again female for all intents and purposes, seeing as how I was able to see a reflection of myself in the sheen of the floor…I haven't seen a male counterpart though, so I have to assume I'm part of an intergalactic civilizations of a monogendered species that propagates via incubating their species in the crust of a planet…the information that continued to pour into my mind confirmed my assumptions on some level.

The information that constantly fed into my mind was like an ever growing library of information at my disposal, it was as if I was a super-computer with a wealth of information at my hands that allowed me to do as instructed without questioning what my superior meant by any of her words.

Breaking out of my thoughts, the voice spoke up once more. "Greeting, Citrine Facet 74ny4 cut v0n, You will now be scanned to program you an appropriate pearl for your station." The artificial voice spoke out, before shortly afterward, a blue teardrop-like object fell from the ceiling and stopped in mid air in front of me. I watched as the teardrop-like object scanned me, before resuming its fall and sunk into the floor beside me. "Analyzing…finished…please step through the lit up doorway and greet your soon-to-be personalized pearl. With your geometrics scanned, your position within Yellow Diamond's court, and duty within her forces, I have appropriated the perfect pearl for your future endeavors." The feminine A.I. voice echoed out as the lit up doorway opened up, large enough to allow Yellow Diamond herself to walk in through as well.

Without another word said, Yellow Diamond led the way, even though she was not the one to acquire a new pearl of her own; Within my mind's databanks…gonna have to get used to that one…it's dictated for all gems depending on their station to always walk behind their superiors, never beside or in front. Understandable on some level, it's pretty much a rank and file tradition, and as far as I'm concerned, I am to walk alongside Yellow Diamond's Pearl behind her while she walks forward; No wait, a bit forward in front of Yellow Pearl…given the intricacies of gem society on a whole… this will get awkward for a while.

Oh, Yellow Pearl is looking at me while our Diamond continues to walk, her eyes make a motion to go first, in an annoyed expression; I wordlessly took the initiative and hurried along to catch up and walk behind Yellow Diamond, with her Pearl soon catching up behind me. As Yellow Diamond led the way with soft thumps of her feet coming down into contact with the floor with every step, I occasionally took a few glances around me. Various pedestals of what I could only surmise was what I'd have the option to choose to give to…my pearl…ugh.

While I find the idea of having an assistant manufactured intriguing, on a certain level, it still didn't sit well with me that I was essentially going to own a subservient being that did my bidding; though from my first impression of My Diamond's relationship towards her own Pearl, I can deduce that she treats her subservient pearl rather well, but that didn't mean other gems of the Matriarchal Diamond Empire treat their pearls to the same letter. I can not say for certain for now, seeing as how I've just come into existence within this reality, pearls seem to be a sort of an accessory of sorts for Gems of highclass to show off their immense power.

Snapping myself out of my thoughts as Yellow Diamond halted in front of a lit up clam shell, I stopped to look up and wait for the go ahead to step in front of her; My supposed progenitor turned around and looked around at our surroundings, "I forgot how over decorated these places can be." she muttered under her breath, with a scrutinizing gaze of the large and wide hallway we were in.

hm…I gazed around, and took notice that the majority of the stuff that lined the walls seemed to be fit for dancers, entertainers, and most importantly of all, ballerinas; well, since I am to get a pearl by the end of this, I'd rather not choose anything other than a weapon. If I am to be what I can only surmise as a position of a commander of sorts, I'll need a pearl with combat readiness, and I'll go from there. From what I can glean from whatever continuous information that is poured into my mind, Pearls can learn and adapt to better suit their owner's needs; not a pleasant thought the more I think on it, but for now I'll have to make do with my situation and hope the pearl I get acquainted with can think on her own…maybe even figure out if a pearl can detach herself from her owner and be her own person so to speak.

"Anything out of these…trinkets, you'd like to give your pearl?" Yellow Diamond asked quizzically with a bored tone, as she glanced down at me. With my idle thoughts out of the way for now, I looked up and glanced over to a preset of weapon choices, Yellow Diamond followed my gaze and seemed to smirk. "And nothing else?" she asked with an approving smirk…what? What I do? All I did was rather than gaze elsewhere, I looked in the weapon section first and foremost.

I shook my head in a negative motion, I decided to voice my opinion seeing as how she asked first, "If what I can glean from I'll be doing while serving under you, My Diamond." I began to say with a stiff posture and hands behind my back, "I'll be needing a pearl with combat faculties." I reasoned with the Yellow Diamond Matriarch of what I can now assume from the data within my mind to be the overseer of all military attributes of the Great Diamond Authority…great, out from one Empire Military and into a new one.

Yellow Diamond allowed an approving smile to grace her lips, "Excellent choice." she mused.

With her piece said, and just as well, the lit up clam began to open up and allowed the pearl gem within it to begin floating up until an orange light-like body formed around until finally the pearl's body became solid and allowed me to view an almost striking resemblance to myself; to be fair though, from glancing at Yellow Pearl, I supposed all Pearl take after their owners upon first forming.

As the Orange Pearl looked up at me, she smiled as she began to speak, "Hello, Allow me to-" The pearl began to say before me, before glancing past me to glance up at Yellow Diamond. "This…this is…I don't think my mind can comprehend what to do in this situation!" she remarked with a rather troubled tone with dilated pupils.

Glancing over my shoulder to look up at my progenitor, Yellow Diamond rolled her eyes in mild annoyance, "I forgot how irritating a new pearl can be, their basic programming takes a while to set in." she said while she headed down the hallway. "Come outside when you two are finished, Citrine." Yellow Diamond's voice echoed back as she left from sight past the double clam shell doorways, along with her own Pearl hot on her heels in obedience.

Ah…so some of my assumptions are correct…

"uh…as I was saying,...um…" My own Pearl spoke up in a stuttering voice, I'll let it slide in all honesty, this all new to me too after all…I glanced down at my pearl and noticed her cheeks lit up in bright orange, ah, she must be embarrassed for her situation.

Crossing my arms, I gazed at the pearl before me. "Are you able to grasp the concept of assistant?" I tried to break the ice, so to speak, with what would effectively be my assistant in my future endeavors, "Can you even understand the meaning of what collating means?" I continued to ask, hoping the term existed within the lexicon of Gem society.

After a few seconds of silence of what I can assume was internal thinking on the orange pearl's part before me to be, she nodded in a positive motion. "Excellent, then we're on the right track to what I have in mind for you, we'll need to make sure you can also understand advanced mathematics, political theory, resources management…" I began to go into a bit more intricate topics, but stopped myself and shook my head.

"Come along." I gestured for the Orange Pearl to follow after me, "We need to get you an assigned weapon, and leave this place." I remarked as I led the way towards a pedestal of a spear and shield grouped together, "Then we need to leave, we wouldn't want our Yellow Diamond waiting on us." I reasoned, before I took the lead to exit the place with my Pearl following my every step.

Earth

Blue Diamond

Allowing a soft sigh of frustration to escape from her lips, Blue Diamond sat within her Palanquin as she held aloft a diamond communicator to contact Yellow; after configuring it a bit to contact her fellow Diamond, it floated up and began to call up Yellow's personal diamond communicator. As her communicator shifted and elongated in the air to become a blue holo-screen, it wasn't long until the call connected and showed Yellow's Pearl answering the call, with the background of Yellow's ship.

Yellow's Pearl had her eyes wide, "guh…I mean, your illustriousness!"

Blue simply offered a hand up to make the pearl cease her ramblings, "I'd like to speak with Yellow." she calmly said with a stern look in her eyes.

Yellow's Pearl straightened up and smiled nervously, "Yes Ma'am, right away ma'am!" the pearl exclaimed as she rushed away off screen, some murmuring could be heard, before a familiar voice made a sigh; right after, the screen blipped and allowed the view of Yellow sitting in her seat of her ship. "What is it Blue?" Blue's fellow Diamond asked in curiosity.

Blue sighed to herself, "I'm doing all I can with what gems I have, but that rogue Rose Quartz and her rebellion is more trouble than I first thought." she softly placed her hand on her face in embarrassment.

Yellow rolled her eyes in frustration, and leaned back while crossing her legs in her chair, "I told you this would happen, you should have just let me go and help Pink with my own forces." she crossed her arms and huffed. "But no, you wanted to go first, to coddle Pink." She accused Blue.

With a narrow-eyed look of anger flashing across her eyes, Blue let the insult fly, as it wasn't far from the truth; she just didn't want Pink to fail on her first colony. "Be serious with me Yellow! That rogue quartz of hers is rallying more and more to her cause by the day! This kind of thing is unprecedented! The scale in which the Rose Quartz is rallying more gems to her cause is staggering!" Blue tried to reason with Yellow Diamond.

After a few moments of silence passed between the two, with Yellow placing her chin into her hand to think, her eyes lit up in realization and smile. "I have just the thing to help, I just finished one of my projects, this little rebellion is just perfect to see how well she performs."

Blue blinked, trying to remember which project Yellow was implying, "And that would be?" she urged Yellow to tell her who she was sending.

Yellow leaned back and smiled excitedly, "I'll use this…rebellion." Yellow spat the last word out with distaste, before continuing on to talk, "As a trial run for my new Little Citrine Gem."

With an eyebrow raised from Blue Diamond, she gave Yellow an inquisitive look, "And you're…sure this little…Citrine Gem will help?" she questioned her fellow Diamond.

"Why of course!" Yellow Diamond remarked with a rather optimistic attitude, as she sat up straight in her chair, "I'll even assign her a hessonite and a battalion of Jaspers."

"Well…" Blue began to say with an unsure expression, "If you're sure about this, then I'll accept your offer of assistance. I'll need to leave soon anyways within the next few cycles to check in on my colonies."

After several moments passed between the Diamonds discussing a few other matters, the call soon ended with Blue Diamond alone to her thoughts. 'What's so special about a single Citrine gem…' Blue pondered to herself inwardly, before shrugging it off to herself, she doubted she'd meet the gem anyways once the Citrine and its assigned battalion reached Pink's colony; Blue needed to be elsewhere and attend to her diamond duties afterall, and she couldn't always be there for Pink.