Chapter 2: Laser Light Cannon
"Come on, Isaac!" Steven called as he and Amethyst ran across the beach towards town.
"I'm coming!" Isaac exclaimed, as he ran after them, as the sun started to go down over the horizon. It's now been two days since the blonde decided to stay in Beach City with Steven and the Crystal Gems, and things were going well for him. Yesterday was mostly normal, but it gave Isaac some time to get to know the Gems.
He found Steven to be an optimistic, friendly, outgoing, soft-hearted and carefree boy with a happy-go-lucky attitude that could make anyone smile. He was naïve about many things, but he was determined to prove himself as a Crystal Gem, which Isaac can easily relate to, being new to the team.
Amethyst was like the little sister of the Gems. She was fun-loving and carefree. Loud and full of laughter, she was easily amused and very impulsive. Bad-mannered, untidy, and a bit lazy. Despite all of that, Isaac knew she was a good person and meant well.
Garnet was almost an enigma to Isaac. She was probably the most pragmatic and straightforward of the Crystal Gems, but she's almost like a motherly figure to Steven.
And lastly, Isaac saw as Pearl was a perfectionist, who was knowledgeable on a plethora of topics and values organization. She had a penchant for symmetry, as was the case when she asked why Isaac only had his chain tattoo on one arm and didn't have one like it on the other, and a very high attention to detail.
All in all, they were an odd group and a lot of personality. And that's why Isaac likes being with them.
As he followed, Isaac saw Steven and Amethyst ran off the beach and onto the boardwalk. There, they ran up to a fast-food restaurant called 'Beach Citywalk Fries'. "Hey, Fryman, give me the bits!" Steven ordered, slamming his hands on the table.
Isaac was able to catch up and looked at Mr. Fryman, as he flipped the Open sign to Close. He was quite tall with a thick build. He had a dijon-colored short beard, black eyes, and thick rosewood-colored eyebrows. He sported a fry-shaped hairdo with a red visor hat and wore a light dull red T-shirt and white apron. He also wore a pair of dark-gray shorts and yellow shoes. "Steven! We're closed," he told the boy.
"Aww, what?" Steven looked disappointed.
"We'll just come back tomorrow," Isaac told him. But then Amethyst suddenly hit the counter with her fists.
"Give 'em the bits!" She then started chanting while continuously hitting the counter. "The bits, the bits..."
Isaac looked at her with a stern. "Amethyst, he's not going to do it just because you're hitting his—" He was interrupted when Steven joined in with her.
"The BITS! The BITS! The BITS!" The two chanted as they banged hard on the counter.
"Okay, okay!" Mr. Fryman said, finally caving in to their demands. "Take it easy on the counter, will ya?" He then went to cook the fry bits.
"Yes!" Steven and Amethyst cheered to each other and high-fived, while Isaac didn't look all too happy with them.
"Not cool, guys," he told them.
Mr. Fryman then came back with the bag of fry bits. "I can give you actual fries if you want," he told Steven.
"Just the bits, please," Steven said, before taking the bag. "Thanks." Afterwards the trio turned and walked away. Amethyst put her hand in the bag and picked out a handful of bits. As the two of them ate, Isaac just smiled and walked with them. "Ah, sunset, my favorite time of day. When the sun goes down—"
He was cut off when Isaac stopped and held out his arm in front of Steven, getting him and Amethyst to stop too. The young man was looking at the horizon.
"What's up," Steven asked, picking out another handful of bit and ate them.
Isaac's face expressed disbelief. "Don't look now, but there's a second sun in the sky getting bigger and bigger in the sky." He pointed at a spherical object in the sky that was cream colored and had a segmented body.
When Steven and Amethyst turned their heads to look at it, Steven was amazed. However the short Gem gasped. "Oh no, what is that doing here," she asked, alerted.
"What is it," asked Steven. Instead of answering, Amethyst grabbed Steven and picked him up, making him drop his bits. "Ah, my bits!"
"Let's go, Isaac!" Amethyst started running down the beach, still holding up Steven.
Isaac was confused and anxious, but followed after her. "What, wait! What is that thing!?" He exclaimed before looking at his gem. It was glowing, meaning that whatever the thing was, it wasn't friendly.
Meanwhile, Garnet and Pearl were on the beach near the Temple, already investigating the sphere object. "This is bad," said Garnet as she stared up at it, while Pearl looking through a telescope.
"Look at the size of it, I had no idea these things were so big!" Pearl said.
"Garnet! Pearl!" The two said Gems looked behind themselves and saw Amethyst running towards them carrying Steven, with Isaac close behind.
Pearl turned away from the telescope. "We saw. Some of us are trying to protect humanity." She said to Amethyst before angrily asking, "Where were you?"
Amethyst put Steven down. "... Eating fry bits."
Pearl sighed exasperatedly and slammed her forehead. Isaac took the opportunity to go past her and walked up to the telescope. He angled it at the object and peered into it. "Woah. What is thaaaaaAAAAHHH!"
He screamed when the sphere opened into a massive, red-orange eye. It had a light orange hexagonal iris with a red-orange, aperture-like "pupil" of the same shape. Its body—or sclera—is orange and that those cream colors segments were covers that were like the eyelid.
Freaked out, Isaac quickly backed away and shakenly pointed at the telescope. "That fucking eyeball was looking at me, man!"
"Language!" Pearl snapped angrily, not wanting for Steven to hear the foul language humans made up. Isaac agreed not to cuss in front of the boy, but he let that time slip out. "And it's not eyeball, it's a Red Eye!"
"A Red Eye?!" Steven exclaimed in panic. "It's going to infect us all!"
"That's pink eye, Steven," Garnet corrected him, and Amethyst laughed.
"What do those things even do," Isaac asked.
"They're meant for resonance," explained 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."
"How!?" Isaac threw up his arms. "Do we even have anything power enough to destroy it?"
"We did at one time," said Garnet, adjusting her shades. "A Light Cannon that belonged to Rose Quartz."
"My mom," asked Steven.
"If Rose were here, this would be so easy," Amethyst moaned angrily.
"I know, but she's not, and the cannon is missing," Pearl explained, sad with the fact that Rose wasn't with them. "We'll have to find another solution."
"What about my mom," Isaac asked, wondering if she had anything they could use. "I sure she's got something."
"I'm afraid not," Pearl regretfully told him, knowing that all he wanted was to help. "Onyx was more of a swordfighter than anything and didn't have much with her."
Isaac sighed, disappointed that he couldn't be of help to them. But then Steven got an idea. "If it belonged to my mom, I bet my dad knows where it is," he said, before getting excited and got star-eyed. "He can help us save the day!" However, instead of approval and encouragement, he was met with silence. "Huh? Eah?!"
"Greg is... nice, Steven," Pearl said, but it seemed like she was sugarcoating it, "but I doubt Rose would entrust someone like him with such a powerful weapon.
"What's wrong with Greg," asked Isaac.
Amethyst patted Steven on the back. "His dad is kind of a mess, Isaac," she said blatantly.
"AMETHYST!" Pearl scolded her.
"I'm just sayin', even if she did leave it with him, he probably broke it, or lost it, or dropped it in the ocean by now."
Garnet nodded. "True."
"Well, weather you like him or not doesn't matter," Isaac said sternly. "We need to do something. If the cannon is our only opponent, then we're going to get."
"Yeah, I'm sure he's just keeping it somewhere safe," Steven said with a smile. "I'll go ask him."
He and Isaac were about to leave when Garnet stopped them. "We can handle this, you two." She then walked up to Amethyst. "Ready?"
Amethyst nodded with a determined look. Garnet then picked her up and jump high up. She spun around rapidly, and tossed the short Gem right at the Red Eye with all her strength. Amethyst yelled as she flew right at the Red Eye, going very far from the beach. However, she didn't do anything to it. Only smacked into it and then fell into the ocean.
"…We'll go get the cannon," Isaac said, and then the two humans ran off.
"... Okay, good luck," Pearl said half-heartedly, staring at the Red Eye.
As they ran across the beach, Steven turned his head at Isaac and said, "Hey, thanks for staying up for my dad."
"No problem, kid," Isaac with a smile. "I mean, we don't really have much of a choice. And I don't want to die young. So why don't you live with him?"
"The Gems don't want him around. They say that it's too dangerous for him."
Isaac also had the idea that they didn't want him around because of what happened to Rose. "So where does he live?"
"In his van at the carwash," Steven answer.
The instant he said that, Isaac stopped while the boy kept on ran. The son of Onyx stood there for a moment to process what he's been told before running after Steven. "Wait, his what?!"
About a minute later, the two approached the carwash. As Steven rushed towards it, Isaac stopped for a look at the building.
The It's a Wash carwash housed a logo with an elephant presumably dousing itself with water and the business name on it. It had two main sections with the carwash being in an 'L' shape and what seemed to be an office space being allocated adjoining to the wash.
"Isaac over here!" Steven got his attention and Isaac saw the young boy standing next to a van. It appeared to be a white mid-1970's Dodge Tradesman with an elaborate custom paint job; an outer-space mural with asteroids, shooting stars, and planets combined with a purple and white logo that said 'Mr. Universe' and red, orange, and blue stripes. "This is his van!" The boy exclaimed, before beginning to bang on the back doors. "Dad, it's me!"
"Who is your dad, kid," Isaac asked, knowing that that paintjob wasn't for the hell of it. Or maybe it was.
"Dad, are you in there?" Steven called for his dad, continuing to bang against the door. He then stopped and backed up, and then rammed himself against the doors. "Wake up! We have to save... the—WORLD!" He ended that sentence by ramming into the van again
"Kid, I don't think that's going to work." Isaac tried to tell him, then Steven climbed up on top of the van.
"Dad!" Steven yelled and started jumping up and down on the roof of the van.
"Woah, kid, stop that!" Isaac scolded him. "You're gonna—" Steven tripped and fell back on the roof, which set off the car alarm. Suddenly, the man known as Greg Universe burst angrily out of the van, armed with a waffle iron.
He was a plump middle-aged man with a dark-beige beard surrounding his mouth, taupe hair styled in a mullet that went down to his waist, with a large bald spot on the top of his head. He had a tan line on his shoulders and feet, bushy taupe eyebrows, and his skin color was a peachy red color, with the tan line spotted being a light apricot color. Greg was wearing a white tank top, with long gray pants and was barefooted.
When he saw Isaac, he glared at him and started waving the waffle iron at him. "Hey, get out of here! I'm not afraid to use this!"
"Woah! Woah, man!" Isaac exclaimed, holding up his hand in surrender. "Be cool man, be cool! I'm not here to harm you!"
"Dad, stop! He's my friend!" Steven exclaimed from on top of the van.
Greg turned around and looked up at Steven, dropping the iron. He squinted and blinked, before taking out his keys and turning off the blaring car alarm. "Steven?" Steven smiled and jumped down from the van. He ran up to him, and father and son hugged. It warmed Isaac's heart to see the two of them like that, and he smiled. Greg pulled away from his son and said, "I almost waffled your face! What are you doing up so late, and…" he pointed at Isaac. "…who's this."
"Uh, hi, I'm a friend of your son," Isaac said politely, feeling a little awkward.
"He's a Gem just like me!" Steven said.
Greg's eye's widened. "Wait, what?" He turned to Isaac, and the young man showed him the back of his right hand. "Whoa! That's amazing!" His amazement then turned to embarrassment, and he chuckled nervously. "Uh, sorry about trying to waffle you there. I'm Greg. Greg Universe."
The two men shook hands. "Isaac Infinite, son of Onyx," he said with a smile. Then he dropped the smile for a serious expression. "Actually, we're here because we need your help."
"What is it," Greg asked, before panicking a little. "Is the government after you two!?"
"No! No!" Steven waved his hands to calm his dad. "I need the light cannon that belonged to Mom, to blow up that eyeball!" He then pointed at the Red Eye.
"Eyeball?"
"That!" Isaac pointed at the Red Eye. Greg looked at the Red Eye, just as Amethyst was sent flying towards it. But just like last time, she hit it face-first before falling back into the ocean.
"Wait, is that a magical thing," Greg asked. "The Gems told me not to get involved with magic stuff. It... it could be dangerous or interfere with what's left of my hair." He rubbed the back of his hair.
"But they need Mom's cannon. You've gotta know where it is, like a cave dungeon or a cloud fortress, or in a clam at the bottom of the ocean!" Steven listen off all the fictional places that the Cannon could be, as Greg picked up the waffle iron and threw it back into the van, before closing the doors.
"You're still talking about your mom, right kid?" Isaac asked with a joking voice, though the chance of Greg having all of those things were extremely low for someone living in a van.
"Well, I don't know about all that. But I have an idea where it might be." Greg then turned and started walking. "Come on."
The two human-gems followed him, and the three began a trek across the town towards wherever Greg was taking. As they did, the dad asked his son able how he's been doing with the Gems and how they met Isaac. The young man told about how he came to Beach City to find Rose Quartz, so that he could learn who his mother was. He then talked about how he was attacked and defeated the monster he fought that night, before Steven took over and told the rest.
When Steven was done telling the story, Greg looked to Isaac. "Sorry you weren't able to see Rose, Isaac," he said, feeling sorry for the teenager. "You would have liked her."
"I'm sure I would have," Isaac said genuinely with his hands in his pockets. "I'm just glad I was able to know about mom, just like dad wanted me to."
"Where is your dad," Steven asked, wanting to know about his friend's family.
Isaac's face turned bitter. "He's…dead."
The Universe family stopped for a moment, and Isaac stopped with then. "I-I sorry," Steven said with a guilty expression.
Not wanting for the boy to feel like he did something wrong, Isaac sighed shook his head. "It's not your fault, kid. Nobody could have seen it coming," he told him, before continuing to walk towards where Greg was taking them.
"What was he like," asked Greg.
"He was a good man, who wanted to look after people and protect others. That's why he became a police officer," Isaac told them. "He was the one that helped me try and work with my gem. He didn't know how to, but he never gave up on me and helped me learn how to make bubbles. The weapon was something I had to learn on my own."
"You said that your dad wanted you to come here," Steven said. "Was that after he died?"
"That's right. He and a few other cops were stopping a robbery when it turned out that one of the robbers placed a bomb in one of the parked cars. It went off, and my dad wasn't the lucky one."
"I'm sorry to hear that," Greg said, placing a hand on Isaac's shoulder in sympathy. "What happened then."
"Before he died from his injuries in the hospital, he wrote a letter to leave to me. It explained that Rose Quartz would tell me all I wanted to know about so that's why I'm here. Dad always told me that mom kept her past a secret. I waited one week to stay for the funeral, then sent the next week traveling here to Beach City." Isaac ended his as they approached a storage center called U-Stor.
"A magical storage unit!" Steven exclaimed excitedly, before rushing over to the storage unit.
"Ha, not exactly. But some would say there's magic inside," Greg said.
Steven blinked cluelessly, as Isaac looked deadpanned at him.
"It's just a shed I use to keep things that don't fit in the van," Greg clarified, before he and Isaac grabbed the bottom of the door. "If it's anywhere, it'll be in here."
The two of them lift open the door and Isaac eyes widened incredulously when it was revealed that the shed was filled to the brim with boxes and clutter. He walked up to it and placed his hand on a box. It suddenly caused some to fall down. Isaac now knew that Greg may have a major hoarding problem. "Kid, you stay here," he told Steven. "I'll go get the Light Cannon."
"If you're going in there, you're gonna need some gear," Steven told Isaac.
A moment later Steven tied a flashlight to his head with a sock and wrapped an electric cord around his waist. Steven stepped back to admire his work on the blonde, who felt ridicules but kept on the light. Isaac took in a deep breath and turned towards the shed. "Here I go." He then got down on his hands and knees and starting crawling through a tight opening.
"Good luck," Greg said.
Squeezing in through the tight opening, Isaac made it to an area that was spacious even to stand. So, he stood up and looked around at the array of junk. There was almost everything a person could think of in the shed.
"Yeah, definitely a hoarder," Isaac muttered before walking on. He stepped carefully over random ideas that were left lying on the floor. It was almost unbelievable how much Greg threw in here and then closed the down without even taking the time to organize.
Then there was a bunch of mattresses in his way. Isaac groaned before trying to force himself in between the mattresses. Struggling at first, he decided to just push them apart. He could hear some things stressing under the force of the mattresses pressing against them.
He was in another spacious area, so Isaac stepped out of the mattresses and looked around. "So, Greg, what's your story," he asked, picking up a golf bag that he thought was the cannon, before throwing it down.
"What do you mean?"
Isaac brushed off some smaller junk that were on a drum, which he thought was the cannon. "I mean, how did you and Rose Quartz become a thing," he asked, hitting the drum two times before rummaging around again. "You must have won her heart somehow."
"Oh, well, that was back during the 1990s, before I ran the car wash," Greg told his story, as Isaac started pushing and throwing junk out of his way. "Back then, I was a one-man band, traveling the whole country."
Isaac then picked up a T-Shirt cannon he found. "You were a musician," he asked, before shooting out the T-shirt and catching it. He looked at it and it said 'Buy T-Shirt Cannons'. "Hehehe."
"Oh, yeah," Greg said, as Isaac continued clawing through the junk. "When I came to play a concert here in Beach City, no one showed up except—"
"An ALLIGATOR!" Steven yelled.
"No, it was your mother."
Steven laughed. "Hahaha, I know." Isaac chuckled, going deeper into the shed.
"And we were always together after that. Until she gave up her physical form to bring Steven into the world." Isaac stopped when he heard a creak from under his hand and looked down. He saw that he accidentally crushed a photo frame of Greg and Rose. Luckily, he didn't scratch his hand, and he carefully picked up the picture from the broken glass and looked at it. The two of them looked so happy together. "I don't know what a magic lady like her ever saw in a plain old dope like me."
"Uh, sorry, Greg," Isaac said to him. "I accidentally broke one of your photos."
"It's okay Isaac. If every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn't have hot dogs."
Isaac blinked. "What does that even…" suddenly something started to glow a bright pink light off to the side. "…mean?" He looked at the direction of the glow and he gasped when he saw it was the Light Cannon.
The weapon was a large, sundown pink, cannon-type magical weapon made up of a crystalline material. The backside, hinges, and even the cylinder barrel of the cannon all follow a floral design.
"Bingo!"
Back outside, Greg and Steven were staring at the Red Eye. "Oh boy, that thing's giving me the willies," the man said, rubbing his stomach.
"Guys, I found it!" Isaac called from inside the shed.
"Really?" Steven got excited.
"Yeah, but It's too big and heavy for me to move," Isaac said, before tying cord around the cannon. "I got an idea! Greg, get your van!"
A moment later, Greg drove the van to the shed and parked it backwards to it. Steven then tied their end of the cord to the back bumper of the vehicle.
Greg started the van and floored it. The tires shrieked against the concert, as the van struggled to pull out the cannon. However, only a few seconds later, and the weapon was pulled out of the shed, but not before every other thing in it. They all fell over and some even broke. Isaac ran out of the shield, and Steven and Greg joined him next to the cannon. All three of them panting.
"If we're going to save the city, we've gotta get it to the beach!" Isaac told Greg.
"How? It's too big for the van," Greg said, before a wagon rolled up next to them.
Steven tied the cord to the wagon handle for it to be pulled by the van, as Isaac and Greg carried the cannon to the wagon. "How did Rose take this thing around?" the young man groaned, struggling not to drop it. Even with his increased strength that was given to him by Onyx, the cannon wasn't light at all.
When they got it over the wagon, they let it drop, and the cannon broken through the bottom of the wagon.
The three shared glances.
Not even going to try and think of another way to transport it, they got in the van and started driving to the beach. Behind the van, the wagon rolled with them as the cannon was dragged against the road, creating sparks.
In the van, Greg was driving carefully as to not trip it over, as Steven at next to him and Isaac was standing in the back looking at the weapon. "We're still good," he told them, before moving up to the front.
"Is it gonna be okay," Steven asked his dad.
Greg shrugged at first before saying, "If every pork chop were perfect—"
"We wouldn't have hot dogs!" Steven chimed in, and Greg made a left turn.
Isaac looked up at the Red Eye. As it got closer, it had gotten so big it was huge now, and freaking him out. "Can't the van go any faster?"
Greg pressed harder on the gas. The van only went a little faster. "This is faster," he replied.
"Don't worry. Come on, let's put on your CD," Steven said, holding up one of Greg's own made music.
Isaac looked the CD case and raised an eyebrow. "'Let Me Drive My Van (into your heart),'" he asked.
Greg flushed a little. "What? Really? Come on, you've heard it," he said, embarrassed.
"You come on." Steven said to persuade his dad, but then Isaac took the case of his hand and then replaced it with another song.
"If I'm going to die, I'm going to be listening to this song," he simply said. Steven looked at it before putting the CD into the player. The song Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Swede started playing.
"Great pick," Greg said with an approving smile.
The van pasted some citizens as it headed towards the beach, driving past the Big Donut, as some of the people stared Red Eye. When they got on the sand, Greg turned left and headed for the Gems. The sky was now turning red from the Red Eye, as it grew bigger and bigger.
Greg saw where Pearl and Garnet were standing near the water and quickly parked near them.
When they heard the song, Garnet and Pearl looked at van for a moment, before they heard something getting washed ashore. They looked down and saw it was Amethyst, who washed up at their feet. "Throw me again, I think I'm cracking it," she said to them, before noticing the van as Greg, Steven, and Isaac got out. The three then saw the Light Cannon and their faces turned to astonishment. "Is that…?"
Pearl gasped. "He really had it!" She said with a smile.
"We're SAVED!" Amethyst shouted, jumping in front of the two other Gems with joy.
Suddenly they all felt a pull and looked to see it was coming from the Red Eye, as it had its own ability to create a powerful gravity anomaly. Its gravity began to pull everything towards it, causing rumbling and destruction to several buildings near the beach. Some roofing tiles from the beach house were pulled towards it, electrical line towers were bent out of place, and the sign from Beach Citywalk Fries was pulled off.
"We have to use it now," Garnet said urgently, as the Gems ran over to the cannon.
Isaac quickly started pushing against the cannon to get it angled at the Red Eye. However, he was only straining himself as the barrel refused to move. "Damnit!" He then looked at Pearl. "How do you work this thing!?"
"I don't know—it was Rose's!" Pearl responded and felt around the barrel for something that would work for it.
Steven looked at his dad. "Dad, how do we use it?" Greg only shrugged.
"Rose left behind something this powerful and didn't even in an instruction!?" Isaac exclaimed, questioning what she was possibly thinking. How he gasped when he realized something. "'Left behind'…"
Pearl heard him and quickly realized what he was thinking. "The gem!" She said to Steven. "You have Rose's gem!"
Steven lifted up his shirt and looked at his gem. Amethyst then grabbed him by the shirt and brought him close to her face. "That's it!" She then lifted up Steven and pressed him hard against the Light Cannon. With his gem touching it. The short Gem started rubbing him against the barrel that just looked wrong to Isaac. "Augh…come on…!" She yelled in frustration, as what she was doing didn't do anything at all.
"Stop that," Garnet order and Amethyst obeyed.
"It's no use," Pearl said hopelessly.
The gravitational pull started to intensify, and the van was starting to get pulled towards the Red Eye. Taking along with it the cannon and Steven. Isaac quickly got in front of the weapon and attempted to push it back. But was no good, as he was only digging his feet into the sand as he was pushed back too. "Greg, hook us!"
"Got it!" Greg replied and untied the cord from the wagon. However, the moment he did that, the van started moving faster to the Red Eye. He tried to stop the vehicle by pulling back, but he started getting pulled too. "No-wait! Nope, maybe I don't!"
Steven watched as his dad was pulled away, before turning to the cannon he was still on. "Please work. Unlock! Activate! Go! Please!?" He said desperately, pounding his fist on it before stopping. "Everyone's counting on you! You can't just be useless! I know you can help!"
"It's okay, Steven," said Isaac from the other side, trying to comfort the boy. "We'll figure out something better. It's like you and Greg say, if every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn't have hot dogs."
The moment after he said that, Light Cannon started glowing brightly. Thin white lines started to form on the barrel. Isaac and Steven watched as a charging sound came from it and the muzzle of the cannon started to change forms, blooming like a fully developed rose, until it took the shape of one. Steven fell off and Isaac stepped back.
"It's working!" Pearl yelled, as she and Garnet were holding Amethyst from being pulled away.
Suddenly the hinges unlocked, and the barrel fall over. It almost crushed Isaac if he hadn't got out of the way.
The Gem collectively gasped. Isaac stared at the cannon, as it glowed brighter and the sound became loud. He then glared with determination and grabbed the barrel. Summoning all the strength he could muster, the son of the Gem of War, lifted it up. It was still extremely heavy, but he wasn't giving up just yet.
Steven, Greg, and the Gems all watched in wonder as the young man was able to successfully bring the cannon upwards. Isaac then stepped under the barrel and placed it onto his left shoulder.
He aimed right at the center of the Red Eye, and the noised sounded like it was ready to fire.
Isaac narrowed his glaring eyes. "Don't blink."
The Light Cannon fired its volley. An intense peach-pink light beam was shot out of the muzzle. It then changed into a rose bud, as multiple other beams splinted off and turned into vines that synchronized and twirl around the main beam. The main beam boomed in the air and took on the vague shape of Rose Quartz, reach out to the sky as the smaller beams followed with her.
They all hit the Red Eye dead center, causing it to start cracking and a small explosion where they hit. The Gems, Steven, and Isaac all watched in total, wide-eyed awe.
The Red Eye cracked and broke, before it was finally destroyed in a massive explosion.
The ball of the explosion shined brightly, as shrapnel from the Eye fell. When the explosion dead out, the night sky was at its normal color again. And Isaac dropped the barrel off his shoulder.
Then the shrapnel and destroyed parts of the Red Eye started falling all around them. Much of it fell into the ocean, but there were some that crashed in the city, people started running away as much of the boardwalk was pelted and destroyed with large chucks of the Red Eye.
The Gems ran over to Steven and Isaac. Pearl and Garnet looked at the damage done, while Amethyst exclaimed with joking joy, "Steven! Isaac! You guys just saved most of Beach City!"
Steven and Isaac stared at the destruction with wide eyes. "Sorry about that!" The boy called to Mr. Fryman, whose car they may have wrecked. But the man didn't hear them.
Pearl turned her head towards the boys. "How did you get it to work," she asked, while astonished by their ability to activate it and Isaac's level of strength.
"I-I just said that thing that Greg always says," Isaac said, before looking towards where Greg was. He then made his way to him.
"That thing about pork rinds?"
Garnet placed a hand on her shoulder. "Hot dogs."
Isaac walked up to Greg as he stared at where the Red Eye once was. "Hey, Greg," he said, and the man looked at him. Isaac reached into his back pocket, and pulled out the same photo of Greg and Rose he found.
Greg gasped at the sight of it and teared up. "Rose…"
"She would have been proud of you," Isaac told him with a smile, handing him to the photo.
Greg took it and stared at it for a second. He wiped away his tears and smiled at Isaac. "Thanks, Isaac." He placed a hand on the young man's shoulder. "And I sure you're dad's proud of you, too."
Isaac smiled gratefully. They then stared up at the night sky, as the Gems and Steven all walked over to join. After a moment, the young man looked to his right. Steven stood at his dad's right, and Greg wrapped his arm around him, with his left hand on the boy's left shoulder.
He finally understood why Rose loved Greg. Sure, he wasn't perfect, but that made him something better.
AN:
And that ends the second part of "Gem of War"!
In the first chapter, I left Isaac's past open because I was having a hard time thinking of a back story and why he would to Beach City after all this time. So, I went for a simple background.
Not much else to say. I'm starting school again, so I'll be going slow again with the updates.
Also, just a little Easter egg, the tattoo Isaac had was inspired by God of War.
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