"Mr. Fryman! Bits, please!" Connie cried, running up to the stand with Lapis not far behind.

"Connie, we're closed." Mr. Fryman laughed.

"She wants the bits!" Lapis protested. "The bits! The bits!"

Connie joined in, pounding on the table. "THE BITS! THE BITS!"

"Okay! Okay! I'll make you some fry bits!" The man cried. "Easy on the counter."

He gave her a bag and the girls nodded in thanks.

"I could always make you regular fries…"

"Just the bits, thank you!" Connie called.

She and Lapis walked together. "Lapis, can we fly to the sun today? It looks closer than it usually is… We can make it!" Connie giggled.

Lapis knew this was just a trick for her and Connie to go for a fly and was about to make her wings when she saw a second sun that was huge.

"W-what?! Oh no!" Lapis cried. "What is that doing here?!"

"What do you-" Lapis grabbed the girl's arm and pulled her away. "My bits!" Connie yelled, realizing she had dropped them.

"This is bad… really bad." Jasper whispered.

Peridot glanced at it through a telescope. "Its ginormous!"

"Jasper! Peridot!" Lapis yelled. Connie was pulled after her.

"We saw." Peridot snarled. "Where were you?"

"I was helping Connie get fry bits! Did you want her to be bored?" Lapis asked, releasing Connie's hand.

"What is that?!" Connie gasped.

"A Red Eye… It's gonna crush us!" Peridot exsplained.

"The only thing that had the power to destroy it was Yellow Diamond's electric cannon…" Jasper said.

"My mother?" Connie whispered softly, glancing at her gem.

"This would be easy if Yellow were here!" Peridot cried.

"She's not here. We need another way!" Lapis said.

"Oh! My dad probably has it!" Connie cried.

The gems tried to sugarcoat their thoughts.

"Uh, Doug is… nice, Connie, but Yellow was very protective of her things… She wouldn't trust a mere human with the cannon…" Peridot said.

"Your dad is… a mess…" Lapis said.

"LAPIS! We don't insult people like that!" Jasper growled.

"Oh, you're one to talk!" Lapis laughed.

"He's kept it safe, I know it." Connie said.

"Okay. But I'm gonna destroy it with brute force!" Jasper announced. Her helmet appeared.

"Jasper… I'm the one with wings…" Lapis said but she was already running. The gem fell right off the cliff. They winced. "I'M OK!" They heard her yell.

"I… I'm gonna go…" Connie whispered.

Connie ran up to the police station. "Dad? Dad!" She yelled, banging on a police car. "Dad! We gotta save the world! Get up!" The girl crawled on the roof and started to jump when she slipped and fell on her back, setting off
the car alarm.

A man who looked a lot like her ran out from the station. He held out his flash light and almost threw it until he saw who it was. "Connie?"

"Dad!" The girl yelled.

They hugged. Doug turned of the car alarm. "What are you doing here so late at night?"

"The sun went down a hour ago…" Connie blushed.

"Oh, so it did! I've… had a long day."

The girl smiled. "I need you to help me save the world! I need Mom's electric cannon to blow up that eyeball!"

"Eyeball?" Doug asked. They saw Lapis flying Jasper back to the beach. "That… looks like a magic thing. The gems told me not to get involved with those."

"But I need that cannon!"

"Hm… come on, kiddo. I have a idea…"

"It's… in there?" Connie gasped. Doug nodded. They look at the storage shed.

"If anywhere, its there."

The man helped his daughter in and she gasped in wonder. "It's like a Dad museum…"

After finding many things that could be a cannon, she saw a box of cds. "Dad! I didn't know you played!"

"Oh yeah! I used to be a one man band before I joined the force." Doug said.

"Really?"

"Really. I traveled everywhere, and when I played a concert and no one came except for… your mother."

Connie stopped moving for a moment then continued. "We were always together after that. Until she gave up her physical form to bring you into the world. I don't know what a magic lady like her ever saw in a plain old dope like me."
Doug laughed.

Connie suddenly heard the shatter of glass and glanced down at the photo of her Dad reading out loud with a goofy smile and a yellow woman who laughed in the picture. "Dad, I broke a photo…"

"That's okay, if every book was perfect, we wouldn't have poetry."

There was a sudden yellow glow and the girl turned to see a cannon. "I found it!"

"Really?!"

"Yeah! I need a rope of some kind…"

Doug handed her and extension cord connected to another and another after that and so on. Connie quickly tied the extension cord around the electric canon.

"I'm gonna pull!" Doug called back as he started up the engine. With one big pull, the car successfully pulled the canon out of the shed along with everything in front of it.

Connie glanced out the window. "Is it going to be okay?"

Doug shrugged. "If every book were perfect,"

"We wouldn't have poetry!" The father and daughter laughed.

"Can we go any faster?" The girl asked.

"This is as fast as it will go!" Doug cried.

"Can we put in your cd? I want to listen!" Connie insisted.

Doug blushed while Connie put it in. "I know I'm not that tall, I know I'm not that smart, but let me drive my car into your heart, let me drive my car into your heart!" The disk sang while Connie hummed along.

They soon arrived at the beach and Lapis cried out, "We're saved!"

"I was doing… fine…" Jasper huffed.

Connie giggled and pulled out the cannon.

"We have to use it now!" Lapis said.

"I don't know how to use it! It was Yellow's!" Peridot cried when they glanced at her.

"How do we-"

"Your gem!" Peridot gasped. "Your gem is Yellow Diamond's, only you can open it."

Lapis put Connie on top of the cannon but it didn't work. "Huh."

"Come on, work, activate, fire, go!" Connie pleaded with the cannon. "We need you… You're not useless."

Doug gave a sigh and touched her shoulder. "It's okay, Connie… We'll figure something out…"

"Right…" Connie wiped away a tear. "If every book were perfect, we wouldn't have poetry…"

The cannon suddenly opened and the gems gasped. Connie flung herself on top and tried to raise it.

"Connie!" Lapis grabbed her ankles and flew up, pulling with all her strength.

"It's happening!" Peridot yelled, hoisting it up. Jasper gave the final lift, "BRACE YOURSELVES!"

A electric shot suddenly came out that formed into a woman and the Red eye exploded.

"We did it!" Lapis cheered.

"How did you do it?" Peridot gasped.

"I said what Dad always says." Connie shrugged.

"The book thing?" Peridot asked.

"Poetry." Jasper whispered.

"Yellow…" Doug sighed, tears in his eyes.

The tide suddenly came in and started to pull the police car to the sea. "My car!"

"It's okay, Dad. If every book was perfect, we wouldn't have-"

"I work in that car!"

Connie ran after Doug to help. "Wait up, Dad!"