Chapter 1: A Bad Day and a Little Attack

I'm supposed to be working on my Penn Zero fic, but I can't help starting this first! I'm absolutely in love with Starco and absolutely want them to get together! At the same place where I get all my crazy ideas (coughmysleepcough), this was one of the craziest ones yet! It might hurt to write every chapter, but I'll do it! I just really hope I get some readers out there this time :)

If you're reading this right now, I hope you like this story! I'm working really hard on it! Also, I hope that you'll continue to support this story until it ends. This all I ask! Enjoy the chapter!

You would think that in an ordinary backyard like the Diaz's, nothing outlandishly strange would be happening there.

But now it has almost become a daily routine for Star and Marco to be fighting Ludo and his minions every other morning.

"Get that wand!" Ludo shrieked.

"Rainbow Fist Punch!" Star shouted cheerfully, the said spell attacking a bunch of his goons.

"H-yah!" Marco cried out, karate-punching/kicking/chopping them in the matter.

"Narwhal Blast!"

"Take this!"

This continued on for about twelve more minutes.

"Mega Ultra Butterfly Shockwave!"

And that was the grand finale to bring down all of his goons at once.

"Not again!" Ludo screeched, kicking one of his goons repeatedly.

"Face it, Ludo," Star bent and gloated at him. "You're never going to be taking this wand!"

"One day, Star Butterfly! Just you wait! I promise I will!" All his goons got back into the portal, and he was still walking out, glaring at them.

Marco sighed. "Well that was—"

"One day!"

The duo paused and waited for him to really leave. "…Well that was no different from what we usually do."

"Yeah~" Star sang out. "We make a great team!"

Marco high-fived her. "Well, I guess that's enough for tod—OH we're gonna miss the bus!"

Star screamed a little bit. "And I'm a mess! OK, don't worry we can get a whole fixing-up together in less than..."

"Five minutes.

"Let's go!"

As the duo raced into the room, they didn't notice that a small portal was being cut up back in the backyard. Through it, a small, blue and red spider with fangs and horns crawled through. It softly sniffed the air, picked up a scent, and started following Star and Marco into their home.

While they were rapidly getting dressed, the spider seemed to have a hard time finding which bags were theirs. "Hurry up, Star!" it heard a voice call. The spider had no choice but to go for the bag on the left.

Once they were finally ready, Star and Marco raced down the stairs, grabbing their bags and heading outside. Unfortunately, the bus was just about to get on leaving.

"Wait!" Marco shouted, running after it. But the engine was too loud for the driver to hear his screams. The bus drove right off, as if wanting to get away from the two. The boy groaned. "Great! Now we're gonna be late for school."

Star hesitated but then lit up, laughing. "We don't need the bus, Marco! We have magic~" Bringing out her wand, she raised it in the air, grinning as she cast her spell.

"Whoa, hey Star, be careful, you still don't—"

"Speedy Bunny Rocket Blast!"

The two were suddenly lifted up into the air and they were blasting straight for the bus like a rocket, bunnies coming out behind them. They were so fast, that they even passed it, and were heading straight for school. The little spider in the bag had no idea what was going on but it wanted to get out now. Since the blast controls itself, Star couldn't stop it. Marco was screaming now.

"Break break break break!"

They only stopped once they burst right through the school wall and landing by their lockers.

Star stood right up, unfazed, as she squealed in delight. "Wasn't that fun?"

"I think I broke a bone," Marco croaked out.

Everyone in the hall was staring at them, some whispering. Then they all burst out laughing at Marco's misery.

"Really?! Is laughing at someone's pain really that funny?!"

They only stopped when the bell rang.

"On the plus side, we made it!" Star sang. "And just in time for class! Gym's next, right~?"

Marco managed to stand up, straightening his back as he moaned in pain. "Almost makes me wish we were late."

Once the spider recovered from the blast, it was ready to get biting. But once it got out of the bag it still didn't know who it belonged to, it was surprised to see children lining up, facing each other as they started to pick up big red balls.

"You know the rules," the coach said boredly. "Last one standing wins."

It was game on. Everyone started throwing the balls at each other, and they kept hitting a person on the other side. The spider was in trouble now. It had to find his victim.

But it was struggling. Every time it tried getting to the other side of the court, a ball would end up bouncing on it. Another one came and it stuck right to it. If it wasn't so noisy, you could probably hear its little shrieking.

Marco was practically at the corner of the gym, wearing his helmet, and scared out of his wits. Dodgeball was not his sport. It was almost as dangerous to him as fighting monsters was. And that was saying something. He could never tell where the next ball would be, so all he could do was dodge, run, and hide.

Meanwhile, Star was having the time of her life. She was dodging balls perfectly, catching them and throwing them back as if she was used to this. Despite it being her first time playing. "Whee!" she squealed, jumping in the air. "Come on, Marco, come play!"

"I'd think I'd rather go back to fighting Ludo!" he shouted, ducking from yet another ball.

"Aww, but this is so much fun!" She jumped from another ball again.

"No! I don't wanna—" That very ball hit Marco straight in the face.

"You're out!" someone yelled. Everyone in the gym laughed at him.

Star flinched a bit, as if feeling Marco's pain and bent to help him up. "Sorry 'bout that, Marco."

"This is why I hate dodgeball," he groaned. "I guess I'll hit the showers now…"

"Make sure you keep your helmet on, Safe Kid!" That received some giggles.

"It's for self-confidence!" he shouted back. Angry, he stomped his way out of the gym.

Star could only frown as she watched her friend leave. But that quickly subsided when she ducked from another ball. "I saw that!" she giggled, throwing one back.

Unfortunately for the spider, it couldn't get out of the game until it stopped. So it was more than relieved to hear the bell ring. But once it crawled back to the bag, it was even more nauseous. So it just sat there, at the bottom of the bag, tired, unable to move, and passed out.

The day carried on and it was lunchtime. Star met up with Marco at their usual lunch table, and he was looking pretty blue. "Hey, Marco," she called. "You OK?"

"Yeah, I guess," he sighed. "This morning was pretty bad, but I'm sure the rest of the day will turn out all right."

"Of course it will! Great job looking on the bright side!" She lightly punched his shoulder and the boy had to smile.

"At least it can't get any worse than this."

He shouldn't have spoken. The spider seemed to have recovered just at that moment. It was going around the cafeteria floor and secretly jumping on cafeteria tables and people's heads, looking for Star and Marco. It practically lit up when it finally found them. It was about to crawl right up to them when—

"Tarantula!" someone shrieked. Suddenly, everyone at the cheerleader's table started shrieking. Everyone turned to them, confused.

"Keep it away! I'm too pretty to get bitten!" Brittney Wong screeched. She threw some of her yogurt at it, hoping to kill it.

But the spider just jumped away. Instead, it landed at the quarterback's head.

Everyone gasped, thinking he'd get mad or something. But the guy only smirked evilly, picked his pie up and shouted, "Food fight!"

It was like a war all over again. Salads, mystery meat, desserts were flying around the room. Everyone was laughing, throwing their food around at each other, making a real big mess. Most people seemed to be dodging the flying cuisines. But Star and Marco completely unexpected the entire situation.

"Hey!" Marco tried shouting as he stood. "Stop that! Someone could get hur—" Unfortunately for him, an entire cake ended up falling on his head.

Everyone paused just to stare and gasp. And then they all burst out laughing.

By now, all Marco could do was keep an infuriated expression. Star flinched but she dipped her finger in his cake-covered hair and tried for a smile. "Chocolate."

"Gah!" Marco held his head in frustration. "It's like Bad Picture Day all over again! I'm sick of everyone laughing at me! I'm going home early, Star. If anyone asks, I got diarrhea."

"But, Marco—" Star tried calling, but she was only ignored. The boy had fled the cafeteria, looking even angrier than he was back at dodgeball. "Oh, narwhals…"

Meanwhile, the spider couldn't take all of the school nonsense anymore. It frantically left the cafeteria and found its way back to the bag. It just stayed there, shivering, and refused to come out until it knew the day would finally be over.

Marco had already packed his stuff up and was walking home. He managed to get some of the cake out of his hair, but he needed a real home shower. But the more he neared his house, the more he thought about school walls, red balls, and flying food. He reached home with an aggravated face.

"You're home early, Marco!" his mother noted as she came to greet him. "What happened to your hair?"

"It's a long story, Mom," the boy grumbled. "I'll be in my room, OK?"

"Well, if you need anything, just call~!"

Marco ignored her as he stomped up to his room. He set his bag down and started undressing. He quickly laid out some clothes and hopped into the shower.

Now, the spider knew the coast was all clear. It got out of the bag and looked around the room. It looked a little too boyish for it to be Star's room. But it found a piece of red clothing and decided to crawl through it. It could just bite whomever it belonged to….

Once Marco got out of the shower, he felt refreshed. He sighed as he dried his hair and started dressing up again. "At least I have the day to myself now…and nothing else could possibly go wrong…"

He should seriously stop talking. Marco was just fixing his hoodie when he saw a lump on his sleeve. Suddenly, he felt it moving. His eyes widened when he saw the blue and red spider. He stared at it for a while and it stared back. Then the spider bared its fangs and sunk them into his hand.

That's when Marco let out the most blood-curling scream.

The pain was almost unbearable. It stung so much, almost like honeybees, needles, and acupuncture points had combined and decided to poke his hand. He shook the spider right off and fell to the ground, yelling in pain, as the spider tried to crawl away.

But the boy wouldn't let it. He grabbed a nearby jar from his desk and slammed it over the spider. Its tiny little head hit the glass and continued doing so. But Marco trapped it now. "Gotcha!"

Still gritting his teeth from the pain, Marco examined the little arachnid. "What the…" It wasn't like any spider he'd seen before. It was definitely not something he'd think would come to his house just to bite him.

Then the boy started to panic. He'd just got bitten! What if it was poisonous? Or deadly? Or worse?

Marco tried to reason himself. 'Calm down, Diaz. Just because it's really big, in a really weird color and looks really creepy doesn't mean it's a bad thing!'

He really needed to stop talking.

The boy spent the rest of the afternoon researching on the Internet to see if he could find some information about the spider that bit him. But he never got a good match. By the end of the day, he ended up with zero results.

He leaned back in his chair, sighing. This was just a waste of his time.

"Marco~ I'm home!"

The brunette turned to find Star bursting through his door, a grin on her face. "You feeling a little better~?"

"Uh, yeah," he muttered, trying for a smile. "I'm good, thanks."

Then the girl noticed the spider on his desk and gasped as she picked the jar up. "It's so cute! For a spider!" she gushed. The spider only hisses loudly at her, but Star didn't notice.

Marco suddenly lit up when a thought crossed his mind. "Uh, yeah… Do you, maybe, kind of, know what kind of spider it is?"

"Hmmm…" Star inspected the jar all detective-like. "Nope! But I do know it's a spider from another dimension! I can check with my mom tomorrow if you'd like!"

"That would be good," Marco agreed. "It's kinda worrying me out. It just bit me a little while ago."

Star gasped. "And you didn't grow an arm or lose an eye of change your form at any sort?!"

Marco stared at her. "What are you talking about?"

Star merely shrugged. "I guess I sort of heard bad news about dimensional spider bites. But don't let it get to you! This little thing might probably won't mean any harm! Nothing to worry about!"

But that only made Marco worry more.

"'Kay, so your Mom said it's time for dinner! Last one there is Ludo's minion!"

That did get Marco's mind off the spider for a moment. But then it haunted him again once night fell and it was ready for bed.

Marco got into the covers and glanced at the spider on his desk. It caught his eyes and bared its fangs again. The boy quickly turned away. He certainly wasn't going to have a good night.

But then it started.

How was the first chapter? I admit it might suck a bit but the storyline I have in mind is going to be amazing! That is, if things go the way I plan it to be. I hope you guys like it! Please be sure to leave a review to tell me what you think! :) See you in the next chapter!