Prince Marco Vs The Forces of Darkness
Disclaimer: I do not own Star vs the forces of evil.
Chapter 09: Freeze Day
Marco was anxious, more so than usual.
"Come on Star we're going to be late." Marco told his roommate in their shared bathroom.
Star was fixing up her hair, "We've got plenty of time. Look school doesn't start for a half hour, and it won't take us that long to get there. I just need five minutes."
"Half Hour?" Marco focused on that word.
"Yeah, look at the clock." Star pointed to an old chicken shaped clock that hung on the wall.
"The hands haven't moved, it was like that the last time I check it." Marco started to panic.
Star leaned over and poked the clock. "Huh, I think the batteries might be dead, " Star quickly pulled out her cell phone, "oh!"
"Oh? What do you mean oh?!"
"Yeah, class start in five minutes."
"Five minutes?!"
"Don't worry I'll get us a ride. My mom is working from home today I'm sure I can get her to drop us off. We will just be a little late. She'll write us a note and we won't even get in trouble."
"That's not the issue! I have to be at my locker in two minutes!"
"Two minutes? Oh, is that the nodding thing?"
"Yes!"
"Marco, Marco, Marco, why are you still doing that?"
"What do you mean?"
"Every day right before class starts Jackie skates back and you lean back trying to look all cool by your locker. You give her a nod and don't say anything. If you like her why don't you just say Hi. Or just ask her out!"
"I can't do that! I just can't! I have to be sure she's not going to laugh at my face."
"Marco, you sorta asked Mina out and isn't she like your crush or one of your crushes, by the way what's the deal with that Puri Puri girl?"
Marco blushed, "She-Not going to talk about that?"
"Okay, what about Jackie. She thinks your cool, you need to do what you did with Mina and talk to her and get to know her. You'll be less nuts around her. Besides she's already hanging around you."
"No, she's hanging around you and Janna. She's only around me because I'm around you."
"Ask her out!" Star told him again, "Nothing bad happened with Mina."
"First thing, that wasn't a date. Secondly, Mina is my knight she's under direct orders not to laugh at me. My mother makes that very clear with the knights."
Star raised an eye brow at the strange comment but ignored it for the moment, "You just need to find time to spend with Jackie. If you want I can try to get Janna away and leave you two alone."
"I don't really have the time anyway, my sword practice, my spells practice, and all that on top of school work." Marco looked at the clock again, " Besides we are going to be late!"
Star quickly took out her scissors and waved it in front of him, "Dimensional scissors~"
"Fine!" Marco hated using the scissors too often, his parents raised him telling him to respect their power and not to over use them. He warned Star that bad things happened if she over used them, though he wasn't sure exactly what that was. But this was an emergency.
Quickly they created a rift and grabbing their bags they rushed through.
They found themselves at in front of lockers. Marco started to lean back by the lockers.
Star grumbled, she loved her bestie but hated how he didn't see himself as amazingly as she saw him. Star decided then and there that she would help him out, she took a step forwards as the skater came by.
"Hey Jackie!"
"Hey Star!" Jackie smiled, "Hey Marco."
"HEY JACKIE!" Marco yelled, wincing hearing his own volume.
Star looked at Marco and winked before turning back to Jackie, "Hey Jackie I was thinking of doing something after school. Do you want to hang out?"
"Sure," Jackie gladly accepted.
"Marco, are you free?" Star smiled turning to her friend.
Marco started to blush realizing Star's plan, "No, no, not really. I have lessons today, I just don't have the time."
"Make time!" Star started to get frustrated, "You're the prince change something, you have a magic wand, just say Easy Peasy Time Freezy and stop time."
Marco sighed, Marco pulled out his wand to emphasis his point, "Star it's not as easy as say Easy Peasy Time Freezy,"
A blue light emitted from the wand covering the trio, they heard the ticking of a clock and then the light vanished.
"What was that?" Jackie asked.
They looked around, the bustling school had come to a halt. Everyone around them was caught mid step, unmoving.
"I think I broke time." Marco mumbled.
"You stopped time!" Star yelled out. "Don't you get what this mean! We can do whatever we want! We have all the time in the world!"
Marco was about to protest when Jackie spoke up, "Come on Marco, you said you didn't have time to hang out but now we can hang out all we want."
Marco blushed, "OKAY!"
The trio ran around school doing everything they wanted to do. Star quickly found Lars picking on some small kid and quickly took it to stop him. She gave him an atomic wedgie and yanked the kid away.
Jackie later got on the roof and prepared to do a jump off it, Marco insisting he stay on the bottom and prepare a cushion for her. He summoned up a small mountain of pillows.
Marco himself didn't have much he wanted to do but settled for having a picnic lunch with the girls. Marco went to get a mountain of snacks and made some sandwiches and they gathered together at the school yard.
"This sandwich is really good," Jackie complimented the prince.
"Thanks, it's the sauce, it's a special recipe that the chef at the castle kitchen taught me." Marco noticed that people all around them were still frozen. "I think its time we unfreeze everything."
Star sighed, "I guess so."
She was happy with the results, Marco was still a little flustered around Jackie but a lot less so. They had gotten to talk and Marco was getting used to being around Jackie and just getting to know her as a person.
They went back to the lockers, Marco paused to move Sabrina from where her locker was ready to burst open and drop her books on her.
Now ready Marco held out his wand, "Easy Peasy Time Unfreezy."
Nothing happened.
"Time Go!" Marco wiggled the wand, "Anything?"
The world remained frozen.
"We better get Glossaryck."
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They went back to Marco's room and opened up the book to find Glossaryck frozen his face stuck in a strange grotesque expression.
"Oh, no he's frozen too." Marco told them.
"Yeah, I'm not exactly sad," Star clicked her tongue, flipping the page, "Never liked that little pudding thief."
"Is there anyone else that can help?" Jackie suggested.
"Maybe Mina," Marco suggested.
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A portal formed in Mina's apartment and the trio walked in.
"Mina!" Marco called, "Sorry to barge in but we have an emergency."
They walked in trying to find her, Marco opened up the doors looking for her. Finally he stopped as he entered the bathroom.
Marco's eyes went wide as he found Mina stepping out of the shower, fortunately she had just finished wrapping a towel around her.
"Hey Marco-" Star walked in behind him and seeing in what state Mina was in she covered Marco eyes, "Nope! Not doing this!" Star dragged a blushing stunned Marco out.
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Marco decided that it was better to head to another dimension for help, and deciding to check in on his parents.
"Mom! Dad!" Marco called out as they stepped out of the portal.
Jackie looked around and the dazzling throne room they found themselves in. "Wow! Like wow! He's really a prince."
"Yeah, I thought you knew." Star told Jackie.
"I mean, yeah, but it's not the same as seeing his castle."
"Mom? Dad?" Marco looked his parents frozen as Manfred read to them from a long scroll. "No! No!" Marco quickly began to create several portals and rushed into them.
"They seem nice." Jackie made small talk as Marco rushed in and out of the portals.
"Yeah, you'd love them. His mom is super sweet."
Marco rushed out of the last portal, "Everyone is frozen, Tom, Lekmet and Rhombulus, the Pony Heads-"
Star stopped, 'Marcom calm down."
"Yeah," Jackie added, "let's just go back to your room and look through the book and maybe find something that can help."
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In Marco's room, he laid out the book on the floor, "This gonna take a while, this whole thing is a mess, with no order whatsoever. Glossaryck was the only one who knew where everything is. It could take forever."
Marco sat on the floor dejected but both girls sat besides him.
"Don't worry, Marco." Jackie reassured him, "We're here to help."
"Yeah!" Star said with a fist held high, "We'll fix the world no problem!"
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It was ten years, ten strange years, Star missed seeing her namesake and it took a while to get used to the fact that it was always sunny. She missed the night, the rain, the feeling of wind and just talking to her parents. She could barely remember their voices now.
Since they were the only people on the planet that could do anything they spent most of their time together.
Star and Jackie got lunch ready and headed outside.
They find Marco, now taller and with a bit more muscle. The large spell book before him, he spent every day trying to find a spell to fix the world. Sitting next to him where two little blonde girls, one with bright blue eyes and a pair of hearts on her cheeks. The other girl had soft green eyes and starburst on her cheeks.
They were only a few years old and Marco's daughter, if he could never find a spell to fix things then he was sure they could. He taught them as much magic he could so one day they could truly meet their grandparents.
The girls noticed Star and Jackie and jumped up happily cheering, "Mommy! Mama!"
They rushed to them.
"Careful girls," Jackie scolded them gently, "you'll make us drop lunch."
Marco walked over smiling, "What did my favorite girls make?" Marco walked over placed an arm around Jackie before giving her kiss.
The small girls giggled as they watched them kiss.
Star smiled at the girls. "I'm sure you'll love what we made."
"I always do." Marco leaned over kissing Star.
Star's heart raced, she loved the feeling of his lips against hers.
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"Huh?" Star's eyes cracked open, she found her head resting on Marco's lap.
"I'm sorry did I wake up?" Marco apologized.
"I was sleeping…?" Star blinked the sleep away, getting up and looking at her friends confused.
"Yeah," Jackie added, "You fell asleep after like two pages. You okay?"
"Yeah," Star rubbed her eyes, "just had … and odd dream."
"Well, we found a solution." Marco pointed the pages labeled 'What to do if you stop time' "We have to go to the Plains of Time and restart the Wheel of Progress."
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A portal opened to a world where stars and galaxies filled the dark sky, the hilly terrain was littered with clocks as a river cut through them.
Jackie stood and marveled at the sight around her. Star did the same but also took out her cell phone to take a few pictures. "This is gonna be my new desktop."
Marco on the other hand had already found the wheel. "Here it is."
Marco stood before a large gray gear.
"It kinda looks like a hamster wheel." Jackie noted.
"Give me a second and I'm have it back up and running." Marco jumped on it, he tried to run on it forcing it to move for that not to work. He jumped off and then tried to push the gear into moving.
Marco jumped off and held out his wand, "Momentum Blast!"
A red blast struck the gear only to bounce off..
"Yeah, magic isn't going to work on that. You gotta use the magic of toesies."
"Who are you?" Star asked.
There sitting on the ground was a large blue man in a white tunic playing with rocks. He had a long white beard and a smile on his face.
"I'm Father Time. And this is Rocksworth." He held out a random stone, "He's a rock, but don't bring it up. He's kind of sensitive about it."
"Father Time?" Marco asked him,"You must be the one to push this thing?"
"Hey, look! I'm over here!" He moved a little to the left and then moved again, "And now I'm over here."
"How long were you on that wheel?" Star questioned the man.
"Oh, you know… forever. Until someone cast a freeze spell and knocked me off of it. What is that?" He jumped into a mud puddle.
"That's mud," Marco cringed seeing a grown man play in the mud.
"Oh, it's glorious! I love mud!" Father time started to lick the mud.
"So, Mr. Time," Jackie started off trying to be respectful and polite, "how would you feel about getting the universe started up again?"
"Oh, where has this been all my life?" Father Time wasn't paying attention.
Star picked up some mud and slathered it on the heel, "You can play with mud on your wheel."
"That is an enticing offer, but nah." Father Time waved her off. "Oh look there's some mud but with a slightly different color!" He quickly ran off. "Oh a twig! There's a bush! I don't even know what that this is, but it's waddling."
It was a goose.
"You can't leave time stopped!" Marco rushed after him. "Everyone we know will be frozen forever!"
The girls quickly chased after them.
"What's this?" Father time found a door and when it whooshed open he rushed through it to explore.
As the group reached them but the doors slammed closed and refused to budge.
A short distance away they noted Father Time now sitting on a speedy turtle almost like he was mocking them.
"Yolo! Anything is possible!" Father Time cheered way ahead of them.
The trio quickly found a rabbit and they climbed on it to give chase.
"Hey Bunny Go!" Jackie urged the rabbit on.
Only to realize the rabbit was slower than they were.
"Okay, now this is just silly." Star bemoaned.
"I hate this dimension." Marco grumbled.
They walked around for a while after that trying to find Father Time again, and they found him playing in a river.
They didn't wait and chased after him again. Father Time was on the other side of the river and they went to it but Marco stopped them sensing something.
Marco reached out and touch the surface of the water, his hand grew old and shriveled.
"Ah!" The teen screamed.
Marco's hand reverted and went back to normal.
"Okay, not doing that!" Star shouted.
"Rainbow Bridge!" Marco pulled out his wandas a multi colored bridge formed before them, eaching the other side of the river.
They ran on it to chase after Father Time, they caught sight of a large gray building and rushed into it.
"Whoa!" Jackie let out amazed at all the screen around them showing countless images from history.
"This must keep track of all the history of the universe." Marco marveled at the sights before them.
"Oh, cool the Byzantine Empire." Jackie chuckled, "I have a thing for history."
A giant eyeball extended down from the ceiling and looked right at Star. All the screens now showed a baby Star in a crib.
"Hey that's me!" Star pointed at the screens.
The screen suddenly changed to see a bit older star playing dolls with her father.
The screens changed again, to Star's first day at school. Star hid behind her parents afraid but calmed down as her mother smiled at her telling her it would be fine and they would pick up soon.
The screens flashed, Now a young Star and Janna grabbing all sort of things to get ready to play a prank.
Next showed Star on a skateboard screaming at the top of her lungs as she moved super fast down a tall hill. Jackie was racing behind her telling her how to stop.
Present Jackie chuckled, "I kept telling you to use your heel to stop."
"Yeah," Star chuckled.
The screens changed, its showed Star and Oskar sitting on the hood of his car, Star holding his hand as he played his key-tar.
The next thing they showed was Star fighting monsters with Marco.
Star smiled, "Heh, I've had a pretty cool life."
The eye next turned to Jackie and the screens began to flash scenes of her life.
The first one up was a baby Jackie kicking off her baby blanket.
The next scene was of Jackie walking into pre-school waving at her friends as she did.
Then the scenes showed Jackie getting her first skateboard from her uncle.
The screens showed a young Jackie at a skateboard competition.
"I remember this," Jackie smiled, "I didn't even place during this completion but I had so much fun and met so many nice people and they gave me so many tips."
The screen flashed to show Jackie sitting by the beach watching the waves roll in. She looked down to the necklace she held in her hand.
Next the screens showed Jackie sitting in a chair at the mall Star, and Janna holding her hands. A bunch of her friends nearby offering her support. An attendant making holes in her ear for the extra earrings she wanted.
Jackie moved her hair revealing all the earring she now had, happy that she went through it.
Marco smiled, he liked getting to see this little scenes of their lives.
The eye turned to Marco, making him feeling terribly uneasy.
The screens were filled with static before a they showed a baby Marco in his crib. Baby Marco looking up at his parents wide eyed, they looked at him with nothing but love and adoration.
A strange man with a crystal head and snake hands stood by them gushing over the baby. Floating there, Glossaryck studied the baby with a clinical eye. Standing nearby a red haired woman in a yellow dress, Star was sure she'd seen her somewhere before but wasn't sure where, stood next to that crystal ball with weird skull she saw Marco's mom talk to and an old looking goat man. Th trio traded confused and concerned looks.
The next scene showed a baby Marco, A Baby Pony head, and Baby Tom nestled together on a pink floating cloud with a smile on its face.
"I forgot about this," A small grin formed on Marco's face." We were born only months apart. Our parents had this huge party for us when we met and we just fell asleep together."
There was a flash as Star held out her cell phone, "That's my new desktop."
"You're so adorable." Jackie smiled.
Marco looked at the screen watching him cuddle Pony head like she was a pillow. He reached out touching the screen just as it changed.
Marco took a step back.
It showed baby Marco as two of the guards dressed him as a princess, giving him even a plastic princess crown. They laughed at the confused baby. Behind them moved close Angie, a great deal of power wafting over her as a terrifying scowl formed over her face.
The screen changed before they saw what happened next.
The image showed a toddler Marco playing in the castle, next to him was his play mate a red haired boy with freckles and green eyes.
"We used to play every day…" Marco mumbled, "He was the child of someone that worked in the castle." Marco smiled as his friend held out a wooden sword promising to be a great knight one day and protect him, baby Marco clapped happy at the idea of having someone always around. Suddenly a large knight came over pulling them away.
"I never saw him after that." Marco quickly frowned.
The next scene was that of Marco in the kitchen as one of his chefs showed him how to crack an egg properly. Since Marco's parent were often busy he found all sort of people to help him out.
The scene changed again showing Marco surrounded by large crystals as he and the crystal headed man sparred. The crystal man giving him instructions to fix his form.
The scene changed to that of a fancy ball, Marco sitting next to Tom and Pony Head all dressed up. A girl with a rather large nasty swollen spider bite on her face moved over and offered her hand to Marco. Marco took it and they moved to the floor and began to dance. Marco couldn't really say he was happy to being asked to dance. He was the last person asked, not counting Pony Head or Tom as they asked him just so he wouldn't be last. The only reason the Spider Bite Princess asked to dance is because she had to. They dance together, the girl looked at him with a mix of pity and distain, what kind of princes was he that his own people didn't like him as much as tolerate him.
The scene showed Marco alone in the forest, he knew the path well, his friends were no where to be seen and bored and alone he went on a hike like he often did. Pony Head was doing her own thing and Tom busy with his own duties. Slowly a pack of Dire Wolves moved around him and he pulled out a sandwich from his bag. They join him and took what scraps he offered them. Marco petted their Alpha's head, he'd befriended the animals a while ago and sometimes it seemed like the only being who would make time for him.
The scene changed to show Marco walking down a hall in his castle with books of ancient languages and basic of magic. Glossaryck floating before him, his mom mastered the wand so now all Glossaryck was doing was getting him ready to take the wand. Marco was proud of all the effort he was doing, he would do everything to be a good king. A pair of ladies nearby by were whispering about him, why the prince should even bother as Mewni would never accept him unless he was a princess.
A young teen Marco with pimples rushed with Tom and Pony Head at his side, an army of pirates, ninjas, knights and all sorts of monsters chasing behind them. Marco was happy, it was one of the few times the three of them got to be together, it was also one of the last.
The next scene showed Marco on the day he was receive the wands. People were bustling and moving all through the castle. But as Marco walked he could hear people whispering about him, 'He's not a princess, does he really think he'll be able to use the wand,' "Hey look there goes Princess Marco heh,' 'Ugh, I can't believe we're stuck with a useless prince,' Marco rushed forwards hopping to ignore them and focus on the wand. 'Princess Marco'
"…No…." Marco said.
Suddenly all the screens around him, showing images from all his life, about people teasing him, calling Princess, saying that he was wrong, that he was a mistake and that he would never be good enough. There were hundreds, there were thousands of examples splayed before him.
Tears filled Marco's eyes "…please stop…please" Marco's voice was weak, like some who'd asked for it to stop so many times but it never did.
"Marco?" Jackie asked the prince.
Marco turned away trying to hide tears, trying not to see that look in their eyes, that pity. He didn't want to be pitted. Marco sobbed silently unable to stop himself from crying. It was one thing to experience that all his life but to then have it all thrown in his face all at once was too much. He held himself trying to stop crying, this wasn't not the behavior of a prince. But then it seemed like his own people didn't seem to think of him as one so why even bother.
Marco felt a pair of warm arms wrap around him, he turned to find Jackie hugging him.
"It's gonna be fine." He found Star wrapping her arms around him and her leaning her head on his shoulder.
They stayed silent as Marco finished sobbing, they never judged him or said a word just let him get it out.
"What's this?" Father Time walked into the room.
Marco broke away from their grip, "We have to get you back on the wheel." Marco focused on the task at hand, he wiped the tears away.
The eye now turned to Father Time, the screen flashing images of him running on the wheel, the stars and galaxies changing over the countless years as he continued running. His expression slowly getting depressed as he did.
"Wow…." Father Time mumbled, "I've really been running for a long time."
"I can't make you get back on the wheel." Marco shook his head, it wouldn't be right to make this man suffer for everyone's sake.
"It's not so bad…" The old man tried to smile.
A large blue hamster moved over to Father Time and he scratched it's head.
"Hey! I have an idea!" Star spoke up with renewed hope.
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"Not what I was expecting?" Jackie smiled.
They hooked up several of the large hamster to the wheel so they could pull it, Father Time now sitting on top of it.
"This is great!" Star smiled at her work, "Now you can keep the wheel moving and see everything!"
"This is great!" Father Time smiled, "But try not to stop time again, it's a fragile thing."
The trio waved at him before Marco made another portal for them. They quickly step through it and found themselves back in school as the world moved on.
"We better head to class." Marco said as he began to head out. He wiped off the last of his tears and walked towards class, there was so much left to do.
Star and Jackie stayed back for a moment.
"I like that about Marco," Jackie said like an after thought.
"What?" Star asked confused.
"No matter how many times he falls down, no matter how often he gets knocked down, he gets back up and keep going forwards. He doesn't give up."
Star smiled, "Yeah, I like that about him too."
Star watched Marco walking away, a strange tight feeling forming in her chest.
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In Mewni, a portal formed in the throne room and pair of boot stomped out announcing the presence of the forger of the scissors.
"Your Majesties," the red haired woman greeted the royals before her.
"Hekapoo?" Angie wondered, "What are you doing here?"
"This is an odd question, but did someone just open up a lot of portal all at once?"
"No."
"I swear I could have sensed someone using a pair of stolen scissors and abusing them. I really got up my game." Hekapoo huffed as her finger fiddled with the scissors in her hand, she wondered what she'd do when she tracked down those who stole her scissors.
Author's Note: Hey everyone. I hope you liked this chapter, it was pretty fun. I did put a bit of rush into since I'm not sure If I could work in the following week. Plus the next chapter has some complications that will likely take me longer to write out. Anyway, leave reviews telling me what you think.