The next time Sasha woke up, she found herself tied up in chains with Grime and the rest of the toads inside of the city. Her and Grime were grabbed and brought to the throne room with the Anne, the Plantars, Marcy, Olivia and Yunan.
"Anne, Marcy, Plantars, Olivia, and Yunan; I can't begin to thank you all enough for stopping this heinous invasion!" Andrias said with a proud smile.
"Think nothing of it, your majesty. The honor was all ours." Yunan said with a bow.
Anne held the box.
"Okay, big guy, we're ready to head home." Anne said, before glaring at Sasha, "Where I'm finishing this."
"Excellent." Andrias said, reaching for the box again.
"Anne, don't!" Sasha said.
"Silence!" Yunan said, covering Sasha's mouth with her tail.
Sasha could only watch in growing despair as Anne put the calamity box in Andrias's hand, making him smile happily as he closed his hand around it.
"After so long, I have this box once again." Andrias said.
"Wait, again? I thought you said you've never seen it before." Anne said, confused.
"That's because he lied! Like we've been telling you!" Grime shouted.
"I apologize, everyone. I haven't been exactly truthful with you." Andrias said as he turned to walk/pace, "You see, this box was lost, nearly a millennia ago. My ancestors used to travel to other worlds. Now with this in my possession, I can restore our city to its former glory!"
He pressed on the floor and a pillar rose from it. He place the box down and the castle started shaking.
"What is going on?!" Olivia asked, holding on to Yunan to stay stable.
"The castle is SO MUCH more than you all believe." Andrias said, gesturing to the nearby balcony. "See for yourselves."
They ran out and saw that the castle was flying.
"I knew Newtopia used to be more advanced but this is unreal!" Marcy comments.
"So this place is where Frobo came from?!" Polly asked in shock.
"Now that the box is back in my possession, I can finally continue my families legacy!" Andrias said, "Conquering other worlds!"
"What?! You said your family were explorers!" Sprig shouted in shock.
"Well, it's only a half lie, they did explore the worlds... before taking all the resources."
"Taking all of the resources?! So you're going to destroy Earth?!" Anne shouted as she glanced at Sasha, who had a look of fear at Andrias like her.
'Goddamnit, why did you have to be right?! I almost regret wanting to kill you now!' Anne thought.
"Anne we have to stop him!" Sasha said.
Though Sasha was right, a new thought came to Anne's mind. Something that shook her to the core as she slowly turned in their general direction.
"Marcy…did you know about this?" Anne asked, deadly serious as the temperature in the room dropped.
"I-"
"Oh, I could tell you a lot." Andrias said, cutting off Marcy, "Like how she got you trapped her... on purpose."
"On purpose?!" Everyone said in shock, looking at Marcy.
The eagle girl had a look of horror as she gulped, unable to look around at all of their eyes.
"I-I-I didn't think the box would-"
She didn't finish that as she had a very angry wolf pounce on her.
"Anne!" The Plantars shouted!
"Marcy!" Yunan and Olivia shouted.
"ANNE, DON'T!" Sasha screamed.
All of them were ignored as Anne growled down at Marcy, showing eyes of anger, rage, and sorrow! She had been betrayed, not by one best friend but BOTH best friends! Anne was breathing heavily and growled at Marcy. Marcy was scared, never actually seeing how sharp Anne's teeth were.
'O-Oh my god.' Marcy thought in fear, gulping nervously as Anne barked in her face!
'EXPLAIN!' Anne thought but her nearly feral growl got the point across.
"I-I-I didn't mean for any of this to happen! Really! And I didn't know that box was magic! I-I-I just wanted…..to make my last day back home with my friends matter." Marcy said, her fear being replaced by sadness. "Before I met up with you guys, my dad told me he got a new job and….I was going to move away."
Anne didn't stop snarling.
"I-I didn't think the box would work a-and I just wanted mo-more time with you guys. And I….I…I didn't want to be alone." Marcy said, giving into her sadness and crying.
Marcy closed her eyes, preparing for whatever Anne was going to do. She felt Anne's hand grab her shirt collar and pull her to her feet.
"Marcy... what you did was unbelievably stupid, and I am actually furious with you." Anne said, angrily might I add, "The only reason I don't rip you apart, is because we have bigger problems right now."
Anne shoved Marcy back. Anne turned around and glared at Andrias, who was silently watching the fall out with the Calamity Box next to him.
"The box, give it back." Anne said to him.
"And why would I do that? Even if I DID give it back, I am the only who knows how to work it and get you all home to Earth." Andrias said with a grin. "It's quite the conundrum, is it not?"
"Listen here you big blue bastard, you're the third person to betray me today, I am NOT in the mood to mess around." Anne said.
"Do you think you have any right to make threats in MY castle?" Andrias asked her.
"Not when we tell everyone who you really are, psycho." Anne said, grabbing the handle of her sword.
"Go ahead. I don't care. I have better soldiers at my beck and call." Andrias said before snapping his fingers, calling forth dozens of robot toads like Frobo!
Only they were more advanced and stronger looking.
"Dispose of her." Andrias said.
The robots moved towards Anne, only for a bear to bite down on one of them and threw it away from Anne.
"RAAAAAH!" Sasha shouted as she began attacking more robots.
"How did she get out?!" Andrias asked before glancing towards Yunan. "General!"
"I didn't do anything." Yunan said, with a smirk.
"Me either." Olivia said with a small grin.
Behind her, the chain holding Grime fell as he smirked and grabbed the hammer.
He ran at the robots, hitting one with the hammer.
"YAAAAAH!" Grime screamed.
"To arms!" Polly shouted, pulling out a flail from somewhere unknown. "AAAAH!"
She lunged at the robots.
"I'll get the box!" Sprig said, hopping towards Andrias and the box.
"Frobo, back him up!" Polly said to her friend.
"Okay!" Frobo said, running after Sprig.
Anne lunged at the robots and bit down on one. The wolf girl was going to go WILD and destroy everything that gets in her way!
'I swear, if Sprig betrays me, I'm killing everything in this room.' Anne thought.
Even if Hop Pop already betrayed her trust by hiding the box, Anne learned that he did it for good reason and forgave him for that but not a second time. Polly? She was a blank slate but push comes to shove, Anne is gonna maul on her. She can only handle so much before she breaks. As both sides fought each other, the only one not fighting was Marcy as she was on her knees and watching the chaos. Neither side thought it was worth fighting her since she was still coming to terms with what was revealed. She didn't know what to do.
'All of this is my fault, I never should've suggested that stupid box.' Marcy thought, glancing at Sprig and Frobo as they fought with Andrias. 'I have to fix this somehow.'
Marcy stood up and pointed her crossbow.
"You think you can beat me, boy?!" Andrias asked with a grin, blocking a mud shot.
"I can at least try!" Sprig shouted.
Andrias lifted his foot, before a cross bow bolt hit his knee.
"Aaaaah!" He screamed in pain, holding his knee.
Marcy shifted and flew at him.
"Marcy?" Sprig and Frobo said in surprise.
The golden eagle flew past them and flew around Andrias, who was doing his best to swat at her! Scratching any showing skin on him before flying at the Calamity Box! She grabbed the box and flew to the other side of the room.
"No!" Andrias roared before Sprig kicked him in the face!
"Go Marcy, go!" Sprig shouted.
Andrias growled and grabbed Sprig.
"ENOUGH!" He said, "Put the box down... or else!"
Everyone stopped fighting as they turned to the king, where he was holding Sprig outside of a window! Anne's eyes went wide.
'NO!' She thought, shifting back to human.
"Put him down!" Anne shouted.
"You want to rephrase that? Cuz if I do, it's about a 1000 foot drop to the ground." Andrias said, looking outside. "Not even a frog could hop back from that. Put the box down."
Everyone turned to Marcy, who turned back to normal and held the box over the edge of another window.
"Put Sprig down inside first! Then I'll give you the box!" Marcy said, wiping her eyes clean.
"Marcy, sweet innocent Marcy, you put the box down or else... you will all be killed." Andrias said.
With another snap of his fingers, a new type of Amphibian robot dropped down from the roof and held everyone but Marcy to the ground!
"Now, what will it be." Andrias said.
"Marcy, do what he says!" Anne said.
"No! You can't trust him!" Sasha shouted.
"Tick tock, Marcy." Andrias said, releasing one finger from his hold on Sprig.
"Okay, okay, you win!" Marcy said, putting the box on the pedestal.
"You got what you, now let him go." Anne said, "He's my best friend, in this world, or any world."
Sprig smiled at her.
"That's the thing about Friends, the more you love them, the more it hurts to see them go." Andrias said, "Allow me to demonstrate."
He let go of Sprig, letting him fall from the floating castle. The world seemed to stop spinning in that moment. Polly and Hop Pop started crying, while Anne felt her heart shatter. Tears started to fill her eyes and she looked at the ground. She started breathing heavily before that breathing turned into growls. Her eyes changed, even the blind one, into bright blue wolf eyes. The gem on the box began to flicker and blue energy began floating towards her. The group looked concerned, while Andrias watched in confusion.
"No... it can't be."
Marcy saw an opening and jumped out the window, shifting into her Spirit Animal and dive bombing towards Sprig. In the castle, Anne began to stand up.
"She's still connected to the stone!" Andrias said, "But that's impossible!"
Anne took a step forward.
"Give him back." She said, a tear rolling down her face, "Give him back!"
A powerful blast was released with her scream, making her disappear as she moved at high speed.
"Where'd she-"
Andrias was hit by Anne and sent flying backwards. His crown got embedded into the wall. Andrias looked up and saw a large white wolf with glowing blue eyes, and a blue glow covering her.
"What in Amphibia?!" Andrias shouted in shock.
"ANNE?!" Sasha asked in shock, never seeing this version of her spirit animal before.
Anne got low to the ground and flashed her teeth. She growled at Andrias and let out a bark, which resulted in a large soundwave being released and hitting Andrias.
"AAAAAH!" Andrias screamed, crashing into the far wall.
"Um, is this a human thing?" Hop Pop asked, looking at Sasha.
"This is NOT a human thing." Sasha said, still in shock.
"Frobots, attack!" Andrias shouted, pointing at Anne.
Anne ran, at speeds that no wolf should ever run. All the robots that tried to attack were destroyed, turned to scrap metal just by getting too close as Anne focused on Andrias! The white wolf lunged.
"RAAAAAAH!" Anne screamed/roared as Andrias put his arm up.
An energy shield formed from his gauntlet to protect him as Anne's energy covered fangs clashed against it! Anne jumped off and let out a howl, releasing waves of powerful energy. Andrias tried to block but his shield was shattered, knocking him back again as he crashed through the far wall! Anne growled as she walked towards him, before shifting back and standing up, her hair and eyes glowing blue.
"Give him back! Give him back right now!" Anne shouted, grabbing her sword and charging it with her energy.
Anne was about to charge, when she suddenly felt incredibly tired. She fell to her knees and used her sword to stay up a bit as the energy around her began to flicker and fade. Polly and Hop Pop ran over to her to check on her.
"Looks like she can't control it." Andrias chuckled.
"Anne!"
Anne looked over and saw Sprig running towards her.
"Sprig? You're... alive!" Anne said, hugging him.
"Marcy saved me just in time."
"Marcy?"
"I'll admit, even I'm surprised. Somehow you still have the gift Kid, which means." Andrias held up a flaming sword, "I cannot let you live!"
Frobo jumps in front of the Plantars to protect them, attacking Andrias but getting impaled by his sword.
"A last moment stand to protect your masters. Admirable but pathetic." Andrias said before yanking up, destroying Frobo's body will his head remained intact.
"Frobo!" Polly said.
Suddenly the castle started to shake. Andrias looked and saw Marcy with the box, opening a portal.
"Please work, please work, please work."
"The box!" Andrias said, trying to run after Marcy, before Sasha and Grime got in the way.
"We'll hold him off, just go!" Sasha said, charging at him.
Anne and the Plantars went through the portal, before looking back at Marcy. Andrias made quick work of Sasha and Grime, which Anne noticed.
"Marcy, hurry!" Anne said.
"I just need to-"
Blood fell on the floor as Marcy looked down, seeing her chest being split by Andrias' sword, right through the heart. Blood was pouring out of the wound, and began to pool in her mouth.
"Now look what you made me do." Andrias said.
"MARCY!" Sasha and Anne shouted.
Marcy began gasping for air, and barely managed to get a sentence out.
"I... I... I'm... sorry." She gasped out, before her eyes glazed over and fell to the floor.
She dropped the box and it closed the portal. Anne and the Plantars woke up hearing loud beeping, looking around and seeing a place that was foreign... to everyone but Anne.
"No way." She said, looking at the big sign on the hill, "We're... in LA."
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