Calamity Box

The Calamity Box is an important magical object that appears in the animated show Amphibia. It was the item used to transfer the protagonists to Amphibia, the shows main setting.

Teleportation
The box's main power is it's ability to open portals through different dimensions. Said portals appear as circles of multicoloured light floating in the air, with lightining bolts around them. How these portals are controlled is unknown, as in the episode True Colors it appears that the box can be opened without opening a portal.

Energy Source
The Calamity Box used to act as the energy source for all of the technology of Newtopia, the capital city of Amphibia.

The Gems
The box' power comes from three gems coloured blue, green and purple. These gems need to be charged in order to function properly, and there are three temples in amphibia where each stone can be charged. When Anne Boonchuy, Marcy Wu and Sasha Waybright used the box to go to Amphibia, each of them got the abilities of the Blue, Green and Purple gems respectively. Each gem represents a different aspect of character: the blue one is compassion, the purple one is strength and the green one is intelligence.

Powers
A person connected to the blue gem has some sort of special powers that get activated during intense emotional moments. When the powers activated the persons hair will resemble a blue flame, and they will gain much improved strengh, speed and the abilitie to fly, however they do not appear to have much control of their actions, as seen in True Colors. After the powers are depleted the person is exhausted. Anne Boonchuy has described using those powers ar "wrong", though it is not certain what that means.

Backround
Thousands of years ago, the box was in the possesion of king Andrias' ancestors. They used it so they could travel to and conquer other worlds, along with providing power to the city of Newtopia. There was also an order created to study the Gems and the Templtes. It was kept safe for centuries, until Andrias became a king. Then, a female frog that was Andrias' friend stole the box and used it to go to Earth. There she appears to have been worshipped as a diety. Much later, the box ended up in a thrift stop in Los Angeles. Information about it is written in a book on Earth called Dr. R's Extraordinary Guide to Magic & Mystery.

Thousands of years after the box's dissapearence, a girl named Marcy Wu found out about it from the book. Later, she saw the box in the thrift store, and, due to the fact that her family was going to move out, she bought as a gift for the birthday of her friend, Anne Boonchuy, in an attempt to bring herself and her friends to Amphibia and escape reality. After making Anne steal the box, her, Marcy and their other friend Sasha Waybright opened the box in a nearby park, and were all transported to different locations in Amphibia. The box was transported to Anne's location, and she, Macry and Sasha gained several abilities by the gems, which got uncharged and became gray coloured.

Anne Vs. Wild
In this episode, Anne reveals it to her friends, the Plantars, who claim that they haven't seen anything like it before. However, after Hopediah "Hop Pop" Plantar does some research, he finds a page about the box in a book, which claims that it is very dangerous.

Bizarre Bazzar
Anne and Sprig Plantar, decide to go to a secret market called the Bizarre Bazzar in order to find some information about the box. There, they find a stand's owner named Valeriana, who claims to have been all around Amphibia but, before they can show it to her, it gets stolen by a thief. Thankfully, Hop Pop manages to get it back, and Anne decides to give it to him so he can keep it safe. However, he decides to burry it outside of his house, so he can protect his family.

A Day at the Aquarium
When Andrias sees Anne and the Plantars, he reveals several pieces of information he and Marcy found through extensive research. He tells the Plantars that it was used by his ancestors who he describes as peaceful explorers, something we know is a lie as of True Colors. He also reveals the existence of the three temples, and how they have to go there to recharge each gem.

After the Rain
In this episode, Anne decides to take the box back, as it needs to be brought to the temples to be recharged. The night after hearing this, Hop Pop attempts to find the box, but he is unable to do so. Anne sees him getting out of the house in the night and decides to follow him, so she learns about how he burried the box and that it is now lost. Hop Pop explains that he saw about how dangerous the book was from a book he was studying, and decided to burry it to keep his family safe, but it is of no use as Anne still feels betrayed, as she knows that the box is the only way she can get back to her world.

The next morning, after hearing what happened, Hop Pop's grandchildren, Sprig and Polly Plantar decide to find the music box, which it turns out that it had been stolen by Magbie Beetles, bug-like creatures that have been stealing stuff from the townspeople and bringing them underground. The kids manage to find a burrow leading to a cave filled with the Beatles. In their attempt to retrieve the box they get attacked by them, but they get saved by Anne and Hop Pop, who put asside their differences to save them, during the fight, the children manage to retrieve the Box.

The Temples
In the episodes The First Temple, The Second Temple and The Third Temple, Anne, Marcy and Sasha manage to recharge the three gems. The first temple is located in a dence jungle and it is a challenge of intelligence, so it correlates to the green gem. Marcy is the one that solved all of the temple's puzzles and recharged the gem, but her powers, due to coming from that specific gem where depleted.

The second temple was located in the Amphibia Arctic, and was guarded by Valeriana, who truned out to be member of the ancient order. It was connected to compassion and Anne was able to go through the challenge, but the gem was only half charged, due to her having to leave and it charging slowly since Valeriana's staff was old, so Anne got to keep some of her powers.

The third temple was located to a volcano, and was connected to strengh. Sasha showed up just in time to assist with the tasks that had to be done. At the end, the gem was recharged and Sasha's powers were depleted too. The girls were just about to open the box to go home, but Marcy said that they should probably give it to king Andrias first.

True Colors
In the finale of season 2, Sasha betrays her friends by starting a rebellion and taking over Newtopia, along with captain Grime and the toad army. She attempts to send her friends back to Earth, but, for some reason, the box doesn't work. Later, when the rebellion has been dealt with, the box returns to Andrias, who, instead of sending the girls back home, starts explaining the box's backstory and how it was used to power all of Newtopia's advanced technology. After that, he uses that box again to make his castle fly in the sky, and start the production of a lot of robot units. He also uses a giant laser beam powered by the box to destroy one of the toad's towers.

After that, he explains to Anne and Sasha that Marcy knew about the box and send them to Amphibia on purpose. Marcy then starts explaining about how all she wanted was for them to be together and not have to deal with the outside world, as she starts crying and apologises. However, Andrias is still the main threat so everyone prepares to fight. In the battle, the king throws Sprig, Anne's best friend from a window. That causes her powers to activate, and she manages to beat Andrias up. Anne's powers wear off and Sprig gets saved by Marcy, who has managed to activate the box and sends her friends back home, but before she can enter the portal she gets stabbed by Andrias from the back and drops unconcious.

The New Normal
Andrias has managed to regain the box and he uses it to open a portal so he can send a silver robot on Earth. He tells the robot to kill Anne, so no one learns about the upcoming invasion. The robot finds Anne and the Plantars disguised as humans in a supermarket, after sensing the energyof the blue gem. The robot fights them, but Annes powers reactivate and it gets temporarily defeated.