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Marco ran until he was exhausted, and he then began the long walk home. Finally reaching his house after an hours walk, he was opening the front door, expecting his parents to come hug him and say how thankful they are he was alright. Instead an unnerving scene greeted him. Star was sitting in his house gleefully laughing next to his parents who nervously followed suite, faking smiles while their eyes betrayed the fear they felt, odder still was Star’s own parents sitting on the other couch with much the same expression as the Diaz family. Instead of Roger and Mary Butchington’s usual clothes they were wearing ornate crowns on their heads, with Mary wearing an a blue dress that looked like it came from three centuries ago and a hair style that Marco thought looked outlandish, river faired better with the typical royal jacket and sash that British royalty wore, but it was obvious that they were both scared of their own daughter and quite uncomfortable. Angie Diaz nervously greeted her son while keeping the fake smile on. “Oh Marco, come in…we were just meeting your new friend and her wonderful family, and we decided to have them over for dinner!” Angie said trying to remain cheerful. “Y-Yes, and Marco would you come into the kitchen with e for a moment? I need an extra pair of hands.” Rafael said while trying to maintain a balance between an even voice and making it clear to his son that this is urgent. Marco, picking up on his father’s signal, went with him where his father immediately said once they were out of earshot of Star, “Marco, what in the name of god and all that is holy is she doing here?” “Dad, calm down, she will hear you.” “I’m sorry” Rafael said a bit quieter, “it’s just that we saw the news about the incident and the footage of her shooting damn narwhals at random, and then she shows up at our door with her parents looking like royal hostages and, and, it’s just madness!” Rafael said. “I know dad, I know,” just then Marco felt something hit back of his head, causing an intense, burning pain. Looking to see what was going on, he saw several panicked pug dog puppies shooting laser from their eyes. Scorch marks were everywhere in the living room and more were appearing as the puppies ran from room to room. Marco seized his dad and said “We need to get her out of the house or she will probably burn it down!” And after a few moments of thought he had an idea. “Star” Marco called, “ Dad sending me on a run to the store to pick out a dessert, you want to come along?” Star agreed.
The nearest Grocery store to the Diaz house was only a few blocks away, but in that time Marco’s parents should have called 911 and hopefully they can get Star restrained before something else insane happens, he was hoping that all this would be over soon, but he soon wished he did not think that as Star suddenly stopped skipping along and froze in her tracks, quietly saying “Marco, we are being watched” following this she said aloud while holding her wand “Super secret enemy revelation!” and suddenly about a dozen people in black combat gear hiding in the nearby alley were now right in front of Star and Marco, what was even stranger was that they were holding medieval looking instead of assault rifles or something you would expect military forces to use, and they looked just as confused about it as Marco since they were busy looking down at their weapons or saying something like “fucking reality-benders” suddenly Star jumped at the nearest one and kicked him in the face.
From there chaos well and truly broke out. One of the solders was shouting “Epsilon 6 regroup and…shit!” as he reached for a sidearm that was no longer there. Meanwhile Star was cleaving through the solders at a pace to fast for a normal human. Marco was looking at this with a mixture of awe and fear until he saw one of the solders come up to him and say “sir, please get out of,” was all Marco heard before he panicked and punched the solder in the face, despite the solder wearing a reinforced face mask he quickly collapsed in pain, while Marco’s hand felt fine. Star took a quick glance and said in amazement “you know the ways of battle?” to which Marco responded nervously, “uh, it’s called Karate.” Just then a rather large solder, not part of the original group, raised a gun and shot Star in the neck with a dart, star wheeled around and blasted him with a spell, “super…frog…buff…transform” was all she could get out before she fell unconscious, the man was still hit with a spell that caused him to shriek in pain as he rapidly grew in mass, green flesh pooping out of the places where his suit failed. “Shit, Bruno!” one solder called to his comrade, while Marco was hit with a dart similar to Star’s, and he too soon fell to the ground.