A Broken Friend

Indie Spinel OC

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“You don’t have to rub it in… I lack for resources, and those with the resources and manpower lack for minds like mine– for the expertise, and the imagination. If we could all quit being dinguses, we’d have achieved far more by now. But, alas…”

Clark cleared his throat.

“Yes, lead me to your ship and we’ll conduct our tests there to see what works best. And perhaps along the way we might get into one of those squabbles you say you love seeing us Earthlings get into. Stick with me– and you’ll have no shortage of escapades to watch. And to be involved in!” 

“hhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmm, no. I like rubbing it in. It’s another thing that’s fun ta see ya organics get upset by is that there are other things stronger and smarter than ya. A lotta you bent organics tend ta get so uppity about it.” Red snickers after she had decided to give him a moment of thought with her hms.

This time, they’d travel her way as she was quite tired of walking normally places like other humans did as it was also very inefficient. Grabbing onto Clark and wrapping one arm around the man she’d made sure he was secure around her stretchy arm before deciding to go out and carry the man towards her ship as she stretched above the crowded streets below.

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If anything the little toddler was as confused if not more than the other about the current situation. She didn’t expect the whole place to be a transportation device !

“ I dunno, I was cuwious and I cwawled in ! “

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“Ya just......crawled onto- How long have ya been here, where are ya from, who ever are ya?!” Red would move to grab onto the child and lift her up by the foot, inspecting her in case this was some kind of trick or she might be a hologram or a gem that changed it’s form to something more innocent looking. It wouldn’t be surprising for other gems or people to see her ship as a small house since it was used for transporting large amounts of gems back in the day.

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Red was confused how a child got onto her ship. She definitely doesn’t remember picking up a child looking thing and having to deliver it somewhere. “What... what are ya doin’ on my ship?”

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“.............................I don’t need to be shamed about eating food. It’s not like we have anythin’ else ta do between jobs.” Red would mumble the last part.

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“I’ve been to space myself… But other than smaller and very fringe excursions like mine you won’t see any large scale colonization efforts for a long time. The space programs of many governments are in varying states.”

Once they reached the location where he kept his crystals, Clark returned with a whole suitcase of them. Just glowing crystal chunks of varying types. No doubt they each offered the potential to power the gem’s craft. Or perhaps, to perform some entirely foreign effect.

“I call them magic because… Well. I still don’t entirely understand some of these yet, or what they can do. A dinosaur told me they achieved time travel with certain crystals, and another set were produced by a giant immortal magma worm that may or may not be living proof of hollow earth theory–”

Clark was mumbling for a while before offering up one particular crystal.

“Ah, but this one! Fine energy source. May emit strange radiations. Perhaps this one could be what you’re looking for?”

“Ya are still stuck bein’ separated and against each other? I’m sure it’ll pass soon enough. A while ya got still, ya organics always hinder yaselves by fighting against each other. Kinda fun ta watch.” The gem just followed him as she tried to take more mental notes of their surroundings and just what they seemed to be all about.

Once seeing the crystals she looked from one to the other as none of them really looked like the ones she had used before. Though when he mentioned radiation she got slightly concerned as most of Homeworld’s resources were made from reusable sources and she knew that Radiated crystals were not a reusable energy source so she had no idea if her ship would accept them.

“A dinosaur? Immortal magma worm? Ya haven’t even discovered all of your planet? Boy, ya really are still behind. I won’t know if any of these will work without testin’ them out. If ya want, I can bring ya back ta my ship so we can try these out in the engine ta see what one works the best.”

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Red had ended up visiting Earth on another stop of her’s to tune up her ship and figure out just exactly where she was on the starmap she had. It was still a replica of the one from Era one, before the war and Pink’s colony so Earth wasn’t really in a place that had been very colonized and thus she was in an unknown place.

Landing her ship a bit far from the city, Red traveled to it on foot and looked around the small City, if one could even call it that. Sticking out like a sore thumb the gem was surprised at least to see people not freaking out over her appearance and even some came up to ask if she was another ‘Crystal Gem’, whatever that was. Though she continued, asking around for Crystals she could use to power her ship and what planet she was on. Red was eventually referred to the Temple on the hill and she started to head towards it.

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   As far as Galaxite was concerned, she didn’t have many daughters.   And even those Matrons with a hundred times as many children as her – they never forgot any of their Gems.   How could she forget anyone that she loved so much ?   All this time she had felt heartbroken that her girls were gone, but right now, the little pieces of her heart were held together, if just for a moment.

   Galaxite laughed right along and gave Red another kiss on the head.   This was just unbelievable !   Just like with Pink Diamond’s Spinel, she was sure she’d looked everywhere for her daughter.   Yet in her grief, she must have missed something, because here was Red in front of her right here, back in her arms.   It had been so long, it was like they were meeting for the first time.

          “   Look at you !!   Look at you … you’re BACK.   Oh, stars, I missed you so much, princess.   You look just fine !   We should still celebrate.   ”    She pulled away just enough so that she could stroke a hand through Red’s hair.           “   This is quite the occasion, after all.   ”

          “   Oh, a party !   ”    The Pearl who had been stationed at the door suddenly spoke up, bouncing over and over the two Spinels to hang off of a set of bars that were connected to the ceiling.   She grinned at the both of them, swinging back and forth.           “   That’s a regular bang-up idea, My Radiance !   That’d be so much fun !   We could just have it be the three of us !   We haven’t had a party in AGES !   ”

Red still felt a bit saddened, looking away with a fake smile on her lips as her mask showed a very... strange expression as she only felt worse after her matron seemed to stumble on her words when she spoke about looking at her. The pause, the deafening pause was loud enough for her to understand that her Matron wasn’t too...happy to say the least about how she looked. Perhaps it was due to the fact that she had become faded with everything she had gone through.

In a way Red was scared about how her Matron may react to hearing about why she looked the way she did. Everything that the pale gem went through and a part of Red was scared for what her Matron would do after. Part of Red was convinced she’d try to get vengeance, at the same time she might get scolded for having murdered another gem. Those thoughts quickly left her head as the Pearl who had attended to the door moved and spoke up.

“A shindig? Ya haven’t had a ball in a while? Ya really want ta throw a part with just the three of us? Are there...no others....?” Furrowing a brow, surely there had to be other Spinels. There just had to be more, she wasn’t the only one that was made. Knowing for a fact there had to be Pink Diamond’s Spinel still around but had the others really gone? 

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“Solid gold?! Yeowza! I could pay off some debts– I mean. These would absolutely suffice as payment. As it happens, I have collected some glowing crystalline samples and keep a few variations stocked and on hand. We could try them out, see which works best.”

Clark waved for Red to follow him, if she wanted at that crystal collection of his.

“My name is Doctor Clark Raut, host of an Earth TV show called Doc Talk. I’m caught between the entertainment world– a taste of which you had back there with all those gossip-happy bozos, and the stuff of science fiction!… Which would be science fact for you and me. Science… Faction. Fict? Whatever, welcome to the planet. Now stick with me and you’ll have your new set of magic crystals!”

Putting the gold back in her gem, she’d store it away for now until the human would give her what she wanted. Despite being so primitive they at least seemed to understand what basic trading for goods or services was. Granted with this semi-advanced society she’d hope they knew what it was as most places can’t exist without that principle.

Hopping along side the man she’d study the surroundings they had while only half listening to whatever it was he was blabbering on about. Something about TV, Talking, entertainment. Red would scowl a little at the mention of entertainment and the thought of those people having been looking for that. “Well it’s not magic I can tell ya that. Ya seem ta be smarter than the others. So how advanced is ya society? Have ya left ya solar system yet? Colonized other planets? Or does ya species not live that long?”

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“… That’s all you’re here for? A tune-up?”

Clark paused to process this, before waving over to everyone else. 

“Hey, slow news day! This newcomer is more or less just trying to get their car fixed!”

“Are they involved in some kind of scandal too?”

“Any plans to star in a movie?”

“No, none. Dry well if it’s gossip you chumps wanted.” said Clark, before the gem could chime in with something that would keep the crowd watching. And with that, most of the live TV crews were well on their way to finding something far more… ‘stimulating,’ for the masses to pore over. 

“You’ll have to excuse that– they’re desperate for something interesting. Well, a very narrow idea of interesting. But you say you need supplies? Traveling the universe?… I think you’re in luck. Because that sort of thing is my kind of interesting, at least when I’m not broadcasting, or my network overlords aren’t keeping close enough tabs on my content. What exactly are you looking for?”

Watching the other people slowly disperse after she admitted what she was here to do, Red was glad that this species seemed to have a short attention span considering how short of a time they really spent with her.

“Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeell. I could use some light crystals if ya have any. The last jump I made ta get to your Galaxy used up the rest’a my jump. My ship should be charged when I get back ta it but I won’t be able ta leave the Galaxy unless I charge one of my crystals or find a new one. I don’t plan on stayin’ here for a long time so I rather just find some.” Red tried to explain in simple terms for the person to understand. 

“I can give ya something in return if ya want.” One of the gem’s hands moved down to the large gemstone that was on her pelvis as it started to glow. Reaching into the gem she pulled out what looked to be solid gold nuggets, “Found these while travelin’ and I know ya primal organics like ta collect this stuff.” It wasn’t too far fetched that Red could find gold on other planets and since gems didn’t have a use for currency she didn’t mind using it to get what she wanted.

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It wouldn’t be long before the TV crews would roll in, hoping to make the news headlines with this new occurrence on the street. And of course, one trying to get in a talk show interview, very last moment. 

“Fiends! Jackals! Iconoclasts! Taking me away from VERY important research! If it weren’t for you clowns calling me in on my day off from the studio, I’d have finished my lightning cannon! Fools, imbeciles! I– Oh, there’s our star.”

Clark cleared his throat, and approached with his camera crew close behind, eager to speak with the gem.

“Hey, you up there! What are you doing running around like that? Are you after something?! And when you speak could ya get in range of our microphone? And in view of the camera?”

The gem didn’t really appreciate all the strange humans trying to get close to her and invading her personal space. They were such curious little things not unlike other creatures she’s encountered before but it certainly didn’t make them any less annoying. Nevertheless, as various people tried to get her attention she mostly stepped over them or pushed them out of the way with ease.

That was until one of them decided to screech up at her. Deciding she’d have to eventually talk with one of them if she wanted to get the supplies she needed; Red quite literally snapped back to her normal height much like a rubber band. Now only being a bit taller than the average teenage male, she looked at the reporter as the mask on her face expressed a different expression than previously seen. “What?! Ya haven’t seen a gem lookin’ for some supplies? Can’t travel the universe without a tuneup.”

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It had been an average time for the pale gem as she explored various planets, galaxies, and anywhere she could get without too much trouble with gems that may be in the area. Stumbling upon Earth, Red had hoped to find something in order to tune up her ship with. Parking her ship in a place a good distance away from any major city, the gem took on foot and walked around to try and figure out just who could give her what.

This ended up with her traveling to a busy City and people staring and pointing her out of a crowed since she did look quite different from most humans. That, and how she was stretching about without a care in the world. Stretching to make herself taller or smaller to fit places and look around. Some people even ended up trying to record her as it was pretty unnatural.

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 Like and/or Reblog this if you’d be interested in RPing with a Spinel OC from Steven Universe. I’m really trying to breathe new life into this blog and get the ball rolling so any little thing can help <3

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“Did ya think that ya could get ridda me that easy, ya Bent Bulls.”

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So I mostly just updated the Profile Picture on Red’s About page, Added a different concept for her Masks to express her emotion vs a different Idea I had and she no longer has a Human Disguise as her default Verse will have her still Traveling around the Universe in the old ship she has.

Not too much changed but I hope y’all are okay with it.

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