A/N: This was really fun to write. "Cheer Up, Star" is one of my favorite episodes of the series.

On an unrelated note, I watched the first few episodes of Amphibia, and while it's nowhere near as good as Star, it's still a great show. Go check it out on Disney Now, or on Disney Channel.

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Chapter 11: Cheer Up, Butterflies

"Run, Marco! Run!" I yelled.

Me, Star, and Marco were attempting to escape Ludo and his monster army. Star fired off some Cupcake Blasts to buy us more time, as we eventually made it to Marco's dad's shed in the backyard.

Once inside, Marco immediately locked the door as monsters attempted to get inside. Star used her wand like a flashlight and I reinforced the lock with a Freezing Ice Beam.

"How could I have been so stupid!" Marco said, looking for something.

"Marco, what is going on?" Star asked as Marco retrieved a skull bust from a shelf.

"Umm, this may be all my fault," Marco replied.

"Wait, what? What did you-" I began, before noticing Three-Eyed Potato Baby peeking inside the window. Star went and closed the blinds.

"Thanks, sis," I said, before turning back to Marco. "What. Did. You. Do?"

Marco ignored me and handed the skull bust to Star.

"Hold this. Uhh, we're gonna need to build some armor," Marco said, putting on a welder's mask.

"Marco…" Star tried to get his attention.

"Where does Dad keep his blowtorch?" Marco asked.

The monsters outside gave the shed a good shove, causing the blowtorch to fall into Marco's hand.

Marco chuckled, "There it is."

"Marco!"

Marco closed the welder's mask over his face and activated the blowtorch.

"Marco Diaz!"

Finally, Marco deactivated the blowtorch, raised his mask, and turned to face me and Star.

"What. Is going. On!?" Star and I asked together.

"Look, do you remember when I was having that really bad day?" Marco started.

"Ugh. Don't remind me, it was a bad day for me too," I added. "Actually Marco had it worse, admittedly."

A few days ago, Marco had missed the bus and was running to try and catch up with it. Star opened a window and waved at Marco.

"Look at you, jogging to school. In the zone!" Star said.

"I'm trying to catch the bus!" Marco panted.

"Got to keep your focus. I get it. Stay in that zone!" Star said.

The bus suddenly stopped, and Marco ran right into the bus's "stop" sign.

"Who punched by bus? Who does that? Bus never did nothin' to you," the driver said.

The door then closed trapping Marco's sleeve, and the bus started moving again, taking Marco with it. When the bus hit a speed bump, Marco's hoodie ripped right open, and he was tossed right into some trash cans. He got up, now with a black eye, and some jerk on a bike noticed Marco - or specifically, his t-shirt underneath the now torn hoodie, which showed Marco kissing a ninja on the cheek with the caption "I Kissed A Ninja at Karatekon 2012".

"Woah… Heh ha ha ha ha! You kissed a ninja!"

Marco then grabbed a nearby newspaper and decided to wear it like a shirt, covering his actual shirt, out of embarrassment.

The guy continued laughing then stopped suddenly and rode off.

By that point Marco had reached the school and I noticed Marco's condition and ran over to him.

"Marco! Are you okay?" I asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine," he replied, before he noticed a nearly flier on the wall.

"Ugh, you gotta be kidding me. School picture day?" Marco groaned.

A girl with a camera walked by, said "Smile!" and snapped a picture of Marco.

"Ugh, I wanna go home," Marco groaned louder.

"Hey, maybe the rest of the day will be better," I said, trying to cheer him up.

"Well, well, well! Marco Diaz!" Jeremy suddenly said, approaching Marco.

"Not today, Jeremy," Marco said.

"Yeah, Marco's had enough of a bad day already. Leave him alone!" I added, even pulling out my wand and making it spark a bit.

"I came to give you a black eye for picture day, but apparently, there's no need!" Jeremy ignored our pleas and continued to tease Marco.

"I said, leave him ALONE!" I said, stomping my feet - right onto Jackie's skateboard.

"Ooh-ho-ho-hooo!" Jeremy taunted.

"Luma… You broke my skateboard," Jackie said disappointed.

"Jackie, I-" I started.

"It's fine, Luma," Jackie interrupted. "I'll just live with it."

She then tried to roll off with just half of her skateboard.

"I think my work here is done," Jeremy said, before running off.

"Well, that was a great start for today," I said sarcastically.

"I'm sorry you had a bad day, but what does that have to do with right now?" Star asked as she put the skull head into a vice.

"I'm getting to that," Marco replied, and started to saw the head off.

A monster broke through the wall suddenly, and began to reach around, trying to grab one of us. Marco freed the skull head from the vice and put it within the monster's reach. It grabbed the head, breaking it off leaving just the base.

"Thank you!" Marco called out, then covered the hole with a painting.

"Anyways, I got over it eventually, but Marco was still really bummed out. So me and you tried everything to cheer him up!" I explained.

Star was wearing a large fake mustache and was juggling a few of the laser puppies.

"Huh? Huh? Huuuh?"

Marco's expression remained unchanged.

With a glass of water in hand, I used my wand to suspend the water in midair, splitting the large droplets into multiple pieces and made them change into random colors, even freezing a few of them.

"Like this, Marco?" I asked.

Marco was not impressed at all, but Star applauded like crazy.

I was holding a top hat, which Star pulled a large fish out of.

"Ta-da!" Star yelled.

The fish then swallowed Star's head, and I rushed to try and free her, before Star tripped and fell, allowing the fish to swallow her whole. My hands slipped in the process, launching me into the wall.

This made Marco laugh histerically, and me and Star joined him in laughter.

"I'm in a fish!" Star said, still laughing.

I freed myself from the wall, and added "That ought to make AFV," still laughing.

"And then, Star, you met Oskar," Marco continued.

"Oh right. Crazy keytar dude," I said and then shuddered.

All around the school, yelling and screaming could be heard as a horrible keytar melody was heard playing. Everybody rushed to protect themselves from the audible torture.

Well, everybody except Star, who was in a trance. She pulled my noise-canceling headset off which was blaring 8-bit video game music.

"Luma! Who is that fresh of breath air?" Star asked.

"Oh, that guy. He's Oskar Greyson. I'd keep my distance. That guy has a record," I replied.

"Oooh, a record!" Star said, infatuated, and ran towards him.

"Not that kind of record, Star!" I yelled, but Star ignored me.

I simply put my headset back on, pulled out my phone, and resumed listening to my music.

"Ahh, I couldn't wait to talk to him," Star said.

"Speaking of, I wanted to properly apologize to Jackie for breaking her skateboard, since she didn't give me a chance to the other day, but it didn't exactly go too well," I added.

After school, I wanted to catch up with Jackie, since I hadn't seen her since the skateboard incident.

"This is it, Luma," I thought. "Your chance to really bond with Jackie."

I approached Jackie, who was still on her half-skateboard, and said," Oh, hey there, Jackie."

"Oh, it's you," she replied coldly.

"Listen, I'm really sorry-"

"Don't. It's fine, Luma."

"No, it's not. I need to apologize for-"

"For what? This?" she gestured to her broken skateboard. "It's no big deal. Goes to show you how some people really are."

"But that was an accid-"

"Sure, you can say that, but I'm right. People are cruel. Some more than others."

"But Jackie,-"

"Just leave, Butterfly. I just need to accept it and move on. I'll call you sometime later."

"Okay, Jackie," I said, leaving.

Later that day, Marco and I were playing on our phones, until Star suddenly grabbed Marco's phone.

"I'm expecting a phone call! From Oskar!" Star said, very excited.

"Why don't you just give him the home line?" Marco asked.

"Eh, I like your ringtone better," Star replied, then played said ringtone on Marco's phone.

"Space unicorn! Soaring through the stars!"

"So cute," Star said.

Marco sighed, "It's supposed to be ironic."

"I guess I'm just not cool enough for a guy with a record," Star said sadly.

"Are you kidding? You're the coolest girl I know," Marco said to Star.

Star smiled at that, then Marco turned to me and added, "And Luma, I'm sorry about what happened with you and Jackie. Really, I am."

"It's okay, Diaz. I hope you don't mind that I have a crush on her too," I replied. "Love works in strange ways…"

Star was seen chewing on her wand, probably thinking about Oskar.

"Some times even more so than others," I added.

"It's cool, Luma. If I'm being honest, I was getting nowhere with Jackie. You're probably way better for her, bro," Marco said.

"Anyways, you two were so sad, especially Star," Marco continued his story.

"It was my turn to cheer you up."

Star and I were laying on our beds, still down from what happened. Marco crept up to Star wearing a clown mask and holding a flashlight to his face.

"Hey, Star!"

Star shrieked loudly, scared.

"I thought you liked clowns! Sorry!"

"Classic Marco," I chuckled.

Eventually I'd grown tired of just laying down so I went onto the roof to stargaze, eventually playing Minecraft on my phone.

"Darn creepers!" I yelled, after a pack of them blew up half my house. I rushed to protect myself from additional monsters, before giving up for now, quitting the game to just look over the town at night.

Until Marco was heard screaming from inside Star's room, and I heard fireworks exploded as well. Concerned, I went back inside to find the room flooded, and Marco laying on the floor next to Star's bed, spitting out a lit sparkler.

"Ta-da!" Marco said.

Star groaned and turned over, and I simply looked at him and frowned, as if to say "What were you thinking?", before I went back to my own bed.

Marco then noticed our wands on the end table.

"And that's when I realized: nothing makes you happier than when you're Narwhal Blasting and/or Powder Snow Blasting monsters!" Marco said.

"...So, I tried to lure one with your wands."

"So, you brought these monsters here to cheer us up?" Star asked.

"Yeah, there were at least 15 hundred things you could've done besides that that would've worked," I added.

"Well, I didn't expect so many to show up," Marco explained, before putting a bucket as a helmet on Star's head. "But don't worry! This armor will hold them off!"

Suddenly the shed's roof is ripped right off, and several monsters grabbed me, Star, and Marco, causing Marco's "armor" - really just a bunch of things laying around the shed - to fall off in the process.

"Give it up, Star and Luma Butterfly! You're outmatched!" Ludo yelled.

"Ludo, what's with all these new monsters?" Star asked.

"What? These are all the same monsters I always bring!" Ludo replied.

"Well, I don't recognize any of these guys," I said.

"I've never seen this dude in my life," Marco added.

"You mean you've never met Man Arm?" Ludo asked. Man Arm turned and waved his humanlike right arm, and said, "Hey."

"Surely, you know Spike Balls," Ludo continued.

Spike Balls approached Marco and he took one of the spikes and shook hands using it. Spike Balls greeted Marco, " Hi, I'm Spike Balls. I'm usually in the back."

"Now that you all know each other... Get the wands!" Ludo yelled.

The three of us charged into battle, with Star leading off with a Rainbow Fist Punch right to the two headed monster's chest. I followed up with a Razor Leaf Blast to Man Arm who Marco finished off with a horizontal karate chop.

Star then raised her wand, "Honeybee Tornado Storm!"

Bees began swarmed Ludo's army, some of them stinging the monsters. A nearby flower monster seemed to really enjoy it though…

"You were right, Marco! I'm totally cheered up!" Star said, then Narwhal Blasted the chicken monster.

"I second that," I said, firing off a flamethrower spell at Deer Beard.

"Yeah, I don't even care if Oskar calls!" Star yelled.

Suddenly Marco's phone rung, still in Star's pocket.

"Space unicorn! Soaring through the stars! Delivering the rainbows..."

"Ugh! What is that horrible ringtone?" Ludo asked.

Marco, who was in a headlock from Man Arm, replied, "It's supposed to be ironic!"

Star gasped, "It's Oskar!"

"Well, answer it!" I said.

"Oh, right, right!" Star said, then my own phone rang, playing the Route 4 music from Pokémon Black & White.

"Now that's someone with taste," Ludo offhandly commented as I answered.

"Hey there."

"Oh, hi Luma, it's Jackie. Listen, I'm sorry about earlier today. I was mad because my parents yelled at me cause I failed a history test and they totally chewed me out, dude. It was pretty intense."

"Nah, it's fine, Jackie. I'm also sorry for wrecking your skateboard. I didn't mean to."

"That's cool, I know you were trying to protect your bro Diaz there, besides, my granddad owns the company, so I get them basically for free."

"Oh, that's pretty cool, actually."

"Yeah, anyways I gotta go… I'll see you at school Monday."

"Sure thing, Jackie."

"'Kay, later dude!"

Jackie then hung up, then I heard a yell.

"HEY! I AM ON THE PHONE! YOU MONSTERS ARE SO RUDE!" Star yelled.

"SYRUP TSUNAMI SHOCKWAVE!"

Star's spell covered the area with syrup, pancakes, and waffles.

Ludo and his monsters are seen spread throughout the yard, covered in syrup.

"Mmm, thanks, Marco. You did know just how to cheer me up. And Oskar called anyway!" Star said.

"Jackie called too! Turns out, there's no hard feelings at all; she was having a bad day too," I added.

"That's wonderful news, guys!" Marco said.

"Hugs!" me and Star said, and hugged each other and Marco. Unfortunately, we got stuck like that by the syrup from Star's spell, but none of us really cared.

Until the guy on the bicycle rolled up and laughed at us like last time. I nonchalantly blasted him with a Freezing Ice Beam before resuming our sticky, but heartwarming hug.