Alfonzo, the one and only pixie emperor, is here to tell you what happened last chapter!

Someone by the name of Ed Hood sent Sabrina to find me. Apparently, Ferguson was at a complex at the bottom of the lake owned by Jackie, and we busted him out of both his prison and a dinosaur whale that devoured him.

So yeah, nothing out of the ordinary.

For now, we decided to relax back at my kingdom, though first I had to stop my wife from giving Sabrina boobs to be used as trampolines. Why? Because she thought she was hitting on me. And that is just wrong! All trampolines must be naturally made!

Anyway, as we relax, I can't help but feel he's got something to tell me. It might be important, it might be not, but I'll try to figure it out later.

Episode 12: Distraction & Assignment

(With Hope and Janna)

Hope continued to argue with Janna in order to change the girl's stubborn attitude. "Janna, please don't be a stubborn brat for once and become partners with Star and Marco."

"Sorry Hope, but I just can't."

"Why do you have to be so stubborn? Why don't you want to join forces with them." Hope questioned in frustration. "Brittney's nowhere to be seen, the next level is an inter dimensional place we've never heard of, Jackie could be trouble, if we stay alone through this whole game we won't be able to get far."

"And why do you even want to do that?"

"Because we can't just walk around looking for players like complete morons!" Hope yelled, catching Janna off-guard. "Besides, we can cover more ground if we join forces with Star and Marco, not to mention that it's thanks to them that you aren't rotting in a prison cell right now!"

"You called them, so it's thanks to you that I'm out of prison, and not them."

Finally done with Janna's crap, Hope went to her, grabbed her shirt's neck and pulled Janna towards her before stating, "We're joining forces with Star and Marco, and that's the end of this conversation!"

"Alright, geez, you can be rather harsh sometimes." Janna replied as she put her hands on her pockets.

Hope smiled and her attitude turned back to normal before releasing Janna and going off to look for Team Starco. Just as she followed the girl, however, Janna noticed something was missing. "Wait, where are my house keys?"

It didn't take her long before remembering a certain woman.

"MISSS DIIIIIAAAAAZZZ!"

(Marco, Star & Mrs. Diaz)

The trio walked around the woods as Jackie, Jeremy, Brittney and Chantelle hid in the bushes, with Jackie doing gestures to tell the other three to get ready. "So, your ex morphus form's name is Marcoman?" Star questioned.

"Yeah, It's something I thought at the last minute." Marco answered.

Then, without warning, Jeremy and the shadow girls came out of the bushes and got ready to attack, right before they were hit by a water ball. It exploded upon contact and Jackie made her arrival soon after the trio ran away. "Hey, how are you doing?" Jackie greeted.

The team simple ignored the girl and continued to walk, much to Jackie's frustration. She went ahead and stopped them on their tracks.

"Marco, I just saved you the trouble of dealing with that boy and his shadows, can't you at least say "thank you" or something like that?"

"Jackie, you're not fooling us this time." Marco stated. "This is just a plot to gain our trust, isn't it?"

The girl was immediately rendered speechless by the question. "O-Of course not-"

"Is that so? Because it won't work." Marco interrupted before recapping, "First you give us the wrong wand, then you make us go to a mermaid that tried to rape Star, and so far you've been wasting your time instead of helping us or anybody make progress in the game. With that stuff in mind, I'm pretty sure you're more trouble than it's worth."

"Marco, you and Star know you have no reason to distrust me." Jackie rebutted.

"Guess what? We have no reason to trust you either." Mrs. Diaz blurted.

With that said, Jackie frowned and growled before Marco added, "I'm tired of this crap, Jackie, Star and I are going to make progress in the game, with or without you by our side."

"Wait, you're just going to go ahead without me?"

"Oh right, that's a thing that's happening."

With that said, the team continued to walk and go deeper into the woods as Jackie remained still dumbfounded. Once she slapped herself back to reality, she wrote a circle on the ground and Tom appeared in it. "Need me for something, Jackielope?" Tom taunted.

"Tom, the plan to get the team's trust failed, I need you to perform Plan B." Jackie explained, earning a confused glare from Tom in response. "As in ripping off Star's wings."

The demon remembered the plan and nodded. Once the circle returned to normal, Jackie wiped it off as Jeremy and his shadows returned and he complained, "Hey! What about my reward?"

"Reward?"

"Yeah, you said that after the distraction was done, you'd show me and give me another shadow to control."

"Perhaps, I should deliver on my part of the deal..."

Jeremy tilted his head in confusion right before Jackie hit him in the gut, stunning the boy and causing him to drop the shadownomicon. Jackie then snatched the book and grabbed the boy by the neck and strangled him before stating:

"Unfortunately, you are the shadow."

(Meanwhile, at St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses)

A portal was cut open outside of the school's gates and Andrea jumped out of it. With that done, the girl pulled the tractor beam with the guard remains out of the portal before it closed itself out of existence.

She then went to the gate, where she was stopped by a pair of guards. "What's the password?" The guards asked.

Andrea looked around and blushed before shaking her hips and moving her arms like wild as she sung, "Whoop! Whoop! 'Tis the sound of the police!"

The guards repeated the song and dancing as Andrea blushed and looked away. After that, the guards opened the door and Andrea saw the principal, Miss Heinous, walk to the school's doors. She immediately ran after the woman and caught up with her before she entered.

"Ah, Andrea, I was expecting you." Miss Heinous affably greeted right before noticing the remains of the guards. "That being said, I wasn't expecting that."

"Yeah, let's just say there was an...issue, at the prison facility involving Star Butterfly and Marco Diaz." Andrea answered before placing the parts somewhere nearby.

The instant she heard that, Miss Heinous remembered their last visit at the school and frowned in anger. "Keep it to yourself for now. Once we go to my office, we can talk about those two and the issue you mentioned."

With that said, Miss Heinous opened the door and Andrea followed the woman to her office. As they walked, Andrea looked around at the guards standing sentry and the princesses either being punished for misbehavior or being watched. Among them was Princess Pony Head, who used her horn to shoot the guards coming after her.

"You may think you're big stuff , but I'm sure Star and Marco will return and make this place fun again!" Pony Head exclaimed. "But until then, I'll enjoy messing with ya!"

Pony Head laughed and flew away as Andrea thought, "Star and Marco have already been here?"

"Andrea, don't waste your time with Pony Head, the guards can take care off her just fine."

The girl returned to her sense and followed Miss Heinous.

(At the office)

Miss Heinous opened the door and she and Andrea went to the desk, where they sat down and took a deep breath.

"Alright, Andrea, here we are." Miss Heinous started. "Tell me what happened at the facility."

"Okay, so I was interrogating Janna when something happened and the alarms blared. Hope then tried to attack me but I managed to counterattack it. Then I went downstairs where Star, Marco and Marco's mother were defeating the guards with ease, and then Marco turned into a sentai hero and-"

"Stop right there." Miss Heinous ordered. "I don't need to hear anymore."

Andrea obeyed and frowned in confusion, "You don't?"

"No, you pretty much stated that those teenagers and the woman are going to be trouble." Miss Heinous replied, though she smiled before adding, "That being said, until they reach this level, we don't need to worry about them. Instead, I need you for a special assignment."

"A special assignment?"

Miss Heinous nodded and took out a control remote from her desk. She then turned to a wall and pushed a button, which somehow summoned a monitor screen that showed static as Andrea turned to it and stared in wonder.

After a while, the static turned into a clear picture of Jackie's lake. "This is Jackie's lake, and the girl is inside it. Wait for a few minutes, you might get to see something interesting."

Andrea did as told and stared in shock and horror as a giant castle made of ancient material rose from the water, with Jackie standing at the top with a smug smile. "She raised a freaking castle out of her lake?!"

"And that's not all. Do you recognize the book she's holding?"

Miss Heinous zoomed to Jackie and Andrea instantly spotted the shadownomicon. She was justifiably shocked, "The shadownomicon?"

Miss Heinous nodded, "Yeah, Jackie murdered the original owner after her plan to gain Star and Marco's trust failed. Now that she has the book, it could be possible she could go genuinely crazy and, most importantly, genuinely evil."

"So you want me to spy on Jackie until you tell me to snatch the shadownomicon?"

Miss Heinous simply smiled and answered, "That is the plan, dear Andrea."