After arriving through magic and flight to a once-barely inhabited part of Mewni, Star Butterfly guided the remaining Amazons of the Galaxy. The group passed by a sign with the writing "NEW PUFFY", and only stopped once they spotted a port town, where the rest of Meta Knight's kind, along with the Meta-Knights, lived like a common human community at a port.

"Really? Wasn't he like...the mightiest warrior of Dreamland? Like, that's kinda a step down for him.", Coraline pointed out.

"Let's be a bit soft and understand.", Star suggested. "First, they lose Puffy, and then, half of their kind. They're glad they can have a place to live.", she continued, before spotting and going to the Delta Warriors, all of them altered through time.

"You shouldn't have come!", Kris (who got a new, more boyish haircut that left his remaining original eye and his fake eye exposed) said.

"Aaaaaaaah, the Delta Warriors!", Star greeted her old friends. "What's up, Blue Boy? How you're doing? I hope you're well, Glass Goat! Lookin' good as always, Purple Girl!"

"...I kind of prefered when you were either one or other.", Susie said, not really pleased over the fusion state of Star and Mewberty.

"Well, say hello to Coraline, Cornet, and Ami & Yumi!", Star Butterfly presented her new allies, pointing four palms at each of them.

"How are you all?", Cornet politely asked.

"He...won't see you.", Ralsei sadly stated.

"It's already that bad?", Star grimly asked, already knowing about the most obvious reason.

"We only have a chance to see him once per month, and it's just for...his supplies.", Ralsei explained, his scarf pointing to a pile of barrels with all kinds of wine.

"Oh.", Ami and Yumi mouthed, together.

"So...it's that bad.", Cornet sadly said. "Yeah.", Star replied.

When Coraline opened the door, allowing the Amazons and Star Butterfly to enter inside the building one by one, the entire group was taken back by the...unpleasant smell that took over the ambient.

"Ew!", Coraline cried, in disgust.

"Uh oh, something just got rotten here!", Star half-joked, before sincerely looking around with her eyes for her friend. "Hello? Meta?"

Slow, incoming steps answered Star's call, and the vision of Meta Knight for the group...almost made them all drop their jaws. Meta, who was in one of his rare, willingly unarmored and unmasked moments, somehow grew a raven mustache and beard, both of them extremely messy and unkempt.

"...Girls!", Meta Knight said, joyfully, once he realized the Amazons and Star's presence on the room. "Oh my goodness! How have you all been? Come here, you blue rascal!"

"N-no, I'm fine.", Coraline tried to gently turn down the hug offer.

"Mewberty, you know my friends Lancer and Rouxls, right?", Meta Knight said, motioning to another room, which Star followed him too.

Surprisingly, compared to Meta Knight, the taker of the Dark World's throne and his lesser dad just looked mildly affected by the aftermath of the Corruption, if compared to the dishelved Meta Knight. The duo was sitting on a couch, with videogame controllers in their hands, chips and a battle royale game on the television.

"Hey guys.", Star happily greeted her old allies from the ill-fated journey of stopping Galacta Knight from conquering Meta Knight's home planet.

"Ho ho ho! Hi, sun hair girl!", Lancer happily greeted her back. "We got dizzy-purple-fruit drinks there, you're welcome to share the same web with us (but no password) and- ...MK? The anonymous person who called me another name-I'm-not-allowed-to-say called me that again!"

"Noobmaster?", Meta Knight casually asked.

"Actually...Noobmaster69.", Lancer explained, right before having his headphones taken by Meta Knight. Knowing what was about to happen, Lancer covered his non-existent eyes as the puffball knight brought the headphones mic next to his mouth.

"Noobmaster69? It's me again, the Mightiest Knight of Dreamland, Meta Knight. Listen here, and listen well...if you don't leave this game right as I speak, I'll personally go to your house, find whenever you're hiding, break your limbs, and stab your brain! That's right. Now, just leave. Weasel.", Meta Knight spoke, sounding threatening yet calm.

"Thanks alot, Mr. MK!", Lancer happily said, right after slipping his glove-like hands from his "ears".

"Remember, warn me when they come back.", Meta Knight replied.

"I will do it, just like you said!", Lancer promised with a smirk.

"Excuse me, Star, but do you want a drink? I have anything of grape flavor, if you want.", Meta Knight offered, calling his part of the Twin Overlord's to open a bottle of clearly artifical wine and drink from it.

"Heyyy, are you like, ok?", Star sympathetically asked, landing her lower right hand on the knight's shoulder.

"Of course I am. Why you're asking that?", Meta Knight casually replied.

"You look like...fluffy but rotton cotton candy.", Star pointed out, with alot of concern.

"Hehehe...so, what's up?", Meta Knight playfully laughed, concerning and worrying Star even further.

"...we need your help. There's a chance we can bring everything we lost back.", Star said, seriously and maturely.

"Like the cable?", Meta Knight asked, before politely coughing and apologizing. "I've been going crazy over it for weeks."

"Like...Zalgo."

The oddly playful and calm smile of Meta Knight popped out, like a balloon that just got stung by a sharp, remarkably painful needle. Star couldn't help but feel scared of her knight-ly ally as he held her lower left hand with a shaky hand, an dused the other to point at her.

"I didn't get over this like Kris. So, don't. Speak. That name.", Meta Knight stated.

"Yeah! That's the equivalent of me not being able to swear. Except, uh, everyone follows it.", Lancer added, removing his headphones.

"Please take your hand off me.", Star quietly said, brushing Meta's hand. "Now I know that...you-know-who still is a big trauma thing for you."

"Why I would be scared of that demon, out of everyone? I'm one of his killers, remember?", Meta Knight rambled, walking. "You already know who else killed him, right? But yeah. Lancer, young lad prince-king, please state one of the two people who stabbed Zalgo's seventh mouth."

"A...Twin Overlord?", Lancer innocently tried to guess.

"And who swung and stabbed one of them?"

"I get it, Meta, you're in a bad mood, right?", Star said. "I was in one of these, multiple times. You know who helped me out of them?"

"I dunno...Pearl?"

"Maybe. But in some of these, you helped me."

"Why you don't ask my...crew, and my people how much I helped them? I mean, to the ones that are left."

"We can bring them back from the corruption."

"Stop, young lady...you probably think I find myself a coward, my pride more broken than glass and waiting for rescue. But I am okay, they're okay...right? Aren't we?"

"Ho ho ho! Affirmative, captain!", Lancer said, refusing to state eating candy was literally and possibly rotting bits of his teeth.

"So, whatever is going on, we'll not go on your trip, or care about it in anyway.", Meta Knight continued. "Farewell, ladette."

"We need you, buddy.", Star tried to persuade, but was ignored solemny by the knight fallen from honor.

"Uh...there's wine on the ship!", Yumi offered from the room's doorstep.

"Of what kind?", Meta Knight asked after a pause, still refusing to look up. But there was hope inside of Star, that the Mighty Knight of Dreamland could be brought back to grace again.