Sleep. Even the word sounded despicable. It represented a waste; of time, of resources, of potential. He truly hated it and yet, he found himself doing it. Bloodstone woke up to the roar of engines, the occasional footsteps of his puny regime, and the mechanical whirrings of drones that maneuvered around his ship. He stood up, finding himself in his lab where he constantly was at work. Of course he would remain asleep here, the one place his crew knew to never enter. It was happening more occasionally now, whenever he found himself bored of his current experiments a wave of exhaustion would rush over him and he would collapse. Almost everything was boring to him now, especially since he hadn't encountered a newborn for about 70 years. Bloodstone exited his lab and stumbled his way down the corridor to the bridge, checking every monitor when he arrived. The incubating gems in this area seemed to be doing well, even with 79% of them unaccounted for. This was lucky since the past few kindergartens were either overrun by gem monsters or cluster beings and all the incubating gems had been dug out and shattered. The city that resided over these sleeping newborns must deter the beasts, for now anyways. Once the gems start to emerge that may all change in the blink of an eye, like a shark smelling fresh blood. 

There was another structure registered by the monitors that was separate from the city. It had the appearance of a Gem Temple but seemed to be in ruins and had an oasis flowing over the top of it. There was no registered movement around the structure and his scanners were too out of date to see what might be inside. Bloodstone let it go, there had been other temples and few had gems within them and only one had gems who were worth their minerals. He kept the ship stationed over the city, watching the newborns beneath the rock. Some seemed to be moving minutely, as if they were absorbing the last of the nutrients required before formation. Bloodstone had made a Peridot explain these movements to him before he was abandoned by everyone except a few the Diamonds didn't even want. 

[i][b][color=fff200]"Like you, these gems have shown great potential but they have no place on Home-World at the current time. So, we will be assigning them to you and your ship. Do whatever you will with them."[/color][/b][/i]

And he did. Only two remained. There used to be others but they had either fallen to the perils of Earth or proved to be of no use to even the forgotten commander they were forced to serve under. Now there were two.

[color=9e0b0f]"Tugtupite. Spinel. The newborns of Kindergarten K-9XM seem to be gaining consciousness. I will be sending 10 Seeker drones and 4 Arachni drones to retrieve as many as possible after their formation. You are to accompany the bots and ensure no humans damage them and that they complete their mission. Now, get down there and bring me my new recruits,"[/color] The Commander had spoken into the Com systems. He then preceded to activate and launch the aforementioned drones to the surface of the planet, far enough to not initially disturb any citizens yet close enough for them to quickly reach their destination. Bloodstone also dispatched an additional two Seekers towards the Temple-like structure, just to be sure. There was still a certain gem that hasn't shown her face for many hundreds of years and he hoped she didn't decide to show up know when things for finally getting interesting.