Marco, Jackie and Toffee hid in the shadows as the mewman guards walked past the hallways. "Okay, wait until the guards leave and then head into the king's room." Toffee told the teenagers, who nodded in agreement.
Once the guards were out of sight, jackie was the first to come out of the darkness.
"Alright, let's move!" Jackie exclaimed, pointing at the king's bedroom's door.
And then a portal opened.
"Wait, go back! Go back!" Toffee called.
Marco quickly grabbed Jackie and pulled her back inside the shadows as Star jumped out of the portal and started to look around. "Oh great, what is she doing here?" Toffee questioned in exasperation.
"My friend here is his slave." Jackie explained.
Upon hearing that, Toffee grabbed Marco by the neck of his shirt, pulled him towards him and growled, "You didn't think Star Butterfly would come after you after you disappeared?!" Marco shook his head. "Okay, I can see why you would ignore the possibility, but it's still there for a reason!"
And with his words spoken, the trio soon shut up and watched as Star continued to look for a moment before throwing her hands in the air and leaving. With her gone, the lizard and teenagers came out of the darkness and went inside the king's bedroom, with Toffee looking to his left and right before closing the door.
Back with Star, the girl looked around the furniture for her "furniture" when her mother arrived and caught her attention with a single statement:
"Star, what are you doing here?"
Upon hearing that, the princess got up and turned around, exchanging displeased looks with the queen.
"Didn't I tell you to only come back once you had obtained 108 slaves?" Moon asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, heard it, listened it, got it, but there's a problem I need to take care of." Star looked to her left and right before grabbing her arm and spilling the beans: "Marco is nowhere to be seen back at the house-"
Instead of laughing like a hyena, Moon slapped her daughter hard enough to leave a hand mark in her cheek. "You barely got one slave and you already lost track of him?!" she hissed as Star whimpered and grabbed her cheek.
Star was quick to retort. "Hey, at least I only have one slave to look after, what about you, Mrs. 108 Slaves?"
This earned her another slap from the queen.
"Well, of course it's going to be hard to keep track of 108 slaves at all times." Moon responded as Star hit the ground. "I mean, why else would I keep your father locked in his room for most of the year?"
Star couldn't think of a response, so she just got up, gave her mother a look and left to continue her search for Marco.
Speaking of him, he, Jackie and Toffee walked across the chain-infested bedroom of the king of mewni, which outside of the chains was pretty similar to a hallway in length and a prison in sheer ambience. "What's up with all the chains and stuff?" Jackie questioned, kicking a chain away.
"They're there to keep the king in place." Toffee answered. "Once we free him, we'll convince him to come with us."
And then Jackie asked, "Now that you mention him, why is he so important for our mission?"
"He's a slave, but he's also part of the royal family. In theory, if he could get his hands on the wand, he could decide to free the slaves and give mewmanity a piece of their own medicine!"
Jackie quickly found a hole in Toffee's plan: "And what makes you think he'll pick the slaves' side?"
The lizard just chuckled. "After everything he's been through, he would never pick the people who enslaved him over freedom, right?"
He got no response.
"Right?"
Same result.
However, the trio soon found the king chained to a wall, and Marco quickly kicked and punched the chains until they broke apart, freeing the miniature mewman. "Either you're really strong, or those chains are really weak and low quality." Jackie remarked, trying her hardest to make it sound like a compliment.
"Maybe both, mewmans are awful at keeping a watch on their slaves." Toffee blurted as the king turned to the trio. "Your majesty, we've come to save you and help you free your people once and for all."
"My people are free, it is yours who are trapped." the king uttered, sounding utterly dejected. "And I'm afraid I can do nothing to help you. Your people are enslaved, and so am I, and there's no changing that."
Though briefly surprised at the king's somberness, all it took was a pair of determined glares from the teenagers to convince Toffee to keep trying.
"But your majesty, this is the chance we-I mean you-have been waiting for all along!" the lizard victoriously proclaimed. "You could free all the slaves, and turn the tables on mewmanity! Turn them into the slaves! Make them learn how to work, just as they forced us to learn the same thing generations ago!"
"Geez, and I thought your girlfriend was a dick." Jackie remarked.
Marco could only shrug.
The king sat down and turned around to sulk some more, completely and utterly believing resistance was all but impossible.
But the trio would have none of his shit.
"Screw it, we're dragging him along." Jackie stated, crossing her arms as the boys unanimously agreed.
A couple seconds later, Toffee, Marco and Jackie grabbed the king by his legs and dragged him across the room to the door. "Surprisingly enough, this is nowhere near the most demeaning thing I've suffered in my whole life." he nonchalantly said.
And once the quartet came out, the alarms blared in the building as guards came in rushing left and right. So, with little time to think strategically, Toffee put the king on his shoulders and he and the teenagers crashed through a window, breaking it in the process. With that done, the four rolled down a hill and onto a forest as Star and Moon looked around.
"What just happened?!" Star exclaimed, hugging her mother.
Moon, annoyed at the hug, pushed Star away and looked through the window to see Marco, Jackie, Toffee and the king heading for a particular mountain...and flipping their birds off at her.
"We must get to the wand before they do!" Moon stated.
"Why?" Star asked nonplussed.
Cue slap in the cheek number three.
"Pay attention, you freaking idiot!" Moon hissed. "If the slaves get to the wand first..."
The queen swallowed her fears and bluntly told Star, "They could cause a revolution!"
It took Star a couple seconds to understand. "Okay, now I see the problem."
Not in the mood to deal with Star's crap, Moon grabbed her arm and dragged her to the road to the wand.
