The core was pulled off of Marcy's head and tossed aside out of the view of any not paying attention to it. As everybody was congratulating and making sure they were okay mechanical legs unfolded themselves from the inside of the core's helmet. The core scurried off before activating hidden rocket boosters and blasting off toward the moon.
Landing on the backside of the moon, the core hooked itself in like a USB, the moon began to glow an ominous orange and ginormous bright orange eyes that looked exactly like the core's lit up. A set of thrusters activated and began to push the moon in the direction of Amphibia.
"Hey was the moon always that big?" Everybody's eyes looked up following where Sprig was pointing. High up in the sky, they all saw a bright orange moon slowly but surely getting bigger. All across Amphibia panic began to erupt as frogs, toads, and newts began to notice the moon coming closer and closer.
Back at the outskirts of Newtopia everybody's eyes were wide with fear. "We're all seeing this right? Not some sort of hallucination?" Anne asked hoping that it wasn't real.
"Nope, this is real." Sasha responded.
"Okay now that we have established that this is real. HOW IS THIS HAPPENING!" Anne screamed.
The booming voice of the king answered. "The core has activated its final gambit. The moon was where it held all of its experiments, the worst of all being a contingency plan to ram the moon into Amphibia in the event it was about to be destroyed." The king held a solemn look on his face.
"I was in its head, its biggest fear is being destroyed, so it will destroy everything else first." Marcy stated.
"So, What You're Saying Is That It's A Sore Loser!" Sasha yelled with fury. "We Won Fair And Square! We gotta stop this thing!"
As Sasha finished her exclamation the ground began to rumble as if the planet was alive and unhappy. "Really! An earthquake now? we have enough problems to deal with." Polly said while holding onto Hop Pop's head for dear life. Just as quickly as it came, the rumbling stopped… a giant olm burst through the surface. The olm was purple with blue frills on its back and a glowing leaf-like pattern on its forehead. It took a brief look around as if to make sure it was in the right location, noticing the moon it turned back to the group and zeroed in on the three girls.
"Hoopa De Boopa, You're big!" Anne said as everybody's eyes widened.
"I see, so the prophecy has finally come to pass." The large worm-like creature said.
"Mother Olm." Andrias started, confirming its name. "So, you've co-"
Marcy's high-pitched voice eclipsed Andrias cutting him off mid-sentence "Prophecy? There's a prophecy about this? This is so cool. I've always wanted to be in a prophecy. What's the prophecy! Come on tell me, tell me, tell me" Marcy looked like her eyes were stars with how excited she was.
"'Three stars burning bright, come from beyond to expel the night. Should they fight or embrace the fall, their choice shall determine the fate of all.' That is the prophecy foretold many millennia ago." Mother Olm said.
"And, are we supposed to be the three stars?" Anne asked motioning to herself, Sasha, and Marcy.
"It would seem so."
"So, either we fight and save the world or don't? Well, that prophecy doesn't change a thing, we've already made our choice." Sasha and Marcy nod confirming Anne's words. "Shall we go take down a moon?"
"Beating up a moon, this sounds awesome!" Sasha cheered.
"This feels like something straight out of an anime, I love it!" Marcy said with a big smile.
Just as the Calamity Trio was about to take off Mother Olm spoke. "Before you go, the calamity powers are strong, but they may not be enough to defeat the core, if things look bad, remember the secret spell."
"Hold on the secret what?" Sasha questioned.
"What! You don't know the secret spell?" All three girls shook their heads. "With one person using all three powers, you have the strength to defeat any foe, but it comes at a great cost, the life of the user."
"So, whoever uses all three Calamity Powers at once… dies?" Marcy questioned.
'Indeed. But hopefully it won't come to that. Good luck you three."
"How do we do that?" Anne hesitantly asked.
"All you have to do is ask."
All across Amphibia mass panic was in full effect as the moon was plummeting toward them. Most towns were evacuating, hoping by some miracle they could outrun it. Although The frogs of Wartwood did not try to run, nor did they accept their fate, they watched on trusting that Anne would be able to save them like she had all those times before. As they watched, they could see three lights fly off toward the approaching moon, one of green, one of pink, and one of the all-familiar blue of Anne Boonchuy.
The three girls flew through space stopping a little way away when the moon spotted them with its large glowing eye. Activating its defenses, two hatches opened on the sides of the moon releasing a large number of mechanical bugs who all began swimming through space to defend against the trio.
"Bring it on you stinky space bugs!" Anne said with a cocky smirk. She then created two pairs of wolverine claws around her hands similar to Yunan's weapon of choice. As the bugs neared, Anne dashed forward tearing through any and all space bugs in her way leaving nothing but scraps behind her.
Sasha focused as much energy as she could on her swords and rushed forward following Anne's lead. She sliced through the metal hulls of the machines as if they were butter. As more and more space bugs surrounded her, she began spinning in a circle faster and faster until she became a Beyblade of death cutting everything around her. A single large robot with a humanoid appearance challenged Sasha next. She swung her two swords as fast as she could then began to sheath them, just as the swords reached the bottom of their scabbard the robot broke into hundreds of different pieces. "I've always wanted to do that, and yep is just as cool as I imagined." She said with a smirk.
"I was right! This is like an Anime!" Marcy cried. She easily created a large crossbow with explosive arrows and began shooting at anything that moves. A few large groups began to move toward her, unable to shoot her crossbow fast enough, Marcy created a mega-sized 20-sided dice and chucked it at one of the groups. The dice hit the group landing on a ten creating a semi-large explosion, the dice bounced away and into the second group landing on fifteen creating a large explosion, it bounced one last time into the last group landing on a twenty. "Nat 20 baby!" Marcy cheered as the largest explosion yet exploded decimating anything around it.
The three of them all group back together slamming into each other for a group hug before zooming off together to destroy the rest of the mechanical space bugs. Once the space bugs were nothing but scrap the Calamity trio rushed to the front of the moon and began to push against it, hoping that their combined power could beat out its thrusters and push it back to its rightful place. Unfortunately, even with them all working together they could do nothing but slow it down.
"You cannot stop a GOD!" the core's deep voice spoke.
"Uh… guys. I have bad news." Marcy said. The two other girls looked over at her and saw her hair flickering between green and black.
"I don't think we can stop this thing, especially not without Marcy." Sasha said.
"I didn't want to have to use it, but I think we'll have to use the secret spell that Mother Olm mentioned."
"I'll do it" Both Sasha and Marcy said at the same time.
"I should be the one to do it, it's my fault we're all here. I got us into this mess by bringing us here, it's only right I do the most to fix it." Marcy argued.
"No, it should be me. I was terrible to both you and Anne back on earth and I need to make up for that."
Anne hadn't said a word, her back turned to them looking at the planet that was going to be destroyed if they didn't do anything. Memories raced through her mind of her time living there. All of the friends and even family she found. Sprig who was her best friend and all the crazy adventures they went on together, the Planters who took her in a gave her a home when she was all alone, all the people of Wartwood that she befriended and cherishes. Even Sasha whom she rekindled her friendship with and was now closer than ever. All the different experiences and adventures she went on that she wouldn't trade for the world.
"It has to be me." Anne spoke. Her voice was soft just above a whisper, yet it left no room for argument. She turned around to face the two other girls who were now staring at her in shock.
"No No No! it does not have to be you, in fact, it shouldn't be you." Sasha argued clearly have none of it.
"Anne you've done so much for us, you shouldn't have to do this too." Marcy said also not accepting this outcome.
"Yes I do. Marcy, you look like you're about to pass out, and Sasha you're probably not far behind." Anne's eyes were burning with determination and confidence. "I've been using these powers since we first got here, and I think that was for a reason. My body is the most used to Calamity Energy, so I have the best chance at surviving." Anne's determined eyes bore deep into the other girl's souls eroding their resolve. "Sasha… Marcy… Mother Olm said all we had to do was ask, so, I'm asking, please hand over your powers, help me save this world that I love."
Tears began to fall from Sasha and Marcy's eyes as their resolves fully crumble under Anne's determination. The green and pink girl held Anne's hands and through instinct began to push their powers out of their bodies and into Anne's. once the transfer was completed Anne began sending the two girls back to Amphibia.
"You'd better come back alive Boonchuy! I swear to frog you'd better!" Sasha yelled out as she was being whisked away.
Once Anne was alone with the core, she activated the other two Calamity powers within her body releasing them in tandem with her own. Instantly, pain flooded her entire body as her blue energy was overtaken by bright white energy. Her eyes became pale blue diamonds, and her hair turned the same white as the energy surrounding her. Anne's skin began to form cracks as her body could barely contain the overwhelming power of all three Calamity Powers.
Slowly the pain slightly subsided as she grew to tolerate it. The core was furious "You dare use Amphibia's greatest treasure, our birthright against us, a God?"
Anne stared down the core. "they're not Amphibia's greatest treasure, and you're not a god." Anne calmly outstretched her right hand toward the moon facing her palm outwards. A mass of energy twice the size of Anne herself formed on her palm, taking one last deep breath Anne released the ball of energy toward the core, shooting an energy blast straight through the moon leaving nothing behind.
The pain from the beginning returned tenfold as her body felt like it was tearing itself apart as More and more cracks appeared on her skin. All the skin on her arm seems to petrify and the cracks connected crumbling her arm to dust as a whirlwind of energy escapes from it.
With no strength left in her body, Anne lets gravity take her as she falls back to the planet below. Like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, Anne fell through the atmosphere and hit the ground creating a crater and kicking up sand and water everywhere. Sasha and Marcy quickly ran to her side with the rest of the group not far behind. When they reached her, they were shocked to see her still moving although she was clearly in a lot of pain.
"Impossible, she's still alive. Quickly you must receive your powers back from her, I don't know how much longer she can last." Mother Olm quickly told the two non-dying girls. The two girls quickly grabbed her hands, well Sasha grabbed her hand.
"Ummm, Sasha she doesn't have another hand."
"Now's not the time, grab this one as well." The two girls both grabbed her hand. "Anne, hand back our Calamity Powers, or else you'll die." Anne said nothing aside from a few grunts of pain in return but after a few seconds, the two felt their powers returning to them. Once the transfer was complete Anne's powers started to flicker, and her hair returned to its usual brown as she passed out from exhaustion.
Anne woke up a few days later, shaking her head to relieve herself of her grogginess she looked around noticing that she was in a room completely made out of stone and was sitting in a very regal-looking bed. The memories of the battle with the core all flooded back to her as her breathing began to quicken.
"I survived…, wait, is everyone else okay? Did they get hurt? Are they safe?" Anne thought to herself. At this moment, the door to her room opened letting in two human girls. The two girls were talking to each other not paying attention to Anne. "Uhm… hey guys." Anne said getting both of their attention. Sasha and Marcy's heads Snapped to Anne's bed.
"YOU'RE AWAKE!" Both girls basically yelled as they tackled her in a hug. The three girls stayed hugging for many minutes as no one wanted to let go.
"Is everyone else okay?" Anne hesitantly asked.
"We're all fine, you're the only one that got hurt." Marcy responded.
"What do you mean what happened to me?"
"… look at your right arm." Anne looked down following Marcy's instructions and saw, nothing there.
"AHHH! WHERE'S MY ARM!" Anne screamed blowing the eardrums of the other two girls.
Sasha and Marcy did their best to calm Anne down which worked eventually although she was still shaken up over it. "Well, it's better than losing your life as Mother Olm said you would." Sasha argued.
"I Guess…"
"Hey, maybe you can use your Calamity powers to create a new arm. Marcy theorized. "We still have our Calamity powers, and you could do it like how we created our weapons. Could be pretty hard though."
Anne instantly tried it, using her calamity power and creating an arm on her stump. The only problem was that it didn't move. Trying a few more times Anne was eventually able to get one of her fingers on the newly created arm to twitch. "That is going to take some practice."
After one last check-up from the doctors, Anne was allowed to leave the Newtopia castle where she was staying. Anne met up with the planter giving everyone a big hug. They all stayed in the castle at Lady Olivia's orders and with King Andrias's permission, even after everything, he was still the king after all. Over the next few days, Anne got back to full strength and even was able to maintain her new arm, which she was still learning to use, while not using her Calamity Powers.
One night, while the three girls were hanging out Anne asked an important question. "So… do we know how to get back to earth?"
"With everything that has happened recently, I haven't really thought about that." Sasha said.
"I think I might know a way." Marcy shyly said causing the two girls to look is her, asking an unspoken question. "I had a lot of time to think about this while I was trapped in Darcy's head, but the box that brought us here harnessed Calamity energy to open portals between worlds. So shouldn't that mean we could also use our powers to create portals between worlds?"
"That would make sense." Anne said while Sasha nodded in agreement. "I guess we just got to figure out how."
"Well, most of our powers are based on wanting to do something, it's not like there will be a special incantation right?" Marcy joked.
Most of their time the next day was spent trying to open any semblance of a portal. It took a few days but when a small circle of energy appeared in from of Anne, they were ecstatic. Continuing on Anne's portal opened up to a place that was definitely not Earth, it opened up to a cottage in the woods being guarded by a tube owl stick in the door. Not wanting to deal with that she quickly closed the portal.
Anne spent the rest of the day teaching the two other girls how to do it, and soon everyone was able to open portals to other worlds relatively easily although it still took concentration. It took a while for them to finally open a portal to Earth, after some trial-and-error opening portals to other dimensions such as one a boy was stretching his limbs shouting about being pirate king, one where there was someone in a bathrobe holding a laser sword and moving things with their minds, and even one where a spider-themed super-hero was beating up a lizard, they finally found Earth, their earth as they made sure to check.
After saying their heartfelt goodbyes to the friends and families they made in Amphibia and promising to visit as they could come and go at any time, and making sure she covered up her blue arm, the three girls left back to earth. Anne, Sasha, and Marcy walk back to their neighborhood splitting off when they neared each of their houses.
Anne stared up at her house, it hadn't changed a bit since she was forcefully taken from this world all those months ago. Steeling her nerves, she walked up to the door and rang the doorbell. A woman holding a mixing bowl opened the door, she looked remarkably similar to Anne, just much older. Upon seeing who was at the door, the bowl dropped out of her hands and covered her mouth in shock. The other resident of the house peeked around the corner of a wall asking who was at the door.
"Hi Mom. Hi Dad, I'm home."