(Earlier)
The sun shines over the green city of Los Angeles. With buildings having grasstops and plazas full of trees and gardens. The freeways turn into transportation hubs where train tracks and monorails pass by, easing people's way to their destinations. Streets shorten as cars are a rare sight besides buses with communities of people talking and sharing their creativity with the world.
It was just another perfect day for the Calamity Trio. They run and cheer after half a day of learning, ready to have the best sleepover at Marcy Wu's house. Anne and Sasha Waybright run into Marcy's home, excited to see Lord of The Rings with her.
"Hey kids, remember to take off your shoes."
"Yes, Ms. Wu!" Both Anne and Sasha were reminded by Marcy's mom as they entered the Wu household. The two girls, after taking off their shoes, run to Marcy's room while she talks to her dad.
"Marcy, how was school?" asked, messing with Marcy's hair.
"Great! We learned so much today! We were learning to design a website, how to use a game engine, and take aesthetically pleasing pictures!"
"Marcy! We're waiting!" Sasha and Anne called out to her.
"Go ahead. We don't want to keep you any longer." said, hugging her husband as she assured Marcy to continue the conversation at a later time.
As soon as Marcy was let go, she ran to her room. She grabbed her copy of Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers and placed the disc inside her DVD player. As the logos of the companies involved with the film play, Marcy prepares the popcorn and pulls out all sorts of snacks for the gang to enjoy.
"Gosh, Marcy I can't believe we missed out on this film series!" Anne said.
"Right?! This is one of the best film series ever produced!" Marcy hugs the two close to her as they continue watching the classic film.
As the film finishes, the three fall asleep together, holding each other close.
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The barely dimmed sunlight shines on Marcy's face, causing her to wake up. She groans and stretches as she yawns before getting up to start the next day of her hangout session with-
"Sasha…Anne?" Marcy woke up, at first confused as to why the two weren't beside her, and why she was suddenly on her bed. Then reality hit her as she received a text message on her phone.
[Anne!]: Hey Marcy! Good luck on your first day of high school! 3
Marcy struggled to come up with a response to the disappointing message. Tears began to form but after a couple of breaths, she finally replied.
[Me]: Thanks.
It wasn't the best thing to say, but it was the only thing Marcy could've come up with. She placed her phone back on her bed, sitting there as she looked at her dull room that still hadn't gotten set up. After a while of thinking, Marcy got up and took a shower, dressing up for her first day of high school afterward.
"Marcy! Breakfast!" Marcy's mother called for her as she finished dressing. Marcy sighs, walking downstairs to see only her mother home, knowing that her father had already left to work. After eating very little food, she readies her backpack full of school supplies.
"Mom, I'm ready to go to school."
"But you didn't eat much, sweetie!"
"It's fine, mom. I'm not really hungry." Marcy protested with her mother sighing. She didn't want to make Marcy force herself to eat, so she hoped Marcy would eat at her school.
But the tension between Marcy and her mother continues as she drives her to school. Ms. Wu tries to do everything in her willpower to make sure Marcy's first day goes well, despite knowing well that she can't control everything. Marcy just sat there, 'listening' to her mother explaining how everything will go well and not being nervous, only acknowledging it with a simple 'yeah.'
As Marcy arrived in front of her new school, Marcy's mother stopped the car and tried to give her a final piece of advice, but Marcy had already opened the door and left. Ms. Wu was left dumbfounded at how quickly she stepped out of the car, saddening as she drove off to leave Marcy alone in a school full of nothing but strangers.
All of Marcy's classes went by without her noticing the hours of schoolwork and introductions. Introductions where Marcy would only say her name, where she's from, and a short fun fact about her, saying as little as possible. When the bell rang to indicate it was already lunch, Marcy dreaded the idea of going outside just to be with no one but herself.
She didn't bother standing in line to eat the dry and poor school-provided food. Marcy went straight to a nearby staircase to pull out her Switch and play a couple of Smash Ultimate matches, alone, without anyone to give the second controller to, with a level 9 CPU to fight against.
A random group of friends dropped a packet of Kool-Aid powder on Marcy as she played on her Switch. The group of teens ran away as they laughed, with 12th graders watching it play, condemning them but doing nothing to stop them.
"Hey, you ok?" a random student came up to Marcy, asking about her well-being as she stood there like she was nothing but a husk of a human being.
"I'm fine. I'm used to these types of morons at this point." Marcy said, deadpan as she returned her focus on her match.
"You sure, man? It's hard to be a new student in a new area." The girl said, making Marcy perk up to see the person talking to her. She wore all black, playing with some sets of purple unworldly cards. Marcy quickly realized that this girl is a classmate of hers.
"Oh, it's you. That deck girl."
"Deck girl? Is it because of my fortune-telling cards?"
"Yeah, I didn't really pay any attention to the introductions. My bad for forgetting you and your name."
"Aw, don't worry, Marcy! Names Dhalia by the way! You wanna meet some new folks so you won't be alone?"
"Y-Yeah…I guess…" Marcy hesitated as she followed Dhalia to the very corner of the school grounds, seeing 3 other students from her class hanging out with one another before turning their eyes to see her.
"Hey, guys! I'd like you to meet the new kid; Marcy Wu! Marcy, meet my friends Tom, Ashe, and Vee!"
"H-Hi…" Marcy weakly waved her weak arms, greeting the 3 amigos.
"Wait, what do you have on your hand?" Ashe asked, noticing Marcy still holding her Switch with the track 'Final Destination' from Super Smash Bros Brawl playing in the background.
"It's my Switch. I was playing Ultimate by myself earlier."
"Where's the fun of playing Smash without friends, man?" Tom said.
"D-Do you guys wanna play with me then? I only have these joycons with me though." Marcy sheepishly asked, with the group excited to play.
"Yes! I've been dying to put you two in your place!" Vee cheered as Marcy placed the Switch on the ground, taking turns to 1v1 each other.
Marcy smiles as her new friends play alongside her, talking with you about typical nerd stuff that she's into. It had been so long since she's been able to feel like she belonged outside of the Calamity friend group. Marcy felt safe, felt protected, felt companionship, and felt loved. Far away from the horror of reality that tried ever so desperately to escape. However, the thing about escaping is that you could only go so far before being pulled back.
"Andddd, this is mine now!" One of the students from earlier suddenly appeared, grabbing Marcy's Switch and waiting for a big chase to happen. However, Marcy stood up, scaringly calm, facing the bully.
"Give it back," Marcy said, not in the typical whine from victims facing bullies, but rather as a harsh demand.
"Oh wow! So scary! Sorry, but your tough girl act isn't gonna do you any good!"
"The same outcome is gonna happen if you don't give Marcy's Switch back!" Tom yelled out to the kid, but then Dhalia noticed him from before, being the person who dropped the packet of Kool-Aid powder on Marcy.
"Wait a minute, you're the same person as before! Haven't you had enough already dickhead?!" Dhalia quickly called him out.
"Already got your list of insults ready, huh? You see, her reaction wasn't enough to satisfy us, and clearly, this isn't either. So how about we do something like…this!" The prankster threw the Switch across the floor, causing Marcy to cry in horror.
Marcy fell to her knees to examine the damage to her Switch. The screen was cracked open, exposing its circuit to the elements. She wept as memories of her last months with Anne and Sasha flashed before her eyes, realizing the last connection of her old life is now lost.
The moment of sadness over the loss of the last of her innocence is over, as Marcy stares down at the boy that broke her Switch. He laughed hysterically alongside his friends. Her new friends threw all kinds of insults and profanity at the bullies. Tom was ready to hit the smudge look on his face until Marcy rushed in and punched the bully on the nose, breaking it.
He fell to the floor, blood coming down from his nostrils and mouth. He couldn't move and panicked for a moment, struggling to breathe before his body quickly noticed his nose covered in blood and decided to breathe through his mouth. One of the boy's friends tries to retaliate against Marcy, throwing a punch but misses her by inches. The fight begins as soon as it ends, as she violently pulls out a chunk of the boy's hair.
The boy's friend screams for his life, trying to stop the bleeding from his head, but Marcy isn't done with him yet. She tried to continue the fight until her new 3 friends stopped her. Vee pulled her into a bear hug with Tom and Ashe holding her hands, and Dhalia trying to reason with her. Marcy stared down at the bullies that surrounded the two friends, trying their best to help, and when she made eye contact with one of them, it hit her.
The bullies' attitude to Marcy was much of that of typical teenage boys that try to build up a persona of tough wannabe gang members who idolized the lifestyle and ignore its brutality, thanks to their childlike ignorance. But what Marcy displayed reminded them how weak and vulnerable they were.
Instead of seeing Marcy as an easy target, they now fear her. The boy carrying his injured friend sees Marcy's blood-angry eyes, his pupils dilating in fear of her. The classmates who witnessed the commotion gasped and gagged at the bloody pool that had now stained the ground. Teachers that went outside to see what was going on, were left shocked at Marcy's strength. This broke Marcy out of her angry state.
At that moment, she realized that she wasn't like the other kids in her school. They all still have bits and pieces of their innocence, while Marcy has none. She cheated death not once, not twice, but three times, faced with death himself, seeing her home be in shambles thanks to her foolish actions. The most these kids have done that could've caused harm was cheating on their partner or lying. None comes close to Marcy's set of dominos she had set up.
School police walked up to Marcy and her group of friends and escorted them to the principal's office. All eyes turned to Marcy, gossiping about how much they were scared of her.
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Marcy and Vee sat together, hearing their parents have a screaming match with the bullies' parents. Earlier Ashe, Tom, and Dhalia were dismissed because their parents wouldn't answer their phones. So they left with best wishes for Vee and Marcy to not be punished severely. The arguing calmed down as the principal and counselors tried to fight against and Camila's yelling.
"Hey, you're doing better?" Vee asked, breaking the silence.
"No. I'm not." Marcy could barely get the courage to speak.
"Oh, I'm sorry…."
"No! Don't be sorry! Please, this is my fault. It's always my fault." Marcy hugged her legs tightly closed to her, as tears began to fall.
"No, no, no, no! It wasn't your fault! I mean sure, you didn't need to make them bleed but still! These boys had it coming for breaking your property!"
"Don't you get it, though?! I'm…a monster…. The way all those students and staff looked at me, they were all scared of me…I wouldn't be surprised if you guys wouldn't want to be friends with me anymore…."
"We still wanna be your friend, Marcy."
"...Why?" Marcy was shocked to hear it, that it took a moment to even process what Vee said.
"You're really cool! You stood up against some rude ass punk and won!"
"But as you said, I went overboard with the violence."
"Yeah, but we understand why. That Switch obviously meant a lot to you, with the way you speak about it and how you have so many stickers attached to it, showcasing your LA roots! However, what made me realize this was seeing the nametags you had in Smash already; Anna-Banana and Sashy." Vee recalled. "They were your friends, weren't they?"
"Y-Yeah… really close friends that I had to leave behind. There isn't a day that goes by when I stop missing them. We shared a lot of great memories on that Switch, memories that are now gone."
"Nothing is ever truly gone, Marcy. No matter what, you'll always find a way to remember them." Vee smiles, patting Marcy on the back as she begins to wipe her tears away. The two girls hugged it out, making Marcy feel calm once again.
The principal dismisses the parents, announcing that everyone involved in the fight is getting a month worth of suspension. Although satisfied that at least the kid's parents were still getting some form of punishment, Camila decided to have the last word.
"¡Ven aquí! ¡Ven aquí! Vee! Once we get home, I'm going to order her some Pizza Hut to reward them for handling the situation better than you pinche putos!" Camila loudly exclaimed to all of them, with the principal rolling their eyes and the bullies' parents shocked. They weren't given a moment to talk to Camila as she begins to leave.
"Wait, what's your phone number?!" Marcy asked, chasing down Vee.
"Check your pocket," Vee smirks, seeing Marcy's dumbfounded face to see that she somehow placed it in there without her knowing.
"So you're Vee's new friend, huh? Marcy, was it?" Camila asked, kneeling down to get to Marcy's level.
"Y-Yes, ma'am."
"Pfff, just call me Camila, ma'am makes me feel old. Look, I think you know that what you've done was…a bit too much. However, please know that I'm not mad that you dragged my Vee down to the principal's office. It isn't your fault. It's just the dumb administration being as stupid as always. I don't think you're a monster. You're just a kid dealing with some hardship of being new around town. I won't forbid you from seeing Vee, but I'll make sure that if you ever need some help that they'll be there to help you."
Camila's soft motherly nature had Marcy stunned. She felt safe again, calm and happy. Marcy nodded her head, thanking Camila for speaking to her, smiling as she waved the two goodbyes. But her smile withered away, seeing her mother walk passed her, directing her to her car.
The two Wus made it to the car, Marcy's back shivering to see her father look at her with a deadpan look, visibly sighing at her. Marcy hesitantly entered the car, avoiding any sort of eye contact with her father. Through the car mirror, she saw her mother looking at her as if trying to find words to say, but being unable to do so.
started the car and drove off away from the school. The school Marcy won't see for a month. As the Wus drove off, the cloudy skies began to let rain out in the Connecticut area.
"I'm not mad, Marcy." Her mother said. "If I was, I wouldn't be fighting alongside that other woman to get those kids kicked off the school. I'm just disappointed with how you handled yourself."
"So what now?" asked Marcy, who didn't respond. "I see how it is." He coldly responded, with him being elbowed by . "What?"
"Give Marcy a break already. It wasn't too long ago since we moved away from LA." Ms. Wu reasoned.
"We gave her until the Summer to say goodbyes to her friends."
"But she hasn't had enough time to process the fact that her friends are gone." As Ms. Wu tries to reason with her husband, he gets more and more frustrated. He fails to understand why Marcy would still be upset over not seeing her friends anymore, accidentally going on a rant.
"Well, why does she need friends anyways?! I didn't have any friends for half my life! It's like what mom always said-"
"Don't you dare finish that sentence!" Marcy screamed at the top of her lungs, kicking her father's seat. Ms. Wu tried to calm the situation down, however, the screaming match began.
"Where did this new tone come from, young lady?!"
"Since I realized you lack any sense of sympathy and common sense, you cold-hearted monster!"
"I'M NOT THE BEAST THAT SENT 2 KIDS TO THE HOSPITAL!" Mr. Wu yelled so loud that even any nearby pedestrian could hear it as they drove. Her father's face softened, saddening as she saw Marcy's eyes of emotional pain, making him quickly regret speaking in the first place.
It was one thing to call yourself a monster. It's another to hear it from your parents.
He sat there, comprehending why he, an adult, would insult her young growing child. He struggled to come up with the words he needed to apologize to Marcy. But she wouldn't let him have it.
Marcy, in a fit of desperation to get away from her family, quickly took off her seatbelt and jumped out of the car as it moved. Her parents screamed out of fear for Marcy's safety and harshly stopped the car, but it only motivated the young teen to run away, barely missing oncoming traffic.
A car drives onto Marcy's path, quickly trying to stop as its tires screech to a halt. Marcy and her parents looked away, anticipating a gruesome death. The car successfully stops. Marcy faced the driver and passenger, seeing that it was Camila and Vee, who gasped to see her on the streets in the pouring rain.
Marcy continues to run, running straight to a nearby forest, with now Camila and Vee chasing after her as they berate Marcy's parents. Thanks to Marcy's experience in Amphibia, she climbs on top of the trees to hide away from the 4 of them, seeing them walk past them as they call out for her.
As soon as they are far to hear or see Marcy, she climbs down, walking down a mud-covered path. She sits underneath a bridge to hide away from the cold rain wetting her clothes.
At last, Marcy after weeks of holding in the anger, sadness, and desperation for her to go back to the way she was, let it all out. She cries, screaming at the world, hitting the ground, on her knees trying to breathe in between the weeping.
"I SWEAR I'M TRYING, GIRLS! BUT I CAN'T HELP BUT MISS YOU! I KNOW I SHOULDN'T, I KNOW I SHOULD BE TRYING TO MOVE ON, BUT I CAN'T! I WANT YOU GUYS BACK! I DON'T FIT IN! THEY WON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT I HAVE BEEN THROUGH! I'M SORRY! I'M SO SORRY!"
Marcy screams to the heavens, somehow hoping that with the calamity powers that she knew she lost back at Amphibia, she'll be in contact with Anne and Sasha. But aside from the rain and creek in front of her, there was nothing. Alone despite being one with nature.
A doll soon travels down the creek, catching Marcy's attention as it shares similarities to Sasha. She grabs it and confirms it to be a weird creepy recreation of Sasha but in a doll form. Her face seems to split in between her eyes with the fluff coming out of it. What followed after Marcy observed the doll was her phone vibrating. It was a set of messages, messages that seemed nonsensical.
[Anne]: GDSNGSDNSGD! (!$&*!$^ *&(
PTKOJGIRUN394039*#unmccm
54 68 65 79 20 77 61 6C 6B 20 69 6E 20 77 69 74 68 20 79 6F 75 2E 20 59 6F
75 27 72 65 20 68 6F 6C 64 69 6E 67 20 74 68 65 69 72 20 68 61 6E 64 73 2E
20 54 68 65 79 20 63 6F 6D 65 20 6F 75 74 20 63 72 79 69 6E 67 20 69 6E 74
6F 20 74 68 65 69 72 20 68 61 6E 64 73 2C 20 62 65 63 61 75 73 65 20 6E 6F
62 6F 64 79 20 77 69 6C 6C 20 6C 6F 76 65 20 74 68 65 6D 2C 20 6E 6F 74
20 6E 65 76 65 72 20 61 67 61 69 6E 2E
Marcy was confused at the series of letters and numbers that Anne texted. At first, it seemed like she tried to text her something until something happened to cause her to spam a bunch of nonsense. However, the 3rd message looked to be carefully constructed to be a hidden message that she deconstructed before.
"It looks like it's in hexadecimal…" Marcy thought.
Before she could use a converter to decode the message, Marcy suddenly was sinking into the ground as if the dirt had turned into quicksand. Due to the panic, she was sinking quickly to the ground. She gasped for air, screaming and crying. Marcy wasn't about to die like this.
Marcy had sunk into the earth, leaving no traces of her ever being by the creek. She fell into the soil before dropping back to the ground upward, feeling like gravity had shifted. However, she wasn't in Middle earth. The phone's date quickly changed from August 10th, 2020 to October 29th, 1962. If the dates didn't reveal that she seemingly traveled to the past, the music most certainly did.
Al Bowlly's Midnight, The Stars and You plays on a record player, echoing across the hallway, constructed as if it was a 1960s designer's take on what future architecture would look like. Marcy examines the area around her, noticing the song from The Shining despite the fact the film wouldn't come out for another 20 years.
"I'm back in the past?" Marcy thought to herself.
"No, you're not." A voice suddenly speaks to Marcy, shocking her due to it sounding so familiar to her. The person's mechanical steps echo the hallway, walking towards Marcy. To her shock, the person looked like a clone of herself.
"You're…You're-"
"You, from Universe #617" Marcy Wu #617 responded.
"W-Wow, the multiverse is huge! And is this cool castle!" Marcy was excited at this piece of information, and quickly looked for her notebook but remembered that she left it at home, cursing herself.
"You have a notebook too?" Marcy Wu #617 asked.
"Yeah! I have some stuff written down when I was back in Amphibia. How about you?"
"Same here. I always found this place fascinating with its technology. Especially since it's close to how we envisioned the 2000s to be like." #617 explained.
"Well, it's very far off," Marcy explained.
"Welp, that's the multiverse for you. It was interesting to explore this dimension. That was before well…"
"Before what?" Marcy was confused about what her other variant was hinting at. When she signaled Marcy to see the window, she was stunned at what had become of this version of Amphibia.
It was utterly destroyed by nuclear waste. Any remains of plant life that could be seen are the endless amounts of trees that have fallen over. Rotting corpses of both humans and frogs were everywhere on what was once a battlefield. 1960s weaponry has become one with the little nature that was left on Amphibia. Everything from M60s to the Soviet Tanks.
"What…What happened here?! Where's Andrias?! Where's General Yunan?! Where's Lady Olivia?! WHERE'S MY GIRLS?!" Marcy screamed. She couldn't believe what she was seeing behind the glass window.
"Gone! Haha! Looks like invading the human realm during the height of the Cold War didn't go well!" Marcy Wu #617 laughed.
"They…They nuked Amphibia?!"
"Eeyup! With all of the USA and USSR's nuclear missiles! To think that I tried to trick the girls into going to Amphibia so we could escape the world's geopolitical climate!" Marcy Wu #617 laughed more at her past foolish self.
"But…where are they?" When Marcy asked, it seemed to trigger her other variant back to reality. Remembering her sins. Marcy Wu #617 looked back at her original variant as she…
—
(October 16, 1962)
"Come on, Anne! You'll be ok!" Sprig says with tearful eyes, gripping tightly to Anne's stone hands. He looks to see Marcy Wu #617 and Sasha Waybright #617, tearing up to see their friend in such a dire state.
"Don't cry, Sprig. It's ok. Saving this world was the best decision I ever made. My only regret is that…I never got to see Season 4 of Twilight Zone…" Were Anne's last words before her stone state starts to crumble. The dust of the stone becomes one with the water beneath her.
Silence followed, with everyone shocked to see the once bright and young Anne Boonchuy become nothing but cement which poisoned the liquid. However, the silence will be broken by Sasha Waybright slapping Marcy Wu across the face.
"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" Sasha screamed at the top of her lungs.
"Commander! Now isn't the time to throw blind accusations!" Grime tried to reason with his fellow commander, but she ignored his advice.
"No! This is all Marcy's fault!" Sasha pushed Grime away. She looked back at Marcy, slapping her again. Marcy didn't fight back. She just kneeled there, crying her heart out, begging for forgiveness. "IT'S YOUR FAULT WE'RE HERE, AND IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT SHE'S GONE! ALL FOR WHAT?!"
"TO ESCAPE FROM THE WORLD!" Marcy cried out, trying to explain herself. "I WANTED US TO ESCAPE TO ANOTHER WORLD, A WORLD WHERE WE ARE NOT DIVIDED AND NOT LABELED AS BULLSHIT BUZZWORDS MEANT TO KEEP US FROM PROGRESSING AS HUMAN BEINGS!"
Sasha did not buy into Marcy's words. She stood there, fists clenching, ready to punch Marcy. However, before starting a brawl, she screamed out words that broke Marcy.
"You…dirty…little….COMMUNIST!"
Before Sasha could throw a punch, Grime and his men grab hold of Sasha. She struggled against their tight grip on her while Marcy stared down at Sasha. Not as a friend, but as the ignorant detergents she has met throughout her life, who used that buzzword.
In a fit of rage, Marcy grabbed one of Sasha's swords that she dropped and impaled the side of the blade in Sasha's face. Out of shock, everyone let her go as she fell to the water, dead on impact. Alongside the cement from Anne, Sasha's blood and brain matter sink into the water.
All of Amphibia cried out, seeing that the only remaining welder of the calamity gems is a murderer. But at this point, Marcy Wu didn't care anymore. She runs away, angry and confused as to what comes next. But no one bothers to catch her, but they would soon regret that decision.
—
"Ain't that funny, huh? I tried to escape the ignorance of the world, yet I came with the most ignorant person in the world," Marcy Wu #617 chuckled, looking dead at her other variant.
"You…killed her…"
"It was for the best, other me."
"But you killed her!"
"It was one last dumb American to worry about! It's called natural selection! Of all the people who would understand me the most, it would be another me!"
"Is that why…I'm here? So you can somehow make yourself feel good after murdering your friends?!-" Marcy was grabbed by her waist by a robotic arm from the darkness behind #617. The second she saw it, she knew who had returned.
"What? Did you think I tried to conquer all of humanity using this teenage form?" Marcy #617 now in her Darcy form appeared as the helmet connects to her head. Behind her stood the remains of The Core, melted and disfigured by the flames of a bomb.
"Darcy?! B-But your Anne destroyed The Core!"
"She did but I really wanted to get rid of the US and USSR so I brought it back! And I made sure Andrias' family is now under my control! It wasn't really that difficult to do. Also, although right, I brought you here because I wanted your permission with something!"
"F-For what?"
"If I can keep…them!" Darcy #617 trots around to where the curtains suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Darcy opened it, revealing Marcy's Sasha and Anne tied up and awake, shocked to see two Marcys in front of them.
"Why do you have them?!" Marcy screamed, scared for her best friends' lives.
"I search far and wide throughout the multiverse to find the perfect replacements for my friends. Surprisingly enough, there aren't a lot of good Sashas and Annes in the multiverse. But your Sasha and Anne, they are perfection! They are the friends I wish I had back in my world!" Darcy #617 hugged Marcy's two friends, who stood silently, scared of this variant's craze state.
"They're not my property! They are their own beings!" Marcy says, quickly causing Darcy to retaliate, tightening the arm's grip and squishing the air out of Marcy.
"If they aren't your property to claim, then they are mine! So I guess they won't be needing you anymore!" Darcy #617's grip on Marcy tightens more and more, causing Marcy's life to slowly drift away.
Sasha and Anne weren't about to witness Marcy's gruesome demise, so they tried to struggle themselves out of the rope. Luckily, Sasha's hand became free. She looked everywhere that could stop Darcy, but there was only a bucket of old dirty water. Sasha examines the technology that Darcy has and recognizes something as minuscule as water could damage her.
Sasha grabs tightly to the bucket and throws it to Darcy. She lets go of Marcy as she drops to the floor screaming, trying to battle out the electricity shocking her. Marcy, as soon as she gains enough oxygen to function, runs to her girls, ripping and tearing the rope away, freeing them. She grabs their hands and runs, finding a hiding spot in one of the rooms.
"Are you girls ok?!" Marcy whispers.
"Yeah! Thanks to you!" Anne says, hugging Marcy. "I'm so glad to see you again!"
"Shhhh, I miss you too, but that other you stopped!" Sasha shushes the girls, hearing nothing but silence. However, maniacal laughter soon echoes across the hallway. Darcy seemingly survives, getting up to go to her recorder player and going through the endless records she has.
"So what's the plan?" Anne asks quietly.
"Amphibia is a nuclear wasteland, so we can't go outside without wearing protective gear," Marcy explained.
"God, this universe is fucked up…." Sasha thought to herself.
"Wait a minute, I remember passing by a prep room. It could contain some of the gear we need to go outside!" Right when Marcy recalled, the lights were killed across the castle.
Darcy started her recorder player, playing Flanagan and Allen's Run, Rabbit, Run. Darcy starts to stomp her feet onto the floors as she hunts down the Calamity Trio. The only thing lighting the hallways was her robotic figure.
The girls start to move out of the room, hoping that Marcy's guess was correct. However, as they began their travels, a chill traveled through their spine as Darcy began to sing.
"Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, run…. Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, run…. Bang, bang, bang, bang goes the farmer's gun…." As Darcy sang the 3rd verse, she banged on the walls, jumpscaring the girls.
As Darcy continued singing, the girls finally made it to the prep room. They search all over the room for protective gear to shield them from nuclear waste. When they did, there was a problem; they were too big for them. It works but at the cost of the pressure of carrying all the weight from the suits.
They try to sneak their way out, however, Anne mistakenly bumps into the record player. The loud bang alerted Darcy of their presence, hearing the crack of the record breaking as it fell out. Instead of continuing to sing Run, Rabbit, Run, Darcy began to sing a different song.
"A, B, C, E, F, G…" Darcy begins to slowly sing the ABCs, her footsteps light as a feather. The girls quickly hide in the darkest of corners before Darcy arrives. "H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W…X…I SAW SASHA!"
Darcy lungs at Sasha, grabbing her by the neck as Sasha screams in horror before she struggles to breathe. Anne and Marcy try to beat Darcy into submission before being grabbed by her robot arms. Darcy laughs at the faces of the trio, as they fear for their lives.
"There's no way I'll let you guys leave! I need you two to survive in this desolate wasteland! But the reason why you don't want me is because of her!" Darcy #617 points at Marcy, her joyful self gone as rage and anger take control as the little sanity Darcy has left dies out. "Maybe if I cut you away from my two new best friends, I can finally live a happy life!"
A saw blade appears from the air, suddenly out of nowhere. Sasha and Anne were scared shitless, yet confused at the sight of a spinning saw blade coming behind Marcy from seemingly nowhere. Darcy slowly dragged it closer and closer to Marcy's waist. Sasha and Anne looked away, shutting their eyes shut but wishing they could mute Marcy's soon blood-curdling scream. However, a bullet soon piers through Darcy's armor, causing her to fall again. The trio turned to see a group of soldiers circling Darcy.
"Take this and get out of here right now! Get as far away as you can-" One soldier was trying to explain before the saw blade from earlier cut him in half. One by one, the soldiers met a gory death at Darcy's hands as the girls ran for their lives.
"Open a portal!" Anne screamed out.
"I don't know which button opens one!" Marcy panics as she looks at the device.
"Just press any button!" Sasha grabs the device and presses every single button before it opens a portal right in front of them, having them fall through different universes and disappear from sight.
"NO! NO! NO! NO! NOOOO!" Darcy #617 yells before seeing the portal shut close. She hits her head on the wall as she continuously rages on. "Calm down, Marcy…You'll find them soon enough…"
Darcy walks downstairs to the very bottom of the castle, her eyes locking with an interdimensional portal which underneath has remains of numerous Sashas and Annes that Darcy #617 had been brought in before killing them.
"You can't keep running forever, rabbits…." Marcy slowly begins to laugh, before letting out a typical evil loud laugh from cartoon shows, echoing throughout the castle, even being heard from the outside.
The hunt for the Calamity Trio begins.