A gray bear soon came by, singing a song.
"Hey, it's a bear." Cindy said.
"Maybe he's Yogi's cousin." Courtney joked.
"Doo-bee doo-bee doo-bee dee-doo, Well, it's a doo-bah-dee-do, Yes, it's a doo-bah-dee-do, I mean a doo-be doo-bee doo-be, Doo-be doo-bee doo, And with-~" The bear sang to himself until he saw Mowgli. "Well now, ha-ha! What have we here?" he then sniffled the feral boy. "Hmm... Hey, what a funny little bit of a-"
Mowgli just slapped him.
"Ow!" The bear complained.
"That wasn't very nice." Cindy glared a bit.
"Go away!" Mowgli complained.
"Oh, boy, I've seen everything in these woods, what have I run on?" The bear replied, looking at him. "What a pretty thing this is!"
"Leave me alone." Mowgli moaned.
"Well, now, that's pretty big talk, Little Britches." The bear said to the feral boy.
"I'm big enough!" Mowgli huffed and he started hitting the bear in the stomach repeatedly, but the bear almost didn't even notice that.
Mike was about to stop Mowgli, but she saw that the bear wasn't bothered.
"Must be Baloo." Courtney soon said.
"Yogi's cousin?" Cindy smirked.
"Okay, I'll stop." Courtney rolled her eyes, but playfully.
The bear chuckled before shaking his head. "Pitiful. Hey, kid, you need help. And old Baloo is gonna learn you to fight like a bear. Now come on, I'm gonna show you. Grrr." he then stood up and started to dance around, and Mowgli, lightening up, began mimicking Baloo's moves. "Ha, yeah! All right now, kid, loosen up, get real loosen, then start to weave, weave a little, now move, that's it. Now give me a big bear growl, scare me!"
Mowgli then made a barely audible growl.
Baloo tutted from that. "Oh, boy... I'm talking about like a big bear!"
"Care to demonstrate?" Mike asked the bear.
"Well, sure!" Baloo replied. He then made a growl which rocks the jungle to the bottom and even Bagheera, who was walking away, all this time hears it.
"He's in trouble," Bagheera panicked and soon ran back to Mowgli and the girls. "I shouldn't have left him alone!"
"Grrr." Mowgli growled.
"GRRR!" Baloo growled back.
"Grrr."
"A big one, right from your toes." Baloo told Mowgli.
"How was that?" Mowgli smiled to the bear.
Bagheera soon arrived as Mowgli continued to growl while Baloo laughed to him.
"Yeah, you're getting it, kid." Baloo smiled to the feral boy.
"Oh, no, it's Baloo!" Bagheera replied in dismay. "That shiftless, stupid jungle bum!"
Baloo and Mowgli soon danced around together as the others soon joined in.
"Weave about, now look for an opening," Baloo told Mowgli. "Keep movin', keep-"
Mowgli then took some swings at Baloo's nose, but missed.
"Ha-ha! Ya, you're getting it kid, ha-ha," Baloo laughed. "Come on, that's it. He's a dandy!" he then playfully slapped Mowgli which sent him rolling around and leaves knocked out on the ground.
"You should try some of these moves at the Saturday Block Party." Mike chuckled to herself.
"That was a fun time," Ashlyn laughed in memory. "Especially when Cindy busted out some of her own moves."
"Everyone was shocked about what I could do." Cindy chuckled.
"Heh. Fine teacher you are, Old Iron Paws." Bagheera chuckled as he came back.
"Oh thanks, Bagheera." Baloo smiled to the panther.
"Oh, you two know each other well?" Ashlyn asked.
"We're old friends actually," Baloo said. "When we were cubs of course, but that was a long, long time ago."
"Yeah, tell me after you know your pupil senseless, how do you expect him to remember the lesson?" Bagheera soon asked Baloo.
Mowgli, at this time already, came to and sat on the ground, shaking his head.
"Well, I-I didn't mean to lay it on him so hard." Baloo remarked.
"You okay, Mowgli?" Ellody asked the feral boy.
"I'm not hurt, I'm all right," Mowgli said as he walked to Baloo, though kind of unsteadily. "I'm a lot tougher than some people think." "You better believe it!" Baloo smiled to him. "Now let's go once more. Now you keep ciclin' or I'm gonna knock your roof in again, you better keep movin'-"
Mowgli then hit Baloo into his lower jaw.
Baloo then playfully laid down. "Hey! Right on the button!"
Mowgli climbed on him, and occasionally tickling him with his feet.
"Ah, ha-ha, no, no-no, now you're tickling!" Baloo then laughed.
"I think this is the start of a wonderful friendship." Ellody remarked.
"Indeed." Courtney nodded as she knew that it was.
"Now that's all he needs," Bagheera said as he watched the bear and the boy bonding together. "More confidence."
"Give up, Baloo?" Mowgli smirked.
"I give up, I told ya. Oh, I give-" Baloo replied which then made Mowgli stop, but he still laughed a bit. "Hey, ha-ha. You know something? You're all right, kid. What do they call you?"
"His name is Mowgli." Courtney stated.
"That's right," Bagheera added. "And he's going back to the Man Village right now."
"Man Village?" Baloo complained. "They'll ruin 'im! They'll make a man out of 'im!"
"Oh, Baloo, I want to stay here with you!" Mowgli told the bear.
"Certainly you do." Baloo smiled.
"Oh? And just how do you think you will survive?" Bagheera asked.
Baloo imitated the panther with an eye roll. "What do you mean 'How do you think you will'? He's with me, any, And I'll learn him all I know."
"Well, heh, that shouldn't take too long." Bagheera rolled his eyes.
Baloo glared at Bagheera and then turned over to Mowgli. "Look, now it's like this, Little Britches. All you've got to do is," Baloo told Mowgli before he began to sing. "Look for the bare necessities, The simple bare necessities, Forget about your worries and your strife, I mean the bare necessities, Are Mother Nature's recipes, That bring the bare necessities of life, Wherever I wander, Wherever I roam, I couldn't be fonder, Of my big home, The bees are buzzing in the tree, To make some honey just for me, When you look under the rocks and plants, And take a glance at the fancy ants, Then maybe try a few~"
"You eat ants?" Cindy asked the bear.
"Ha-ha, you better believe it!" Baloo chuckled before calling out to the black panther. "And you're gonna love the way they tickle. Hey Baggy, you hungry?"
The rock almost fell on Mowgli, worrying the black panther. "Mowgli, look out!"
Mowgli lifted his head in time as the rock fell right on the ground as he soon began to try to eat an ant, but it kept crawling around his body.
"The bare necessities of life will come to you~" Baloo continued to sing.
"When?" Mowgli asked as he kept missing the ant.
"They'll come to you, Look for the bare necessities, The simple bare necessities~," Baloo continued to sing, bumping against a banana tree, taking a banana for himself and Mowgli tried to get one, but glared as it was an empty peel. "Forget about your worries and your strife, I mean the bare necessities, That's why a bear can rest at ease, With just the bare necessities of life~"
Mowgli soon picked up a banana for himself until a pile of bananas then landed on top of him. The girls then winced to that.
"Come on, girls, join in!" Baloo told them.
"Uh... Okay..." Courtney said.
"Now when you pick a paw-paw, Or a prickly pear~" Baloo began, picking some pieces with his claw.
"Ow!" Mowgli yelped as he pricked his finger.
"And you prick a raw paw, Well, next time beware, Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw~" Baloo said before eating some more, tossing some fruit to Mowgli. "When you pick a pear try to use the claw, But you don't need to use the claw, When you pick a pair of the big paw-paw, Have I given you a clue?~"
"Golly, thanks, Baloo!" Mowgli beamed.
"Paw-paw, ha!" Bagheera grumbled. "Of all the silly gibberish-"
"Come on, Baggy, get with the beat!" Baloo smiled, grabbing Bagheera by his tail. "The bare necessities of life will come to you~"
"They'll come to me!~" Mowgli sang.
"They'll come to you~" The girls sang to him.
"They'll come to you~" Baloo sang with them before getting down on all fours as Mowgli rode on his back. "How 'bout scratchin' that old left shoulder while you're up there, Mowgli?"
Mowgli smiled and began to scratch the bear's back.
"Now just a hair lower... There, right there. That's it. Ahh..." Baloo smiled in relief. "This is beautiful. That's good. Kid, we've got to get to a tree, this calls for some big scratch!" he then said, going to scratch his back on a tree.
"You're lots of fun, Baloo!" Mowgli smiled.
Baloo was then scratching against a tree. "Right on it... Yeah! That's delicious!" he said as he relaxed. "Oh, ooo! Just a little bit-Mmm... Yeah... Ha-ha. Ooh..." he then pulled the tree from the ground finally and scratched by its trunk. "Mm... Mmm... Ha-ha.. Ooh. Yeah!" As he was satisfied, he let himself fall into water. "Oh, man, this is really livin'. So just try and relax. Yeah."
"I would if I could." Mike muttered a bit.
"We're kind of on vacation in a way." Jayna said to her with a small smile.
"She's right," Cindy said. "Hey, do you hear that? ...It's the sound of no bullies."
"It's kinda nice." Mike replied.
"Come on, let's have some fun," Ashlyn said. "Especially with my last week before I go off to Ben, Kevin, and Gwen."
"Okay, someone explain to me," Cindy said. "Is Gwen Ben's sister or what?"
"Cousin." The other girls corrected.
"Okay... I don't know the Tennyson family that well, so that was driving me crazy." Cindy replied.
"Yeah, I know what you mean," Mike said. "I felt the same way when I first met them."
"I first met them when they thought about joining the League and then Abby met Kevin." Cindy said.
"Well, when Ben was about your age, he was given something called The Omnitrix." Mike replied.
"Wow, that's a long time ago." Cindy said.
"Yep. How old do you think Ben is?" Mike asked playfully.
"I don't know, Mike, I haven't lived in CN City all my life like you have." Cindy shrugged playfully.
This made both Mike and Cindy laugh.
"Ah, it feels good to hear laughter that isn't from someone doing it AT me than WITH me." Cindy said.
"So, Cin, you wanna tell us more about this Avalanche Arts Academy place you wanna go to?" Ashlyn asked.
"It's an art school that I'm hoping to spend the winter semester in," Cindy explained. "I'm gonna spend a semester there over the winter to see if I wanna stay there in the future or not. I heard that Zoey's cousin Ginger had won a scholarship there too, so maybe I'll see her and probably hang out with her since I don't know her that well."
"That will be nice for you, Cin." Mike replied.
"Yeah, I hope so, though I don't know anymore since Sarah's bullying is out of control and her mother won't do any proper parenting to her and Ed," Cindy crossed her arms a bit. "I'm not taking back that punch in the face. She had that coming!"
"Not even Lola Loud would go as far as Sarah." Mike agreed.
"Right, and she's even a brat herself sometimes." Cindy nodded.
"I will talk with my mother when we get back home, and see what we can do to knock Angelia Hill down a bit so that we can put Sarah in her place." Courtney reassured Cindy.
"About dang time!" Cindy replied. "I'm so sick of Sarah using her mother's PTA status as a way to get away with just about EVERYTHING!"
"I know." Mike agreed.
Eventually, Mowgli and Baloo ended up in the water together.
"I think those two are gonna end up being best friends." Mike smiled to that.
The other girls nodded in agreement.
"Good talk, girls." Mike said playfully.
"Ah, I give up..." Bagheera sighed as he soon walked away. "Well, I hope his luck holds out."
"Mowgli, how 'bout you and the girls do some singing?" Baloo suggested.
"I don't sing very good." Ashlyn replied.
"Trust me, unless you wanna go deaf, you're better off without me singing." Cindy added.
"Aw, come on, girls," Baloo smiled. "I bet you have some nice singing voices."
"Courtney loves to sing almost as much as Ella Muse." Ellody replied.
"I don't know who that is, but let's hear it, huh?" Baloo suggested.
"Uh, you sure?" Courtney asked her step-sister.
"Yes, I'm sure." Ellody smiled.
"Easy for you to say maybe." Cindy mumbled to herself.
Baloo, Mowgli, and some of the others soon began to sing along to the Bare Necessities. The girls soon went into the water to cool off and also clean themselves up a bit.
"Oh, that feels good..." Cindy said in relief. "I guess we could use a little clean up after the day we had yesterday with the storm."
"Well, I really hope that the others will be okay." Courtney soon said.
"I hope that Kevin and Sarah get eaten by sharks." Ashlyn said.
"If they get the sharks mad enough, yeah." Mike said.
"Whatya mean?" Courtney asked. "Sharks just attack, right?"
"Not really," Mike shook her head. "Sharks rarely ever attack humans and would much rather feed on fish and marine mammals. Yeah, a shark bite can really hurt you, but they don't go around attacking people for no reason."
"She does have a point." Cindy agreed with Mike.
"How do you know?" Courtney asked Mike.
"Kiko and Kiki told me." Mike replied.
"Who?" Courtney asked.
"They are siblings who visited their Uncle Kahuna who taught them how to surf." Mike replied.
"...Now I'm even more lost." Courtney said.
"I met them when I visited Hawaii with Reggie, Otto, Martina, Sam, and Twister along with the Eds," Mike said. "It was a pretty long time ago."
"Okay, now that makes much more sense." Courtney then said.
"Yeah, I kinda had a 'normal life' before all this chaos of Dr. X and the DarkStar Council and everyone else breaking out before The Cartoon League became a major thing." Mike replied.
"Define: normal." Ashlyn joked.
"Do you think the others will be okay?" Ellody wondered.
"Eh, they should be." Cindy shrugged.
"Well, right now, I don't care." Mike said.
"Mike! What a thing to say about your friends!" Jayna yelped.
"No, I mean I DO care, I'm just worrying about myself right now," Mike said. "No offense to anyone of course, but people always expect me to come up with the plans and take charge all the time because I'm so talented and smart."
"I kinda know how you feel," Courtney replied. "When I was in Kevin's gang, they always came to me for answers; I mean, they have brains too, so they should figure it out for themselves."
"That's the problem though," Ashlyn smirked. "They don't have any."
"Yeah, I guess not." Courtney chuckled a bit.
"So, as of right now, I'm not playing the leader." Mike soon smiled to relax herself with Mowgli and Baloo.
"Yep," Cindy said. "As of right now: there is no leader."
"You got that right, Cin." Mike agreed.
They soon relaxed and flowed through the water together to relax and have some real fun.
"This is a vacation, so I say we have it." Ashlyn agreed as she let her hair down.
"She's right," Courtney smiled. "This is so peaceful and relaxing."
"Now you girls are getting it." Baloo chuckled to them.
However, as they relaxed in the water as they let it carry them, some monkeys came into the trees above them and soon reached out, taking Mowgli when Baloo wasn't looking. Another monkey then came down and sat on Baloo's stomach once Mowgli was out of sight.
Baloo hummed to himself until a fly buzzed and landed on the tip of his nose. " "Hey, Mowgli, how 'bout you flickin' that old mean fly off of your Papa Bear's nose?"
The monkey soon took out a stick and hit Baloo's nose with it.
"Ouch!" Baloo yelped, but laughed it off. "Boy, when you flick a fly you really-" he soon glared once he saw that it was not Mowgli, but it was a monkey. "Why you, flat-nosed, little-eyed, flaky creep!"
"Come on and get him, champ!" The monkey smirked.
"He's no champ, he's a chump!" Another monkey replied.
"Monkeys... It had to be monkeys..." Mike glared slightly.
"I thought Duncan and Eddy got separated from us." Ashlyn smirked at her own joke.
"Hey!" Courtney glared at the monkeys. "Why don't you go back to picking out each other's bugs and leave us alone?!"
"Guys!" Mowgli cried out as the monkeys took him.
"Okay, you guys asked for it, I'll-Ooh!" Baloo glared until he then fell into the water once he got up.
"Hey, let go of me!" Mowgli cried out.
"That'll cool him off." One of the monkeys laughed from Baloo's fall.
"Hey, let's get those humans too!" Another monkey said.
"Yeah!" One monkey agreed.
"Don't even think about it!" Ashlyn glared. "Mike, whatya say you scare 'em with your wolf?"
"Oh, come on, guys, they're just monkeys," Mike said. "What could happen?"
The monkeys just grinned and threw them into the water.
"Does that answer your question?" Ashlyn deadpanned to Mike.
The monkeys just laughed at them until a familiar animal was right behind them which made Cindy smile. "He found us."
"Who is it, Cin?" Mike asked. "Is it Baloo?"
"No, it's Sledgehammer," Cindy replied. "He must've followed us."
"Well, that's good," Mike smiled. "At least he's okay."
Sledgehammer soon ran out and crawled onto Cindy's head.
"Hey, buddy, I really missed you." Cindy smiled up to her pet possum.
"I missed you too," Sledgehammer replied. "All of you girls."
"How did you find us?" Mike asked the possum.
"Cindy's cleaning cloth for her glasses." Sledgehammer said.
"No wonder I couldn't find it!" Cindy replied.
"Yeah, you never go anywhere without that," Sledgehammer said. "So, what's going on with you guys?"
"Eh, nothing much, I guess, except those monkeys took Mowgli." Cindy shrugged.
Sledgehammer soon glanced over to see Courtney which made his eyes widen. "What's SHE doing here?! Is she the one who led you out here?!"
"No, it's okay," Jayna said to him. "Courtney is trying to be the nice girl that she used to be."
Sledgehammer narrowed his eyes suspiciously.
"Yeah, I don't blame you for reacting that way, but 'Joanna' was right about me," Courtney said with air quotes about Jayna's identity. "I was a selfish, spoiled, rotten, self-obsessed, obnoxious brat."
"She's really changed," Mike added. "Heck, she's even decided to leave Kevin's gang."
"Hmm... Fine... But one slip-up with hurting my buddies, well... You better hope that you have good medical insurance." Sledgehammer warned Courtney.
Courtney gulped in fear as she heard stories of how Sledgehammer messed with his victums. You could even ask Dogg and Ethel the Mailwoman.
"Tell her, Cin." Sledgehammer said.
"I think she already knows, Sledge." Cindy told him.
Sledgehammer then looked over as Courtney shuddered in fear.
"I know, we're all hesitant, but right now, we should concentrate on getting Mowgli back to Baloo." Cindy suggested.
"Maybe we can get Bagheera to help us." Ashlyn said hopefully.
"Good luck with that, I guess," Mike said. "You saw what happened."
"It doesn't hurt to try though." Cindy replied.
Baloo was soon heard crying out for the panther who soon ran over to help him as the girls got out of the water.
"BAGHEERA!" Baloo yelled, not knowing the panther was right in front of him and soon smiled once he saw him. "Hey, you heard me."
"Mowgli? Mowgli?!" Bagheera cried out before glaring at the bear, grabbing him by his muzzle. "All right, what happened? Where's Mowgli?"
"They ambushed me, thousands of them!" Baloo said, getting up from the cliff as he pretended to fight. "I jabbed with my left, then I swung with the right, and then I-"
"Oof, for the last time, what happened to Mowgli?" Bagheera rolled his eyes.
"Like I told ya, them mangy monkeys carried him off." Baloo replied.
"The Ancient Ruins... Oh, I hate to think what will happen when he meets that king up there." Bagheera then said.
"The King?" Mike asked.
"It's a long story." Bagheera told her.
"Any princesses I should know about?" Mike rolled her eyes playfully, knowing how Lu would react to that.
"So, uh, who IS this King?" Jayna asked.
"King Louie." Bagheera replied.
"This should be interesting." Cindy said as they made way to go the Ruins to meet his King Louie as he wanted Mowgli.
In the village, the others were settling in while Eddy was trying to draw up a plan to go save Mike and the others while Ranjan looked at him.
"It ain't polite to stare, kid." Eddy told him.
"You're not going to invade the village, right?" Ranjan asked.
"No, Ranjan, we won't be staying very long as soon as we find a way to help out our friends on the other side." Double D told the young boy.
"Well, I hope that they do not run into Shere Khan." Ranjan replied.
"Who's that?" Dee Dee asked.
"I have not met him, but he's a tiger in the jungle," Ranjan explained. "We should just be lucky he doesn't come into the village."
"Pfft! A tiger?" Scott scoffed. "That's not so bad."
"Even if he hates humans and even tries to eat them?" Ranjan asked.
"Okay... Now that's bad." Scott said in horror.
"Oh, no, Ellody is gonna get eaten!" Lightning panicked. "We gotta save her! I promised her uncle that I would make sure that nothing would happen to her! If he finds out that she's gone, then I'm a goner!"
Chicken had to slap him across the face to calm him down from going crazy.
"Chicken, this is serious!" Lightning told him. "Fernando's gonna have my head if anything happens to Ellody!"
"Ellody can take care of herself, wherever she is," Chicken said. "And people say I act like the sky is fallin'."
"Lightning, take a deep breath in, then let it out, and just calm down," Katrina advised. "We'll find her."
"Where?!" Lightning asked.
"Lightning, breathe before you give yourself a panic attack!" Katrina told him.
Lightning then stopped and tried to relax himself, doing what Katrina told him to do.
"Now... Don't you feel calm now?" Katrina smiled hopefully.
"NO! BECAUSE ELLODY IS OUT THERE AND I AM IN BIG TROUBLE!" Lightning cried out. "Ellody's old man is so cool and laid back, but her uncle is SO protective! He's like the king and Ellody is a princess!"
"Shall I slap him again?" Chicken suggested.
"Lightning, calm down before you give yourself an anxiety attack." Scott told his friend.
"How can I calm down in a time like this?!" Lightning replied.
"Have you thought of meditation?" Meshua suggested to Lightning.
"No, Lightning does not need any medicine," Lightning replied. "He's not sick."
"Not MEDICINE, you dumbell, MEDITATION!" Yumi snapped.
"Oh... Uh... What's that?" Lightning asked.
"It's when you think deeply and carefully about something." Meshua said.
"That might be a problem with the thinking part." Chicken muttered slightly.
"My husband always meditated whenever felt nervous or anxious about something." Meshua advised.
"And you think that'll work?" Lightning asked.
"You should try it," Meshua smiled. "Just do what I do. I can tell this Ellody girl is important to you, but you shouldn't waste so much time worrying about her. We will find her, I assure you."
Lightning soon sat down next to the Indian woman and soon tried out meditation, closing his eyes as he tried to relax, still thinking about Ellody, but was quiet for once. "Hey... It's working..." he then said softly.
"I told you that it would work." Meshua smiled peacefully.
"I think I might try it too." Eddy offered.
"Uh... Why?" Scott asked.
"Well, if you think that Ellody's uncle is bad, how about Mike's Drawn Together family?" Eddy replied. "If they find out that Mike's missing, we're dead, because you know what THEY can do."
"They're not even here!" Scott reminded him. "This is a school trip, remember? We'll find Mike long before we even go back home."
"Scott's right, Eddy," Og replied. "We're working on a plan to get Mike and the girls. We'll find them in no time."
"You're right... What am I getting worked up for?" Eddy replied. "I need a drink."
"Where did Kevin and the others end up?" Katrina soon wondered.
"Don't know and don't care," Yumi said. "They better not ruin this for me. I'm gonna relax while I still can even though we washed up here totally by accident."
They then heard a noise.
"Baby Sister?" Ed asked hopefully.
"God, I hope not." Yumi replied.
But much to their relief, it was Jack and Ms. Honeydew with some of the other students behind them.
"Oh, Sensei Jack, Ms. Honeydew," June said in relief. "We're so glad to see you again."
"Thank goodness, you're all okay." Jack said to them.
"Yeah," Eddy replied. "Why wouldn't we be?"
"Well, there was a storm that destroyed the cruise ship and most of us got separated." Ms. Honeydew reminded.
"...Fair point." Eddy replied.
"Did you see the rest of the students or Ms. Butterbean and Principal Skarr?" Double D asked the adults.
"I'm afraid not, but we did bring along some students that we found to come along with us." Jack replied.
"Please not Kevin and Sarah." Eddy whispered to himself.
Jack and Ms. Honeydew soon brought out the students they were able to save, though no one saw Kevin or Sarah.
"Hey, I got lucky." Eddy smirked to himself.
"Are you parents?" Meshua asked the two.
"Oh, no, no," Jack chuckled while Ms. Honeydew giggled. "We're teachers from their school. I often hold after school activities in the gym."
"And I work in the drama department." Ms. Honeydew smiled.
"Ah... So I see..." Meshua replied.
"How did you find us?" Dee Dee asked the adults.
"Thank Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup," Ms. Honeydew replied. "They were the ones who saw the village and led us over here."
The Powerpuff Girls soon flew out.
"Gosh, this sure brings back memories of The Staylongers," Blossom said. "I liked that show better than Total Drama Island."
"You're just saying that because you got to be IN the show yourself while we stayed home." Buttercup rolled her eyes.
"Buttercup, you threatened them and that's why you didn't qualify to be on the show." Blossom reminded.
"Aw, who cares?" Buttercup snorted.
"I just hope that the others are okay," Eddy said to himself, unaware that two certain girls were right behind him. "I mean, Jo probably got eaten or Sky might've drowned!"
"Uh, Eddy?" Sky said, tapping his shoulder. "We're right here."
Eddy turned around and yelped to them.
"Don't tell me, you were just kidding and didn't mean it?" Jo rolled her eyes.
"Uh, maybe, what makes you say that?" Eddy asked.
"Oh, I don't know," Jo deadpanned. "Maybe it's because you ALWAYS do this?"
"Oh, man... I'm glad that you girls are safe, otherwise I would've come and saved you." Eddy said to them.
"Our hero." Jo mumbled sarcastically.
"Eddy, why?" Sky sighed.
"I'm just worried about my friends." Eddy defended.
"Hey... Where's Mazinsky?" Jo asked as she looked around.
"We don't know," Eddy shrugged. "She, Cindy, Ellody, Ashlyn, and Jayna are missing."
"We're trying to think about a way to find them and get them so we can all go back home," Double D said. "I've had enough adventure for one day."
"Well, I can't blame Mike for going solo a bit," Sky said. "She's been going through a lot of stress lately."
"Maybe she doesn't WANT to be saved though," Jo said to Eddy. "Ever think about that?"
"Jo, don't you care about Mike?" Dee Dee pouted.
"Of course I do, but thanks to The Toad Princess and the Biker Loser, I don't think she even wants to come back," Jo said. "Can't say I blame her."
"And it's all our faults too!" Ed cried.
"Someone make Jo come to her senses!" Eddy said. "I mean, first Ashlyn's going away, and now it's gonna be Mike?!"
"Now, I didn't say that..." Jo said. "We'll find out what happens when we see those guys again, wherever they might be."
"It HAS been pretty bad lately, and I've known Mike since she was a baby." Ms. Honeydew said.
"Yeah, because of the bullies making fun of her!" Eddy huffed.
"It's not JUST that," Sky replied. "It's because of her status as the leader and people always come to her for help. I mean, she's always helping people who can never catch a break, but that stops right now, so from now on: if anyone has a problem, they've got to figure out how to solve it on their own."
Some of the other students nodded in agreement.
"But... But we NEED Mike." Eddy said.
"That's not a bad thing, but it's not always good," Sky said. "Mike needs a break sometimes. I mean, don't you see how excited she gets whenever she goes out of town to take a break and see some other friends? I think I know Mike a bit better than you guys since she's my cousin."
"But I've known her longer." Eddy defended.
"That might be so, but you should know that you shouldn't always depend on her to save you all the time." Sky suggested.
"She's right," Double D said. "We need to stop depending on Mike all the time."
"We wouldn't be anywhere without Mike." Eddy said.
"That may be so, but haven't you noticed she's been stressed out lately with everyone turning to her for an idea?" Sky reminded. "You guys nearly broke her that time we went camping and met Roselle and the other Mascots like Little Debbie, Wendy, and a whole lot more against Scott Wakefield."
"So, what are we supposed to do?" Eddy asked.
"How about you guys leave her alone and start picking up after yourselves?" Sky suggested. "Mike isn't gonna be here forever, you know."
"Uh... Jo, what do you think?" Eddy asked.
"Listen to Sky." Jo said.
"Jo just agreed with someone else." Eddy said.
"I know! It's almost as if I'm not one-dimensional like you people think I am!" Jo rolled her eyes. "You guys wanna know WHY I'm so angry almost all the time? Because you all always think I'm so generic all the time."
"Well, you DID get mad over every little thing." Dee Dee reminded.
"That was the only me, but now this is the new me." Jo replied.
"So from now on, things will be different in good old CN City." Sky said.
Eddy looked away at first.
"I know it'll be an adjustment, but it'll be good for all of us." Sky gave a small smile.
"But what about the bullies?" Eddy asked.
"We'll handle them." Sky said.
"Besides, you have fire powers." Jo then reminded Eddy.
"Can I burn Kevin's bike?" Eddy then asked.
"Eh, whatever makes you happy." Jo shrugged.
"Wow! Really?" Eddy asked.
"Whatever." Jo just shrugged.
"Even if Kevin's mostly angry just because of how your brother treats kids." Dawn said to Eddy.
"How did you-" Eddy was about to ask until he remembered something. "Oh, yeah... I forgot that you could read auras."
"Hippie's good to have, at least you found her too." Jo said to the adults.
"Yes, we thought so too," Ms. Honeydew smiled. "Hopefully we'll all be together again soon and return home."
"In the meantime, we'll find a way to track down Mike and the others," Maxwell said, holding a locket he made for Cindy. "We'll be prepared for anything, all right, Eddy? Whether Mike wants to come home or stay wherever she is."
"Okay, okay," Eddy shrugged. "I guess at least we have our own jungle adventure like those Nicktropolis kids did one time."
"I'm just glad that we found you guys when we did," Sky said. "Also, we've found your luggage too. Okay, boys, bring them on in!" she then called out.
The Rowdyruff Boys then flew by, carrying everyone's luggage to safety.
"I hope anything we brought survived all right." Double D said.
"Ah, I'm sure your stuff's fine." Brick shrugged before dropping the luggage.
"Good... It's all coming together for you all, I'm happy for you." Meshua smiled to them.
The girl from before soon came out as she was about to get some water before looking over and giggled a bit to the Rowdyruff Boys.
"WOW!" The Boys beamed.
"Don't you boys have girlfriends?" Jo smirked playfully to them.
"Look at that girl!" Brick gasped.
The girl smiled at them and winked.
"So no then?" Jo replied. "Okay, let's see how that works out the next time you see the girls."
"Huh?" Brick asked.
"What?" Butch added.
"You say something, Jo?" Boomer concluded.
Jo just rolled her eyes, walking away, though she hid a smirk.
"Hello, Shanti, how are you?" Meshua asked.
"I'm doing fine," The girl smiled. "I wanted to see how the visitors were doing."
"Everything is all right over here." Meshua smiled back.
"We sent Justin and Justine to look out for more out for more of our friends," Scott said. "Maybe they'll find some of the others."
"Oh, that's a good idea, Scott." Ms. Honeydew smiled.
"Couldn't we just send the Powerpuff Girls instead of The Pretty-Faced Twins?" Chicken shrugged.
"I would've, but Justin insisted because he wants to look for Joanna." Scott replied.
"Makes sense." Chicken admitted.
"I shall make you all some dinner." Meshua offered.
"Thank you, ma'am." Jack bowed.
"Would you and your mother like to stay for dinner tonight as well?" Meshua asked Shanti.
"Please, please, please, please." The Rowdyruff Boys begged.
"Hmm... I'll go ask my mother first." Shanti smiled politely.
"Very well, sweetheart." Meshua smiled back.
"Boys. Go fig." Buttercup scoffed from Brick, Butch, and Boomer's reactions.
"Uh, is she your daughter or something?" Brick asked Meshua. "You two seem close."
"Her mother and I are very good friends," Meshua smiled. "We were like sisters, so even though she isn't really, Shanti's like a niece to me."
"I hope she stays." Butch smiled hopefully.
Buttercup just rolled her eyes.
"What?" Butch asked.
"You know what you did." Buttercup replied.
"No! I don't!" Butch said.
"Forget it." Buttercup said before flying away from him with her arms crossed.