II. It's gonna get a little wild.
"I told you there was something throwing rocks at the other side of the portal, Star"
"You don't have to tell me." Said Star with a hurt hand. She then grabbed the stone and threw it back through the portal.
"Are sure those are working properly?" she continued. "It doesn't look like it is going to the right place."
Star decided to peek through the portal and put her head through it. For her surprise, two people started to yell upon seeing her face.
"I told you your scissor are broken, Marco!" She said slightly angry, and came out of it. "Come, there's nothing to worry about! There are just two guys in here!"
Said her words, the Pines twins stopped screaming and Marco came in too. After which, the portal closed behind him.
"Wait," said Marco, "This isn't Echo Creek! Where are we?"
"You're in Piedmont, California," said Mabel. "Who are you? Where are you from? And why did you come out of the dimensional rift?"
"Well, I'm Star Butterfly, magical Princess of the Kingdom of Mewni. And this is Marco, my squire." She said with an enthusiasm to impress the twins. It didn't work on Dipper, but Mabel was amazed by it. "Who are you?"
"My name is Dipper. This girl in awe is my twin sister Mabel." He took a pause. "She is easily impressed."
"Give me your life!" said Mabel with a little whisper while admiring Star for being a magic princess with hearts on her cheeks.
Dipper snapped his fingers in front of his sister to recover her from her day dream.
"What are you doing here? And what was that rift?" he continued.
"The what?" Marco asked. "Oh! You mean the portal! We were going to Echo Creek to look for our friend Janna. But my dimensional scissors brought us here…" he said as he examined the scissors.
"Are you some sort of dimension hoppers or something?" Asked Mabel.
"Nope!" answered Marco, distracted by his dimensional scissors.
Dipper, ever suspicious, pulled away his sister to talk to her in private.
"I don't trust either of those. I bet she's not even a princess."
"C'mon, Dip. She has hearts on her cheeks. That could make her magical!"
"Those could be birth marks. The fact they claim to control rifts worries me. They could bring back Bill, or anything worse if that's even possible."
They turned around to see what they were doing. Marco was inspecting the scissors he carried and Star was fooling around turning every stone she found. The cat found her. It seemed she wanted to give it an eye, much like Mabel, but it didn't like either and started attacking her and she screamed.
"Haha," Mabel laughed. "It's funny when that doesn't happen to me!"
But Dipper's expression kept immutable.
"I believe I got this," said Marco slightly unsure if he did or not. He opened a new unusually white portal, which scared the twins a little bit. "Come on in, Star, let's- OW!"
He couldn't cross through the portal and only fell backwards.
"Oh my gosh, Marco!" Star rushed to help her friend up, leaving the cat alone. "Are you OK?"
As he was getting up, letters started to appear on the portal and pushed Marco aside to pay attention to it. Marco fell down to the ground again with a loud "ouch!" Mabel this time helped him up.
"Sorry for the inconvenience," Star began to read. "Dimensional scissors and other media to travel between dimensions are currently off-line due to an unexpected bug. Please remain in your home dimension while the service is restored. Signed H."
"What?!" said an incredulous Marco. "Are we stuck here?! What is it that bug so important that Hekapoo had to shut down inter-dimensional travel?"
"I don't know, but we need to find out. At least Hekapoo explained why we never got to Janna…"
"He-ga-who?" asked Mabel intrigued.
"Hekapoo." Answered Marco. "She is the magical entity designated to create dimensional scissors. I spent 16 years chasing her down to earn this ones."
"You don't look that much older than us." Said extremely confused Mabel. "Were you chasing her since you were like a baby or something?"
"It's a long story." He replied. "I'm actually almost 31 years old. But when I left her dimension, I returned to being my 14-year-old self again."
A few moments of silence were made. The twins were unsure what to do but neither believed the guy in front of them was more than double their age, whereas Marco and Star were trying to think how to get back to either Echo Creek or Mewni.
As time went on, Dipper felt more convinced that these two other guys were genuinely stuck and meant no harm to anyone.
"Let me try this." Said Star.
She grabbed her wand, and made an ample circle around her by spinning on one foot.
"Returnio Scissorum Normalrino!"
She raised her arm and then lowered it pointing towards the scissors. A green blast came out of her wand and hit them. Mabel and Dipper were impressed by the spell, mostly Mabel. They were starting to get fully convinced she was indeed magical.
Marco grabbed the scissors and tried it again. The portal was once again that white color.
"No. It didn't work." Said a bummed Marco.
Once again, letters appeared, though this time the message was different.
"Nice try, Star. But this isn't gonna work. This is much more dangerous than you may think and I don't want you, or Marco around. DON'T LOOK FOR ME! Signed Hekapoo."
"Oh, what?!" exclaimed Star in her disbelief. "I got rid of Toffee and yet I can't help her?"
"I spent years chasing her and I'm not coming either?!" exclaimed Marco annoyed. "Not like Nachos and I haven't gone through bad stuff already!"
"Who's Nachos?" asked Dipper.
"Who's Toffee?" asked Mabel.
"Nachos is my dragon-cycle," Marco responded, "and Toffee was the most dangerous Septarian, a lizard-like person, ever who plotted to get Star's wand, destroy all magic, whatever. It's actually a really long story. But I'd rather find a way to return home!"
Mabel giggled a little upon hearing the explanation about Toffee.
"Sorry, it's just that an evil lizard named 'Toffee' doesn't seem too threatening."
"I wouldn't be so sure." Said Dipper, "after knowing what Bill could do and actually did I don't think that there is anything ridiculous with a villain's name anymore."
"Anyway. Do you need our help?" said Mabel after a few seconds
"How could you help?" asked Star. "Unless you have some way to access a really big magic source that you could draw power from, then I don't see how you could?"
"We don't have magic, answered Dipper, "but we once fixed a time traveling that looks like a measuring tape with a screwdriver." Then he pulled out a screwdriver out of his pocket.
Marco and Star, knowing nothing worse could, theoretically, happen they gave him the scissors.
He started to twist the screw in hopes that this could help them return to wherever they came from. It looked like he was doing something to the scissors with each turn that tightened the screw.
"They look pretty tight to me!" he said. "Test this out."
Marco grabbed his scissors and started to cut open a new portal. He did struggle to do so, as they were a little on the tight side.
"It was hard, but you did it, Dipper!" Said Marco. "I could open it to Echo Creek so we can go to Janna!"
"It did work!" exclaimed Star. "I can see Skullnick over there! She's our teacher." She explained to the twins.
"Well, thank-" Started to say Marco when the portal started to collapse and sucked everyone in there.
Mabel pulled out her grappling hook and tried to shoot it to get herself and her brother to stay, but the portal was too quick and got dragged before she could pull the trigger.
Star, Marco, Dipper and Mabel all screamed as they headed towards the portal. Sure Dipper felt like he had messed up this time. The twins had each other by their side, which is mostly what they would ever want in such a situation. But this time everyone else was far away should they need any back-up and weren't so sure how could they return back to Piedmont.
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