What I Have to Do [Open]

[Spider]

Hanging from between two palm trees was a black hammock. Woven from string that seemed to glisten in the bright sunlight. A soft breeze made the hammock swing slightly. 

A sigh escaped from the hammock and upon closer inspection would be able to see that the hammock was occupied by none other then Spider. Spider wasn't sleeping in her hammock though, that was woven from her very own string. She had a small notebook open and scratched a small list. Spider wasn't a messy gem, she liked to have a list or some kind of plan... 

Of course the end goal was to figure out a way to join the Crystal Gems, and of course, redeem herself. She had done nothing but evil deeds since she had emerged from her gem so many, many, many years ago. Now she was stuck on earth and found herself truly loving it. 

Her red and green eyes looked off to the side and watched the blue ocean as it swayed and lapped at the shore. The beach was empty, for whatever reason, and as far as Spider could see she had it to herself... And for now, her little hammock was going to be home. She didn't need to sleep or eat, so she found herself here when she wasn't out exploring or looking for information on Crystal Gems or anything else for that matter. 

Another sigh, a bit louder this time. She flipped the notebook closed, stuck the pencil in her mouth and clasped one pair of hands together over her stomach while the other pair of hands laced together behind her head making her elbows stick out. Her bigger set of eyes, the green ones, closed while the smaller red eyes remained open and stared up at the blue sky.

"My plan is simple..." She muttered to herself, "Find a cure, stop fighting, join a cause." She nodded her head and finally her eyes closed. "But... Where do I start...?" 

[Morion]

After Apatite and Morion departed, the Gem, shapeshifted to a "panther" and with a jump or two, climbed to the rooftop.

There the big, black (alien) feline ( closer to a Thanator than an Earth panther, but close enough) was resting on the roof, in the shadows, watcing the world bellow with silver eyes, like a predator
Strange world
Strange inhabitants
Even stranger Gems
Apatite was... friendly, or at least tried to be
Poor Gem, maybe she will understand in time
It wasn't a total faliure or a waste of time to meet her! She was a good warning to Morion, Earth can be dangerous to the Gems... or... who knows, maybe he is just paranoid
Anyhow, there are several things to do!
Two, actually
Found other Gems and recruit them to help him to set thing right
Locate Gem structures and facilities, before the Rebels (or Diamonds forbid, Humans) find them
As a bonus: hunt down the Rebels
The big "cat" rested his head on his paws with a sigh
Now the best thing to do is to watch, silently... it was embarrassing to not notice Apatite was a Gem at first. And disturbing! As an infiltrator, Morion know how to blend in (after studying the world/species in question)... but it IS his job!
The idea that other Gems, even good for nothing Pearls or expendable Rubies, could pose as humans (or other Earth creatures) too... was really scary!
Worst... who knows, how many Rebels hiding, masqueradeing as Humans in plain sight?
He needs to be cautious!

Beach, palm trees, humans, several birds... the Sea...
Morion always loved the seas and oceans
The Assassin allowed himself to rest a little
The other Gem in her hammock - if she looking in the right direction - can see the big black "panther" in its shadowy hiding spot, looking for prey, watching the world below (and didn't noticing her....yet^^)

[Grand Inquisitor, Mr. O]

Things had become much more calm as of late.... the creature that was poking holes in reality that were letting the energy from his own dimension out into the material one had been ended. Now he had little to do short of possibly following his quest as he calls it, and finding out more about the Rebel cell. He had grown rather tired of such things.. he wanted a break for the time being so this beach that the humans and even gems loved so much must be a logical stop.

Towards the center of the beach away from the palms trees or any buildings, if anyone had glanced in that direction at the right moment a light blue blur lasted for less then a second, in place of the blur stood the seven foot tall, slender frame of the Grand Inquisitor of Homeworld. Of course he had many, many titles, most fall short of simply just "Grand Inquisitor" as it was his first title. Short of when White Diamond use to call him "Tops" which was one he was never fond of.

Mr. O had stood still near the center of the beach, his slick black tux and top hat could easily be seen on the sandy beach. One hand on his cane to his side, with his other resting on his hip as it cocked out to the side. His face yet still holding this never ending smile, amazingly bright white eyes that looked like bright glowing stars on a clear night.

"Gather up all of the gems,
It’s time to ship out 'round the bend,
Space-wind blows,
To where? Who knows?!
The waves will be our guide!"

His voice didn't travel VERY far... but if heard it almost had this duel sound to it as if two voice from the same location. O didn't walk far.... he walked closer to the tide. His eyes locked out over the sea.... he seemed to be waiting for nightfall.

"O’er across the star’s up high,
Rays of sunshine far and wide.
Birds they sing
Of cheerful things
In circles passing by..."

Normally O was aware of his surroundings at all times but he was off in a haze, his White Diamonds symbols plastered across his back and even the patches on his shoulders. His voice had grown even softer as he sang.... "Hmmmmm...... just how do I handle this.." He mumbled, certain things had been brought up that had him an a strange mindset and even his favored song wasn't brightening his mood as it normally would.

[Spider]

When the girlish singing started, Spider groaned. She sat up rather quickly, the hammock swaying violently as she did so. Black hands rubbed her eyes as the other pair looked around and spotted the singing figure on the beach. Spider huffed a bit to herself but leaned back in her little hammock and listening to the song.

She wasn't familiar with this song. It kinda... Made her feel somewhat sad, she cupped a pair of hands around her mouth. "Sing something else!" She shouted.

Clearly this figure wasn't human, unless humans suddenly gained a interest in white Diamonds and having weird colored skin. Regradless, she didn't want to listen to anymore of this song and if he was going to linger near the beach while she was here then he might as well sing something else. Something a bit more human, perhaps?

Maybe a song would help her take her mind off things...

From this seated position she was able to get a better look around and couldn't help but spot a fellow assassin on a rooftop... Well, it was more of a giant... Feline like creature. Spider was sure she had creature about a gem like that, but it wasn't like she kept all the records on her. She frowned and debated on what to do... She must have called attention to herself already, yelling across the beach did that, but if he thought it wise to come at her, Spider was sure she could defend herself.

[Morion]

What the...?
Morion raised his head and looked around
Somebody was yelling
...from a... hammock
Ooookay
But not with/at him
Strange world indeed
What to do, what to do...?
The meeting with Apatite made him cautious, one fiasco was enough for a day
Morion retreated deeper in the shadows of the rooftop and the palm trees. He was always more of a nocturnal predator, but then again, as an infiltrator (and spy) had his fair share of "daytime" jobs
This cursed rock!
Diamond forsaken, damned rock... he should have studied it, its costums and habits, its inhabitants
Everything!
But it wasn't his mission
With narrowing silver eyes he continued to watch from his hindig spot, the other, the yelling one, and tried to find the source of her annoyance

[Grand Inquisitor, Mr. O]

Snapping back to some kind of reality to a rather rude interruption, "Sing something else!" His head turned slowly towards the sound of the voice, from so far away it just seemed like a person hanging in some kind of sack... lounge thing between two trees, looked rather cozy the more he thought about it beofre snapping back, "Sing something else?! Hmp!" He turned guessing it was a human who had heard him sing before and wanted a new tune.... "I can do that..." He mumbled threw his brilliant smile.

"It's too dark.. it's too loud in the city....
...If I had a god, I would say he was wrong
Got these scars, but I think they're pretty!"

He began to slowly walk towards the source of the voice from before, a sway to his hips as he waltz over closer and closer.

"So I say Hey!
Been gone since yesterday,
You know it kills the pain
It's hard to find your place.. through every shade of grey!
So tired of the same,
Never seems to change"

"It's hard to find your place through every shade of grey...
It's hard to find a love through every shade of grey!"

His voice had this... double sound if you will? It almost sounded as if two voices were singing together at once but both coming from the same source.

"So I say Hey!
Been here since yesterday,
You know it calms the pain.
It's hard to find a love through every shade of grey..
So tired of the same,
Never seems to change.
It's hard to find your place through every shade of grey!"

He had grown closer to the person that had called out to him but was unable to get a clear sight of the person that had spoke out as he was still a few yards away. He had yet to even taker notice of a dark hunter hiding away in the shadows.

[Spider]

Spider cupped her chin in her hand and leaned forward as she watched the gem walk towards her. One pair of eyes of course remained on the hunter in the back. He was hiding now... She didn't know if he ran away, or if he had just moved back into the shadows. Regradless, one pair of eyes was going to be looking his direction in case the hunter wanted to come and take a bite out of this strange gem or herself.

He was singing a different song, a song she was sure she had heard on the human radio. The free pair of hands clapped when he was done.

"Bravo." She even sounded interested, "Do you take requests?" Spider joked, cracking a half smile. Some of her fangs even showed. He was a bit too far away to notice that though.

Her head turned and she motioned to the area where the hunter had been moments ago, "I wonder if the prowling friend has a request." 

Inside her mind Spider was freaking out a little bit. She wanted this to go well, interaction with gems, gems of any kind, had to go well. The less gems were afraid of her the less humans would be afraid of her and she could walk around in public during the daylight hours. Nor did she want this to break out into a fight. No fighting.

[Grand Inquisitor, Mr. O]

Growing a bit closer... he had started to wonder if this was a human or a gem... so many new random gems seemed to be popping up out of nowhere! Deserters and other trouble makers, "Bravo." and "Do you take requests?" was spoke out from the trees once again... this voice didn't belong to a human. His ears were trained well as the humans had an odd tone when they spoke versus how clear a gems voice rang out to him. Before he opened his lovely lips to speak again the voice called out again, "I wonder if the prowling friend has a request."

This made O give a quick glance around, scanning the area looking for this "prowling friend" the voice spoke of. It was of no use to look... plus who would DARE attack the Grand Inquisitor of White Diamond? His ego can blind him some times as he ignore the risk of an attack and began to waltz closer to the figure in the trees. It only took him a moment before he saw more then one set of arms... a strange projection tone that seemed familiar with him just he couldn't place his clothed finger on it.

"Oh-hohohoho! If the song is lovely enough, of course ill....... sing..." His voice trailed off as he realized what he was speak to, now much closer and having a good view of the gem lounging about, "A Spider Web Jasper?! HERE!?" This ran threw his mind along with his past adventures with a Spider Jasper. They were great hunters, ones that even O would not like to see on his trail... what could this gem POSSIBLE have to do here on Earth.... unless the Diamonds decided to turn on him? Was she here to capture him?

"Hmmmmm..... singing may be out of the question anymore darling.... or should I say Spider?" He spoke not too fat from this gem anymore, his lean body leaning onto his cane slightly. He had lost interest in the prowling friend about and had all of his attention on this Spider Gem. His smile was on full blast as well as the bright lights he called eyes, locking onto the figure in between the trees.

[Spider]

The hesitation. He knew.

Spider did her best to remain still, she had no urge to run or hide, but she did have an urge to stand up and puff out her chest a bit. A spiders instinct was to be bigger and badder then their opponent. She was fighting this urge... 

She drew her mouth together and pressed her lips into a thin line, but still kept a small smile on her face. Spider tilted her head to the side when he called her by her name, or perhaps he was referring to just the gem. 

"Hi." She lifted her hand and waved at him, even showing off the black and white gem on her wrist so he would know he was 100% right. She was a Spider Web Jasper. "You seem to know who I am, its not fair I don't know you." 

Red eyes scanned this blueish white gem up and down, her green eyes still lingered on the hiding spot of the prowler. He didn't look familiar... Was he suppose to be in his reports? Spider's had a rep, this spider knew that very well, but this gem still had a smile on his face. He seemed to be waiting for her to do something. Did he want her to sing? Spider wasn't sure if she knew how to do that properly...

Regardless, she grinned and wiggled her fingers at him.  

[Morion]

Morion, in his shadowy hindig place watched the other two.... strange Gems
A Spider Web Jesper?
He raised his head
Now thats something!
But the other one... he was strange. But familiar.
And thanks to the Diamonds, lost his interest towards him^^
Good
Goooood....
But the false sense of security killed already several Gems
The cautious hunter moved a little... to better see the pair
So a Spider Jesper is on Earth! She and Morion could hunt down every Gem in this Diamond forsaken damned rock!
It was no question to Morion what is she doing here
She is a hunter, like the Smoky Quartz
So it is logical, she was sent here to... hunt
Whic is great, since Morion needs every Loyal Gem to set things right on this bacwater planet....

[Grand Inquisitor, Mr. O]

This Spider gem at least had manners, more then some of the other clods he met on this planet, "You seem to know who I am, its not fair I don't know you." What? How could this be possible... "You DON'T know who I am? Oh-hohohoho!" He couldn't help but find this funny, "My dear.... I am the great Mr. O! Grand Inquisitor to the Diamonds themselves! The White Ringmaster of the court!" As he spoke he held out his arms out from his sides and just about striking a slight pose.

"Im not surprised now that I think about it... my duty was always a bit above you field gems, though I do know most gems better then they could possible know me...." He walked closer to this gem leaning down from his seven foot tall frame, almost trying to impose himself onto her, "...Though I honestly think it should be a CRIME to not know this dashing face, no?" His tone was very smooth, every word leaving his lips seemed to be smoother then a spiders silk. The feeling on controlling a situation was something he never liked to lose... he wasn't going to start now.

Though almost impossible to tell with his light for eyes, he had glanced over to a roof where he could see this... almost human animal hiding away... clearly not a normal animal of this planet, though he didn't want to let the gem know he had spotted them.

[Spider]

Now all eyes turned and focused on the gem in front of her. If the prowler in the background didn't want to join in on the fun, that was his doing. She cocked an eyebrow as he struck a pose and got all fancy in front of her. Was he showing off? Being all... Cute and flashy?

Or perhaps the smile was glued to his face.

"Grand Inquisitor? Never heard- " She paused, a name came up in her memory from her old reports. Her eyes narrowed a bit as she thought about it. "Mr. O... Opalite. Grand Inquisitor Opalite." She corrected herself, nodding her head. Now it was coming back to her. At least a little bit. She was sure he was suppose to show up if the issue on Earth wasn't resolved, and clearly it wasn't. 

Especially considering she was switching sides. 

She tapped a finger to her chin, "Ah, yes. One of White Diamonds. I was one of White Diamonds as well." She scanned him up and down once more, lingering on his face as he mentioned it. She tilted her head a bit before shrugging and laying back down in her hammock. She tucked one pair of hands behind her head, and the other laced together on her stomach like before.

"Have you heard anything from our esteemed leaders?" 

Carefully disguised as a minor question but really it was the only question that mattered. She wondered if this puppet had heard from the ones who had sent them here. 

[Morion]

OPALITE???
The big cat snappeed his head up, so qucik, he hit it to the eaves
Ouch
Opalite!
Grand Inquisitor Opalite!
Her Mayesty, White Diamond's fist
Possibly the highest ranking Gem on this awful planet!
Their leader against the Rebels...
Morion , as an alien panther stood up in the darkness
The game changed!
With a leap or two the predator landed in the middle of the street, and ingoring the screaming, fleeing humans rushed to the pair
Finally, two normal, sane Gems!

"Grand Inquisitor..."

As the feline aproached, he shapeshifted with a little flash of light to his humanoid form, a cloaked, hooded humanoid, with grey hair and silver eyes, in a mask; dressed in black, with his gem, a dark smoky quartz, a Morionon in the middle of his chest
Without any diamond insignia
His voice, cold like the night tried to be... friendly... ish.

"Spider Jasper..."

A little nod to the other, then Morion kneeled down before his superior, Opalite; half kneeling, like the Knights

" Morion - Facet-7F2R Cut-8YQ. In the service of White Diamond, and Her Mayesty, Blue Diamond's Gem to the Death... at your service your eminence!"

[Grand Inquisitor, Mr. O]

Opalite had swiftly return to a less formal pose, his arms crossing over his chest while his cane stood at attention by itself next to him. "Grand Inquisitor? Never heard-" she paused.... he knew this look.. his name just took a moment to process. "Mr. O... Opalite. Grand Inquisitor Opalite." His smile was close close to just breaking free of that which binds it to his handsome face, "Ah! There it is darling!" His arms sliding from over his chest and one moving behind his back while the other found its way back to the top of his cane.

"Ah, yes. One of White Diamonds. I was one of White Diamonds as well." WAS? Hmmm.... this gem was far more clever then she let on... no way would a Spider Jasper make this mistake, she wasn't with Homeworld anymore, now the real question... why would this gem have let him know in such a way? Before he could speak up again she spoke, "Have you heard anything from our esteemed leaders?" He tapped his cane off the ground quickly as he was about to speak when..

The sound of a few humans screaming and panicking made him turn his head slightly towards the direction of the out cries, as the large black feline creature made its way closer he heard it speak, only hearing "Spider Jasper..." but then was quickly happy to see how this fellow gem acted next. He kneeled down before him and spoke, "Morion - Facet-7F2R Cut-8YQ. In the service of White Diamond, and Her Majesty, Blue Diamond's Gem to the Death... at your service his eminence!" Now THIS was not something he had the pleasure of experiencing in some time... most of the gems on this planet either forgot their place or would just ignore the proper way to act around him.

He clapped a few times as he was aware of the fact this was a Morion just by how it appeared, "Ah! Very VERY good! Now rise, rise!" He shot the Spider a quick glance, "See? I told you I should be known by all!" He turned back to the Morion before him, "So this is a lovely little gathering of loyal gems!" Again glancing at Spider as if saying, "Not my place to give out your secret... yet."

[Spider]

The panicking was normal. Spider had that affect on humans too, the extra arms and eyes tended to make people uncomfortable. Heck, it had even made this Grand Inquisitor hesitate. Or perhaps that was just the history of the spiders coming back to his memory. 

Another sigh escaped her lips and she sat up a bit, peering over the edge of the hammock to the prowler. She looked up at the other gem when he seemed to stress that she was loyal. Had she not just stressed that she wasn't? She didn't want to give anyone the impression she was apart of the homeworld that wanted to destroy this planet and all its creatures. 

"Yeah, don't inflate his ego anymore then it already is, Morion." Spider rolled her eyes and then very carefully stepped out of her hammock standing at her full height now. She stretched her blackened arms above her head as the other pair of arms stretched forward. "Did you have to scare the humans like that? I've been trying to not scare them. You could try too, since we are kinda stuck here." 

With a swish of her wrist the hammock entirely vanished into a puff of black smoke that was quickly sucked back into her wrist. She shook out her hand, waving away the access smoke that lingered around. Muttering something under her breath about suck ups and police....