It loomed in the sky. When the sun sets, the sky gleams many beautiful colors for not very long before it plunges into night.

Not today, it seemed. The sun had set, and Lapis Lazuli watched it sink into the horizon. The soft array of colors had eventually assimilated into one bright orange. When she stepped outside, she saw the cause.

She fluttered down to the shore as quickly as she could. "You saw the Red Eye?"

Pearl nodded. "Yes. I think, if we do nothing, it'll crash down in about an hour. And thirty minutes. But of course, we will do something."

Lapis stared at the Eye. "What do you think it's doing here?"

"We don't know," Garnet said. "But we have to destroy it fast, before it gets close to the beach." The two other gems obviously didn't want the Eye to wreck most of Beach City, but there was the other underlying factor. Red Eyes were mostly developed and perfected on Homeworld after the Great Gem War, which Lapis was elsewhere on Earth. There were preliminary designs of Eyes, but they were not developed until the War had created a need for them. They were soon added a surveillance feature.

Lapis nodded in affirmation. "Okay. So, what can stop this thing? It doesn't look like we can punch it."

Garnet would've answered, but it was then that Amethyst and Steven came gamboling in.

Pearl turned around and exasperatedly said, "Where were you guys?"

"Uh, eating fry bits." Pearl groaned.

"Whoa, it's even cooler from here." Steven marveled at the Eye. "What is it anyway?"

"It's a Red Eye." Garnet pushed up her glasses. "We don't know why it's here, but if we don't destroy it, Beach City will be crushed."

"Ah! A Red Eye?! It'll infect us all!"

"That's pink eye, Steven."

"So what do we do?"

"There's only one thing that can stop it," Garnet said. "And that's your mother's Light Cannon. We don't know where it is."

Steven thought for a moment. "Well, if anyone would probably have it, it would be my dad!"

The gems tried to discourage him from searching, as it would be fruitless. Why wouldn't he lose it if he had it?

"Nah! I know he has it!"

"Hey, Garnet!" Amethyst said. "Why don't you just throw me at it?" Garnet did, but Amethyst did nothing to the Eye.

"Uh, I think I'm going to go now."

"Okay…"

It was easy to tell that they weren't going to stop the Eye by their selves. Their only hope has the Light Cannon, which they had no way of getting quickly. They surely were doomed.

Steven had left, and the Eye kept descending, it's pace undeterred. Pearl stared at it worriedly through her telescope.

Lapis looked uneasily at her. "Hey, uh, Pearl? What's that Light Cannon?"

"What? Oh, it's Rose's. Didn't she tell you?"

She didn't, but Lapis supposed it didn't matter. Why would Rose Quartz tell her about a hidden away weapon that was never relevant? Lapis wasn't even a Crystal Gem, no matter what anyone said.

The Eye was closer now. The sky shone a bright red, and Lapis could barely see any other colors. It was here that Lapis Lazuli felt utter dread. The Eye wouldn't do anything to them—unless it touched their gems—but humanity was still here. Lapis cared little for all but one human, yet she didn't want to fail the mission she had joined over thirty years ago. Not to mention Steven…

Then Lapis Lazuli heard the familiar sound of—she turned around—Greg's van? And attached to it was a white cannon shaped like a rose. It must be the Light Cannon!

"What? He really had it?" Pearl said, disbelieving.

"We're saved!" Amethyst said with relief, and Lapis felt it too.

Except… "How does it work?" Everyone froze at that comment.

"Oh! Uh, Steven! Your gem! You can use your gem to activate the Cannon!" Pearl said frantically.

Lapis shut them out and closed her eyes, the red sky shining through her eyelids. She knew there was no hope with this. Her closed eyes, though, saw light, and she opened them. The Light Cannon glowed, and Steven was struggling to lift it.

Immediately, Lapis flew to the Cannon to help Steven. The other gems had the same idea.

As they lifted the Cannon, it shone brighter and shot.

Out came a brilliant beam of white light. It formed into a rose, thorns spiraling around it. The rose exploded and transformed into a beautiful woman with an arm out. The light collided with the Eye and it exploded into pieces. The scattered pieces fell everywhere. No one was hurt by it, but it knocked a display off a human's building. The night returned to the sky.

"That was her Cannon?" Lapis said, mostly to Pearl. "It was beautiful."

"I know." Pearl's eyes became wistfully nostalgic.

Lapis looked at the ocean and sighed. The Crystal Gems and she were relatively quiet. They only went for Earth's corrupted gems, and never tried to reach Homeworld. So why would they send a Red Eye? There was no other place it could have come from.

AN: I'll probably edit this tomorrow, but I just want to get this out as soon as possible. Also, I'll probably lay off on making subtitles so that mine can actually relate to the plot and such.