✨NO ONES POV:✨
Scene begins at the Diaz Household. In the bathroom, Star straightens her red horned headband in the mirror.
Star: Eh.
Using her magic wand, Star cycles through several different headbands: a flower headband...
Star: Ugh.
...a pirate hat...
Star: Uhh.
...a red fez with a gold tassel...
Star: Eh.
...a blue unicorn horn and mane...
Star: Ugh.
...and a green cactus headband.
Star: Ah! Cacti for the win.
Marco bursts into the bathroom as laser puppies yap around his feet with you close behind him. He rushes up to the mirror and shoves Star out of the way.
Marco: [screams] Out of the way! I overslept! I'm gonna be late!
You: sup star. [Waves at star as you look at Marco]
Marco briefly rummages through things on a nearby shelf. He brushes his teeth with a hairbrush and his hair with a toothbrush.
Behind him, the laser puppies scurry around shooting lasers in random directions
Marco Ah! Where's my hoodie?!
You give Marco his hoodie as he snatches it out your hand.
Star: Whoa, chill, Marco. We can still get to school by first period.
You sighed knowing why Marco was being so rush full.
Marco puts his red hoodie on backwards and pulls the hood off his face.
Marco: This isn't about learning! This is about love.
✨Flashback to Marco and you standing next to the Echo Creek Academy lockers. He looks at his phone while straightening his hair. His phone clock reads "7:56". You just look ahead cleaning your glasses✨
Marco: (voice over.) Every day, I get there by 7:55, because at exactly 7:56, Jackie Lynn Thomas gets there.
Jackie skates up to Marco and you on her skateboard. She skates past you both .
Marco: (voice over) And we share a nod.
Marco and you nod to Jackie. Jackie nods back and continues skating away.
Marco: (voice over.) It's kind of our thing.
You: (voice over) no it's not..
Marco: [sighs]
You: [makes a mocking disgust face]
✨Cut back to Diaz Household bathroom – present day. Star's eyes are wide with affection.✨
Star: Awww... Wait. A nod? You don't even say hi?
You: he doesn't...
Marco: I'm working up to that.
Marco takes a folded-up paper out of his pocket and unfolds it.
Marco: See? It's all a part of my 23-step plan. I'm already on step 4: nodding every day.
Star: Hmm.
A laser puppy shoots its lasers at Marco's hands.
Marco: Hey! Down, boy! [falls over] Bad laser puppy!
You pick up the puppy as you glare at Marco scolding it. Marco glares back but your glare was intense making him look at the clock.
Marco: [looks at clock] It's 7:54! I can't make it! Can't you just... uh, uh, magically stop time or something?
Star: [scoffs, laughs] Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Easy Peasy Time Freezie.
A magic ticking clock effect appears over Star, you, and Marco. The laser puppies' movements and barking slow to a halt. In the kitchen, Mrs. Diaz flips a pancake; the pancake freezes in midair.
In the shower, Mr. Diaz—wearing his Viking helmet and holding a rubber duck—sings opera; his singing slows down and stops. Marco touches one of the laser puppies' lasers mid-fire with one of his fingers then he puts his hurt finger in his mouth to heal it.
Marco: Ow! Do you know what you just did?
Star: Uh... froze time?
Marco: You froze time! [touching Star excitedly] Now I can get to school and nod at Jackie! Hurry!
Star: School? [touches Marco's face] But it's a [singsong] freeze day!
Marco's eyes widen with excitement. As the three run out the front door jumping and laughing, a time-frozen laser puppy chases a time-frozen mailman. Star uses her magic to give an infant a mustache.
Star, you, and Marco: [laughing]
Star gives everyone in the area mustaches. Later, at a birthday party for Amy, a little girl in one of Charlie Booth's foreign exchange families, Star, you, and Marco eat birthday cake. Star has a lit candle on her tongue.
Star and Marco: [laughing]
You were laughing as well as Marco wipes off cake off the side of your mouth.
✨Later, at the school, Lars gives a nerdy-looking kid a wedgie. Marco and you free the kid from the wedgie, and Star gives Lars an atomic wedgie. ✨
Later, Star, you, and Marco have a picnic on top of a car in the middle of a freeway with you in the middle of them. For once you kinda felt like the baby of the trio.
Star and you: Yee-hee!
Marco: [laughing]
⭐️Later, in Marco's dojo, Star, you, and Marco laugh while Jeremy Birnbaum is in the middle of a flying kick. Marco slaps him⭐️
Later, as Ludo emerges from a dimensional portal, Star switches his skull crown with her cactus headband. Marco takes a picture of Ludo wearing the cactus headband. You, Star, and Marco return to the school.
Marco: [laughing] That was the funnest sixty hours of my life!
You: yeah! I never actually had a freeze picnic before. [smiles]
Star : Oh, hey, there's frozen Jackie!
Marco: I better get into optimal nod position.
Marco straightens his hair and leans against the lockers.
Marco: Ready.
Star: ...Or maybe now's the time to move on to the next step of your crazy plan. [singsong] You could talk to her...!
You: [ nod] yeah! And maybe she will actually remember you for your actions..
Marco: [looks at Jackie, stammering] T-The wind isn't right. I've got a pimple coming in. Uh, I'll just do the nod today.
Star: [disappointed] Okay... Easy Peasy Time Unfreezie!
Nothing happens. Time remains frozen.
Star: Huh. Easy Peasy Time Unfreezie!
Still nothing happens.
Star: Ooh.
You: Come on, Star. What's going on?
Marco approaches Star and you, who has a frozen smile.
Marco: Y/N?! Star?! Y/N! Not you too! (He shakes you like crazy as you gag)
Star: Ha-ha! We're just messin' with ya!
Marco: [groans letting you go as you laugh]
✨Scene transitions to Diaz Household. Star pulls her Magic Instruction Book out from under her bed.✨
Star: Okay, Magic Instruction Book, instruct me.
Star opens up to a page with Glossaryck, who is also frozen.
Star: Oh, no, Glossaryck is frozen too.
Marco: Good. I never liked that guy. [turns a page] "Scrape the sides" "pudding", buddy.
You chuckled nervously fixing your glasses.
Star: Okay, let's see, let's see. What to do if you make a dimension explode, what to do if you delete gravity... [soft gasp] Ooh.
You: oooh! I wanna see! [stars pop up in your eyes until Marco pulls you back]
Marco: Don't get any ideas.
Star: Heh-heh. Sorry. Ah! What to do if you freeze time. We can move time forward if we go to the Plains of Time and push the Wheel of Progress.
Star uses her dimensional scissors to open a portal to the Plains of Time. Marco steps through the portal with you.
Marco: Whoa.
You: cool!
The surrounding landscape is covered in sand and melting clocks. There's also an umoving stream of water, a frozen waterfall, a giant hourglass, and a cuckoo clock.
Marco: This is definitely one of the weirder places we've been to.
You nodded
Star: Weirder than that dimension of cats with human faces?
✨Flashback to Star, Y/N, and Marco in a different dimension. In front of them is a cat sitting in a litter box with its back turned.✨
You: Here, kitty, kitty!
The cat turns to face Star, you, and Marco. It has a human-like face.
Cat: [demonic voice] Look away!
✨Cut back to Plains of Time – present day.✨
Star and Marco: [shuddering]
You: [giggling] it was so cute!
Marco side eyes you as you just smile at him with a Cheshire Cat smile.
Star: Look! That must be it.
Star points to the Wheel of Progress.
Star and you: Whoooaaa...
You: Looks like a giant hamster wheel.
Star: Now, how do we start this thing?
Marco: Hmm. I got this.
Marco steps onto the Wheel and tries moving it. It doesn't budge.
Marco: [grunting]
Marco's various attempts to start the Wheel end with him landing on his head and getting his head stuck between two wheel spokes.
You laugh making Marco blush in embarrassment looking away from you.
Star: New plan. Rainbow Raccoon Rotation!
Star conjures a Rotating Raccoon. It bounces across and stands next to Star, mimicking her motions.
Star: Hmm.
Father Time: Magic won't work on that. You gotta use the magic of toesies. [wiggles toes]
Star: Who are you?
You walked off in the background to help Marco.
Father Time: I'm Father Time. And this is Rocksworth. He's a rock, but don't bring it up. He's kind of sensitive about it. [makes motorboat sounds]
You help Marco off the Wheel of Progress.
Marco: Father Time? So you must push this thing. [grunting]
Father Time: Hey, look! I'm over here! [moves a little to the left] And now I'm over here! [laughing]
Star: And how long were you on the wheel?
Father Time: Oh, you know... forever. Until someone cast a freeze spell and knocked me off of it. What is that? [runs up to a mud puddle]
Marco: Uh, mud?
Father Time falls face-first into the mud and rolls around in it.
Father Time: Oh, it's glorious! I love mud.
Father Time slathers mud in his tongue. He gags in disgust and spits the mud in Marco's face. You show a disgusted face cleaning it off Marco's face a bit as Marco whispers a low "thank you."
Marco: So, Mr. Time, how would you feel about getting the universe started up again?
Father Time: Oh, where has this been all of my life?
Star: Uh... look, look, look.
Star picks up some mud and slathers it on the Wheel of Progress.
Star: You can play with mud on your wheel.
Marco: Huh? Huh?
Father Time: Well, that is an enticing offer, but nah.
Marco: Argh!
You: dang he's a stubborn one...
Just as you said that you swore you heard Marco say "just like you" making you punch Marco in his arm.
Marco: Ow!
Father Time: Oh! There's some mud that's a slightly different color.
Father Time runs off, and Star, you, and Marco chase after him. He looks at a twig on the ground, a bush with arrows in it, and a goose wearing a clock around its neck.
Father Time: And there's a twig, and there's a bush, and I-I don't know what that thing is, but it's waddling.
Goose: [quacking]
Marco: Wait! You can't just leave time stopped!
Father Time starts taking incredibly high jumps across the landscape. Star and Marco can hardly keep up with him. But you could.
Father Time: Whoo!
Star: But without time, rainbows can't shoot across the sky! Glitter can't glitter!
You: I can't watch my favorite cartoons on the time they are supposed to be on!
Marco: And everyone we know will be frozen forever!
Father Time finds a hourglass with a door.
Father Time: What's this?
The door whooshes open.
Father Time: Ooh!
Father Time dances through the door, and Star and Marco approach just as the door closes. You accidentally ram into the door as you were just behind Father Time. Marco checks your face for a second and then pushes it away gently as you are completely fine.
Father Time: [in background., laughing]
Suddenly, Father Time is racing across the sand on the back of a speedy turtle.
Father Time: YOLO! [laughing] Anything's possible!
Attempting to give chase, Star, you, and Marco jump on the back of a large rabbit...
Marco: Yah! Whoo-hoo!
You: YEEHAWW!
...but the rabbit moves slowly.
Marco: I hate this dimension.
You: you can say that again...
✨Elsewhere, Father Time plays in the water.✨
Father Time: [laughing] Whoo!
He crosses to the other side of the stream, still laughing.
Star and Marco chase after him with you being ahead as usual , using clocks in the stream as stepping stones. They step onto one clock, transforming them into infants.
Star helps Marco before he falls into the water. You step onto the next clock, transforming into an elderly woman. The hearts on her cheeks droop.
Star [feeble moaning] Oh, my hearts...
Marco [squealing]
Marco falls over, and his chin lands on the next clock. Only his head is aged up while the rest of his body is still that of an infant.
Marco: Not a word.
You: [full out laughing as Marco covers your mouth]
Star: [giggling]
Star, you, and Marco reach the other side of the stream, and their bodies are returned to normal. They follow Father Time into a large building filled with television screens.
Star: I think he went in there.
Marco: Wow...
You: so much tvs...
The history of the universe is shown on the screens.
Marco: It's the history of the whole universe! Ooh! Battle of Lexington. Nailed it.
A giant eyeball extends down from the ceiling and looks at Star. All of the television screens suddenly show Star as a baby.
Star: [gasps] It... It's me!
You: aww you were so cute as a baby!
Star: Thanks (N/N)!
The screens show baby Star playing with toys, young Star taking the royal carriage for a joyride, and young Star being taught how to swordfight by her babysitter.
Star: Oh, I remember that!
The screens also show young Star and Pony Head stealing treasure from Cyclopes, young Star watching fireworks, and teenage Star and Pony Head going through a punk phase.
Star: [laughing] Watching me is fun.
The screens also show Star riding the warnicorn in "Star Comes to Earth" before ending on Star's mirror image.
Star: Oh! Hi, me!
You waved amused at this.
Marco: This place must keep track of everything we've done in our lives.
The giant eye ball looks at you.
It shows you burning down your doll house when you were little as little Marco watches in the back scared of you. Then it cuts to you feeding homeless cats as your eyes changed to cat like ones making more cats surround you. The tv cuts to static.
You: [sarcastic tone] you think so?
Marco rolls his eyes at you.
The giant eyeball looks at Marco, and the television screens show his life too.
They show him nodding to Jackie Lynn Thomas from kindergarten to elementary school to high school. The camera swivels around Marco as he takes in this realization. The screens then cut to static.
Marco: Wow. I've been nodding for a long time.
Star and you put a comforting hand on Marco's shoulder.
You: man..you finally realized huh...
Father Time: (in background) Hey, guys!
Star, you, and Marco look at Father Time as he plays with a spring door stopper.
Father Time: Isn't this place incredible? It's like we're living in the future.
Marco: Father Time!
Star: Emerald Snake Strike!
Star uses magic to wrap you, Marco and Father Time in green snakes.
Marco: Great. I think we got him. Yuck. Okay, buddy, let's get you back to your wheel.
As Marco, you, and Star guide Father Time out of the building, the giant eye looks at him.
Father Time: [gasps]
The television screens show Father Time running endlessly on the Wheel of Progress, slowly becoming depressed as the years go by. Star, you, and Marco look at each other, sympathetic.
You: yikes man...
Father Time: Ah, all right. I guess I'll get back to doing that. Oh, well, it's only for all eternity.
Marco: [sighs] We can't just make him.
You: [puts finger on chin] there has to be a way..
Star: Maybe there's some other way to turn that giant wheel.
Father Time pets a giant hamster. Star, you, and Marco smile.
Star: Are you thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?
You: no, but I like your idea anyways.
Star makes a hamster-drawn carriage for Father Time using the Wheel of Progress as its base.
Marco: Actually, I was thinking we'd— ...Never mind, it works.
Star: Now you can go anywhere you want and keep the wheel moving!
You: yeah! You're basically free man.
Father Time: Aww, thanks, guys. I owe ya. Please help yourself to any of my mud. Even the nice stuff.
Star, you, and Marco look at Father Time's mud collection. It's a giant mound of mud with several nametags sticking down that read "VOLCANIC", "MOOR MUD", "SLURRY", "BLACK", "MUCK", and "SEA BED".
Marco: We're good. [pushes you from it]
Father Time: Oh, and maybe don't freeze time again. It's kind of fragile. You don't want to break it. Know what I mean? Well, so long! [laughs] Time hamsters away! Yoo-hoo!
Father Time whips the carriage reins, and the time hamsters pulls the Wheel of Progress forward. Star and Marco smile at each other and then at you who is not even looking at them.
Star: Wait. The wheel's moving.
Star, you, and Marco: We've got to get back!
✨Back on Earth, a clock moves one minute forward. Mrs. Diaz catches the flipping pancake, the laser puppies start moving again, and Mr. Diaz continues singing opera in the shower. Star, you, and Marco return to the school with the dimensional scissors.✨
You: WOWW!
Marco: Whoa!
Star: Aah!
Jackie skates past Marco and you just as you both step out of the portal. He nods to her. She nods back. Marco bites his lip gripping your hand as comfort.
Marco: ...Hey, Jackie!
Jackie stops skateboarding and looks back at Marco.
Jackie: Hey, Marco!
The two briefly look at each other in silence.
Jackie: ...Well, see ya!
Jackie skateboards away, and Marco catches his breath.
You smile side hugging him as he side hugs you back.
You: Good job Marco!
Star: You did it! You finally talked to her! What happened to waiting for the perfect time?
Marco: Well, all of a sudden, I thought: if you have the time, why waste it? Looks like I'm finally geeeettiiiiing sooooooomewheeeeeeeeeere...
Time slows to a halt again.
✨Cut back to the Plains of Time, where Father Time and the time hamsters roll in the mud.✨
Father Time: [laughing] You guys really get me!
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✨THE END✨