Hello there, I'm back with another new story ready for your viewing pleasure. Now I must admit, I was trying to get this out before the new episode aired tomorrow so it is a little rushed and for once, I'm not done with the story. Now I hope you all enjoy.

Disclaimer: Star vs. the Forces of Evil characters belong to Daron Nefcy. OC's belong to me.

Beta read by Sabrina06

(Marco's POV)

It was another afternoon on Mewni, and I was in my room gathering my things to help Omnitraxus with some paperwork. "Now let's see, I have my clipboard, my dimensional scissors, my phone, extra paperclips, now is there anything else I need?"

Truth be told, I was enjoying my time on Mewni, but with everything that had happened recently, it was nice to have some quiet work for a change. "Maybe I don't need the paper clips."

As I placed the box back on my desk, I heard a knock on my door. "Come in." I called as I reviewed my checklist one more time.

The door opened and in came the princess of Mewni and my best friend, Star Butterfly. "Hey Marco." She greeted in a somewhat unhappy tone. "So … Janna and some friends are going to be dragging me to Quest Buy because apparently, I'm working too hard if you can believe that."

"A little, you have been working a lot on the Monster Mewman friendship act.." I said as I turned back to my checklist.

"It's important okay?!" Star snapped.

"I know, I know." I said as I raised my hands in defense. "But with all that's happened recently, a little time off might do you some good."

"Yeah, that's what Janna says. In any event … I … wanted to know if you wanted to come along."

Star was noticeably nervous as she asked, what's more, she asked instead of just telling me, her squire, that we were going to Quest Buy. "Star, what's going on?"

"What? What makes you think something's going on?"

I pointed to her. "You're sweating."

Star let out a sigh. "Jackie's going to be there."

I paused at the sound of her name, I hadn't spoken to her since she broke up with me. "Yeah … I … I promised Omnitraxus that I'd help him with … stuff."

"Okay, I mean if you're busy."

"I am busy."

"Yeah, I thought so." She backed towards the door and slid out before popping her head back in. "So I'll see you later?"

"Yeah, See ya later."

And with that, Star ducked out, closing the door behind her. "Well at least she's trying to take it easy for a while." I said to myself as I turned back to my clipboard. "Well, I'd better get going."

I pulled out my dimensional scissors and cut open a portal to the Plains of Time. When I walked through the portal, I found myself on the familier landscape, and quickly found Omnitraxus in front of what looked like a massive vortex of some sort. "Omnitraxus?" I asked catching his attention.

His head picked up when he heard my voice. "Oh, Marco, I'm glad you could make it."

"It was no problem, now you mentioned something about papers that you needed to get under control?"

"See for yourself." He stepped to the side and motioned to the vortex.

I walked up to the vortex and took a closer look to find that it was various papers were trapped in its current. "So you meant that literally."

"Yup, I was simply doing a little paperwork when this rift opened up, and all of my papers got sucked in. I need help collecting them all before they're torn to pieces."

I looked at Omnitraxus then back at the vortex. "Well, I guess we had better get started."

(Star's POV)

I was sitting in the Quest Buy food court along with Janna, Kelly, and Jackie quietly sipping my smoothie as the others talked. At first, I didn't think that I would be enjoying this, on account of all that happened with my family and the Mewmin Monster friendship act but I was starting to enjoy seeing everyone again. "Man, it feels like it's been forever since I've been off Earth." Jackie said.

"Maybe it's because you haven't been off Earth in forever." Janna teased as she played with the straw to her smoothie. "Last time you were out of our dimension was when we all went on that field trip."

"No, I was out more recently than that." Jackie began. "What about … what about when Ludo and the rats attacked?"

"That was Earth." Janna replied.

"Well what about … uh … actually, I think that was the last time I was in a different dimension."

"Yeah, getting dimensional scissors can be hard." Kelly added. "It sometimes takes years of work."

"So I've heard." Jackie said as she picked up her smoothie. "Oh, speaking of which, Star, why haven't you gotten a pair?"

"Huh?" I asked as I looked up.

"Why haven't you gotten a pair of dimensional scissors? I mean if Marco can earn them, then surely someone like you can."

"Oh … well, it doesn't work that way. I earn my dimensional scissors when I hit a certain age because I'm a princess, everyone else has to earn them by passing a test set up by Hekapoo."

"Ah, so then you can't get dimensional scissors yet."

"That's correct."

Jackie paused for a minute before turning to Kelly. "Don't you have dimensional scissors?"

"Me?" Kelly asked. "Well, I do, but I got them a long time ago."

Jackie sighed and sat back in her seat. "Maybe I should try and earn a pair."

"It's unlikely that you will." Janna said as she pulled out her phone. "I don't think you have what it takes to earn a pair of dimensional scissors."

"Gee, why so supportive?" Jackie asked sarcastically. "You think you could do much better?"

"Most likely." Janna replied. "Just not interested at the moment. After all, it's not like I need them yet."

Jackie looked off to the side and crossed her arms. "Well I think I could pass whatever test Hekapoo gave me."

Janna put her phone away and turned towards Jackie. "Even if you did have dimensional scissors, it wouldn't have changed anything."

Jackie slowly turned towards Janna with an annoyed look as Kelly looked at her confused."Changed?" Kelly asked. "Changed what?"

"Jackie thinks that if she had dimensional scissors, she could have spent more time with Marco and she would still be together with him."

"That's not true!" Jackie retorted.

"Wait." Kelly began. "Weren't you the one who broke up with him?"

Jackie let out a resigning sigh and nodded. "Yeah, he … he wasn't truly happy being with me. I mean he was trying his best to make it work, and I was enjoying myself; but it was obvious that he wasn't happy ... so I let him go."

"But you think he would have felt differently if you spent more time with him."

Jackie let out a laugh and shook her head. "No, definitely not."

"Well, that definitely sounds like Marco." Kelly added. "To nice for his own good."

"Speaking of which." Jackie began as she looked towards Kelly. "I'm curious, how you met Marco."

"Well, we officially met when Ponyhead decided that we all should go for goblin dogs. We spent a lot of time talking while we were in line and he really opened up to me."

"Yeah, he did the same for me when he was cursed with a talking second head that spilled all his most embarrassing secrets."

"You mean the naysaya? Yeah, I heard about that; man, I can't imagine being forced to reveal all my deepest secrets to someone I secretly like."

"Actually … I kinda knew he liked me." Kelly's expresion turned from positive to shocked upon hearing Jackie's statement. "There was this whole truth or punishment box thing-"

"And you guys were all forced to reveal your deepest crush, I remember now."

Janna scratched her cheek in thought for a minute before leaning forward. "You know, I'm just now realizing that all those romantic moments between you and Marco were against his free will."

"Hey, he asked me on a date after the whole naysaya thing." Jackie said as she leered at Janna.

"Yes, but his confession was forced, twice, then there was the dance."

"He said he wanted to go with me."

"Yes but … did he tell you that you weren't his first choice?" Jackie looked at Janna shocked. "Yeah, he originally asked Star but she had other plans."

"Can we please not talk about this?" I asked as I tried to sink into my seat.

"Not just yet, when I asked him to go to the dance with me, he said that he was happy to go with me."

"He must have forgotten about his plans with Star."

"He only forgot for an instant." I interjected. "He remembered a moment later, and I told him that I didn't mind because I had plans with Janna."

"But what if that wasn't Bon Bon's one hundredth death day?" Janna asked.

I looked down and to the side as I took a quick sip of my smoothie. "I would have said that he should have done what he wants."

"Really?" Janna asked with a sly grin. "Little miss crush on Marco at the time would have simply let Marco date someone else?"

I shot up and slammed my hands on the table in anger. "I didn't know how I felt at the time, and I wouldn't force Marco to spend time with someone he doesn't like!"

"But he would have stuck to his responsibilities." Kelly added, causing all of us to turn to her. "I mean it's just like him, right?"

Jackie sat back in her chair and sighed. "Yeah, I guess you have me there, but he still got those Love Sentence tickets so there's one instance."

Janna sat back and laced her fingers around the back of her head as her gaze turned to me.

I sat down and sank into my seat. "Actually … I got those tickets." Everyone slowly turned to me and I began to feel as if I had just been put on trial. "I just … wanted to get used to you spending time with Marco."

Jackie was silent for a moment before shaking her head and snapping back to attention. "Well, I guess that just proves my earlier point, Marco wasn't truly happy when he was with me." She paused and let out a sigh. "We were talking about something else before I got us off track, weren't we?"

"It wasn't you." Kelly answered. "Janna was the one who brought it up."

"Well, in either event, please continue Kelly."

"Well, that's pretty much it, we met when we went for goblin dogs and talked a bit while we were in line. Then there was when we tried to save the bounce lounge, but we didn't really hang out then. Other than that, we didn't really hang out much until we watched the soul rise together."

"The soul rise?" Jackie asked.

"Yeah, it's this amazing thing in the underworld near Lava Lake Beach where all the souls underneath the waves rise in one of the most amazing displays I've ever seen." She looked down and began playing with the straw to her drink. "He also helped me with Tad when I broke up with him for good and … we've been close ever since."

"So, you're into him?" Janna asked.

Kelly's face turned bright red. "Wha- what are you talking about? Marco and I? He's just a friend, nothing more."

"If you say so." Janna said with a slight grin on her face. "But enough about Marco, we've got a bunch of other things we can talk about."

(Marco's POV)

I was clinging onto a rock caught in the spiral of the vortex as I desperately tried to grab as many passing papers as I could. "How many more are there!" I shouted back as I managed to grab another and shove it into my backpack.

"Only a few more!" Omnitraxus shouted back as he held onto the other end of my lifeline. "And don't forget to look out for obstacles!"

I rolled my eyes before noticing a giant boulder hurtling my way, ducking just in time to avoid crashing into it. "And here I was thinking today was going to be a nice relaxing day, how foolish was I?" I said to myself as I looked around for more papers.

I took a quick tug on my lifeline to make sure it was still secure before leaping to the next bolder. "MARCO! TEMPORAL BINDING!" Omnitraxus shouted, catching me off guard.

"Temporal what?" I asked. My question would soon be answered by what appeared to be lightning beginning to manifest from deeper in the rift.

"YOU HAVE TO GET OUT OF THERE!" He began pulling on the lifeline, causing me to lose my grip on the boulder.

I looked back at Omnitraxus but a strobing flash from deeper in the vortex quickly caught my attention."What is that thing?" I asked as Omnitraxus continued to try and pull me out of the vortex.

"You can't be in there when it goes off! I have to get you out of-" He was interrupted by a loud crack of lightning as the storm intensified. "No … it's too late."

I looked back to the storm as the light began to intensify. "I'm going to die." I looked away as the light quickly began to build and soon overtook me as I slowly lost consciousness.

I didn't know how long I was out for, all I knew was that everything was dark, and all I could hear was a faint voice. After some time the voice became clearer and I was able to make out what they were saying. "He's been out for a long time, are you sure he's going to wake up?" The voice asked.

"Uh, don't you think we have some more pressing matters to deal with?" Another girl's voice asked.

"That can wait 'till he wakes up." Yet another girl replied. "We shouldn't leave someone who's helpless to fend for themselves."

"And where exactly do you think you would go anyway?" Came a boy's voice. "It's not like the solution lies anywhere else, and the big guy said to wait 'till he wakes up."

A moment letter I began to fully regain consciousness and began moving slightly. "He's waking up!" Shouted the first girl.

"Ugh." I moaned as I rubbed my eyes. "Who … what's going-" I was caught in shock as my eyes opened and were met with a pair of blue eyes that I knew all too well. "Star?" I asked not fully realizing who was in front of me. I quickly realized that the person in front of me was not Star, partially by the fact that she has brown hair instead of blond hair and instead of hearts on her cheeks, she had what looked like galaxies. "No, you're not Star."

"You're okay!" She shouted as she threw her arms around me. "Dad, I was so worried!"

Now before I go, I want to say some thankyous. Naturally I thank my beta, but I would also like to thank theodora14pines who helped me with some character designs for the next chapter. I still have a lot of work to do on that one though so … let's see how this story goes.

Enjoy your day and please leave your tears in the collection bucket.