Chapter 1: Landing
Once again, I tried to control the water in my hand using my gem. And once again a nothing happened. With a sigh I knocked on my gem which sat on the middle of my chest. A mistake happened when I popped out, made my gem nigh unbreakable but I can't do the one thing a Lapis is supposed to do.
But it's not too bad, I can still use the tools I'm given. Besides it's not like my job now needs water control.
"Boss get over here!" Specs the pearl yells, "We're entering the atmosphere!" Specs yelled out fixing her monocle.
One of Specs's eyes couldn't see well and needed a monocle to correct, her other eye was covered by her slightly deformed gem. The deformation didn't affect her body, but without her monocle on her eye she can't see anything close to her.
But she's also the only one who knows how to fly a ship without crashing it. And also, extremely good at getting into people's heads.
"Ok gems!" I said raising by voice, "We're about to land in the middle of enemy territory," As I was said this the four others including Specs.
"Smash you start cutting down trees to make a lot for us to stay, and Construct you start getting our base up," I said pointing to the bismuth and topaz.
Smash the bismuth and construct the topaz. A bismuth who likes to destroy and not build, and a topaz who wants to build and not destroy. Some say gems are mindless and can't feel, the friendship between these two says otherwise.
"And Blast!" I said turning to her, "Don't you dare"
Blast is a sapphire, a very important gem usually not put in screw up convoys like this one. But since the day Blast popped out the only thing on her mind is explosives. No one quite knows why.
She is still able to use future vision, but the only thing she sees are things blowing because that what she feels is always the best outcome.
"What do you mean don't? I wasn't going to do anything," Blast says scratching her long hair probably shoving an explosive deeper into it
"You blew up five different things," I said deadpanning, "And one of those was a sheet of metal, with no electronics."
"Well," Blast said with a smile, "I'm good at what I do!" She said looking up
"Anyways," I said getting back on topic, "You know your jobs, yes?" I ask them.
Several yeses and one yes sir from Construct come from them.
"Well then," I say as the auto landing of the ship finishes, "Grab a radio and get out there already!" I say as the bay door opens.
They all turn around grab a radio earpiece and run out of the ship, except for Construct who grabs an extra machine.
Seeing them all get to their jobs a smile creeps onto my face. Of course, if a high-ranking gem came around or called, we would have change around our positions to be more in line with the standard gem protocols.
Following them I run outside, before jumping up and climbing to the top of the ship. Squatting down I pulled out my binoculars to take a look around the area.
The ship landed in one of the few clear areas in the forest we're in. Because of this we need to clear out a space for the auto building base. The automatic building is nice, but rather slow and needs attention to make sure a mistake isn't made.
Looking around some more I can just barely see the other gems who landed her turn on their auto base builder. But I can't look at what they're doing for long, have to keep searching the area.
Construct's job is to keep the building machine up and running, Smash cuts the trees down to feed the machine and clear a space for the base.
Blast and Specs protect them making sure their job gets completed, Blast using her bombs she gets from who knows where, and Specs using her rapier from her gem.
My job is to keep a look out on the other four. Coordinate them from afar and point out anything suspicious around us.
Standard gem protocol keeps three gems at the building machine and all the others fan out to make a parameter around the building machine, excluding the back which is covered by the ship making a wall.
We don't have the numbers to do that so we improvise as best as we can.
Continuing my job of looking around I see some rustling in the trees behind our ship.
"Seeing something odd," I say into the ear radio, "Checking it out, should be back in a minute," I say getting off the top of the ship and heading there.
"Got it," Specs says getting me conformation. As I run into the treetops.
Running on top the branches I start to hear someone murmuring. Stopping where I was, I put the binoculars up to my eyes and look for who's making the sound.
It was ten different gems with one of them holding the symbol of the rebellion. It was a pink flower with vines coming out of it which led to the corners for the flag.
Knowing that this was not the job for me I retreat back to a point where the rebel group wouldn't hear me.
"Blast," I say into the radio, "I got a group of thirty gems, mind cleaning them up?" I ask.
"Would I ever!" Blast yells into the radio.
"Great," I reply, "Go to the back of the ship and go straight." I tell her before turning back around
As I'm heading back along the treetops, I see Blast running a past me, a wide smile on her face.
After I settle back to my spot on the ship a medium size could be heard.
"Now what?" I Bast say over the radio obviously finished with her assignment
"How many poofed gems are there?" I ask her.
"Three poofed," Blast says, "But the others grabbed the gems and retreated," Blast responds.
"Probably thought we were weaker" I mumbled, "Head back, we still have a job to do"
"Understood," Blast says happy she got to blow up some gems.
I then turned around to check on the base. Logs were being thrown by Smash, cut by Specs into small thin rectangles, then being painted by Construct into cards.
"Hey!" I yell down to the three as they look up at me, "How's the base going?" I ask them.
"All good!" Smash says with the other two giving a thumbs up.
"Got it!" I yelled back "Make sure Specs doesn't mark those cards!" I finish yelling as I look back to the forest.
I look around again trying to see the other gem groups. Some of them may have been destroyed, after all where we were deployed is some of the first land the rebels took when they started.
Our job is to set up communications and take back diamond territory. The Diamonds want a swift end to this little rebellion, but I do wonder why we were sent out in such weird place.
But hey, I'm a gem whose been around long enough to know that arguing with the Diamonds isn't the best idea. Especially Pink Diamond who we are working under.
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