Then Lupin remembered something.

"Uh guys, don't we need to check on Simba?" He pointed out.

"Oh right!" I said. "I nearly forgot!"

"I hope he's all right." Josefina said.

"It's probably been hours since the stampede started." Billy said.

"Yes, almost…." Velma began. "Hey! My watch stopped!"

"That's just because Rip Claw froze time, he has the power to do that." I explained.

"How come we aren't frozen then?" Patrick asked.

"I can control who gets frozen and who doesn't." Rip explained.

"When did this start?" Molly asked, curious.

"When that weird labyrinth-like rock came up at the beginning." I said. "You can unfreeze now Rip Claw."

Rip Claw did and we heard rumbling. The rest of the team now knew what didn't sound right before: they didn't hear the stampede. The team and I looked over the edge, searching for Simba. Lupin, who is very observant, saw Simba first and he pointed him out to us.

"SIMBA!" We all cried.

Simba was hanging on for dear life to a small dead tree! We then suddenly noticed Zazu fly by.

"Mufasa's here." Timmy said.

Mufasa had left Pride Rock earlier that day with Zazu to deal with a few problems, so we knew that wherever Zazu was Mufasa would follow.

"With Scar." Wanda muttered, looking down and to our left.

"Oh no." Cosmo said, knowing how much danger Simba and Mufasa were in now.

"Doggone it." I grumbled.

The team and I watched Zazu fly over to Simba.

"Zazu help me!" Simba cried.

"Your father is on the way! Hold on!" Zazu said.

"Hurry!"

Zazu flew back to Mufasa and Scar. Mufasa and Scar were both searching the stampede worriedly, but the team and I knew that Scar was only acting.

"There! There! On that tree!" Zazu cried.

Mufasa and Scar looked and saw Simba.

"Hold on Simba!" Mufasa cried.

A wildebeest charged near the tree…and struck it! The jolt caused Simba's back legs to fall off! Simba screamed as this happened.

He was only holding on by his front paws now! If there was another jolt...we didn't want to think about it. Mufasa quickly entered the stampede by means of a pile of step-like rocks.

"Oh Scar this is awful! What'll we do? What'll we do?" Zazu cried. "Ah, I'll go back for help! That's what I'll do! I'll go back for…."

Suddenly, Scar whammed Zazu with the back of his paw! Zazu hit the side of the cliff and landed unconscious onto his back.

"ZAZU!" The team and I gasped, horrified at what Scar did to him.

Startled, Scar turned around and saw us.

"We know what you're up to!" I growled.

Everyone else glared at Scar, who growled back.

The team and I then turned to watch Mufasa. We all watched, worried, as Mufasa first missed the tree and had to circle around...and then a wildebeest hit him! He tumbled to the ground with a startled grunt. Looking back at Simba, we saw that a wildebeest seemed to be heading for the tree.

"No, no, no…." Jimmy E said.

Unfortunately yes, the wildebeest crashed right through the tree!

"NOOOO!" Carl cried.

Simba flew through the air and started to fall!

"SIMBA!" The rest of us cried.

Fortunately, Mufasa leapt up and caught Simba! Mufasa then circled around so he was running in the same direction as the stampede. We followed, looking for a place where Mufasa could climb to safety. What we didn't know then, was that Scar was not far behind. He was on a long ledge below us, waiting for his chance. We watched, keeping an eye on Mufasa, and gasped when a wildebeest bumped into Mufasa, knocking Simba out of his mouth! Mufasa disappeared, but we saw Simba desperately dodging the hooves. Just as Simba froze with fear, Mufasa appeared and grabbed him! At that point, I saw a place where Mufasa could climb to safety.

"Mufasa! Over here!" I said as I leapt down onto a lower cliff.

I then started running down a rocky slope that led to a ledge. Mufasa saw me, and ran over to the ledge. He leapt onto the side and placed Simba on top, but just as I reached them…the stampede carried Mufasa away! Mufasa roared with shock!

"Mufasa!" I cried.

"Daad!" Simba cried.

Knocked down, Mufasa disappeared again.

I quickly flew to the edge of the lower cliff, searching for a sign of Mufasa. Simba stayed on the ledge, doing the same thing.

"Come on! Come on!" Spongebob, and a few others, said.

"He's a good-guy! He has to make it!" Molly said to herself, worried.

We searched desperately, looking down in different areas. Suddenly, Mufasa leapt onto another slope, a bit ways off from where I was, and started climbing to safety! The team and I sighed with relief. Simba smiled and watched Mufasa climb for a few seconds.

"Come on!" Felicity said, running towards the area where Mufasa was.

I rejoined my friends at the top and we followed her as Simba started running up the slope. Unfortunately, there was a tall, long patch of rock that separated us from Mufasa so we had to run alongside it. The rock was much too steep to climb over.

"Come on!" I said. "We have to get there, before…."

"Scar!" That was Mufasa! Scar somehow beat us to him! "Brother!" Mufasa cried. "Help me!"

Mufasa clung desperately to the cliff, his back paws slipping. After a few tense moments, Scar dug his claws into Mufasa's paws! Mufasa roared with pain.

"Hold on Mufasa!" The team and I cried.

The team and I ran even faster, but the weird thing was that the patch of rock seemed to be getting longer. Finally, we were able to run around it and started to run to Mufasa's rescue. Scar, however, wasn't wasting any time.

"Long live the king." He said with a slow, cold, mocking tone.

Mufasa looked at Scar with horror. Scar pushed Mufasa off the cliff!

"MUFASA!" The team and I cried, just reaching the edge.

Suddenly there was a rumble and a boom nearby, and I noticed someone falling on my right.

"Hang on!" I said, reaching for his paw and unfortunately missing.

Wait a minute, paw?

"Who the…?" I said. "HARRY!"

Harry started falling into the stampede too!

"Harry!" Ron W cried as Hermione gasped.

The team and I watched them fall, horrified. By this point Simba reached the ledge I was on a few minutes ago and watched too. Harry and Mufasa screamed as they fell into the stampede!

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" We all cried.

Harry and Mufasa disappeared! The team and I started to go back to Rip Claw, but we heard a shriek so we looked down the cliff instead.

"Numbuh Three!" I cried.

"Numbuh Three!" My fellow operatives cried.

Numbuh Three was clinging to a rock on the side of the cliff! During this, out of the corner of my eye, I saw Scar leaving. Numbuh Four, who was closest to Numbuh Three, tried to grab her hand, but she was to far down. Being longer than any of my fellow operatives, I tried next but barely reached her.

Numbuh Three suddenly fell!

"Jade give me the dog! Hurry!" I cried.

Jade of course knew what I meant, so she grabbed another talisman and handed it to me. I grabbed it with my mouth and ran down the side of the cliff!

"Numbuh K9!" My fellow operatives cried.

"Miranda no!" The rest of my friends cried.

No use, nothing can stop me from saving any of my fellow operatives, or friends for that matter. I grabbed Numbuh Three and gave her the dog talisman, telling her to squeeze it tightly. The drawing on the talisman glowed, but nothing seemed to happen. Numbuh Three and I disappeared into the stampede too! Everyone rushed to Rip, but then Ron W stopped, sniffed, and growled.

"What is it?" Hermione asked.

"Hyenas!" Ron W growled.

Everyone looked to where he was pointing, and saw the same hyenas that tried to eat Simba and Nala yesterday far down in the gorge!

"So they caused the stampede." Sarah frowned.

Hermione and a few of the other dogs growled. Even Clifford growled, which was something he had never done before.

"We'll take care of them later." Rip said

Everyone leapt into his or her compartments, but Rip refused to let Hermione drive him.

"Only Miranda and Jack are allowed to drive me, besides I'm perfectly capable of driving myself." Rip said.

Hermione gave in, got into her compartment, and Rip flew down into the gorge. The rest of the team was soon far away from Mufasa, searching for Harry, Numbuh Three, and I. Rip froze the side of the gorge where Mufasa was before everyone else checked the other side.

"No sign of them." Mandy muttered, worried.

"HARRY! MIRANDA! NUMBUH THREE!" Everyone called.

No answer.

"This is a waste of time," Tintin said. "They're obviously unconscious."

"I can save time." Jade said as she took out two talismans.

One talisman had a drawing of a rabbit, the other a drawing of a rooster. She explained their powers as she put one in each shoe:

"Rabbit is speed, rooster is levitation. Levitation plus speed equals flight."

Jade rose into the air and flew away causing everyone to gape.

"I haven't seen anyone fly without wings since Superman." Fred said.

"Those talismans do come in handy." Daphne added.

Jackie and Uncle glanced at each other at that. Despite the talismans' usefulness, they had never let Jade take them with her before. See, they were not only concerned with her getting hurt during a mission, but also they didn't want to risk getting the talismans stolen. After all, in the wrong hands those talismans can be very dangerous.

A few minutes later Jade came back.

"I found Miranda, Numbuh Three is trying to wake her up." She said worriedly.

Jade led everyone to us. After seeing me lying on the ground, Ron W, Hermione, and the rest of the operatives joined in waking me up.

"Relax!" I said, smiling. "I'm just resting my back!"

"Don't do that!" Numbuh Three said, annoyed.

"Sorry." I said. "I was just waiting for the others."

"Whatever that talisman was, it sure worked." Josefina said.

"What is the dog talisman's power?" Goddard asked.

"Immortality." Jade answered.

Everyone except for me, the Chans, and Rip gaped at this. I got up, but then I clutched my back in pain.

"Now I know how my dad feels." I muttered.

"You should take care of that." Lizzie said.

"First, I want to know how…wait! Where's Harry?" I asked.

"Harry? Shouldn't he be farther down?" Ron W asked, pointing past me.

"He isn't, before I got knocked out I saw him escape the stampede back down there." I shook my head, pointing past the team.

"But we didn't see any sign of him…." Hermione said, worried.

"Time for me to put the rabbit and rooster to use again." Jade said.

"Hold on," Fu-Fu said. "If we didn't find him by sight we're obviously going to need something like sonar. I can accommodate that."

"Tell you what," Jade said. "You take the right side and I'll take the left side."

They did. Jade came back a few minutes later to report not seeing him. When Fu-Fu came back it was a different story.

"I found him!" He said worriedly. "He's buried in rubble and the top rock is almost a boulder!"

Concerned, I started to rush over.

"What about your back?" Sarah called.

"To heck with my back!" I called back. "We need to check on Harry!"

We all rushed over, Jade and Fu-Fu reaching Harry first. When the rest of us got there we saw that the boulder that was on top of the rubble had been moved to the ground.

"J-Jade p-p-picked it up!" Fu-Fu stammered.

"You're pulling our legs!" Darwin said.

Jade grinned, pointing to her belt. We saw another talisman connected to there, with a picture of an ox on it.

"Ox is strength." Jade said, picking up the boulder! Only the Chans, Rip, and I weren't startled.

The three of us dug Harry out, who was unconscious. Jade was about to use the horse talisman again...

"Hang on, I'd prefer to use a healing potion since it's more powerful. Especially for an unconscious person." I said.

She nodded and backed away.

"Don't worry, you'll have other chances to use the talismans." I added.

I then pulled my magic bag out of my magic pocket again and started searching through it. I suddenly gave a cry of pain and withdrew my arm: there was a mousetrap on it!

"Jojo and his stupid pranks." I muttered angrily, slamming the trap into the ground and setting it on fire with my wand.

"Jojo?" Cleo asked.

"He's my oldest brother." I explained, dousing the fire; then I continued searching through my bag. "Ah-ha! Found it."

I brought out the same bottle of potion that I used on Numbuh 274, and explained that this is a healing potion that Jack modified. Hermione and Ron gently pried Harry's mouth open while I poured some of the potion down his throat. I then took a swig of the potion before putting it back into the bag, and then put the bag back into my magical pocket. In practically no time at all, Harry got up and my back was fully healed.

"So why didn't you get attacked by the mousetrap before?" T-Bone asked, confused.

"Until I need my bag it's always in my room," I explained. "Then when I do need it, I can magically pull it out through my pocket. Since I have a lot of stuff I need a magical bag while the other Superwolves only need a magical pocket. Jojo must've snuck the mousetrap into the bag earlier after I had previously used it, and long after I forbid him from my room too."

"Why?" Kit asked.

"Would you allow a prankster into your room?" Samantha smiled.

"Oh, right."

"Wait a minute," Hermione said. "Isn't Jojo an adult?"

"He's twenty-two to be exact." I replied.

"Then shouldn't he have a place of his own?" Hermione pointed out. "How could he get into your room?"

"He does have a place of his own," I said. "But I don't know how he could've sneaked in, not even our parents know where he is. He just basically disappeared."

"Is there any way he could've sneaked in that you know of?" Casper asked.

"Only the portal system in my mirror." I said. "It opens portals to the different worlds that I know as well as our resting spot."

"Maybe then he moved to a different world." Hermione suggested.

"I hope not." I said. "I also banned him from the Kids Next Door World."

"Why?" Kirsten asked.

"He was never kid-friendly..." I answered. "Even as a kid."

That shocked everyone into silence for a few moments. However, before anyone could reply, I suddenly heard the sound of hooves behind us!

"Duck!" I ordered as I saw a wildebeest charging right at us!

Everyone gave a yell of shock as they saw the wildebeest, and hit the ground just before the wildebeest reached us. The wildebeest leapt right over us and continued on. Eliza used wildebeest language to talk to it, causing the rest of the team, except for Darwin, to look at her with confusion.

"I was telling him to watch where he was going." Eliza grumbled, getting up and dusting herself off.

The rest of us nodded as we got up and dusted ourselves off.

Unexpectedly, the wildebeest stopped, turned, and looked at us with eyes that seemed snakelike! We shivered at first, but stopped when we saw Darwin gaping with fear at something. Looking in the same direction as Darwin, we saw that the wildebeest had a strange mark on its back. The mark, as a matter of fact, looked a lot like a snake! We decided to ignore it, although I did silently thank that we had ducked in time. If the wildebeest hadn't missed us, it would have trampled us, maybe even to death! Ignoring the wildebeest too, Rip unfroze the other side of the gorge before we went there to find Simba and Mufasa.

Later on, we saw Mufasa lying still under a dead, bent tree.

"Mufasa no." I said, almost sobbing.

Simba, who appeared from the opposite side, went around Mufasa so that he was in front of his face.

"Dad?" Simba said. "Dad come on, you gotta get up." Simba nudged Mufasa's head up, but no response. "Dad," Simba half sobbed. "We gotta go home." He shook Mufasa's head. "Dad." Simba tugged Mufasa's ear, but it was like tugging a stuffed animal's: still no response.

"HEEELLLP!" Simba cried, running towards the cliffs.

"HEEELLLP!" His echo responded.

"SOMEBODY!"

"SOMEBODY!"

"Anybody!"

"Anybody!"

"Help." Simba sobbed.

Silently crying, Simba walked back to Mufasa and lay down between Mufasa's head and paw. We wished we could help but there was nothing we could do, Mufasa was dead. All we could do was to cry too.

Jimmy N suddenly stopped crying. So did we, but only to stare at him.

"Ron," He said. "Didn't you notice hyenas down there?"

He pointed near Mufasa and Simba...and Scar. From what I could tell, Scar was talking to Simba. I didn't like the looks of that.

"Yes…." Ron W began to answer Jimmy N's question. "Oh!"

Ron W took omnoculars magically out of his belt and focused them on the hyenas.

"They're still there." He muttered.

Sure enough, the hyenas were hidden behind a rock just ahead of us.

"Scar must be planning to use them to kill Simba." AJ said.

"We'll nip that in the bud." I said as I pressed a couple of buttons on Rip.

He rose into the air and we flew above Scar and Simba in the direction Simba came from. I landed Rip at the top of a wall of rocks and we waited for Simba.