A short chapter but an important one, that is all I will say.

To Sugar: Oh you do NOT want to know! XD

To Ironchef13: They see Mariposa and Meteora on a regular basis, there's just not enough time to show it in the story. Those two are planned to make appearances in 3 more chapters in this fic.


It was an early morning on Earthni and its king was fast asleep in bed, he and Star had a day off and Marco figured that he could sleep in for once. His dream had ended and he was semi-awake, expecting to feel his wife cuddled up to him like usual, but he didn't feel her beside him. Marco's eyes slowly opened to try and find where Star had gone; it didn't take long since her face was staring inches from his own.

"Good morning Marco!" the pajama-clad queen practically shouted in his ear.

Marco groggily rubbed his eyes "Star? (Yawn) You know we can sleep in today right?" he tried to close his eyes and fall back to sleep, but Star grabbed him by the cheeks and forced him to face her "How can I sleep in on a day like today?!" she dropped his face and let it drop back down onto the pillow, Marco was fully awake by this point, gently rubbing his right cheek while Star bounced up onto her feet "Alright, what is today?"

"Marco!" Star fake gasped "I can't believe you would forget our anniversary!"

"Star, our anniversary was two months ago." Marco dryly reminded her.

"Not our wedding anniversary silly, our friendship-iversary!" She clarified to her husband "11 years ago today my parents sent me to Earth and we met for the first time."

Now Marco understood what had gotten Star so excited, it was strange to know only 11 years had passed since they first met, the couple were so intertwined you'd think they'd have known each other their entire lives "Time sure flies doesn't it?" Marco chuckled.

Star grinned from ear to ear, her hearts almost glowing with glee "To celebrate a decade and one year together, I have planned an extra awesome all day super date for us!" she swiped her phone open and hit send on a text that she had written in advance. Marco saw his own phone vibrate on the table and checked his messages "Wow, I think this wins the award for best goof-off date ever. Wait, why's the last line only question marks?" "I have to save at least one surprise." The queen winked "Now let's hurry up and get dressed so we can get a move on!"

Finally Marco stepped out of bed and walked over to the closet "Good thing we have the whole day off tod-" he stopped, it was way too much of a coincidence that they had no royal stuff on the day of their friendship-iversary "Star, you got us the day off on purpose didn't you?" "I may have pulled a few strings." She simply answered; she had looked forward for today so much that not even being queen was going to get in her way.

OXOXOXOX

After downing a mountain of sugar seeds for breakfast, Star and Marco hopped on top of Cloudy and took off over the clouds "You sure you don't want me to call Nachos? She could get us there quicker than Cloudy can." Marco reminded his wife "Cloudy needs work too!" the sentient cloud opposed the suggestion.

"No thanks Marco, it's nicer going slow right now. We can just take in the sights." Star handwaved his idea, leaning against his shoulder as they viewed the city from above. After a decade of being cleaved, the elements of earth and mewni now seamlessly flowed together. Everything looked natural by now, making the country feel like it had always been this way. Marco sighed contently, remembering that it was him and Star that brought this new world into being. The last of the old magic granted their wish to be together, the two had never taken this miracle for granted.

Cloudy descended towards the ground as they approached their destination, disappearing in a puff of magic once Star and Marco were on their feet. The couple looked up at the building standing before them, a place with a bright neon sign that read 'Lazer Slaughter'.

"It's great to see this place is still around after all this time." Marco fondly remembered having the latter half of his first date with Star here; they played until the place closed at midnight with Star taking the most wins of the two.

The automatic doors opened with a whoosh as the two stepped inside; it was a school day so not many other people were here "So are we gonna team up or fight to the death with each other?" Star asked as she scoped out their competition, in spite of the fewer amount of players the ones that were there seemed to be regulars "Team up, I get my butt kicked less when we're on the same side." Marco reasoned.

After paying and getting suited up, Star and Marco dove into the smoke machine and strobe light filled arena and swiftly secured a spot to use as their own base. As the starting buzzer sounded Marco straightened up against a wall and aimed his laser at the edge of a window. He felt a light tap on his shoulder and peeked over to his wife "Mind if I take the window? I don't feel like crouching today." She whispered. Marco complied and let Star move into his old position as he crouched down towards the floor while watching both the doorway into the room and the vent opened with a view of the room below.

At the first sign of movement, Star started shooting her laser out of the window towards the shadowy figure making a mad dash across the hallway. Marco noticed some movement from below and readied his aim at the doorway when the other player inevitably came up the ramp. Loud beeping from their suits alerted the couple that they had been hit and both whipped around to see two more players shooting from behind them.

Marco flipped back up and shot right back once his laser regained charge and got both square in the chest. Star grabbed his hand as she rushed them past the players before their lasers came back on and turned the corner into another hiding spot "You got my back?" "Always." Star and Marco affirmed to each other, standing back to back as they left the room before the other players caught up to them.

The two hid behind a pillar as three more players ran in, the royal couple ambushing them with lasers from both sides. The other players fought back as best as they could, but then another group came in and red lasers filled the air. It was a valiant battle between all sides, a fourth group went rogue on each other midway through and started shooting their own teammates, accidentally starting a free for all between everyone including Star and Marco. In the end Star had took second place in the ranking and Marco had taken fourth.

The two took a break on a nearby bench as Star checked laser tag off the itinerary "One item down, a lot to go!" Star announced. Marco pulled out his own phone and checked what was next for them "Ok, next on the list is...watch the geezer? Uh are we gonna stare at an old man for an hour or something?"

"No! We're going to that water thing you showed me when my dad came camping with us!"

"Star that's a geyser."

"Blame autocorrect!" Star blurted out, hoping that Marco doesn't remember that she had autocorrect turned off.

OXOXOXOX

As Star and Marco go about the rest of their day, rock music begins playing from literally nowhere and a heavy metal-esque singer starts singing over them.

Yeah, this is what we call a montage!

Old Reliable erupts in front of the couple, the steam making their hair frizzy and the two laugh at their hair.

Things happen really fast when it's a montage!

Star and Marco are inside the piggoat barn where they first kissed, Star is cuddling one of the piggoats while Marco is being chased by a small herd of them behind her.

The quickest way to sum up events is with a montage!

At Britta's Tacos the two sit down and have lunch, Marco has a single burrito on his plate while Star has five 'sugarritoes' stacked into a pyramid on hers.

The story progresses while we play a montage!

Star and Marco stand under a tree as two Love Dove's poke their heads out of their nest, the two wave to the birds and a tiny group of baby love dove's poke their heads out of the nest as well. Marco and Star both awe at the baby birds.

Don't have to keep rhyming just end every line with montage!

Inside a store, the duo reach the cashier with a cart full of random silly objects including a singing oyster doll and a bag of dehydrated water.

We are almost finished with our montage!

Star and Marco walk out of the Stop'n Slurp convenience store each holding a slushie, Marco chose cherry while Star picked chocolate and carrot flavor. She takes on sip and immediately spits it out, regretting her choice.

MONTAGE!

The sun had long since set behind the Earthni horizon, while many began to sleep the king and queen were wide awake, sitting under the same tree that they had been engaged at. The silence of the night was drowned out by the gentle laughter between the loving couple as they chatted over times past.

"-and then after 45 minutes I finally hear them call my name over the intercom and this guy working there finally helps me find the cash register! You had the cutest look on your face when you found me."

"I was relieved to have finally found you, it was only a month after the cleaving and I didn't want to lose you a second time, even in a grocery store!" Marco argued his point, until that day he had thought only little kids could get lost at the supermarket, Star had proven him otherwise "Then when I got home I had those shirts custom ordered for the next time we went shopping together, remember?"

Star groaned "How could I forget, you made me wear a shirt that said 'If lost return to Marco' and yours said 'I'm Marco', couples outfits look great on us but that was one I could have done without." She remembered how embarrassing that day was, she made sure she never got lost in a store again and Marco had thankfully put the shirts in a box. That box was still in their closet somewhere and Star hopes it stays there.

Stretching her hands over her head, Star leans back against the tree leisurely "This is the best day I've had in a long time." Her husband smiled "You can say that again, we got through that whole list." "Almost, we still have one more thing to do." Star corrected him, pulling the list on his phone up and pointing at the question marks at the bottom.

"Well let's do it then." Marco offered Star his hand as he pulled them both up "What's the surprise?" "Hold your warnicorns Marco, you have to wait till we get to the right spot." With a flick of her wrist, Star conjured a portal in the air before them. Taking his hand in hers, Star led Marco through the portal and they stepped out onto the other side.

"What the-Star this is the high school?!" out of every place in the universe, the portal led them back to their old high school. At this hour there was no one else around, and even if there was the sight of the king and queen of the country breaking into a high school in the middle of the night wouldn't sound believable in the slightest.

"Not just any part of the school, look!" Star walked over to a drinking fountain installed on the wall and pretended to punch it. Marco's eyes widened as he realized why they were here "This is where we first met…" such a mundane location was where Marco had been introduced to the love of his life, gnawing on a drinking fountain as she tried to wrestle it into submission. Truly the beginning of an amazing love story.

Star pulled away from her age old nemesis and moved to stand before her husband, interlocking her fingers with his as she pulled his hands towards her "Yeah, this is where it all began…" her eyes burned with an intense warmth, her hands gripped his tightly as she prepared herself "Star…?" he tilted his head concerned, he watched his wife take a deep breath as she kept her nerves in check "Marco Butterfly-Diaz, you are my whole life." Star started "I can't even begin to describe how many things you are to me, is everything even enough?" "No, it's not." Marco shared the sentiment, his gaze melting away her worries and made her feel comfortable as she spoke "At this place, I met you…I would never have dreamed being sent to earth would lead me to the most important person in my life." "I know right? I never guessed my most important person was a magical princess from another dimension." He softly added.

"That's why I brought us here Marco, this is where we began, where you met the most important person in your life…so I wanted to start another beginning here and introduce you to the next most important person in your life…"

"What are you-" Marco froze, Star silently guided his hand so that it was against her stomach. Marco forgot how to breathe; he just stared at Star astonished as she said two words that changed his world "I'm pregnant."

Tears welled up in the kings eyes, his mouth curled into a gigantic smile and his free hand held his wife's shoulder "Oh my gosh…Star, I…oh my gosh…" seeing her husband unable to form a coherent sentence, Star laughed and placed her hands over both of his "Yeah…I know…" joyous tears leaked from her eyes "We're having a baby!" Star couldn't contain her excitement "Marco we are having a baby!"

Both adults were full on crying now, Marco grabbed Star into a massive hug and gently spun her around, making sure not to press against her stomach too hard "This is amazing Star, I-I'm gonna be a dad!" he laughed in disbelief, the red moons on his cheeks lit up in unison with the pink hearts on Star's. The couple pulled each other into a passionate kiss, sadly cut short as they started to laugh again. Overjoyed and brimming with excitement, the future parents embraced with one arm each as they held their other hands on Star's belly "I can hardly wait to meet you, our little baby."