TaleSpin: The Future Waits for No Bear

by KitCloudkicker52885

Disclaimer: I do not own rights to TaleSpin, Disney does.

Prologue:

Jazzy music filled the wooden shack on the small island that was Louie's Place, the air inside was filled with celebration and jubilation, as it was every Friday night as pilots celebrated the upcoming weekend of no work and relaxation. Everyone was dancing and drinking large mugs of root beer.

Louie loved Fridays, for him, it was the most fun and profitable day of the week. He danced and directed the band while his cash register filled up with money from every ice cream and drink ordered.

No one was celebrating more than his best friend, Baloo. Today he was wearing a fruit hat and a tablecloth around his waist.

"I'm gone! Adios, bye-bye! Don't trouble me with troubles, man, I'm gone!" Baloo sang as he danced and jumped from table to table.

Louie was serving a couple of customers two large mugs of root beer when he heard a distant rumble of thunder.

"Uh-oh, storm's coming. Better go warn Baloo." Louie made his way over to the stage. "Hey, Baloo! Baloo! There's a storm coming. You better hightail it outta here, man, before it gets bad."

Baloo paused and look at the clock on the wall, which displayed the time as seven-thirty.

"Yikes! Becky wants the Duck back before nine!" Baloo said, tearing off the tablecloth from around his waist and jumping down from the stage.

"And if you don't hurry, you'll be here until morning, cuz. The weather radio said it's gonna be a nasty storm." Louie said grimly.

"Right, I'm off!" Baloo said as he hurried for the door. He dashed down the wooden dock, climbed into Sea Duck's cockpit and slammed the door shut.

Flipping a few switches and pushing the throttle forward, the Sea Duck glided away from the dock across the water. And then a little pull on the control yoke and the plane slowly lifted into the air, the underbelly lifting off the surface of the water and into the air, slowly gaining altitude all the time.

"Thatta' girl," Baloo said fondly to the plane, patting the control yoke. "That was a smooth takeoff, baby."

He steered the plane into the direction of Cape Suzette and flew onward. Louie's island soon disappear in the horizon behind the plane. He was surrounded by nothing but vast open seas, small islands, cliffs and mountains that seems to be rooted in the water below.

He was halfway home when statics sounded from the radio.

"Higher for Hire to Sea Duck. Come in, Sea Duck, over." Rebecca's voice sounded from the radio.

Baloo cheerfully picked up the mic. "This is Sea Duck. What's news, Becky?"

"Baloo! Oh, thank goodness!" Rebecca sounded relieved. "Where are you?"

"I'm heading yer way, should be there in another hour."

"What?!" Rebecca exclaimed in panic. "No, Baloo, go back! There's been a terrible storm here, it's moving out of this area and it is heading your way!"

As she said it, a violent hurricane wind jolted the Sea Duck. Suddenly, Baloo was surrounded by black stormy clouds. The plane became difficult to control, Baloo dropped the mic and was straining with all of his might to hold plane steady.

"Baloo? BALOO! Are you there?! Speak to me!" shouted Rebecca over the radio.

Still straining to keep the plane steady, Baloo reached down and pick up the mic again.

"Too late, Beckers….." Baloo grunted with the effort of pulling the stick back. "...Storm's here."

"WHAT?! Oh no! Baloo….BALOO!"

But Baloo couldn't reply, he needed both hands to keep the plane steady. The plane was really straining under the pressure of the wind and Baloo's piloting.

Suddenly Baloo heard a loud CRACK! He looked outside his window just in time to see the whole left wing with its' pontoon and engine falling away from the plane. Next thing Baloo knew, he was in a tailspin, spiraling through air with absolutely no control.

Baloo was saved from the worst of the jolting and jerking he was feeling by his seatbelt. He felt like he was on a very rough fairground ride. He reached for the mic again with great difficulty and issued a distress call.

"Mayday, mayday! This is the Sea Duck, I lost a wing and I'm going DOOOWWWWNNNNN!"

Looking ahead, he saw typhoon with a black hole in the center and he was heading straight for it!

"Mayday, mayday! I'm caught in a typhoon-!"

Suddenly the distress call was cut off, and that was the last anyone heard of Baloo for very long time…

Author's Note:

A request had been made to me by Retro Mania to write a story of Baloo somehow going twenty years into the future. Feeling a little rusty as an author, I decided to first test the waters with a small prologue to see if anyone likes this. More should be coming some time next week. Hope everyone likes this!