Heckapoo, Star and Higgs stood before the Magical High Commission and certain members of the Mewni military and public officials.

'Who is Reym?' Princess Moon asked.

'He was a War Master from before your time your majesty, before I was part of the council, he raged war on Mewni at an age when your people were settlers, all knowledge of his presence faded over time but. . . he forged the wands in an attempt to tap into your blood lines power,' Heckapoo answered.

'Higgs, was Marco Diaz aware of what he unearthed?' Moon asked.

'No, your majesty,' she began, 'we simply thought we were finding relics of no importance, simply to fill the time.'

'Heckapoo, are we in danger?' she asked.

'Yes.' She answered, Queen Moon stood up.

'Then we prepare for war, if this individual is as powerful, he will come to us, we better make a stand.' She ended.

'Your majesty, he dabbled in dark magic, although I don't like it. . .' Heckapoo began, swallowing then continuing, 'we should consult Eclipsa.'

'Alright.' She turned to the other members, 'Rhombulus and Omnitraxus, will you bring Eclipsa to the council, Heckapoo will bring our defences up and create a portal refugees if needed.'

'Yes, your majesty,' Heckapoo said as she walked off.

'Mom?' Star asked, 'what about Marco?'

'He is to be considered a threat and if he does not surrender, he will be eliminated,' she said bluntly as Star gave a gasp, 'I'm sorry. Clear the council chambers!'

Everyone except the Queen Moon left the room, some hurrying to stations while Star and Higgs took a moment to reprieve.

'Marco is in danger if we don't intervein, but were all in danger if this "Reym" comes to us,' Star said as she turned to Higgs who had just begun crying, 'are you ok?'

'Y-yes!' she responded, sniffling.

Star stood there for a moment, but she lurched out and hugged Higgs who froze in shock.

'Well get him back.' She whispered, as Higgs wrapped her arms around her, 'wait, Eclipsa!'

Star and Higgs ran as fast as possible into the halls of the castle and they went into Stars room in front of a painting of a Sea Captain.

'Permission to come aboard Captain?' Star said, as the painting parted.

They climbed into the passage behind the painting and followed it for nearly a hundred meters, before climbing out from behind another painting to find Eclipsa at a coffee table drinking tea.

'Star! who's your little friend?' she asked in her kind tone.

'Hey this is Higgs, listen we need to know something about someone called. . . Reym' Eclipsa smiled and took another sip of her tea.

'Have a glass, it will steady your nerves,' she offered and they each took a cup, 'Reym was a War Master, he forged weapons specially made of the royal family. He forged the Wand and other icons for the Royal family to use against a threat of darkness, they turned the tide and the light rose and the War Master demanded his reward.'

'What?' Star asked.

'The crown, to marry your great, great, so on grandmother and rule Mewni' she took a sip, 'But the butterflies always married for love. He joined the darkness and learned the traits of necromancy. He brought the dead to our doorstep and we fought them back.'

'But. . .' Higgs interrupted, 'The staff?'

'Ah yes, while present before the crown, I the form of a man he carried that staff to act as an old man,' she smiled after that comment, 'miss direction, but that staff was his wand, his conduit.'

She stopped as they heard footsteps approaching.

'You must go, now!' she said as she spoke the password to the painting.

'Marco?' Higgs asked.

'Separate him from the staff and destroy it.' she said as they climbed through the painting.

'Wait how did you-' Star began.

'Raise the anchors.' Eclipsa said as the painting closed.

'What now?' Higgs asked.

'Maybe. . . we find Marco first and we get the staff off of him,' Star said as she faced Higgs, 'but we won't be able to do this on our own. . .'

'What about Heckapoo?' Higgs asked.

'I ah. . . alright, that's all we got so let's go.' she said as they got through the passage and began searching the castle.

High and low they searched before they managed to find Heckapoo in one of the lower level storage rooms, manipulating a portal, she turned to see them then turned back to her work.

'Princess, go tell your mother the emergency escape route is ready and our forces are armed.' She said as she turned to walk in between the two of them towards the exit.

'Heckapoo, wait!' Star called, 'if we separate Marco from the staff and destroy it-'

'He will be freed, but if we let his conscious manifest for far too long. . .' she turned to them, 'we won't be able to get close enough to free him again.'

'Maybe, but if we keep him distracted we might,' Star rebutted, 'Heckapoo, we need your help.'

'I don't act without permission of the High council,' she began, 'and I doubt you have that.'

'Heckapoo please, we. . .' Star tried to convince her as Heckapoo kept leaving.

'Sixteen years.' Higgs called out, 'Sixteen years he searched for you and he never gave up. He did it for a purpose and in the end, he came back to earth, he chose to be a friend that always comes back. He told us that, and how sorry he was that he went against you. We can't leave him!'

'He scorned me and in the end, I held a knife to his throat and, yet he moved passed that,' Higgs continued, 'please. . . he always came back. We should try help him this time.'

Heckapoo walked forward, opened a portal, stepped through it and it vanished.

'Ok, well do it ourselves-' star began before another portal opened.

Heckapoo emerged from the portal on top of a Dragon-Cycle with her hammer.

'Five minutes, get some weapons. . .' she stopped as the roof above them shook, 'it's started.'

Star and Higgs ran to the battlements to see the scene unfolding, a portal tore open before the castle walls and a mass of miss matching figures emerged, hurling rocks and shooting arrows into the battlements. Eventually from the portal war beasts emerged and began the charge at the gate.

'Alright!' Heckapoo said as she walked up in armour, 'I kinda told the Commission our plan. . . they kinda didn't want to go with it. . . so we need to leave. . . now!'

'Alright,' Star said, readying her wand, 'Ready.'

'Yeah, lets save him.' Higgs said, shouldering a short axe and a shield.

'Alright,' Heckapoo said, climbing on the Dragon-Cycle, 'Nachos, let's do this!'

Star and Higgs climbed aboard, and Nachos took flight, soaring above the battlefield before charging towards the portals below. Passing packs of flying beasts, Nachos got close enough to the ground where the dead below threw stones at them and arrows flew at them. Nachos soared over the crowds end every so often, picking out some of the corpses and throwing them at others before charging through the portal. The cleared through the other side and found they were in Heckapoo's dimension. But it was scarred, twisted and the landscape seemed to pile up into a tower of stone while the dead surround it.

'Where did they come from?' Star yelled to Heckapoo.

'My home is on the foundations of centuries of wars,' she said before steering Nachos to the towers peek, 'one of his first wars were here.'

Nachos soared in and they landed at the top of the tower, and they each climbed off. Heckapoo stared out to the fields of the damned and turned to the centre of the tower.

'My home is gone. . . this is personal.' She stated.

'What about Marco?' Higgs asked.

'If we can't separate them, we will have to hurt him,' she started, 'destroy the staff at all costs.'

They walked forward, Heckapoo held the hammer in her hands, Higgs readied her axe and Star brandished her wand. They approached the remains of the forges cracked exterior structure which hid the centre, the inside was like an arena with the magma pooling to the sides and Marco in dark searing armour which added an additional two feet to his height, with a mace in hand and the staff in the other, standing in the centre.

'You've come!' he shouted, 'I must say, your friendship is touching. Sadly, I have to sever it.'

He readied himself and raised the staff which twisted and transformed and took the form of another mace like the one in his other hand. Heckapoo charged with her hammer, he parried with one mace and hit her out of the arena with the other. Star ran up, blasting before circling him and while he turned Higgs ran up and swung the axe into his side, but it shattered. He raised his maces and a blast shot out at Star before he came about and knocked Higgs to the edge of the arena, cracking her shield. When he approached her, Heckapoo leapt in and brought the hammer to his head and he was knocked to the rim of the arena. He stood up and charged at Heckapoo, swinging the maces at her as she parried before she took another swing and he brought the mace up to meet the hammers head and it shattered. He took hold of Heckapoo's armour and pushed her to the edge of the Magna pool before pushing her in and holding her under. Star started blasting, so he pulled her out and threw her towards Star. Higgs ran up with her shield and attempted to bludgeon him with it before pulling a knife out and attempting to stab him. He knocked her off her feet and with the hand she held Heckapoo down, he held Higgs down as she screamed from the scalding steel.

'M-Marco!' Higgs screamed in pain.

'The vessel is mine! He cannot hear you!' he shouted, before Heckapoo ran up knocked him off her.

'Do you really think-' he was interrupted as Star blasted him in the faceplate and his helm came off, revealing the dark green pulsing in his eyes with a dark outline.

While distracted Heckapoo opened a portal, and ran up and knocked him through it, the portal opened above the arena and Marco came through the portal and he crashed in the arena.

'Marco! Marco please!' Star called.

'I!' he screamed, seizing Higgs and throwing her at star.

'Am!' he called again, hurtling his mace at Heckapoo.

'Reym! The War Master! And I am not giving up this vessel!' he cried.

Heckapoo opened a portal, she threw the Mace through it, before she put her hand to her lips and whistled. Shortly after Nachos came flying through, she came up and knocked Marco to the floor. as he tried to stand he was knocked over again. Once more Nachos charged at him, but Marco seized her by the throat.

'This reptile will not. . . not. . .' he stopped as Nachos looked into his eyes.

'Nachos!' Heckapoo yelled, 'her name is Nachos, you saved and raised her while you looked for me, she is almost like a daughter to you, part of you. Why don't you remember that?'

'I... I...' He released Nachos and began to step back, 'Nachos I'm- No! You're the War Master, the War Ma-'

He dropped the last mace and began to struggle with an internal conflict, Heckapoo ran up and seized the mace and opened a portal.

'Star!' she called.

Star ran to her, but she turned back to Higgs.

'Go! 'she shouted.

Star followed through and the portal vanished. Marco turned to see Higgs and began to march to her. She held up the shield and prepared for the incoming strike. But it wasn't enough, he knocked her to the floor and picked her up by the shield arm. He looked her in the face and she saw how he failed to keep eye contact.

'Marco! Please!' she called.

'Marco. . . Is . . .' He began, struggling to talk.