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Dialogue
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| (Anne and Sasha are at the Resistance Underground Base looking at a map of Amphibia)
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| Anne
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According to Mother Olm, in order to defeat Andrias, we need to get to that music box.
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| Sasha
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Then we're going to need some allies and I know just who to recruit first. (Slaps a sticker on the map) Grime's sister, Beatrix built a secret army of toads. I already asked her to meet with us and she's on her way.
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| Anne
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But do you think she'll go for it? I've noticed frogs and toads don't get along.
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| Sasha
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That's why I sent Grime and Sprig to be the welcome wagon. She'll see first hand that frogs and toads can work together.
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| Anne
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But Grime and Sprig can't work together. And ever since Sprig beat Grime in Newtopia, things have been really tense between them.
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| Sasha
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Oh, really?
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| (Anne and Sasha start to run. Meanwhile, Sprig and Grime are outside the Plantars' house, doing nothing.)
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| Sprig
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So, is your sister cool, or does being a jerk run in the family?
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| Grime
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We do share a hatred for the shrill sound of whiny frog children. You should leave.
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| Sprig
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Nope, Sasha asked me to be here, and she's in charge. I mean, aren't you just a foot soldier now?
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| Grime
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ALRIGHT! I've heard enough out of you, you little-
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| (Sasha and Anne make it in time.)
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| Sasha
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Hey, guys! (pants) Okay, change of plans.
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| (Something starts blowing towards them. A bug bird lands right near the Plantars'. Beatrix pops up and falls while yelling.)
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| Grime
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Oh, boy... (gets tackled by her) Get off. Get off!
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| Beatrix
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(plays with his head) What's the matter, Grimothy? All toads love a good wrestle. Or did hanging out with these frogs make you soft? But seriously, Sasha, what do you want?
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| Sasha
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Anne. Drumroll, please. (Anne plays the drumroll app) As commander of the Wartwood Resistance, I propose you join our frog army. And together, we take down Andrias!
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| Beatrix
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(stands up letting Grime breathe and then walks over to Sasha) Toads serving in a frog army? It doesn't make any sense! I mean last time I checked, frogs couldn't even fight.
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| Sprig
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(approaches her) Can't fight, eh?
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| Grime
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Shh... (whispering to him) No... NOO!
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| Sprig
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If we can't fight, then how'd I beat Grime in a one-on-one duel?
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| Beatrix
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YOU WHAT?! That only proves my point. Living with frogs has made my brother laughably weak. (plays with Grime's head while laughing and returns to the insect) Thanks for wasting my time.
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| Grime
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Not so fast! (jumps up to intervene, then yells and punches himself in the chest, vocalizes with his mouth, then punches a Soldier Toad to take his sword and makes a circle around her with it and finally anchors the sword to it)
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| Sasha
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Uuh... what is happening right now?
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| Toad Soldier
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He has invoked the sacred law of toad challenge. (retrieves the sword, causing Grime to briefly lose his balance)
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| Beatrix
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(sighs) And I am honor-bound to accepted it. State your terms, brother.
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| Grime
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Standard one-on-one arena combat. Loser's army joined the winner's.
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| Beatrix
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Deal, but it won't be you who I fight.
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| Grime
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Eehh... what?
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| Beatrix
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Wartime law says I may choose any of your allies to fight in your stead.
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| Anne and Sasha
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What?
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| Beatrix
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And I (turns around and stretches out her hands) choose... (pointing Anne) Eenie... (pointing Sasha) meenie... (pointing Anne) minie... (points Sprig) FROG! If this little guy wins, we'll join your army, but if I win, you have to join OUR army... as cannon fodder! (laughs as she goes to the bug along with her two soldiers) I'll return at dawn for our battle. Later, soon-to-be losers!
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| (Beatrix and her soldiers leave on the bug. Anne and Sasha end up dramatized, Grime nervous and Sprig indifferent.)
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| Grime
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(nervous) Guess I should've brushed up on toad law. (chuckles)
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| Sasha
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You just bet... the whole rebellion... ON A CAGE MATCH?!
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| Anne
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And put Sprig's life down as collateral?!
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| Sprig
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Meh... I'm pretty sure I can take her.
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| Anne, Sasha and Grime
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WHAT?!
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| Sprig
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(points him) I beat Grime and I'll beat her too.
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| Grime
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You barely beat me amidst a chaotic siege. (crosses his arms) Arena matches are a different beast.
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| Sasha
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(as she puts her left hand on his right shoulder) Grime, you were a gladiator. Can you show Sprig the ropes?
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| Sprig
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I don't need fighting lessons from Grime! He can't even stop Beatrix from giving him noogies!
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| Grime
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Fine with me! (approaches him) Have fun batting the toughest toad in Amphibia!
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| Sasha
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(intervenes them) ENOUGH! I'm making a decree. (Anne takes out a pencil and paper and writes down what she is going to dictate) I hereby order Grime and Sprig to go spend the night training. If they decide to pout like babies instead, they'll be banished... (with an intimidating face) FOREVER!!! (echoes) Or at least until the war starts.
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| Anne
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(passes her the pencil and shows her the paper) Tough but fair. Your co-signature. (Sasha puts the signature) (shows Sprig and Grime the decree) It's official! (she and Sasha make them go to another place) Happy training, you two.
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| Grime
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Boooooooo!
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| Sprig
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This is so unfair.
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| (Grime and Sprig groan at each other repeatedly.)
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| Grime
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Alright, I don't like you and you don't like me, but can we please try to let bygones be bygones?
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| Sprig
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NOPE!
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| Grime
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(Feeling the sting of Sprig's response) Oooooh!
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| Sprig
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You've extorted my town for years, imprisoned us when we fought back, and tried to kill my Hop Pop!
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| Grime
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Oh yeah?! Well you haven't exactly been great to me either! I know it was you who put poison ivy on my codpiece.
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| Sprig
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YOU TRIED... TO KILL... MY HOP POP!!!
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| Grime
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HE WAS... A POLITICAL... LIABILITY!!!
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| Sprig
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(sighs) Okay. This is getting old. (Sitting on top of Grime's head) Guess you might as well teach me your "special" toad tactics.
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| Grime
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We actually do call them special toad tactics, so sarcasm denied.
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| Sprig
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Dang it!
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| (The montage starts as Sprig trains for combat. Grime starts with balancing two buckets of water on his shoulder, and Sprig tries to do the same, but slipped, and ended up with two buckets on his head. Then, Grime continues Sprig's training by stretching his tongue, and breaking a boulder embedded on the ground, and Sprig failed by sticking his tongue that grapples back, reeling Sprig into the boulder. Finally, Grime tenses his abs for Sprig's punch. Sprig punches his abs, but his hand throbs and he screams, while Grime shakes his head in disapproval. He cracks his knuckles to know that it's his turn. Sprig tenses his abs, but Grime easily punches him into the tree trunk, upside down, and stuck for a moment.)
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| Grime
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I said tense your abs. Tense them!
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| Sprig
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(groans) This isn't working.
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| Grime
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You think? Your small frog body is too frail for traditional toad conditioning.
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| (Sprig slides along the trunk to the ground, and recovers.)
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| Sprig
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Then maybe I don't need to fight like a dumb toad.
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| Grime
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Say "dumb toad" again.
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| Sprig
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Dumb toa-- (Gets elbowed by Grime, and screams until he lands on the ground) That's it! I'm outta here. I'll figure out how to beat Beatrix on my own!
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| Grime
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(While Sprig hops away, branch-to-branch) No, you won't. And now it won't be my fault when you get maimed.
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| (Grime quietly sits on the stump for a brief moment.)
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| Grime
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HOW DID I LOSE TO THAT BRAT!?!
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| (That yell was so loud, it scared the birds away, and one of the trees around Grime fell down. Meanwhile, Sprig punches a sad-face looking stump two times in different directions, and ends it with a kick)
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| Sprig
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Take that! And that! And this!
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| (A yellow gel seeps from the crack Sprig made.)
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| Sprig
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Huh? (Takes a drop of yellow gel and tastes it) Ah, it's honey.
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| (Just then, a growling is heard. He looks up to see a hybeena comes out of the stump, growling, and eventually, before he realizes, other hybeenas have surrounded them.)
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| Sprig
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(screams) Oh, crud! I'm smack-dab in the middle of a hybeena nest!
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| (Sprig screams as the hybeenas corner him, and are about to eat them, but Grime charges and swiftly swats them away.)
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| Sprig
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Grime? How did you find me?
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| Grime
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I heard your shrill, annoying yell from across the forest.
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| Sprig
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Hurtful, but okay.
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| (The hybeenas attack, but they instantly spring into action. One by one, Sprig incapacitated the hybeenas, with the last hybeena whimpering as he leapt over the bushes, and makes a dramatic explosion.)
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| Grime
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That speed. It's actually impressive.
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| (A hybeena stung Grime in the back, along with the other hybeenas joining in. Caved in, Grime grows red, and grits his teeth more until he has enough, and yells loudly as he blows a number of hybeenas back. Sprig is impressed by this, but soon encounters a new wave of hybeenas. Grime and Sprig worked together and took down the hybeenas side-by-side until they defeated them, and the hybeenas run away. They both cheer, knowing that they're victorious.)
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| Both
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Whoo!
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| Grime
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(sighs) Good battle.
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| Sprig
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Yeah. We whooped their little bee booties.
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| Grime
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I gotta say, you pack a lot of speed and accuracy in that tiny body.
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| Sprig
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(chuckles) And you! You took that hit and gave it back to them twofold. How'd you do that?
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| Grime
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Toads are trained from a very young age to let rage give you strength. It funneled correctly, it can be a secret weapon!
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| Sprig
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Wow, that's pretty cool. (moment of silence) Maybe I could learn a thing or two from you.
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| Grime
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Yes. And I think maybe I've been training you all wrong. Instead of molding you into the perfect toad, I should be focusing on your strengths as a frog. Speed, agility, being annoying.
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| Sprig
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(offers a hand) Well, Grimothy, wanna give this whole thing another shot?
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| Grime
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(shakes Sprig's hand) Indeed. (gets up on Sprig's face) But call me Grimothy again (in a deep, demonic voice) and I'll EAT YOU ALIVE.
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| Sprig
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(chuckles) Wow.
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| (Another montage starts, but this time, with promising results. Sprig hops from one to another faster and faster, and then punches Grime's hand. Grime responds with a "so-so" gesture, then looks at the tree, and gets an idea. Sprig uses his tongue to grapple around the branch, and swings around and around and around, then launches himself with speed in the air, grappling onto a carrying pole with two buckets of water, and launches it into the boulder, smashing it)
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| Grime
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(impressed) Hachi machi! Ooh! (gets double-punched by Sprig, and crashes into a tree.)
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| Sprig
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Grime! Are you okay?
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| Grime
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Whoo! You're ready.
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| (By dawn, a cage match is started, with frogs of the Resistance cheering for Sprig and toads cheering for Beatrix. Sasha, along with the team, is shown in their cheerleading outfits, and cheering for their champion with pom-poms.)
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| Sasha
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♪ Kickin' butt and takin' names ♪ ♪ We're the school they call Saint James! ♪
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| (Sasha and the team make a pyramid.)
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| Hop Pop
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You didn't even rewrite the song?
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| Sasha
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I'm very busy, Hop Pop! Whoa!
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| (Sasha loses balance, and the team falls down, except for the big frog. Then, at Grub n' Go, Anne gets Sprig ready by putting his battle armor on him.)
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| Anne
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Here you go, bud. Looking intimidating.
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| Sprig
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What do you think, big guy? Do I have a chance here?
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| Grime
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Realistically, no. But you frogs always surprise me.
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| (Grime pats Sprig in the back. Sprig, then, walks away, and towards the arena.)
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| Sprig
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So, like, a 5% chance?
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| (A bug bird drops the cage in, with Sprig walks in the arena, with the frogs cheering and the toads booing.)
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| Beatrix
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(armed with two axes) Don't worry, little frog. I'll make this quick.
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| Sprig
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We'll see who's quick.
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| (Polly rings Frobo's head.)
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| Anne
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Begin match!
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| (Beatrix, then, proceeded to attack Sprig aggressively, but Sprig dodges every hit that Beatrix can make. Sprig, then, grapples into the air with his tongue.)
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| Beatrix
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Can't dodge every hit!
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| (Sprig launches some projectiles in the air with his slingshot, but it did nothing to Beatrix.)
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| Beatrix
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All that speed, but no strength behind it. (Watching Sprig swing to and fro) This is why you don't stand a chance!
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| (Beatrix is finally hit, making her confused and disoriented.)
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| Beatrix
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What the-- (Watches Sprig fly all over the cage in quick succession; surprised) I've never seen this before. From frog or toad.
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| Sprig
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(leaping straight up, out of the cage) That's because it's frog and toad!
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| (Sprig, then tongue-grapples back in the cage, hitting Beatrix repeatedly. Finally, he grapples into the bar, and spins around and around.)
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| Beatrix
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Impressive, (Puts down her axes) but you forget one thing...
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| (Sprig attempts to kick Beatrix, but is instead grabbed for a hug.)
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| Beatrix
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We toads love a good WRESTLE!
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| (The crowd gasps in shock)
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| Anne
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Sprig!
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| (Beatrix laughs as she hugs Sprig as hard as she can, suffocating him and cracking his spine.)
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| Beatrix
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Looks like you've let everyone down, frog, surprising no one.
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| (Sprig desperately looks around the shocking audience until he looks at Grime, who gives gestures on what to do next.)
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| Grime
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(retrospective voice) Let rage give you strength. If you funnel it correctly, it can be a secret weapon.
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| (Sprig gives a determined look, and turns red, as he begins to break out of Beatrix's hold, pulling her arms back like a slingshot.)
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| Beatrix
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(befuddled) What? What the--
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| (With one defiant, enraged scream, Sprig launches himself, and delivers a powerful headbutt that knocks Beatrix out cold, making the crowd gasp...)
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| Polly
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(ringing Frobo's head thrice) Sprig wins! Sprig wins!
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| (...and cheers, and celebrates their new champion as the bug bird lifts up the cage, and flies off.)
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| Sasha
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(clapping) Whoo!
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| Anne
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(doing a rock pose) That was amazing, dude!
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| Sprig
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Well, I couldn't have done it without Grime's training.
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| Grime
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Dang right. (brief silence, then laughs) No, I'm totally kidding. (Brings Sprig in for a noogie, and Sprig laughs) Great job, Sprig.
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| Beatrix
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Ahem! I have to admit, that frog-toad fighting style really was impressive. Perhaps our armies united will be stronger as well. Commander, I pledge my troops to fight for the Resistance.
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| (Grateful, Sasha respectfully bows to Beatrix.)
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| Hop Pop
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Wow! Who would've thought? Frogs and toads on equal footing.
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| Grime
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I know this undercuts the lesson, but it's too good to pass up. (begins gloating and dancing over Beatrix; in a sing-song voice) ♪ You got beat by a frog! ♪ ♪ Beatrix lost to a frog. ♪ ♪ A puny little-- ♪
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| (Beatrix swiftly bonks Grime's head, making him lie on the ground, face-first. She, then, returns back to base with her toad army.)
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| Beatrix
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Okay. See you when the war starts.
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| (The Wartwood Resistance, then, said 'goodbye' to their new allies.)
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| Sasha
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Bye!
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| Sprig
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Drive safe!
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| (The episode ends.)
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