Travelling to new lands

Episode 31: Children of the Spore

In Hop-pop's room, Hop-pop resides building a boat replica, sighing he removed the glasses that were used for getting the minor details and said, "Well, after five years of work on this gal, I might actually finish." As if timed, the window nearby broke as a ball was shot through, Hop-pop grabbed the boat and dodged the ball, "My baby! Whew! That was close." Hop-pop said, relieved that it was not damaged, "Oh shit- sorry, Hop-pop, " Pika apologised, "We're trying to teach Polly how to play kickball." Pika explained, "which is challenging for obvious reasons." Sprig points out, "Dang it, kids! What have I told you about roughhousing near the windows? Now, come inside and play a quiet game. Hop Pop's working." Hop-pop scolded the kids, "i can see that. the toy boat isn't hard to miss, looks nice, by the way. " Pika points out, "It's not a 'toy boat,' Pika. It's a replica of a famous warship." Hop-pop corrected "same same." Pika rebutted, Both Pika and Polly left the broken window to enter the house, Sprig was about to touch the boat replica, "Scram!" Hop-pop yelled at Sprig, Hop-pop was about to continue his boat replica, but then the doors busted open, "Tongue tag! If you get tongued, you lose." Sprig said as Pika and Polly ran in to avoid being tongue tagged, "Wait! No. Kids, cut it out. I said a quiet game. No!" Hop-pop yelled but no one listened they were to invested in the tongue tag game, Polly then hopped onto the table the ship was on, Sprig went to tag her but she jumped away and Sprig knocked down the ship instead, when the ship broke Hop-pop screamed "Oops" Sprig said with his tongue still out seeing what he did "Why don't you kids ever listen to me?" Hop-pop said, angry, "Okay. Everything's fine. We can still fix her. To Loggle's!" He said.

At Loggle's:

Hop-pop stopped in front of Loggle's store, "Okay, I'm going in. give Bessie some mushroom treats if she acts up." Hop-pop told the kids as he handed a bag of mushroom treats to Pika, "you got it, " Pika said, assuring Hop-pop, Hop-pop bursts though the door saying "Loggle! You've gotta help me save her." When he placed the ship replica down, Loggle pulled down his goggles and asked, "Is that a 1/80 scale model of The Green Lady?" "Yeah! And she's damaged!" Hop-pop replied, "Wait here. I have just the thing." Loggle told Hop-pop, Hop-pop stood worried for The Green Lady ship replica, "Excuse me, sir." A hooded frog said, scaring Hop-pop, "Oh. Uh, hello." Hop-pop greeted the frog, "Is that your snail out there?" The hooded frog asked as they pointed to Bessie outside, who was going in circles as the kids were still on, Sprig and Polly were laughing and Pika was on their phone reading, Pika then heard sirens and looked up to see a police officer.
Hop-pop just facepalmed, "Those kids are driving me insane." Hop-pop said with a sigh, "Unruly kids, is it? Well, allow me to introduce myself. I'm Apothecary Gary. You can also call me Apothe-Gary if you'd like." Apothe-Gary introduced himself, "Yeah, I'm not doin' that." Hop-pop told Gary, "Well, suit yourself. Anyway, I've got just the thing for your troubles. Just rub a little of this on their foreheads, and your kids'll be behaving in a jiffy. See, it has these special enzymes--" Gary said explaining but got cut off. "Enzymes? Ol' Hopediah's not fallin' for no scam." Hop-pop said, not believing the Gary guy. "Oh, it's not a scam. I guarantee, once you've tried it, you won't be able to live without it." Gary told Hop-pop, Hop-pop inspected the goop as he said. "Eh, I don't know. In my experience, this kind of malarkey never-" Hop-pop then looked up to see no more Apothe-Gary, he looked around for a moment and saw no frog, "Apothe-Gary?" Hop-pop uttered, confused where the frog went, Loggle then opened the door that led into his workshop. "Here we go, Hopediah." Loggle said, scaring Hop-pop.

Hop-pop walked out of Loggle's shop with the ship in a box. "Did you get everything, Hop Pop?" Sprig asked. "Yup. Now, all I need is a quiet afternoon to fix this old gal." Hop-pop answered. "Well, listen, we'll be on our best behaviour." Sprig told Hop-pop, "Mhm, the least we can do is let you finish that after however long it took, " Pika added. "We're sorry, Hop Pop." Polly apologised, but then she pulled out a ticket. "This is yours, by the way." she added. "Thanks, kids. For the apology, not the ticket." Hop-pop thanked, the kids cheered, Hop-pop pulled out the elixir. "Guess I won't be needin' this stuff after all." he said to himself, but then Bessie tried to eat it."Hey, shoo, girl. This ain't a snack." He told Bessie.