One morning, as I was getting ready for school, I accidentally got some of my magic in Marco's area. He turned to me and complained "Hey! You know the rules. Keep your stuff on your side of the counter."

I watched as he pushed some of my stuff closer to where I stood at the two person sink. Reaching for a hand vacuum, Marco continued as he cleaned "Is it that hard to just be a little organized?"

"I'm organized… my mess is here, and well, that's pretty much my system!" I said, gesturing to the giant pile that was my stuff. Having magic to do my hair made times like this much easier. At that moment however, the battery in my wand decided to die on me. With a flicker, all the magic controlling my brushes and dryers stopped working, causing everything to fall to the ground.

"What's wrong with this thing?" I asked myself, unsure why the battery may have died. Lifting the face of my wand I said "Better check under the hood."

What I saw was not good. The millhorse that powered my wand was an exhausted husk, wheezing as it plodded along. I flipped my wand over and saw the energy level quickly fall from heart towards skull.

"Have you seen my charger? I know it's around here somewhere!" I panicked, knocking stuff off the counter as I searched.

"Where did you last see it?"

"Where is that stupid thing?" I screeched, ignoring Marco's question and still digging frantically through the piles of stuff laying around.

"Star, calm down." Marco said as I tossed stuff around the room. "Star! This is why you gotta get organized. See, with my system, nothing ever gets lost! Nothing's ever out of place."

As cute as his reassurances were, I was panicking too much for advice that didn't solve my immediate problem. I leapt to him and pulled him so close our faces were pressed together, "This is serious! You have to recharge wands with magical energy. If it goes to skull, it'll be dead… forever!"

"Can't you just buy another charger?"

I gasped in realization, that was the kind of advice I needed and Marco always pulled through for me. "Of course! They sell them at Quest Buy."

"Quest Buy?" Marco asked as I grabbed my dimensional scissors and opened a portal to Quest Buy.

"Come on!" I exclaimed around my wand, having grasped it in my teeth. I took both of Marco's hand and leapt through the portal, dragging him with me.

I was screaming with joy as we exited the portal, Marco's being more of fear. He was still getting used to dimensional travel. When we landed, I raised my arms and said to him, "Welcome to Quest Buy!"

Marco stared around in amazement, there was nothing like it on Earth. There were all sorts of species from all sorts of dimensions shopping around us, and the store seemed to go on forever. It might have, I had yet to find an answer.

Suddenly, someone thrust a platter in front of Marco and interrupted his staring. On it there were two green liquids and a fish-man looking creature asked us "Sample?"

We looked at him in confusion and he pointed at the each drink in turn, "Either take a sample, or leave a sample. Up to you."

"Gross" said Marco.

Before I could say anything, my wand beeped, never a good sign. I looked at the charge indicator and saw it had dropped even farther. I grabbed Marco's hand and started dragging him away as I said "We gotta hurry! You can talk to the creepy salesman later Marco."

"Gnome repellant? Extra strength ghost heads? How do you find anything in this place?"

"It only looks messy" I explained to the poor boy. "Legend says that the founders of Quest Buy had an ancient, cryptic system of symbols they used to organize the store, some have gone mad trying to decipher it!"

As if to prove my point, someone behind us yelled out "I finally got it! Housewares is that way!" With a laugh of glee he took off running, straight into the wall next to us. Marco and I just stared at the poor guy for a moment.

"If there's a system here, I'm gonna use it to find the best route to the charger department" said Marco confidently, as adorable as his confidence was, I didn't want to waste any time.

"Lucky for you, I myself know my way around here pretty well myself, if I do say so myself" I told him as I confidently led us to the chargers. "I think I just said too many myselfs."

Shortly after, as I was enjoying my stroll through the store with Marco, my wand beeped another warning, reminding me I wasn't just here for a nice walk and talk with Marco. We exchanged a glance that said we had both forgotten and took off running.

Soon we were heading down a tunnel and heard a voice echo out "Halt!" We stopped and saw a giant stone sphinx guarding the doors. She continued speaking and said "Those who wish to pass my lair, answer my riddle if you dare! I do not re -"

Fortunately, modern technology made these creatures easy to deal with. Instead of listening to her grand riddle, Marco pulled out his phone and looked up the answer. I gave the answer after verifying it was correct. "A leg!"

"But I run."

"A leg!"

"And jump!"

"A. Leg."

"And… wait, how could you possibly know that?"

"The internet."

"Internet?"

"You should look it up. Now c'mon, c'mon, open up." Her delay was costing us precious time.

With a sigh, the sphinx opened the doors for us and we took off through them.

After a bit more running, I turned to Marco and said "Oaky, it should be right through here!"

It wasn't.

"Gnome repellant, extra strength ghost heads? We're right back where we started. How is this even possible?" Marco asked in frustration.

"Let's see" I said, mentally retracing our path. "We made a right turn, and another right turn, then another right turn, then another right turn… Ugh, this makes no sense!"

Suddenly a shopping cart ran into me from behind. As I turned, I heard an unexpected voice say "Well, well, well, looks like Quest Buy really does have everything a monster could want!"

"Ludo!" I exclaimed as Marco took up a fighting pose beside me.

"Now hand over that wand or there's going to be a big clean up on isle … uhhh, what isle is this?"

"That's not my department" said one of the employees nearby. It seemed like nothing was ever in their department around here.

"Rainbow, Avalanche!" I exclaimed, ready to blast them all. With a few sparkles, my wand shot forth a small spurt of rainbow, more like a fountain than an avalanche. In all the excitement, I had forgotten why we were at Quest Buy in the first place. After that attempted spell, my wand looked even worse, all of the color had drained from the crystal and the face.

"Uhhh, just give me a sec here" I said nervously as I tried shaking some life into my wand. I tried another spell, "Narwhal, Nightmare!"

This time, a single narwhal popped out, barely bigger than my finger and plopped into my rainbow mess from earlier. We all watched it flop around for a couple seconds.

"Get me that wand!" shouted Ludo, having recovered first.

As the monsters approached, Marco and I backed up against a stack of merchandise. I turned and saw a humongous stack of adult diapers. Always the creative one, I grabbed a box and threw it at the closest enemy as I shouted "Big Boy Diaper Blast!"

Marco followed my lead and threw a box of his own at another enemy. Using the boxes as projectiles, we tunneled our way through the stack. Marco even managed to knock Ludo out of his cart with a well-aimed throw.

"Oh no, this doesn't look familiar at all" I cried out when we broke through to the other side.

Marco decided to take charge then, "You know what, we tried this your way. Now we're gonna try this the organized way."

He made his way over to a nearby map and started to examine it. After a few seconds, he exclaimed "I think I got it! That elevator will take us right to the charger department."

I couldn't believe it would be that easy, but Marco seemed to know what he was doing and time was running out. I followed him as we ran to the doors. As we hopped on, Ludo and his monsters came pouring through our escape tunnel in pursuit and hopped on the second elevator.

Marco and I watched as a giant slug monster slowed them down and crammed in the elevator with them. There had hardly been room for the entire band of monsters and I almost felt bad for them.

As we rose, I saw the charger department above us, Marco was seriously great. "There it is!" I told him in excitement. "Don't worry little wand, we're almost there."

"Told you I'd get us there!"

As great as Marco was, sometimes I could do without the bragging. Then, in typical fashion, things went wrong. The elevator suddenly shut down and plunged us into darkness. Marco and I climbed out at the next set of doors and an attendant told us the elevator was broken.

"Welcome to the booby trap department" said the employee who was standing nearby. "Please step carefully-"

Before he could continue, he stepped in a giant mouse trap and got snapped up in it. Marco and I gasped in surprise and prepared to go help him but he held up a hand and said "Don't help me up, I get worker's comp for this!"

I decided not to argue with him. He seemed happy with his lot and I had bigger problems anyways. On cue, the other elevator dinged. Of course it hadn't broken down, that would be too easy. Out popped the slug man, Ludo and his henchmen stuck to its back.

Popping himself free, Ludo yelled out "Get them!"

Yelling, Marco and I took off into the booby trap department.

"Look out" I yelled, placing a hand on Marco's chest to stop him from running into a swinging axe. "Wave of doom!"

I leapt in the air as an axe swung towards us, Marco choosing instead to drop to the floor underneath it. Leaping from the blade, I grabbed another axe as it swung past and Marco leapt up beside me. We rode it around a bend and hopped off in front of some statues with blowguns.

"Massacre darts!" I warned Marco as they started firing on us. We took off running with Ludo's minions still hot on our tails. Dodging and weaving, we made it safely to the other side. The monster leading the charge was less lucky and fell over in a daze.

"A hall way with walls that smash together periodically!" I yelled out as we approached the next trap. As the first set slammed together in front of us, Marco and I took the outside route and leapt around the piston shafts like bars on a jungle gym.

The next set we managed to get ahead of, and they slammed shut right behind us. We continued forward through the hallway dodging doors until we came out the other side. We were in the section for wand chargers.

"We made it!" cried Marco. I could have kissed him, but there were more pressing issues at hand.

"There's so many chargers! We'll never find the right one in time."

"Oh yes we will" said Marco as he grabbed my shoulders in a firm grip, "Because this time, we're gonna get organized."

I stared at him as he ran off to start looking. He seemed to have such a grasp on the situation all I could do was sit back and admire him.

"I'll figure this out, you go hold off the monsters" he said, noticing me still at the door.

"Right" I said, happy to have something to do. With a grin on my face, I took off running the direction we had come from, leaving Marco to his work.

As I ran through the department, I heard Ludo's shrill voice scream out "There she is!"

I smiled to myself, happy he had saved me some trouble. I turned to see who was chasing me and started to plan. As the monsters approached, I leapt up and toppled one of the shelves onto one of them. I hopped on it so that I could springboard to another shelf. My plans changed when one of the monsters blasted through the shelf I was standing on and launched me in another direction.

Thinking fast, I grabbed the shelf at my new destination and hopped inside to think. What I didn't expect was to find one of the employees siting in the shelf watching TV and eating chips.

"You're not gonna tell my boss about this are you?" he asked when he noticed me crouching next to him.

Instead of answering him, I turned to look back down at the enemies. Instead I got a wonderful view of giraffe head. The giraffe monster had found me and let out a bellow or war. Before he could strike however, I put my wand to use with the only function it had left. I leapt out of my cubby and smashed the monster in the head.

I had made my way over between two shelves when I heard a growl beside me. I turned to see two of Ludo's minions standing on the ground below me. I put my wand in my mouth and swung to the front of one of the shelves so I could climb it. Unfortunately it broke under the extra stress and I tumbled to the ground.

I hit the ground and rolled, springing to my feet as I did so. I snatched my wand out of the air as I slid to a stop, ready to fight. As the monsters advanced, a shopping cart rolled up between us and stopped. We all stopped and looked at the owner. She was a large, purple creature with horns on the side of her head.

"Well, well, well. Looks like mama's having pork chops for supper." With that, she reached down and grabbed one of the monsters before shoving him in her cart and trundling away.

The other monster resumed his attack, it would have been too much to hope he would go help his ally. The giant chicken monster flew up a few feet and flipped around in midair. Taking aim, he started launching large eggs at me as I took off running.

I rounded a corner and plowed straight into the woman from earlier, spilling her cart on the ground and dropping my wand. The giant chicken continued his assault as I scrambled to get free, only to realize my foot was stuck in the cart.

As the chicken flew over me, I brought my foot up and around, trapping it under the cart. Thankfully the jarring motion also freed my foot and as another monster approached, I leapt up and kicked him back into a shelf. As I moved on, I saw him pick up a box that had fallen and start calling out to Ludo.

Heedless, I went back to check Marco's progress, my wand was on its last power bar at this point. Not seeing Marco, I called out "Marco, where are you?"

"I found the charger!" Marco screamed from high above me. I immediately started climbing to where he was as he continued, "It took me awhile, but once I figured out they were using the metric sys-"

"Good job Marco, just give me the cock-a-doodie charger!" I had climbed up behind the rack and shoved my hand through the display at him. As adorable as his explanation was, time was of the essence. There would be time enough to explain the system to me later.

Marco handed me the charger and I leapt to the floor in victory. "Yes! I got it!"

At that moment, Ludo popped up beside me and snatched away the wand. I had a worried look on my face as he shouted "Yes! I got it! Finally, evil is in the palm of my hand! Princess, Blast your face off!"

My look of concern changed to boredom when a small cloud of poison in the shape of a skull puffed out with a wheeze. The wand hadn't even had the power to change shape, much less cast a spell. Ludo's face also changed, from victory to confusion. Never one to quit, Ludo tried again, "Spinning, Dizzy, Death Blast!"

This time nothing happened. Ludo struggled to think of another spell before giving up, pointing the wand at me, and simply yelling "Ka-pow!"

Again, nothing happened and Ludo shook the wand in frustration, "What's wrong with this thing?"

Having had enough, I punted Ludo in the chest. With a grunt, he threw the wand into the air and went sailing. Man am I glad he is so tiny. I caught the wand as it flipped through the air and started to insert the charger. I had a silly grin on my face, happy to have not lost the wand. Mom would have really been mad at that.

Giggling with barely contained excitement, I plugged it in. The result was almost instantaneous. The charge bar filled all the way back up to heart. The face even popped open to reveal the unicorn, restored to its former glory. No longer a dry husk, the unicorn reared and with a whinny started to run. Sweet music played as pink light flared up around the millhorse.

"So cute" I said with a giggle as I closed the lid. Marco ran up at that point, his Earth body not being as nimble and resilient as mine he had had to slowly climb down. It was time to test out my newly invigorated wand, and I had the perfect targets. "Fantastic, Exit, Beam!"

With a blast of green, I was propelled into Marco and towards the exit. As we slid by, me giggling the whole way, one of the employees asked me "You gonna pay for that charger ma'am?"

"Nah, my arch-nemesis will cover it. He kinda owes me."

"Uh, you do realize we could just walk" said Marco, always the voice of reason.

Unfortunately for him, I didn't care. Continuing the spell, I told him with a smile "I know!"

With a sigh, Marco rolled his eyes in that cute way he does when I'm being stubborn and he knows I'm right as he waited for the exit. Pulling out my scissors, I opened the portal back to Earth and we hopped through.

"We're back" Marco said with a sigh of relief. I guess he was still getting used to all the magic stuff a bit. I was only barely listening, my attention focused on something else in the room. Marco kept talking, ruining my concentration, as he said "You see Star, it pays to be organized. If you'd just listened to me-"

"Whoa, shut it" I said, holding a finger up to his lips.

"He moved my finger and said "On Earth, its rude to tell people to shut it."

It was adorable the way he was trying to admonish me, but my focus was elsewhere. I told him "Yeahyeahyeahyeah, that's rude on Mewni too. Look."

I pointed ahead of me, how Marco had missed it is still a mystery. Floating in the air was Marco's hand vacuum. It was surrounded in a pink haze and was running all on its own.

"My mini-vac!"

"It's possessed" I told him matter-of-factly. When he didn't respond, my curiosity took hold. "I'm gonna touch it."

"Nonono, don't touch it" warned Marco, already too late. I reached out and took it in my hands. "Uhhh, she's touching it."

I grabbed it and popped it open, I wanted to see what made this thing run. Surprisingly the pink glow was actually coming from inside the device. When I saw the cause however, my face dropped. I reached in and pulled out the source of the mystery.

"Eh, just my charger" I told Marco, nothing exciting. Then with a gasp I realized it was my missing charger. "My charger?"

"Uhhh, woops?" said Marco nervously when I turned to look at him. "I must have accidentally sucked it up when I was cleaning, sorry. I guess you have two now."

Man he was too sweet to even pretend to stay mad at. With a shrug I dropped it back in the hand vacuum and said "Nah, you keep it. I've got my wand, you've got a magic floating vacuum cleaner. Now we're both cool."

I saw the look of appreciation he had as I walked away, only later would I realize just how impactful my statement had been. Plus this way he could hopefully get a little more used to being around magic, I wasn't planning on going anywhere any time soon.

As Marco walked after me, I heard him yelp, followed by the thud of him hitting the floor and sigh of resignation. I couldn't help smiling to myself and thinking maybe I could clean up a little bit