Author's Note
Hello everyone and welcome back to The Diaz Family Roadtrip! Sorry this has taken sooooooo long to update, life am I right? I really want to start updating this story more frequently I just need to finish two more one shots in Autumn and were back on track! Another thing that got in the way was that the original idea for this chapter just wasn't working. It had the "crew" drive for five days straight to catch up on time but there weren't enough ideas to fill the chapter. After all you can only do so much in a car and I've already written a lot about cars and driving so I decided to scratch that idea in favour of this much better one! The title kind of gives the basic story away so I'm not going to bore you with pre-story exposition, just enjoy the fic and I will see you at the bottom! (I still own nothing!)
Star rested against the side of the brightly colored (and a little dusty) trailer. She sighed in the new morning light. It was a new day and our heroes were planing how to catch up on time after the whole experience with Ludo.
"How are we going to get to the wedding on time?!" Mrs Diaz fretted.
"I don't know! It's not like we can drive for a straight five days, that's a terrible idea!" Mr Diaz complained.
"Well it's the only one we got!" Mrs Diaz replied.
Star closed her eyes and shifted over to rest her head on Marco's shoulder, taking down you arch nemesis is very tiresome! And besides it not like Marco seemed to mind anyway.
Star became lost in her own thoughts; maybe missing the wedding wasn't so bad... If they went to the wedding that would mean she'd have to dance with Marco and she didn't know how she felt about that, especially after kissing him for goodness sake (more of a peck on the cheek but still).
Lucky for her this train of thought was stopped before it moved onto more serious questions about her relationship to Marco...
"Star do have any ideas?" Marco asked her.
Star lifted her head off of his shoulder "Ideas for what exactly?"
Marco face palmed "Ideas on how to catch up on time?"
"Hmmmmm" Star began to chew on her newly recovered wand once again (something Marco found impossibly adorable).
That's when her brilliant idea came into fruition "I got it!"
"Well what is it!" The rest asked anxiously.
"I can use my dimensional scissors to take a short cut through another dimension!" She shouted triumphantly.
Mr and Mrs Diaz glanced at each other "That just might work Star!" Mr Diaz pronounced.
"Woh woh woh, hold up. How are we going to travel through another dimension? A car needs roads after all!" Marco rebutted.
"It's ok Marco lots of dimensions have roads!"
"Pavement roads?"
"Of course!" She dismissed him and laughed nervously.
Star leaned over to Mr Diaz "What's pavement?" She whispered to him.
Before he could answer Mrs Diaz spoke up.
"Look Marco what other options do we have? I'm pretty sure none of us want to be driving continuously for four days." She said to the boy.
Marco sighed "Alright but when we get lost, eaten or some other random thing I'll be here to say I told you so!"
"Yes!" Star shouted happy to once again travel dimensions.
She pulled out her scissors that she snatched from Ludo's throne room before the hotel collapsed.
The car and trailer pulled out onto the straight highway lining up for the inter-dimensional leap. Star ripped a hole in the fabric of space with the scissors and skipped over to the car.
"Onward to adventure!" She said climbing into the vehicle.
They edged forward towards the swirling vortex.
"Full speed ahead!" Star yelled and stuck her head out the window.
The vehicle lurched forward and picked up speed driving headstrong into the portal.
They burst through onto the other side, brilliant sunlight cascaded down into wispy clouds wrapped around towering pillars of white limestone.
Of course they hadn't landed onto one of the pillars, or well they did but promptly drove off it at 36 miles an hour.
The car trailer combo nosed dived and began to fall hundreds of feet through layer after layer of pearly white clouds.
"AHHHHHHH!" The whole party screamed as they fell.
"STAR DO SOMETHING!" Marco yelled.
"ITS OK I GOT THIS!" She shouted back crawling out the window.
She climbed up to the front of the car and jumped ahead of it. Star in midair while falling, ripped open a portal. The car shot through and was spat out back onto the highway they came from, luckily enough right side up.
Star stood up and brushed herself off from the road dust. "Wrong dimension!" She stated matter-a-factly.
"WRONG DIMENSION? WRONG DIMENSION AY? YEA I COULD TELL!" Marco yelled.
"Marco its fine!" Star said waving him off like nothing happened.
"FINE? WE ALMOST DIED!"
"It's ok we were never in any real danger. In that dimension you can fall for infinity!" Star replied with a smile.
Mr and Mrs Diaz shook themselves back into reality after being paralyzed with fear. "Alright Star you get one more chance..."
Marco fell back into his seat and closed his eyes, Star was going to be the death if him.
"Alright let's try this again!" She said ripping open another portal, hopefully to somewhere safe (yeah, good luck with that).
Star got back into the car and gripped the back seat. "Full speed ahead, again!"
Mr Diaz forced himself push on the gas, beads of sweat on his forehead. Everyone (except star of course) flinched as they drove through the portal.
The vehicle came out of the portal and rolled to a stop on some bumpy ground. The Diaz's open their eyes to a sight they were not expecting.
This time they were greeted by fertile green rolling hills with forests dotting the countryside. A bright blue sky with puffy white clouds arched above them and the sound of a small babbling brook rang quiet and true.
"Wow Star you did well this time!" Mrs Diaz said looking out her window.
"I have to admit, this is pretty nice!" Marco said relived that they weren't about to die.
"See guys I told you I could do it!" Star said proudly.
"Just one thing Star..."
"Yes Marco?"
"Where is the road?"
"Uhhh its right over... there!" She said pointing to a small dirt road beside the field.
"Star that's not made of pavement." Marco replied.
"Yes it is, I think? I'm still not quite sure on what pavement is exactly, soooo."
"Star it's what Earth roads are made of!"
"Ohhhhh! Yea there's no pavement on Mewni."
Mr Diaz spoke up "Never mind that this dirt road will do!" He said driving off the bumpy field and onto the road.
They drove along for quite some time. Under the shade of oak trees and through grassy fields waving in the summer breeze it was not at all like other parts of Mewni.
"Wow Star this is actually really peaceful!" Marco said whilst breathing in the fresh air.
"Yeah this part of Mewni is well known for being a nice place; it's actually quite far from the center of the kingdom so I don't come here often." She replied.
"It's a shame this place is great." Mrs Diaz called from the front seat.
Once again though like so many times before luck decided to turn its back on them when a pack of wild monsters came racing out of the tranquil forest.
"MONSTERS!" Marco exclaimed his peaceful smile turning into a startled expression.
"GO GO GO GO!" Star rambled ad they approached a break neck speed.
Mr Diaz put the pedal to the metal and floored it the trailer and car bumping up and down on the poorly made dirt road. Star leaned out the window wand held high.
"RAPID FIRE FLAMINGO BLAST!"
Pink flamingos launched forth and took down a couple of the monsters. But even with her heroic efforts there were too many of monsters with more joining each minute.
"Star I think it's time for a speedy escape!" Mrs Diaz shouted from up front.
"On it!" Star called back.
Like before she climbed onto the hood of the car and jumped off making a tear in space. They drove through and star fell back onto the hood of the car.
They appeared in a large sea port town traveling at nearly 90 miles an hour. Mr Diaz slammed on the brakes as the skidded forward, random civilians jumping and running out of the way. The car kept going until in finally came to a stop right before the end of a dock.
Stat whipped the sweat off her brow. "Whew! That was a close one!" She said rolling off the hood and onto the ground.
Marco got out of the car and leaned off the dock. "BLUUUUUH." He up chucked right off the dock and into the already grimy sea.
"Sorry about the bumpy ride Marco, nothing I could do!" Mr Diaz said from the car.
But even now they were still in hot water as three burly men approached the car.
"Pirates." Star mutter in despise.
She grabbed Marco and they swung under the old wooden dock, clinging to the support beams.
"Star wha-"
"Shhhh!" Star covered Marcos mouth.
Something was happening up above.
"Hey you two!" One of the pirates said.
"Us?" Mrs Diaz replied.
"Ya you! You're coming with us!" The pirates grabbed Mr and Mrs Diaz and hurled them into a pirate ship to become their personal servants and/or slaves.
"Alright just a couple more and then were done." Another pirate said.
"What about that... uhhh... thing?" One asked the others motioning to the car and trailer.
"Ahhh we'll push it into the sea later but right now we need to round up some more free labour!" The pirate from earlier replied.
They all laughed hardily and walked off down the dock.
"What are going to do we have to get them back!" Marco whispered to Star.
"I have an idea..." Star said with a devious smile.
The two crept off to execute another of Stars hair brained schemes...
Marco knocked on the tavern door.
"Star this is stupid they won't buy it!"
"Shush Marco it will work just you wait and see!"
A scraggly old man pushed open the door "Hello who goes there?" He said in a raspy voice
Marco leaned over to Star and whispered into her ear from the side of his mouth "What do I say?"
Star whispered back "I don't know something pirate-y?"
"Ummm hey sir we arrrr here to uhh... taste some of yourrrr best ummm... ale?" He said in a horrendously fake pirate accent.
Star face palmed and pulled him aside leaving the man in the door scratching his head.
"Are you kidding me Marco? That was your best pirate accent?"She said laughing.
"Hey it's harder than it looks! Besides why would I need to know how to talk like a pirate except for this very specific situation?" He retorted.
Star rolled her eyes trying to contain her giggles "Ok then let me do that talking!"
She grabbed Marco and they knocked on the door again.
"Hello who, oh it's you again what do you want?"
"Hey were here to take some guys key!" Star replied without any pirate accent at all.
"Wait wha-"
Before the man could finish Star blasted him with a magic beam and he flew across the room hitting a wall.
Marco gave Star a "are you kidding me?" look.
"Why didn't you do that the first time?!" He complained.
Star giggled "I wanted to hear you try a pirate accent!"
Marco huffed to which Star smiled. She grabbed his hand and pulled him inside, Star cracked her knuckles. "Alright which one of you landlubbers owns the boat out there with red flag?"
One tavern brawl later...
Star twirled the key around her finger "See Marco I told you it would work!"
"Fine I have to hand it you that was pretty great." Marco said with a chuckle.
Star stopped walking at turned to him "And you do make a fine pirate after all Diaz! Just work on the accent."
They both laughed. All of the sudden a voice called from up ahead.
"Nice pirate costumes now are we going to get going?"
Star and Marco stopped laughing and stared at each other in disbelief. Mr and Mrs Diaz had escaped by themselves and were now sitting in the car, Mrs Diaz reading a local newspaper and Mr Diaz looking at them through the rear view mirror.
"Uhhhh we were coming to save you..." Marco began not sure what to make of his parents beating up three pirate guards and breaking down at least two solid wooden doors.
Star laughed "Your parents are awesome Marco!"
"Right..."
Mr Diaz chuckled "Come on you two!"
Star opened a portal and got in the car. They drove off the dock and through the vortex back to earth... exactly where they started.
"STAR!" Marco yelled looking at his surroundings.
She giggled nervously "Heh heh sorry."
She opened another portal and they drove though ending up still on earth just five days of driving away from where they started.
"There we go!" She exclaimed with pride at her achievement.
"Star... "
"Yea Marco?" She said nonchalant.
"Why didn't you do that in the first place?" Marco said, eye twitching.
"Oh I didn't know they could do that just decided to try, it worked I guess!"
Marco's rage took over and he lunged at Star in attempt to tackle her.
"Hey!" Star said evading his attack.
Star got out of the car and started to run around the vehicle, Marco in hot pursuit.
"Get over here!"
"Marco I will narwhal blast you!"
"You can try!"
Mr and Mrs Diaz rolled their eyes, kids these days. Marco over time runs out of breath and tumbles down on the ground, lying still as the sun falls. Star walks over and lays down beside him.
"Got it all out?" She asks with a small grin.
Marco chuckles "Ya I'm good."
They close their eyes and feel the air as it gets cool each passing minute. It had been a long day and all that they wanted now was some hard earned sleep.
Hey guys that's all for now! I hope you liked it and now I will begin to update this fic more, just need to finish a quick two chapters in Autumn. Also thank you FabioFerrario for the criticism (and lovely review of course). Like I've said before I'm always ready to grow and improve, so thank you (It wasn't rude at all by the way!). And thank you everyone for reading and reviewing ect, it means a lot. Hope you enjoyed and see you in the next chapter!