Episode 28

**Episode 28** of Forever After is the twenty-eighth episode in the series.

## Summary

Robin and Tank meet the Blue Caterpillar and eat some mushrooms to regain their human height.

## Plot

As Tank flies himself and Robin to a path lined with mushrooms, he compliments Robin on her quickly thinking to use her sword to play fetch with the dog, and Robin says she's glad they aren't puppy chow. Tank gently sets Robin down on the path, and Robin comments on how overrated being really small is with Tank grumpily telling her that no one had ever rated it highly.

Robin cheerfully tells him that they need to find something to eat or drink so they both can get taller, and Tank admits that he likes the idea, so Robin heads over to the nearby mushrooms. Just as she is about to take a bit, a Blue Caterpillar smoking a hookah asks Robin if she is certain that she wants to do that, startling her back to Tank, who asks if it's a bug or a person, and the caterpillar says it prefers the term 'Baby Butterfly'.

Tank apologizes for interrupting, and Baby Butterfly asks who they are. Tank quietly reminds Robin that the Wicked Witch has eyes everywhere, so Robin says they're no one. Baby Butterfly everyone is someone, unless you were itself, and Robin asks if Baby Butterfly wasn't someone. Baby Butterfly replies that it is almost someone and can feel a great transformation coming before asking who they are again.

Tank replies that they are nobody important, and Baby Butterfly notes that they are just as confused as the last person it talked to, the hookah smoke around them forming into the shape of Alice, who Tank recognizes. Baby Butterfly says it wouldn't know since it never got a name despite asking several times, and found Alice to be rather vague.

Robin notes that she hasn't met Alice yet, and Baby Butterfly admits that it finds humans peculiar for wanting to be bigger or smaller, ever going round and round. Robin waves the smoke away as she asks if they should apologize for wanting things and that she wasn't content to sit around on mushrooms all day, which Tank teasingly notes that she did want to do that until 5 seconds ago.

Baby Butterfly asks if they want to nibble on the stool it was resting on, which Robin and Tank confirm, but wish it had been phrased differently. As Baby Butterfly lays down to begin it's change into a chrysalis, it offers a bit of advice, saying that growing isn't meant to be easy and that if one tries to rush their chrysalis, no one knows what they'll end up like on the other side. As Baby Butterfly finishes speaking, a white chrysalis completely envelops it, beginning it's transformation into a butterfly.

Robin reaches for the mushrooms again, and Tank asks how she knows the mushroom won't make them smaller. Robin thinks it over, and recalls that one side of the mushroom will make them grow, and the other side will make them shrink. Since they don't know which side, Robin takes some of the top of the mushroom, and Tanks takes some of the bottom.

Tank grows into a giant, breaking a tree branch, and Robin shrinks even more. Tank kneels down and quickly picks Robin up as she demands mushrooms from the other side, and Tank comments that she is almost more endearing at this size. A pigeon attacks Tank, calling him a serpent as she demands that he keeps away from her eggs. Tank ducks out of the way and sets Robin back on the ground, giving her some of the bottom half of the mushroom and eating some of the top half.

Robin grows and Tank shrinks, both reaching their appropriate human height. Tank comments that it feels good to be back to normal as he stretches his arms above his head, and Robin points out that he is still enormous, leading to Tank teasing Robin about realizing that he was actually taller than her in real life. Robin tells the fly-man to get off her, and the pair start laughing as Hira checks in on them with her spying spell, asking if they're having fun and hopes they haven't forgotten their purpose in Wonderland.

Robin says they haven't forgotten, and Hira points out they are nowhere near the Castle of Cards as Robin points out that Wonderland isn't easy to navigate. Hira rolls her eyes as she comments on how unreliable heroes are, and uses her spell to show Robin and Tank a map. They need to cross the forest, sneak through the croquet gardens, and enter the Queen of Hearts' rooms in the tallest turret of the castle.

Robin inquires if that is where she'll find what Hira wants, and Hira tells Robin she'll know it when she sees it. Robin says they'll get it as Tank whispers what Hira wants them to do is wrong before glaring at the witch, who tells them to not feel bad for the Queen of Hearts, who's heart won't feel anything when she asks for their heads.

## Important Events

* Robin and Tank meet the Blue Caterpillar, who prefers to be called 'Baby Butterfly'
* Tank and Robin regain their human heights

## Characters

Robin

Tank

The Blue Caterpillar

Wicked Witch (Mentioned)

Alice (Cameo)

Hira

Queen of Hearts (Cameo)

## Credits

*Written by Violet Matter*

*Storyboarding by Valery Yu*

*Art by Hannah Patten*

Backgrounds by Megan Roberts

*Lettering by Kylie Hunsinger*

*Copy editing by Kat Vendetti*

*Produced by Quinn Sosna-Spear and Wil Kennedy*