Before starting, a reply to guest reviewers:

Ethan: Nope, that's the real Bill. If it was a fake Bill, I would've extended the story by 2 chapters.

ShootingStar15: Pretty good idea. I'm definitely gonna use that idea, with just a few changes. One of the changes that I'm gonna do is that I'm gonna change Alexandrite's name, as Alexandrite is a fusion between Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl.

Also, Azurite is gonna leave in this chapter, because of a strange something that's probably gonna happen in the last chapter.

Anyway, onto the story.


Bill got up from the ground and saw the entire group surrounding him. Ferguson and Alfonzo left the corner and was now with the group, looking at Bill.

"Well…I was...defeated…h-how can that…be?" said Bill, trying to realize how he lost.

"I don't know. Distractions, maybe?" said Ferguson.

"I'm pretty sure it's distractions. You were distracted, so we…OH LOOK, BRITTNEY IS GETTING UP!" said Star, distracting Bill. As Bill turns around to see if it was true, Garnet punches him with her fist, knocking Bill to the ground again.

"W-Why didn't I see that?!" yelled Bill, trying to get up from the ground.

"Anyway, a deal's a deal. Bring this place back to normal!" said Steven.

"Yeah, Bill! Stop this madness and bring this neighborhood back!" said Star.

"YEAH!" said the group. Bill gets up again, accepting that he lost.

"Fine, whatever. Sure, I'll turn everything back to normal." said Bill, as he snapped his fingers. Now, everything began to twist and turn. Nobody seemed to be moving, but the whole background was now swirling and flying to other spots of the maze. As everything began swirling, the whole place began to twist back to the neighborhood that Star and Marco knew.

Eventually, after a bit of twisting and turning, everything was back to the way it was. And it appears that everybody Star and Marco knew were back as well, and they didn't know anything that happened that day, for some reason. But what they did know was that they had no idea what happened in the past couple of hours.

"There. I turned everything back to normal. You happy?" said Bill.

"Yep." said the group. Since the place was back to normal, Brittney was just on the ground, still covered in bee stings. She quickly gets up, with fury in her eyes. She walks to Ludo.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU DESTROY HER?!" yelled Brittney. "YOU COULD'VE DESTROYED BUTTERFACE HERE AND GRABBED THE WAND!" Ludo looked angry as well, and yelled back at Brittney.

"GOSH, YOU ARE SO SELFISH! ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT YOURSELF! ALWAYS WANTING TO DESTROY STAR BUTTERFLY! ALWAYS WANTING MORE POWER TO TAKE OVER THE UNIVERSE!" yelled Ludo.

"How ironic…" whispered Star.

"And hypocritical…" whispered Marco.

"WELL, IF YOU'RE NOT GONNA TAKE OVER THE UNIVERSE, THEN I WILL!" yelled Brittney. She quickly runs to Star to strangle her to death, but before she got to Star, Bill snaps his fingers, which knocks out Brittney for a bit. (Also curing her from the bee stings.) The group looks at Ludo.

"What did you do?" asked Connie.

"I erased her memories of what happened today. I did that because nobody takes over universes…except me." said Bill. "Anyway…see ya!" Bill snaps his fingers, which poofs him away from the neighborhood and back to Gravity Falls.

Ludo looks at the group. "You know…I'm still gonna try and grab that wand next time, Star." said Ludo. The monsters agree. "C'mon, let's go home." He cuts open a portal back to his dimension, and he and his monsters walk through it. Ferguson and Alfonzo leave the group as well, to do something.

Peridot looks at the group. "Well…I'm going! Later, clods!" she runs away and then flies away with her helicopter arm to find the nearest warp pad.


After Peridot left, the rest of the group looked at each other.

"Well, now that everything is back to normal, what time is it?" asked Steven. Connie looked at her watch, and got surprised when she looked at the time.

"5:55pm?! Dinner doesn't start in 5 minutes!" exclaimed Connie. "I need to get back home in 5 minutes!"

"Too bad we couldn't play today. We had to deal with Bill again." said Steven.

"But, at least we got to spend time together." said Star. "Now, let's go home fast!" she looked around the group to see if everybody was there. That's when the group realized that Azurite was gone.

"Where's Azurite?" asked Steven.

"She left for somewhere." said Garnet. "But no time to explain where she went. We have to get back already." Star cut open a portal next to Connie's house, and the entire group walked through it. After bringing The Crystal Gems, Steven and Connie home, Star and Marco went back to the neighborhood, tired after an entire day of adventure.

But everybody wondered where Azurite was heading to.


5 minutes later…

Brittney immediately woke up from the spell. She looked around with confusion. She wondered why she was in the middle of the neighborhood, just lying down there.

She turned around to see Ferguson, Alfonzo and Principal Skeeves walking towards her, and Principal Skeeves didn't look happy.

"Brittney…" said Principal Skeeves with a stern look.

"Yeah, Mr. Skeeves?" asked Brittney.

"I had no idea what happened the past few hours, but Ferguson and Alfonzo told me everything about it. And since I know Star is magical, I can believe that."

"But I don't know what happened today…" said Brittney.

"Don't lie to me, young lady. And I know somebody who's gonna lose her top cheerleading position temporarily." said Principal Skeeves.

"B-But…"

"No buts. I'm gonna give the top cheerleading position to Chantelle for two weeks. Goodbye." Principal Skeeves walked away, along with Ferguson and Alfonzo, snickering to themselves.

Brittney just stood there with confusion, shock and anger. But not wanting to be punished more, she didn't interfere.

"What did I do…?" she wondered to herself.


And that was Chapter 9 in this story. There's one more chapter to go, folks. And yeah, some of the group is gonna be really hungry. Especially because it was an entire day of walking and fighting.

What did you think of this chapter? I'll see you all in the last one.