The Smoothie Challenge

"Ha ha ha ha! He threw up!" A blonde girl laughed as she continued to watch a video. It was no other than Star Butterfly who was sitting on the couch upside down. She was watching some sort of video on Marco's phone. Whatever it was, it was making the princess laugh her head off.

"Ugh! There it is! I was looking for it everywhere." Marco walked over and was about to grab his phone. Instead he paused and looked at the screen. "Smoothie challenge? What's that?"

This made Star gasp. "Only the best thing I've seen on Earth! We HAVE to try it!" Her eyes sparkled with excitement. "I still don't know what's going on." Star rolled her eyes at Marco.

"Seriously Marco? Sometimes I wonder if you have a full grasp on Earth." Marco only ignored that comment and listened on what the girl was saying. "Well it's a challenge where you take ten good ingredients and ten bad ingredients, and write them down on little pieces of paper. Then you pick them until you're out of slips of paper. You then put your ingredients in a magic food crusher and drink it all up! No matter how gross it is, you have to try it and each other's. Doesn't that sound like a blast?!" Star finished explaining with a huge smile.

"I guess so. I don't know if..."

"Too late to say no! I've already set up the kitchen for the challenge!"

Star danced into the kitchen pulling Marco along. She wasn't kidding. Many ingredients littered the counters followed by two blenders. There was also slips of paper with words written on them in a bowl. "Wow you really outdid yourself Star. I guess this means a lot to you." Marco said, with wide eyes scanning the room. "Yep! I can't wait anymore! Let's just do it!" Star pushed Marco over to his spot behind the counter, and she went to her spot.

"I'll pick first!" The blonde reached into the bowl and pulled out a piece of paper. Her cerulean eyes glistened as she opened it up. "APPLE JUICE! I've always wanted to try apple juice!" Star happily clapped and did a little dance.

She paused. "Oops! I forgot the most important part!"

Lemonade was poured into both of their blenders. "The base of the smoothie!" She then poured some of the apple juice into it since she picked it. "Alright it's your turn Marco!" Star sang out looking way too enthusiastic. Marco reached into the bowl and pulled out a slip. "Peanut butter. Hey that's not bad!" He was glad not to get any gross ingredients.

The boy scooped a spoonful of the spread and plopped it in the blender. The way the peanut butter floated in the lemonade made him have second thoughts. Maybe Marco wasn't so lucky.

"I got oatmeal! Whatever that is." Star giggled and reached for the box labeled 'oatmeal'. She then dumped some into the glass and took a whiff of what she had so far. "This...smells...AMAZING!"

"Yeah! I got cake! Though I don't know if that would be good in a smoothie." Marco shrugged it off and put a slice into the blender. Peanut butter and cake mixed with lemonade now floated around. "I wish I got cake! You're so lucky, you've been getting all the good ones!" Star exclaimed, memorized by her friend's smoothie. "It really is just luck based." Marco said flatly and then motioned for Star to do her turn.

"Oranges!" Star squealed, her face lighting up in the process. Most of the food she picked was foreign to her. Now was the chance to try all of the new foods all at once. So now with a few slices of oranges in her blender, her smoothie was looking a bit revolting. Unlike Marco's which looked somewhat appealing to the eye.

Shuddering, Marco took another slip and read it with wide eyes. "Vinegar?! No way I'm eating this!" Star laughed out loud at this. "You're drinking it, not eating it. Now c'mon and put some in!" Since Marco didn't move a muscle, Star took initiative and poured it into his blender. She might of 'accidently' put too much in.

"My turn!" The girl quickly changed the subject and aggressively reached into the bowl. "Spinach! Sounds mystical!" She said, her smile still not faltering. Star wasted no time and took a spoon to the can of spinach. She then stirred around and scooped some into her blender. "This is going to taste amazing! Don't you think so Marco?"

Marco on the other hand tried his best to avoid looking at his friend's smoothie. Once she had put spinach in it, he knew it was going to taste and look revolting. "Marco, there's no need to be jealous of my smoothie! Yours looks good too!" Star patted Marco's back.

"If you say so." He weakly laughed and reached in for another ingredient. He found it cute how clueless Star could be when it came to Earth things. "Marco you got Oreo cookies!" Star yelled out right in his ear. "Ahhh! Okay!" Marco rubbed his ear as he grabbed a cookie and crumbled it up. "I really want to try yours as well! It looks amazing!" She swooned looking as if she were melting onto the floor.

Star then jumped back up off of the ground.

"Butter! Butter! I've got butter!" Star burst out randomly and popped some spoonfuls into her glass. "Sweet! Marshmallows!" Marco put a few in and gave his smoothie another inspection. So far it looked decent. The only bad thing he picked was vinegar.

"No. WAY. Pickles! I'm on fire today!"

"Hot sauce?! This won't be good."

"Caramel! Ooooohhhh!"

"Jello. I wonder if that'll be any good."

There was now only six items left. Marco seemed to be the only one out of the two who knew what tasted good, and what didn't.

'If I get Mustard, I might actually throw up.' Marco thought in his head.

'I want them all.' Star daydreamed while chewing on her wand.

"I'm going to go now!" The princess sang and dove in for a slip of paper. Once she read what was on the paper, it looked like she was about to explode. You could literally see it in her eyes. "Look Marco! I GOT CHOCOLATE SAUCE!" Star went all out and nearly poured the whole container in her smoothie. "I can't wait to drink it all up!" Her eyes would not stop sparkling.

Marco smiled at Star's lively energy as he picked another ingredient. His smile quickly faded. Onions. He got onions. "This is just great." The boy groaned as he reached for the cursed food. The smell of them was enough to make your eyes water. He didn't even want to begin with how they tasted. "It is great! Onions are adorable! I could just eat them up!" Star grinned elbowing Marco's side.

Once he put the food in his blender, Star went onto her turn. "Mustard! Coolio!" The girl grinned squeezing the yellow substance into the blender. Marco was relieved that he didn't get that ingredient. Onions were still bad but so far he was getting somewhat lucky. It felt like Star was getting most of the disgusting ones.

"Here goes nothing." Marco opened his piece of paper. "HOT DOGS?! Seriously?! Star, why would you pick hot dogs to go in a smoothie?" Marco was completely done with this. He was so not looking forward to choking down his smoothie now. "I'm sorry Marco but I didn't choose any of the ingredients, I just copied what the people did in that video." Star looked like she was about to burst out into fits of laughter. The look on her friend's face was priceless.

"Go ahead Marco, put your hot dogs in." She snickered rushing him along. Marco listened and hesitantly cut some up and put them in his smoothie. "And now...the grand finale!" Star cried out dramatically waving her arms around. "The final two ingredients! Who will get the last good one? And who will suffer with the last bad one? Oooooohhhhh!" Star slowly reached her hand in carefully. She took this very seriously. Now she picked a piece and brought it up to her. Peeling it open, her eyes scanned it swiftly.

"Canned beans! That's bad right?" Star asked with curiosity. Marco was quick to response. "Yes, especially in a smoothie." He somenly patted her back as if it was the end of an era. He felt badly for his magical friend. No one deserves to drink what she had to.

"I bet it'll all taste great together! What could go wrong? Am I right?" Star tried to be optimistic about the situation. "You could say that...I guess." Marco attempted to avoid her question and snatched the last piece. "Ice cream! This is perfect!"

So now the two had finished putting all of the foods they picked into their blenders. It was now time to blend it all together with the 'magic food crusher'.

"Ready?"

"Ready!"

Marco and Star pressed their buttons and watched the foods blend together. Marco's had a little trouble since he didn't have a lot of liquids in his unlike Star. "All finished!" Star concluded and took note of each other's drinks.

Marco's turned out to be super dark because of the cake and the cookies. Then again, the chunks of hot dogs were still visible which made him cringe. Star's looked horrifying. There were splotches of yellow here, and brown there. There was no denying it, it looked like a lumpy mess. No matter, Star still found her smoothie to be utterly godly.

"Let's test them out!" Star was first to pour her's into a cup and Marco followed. Now they both had to drink it and test each other's out as well. Marco took a whiff of his own and nearly gagged. He couldn't believe that he was going to drink his, and Star's! He was now questioning how this was 'fun'.

Locking eyes and nodding, the two took a swig of their drinks. Marco instantly ran to the sink and spat it out, while Star chugged some more. "Wow Marco! This stuff is great! I can totally taste the pickles and chocolate sauce in here!" Star said with a huge smile and drank some more. Marco wiped his mouth with his sleeve. "You actually like yours?" He asked in disbelief. "Pffft of course dummy! Why wouldn't I?" She then took Marco's cup out of his hand and took a sip.

"I LOVE yours too! The chunks of hot dog definitely make this an amazing experience." She handed her's to him now. "I'm not taking no for an answer! You HAVE to try my masterpiece!" Marco grabbed it unconvinced. Her smoothie looked like a cup of vomit. NO JOKE.

"You really want me to try it...don't you?" Star nodded with a gleaming smile. The magical princess really thought her smoothie was top notch.

Shutting his eyes closed tightly, Marco took one final breath before gulping her smoothie. In an instant, he choked on it. It was utterly revolting! It killed every single taste bud the poor boy had left! He didn't know what to do next! Spit it out and hurt his best friend's feelings, or suck it up and swallow the vomit inducing smoothie.

Finally Marco made his decision and swallowed the thing, gagging slightly. "Ugh, you were right! It was..um...fantastic." He squeaked the last word and gave Star a fake smile. This caused Star to squeal and give him a big hug.

"Thank you for doing this with me Marco! I hope you had as much fun as I did!" She giggled and released the hug. Without a warning, Star stole Marco's phone from his back pocket and skipped over to the exit of the kitchen. "Now i'm going to see what other challenges we can do together!" With that, the magical princess happily pranced to her room unknowingly leaving Marco all alone in a messy kitchen.

There was much more to having a magical princess as a foreign exchange student. But no matter the cost, Star would always be Marco's favourite out of them all. Cleaning a kitchen was definitely worth having her warm company.

A/N Thanks for reading! Next one-shot will be uploaded shortly!