A/N: HOLY BEJEEZUS, THAT FINALE. Low on shipping, high on action. I'm down for it. I'm SUPER game. That was AWESOME. I won't spoil it. Go watch the Star Vs. season 3 finale if you can. OOOH-WEE.
For now? All I can say is I don't control JoJo or Star Vs.
"STARDUST, GET ME OUT OF HERE!" Star hollered with urgency, summoning her Stand to sling her out of a metal fist's direction!
The fist of The Rasticore created a sizable dent in the road where Star was, showing her just how close she was to having her skull crushed like a melon. Butterfly stuck to a building's side, trying to formulate a plan to get him out of the city so no lives were hurt in the process. Of course, most villains wouldn't really care that "they could hurt somebody." This was simply a mission for Rasticore to complete so he could return to Heinous and collect a paycheck. Nothing more. She shoots a web from her hands, sticking them to a light post behind Rasticore. He assumed she missed, but all she needed to do was pull it down on top of the monster. It didn't hurt him too bad, but the annoying nature of it did cause him to chase after her. "Fell for it, stupid." She slyly insulted him with a smirk before web-slinging out of there.
She swung from building to building as fast as she could, sticking each web near the top of every building so she could escape the monster. Urgency was the name of the game here. She sliced through the air with each quick swing, hoping to clear a city block with each leap through the city's skyline. She continued turning around, seeing The Rasticore still chasing her while running over people and leaping cars.
"Good...if he keeps coming after me, I can lead him to the outskirts of the city. Maybe a mountain or something. OR I can open a portal and have him follow me through," Star pondered the last thought intently, "Yeah! I can get him FAR away from this dimension so as to GUARANTEE safety! Oh man I am on the BALL today. I shouldn't give myself too big a pat on the back yet though. Let's just see if old scaly is behind me-wuuut?"
Wherever he was, he had given up chasing Star. Did he lose her? What if he's rampaging throughout the city just to find her? That thought scared the princess more than her being attacked by him. The guy could be hurting people. Her slinging began to slow as she kept her head turned around, and she was close to turning around.
"You shouldn't leave your guard open."
Star brushed off the voice, "Yeah, I'll keep that in mind for later-whoo boy." Immediately, she knew what was about to happen upon processing what she heard.
*WHAP!*
She goes falling to the asphalt once she's swatted away from her web, and the sudden strike left her reeling long enough for her to miss a chance to recover. Star's body hits the ground with a "THUD", cracking the pavement where she landed and scuffing her seafoam green dress with the white fringes on the sleeves and skirt. Upon revealing her bloodied lip and bruise on the left cheek that was hit, she began trying to get Rasticore out of Echo Creek once again. Rasticore lands right behind her while she tries to cut open a new portal to another dimension with the scissors, merely smirking at Star's attempts to escape. Swirling on the floor, the portal began to reveal the new location she wanted to send The Rasticore. The first universe that popped into her head, the portal opened to whatever she was thinking about first. A lilac colored demon with spiky, salmon colored hair looks out with his red eyes in shock.
"Star? I haven't seen you since the Blood Moon Ball! What's going on?" Tom, whose tone upon seeing Star (who had helped defeat him in his own home) was not of disgust but of worry, saw the bruised and bloodied Star look at him with a raised eyebrow.
"Tom? Is this really what I thought about first?" She asked herself, her expression being that of pure annoyance; but she had no chance to be picky with dimensions. Rasticore grabs onto Star's head right after Tom asked her the question. Quick reflexes allow Star to swivel out of his grip and use Stardust's webbing to trip the Septarian up and send him careening into Tom's room.
-.-.-
The demon had simply seconds to dodge the beast falling towards him, so he urgently combat rolled to the side right before Rasticore CRASHED onto his floor. Star also comes down, Double Footstomping the monster before tumbling backwards.
"Star, what's going on?" He calmly asked, which was something that took Star for a loop.
"What? You asking questions calmly? Color me shocked," Star rolled her eyes. Tom turned her head towards him and looked at the blood on her cheek with concern.
He took a piece of his shirt and began wiping the blood off of her lip, "Here, let me help you clean up. Was this guy hurting you? What did he do? Who is he?"
"Wha-I dunno, Tom! Get off!" She pushed him away and turned back to Rasticore, who was beginning to stand up, "I've never even seen him before. I just needed a universe to dump him off in so I could finish him off without civilians nearby. I don't need your help with anything."
"...Sooo...you picked my room?" A dumbstruck Tom asked curiously.
"UUUGH, not everything is about you ToOOOOOM!" Star and Tom BARELY dodged a chainsaw flying right at them, but Star couldn't dodge a waistlock from Rasticore and a German Suplex right on her neck!
"AAACK..." She almost felt the back of her neck touch the front of her neck. Her knees almost touched her head. Star was folded like an accordion on this move, and she was thrown through a desk right after that.
"Heheheh..." All the lizard did was chuckle. No words needed to be said as he grabbed Star by her hair and lifted her off the ground. She grabbed at her wand, but Rasticore slapped it out of her hand. Stardust let her fire out webbing from her hands at his face, and he just moved his head to the side. Deciding that she needed some more strikes to weaken her, he gut punches her in the kidney and sends her into a fit of pain.
Her weak screeches were all she could muster, but Rasticore wanted more from her. One punch to her solar plexus sent all the air out of her body and nearly knocked her out due to the severe pain. Blood was pouring from Star's mouth now, it literally being coughed out of her system just so she could breathe clearer.
Rasticore puts her on his right shoulder so he can carry her out, "I wonder how much I'll get for the prince too-UUUURGH..."
A seering pain shot through his right side, as if his body was on fire. What was trying to burn him down? Possibly that "prince" he mentioned earlier with his own detached arm having been severed and shot into Rasticore's right shoulder? Rasticore slowly turned his reptilian snout towards the direction of a demon whose temper was slowly starting to grow wilder by every passing second.
"...You feeling brave enough to follow through?" Rasticore asked Tom, who was baring his teeth and breathing heavy.
"Let...HER...GO...NOOOW."
*RIIIP*
Ripped CLEAN OFF...
Tom had ripped Rasticore's ENTIRE right arm and shoulder COMPLETELY off his body, causing blood to spray like a FOUNTAIN out of Rasticore's body! Star flew backwards, being caught by Tom before she hit the floor. He had been retracted his arm from Rasticore, and summoned Tenacious D to his side. The demonic Stand flew at Rasticore with a fist cocked back, while Tom stood back and held Star in his arms. "She made the best decision coming here...because I'm going to punch holes through you..."
PUNCH! PUNCH! PUNCH! The Stand rushed hundreds of fists per second, each fist leaving a singe mark due to the burn it gave Rasticore. And with multiple punches to the same spots, the fists began to burn through the body of Rasticore, melting through his flesh and punching through to the other side eventually in multiple spots. Tenacious D created Septarian Swiss cheese with Rasticore's body, and finished him off with a sharp uppercut that send his snout upward and bent out of shape due to the severity of the strike! Tom's intense rage at Rasticore turned his body inside out, and probably crippled the bounty hunter. Once he hit the floor, the damage done to the monster was very noticeable. Multiple holes in his body, an arm severed, his snout bent upwards...Tom mangled the guy in one fell swoop, and Star began to regain some form of consciousness just to find Rasticore beaten beyond recognition. This should have freaked Star out, but it was the fact that she was in Tom's arms that really messed with her. She quickly breaks free from his arms and went to one knee to examine the monster.
"...You did this to him?" Star asked a sheepish Tom.
"Huh? I-I-I mean, yes. I had to, um..." Tom was not sure how Star would respond to this, "He...hurt you. So I decided to take up the mantle of killing this guy. Let me finish the job?"
Star was not sure what to do here. Her expression was unreadable, but it seemed like she was shocked based upon the dilated pupils and the mouth slightly open. But what was she thinking? Whatever it was, it was pushed out by Rasticore calling for Southern Cross. "Huh? Hey, what do you think you're doing?"
"Biding my time...I'll return for your head soon...Butterfly. Heinous...needs her retribution," He struggled to say before using his Stand to teleport himself to a new location.
While at first confused by him teleporting out, that was quickly pushed out in favor of thinking over what he said. "Heinous." Was this a hitman? She actually sent someone to hunt down and kill Star. There needed to be an investigation, and she was the one person who could take the case and go about trying to solve it. Her pains were a bit too severe internally to do anything, though. Tom was back to holding her and trying to keep her upright now, and he was just wondering if he needed to take her to the palace on Mewni or wait for the guard to pick her up. Something told him they have some information on this somehow.
"Let's go Star...we need to get you help." Tom's look of concern was carefully combined with a small smile. He was holding Star again. What bad day contains that kind of unbridled optimism and that sentence?
As for Star? Well she wasn't feeling the best right now. Physically, she was in serious pain. It was possible her innards were blended into a fine paste, but she kept pretending she was fine, opting to try her best to keep some form of distance from Tom so as to keep her words true. But with every attempt to escape came pain. Star was barely tolerating her kidney pain when she was standing still, but the pain increased ten-fold whenever she walked. Tom grabbed her one of the last times she tried to push herself off of him and tightly bound her to him via Tenacious D turning his right hand into a chain to lock themselves together.
"What the-TOM! Let me GO! I'm FINE." Star tried to break free again, to no avail.
"No way you're leaving. You're getting HELP Star. You NEED IT..." An exasperated Tom declared as he dragged Star into a portal he made with the dimensional scissors.
Star just looked down while Tom took her to Mewni, just saying an inaudible comment to herself with her eyes closed halfway and her bangs covering the top of her face.
"Apparently I'm always going to need it..."
-.-.-
Wandering through the swamps and bogs of Mewni was never treacherous for someone like Rasticore, who made lands like these his home. But down one arm with multiple holes throughout his body, the trek to find a nice place to hide and heal his body was getting increasingly harder. Eventually, he had to hunker down near a tree to rest.
He took one look at his wounds, all scattered across his body. Gaping holes in his chest, abdomen, legs, and neck made it difficult to breathe. Barely able to keep up his own heavy breathing, Rasticore's concentration on regeneration was lowered. It would take a while for him to restore his own body. How could he lose like that? Two Stand users against him? He was a feared bounty hunter. He's killed Stand users before. His own Stand allows him to get the drop on even the most aware of Stands. The demon boy's Stand, however, was too much for Rasticore to handle at the moment. He needed a different way to go about it.
Rasticore took one look at the wound near his heart. That needed to be healed quickly. The metal hand was placed right on top of the round right as golden rings surrounded it. The whole spun in on itself, tightening up to the point of closing. It would take a long time, but Rasticore would make sure his body was at one-hundred percent before going back into the field. Maybe he got too cocky. Or maybe Tom was such a wildcard, he didn't expect it. He was told of two specific names...Marco Diaz and Star Butterfly. Those were his targets. Additional targets-Janna Ordonia and Princess Pony Head-were also given. Anymore targets were not specific. This was just another reason to always expect the unexpected, though. To Rasticore, all he needed to do was take into account any additional targets and play it safe for now. Stay in the shadows and watch. Taking a few strips of dried meat out of his pocket, he began to enjoy a small snack while planning his next move.
"You caught me off guard once, Butterfly. But your friends can't save you next time. I promise to you and Heinous that you're not living past your next birthday."
-.-.-
Elsewhere in the darkness of Mewni, inside a clearing in the forest, several mangled trees are bent inward or outward. They tower above patches of dead grass and destroyed burnt wood chips. Warped trees and dead grass abound...and whatever caused it was somewhere nearby still.
"Get back up, Ludo! You haven't mastered it YET. You stay on that spider and keep at it!"
Jade Devil Prime's voice echoed in Ludo's head, his wand glowing bright with every shout. His body looked mangled, his chip bag clothing torn in multiple places. Ludo looked absolutely worn down. The ragged bird man was picked up by Eagle's beak and placed back onto Spider's back. He had commanded them to keep him going no matter what. Though it seemed Ludo began to slowly regret that decision.
"Toffee...I can't...I can't keep going..." The tiny man spoke weakly through his breathing and wheezing, "I need a break..."
"A break?" The Stand/Spirit of Toffee appeared next to Ludo, his arms crossed, "...A break. Ludo...did Star Butterfly give you a break? Did Marco ever give you a break? Did the Mewmans ever give you or your family a break? Constantly visiting. Always there to try and remind your family, NOBILITY might I add, that they were always puppets to the 'Mewman Crown.' What kind of king are you? Giving up when the enemy continues to insult you behind your back during every moment of your life is an additional insult unto yourself. You're supposed to be KING. ACT LIKE ONE."
"I...I..." Ludo struggled to sit up on Spider's back, barely able to take the reigns he had placed on her earlier, "...I've been doing this for hours...I need a break...I need food...I need...to use the bathroom..."
"You're wearing a diaper, aren't you?" Asked Jade Devil with suspicion in his tone.
"...That depends...have you seen what I'm wearing under here?" Toffee curiously asked while pointing to the potato chip bag he was wearing.
"Yes."
"...Then yes I am." He shamefully admitted.
An exasperated Stand facepalms as Ludo nearly falls off his Spider. How could he get Ludo to continue? What more motivation could he give?
"...Ludo...all I ask...is that you continue your journey...to see it to the end," JDP lowers his head, "Even to this day, there are monsters...urgh...TRUE Mewnians...who long for a day when independence comes. Is that so much to ask for? A person to liberate the original Mewnians from Mewman scum? Mewmans...as if those humanoids can claim this land as theirs. Mewni was OURS FIRST. It was YOURS. It was MINE. It was BUFF FROG'S...but he wanted to WASTE that chance. He's a Mewman sympathizer, Ludo. That's something we cannot fall into...being complacent. If we settle into a pattern...settle into waiting for too long...there'll be a generation of Mewnians who forget about our generation...a generation of rebels. It's been ages since they stole our land. We MUST take it back. And you, Ludo, are the key to taking it back."
A rousing speech to stir on Ludo. Words of encouragement that encouraged Ludo to struggle his way back upright. He'd be letting down his people if he didn't go further. They needed a liberator. And he aimed to be that liberator. With a steel ball in his left hand, Ludo began to grit his teeth and tighten his grip on the ball. "Yeees, Toffee, yeees...I get to be KING..."
In his head, Ludo imagined himself as king...surrounded by birdy females who feed a buffed out Ludo with worms and grapes. With his wand in one hand and a steel ball in the other, he swivels around to put his feet on the back of a kneeling Star Butterfly. And he simply reminisces just how he gained that Moon & River dual head mount behind him. Upon his dream bubble popping, Ludo continued to fantasize while a disgusted Toffee shivered.
"I can see your fantasies. Keep them to yourself," JDP groaned in disgust, "Now RIDE."
"YES TOFFEE!" He shouted at the same time he pulled the reigns back on his spider. She galloped forward like a trusty steed as Ludo began to slowly stand up on the saddles. He had to measure this correctly. Math wasn't a subject he was great at. But he knew he needed to correctly do this to gain any major advantages over Star & Co.
"UNLEASH INFINITE POWEEER!" Ludo's final scream before he threw his steel ball echoed throughout the forest...and they were heard by Rasticore, who was still healing his body wounds before healing his arm. What could he say to this?
"...HEY BE QUIET! SOME OF US ARE MEDICALLY TREATING AND NEED PEACE & QUIET!"
-.-.-
She was hurt. But she was still fine. Knights stood over her, healing her body with Ripple energy. King River paced back and forth while Emporio sat down and impatiently tapped his feet. Despite the cool facade put on by Shizuka, she was distraught to see Star hurt this bad by an assassin sent by Heinous. Moon, however, seemed to be the most incensed. She wouldn't show it outwardly, but her crossed arms and glares towards the medics were definite signs of annoyance. The fact that she also was interjecting her own thoughts on how to heal her didn't help matters.
"...Don't do THAT, you'll burn her insides! I know this, and I don't even USE Ripple!" Exclaimed Momma Moon in dire concern for her daughter, "Are you all this bad at your jobs?"
"AH AH Moonpiiie, I think we should let the nice knights HEAL OUR DAUGHTER instead of yelling at them, okay?" He politely asked while sweating bullets. Grabbing her arm, he pulled her to the side and began to whisper in her ear, "What is all of this about, dear? You usually aren't this intense during these moments. I'm usually the one you have to calm down."
"Yes, I know," Moon answered with the gnashing of teeth accompanying her rage. Just like Shizuka, though, Moon knew she had to be calm. If only to show an aura of authority, she needed to stay calm so as to make sure her castle is calm. "Dear, I need to calm down. But ever since she...nearly died...at Castle Avarius, I've been slightly worried. I know I trusted her with helping find Heinous, but I guess I'm still not prepared for things like this."
"Well you know our Star has always never been one to mind pain," River comforted Moon while putting a hand on her back, "We should have been used to this by now. From the times I took her camping to the moments where the knights taught her how to behead monsters, she's always been a child who ran towards danger for an adventure. Yes, I guess we COUUULD teach her more common sense-and that's your job, not mine, we agreed long ago-but she's more than equipped to handle physical pain. You and I know that."
"Yes...yes dear...you are right," Moon took one look at Star, who despite all the pain she received was still trying to use her wand like a laser pointer and even summoned a tiny puppy cloud creature with wings, "She's still fine mentally. That's all we can ask for, I guess."
"There we GO, Moonpie!" River happily proclaimed, "I am sure Star's taking this lightly, though...we shouldn't take it too lightly. There's still a bounty hunter on the loose."
"Star gave us a description as best as she could...a buff Toffee," Moon's tone was deadpan when saying that phrase, and her face was as straight as a one-eighty degree line, "...So we need to put out a search for a large Septarian."
"Septarians tend to be rather large. This will be a hard search," River pondered, "And after that brief confrontation with Emporio, I don't think profiling any old lizard would be good."
"Well we need to find this Septarian QUICKLY. But only the large, buff ones. Not EVERY Septarian is that large. So it should narrow it down a tad," Moon pointed out, though she did bite her right index finger, "Though I can see how this backfires...but...it may be a necessary risk to protect the kingdom and other dimensions."
River simply nodded in agreement, "Yes, it has to be done. Unfortunately."
"Besides, monsters tend to be a hivemind," Moon began walking away from River, "What one thinks, the other ten near it may think the same. They never liked us. They simply kill, eat, or psychologically scar Mewmans. They're a brutish people who need to be corralled at times. And after Toffee's 'revolt', we may need to make sure another isn't in the works."
As Moon and River discuss the bounty hunter, Star was being tended to by the knight medics. One knight told his young female squire to fetch him a towel to wipe his forehead with. It was an intense operation, but said handsome knight was up for the task; and Star herself was up for him taking the task, evidenced by her entranced habitual wand gnawing and enraptured eyes. The squire girl was somewhat disturbed by the way Star was staring at her knight.
"Please...heal her quickly..." The red headed, freckled squire pleaded to her knight.
"Yes, please do," Tom, still at Star's side, just gave the knight a very stern look.
Tom's pleas broke Star out of her trance and put her focus back on the demon, "Oh please, Tom, let me enjoy my operation," She told him in an exasperated tone, "I think he needs to check every bit of me...just in case..." She giggled, causing Tom to heave slightly.
"If you check in any places you shouldn't check, expect my foot up your ass," Emporio chimed in with a death glare at the knight, who was feeling somewhat harassed from different corners.
"Least this means you're okay," Tom sighed, but shortly chuckled after that, "You really are a crazy girl."
"I'm STILL trying to figure out why you aren't mad at seeing me after what happened last time," Star asked Tom, "I mean, we trashed your ball and beat the ever-living snot out of you, Marco got super Ripple from there, I'm REALLY trying to figure out why you're so calm right now."
"Water under the bridge, Star," Tom waved it all off, shrugging before smiling at the blonde princess, "You and I have a friendship that will last for years." It hurt Tom to say that, he just was good at hiding it, "Nothing will break us apart."
That sentiment made Star's grin grow, with each heart nearly touching an ear, "Aaaw, Tom..."
"STAR! STAR!" Marco ran into the foyer of the castle where everyone was, hoping to find Star, "STAR I HEARD ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED!"
"Your friend, Marco, on the other hand, will be broken because we are indeed not friends," Tom's straight face immediately turned into a frown and then an explosive rage as he BURST with fire from all side, "MARCO DIAAAZ! WHERE WERE YOUUU!?"
"TOM!?" The shock on Marco's face was second only to the actual shock he was feeling, and it was a feeling that made him susceptible to the first punch from Tom's Tenacious D that sent him skidding across the floor.
"TOM!" Star angrily screamed at the demon, who began throwing fireballs at Marco. The karate boy saw them coming while lying down, and started dodging each one after a skillful leap away and following subsequent leaps. Tenacious D flew itself at Marco from behind, unbeknownst to Marco...
...but VERY beknownst to Safety Dance, who appeared in behind Marco in order to block Tenacious D's attack. The bewilderment in Tom's voice just shows how utterly shocked he is.
"WHAT!? WHE-WHEN'D YOU...HOW'D YOU..." He couldn't formulate words clearly; only a well heard, rageful "GRAAAAAAH!" could perfectly encapsulate just how annoyed Tom was at this revelation.
Tenacious D began punching as fast as it could, but Safety Dance continued to keep its guard and was simply pushed backwards a few inches with each punch. A well placed knee breaks Tenacious D's concentration, and Tom stumbles backwards from it. A kick to the face was next, but Tenacious D caught it and punched right behind the back of its knee! Marco fell to one knee, but threw a feint kick that Tenacious D ducked under. It was all for naught, though, since Safety Dance came back with a Roundhouse to the noggin! Tom stumbled backwards, holding his head while trying to regain some control of the fight.
Moon was getting frustrated with this battle, and sent out her Stand. "THAT IS-"
"ENOUGH!" Star's own command was followed by shooting out two strands of webbing from each of her wrists; each sticky web shot with the force of a moving wall, and managed to push Marco and Tom into walls. Once stuck to those walls, the boys wouldn't be moving from those spots for a while. This satisfied Star, who shocked Moon with how well she managed that situation.
Marco and Tom struggled to escape, but to no avail as Star slowly sat up and looked at each of them. "Hey...no matter what happened a while ago, it's in the past, okay? We got bigger corn kernels to pop! Marco, you and I are being targeted by an assassin. You and I need to work together on this, okay? So no hurting Tom. He HELPED me. Without him, I wouldn't be alive."
"Really?" Marco was taken surprised by that news, "Wow...huh..."
"Yeah, jerk. I HELPED her while you were busy smooching your girlfriend. Star told me about her. And if you think that's more important than helping her..." Tom kept a death glare on Marco, but was distracted by Star's fingers snapping.
"Hey! HEY! Tom! Boo-Boo!" Star snapped her fingers to get his attention, "Youuu aren't off the hook either, mister. You need to get over the fact that I'm Marco's friend..."
"And NOT your boyfriend?" Chimed in Tom with eyebrows raised and a widened grin.
"Not the point, Demon Casanova," She huffed, "You and I can STILL be friends...but like I told Pony Head, you two need to be cool too. Okay? I don't want dissension in the group."
"The...group?" An inquisitive Tom asked.
Marco saw where this was going and managed to get one hand free so he could expressively beg, "Staaar, nononono..."
"Yeah Tom," The princess ignored the pauper's pleas and looked the prince in the eye, "We have a group who's job is to make sure any of Toffee's 'residual issues' have been fixed. We don't want his stuff affecting the universe at large. And we may be a large group, but we could always use an extra member. As long as you get your anger issues in check and get along with everyone, it'll be GREAT!"
"Mhm..." Tom seemed to be thinking on it, much to Marco's chagrin.
"Star, he's a DEMON. He tried to KILL US at The Blood Moon Ball," Marco continued to beg for Star to reconsider the offer.
Star, however, shook her head. She was adamant about this. "Marco, he's STRONG. I understand the concerns, but I can promise you that Tom wouldn't attack you or betray us or whatever you're afraid of."
"Actually...he may be right," Said Tom himself, who got widened eyes from Star, "I don't know if I could operate within a team, especially with someone who doesn't like me. And to be frank, the feeling's mutual. It'd be a burden and a distraction."
"Huh? But Tom-" Star was about to get up, but winced as she went back down to one knee while clutching her side.
"PRINCESS!" The handsome knight picked Star back up as Tom used his fire powers to burn the webs off of him. Upon floating down to the ground, Tom pulled out his dimensional scissors and cut open a hole to his home.
"Look, if you need me, give me a call. But this..." His lilac finger pointed back and forth between himself and Marco, "...it ain't happening. Sorry Star. Good luck...and stay safe." To show his sincerity, he created a tiny fiery heart and blew it towards Star. Not sure how to feel about that, but knowing it wasn't anything positive, Star just cupped the flame upon it reaching her person. One look up from her hands, and Tom was gone to his own home. Despite not caring much for Tom since their break-up, she still wanted a friend. His heroics upon sticking up for her in front of Rasticore did make a positive impression on her, one large enough that made her willing to forgive him. He had issues with his emotions and problems dealing with other people that weren't Star, but he always meant well when it came to her; she had a feeling he would have done this for her and given it a try. But the Marco issues may be too much at the moment. It was definitely upsetting, something everyone could sense.
"Hey...Star?"
Marco's soft voice made her look up at him with her sad eyes, which did do a number on Marco's heart. "Hey. I mean...maybe he'll come around." He said, which almost seemed uncharacteristic. That was a defense for Tom Lucitor, someone Marco can't stand. Why was he even saying this?
"Why do you care? You hate him..." Star looked down, keeping her eyes off of Marco until he spoke again.
"Yeah..." He also looked away, "...well hate is harsh. I prefer, 'I find him detestable.' But I know you're his friend, and I'd have been willing to make it work if you were this adamant. Plus, you're team leader. Your word is final. If you're defending him this hard, it must mean there's SOME decency in him. You don't associate with creeps and villains."
Well that filled her with some confidence. At least she knew Marco would have swallowed the pill and went with it. That reassurance went a long way for her. She had the team's respect, especially the respect of her best friend. A smile grew on her face as she told him, "Well, Mr. Second in Command, if you trust me that much, then I say you help me with an important mission when we get back to Earth."
Marco's reaction to Star's shifty eyes made him cautious, "Um...what?"
"I need you...to make nachos for our movie night. Why not have an extra movie night today? Just to relax." The princess grinned wide, which only made Marco grin just as big as he chuckled alongside Star. Both, despite their bonded goals to stop Toffee's terror, were still best friends. And amidst their differing opinions and viewpoints on things was a mutual respect and bond that kept them jovial even in stressful times; because each one knew the other had their backs when it mattered most. So even with a situation as stressful as this, they could laugh and move on to a happier topic to relax themselves. They'd come back to it a little bit later after they cheered one another up. So for now, they just laugh it up.
...
..."...Can you get me down from here? The webbing is leaving stains now."
⇐==TO BE CONTINUED===
A/N: Hopefully the webbing doesn't leave too big a stain.
Anyway, hoped you all enjoyed that!
This is going to be the start of some regular uploads. I have like...TEN MORE of these ready to be delivered to everyone. And I'm starting work in like a week. So this is perfect. Because I can upload a chapter once every two weeks and the updates will last for the whole summer (or at least until mid-August). I think a two week schedule of updates is more bearable than the weird hiatus I went through with this. I hope you all enjoy it all!
I ask that any Season 3 finale spoilers be kept off here. During the hiatus, we're all gonna need fanfiction just a little more. I know I'm gonna be finding stuff to read.
Then again, at least this isn't Steven Universe. ...The pain...
Now...reviews!
Mal Masque: OOOH I didn't even THINK of how turning things around for the better. See? Y'all are smarter than me. And I know you can wait for a new update. Sometimes, I feel bad if I don't update this. I dunno. I got a lot on my plate. But I'll always try to make time for this until the day I physically can't.
Cross177: I won't say too much on Heinous. I'm a man of canon. I respect canon. So with Heinous's Butterfly heritage, I'm gonna include it. I gotta. I gotta include the Eclipsa stuff. I'm eager to plan it all out. But I hope you enjoyed the fight that did go down!
OMAC001: Yeah. My normal chapters will hover around 5K now. I don't wanna make 10K word epics on the regular anymore. I don't got the time for it, and I know some folk like the short bursts. But I won't leave y'all hanging for this arc. THAT much I promise.
RN: Definitely, RN. New revelations will be incorporated. How? You'll have to keep reading, teehee~
As always, THANKS so much for reading! Spread the story around to anyone who likes Star Vs. and/or JoJo. And all that fine, hunky dory stuff. I'm hoping my own proofreading is helping keep the story readable. I don't wanna seem like I'm bad at writing and grammar.
All in all, hope you all enjoyed!
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