undying power [amphibia]

chapter 13 (darcy)

Sasha and I had been sitting in silence for a little while until the Plantars woke up. They had a similar reaction to Sasha's except they were a little more chill.

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After a few more hours of flying we had finally made it to Newtopia. I looked over at Sasha who look shocked at how much was destroyed. I almost forgot that she hadn't seen it since Andrias betrayed us.

"Land over there, Joe," I said pointing near a building where we could hide out in. When he landed, we all jumped off and went in the building.

"Ok," Sasha started. "So Anne brought us all here against our will without a plan so what are we gonna do?"

"I don't know, I expected you to come up with a plan on the way here. You're good at that stuff," I said.

"ME?! You're the one who took us all here."

"What if we just went into the castle and looked for the box."

"We have to have more of a plan than that. Like um, we use Sprig as bait and leave there for a minute and see if he gets captured. If he doesn't, we're good to get the box but if he does, we get the box first and come back for him after."

"Why do I have to be the bait?" Sprig asked.

"Hm, that actually sounds like a good plan," I said, ignoring Sprig.

"Ok then. Let's go," Sasha said.

Sasha walked out of the building and I followed after a few minutes later. But when I went out, I didn't see Sasha. I then looked up and saw a robot flying away, holding on to her, tight.

"ANNE," I heard faintly heard her yell before I saw her go unconscious. I had no idea how to feel. Of course I was upset, but I was also shocked and scared but what I felt most was guilt. This is all my fault

I began to walk back inside slowly with a shocked look still on my face. "Anne? What's going on," Sprig asked. I stayed silent, not knowing exactly how to respond.

"An-"

"I FUCKED UP OK," I yelled at him, cutting him off. He looked scared for a second. "Sorry sorry, it's just that you all told me this was a bad idea but I thought we had to jump in, head first, and now everything is already going wrong."

"What do you mean everything is going wrong?"

"Sasha. She was just captured by a robot," I said with tears forming in my eyes.

Sprig walked over and hugged me. "It's gonna be ok. We're gonna get her back."

Sasha's pov

I woke up, lying in the cold ground of the palace. I began to push myself up and realized my face was really close to someone else's. I quickly backed up so it wouldn't be awkward but I got a better look at it. It almost looked like Marcy.

"Hello, strength," it said. It's voice even sounded like Marcy.

"It's so nice to finally meet you. We've been looking forward to it for a while now."

"W-we?" I asked, stuttering.

It gasped "how rude of us not to introduce ourselves. We are a collection of Amphibia's greatest minds called the Core but we prefer Darcy."

"Ha, isn't that funny. My friend has a similar name," I was nervous.

"Oh, you mean Marcy?" My eyes widened. "Maybe that's because she's a part of us."

I felt my calamity powers activate out of fear. "You're lying. She wouldn't want to be part of you," I said, about to cry. "Oh, really? She's the one who quit on everything."

"SHUT UP," I yelled at it, causing a surge of power to knock Darcy over. "Oh. So you that's how you wanna play? That's how we're gonna play," it said while pulling out a fire sword that I assumed was the same one that Marcy got stabbed with. It began to charge at me but I jumped up, dodging it.

I landed behind it and was facing the opposite direction of it. Darcy was charging at me. I turned around and my eye was sliced by the sword and I jumped backwards. I felt my calamity powers deactivate. I immediately covered my eye with my hand.

I took my hand off for a second and looked at it. My hand was completely covered with blood. I was already scared but i then heard something. Laughing. Darcy was laughing at me.

It started walking towards me. I scooted back as far as I could and stood up and started running out. I opened the door as far as I could and squeeze out but didn't get very far before a guard caught me and held me so I couldn't escape.

"What should I do with the kid," the guard asked. Darcy didn't say anything and just gave the guard a look. They began to take me away somewhere. Before we got far, I started to feel weak from the pain in my eye and before I knew it, I passed out again.