In Echo Creek, the home of Star Butterfly and many others, a woman wearing a dragon mask was standing on the edge of a small building with her arms spread out like she was going to jump off of it.
I mean, it looked to be that way because many police officers and firefighters were there, trying to get the poor woman down.
"Ma'm, things will be easier if you get down off that building." A cop with a megaphone requested. "Even though, let's face it, you'll probably just get a bruise or a broken foot. I mean, you couldn't go any higher?"
The woman in the dragon mask and black cloak only said nothing while the police tried to encourage her to get down or else she'll probably get hurt really, really bad.
"Uh, this is hopeless!" The cop groaned. "Is anyone good at these types of situations?"
"I might be of assistance." Said a familiar Russian voice.
The police turned to the crowed and saw a familiar dark green frog walk out looking strict and serious.
The cop with a goatee walked up to the frog, in an effort to try and get the frog to stand back. "Sir, please stand back."
The frog then flashed his police badge to the officer. "I am Officer Buff Frog. Please, let me talk to poor woman."
The police officer sighed and said, "Very well. Go ahead and do your best. So far, she's being very uncooperative."
"Please, I have talked many of my children out of high places." Buff Frog said with a hint of confidence in his voice. He entered the building and soon got on the rooftop where the woman stood close like she was soon gonna jump.
She was so focused on the cops that she didn't even acknowledge Buff Frog going through the ceiling hatch and walking up towards her with his hand extended to calmly convince her not to jump.
"Ma'm, please I beg of you, please do not jump." Buff Frog pleaded. "I do not know what's going on with your life, but jumping is not right way. Tell me what's wrong with life. Maybe I can help."
The woman's cloak then fell off revealing a sight that made Buff Frog cover his eyes with his arm as quickly as possible.
"Ma'm, I don't know if that will help." Buff Frog said. "So please put your cloak back on."
"Ma'm what is that strapped to your stomach?!" The officer asked through the megaphone.
Buff Frog then uncovered his eyes and saw that the woman was wearing a dress with purple flowers painted on and a camera strapped to her stomach, but she still wore the mask.
"Ma'm what do you have strapped against your body?" Buff Frog asked. "Please, if you are in danger, the squad will help disarm it." Buff Frog then noted something about the woman, her arms didn't look exactly real.
It was at that moment, Buff Frog realised that the woman was in fact a mannequin, nothing else.
"Wait a sec, we were called out here for a mannequin?!" The police officer complained. "Aww man, we could've been stopping Mina from robbing a vegetable stand this entire time?"
But what was strapped on to the mannequin's stomach? Well, it kind of looked like a film projection. It then turned on and started projecting on a building taller across the street from the small building that the mannequin was standing on.
What was it projecting? Well, a projection of Heckaron standing in front of a ginormous fireplace behind him while looking straight forward at the person filming it.
"I thought my little subject would get your attention." Heckaron started. "For those who don't know, my name is Heckaron and all I want is for Star Butterfly to stand trial for her crimes against the magical world. The magical world she destroyed. I may not be planning to do anything drastic at the moment, but if Star Butterfly doesn't hand herself in then I might consider it. So, bring in Star Butterfly or else these inconveniences will continue and then…..Well, I won't say how drastic things will get, but they will get drastic. This is Heckaron and the….The…Uh, I'm sorry I don't have a cool name for this sinister revolutionary group. But I'm trying, really. Okay, by the time this reel ends, could you refer to me and the rest of my group as the RGWN. Revolutionary Group Without a Name. So, bring Star Butterfly to me, or else."
Once the projection ended, the mannequin blew up, turning into a million plastic pieces that pierced into the skins of the police officers and even some of the cop cars.
Buff Frog, who luckily was unscathed looked at the sight where the mannequin was previously standing with surprise and worry. What is Heckaron planning? And what lengths will he go to bring his brand of justice?
At the Echo Creek police station, a police captain with dark skin, smooth black hair and a black moustache who looked like he was in his late 60's to mid 70's, answering every phone. "Hello? My best men are on it! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! I know your children are terrified!" He slammed the phones down and answered another telephone. "What?! You want someone to talk to?! Find some friends?! Or go bother the fire department!" He slammed the phone down when the former Sensei Brantley entered the captain's office, dressed in a red flannel shirt, blue pants and a brown leather jacket.
"Captain Rime." Sensei Brantley said.
"Ah great, I forgot I had to deal with you!" Officer Rime groaned. "First these phone calls now you! Who gave you authorisation to be in my office?!"
"You did sir." Brantley asked, looking confused. "You wanted me."
"Fair enough." Officer Rime responded. "Oh yeah, I know why I wanted you! You're an incompetent police officer!"
"Come on boss, I'm starting out." Sensei Brantley replied.
"Starting out?" Officer Rime exclaimed. "Even an officer starting out wouldn't make this amount of mistakes."
"What did I even do?!" Sensei Brantley asked.
"What didn't you do?" Rime asked. "Let's see, you navigated a criminal to a bank with the worst amount of security, you failed to capture a teenager on a scooter who stole a purse."
"He was too fast!"
"You were driving a response vehicle, how did a kid on a scooter manage to outrun you?!" Rime asked angrily. "And on the subject of the failed scooter perp, you caused lots of property damage! And recently, you busted a legal boxing ring instead of the illegal one which was coincidentally next door to the legal one! You're lucky I see something in you! I see greatness and you're not showing it! I have came this close to firing your butt! But I can't because you have a dedication I haven't seen in other officers! So for now, I suggest you do Brantley things and wait till I have an assignment for you!"
"Mina?" Brantley asked.
"Nah, I got my best officers on the case." Rime replied. "I'll have a case for you, I promise! Now get out before anyone sees me have any sympathy!"
Brantley ran out of the office and into the police lounge where many of the officers were laughing and joking with each other.
Brantley walked towards the coffee and donuts and got himself a cup and a piece of sugary goodness where many of the officers started whispering.
One of the cops, who was dark skinned had a black goatee and dressed in a grey checked overcoat and grey flannel jacket, along with navy trousers, grey-blue shirt and a dark blue tie walked up to Brantley along with a humanoid giraffe and a humanoid insect.
"Hey Brantley, I see you're fast enough to get to the donuts." The man who spoke with a British accent joked, obviously mocking him for the infamous scooter incident.
"But can't be fast enough to catch someone on a scooter in a cop car." Sensei Brantley responded, finishing his joke.
The British detective and his sidekicks laughed out loud. "I know it's my joke, but somehow you finishing it just made it better."
Brantley just took a bite out of his donut instead of acknowledging the childish bullies bullying him, something that made the British detective sigh. "Uh, I bullied you. Aren't you gonna say something?"
"No thanks." Brantley replied. "As I learnt from my karate training, words are just invisible flies. They fly by without ever hurting anyone. Sure they stick with you, but they do not hurt you."
The words of Brantley got all of the officers in the lounge to start laughing their butts off due to it sounding so ridiculous. "Did they teach you how to find your inner peace?"
"Leave him alone Lutter." Buff Frog requested. "Brantley is trying to be good cop."
"Oh stop seeing the good in everyone Tough Frog." Lutter demanded. "You saw the good in the waitress who got my drink wrong one time."
"That is not an offence." Buff Frog said. "You just abuse power."
"What was that?" Lutter asked.
"You abuse power." Buff Frog replied.
"Excuse me, you hardly know me!" Lutter exclaimed. "So, where are you finding this evidence?!"
"Buff Frog, it's best you leave him alone." Brantley suggested.
"Nonsense Brantley, you need help." Buff Frog responded. "This bully needs to be taught some manners."
Lutter then punched Buff Frog in the face, causing the ginormous amphibian to have a bit of a blue nosebleed.
Lutter was about to punch Buff Frog in the face again, but Brantley did a roundhouse kick on Lutter's head, causing an all out brawl to occur in the break room.
Each police officer got into fistfights and even used their batons as swords and sprayed pepper spray in each other's eyes.
Buff Frog tackled Lutter before he could punch Brantley while Brantley fought off Lutter's goons.
Back in the captain's office, Captain Rime had just finished the last phone call from a concerned citizen and decided to start laying down on his chair in an effort to cool himself off.
"Why did I choose police captain?" Rime groaned.
Just then, there was a knock on the door and someone entered the office, making the poor police captain groan.
"You don't enter after you knock, you enter after I give you permission to enter!" Officer Rime exclaimed.
"Is that how you treat your mayor, Captain?" Asked the current Mayor Eclipsa, who was carrying her daughter, Meteora in a baby carrier.
Alongside Eclipsa was her ginormous bodyguard, Roman; And Eclipsa's adviser, Aidan Madden.
Aidan was a lean white man who looked to be in his mid to late 40s. He wore a maroon jacket and a black buttoned shirt underneath, along with a golden tie and white pants. He wore black shoes that looked expensive and had a grey goatee.
"Mayor Eclipsa." Rime reacted in surprise before sitting up straight to look presentable in front of the mayor. "What are you doing here?! This is a surprise."
"A surprise?" Eclipsa queried. "You should've expected me considering what happened earlier today."
"That mannequin incident?" Rime asked.
"No, she means the fruit cart incident." Aidan replied sarcastically.
"Of course she means the mannequin incident!" Roman yelled.
"Yes I do mean the mannequin incident." Eclipsa confirmed. "Listen here Rime, I am very concerned about the people of Earthni. I don't know what Heckaron is planning to do, but that mannequin incident is probably the beginning. But according to sources, you're putting all your resources on Mina being a nuisance than Heckaron."
"Does the safety of citizens not concern you Rime?!" Roman angrily asked the police chief while slamming his fist down on the table.
"Roman, Eclipsa is handling this." Aidan said to the bodyguard. "So, why don't you wait in the play area and manage the children?"
"You calling me childish?!" Roman angrily asked.
"What I am saying is not an opinion, it is a fact." Aidan retorted.
"You wanna challenge me, Aidan?!" Roman angrily asked.
"Roman, go to the kiddie area." Eclipsa demanded while her daughter laughed at her mother's silly bodyguard.
Roman groaned while Aidan pulled a smug smile as he guided Roman out of the office.
"I'm supposed to be protecting Eclipsa!" Roman pouted.
"What do you want Eclipsa?" Rime asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" Eclipsa asked. "I don't mean to be strict but I demand that you get your best men working on the case! Or least qualified but still have a strong dedication!"
"You mean like Lutter?" Rime asked. "Lutter is one of the best detectives on my case!"
"But you hired Lutter to look into the attempt on my life." Eclipsa informed him. "And so far, he hasn't exactly come up with anything. So everyone but my most trusted allies, Aidan and Roman, are targets."
"Don't you worry." Rime assured the mayor. "I will get my best cops on this case. Cause after all, we are the best precinct in all of Echo Creek."
"The same best precinct that allows a brawl to occur?" Aidan asked.
Aidan's little comment made Rime and Eclipsa get out of their seats and out of the office to see the commotion. When they saw the brawl between the cops as well as Roman, Rime was left disappointed, Aidan was smirking, Eclipsa was shocked while Meteora was laughing at the commotion.
Rime sighed. "I'll get the ones I think who are qualified for the case."
Later, Sensei Brantley and Buff Frog were sitting in Rime's office with the former Sensei covering his black eye with a bag of peas while Buff Frog was wiping the blood from his lip.
"I don't care who started the fight, I'm giving you two 48 hours to solve the case!" Rime yelled.
The two officers stared at their captain with confusion like he just blurted something randomly out.
"What case?" Brantley asked.
"The case of the exploding mannequin!" Rime replied angrily.
"Question: Why am I partnered with Brantley?" Buff Frog asked. "I could handle it by myself."
"Oh, I love this." Brantley interjected. "The classic buddy cop trope. Two mismatched officers are put together to solve a case."
"How mismatched do you think we are?" Buff Frog asked.
"You're humble and nice and I am a karate person." Brantley replied.
"Personality and hobbies are not opposite." Buff Frog commented.
"Oh." Brantley responded.
"I don't care what trope this is, just get on with the case!" Rime demanded. "I'm giving you two 48 hours!"
"Forty-Eight hours?!" Brantley exclaimed. "That's two days, right?"
"Yes!" Rime replied. "Now go get your job done or else your badges are mine and I'll give you parking duties."
"Not parking duties!" Brantley gasped.
"What is wrong with parking duties?" Buff Frog asked. "We scold the scum whose parking time has run out."
"That's why I don't wanna be a meter maid." Brantley responded. "They're the worst people who've ever roamed the Earthni."
"I don't wish to be hated during parents conference." Buff Frog responded with realisation.
Later, Brantley and Buff Frog exited the office with Buff Frog looking unsure about working with Brantley.
"Oi, you two." Lutter yelled out. "Good luck not killing each other! Also, wish me luck on finding out who tried to kill Eclipsa!"
"Good luck!" Brantley yelled out while Buff Frog rolled his eyes.
Later, the two 'mismatched' partners walked out of the precinct and to the small building the exploding mannequin was on earlier which happened to be a pawn shop.
"Okay, this is closed to public due to it being crime scene." Buff Frog explained. "So, I suggest we start asking questions."
"Who to?" Brantley asked.
"The pawn shop owner." Buff Frog replied.
And so, Brantley and Buff Frog entered the pawn shop where the owner turned out to be none other than ex soldier turned bounty hunter, Rasticore, who has healed after his last encounter with the Butterfly family.
"Good day sir." Buff Frog greeted the former bounty hunter.
"How is it a good day?" Rasticore asked. "My shop was almost blown up by a mannequin but before that, I was the most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy until I found out I have a son and decided to give up my life of a job I really love to do a boring job which consists of me selling junk that people want for some reason! I expected to have a comeback with Heckaron going about hiring people to take out Star Butterfly and I have had no call about it!"
Buff Frog and Brantley were a little silent, unsure of what to think about his long and over dramatic backstory.
"Uh…" Brantley reacted.
"Sounds tragic, my friend." Buff Frog responded. "Me and my colleague are here to ask a few questions regarding the incident."
"What do you wish to know?" Rasticore asked. "An electrician arrived this morning and wanted to fix the fuse box on the roof of the pawnshop. Went up on the roof, never came back down."
"Do you know if that electrician could've been the one who placed the mannequin?" Brantley asked.
"Seems likely." Rasticore replied. "I mean, he was carrying a ginormous crate I thought might've been his toolbox. But now that I think about it, way too big to be a tool box."
"Do you mind if we take a look at roof?" Buff Frog asked.
"Go ahead, I doubt you'd find anything." Rasticore suggested.
Just then, Brantley grabbed the former bounty hunter by his collar and started shaking him like crazy. "What do you mean you doubt we'll find anything?! You better count that we do!"
"Brantley, what are you doing?" Buff Frog asked the former Sensei as he made his partner stop shaking the pawn shop owner.
"The bad cop routine." Brantley replied.
"Why?" Buff Frog asked.
"Because, I really want this to be a buddy cop adventure." Brantley replied.
"I will report this to the police!" Rasticore exclaimed. "If you shake me like that again! Or do anything I consider abuse of power!" The sight of Rasticore saying stuff like that got Buff Frog and his partner to raise their eyebrows while Brantley let the former bounty hunter go. "Hey, I was a bounty hunter, remember?"
Later on the roof, Buff Frog was examining the pieces of plastic scattered across the building while Brantley was sitting on the roof in a mediating pose.
Buff Frog picked up a tiny piece of plastic while wearing a plastic glove to make sure he didn't tamper with the evidence and then used a loupe to see if there was any kind of substance left on it. "Hmm, nothing so far. Just regular plastic."
"I don't know if you'll find anything with tiny mannequin pieces." Brantley commented.
"Don't let eyes deceive you Brantley, there could be something of use." Buff Frog responded while zooming in. "May you not meditate and help out?"
"I am helping." Brantley replied.
"How is meditating helping?" Buff Frog asked.
"Meditation is spiritual." Brantley replied. "Helps relax you and your soul. But sometimes, meditation can help you look for what you're looking for. One time, I lost the remote and I kind of panicked since Battle of Thrones was on in three minutes. So, I decided to meditate and once I knew I was done, I opened my eyes and the remote was near the vase and I had the time to watch Battle of Thrones all the way through."
"Brantley, I doubt meditation will help one bit." Buff Frog said.
"Have a little faith in me, Buff Frog." Brantley replied. "Just don't break my concentration."
Buff Frog sighed in annoyance before continuing to look for clues while Brantley continued his meditation.
"Oh yeah…Ah huh…..White rabbit." Brantley mumbled. "What does that mean?"
Buff Frog then noticed the remains of the film projection that was used and picked up one of the pieces and saw that the logo had a white rabbit on it. This made Buff Frog curious that he put it into a little plastic bag for safe keeping.
"White rabbit!" Brantley exclaimed as he ran towards Buff Frog. "So, that's what it means? It's a logo for a brand of film projection."
"Yes." Buff Frog replied. "But I doubt your meditation meant anything. It was probably just coincidence."
"My meditations aren't coincidental, they usually mean something." Brantley responded. "I once saw a taco during my meditation and two weeks later, I began working at a taco stand."
"That again, a coincidence." Buff Frog argued.
"That's what you think." Brantley responded before going into his meditative state again.
Buff Frog sighed. "Come on Brantley." The humanoid frog pulled him up and dusted the dirt off his pants. "Come, let's go to electrical and hardware store. They might have what we're looking for. And please, try and not be bad cop."
"What kind of cop do you want me to be?" Brantley asked.
Buff Frog sighed. "Anything but bad cop."
Later an old hardware store, a man in his late 50's with grey stubble with hair like a member of The Doors was behind the counter, watering some berries that were green and black coloured, like poison. He was peacefully watering his plant until Buff Frog and Brantley entered the store.
"Remember, no bad cop." Buff Frog said.
"Right." Brantley responded.
"Howdy gentleman, what can I do for you today?" The man asked. "We have lots of tools and electrical for whatever need you might have."
"WOULD ONE OF THEM HAPPEN TO BE A LIE DETECTOR?!" Brantley yelled.
"Brantley, I said no bad cop." Buff Frog reminded him.
"Buff Frog, Mr Morrison is deaf in one ear, so you have to yell at him so he can hear you." Brantley responded.
"Oh, apologies." Buff Frog said. "MR MORRISON, MY NAME IS BUFF FROG AND THIS IS MY PARTNER, BRANTLEY!"
"I know Brantley." Morrison said. "He come in here every Tuesday for my famous Cobra Berries."
"Yeah Buff Frog, you'd ought to try some." Brantley said before popping one in his mouth.
"I can't eat Cobra berries." Buff Frog replied. "Cobra berries give monsters very bad sickness. But humans have no problem compared to Mewmans."
"What happens when a Mewman eats one?" Brantley asked.
"They don't survive." Buff Frog responded.
"Gents, speak louder unless I'm not part of the conversation." The hardware store owner requested.
"SORRY!" Buff Frog shouted before pulling out the tiny bag with the piece of projection on it. "CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT THIS?!"
Mr Morrison took the piece of projection and started to analyse it. After about 11 seconds, he recognised the symbol on the piece of plastic.
"A white bunny symbol, I remember that." Mr Morrison said.
"WHAT IS IT?!" Brantley yelled.
"They're projections that went out of stock 12 years ago." Mr Morrison replied. "Luckily, I had one in the back."
"WHO DID YOU SELL IT TO?!" Buff Frog yelled.
"I don't know." Mr Morrison replied. "But I do have security cameras. I sold it two days ago."
"LET US SEE THEM!" Brantley yelled.
"Alright, no need to go bad cop on me." Mr Morrison responded.
"I WASN'T!"
Later, Buff Frog and Brantley were sitting in the security room watching twenty-four hours of security footage. They have been sitting on the seats for an hour watching nothing going on in the store.
Buff Frog was keeping a keen eye while Brantley was doing the same, only he was eating popcorn as he did. "Wow, the store is very empty."
"I can not believe you insisted we have to watch the 24 hour footage in its entirety." Buff Frog complained. "We could just fast forward it."
"Buff Frog, my film class teacher said we have to watch footage in its entirety so we don't miss any detail." Brantley said.
"But there is difference between film and security footage." Buff Frog pointed out.
"Watch it in the entirety." Brantley protested.
"For 24 hours?!" Buff Frog exclaimed. "But we'll have 22 hours to solve case by the time footage has finished."
"Twenty-two hours is still a lot of time to finish a case." Brantley commented. "We'll have time."
"Fine." Buff Frog replied. "Missing my children's parents evening better be worth it."
And so, Brantley and Buff Frog sat and watched the footage for over 24 hours where for the first 7 hours, nothing was happening since it wasn't around the time where the store was open. Then, they managed to get to the spot where Mr Morrison opened the store and saw him selling a hedge trimmer to Rafael Diaz, a spanner to a humanoid horse, a cobra berry to some guy in a hood, an axe to some guy in a hockey mask looking like he was going to a horror convention, a shovel to Aidan, a screwdriver to Jackie and…..Nothing so far. The two had been watching the footage for 19 hours and it was getting close to closing time and no one was there to buy the projection.
"It is close to closing time." Buff Frog commented. "Was Mr Morrison lying about who brought the projectionist?"
"Nonsense Buff Frog." Brantley replied. "If you're suggesting that he was the one who did it, you are absolutely wrong."
"I am not suggesting…Okay, maybe I am suggesting." Buff Frog replied. "He only has about 9 minutes until store shuts down. So, he has 9 minutes to change my mind about him."
And about 5 minutes later, Mr Morrison's store door opened to reveal a young blonde haired man who looked like he was in his mid 20's and wearing a brown jacket with a red, white and blue shirt and approached the counter, something that caught the interest of the two cops.
"Hold on, something interesting." Buff Frog informed the sleepy Brantley. He groaned before knocking his partner with his elbow, who woke up.
"I'm awake!" Brantley coughed. "What happened?"
"Why were you sleeping?" Buff Frog asked.
"Buff Frog, because of your dumb idea of watching this all the way through, I fell asleep." Brantley's response made Buff Frog narrow his eyes at his partner which lead the former Sensei to realise who actually said it. "Oh yeah, that's right."
"Look at this." Buff Frog said while pointing to the screen. "That young man is buying the projection from Mr Morrison."
Brantley then squinted his eyes to see anything, but he instead fell face first asleep on the desk, something that made Buff Frog sigh.
Later, the somehow not tired Buff Frog and the sleepy Sensei Brantley were watching Mr Morrison adjust his glasses at the screen, trying to get a good look at the customer that was buying the projection.
"I don't know him." Mr Morrison said. "But I've seen him around. Commonly, he's at the bowling alley."
"THANK YOU MR MORRISON!" Buff Frog shouted.
The sudden shout from his partner made Brantley wake up from his slumber. "Huh, what?"
"Brantley, we don't know name of suspect, but Mr Morrison has seen him around town." Buff Frog replied.
"Oh…Oh…Oh great." Brantley stretched. "That gives me time to get some sleeeeeeeeeeeep."
"Or perhaps we could get coffee." Buff Frog suggested. "I need it as…" Buff Frog yawned. "Oh boy, I am so tired. But we only have 22 hours until we are done and they give case to Lutter. And I don't want that."
"Yeah, I know a great coffee place that'll help." Brantley said. "Just follow meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…." Before Brantley could lead Buff Frog, he collapsed on his face and started snoring.
"Oh boy." Buff Frog sighed as he picked up Brantley. "I hope children are doing fine with babysitter."
At Buff Frog's hut, Janna was the one who was babysitting Buff Frog's twelve adopted children, thirteen if you're counting the ones stuck together. But Janna wasn't doing her job since she was busy on the phone not paying attention to the tadpoles who were looking at her like she was being lazy.
"Janna, could you get off your phone?" Buff Frog's daughter, Katrina asked.
"What do you want?" Janna asked. "I gave you your pizza and put you to bed last night. What could possibly be wrong this time?"
"You do realise Tom is hanging off our chandelier?" Katrina asked as she pointed at Tom Lucitor, who was hanging off the chandelier.
"No he isn't." Janna lied without looking up.
"We can see him." Katrina retorted. "Dad said to have no one over."
"Are you and him like, boyfriend and girlfriend?" One of the tadpoles asked.
Janna then froze and narrowed her eyes at the tadpoles. "Don't you dare ask that question again."
Meanwhile, Buff Frog and the sleepy Brantley eventually found a coffee shop where Buff Frog got himself and Brantley a drink of hot coffee.
The humanoid amphibian had to unfortunately carry Brantley to one of the nearest tables and feed the coffee to Brantley, who woke up screaming due to it being hot.
"My mouth if on fire!" Brantley screamed as he started smacking his tongue with his hands.
"Of course it is." Buff Frog retorted. "It is coffee, what did you expect it would be?" Buff Frog took a sip of his own coffee.
Brantley soon calmed down and carefully took another sip of his coffee to make sure his tongue wasn't burnt off.
"How do you feel?" Buff Frog asked his partner.
"I feel like I could run a marathon." Brantley replied. "And then fall asleep by the time I make it to the finish line."
"So, you still feel sleepy?" Buff Frog asked.
"Well, caffeine can't get all humans up and ready." Brantley said. "How is caffeine to monsters?"
"For a while, monsters were forbidden to drink caffeine ever since the Great Caffeine Incident." Buff Frog replied. "Which I was there for. And unfortunately, that didn't make the then queen very happy since it only made her and Mewmans hate monsters even more. It wasn't very good being monster in Mewni. You either get booed at or spat at. Until Star tried to bring Mewmans and monsters together, the booing and spitting got worse."
"Was it like that when Earthni was formed?" Brantley asked.
"Not much." Buff Frog replied. "There were just stares and hardly any spitting. But, I am glad humans have warmed to me they seem a bit nicer."
"Yeah, we kind of have a law against prejudice." Brantley replied.
"Does the law work?" Buff Frog asked.
Brantley responded to Buff Frog's question by moving his hand in a bit of a 'Kinda' motion.
"What was it like for you when Earthni was formed?" Buff Frog asked.
"Well, I lost my job that day." Brantley replied. "So, I wasn't cool with that, but I was confused as to how….." Brantley motioned to the window, pointing to Earthni. "….That was formed. I was confused by all the monsters and people dressed in medieval clothing. Then, Mayor Eclipsa explained everything and I decided to get a new job which would be more action packed: Police work."
"So, you were cool with monsters roaming around?" Buff Frog asked.
"Well, Marco once had an octopus for an arm so anything that was strange I was kind of cool with." Brantley replied.
"So, you had no prejudice towards monsters?" Buff Frog asked.
"Nah." Brantley replied. "Although, I have a feeling Lutter does."
"Are you kidding me?!" Buff Frog exclaimed. "His fellow cronies are monsters as well."
"Oh yeah." Brantley said. "Speaking of Lutter, I think I know who tried to poison Eclipsa."
"Who?" Buff Frog asked.
"I don't know if I should be mentioning it since we are on a different assignment." Brantley replied.
"But tell me." Buff Frog requested. "It could help not only us, but Lutter as well. That way he'd respect us."
"Okay, I think-"
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
"How rude." Brantley said, noting the loud scream.
"What is going on?" Buff Frog asked before him and Brantley jumped off their seats and ran out of the coffee shop to see what the commotion was all about.
Once they got outside, they were treated to a sight of a crowd of people looking upwards. Because there was a man standing on the edge of a five story building wearing what appeared to be the trademark clothing of the Equalists that want Star for whatever scheme they are planning.
"Oh no, not another jumper." Buff Frog groaned.
"I got him." Brantley responded.
"I don't know if you do have it." Said a familiar voice that made Buff Frog and Brantley's skin crawl. It was none other than their arch nemesis, Detective Lutter, whom was approaching them with a smug look and drinking coffee. "Because I doubt you'd want a useless detective who thinks more about his good karate days than being a good detective."
"Why can't you be nicer, Lutter?" Buff Frog asked.
"Because of your useless partner." Lutter replied. "That's why. And as well as you not using your strength to your advantage to interrogate criminals in the more extreme ways."
"I wish to not be big bully like you." Buff Frog said.
"Well, let this big bully handle this jumper." Lutter suggested before stopping to realise something. "Hey, where's your partner?"
Buff Frog turned around and realised that his partner wasn't with him anymore. "Oh for corn sake." The frog then looked up and saw his partner talking to the masked jumper.
"How he got up so fast is a mystery." Lutter remarked.
On the roof of the building, Brantley had approached the Equalist member in an effort to try and talk him down. "Hey pal, you shouldn't stand on the ledge of buildings."
"Why?" The equalist asked.
"Is it obvious?" Brantley asked. "You'll hurt yourself."
"What if I wish to hurt myself?" The Equalist asked.
"Well, then I suggest you get therapy and talk to your family about your problems." Brantley replied. "Or maybe try a new hobby, maybe some meditation, it's really relaxing."
"That's what you wish, but my motives are different." The man removed his mask and threw it off the building.
The young man turned around to face Brantley to reveal that he was the same young man who brought the white rabbit projection.
Brantley soon smiled. "Hey, I know you! You're the person of interest me and Buff Frog are after! What are you doing on the roof?"
Brantley's shouting didn't go ignored by Lutter and Buff Frog who were confused by what he was doing.
"Did he just yell at your person of interest like a friend he hadn't seen in a long time?" Lutter asked Buff Frog.
Buff Frog then sighed and tried to come up with a response but it unfortunately sounded like inane gibberish.
Back on the roof, the young man was pulling a smug look while Brantley was doing a karate pose just in case.
"So, do you wish to arrest me officer?" The man asked.
"Me and my partner wanna ask you questions regarding your little stunt from yesterday." Brantley replied.
"Well, you saw me take the projection so that means I definitely did do it." The man responded.
"Wow, that was easy to get a confession out of you." Brantley commented. "Now, take a step away from the ledge."
"Nah, I'm right where I wanna be." The man replied before tearing off his cloak and turning round to face the crowd of people on the ground.
And what was he showing? It was a very huge tattoo on his muscular looking body of Star Butterfly behind bars. Meaning this was another sign of Heckaron pestering them to lock up Star.
The sight made Buff Frog stare at the man with worry while Lutter had a very concerning expression plastered on his look.
"Now, are you gonna arrest me officer?" The man asked.
"No." Brantley replied.
"Why not?" The man asked. "Because you don't think your qualified? Because you're lazy? I hope it's the first one."
"Well, I'll have something to do with it." Brantley replied before kicking him off the building with the man screaming to his supposed death. But he instead, landed on an inflatable safety mat to break his fall.
"Oh, that's interesting." The man said before being tackled by the police.
Later, the cops managed to get the young man a towel and put him in a cop car to be taken away to a police station, with Captain Rime at the scene.
"I need someone to scold!" Captain Rime yelled. "Give me someone to scold!"
"Well believe it or not sir, these two useless doofuses aren't worth to be scolded." Lutter said as he approached the captain with Buff Frog and Brantley, who were soon disappointed when Lutter called them doofuses.
"Well, at least he says we aren't worth being scolded." Brantley said.
"Why?!" Rime asked. "You mean that sincerely right? Cause I can't believe in anything positive about them two."
"Right in front of you." Buff Frog stated.
"How did the team with one of the biggest morons in force help out in anyway?" Rime asked.
"Brantley over here has given me a lead regarding Eclipsa's assassination attempt." Lutter replied.
Rime then groaned in annoyance. "I thought I told you two that you were assigned to that mannequin incident!"
"We were, we just found something interesting we thought Lutter would know." Buff Frog replied.
"Yeah, I don't know if Mr Morrison actually did it, but something tells me that with the berries he's got, it seems likely." Brantley said even though there was a hint of doubt in his voice.
"Mr Morrison has berry that is very lethal to Mewmans." Buff Frog explained. "It was lucky her husband drank it since it is very bad for monsters."
"Well, you may not be useless after all Brantley." Rime said. "You got that young man on the ground even though it was an intense and rather questionable method."
"And, you know, thanks for the intel, I'm gonna get to work on it." Lutter said. "Tell the others I didn't wish you two good luck." Lutter then walked away from the crime scene to deal with Mr Morrison.
"While Lutter continues his case, you two better continue your work." Rime demanded. "Unless some random inconvenience happens."
Just then, a cop ran up to Rime, Buff Frog and Brantley looking exhausted. "Sir, that jumper has escaped."
"How?" Rime asked. "Did Patzel leave the door open again?"
"No, sir." Yelled a hazel faced cop with green hair; possibly a Mewman. He ran up to Rime with a scratch on his face. "I had the doors locked, but he somehow made me lose control by blinding me. And please don't ask where I think he was hiding it."
"Dang it!" Rime exclaimed. "Buff Frog and Brantley, you two know what to do! Find and catch that person of interest!"
"Yes sir." Brantley responded before dropping on the ground to mediate. An act that made Buff Frog sigh and Rime to be both annoyed and confused at the same time.
"What is he doing?" Rime asked.
"He is meditating because he thinks he can find people just by doing that." Bufff Frog replied.
"I see a warehouse." Brantley said.
"Well, if he wishes to do it, then he should do it where I won't be seeing him!" Rime yelled.
Later, Buff Frog was investigating the crashed car which was coincidentally beside an old abandoned warehouse while Brantley was busy meditating.
Buff Frog was dusting for fingerprints with a brush to see if there were any clues but he unfortunately couldn't find anything. He soon got annoyed with Brantley's meditation that he stopped and approached him.
"You need to be done with meditation." Buff Frog demanded.
"Not until I have found a clear location." Brantley replied. "It's a warehouse, but I'm not so sure which one it is."
"Brantley, your mediation isn't working." Buff Frog responded. "Those moments where they worked were just random coincidences!" Buff Frog narrowed his eyes at Brantley before thinking back to how Brantley saw images of a white rabbit and realising that it did somewhat help out. "Unlesssssssss. Brantley, what does warehouse look like?"
"What does every warehouse look like?" Brantley asked. "They look the same to me, nothing interesting. Unless the one we're near is the one we're meant to be looking for."
"Do you know if it has secret entrance?" Buff Frog asked.
"I don't know." Brantley responded as he stood up. "But first, I might need to take a break, meditation is very exhausting." Brantley then placed his back against the wall and he fell through the wall and down a flight of stairs, meaning it was just a door leading to wherever it was leading to.
Buff Frog looked down the stairway to see if his partner was okay. "Found it!" Brantley exclaimed.
Later, Buff Frog got to the bottom of the stairs where he saw Brantley putting on an Equalist uniform and dragon mask, something that Buff Frog was questioning.
"Why are you getting dressed in Equalist uniform?" Buff Frog asked.
"I found it." Brantley replied.
"Are you wearing it as disguise?" Buff Frog asked.
"I honestly wanted to see if they were comfortable." Brantley replied. "But I like your idea better than mine."
Just then, the door upstairs opened with Buff Frog briefly panicking.
"Best put a disguise on." Brantley said.
Later, Buff Frog, now in an Equalist disguise was walking with a crowd of Equalists with Brantley in disguise as well.
They walked deeper into the warehouse along with the huge crowed where they stopped in front of a ginormous stage with a red curtain behind the main stand where the speaker would speak. But there wasn't just a curtain hanging, there were banners with an image of the masked Heckaron standing strong and proud.
The two officers, despite being masked, were feeling intimidated by the mere sight of the location. It looked like something out of a very outdated propaganda movie.
"Woah." Brantley commented.
"Yes." Buff Frog responded. "Can he be more dramatic?"
Just then, Heckaron rose from an elevator embedded on the floor on the stage. He rose like a ghost or some evil sorcerer while holding an oxygen tank that he was breathing in to for whatever reason. He then realised he was on stage and handed it to one of the Equalists so he could keep up his intimidating image.
"Members of the Untitled Equalist Group….." Heckaron announced loudly. "…I am Heckaron. I am the leader of this Untitled Equalist Group where we will have equal justice for all. But more specifically, every innocent magic creature that was killed by one of the monsters. One of them being the selfish former princess of Mewni, Star Butterfly."
"Wait, I thought he was after Star." Brantley whispered.
"Wait, I thought you were just after Star!" One of the guys yelled out.
"I am." Heckaron responded. "But, there was more than one person who wiped out the innocent magic creatures and I have a list. But first, I need to enact punishment towards a little someone who tried to murder one of our targets. Bring him and the one that tried to enact his own brand of justice!"
Then, four members of the Equalists were handling Mr Morrison and detective Lutter; Two of each handling Mr Morrison and Lutter at the same time as they forced them on stage and forcing them on their knees.
"Maurice Morrison and Idris Lutter; Friendly store owner and professional detective." Heckaron announced.
"Hello." Lutter said awkwardly. "You do realise you're gonna be arrested for capturing an officer and an innocent civilian, right?"
"We might, but I have my ways." Heckaron replied. "You are all asking what I'm gonna do with them, aren't you? I bet you are. Mr Morrison and Lutter are my taste testers."
"Taste testers?" Lutter queried. "You captured me and this innocent storekeeper just to be a dumb taste tester?"
"It depends on what the reaction will be." Heckaron replied. "It's time to play a game of Mewman or human." Heckaron then pulled a plate of Cobra Berries from his robe and handed the plate to Lutter. "This was what almost killed Mayor Eclipsa, did you know that?"
"Yes." Lutter replied.
"Eat it!" Lutter looked at Heckaron with concern and fear. "Don't worry, they don't affect humans. But how will I know that you are a human?"
Lutter, despite his hands being tied, managed to eat the Cobra berry by leaning against the tray and eating the berry like some kind of dog. He chewed the berry before swallowing it.
"Describe the flavour." Heckaron requested.
"Juicy and chewy." Lutter replied.
"That's right." Heckaron said. "You are human. Now Mr Morrison, eat it the berry."
"What?" Mr Morrison asked. "I can't hear you very well."
"Oh, sorry." Heckaron apologised. "MR MORRISON! EAT THE BERRY!"
"Uh, no thanks." Mr Morrison replied. "I just ate, don't wanna spoil my appetite."
"OH OKAY!" Heckaron said. "UNDERSTANDABLE! THAT'S WHAT A MEWMAN WOULD SAY!" Just then, Heckaron stuffed the berry into the Mr Morrison's mouth, forcing him to eat it. "WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO ALMOST KILL MAYOR ECLIPSA IS INSULTING TO MY PLANS! I NEED HER ALIVE! AND NOT JUST HER! BUT STAR, MOON AND METEORA BUTTERFLY! I NEED THEM ALIVE TO ENACT JUSTICE AND LEGACY! BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT I AM DOING THIS FOR! JUSTICE AND LEGACY!"
Once Heckaron finished stuffing the berry down Mr Morrison's throat, something bad started happening to him. He started squirming like he was having a seizure and he then fell on his back as he struggled like a fish on dry land. Then the man spat some blue substance from his mouth all while he squirmed and kicked the air as he struggled to live. And in just 30 seconds, the so-called friendly store owner was dead.
Heckaron stared at the lifeless body and remarked to the corpse, "Only Mewman. A stupid, prejudice Mewman. Our next phase is to continue our attacks to get our message across and we will. But, it will be inconvenient if we kept this cop here, we don't want to lose track to where we're going. Throw him out. We begin once this meeting is adjourned. As we are the MAGIC LOVING ACTIVISTS! Actually, that doesn't sound good, I'm still working on the group name."
Later, Lutter was thrown out of the warehouse and on to the streets where Buff Frog and Brantley ran up to him to see if he was alright.
"Are you alright?" Buff Frog asked as he helped him up.
"Did you two find the Activists?" Lutter asked.
"We did." Brantley replied. "We were there when it happened."
"And you did nothing?!" Lutter angrily asked.
"Didn't wanna blow our cover." Brantley replied. "Also, I wanted to see what the Cobra berry did."
"Not a pleasant sight." Lutter commented. "But at least, the assassin has been dealt with."
"But it's not just that." Buff Frog commented. "We know other targets that Heckaron is after. People who hate Eclipsa."
"And I will get down to finding out." Brantley said before dropping on the floor and meditating while Buff Frog and Lutter stared at him with annoyance.
"It does work." Buff Frog assured him. "It just…Takes time getting used to."