While writing this chapter, I took a personality quiz on the Steven Universe Wiki that asked "Are you more like Pearl or Garnet?". I took it, and I'm more like Pearl, which is ironic since she irritates me when she starts getting all emotional about Rose. Now, the differences in Mr. Maheswaran in this AU then in the show is that he's not all about safety like in the show, he lives in Beach City, he lets Connie eat foods with trans fats, and he has a different job instead of being a private security guard.
Enjoy!
Characters created by: Rebecca Sugar
Chapter 3: Laser Light Cannon
Beach Citywalk Fries
Connie and Amethyst were running to Beach Citywalk Fries, the local french fry shop of Beach City.
"Hey Fryman." said Connie, "I'll take two bags of medium fries."
"Well, we were just about to close, so these will be the last fries served today." said Mr. Fryman, owner of Beach Citywalk Fries and father of two.
Mr. Fryman lifted the grease trap from the fry grill and dumped them into two separate bags. Mr. Fryman then walked to the counter with the two bags and gave them to Connie and Amethyst.
"Here you go." said Mr. Fryman.
"Thanks." said Connie.
Connie and Amethyst walked away from the fry shop while Connie gave one bag to Amethyst. The two were eating their fries before Connie spoke.
"I've just noticed, what's with that weird thing in the sky?" said Connie.
"What do you mean?" said Amethyst.
"The sun set an hour ago, but now it's like there's a second sun in the sky now." said Connie.
Amethyst looked up to the thing in the sky.
"Yeah, now that you mention it-*gasp*!" said Amethyst, "Oh no, what is that doing here?"
"What is it?" said Connie.
Suddenly, Amethyst dropped her bag of fries and lifted up Connie, causing Connie to drop her bag as well.
"Ah! My fries!" said Connie.
Amethyst, still holding Connie, ran in the direction of the temple.
Outside Of Crystal Gem Temple-Present Time
Back at the temple was Pearl looking through a telescope and Garnet standing beside her.
"This is bad." said Garnet.
"Look at the size of it, I had no idea these things were so big!" said Pearl.
"Garnet! Pearl!" said Amethyst, still holding Connie and running to the other Gems.
Pearl turned around to Amethyst and Connie.
"We saw. Some of us are trying to protect humanity. Where were you?" said Pearl.
Amethyst placed Connie onto the ground.
"Eating fries." said Amethyst.
"Can I see?" said Connie, who looked into the telescope.
The white figure in the sky opened up, revealing what looked like a giant eyeball.
"What is that thing?" said Connie.
"It's a Red Eye." said Pearl, "It's going to crash into Beach City and crush us, along with a bunch of oblivious innocent people. We have to stop it."
"What are we going to do?" said Connie.
"The only thing powerful enough to destroy it is a Light Cannon that belonged to Rose Quartz." said Garnet.
"My mom?" said Connie.
"If Rose were here, this would be so easy." said Amethyst.
"I know, but she's not, and the cannon is missing." said Pearl, "We'll have to find another solution."
"If it belonged to my mom, I bet my dad knows where it is. He can help us." said Connie.
"Your dad is...nice, Connie, but I doubt Rose would entrust someone like him with such a powerful weapon." said Pearl.
"No way, I'm sure he's just keeping it somewhere safe. I'll go ask him." said Connie.
"We can handle this, Connie." said Garnet, "Ready?"
Amethyst nodded. Garnet then lifted up Amethyst. Garnet leaped into the air, spun around, and threw Amethyst in the direction of the Red Eye.
"Raaaaaaaaaaaaaw!" screamed Amethyst as she was speeding toward the Red Eye.
Amethyst hit the Red Eye, but no damage was done to it. Amethyst then fell and splashed into the ocean.
"Uh, I'm gonna go." said Connie.
"Ok, good luck." said Pearl with worry.
Mr. Maheswaran's House-Five Minutes Later
Connie was knocking on the door of her dad's house. After Mr. Maheswaran met Rose in Beach City, he had stayed at the temple until Rose gave up her physical form. After that, Mr. Maheswaran moved to a new house in town. When Mr. Maheswaran met Rose, he had applied for a job as a private security guard for the mayor of Beach City, but now he is a music teacher at a school in a neighboring town.
"Dad it's me." said Connie, who rang the doorbell once and then knocking on the door, "Dad. Are you home? Come on, we have to save Beach City."
The door opened, revealing Mr. Maheswaran. He had dark skin, wore glasses, black hair, a brown fur jacket with a patch with a white undershirt with a black tie, blue pants and black shoes.
"Connie?" said Mr. Maheswaran.
Connie then hugged Mr. Maheswaran.
"How's my little miracle doing?" said Mr. Maheswaran.
"Oh I'm doing good." said Connie.
"Well, what are you doing here? Just needed to see your father? Learn some lessons about life?" said Mr. Maheswaran.
"No, not really, I need the light cannon that belonged to mom, to destroy that Red Eye." said Connie.
"Red Eye?" said Mr. Maheswaran.
"That." said Connie, pointing up to the Red Eye in the sky as Amethyst was thrown again, hitting the Red Eye and falling to the ocean.
"Wait, is that a Gem thing?" said Mr. Maheswaran, "The Gems told me not to get involved with magic stuff."
"But they need mom's cannon, you've gotta know where it is." said Connie.
"Well I think I know exactly where it is." said Mr. Maheswaran.
Nearby Storage Shed-One Minute Later
Connie and Mr. Maheswaran were walking over to a nearby storage shed.
"A storage unit." said Connie.
"Yeah, my house's basement is so small, I can hardly fit anything in there, so I store most of my things here. If that light cannon's anywhere, it'll be in here."
Mr. Maheswaran opened up the storage shed to reveal a lot of cluttered things.
"Wow, I didn't know you have that much stuff in here." said Connie.
"Yeah, I should sell some of this stuff." said Mr. Maheswaran.
"Can I borrow a flashlight?" said Connie.
"Oh sure." said Mr. Maheswaran, as he grabbed a nearby flashlight and gave it to Connie.
"Thanks." said Connie.
Connie turned on the flashlight and started crawling through a maze of boxes.
"Is this it?" said Connie.
Connie picked up the object, but it was actually a golf pack.
"Wait dad, do you golf?" said Connie.
"Did I never tell you? I'm a member of a nearby country club. I go there when I have nothing else to do." said Mr. Maheswaran.
"Oh, cool." said Connie.
Connie then saw another object.
"Oh, that's a drum." said Connie, "Wait...Dad, I found a drum."
"You found a drum? Can you bring it out here with the light cannon so I can use it for my class?" said Mr. Maheswaran.
"Sure." said Connie.
Connie then saw a box full of cassette tapes of Mozart, Beethoven, and other famous classical composers.
"Hey dad, I also found some of your classical music CDs." said Connie.
"Oh yes, bring those out too, I'll need to use them for my class too." said Mr. Maheswaran, "You know, your mother loved classical music. You know, when I first met your mother."
"I know." said Connie.
"And we were always together, until she gave up her physical form to bring you into the world." said Mr. Maheswaran, "I don't know what a magic lady like her ever saw in a plain old human like me."
Connie then heard what sounded like glass breaking. Connie looked down at her knee to see a picture of Mr. Maheswaran beside Rose, both of them smiling. The glass of the frame broke.
"Uh dad, I broke a photo." said Connie.
"It's okay." said Mr. Maheswaran, "A person who never made a mistake never made anything."
Connie then saw a pink glow in front of her. Connie gasped as she saw Rose's Light Cannon.
"The light cannon!" said Connie.
Outside was Mr. Maheswaran looking up in the sky at the Red Eye.
"That thing is disturbing." said Mr. Maheswaran.
"Dad I found it!" said Connie from inside the storage shed.
"Really?!" said Mr. Maheswaran.
"Yeah!" said Connie.
"But, how are we gonna get it out of the storage shed?" said Mr. Maheswaran.
Connie tried to think of something. She then had an idea.
"I have an idea! Stay here while I get the Gems!" said Connie.
Connie ran out of the storage shed, running in the direction of the temple.
Outside Of Crystal Gem Temple-Three Minutes Later
Connie was running to the Gems as Amethyst washed up on the shore again.
"Throw me again, I think I'm cracking it." said Amethyst.
"Guys! Guys!" said Connie, running over to the Gems.
"What is it, Connie?" said Pearl.
"My dad found the light cannon!" said Connie.
"Really?" said Pearl.
"Yeah, come on! We need you guys to help us get it here!" said Connie.
"Alright. Let's go." said Garnet.
Back At The Storage Shed-Two Minutes Later
Connie and the Gems were running to the storage shed.
"Alright, now where's the light cannon?" said Pearl.
"In there." said Connie.
"Woah, that shed is a mess." said Amethyst.
"Oh, you're here." said Mr. Maheswaran.
"So the light cannon's in there?" said Pearl.
"Yeah." said Mr. Maheswaran.
"Alright, let's carry it out of there and to the temple." said Garnet.
The Gems navigated through the maze of boxes and soon found the light cannon. Pearl gasped.
"He really had it." said Pearl.
"We're saved!" said Amethyst.
"Alright Gems, let's get it out of here." said Garnet.
The Gems lifted up the Light Cannon with all their strength and carried it out of the storage shed.
"Alright, let's get it to the temple." said Garnet, still helping to carry the light cannon.
Mr. Maheswaran saw that the Red Eye was getting even bigger.
"That thing's growing!" said Mr. Maheswaran.
"That's why we need to get it to the temple as soon as possible." said Garnet.
Outside Of Crystal Gem Temple-Five Minutes Later
The Gems were still carrying the light cannon while Connie and Mr. Maheswaran followed on foot. The Gems then placed the light cannon onto the sand.
"Alright, no time to lose Gems! Let's fire it!" said Garnet.
Just then, the Red Eye started to create a growing gravitational pull. Grains of sand, power lines, even the Beach Citywalk Fries sign were pulled and fell.
"We have to use it now!" said Garnet.
"I don't know how it works, it was Rose's!" said Pearl.
"Dad, how do we use it?!" said Connie.
"I don't know!" said Mr. Maheswaran.
"Connie, this is serious." said Pearl, "The gem, you have Rose's gem!"
Amethyst then lifted Connie.
"That's it!" said Amethyst.
Amethyst then put Connie on the light cannon.
"Ugh, come on!" said Amethyst.
"Stop that!" said Garnet.
"It's no use." said Pearl.
"Fine, forget it. Throw me again." said Amethyst.
"That's not going to work!" said Pearl.
"Please work." said Connie on the cannon, "Unlock. Activate. Go, please?! Everyone's counting on you, you can't just be useless. I know you can help."
"It's okay, Connie!" said Mr. Maheswaran, "We'll figure out something else, something even better!"
"R-Right." said Connie, "A person who never made a mistake never made anything."
Suddenly, the light cannon started to glow a pink aura. The light cannon started blooming like an actual rose, causing Connie to fall off of it onto the sand.
"It's working!" said Pearl.
The light cannon's barrel fell onto the sand. The Gems gasped and ran over to the cannon. Connie tried with all her strength to lift it back up. The Gems ran to the cannon and helped Connie lift it up.
"This is it!" said Amethyst.
"Brace yourselves!" said Garnet.
The cannon charged up more by the second.
*bam*
The light cannon shot a pink laser beam, which turned into a female silhouette. The beam hit the Red Eye, causing it to crack. The Red Eye exploded in a giant ball of flame, the pieces of it falling all around. Some pieces fell onto the sandy shore, some in the water, and some even hitting the roads of the town.
"Connie, you just saved MOST of Beach City!" said Amethyst.
"How did you get it to work?" said Pearl.
"I just said that thing that dad always says." said Connie.
Mr. Maheswaran looked up at where the Red Eye was. Mr. Maheswaran had tears in his eyes.
"Roseā¦" said Mr. Maheswaran, smiling.
Mr. Maheswaran walked over to Connie and placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Nice job, Connie." said Mr. Maheswaran, "If Rose could see you now, she'd be very proud."
"Thanks dad." said Connie.
