Star sat in front of her closet staring at it annoyed as she munched on what the Diaz's had fondly called a 'bulk bar'. The three laser puppies were curled up around Star staring up at her and the door panting softly with extremely happy looks on their faces making Star smile slightly as she stared at the door. She sighed and leaned forward putting her head on a free hand as she began talking to the puppies.
"Ever dipped down Sajak? What about you Barco Diaz, or you Marco Jr.? Ever called upon power from 'within' as Glossarick seems to be referring too?" The puppies did not change their attitudes in the slightest as Star thought some more and spoke some more. "Didn't think so. Ever wonder why I have such a high metabolism that allows me to eat the food of up to 10 people a day? My parents claim it's because my healing abilities and powerful body requires a ton of fuel to power them but there has to more to it than that right?" Star took another bite and talked with her mouth full and motioned to a nearly empty 12x4x1.5 inch deep cooking sheet. "I mean one of those trays of mixed up peanut butter, oatmeal, and protein supplements are enough to provide enough calories, if not nutrients, for four people a day. But I go through a good 2 pans a day in addition to all the food they place in front of me during meals." Star gulped down her bite and sighed. "I mean, if my parents weren't providing food money to the Diaz's I'd be eating them out of house and home." Star giggled a second before continuing. "And what's more my appetite seemed to have taken off even further ever since I went through Mewberty; weird huh. I mean it's like I have this power called super hunger… wait a minute." Star stood up facing the door with renewed vigor. "Maybe to 'dip down' I need to call upon my hunger, like a scrawny lizard like version of Po from Kung Fu Panda." Star looked down at her skinny figure and both sighed and giggled at how scrawny she looked. "Well at least I don't have to worry about becoming overweight." Star turned towards the door and bared her teeth.
With her eyes going yellow cat pupiled and her hissing she leapt at the door biting it viciously feeling her teeth sink into the door. Surprised that her teeth were doing damage even though the door withstood a sword assault she dug in eagerly chewing at the wood. It didn't taste that good but Star funneled her hunger into it and gnawed as best she could leaving deep gouge marks. After a few minutes of this Star felt something shift in her mouth and come loose making her leap back in shock checking her mouth with her hands and tongue. After a few seconds of this she realized what was wrong and looked up to see two teeth stuck in the wood on the door that was chewed at like something in a horror movie had tried getting in it. She turned towards her room's mirror and ran up to it opening her mouth to see that two teeth had in fact fell out making her curse silently. She leaned up on a wall pissed off that she would be spending the next few days regrowing her teeth.
She didn't need to focus in order to heal as usually any injury she got that she ignored would heal completely on its own overnight. She wasn't certain on how long it would take to regrow things like lost limbs, and she wasn't going to experiment, but she was certain it would happen without her focusing. She remembered having lost a tooth due to a rough tumble down a hill and for some reason she couldn't force it to regrown. Because of this it had regrown on its own after three days' time making people guess that's how long something lost would take to regrow on its own. Of course, no matter what happened if she had to heal injuries he appetite would spike dramatically, probably due to the energy needed. She also never got why her dad didn't need to eat a lot of food like her; then again there were a lot of things people didn't know with her being half-Monster and all.
Shaking her head to clear it up she decided to look around her room for anything that might help her with unlocking the door. Unfortunately most of her stuff was in the closet aside from display weapons, an aquarium, her clothes, her 'makeup' desk that was converted to a homework and gaming computer desk, and her bed. 'Dang I need to get that door open if I want to have anything at all.' Star thought to herself in annoyance as she lay on her bed munching the last of her Bulk Bar thinking of what she needed to do. A thought did cross her mind however making her look under her bed finding mostly dust bunnies, she needed to clean down there, and a random box saying Mewnian Termytes with a buzzing sound coming from it. Star smiled at that thinking 'I might not be able to eat the door, but I know they can' and got the box out slowly approaching the door. She carefully opened the box sending a swarm of bugs at the door eagerly waiting for them to start shewing only for them to slip through the slates in the door going inside the closet. After a second Marco began screaming from within.
"Ahhha, they're biting me!" Star leapt up nervously knowing she had nothing to help him out here as she spoke up in English.
"Sorry Marco." Star backed away from the door as Marco kept on yelling out.
"Stop eating my flesh."
Star looked around trying to figure out what to do as she had nothing now to go off of and Glossarick had disappeared. After a few seconds her eyes fell upon her wall mirror and she decided she needed help from her mom for this at this point. Sighing in exasperation Star walked on up to the mirror and called out to it.
"Mirror mirror on the wall, call mom."
"Calling mom." Star sighed relived it wouldn't call Tom by mistake ever again, she deleted his contact, and waited for Moon. When she showed up she was wearing a comfortable blue T-shirt and dark pants with her hair down and the spells covering her swirling tribalistic Monster tattoos undone; her informal 'I'm working but not doing meetings' outfit.
"Oh Star, what a pleasant surprise. What warrants this call… and where is your headband?" Moon smiled at Star with Star shifting around a little nervously before speaking.
"Well… my wand suddenly started acting up on its own and slammed Marco and the spell book into my closet which locked behind him and now I can't get them out." Moon raised her eyebrow chuckling slightly and spoke evenly.
"Did you try the knob?" Star held up the broken doorknob and growled slightly making Moon take a step back and nod reassuringly. "Alright alright I know you wouldn't have called unless if you had already tried that." Star started up again after Moon's interruption with a sigh.
"And now Glossarick says in order to get them out I have to 'Dip Down' to within myself and call upon magic somehow." At this Moon interrupted again in shock.
"Dip Down?! I didn't accomplish that without my wand until I was around 17!" As the impact of the words sunk in Moon's smile grew again and she spoke in a slightly overjoyed manner. "My little MonStar is so advanced in her magic studies already." Star blushed slightly and giggled at her mom's praise but got herself back on track.
"Well, the problem is Glossarick was being very vague and not helpful… I think on purpose." Moon sighed and flipped her hair a little in annoyance before speaking sarcastically.
"Well that sounds familiar. Look it's not going to be easy I can tell you that much but in order to dip down you need to find a way a call upon the power within. Something that will push you in a way like an adrenaline rush or calling upon reserves you didn't even know you had. I'm sorry but I can't help out any more because it's actually pretty hard to describe; do you get what I mean?" Star breathed in and out nodding softly. "Good, and good luck with dipping down my little prodigy, I love you." Moon blew Star a kiss as Star hung up sighing deeply and turning towards the closet door speaking to herself.
"Ok, let's see what I can do." Star sat down cross legged in front of the closet and began doing something Archdruid Oogway had taught her called 'loosening the spirit'; which felt oddly similar to an earth practice called meditation.
Star breathed in and out slowly trying to focus her thoughts and let her spirit flow trying to reach that feeling her mom described. She sat there for a little while trying to locate it and letting herself just flow with things but she got nothing for the longest period of time. Suddenly she felt something, something that was growing inside of her deep down that felt powerful. 'Is this it, am I dipping down already?' Star thought letting the feeling grow and build up ready to let it loose when it popped u… 'BUUUUURRRRRP' Star clapped her hand over her mouth at the massive belch she just made as a crashing sound came from inside of the closet.
Marco was looking through the items trying to get them organized into a potential secrets and not secret piles. He began by picking up a toaster which popped letting off several purple bubbles from inside making him shake his head and throw it into the not secret pile. He did the same for a picture of Tom, a hive of some sort of purple sparkling bugs, a stuffed bear with tentacles for arms and legs, and a chest full of weapons in various stages of disrepair. As he did so Nacho leapt back and forth through the piles of stuff picking up things on occasion and throwing them onto the no secrets pile. As Marco threw a random box onto the pile Nacho stopped and picked it up putting it on the secrets pile. Marco flashed Nacho a look which Nacho responded by giving him a look that said 'trust me man' and went back to sorting. Marco shrugged and threw a unicycle with spikes instead of a tire onto the pile. After a little while of this Marco looked up hearing a strange buzzing sound come from the other side of the door. As he stood there he saw a small swarm of bugs fly into the close through the slates in the door, and became alarmed when one attacked him.
"Ahhha, they're biting me!" Marco swatted at them as best he could but it seemed to only make them mad as he heard Star call form the other side of the door.
"Sorry Marco." Marco swatted away at the bugs as one latched onto him and bit in hard.
"Stop eating my flesh." He grabbed the bug that had gripped onto him and crushed it in his hand making the others just stop in midair staring at him. "Ummm… don't mess with me." Marco took a battle pose just as Nacho leapt up and snagged one from the air munching down on it making them scatter instantly. "Thanks Nacho, I didn't need the help but I always like it." At this Nacho grinned at him growing some more like he did with the Narwhal. "Hmmmm." Marco picked up Nacho and placed him in the 'potential secrets' pile with Nacho giving him a look of both being impressed and one of indignation. "Well you were created by Star's magic man; just help me sort out stuff to where it needs to be." Nacho nodded at him and curled up on the secrets pile and waited for Marco to finish, which took longer than he thought it would. "Ok, that's everything." He looked at the small potential secrets pile and went to go there but saw a shelf next to the door he hadn't gone through. He shrugged and turned back to the pile with Nacho lazing about on top of. "Looks like we are making progress." He smiled at the pile and went to get started but a sudden belch that shook the house made Nacho leap up in panic.
Screeching like a stereotypical scared cat he ran right though Marco's legs directly into the massive not secrets pile knocking something out in his panic. Unfortunately that one item seemed to have been an important support item as the whole pile began to collapse. Marco went to scream but Nacho was quick enough to knock him out of the way in time helping him avoid the tide of random items falling down like a wave. Marco blinked looking around seeing all the hard work he had put into this scattered about now with Nacho sitting on his chest looking at him apologetically.
Glossarick let the bugs carry him around the wand up to the head where he placed his ear against it and knocked on it. He got a strangely watery and hollow echo that made him frown in confusion as he tapped it again. Getting the same result he laid on the ground with the bugs supporting him as he placed a foot up on the greenish swan's wing on the pair of wings pushing it up and down. The two wings moved in synch like they were flapping to his rhythm of pushing up with his foot. He nodded and hmm'd in satisfaction as he let the bugs take him over to the dragon's wing which he put his hand on feeling it up. As he reached the intersection of the bony points that supported the wing the wing shook itself from his grasp and slapped him across the face waving its claw at him before relaxing back to its normal position. Glossarick blinked in shock at this a second before shaking his head to clear it and moved the bugs up to where the gem was located. Looking at it in concern he moved his head back and forth between the gem half and the empty half. He noticed his reflection in the gemless portion was blurry and shadowy with only smoky red eyes visible. Scratching his chin he stared at it in thought for a while before reaching down to the indigo backing and went to pull it up like a car hood. He was interrupted however by a loud burp, a cat screeching, and a loud crashing sound from outside that made him pause and look around for a second. Convinced nothing was happening he opened up the wand and looked in seeing a unicorn with its mane done up in a ponytail running on a treadmill in what seemed to be outer space. The unicorn turned it's head towards Glossarick with it panting from the effort of running to show that it's right eye was blood red and the left was actually two thin yellow ones stacked on top of each other. Screeching at Glossarick in an unearthly manner it's head did a complete 360 back to its starting position and it continued running like nothing had happened.
"Well that's not good at all."
"No näyttää siltä kuin olen vain skimmer; tuomittu rasvattoman kastikkeen päälle. (Well looks like I'm just a skimmer; doomed to skim the gravy on the hobo stew.)" Star sighed in sadness lying on her back in a defeated tone with her grey-green eyes staring up at the ceiling. "You do anything Marco?" Marco sighed before responding form inside of the closet.
"Not really, your burp set back my progress." Inside the closet Marco was laying on his back as well and rubbing Nacho's head who looked very sad and apologetically at Marco.
"Well… not so bad?" Marco raised an eyebrow in confusion as Star continued. "Slid food under door… bring homework… ok life maybe?" Marco sat up at this with Nacho holding on tightly to him like a hug as he responded.
"Star… Princess Turdina is not going to accept being trapped in a tower for all time." As he said that the spell book began to glow a yellowish color before spitting out Glossarick onto the floor with him looking disgruntled before speaking.
"Seriously Mr. Wing, I am not touching you inappropriately…" Marco grabbed Glossarick up and stared at him annoyed.
"Alright Riddler, enough riddles. Where is the secret I need to fin-" Before Marco could finish the sentence however his thumb brushed over something on Glossarick's chest making the pink gem in his forehead light up like a flash light. "OW my eyes!" Marco dropped Nacho and backed up into the wall with the shelf causing the items to rain down on him, in particular a book.
"Ah you found it Marco, I knew you would." Marco blinked at Glossarick's words and looked at the book in confusion before speaking.
"Really? Well ok then, let's get started." Marco picked Glossarick up again and used the crystal to read the book as Star spoke up.
"What found?" Marco replied back in a distracted manner.
"Something important according to Glossarick, but it appears to be all written in Mewman." Marco flipped through the book for a second until he found a page written in English. "Oh wait I think I found some English. From this day forward I will be writing in English to practice my language skills so I can talk incase if something bad happens to my headband." Star nodded at that smiling slightly before the words sunk in and she got a look of absolute terror on her face.
"Ei, se ei ole Marco, se ei ole sinun tarvetta! (No. That's not it Marco, that's not the thing you need!)". Marco blinked at Star's words not recognizing them due to being in a different language. He shrugged his shoulders thinking if it was important to him Star would at least say something in English since she could just tell him 'stop'.
"Chapter 2: Finding out which items are not food, most notably gum under desk tables. Gross." Marco spoke to himself. Star on the other hand was too panicked to focus enough to speak English.
"Marco laittaa sen alas juuri nyt. Älä lue enää. (Marco put that down right now. Don't read anymore.)" Marco flipped through the book ignoring Star's words until Nacho suddenly took the book from him and began running around.
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"Wait… Nacho bring that back!" Marco ran after Nacho who led Marco on a wild goose chase.
First he led Marco through an area covered with traps of a sort getting his legs caught and toes pinched making Marco limp noticeably. Next he led Marco past the hive he had thrown on the not secrets pile with the inhabitants attacking him with light stings not really hurting Marco but annoying him to no end. Then he led Marco through a thick pile of… something that stuck to Marco and left a strange earthy and musky smell that made Marco's head spin. Finally he tried leading Marco past a crystal but went to leap over it instead of going around it not counting on the fact that there were no paw holds for him. He slipped on the crystal with Marco catching him and wrestling the book from him after a second throwing Nacho to the side.
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"Do you mind Nacho, I'm trying to help Star here." Nacho went to leap for it again but Glossarick shock his head no at it making to freeze up and consider what to do next. "Ok then where were we?" Marco sat with his back to the door going to read again with Glossarick's light going out. "Wait what?" Glossarick responded immediately.
"Out of juice, you're on your own now kid." Groaning Marco put him to the side and let the light falling through the slates illuminate the book for him.
"Alright what could possibly be…" Marco froze and went wide eyed in shock as he saw the entry for chapter 11. "… 'My thoughts on Marco'?"
Meanwhile outside Star was shaking like a leaf and holding her tail close while rubbing it at the fact that Marco was reading one of her two 'Diaries' so to speak. She was willing to share anything with him, except for the one area that she wrote down about her crush on him; and he had just reached that chapter. She knew he still wasn't fully over Jackie given how he occasionally stared off into space sadly for a time until someone shook him out of it. He even still stared at the photo of him and Jackie when Star turned her into a mermaid to make up for him being late that one time. If he found out about Star's crush now it might end badly, very badly. She whimpered in fear as her anxiety kicked in about the worst case scenario as her mind ran wild…
"Look Star, I'm flattered and all but I prefer humans over liza… wait did Jackie know of this when we were still dating? She mentioned something about me not having my priorities straight and seemed to refer to you about it indirectly. Did you break us up?! Look Star, I think we need some space from each other; we can still be friends, I think, but we need time apart. I'm gonna contact your parents and see if you can go back to Mewni so we can have some time apart to get our priorities straight."
… suddenly she felt something… click inside of her. Well not exactly click but more like a faucet being turned just enough so a single drop can come through. A single drop of something that felt potent and powerful, like that time she used her wand to destroy Marco's crystal prison in the hideout. She let it flow her head going straight up and her hair waving around her eerily with her eyes and Mewni marks glowing a brilliant white. She murmured 'Dip Down' as the magic seemed to direct itself to the door making it unlock sending Marco out and making the book go flying with Nacho leaping after it immediately. As Star came down from her high she realized what she did and smiled with tears of relief in her eyes as she began dancing around in joy yelling out.
"Tein sen Tein sen Tein sen, KASTELIN! (I did it I did it I did it, I DIPPED DOWN!)" Star stood over Marco smiling until Nacho came up with the book giving it to Star. "Thank you. *ahem* No touch Marco, Dairy." Marco blinked in confusion sitting up at this until the words connected in his mind and realized what he did with wide eyed shock.
"OH MY GOD! I am so sorry Star, I didn't realize it was that important! I mean we are really close friends but there are still some things that even you wouldn't share with me at times! I should know better than to just try and go through stuff like that but Glossarick said… wait why was I even listening to Glossarick!?" Star chuckled in relief her eyes going bluish green as she realized halfway through the sentence she could understand Marco perfectly now and cut him off.
"Wait… can you understand me Marco?" Marco blinked in confusion and nodded with Glossarick popping up and speaking.
"Well I have good news and bad news; good news is I managed to fix your headband." He held it up to Star who took it and put it in her hair holding it back from her face now. "Bad news is your wand is busted somehow but I think it should still work." He handed that back to Star who stared at it a second before giving it a wave and using it. A puff of green smoke later a mini green tower appeared as a shoot off of Star's tower leaving the four entities covered in some sort of greenish glitter. Nacho immediately went off to go clean himself while Glossarick coughed up some of the dust and yelled out. "I call the new tower." At this however Angie called from downstairs.
"Star, Marco we need you down here; and I mean now not it a few seconds." Star and Marco looked at each other in worry before getting up and going downstairs to the living room.
Once they got there they saw Angie and Raphael were sitting on the couch talking to two standing figures. They appeared to be dress in 'men in black' getup's and wearing unnecessarily thick sunglasses with one being African American and the other being Caucasian. They turned towards them raising eyebrows enough to be noticed behind the sunglasses with one speaking up.
"Hello Star Butterfly and Marco Diaz, we would like to ask you a few questions." He held up a warrant for them with the other pulling out a badge for the CIA facing them down with Marco speaking up.
"Ummm… can I get dressed first?"
Alright people, it's time to play 'SPOT THAT REFERENCE!' That is right people, I place references throughout my work by the next episode will be chock full of them. Also, the beginning of the last chapter, right after Marco closed the laptop, is full of references as well; can you guess them all? HAve fan and happy guessing.
As for the next episode, this idea was actually presented by a guest reviewer by the name of Guest: Lord Demon who requested it as a one shot. OF course the idea was so good I decided instead to incorporate it into the story with some alterations. The first episode of mine not based AT ALL on any episode from the canon show, get ready for some 'URO INTERVIEWS'.