Yes, I said I was going to return to this story when the show returned. Yes, I know I'm breaking my word. But, with a couple factors (Chains of Reality being in hiatus again, having the time actually finish this, and feeling like it's about time the story continued) and the most recent preview shown of season 4 (which I haven't seen myself, but have seen The Roundtable's video about it...), well, let me just say:
I'm kinda sad that the destruction of Mewni is going to happen in this fic, and not in the main story. That's how much I dislike the Mewmans now.
So, why not try to do some wish fulfillment as we finally kinda-sorta-begin the war I've been building up to forever?
But first, let's answer some reviews:
1) Guest:
* I can't give such a blatant spoiler man, but the fact that the Clubs fragment reacted in St. Meteora's should give you a clue as to who is there.
* What didn't Celena do to Eclipsa, good lord...
2) Nobody245:
* You don't know how much I needed those encouraging words. Between the moving (which we did have), insecurity with my writing, and the ideas that have been shelved in my head, I really needed something to keep me going. In fact, I was actually thinking of either cancelling or putting this story for adoption for a while now. I'm glad to say, that's no longer the case, and while I can't promise anything, I will try my hardest to see this story through the end.
3) SonicE1337 (Chapter 1):
* I just wonder, in 27-28 chapters, how long will your interest last?
4) SonicE1337 (Chapter 2):
* Pointing out inconsistencies would be appreciated too. And now that I think about it, yeah, I agree, some stuff... feels a little forced. Then again, the story was originally going to be a one-shot that I turned into a multi-shot, so it obviously was going to take me a while to iron some things out.
5) SonicE1337 (Chapter 3):
* Hekastar (yay, ship name! XD) was meant to be a fluctuating relationship, sort of. They start as lovers, but ones that can be sarcastic with each other, until... well, this arc right here.
* Jackie and Mina working together... interesting.
And now, to the chapter.
The sun rose high in Echo Creek, and its sunlight entered through the Diaz household's windows as, in Marco's room, the boy and the girls soon woke up... Only to find themselves surrounded by their friends: The cheerleaders, Alfonzo and Ferguson, and so on.
"Oh, hi guys, good morning," Marco greeted with a yawn. "What are you doing here?"
"And why do you look so worried?" Jackie added.
"Um, well," Alfonzo stuttered as Ferguson helped Sabrina and Chantelle search through the book. "It might be better if you see it for yourself."
Once the girls found the spell, they said in unison:
"Mirro Materialis."
Alfonzo and Ferguson contorted their shape as they merged and created a big mirror, allowing the group to see their looks had... Changed, a bit:
Marco now had pink skin on the front, and purple on the back, with his hair now having hot pink highlights.
Jackie's hair had gotten a little bit more purple, represented as purple spots appearing all over it, and not only did she have blue blushing marks, but the rest of her arms and parts of her body were turning light blue.
Brittney had a pair of horns slowly protruding from both her forehead and the sides of her head, and her fingers turned into a charcoal color.
And Janna? She looked normal.
"I'm pink!" Marco exclaimed.
"I'm partially light blue!" Jackie shouted.
"I'm growing horns!" Brittney's cried.
"I'm normal!" Janna whined.
Marco leaned closer to the beanie-wearing girl and whispered, "That's because of the glamour, remember?"
The girl remembered and nodded. "Oh, right."
Marco then turned back and looked at his palms, before looking at the back of his hands. The palms were pink, the back of his hands were purple.
"When did I turn into this?" he asked out loud.
"This morning, pretty much."
Everybody turned around and saw Mr. Diaz entering the room, then gesturing the guys to leave him and the kids alone. The students nodded and promptly left, allowing the man to sit down next to the teenagers.
"What do you mean I looked like this in the morning?" Marco raised an eyebrow. "You mean, I just turned into this without warning?"
"Pretty much, yeah," Rafael nodded. "I checked you and the girls earlier this morning, and you... Looked like that."
"And you're not worried?!" Jackie exclaimed, narrowing her eyes. "Marco looks like a humanoid octopus and I look like I got partial frostbite!"
"Yeah, and where's Mrs. Diaz?" Brittney asked. "Usually both you and her come greet us."
"Yeah, about that..." Rafael looked elsewhere and scratched the back of his head. "She didn't stay last night-"
"Mom-I mean, Mrs. Diaz didn't return yesterday?!" Janna asked worriedly.
"She did, but she had to leave after telling me something important," Rafael looked elsewhere and scratched the back of his head. "And I'd appreciate it if you didn't ask any further."
Marco glanced at the girls' looks, then nodded before stating:
"We need to ask Globgor what happened."
Rafael flinched as the girls nodded in agreement, then hastily said:
"B-Before you go, there's someone who wants to see you!"
The teens tilted their heads, and Rafael got up and said "Follow me" as he left the room, and the group followed him.
As they walked, the girls briefly glanced at Marco, who seemed fairly neutral compared to yesterday. The only one who kept staring at him was Jackie, however, and she couldn't help but grow a but worried.
"How's your ponytail doing?" Jackie asked. "Has it healed yet?"
Marco unsheathed his ponytail, revealing it was about halfway there. He then retracted it and answered, "More or less, I still need to rest a bit before it's fully healed."
"Figures, the monster that ripped it off must've done quite the damage," Janna remarked before cracking her knuckles. "Next time we see him, we gotta make him pay!"
"The monster was corrupted at the moment: He probably doesn't even remember what happened," Marco answered. "He probably would remember what he saw before getting corrupted, though..."
The team remained silent afterwards as they reached the backyard, and looked up to see a shadowy figure at the rooftop.
The figure spread its wings and jumped off the rooftop, landing in front of the teens and revealing themselves to be a familiar, goat-like figure.
"Lekmet!" Brittney chirped as she ran up to the chairman and hugged him. "It's been forever since I last saw you!"
Lekmet returned the hug and brushed Brittney's hair as the girl rubbed her cheeks against his chest.
"It's only really been a couple days since you saw him, Brittney," Janna pointed, shrugging as she added, "There's no need to act like it's been years since you last saw eachother."
The beanie-wearing girl's remark was quietly ignored.
"So that's the fabled Lekmet Brittney spoke about before?" Marco scratched his chin as he took a closer look at the goat-like creature. "He does look the way she described him."
"What's Lekmet doing here?" Jackie asked as Brittney and Lekmet continued showering eachother with affection.
"He's here to serve as your guardian," Rafael answered. "At least, that's what his crystal-headed pal told me."
Brittney separated from the goat. "Rhombulus was here too?"
"Yeah, first Lekmet arrived to settle here, and then Rhombulus came and translated his bleating for me," Rafael explained. "As it seems, you're going to start facing some harsh truths and difficult challenges ahead, and that won't stop the Mewmans from hunting you, for whatever reason, so he'll deal with the Mewmans for the moment."
Marco walked closer to the humanoid goat and extended his hand. "Nice to meet you, Mr. Lekmet."
Lekmet shook hands with Marco as he scanned him, looking concerned.
"I know, I'm pink, but we're gonna go see Globgor soon to see if he can fix it," Marco shrugged. "Or at least, we hope he at least knows why I look like this."
Lekmet nodded and released Brittney, who went back to her friends-siblings before Rafael remembered:
"Oh right, you have school today."
Naturally, the team were baffled. "What?!"
"Well, long story short, Mina Loveberry was rescued last night, and they decided to resume classes because of it."
While the team were shocked by the news, the only one to outright whine about it was Janna:
"We barely had a few days to relax! Couldn't they have waited rescued her a day or two later!?"
"Well, there's no use whining about it now," Jackie frowned. "But what are we going to do with our looks? We can't show up at the school looking like this."
"Our world has grown used to the presence of monsters, and while we haven't met many monster hybrids, I'm sure most people would know better than to mess with someone who can suck souls with a single glare," Rafael answered, oblivious to the disapproving glare he got from Lekmet. "I'm sure everything will be fine. Now go to your room and prepare your backpacks, I'll go make breakfast."
The teenagers hesitantly nodded, and they bid farewell to Lekmet as they prepared to go to school.
Clearly, life wasn't going to give them a break anytime soon.
"Can we at least hitch a ride on Nachos?" Janna asked, hoping there was a faint glimmer of hope in the dragoncycle. "It could help us avoid unwanted attention."
"Nachos can only carry up to two people, Janna," Marco bluntly stated.
And so, with no other options, the team bid farewell to Mr. Diaz and walked to the school. The resulting walk was fairly silent... Until:
"Hey, girls?" Marco asked, getting the girls' attention. "Do you mind if I ask you something?"
"Let me guess," Janna smiled smugly. "You want to know if we think the changes will start to go from external to internal?"
"Nah, I'm pretty sure that's a given," Marco stated with a casual tone. "No, I just wanted to know... If you're still okay with the whole "harem" idea."
The girls stopped right on their tracks, followed by Marco stopping as soon as they turned to look at him.
"Where did this question come from?" Jackie asked.
Marco blinked twice. "Well, I asked it, so-"
"I think what Jackie means is, why are you asking us that now?" Janna clarified. "We've been doing this for years, but this is the first time you've ever asked us if we want to keep it up. Why?"
"Well..." Marco remembered Jackie and Janna's angry reaction to Star, and hastily said, "I just thought it was about time we discussed whether to keep it up or not."
Janna put a hand on her hip, Jackie folded her arms, and Brittney looked at the ground, with Marco frowning at the girls' silence.
"I get it, that was a bad time to bring it up," the boy said, feigning a smile. "Sorry about it, I won't bring it up again."
Then he started walked again. "Let's keep going."
The girls exchanged looks and sighed before they followed Marco to the school, where they found Mrs. Skullnick guarding the door.
"Hello, Mrs. Skullnick," Marco greeted.
"Mr. Diaz?" Skullnick remarked in surprise before she noticed the rest of the team. "Lynn-Thomas? Wong? Ordonia?"
"Yeah, we stand out a bit, don't we?" Marco sheepishly smiled. "We were going to go see Professor Mina, see if she lets us see Globgor to find out what happened."
Skullnick nodded. "Sure, she's at her office. Go there before you go anywhere else."
Marco nodded. "Got it, thanks Mrs. Skullnick."
The team walked inside, but Mrs. Skullnick stopped Marco, grabbed his shoulder, and whispered to his ear:
"If anybody starts slandering you, Mr. Diaz, don't hesitate to fight back."
The boy nodded with a confused look, and quickly left as soon as Mrs. Skullnick released him.
Mina's Office...
The purple-haired teacher flipped a pen around repeatedly, trying to distract herself from the insane number of events that happened last night.
Most important of those being Solaria and the true Queen of Hearts' return.
"It's only a matter of time now," Mina said with discomfort. "With Febe and Solaria out, they'll-"
Then, the team opened the door and went inside.
"Hi, Professor Mina," they greeted in unison.
"Hello there, Mr. Dia-" Mina said, before screaming her heart out at Marco's new look. "You're pink!"
Marco smiled sheepishly. "Yeah..."
"Why are you pink?!" Mina asked, pulling her hair. "In fact, how long have you been pink?! Last time we met, you had normal skin!"
"I know, and don't worry, the pink skin only appeared today," Marco replied. "We're going to go see Globgor in order to find out what's wrong. That is, if you're okay if we do that before the classes start."
"Fine, under one condition," Mina stated. "I'm coming with you."
"It's okay, Mina," Rafael said, waving his hand. "I'm sure Globgor will let us go see him right away. And if not, I don't think the monsters will bother us as we try to go up."
The ex-Mewman frowned. "It's not the monsters that worry me."
The team raised an eyebrow. "Then who are you worried about?"
Globgor's Tower, Somewhere Near the Top Level...
Angie and Solaria sat on the ground, the latter watching as the former held her hands close to eachother and generated a sphere made of light magic, which started flickering a little.
Angie managed to stabilize the sphere before dissipating it, letting her catch her breath.
"Very good, sweetie, you're starting to get the hang of light magic!" Solaria remarked, clapping as her daughter fell on her knees and caught her breath. "Although, it seems to be taking more out of you than I expected. Is something wrong?"
"Well,I've never practiced light magic before," Angie answered with a sheepish smile. "It's mostly been shadow magic, courtesy of Globgor."
Solaris frowned.
"What about you, Mom?" Mrs. Diaz asked. "You don't feel uncomfortable inside a tower filled with monsters?"
The woman narrowed her closed eyes. "I'm fine. It's the monsters who are probably uncomfortable with me being around."
Angie looked elsewhere and rolled her eyes. "Considering you threatened to cut the throat of the first monster you "saw..."
"It was a true monster, Angelica!" Solaria exclaimed in response. "The only monsters you should trust are explicitly humanoid ones!"
"What about monsters who are right in the middle, like Septarians?" Angie pointed out sternly. "Should I trust them or not?"
"Wait until they show their true colors, then decide for yourself," Solaria rubbed her temples. "But we're wasting time as we speak, let's get back to your magic training."
Angie sighed and leaned back until she hit the ground.
The Top Level...
"I wasn't ressurrected properly?"
The team looked in a mix of shock and disbelief at the behemoth known as Globgor looked elsewhere and scratched the back of his head.
"Besides a large sum of lifeforce, a wight needs to absorb the soul of their murderer in order to be properly revived back into their previous state," Globgor sorrowfully explained. "I didn't want to tell you this, simple because I couldn't take the risk of one of Mewni's queens' being killed-"
"Yes, uh, about that," Marco scratched his head and looked elsewhere. "Star... Isn't really... The Queen of Hearts."
Globgor's eyes were obscured, and as he leaned down closer to Marco's sight, his four eyes glew with intense hatred and rage as he asked:
"What?"
"A-Allow me to explain, Your Majesty!" Mina exclaimed, jumping in front of the team and spreading her arms wide. "Is what I would say if I knew what they were talking about, hehe."
"Listen, Globgor, my wife interrogated a Mewman last night, and she revealed that the Mewman wa know as Star... isn't the real Queen of Hearts," Rafael explained sadly. "The real queen is someone apparently named Febe."
"Febe? That's..." Globgor leaned back and shook his head. "I can't believe the Mewmans got away with such a lie for hundreds of years! Celena, I can believe, but not Mewmanity as a whole!"
"Calm down, Globgor, please," Rafael requested. "I'm sure there's a way we can fix this."
The behemoth sternly looked at the man and nodded. "Yes, there is one way. And for that way to occur, I need you to do something for me."
"Anything for you," Mr. Diaz answered.
Globgor's eyes lit up, and so did Rafael's, with the duo talking telepathically as Marco and the team watched them in confusion.
"Are they talking with telepathy?" Marco asked. "Is that something Globgor can do?"
"I don't think that was ever established before," Mina said. "Then again, if we did know about this beforehand, it wouldn't have made me any less terrified of him."
"You're scared of Globgor?" Janna asked with a teasing smile. "The greatest ex-Mewman warrioress is scared of someone?"
"It makes sense when that someone is the freaking king of monsters!" Mina snapped, before noticing Marco was starting to breath heavily. "Now, you three, keep an eye on Marco. He doesn't look good."
Marco clutched his chest and dropped to his knees. "And I'm not feeling so good either."
The girls surrounded the seemingly exhausted boy as Globgor and Rafael finished their telepathic conversation, with Mr. Diaz nodding and stating "I got it" before Globgor covered him with his hands, then channeled some of his magic inside them.
With that done, the giant monster threw the man hard enough to not only crash through the walls with no notable injury, but also somehow cross through dimensions, landing him straight at Mewni square.
The Mewmans surrounded him as Rafael opened his eyes, which had become golden, and he let out a titanic roar, not only shaking the entire kingdom, but also making it heard across the city of Echo Creek, where a couple of people who heard it gained markings across their bodies similar to Globgor's.
Among the ones who got the markings were the cheerleaders, Alfonzo, Ferguson, and some monsters on the tower, like Toffee.
"Looks like we can finally begin the assault," Toffee remarked, looking at his reflection in a mirror. "Somebody call Rasticore and tell him to open a portal to Mewni."
The lizard man took off his suit, and replaced it with a cloak as he finished:
"The Children of Globgor are finally going to Mewni."
