Chapter 10: Light Canon
Bex can't believe it's still daytime. It should have been sundown by now. Something is off about today. She knows it because she usually is done with her workday at the precinct during the sunset.
She looks out the window that is near her desk and her mouth drops from what she sees. It appears to be a giant robot like eye in the sky getting bigger by the second.
She rushes out of the precinct to get a better look at what's going on.
" Oh my gosh." Was all she can say before making a run towards the beach. This most definitely has something to do with the gems.
When she reaches the boardwalk she sees her brother and Amethyst walking along the beach.
" Oi!" She calls out to them. " What in deuce is going on here?"
" What are you talking about?" Amethyst says. " We're just eating fry bits."
" Yeah and watch the second sun come up." Steven says.
Bex slaps her forehead in dumbfound and frustration.
" Steven. There is no second sun." She says.
Amethyst stops in her tracks and looks up.
" Oh no. What is that doing here?!" She says looking at the robotic eye.
Without saying another word, she suddenly picks up Steven and makes a run in the direction of the temple.
" Hey wait up!" Bex says as she follows the duo.
" Garnet! Pearl!" Amethyst calls out to the two gems who are looking through a child's telescope.
" We saw." Pearl says as Bex slows down to catch her breath. " Some of us are trying to protect humanity. Where were you two?"
" Eating fry bits." Amethyst says.
" Alright. I need an explanation of what's going on." Bex says as Steven looks through the telescope.
" It's a Red eye." Pearl says.
" Oh no! It's going to infect us all." Steven says in devastation.
" That's Pink Eye." Both Garnet and Bex says.
" It's going to crash into Beach City along with a bunch of oblivious innocent people. We have to stop it!""
" Excuse me. I'm right here." Bex groans. She gets that she's human compared to the rest of the group, but she's not stupid.
" Well. What are we going to do?" Steven asks.
" The only thing that is powerful enough to stop it is a light canon that belonged to Rose Quartz." Garnet says.
" Our Mom?" Steven says.
" If Rose were here, this would be so easy." Amethyst groans.
" I know." Pearl says sadly. " But she's not and the canon is missing. We'll find another solution."
" I bet Dad knows where it is." Steven gets an idea. " He could save the day! What?"
The gems say nothing at first. Bex lets out a breath of frustration. Even to this day, the relationship between their dad and the gems is strained. She can't blame them, but she long hoped for them to get over their differences eventually.
" Greg is nice." Pearl says."But I doubt Rose would trust a very powerful weapon to someone like him."
" Your dad is kinda of a mess Steven." Amethyst says straight to the point.
" Amethyst!" Pearl calls her out on the remark.
" We're just saying if he did have it, he either broke or lost it or dropped it in the ocean by now." She says.
"True." Garnet says.
" I'm pretty he's keeping it somewhere safe. We'll go ask him." Steven says.
" Probably in that storage shed." Bex mutters under her breath as she follows her brother to the car wash. But not before she caught a glimpse of amethyst being thrown into the red eye unsuccessfully.
Well. What do you know? Bex was right. It might be in the storage shed.
" Are you sure this safe?" She asks her dad as he has in his hands a series of extension cords that are serving as a lifeline to Steven while he's going through the place.
" Ah... he'll be fine. Besides this is more assuring than the time he went in there and got stuck when he was two." Her dad says.
" Oh yeah… " Bex remembers the whole incident. " And then we had to use the vacuum cleaner hose to pull him out. The worst part was that I never thought I would have to explain a hickey on his butt to daycare the next day."
" I found it!" Steven shouts.
" Cool." Bex calls to Steven. " Tie it up."
Within minutes the cord is tied to the canon and to the van. Bex gives her dad the thumbs up before he revs up the gas to pull out canon from the shed. Along with the rest of the items from within.
The canon was huge and looked really heavy. It was rosy pink like Bex's hair. Then again, it was mom's canon.
" Whoa." Bex says as she looks at the canon and the mess. " I didn't think it would be this big of a canon."
" How are we going to get it to the beach? It's too big for the van." Dad says.
Steven looks at a nearby wagon and gets starry eyed. He has an idea. Bex groans. This is going to be a disaster.
She watches as her brother and her dad lift the heavy cannon onto the child's wagon. Like Bex predicted, it broke almost immediately. But they are still are dragging it to the beach on the broken wagon with the van.
" Is it going to be alright?" Steven asks about it as the trio drive to beach in the van.
" Hopefully at most it will have scratches." Bex says as she looks in the sky and sees Amethyst being thrown into the Red Eye for the millionth time. Despite it getting even closer.
" If every porkchop were perfect…" Dad starts.
" We wouldn't have hotdogs!" Steven says enthusiastically. Bex chuckles in response.
" That thing is getting huge." Their dad says about the Red Eye. " It's kinda freaking me out."
" Can't the van go any faster!?" Steven asks.
" This is faster." Dad and Bex says simultaneously.
" Don't worry. Let's put on one of your CDs." Steven says as he shows an old cd from their dad's days as a musician. Let Me Drive My Van Into Your Heart.
" You still have those?" Bex says surprised.
" I shocked too. Come on. Both of you heard it before." Their dad says.
" You come on!" Steven says as he puts the cd into the radio and the title song starts playing.
The song is cute. Not the greatest but their dad is talented and Steven has a bit of that as well. Bex hasn't really sung a song in a very long time. Mostly because she has had a lot on her plate and time just gets away from here. Nevertheless, it's still cute to see her brother sing an old song of their dad's.
It wasn't long before they reach the beach but the Red Eye is breaking atmosphere at a dangerous rate.
" Hey Guys!" Steven calls as everyone else heads straight to the cannon.
The situation intensifies as the Red Eye gets closer.
" We have to use it now!" Garnet states.
" Well. Obviously!" Bex says. " Now how do we use it?!"
" I don't know how to use it! It was once Rose's!" Pearl yells
" You have got to be kidding me!?" Bex yells.
" Dad. How we use it?" Steven asks. Their Dad only shrugs.
" Steven this is serious! Wait. The gem. You have Rose's gem!" Pearl yells.
Amethyst grabs Steven and presses him against the cannon. But it makes no difference.
" Stop it you two. It won't work." Garnet says.
" Forget it. Throw me again." Amethyst says.
" Like it worked the last time. There must be some passcode or something. Anything at all!?" Bex asks.
The gravity becomes the point it starts to drag the cannon and the van away.
" I got this!" Dad calls before he unties the canon. The Red Eye's gravity is causing to pull the van without the weight of the cannon to hold it down. " No I haven't!" He screams.
" Hang On!" Bex says as she gets in front of the van and uses her body to block the van with all of her might. Given her enhanced strength she got from Mom, she's barely managing the situation.
" Come on! Activate! Go!" Steven screams
" Arggg!" She grunts in pain from holding back the van. " Any minute now!"
" Don't worry about it Steven!" Their Dad assures him. "We'll think of something else. Something even better."
" R-right. If every porkchop were perfect, we wouldn't have hotdogs." Steven says before the cannon starts to glow.
" Huh?" Bex says as she glances at the cannon to see it open like a rosebud. But falls down. Steven gets under it and tries to push the cannon up with all of his might.
Luckily the gems help him and direct the cannon beam at the Red Eye. In time for the cannon to make it's strike.
The laser from the canon is beautiful. It turns itself into a silhouette of her mom from a rose flower like shape before making contact with the Red Eye and causing it to explode. Along with debri flying everywhere in Beach City.
" Whoa." She says in awe of what her brother just did before she yelps. " Ah!" as she slips under the van when the water suddenly hits back of her legs and pulls her under. Luckily when she comes out the other side, she was safely away from the van and night time was real again.
She gets out of the water and makes her way over to the gems by the cannon.
" Steven! You just saved most of Beach City!" Amethyst says.
" Nice wording." Bex says.
" How did you get it to work? Pearl asks.
" I just said the thing that dad always says." Steven says.
" The thing about Pork Rinds?" Pearl says.
" Hotdogs" Garnet says as Bex looks over to dad.
" Rose." He says tearing. Bex can understand. There was times where he questions if really meant something to their mom. The fact that the passcode was a saying of his really hit him of how much she did thought about him.
The water suddenly hits their knees and everyone chuckles before seeing the van floating around.
" Oh no." Bex says.
" My van!" Dad says.
" If every porkchop were perfect…" Steven starts. " I live in there!" Dad says as he goes after it.
" He does have a point." Bex says as she follows suit along with everyone else. This was going to be a fun one.
Sorry. I'm just having a fun Spring Break. Usually when I'm on break, I am practically not doing much updating. Which is something that tends to happen when I am busy. Plus the writing of my first original story has been eating up my time. I just need to figure where I need to publish the story when I am done with it.
Next Chapter will actually take place a year before. I suddenly had an idea to do a story of how she and Steven met Connie after writing the last chapter. So please don't get confused when you see I back tracked a bit.
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