Starsitting

Star let out a whoop as she slid down a slide.

"Awesome! Again. Again. Again. Again. Again," Star cheered

She along with Marcia seemed to be on a giant game board.

Suddenly a giant six sided die fell from the sky and rolled landing next to Star. The dice stopped rolling and landed on the number two.

"Two," Marcia read, "One. Two." She counted going up a set of stairs, "Punch! Punch! Chiii-oop!"

"That's boring, Marcia. Stairs are boring," Star declared

The giant dice crashed from the sky again and landed on a six.

Star started to skip counting, "One. Two. Three. Fourrrr…." Star's voice trailed off as she stopped in front of a slide, "Fuh-fuh-fuh fiiivvveee!" She tries to count again but her counting turns into excited giggles as she continues to stare at the slide.

"Uuh...Siiixxx…" Marcia gestured trying to get Star to continue on.

"I don't want to go six. I want to go five," Star announced pointing at the slide.

"You rolled six. You go six. Those are the rules," Marcia asserted

"If the rules get in the way of the fun what's the point?" Star countered

"Sing it, sister."

Star and Marcia look up to show that there were bigger versions of Marcia and Star, who were the actual people playing the game.

"The point is to use the steps to get to the end," Tiny Marcia said

The real Marcia chuckled, "I'm sorry Star. I'm gonna have to agree with this super cute little lady."

Tiny Marcia scoffed and giggled, "Oh, stop it."

"No, you stop it," Marcia replied back.

The Marcia's banter was cut off when a pair of dimensional scissors opens up a portal into Star's room.

"Buffrog?" Marcia and Star blurted out seeing who had entered the room.

Buffrog steps out of the portal pulling out a baby carriage.

Star and Marcia gasp seeing what was in the carriage, "Buffbabies!"

Star goes to close the game board making the tiny Star and Marcia scream.

"No please don't close it!"

"Ahhhhh!"

Star closes the game muffling the tiny screams.

"Star Butterfly, I am needing your help. My babies. Please be baby-sitting them," Buff Frog asked

"Babies." Star aid cooing

"Who could resist such cute faces," Marcia cooed looking at the little tadpoles.

"I don't know anyone else to ask," Buff Frog said

"Oh, I got this. I'm like, basically, the Crowned Princess of Babysittonia, right Marcia?" Star proclaimed

Marcia wasn't paying attention, too busy cooing and cuddling one of the tadpoles.

A cell phone ringtone started to go off and Buff Frog pulled a cell phone out of his pocket, "Excuse me. Da?"

"You've never baby-sat before, have you?" Marcia asked Star.

"Noooo. But I was a baby once," Star said

Marcia let out a sigh wanting to face palm her forehead.

"Yes, yes, I bring weapons. What am I? Tadpole?" Buff Frog continued to talk on his phone as Star and Marcia whispered back and forth.

"It's not that easy Star," Marcia uttered

"Will bring torture bag as well. See you soon." Buff Frog finished his call and hung up his phone.

He then pulled out a binder handing it to Star. "Here is Binder. All of babies schedules and informations inside."

Marcia takes the binder from Star, instantly knowing she was going to be the one who was going to be doing most of the work for today.

Buff Frog removed the tadpoles from the carriage placing them in the room. He stopped when he came to the smallest one.

"Oh, Katrina. My most delicate little glassy pearl." Buff Frog kissed the small tadpole before handing her off, "Please be extra careful with her."

"It'll be just fine. Star and I got this handled," Marcia promised

"Just like a suitcase. Totally handled," Star proclaimed

"Take good care of them." Buff Frog leaned in close narrowing his eyes, "Or else…" He threatened

Marcia giggled nervously. "Having my life threatened seems to become a daily occurrence." She thought

"Okay. Daddy will come get you after work. Six o'clock sharp. Be good and listen to baby-sitters." Buff Frog said to the tadpoles.

He opened a portal and left.

"Ooooh. So young, so full of dreams. What bright new adventures will we take you on?" Star said looking at the babies.

"A nap," Marcia said

"What⁉" Star exclaimed

"We follow the instructions Buffrog left us and they nap," Marcia informed reading the book.

"Then this will be a nap they will never forget!" Star cheered

"Just read me what the book says," Marcia said handing Star the book.

"Fine. Boris, Alexi, and Anastasia sleep on their sides," Star read off.

"Mm-hmm." Marcia nodded putting the tadpole babies in the right positions.

Star continued to read, "Dimitry, Ana, and Igor prefer their stomachs. Mikhail, Leo, and Irina sleep on their right sides. Nadia and Sergei on their left. Katrina is delicate and must be held to sleep."

Marcia picks up Katrina and places her in Star's hands.

"Awww. I got you lil' babe. Okay, what now?" Star said

"They sleep, then we feed them," Marcia said

"And theeeen?" Star drawled out.

"They sleep agaaaain," Marcia responded

"And theeeen!" Star drew out.

"That's it," Marcia answered. "They just sleep."

A frown appeared on Star's face. "Oh, come on. Where's the fun in that?"

"It's not just about having fun, Star," Marcia said

"But babies need fun," Star said

"No. Babies have routine and schedule," Marcia spoke in an accent mimicking Buff Frog.

"Ugh," Star groaned

"Now you keep an eye on them, and I'll make their lunch," Marcia told Star.

"Hey, no fair!" Star shouted in protest.

Marcia looked at Star putting a hand on her hip, "You wanna make 12 lunches?"

Star gave Marcia a blank look before turning to the baby's, "I'll watch the lil' bits! Awww! So cuuute!" She then reached for Katrina, "Just. One. Boop."

"Star. No booping," Marcia scolded, "Just watch."

"Just watch," Star repeated

Marcia nodded her head then left heading to the kitchen.

Marcia now had an apron on and a chef's hat.

"Okay, let's see here," She opens the babies binder searching through it, "Feeding...feeding...feeding…" She looks at the page and lets out a groan seeing what the recipe called for, "Ugh. Hopefully, Dad has some left over bait from his last fishing trip."

After searching through the house, garage, and shed, Marcia had finally collected everything she needed.

She set out 12 baby bottles and started to fill each of them up with the babies concoction. As she put the last cap on the last bottle she heard a loud croak. That croak was promptly followed by even more croaking.

"What the?" Marcia questioned taking off her hat.

She ran back into the living room to see a worried Star and now awake tadpoles croaking loudly and jumping around.

"Star what happened?" Marcia asked

"I booped, Marcia. I booped so bad," Star confessed.

"It's okay. I got Buff Frog's binder!" Marcia said pulling out the binder. "To stop croaking, feed babies lunch. Ah, that's easy. I got lunch all ready in the kitchen."

"Oh mah babies gotta eat!" Star exclaimed

She scooped up the babies and put them in Marcia's arms before running into the kitchen. Marcia gently rocked the tadpoles in her arms but that didn't seem to cease their croaking.

"Star, hurry up in there," Marcia called out.

Star came bounding back in the room the tray of baby bottles in her hands. "Aaall ready!"

She waves her wand and makes the baby bottles float to each tadpole. Marcia looks happy at first until she notices the inside of the bottles were no longer green but pink.

"Wait. What did you put in there?" Marcia questioned

"Cake," Star stated

"You can't feed babies cake!" Marcia shouted

"What? Fun, Marcia. Remember?" Star said with a smug smile on her face.

Before Star could continue to go on about how much of stick in the mud Marcia was the tadpoles spit out their bottles and they start to expand. Marcia looks concerned while Star still had the smile on her face.

"You guys like fun, don't you? Don't you wittle guys?" Star talked in a baby voice leaning close to one of the tadpoles.

A tadpole lets out a burp spitting up cake into Star's face. Each tadpole began to projectile vomit cake everywhere spraying the cakey mess all over the room.

"No! No, no!" Marcia panicked blocking her face from the cakey throw-up.

She grabs a tadpole turning it around forcing its vomit in a different direction. The strong force of the sugary puke hits various objects around the room trashing the living room. When it was all said and done everything and everyone in the room was covered in regurgitated cake.

"We gotta call Buffrog," Marcia declared

"Whoa there, Diaz. I told Buffrog I was the Crowned Princess of Babysittonia," Star said

"We're doing this by the book then," Marcia stated pulling out the book. As she did so another tadpole croaked spitting cake up in her face.

She deadpans before slowly wiping the vomited desert off her face. Marcia opens the book flipping through the pages, "It says they need a bath. Why did I have to read that, it's so obvious."

"Okay." Star chimed in, "You corral the babies. I got the bath." She pulls out her wand waving it, "Squeaky clean bath beam!" A bathtub full of water materializes in the room while Marcia ran around the room trying to catch the tadpoles.

"I got one!" Marcia called out. She grabs the tadpole but ends up slipping and falling on some cake, "Ow!" She slid across the room hitting the bathtub making her let go of the tadpole. The tadpole flies out of her hands and into the bathtub.

Marcia stands up looking into the bathtub, Star pops out the water startling Marcia.

"This isn't working," Star stated

Star's phone started to ring and she pulls it out. Her face immediately goes into panic mode as she sees its Buff Frog on the other line.

"What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?" Star panicked shaking her phone.

"Answer it!" Marcia clipped out.

Star shook her head, "I don't want to answer it." She looked away from her phone and saw the tadpoles dancing to her ringtone, "Aww, they're dancing to the music."

"Quick. Get 'em into the tub," Marcia instructed

The phone continues to ring as Marcia and Star round up the tadpoles. The two girls get them all cleaning up the messy babies. Once they're all done they set the tadpoles out on a table and dried them off.

"That is so cute." Star let out a gasp, "Oh my gosh! We gotta send Buffrog a photo. Say Co-o-orn!" Star smiled as she took a picture quickly texting it to Buff Frog. "We miss you, Daddy. We are counting on you. Aand send! You know Marcia, you're pretty good at this!"

"Thanks. I just used the old trusty binder. It also helps that I also babysit the neighborhood kids," Marcia explained

The tadpole Marcia was drying off suddenly jumps off the table and as soon as it lands it sprouts two legs.

Marcia and Star both gasp stupefied their eyes wide.

"Leeegss! Legs, legs, legs, le-legs!" Star laughed

Marcia shook herself out of her stupor and started to quickly look through Buff Frog's baby instruction book, "There's not a chapter in the binder about growing legs!" She fretted, "Teething I can handle! Toilet training no problem! But legs! I don't know how to deal with legs!"

The surprises didn't stop there. All of the tadpoles started to croak and then they each sprouted their own pair of legs.

"They're all growing legs!" Star beamed

Marcia screams when the tadpoles tackle her then start running around everywhere.

"Quick! Catch 'em!" Marcia yelped running after the babies.

Star was about to help but stopped when she saw one tadpole without legs, "Aww, except little Katrina. She feels left out." She sympathized picking up Katrina.

"Never mind Katrina. Do something!" Marcia stressed trying to grab the hopping babies.

"Fine." Star replied as she set Katrina down, "Stay put, little buttercup."

"Gotcha!" Marcia cheered grabbing for a tadpole. She ends up missing and falls over where several tadpoles proceeded to bounce on her, "Whoa! Whoaaa! Ow!"

"Don't play too rough now. Have fun," Star said

The tadpoles all gathered together and pick up Marcia before running out the room.

"Fun? This isn't fun-!"

The tadpoles tossed Marcia out the house locking the door.

"Hey!" Marcia shouted she ran over to the door, "Let me in!" She looks through a window seeing the tadpoles head upstairs with Star following them. "Alright then. It's not the first time I've been locked out the house."

Marcia runs to the side of the house running over to the tree adjacent to the house. She easily climbs to the top getting on the branch that's closest to the window. She lays on the branch and slowly shimmies her way to the edge and towards the window. She takes a deep breath before flinging herself towards the window catching the edge. She pulls herself up and into the house.

"What the?"

As Marcia entered she saw one of the tadpoles running on a treadmill, "Oh, no! No! Hey!" She runs over trying to grab the tadpole off the machine but it jumps out the way making Marcia fall onto the treadmill. She manages to catch herself and run on the treadmill but the tadpole sat on the speed button increasing it.

"No! Stop! Stoooooop!"

Marcia screamed as she tripped hitting the treadmill face first then is sent flying into the wall.

"Ughhh! Why does dad still even have that thing," Marcia groaned

Marcia managed to get herself up and sees Star along with the tadpoles sliding down the stairs banister.

"Star! Quit messing around! Buffrog will be back in," Marcia looked up at a clock, "Four minutes⁈" She exclaimed, "We have four minutes to get these babies under control!"

"Relax, Marcia," Star mused, "We got this. You take care of the ones with the legs, and I'll take care of *gasp* Katrina? We gotta find her!"

Marcia and Star split up searching every room in the house for Katrina.

"No. No!"

Bathroom.

"No."

Marcia's bedroom.

"Nope."

"She's." Multipurpose room. "Not." Garage. "In." Guest Bedroom. "Here!"

"There's only one room left in the house," Marcia stated

Star gets a determined look on her face then blasts down the door to her own room.

"We need an army to search your room!" Marcia exclaimed

"Great idea! Hey, Babies! I hope them legs came with buunnnss!" Star said

Star waves her wand and it starts playing "Space Unicorn". The babies follow after her dancing.

Space Unicorn! Soaring through the stars! Delivering the rainbows all around the world! Space Unicorn. Shining in the night~

"It's working! Now what?" Marcia asked

"Give them their marching orders," Star clarified

Smiles and hugs forever all around the world~

"Alright babies. Line up-"

"Marcia, make it fun," Star interjected

"Hey babies, wanna learn a new dance?" Marcia asked

The tadpoles all give their attention to Marcia. "First, shimmy your leg like this." Marcia started wiggling her leg and the tadpoles mimicked her. "Ah! Ah! Alright. Now-ow-ow! Pose! Great. Great. Now back it up. Back it up and spin!"

All of the tadpoles copy Marcia.

"Then look for your sister under the nearest object!" Marcia directed

The tadpoles take off searching for Katrina.

Space Unicorn. Soarin through the stars~

"They're doing it!" Marcia cheered

Delivering the rainbows~

The tadpole's gesture to something catching the girls attention.

"I think they found something!" Marcia said

All around the world~"

Marcia and Star climb up a ladder to the second level of Star's bedroom. Once they reach the top they finally spot Katrina sleepy soundly on the floor.

"Katrina!"

Marcia looks elated to see the small tadpole safe, but her smile drops when she sees what's around Katrina. Tons and tons of bear traps.

"Star!" Marcia shouted, "Why do you have so many bear traps?"

"You're afraid of snakes but you're not afraid of bears? I don't get you, Marcia," Star said

"Okay first, I'm sure there's plenty of species of poisonous bears in the world," Marcia sarcastically said. "Secondly how are we gonna get to Katrina!?"

"We use the binder," Star declared pulling the large binder out.

"What⁈" Marcia shouted

Star tosses the binder towards the bear traps. Marcia cringes and covers her eyes.

"I can't watch!" Marcia cried

She flinched at each sound of a bear trap snapping close. Finally, the sound of loud metal clamping down stopped.

"I can't look. Is she okay?" Marcia whispered

Star pulls Marcia's hands off her eyes. She let out a sigh of relief when instead of seeing a crushed Katrina, she saw a sleeping tadpole completely unharmed.

"Oh thank goodness," Marcia breathed out. She turned to Star, "Never do that again."

A portal opens up in the Diaz living room and out comes a beat up Buff Frog. Star, Marcia, and the tadpoles are all sitting together arranged for a picture perfect moment.

"Babies!" Buff Frog beamed

All of the tadpoles let out a croak before standing up on their new legs. Buff Frog lets out a gasp flabbergasted at the sight before him. The tadpoles run over to their father and Buff Frog starts sobbing.

"Hey, are you okay?" Marcia asked

"I miss baby tadpole grow legs! Most important developmental stage of child development," Buff Frog sobbed.

Star walked up holding out Katrina, "Well, little Katrina hasn't grown her legs yet."

Buff Frog lets out a happy gasp, "My little late bloomer."

Katrina blinks then a second later she grows a pair of long muscular legs.

Buffrog smiles and giggles before holding his arms out.

"Come to Papa!"

Katrina jumps onto Buff Frog and the other tadpoles join.

"Bye little Katrina-kins," Star said

"Don't forget the binder," Marcia said. She held out the baby binder to Buff Frog. "Look, we added a chapter."

Several bear traps fell out the binder. Marcia just chuckles and kicks them away. Buf Frog opens the binder to see a bunch of pictures of the tadpoles fun day.

"Aww...Thank you, Star girl and Karate girl. I will remember this, like something I will never forget." Buff Frog said

He steps into the portal and gives one final wave before it closes.

"I like that guy," Star said

"Yeah. Me too." Marcia said

"Wohoo!"

Marcia cheered as she slid down a slide. Star and Marcia were back to their board game, having more fun than before.

"You know, sometimes you do have to forget the rules and focus on just having fun," Marcia stated

"You can't forget them completely though. They make the fun that much sweeter." Star noted

"You think they'll ever get that?" Marcia said

Marcia pointed up revealing a larger version of Star and Marcia who were laying on the floor sleeping next to the board game. They were playing a game within a game.

"Give them time. They're still young." Tiny Star said