Marco and Jackie jumped out of the portal and landed in the middle of the castle of the royal family, where they immediately hid inside a room when some enslaved guards passed by. Inside the place they hid was a room containing pictures of the progression of the family: first as transformed ants, then as humanoids with ant features and a couple of monsters, and finally the humanoids of the present, with a good deal of monsters beneath them.
"Where are we?" Jackie asked, looking around.
"You're in Mewni."
Startled by the statement, the duo turned around and got ready to attack. Who they found was Toffee, still sharp-dressed as ever, with golden chains around his wrists and neck.
Just as Marco lowered his guard, Jackie stated, "Don't trust him, he's probably a lawyer!"
With that in mind, Marco backed away as he gave Toffee an angry glare. "Relax, I'm not your enemy. or a lawyer, for that matter." said the sharp-dressed lizard. "You can call me Toffee."
Marco and Jackie hesitantly shook hands with the lizard.
"I'm a fellow slave, like you..." Toffee allowed Marco to see the rest of the room, where various monsters were restrained by golden chains like his own. "and all of monsterkind."
Marco came closer and took a closer look at the chains as Toffee explained how they ended up like this:
"The mewmans came in, primarily the females, and attacked us with magically-enhanced warriors that completely destroyed any defense we could set up. Now, the royal wand, the thing used to enslave us all, is used to keep everybody at bay."
This caught the teenagers' attention. "The royal what now?" Jackie asked.
"The wand."
Toffee pointed at an image on the ceiling, depicting the wand encrusted in a rock while creating chains to restrain all of monsterkind.
"Like I said before, it keeps us all at bay, even slaves that have become slaves after...the incident." Toffee explained. "Apparently, if a slave were to take it, it would completely corrupt them into an unstoppable beast that wouldn't recognize slave from slaver."
"Okay, at least we know you can't take it." Jackie told to Marco, who looked at the ground in disappointment. "How do we deal with that thing?"
Toffee sighed and sat down. "Only a member of the royal family can use it without being corrupted. The queen is a massive jackass, the princess is on her way to become just as bad as her, the only viable option left would be the king..."
Marco and Jackie scratched their chins as they thought about what the lizard said, and soon enough, they got an idea. "Hey, Lizard Guy!" Jackie shouted, catching Toffee's attention. "Wanna help us free all of slavekind?"
Toffee was rightfully skeptical. "And how do you plan to do that?"
Marco went to Toffee's side and whispered his and Jackie's plan to him.
"That plan, while decent, could use a few...modifications."
The trio reunited and heard Toffee's idea as the monster slaves watched from afar, not knowing what to make out of it.
