Marco groaned sleepily, "Star not now. I'm trying to grade Shayna's paper (snore), we can play later." he moaned before feeling himself fall to the ground, this knocking him out of his dream sequence. "GAH!" he shot awake, and found himself not in the big room he and Star would be sharing. Instead, he was residing in one of the cells of the old Castle Butterfly dungeon, "What the?"

"Oh good, you're awake." he heard a voice before looking to the cell door, where he found a smug-looking Mina twirling a necklace with a lone key on her finger.

"Mina?" Marco questioned as he went up to the door and held onto the bars, "What's going on? Why am I locked up?"

Mina ceased her twirling and looked at the human boy, "Oh nothing, just the undoing of the mistakes this accursed Butterfly legacy. Honestly, things were much simpler before all this 'Monster Rights' shit started, it was easier when I can just punch monsters in the face and make them go home!" Mina complained.

"Well if we're being specific, they technically were home. Mewmans have just built they're villages on top of their nests, which is a major cause of habitat loss for mons-" Marco was interrupted when he was struck with a whip "OH!" he rubbed his sore hand, staring at Mina who produced a whip out of thin air.

"But things have changed now, I'm married to a monster like my queen's disappointment of a daughter. The old me would have been insulted for such an act," she sighed "but Sethy ended up being the one that makes me sane. I don't know why but I feel safe with him, even if he's a monster. I feel more comfortable around him than with any of the guys from my old army, like he understands what I'm going through. He treats me like a being and not a commander or lunatic or anything, he treats me right. At first I didn't trust him because he's a monster, but now he's all that really want. Now I know why Eclipsa chose to be with a monster over her own kind." she turned away from Marco, making sure her blush wasn't seen by the earthling.

"Wow, if I didn't know any better I'd say you love him." Marco replied with a smartass smile.

Mina growled but didn't deny it, "You know, at first I wanted to destroy all of the monsters and bring Mewni back to the glory days. That was until Seth came along, but now I have a new vision for this crummy ole universe." Mina let out an evil smile, one that would make a monster pee themselves. "A vision where only me and my Sethykins stand above all, starting with this pitiful kingdom." she then laughed maniacally as she walked to the exit, passing by the unconscious forms of the royal Butterfly family and Heckapoo.

"What about Star, you aren't gonna kill her are you?" Marco asked fearfully.

"I've tried to do that and looked how that turned out." she replied, "No, I have something else in mind for that for that royal bitch." she said ominously.

(meanwhile)

Star followed where that shady figure went, up to near the Mewman desert 30 miles west of the castle. Since she was so high up riding on Cloudy #2, and by riding with the other clouds she could keep an eye on them without being spotted. She saw the figure push over a giant rock, which revealed a trapdoor that the shady being entered.

After 10 minutes the figure came back and pushed the rock over the door, then walk away. After she saw the figure go back into a part of the forest that wasn't burnt completely down to the roots, she ordered Cloudy #2 to descend. Which he did, as she landed on the sands she muttered a spell that made her hands glow red. A little super strength spell she discovered. She then pushed on the giant rock, and slowly she unveiled the trap door again.

She pulled open the door and jumped right in, and she found herself in what seemed to be underground tunnels with lanterns lighting up the way. "Mina! Are you here?" she called out as she walked down the halls. She carefully made her way down the hall, searching corridor through corridor, until she found herself at a wooden door. Star tested the knob and not to her surprise it was locked, she soon held out her hand.

"Narwhal Blast!" She casted, she then shot the door off with a magical narwhal before she got ready to attack. She looked around and saw various photos of her, Marco and the kids all tacked onto bulletin boards scattered throughout the room. "Okay talk about obsessive." She said as she disarmed her magic as she continued looking around trying to find clues. "For someone who's a complete nut job, you would think that she would keep her plans out in the open." Star whispered.

"Tell me about it." Star yelped and then looked to her side and found Mariposa.

"What are you doing here, I told Cloudy to take you two away!" Star nagged.

"And Tia Janna bribed him to leave me so that she can find her future husband, and I was worried about you." She said honestly.

"That's sweet of you Mari but you really shouldn't be here, Marco will kill me if something happens to you." Star exclaimed.

"Don't worry, I can take care of myself. Living with Shayna on you for a few years does things to a boy, who go turned into a girl." Mariposa waved off Star's worries before she searched around the room, Besides there is nothing around here that could potentially be dangerous…. AHH!" Mariposa yelled, Star then looked back and saw Mariposa on the floor covering her eyes.

"What's wrong, what happened?" Star asked Mariposa then pointed at a picture of her and Marco in a very private and intimate moment, in their underground hideout when she was poisoned. Star then burned it with a fire spell as her face heated up with an embarrassed blush across her cheeks.

"H-how did she get that!" Star questioned.

"I can never unsee that!" Mariposa let out with the look of a scarred child.

Star then pointed a finger gun at her. "Yes you will." Star said, Mariposa then looked at her. "Mind Eraser pew pew." She said and shot the young Diaz, who was hit in the corneas with a blue spell that diluted her pupils before they resized themselves. "I hope Marco is doing much better then I am."

(back with Marco)

The half-Latino was trying to pick the lock of his cell with a bobby-pin he had kept in his pocket, for emergencies, "Man, they make this look so easy in movies." he complained as he kept fiddling with the lock, until he dropped the bobby-pin and it comedically bounced all the way to a drain pipe. "God damn it!" he sighed before he sat back down on the cell bench. "Great, I'm never getting out of here am I?"

"Not with that attitude you're not." Marco yelped as he saw Shayna had at some point regained consciousness and sitting right next to him, with her legs crossed and her hands on her knees.

"How'd did you get in here?" Marco questioned.

"I'm half demon with an unlimited pool of dark magic who's also escaped from the many of the world's prisons in over 3 million ways." Shayna replied.

"Oh, right. Forgot you're Janna's girl." he then pointed to the door, "Don't suppose you can get the-" he then saw she was holding all the locks to the cells, "Never mind then." Marco then stood up and walked out of the cell, with Shayna in tow. Marco then looked around, "Okay, if I remember correctly then..." he felt around a nearby wall before one of the rocks were pressed in, revealing a secret passage. "Bingo, bango. Come on, Shay."

The girl followed Marco into the secret passage, but then came back to leave a few dummies in their place. She then spilled some water on the fake Marco's crotch, she then chuckled before running back after Marco as the secret passage closed behind her.