[frogs croaking]
[chewing]
Yo guys, check it out! I got a Mail-Fly message.
Look how cute he is. [buzzes]
[raspberry] Jealous! I never get mail.
Open it, open it.
It's from Marcy. She says we're ready to travel to the first temple.
All right! Whoo!
Ooh. She even included a checklist of things to bring.
Let's see here. "Food. Weapons."
- Check. - Double check.
- Aah! - Jumpy little fella.
Cool, what else?
"Armor." Armor?
Got it covered!
Believe it or not,
I made each of you your very own suit of armor.
Whoa! Seriously? Cool!
[grunts] I'm down. Anne's down!
Hop Pop! [groaning]
This is the opposite of a suit of armor.
Exactly. Less mobility means less trouble.
Yeah, yeah. Hey, Anne, anything else on that list?
Oh, yeah. Just one thing. "The Music Box."
Uh, right, the music box. No problem.
My contacts will have it ready by tomorrow.
Great. You're the best.
[light chuckle]
All packed and ready to go.
Ah! Too excited to sleep.
[footsteps]
Sounds like someone else can't sleep either.
[grunting]
[giggles] Classic old Hop Pop bein' a freak.
I'm gonna give that nerd a little scare.
[gasps] I-It can't be. The music box. It's gone!
[Anne] What?
[shouts] Anne, what are you doin' here?
Did you just say... the music box is gone?
I can't lie anymore!
I buried the box here. And now it's missing!
Wait, what? But you said your contacts were gonna...
There were no contacts! I read the box was dangerous.
I didn't know what to do! I panicked!
You gotta understand. I was just trying to protect Sprig and Polly!
So you've been lying to me? This whole time?
No! Well, yes, but... It's complicated!
No, it isn't!
I need the music box to get home,
and you buried it under a tree!
What're you trying to do, keep me here forever?
[gasps] That's it, isn't it?
You sicko.
No, no! I-It's not like that.
I-It's just... I've lost so much already and...
Stop. [sighs, sniffs] Look, I can't be here right now.
Anne! Don't follow me.
Don't!
I see you!
[sighs]
[chanting] Quest, quest, quest!
Hold up.
Uh, Hop Pop, are you okay?
I really mucked it up this time, kids.
[deep breath] I lied to Anne about the music box,
and I buried it under the tree out front.
[together] What?
[chuckle] It gets worse.
When I went to dig it up last night, it was gone!
Anne saw the whole thing and ran off.
I've been waiting here all night for her to come back.
Look, Hop Pop, I don't know why you did what you did,
but you gotta fix it.
Yeah! You gotta get out there and bring Anne back!
You're right.
I caused this mess, so dang it, I'm gonna clean it up!
- [slurps] - [shatters]
And then I'm gonna clean that up.
[both sigh]
Well, this is a bummer.
We gotta find that music box or Anne'll never forgive him.
Right on. Let's motor, bro-bro.
[whirring]
[cawing]
Hmm. If there was only some clue as to which way she went...
[clink] A bobby pin?
And hairbrush, mascara, sunglasses, teen magazine.
I think I'm on the right track.
[yawn] Never thought I'd be sleepin' in this cave again.
Not since the Plantars took me in.
Well, at least I'll always have you, Rocky.
Sweet, sweet, dependable Rocky.
Yeah, I just can't take you seriously with that hair.
All right, maybe someone in town has seen the music box.
[together] Whoa.
- My veggies! - Well, there goes the school money, Toadie.
Archie?
Hey, Maddie, what's going on?
Someone dug a bunch of holes and stole stuff from everyone in town.
I even lost a talisman that, if it fell into the wrong hands,
would bring an end to all... living...
I've said too much.
Who would dig a bunch of holes in the ground?
Holes in the ground, eh?
And missing valuables too?
Sounds like the work of the Magpie beetle.
- Never heard of it. - You gotta stop popping out of bushes, Soggy Joe.
The Magpie beetle is a rare breed of insect that lives underground.
Every 20 years it burrows to the surface and steals junk to make its shell.
It presents that shell to prospective mates
in a ritual called the "love-nado dance." Ew.
A spectacle much too dangerous to observe...
You really should hear the rest of this!
On a mission! [Sprig] Thanks, Joe.
[squeaking]
[panting]
Sprig, look. Soggy Joe was right.
There's a burrow off to the side. Come on!
Think this will lead us to the box?
There's only one way to find out.
[groans]
[shouting]
Where are we?
Oh, no, Sprig!
We're right smack dab in the middle of the love-nado!
Maybe we should've listened to the end of Soggy Joe's thing.
Okay, the music box has to be here somewhere. Whoa.
We have to find it. Whoa!
[screams] Whoa.
[gasp] There it is.
[clinks]
All right. I'm goin' for it!
Wait. Sprig, no!
Aah!
[screams]
Sprig!
Wait! No!
I thought I knew him, you know? But he was lying to me the whole time.
Wish I had my bobby pins.
[shouts]
Oh. [scoff] It's you. Go away.
Please, Anne. Just let me explain.
I'm not talking to you right now, Hop Pop.
If that's even your real name.
Oh, wait. Hop Pop's a nickname.
I need you to know why I hid the music box.
It's dangerous.
I was just trying to protect the family.
Then why did you lie?
Well, because...
there's something I've never told you.
Something hard to talk about.
[sighs] The truth is... [screaming]
That sounds like... Sprig, Polly!
What the heck is this?
[Hop Pop] It's some kind of love monsoon.
Help! Help!
Anne, we have to work together.
Work with you? Not gonna happen. I'll save them myself!
Whoa.
- [squeaking] - Whoa!
Please, Anne. I know I lied to you, but trust me.
At least long enough to save the kids.
[shouting]
[grunting]
Sprig, grab on!
Yoink.
[screams]
All right, kids. Hang on!
[panting]
Ha ha! Woo-hoo!
That was amazing!
I can't believe we did it.
Yeah, we did. And now...
we're through here.
Anne, no. Where will you go?
I'll go stay with someone who isn't a liar.
I don't know, maybe Loggle? He seems like a straight shooter.
Anne, wait. Let me at least explain.
What I did wasn't right. But I didn't do it to trick you.
[sigh] Sprig and Polly's parents.
Hop Pop.
That wasn't your fault.
It was a few years ago.
I was on a journey when the herons attacked Wartwood.
Sprig and Polly survived.
But their parents weren't so lucky.
[screeching]
If I had just been there...
I know things would've been different!
Ever since then, I swore I'd never let my family down again.
That I'd do anything to protect them.
So when I found out the box was dangerous,
I lied to you and hid it away.
I thought I was protecting my family.
But now I realize how foolish it was.
You're my family too.
And I've let you down.
I let us all down.
[sobbing] I'm sorry. I'm sorry!
I'm just so sorry!
- Huh? - Hop Pop, I forgive you.
Reconciliation.
Frog pile!
[laughing]
Can we get out of this rain?
[Hop Pop] This book has been in our family for as long as I can remember.
And look.
- [Sprig] Whoa. - [Polly] Cool.
"Calamity Box." Eesh. That does sound bad.
Yeah. Not exactly comforting.
I guess all we can do now is wait for Marcy.
Yeah. Guys, I hate to say it,
but this temple quest may be more dangerous than we thought.
Well, Anne. Think this gang can handle it?
After today, I'm pretty sure this gang can handle anything.
Hmm. Aw.
You kids sure you don't wanna wear the puffy suits?
- [kids] Hop Pop! - [Hop Pop] Okay, okay, just had to ask.
[crickets chirping]