Finally managed to sit down and get this chapter done! Enjoy!

Anne wasn't sure how to feel about all this.

On one hand, Marcy was back in town and staying with her for the time being. After a bit of convincing her parents (who she hadn't really been talking to much outside of small talk), Oum and Bee had agreed Marcy could stick around for a while. They had plenty of space in the house after all.

The last few hours had mostly consisted of Marcy moving herself into Anne's room. Her various things had been scattered around, being mixed with Anne's own things that she had.

Anne probably would have helped if she hadn't been standing in shock for those hours, still taking in the fact Marcy was suddenly here without so much as a phone call in advance.

Instead, she had used her time to glance around the room at Marcy's things curiously. She did tend to carry around the most random things in her bags from what Anne could remember. Her eyes soon landed on Marcy's backpack, that had been tossed on the bed absentmindedly.

From what Anne had been able to notice from a small glance, said backpack had been dedicated to being filled with various gear, which included binoculars, dark clothes and even what looked like... Bolt cutters?

Okay, that was something she was definitely questioning Mar-Mar about later...

Speaking of Marcy, It had been about 30 minutes since she had first set up a bunch of maps and pinned documents on a wall nearby, and was now pacing as she seemed to be marking things down while ranting to herself.

Marcy had probably drank double her body weight in energy drinks by now. With many empty cans littering the floor around them both.

After a bit of time was spent processing everything that was going on, Anne finally decided to speak up with the obvious question:

"Marcy, what is all this? And why is it all over my wall?" She spoke up, getting Marcy's attention.

The teen girl turned to look at Anne, with almost owl-like reflex in doing so.

"These are the plans I've made! Alongside the research I've managed to do in a short amount of time!" Marcy explained.

"Plans and research...?" Anne blinked, "For what?! Oh god, don't tell me you came all this way for a Creatures and Caverns one-shot."

During the last few days that Marcy had been in LA before she moved, Anne and Sasha had agreed they owed the girl at least ONE session of that game where they actually paid attention...

...By god, did they both learn quickly how MUCH attention that game required, and for how long.

Marcy shook her head, before looking Anne deeply in the eyes. Their pupils were locked almost in place.

"Anne, what if I told you... That there was a possible way... For us to get back to Amphibia?" Marcy asked, her grin growing with each pause she made in her question.

Anne was silent as the words sunk in. She had barely managed to push Amphibia out of her mind during the shock of Marcy being her temporary roommate... But now the thoughts were back, in probably the most surprising way it could have been brought back up.

"B-But Marcy, the stones are gone... There's no way back..." Anne replied, hating to have to remind herself of that truth.

"Nah, nah Anne... Because YOU managed to make it to Amphibia without the box before! It's completely possible we can do it again!" Marcy pointed out, chugging another energy drink as she did.

Anne exhaled, not wanting to repeat herself. "Mar-"

"THEN you can REUNITE with your frog family, and enter a WHOLE NEW stage of found family trope WHOLESOMENESS and FINALLY achieve the happiness your heart NEEDS! That it's been CRAVING, Anne!" Marcy ranted on, even forcibly poking Anne's chest a few times for emphasis.

The ranting of her plan was only stopped when she needed to catch her breath, panting as she did. Anne blinked a couple times.

"...Okay, you gotta lay off the energy drinks. They're changing you." She remarked with a bit of concern.

"NO! THEY'RE CHARGING ME, ANNA-BANANA!" Marcy refuted, pumping the air with her fists for emphasis, before going right back to catching her breath.

Ignoring her friend's caffeine-fueled rants, Anne did find the idea worth considering. Maybe there truly was a way back if they found enough power to energize the portal...

But that was just the problem: It was hard enough finding a way to power the portal in the first place back then! The only thing that had been powerful enough to charge the portal, was her Calamity powers... Which were gone alongside the gems.

"But the only way the portal from before was even activated was because of my powers, which just a reminder... ARE GONE." Anne exhaled, uttering out that last part with a bit of an edge to it.

"Look, I have a plan on how to get around that! You just need to trust me!" Marcy responded, her smile not leaving.

"Oh my god..." Anne moaned, trying her best to take all this in. "How the heck did your parents even let you come if THIS was your plan for your visit?"

In response, Marcy clicked her tongue, and averted her eyes as she sheepishly rubbed her right arm.

"Oh yeah... I uh... Didn't really tell them the full truth about why I was coming here." Marcy smiled sheepishly. "Just told them it was for a short visit."

"WHY...?" Anne nearly stuttered out in exasperation.

"Anne, if I told them the real reason I was coming to visit... They'd never have let me come." Marcy pointed out, "What would I have even said? "Hey Mom, hey Dad! I know I was trapped in another dimension for six months while you were worried sick about me... But I wanna go visit Anne and find a way back there!"

Anne clicked her tongue. She did make a pretty good point. Marcy's parents had been so relieved to get their daughter back, it was doubtful they were planning to let her simply disappear like that again.

"Okay fair... But on the other hand, you're gonna get grounded for 200 years if they find out the real reason you came." Anne flatly remarked.

"It'll be worth it if this works out." Marcy reasoned, "Come on, don't you want to at least give it a shot...?"

Anne sighed heavily, and was quiet for a few moments as she considered it... Before a familiar look of determination that hadn't appeared in months formed on her face.

"We need to get Sasha on board." She commented with a smirk at Marcy, who squealed happily in response.

"Oh heck yeah! The girls are getting back together again!" Marcy grinned, nearly jumping with joy.

The last thing Sasha wanted to do right now was get the girls back together again.

If it had been a sluggish life for Anne the last few months, it had pretty much been a small stroll through Hell for Sasha.

Nothing much had really changed for the Waybright daughter. Her parents had been happy that she returned of course, but her living situation didn't change any.

She still was living with her father in LA, and hadn't visited her mother much recently. A visit was planned in a month or two after school let out, but until then, she was staying in LA.

Unlike Anne, Sasha's social status had plummeted since her return to Earth. While Anne had been praised by the media for her heroic actions... Sasha hadn't really been brought into the spotlight at all during all of that, neither her or Marcy for that matter.

On one hand, it was nice to finally get some peace after all the chaos that occurred during her time in Amphibia... But on the other, she got little to no recognition for her efforts in helping save LA. Heck, save the entire world!

Her time away from the school and her peers had taken it's toll. Nobody really paid any attention to her anymore when she walked in the halls of the academy (granted, she had become a much different person than she used to be).

There was only one thing Sasha had to show for her experience in Amphibia now... And it was lined up her back like a faded lightning strike.

She hesitantly had touched it a few times recently, usually whenever she reminisced about the past. It still stung, but it had mostly healed thankfully.

Terri had looked it over soon after they had returned from Amphibia, and from what they had said, it was a miracle Sasha could even walk anymore from how deep the cut had been.

You'd think that besides the scar, Sasha would have at least been able to enjoy her newfound muscles that she had built up during her time leading the Rebellion... But those didn't last too long after she returned to Earth.

She took ONE cheat day, and her muscles had just decided to completely give up. Sasha just hadn't been able to resist the temptation to indulge in normal unhealthy human food again after so long...

She had zero idea how the heck Anne and Marcy had managed to get used to eating bugs and such like that during their time in Amphibia.

Sasha wanted to at least try and keep fit despite losing most of her muscles. So she invested in a punching bag that now was hanging from the ceiling on a chain.

She also had zero idea on why the heck she hadn't invested in a punching bag a lot sooner in life, even before everything involving Amphibia happened.

In fact, she had just been in the middle of one of those punching sessions when her phone began to ring from over on the end table of her bedroom.

She wiped the sweat off her brow, before Sasha walked over and picked it up.

"...Oh god..." Sasha mumbled, seeing the contact picture of Anne instantly.

That was a reminder of another large thing that had changed a lot: Boonchuy.

Ever since Amphibia, she wasn't really sure where her friendship with Anne would go in the future. But from how the last few months had gone, it was looking more and more like what she once feared it would be... Just not meant to be.

Sasha had been purposefully avoiding Anne for a while now. It just seemed like their interactions had gotten more awkward over time. With one of the few things they really could talk about was their past experiences in Amphibia... Which tended to be a subject that reopened old wounds that hadn't even healed yet.

She was half-tempted to just let the phone ring, and pretend she hadn't been able to reach the phone in time... But eventually she found herself being unable to resist pressing the green button to accept the call.

"Sasha? You there?" Anne's voice rang out from the other end of the phone.

"Yeah, I am..." Sasha responded, trying her best to not sound as dead as possible. "What's up, Boonchuy?"

It only took a minute for Anne to give a basic explanation on why she called. Sasha, of course, had a rather reasonable response a few moments later.

"The heck you mean Marcy's back in town and has a way to get back to Amphibia?!" Sasha shrieked in shock from how blunt Anne had put it.

"I mean, you can ask her yourself...! You're on speakerphone." Anne remarked, and as soon as she did, another voice piped up on the other end.

"Sash, I LITERALLY just got done selling Anne on this... I really don't want to do it again." Marcy flatly replied in the background, "Just trust me, I got a plan."

"You've been saying 'trust me' a lot recently." Anne remarked flatly, noticing a pattern.

"You CANNOT just say you have a plan and not explain more..." Sasha exclaimed, still in shock. "There's no way you found a possible way back-"

"You just gotta meet up with us! I'll explain more once we're all face to face!" Marcy explained.

"...You really think there's a chance?" Sasha hesitantly asked, wanting confirmation.

"With every brain cell bobbing around in my head." Marcy confirmed, a twinge of confidence in her tone.

Sasha exhaled, knowing there was the chance she was going to regret this. "Okay fine... Where are we meeting then? Name the time and place."

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