Okay, now comes the adventure in the sky. Max and his three friends now start their journey to a giant castle. Have fun!
The next day came and the beanstalk finally stopped growing. However, it grew so much, it dropped Max, Riolu, Timon, and Pumbaa off on the clouds.
Speaking of those four, they were still resting against themselves and the beanstalk. Timon, however, started to wake up as he yawned and stretched his arms.
The other three were still sleeping while the drowsy meerkat walked ahead of him, holding a toothbrush in one hand and a towel around his neck. Timon opened up part of the cloud in front of him like he would open a door, and now he was unknowingly standing in midair.
Timon began to brush his teeth when a bird landed on his head. Timon noticed the bird on his head and tried to get it off. "Shoo! Hey, shoo! Go on! Get outta here!" When he resumed his teeth brushing, Timon looked down at the ground. He was wide awake now when he saw that he was standing on air. His mouth hung open, with the toothbrush falling off.
He became alert when something came at him. Timon screamed as he held on to the wing of the plane passing by.
In the plane, a shaky Monferno with a cup of coffee looked quite nervous. "There's nothing wrong with the plane." He told himself about four times.
By the time the Monferno looked out the window, he saw Timon slipping off the wing. Timon screamed as he began to fall from the sky...Only to be lifted back up by a Metang soaring up.
On the Metang was a shaky Raichu. "There's nothing wrong with my buddy, Metang." Raichu told himself quietly, twice.
Timon slipped off Metang and began to fall again.
Max, Riolu, and Pumbaa were now awake and looked up when they heard Timon's screams. Then Timon landed in front of his friends, his head literally in the clouds.
"There you are, Timon!" Pumbaa said.
Max held a smirk. "I knew it! I told you those beans were magical!" Max told Timon.
Timon pulled his head free and spat out some of the cloud. "I'm telling ya, guys. There's an explanation for all of this!"
"And what might that be?" Riolu asked.
Timon was thinking hard about the explanation, until finally, something came to him. "I'm...dreaming!"
"Dreaming?" Max asked skeptically.
Timon got on Pumbaa's head. "That's right! I'm dreaming up a really weird dream, because I'm so starved, all because Max ruined our Bestest Best Friend Day Feast!"
Max glared at the meerkat. "And what makes you think this is a dream?" Pumbaa asked Timon.
"Because only I can dream up that!" Timon pointed at something ahead of them. They looked to see a giant castle at the end of a cloudy road in front of them.
"And so, with the coming of dawn, our four friends find themselves staring at a giant castle up in the sky! Their curiosity got the better of them, so they decided to see what is in the castle!" Rafiki narrated.
Max smiled as he looked at the big castle. "Wow, I've never seen a real life castle like that before! Timon can think it's a dream if he wants to, but that's not gonna stop me from going to that castle! Come on, guys! Let's go!" In excitement, Max ran down the path to the castle.
"Oy, even in my dream, Max is still as adventurous as ever." Timon said.
Riolu looked at the castle once again. "I don't know about you two, but I'm going with him." Riolu then ran off to catch up to Max. "Hey, Max! Wait for me!"
"Come on, Timon! Let's catch up to them!" Pumbaa ran off with Timon on his back.
Timon, still thinking this is a dream, just calmly shrugged. "Eh, it's a dream. What could happen?"
"As Max, Riolu, Timon, and Pumbaa ventured through the woods, which is much bigger than they've seen down below. They wondered what lives in the castle. A wise wizard? A snarling beast? A princess? A dragon? These four will just have to find out once they get there!" Rafiki narrated.
Max, Riolu, Timon, and Pumbaa journeyed deeper through this giant land. Riolu looked around the area around them. "Uh, do any of you guys know where we are? Everything looks a lot bigger." "Riolu, I think we've stumbled upon some uncharted land that no mortal has ever set foot on." Max answered.
As they walked through, Pumbaa suddenly fell into a giant footprint. Since Timon was on Pumbaa's back, he fell down with him. Timon was able to jump off Pumbaa's head and land on the ground next to the footprint. "Well, somebody did. Look at the size of this dream footprint!" Timon pointed at the footprint.
Pumbaa struggled to get out until Max and Riolu pulled him out by his front hooves. "Uh, what do you think made this footprint? It's huge!" Pumbaa asked.
Riolu shrugged, "It wasn't a Pichu, I can tell ya that."
Max sweated a little. "Whatever made that, we'd better stay away from." He said seriously.
Timon scoffed, "What are you so afraid of, Max? In case you forgot, this is all just a dream. We can easily take on whoever made that. And if not, I'm sure I'll wake up soon enough."
Max sighed in annoyance, "Let's just try to get into that castle."
"Uh, Max?" Max and the other two made it over to Pumbaa who was standing next to a pond next to the castle. "I think getting to the castle might be harder than we thought."
Max looked at the pond. "You're right. This could be a problem." Riolu noticed something and ran off to their right to find out what it is, this wasn't noticed by his friends. "I mean, we can easily cross over this water if we just had something to use as a boat. Too bad we don't have something like a boat." Max said.
"Sure we do, Max!" Max, Timon, and Pumbaa turned to their right and saw Riolu walking over and holding a big leaf. "Let's use this leaf to get across the water to the castle!"
"Good thinking, Riolu!" Max commented.
Max, Riolu, Timon, and Pumbaa used the leaf as a boat, they also found some small sticks to use as oars as they rowed to the castle.
"The four of them began to row their leaf to the castle. But then suddenly, something flew from the sky above!" Rafiki narrated.
"What? What was it?" Zazu asked.
It was a swarm of giant Yanma flying above them. As they saw them, the jaws of Timon and Pumbaa literally dropped to their feet.
"Wow! Those are some big boys!" Max said in awe.
"I'll say!" Riolu agreed. Then and idea came to him. "They might be even bigger than my Vacuum Wave! I'm gonna find out!" He fired his Vacuum Wave right in front of a Yanma.
That made Yanma notice them down below. Suddenly, Yanma dived down to them quickly with a Quick Attack.
The four of them gasped. "We're in trouble!" Pumbaa quickly muttered. Luckily, they ducked just as Yanma flew back. But the Quick Attack made their boat spin a little in the water.
Timon shook his head before he glared at Yanma. "Hey! Watch where you're flying, you overgrown dragonfly!" He threw his stick oar at Yanma. Of course...that only made Yanma angry, because he turned around to use another attack. He summoned a boulder and launched it at them.
Pumbaa yelped, "That's a big Ancient Power!" Timon gulped in fear. "Uh, I think now would be a good time for me to wake up from this crazy dream now!"
"Riolu, quick! Counter it with your Copycat attack!" Max told his partner. Riolu saluted, "I'm on it!" Riolu's eyes glowed brown, then he summoned a boulder as big as the one Yanma launched. The two boulders broke apart after colliding with each other.
Yanma didn't stop there, he went with a different attack. He sent off damaging waves that rocked their 'boat'.
"Do something, Max! That guy's crazy!" Timon yelled through the waves.
Max then thought of an idea to get Yanma to stop. "Riolu! Throw me up to the sky! I have an idea!"
Riolu nodded, "You got it!" Riolu then grabbed Max and aimed at Yanma. "Arms, don't fail me now!" With all of his strength, Riolu threw Max over at Yanma.
"Since you're part Flying-Type, I'm sure this will hurt a lot!" Max was surrounded by intense electricity, then he rammed into Yanma who felt a lot of pain.
In the air, Max grunted with a couple of sparks around his body. "That's the one bad thing about using my Volt Tackle, the recoil damage." He then looked down and blinked a couple of times. "Uhh, maybe I should've given this plan some more thought before pulling it off." Then, he screamed as he fell down towards his friends.
"I'll catch ya, Max! I'll catch ya!" Pumbaa yelled, holding out his front hooves. The warthog was able to safely catch the Pikachu. "Gotcha!"
Max sighed in relief, "Thanks, Pumbaa." Max then got in front of Riolu again. "Yes! It worked! I did it!"
Yanma suddenly shook off the electric pain and glared at the tiny quartet who gulped after seeing that. "You did it alright." Timon muttered to Max.
In anger Yanma used Quick Attack to dive down on them.
"Any last words, guys?" Riolu asked. His answer was that all four of them held each other and screamed at the top of their lungs.
Just before they could get hit, the big Yanma was suddenly swallowed by an even bigger Magikarp that jumped out of the water.
The splash from Magikarp's tail fin caused a wave that Max, Riolu, Timon, and Pumbaa got caught in.
The wave carried them to the other side of the pond. Max and Pumbaa didn't realize that because they had their eyes shut tight. Pumbaa was swimming in the sand while Max was rowing and on the warthog's back.
"Finally, they've reached the castle!" Rafiki narrated.
Max and Pumbaa stopped when they hit the first giant step of stairs. "The hard way." Pansear added.
Max and Pumbaa looked at each other in confusion. Riolu and Timon, still on the leaf, spat out water that got in their mouths. Then they walked over to join the Pikachu and the warthog at the bottom of the stairs.
"Well, that was easier than I thought." Max shrugged.
"Not to mention unexpected." Timon added while wringing his tail.
Riolu looked at the stairs ahead of them. "That sure looks like a long way up." They stared at the stairs in awe. Riolu then shrugged with a grin, "Well, we're not gonna get in just standing here, right?"
Max nodded, "Right. Come on, guys! We've got some climbing to do!"
Pumbaa gulped while looking at the stairs, "Uh-oh!"
"What do you mean 'uh-oh'?" Timon asked his bestest best friend.
"There's too many steps, they're too big, and there's too many of them." Pumbaa sheepishly answered.
Max, Riolu, and Timon got up to the first step. "Come on, Pumbaa! You can do it!" Max encouraged.
Pumbaa tried jumping up, but he couldn't quite reach them. He took some steps back and then charged up at the steps...only for him to barely miss and flaten himself into a warthog pancake on the ground.
Max, Riolu, and Timon looked down at their friend. "Then again, he probably needs a little help." Max said.
As they climbed, Max, Riolu, and Timon were helping Pumbaa up the steps. Of course, at times, it ended with Timon being squashed by Pumbaa's big behind.
After long hours of climbing, Max, Riolu, Timon, and Pumbaa were now standing in front of the giant door to the castle.
"Wow! Look at the size of this giant, magical, castle!" Pumbaa said in awe. "This castle looked smaller from where we woke up this morning." Riolu commented.
Timon looked pretty annoyed. "Stop it with the magic talk, you guys!"
Pumbaa narrowed his eyes at the meerkat. "You know, Timon? I'm beginning to think you're not meerkat enough to admit you were wrong and that Max was right about those beans being magical!"
"Don't talk to me like that in my dream!" Timon scolded and wagged his finger.
"What do we have to do to make it clear to you, Timon!? This isn't a-" Riolu was interrupted by Max clearing his throat.
"Guys, let's just find out what's inside this castle! After we get inside, THEN we can pinch Timon a good amount of times until he finally realizes this isn't a dream!" Max then crawled underneath the doorway. The other three were quick to follow.
The four of them crawled under the door to get into the castle. However, Pumbaa got himself stuck once again. "Uh, guys? A little help?" Pumbaa asked.
Max and Riolu pulled Pumbaa by his front hooves to set him free while Timon looked around the castle.
"Hmm, this seems to be a little too dull for my dream." Timon muttered. Max and Riolu managed to pull Pumbaa free...but the warthog once again managed to land on Timon once again.
Max and Riolu ran over to them. "You guys okay?" Max asked. Pumbaa turned to his left side with Timon flat on the warthog's stomach.
Timon managed to free himself from his pal. He cringed when he cracked his back. "Okay, you guys were right! This isn't a dream after all!" he grunted. What made him finally realize? The big golden rule of dreams: You can't get hurt!
"Told ya so!" Riolu said.
The four of them looked around the area. "They were looking at the area ahead of them. The inside of the castle looked more like the inside of a regular person's house. They went over to a giant table and they gasped at what they saw o the table!" Rafiki narrated.
"What was it, Uncle Rafiki?" Pansage asked.
"Food!" Riolu cheered. What they were seeing was indeed food on the table.
Timon drooled in happiness. "At last! Come to Papa, baby!" The four of them quickly climbed up one of the legs of the tables.
As soon as they got up to the table, Max and Riolu rushed over and scarfed down on the food that was set. Timon and Pumbaa, however, went over to the bugs that were set on a buffet for some reason.
"I have died and gone to food heaven! This is delicious!" Riolu cried happily as he continued eating.
"Ooh! You and me both, Riolu! You and me both!" Timon got on top of a pile of insects, and he began to eat some of the bugs. But, he didn't see his warthog pal anywhere next to him. "Pumbaa? Pumbaa, where'd you go?"
Pumbaa was on a random diving board, preparing to dive into a different pile of bugs. "HAKUNA MATATA!" He hollered as he dived down into the bugs. The sound he made when he splashed into the insects strangely sounded like a bowling ball knocking over a set of bowling pins.
Max's ears picked up the sound of a different voice. "Hey! What was that?"
"Shh! Quiet, Dog! He might be back!" Max heard another voice whisper.
Max stopped eating and turned to his friends. "Guys, I hear something!" That made the other three stop eating as well.
Timon gulped in sudden fear. "Does this mean we're not alone here?"
"Of course not, Timon. There's no way all this delicious grub prepared itself." Pumbaa said happily. Timon just gave Pumbaa a dull look.
"But, who else could be in here?" Riolu asked while looking around.
They then heard a female's voice call to them. "Hey! Whoever's over there! We're over here, inside the box!" They turned their heads to see a big box on the food table.
They were surprised to see the head of a Togetic poking her head out the keyhole, looking at them. "Hey! There IS someone else here!" Pumbaa exclaimed. "And she's the same size as us!" Timon added.
They quickly got to the box. Riolu stood on Pumbaa's back and Max got on Riolu's shoulders to come face-to-face with the Togetic.
"Hey, how did you get here?" Max asked.
"And why are you inside the box?" Timon asked. He was on Max's shoulder.
The Togetic, Kate, gave them just one answered. "My brothers and I got kidnapped by a giant!"
Max and Timon just calmly nodded. "I see, that explains why she's up here in a box." Max said. "Yeah, because of a giant." Timon added.
After a pregnant pause... "A GIANT!?" Max, Riolu, Timon, and Pumbaa shouted in shock.
"A giant!?" Pansage, Pansear, Panpour, and Zazu couldn't help but yell in shock.
Rafiki just calmly nodded. "That's right. It was a giant that took Kate and CatDog from their home in the first place." Then he smiled and closed his eyes. "And that's all for now!"
That made the Elemental Monkey Brothers and Zazu fall on their faces.
"Now, Zazu, you still have that meeting with Simba before the big Pride Team meeting!" Rafiki reminded Zazu.
Zazu just shook his head, "Nonsense! I can meet up with him later! I'd like to know more about this giant that took Kate and CatDog! Why did this giant take them in the first place?"
"Tell us, Uncle! Tell us, Uncle!" Pansage, Pansear, and Panpour begged.
Rafiki couldn't help but chuckle a little. "Very well, I'll pick up where I left off." He then turned to his wall drawings, ready to make another. "Now, the giant looks something like this..."
The face of the giant that took CatDog and Kate shall be revealed in the next chapter! Sorry to leave ya guys on a cliffhanger, but it helps build up the moment! Until the next chapter, see ya later! :)
