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flowersandskeletons526 · 2 years

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Okay but like Amphibia Zombie AU

AKA something I actually might write a fic for unlike every other idea I have

Big warnings: there is serious violence and harm mentioned in this

Anyway, this is long, I’m probably gonna write this when I get the chance

THE BASIS: After watching Marcy get stabbed, Anne and the Plantars jump back through the portal and Anne goes psycho calamity mode

Like her reaction to Sprig getting tossed being amped up 10x, practically tearing the palace apart

She knocks Andrias on his leviathan ass and gives them time to escape with Marcy (who's implied to be actually dead but like ???)

Once they get out of the palace and a ways away they finally stop, Anne's powers are starting to fade but she holds Marcy and she's trying to stop the bleeding but it's not working

Her teardrops fall onto the stab wound Tangled style and Marcy starts glowing, first blue and then green with their own calamity powers

They wake up just long enough for them to say Anne's name, and she notices that their eyes are now neon green before they pass out

But they're alive

Sasha and Grime escape with them and no one is really looking to fight at first

BUT the moment they're sure Marcy's alive, Sasha pounces on Anne basically saying "get away from them, if you hadn't tried to stop us then Andrias would have stayed in that dungeon and this wouldn't have happened"

That fight has to be broken up and they arrest Grime and Sasha right there, mostly because of the toad invasion but also because that's all Anne could think of to make Sasha shut up because she can't bear to hear what Sasha is saying

Sasha wants to freak out and lose it and run but she lets herself be taken prisoner at Wartwood because she still regrets what she did and if she runs, no matter how mad at Marcy she is, she’d be leaving them behind

While things recover and Wartwood starts ramping up for the inevitable war, Anne bounces between reluctantly going to Sasha for military advice (basically “you tried to start a war already, why don’t you help fight this one?”) and standing vigil over Marcy

She trades off with Olivia and Yunan for that, and they mostly let her look over Marcy because she gets riled if she’s apart from them for too long

She’s furious - of course she’s furious - but Marcy died in her arms and somehow she brought them back and that’s what she has to focus on now. Everything else can wait until after Marcy wakes up and she’s knows for a fact that they really are okay

But when they do wake up, it is obvious from the start that there is something decidedly wrong

To start, the eyes: neon green instead of the dark brown they used to be, seeming to glow eerily in dim light

They move too slow and disjointed, as if they’re slowly learning how to move correctly again but not quite getting the hang of it. They have trouble standing on their own, they’re clumsier than usual, and many times they’ll move against their will or can’t move when they’re trying to, barely clinging to control of their own body

Little streaks in their hair start turning white with a greenish sheen to them

Their voice never quite sounds the same, not like it should: it’s lower and higher all at once and sometimes sounds like there’s multiple overlapping, and even when it’s not that kind of strange, it’s dull and monotone and fatigued and there’s almost nothing Marcy left in it

And then there’s the scar

It’s crystallized - a wide, rough, raised ridge of faceted bluish green glass stretching from the hollow at the bottom of their throat all the way down to the top of their stomach, crudely fused with the skin, and it kind of moves with them like flesh but it’s still fundamentally stone and if they lie or move wrong it’s extremely painful

Almost everything is painful. Their body just seems to be rejecting itself in every possible way

Food is disgusting. They can stomach water but nothing else

It starts bad and gets rapidly worse, and no one really knows how to help. No one has any idea what’s happening and they have no idea how to stop it

While this progresses, Anne finally goes to see Sasha because she has refused to up until this point - Sprig of all people has been relaying things to Sasha because he thinks Anne is going insane - and she tells Sasha about what’s going on with Marcy

She tells Sasha that she and Grime are no longer prisoners and the rebellion does need their help but if she takes one step out of line, then any bit of probably-misplaced trust Anne has in her is going out the window once and for all

That’s what she says anyway, but Sasha knows her well enough to know that if it was just that then she would have let “the little frog boy” keep carrying messages, and Anne finally admits that she doesn’t know what’s going on with Marcy

Something along the lines of “I’m scared. I don’t know what I did and I don’t know what it did to them but something’s wrong and I don’t know what exactly it is or how to fix it. Please, help me”

When Marcy sees Sasha, they’re elated but also terrified because all they can remember is the outrage and hate that was in her eyes the last time she looked at them, and because of that their hair starts glowing and their eyes go black with just the bright green iris still there and it scares the hell out of everyone who sees it

Anne and Sasha just try to calm them down and get most of the weird shit to go away

As the story goes on, the war goes on, and Marcy starts getting weird nightmares that, when they’re lucid enough to describe them, seem like visions of both the past and future, visions of other worlds, everywhere that the stones of the box have ever seen and insights into the mind of everyone who has ever used the box

Andrias also starts sending robots out to find Marcy which forces the trio, the Plantars, and pretty much all of Wartwood and the rest of the rebellion to go on the move to avoid them

Valeriana shows up (out of nowhere just because I don’t know how to introduce her organically) and explains that Marcy is now connected to the box as the complete power of the stone has now fused with them

That brings up some questions concerning the box and its abilities and how both it and Marcy will be changed and no one wants to even bring them up but they all know it needs to be discussed

Marcy’s visions get worse and worse and their physical condition changes even more drastically, but it’s helping the rebellion gain some sort of insight into everything, and Marcy starts to take on this idea of “this has to be my way of paying it all back, this is how I’m going to make up for everything I did”

Anne and Sasha have to start working on the relationship between the two of them because they can’t have that adding to every other horrible thing going on, and because it freaks Marcy out when they fight in front of them

At one point they get into it and Marcy loses it and the calamity powers come out, their voice changes into that weird overlapping speech, they start glowing, things go flying off the shelves and the ground cracks just because they got upset, and these outbursts are only getting more common and more destructive

Anne asks Valeriana why this is affecting Marcy the way it is when Anne’s powers are so different, and she gets the explanation of “The stones use you as a conduit, but they have assimiliated into Marcy. If they were ever parted, it would cost Marcy their life.”

Anne may have saved Marcy from one death, but all she did in the end was resign them to another

Sasha hears about this and confronts her

And by confronts I mean tackles her screaming and crying saying she did this, she got Marcy killed the first time and now she’s doing it all over again but it’s even worse, she connected Marcy to some stupid magic stone and now they’ll never be able to separate them and get Marcy back to normal again

Anne just sits there and lets her yell it out because as much as Sasha blames her, she blames herself a thousand times more, and eventually Sasha can’t keep up the anger and ends up crying while Anne holds her because she’s so scared and she doesn’t know what to do and she was always the protector and look what’s happened now

While Anne and Sasha are crying together, Marcy walks up

They heard everything

Anne and Sasha try to downplay it, say it’s not as bad as it sounds and they’ll find a way to fix it, but Marcy doesn’t want to hear it. They know how bad it is: “Valeriana told me. She thought I had a right to know, but, I guess I knew before she said it, anyway. I’m not as oblivious as you think, guys.”

And that’s it. There’s no real fix. Not one straight answer. Not another temple or a spell or a potion that could make it all go away. Marcy has, in a horrible way, accepted it. Anne and Sasha can’t. They break down crying in Marcy’s arms, blaming themselves for doing whatever they did to make Marcy so scared of losing them and for not being able to protect them when it really mattered, unable to cope with the reality that’s settling into place around them

All they can do is have Marcy start spending time with Valeriana, learning everything they can about the stones and hopefully figuring out a way they can break this tie they have to the stones without killing them in the process

As the peak of the war draws closer and closer, they finally come up with a solution: if the trio can connect through the box, it might disperse the power of the stones between them enough to severe Marcy’s lethal link to the box

It’s the only solution they have, so they’ve got to try

Marcy sits Anne and Sasha down and talks to them, trying to prepare them for what will happen if this doesn’t work. Anne and Sasha don’t want to listen, they just keep saying everything’s going to be fine, but Marcy knows better

Basically: “You two need to understand that I might not make it out of this, okay? Things happened, we can’t change them, but I need to know you’re going to move on if this goes wrong”

And of course Anne and Sasha can’t accept that but Marcy makes them, makes them promise that if they don’t survive then Anne and Sasha will go on living their lives and remember the good times and not trap themselves in the bad ones, like Marcy tried to trap them in Amphibia

After another long bout of crying, Anne and Sasha promise

When Marcy’s alone, they also have a little silent moment of having to come to the terms with what might happen, and they just pray that if they do give up their life, it’s going to be in exchange for Anne and Sasha’s safety

Using a plan pretty similar to the one at the end of the show, the trio and everyone sneak into the castle and find the box. Unfortunately, Andrias in turn finds them

Before any real fighting can break out, Marcy sees his face and loses it. The hurt, the betrayal, the horrific phantom pains they still get that steal the breath from their lungs, it all comes flooding back and they can’t control the way they just snap

While Anne has worked on learning to control her powers, they’ve been trying to hide from their own. Theirs are also way more destructive and unhinged than hers

They nearly kill Andrias before they get control of themself and are able to pull back, leaving him all exposed wires like in the series finale, and they just fall to their knees before him and stare and ask him why he did it

He can’t give them a real answer. All he can do is look away and keep his mouth shut

Calamity box in hand, Anne and Sasha have to grab Marcy and force them to get up so the three of them can go through with their plan, so Marcy leaves him there on the floor in pieces

While they do that, the rest of the rebellion tears the now-disabled robot army to shreds, winning the war and saving Amphibia while the mains try to save Marcy

AAAAAND I’m not gonna say what happens because I actually am gonna write a fic for this, so we’ll see how that goes