I see all, time flows around me like a river unimpeded in its... wait is that a dam? AHHHHHHHH!
*Horrifically exaggerated cartoon crash*
Omnitraxus Prime: Hippie's in pain, he'll have to call ya back later. Enjoy the episode.
Star was readying up her finishing touches before going to school after she had finally gotten her hair in line. She sighed in acceptance and then in awe as she looked at her beautiful silver hair with blue tints here and there. She didn't pay much attention to her physical appearance, she wasn't physically that beautiful in her own eyes, but her hair was something she doted upon endlessly. Knee length and shimmering like moon light, Star twirled in a circle making it wave around in a beautiful fashion giggling to herself. Its length meant that it was hard to take care of but now she had a magic wand to help her out, even if it could hurt at times as she couldn't control the instruments as well as Butler or her parents or grandmother could when combing it. She considered asking Marco to help out but figured he had enough to deal with without combing her hair as well; he was her friend not her hand maid. As she put her devil horn headband in place smiling at the finished image Marco burst into the bathroom only in his pajama bottoms in a rush. He began talking a mile a minute while the three laser puppies tumbled in right behind him.
"Gahhhhh! I over slept, need to get ready now." He picked up a hair brush and tooth brush and tried using them in the wrong spots before realizing what he was doing. "No, must stay foc… ahhh where's my hoodie." Marco tore through his stuff in the bathroom looking for something while Star watched on nervously before speaking.
"It's ok Marco, we can still get to school before first period you know; no rush." At this Marco stood up shaking off some cotton swabs that had fallen on him before speaking.
"This isn't about education, this is about love!" He turned to Star smiling happily. "Every morning at exactly 9:05 I wait by the front steps to the school for Jackie to come by. When she does, we share a quick kiss before walking into the school hand in hand talking about life." Star smiled at his eagerness giving out an 'awwwww' in appreciation of him. Marco then looked up at the clock and his face went white before a look of defeat came across his face. "Doing this is more important than ever now as, for some reason, ever since the Blood Moon Ball Jackie has been… growing distant with me." He rubbed his arm with Star looking on in concern. "It has been happening by inches, I mean I didn't even notice it myself until fairly recently. We've been doing everything right but… *sigh* I just want to stay close to Jackie and I'm afraid this could be… the start of…" Marco trailed off with Star looking on in real concern before an idea came to Marco's mind. "Star, could you help me out here?" Star looked both ways before responding slowly.
"Ummm, I'm not sure what you have in mi…" Not letting her finish Marco spoke again.
"Can you use your wand to, say, freeze time or something like that?" Star blinked in shock as Marco stared at her eagerly with Star lifting her wand tentatively.
"Ummm, I can try. Ummm, 'Easy Peesy Timy Freezy'!?" Star waved her wand with a flash of pink light coming from it before the sound of a ticking clock filled their ears.
As they looked around in confusion the clock ticking slowed down with everything around them slowing down as well. The laser puppies slowed down with even the lasers slowing down to a standstill frozen in midair. Downstairs Raphael was making pancakes with the spell freezing him flipping a pancake into the air as he tried to stop Kitty from leaping up at the pancake in the air. Angie was in the shower singing with a Viking helmet on and rubber ducky in hand as she too froze into place with the spell just as she hit a high note. Finally the clock stop ticking entirely with Marco and Star looking around in confusion with Marco bending down to one of the puppies. Reaching out he touched one of the laser beams that came out of its eyes and recoiled as the heat burned his finger slightly. Standing up Marco spoke in shock with a smile creeping up his face.
"Star… you just froze time. Do you know what that means?" star blinked in confusion before answering.
"Ummm, that you can get to school in time to kiss Jackie and keep your relationship healthy?" Marco chuckled before responding.
"Well yes, but we don't even need to hurry now. It's a Freeze Day!" Star looked confused until she seemed to realize what it meant and a grin split her face as well.
Marco and Star ran out of the house in a rush after finishing up their morning activities past a mail man who was wearing 'anti-laser dog' equipment. The duo went to the local park and began putting mustaches on everyone starting with the babies. They then stacked up dogs into a pyramid formation laughing at the absurdity of what they were doing just for the fun of it. They also engaged in a picnic on a freeway laughing at a group of people suffering from road rage who were frozen yelling at each other. Another stop was the grocery store where Marco measured how much Star could eat before she couldn't' eat another bite of food; which was about 33% of her body weight leaving her panting on the ground with a distended belly. They went to the school and reversed the role a group of bullies were making by giving them all wedgies and freeing the boy who was getting a wedgie. Marco had them stop by the dojo real quick and found Jeremy in mid leap turning him upside down and twisting him so he was heading in the direction of a mess of ropes. They also went to the backyard and found Mavis and her group coming out of a portal allowing Star to swap her headband with Mavis's skull allowing Marco to take a picture.
SN: 60 fun filled frozen hours later.
"Man that was fun, it's nice to just hang out like that." Marco smiled at Star who nodded and replied to him as they stood outside of the school.
"Yeah, we should do this some other time and get everyone involved. Oh there's frozen Jackie." Star pointed to where Jackie was coming up on her skateboard with Marco taking a 'cool' pose. "Let's get you love birds on the right track. Timey Unfreezey Breezy!" Star waved her wand but nothing happened. "Um, Tumey Unfreezey Breezy!" Still nothing happened making them both nervous. "Um Marco, I'm suddenly scared." Star grabbed onto her tail and started rubbing it with Marco coming up to her speaking softly.
"Yeah, me too. We can't get any help to turn this around." Marco moved in close to Star inadvertently grabbing her tail and rubbing it as well making them both leap back in shock. "S-sorry Star, got a little nervous." Marco flinched as Star blushed with her normally light grey skin turning a brilliant crimson at what had just happened before responding.
"I-it's ok Marco, I get that you did nothing wrong. It's just, my tail is kind of sensitive to non-pain sensations so please don't touch it without my permission again." Star held her tail close shivering slightly with Marco looking around in worry calming himself down before speaking.
"Ok, maybe your book has something on this, I mean this couldn't have been the first time this has happened with people right?" Star nodded and replied as she turned for home.
"Then let's get going. I know we have all the time in the world but I'd like to get back on track." Marco nodded following her trying to get the rough yet smooth feel of her tail out of his head.
Back at home Star opened up her book with Marco's help to try and figure out what to do about this with Star calling out to Glossarick.
"Oh Glosarick, I know you have only been showing me the basics and all that but we have a…" Star opened to a page where Glossarick was finding him frozen in time as well, sleeping with a pink teddy bear. "Oh no, Glossarick is frozen in time as well." Marco snorted and turned the page.
"Didn't like that guy anyways and would have probably been of no help." Marco pushed aside the page turning to Star. "Say is there a table of contents in here, you seem to know more about the book then I do." Star smiled and opened to the front of the book pointing out the table of contents.
"Can you believe it, it was in the center of the book; like dead center. I've been trying to organize it for some time and have had some success starting with this. Let's see…" Star looked at the table of contents looking for something and finally found it. "… ah, cosmic scale emergences; you were right in the fact that this could have happened before." Marco smiled looking content as Star turned to where it was most likely and found the start of the chapter. "Let's see; what to do if you make a dimension explode, what to do if you create a growing black hole, what to do if you make a shimmer…" She stopped looking at the description in confusion with Marco looking in and blinking in shock as he recognized it.
"I recognize that, it was the plotline of a book and movie called Annihilation." Star blinked at him in shock before turning back to the book.
"… what to do if you delete gravity, what to do if you cause spontaneous fusion, what to do if you summon an Ancient One/Elder God, aha what to do if you stop time. To restart time you must go to the fields of time and push the Wheel of Progress to restart the movement of time. Sounds simple enough." Star smiled with Marco groaning slightly.
"I've got this feeling it's not going to be so simple, it rarely is."
As they stepped through the portal they were greeted to an impressive if weird site. Around them was a vast desert filled with melted clocks all over the place; over rocks, sand, and branches. Above them the sky was a purplish color implying night with all the stars but had strange swirls that lit up the land in a perpetual twilight. The duo looked around in awe for the longest time before Star spoke softly.
"It's… beautiful." Marco nodded responding softly.
"Yeah… weird but beautiful." They looked around a little while admiring things until Marco's eyes fell upon what looked to be a gigantic hamster wheel. On one side of it was a gear that seemed to be cracked In a few places implying heavy wear. "Oh, I think that's the wheel. Let's get pushing." MArco sped off to the wheel with Star calling out ot him as she followed.
"Easy there Marco, we don't' know what's out here." Marco chuckled turning back to her.
"Oh come on; we are a monk and a multi-class sorceress-barbarian, we can handle anything." Star chuckled at his refrence but continued with a serious face.
"Even the dimension with human faced ca…" Marco put his finger up to Star's mouth silencing her.
"Shhhhh sh, I don't want those memories coming ba… too late." He shuddered and clutched himself swaying slightly. "I feel violated just by seeing their faces." Star stepped by him up the rest of the way to the wheel and pushed on it slightly.
"hmmmm, Marco want to get on and help me push?" Marco nodded, eager to get his mind off the cats, and got onto the wheel trying to run on it.
Marco tried running and Star tried pushing but the wheel did nothing, it didn't even squeak or groan from the pressure they were putting on it. Marco even tried climbing up to the top and swung back and forth on it producing no results at all. Annoyed at this Marco looked down to see Star lying on the ground beneath it using her Septarian strength to push it like one would a dumbbell but got nothing out of it. 'Dang, with me swinging on it and Star pushing on it can this thing even move?' Marco thought to himself in concern. Star got out from underneath it pointing her wand at it yelling "Rapid Raccoon Acceleration!" shooting a pink stream of light out that bounced around for a few seconds until it bounced off next to Star. Marco blinked at the pink Raccoon that stood next to star and mimicked her movement of confused head scratching before leaping down next to her.
"Magic won't work on that. You have to use the magic of toesies." The duo turned to see a bald blue skinned guy in white robes sitting on the ground nearby.
"Ummm, who are you?" Star asked in confusion as the guy turned his showing them he had a long white beard and a clock on a chain around his neck before speaking.
"Oh Father time, nothing big. And this is Rocksworth." He held up a random rock shaking it slightly. "Just don't bring up he's a rock he's kind of sensitive to that; and that's a rock fact." He giggled at this with Marco and Star looking at each other in concern. "Oh, I want to ask you, what is that?" He leapt over to a mud puddle with Marco answering him in confusion.
"Um, that's mud." Father Time leapt into it rolling around in glee as he answered.
"Oh well it is glorious." Star and Marco watched him for a minute as he just rolled around in mud before putting some on his tongue. He then spit it out in surprise disgust hitting Marco square in the face with Star finally making some connections in her mind and asking him a question.
"Say, you wouldn't be the one who pushed that wheel now would you?" Father time got up and nodded answering in a nonchalant way.
"Yup, been on there forever. That is until someone jolted me off with magic… say you wouldn't be the ones who did it right?" The two looked at each other and nodded with Father time grasping them in a hug. "Oh thank you so much you two, I wanted off of that damn thing for so long. Oh!" He ran off like an excited child with Marco and Star following as he pointed to random things. "That must be a bush; and that's a twig; and that's…" He pointed to a duck that had a clock around its neck similar to father time. "… Well I don't know what that is but its waddling hehe." Marco groaned slightly and stepped forward speaking upfront to Father Time.
"Look sir, can you say… get back on the wheel and start running. Time is frozen in place and all that." Father Time, ignoring every word Marco said, immediately leapt up a solid twenty feet into the air to land on a random hourglass. "Oh boy it's going to be one of those days isn't it?" They took off after him as he leapt from place to place with Star shouting out to him now.
"Without you rainbows can't shimmer, deer can't prance, and people can't talk to each other. They're stuck in an eternal frozen limbo." Father Time landed in front of some clock with a pair of doors opening up on it.
"Ohhhhhh, what is this?" He danced into the clock with it closing behind him just as Marco and Star got up to it staring at it in confusion. As Marco tried to get it open a scream was heard from Father Time making them both turn to see him riding a VERY fast Tortoise. "YOLO! Anything is possible in this world." Star and Marco looked at each other in confusion with Marco pointing at something getting Star's attention.
"Hey, we can use that thing." Star turned to see a large rabbit big enough to carry both of them sitting there, but shook her head no holding Marco back before answering.
"If this world functions like I think it does, that rabbit is going to be as fast as a tortoise." Marco raised his hand to answer but stopped before nodding.
"That's a… strangely good point." They then took off after Father Time on foot hoping he got off the tortoise at some point.
Chasing him they came to the edge of a river with random clocks floating down it forming ad hoc leaping platforms one could use to get across. Father Time just leapt all the way across no issue but Marco and Star had to leap from clock to clock. As they did so, landing on their first clock, they were both digressed in age to babies with them just standing for a second realizing what had just happened. Turning to each other they nodded and just began leaping through the clocks as fast as possible lest they land on one that aged them to the point where they couldn't swim or jump. They felt the alternate aging processes pulling on their bodies changing their forms left and right feeling like they were being stretched out and squeezed at the same time. When they finally got to the other side they felt exhausted mentally and their bodies seemed unfamiliar to them. When they finally stopped stumbling around Star looked back into the creek and double took to see she had grown up to somewhere around her late 20's.
"Wow… I'm all grown up." Star blinked looking herself over and actually smiled at what she saw; she may not think herself beautiful but she admitted she could still be hot, and damn if she didn't grow up to be a bombshell. Thick curves around her hips and a sizable bust over her still athletic body gave her the appearance of an Amazon, making her bask for a moment at how she looked. Her hedonistic admiration however was cut short by a high pitch yell from Marco.
"No fair, why do you get the cool adult body?!" Star turned in shock to see Marco had digressed in age to around six or so and was pouting, making him look adorable in her eyes.
"Awwww, you're so cute Marco!" Star lifted him up rubbing her face with his making Marco give a deadpan expression as he responded in a deadpan manner.
"Could you please not, this is serious." Star then just held him close like a teddy bear talking to him.
"But you're so ADORABLE! Oh I wish I could just sit her and snuggle you to no end." Marco blushed at that, especially as Star held him close to her now very well sized and developed bust that reminded him of Moon's and Helsinki's. 'Yep, definitely a thing for Butterfly milfs.' Marco thought to himself in grim acceptance as this was not helping his already lax relationship with Jackie. "Wait, we need to find Father Time still! Hold on tight lil Marco. Hehe lil Marco." Star threw him on her back, Marco not happy at the play on his name, and took off at an even faster pace than she could normally manage on all fours.
Running fast across the land Star quickly found Father Time who, upon seeing the kids, immediately leapt up and stared jumping across the landscape. In her normal state Star would have been left behind but in her adult form, even with lil Marco on her, she was able to easily keep pace. Coming across another river Father Time leapt across it with Star, running up the side of a random clock to get a height advantage, also being able to leap across it in a single bound. Marco whistled in admiration at Star's adult abilities feeling her muscles ripple and tense beneath his tight grip before speaking to her.
"Wow Star, you're really powerful." Star giggled and answered him.
"Septarians like myself are born and bred to be warriors, and my Mewman half is no pushover either." She flashed him a toothy grin pulling up to some sort of palace looking thing. "I think he went in there." Star rushed up a flight of stairs emerging in a room full of television screens with flickering images on them. "Whoa, what is this place?" Star looked around in awe standing upright as Marco held onto her back looking around as well before answering.
"I think this is everything that has ever happened in the cosmos recorded for all time." They both oohed in awe at this with Marco pointing at one screen. "Oh, Battle of New Orleans war of 1812, nailed it!" Marco pumped his fist in victory as Star chuckled. Something then came out of the ceiling looking like a long tube that opened on the end revealing a pink and red eye which stared at them intensely. "Um Star, what is that?" As the eye looked at them the screens all changed showing a baby Star on screen making Star gasp in shock before replying.
"I think that's… my history in time.