"And I'm saying go for it man." Adrien, as Chat Noir like usual, told the ninja as he and his 'guy group' talked on top of the eiffel tower. "If you like her, date her as whatever feels more natural to you. If you want your civilian self to be the happy one, then be your civilian self." It was nice to know that other heroes went through this drama and it wasn't just him.
"Be myself huh.." The Ninja scratched his chin. "Myself can be a real shoob though. I'm at the lower end of the totem pole at school. I'm not even considered unpopular, I'm just kind of the guy who exists in the background."
"Oh come on, your popularity doesn't matter." Marco said as looked at the view. "It's all about who you are as a person … you could totally ditch the weird slang though."
"To me, everyone else has the weird slang thing." The Ninja rolled his eyes. Maybe it was just an American thing he couldn't understand. "I'm just lucky the Ninjanomican made an exception about you guys, having hero friends is nice."
"A mentor that actually cares about your social life, that's rare ." Jake, the dragon guy, said. "I'm lucky if G gives me time to sleep at night, heck, he wanted to mind wipe my friends when they found out my secret."
"Well it's kind of an … intense mentor." He held up a glowing book. "Magic book that shoves wisdom from all past ninjas in your head."
"At least you two have mentors." Chat Noir rolled his eyes. "Mine vanished before I even got one ounce of information out of him. So now Ladybug and I have to do it solo … she's taken on a lot of responsibility lately." He hoped the girl's night out was going great.
"I've mainly had to learn on the fly on my own." Marco said as he passed out the plate of nachos. "Sure, I had a karate sensei, and I got lessons here and there from Garnet, but for the most part it was a lot of improvisation and will to survive."
"Isn't that just living in general?" Jake laughed. "Everyday something new comes along and we have to deal with it one way or another?"
"I'm just glad I don't have to do this alone." The Ninja said with what he assumed was a smile under the mask. "It utterly sucked to think I had to hide something this big from my best friend, so that first day with the misunderstanding lifted SO many issues off my back."
"Yeah, I have to say, meeting you guys has been one of the better things that's happened to me." Adrien admitted honestly. "Lately, it's felt like Ladybug's been trying to close me out of the loop more and more. I know it's partially because we have to maintain our identities, but we've felt less like friends and more like work associates."
"Is the secret identity thing really necessary?" Marco asked.
"Yes." Every boy there answered.
"Being a Ninja is all about stealth and anonymity, plus there's the psycho billgillionare that'll send a death squad to my door if he learns who I am." The Ninja explained. "Also if I tell you guys he gets angry and-" The book began to blink. "Ugg, gotta take this." The Ninja opened the book, only to pass out against the ground.
"... Also waaayyy too many people want to either experiment on or hunt me." Jake added. "It got crazy when we had a hidden blood test."
"And if Hawkmoth akumatized someone emotionally unstable who knows my identity, he'll know, and attack me directly with people I care about-" They watched as a purple butterfly began to move to the unconscious Ninja. "Cataclysm!" Adrien rushed in, squeezing it to dust. "... Didn't think that'd work."
"Yikes, so everyone here is at risk turning into a mindless slave if they just stub their toe or something?" Marco asked.
"It's a little more intense than a stubbed toe, but yeah, just a bad day in general or a major argument can risk you getting turned into an akumatized villain." He said. "Hence why we don't even let you guys know what's under these masks." He was still surprised Jackie knew … then again it would explain that one moment where she tried to actually hijack an akuma in a very violent and bloody manner before she left, terrifying.
"I'm fully onboard with keeping my dragon life and civilian life separate, but it's getting a little redundant to hide my dragon life at all when we have aliens and whatever magic Star brings on earth." Jake sighed. "In fact, I had a trip to Hawaii once, the entire island was full of these little space mutants that listen to one little girl." Their life just kept getting stranger, didn't it?
The Ninja groaned as he woke up. "Well, that was annoying."
"What did it say?" Adrien asked.
"'The most dangerous of traps lie in the most inconspicuous of problems'." The ninja groaned. "Ugh, you'd think with the sorcerer gone, it would stop learning to be so vague, but nope, it just adds on with the confusing riddles."
Marco's phone beeped. "Oh, hold on, apparently Tom's scissors are broken, I've gotta head." He waved. "You better go too, Chat, your timer is at one minute left." That always sucked. It was baffling he had to wait until he was old enough for that to not be in effect anymore.
"Yeah, guess I do." He sighed disappointedly as he got up. "Same time next week?"
"Of course, dude! Provided the world doesn't end before that" The Ninja sent a playful slap to his back. "We should do it in Norrisville so I can introduce you to the wonders of gravy fries."
"Sounds like something my father would have a heart attack about if he saw me eating it….I'm in!" Adrien gave him a fist pump.
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Star watched as Marco portaled in. "Hey Tom, and … Star?" He blinked in confusion. "I thought Tom's scissors were broken?"
"No, I said they weren't working." She explained. "He tried going to Mewni but it didn't work, and the same thing happened to me." She sighed. "I can't believe I gave up girls' night for this." A fun night for her, Kelly, Mabel, Anne, and Ladybug, mainly for the sake of getting the Poka-dot covered hero to be less of a stick in the mud.
"To be fair, once we sliced open the candy dragon's guts and feasted on its entrails, the night was already dying down." Kelly spoke up with her hair covered in blood colored syrup. "Ladybug has a lot of repressed rage." Like, a lot if all the shouting had anything to do about it.
"So basically we need you to open up a portal to Mewni." She explained.
"Why can't you do it?" Marco asked.
"Because you're our scissors guy and everyone else's got destroyed during the war with Homeworld." Star justified. "And I only have dark magic now, so any portals I make will likely create a black hole instead."
"Riiight." He nodded. "Let me do it then." He cut open a portal, only for a red X mark to appear, closing it down. "... That's new." He muttered. "Have we tried Lion?"
"The big guy's with Steven, and he's off with his own 'friends' night." Kelly answered as she got out her phone.
"If the scissors aren't working, it's our only shot other than using the Miraculous …" He paused. "Unless Titan Blood can do the trick."
"Hold on, I'm texting him." Kelly held his hand up. "There, he should be her in three…two…."
The familiar sight of a giant pink portal opened up, and out of it came Lion, being ridden by Steven, Luz, Louie, and KO, all covered in soot. "Okay, so using fusion magic with glyphs on dvds somehow makes the characters come to life … good to know." Luz nodded slowly.
"Dang it, I thought we would've made a killing selling high quality bootlegs." The green sweater wearing duck snapped his fingers.
"I guess even magic can't fix dragon ball evolution …" KO muttered.
"I guess we've all learned a valuable lesson here today." Steven said quietly. "Never trust live action adaptations of animated works. And if something's bad, best to leave it in the past and move on with your lives."
"Meh, I thought the Bleach live action was decent." Marco shrugged. "Anyway, you mind making a portal to Mewni? The scissors don't work for some reason."
"Really? That's weird." Steven rubbed his head before turning to their pink pet. "Come on Lion, you know what to do." Lion, like usual, looked like he wasn't paying attention. "I'll be sure there's a whole tub of lion lickers for you by the end of the week."
Now motivated, they stared at the sky, legs tensing and a small growl in their throats. "ROOAAAA!!!"A large pink hole opened in the air … only for it to close as a force violently launched Lion backwards.
"Awww, poor baby." Luz cooed the down beast as she and KO rubbed its belly. "Does he usually experience portal failure?"
"No, this never happens." Steven looked at his pet with great concern.
"Well there was that one time with the portal jamer at Saint Olgas." Kelly thought aloud.
"I remember a time I used to be terrified of that place…" Star reminisced. "Oh how times have changed." Speaking of, Star hoped Meteora got home safely. She hasn't thought of the little hellion since the war started.
"We're still able to travel other dimensions, heck, we just went through Duckburg, Lakewood, and the boiling isles in the last two hours." Steven rubbed his chin. "Something's blocking our entrance into Mewni specifically."
"Can't we just power through with even more power than what's blocking it?" KO asked.
"With Omni being evil, space time is on a thin line as it is without him watching over it, best not to risk it." Steven answered.
"But scissors and Lion aren't the only ways to travel." Luz raised her hand. "I can check to see if I can rig the titan blood into a workable portal for somewhere else."
"Yeah, maybe have Phineas and Ferb join in on that too." Louie suggested. "They seem smart enough to do this kind of thing in their sleep."
"Sounds like a plan. Don't forget about team Miraculous, they have a lot of magical hacks thanks to Kwamis being weird." Her brother reminded them. "Don't worry Tom, we'll spend all the time we need to get you back home." Stevens smiled at the demon.
"You jumped on the help bandwagon fast." Star noted. "Don't you want to leave it to us and try to process … everything about the Diamonds?" She praised his helpful nature, but this seemed like a bit much for him to do considering the big win they JUST got off from.
"You do realize that the more we focus on this the more time you have to avoid the therapy Marco signed you up for, right?"
"…You are the best brother I could ever have." Star hugged her brother tightly.
"Um, I could hold this off until tomorrow-"
"Nope, this is our thing now." Star affirmed. "We're gonna get to Mewni, even if it takes all week."
"Dude, how bad are you at psychology for them to be this hateful of it?" Luz turned to Marco.
"I was just trying to help at the time, alright!" Her boyfriend grumbled.
"Glad we're avoiding one can of worms, but I feel like we're forgetting something." Kelly scratched her head. "Like there's one way to Mewni that we're forgetting about."
"There is the Diamond's warping tech, but I'd rather stay away from them at all times if I can help it." Steven shook his head.
"Luckily I did get that while everyone was busy." Marco brought up. "Unluckily, Peridot is still trying to install it in the legs, it's gonna take about a year before it's functional …"
"No, there was something else, something weird I'm forgetting, something that doesn't make sense…" Steven continued before snapping his fingers. "Aha! Jana! She appeared in the middle of the battle on Mewni without explanation! We didn't tell her anything and she doesn't have scissors."
"Oh yeah …" Star realized. "She must have found some sort of rift or something …"
"She doesn't remember it though." Tom told them. "And when I asked about it she kinda just avoided the topic and went to try and gaze into the spectral glass of a soul."
"Seriously, I'm pretty sure there's an open spot for the therapy session to-"
"Marco, finish that sentence and I'm burning all your red hoodies." Star stated with complete seriousness.
"Fine fine, we'll talk to Jana." Marco responded. "But you know it's gonna be bad."
Star rolled her eyes. "What's the worst that could happen?"
Louie groaned. "Oh, you did not just say that."
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"So after that I came here to pick Onion and Melon up." Onion's favorite babysitter, Jana, explained to the group.
"Oh, we're they getting ice cream?" That chubby Steven guy Jana crushed on for a while asked along with the other weirdos that usually followed him, along with the demon Jana was dating.
"Close, they were selling drugs to them. How do you think the sprinkles taste so good?" It wasn't like it did anything weird to Onion, he saw the colors and spirits surrounding the world with or without the artificial highs.
"Well that explains why I've been seeing a talking zebra since I've bit into this fudge pop." The bushy green haired girl, Kelly he thought it was, said as she continued to eat it. "Well, I'm halfway there already. It's almost like eating a goblin dog for the first time."
"... I know we have a morally ambiguous friend group, but they seem a little young for that." The hoodie guy she loved to mess with, Marco, said with confusion.
"You say that … but the eyes on those two … the darkness that lurks within." See, Tom got it.
"Questioning those ethics later, right now we need focus." Star shook her head. "Look, I know you said you don't remember, but we're running thin on options. Pegasus couldn't break into Mewni, and the dimension machine Phineas and Ferb made lead to every other dimension except Mewni."
"And the only option we have is to retrace my steps." Jana replied with an exasperated eyeroll. "Unless you have memory magic."
"Oh, I can work with that." Luz, a girl with a cat hoodie, pulled out a potion. "Just sit down and I'll handle the rest."
"Another deep dive into my inner dark soul. Usually I do this on Tuesdays with a lot more satanic imagery." Jana smirked as she sat down. Yes, movie nights were the second best days of the week.
Once they were gone, Onion simply stared at the Steven boy, who looked back awkwardly. "Um … hey there, little guy." Onion nodded. "... Do you … have hobbies?"
Onion showed off his molotov cocktail, a couple of his G.U.Y. figurines, along with Marco's wallet, just as his mentor trained him. "You know what, I'm not even surprised anymore." The boy accepted his fate as their personal A.T.M machine.
"It's better than what Melon Steven's doing." Kelly pointed to his best friend, who had a huge sack of money on the side of his back as he got on a motorcycle, and flew as the police sirens were rung in the air. "Does Jana just do this stuff all the time?"
"Yeah … but she's gotten more bold about it since I last saw her." Star answered.
"No, this is only one or two levels more bold than what she does normally." Tom cleared it up. "Before it was just scamming people out of flimsy pyramid schemes and petty larceny with mild property damage. Melon and Onion sort of take it up a notch."
"Well the magic plant life I make loves imitating other people." Steven sighed. "Before I just thought she just did voodoo rituals with light graffiti on the side."
"Oh, that's on Wednesdays, just right before our date nights." Tom added. Onion thought it was fun, but he could do without the mushy kissy stuff.
Luz came back out of Jana's head, panting in terror. "Okay … it's gone." The girl shivered in place, struggling to scurry behind the group. "So many fluffy clouds with razor sharp teeth…why did those nursery rhymes have so much gore." Huh, his mentor must've had a really great dream last night.
"What do you mean gone?" Marco asked.
"As in the memories on the war day are nothing but a puddle of liquids and-"
"Oh, I think we played Tennis next, let's go do that!" Jana shouted suddenly as she began running.
"...Uh, since when does Jana freak out?" Steven asked. "I'd expected her to be the first one to explain all the messy details.
"Like I say, she gets really tense when I bring up the memory loss the first time around." Tom said with a hint of worry. "She's just ignoring it or moving onto something else."
"Something affected her memories, her mind, that's not something you can easily shake off." Luz continued. "That leaves scars that don't heal easily, if at all."
"Oh boy, we just stumbled into another emotional conflict, haven't we?" Star grumbled. "Of all the times…fine. Come on guys, let's make her better."
"To be honest, we haven't done Jana yet at all, so I'm just grateful it's not one of the gems … again." Steven sighed. "So what mysterious and probably illegal operation does she do at the tennis court?
"She just has a free excuse to hit snobby assholes and take free balls for dogs." Tom shrugged. "Also there's this one mob boss who she gives most of the balls to for his dog in exchange for free caps." Also the main distributor of all the counterfeit money Onion was saving up for when he eventually fled the country.
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"I dunno what secret ingredient they put in these things, but they taste amazing." Jana took another bite of her gooey and cheesy burrito from Brita's tacos. "You want a bite?" Leading her friends on to avoid her personal issues really worked up an appetite.
"Nah, they taste gross … and familiar." Star stared at the gooey chips curiously.
"Wow, we haven't been here in like, forever." Kelly came in and sat down with a giant tray full of greasy tacos. "It's usually Kiki's Pizza or the Donut shop for hangs out now."
"Heck, we don't even go to the donut shop now because Mom's bakery is eating out the competition." Steven said as he bit into a quesadilla. "Plus she's super strict about us eating packaged sweets not made by her."
"You know, I heard old mayor Dewey took it up." Marco brought up. "Apparently his compulsion to make everyone happy while rejecting criticism makes him the perfect cashier." He said while munching on a taco.
"Guess there's a place for everyone everywhere at some point." Tom muttered, sipping some juice. "Has anyone heard about Tad lately? I know we were never fans of him…"
"Never, ever liked him." Star made sure to reiterate. "Ever.
"... But he was still part of the original gang, right?"
"Not really….the most he ever did was sit in Kelly's hair and feed on her need to keep people close for personal pleasure…no offense." Marco turned to Steven's girlfriend.
"Eh, no big. I had a sucky ex that made me a sucky girlfriend, I'm over it now." Kelly shrugged. "I changed numbers and my social media profile so he couldn't message me again. Last I checked, he posted on his page about becoming a bird nest, some junk about repaying nature or something."
"He sent me a death threat once." Steven said with a shrug. "Then Jorby pushed the tree he was living in over, and now he lives in a beaver dam."
"With what we saw on Homeworld, do we even take death threats seriously anymore?" Marco asked. "I'm pretty sure Star can cause immortals to sweat in terror, and Steven technically a Demigod."
"Don't use that word, that makes me sound pretentious and 'above it all'." Steven rolled his eyes. "Last thing I want to be is another Glossaryck."
"Hey, if godhood doesn't work out, being the devil can be pretty fun." Jana suggested. "Just ask Tom.
"Eh, it's got its ups and downs. As long as you have a knack for irritating people beyond belief, anything's possible in hell." Tom snorted.
"Okay, we're really getting off track here!" Star pounded on the table. "Jana, don't feel bad about missing your memories, you're awesome and spooky and all that junk."
"Real subtle, Star." Kelly rolled her eyes.
"Guys, what are you talking about, it's fine." She waved it off. "Although since I can't remember, we're gonna need another way in … maybe we can die then resurrect on the other side as poltergeists."
"No, Jana, don't just brush past this." Tom said with a concerned look on his face.
"I'm not, I'm just helping out the best I can." Jana kept going. "Hm, since Steven can astral project, maybe he can take our spirits and cross the barrier without a problem…"
"Jana." Steven argued. "For once let's just focus on normal problems-"
"Maybe I don't want normal problems!" She shouted back before she could even think about it. "Maybe I just wanna deal with your problems instead of being forgotten!" And the bottle cap came off … great.
"Forgotten?" Star gained a look of confusion. "What do you mean…?"
"Oh, like this hasn't happened before?" Jana snarked back bitterly. "The fact that something weird and strange by usual standards is going on, and you all immediately think I'm the answer? The fact I've known Marco the longest out of anyone, yet it was only over a year ago that he bothers to know more about me?! Or the fact that it was only when Steven came to Earth I had someone I could actually call my friend for the first time!?"
"Jana.." Marco, the cute idiot, looked at her worriedly. "It's okay…"
"No, it's not!" She snapped back. "I know you all see me as that gothy girl that likes to get in my trouble, but I CARE about you guys, I care so, so much!" She wiped away her tears "We went through a fucking INVASION across two worlds and the only reason I noticed is because I'm missing an entire day of my life! Did you guys think I couldn't help at all?"
"No, that wasn't it." Kelly waved. "The stakes were just a little higher than usual and-"
"Higher than usual!? I DIED when we fought Meteora, how does a small war count as higher!?" Jana accused. "Do I just creep you all out that much? Am I that untrustworthy?"
"No, of course not Jana." Steven came up to her. "You're so level headed when things go awal, and you still manage to make a joke out of things even when I struggle to look on the bright side. You're the best friend I've made on earth…and…and it's hard for me to know just how easy it is to lose that."
"And my mom just adores you." Tom said next, placing his hand on her back. "You know she tells me you make an even better demon than me…and those are words she never, EVER would say even if her life was genuinely threatened."
"I just …" She sighed. "Ever since you guys left earth for Mewni back after the Toffee thing it feels like i'm on the backburner … I don't wanna be there."
"Trust me, you're not. Far from it." Marco admitted. "You were there with the Jasper and Mina team up, the one time with Ludo and the rats, you sent the Ruby's into space, the Meteora thing…"
"You've helped me dream walk when Malachite was a thing, heck, because of you, I was able to get Bismuth and the others to Homeworld on time before we all died." Steven kept going. "You're an important part of our lives, Jana. Even if you're not always there, I don't forget about you."
That was the moment Jana truly realized she had a heart, because she felt it breaking. "I know, I know….and this might make me sound horrible, because everything's great with Tom, I couldn't have asked for a better guy." She shifted her head away in shame. "But I keep thinking back to those other universes that we watch, and I can't help but wonder if I'd be more useful if I just…just…"
"Jana.." Steven patted her on the soldier. "Don't think like that. You shouldn't define your entire life by who you do and don't date."
"You're you Jana." Tom hugged her. "No matter what, I'll be here for you … alright?"
"...Alright…" She hugged her boyfriend back. "Feelings suck…why do I feel amazing and horrible at the same time?"
"That's just how the brain works I guess." Star sighed as she bit into a taco. "Well, now that's over, maybe we can-ack!" She spat out her food. "Dang it, I said no special sauce! It taste horrible!"
"Wait … special sauce … that's it!" She remembered just a tad. "I remembered what happened after the Tennis match!" Jana snapped her fingers. "I got hungry, so I went to buy a taco, and saw that they were doing that special for a free t-shirt for ordering two hundred tacos, and thought, hey, I've had to at least eaten two hundred tacos in my life, so I was rightfully owed that t-shirt…"
"Some of us work hard to eat two hundred tacos, you know?" Kelly mumbled as she stuffed her face.
"Alright, so, I went to validate it, and get my free T-shirt." She said, "But the manager said the special was over, so I broke in through the back." She traced her steps. "Onion, crowbar." He pulled out a golf club bag, handing her the nine iron. "Well chosen." She began cracking the door open.
"You'd think Sour Cream or their mom would at least ask questions about what Onion does in his free time." Star rolled her eyes.
They walked inside. "Alright, so I snuck in, the manager noticed me, so I threw him in the fridge and poked a few holes." She opened the door.
"Please … let me out … I've had nothing… but leftovers … and raw ingredients … for over a week …" He muttered out with blue skin.
"You gonna give me my free T-shirt?"
"Restaurant…poli…." Jana reclosed the door.
"Anyways…"
"Jana!" Steven called out as he punched the freezer door open.
"I went into the far back room where I suspected they keep all their dried and aged meats they cobbled together since in my mind that's the most secure place to keep a t-shirt."
"Just heal him with your spit, there's no way we're getting him to a hospital in time!" Marco went on as she explained her tale.
"And when I did, I found something truly freaky." She revealed a hole that led down a rocky cavern full of dinosaur skeletons. "A sweet new man cave!"
"Thank you … for saving me …" The manager sighed in relief.
"No problem." Star waved off. "Just let us keep exploring and we'll be even."
"I can pay you some money … but I will ask that you leave the store, that's the employees only hole."
"You know I can get this place closed down on safer violations?" Marco piped up. "We're pretty tight with the mayor, and I don't think she'll be happy to know there's a deep dark and dirty pit for employees of a fast food restaurant to hang out in."
"... I would've gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling kids." Nice, she always wanted to be called that.
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Steven groaned. "Let me guess … you forgot the ladder was broken?" He asked, for once not at the bottom of the dogpile due to his floating powers.
"No, you guys just went down it before I could explain." Jana laughed as she stepped over Marco's back.
"Well you were definitely here before." Star groaned from the pile. "There's a bunch of tennis balls."
"Like I said, sweet man cave. Figured I'd cement my territory now before the other guys got comfortable."
"Other guys?" Kelly asked.
"Yeah, like those guys." She pointed to two particular people, one being Star's former crush Osker, lounging on a couch, another being a smaller and more recent face they've gotten to know from KO.
"Dendy?" Marco asked, rightfully confused. "What are you doing here?"
"As I have previously explained in the vlog serious hosted by the one's designated as Starfan13 and Rholnaldo Fryman, I've notice a particular non radioactive energy surge around the town, and have been conducting research efforts into locating the source.
"I thought that was just Star blowing up stuff all the time?" Luz asked, having been silent this whole time. Was she practicing her invisibility glyph or were they just that bad at situational awareness?
"Yes, but there was a particular energy surge in this cave … can't get a read on it though." They muttered.
"Oh hey look, you wrote here." Star looked at a note, saying 'Jana's sweet manca-' before cutting it off, walking up to it. "Why didn't you finiiii!" She fell into a hole, and a loud splash was heard.
"Star!" He and Marco cried out together, looking at a strange yellow glowing liquid that their sister had fallen in.
"AAAGG! It's in my mouth!" Star jumped back out, now covered in what looked like the secret sauce. "Ugh, it always gets….in my…" Star looked at the substance strangely before taking a lick of it. "UGH, that's disgusting….it's magic!"
"Magic?" Steven looked down. "As in the realm of magic that … melts your brain!" He looked over at Jana.
"My missing memories! That's why I couldn't remember why!" Jana shouted out in joy. "My life doesn't feel so vulnerable and helpless anymore!"
"They must have dug this thing up by accident." Kelly observed.
"And they're using it for food flavoring…" Marco winced. "Definitely calling that health inspector." Steven really hoped this stuff wasn't bad to ingest.
"I don't think Britta's taco's found the place itself … take a look at this." Tom pointed to a mural of humans worshiping … Glossaryck and Rose Quartz.
"It…It looks just like a sanctuary…" Steven's mind was starting to connect pieces to the puzzle. "Oh my corn! This is a magic well! This is how the humans came to Mewni and became Mewmans! They traveled through this well and into the other!"
"And if old caveman humans can do it…then we can too!" Star pounded her fist. "Mewni, here we come-"
"Wait." Steven held her back. "We need people on standby this time … last time we went to the realm of magic we lost our sanity … multiple times."
"You're right, we need a way to get through it without turning our brains into mush." Star thought it over for a second. "If the situation is getting as bad as I think it is in Mewni, then I think we need to get the Gems involved."
"Alright then … time to head back."