Marco wakes up and looks to the side at the clock, he sees it's seven AM and decides to try to rest a little longer. He closes his eyes and tries to go back to sleep, but he suddenly realizes something odd about his room and reopens his eyes, looking at the roof. 'Huh, since when did I have a canopy over my bed?' Marco ponders it for a few seconds before realizing that he isn't in his room, he's in Star's. After a few seconds of shock, Marco takes a breath and slowly looks to his side and he freezes again. He sees his arm around Star who is sleeping at his side, her head resting on his chest. She is smiling happily and her arms are wrapped around Marco tightly, one of her legs is lying over Marco's waist causing him to blush deeply. 'Oh no, I must've fallen asleep with Star when we were watching movies yesterday' Marco facepalms with his other hand, embarrassed about being stupid enough to fall asleep in Star's bed.
Marco doesn't know what to do, he doesn't want Star to wake up and see them like this, but he also really enjoys cuddling with Star. He decides that despite how much he enjoys this, he should still leave, mostly to not make things awkward. He carefully moves away from Star and gets out of bed. He sighs, missing the feeling of warmth he had when he was next to Star. Marco looks at Star sleeping happily and smiles at her, he leans forward and kisses Star gently on her forehead before leaving her room to go make breakfast.
Marco makes himself pancakes and heads up to his room and eats. When he finishes his pancakes he goes back to Star's room to see if she's awake. He sees her still sleeping peacefully in her bed causing him to smile, "So cute." Suddenly Marco has flashes of memories about when Toffee punched Star a few days ago. He feels sick remembering what Toffee did to her. Rage quickly builds within Marco and he quickly stomps to his room and sets up 3 wooden boards and strikes through them with a karate chop. Marco thinks about Toffee and rage burns in his eyes as he starts setting up 8 wooden boards. As he prepares to strike through it, an orange portal appears before him. "Huh? What's this portal doing here?" Before Marco has time to examine the portal, two white hands reach through it and pull Marco into it.
Marco looks around and sees Hekapoo standing next to him, "Who are yo-WHOA, what are you doing?" Marco is cut off when Hekapoo reaches into his pocket and pulls out his dimensional scissors.
"These are MY dimensional scissors, see," Hekapoo lifts the scissors, displaying the bright symbols on the scissors. "My name, Hekapoo, that's my name, H-E-K-A-P-O-O, Hekapoo." Hekapoo gestures at each symbol to match each letter as she speaks."I'm in charge of making and distributing all dimensional scissors in the universe and I never gave you any,"
"Yeah okay, I have no idea who you are, look I just want to get back home to Star, so could you just, I don't know, whip up a pair of scissors for me or whatever you do and I'll be on my way." Hekapoo bursts out laughing, causing Marco do give her an annoyed look, "What?"
Hekapoo, still laughing, says, "I don't just give away scissors, you have to earn them, did you really think it would be easy to get interdimensional travel, in the palm of your hand?"
"Fine, what do I have to do?" Hekapoo bursts out laughing again, rolling around on the floor.
"You, a human, wants to earn dimensional scissors," Hekapoo continues laughing for a few seconds before seeing Marco's unamused expression, "Okay, fine I guess. You're no fun. All you have to do is blow out this fire here on my head." Hekapoo gestures towards her flame.
"Huh, that doesn't seem that hard," Marco leans forward to blow out the candle but Hekapoo disappears and reappears 10 feet away from Marco.
"I've got something important to deal with, so let's just get this over with," Hekapoo multiplies into dozens of duplicates of herself and creates a bunch of different portals around them. All the different Hekapoo's run into portals in different directions. "It'll take you decades, maybe even your whole life to blow out all of these flames, just give up," A portal back to earth opens behind Marco, he looks at it sadly, ready to give up. He takes a step towards the portal, before stopping and looking at it. 'All of me and Star's adventures happen because of those scissors, I can't give up all of that.' Marco turns around to face Hekapoo, "I'll get those scissors, no matter how long it takes," Marco blows out the first Hekapoo's flame and walks into a random portal.
With Star
Star shoots out of her bed when she hears a loud bang coming from another room in the house. She lies back down and after a few seconds of lying down, she says, still half asleep, "What was that loud noise?" Star shrugs and tries to fall back asleep again. Her eyes then fly open "What if it was Toffee? What if Marco is in danger? I'm coming Marco!" Star jumps out of bed and sprints to Marco's room with her wand, "Marco are you okaaaaaaayyyy…." Star gets to Marco's room and sees an orange portal, "Whaaaaaaa…" Star points at the portal before realizing what kind of portal it is, "Oh my gosh! This is one of Hekapoo's portals, what does she want with Marco?" Star stands there looking at the portal for a few seconds before she remembers what her Mom told her about when she earned her dimensional scissors, "Oh no! Marco could be like 70 already, I have to hurry and get to him, Don't worry Marco I'll save you!" Star runs into the portal, ready to save Marco, no matter what.
With Marco 16 years later
Marco walks up to a castle being guarded by two Hekapoos, sword in hand. The Hekapoos both see Marco and get ready to fight, but Marco swings his sword throwing a gust of wind at them, blowing out their flames. Marco walks towards the castle and opens the door. He is met by another Hekapoo, who charges at him. Marco easily dodges her strike and trips her to the floor. He leans down and blows out her candle before walking further into the castle. After walking through a corridor for a few seconds he finds the real Hekapoo, who has his pair of scissors ready in her hands. "Well you finally did it, I'm impressed, considering your a human," Hekapoo hands Marco the scissors and he snatches them from her hands.
"Thanks," Marco says blankly, "I'll be on my way now, I'd say it's been fun but I've been stranded in this dimension for 16 years, so it hasn't." Marco gets ready to open a portal before he hears a loud "CRACK" sound. Marco looks over to the door and sees Star at the door, rage burning in her eyes.
She lifts her wand and a ray of blue light blasts out of the wand and hits Hekapoo, knocking her across the room and into the wall. Star stomps across the room and presses her wand against Hekapoo's face, "Where. Is. Marco!" The light around the wand turning blue, charging for a blast.
"Star!" Star turns around and sees Marco, before she can react she is tackled into a hug by Marco
"Marco?" Tears start forming in his eyes as he hugs her tighter.
"I-It's been so long since I saw you, I thought I would never see you again." Marco releases the hug and looks at Star
"Come on, let's get out of here," Marco nods and opens a portal back to earth and they both walk through it.
When they walk through the portal Marco notices he is a lot shorter than he was when he entered. He looks down at himself and sees he is just like he was 16 years ago, "What happened?! Where are my abs?!" Star boops his stomach and giggles.
"Time works differently in Hekapoo's dimension, you were only gone for like 8 minutes here" Star smiles innocently at Marco, who is completely in shock by what he just heard.
"8 minutes….." Marco grabs his head and sits down on his bed, "No, no, no, no, no…"
"Hey Marco, look on the bright side, now we can still grow up together and go on super awesome adventures. You're just getting back all those years that you lost." Star sits down next to Marco and puts her hand on his shoulder.
Marco looks up at Star, he stares at her face for a few seconds, remembering how much she means to him, "Yeah, I guess you're right." Marco turns around and hugs Star tightly, "I missed you so much."
Star hugs Marco back and they sit there for a few minutes, Marco wanting to catch up on all the hugs he missed in the last 16 years. "Let's go hang out, get you used to being a teengager on Earth again," Star stands up and offers Marco her hand to help him up, he takes her hand and stands up.
"Okay, let's go." Star runs out of the room, dragging Marco with her. Causing Marco to blush a little, enjoying the feeling of their hands being intertwined again.
