Time for some school spirit, and perhaps something a whole lot more.
"I like red, I like hoodies, so I bought a dozen of them."
"Same with me and these black dresses."
Star and Marco were talking about clothes as they went through school to their lockers when a group of kids passed by.
"Hey, it's the gothic magical Monster girl." Everyone immediately began waving to her and saying hi making Star blush a little.
"Hey there new friends, Hiiiii. Wow everyone's so friendly and cool despite the small amount of time I've been here. I wish my parents had sent me to earth a long time ago." Star smiled broadly making Marco smile at how happy she was.
"Well here comes our group now." Marco waves to a group of four walking in their direction.
"Hey Marco and Star." A short fat boy with red hair walked up to Star and pulled up his shirt to reveal a face drawn on his stomach making it talk. "Hey there, you look mighty beautiful today."
"Ferguson don't do that to her, she's a friend not a princess to be… actually go on ahead." A tall slim boy with dark skin and glasses speaking in some foreign accent retracted his correction.
"Alfonso man, just because she's a princess doesn't mean Ferguson should show her his belly." A boy with hair over his eyes with two "fangs" in his mouth and wearing a red scarf while carrying a keyboard guitar spoke up at the two quickly.
"Oh come on Oskar, let me go for her." Ferguson spoke up only to be poked in the belly by Star.
"Ohhhhhh, so squishy and cute. Ya know I could just eat you right up I could." Star leaned over flashing her sharp teeth and licking her lips making Ferguson pull his shirt back down and take a step back.
"I knew it, he's not ready for "that" level of relationship." A girl with a denim jacket and raven colored hair wearing an olive green beanie hat poked fun at Ferguson.
"Wait, that's what she meant Janna? I thought she was just gonna eat me." Ferguson sighed in relief.
"Well that makes more sense honestly." Janna smiled as Ferguson tensed up again as Star laughed.
"Oh I don't eat friends you see, but keep me fed as I go a might bit crazy when I don't get enough food." She smiled sweetly making everyone look at Marco for clarification if it was a joke.
"She does speak the truth on that one." Marco commented with everyone chuckling.
"Say, can you whip up some magic for us? As a sorceress in training I'd like to see some of that." Janna smiled with Alfonso grabbing her shoulder and holding her back.
"Don't go for it, she's scary enough as is." A bell began ringing making everyone except Janna sigh in relief, including Star.
"Saved by the bell, see you guys in class." Star skipped over to her locker to gather her things while the group filtered off with Marco pulling in to his locker next to Star.
"So, seems like you're getting along with them just fine."
"I like the people here, most of them seem nice." Marco still sensed a misgiving about Star but didn't want to push at it right now so he remained quiet. "Say, how did Oskar and Janna become your friends, you seem completely different from each other."
"Well the principle deeming me the safe kid assigned those two to hang with me a year ago so I could get them to "reform" as he would say. Honestly though their grades are bad at times, with Oskar being lazy and a slob, and Janna's sadistic streak they are a quasi-punk group in the school. But they are not bad people and I'm actually glad I met them as if I didn't I'm not sure if I would have broken out of a rash of insecurity." Star looked at Marco as he finished up and headed to class. "Well, see ya later." Star just nodded and waved smiling to herself at how she and Marco may have more in common then she originally thought.
"How could you have a bad grade in English? That is what you're speaking right?" Janna asked Star in a strange admiration as they sat on bleachers.
Star, Marco, Alfonzo, Oskar, and Janna were gathered in the Gymnasium for a pep rally with every other student in the school. There was a sign over the Gymnasiums interior saying Go Possums as Principle Skeeves was talking to everyone. Star did a strange sigh and chuckle mixture as she looked at her friends who had mixing looks of concern and admiration.
"Not exactly." Star reached up and took off her headband and flipped something under the cover. "Puhun vain Mewmanilla, tämä päänauha sallii minun puhua omalla kielelläsi." Star put her headband back on after flicking that thing again. "It's nice to be able to speak various languages without actually having to learn it right off the bat. As a bonus it also translates everyone around you for a sizable distance, not sure how far though." Star smiled at them as they looked at her in interest.
"You have no idea how cool that was or how beautiful your voice sounded just then. It would be perfect as a vocalist." Oskar looked at her in awe making Star blush a little.
"That would explain how I am able to understand the Spanish teacher far more easily now." Alfonzo thought aloud as Skeeves interrupted their bonding by trying to get everyone's attention.
"Attention people attention, coming up in a few days' time is our game between the Echo creek opossums and the Warriors of Silver Hill prep once again." This got a slight cheer from the crowd that seemed to not be what the principle wanted.
"Huh, kind of lackluster for some reason." Star commented as Skeeves continued on.
"And now Brittany Wong, who became head cheerleader on her own and not because her dad made a generous donation to the school." A rubber beach ball that was being bounced around hit him in the head with him with him just looking offended as a group of people began filing out into the Gymnasium.
"Go Echo Creek, Go Echo Creek, let's try not to get beat, Go Echo Creek, let's try not to get beat, Go Go Go Go yeah!" A group of male and female cheerleaders ran out holding a person on them like she was a queen and even did a stair fashion allowing her to walk down to Skeeves position, where she just took his microphone as if taking something from a servant.
"Let's make some noise if you love the awesome opossums." Brittany spoke in a peppy fashion and held up her hand as if she was a queen addressing a crowd, a very arrogant one.
Everyone began cheering in a much louder fashion with Skeeves looking sad now as Star began to really cheer alongside people.
"I love opossums, they carry their babies on their backs."
"Star you do realize she is talking about…"
"The football team, yes Marco. I love both!" Star smiled and blinked at him making him look around as the others chuckled.
"Well we are in for an uphill fight, they're going head to head with the Warriors." Janna spoke with the other three shivering slightly.
"The Warriors?" Star looked in confusion until Alfonzo answered her.
"Our rivals from Silver Hill Prep."
"Every year their team slaughters our guys." Marco spoke in a somber tone as thier teacher nearby spoke up.
"It's gonna be a bloodbath." She then munched on some fried chicken in an industrial sized container.
"That's terrible, we have to do something." Star spoke getting mixed reactions from people.
"Man, you don't need to get involved; at this point it's almost tradition." Oskar spoke in his laid back manner.
"I actually kind of like seeing the one way fight now a days; it's strangely artistic." Janna spoke smiling at the center of the Gymnasium.
"There's not much we can do honestly." Alfonzo spoke with his head on hand staring out into the air.
"Well you could join the spirit team; they are relentless when it comes to supporting the team." One of the boys did a split as they were watching. "Relentless, but I doubt Brittany would let you make much of an impact honestly." Marco gestured to Brittany who seemed to be going on about something.
"Yeah, she's kind of a bitch the more you get to know her." Oskar said leaning back strumming his keytar softly.
"I kind of got some of that from her. She holds herself like a queen who takes her subjects for granted; and I should know as my mom is the good kind of queen." Everyone nodded commenting on how cool that was still as Brittany went on.
"And now our new mascot, which I did not approve of, possum." Brittany gestured to her left and everyone looked to see a guy wearing a poorly made possum suit dancing onto the field.
"Woo hoo, yeah." The possum danced onto the field with the lower half of its suit dropping off revealing under-wear. "Alri... oh god no."
"What's Ferguson doing out there and where is the real possum? Did those jerk warriors steal it again." Marco got really heated about this with Star patting his back to calm him down while Alfonzo answered him putting his hand on Marco's shoulder.
"Sadly no, the real possum wasn't playing possum." A flashback occurs where a few people were crying over a dead possum in a cardboard box as a janitor stood impatiently waiting the chance to bury the possum.
"I hiss, I bite, I shake my tail alright." Ferguson danced on the floor below getting people really worked up now in a good way.
""Wait, that means he could be kidnapped by the warriors." Marco began panicking as Janna smiled at the idea.
"Well this could be interesting." Everyone shot Janna a look after she said that. "What, I didn't say it was good just interesting." Marco looked at everyone and got out a whistle he just happened to have on him.
"Alright people, we need to protect Ferguson so they don't steal him cause who knows what they will subject him to. Who's with me?" Marco raised the whistle in his hand with the other four saying yes with Janna chuckling in the process.
"Fortunately for all of you my mom had the captain of the guard Buff Frog to train me how to fight."
Flashback
Buff Frog, wearing Mewman armor, is holding a stuffed animal as a four year old Star watches closely and listens carefully to him in some sort of training room.
"You know you have gotten them my little munchkin when you feel the neck snap." Buff Frog twists the stuffed animal until stuffing comes out from its neck area with a squeak.
"YAAAAAAAAAY!" Star hops up and down clapping her hands as another five year watches as well but is blurred out slightly.
Flashback over
"Ohhhh, I was so cute." Star spoke with everyone looking at her either in shock or with glee.
"I can testament to her abilities." Marco spoke smiling as the group continues to stare at Star. "Well, no time to waste, let's get started." Marco smiled gathering everyone up to get going.
Marco looked around as he walked down the hallway glancing from side to side slipping through the shadows like one of those movie ninjas. He hid behind a water fountain looking out and around in cautious observance as he leapt doing a summersault over the water fountain and hid in a locker looking out from the upper bars in the surrounding area. He then leapt out and did a crawl fashion over to behind a trophy stand looking through the grass to see what might be out in the further hallway and slid down to the ground holding his head to his wrist.
"This is the red ninja calling in; all is clear in the hallway currently. Proceed."
"You know we can't hear you clearly when you do that Marco." Marco leapt up at seeing Janna standing right next to him and speaking to him.
"Janna, you just blew our cover."
"Yeah right, you may be good Marco but if they're serious they would have spotted you right off the bat." Janna smiled as Marco groaned.
"And here I thought this might actually work." Marco spoke as the Star, Oskar, Alfonzo, and Ferguson wearing his suit came from around the corner.
"Come on man, we will get an easy warning if they try to kidnap Ferguson." Oskar spoke playing his music a little. "He is pretty difficult to carry after all, and that is just a fact." Everyone nodded including Ferguson.
"I don't think I'm in any danger and this tail will help me get the ladies." He smiled turning to Star. "You think you could make this thing prehensile." He smiled as Star looked at him worried as she answered.
"I'm not sure how to do that or even if I should do that." Janna smiled and laughed at the look on Ferguson's face.
"Well come on guys, we got a ways to go and the streets back home are far more likely to have warriors prowling them then the school." Marco led the way with everyone following except for Star who stopped in front of the trophy stand.
"So many brave souls lost to this tragic conflict, just like in my parents fight against the Shadow Clause." Star looked into the stand where there were pictures of football players posing in triumph or friendship and blew some moisture onto the mirror making a frowny face. "*Sigh* I can't just stand aside and only help in protecting our banner man from being kidnaped to hit morale." Star looked over to see Oskar seemingly hitting on Ferguson by admiring and rubbing his tail with the rest of the group laughing, even Ferguson. "I must provide something more even if I can't do it officially due to that corrupted queen Brittany letting her kingdom fall apart without so much as a bat of her eyes." Star stood up with a determined look on her face. "I will do much more." She swore and then stepped forward while Oskar tried to kiss Ferguson.
"Dude no, I'm not into guys like you are." Ferguson held Oskar back chuckling slightly as the rest of the group laughed at Oskar's mock hitting on Ferguson.
"Come on man, you look so hot in the costume." Oskar moved in trying to mock kiss Ferguson with Janna actually tripping Ferguson so they did kiss.
"*Confused screaming* HOW DID THAT HAPPEN!?" Ferguson backed up with Oskar trying to apologize.
"Seriously man, I did not intend that. It was funny but I did not intend that." Marco, Star, and Alfonzo were chuckling while Janna was rolling on the floor laughing.
"That confirms it, you are a homo too man." Janna barely got that out as Marco tried getting everyone back on track.
"Alright people, we got a few hours of light left to get Ferguson home where he should be safe. Just in case though take this whistle." Marco pushed the whistle to Ferguson who was still reeling from the accidental kiss. "Blow it and yell stranger danger if any warriors attempt to pick you up."
"Is this really necessary Marco?" Ferguson backed up a step so Marco tried shoving it in his face.
"You need this for your own good man!" The two struggled while the rest of the group now looked on in concern.
"Um Marco, shouldn't we get him home?" Star asked in concern.
"Not until he takes this whistle so they can't trap us and take us by surprise." Marco continued to shove with Alfonzo now pulling them apart.
"Take them by surprise and trap them, yeah." Star thought to herself as Alfonzo pulled them apart and the group got moving again.
As the group struggled Janna glanced over at Star overhearing her musing to herself, something along the lines of trapping warriors; Janna brushed it off as they continued moving though.
Later that night, a strange mist seems to roll in on the football field that the sporting event is going to take place on. A silent figure glides onto the field wearing a massive oversized turquoise hoodie and begins waving something causing strange glows to emanate across the field as if an Aurora Borealis was moving across the school. This was noticed by a trio of night janitors who looked up to the sky seeing the effects going on near the field with despite it being shrouded in mist.
"Should we do something about this?"
"We should call the police but I say let's wait until we see what has actually happened here."
As they bickered a little the glowing stopped and the mist pulled back from the field looking like nothing had happened in the first place.
"Well, they won't believe us now if we did call them would they?" Two of them walked off while a third stared at the field.
"Why do those dang Martians always clean up their tracks so well?"