Haha, finally came out with my tenth chapter, and since most of you voted for it, we're here! Ponyhead's first meeting with a baby quartz. It was really fun to come up with this one, so enjoy.
By the way, one of my earliest reviews suggested a monstar/yd mom au, and I have an idea of a short chapter of such a situation. Just let me know, should I post it here or place it in my Steven Multiverse anthology fic?
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A/N: Okay, I fix a few spelling errors, hopefully I got most of them, but I've added this note to talk about what many people have been talking about for the longest time on many of my reviews: A single pale rose.
I've watched this, I've loved it, and I truly think it was the best direction the show could've gone. As for how they fit into my fics, they really don't change anything that I had plan. If anything, they fit perfectly for what I have planned for later on, Gift of the Diamond especially because of the main relationship I'm going for in there.
As for this story, it really helps finalize how I'm going to write Rose's relationship with Eclipsa, both shifty and secretive, and very shady. So yeah, be on the look out for that when it comes.
"Alright, peoples. I'm leaving already!" The eldest princess of the cloud kingdom announced out loud to really no one in particular, to which only a handful of voices responded to. Not to say that she was ignored throughout the household, quite the opposite actually, by being the oldest, and the one to inherit the throne, but there was only soo much attention to expect from a household that never seemed to stop growing.
That was sort of the problem. As the oldest, she seemed to be the one that everyone turned to whenever something big happened. Whenever troubled stirred up, whenever something seemed to go awry, all the attention seemed to be on her. She always seemed to be in the spotlight, and not the fun 'take over the dance floor' kind.
The ones to do this the most were of course the little nightmares that she had for sisters. They seemed to follow her everywhere, her every move, watching every breath she took. They had those big beady, sole stealing eyes that practically rubbed against the little of the body had since they were so close.
They reeked of trouble and mischif, and she should know, she's the one that set that standard of mischief for them. But instead of being thanked for all of her troubles, she instead had to deal with all the pains of being the 'responsible one', with no reward except the increase in paranoia whenever she fell asleep. She still made sure to keep one eye open after they ambushed her. She could still feel the burns all over.
Everything was everyone's, yet almost nothing was hers alone to have in that house.
Which was why she was looking forward to her sleepover with Star tonight. A moment of time that was hers and hers alone, her time, her friend, and her fun. That was something no one could ever take away from her. With Star's never ending energy, and her own ability to never let the party die, she was prepared to have the best time ever.
She hadn't been at the Butterfly castle for was while, and as shameful as it was(not that she spent to much time being racked with guilt about it), she really didn't know why that was. She over heard her father saying something about a month ago, but to be fair, she was working on something very important when he did...
'Blah blah blah Butterfly famly, blah blah, blah new blah blah blah blah tred...' The word's of King Ponyhead announced as he spoke with a thundering volume to his oldest daughter. The pale blue unicorn had her star shaped pupils focused on something she was writing down in. Occasionally in the book, the word's 'hellspawn' and 'revenge' would pop up whenever she wrote down something in relation to her sisters. 'Blah blah blah star growing blah blah blah new addition blah blah blah accident blah blah blah adjust so stay blah blah, away."
"Uh huh, yeah, I totally get it." She apathically replied. "B-fly's growing up and going through painful gross junk. I'll stay away." She hardly paid attention to the words that came out of her mouth as her mouth practically ran on auto pilot. At the moment she was way too busy drawing a picture of a cage, though whether or not she would choose to put herself or her sisters in it had yet to be decided.
Truth be told, she never did complete her plan, as she ended up binging out one of her favorite show on the couch with a weeks worth of pizza just right beside her. It didn't prove to be worth it, as the latest addition to the cast ended up being one of the most annoying and useless things alive.
That was enough work for her. Now was the time to stop hogging all the fun for herself, and share it with probably the only person she could ever relate on a personal level. The only one that never had any judgments, and also the only one that could handle extreme, hard core real fun like her self.
Taking the pair of dimensional scissors she 'borrowed' from her father(like all the other times before) the Princess floated away from her ever growing family as she hummed happily. Popping right outside the castle by Star's room, she effortless flew through the window as she planned to surprise her best friend. Nothing was going to distract her from this moment, absolutely nothing.
"Sta.."
Except for the sight of what appeared to be a baby starring up at her for no reason other than the fact that a giant horse head had just burst in randomly. Of course, the only reaction the youngling was curiosity and wonder rather than fear and screaming.
"Staaa.." The baby boy kept cooing out loud, wanting to share this wonderful new sight with the best person that her knew. His tiny flabby arms reached up in the sky, as if in an attempt to grab the horse head himself.
The young Ponyhead of course, was less than amused at this sight, her previous joy and excitement now being replaced by confusion and irritation. "Okay, like who left this baby here? Like seriously, he's going to stink up everything." she complained, floating closer to the baby as if to inspect it more. She instantly regretted it as she leaned her nose in a little too close, and the boy grabbed her by the snout, placing his tiny fingers in her nostrils.
This was an incredibly uncomfortable and painful experience, and as such, she flailed the baby around in an attempt to shake him off. "No, no, no, this is not a pony ride!" She shouted at the top of her lungs, getting more mad by the minute. "This is not a pony ride!" The baby continued to laugh off her increasing anger as he squealed in delight.
Spinning constantly around and around like a merry-go-round on hyper-speed, and only thinking of getting the little on off her nose, she had no real idea on what she was doing at the current moment as she span faster and faster, having no intentions of stopping until the little brat was off, until at least...
"Hey Pony..." Star suddenly burst in without warning(and considering that it was her room, it's not like she had any reason not to). Now taking in the surprise and shock, the dizzy princess came to an immediate stop to register what had just happened, finally getting the baby off with the sudden jerk, slinging the boy right into the arms of the eldest Butterfly, laughing as she held him high with her back on the ground, oblivious to the danger he was just put through. "Silly magic baby, you were trying to fly again?" Star cooed, bringing the boy close, touching noses. "You can't fly. No you can't, no you can't."
Still dizzy, and rightfully confused on what was happening right now, the twirling, magical horse head leaned in closer to her best friend, trying to ignore the little pain as much as she could. "Hey, bestie, my main girl, how's you feeling, what are we doing tonight, and what's with the smell monster being in the room and why are we not chucking it out the door?" Ponyhead said with very little tact or kindness in her voice, still feeling a light sting on her nose.
"We can't do anything tonight without this adorable little guy, right magic baby? Right, right?" She asked in a babyish tone, getting the boy to giggle as she wanted to. "He's my new baby brother, Quartz Universe Butterfly."
It was in that moment, for the very first time in her life, where Ponyhead had to truly use the brain she was born with. The gears that held her mind together practically had dust on them as she began to turn them. It wasn't often that she had to think so hard on something, or think at all for that matter since life was practically handed to her on a silver platter, but this was an exception. In one moment, she was tempted to let this sentence pass through her ears like she did every other sentence, but something about this just stuck.
Star, her best friend in all the universe, had a baby brother.
A baby brother.
Baby brother.
Brother.
Brother
Brother
"Your my special baby brother, aren't you, aren't you?" Star continued to feed the infant all the attention that she could mustar, providing seemingly endless joy for the prince.
Writing off the sweet little moment happening before her, the cloud princess floated herself between the two royal siblings, making sure to create as much space as possible. "Hey, I'm here, again, hello." She reintroduced herself irritably. "So I thought that this would be a fun night, an awesome night, a totally spectacular anti-no-good-devil-pawn-sibling-free night." She made sure to get her point across. "So dump that baby and let lose, like, right now."
"Sorry Ponyhead." Star smiled as she scratched the back of her head. "I found this little guy not too long ago, and he's really been the greatest thing ever that I've ever come across." The princess said quite seriously, making sure to look Ponyhead straight in the eye when she did. "I spend every moment I can with him, playing all the same games, talking the same conversations, eating all the same foods." Her face becomes a little creepy when she stares dead into pony's eyes again, widening them to decrease her chances of blinking. "I watch him all day, every day, even when he sleeps!"
'What's this kid doing to her?' The floating head inwardly screamed, unknowingly backing away slightly. "Ah, that's great, and a little frightening to hear, Star, but, uh, isn't that more of your folk's job to handle? Shouldn't they be the one to watch the little stinker?"
"I guess, but I was the one who brought him into the family." Star argued. "Therefore, I definitely have the right to watch over him and call him my own child whenever I feel like it. Besides, Mom told me to keep him close to by me today, something about 'an influence that would be bad for him at such a young age to experience', whatever the corn that means."
"I wanna see the baby!"
"No"
"I wanna see the baby!"
"No!"
"I wanna see the baby!" The crystal headed member of the commission kept shouting, not showing any sign of relenting his demand to the Queen of Mewni. "My gut says there's something suspicious about it, so I need to see if it's evil!"
"You are not going anywhere near my son!" Moon raised her voice, encasing Rombulus in her wand's magic, causing him to freeze in place. "He's a baby, the most harmless thing anything could be." He expression intensifies as she gets closer to him, making the snake handed man shake in fear. "I wont have him caged and put under observation for merely existing."
Despite the man's apparent fear, the Queens threat didn't seem to sink in deep enough. "It's not like we haven't done it before." The next thing the crystal head knew, his entire body was slammed against the nearest wall.
"Let me make this clear." Moon griped, increasing her hold on the man with every breathe see made. Rombulus's body was under so much pressure that his head looked like it was going to pop right off it's body. "We are going to stay here, until you get it through your head that my son is off limits to you and the rest of the commission, got it!?"
This was going to be a long night for him.
"So he's going to be with us the entire day?" Ponyhead groaned, knowing there was no way that she could change Star's mind about this. "This was suppose to be our girl's night, you know, for girls. Won't having a baby ruin the vibe, just a little, considering he's also, the opposite of what we are?"
"Of course not! He's an awesome magic baby!" Star argued as she picked up her brother again, who had a face full of smiles and drool, shoving him near her friend's long, disappointed face. "He's a young mind, a teachable brain. We can show him how to really have fun, that way all three of us can have fun with each other forever!" The baby 'gahed' as if in agreement, making Ponyhead feel all the more defeated in the situation.
"All right, all right! I'll give the little stinker a chance." She relented, not wanting to get on her bestie's bad side, especially after not seeing her in a while. This was not going to be the end of their friendship if she anything to say about it.
As she was trying to figure out how to outsmart this devious, conniving, evil little troll, Star brought all three of them together in a giant group hug, oblivious to her friend's increasing anger, and more on the baby's constant enjoyment of being hugged. "Aww, he already likes you."
Devious little monster indeed.
Like many parties and sleepovers before, the two princesses knew exactly how to get it started just right, and were eager to start off this amazing night as cautiously and smoothly as possible.
That was at least the excuse Ponyhead gave her father today, and every other time he had warned her about going overboard with, well, pretty much anything she did, playing, partying, camping, heck, she even somehow found a way to make sleeping more dangerous one time. Her father had to watch her on the mirror when she went to bed for a month after that.
The point was, Pony knew how she liked her parties, and Star knew as well. Same mind, same wavelength, practically the same brain. She knew her girl would never let her down.
That hadn't really been the case for this time, as it seemed like the princess of Mewni, the only girl in the universe that could ever match her level of crazy, was on an entirely different dimension this time around. Her attention pan was even shorter than normal, and worse part about it, none of it seemed to be on her or herself.
It all pointed to the little buzzkill that was made to ruin everything.
No joke, that's pretty much how the entire night went for them. For instance, a pile of junk food and sweets and anything else that would pretty much give them cavities just by looking at them. Of course, aside from the downside that they had to, according to Star's insistence, split it evenly between all of them, decreasing her already high levels of blood sugar and hopes of ignoring the little pest, he didn't even eat any of it. Star dumped him in his own personal pile of sugar goo, and he just rolled around in it like a pig in mud.
Stains and stickiness covered the entire baby quickly, and to add on top of this annoyance, Star herself joined in, adding in her own pile of sweetness to the mix as she rolled around in the mess. When Pony asked why the heck would she waste everything, she responded with:
"Because he's the sweetest thing I could ever have!"
That line was so nauseatingly sweet in by itself that it ruined Pony's appetite for anything else, not that it matter, considering they already added her pile to the sugar mess by that point.
It was going on like this for a while. Try to set off fireworks they worked all year at 'earning', nope, they had to focus on making stupid faces in order to get the baby to laugh. Makeovers? Nope, just have the baby trip over the entire set and have an impromptu make-up fight, which actually would've been fine, if they didn't use the brand new set that she was actually trying to use. She couldn't even have something as simple as a pillow fight without the baby ruining things. "You'll scar him for life if he get's hit too hard." Star complained. "You need to calm down and take it easy on him."
That was the last thing she ever want for that baby.
Despite all the set backs that she was experiencing today, she was not ready to give up on her friend just yet. Ponyhead then raised her voice, grabbing a huge mattress from who knows where. "I've already covered the stares with butter, cream corn, and that weird stuff my dad covers on his fur whenever he wakes up in the morning." She explained, already ready to go, waiting on her best friend to join in at any moment. "Come on!" She excited shouted, only too frown at what she was seeing.
Star's attention was still on that little bugger that had no right to be here. Off about four feet away from her, the Mewman Princess gathered an abundance of string, tapes, and pillows from all over the castle as she slowly and carefully covered the baby in it. "Come on, just a few more layers and you'll be the softest, cutest baby in the universe, won't you, won't you?" She rhetorically asked, only getting a small but happy grunt from the little tyke.
"Ah, what is this? What is this thing that you're doing right now that's kinda killing the fun I want to have?" Ponyhead said quickly and angrily, not enjoying the slow start they where having.
"Well, I want him to have the greatest time ever with us!" Star shouted. "And to make sure that he has the best time ever, I need to make sure that nothing bad or harmful ever happens to him. No oowies, no boo-boos, not on my watch." She spoke proudly.
"Did, are you talking, about, responsibility?" Pony said out loud in fear, mostly to herself. Out of everything they have ever done, that was always the last thing on there minds. That vile word, the one that always held you back and restricted you at every chance it had. The word that drained out all the fun and joy in a kid's life and replaced it with dull adult stuff that made them miserable. No one should have to bear that. "Star I.."
Once again, the cloud princesses worries went unnoticed as she placed the baby at the front of the bedding, holding on to him tight as she encased him in her arms and legs. "Are we ready, are we all ready to ride?" She asked the baby boy, who let out a wide smile in return, feeling loved and safe in his big sis's embrace. "Okay Ponyhead, be ready to push!"
'At least she still wants to do awesome stuff.' Ponyhead told herself as she prepared to get everything started. The baby thing was still bumming her out a little, but at least she could still enjoy this moment. "All right, hold on to your garments, because I'm about to yank them.." She shouted as she launched herself at full speed.
"Wait!" Star immediately yelled, making the floating pony stumble in an attempt to stop, causing her to crash right at the edge of the bedding. "I, ah, maybe you should, go slow on this. I don't want him to go flying across the hall now."
"Okay, whatever you say bestie." Ponyhead grinded her teeth as she got up, making sure to put up the best 'happy' face that she could. She slowly nudged the bed this time around, allowing her to take in how much fun they would be having by now if they just left the little stinker in the room.
"But maybe you should do it a little faster." The groans of complaining were practically instant. "I still want him to have fun. Maybe you should put a little 'ump' in it."
It was getting really hard now to ignore the anger growing towards her friend. It was easily replaced with the knowledge that the source of all of it was resting in Star's lap, practically mocking her with that stupid smile of his.
Pony was readying her position once more. "But try to take it easy as well." Star added on, further making the Pony grunt in irritation. "But as enjoyably fun as awesome as you can make it."
"Hard to do when you keep stopping me!" Pony finally let out, waiting for no more replies or further stops as she pushed the bed with as much force as she could summon. Within no time at all, Star and Quartz sped down the stairs with blazing speed, practically slipping through the stars as if they were made from ice. It only took Ponyhead a minute to realize in all her anger that she forgotten to jump on at the last minute. With that realization, she took the next few seconds to bang her head on the floor.
And, unlike how it began, the ride was fierce, fast, and quick, being done as almost the speed of a blink. At the base of the stairs the bed laid, being flipped over by the sudden stop it made. About ten feet away, straight across from it, the Princess was slammed back first into the brick wall. Bit's of what appeared to be a crack formed at the side of them. The baby seemed fine for the most part, though it seemed a little uneased by the sudden slamming noise, and his protecter's sudden silence.
"Okay, the brat's got his turn, now lets move on already." Ponyhead still moaned as she floated right above them. Of course, paid little heed to the two down below as she tried to move on as fast as possible. It wasn't until she realized the unnatural silence that she noticed the two, more specifically Star, didn't move an inch from their spot. "Ah, I said we should move now, like, now, now." She spoke will the same urgency, but with a little more worry this time. She knew nothing stopped Star from moving, talking, or being excited, so this was a little scary for her to say the least. "Ah, you alright? You didn't get, hurt or anything, right?"
"No, no, he's fine, he's just fine." Star grunted as she peeled herself off from the wall. Neither her or the adopted sibling were smiling right now, which stated to make the floating head all the more uncomfortable. "We're all just fine." Star forced out, making it clear by her voice she didn't mean it. She gently placed the baby down as she rubbed her left elbow a bit, which started to form a faint but pretty big purple marking that ran across her arm.
"Star, I, I didn't, are, are you sure that, I, I Didn't.." Ponyhead quickly started to stammer out, knowing that she not fine at all. It only appeared to be a bruise, but harming her bestie in anyway was the last thing she ever wanted to do.
"Just be careful, okay." Star said a bit irritably, shifting her eyes to the ground, once again spotting the baby, which at this point started to stare at the giant marking on her arm. "He could've been hurt."
"Okay, can you please take your mind off the stupid baby for a second! Your hurt, be worried about yourself!" She blurted out without thinking, not that she really started to do that to begin with.
What came next was probably one of the angriest faces that Ponyhead ever seen. A deep, long scowl was plastered along the face of her friend. She was pretty use to people being mad at her, mostly at home and it usually died down pretty quickly once it started, mainly do to her own obliviousness. She had no such luxury know, as being around her friend meant she had to pay attention, or risk losing her.
Star was mad, more so, she was feeling pretty livid. "Stop calling my brother stupid, and stinky, and dumb, and whatever mean insult you keep saying to him!" Pony's eyes widen, hoping that she had ignored all those insults she had been throwing out all day. "All I've done is show you how amazing he is, and all you've been doing is trying to hurt him!"
"Hey, first, I've only wanted to get rid of him, nothing more." Ponyhead defended herself. "And second, the only thing amazing about him is how increasingly annoying he's becoming to me! He ruined my food, my makeup, my fun, and he keeps trying to ride me!" The baby had somehow made his way over to her and reached for her flying body. "See? I only wanted to party with my bestie, and ONLY my bestie! I definetly did not ask for another little stink in my life to mess it all up!"
Star face lit up in a fiery rage. He face became so red that it look like any moment now it was going to pop like a giant pimple. "Aghhhh!" She let out many frustrated screams while trying to contain her anger. She kept point and waving anywhere, both scaring and confusing the princess of the cloud kingdom. She would look like she would say one thing at one moment, but then continued to close her mouth as hard as she could.
Finally unable to handle all the heat and blood rushing to her head, she let out a loud huff and stomped away to her room, slamming the door behind without turning back at her friend. "Fine, be that way! You've become too boring to hang out around anyway!" She shouted her half-hearted insult across the empty hall, leaving only her and the little bugger the only ones to listen.
Left with no option to go anywhere, and definitely not wanting to go back home to even more terrors, she elected to sit at the base of the stair way, dropping herself as she moped and simply stared downward, wallowing in her own pity.
"Why? Why did you need to change like this?" She quietly murmured to herself. Part of the fun that came with hanging out of the Star was that she was an only child. She didn't have someone to need to act differently around or do something for. She didn't know what it was like to be a sister, which actually made her the perfect friend. For once, she could tell, she could show someone what she wanted, when she wanted. She could share stuff with someone she actually wanted to be around.
It was like she could actually chose to have a sister for a change.
Of course, now everything was ruined, thanks to the one thing that she didn't ever expect Star to have. Said thing right at this moment had just climbed on top of her neck/back and began to gently pet her. He wasn't particularly heavy for a chubby baby, but the added weight on top of her still bugged her all the same.
"Get off me." Ponyhead gripped in a half angry, half careless moan as she tried her best to ignore him. The baby just made more inaudible noises from his moist, soft mouth as he feel completely on her face first. "Off." Pony spoke again, sounding even more careless than the last time. The baby, not getting the hint at what she was trying to say, struggled to maintain his balanced as a few droplets of wetness feel from his lips and landed right on her hair.
"I said to get!" She shouted, barely any louder than before, leaning to her left as she made forced the baby to roll off her. The baby only chuckled in response as he continued to roll on the floor. "Star, you left the drool machine over here!" As expected, there was no response to her probably now former bestie. The boy only continued to star at the flying head like he expected her to do something. "Guess I got to roll you to her." She sighed inwardly as she used he long snout to roll the little down the hall, which only led to more laughs and smiles.
Pony had to admit, this was a little fun to do. She would've preferred if she was allowed, or capable of, to do something a little more, forceful, to the little tyke, but this seemed to be the best choice so far, not wanting any more beef to come up between her and Star. Besides, the baby seemed to enjoy it, so there was very little harm in doing it.
It was a little too fun though, as by the time they reached Star's room, Pony had begun enjoying it a little too much. The had went far past it and actually begun rolling wherever she wanted to. Something about rolling this little baby around was really addicting.
"Guess you have a good use after all." She quietly complimented. Of course, she was quick to change her tone, not wanting to admit she was wrong, and did so by giving the baby another hard push.
Through this next move, it allowed for about to of the buttons on the baby's onesie to come undone, making something shiny and pink stick right out of the baby's belly. It almost went unnoticed by the horse head, which was weird considering it took up about a forth of his stomach, but it immediately took her attention once she caught a glimpse of the glimmering rock.
"Belly jewel." She spoke as she forward in curiosity. "Mind if I have it?" She immediately said after, looking to the baby as if he could answer her. The only response was a small gurgle. "I don't think that was a no." She got closer and tried to grab it, only for the baby to swat her away, though because it was with a flabby weak arm, it hardly did anything to keep her away.
"How deep in there is this rock?" She quietly asked herself, realizing that she wouldn't be able to simply take it off. So she pointed her horn right at the belly to see if she cold somehow lift it off of him. Slowly, she closed it in on the pink crystal, only making contact by the slightest inch..
shing
...before finding herself trapped in a huge pink ball with the baby prince himself.
"Hey, hey, hey!" She immediately shouted, knowing exactly who to blame. "Did you do this!? Are you trying to trap me in here?" The baby, of course, gives no answer that she could understand. "Fine, play it like that. No prison or cage has ever been able to contain the awesomeness that is m.." She pronounced loud and proudly, charging at the bubble's surface with full force.
And since there was nothing to keep the giant bubble grounded, nothing keeping it from rolling, and practically no traction on it or the floor, it moved at a fairly face pace. Not expecting failure, Ponyhead found herself face first, slammed into the curved wall, rolling along side it as it moved with no control.
And of course, being the only other occupant in the magical ball of bright pink, the little royal found himself cheering Pony's choice of actions, as the roll lifted him up in the air, where he ended up slamming right on top of the horse head once more. "I wasn't ready!" She excused herself, flying in the air once more to get the bubble to pop. So the little stink had magic that trapped her, big deal. She wasn't going to let him take away her moment of upstaging him in power.
The baby latched on to her again, this time grabbing her by the thick base of her horn. Ponyhead chose to ignore what he was doing, and charged at the bubble with even more force and anger fueling her strength.
It once again failed to do anything but slam into a wall, and caused them to end up on the ground with the baby sitting on top of her.
"You're having a laugh with this, aren't you?" The baby only smiled on in return. "Okay, so your a little more clever than me in this particular moment, and I may be seeing what Star says about you being awesome and magical." She let out quickly, not taking a moment to stop and breathe. "But I'm more awesomer.." She stayed in her current position this time, though she lifted up her head slightly and raised her horn. "..and I'm magical! So in your bubblely face!" She blasted a bright beam of purple from her sharp appendage.
Instead of a loud pop and a possible boom that she was expecting to happen after this incredible and amazing display of power she managed to pull of, she found herself, the baby, and the bubble, hurled backwards and impressed into the wall as if they were apart of it. "Huh, okay, this things a little stronger than I thought." Leaning forward, she press all her weight to pull the bubble off the wall, able to admire her latest piece of 'work'. "And a lot more smashy than I thought." She turns to the smiling baby, somehow becoming even happier than before. "You actually found that fun?" The baby laughed on. "Okay, how about we keep this up until this thing breaks. Then I can go back to hating you, alright?" A gurgled response was all that their was. "I don't thing that was a no."
After slamming on the door, the only thing Star could even think about doing was screaming at the top of her lungs, so she did just that, just after she jumped onto her bed and implanted her entire face within a pillow for about 6 minutes. After that she just faced up at the celling as she gave out the occasion frustrated groan and loud sigh.
She couldn't believe Ponyhead, her very best friend, the one she did fun and awesome with, would ever try to hurt her brother. Quartz was the sweetest and most huggable thing in her life! Nothing about him was stinky, or annoying, or stupid, or pesty, and whatever insult there was left to say. Couldn't she see that he was her blood!( she thought at least. She still wasn't entirely clear on the whole 'adoption' thing yet.) Someone that was precious and sacred and needed her attention at every moment of everyday? If she had been there in the beginning, maybe she would understand what she meant. Heck, Ponyhead herself had tons of sisters way before she found Quartz, so she should have known what she was feeling.
"She just needs to see how amazing you can be, than you can finally show her what I see in you, right magic baby?" She smiled as she turned to expect her brother to be half listening, half asleep by now. Only to find empty space where she always put Quartz whenever she took him out of his crib so they could sleep at night with each other.
"Magic baby?" She said worriedly as she begun digging through her blankets and sheets and whatever else she could find to look for her brother. Nothing. He wasn't behind her toy chest, he wasn't in her closet. She began to panic. She hardly ever let go of him, let alone let him out of her sight. Nothing could have caused her to let him go, not a monster, not extra dessert, not even her best..
She slapped herself in the head once she realized what she had done. This day was really starting to shape up to be her worst sleepover ever when it should've been the best.
She slightly hesitated going towards the door. On one hand, she would most likely be saving her brother and be treated to the most cutest face she had seen. On the other, it would mean she had to look at Ponyhead, which meant they had to confront one another, and this type of thing hardly ever happened between them, so it would be very, very awkward for the both of them.
BANG CLASH CLASH BANG CLASH CLASH BANG CLASH CLASH BANG
"I'm coming magic baby!" She shouted immediately. Screw the awkwardness, her brother needed her! Bursting a the door like a mad ram, she charged out at full speed not stopping at the sight of what appeared to be deep cracks and craters in the walls and floors. She did not stop to look at all the fallen weapons and decorations that where once on the ceiling. And she definitely didn't stop at the sight of pony head, who could only turn around at the moment Star about to collide with her, stuck in a familiar looking orb with her little brother clinging on to her like he was having the time of his life.
"Wait I.." Star acknowledged too late as she smacked into her brother's bubble, once again, making it roll, leaving the two occupants inside without any control over it. It rolled and rolled, smacking and smashing everything like a pin ball machine until they reached the stair, causing them to fall downward.
"I, I, I didn't, Quartz, Pony, I.." Star started to saw, realizing exactly what she don't when the sound of a familiar crash came up once the trapped duo hit the bottom. She rushed downstairs the second after, hoping the two were safer than she was when she went down it.
For the most part, they seemed to be fine. The bubble was still intact, and the two were laying on the floor, though how they were was a little hard to tell. "Pony, Quartz, are, are you okay in there, are, are.." She tried to say, fearing for the worse.
"That, that.." Pony started to say in an unusually quiet voice. "THAT WAS AWESOME!" Pony shouted floating in the air, though this time she seemed to be willingly carrying the little prince. "That was the ride I was waiting for all day! Thanks B-fly."
"Uh, thanks." Star, despite being confused by this, still accepted it. "Are, are you guys okay?"
"Of course we are, thanks to the little stinker's bubble ball thing." She gently set the boy down as she explained. "When I could get out of this thing, I decided to just 'roll' with it. Get it, it's a pun, I'm being funny now." Silence was the only reaction. "Never appreciated. Anyway, you didn't tell me this guy was soo destructive. I definitely wouldn't have insulted him this much if I knew about that."
"Well, he's only really done it once before, so I didn't think.." She trailed off, more focused on how much of Pony's tone had changed. "You like him now?" The Mewman Princess asked hopefully.
"Well, he's a little far off from what I usually accept as a friend.." She smugly said as she looked down at the drooling boy. "But I think that's a safe thing to say."
"Aww, Quartz, you made her your friend all on your own!" She pressed against the bubble, trying to reach out for him. "Oh, if only I could hug you right now!"
'POP'
Star's wish was immediately granted as seen by her falling forward right on her face. Not caring for that brief moment of pain, she grabbed her brother and held him tightly, as if she couldn't go another second without hugging him. "Heh, hate to intrude this sweet moment, though that might be hard to believe since I did it earlier and you might still be mad and.." The stare from the blonde princess told her to just stop that sentence there. "Are, we still friends?"
"Yeah, though I guess we never stopped being friends." Star replied before sighing. "I just want to know why you were talking bad about my brother. I thought you'd be happy knowing that we bother have siblings. I thought that made us more alike."
"Well, it's like, you know I don't say a lot about them, you know?" Star slightly nodded. "They're always annoying, and they pester me, and they stink a lot, and, and they, they don't really, they just take up everything that I have. Nothing's really mine, everything is everyone's now, and it's really, really bugs me, like a lot, and I enjoy having a friend that's just my own friend." The unicorn sighed sadly once more. "I saw you change around the little sti.." She stops herself from finishing that insult. "..Q-fly, and I thought things were going to change badly for me. I, I was wrong. He's, he's fun enough." She finishes looking down at the smiling prince.
"Yeah. And I'm sorry for charging angrily at you guys." Star sheepishly said. "And for ignoring you today." She held her brother slightly higher as she moved on. "I'm alone a lot more around here than you'd think, and when I found him all alone, and fought off a killer monster that almost cut me in half, he was around with me, helping me beat it up. I realized that I had someone that helped protect me, so I wanted to do the same for him." She snuggles up more closely to the baby. "We laugh together, sleep together, get full on corn together, but, but.." She stops herself from stuttering as she tried to hide her apparent shame. "I still don't know how this whole sister thing works. I want to protect him, and go all out crazy, but is it possible to do both?" A heavy huff breathed out of her. "I just want be a good sister."
Out of nowhere, Pony head rushed into Star's side, apparently trying to give her a hug, even without the arms to do so. "Well, you'll never see me doing this kind of thing with my sister's, but, but I think you do great as one." Star looked up happily. "I mean, it's mushy, and emotional, and messy, but it fits you both." She tried to hold on to some pride by not fully giving in to the sentiment, something that she was failing at. "You make a good sister. Better than me anyways."
Star, in another quick moment, returned the hug fully, pulling both Ponyhead and Steven in to the fold. "You've always seemed like a good one to me."
A calm, but a bit relaxing silence came over the trio once she let go. The two princesses were finally able to get the gushy and awkward parts out of the way once they ended the hug. Even Quartz seemed to be quiet, as if knowing not to speak at this moment. Of course, that came to a screeching stop.
"So he helped you pummel a monster already?" Star elatedly shook her head. "Well, why don't we find more things to beat up! What'ya say, Q-fly?" She stared at the baby once more, who with a bright and big smile, encased them all in the bubble once more. "He's officially better than any one of my sister's now."
"Have I made myself clear, Rombulous?" Moon threaten once more as she had placed the crystal headed man in the corner, making him face the other way as she leered at him. Though he couldn't see her scowl, the commission member still felt very out of his comfort zone being in this position.
"I promise, I promise I'll leave your kid alone!" Rombulous cried in, while a bit exaggerated, genuine fear and terror. "Just make it stop, make it stop!"
He didn't have the chance to say anymore as the trio of troublemakers shot themselves through the wall, crashing into him and knocking him out. Slightly taken back, Moon's eyes widened at her adopted son's ability. She guessed that this is what her daughter meant by the 'magic bubble baby' thing she kept on repeating since that day. "Uh, are we in trouble?" Star asked innocently as she held her brother high with the beadiest eyes she could make.
Just taking a deep breathe, after hours of uneasiness, turned away. "Not today. Not in this case."