School had just gotten out for the day at Echo Creek, and Star and Marco were standing outside near waiting for their trio of friends. Star was jumping up and down in excitement while Marco just stood there and watched.
"Marco! What's taking them so long!?" Star said unable to wait any longer
Marco merely chuckled at Star's excitement before speaking, "Relax, Star. I'm sure they'll be here soon. Besides, we just got out of class."
Star had told Marco that she was deadset on getting Oskar a new keytar. A keytar that would so impress him that he would have no choice but to go out with her. Then they get married, rule Mewni, and spend their days breeding warnicorns and introducing Earth music to Mewni.
I'm pretty sure the last part was just wishful thinking. But when I had a crush on Jackie, I dreamed of spending our days with Jackie as a world-famous skater and me as her loving and supportive husband, Marco thought to himself.
"Sorry I'm late," a familiar voice spoke from behind the two. Marco and Star turned around to see that it was Oskar.
"Do my eyes deceive me, or did you manage to get here before Jackie and Janna?" Marco said jokingly.
"Haha, hilarious Marco," Oskar replied before looking at a now lovestruck Star "Sup Star."
" Oskaaarrr," Star said dreamily before snapping out of it. "I mean, uh- hey Oskar!" Star nervously said.
"So where's Jackie and Janna? I didn't think that I'd get here before them" Oskar said
"They'll be here soon. Speak of the devil; here they are now," Marco said, pointing behind Oskar.
"Hey guys, sorry we took so long. I had to wait for Janna to get out of detention," Jackie said while gesturing to Janna, who was walking beside her.
"Eh, not my fault Skullzy can't take a joke," Janna calmly said. "And it's not the worst prank I've ever pulled. Top twenty, at best," she added on before turning to Star "Anyways, so Star, where is this place you said that could replace all our stuff?" Janna questioned.
"Well, Janna Banana, it's a surprise!" Star said before pulling out the dimensional scissors Ponyhead gave her and proceeded to open a blue, swirling portal. Everyone stared at it in awe.
"Yeah, I had the same look on my face," Marco commented, smiling at the faces his friends were making. "People from other dimensions use magic scissors, like these to travel. Just think of where you want to go, and they'll take you there."
"Oh man, I could do so many cool things with this thang," Janna said, eyeing Star's scissors with a mischievous twinkle in her eyes that Marco and Jackie knew all too well. "Hey, Star, any chance I could borrow those sometime?"
"How about no?" Jackie said, grabbing her friend by the shoulder and moving her away from the scissors. "Besides, I'd want to borrow them so that I can finally go on that trip to France I've always wanted," she added.
"Duly Noted, Jackie," Star said.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Marco said before entering the portal, followed by Oskar.
"Wicked cool," Janna said before entering the portal with Jackie and Star.
"Welcome to Quest Buy!" Star stepped through the portal she cut with her friends following and gasping in awe.
Around them was what appeared to be a typical shopping mart, but built like a medieval palace would have been constructed, complete with vaulted ceilings and stone blocks used for the walls. The place was also massive, with the roof easily a good 50 feet or more above them, and they could tell it extended outwards for what seemed like miles. Around them were shelves and aisles containing a wide variety of materials or products that were being looked over by a wide range of entities and races of all shapes and sizes.
Star's friends could only do what any rational, sane person from Earth would do in the face of something so incredible: widen their eyes and let their mouths hang open in sheer shock.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I had the same reaction when our servants let me come here for the first time, Star thought as she silently chuckled at her friends gawking.
As they were looking around, trying to process everything before them, a voice yelled out over some sort of intercom system.
"Attention Quest Buy shoppers, we have a red ticket sale 25% off all things that murders, and remember shoppers, please do not violate the Quest Buy policy," the voice finished in a dull and monotone tone.
"Woah, what is this place?" Marco, Jackie, Janna, and Oskar questioned simultaneously.
"This, my dear friends, is Quest Buy, a place where you can get nearly everything in the entire universe," Star explained.
"Wow," Jackie finally managed to get out in awe before a small tray was shoved under her face with two beakers on it. One had some eyeballs floating in gelatinous goo, and the other only had the goo in it.
"Sample?" Jackie looked up to see a fish person wearing a suit with no sleeves holding the tray. "Either take a sample or leave a sample." Jackie took a step back while Janna stepped forward and took the eyeball and placed it in a plastic bag before putting it in her pocket.
Everyone except Star just gave Janna a disgusted look.
"What?" Janna questioned while smiling.
"First off, gross. Second, don't talk with creepy fish people offering up eyes and taking them from people as that always turns out bad." Jackie said while pulling Janna away from the fish person.
Star and the company then proceeded to walk around while Marco started reading signs on the countless shelves. "Ghost repellent, extra strength Gnome heads, jawbreakers the size of your fists? Star, are you sure we can get the stuff they need here?" Marco questioned.
"Psshh, of course, Marco, this is Quest Buy. After all, you can get almost anything you need here," Star answered.
Hmmm, I wonder,Marco thought to himself.
"Man, this place is disorganized, and that's coming from me," Oskar said while looking around. Oskar Greason had a reputation of being the most unorganized kid in Echo Creek. So if he said something was disorganized, then it was disorganized!
Star stops walking to look at her friends before speaking up "It only looks disorganized. Legends say that the founders of Quest Buy had an ancient cryptic system of symbols they used to organize the store." Star leaned in close to them with an eerie look in her eyes. "Some have gone mad trying to decipher it." The group turned as they heard an excited squeal from some sort of black and furry little creature that had a skull covering its head.
"I finally got it! Housewares are that WAY!" He ran off, laughing into a wall. The group ignores the furry dog-creature while they entered another area of the store. That's when Marco then noticed something. Standing off to one side was a pair of 12 foot tall, almost robotic looking statues. They were colored jet-black, a scaly appearance, and a hole in their chest. Marco had already seen them at several points throughout the store, so he finally decided to ask Star about it.
"Hey Star, I've meant to ask, but what are those things?" Marco said, while pointing to one of the statues.
"Oh, those things? To be honest, I'm not exactly sure. I heard they're supposed to be Quest Buy's security that enforces their policy," Star explained.
"What exactly is this policy, though?" Janna questioned
"Oh, it's pretty simple: don't attack customers and no stealing. That's pretty much it," Star answered.
The group nodded at Star as they reached an intersection. Marco then spoke up, "Hey Star is it alright if I do some exploring of the store on my own?" Marco questioned.
"Are you sure about that, Marco? This place isn't exactly easy to navigate," Star said, the look of concern on her face evident.
"Can't you just use a spell to locate him, though?" Janna said.
"Oh right duh," Star said before twirling her wand.
"Alright, If you guys need me, just call me," Marco said while showing his phone as he goes in another direction separately from the group.
"You sure he'll be fine?" Oskar said in a worried tone as he watches Marco take another turn completely disappearing from view.
"I'm sure he'll be fine. This is Marco we are talking about. He's the most reliable person we know, after all", Star said with a hint of pride in her voice as the others nodded in agreement. Now let's go find you guys your stuff!" Star let out an excited cheer with the others following her.
"Now, what would be a good gift for Star?" Marco said to himself. After the incident with the Monster Arm, Marco wanted to get Star a little something to say thank you.
Ever since she came into my life, Star's made things so much more enjoyable. We get to fight Monsters, travel to other dimensions, and I get to see more of the universe than I thought possible at my age.
As someone with Celestial DNA, Marco knew that he wouldn't be able to maintain a normal life for long. While it was still unclear if he would stop aging after a certain point, his dad had said that he would likely live far longer than most sentient beings do. Long enough to see most of what his home dimension had to offer. Many times now, Marco had thought about what he would do after high school, and he kept coming back to the idea of just leaving Earth behind and travel the universe. Thanks to Star, though, he was already able to do that, and he was grateful for that opportunity.
As Marco thought to himself, he walked up to a shelf and noticed a can of something labeled "Whup Ass." "Whup Ass?" Marco said to himself, grabbing the can before proceeding to remove the lid only for a fist to come out and punches him repeatedly. " Argh ow ow ow ow" Marco groaned in shock and pain as he finally managed to put the lid back on the can after suffering a black eye and few bruises to the face.
"Ugh, I can't believe they sell stuff like that," Marco groaned while rubbing his black eye until something caught his eye. Fortunately, his Celestial DNA helped him recover from injuries faster than normal beings. With any luck, the black eye would be gone by the time he found Star. That's when he turned his one good eye to a rack and noticed something.
It was a high-tech, futuristic-looking board similar to a skateboard. It kind of reminds me of the one from Back to the Future II, Marco thought. That's when he saw the sign above the rack. "Hmm, Doc and Marty's all-purpose hoverboard. Self-powered with zero emissions, able to function on and type of terrain. Can be used as a skate, surf, or snowboard?" Marco read the description out loud as he grew surprised that such a thing could exist. "And it's ocean blue and matches the color of Jackie's eyes! She'll love this!" Marco immediately decided to get the board for her. Since he could make money out of thin air, the price wouldn't be a concern, either.
As soon as Marco was about to grab it, the same dog-creature from earlier snatched it from his grasp before running away.
"Mine!" the dog thing said before running off with the hoverboard.
"What the?! Get back here, you little gremlin!" Marco yelled as he chases down the goblin creature.
Meanwhile, Star, Oskar, Janna, and Jackie were looking around quest buy hoping to find what they're looking for
"Argh, this place is a mess! Are you sure we haven't been going around in a circle?" Janna asked with an annoyed tone.
"What makes you say that, Janna?" Star questioned
"I'm pretty sure we've passed the gnome repellants at least three times already," Jackie answered while gesturing to the shelves filled with gnome repellants.
Huh, we might be lost, Star thought. The Princess stopped walking and went to look at a map of Quest Buy, which had a 'you might be here' written on the dot.
"It says we might be here," Star said until she felt a shopping cart shoved from behind her. She turned around only to be met with the sight of Ludo and a few of his goons.
"Well, well, well. It looks like Quest Buy does have everything a monster could want!"
"Ludo?!" Star said in shock
"Now hand over that wand, or there's going to be a big cleanup on aisle...Uh, what aisle is this?" Ludo said, turning to one of the store clerks. Who, for some reason, was a giant sloth.
"That's not my department," The Sloth Clerk said before walking away. Ludo got an annoyed look only to be hit by a box of giant diapers.
"Run! " Star yelled before running off with her friends.
"Why don't you just blast them like you usually do?!" Janna questioned while pointing at the group of monsters chasing after them.
"Yeah, why don't you?" Oskar added
"I can't! Otherwise, it would be a violation of Quest Buy's policy!" Star said while dodging a spear thrown at her by one of the monsters.
"Look, elevators! " Jackie said while pointing to a pair of elevators getting everyone's attention.
Star and her friends quickly entered the elevator, with Star just pressing a random button to take them as far away as possible. The doors managed to close before one of the monsters managed to enter it.
"Don't let them get away!" Ludo said as he and his monsters enter the elevator next to them. However a slug man called out to them to hold the door open.
"Come on close, close, close" Ludo said while pressing the close button repeatedly just as the door was about to close the slug man managed to reach for the door and opens it.
"Thanks, guys," the slug man said before entering the elevator, squishing Ludo and his monsters in the process before the elevator took off.
Meanwhile, Marco was busy chasing down the dog creature, who was now riding the hoverboard. He had chased him down three aisles already and had managed to corner him at one point. However, the little guy managed to run underneath his legs and sprint off.
"Ha! If you think that's bad, try to catch me when I'm covered in grease. I'm a squirmy little fella!" The dog thing said.
By this point, the creature had gotten tired of running, so it just rode on the hoverboard out of Marco's reach.
"Haha, catch me if you can! For I am the King of hoverboards!" the dog creature boasted
"That's it!" Marco having enough of this decided to materialize the same Whup Ass can from earlier while no one was looking before hurling it at the dog creature successfully knocking it off the hoverboard
"Yes!" Marco said with a triumphant smirk.
"Huh? Whup Ass?" the dog thing questioned. "Hey, I can use this to make others do my bidding! Now how do you open this thing?" The dog thing asked before opening the can only for a fist to come out and knock him unconscious.
"Hah! Serves you right," Marco mocked as he picks up the hoverboard that was now lying on the floor. Now that I look at him, he kind of looks like a Cubone from Pokemon.
"Ugh my head," the goblin groaned as he struggled to get up; however, he unintentionally pulled a lever trying to stand up.
The floor Marco was standing, suddenly opened, revealing itself to be a trapdoor.
"Ah, crapbaskets," Marco managed to say before falling through the trapdoor along with the hoverboard. The moment the "King of Hoverboards," got up the floor, Marco fell through has already closed along with the lever suddenly flipping replacing itself with a standard wall.
"Huh. Well, this is what Eda gets for putting me in charge of shopping."
"So Star, how are we supposed to get rid of Ludo without us violating the policy like you said" Janna questioned.
"I don't know Janna we could leave by using these scissors," Star said while showing her scissors "But we can't leave without Marco "
"Wait Star, you said something about Quest Buy having a security system that enforces its policy, right?" Jackie questioned.
"Yeah, why?" Star said with a confused look
"And according to what you said, Ludo and his goons are already violating this policy, right?" Jackie added
Star's eyes widen in realization, " You don't mean?"
"Yep. If my hunch is correct about those statues, Marco pointed at earlier, and if we lure Ludo and his guys near one of them, we may be able to trigger the security system to get rid of him," Jackie finished explaining.
"You know, that could work," Star said until suddenly, the elevator abruptly stopped with the lights going out in the process.
Jackie and Oskar opened the elevator door slipping out with Star knocking her head against an out of order sign hanging over the elevator. They were greeted by one of the sloth clerks who had his arm in a cast and bandages over his right eye.
"Sorry, folks, the elevators are out of order from beyond this point. Welcome to the death trap department." He pointed around, revealing a wide variety of traps and devices that could quickly kill or maim people. However, not a single one of the security statues was nearby.
"Hey man, is there anyone of those security statues you guys have nearby?" Oskar questioned.
"Oh, you mean the Sentinels?" the sloth replied.
"So that's what they're called, huh? Seems appropriate," Janna said before the sloth spoke up again.
"Yeah, there are three located by the exit " the sloth then pointed to the end of the hall. As he said, there were three of the statues situated there. "I don't know what you want with them, but please watch your-" As the sloth turned around, he accidentally stepped onto a giant mousetrap pinning him onto the ground with a hiss of pain from him. Everyone began moving towards him but he held up his hand. "Don't help me up, I get worker's comp for this." He smiled as the group looked at each other in confusion.
Suddenly the second elevator opens and revealing a giant slug. The slug man squeezes out of the elevator showing a squished Ludo and his minions. "See you later, guys." The slug said before leaving, ignorant to the misfortune he caused.
"Ugh, that's nasty," Oskar said with a tone of disgust before Ludo, and his minions got up, with Ludo ordering his minions to charge.
"Come on, guys, let's go," Star shouted as she and her friends immediately ran away towards the exit.
Meanwhile, Marco was currently screaming as he was still falling
"Crud, I need to find a way to land without breaking my bones," Marco said. His mind was running a mile a minute, and he couldn't think of anything that he could make to save him at that point. That's when he noticed that the hoverboard from earlier was falling next to him.
"Ah, ha!" Marco then grabs the hoverboard before positioning it beneath his feet.
"Come on, how do you work this thing," Marco said nervously as he saw that he was getting closer to the ground at an alarming speed. In hindsight, Marco wished that he had gotten Jackie to teach him how to skateboard years ago.
As the ground started getting closer, Marco closed his eyes, bracing for impact. When he opened his eyes, Marco saw that he was hovering off the ground on the hoverboard.
Okay, not going to think about how I almost died, or question whether or not I could have survived that, Marco thought as he tried to brush off his near-death experience.
The hoodie-wearing boy then got off the hoverboard and saw that a few candles only illuminated the place he dropped into.
"What is this place?" Marco questioned as he walked around before noticing a bunch of symbols on the walls.
"What is this?" Marco was looking at the symbols which appeared to be a bunch of people bowing to a giant. The giant had one of its hands outstretched with a bunch of familiar statues on top of it as if being given to the people below as a gift.
Those things look familiar, Marco thought to himself while looking at the statues on top of the giant's hand.
Suddenly Marco head a mechanical whirring noise followed by heavy footsteps.
Marco immediately turned around to look for the source of the sound, looking around the room at first Marco didn't see anything off. When he looked around again, he saw a pair of glowing eyes in the darkness.
The eyes suddenly walked towards Marco, causing him to place his back against the wall. When the eyes finally got close enough to be illuminated by the light, Marco's eyes widen in shock. It was the same as the statues from earlier. However, this time its eyes were glowing orange along with the hole in its chest emitting a whirring noise.
"Declaration: ALERT! UNAUTHORIZED BEING DETECTED IN SANCTUARY! UNIT IS SWITCHING TO EXTERMINATION MODE!" the robot said in a deep robotic voice before morphing one of its arms into a blade and lunging at Marco.
"Ah, Crapbaskets!!" Marco yelled as he jumped out of the way, barely able to dodge the blade as it embedded itself in the wall where he was mere moments before. Was barely able to dodge the blade aimed towards his head.
Man, they may be bigger, but they sure are fast, Marco thought to himself as he dodged another attack, this time aimed at his heart. Not even a Celestial hybrid could survive an attack like that.
"All right, tall, dark, and gruesome. You wanna play? Fine, let's play!"
Okay, I know I only got this power last night, and I haven't had time to test it out, but it may be may my only chance. Marco then concentrated as he remembered the feeling from the night before, letting his arms glow as they morphed into the desired form. Within a second, they had transformed into a pair of white tentacles, covered in rock for extra protection.
Marco didn't waste any time, proceeding to go on the offensive. Using the longer range of his arms, he swung with his right tentacle, aiming for the chest cavity on the robot.
The robot proved itself to be agile as him, though, as it simply dodged Marco's attack with ease. It then leapt over his head and attempted to make another stab at Marco, with the boy managing to duck just in time.
"Observation: enemy appears to have shapeshifting capabalities and can extend its limbs. Adapting." Before Marco could wonder what that means, the machine held up its palm, and proceed to fire a blast of electricity from it. Marco was only barely able to avoid the attack by transforming his legs into frog legs, letting him jump high into the air and avoid the blast before returning to the ground.
I sure wish Star was here! Marco thought to himself.
I sure wish Marco was here!, Star thought as she and her friends made their way through many dangerous traps.
"Look out!" Star said immediately before an ax swung past them on a pendulum.
Blades of Doom!" Star said, pointing forward.
Star and her friends were able to dodge the axes and continue running. Unfortunately, Bearicorn got smacked by the Ax's handle.
They then arrive in a room of skeleton statues with blowguns.
"Massacre darts!" Star shouted before the statues started shooting darts
Just like with the axes Star and her friends manage to get past the statues and avoid the darts that the statues shot at them.
"A hallway with walls that smash together periodically!" Star said
"What is it with this store?" Jackie yelled before dodging one of the smashing walls
After avoiding the last of the smashing walls, they finally managed to get out of the death trap department.
" We made it! And look, there they are!" Star said, pointing at the sentinel statues situated by the entrance of the gadgets department.
"Now what?" Oskar questioned while panting
Uhhhh," Star said.
While Star was pondering on what to do, they didn't notice that Ludo has caught up to them.
"Give it up, Butterfly!" Ludo angrily yelled. "You may have tried to give us the slip, but as you can see, my followers and I made it out none the worse for wear!" The Avian gestured behind him, only to see that a few had some bruises while Bearicorn was trying to shake off a possible concussion. "More or less," Ludo added.
"Quickly in there!" Jackie yelled, pointing towards the gadgets department. The group of friends immediately ran inside, followed by the group of monsters. Unknown to them, the three Sentinels eyes started glowing orange while releasing a mechanical whirring noise.
Marco was having trouble dealing with the Sentinel due to how agile and fast it was.
Marco had swapped his tentacles for gorilla arms, hoping to match the robot with raw power. When Marco finally managed to land a punch, though, it didn't flinch, and to Marco's horror, it caught his fist. Suddenly, he saw it grow rocks, covering its arm in them before forcing him onto the ground. Then without warning, the robot punched Marco with its other arm, sending him, sending him flying against the wall before leaping at him with a bladed weapon.
Marco was able to get up and avoid a fatal hit, but not without getting his arm slashed, "Ah!" Marco yelped in pain, expecting to see the red color of his blood, but to his great surprise, his blood was not red. Instead, it had a light blue color mixed with it.
When Marco looked up, he saw the robot had ceased it's assault and was now looking at the blood it got on its blade arm, seemingly scanning it. After a few seconds of silence, the robot turned its arm back to normal before speaking up
"Analysis complete. Celestial DNA detected. Reverting to the prime directive, preserve Celestial Creators. Greetings, master, how may I assist you?" the robot spoke but no longer in a deep, menacing voice. Instead, it spoke in a tone like a servant addressing its master.
"I'm sorry, what?!" Marco asked shocked by what the robot said.
Meanwhile, Star and her friends had entered the gadgets department to shake off Ludo's cronies. Unfortunately, along the way, they were forced to split up with being separated into Star and Oskar going into the musical gadgets area. At the same time, Jackie and Janna entered the mobile devices area.
Jackie and Janna were being chased by a warthog monster along with bearicorn, who had split up to chase down the two humans.
As the two girls ran from their pursuers, something then caught Janna's eye. It was a phone, but unlike the rest in the store that was just compact mirrors like the one Star had, this one was designed like one of Earth's smartphone.
Bearicorn was then able to grab Jackie. Janna saw this and was about to help until the warthog monster also caught her.
"Ugh, let us go!" Jackie and Janna yelled while thrashing in the monster's hold. The monsters merely smirked at this and turned around to make their way back to Ludo's group while carrying the two girls. Instead, they were met with one of the now-active Sentinels. "Halt. You are in violation of the non-violence policy of Quest Buy. Put down the customers and come quietly. Failure to comply will result in lethal force being used." it spoke in a menacing voice.
Bearicorn and the Warthog could only gulp nervously.
Star and Oskar were running through the music area of the gadgets department, filled with many electrical instruments like pianos and guitars. The area was a maze, but somehow they managed to keep one step ahead of Ludo's group. And despite all the danger, Star couldn't help but be happy that she got some time with Oskar.
They then entered an area filled with Keytars. "Wow, is this heaven?" Oskar said while looking at the many Keytars. It is for me since you're here, Star thought, trying to hold back a blush. After a few moments, Oskar's eyes came to rest on a special keytar. It was separated from the rest and placed on a podium. Oskar could swear he saw a heavenly light beaming down on it. Before he could do anything, though, Ludo showed up, surrounding the teens.
"End of the line, brats. Now hand over the wand or else!" Ludo angrily yelled.
"Or else what?" Star said in a mocking tone
"Or else--Get them!!!" Ludo ordered his remaining minions.
Left with no other options, Star finally decides to use her wand to blast the monsters.
"Rainbow Blast!" Star yelled while blasting lobster claw into a shelf, causing a black hole charger to fall off and activate dragging him in as he screamed. Fortunately, Potato Baby managed to grab him.
"Honeybee tornado swarm!" As soon as she launched that spell at Beard Dear and Spikeballs, they ran for the hills.
Oskar was just sitting on the sidelines. He knew he couldn't fight, and he didn't want to get in the way, so he just kept staring at the Keytar and admiring all the bells and whistles. Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a giant fly creature dive-bombing towards Star.
"Star, look out behind you!" Oskar shouted. Too little, too late. Boo Fly managed to headbutt Star in the back, causing her to stumble for a quick second. To her horror, though, she realized that the wand had been sent flying towards Ludo, who managed to catch it with a cackle.
"Finally, evil is in the palm of my hands!" Ludo said with a triumphant smirk. The wand then changed appearance with the handle turning into a flat, jagged, diamond-shaped rock with the color of the wand's crystal now green being held by a skeletal hand.
"Oh no," Star and Oskar said with a horrified look and braces themselves when Ludo aimed the and at them.
"Inferno Death Blast!" Ludo shouted, shooting a torrent of flames from the wand towards Star and Oskar, who had their eyes closed.
But before the blast could make contact with Star and Oskar, something blocks the attack.
When they opened their eyes, it was a Sentinel guard, now active and standing in front of them, while another one was standing behind Ludo's minions.
"Customer, you are in violation of Quest Buy policy. Surrender and come with us peacefully, or face the consequences." it spoke in a robotic voice
Instead of complying, Ludo ordered his minions to attack the Sentinel. Despite being intimidated, the monsters obeyed, with Spike Balls attacking first by launching a punch with his mace hands. The Sentinel caught the blow with ease before twisting and bending Spike Ball's arm backward, earning a yell of pain that made everyone cringe.
"I was not prepared for this when I came here today," Oskar said.
"I don't think any of us were," Star added.
To the Monsters horror, the Sentinel holding Spike Balls hand suddenly turned itself metallic and silver in color before raising another fist and punching down Spike balls knocking him out.
Ludo then uses the newly acquired wand to blast the Sentinel behind him with another blast of fire; at first, this was able to push back the Sentinel.
"Observation, Unit is under attack by magically based fire. Adapting." Suddenly, it started coating itself in ice rendering the blast useless. Its face then started opening up like a flower revealing a ball of energy in the center before shooting a laser blast sending Ludo flying along with the wand. The wand landed by Star's feet, none the worse
"My wand!" Star immediately picked it up, changing it back to its previous appearance.
"Woah those things are pretty cool," Oskar said in awe
When Star looked up, she saw that all the monsters, including Ludo, had been beaten.
She then heard Janna and Jackie call out to her."Thank Mewni, you guys are okay," Star said, seeing Janna and Jackie approach her but double took at the Sentinel following them that was carrying an unconscious Bearicorn and Warthog monster.
The two Sentinels then picked up the rest of Ludo's minions along with Ludo itself.
"Where are you guys taking them?" Jackie asked with curiosity
"They will be taken to the managers' office to be punished accordingly," one of the robots replied before leaving.
"So Janna, I see you got a new phone," Star said with a smirk after noticing the device in the beanie-wearing girl's hand.
"Oh, it's not just any phone. It's a UPhone X, the most advanced communication device in the universe!" Janna said while showing the phone to Star. It was shaped like a normal smartphone at first glance. However, closer examination revealed that every inch of it was bristling with processing power, and it was made from a material that far surpassed anything Apple or Samsung could create.
"Wow, that is so cool," Oskar said.
"So much potential. So many things I could do with this." The usually calm and collected Janna couldn't help but get teary-eyed at such a beautiful device in her hands.
"You know I saw you were looking at one of the keytars from earlier. now that Ludo's all taken care of, we can go check it out. " Star said with a bit of nervousness.
"Awesome" Oskar replied
"I wonder what's Marco's doing right now," Jackie questioned.
"I'm sure he's fine," Janna said while typing on her new phone. "He's pretty good at getting out of trouble, so what's the worst that could happen?"
"So let me get this straight. You Sentinels were created by a Celestial?" Marco questioned the Sentinel that he had nicknamed Rover.
"That is correct, master, " Rover responded.
After the Sentinel Marco was fighting stood down, it started addressing him as "master" much to his discomfort.
"Okay, first of all, Rover, please don't call me 'Master' okay, just call me Marco," Marco ordered.
"As you wish, Marco" Rover answered
"*groan* Anyways, where am I?" Marco questioned while looking around the dark place he landed in.
Suddenly a bunch of torches ignited, lighting up the room. When Marco took in the details, he realized it was a private study complete with a chair and table walls lined with bookshelves filled with what looked to be holocrons. He also noticed some blueprints on the table that were written in an unknown language. On the table, there appeared to be a picture of the sloth employees genuinely smiling, with some even laughing.
"This was the private study of our creator," Rover answered, gesturing its arms around the room.
"Woah," Marco said in awe, he then takes a look at one of the books, but like the blueprints, they were written in an unknown language.
"When Quest Buy began, the store was in chaos. Customers from across the universe began to overwhelm the clerks, depleting the store of its products faster than they could replace them. When the employees were unable to handle all the work, some customers began to become violent, stealing items from the store and further exacerbating the problem." Rover spoke.
"So, what happened?"
"Data logs state that Quest Buy was visited by a passing Celestial one day. Disgusted at the violence and greed, the entity took pity on the Employees and gave them guardians to help enforce order and sanity. Using his knowledge of robotics and cosmic powers, the Celestial created us, the Sentinels, to maintain order at Quest Buy. To aid us in this, our machinery gives us the ability to adapt to any threat or environment we may face, allowing us to handle the most unruly of patrons."
"So, where is he now?" Marco asked, hoping that he could meet another Celestial.
"His last whereabouts were deleted from our memory along with the GPS he had with him that allowed us to locate him. However, before he left, we were ordered to stand guard in Quest Buy along with our prime directive."
"Prime Directive?" Marco questioned
"Our Prime Directive is to serve Celestials that come to quest buy while at the same time keep their identity a secret even from the employees."
Darn, I was hoping I could at least meet another Celestial oh well there's a reason why no one could find them after all Marco thought to himself.
"Anyway, Rover, do you know a way out of here? I really need to get back to my friends," Marco said, thinking that his friends were probably looking for him.
"Of course, Marco," Rover then inserted his hand into a hidden panel on the wall, which causes a part of the wall to open revealing staircases. "This should lead you back to the entrance of Quest Buy, Marco."
"Thanks," Marco said before ascending the staircases with the hoverboard in hand. "See you later, Rover," Marco said to the robot.
At the entrance of Quest Buy, Star and her friends were looking for Marco, Thanks to Star's money, Oskar was able to buy that awesome Keytar he had been eying. Not only did it have unlimited battery life, but it could remotely uplink to the user's mind, allowing them to play any song that they could think of perfectly. Needless to say, he was one happy musician.
Janna had gotten a black version of the UPhone that she had shown off earlier. Not only did it have enough storage on it to rival a normal computer on Earth, but it also had access to the UNet. According to Star, it was similar to the Internet found on Earth, but it was capable of accessing data and information from any dimension in existence. Unfortunately, Jackie was not able to find a replacement for her skateboard.
"Dang, it's a shame you couldn't find anything, Jackie, though the hoverboard would have been cool. Too bad it was sold out," Janna said, comforting Jackie and putting her hand on her shoulder.
According to one of the sloths, apparently that tiny dog-creature they had seen earlier had tried to take it from another customer, and the resulting scuffle had led to one of them falling into a trap door. The Sentinels had captured the troublemaker, who kept calling himself "the King of demons" and ejected him from the store.
"It's okay, I think I'll just get an ordinary skateboard when we get back," Jackie said while smiling.
"Why isn't Marco picking up his phone?" Star said worriedly
"Perhaps he's busy with something?" Oskar said while trying out his new Keytar.
"What could he possibly-" Star said but was interrupted when the wall near them suddenly opened, revealing Marco, whose hair was covered in cobwebs.
"*Cough* *Cough* man that was nasty!" Marco said while coughing out some dust. " Oh, hey, guys," Marco nonchalantly said upon seeing his friends who all had a surprised look except for Janna, who had an amused one before taking a picture of him.
"Marco! where have you been, man?" Oskar questioned helping Marco to his feet
"I fell down a hole," Marco answered.
"What!?" everyone answered with a horrified look.
"Yeah, this look dog thing that looked like a Pokemon tried to snatch this out of my hands, and I fell down a trapdoor," Marco said while revealing the hoverboard he had.
"*Gasp* is that?" Jackie said.
"Yep, I thought this would be a lot better than a skateboard," Marco said before giving the hoverboard to Jackie.
"Oh my God, thank you so much, Marco!" Jackie said before hugging him.
"Heh, of course, what are friends for?" Marco said while returning the hug before turning towards Star.
"So Star, I see you also managed to get Oskar and Janna's stuff replaced.
"Of course I did," Star answered with a proud look.
Marco then remembered the other reason he wanted to explore. Crud I forgot to get a gift for Star, Marco thought to himself before seeing the destruction caused by Ludo and his minions from earlier
"Woah, what happened here? " Marco questioned.
"Oh, do I have a story for you, Marco," Star said before opening a portal that they entered along with their friends.
Later that night, at the Ordonia Household after Janna arrived home, she immediately made her way to her room after greeting her parents. She couldn't wait to try out her access to the UNet and learn as much as she could.
At first she was considering searching up about the robots that attacked them but decided against it. Instead, she decided to search the universe's most dangerous creatures.
"Okay, Universe, most dangerous creatures ranked and search," Janna said while typing on her phone.
After a few seconds of loading, the phone finally revealed a page where the universe's most dangerous creatures are listed.
"Let's see 'Creatures are ranked based on how powerful and dangerous they are, ranking from E being the lowest to SS being the highest, ' " Janna said while reading the page.
For some reason, instead of the page starting at the top, it started at the bottom, meaning you would have to read the weakest creatures there are first.
"Let's see Goblins rank E, Kappa rank E, Frogman rank D. Oh man, it's funny how Ludo's minion has a higher rank than him," Janna said while snickering to herself as she decided to skip to the A rank and above creatures.
"Septarian rank S, Ogre rank A, Size shifters rank A, Shapeshifters rank S, Solarian Warrior rank S. I wonder who's the strongest?" Janna said as she decided to skip to the SS rank creatures to find out which is the strongest, there is, only to find one creature listed under the SS category.
"Celestials?" Janna wondered to herself as she proceeded to read more info about it.
"Celestials are the most ancient and mysterious creatures there are, Not much is known about these beings other than them possessing the ability to control the molecules around them easily making them the most dangerous there is. Once worshipped as divine entities by many civilizations across the universe, the last Celestial sighting was over 500 years ago. Current Status: unknown". Janna could only stare in awe at the information she had just read.
"Man, it would be cool if I could meet one of these guys," Janna said to herself despite the Celestials being listed as the most dangerous she was unfazed by it. "Now I wonder what these guys look like," Janna said as she clicked the images for Celestials only to be met with hundreds of blurred out images.
"Aw boo. Hmmm, perhaps I can ask Star about this," Janna said as she put down her phone and went to sleep.
CELESTIAL JOURNAL
Sentinel- are artifacts that were created and developed by an unknown Celestial. These Sentinels serve as robotic guards to Quest Buy. Unlike other robot guards like the ones from St. Olga's, the sentinels were equipped with advance machinery that allows them to adapt to other attacks as well as the ability morph their arms into weapons. They also possess an energy ray in their heads that allows them to shoot powerful energy blast.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:Rothem here back with another chapter for you dear readers. Before you say anything the sentinels in the story were based off the ones from X-men Days of Future Past therefore in case the description about their appearance in the story weren't clear to you just google "Sentinel Mark X". And now a message from RJWritingInk.
Hey guys, Jay here with another beta's note thing! While I think that the Sentinels in the X-Men films were cool, that's nothing compared to them in the comics and cartoons. Go read the comics if you want to see how crazy they can get. Some of them are massive as skyscrapers! Also, while Marco naming the Sentinel he fought Rover seems random, it's not. There is, in fact, a Sentinel in the comics that was named Rover. Some teenager found it in a junkyard and repaired it to serve him.
Also, if you guys didn't realize, the little cubone creature Marco chased was King, one of the main characters from Disney's newest series, The Owl House. It's all about a girl named Luz who finds herself in a world inhabitated by demons, and she stays with this outlaw witch and studies to become one herself. It's only in its first season, but it's really good. If you're a fan of Gravity Falls and Star vs. the Forces of Evil, I'd recommend you watch The Owl house. Also, King is voiced by Alex Hirsch, aka Grunkle Stan/Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls, which is awesome.Jay out!
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