Jackie-Lynn Thomas is seen skating around on a small skate park, getting a confident look to her face as she jumped on a rail to grind, and doing it with style, starting with a kick flip as the skateboard is upside down and then lands right back on its wheels with Jackie landing on the right side, as her friends look on in the bleachers, looking impressed.
"If she's this good doing tricks, imagine what she does with all that on combat...", Hekapoo said.
"We never thought so, I mean, she was in a weird adventure with us or two. I still wonder why you think she might have potential.", Star responded.
"There's just...something, I got a feeling in my gut...like wild card of sorts."
Cue Jackie jumping up high on a ramp, getting some air doing a trick called the Flamingo, usually a ground trick, but she's able to do it on the air, showing her insane talent.
"It's like she's a bird!", Kelly explains, she said recording through her smartphone.
Jackie lands, "Alright, alright, alright!", she said smoothly, her hands on her hips while still on her board while she hears sounds of approval and cheers, except for Janna, rolling her eyes slightly.
"Pshh, I can do that with my beanie covering my eyes and wearing big headphones on my ears.", Janna said.
"Didn't you once say that you're too cool to skateboard and that it was the zombie of extreme sports?" Tom replied back.
"Well, I can totally make it cool again; besides, there's not enough beanie skaters out there."
Jackie then appears hand standing on her board, "You can give it a shot, Janna. You, uh...don't need to do all that, though. Trust me, you could be in a gnarly fail compilation and they'll either laugh at you, cringe at you or somehow both.", she added, then landing her shoes on the ground.
"Oh, it is on, sista! If I can race, I can skate, too!" Janna cockily said.
"Of course, you might need a little help with that, now, what you need to do is-"
"Yeah, yeah, two feet, one long board, jump and land on a rail, I know what skateboarding is all about." Janna wastes no time grabbing the skateboard and helmet, putting it on and gets on the board, almost wobbling around a bit.
"Janna Banana, I like ya, but maaaaaybe you should learn from the master.", Star called out.
"You've seen those kinds of sports movies; you can it if you just believe or whatever. Besides, nothing bad ever happens to me.", Janna, again, was tempting fate.
"Huh, she sure tends to get ahead of you, huh, Marco?", Tom comments.
Marco looks on with a bit of a frown, slowly getting his smartphone up to record, "Let her cook...", he said in an oddly menacing way as Tom looks at him a bit concerned.
Janna looks on dramatically to the railing, "Piece of sponge cake...", she grins, starting to skate.
"Hey, maybe the worst case scenario is that she eats the pavement lightly.", Kelly says.
"Or she'll get a cool scar to brag about for the rest of her life.", Hekapoo replied.
Cue Janna making a big jump...but her board falls off...and her crotch lands right on the railing, her eyes bulge out slightly. Cue the rest of the group wincing and the girls all covering their crotches.
"Oooof, I felt that...", Star cringed.
Even Jackie looked horrified, "Oof...first I've seen a woman get her crotch hit that hard..."
"My...vag...guh...", she then slowly falls on the side as her friends approach to her.
"Janna, don't worry, we'll get you to the medic!", Tom says in concern.
"N-no worries...it just means I can only get stronger from there...heh...heh...hope no one recorded it.", Janna says shakily.
"I did. It's not everyday you get your just desserts.", Marco nonchalantly said back.
"Dang, what a burn.", Hekapoo replied after a whistle.
Surprisingly, Janna smirks, "You win this time, Diaz..."
"Upsy daisy...", Tom and Jackie would both say as they were both helping up her up as Hekapoo looks on.
"Would ya give skateboarding a shot, Hecky?", Kelly said.
"Nah, I'll likely stick with doing tricks on video games. Besides, where else can you eat a pizza while grinding?", Hekapoo shrugged.
"Yeah, I don't blame ya much."
Hekapoo then monologues, "It's been a week since our last fight. Not gonna lie, it's pretty refreshing to just relax here for days and getting to know these guys. Just us hanging out, no matter where or what. I could absolutely live like this."
Then Star tells her and Kelly nearby, "Oh yeah, any update on your job searching?"
The demeast and woolett's smiles suddenly turn to comically concerned reactions as they both say "Uhhhhhh...", in unison.
[Opening Theme: "Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart" by Stone Temple Pilots]
Don't cut out my paper heart
I ain't dyin' anyway
Take a look at Eiffel towers
Never trust them dirty liars
Sippin' lemon yellow booze
Old Lead Belly sings the blues
All dressed up on wedding day
Keep on trippin' anyway
I am, I am, I said I'm not myself
I'm not dead, and I'm not for sale
So k eep your bankroll lottery
Eat your salad day, deathbed motorcade
[Full guitar solo]
Hold me closer, closer, let me go
Let me be, just let me be
So keep your bankroll lottery
Eat your salad day, deathbed motorcade
Chapter 6: "Should I Stay Or Should I Go?"
The main crew (now including Eclipsa) are at Butterfly Castle on the round table with everyone taking their seats as Star proceeds to start the discussion.
"Alrighty! So we're here to help Hekapoo and Kelly recommend some possible jobs, since it looks like we may not need to worry about going out in action for a while...unless I get jinxed anytime soon.", Star said.
"Huh, I do wonder, back in Woolandia, did you two not really have a job of sorts?", Marco asked.
"Well...we were interns for a alternative rock radio station around the Vancouver area about 2 years ago.", Kelly said, showing some photos through her smartphone with them delivering said photos to their friends of them looking happy and at one point they had their backs on each other while playing eletric guitars, amongst other friendly antics.
"Aw, man, and it ruled, we even took over the main hosts for a bit and the college crowd loved us due to our musical choices." Hekapoo added.
"Hey, that's pretty gnarly. Did ya have it before you moved here?" questioned Jackie.
"Oh, they said they had to "let us go" because of "budget cuts". I think they were just afraid of us.", Hekapoo responded, as her and Kelly did mocking finger quotes.
"It's like they hate the idea of leaning about obscure and forgotten bands like Phantom Planet, The Thermals, Tokyo Police Club and countless others.", Kelly responded.
"Aw man, and I learn about this now? The Underworld doesn't even carry stations that cool.", Tom pouted.
Star gasps, "Maybe you could try getting the same job here. We'll make sure to call you guys if you need any cool song requests!"
"Sadly, that's not possible...the jerky owners made sure to not hire us throughout the west coast because we're "too good". We even tried calling days ago to test it out and...", Kelly specified, with finger quotes again with Hekapoo doing them, as well.
Hekapoo then calls on her phone, "...hear for yourself.", putting the phone on loud speaker.
"Hello, this is Echo Sounds, Echo Creek's top station, you wanna call us because you wanna work with us, correct?"
"Yeah...", both Hekapoo and Kelly reply with low energy.
"Well, unfortunately, our voice recognition devices indicates that you two are too good and too banned, so we're gonna have to proudly say...no! Have a good day!", the recorder suddenly hangs up, but not before making an raspberry noise.
"Huh, that's new...", Kelly said, with the demeast also acting baffled about it.
"There's a site that lists every single possible job available around this town. That's how I got a job as a bartender. I'll send the link to both your phones.", said Eclipsa as Meteora, who is 6 years old now, is on her lap, amusingly looking right at Hekapoo.
"Ooh, that's a good start. Ya hear that, Hecky? Uh...?", Kelly would say, but then noticed the demeast staring right at Eclipsa's daughter.
"Shh, shh...I'm having a staring contest with her.", Hekapoo dramatically said.
"I'm gonna take your soooooooul!", Meteora laughs menacingly. Hekapoo and Kelly both cringe, looking away from her.
Despite only being 6, she realizes she went a bit out of line, "Uh...kidding!"
"Meteora, no, bad girl. You know that when you were older, you sucked their souls in a big battle." Eclipsa would waggle her finger in disapproval.
"Sorry, Momma..."
"It's okay, I can take over this staring/soul stealing "contest", cause I have like...countless souls after all.", Tom said in a stand-offish way.
"Hm...okay! Wait...that means...none of us can ever lose! I'll make sure you'll get your soul sucked via another way...boredom!"
Tom then cringes, "That might actually work...yeah, you win!"
"Yay!", cue Meteora dancing for a bit.
Star clears her throat, "Anyways, you probably know what to do, right? Good luck to the both of ya—you're still cringing from Meteora, are you?"
"Can ya blame us? I know she's a sweetheart now, but...sometimes, it's hard to believe her older self literally sucked our souls at one point.", Hekapoo admitted.
"And you got your soul sucked another time beforehand by Ludo when he got all crazy, right?", Kelly then said back.
"Yep, I'm such a tragic figure...", she sighs, "Let's get to our room to check the jobs out before I get more bummed out."
"Same.", Kelly followed the demeast upstairs. Meteora frowns slightly and Eclipsa notices.
"Our lives were that weird, huh, Momma?", Meteora says.
She pats her head, "It's okay, sugar plum, I'm sure they won't get nervous to you anytime soon."
"So...wait, did that really happen?", Jackie questioned.
"Yeeeeeah, someday, I'm gonna have to recap you on our insane adventures, Jackie.", Marco admitted.
"You can start right now, I mean, even you were with them, right, Janna?"
"Yeppers. Would you believe I never got badly hurt until just now?", Janna admitted, having a bag of ice right on her crotch.
"I can believe that. I mean, I hung around with you and it felt like you never had battle scars, even when we fought Mina's crow, like...not a scratch." Tom replied.
Janna then smirks, "Ah, the big boot incident...we sure were jackasses that day."
Meteora notices this, "Mom, what does "jackass" mean?"
"Oh, uh...donkeys. That's right, donkeys thatcan skateboard! They can do Shuvits and McTwists as flawlessly as we do.", Eclipsa replies back to try to save face, slightly staring at Janna, with her reacting with a a silent "my bad" through her mouth.
"Woooooow.", Meteora says back, sounding very impressed.
Later on during the day, Hekapoo and Kelly are both checking for any jobs available, as they'll fully commit and start searching for them throughout the next day.
"Hey, this library sells comics, graphic novels and manga, we could get work at that sort of place.", said Kelly.
"Not too shabby, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't allow us to read any of them in our breaks. Not to mention, should we both even work in the same place or should we work separately?", Hekapoo replies.
"Hm...on one hand, together, we'd be more mentally stable, but alone...uh...I have a feeling we'd just sit in the corner and look anguished, and we'd listen to a very emo song or something like that."
"Maybe it's best to stick together, but if we gotta have separate jobs, we gotta be cool with it, alright? I know most TV shows make it seem like having a job is the worst thing that could happen to anyone."
"Even if the paycheck is good."
"Even if the paycheck is good...and just because Star is cool with us living here, someday, we gotta live out in our own home."
"Or apartment."
"Yeah...", Hekapoo then sighs.
"You alright?"
"Maybe us being close buds made me feel like I have to constantly rely on you. I mean, you introduced me to a lot of customs and to not be too much of a jerk...and that I can't really do anything myself that much."
Kelly then puts her hands on her shoulders, "Girl-bro, ever since we left Woolandia, you defeated Rhombulus with a badass wrestling move all by yourself, did cool speeches all by yourself, cut a whole crow's head all by yourself...just cause we're close buds don't mean we can't do things separately."
"You're doing a pretty cool speech right now."
"Well, maybe it's cause a Woolett tradition to do a rousing lecture, and it must have rubbed on you pretty well."
"Heh...you could say that.", they both smile at each other.
Cue Star kicking the door to the door loudly, "HEY!"
"Ah, classic Star; kicking doors like the good ol' days.", Kelly chuckles.
"So you got to book a few interviews tomorrow? Just wanted to check up while Marco's recapping our adventures to Jackie.", Star stated.
Cut back to Marco with a bulletin board while having a ruler on his hand pointing to some pictures and slightly crude drawings."So Star ate some insane sugar-heavy burrito, and this caused her to destroy a police car by accident, evading from the cops, but luckily, after a bunch of funny events including a sea creature that turned into her conscience, she does the right thing and she does some community service."
Janna then chuckles, "That's how I knew that we should be chums."
"Reminds me of a time I accidentally drank some dark berry soda. It kinda makes me go a bit coo-coo.", Jackie said.
"Woof. And what happened?" Tom questioned.
"It was almost as if an alter ego opened up on me. I think it went like this...ahem...", Jackie stands up to the round table, messing up with her own hair a bit, "Alright, ya douche bags, after we're done, we're gonna make a big golf course to make my uncle miserable, it's gonna have themes like zombies, glory holes and a giant "A", so we can make a literal A-hole! Ha ha ha!", she then fixes up her hair and goes back to her seat, "Yeah, something like that."
Everyone look on surprised and impressed from seeing Jackie act a bit silly than from her usual cool demeanor.
"So. Freaking. COOOOOOL.", Janna admits, being impressed nonetheless.
Back to Star talking to Hekapoo and Kelly.
"Well, it seems like we got a few scheduled for the next couple of days, at least one each.", Kelly admitted.
"Sorry for rushing on you, my dudes. I might be getting a little aggressive on this.", Star admitted.
"I get it, Star. We gotta get our own homes at some point or another. Living in Woolandia was cool because Kelly made it worthwhile, but now we feel less claustrophobic here."
Flashback; Hekapoo is seen sitting alongside Rhombulus and Omnitraxis in some sort of kingdom-related meeting with Hekapoo looking bored out of her mind, slowly almost going to sleep, eventually having her head suddenly hit the table and snores loudly.
"When I was with the MHC, we never really got to properly hang out that much. And when we did, it honestly felt pretty half-assed. It was always either work, or being in many, many, many boring reunions. The closest I had fun outside of my environment were my Dimension X-103 adventures. And even those I had to stop being involved in because I needed to fulfill my duty...and that duty ended up being my own worst enemy even if it was beyond my control."
The main group are on two row of seats watching a horror movie on a theater, gasping after an intense jump scare, some of them needing to catch their breath, and some of them laughing. Afterwards, they were seen on the arcades, playing some sort of racing game, and then Hekapoo and Star would have a friendly duel at a DDR-style game, ending with them fist bumping.
"But with you guys...I feel very free. There's no if ands or buts about it, Star, you really got a pretty familiar team together. And yeah, you told me about how sometimes you don't get a long or joke on each other, but that's what friendships tend to be, right?"
Back to present time as Hekapoo gets a conflicted look on them, "Thing is, I dunno if I wanna get a job, too. It'll just sort of remind me how I was."
"Hey, it'll likely still be more fun, I mean...you won't get framed for hating monsters this time, and unlike there, there's actual motivation, I mean, it's not like you never really had a home back then.", Star replied.
"Well, there's a reason why I'm rarely acknowledged in the Butterfly family beyond...hiring a puppet."
"And it turns out you were a puppet yourself...", Kelly added.
Hekapoo realizes she's being a bit of a downer and shakes her head a bit, slapping herself slightly "Damn it, there's the doubt again..."
"Remember, Hekapoo, just take a deep breath, in fact...let's all do it!", Kelly declared, then taking a deep breath.
Star does her trademark wide grin and nodded, "Don't freak out, girl, we're here for ya.", Star then takes a deep breath, too.
Hekapoo then finally does the same, and then they all do it together, "Whoa, and I thought doing that with Kelly calms me down, with the three of us, we're like the North Pole equivalent of keeping it cool."
"Oh, and let's not forget another way to cool us down; drinkin' some Dew!", Kelly would say as they all woop out loudly.
"Even before job searching, there's never a bad time between us to bond. I mean...me and Kelly talked before, but it felt like I was hanging around too much with either Janna or Pony Head, and, uh...the latter definitely tanked since then."
"No wonder ya brought me here, Star, I mean, we're Bounce Lounge alumni! Plus, I honestly kept getting anchored by unnecessary romance between two guys that, frankly I shouldn't have dated like...at all.", Kelly then said, "Thank God I'm aromantic.", she stuck her tongue out in a goofy way, causing the other two to chuckle.
"Alright then, Star, what flavor do ya want?", Hekapoo questioned.
"Hm, not really a Dew drinker myself, but I did drink a raspberry flavor once and it was great!
Kelly reveals many minifridges near the TV and tosses her the Voltage flavor, "That one, right?", as Star catches it, nodding in approval.
"I prefer the OG. Nothing can top it.", Hekapoo gets the bottle and spins it around as if it was a knife.
"And I'm a Baja Blast gal. They say it's lime, but I like to think of it being melon-y. It even goes with my hair, too.", Kelly chuckles, grabbing that flavor's bottle.
"Hey, I wonder, I figured you'd be more into liquor, or at least a malt version of this, Hekapoo.", Star admitted.
"Remember when I drank beer after our big airport fight? Honestly, beer's been wafting off in taste in me lately, so it feels like drinking soda like this is a waaaaay better alternative."
"Weird, because...you gave me some liquor cola before, well, the whole magic destruction thing...all those years ago."
"Well...it's said that it's a really great drink to have before your possible demise. It was just in case you fail and maybe even die."
"Whoa...the fact you'd do that for me is...kinda insane. We were at each other's throats and you still gave out compassion like that?"
"It just felt like the right thing to do."
"Kelly, did...you drink it, too?"
Kelly nodded, "Mm-hmm. And I thought I was gonna be the last being ever to drink it...unless the Tavern is open again in some way."
"Hm, good point, but regardless...here's to tomorrow being a brand new day for Kelly and me! And if not...then the day after that and so on!", Hekapoo puts her drink up high dramatically.
Kelly then joins in, colliding her drink with Hekapoo's "And may we get a good paycheck for our place in society!"
Next was Star, colliding her drink with theirs "And that you two get a cool, cozy apartment to live in with the best AC ever!"
"Cheers!", they all said, then gulping down their sodas with fierce intensity, taking a while to finish it, then letting out a satisfying sigh, and a loud, proud burp, with the trio then laughing.
"Talk about being in sync.", Kelly joked back.
"Alright, so now what?" Star replied.
"Hm...I got it!" Hekapoo pondered.
Smash cut to the trio drinking a second chugging of Dew, but the flavors are swapped throughout.
"Whoooo!", Hekapoo laughs and cheers, "That hit the spot even better!"
"Variety is the spice of life after all!" Kelly grinned back.
"Who would have thunk we'd goof around well together, huh?" Star wide smiled.
"I mean, we already performed as a band before, but I think we can one-up that.", Hekapoo smirked.
Cut to Marco still explaining his and Star's crazy adventures to Jackie in the bulletin board, although the others are putting a bit more focus now.
"And right here is where Star and Pony Head's relationship slowly started to fall apart after she manipulated her into her insane and honestly rather demented sisters, which, by the way, there's like 10 of 'em. Maybe even more." Marco added and shviers.
Jackie would look on a bit startled and afraid, "She has how many sisters? How do their parents even bang?"
Marco then cringes, "Let's just move before I get a possibly scarring image in my head."
"Whoa, makes me wonder how Janna and Star are able to co-exist." Tom joked.
"Heeeeeey...at least I helped ya'll a bit with the whole "portal under Britta's Tacos" incident.", Janna replied.
"But when she "helped me" try to get the faith out of the Mewman people with her show, she constantly meddled with me.", Eclipsa added.
"Don't forget when they kidnapped you, also for the sake of clout.", Janna added.
Eclipsa facepalms, "Oh right, that incident...I swear, has she ever been grounded? Not literally, I mean like, kept in her room for hours."
"Maybe you could have brought me over, Momma. They'd never get angry at me doing cute baby faces."
"Aw, that's cute, but...it still would have felt wrong. The Mewmans really detested me back then."
"Even though you're like...MILF material...or is that GILF?", Janna joked, which couldn't help but make the others (even Marco) laugh, except Eclipsa, and then again realizing that Meteora is there, who blankly stares.
"Mom, what's-", Meteora started to question, only for Eclipsa to calmly cover her mouth, "Janna, be a dear and watch your mouth, please?", Eclipsa would nervously say.
"Heh...my bad, I gotta get as much fun as possible with my...uh no-no zone is still in recovery mode. You really never had any accidents like this, Jackie?", Janna awkwardly said back, awkwardly substituting a more friendlier alternative.
"Nope, but hey, call me up when ya want to learn without getting cocky. Hey, maybe I could give a shot one of those late model cars. I rode go-karts myself, too?", Jackie replied.
Janna blinks and smirks, "Better yet, how about we duel someday?", she would then reach out her hand, which is a bit wet from the ice. Jackie looked a little unsure, but shakes her hand with a smile regardless.
"It's a done deal, dudette. Funny to see you being friendly with me."
"I, uh...thought I'd be too weird for ya."
"Hey, I'm getting lectured through dimension hopping and magic battles, I'm gonna get used to it."
"Hm, wonder what's keeping Star up there? Must be some sort of intense interview training.", Marco questioned.
Cut back to Hekapoo, Kelly and Star in the former two's room and a song starts up.
[BGM: "Triple Trouble" by Beastie Boys]
Hekapoo:
Kickin' lyrics right through your brain
When you hear this sayin', you'll be right as rain
The trio then start tapping their foot to match to the beat.
Hekapoo: (Kelly/Star:)
If you (If you)
Wanna know (Wanna know)
The real deal about the three
Well, let me tell you we're triple trouble, ya'll
We're gonna bring you up to speed (Check it out)
Kelly:
Cause I'm a specializer, rhyme reviser
Ain't selling out ot advertisers
What you get is what you see
And you won't see me in the advertising
Hekapoo:
See, I like to party, not drink Bacardi
Cause I'm not looking up to throw up on nobody
Known for my spiel, a wheelie one wheel
Cause this is like a having a delicious meal
Star:
And, well, moving the crowd, well that's a must
I got some words that apply to us
And that's mesmerizing, tantalizing
Captivating, we're devastating
Kelly: (Hekapoo/Star:)
If you (If you)
Wanna know (Wanna know)
The real deal about the three
Well, let me tell you we're triple trouble, ya'll
We're gonna bring you up to speed (Check it out)
Star:
Here's one for the bleachers and the upper tier
Versatile All-Temp-A-Cheer
If you wanan drink, call Mr. Belvedere
Run this rap game like a brigadier
Hekapoo:
I got kicks on the one, seven and eleven
Snares on the five and thirteen
Rhymes on time and that's the given
We're hot on the disco scene, check-it, check-it
Kelly:
Slow down with I-me, got to stop stingin'
The source of the problem is at the origin
You've got lyrics that have me cringin'
You're like a fish-wife, quit your damn whingin'
Star: (Hekapoo/Kelly)
If you (If you)
Wanna know (Wanna know)
The real deal about the three
Well, let me tell you we're triple trouble, ya'll
We're gonna bring you up to speed (Check it out)
Star:
Bam, super nature, God damn
Cerrone on the microphone, I am
B-Fly, AKA, sharp cheddar
My rhymes are better
What the Helon of Troy is that?
Did I hear you say my rhymes is wack?
I'm beautiful, you can't touch me
If you pick a rose, well, you might just bleed
Kelly:
We're originators, you can't feign
ignorance or pass the blame
'Nuff rhymes coming out the brain
'Nuff beats to drive you insane
'Nuff moves to make your neck crane
'Nuff skill to make the rhymes ingrain
'Nuff heat to leave you in flames
'Nuff style that you can't defame
Hekapoo:
You see, I walk like Jabba the Hutt
With the style so new, ya'll be like "WHAT?"
Turn the party out like a bon vivant
With the skill at will that I know you want
On a hot day with the iced latte
Devious like Wile E. Coyote
Hot to trot-e or maybe not-e
Cause little did they know there was a baby in her body
Star:
We're mesmerizing
Hekapoo:
Tantalizing
Kelly:
Captivating
Hekapoo/Kelly/Star:
And devastating!
Hekapoo: (Kelly/Star:)
If you (If you)
Wanna know (Wanna know)
The real deal about the three
Well, let me tell you we're triple trouble, ya'll
We're gonna bring you up to speed (Check it out)
The trio cheer and hi-five after their performance as Hekapoo retrieves her smartphone from a tripod, "Oh yeah, it's all in here, baby!"
"I sang a lot of silly stuff off the top of my head before, so this was right up my alley, heh heh.", Star chuckled.
"Well, I say that's more than enough morale for tonight.", Kelly added.
"Wait, uh...I admit I kinda have something to confess.", Hekapoo added.
"Oh, go on, I mean, we're all buds here.", Star then said.
Hekapoo then sighs, "Do...you believe in wishing to be, well...normal or special? I wanna hear an honest response from you two."
Both Star and Kelly then realize that it was a legitimately serious question, looking at each other, then looking at her.
"Am I, uh...getting too real? I mean, if you're not comfortable, I perfectly understand.", Hekapoo added. The other two understood and motioned to sit on the floor to have their serious talk.
"Okay...how do I say this? I mean, I'm a princess from another dimension...who, at one point was acting queen, who also relied a lot on magic but also destroyed it until it's back. Honestly...I just can't see myself as normal, really. I've been through a lot, and I mean...a lot. I learned that I guess I'm normal and special, and I kinda dunno what to fully feel on that." Star admitted.
"Us Woolett's fight a lot, but we can have either eventful, insane lives or just have small snippets of being in combat, weather they're training sessions, being in fighting tournaments to determine who the toughest one is for a whole year, and yet, it feels like my life have been different than a typical Woolett with all that romance teen angst that, uh...I got pretty dang sick of.", Kelly confessed.
"I...obviously never really had a normal life...my memory of my race, my family, the fact that I was part of a conspiracy beyond my own control...maybe...maybe I just want a normal life myself. It was always "go to conference" this and "do your job" that. My so-called "father" likely never bothered to make us even act like siblings. He may have not "created" me, but...it still feels like I've lived enough to feel like my lie of a life is "special", like I was destined to...do this forever and ever more. Not to mention my age, cause I don't think I even have one." Hekapoo opened up.
"Honestly...that really doesn't sound normal or special, it just sounds...tedious and troubling. I mean, just existing to do all that? Even back then, when we first met, I thought you were like a cool demon or something, ya know?", Kelly admitted.
"Yeah...it's weird, 6 years later and it's still something I'm oddly new to. I can't tell if it's cause I'm living in a bigger town or that it's happening with magic returning or...", she then sighs, "It's just a lot, man, and maybe I just need more "normal time" with you guys to really settle in.", Hekapoo continued.
"Well, it took me a while to get to the town myself back then. Heck, I don't think Kelly ever really got to experience Echo Creek either.", Star then said.
Kelly would have a shocked expression in her face, "OH MY GOD, YOU'RE RIGHT! My only time there was before that one summer break Star took and we thought she'd ask Oscar out. Come to thik of it, no one there didn't mind me being there or even questioned my big green hair!", then laughing it off, "And hey, I still haven't gotten used to it, but I'm on my way to do so! Then again, it was finally time to move on to a new challenge.", she said triumphantly.
Star nodded back, "And hey, at least you never have to worry about school, it's like you got home schooled while I, uh...had to take summer school a lot to even graduate cause I accidentally evaded a lot of school work...", she scratched her own head and giggled nervously.
"Actually, you could say I got home schooled twice with Kelly teaching me, too.", Hekapoo replied.
"Did she have a cool teacher outfit, too?", Star joked, with Hekapoo and Kelly laughing as well.
"Nah, but I did wear glasses and I think I tripped once.", Kelly continued laughing a bit more.
"Aw man, we laughed a lot back then when that happened, too!", the demeast even snorted a bit.
Star clears her throat to then resume, "But yeah, H-Poo, you gotta give it time, and yeah, we're gonna likely have to fight off the baddies every once in a while. There's gonna be lots of opportunities to live in a normal way, but of course...you have portal powers, we can make normal even more extraordinary. Imagine us going around the world this way without having to go to long flights."
"Ha! Yeah...maybe even beyond...", Hekapoo admitted back, "But maybe I should just be okay that I'm at a way comfier place now, with not just Kelly, but guys like you and Marco and I could bond with the others, too."
"And I think it's just as worth it. Who cares about living normal or special, we live how we live.", Kelly proudly stated as they all also nodded.
"One more thing... I might as well ask this question to you, too, Star...do you like magic again?", Hekapoo asked Star this and the mewman looked a bit tense at first, "I, uh...might need to go help Marco back with his recapping.", immediately standing up and reaching for the door before Hekapoo grabs her hand, "Hey...I know said that they cause more harm than good before you went out there and did your thing, but admit it...deep inside...you're glad it's back, right?"
Star gets uncomfortable and sighs, "I don't want to talk about that yet. On one hand, I'm thankful, on the other hand, it'll be a reminder that...there could have been an alternative. If I were friends with you, Hekapoo, maybe...it wouldn't have been necessary after all. I mean, you wouldn't have any kind of remorse chopping Mina's head off, boom, just like that."
"Perhaps...but...we get another chance, and damn it, we're gonna bond really really hard, too. I'm feeling more of a team with you guys than I ever did in the MHC...and of course having a regular job is just another step in my eventful, weird, normal, but also not normal life. And I'll have to live with that.", Hekapoo concluded.
"Hugs!", Kelly would give a tight embrace to the both of them.
"Hey, that's supposed to be one of my shticks!", Star joked back.
"Anyone can do it, Star! It's not copyright infringement!", Kelly remarked as they all giggle and laugh together.
"If it helps ya, I can't see myself saying that unless I'm being really nice.", Hekapoo admitted.
Cut to Marco sighing finally finishing his recap, "And that's...the basis of our adventures until the cleaving...phew, I can't believe I'm not that out of breath after that."
"Wow, that sure was a lot of info...good thing this ain't for a test, am I right?", Jackie admitted, then noticing that Janna is fully asleep with some loud snoring.
"Hey, I stayed awake! Hooray!", Meteora cheered.
"That's right...just don't remind this to her tomorrow, I have a feeling she'd lose her pride losing to a toddler.", Eclipsa replied.
Hekapoo, Star and Kelly run down the stairs, "Don't worry, Marco, we're back and we're gonna-"
"Oh, I'm already done. But I know you were building quite the team exercise up there, huh?", Marco continued.
"Oh yeah, yeah, we're super duper ready to tackle tomorrow!", Kelly said.
"And we're gonna do it with so much...", Hekapoo replied as the demeast and the woolett put their backs on each other and proceed to say in unison, "SWAG."
Star helps their coolness with saying "Oh SNAP, son!"
Tom couldn't help but chuckle, "Sorry about that, but this is super dorky."
"Exactly!", Hekapoo remarked with a grin.
"We're dorky to the max!", Kelly grinned as well.
Eclipsa laughs, "Me and Meteora will give lots of good fortune to you two. As a matter of fact, she wants to give this to you."
Meteora walks to them and shows them a cute drawing, "Ta-dah! I drew this all by myself!"
The picture reads "good luck, u 2!", and it's a slightly crude drawing of both Hekapoo and Kelly, causing them to say "Aw..."
But then Meteora adds, "You two would make a cute couple!", which instantly made everyone around them react in such a dramatic way, except for Janna, who's still sleeping, and of course Jackie who has yet to see the full context of this.
"Wait..you two are dating?", Jackie questioned.
"Nonononono!", Hekapoo and Kelly both flustered.
The woolett proceeds to clear her throat, "I'm...really sorry, Meteora, but I'm aromantic, which means that I'm not really into romantic desire or attraction."
"Yeah, sorry if we uh...have to tell you the truth about this. Trust me, I confessed to her once and while it was rough, we're still great buds, and it's best for us to to be this way.", Hekapoo clarified.
"And hey, maybe when you're older, you could write fan-fiction about them falling in love and having a cute life together.", Star said. Cue her, Hekapoo and Kelly winking to the audience as a subtle 4th wall break.
"Wait, who did you wink at?", Meteora questioned.
"Oh, uh, you.", Hekapoo said.
"You, silly.", Star added.
"Right at ya, girl.", Kelly said, all of them saying their responses simultaneously.
Eclipsa clears her throat, "Regardless, it's best to not get addicted that a ship of yours won't happen."
"Today's been very eye opening for me...oh well, I'll just rip this.", Meteora happily says. Before the rest shout out "NO!"
"It's still a cute drawing, I say you should cherish it and learn from it.", Kelly said.
"Perhaps it's the good luck we also need for us getting a job.", Hekapoo added.
"Oh, well...here.", Meteora happily said, "I also wanted to make it up from me, well, "stealing your souls" when I was an out of control older lady."
"Don't worry about that, it could happen to anyone.", Star amusingly replied.
"Eh...no it doesn't, but I get it.", Marco makes a slight rebuttal, and Star couldn't help but guffaw from that.
"Well, this is gonna likely take a long while, and it's like the main boss will say-"
Smash cut to the very next day with the general manager of the cinema saying "You're hired!", revealing to be none other than Foolduke.
"Whuuuuuuuuh?", the demeast and woolett react in shock .
"Oh, come on, who wouldn't wanna hire you two? If anything, I got the best possible sweepstakes after your recent viral hero-ing lately in the airport and in Miami."
"I'm not exactly a "hero", though. Let's just say...I served under a conspiracy and...I dunno if I should even come close to that word.", Hekapoo commented.
"You prevented that diamond snake-handed dude from hurting people. Seemed heroic to me."
"But-", Hekapoo then gets interrupted by Kelly covering her mouth, and proceeding to say, "Don't mind my best friend, she's still in the middle of figuring things out with her long life, and I'm sure she'll get used to it."
"Oh, I've questioned on that myself, too, I mean, even jesters sometimes want to question their own lives. Which is why I stopped being one cause what's the point of being a jester nowadays? Cinema is the future! Which is now! So it's also the present!", Foolduke proclaimed dramatically
"Alrighty, then when will we start, uh..." Hekapoo questioned.
"Oh, no need to call me "boss", I'm your friend here, but don't call me "Foolduke" I consider that a slave name by my sucky Pie Folk parents, but you can still call me that as a nickname. My name's now Etheline "Foolduke" Tennenbaum. I decided to call myself after another name of royalty."
"We dig it.", Hekapoo and Kelly said in unison as this causes Etheline to squee, "I knew I'd get respect with that name! But now I want my quick private time cause I'm so dang chippy right now, see ya on monday!", she pushes the duo friendly out of the office and closes the door.
The both of them paused in shock.
"So...we're ushers now.", Hekapoo said in a matter-of-fact way.
"Mm-hmm...", Kelly agreed and nodded. They then looked at each other and grinned.
"YEAH!", they cheered and hi-fived.
"So much for the other interviews we set up for...the rest of the week." Kelly stated.
"My bad on almost screwing it up there with the whole "hero" thing.", Hekapoo replied.
"I think you're on the way to that. Or at least heroic-like. Or at the very least an anti-hero of sorts."
Hekapoo shrugs, "Either way, I'm just being me, but I know weather or not is the right thing or the wrong thing.", she starts walking away.
Kelly chuckled, walking alongside her, "Oh, you're just trying too hard to be an enigma. It's not like some hero out there will make you repent your past mischievous deeds or something like that."
"Like that will ever happen."
Cut to what looks to be Mina and Moon walking a bit before they stumble upon a pleasing-looking place.
"You sure this is the location, Mina?"
"Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Galina said this guy could give a little bit of hell. He'd totally serve under Solaria as a fearsome warrior."
"I do admit that castle's been serving us really well...maybe a little too well. One of Hekapoo's "emergency Dimension Scissors" being left there is something that still rings my head."
"Ah, screwing with her mind has it's charms and results. If only I could control her brain again, ah, such good memories. But now onto business at this...uh...how do you say that?"
"Just call it a convenience store, dearie."
"Looks way crappier than the usual ones I've been in when I was quote unquote "homeless" or whatever you wanna call it."
They then hear some noises coming from the left side outside of the store, as they then walk to where it's coming from, they see a figure punching and kicking around the air.
"Hyah! Hooah! Hah!", said figure yellled out, then taking a deep breath, stretching himself and windmilling his hand for a bit, "Alrighty, let's see how it reaches this time...huaaaah...", he starts bracing himself a bit as after a couple of seconds, a big blue wave starts being seen on his right hand and he yells out "POWER FIST! HAH!", as a big blast while also showing a big fist launches out and reaches one of the clouds, causing it to explode, "Yeah! And that marks...the third cloud that exploded this week!"
"Daaaaamn, that's impressive!", Mina claps with a slightly sinister chuckle, "We need to chatter right away. We're some royalty from a whole other dimension and I've been told you've fought alongside a lot of big names. Well, we need you to take care of some gnarly villains, but the biggest target is her...", she gives the person a picture of Hekapoo, probably being the evillest photo that's ever been taken of her.
"She lives in a town of a different dimension called Echo Creek defeat her and send her to us.", Moon added.
"Looks to be the meanest baddie I''ve seen yet...Hm. Well, then...!"
We then get a better look at the figure wearing pink calf warmers, dark blue pants, a sleeveless shirt, a vest, a red headband, spiky brown hair and even has a bit of a voluptuous body for a young adult male, smiling back, "K.O. Kincaid is ready for the next epic fight!", he proudly states, not knowing he's tricked.
[End Of Chapter]
[Ending theme: "Oblivion" by Royal Blood]
Fire in my lungs, I'm spun, walking on wire
In delirium, descending higher and higher
Can't live like this forever, running out of lifelines
Going hell for leather for just one last ride
This gravity's pulling me down
It's time I got myself found
But just before I turn out the light
Tonight
I ain't stoppin' for nothin'
My devil is done
Into oblivion (Oblivion)
Yeah, I had it coming
Too close to the sun
Into oblivion (Oblivion)
Oblivion
Oblivion