Pre-A/N:
Hey Guys, This chapter is the revise version of the episode "School Spirit". I inserted a few changes on it and inserted a new character but not an OC. Hope you like it!
It's a beautiful day in the small town of Echo Creek, birds are singing, flowers are blooming, a great day to play football. The students of Echo Creek Academy gathers up in the football field for a pep rally before their annual football game against the other schools. The signs and banners had been raised and have messages written like "PLEASE TRY!", "GO TEAM!", and "DON'T PLAY DEAD!". The students were silently hoping that this year, it won't be yet another tragic loss for their beloved team: The Awesome Opossums.
In the bleachers, the energetic and cheerful girl, Star Butterfly, is excited for yet another event while the precautions safe prince was staring curiously at her. Kelly and their moth teacher, Miss Heinous was sitting beside the two. The moth teacher was holding a bucket of fried chicken and devouring them easily by her snapping jaw.
"It's another school event! I'm so excited!" Star said cheerfully.
"Why are you so excited? What is this event?" Marco asked. The girl stared at him in disbelief before speaking. "Marco, I can't believe that you aren't excited at all! It's a pep rally! Your first pep rally and you're not thrilled?! What is wrong with you?!" She angrily shouted
"Um... What exactly is a pep rally?" Marco asked in confusion.
"Oh, it's just a normal event before the big battle. Don't mind Star, she's just overreacting. She does that every event." Kelly said reassuringly at the prince. Before Marco could ever ask what the big battle is, Miss Heinous decided to shush them. "Could you shut your mouths? The event is about to start!" She shouted as she took another drumstick and ate it quickly. The kids stared at her in disgust and fear.
"Aren't the chickens supposed to be eating moths? Not the other way around." Kelly stated.
"What's the good of life, if you let the rules in the way." The moth teacher replied.
"Wow Star, you really changed her." Marco said in amazement. The girl's only reply was a shushing sound and putting a finger at his lip.
The principal climbed up the stage and began to speak. "Hello Echo Creek Academy." Principal Gemini greeted by a microphone. "Let me introduce you to our quarterback, our best player, our possible savior from loses and whose parents gave a generous amount of cash, I mean, school donation. The one and only: Justin Amberg!" He shouted as a group of cheerleader climbed up to the stage followed by a male blonde quarterback and the sports team.
"Go Go, Echo Creek! Let's try not to get beat! Go Go, Echo Creek! Let's try not to get beat! Go Justin! Go Justin! Bring us our first win!" The cheerleaders chanted as they danced rhythmically. The boy named Justin took the microphone from the principal, and turned to the crowd. "Hello, Echo Creek! Everyone who loves Awesome Opossum make some noise!" He shouted. The audience began cheering and shouting, even Star joined them. Marco stared curiously at them.
"What's a possum?" He asked.
"Oh, possums are adorable animals that live in the forest. I love them! They carry their babies on their backs! Also they bite and scratch." Star stated. Kelly just chuckled at her.
"Star, You know Justin's talking about our football team, right? We're going up against the Warriors." The green haired girl said.
"Warriors?" Marco said curiously.
"Our nemesis from Silver Hill Prep. Every year, those ruthless bastards slaughter our team." Kelly said
"The field is gonna be flooded with blood." Miss Heinous said as she ate whole chicken.
"Yeah! It's gonna be a bloody bloody bloodbath!" Star shouted as she laughed evilly.
"That's Terrible! We must do something to protect the team." Marco said. Though he was cut by an emotional speech by Justin.
"Echo Creek have suffered tragic loses every year, from our rivals; The savage Warriors. Those ruthless barbarians always beat us in our own game but now we will finally claim the victory, and I, Justin Amberg, will be the one who will lift the team's curse!" He said.
The crowd erupted to cheers and applauses at the quarterback, while Marco and Kelly are not impressed. "Their doomed." The green haired girl stated.
"Star, where can I get the strategies and defenses of the team to prevent them from being crushed? I need to know so I can help them!" The prince said at the blonde girl.
"If you want to help them go to the Spirit Committee. Well, you could join them. Those kids are really determined and relentless when it comes to supporting the team." Star said.
"Thanks, that's all I need." Marco said as he stood up from where he was seated. "Are you coming?" He asked
"Nah, I'll rather relax today. Also, I want to finish the event. So, this one's all yours safe prince." The Earth girl said.
"Okay" Marco answered, then he went near to Miss Heinous. "Hey, Miss H, What's your favorite weapon?" He whispered. "Spiked Mace" The teacher replied
"Eh, I'll rather use swords." He said to himself as he left.
"And now, our new mascot... that I never approved of or got anything to do with... The Awesome Opossum!" Justin shouted as their team mascot entered the field, it's a student in a possum costume.
"Hey people, make some noise for awesome opossum!" The Mascot shouted. Star stared at the possum in confusion.
"Wait, why do we have a mascot all of a sudden? What happened to the real possums?" She asked.
"The possum had gone to a better place, Star." Kelly said sadly
"What do you mean? Did it ran off again?" The blonde girl asked
"No Star, What I mean is that, it's dead." The green haired girl said
"Dead-dead or possum-dead?" Star asked
"Dead- dead" Kelly replied.
There was a few moments of silence that take place between them until the blonde girl decided to break it.
"By the way, who's our new mascot?" Star asked. Then a few seconds later, the mouth of the Awesome Opossum's costume pulls back to reveal Lilacia's face. The two girls stood surprised.
"Wait, is that Pony?!" Star asked.
"Yes, she is! You know how she wanted some attention." Kelly stated
"Then why a mascot? She could be a cheerleader if she wants attention." The blonde girl said.
"You know that Brittney is a brat!" The green haired girl said
"You have a point but that doesn't mean that we could let her act stupidly in front of a large crowd." Star stated "I know we'll change her appearance so she would look fabulous on the field!" She said
"Star, I don't think she's gonna like the ideaaaa!" Kelly said as she was dragged by her friend.
Meanwhile on the gym, the cheerleaders and the school committee (and Justin) was preparing for the upcoming game when suddenly the doors of the gym flew open revealing Marco. Then he walked straight to Brittney to talk to her 'defense strategies'.
"So what's the plan? How will you stop the warriors from slaughtering our team?" He asked
Brittney smirked as she gestured the cheerleaders to their position. "This is how we will. We're gonna distract them with the booty shake dance!" She said as the cheerleaders began shaking their booties. The Prince embarrassingly covers his eyes to prevent seeing the inappropriate gesture.
"Are you seriously out of your minds?! How will that help our team?! This is war! A matter of life and death! And the only thing you're going to do is to shake your butts?! Seriously?! I know some fighting skills taught to me by the royal guards and I can teach the team, at least it's better than your questionable leadership and maybe even sanity!" He stated.
The cheer captain looked offended by his statement as she growled at him. "I know on planet "Tir-ra" or wherever it is you're from, it may be okay to be stupid, but no pesky magical freak is gonna question my leadership! You are officially banned from the spirit committee!" She shouted.
"First of all, its Terra not "Tir-ra" and its a dimension not a planet. And second, I'm just trying to help save the team by actual plans not like this stupid jokes! Third, I am a royalty, you have no right to shout at me in the face! I am respected in my place and I demand to be respected here!" Marco angrily blurted out.
Brittney flinched, but Justin snarled at him. "Hey! You have no right to shout at her like that! You may be able to do things in your place but this is my turf and you can't do that here! Now go out and never return!" Justin shouted as he pointed to the door. The prince angrily stomped out of the room. "Fine, I'll do it my way." he said to himself.
"Hey, Prince Cuckoopants, got kicked out by the Committee? Don't mind them they're just rude jerks." A voice said from behind him. He turned around to see the school Trouble Maker, Tom. Tom was a boy quite taller than him, the boy has a spiked salmon-colored hair but two of the spikes were taller than the others and were colored light brown. He stared mischievously at the prince.
"What do want, Tom?" Marco asked.
"Hey, just like you I just want to help the team and prove those jerks that they're wrong." Tom said "So what's the plan?"
"I don't know. Maybe we should ask Star for ideas." The prince said
"Oh, it would be great to see Starship again!" The trickster said happily.
"Didn't she broke up with you because you've got anger issues?" Marco asked.
"Just shut up and let's go." Tom said as the boy left to find Star.
A few seconds later, Tom and Marco was sneaking in the hallway. The prince was doing exaggerated motions like rolling and pointing finger guns, while Tom just walked beside him. The salmon-haired boy was annoyed by the prince's antics.
"Alpha Team one, commencing ultimate stop the Warriors plan. Over." The Prince said
"Do you really need to do that? Seriously dude, I'm right beside you!" The troublemaker stated.
Marco just ignored him and continued rolling on the ground. After a few seconds, they reached the trophy case, which ironically, don't contain any trophy at all.
"Oh, Hi Marco." A certain voice that suddenly caught the prince off guard. He falls over and saw the innocent face of Star Butterfly staring at him.
"Oh Hey, Star." Marco greeted, while in an awkward position.
"Hey, Starship! It's been a while." Tom greeted as he stretched his arms wide open, expecting a hug from the blonde girl, however, Star just ignores him.
"Marco, why are you rolling in the floor? And why are you with Tom?" She asked.
"To look cool. And also, Tom and I are planing a huge defense for our team. Got any ideas?" The prince asked as he stood up.
"Well, if I knew anything about football, I'd use the element of surprise." The blonde girl stated. Marco took out a pen and a notepad and started scribbling her ideas. "Shock them! Bring out the guard dogs and release the dogs of war!" She continued.
"Of course, of course, of course..." The prince muttered to himself as he wrote down the ideas.
"Maybe even throw a couple big bombs!" Star said.
"Oh yes! Bombs! Classic." Marco stated.
"And if things don't get the way it is planned, put some knights in rusty armors and that classic mean old dragon guarding the goal." Tom said with a sly smile.
"Actually, that's a good one, Tom. Now come on, we have a team to protect and a trophy to win!" Marco said as he crouched down and continued rolling. "We have an all-clear. Move! Move! Move!" He said as he rolled away.
"Dude, Seriously, stop that!" Tom said as he followed the prince.
Star grinned as both boys went away. "Well, time to check on the school mascot." She said as she also left.
A few momments later, Star reached the Butterfly residence and enters her room. Inside the room, Kelly tries to put some make up on Lilacia but she refuses.
"Hey girls, are you done yet?" Star asked
"Not yet, Star. Apparantly someone here doesn't like the powder" Kelly said
"Uh uh, I'm not gonna put on some of that stuff, I like my natural beauty." Lilacia said.
"But Pony, it will look good on you!" The blonde girl insisted as she tried to put some of the stuff on the redhead's face but Lilacia refused.
"I said no!" She protested as she stood up from her chair and walked away "Get that thing away from me!" She shouted.
"Oh, come on! You'll need it! It will be useful to you!" Star said as she chased her friend. "No! Get that thing away from me!" Lilacia shouted as she ran away from Star.
Kelly just let out a sigh and followed the two. "Why are these two so stuborn to each other?" She said to herself.
On the meantime, Marco and Tom found some stray dogs in a nearby dumpster alley. The prince is planning to use the dogs for thier plan.
"Um, can you guys be a part of my guard dogs for the team?" He politely asked. The dogs just barked at him as a reply.
"Ok, maybe not." The prince said as he backed away but Tom prevented him from retreating.
"Are you seriously kidding me?! Man up, safe prince. Show this dogs whose the boss." The troublemaker said as he shoved the prince at the wild canines. There were a few sound crunches and bright ligths filled the alley before the prince came out covered it bites and bruises but with a victorious smile.
"It's all done!" he gladly said. Tom also smiled at him and said "Good job." then they left.
Back on the Butterfly Residence, Star still haven't given up as she tied Lilacia to a chair.
"Why do you keep doing this, Star?" The redhead asked.
"To stop you from being stupid." The blonde girl replied.
"It looks like you're the one making me look stupid!" Lilacia stated.
"You better watch you're mouth, if you don't want me to ruin your face." Star stated threateningly.
However, a sudden knock on the window and someone calling her name, caught Star's attention. She opened the binds of the window revealing Marco on a ladder while holding what seems to be a bottle of flameable liquid.
"Hey, Star. Do you know where to find some ancient armors?" He asked.
"Check the museum, down the street. Maybe they got what you're looking for." The blonde girl replied.
"Thanks!" The prince said as he carefully stepped down the ladder and left.
Star closed the binds and turned to her friends.
"So where are we? Oh right, I was gonna-" She stopped as she realized that her friend escaped while she was talking to Marco.
"Hey, get back here!" She shouted to no one in particular as she ran out of the room.
At the moment, Marco and Tom reached the museum. They wandered all around and found three average sized armors and one spiked giant one. "Jackpot!" The boys gladly fistbumped each other.
"Now all we need is a dragon." The prince said.
"Uh, dude?" The trouble maker said as he looked upwards in amazement.
"What?" Marco asked. Tom pointed upwards. When the prince looked up, he saw a paper chinese dragon hanging on the ceiling.
"Perfect!" The prince exclaimed as he pointed his scepter and blasted a powerful ray.
(Time Skip)
Nightfall on the football field, Marco and Tom finished setting up their defenses and the prince turned his scepter into a football, to disguise it (even though its colorful as a rainbow, literally.). On the field, the Warriors warm up for the game. One of them cracks his neck and laughs. The Opossums watch in fear, but Justin was still arrogant and determined. Then the girls arrived, Star still tries to put the powder on Lilacia but inevitably fails.
While Lilacia started practice cheering, Star decided to talk to Marco.
"Hey Marco, Whatcha' doin?" She asked the prince.
"Oh hey, Star. We just finished setting the defenses for the team. Look." Marco said as he showed the blonde girl to their 'defenses'. The field was filled with bombs, whirlpools and dart shooting totems. Star observed them carefully.
"Wow, that's pretty dangerous for a game defense." She stated.
"What do you mean game? I thought we were going to war?" Marco asked in a confused manner.
"Oh I haven't told you what football is yet, haven't I? Footballs is just a game where two teams fight over the ball to bring it to the enemy's base and shout "Touchdown!"" The blonde girl stated.
"What?! Why didn't you tell me, Tom?!" Marco shouted.
"You know, you didn't ask." The troublemaker answered.
The prince was about to burst out in anger but he calmed himself. "Okay, there's no need to freak out, I still got everything under control." He said as he raised his magical football, which is really his scepter. While dancing, Lilacia accidentally whips the magical thing causing it to land on the field, right on the football's place. Before they can get it, the referee blew the whistle. They were too late, the game was about to start!
"Oh no! What have I done?" The prince said as he watched a warrior kicked the magical football, much to his horror. The force was strong enough to set off the bomb under the ball, causing it to explode and send the warrior flying in the air. When the audience and the teams saw what happened, chaos ensues.
"Oh no, this is not what I've planned!" The prince shouted in panic.
"Are those bombs gonna kill them?" Kelly asked.
"No, of course not. The bombs are just gonna knocked them unconscious. The same goes for the darts." The prince said.
"Well, this is pretty awesomely dangerous for a safe prince." Star stated
"Is that an insult or a compliment?" Marco asked
"Both" Tom said.
"Well, we don't have time for that." Marco said as he rushed to the field while the gang followed behind him.
On the field, the teams were running into every direction while setting off random explosions. One warrior, accidentally tripped on a tripwire, thus releasing the hidden fire hounds, making the situation worse.
Three black fire hounds rised from a pit and a large three headed one followed them. The gang looked at them in awe.
"What is Cerberus doing in here?" Tom asked as he looked at the three headed dog monster.
"That's not Cerberus, it's just a three headed fire hound. Cerberus is still in the Underworld with Janna and it is much meaner like its owner." Marco stated.
The Warriors was about to forfeit when their leader stop them. "Listen up, we are not gonna leave. For years, we beat those losers up, because we're WARRIORS. We're not gonna let the losers win and we're not gonna let this freaky magical things get in the way of our victory. It's either we fight till the end or accept being losers. I chose to fight and now who is with me?!" The leader shouted and the Warriors cheered in approval. Then they charged at the fire hounds to get the ball.
During their attack, one of the monster dogs throws the magical object in the air then coincidentally lands on Marco, who is trying to avoid the bombs. When the warriors spotted the magical football in the prince's hand, they attempted to dog pile on him, but the prince just sidestepped away from danger, literally.
"Seriously? we're in a middle of a disaster and this guys still care about the game? Come on!" Marco stated.
"This game is really important for them. It's their way of showing us that we'll be forever losers." Star said.
Marco looked at the magical item, then he looked at the audience's hopeless faces and suddenly remembered the empty trophy case in the halls. Then a crazy idea entered his mind.
"Hey guys, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" He asked
"I dunno, what were you thinking?" Star replied in question
"You guys ready to play some football?" The prince asked. The gang all smiled at him.
"Count me in." Kelly said.
"Like you would have to ask." Tom stated.
"Let's get on with it already." Lilacia shouted excitedly.
Marco looked at Star and the girl smiled softly at him. "Let's do it!" She said, encouraging the prince even more.
"Well then, lets play football." He said as black ink came out of his royal mole and formed a football shape at his cheek.
Then they ran separately on the field, Marco tried be careful not to step on a landmine while evading the Warriors charging at him, causing them to land on the bombs. However, when the warriors outnumber him, he decided to throw the ball.
"Catch it, Pony Possum!" He shouted as he threw the ball across the field. Lilacia lept from the ground and caught the magical ball at midair.
Then she ran across the dart-shooting totems, the costume's thick skin prevented the darts from affecting her. But the Warriors doesn't just give up, they chased her and was gaining on her. "Wow, these guys doesn't know when to give up, don't they?" She said to herself. She tried to find away to get rid of them and luckily, she found a powder in her costume, that was secretly hidden by Star.
She smirked as she threw the powder at the warriors, creating a cloud of pink smoke and blinding the warriors. Coincidentally, totem poles rised from the ground and shot the football players, thus knocking them unconscious.
"Well, what do know? They do come in handy!" Lilacia said in amazement. "Well now it's your turn B-fly! Catch." She said as she passed the ball to her companion.
"Thanks, Pony!" Star delightedly said to her friend, Lilacia gave her a thumbs up. The blonde girl then jumped over the whirlpools in the field. The warriors charged at her but she leapt over them and hopped on their heads to reach the other sides.
When she reached the other side, four warriors charged at her and she screamed in terror.
"Hey, leave my Starship alone!" Tom said as he tackled the warriors and surprisingly curb stomped them.
"Way to go, Tom!" Kelly cheered.
"Yeah, thanks Tom!" Star said with a smile. Tom gave her a thumbs up in return.
"Okay, your turn Kelly." The blonde girl said as she tossed the ball to the green haired girl.
Kelly ran fast across the field with the magical football in hand. But is confronted by an obstacle, this time it's not Warriors... but it's much worse, all the fire hounds charged at her. However, despite the situation, she just smirked, as if nothing was wrong.
Kelly threw the ball upwards and jumped towards the dangerous demon dogs charging at her. She stepped on one's head, karate chopped the adjacent dog, elbowed the other, back kicked the dog where she was standing, and delivered a roundhouse kick to the three headed dog while jumping at mid air, thus knocking all of the demon dogs in the process. And when she landed, the ball landed straight on her hands. The audience and the teams, stared with their jaws dropped on her performance. After a few moments of silence, the students of Echo Creek let out a loud applause for the gang. The gang smiled at the appreciation of the crowd and started to reassemble.
"Okay, great job team. We're starting to win!" Marco exclaimed.
"Yes! By the way, Kelly what you did out there was freaking awesome!" Star gladly shouted. Kelly gave her a friendly salute.
"There is only one more obstacle standing in our way to victory." Tom stated.
"Pffft! What? The knights in rusty armors? Please." The blonde girl confidentially said.
Then the armors confront them, they aren't much threatening much to Star's delight.
"Piece of cake." The blonde girl said in delight. Then the large heavy armor arrived, it was black and full of spikes posing threateningly at the team.
"Okay, large piece of cake. But still a piece of cake." Star said. Kelly gave the ball to Marco. The whole team smirked at the obstacle.
"Let's do this!" They all said in unison. As they all charged at the knights, with an exception of Marco. Tom tackled one with ease, Kelly jump kicked another with the help of Lilacia, and Star was spin thrown by Marco at the knight.
The heavy black knight was quite larger than the others, so they can't defeat it in one hit, but doesn't stopped them from trying. After all, they don't need to take it down they just need to stall time for Marco to get pass. Tom tackled one the legs of the armor, Lilacia jumped at the arm an used her weight to outbalance it, Kelly took the armor's weapon thus preventing it from fighting back while Star repeatedly kicked the head/helmet. Creating the time needed by the prince to pass.
"Go for it, Safe Prince!" The troublemaker said, encouraging the prince to go on.
"Yeah, we're always be right behind you, Marco!" The blonde stated.
"Thanks guys, you're the best!" Marco stated as he ran towards the base to make the victory touchdown. The audience cheered for him.
Seeing that the prince was getting all the attention, Justin became envious and chased the prince, to take the ball and make the finishing touchdown. He tried catch up with Marco but he was too far away. Marco, however, was oblivious that the football star was trying to take the ball nor that the star was following him after all.
Marco was focused, he was enduring, he was determined to finish the game, not for his own sake but for his team's sake, for the sake of the school.
However, there is one last challenge he needs to face. The dragon rised up from the ground and let out a deafening roar. The Prince stood shocked upon seeing the dragon.
"Oh yeah, forgot about that." he said to himself.
The large snake began spiraling towards him and Marco charged to it. He manage to get through the hoops of the dragon to be safe.
However, the dragon didn't give up and started to attack him in the hoops, but failed to do so. Marco just continued running and didn't care about the dragon.
Justin tried to catch up with the prince but ends up getting eaten by the dragon. The dragon then tried to chase the prince between the hoops of it's own body and now, it was gaining at the prince. The whole audience gasped.
The game was about to end, the dragon was right behind him, and he was so tired of running. However, when he is losing hope, he saw his team, cheering for him to go on, and the audience was encouraging him to bring Echo Creek, its first victory.
It fills him with Courage. It fills him with Perseverance. It fills him with DETERMINATION.
The dragon was closing in, however, before it could do any harm to Marco, the prince reached the base and threw the ball downwards while shouting "Touchdown".
Right when the ball hit the ground, a powerful rainbow-colored wave came out of it and turned all the transformed things back into normal. The fire hounds shrinked to normal dogs, the armors lost its life and collapsed at the ground, the whirlpools, bombs and dart totem all disappeared. And the ferocious dragon turned back into nothing more than a chinese decoration. Then the timer rang, the game is over.
The gang all rushed to Marco and Star gave her a celebratory hug.
"You did it, Marco." Star said as she hugged the prince tightly.
"Yeah, nice job, Safe Prince." Lilacia said.
"No, we did it! I couldn't have done it without you, guys." Marco said as he returned the blonde's hug. They gained a loud 'aww' from the audience. The two dorks blushed wildly.
Lilacia and Kelly teased the two dorks, while Tom remained silent. The green haired girl noticed this.
"Oh wait, somebody's jealous!" Kelly said in a sing song tone.
"No, I'm not!" Tom quickly protested
"Sure, you aren't." Lilacia said sarcastically as she rolled her eyes.
The referee approached them and gave them the trophy. They smiled as they raised it high. The students of Echo Creek, carry them in celebration. However, Marco feels different.
"Why do I feel like something is missing?" he said to himself, but he quickly shrug it off and celebrated with his team.
Just after the prince said that, Justin rose from inside the dragon. Seeing the prince get the attention, he became envious and angry at the prince.
"Curse you, Diaz! You've taken everything away from me! But I vow to destroy you! I will have my revenge! This isn't the last you've seen of me!" Justin shouted, although the prince clearly couldn't here him due to the noise of the crowd. Then the large armor, who still manage to stand after losing life, fell on the football star, thus creating a loud noise. The noise didn't go unnoticed by the prince.
"Wait, did you hear something?" The prince asked. The rest of the gang shook their heads, so Marco just shrugged it off. They continued to celebrate, for the first time in history Echo Creek won victory.
Post A/N:
So yeah, Tom is swapped with Janna in this fanfic. I know other swap Au's have Janna at her same role and have an OC named Sam but in this fanfic, I just like swapping Janna with Tom. Also, Kelly and Lilacia (Pony) will be given major roles in this fanfic than Ferguson and Alfonso in the canon. That is all.