A tangled web we cut

I OWN AND REGRET NOTHING!

...III...

ANNOUNCEMENT!

I'M GETTING A BOOK PUBLISHED!

SUMMARY:
On the 13th day of the 13th month of the 13th year...magic will return to the world...and the streets will run red with the blood of the (semi)innocent...unless the world is saved by the most unlikely of hero's...baking cupcakes?!

The title is '13/13/13' and it'll be coming to a bookstore or E-Book site near you! Xilbris is the publisher, also available at Amazon, Inkitt and BarnesandNoble.

...III...

It took a couple days but Star awoke, she'd gotten some goo memories...but a lot of them were corrupted, so once again she sits down with Marco and his family for another talk

"You still haven't explained how you went from "I need to beat her to get home" to "I'm gonna settle down with her and forget about everybody back home." Pointed out Star.

Marco sighed "...Round about the time I figured everybody had probably moved past mourning me and moved on with their lives without me and dropping in after years and years of being gone would more than likely destroy whatever sense of peace they'd managed to create."

"I wasn't a big enough idiot to think that I could just walk up to Jackie and pick up where we left off after so many years when she'd probably gotten a new boyfriend or husband or whatever. We were just kids. Each others first dates. The chances we'd stay together forever like so many romance novels was slim to none."

"I figured by the time I was eighteen I'd long since past the point where any girl in real life would stop 'waiting for me on a cliff overlooking the sea' and had to accept that when I went back home I was gonna be that jerk who disappeared one day...but I couldn't come back yet, otherwise I was gonna be that lazy jerk who couldn't be trusted. If I was gonna come home, I was at least going to show I was noble enough to stick to my guns and take responsibility...And then she told me she was pregnant with Lori."

"It was in a hut in a village we saved. We'd been getting closer for a while. We'd reached 'witty banter during combat' at that stage. I was still trying to take her down, but hey, 'you' try chasing after a gorgeous girl for years on end without developing some kind of positive relationship with her-

"Charmer." Interrupted Hekapoo with a smirk.

Lola rubbed her temples annoyed, "Can we keep the story going please?"

Marco nodded, "Right. Anyway. Even though I was still chasing her, their were times were we called a time out to deal with other things. That one time I'd contracted ghostpox in the middle of nowhere with no healer or hospitals, she'd swarmed by camp with dozens of her clones to nurse me back to health. Or when a nearby village with being tormented by a Asurogre, an eight armed ogre. We'd drop our chase to help them."

"It was after we'd done something like the latter. Running in and saving the day and everything...I'd gotten hurt. Real bad saving Hekapoo's life. We stopped a horde of...I wanna say orks? (looks at Hekapoo, who gives the 'nnnnnn close enough?' expression) Yeah orks. The town cheered for us before giving me a place to rest and get healed in. She helped me stay upright as we went inside...then she smacked me in the back of the head."

Hekapoo rolled her eyes, "You 'saved the life' of a clone you idiot! You don't have to take out every one of us yourself. This one getting poofed by an ork would have still counted to your quest!"

Marco laughed, "Yeah. And you know what I said?"

Star shakes her head.

Marco smirked, "I told her I forgot. I just saw someone I care about to get killed and reacted."

"And then we banged." Interrupted Hekapoo.

All of her kids retched, "Ewwwww! MOM!"

Marco sighs, "Well technically we got my serious wounds healed up first...but yes, we did sleep together after that."

Marco goes silent as he remembers how it happened. Not wanting to shock the kids. Buuuut...

...many years ago...

Marco is pulling his jacket back on over his bandaged chest that Hekapoo was just finished wrapping. A Hekapoo clone stood behind him.

"Your crazy if you think your ready to get back to the quest. Your nowhere near back to a hundred percent Muscles." She chided with the nickname she'd started giving him after he grew into a hunk.

Marco shrugged, "I feel fine. I don't want to waste anymore time than I have to."

Hekapoo chuckled, "Spending time with me without trying to kill each other is a waste of time to you now? And here I thought you were starting to enjoy my intimate company."

Marco laughed," I'd be lying if I said I wasn't. But we'll have plenty of time to get intimate with each other."

Hekapoo was silent...

Marco continued to pack up, "I won't blow out this clones flame just now. It's too easy and kind of a cheat. I'll take nacho's and head north. I heard there a couple dozen of you in the mountains."

Again, Hekapoo was silent. "...yeah."

Marco winched as he held his chest a little. "later H-poo."

Hekapoo frowned, "...Marco. Were not done here. Your not done healing."

"I said I'm fine. I just need to go easy on it and give it some TLC along the way." Said Marco without looking back at her.

Hekapoo smirked, "Exactly."

Marco Hears the sound of clothes hitting the floor. He Turns around to see Hekapoo standing there naked. Stunned she easily manages to push him back onto the bed before sitting on his legs to pin him...

"Where done with the basics. But I still think you need some...intimate healing from H-poo." Said Hekapoo suggestively.

Marco although stunned still managed a retort, "I thought you hated that name."

Hekapoo chuckles, "It's grown on me -starts loosening his belt- speaking of which..."

...

Marco is thankful he didn't tell Star that. Especially not with the kids present. Though Hekapoo's blush indicates she was 'also' thinking of that time.

Marco continued the story, "I poofed that clone the next day. But what I didn't know was that while I had my back turned she switched places with her clone without a sound. So I was sleeping with the 'real' Hekapoo all night...my reward for being so chivalrous."

Star blushes, "ALL NIGHT?!" She thinks to herself amazed.

Marco continues on, "We fell asleep a while later, or at least I did then she switched herself out with a clone who wouldn't let me up without blowing out her flame... Then 4 months later she walked into a cave I was camping in. I wondered what was going on since I was still supposed to be hunting her. And then she showed me her baby bump."

Hekapoo shrugged, "I had no idea I 'could' get pregnant. That I 'was' pregnant or what was happening to me for months. Just that I was putting on weight and feeling really emotional."

Marco nodded, "Her clones didn't look it either. They resemble her from when she made them. They don't 'update' physically...mentally on the other hand they remain connected so she can control and see through them. I wondered why some were suddenly so aggressive while others were so weepy."

Hekapoo sighed, "I had no idea what was happening until I tried to get a drink at my favorite bar and they told me that they couldn't serve a pregnant woman. A quick trip to a hospital in another dimension later and yeah, I had something important I needed to tell the stud here."

Marco smirks, "Nothing quite shocks a man like being told 'your gonna be a daddy'. I told her I'd stop the quest..."

Hekpaoo glared, "And I told him not to even dare."

Star frowned, "Wait. You were pregnant with his baby. And you still wanted him to quest?...Well that seems stupid. Wouldn't you want him in the kids life?

Lori glared, "That kid has a name..."

Hekapoo rolled her eyes, "Hello. Clones."

Marco nodded, "We called off the hunt until Lori was born, and then resumed it after. If Lori wasn't with her mom, then she was with me and a clone."

Hekapoo: Then one evening...it just happened again. Then again...and again, and again, and again, and again- Said Hekapoo with a satisfied smirk as her kids got more green.

Marco mercifully cut her off, "By that point I think we were doing days off from it so Lori could spend time with the both of us for real."

Hekapoo continued, "We finished up the trial by about the time Luna was just starting to use the potty (a mortified Luna had to endure her giggling siblings)...but he still didn't want to leave."

Marco shrugged, "How could I? I'd thought returning would just destroy everyone back there, and more importantly I the had three wonderful daughters and the love of the most beautiful woman in the multiverse. I had no reason to leave."

Hekapoo blushes, "Awww. Keep up the sweet talk and we just might have another little surprise in a few months."

Marco smirked, "Really? Then let me say how wonderful a woman you are and..."

Everyone quickly coughs into their hands except Leni.

The two lovebirds quickly pull back from each other.

Leni rolls her eyes annoyed, "Horndogs."

Everyone looks at her weird.

Leni looks at them even more annoyed, "What? Just because I'm not smart doesn't mean I'm stupid." She said flatly.

"Annnyway." Said Star hoping to quickly move the subject along, "What are you going to do now Marco? The fact is, no one home has 'moved on' there didn't even know their was something to 'move on' from! Your parents, your friends, Jackie, ME. What are you going to do about all that!?"

Marco groaned, "I talked about that with Hekapoo...and we got the idea maybe we should move to earth."

His kids perked up with interest. "Really?" Asked Lincoln excited. Marco nodded, "Yeah, it's no secret you guys aren't happy here. And honestly, I'd you to learn more of the human side of your heritage...more importantly you guys really need to hang with more kids your age...and less galatic horrors and savage beasts."

"I've never had any problem with that." Said Lucy with a smile.

Marco sighed, "Sweetie we love you...but that's more of a red flag then anything."

Lucy shrugs, fades into the shadows and joins her demon friends on the town...

Both parents simply look in the direction she'd left.

"This decision was long overdue."

"Agreed."

…III...

TO BE CONTINUED?

AN: I know it says "in-progress" but really I just don't like boxing myself into a corner. For now this is more of a one-shot that I might continue one day...but probably won't.
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