Monday 12:00 AM

The kidnapping was fast and efficient. Damn near professional even. Whatever you could say about Toffee, he made the monsters that served under him for competent and lethal. They opened a portal right in Marco's room, reached in, and pulled him through directly into the crystal cage that he would be spending the next two and a half hours in.

Star saw it happen. She had been pretending to sleep in her room, a necessary deception in order to convince the watching monster that it was clear enough to kidnap Marco. But once she noticed that she wasn't being watched anymore she jumped from her bed and created a tiny looking wire to poke under Marco's door.

Star would wait nearly two hours before opening a portal to Ludo's castle and beginning the dance that she and Marco knew so well.

Marco would spend those two hours mostly silent, sitting in his crystal prison. The chair he was cuffed to could be broken pretty easily, all he had to do was rock back and forth at the right frequency and the base would snap off. He could use it as a hybrid shield and battering ram. The crystal was too strong to be broken by that, of course.

He'd even once shot the crystal with his gun. Bad idea, the bullet had shattered and ricocheted all around the cage, putting quite a few holes in him, but not killing or releasing him.

Marco had patience ground into him by the time loop and so he kept his silence, looking over the familiar sight. Toffee doing paperwork, the monsters playing dice and card games. The fly monster attempting to make itself useful and slowly coming to the realization that it simply isn't ready for a new person to be in charge.

The crystal cage stops sound from traveling through it, so it's silent inside except for Marco's measured breathing. He really hated the waiting part, it was a pain in the ass.

Star, on the other hand was having fun killing two hours by listening to Marco's mom tell stories of him as a baby and looking at all his embarrassing baby photos.

She wasn't overly nervous. Marco had told her exactly what would happen and she trusted him. She would put her own spin on it of course.

When the time came to saddle up and beat the crap out of some fools she did some preparatory stretches and scissored her way into the dark and brooding dimension that kinda sucked. Ludo really only built a base here because he thought it was atmospheric.

She bumped into Ludo and Buff Frog pretty quickly, "Morning boys!" She called, "Do I have some news for you!"

The pair were sitting on a log, a large burlap sack in front of them. "What?" They said together, confused that their arch nemesis would be here and talking to them.

"Yeah, so, Marco's been kidnapped and then he did some dying and now I'm in a time loop and I'm going to go over to that castle over there." Star indicated with her want, "And I'm going to murderfy a~ll the monsters inside. Whatdaya say you join me?"

That seems... Quite violent." The frog monster says.

"It's perfect! I'll let you right into the castle." Ludo giddily jumps off the log, "Buh-bye loser!" he calls as he follows Star towards the castle.

"So," Ludo tries to scheme, "You won't be able to get into the castle without my help!"

"Yes I will." Star says easily, "You left your keys in the lock." Star point to the bits of metal dangling from the door of the castle.

"That, that's just not fair." Ludo complains.

Star shrugs, "I'm not here to play fair Ludo, I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of gum." She digs in her purse, "No, wait, here's some." She pops the gum in her mouth and opens the door.

"But you need a plan, and the element of surprise! I know this castle like the back of my hand, I can help you!"

"No you can't." Star opens a portal to the dimension of eternal anguish and throws Ludo in. He could get back, he still had his scissors, after all, but it would take him a bit, and she didn't need much time.

Star decided that she could do this two ways, either she could just collapse the enter castle and hope that Marco survived, or she could send screeching rainbow missiles through every door and window to wreak devastation upon the inhabitants. The choice was obvious.

Inside the smoldering castle were two people. Well, two living people and a whole bunch of dead, dying, and crippled monsters. There was Toffee, she could actually put a name to the face of the lizard guy that had been with Ludo's army for a while, and there was Marco, sitting inside his cage, eating a sandwich. Which actually reminded her. There was this great sandwich that could only be found inside this one monster in the jungles of Barbosa. but that could come later.

Right now she was standing across a long table from Toffee. "Hello lizard snake alligator dude. Lemme make something clear. I'm walking out of here with Marco, and if you try to stop me I'll pain the walls black with your ashes. So what do you say to letting him go."

"Ok." Toffee clicks a button on a remote and a door opens in the glass.

"Oh, ok... Uh, what now." Star looks confused at the half asleep Marco, then back to Toffee.

"Well, Princess Butterfly, now you die."

"Wha-" Star never sees the tentacle flying towards her throat at nearly the speed of sound. But she does look into Marco's eyes to see that Marco was very much not in there. Instead a beast stared out at her, a beast that wanted her in several different ways.

Star wasn't sure if she was flattered that Monster Marco felt like that towards her or afraid because he was trying to kill her. As the tentacle began crushing her throat she decided, afraid, definitely afraid. But then she blacked out, so it was all good.

Marco, fortunately, couldn't remember anything after he ate the sandwich.

First Loop End : New Truth uncovered : Sandwich = Monster Marco

A/N: Well now, a bit anticlimactic but then this wasn't the full story of these two trapped in their little time bubble. I may or may not add more stories depending on demand. And of course, if anyone wants to message me about making their own story in this miniverse or if they want to collab you can do so at any time. Thank you for reading and please review, it's really helpful and I appreciate it. Hope you had a good time reading this and I will hopefully see you when I decide to write something new. Ciao!