Kiara was with Tiifu while Zuri was trapped.
"Hold still, Zuri," Tiifu soothed. "Timon and Pumbaa said they know how to help."
"Where am I gonna go, Tiifu?" Zuri whined. "I'm stuck!"
"You wouldn't be stuck if you didn't keep stopping to sharpen your claws on every other tree." Kiara sighed.
"But Kiara, if I don't keep them sharp, they don't stay shiny!" Zuri whined.
"And I thought Ryan had trouble when I taught him how to do this." Kopa mumbled.
"Who's Ryan, is he a friend of yours?" Tiifu asked after overhearing his mumble.
"You ever hear the story of how I was taken away by humans and I ended up in a place called 'New York City'?" Kopa answered her question with another one.
"I think so, weren't you taken away by humans?" Tiifu asked.
"I just said that..." Kopa replied.
"Oh, yeah..." Tiifu said.
"I made a new lion friend named Ryan," Kopa then explained. "I decided to teach him how to sharp his claws against a tree since he didn't know how."
"What lion doesn't know how to do that?" Zuri asked with a slight scoff.
"Well, he wasn't from the wild like we are, he was in a zoo all his life." Kopa explained.
"I still think zoos sound cruel based on how you talk about that adventure," Kiara said to her brother. "I mean, animals in cages? Sounds menacing!"
"Actually, it wasn't that bad, even if we were in cages, at night, all the animals would get out and start to play their own sports game." Kopa said.
"Really?" Kiara asked.
"I'll tell ya more later." Kopa said once he saw the meerkat and warthog were on their way over to them.
"Don't worry, ladies," Timon said as he sat on his best friend's back. "Me and Pumbaa have everything under control."
"Timon's right," Pumbaa added in. "We used to help Simba get his claws out of logs all the time."
"How are you going to get her claw out?" Kopa asked.
"Stand back." Timon said as he took a root and put it underneath Zuri's paw and tried to pop it underneath to free the young cub.
"And you're sure about this?" Kiara didn't seem so sure.
"Sure, I'm sure," Timon replied calmly and reassuringly. "If it weren't for us, your dad would still be stuck to a tree somewhere. Ready, Pumbaa?"
"Ready!" Pumbaa smiled as he bit onto the root.
"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" Kopa whispered to Kiara.
"Because I do too." Kiara whispered back.
"Okay, on three," Timon said before counting. "One... Two-"
"Stand back!" Bunga's voice was suddenly heard.
"Oh, no, this can only make it worse." Kopa groaned.
"Bunga of the Lion Guard is here!" Bunga announced himself as he smiled and came in after swinging on a vine and ended up o nthe other side of them.
"What?" Kiara felt confused.
"Bunga!" Pumbaa called to his adoptive nephew.
Zuri gasped in pain. "Ow, my claw!" she yelped out before she suddenly lost her balance and fell straight into the ground by accident.
"You okay, Zuri?" Kopa asked.
"At least she isn't drowning this time." Kiara saw where her friend had landed.
Zuri squealed and screamed as she got caught in a log and popped out, now covered in insects. "Creepy crawly bugs!"
"Zuri, you hit the jackpot!" Timon praised.
"It's a smorgasbord!" Pumbaa added.
They both then jumped after the log as the bugs were crawling out.
"Well, at least she isn't injured." Kopa said.
"Hang on, Zuri, I'll save you!" Bunga looked ready for action.
"Okay, Bunga," Kiara held the honey badger back with her front paw before going to make sure her friend was okay. "You've done enough saving for one day."
"Yeah, why don't you go and play with Kion and the others?" Kopa suggested before doing the same.
"Where is Kion anyway?" Tiifu asked as she inspected Zuri with Kiara.
As if on cue, Kion ran right over.
"Bunga, I-" Kion was about to say, then saw the mess. "Whoa, what's going on?"
"I-I-I broke a claw!" Zuri cried. "It hurts!"
Kopa came over to Zuri's paw and started to lick gently before it healed up.
"Kopa, what are you doing?!" Zuri whined in disgust since Kopa had licked her paw, not knowing what it would do.
"Answer me this, do you feel anymore pain?" Kopa asked.
"Well... No, but..." Zuri replied.
"Then that's my answer, I just healed your paw." Kopa smiled.
"Uh... How did you do that?" Zuri asked, lowering her paw and standing on it now.
"I have the power to heal any wound," Kopa smiled. "I found out about this power one day before I was captured."
"Really...?" Kiara asked.
"Yes, I remember it well..." Kopa smiled in memory.
"Ooh, tell us." Zuri said, interested.
"Sometime, but for another time." Kopa promised.
"Aww..." Zuri pouted. "And you just got more exciting!"
Kopa chuckled.
"Oh, hey, Kiara," Kion came beside their sister. "How'd the gazelle tracking go?"
"We never got to the gazelles, Zuri got her claw stuck on a tree." Kiara groaned.
"And then she fell face first into a log full of bugs!" Pumbaa poked his head out with his mouth full of bugs in delight.
"Mmm!" Timon moaned hungrily and happily as he ate some of his own bugs.
"Bugs are so gross..." Zuri winced.
"Can't argue there." Kopa said.
"And so delicious!" Timon smiled. "Ooh, look!" he then rushed over to Tiifu, climbed on her back, and took out a bug that was behind her ear. "Another one!"
"Get it away!" Zuri flinched in disgust.
"Timon, girls don't like bugs." Kopa told the meerkat said.
"Oh, well, more for me." Timon shrugged, then gulped down the bug in his hands.
Bunga, the other cubs, and the Pokemon suddenly came.
"Hey, guys, you gotta hear this," Vulpix sounded super excited. "Simba just put Kion in charge of the Lion Guard!"
"Lion Guard?" Kiara asked, never hearing that term before. "What's a Lion Guard?"
"The Protectors of the Pridelands." Akito said.
"Dad just told us about it." Kion added. "They also defend the Circle of Life! And I'm its new leader."
"And I'm gonna be on the Lion Guard too!" Bunga smiled in excitement before doing a front flip. "It's un-bunga-lievable!"
"You and Bunga?" Kiara laughed at her younger brother. "Protecting the Pridelands? Does Dad know about this?"
"Dad told me to assemble the Pridelands' bests." Kion smirked.
"And I'm the best!" Bunga chirped. "Just ask me!"
"Kion, did Dad tell you that the Lion Guard had to be assembled with the Pridelands' animals best or the Pridelands' best as in lion best?" Kopa asked.
"He just said the Pridelands best, he didn't say anything about other lions, though Great-Uncle Scar had lions in his time before he lost the power." Kion replied.
"Well, I guess, but I think the Lion Guard needs lions..." Kopa shrugged. "I'd ask him if I were you."
"Well, if you ask me, it sounds like it might be dangerous." Pumbaa spoke up, worried about the honey badger's safety.
"It's worse than that, Pumbaa," Timon replied. "It sounds like work."
"It's better than that, it's both." Bunga smiled.
"Eek!" Timon flinched. "Work!"
"Gee, Bunga, I don't know..." Pumbaa sounded uneasy.
"Uncle Timon! Uncle Pumbaa! Please!" Bunga begged.
"Work? Danger? Definitely not," Timon declined. "Have you forgotten our problem-free philosophy? It means no worries, your cousins go by the same ever since your Aunt Tesma and me raised 'em like you!"
"I know it's not Hakuna Matata, Uncle Timon," Bunga replied. "It's... It's... Zuka Zama!"
"Zuka Zama?" Estelle said, confused.
"Don't ask." Timon told them.
"What's Zuka Zama?" Felicity asked anyway.
"What's Zuka Zama? What's Zuka Zama? I'll tell you all about Zuka Zama!" Bunga sounded excited now.
"Ya had to ask." Timon groaned.
"He's going to tell us all about it in song, right?" Teddy whispered to Timon.
"You got that right, Grizzly." Timon said.
The Teddiursa narrowed his eyes. "Teddy."
"Whatever." Timon shrugged.
'And the song begins now.' Akito thought to himself.
Bunga gestured for them to follow him. They began to follow after the crazy honey badger.
"Life's exciting, life is fun," Bunga started after a chorus of birds and monkeys sang his catchphrase. "A big adventure for everyone~"
"Zuka Zama Zom Zom Zom." The birds and monkeys sang.
"Life's a party and it's filled with thrills." Bunga continued as he got onto an elephant's back and did a flip while rolling like a ball off her trunk.
"Zuka Zama Zom Zom Zom." The birds sang.
"Don't worry about the scrapes and spills~" Bunga smiled to the others as he splashed into the waterhole next to the flamingos.
"Zuka Zama Zom Zom Zom." The flamingos sang as a hippo rose from the water with Bunga on its back before continuing to sing it over and over.
Bunga then chased after a butterfly and popped up from a log. "Dive in, dive in!"
"Zama Zama~" the monkeys sang.
"Go, go, go!" Bunga sang as he swung on a vine and flung himself from a branch.
"Zom, Zom, Zom~" the chorus sang.
Larvitar began to find this song rather enjoyable.
Bunga crossed a log over two high cliffs and jump-roped with two elephant trunks to show how brave and adventurous he was. "Flyin' through the trees like busy, busy bee going~"
"Zuka Zama Zom zom zom," Larvitar began to sing with the chorus. "Zuka Zama Zom zom zom, Zuka Zama Zom zom zom, Zuka Zama Zom zom zom~"
Bunga then kicked a hive like a soccer ball and made the buzzing bees swarm out and evade him. "Enjoy the chaos Ignore the strife~" the honey badger sang as he came out of a crocodile's mouth with ease, hung upside down with a group of bats, flew off with them, and did a swirl spin against an anaconda's long body. "When life throws you a crazy curve, Go Zuka Zama, Don't lose your nerve~"
Larvitar soon started dancing to the song.
Bunga rolled on a fruit as he came into a tree next to a monkey, jumped against other trees, and climbed each vine with ease like a jungle explorer and Larvitar followed after him. "Pop up, pop up..."
"Zuka Zuka!" Larvitar came after him.
"Dive in, Dive in!" Bunga smiled to him as he began to do flips all around the jungle.
"Zama Zama!" Larvitar smiled back.
And where even the most dangerous things didn't seem to bother Larvitar. The Rock Pokemon and the honey badger ended up into the water and spit it out. Fish surrounded them and did the same as they seemed to be getting into the song as well.
The two were then riding on a rhino, they used a couple of bones and beat them against a rib cage to play like a musical instrument, rode a log over a waterfall, and swing against a ledge, coming back to the others who were entertained, though Timon was mostly annoyed. Soon everyone, but Timon, began to sing along with Bunga and Larvitar. They even walked along after the honey badger.
"Zuka Zama Zom Zom!" Bunga finished after high-pawing with Kion.
"Meh, zuka palooka," Timon turned his back. "I still don't think Bunga should be signing up for some jungle patrol."
"Lion Guard!" Bunga aggressively corrected.
"Whatever you call it." Timon rolled his eyes with a shrug.
"Oh, come on, Timon, let Bunga join the Lion Guard." Larvitar begged.
"Come on, you guys, Bunga's the bravest animal that Kion knows." Vincent added, pleading to the meerkat and warthog.
"Yeah, I really need him for the Lion Guard!" Kion added.
"Bravest animal you know?" Timon asked.
"He's brave alright..." Kiara slightly rolled her eyes. "Brave bordering on stupid."
"Thanks, Kiara." Bunga smiled, ignoring the stupid part.
"Well, when you put it that way..." Pumbaa smiled to Kion.
"Congratulations, Bunga!" Timon smiled to the young honey badger, shaking his paw. "We always knew you had it in you!"
"Oh, brother," Kiara scoffed. "Kion's gonna wreck the Pridelands before I even get to be Queen."
"Lighten up, will ya?" Kopa glanced to his sister.
"We at least have to tell Dad about this." Kiara whispered to her older brother.
"All right, all right..." Kopa said. "Just don't stifle Kion, he's finally happy. The least you could do is show support for our little brother."
"Okay, okay, I'll try." Kiara sighed.
"Good Kiki." Kopa chuckled.
Kiara rolled her eyes at the nicknaming.
"Oh, Bunga, I'm so proud, I could-" Pumbaa beamed before he stopped and passed gas all of the sudden which made the grass behind him wither and die instantly. "Oops, sorry..."
"Uh, let's get you girls back to Pride Rock." Kopa quickly suggested to his sister and her friends.
"We're outta here!" Zuri agreed.
"Um, Kion, I think we should keep going so you can find next member for the Lion Guard." Akito suggested.
"Great idea, come this way." Kion agreed before going off.
"Wait, guys!" Bunga called out before following after the group. "The Lion Guard needs to stick together!"
"Was it something I said?" Pumbaa frowned.
"I don't think that it would be wise for us to tell him." Misdreavus whispered to the others.
"Mm-mm..." the other Pokemon shook their heads as they went after Kion, Bunga, and their lion cub trainers.