Connie was headed for the Fry Shop with Tourmaline following behind her.
"Hey, Mrs. Fryman," Connie said placing her hands on the counter. "I'll take the bits, please."
"Connie, we're closed," Mrs. Fryman said as she turned the sign from "open" to "closed".
"Aww, what," Connie said.
"Aww, come on, Fryman," Tourmaline said. "Give Connie the bits. The bits." Tourmaline began to chant "the bits" As she hit the counter with her fists. Connie joined in and started to chant and bang the counter as well.
"Okay. Okay," Mrs. Fryman said. "Take it easy on the counter. I'll make some fry bits."
"Yes," Connie and Tourmaline said as they high-fived each other.
"You know I could make you actual fries," Mrs. Fyman said as she dropped some fry bits into a bag.
"Just the bits, please," Connie said. Mrs. Fryman handed her the bag and Connie gave her some money. "Thanks," Connie said as she and Tourmaline walked away.
Connie and Tourmaline started to eat the bits. "You know, Tourmaline," Connie said.
"Hmm?" Tourmaline replied as she chewed on some fry bits.
"I could have sworn the sun went down around an hour ago," Connie said. "But it looks like it's still right up there in the sky."
"Wait, what?" Tourmaline said looking up into the sky. She could see a giant red orb in the sky.
"Oh no," Tourmaline said. "We've got to to move."
"What?" Connie asked.
"No time to explain," Tourmaline said picking Connie up making her drop her bag of fry bits.
"My bits!" Connie said as Tourmaline quickly carried her to the beach.
Holly and Skinny were both already on the beach. Holly was looking at the orb through a telescope while Skinny looked at it with her naked eye.
"That doesn't look good," Skinny said.
"Look at the size of it," Holly said. "I had no idea these things were so big."
"Gems!" Tourmaline called as she ran up behind them placing Connie on the ground.
"Tourmaline," Holly said once she had turned around. "Thank the stars you're here. We need your calculations."
"It's a red eye," Tourmaline said as she adjusted her visor. "It's speed is too great. If we don't stop it, it will crush us all into oblivion."
"How do we stop it?" Connie asked.
"It has really sturdy structure," Tourmaline said. "It seems the only thing powerful enough to destroy it is the laser ice canon that belonged to Blue Diamond."
"My mom?" Connie asked.
"If Blue was here, this would be so easy," Skinny said.
"I know," Holly said. "But she's not."
"If it belonged to my mom, I bet my dad knows where it is," Connie said. "He can help us save the town."
Connie looked at each of the gems' faces to see if they approved.
"Greg is…" Holly said pausing for a second. "…nice, Connie. But I highly doubt that Blue would entrust such a powerful weapon with someone like Greg."
"Yeah, your dad's kind of a mess, Connie," Skinny said.
"Skinny," Holly said.
"I'm just saying," Skinny said. "If Blue had given it to him, he probably would have lost it, broke it, or thrown it in the ocean by now."
"But then what do we do to stop the red eye?" Connie asked.
"Don't worry," Skinny said. "Tourmaline and I have a plan."
"We do?" Tourmaline asked.
"Yeah," Skinny said. "Plan 234."
"Skinny," Tourmaline said. "There's no way that's going to work. You can't penetrate that red eye with your own strength."
"Come on," Skinny said. "I can take it."
Tourmaline sighed. "Okay. Fine."
Tourmaline picked up Skinny and jumped high into the air. After she did a few summersaults, Tourmaline threw Skinny in the direction of the red eye.
Skinny yelled out as she flew towards the red eye. Once she hit the red eye, no damage was done. On impact, Skinny fell from the red eye into the ocean.
"I'm…" Connie said hesitating. "I'm gonna go." Connie started to walk away.
"Okay," Holly said not taking her eyes off of the red eye. "Okay. You go do that."
Connie went to the local carwash at Beach City where her dad worked. She didn't see him outside, so she figured he was likely asleep in is van.
Connie began to bang on the back doors of her dad's van.
"Dad?" Connie called. "Dad? Wake up!" Connie banged her whole body against the doors. "We have to save the town!" Connie got on top of the van and started to jump on the roof of it. "Dad? Dad?!" Connie continued to jump on the roof of the van until she fell on her back and set off the car alarm. Connie sat up with a smile on her face knowing that the alarm would surely wake her dad up.
"Who's there?!" Greg exclaimed hopping out of the van. "I've got a waffle iron!" Greg held up a waffle iron.
"Dad, it's me!" Connie yelled over the alarm.
Greg turned around to see Connie on top of the van. He stood there for a moment just looking at her as his car alarm continued to go off. He slowly raised up his keys and pressed a button, turning off the car alarm.
"Connie?" Greg asked.
Connie jumped down from the van and gave her dad a hug.
"I almost waffled your face!" Greg exclaimed when he pulled himself out of the hug. "What are you doing out so late?"
"What do you mean?" Connie asked. "The sun went down over an hour ago."
"Oh," Greg said with a bit of blush appearing on his cheeks. "It was a small day at the car wash. Anyway what's up? Just wanted to see your old man? Pal around? Learn some lessons about life?"
"No," Connie said. "I need help blowing up that giant eyeball."
"Eyeball?" Greg asked. He and Connie looked up into the sky to see the red eye. In a second, they saw Skinny flying through the sky, hitting the eyeball, and falling back into the ocean.
"Wait," Greg said. "Is that a magic thing? The gems told me not to get involved in magic stuff."
"I just need your help at finding Mom's laser ice canon," Connie said.
"Her what?" Greg asked.
"It's a weapon that the gems said Mom owned that can destroy that thing," Connie said.
"Well," Greg said. "I guess I know where it might be."
Greg led Connie down a few sidewalks until they came across a series of storage sheds.
"Woah," Connie said. "I didn't know you had a storage shed."
"Yeah," Greg said. "I just use it to store things that don't fit in the van."
Greg slowly opened the shed door to reveal several boxes stuffed full of junk.
"Hmm," Connie said as she examined the tight spaces in between the stacked boxes. "I'm going in."
"Okay," Greg said. "Just be careful."
Connie slowly crawled under some boxes that made a small arch. Once she was past the wall of boxes, she looked around.
"How many places have you been, Dad?" Connie asked as she looked around.
"Too many to count I guess," Greg said. "When I was a one-man band, I traveled everywhere. Then I came into town to play a concert, and no one showed up except for…"
"Seagulls!" Connie yelled.
"No, silly," Greg said. "It was your mother."
"I know," Connie said after a laugh.
"And we were always together after that," Greg continued. "Then she gave up her physical form to bring you into the world."
Connie suddenly heard glass shatter. She looked down to see a broken picture frame containing a picture of her mom and dad. Greg had a hotdog stuffed in his mouth with a goofy grin in his face. Next to him was a blue woman looking at Greg with both fascination and humor.
"I don't know what a magical woman like her ever saw in an average, old dope like me," Greg said.
"Dad," Connie called. "I broke a photo."
"That's okay," Greg said. "If every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn't have hotdogs."
Connie looked over and saw an item glowing a bright blue.
"Man," Greg said looking at the red eye in the sky. "That thing is giving me the willies."
"Dad, I found it!" Connie called.
"Really?" Greg asked.
"I need some kind of rope," Connie said.
Greg handed her and extension cord connected to another and another after that and so on. Connie quickly tied the extension cord around the laser ice canon.
"Okay!" Connie called. "It's ready!"
"Rodger!" Greg called back as he started up the engine. With one big pull, the van successfully pulled the canon out of the shed along with everything in front of it.
"We've got to get this to the gems," Connie said getting out of the shed.
"How?" Greg asked. "It won't fit in the van."
As if on cue, a small trailer, usually meant for carrying heavy things, rolled next to Connie. It took all of Greg and Connie's strength to get the ice canon onto the trailer. As luck would have it, the trailer was just strong enough to hold the canon. Greg and Connie quickly got into the van and drove towards the beach.
"Geeze," Greg said. "That thing's getting huge."
"Can't the van go any faster?" Connie asked.
Greg quickly stepped on the gas, but the van didn't speed up that much at all. "This is faster," Greg said.
The red eye was getting really close to then and started to suck things off of the ground.
Greg and Connie finally pulled up onto the beach where Tourmaline and Holly were standing. They both looked down at the water as Skinny washed up onto the shore.
"Throw me again," Skinny said getting up. "I think I'm cracking it."
The three gems looked over to see Connie and Greg with the ice canon.
"Is that?" Skinny asked.
"He actually had it?" Holly asked with a bit of disbelief in her voice.
"We're saved!" Skinny exclaimed. She suddenly started to float off of the ground. Tourmaline quickly caught her ankle before she could float off.
"We only have one minute left until impact!" Tourmaline exclaimed. "We have to use it now!"
"I don't know how it works!" Holly exclaimed looking the ice canon over. "It was Blue's!"
"Dad," Connie said. "How do we use it?"
"I don't know," Greg said. "I never saw your mother in action."
"Forget it!" Skinny exclaimed. "Just throw me again!"
"That's not going to work," Tourmaline said. "The red eye will surely shatter you."
Connie started to rub her gem against the canon. "Maybe if I just…" Connie said. "Come on. Unlock. Activate. Fire. Please. Everyone's counting on you. You can't just be worthless. I know you can help."
"It's okay, Connie," Greg said. "We'll think of something else."
"Right," Connie said with diamonds appearing in her eyes. "If every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn't have hotdogs."
The canon suddenly started to glow. Connie fell off as it unfolded into a pattern that looked like a snowflake. The canon fell to the ground. Connie quickly tried to lift it. She felt it get lighter and turned around with diamonds appearing in her eyes to see the other gems holding the canon up too.
"Connie!" Holly exclaimed.
"This is it!" Skinny yelled over the noise.
"Brace yourselves!" Tourmaline yelled.
In a flash of light, a large blast of ice was headed for the red that then shifted into the form of a woman outstretching her hand. On impact, the red eye exploded and pieces of it fell into the ocean.
"Connie," Skinny said. "you just saved Beach City."
"How did you get it to work?" Holly asked.
"I just said that thing that Dad always says," Connie said.
"That thing about pork grinds?" Holly asked.
"Hotdogs, Holly," Tourmaline said placing a hand on her shoulder.
"Blue," Greg said wiping a few tears from his eyes.
The ocean level suddenly rose, and the current caught Greg's van, pulling it out to sea.
"My van!" Greg exclaimed.
"Don't worry, Dad," Connie said. "If every pork chop were perfect…"
"I live in there!" Greg interrupted as her ran out into the water after his van.
"Wait up, Dad," Connie said going into the water after him.
"Holly," Tourmaline said. "Couldn't you use your whip to pull the van in?"
"I'll let them figure it out on their own," Holly said.
Hey guys!
I'm sorry if this chapter felt like cardboard cut outs of the original characters. Some of the season 1 chapters are likely going to feel that way. When we get to more plot heavy things, that's when things will have more changes. Holly and Skinny are just already extremely similar to Pearl and Amethyst and Tourmaline, obviously is an OC. For now, I'm going to try and do a chapter for every episode and possibly short as well. I will include changes wherever I can to try and make it more my own personal story. Just bear with me for now.
Thanks!
~Stevidot4ever