"This isn't as hard as you're making it out to be…" Frowning, I tell Marco watching the moron attempt to plunge the straw into the apple juice but completely fail. We sit on the bench in the dog park, many leaving at the sheer sight of the lazer puppies firing wildly into the high heavens and trees creating bursts of flames alongside puppies fleeing from the sheer sight of the laser puppies.
"Okay Diaz, you got this. Aim it at the little…All right, going again. Hey, this is hard enough already. Star, Ash can you please get control of these puppies? I'm trying to focus." Annoyed, Marco requests from Star and me as I watch on, shaking my head at the idiots.
"Just give it to me I'll do it." Annoyed, I scowl at the idiot failing at the most easiest task imaginable.
"Oh yeah yeah, yeah, no problem. Totally. Come on guys. I believe in you, Marco." Excited, Star encourages Marco.
"Star, I'm concentrating." Annoyed, Marco hisses at her.
"Right, right, right, right, right. Okay, I'll be quiet. Even if no one else does... I believe." Intensely, she assures Marco.
"Got it. I'm trying to focus. Ugh. Just answer it please!" Frustrated, Marco scowls at his failure just as her mirror phone rings.
"Dude don't take out your failures on Star," I point out leaning back to enjoy the brief peace as I look up at the soft marshmallow clouds above.
"Hey mom." Tired, Star greets her mother.
"Star, your Aunt Felicity still hasn't received her thank-you card for the lovely necklace she sent you." Queen Butterfly requests from her daughter as I glance at said necklace coiled around Star's neck.
"Grr, just give me the juice!" Angry, Marco yells at the apple juice making me sigh at the moron.
"Yeah, I can't right now Mom. Things are happening." Star dismisses her distracted by Marco's struggles.
"You said that the last time..." Queen Butterfly begins only for my eyes to widen as Star slams her mirror phone shut hanging up on her mother, the queen of Mewni.
"Marco, did you free the nectar from the juice cocoon?" Curious, Star questions him just as the puppies start shooting lasers.
"Get the puppies out of the way!" Annoyed, Marco tells us.
"Oh, stop it puppies. Here go fetch! Oh no!" Horrified, Star panics as she tosses her wand right into the air, landing nearly in the bin fortunately only the tip hits the outer shell of the public park bin bouncing off, only to end up in some shrubbery.
"Did she just…" Gobsmacked, I question.
"I think she did." Grimly, Marco confirms my thoughts.
"Did you just throw your wand?" Stunned, Marco and I chorus at our friend.
"I threw my wand. The poo-poo bin! No, no, no! Oh, thank Mewni. Saved by the bush." Relieved, Star smiles as she rushes over to the bus, plunging her hand into the dark depths of the shrubbery. Frowning, my eyes narrow when noting the wand rustle hustle into the dark depths of the shrubbery hiding within as the wand is pulled into bush. "What? Got it." Victoriously, Star smiles only to pull out a dog holding the wand in mouth. "Oh, you're just a doggie. For a second, I thought you were a gargoyle. Thank you for bringing me my wand." Grateful, Star thanks the dog only as she reaches the wand in its mouth for it to growl making me frown.
"I can just...Let me just get...All right dude, this is annoying. Is your person here somewhere?" Star questions the dog after her various attempts of retrieving the wand, only to end up with a growl from the angry looking dog. "It doesn't look like it has a collar." I point out brow furrowed.
"There's no one else in the park, Star. Everyone always leaves when we get here... for some reason." Marco furrows his brow.
"Yes. For some reason," Dryly, I sigh crossing my arms eyebrow raised as Marco pulls out a fire extinguisher to quench a fire. "The laser puppies are hungry. Just grab your wand. Let's go." Marco tells her as I nod.
"We can always hold her down." I offer.
"Hold her down?" Worried, Star frowns.
"She looks feral Star, or we could do the whole shove a finger in her-" I suggest.
"Yeah let's not do that." Curtly, Marco cuts me off as I shrug. Together, the three of us head home into the Diaz household where Marco is still trying to open the apple juice while I am on my phone texting Michael, snickering at some of the cute cat images of Reggie sent my way, smiling softly at an image of Reggie trying to be sneaky like a spy only making him adorable.
"Star, what are you doing? That's a dog, not a coat." Tired, Marco's voice bring sme out of my conversation as I look up to see Star with the dog planted on her head, a wild dog making me furrow my brow, making a note to get some flea shampoo for both of them.
"Fur coat." Blankly, Star remarks.
"Prepare for people with red paint then," Bored, I warn her.
"No. Look, you're basically a pet owner now; you're gonna have to feed him. He'll put the wand down if he wants to eat." Marco pours some dogfood in a bowl for the dog, placing it down only for our eye to widen when the dog manages to eat with the wand in its mouth making me frown.
"You may want to wash that after all this," Awkwardly, I advise Star as the dog walks into the bathroom, making us blink dumbfounded by the strange angry dog.
"Is that normal?" Star questions us as our eyes widen when hearing the flush of the toilet as the dog gets out.
"Sorry, this is your problem. I'm gonna go to bed. Come on puppies." Exhausted, Marco gathers up the puppies one of them following after him up to bed.
"Yeah I'm more of a cat person," I raise my hands up in the air and step back heading back to bed leaving Star with the dog…
"They make this for kids, just open!" Angrily, Marco yells seething at the plump apple juice packet taunting him for him failure of piercing the packet with some sharp straw.
"Miss Butterfly!" Sternly, Skeeves roars at her as we walk through the school hallway, where I plan to head to see Janna maybe talk to her before having to go to class.
"What?!" Annoyed, Star scowls at Skeeves.
"Where are you going with that dog?" Confused, Skeeves questions her.
"He's got my wand." Tired, Star grumbles.
"A dog in a classroom is a roadblock to learning. Do not come back until you get rid of that dog." Sternly, Skeeves barks at the sleep deprived Star the same dog on her head.
"What about people with anxiety, they have dogs with them?" Curious, I question him.
"Well there aren't any here now are there?" Skeeves remarks.
"Not unless they have a bribe," Slyly, I remark under my breathe.
"What was that?" Skeeves scowls at me.
"You heard me Skeeves now if you will excuse me, I got some debating to do!" I holler leaving Star to deal with the dog as I head into lesson, frowning to find Marco still struggling and refusing to let me help him with the apple juice.
"Seriously!? You won't let me help you, but you'll let a laser puppy help you!?" Insulted, I scowl at Marco after returning from school to find him reciting lessons for one of the many laser puppies, only to bring out a familiar apple juice pack.
"Just watch now laser the hole." Marco instructs the pup only for my eyes to widen when the pup fires a bright beam at Marco's eyes.
"Okay, everything is half red." Scared, Marco turns to see my horrified expression as I grimace at the bright beam of red spewing from his eye.
"Star, where have you been?" Marco questions her.
"Yeah we could really use your wand right now. Maybe we should take you to a hospital?" I offer Marco who waves it off.
"I'll be fine." He dismisses making me furrow my brow unsure.
"I don't wanna talk about it." Exhausted, Star sighs holding a familiar grumpy dog to her chest, with a familiar wand in its mouth.
"Okay." Casually, Marco shrugs only for us to blink as sharply, Star turns on her heel to face us.
"Today was the worst day ever Marco. I got sent home from school, I couldn't make any money, so I had to put everything on your tab." Star reveals.
"What?" Concerned, Marco blinks as I furrow my brow at her words.
"I was harassed by a weird lady, and worst of all, Willoughby still won't give me back my wand," Groaning, Star falls on the sofa defeated with the dog which I know learn is male, lying by her side.
"His name's Willoughby?" Surprised, Marco arches a brow.
"That's what the weird lady called him. I thought I found his owner, but she was just a fake." Sadly, Star reveals to us.
"Yeah, this flyer's obviously fake, but let's go back to the dog park and see if his real owner put up a flyer." Concerned, I blink as Marco takes the flyer seeing through it like an x ray.
"Okay. You know your eye is glowing, right?" Star points out.
"We should get that checked out," I repeat once more but Marco simply sighs.
"I know." Tired, Marco grumbles as I follow after him, Star trailing behind us as we head back to the dog park…
"Hmm, nope." Marco rejects.
"That isn't it either." I hum out loud, the pair of us staring at the board with numerous fliers pinned to it as the tow of us continue the search through fliers, well I do until I scowl as Marco gets distracted again by his juice again, darn it.
"Beep, beep, beep. Where's your owner?" Star uses the dog as some sort of metal detector, making me sigh as we continue the search.
"Who are you?" Lost, Star questions as next thing I know, my eyes widen when finding the dog strolling on its hind legs.
"It doesn't matter." Dejected, the dog sighs.
"Why did you take my wand?" Confused, Star questions her, wand in hand.
"Because in my dimension, dogs are the ones with all the problems. There's no escape. Only sadness. It's easier if you poke it from the bottom." Sadly, she explains as my eyes widen, gawking at the dog that just proved me wrong. Smugly, Marco smirks at me making me groan as sighing, she grabs Marco's juice box and pokes the straw in the bottom.
"You did it. White grape." In awe, Marco whispers as he sips the juice.
"All I really want is to be... like them. I thought if I zapped myself with your wand, I could quiet my troubled mind." Sighing, she points to the laser puppies as Marco intently listens sipping his drink as I glare at it.
"But you can't just run away from all your problems." Gently, Star whispers making me scoff while Marco chokes on his drink.
"You run away from your problems all the time." Frowning, Marco points out.
"No, I just take breaks." Defensively, Star argues.
"Breaks that take months on end." I remind her.
"That's what I want. I want a break." Earnestly, she tells us.
"You don't need magic for that. You need a chew. And you need to play fetch." Happily, Star conjures up a chew toy for the dog in her moth only then to reel her fist back with the wand, making both mine and Marco's eyes widen.
"No, Star! No fetch." Sternly, Marco intervenes as next thing I know some crazy old woman swoops in who Star calls and takes the dog away, looking in bliss from the love bestowed upon her.
"See, Marco? I do face my problems!" Proudly, Star turns to us only to see us raise a brow unimpressed as her mirror phone rings.
"Is that your mom calling again?" Unamused, I raise a brow.
"Break!" Loudly, Star screams, slamming the lid shit and leaving making us both sigh, facepalming as we follow after her.