Summary: Y/N has always been overlooked by their friends, Anne, Sasha, and Marcy. They never really payed attention to them until later on. Then they all realize how poorly they've treated the teen.

Oh yeah, D/N = Dark name.

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Flashback.
"Sasha, Marcy, Anne! I'm so happy you could make it!"

Y/N pulled the three into a hug as they all hugged back.

Y/N had planned to make a sleepover at their house since their parents didn't mind the girls staying over.

They were very excited about this sleepover in particular, they made sure to prepare everything to make it the best sleepover.

They even discovered a new movie that they thought the girls would want to watch. It was Y/N's personal favorite too.

"Come upstairs! There's so much I want to do!" They excitedly ran up the stairs as the three followed.

Y/N wasn't lying when they said they prepared; they played some truth or dare, ate tons and tons of snacks, ran around the house, and lots more.

Now the four were just seated around Y/N's bedroom as Y/N turned on their favorite movie.

"Okay, Sasha, Anne, Marcy, you are going to love this film!" Y/N smiled. "It's my personal favorite and I wanted to watch it with you guys."

"Okay." Anne says, the movie turning on.

Y/N looked towards the TV as they happily watched.

Little did they know, none of the girls were actually paying attention.

It was about 30 minutes into the movie until Y/N's favorite character showed up.

"Guys! Guys! Look! It's my favorite charac-"

Y/N turned to the girls who were having a giggling fit over a picture on Sasha's phone.

"Guys..?" They quietly said.

Marcy quickly snapped her head to Y/N. "Huh? Oh- sorry about that, N/N." She then smiled. "What were you saying?"

Y/N paused. "Nothing, it wasn't really important."

They turned back towards the TV, hugging their knees to their chest.

"They never pay attention..." The teen softly said, looking down at the ground.

The movie continued and yet none of them even batted an eye towards the big screen.

By the time the movie was at its ending, Y/N looked over to see all three of them asleep and huddled up to each other.

"And it always turns out like this.."

Y/N placed a nice fluffy blanket on top of the three. Luckily, they were already all in the bed.

'Why was it always like this?'

~~~
Y/N stood, frozen in fear as they watched a battle break out right in front of their eyes.

The king, the one Y/N always had their trust in, had betrayed all four teenagers with the music box.

The music box held great power, and with that great power the king was going to use it for the in coming invasion on earth, and many other multiverses.

Y/N quickly lost their balance as the castle began to slowly fall from the sky.

They looked over to see Marcy tinkering with the box, desperately trying to get it to work.

"No!" The king shouted, ready to charge at Marcy. But Sasha and Grime were quick to stop him in his tracks.

"Me and Grime will hold him. Just go!" Sasha yelled

"Quick! Into the portal, everyone! Hurry!" Marcy commanded. Anne and the Plantars were quick to get in.

Y/N was about to follow, but from the corner of Y/N's eye, they could sense the king charging towards Marcy, flame sword in hand.

"THE BOX!" King Andrias quickly ran towards Marcy after defeating Sasha and Grime.

Y/N immediately panicking, rushed up and ran over towards Marcy before the king.

"I just need to- WOAH-"

Before Marcy could finish, she was rammed out of the way, Y/N taking Marcy's spot.

But unfortunately, Y/N didn't have enough time to dodge the hot flaming sword that drove straight into the middle of their chest.

It felt as if time completely stopped at that moment.

Looking down, they saw the flaming sword in their chest with widened eyes.

Marcy looked up to see the horrific sight of her friends impaled figure.

The teen began to lose consciousness before harshly dropping to the floor.

"Y/N!" Anne shouted, but it was too late, the portal had begun to close as Anne tried to reach out for them.

"Oh my goodness, Y/N! Please get up!" Marcy held Y/N's limp figure tightly.

"She managed to open the portal." Andrias stated, looking down at Marcy who was tearing up over Y/N.

"Well, no matter." He gently grabbed the music box. "I still have the box."

Marcy then looked up towards Andrias. "How could you?"

The newt just gave her a blank stare making Marcy look back down at her best friends limp figure.

He turned around to see Lady Olivia and General Yunnan desperately trying to make an attempt to escape.

"So, what about you two? Are you with me?"

"We're with you!"

"Definitely with you!"

The two said, both giving him nervous smiles.

As the king was distracted, it gave Sasha enough time to grab Marcy in order of an escape.

Andrias then turned around to Y/N's limp body. "Good. Get them to a rejuvenation tank and make it snappy." He ordered.

"They're fading fast."

~~~
"Whoa, what happened?"

"Where are we?"

Anne, Sasha, and Marcy had just now successfully broken off the mind control collars that were placed on both Yunnan and Olivia, freeing them quickly.

The three had all joined back up to save their dearest friend, Y/N as well as Earth and the music box.

They hadn't seen even Y/N ever since the incident of them taking a giant flaming sword to the chest. They all couldn't wait to save them so they can all work out everything that's been happening.

"No time to explain!" Anne said. "We're here for the music box."

"And Y/N." Sasha added in.

"Gee, I hope Y/N's okay and alive." Marcy states, frowning slightly.

"No, wait!" Olivia pleaded. "Y/N has changed. They're no longer the friend you used to know." Yunnan says, looking at the three.

"Neither are me, Sasha, and Marcy." Anne replied, trudging towards the door.

"No, you don't understand!"

Anne pushed opened the door, eyeing the music box that was placed under a spotlight. The spotlight being the only light in the room.

"That easily?" Marcy questions, walking into the room.

"I don't see Y/N." Anne scanned around the room.

"First things first. Get the box." Sasha orders, running towards the box. Anne and Marcy being quick to follow.

"I can't believe it. It's over! We've won!" Anne had a big grin plastered on her face.

Marcy had a concerned look on her face. "Guys, I'm not so sure about this. This seems way too easy! This has got to be a trap, or some sort of twist!"

Anne completely ignored Marcy's warning as she reached to grab the box only for it to disappear as it made computerized beeping noises.

She was completely shocked. "Wait, what?"

Everyone in the room were immediately wrapped in strange wires causing them all to scream and grunt while the room lit up more to present a strange dark figure standing from afar.

The figure was nor newt, toad, or frog, but instead looked something like Y/N.

An eye opened up slowly, illuminating light towards the figure to show it actually was Y/N. But something was clearly different about them.

Instead of their normal outfit they'd always wear, it was replaced with an armored suit, some boots, and along with a ten eyed helmet.

In their hands was the actual music box. They grinned widely, unsettling Marcy a tad bit.

"You'd think it'd actually be that easy to get the box?" They spoke. "Nice of you to fall for our trap!"

"Y/N?" Anne said quietly, still in shock. "What are you wearing? What's going on?"

"Y/N? Oh, they're long gone. We're not Y/N, not anymore." A wire snatched up the music box as they began to make their way down to the girls.

"We are a collection of Amphibia's greatest minds, uploaded into a unified consciousness." They explain, going towards Anne.

"What have you done with Y/N?" Anne glared, leaning in towards D/N.

"Relax, they're up here! With us." D/N explained.

"Give us our friend, or I'll rip that helmet off and take them back!" Sasha snapped.

"Friend? Oh please, don't make me laugh." D/N started. "You just want them back because you realized how dire things are! Not like you actually cared for them in the first place."

"Face it, you aren't friends. Examining Y/N's memories on how they were treated back there it's doubtful you ever were."

D/N smirked. "Besides, they're much happier here."

Sasha's glare softened after that statement.

And Marcy looked absolutely devastated at that moment.

They all looked back on how they were treated before all this.

Always left out, never mentioned a lot, it felt as if they weren't even there

"Sasha, Marcy, don't listen to this thing."

"Ah, the famous Anne! Dumber than a bag of rocks and yet somehow this rebellions last hope!" D/N smirked. "Quite sad if you ask me."

"Oh! Which reminds me." D/N began to walk away, yanking the three with them as they let out a scream.

"Frogs, toads, and newts of the resistance! Your leaders have been captured." They announced, looking down below. "Your rebellion is over."

Everyone began to retreat after what D/N had said as Andrias jumped up towards them.

As D/N walked away, the girls thoughts were flooded with what just occurred to them.

Their friend was possessed, the rebellion has retreated, and there wasn't much they could do.

It can't end, not like this.

~~~
Present.
D/N gritted their teeth in annoyance seeing Sasha and Grime in view.

They quickly tracked where the two were headed, eyeing them as they ran for the shield generator.

D/N immediately stopped them, flinging them away from the generator with their wires.

Sasha grunted as she slid across the floor.

"Dropping by without calling? So rude." D/N chuckled, a small smile present on their face. "Then again, we're not too surprised. Y/N always thought of you as some kind of brute."

"I know what you're trying to do, and it won't work." Sasha gave them a cold look, taking out both of her heron swords.

"Yeah, you really think you can manipulate the queen of manipulation?" Grime added on.

"Thank you, Grime."

Grime quickly cleared his throat, uttering out a 'sorry'

"Aww, you don't want to know what they really think about you?" D/N clasped their hands behind their back, smiling.

"It doesn't matter what they think of me. I'm here to save them, and stop you." Sasha stated.

"Well then.." D/N cracked their neck, taking out their laser scythe. "Let's rumble, girlfriend."

((I suck at fighting scenes LOL.))

Sasha and Grime immediately went in for the first move, charging directly towards the teen.

D/N smirked before doing the same and countering both Sasha and Grime with their scythe.

They pushed them both back harshly, going in for another swing, aiming to hit them.

Sasha was fast to dodge, swinging her swords at D/N who also dodged the attack.

The fight went on, D/N barley being touched by the twos attacks.

A cord then appeared behind D/N, ramming the two back into the wall.

Sasha held her gut in pain, dropping both of her swords.

"I have an idea. You go for the generator while I distract them!" Grime explained, running towards D/N.

"YOU CALL THAT AN IDEA?!" Sasha yelled after him.

D/N saw the attack coming, more wires coming from behind them, going towards Grime as he dodged them swiftly.

He strikes D/N, only for his attack to be blocked by more wires.

While D/N was distracted, Sasha made haste towards the generator. But unfortunately for her, D/N seemed to notice her from the corner of their eyes.

"Oh no you don't!" D/N took out a dagger, throwing it at Sasha's heel which immediately made her collapse to the ground in pain.

D/N laughed, making their way towards Sasha, spinning their scythe around.

"NO!" Grime shouted.

"GOTCHA!"

D/N held their scythe up before quickly pummeling it down.

"SASHA-!"

A loud 'shink' was heard, a thud coming in afterwards.

Turns out, Grime was ready to sacrifice his life for Sasha. He was lucky enough to get Sasha out of the way. But his arm wasn't so lucky in the situation.

Grime groaned in pain, falling to the floor.

Sasha on the other hand had her eyes widened, tears pricking them, threatening to fall.

"Grime!" She ran over towards the disarmed toad. "You big dummy!"

She wrapped her cloak around Grime quickly as D/N only watched.

"Listen to me." Grime spoke out. "Sasha, before I met you, I was nothing. Just a bully in a tower. But you, you inspired me to be so much more. And if you can do that, you can do anything."

"You can do this." Grime strained before slowly shutting his eyes.

D/N smirked. "Oops, looks like he's disarmed." They then made a chopping motion with their arm. "Get it? disarmed! HAHAHAHAHA!"

Sasha was now full of rage, gritting her teeth and picking up both her heron swords again.

Making a high jump in the air they charged straight towards D/N who had finally stopped their laughing fit.

Sasha let out a scream a fury, aiming down on D/N, them being barley able to dodge Sasha's attack.

The teen kept swinging at them, D/N panicking slightly due to the new found rage.

D/N tried to counter Sasha's attack with a singular cord but she was fast to cut straight through it.

The two kept at it, Sasha eventually getting a hit on D/N, scraping their skin harshly with the sword.

"That was for Grime." She pointed her sword towards them as D/N wiped the green blood oozing from their new scar.

They smirked before disappearing making Sasha gasp.

Green surrounded her, Sasha keeping both her sword up in defense.

"Hey, Sash."

"GAH!"

Sasha turned back to see numerous heads of her best friends circling around her.

"You think these cheap tricks will work on me?"

"YEP!"

D/N came from nowhere, coming behind Sasha and slashing her back with an act of force.

Sasha screamed in agony, falling to the ground, swords scattered to the floor.

A giant, open wound was now planted onto her back. It looked quite painful.

"Man, this is way too easy!" D/N giggled. "I almost feel bad about this."
~~~
Meanwhile in the core.

"Woo! I finally completed Splatoon 3's story mode!" Y/N cheered, throwing the switch from afar. "Man that took a while."

They got up, stretching, hearing the satisfaction of bones popping back into place.

"Huh, I never realized how long I've been here." Y/N looked around the room. "How long has it really been?"

A door suddenly appeared in front of Y/N, startling them a bit as they looked at it.

They hesitated before opening the door and entering a whole new room.

It was a giant library, it looked extremely fancy as well.

Y/N looked around in amazement as a voice came up from behind them.

"Welcome, Y/N L/N."

They turned around to see a giant newt that looked similar to the King, but much older.

"My names Aldrich. I'm here to welcome you to the Core's inner sanctum." He bent down towards the teen. "You'll be the first human to join our ranks, a great honor."

Y/N looked puzzled. "Huh? What's the Core? More importantly how did I ever get here? My mind feels so.. fuzzy and scrambled."

"None of that matters, my dear. Behold!"

The room that was once a library had quickly turned into a fantasy realm.

Y/N could see all their favorite things in there, it was a dream wonderland.

They gasped in amazement before squealing and clapping their hands happily. "Aldrich! No way, this is so cool!"

"We've seen your memories. We know all sorts of your interests." He spoke. "This is the fantasy world you've always dreamt of."

He then continued. "For that's what the Core is: a place where dreams come true."

Y/N squinted. "I feel like I'm forgetting something though, something like really important."

"Yes. Your map."

The newt handed the smaller teenager a map making them smile as they opened it.

"You can't go on a fantasy adventure without one of these."

"You're so right, Aldrich! How could I forget?"

Y/N ran up to Aldrich. "Thank you so much for bringing me here! Now come on, there's so much I want to see!"

The two began to walk as Y/N looked around in pure joy.

They hadn't been so happy before, they loved this place.

"Amazing, isn't it?" Aldrich says, giving Y/N a small flower. "It's what your heart has always desired."

"It really is, Aldi!" Y/N smiled. "But.. it is kind of lonely here, Y'know. No offense!"

Aldrich let out a small laugh. "None taken."

"But if it's friends you want.." He stepped aside revealing three familiar people.

Anne, Sasha, and Marcy.

"OH MY GOODNESS! GUYS!!"

Y/N ran up to all three of them and hugged them tightly.

"I'm so happy you three are okay!" They cried, still hugging them.

"We're happy your okay too." Anne said in a somewhat blank manner.

"But all that aside, do you like your new outfit?" Marcy asks while Y/N pulled away.

They were apparently wearing a reference to one of their favorite video game characters. Their smile grew wider as they twirled around.

"Yes! I love it so much! This is everything I could've dreamed of!"

"Well then, let's go, N/N." Anne says, walking off.

Y/N laughed before catching up to the three.

It felt nice to hang out again after everything, especially in here.

"Okay guys, there's a TON of stuff we can do in here." They explained. "Whatcha feeling first?"

Y/N showed them the map in excitement as they waited for their response.

"Whatever you want, N/N. We only want what you want."

Y/N froze, this was unlikely of them to say something like this.

"What..?"

"We want what you want."

"Always and forever."

Y/N frowned, this felt too good to be true.

They sighed. "This isn't actually real, huh.."

"The real Anne, Sasha, and Marcy never really had interest in anything I'd show them. It hurts... it hurts a lot.."

"It may hurt... but at least it's the truth. And the truth is what matters most."

"This is getting tiresome, Y/N." Aldrich sneered, the atmosphere turning dark quickly. "We gave you your silly games, and your idiotic little friends. It's time for you to be assimilated into the Core. Now."

Aldrich reached out a hand for Y/N only for it to be harshly slapped away.

"No! You listen here, Aldrich. Only a coward would hide away in this place!" Y/N shouted. "It may be nice but it's not real! The truth might hurt but I can take it!"

"I reject this sort of life, I won't stay here burying myself in lies!" Y/N held up their BFF photo. "I reject all of this! Including you!"

The picture reflected a bright light making Aldrich groan.

"Fool! The only thing waiting for you out there is rejection and misery!" He hissed. "So be it. Suffer, child. In eternal darkness."

The room began to darken as Aldrich vanished away.

"And in time, anything left of your personality will fade."

Y/N frowned once more, dropping to their knees as they held their BFF photo tightly.

"Girls... please be okay.."

~~~
Present.

They slowly walked towards Sasha, her being barely able to sit up.

D/N pointed the laser scythe directly towards Sasha's neck.

"Well, Sash. I won't lie, it's been fun." An unsettling grin was painted on their face. "You put up quite a good fight I must say, but it ends here."

"It's too bad Y/N will have to remember you as just a selfish, manipulative, backstabbing, quote on quote, friend."

"Do your worst."

"My pleasure!"

They raised the scythe once more before they heard faint whispers.

"Huh? It can't be."

D/N looked out to see Aldrich's son on the ground, tears pouring out of his eyes.

"Aldrich, your son is losing the will to fight!" They growled. "THAT WEAKLING!"

D/N raised their hand up before looking behind them.

"Hey Sasha, as a fellow control freak I'm sure you'll really appreciate THIS!"

D/N held out their hand, mind control power radiating from their palm as Andrias held his head, groaning in pain.

"ANDRIAS! STAND UP AND FIGHT YOU PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A KING." D/N ordered.

"We, are all you need. We, are all you will ever have."

As D/N continued, Grime kicked one of the heron swords to Sasha who quickly caught on.

She firmly gripped it, slowly getting up, grunting and dripping with sweat.

The king finally came to his senses, getting back up making D/N satisfied.

"There. That's more like it."

With D/N paying zero attention to Sasha, she ran over towards D/N.

With D/N hearing faint footsteps, they turned around to see Sasha charging towards them, and with the left over strength she had, slashed D/N.

"I am not that person anymore!"

Stunned by the situation, D/N quickly checked themselves for any impacts Sasha might have caused.

But since they saw absolutely none, they smirked. "Seems like you missed!"

"Wanna bet?"

As if on cue the cord that held the connection to them snapped off, falling to the ground.

D/N immediately let out a horrified scream.

"My connection!" They got up close to Sasha. "YOU IDIOT! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA ON WHAT YOU'VE DONE?!"

D/N backed up, orange radiating from their body as they screamed. "NO!"

The screaming continued until everything powered off. D/N being defeated and falling to the ground as their helmet popped off.

Sasha looked at Y/N's unconscious body and immediately went over to them.

"Y/N? Y/N, please wake up." Sasha grabbed Y/N, pulling them close to her body.

Pretty soon afterwords, Marcy and Anne joined in, rushing towards the two.

"Y/N!" Anne and Marcy shout.

"Please get up." Anne tears up. "We're so sorry.."

Multiple tears fell onto Y/N causing them to shift around and eventually wake up.

"Anne..? Marcy..? Sasha?" Y/N managed to mutter out, coughing in the process. "Is that you?"

"Y/N!" The three shout, hugging them.

"Y/N, we really are sorry for not being there for you." Anne started.

"Yeah, we should've treated you better back home." Marcy added, Sasha nodding.

"I really don't know.. Everything still hurts."

"Things will be different from now on." Sasha says.

Anne grabs Y/N's hand. "We will do anything it takes to obtain your forgiveness. We'll be people who actually deserve you this time."

Y/N looked towards the ground.

"Promise..?"

"Pinky promise."
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