Chatterbox: Inkwell

My maroon hair floats around my head, moving as I move.  Am I underwater?  I hear a faint tapping coming from behind me.  I whirl around, slower than I would have expected.  I am underwater.

I find the location of the tapping.  I swim over to the glass where I see another Gem.  She's short, with frizzy rainbow-colored hair and fuschia eyes.  She says something to me, but I can't hear her.  She raps on the glass again, and talks again.

I shake my head.  I can't hear you! I want to say.  but even if I did, it would jst get lost.  I pull my weapon, a dark red sword, and swing it at the glass.

~~~

I watch as the red-haired gem pulls a sword out of her gem and uses it to shatter the glass.  My hands rush to cover my face and gem, and my form shrinks back a little.  Water spills onto me.  I struggle to keep my head above the water as the waves calm.

I look around, panicked, trying to find the face of the other gemstone.  A second later, she appears next to me.  

"Hey," she says to me.

"Hi.  Are you alright?  What's your name?  Are you a gem experiment?  Who's your leader?" my mouth spouts questions without my mind thinking about it.

"I'm fine.  My name is H3M-T1T3.  I am a gem experiment.  I don't have a leader, a diamond leader, I mean.  The Aquamarines are in charge of me," she answers each question, counting them off on her fingers.

"I'm Rainbow Tourmaline (YES I KNOW ITS NOT A REAL THING).  I'm a gem experiment too, but I'm trying to escape.  Maybe you'd like to come with me?"

~~~

I fiddle with the end of my jet black hair.  The court makes my whole existence feel uncomfortable.  I'm barely listening to what the ruby on the other side has to say.  I know what they're going to say.

That gem is dangerous!  They attacked me out of nowhere!  We don't even know what gem she is, we should just use her as an experiment!  I did nothing!

"Can I interrupt?" I say, not really as a question.  "I did nothing wrong.  That ruby asked me who my master was, and I said no one.  She then assumed I was a 'rebel,' whatever that is, and tried to hurt me.  I was merely protecting myself.  I am roughly 120 years old.  I don't even know the name of the planet I was on until now.  Can you just let me go?"

Both the Zircons look at me, surprised.  What, am I not allowed to talk or something?  Or do they assume I was mute?

"Okay, I'm bored, I'm going now bye," I say, summoning my wings and flying out of the open-roofed building. 

~~~ 

I walk quickly down the hallway, my hands behind my back.  I'm heading toward the experimentation ward to see if the Aquamarines have found any new gems.  I come to a stop at the 20-foot door, and wait for a pearl, or an aquamarine to open the door.  

An Aquamarine with no visible gem opens the door.  "Oh, General.  Please, come in," She says, sounding panicked.

"Are you worried about something?  why do you sound like you're hiding something?" I inquire, entering behind her and looking at the machinery.

"Well, in recent hours, we've been having a problem," Aquamarine replies with fake calm.  "Our two successful experiments have escaped."

~~~

I look at General Emerald, scared, as she glares at me.  "Your two successful experiments have free will?  What part do you have to play in this?" she says.

"I was observing the first one when it escaped," I say quietly, looking at the ground.

"The FIRST one?" General Emerald asks, signing for me to elaborate.

"The first experiment to escape, R-T0URM-L1N3 was being held in her tube, and somehow broke out while I was observing her." I shrink back, knowing what's going to happen next.

"You WATCHED?  And you did NOTHING?" Emerald yells.  "I'm going to take you back to Yellow Diamond and have you punished.  Do you know how important your gem is to our evolution?"

"Y-Yes," I say in a scared voice.

~~~

I am walking with my battalion toward a ship when I see General Emerald walking out of a lab building, a skinny Aquamarine following her.  General Emerald stops short as she looks up, and I follow her gaze.  I see a small black shape soaring through the sky.

I glance at the rest of the battalion, leaving me behind.  Then I look at General Emerald and the Aquamarine, who are now running toward the building the black shape was coming out of.  I decide to chase the general and Aquamarine.

Unfortunately, I make too much noise, and the general whirls around.  "What are you doing here?  Aren't you supposed to be with your battalion for training?" She squints at me intimidatingly.

"I decided to investigate with you," I say simply and boldly.

"You're coming with me, too.  Yellow diamond is going to shatter you both," General Emerald growls.  

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It was supposed to be the backstory for my original six Steven Universe characters, and I'll post six entries as much as I can until it's done.  The characters are Hematite, Obsidian, Emerald, Topaz, Aquamarine, and Rainbow Tourmaline are the characters.

This was a headcannon I had before all the "Wanted" stuff came out (Minus the Zircon part) where Aquamarines were scientists and tried to experiment to make new types of gems, and Hematite and Rainbow Tourmaline were the first experiments.  Emeralds were generals and Topazes were warriors.  So maybe makes sense.  Also, my ideas of Topaz were that she was strong in a nimble, quick way.  and Rainbow Tormaline was a stick-thin short gem with really frizzy hair.