Poppy and Branch have been friends ever since he comforted her after she and Creek broke up. For many weeks and months of her friendship with him, she told her father the story about all the things she and Branch did.
"Delightful infinite regress, honey." Peppy said. "But you've been spending a lot of time with this sprite. You know, reintroduced elemental magic, went mad, fighting someone for a pillow, what's his name...you know, Mrs. Cortez's nephew."
"Branch, and yeah." Poppy replied. "Lately, we've kinda taken our relationship to the next level."
She showed her dad her blog about all her friend. There are a lot of pictures of her friends but one stands out. It shows her and Branch in their date.
"He's in your best friends wall." He cried with tears of joy as he hugged her. "Oh Poppy, that was wonderful. Well, I need to get to know this young sprite. To talk to him, to laugh with him, to scrutinize his character...in a fun way. So tell him, he's officially invited to my camping trip."
In the next day, Branch, with Poppy, Rose and Violet, now wearing bohochic and geometric camping fashion are riding with the others in an RV that Peppy is driving.
"Ugh, this is gonna be awful." Branch cried.
"What? Camping is awesome." Poppy said.
"Yeah, we go hiking in Dragon Mountains..." Smidge added.
"We go swimming, make shadow puppets, tell scary stories and do all the things we do in the wild." Guy Diamond added.
"Not that." Branch groaned. "I mean, you dad, Poppy. I feel like if I don't impress him, he'll disapprove of me."
"Branch, relax." Poppy assured him. "I told you, he's done this will all my best friends and he's loved everyone of them."
When the RV had stopped into the campsite, Peppy led everybody out of the camper and into the campsite.
"Everybody, were here." He announced.
He started playing with Poppy's friends, doing noogies, handshakes and wing dives. Rose felt her ears turning red as a tomato while Branch was nervous.
"You see what I mean." Poppy assured them. "This is going to be fun."
"Alright." Branch shivered.
"Good morning honey, thank you for coming, Branch." Peppy said.
"It's my pleasure, sir." Branch said.
"And who are you, young elf?" Peppy asked.
"I'm Rosetta Thornluck." Rose introduced herself.
"And I'm Violet Dazzle." Violet added.
"What are we waiting for, let the fun begin." He shouted as they all start to set up camp in the campsite. Their tents look small on the inside but they're big on the inside. While Branch was setting up his tent, he notices a small bee that is trapped on a spiderweb. Taking pity on her, he used his earth magic to rescue the bee and slide it gently on a flower that he grew. He then kept the flower on his vest for safekeeping. When he went back to set up his tent, Smidge and Guy Diamond flew up to him.
"How did you guys get so close to Poppy's dad?" He asked them.
"Well, we saved everyone when there's danger like fire, wild animals, dangerous weather, insects, or poisonous plants." Guy said. "I saved everybody with my earth powers when the water were about to swim in has worms in it."
"I saved everybody from the wasps by smoking them away from us." Smidge added.
"You got the approval of Mr. Peppy because of your heroic acts?" He asked them.
"So, what do you say?" Guy asked him.
Branch thought about it for a while until he gave in "Then, let's get heroic in the woods."
During their hike, Branch tries to look for dangers he could protect everyone, from poisonous plants, bad weather, and insects to wild animals. Well, the signs already protected them. Poppy noticed the white berries.
"Ooh, delicious." She crooned as she is about to pick some but Rose kept her away from it, knowing that the plant is actually the poison sumac.
"Poppy, those are poisonous." Rose said. "Try these staghorn berries instead."
"Oh, thanks." The sprite thanked the elf for keeping her away from the poison sumac.
They continued the hike through the forest as each of them try to find food to cook back in the campsite. Poppy saw a cluster of orange mushrooms. She goes there to pick it but Violet was able to destroy it with her magic wand.
"I'm about to pick that up." She said.
"That's actually a jack o lantern mushroom, it's poisonous and it has non-forking gills." Violet said. "The chanterelles are there, beside it."
She helped them identify edible mushrooms and poisonous ones by showing them pictures of them from her book. When they see poisonous mushrooms, Violet or Rose would destroy them while they pick up the edible ones. Finally, they came back to the campsite for lunch. Rose got some edible mushrooms she got with Violet's help while Smidge, DJ Suki, Satin and Chenille got berries, Guy Diamond, Biggie and Fuzzbert got some edible plants to cook and Poppy set up the campfire to cook lunch.
"Can I pick that up?" Branch asked Peppy as he almost picked up the pot to help set up with the cooking.
"I'll handle the pot, you can wash the plants we picked for lunch." Peppy answered as he took the pot himself.
"Okay." Branch sighed as he started washing all the plants and mushrooms.
Everybody did their best in helping out for the cooking and it went well until Poppy noticed a trail of honey. She followed the trail until she found a beehive.
"Ooh." She sighed as she went near the hive to get some honeycomb but she tripped, sending a rock towards the beehive that destroyed it. Rose saw the bees flying towards Poppy and rushed to warn her.
"Poppy, behind you!" She yelled.
Poppy screamed and started flying away but the swarm followed her, proving themselves to be as fast as a sprite. Then, they start to attack the rest of the Snack Pack when Poppy flew to the campsie. Her scream caught Branch and Peppy's attention.
"Poppy!" They cried.
Soon enough, the rest of the Snack Pack got chased altogether by the swarm of bees while Rose, DJ Suki and Smidge try to ward them off with torches that they made with their fire magic. Peppy and Branch flew outside the tents to see what's going on but they are shocked to see Poppy being chased by a swarm of bees.
"Giving them a new home or a new queen is the only way to stop this." Peppy said.
"I got an idea." Branch said as he flew towards Poppy and grabbed her. He carefully put her down and stood up to protect her.
"Branch, what are you doing?" She asked him as he stood in front of the bees. He took out the flower that housed the bee and released it. The swarm noticed the bee and flew around her happily.
"Is that the queen bee?" Violet asked Rose.
"Yeah, she is the queen bee." Rose responded.
After the bees were reunited with the queen, they flew away to find a new home. Branch turned to them with a shame on his face.
"I've got a confession." Branch said. "Look, I tried to be heroic but I just acted like one because I want you to like me, Mr. Peppy."
"You thought I only like you if you are heroic? Who gave you that idea?" He asked him.
Branch eyed Smidge and Guy Diamond, who backed behind Rose.
"Branch, my only concern is that you treat my daughter the way a friend should." He said. "Rose already did that when she kept Poppy away from the poison sumac while Violet proved herself by helping her identify what is edible and what is not. But after what you just did, you're good in my scrapbook."
"Awww!" The others sighed.
"Besides, even if I'd like you, she never listen to me, she's very stubborn." Peppy added.
"Right, it's like when she makes up her mind, there's no changing it." Branch laughed.
The two started a conversation as they sat along the campfire together while the others placed medicine on the others, who got bee stings. Branch is finally accepted by Mr, Peppy as one of his daughter's friends because of how he treats her the way a friend does. It's all worth it as everybody continued their camping trip in Dragon Mountains together.