Rubble now sits upon what was previously known as the basement of the Assassins Guild, the establishment had been torn down since it was deemed as an obvious threat to the new Queen of Mewni and will be replaced with a department office instead.

A hooded figure stands above all the rubble, rummaging through the rocks to find anything of use that he could take with him. He grumbled when he found nothing after hours of searching and finally gave up, he then delivered a kick to a nearby rock, shattering it with ease. The figure took off his hood and the diamond exterior of his head shone and illuminated the place a bit. His one-eyed face now looking very disappointed and frustrated as he sat down on a chair that wasn't too broken before mulling over what his plans would be at this point.

"I can't believe those dolts messed up their jobs" Rhombulous exclaimed in anger as he raised his right foot and stomped on the ground, enough for it to leave cracks and rumble the place a bit.

A hand was placed on his shoulder and the diamond head quickly turned around to hit his aggressor. But he stopped mid swing of his fist when he recognized their face.

"Mina? What are you doing here? We thought you were dead!" His gruff voice asked bathed in confusion, and Mina Loveberry in her regular form sat down next to Rhombulous.

"I'm unkillable, Rhomby. I was just laying low and catching my breath. But listen, I got a plan. I need time for it though." She spoke in a low voice, and Rhombulous crossed his snake arms.

"A plan? Man, I really wouldn't trust that coo-coo head of yours with coming up with any plans."

"But you have to, Rhombulous. You've got the resources I need, and we'll both benefit from this."

"How? What do I get for helping you?" Rhombulous raised his only brow suspiciously and Mina stands up on a rock next to her.

"We get to show everyone how horrible that 'Queen' really is. And we get to get rid of her! That's two stones with one bird!" Rhombulous thought long and hard about this, but the idea of ousting the Queen of Darkness really motivated him to take this deal.

"Two stones with one birb... this sounds like a pretty good plan. I'm surprised."

"Don't be, Rhomby. It's high time people recognize my master planning skills. So is it a deal?"

"It's a deal."

Rhombulous and Mina shook hands, err- snake and hand, their sinister smirks mirroring one anothers as they continued to discuss how they were going to enact this plan while sitting in the darkness of the former basement of the Assassins Guild. Despite the Guild's destruction, it seems that plans of assassination, or rather coups, were still being made in it.

Two weeks had passed since their day off. Eclipsa now walks the halls of the castle with a bounce in her step as she heads to her office. Twirling her wand and humming a tune of a ballad from her time. She also wanted to see what Marco was up to after she retrieved a few files from her workplace, and the thought made her pace a bit faster.

Just then, a black clothed figure dropped down from the ceiling right in front of Eclipsa and delivers a roundhouse kick to her head. The Queen instinctively guards by positioning her arms to block. She then quickly grabs the outstretched leg and kicks the other leg that the clothed figure was using to balance themselves on which made them fall down on the ground. Eclipsa quickly walks back several steps.

The figure quickly gets up and charges at Eclipsa and, once they were in range, started attacking her with punches. All of which Eclipsa barely dodged. She opens her wand and generates a force field in an arc in front of her to halt the assault, but in doing so she blocked her own vision. The attacker quickly goes around the force field and disarms the Queen by slapping the wand away from her hand and kicking the magical artifact away. Eclipsa calls for the guards before ducking to avoid a punch.

The attacker throws another punch and the Queen blocks it before backing up again to put distance between them. She readies herself in a boxing stance and the two began to close the distance and started exchanging blows afterwards. Eclipsa throws a jab, but the attacker leans to the side and throws a hook. She leans backwards to avoid that punch but moves forward again to deliver an uppercut. She was surprised as well to see that it actually hit her opponent, and the uppercut caused the attacker to stumble backwards.

The Queen seized this moment and immediately charged forward to tackle her opponent and send them to the ground. She now sat above her attacker and raised her right fist to deliver a flurry of punches, but the attacker quickly takes off their mask, revealing a ruffled tuft of brown hair and a face with a mole.

"Okay okay I yield!" Marco said in a panic, and Eclipsa lowered her arms with a knowing smirk and relaxed.

"I had a feeling. What was this even for, Marco?" The boy let his arms down limp on the ground and relaxed as well.

"This was your assessment. So I could see if you were ready to fight without a wand."

"Oh. Well... did I do good?"

"You sure did more than good. I mean look at this, you knocked me down on the ground and-" The two then realized the position they were in. Eclipsa was sitting atop of Marco and their proximity was enough to cause the both of them to blush.

Eclipsa quickly got up and held out a hand for Marco to take. "Thank you for the assessment, I suppose. It's a relief to know that I'm physically capable of defending myself to a degree." Marco took her hand and allowed Eclipsa to help hoist him up. They dusted themselves off, but then the guards arrive with weapons in their hands.

"Queen! We heard your call! What seems to be-" The guards stopped when they saw the queen was fine, standing next to Marco who donned black clothing.

"Oh! Right, it turns out Marco was just testing my self-defense. Sorry, everyone! False alarm." She nervously assured them, worried that she had wasted their time. One of the guards spoke.

"It's alright, queen. Just call anytime you need us." The guard then turned around. "Troops! Let us return to our stations!" And with that, they all marched away back to their posts.

Marco turned to Eclipsa. "So, what were your plans today?" Eclipsa then turned to pick up her wand and continue walking to her office, and Marco followed suite.

"I was going to grab a few files from my workplace, then see what you were up to afterwards." She told him, then Marco nodded in acknowledgement.

"You don't have any other plans?" He asked, then the queen looked down and tried to remember if she had anything to do for today.

"Hm... none! I guess I'm free for today!" Eclipsa says with a smile, and Marco's eyes lit up a bit. "Oh cool! Because I was thinking maybe-"

Star rounded a corner and came face to face with the queen and her general, sweat gracing her features along with a tired look. "Eclipsa! You have a status update meeting with the Pigeon Kingdom today! And it's happening in four minutes!" She flailed her arms in the air to emphasize her point.

Eclipsa's look became panicked. "Oh no. That's what I was grabbing the files for! How could I forget?" She started running towards her office, but turned around first to say something.

"Sorry, Marco. I have queen duties to attend to. We'll talk later!" And with that, she turned to run towards her office.

That left Star and Marco, just standing around in the hallways of the Monster Castle.

"I swear, that woman has bad memory." Star noted as she wiped her sweat. She then looked at Marco who looked to be deep in thought.

"Bad memory huh..." He spoke as he rubbed his chin.

"Uh, Marco. Why are you rubbing your chin? Have you always rubbed your chin whenever...?" She asked as she narrowed her eyes and looked at him weirdly.

"It's my thinking face, Star. And I've thought of an idea!" Marco spoke with vigor. And Star looked off to the side. "Oookay?"

Marco reached into his pocket and whipped out his dimensional scissors, he then looks at Star. "I think it's high time Eclipsa gets a smartphone." The boy twirls his scissors around, quite proud of his idea.

"A smartphone? So she can just text the neighboring kingdoms that she's gonna 'BRB LOL'?" Star exasperatedly stated, and Marco rolled his eyes.

"No, Star. Look, I'll explain on the way. Just come with me." Marco ripped open a portal and jumped in, Star shrugs and follows.

The pair now walked through the air-conditioned mall that was bustling with people as usual. The bright displays of store signs and white tiled floors never changing. Star absentmindedly spoke.

"It's been a while since I've been here. I missed the mall. Me and the girls usually hung out here to go shopping. I missed that too." She sighed as she reminisces the days when everything used to be simple. When there wasn't a kingdom that was on the brink of collapse that she had to take care of, or the thing with Marco and the severing stone. Though she had to admit, that one was still a bit confusing and fuzzy for her. She couldn't quite remember it well. Maybe I can ask Marco, she thought.

But just as she was about to, Marco had already headed off towards the electronics store. She quickly followed. "Marco wait up!"

The two now examined all the wondrous pieces of technology displayed on every shelf, Star was mostly bedazzled by how many thingamajigs there were, and she didn't even know what half of them did. She looked over at Marco, who was already talking to a clerk about a smartphone that he picked out. It was all black and looked more like a flat card. She leaned in closer to inspect it.

"Marco, are you SURE that's a phone?" The boy allowed her to examine it, and he crossed his arms and smirked.

"Oh Star, you clearly don't understand. This right here is a top-of-the-line, state-of-the-art, cutting-edge, brand new model. We humans are very innovative and come up with new ways to further advance our technology. Pretty impressive stuff, you know?" The boy looked over his nails while he continued on his proud display of human prowess.

"Yeah yeah, but what does it do? And how is it different from the one you have?" She asked as she continued to examine it, still not grasping how this dark, flat card is impressive in any way.

"Allow me to demonstrate." He took the phone and pressed a button on the side. "This here is the power button, you press it to open the screen." The boy then swiped up and a multitude of tiny logos and photos showed up.

"Marco, this can't be a phone. It has no keypad or other buttons aside from the power key thing." Star narrowed his eyes, still unimpressed.

"Star, the reason it's called a SMART phone is because you can touch the screen and command it by voice." Marco explained, and Star whipped out her mirror.

"I can do that with my mirror too! Watch." Star cleared her throat. "Mirror mirror, call Tom." The device then rang out and responded. "Calling. Tom."

"Hello? Star?" Tom spoke as he picked up on his end. "Hiiii Tom! Marco here was just showing me his lame smartphone thing. Even though it's nothing new that mirrors can't already do." Star spoke, and Tom looked confused.

"Okay, so you called me... to prove a point?" Tom raised a brow, and Star looked panicked. "Oh nononono, of coooourse not! I also wanted to see how you were dooiiiing!" Star then started walking away, distracted by her conversation with Tom. Marco shrugged and decided to ask the clerk for details about the phone.

"I'll have one in black and one in prussian blue, if you have it." Marco asked, and the clerk went to the back to grab the item.

Star and Marco jumped out of the portal, the latter now holding a paper bag in his left hand. He closed the portal and looked at Star, who was eating takoyaki that she bought from the food court. "Marco these are so good. How have I not tried them before?"

"Well, we haven't had the chance to?" Marco chuckled, in the time that Star spent living on Earth, there were still a multitude of things about his planet that she didn't know or find out about. But she has every chance to do so anyway, he did have scissors after all.

She finished off the last of the takoyaki and wiped her mouth clean with her arm. "Alright well, that was a really cool impromptu hang out with you, Marco. But I gotta go see Tom, we made plans for tonight."

"Okie dokie then, it was nice hanging with you too. Have fun with Tom!" Marco waved and walked away. Happy that he finally had a new phone and was about to give Eclipsa one of her own.

Star waved back and went off her own way too. Happy that she got to spend a bit of time with her best friend, even if it wasn't an action filled adventure like they usually go on.

Marco knocks on the Queen's office and waited for a response. The door opens, and the stench immediately hits his noise which causes him to step back a bit and hold his nose. "Oh, Marco! I was just about to look for you!" The queen continued wiping away at her hat.

"Eclipsa, is that... pigeon poop? Why does it smell extra bad?"

"I don't think I need to explain that. Anyways, come on in!" Eclipsa stepped aside and allowed the boy to walk in with him still pinching his nose to keep the stench out.

The boy then set the paper bag down on her table while Eclipsa closed the door and went back to her chair. "So, what do you have there? Is it food?"

The boy finally let go of his nose, deciding to endure the stench in order to properly open the box holding the novel technology. Eclipsa clasped her hands in front of her as her eyes lit up with curiosity.

"What could that possibly be?" She asked again, and the boy continued to unpack the box in silence and focus. Careful as to not accidentally drop it. This thing is expensive, he kept in mind.

Once it was out of the box, Marco finally explained. "Alright Eclipsa. Since it's clear that you have a bad habit of forgetting things. I decided to get you, in my opinion, Earth's greatest masterpiece! The smartphone!" He smiled as he gave it to her.

"Oh and be careful, those things break easy if you drop them." He says as he reaches into the paper bag again, "But not to worry! I also bought a case." He takes out a package from the bag and opens it to reveal a case made of a bouncy and violet material, it had a bunny design. He expertly wraps the case around the new phone and decided to give her a quick crash course on how to use it.

"My, quite interesting indeed. I've seen Janna use one of these but I never bothered asking for the specifics." The queen spoke as she tapped away at the screen with her face full of wonder, like a child with a new toy. Through her mindless tapping, her screen suddenly showed an image of herself. This took her by shock and she reflexively leaned back away from the phone. "Oh dear!"

She realizes that it was her... reflection? "Marco, you didn't tell me that this thing has a mirror function. How handy!" She spoke with delight, and the boy stood next to her.

"Oh that's the camera app, you use it to take photos. This phone has a front camera and a back camera, so you can take selfies AND regular photos."

"Ah, what is a selfie again, my dear?"

"Here, I'll show you." Marco took the phone from her, sat down next to her in her office chair, and positioned the camera to capture both of them. "Smile, Eclipsa!"

The queen was a bit confused, but did so anyway. The screen of the device blinked, and Marco fiddled with the phone to go towards the gallery. Eclipsa was still clueless. "So, what was that all about?"

The boy simply responded by showing her the device's screen, it showed an image of her and the boy just moments ago. Her eyes widened in amazement. "I see! So it takes photos in an instant! That's quite the surprise!" She spoke with a giddy tone. "Let's take another!"

"O-okay, yeah! Sure." Marco agreed, and they proceeded to take many more selfies. The pair coming up with the silliest poses and filling the room with laughter as they zoomed in on their own faces.

"Oh, right. Before I forget." Marco says, "Here's the Notes app. You can type in your plans and important dates here, and just click this bell thing next to it so that the phone rings whenever you need a reminder." He explains carefully with Eclipsa grasping every single concept with utmost care and attention, she nodded and finally took the device.

"Thank you, Marco. This is gonna come in handy. Now I won't have to forget my meetings and duties." She stood and tidied up her table, Marco stood up as well.

"That's good! Now anyways, I gotta go attend a meeting with the knights. Just a quick status update on my end. See ya, queen!" Marco bowed really quick then walked out of the room, Eclipsa waved with a smile.

The queen then decided to walk towards Meteora's room to take photos of her, so she whipped out her new phone on the way. On the screen was a photo of her and Marco smiling. She thought it looked adorable and wanted to send it to Marco, but she realized a moment later that she didn't know how. So she decided to press buttons on the screen with the photo, not knowing which one led to what she wanted.

Eventually, she reached Meteora's room, and she had pressed all the buttons, but to no avail. She shrugged and decided to just ask Marco how to do it tomorrow. Eclipsa pressed the home button on her phone and was a bit surprised to see that her home screen was now the photo of her and Marco. She smiled.

"Oh, that's neat. I like it."

Author's Note: First off, I am SUPER DUPER LIKE REALLLY INSANELY SORRY. It took me almost a year to update this story. Crazy how time flies when real life is happening. HAHAHA

But I've recently rewatched the show, and I remember that I decided to do a hiatus was because the ending of the show really threw me off. The ending was alright, but it had so much more potential. There was still so much to be explored upon, but I suppose we have fanfictions for that. Just a shame that the show ended at the point that it did, it could've gone on for another season for a cleaner ending. But hey, I'll take what I can get. And what I CAN get is that I can write my own ending, and therefore WELCOME BACK TO THIS FANFIC!

Reply to Reviews:

To retnuh1000 - I've re-read my story, and now that you mention it, yeah the action scenes ARE lacking. Thank you for pointing that out! As for the cop out thing, you have a point too, but perhaps I have a plan in mind hehehehe

To The Diamond Hybrid - I think the new chapter is coming out today. HAHAHA I'm really sorry for updating late.

To Phil Swift - You're gonna have to read on to find out ;)

To Notinterestingname - Sorry, you had to wait almost a whole year instead. HAHAHAHA aaaaaa but im baaaaack i missed ya'll

To allen Vth - Changes are indeed a-coming! For example: Me updating after almost a whole year. Yes, changes!

To Mr. Haziq - Nah, they just showed up due to intense emotion. Sorry I didn't make that clearer in the storyyy

To Princess Luka Vocalzal - You have a point! Meteora definitely needs to get out more! So stay tuned to find out if she doooeees.