3:45-The Bathroom

Calvin woke up to see Linus standing by him. "Linus?"

"Hello, Calvin. Nice to see you awake and so full of life. If you could call it that, anyway."

"What do you mean?"

Linus glanced around the room. "Look at what's happened. You're living out your life in a men's bathroom."

Calvin realized that suddenly, the bathroom didn't look as nice as it did in the "Hakuna Matata" scene. It was nothing but a broken down place with an ugly overflowing urinal, after all.

"Well, I guess," admitted Calvin. "But it's not worth it, back in the other room. The Kankers want to kill me, and Bowser and the Koopas are probably there, and having a king or queen just plain stinks...we can't have real fun anymore."

"That may be true, but you had something else there...friends."

Calvin sighed. "Even Eddy and Ed are gone, now...I miss Jason and Marcus, Double D, Hobbes, even Rolf...but now that no one can leave, I'll never see them again."

"I know where Rolf is." Linus pointed into a toilet. Confused, Calvin looked in and only saw himself reflected in the dirty water.

"Linus, Lucy's slugged you too many times," he sighed after seeing his reflection. "That's just me."

"Look closer."

Calvin's reflection changed into Rolf's face.

"He lives in you."

"What does that even mean!" yelled Calvin.

Suddenly, the room was filled with fog. A light shone on the toilet, which a ghostly-looking Rolf rose out of. "Spikey-haired Calvin boy," he said in a low serious voice. "You have forgotten who you are. You have forgotten your friends."

"No! No, I could never forget you guys!"

"But you have by turning your back on us."

Calvin fell to his knees. He wasn't sure what was going on, but this ghost thing was actually making a lot of sense. "Rolf, please! I remember you! I remember who I am!"

"You are our friend, and we need the imagination and happiness in you now more than ever. Remember...remember...remember..." Rolf sank into the toilet. The mist and fog faded away.

"Rolf! No! Please...come back..." Calvin watched the toilet, but nothing happened.

"Call a plumber on that one, huh?" smiled Linus.

"Well, I know what I've gotta do now," said Calvin. "But even with the Kankers gone, Kevin will come back, and everything will still be bad."

"True, things can be bad," said Linus, holding up a dirty blanket, "and we may want to throw them away...but if you try..." Linus washed the blanket off. "...things may get better."

"Well, I better be going. Goodbye, Linus."

"Simba Returns" music started up. Suddenly, Jason, Marcus and Hobbes jumped down from the ceiling with a fog machine and flashlights. Rolf jumped out of the toilet. "Not without us!"

"Guys!"

Together, the friends started to run back down the hall and take on the Kankers. They passed Eddy and Ed, who were just coming in.

"Where are you guys going?" asked Eddy.

"We're off to save the kingdom from the Kankers!"

Ed ran for cover in the bathroom. "Kankers!"

"Count me out!" said Eddy. "Besides, I hate Kevin! Why would I want to save his kingdom?"

"True, things can be bad, and we may..." started Linus.

"Give the speech later!" interrupted Marcus. "We've got a kingdom to save!"

The kids all ran away, leaving Ed and Eddy. "Hey, didn't they move?" asked Jason.

You know, it's hard to do a serious scene when your character is rising out of a toilet. Hopefully Linus's words of wisdom will distract everyone. "He Lives In You" was cut for the same reason the first one was.

Ed and Eddy were originally going to accompany them, before I had the idea of writing a sequel. I had heard about a deleted scene where Timon gives himself a warmup speech to accompany Simba, and I hoped to do the same thing. No such luck, I decided it was better to have them pop in later and explain what was going on in the sequel.