(Diaz Household, Living Room)
Star and Marco walked down the staircase, Star doing so while jumping up and down with a goofy smile on her face. In the middle of her jumping she slipped, fell and hit the ground face-first, and Marco quickly went to Star and helped her get up.
With that done, the duo walked to the kitchen, where Mrs. Diaz was taking out some groceries from a white bag. Marco greeted his mother, followed by Star quickly saying hi before speaking.
"Another beautiful morning, another beautiful day and another chance for Ludo to try get my wand to accomplish his wish for universal domination only to inevitably fail." Marco went to a chair and sat as Star went to the cabinets. "And the best way to start this amazing day is with the best cereal ever made on Earth, Sugar-O's!"
"Star, you know there are other cereals outside of the Sugar-O's, right?" Marco questioned as Star eyed the cabinet while licking her lips.
"Yeah, but I favor Sugar-O's a bit more."
The interdimensional princess quickly opened the cabinet, and stood speechless when she saw it was completely devoid of Sugar-O's. There were other cereals and stuff in there, of course, but the girl didn't really care or even notice them.
"Uh, Mrs. Diaz, where are the Sugar-O's?"
"There weren't any Sugar-O's at the store yesterday, so I wasn't able to buy a single box."
Star formed a shape similar to a cereal box with her arms as she replied, "Okay, but there was a whole box of them here yesterday." Star changed between gesturing at the empty cabinet and forming a cereal box shape with her arms as Mrs. Diaz turned to the girl. "What happened to it?"
"Don't you remember, Star? We had to use it to feed dad when you made him think he was a dog." Marco frowned and crossed his arms upon hearing a male voice howling like a canine. "Which, by the way, is something you haven't fixed yet."
"Oh, right, the day after the you summoned Ludo's army in an attempt to cheer me up."
Without warning, Mr. Diaz arrived and ran around the table like a dog, stopping and waving his butt while panting like one too. Star lightly hit him in the head, and he was showered with white sprinkles as he returned back to normal, got up and walked out of the kitchen like nothing happened.
Star, angry at the lack of Sugar-O's, went to a chair and sat on it, resting her elbow on the table as she tried to think of something to do. "Well, guess I'll make some sandwiches." remarked Mrs. Diaz with a shrug.
The woman went to the cabinet and took out some bread as Star finally got an idea. "Marco, we have to replenish our supply of Sugar-O's!" Star barked at the boy, who turned to the girl with a deadpan look. "And I have the perfect plan to do it!"
"I'm all ears." Marco replied, earning a confused look from Star. He quickly explained himself after seeing the look, "It's lingo for I'm listening."
"Oh, okay." Star quickly got off her chair, got a glass full of orange juice and then went back before saying, "I warn you though, this plan is the most crazy, most complicated, most ridiculous, most absurd and one of those plans that sound like they aren't even worth trying out! But with some determination and patience, I believe the plan for our Sugar-O's crusade will successfully come to fruition! Are you ready to hear it, Marco?"
The boy simply gave the girl an impatient scowl, and she coughed a bit, drank some of her orange juice and then took a deep breath. She remained silent for a moment before turning to Marco, and she gave him a serious look before adding:
"We're going to the store."
This only managed to get a raised eyebrow from Marco in response.
(Outside the Diaz Household)
The door was kicked open by Star, who got out and dragged Marco by the arm as she ran as fast as she could to the street. As the princess continued to run, Marco tried to release himself from her grasp as she dodged fire hydrants, other people and the local mailman, who looked on with confusion as the girl passed by.
The boy eventually freed his arm from Star's hold, and then he ran and surpassed Star, stopped her right on her tracks and catched his breath before asking, "Star, do you have a backup plan just in case there aren't any Sugar-O's at the store today?"
Star stood still for a moment, slowly frowned and put her hands on her hips before replying, "Don't be ridiculous, Marco. We don't need a backup plan!"
The duo continued to run as she added, "Just because the store didn't have any Sugar-O's yesterday, that doesn't mean it won't have any today! Trust me, I have a good feeling about-"
And then they narrowly dodged an incoming truck. "This?"
The duo looked down and saw that they were in the middle of the road, shortly before spotting some cars driving to their direction. Star and Marco quickly dodged the variety of cars that were about to run them over...or at least, they would be, if the cars hadn't stopped just before they were run over.
What, you expected the cars to keep driving while there were people on the road?
So, seeing the window of opportunity, Star and Marco quickly got off the road and continued to run until they arrived at the Echo Creek store, where they saw some people going inside and some other leaving with bags of groceries. The duo exchanged smiles and then went inside, although Star made sure the mall's customers didn't try to do anything to them before following Marco.
(At the store)
The duo took a quick peek at their surroundings as they walked around the store, although Marco was really the only one walking. Star, on the other hand, scanned and eyed every single thing they came across in hopes of getting the Sugar-O's, ranging from shelves, the shopping carts, even a baby cart where she met the confused infant face-to-face.
"What can you tell me about the location of the Sugar-O's?"
Star heard a cough and poked her out of the cart, where she saw the baby's mother was giving her a furious glare. Star, realizing she probably ticked off the wrong person, smiled nervously as she left the cart alone and slowly backed away, the mother soon scoffing and leaving with her baby as the princess sighed in relief. She then walked back to Marco, and she crashed on a woman nearby, who eyed the girl angrily as she smiled sheepishly.
Marco, meanwhile, was checking out the price tags on some oranges and apples at the fruit section. He grabbed an orange, then grabbed an apple, and he glanced at them while lifting them up and down as a badly bruised, angry Star with a black eye walked up to him.
After a long time had passed, Star snapped. "Would you stop wasting your time checking random stuff?!"
The girl grabbed the orange and the apple, and she threw them away, which caused a a chain reaction involving some other items and people that made them bounce back to the fruit section, and they hit Star's head before landing where they originally were.
"We're here for the Sugar-O's, nothing else!" Star added as she grabbed the back of her head.
"Star, this is one of the few times after your arrival that we've had a perfectly normal visit to the store. Every other time, something weird has happened or Ludo's sent one of his henchmen in order to get your wand." Marco sternly told the girl. "I want to, at the very least, see if there's anything that catches my interest before doing what we came here to do. In fact, I was about to finish that when you arrived, and if you're going to act like a younger child than usual, then I'm not going to pay you attention!"
Marco scoffed, crossed his arms and turned away. While Star initially just eyed him with anger, she soon sighed before saying, "Sorry, Marco." in a sad tone.
Hearing that, the boy turned back to Star and gave her a sincere smile before patting her head. "Apology accepted." Marco gently brushed Star's hair as he looked at her bruises. "Let's see, what do we do about those bruises?"
"I got it covered."
Star took out her wand and hit herself with it once, which caused a plant to grow on her head. She hit herself again, and this time the bruises and plant vanished, leaving the girl completely clean and healthy again.
Shortly after that, Star and Marco looked around the store for the Sugar-O's, not having any particular success at finding it for the most part. However, after a long time of searching and searching, they eventually managed to find a single Sugar-O's box left among other cereals, much to their delight.
Suddenly, just as Star clasped her hands and jumped up and down in excitement, Marco remembered something important. And once he realized they probably forgot to do that, he held the girl back as he asked, "Wait a minute, Star, did we grab any money before we left?"
Marco and Star exchanged looks before the girl got a bit worried and started to check her dress pockets, and she failed to find anything other than her pen, a star-shaped paper and a pair of butterflies who flew away as the girl panicked. She looked around and walked back and forth as she tried to think of an idea, and she eventually remembered her wand and she waved it while chanting:
Currenci Generatii!
This created a couple of dollars out of thin air, which the girl grabbed in excitement as Marco raised an eyebrow and questioned, "Star, are you sure that's legal? We could always go back home and ask mom for some money."
"Marco, think about this for a minute." as Star spoke, Brittany Wong walked to the shelf and checked the cereal boxes. "If we leave the store, we'll have to travel all the way back here again! And besides, if we're not here, anybody could grab the sole Sugar-O's box left!"
The boy leaned left and pointed at the girl with a raised eyebrow as he asked, "Like Brittany Wong?"
Hearing the girl's name made Star cringe, and then chills were sent up the girl's spine as she turned around and spotted Brittany grabbing the box and checking it. Having seen that, Star turned around and, in slow motion, leaped with her arms extended as Brittany grabbed the box and put it on her shopping cart, which made Star shout "Nooo!" in slow motion as well.
Brittany walked to the duo and scoffed derisively at Marco as she rolled her eyes, and it didn't take long before she noticed Star and her extended arms. She narrowed her eyes and gave the girl an angry glare before saying, "Fine, but only this time, and if you dare tell anybody about this incident, I'll shake my booty right in front of your face!" and then, she turned to Marco and gave him the same angry glare. "That goes for you too, Safe Kid!"
Marco slightly backed away in shock as Brittany high-fived Star's hands, which made the girl spin-also in slow motion-as the girl blushed and quickly left the scene, but not before slapping Marco. As the boy rubbed his slapped cheek and saw the girl leave, Star shouted "That's not what I meant!", of course in slow motion as well, as she eventually hit the ground face-first and returned to normal motion.
"Well, there goes the last Sugar-O's cereal box for today." Marco sadly remarked.
Star muffled something in a confused tone and then, after a while, she got an idea, with a light bulb appearing above her in the process. So she got up, hit and broke the light bulb, and wiped off the stuff on her face before turning to Marco with a determined look. "Correction, that was the last Sugar-O's cereal box on Earth."
Marco commented in response, "Uh, Star, you said earlier that Sugar-O's is an Earth-exclusive cereal, remember?"
"Well, I was a bit too excited, and I didn't think my words correctly. There might be another place where Sugar-O's are sold..." Star and Marco saw the former's wand, and she eyed and checked it as she thought of the next place "No, I know there is another place where Sugar-O's are sold!"
"And where, exactly, is that place?"
"Oh, you'll see soon."
With that said, Star took out a pair of dimensional scissors from her pockets, and she smirked as she cut open a light blue portal with them. With the portal open, Star grabbed Marco's arm and dragged him as she jumped into the portal, which blinked out of existence when the teenagers got inside.