A/N Hello everyone! Nothing to say at the moment. Enjoy

Chapter 2: Settling in

Mike looked around the Diaz residence and nodded. It was a nice home, well decorated. Spacious. Upon walking up to the house, Mike saw the tower protruding out of the house, no doubt due to Star. He shook his head then nodded, he knew that was something Star would do. The Diaz's, naturally, welcomed Mike with opened arms. They integrated him just as quickly as they did with Star. Star, of course, acted as his representative and spoke with the Diaz's about Mike's likes, dislikes, personality, and other things. However, this left Mike and Marco quite forgotten. They decided to take this moment to get to know each other.

"So you're her brother?" Marco asked.

"Until proven otherwise." Mike replied with a chuckle. Marco smiled.

"She's a great person."

"Isn't she? She really is interesting... When she's not burning the kingdom do ashes."

"What?"

"Oh, Nothing... Nothing. Anyway, My mother and father told me a bit about you before they departed back to mewni. Did you really wear a helmet in the shower-"

"We don't speak of that." Mike nodded in understanding.

"Got it."

"Can I ask you a question?"

"Can I give you an answer?"

"About your name... Couldn't your parents have just changed it when they got sober?" Mike sighed.

"No... In mewni, once a parent decides the name of their child, it's set in stone."

"Oh... Sorry man." Mike shrugged and waived it off.

"It's fine. I've gotten used to it."

"Another thing, why did you fall from the sky? Couldn't you have used the dimensional scissors?"

"I did."

"Huh?"

"I did. I mean, Star came in a horse drawn carriage, so I figured I'd one-up her. And so, capsule falling from the sky came to be."

"Seems kinda dramatic."

"Haven't you met my sister?"

"Fair enough." Marco replied. "One last thing."

"Yea?"

"Who's older?" Marco asked. Mike rubbed the back of his neck.

"We're twins actually... Same age down to the second. We don't fight over it too much though." Marco nodded. They bantered back and forth, getting to know each other more, until Star finished talking with Marco's parents and cantered over to the duo with her usual bubbly attitude.

"Good neeeeeews! Mr. and Mrs. Diaz agreed to let you stay!" She exclaimed.

"Oh, cool. Where am I gonna-" Mike began, but then Star waived her wand and spoke an incantation. Suddenly, a tower manifested out of the other end of the Diaz's house similar to Stars but with a green color palate to suit Mike's tastes. "...Sleep." He finished. Star grinned widely at them.

"Soooooo. What should we do now?" The princess asked.

"Hmm... Well, Since Mike is new, we could show him around town? He kinda did get a bad first impression with Ludo and everything." Marco suggested, but Mike waived it off.

"It was nothing. The guy is little more than a pest at this point." Star giggled. "But seeing more of this uh... Echo creek? That what you call it? Yea. I'd like that." Star and Marco smiled as he showed them around.

Later

"What's that?" Mike asked.

"That's a lamp." Marco replied.

"It produces light via electricity."

"What's that?" Mike pointed to something else.

"That's a traffic cone."

"What's a traffic?"

"It's plural for cars."

"Car?"

"It's a combustion-type machine that converts gasoline into power." Mike chuckled.

"Yea, you totally made that up."

"It's true!" Star piped up. "They also have this thing called a telly vision. It's this box that shows all sorts of cool stuff." She went into further detail, much to Mike's amazement. Marco smiled at the siblings. It was fun watching them gawk at things.

"They even have history books of our culture called 'fairy tales'." Star beamed.

"Really? Then why are they so amazed by magic? Clearly they know of this stuff." Marco tried to explain, but he wasn't getting through to them too well. He figured he had to try again later.

"Hmm... Getting kinda late. We should head home." Marco said.

"Really? It's not that late, safe kid." Marco rolled his eyes at Stars comment.

"Star." He said sternly. Star groaned and gave in.

"Fiiiiiiine... But you owe me an all-nighter out in the town!" She bargained. Marco shook on it and they headed home. Once there, they had diner, Mike getting to know Ralph and Angie a bit before Ralph declared it was time for bed. Mike helped Star and Marco with the dishes, something Star wanted to use magic for, but past offences made Marco stop her. After that, they all said goodnight to one another and headed to their respective room. Mike, Star, and Marco all settled into their bed and tried getting rest. They all had a feeling in their gut. Not a bad one. They just knew, that deep down, life was gonna get... Interesting.