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"Tom?" Marco said in shocked confusion.
"Tom?" Star practically parroted before shaking her head and rubbing her eyes, no this was not her Tom, this was not familiar family Tom. This was a different Tom, she could tell that right off the bat. His face, his demenaour, even the way that he stood, as if he expected something to come spinning out of the sky at any moment and hit him over the head. This was a different man from her children's godparent and her close childhood friend.

"Whoa...This is...this is weird..."He said rubbing his face, it was covered in scars and had a fine red beard going across his cheeks and leading all the way down his neck. He was missing an eye, it looked at if it had been scratched out, and one of his horns was cracked and just barely holding onto his head.

"I mean...I didn't even know if it would work getting here, I am so glad that it did but there was a huge possibility that I would miss entirely or go into another universe or just end up in the inbetween with the knives..." Tom said as he gazed at all of them in rapture. His eyes paused briefly on Jackie and Janna and he nodded in thought. "It's good to see the two of you with seperate bodies again, that was one of the weirder things that she did."

"Wait...who did, did you say we shared a body?" Jackie said in concrned confusion as Janna just shrugged vaguely helplessly, after all she was as lost as the rest of them.

"Please don't tell me that this is more Omni nonsense." Hekapoo growled as she rubbed her eyes in annoyance, of course her irritating sort of made up from nothingness brother would drag more drama into this.

"Well it sort of is...and it sort of isn't...Do you mind if we find a different place to talk? I am incredibly tired and sort of welllllll" Tom moved the cloack that he was wearing to the side revealing his torso, a large gaping wound was in his side and still oozing some dark red demonic blood down his side.

"Whoa! What! Why didn't you lead with that!" Marco shouted as the doctors in the room moved from the children who were at least in a semi stable condition and were mostly just knocked unconscious to sleep off the worst of it. The doctors descended on the guard and the demon, fussing around them pressing bandages and taking readings on their vital signs.

Star strode through the group of medical men and women and monsters until she reached the small frog like creature that has served her faithfully for years, a young woman that she had helped babysit and who was easily one of the kindest hardworking and toughest things in this or any other dimension. Star smiled as she reached out for the young guard.

"Are you alright?" She asked pressing a hand to Big Katrina's shivering fingers. The frog guard spy nodded and looked hopefully at her former babysitter turned fast friend.
"Yes. I did well right?"
"You did amazing. I am so proud of you." Katrina nodded as more doctors and medical professionals surrounded her and began to respectfully usher the queen away. Star paused and gripped one of their arms and squeezed it warningly.
"She is getting my best medical officiers. If she needs magic to get better send for me, she is hurt and we are going to get her better." She commanded firmly and gently. The doctor nodded as she turned back to the patients at hand.

Star walked away to rejoin her family as they left the now impromptu medical wing and retreated to a different portion of the castle.

"What's happening? What's happening? I can't see anything!" GP complained as she jostled with Jane and Thomas as the oldest kids stood around Sol. The young blonde Princess growled warningly at them as she held up her wand and began to fiddle with it.
"Hey I've never used a spying spell before! I don't think they ever even made one! And it's not like I can read lips!" She shot back as she gazed back into her wand, she had rearranged it and made it so that it resembled a magnifying glass mixed with a telescope so that she could actually spy on the adults and see what sort of weird stuff they were talking about.

Thomas winced, he had bandages wrapped around his ribs and two straight sticks on either side of his back, apparently he came close to breaking it earlier. He was lucky that it had not been worse. All of the kids were in various states of disshevelment. With Thomas's back and GP's leg being some of the worst, GP had almost broken it and it was wrapped in bandages and a brace and she had to use crutches to get around (Although she had initially wanted to use one of Janna's old canes which would make her look so much cooler but that had been vetoed by the doctor)

Jane was a little beaten up around the edges but besides a lot of water log and some mild to severe trauma she was alright. Stabby had multiple cuts across her body and severe bruising, overall all of the kids were beaten up and injured but they all agreed that it could have been a lot worse. In fact each and every one of them had something wrapped or splinted or bandaged.

Sol stuck out her tongue as she focused on the spell again and then slapped her wand upwards in order to expand the portal so that they could all actually lean in and see what was going on.

The small council meeting room was had the family sitting around it and staring at the strange Tom. He looked almost exactly like their Uncle Tom, but there was also something odd, something off about him, the way that he stood or dressed or moved seemed as if he was unaccustomed to gravity or this section of the multiverse. He shifted and stood a lot.

The other adults were all sitting and waiting, watching him and clearly eager for him to tell them what the hell had been happening.

Star tapped her fingers on the table before she paused and looked over to the side a little. She saw the slowly rotating portal with all of the kids pressed against it like it was a fishtank at the zoo. She rolled her eyes before shaking her finger at the younger kids. She then snapped her fingers and a small blast of light went around the spying portal and the connection was severed.

"Okay. Now that we have a little bit of privacy...Tom...If that is even your real name. Start explaining yourself." Star said simply and regally, her head held back and the duty of any queen flowing from her voice. It was when she got serious and held her posture and gazed at you...then you could tell the power that she held, the power to not just obliterate an entire continent, but to also make peace treaties and act as a dignitary with the smallest amount of effort.

She had been born to become a queen, and right now she held it all in her power, living it.

Tom sighed before rubbing his face and chuckling in amazement.
"This is crazy, you look just like her. And sound like her too. Before all of the unpleasentries. I am actually really shocked that it worked at all." He winced and held his side, the blood was still oozing through the bandages. For some reason it just would not heal right.

"Alright, I suppose that I should explain who I am and what I'm doing here." He said coughing nervously before touching his snapped horn in embarassment, after all he did not actually resemble a visiting dignitary so much as he did a slightly familiar homeless person.

"Well we know who you are. Prince Tom, future ruler of the underworld and over all a demonic little guy with slight anger management issues with a loving wife and daughter." Hekapoo said casually rolling her wrists and eyes. After all he was like one of the most famous things in existence.

Tom looked shocked before his eyes widened and his mouth pulled into a smile. A few tears trickling down from his still good eyes.
"I have a daughter...I'm married..."His voice broke as he chocked off a deep sigh. His atoms really really hated being in this dimension, he couldn't blame them he didn't exactly come here as cleanly as other people.

"You...you do right?" Hekapoo said nervous that she might have just given a bit of vital information to an enemy combatant. Tom shook his head and fell backwards in his chair, he looked weighed down by three extra decades of life and pain.

"I...how to begin...I guess that it all went badly when Mewni was first founded over a thousand generations ago..."

"Blugh! Dang it Mama!" Sol complained as she rubbed her stinging eyes where the flash had directly hit her. She blinked out the glaring sunspots before she finally seemed to get herself under control.

"Aren't we ever allowed to learn anything in this madhouse!" The bubbly blonde complained as she winced, still a little sore from the complex spell that she had just used. It was pretty rare to use so it always took up a lot of her energy.

"Well that's just great now we're never going to learn what the heck happened!" Jane complained before falling onto a pile of pillows that had been brought for the family. All of the kids were in the back bedrooms, supposed to be relaxing but instead they were just sore and complaining. Glacier, the Twins and the Baby Keat's were asleep having gotten all of their energy and excitement and sun for one day.

"WEll that is one way..."GP said turning to look at Stabby who was seated on a chair, craddling her hurt arm and being cuddled by Jaquelynn who had not said a word since they got back and had instead been tending to her hurt siblings.

Thomas held out his arms and kept Jane and Sol and GP from tearing towards the young traumatized teenager and the group of them walked forwards slowly and softly. They sat down in a small semi circle around the two girls and looked up politely and silently. Their questions obviously written on their faces. Stabby looked down at them. They wanted to know. Of course they wanted to know. It wasn't like she could just keep it a secret forever. Even though she wished that she could.

"Okay. You guys want to know the truth? The entire truth? Let me start at the begginning then. My beginning." She sighed and straightened up, wincing at the pain that still lashed through her body, she didn't know why she was in so much pain but it was overwhelming her.

"You don't have to." Jaquylenn said softly rubbing her back. Stabby nodded and smiled softly.
"Still I need to. My parents met when the dimensions were all collided together."

"The Queens of Mewni were...bad...I guess that's the best way to put it. They were focused on amassing power, unimaginable power and strength." Tom continued he had been giving a brief history lesson to the adults who were all leaning forwards and listening intently as he continued to describe the world to them.

"And that power and need and desire for more and more grew like a tidal wave until we reached the greatest Queen that arguably ever lived. Eclipsa. The Queen of Darkness. She took a husband for her king and brought all the kingdoms together. But the problem was that she chose the wrong King. And the wrong monster."

"Wait. Hold up. Eclipsa? Never heard of her." Marco said in confsuion before Star shrugged and Hekapoo shook her head.
"Beats me." Star said, she couldn't remember having some great great ancestor named Eclipsa, must have been a point of divergence for their dimensions or something. Tom chuckled dryly.

"Then you all got lucky. She was...selfish...That's the best way to describe her. She wanted more and more, she wanted to do things her way and if others didn't agree well then what was she to care? The only thing good to be said about her was that she loved her husband and daughter fiercly. Almost dangerously. They spoiled their daughter Meteora...which was a mistake, she grew to be just as dangerous in amassing power as her mother. Eclipsa brought the monsters into the fold and expanded Mewni to contain all of the kingdoms and all of the people and all of their resources and magic under her as their queen. Meteora went one further and united all of the dimensions."

"Okay wait stop. No offense but that doesn't sound too bad." Marco said in confusion before Hekapoo shushed him. Tom looked at them sadly.

"Well stop and think about it, what if say the underworld didn't want her as Queen? Or the lizard people? Or the moon rock harvesters? Or if some kingdom didn't have something to give? You don't unite a million different and conflicting kingdoms peacefully, she did it with fire and spells and armies and monsters. All of those poor monsters were made into an army, and their heads were filled with the ideas that they were actually given rights...really she was just marching them off to get more and more for the kingdom so that her family could claim more land and more resources and more pleasures. Eclipsa the greedy, Eclipsa the selfish, that is how history remembers her. Better then her daughter though, Meteroa was told Yes to everything she wanted whenever she wanted. No discipline, no holding back. She was nothing but monstorous, a heinous beast that took and took and took some more."

"And they took all of the dimensions? Even...Earth?" Janna said finally starting to put some puzzle pieces together. Tom nodded sadly before he took a deep sigh and looked at Star with sadness in his eyes.
"Then the newest queen, Queen Star Butterfly rose to take the throne."

"My parents met when every single dimension and spacial fource in the universe became one. Star Butterfly, the Empress of everything did that. She wanted to save time jumping from place to place. Then she combined all of the planets and stars. Until there was only Mewni. But she wasn't done yet. Empress Star butterfly didn't want anyone else to learn magic, she claimed that it was for their own safety. So she did the one thing she could think of." Stabby looked at her sort of strange half siblings, she had learned so much while here, love sorrow heartache family. She had forgotten it for so long.

"What did mama do?" Sol said softly and amazed.

"She ate the book of spells and the magic wand of her ancestors to assaure that no one else would get their hands on it."

"Wait! Wait! WHAT! I did what! Come on!" Star shouted jumping to her feet and slamming the table "Sure I chew on stuff but that's a nervous habit! I actually ate that entire thing!" She shouted at the top of her lungs.

Tom chuckled and shook his head amazed at how lively the queen of the castle was. "Man you even sound just like her before it all happened."

"Okay, my suspension of disbelief is up, there is just no way that Star would eat a wand. And a book just for...what exactly? So that she would be the only one who could perform magic?" Hekapoo said shaking her head in disbelief.

"I know that it sounds crazy but that's what happened, she ate it, she gained the power she gained unimaginable power. And she then collapsed all of the dimensions into one. Effectively destroying the magical high commission. Making her the most powerful being in the multiverse the most powerful thing that has ever existed. Then she thought that it would be a good idea to get more energy from other sources. Like from people."

"I think that I've said it before. Emotions have power emotions have magic. And with no other magic from the magical dimension little pockets of emotional magic began popping up, small things, making something stronger or a piece of food fresher or healing a small paper cut. Nothing important." Stabby said as she pressed a hand against her stitches.

"And My mom and Dad made sure that I knew magic. My parents met when their universes collided, when trillions died from being forcibly relocated, from food shortages and riots and wars and attacks. And they joined a large caravan that moved from place to place to survive. It was either that or live in one of the labor camps the Empress made. There wasn't a lot of choice. They survived together and according to my Mom they fell in love. And after a long time and a lot of talking they decided to form a resistance group and overthrow the evil empress and restore order and balance to the worlds."

"Whoa, okay I did not expect that to come out." Thomas said shaking his head in amazement, he knew that his Dad was sort of a badass and Kelly was definitely ten times cooler then Marco but still it was surprising to find out that they had actually formed a resistance to overthrow any sort of government.

"Oh yeah then there was a flying-raccoon-shotgun wedding and they had me a few days later. My mom had to stay and take care of me, teach me to supress the magic so that we wouldn't attract any of the dark creatures that served the Empress and how to use magic without drawing attention to myself. And they did. And I learned." Stabby smiled a little at the fond memories she had of sitting across from Kelly deep underground focusing on breathing on exstinguishing lights and doing basic fighting and magical spells. Of learning to control herself and harnass her powers.

Of her bonding with her mom and her less and less seen Dad. Kelly had to raise her because she was the better fighter, Kelly would teach her how to defend herself. Marco just had to do the easy job of being a solider against evil. Kelly had the difficult task of raising a child.

"Then it all went sideways during my latest birthday."

"We chose a time when our most powerful magical user would be emotional enough, happy enough to combat the Empress's magic. Stabby's birthday was that day, so we thought that it would work. Marco had infiltrated and been feeding us information for months about the Empress's movements and plans. And before she could launch another whole scale attack on our scattered bands of resistance fighters, well we all rallied. And we attacked. And it was a disaster." Tom touched his eye thinking, he could practically still hear the screams and the yelling and the fear.

The smell of blood sweat and piss and mud filled his nostrils.
"It was a trap. You saw what had happened to Marco. Well she had found him before he could even start spying and was feeding us lies the entire time. We went right into a wood chipper. Billions, billions on our side died." Tom shook his head and sighed.

"I saw Kelly save Stabby before she went down. Then there was a weird light. I used the only thing that I could use." He pulled out a rusted ancient relic, it was patched together with a dozen other metals and seemed to be rusting through in places.

"Scissors?" Marco said before Hekapoo hissed aggressively and picked them up.

"These are mine! But they're so...bad...Like a cheap knock off! And so subpar! And in poor condition! I would never let these go into circulation! These need to be at least a century old!"

"Well yeah you haven't really existed for a long time where I'm from you are sort of like a living legend and I am kind of freaking out right now just talking to you." Tom said simply as he rubbed the back of his neck. He sighed and looked at them all "But that isn't important, I used them to run because it was all going sideways. I had to get out of there. But I was getting chased. Chased by someone very specific. With a very specific agenda to take me and all survivors out for their ruler."

He looked at Marco and Star pointedly.

"She is mad, and she is coming for Stabby and me. She will want to end what she started and then get started here."

"Just trying to wrap my head around this. Let me get this as clear as I can." Jane said rubbing her eyes her gears clicking as she tried to wrap her hardware around everything.
"Evil queens make evil empire and constantly one up each other for generations. Interbreeding with the worst the multiverse has to offer and growing twisted and selfish and self serving. Leads to someone selfishly hoarding the magical dimension and it's access points (The wand and book) for themselves, collapsing everything into one big dimension, steals all the magic, siphons off all of the magic of emotions and inherient talent that comes up now and again, big underground resistance battle, everyone except like four people survive, and now the evil dark empress that is also Sol's mom is coming to do the exact same thing except on this side?"

"That about sums it up yeah." Stabby said as Jaquelynn hugged the older girl tighter, partially to comfort her and partially to hide the shivers that had hit the bookworm.

"Well we're dead. So very very dead." Thomas summed it up simply.

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