Tarzan's friends Terk and Tantor come looking for him, but Tarzan does not want to return home with them. It is only when his new neighbour Teeka arrives and encounters trouble with Gunda and her boys that Tarzan finally realizes that he has a mind of his own, with his own special tricks that no one else in the jungle can do. Terk and Tantor save Tarzan and become best friends once again. Tarzan tells Teeka that she must. She then gives him a hug and tells him how proud she is of him for rescuing her from the two brothers, after which Mama Gunda punishes her kids, Kago and Uto for destroying Zugor's tree house and Terk and Tantor are finally reunited with their best friend, Tarzan.