A/N: And now, for Amphibia's side of the 2nd season finale.
Amphibia: Secrets of Newtopia
Chapter 21: True Colors
It started with the Amphibia logo, but then, the logo for "The Owl House" appeared before a bright spell circle was traced with the two inside before it was cast, merging the two logos into "The Amphibia House".
Act I
A flashback was shown on Earth, where Marcy was studying in a library, that is until she received a text message from Sasha, reminding her that it's Anne's birthday.
"Anne's birthday! I almost forgot! Uuh-", Marcy began.
As she stood and packed up, though, a mysterious book fell off of a passing librarian's cart.
"Uh, excuse me ma'am, you dropped your... book?", Marcy asked.
Curious, she flipped through the book.
"Whoa! 'Calamity Box'? 'Travel to other worlds'? Hah! Oh, goofy stuff. Cool artwork, though.", Marcy said.
She took her phone out and took a picture of the page. But suddenly, a text from her father appeared, reading, "Come home. We Need to talk.".
"Huh, wonder what this is all about. Well, guess I'll head home before meeting up with the girls.", Marcy said as she put down the book, put her hood up, and then went home.
Unbeknownst to her, Cotton appeared as soon as Marcy left and then took notice of the book on the table.
"Mew?", Cotton squeaked puzzledly.
With that, Cotton opened the book and found the page regarding the Calamity Box.
"Mew...", Cotton squeaked in worry before vanishing.
Meanwhile, Marcy's home was shown as her father was apparently trying to calm her down as Cotton reappeared outside again.
"Marcy, you have to understand-", Mr. Wu began.
"Me-ew?", Mew squeaked, flying closer to the door.
But Marcy was extremely upset.
"NO! You guys are ruining my life!", Marcy shouted as she ran out of her house, crying, inadvertently frightening Cotton enough to back away to avoid being seen, let alone damaged.
"Marcy, wait!", Mrs. Wu called.
"Get back here, young lady!", Mr. Wu urged as Cotton peeped out toward Marcy's direction.
"Me-we?", Cotton squeaked before flying off after Marcy.
Speaking of Marcy, she was panting and crying until she eventually stopped at a familiar store window and saw the music box sitting atop a shelf.
"Ah. That's weird, is that-", Marcy puzzled.
To know for certain, she pulled out her phone. The box matched the photo on her phone just as Cotton caught up and finally spotted the Calamity Box.
"Mewe!", Cotton squeaked in panic.
"Huh?", Marcy puzzled, turning around to see...
Nothing. Cotton had already vanished before Marcy could spot her. Then, she got a text from Sasha saying, "WHERE ARE YOU?!" and started typing a reply with a smirk, not knowing that Max and Alexis had already caught up in time to see Marcy there.
"I think I just found the perfect birthday present for Anne.", Marcy said as she took a picture of the box and sent it to Sasha.
"We need to tell someone.", Alexis urged.
"I have an idea for someone I can tell.", Max said, typing his own message, which was to Jackie as it read, "Marcy is up to something. We have to stop her before she does something reckless.", before he sent it.
Several months later...
The girls, the Plantars, the toads, and the newts were on the other side of the hill, speaking with one of the toads from Toad Tower.
"Make sure you wait until you hear the signal.", Sasha stated.
"You got it, Lieutenant.", a toad nodded.
With that, the group got on Joe Sparrow, who then started flying over to the castle.
"So, uh... How've you been since, uh...?", Jackie asked.
"Since Aruman and Malthael told us what Andrias was really doing?", Anne began.
"Since we found out we helped him charge the stones to conquer the multiverse?", Sasha added in shock.
"Oh my gosh, Jackie. They're all gonna hate us. They're all gonna hate me.", Marcy said, starting to tear up.
"What? No, of course they won't. Not for very long, at least. Look Remember when we found out you were trying to get us to different worlds, not our own?", Jackie asked, making her look away sadly.
"I'll take that as a yes. The point is, you've done nothing but try and make up for that ever since. It's gotta be worth something. Besides, that was a mistake and you learned from that. Also, I think we've all been duped by Andrias at this point. So, the way things are now, we just have to expose Andrias, stop him, and keep the box away from him. That's all there is to it.", assured Jackie.
Then, Anne turned to Hop Pop and the other frogs and toads.
"But what about them? I don't feel comfortable keeping this a secret from them, and yet...", Anne began before Jackie put her hand on Anne's shoulder.
"We'll tell them. When we're ready.", Jackie said, making Anne smile sadly before nodding.
"Thanks, Jackie.", Anne thanked before Sasha and Marcy nodded in agreement.
"Anytime.", Jackie responded.
Suddenly, everyone screamed as Joe Sparrow landed in the water outside Newtopia. Then, Frobo lifted Joe out of the water.
"For Joe's sake, no one else is allowed to join.", Marcy said.
"Noted.", everyone responded before Anne and Sprig went down to land.
"Wheee!", Anne spoke.
Then, Sasha, her siblings, and the toads jumped to return to land. With that, Marcy got off the Hop Pocket and removed Hop Pop from said Hop Pocket.
Marcy then went to the front gate at a brisk pace.
"Whoo! Back to Newtopia! Alright, let's go over the plan one more time. First I'm gonna get us into the city, Anne's got the music box ready to give to King Andrias.", Marcy stated to Anne, who took the Calamity Box from her backpack.
"Yep.", Anne said before putting the box back in her backpack.
"And finally, Sasha and the toads, hoods up 'til after we give the king the music box. Once we expose him, he'll be floored for sure.", Marcy said.
"Copy that.", Sasha agreed.
"Will do.", Grime agreed as he and Sasha lift their hoods up as do the other toads before walking to the gate.
"Marcy Wu and crew reporting to King Andrias.", Marcy reported to a guard.
He turned to the 2 near the wheel and nodded before they started pushing.
"I don't get paid enough for this.", the guard grunted, he and his partner opening the gate.
Once the gate opened, the group entered and walked towards the castle.
"What an amazing adventure. Shame it couldn't last forever, huh?", Marcy asked.
"Yeah..., it was pretty cool.", Anne said, looking back at the Plantars.
Suddenly, Polly groaned and hopped off Frobo.
"Whoa, Polly, what's wrong?", Sprig asked.
"My butt is so itchy!", Polly groaned in reply, itching said butt, much to Sprig and Ivy's disgust.
"I've got some ointment that'll fix that right up.", assured Hop Pop, taking some "Olde Cream" out of his pocket and squeezing it a bit to show the green cream coming out.
"Hop Pop, no! It stinks!", Polly shouted before screaming as she ran away with Hop Pop chasing her as Sprig, Ivy, Anne, Sasha, Marcy, and their respective siblings and triplets laughed.
"I can't believe we did it. After all our adventures, this is the end.", Sprig spoke fondly before looking sad.
"Whoa. Just because the adventure's over, doesn't mean we can't see each other. As long as we've got that music box, I'll be able to visit. You can even come visit me in my world.", Anne said as she gasped at the very idea she came up with, making Sprig gasp, too.
"That'll be awesome!", Sprig beamed.
"Right, we'll take you to fast food.", Jackie offered.
"I don't know what that is, but yay!", Sprig cheered as Rose giggled.
Then, everyone walked into the castle and saw King Andrias.
"My friends, wonderful to see you. I trust you were successful.", Andrias guessed.
"Boom, baby!", Anne shouted, taking out the Calamity Box from her backpack.
"The charged music box. Well done. Well done! Now, let's finally send you girls home. But first, I'm gonna let you all in on a little secret. There was a time when Newtopia was truly great, but that greatness was stolen from us.", Andrias began as Marcy set up her phone to a screen system and started recording before it showed a flashback, showing not only the castle back in its heyday with a few frobots around in the square, Leif, Barrel, Camila, Belos, and Cotton accompanying Andrias before they suddenly disappeared as they turned away, much to his shock, before it showed the box being taken away by Leif and the castle being powered down up until nigh darkness remained in front of a young Andrias.
"Centuries of prosperity brought to an end because of me. I was weak, trusting those who said they were my friends and because of that, the music box was taken under my watch. It cost us everything and after a thousand years, no one even remembers our legacy.", Andrias continued as said events transpired in the flashback before it went back to the present.
"But now, at long last, the box is back. And with its power, Newtopia will be returned to glory.", Andrias continued as everyone saw the live feed being broadcast, especially the toads, who have already infiltrated the castle.
"That's the signal.", a toad soldier spoke before he and many others took arms against Andrias.
"For you see, my ancestors weren't frail explorers, they were glorious conquerors!", Andrias boldly declared.
"Yep, that pretty much tears it.", Sasha said before snatching the box with her tongue before taking off her hood.
"Now, Grime!", Sasha shouted before Grime took off his hood and, with the warhammer, gave a strong blow to the floor causing a tremor.
Then, a couple of orcs ran to stop Sasha and Grime, but they knocked them out. In response, King Andrias roared, ran across the room, and headbutted Grime into a pillar.
"Stop! Not another move or I smash it to pieces.", Sasha threatened as King Andrias turned to look at her.
"You wouldn't. That's your only way home.", Andrias said.
"Well, if it means you can never hurt our home again, I'll gladly sacrifice my chance to go home.", Sasha only responded.
"You're bluffing.", Andrias glared.
"Try me.", Sasha retorted.
Then, Grime hit Andrias on the ankle with the warhammer, causing King Andrias to fall with a groan.
"It's over, Andrias! You lost! You should just give up!", Anne scolded.
With that, Grime growled, signaling for the rebellion to begin.
In no time, several toad soldiers have sprouted up to battle, alerting the orcs that were lying in wait to react and try to stop them.
Grime then drew attention to the orcs.
"Orcs of Melkor, put down your arms this instant, or the next thing I smash will be the king's head!", Grime threatened as he pointed at King Andrias with the warhammer.
With that, the orcs dropped their spears and raised their hands. The Toad Soldiers started laughing and cornered the orcs.
"Excellent. Open the gate!", Grime commanded before two Toad Soldiers opened the gate and two others put a doorstop on the base and Andrias with his hands tied.
"So you think you've won, do you?", Andrias asked.
"Sure do. And if you think things are bad now, in a couple of hours, the rest of our army will be at your doorstep. Take him to the dungeon and find him an extra large cell.", Grime ordered as outside, Captain Bufo was shown commanding an army of toads.
"You'll never get away with this!", Andrias vowed.
As they carried Andrias, he looked to notice Melkor's shadow form and nodded at him as the demonic shadow growled with a leer. But at that moment, Salamancer saw Andrias being taken away and was livid.
"Well, frogs, say hello to the new rulers of Amphibia. Pretty hot, right?", Grime asked.
"Sorry things got a little crazy back there. You guys good?", Sasha asked.
"Mm-hmm.", everyone nodded.
"And considering what we saw, that's saying something.", Marcy grinned.
"Hear, hear.", Anne agreed.
Suddenly, Salamancer roared as he leapt out and attacked Anne.
"Yuh-oh!", Anne exclaimed in surprise.
Luckily, she was able to dodge the attack, prompting him to strike repeatedly with Anne dodging every single time.
"TRAITORS! WHY DON'T YOU STAND STILL AND DIE WITH HONOR?!", Slamancer shouted.
"Jeez, man! You have to calm down and listen! Andrias was tricking you! He even tricked US!", Anne urged.
But Salamancer only struck harder and faster up until he finally hit Anne, knocking her across the throne room, causing everyone else to gasp in worry as Sprig and Hop Pop made awkward faces.
"Ooohh, snap...", Polly spoke.
"What kind of fool do you take me for...?", Salamancer glared.
"She's telling the truth, Salamancer!", Marcy urged.
"Yeah! Everyone saw the live feed from Marcy's phone outside! Why don't you ask them yourself?", Sasha added.
Hesitant for a moment, Salamancer growled and proceeded toward the window.
"If what you say is nothing but a lie, consider yourselves, your accomplices, and your tiny magic box destroyed.", Salamancer warned before he took off.
Worried, Anne turned and looked at the Plantars, who got stiff. She then ran to the Plantars and hugged them.
"It's okay, Anne. He's bound to find out the truth eventually.", Sasha said.
"And when he does, it's going to hit him hard. So, the least we can do is be there for him when it happens.", Marcy added.
"Besides, I don't think he's... all bad.", Sasha stated.
"Just misguided...", Anne realized.
"The three of us were. But I think this place really has changed us. For the better, even.", Marcy beamed.
"Yeah. It did.", Anne beamed.
"But what if he still wanted to fight when he gets back?", Polly asked.
"Well, let's just hope that it isn't us he wants to fight...", Sasha responded as she looked out the window.
Act II
Newtopia was shown to be completely guarded by the Toad Soldiers and the Newtopian guards and civilians. There were a few orc stragglers, but Salamancer made quick work of them and leered at one of them.
"All right, you orcs. Who orchestrated your little plan to invade Newtopia?!", Salamancer demanded.
"Like we'll tell you, Newtopian fil-", one of the orcs spoke before he grabbed one of them and held his sword to his throat.
"Care to try again?", Salamancer glared.
"Okay, okay, okay, we'll tell you what you want to know.", the orc said.
"Then, what is it?", Salamancer asked.
"Andrias WAS planning to conquer the multiverse with us, starting with Amphibia, the Boiling Isles, and Earth!", the orc responded, shocking Salamancer as he gasped and gave a look of shock and disgust over Andrias' actions.
Meanwhile, in the dungeon, Andrias was being pushed into a big cell by the toad soldiers and locked in it.
"Enjoy your stay, Andrias. Or don't. I really don't give a frog-darn, either way.", one of the toad soldiers spoke before he and the others left.
Once the coast was clear, though, Andrias only smirked and looked around in his cell for a spare key, which he found on the ground and used to at least unlock the cuffs.
"Luckily, I visited this cell every so often for just such an emergency.", Andrias spoke before he opened his own communicator, which was comparatively smaller than the one in his throne, with the monitor showing Nechros and the Obsidian Guard.
"Yo, Nechhy. It's time for Plan B.", Andrias spoke.
"Plan B? Now, whatever could be the matter?", Nechros asked.
"That depends. How are things going on your end?", Andrias asked.
"Just wonderful. Everyone is all gathered at the Day of Unity and the draining spell has been activated. It cannot be stopped now, not even if I wanted to.", Nechros replied.
"Well, that's good, because things on my end bombed! Good news, the box is fully charged. Bad news, they caught on to me and stopped my invasion before it can begin!", Andrias panicked.
"You don't say...", Nechros said, not the least bit shocked or surprised.
"Wait. You don't sound even a little bit surprised.", Andrias said.
"If you are asking me for my help, I'm afraid that's impossible.", Nechros smirked.
"What? Wait, that wasn't the deal! You said that you'd join us in multiversal conquest if we helped you with the draining spell...! Those were your words!", Andrias said.
"And I'm sorry, but you have outlived your usefulness the moment you were thwarted by mere frogs, toads, and newts. Besides that, I just realized I only have enough Titan's Blood to open the portal.", Nechros said as he took off his cape and tied his hair back so that he looks much more like Nigel.
He then took out the portal key and drained the last of its Titan's Blood into a device that powered the portal.
"But I trusted you! You said we were friends! WE SHOOK HANDS ON IT!", Andrias snapped.
"You see, the funny thing about shaking hands is..., they actually need to touch each other.", Nechros smirked as he aimed his key over the power down button.
"We gave you the draining spell! I even convinced the Collector to teach you magic stronger than anyone else's, rivaling only Snaga's daughter's own Titan Magic!", Andrias shouted furiously.
"And that's why I won't assist you. Can't have you convincing him to give that to anyone else. Goodbye.", Nechros said, unfazed as he powers off the machine, ticking Andrias off the way he was years ago.
"NECHROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!", Andrias roared angrily, giving off a loud echo heard from outside the dungeon out to town.
Meanwhile, Anne, Sasha, Marcy, their siblings and triplets, the Plantars, the Toads, Frobo, General Yunan, and Lady Olivia paid a visit to Sal's sandwich shop.
"Man. To think the city would've been crawling with orcs.", Sprig said.
"And there's still a whole army coming?", Hop Pop asked.
"Yep.", Marcy responded.
"This was in case there happened to be more orcs than Andrias let on so far. We have to be ready.", Allison explained.
"But don't worry, I've got a simple plan to solve all of this. The toad army is less than an hour away, so we have to stop any remaining orcs that are still out there, otherwise we'll be overrun. We also have to make sure the king stays under lock and key, work through our emotional baggage, and finally redesign their current political system so this disaster of an invasion never gets close to happening again.", Marcy spoke before getting exasperated.
"Wow. Do you always plan that far ahead, Mar-Mar?", Allison asked.
"Yes. Yes, I do.", Marcy responded.
"C'mon, you guys! We can do this! These orcs may think we're a weak little frog/toad/newt family, a clumsy nerd, a big metal baby and a goofy pushover, but they have no idea who they're dealing with. Except for you guys. I'm sure they think highly of you two.", Anne said, speaking to General Yunan and Lady Olivia.
"They do.", Yunan responded.
"Just continue your speech.", Lady Olivia urged.
"We have all been through a lot together. Cannibals, giant killer moths, combining vegetables, you name it. We're gonna beat this too. Because when we're together, nothing can stand in our way. Now who's ready to kick some orc butt?", Anne asked before the group cheered, fully animated.
Then, Grime cleared his throat to get Sasha and her siblings' attention.
"We got you something. Had it made especially for this day.", Grime said, showing her a new gift.
"Whaaaaa? Grimsey, you didn't...", Sasha said, getting excited.
She opened the gift and it was revealed to be a sword just like the first one, only that it's silver, and gasped in amazement.
"How'd you know I wanted to dual wield?", Sasha asked before she saw her reflection in her new sword.
"I need to protect those I love. No matter what.", Sasha thought.
"And we got those for you, too.", Bombina grinned as she gave Allison a gift, too.
"A gift for me, too? Aw, you shouldn't have.", Allison said before unwrapping it.
"Whoa-ho-ho! That is one big axe!", Allison commented.
"And we may not have made this one, but we figured you could use something, too.", Braddock said.
"The hardest part was what to give you.", Percy added.
Then, Pat unwrapped his gift and he widened his eyes upon noticing that he has a mace.
"Whoa, a mace?!", Pat spoke, thrilled.
"Not only can it bash things to submission, but it also acts as a rattle toy for the triplets.", Percy said.
"Really? It does?", Pat asked.
"Yep. The button on the handle below retracts the spikes.", Braddock said before said button was pressed, causing the spikes to retract away.
"Huh?", Pat puzzled before the triplets giggled in joy as it shook a bit.
"Safety first, you know.", Braddock said.
"Where'd you get all this from?", Pat asked.
"You wouldn't believe how many stores Newtopia had.", Braddock explained.
"Like I said, the hardest part was what to give you.", Percy explained.
"Well, thank you both so much. I really appreciate this gift.", Pat grinned.
"Aw, stop. You're making us blush.", Braddock blushed.
"So, what's the plan, Anne?", Sprig asked, making Anne chuckle.
"That rhymed, dude. Alright. Here's how we're gonna do it.", Anne began before a sequence of Anne's master plan started as it showed the dungeon.
"Hop Pop, you, the Wu's, and Lady Olivia are going down to the dungeon to sweep the area for orcs, lock them up, and check on the King.", Anne said.
As they went down stair, they defeated and locked up the remaining orcs that had not yet deployed for battle, but Andrias was nowhere to be seen.
"That's odd. King Andrias should be in his cell by now.", Lady Olivia said.
"But how? That doesn't make any sense.", Max puzzled.
Then, everyone realized something with a gasp and groaned, slapping their foreheads.
"Melkor...", the group groaned.
It then went to a part of downtown Newtopia where Zog was leading his squadron of orcs only to be cornered by Polly, holding a tiny sword.
"Polly, attack the soldiers in the city head-on. Keep them distracted.", Anne added.
"GET READY FOR THE PAIN!", Polly shouted, drawing a tiny sword.
"You don't know what real pain is, but I will show you little one.", Zog sneered as he raised dead Amphibians.
But then, Frobo and General Yunan arrived, armed.
"Oh... and take Yunan and Frobo with you.", Anne said.
"It doesn't matter how many of you there are. You will all fall to me.", Zog discouraged.
"Bring it!", Polly shouted before she, Frobo, and General Yunan charged forward to attack Zog and his group just as they charged forward to attack Polly, Frobo, and General Yunan.
Meanwhile, Anne, Sasha, Jackie, Rose, Allison, Pat, their respective triplets, the Sundews, and Sprig saw the environment and, step by step, they arrived at the gate wheel.
"Finally, the rest of us will sneak into the guard tower and fight off any orcs that come in and try to shut the city gate before the toad army gets in.", Anne said.
"Ready for one last adventure?", Anne asked.
"Spranne against the world.", Sprig responded.
"Guys, I'm gonna need you to stay down here and hold down the fort in case any orcs tried to climb up the tower.", Sasha urged.
"You got it, Sasha.", Jackie agreed.
"You can count on us.", Allison added.
With that, Anne, Sasha, Sprig, and Grime reached the top. Anne peeked out to see the army before she turned around and saw orcs coming in after them from both sides.
"We don't have time. Let's shut this gate.", Anne urged.
"Right!", Sprig agreed before they took care of the orcs on their side as Sasha and Grime bested the others on theirs.
Once they were bested, Sasha and Grime turned in time to see Azog step forward on Anne's side.
"Azog. I knew that turnaround was too easy to pull off.", Sasha glared.
Back at the castle, Andrias and Melkor were already making their way to the throne room, the former having become furious.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE I TRUSTED HIM! SERIOUSLY, THIS IS JUST LIKE LEIF ALL OVER AGAIN, RIGHT DOWN TO THE WAY HE TURNED HIS BACK ON ME! I JUST WANNA...!", Andrias shouted before grumbling for a moment and then roaring in anger, smashing his fist against a nameless orc.
Right then, he saw Anne and Sasha fighting off Azog near the gate.
"Of course! If I can get to my throne while they're distracted with Azog and Bolg, I will regain control of the city AND the music box! Then, the conquest can proceed as planned.", Andrias said, smirking to himself.
Meanwhile, Sprig and Grime saw Bolg climbing.
"Don't worry, we got him.", Sprig assured.
"You know what to do, Sprig.", Grime stated before Sprig did a salute in response and leapt down toward Bolg with Grime going after Sprig.
"This is not over!", Azog snarled, brandishing his axe.
"Uh, nope. Why do you think we're fighting you right now?", Sasha asked, drawing her swords.
"I shall have your amphibious heads!", Azog roared before he and Sasha started a fight, clashing weapons against each other.
Meanwhile, Bolg was still climbing up when suddenly, he saw something falling. It turned out to be Sprig.
"HEEEAAADS UUUP!", Sprig shouted, colliding with Bolg before they both fell and they ended up on a roof as Grime slid down the wall, jumped and landed nearby.
"I almost feel bad about this, Bolg.", Grime said, arming himself with the warhammer.
Bolg then turned to Grime with a growl before charging him just as Grime charged Bolg. Then, as soon as they got close to each other, they clashed their weapons with each other repeatedly until Bolg lifted his up and aimed to strike from above.
Grime was forced to dodge, causing Bolg to hit the roof instead. When he did, the roof started to collapse one brick at a time, causing Grime to fall inside the house.
"Grime!", Sprig shouted in worry.
Then, he looked to see some bricks that were nearby.
"That's it!", Sprig realized.
As for Bolg and Grime, the former pinned him to a wall, smashing the wall off the house until it crumbled. This prompted Grime to back away as they continued the clash straight up the stairs just as Sprig finished stocking up on stones and turned in time to see Grime being forced out the window before getting back on the roof with Bolg catching up to him. The clash finally ended when Bolg managed to bring Grime down on his knees. He was about to finish him off when he felt a stone hit him, prompting him to turn to see Sprig.
"Sorry to bring the roof down.", Sprig smirked before he let loose some stones on Bolg, causing him to fall down as they hit just enough to make him lose his balance.
And for good measure, Sprig fired one last stone at the roof's weak point, causing it to collapse and bury him in rock. In relief, Grime turned to Sprig.
"Good job, Sprig.", Grime sighed.
"Guess I'm not that small after all.", Sprig said.
Back with Anne and Sasha, they continued their sword fight with Azog. Sasha managed to disarm him with a flipping kick, but then Azog retaliated with a grab on her face and a smash on the ground. That was the last straw for Anne, who kicked him back, forcing him to release Sasha, who wrapped Azog up in her cloak, which she took off, and then, with Anne doing so as well, punched him, knocking him to the ground, defeated. At the same time, a Toad Soldier of Captain Bufo's army was able to get in first.
"Whoo! First one through.", the soldier spoke as several others arrived and saw Jackie, Allison, and the other Boonchuys and Waybrights, accompanied by Newtopia's citizens, especially the triplets' friends as well as Priscilla and Pearl via their carts, defeating the last remaining orcs as the rest were defeated and laying on the ground.
"Hi.", Allison waved.
"Whoo! Mama's still got it!", Priscilla shouted, thrilled.
"Whoa. What happened in here?", the Toad soldiers puzzled.
Anne and Sasha peeked down and saw Sprig and Grime happy to have defeated Bolg and then saw Polly, Marcy, and Frobo joining many Toad Soldiers with the orcs unconscious.
"End of the line, Azog.", Sasha smirked.
However, Azog only chuckled as he ripped Sasha's cloak off him.
"You think you have won? All you have done was delay the inevitable.", Azog spoke, pointing to the throne room tower window.
Beyond that, they saw Andrias back on the throne, cackling as he held the music box.
"What?!", Anne and Sasha exclaimed.
Then, Andrias sounded his bugle.
"Dark Orc Guard, assemble!", Andrias shouted.
Then, the orcs arrived and surrounded Anne and Sasha, especially everyone else as well.
"Pearl, if you have any shopping items in there, fling 'em now...!", Priscilla whispered.
"Oh, no...!", Anne and Sasha said in worried unison.
Act III
Meanwhile, Salamancer was in the library by himself, torn up about the reveal about what Andrias was really doing. Matter of fact, he was sitting in a chair in a vacant table.
"This doesn't make any sense. Why would Andrias go back on his word to bring peace and prosperity in favor of multiversal conquest?", Salamancer puzzled to himself.
"I'm afraid the sad truth is, it used to be a way of life 1,000 years ago.", Aruman replied, arriving while accompanied by Malthael.
"Who are you two?", Salamancer demanded.
"Let's just say that we are relics of the old ages of Amphibia.", Malthael explained.
"And we have uncovered four more that detail what the stones on the Calamity box actually are. These entires shall explain everything about why these events have transpired thus far.", Aruman added, setting down four pages written in Amphibian text, much to Salamancer's intrigue.
Minutes later, in the castle, the whole group was rounded up, their hands literally tied. And yet, in spite of that, Polly continued to scratch her butt and Sprig noticed it.
"Polly, stop scratching your butt. This is not the best time.", Sprig whispered.
"You know, I thought you kids were dumb, but, judging by the surprise ambush, it looks like you've figured out my plan. That's twice I've been made a fool of today!", Andrias shouted.
"Come on. You don't need us to make you look like a fool.", Sasha smirked.
"One more remark like that and I'll sooner filet you!", Andrias snapped before taking a deep breath.
"No matter. Now, if there are no more rude interruptions...", Andrias began before he activated a pedestal and placed the Calamity Box on top, activating a power throughout the castle.
The castle began to rise, causing panic to all the people of Newtopia and praise to the orcs, especially Bolg, who was recovering as some stones rolled off him from him sitting up, while it was causing various structural damage. Captain Bufo was so shocked that he drops his sword. Meanwhile, all the robot factories that were idle were reactivated by themselves and manufactured a few robots. All the robots came out. Meanwhile, in Wartwood...
"What in frog's name is it, sir?", Toadie asked.
"I don't know, Toadie. But it ain't good.", Toadstool replied, just as worried.
Back to the castle, he saw that the castle was ascending higher and higher.
"Oh, we are way high up.", Sprig said.
The robots then flew to the castle and surrounded the group just as Sprig returned to them.
"I'm sorry, you three. But I'm afraid you and your friends can't go home just yet. Wouldn't want you telling anyone about the coming invasion.", Andrias said, wagging his fingers, much to Anne's shock.
"It was a really close call, back there, too, but now that I have the box back, I can finish the work my ancestors started. From this castle, I will not only rule over this world, or the Boiling Isles, but all worlds!", Andrias proclaimed before laughing evilly.
"No! You'll never get away with this.", Anne said angrily.
"Anne's right. We'll stop you.", Sasha shouted.
"Stop me? I can see a demonstration of my power is in order. BEHOLD!", Andrias shouted, touching some buttons on the Calamity box.
At the top of the castle, its spire changed into the shape of a pistol. The pistol-shaped spire then fired an energy beam right at the North Tower.
"Nope. Nope, nope. nope.", a toad spoke, noticing the beam before jumping off the tower just as the beam hit the tower, obliterating it.
"NOOO!", Grime shouted as Sasha gasped.
"Anne, we have to stop him. He's crazy!", Sasha urged.
"I know! That was the plan!", Anne responded.
"If we can get that music box away from him, maybe we'll stand a fighting chance.", Hop Pop urged.
"Right!", Anne agreed before she and Sasha drew their swords, though not without breaking their cuffs, and stood guard while King Andrias snapped for his robots to shoot at the group. But then, Salamancer intervened.
"WAIT! That wasn't the deal!", Salamancer shouted.
"I would've said anything if it meant they deliver the box to me fully charged. Hate to break it to ya, kiddo, but you've been duped.", Andrias said.
"But I trusted you! You were my friend!", Salamancer snapped.
"Oh, yeah? Well, join the club! Nechros, the one person I thought I could TRUST to help me get this invasion up and running, STABBED ME IN THE BACK!", Andrias roared.
"Woof. That is a LOT of emotional baggage.", Marcy commented.
"So, now, our first stop is the Boiling Isles. There, I will find Nechros and see to it personally that a most cruel and unusual punishment is dealt to him for his betrayal!", Andrias retorted.
Just then, a sort of loud and vengeful roar was heard, travelling in waves across the skies.
"Oh, goody. Right on time.", Andrias smirked.
"On time for what?", Anne asked.
"For the merging of both worlds. You see, the Calamity Box can only tap into enough energy to go from one world to another, but for Titans that hail from the Boiling Isles, anything is possible as long as their blood boils! With enough incentive, a Titan could produce a world-shattering portal that would allow for travel as well. But if this event were to happen while the Calamity box itself is active? Well, let's just see what happens. Shall we?", Andrias asked, activating the portal.
This, in turn, caused the waves in the sky to suddenly go downward toward the castle, cut right through it (which forced everyone to duck and dodge to avoid the debris, never mind the waves), and merge with the portal, causing it to go haywire and seemingly zap Anne and all the others, including Andrias, himself.
Meanwhile, in the Boiling Isles, the portal sent out sparks of lightning toward the area close to where Belos and the others are, bringing with them Anne, Sasha, Marcy, her siblings, and of course, their respective found families, including a sort of salamander-like warrior, as well as King Andrias himself and all the orcs.
"Well, well, well... Today's my lucky day. I never thought I'd see this event with my own eyes.", Andrias grinned before noticing the petrified statues of Luz and Amity.
"Oh. These statues are new. But where did they come from? And for that matter, where's Necchy? I have more than a few words for him...!", Andrias glared before turning to see red goo splattered onto a wall.
"Oh, my frog! Is that what happened to him? Oh, well. He had this coming. Shame they couldn't be all here for the party, 'cause it's about to get started.", Andrias smirked.
Just outside, from seeing Melkor beginning to emerge from the portal in the sky, finally rearing his dark, demonic head, the other witches and Coven Scouts, upon seeing this, started to scream and attempted to escape and run away but were trapped inside by the Abomatons. They were in total horror as they saw Melkor land in the ground, the pressure releasing a ring of fire around him, forcing the panicked witches to back away. The giant, demonic Titan stood upright and then roared in triumph, having finally arrived in the Boiling Isles.
"Oh, yeah, baby! Arriving in another world and it feels so good!", Andrias shouted before laughing.
"At last..., the Conquest shall begin!", Melkor spoke before laughing evilly.
Anne and the others watched in horror before she suddenly overheard a couple of familiar voices.
"He did it...! He came through. And now, he's destroying the Boiling Isles...!", Amity said, starting to get sad.
"Huh? Who said that?", Anne puzzled before gasping upon seeing two statues, whose eyes were not only moving, but also looked sad.
"It's all our fault...!", Luz said, starting to sob, albeit painfully and whisperingly.
"Hello. How is that your fault?", a voice asked.
Luz stopped sobbing for a moment before suddenly seeing in front of her none other than...
"Anne...? Anne! You're actually here?!", Luz exclaimed in surprise.
"And you and your girlfriend are turned to stone?! What happened?", Anne asked.
"Nechros tricked me and Luz into helping him meet the Collector in the past and now, we're all in trouble.", Amity responded.
"Are you serious? I'm the one who should be blaming myself for getting us all in this same exact mess in the first place. Andrias tricked me, Sasha, and Marcy! He tricked our siblings, he even tricked all of us, and none of us were smart enough to even realize that!", Anne realized.
"Yep. I know the feeling.", Luz agreed.
"Listen, I'll go get my friends and my siblings and come to you. And we'll try to help you and Amity break free!", Anne urged.
"Yeah. You got it.", Luz responded.
Then, Anne hurriedly rushed over to Sasha and Marcy.
"Guys, bring your siblings with you and come with me! I found a couple of people who could really use some help being un-petrified right now!", Anne urged.
"Really? Who?", Marcy asked.
"I'll show you when we get there. Come on!", Anne urged.
But all of a sudden, they saw Salamancer fighting off Azog to a standstill until he overpowered the newt warrior and towered above him.
"You are out of your depth, Newt.", Azog discouraged, preparing to strike him down.
But just then, Sasha stepped in and stopped the attack using her dual wielding swords.
"You leave... that newt...! ALONE!", Sasha shouted, forcing him back toward a wall, knocking him unconscious.
"You... saved me?", Salamancer asked.
"Just wanted to get the message clear.", Sasha said before she, Marcy, and their siblings started catching up with Anne and her own siblings, leaving the bewildered Salamancer behind, up until they saw Luz and Amity turned to stone, or rather, encased in it as their eyes are normal.
"What the...?! I don't believe it!", Sasha said in shock.
"Luz? Amity? Is that you two?", Marcy asked.
"Are you girls okay?", Anne asked.
"Other than stone encasing our entire bodies, doing great.", Amity responded.
"What the heck is going on?", Max asked.
"Well... I have a confession to make.", Luz said.
Everyone braced themselves as Luz took a deep breath.
"We both went through a time pool and met Philip and Nigel, but Nigel turned out to be a jerk, then after that, we also met Andrias, Leif, and Barrel back in the day where they were there, too. But we knew what Andrias was doing was very wrong, so we had to help Leif escape with the box to prevent multiversal conquest, but we all wound up back here and I'm so sorry!", Luz shouted quickly.
This answer was quite a shock to the group, however fast it was.
"So, you two are used by someone just as evil, too?", Anne asked.
"Yeah... Another thing we have in common.", Anne said dejectedly.
"It turns out Nechros was a witch hunter and a master of manipulation. He had us tricked. Even Lilith. He tricks everyone.", Amity added.
"Just like Andrias...", Marcy realized.
"Well, where is Nechros, anyway?", Sasha asked.
"I don't know. But judging by the gooey remains violently splattered all over that wall, something must've went down.", Luz responded.
"Well, that serves him right, huh?", Grime smirked.
Then, Anne widened her eyes as she realized something and looked back to her friends, amphibian and all.
"You know what? We may have all made mistakes, but these two? They're evil!", Anne said.
"Here we go...", Andrias sighed, unimpressed.
"And as soon as we figure out how to free you two, we're gonna stop 'em. Right here, right now. Sasha! Marcy!", Anne urged as she powered up with blue hair, branches with flowers, and blue eyes.
"We got your back.", Sasha assured as Marcy primed her crossbow and their siblings primed their signature weapons while also powering up to their pink and green states.
"And we've got yours.", Grime grinned.
Soon, every amphibian steeled themselves into battle.
"We're all with you, guys. 'Til the end.", Sprig grinned.
"You can transform like that, too?! You guys are literally the coolest...!", Luz teared up with joy.
"You guys are serious...! Okay.", Andrias spoke before drawing his sword, the blade of which was laser-like instructure.
"Let's have some fun.", Andrias smirked.
With that, the group broke out a fight against King Andrias and his frobot and orc armies. Anne, Jackie, Rose, Sasha, Allison, and Pat shot down three robots with their weapons, glancing to each other. Hop Pop and Sylvia both punched another, but suffered a cramp. They were about to be defeated by said robots, but Grime knocked it down and together they defeated another robot. Lady Olivia was being scared and braced herself for an attack by a robot that was launched back, but General Yunan stepped in and saved her. Marcy prepped her crossbow and shot an arrow at one robot, while Frobo shot a laser at another. The third was about to shoot them, but Sprig threw a rock at it with his slingshot while the younger siblings and the triplets smashed and/or tripped several orcs and frobots. The robot counterattacked, but Sprig dodged its beams, launched himself into the air and launched his slingshot with mud, leaving it open for Ivy to strike from above.
"Ambush!", Ivy shouted, kicking the robot to the ground and causing it to explode with the group standing firm.
As for Daggertail, he throttled Melkor right towards the top of the skull of the Titan, breaking it and pushing right past the bridge toward the catacombs below.
"I will kill you for everything you have put Luz through, monster!", Daggertail roared, scraping Melkor against the rock wall.
Soon after Daggertail went further below and then fired his flame-coated daggers at Melkor, who jumped around, helter-skelter around the walls. At one point, however, Melkor coated himself in flames and then leapt toward Daggertail, who was barely able to dodge the attack, prompting Daggertail to fire at the evading titan again, this time from above. it went on for a moment before Melkor leapt for an attack again and missed again. But very soon, he leapt and began pushing Daggertail down. When they neared the deep precipeces below, though, the dragon was able to turn the tables and push him toward them. But Melkor was able to latch onto one of them with his claws. When the Titan landed, he bounced back up and pushed the dragon toward a wall.
"Time to put you back in your place!", Melkor growled, preparing to pummel the dragon.
But he was suddenly clutched in the mouth by one of his talons and then throttled toward the same wall, allowing Daggertail to get some space between him and Melkor. But he quickly caught up and climbed up one of the pillars. As soon as he got up he fired a blast from his mouth, which the dragon barely evaded. The Titan then suddenly teleported and arrived at another pillar, causing it to destabilize and crumble, hopping from one pillar to another, leading to the same catastrophic result.
"He's trying to bring the whole skull down...!", Daggertail realized.
After a moment of destruction, he leapt up with Daggertail following in pursuit. Then, from out of nowhere, Melkor appeared, ready to take him down! But the dragon was ready; he was able to brush him off with his talons straight toward another wall and another pillar. When he landed, he took a moment to collect himself before he roared and pounced toward the dragon, who flew away backwards. This prompted him to leap from pillar to pillar just to try and catch up as well as attack, except he missed. By this point, Melkor leapt away from Daggertail, destroying the pillars he hops onto as a means to try and slow him down.
"It pains me to see how far you have fallen, my friend! That is if you even have the right to be considered that anymore!", Daggertail scolded angrily, firing his flaming daggers.
In response, the Titan only burst in flames again and leapt toward Daggertail, who managed to dodge it, prompting him to land on the ground and turn around in time to see Daggertail catching up.
"You cannot flee from me, vile creature! You will answer for your horrific crimes against Luz!", Daggertail began, firing his flaming daggers at him again.
When they struck at him, he brushed the smoke away in time to see Daggeratil right in front of him.
"You... will... BURN!", Daggertail finished, crashing him through another wall with his talons.
He looked up just in time to see Daggertail launch a barrage of flaming daggers, urging him to leap backward out of harm's way. He even went upward as Daggertail followed at one point. When he went for another attack and missed, he landed in another pillar and turned around with a roar.
"If you dare to resist against me, dragon, then you shall be destroyed!", Melkor snarled, stretching out his clawed hands and putting them together closely to form a small ball before clasping them together and lifting it up, turning it larger in size in the process.
After a moment, he pushed the ball upwards, jumped, and began molding it into a flaming spear. But still, Daggertail was determined to avenge Luz.
"You have nothing left... but your death!", Daggertail roared before he then flew toward Melkor just as he clutched the spear and was about toss it when Daggertail rammed his chest, the spear becoming lodged in the dragon's through the weak spot in the process. In a burst of flame, Daggertail flew up in agony just as Melkor fell, prompting Anne and the others to exclaim in shock and take off, especially some of the toads.
"Nope. No, no, no.", a toad spoke before hopping off just right before Melkor did.
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As soon as he was able, Melkor looked up and saw Daggertail flying in the air in pain, exclaiming, even.
"Daggertail..., no!", Luz spoke sadly.
Eventually, the golden light in Daggertail's eyes dimmed away until the light in his eyes vanished with a hiss, literally. Then, he started to fall down into the ground.
"Daggertail!", Luz shouted.
"Now, that... is the most metal way to go.", Maura spoke, moved and saddened at the same time as the dragon fell down.
The moment daggertail landed into the Day of Unity stage with everyone there barely able to get out of the way, a quake hit, shaking everything. And what's worse, Amity's statue to land roughly and start to chip away at the bottom.
"No...! No, no, no, no, no! You can't break apart! You just can't!", Luz pleaded.
Unfortunately, she did. Fortunately, it was only a little bit of her. And even more fortunately, when it did, her head was freed from the stone-mask, allowing her to breathe freely again. This was puzzling to both.
"Huh. Wait a minute... that's it! Luz, I think I know how we can break free!", Amity grinned.
"Really?", Luz asked.
"Yeah. All we have to do is...", Amity began.
But before she could continue, Luke roared in anger once again.
"YOU MONSTEEEEEEER!", Luke roared, charging toward Melkor.
"No, Luke! Don't! He's too powerful!", Luz shouted.
"He's about to get himself killed. We better hurry!", Amity urged.
Meanwhile, Luke leapt up and was about to attack when Melkor instead smacked him aside back onto the ground, urging a livid King and Eda to try and go after him only for Anne to get in their way.
"No, guys! Stop! He's too strong for you!", Anne shouted.
But Owl Beast Eda screeched as she smacked Anne aside right into a wall, knocking her out of her Calamity powers, much to her friends and families' concern.
"ANNE!", Sasha and Marcy shouted.
"Anne! Anne!", Sprig shouted as he ran over to her first with the others catching up.
King snarled and Owl Beast Eda screeched angrily again as they all caught up to a woozy Anne.
"Come on! Get up, Anne!", Hop Pop urged.
But before she even could, Melkor roared viciously again, towering above Anne and the others. Suddenly, he thrusted his fist toward them and smashed them against the ground.
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A moment after, however, a sudden slash propelled upward, forcing the fearsome Titan back, collapsing onto the wall near the portal door, which fizzed out for a moment. When they opened their eyes, they gasped in surprise.
"Say whaaat?", Hooty and Polly spoke in unison.
It turned out that Luz and Amity had saved them, all wrapped in a fog, surrounded by magic glyphs in the air. From seeing this, while Andrias was shocked, Melkor was visibly peeved.
"No, it can't be...!", Andrias gasped.
Luz and Amity's palismen all came out and morphed into staffs for them to grab onto before they posed.
"We're back!", Luz smirked, astonishing everyone.
"I… wait! Uh, I think… Couldn't keep me away from… Hang on. Ugh! I still can't think of anything to say!", Luz spoke in frustration as the glyphs vanished and Amity giggled.
Eda squealed and reverted to Harpy form as King hugged her happily.
"It's Luz, all right!", Eda grinned.
"LUZ! You're alive...!", Camila spoke in glee, hugging her.
"Luz...?! LUZ!", King sobbed, hugging Luz as well.
"Hey, there, buddy!", Luz spoke, giggling as she hugged him back.
Even Caleb, Sophia, Luke, and Lucia were relieved as they turned back into half Titans.
"You're okay...!", Lucia sighed.
"I thought we lost you for good...!", Luke added.
"Ah, you couldn't get rid of me that easily.", Luz said before widening her eyes.
"Ah! That's what I should've said!", Luz spoke, frustrated again.
"Hey. Lookin' good here, Noceda.", Anne grinned.
"Back at ya, Boonchuy.", Luz smirked.
"Okay, you gotta yell me how you broke out of that petrification spell!", Erebor spoke excitedly.
"Well, uh... I'll explain later.", Amity assured.
"They managed to survive the petrification spell! But that's impossible...!", Andrias said.
"Isn't it more like improbable at this rate, Dreyas?", Leif asked.
When the fog cleared, it revealed her in her true Amphibia form, much to everyone's surprise and Andrias's shock and anger.
"You...! YOU had a hand in all this, didn't you?!", Andrias blamed.
"Don't give her too much credit, Andrias!", Camila glared.
"Ah... Snaga. So, you did break out of Nechros' spell.", Andrias glared.
"So..., after all these years, you had all the pieces right where you wanted them.", Camila glared.
"Give yourself some credit, Snaga. It was your betrayal and Leif's that pushed me this far. That was the last straw! Just the push I needed to follow in my father's footsteps and lead Newtopia to greatness once again!", Andrias smirked.
"You gave us no choice! The only thing she ever wanted was for you to see the error of your ways and use your power for good. But you and I know better...! After what you did to my family...! After what you did to me...! After what you did to Luz..., we both know there's only one thing you understand!", Camila glared.
Then, she morphed into her full Titan form and roared, blasting Andrias back a few feet before vanishing while dashing around him.
"Where'd she.. GO?!", Andrias exclaimed as Camila struck him, causing his crown to come off and land on the ground by the tip, making everyone gasp.
"Whoo! Go, Mrs. Noceda!", Sasha whooped.
"Go kick his butt!", Luz shouted.
"You should've stayed away from my familia!", Camila snarled.
Angered, Andrias tried to crush Camila, but missed as she vanished.
"What?", Andrias puzzled before he looked up and saw her on the ceiling before she leapt off toward him.
"FIRE!", Andrias shouted before the frobots fired at her but missed as Camila dodged in midair before striking, prompting Andrias to use his shield, holding the angered Titan back as much as he could as Luz watched in awe.
"Luz, on three!", King urged, hopping onto her shoulder as Camila pressed harder against the shield, which sparked out blue lightning on the pillars as Andrias groaned with a bellow.
"One...", King began as Andrias' said bellow turned into a roar.
"Two..., Luz smirked just before Camila pressed harder, causing the shield to crack further.
"WEH!", Luz and King shouted in unison, breaking the shield further and allowing Camila to shatter it before she struck Andrias and forced him to roll to the edge of the bridge before he stopped and shook his head to get better focus.
"All the millenia you spent in Amphibia and you haven't changed a bit! You hurt my friends…! My family…! And me too many times! I'm going to finish it AND you, like I should've done a long time ago! I told you…! You should've stayed away from my familia!", Camila glared.
Andrias only growled angrily, drawing his sword.
"ENOUGH!", Andrias shouted, smashing his blade against the ground, shaking it enough to disorient everyone, even causing Luz and Amity to fall off the bridge.
"Luz!", Camila, Leif, and Belos shouted in fear.
As if that wasn't bad enough, Andrias lifted his left foot above Polly, attempting to crush her.
"POLLY, NOOOO!", Anne shouted.
Before he could step on her, Frobo interfered with King Andrias with his arms entangling him.
"Polly, I will save you.", Frobo spoke boldly.
"Oh, look at that. One of my robots. Must be defective.", King Andrias guessed, guarding his laser sword, right before destroying Frobo with one punch.
"FROBO!", Polly shouted.
As sad as she was, she started to get mad, getting ready to take revenge.
"You... YOU MONSTER!", Polly shouted.
"Don't worry. You're up next.", King Andrias said right before he punched in Polly's direction, horrifying everyone!
But that horror turned into puzzlement, if not surprise, as Polly was nowhere to be seen and in her place was Stumpy, holding back the king's fist with its vines.
"What the...?", King Andrias puzzled.
"Stumpy...!", Rose spoke in worry.
Worriedly, she spoke in pumpkin tongue to Stumpy, saying, "Get out of there! You'll be crushed!", much to Leif's worry as she gasped from seeing this.
In response, the pumpkin only turned back to Rose and spoke back, saying to her in pumpkin speak, "I need you to promise me... that no matter what happens to me..., you will find a way to restore me!", making Rose gasp in tears. A moment afterward, she looked down in despair and distress.
"I will...!", Rose sobbed.
"Annoying little squash.", Andrias said.
With that, he swiftly crushed Stumpy with a punch. While this had everyone shocked with heartbroken gasps, Rose was even more heart-broken.
"STUMPYYYYY!", Rose shouted.
With that, she started to sob while on her knees, the triplets also crying sadly as well, thinking back on her moments with Stumpy. One flashback played, showing Rose calming Stumpy down while in the Planter Family Tunnels.
"That's right, Mama Rose is here.", Rose grinned to it before the beast chuckled.
Rose was still crying before another flashback played, showing Rose feeding the imprisoned Stumpy when returning to the Plantar Family Tunnels.
"Oh. There you are. I told you I'd be back. And I brought some late-night snacks for ya.", Rose grinned, sliding said provisions through the empty spaces in the bars, allowing it to eat some dirt and plant food before then absorbing the water and sighing.
"Glad you like them..., Stumpy.", Rose grinned.
"This isn't fair...! He was just a boy...!", Rose sobbed, gaining a quite angry expression.
A third flashback played, showing Rose driving Stumpy on their way to Newtopia.
With her angry expression growing worse and a thin blue aura developing, Rose closed her eyes for a moment and opened them abruptly. She let out a shrill yell of rage, sorrow, agony, and hate as her pupils turned dark blue and her sclerae turned ghastly black. Jackie gasped as she realized what this meant.
"Oh, no...!", Jackie gasped.
Play Super Dragon Ball Heroes Music: "Final Battle"
The blue gem underwent a violent reaction, connecting with Rose. Before anyone knew it, at the same time a blue aura appeared around Rose, a circular ring suddenly shrank toward her, causing the background to turn red before another ring shrank toward her, causing the background to turn dark blue. The blue aura transformed into a black flame with a blue inner flame in the center getting bigger and surrounding her with sparks of black lightning with a blue light around each spark as well, terrifying all who saw it. Only Melkor wasn't terrified as he seemed more intrigued about this development while recovering.
"Rose, no! Stop! Calm down! I know how much you're hurting, believe me, but nothing's worth losing yourself!", Jackie urged, grabbing Rose from behind.
"GIVE HIM BACK TO ME! GIVE! HIM! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!", Rose tearfully shouted, the aura exploding, knocking Jackie away from Rose with Anne catching her, and going up into the sky as a pillar with an outer blue light and an inner black light before it dissipated, the rings enlarging away from Rose, changing the background to red again at first and then back to normal.
"Oh, no...! She completely lost her mind!", Anne said.
"I know... Just like we did back before in our trial...", Jackie responded.
Furious beyond all reason, Rose leapt with a roar toward Andrias and quickly kicked him in the side right before punching Andrias in the face, causing black lightning to arc from those strikes and destroy the frobots and also making Andrias to spin around right before punching him in the stomach, crashing him into a wall. All anyone could do was stare out the hole Rose made in fear and sadness, especially for Leif.
"Oh, Andrias... How many innocent lives do you have to destroy before they end up walking a dark path like you...?! How many...?!", Leif sobbed.
But while everyone else watched in horror and sadness, Melkor watched with intrigue, noticing that the blue gem's light has corroded into a black light with a blue glow inside.
"How peculiar...", Melkor said to himself.
Sure enough, a voice called out.
"Hey, everyone!", Polly shouted.
The fog from the impact on the wall cleared, revealing that she now has legs.
"Guess who just got her leg-! Whoa!", Polly exclaimed as she stumbled for a brief moment.
"MY LITTLE BABY'S GOT LEGS!", Hop Pop shouted, excited.
"This is weird.", Sprig commented.
Meanwhile, Luz and Amity held on by the claws etched onto the wall.
"Whoa...!", Luz spoke, chuckling a bit afterwards upon noticing how deep her claws got. "Overdid it a little. Still getting used to this body."
Then, the two got down on the floor above the edge and peeped over with gasps.
Meanwhile, Andrias was barely able to recover as he looked up and was utterly stupified.
"How...?! How is she so strong at only half power?! How many push-ups did she do?! How many sit-ups?!", Andrias shouted before noticing Rose charging toward her.
She roared as she charged toward him, grabbed his tail, and started smashing him all over the ground like a ragdoll repeatedly.
"WHAT KIND OF JUICE FROM A JUICE BOX DID SHE DRINK?!" Andrias shouted in both fear and pain.
"What now?", Amity asked.
"We have to get him to stop the draining spell, but Rose looks like she's ready to murder him before we could! She's all...berserk mad!", Luz urged in worry.
"Forget it. It's pointless.", Gammamoo spoke before Luz and Amity turned to face him and Kikimora lying in their respective Abomatons, forlorn.
"Andrias can't stop the spell any more than they can. And even if Nechros was alive, he'd fare no better. Only the Collector has that power.", Kikimora said.
"What...? You knew about him?", Luz asked, both her and Amity walking towards Kiki and Gamma.
"As far as we understand, he's neither witch nor demon, a child from the stars. Nechros only talked to him when he thought no one was around, but we were always listenin'. Nechros took advantage of him because he was afraid of him.", Gamma stated.
Luz and Amity gave determined looks.
"Take us to him! Please.", Luz pleaded.
"If that means kicking Andrias's butt, gladly.", Kikimora responded as her Abomatron and Gamma's both stood up slowly and gestured to a staircase leading downwards.
Back on the bridge, Sasha called out to Polly.
"Polly! Get the box! Get the box!", Sasha urged, pointing to the pedestal now on the center of the bridge.
"On it!", Polly shouted before she ran to the pedestal as Andrias noticed right before getting lifted up.
"Whoa! Stop that little brat!", Andrias ordered before getting smashed into the ground again with the frobots aiming at Rose.
"Not that brat! THIS brat!", Andrias shouted, pointing to Polly right before getting struck in the face again.
Several frobots turned back to Polly as ordered and shot at her, but missed, She slid under them, and this made the two robots shoot each other by mistake, allowing Polly to get the Calamity Box as Rose started swinging fast punches at Andrias into the gut. Then, she let out a roaring yell as she threw one last punch at him, causing her black and inner blue aura to explode upward through the hole on the Titan's skull.
"Got it! Whoa...", Polly spoke as the skull of the Titan suddenly shook.
It turned out that the portal was starting to power down with Melkor's body flashing between existence and non-existence.
At the same time, Andrias was weakened and could only look up at the berserk Rose.
"GIVE HIM BACK TO ME! GIVE...! HIM...! Back...", Rose said before finally passing out as both the aura and black lightning vanished, prompting Andrias to chuckle and pick her up.
"Looks like she can't control it.", Andrias smirked.
Meanwhile, the group cheered Polly on.
"Go. Polly, go!", Sasha cheered.
"You did it!", Marcy cheered.
"You did it, girl.", Anne beamed.
"All right!", Jackie whooped.
But King Andrias wasn't through yet.
"Not so fast. You've all got spunk, real chutzpah. But this ends now.", King Andrias discouraged, holding Rose in his right fist.
"Sorry, Stumpy... I tried to avenge you...", Rose spoke weakly.
"I have to admit: even I'm surprised. Somehow, you drew out more than half power, kid, which means... I can't let you live.", Andrias glared, making Camila growl angrily from the sight of Andrias' threat.
Somewhere, deep down the Titan's bones, Luz, Amity, Gammamoo, and Kikimora have arrived to a place filled with skeletons and Golden Guard and Platinum Guard masks.
"What is this place?", Amity asked.
"Where all the failures before Hunter and Heather end up.", Gamma said darkly.
"So, that's what happened to them after he...", Luz began before stopping and shuddering sadly.
With that, Luz and Amity stepped forward and spotted the crescent-shaped mirror, with Nechros' former robe hanging with it. After hesitating for a moment, Grimedale and Crimsondale touched the mirror, and out came the Collector. However, his demeanor has changed as a result of Nechros' betrayal against him.
"Leave me alone. I don't associate with fibbers.", the Collector said before blowing a raspberry.
Then, to his surprise, he saw Luz and Amity together, making the Collector gasp in shock.
"Luz?! Amity?!", the Collector exclaimed.
"Hey, Collector.", Luz greeted.
"Look. We know you've been speaking with Nechros. And we also know you tried to talk him out of the Day of Unity. It's good that you wanted him to stop, but... he's just not reasonable.", Amity said.
"I don't understand... I thought I was doing the right thing.", the Collector spoke in worry.
"No, no, you did good, Collector. But this is a little more complicated.", Luz assured.
"There is another way to make things right. We need you to stop this draining spell and stop Andrias.", Amity urged.
"See, knowing Leif, she would want Andrias to stick to the good side his own way. But most of us don't agree with that. So, maybe we just need to remind Andrias about who he really is. If you do that, we'll even let you in on a new game. A game we like to call 'The' uh- 'The Owl House'!", Luz beamed.
"Ooh, how do you play?", Collector asked.
"Oh, gosh! I love that game!", Luz chuckled nervously.
"The memories last a lifetime!", Amity added.
"And we can even show you and have King play with us if you want. We're gonna need a lot of players, like, a whole island's worth of players but, uh...", Luz began before sighing. "There's this whole ding-dang draining spell. We all know what that means..."
Then, the Collector got an idea.
"Wait, if you and Amity are Titans, you can both let me out. I can stop the spell! And we could play together!", Collector assured.
"Thanks, Collector.", Luz grinned.
"Wait, you two aren't tricking me into doing your chores like Nigel, are you?", Collector asked.
"What?! No! We are not like him!", Luz responded.
"In fact, we'll even swear on it. Pinky swear.", Amity added, offering her pinky finger out to him with Luz doing the same as well and the Collector laughed deviously at this.
Unfortunately for them, Melkor noticed this from below and roared viciously, causing the ground to start rumbling before he started to slide down across the wall, scraping his claws against the wall.
"We'll even let you out right now. W-What do we need to do? D-Do-Do you need our... blood? A small drop of it?", Luz asked.
"No, silly!", Collector replied, going towards the mirror and sticking out his pinky finger.
"Just... follow my lead.", Collector assured.
Back on the bridge, Andrias delivered his ultimatum, holding Rose over the edge of the bridge.
"Now put back the box or this twerp learns how to fly.", Andrias demanded.
"Andrias, stop! You don't have to do this!", Leif urged.
"Au contraire.", Andrias only glared.
"Anne... don't...!", Rose said desperately before King Andrias squeezed her.
"Rose! Polly, do what he says.", Anne urged in a panic.
Sadly, Polly returned the Calamity Box to the pedestal, allowing the castle to rise again.
Downstairs, the Collector places their pinky hand in the mirror. But before Luz and Amity could link it, Melkor landed behind the two, making them gasp as they turned to see him before he towered over the two and roared.
"Amity, I'll hold him off! You need to free him!", Luz urged.
"But what about you?", Amity asked.
"Just do it!", Luz urged before casting a spell circle on the demonic Titan, pushing him back.
With that, Amity linked her pinky with the Collector's. And when she pulled it out, a hand started coming out of the mirror, linked to his pinky finger. The mirror slowly broke as Luz pushed harder to keep Melkor from getting close to the Collector. Once broken, the mirror dropped to the ground and a hooded entity appeared as Luz turned around and Melkor looked ahead to see a flash of bright light emitting from them. Amity, Luz, Gammamoo, and Kikimora shielded their eyes while Melkor gave a smirking growl as the screen faded to white and faded to Polly mourning Frobo.
"Frobo...", Polly spoke sadly.
For Leif, seeing this much despair was the last straw for her.
"Andrias... I will NEVER forgive you for what you have done! Do you hear me?! NEVER!", Leif shouted, making everyone gasp in shock.
Even Camila was sad for her. She never saw her snap like that. She felt shocked and sad for her.
"Leif...", Camila spoke, sad for her.
Even Andrias was sad, at least for a moment. But after that, he chuckled evilly.
"I never asked you to.", Andrias smirked.
"Ok, dude. You have what you want. Now please, just put her down. She's the best little sister I could ever have with my friends, and with my family, in this world or any other world.", Anne pleaded, moving Sprig.
"Anne...", Sprig spoke.
"Aw...", Ivy said, just as moved.
"That's the thing about friends, isn't it? The more you love them, the more it hurts when they go. Allow me to demonstrate.", Andrias only smirked before he dropped Rose toward the edge of the bridge.
But the drop was suddenly halted by something unseen as a squeaking sound was heard. To everyone's surprise, they saw who caught Rose, and it's shown to be the hand of the Collector, now in a 3rd-dimensional state of his shadow form.
"Whatcha playin'?", the Collector asked with everyone surprised.
"Collector...?!", Camila spoke in shock.
"He's been freed?", Belos puzzled.
"Oh, crud...", Anne reacted.
"Wait a minute... Is that...? Could it be...?", Andrias asked before the Collector turned around and saw him.
"AH! Collector! It IS you!", Andrias shouted in surprise before laughing boastfully as Leif and Camila got puzzled.
"Y-You're actually free? But how? Who helped you?", Andrias asked.
"Just my new besties, Luz and Amity. We hung out every time they fell asleep. Why do you ask?", Collector asked as Luz and Amity arrived.
"Oh, you don't say. Say, what happened to that Nechros guy, anyway? Where is he?", Andrias asked.
"You mean that fibber? I helped with the draining spell like he asked, and all he ever did for me was throw me off a bridge.", Collector replied, making Andrias widen his eyes.
"Oh, boy...", Andrias said, starting to get nervous.
"I'm not angry, though. I haven't seen him since, anyway.", Collector responded.
"Oh. So, you're not the one who did... that?", Andrias asked, gesturing to the red splatter of goo on the wall.
"Nope. Say, since it's been a while, you wanna play tag?", Collector asked, twirling his finger around before Andrias was moved right in front of him.
"Oop!", Andrias exclaimed.
"I'm it.", Collector spoke before he tapped Andrias's nose and he was immediately launched above the door, getting damaged. Then, he fell down onto the bridge in front of the portal door as the group was equally shocked and horrified.
"Oh, snap.", Polly commented.
Although, Andrias got up and chuckled a bit.
"Whew...! Maybe it was that beatdown I had earlier, but that actually hurt less than I thought it would.", Andrias grinned.
The Collector laughed just as joyfully.
"Too slow!", Collector spoke before looking back at the others.
"You guys look slow too. Do you need a head-start?", Collector spoke, raising his finger as he started walking towards them.
"Do you need a head start?", Collector asked.
But before the Collector can reach the group, Luz and Amity blocked the path.
"Whoa, there, Collector! Buddy, pal!", Luz urged.
"Luz! Amity!", Collector spoke happily.
"Remember what we talked about? You gotta help all our friends outside, or, uh, we won't get to play 'Owl House'.", Luz reminded, looking back at the group.
"Uh... Owl House? I play it everyday!", Willow grinned.
"I play it every hour!", Gus added.
"I play it every half hour!", Boscha added.
Then, Caleb and Sophia squealed nervously.
"We'll explain the rules later, but remember, we need lots of players.", Amity said.
The Collector then walked forward and everyone cleared the way. They all looked outside and spotted the eclipse draining the magic out of everyone outside. They then enlarged their eyes to spot everyone unconscious as a result. After thinking for a while, he decided to stop the spell.
"Hmm. Okay! Boop.", Collector spoke, moving the moon beside the sun with a touch of their finger.
The spell immediately stopped as the group watched. Willow, Gus, Caleb, Sophia, Luz, and Amity noticed that all the cursed veins have disappeared.
"Ah... Finally, I can breathe without feeling pain again...!", Luz sighed in relief.
Back outside, everyone started to groan and wake up.
"We did it. We saved everyone.", Amity grinned.
Then, Luz noticed the portal still active, albeit weaker now.
"Wait. Why is that portal still up there?", Luz asked.
"Fool! The life force of every witch gathered on the Day of Unity was merely the key by which the union of Amphibia and the Boiling Isles, as well as my return, was guaranteed. Disrupting the spell and sparing the witches below will accomplish nothing to stop my conquest.", Melkor discouraged, now in his human form clad in black and silver armor with long, flowing, black hair.
He then raised his hand, coated in black red energy and started to mentally attack the Collector, attempting to brainwash him, prompting him to hold his head in pain.
"Oh, double crud...", Luz groaned.
"Get out of my head!", Collector exclaimed.
Soon, due to the mental conflict, every part of the island started to disassemble to prepare for the game as the group watched in shock. Luz shielded King from the impact just as Camila shielded her. As the platform in front of the group hovered away and they stepped back, Willow looked back and immediately spotted the portal door.
"I think there's a way out!", Willow said.
The others then started to follow her, but Luz stopped at the last minute and looked back. Amity noticed this.
"Luz, come on!", Amity urged.
"Everyone—Eda, I-I can't just leave them!", Luz responded.
"Luz, please!", Amity pleaded as tears started welling in her eyes.
Eventually, Luz relented and everyone ran towards the portal, even Rose, who noticed one of Stumpy's seeds and picked it up for safekeeping. When Willow, Caleb, Sophia, and Gus reached the remnants of Nechros, Caleb and Sophia hesitated to step over it.
"Guys!", Gus shouted.
Sophia eventually overcame it and ran over the goo. However, unbeknownst to her and everyone else, a small drop of Nechros' goo dripped onto her. As everyone reached the flickering portal, Luz saw that it's about to collapse. After waiting for a while, the light returned and Sophia opened the door, bewildered in wonder. Unfortunately, Andrias noticed this, mainly the fact that Marcy had gotten to the box and was already using it to stabilize the portal on the door.
"What?", Andrias puzzled.
"Please work, please work, please work!", Marcy pleaded.
At first, it showed the In Between Realm and then cut to the rain in the Human Realm.
"It's human rain. It's okay.", Gus assured.
He, Willow, Caleb, and Sophia ran inside before Amity ran forward, but then looked back.
"Luz?", Amity asked.
She had already activated plant spells and was pulling the vines in order to keep the portal from falling apart, although so far, she had great difficulty holding them together.
"Luz, what are you doing?", Amity asked before the door suddenly disconnected from the Human Realm, but eventually returned as the others attempted to go back.
"I-I have to keep the portal running. We'll find a way back to you!", Luz assured.
"Nooo!", Andrias shouted before he rushed towards Marcy, but were stopped by Anne, Sasha, and Grime.
"Me, Anne, and Grime will hold him! Just go!", Sasha urged.
Jackie, after hesitating for a moment, nodded and she, her friends and siblings, as well as the Plantars took the opportunity to head into the portal with the witches, not to mention with Polly dragging Frobo's head in Anne's backpack.
"Go! Go, go, go! I-I can't hold the portal much longer!", Luz urged.
"Quick, into the portal everyone, hurry!", Marcy urged, pointing to it.
Andrias growled, brandishing his sword before he attempted to crush Sasha, but she rolled out of the way, giving Grime the opportunity to drive the warhammer into his leg. But he knocked Grime off and then smacked away both Anne and Sasha with his tail straight into the wall.
"THE BOX!", Andrias shouted, running toward Anne, Marcy, the Plantars and the toads, who were catching up to the portal.
"Marcy!", Luz shouted before she took off after her.
"Marcy, hurry!", Anne urged.
"I just need to-", Marcy began.
But Marcy was cut off as Luz managed to arrive in time to help her, but also, unfortunately, both her and Marcy got impaled right through the area near their chests.
"LUZ!", Amity shouted in panic, prompting Belos, Luke, Lucia, Caleb, Sophia, and Camila to notice what happened to her and Marcy, much to their horror.
"No...!", Luke gasped in horror as Lucia just gasped, covering her mouth as she started to shed tears.
"Aaaand we've been impaled...!", Luz groaned.
"Yes. Yes, you have. Yeet!", Andrias shouted, flinging Luz and Marcy up toward one of the debris and crashed at the bottom of it before falling and landing on another.
"LUZ!", everyone else shouted.
"MARCY!", Anne and Sasha shouted right before Melkor appeared behind them and slashed them from behind, creating a white flash that knocked them toward Marcy and Luz, all four of which were now bleeding, although 3 out of 4 clones were unexpectedly made, as Andrias started putting his laser sword in his scabbard slowly.
"Now look what you made me do...", Andrias glared before he finished putting it in the scabbard in a fast motion.
Angered, Eda's inner Owl Beast immediately took over her. It screeched and pounced towards Andrias, who knocked her back.
"Ha! I expected that.", Andrias smirked.
"Come on, Amity! We all need to go!", Boscha urged.
Amity contemplated for a while before she moved away from her and the others.
"I'm sorry. I can't come with you to the human realm. Not without Luz. But I can keep you all safe.", Amity said, starting to float away until she was close enough to where she can hold and cradle Luz.
"Wait... you're staying with her?", Eda asked, recovering from Andrias' attack.
"It's the only way to make sure she survives.", Amity explained.
Then, tears started to drip down Emilia's face.
"Amity...!", Erebor spoke, worried for her.
"No!", Emilia sobbed.
"It's okay. If all goes well, we'll find a way to reach you, no matter how long it takes.", Amity assured.
"Then, you're going to need someone to help patch the connection through when this is over.", Mithril stated.
"Mithril...", Amity said.
"Belos, Camila, it truly has been an honor to serve you both. But for now, you must prepare for dire trials ahead and continue your journey without me...", Mithril stated.
"Mithril...", Belos spoke sadly as King went over to Amity and Luz.
"Luz, I'm so happy I had you as a big sister.", King said.
"King, on three. One...", Amity began.
"Two...", King began before he inhaled deeply and...
"Fly, you fools.", Mithril urged.
"WEH!", Amity and King shouted, using their sonic shout and causing Boscha, Selena, Ellie, Maura, Evander, Willow, Gus, Luke, Lucia, Caleb, Sophia, Belos, Camila, Eda, Lilith, Amiyah, Della, Lia, Masa, Anne, Sasha, Marcy, Jackie, Rose, Allison, Pat, Max, Alexis, and their triplets to get knocked into the portal and Human Realm altogether, dropping the box, which emitted a bright light, closing the portal.
After being transported, they all woke up and groaned.
"Huh? What...?", Marcy groaned before noticing that apart from a tear where the wound was made, the wound itself was suddenly gone.
"That's odd. We're all okay.", Marcy stated, puzzled.
Very soon, they all got up and turned to notice a family in one of the few cars they all landed on.
"What the...?!", Polly puzzled in surprise.
The family was quite paralyzed, although the father took a photo of them. Everyone looked around as they were shown to have ended up on Earth in the middle of a dark, stormy night.
"Oh, my frog!", Sprig shouted in surprise.
"What is this place?", Hop Pop asked.
"It looks like we're back on Earth.", Camila said.
"But so much has changed since I last saw it... What is this place on Earth, really?", Belos asked, stunned.
"Home...", Anne, Sasha, Marcy, and their respective siblings responded.
Later, at Anne's house, a picture of Anne, Jackie, Rose, and their triplets with both their parents was shown, panning out to reveal the interior of the house. Mrs. Boonchuy was stirring something with a sad look on her face when suddenly, she heard someone knocking on the door.
"I'm coming. I'm coming.", Mrs. Boonchuy spoke before opening the door and gasping at quite the sight: Anne and her sisters, and brother, at the door.
"Hi, mom.", Anne greeted.
"We're back...", Jackie added.
END OF PART 2
A/N: And that's the end of the 2nd season finale. But while that's the end of this story and "Coven of Rings and Darkness", a new one is soon to begin to bring worlds together. And despite how dark this one ended, the upcoming crossover story will have a happy ending. But while I do have plans to work on that, I have other ones to work on and/or catch up on as well. Until then, may we all wish the best for Luz, Amity, King, and his siblings...
