Chapter 27: Star and Comet Vs Echo Creek
[Scene opens at Britta's Tacos]
Marco: [slurps drink] Huh. Authentic Mexican horchata isn't supposed to have dairy in it.
Star: So what? It isn't illegal to make horchatas with milk. [Puts sugar and her burrito]
Comet: No, but I'm pretty sure it's illegal to put that much sugar in a burrito.
Star: Food is anarchy bro. Live by your own rules [takes a bite]
Marco: Ugh.
Star: [holds out burrito] Want some?
Marco: Keep your sacrilege off my taco.
Star: Mmm [takes another bite and starts to feel hyper] Whoo! Do I feel alive! [bounces up and down vigorously] You sure you don't want a bite?
Marco: Definitely sure.
Star: Comet! Bro! You have got to try this!
Comet: No thank you. I already filled up on these horchatas so I'm- [Star shoves the burrito in Comet's mouth and starts to also enter a sugar rush] Aaaaagh! Star, what have you done to me!? [In Comet's POV, the whole resturant was spinning] Everything's spinning! [In normal POV it turns out that Comet is the one spinning]
Star: [Still hyper] Great idea, Comet! A fireworks show would be awesome! Who's up for fireworks?
Marco: I can't see how that'd be a good idea.
Star: 'Cause I totally wanna make fireworks. Bright-Glow Pyro! Sparkling Spiral Noodle! Radical Rainbow Blast! Rainbow Glitter Unicorn Gnome Hat Kitty Bacon Hawaiian Nightmare!
Marco: Star, might wanna tone it down a notch.
[A firework blasts the giant Taco logo onto a police car, destroying it. Then Comet towards the the resturant and trashes the place a few people run out of the building]
Marco: [gasps]
Star: Ooh!
Comet: [Walks out of the resturant completely dizzy] Uhhhhh... My head feels like a... [Crashes on the ground]
Marco: [grabs the twins and runs, panting] What the heck was that?! I thought rainbows were made of light.
Star: My rainbows are made of stuff, okay?
Marco: Okay, okay, okay. You just smashed a police car.
Star: Don't forget Comet trashed a resturant.
Comet: I did WHAT!?
Marco: Oh man!
Star: What's the big deal, Marco? I've done this a thousand times. I'll just have my dad give them some crowns. Call it even.
Marco: Things don't work like that on Earth. Here, you'll go to prison.
Comet: PRISON!? What's prison?
Star: Is it like Saint O's?
Marco: It's worse than Saint O's. They give you one bar of soap, and you have to make it last a whole year. You gotta get up every day at 4:00 A.M. and make hash browns you're not allowed to eat. And they force you to wear orange jumpsuits every single day.
Comet: So, like Saint O's. [The twins peek around the corner and see a female officer]
Female Officer: Ai. I don't know. You tell me.
Star: They noticed the dent.
Marco: I guess I could visit you in prison or whatever.
Comet: No! We are not going to prison! I won't let them take me! [Grabs Star] We'll run as far as we can! [The twins run off]
Star: Wow! I don't know what's with you, Bro. But I like it!
Marco: Wait, wait, wait. No, that's not... running is worse.
Star: [offscreen] You can't stop us, rule boy!
Marco: Star, wait.
Star: [turns around] I'll contact you when we find a place to lay low!
[The twins turn a corner and run into two police officers off duty.]
Officer: Look, if you can't read, you can't do a crossword.
[Comet turns around, runs to a fence labeled "No Trespassing," and the two jump it, landing in some bushes.]
Star: Whoa!
[Her momentum causes her to tumble down to the side of a canal below.]
Comet: Okay. They'll never find us in here! Now, we need to find shelter for the night. [Comet gathers some junk he can find around the canal]
Star: Dang, bro. I am seeing a whole new side of you! All this time I thought you were just a safety freak who follows the rules like Marco.
Comet: Yeah.. well people can change when there running from the law. I'm a criminal now. My clean record has been tarnished. We are no longer safe. All we can do now is keep running until the heat dies down.
Star: [In awe by Comet's words] Wow. You talk pretty.
Comet: Those were only the words of a juvenile delinquent. Which now I am.
Star: Cool, I can help with that shelter if you want.
Comet: No thanks, I'll be fin- [Uses her wand and conjures up a huge castle]
Star: Okay, maybe something less conspicuous. [She dismantles the castle and starts gathering materials from the canal in to a shelter.] Not too shabby, if I do say so myself.
[It fall apart on top of her immediately.]
Comet: I'll handle the shelter.
Star: Yeah, you do that.
[Scene jumps to that night, Star and Comet were inside a small shelter made out of the junk around the canal. The twins were shivering despite having a small fire. Star wakes up that morning because of a bird poking its beak at her; there's more than one.]
Bird: [squawks]
Star: [screams]
Bird: [squawks]
Comet: [shoos the birds away with a stick]
Woman: Now, quit shooin' those birds. They ain't hurting anybody.
Comet: [Points the sticks at the woman] And who might you be?
Brigid: My name's Brigid. And I'd to ask what are you kids doing out here.
Star: [Puts away Comet's stick] Uh, nothin'. Just takin' a stroll. [Her stomach growls and she hides her hands behind her back]
Brigid: Well, sounds like someone's hungry. I'm about to make some pancakes if you'd like to join.
Star: I do like pancakes.
Brigid: Well then, my house is right through hair.
Star: Wait a second. Did you just say hair?
Brigid: Of course not, my dear.
Bird: [squawks]
[Comet stops Star]
Comet: Star, I don't trust this woman.
Star: What? She has pancakes.
Comet: We're criminals now, Star! We can't trust anyone!
Star: Pfft! You're being paranoid, Comet.
Comet: I'm not being paranoid, I'm being smart. That lady could turn us in at any minute!
Star: Dude, relax. She's just a nice old lady with pancakes.
[Scene jumps to inside Brigid's home.]
Brigid: Welcome to 80 square feet of my own personal paradise.
Star: Oh, your home is so cozy. [looks at a tapestry on the wall] A radical tapestry.
Brigid: Would you like one pancake or two?
Star: Five please.
Brigid: [To Comet] And what about you, mister?
Comet: Uh, no thanks. I had enough sweet things today.
Star: [climbs up to Brigid's loft] Wow! Cool loft bed.
Brigid: Pancakes are ready.
[Star eagerly awaits her pancakes at the table]
Brigid: So you gonna tell me what you did?
Star: What do you mean?
Brigid: Oh, hon, come on. Folks don't come down to the river unless they broke some of the rules. Your secret's safe with me.
Comet: You have nothing on us, woman! Our records our clean! We're innocent you hear me! INNOCENT!
Brigid: Oh my!
Star: [nervously laughs] So sorry about that. My brother is never like that at all! Sidebar... [Star takes Comet] Bro, what is up with you?
Comet: Star! We can't trust anyone! We're criminals!
Star: Comet, enough! We shouldn't judge someone because we broke the law! Maybe she's also a criminal and criminals need to stick together!
Comet: I'm still not sure...
Star: Bro, just let me do the talking. [Star goes back to Brigid] Okay, so here's what happened. So, like, I was with Marco and Comet at Britta's Tacos, and we were eating, and he was all, like, "Star, you can't put sugar on your burrito." But what does he care, ya know? So then I ate the burrito and I wanted to see some fireworks. Again, he's like, "Star don't fireworks your burrito."
Brigid: [stares at Star's hair/headband]
Star: And Comet was all like "That can't be healthy" and it's all like, don't do this, don't do that. [Notices Brigid looking at her hair] Hey. My eyes are down here.
Brigid: Oh. I'm sorry, dear. Go on and finish your story.
Star: So anyway, my rainbow smashed a cop car. Comet trashed a resturant. Jumped a fence and fell asleep in some garbage by the river, and now We're here. So... what did you do?
Brigid: Oh, you know, I steal hair.
Comet: You steal hair?
Star: [grabs her bangs] Oh, why would you do that?
Brigid: Oh, no, no, no, sweetie. It's not like that. I don't take hair from people. No, no, no. It's more of like a back-alley kind of thing. You know, dumpsters, behind hair salons, dog kennels, discarded hair.
Star: [still holding her hair] So you do, like, witchy stuff with the hair, right? Is that what this is? You some kind of witch?
Brigid: Oh, goodness no, dear. You can do lots of things with hair. I wove it into that tapestry you like so much. Stuff your bed with it. Heck, you can even make pancake batter from it.
Comet: [gags] Good thing I passed...
Star: [stares horridly]
Brigid: [laughs] I'm just playin' with you. But seriously, my favorite thing to do with the hair is to weave it into nests for all my wounded forest friends [opens window to show the Twins]
Star: Aww!
Brigid: You can make anything from hair. Well, anything... but love. [holds up a 'Missing' poster of Star and Comet]
Comet: [gasps] Where did you get that?
Brigid: I found this by the canal. Kids, your family loves you. Let's call them and tell them you're okay.
Star: Oh no no no. You don't have to do that. Just let me stay here with you. See, I can sleep anywhere. Look [goes under table, snores].
Brigid: But this is no life for anyone. Let me help you.
Comet: YOU'LL NEVER TAKE US ALIVE! [Grabs Star and runs]
Brigid: Kids! Wait. Come back. [picks up a tomato can] Hello. Operator.
[Star and Comet continues to run]
Comet: I told you she can't be trusted! Oh, why do I always have to be right?! [They hear someone]
Man: [offscreeen] Whoa, whoa, stop. Stop right there.
Twins: AAAH!
[Panicking, the twins dove into the water. Little did they know that what they heard was just a man walking his dog]
Man: I said stop [his dog barks] Who's walkin' who here?
[Star continues to swim deeper into the river. Comet begins to sink and Star catches him. She forms a bubble around her with her magic. She feels tired and falls asleep]
[Later, someone knocks on her bubble.]
Star: Whoa.
Sea Serpent: Excuse me.
Star: What is going on?
Sea Serpent: I'm fishing, hamster pats. What does it look like? No go on. Hidin' out here; you're gonna blow my cover.
Star: Whoa, you too? We're also hiding out, too. Right, Comet? [Comet was still alseep] Comet?
Sea Serpent: Why didn't you say so? Y'all come to the perfect place. [Begins to sing] An underwater hideout to hide your princess face. You can make a shelter [makes one]
Star: That's the pinkest thing I've ever seen.
Sea Serpent: Anything you want to [creates burritos] Sweet and savory together.
Star: Sugarritos!
Sea Serpent: Nothing 'cause you got to. you want to run a race
Star: I love sea horses.
Sea Serpent: But you want to take a nap too
Star: Actually, I just did.
Sea Serpent: You never have to unless you really want to. Pilot submarines
Star: A sandwich!
Sea Serpent: Anything you want to. Stay dirty, stay clean
Star: How do you take a bath underwater?
Sea Serpent: I bet you really want to. You can learn le France, decorate a cake, trash the economy, turn someone to bones. You can make a scrapbook
Star: Wait, what was the thing before the scrapbook?
Sea Serpent: Anything you want to.
Star: Whatever. This is perfect; I can hide out here forever.
Sea Serpent: Only if you want to
Star: Can he stop singing now?
Sea Serpent: Anything you want... [Stops singing] Oh, it's cool.
Star: Now I just gotta let Marco know I'm okay.
Sea Serpent: What's this missle-massle? You can't go doing that now.
Star: But he'll be so worried.
Sea Serpent: No, no, no, you're hiding out; you gotta lay low.
Star: Lay low?
Sea Serpent: Yeah. You're on the lam. You can do whatever you want down here so long as you never see your family and friends again.
Star: Huh? Never ever?
Sea Serpent: Not even a bit.
Star: So I'd have to spend the rest of my life here with just you?
Sea Serpent: [scoffs] Don't be ridiculous. I'm not real. I'm just your brain trying to convince you you haven't made a big mistake.
Star: Oh no. So I wrote that song?
Sea Serpent: Enjoy the inside of your mind [eats himself]
[Star then wakes up by Comet]
Comet: Star! Star, wake up!
Star: [wakes up] Huh? [Star and Comet are now out of the water]
Comet: You passed out after we sank to the bottom. So I pulled us back up. Now, come on! The cops are coming this way we gotta- [Star stops Comet]
Star: No. No more running... [Star walks towards the cops]
Comet: Star! No! What are you doing?!
Star: What I've should've done a long time ago, which was yesterday. If we keep running we'll just be further away from our home. Even if we are criminals we shouldn't be avoiding the cops. It's only going to get worse if we do. So we have to accept the punishment, whatever it is.
[Comet looks at Star]
Comet: [sighs] Maybe you're right, Star. I was so caught up with being a criminal that forgot who I was. A guy who follows the rules... like Marco.
[They both nod and walk towards the police]
Star: Okay, we surrender. [grabs officer] Just lock us up and put us in orange. Seeing Marco once a month is better than never again.
[At the Police Station]
Male Officer: Marco. You mean him? [gestures to Marco]
Marco: [wakes up] Star? You're okay! [hugs Star] We were so worried. How'd you find them?
Male Officer: [holding an empty corn can] We have our ways.
Star: Wait. Where's Comet?
Comet: Over here. [Walks over to Star] The cops found us after we almost drowned at the canal.
Star: But, you were there! We both drowned! And I met a sea serpent!
Comet: Sis, that was all in your head.
Star: But, what about the part where I told you that we shouldn't be running away and that it only makes things worse and we should accept our punishment.
Comet: Yeah, that too. But I might have realized that while you were out. When I saw what happened to you I was so worried. I wasn't acting like myself back there. Luckily, the police told me we weren't in much trouble.
Male Officer: You know, you two shouldn't run away like that. You really worried your friend here. Lucky for you, we were gonna smash that old squad car anyway.
Star: What? You were?
Female Officer: At the annual police car demolition derby.
Male Officer: I was really looking forward to smashing it.
Star: Phew! Well, if you won't be needing me... I'll just see myself out.
Female Officer: Just a moment. You're not getting off that easy.
Comet: But, officer. You said we weren't in much trouble.
Female Officer: Well, you still need to pay for the damages you caused at Britta's Tacos.
Comet: [Sheepishly] Oh...
Star: Uh [nervous laughter]
[Scene changes to Star and Comet washing the Police's car fleet.]
Comet: Well, at least it's not so bad. Beats sharing a bar of soap.
Marco: You really can pull off jumpsuit orange.
Star: I know, right? But enough of this manual labor. [grabs wand] It's magic time.
Comet: Star, no! That's what caused this whole mess in the first place.
Star: No, you were the one who messed up the resturant.
Comet: After you fed me that sugar burrito!
Star: Pfft. Details. Besides, I only used the rainbow glitter unicorn gnome hat, kitty bacon, Hawaiian nightmare spell. This one's different. [casting] Super geyser windstorm! [The street floods, causing the police cars to float all around the parking lot.] Ooh. Yeah, that was totally me. My bad. Nobody panic. I'll put it back.
Comet: Just roll us back to the canal.
