Animating Extreme Shape Change?

I’m trying to get this to change shape. I was trying to use shape keys but the animation and object would not revert back to base shape, and I just found out that it’s because I’m merging vertices which is weird because it still tracks some manipulation I did, Is there a better method to achieve this?

You can’t merge vertices during animation. For shape keys or armature deformation or any other animation to work, the number and order of vertices cannot change at any point. If necessary, you can have overlapping geometry, but you need to find a way to make your shapes without deleting any vertices

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Ok Thank You.