WH: I have returned from my time in meditation and am ready to resume my quest. Time for another quasi-based episode of the show, the episode "Frenemies". Ok Spongbob Narrator, you're up for this episode.
SN: My time to shine once more.
Marco had just started Friday homework eager to get through it so he wouldn't have to worry about it all weekend. He heard the doorbell ring and thought nothing of it thinking his parents would get it but then heard a crash coming from Star's room with some muttered cursing coming from it. Marco got up from his desk and ran for the room and went to knock on the door before he was interrupted by Star.
"You can come in Marco; I kind of need your help with something." Marco opened the door to see Star wrapped up in Christmas lights with a pile of more Christmas lights in the corner.
"Um, what's going on?" Star chuckled and bounced over to Marco with Nacho batting at a loose string of lights.
"Well you know when Aunt Helsinki came over? She kind of didn't wrap the Christmas lights up correctly turning it into a mess of wires." Marco shuddered at the idea of that and the nightmare it would be to undo it. "So I decided to try to unwrap it and wrap it back up right while you did homework. I got it unwrapped pretty well thanks to magic but then it encircled me and I got tangled up in it. Can you help me out of this?" Marco chuckled and went to help unwrap Star when Angie called up.
"Marco, a friend of yours has come to see you." Marco looked at Star who smiled and began hopping towards the door with Marco shrugging and following her.
"Um Star, shouldn't you unwrap yourself before going down stairs?" Star chuckled and began hopping down the stairs effortlessly making Marco smile at her. "I'm impressed, no way would I be able to do that." When they got to the bottom they saw Angie talking to Tom and the Wandering Hippie. They paused for a second to take all this in with Tom noticing them and calling out.
"Hey guys, what's up?" When neither Marco nor Star answered him he chuckled nervously. "Yeah, soooooo would you by chance be interested in hanging out…"
"No no a million times no Tom, I'm busy." Tom looked hurt at Star's reply but waved his hand in front of him before speaking.
"Oh nonononono I wasn't talking to you Star; that's kind of a quick leap from *ahem* you know…" And awkward silence hung over the trio as Angie looked on confused, Nacho continued to bat at the wires, and the WH looked nervous. "…I was wondering if Marco could hang out with me actually." Marco blinked in shock before replying.
"What? I thought you hated me." Tom shrugged and nodded with a sad look on his face.
"Yeah I kind of did; but the thing is it's not you directly that I hate it's what you represent. You shoved all the truth about me and Star into my face all at once, which I needed mind you, but that doesn't mean I had to *ahem* like what that meant. So now I want to… is it burying the hatchet?" Tom turned to the WH who smiled and nodded speaking up.
"Look Marco, I get why you are unsure of Tom and want to keep your distance but he is a really nice guy." Marco rubbed his chin a little considering it.
"I don't know man; it's kind of a quick leap to go from not killing me to hanging out like friends." Tom looked crestfallen at first but then pulled out something gold from his pocket.
"Well, I got these tickets to the Mackie Hand 8 hour movie event this evening because I know you liked it and wanted to know more about Mackie Hand after seeing 'Mackie Hand 2: Wrath of the Crouching Tigers'." Marco perked up at this speaking fast.
"Wait, you mean the movie event that was sold out for 2 weeks!" Tom and WH nodded in unison with Angie speaking up.
"You can go along with him Marco; just don't be sure to eat healthy instead of binging on snacks." Marco rubbed the back of his head before speaking again.
"I don't know, I get the feeling there has to be an angle on this somewhere." Tom looked bummed as the WH stepped forward and spoke.
"Mind if I talk to you for minute Marco?" Marco nodded and followed the WH to the side with Star following along. "Um, ok then I'll talk to both of you. Look first off; yes there is a catch to this. This is actually the final step in treating his anger management problems." Marco and Star both had looks of confirmed suspicion on their faces as the WH continued. "But that's not the only reason. You see…"
"Tom, we are so proud of you for your choice of actions tonight." A person that looked like an ordinary brown haired and pale skinned Mewman wearing dark red and black noble looking clothes spoke with a sense of pride in his blue eyes.
"You have shown a level of maturity and self-restraint that most people don't exhibit; and with all the little demons inside of you that is quite a feat." A very large twenty foot tall red skinned creature with large black cow horns, three glowing yellow eyes, and a black dress spoke next smiling profusely with tears in her eyes. As she wiped them away some fell onto the ground burning a hole in it.
"Yes, I'd say you have come quite the distance Tom." WH spoke happily with a nervous chuckle while holding an ice pack to his crotch. "But the question now is, are you ok? Do you want to talk or anything like that man?"
Tom was wrapped up in a blanket holding a tattered stuffed giraffe along with his pink bunny while eating ice cream. As he did so he stared at a shrine of pictures of Tom and Star together with the main one being of the two kissing with the sunset behind them. He took another spoonful of ice-cream speaking through sobs.
"No *sob sniff* I just wanna cry and eat. *Sob*" Tom took another spoonful of ice-cream and continued sobbing while his parents and the WH looked on in concern.
"… he was like that for two weeks after the Blood Moon Ball. Look Marco, he needs a friend desperately and for some reason he really likes you; can you at least try to be that friend?" Marco rubbed the back of his head still looking concerned before he replied.
"I don't know. Star what would you say; I mean you did know this guy intimately." Star got this conflicted look across her face as she looked back at Tom who was laughing nervously as Angie spoke to him. "Star, I trust your judgement absolutely." Star looked at Marco blushing slightly before speaking.
"Well… take the dimensional scissors with you in case you need to bail and don't hesitate to call me if things go sour. Actually, text me once every 15 minutes so I know nothing has happened to you." Marco smiled and leaned in to hug Star making her blush more profusely as he spoke.
"I will do that, you have my word." Marco stepped away and walked over to where Angie and Tom were talking getting their attention. "I'm going with Tom tonight." Tom cheered and began leaping around with joy as Angie waited for him to finish before speaking.
"Well that settles it. Oh, and one more thing." Her cheerful face and voice went scary for a moment as she looked at Marco and Tom. "I will know if you binged on snacks instead of eating healthy food and dinner. And bring my son back as you found him demon or you will not like what happens next." Her face and voice went back to normal as she spoke to them. "Ok, have fun you two. Now then, Star let me help you out of that binding of wires."
Marco and Tom looked at each other chuckling nervously with traumatized looks on their faces as Angie went off to help Star before they went outside. Parked out on the street in front of the house was Tom's carriage with the flaming undead unicorn that pulled it. Marco turned to the undead Warnicorn and spoke.
"Hey man, everything doing alright?" The flaming beast nodded and spoke.
"Yeah, it's actually pretty nice being dead strangely enough." Marco smiled and boarded the carriage speaking to Tom.
"So Tom… man you got a nice set up here." Marco looked around the interior of the carriage seeing it easily took up ore space on the inside then the exterior could support.
"Yeah, got a widescreen plasma TV for video games and movies and what not. That there is the snack holder with a container full of Sugar Seeds, I know you like those, and completed with a mini fridge holding soda. A photo booth and karaoke machine that I helped refurbish; can you believe someone just threw those out?" A moan from the corner got Marco's attention. "Oh yeah, and that's my dad's white tiger; he sent it with me so I could care for it while he works." As Marco watched the tiger the cat Nacho, who had gotten on the carriage somehow, went up to the white tiger and curled up next to it promptly. "Um, is that guy yours?" Marco chuckled and responded as he watched the white tiger sniff it in curiosity.
"Yeah, just a guy Star poofed up at random and didn't just go away." Tom responded chuckling.
"Yeah, I should have guessed that given its strange face, the blue fur, and the fact that it has a snake for a tail. Now for a confession." Tom turned towards Marco speaking seriously. "We will be seeing the movie marathon but we won't be in the theater." Marco got a confused look on his face. "Hear me out, we will be watching it but the marathon will be streamed to this carriage. Because of this we can bypass all of the crowded lines, snobby geeks, and dirty theater seats. What do you say to that?" Tom looked at Marco hopefully with Marco considering it for a moment before responding.
"Is this legal?" Tom looked back and forth a little guiltily.
"Um, not exactly." Marco looked at him deadpan for a second before smiling.
"You know what, if you bought the tickets to support Mackie Hand, that's fine by me." Tom smiled and nodded with a look of relief on his face.
"Whew, thanks for understanding that man. I was afraid I had, you know, messed things up already by forgetting to tell you earlier." Marco chuckled and playfully punched Tom on the shoulder.
"Don't sweat it man, we're cool. Now, when is it starting?" Tom smiled and checked a clock on the wall.
"Not for about half an hour." As Tom was about to speak a horn honked next to them prompting Tom an Marco to look outside of the carriage. Next to them was a pair of 'cool stereotype' dudes driving a convertible with flames painted all over it. Both vehicles had stopped at a stoplight that had turned red and the 'cool dudes' called out to them.
"Yo dude, nice ride; you going to a funeral you're 200 years late to?" The guys laughed with the next one speaking.
"How much you get out of that, one horsepower?" Marco looked over to see Tom already at the boiling stage as the next one yelled out.
"What you use for fuel, grass?" As Tom seemed about to lose it, pulling out a random conch shell in the process, Marco called out to them.
"Well at least we know ours isn't compensating for something." Absolute silence fell on the two as Tom stopped simmering and started chuckling before speaking.
"Yeah, can't keep them around so you need to bring in more daily?" Marco began laughing at Tom as the two guys looked at each other and spoke.
"Dude, you thinkin what I'm thinkin?"
"Oh I'm thinkin it man."
"They're insulting our style man."
"Yeah, let's see if they can measure up?" They turned back to Tom and Marco with one speaking. "Dudes, you think your vehicle is better than ours? How about we put it to the test?" Marco and Tom smiled at each other with Tom replying.
"Oh… if only your vehicle was worthy of competition. We accept but I almost feel sorry for you." Marco smiled at where this was going and whispered to Tom.
"Let them pull ahead. Given your attitude about this carriage we could beat them but I have a better idea." Tom smiled and nodded. Both stared at the light they had pulled up to and looked at each other eagerly waiting for the light to change to green. As it turned green the convertible moved forward quickly with Tom looking at Marco expectantly with Marco counting down.
"Three… Two… One." A cop siren blared out and a police vehicle pulled out of hiding and immediately began chasing the convertible. "You see Tom, other people are ruled by their emotions as well with far less excuse then you have… I think. Jackie told me about the little demons and it has me confused." The carriage pulled by the convertible where the cops were actually pulling the guys out and making them do DUI tests. "I get the feeling they're going to jail." Tom chuckled and closed the window sitting on a couch in the room before speaking.
"Thanks man, that could have turned out bad." Marco chuckled and sat next to him.
"Yeah I know, don't want you to fail your anger management class you know." Tom looked over in fear as Marco calmed him down. "Don't worry man I get it. The Wandering Hippie told me about it but let's not let that fact ruin tonight. Tonight I induct you to the fanbase of 'Mackie Hand'!" Tom smiled and responded.
"I like that, I like that very much. So, before the movies start, tell me a bit about Mackie Hand." Marco smiled figuratively rolling up his sleeves before speaking.
"Well I'll try to get out what I can before the movies start. You see, Mackie Hand was one of the greatest American martial artists of all time and certainty the best who was an actor. He did all of his stunts himself and even changed them around to reflect real martial art moves as he felt that the one shot hits were 'not right' according to him. He was a part of multiple movies but he starred in three specifically; 'Mackie Hand: The Iron Monkey, 'Mackie Hand 2: Wrath of the Crouching Tigers', 'Mackie Hand 3: Flight of the Hidden Dragon'. He was shooting a 4th movie 30 years ago but died performing one of his stunts due to shoddy construction of a set." Macro sighed hanging his head slightly. "Hard to believe movies that old are that good huh?" Tom chuckled leaning back in the couch smiling before he replied.
"There are a lot of things that are really old that I believe are cool man, so nothing unusual." Marco chuckled and replied to Tom.
"Yeah you're right. In addition to the movies there is also an animated TV show called 'Mackie Hand Adventures' and a video game called 'Mackie Hand: Double Dare Kombat of the Street Fighters'…" Marco went on to explain more about the Mackie Hand fan base to Tom who just sat there and absorbed everything Marco said. Before Marco even seemed halfway through it however the event was beginning so Tom turned on the flat screen and they sat back to binge Mackie Hand with popcorn as Nacho played around with white tiger in the background. However as they were waiting for the first movie to start commercials started playing with Marco commenting.
"Well should have seen that coming. We'll just wait it out, no biggie." Toom thought for a second and asked Marco something.
"Um, how long are the Mackie Hand movies?" Marco opened his mouth to answer but froze in shock before getting anger and replying in annoyance.
"1 ½ to 2 hours each damnit; and with only three movies for an eight hour event I think we've just been played." Tom sat up realizing that at least two hours of the event were going to be nothing but commercials given what Marco had said. He pulled out his conch shell pushing it to his ear as Marco ranted a little. "This is not what movie events are supposed to be! Has even the sanctity of a honorary movie event become tarnished by excessively greedy capitalism!" Marco fumed a second before he felt the conch shell be pushed to his ear calming him down almost effortlessly.
"Easy man, they haven't won for us." Marco sighed as the conch worked him over while Tom continued speaking. "You seem to be forgetting we are streaming this and have a whole carriage to pretty much anything we want." At that Marco perked up smiling and spoke in a happy and relived manner.
"This reminds me of a song I really like. You had me bound in the great pen house, what you didn't know was it was better in there. I may be a prisoner but I'm still hap.." Marco stopped realizing what he had just done and looked at Tom who giving him an unreadable look.
"Marco… are you a fan of the boy band 'Love Sentence'?" Marco looked around in concern as it was not exactly a good thing for a boy to love a boy band, even if it was one of the best boy bands to have ever existed.
"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm… yes." Marco squeaked it out in worry as Tom stood up.
"Follow me man." Marco followed Tom over to the back of the carriage with Tom pulling out a section of wall. "Behold and be amazed." Marco beheld… and was amazed at what he saw.
Behind the section of wall was a secret shrine dedicated to Love Sentence that was really well done. There were various pictures of Love sentence band members with one being of the whole group and one of Tom and their lead singer autographed by the lead singer. In a place of honor at the center rested a replica of the main guitar signed by the bands lead guitarist. Marco stood there in shock just trying to take it all in as Tom smiled at Marco amused by his reaction. Marco finally spoke in disbelief and awe as if the thing in front of him was too good to be true.
"Y-you are… a Love Sentence fan?" Marco turned to Tom who rubbed the back of his head a little bashfully.
"Well yeah, I know I don't look like the type of guy to like them but I do. Oh, and I got a surround sound stereo to play their music." Tom reached down and below the shrine and opened a panel revealing an impressive looking stereo music system.
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Flicking the switch music started playing of one of their songs with Marco and Tom dancing to it. After a minute of this the white tiger came up with Tom leaping on its back and Marco going along with him as Nacho trailed along behind them. The tiger leapt around for a while before the two leapt off of its back with Nacho leaping up in their place. The scene cut to Marco pouring cereal into Tom's mouth with soda to chase it down. Marco then does the same to himself going wide eyed and jittery before yelling out in ecstasy. The scene then cuts to Marco flying through the air as if leaping up while doing a swan dive. Tom does the same while impersonating what a stereotypical fancy gentleman would do when out for a stroll. Marco went flying again looking like he was kickboxing invisible opponents all around him. Tom flew through the air doing a strange twirl with Nacho leaping up onto him knocking Tom off balance midflight. Then the white tiger flew up with a neutral look on its face as if it was just tossed up at random before falling down.
Marco and Tom then grab the mikes from the Karaoke machine and start singing the music in unison as if they had rehearsed in the past. Nacho added to the excitement by leaping between their legs with the white tiger just watching them in confusion. The scene cuts again to photos being taken in the photo booth with the first one being them just falling over each other to get into the booth. The second one was of Marco standing up and rocking out to the music while singing. The third one was of Tom doing the same thing with Marco to the side looking at him and smiling. The fourth one was of Nacho leaping up into the air between Marco and Tom with them both leaning away from it smiling. The fifth one was of the white tiger sitting up looking confused with Nacho landing belly first on his head with a shocked look on its face with Marco and Tom laughing. (end music)