Gem over the Omniverse

[Aquamarine]

It was a few hours after Aquamarine had gotten away from the spa, and as the Gem woman was waiting in the lobby of the security headquarters of Coruscant on Tier 1, she was looking at her wand, trying her hardest at trying to make sure that it was in it's peak condition for whatever she was needed for at the time. When she was imprisoned in this Verse a long time ago, Aquamarine's wand had gone on the fritz, preventing her from using the tractor beam function of her wand to it's fullest extent. While Aquamarine could use the wand in order to lift small objects again, she was unable to lift or stop bigger objects, which had infuriated the Gem a bit.

Eventually however, after another hour of waiting, Aquamarine could see some sort of small creature walking out of the door, looking like a mechanical ladybug to the Gem woman as she looked at it. Before Aquamarine could fully understand what the ladybug could do however, the ladybug quickly opened a hatch on it's body, revealing a speaker as a loud voice came from it. "We are sorry for any disturbances, but some sort of problem has come up within the building, and we require your assistance AQUAMARINE. Please follow the ladybug to where we can safely lend out the details of the things we need you to do."

While Aquamarine was confused at first, the Gem woman eventually shrugged before following the ladybug to wherever it was going, leaving the Ruby she had created during her spa visit a few hours ago alone to her own devices, whether that was good or bad. As the short Gem continued to walk around to follow the ladybug, navigating various random halls as she hoped that wherever she was going, that it was most likely not going to be something serious, such as a invasion. Once Aquamarine had finished following the ladybug, she was in a room designed like the inside of a pyramid, deep within the Security Headquarters and covered with expensive speakers.

Before Aquamarine could say anything however, the ladybug powered off, before another voice appeared seemingly from nowhere, though in actuality it was coming from a speaker at the top of the room. "Ah, thanks for following my ladybug creation. It's not new to me considering I had already built one before I had come to this Omniverse, but it is a relatively new model that I have built for this occasion. Oh, pardon my manners, I should probably introduce myself. My name is Dr. Gero, and your Aquamarine I presume? I think I heard of you from those stories involving the AI chip attached to your hand or something."

"Wait, you know about that?" As Aquamarine listened to the sounds coming from the room, Aquamarine tried to look around to see if there was any origin to the voice, but as she continued to look around for any origin to the voice, she could not see any thing that could possibly make it, besides the ladybug. Despite that however, the gem woman was still curious about this Dr. Gero person, since she had heard that name once before from the Robonoid working at the spa, and now that she was hearing the words from who she guessed was the doctor, she decided to play it calm just in case.

"Well either way, yes I am Aquamarine, science officer on the Empire, and a rookie Prime in the Omniverse. Though, I must ask you, even if for one moment, why would you like to ask someone like me to come here? Isn't there any other person available in the area, or at least a Stormtrooper who could help you?"

"No, I'm not much of a social person, and there aren't any Stormtroopers available since they had began upgrading the security to this Verse, a bit of a wasted effort if you ask me since I think we should devote more of our potential and resources to science, but I digress. And as for why I asked you, well that is simply because you were one of the few people available, since most of the rest are already helping me with another project of mine. Anyway, there is just one simple thing I need from you to help me, and that is to get me some documents in my spare office on Tier 3, and they should be in my top drawer. Once you can do that, I'll open the door to my office in the next room, and we can have ourselves a true talk."

"Wait, so all you need me to do is to collect a few documents from Tier 3? That was a lot more simple then I expected, but either way I will not let you down. Consider those files gotten, Dr. Gero."

"Good." Upon the voice finishing his talk, the ladybug quickly reactivated, before unleashing a loud sound to try to get Aquamarine's attention. As the Gem lady followed the ladybug back through the halls, she could feel a slight tingle going down her back, as if something bad was about to happen to her. Despite the bad feelings however, Aquamarine eventually made it back to the lobby, and as she waved bye to the ladybug robot after receiving a key to the lab from it, she could see her creation, the Ruby, snoozing upright in her seat, a small snot bubble coming from her face.

"Hey, wake up Private Ruby! We've got a important mission here, so I need your help in full throttle, even if you aren't fighting condition!"

From the startling sounds, the Ruby quickly woke up, the snot bubble popping as she tried to jostle herself awake. "My bad, miss Aquamarine, was just sleeping is all..."

"Well dreaming isn't exactly a option for us now. We got to retrieve some documents for Dr. Gero from his office, so we have to leave towards Tier 3 now." While Aquamarine was getting used to commanding the Ruby she had created by now, the memories of her past with her working with Topaz had ended up causing Aquamarine to sigh, due to the feelings of control not being the same. Regardless of how things were going however, Aquamarine worked through everything, her mind on one thing and one thing only: getting those documents.

Quest Taken: Stars Over the Omniverse
Stars over the Omniverse
Location: Tiers 1 and 3
Requirements: Must have completed There are No Lines or Hand of the Empire
Difficulty: n/a
Reward: n/a

Through the grapevine, you’ve heard of the star pieces. You also heard that something happened in Coruscant at the same time. As a result of curiosity, you set out to Coruscant to investigate. Unless you are on their payroll, you can expect to be turned back at the doors of the security HQ on Tier 1. If you are a member of the empire, than they will send you off to acquire some reports from Tier 3. When you come back, they’ll usher you into a closed room. At this point, the Storyteller will reveal to you a dark secret related to the star pieces.

Quest Stipulations - Character must go to security HQ on Tier 1. Character must run down to Tier 3 for some private documents and return to Tier 1. Quest may be done more than once but no cannot be repeated by the same character.
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[Aquamarine]

Fifteen minutes would pass as Aquamarine began to wait for the elevator to take her down to Tier 3, the Ruby she had created getting lost in the crowd while Aquamarine had known directly where she was going. As the short Gem woman continued to wait in the elevator, she took out her wand from her hair once again, before continuing to work on it so that she could fix all of it's features. Eventually, as the elevator was finished lowering down to Tier 3, Aquamarine quickly got off, her wand fixed in almost every department, though she guessed she would still have some problems in keeping others down with her Tractor Beam Wand if it came to such a thing.

Looking around for what could possibly be Dr. Gero's lab, Aquamarine was somewhat confused since she could barely see any major group of Stormtroopers around, since she was used to seeing the officers in groups up on Tiers 1 and 2, though as she continued to look around, she guessed that security could have been more lax on this Tier due to the first two tiers already being heavily protected. Continuing to walk around, Aquamarine wondered what the tiers below would also have to offer in terms of protection, since she hoped that the lower tiers would be somewhat safe should she ever be ordered to go down there.

Eventually, after about half a hour of searching around the tier, Aquamarine was able to find Dr. Gero's spare office building, which had happened to be right next door to one of the more expensive hospitals on the Tier. Taking out the key that had been given to her, Aquamarine twisted open the door, trying to be careful in opening the door as she carefully said "Hey, is there anyone in here? I need to grab some documents for Dr. Gero on the first Tier, so if anyone is here to help me in finding said documents, that would actually be somewhat helpful for both me and him."

Unfortunately for the Gem woman, as Aquamarine waited for a response, she could hear no reply coming from within the building, meaning that it was most likely still empty. Sighing in annoyance, Aquamarine carefully walked into the building, hoping that the doctor did not build some sort of additional defense system that would cause her to have some problems in the long run. As she continued on through the building however, Aquamarine had ended up not seeing any defense systems in the office, asides from a few security cameras fitted with dart guns, which seemed to ignore the Gem woman when she passed by them.

After a bit of searching, Aquamarine could eventually find the documents that Dr. Gero had asked her to get, but as she looked at the documents, they seemed to be in some encrypted language which she could not understand. "Hmm... I can't really decipher what this all means, but I guess this weird language is probably a smart move for Gero to use, considering nobody would be experienced enough to translate this in the criminal parts of this Empire. Kind of makes me wish I could develop my own hidden language, if only to use for my own personal protection."

Taking the documents and neatly tucking them in a small backpack, Aquamarine slowly headed out of the building, before locking the door to Gero's lab once again, making sure to keep every lock tight by the time she put the key into her bag along with the documents. As she began to walk toward the elevator to Tier 1 however, Aquamarine's face had ended up being covered by a stray poster for Dante's Abyss, having blown away from it's original location days since the big event had begun. Trying to take the poster off of her face, Aquamarine tried putting the poster into her bag, but as she checked, she noticed that the key was gone.

"Oh crap, this is not good..." Quickly looking around to figure out what could have happened to the key, Aquamarine had turned around to see the key on the floor, a mysterious string having been attached to it. Not wanting to waste time on what she assumed to be a malicious prank, Aquamarine pulled out her wand from her hair, using it to pull the key to her while snapping the string by using her hand. As she did this, the Gem woman could see what appeared to be some sort of golem creature stamping his foot down in disappointment, which she thought was probably the one who had caused her delayment.

Deciding to just let the golem creature off the hook for now due to the urgency of the documents, Aquamarine simply just walked her way to the elevator so she could return to Tier 1, and as she did the short girl had kept her bag closer to herself just in case. Eventually, as Aquamarine had finally reached the end of the elevator's ride up to Tier 1, she took her time to make sure she still had everything she had needed to return, smiling a bit once she could confirm that she still had the documents at hand. Wasting no time on greeting the other people in the Tier, Aquamarine quickly walked on her way to the Security Headquarters.

As she entered the security headquarters, bowing to the Stormtroopers guarding the building as she did so, Aquamarine remembered the path that she had originally taken, before returning to the pyramid room, where she could see the ladybug robot flying in the center, with a platform holding some sort of platform attached to the bottom of the robot. Quickly putting the documents on the platform, as well as the key to Gero's spare building, Aquamarine said to the robot "There, the documents as requested, as well as the key you had let me use. Sorry for the bit of a delay, it is just that there was a bit of a traffic problem on Tier 3."

Regardless of whatever she had said, the ladybug simply flew away, ignoring the Gem woman as it flew through a small opening on the top of the door arch to the next room. As Aquamarine continued to wait for what was going on, the ladybug eventually flew out again, this time having what appeared to be two mechanical arms rather than a platform. Using these mechanical arms, the ladybug slowly picked up Aquamarine by the waist, flustering the Gem woman as she was carried into the room that Dr. Gero seemed to be in...

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