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It’s finally over.
Anne looked around the ruins of the once great, but now destroyed Newtopian castle. Members of the resistance scattered throughout the battlefield, panting with exhaustion atop endless piles of robots. Even Andrias, behemoth of a monster he was, lying face-down just a few feet in front of her, defeated.
To her right was Sasha, hair bright pink and by her side, like she swore she always would be. She was leaning on her dual swords, digging them into the ground to stay upright in an attempt to conceal her exhaustion. Despite the battle being over, her job as a leader was not. She had to remain standing strong, a symbol to those who remain conscious, and a tribute to those that would never be.
Anne locked eyes with Sasha as the two nodded and made their way towards the shattered throne that lay ahead, or rather, the dark armored figure that lay upon it. It had taken a lot of struggling, and an even greater amount of willpower but together with the olms and Valeriana, her knowledge as the final guardian was quite useful, they had found a way to separate Marcy from the Core. Of course, Marcy herself fighting against the Core in the final moments was pivotal to the plan.
Standing before her now, Anne heard Sasha sharply inhale between her teeth. Nobody had worked harder than her to get to where they were now, not even Anne. The black haired figure on the throne in sharp contrast to the bright green that had erupted from her during the fight not even an hour prior. The two girls leaned down, brushing the hair out of Marcy’s face and picking up the shattered pieces of that hideous helmet that once masked her, intending to dispose of them when all was said and done.
Suddenly, breaking through what must have been months of exhaustion, she woke up. Brown eyes changing color as they slowly opened and a small gasp escaping her as she lifted an arm to the two girls standing over her.
No words were needed as the two collapsed and embraced Marcy, letting go of their powers and finally letting the reality of the moment hit them. They had finally done it. After what had seemed like lifetimes but was probably only a year, they had finally been reunited once and for all.
At least, that’s how the story was meant to end. Neither Anne nor Sasha could’ve predicted the small voice that escaped Marcy’s mouth at that moment.
“Who?”
A single word was all it took to remind Anne and Sasha that the world wasn’t fair, and that not all stories have a fairytale ending.
“C’mon Marbles, now isn’t the time to be playing jokes,” Sasha croaked out, dropping her swords for the first time that day. Anne flinched as they clattered across the stone floor, a resounding clang for every step they fell. For a second, she realized that she understood how those swords felt, dropping from their highest point to their lowest in the blink of an eye.
“Did you forget? Did you forget who we are? Me, Sasha, the Plantars, all of Earth ?” Anne yelled out desperately, grabbing Marcy’s figure and pulling her into an upright position against the wall.
“Of course not. I still remember everything, Saint James, the temples, even the Battle of the Bands back in Wartwood. But there’s just one thing,” Marcy responded, in a voice much too devoid of her usual excitement and wonder, causing Sasha to take a step back and stifle a gasp by slapping her hand against her mouth as Anne just held on even tighter.
“While I understand that I should care about these things. I fail to understand why - no - how to go about doing that. Perhaps you can explain, Anne,” and after hearing those words, Anne Boonchuy, the second in command to the rebellion that successfully saved Amphibia, broke down in tears.
“You promised Mar-Mar, you promised me that I wouldn’t lose you ,” she screamed out, furiously wiping tears as they fell from her face, barely registering Sasha placing a hand on her shoulder alongside her much quieter sobbing. But even through her tears, she couldn’t miss the way that confusion fell across Marcy’s face at her words.
“But you didn’t lose me, Anne. I’m right here aren’t I? You and Sasha saved me from the Core. I’ll never forget you, I’ll never forget either of you.”