Masked Rider Kick Hopper II: Marco Diaz 8!

>Marco took in a deep breath through his nose and slowly let it out through his mouth, lowing his hand until it was hovering directly above the plank of wood he before quickly chopping it in half.
>Star, who was walking past and singing a happy tune, noticed Marco's destructive training "Ooh, you hate wood too?" She asked "Yeah, smash that wood, it's the worst" She rambled while punching the air.
>"No, I'm practicing for my upcoming Tong Su-Dou tournament" Marco replied, looking at Star who seemed to be shaking her head like a dog does when it has something in it's mouth.
>At Star's soft "oh" Marco continued "You see Star, Martial arts is all about honor and discipline" at her nodding he went on "Which is why, I'M GOING TO KICK JEREMY BIRNBAUM'S BUTT!" Marco cheered bombastically, kicking the air before letting out a leftward chop.
>"Jeremy Birnbaum?" Star inquired, unsure who Marco was talking about "Isn't that the talking bear that used to rummage through my Parent's garbage?" She wondered aloud.
>"He's just this creep that goes to my dojo and is only any good because his rich parents buy him fancy equipment and private lessons"     Marco ranted angrily as he turned and placed three planks of wood on his two cinder blocks "But Saturday he's gonna get a taste of this!" Marco roared as he brought his hand down on the planks, not noticing that the section he was chopping was also directly above the leftmost cinder block.
>Several  hours and a trip to the hospital later Marco was laying down and staring at the cast on his hand (already covered in doodles by Star)
>"Man, this is a nightmare." he groaned as he sat up "If I can't fight Jeremy he'll say I wussed out and he'll never let me live it down!" he continued with a frown.
>But inspiration struck when Marco saw Star changing her hair between pigtails and ponytails.
>"Wait a minute, you have a wand!" Marco declared "you can just fix my hand!" he cheered.
>"Y'know, that sorta Spell's not really in my comfort zone" Star said, her hair a mess of pigtails and ponytails "But if you'd like, I could give you a pretty wicked set of pigtails!" She chirped as she gestured towards said mess.
>At Marco's dejected moan Star had an idea "Unless, I could look up a bone healing spell in the magic instruction book that came with the wand" Star wheezed as she dragged the colossal tome from under her bed
>"What!?" Marco exclaimed "This whole time, you had a magic instruction book!?" He inquired.
>"Yep!" was Star's simple upbeat reply. "Whenever someone who owned the wand mastered a spell, they put it in this book!" she explained as she opened the book to a large poof of dust.
>Turning a few pages, Star went on, "But it's a completely disorganized mess, it'll take me forever to fi-" Star stopped mid-sentence as she came upon the spell she was looking for "Oh, here it is!" She chirped.
>"Really?" Marco asked optimistically.
>"It's in an ancient language" Star said before rearing up, wand glowing "Relisuis Demona Investica!" She chanted before blasting Marco's arm, encasing it in a magical shell.
>"I CAN FEEL IT WORKING!" Marco cried above the din of the magic "MY FINGERS ARE TINGLING!" He whooped.
>And then his arm turned into a huge purple tentacle.
>As Marco screamed, Star began frantically searching for a spell to return Marco's arm to normal, only for the tentacle to knock the book out of her window.
>The next morning Marco was awakened by the tentacle slamming across his face, then in the shower it's thrashing almost boiled him alive after slapping him in the face, finally it completely destroyed his breakfast
>A sleep deprived Star walked in giving a tired greeting to Marco and his monster arm. "I was up all night looking for a way to reverse the spell" She groaned as she sat down, only to have her cereal crushed and her orange juice dumped on Marco's head.
>Once the duo got to school the Tentacle seemed to calm down, only lashing out when Sabrina bumped into Marco in the hall (tossing the accident prone girl into a locker)
>As they walked to their   table at lunch, they happened to hear a nerdier student being bullied by Lars, one of the biggest (Physically and Metaphorically) jerks in school.
>'Someone should stand up to that jerk' Marco though to himself before his monster arm lashed out and punched Lars in the face.
>"Who did that!" Lars seethed as everyone else gasped, turning in the direction of the punch Lars saw Marco and his monster arm.
>and midway through his posturing about how no one hit him, the Monster Arm struck again, lashing back and forth across his face until the larger than average student's cheeks were swollen and red.
>As he ran off a silence descended upon the lunchroom as the Monster Arm picked the bullied student up and wiped the food off of his face.
>The nerd walked forward doing a half bow "I, Sir, am in your debt" He said kindly, only to be knocked out of the way by Ferguson
>"Dude, That was awesome!" he cheered "You're a hero! well, I mean you were already but now you're a double hero!" Marco's rotund friend rambled excitedly as everyone started cheering.
>"Hey, can I check out that arm?" Jackie asked curiously.
>"Uhhh, sure." Marco replied as Jackie, Hope and Janna began to study it.
>"this'll be the story of the century!" Janna cheered as she patted the slimy appendage while Hope chimed in about wanting it to be her boyfriend.
>for the rest of the day the Monster Arm seemed to be completely under Marco's control and by that night you could say that the tentacle had grown on him.
>"I found it!" Star cheered, pointing to a rather simple looking spell in the book "A tentacle reversal spell, I think" she finished on an unsure note.
>"Maybe you should practice on something first" Marco intoned helpfully before going back to playing with the Monster Arm.
>"Wayyyyy ahead of you!" Star shot back as she pulled a potted plant out from under her desk.
>"returnicus Armal Normalmeticus!" She cried, only to disintegrate the plant, pot and all, with a skull shaped puff of smoke hovering over where it used to be.
>"Ahm, I'm going to bed now a freaked out Marco said as he shuffled out.
>"Don't worry! I'll get it!" Star called as she pulled out another potted plant and tried again.
>The Explosion woke up half the neighborhood.
>The next morning, a very sleep deprived Star let out a tired "returnius armius normalrido" before zapping the last normal potted plant she had. and in a flash of light the fern was replaced by a normal (If slightly hairy) arm.
>Star gasped as it gave her a thumbs up, and was off it and a cry of "MARCO!" to her bestie's room.
>"673, 674, 675" Marco muttered to himself as the Monster arm lifted him into the air with each push.
>"I did it! I did it! I did it! I DID IT!" Star whooped with joy.
>"Hey, I think this monster arm might actually help me take out Jeremy!" Marco said as he jumped into the air and smashed several planks of wood along with the cinder blocks they were on.
>"wait, you're gonna fight with that?" Star asked, using the potted arm to point at Marco's monster arm "Isn't that a little unfair?" she asked.
>"ooh, funny how you never have a problem using your magic when it benefits you!" he hissed, pointing his tentacle at her "but as soon as it gives me an advantage you wanna take it away!"
>Star, unsure of why Marco was suddenly being so aggressive spoke softly "Marco, I think that arm's a bad influence on you" she uttered.
>"and I think you should go" Marco ground out venomously as he pushed her out of the room with the Monster Arm and slammed the door in her face
>"Man, what does she know" he grumbled, only to jump when Monster Arm began to speak.
>"Don't listen to her" Monster Arm almost purred "She's just jealous" it accused.
>"You can talk!?" Marco cried in confusion
>"You don't need her anymore!" Monster Arm continued, ignoring Marco's question "I can give you everything you've ever dreamed of!" it promised.
>"Really" Marco asked with some trepidation
>"First we'll destroy that little punk Jeremy," spurned on by Marco's affirmation it continued "Then we're going to get Jackie to like you," at Marco's cheer it went even further "Then we'll kill all humans and feast on their bowels!" at Marco's "wait what?" it backpedaled "I mean, we'll win the tournament!" it cried
>"Yeah!" a hyped up Marco replied.
>At the Dojo a super tired Star pushed her way to a seat next to Alfonzo and Ferguson muttering sorrys as she went.
>"Are you okay, Star?" Alfonzo asked worriedly.
>"You look terrible! and I have very low standards." Ferguson added.
>"I've been up for two nights trying to fix his monster arm, and then he gets mad" Star grumbled "an then I gotta come here and watch him Karate, y'know" she mumbled.
>"Allow me to introduce our first competitor, Jeremy Birnbaum!" Marco's Sensei called, pointing to his left.
>"YEAH!" the diminutive jerk cried as he knocked his butlers away.
>"that's Jeremy!?" Star exclaimed.
>"That kid can't be anymore than eight years old" Ferguson commented as the little goblin of a boy walked onto the mat chortling
>"We love you son!" Jeremy's mother called, only to be told to shut up by her little hellspawn.
>"And his opponent! Marco Diaz!" Sensei called as he pointed to Marco, who was standing in the shadows with an ominous look on his face, drawing a gasp from the crowd save for Jeremy's Father and a random woman in the crowd who both seemed rather impressed.
>"Hey wait!" Jeremy whined "He's got a monster arm! that's not fair" the goblin ranted
>"Yeah, pretty cool right?" Sensei said before Monster arm grabbed Jeremy by the neck and yanked him across the room.
>Marco smirked as Monster Arm banged Jeremy about and then smashed him into the ceiling.
>"Point Diaz" a terrified Sensei uttered
>"Where're your private lessons now, Jeremy?" Marco jeered coolly only to mutter a "huh?" as Monster arm picked up the downed Jeremy.
>"Wha ha ha! He's beaten, now finish him!"
>"WHAT!?" Marco yelled
>"This is what you've always wanted!" Monster Arm Cheered "Destroy him! Eat his bowels!" it roared
>"Not my Bowels!" Jeremy cried in terror "I love my Bowels!" he screeched.
>"I just wanted to beat him so he wouldn't make fun of me!" Marco uttered frantically.
>Monster arm almost looked disappointed at this declaration "if you're too weak to do this, I will!" it roared as it turned back to Jeremy and exposed his stomach, making the brat to scream.
>"Star was right about you!" Marco declared as he got between Monster Arm and Jeremy "You're a bad influence!" He declared.
>"And you," Monster arm ground out "Are pathetic!" it roared as it casually tossed Jeremy into one of the punching bags.
>"Point Diaz" a terrified Sensei uttered again.
>"Star! you can change it back now!" Marco cried as he avoided Monster Arm's attacks.
>As Monster arm inflicted various form of harm upon Marco Alfonzo and Ferguson tried their hardest to wake Star.
>Shaking her, yelling into her ear at the top of their lungs, and slapping her face.
>"Here, try this!" Alfonzo said as he handed the drink to Ferguson
>"Thanks, I really needed this" Ferguson said as he took a drink.
>"No, on Star!" Alfonzo said exasperatedly.
>"Oh, right!" Ferguson said before trowing the water into Star's face and waking her up.
>After Star spat the water out she immediately heard Marco's cries for help and from there things went even more insane.
>Hands started sprouting from everything as Monster arm wiggled out of the way of Star's magical blasts.
>"I can't hit it!" Star cried "It's too wiggly!" she screamed
>it was then that Marco noticed the arms on the floor and had a brilliant idea, pushing off the ceiling Marco allowed himself and Monster Arm to be captured by the hands "NOW STAR!" Marco screamed
>"RETURNIUS ARMIS NORMALRIDO!" Star whooped as she blasted monster arm.
>"NOOOOOO!" it screamed as it began to return to normal "YOU CAN'T GET RID OF ME!" it screamed "I'm a part of you now!" it ranted "you can treat the symptoms, but you can never cure the virus." it whimpered before disappearing into Marco's normal arm completely.
>"Marco! are you okay?" Star asked frantically.
>Marco stood up before looking at his arm "My arm!" he cheered "My beautiful arm! it's back to normal!" then came the sickening crunch "and still totally broken" Marco gasped.
>"A broken arm!? Well, looks like I win!" Jeremy brayed, only for a knuckler to drop out of his glove.
>"Brass knuckles, Seriously?" Sensei asked in an exasperated voice.
>"Pffft, Brass? they're gold" Jeremy crooned
>"Both of you boys have brought shame and dishonor to this great and noble sport" he admonished "'Tis a sad day for strip mall dojos" he continued before leaning towards them "everywhere" before stalking off.
>Jeremy looked at Marco before storming off in a huff.
>"what a turd" Ferguson said dryly as Jeremy snapped at his mother on the way out.
>"Ah, Sorry, I should've listened to you Star" Marco apologized.
>"I know" she replied simply.
>"Hey, when the arm said he'd be back, that wasn't anything to worry about, right?" Marco asked
>Star's answer of "Probably not" was not what he'd hoped to hear.
Chapter 8, Compete!