Star and Twilight entered Discord's mansion, the former shocked at what the mansion had become. It looked the same, but with lots of different strangers at a table while Discord was flipping several pans full of pancakes. Marinette was walking down the stairs when she saw her mother.
"Mom!" Marinette ran down the stairs and leaped at Star, embracing her in a firm hug. Discord's eyes landed on Star and he teleported to Star's side without any arms. The arms were still behind the stove floating as they were flipping pancakes.
"Star, it's so great to see you...I'd hug you but my arms are all the way over there. Can't stop cooking for a second, after all I have at least twenty residents paying for breakfast this morning. Most of them are at the tables outside at the garden though." Discord explained.
"Since when did you turn our former mansion into a hotel-"
Knock! Knock!
"The door's open!" Discord shouted. The door was kicked open and Star was shocked to see Pony Head with a dark blue unicorn and a platinum blonde griffin with mint green and aquamarine feathers. Before Star could speak, the griffin lunged and pinned Star against the wall with her talon snug around Star's neck.
"Did you really think you could just steal my boyfriend and get away with it just because you both moved to a faraway land?" The griffin spat. Despite how uncharacteristically fierce the voice sounded, Star recognized it.
"Jackie?" Star whispered. "Marco's not my boyfriend, I told him I liked him and he r-rejected me. Please let me go."
Jackie's green eyes widened with hurt and she dropped the cyan pony onto the ground. The dark blue unicorn looked hurt as well.
"Who's the unicorn?"
"It's me, Janna." The unicorn pushed her silky mane from her face and revealed the brown eyes that Star liked so much. They reminded her of Marco's. "Was this a long time ago? Because...well, I have feelings for you."
"I...yeah, that was totally a long time ago!" Star lied. "He's married now and he has a son and a daughter-"
"Who is this tramp that thinks she could just steal my boyfriend without a care?!" Jackie growled.
"That 'tramp' is the Element of Kindness, you insensitive ruffian." Twilight snapped. "Fluttershy would never intentionally hurt somepony, not even for love!"
"So Fluttershy is her name..." Jackie's eyes lit up. "I will find this Crudderlie and rip her and her children apart!"
"NO!" Twilight attempted to freeze Jackie with a spell, but she had already bolted out the door. Twilight began to run to the door when Discord stretched his neck around the door, blocking her.
"You get Star to where she needs to be, I'll stop that griffin from laying one of her filthy claws on my dear Fluttershy. Marinette, finish the pancakes and read the orders on the counter. Love you sweetie." Discord's arms gently placed the pans back on the stove and snapped his fingers, his arms reattached to his body in an instant. Discord snapped his fingers again and he disappeared.
Twilight didn't have the chance to correct him as Fluttershy was never his to begin with. Marinette ran to the kitchen to finish the pancakes and Pony Head flew to Star's side.
"Hey girl! I'm sorry that we had to see each other again on not-so-great terms, I owed it to Jackie as one of her closest friends to find Marco and resolve things. But I didn't know she wanted to hurt them." Pony Head apologized.
"It's okay, at least I got to see you two again." Star lifted one of her hooves to hug Pony Head and Janna stepped forward, expecting an answer for her confession of love.
Star walked closer to her good friend and pressed her lips against Janna's. Star pushed down her guilt that Janna didn't know that she confessed her love to Marco only hours ago. After all, saying that she had feelings for Janna wouldn't be a lie for she had developed a crush on her a long time ago, though it wasn't the intense and hopeless love she felt for Marco.
Star pulled away from the kiss and Janna opened her eyes, which were wide and bright with surprise.
"You feel the same way?" Janna's face changed from awestruck to confused. "But how? We haven't talked or seen each other in over a year, I thought you would've forgotten about me by now. You...you left me behind. Why?"
"I had to." Star lied. "Ludo and his monsters were a danger to me and Marco, so we came here for safety. Who knows what could've happened if they found us and we weren't ready."
It seemed that Janna believed her, her confused gaze softened and she leaned her head into Star's shoulder affectionately.
"This is great and all, but we kinda only have an hour or so to talk to Princess Luna before she leaves for Canterlot." Twilight pointed out. "You can bring them with if you want."
Pony Head followed Star as she flew above her while Janna remained really close to her side the entire time the four of them exited the back of the garden and approached the Princess of the moon.
Princess Luna looked up from her strawberry whipped cream pancakes and her tired eyes rose up with interest when she saw Princess Twilight with Star and a unicorn she's never seen before and...a pony head?
"Are you three trying to reattach this floating head back to her body?" Princess Luna deadpanned.
"N-no, she comes from a land of pony heads in another dimensions." Star explained.
"I've brought Star here because I thought that since Princess Celestia has her own school of students, Princess Candace has the Crystal Empire, and I'm not a suitable teacher for Star, you might-"
"You sure you're not being brainwashed right now?" Princess Luna narrowed her eyes at Star.
"I'm very sure, I can prove it to you. Star brainwashed me in the past so she could become Princess. But here I am telling you that she should become your student to learn more about friendship and Equestria and nothing more. She's already a Princess of Mewni after all-"
"Was a Princess of Mewni." Star corrected her. Pony Head and Janna were still shocked by the fact that Star brainwashed somebody to register what she just said.
"Okay, I see no harm in believing you for now." Princess Luna decided. "Star Butterfly, I will take you on as my student and I will give you an offer. Either you can wait till I come back from Canterlot as I have to notify everypony of my leave and help them adjust or you can come with me to Canterlot and we would stay there for about two weeks."
"I would like to come with." Star replied quickly, eager to leave her unrequited love and his vengeful ex behind. "But I would like to bring Pony Head and Janna as well."
"Can I take a rain check on that Canterlot trip doll? My Dad the King says I have to attend this boring dinner to celebrate the new duke or whatever tomorrow." Pony Head sighed.
"Oh, that's fine." Star was disappointed that Pony Head couldn't stay with her, but given that Pony Head partied a lot, it was probably for the best. After all, Star knew that she had to work on being her best self.
"You can bring Janna with you, but is she joining as a student or your friend?" Princess Luna asked.
"Something even better, my marefriend." Star told the Princess.
"Well, this seemed to have worked out pleasantly well." Twilight finally spoke. "Pinkie will throw a goodbye party I'm sure."
"But the next train ride is going to be in less than two hours..." Princess Luna whispered. "But I know how much Pinkie cares about this stuff. If you could just teleport to the Sugarcube Corner right now so she can get the party ready really quickly."
"One more thing...can I come with you guys? I have some ponies to see there." Twilight's ears flattened and she looked away. Star was very confused, didn't Twilight say she wasn't interested in romance?
...No, that can't be it. Maybe it's a special role model that she really admires or something.
"Yes of course, but go and tell Pinkie so we don't miss the train." Princess Luna insisted. Twilight gave a giddy grin as she used her magic and disappeared in an instant. Princess Luna gave a small smile of amusement.
"That Twilight, when I came here recently she seemed so happy. Her friends said that ever since the Changeling attack, she's been the happiest they've ever seen her." Princess Luna told Star, who was even more than confused at this point. The fact that Twilight wanted to see ponies in Canterlot and that she was deliriously happy after the Changeling attack didn't add up.
"Did you three want some breakfast? We have an hour before we need to leave." Princess Luna offered. "Don't worry, I don't mean to brag but I've got quite the amount of bits to spend."
"That'd be great!" The huge time difference between Mewni and Equestria had just occurred to Star when Luna said that. While it was well into the morning here, there was probably an angry fiancee back at Mewni in the evening time. Star cringed at the thought of the angry creature that she escaped marrying.
Best not to think about any guys for a while...