Star vs The Forces of Evil: When Dimensions Cleave

Part 6: Explosive Rage

"Solarian army, advance!"

The supercharged army obeyed Mina's command and advanced into town.

At the castle, everyone was still enjoying their sleep until the thunderous steps of Mina's army woke them all up. This included Star & Marco, who came off as particularly annoyed to be interrupted of their quality time, and not even because they were still in significant pain.

Everyone in the castle - and Glossaryck who magically teleported back to observe the problem - gathered outside the front door and saw Mina and her army slowly approaching. "Solaria is on her way back. But we can't risk anyone - even Mina - spotting her. We'll have to fend her off ourselves for the time being." Glossaryck snapped his fingers and made several weapons appear out of thin air. He distributed them to the non-magical people in the group: Janna got nun-chucks, Tom & Jackie a sword, Moon & Rafael dual axes, Angie & River clubs, and Buff Frog & his children shields & gauntlets. "Take these. They're your only defense in this fight."

"Not that I don't like fighting like a ninja but how is a pair of nun-chucks supposed to stop those overly buffed lunatics?" Janna questioned.

"They're magical weapons. They'll guide you through the battle."

"I don't exactly feel comfortable with just a sword." Tom remarked.

"I'm with the demon guy here." Jackie agreed. "I kinda feel like we're going in blind, even with Star and Marco on our side."

A brief pause followed before Tom spoke again. "You know it just occurred to me we've never been formally introduced." Star raced over to the two to rectify that.

"Tom, Marco's ex-girlfriend, Jackie. Jackie, my ex-boyfriend, Tom." She said rapidly while the two shook hands.

"Love your third eye." Jackie complimented. "Does it help you see better?"

Tom chuckled. "You'd think so, but, uh no, actually it doesn't." Their conversation was interrupted by the arrival of Mina and her army.

"Hello doormats." She boomed. Everyone immediately turned in the direction of Mina. "long time no see."

"Mina." Star said flatly. "I see you've got yourself a new army." Star didn't hesitate to transform into her Mewberty form. "Well so do I."

"You could have an army of fifty million and it wouldn't help you. Ya see, chumps, we've just finished training. Did you know that there's a dimension out there where time works differently from here?"

"Mina, there's a dimension for every little different-" Star's eye-rolling lecture was immediately halted when she realized exactly what Mina just said. "The neverzone."

"We got ourselves a buttload of training in. And we've only been gone for about 5 hours."

Star's brain started racing; another wince of pain. "Okay, so if 8 Earth minutes equal 16 years in the Neverzone, then..." She started doing calculations out loud. "You guys have been training for over 600 years in the Neverzone?" This announced fact made Marco's jaw drop to the ground.

"Six hundred years?" Tom exclaimed in shock. "That's...a lot!" While technically a true statement, the simplicity of it drew Star's ire.

"You don't stand a chance, munchkins."

"Don't talk smug when you haven't played." Marco stepped forward and demonstrated his new power, launching a laser beam blast in their direction. Though it didn't hit anyone and was comparatively weak, just the mere demonstration of his magic shocked and irked Mina.

"What the...since when can the Earth Turd do magic?"

For reasons, the "Earth Turd" utterance caused Star to have a revelation. "PONYHEAD! I haven't talked to Ponyhead since our worlds merged! I hope she's okay."