Marco slowly woke up with a aching head and a dry throat. He groaned as he opened his eyes. when everything came into focus he noticed he Hekapoo standing over him with a clipboard. "Hekapoo." He spoke with a dry voice.

"Hey meat-sack." Hekapoo responded softly. "How are you feeling?"

"Weak, thirsty, got a headache." Marco answered while Hekapoo writes his symptoms on her clipboard. Marco took the time to look around while still being laid down. Marco noticed he was in some kind of medical room and that he was hooked up to a few machines. He also noticed he was in a hospital gown.

"So just got a cold?" Hekapoo asked.

"Yeah." Marco answered. "How long have I been out?"

"Two months." Hekapoo casually answered.

Marco shot up in the bed. "WHA-" Marco was cut off by a coughing fit and a sharp pain in his forehead.

Hekapoo broke out into laughter "Ha Ha Ha! You've only been out for a few hours." She said as she wiped away a tear. Marco had stopped coughing as held his head, and scowled at Hekapoo. Hekapoo noticed this and spoke. "Hey, think of it as payback for coughing up water on me."

Marco smirked at hearing that. "So are you a qualified doctor, or did you just want to check on me?" He asked with a cheeky grin.

"I've been qualified for over 200 hundred years, Muscles." Hekapoo answered. "And next time you ask that, I'm going to use one of the older, more painful methods." She grinned.

Marco grinned back. "Is that so?" He challenged.

Hekapoo raised a brow, before they both started giggling. The giggling soon turned to laughing. But the laughing quickly stopped with Marco launching into another coughing fit. Hekapoo gave him a sympathetic look. "Well, I did kinda want to keep a eye on you." Hekapoo confessed as she approached the bed and sat down on it, she looked at the wall, so Marco could only see the side of her face. "You are the fist person to see my challenge through in 50 years."

"50 years?" Marco repeated.

"Yeah. Someone figured out how to make stuff that allows you to travel through the dimensions. They are by no means as high of quality and cost a small fortune. But it's easier then hunting down a army of me. With a easy way out when you get frustrated and the others passing their pair on to their kin. Not many bother trying, and after about a month they just leave, because they know it has only been a few seconds in their dimension. That's why I never told you about that." Hekapoo confessed with sombre look.

"Hekapoo." Marco sympathetically called to his oldest friend.

Hekapoo ignored Marco's call and shook her head. "You said you was thirsty, right?" She asked.

Marco was thrown off by the question, but answered anyway. "Yeah, but-"

"I'll get you some." Hekapoo cut Marco off and ran out the door.

Only after she left Marco realised she purposely dodged the question. He let out a sigh. He looked to the table next to him and saw two cards. One of them was shaped as a ace of spades. "Eclipsa?" Marco wondered. He picked up the card and opened.

"Star told me this is a Earth tradition when someone is seriously hurt.

I hope this dose not stop you from living the way you want.

Eclipsa." The card read. Marco wasn't completely sure what to take from that, but he appreciated the thought.

The other card was shaped like a hart. No guess who it was from. Marco swapped over the cards and read it.

"MARCO! Hekapoo told me everything! Please be okay!

P.S. Tom says hi.

P.P.S. I sent a stamped of warnicorns after Rhombulus." The card read. Marco smiled the card and weakly chucked at the last bit. Before placing it down.

"Here's your water chuckles." Marco looked up to the voice and saw Hekapoo offering him a plastic cup of water.

"Thank you." Marco weekly responded. He quickly chugged down the water. "That's better." He commented as he put the cup on the table.

"I also have this." Hekapoo announced as she took Marco's pair of dimensional scissors out from behind her back.

Marco soon noticed that the rust cracks were gone. "You fixed then?" Marco asked.

"No, I improved them." She boasted. Hekapoo offered Marco the scissors back, but snatched them away. "You can have these back on one condition. No more secrets when it comes to dimensional stuff." Her voice softened as she continued to speak. "You are one of a handful to have made it back from a dimensional collapse. I don't want lose one of the few mortals I can call friend so soon."

After that, Hekapoo offered Marco the scissors again. Marco hovered his hand over them, before moved past them and rested his hand on her shoulder. "I'm not going anywhere any time soon H-poo." Marco said with a smile.

Hekapoo smiled back as she softly responded. "Don't call me that." Marco took the scissors and put them with cards and cup. "You missed something special while you was passed out." She mentioned with a smile.

"I did?" Marco asked.

"Yeah, Moon thanked Eclipsa for saving you." Hekapoo answered. "It took her a few tries to spit it out."

"Shame I missed it. I should probably say thank you to." Marco commented. He went to get out of bed but realised he was still hooked up to the machines. "Hey, can you?" Marco asked.

"Oh, sure." Hekapoo answered before she started taking the tubes out. "You should probably go to your room and a change of clothes, before you go anywhere else." Hekapoo commented as pointing to his wet clothes with her thumb.

Marco's eyes widened at see they took off all his clothes. He didn't expect them to go that far. "Urm, Hekapoo." He slowly asked with a blush on his cheeks. "Who-?"

"Me." She cut him off in a casual voice. When she looked up and saw how heavy Marco was blushing, she just rolled her eyes. "Marco. Please. Who do you think takes care of the Butterfly's? I've dealt with stuff like this before your grandparent were born."

"Yeah. Right." Marco spoke as he let his blush fade.

"You can get out of bed now." Hekapoo spoke with a deadpan tone voice. "Just be grateful I waited until I carried you into here." She muttered.

Marco slowly slide out of the bed and stood there, as he held his head. Marco slowly took two steps forward and picked up his dimensional scissors up from the table. "You said you've improved them?" He asked.

"Yeah, pull them apart like I do with mine." Hekapoo instructed. Marco did so and both pieces of the extended util they were a pair of sabres. Marco's jaw dropped. Hekapoo smiled at his reaction and spoke. "With the amount of trouble you get into, you'll need them."

"So, I'm guessing if I..." Marco crossed the sabres where they joined. They connected and shrieked back to their normal size. "...Nice. Thank you Hekapoo."

Hekapoo just shrugged. "I don't want to see you on that bed again until you're old." She casually remarked. "You might as well walk to your room because I've still got to sign you off."

"Alright. I could do with a walk." Marco responded as he stretched.

Soon, outside Marco's room.

"Aaaand done just need you to sign here." Hekapoo spoke before showing Marco the paper and tapping the bottom line with her pen. Marco took the pen and signed. "Now, are you sure you can dress yourself?" She asked in a teasing manner.

Marco chuckled a little. "I'm sure." He answered in a exaggerated tone.

Marco opened his door, but was stopped from entering by Hekapoo, as she rested a hand on his shoulder. "Do you promised?" She asked.

Marco turned to face her with a small smile. "I promise. Next time something involving dimensions comes up, I'll got straight to you."

Hekapoo gave a small smile back. "Thank you. Now take it easy. Doctor's orders."

The End.

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