A/N: And finally, the moment you have all waited for: the crossover story that is, "The Amphibia House: Coven of Witches, Frogs, & Frontiers"! And since it's a crossover, it'd be very similar to a mix of both 3rd seasons. As for whatever happened to Luz and Amity, you might as well be shocked at what happened. Or not, but just as concerned. Also, sorry for the 10-day-long wait. It was meant to be released earlier, but I needed to go into detail over how would it go. If there were a few things, I missed, or needed to help make sense on, please notify me and I will take care of it. Otherwise, enjoy.
The Amphibia House: Coven of Witches, Frogs, & Frontiers
Chapter 1: The New Normal
Act I
Everything was black. Suddenly, King's voice was then heard.
"Luz, I'm so happy I had you as a big sister.", King spoke fondly.
Then, Amity's voice was heard as well.
"King, on three. One...", Amity began.
"Two...", King began before he inhaled deeply and...
"Fly, you fools.", Mithril urged.
"WEH!", Amity and King shouted, using their sonic shout and causing Boscha, Selena, Ellie, Maura, Evander, Willow, Gus, Luke, Lucia, Caleb, Sophia, Belos, Camila, Anne, Sasha, Marcy, Jackie, Rose, Allison, Pat, Max, Alexis, and their triplets to get knocked into the portal and Human Realm altogether, dropping the box, which emitted a bright light, closing the portal.
After being transported, they all woke up and groaned. Very soon, they all got up and turned to notice a family in one of the few cars they all landed on.
"What the...?!", Polly puzzled in surprise.
The family was quite paralyzed, although the father took a photo of them. Everyone looked around as they were shown to have ended up on Earth in the middle of a dark, stormy night. Hop Pop even gasped while looking at the cars.
"What the?!", Hop Pop shouted before an airplane flew above everyone, making Sprig scream and point at the plane.
"Oh, my frog! What is that thing?!", Sprig shouted before it even showed a tall "air dancer" in front of a car dealership.
"What is THAT thing?!", Polly shouted, pointing at the tall "air dancer".
"Ah! Boiling rain!", Maura shouted before, after a moment, she opened her eyes cautiously as the rain fell.
"Huh? No way. Rain that doesn't burn?", Maura spoke in surprise as Ellie grinned for her.
"What is this place?", Hop Pop asked.
"It looks like we're back on Earth.", Camila said.
"But so much has changed since I last saw it... What is this place on Earth, really?", Belos asked, stunned.
"Home...", Anne, Sasha, Marcy, and their respective siblings responded.
"This is your world, guys? It's so... loud.", Sprig commented, covering his ears.
"Hey! Get off my car!", a driver shouted.
"AH! That's because we're on the freeway! Let's move!", Jackie shouted, worried, before everyone got off.
They ran away from the freeway before stopping in an alley, exhausted.
"Wait... Could this be...?", Lilith began.
"Hold up, let's all check.", Eda panted before she and everyone turned and saw a group of buildings, lit only by lightning amidst the pounding rain.
"Yep. This is the human realm, all right.", Eda said.
Most of them were impressed as Sprig fell over, feeling the rain touch his skin.
"Are we dreaming?", Sasha asked.
"Are we really back home?", Marcy added,
"There's only one way to be sure.", Anne said before she checked her cell phone.
Where it said "No Service", it suddenly switched to 5G. Immediate joy washed over Anne, Sasha, and Marcy's faces as well as their siblings, the 2nd youngest of which gasped.
"WE'RE HOOOOOOOOME...!", the Boonchuys, Waybrights, and Wus shouted with their voices raised with an echo just as a flock of pigeons transitioned it to a distant view of Downtown Los Angeles.
Minutes later, Anne was leading everybody with Frobo's head nestled in her backpack. Eda glanced over to Hop Pop.
"Here. Kid suggested that we give this one back. Figured now was as good a time as any since... you know.", Eda suggested, handing Hop Pop his wallet back, making him gasp with widened eyes.
"That's my wallet!", Hop Pop said before realizing something.
"Wait a minute. Did you take this the last time we met?", Hop Pop asked.
"Lucky for you, this had nothing in it but a bunch of I.O.U.'s in it when I nabbed it, so I had no use for it.", Eda said.
"Wow. So, this is what the human realm's like?", Amiyah asked.
"Not always, but yeah. And we should know. We lived there almost all our lives.", Lucia responded.
"I still can't believe how harmless the rain is.", Lilith grinned.
"Neither can I.", Nathan agreed.
"Yes, it's quite a surprise, isn't it?", Tibren asked.
"In more ways than one.", Alex agreed, looking to Kroscha, who giggled as the rain dripped on her.
"That tickles.", Kroscha giggled.
Polly jumped twice and did a flying kick.
"Legs! Legs!", Polly shouted eagerly.
"Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! What is this thing? What are these? Buttons! Buttons everywhere!", Sprig shouted in shock as he opened the mailbox, drew all the letters out, and even jumped to a pedestrian button and pressed it many times.
As for Ivy, she was just as enamored with everything else.
"No way! Are those homes?! Or are they bunkers?", Ivy puzzled.
But then, he looked at a fly and gasped. Sprig tried to jump towards the fly, but wound up stuck in a small drain.
"Aw, no! Sprig!", Ivy shouted in worry.
"HELP! This dungeon smells awful!", Sprig shouted before Hop Pop lifted him up.
"Careful, boy. There's no telling what dangers lurk in this world. So what's our next move? I mean, so much has happened. Do you think Luz's-?", Hop Pop began.
"Don't! Just... don't.", Sophia spoke sadly.
"She's alive, Hop Pop. She's just gotta be.", Anne said sadly, looking at her cell phone.
"How? The last time we saw her, our own sister was stabbed through the heart! STABBED! THROUGH! THE HEART!", Luke shouted.
"No one could survive an attack like that...! And for all we know..., Luz is dead because of Andrias!", Lucia added.
This caused everyone to get even more sad than before as Gus began to break down, crying.
"Quite the charmer, aren't you?", Grime sneered with sarcasm.
"Not another word out of you, toad!", Luke hissed angrily.
"That's enough! Fighting with each other isn't going to get us anywhere.", Belos said, stopping the fight.
"The old man's right. And one thing's for sure, we gotta find a way back.", Anne urged.
"YEAH!", Polly shouted eagerly.
"Alright!", Sprig agreed.
"Sounds like a plan.", Hop Pop grinned.
"Ditto.", Grime agreed.
"But before we do any of that, first things first.", Jackie said before stopping.
Anne and her siblings stopped, too, causing the Plantars, Sundews, and toads to collide with her. As for the Waybrights and Wus, they turned to the front towards a house.
"Fellas, is this...?", Felicia asked.
"Our house...", Rose replied.
"Wow... I can't believe it's been a while since we hung out here, Anne.", Marcy said.
"This is really happening. We're gonna see our parents...", Jackie spoke, a bit teary-eyed.
Sasha and her siblings all gave a worried, concerned look, prompting Anne and the others to notice this.
"What's wrong?", Jackie asked.
"It's just that... looking at this old place reminds me of my own home.", Sasha said sadly.
"A lot of... bad things happened in there...", Allison added.
"Uh-huh...", Pat added, just as sad.
"Aw... I'm so sorry to hear that.", Rose said, hugging Pat.
"So... it's too early to call them 'Mom' and 'Dad', right?", Sprig asked.
"Uh-huh.", Rose nodded.
"Should I call them 'Mr. and Mrs. Boonchuy'? Are they tongue-shake people?", Sprig asked, sticking out his tongue.
"Uh, I think it's safe to assume that they aren't tongue-shake people.", Boscha responded.
But Anne walked to a black-colored garbage can and opened the lid.
"Okay... you three should probably hide in here for the time being. I wanna ease them into all of this slowly. And when the time is right, I'll signal, 'Caw caw!' DO NOT come out until you hear that.", Anne urged.
"But what about the rest of us?", Grime asked.
"Try the ceiling. Or better yet, the backyard. It's better. But make sure no one sees, or hears you from inside the house until we give the all-clear, okay?", Jackie asked.
While the Plantars were hiding in the garbage and recycling cans as Anne left Frobo in the garbage can, the rest went to the backyard with Eda providing a lift for anyone too small to climb over.
"Eh, that's not the worst place I hid in.", Eda commented.
Then, they went straight home, but stopped suddenly.
"Oh... And I'm not gonna tell them I plan to go back and stop Andrias. Or that Andrias betrayed us. Or that he used us. Or that we basically doomed the multiverse. And not A WORD about our weird glowing powers.", Anne spoke before inhaling.
"Wow... There's a lot going on...", Anne inhaled.
"You can count on us, Anne.", Hop Pop said.
Anne and her siblings and friends then walked toward her home.
"Don't worry, Frobs. We'll fix you up in no time. Anne's world is full of advanced technology.", assured Polly as she took Frobo and looked at him.
But a furby-like doll behind Polly began to short circuit and break, a small flame starting on its head.
Then, Rose turned to the seed of Stumpy that she brought with her.
"I'll bring you back someday, Stumpy. I promise.", Rose vowed, a tear falling out of her eye before it landed on the seed.
Anne and Jackie both stood in front of the front door and took deep breaths.
"Okay... Here we go.", Anne spoke as she and her siblings, as well as Sasha, Marcy, and their own, turned back into humans.
Inside Anne's house, a picture of Anne, Jackie, Rose, and their triplets with both their parents was shown, panning out to reveal the interior of the house. Mrs. Boonchuy was stirring something with a sad look on her face when suddenly, she heard someone knocking on the door.
"I'm coming. I'm coming.", Mrs. Boonchuy spoke before opening the door and gasping at quite the sight: Anne and her sisters, and brother, at the door.
"Hi, Mom.", Anne greeted.
"We're back...", Jackie added.
Mrs. Boonchuy was shocked and dropped the bowl. Like that, she emotionally hugged Anne and Jackie while Rose hugged Mrs. Boonchuy with a squeak.
"Hi, Mom.", Rose greeted.
Inside, Mr. Boonchuy and Mr. Waybright left the kitchen to see the source of the commotion.
"What was that noise? Everything OK?", Mr. Boonchuy asked.
"Daddy!", Anne, Jackie, Rose, Andy, Danny, and Lily shouted.
Mr. Boonchuy was startled with tears of joy.
"Anne? Jackie? Rose? Andy? Danny? Lily?! YOU'RE ALL BACK!", Mr. Boonchuy shouted before hugging them.
"You're all safe.", Mr. Boonchuy grinned.
Just then, a meow was heard below the Boonchuys, making Anne gasp.
"Domino! Come here, my precious baby!", Anne cooed as Domino walked up and nuzzled Anne's legs before she picked him up.
"Wait. Is that...?", Sasha began before she and her siblings, as well as the Wus, widened their eyes from seeing none other than...
"Mom?! Dad?!", Marcy shouted.
"Dad?!", Sasha shouted at the same time.
"SWEETHEART!", Mrs. Wu shouted.
"PUMPKIN!", Mr. Waybright and Mr. Wu shouted.
Then, both rushed to their respective children and hugged them.
"Thank heavens, you're safe!", Mrs. Wu beamed.
"Of course we all are, Mom.", Marcy grinned.
"Where have you all been? Are you OK? Are you hurt? Have you eaten? Your hair is a mess.", Mrs. Boonchuy said, pulling one of the leaves out of Anne's hair.
"It's a really... really long story.", Anne sighed as Rose got out her seed sadly.
"Wait. Is that a seed?", Mrs. Boonchuy asked.
"Did you get that from another world or something?", Mr. Boonchuy added.
"It's not just some seed. It belonged to a friend of mine. Before he...", Rose tearfully replied with sniffles before stopping as it was too painful for her to finish.
"Like I said. A really really long story.", Anne reiterated.
"I'd better call and tell her the good news.", Mr. Boonchuy said, rushing to the phone.
"Call and tell who?", Jackie asked.
"Your mom, of course.", Mr. Waybright replied, making Sasha and her siblings gasp in surprise.
"Our... Mom?!", Sasha asked.
Then, Mr. Boonchuy called over the phone.
"Listen, you are not gonna believe what just happened back home.", Mr. Boonchuy said excitedly.
But as the call went on, he suddenly dropped into fear and concern for her.
"What? A-Are you okay? Did something just break?! Okay, maybe I called at a bad time.", Mr. Boonchuy said before hanging up.
"What's wrong?", Allison asked.
"I... I don't know. I never heard her so panicked before. And I'm pretty sure I heard angry yelling somewhere.", Mr. Boonchuy said, making the Waybrights gasp in horror.
"Uh, what kind of yelling was it?", Marcy asked.
"Very aggressive yelling. Something like, 'Come back here! I'm not finished with you!'. Like he's either threatening someone or in some kind of big fight.", Mr. Boonchuy responded.
This angered the Waybrights to the point that they went Calamity mode as their hair perked up while turning pink and their eyes turned pink with black pupils, much to the parents' surprise.
"We have to go back!", Sasha shouted angrily.
Play Brad Breeck Music: "Jean Jacket End Sequence"
With that, they all bolted out of the Boonchuys' house quickly and took off.
"Sasha, wait!", Anne shouted.
"You just all got back!", Mr. Waybright shouted.
But they didn't listen. They just made a beeline straight to their old house. This left Luke and Lucia puzzled.
"You think they need some help, Luke?", Lucia asked.
"Don't know. All I DO know is that I hate monsters who scare the living daylights out of innocent people.", Luke growled.
"Good thing you're not the only one.", Lucia said.
"You just got the kids back, Mr. Waybright... You are NOT losing them again!", Mr. Waybright shouted before he got in his car and drove off after them, not knowing that Luke and Lucia had already hitched a ride on top of the car roof.
But Maura noticed.
"Now, this one? I gotta see. Come on, Ellie, let's watch.", Maura said, dragging Ellie with her.
Even with how fast the kids went, he knows the way to the house. After all, he used to live here. Regardless, the Waybright kids arrived and saw a horrific sight with a gasp.
"Either you break the news to them that you're not coming, or I break you!", the man threatened, angering Sasha to the point of growling and about to charge in to attack only for Allison to stop her.
"No...!", Allison whispered, stopping her.
"Look.", Allison added, pointing to the door.
Judging by the fact it was left open, she must've tried leaving recently, but in the midst of the fight going on, he forgot all about it. This gave Sasha an idea as she adopted a smirk and turned to Allison with a nod. With that, as the one-sided fight continued, Sasha cautiously opened the door enough to not be heard and snuck up behind the man.
"You have three seconds to swear you'll tell them you're not coming or I'm gonna see to that myself! Three... Two...! One!", the man threatened, stretching out his fist to strike the poor, malnourished woman, only to get tapped in the shoulder by Sasha.
"Hey.", Sasha greeted, prompting the man to turn to see her.
"Hey.", the man replied back as he looked back for a moment.
But afterwards, he widened his eyes and realized who he just saw and turned back just in time to be punched in the cheek, sending him to the wall.
"Who's the piece of garbage now, garbage?!", Sasha berated.
Hearing this, let alone seeing what has transpired right in front of her, Mrs. Waybright was shocked, if not surprised and relieved.
"Sasha...? Is that you?", Mrs. Waybright asked before Sasha turned to see her.
"Hey, Mom...", Sasha greeted.
"You're back! Thank goodness! I thought I'd never see you again.", Mrs. Waybright sobbed as she broke down in tears while hugging her.
"You kidding? I didn't think we'd see you again.", Sasha grinned before realizing her current state.
"And by the looks of it, just in time.", Sasha said.
At that moment, Mr. Waybright saw quite the sight. Not only did he see Sasha comforting Mrs. Waybright, but also Allison and Pat already dealing with the abusive attacker, who was barely able to recover from her punch, not knowing that Luke and Lucia were seeing this, too.
"How's this for a stupid, little kid, huh?", Pat glared before poking him in the eyes.
"How's this for a good-for-nothing goody-toe-shoes?!", Allison shouted before she rammed into his stomach with her head.
"Stand down, guys. He's mine.", Sasha said, cracking her knuckles.
A bit nervous, he could only laugh proudly as an act to mask his fear.
"That's awful big talk for a garbage sissy like you!", the attacker mocked.
"Hey, I'm serious. Unless you're scared I can actually take you.", Sasha dared with a smirk.
Spurned by her dare, the attacker stood up.
"Suit yourself, girly. It just means you're gonna suffer slower.", the attacker spoke.
But then, the moment he pounced on Sasha, she pounced on him, the two clasping hands with each other. He pushed hard in an attempt to overpower her. At that moment, however, Sasha finally made her move to overpower him quickly and shove him into a wall. That angered him and prompted him to strike only to miss and hit the wall as she dodged and went behind him with lightning speed.
"What the...?!", the attacker exclaimed right before she kicked him by the side toward the ground.
As soon as Sasha caught up, the attacker struck her in the gut, pushing her toward the ground, much to everyone's worry.
"Sasha!", Allison and Pat shouted.
The abusive attacker then brushed off his wounds, walked up to Sasha, and tightened his grip on her throat. Despite this, though, Sasha was not willing to quit so much as looking toward his wrists on her throat.
"You know, you got guts thinking you can take me on. But this ends now.", the abusive attacker smirked.
However, she caught onto his wrists and started pulling them away from her throat.
"Oh, yeah...! That's what you think...!", Sasha said, pulling them away from her throat.
But just as they were halfway off her throat, a sudden voice called out.
"HEY!", Mr. Waybright shouted, puzzling both Sasha and the attacker.
"Huh?", Sasha puzzled.
"What?", the attacker puzzled.
"STAY AWAY FROM MY KIDS AND MY WIFE, YOU MONSTER!", Mr. Waybright roared vehemently right before he decked him in the other cheek, forcing him to let go of Sasha completely.
Stop Brad Breeck Music: "Jean Jacket End Sequence"
Sasha sat up with a gasp, not only due to the fact that she can breathe again, but also at the stunt her own father pulled. In fact, even Mrs. Waybright was impressed as her eyes glimmered like stars.
"So awesome...!", Pat gasped like an excited geek.
The man of the house took a moment to calm down and turned to his wife.
"Laura, are you okay?", Mr. Waybright asked.
"Oh, Travis... Thank you.", Laura thanked.
"Aw. Our family's back together again.", Sasha grinned.
When the attacker recovered, he was infuriated if not afraid! To think that he'd be beaten not only by those Waybright kids, but also by their own father who once turned his back on them! Furious, he got out his gun and trained it on Travis.
"You just made a big mistake! All of you! Now here's the plan. I'm gonna waste your hubbie and your kids, and then, I'm gonna mess up your face and lock you in my basement!", the abusive attacker threatened, not knowing that as he was saying this plan, Luke and Lucia were starting to turn feral with rage and hatred, their bodies beginning to turn furry with their hands beginning to turn skeletal and claw-like.
But Sasha noticed and was surprised at first, to say the least, before she smirked to the attacker.
"You wanna do that, go ahead. But if you do that, you won't have a shot left for those two.", Sasha spoke boldly.
"Say what now?", the attacker puzzled before suddenly, his gun wound up bent toward the ceiling.
"What the...?!", the attacker said before turning to see a livid and furry Luke and Lucia.
"You have caused ENOUGH suffering for EVERYONE with your TITAN-DARNED ABUSE! So, here's a better plan. We kill you and you DIE!", Luke shouted as he drew his claws, bore his fangs, and opened his feral, beastly eyes.
Much to the attacker's horror, he saw them growing larger, furrier, and no longer human. It was like they transformed into werewolves! That is, except for the fact that they had canine-like skulls on their heads with horns and skeletal claws on their hands and lower paws. What's more, instead of howling, they just roared with a mighty gust, scaring the attacker into screaming and trying to flee. But given their massive fury, it was all in vain. In no time, when they caught up, they did NOT hold back. At ALL. In fact, they tore him to shreds with their claws, not knowing that in the commotion, as they were savagely brutalizing him like beasts to their hearts' content, a neighboring witness saw the sheer horror that was unfolding right next door. Maura and Ellie watched from outside and while Ellie was terrified, Maura was ecstatic with laughter.
"Yeah, maul him!", Maura spoke giddily, prompting a glare from Ellie.
"What?", Maura shrugged.
The Waybrights, however, were terrified. Only Sasha was concerned as the attacker's cries of pain have finally died out, drowned out by the beastly growls and grunts of the half titans before she stepped in and shouted to them.
"Stop it, guys! He's already down!", Sasha shouted.
But the primal half Titans only turned toward Sasha and roared, preparing to attack her with their raised claws, too! Before they could, though, Sasha slapped them in the cheeks, snapping them out just enough to calm down.
"Huh? Sasha?", Luke asked.
"Uh, yeah. It's already over, dude. Plus, you scared the heck out of us with that!", Sasha responded, gesturing to her family, which was now terrified, the triplets even crying a bit.
This was enough to make Luke and Lucia sad as they hung their heads down a bit.
"Sorry, Sasha. It's just... What he did, it was...", Lucia began.
"I know. And we've been on his receiving end for weeks before Amphibia, trust me. But sometimes, you gotta know when to hold back.", Sasha responded.
Neither Luke nor Lucia liked that, but for the sake of the Waybrights, who were terrified by what they did, they took a deep breath with Luke answering.
"We'll try to remember that.", Luke responded.
"Okay.", Sasha said before turning back to normal.
"Well, let's get out of here.", Sasha said.
The Waybrights nodded and they all left the house. But as they did, the witness decided to get out a house phone and dial 3 numbers before a call picked up.
"Hello, you dialed 9 1 1. What's your emergency?", the operating voice asked.
"Hello? We need to get some help.", the witness responded.
Meanwhile, the Waybrights were now in the car, accompanied by Luke and Lucia, now in human form, as they were also leaving the household.
"Wow, Dad. I can't believe you decked him in the other cheek!", Sasha spoke, thrilled.
Just then, Travis' phone rang before he tapped on the center screen in-between him and a malnourished Laura.
"Hello?", Travis asked.
"Hey, did you get them back?", Liu asked.
"Yeah. But not without taking care of something that needed to be done.", Travis responded.
"Is Laura okay?", Liu asked.
"No. She's deathly terrified and malnourished. We need to get her to the hospital immediately.", Travis responded.
"Okay... We'll all be here soon.", assured Liu.
"Thanks, Liu. I appreciate that.", Travis thanked as Sasha sadly turned to her injured, malnourished mother.
Play Seven Deadly Sins Grand Cross Music: "Seven Constellations"
Later, at the hospital, half of everyone was in the same room as Laura was now in a hospital bed, the witches' palismen keeping Laura company in said bed, especially Cotton.
"How are you doing now, honey?", Travis asked.
"A lot better now that I'm safe and away from that man.", Laura responded, a cast now in her right arm and also in her left leg.
"Mew...", Cotton squeaked.
"Aw... You're so adorable...", Laura beamed, petting Cotton.
After a moment, Pat spoke up.
"We're so sorry, Mom.", Pat apologized.
This puzzled Laura as Pat started tearing up.
"If we hadn't left you for 5 months, you wouldn't be here right now...", Pat said.
"It was just so hard living with the divorce... I know it wasn't, but it felt like it was our fault...!", Allison said, starting to sob.
"Because of that, I felt like I had to take charge, but.. I almost ended up being a bully to my friends...!", Sasha added.
Very soon, she, Allison, and Pat all sobbed before huggin Laura, much to her surprise.
"WE JUST MISSED THINGS THE WAY THEY WERE! WE DON'T WANNA BE SEPARATED ANYMORE!", Sasha sobbed.
"Oh sweetheart, what happened to me and your father was never your fault. If anything, it was our fault. We didn't try hard enough to be a loving family. We were too busy with work. Too busy to get together. Let alone even be a family. That wasn't healthy. So, we thought he had to divorce. For your sakes... But I never thought things would turn out this way.", Laura responded.
This only made Sasha tear up more and then rest her head in her mother's chest while sobbing.
"MOMMY!", Sasha sobbed as Laura hugged her with her siblings and father returning the gesture for Sasha as well while everyone else watched with happy smiles and/or tears.
"Don't worry, Honey. We're here now, and we'll never be separated again.", Travis assured.
Hearing this, Sasha nodded with sad tears of joy and wiped them off, calming down. But suddenly, a news alert popped up on television.
"This is LA News, Channel 7, coming at you live on your television! There is total uncertainty in this stormy night tonight as a man named Jeff Bigalow, notorious for his crimes of theft, as well as crimes of domestic abuse, was viciously attacked and has later died of his wounds.", the reporter stated.
"Am I the only one here who feels like he had this coming?", Sasha asked before everyone else shook their heads.
"This death has occurred mere minutes after being rushed to the hospital. We now go live on the scene of the attack. John?", the news anchor asked.
"Thank you, Brad. Here I am at the scene at the now vacant Waybright home. Judging by the damage at the house and inside, it was quite an unbelievable scene. And here with me on the scene is the key witness to the incident: this woman, here, who dialed 9-1-1 after the attack was over. So, I understand that you heard some unsettling noises coming from the house tonight.", John stated.
"Yeah. It was bad enough to have to listen to that awful man beat her senselessly every night. But to hear the sounds I heard? That really takes the cake.", the witness responded.
"Really? And what sounds did you hear that alerted you to the household, exactly?", John asked.
"Well, one minute, I was hearing Jeff abuse my neighbor, Laura (really hate that guy for that). And then, the next, I heard a big fight going on. Something about those missing Waybright kids fighting back after 5 months.", the witness said.
"Waybright kids? You mean the same ones that mysteriously disappeared with the Boonchuy kids and the Wu kids 5 months ago?", John asked.
"I couldn't believe it, but they were here. And that's not all. They had pink hair and everything. They were coming at him hard. Really hard.", the witness said.
"So, you're telling me that they did that much fatal damage to the guy?", John asked.
"No. Something else did. Something that wasn't human. Something... different.", the witness responded.
"Hold on. You mean like a werewolf?", John asked.
"Yes. And there were two of them. How else would he have had that many injuries? I think they even had skulls on their heads. And horns, too. Honestly, for a moment, I wasn't even sure what I saw was real for a moment.", the witness explained.
"Let's never speak of this again to anyone other than us.", Travis suggested before they everyone else nodded in agreement.
"You heard it here first, everyone. The scene at the damaged interior of the Waybright house has already instilled weariness in the neighborhood, leaving everyone to wonder who were those two werewolves that have taken the life of one monstrous criminal responsible for this heinous crime of domestic abuse? Were they even human? And where will they strike next?", John said.
End Seven Deadly Sins Grand Cross Music: "Seven Constellations"
3 DAYS LATER
At the park where Anne and her siblings and friends disappeared for 5 months, there were clear, blue skies in broad daylight with everyone giggling and playing happily, or just jogging around. Unbeknownst to everyone, Camila was already casting an invisible barrier so that no one may see them, let alone hear the group's conversation.
"OK... Where was I?", Anne asked.
"The Third Temple?", Sprig asked, raising his hand.
"Right. So, as soon as we charged the last stone, the music box opened a portal that took me back to Earth. But then, a lot of crazy stuff happened when we got to Newtopia. And I do mean a lot.", Anne explained.
"It turns out Andrias, who knew about the box more than us this whole time, was some kind of evil conqueror in cahoots with Melkor, the most ruthless dark lord, this whole time. Not to mention with Nechros, too. Whoever he was.", Jackie added.
"Amphibia and the Boiling Isles all merged together. When they did, we all saw that there was something really bad going on involving the draining spell, but Luz and Amity were able to free someone named the Collector, basically a kid with souped up magical powers, so that he can stop said draining spell.", Sasha added.
"But Melkor wasn't down and out and he tried to control him. In the end, we wound up back here, but the Plantars, Sundews, and toads got sucked into the portal too and now they're stuck here until we find a way to get them home. So yeah... You're pretty much caught up.", Allison said.
Liu and Meiling looked horrified and nonplussed, Liu more so.
"Hold on. Back up. You're telling us there's a whole world of talking frogs called 'Amphibiland' and another of witches called 'the Boiling Isles'?", Liu asked.
"It's actually called 'Amphibia'. Other than that, you're in the ballpark.", Sprig responded.
"You made Larb with maggots? Was it good?", Meiling asked.
"And in the Demon Realm, you all fought some giant newt king named Andrias, who turned out to be evil...", Liu started.
"She punched him in the face.", Sprig said, making Anne laugh nervously.
"Your evil brother, Emperor Nechros who turned into a monster...", Meiling added.
"Monster is an understatement, Mrs. Boonchuy.", Belos sneered.
"Well, he started out human.", Gus explained.
"Right, and then a monstrous, evil Titan named Melkor?", Laura asked, finally looking better and properly nourished.
"The worst one of all.", Caleb responded.
"And don't even get us started on Azog, his orcs, and Melkor's Black Captains.", Sasha added.
"Even in different worlds, we've all tangoed with them before. How do you think we were able to catch Jeff off-guard?", Allison asked.
"Right, but you two tore Nechros to shreds?", Travis asked.
"He had it coming for everything he did to us.", Luke glared darkly.
"Whoa. Really like this edgy vibe going on.", Maura grinned giddily.
"Please don't...", Ellie sighed as she facepalmed herself.
"And after all that, Melkor started controlling a newer, smaller guy?", Henry asked.
"The Collector. And we don't know if he even succeeded in brainwashing him.", Willow explained.
"We'll never know. Just like we'll never know if Luz would even survive after what Andrias did to her...!", Sophia tensed sadly, making Luke and Lucia turn away not just in anger toward Andrias, but also in sadness and grief for Luz.
"The point is, we've all been through a lot. But we did have help. In fact, I think it's time we introduced you to them. Caw caw!", Anne said.
Just then, a few bushes were heard moving, which attracted the Boonchuys', Waybrights', and Wus' attention. First, Hop Pop and Grime came out of their respective bushes.
"Greetings, Boonchuys, Waybrights, and Wus! I am Captain Grime of Toad Tower! And this is my lieutenant, Bombina.", Grime greeted.
"It's nice to make your acquaintance.", Bombina grinned.
"And these are Percy and Braddock.", Grime added.
"Hi, there!", Percy greeted.
"Nice to meet ya.", Braddock added.
"We are the Sundews. I'm Felicia, this is Ivy...", Felicia began.
"Hi.", Ivy waved.
"And this is my mother, Sylvia.", Felicia finished.
"Why, hello, there.", Sylvia waved.
"Uh..., hi.", Laura greeted.
"And we're the Plantars! The lovable frog family Anne's told you all about.", Hop Pop said with a cute face as Sprig and Polly jumped out from the tree branches.
"Hi, Mr. and Mrs. Anne's parents. The name's Sprig Plantar, Anne's best friend and walking-talking frog.", Sprig greeted before a fly appeared and Sprig swallowed it.
Then, he struck an adorable face pose and waved his hands.
"Oh, and this is Hop Pop and my sister, Polly.", Sprig added.
"'Sup.", Polly responded.
"Uh..., 'sup?", Liu greeted.
"And I'm Leif Plantar.", Leif introduced.
"Oh. Uh..., nice to meet you all. I'm Travis Waybright. This is Laura.", Travis introduced.
"I'm Henry Wu.", Henry greeted.
"I'm Lin.", Lin added.
"My name is Liu.", Liu stated.
"And I'm Meiling.", Meiling greeted.
"So, now that we all know each other, here's this really cool thing we learned. Although, just to warn you ahead of time, it may come as a shock.", Anne warned.
"Okay, honey, that's a little too far fetched.", Meiling said.
"Actually...", Anne began.
True to her word, it was indeed shocking as first, Anne, Jackie, and Rose gave longer croak, the bottoms of their chins growing bigger as they now grew twice that size with the blue glow on their chins becoming more prominent with their necks growing longer to help balance out the growth before the croaks stopped. Then, their hands and feet became webby, tearing off her shoes and socks, before the glow from her chin spread all across their body, turning Anne's skin color blue with her body growing as if it was maturing into an adult size in human biology as her neck thickened in width before her chin shrank back to normal with the air in it going straight to her chest, making it bulge out in twice their original size, making it just as bouncy before her butt was the next to grow in size while her legs grew in length before Anne was now turned into a frog girl. As for Jackie and Rose, they went through the same changes Anne did, although for Rose's case, her body didn't really mature, although it certainly changed and while Jackie's skin color was now purple, Rose's was yellow. Even the triplets gave small croaks and became tadpoles with Lily being pink, Andy black and blue-striped, and Danny green.
As for the Waybrights, they all three each gave longer croaks to go along with their groans, the bottom of their chins growing bigger and puffing up until their chins grew to twice the size it was in short croaks. As it happens, the bright crimson glow became more prominent with their necks growing longer to help balance out the growth before the croaks stopped. Then, Sasha started to gain weight as did Allison and Pat. As a matter of fact, the gain progressed until at least Sasha was at the same height as Grime, at which point, the trio's clothes, as well as their armor, had already stretched to properly befit a toad. Then, their hands and feet turned into those of a toads'. After that, their skin not only turned red as the glow from her chin spread all across her body at the same time before it dimmed just as her skin hardened to the point that it felt rough and tough. The same thing happened to their triplets, but very quickly.
In the case of the Wus, their necks just grew longer, giving a usual sound newts on Earth make. They even grew ebbing on their hands and feet before they grew snouts as their skins turned green, blue, purple, bright red, bright orange, and bright yellow respectively while also growing tails and finishing up with their eyes changing to be similar to a newt's.
"It's true.", Anne finished.
Frankly, their families were shocked. Even Liu passed out with Travis catching him in spite of his shock.
"It actually started a day after we started living with the Plantars.", Anne stated.
"It was while living in Toad Tower with Grime for us.", Sasha added, her siblings nodding.
"It was in Newtopia for us.", Marcy said.
"This is a lot to take in. Still, it's a good thing we were eased into it.", Lin said.
"We have to do whatever it takes to get them back home.", Marcy urged.
"And you all will. But for now, you should all rest. You're all safe here.", Lin assured.
Outside the barrier, though, the sludge from Nechros was near the garbage can before it hopped away.
At the basement, Gus, Caleb, and Sophia were settling in as one of them opened up an umbrella.
"Whoa! Guys, look at all this awesome human stuff! ", Gus laughed as he took out some bubble wrap and began to pop it, but when it rolled out, a snow globe fell to the floor and broke.
"Whoops.", Gus said.
"I think it's just 'stuff' here.", Sophia said.
Meiling then came in with some bedsheets.
"It's not much, but I hope you three will be comfortable.", Meiling said.
"We will, Anne's mom!", Gus assured.
Sophia cleared her throat, walked up to her on his knees, and bowed.
"Thank you for providing us with shelter, ma'am.", Sophia thanked.
Meiling backed away.
"Please never do that again. And you can call me 'Meiling'.", Meiling assured, winking.
She then walked up the stairs just as Gus discovered he has popped every bubble with a gasp.
"Aw.", Gus groaned.
In Anne's room, Liu creaked the open the door to peer inside and see Jackie showing Willow and Boscha an alarm clock.
"This is called an alarm clock. See, it tells time. But it gives off a loud beeping sound instead of screaming. For example, let's say you have an alarm set to the morning. In the morning, instead of screaming, it'll do this.", Jackie said, activating the alarm.
But Willow and Boscha gasped in shock.
"Don't worry, Jackie!", Boscha assured.
"We'll keep you safe!", Willow added before she destroyed the alarm with her plant magic.
"Good work! It's dead!", Willow said before she and Boscha bumped elbows.
"Oh, come on! It was just an alarm clock, not a bomb!", Jackie groaned as she looked down at the floor where the hole created by Willow's vine is.
Liu then closed the door with a shocked face.
"I guess I'll figure that out later.", Liu said.
Then, just as Meiling joined up, she and Liu looked down the hallway and saw Anne looking sadly at the photo of her, her siblings, and her family.
"Mom, I... I know we shouldn't have left. We never meant to get you and the others so worried, but we were trying to find a way back home, and...", Anne began before she got cut off by Meiling and Liu hugging her.
"Hey. Hey. We'll have time to talk later.", Liu assured.
"We're just so happy you're all home.", Meiling said.
"Yeah. We're home.", Anne said before looking at Willow and Boscha inside Jackie's room, the latter comforting the former as she undid her braids.
"But they're not.", Anne said.
The next day...
A montage occurred of time passing with the following events: the witches and amphibians found an old shack and started refurbishing it and setting up portal schematics, with some difficulty.
At home, Anne even put together a video showcasing the time she spent with Sasha, including, most recently, the night before everything went down, and showed it to her mother, who happily accepted her and Sasha's relationship as she hugged both of them while the witches celebrated using their magic. Luke and Lucia, however, just sulked sadly, away from everyone, not as happy.
Nevertheless, they and their friends get new clothes later at a clothing store.
In their separate homes, though, the Boonchuy, Waybright, and Wu parents started to undergo their own transformations the way their own kids did.
The sight of this shocked and scared them enough to attract Anne, Sasha, Marcy, and their siblings' attention. Much to their appreciation, they help their parents figure out their way with their current forms enough to get used to them, especially since they were now also able to turn back to normal just like them. In the meantime, Caleb and Sophia, upon seeing the mirror, both had mental breakdowns of varying degrees with Sophia faring worse than him as she was reminded not just of her namesake (which was her late Aunt), as well as Nechros, but also of her own curse, desperate to cut out her hair to avoid this as Caleb was taken aback upon being reminded of Nechros as well. At that moment, Willow came in and helped comfort the two while cutting their hair, too, which they appreciated.
Back at the shack, when the gang attempted to test a portal, it briefly breached the In-Between Realm before exploding, which depressed Luke and Lucia even more.
Boscha, Gus, Willow, Caleb, Sophia, Eda, Lilith, Nathan, Tibren, Alex, and the younger Blight siblings offer Camila some Demon Realm cuisine much to Liu and Meiling's shock and disgust. In response, they offered their own cuisine instead. Hesitant, they tried it and quickly became very impressed, even sharing some with the frogs and toads, who were just as enamored with it.
Luke and Lucia only sulked away again as Anne and the others showed everyone the non-boiling rain with Willow taking an interest in photography.
Later, Camila went in their "rooms" only to see the window open as well as a list of bad people that they apparently drew, which worried her as the very first one was literally scratched out with a claw mark while the rest just had X's next to the names, of which there are 23 in total, now, soon to be 24 as, at that point, in half titan form, they followed a robber who had just stolen a woman's purse, also noticing what was happening to the woman, who was suffering from asthma before she collapsed, angering the two half Titans before they tore across the city, searching for the criminal. The criminal was joyous for his successful steal only to get caught off-guard by the 2 angry half Titans, which frightened him. He screamed in terror right before they roared and pounced with a slash.
Some time after that, they all attended Travis and Laura getting remarried together. But even at this happy moment, Luke and Lucia did not budge. Not even when Rose was out tending to the seed she planted in the ground one night when suddenly, her more down-to-earth pumpkin came to life, much to her surprise and joy as while Stumpy pounced and licked her, the two only glared and turned away from the sight. Luke and Lucia's depression got worse to the point that they made a makeshift mural for Luz and then left the room, but not before setting a list down on Lucia's bed. Then, the screen began to fizz out before then showing a blue screen with pixels and lines surrounding the Amphibia House logo, only this time, it had "Coven of Witches, Frogs, & Frontiers" below it, forming the full logo before the screen fizzed out again and cut to black.
The Amphibia House: Coven of Witches, Frogs, & Frontiers
Act II
The same night, Anne, Sasha, Marcy, Jackie, Allison, and Max were looking up which colleges to go to.
"Ugh! We're running out of time, guys. We gotta choose someplace for school.", Marcy said.
"Yeah, but should I stay local or go abroad? Trade school? Art school? Gah, I can't decide!", Anne exclaimed.
"Well, there's Kjobstaad Academy. Great physics department, Norway.", Max said.
"Hmm...not sure if we feel ready for those cold winters.", Anne refused.
"And we are practically amphibians now, so that's saying something.", Sasha added.
"Okay. How about Comedy Traffic School?", Allison asked.
"Well, looks like I have some thinkin' to do.", Anne said as Luke and Lucia passed by them
Meanwhile, Boscha, Gus, Caleb, Sophia, Camila, Vee, Maura, Evander, Ellie, Selena, their younger siblings, Dolly, and Willow were hanging out together downstairs. Willow took a picture while everyone else looked down at a tablet, all trilling r's.
"Am I doing this right?", Gus mumbled.
"Tres tristes tigres comen en tres tristes platos de trigo.", Vee said, translating to, "Three sad tigers eat from three sad wheat dishes."
"Perfecto! You're our top student!", the top student said.
"Hmm. You know, Amity was the top student once.", Boscha said before Flapjack and Mordecai began pecking at the table.
"What the...? Stop it. Not now. You two can do that later.", Sophia said.
"They're still doing that, huh?", Ellie asked.
"They won't tell us what they're looking for.", Caleb explained.
Just then, Luke and Lucia arrived downstairs with Camila turning to see them.
"Oh, there you two are. Want to... talk over class?", Camila asked.
"Can't. We're going out.", Lucia responded.
"Going where, exactly?", Camila asked, starting to get worried.
"Going out.", Luke responded as he and Lucia opened the door and were already heading out.
This was where Camila put on a stern face and had to put her foot down.
"Could it have anything to do with this list?", Camila asked, holding out the list she found earlier, much to Luke and Lucia's shock.
"Where did you get that...?!", Luke glared.
"I found it in your room one night. I know what you two have been doing all this time.", Camila said.
"So what if you do?", Lucia glared.
"How long have you two been doing this behind my back?", Camila asked.
"Long enough for scum to know we won't tolerate what they're doing to innocent people and are not to be trifled with!", Luke responded.
"So, that makes what you're doing fine?!", Camila retorted.
"They left us no choice! If they continued doing what they wanted, more innocent people would've paid the price for it!", Lucia snapped.
"All while those scum walk away free! We can't accept that! We WON'T accept that!", Luke added.
"Okay, guys. Why don't we all just calm down and...", Sasha began, laughing a bit nervously.
"YOU STAY OUT OF THIS!", Luke and Lucia snapped to Sasha.
Little did they know that their shout attracted the attention of Rose and Stumpy.
"Huh? What's going on?", Rose puzzled.
Stumpy turned to her in worry. Naturally, they went downstairs to see what was going on.
"What do you expect us to do, Mom?! Luz is gone! And what's worse, despite being stable, Lia, Della, and Masa could barely move more than a few inches since the Draining Spell!", Luke shouted.
"That abusive man was one thing, but attacking 23 other people?!", Camila said.
"They were all criminals! Scumbags! Monsters who deserved what was coming to them for all the harm they've done!", Lucia shouted.
"Doing all this isn't going to bring Luz back! And it's certainly not what she would've wanted either!", Camila only responded.
But this only angered Luke and Lucia as their eyes suddenly got bloodshot.
"JUST SHUT UP!", Luke and Lucia shouted right before slamming the door on Camila, almost knocking off its hinges.
While it was a shock to everyone nearby as they gasped while the babies cried, Camila was the most shocked out of all of them. She never saw them snap like that, let alone at her.
"Whoa. THAT was heavy.", Anne said.
"Awkward...", Marcy commented.
Unable to take all of it in, Camila could only start to tear up just as Rose, frightened as she was, went over to her with Stumpy coming along.
"Mrs. Noceda, are you okay?", Rose asked.
In response, Camila only fell down on her knees, sobbing, much to her worry.
"I've lost one of my babies already, and now I'm losing two more...?! Why did this have to happen?", Camila sobbed.
Everyone that heard and/or saw the argument went to Camila and hugged her.
"It's not your fault, Camila. It never was.", assured Belos.
As Camila continued sobbing, Rose and Stumpy sadly turned to each other.
Later, Camila was in the bathroom by herself facing the mirror, her eyes red from crying earlier. Of course, she didn't know that Leif was waiting nearby outside of the door.
"Tell me, Andrias...! Are you happy now?! You have destroyed everything and hurt everyone I love and cherish...! I don't know why you think torturing me like this will give you any solace, but I will NEVER forgive you for taking Luz away from us...! If it's the last thing I ever do, I will make you pay!", Camila vowed before angrily punching the mirror, shattering it into pieces with a shout.
For a few moments, she panted before looking up at the mirror she broke and moving her fist away.
"Aaaand now, we need a new mirror.", Camila said.
Then, as soon as Camila opened the door and got out, she went back to her room.
"Oh, poor Snaga... Why did you have to hurt us like this, Andrias? When will you realize? The more you take and destroy, the less enjoyment, you'd actually have.", Leif said sadly to herself.
At that point, Camila suddenly heard Rose clearing her throat before she looked down and saw her and Stumpy.
"Rose? Stumpy? What are you two doing up so late?", Camila asked.
In response, Rose only held out a small rosebud flower.
"Here.", Rose grinned, surprising Camila, before giving it to her.
Touched, Camila sniffed at the flower and teared up again, but this time, with happy tears, before kneeling down and hugging Rose with Stumpy joining in.
"Mucho gracias, Rose...", Camila grinned, her happy tears streaming down as Rose giggled.
Meanwhile, in Amphibia, the flying castle of King Andrias is seen on a storm of thunder and heavy downpour, guarded by numerous Frobots with ominous glowing red visors. Inside, the Calamity Box is in view, broadcasting what's currently going on in the human world, much to Andrias' dark smirk, if not laughter as he was watching Luke and Lucia slam the door on Camila.
"Doing all this isn't going to bring Luz back! And it's certainly not what she would've wanted either!", Camila only responded.
But this only angered Luke and Lucia as their eyes suddenly got bloodshot.
"JUST SHUT UP!", Luke and Lucia shouted right before slamming the door on Camila, almost knocking off its hinges.
This made Andrias laugh hysterically.
"That's the best show I've ever seen! Hey, you, can you play that back?", Andrias asked.
"Sure thing, big guy!", a mysterious visitor said before snapping her fingers, causing it to rewind back to the crucial point in the video.
"JUST SHUT UP!", Luke and Lucia shouted right before slamming the door on Camila, almost knocking off its hinges.
Andrias laughed at the sight of the scene again before the mysterious visitor spoke up again.
"Look, Dreyas. It's even funnier in slow motion!", the mysterious visitor spoke before snapping again, this time, playing the clip in slow motion and making Andrias laugh harder.
"Stop it, stop it. My cheeks hurt...!", Andrias laughed.
"ENOUGH! We have more pressing issues to deal with then this childishness.", the mysterious voice said.
"Relax. Snaga's heart has been broken by her own son and daughter. By the look of things, they're already starting to see things our way.", Andrias grinned.
Suddenly, the gems started flashing brighter than usual.
"What?", Andrias asked.
"It appears her spirit is the only thing that isn't.", another mysterious voice said.
"Let's patch it through. Wonder what this is about.", Andrias said before it then broadcast Camila in the bathroom.
"So, we meet again, Snaga. Wait, what place are you in right now? A bathroom, or something?", Andrias puzzled.
"Tell me, Andrias...! Are you happy now?! You have destroyed everything and hurt everyone I love and cherish...!", Camila said angrily.
"Uh, doy! That's what you get for betraying me all those years ago. I thought that was clear. Wasn't that clear?", Andrias asked.
"I don't know why you think torturing me like this will give you any solace, but I will NEVER forgive you for taking Luz away from us...!", Camila continued angrily.
"Uh, spoiler alert, I never asked for your forgiveness, you traitorous dingus!", Andrias retorted.
"If it's the last thing I ever do, I will make you pay!", Camila vowed to herself before unknowingly smashing the communicating shard to Earth viewed from the in-between realm as seen in the new monitor between worlds, much to Andrias' puzzlement and eventual joy.
"Huh. I would've thought I'd get a bigger reaction out of her from calling her a dingus. She always used to get madder than that whenever anyone calls her that. Guess she couldn't hear me. Oh, well. You're more than welcome to try, but I doubt very much you could pull it off, Snaga. My plans are in motion. Our forces are growing, and soon we will be ready to invade. Only few remain who could stand between me and my conquest: Sasha Waybright..., Marcy Wu..., and Anne Boonchuy.", Andrias said, using the Calamity Box to replace the live feed with large image projections of Sasha, Marcy, and Anne and Sprig, which appear behind Andrias. He snapped his finger to call out a Cloak-Bot who then slinked down from above while the other 3, one of which was an updated model while the other was red and had a flamethrower and the third was a judge, rose up from below.
"You called for us, Your Majesty?", the updated frobot asked.
"It's time to put her out of her misery. This is your one objective.", Andrias stated before the cloak-bot laughed sinisterly.
"What are your orders?", the red frobot asked.
"Why tell you when I can do this? Boom! I uploaded the objective to your neural networks.", Andrias grinned, pressing a button on his remote before the objective appeared in their vision at the top right, saying, "Objective: Kill Anne, Sasha, & Marcy".
"The mission has patched through nicely.", the Judge Frobot said as he, and the other 3 frobots scanned the energy of the pink, green, and blue gems while Andrias explained.
"This mission requires the utmost discretion. We cannot allow the other world to know of the coming invasion. Make sure no Earthling sees any of you.", Andrias urged.
"Energy signature acquired.", the cloak-bot said.
"We won't let you down, your majesty.", the judge frobot said before King Andrias used the Calamity Box to open a portal.
Cloak-Bot, Flame-Bot, Judge-Bot, and Frobot all walked towards the portal, but King Andrias intercepted him.
"And one more thing.", Andrias said.
"What is it...?", Flame-Bot growled.
"Would you all mind picking me up the latest Cynthia Coven book? Marcy got me hooked and I'm dying to know what happens. And maybe some of those... potato chip things she had.", Andrias requested as he showed a Cynthia Coven book.
Cloak-Bot was puzzled as a question mark appeared on his visor..
"Eliminate... potato chip?", Cloak-Bot asked.
"Okay, forget the chips. Kill the girls, get the book.", Andrias said.
"Just leave the killing to us and you got yourself a deal.", Flame-Bot said before he and the others went through the portal.
The portal was then closed and the power returned to the box.
"Wanna watch it again, Dreyas?", the mysterious visitor grinned.
"Ooh, I'll get the popcorn!", Andrias beamed.
Back on Earth, Luke and Lucia were prowling around in their half Titan forms on all fours like animals, growling angrily as they trailed someone without him knowing they were even there. He was holding a knife which seemed as though he was looking to kill someone with it. Naturally, they were angry at the sight, so they trailed him and followed him to a house on a hill. They leaned closer, about to attack him with their fangs bared without him knowing. But then, they caught a whiff of the scent from the knife, which puzzled them and prompted them to stop before they quickly hid just as he turned around to see nothing but some bushes moving.
"Huh. Well, that was weird.", the man said before going inside as Luke and Lucia peeped out and saw what was going on through the window.
"Did you get the fake knife back?", a director asked.
"Uh, yeah. It's sturdy.", the actor asked.
"Whew... Well, that was an unfortunate start...", the director said.
Luke and Lucia then calmed down and their eyes got big as they both got an epiphany.
"What are we even doing here?", Luke asked before he and Lucia started walking away.
"I was about to ask the same thing. All this time hunting down criminals and making them suffer the way we did... and for what? No family..., no friends... just completely alone. Revenge is not everything. It never was...", Lucia said as she followed him with both turning back to human form.
"Well, it's not even worth slamming the door in front of our mom over; no argument about that.", Luke said.
"I guess... All we really wanted was to kill Andrias for what he put all of us, through... For what he did to Luz... But with no way to get back..., that's impossible...", Lucia said sadly.
Suddenly, Luke looked up in surprise.
"Maybe not...", Luke said.
"But how? We haven't even made a working portal door.", Lucia said sadly.
"Look.", Luke said, pointing to one irrefutable truth that opened up: Cloak-Bot, Flame-Bot, Frobot, and Judge-Bot came into the world in an alley, scaring a nearby stray cat away.
"That looks like Andrias' frobots.", Luke said.
"But why now?", Lucia asked.
"Let's find out.", Luke said.
As they moved in for the wall and leaned against it, inadvertently moving the trash can as it shook before it stopped, Frobot turned and saw some movement from said trash can. He then used a scanning visor to track the blue, green, and pink energy signatures as did the others, only he spotted Luke and Lucia leaning on a nearby wall with x-ray vision. Then, he grabbed the two and dragged them out toward them.
"It appears we're being spied on by Luke Noceda and Lucia Noceda. Should we destroy them?", Frobot asked, worrying Luke and Lucia.
"Negative. It'll blow our cover if anyone else sees us. And besides that, our main targets are those that house the Calamity energy within them.", Judge-Bot warned.
"Think of it this way. Those two Titans can be destroyed after we destroy those girls.", Flame-Bot added, making Luke and Lucia gasp.
"Of course it's just too bad we can't give away our positions.", Flame-Bot added.
"Still, they could become a dire problem if they intervene. Shouldn't we at least incapacitate them?", Frobot asked.
"Very well.", Judge-Bot said before he then blasted Luke and Lucia just enough to knock them out cold.
"The interlopers have been rendered unconscious.", Frobot stated.
"How satisfactory. Now, all we need to do from here is proceed with caution and discretion as we fixate on the targets' location.", Judge-bot agreed as Cloak-Bot looked around and found the targets nearby.
"Targets acquired.", Cloak-bot said.
"Excellent work. Now, to business.", Flame-bot spoke.
"Activate stealth mode.", Cloak-Bot said, activating his cloaking device and becoming invisible.
Then, the other 3 turned invisible, too, before they turned to Luke and Lucia.
"As for you two Titans, as soon as we've dispensed with the Boonchuys, Waybrights, and Wus, we'll be coming for you, next.", Judge-Bot said before they all jumped, smashing a car and bouncing off a cable, scaring some pigeons off.
The next morning, Luke and Lucia woke up in an alley and held their heads.
"Ugh... what happened?", Luke groaned before realizing something.
"Oh, no... They're after Anne. We have to stop them.", Luke realized.
"But they're long gone by now? How are we supposed to find them before they kill he...?", Lucia asked before she suddenly noticed the trail of destruction left behind.
"Oh. Of course. Ask a silly question...", Lucia sighed.
"Well, we can't leave those guys hopping around.", Luke urged, earning Lucia's nod before they bolted out of the alley.
Meanwhile, Camila checked the now vacant room where there were only a couple of beds, a desk, and a mural of Luz containing memorabilia of her before sitting down on one of the beds and sighed.
"Excuse me. Can I sit here with you?", Leif asked, earning a nod from Camila before Leif sat down next to her with a bit of a squeak.
"Last night was... pretty awful, huh?", Leif asked.
"'Pretty awful' doesn't even begin to cover it. First there's the draining spell that left Lia, Masa, and Della barely functioning as is, then, Luz got stabbed through the chest by that monster, Andrias, and died because of that! And now...!? Now, I've lost Luke and Lucia, too! Just like I lost my father...! Everything Andrias touches just rots away and dies...! And there's nothing I could do to stop it this time...!", Camila sobbed softly.
Sad, Leif placed her hand on Camila's making her turn to her out of sad puzzlement.
"There's still hope. As long as we don't give up, we'll find a way to beat King Andrias.", assured Leif.
Still saddened, but this time, out of joy, she hugged Leif just as she hugged her.
"Also, just getting this out here, it's hard to believe that I'm here with the Plantars, and they're my predecessors. I feel so old.", Leif admitted, making Camila snort a bit with a chuckle.
But just then, Leif saw a list, picked it up, and read it, causing her to gasp in surprise.
"Camila? You might want to read this.", Leif said, handing the list to Camila.
She held it up and gasped softly, touched as her eyes started watering.
Meanwhile, Anne was teaching Thai to the witches, including Camila and Belos.
"No, no, no, no, no, guys. Like this: 'Wạn nī̂ mī phr xạn pras̄eriṭ̄h'", Anne taught.
But the witches were baffled as they mumbled, trying to say it right.
"Am I doing this right?", Gus mumbled.
"Ugh... What does that even mean again?", Alex asked.
"Literally, it translates to, 'Today has great blessings.' It means today is a great day.", Marcy explained.
"Oh. Interesting.", Lilith grinned.
But Luke and Lucia, who were nearby, only scoffed and turned their heads away.
"Well, not for those two. They've been like this ever since we came back to the human realm.", Sasha whispered.
"We can hear you.", Luke spoke to Sasha, baffling her.
"Well, at least it's true for most of us. The day does seem nice out here.", Nathan grinned.
"And now, you just have to figure out how to say it in Thai.", Sasha suggested.
"I can't say it in Thai. And do you know why?", Eda asked before she then turned Owl Harpy and shouted.
"BECAUSE I DON'T CARE! Oh, and I don't mean any offense to you and your family, Branches.", Eda said, blowing Sasha away with the force of her shouting.
"Oh, none taken.", Anne responded.
"I'm okay!", Sasha called.
Just then, Jackie got an alarm on her phone.
"Oh, shoot! I gotta go to work at the market. See you guys later.", Jackie said before running off.
"Oh, that's right! She has a job there.", Marcy said.
"Speaking of which, Anne, your father and I have to go to the market.", Meiling said as she and Liu walked to the front door.
"Any chance we can come with, Mrs. Boonchuy?", Sasha asked.
"Are you sure you want to go to the market with us?", Meiling asked.
"Hey, it's the least I could do for the way I acted up until 5 months ago.", Sasha said.
"I want to go, too. If only to make up for making us disappear for 5 months.", Marcy added.
"Wow. Who'd have thunk? Ever since they got back, Anne and her friends seemed... a little more mature.", Liu admitted.
"She used to beg me not to take her to market.", Meiling agreed.
Then, Liu cleared his throat.
"Okay, guys. You can come, too.", Liu agreed.
"All right.", Sasha grinned.
"Thank you so much, sir! I promise you won't regret it.", assured Marcy.
Later, every frog was in a disguise as Sprig was now wearing a maroon jacket over a pale and dark brown striped shirt alongside his usual black shorts with a dark green beanie, revealing a bit of his hair, light grey and white shoes with dark blue stripes, and an ivory face-mask, with a cat's mouth imprinted on it, Polly wearing blue fisher's hat with baby blue stripes, often seen in a raincoat, rain boots, and a blonde wig, all of which serves as her human disguise, and Hop Pop wearing a trench coat, a fedora, red glasses, a fake nose made with a piece of clay, and a pair of slip on shoes while Leif and the Sundews were in similar, yet different disguises as they, along with Anne, Sasha, Marcy, Rose, Willow, Gus, Boscha, Eda, Lilith, Nathan, and Alex, arrived at the 99 Ranchers market in the car.
"All right, guys. You know the drill.", Liu said.
"We stick together in there, understood?", Meiling asked.
"And if anything goes wrong, it's back in the lockdown for all of you.", Liu reminded.
"We got it. We got it. Now let's get shoppin'!", Anne grinned.
Liu then unlocked the doors. Then, everyone got out and arrived inside the market. They all gasped at the magnificent yet ordinary interior.
"Wow! It never ceases to amaze, Camila. So, what do we need?", Leif asked.
"Well, we already have everything else for Eda's aging potion. Not sure how it'd even help. Anyway, all we need now is some ginger root.", Camila said.
"On it, Camila.", Leif spoke before hopping away to look for some.
Meanwhile, Sprig turned to Anne, pointing to a shop buddy machine and a change machine.
"That thing looks like Frobo! Is that a robot too?", Sprig asked.
"Sort of... it's like a... robotic wallet.", Anne explained.
"Cool. Oh, and is that a robot?", Sprig asked, pointing to Jackie scanning food items on a conveyor belt.
"Oh. Hey, Anne.", Jackie waved.
"Sprig, that's my sister, Jackie. Not everything is a robot.", Anne explained.
But to disagree, Sprig pointed to a toy robot.
"Okay, fine. But nothing else.", Anne responded.
At that moment, Liu checked his empty pockets.
"Oh no. I left the shopping list at home! Abort mission! Abort mission!", Liu panicked.
"No worries. I took a picture of the shopping list before we left. Just in case.", assured Anne, holding out a picture of the shopping list in her phone.
"Oh. Thank you, Anne. That was... responsible of you.", Meiling spoke, impressed.
Then, Polly turned up, kicking Anne's foot.
"Psst. Give me a quarter. I wanna buy a lotto ticket.", Polly whispered.
"You will do no such thing!", Anne and Sasha refused, baffling each other to the point of blushing.
Meanwhile, Camila and Leif looked among the ginger roots before finding one that's just right.
"Ah, there you are. That was easy.", Leif grinned.
"That's all? I thought this'd be harder to find one remotely close to perfect for Eda's spell.", Camila said to herself.
"Heheheh. Such puny vegetables. Huh?", Hop Pop puzzled before gasping upon seeing the durians nearby.
"Whoa, mama! Now that's more like it.", Hop Pop grinned just as Anne, Sasha, Marcy, and Rose caught up.
"Oh, that's durian. It's a Thai favorite.", Marcy explained.
"Not really our thing since it smells like...", Anne began only for Hop Pop to split open the durian in half; as a result, a green pungent aroma caused Hop Pop's face to shrivel in disgust.
"Rotten eggs...", Anne finished as she, Sasha, Marcy, and Rose covered their noses.
"Well, looks like that's one vegetable we're not gettin' anytime soon.", Felicia said, covering her own nose.
"No argument here, Mom.", Ivy agreed.
Hop Pop was grossed out by durian and tried to mop himself on the floor just as Jackie and Leif, coincidentally, arrived near him.
"Durian first-timer?", Jackie asked.
"Yep. Durian first-timer.", Anne responded before Jackie laughed a bit and went back to her work just as Hop Pop stuck his tongue out.
"That was funny, Hop Pop.", Leif giggled to him.
"C'mon, let's get you something good.", Anne suggested as she picked up Hop Pop before she, Sasha, and Marcy gasped in awe when they saw a Noodle shop.
"Mom, Dad, can I take the Plantars to try out some noodles?", Anne asked.
This left both Liu and Meiling concerned.
"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeemmm..."
"We'll keep these lovable frogs within arms reach at all times.", assured Marcy.
"We'll avoid any customers.", Sasha added.
"And I'll keep my phone in my hand in case you guys call.", Anne added, showing them her cell phone.
"But...", Meiling began.
"And I won't order iced coffee, even though I love it, because I know it makes me jittery and anxious.", Anne added.
"That does sound fair.", Meiling grinned.
"Alright, you three can go, but be careful.", Liu said.
"Yes. We will be. Thank you!", Anne said before the Plantars suddenly separated.
"Huh?", Anne asked before she prevented Sprig from touching a crab just as Sasha prevented Hop Pop from entering a room only for workers.
"No, you don't...", Anne spoke.
"Oh! No no no no no...", Sasha shouted.
As for Marcy, she found Rose and Camila with Leif.
"So, we're all going to the Noodle Shop. Wanna head there?", Marcy asked.
"Uh-huh. They have really great noodles.", Rose grinned.
"Are they all that good, though?", Leif asked before Camila shrugged.
"Well, there's only one way to find out. Come on.", Rose said, following Marcy to the Noodle Shop and dragging Leif with her like a giddy child would for his/her parent.
"Unbelievable. Maybe it's been a long time, but they're like different people.", Liu said.
"Maybe they have come a long way. Now come on, mama needs her jasmine tea.", Meiling said as she and Liu go to the tea aisle.
Just then, the electric door opened suddenly and Jackie and a worker noticed it. Then it closed again.
"Huh? That's weird.", Jackie puzzled just as it was revealed that Cloak-Bot was in its invisible state when he entered the market.
As soon as she looked out, the frobots were looking at her, still invisible as they're scanning her outside.
"Before we can drop our cloaks, we must first confirm that at least one of our targets is in the vicinity. From there, anything goes. Although, one of us needs to stay cloaked around everyone else. The indigenous humans may not believe those who see us, but we cannot take that risk anymore than we already are.", Judge-bot suggested.
"Scanning.", Frobot said before their visors indicated the blue calamity energy in Jackie.
"Identified.", Frobot said.
"Excellent. Disengage cloaks.", Judge-Bot said before he, Flame-Bot, and Frobot disengaged their cloaks as Cloak-Bot kept his engaged.
"What the what?!", Jackie exclaimed.
"Let's move!", Frobot urged before they moved in.
"Stupid door.", a worker said as the door opened again, letting in the 3 frobots.
"NO, IT WAS US! AND WE'RE HERE TO SETTLE A SCORE!", Flame-Bot shouted.
"AH! Killer robots!", a worker panicked before fleeing away.
"Frobots? What are they doing here?", Jackie asked.
"Can it, loser! These mean machines are gonna take you down.", Flame-Bot vowed.
"Ugh. Check your volume. You're irritating my audio receivers.", Judge-Bot spoke in disgust.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY, COAT-RACK?!", Flame-Bot snapped.
"Of all the times and all the places for them to show up here, why now?", Jackie asked.
"Listen up, Boonchuy! I'm gonna take you down if it's the last thing I do!", Flame-Bot vowed.
"We'll see about that!", Jackie discouraged before trying to go calamity mode.
Unfortunately, all she did succeed in doing was croaking and turning into a frog girl again.
"What the...? That's weird. Anyway..., bring it!", Jackie dared before Judge-Bot got out his hammer and tried to smash her only for Jackie to hop back.
"Whew! That was close.", Jackie sighed only to get caught off-guard by Flame-Bot's flamethrower, barely able to dodge it in time.
"Now, that was REALLY close!", Jackie exclaimed.
"Frobot! Make yourself useful!", Flame-Bot shouted.
"Affirmative.", Frobot said before he wrapped his arm around Jackie and tighten his grip on her, making her squeak.
"Not good...!", Jackie groaned.
"Looks like you could stand to get warmed up!", Flame-Bot said as he prepared to roast her.
Then, Jackie looked to notice a water jug nearby.
"Hey... That's it!", Jackie realized.
"HAVE A TASTE OF MY ANGER!", Flame-Bot shouted.
"Oh, just fire already.", Judge-Bot said, annoyed.
"Relax. Have a drink!", Jackie said before using her tongue to grab said jug and then toss it at the flames just before they could touch her, a drop causing Frobot to act jittery just long enough for Jackie to be released, allowing her to escape.
"What?!", Flame-Bot exclaimed.
"Come on...! Work...!", Jackie urged, trying to power up, but to no avail.
"It's no use. I gotta hurry and find Anne!", Jackie spoke in worry.
Meanwhile, at the noodle shop, Anne, Sasha, Marcy, and Rose received 15 bowls and took them away.
"Thanks, dude.", Anne said.
"I gave you a tray.", a worker shouted to Anne.
"Oh, I forgot. Here's a tip.", Sasha said, paying said tip to the worker, surprising him a bit.
"Alright... Dig in everyone.", Anne said as everyone put the dishes on the table.
Hop Pop then happily ate it.
"Anne, these Thai noodles never cease to amaze.", Hop Pop said.
"Are you kidding? They're delicious!", Sprig agreed.
"Yeah, in more ways than one.", Ivy concurred as Polly finished hers.
"Polly likey.", Polly grinned.
"I can't believe we didn't try these sooner.", Gus said in amazement.
"Uh, Gus? We did. As soon as we arrived in the human realm?", Boscha said.
"Oh. Yeah.", Gus realized.
"Well, what do you expect? Noodles are Asian food's heart and soul.", Anne responded.
Sprig took his lunch and kept eating.
"Hey!", Polly shouted before Anne laughed.
Then, Camila took a sip and became just as impressed.
"Hey, this actually isn't bad.", Camila grinned.
At that moment, Cloak-Bot found Anne, Rose, Sasha, Marcy, and the Plantars and witches. He crawled silently towards them, but some refrigerator magnets caused its cloaking function to fail. Sprig and Ivy heard a rare noise and saw Cloak-Bot restoring its function.
"KILLER ROBOT!", Sprig and Ivy shouted together before Anne turned and only saw an adorable toy.
"Killer robot?", Camila asked with one eyebrow raised toward Sprig.
"Sprig, for the last time, not everything is a-", Anne began before suddenly, Luke and Lucia, in half Titan form, pounced on the Cloak-bot, disabling his invisibility function and smashed him against the shelf nearby.
"Luke? Lucia?", Boscha asked.
"Kids...?!", Camila said, filled with surprise and shock.
"We'll fill you in later.", Luke responded.
Then, Cloak-Bot got up and prepared to fight.
"Take this!", Hop Pop exclaimed before he threw his food at Cloak-Bot.
But he caught it and threw it back to him.
"Oh, boy...", Hop Pop said before the table wound up completely destroyed, while the Plantars fell.
Urged to action, Willow cast a plant spell circle to trap the Cloak-Bot in vines.
"Guys! Frobots are here and...!", Jackie shouted before seeing a trapped Cloak-Bot.
"Oh. Guess you got him covered.", Jackie said in relief only for Cloak-Bot to start using his arm as a buzz saw.
"Probably not for much longer.", Willow said.
"Everyone, run!", Anne shouted.
"You heard her! Escape!", Gus shouted in equal panic before the frogs and witches took off just as Cloak-Bot turned invisible again and went after them.
Right then, the 2nd worker, wearing his headphones, turned around and noticed the mess.
"People go crazy for those noodles.", the worker sighed, grabbing a mop and a bucket of water to go clean up the mess.
Act III
"Did you see that thing? It's a new kind of Frobo!", Polly shouted.
"And it got worse. There are 3 other frobots there, too! And they're all hunting us!", Jackie added.
"They've gotta be from Amphibia.", Sasha guessed.
"But how did they get here? And what do they want?", Marcy asked.
"Andrias must've sent it to capture us.", Hop Pop guessed.
"No. Andrias sent them to kill you all.", Camila realized.
"He couldn't just be happy with taking Luz away from us! He had to send them to try and kill them, too!", Luke snarled angrily.
"Why can't he just leave us alone?!", Lucia added just as angrily.
"Actually, he couldn't kill them. After all, they still possess the powers of the box, and he needs that.", Leif added.
"But we have to take this thing out before my parents notice anything's wrong-", Anne said before inadvertently bumping into Liu and Meiling.
"Oh! Mom! Dad! Hi...", Anne stammered.
"Oh... Hey, guys. How were the noodles?", Liu asked.
"So good... I was uh... just taking the Plantars to help out with the shopping list.", Anne said, nervous.
"Yep!", the frogs agreed.
"Oh... that's so thoughtful. Can you also go get a mackerel from the seafood counter?", Meiling asked, pointing to the seafood sector.
"Oh yeah! No prob.", Sasha said nervously.
But Sprig hummed and grabbed Anne to get her attention. She looked at him and he pointed to the seafood sector where the Cloak-Bot, Flame-Bot, Judge-Bot, and Frobot were currently standing.
"Uh, yeah! Gonna do that right now.", Anne said, giving a nervous laugh.
Anne and the others go elsewhere, followed by the Cloak-bot.
"Isn't the fish counter the other way?", Liu puzzled.
"As a matter of fact, the fish counter is that way.", Frobot stated before leaving.
"Wait, what?", Liu said before he and Meiling turned and saw the 3 frobots chasing Anne and the others.
"Oh, my frog, are those killer robots?!", Meiling asked.
"Those must be those frobots Anne told us about.", Liu guessed.
"Well, if they think they can hurt our family...", Meiling began before croaking and turning into a purple frog woman.
"They've got another thing coming.", Meiling glared.
"Oh, it is on.", Liu agreed before he croaked and turned into a red frog man.
Meanwhile, as they ran, Gus spoke to Anne.
"Anne, can't you and your friends use your cool powers? Take 'em all down easily?", Gus asked.
"Powers! Powers!", Polly chanted.
"I can't. I'm not even sure if I could. It's been a really long time.", Anne said.
"And don't you think I tried that? For some reason, I just... can't!", Jackie responded.
"Boooooooooo!", Polly booed.
"So what do we do?", Sprig asked.
"I don't know. But we can't cause a panic in the supermarket.", Luke said.
"Yeah. The last thing we want is for anyone to be scared away.", Lucia added.
"I think you're a bit late. They scared someone away already.", Jackie said.
"Ugh... Okay. We don't want anyone else scared away.", Luke said.
"But how do we fight a robot in the middle of a store without scaring anyone else off?", Leif asked.
"Have you forgotten what I'm capable of?", Camila asked with a smirk before casting a spell circle to create an invisibility barrier like at the park.
"Okay, that's a good plan. But what about some help?", Leif asked.
"I have a plan for that, actually.", assured Sasha.
Meanwhile, Grime was watching Suspicion Island in Sasha's house with Allison, Pat, Bombina, Percy, Braddock, Caleb, and Sophia.
"Next time on Suspicion Island...", the Suspicion Island advertiser said.
"But Randy, I think YOU'RE suspicious.", a woman said.
"Noooo!", Randy shouted before an explosion erupted.
"Wow. Randy too?", Sophia asked in surprise.
"Everyone really is suspicious.", Caleb chuckled.
"I know, right?", Grime agreed.
Just then, he got a call from Sasha before answering.
"Hello?", Grime asked.
"Hey, Grimesy. Listen, we kinda got a situation in the 99 Ranchers super market.", Sasha said.
"What kind of situation?", Grime asked.
"Oh, I don't know. Just some dumb frobots trying to roast us!", Sasha shouted.
"Frobots?! But what are they doing here? More importantly, how did they get here?", Grime asked.
"Do you think you guys can get Ally and Pat over there with you guys and help?", Sasha asked.
"Don't worry, Sasha. We're on our way.", assured Grime.
"Thanks, Grime.", Sasha thanked before hanging up.
Then, just as Liu and Meiling went into position, Anne went to the Customer Service sector, put a Rock song on the radio at maximum volume, and put it near the microphone of the sector, with the button being pressed down by a cup, causing the entire market to be overcome with the loud music.
"All right. That'll cover up any noise that we might make. Now come on!", Anne urged.
"What?", Sprig shouted.
"Speak up!", Hop Pop exclaimed.
"This music makes me mad!", Polly shouted.
"What was that?!", Willow shouted.
"We can't hear you over this loud song!", Boscha added.
"What words am I saying?!", Gus added.
"Just come on.", Anne said, ushering the Plantars.
"You digging this, Marcy?", Sasha asked.
"You bet, Sasha.", Marcy smirked.
Then, Anne, Sasha, Marcy, and the witches, Plantars, and Sundews faced off against Cloak-Bot in the baking aisle.
"Hey, robots, we brought you some flour!", Anne shouted before she, Sasha, Marcy, Jackie, and Rose all threw two sacks of flour at him at Cloak-Bot, causing his invisibility mode to fail again and making the trio get angry.
"Good thinking, Anne.", Sprig grinned.
"Everyone, show no mercy!", Belos shouted then, Anne, Sasha, Marcy, Jackie, Rose, Belos, Camila, Luke, Lucia, and the Plantars, Sundews, and witches shouted and started fighting Cloak-Bot, Flame-Bot, and Judge-Bot, two of which wound up whacked back by pans with one of them winding up on a pyramid of cans.
"Hehehehe, I love this song.", Meiling grinned as she mimicked playing a guitar while she and Liu launched themselves against Flame-Bot and gave him one how many hits.
"Oh, yeah, this is a classic.", Liu agreed, getting carried away by the music himself.
"Mom?! Dad?!", Anne, Jackie, and Rose shouted.
"What are you two doing here?", Jackie asked.
"Isn't it obvious?", Meiling asked.
"We're helping you fight those killer robots.", Liu said.
"No! It's too dangerous for you here!", Anne said in worry.
"I think we both we've gotten the hang of these froggy bodies a while ago.", Meiling said.
"Besides, it's your mom and me against this one, right now.", Liu added.
"Well, three is better than two.", Judge-Bot spoke up as he recovered and fired only for the two to hop up away from danger, not only allowing Sprig to restore the pyramid of cans, but also spotting some kind of pentagon on their backs, which slowly pulsed out dark blue, dark pink, and dark green energy, much to their puzzlement.
Every witch and frog fought against the three frobots, who resisted all attempts. Hop Pop and Sylvia even jumped at Cloak-Bot from above, but he effectively dodged, jumping back. Cloak-bot slid back, ready to continue fighting, however, an old lady appeared at the front of the aisle, surprising him and forcing him to hide on a nearby shelf while the other two frobots, Anne, Jackie, Rose, Sasha, Marcy, Liu, Meiling, and the others noticed her presence as well and hid their "weapons".
"Huh, that's weird. Looks like the robots don't want to get caught either.", Anne said.
"Lucky guess. Anne, your choice of hiding things is out of style.", Judge-Bot said as the old woman left, allowing Cloak-Bot to come out of his hiding spot.
"Excuse me?!", Anne retorted.
"Oh, did I hurt someone's feelings? Cry me a river.", Judge-Bot said.
"Will you two just be QUIET?! I WANNA GET TO ROASTING PEOPLE!", Flame-Bot shouted, busting out his flamethrower for a moment before burning the two sacks of rice and tossing it at the group.
Anne managed to dodge the first flaming sack.
"I got 'em!", Hop Pop assured before he wound up getting knocked over by the second burning sack of rice.
"HOP POP!", Anne and the others shouted.
"Hop Pop down!", Hop Pop shouted.
"Hang in there, Hopediah!", Belos said in worry before casting a blue spell circle and splashing Hop Pop with water, dousing out the fire.
"Ahhh... That was refreshing.", Hop Pop said.
"Retreat!", Sasha shouted before everyone ran away from the 3 frobots.
While running, Sprig broke a sack of rice, causing Cloak-Bot to slip. They all went to an exclusive room for workers, which turned out to be a meat freezer with Anne, Sasha, Marcy, Jackie, Rose, Liu, and Meiling going into human form. Then, the three frobots entering and searching for them as the group hid while Frobot himself was struggling to get there on account of his constant short circuiting from the water.
Meanwhile, in the meat freezer, the frobots were searching around.
"How does it feel to be hunted like prey, you little runt?!", Flame-Bot spoke aggressively.
"I'm getting real tired of these guys. Anyone got any ideas?", Anne asked.
"Uh, Anne? Probably not the best time to ask.", Liu responded as he, Meiling, Anne, Sasha, Marcy, Jackie, and Rose noticed that the Plantars are frozen.
"Seriously?!", Jackie exclaimed.
"Right. Frogs. Body temperature.", Anne said.
Then, Cloak-Bot, Flame-Bot, and Judge-Bot found them as Cloak-Bot pushed the boxes away.
"Little brain's more like it.", Judge-Bot said.
"Wait. Where's your friend?", Marcy puzzled.
"He's…going through some stuff.", Judge-Bot explained.
At this moment, Frobot was still conking out and sputtering due to a water droplet getting into his circuits moments earlier.
"Okay, when and how?", Sasha puzzled.
"You're welcome.", Jackie grinned.
"Enough with the chit-chat! The sooner we beat you dinguses, the sooner we can invade this pathetic planet!", Flame-Bot shouted.
"Are you talking to me?", Camila glared.
"Uh-oh. You called us dinguses.", Luke said.
"Are you talking to me?!", Camila repeated.
"Shouldn't have done that.", Lucia said.
"ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?!", Camila shouted.
"Now, they're in for it.", Luke said.
"No one... but NO ONE calls us dinguses and gets away with it!", Camila shouted before she roared and charged toward the frobots.
"Leave the fighting to me, you wimp!", Flame-Bot spoke before he retracted his flamethrower and instead got out his claw, intensely burning, grabbed Camila by the wrist and tossed her into the wall, knocking her unconscious.
"Mom!", Luke and Lucia shouted in worry.
"My love!", Belos shouted.
"Aw, no! That thing is still loaded!", Liu spoke in shock.
Enraged, the trio tried to attack Flame-Bot only to get blasted and whacked away by Judge-Bot's hammer. Spurred on, even the witches tried to step in, but when they cast their magic on the frobots, they had no effect as they had glowing symbols on their armor, indicating that they had armor against magic, too.
"Come on! Armor against magic?! No fair!", Boscha groaned.
"Foolish interlopers. You don't know how powerful we are.", Judge-Bot said.
Then, Anne and her friends and siblings tried to hit Cloak-Bot, but he grabbed her and threw her into them straight into a pile of ice. Just as Frobot entered, the short-circuiting finally over, Cloak-Bot got ready to tie her up.
"Come on, powers. Come on.", Anne said as she tried to activate her powers by opening and closing her right hand.
"It's no use, Anne! Those frobots must have some kind of dampeners on them!", Meiling shouted.
"Your mother's certainly astute. If you're trying to activate your powers, that's too bad. Not only did we have the armor that resists magic wielded by witches, but we also had power dampeners installed on us before we got here. All your fruitless efforts to access your powers now are useless.", Judge-Bot said.
Meanwhile, the Plantars and Sundews tried to move to help Anne, Sasha, Marcy, Jackie, and Rose as they rushed towards the frobots, but they just stood softly in front of them.
"It'll be interesting. Feeling the satisfaction of destroying the frogs you swore to protect.", Judge-Bot smirked as he, Cloak-Bot, Frobot, and Flame-Bot prepared to kill them with a laser gun.
"Like scratching an annoying itch!", Flame-Bot added.
"NO!", Anne, Sasha, Marcy, Jackie, and Rose shouted in fear as Liu and Meiling gasped in worry.
However, she then growled furiously as she closed her eyes and opened them, activating her powers as this time, only the glow in her eyes and her fist was visible. The four frobots felt Anne's power via radar and turned to see her.
"Her power is being accessed", Frobot spoke in worry.
"And it's about to get worse!", Luke shouted before he and Lucia jumped and slashed at the power dampeners, disabling them.
"Sasha, Marcy, now's your chance!", Luke urged.
"Jackie, Rose, you too!", Lucia added.
The 4 nodded and were able to power up again.
"Aw, yeah! Kick their butts!", Liu shouted.
"You go, girls!", Meiling encouraged, puzzling Jackie.
"Battle Euphoria much?", Jackie asked, earning Meiling's shrug.
"WHAT?!", Flame-Bot exclaimed in shock.
"Look what you've done!", Judge-Bot blamed.
"If you think I'm just gonna sit here while you hurt my friends, you've got another thing coming.", Anne threatened before she went in front of Cloak-Bot at lightning speed and delivered a massive left punch, causing his left side to be brutally scarred, revealing the interior, and the visor and invisibility to short-circuit, especially since he was crashed through the wall.
Then, the other 4 dealt one blow each to the four frobots, crashing them through the same hole while inadvertently dropping a scroll. At that moment, Grime, Caleb, Sophia, Bombina, Percy, Braddock, Allison, Pat, Rebecca, Abby, and Sarah arrived near the store in time to see the four damaged frobots.
"I don't know what happened in there, but you're about to wish that was the end of it.", Grime glared before he got out his warhammer and whacked them all away into the air.
"We will meet again one day, Anne Boonchuy!", Flame-Bot vowed.
"You have not heard the last of the frobots!", Frobot added.
"Yeah! What they said!", Judge-Bot added as the frobots finally left.
At that point, the 5 sighed as their powers deactivated.
"Whew... Glad that's over.", Sasha sighed.
"It's a good thing I didn't bring Stumpy with me.", Rose said, relieved.
Then, Luke and Lucia turned to Camila.
"Mom...", Luke said.
Camila only gave a sad look and turned away and was about to leave when Luke and Lucia hugged her, tears in their eyes, much to her surprise.
"We're so sorry for everything we said. And everything we've done.", Luke apologized.
"We just... we just couldn't accept a world without Luz in it...! Not without at least doing something to make it brighter...", Lucia added.
"None of that matters now... I'm just glad to see you two again.", Camila grinned.
"Huh? What's that?", Rose puzzled, spotting and picking up some kind of scroll.
Frankly, Belos was surprised.
"Is that... a scroll? But this can't be. Can it?", Belos asked.
Curious, he checked it out, becoming surprised in the process from seeing Amity in the video.
"Everyone! You must see this!", Belos urged.
Everyone who was able to rushed over and gasped from seeing her.
"Is that... Amity?", Lilith asked.
"Is this thing on? Huh. It is. Okay, listen. To anyone who's seeing this, Luz, Anne, Sasha, and Marcy are all safe. They're a little woozy, but they should be fine.", Amity assured, showing them up ahead.
"Hey...", Luz spoke woozily, waving, making everyone gasp in shock.
"What the frog?!", Anne exclaimed.
"Are there two of us?!", Marcy shouted.
"Seriously?!", Sasha added.
"AH! It's Luz, all right.", Eda said, giving a teary-eyed grin.
"Looks like she made it after all.", Willow grinned.
"I don't know how long it's gonna take for us to get to the human realm together with them and the Collector, but we will find a way to get there and we will make our way back to you. And I don't care how long it takes to do that! As a Blight, I have to uphold my end of the deal. And for the sake of all my friends, I will do it. So..., we'll be seeing you all again soon. Until then, try to keep it together for a little while longer. Good luck.", Amity said before the message ended.
Seeing this message was a big surprise to everyone, but only Camila, Luke, and Lucia all started to sob softly, giving off tears of joy.
"SHE'S ALIVE!", the trio sobbed.
"All this time...! All this time, we thought she was dead...!", Lucia sobbed.
"But she was alive...! For all this time!", Camila added.
Luke then wiped away his tears, sniffling before giving a determined smirk.
"And now that we know that she's still alive, that's all the more reason to go back.", Luke smirked.
Anne turned and saw a packaged fish before taking it with her.
"Oh. Here's the fish you wanted.", Anne said, handing the fish to Liu.
"Oh. Thanks, Anne. Glad you had fun.", Meiling grinned.
"But why did you two help us out against those back there?", Jackie asked.
"Hey, us frogs have to stick together.", Meiling responded.
"Frogs, huh?", Jackie said.
"Then, we should probably get out of the freezer now.", Liu suggested.
"Okay, good point.", Anne agreed.
Everyone walked out of the freezer room and caught up to Grime, Caleb, Sophia, Allison, Pat, and the toads.
"Thanks for the assist, Grime.", Sasha said.
"You're very much welcome.", Grime responded as everyone all sat down for a moment.
Suddenly, Sprig burst all the way from the cube.
"Anne, that was amazing! You guys weren't kidding when you said 'powers'.", Sprig grinned.
"Yeah! Do the punch again!", Polly grinned.
"Maybe later, Polly.", Anne said.
"You know, we made quite a mess at the cooking aisle with that battle.", Liu said.
"Yeah. We kinda did, didn't we...?", Jackie blushed.
Later, the Boonchuys, the witches, Luke, Lucia, the Plantars, the Sundews, and the toads were now back at home while out in the backyard, which has now been turned into a swimming pool-like pond, at a time when it is already dusk.
"You know, to be honest, I'm feeling more like a frog than before. Either that, or it's just that I'm more comfortable being a frog than I was being a human.", Anne grinned.
"You know what...? I feel the same way, too.", Jackie said.
"Me, three.", Rose agreed.
"I feel more like a toad.", Sasha said.
"A newt for me.", Marcy grinned.
Caleb and Sophia turned to Luke and Lucia.
"Luke, are you sure you're both OK?", Caleb asked.
"Yeah. You two were tearing up a storm back there.", Sophia agreed.
"Yeah, well, so was Mom. Anyway, all that matters now is we know that Luz is still alive. So all we need to do now is to figure out how to get back. Not to mention think of a way to somehow defeat King Andrias and Melkor on top of that.", Luke said.
"I know it sounds like a lot, but we're not as liable to lose any faith as we were for who-know-how-long. Not anymore.", assured Lucia, her determination and vigor renewed.
"I'm glad to hear this, Lucia. It's good to have you both back." Belos grinned.
"It's good to be back, Dad.", Luke responded.
"What's for dinner?", Liu asked before talking Thai.
"ฉันกำลังหิวโหย!", Liu said (saying "I'm starving!" in Thai), starting the car.
"Noodles! Noodles! Noodles!", everyone chanted while in the car.
Meanwhile, in Amphibia, Andrias was fuming!
"ARRRRRRRGGGGGGGH! Those blasted robots are useless." Andrias said in rage and fury as he started pounding the ground.
"Wow, that was so unlike you Dreyas, I thought you were supposed to be a proper king?", a mysterious voice said from the shadows.
The mysterious voice was soon revealed to be Luz but she looked completely different, with half her face being blue, and both halves going all the way down her body and bright yellow eyes with red pupils, while she is wearing a stary hooded cloak, and covered by said hood is a full head of pure white hair revealing that she was now possessed by the Collector with a puppet Amity right behind her.
"What do you want, Collector?", Andrias said clearly not in the mood to talk.
"Oh, Nothing, just wanted to see how epicly your robots failed, and they did not disappoint.", Collector said before laughing hysterically rolling around on the ground.
Andrias then growled in anger before walking towards the balcony.
"It doesn't matter. Soon, no one will stand before our crushing might. Not Anne, not Earth, not anyone!", Andrias responded, looking out to the Orc and Robot army just outside.
"Collector..., if it's the last thing I do, I'll save you from Melkor's control and save Luz, too.", Puppet Amity thought to herself.
Back on Earth, in the stormy rain, at the top of the church tower above, a flickering light flashed and zapping noises were heard. It turns out that Flame-Bot, Judge-Bot, and Frobot were helping Cloak-Bot repair himself.
"It appears our assumptions about our targets were badly mistaken.", Frobot said.
"Agreed. They were much more than pathetic humans.", Flame-Bot added.
"If we're not careful, all our hopes of invasion are going to be ruined before they've even taken flight.", Judge-Bot added.
"Upgrades and repairs in progress... Targets... will be destroyed... at all costs.", Cloak-Bot vowed.
A/N: Well, that was quite an explosive start, huh? Well, with that out of the way, I can finally start working on other stories again. :)
