Casually, I lean against the counter in the kitchen after buff frog has appeared through his portal, requesting for us to babysit his cute kiddies, which hey I am far from against I mean look at them they are adorable. The only issue is a certain blonde in the living room left with them napping while Marco and I make the food for them.
"Okay, let's see here. Feeding... feeding... feeding...Ugh." Disgusted, Marco grimaces making me arch a brow curious.
"What's up?" Intrigued, I push myself off the counter to approach Marco's side holding a purple binder with buff frog's guide to kids on it.
"Look at this," Marco opens the book wider for me to peer over and blink at the image of the baby bottles.
"Urgh…maybe we can find out what they eat I mean they are tadpoles so…" I offer taking out my phone, my brow furrowed at the search results.
"Okay hit me what do they eat?" Marco questions me as he begins following the recipe.
"Says here algae…" I begin.
"Where are we going to get that?" Worried, he frowns.
"Well they can eat insects and leaves but the insects have to be dead, we can get them at a pet store huh…" I hum out loud my brow raised at the interesting fact.
"Huh what?" Marco raises a brow at me.
"Says here Bullfrog Tadpoles Can Grow as Long as a Banana…" I show him the phone image making Marco's browns widen.
"Huh weird." He hums out loud focusing on the task at hand that is until…
"I know right…Star, everything okay in there?" Curious, I call out to Star noting the stone silence unnerving me as Marco nods at me. I leave him in the kitchen and run back into the living room to find all the tadpoles jumping by Star, who's lying on the ground.
"You had one job!" Frustrated, I scowl at the sheepish Star being huddled together by the tadpoles all croaking crazily.
"I booped, Ash I booped so bad." Meekly, Star whispers to me making me face palm, ignoring the urge to claw my eyes out at the moron.
"Marco we got a situation!" I call out as urgently, he rushes in, holding the binder under his arm.
"It's okay. I got Buff frog's binder! To stop croaking, feed babies' lunch. Ah, that's easy. I got lunch all ready in the kitchen." Marco recites using Buff frog's accent.
"Oh mah babies gotta eat!" Eager, Star gives Marco and me the tadpoles, where she ditches us and runs to kitchen.
"Why am I getting a bad feeling about this?" Wary, I question Marco exhaling.
"You're not the only one," He assures me as Star returns, my brow furrowed at the bottles looking much cleaner and perkier than the one in the binder.
"Star, hurry up in there!" Impatiently, Marco calls out to her as Katrina looks up at me as I hold her, surprised to find her in my hood as she nuzzles herself into it, finding comfort within my hood.
"All ready!" Star magically gives the tadpoles their lunch in bottles, but instead of the green mixture Marco had prepared, the babies are given something pink with sprinkles.
"Oh no…" Worried, I whisper sharing Marco's panic when we note the pink balls of sparkles instead of the green sludge of algae and such.
"Wait. What did you put in there?" Cautiously, Marco questions.
"Cake." Simply, Star shrugs.
"You can't feed babies cake!" Frowning, Marco scolds her.
"What? Fun, Marco. Remember? Ash gets me!" Star reminds him, pointing at me.
"No, I don't! Cake is a solid and not only that, cake has too much sugar in it could rot their teeth. I mean if they have teeth at this stage, buff frog does…" Confused, I bow my heads conflicted not sure what to think of the stage of process through the cycle of being a buff frog.
Quickly, each tadpole spits out their bottle. Their outer membranes start growing and contracting vigorously. Oh no, the sugar rush is kicking in…
"You guys like fun, don't you? Don't you wittle guys?" Cooing, Star smiles at them as one of the tadpole burps, spitting the cake into Star's face.
"No! No, no!" Panicked, Marco grabs the tadpole, redirecting its cake blast around the living room, destroying some of the plants.
"We gotta call Buff frog!" Marco reasons.
"Not yet they aren't crying in pain so there's no need," I shrug it off.
"Whoa there, Diaz. I told Buff frog I was the Crowned Princess of Babysittonia." Star stops him.
"We're doing this by the book then." Sternly, Marco reasons to her as the babies continue to croak and barf cake onto Marco.
"Why did it have to be lemon cake!" Pained, I cry out horrified as its spat in my mouth making me dry heave, spitting out the disgusting flavour.
"It says they need a bath." Marco takes control.
"Okay. You corral the babies. I got the bath. Squeaky clean bath beam!" Smiling, Star raises her wand summoning a bathtub, on a table, breaking the table.
"I got one! Ow!" Marco cries out as he trips and falls as I clumsily reach out to help him up only for the tadpole, he was holding to roll around the edge of the tub, barf in it, and then falls off the side.
"This is straight out child abuse." I whisper.
"This isn't working. What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?" Horrified, Star comes out of the bath as her mirror phones comes out making my eyes widen. How is that phone even working? I raise a brow as Star and Marco panic over Buff frog calling.
"Answer it! "Marco orders her.
"I don't want to answer it. Aww, they're dancing to the music." Animatedly, Star smiles at the dancing babies making me smile at the cuties, awing at them.
"Quick. Get 'em into the tub." Sternly, Marco cuts us off from hugging the cuties in perky pink as we follow Marco. Loudly, the phone continues to ring as Marco rounds up the tadpoles. After the bath, Marco dries one of them.
"That is so cute. Oh my gosh! We gotta send Buff frog a photo. Say "Co-o-orn!" "We miss you Daddy. We are counting on you." Aand send! You know Ash, Marco, you're pretty good at this!" Impressed, Star tells us.
"We got to take one of Katrine in my hoodie!" I call out as eagerly, Star squeals nodding her head in agreement as she takes the shot of the sleeping slumbering tadpole in my hoodie.
"Thanks. I just used the old trusty binder." Grateful, Marco smiles gently only for his and our eyes to widen when the tadpole Marco was holding jumps out of his hand. Upon landing, it sprouts two legs.
"Leeegss! Legs, legs, legs, le-hegs!" Happily, Star cheers as I blink.
"So evolution and magic co-exist?" Curious, I hum out loud.
"There's not a chapter in the binder about growing legs!" Panicked, Marco freaks out as the tadpoles follow suit and grow legs, only causing chaos as next thing I know, Marco is thrown out by the tadpoles…
"Aww, except little Katrina. She feels left out." Sadly, I whisper unfazed ignoring Marco as he pounds on the door but gets no response. I coo at the cute little Katrina in my arms, a tad bit slower than her siblings as next thing I know we begin chasing the tadpoles trying to get them to chill, only to find Star going up and down the stairs joining the tadpoles in railing sliding, making me groan as quickly, our eyes widen when…
"Katrina's gone!" I point out horrified to find my hood empty making the others gasp. Urgently, I grab the sliding tadpoles as Marco scolds Star, making the tadpoles eyes wide as I place the bucket at the bottom, making them helplessly fall in. Urgently, I dive up the stairs after the two of us searched room after room until coming to Star's room to find no sight of her until Star raises her wand and a familiar awesome tune of space unicorn makes it way to our ears. Pumped up, we all begin dancing, tiring them out just as Buff frog comes to collect the little ones…
"Babies!" Brightly, Buff frog greets his children who creak and stand up making his yellows widen in awe as he begins sobbing tears of pride.
"Hey, are you okay?" Concerned, Marco questions him.
"Congrats Buff frog you're one more step to getting rid of them," Cheekily, I remark making buff frog chuckle.
"I miss baby tadpole grow legs! Most important developmental stage of child development." Upset, he cries.
"Well, little Katrina hasn't grown her legs yet." Sadly, I sigh placing Katrina in my arms.
"My little late bloomer." Buff frog frogs as suddenly in my arms, Katrina's legs burst out surprisng us all.
"Yes finally catching up that's my…. tadpole?" Awkwardly, my voice turns from confidence to weirded out, never having thought I would say those words.
"Come to Papa! Boooop!" Fondly, Buff frog smiles as all the other tadpoles stand on Buffrog's shoulders
"Bye little Katrina-kins!" Star waves as the portal opens.
"Good look Buff frog," I tell him making him smile.
"Don't forget the binder. Look, we added a chapter." Happily, Marco shows off the pictures of us with the babies, but I flinch back at the heavy ring of several bear traps that fall off the binder Buff frog looks inside the binder at a bunch of images of his kids with his babysitters.
"Aww... Thank you, Star girl and Karate boy. I will remember this, like something I will never forget." Grateful, he steps into the portal, and it closes.
"I like that guy." Fondly, Star smiles.
"He's a good parent even with all those kids," Honestly, I confess impressed.
"Yeah. Me too." Marco nods his head as we smile at one another and return to our board game.