"Eww! Frog tongue!" Roxy cried.
Roxy pulled herself from the tongue just as the frog's mouth closed.
Snap!
"Eww! Eww! Eww!" cried Roxy, jumping back down to the street.
"This is so gross!
I don't think I can—"
Another frog tongue flicked toward Roxy. Thwap!
"Whoa!" she cried, jumping out of the way.
Thwap!
"Aah!" Roxy yelled, looking around.
Giant frogs crept everywhere.
"How am I going to get rid of all these frogs?" Roxy wondered.
"If they were anything else—squirrels, chipmunks, turtles—no problem.
I would just pick them up.
But I do not want to touch any frogs!"
Ribbit! Ribbit!
A fat green frog with brown spots stared at Roxy.
Roxy took a step back.
But then she realized another frog was behind her.
She looked in the alley to her right.
A frog was squeezed between the two buildings.
To Roxy's left, another frog croaked.
Roxy was surrounded.
Everywhere she looked, she saw the bulging eyes of frogs.
They all stared at her.
"Ugh!" said Roxy.
"This is the grossest mission I've ever been on!"
Detective Smith called to her.
"Rocket Girl! Are you okay?"
"Of course I'm not okay!" yelled Roxy.
"I'm about to be frog food!"
All at once the frogs' sticky tongues shot out. Thwap!
Roxy blasted straight up, getting out of the way just in time.
Below her the four frogs were stuck together.
"Ha-ha!" Roxy laughed.
Croak! A very slimy frog jumped into the air after Roxy.
Roxy flew fast.
The slimy frog hopped along the tops of buildings.
Wherever Roxy flew, the frog hopped.
Roxy zigzagged through the air with the frog right behind her.
Soon Roxy flew over the lake in Metro City Park.
"What happened to the lake?" Roxy wondered.
"The water is purple!"
Just then another frog leaped from behind a tree.
It smashed into Roxy and sent her crashing down into the lake.
While Roxy was underwater, she saw something odd.
A mysterious rock sat on the lake floor.
The rock glowed bright purple.
"That looks like a meteor," thought Roxy.
As she studied the meteor, she began to feel strange.
"What's going on?" Roxy wondered, becoming dizzy.
She felt as if she was moving really fast.
But she wasn't moving at all.
"Uh-oh!" thought Roxy. "I think I'm growing!"