Marco was quietly sitting in his room. He was deep in thought about what Tad had told him. Is he torturing himself by hanging out with Star? He wasn't sure, but he did know he felt something when he saw Tom and Star hanging out the way they are. But he also knew he had no right to say anything to her about it. HE was the one to burst into her life unannounced and uninvited, so HE had to deal with it himself.
Marco felt very confused and conflicted with his feelings about Star, he knew he was jealous. But was it because Tom was basically dating Star, or was it that he isn't as close to her as he was before.
"Gah!" Marco exclaimed aloud while falling flat onto his bed, "This is so frustrating! I just want time to think about all this!" After a moment in thought, Marco lifted himself from his bed with a smile on his face, he had an idea! He took out his dimensional scissors and focused. "If I need time to think, then going to another dimension for a bit might help! I could go to another dimension's timeline for a bit and then come back in like… an hour or something," However the only problem is that he didn't know what dimension to go to. He ruled out Hekapoo's as he didn't want to annoy her for just popping up in her home unannounced. He shrugged his shoulders, he decided to just open a portal and hope it would work out. But before he left, he locked his door to make it seemed like he was out somewhere in the kingdom, just to throw off any curious souls that might come his way.
Marco took a deep breath and stabbed the fabric of space with his scissors and pulled down, leaving a portal in front of him. He tightened his grip of his scissors and walked through, confident in his decision.
When Marco walked through the portal he was met with a refreshing breeze, and a beautiful green forest with flowers sprinkled here and there. After taking in the sight he smiles, right before closing the portal behind him. He turned around and decided to just take a walk through the woods and take in the calming atmosphere. As he did so he took notice to how bizarre the colors of the flowers were, the best comparison was an iridescent-like color, regardless he enjoyed it and decided there was no harm in taking one with him. He quickly plucked it and put it into his pant's pockets and continued his walk. But as he did so, he missed the freshly plucked flower had already grew its stem and pedals back as if nothing had happened.
-A Few Hours Later-
Marco was deep in thought as he walked through the woods, so deep in fact, he hadn't even noticed the sky growing dark and how the once peaceful and bright forest turned into a very dark and heavily shadowed area. "Ugh…" he groaned to himself "I thought taking a trip would help me, but it just making it worse! I'm overthinking everything now!" he let out a very loud and frustrated yell before falling on the grass under him. He looked up at the stars in the sky as he laid there. After a good five minutes of just laying there he grunted and picked himself up and grabbing his dimensional scissors from his pants. However, as he did so he heard a rustle off in the distance. Marco stopped dead in his tracks and looked to the direction of the sound, and despite his better judgement went to investigate. Oh how he wished he didn't.
Marco audibly gasped as he saw the scene in front of him, it seemed like something straight out of a horror movie. A man was hunched over a horribly mangled and broken doe, and the man had impaled the poor beast's throat with his five digits with a completely psychopathic grin. Marco tried to run, his brain yelled for his body to run, and yet… it didn't… it couldn't. He could only watch as the deer seemingly vanished bit by bit, ounce by ounce, and by the time he finished it had been a good five minutes. When the man noticed him he turned toward him with piercing, blood red eyes and a twisted grin that stretched across his face in a completely inhuman way. The moment the man took a step towards him, his body flooded him with adrenaline and he took a 180 and dashed the other way. But before he could gain any momentum he was face to face with the man. "How'd yo-" but before he could even finish his sentence he was met with a swipe to the face. Marco was able to reel back and escape the first blow but failed to see the second strike in time. That was a mistake.
Marco was sent flying from the creature's terrible strength! The hit was so powerful that he was sent through four whole tree trunks. Marco tried to pull himself up, but his body simply refused. He took a second to look at his injuries, he clearly had a broken arm, a few broken ribs, and he was pretty sure his liver was ruptured, But despite the obvious pain that would come from such injuries, he felt numb from the sight of the man walking up to him, wearing the same horrid smile he first saw. That smile was enough motivation to get Marco on his feet. The Man then began to rush him head on, but this is what Marco was counting on. The moment the man got into range, he let loose a flying kick to the temple of the man's head. Marco landed hard on his side, the pain rushed throughout his body. he was confused on why he fell, but taking a good look at his leg, he quickly realized why. The man not only caught Marco's leg mid-air, he also had his fingers sunk deeply into his leg. Marco could only let loose a blood-curtailing scream from, not just his leg getting stabbed, but from his adrenaline's high finally fading. He tried to resist the man the best he could. But it was useless, he felt his consciousness start to fade, and the only sensation he could still feel was the suction on his legs.
Everything started to dull, his sense of touch, his sense of smell, his sense of taste, his sense of logic. But before his sense of hearing could give out, he heard a single muffled phrase just before falling unconscious. And then. Nothing.
