Ok, ya dicknuts. This chapter took me forever but whatever. I need to stop writing these in physics class... But I've been getting some pretty overwhelming support on this so that's been giving me some drive I've never felt before. I started the comic on sunday and already have over 400 views on this bad boy. You guys are the best, you know that?
Now for reviews:
SpaceDwarf- Thanks, those little time skip comments were fun to write, glad you're still enjoying it
Anonymims- Well that's exactly what I was going for so thank you!
Aaaand that's it. Enjoy!
Chapter 4
Substance of Energy
"And remember, Star, if you ever come to a football game it's ONLY a game. Not a fight to the death."
Star nodded her head in agreement, completely fascinated by the culture Marco had been describing to her for the last few hours. After what had happened a few days ago at Star's first day of school Marco had decided he would teach Star how to be human and what better way to do that than using up a perfectly good Saturday.
"You guys have some weirdly complicated sports. Sure isn't like Flags back home."
"Flags?"
"Oh yeah, whenever my family gets together we always play it. We beat each other up as we try to make it to the top of this really big and dangerous mountain and whoever places their flag at the top wins."
"That sounds barbaric... and super dangerous. Remind me never to go to one of your family reunions."
Just outside Star's bedroom window was a tree. It was a fine tree and Star admired it everyday. Today, however, as Star was distracted by Marco she didn't see the little pair of binoculars pointed towards the window that hung from this very tree. What's worse is the monster that was holding them: a frog-like humanoid monster with one heck of a pot belly.
Though this activity of peeping through other peoples' windows was illegal in this country, Yvgeny wasn't from here. He wasn't from this dimension at all. And as he pulled out his pair of scissors and discretely jumped through the portal he cut open with them, he was back in his own.
Yvgeny worked for a little man, or monster, and was just about to go and report his findings. Inside the castle, where his boss resided, was obsidian black walls charred from the torches that line them. Intricate stairways and masterfully designed corridors led the frog man to the throne room. Upon the throne sat his boss, Ludo.
Ludo, as many know him, is a little over a foot tall with a head three times as wide as his waist. No one's quite sure how he manages to hold it up.
"Ludo, master, I have returned with news!"
Yvgeny's russian accent echoed throughout the room. Ludo looked up, pleased. As he spoke an annoyingly high and raspy voice came forth.
"What is this news you have brought me?"
"The princess has finally been located. I apologize for such delay, but the Earth dimension is rather large. We've found her in nation designated as America around the south west border. I believe they called the area California."
"Excellent work, Buff Frog" Yvgeny scoweled at this name. "I mean, really, that's some professional work right there. Now to execute the next phase of the plan. We must infiltrate the dimension, find the exact location of the wand, and use it to lure the girl back here."
"But who will we use for that? We need someone small, discrete."
"Yes, you're right. But I have just the man for the job."
Time skip, timmity time skip
If you've ever seen a fly magnified up close and reacted with some degree of disgust then congradulations, you're normal. If you've ever seen a 2 foot tall fly man then you'd be normal for reacting in the same way.
Boo Fly buzzed up to Star's bedroom window, ready to assess the scene. Two people, one of them's gonna need to go to the bathroom giving him the oportunity to lure the other one out. He flew down to the ground once more and picked up a rock. Perfect.
As if on cue the princess stood up from the bed and made her way over to the bathroom. Now was his chance. He open the window slowly and threw the rock. It sailed past Marco's head and hit the wall just outside the door. Marco, having heard this, was curious enough to get up and check it.
The second he was outside the door Boo Fly shut it. Marco, confused by this, tried the door knob. Locked.
"Oh, ha ha, Star. Very funny. If you didn't want to do this you could've just told me."
He looked down at the stone in his hand and shrugged, walking back to his room.
Meanwhile, Boo Fly conducted his search in the room. By the time he heard the toilet flush his hand had wrapped around the wand's hilt. He had just enough time to leave a pre-written note in the weird sack with straps on it, open up a portal and jump through before the bathroom door had reopened.
Failure to worship the time skip is punishable by death. By octopus.
Ludo let out a maniacal laugh as he saw the wand in front of him.
"Boo Fly, you really know how to stay incognito. Well done. Is the note placed?"
"Yezzir."
"Excellent. Now, we wait..."
"But wait, boss." Yvgeny spoke up from the side of the throne. "Why must we lure her at all? Wouldn't it be better to just use the wand now before she shows up to ruin it? Or to just find way to keep girl in Earth dimension?"
"Ah, I knew someone would ask that eventually. But she's not the only one we need to worry about. That king and queen aren't just figureheads, you know. We need to render them powerless, and what better way to do that then showing them their dead daughter!" He began to laugh again as he proclaimed it.
"That is... that is evil..." Yvgeny was rather disturbed by this, having always wanting to be a father. "But definitely sound effective."
"Of course it's effective, you dolt! I thought of it. Right, Boo Fly?"
"Yez, boss."
What's this? What's this? Another timely skip.
"Marco!"
Star rushed into Marco's room without knocking.
"Marco Marco Marco Marco!"
"What!? Oh my god, what is it!? What's so important that you have to come in unannounced?"
"This!"
She threw the letter over at Marco and it flittered down to his lap. He picked it up and read it aloud.
Dearest Star,
Your wand has been forcibly taken into our custody. Any attempts at taking it back are fully discouraged as well as futile. Should you gain the courage to try and take it back you will be met with very violent backlash.
Yours Truly
Ludo
"Ludo? You know this guy?"
"Yeah, I don't know what's up with him. He's been hounding my family over god knows what for the longest time. I've beaten his and his minions' butts plenty of times before, though."
"Well I can assume this guy is back in your dimension then, right?"
"Oh yeah, definitely. He's got this wicked castle and everything."
"Well how do you suppose we'll get there then? Weren't you denied from bring those weird scissor things?"
"Oh yeah, but I- wait, I didn't even ask you to help me yet."
"Yeah, well, it seems like this wand is extremely important to you so I thought it'd be worth retrieving."
"Awwwww, that's so sweet. Come with me!"
She grabbed Marco's wrist and pulled him off the bed. She led him back to her room and ran up to the bureau. Inside the lowest drawer stuck in the back was a large, gleaming, elegant pair of scissors. With them she cut a slit right into the time space continuum itself and widened it, pulling Marco through with only a moment's protest.
Here it is. Time skip? Time skip.
Back in Ludo's castle he no longer sat on the throne. Instead, he paced back and forth in thought. He had placed the wand on a pedestal some distance in front of the entrance and was waiting. The other monsters stood along the walls ready to attack at any time. The second Ludo finally thought of something to say to his men he was interrupted by the doors. Not because they burst open or anything. No it was because there was a gentle knock at the door. He motioned to one of his men, a creature by the name of Bearicorn, to go and check it. Just as the bear... unicorn... thing reached his hand out to grab the door latches it swung open, smacking the monster in the face and causing him to fall over completely unconscious.
Ludo jumped at this. "Well, isn't that some way to make an entrance."
"Can it, Ludo!" Star rushed in through the door. "Where did you put my wa- oh there it is."
Upon seeing the wand on the pedestal she extended a hand and ran for it. Marco, on the other hand, saw Ludo snap his fingers signaling another monster to attack. Star had yet to see this.
"Star! Watch out!"
She looked up to see a giraffe-like monster running at her full force. She hadn't the time to react as it slammed her away with its body. She flew backwards right back into Marco who barely managed to catch her. Star placed her hand to her face. Bloody nose.
Ludo smirked. "I told you not to come, Star Butterfly. Get them!"
The rest of the monsters rushed the door, ready to attack. Star got into a stance, ready to fight for her birthright back. What she wasn't really expecting was to see Marco do the same. And it was at this point that the fight had started. Monsters flew, bones seemed to break, and the wand had yet to be taken.
As Marco swung his foot into the neck of the giraffe-like monster he saw a possibility to grab the wand.
"Star! I'm gonna boost you over the chicken!"
Star nodded in agreement of this plan and ran over to him. She she leaped onto Marco's waiting hands and was sprung up over the chicken. She landed just in front of the pedestal and grabbed her beloved heirloom.
"Marco! Get out of there!"
He looked over to Star and, a little confused on what she might do, rolled out under a monster's arm and dodged another. When he was out of the way Star prepared her spell.
"NARWHAL BLAST!"
A large beam of blue light inhabited by tiny happy narwhals blasted from the face of the wand and practically wiped the floor with the other beings standing upon it. When the beam blew out Star turned around and faced Ludo.
"Didn't want me to come, huh? Guess you just didn't want to get your butts kicked."
Ludo's face sulked down as he realized how stuck in a rut he was at the moment. Marco's face, on the other hand, was frozen in awe having never seen anything like that before.
"Yeah, yeah, you win again. Whatever. Now get out of here."
"Gladly." She pulled out the scissors and opened another portal. Before the two friends jumped through the portal Marco reached into his hoodie pocket abd found the rock from earlier. He took it out and threw it at Ludo, nailing him in the head. Star and Marco left while laughing.
Ludo got up, rubbing his forhead, and looked around at his men and sighed.
"Plan B is never going to work with another kid..."
Hey guess what. I bet you didn't expect a TIME SKIP!
"What on Earth was that!?"
"I think you mean, Mewni. Not Earth."
"I don't care right now! What was that? Is that what your magic can do?"
"Oh that? Yeah. Pretty cool, right?"
"Cool!? That was awesome! I can't believe you can do that! I didn't even know something like that was possible!"
"Well it works here in your dimension, too, y'know. Here watch."
After looking around the room to make sure no one else was watching she pointed the wand at the ground and in a puff of pink smoke spawned 8 adorable little puppies.
"Star! You know you're not supposed to do that!"
"I know but look! Magic~" She put emphasis on the last part with her little singsong voice. "You know what that means?"
"That we're going to get in major trouble for that?"
"No, silly, it means there's magical energy on Earth, too! That wouldn't work if there wasn't."
"Wait, really? That's awesome!"
"YEEAAaaahhhh..." Star was unable to keep this last exclamation up as the adrenaline started to wear off. Her knees buckled and she collapsed on the bed.
"Star!?" Marco ran over to her. "You alright?"
"Yeah, just kinda... winded. That narwhal blast took a lot out of me."
"Ok, well, take it easy for the rest of the day. We'll pick up the lesson tomorrow."
"Right right..." She turned onto her side and laid on the bed, exhausted.
As Marco left the room one of the puppies followed behind him. Before he realized it the damned thing shot a laser out of its eye right into Marco's leg.
"Ow! Hey!" He looked back at the dog and froze.
"Well that's... strange..."
Rightio, hope you guys liked this one. It took me forever to write because chunks of it kept getting deleted. RIP my life ;-;
Also, lasers usually don't cause physical harm unless either aimed at the eye or unless they're super highly charged or magnified or something like that but by then they're causing fires and shit so I just didn't feel like changing that about the dogs. Hope you guys like me not making Ludo such a dumbass as he's shown in the show. I feel it's unnecessary.
Daily reminder that I'm always open to suggestions. I currently have just about 10 chapters planned out with major plot points but I don't want every chapter to be heavy on plot.
