Star Wars?
A/N: Sorry for the long wait, I had a very fucked up past couple of days. Anyway, I'm back, I've been thinking about my future and future career, and I've decided to go to college. Thinking of taking video game and computer design classes, also free writing with a bit of medical ont he side. Now, onto the fun part. I actually had a bit of fun writing this one, and I've found full movies for them on youtube, and I've been rewatching the Clone Wars series. So, fun times for everyone! :D
Disclaimer: I own nothing to do with SVTFOE, just my OC's and the idea for this particular story.
Hugo PoV
"So, what do you think Hugo?" My brother James, had asked that day. "Pretty neat, huh?"
"Yeah," I had replied. "If you like dust and rocks and no sunlight. Would be perfect for a vampire, actually."
"Oh come now," My father, James Mortimer Sr. said. "You have to admit Hugo, that this place is pretty neat. Maybe we can start a colony up here, eh?" He finished by nudging me in the side.
"Yeah," I mutter, rubbing my side, "Maybe if the planet wasn't dead as a doorknob. I mean, it even seems like the sun doesn't even want to shine down!"
"Oh come on H," my brother said, "it's not everyday that we get to go on an expedition to a murdered planet!"
"Yeah, but it's the murderers that gots me so worked up."
I awake with a start. With natural sunlight lighting up the family room. It's been awhile since I've seen natural light, just the muted grayness of Draksus.
"Well," the boy who rescued me said, "look who's finally awake!"
Marco PoV
The second that we walked into the house, we were bombarded by my mom and dad. It wasn't even the fact that we brought home a half dead 12 year old, or that we were covered in frost and shivering uncontrollably, even though me and Star were blushing like crazy from earlier, or even that I had a silver sword hanging from a tear in my backpack. No, it was that we were late for dinner.
"Marco! Star! Where were you two? Dinner started an hour ago!" My mom said.
"Yes, Mijo, you know how much your mom is about family dinners!" My dad said.
"Where were you?"
"What happened?"
"Why are your hands blue?"
"And why is there a sword in your backpack?... Why is there a sword in your backpack!?" My dad finally noticed and yelled.
And so, we told them about our day, well, not the making out part, me and Star both silently agreed that we would leave out the part of me and her kind of getting together. And by the time we finished my mom got out her nursing gear, seeing as she's a part time nurse, and began examining Hugo. We put him out on the couch, and my mom did some medical type stuff by checking his pulse, putting a stethoscope to his chest as he took soft even breaths in his sleep, and even pricked him on the finger and taking a drop of blood in this diabetes type monitor.
"Well," she finally said, "his vitals are normal, airways clear, but his blood sample shows that he has an electrolyte deficiency. All in all, he's just malnourished and slightly dehydrated. He just needs a good meal and some rest. Where did you say you found him?"
"Uh," I said, kind of in awe of how my mom could tell that much from the little 5 minute exam. "We found him inside a cave. He said that he's been there for about 3 months. And the planet was dead, and what water there was didn't look exactly drinkable."
"Well, that's not surprising. You said that the planet was dead, no wind, plants or blue sky. The water was probably stagnant."
"Um, I don't think so," Star said. "I don't know much about Earth things, but don't you need like, bugs and bacteria to make water go bad?"
"Um, yes," My dad said. "As you know, we love to travel, and we've learned that if any type of bugs are around water, or if it's not looking clear, to not drink it."
"That, and Montezuma's revenge," I snickered.
"That's a stereotype and you know it, Mijo!" my dad rounded on me, but he smiled and I made a 'settle down' gesture light heartedly.
"Yeah, I don't know what that is," Star said, "But from the legends, it is said that the Scourge killed all life on the planet. And by all, I mean, all life. Plants, animals, people, even germs. So, I don't think that the water wasn't stagnant at all, but probably from the mushrooms or rats that had survived."
"Hmm," my mother noded in thought. Then she looked up to my dad, "Honey, mind making that special soup that you always make when we're sick?"
"Oh, sure," he said, getting up to go to the kitchen.
"And can you also add those special herbs that Queen Butterfly gave to us?"
"What?" "My mom was here?" Me and Star said at the same time. We looked at each other in surprise.
"Yes your mom was here Star," my mom said. "She gave us some special medicine for you, since you're not, well, human."
"Hey! I'm human!" Star said. "I'm just from Mewni!"
"Yep, wait, what?" I said looking at her. "I thought there was a different name for you."
"Like what?"
"Um… I don't know, Mewnian?"
"Oh, and what am I supposed to call you? Earthian?" she giggled.
I laughed a bit too. "Well, at least you're not saying 'earthling'," I said.
"Why, what's that?"
"... Nothing."
"Soups done!" My dad said, coming in from the kitchen carrying a bowl of soup. The smell of it was chicken noodle, but with something else too. Probably the herbs that Star's mom gave to mine.
"Geez, that was fast," I remarked.
"Yes, it's just chicken broth. Left over from the arroz con pollo your mother made today."
"Aw, it was that night? I love arroz con pollo," I complained.
"It doesn't matter now," My mom said. "And if you hadn't had left, you never would have found this poor boy." She then took a spoon full of the broth, and slipped in into his mouth. Not a lot, just enough to have it trickle down his throat on its own. "I wonder how he ended up there?"
"I think I can shed some light on that question," a voice said, kind of echoy from far off. Then a portal opened, and out stepped the stranger from the Bounce Lounge.
"You!" I shouted, springing for the sword that was lying next to the couch, as Star took a stance and pointed her wand at him. The wand started to glow and swirl with energy.
"Woah, what is going on?" My dad asked as my mom gasped and almost dropped the soup.
"He's the one who tricked us into winning the map!" I said.
"Yeah, step off!" Star shouted. Where did she learn that? I thought as I glanced at her, but then turned my attention back at the stranger.
He held up his hands as the portal closes behind him, his dimensional scissors hanging from his index finger, "Woah, woah, woah! What's with the hostility?" He asked, his voice completely different than before. Now, it sounds like a young adult than the whispery old man from before.
"What's going on?" I say through my teeth. "What's going on is the fact that you tricked us into getting that map, and almost getting us killed!"
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't turn you into a pinata and have the Diaz's smash you open!"
"... Wow Star, way to go with the racism," I say, half joking despite the circumstances.
"You want a reason?" The stranger says. "Here's one." He dropped his scissors, kicked them over to our feet, and then removed his hood. And underneath, we see a much older version of Hugo. "My name is James, James Mortimer Jr. I am Hugo's twin brother."
"... What?"
"Here, let me explain." He makes a motion towards a chair, I nod, and he goes over and sits. Me and Star drop our guard, but keep a firm grip on our weapons. "First things first, my age and appearance. Time moves differently throughout the cosmos. One day on Earth, can be 5 years on, say, Eugerial Prime, in the Lotus dimension."
"Ooooh, I've been there," Star said.
"Yeah, and you know how a any amount of time spent there, has no correlation to time on Mewni, Princess Butterfly."
"Right, right," she says.
"Well, the time that my brother spent on Draksus is at a complete standstill, while 23 years went by for me."
"Whaaaat?" I say. "But, how, why? I don't even know what to ask!" We then heard some mumbling. Looking over to the couch, I saw Hugo sluggishly opening his eyes, and looking around. "Well," I say, "Look who's finally awake!"
"Wakey wakey Hugo," Star says.
"Where am I?" He says. "Last thing I remember, is a wavy impression of the ice knights, and then my face hurting."
"Oh, right," I chuckle nervously. "You kind of ran into a telephone poll you were so happy."
"Hugo?" James whispered. Hugo's eyes darted to James, and he did a double take. "You haven't aged a day." He got up and moved over to the couch. Me and Star moved out of the way, and my mom quickly got up and stood next to us.
Hugo moved his legs, hugged them to his knees to make room for James. "Who… are you?" Hugo said.
"Heh heh, H, it's me," James said, a soft toan used and a look of him trying, and failing, to hold back tears. "Don't tell me that you forgot?" He chuckled. "You knucklehead."
Hugo gasped, "James? Is that really you?"
"Yes brother, it's me-" He got cut off as Hugo darted forward and gave him a hug.
"I-I thought you were dead, I thought that you've forgotten about me!" He sobbed.
"No," James said, returning the hug, "never."
Hugo pulled back. "What about father? Is dad ok?"
James looked away, pain evident in his eyes. "No. The damage the knight dealt to him, by the time I managed to get some help, he was already gone."
Hugo's arms dropped to his side. "I… I thought so. It's just that, I had some hope that, no. No, deep down I already knew. That was a devastating blow, I'm surprised that he even had enough strength to open a portal for you two. But," he looked back at his brother, fresh tears in his eyes. "What happened to you?"
James looked up. "I owe you this explanation, but, I'm not sure how to tell you it."
"Why not," I said stepping forward, "Start at the beginning. You owe me and Star this explanation as much as you do Hugo."
He barely glanced at me, but said, "Ok. Ok. Here's where it starts. As you know, father came by an ancient Star Map, and he spent months trying to decipher it. By the time it was done, we had both turned 12, and he decided to bring us along to see Daksus, the ancient planet of the people of Mewni. We were going to show the King and Queen at the time, but, he wanted to make sure first. Well, you know what happened. We opened the portal, saw the city and got attacked. The mage, the one with the staff, he froze the way to you, and from our angle it looked like one of the ice spikes had impaled you." He glances down at the tattered shirt that Hugo is wearing. The one that's showing his ribs. Now that he mentioned it, it did look a bit tattered.
"It was at that time that the brute knight struck father. Well, he was adept to magic as well, and with his failing strength, he shot us to the city wall, and opened a portal out of there."
"OOOOOooooh," Star said. "When me and Marco were being chased by them, I just shot us to the bottom step. Scissors didn't work until we were over a mile away from them."
"Makes since considering the curse," he remarked.
"Again, how does that even work?" I said quietly to myself.
"But what happened to you and father?" Hugo asked.
"Well… as I've said before, he died before I could get him some help. After that… well, I wanted to go back after you, to see if you were still alive, but, the place that dad brought me to was, well…. It was Florine."
Everyone but me and my parents gasped. (A/N: This is my OC world for what is basically Cloral from the Pendragon series.)
"The place that I was at got attacked by raiders, and I was taken captive aboard their ship," he finished.
"Um," I said, "What's a Florine?"
"Florine is a place that's about 90 percent covered with water, mostly islands no big land masses, and the waters in between are ruled by pirates," Star said. "One of the only places even I want to avoid."
"Wow, must be hard core," I remarked.
"Oh you have no idea Marco Diaz," James said. "To make a very long story short, I got free…. By any means necessary, and got recruited the Guardian Corps."
Star gasped. "Wow! So, you're a Guardian?"
"Yup, through in through… except in title, I went AWOL 2 years ago."
"What? How are you still alive?"
"The Corps don't have rules on deserters. You can leave and enlist as you please, you just don't cause any problems that would be considered in their jurisdiction."
"Why?" I asked.
"Because then they'd kill you. And your parents, anybody who knows you, pretty much your entire existence they'd erase."
"Oh," I said a bit scared.
"So… if you're not a soldier any more, then what are you?" Star asked.
"I'm a mercenary," he said.
"Oh…"
"And I've gotten on the Corps bad side, so, I have a price on my head."
"What?" Hugo said sitting up, then he got a dizzy spell and fell back. "Why are you here then? Why not just go into hiding or something?"
"Because I was framed for something," James said. "But I have to find proof. I've got a really good team, the best in the universe in fact. But in case it doesn't work, I made a contingency plan."
"And what would that be?" Hugo said sitting up on his elbows.
"You, Hugo. Well, if you're up to it. it's not the reason I recruited these two to rescue you, I wanted to see you. You have no idea the guilt I've had for having to leave you there. And incase I got captured and killed, I at least wanted to see you one last time."
"Why does it sound like you're leaving me again?" Hugo asked. James looked away and stood up. "James, what are you doing?" Hugo asked.
James chuckled a bit. "Man, I've forgotten how much alike we are. It's like music to hear your voice again, your antagonistic tone, the way you seem to scold me when you know I'm about to do something stupid." He turns around, tears forming in his eyes, but he doesn't let them fall. "I have to go Hugo. At least for now. Me being here is putting everyone in jeopardy. But, I leave you a choice," he held out his hand and the dimensional scissors flew into them. "Come with me, let me nurse you back to health and train you. So that we can be more than just brothers, we can be comrades."
"How did you do that!?" I asked in awe.
"Guardian Corps soldiers are basically the equivalent to what you would call a Jedi," he said cutting open a red portal.
"Oh," I said dumbfounded.
"Hugo, come with me," he held out his hand.
Hugo looked at it, and shook his head. "I'm sorry James, but I'm not a fighter, you know that. And I know you too much to think that if I go with you we won't be fighting, hell, you're a mercenary for crying out loud!" Hugo shook his head again, as James lowered his hand. "I can't go with you James, I watched you leave once already, and now I have to do that again, but I'm not gonna watch you die."
James took in a breath and said, "Very well." Then he looked at my parents. "Would it be alright if he stays with you? I have connections here on Earth, and I can have them wire money to your bank accounts."
"Oh, certainly," my dad said. "But payment is not necessary."
"Nonsense," James shook his head. "How else are you gonna pay for two teenagers and a kid. Now, Hugo," he stepped forward and tapped his index finger to Hugo's forehead. His eyes fluttered for a second then he looked questioningly to James. "I just gave you basic knowledge on the Corps ways. I know, I know," he held up his hand when Hugo started to protest. "But you need to defend yourself. The one who framed me has vast power, and he knows of my past and most of what I do." He then turned to me. "Protect him, Marco Diaz, as you do for the Princess." He then looked to Hugo, "I will see you again, brother." And with that, he stepped into the portal, which immediately closed behind him.
We all stood there, not knowing what to say. Finally I turned to Hugo and said, "So, Jedi, huh?"
He looks back at me and says, "I swear, I have no idea what that means."
I chuckled and said, "Well, my young padawan, I guess it's my job to teach two students about Earth culture, starting with movies."
Somewhere in a different dimension 3rd PoV
James walked right into the room to see everyone smiling and laughing. Even Michael, for once in a long time. "Um, what? What is it everyone?" He asks confused.
"'Guardian Corps soldiers are the equivalent to a Jedi?" Michael said. "Man, I haven't heard a joke like that in a long time. Thousands of years in fact."
"Shut up," James said. "I like Earth and her culture, but that's not the point!" He walks up to the table and places his hand on it. "You told me to show him all of his options, and I did. He now has all the knowledge to fight, and he can decide what to do with them. So, now what?" He looked at Michael.
Still chuckling slightly, he looked back at the table and said, "We wait, and see how he copes with being in a stable home environment," he looks back at the table, and taps it. It ripples and show an image of a one Star and Marco cuddling on their couch. And notice how the author says one, Starco, and another Hugo sitting on the other side of it, engrossed by whatever was playing on the tv. "We'll give him the weekend. We'll go there, and convince the Diaz parents to enroll him in school."
"You sound like you've done this type of thing before," James accused.
"Oh, I have," Michael assured. "But it's been awhile, so, we'll take it slow." He watched the screen for a while. "So, anyone else feel like watching Star Wars?"
End chapter 6
A/N: Ok, time to watch the Empire Strikes Back, anyone else?