Chapter 26: Laying Low on Dawn Island
It was a normal day at the popular restaurant Britta's Tacos. Star and Marco were eating Mexican Food.
"Authentic Mexican Hortacha isn't supposed to have dairy." Said Marco.
"Hey there's no law saying it can't have dairy." Said Star as she put sugar on her burrito.
"Are you sugaring your burrito?" asked Marco.
"Hey you didn't complain about the ice cream nachos so what's wrong with sugar on my burrito?" asked Star.
"Their completely different, ice cream nachos are an interesting spin on nachos and not just dumping ice cream them like what you're doing with the sugar." Said Marco.
However Star wasn't listening. She instead munched on her very sugary burrito.
And then the sugar hit… and it hit hard.
"Who's up for fireworks?" asked Star.
"I don't know if that would be a good idea…" said Marco.
"Fireworks are also a good idea!" yelled Star.
She began to blast spell after spell creating fireworks.
"You might want to tone it down!" said Marco.
"NEVAR!" yelled Star.
However that was when a rainbow hit the Britta's taco sign, which fell onto a police car destroying it.
Marco grabbed Star and dragged her away.
"What was that! I thought rainbows were made of light!" yelled Marco.
"Well my rainbows are made of stuff! Okay!" said Star.
"You just smashed a police car!" yelled Marco.
"Wait… police have cars here! And I just desorbed one?" asked Star.
"You did!" said Marco.
"All right time for a reverse cool down plan!" said Star.
"What?" asked Marco.
"Just something that happened sometimes when we caused trouble when we were younger." Said Star, "All right! I'm going to lay low at Luffy's place for the next few days until the heat dies down!"
"What…" said Marco.
"Don't worry it will be fine!" said Star, "Unless…"
"Unless what?" asked Marco.
Star grabbed Marco.
"Listen Diaz!" she said rather angrily, "I am not getting caught! Because I learned a long time ago that getting caught it a very bad thing!"
Marco began to sweat at this reaction.
"I will make you suffer if you tell the cops!" yelled Star," You hear me Diaz! I will break you Diaz! Understand! I! Will! Break! YOU!"
Marco nodded profusely.
"Okay! Be back in a few days! Call Luffy if you need anything! BYE-EE!" cheered Star as she made a portal and left.
Marco was left sweating profusely as she left.
"Note to self… call Ace and Sabo later…" he muttered to himself.
On Dawn Island at the tree house, Luffy was doing some stretches when a portal opened up.
"Hey! Luffy!" cheered Star.
"Star!" cheered Luffy, "What's' going on?"
"Oh nothing!" said Star.
Luffy laughed knowing something was up.
"Fine… I destroyed a police car and now I'm laying low the next few days." Said Star.
"Oh is this like the time we wrecked that…" said Luffy but Star interrupted him.
"Yeah, that time we destroyed that…" said Star but Luffy interrupted her.
"Oh what about that time we blew up that…" said Luffy then Star once again interrupted him..
"Oh no… that was all Sabo… but yeah… it's one of those times." Said Star.
"So it's a reverse of the usual thing." Said Luffy.
"Exactly!" said Star.
"So you want to go hunting with me?" asked Luffy.
"You know it!" said Star.
The two jumped out of the high tree house and down to the ground ready to hunt something for dinner.
The two of them found some wolves who immediately recognized them.
"So Magic or no magic?" asked Star.
"Let's see what Magic does!" laughed Luffy.
Star grinned at the wolves.
The Wolves began to sweat at her grin, many of them weren't going to live through it, that was for sure.
She turned her wand into what appeared to be a rocket launcher.
Nope not going to survive it.
Meanwhile in Star's room, Marco was talking to both Ace and Sabo on a conference. Ace was laughing his ass off.
"Come on this is serious!" yelled Marco.
"She'll be fine." Said Sabo, "Stuff like this happened all the time as kids."
"She threaten to break me…" said Marco.
"There was that incident in that weird dimension we went to once where we all landed in a jail cell." Said Ace.
"A couple times." Said Sabo, "Turns out they had bad security and we were able to escape."
"I see…" said Marco.
"So what exactly did she do again?" asked Ace no longer laughing.
"She accidently destined a police car while sugar high." Said Marco.
"Sounds like the time Sabo blew up…" said Ace.
"That's not important…" said Sabo blushing.
"Look we did this all the time as kids, we'd do something really bad that crossed the line, either has "Sleep overs" or asked River to take us camping and return and hoped that it all blew over." Said Ace.
"But what about…" said Marco.
Marco nodded while knowing the thing with Outlook was completely different than child mayhem and destruction.
"Out of curiosity." Said Sabo, "What's the justice system like in your dimension."
"Well you see…" said Marco.
Back on Dawn Island… Star and Luffy were having a bone fire while cooking the wolf meat.
"So how have things been going?" asked Luffy.
"Fine… learned how to hang a poster the hard way, tried to learn how to ride a bike and had to deal with a weird talking dog…" laughed Star.
"Awesome!" laughed Luffy.
"So same old, same old with you?" asked Star.
"Yeah!" laughed Luffy.
"So how are things with everybody?" asked Star.
"You know Dadan complaining when I live there, then complaining when I leave… can't seem to make her mind about me." Pouted Luffy.
"Well Garp did dump you there." Laughed Star.
Luffy laughed, "You want to visit there after we're done eating!" laughed Luffy.
"Sure!" laughed Star.
Meanwhile at Star's room both Ace and Sabo stared at Marco as he told them about how he saw the justice system.
"Okay I know nothing about your dimension… but even I can tell you have some weird things going on." Said Ace.
"No totally don't." said Marco.
"It sounds like he's dealing with racism of some kind." Said Koala on Sabo's end.
"Okay! How many are listening in?" asked Sabo.
"Not many!" called Masked Deuce on Ace's end.
"No one on this end!" called out Koala.
There was a growl on Ace's end.
"I'm just going to be the one who's honest and say the entire crew is listening in." said Darla from Sabo's end, "Probably both from the sounds of it."
"Look… we both heard about how before you met Star you were called The "Safe Kid"." Pointed out Sabo.
When?" asked Marco.
"Mewnipendance day." Answered both brothers.
"Let me guess…" said Marco face palming.
"Janna." They both said.
"Of course…" muttered Marco.
"Marco! Dinner!" called out Mrs. Diaz.
"Well I should get going." said Marco.
"Later!" said Ace.
"Don't worry about Star." Said Sabo, "She'll be fine."
Marco nodded.
Marco hung up making it a called between Ace and Sabo.
"Now… how do we get our crew's to stop listening to our conversations…" said Ace.
"Maybe not talk to loudly!" called out Gantry.
Both of them face palmed.
Back on Dawn Island. Star and Luffy got to Dadan's shack.
"Hey!" called out Star.
"Crap! It's Star!" yelled out the bandits.
"Hold my wand!" cheered Star giving Luffy the wand and proceeded to beat up the bandit gang.
"Seriously, do you have beat up everyone as hello?" asked Dadan.
"Of course!" giggled Star kneeing one of the bandits in the back.
"My kidney…" he groaned.
Dadan just rolled her eyes.
"Besides, how good can your bandit gang be if they can't fend off a teenaged girl?" asked Star with a sly smile.
"You're not a normal 14 year old!" yelled Dadan, "And I'm not counting the magic part either."
Star laughed.
"We were just about to have dinner." Said one of the bandits.
"We just had wolf." Said Star.
However Luffy stomach growled.
"OF course you're hungry." Sighed Dadan.
Both of them sat down with rice and water.
"So what brings you here?" asked Dadan, "It's not every day you come over like this."
"Well.. I wrecked a police car." Said Star.
"What a police car?" asked everyone but Luffy.
"Oh I guess I should explain about earth." Said Star.
Back at the Diaz house Marco was explaining about what happened with Star.
"It makes sense she would react like that." Said Mrs. Diaz, "She does have pirate brothers."
"I wouldn't be surprised if she has a criminal record her parents don't know about thanks to them." Laughed Mr. Diaz.
"Her dad knows about them being pirates, her mom doesn't." said Marco.
"Oh… neat." Said Mrs. Diaz.
"She'll be fine." Said Mr. Diaz, "From the sounds of it happens all the time…"
"Yeah, that's what Ace and Sabo said." Said Marco.
So anyways…" said Mr. Diaz straining his own story about something that happened to him that day.
Sometime later… Luffy and Star were leaving the shack.
"You two better leave!" growled out Dadan, "I'm only supposed to be taking care of Luffy, River's okay, but he definitely didn't leave her in my care!"
"Quit being a Tsundere boss!" yelled one of the bandits.
"What did you say!" yelled Dadan glaring at the bandit.
"This is going to get ugly so you should leave." Said another of the bandits.
Both Star and Luffy laughed as they left.
They both went back to the tree house and Star looked out the window at the stars.
"I got so used to earth." Said Star, "The stars are so much brighter here."
"You can't see the Stars?" asked Luffy.
"No Marco said because of everyone's lights it drowns out the starlight or something." Said Star.
"That sucks." Said Luffy.
"I know." Said Star.
Both of them looked up at the sky…
Soon enough they fell asleep.
Indeed it was a nice slow day… well after Star wrecked the police.
And texture irony of the situation was that Star didn't know that the car had just a few days to retirement… er… decommission, which was going to be t the demolition derby. But oh well... as least she got to hang out with brother for the rest of that day…
Next Time: Star is still laying low on Dawn Island. However someone has evil plans for Luffy and Star... wait... never mind it's just Sterry... Sabo's "fake brother"... but why is he even doing what he's trying to do? Find out next time!