A Tale to Astonish

A Tale to Astonish is the ninth episode of the first season of TFAWPS. It is the ninth episode overall.

Plot
After Bart and Agent Yellow mess up another shard retrieval mission, Zack pairs them with Dr. Robotnik to shrink them down and infiltrate TFAWPS Tower at micro size.

Synopsis
Sonic, Mofo, and Buster chase Bart and Agent Yellow throughout the streets of Ooo after their latest attempt to steal the shard. Mofo tries to take down Bart, while Buster focuses on Agent Yellow. Sonic saves a group of civilians, while Mofo and Buster continue fighting. After a brief airborne battle, Mofo and Buster are able to knock Agent Yellow and Bart out of the battle, but Buster falls from the sky, landing pretty hard on the ground next to Sonic, but reassures him that he's okay.

During a training session at TFAWPS Tower, Buster sits gloomily in the training room while Paco and Wally run a simulation. Paco and Wally try to encourage Buster to join in, but he instead leaves the training room. Buster looks out the window and is approached by Oscar and Phoebe where they ask him what's wrong. Buster tells them that he feels like he's the weakest person there and says how people like Sonic and Pink Panther would be able to fall from that height and get up perfectly okay. Oscar reassures him that he has contributed to many of their past victories, but Buster says that he was just there to watch and Phoebe reassures him that he's not useless and he is an important member of the team. Buster says that maybe some video games would cheer him up and he heads to his room. On his way, he notices Sonic has brought the shard to TFAWPS Tower to study and goes to investigate but trips and falls causing the shard to drop out of Sonic's hands.

In Zack's Lair, Zack chews out Agent Yellow and Bart for messing up another retrieval mission. Zack says that from now on, Agent Yellow and Bart need to work more closely with Dr. Robotnik since he is far smarter than either of them will ever be. Agent Yellow and Bart both complain, but Zack quickly silences them. Zack says that Dr. Robotnik has discovered a way to shrink and grow particles at his command and that this is how they will steal the shard. Agent Yellow, Bart, and Dr. Robotnik shrink down and depart from the lair.

Sonic is having a conversation with Buster about the shard, reminding him that they are dangerous, as Agent Yellow, Bart, and Dr. Robotnik sneak past them, shrink down the shard, grab it, and escape, just as Sonic says that he wants the shard out of TFAWPS Tower. Buster points out that the shard has gone missing and Sonic orders the entire tower to be locked down so that "not even a dust mite can escape."

As the Dark Order members make their way out of the HQ, passing Pink Panther, Paco, and Wally along the way, they are stopped at the last second by a closing window. Sonic and Buster run through the HQ with Sonic saying that he knows how they can shrink down and find the Dark Order. Sonic brings Pink Panther, Buster, Oscar, and Phoebe along to meet Lupina who uses a detector to see if they can find any strange occurrences. Lupina's detector brings them to the kitchen, where Buster complains about having to search every inch of the kitchen. Sonic says that even if they catch the bad guys the shard will be too small to see. Lupina then suggests they shrink down to their level.

Lupina then shrinks down herself, Sonic, Buster, Pink Panther, Oscar, and Phoebe and they begin searching the kitchen. While looking around, Phoebe notices a small helicopter crash into the window and explode. Sonic sends Buster to investigate. Agent Yellow, Bart, and Dr. Robotnik complain about being stuck in close quarters inside their now crashed helicopter and they climb out, with Dr. Robotnik dropping the shard in the process. Dr. Robotnik then takes out a high intensity explosive rocket and aims it directly at Buster. Lupina sees this however and warns the others.

They jump into action, with Pink Panther using his claws to destroy Dr. Robotnik's weapon. Sonic goes after the shard, but Dr. Robotnik uses a Levitator to steal the shard away from him, with Lupina chastising him for stealing another of her inventions, with Dr. Robotnik commenting that he improved her invention. TFAWPS give chase to the Dark Order, but Bart pushes Buster into a stick of butter, but Buster throws a piece of bread at Dr. Robotnik causing him to fall into a jar of salsa. Sonic, Pink Panther, Oscar, and Phoebe rush over to the salsa jar as Buster tries to get up, but Agent Yellow shoots a laser at him and falls back in. Agent Yellow and Bart try to get to the salsa, but are too small and smack up against the jar and fall to the ground.

Meanwhile, Mega Man moves throughout the locked down HQ with Wally, asking him to teach him how to make quesadillas, not having them in other regions of space.

Back in the kitchen, Agent Yellow suggests that he and Bart just leave Dr. Robotnik behind and escape, but Bart reminds him about what Zack said if they return to him without a shard again and Agent Yellow reluctantly turns around to find Dr. Robotnik. They pass by Mega Man and Wally who are making quesadillas. Mega Man flicks Bart and Agent Yellow away, mistaking them for ants. As Wally explains his recipe, Pink Panther emerges from the salsa with nothing followed by Lupina, Sonic, Oscar, and Phoebe who also came up with nothing. They notice a stray onion moving by itself and tackle it, revealing it to be Dr. Robotnik. Just then, Agent Yellow and Bart arrive and surprise attack them, splashing into the salsa. Dr. Robotnik tries to swim away, but is quickly stopped by Sonic, Pink Panther, and Oscar.

As Wally heats up a tortilla, he tells Mega Man that he needs to make sure the salsa is mixed and reaches for a spoon and starts mixing the salsa. As Wally mixes the salsa, Sonic and Pink Panther try to break the spoon, while everyone else is sent spinning in a circle, but the two are then thrown from the spoon and Dr. Robotnik grabs it.

Meanwhile, Paco wakes up from a nap and smells the quesadillas being made and heads toward the kitchen.

As Wally finishes mixing, he picks up the spoon, causing Dr. Robotnik to fall off and land on Bart and Lupina. Paco then enters the kitchen and Wally tells him that the quesadillas aren't ready yet, so Paco decides to snack on some chips and salsa. As Paco reaches for the salsa, Mega Man grabs the jar away and tells Paco to wait until it's done. Wally then tells Mega Man to spread the salsa on the tortilla. He pours the salsa onto the tortilla with everyone falling out. Wally then says that they need to crush some of the peppers with a fork and brings a fork right down on Bart. Wally and Mega Man begin and Paco asks them what the noise is and Wally says that's the flavors being brought together. Agent Yellow notices the shard and makes his way toward it but both the shard and Dr. Robotnik are knocked out of the tortilla by a spoon.

When Wally and Mega Man finish mixing, the rest of the group climbs out. Lupina informs them that the shrinking gun has salsa in it and Sonic realizes that they are stuck at this size. Wally, Mega Man, and Paco prepare the cheese and jalapenos. As Wally cuts the jalapeno, Dr. Robotnik plans to use his shrinking gun to return to normal size and crush TFAWPS, but as he says so, a jalapeno falls on him and crushes the shrinking gun. Paco then picks up the jalapeno piece with Dr. Robotnik and the shard hanging off of it.

Buster climbs out of the butter and makes his way towards his teammates. Everyone then heads towards Paco's finger before Paco is able to sniff the jalapeno, inhaling Dr. Robotnik and the shard. Buster then saves Lupina, just as Paco sniffs, inhaling Sonic, Pink Panther, Oscar, Phoebe, Bart, Agent Yellow, and Dr. Robotnik.

Inside Paco's nose, Dr. Robotnik tries to escape with the shard, moving deeper inside Paco's nose. Pink Panther then clears the way through Paco's nose hairs towards Dr. Robotnik. Meanwhile, Buster and Lupina try to come up with a way to get everyone out of Paco's nose without picking it and they decide to make him sneeze. Buster and Lupina take some crushed red pepper and fly it in front of Paco's nose, which causes Paco to sneeze everyone and the shard out, all over Wally and Mega Man's quesadilla. Paco then goes to eat it anyway, but Buster yells into Paco's ear saying to check his food before he eats it. Paco hears Buster's voice and checks the food, saying that he sees bugs on it. Wally and Mega Man take a closer look and realize that it's Sonic, Pink Panther, Oscar, Phoebe, Bart, Agent Yellow, and Dr. Robotnik. Paco, still thinking it's bugs, shakes them off the quesadilla. Buster quickly rushes in and grabs the shard as Lupina manages to fix the shrinking gun and grows TFAWPS back to normal size. Pink Panther then hands Wally the quesadilla saying that the Dark Order is still on there. Wally then shakes Agent Yellow, Bart, and Dr. Robotnik into the crushed red pepper.

They then drop the Dark Order members out of the sky at Zack's Lair and return home. Mega Man takes the shard back to City Hall. Lupina says that this adventure was fun and that TFAWPS should let her join them on the field more often and Pink Panther sarcastically replies with "absolutely not." Oscar and Phoebe congratulate Buster for saving everyone while being the size of an insect. Paco confusedly asks what's going on and Sonic tells him that Buster will be happy to fill him in while the two of them clean up the kitchen.

On Fin-Land, Ted looks out onto the Land of Ooo saying to himself that he hopes he hasn't missed anything too big.

Characters

 * Sonic
 * Ted
 * Pink Panther
 * Paco
 * Mofo
 * Buster
 * Oscar
 * Phoebe
 * Lupina
 * Wally
 * Mega Man
 * Dr. Robotnik
 * Agent Yellow
 * Bart
 * Zack

Trivia

 * The title of this episode is a reference to the Marvel comic Tales to Astonish, which debut the character of Ant-Man, who possesses the ability to shrink.


 * This is the first episode of the series in which Pig King does not appear.