This is the first part of a movie idea I had. I originally wanted to do more of a script with included images, but I just don’t have the time or energy to do that to the degree it’s in my head, so here’s the first fourth~ish of my movie idea that tries to stay similar in tone to the show and would answer some questions that were left hanging. Also, the end of this section will probably make you think it’s going in the way one would expect from someone with my character preferences, but I think you may be surprised once I get farther into it.

1

“Many Years Ago”

Fade In

Hekapoo is seen holding an infant Festivia with Omnitraxis, Lekmet, and Rhombulus walking out of the room.

Omnitraxis: “We’ll call for the caretakers, keep an eye on the new princess until they get here.”

Lekmet: “Baaaaah”

Hekapoo: “Yeah, yeah. It’s not like I’m gonna drop her.”

The door closes behind the Glossaryck brothers leaving Hekapoo alone with Festivia. The infant reaches up, making babbling noises, then starts shaking her arms.

Hekapoo (holding Festivia up so they’re eye to eye): “Oh we got a little party animal here.”

Festivia giggles and Hekapoo smiles. “When you get older I’ll show you how to really party.”

Fade Out

2

“Many Years Later”

Fade into Hekapoo yelling as Moon tries to pull a toddler Star off her horn while Star screams “Mine!” repeatedly. Hekapoo nearly falls over when Star is finally pulled free.

Moon: “I’m so sorry, Hekapoo. The book said you practically raised Festivia, so I thought Star might take to you…not try to take something from you.”

Star (still reaching towards Hekapoo’s horns): “Mine!”

Hekapoo (rubbing the base of the horn Star was grabbing): “Yeah, well she’s quite the aggressive little party animal, isn’t she?”

Moon (sighs): “Her father’s influence I suppose. Maybe we can find her a head band or something so she’ll think she has horns of her own.”

Hekapoo (shrugs): “Sure, you do that. But if there’s nothing else, I’m going to head back to the forge. Someone’s gotta keep an eye on the portal network so no worlds get smashed together or anything.”

Moon (laughs): “Oh Hekapoo, who would even be capable of such a thing.”

-Cut to Star and Marco walking down the street of a post-Cleave Echo Creek-

The familiar toll of the opening song notes starts. What looks like the wand is pushed in front of the camera, but then pulls back to show it’s the face of Star’s watch as the opening continues. The opening would be a modified version of the show’s regular opening, but instead of jumping through portals Star drags Marco through doors and windows, with each small scene they jump through giving a glimpse of life after the Cleave. Their parents, along with Eclipsa and Globgor having a cookout while Mariposa and Meteora play, Ludo and his band of monsters landscaping, Jackie and Chloe (I guess) skating by, a glimpse of the military at the edge of town, and so on until it culminates in the final shot from the season 1 opening of Star and Marco standing in the center of a big group of characters, but in addition to those in the original opening there will be all the characters introduced since then for one massive group shot.

3

The shot starts black, which is revealed to be the interior of a fridge when Star opens the door and faces the camera while looking for something.

After a few seconds of her not finding anything and making “thinking noises” Marco, who can be seen sitting at the table behind her looking through a stack of papers, says: “Can I help you find something, Star?

Star (looking back at Marco): “Do we have any more of that brown goop?”

Marco: “You mean the disgusting leftover Glossaryck pudding that you wouldn’t let me throw away and that you’ve been snacking on for weeks?”

Star: “Yeah, the pudding (extra drawn-out emphasis on the word pudding, almost like she’s saying it for the first time).”

Marco: “No, Star, you finished the last of it yesterday.”

Star (turning to Marco): “Aww man, I was in the mood for pudding.”

Marco: “We can pick some up la-”

The alarm app on Marco’s phone sitting on the table goes off, drawing both their attentions.

Marco: “Looks like there’s no time for pudding anyway, we gotta go or we’ll be late.”

Star: “Last one to the backyard’s a rotten corncob!”

Star races out of the kitchen towards the backyard. Marco smiles and stack all his papers together before putting them into a backpack and following after her.

The scene shifts to the Diaz backyard, where there’s now a large pen for Nachos and Cinnabar (Hekapoo’s dragoncycle). Star is leaning over the side, swinging her feet back and forth while watching them eat.

Marco: “Are you going to take Cinnabar out today? Or are you riding with me again?”

Star (puts her hands on her hips and feigns annoyance): “Marco, how am I supposed to hold onto you like a girlfriend should if we’re not on the same dragoncycle.”

Marco (rolls eyes): “We gotta find you a different channel to watch besides that one that only shows 50’s biker movies, but alright. Nachos, time to fly, girl.”

Nachos looks up from her bowl and excitedly takes off, jumping the pen fence and landing right besides them. Cinnabar briefly looks up at Star, growls, then goes back to eating.

Star: “I think Cinnabar still doesn’t like me.”

Marco (hooking his backpack to the back of Nachos’s saddle and then mounting her): “She’s still just getting used to all the changes.”

Star: “And she misses Hekapoo.”

Marco (briefly looks away while his hand tightens on Nachos’s horn-handle, then looks back at Star with a smile): “Well there’s nothing we can do about that right now. Not if we want to actually be on time for once.”

Star (hops on Nachos behind Marco, princess style, and wraps her arms around his waist): “Then we better get going!”

Marco (revving Nachos horns): “You heard the lady, time to fly Nachos!”

Nachos takes off. The camera follows behind and then slightly above to give a sweeping view of the fused Echo Creek. They fly past the ponyhead cloud kingdom, over the entrance to the underworld, and between castles and skyscrapers that make up the skyline until they start to descend towards city hall.

Marco (once they come to a stop at the entrance): “Here you are Ambassador Butterfly (emphasis on the word ambassador)”

Star (hops off and kisses Marco on the cheek): “See you after work Principal Diaz (emphasis on the word Principal)”

They laugh and Marco takes off, leaving Star to go inside.

4

Star skips though the townhall entryway, greeting everyone she sees by name, until she reaches a door labeled “Inter-World Conference Prep Room.” She pauses, takes a deep breath, and steps inside. There she sees Moon and Eclipsa talking beside a playpen with Meteora and Mariposa inside.

Eclipsa (looks up, noticing Star): “Well look who’s on time.”

Moon (smirking): “Wonders never cease.”

Star (sarcastically): “Haha” (leans over the side of the playpen) “Hey babies! Mariposa, are you being good for Eclipsa and Globgor while your parents are on vacation?”

Meteora and Mariposa: (happy giggling)

Eclipsa: “She’s been very good, like a little angel.”

Moon (crossing arms and leaning towards Star): “And have you and Marco been good (emphasized) while the Diazes have been away?”

Star (exasperated): “Yes mom.”

Moon: “Well good. Now I hope you’re ready, we have a full docket today.”

Star: “Really? Anyone we know?”

-Cut to a table with Star (slumped over), Eclipsa, and Moon sitting at one end while Ludo (wearing a little suit) and human man (let’s call him Bruce, it doesn’t really matter) yell at each other from either side-

Bruce: “You’re stealing all my landscaping business!”

Ludo: “You’re stealing all my remodeling business!”

Bruce: “Well that ain’t hard, I’ve seen the shoddy electrical work your boys do.”

Ludo: “Well your team of ne’er-do-wells wouldn’t know how to stack a stone feature if their lives depended on it!”

Eclipsa: “Now boys, there’s no need to be so hostile. Just like when I used to work on combining magic, trying to put together two volatile spells will just cause everything to explode.”

Moon: “That’s a very good analogy, Eclipsa.”

Eclipsa: “Thank you Moon.”

Ludo and Moon look at the two former queens with expressions that say they obviously don’t get it.

Bruce: “Look ma’am, I’m sure that means something interesting wherever you’re from, but that doesn’t help me when this little chicken-man is messing with the livelihood of me and all the employees of Campbell, Inc.”

Ludo (outraged): “Chicken-man!? I’ll show you a chicken man!” (snaps fingers, the chicken-headed monster from his crew, dressed in construction-style clothing, steps out of the shadows and next to Ludo). “You’re keeping all of us at Avarius Construction Co. from getting our foot in the door! So if you want to see what a chicken man can do, we’ll show you right here right now!”

Star: “Ok, why don’t each of you take a deep breath and calm down.”

Ludo and Bruce give Star the stink eye.

Star: “Look, these meetings are supposed to be about helping fix the problems between people from earth and people from mewni, but we can’t do that if you just start fighting from the get go. So why don’t each of you give the other a…um, opposite of an insult…”

Moon: “Star dear, do you mean a compliment?”

Star: “That’s it, give each other a compliment!”

Ludo and Bruce each lean back and cross their arms, each now refusing to look or speak to the other.

Star: “Come on.”

Ludo: “Fine. I guess his team is pretty good at the electrical side of things. We sent some boys off to study it, but it’s been slow going.”

Bruce: “Well, I guess it is pretty impressive how fancy you all are with your stonework.”

Ludo (embarrassed): “Well you know, you get a feel for it after rebuilding a castle so many times.”

Moon: “That’s a wonderful start. Maybe now we can start to discus ways you two could work together to not impede one another’s businesses.”

Bruce (ponderously): “Working together huh…that’s not a half bad idea.”

Ludo and Star: “Huh?”

Bruce: “The Avarius and Campbell teams come together. My boys will help yours learn all they need to know about the wires and pipes that fill a home, and your boys teach mine about all style and finesse that goes into the exterior work.”

Ludo (smiling mischievously): “Then not only would our teams figure out the other aspects of the job…”

Ludo and Bruce (excitedly): “But we could charge even more!”

Star: “Uh, that wasn’t really what I had in-”

Bruce: “What do you say we go draw up some paperwork for this joint venture right now?”

Ludo: “I say let’s do it!” (jumps off the table, but looks back at Star before making his way out after Bruce and smiles) “Thanks Star!”

Eclipsa (as everyone but she, Moon, and Star files out): “Was that a good outcome?”

Moon: “Well, they weren’t fight anymore…so technically I suppose it was.”

Star (slouching in her chair): “I hope Marco’s day is going better than this.”

5

-Cut to Marco landing in front of the high school while Mr. Blue Sky by ELO (or something similar in tone) plays-

A banner over the entrance reads “Mewni catch-up month” as Marco dismounts Nachos, grabs his backpack, and heads inside. The tune continues, Marco basically bobbing to the beat as he goes down the hall and passes open classrooms. Each classroom’s door is clearly marked with a subject, with mewmen, monsters, and demons filling the student desks while one of the Echo Creek natives we all know and love stands at the front of the class. Alfonso in Math, Jackie in history, Janna in shop (though she seems to be showing them how to make lockpicks), and so on. Marco finally arrives at the principal’s office, approaching the intercom as the tune starts to fade out.

Marco (into the microphone, as he talks different shots of the classrooms listening to him over the intercom are shown): “Good morning Echo Creek students new and old alike. I’m Marco Diaz, your state assigned mediator and I’d like to welcome you all to another day of learning. Thanks once again to all the mewman, monsters, and demons for coming and thank our volunteer teachers for helping everyone to catch up with earth subjects so that we can all start the next semester together. As usual I’ll be making rounds for a good part of the day, but if you need anything don’t hesitate to reach out to me. And above all else, have a great day.”

The tune fades back in as a montage starts that jumps back and forth between Marco mostly having a great day assisting different classes (maybe have slime mix some chemicals with himself and catch fire at one point just for fun) and Star growing increasingly frustrated with dispute after dispute between monsters and humans, humans and mewmen, and monsters and mewmen. She would also start to have bags under her eyes near the end of it. This would go on until the song reached its natural conclusion during a Marco part of the montage and the school bell goes off.

Marco (shouting for all to hear as the mewmen, monsters, and demons file outside the school as he stands where the parking lot meets the football field): “Alright everyone, now it’s time for the active part of the day. For those of you that brought something with wheels, follow Jackie to the parking lot.”

Jackie (raising her arm and shouting): “You heard Diaz, follow me skaters, bladers, and bikers!”

Jackie skateboards off with Rock Johansen (on a homemade, Flintstones-like bike), Courier-chan on her own skateboard, and Penelope Spiderbite in rollerblades, among others following after her.

Marco: “As for the rest of you, (pulls a football out from behind his back) today we’re going to give football a go. It’s sort of like cornball, but weirdly both simpler and more complex.” (Tosses the football to Tom) “Will you get them start on the field, I need just a minute.”

Tom: “Will do.” (turning to group) “This way everybody.”

Marco watches everyone file towards the field, including Rich Pidgeon (in his mech suit) who’s making his way up next to Tom in the procession. Marco seems content, even as Janna steps up beside him with one of her mischievous grins.

Janna: “So how’s the honeymoon going?”

Marco (still smiling as he turns to face her, in the background you can see Tom pass Rich the ball): “Not gonna let you bait me today, Janna.”

Janna: “Liar, I always get you to take the bait.”

Marco: “Well there’s still some time left in the day for you to try I suppose. Though, before that, I need you to stop teaching everyone how to be…well, criminals.”

Janna (feigning surprise): “As if I would ever do such a thing.”

Marco (crossing his arms): “Yesterday I caught you teaching a class how to hack military software.”

Janna: “psh, that’s an important life skill.”

Marco: “It’s an illegal life skill is what it is.”

Camera jumps to the field where Rich still has the ball.

Rich (winding up a throw with his robot arm): “I’ve been studying this game, watch the ‘wicked’ spiral on this throw.” (throws the ball super hard)

Camera jumps to the parking lot, where Jackie is instructing everyone on how to keep their balance. She looks back towards the field and sees the ball arcing up and preparing to come down right towards Marco.

Jackie (shouting): “Diaz!”

Camera jumps back to Marco and Janna, who notice Jackie shouting something, but can only just make out that it has something to do with being behind them.

Jackie (now hard to hear from distance): “…behind…”

Marco (visibly confused): “What’s behind-” (turns towards the field as the football collides with his face).

Screen goes black. It’s silent for a few seconds, then slowly a voice starts to be heard. It’s faint, but repeating the same word over and over, each time becoming just a little clearer until you can finally hear…

Faded voice: “Muscles!”