The sound of feet rapidly hitting the floor and heavy breathing filled the hallway. Sweat began to drip down everyone's faces, besides Tom and Glossaryck. The smell of sweat and fear mixed in with the mildew to become truly gut-wrenching. Star's and Elizabeth's wands lit up the cavern, allowing them to see the branching hallways in front of them. The jail cells that had held the monsters and rats were wrecked and empty, but no one stopped to ask why. They only cared about running, running far, far away from whatever noise had started laughing in Ludo's chamber. They had to get away. Because… why?

"Glossaryck!" Marco blurted out in-between breaths. "Why- Are- We- Running?"

Glossaryck didn't turn to face Marco. He simply continued gliding through the caverns, leading the group from tunnel to tunnel. "Because we're in danger."

Marco looked at the small blue mentor with disgust. "What danger?" He had a feeling that whatever answer Glossaryck was going to give would either be annoying or cryptic. With Marco's luck, it would be both.

Glossaryck turned to grin widely at the exasperated boy. "What danger aren't we running from?"

Wonderful. It had been both. Marco would've let out a deep sigh if he hadn't already been breathing as hard as he could. Instead he rolled his eyes and gave Glossaryck another contemptuous glare. "I just saved you. The least you could do for us is talking like a normal person."

Glossaryck's smile grew larger. "I'm not a normal person, Diaz. And besides, you didn't save me; you saved your own ass."

Marco blinked, then frowned at him. "What do you mean?"

Glossaryck turned back around to face where they were going. He kept the tone of his smile as they continued onwards. "Marco, Marco, do you really think that I-" Glossaryck stopped abruptly, causing everyone behind him to crash into each other. Before they could give him crap about it, though, he pointed forward and solemnly commanded, "look."

Looking up, they saw a green cloud slowly expanding towards them. It seemed almost alive, that gaseous being. Wondrous little shapes came in and out of existence as whatever it was became larger and larger. The formless mass silently spread to take up the entire room ahead of them, moving with supernatural grace. They all looked awestruck at the being, except for Glossaryck. He quickly turned 'round to face the dumb-founded group of teens.

"This is the danger," he spurted out, face empty of wit and humor. "We need to-" But as he spoke, the green cloud came out from behind them. The green cloud leisurely, yet somehow rapidly, surrounded the entire group. Sweat started to drip down Glossarycks face. "Well, that- happened."

Marco, Star, Tom, Jackie, Jam and Elizabeth blinked their eyes several times and then jerked their heads around, as if only just comprehending then and there that they were screwed. Jam's face grew grim, and he closed his eyes in acceptance of his fate. Jackie's face grew pale and she grabbed onto Marco, who, being even paler than her, grabbed back harder. Tom, Star, and Elizabeth started to shoot magic spells out into the fog. Their spells had no effect on the gas, passing through it without so much as changing the gas's course. As the fog swirled in its entrancing, vicious cycle around them, Star's face lit up.

"Marco!" Star ordered, voice crisp with terror. "Dimensional Scissors!"

Marco's eyes went wide, and he slapped himself in the face. "Ugh, of course," he muttered, silently cursing himself. He fumbled through his pockets to find the stainless pair of magical scissors. With a quick swipe, the portal was open, and they were gone seconds later. As they crashed into the Diaz's living room, the fog moved to get into the portal. Milliseconds before it could cross over, Marco zipped the portal closed. They were safe. Finally safe.

Everyone collapsed into the various furniture around the room. The physical demands of combat and sprinting caught up to them, and the only noise that could be heard was heavy breathing. A full minute passed before Elizabeth looked up and asked, "Uh, so… what now?"

Marco stopped his heavy breathing and glanced towards Glossarycks book, and then Glossaryck. "Mission success, I guess." He looked towards Star, who was relaxing comfortably. She had calmed down very quickly, faster than Marco had ever seen her calm down from a serious occasion. "When did you guys leave?"

Star shrugged. "Shortly after you ditched Jackie." Her voice was light and bubbly, although Marco thought he could hear a hidden blade beneath it. "She told me what happened, I pouted, she smacked some sense into me, Tom appeared for some reason-"

"I wanted to borrow your stuff again," Tom explained dully.

"-We talked to Buff Frog, found the cave, and went after your arrogant butt." She gave him a disappointed look, as though she were a teacher with a struggling student. "Honestly, Marco: Ludo, by yourself? You're smarter than that."

Marco grew defensive. "Hey, Jackie doesn't have any combat experience and you were pouting. What were my other options?"

Star looked at him blankly. "Waiting for me to stop pouting?"

"That would've taken too long. It would've felt like I was trying to make up for something I hadn't been thinking about."

Star sighed, letting her eyes fall to the floor. "You already hadn't been thinking about it. For two weeks."

Marco grimaced. She was right. "I hadn't realized that you had… listen, Star, I wanted to prove that I still cared about you; that despite Jackie, you're still my best friend and that I love you. Risking my life seemed fairly reasonable at the time."

Star shrugged. "Yeah, I… I guess." She looked up and gave Marco a worried stare. "But you would've died if it hadn't been for…" Star's gaze travelled from Marco to the two oddly dressed teens that were giving each other death stares. "Those two." Star cocked her head to the side, now curious. "Who are you?"

Elizabeth and Jam stopped their staring contest of doom to give their attention to Star. "I'm" they said in unison, then frowned at each other. Their staring battle resumed, neither paying anyone else in the room any attention. Jackie, who'd been relaxing beside Marco and getting ready to punch him at the opportune time, sat up.

"What's up with them?"

Marco scoffed. "Like I said earlier, they're… uh… my future kids." His two future kids nodded together without breaking the contest. "The girl's name is Elizabeth and the boy's is Jam. Elizabeth, supposedly, comes from-"

"Wait," Star interrupted, suddenly mesmerized with the brown-haired girl. "Those things on her cheeks. Those are Mewman marks." She looked dumbfounded at Marco, then suddenly pumped her fist into the air. "Hell yeah, not out of the game yet!"

Elizabeth pumped her arm into the air likewise, a stupid grin overtaking her face. "Go team Starco!"

Jackie looked at Marco with an odd expression. He shrugged. "And so the other one is… mine?" Jackie sounded very much like she was choosing her words carefully.

"Yes indeed, mother," Jam sounded off confidently. He pumped his hand into the air as well. "Go team Jarco!"

Marco rubbed his eyes. "They say that they're from two separate futures and that they're trying to secure their existences." The two nodded. Elizabeth decided to speak up first, keeping her words bland as she stared daggers at Jam.

"Marco and Star get married in my world, go to Mewni, live happily, etc., etc. Then one day, future Glossaryck tells me that there's been a problem with the timeline and to go back to this time and place. Something about a foreign entity." She pointed to Jam. "And here he is, trying to mess up the timeline."

Jam scowled. "From where I come from, Jackie and Marco get married, the starcolypse happens, and the world looks like one of those Micheal Bay movies I was told were awful. I find a way to travel through time and find out that there's an anomaly in this place at this time." He pointed to Elizabeth. "And what do I find? This girl messing up the timeline."

Elizabeth's glare grew darker, and in turn Jam's scowl grew fiercer. They slowly got closer as their stares intensified. Tom, who had walked out of the room to get some OJ, walked back in and chuckled. "You two get any closer," he remarked wittily, "And you'll be kissing."

The instant repulsion that sent the two back into their respective chairs was so quick that Marco thought they had teleported. They blushed, then stared daggers at Tom. He looked unamused. "You're kids are fond of staring, Marco." Tom's wit continued on past Marco's future offspring to Marco himself. "Looks like you forgot to teach them not to do that." Marco looked daggers at Tom, then realized that he was imitating his kids. He sighed. He'd been sighing a lot recently. He made a mental note to consider it latter.

Marco looked over to Glossaryck. He'd been floating in the background, lazily watching everything unfold. "Any answers?"

Glossaryck shrugged. "You need to communicate better with your friends. All of you. Except for Jackie. Jackies cool." Glossaryck snapped his fingers in Jackie's direction. She nervously snapped her fingers back, confused. "Also if you two are from different timelines," Glossaryck pointed at the angsty children of Marco, "How come both of you are here now? You've already messed up time enough for neither of you two to exist."

The two teens, as well as Marco and Star, perked up. "Huh?"

"Two timelines can't coexist. Not even for an instance. So why are you two doing just so?" Jam and Elizabeth looked at each other with blank stares, then looked up. They shrugged their shoulders. Glossaryck grinned. "Food for thought." Then he took his book and went up to Star's room. Everyone looked up as he ascended.

"Wow," Marco declared. "What a dick."

Almost didn't get this one out in time. From now on, there won't be weekly updates, only updates when I have time/motivation. That way there's less stress and, hopefully, more quality. I hope you enjoyed it, or if not, left early enough so that you haven't wasted you time. Reviews encouraged for improvement.