[center][h1][color=A7E6EC]Howlite[/color][/h1]
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A bright orange flash briefly lit up the kindergarten, as if for a moment dawn had somehow penetrated through the city streets down to the canyon to greet the newborns. For some it might have been reassuring that they were not alone, for Howlite it left her blinded and flailing, the distant sound of rock being crushed flowing this up where rather terrifying. If anyone had seen her they would have seen a rather panicked gem covering her eyes with one hand and flailing about with her Gladius in the other. Fortunately the Clinohumite took some time to work out her frustration and thus once the bright orange gem arrived, standing out like an inferno in the dull stone cavern, she had managed to compose herself and had put away the blade. The Clinohumite was then followed by a yellow gem who appeared to have simply walked down the wall to meet them.

She decided to look up what the kindergarten had to say on these particular gem types as the individuals in question approached and requested to be shown to their superiors. Fortunately data retrieval was relatively low on the power requirement scale as she could simply use her Techno-Empathy to read the data without needing display devices.

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[color=LightGreen]Cymophane[/color] 
[color=LightGreen]A Chameleon Gem[/color] 
[color=LightGreen]Abilities: Terrain navigation via surface adhesion, they also have the ability to use an active camouflage system to hide themselves from sight[/color]
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[color=LightGreen]Clinohumite[/color] 
[color=LightGreen]A Burrowing Soldier Gem[/color] 
[color=LightGreen]These are a prototype super soldier gem that were undergoing testing in the battle against the Crystal Gems[/color] 
[color=LightGreen]Abilities: capable of tunneling through solid surfaces they are designed to ambush hostiles by burrowing into the soft soil of the earth and then leaping out at unsuspecting foes [/color]
[color=LightGreen]Gem type deemed a failure, all known specimens were decommissioned.[/color]
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The decommissioned part worried Howlite a little, because it was not particularly clear why this had been the case, it might have been because they were dangerous to their fellow Gems, though the polite nature of the soldiers request put her somewhat at ease. In the end it didn’t really matter, their masters were gone and this Clinohumite was going to have to deal with that fact. So perhaps she would keep this information to herself for the time being rather than overwhelm her with revelations. At any rate, as a human had once said, it was time to rip off the bandaid. The first one at least.

“[color=A7E6EC]Ah! Damn and blast it. My eyes. Again! [/color]”

At least she was going to do so when a green flash lit up the cavern, once again blinding her. This time she simply plopped down on the ground, the ring at the end of her braid making a soft ‘klink’ sound as it hit the rock, seating herself and covering her eyes, waiting for the pain to go away and her eyesight to return. Two more sounds of rock being pulverized were heard, equally unnerving as the last time so she was grateful for the wonderful human stress relieving concept that was swearing, it calmed her down enough to get back to the matter at hand.

“[color=A7E6EC]You two may want to sit down for what I am going to tell you[/color]”

She decided she might as well let the two get over their predicament while she was incapacitated, so from her seated position she informed them.  

“[color=A7E6EC]There are no higher ups. I have been up for quite some time and have looked all over for them, not just in the kindergarten but the surrounding area as well. Not only could I not find any but none of the humans seemed to have any idea there was ever was a massive gem presence on the planet, so it probably been awhile since they left or died or got mutated or something. As far as I know there's just me, the humans, nature and a bunch of gem based monstrosities left on the planet. And now you two as well I guess. And possibly some others, judging from the blasted light show and those sounds. Maybe like four more have or will emerge according to the kindergarten’s monitoring system. anyway, welcome to earth, where you have no purpose so you have to make it up as you go along.[/color]”

She shrugged and awaited the newborns mental breakdown. She realized that once they calmed down Clinohumite’s digging ability and Cymophane’s climbing skill would be useful for getting her back to the surface, where hopefully she could tap into one of the numerous electronic devices the humans had apparently made and get her more power hungry stuff working again.