In the underground resistance base, Anne, Sasha, Dipper, Beatrix, Sprig, Polly, Hop Pop, Croaker, Wally, Loggle, Hunter, Percy and Braddock were in the war room, looking at a map.
"According to Mother Olm in order to defeat Andrias we need to get to that music box." Anne said.
"We need allies." Sasha said. "Anybody got any?"
Wally raised his hand. "Maybe we can get the retired veterans my dad visits for afternoon tea!" Wally suggested.
"Are they any good?" Sasha asked.
"They have PTSD."
"Nope. Not risking their mental health. Anyone else?"
"I might know a few people in the Emperor's Coven who might want to help." Hunter said.
"We meant of this world." Sasha said.
"Right, sorry." Hunter said. "Anyone else?"
"How about that tiny town Hop Pop lied to?" Polly suggested.
"You had to bring that up, didn't you?" Hop Pop asked.
"Plus, they are tiny." Sprig pointed out. "Andrias' army would smush them."
"I could see if my axolotl hometown could allow me to come back so I can ask them to join us." Loggle said.
"Will there be a chance they say yes?" Sasha asked.
"They will…..not." Loggle replied. "Knowing them anyway."
"Hey Beatrix, you must know of some toads who can help." Dipper said.
"I did." Beatrix said. "But unfortunately, Bufo and Aldo are dead."
"And they will be remembered." Sasha said.
"Wait, who are we talking about?" Croaker asked.
"But…." Beatrix sighed. "There is one toad who can help. The most dangerous of all toads. My cousin, Sandor." The sound of snails going crazy are heard.
"Your cousin Sandor?" Sasha asked before the sound of snails going crazy are heard.
"My cousin Sandor." Snails going crazy are heard. "Okay, someone keep these snails under control! Sandor…" Snail noises. "….is the most brutal and ruthless of all toad commanders. When he was born, he was the size of a regular bucket, so he was the biggest toad baby. You remember how I told you that Grime lost his eye to a grubhog?" Sasha nodded her head.
"Wait, that's how Grime lost his eye?!" Croaker asked.
"Well, I lost my eye because I was playing with my cousin's toy. His favourite toy." Beatrix said. "Now, he gave me three options. Cook me on the fire place, slice my eye out or suffocation. I chose the obvious, getting my eye sliced out since it's quicker. But as he got older, he got more feral and vicious. When he was a teenager, he tore out the thorax of a Coastal Kill-a-moth that ate his father, Magnus. And when he was twenty, he won the rank of Captain from Captain Bloodworker by crushing his head so hard it popped."
Sasha gagged as she pictured it. "Oh frog! That is disgusting!"
"Well, we need more toads for the toad army because those guys….." Anne pointed to Percy and Braddock, whom were both throwing up in barf bags.
"You think we're bad?" Braddock asked. "Those toads we rescued feel like helping when they feel like it." She pointed to some of the toads whom were picking out of every hole in their body.
This sight made Percy throw up. "And the only one helped was Steve and he just broken his arms!"
Steve was by the entrance, wearing an arm cast. "You know, I'd love to help, Sasha. But unfortunately, arm cast for Steve."
"We really need him, right away." Sasha said.
"I know. But unfortunately, he has an issue with frogs so convincing him might be hard." Beatrix said. "Hand me a messenger fly." Beatrix wrote a message on the piece of paper before attaching it to a fly that flew out of the base. "Now, we might need to wait a while before we get a response. So while we wait….." Beatrix then got a surprise when the fly returned with another letter in hand. "Huh?" She took it and began to read whatever message Sandor sent. "I'm already outside." Beatrix chortled. "Well that's convenient."
"Okay, let's go out and meet this Sandor." Sasha said before hearing the sounds of snails going crazy. "Sprig, you're coming with Anne, Beatrix and I."
"Why?!" Sprig asked. "She's Grime's sister! And he's a jerk and so is she!"
"Oh please, Grime's not a jerk." Beatrix retorted. "He's a little wimp. Just like you frogs."
"If I'm such a wimp, then how did I kick Grime's butt?" Sprig retorted.
Beatrix froze at this information. "What? You, of all people managed to kick a toad's butt. A frog?"
"Yeah, he did." Anne replied.
"Can confirm it." Sasha said.
Beatrix looked annoyed at first but she then laughed as hard as she could. "Oh! No! No! You have to be joking! No! Come on! Please tell me you're pulling my leg!" Beatrix laughed harder this time. "Grimothy got beaten by you?!"
"Yeah." Sprig said.
"Oh, if that doesn't convince Sandor to join our cause than I don't know what will." Beatrix laughed. "Come on you three. Let's go and convince him." They left the war room where it was just the others to themselves.
"You know, I just realised something about Sprig." Hunter said.
"What?" Hop Pop asked.
"He looks like a stuffed toy I had in the palace." Everyone looked to Hunter with perplexed reactions. "Not similar. Like, it was a spitting image. Colour and clothes."
"Well, that's gonna cause Sprig some existential questioning." Hop Pop said.
"And I swear I saw your face on the cover of the life-cycle of a common swamp toad."
Hop Pop narrowed his eyes at Hunter. "I believe that is what humans call…racist?"
Outside of the farm, they saw one of the scariest amphibians they had ever seen. A toad around the size of Beatrix with long brown hair, stubble and a burn on the right side of his head. He wore a dark grey armour and brown boots. Sandor was busy crushing a robot's head with his bare hands while using his thumbs to gouge its eyes out.
The toads cheered as Sandor threw the head on the ground which caused Sprig to squeak a little. "Cousin Sandor." Then the sound of snails going crazy was heard once again.
"Well, well." Sandor laughed as he approached his cousin. He held her in a headlock and began to suffocate her. She turned purple as she struggled to gain oxygen. "What's the matter? Don't wanna to wrestle. Cousin to cousin? You know us toads can't resist it. Did hanging out with these wimpy creatures make you soft?"
Beatrix freed herself from Sandor as she struggled to regain her breath. "Frog me! He has a mighty grip!"
"So, what do you scarecrows want?" Sandor asked the girls.
"Anne. Drumroll, please." Anne plays the drumroll app so Sasha can explain her plan. "As commander of the Wartwood Resistance, I propose you join our frog army. And together, we take down Andrias."
Sandor laughed at this bit of information. "Frogs and toads, fighting side-by-side?! What are they gonna do?! Defeat them with farm tools?!"
"I've seen horror movies and pitchforks are effective weapons." Anne argued.
"How good are they in battle if they can't defeat a bunch of toads?" Sandor asked.
Sprig chuckled. "That's where you're wrong."
"And why's that you little twerp?" Sandor asked.
"Because this frog beat good old Grimothy in a duel in Newtopia." Beatrix replied. "So, these frogs can fight for their life."
Sandor was shocked. "Grime, beaten in a duel by a frog?! Ha! That proves to us how much of a wimp Grimothy is! Hahahahahahahha! The toad army has gotten soft ever since Bufo and Aldo died and Grime's little revolution failed. Come squad, let's leave so more of our time isn't wasted."
Beatrix was at first shocked but then she pulled an annoyed look. "Not so fast!" She jumped in front of him then yells and punches herself in the chest, vocalizes with her mouth, then punches a Soldier Toad to remove its sword and makes a circle around him with it and finally anchors the sword to it.
Anne, Sasha and Sprig had no idea what to say about this. "What just happened?" Sasha asked.
"She has invoked the sacred law of toad challenge." A toad soldier replied.
Sandor sighed. "And I am honor-bound to accept it. State your terms, cousin."
"Standard one-on-one arena combat." Beatrix replied. "Loser's army joins the winner's."
"Deal, but it won't be you who I fight." Sandor said.
"Uh….What?" Beatrix asked. "But I…."
"Wartime law says I may choose any of your allies to fight in your stead." Sandor said.
"What?!" Anne and Sasha reacted.
"Oh yeah, wartime laws." Beatrix said. "Why did I forget that?"
"And I choose…Hmm." He looked at Anne and Sasha. "The girlfriends would be perfect as scarecrows on a post, Beatrix would be an easy challenge so….Unless there's someone else, I choose the frog." Sprig gulped. "If this little guy wins, we'll join your army, but if I win, you have to join our army... as cannon fodder!" He laughed as walked away with his soldiers. "I'll return at dawn for our battle. Later, soon-to-be losers."
"Guess I should've brushed up on toad law." Beatrix chuckled nervously.
"just bet... the whole rebellion... ON A CAGE MATCH?!" Sasha yelled.
"And are using Sprig as collateral?!" Anne exclaimed.
"Hey! Hey! Hey!" Beatrix interjected. "I didn't choose Sprig for the cage match, it was that beast who walked away! Besides, if that little twerp can beat my brother than he can beat my cousin. Right twerp?" Beatrix looked to Sprig, whom was walking around in circles, panicking.
"Nope! Nope! Nope! Nope! Nope!" Sprig repeated.
Beatrix walked up to Sprig and slapped him across the face. "Come on kid! You can beat him!"
"But that was Grime!" Sprig yelled. "And it wasn't in a cage. That guy is going to crush me like a turnip!"
"Believe me, Sandor….." Snail noises. "…..is a bigger loser than Grime."
"Okay how big?"
Beatrix sighed. "Honestly, I was trying to build some confidence in ya."
Sprig groaned and covered his face with his hat. "Anne, prepare my will."
"Listen kid, we're going to beat Sandor." Beatrix said as she pulled his hat from his face. "Because I'm training ya."
"Have you ever beaten him?" Sprig asked.
"Well…"
"Okay, you need to stop worrying him." Anne said.
"Listen, why don't you train Sprig in the forest?" Sasha asked. "Try and toughen him up a bit until dawn which is in approximately 6 hours. Think you can do it?"
"I can do it!" Beatrix replied. "Sprig is gonna beat my stupid cousin, Sandor!" The snails panicked.
"Okay, what do the snails have against the guy?" Anne asked.
Later, Beatrix was dragging the nervous Sprig by the arm into a forest where she was already getting frustrated with his cowardly attitude.
"Listen twerp, I don't know why my cousin is terrifying to you but this is about the resistance and your home!" Beatrix exclaimed. "You don't want it to be destroyed do ya?"
"I don't." Sprig replied. "Does wartime toad law say I can have someone fight on my behalf?"
"Unfortunately, no." Beatrix said.
Sprig groaned and buried his face in some dirt. "Whhyyyyyyy?!"
Beatrix pulled Sprig from the dirt and narrowed her eyes at him. "Listen twerp, why is my cousin so scary? You have fought Andrias, a bunch of robots, my own brother and who knows how many random adventures to fill up for the main attraction and yet my cousin is the one foe you can not face?!"
"Have you seen him?!" Sprig asked. "Yeah sure, toads are intimidating but I never found them scary. But your cousin Sandor…." Then, the flies flew away in fear. "…..is literally terrifying. You saw those flies, right?!"
"Well, we can't cower in fear while your world and others are in danger." Beatrix said. "We need to hurry up and fast! Cue….Whatever you call the compilation of moments of you working out."
"You mean a montage?" Sprig asked.
"Cue that!"
During the montage, Beatrix lifted two buckets filled with water over her head and she screamed like a mighty beast. While Sprig, lifted them over his head, but accidentally dropped them.
Then, Beatrix shot out her tongue and destroyed a rock in the process. While Sprig, only got his tongue stuck on it.
Then, Beatrix was thumping her chest before tensing her abs. Sprig punched her, but it only caused his fist to be red. Then Beatrix motioned him to tense his abs and punched him into a tree.
"Okay, you did try to tense them, but I still punched you backwards into a tree." Beatrix said.
"This isn't working!" Sprig exclaimed.
"How did your weak and fragile frog body beat my brother?" Beatrix asked.
"I don't know! Maybe I was just lucky!" Sprig retorted. "How can I beat this guy if I can't face him or do your toad tricks?!"
"I don't know, steal Dipper's tech?" Beatrix retorted.
"Oh, I learnt my lesson." Sprig assured her. "Never again. Uh, guess I need to find a way to fight this guy since your tactics aren't working!"
"Well, tell me what you did every time you were in danger?" Beatrix asked.
"Oh that's easy." Sprig replied. "First, we run."
"You're in a cage so I don't think there would be enough space for you to run." Beatrix pointed out. "How did you beat my brother?"
"Well, I just avoided all of his hits and then knocked his hammer into his face." Sprig replied.
"Hmmmmm." Beatrix began pondering. "Well, use them to your advantage right now….." Beatrix began charging at Sprig, but he quickly jumped over her and hit her in the face with his tongue.
Beatrix then tried to hit him with her tongue, but he dodged it, causing it to hit a thorny bush. "Ouch! My tongue!" Then Sprig hit her in the face with mud from his slingshot. "Ah!" He then kicked her in the face, knocking her to the ground.
Sprig was about to continue attacking, but Beatrix stopped him and grinned at the boy. "Well done. Speed and agility. I guess I underestimated you frogs too harshly in the past. I even think you're ready to face Sandor." Then, a swarm of hybeenas flew past, panicking.
"Wow, good thing we didn't fight those things." Sprig remarked.
Later, at Wartwood, a ginormous cage sat in the centre of the town in front of two rows of seats in each side. One for Sandor's toads and the other for the Wartwood resistance.
Beside the cage stood Sasha, Hop Pop, Sheriff Greenleaf, Fern and Luz in cheerleading outfits and doing a bit of a dance with Pom-Poms in hand.
"Kicking butts and taking names! We're the school we call St James!" Sasha chanted before she formed a pyramid with her on top, Greenleaf and Fern in the centre, while Luz and Hop Pop acted as support beams.
"You didn't even change the lyrics?" Hop Pop asked.
"I'm very busy, Hop Pop!" Then Sasha began to lose balance before she, Greenleaf, Fern and Hop Pop fell while Luz remained standing.
"Huh, I wonder if Hexside has a cheerleading Coven?" Luz asked herself.
In the audience, Amity's face had turned fully red. "Cheerleader…..Luz!"
Pacifica, Dipper and Hunter were awaiting the spectacle with Hunter eating a bag of his first popcorn. "Are you thinking about betting?" Pacifica asked her boyfriend.
Dipper chortled. "Do I look like Grunkle Stan?"
"Dipper, I'll give you three coppers if Sandor wins!" Wally declared.
Pacifica gave her boyfriend a disapproved stare before he shook his head. "I'm not doing it. I may be a Pines, but I'm not that much of a Pines."
Hunter on the other hand, was betting a copper piece with Wally. "I bet a copper piece that Sprig wins."
"Hunter!" Pacifica exclaimed with disapproval.
"What?!" Hunter pouted.
Meanwhile in Grub and go, Sprig was getting ready for his battle with Sandor while Anne and Beatrix tend to him.
Anne put some armour on Sprig. "Here you go bud. Looking intimidating."
"What do you think, Bea? Do I have a chance of winning?" Sprig asked.
"Realistically, no. But, you frogs surprise me." Beatrix replied before patting on Sprig's back.
The young frog got off his chair to fight the good fight. He turned back to Beatrix. "So, like a 5% chance?"
Later, Sprig walked into the cage where Sandor was awaiting his arrival with everyone from both sides either booing or cheering.
"Don't worry little frog, I'm going to be as slow as possible." Sandor assured Sprig as he spun his sword.
"We'll see who's slow." Sprig retorted.
Polly hit Frobo's head like it was a bell. "Begin match!"
Sandor tried to cut Sprig in half, but the young frog managed to dodge it by sliding underneath the toad and jumping over his head. He tried to stab him in the chest, but the young frog was still too quick for him and dropped to the ground.
The toad tried to stab Sprig again, but he just rolled. "Come on kid, quit pissing me off!"
Sprig then began swinging on the cages by using his tongue while Sandor stood completely disoriented by what was going on. "Come down and fight me like a toad!" He chided. "You think you're better than me?! I have faced more challenges than you! I have fought gladiatorial arenas, I have killed any amphibian, I tortured the salamanders of the south! I am Sandor The who do you think you are?!"
Sprig then swung off the bar and kicked Sandor really hard in the face, causing him to render unconscious. Sprig grinned as he clenched his fists. "I am Sprig Plantar! I have survived Earth, fought off cannibals and is going to take down a monarch. That's who I am."
Polly began to hit Frobo repeatedly with excitement. "Sprig wins! Sprig wins!"
Everyone on the Wartwood side ran down to Sprig and began to throw him in the air as celebration. "Wooo!" Sasha yelled.
"You kicked butt out there, dude!" Luz exclaimed.
"That was amazing dude!" Anne commented.
"How did you get over your fear of facing him?" Sasha asked.
"A little encouragement from Beatrix." Sprig replied.
"If it were Grime, he'd act like a little baby all because Sprig kicked his butt." Beatrix said. "Ha, knowing him anyway."
Sandor walked up to Sprig and narrowed his eyes at the young frog. "I have never been beaten by a frog. Impressive skills. Maybe you frogs aren't bad for battle. A deals a deal! Our armies shall be united!" Everyone cheered while the toads groaned. "Do you want your corpses to be my breakfast?!"
"I'm really impressed with you Sprig." Sasha said.
"Thanks Sash." Sprig said.
"So, what interesting side adventures went on while we were gone?" Beatrix asked.
"I had a spa day." Hop Pop replied.
"Yawn!"
"Me and Anne were discussing what we should do as a first date." Sasha replied.
"Pass!"
"I finally have control of my powers." Beatrix turned around to see Luz, glowing green. Only this time, she sounded like she was in full control. "That was an interesting side story."
