Chapter 47: Good Help is Hard to Find
Ludo was pacing in his hiding spot. He was upset over the loss of the book. Of course he was blaming Luffy.
"That stupid rubber man!" cursed Ludo, "If it weren't for him I'm sure I'd have that book!"
His spider and eagle complains both looked at him.
That was when the wand glowed and voice that only Ludo could hear spoke to him.
"You're right! I should send someone after him." said Ludo.
The wand counted to speak to him.
"How do you know someone who could do the job?" asked Ludo.
The wand continued to speak to him.
"You're right it doesn't matter… if this someone can defeat Luffy." Said Ludo with an evil smile.
Meanwhile Star was writing in the Book of Spells, even before Ludo tried to steal the book she hadn't written down any of her favorite spells, but she finally started with Narwhal Blast as that was her favorite.
Before then she sort of used it as a diary talking about her brothers, her relationship with Tom and how much she loved coming to Earth.
To be fair though, all of the queens also used it as a sort of Diary. Even her mother.
She sighed looking at spell she wrote down.
"What's wrong?" asked Marco who was plying a card with Luffy nearby.
It should be noted that he was winning thanks to Luffy's terrible poker face.
"Ludo's different than before." Said Star.
"He does seem different." Said Luffy.
"You don't think next time he shows up he'll actually steal the book?" asked Marco.
"I don't' know." Said Star.
"Maybe if we find out where he is." Said Luffy.
"But who would know where he is?" asked Marco.
"I think I might know a guy." Said Star.
Meanwhile in Mewni Ludo was at the location his wand told him to go to.
An assassins guild… the Wand claming as an all-knowing wand to get the right guy.
He entered the Assassins guild, which was a very popular place to go to complete with sign spinners and a wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man.
He entered the guild and talked to the receptionist.
"I have a job…" said Ludo with an evil smile, "And I wish to hire someone. "
"Anyone in particular or some specific." Said the receptionist.
"Specific… I wish to hire Rasticore." Said Ludo still with an evil smile.
"Sorry but he's unavailable right now." Said the receptionist.
"Why?" asked Ludo.
"First he is under contract with Miss Heinous to kill some princesses." Said the receptionist, "And another is that he failed in the mission and has been reduced to an arm. Word is that Princess Star, or her idiot brother did it."
"Uh…" said Ludo unsure how to take the news especially since the recommendation already seemed to have lost to Luffy.
"If you want Babs is available." Said the receptionist.
She pointed to a small Mewman woman in a black hood. However her skin was littered with red spots, which she was scratching.
"She might have chicken pox though." Whispered the receptionist.
"Yeah…" said Ludo, "I'll pass."
The wand glowed indicated that it was talking to Ludo.
"Yeah… good help is hard to find." Said Ludo.
Meanwhile at Buff Frog's house he was telling his children a bedtime story before their naps.
However a portal opened up. Star poked her head through and saw the state.
"Should I come back?" she whispered.
"No, no… it's fine…" said Buff Frog.
Buff Frog mentioned her to follow him and Star motioned Marco and Luffy to follow her.
She shushed the two and motioned over the sleeping Tad Poles.
Buff Frog took them another room to talk and they closed the door, though Katrina was sleeping his arms.
"So… I take you want to know more about Ludo is doing?" asked Buff Frog, "I'm sure you read my letters."
"Wait? Letters?" asked Star.
She took out some letter that Buff Frog had sent, they were written with crayons and had crude drawings.
"I just thought they were fan art the babies sent me." Said Star .
"Seriously who send notes in crayons." Said Marco.
"Oh! So I no got to school to learn fancy handwriting. Sorry!" Said Buff Frog clearly offended.
"I told you the babies didn't send them." Said Luffy.
You could read it?" asked Marco.
"No I just figured that the babies didn't send them since they still don't have arms." Said Luffy.
Star and Marco looked at each other and then face palmed. It just felt so wrong when Luffy pointed out the obvious.
Thankfully Buff Frog knew where Ludo was and made battle plans for when Star was ready to take the fight to him.
"I make this map when I infiltrate Ludo's cave." Said Buff Frog, "Secret Entrance over here."
"Thank you so much Buff Frog." Said Star.
"Be careful, there is something different about Ludo." Said Buff Frog.
"We know." Said Star.
They left the room they were in and Luffy accidently slammed the door, causing to wake up the toddlers causing to cry and jump around.
They all looked at Luffy.
"Sorry…" he said sheepishly.
"We'll help calm them down." Said Marco.
Meanwhile Ludo was walking with his eagle and spider talking to his wand.
"You know that guy you wanted wasn't much." Said Ludo.
The wand said something.
"How do you know a guy like that anyway? I mean you're a wand." Said Ludo.
The wand responded.
"I guess you're right, it isn't important." Said Ludo, "Maybe there's monsters who might want to take out Luffy."
The wand glowed.
"Why are you sighing?" asked Ludo.
The wand didn't answer.
Meanwhile Star, Marco and Luffy were riding a Warnicorn towards the location of the cave that Buff Frog told them about.
The guards in the distance saw her approach. It was funny visually so there be no attempt to replicate the joke.
Anyways they took down of the guards while the other just shrugged it off.
The entered the cave that full of monsters. And a fight ensued. With Star throwing spells like crazy and Luffy and Marco fighting off the monsters quite easily.
Almost too easily.
Star pointed her wand at one of the monsters.
"Where's Ludo?" asked Star.
"Who-do?" asked the monster.
"Don't play dumb." Said Star, "I know he's here!"
That was when an elephant like monster showed up wearing a towel and shower cap.
"Hey guys! I know it's lame but we got to a get chore chart or something because that shower's groddy." Said the elephant like monster then saw what was going on, "Oh no! Violence!"
"What's going on here?" asked Star.
"We're not like fighting monster, we're "alternative" monsters." Explained one of them.
"Then what's with all the weapons?" asked Marco.
"We found them when we moved it. "explained a different monster, "Their perfect for ripping fashionable holes in clothing."
One of them cut a hole in Luffy's pants.
"You're one of us now, dude." Said one of the monsters.
And indeed Ludo was no longer using this location as a hide out unfortunately.
Meanwhile Ludo got to a town that the monsters had built.
"Listen to me monsters!" yelled Ludo.
The monsters gathered at Ludo. Not all some them gathered him, some of them saw him and muttered "It's Ludo… just walk away and don't make eye contact."
"Listen to me monsters! We all live in fear of the Royal Family." Said Ludo, "But in order to get them we need to take out one person! That person is Luffy."
The monsters all stared at Ludo and many more walked away.
"Yeah… no…" said one of the monsters.
"What?" asked Ludo.
"Luffy has super powers." Said one monsters.
"And he's really stupid." Said another, "Like so stupid he never gives up."
"And if we take out Luffy you just know Star and their older brothers are going to take care of us… and they're even worse." Brought up yet another monster.
"Yeah, doesn't Ace have crazy fire powers?" asked another monster.
Ludo sighed… why did he even think this would work.
It helped that this idea was all his and not the wand's.
Back in the cave the three looked around. It was indeed abandoned.
"Oh well." Said Luffy.
"Yeah…" said Star with a shrug, "We'll find him another time I guess."
"So what do you guys want to do since this is now dry?" asked Marco.
"Hey wait!" yelled the elephant monster, "We just realized you're Star Butterfly!"
"We're your biggest fans!" yelled a bear like monster.
All three of them stared at the monsters, confused.
"Uh… I think you're confused. Monsters hate me." Said Star.
"Sure it's not popular to like you. But we're not about that." Said the elephant like monster.
"Yeah! You're the rebel princess!" said the bear like monster.
"Rebel princess?" asked Star.
"Yeah you do things your own way." Said a bear like monster, "Like us!"
"Please shoot us with a spell or something." Said the elephant like monster.
"Are you sure you want that?" asked Marco.
"Spells tend to hurt." Pointed out Luffy.
"It's fine." Said the beat like monster.
"Yeah! Rip some awesome holes in our jeans!" yelled the beat like monster.
"If you want it." Said Star, "Strawberry Shakequake!"
Although both monsters were injured both were happy by the turn of events.
"That was awesome!" said the beat like monster.
"Look at these sweet rips!" said the elephant like monster.
"Let's go show the others!" said the bear like monster.
"Dude! We just met Star Butterfly!" yelled one of the monsters.
As they left Star smiled.
"Hey you guys want to get something to eat?" asked Star, "My treat."
"Uh… if you say so…" said Marco.
"Awesome!" said Luffy.
They still hadn't told Star about their cash flow yet.
But still, even if they didn't find Ludo, the information that the alternative monsters were her fans made her day.
And help out with perception of monsters as well.
Meanwhile with Ludo was he was grumbling.
"How can they all be afraid of Luffy." Said Ludo.
The wand glowed and said something to him.
"What? But I don't want to find and recruit someone from the Blue Dimension." Said Ludo.
The wand glowed and said something to him.
"How do we not know that someone won't try to kill me… we all know Luffy's one of the nice the ones from that dimension." Said Ludo.
The Wand said something.
"Have you seen what their brothers could do! Not to mention their crews!" yelled Ludo.
The wand said something to him.
"I don't know what do then!" yelled Ludo, "Rip out pages of the book to get the knowledge since that will only take a second?"
The wand glowed and said something short.
"That does sounds like a good plan." Said Ludo wit h an evil smile., "Steal the book bit by bit… until I have all the spells I need! Perfect!"
And with that Ludo had a set plan… to rip out pages. After all it would only take a second to rip out random pages.
And it would work for the Wand's Goal as well…
Next Time: Marco just spent the last 16 gets his own pair of dimensional scissors from Hekapoo. Then he learns that the Dimension he just spent in is much faster than most other Dimensions. After learning this fact Hekapoo tells Marco about how she met Luffy and how the little rubber boy would change her life. What's the story? Find out next time!
A/N: Baby (the episode) has been butterflied away... or least pushed back a little. See the reason is simple: The reason why Moon chose to have Star evaluated is BECAUSE the fact she lost Glossaryck and the book. That doesn't mean it's off the table though, I might do a chapter involing Baby in the future... but for now the episode never happens. I figured I needed to explain that one (Trickstar is just being skipped).