Darla and Amber were walking home from school together, there was then an ant carrying a leaf in front of them.

"Ew, a bug, kill it!" Darla cringed before letting her foot out to stomp and crush the insect.

"No, don't hurt it!" Amber stopped her best friend, then smiled to the ant. "Go ahead, little fella, go to your Queen."

The ant then seemed to smile to her and kept going off.

"Why didn't you want me to crush it?" Darla asked.

"Because, it's still a living thing..." Amber said. "Besides, ants have a hard enough life as it is."

"It's a bug..." Darla deadpanned.

"Bugs have a harder life than we do..." Amber shrugged.

"Oh, come on, how hard could their life be?" Darla asked.

"Sounds like someone needs an adventure with in a bug's life." Atticus said as he appeared.

Darla and Amber turned around to see Atticus.

Cherry was lazily chewing gum. "What's this about bugs?"

"I'm about to change myself, Darla, and Amber into bugs so then Darla can understand a bug's life." Atticus said.

"Hey!" Darla frowned.

Cherry snickered and laughed out loud. "Oh, man, have fun with that! So glad I won't be here for that, if anyone hates bugs more than the average person, it's me!"

"I know," Atticus said before looking to the girls. "We'll be ants for this adventure."

Cherry kept laughing.

Atticus narrowed his eyes. "You can stop now."

Cherry put a finger up and kept laughing while Darla and Amber started to look annoyed. Atticus soon smirked as he used his magic to shrink him, Darla, Amber, and Cherry down to the size of ants and each of them were even changed into ants.

"What the?!" Cherry asked before pouting.

"I think you could learn to like bugs too, Cherry." Atticus said.

"What about spiders?!" Cherry's eyes widened.

Darla looked surprised. "An emo is afraid of spiders?"

"Let's just get going to the rest of the ants." Atticus said.

"And I'm not an emo..." Cherry narrowed her eyes. "I'm a goth."

"What's the difference?" Amber asked.

"Uh-oh." Atticus said.

"WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?!" Cherry glared.

"Now you've done it." Darla sighed.

Cherry ranted to Amber as Atticus took the lead to find a location known as Ant Island.

Cherry continued to rant while they followed Atticus. "And that's the difference..." she then concluded to Amber.

"Wow..." Amber said as that was a lot to take in.

"Atticus, where are we?" Darla asked. "I want my after school snack..."

"We've made it to Ant Island." Atticus said.

"Ant Island?" Darla and Amber asked.

"Where the ants don't get food for the queen, these ants must get food for the grasshoppers." Cherry said.

"What, why? There are thousands of ants and well, about I think 50 grasshoppers." Amber said.

"That's what we're going to find out.' Cherry said.

"How do you guys know so much about this place?" Darla asked.

"I did a little exploring earlier and found it." Atticus said.

"And he wouldn't shut up about it." Cherry then said dryly.

"What can I say? It was interesting." Atticus said.

"Why are we doing this?" Darla asked. "Bugs don't have feelings."

"Trust me, you'll find out that they do." Atticus said as they continued their way and saw many ants at work.

The ants appeared to walk on two legs while carrying foods above them.

One leaf fell which made one of the ants scream out. "I'M LOST, WHERE'S THE LINE?!"

"They're joking, right?" Darla asked.

The other ants panicked at this while Darla didn't see what the big deal was.

"Do not panic, do not panic," one ant told the ones behind the leaf. "We are trained professionals. Now stay calm. We are going around the leaf."

"A-Around the leaf?" one panicking ant asked. "I-I don't think we can do that."

"Some of these ants are cowards, aren't they?" Darla whispered to Amber.

"You have a lot to learn..." Amber sighed as she cared for all creatures of the world, no matter what.

The ants took the lead ant's advice and they walked around the leaf with ease.

"Should we get rid of that leaf?" Amber asked Atticus.

Atticus went to the leaf and waited for the ants to pass and then removed it which allowed the other ants to walk by okay.

"I wonder where the queen is?" Amber hummed to herself.

"I thought only bees had queens?" Darla asked.

"No, no, usually food goes to the Queen Ant," Amber replied. "The Queen is very important in the insect world."

Darla pouted. "I wanna be a queen."

"I think that might be the queen." Cherry said as she saw two ants fanning two ants one of them was older than the other.

"Which one?" Amber asked, sounding fascinated.

"I'm gonna guess it's the older one." Cherry estimated.

"That would make sense." Atticus said.

Cherry, Atticus, Darla, and Amber came to the queen.

"Oh, I don't believe I recognize you all..." the Queen spotted the new ants on the island.

"Um, we're new around here, Your Highness." Atticus bowed.

"I can see that..." the Queen actually smiled. "Welcome to my island."

A tiny creature known as an aphid glared at the strangers and even barked at them.

"Oh, down, Aphie, these are new friends!" the Queen told her pet. "I'm sorry about that, dears."

"It's okay, Aphie, was it? Is just being protective." Atticus smiled.

"He gets that way around strangers sometimes..." the Queen smiled back.

Aphie then settled down to her and came back into her lap.

"Oh, you look so strong and noble, you remind me of my husband..." the Queen said before sighing sharply. "Bug rest his soul."

"My brother exercises a lot, he's probably the strongest per-ant of them all." Darla said.

"So I see..." the Queen smiled. "We could really use someone like you in our colony. I'd help a little more, but I need to train my daughter Atta."

"She seems a bit nervous and stressed." Atticus said as he noticed the queen's daughter, pacing left and right.

"Maybe you guys could help cheer her up?" the Queen suggested. "I'm not sure what else I can really do."

Atta got more nervous as she saw that there was a gap in the line. Darla and Amber came to see the older ant princess.

"Oh, winds died down," Princess Atta said nervously. "They'll be here soon."

"Just be confident, dear," the Queen soothed. "You'll be fine."

"She's right, Princess Atta, now just calm down and relax." Atticus added.

"THERE'S A GAP IN THE LINE!" Princess Atta panicked. "WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?!"

"I think I liked The Buzz on Maggie bugs on Disney Channel better." Darla whispered to Cherry.

"Same here." Cherry whispered back.

"Princess, it's going to be okay." Atticus said.

"Huh?" Princess Atta looked at him. "W-Who are you?"

"My name is Atticus and this is my little sister, Darla, her best friend, Amber and my best friend and sister figure, Cherry." Atticus introduced.

"Are you from another colony?" Princess Atta asked.

"I don't know where they came from, dear, but I think they can help us." the Queen told her elder daughter.

"We could really use the help." Atta said.

"Well, believe me, I can help." Atticus bowed.

"Why don't you girls play with my other daughter?" the Queen suggested as Darla and Amber looked bored.

"Other daughter?" Darla and Amber asked.

"Oh, Dot, could you come here, please?" the Queen called out.

They soon heard something coming from under the ground. Darla and Amber looked around.

There were two ants coming out from the ground who were then running. "Ditch, Dot!"

Darla and Amber jumped back in surprise.

"Hey, come back here!" a tiny ant girl with wings on her back chased after them. She began to try to fly after them, but she couldn't seem to fly.

"Dot!" the Queen scolded.

"Yes, Mother?" the young ant girl asked nervously.

"What did I tell you about trying to fly?" the Queen then prompted.

"Not until my wings grow fully..." Dot replied.

"Right." the Queen then nodded.

"But Mom!" Dot complained.

"Dot, you're a young queen ant and your wings are too little to be-" Princess Atta started to her younger sister.

"I was talking to Mother," Dot glared at her. "You're not the queen yet, Atta!"

"You should be nice to your sister." Darla said.

"She's right." the Queen agreed.

"It's not my fault she's always stressing out!" Dot scoffed.

"Well, being queen has lots of responsibilities, can you blame her for getting stressed?" Amber asked.

"Thank you, at least someone finally gets it." Princess Atta sounded relieved.

"Now just relax, everything is going to just fine, Your Majesty," Atticus said to Princess Atta before he saw something about to land on her. "Would mind moving over to my sister and our friends, Your Majesty?"

Princess Atta then shrugged and moved out of the way with the others to see what Atticus had to show her, and where she saw something land in front of them that would have landed on top of her.

"At least I'm not hurt." Cherry said innocently.

"I'll get this to the food supply." Atticus said.

"Oh, thank you, kind friend." the Queen smiled to Atticus.

Atticus soon lifted up the food that landed and then caught another one that came out of nowhere. The other ants seemed to enjoy this. Cherry rolled her eyes slightly.

"Excuse me! Would you watch where your throwing those!?" Darla called out to an ant that seemed to be using some device.

"Oh, uh, sorry..." the ant said nervously. "I'm sorry..."

"What is that thing?" Darla asked him then.

"This is an invention I made for harvesting grain." the ant smiled to her.

"Oh, no, it's Flik." One of the male ants groaned.

"Flik?" Darla asked. "That's a strange name."

"These ants might have strange names, but it's what they are named." Amber whispered.

Darla shrugged back to her best friend. The other ants seemed to hate Flik. Soon enough, Flik accidentally ran into Princess Atta and they seemed to get stuck to each other.

"I can already somehow tell that those two are meant to be together." Amber whispered.

Darla rolled her eyes. "Whatever, they're just bugs."

Amber sighed. "Darla..."

"I used to be like you," Cherry said to Darla. "Then I went to FernGully and a fairy named Crysta accidentally shrunk me and this boy Zak to three inches tall."

"Really?" Darla asked.

"Oh, so if I don't go on an adventure with Atticus, suddenly I'm crazy?" Cherry rolled her eyes.

"No, no." Darla said.

"Good..." Cherry replied. "I have a hard enough time getting my dad to believe half of my journeys around the world."

"So, Flik, what else can you invent?" Amber asked.

"Lots of things, also finding food will be a lot easier with this: The Harvester." Flik smiled as he showed his new invention.

"Flik, we don't have time for this." Princess Atta said, sounding annoyed.

"Exactly, we never have time to collect food for ourselves 'cuz we spend all summer harvesting for the offering, but my invention will speed up production!" Flik replied.

"What next? Something to help ants see things far away?" Cherry asked with a scoff.

"Hey, that's a great idea!" Flik smiled to her.

Cherry then face-palmed. "My brain hurts."

Flik started to get to work on his next invention. He took a blade of grass and a drop of water from a flower. "This is for you, Princess Atta."

"Oh, great." Princess Atta replied nervously.

"What is it?" Darla asked.

"Just an ordinary blade of grass and a bead of dew, right?" Flik asked as he was finished. "Wrong! It is, in fact, a telescope!"

Dot and her mother giggled a little bit.

"Oh, great." Cherry groaned.

"It's clever, Flik." Princess Atta smiled nervously.

"Yeah." Darla said.

"You have to admit it's clever." Atticus said to Cherry.

"Squish me." Cherry deadpanned.

"You are only positive on your birthday and on Halloween, but not when someone has invented something." Atticus said.

"It's just a telescope..." Cherry replied. "You can buy one at an astronomy store or whatever!"

"Yeah, but an ant-sized telescope?" Atticus asked with a smirk.

"A telescope is a telescope." Cherry deadpanned.

"Still impressive." Atticus said.

"Hello Princess, my, aren't you looking lovely this morning?" Flik tested his telescope on the princess. "Not of course that you'd need a telescope to see that."

'I can sense a connection between them.' Amber thought to herself.

"ALRIGHT, LISTEN! The princess doesn't have time for this," one ant scolded Flik. "You wanna help us build this thing? Then get rid of that machine, get back in line, AND PICK GRAIN LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE!"

"Like everybody else!" Another ant added.

"Please, Flik, just go." Princess Atta said gently to the inventor ant.

"I'm sorry, I was really just trying… Trying to help..." Flik frowned before he soon left.

Atticus frowned, feeling bad for him. Amber frowned, feeling the same way about Flik. Dot looked at Flik's telescope and picked it up as she decided to give it back to him.

"She seems to be wanting to give it back to him." Darla said.

Amber smiled to Dot and decided to go with her. Darla sighed as she went along.