The keepers continued to walk around Wild Kingdom, getting the basic layout of it and keeping an eye for any Overtaker activity or possible hideouts.
They were however slowed down. The injured keepers were lagging behind. Finn was resting on Amanda's shoulders a lot of times, while she was struggling with the bullet wounds in her hands. Willa was limping on her shot leg, and so was Maybeck. However Jess was being carried a bunch of times by Henry.
"She truly loves him," Amanda said. "She just met him, and she loves him."
"Anything can happen, as long as it's true love," said Finn. "We should know that more than anyone after all the years we spent at Disney."
"But I am still kind of concerned," said Amanda. "You do remember that last Disney princess who fell in love with a boy the moment she met him right?"
"Henry is nothing like Prince Hans," Finn said. "He's nice, sweet, helpful, caring, and to Jess quite charming."
"Just like Prince Charming," joked Amanda.
"I hope you mean the one from Disney," Finn said. "Because the Prince Charming from here is defiantly not charming."
Amanda smiled and stared at her laughing sister.
"Still I think that boy may be hiding something," Amanda said. "Just how Storey was hiding the fact that she was Ursula."
"Storey had no control over that," Finn said. "Ursula was possessing her."
"Still, we should keep an eye on him," Amanda said.
"We'll do what we can," Finn said. "But I don't see him posing any threat."
"I still wonder what the argument back there was about," Amanda said. "The hunters acted like they knew Henry."
"Well…" Fin started to say.
"Shhhh!" yelled Philby.
"Huh?" everyone asked.
"Hide!" he yelled quietly.
Everyone hide in the bushes. They could here the sound of feet marching.
They looked out and saw a bunch of ant soldiers walking this way, being led by General Mandible.
"Come on men!" Mandible yelled. "We will find those keepers! First Rattlesnake Jake is injured, but now Victor Quartermaine is dead! The keepers will not get away with this!"
The ants cheered.
"Onward!" he yelled. All the ants marched off.
The keepers looked out. All the ants were gone.
"Phew!" Finn said. "That was close!"
"Damn right!" said Henry.
"Everyone okay?" Finn asked.
Everyone responded yes, except Willa. She was staring up with a terrified face.
"Willa what's wrong?" asked Philby.
Willa pointed up into the tree with a shaking finger.
Everyone looked up and almost screamed.
Thousands of blue monkeys were in the trees, staring at them angrily. They glared at the keepers at first, but then their glares transformed into evil grins.
"It's the Wickersham Brothers!" Henry yelled.
The monkeys then all screeched.
"Oh fuck all of us!" Finn yelled.
The monkeys tackled everyone. It went dark.
Finn woke up slowly. He blinked a bunch of times. He realized that he was tied up to a pole, and his mouth had a gag wrapped around it. He looked to his side, seeing that all the keepers were tied up as well, but had no gag.
They were in some kind of stadium, with thousands of Wickershams sitting in seats around the stadium. It looked like a coliseum from Greek mythology.
Suddenly, a gate opened up and a kangaroo hopped in. She was purple with a big long nose. She also had a baby in her pouch. She stared at the keepers angrily.
"Oh no it's Jane Kangaroo!" Henry said.
"Who?" asked Charlene.
"Otherwise known as Sour Kangaroo, she is the villain from Horton Hears a Who," Henry explained. "She rules the jungle."
"Yes you are right," Kangaroo said. "And here I rule Wild Kingdom. I was chosen to be ruler of Wild Kingdom by Lord Maliss."
"Oh great!" Philby said. "Dream Kingdom has a Prince John as well."
"Excuse me!?" Kangaroo said. "What did you just say!?"
"Uh…I…um," Philby stammered.
Kangaroo sighed.
"No matter, I can't use violence on you guys for two reasons," Kangaroo said. "One because the kid is here."
"And two because you have something that we need," said a voice.
Everyone looked up and saw a vulture that was losing it's feathers swoop down and land on Finn's pole. It was Vlad Vladikoff.
"Mmph!" said Finn.
"Oh sorry," Vlad said. "We had to gag you because we were afraid that you would try to roar and call for help."
He removed the gag slowly. Finn saw his sharp talons near his face, letting him know that if he tried to scream, he would be slashed.
"Now what did you say?" Vlad asked.
"I said if it's information that you want, then forget it," he said. "We don't have anything."
"We know," said Kangaroo. "What we want is your special power."
"What power?" asked Amanda. "My ability to use telekinesis?"
"My power to dream the future?" asked Jess.
"We want your ability to walk through walls," Kangaroo said.
"What?" asked Finn. "You mean go all clear?"
"Most of the things we need for our ultimate plan are hidden in the buildings in this park, but most of my animals don't have hands so they can't open doors," said Kangaroo. "And we don't want to break into buildings because there might be alarms."
"If you are breaking in then I hope they do have alarms," Maybeck said.
Kangaroo snorted.
"So in order for us to get in those buildings, we figured out that we needed the ability to walk through walls, like you children can," she said. "So if you don't want to die, you are going to give us your powers."
"Yeah, like hell that is going to happen," Finn said. "Even if you forced us we wouldn't be able to do it. It's not magic, its part of our DHI abilities."
"Then give us your DHIs!" Kangaroo said.
"Or at least make us into DHIs!" Vlad said.
"Not going to happen!" Philby said.
"Even if you forced us to do this as well, we couldn't," Finn said. "The DHI creator system is in Florida, and no we will not take you there!"
Kangaroo sighed.
"I tried to be nice and patient," she said. "But it looks like we will have to do this the hard way."
She turned around and snapped her fingers.
"Send out the lizards!" she yelled.
The Wickershams began to cheer. Two of the walls of the stadium began to open. The keepers heard two loud roars. Out of the openings came Sarco and Surly, the two brother Sarcosuchuses from Dino Time.
"You rang?" asked Sarco.
"Tell these brats we mean business!" Kangaroo ordered.
The two dinosaurs grinned, showing their razor sharp teeth.
"With pleasure," said Surly.
The two dinosaurs began to walk towards the keepers, who were now terrified.
Finn desperately wanted to roar for help, but the talons in front of his face prevented him from doing so.
"Say Sarco," Surly said as he stood in front of Henry. "Doesn't this guy look familiar?"
"What are you talking about?" asked Sarco. "I've never seen him before."
"It's just that I think I have seen those eyes before," said Surly.
Henry looked concerned and terrified.
"It doesn't matter!" Sarco yelled. "They're all going to be dinner after all!"
"No stop!" Kangaroo yelled. "You can't eat them! We need them alive! We need their magic!"
"She's right!" Vlad yelled as he swooped down in front of Sarco.
"NO BIRDBRAIN!" Kangaroo yelled. "THE BOY!"
Vlad turned around towards Finn but it was too late. Finn managed to roar another realistic sounding roar.
"Oh great!" Sarco said. "Now that help is coming, we have to eat them!"
"Eat them, and I swear that I will…" Kangaroo began to say.
"That you'll do what?" asked a voice.
Everyone looked at the gate. Tyra was standing there.
"You called for help children?" Tyra asked.
"Help us dino mama!" Maybeck yelled.
"Stay away from our dinner Tyra!" Sarco yelled.
Tyra roared and charged into the stadium. She knocked Sarco, Surly, Vlad, and Kangaroo into the wall with her tail.
She then used her teeth to cut the keepers loose.
"Run!" she yelled. "Get back to the entrance and use the return! I will hold everyone off!"
"You got it!" said Willa.
"Thank you," said Amanda.
Tyra smiled, but then glared at the dinosaurs and Kangaroo.
Kangaroo then noticed the keepers escaping.
"STOP THEM!" she yelled.
The Wickershams immediately hopped of the bleachers and blocked the keepers form escaping.
They were about to attack them, when suddenly Manny and Diego came running at them, knocking through the Wickershams like they were bowling pins.
The two nodded at the keepers and continued to run.
The keepers made it out of the savannah area and were heading back towards the entrance.
"We made it out!" Finn said. He was still struggling a little with his shot leg.
"I'm am so glad!" Amanda said. Her hands still had holes in them.
"You guys know it happened again," said Philby.
"What?" asked Charlene.
"The Overtakers seemed to recognize Henry," he said.
Everyone stopped and stared at Henry.
"Look guys, I am being completely honest with you," he said. "I have no idea why they seem to recognize me."
"To tell the truth, you do look familiar," said a voice.
Everyone turned around, only to find themselves surrounded from both sides by the army of ants and General Mandible.
"But then again, anyone I have known from my past that was a hero is already dead," Mandible said grinning.
Everyone just stared silent silently at Mandible and his army.
"I have waited and searched for you brats all night," said Mandible. "Now I can get our revenge for killing Victor Quartermaine."
The keepers had no chance of escape. The ants started to close in, pointing their spears at them.
Finn clung onto Amanda. He wished she could use her powers, but the hunter shot right through them. She couldn't even make fists.
Amanda looked over at Jess. Henry held her tightly, and she had her hands wrapped around his waist.
Amanda managed to smile. She thought if they were going to die tonight, that at least Jess would die finally finding true love.
Her thoughts were interrupted by a bunch of the ant soldiers shouting. Everyone turned around. Ants were being thrown into the air like bowling pins.
"You bad buggies!" yelled an old voice.
Finn actually recognized the voice.
"Oh you are kidding me!" he said.
The person who was knocking away the ants was finally in sight. The keepers were staring at Nana, the elderly old lady from Madagascar.
"Oh my god!" Maybeck said, actually laughing. All the keepers were laughing at who came to the rescue.
"What is this!?" Mandible yelled angrily. An old lady was beating his army.
Nana turned around after she knocked away a bunch of more ants with her handbag.
"This is a rescue!" Nana yelled. She looked at the keepers. "Run! Get to the entrance! Save yourselves!"
The keepers smiled. They knew she could handle them. To prove it, she ran up and knocked away Mandible and the ants in front of them.
They thanked her as she went back to fighting ants.
The keepers began to run off again, until they were blocked by Shaw and Newmann.
"Not again!" yelled Charlene.
"Give us a break!" yelled Philby.
"Can't you just let us get back to the entrance so we can wake up!?" yelled Finn.
"Oh don't worry!" Shaw said. "You'll be waking up."
"In hell!" yelled Newmann.
The hunters began to walk towards them.
"We're going to make you pay for Victor!" said Myles Standish who appeared from behind them.
All of them pointed their guns at the keepers. They had no chance of escaping, or so they thought.
Finn immediately looked at the Madagascar River next to them and smiled.
"FOLLOW ME GUYS!" he yelled. He dashed to the side and jumped off the gate and into the river.
"FINN!" Amanda yelled as all the keepers ran up.
"SWIM GUYS!" Finn yelled. "WE CAN ESCAPE!"
The keepers looked at each other and realized they had no choice, because now the hunters were about to shoot.
They all jumped off the gate and into the river just as the hunters fired their guns. The bullets missed them.
"BLAST!" Shaw yelled.
The keepers stared at each other as they floated in the lake.
"Finn help!" Amanda yelled. She was having trouble staying afloat because of her hurt hands.
Finn swam over to her and grabbed her hand, swimming away. He was having trouble as well because of his shot leg, so Amanda helped him move as well. All the keepers helped their injured boyfriend or girlfriend.
The hunters had begun to fire their rifles again. The keepers watched as bullets flew into the water, missing them. They scattered all over the place.
Soon the keepers were in a darker part of the river, where the hunters couldn't see them.
They stopped when to catch their breath. They floated in the water.
"We did it!" Maybeck said.
"We got away!" exclaimed Henry.
Everyone stared at him. Jess happily hugged him, and them brought her lips to his. Everyone stared wide-eyed at this. Amanda smiled happily.
She pressed her wet lips against Henry's for a while.
Finn and Amanda happily stared at Jess and Henry, and then at each other. They were about to join them in kissing, when suddenly a huge creature popped out of the water like a volcano and grabbed Finn in its teeth, dragging him under.
"FINN!" Amanda yelled as the two disappeared.
Everyone looked around, looking for signs of Finn or bubbles. Amanda began to grow teary.
"Not yet Mandy!" Jess yelled. "He isn't dead!"
Suddenly, the creature popped out of the water again. It was a blue/green humongous crocodile with razor sharp teeth. It grinned showing all his teeth while he held Finn tightly in with his tail. Amanda could see Finn's stomach bleeding slightly from the bite marks.
Henry identified the beast as Bog, the villain from The Outback.
"What are you doing in my river?" Bog yelled.
"Um…" Amanda said trying to make up an excuse.
"No use in making up excuses, Kingdom Keepers!" Bog said, proving that he knew who the kids were. He squeezed Finn tighter.
"Look we have had our fill of almost getting killed for one night already!" Henry yelled, facing the beast.
"Really?" asked Bog. "Because I haven't had my fill of children for dinner…hey wait! You look familiar!"
Henry was now really angry.
"I AM SO SICK OF EVERY ONE OF YOU GUYS THINKING THAT YOU KNOW ME!" he yelled.
He lunged towards Bog and clasped onto his closed mouth. The crocodile shook his head rapidly, trying to shake Henry off, but he couldn't. Henry proved to be strong.
"Get Finn!" Henry yelled.
The keepers nodded. They began to climb onto Bog's back to try and release Finn.
Bog swung his tail back and forth to prevent the keepers from getting Finn.
"Maybeck! Philby!" Willa yelled. "Grab those vines and help tie up Bog's mouth! Henry looks like he is starting to lose."
Maybeck and Philby nodded and grabbed a bunch of vines from the trees above them and help Henry tie Bog's mouth shut.
"I…think…I'm…going to…hurl," said Finn as he was shaken back and forth.
"Hang in their buddy!" Jess said.
"We'll save you!" yelled Charlene.
Unfortunately Bog proved to be too fast for them.
Finn couldn't take it anymore. He bit down onto Bog's tail. They couldn't hear him scream because the boys tied his mouth shut, but they heard him groan in pain.
He released his grip from Finn as he fell into Amanda's arms.
"Are you okay honey?" Amanda asked.
Finn eyes spun. He looked sick.
"M…Manda," Finn said weakly. Then his eyes shot open.
"Oh god!" he yelled as he threw up right into Amanda's face.
"GROSS!" Jess yelled. All the girls screamed. Philby and Henry gasped. Maybeck burst out laughing.
When Finn was done, Amanda just sat there, shocked over what happened. It happened so fast.
"Go…for…a swim?" Finn asked weakly, but sheepishly.
"Fuck yeah!" Amanda said in an upset voice.
They both rolled into the lake. The keepers watched as Finn's puke rose up from underwater. Finn and Amanda had swum in front of Bog so that when they rose they wouldn't get hit with the water filled with throw up.
"Let's go guys," Finn said. The keepers nodded and jumped into the water swimming towards the entrance, leaving Bog tied up to a rock.
Soon they made it to the entrance to the park.
Everyone was exhausted. They were weak. They were tired. They were injured still. Everyone's wounds started bleeding again. They knew they would have to take care of those when they returned. But what really would need to be dealt with was Amanda smelling like puke.
"Are we done here tonight?" Henry said.
Everyone nodded.
"Are we ready to wake up?" asked Maybeck.
"Just take out the fucking return and press the fucking button!" Amanda said. "I need to take a shower!"
"I am sorry Mandy," Finn said.
"Don't worry," Amanda said. "You had no control over it."
Finn smiled.
"GUYS!" Charlene yelled. "Can we save the lovey dovey shit for when we wake up?"
Finn groaned and took out the remote.
"Press the button!" he yelled.
Everyone pressed the button and returned.
Alright! The keepers have been through Wild Kingdom now! They have been injured, and have also met new overtakers! Sour Kangaroo is the ruler of Wild Kingdom, like Prince John rules Animal Kingdom in my previous stories. Connection! Anyway, next chapter will have a fight between Finn and an Overtaker during the day, and it will be strange for us, but embarrassing for Finn. Stay tuned to find out what it is!
See you next update!
From your favorite fanguy,
Jacob/Hades/Sonicphantom47
P.S. Special shoutout to kelphead2, who requested Nana to be in the story. I am open for any suggestions, just PM me or leave it in the comments
