Steven and Amethyst are running towards the fry shop just as Fryman goes inside. "Hey, Fryman! Give me the bits!"
"The what?" Lars has never heard of food there called 'bits.'
"Steven, we're closed."
"Ohh, what?"
"Give him the bits! The bits! The bits!" Amethyst chanted as Steven joined in.
"The bits! The bits! The bits!"
"You should not of pressured him like that." Pearl told the two.
"But the bits." Steven said. Amethyst smiled as Pearl sighed.
"I mean, they are good." Greg shrugged.
"Okay, okay. Take it easy on the counter, will ya?"
"Yes!" Amethyst and Steven shared a high five.
Fryman took the strainer out of the oil and shaking the bits into a bag. "I can give you actual fries, if you want."
Oh it's just fry remains. Lars saw.
"Just the bits, please. Thanks." Steven said taking the bag.
"Don't you have to pay?" Peridot asked.
"Yea but since they're not actually on the menu I guess we're off the hook." Steven told her.
"Hm. Nice." Connie said.
The two started taking some from the bag. "Ahh, sunset my favorite time of day, when the sun goes down and the second sun gets bigger and bigger in the sky."
"Is that a reference...?" Connie thought out loud.
Garnet chuckled.
Amethyst bursts out laughing spitting out fry bits. "Yeah, that big, hot second su-" Amethyst gasps when she sees the red eye. "Oh, no. What is that doing here?"
Steven gasped. "I remember this!" Steven exclaimed.
"Woah, what is that? Wait don't tell me I'm sure it'll be explained." Connie smiled. Lapis didn't know what it was either.
"It's a red eye." Peridot said.
"Obviously." Lars said remembering this day.
"No. That's literally what it's called." Peridot informed.
"What is it?" Amethyst picks up Steven dropping the bag. "Aah! My bits!" Amethyst runs off.
Must have been really serious. Sadie thought.
"This is bad." Garnet says Pearl beside her looking into the telescope.
"Look at the size of it! I had no idea these things were so big!" She exclaimed.
"Well they have to be in order to-" Peridot was cut off by Lapis nudging her.
"That's not important." she said.
"Garnet! Pearl!" Amethyst yelled still carrying Steven.
"We saw. Some of us are trying to protect humanity. Where were you?" Pearl asked.
Amethyst puts Steven down. "Eating fry bits."
"Ugh." Pearl face palmed.
A few laughed.
"Can I see?" Steven looked into the telescope. "Whoa. It's a giant eyeball! Awesome!" The red eye was looking right in the telescope.
Why did I keep saying everything that's serious awesome? Steven thought. He really had no idea back then.
"What does it do?" Lars asked.
"It's just a scanner, it was sent to Earth to see if there was any Gems left." Peridot informed him.
"How do you know that?" Sadie asked her.
"Because I was the one who sent and monitored it." Peridot pointed to herself.
"You did?" Lapis didn't know that, actually it was news for everyone.
"Of course it was you." Pearl said a tad annoyed.
"Not awesome! It's a red eye!" Pearl exclaimed.
"A red eye?! It's going to infect us all!" Steven yelled.
"What?"
"That's pinkeye, Steven." Garnet informed, Amethyst giggled.
"It's going to crash into Beach City and crush us, along with a bunch of oblivious, innocent people. We have to stop it." Pearl said determined.
"Yea it was supposed to scan for any gems, I would retrieve the data, and then it would crash into the earth. But you guys destroyed it." Peridot told everyone.
"Like a meteor..." Greg said thinking about the 'colliding with the earth' part.
"What are we going to do?" Steven asked.
"The only thing powerful enough to destroy it is a Light Cannon that belonged to Rose Quartz." Garnet fixed her visor.
"My Mom?"
"If Rose were here, this would be so easy." Amethyst groaned.
"I know, but she's not, and the cannon is missing. We'll have to find another solution." Pearl told them.
"If it belonged to my Mom, I bet my Dad knows where it is. He can help us save the day!" Steven suggested "Huh? Eh?"
That doesn't seem very compelling to them. Connie noticed.
"Greg is nice, Steven, but I doubt Rose would entrust someone like him with such a powerful weapon." Pearl insisted.
"Well who ended up having it?" Greg asked sarcastically. That earned him a look.
"Your dad is kind of a mess, Steven." Amethyst put her hand on Stevens shoulder.
"I actually can't argue with that." Greg said.
"Amethyst!" Pearl growled.
"I'm just saying. Even if she did leave it with him, he probably broke it, or lost it, or dropped it in the ocean by now." Amethyst listed.
"True." Garnet agreed.
"No way! I'm sure he's just keeping it somewhere safe. I'll go ask him." Steven insisted as he started to walk off.
"We can handle this, Steven." Garnet told him.
Why are they all so opposed to him? Sadie liked Mr. Universe.
"Ready?" Garnet picked up Amethyst and jumped twirling her around then throwing her at the roaming eye.
Amethyst screamed as she his the eye and fell into the ocean.
"Now that is totally not going to work!" Peridot laughed. Lapis giggled too.
"What else were we supposed to do?" Amethyst asked.
Connie noticed how the gems thought throwing Amethyst would work better than asking Greg if he had a weapon that was sure to blow it up. Did it have something to do with Rose? She kept this thought in the back of her head and she was going to see if anything about it came up later.
"Uh, I'm gonna go."
"Okay, good luck." Pearl said waving to him. Steven ran off.
Steven banged on his dads van. "Dad, it's me!" The car wash was shown. "Dad? Are you in there?"
Doesn't he live in the van? Lars remembered.
"Wake up!" Steven slammed is body on the van twice. "We have to save the world!" Steven climbed onto the van. "Dad!" He stomped his feet before jumping then fell over.
"Why didn't you just go in to wake him up?" Connie asked.
"Oh. Didn't think of that."
The car alarm went off and Steven smiled knowing that would wake him up.
Greg barged out of the car. "Who's there?! I have a waffle iron!"
"Dad, it's me!"
Greg turned around and dropped the waffle iron. He squinted his eyes and stopped the alarm with his keys. "Steven?"
"Pfft. Why're you making that face?" Amethyst laughed.
"I just woke up. Y'know when you get up to fast and you feel dizzy and everything is blurry?"
"Yes." Steven knew exactly what he was talking about.
"Uhh."
"Can't relate." Pearl said.
Steven jumped off the van and gave Greg a hug. "I almost waffled your face! What are you doing up so late?" Greg asked.
"What do you mean? The sun just went down an hour ago."
"Oh, heh." Greg face turned red. "It was a slow day at the car wash." He said rubbing the back of his head.
"Isn't it everyday?" Pearl asked half whispering. Garnet hushed her.
"Anyway, what's up? Just needed to see your old man, pal around, learn some lessons about life?"
"No!" Stevens face was also red. "I need the Light Cannon that belonged to Mom to blow up that eyeball!"
"Eyeball?"
"That!" Steven pointed to the sky. Amethyst was flying to the the red eye screaming. She hit it and fell back into the ocean.
"How many times did you try that?" After the second or maybe third time Lars would've given up.
"Too many to count." Amethyst responded.
"We were kind of desperate." Garnet added.
"Wait! Is that a magical thing? The Gems told me not to get involved with magic stuff. It- it could be dangerous or interfere with what's left of my hair."
"Right..." Lapis wasn't sure about that last part.
"But they need Mom's cannon. You've got to know where it is!" Greg picked up the waffle iron. "Like a cave dungeon or a cloud fortress or in a clam at the bottom of the ocean."
Greg threw it into the van and shut the doors. "Well, I don't know about all that, but I have an idea where it might be."
The two walked up to a storage unit. "A magical storage unit!" Steven ran ahead.
"Huh. Not exactly. But some would say there's magic inside." Greg winked. Steven stared at him blank faced. "It's just a shed I use to keep things that don't fit in the van. If it's anywhere, it'll be in here." Greg lifted the door and stepped back so Steven could see all of it.
"Oh my gosh it's horrible." Pearl didn't know how Greg could live knowing there was that big of a mess just sitting there.
"Thats a lot of stuff." Sadie noticed.
"You mean junk." Lars whispered.
"That's where I found these discs." Steven mentioned.
"Good thing we cleaned that place out." Amethyst said.
Steven walked up to some boxes. He touched them and they fell. "If I'm going in there, I'm gonna need some gear." He grabbed a flashlight, a sock and tied them to his head and smiled.
"Aww." Pearl smiled.
"Here I go!"
"Good luck." Greg told him while Steven ran inside having an extension cord tied to him like rope.
Steven crawled in and looked around. "Whoa! Cool! It's like a Dad museum!" He looked all around with assorted junk piled to the ceiling.
Where'd he get all that stuff? Sadie wondered. He was definitely a hoarder.
Maybe he could sell all that stuff and get some money. Lars thought.
Connie spotted a few things that she might've wanted. I wonder if he has any books... but stopped wondering when she remembered what Amethyst said about cleaning it out.
"Some of that could make some pretty cool meep morps." Lapis told Peridot both of them smiling. Almost everyone had no idea what she was talking about.
He walked deeper coming out of a mattress. "Huh? There it is!" Steven picked up a golf bag and fell over. "Whoa! Ugh!"
"Wait, you thought the light cannon was a golf bag?" Pearl asked kinda offended. Steven just laughed agreeing with Pearl on his ignorance.
"Do you golf?"
"Ah, I like to think of myself as someone who would golf, eventually." Greg was crawling through the path.
"Hmm? Yes!" Steven pushed some stuff off of a drum. "A drum."
Pearl frowned.
"I didn't know what it looked like." Steven defended himself.
Steven walked off then hitting it. He jumped over a few things then threw some things around. "No. No." He gasped. "Oh, my gosh! Oh, my gosh! Oh, my gosh! Is this?" He lifts up the t-shirt cannon and shoots it. The shirt unfolds in the air and Steven catches it. "Buy T-shirt Cannons?" is what the shirt said.
"Wow you have everything." Connie told Greg, amazed.
Steven looks down at a box. "Hey, there's a bunch of copies of your old CD!"
"Huh. Oh, man.I couldn't give those things away." Greg was back outside. "You know, before I ran the car wash, when I was a one-man band, I traveled the whole country." Greg voice echoed and Steven slipped a CD into his pocket.
"Except you had Marty." Steven reminded.
"It was mostly me."
"I know, Dad."
"When I came to play a concert here in Beach City, no one showed up except-"
"An alligator!"
"No, it was your mother."
"I know!" Steven laughed.
Sadie smiled. It was really lucky that Stevens parents met the way they did.
"And we were always together after that." Steven was crawling deeper into the shed. "Until she gave up her physical form to bring you into the world."
That's such a weird way to put it. Why can't they just say she died during childbirth? Lars contemplated.
Lapis and Peridot wondered how a gem can reproduce the way they did with a human.
A sound of glass shattering rang. "I don't know what a magic lady like her ever saw in a plain, old dope like me." Steven moved his leg to reveal a picture of Greg and Rose.
Pearl felt a pang of sadness looking at the picture.
The humans in the room stared at the picture in awe.
Steven gasped. "Uh, Dad? I broke a photo."
"It's okay, buddy. If every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn't have hot dogs." The light cannon shined.
"All the way in the back." Connie stated."
"Yep." Steven said next to her.
"Huh? The Light Cannon!"
"Oh, boy. That thing's giving me the willies." Greg said looking at the red eye which go closer.
"Dad, I found it!"
"Really?"
"Okay but you didn't even know you had it." Amethyst pointed out shrugging.
"Rose must of hidden it there." Greg concluded.
Steven tied the cannon up with the extension cords. "Get the van!" Greg started the van after tying some cords up to it. He pressed the gas and burned rubber before pulling everything out of the shed. Everything fell over.
Greg chuckled.
"Oh my goodness." Pearl hated the sight.
"This thing could save the city! We've got to get it to the beach!"
"How? It's too big for the van." A wagon stopped beside them. "Easy does it."The two lifted the cannon struggling and dropped it on the wagon. The bottom of the wagon broke.
"Careful! With that..." Pearl stopped talking, a lot of eyes were on her.
They mentally decided it would work.
They drove across town as van pulled it and it scratched against the road.
"You guys should've gotten us, the pavement could've damaged it."
"Everything worked out fine, Pearl." Steven reminded her.
"Is it gonna be okay?" Steven asked.
"Mmhm." Greg shrugged. "If every pork chop were perfect-"
"We wouldn't have hot dogs!" Steven finished.
What does that even mean? Lapis didn't understand the saying.
"That thing's getting huge." The red eye was glowing. "It's freaking me out."
"Woah... It kinda makes the sky a pretty color." Connie said.
"Yea it does." Steven said seeing it.
"Can't the van go any faster?"
"This is faster!" Greg pushed the pedal and the speedometer went up.
"Don't worry. Come on. Let's put on your CD." Steven held up the case.
"What? Really? Uh, come on, you've heard it." Greg turned red.
"You come on." Steven put the disc in the player. Let Me Drive My Van (into your heart) started playing.
Steven danced along to the song. "Let me drive my van into your heart!"
A few smiled seeing Greg happy that Steven liked his song.
"Nice music." Peridot complimented.
Greg drove past the big donut as Sadie, Lars and Mr. Smiley looked at the red eye. The song was playing in the background.
The group thought it was cool how the song was going to be played during this, it was a nice effect.
"Kinda wish I was there." Connie mentioned.
The van turned onto the beach pulling up to Garnet and Pearl. The two noticed the van then looked down at Amethyst being washed up onto shore.
She looks beat up. Lars noticed.
"Throw me again. I think I'm cracking it!"
"Trust me, you weren't." Peridot insisted.
She looked over at the van. "Is that?"
"Hey, guys!" Steven yelled as they jumped out of the van.
"He really had it." Pearl gasped.
"We're saved!" Amethyst yelled. Everything started rumbling when pieces of the house started to get sucked up along with a telephone pole.
"It's sucking everything up!" Connie saw.
"It's just so big it has gravity of its own. Like if the moon got closer the waves would get larger and society along with everything would fall apart!" Pearl informed everyone.
"We get it." Garnet told her.
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Easy!" Fryman yelled as the sign fell to the ground.
"We have to use it now." Garnet insisted. The song ended.
"I don't know how it works! It was Rose's!" Pearl yelled touching the cannon.
"Dad, how do we use it?"
"Mm." Greg shrugged.
They don't know how to use it? Sadie figured Rose would tell at least one of them, but they obviously figured it out because it exploded.
Pearl turned Steven around. "Steven, this is serious. "The Gem!" she realized. "You have Rose's gem!" Steven lifted up his shirt.
"That's it!" Amethyst grabbed Steven and rubbed him up against the cannon. "Ugh! Come on!"
"Stop that." Garnet said.
"It's no use." Pearl told them.
"Fine! Forget it! Throw me again!" Amethyst jumped into Garnets arms.
"That's not going to work!" Pearl yelled.
"Whoa!" The van and cannon started to get sucked in.
"I got this." Greg unhitched the van from the cannon and started to get pulled in. "No! Wait! No, maybe I don't!"
"Why-" Pearl started.
"Please work. Unlock. Activate. Go. Please?" Steven banged on it. "Everyone's counting on you! You can't just be useless! I know you can help!"
"I don't think talking to an inanimate object is going to work." Lars said honestly.
"No it worked." Steven replied.
"It's okay, Steven! We'll figure out something else, something even better!" Greg reassured him.
"R-right! If every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn't have hot dogs." the cannon started to glow. Garnet was holding onto Amethyst so she didn't fly off. The cannon opened up and Steven fell off of it.
A few noticed how the cannon resembled a rose when it opened.
"Wait, didn't it glow when you said that the first time?" Connie asked.
"Yea, I guess mom set the phrase as it's trigger."
"It makes sense cuz Greg was always saying it, she caught on." Amethyst added. Sadie thought that was cute.
"It's working!" Pearl said. The cannon unhinged itself. The trio gasped. Steven ran over and lifted the end of the cannon to aim. He was struggling at first and then the gems helped him. "Steven."
"This is it!" Amethyst said.
"Brace yourselves!" Garnet yelled.
Some of the watchers leaned in anxious to see what was going to happen as the cannon made a whirring noise.
A pink laser shot from the cannon, the laser formed into Rose and hit the eye dead on. It cracked and the four watched as it exploded over the town.
The group sat amazed, feeling just what the gems and Steven were feeling on screen.
Chunks began falling from the sky. The chunks hit the ground and over the city as a few people fled being crushed and a car alarm went off. The lighting returned to normal.
"Hope no one got hurt." Greg said.
"Steven, you just saved most of Beach City!" Amethyst yelled happily.
"Sorry about that!" Steven yelled.
"What?!"
"How did you get it to work?" Pearl wondered.
"I just said that thing that Dad always says." Steven told her.
"That thing about pork rinds?"
"Hot dogs." Garnet put her hand on Pearls shoulder.
"Rose." Greg wiped tears from his eyes.
The humans realized that Greg was, too, missing Rose, they never saw him upset about his partner.
The ocean came up to their waists. They all started laughing as Greg watched his van get swept out. "My van!"
"It's okay, Dad. If every pork chop were perfect-"
"I live in there!" Greg ran towards it.
"Knew it." Lars said to himself.
"Wait up!" Steven and Greg ran after the van.
"Ah Geez! Whoa! Wait! Wait!" The screen went black and the menu appeared.
"All those resources went to waste." Peridot was the first to speak up.
"If those resources didn't, then no one would be here." Pearl told her.
"I think I like this episode better than the last one, the ending was pretty cool." Lars said.
"Yea I agree." Sadie said. Some others nodded their heads in agreement.
"Everyone ready?" Garnet asked before pressing play.
PSA that I'm not going to include some episodes, definitely leaving out "Say Uncle" and idk about "Garnet's Universe" yet. Also leaving out things that break the fourth wall like in "Know Your Fusion" and in "Steven's Dream."