"Oh-ho! Pony, this is already awesome!" Excitedly, Star beams at the bright blue cube floating before us.
"The first question: What is... your... favourite colour?" Innocently, the cube questions as the others including myself tense, only to relax from the innocent question.
"Uh, Pony?" Frowning, Star glances at Ponyhead.
"Oh, girl, maybe the first one is just very easy. The next one's probably something interesting, like, have you ever killed a man. Mm, actually, that's still easy." Ponyhead assures her.
"Pony Head, favourite colour?" Curious, Marco questions her.
"Pony Head colour. Done." Simply, she shrugs.
"What?" Surprised, Marco and I furrow our brow.
"It's a very popular colour on Mewni." Star clarifies.
"It's true. Honest." Michael confirms.
"Uh, Star, what's your favourite colour?" Curious, Starfan asks her.
"So, I have to go with yellow." Star smiles.
"Yellow?" Curious, I raise a brow.
"Yeah like your eyes have a great yellow to them!" Happily, Star points at me taking me aback.
"Oh…thank you?" Perplexed, I raise a brow not sure what to say.
"Me too!" Starfan smiles hugging her.
"No way!" Star gasps as weirdly, Star fan pushes Ponyhead aside, the two of us sharing a look of concern disturbed by the girl clinging to the oblivious Star's side.
"What about you Michael?" Curious, I turn to Michael humming.
"Hmm….I don't really know it depends on what colour is has and the medium used I mean is it watercolour? Is it acrylic?" Humming, he wonders out loud.
"Just pick a colour." Impatiently, Janna groans.
"Fine, fine. I guess I mean I like pastels, but navy blue is my favourite colour, oxford blue to be exact." Michael decides.
"And of course, you pick an artist," Janna huffs.
"I didn't pick anyone besides he isn't an artist." Ruby red, I exhale.
"Then how does he know so many colours?" Frowning, Janna raises a brow.
"He prefers stylist. Besides he helps me choose my clothes, I don't see style I simply put on clothes. He has an eye for it." Calmly, I correct her.
"Jackie?" Smiling, Marco continues on.
"Neon green. How about you?" Jackie asks him.
"Well, I like red." Shyly, Marco smiles glancing at his new get up, no red hoodie intact.
"Blood red?" Intensely, Janna leans in making me arch a brow.
"Uh... no. Just like, hoodie red." Nervous, Marco whispers.
"Well, I like black." Grinning, Janna tells him.
"Technically black isn't…" Calmly, Mike opens his mouth.
"Don't Mike…" Gently, I tell Mike nodding his head.
"Oh, black is my second favourite." Happy, Jackie smiles.
"Black is pretty cool." Quickly, Marco agrees only then for the clam blue light to turn ruby red making my eyes widen.
"Why did you lie? You like pink." Confused, I whisper to Jana quickly shushing me.
"You know why…" Shyly, she whispers glancing to the side making me sigh at my friend as I bring her into a side hug, knowing of her insecurities when it comes to her image, understanding that well…
"Someone is lying." Angrily, the cube roars as the cube sends out a blast of red lightning which tickles everyone in the room. They all start uncontrollably laughing.
"Whoever lied, speak up!" Star speaks out through her tears.
"It'll end then!" Michael panics, tears in his eyes as he laughs.
"Janna you got to tell them!" Urgently, I call out to her through the tears pricking my eyes.
"Okay. I love pink. It's my favourite!" Janna answers as the room is filled with green light.
"Truth." The cube confirms.
"Pink⁈" Surprised, the others gawk.
"Hey people can like any colour they want." Annoyed, I defend Janna smiling softly at me, appreciating my defence.
"I just hate contributing to gender stereotypes." Sighing, Janna complains.
"Janna likes pink and fights the patriarchy." The cube levitates into the air and removes all the light from the room. It segregates Star's room from the rest of the house by sealing it inside a large cube with sides that look like circuit boards.
"That was awesome!" Amazed, Star gushes.
"We should be careful I hear it can get worse." Michael warns us after we both taking huge gulps of breathes to calm ourselves and regain our breathing pattern.
"Yeah. It's like we're inside the game." Surprised, Marco examines the new room we are trapped in.
"If this is going where I think it is. Guys we can't afford to lie," Gravely, I warn them my brow furrowed at the familiar scene, already playing out in my mind.
"Second question. What did you... really... think of... Star's brownies?" The cube questions making my eyes widen.
"Pshh. Easy. Everybody loved my brownies." Confidently, Star dismisses.
"I didn't." Honest, I blurt out taking her aback.
"What why not?" Frowning, Star asks me.
"Sorry Star I am NOT lying, not in this room." Bluntly, I tell her how it is.
"I didn't try any so…" Michael shrugs the question off.
"Okay yes, they were every um, whatchamacallit, very good, right guys?" Pained, Ponyhead smiles at the other girls looking fearful while I groan horrified at the punishment to come as they all lie.
"Actually, I didn't have a brownie, so I guess I missed out…" Marco exclaims.
"Oh, that's too bad Marco, because they were..." Suddenly, Jackie's face starts inflating like a balloon.
"...Really good." Pained, Jackie forces out as the other girls faces begin to inflate making me groan at the dummies.
"What's happening to us?" Lost, Starfan demands.
"Someone is lying. And this is what lies look like on the inside! Enraged, the cube screams alongside us panicking at the inflated heads.
"Wait. Who didn't like my brownies?" Star questions worried.
"Girls tell her now!" Annoyed, I order them.
"I just... ha ha... uh..." Struggling, Jackie tries to form words.
"No. I told you, I didn't even have a brownie. Somebody tell the truth. Quick." Panicked, Marco pleads.
"Okay. Fine. Sorry Star, I lied. Those were, like, the worst brownies ever." Sighing, Janna gives in surprising Star.
"Poor Star." Starfan tries to console her.
"Oh don't lie you creep!" Annoyed, I argue.
"Hey!" Insulted, she frowns at me only for her face to inflate further.
"Okay, I lied too. Those brownies tasted like dirt." Honest, Jackie confesses.
"Okay, if I had a stomach, I would be very sick inside of the stomach, okay?" Ponyhead compares.
"Well, I loved her brownies!" Everyone immediately inflates some more, becoming even more grotesque from Starfan's words.
"Okay okay, I lied. The brownies were horrible." Scared, Starfan confesses.
"Truth." Everything turns back to normal as exhausted; I slump on the floor after the ordeal, Micheal by my side with Janna on my other side.
"Okay, I don't wanna play this game anymore." Upset, Star whimpers as the game is forced to continue on…
"Yeah. I'm sorry I brought this stupid game now. Come on, let's go to the Bounce Lounge!" Scared, Ponyhead agrees, nodding her head wanting out as we all agree, preferring somewhere less dangerous and life threating. However, as we try to exit, the exit door pushes all of us back into the room.
"Nobody leaves until you answer the final question. Who do you... have a... crush on?"
"Oh come on!" Infuriated, I release a hot breath, bashing my fist against the wall grumbling at the stupid question.
"Okay, let's do something else." Desperate, Marco tries to flee, most likely terrified not that I can blame him.
"Okay guys, we can do this. Let's just answer and end this. Go ahead, game. We're ready." Calmly, Jackie takes control making me glance at Marco and sigh as we all hold hands.
"Who do you have a crush on?" The cube questions Jackie making my eyes widen as I glance at Marco alongside Michael concern etched into our features.
"Okay, this really cute guy from skate camp last summer. He's really nice. See? That was easy. Okay, now you go Marco." Honestly, Jackie confesses to us making the girls awe while I glance pained at Marco's devastated expression. I feel a hand squeeze my own making me glance at Michael, looking scared as he and I look at one another and smile softly, a look of understanding on both our features or so…I had thought.
"No, thanks. I, uh, I'm good. It's Star's turn, I'm sure." Nervously, Marco wussies out, his tone trembling at the harsh reality of it.
"I say who goes next, and I say Star goes next." Sternly, the cube cuts us off.
"Oskar Greason. Everybody knows that." Confidently, Star smiles.
"Good choice." Starfan compliments her.
"StarFan13, your crush?" The cube questions the flash of baby blue casted upon her.
"Star Butterfly of course." Giggling, she hugs Star making Michael and I grimace.
"Pony Head?" The cube casts its light on Ponyhead relishing it.
"Well, if we're really being honest here, and we're gonna be vulnerable, I guess I just have to admit it and say, it's me. I love myself." Confidently, she exclaims making all of us mutter, not sure what to say as Star encourages her.
"Well, I think we all know who I have a crush on. Don't we, Marco? Ash?" Chuckling, Janna glances at me as Marco looks fearful at me making me chuckle.
"Uh..." Marco begins as Janna.
"Eighteenth-century poet John Keats." Smirking, Janna answers.
"Heh….heh…" Nervously, Marco sighs exhaling shakily relieved almost.
"Who did you think it was? You?" Chuckling, I shake my head as I high five Janna.
"Michael your crush?" The cubes light is casted upon Michael bowing his head his brow furrowed.
"I…" Struggling, Michael begins.
"Come on dude it's obvious!" Janna encourages making Michael Sharpley glare at her.
"If it is then why do I…look I don't know I've never been good with emotions I just…I really like you Ash, like you like you. I mean I don't get tired of talking to you like I do with other people. I never feel fatigued, if anything I want to talk to you more, so yeah maybe I do I don't know…" Honestly, he confesses to me making the crowd awe.
"And you Ash?" The cube casts its light on me as I chuckle nervously.
"You make it sound like we're giving our wedding vows….But I don't know. I have never been good with my feelings I mean I don't even know who or what I like so I'm sorry Michael I don't know but I could…consider it. I guess?" Earnestly, I explain to him, his reds softening from my words.
"I…get it." He offers.
"Ash was being honest with her feelings that being she isn't good with them but at least she is being honest and is still discovering herself…" The cube comforts me almost making me sigh bowing my head.
"Yeah." Relieved, I exhale making the crowd awe while giving Michael a look of pity as he sighs, bowing his head, surprisingly accepting my rejection, a tad bit too well.
"Okay Marco Diaz. Your crush." The cube questions making my eyes widen in fear.
"How about we do another question!" Feebly, I offer.
"Oh Marco, you don't have to..." Concerned, Star begins.
"No. It's... it's fine. Ugh. Okay. My crush... my crush is on Jackie. Jackie Lynn Thomas." Sighing, Marco bows his head as Michela reaches over to place his hand on Marco making him smile softly, appreciating the gesture as he reveals the truth stunning Jackie.
"What?" Shocked, Jackie gasps only as the conversation they need to occur is about to the room is filled with red light…oh no.
"Somebody lied big time!" Angrily, the cube roars.
"Who lied⁈ Janna, was it you again?" Annoyed, Star turns to her.
"No. It is John Keats." Confidently, Janna assures her.
"It is! I've seen the shrine! I defend Janna disturbing a few.
"Mine is the cute guy from skate camp! Jackie cries.
"Ash was it you?" Michael questions me making my eyes widen.
"Why would I lie!?" Fuming, I snap at him.
"Ha ha. I love Star." Creepily, she hugs Star.
"And I love Oskar Greason!" Star screams.
"Marco!" Ponyhead calls out to him.
"I told you, I have a crush on Jackie. At least I think I do. But what does that really mean? I've put her on this sort of pedestal. So do I like the image of her or who she really is? I mean I did for a time like Ash but that was because she was saving me all the time and she's funny, smart, snarky. She's always been there for me when I would talk about Jackie, when I was sad, when…" Marco begins as my eyes widen when noting Michael's arms begin to sizzle, his claws digging deep into the ground.
"Dude!" Angrily, Michael snaps.
"Michael calm down!" Sternly, I tell him as he gawks at me fuming glaring at Marco.
"I-it was brief I never told her!" Marco tries to defend himself from Michael as the walls begin to close in on us.
"Till now…" I point out making Marco's browns dilate in horror.
"But that was before I mean, Ash and Star are my best friends and Jackie…I like her enough to know that she deserves someone who wants to get to know her, which is definitely me." Earnestly, Marco confesses as gently, Jackie smiles.
"Wow! I always get to the truth, but that... kudos, really. But you weren't the one who lied!" Roaring, the cube turns into a monster, laughs evilly, and prepares to attack.
"Don't worry guys. I got this." Confidently, Star blasts the monster, but it does nothing. The floor raises Star higher up, and she screams.
"Star!" Marco and I call out to her concerned.
"Hold the seat." Ponyhead tells us as I spot the others who are also moved closer to the ceiling by the floor.
"Marco! Jump!" Janna and Jackie chorus as quickly, Michael catches me as the room continues to shift. Everyone holds on to Pony Head, as she struggles to hold them all above the chaos. A platform moves, and they all crash down in a pile. The monster laughs and goes in for the kill.
"Stop it!" What did we do to deserve this? Fed up, Star demands from the box.
"Lies are a plague. A virus. A weed. And to stop a weed...Monster's face. You must kill the roots…" Demonically, the voices of the box tell us.
"But it's not really lying." Star argues taking the monster by surprise.
"Nothing is black and white in the world." I tell the monster perplexing it.
"Sometimes, you don't know what you think. Your head and your heart disagree. You think you know how you feel about something, but then it changes. Pony, ask me my favourite colour." Star turns to Ponyhead.
"You already said it. It's yellow," Ponyhead furrows her brow.
"Ask me again." Tired, Star orders her.
"What's your favourite colour?" Ponyhead repeats.
"Right now? Blue." Simply, Star shrugs as the room turns green, indicating Star speaks the truth.
"Wait! Stop it! You can't change your mind?!" The cube disrupts.
"Yes we can that's what being a living being is about, we change our minds all the time, life is always changing." Earnestly, I tell him making his eyes widen.
"Jackie, who do you have a crush on?" Star demands from Jackie.
"Uh... I don't... I don't know anymore." Unsure, Jackie glances at Marco then away, her cheeks ruby red as the cube cries out in horror at the truth, reverting itself.
"Ash is right. You think that everything is black and white, and you can't." Star tells him as the cube pleads for her to stop.
"It's a bunch of different colours, a rainbow of feelings that's always changing." Star says as pained, the monster spins violently, turning back into its original cube form, but now it's black and damaged…earning our victory, I guess?
"Thanks for coming to my sleepover." Grateful, Star smiles at the girls who groan.
"Thanks, Star. Crazy night, huh?" Smiling, Jackie glances at Marco.
"Yeah. Crazy." Marco nods his head.
"See ya at school, Marco." Smiling, Jackie turns and leaves us.
"I guess you're going to get home…" Awkwardly, I smile at Michael as he opens a familiar ruby red portal.
"Yeah…" Softly, he smiles down at me.
"You okay?" Concerned, I question him noting the disappointment laced in his tone.
"Fine just urgh a part of me just imagined putting Marco's head on a spike…" Growling, he snarls under his breath, glaring darkly at Marco looking fearful.
"Hey that was years ago besides he's your friend and one of mine." I remind him.
"I know that I should have done better." Annoyed, he scolds himself.
"You did. You didn't hurt him, you didn't fire a pillar at him, you didn't do that." Kindly, I remind him making his eyes widen in realization.
"Huh I guess Brain did help…Marco…." Michael turns to Marco.
"Um yeah?" Marco turns to him nervous.
"No hard feelings dude." Calmly, he assures Marco making his eyes widen in relief.
"Thanks…Mike you're a cool guy." Grateful, Marco smiles.
"Yeah. But if I see you so much as try to touch her, I will end you." Darkly, he growls at Marco in a low tone, who releases a nervous chuckle, nodding his head fearful of facing his wrath.
"Hey Ash, are you okay?" Concerned, Marco questions me.
"Yeah shouldn't I be asking you that?" Cheekily, I place a hand on my hip.
"I'm sorry you had to hear that." Apologetically, he bows his head.
"It's fine. But hey maybe in another life." Warmly, I smile at him making him smile back as I leave him heading up to bed…unaware of a certain blonde putting in the trash can, a certain box uttering out…before blacking out and going limp in the trash disposal.
"Truth. Star Butterfly has a crush on..."
*So what did you think of the episode guys? What do you think of Ash and Micheal?*