The boys turned towards the girl who spoke their names and smiled at the irritated princess.

"Oh hey Star." Marco chuckled nervously as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Hey Star." Tom added.

"What the actual fuck are you guys doing here?" Star snapped at the duo.

"What does it look like? Saving the day of course." Tom replied quickly.

"Marco, I thought I told you to stay home and let me handle this!" Star yelled at the boy.

"Ooh. You were in timeout, bro? Why didn't you tell me?"

"NO I WASN'T IN TIMEOUT!" Marco snapped at the demon before continuing, "Star I wasn't going to let you do this alone! I met Fate and she told me I could beat Toffee! I have a plan!"

"Oh Marco." The princess muttered as she held her head in her hands.

Marco was about to say something to calm her nerves when he was interrupted by a robotic voice.

"Oh Marco! Oh Star! Oh MARCO! Oh STAR!" the voice started.

The group turned around to see a terrifying sight. There was a figure limping from the fire but it's robes were tattered to reveal a cybernetic exoskeleton showing with clumps of skin oozing off the metal. The robot's hand was ripped off and live wires were sparking at the end, and her chest was caved in slightly. The face was split between metal and melted skin. You can tell it was a woman from the burning long brown hair and the ruined makeup on her human face. She had glowing red eyes that burned into your soul.

"All this bickering and you wonder why you can never hope to stop us. You're just a couple of kids in way over your heads." The cyborg mocked as she stalked closer.

"A lot of talk coming from someone who got their ass handed to them by a 'couple of kids'." Tom rebutted as he stepped forward ready to fight.

The woman started to laugh hysterically as her body started to rebuild itself. The muscles, nerves, and veins swarming around the metal parts as skin wrapped itself over the tendons. She smiled as her face was regenerated back into her female form, even her makeup and hair reset itself. Marco watched her chest reform around the metal ribcage that had a big golden orb behind it and wondered if that was her magic supply. The cyborg looked unscathed as her limp changed into a confident stride.

"See? Good as new."

"You're still by yourself, remember?" Tom called out.

The robot smirked as a black smokey substance moved from the wreckage and swarmed next to her before it solidified into Reaper.

"You don't know when to quit, do you?" Marco asked confidently.

The dark figure chuckled and cracked his knuckles as a sign of intimidation and materialized two midnight black sawed off shotguns with silver edging. Marco went to draw his sword and realized it went down with the ship.

"Looking for this?" The cyborg raised his bent sword up for him to see, "You should really take better care of your things." She called out as her hand glowed and distengerated the sword.

Marco looked ready to kill as he glared daggers at the woman, he nodded at Tom and extended his shield; the boy took a battle stance in preparation for the upcoming fight. Tom took the skies as he unleashed a barrage of fireballs on the two enemies. Marco watched as the two scattered to dodge the hail of fire, he rushed towards the cyborg at full speed and launched into the air to superman punch the woman. She saw the boy on her sensors and sidestepped quickly to dodge his attack, and side kicked him in the stomach in response. The boy felt all the air escape his lungs as her hard leg connected with his stomach. He widened his eyes at the intense pain as he was launched backwards 30 feet. Marco waited for himself to smash into the ground but he felt himself land on cushioning, he looked underneath him and saw the cloud that Star normally used for travel. He jumped off and thanked the pillowy friend before turning around to the battle, the boy was about to rush off again but he was pulled back by Star.

"Marco! Are you fucking crazy? First, you completely ignore my order to stay in the hospital. Next, you bring TOM into this! And, now you're running haphazardly into a fight with no WEAPONS against two of the strongest enemies we faced! Do you have a death wish!" Star scolded as her eyes started to glow from anger.

Star was seriously done with Marco's bullshit. She got even more pissed when all he did is stare at her when she yelled at him. She was starting to think Marco really didn't give a fuck about her or anything.

Kelly and Dennis jumped into battle to assist Tom. Dennis pulled his laser pistol from his holster and expertly tagged the cyborg who was blasting beams of magic at the flying Tom. She turned her attention to the spaceman and rushed him down, dodging all laser fire from his blaster. The lizard dropped small smoke bombs at his feet, which erupted into a cloud of smoke, but the cyborg pushed past the smoke barrier in hopes to find an escaping Dennis. She scanned the area when she saw no one and instead Kelly appeared behind her from the smoke with her massive sword in hand. The cyborg conjured a magical shield to deflect Kelly's swipe at her head but the blue-haired girl put all of her strength behind that swing. It was mere moments of stalemate before the shield cracked and the sword pushed through the barrier, connecting the broadside of her sword with the cyborg's face. The impact sent the woman flying backwards into several trees and out of the fight. The pair fist-bumped as they rushed over to Tom who was fighting Reaper. The demon was dodging and ducking under gunfire as he retaliated with fireballs of his own. Tom dived behind a fallen tree as Reaper suppressed him with nonstop fire from his shotguns. The man walked towards the tree as he laughed and blasted his weapons, Reaper was a couple feet behind the tree trunk when he heard footsteps behind him. He spun around, guns in hand, unloading on the approaching enemies. Tom held his hands against the tree trunk and ignited a blast of fire on the trunk, forcing it to be repelled towards the distracted man. The tree swept the legs of the man from underneath him and he was flipped into the air, Tom was going to punch him in the face since the man was unable to move. Reaper disappeared into smoke and flew behind the trio before reappearing with his shotguns out. Dennis was about to pull the trigger, but a golden rope lassoed around his shooting hand and pulled the gun barrel towards Kelly. He widened his eyes as a laser blasted into Kelly's side and she was thrown in the direction of the shot. She screamed in pain as she held her burning side and squirmed on the ground. The spaceman growled as he was pulled to his right and faced the one who caused Kelly's injury. The cyborg smirked as she reeled the lizard in quickly, Dennis tossed the gun to his free hand and immediately unloaded the laser pistol at his attacker. She had to release the lizard to avoid his gunfire, he grinned as he was free to toss three beeping devices at the robot. The devices detonated near the cyborg and one blew up at her feet, it threw her back and dazed her slightly. She stayed on her feet as she shook off the dizziness and her hands glowed gold in rage. The cyborg raised her hands and shot beams of golden light at the approaching Dennis, who put a reflective shield up around his suit as he ran towards the woman. He ignored the warning symbols and sounds that appeared on his helmet HUD as he jumped toward the robot with his arms out. The shield went out and the magical energy burned through his suit and flesh. He was blasted onto his back as the robot smiled wickedly as she stepped forward to finish the lizard off. She noticed a blinking device on her arm and pulled it off as she studied it.

"What is this supposed to be? A tracking device?" The woman mocked as she looked at the tiny device.

"A… Black… Hole… Grenade." Dennis wheezed as he laid on the ground.

The cyborg's eyes widened as the grenade exploded outwards in her face before spawning a small black hole, the woman tried to escape but was sucked immediately into the vortex. Dennis was starting to be dragged towards the black hole. He clawed at the ground but he had no strength left as he was pulled helplessly toward the vortex. Dennis was about to be consumed when he felt a hand grab his, the lizard looked back and saw Kelly struggling to pull against the gravity. Dennis didn't want both of them to be sucked in as he smiled weakly at her.

"Fuck you, Dennis. I know what you're thinking. I'm not letting go!" Kelly screamed at the spaceman as she used all her strength to pull back.

"Kelly, even you must understand the gravity of this situation."

"I hate that you would even joke at a time like this!"

"Just let g-"

"NO."

The blaster wound was slowly killing Kelly as she strained herself to keep Dennis back, but she was starting to be pulled by the black hole. She had tears flowing from her eyes and she didn't know if it was because of the injury or Dennis. Kelly was losing her grip and Dennis wasn't making it any easier as he tried to let go. The girl felt her heart break as she lost her grip and Dennis was sent speeding towards the black hole. A golden strand of light sped past her and wrapped itself around the lizard and pulled him to safety. She looked back as the same was done to her to see Star in her ultimate form. The princess reverted back to her normal form and landed near her friends. She saw the conditions of the two and knew that they needed medical help now. She looked around for Marco and he was nowhere to be found. UGH! I told him to stay put. Star thought to herself as she searched the area. The princess instead saw a bloody Tom in a headlock by their enemy and ran over to help.

"Whoa there little lady! A step closer and I snap this birdie's neck." Reaper commanded.

"What do you want?"

"Just to escape." He replied as he pulled a portal gun from his utility belt.

"Fine. Just let Tom go."

"You don't call the shots here, Missy."

"That's because I do." Marco called out as he stepped into view.

Reaper narrowed his eyes at the boy.

"Leaving so soon? Without this?" Marco asked as he pulled out a golden box with marking on it.

Reaper growled as he realized what that box was.

"You let Tom go and I give you the box. BUT on one condition, you take me with you."

"MARCO!"

"HAHAH! You're fucking insane, kid. But you got balls. Sure I'll take ya."

"Awesome."

"MARCO! What are you doing?"

Reaper turned into smoke and wist around Marco before appearing with a knife to the boy's throat. Star grabbed Tom as he apologized for being caught. Star didn't hear him as she looked in horror at the scene unfolding before her. Marco noticed the expression on his girlfriend's face.

"Don't worry, Star. I got a plan."

Reaper chuckled as he blasted a portal open and pulled himself and Marco into it. The vortex disappeared and Star fell to her knees in shock at what just happened.

"Marco…"

AUTHOR's NOTE: Hey ladies and gents! A new chapter has been released. A lot of crazy shit happened in this update and now Marco is leaving with the enemy? What is the plan? Does Kelly and Dennis have a thing between them? Or are they just really good battle buddies? I hope you enjoyed and please review! Thank you!