HEY! I'M NOT DEAD! I'm still alive good viewers and lovers of fanfiction, I just had to wait until I got a new laptop, and since I've got one now and using it, it's time for another Pride Team Adventure! This one explains how Max the Pikachu first met Kate the Togetic and her conjoined adopted brothers CatDog. Think of it as another version of the fairy-tale 'Jack and the Beanstalk' with a sprinkle of 'Mickey and the Beanstalk' in it.

Now for disclaimers: I don't own anything from Pokemon, the Lion King, or CatDog. This is just for fun!

Here we go! I give you:

The Pride Team & the Beanstalk!


It was just another sunny day in the Pride Lands, everyone was just doing their job or minding their own business.

As for Zazu, he was flying over to Rafiki's tree while holding a rolled up piece of paper in his talons. What could Zazu possibly want with Rafiki? Let's find out!

Rafiki was just humming to his own tunes when Zazu arrived. The other visitors in the tree were Pansage, Pansear, and Panpour of the Elemental Monkey Brothers, and they were giving Rafiki a song to hum to, mixing them with his own tunes. Of course the three monkey Pokemon were careful not to break anything with their Round attacks.

Zazu cleared his throat to get their attention.

"Hey, it's the hornbill of the hour!" Pansear was the first to greet Zazu.

"Hi, Zazu! What brings you here to Rafiki's home?" Pansage asked.

Zazu held the paper in his left wing. "Both King Simba and Max have a big Pride Team meeting in Pride Rock today, and they both want all members to attend it. It's to discuss how all of us made it into the team and how we can work on teamwork if we decide to add anyone else." Zazu held up the paper and then unrolled it. "In my wings is the list of the current members in the Pride Team and how they got in. The only problem here is that I don't know the story of how Kate the Togetic and her conjoined brothers, CatDog, were picked to be on this team."

Panpour just nodded, then he realized what Zazu was trying to say. "I see, so you came to our Uncle Rafiki to help clear up on how Kate and CatDog made it to the team since he's the wisest one in all of the Pride Lands. Am I right, Zazu?"

"Of course, young Panpour." Zazu answered. He then turned to Rafiki, who was silently listening the whole time. "So, I'm sure you know how those three made it on the team. Right, Rafiki?"

"Ah, yes. The story of how Kate and CatDog got into the Pride Team. That's a story that began about a month ago." Rafiki began to tell them the story.

Pansear eagerly sat down in front of Rafiki. "Oh boy! Uncle Rafiki tells the best stories! So full of action and adventure!"

Pansage sat next to his brother. "Not all the time, Pansear. Some of them are so calm that can tame a savage beast as well as music can."

Panpour sat next to Pansage. "So, how does this story begin, Uncle Rafiki?"

Rafiki used his fingers to make some drawings on the branches with his ink as he told his nephews and Zazu the story. "This story begins in a place quite some distance from the Pride Lands. It starts in a place called Nearburg..."


In the story, we indeed see Nearburg. More specifically, a house in the shape of both a fish and a bone together. Out in the front yard, we have a cat with a red nose sitting on a lounge chair on wheels, reading a book. There's also a dog with a purple nose attached to the cat. The dog was panting happily at a tennis ball that was waving in front of him. The ball was being held by a Togetic who was smiling at the dog.

"Throw it! Throw it, Kate! Please throw it! Come on, please?" The dog was bouncing around a bit while begging for the Togetic, Kate, to throw the ball.

"Oh, you want this ball, Dog? Do you want it?" Kate asked, playfully.

"YES! Yes, I want it so bad, Kate! Come on, throw it, please?" Dog kept begging.

"Okay, here we go! Get ready for a long one!" Kate got ready to throw it.

The cat, Cat, heard her say that, then he sighed to himself. "Good thing, I'm prepared this time." He was strapped to his own chair.

"Fetch!" Kate threw the ball. Dog then happily chased the ball, dragging Cat, who was chuckling a little, along.

"It was a day just like any other day. Cat was just enjoying his reading, while Kate was playing a little game of fetch with Dog." Rafiki continued telling the story.

Dog happily ran back to Kate with the ball in his mouth. "Nice catching there, Dog." Cat laughed a little.

Kate struggled a little, but she got the ball from Dog. "Good boy! Good boy!" Kate said happily.

"High-ho-digetty! This is the most fun day ever!" Dog happily yelled.

Cat placed his book down to agree. "You said it, Dog. No comments from Winslow, no poundings from the Greaser Dogs. Nothing can possibly ruin this good day."

"Unfortunately, Cat spoke too soon. Just as Kate was ready to play one more round of fetch with Dog, a big shadow covered the area." Rafiki said.

True to Rafiki's word, a shadow hovered over the whole house. Kate and CatDog looked up just as lightning danced and thunder boomed.

"A Thunder storm?" Dog guessed. "A tornado?" Cat guessed. "A typhoon?" Kate was the last to guess.

All three guesses were wrong, because out of the shadow came a giant hand. As Kate and CatDog screamed and held each other close, the hand snatched them from where they stood.

"What happened?" Panpour asked.

"When the shadow lifted, Kate and her brothers were gone." Rafiki answered. Just like Rafiki said, while the shadow was now gone, so were Kate and CatDog.


Rafiki finished drawing up the shadow taking Kate and CatDog away.

"While most of Nearburg just shrugged it off as a Solar Eclipse, it was a mysterious being that took Kate and CatDog away." Rafiki told his nephews and Zazu.

"A mysterious being?" Panpour asked. "What kind of being was it?" Pansear asked eagerly. "How do any of the Pride Team members tie into this tale?" Zazu couldn't help but ask.

Pansage asked one last question of this question chain. "Where did that shadow take them, Uncle Rafiki?"

"The answer to that question is...up there." Rafiki pointed up at the sky and clouds up above them.


Up in the clouds, eh? Now that is quite the place the shadow took Kate and CatDog! Well, that's it for the beginning, the next chapter will include more of the Pride Team in it. How? Sorry, can't give that away. Just gonna have to wait until the next chapter comes. Thank you for your time, trusty readers! See ya in the next chapter!