Pumbaa was walking off alone while Timon was with Tesma and his niece and nephews.
"Hey, Pumbaa, where you going?" Estelle asked the warthog.
"Oh, just walkin' since Timon's busy." Pumbaa smiled to the young girl.
"You know, you should get a girlfriend." Estelle said.
"Yeah... I guess..." Pumbaa shrugged. "Timon's got Tesma, Simba's got Nala..."
There was a log crawling with bugs and someone appeared to be stuck in it.
"Hey, you guys want a bug smorgasbord?" Pumbaa invited with a grin.
"Uh, we'll pass for another time..." Vincent put his hands up nervously.
"Oui, oui." Felicity agreed with a nervous smile.
Pumbaa chuckled. "Ya talk funny, Felicity, I like it..." he said, referring to her French speaking, he then came to the log.
"Felicity is speaking French." Estelle told him.
"Uh, thank you, Estelle..." Felicity muttered about the language barrier.
Pumbaa smiled as he spotted a few dung beetles as they were going off the log and wandering on a trail. The warthog smiled as he went after them.
Vincent saw a small creature which appeared to be a baby honey badger that was stuck in the log, then plucked it out, then set it down. "There you go, little guy, go back to your family." he smiled.
The baby honey badger looked around, then smiled to warthog, and followed after him like a newborn chick or a lost puppy.
"Looks like he wants to live with Pumbaa." Vulpix said.
The honey badger kept following the warthog who followed after the dung beetles and hummed a song to himself.
"Let's see if we can find this little guy's parents." Estelle said.
"Unless he is... An orphan..." Felicity said.
"Do you think so?" Vincent asked.
"He is following after Pumbaa and he is all alone..." Felicity speculated. "It seems possible."
"Yeah," Misdreavus nodded. "And Estelle, I think Teddy is upset about something."
"Teddy?" Estelle asked.
The others went after the honey badger and Pumbaa, giving Estelle and Teddy some privacy.
"Teddy, what's wrong?" Estelle asked her Teddy Bear Pokemon.
"Oh, nothing," Teddy pouted firmly. "'Cept that ever since we met Kiara and Kion, you were so busy with them that you forgot all about me!"
"What? Teddy, that is not true," Estelle said. "Listen, Teddy, even though Kion and Kiara may be cute, I will always love you, no matter what."
"Always?" Teddy asked.
"Always." Estelle promised with a smile.
The two then shared a hug.
"I'm sorry, Mama..." Teddy whispered.
"It's okay, you were just being jealous of Kion and Kiara getting all the attention." Estelle soothed the Teddy Bear Pokemon.
"Yeah... A little..." Teddy said.
"It happens to the best of us..." Estelle relaxed. "I still remember when Tommy Pickles was jealous when his brother Dil was born."
"So, even humans can get jealous?" Teddy smiled.
"Everybody gets jealous, Teddy," Estelle put her arm around him. "Sometimes even me."
"You?" Teddy's eyes widneed. "Not you, Mama!"
"Oh, yes." Estelle nodded.
"When do you get jealous?" Teddy asked.
"I was a little jealous of my friend Kelly once." Estelle said.
"Really?" Teddy asked. "Why?"
"Because she gets to have sisters," Estelle explained with a small smile. "Don't get me wrong, I love Akito and Vincent very much, but I'm the only girl and sometimes, I wish I had a sister."
"It would be nice, wouldn't it?" Teddy asked.
"I always thought so..." Estelle smiled. "Just remember, Kiara and Kion are cute cubs, but you'll always be my little Teddy... Even when you're a full grown Ursaring."
Teddy smiled back, feeling much better now. "What does an Ursaring look like anyway?" he then asked his mother.
Estelle was a little worried about telling Teddy since he was only a baby and got scared very easily. "Uh, well, you'll be big and strong."
"Cool!" Teddy smiled.
"Yeah, you're gonna make me proud, but let's enjoy little teddy weddy for now." Estelle said before tickling him.
Teddy giggled, cheering up and forgetting all about his jealousy from Kiara and Kion.
Pumbaa noticed the honey badger had been following him around and seemed attached to the warthog somehow. "Now, now, run along, little fella... Your family must be missin' ya."
The honey badger didn't answer to him and just came closer and closer to the warthog and hugged him.
Felicity giggled. "Maybe it thinks you are his papa."
"Yeah." Misdreavus smiled.
"Oh..." Pumbaa said, then tilted his head. "So, what's your name, little guy?" he then asked the honey badger.
The honey badger was just a baby, but his name was slightly audible, though it sounded strange out loud. "Bunga!"
"Bunga, huh?" Pumbaa smiled. "Well... I'm, uh... Your Uncle Pumbaa... Since you have nowhere else to go, I'm gonna take real good care of you, and my best buddy Timon and I raised a lion cub once."
Bunga seemed to smile at Pumbaa in high admiration and acceptance.
"Hey, he's smiling at me!" Pumbaa beamed.
"Yep, which means, he likes that idea." Felicity smiled.
"Okay, Bunga..." Pumbaa bent down and picked up the baby honey badger over his head. "We're gonna be a family now!"
"Unca... Pumbaa..." Bunga babbled out with a smile.
Pumbaa smiled back up to the baby honey badger. The others smiled as this looked like the start of a beautiful friendship.
Meanwhile, Atticus, Mo, Cherry, and Forte were inside the cave after the newborn cubs were getting to sleep.
"So it's decided then," Simba said as he lay next to Nala with their human friends who were all grown up now with children of their own. "Kiara will be Queen alongside with Kopa so it doesn't end up like my father and Uncle Scar, and Kion will become the Lion Guard."
"Indeed." Forte nodded.
"So, both Kiara and Kopa will rule Pride Rock after you, Simba?" Mo asked.
"Yes, Kiara's the older twin between her and Kion, so he'll be the Lion Guard." Simba explained.
"What's the Lion Guard anyway?" Atticus asked.
"Yeah, we've never heard about it." Mo said.
"I'm going to tell Kion someday when the cubs are old enough, perhaps you'd like to listen in as well," Simba offered. "Rafiki told me when we found out Nala was going to have twins after Kopa was taken to what you humans call a 'zoo'."
"Yeah and you can thank our youngest son for getting Kopa back to where he belongs." Atticus smiled.
"And we're grateful and thankful for that." Nala smiled back.
"I don't know what we would do without him..." Simba added with a smile. "Let's just hope nothing happens to Kiara and Kion."
"We'll help in any way we can." Cherry offered.
The lion couple smiled, feeling blessed to have friends like them. Akito and Simon then came into the cave, panting slightly.
"And were where you boys?" Mo asked.
"There's an evil lioness in the lands back there..." Akito pointed miles back.
"Evil lioness?" Forte asked.
"Zira..." Simba said under his breath.
"Anyways, two of her children were here in the Pridelands." Akito informed them.
"Zira had cubs?" Mo asked.
"You probably don't remember them," Simba said. "But she and Scar had a son named Nuka and they took a daughter from one of our old friends and named the cub 'Vitani'."
"Poor Tama hasn't been the same after that day..." Nala sighed about their old friend.
"That explains why that lioness cub didn't look anything like her mom." Akito said, referring to Vitani and Zira.
"Yes, Vitani is actually Tama's cub." Nala nodded.
'That lioness is no lioness at all, she's a monster.' Akito thought to himself with a growl.
Simon then seemed to speak only in hand gestures and quiet noises.
"There was another cub, Simon?" Cherry asked.
Simon nodded, then did more gestures, getting on all fours and put his hands over his head with his fingers waving to look like a crown.
"Zira's youngest cub is being trained to be the new king to overthrow you, Simba," Cherry then translated to the current lion king of the jungle. "His name is Kovu."
"So, she's training him at such a young age?" Akito asked.
Simon glanced at Akito and put his palm to his face.
"Duh." Cherry translated.
"Anyway, what do we do now that Zira knows about the cubs?" Mo asked.
"We have to be extra careful..." Simba cautioned. "We can't risk anything and we'll have to make sure the cubs stay on the territory marked for them. Zira swore revenge after I banished her to the Outlands and you guys left here for the first time."
"That's right." Atticus said.
"She's always been set for killing Kopa for revenge," Simba said. "Every time he would go off to play around Timon and Pumbaa, she always tried, but thankfully, she never got the chance."
"I'd hate to imagine what would happen if she succeeded," Nala agreed. "Losing him to those poachers was a nightmare enough and making him live in a cage with other lions was one thing, but having him killed would be a far worse other."
"So then, no matter what, we'll make sure that the cubs are watched over." Atticus said.
"We would appreciate your help." Nala said.
"No worries, human parents are just as protective and supportive as animal parents," Mo soothed. "Especially when it comes to me and my babies."
"It's true." Atticus said.
"Thanks, you guys..." Simba smiled.
The others smiled back. Eventually, it was time for bed and the cubs were growing fast during their human friends' stay and there would be adventures awaiting for them just as well and where it would show their destinies.