People were slowly coming in to see the zoo and meet the animals. It was always a fun past time, especially for the children. Speaking of families with children, there were two familiar families coming in today to visit the New York Zoo right now. And they were the Forte family and the Fudo family.

"I wanna see the lions!" Akito smiled.

"Me too!" Estelle smiled.

"Oh, my." Felicity sounded nervous at first.

"Well, lions are the most popular..." Cherry noted, then looked to her friends. "What do you guys think?"

"Well..." Mo drawled out.

"Please." Akito, Estelle, and Vincent begged.

"It's all right with me." Mo confirmed.

The Fudo siblings cheered and rushed off.

"Just make sure we go with you!" Mo then added quickly. "You kids are growing up, but you still need supervision."

The kids groaned slightly, but went along with it.

Jenny and Eloise were also visiting the zoo, only with Winston and Bill from the Plaza and there was a younger adult woman with them. They were checking out the seals right now.

"It's so great to understand animals." Jenny smiled.

"I'll say!" Eloise beamed, she then barked like a seal.

The seal then barked back to her.

"What did you say to her?" Bill chuckled.

"I just invited her over to Palm Court for some tea, but she said she'd 'rawther' stay here and eat fish." Eloise translated.

This made the two adults laugh, thinking Eloise just had an overactive imagination.

Back in the lion exhibit, Samson preprared to tell Ryan and Kopa one of his stories.

"So, what story are you gonna tell today, sir?" Kopa asked Samson.

"There I was, facing one of the meanest leopards in the Serengeti and-" Samson started.

"You roared so loud, his spots flew clean off," Ryan finished for his father. "Dad, I've heard this like a billion times, and it's too repetitive for Kopa to learn."

"Do you know the one where I made the laughing hyenas-" Samson started a new story.

"Cry?" Ryan finished that one as well. "Yep."

"The croc attack?" Samson offered.

Ryan rolled his eyes. "Dad..."

"Okay, think." Samson said to himself, trying to think of a new story to tell.

"Yeah, you do that." Ryan chuckled.

Kopa chuckled himself.

"Alright, Smart Guy," Samson smirked slightly. "Here's one I know you haven't heard. It all started in the little place I like to call... the wild."

"The wild..." Kopa whispered, thinking of home again, but he was really interested in hearing the story now.

Ryan actually did not interrupt.

"They were the fastest wildebeests on the Savanna," Samson narrated. "We're talking fast. All the other lions had given up the hunt hours ago, except your old man. Fortunately, I knew a short cut. I thought I had 'em. Until the dust cleared. Classic wildebeest trap."

'Wildebeest trap? But the wildebeest in Africa never did that, they just simply stampeded or ate grass. These wildebeest he faced must have been evil.' Kopa thought to himself.

"So, what did you do next?" Ryan asked eagerly.

"What did I do?" Samson smirked.

"Yeah!" Ryan encouraged.

"That's when I gave them the roar." Samson replied.

"Ooh, the roar." Kopa said, sounding interested.

"That's it?" Ryan scoffed slightly.

"That can't be it." Kopa added in.

"Hold on a sec," Samson told the cubs. "I only THOUGHT it was over. But they had a secret weapon. He was the biggest wildebeest I've ever seen."

"How tall?" Kopa asked.

"He was fourteen feet tall!" Samson exclaimed.

"Fourteen?" Ryan asked.

"I mean 1401 feet tall." Samson said.

"Cool." Ryan smiled.

'How did Dad not notice a 1401 tall wildebeest?' Kopa thought to himself.

"And he had two... No, four of the biggest horns I'd ever seen!" Samson continued.

"Whoa!" Ryan was really captivated by this story.

"His breath was red hot!" Samson continued, then paused a moment. "I mean, green. And he hated the environment. To pull this off, I knew I was gonna have to dig deep, deeper than I ever had before. So I swallowed my fear, sucked in the biggest breath I could..."

"Dad, I'm ready." Ryan said.

"You got it?" Samson asked.

"I got it." Ryan replied.

"Well, let him have it!" Samson encouraged. "ROAR, SON!"

Ryan then let out the best roar he could, but it sounded more like a strangled house cat than a roar from a mighty jungle predator.

"Ooh, that didn't go so well..." Kopa cringed at Ryan's attempt of a roar.

All the kids, except for the Fudo siblings and the Forte siblings, started to laugh, thinking that Ryan's roar sounded like a strangled cat. This caused for Kopa to become angry with them all and he began to show his claws, wanting to make them stop laughing at his new friend. Samson was also angry, so he roared at the crowd as well. However, the crowd then cheered and took his picture, making him pose and look like the star of his own show.

"Story of my life..." Ryan muttered. "Your roar stops a herd of wildebeests. Mine makes the babies laugh."

"Well, it was, um, interesting." Kopa said.

Samson tried to comfort Ryan while Kopa came to meet the people.

"I don't recognize that one, Bill." Eloise told the Plaza Hotel employee she was close friends with.

"Neither do I." Bill said.

"The poor thing looks like it's not used to this place." Jenny said.

Kopa came up to the kids.

Felicity stepped back slightly, she was a little nervous of the cub coming up close, but she gave a small smile. "You are seeming familiar..."

"He looks just like Kopa." Akito said.

Kopa turned his head and blinked.

"Kopa... Is that your name?" Estelle wondered if this was coincidence or fate.

"Yeah, it is!" Kopa said to them.

"Kids, be careful up close the animals." Cherry warned.

"Wait, if your name is Kopa, then that must mean..." Vincent said.

Kopa looked at the Fudo siblings and recognized them as well as Felicity. "You guys..." he whispered. Kopa smiled to them, then saw Ryan looked very depressed, so he looked back to the human kids. "Um, I'll be right back..." he rushed off to join his new friend and hopefully cheer him up.

"I wonder why Kopa's in the zoo?" Akito scratched his head.

"Kopa?" Eloise and Jenny looked over.

"Yeah, you see, he's Simba's son," Akito said. "Who is the Lion King of Pride Rock in Africa."

"I bet some cruel poacher kidnapped him and took him away from his family and sold him here." Estelle said out of hatred towards poachers.

"Hey, Ryan, what's wrong?" Kopa asked.

"I just wanna roar like Dad..." Ryan explained, though cheered up once he came up with his explanation. "That's why we need to go to the wild!"

"Hold on a sec," Samson came between the two cubs. "We've got everything we could ever want here. Great lifestyle, three square meals a day..."

"Trust me, Kopa, being here is sooo boring." Ryan said to his new friend.

"Trust me, I believe you already, I mean, come on, where are the butterflies to chase after for fun? And where's the perfect place for pouncing lessons? There isn't even enough room for hunting." Kopa said before looking to Samson. "But don't worry, sir, we'll get all of that soon because Ryan knows how we can get back to the wild."

"He did?" Samson looked frightened for a moment.

"The pigeons say those green boxes go there." Ryan explained.

"Those boxes are bad news..." Samson scolded. "Stay away!"

"But, Dad!" Ryan complained.

"It's the only way to get back where we belong." Kopa added.

"I know you're both frustrated, but a lion finds his roar..." Samson started to explain.

"Here." Ryan pointed to his own chest, finishing for him, having been told that a million times already.

"Kopa, I know this is an adjustment for you, but you'll learn to love the zoo and you'll make loads of new friends!" Samson told the new cub then.

There was then a woman screaming which got everyone's attention. "IT'S A RAT!"

There was a grey squirrel trying to pull a candy necklace away from a baby stroller.

"A rat?!" The squirrel asked, finding what the woman called him insulting and was then being flung around by the baby while holding onto the candy necklace.

"No, that's a squirrel..." Cherry told the panicking woman.

"THE RAT IS TAKING MY BABY'S CANDY!" the woman cried.

"It's a squirrel..." Cherry grumbled.

"SOMEONE STOP THE RAT!" the woman wailed.

"It's a gosh darn squirrel!" Cherry shook the woman. "They take nuts, live in trees, and can be screwy sometimes, it's a squirrel!" she then held her head and groaned slightly.

"At least some humans have common sense." the squirrel grumbled after he splatted on the ground. Unfortunately for him he wouldn't be on the ground for long as the woman who called him a rat hit him knocking his right into the lion preserve and his head landed in Samson's nose.

"Who is that? And why did he steal that... Thing?" Kopa asked Ryan.

"Lastly, that is the ugliest baby I've ever seen!" the squirrel pointed as he had his head stuck in Samson's nostril.

"Benny, stealing candy from a baby?" Samson scoffed to the squirrel before sneezing him out.

Ryan caught the squirrel in his paw then.

"Stealing is such a strong word, I prefer 'liberating'." the squirrel replied.

"How is stealing from a baby liberating?" Kopa asked.

"It's grown-up stuff, you wouldn't understand," Benny looked at him. "Say, I didn't know Ryan had a brother."

"Oh, I'm not his brother, I'm new here, my name is Kopa I'm from the Pridelands in Africa." Kopa told him.

"Ah, I see..." Benny noted, then looked back to the cub who caught him. "Hey, kid, heard the roar, down another..." he was unable to come up with a complimenting word.

"Octave." Samson whispered a suggestion to him.

"Octave." Benny repeated.

Ryan glared at the squirrel and dropped him flat on the ground.

"You ready to cheer me and your old man as we capture our fifth straight turtle-curling title?" Benny asked as he did karate poses once he got to his feet. "I'm sure your friend Kopa will love to watch!"

"What's turtle-curling?" Kopa asked. "We don't have turtle-curling back home."

"Oh, it's easy, it's..." Benny was about to explain, but noticed that Ryan went to sulk again. "Hey, kid, aren't ya excited?"

"I can't even roar," Ryan continued to mope. "How would you even know I'm there?" he then leaped off one stand and went to climb up a tree.

Kopa frowned, he decided to go help his friend the best he could.

"We need to get Kopa out of that cage, he's not meant to live in a zoo." Felicity told her cousins.

"But what can we do?" Jenny asked.

Akito started to think and then a light bulb from a lamp post turned on as his face lit up, getting an idea.

"Oh, I know what that look means." Estelle smirked to her twin.

"We're going to hide and stay here overnight, so then when everyone is gone, we'll be able to get Kopa out of here and back to where he belongs." Akito smiled.

"How do we hide out here overnight?" Vincent asked.

"Yeah." Estelle added.

"Easy, by magic." Akito said.

Eloise came down from Bill's shoulders and she couldn't help but overhear, she came to her cousins. "What are you guys up to now?"

"Ellie, don't tell anyone, but we have to get Kopa out of the zoo and back to his home." Akito explained.

"I won't tell anyone," Eloise said, zipping her lips. She then looked curious. "But... How do you expect to get him out without anyone noticing?"

"We'll use our magic so to be invisible until everyone is gone." Estelle told her.

"This sounds dangerous and adventurous..." Eloise said, but then smiled. "I like it."

"Oh, boy... Another adventure..." Felicity sighed. "Can we not stay home and just hope Kopa can go home very soon?"

"Oh, come on, Felicity, it's an adventure." Vincent said.

"I know, but..." Felicity seemed hesitant.

"Come on, please, I promise that you won't get hurt." Estelle promised.

Felicity sighed, very nervous, but she gave in. "All right... But you owe me!"

"Deal." Akito promised.

"This better work..." Felicity whispered to herself.

The group then left the lion preserve and continued to explore what the zoo had to offer for them.

"Come on, El!" Bill told his 'special little lady'.

"I'm cooooming!" Eloise called as she twirled after the man she highly admired.

"You really think he dropped an octave?" Samson asked the squirrel.

"Absolutely," Benny agreed, then looked thoughtful for a moment. "What the heck is an octave?"

"We heard that!" Ryan and Kopa called out in unison.

Benny and Samson then looked to each other.