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All the sounds in that moment haunted Meggy’s mind. The way she heard the sword slice, the way she screamed at the sight of what had been in front of her… the sound of DESTI’s words. 

“You better win Splatfest for me, okay?”

God those words haunted her like a never-ending nightmare. 

She laid on her side tucked under wrestled blankets, tears involuntarily falling down the side of her face. There was nothing else she could think about, only HER. Meggy could never forget that face, how she willingly managed to smile through it all, even smiling at the end to her death. Meggy couldn’t believe she was dead, she would’ve never prepared for such. 

Her room was silent, except the sounds of her own gasps for breath, it hurt to breathe, except there was nothing else she could do to stop the crying happening over and over again.

She was cold. There was no warmth she could feel, as if without DESTI even her own body felt as lifeless and cold as the other’s had been. 

She could’ve stopped it, done anything to prevent it from happening, god even just noticing that Sephiroth was behind her! Anything was better than this, if only she could’ve taken DESTI’s place, then she could have the future she deserves. One future Meggy knew she didn’t.

*insert some sort of flashback guys pls idk what I’m doing 😔*
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Excitement washed over the crew, had they really done it? They defeated Francis! A cheer of happiness and relief filled the air from the members of the crew, as a familiar pinkish octoling spoke.

”Pfft, that was too easy-“ 

…

At that moment.. the world stopped. Everything went silent, the crew, and all those cheers coming from within them. Nothing else she could do besides scream from her sudden shock, it felt as though the whole world went dark… or, maybe just HER whole world did.

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That one event. Leaving Meggy left to an emotional mess sobbing in her room, she couldn’t move on from that. DESTI was gone. Gone.

That word truly meant forever didn’t it?

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yo gang that’s chapter one for my first ao3 fic on this account!! I’m sorry it’s kinda short I didn’t really have that good of an idea for this one (also if you notice grammar mistakes I’m so tired and am not gonna re-read it) anygays if this gets even one person to read it tysm!!

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DESTI’S POV

“Pfft, that was too-“

Wait, I feel something.. someone. 

I quickly turned around and dodged Sephiroth coming up from behind me, god that could’ve ended bad. Thankfully, Saiko also had a quick reaction and managed to use her hammer and wrack the guy out of here.

“We’re coming for you Meggy!”

I shout back to the orange inkling still stuck in that tube.

— *time skip like later on again what is happening*

Nobody seems to know why, but Meggy has.. turned human? I mean, it’s strange.. but not a bad look on her.- HEY!! The crew agreed that it looked cool too okay?.. not like that..

Me, alongside Meggy and her friends spend the rest of the evening looking at the sunset. It was peaceful, I wish I could do this more often, be with Meggy more often. 

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3RD PERSON POV

Time went on, and it felt that Desti had become a member of the crew now, feeling like a family to them and being around as much as the others.

Splatfest had just ended, Meggy and Desti had been overjoyed. Their biggest goals finally being reached.

”We really did it, huh?”

The orange (past)inkling said, breaking the silence between the duo.

The other half replied, answering to the other’s statement, with a small smirk appearing on her lips. 



”Yeah… I can’t believe we won Splatfest…”  “heh.. it was all me.”

Meggy matched the octoling’s confidence with a smile,

”Haha! No way, it was all me!-“

Meggy froze. Before peering down at where her stomach is, Desti looking down almost directly after.

What.. no. No. NO. NO. NO. THIS CANT BE HAPPENING. NOT NOW.

Desti covered her mouth, a terrified expression resting on both the partner’s faces. Desti looked back at who was holding the sword.. Sephiroth? No. That can’t be.. wasn’t he dead?..

Meggy fell to the ground as Sephiroth removed his sword from her impaled body, Desti felt the stinging in her eyes as tears were threatening and soon falling down her face. She only watched in terror as blood formed a pool under Meggy’s now lifeless body, Desti now falling to her knees beside the girl. Sephiroth simply flipped his hair, then Desti blinked and.. he was gone. (yes that was a alnst ref)

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I’ve always loved the What If video since smg4’s released it 👅👅 and the idea of an alternate universe where meggy dies and desti is trying to get revenge on sephiroth is rlly cool