In the Sundews' house, Johan was in his office, checking on Passione's business, finances and, most importantly, the whereabouts of Sasha and Marcy. The money was doing well with the absinthe production as well as the selling of stolen toad goods, but the location of those two girls were his top priority. It had been months, yet he heard no word from them. He even sent Joan Jett, Leatherleaf and Ram Bamboo (who he promoted to the rank of caporegime, or capo for short) to the other towns in Frog Valley. Nothing came up. He was starting to get worried. He thought of the most horrific ways a person could die in Amphibia and he prayed that none of them happened to the girls.

He reached for his drink when the glass slid away from him. He tried to reach for it again only for it to float up and hide behind a crate. "Ivy?" he muttered. He got up from his seat and looked around. "Edera, smettila. È troppo presto per questo." Suddenly, he felt someone kick him in the shin. "OW! Hey! Ivy!"

Ivy, with Invisible Touch still activated, blew a raspberry. Enraged, Johan chased after the invisible frog, following the sound of her footsteps. "Torna qui!"

"Torna qui!" mocked Ivy. "That's what you sound like!"

In the tea shoppe, business was booming...and then...

BOOM!

Johan and Ivy crashed out the door and into the tea room, startling guests as they caused food and tea to fly everywhere. "Gotcha, Ivy!" shouted Johan. Ivy responded by slapping him in the face with her tongue. "That's it, you little squid!"

"AHEM!"

Johan and Ivy looked up to see a very angry and tea drenched Felicia. Then they looked around to see the customers.

"My eyes! I got hot tea in my eyes!"

"They threw a cake down my pants!"

"Medic!"

Ivy and Johan giggled. "Uh, I can pay for this," said Johan. "If you want me to."

"You know what I want you to do? GET OUT! GO BOTHER THE PLANTARS WITH YOUR CHAOS!" Felicia yelled as she summoned The Rose, which grew vines that grabbed Johan and Ivy by the seat of their pants and flung them out the window. She then dismissed The Rose, exhaled and said, "I swear, that Ivy is going to be the death of me." She bent over to pick up some broken plates. "And Johan is supposed to be the mature one!"

"Pardon me." Felicia turned to see a teal frog with a small beard and wearing a black robe and a hood obscuring his eyes.

"Oh, I am so sorry, sir."

"It's fine," said the frog. "I was in the neighborhood and I thought it would be a great idea to get myself some tea. Oh, where are my manners? My name is Apothecary Gary. You can call me Apothe-Gary if you want."

"I'm not doing that," said Felicia as she picked up some forks.

"Well, suit yourself. Anyway, I've got just the thing for your troubles. Just rub a little of this on their foreheads and your daughter'll be behaving in a jiffy. See, it has these special enzymes-"

Felicia held up her hand. "Whoa, there, sir. I do not trust potions entirely. Not after Hopediah Plantar's garbage potion incident."

"Don't be shy. How about a free sample?"

As Ivy and Johan walked to the Plantars', they had a little discussion. "Look, I know you want to play, but I have important business to attend to," he said to her.

"You mean all that boring Passione stuff? Come on! It's just money, absinthe, stealing stuff...which I never get to take part in anymore."

"It's more to it than that. I want to spread my influence so I can find anyone who might know where I can find Marcy and Sasha. I mean, how would you like it if you got lost somewhere and didn't know where your mother was?"

"I'd be in paradise if I was far away from Mrs. Rule Maker." Then she said, "Okay, I lied. I'd probably be scared." She stuck her hands in her pockets. "I didn't really think it like that."

"Exactly." They didn't speak for a while before Johan whispered, "Vuoi attaccare furtivamente Rametto quando arriviamo?"

"Sì!"

"Wow. Those Italian lessons are really paying off."

When they arrived at the Plantars', they found Anne, Sprig and Polly in the front yard playing baseball. Only...

Sprig threw the baseball at Anne's face, who didn't even respond at all. Then she swung the scythe and Polly and Sprig droned, "Hurray..."

"Anne?" asked Johan, a little unnerved by what he was seeing.

"Sprig, Polly?" asked Ivy.

Anne, Sprig and Polly very slowly turned their heads to look at them and said in unison, "Hello, JoJo. Hello, Ivy."

Ivy hid behind Johan. "I'm scared."

"Anne?" Johan approached her and put his hands on her shoulders. "Are you okay?"

She stared at him with wide, unblinking eyes with dilated pupils and said, "I'm. Fine. Jo. Jo."

"Sprig?" Ivy asked as she shook the frog boy's shoulders. He just stared at her. "This is bad, JoJo! He's not even blushing!"

"That's it! This is too creepy for me! MUDA, MUDA, MUDA!" Johan summoned DARE who proceeded to give Anne, Sprig and Polly a single punch that sent them flying onto their backs.

"Ow!" they cried.

Anne was the first to get up. She blinked her eyes and muttered, "Man, I feel funky. Like I was a prisoner in my own body." Then she realized someone was in front of her. "JoJo? What are you doing here? Wait, did you just use your Stand on me?!"

"And me?" asked Sprig. Then he saw Ivy and turned away, blushing.

"And ME?!" exclaimed Polly.

"I had no choice, you were all... 'Uuuggghhh!'" Johan moaned and walked around with his arms stretched out. He stopped and said, "I'm surprised you didn't try to eat my brains!"

Anne gave him a confused look. "You're saying we acted like zombies?"

"You seriously don't remember?" Ivy asked Sprig. "Your eyes were big as frog!"

He scratched the back of his head. "No. I don't. And I'm good at remembering things, most of the time."

"I have all this anger," said Polly. "And I don't know what to do with it!"

Johan looked at the farmhouse and saw Hop Pop peeking out the window. The moment they made eye contact, Hop Pop ducked back in. Johan narrowed his eyes. "Ivy, would you mind playing with Sprig and the others? I wanna have a word with the old frog," he said as he went toward the house.

Sprig and Ivy looked at each other, then glanced away. "So..." said the former.

"So..." said the latter.

"Isn't that the cutest thing you ever saw," asked Anne.

"Hey, I'M the cute one!" shouted Polly.

Sprig asked, "You wanna play tongue tag?" Ivy smiled. Then vanished. "Hey! That's not fair! No using your Stand!" Suddenly, his pants dropped. "Aaah! I've been pantsed!" Anne and Polly laughed.

"You're it, Sprig," shouted Ivy.

The moment Hop Pop saw Johan coming toward the house, he pressed the door close with his body. "Nobody's home! Go away! Please!" He suddenly felt Johan's fists pounding against the door.

"MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA!" His left fist punched through the door and grabbed Hop Pop by the throat.

"Guah! Stop! Stop! Okay! I'll talk!"

Hop Pop sat at the table and revealed his model ship. "Being a single grandparent is hard. Especially when you have two grandkids plus an adopted granddaughter. Every day it's the same: the kids cause a ruckus, they break stuff, they go on a joyride on Bessie, and I have to pay for it. Yesterday, they broke my model ship that I spent MONTHS making! MONTHS!"

"Uh..." said Johan, a little confused. "What's this gotta do with Anne, Sprig and Polly acting like zombies?"

"I'm getting to it! Yeesh, give a guy a chance, will ya? Anyway, I tried to tell them to keep them from going overboard, but they don't listen to me! So a feller named Apothecary Gary gave me this." He showed Johan a bottle full of a strange glowing purple substance. "Just a dab of this potion on their foreheads and they become docile."

Johan couldn't believe it. "Wait, you mean you're brainwashing Anne and your own grandchildren?!"

Hop Pop winced. "You make it sound like a big deal."

"Hop Pop, you made a big deal when you found out I was about to spike the pot luck with mystic mushrooms, now you're controlling people's minds? What the frog?!"

"Hey, at least they're under control, not like..."

Suddenly a rock smashed through a window. "Sorry, Hop Pop!" called out Sprig.

"Yeah, we can pay for it," called out Anne.

"No, we won't," shouted Polly.

"...that." Hop Pop sighed. "Although, I have to admit, I shouldn't use any more of that gunk on the kids. Something about it just don't sit right with me."

"Oh, you think?" snarked JoJo. "Just, try to be a bit more assertive, maybe be a bit more of a commander in an army."

"I can't do that! They'll probably rebel, tie me to a pole and burn me alive while chanting 'DEATH TO TYRANTS!'"

Johan stared, a little disturbed. "You're not sleeping well, aren't you?"

"No, I don't sleep well at all, you know that."

"Look, just try to put your foot down," said Johan. "Get them to behave in a manner that doesn't involve mind control. And if that doesn't work, you can always bribe them, though I wouldn't recommend it. Now, I want you to get rid of that purple stuff."

Hop Pop sighed. "You're right, boss." Hop Pop walked to the sink and poured the potion down the drain. "There. Good as gone. Now what?"

A loud crash outside grabbed the two's attention. "Well, since I've got nothing better to do, I'm going to do a bit of rough housing of my own." Johan left the house and the next thing Hop Pop heard was him shouting, "MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA!" Followed by the sounds of punches, then the sound of moans and groans.

A second later, Anne, Sprig and Polly went back in the house, covered in bruises. Johan scratched the back of his head. "Too rough?"

"Yep," said Ivy.

"Alright," Anne said as she kicked off her shoes. "REVENGE!" She tackled Johan to the ground and began wrestling him.

Hop Pop shook his head, unaware of a figure with glowing purple eyes staring at the scene through the window.

Hop Pop was fuming he returned to his study. "Be more assertive he says. Act like a commander he says. I LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY TO HANDLE THREE UNRULY CHILDREN, JOJO!" he shouted. He exhaled. Then he saw it. A bottle of purple potion sitting on his desk. "Wait. I thought I got rid of you!" The sound of the kids roughhousing again made him think again.

"I'll just buy myself a little more time, and then never again."

Ivy and Johan realized they had been gone for hours as night had already fallen.

"Mind control?" asked Ivy as they walked back home. "Man, I would hate my mom if she did that to me."

They walked into the tea shoppe and Johan called out, "Felicia! We're back!"

"Sorry it took so long," said Ivy. "Polly can be a bit bitey when she wrestles."

Silence.

"Mom?"

"Felicia?"

"JooooooJooooo," sang an eerie female voice. "IIIIIvyyyyyyyyy..."

Ivy held Johan close. "M-Mom?"

Felicia stepped out of the shadows, though her face was hidden. "Welcome home..."

Johan felt his heart rate increase. "Felicia, if you're still mad about the mess we made, I promise-"

"I'm not mad. Not anymore, JoJo... I feel...blissssss," she hissed.

"M-Mom, what's going on?" shuddered Ivy.

"Don't be scared, Ivy. Once you're part of the family, you will understand."

Johan raised an eyebrow. "Family?"

Felicia fully stepped out and what they saw made Ivy scream and Johan gasp. Her eyes were glowing purple and glowing purple mushrooms were growing out of her head. "Welcome to the family. We're so happy you can join us..."

"W-We?"

More glowing purple eyes appeared behind her. More mushroom-headed zombies. Johan and Ivy immediately recognized them as everyone in town. "Don't run away," droned Felicia. "Stay...join us..."

"Ivy, turn invisible and do what I say," whispered Johan before shouting. "Evadere!" And with that, he took off running out the door.

"Oh, frog, I knew you were gonna do that!" shouted Ivy. She turned invisible and vanished before the zombies could grab her.

Johan and Ivy ran to the only place they could think of. After entering Hop Pop's house, Johan slammed the door shut and Ivy barricaded it with the sofa. Hop Pop burst from his bedroom, startled by the noise. "What the heck is going on out here?!"

"Mom! Grandma! Everyone! They're all..." Ivy was so scared, she couldn't finish her sentence.

"Hopediah," shouted Johan. "Everyone in town's been turned into mushroom-headed zombies!"

Hop Pop scoffed. "Mushroom-headed zombies. I'll believe it when I see it." Suddenly, Anne burst out of the cellar, eyes glowing purple, growing purple mushrooms out of her head and moaning. Sprig and Polly came down the stairs, displaying the same symptoms. "Okay, I believe it!"

"Sprig!" shouted Ivy as she and Hop Pop tried to keep him and Polly from leaving. "Stop!"

"How did this happen?!" shouted Johan as he tried to pin Anne down.

"I don't know!" shouted Hop Pop. "I just put more potion on their heads and..."

"WHAT?! I thought I told you to get rid of it!"

Anne slipped from Johan's grasp, pushed the sofa out of the way and opened the door, revealing a teal frog with a black robe and a tall robe, the same one that visited Felicia. "Knock, knock," he said.

"Gary? What the heck are you doing here?" asked Hop Pop.

Johan turned to him. "Gary? You know this guy?"

"He's the one who gave me the potion!"

Gary laughed. "Of course I did! And now, I'm here to witness the birth of my new children!"

"Children?" repeated Ivy. "Wait. You're the cause of all this! You're a Stand user!"

Gary laughed. "I am no Stand user! That potion I gave to Hopediah was no ordinary elixir," he held up a jar full of the purple potion. "It was made with a special blend of my very own spores."

"Your spores," asked Hop Pop, totally confused.

Gary slowly lifted off his hood. "Behold! My true beautiful self." Attached to Gary's head was a giant, glowing, purple mushroom. "You see, I am a rare species of mushroom able to control the mind of its host."

"Wait," Johan said, holding his hand up. "If YOU'RE Gary," he pointed to the mushroom. "...then who's he?" he pointed to the frog.

"Just an unlucky frog who happened to cross my path and become my host! And soon all of Amphibia will be under my command!"

"Aw, hell no! I am not going to become controlled by a pizza topping!"

"You're gonna pay for taking over my mom and grandma," Ivy shouted.

"You'll never get away with this!" shouted Hop Pop and pointed at the frog.

"SILENCE! Also, eyes up here, buddy," the frog said, pointing to the mushroom.

"Oh, sorry. It's just, you're glowing, he's got the mouth-"

"I know, right? It's totally weird. I completely get it. Now, where was I? Oh, right." Gary raised his hands. "To me, my mushroom children!"

All of Wartwood, completely under Gary's control, stepped out of the bushes and surrounded the house. "They found us," whispered Ivy. Then she saw Felicia again and cried out, "Mom!"

"I got an idea!" Johan shouted. There was a moment's silence, then suddenly he pushed Sprig, Anne and Polly out of the house and pulled Hop Pop and Ivy in. He pushed the sofa back in front of the door and grabbed more furniture to prop against the windows. "What the heck, JoJo?!" exclaimed Hop Pop. "Why did you kick them out?!"

"Now the zombies are out and we are in! Now help me barricade the windows before-" The zombies started bashing down the door and breaking the windows in. "Too late."

Felicia grabbed Ivy before she could escape and puked up purple slime all over her. In an instant, she was a zombie now. Enraged, Johan summoned DARE and who began punching the mushroom zombies. "MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA!"

Another mushroom zombie grabbed Johan only to get punched in the gut. "MUDA!" Anne jumped onto Johan and pinned him down. She was about to puke purple slime onto him only to get punched in the face and sent flying. "MUDA!" A zombified Mayor Toadstool leaped up in the air and pinned him down with his body. DARE proceeded to punch the fat mayor, "MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA, MUDA!" Until he was sent flying out the window. Johan panted heavily. "They just keep coming!" He eyed Gary and realized, "That's it! If we destroy the giant mushroom, then everyone will go back to normal!" He charged at Gary and punctured the mushroom's cap with the kaiser blade. "MUDA!" This resulted in spores spraying him in the face.

Gary laughed as the boy coughed. "Whatever that was, you made a big mistake."

Mushrooms started to grow out of Johan's head and he droned as he felt his willpower disappear, "Hopediah...you need to ruuuuuunnnnnn...noooooooowwwwww..." He slowly turned to look at Hop Pop, eyes glowing purple and moaning like everyone else.

Hop Pop screamed, ran into his study and out the window. And then he came back for the model ship. "Well, I can't just leave her here." He ran across the field, leaving the zombies far behind. "I gotta get help. But everyone's infected except-" He turned to look at the stable where Bessie was and he remembered how earlier today, the snail tried to eat the potion he got from Gary. "That's it!"

He ran into the stable...only to find someone had beaten him to it. An infected Polly pointed at him and shrieked. "Shh! No, no, no. Polly, don't!" Suddenly, Sprig and Anne appeared and grabbed him by the arms. "No! Kids, let me go!"

Johan appeared and grabbed him by the head. "Wrrryyy..." he growled.

"JoJo, stop!"

Gary arrived, being carried by a horde of zombie frogs. And then he bonked his head on the barn door. "Little lower, please." They lowered him and carried him in. "Ah, there we go. Enough games." The frog squeezed the mushroom cap and poured spores into the jar. "Time for your assimilation."

Using Ripple, Hop Pop broke from the zombies' grasp and shouted, "Sorry to disappoint you, you compost-eating fiend, but I've got you right where I want ya." He looked down at his prized model ship. "Goodbye, sweet lady. May you find safe harbor in the beyond. Hyah!" With a great heave, he threw it at the lock on Bessie's stable, breaking it. He shouted, "Bessie! Snack time!"

Gary looked confused. "Who's Bessie? Is that your wife?"

The snail burst out of her stable and bowled over the zombies. In the process, she made Gary drop the jar. "My spores!"

Fueled on Ripple, Hop Pop lunged at the mushroom and shouted, "Take this you overgrown vegetable!"

"Vegetable?! How dare you!"

"Ripple Wave Kick!" Channeling all the Ripple into his knee, he kicked the mushroom, causing it to let out a scream as it caught fire.

"It burns! It burns!" Gary's problems were far from over as the snail began zooming around, sucking up the mushrooms on the infected villagers' heads. "Stop her! She's eating all the mushrooms!"

A bunch of zombies tried to pin her down only to be tail whipped by her. Then she saw Gary and the sight of the mushroom made her mouth water. Gary saw this and blocked her with his hands. "Ah! No. Stop. Please! Have mercy, I beg of you," he pleaded to Hop Pop. "I'm the last of my kind. Destroying me would wipe us off the planet forever."

There was a pause. Then Hop Pop shrugged his shoulders. "I can live with that. Zoom Punch!" He plowed a Ripple-fueled fist into the frog's stomach, allowing Bessie to consume the mushroom. The effect was instantaneous. The frog Gary was controlling lost the purple glow in his eyes and blinked in confusion. All around them, the rest of Wartwood were beginning to come to and look around, confused.

"What the- What a wonderful dream."

"Hey, where am I?"

"Why am I in the barn? What day is it?"

"Well, not the first time I've woken up in a shed."

"I gotta go home. My wife's gonna kill me."

As all the villagers left, wondering what they've been doing last night, the frog formally known as Apothecary Gary asked Hop Pop, "Hey, buddy. Do you know where I live?"

"Nope. Sorry, Gary."

The frog gave him a strange look. "Gary? My name is Lloyd."

As Lloyd left, Hop Pop winced when he heard five voices say, "AHEM!" He turned around to see Anne, Sprig, Polly, Johan and Ivy glaring at him.

"What's this JoJo was telling us? About how you sprayed brainwashing mushroom juices on our heads?" asked Anne.

Hop Pop sighed, knowing it was time to fess up. "I know. No matter how important my ship was, it didn't give me the right to use mind control on you."

"Uh, no," said Anne.

"You think?!" shouted Polly.

"Heck naw," said Sprig.

"I'm gonna have nightmares because of you," snapped Ivy.

Then Anne admitted, "But I guess we're sorry too. Looks like we pushed you pretty far. We'll try to be better about listening to you in the future."

Hop Pop chuckled. "Yeah. I guess we're even."

"Hop Pop, we broke a model ship," pointed out Polly. "You crossed all kinds of ethical and moral lines!"

"Like I said, even."

"How the hell are you even?!" snapped Johan. "You'll collecting your pension by the time you're done making this up to us!"

Hop Pop stared. "I have pension? Never mind. Now come on. I'll make y'all some mushroom soup."

"MUDA!" DARE appeared and punched Hop Pop in the face, sending him flying.

"What the heck, dude?" exclaimed Sprig.

Johan smashed his fist into a wall and shouted, "NO! NO MUSHROOMS!" He stopped when he realized what he was doing. He calmed down, cleared his throat and said, "No thanks. I'll have tomato soup instead."

"You mean the deadly killer plants?" asked Polly as they left the barn.

"Hey, killer plants is better than mind controlling mushrooms," Johan said with a shrug.

"He's got a point," said Anne.

Meanwhile, back in the barn, a beetle walked by and feasted on the spores splattered on the wall. Its eyes began to glow purple...