After the Rain/Transcript

Polly: [chewing]

Anne: Yo guys! Check it out! I got a Mail-Fly message! Look how cute he is.

Mail-Fly: [buzzes]

Polly:[raspberry] Jealous, I never get mail.

Sprig: Open it, open it!

Anne: It's from Marcy! She says we're ready to travel to the first temple.

Sprig: Alright!

Polly: Woo!

Anne: Ooh. She even included a checklist of things to bring. Let's see here. "Food. Weapons."

Sprig: Check!

Polly: Double check!

Spig: Aah!

Polly: Jumpy little fella.

Anne: Cool, what else? "Armor." Armor?

Hop Pop: Got it covered! Believe it or not, I made each of you your very own suit of armor.

Sprig: Whoa!

Polly: Cool!

Anne: Seriously?

Anne: [grunts] I'm down! Anne's down!

Polly: Hop Pop! [groaning] This is the opposite of a suit of armor.

Hop Pop: Exactly. Less mobility means less trouble.

Polly: Yeah, yeah. Hey Anne, anything else on that list?

Anne: Oh yeah, just one more thing. "The Music Box!"

Hop Pop: Uh, right, the music box. No problem. My contacts will have it ready by tomorrow.

Anne: Great! You're the best.

Hop Pop: [light chuckle]

Anne: All packed and ready to go. Ah! Too excited to sleep!

[footsteps]

Anne: Sounds like someone else can't sleep either.

Hop Pop: [grunting]

Anne: [giggles] Classic old Hop Pop bein' a freak. I'm gonna give that nerd a little scare.

Hop Pop: [gasps] I-it can't be. The music box. It's gone!

Anne: What?

Hop Pop: [shouts] Anne, what are you doin' here?

Anne: Did you just say...the music box is gone?

Hop Pop: I can't lie anymore! I buried the box here. And now it's missing!

Anne: Wait, what!? But you said your contacts were gonna--

Hop Pop: There were no contacts! I read the box was dangerous. I didn't know what to do! I panicked! You gotta understand. I was just trying to protect Sprig and Polly!

Anne: So you've been lying to me? This whole time?

Hop Pop: No! Well, yes, but...it's complicated!

Anne: No, it isn't! I need the music box to get home, and you buried it under a tree! What're you trying to do, keep me here forever? [gasps] That's it, isn't it? You sicko.

Hop Pop: No, no! I-it's not like that. I-it's just...I've lost so much already and--

Anne: Stop. [sighs, sniffs] Look, I can't be here right now.

Hop Pop: Anne!

Anne: Don't follow me. Don't! I see you!

Hop Pop: [sighs]

Sprig & Polly: Quest, quest, quest! Quest, quest, quest!

Sprig: Hold up. Uh, Hop Pop, are you okay?

Hop Pop: I really mucked it up this time, kids. [deep breath] I lied to Anne about the music box, and I buried it under the tree out front.

Sprig & Polly: What!?

Hop Pop: [chuckle] Oh, it gets worse. When I went to dig it up last night, it was gone! Anne saw the whole thing and ran off. I've been waiting all night for her to come back.

Sprig: Look, Hop Pop, I don't know why you did what you did, but you gotta fix it.

Polly: Yeah! You gotta get out there and bring Anne back!

Hop Pop: You're right. I caused this mess, so dang it, I'm gonna clean it up! [slurps]

[shatters]

Hop Pop: And then I'm gonna clean that up.

Sprig & Polly: [sigh]

Polly: Well, this is a bummer.

Sprig: We gotta find that music box or Anne'll never forgive him.

Polly: Right on! Let's motor, bro-bro!

[whirring]

[cawing]

Hop Pop: Hmm. If there was only some clue as to which way she went--

[clink]

Hop Pop: A bobby pin? And hairbrush, mascara, sunglasses, teen magazine. I think I'm on the right track.

Anne: [yawn] Never thought I'd be sleepin' in this cave again. Not since the Plantars took me in. Well, at least I'll always have you, Rocky. Sweet, sweet dependable Rocky. Yeah, I just can't take you seriously with that hair.

Sprig: All right, maybe someone in town has seen the music box.

Sprig & Polly: Whoa.

Townsperson: My veggies!

Mayor Toadstool: Well, there goes the school money, Toadie.

Mrs. Croaker: Archie?

Sprig: Hey Maddie, what's going on?

Maddie: Someone dug a bunch of holes and stole stuff from everyone in town. I even lost a talisman that, if it fell into the wrong hands, would bring an end to all...living--I've said too much.

Polly: Who would dig a bunch of holes in the ground?

Soggy Joe: Holes in the ground, eh? And missing valuables too? Sounds like the work of the Magpie beetle.

Sprig: Never heard of it.

Polly: You gotta stop popping out of bushes, Soggy Joe.

Soggy Joe: The Magpie beetle is a rare breed of insect that lives underground. Every 20 years it burrows to the surface and steals junk to make its shell. It presents that shell to prospective mates in a ritual called the "love-nado dance."

Polly: Ew.

Soggy Joe: A spectacle much too dangerous to observe--You really should hear the rest of this!

Polly: On a mission!

Sprig: Thanks, Joe!

[squeaking]

Sprig: [panting]

Polly: Sprig, look! Soggy Joe was right. There's a burrow off to the side. Come on!

Sprig: Think this'll lead us to the box?

Polly: There's only one way to find out. [groans]

Sprig & Polly: [shouting]

Sprig: Where are we?

Polly: Oh no, Sprig! We're right smack dab in the middle of the love-nado! Maybe we should've listened to the end of Soggy Joe's thing.

Sprig: Okay, the music box has to be here somewhere. Whoa! We have to find it!

Sprig & Polly: Whoa!

Polly: [screams]

Sprig: [gasp] There it is!

[clinks]

Sprig: Alright, I'm goin' for it!

Polly: Wait! Sprig, no!

Sprig: Aah! [screams]

Polly: Sprig! Wait! No!

Anne: I thought I knew him, you know? But he was lying to me the whole time. Wish I had my bobby pins. [shouts] Oh. [scoffs] It's you. Go away.

Hop Pop: Please, Anne. Just let me explain.

Anne: I am not talking to you right now, Hop Pop. If that's even your real name. Oh, wait. Hop Pop's a nickname.

Hop Pop: I need you to know why I hid the music box. It's dangerous. I was just trying to protect the family.

Anne: Then why did you lie?

Hop Pop: Well, because...there's something I've never told you. Something hard to talk about. [sighs] The truth is...

Polly: [screaming]

Anne: That sounds like--

Hop Pop: Sprig! Polly!

Anne: What the heck is this?!

Hop Pop: It's some kind of love monsoon.

Sprig & Polly: Help! Help!

Hop Pop: Anne, we have to work together.

Anne: Work with you? Not gonna happen. I'll save them myself! Whoa. Whoa!

Hop Pop: Please, Anne. I know I lied to you, but trust me. At least long enough to save the kids.

Sprig & Polly: [shouting]

Anne: [grunting] Sprig! Grab on!

Polly: Yoink. [screams]

Hop Pop: All right, kids. Hang on!

Anne: [panting]

Sprig & Polly: Woo-hoo!

Polly: That was amazing!

Sprig: I can't believe we did it!

Anne: Yeah, we did. And now...we're through here.

Sprig: Anne, no!

Polly: Where will you go?

Anne: I'll go stay with someone who isn't a liar. I don't know, maybe Loggle? He seems like a straight shooter.

Hop Pop: Anne, wait. Let me at least explain. What I did wasn't right. But I didn't do it to trick ya. [sigh] Sprig and Polly's parents.

Polly: Hop Pop.

Sprig: That wasn't your fault.

Hop Pop: It was a few years ago. I was on a journey when the herons attacked Wartwood. Sprig and Polly survived. But their parents...weren't so lucky.

[screeching]

Hop Pop: If I just had been there...I know things would've been different! Ever since then, I swore I'd never let my family down again. That I'd do anything to protect them. So when I found out the box was dangerous, I lied to you and hid it away. I thought I was protecting my family. But now I realize how foolish it was. You're my family too. And I've let you down. I let us all down. [sobbing] I'm sorry. I'm sorry! I'm just so sorry! Huh?

Anne: Hop Pop, I forgive you.

Sprig: Reconciliation!

Polly: Frog pile!

All: [laughing]

Anne: Can we get out of this rain?

Hop Pop: This book has been in our family for as long as I can remember. And look.

Sprig: Whoa.

Polly: Cool.

Anne: "Calamity Box"? Eesh. That does sound bad.

Hop Pop: Yeah. Not exactly comforting.

Sprig: I guess all we can do now is wait for Marcy.

Anne: Yeah. Guys, I hate to say it, but this temple quest may be more dangerous than we thought.

Hop Pop: Well, Anne, think this gang can handle it?

Anne: After today, I'm pretty sure this gang can handle anything.

Polly: Awww.

Hop Pop: You kids sure you don't wanna wear the puffy suits?

Sprig, Anne, & Polly: Hop Pop!

Hop Pop: Okay, okay, just had to ask.

(Credits Roll)