While I was up in my room working one day, I heard voices coming from the landing below. Apparently Marco and his friends were up to something, and since that something was in my room, I decided to go take a look. I descended the stairs to the main floor of my tower and paused when I saw Marco, Alphonso, and Ferguson rolling on the floor in laughter in front of my mirror.

"Hey, what are you guys doing?" I asked, leaning over the railing.

"Making crank calls!" Alphonso managed to get out in between laughs.

"Join the party!" called Marco.

"Awesome!" I vaulted over the railing to join them and everyone moved out of the way.

Marco took my shoulders and as I rubbed my hands together in anticipation, he called out "Mirror, Mirror, call someone else!" before ducking out of view.

As soon as it started dialing, a pixie popped on screen and said "I'm sorry, but you have exceeded your minutes. Your mirror service has been temporarily suspended. Please visit our office in Pixtopia to settle your bill."

As I recoiled in horror, the pixie woman let out a small giggle and hung up. I gathered my wits and threw myself at the mirror as I cried, "What? No!" Marco walked up and I cast a furtive glance at him as I continued, "What if my mom tries to call me? She's gonna freak."

I fell with my back against the mirror and slid down into a sitting position while Marco smacked himself on the forehead and said "Oh, sorry Star, that's my bad. The calls were totally my idea."

I realized something, Marco had messed up! Finally! My arm snapped out and grabbed his shoulder. I hauled myself to my feet as I said "Marco! You messed up! Now you're just like me! Yeeees!"

"What? No. I made one mistake."

I wasn't letting him off the hook that easily though. I grabbed his shoulder and pulling him close I said "You sure 'Starred' this whole thing up. How's it feel? Not bad right? Oh Marco, now we can be mess up twins!"


"Did you just say 'Starred'?" asked Ruberiot.

"Yeah, since I'm always messing things up in my own amazing way, I thought I would just go ahead and own it."

"Well, that is certainly… interesting." What Ruberiot didn't say was how much it troubled him that Star associated her name with messing up. It was another layer to the princess, one he disliked. He decided that he would try however he could to help his princess with this self-image issue, the only problem was how.

Star however missed the inner dialogue Ruberiot was having and plowed ahead with her story.


"What? Man, I ain't no twin!" Marco exclaimed. With a smile I let go to watch him flounder in the adorable way he does. "I'm- I'm- I'm Marco Diaz, only child!"

My smile diminished for a moment, only to grow twice as large as he stood there staring at me in denial. With a slump of defeat, Marco held out his hand and said "Where are your scissors?"

I gladly handed them over as Marco went over, opened a portal, and said "Let's go pay your bill."

When the portal opened, I heard a gasp from behind me and remembered that Ferguson and Alphonso were here. They ran over and fell at my feet as they begged us to take them too. I looked at them and told them it would be fine for them to tag along, I didn't see any harm to it, and we were just going to pay my mirror bill after all.

They leapt up and cheered as they ran towards the portal. Taking hands they danced their way into the boy as they sang "Going into portal land, teenage boys are holding hands!"

As they entered, I extended my own hand to Marco and with a wink said "Mess up twin secret handshake!"

As I expected, Marco just glanced at my hand before walking through the portal. With a laugh, I ran after everyone into Pixtopia.

When we arrived, a whole host of pixies flew over to greet us. Alphonso especially loved them and even exclaimed "Awww! They're so small!"

I led everyone to the Pixtopia Mirror Office and told them "Here we are!" I turned to Marco and asked him "How you gonna 'Star' this one up twinsy?"

"I already told you Star, I ain't no twin!" Marco marched into the small office as he proclaimed "Marco Diaz came into this world alone, alone!"

We crowded into the office, there wasn't enough room to stand up straight and Alphonso even had to pull Ferguson through the door since he didn't fit and got stuck. When he came crashing through, they fell on us, knocking everyone over into a giant heap.

As we extracted ourselves, we heard a little voice call out "Next!"

As Marco rose, he smacked his head on the low ceiling and I popped up, careful not to hit my head, and pushed him forwards as I said "Go ahead Marco, pay the nice Pixie."

He looked back and forth between us and the teller for a moment before scooting over to Ferguson and Alphonso and asking them "You guys gonna pitch in for this?"

This was great, neither of them had any money on them and I turned to him as I said "Marco! Did you forget to bring money, like I did?"

I had a huge, smug smile plastered to my face as I patted Marco on the back and giggled. Turning to me he said "No, as a matter of fact, I brought…"

He reached into his show and pulled out a wad of bills and as he held them up I sang "Marco's Emergency Cash Stash!"

He walked over to the teller and deposited the money on the counter as he said "This is for the Butterfly account, think that should cover it." With a confident laugh, he flipped a quarter to the teller and said "And uh, this is for you. Go buy yourself some of those thimble sized shoes."

Unexpectedly, the money was thrown back in Marco's face as the pixie said "I'm sorry sir, we only accept gold and jewels! You'll have to work off the bill in the shard mines!"

We all looked at each other in confusion before the floor suddenly dropped out from beneath us, revealing a chute we hadn't noticed. We all fell to the ground below. Fortunately I landed on Marco which helped cushion the fall. Unfortunately, Alphonso was right behind me and crashed on top of me. As we lay there, we heard Ferguson screaming as he fell and all of us braced for him to crush us. When the screaming stopped and there was no impact, we opened our eyes to see he had grabbed the ladder and slid down.

I looked at Marco then and said "Wow Marco, I could not have 'Starred' that one better up myself."

"Like I was supposed to know to bring jewels" he said, climbing out from beneath me as another pixie flew over to us.

"Welcome to the shard mines" he said with a cruel smirk, "Now get to picking!"

"I uh- look, I'm sure this was all a big misunders-" Marco was cut off as the pixie pulled out a whip and lashed towards Marco. Getting the message, we all picked up some pickaxes lying around and hastily got to work.

"Now what?" Marco whispered to me as we worked.

With a smile I said "Don't worry twinsy, I got this."

Brandishing my wand I went over to the pixie from earlier and channeling my power as I have so often before, I exclaimed "Strawberry Annihilation!" Nothing happened. I tried again and again to no effect, as the head pixie just watched on.

Laughing at my attempts he explained "Nice try Blondie, these mines block magic!"

Not one to be deterred by a lack of magic, I crouched down and said "Okay, you want some of this? Let's go little man!"

Right as we were about to go at it, Marco intervened, unnecessarily if I may add, I had the pixie right where I wanted him. "Whoa, whoa, easy Star. Okay, okay. Sir I'm sure we can work this out. See, this is the princess of Mewni, Star Butterfly." When I heard my name I ran over to swipe at the pixie some more while Marco held me back. "Her dad has… connections."

Unhelpfully, that was when Ferguson jumped over exclaiming "And I'm King Fergon!"

"Yeah, yeah. And I'm the Duchess of Daisyland!" said our captor sarcastically.

I stood watching in horror as Ferguson continued his foolish actions when he said "Oh, pleased to meet you Duchess of Daisyland" He hoisted his plunger at our guard.


"What's a plunger?" asked Ruberiot.

"So on Earth, they have these things called 'toilets'" Star explained, "I'm not sure what they are used for, but they are quite amazing. They look like a large bowl mixed with a throne and there is water in it. There is a lever on the side that flushes the water from the bowl and replaces it with new water. You can put anything in there!"

"Where does it go?" asked Ruberiot in quiet wonder.

"That's the thing, nobody knows!"

"Wow! So then what is the plunger for?"

"Well, sometimes you put something in that is just too big and the plunger is able to remove it. I saw Marco use it once while I was testing out the toilet." Star explained, drawing a picture of a plunger on some of the scrap pare laying around so Ruberiot could get a visual.

"Earth is quite fascinating!"

"I know! It's a pretty great place, especially with someone as awesome as Marco to always be with me and show me around" Star said, wistfully before continuing her story.


"No! The pleasure's all mine, King Fergon." Suddenly our captor called out "Take him away!"

Out of nowhere, a bunch of pixies came flying over and grabbed Ferguson by his makeshift cape. I could only stand there and watch as he said "Hang on, wait!" The guards pulled him over and dragged him away sobbing as the head pixie used his whip to get Marco and I back to work.

There was nothing we could do as Ferguson was dragged away and under the whip of our guard, we got back to work. While working, Alphonso suddenly started coughing. Except when he coughed, pink dust came from his lungs. While we crouched over him, one of the other workers said to us "Looks like your friend is getting a bad case of Pixie Lung."

"This is crazy!" exclaimed Marco as he threw down his pick axe. "We have to find a way out of here and save Ferguson."

"Sorry," said an old man, "There's no way out. Not that I've se-"

"What about that mine cart?" I cut him off as I pointed to a mine cart parked in front of a tunnel with a flashing exit sign above it.

"But that's the bathroom" said the old man.

Without really listening, Marco, Alphonso, and I ran over and hopped into the card and I called out for the other two to join us. Unfortunately our jailer heard us and turned to see us trying to make our escape. He yelled out "Guards! Seize them!"

As they charged us, Marco threw the lever that controlled the brakes. We started rolling down the track right as our two newest friends hopped into the cart, just ahead of the pixies. The pixies soon had a cart of their own though and took off after us down the track.

They started closing in behind us and the jerk of a head guard pulled out his whip and started snapping it at us. While this was happening, another pixie flew down in front of our cart and tossed a piece of crystal onto the tracks. When our cart hit the shard, we went tumbling through the air. Miraculously, we not only landed right-side up with everyone in the cart, we had moved onto a separate track that ran alongside the one we had been on.

As we rolled along, the other cart of pixies pulled up next to us and the head pixie started flailing with his whip. I called out to him "Hey! You should watch where you're going!"

"You watch where you're going!" he yelled, right before his track took a steep nose dive. Now separated and free, we continued rolling, hopeful to escape the mines. Up ahead the track took a sharp turn upwards, which I took as a good sign. Wonderfully, it deposited us right into the palace. When Marco, Alphonso, and I flopped out of the cart, Guards rushed over and brandished their swords at us. One even had a chainsaw.

"Hey!" called out a familiar voice. Looking over, I saw Ferguson of all people lounging on a pile of cushions and surrounded by food. "I was just about to come rescue you guys!"

Wasting no time, Alphonso launched himself at Ferguson and pulled him into a hug as he said "Ferguson! I was so worried!"

"Eh. Turns out they worship me here." At this, a group of pixies lifted him, using his cape as a cradle, and flew him to us as he said "And, check out my new girlfriend. That's right! I did it, I said girlfriend."

Next to him, one of the pixies, the only one not carrying him, said "He calls me sugar wings."

I exchanged a quick, worried glance with Marco as Ferguson was deposited in front of us and continued by saying "I'm so happy you guys are here. You're just in time for my wedding!"

As he spread his arm, a whole flurry of things happened all at once. Pixies with trumpets flew in playing music, drapes dropped from the ceiling, pews were arranges, carpet was rolled, pixies were seated, and I'm sure much more that I missed in the hubbub.

Next thing I knew, there was a pixie standing between Ferguson and his girlfriend as he said "Are you two ready to swear your undying love for each other?"

With a solemn look, Ferguson turned and looked at his girlfriend, Marco leapt up beside me and said "Don't! This is crazy! Ferguson, think about this! You're not ready for this kind of commitment! You're only fourteen! You still paint a face on your stomach and make it talk!"

With a jolt, Ferguson's face turned from a look of serenity to one of panic as what he was about to do finally set in. Lifting his shirt, Ferguson made the aforementioned face on his stomach say "He has a point."

"Empress" he said, "You're an amazing, flying Pixie lady and you're really cool, but I didn't really think this through. I'm sorry, I can't marry you."

With a small smile on her face she calmly said "Guards, kill them all."

Suddenly the air was filled with pixies who were wielding swords five times larger than they were. As everyone scattered, I leapt from my spot with a devious smile on my face. Battles were much more my speed than the wedding had been.

Alphonso was unsurprisingly struggling, being dragged across the floor by a pixie. Marco, wonderful Marco, however was putting up a great fight. I saw him chop one pixie out of the air before pulling down one of the drapes and using it to ensnare the pixie attacking Alphonso. Turning my attention back to the pixie swinging his sword at me, I parried his attacks with my wand as I retreated through the throne room and up some stairs.

I was rushed by half a dozen other guards and defended valiantly. Working fast, I cleared enough space to cast a spell and channeling my magic, I cried out "Winter Storm, Hyper, Blow!"

I unleashed the magic and it sent out a ring of frost towards my enemies. Caught in the magic, those that weren't blown out the window were frozen solid. I pulled out my dimensional scissors, ready to get out of there as I took off to help Marco and his friends.

I slid down the banister and opened a portal near Marco and Ferguson as I called out to them "Let's go!"

"No!" cried the pixie empress, "I haven't killed you yet!"

I wasn't about to let anyone kill Marco, and readying my wand, I cried out "Rainbow, Fly Trap!"

With a blast of magic, I materialized a rainbow behind Marco and Ferguson as they approached. When the pixies hit it however, they were stuck, unable to chase us as we made our escape.

Back in my room, I flopped onto my bed as I said "That's it, I'm switching service providers!"

"Yeah, good call" said Marco from where he stood by the foot of my bed. "Star, I feel bad. I think I may have ruined Ferguson's one chance at love. Maybe we are mess up twins."

As much as I wanted to tease him, he sounded so dejected I couldn't do anything but explain everything to him. Sitting up I told him "Oh Marco, That pixie didn't love Ferguson, she just wanted to eat him!"

"Really?"

"And let's be honest, Ferguson does look delicious." I hopped off my bed and stood next to Marco as we laughed together

"Yeah, I guess nobody's perfect."

"Uh, why are you guys talkin about me like I'm not here?" asked Ferguson. In fact, I had forgotten he was there, all the stress from the adventure and I had settled into my normal routine with Marco by default, a routine I don't want to ever lose. Ferguson then continued by pointing out something else we had forgotten when he asked "And, where's Alphonso?"

There was a moment of panic as Marco and I realized we had left Alphonso in the pixie dimension. With a small amount of planning though, Marco and I made a mad dash back to pixtopia for Alphonso. After a brief explanation that he wouldn't be king and would instead be eaten, it was only a minor repeat of our previous wedding crash before we got Alphonso back to Earth.

After sending the boys back home, Marco and I went to watch a movie with some of Marco's super awesome nachos as we unwound from our hectic day. Shortly after finishing the nachos, and well before the end of the movie, I passed out on Marco's shoulder and thankfully he let me sleep.