Mirages

I hear an engine humming. I groan as I open my eyes and I stretch out, yawning. I sit up with a grunt and I look over to see Eyeball pacing. Her face is sweating and her eye is widening. I pull my shirt over my head and I slip my shoes on.

I put on the jacket and I get up. Eyeball is biting her fingers and she's pressing both hands against her ears. "I can't believe this happening!" I raise an eyebrow. "What's going on?"
She stops pacing and she looks directly at me.

"Care for a reality check?" She glares at me. "Look outside!" I walk over to the door. I carefully take a peak outside and I cover my mouth. There are dozens of Ruby soldiers wandering the area. "FIND THEM!" I look over to see a yellow being whom I once saw briefly on a transmittion.

"Hmm...let's see..." She pulls out a device that appears to be some sort of watch. She presses a button on the side and a screen pops up, revealing Eyeball's face. "Ruby, Facet 6, gem placement on the right eye, yellow diamond..."

I look back at Eyeball for a moment. She's tearing up and covering her mouth like I am. I look back over at the Pearl. "Guilty of...oh. Abandoning and retaliating on her own platoon. Well that's a disappointment."

She slides the screen over and I nearly choke on my breathing, muffled out by my hand. "Hmm...an Amethyst. Facet 5, Prime Kindergarten, proven to be defective in size, Crystal Gem-!" She widens her eyes. "Former Crystal Gem?"

She quickly slides her finger up on the screen to scroll down. "Guilty of the Crystal Gem status. Manipulating a Jasper? Accused of building an era 2 Crystal Gem army? Shattered Rose's Pearl and killed Rose Quartz?" She gapes at the description I didn't want to hear.

"Caused several massive breakouts at the barn near Beach City, USA on planet Earth. Assumed to be a towering threat to both Earth and Homeworld. Huh. Interesting. I wonder what she looks like." She taps her finger on the screen and my full appearance pops up on it.

She blushes. "My...stars." She stares at the screen for a moment before she shakes her head, swiping the image off the screen. "I gotta stop doing that. She's going to get shattered soon anyway." She sighs as she turns off the screen. She wanders off and I look back at Eyeball.

"She's here, Amethyst. Yellow Diamond's Pearl is here to take us back to Homeworld to get shattered. "Yellow Pearl." I blush for a moment and Eyeball raises an eyebrow, calming down. "Uh...Amethyst?"

The name just sounds so perfect. Yellow Pearl. She was a Pearl and a fancy one too. Unlike Eyeball's, she saw my description and she appeared amazed by my achievements. When she turned off the screen, I noticed her biting her lip with an eye welling up. She has a crush on me.

I feel bad for her and I don't know why. She is sent here to shatter me and now I feel as if she could steal my heart away from anyone. She's so much like the Pearl I once knew. She has that charm to her that just lures me in towards anyone like her. If Eyeball goes, will I be able to have her?

I wince at the thoughts I just made in my head. "Amethyst?" I feel my cheeks getting hotter. Eyeball folds her arms. "Is something up?" I really wish she didn't come to Earth. If she hadn't, I would still feel that connection with Eyeball.

But since she did, I can feel that connection slipping away. Once again, my Rose returns to haunt me and my desires. I look back over to the door. "Amethyst?!" Eyeball taps her foot against the floor. "I'm fine, Eyeball." Without a concious, I open the doors. I...I need to go find her.

I wander out and Eyeball gasps and whisper yells. "AMETHYST, GET BACK HERE!" I continue wandering off on my own. The sky is gray and the wind is a light breeze. The wind carries leaves around as they double over in mid-air. I watch as Yellow Pearl's head dissapears down the fields.

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