At the bunker, Sasha put Anne in a bed. She didn't know how many times Anne used the calamity power today but it must've taken a lot out of her.
'The only upside is that she's slowly building up resistance.' Sasha thought.
"Rest easy, Anne." Sasha said, "You earned it."
Anne hummed in her sleep, somewhat agreeing as she rested. Sasha left and let out a sigh. Who knows what they're about to deal with.
'But at least now, we have a better chance.' Sasha thought as she caught sight of Polly expertly wiring Frobo's head onto a new body as other frogs watched her. 'Polly seemed to learn a lot about engineering on Earth, she can rewire all these minion bots into line of defense for Wartwood II.'
Counting all of drones Grime and Toadstool brought in, they had about 20, not including the one Polly was giving to Frobo.
"Hey, Polly, how good are you at rewiring something?"
"Pretty good! I got a lot of help from some new friends in L.A." Polly said as she held out her hand. "Wrench, Wally!"
"I still think this isn't a good idea!" Wally said as he held a bucket of tools, handing Polly a wrench.
"I didn't ask for your opinion!" Polly said, waving the wrench at him in a threatening manor.
Wally flinched at the pollywog as she went back to work, almost getting Frobo's head completely on.
"Are you almost down, Polly?" Frobo asked her.
"Almost, Frobs! Just a bit more and you'll be walking again." Polly said, smiling to her robotic friend.
"Hey, Polly, when you're done with fixing him, think you could help me out with these other robot?" Sasha asked.
"Sure. You said something about rewiring, right?" Polly asked.
"Exactly. With your help, Wartwood II will have A line of defense." Sasha said with a nod.
"I'm in!" Polly said.
More robotic experience was GREAT! It would mean Polly could upgrade Frobo if she needed to or make him some friends!
"Where do we start?"
"That one over there." Sasha said as she pointed to one against a stone, being poked with a stick by Ivy. "Ivy, stop poking."
"Nope, it could still be on." Ivy replied as she kept poking the robot.
"I don't think it is." Sasha said.
"And done!" Polly said, jumping off of Frobo and his new body! "Try it out, Frobo!"
Frobo stood up and started moving his arms.
"Arms, functional." He said before he began walking around, this body was lighter than his old one. "Legs, functional. Thank you, Polly!"
Moving towards the pollywog, the robot gently picked her up and hugged her as she hugged back! "He works! This is amazing!" Polly said.
"But can be control the weapons system?" Sasha asked.
"Let's see. Frobo, show us what weapons you have but don't fire them!" Polly said to her friend.
"Of course, Polly." Frobo said as he put Polly down.
Large rocket launchers popped out of his back.
"Ooh!" Polly said with interest before arm sideways blade popped out of the left arm and a machine gun barrel popped out of the right arm. "Awesome!"
'Not exactly but at least they didn't use ALL of their weapons on us.' Sasha thought.
"Weapon systems are functional, switching to disarm until needed." Frobo said before popping all of his new weapons back inside his body.
"Alright, we know he's up to system." Sasha said, "Let's get working on the other ones."
"Right." Polly said as she, Sasha, and Frobo headed to the other minion robots to rewire.
Meanwhile, Anne was dreaming... she thinks. All she knows was she was she was in Wartwood, but it was deserted.
"Hello? Hello?" Anne asked, looking around for anyone.
"Anne?"
Anne turned around.
"Marcy?"
There before her was Marcy, looking exactly like she did before Andrias stabbed her in the back!
"Anne!" Marcy said as she ran towards her and hugged Anne, feeling so real! "You're okay!"
"Marcy!" Anne said, "You're not some dictator!"
Marcy flinched at this as she pulled away from the hug, looking at Anne with a sad expression.
"Anne, that…that is real but not in the way you think." Marcy said sadly.
"What? What do you mean?" Anne asked her before asking again. "Isn't this a dream?"
"It took everything I have, but I can finally talk to you about this."
"About what? And what do-" Anne asked her.
"This is a link, Anne. A link made when Darcy reconnected with the green calamity jewel." Marcy said before she waved her hand, making a ruined building look good as new. "Anything we want is possible to certain extent, like communicating with you now."
"But what about Sasha?" Anne asked.
"She's cut off from her gem so she can't join us." Marcy said before she stepped away. "There's something I HAVE tell you and show you."
Marcy waved her hands all around them, making Wartwood disappear before it created the chamber below the castle she was held in to heal.
"What the?"
"Anne, this entire thing, this... war. Things are going to change and I don't know what will happen."
Anne didn't like how Marcy was talking but she always felt this was going to happen.
"I-I get that but, why are w-" Anne turned to see Marcy being pulled out of a tube full of glowing liquid by Yunan and Olivia.
"This is how Darcy came to be." Marcy said with a growl. "I wanted to show you that what's been attacking isn't me, I would never do any of this."
"Marcy, I know you would never do this." Anne said, "You're too nice to become some tyrant."
"I know but…..they aren't." Marcy said as she pointed to the Core dropping down after Andrias stopped Yunan and Olivia from leaving with her.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!" Anne asked in shock.
"Andrias called it "The Core." An eternal embodiment of Amphibia's greatest minds and I'm it's host." Marcy said sadly as the memory showed her restrained and hooked up to a chair. "It downloaded into my body and has taken control."
Anne watched it happen, terrified of what she witnessed. Marcy was struggling in the chair as that black, large antlered helmet lowered onto her head! Yunan and Olivia watched in worry as Andrias just looked away, once the helmet was on Marcy screamed in pain as Anne looked away and covered her ears!
"It's as painful as it looked." Marcy said.
"And... what happened to Oliva and Yunnan?" Anne asked.
Marcy looked down.
"I... I killed them."
"Y-You….No! No! You did not kill them, that thing controlling your body did!" Anne said to her.
"But their blood is still on my hands." Marcy said as she looked at her hands. "Hands, I might never be in control of again as long as I'm a prisoner in my own body."
"Then we'll save you, Sasha and I WILL save you." Anne said as she grabbed Marcy's hands.
Marcy looked at the ground.
"I don't know if you can."
"You're right."
Anne and Marcy jolted at the new voice, turning around to see Darcy looking towards them with a smile.
"It's her." Marcy said in fear as she shook in place.
"Darcy." Anne said with a glare.
"Did you really think I wouldn't sense this? Oh, Marcy, you're a bright girl but you still have much to learn." Darcy said as she got up from the memory chair and walked to them.
"St-Stay away!" Marcy said as she moved in front of Anne to protect her.
Darcy didn't listen before stopping three feet before them and looking to Anne.
"Oh, if only I could hurt you here." Darcy said, "But I can't, so let me make this clear... stay out of my way."
"Or what?" Anne asked.
"Or... I hurt her." Darcy said, pointing at Marcy.
"As long as she and I share a body, I can make her imprisonment more unpleasant than just being forced to watch me scheme."
"You're lying." Anne said, denying her threat.
"Do you want to take that chance?" Darcy asked with her smile widening, "Maybe you need a demonstration."
Darcy bent her finger backwards, which cause Marcy pain in the same finger.
"We're connected, which means that any pain I get, instantly transfers to her."
"But this isn't the real world, it's a dream!" Anne said to her.
"Dream or not, as long as I am in control, Marcy will feel great pain if you continue to get in my way." Darcy said before she broke her own left arm over her knee.
"AAAH!" Marcy screamed as she held her left arm.
"See?" Darcy said as her arm corrected itself but Marcy still felt pain.
"Now, think about this, what would you rather have?" Darcy asked, "Your friend in pain, or your little town destroyed?"
"You already destroyed Wartwood!" Anne said as the void changed to the ruins of Wartwood from when she returned
"Ah ah ah but your little town isn't a place, Anne." Darcy said as she held out her hand, making the amphibians of Wartwood appear the size of bugs. "It's the people within it."
Darcy closed her hand and crushed all of them in her grip.
Anne closed her eyes while Darcy leaned over to whisper in her ear.
"I'll give you some time to think about it."
Darcy poked Anne's forehead, making her falls backwards and hit the ground before she jolted up in her bed!
"Ah!" She let out as she looked around, seeing she was back in the medical tent of Wartwood II.
'Marcy." Anne thought, remembering the linked dream.
Anne wanted to cry, this entire thing was so much worse than she thought. She can't even fight her now because she would be hurting Marcy.
'What can I do?! What can I do to save everyone without losing anyone?!' Ann thought as her eyes began to water.
She slammed her fists on the bed, this was a lose lose situation.
"What am I supposed to do?" Anne asked as she began crying, her tears falling on her lap.
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