"Alright, put her on a bed." Maddie said.

Once inside the tent, Anne gently put Sasha on the bed as Maddie began mixing a healing remedy for her.

"There you go, Sash." Anne said softly.

"Thanks, and…I'm sorry. For everything, before and after we got here." Sasha said as she rested her head on the pillow.

"That doesn't matter right now. You want to make it up to me? Then survive." Anne said.

Sasha nodded to Anne as Maddie came over with the finished remedy, a bowl of purple liquid.

"Drink this, it'll help heal any internal injuries and put you eye back in place. It won't heal it though." Maddie said.

"Better than having it ripped out." Sasha said as Maddie helped her drink the remedy.

Anne watched as Sasha drank it.

"Lieutenant!"

The tent flap was pulled open for Grime to come in and see his second in command on the bed with Maddie feeding her a remedy and Anne next to her! Grime gasped at the other human, surprised that she and the Plantars are really back!

"I-I-I see you've returned. Allow me to apologize for my previous-"

Anne put a hand on his shoulder.

"Keep an eye on her and consider us even." Anne said, leaving the tent.

"Understood." Grime said with a nod as he sat by Sasha's side, not leaving her.

Anne walked until she found Sprig. She needed to talk to him. He was watching Hop Pop explain the internet to the town's people.

"And it has all of the world's knowledge at your fingertips!"

"Hey, Sprig, can we talk privately?"

"Sure."

"Don't even get me started on cat videos!" Hop Pop said as they walked away from the group.

Anne smiled at bit, remembering their reactions to cat videos.

"Hey, where Polly?" Anne asked.

"Oh, she's with Frobo's head at a pile of destroyed robots. She thinks she can rebuild him with those parts." Sprig said as he pointed to the pile, where Polly was scrounging through with Frobo watching.

The two walked away from the group, where Anne leaned against a wall and slide to the floor.

"What are we going to do?" Anne asked, "This... this is worse than I thought."

Sprig noticed that Anne looked like she was going to cry. Seeing as she had to carry her half dead friend to a shelter full of people she's basically thought of as family, it makes sense that she was scared.

"Anne, it's gonna be alright. We'll think of something." Sprig said to her.

"They only had Sasha to protect them, if I was here I could've helped and I left them!" Anne said.

"Friend punch!" Sprig said, punching Anne.

"Ow!"

"Anne, think about it. In what possible way are you responsible for what happened?"

"I couldn't have given Andrias the box in the first place! I could've listened to Sasha in the first place before we were sent back L.A. and Marcy was stabbed!" Anne shouted.

"You were trying to get home. You had no reason to believe he would do anything like this. He fooled everyone!" Sprig said, "Marcy didn't get stabbed because of you, she got stabbed by him and only him!"

"But if I just TRUSTED Sasha when she LOOK so honest…." Anne said.

"AFTER she just pulled a coup? I wouldn't trust her after that either." Sprig said to her.

Anne put her head on her knees.

"What am I going to do?"

"I don't know." Sprig said, "But what I do know, is that we'll do it together."

Sprig hugged Anne, hoping that it would make everything just a little bit better. Anne hugged him.

"Thank you, Sprig."

"Spranne against the world." Sprig said.

"Hehehehe, any world." Anne said with a chuckle.

"Are you ready to go back?" Sprig asked.

"Give me a couple minutes."

"Okay." Sprig sat down next to her, "I'll be here when you're ready."

The two best friends continued to sit and comfort each other, coming to terms with the situation they have in their hands.


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