AN:/ Welcome to a new story I'm publishing, its my take on the events of after the season 2 final and hopefully I do a decent job of it.
It started because of a mistake
Marco felt empty, like a huge chunk of his heart just crushed and crumbled scattered to the winds. He collapsed onto his knees and asked, "Why did you have to leave without saying goodbye Star?" Without an answer a silent tear fell from his which were beginning to turn more and more bloodshot.
Marco plopped himself on the bed in Star's old room. It had reverted to its old self as Star had left Earth for good. He mentally went through the events of today's party to see what had turned such a beautiful friendship into what had seemed like two awkward roommates forced to stick with each other.
They hadn't been spending too much time lately. Marco had been hanging out with his new and long term crush, Jackie Lyn Thomas. They had been rather great and although it felt like it was missing one thing he couldn't deny how fun it had been with Jackie. But then he had been so focused on Jackie that he just put Star on the back seat. It had been fine at first, Star was always an understanding person and for the life of her couldn't seem to hold a grudge.
He had seemed to have taken advantage of her kindness in a way. But he felt so guilty when he completely forgot about Friendship Thursday. He recalled how downtrodden her face looked like. She just smiled bitterly and said, "Its alright Marco, I understand how it feels when you give all your attention to your girlfriend, time just seems to fly by." She then left without another word to her room leaving Marco to his thoughts.
In hindsight he should not have been so stupid as to think it would just be that, it was the final crack that caused their relationship to break. He berated himself for his carelessness and foolishness. The wedge had been created. They spent less and less time together. Star hung out with Janna more often than not. He had not noticed it then but he realised now that she was upset and got more and more upset with each day.
He now looked at it from her point of view and now he had realised that he had caused all of this to happen. He realised that he had not given her the importance that was befitting of her status as his best friend. Now he knew why Star had felt so unfamiliar to him at the party. They both used to be able to read each other very well. Noticing just the slight twitch of motions they were able to tell whether they were sad or happy.
But now he just couldn't seem to read her at all. In fact Janna had a better time understanding Star's emotions then he did. He now knew that sometimes, ignoring a person, especially if that person meant a to you was a thousand times worse than any hurtful word spoken by them. He knew what he had to do. He was going to beg for her forgiveness. To forgive him of his stupidity and to hope that they could put this ordeal behind them once and for all.
He noticed his parents standing by the doorway with similar expressions of sadness and something hidden deep within them both. Marco said, "Mom and Dad I need to go to Mewni, I have a mistake that needs done correcting.", Marco said without a stutter, a face of absolute determination etched across his face.
He looked at Jackie with sadness and said, "I love you Jackie but I need to do this, I need to get my best friend back".
Jackie too was sad at seeing her boyfriends best friend and even her friend leave Earth, she could feel the sadness and anguish emitting from him. She went over to him and gave him a peck on the cheek and replied, "And don't stop until you find her and get her back to Earth."
He gave her a final smile before taking out his dimensional scissors and with ease cut a portal through the air. Grabbing a bottle of water he jumped straight through the portal. However this was when he knew something was wrong.
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Star walked through the portal with tears running down her cheek. She knew that Marco had followed her yet she didn't stop, she ran away from her best friend. She felt saddened by the loss of her first friend on Earth and possibly anywhere else. But she knew that Jackie would be able to mend the heart of her crush, she could see the love blossoming between her two friends.
And that was the problem, she thought that maybe if Jackie had not been good for Marco that they would have been together. But it had seemed that she had miscalculated the love they had for each other. She knew she had no chance with him and the facts were that her magic was getting more and more unstable, with Glossaryck gone there were no safety measures to ensure that no one would get hurt.
The jealousy that filled her body and mind had taken a toll on her and perhaps if she was away from Earth and thereby away from Marco, maybe she would be more composed. She fell on top of her bed , trying her best to keep those malicious thoughts away.
She remembered her Mother, Moon saying that there was a huge magic field surrounding the entirety of the Butterfly Kingdom to ensure that no forms of magical travel could enter. She had been told that The Magic High Commission had attempted to stop Toffee before a war could break loose. However it had turned into Toffee's favour as he managed to defeat Hekapoo, Rhombulus, Lekmet and Omnitraxus Prime. Moon had barely escaped the fight.
To ensure that Toffee did not have the means of transporting his army straight through all their defensive measures a lockdown had ensued. She realised now that Marco wouldn't be able to enter the Mewnian Kingdom at the moment.
She felt a little happiness and guilt. Happiness that her heart wouldn't be able to be crushed at the fact that her crush would be anywhere near to cloud her judgement. Yet she felt guilty for thinking such thoughts. She just slept off succumbing to the fluffiness of her bed and dozed off.
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The first tell tale signs that Marco knew were the signs of trouble were that he wasn't in any part of Mewni that he recognised. In fact he took a better look at his surroundings and he could feel the air of malevolence and a hint of death approaching. He steeled his emotions in as he recognised a few plants from a forest he had once visited with his parents and Star.
The Forest of Certain Death to be exact. He knew that were dozens of bloodthirsty species of animals and even plants that would kill him without hesitance. It was night time and he knew that this was the period of time that the hunters began hunting. He smoothened his features to a steady calm. His breathing evenly placed. His eyes closed and his ears pricked for any movement, minute as it was.
It was dark and rather cold. Thankfully he wore his red hoody and was able to conserve some form of body heat. He heard a rustle nearby and his ears picked up on it. A group of monsters were walking straight into the clearing he was in.
He heard the rasping laugh of the few monsters that had were walking his way. "I'm telling you guys, Toffee pays really well for the capture of that pesky Earthling that landed here minutes ago. Its easy money, you know how squishy and breakable Earthlings are." Marco's eyes widened, 'Toffee is still alive'.
"Hey do you smell that, the Earth like scent is coming from there", one of the monsters said.
'Shit they are on to me', Marco whispered. He then sprinted from the bush he was hiding and sprinted quickly. The monsters noticed this and began their pursuit of the bounty.
"Hey if you surrender quietly, we'll just bring you in without any damage to your person. If you don't well do take note that there are 3 of us and only one of you.", one of the monsters threatened.
He ignored their threatens and just kept running, he finally ended at a ditch impossible to jump over as he would break his legs if he was stupid enough to try it. The monsters finally caught up to him. They had greenish scales with yellow eyes. They were also 7 feet tall. "We have you surrounded and now you have no form of escape".
"I suppose so but I'm not going down without a fight. He assumed a fighting posture and the shoulders of the Monsters tensed up at the mention of a fight. "As you wish", all three of them spoke monotonously. Due to their massive size they were rather slow but they hit like a sledgehammer. One of them swung a punch towards Marco, he jumped high and kicked him right smack in the face.
However he did not grimace one bit as purple blood fell from his face. "Finally a challenge", he hissed. He tried to grab Marco, while two of his friends, Dumb and Dumber attempted to attack him from behind. He dodged to the side as the two Monsters slammed into the other dude causing both of them to seemingly crush the one Monster who growled in anger and with speed Marco couldn't seem to perceive he grabbed Marco and slammed him to the ground causing all the wind from his lungs to come out violently.
His eyes widened as blood seeped from his mouth. He was losing blood quickly and that was when he faded into his subconscious. He was met with a disembodied voice, the voice of Monster Arm. "Marco, Marco, Marco its been some time since we last met."
"What do you want Monster Arm?", Marco replied angrily remembering their last encounter.
"You're quick aren't you? Well its pretty simple actually, if you haven't noticed yet you were going to die and you still are but what if I told you that I could help you defeat this lizard and survive this ordeal."
Marco raised an eyebrow at the statement, "Really".
Monster arm knew he had piqued Marco's interest. "So what do you say Marco, willing to take up on my amazing offer".
Marco was about to agree but held back before asking, "What is the catch, how will I gain this power you speak of."
The Monster Arm merely chucked and said. "You aren't as dumb as you look kiddo, see there is a problem with you dying and that is if you die I die as well. And I'm not just going to stop, drop and die in the middle of fucking nowhere. Now the only problem I see you facing is that as a symbiotic being you will become part monster, roughly 15% or so if I estimate correctly."
"How is turning part monster going to help me in any way?", Marco asked.
"You see Marco, I was locked in the wand that Star uses, the spell she used was incredibly stupid yet it was also an unlocking spell to release me and I jumped on my first host in centuries. You could say that you were the perfect fit for me, this was why I was so adamant about being supressed and destroyed. I cant escape nor can you ever remove me as I have become one with you. The fact that I'm given more freedom means that you will be able to receive regenerative properties and inhuman strength".
Marco sighed as he resigned to his fate. "Very well Monster Arm."
"Thank you Marco, you will not regret this one bit." ,Monster Arm said with a grateful tone.
At that moment Marco regained consciousness as he felt stronger, stronger than he had ever felt in his entire life, even during the period in his 16 year adventure to get his dimension scissors. His iris still retained their caramel colour, however his pupils had an ethereal purple fire to them. He had a light purple tinge to his skin. He still felt the loss of blood but now it was dulled to a throb.
He focused his strength to his arms and he effectively grabbed onto the Lizards arms and snapped them, lacerations appeared on the lizards arms but the only pain he outwardly showed was a pained grunt. He then began to regrow the offending limb with quick speed. "Interesting, so you are part monster huh? Well lets see just how strong you are."
Marco raised an eyebrow at that statement wondering briefly how the Monster had known such a change. However those thoughts were forgotten as he saw the Lizard rush towards him at breakneck speed.
He cracked his knuckles and the Lizard Monster went for a slam to the ground. He went at a faster speed but Marco jumped as he punched the dirt and using a flip kick he kicked the Lizards head with enough force to crack his skull and slammed him into the dirt. As he laid on the ground, Marco gained a bloodlust in his eye as he kept pounding his fist into the Lizards skull which effectively stopped the regenerative properties and once he found something squishy he ripped it from the skull and smashed it to a bloody pulp. The Lizard Monster made no noise afterwards. He couldn't for he was dead. Marco spit at the bloody corpse of the Monster that nearly killed him and put his sticky and bloody hands into his half ripped hoody and walked away from the ditch whistling a merry tune.
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"Interesting, he has become more vicious in his fighting style, vicious and effective at killing and walks away without a care, whistling a merry tune. Potential Danger is high. Immediate neutralisation will be the most effective counter or a severe torture of the mind to completely wipe his mind of any feelings or emotion to create the perfect foot soldier. Oh the decisions are so wondrous. Must study further for future endeavours with subject.", a slightly insane scientist said.
"Assemble a strike team to get subject to the testing rooms, he is the key to winning this war. I will not tolerate failure on this mission.", said a frog who was formally called Ludo but now came by the Toffee.
"Understood Toffee", a general replied.
As he exited Toffee gave a small laugh and said, "Marvellous, everything is going according to plan and once we have that cursed boy this war will be won and the Monsters will finally have the last laugh over the bloody Mewnian scum."