Avengers: Darkness in Kingdom Hearts

by Spiderfan626

After a failed attempt to stop Kang the Conqueror, Scarlet Witch, and Spider-Man get blasted off to another world outside their own. They discover a young boy named Sora, who will one day, open the door to light. However, seeing an advantage in this Xehanort's past self hopes to turn the young boy. The two must work together to protect and raise the future hero he was meant to be!

7. Chapter 6: In the Jungle, the mighty Ju-

I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Avengers. They belong to Disney, Square Enix, and Marvel. Okay, I'm pretty sure most of you figured out the next world was the Jungle Book. Hey, it was supposed to appear in Birth By Sleep, so why not here? Hopefully, they'll try it again for the upcoming games for Kingdom Hearts... and if they do, they do the animated version. Nothing against the new one, I just like the older one better. Now then, before we begin, let's reply to the reviews...

NaruSaku fan in Kentucky: Yeah, that part was really fun to write. Sora always ends up in the right place and at the right time whether it was intentional or not. While Sora will pick up some smarts but let's face it... he wouldn't be the same if he didn't get into trouble by diving in headfirst. Even Yen Sid admitted that if Sora knew Aqua's situation, he would have divided head first without a second thought of what could happen to him if it meant saving her. So... he's still going to have his recklessness moments... especially since he's only four. As for your last question, I can't say if Star Wars is in here and even if it was, I can't say where it'll take place.

the mysterious Mr.E: Well, now you're going to find out.

Daniel6: You're welcome. I just had to make that reference when writing that chapter. I just had to. Plus, the fact the first two episodes of Kenobi come out this week! :D Ratigan's always been loco even before Sora, now, he's just dead facing God's judgment.

olehbilenko93: Thank you!

Monkey D. Conan: Thank you! I have lots of fun moments with Tigger on this world in store. You'll see who the villain is at the end of the chapter as he'll have a stronger appearance in the second half of this world. Oh, yeah. I had such fun writing Elsa squirm in the Frozen Journey on the same world with Peter getting caught up with it, I just had to do it again, but this time with Wanda! Right now, this is just a single adventure. I have no intentions of a sequel at this time. You'll have to see how our trio of heroes act on this world.

Adam Luck: Well, I did heavily based on her from Wolverine and the X-Men, with a dash of MCU lore and comic lore. As for Spider-Man, he's a mix of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Spectacular, and comics with some Playstation traits. And yes, I've seen both shows, I even own a DVD set of the Spectacular Spider-Man for both seasons. They were good shows. Anyways, hope you enjoy the upcoming chapters for this.

Guest: You'll see for the villain. And you'll see what Tigger does to help. And yes, bouncing is one of them. Well, he's not really going to be wearing the Night Monkey clothes... think more of the line of another jungle-themed hero but that can speak proper English from the start. Let's just say, Shere Kahn would hate Kraven just as much as any other man, but his main goal will be the same as it is in the movie.

Guest: As you can see, it's not Pride Lands or Deep Jungle. It's the Jungle Book. Honestly, the cast I heavily hinted at the preview for this one should have been a dead giveaway. I mean, out of the other Disney films that are featured in the jungle, which ones have involved a bear, a black panther, and a tiger? My first guess would have been Jungle Book. We're not focusing on the TV shows, especially Lion Guard. I only saw it for one minute and I was like, "NOPE!" True story. Sorry if you feel different, it's just my opinion.

Anyways, with that out of the way, here's the first half of the world of the Jungle Book...

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Chapter 6: In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle...

Years had passed since Master Xehanort had brought his old apprentice to his old friend. While Eraquas was skeptical of Xehanort's sudden change of heart, he bought the act that the older man seemingly changed. The time had come, for both Eraquas's own pupils, Terra and Aqua face their own Mark of Mastery, which Xehanort agreed to oversee. Although, he had his own reasons why he came, and it wasn't just about Ventus. Earqus even agreed on how to perform the test by his suggestions. He played along sitting alongside Eraqus, on the seats of Keyblade Masters. He glanced at young Ventus, who still had no memories from his time with him. He seemed nervous about why he looked at him like that but stood at attention as Master Earquas approached his two young pupils. He then declared, "Today you will be examined for the Mark of Mastery. Not one but two of the Keyblade's chosen, stand here as candidates... but this is neither a competition nor a battle for supremacy... not a test of wills, but a test of heart. Both of you may prevail, or neither. But I am sure our guest, Master Xehanort... did not travel all this way to see our youngest prospects in years fall short of the Mark." The elder Keyblade Master nodded in agreement before he assumed, "I trust you are ready."

"Yes," The two eager apprentices answered.

Master Eraques then raised his Keyblade as he declared, "Then let the examination begin."

Orbs of light appeared to face, the two potential Keyblade Masters. Terra summoned his Earthshaker Keyblader while Aqua summoned her own Rainfall Keyblade as they faced their test. To make things more interesting, Xehanort secretly added some darkness to the orbs causing them to act out unexpectedly. Eraqus eyes widened in shock as he gasped, "What?"

Xehanort smirked as the two apprentices faced a more dangerous task. They each managed to destroy one, but much to their horror one came right towards Ventus, "Ven!"

Ventus summoned his own Keyblade and destroyed it on the spot, "Don't worry about me. You two focus on the exam!"

"But Ven, you're in danger here," Aqua told the younger Keyblade Wielder like an older sister, "Go wait in your room!"

"No way," Ven shook his head as he went into his own battle stance, "I've been looking forward to this... seeing you two become Masters. I'm not gonna miss it now!"

"He can take care of himself," Terra reassured her, fully confident in their young friend, "He's been out there training just as hard as us."

Ven nodded in apperception, "Yeah!"

Aqua then turned her attention back to the battlefield, "Stay sharp, Ven!"

Xehanort watched as the three Keyblade Wielders faced off against this quite dangerous test. He turned to Earqus wondering if he would intervene, but much to his surprise and relief, he didn't. Xehanort smirked at this as they threw destroyed the remaining darkened light orbs.

Once they were all destroyed, Ven returned to watch from the sidelines as Aqua and Terra turned to stand at attention to the Keyblade Masters. Eraqus approached the two, "That was unexpected, but one must keep a still heart even in the most trying of circumstances. It was an excellent test, one I chose to let unfold. Which brings us to your next trial."

He then had Terra and Aqua turned to face each other with their respective Keyblades in hand. He then instructed the two, "Now, Terra and Aqua, the two of you will face each other in combat. Remember, there are no winners... only truths, for when equal powers clash, their nature is revealed. Begin!"

The two potential Keyblade Masters charged at each other clashing their blades against each other. They both seemed evenly matched until up to a point, Aqua nearly had the upper hand as Terra narrowly dodged her last strike. As Aqua charged into re-engaging in the fight, Terra began to worry he wouldn't pass the exam. In his hand, darkness appeared. Quickly noticing it in horror, he dispelled it and blocked Aqua's next strike. The rest of the fight didn't matter to Xehanort, he smirked as he finally found who he had been looking for.

When the match ended, Aqua and Terra eagerly awaited to hear their results from the two Keyblade Masters. Eraqus approached them as he told them the results, " We have deliberated and reached a decision. Terra, Aqua, you both performed commendably. However, only Aqua has shown the Mark of Mastery."

Both gasped at the fact that only Aqua passed but listen to the reason as Eraqus turned to him, "Terra, you failed to keep the darkness within you sufficiently in check. But, there is always next time. That is all."

He then turned to the newest Keyblade Master, "Aqua, as our newest Keyblade Master, you are entitled to certain knowledge. Please wait here for further instruction."

As Eraqus left, Xehanort turned to leave not long after. Aqua turned to him with sorrow in her eyes, "Hey..."

Ven ran up to the dejected student, and gave him his condolences, "Terra, I'm sorry."

Terra couldn't help but wonder, "The darkness... where did it come from?"

Xehanort walked down the stairs to meet with Vanitas, who currently had his helmet off, but it was blurred out making his face unknown. The dark Keyblade Master turned to him, "What do you make of Ventus?"

"He ain't going to cut it," The dark half of Ven's heart answered, "Somebody's gotta break that loser in."

Xehanort's eyes narrowed, "Not here you won't. I have to keep up appearances."

He couldn't let Eraqus know of his plans too soon, he couldn't let him know he was still interested in the Keyblade War. Not yet at least. He had to make sure at least Terra and Ventus grew stronger to do what must be done. Vanitas placed his helmet on as he replied, "I know that. He just needs a little incentive to leave home."

With that, the dark master and his apprentice walked through the castle before splitting ways. The apprentice would convince Ventus to leave the worlds to go after Terra while the master went to see the young man.

He found him sitting on the stairs by the door. Probably trying to understand why he failed. He probably even thought he was strong enough to hold it back. Xehanort smirked, "Yes, You are indeed strong." Terra turned to him, surprised that he was still here as the old man continued, "The darkness is nothing to fear."

Terra looked up to him in shock, "Master Xehanort..."

"And yet...how frustrating that Eraqus refutes its power," Xehanort told the young man, "Why, you could train with him forever and still... you'd never be a Master in his eyes."

"But why?" Terra asked, "Help me understand, Master Xehanort. What is it that I have failed to learn?"

As Xehanort walked past him, he answered, "You are fine as you are. Darkness cannot be destroyed. It can only be channeled."

Terra then bowed in respect to the Keyblade Master, "Yes. Thank you, Master."

With that, the bells of the castle began to ring, summoning Terra back inside. Once he was gone, Master Xehanort laughed to himself before leaving the world in a Corridor of Darkness...

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Wanda groaned rubbing her forehead, the visions happened again. This time Xehanort looked like he was using his friend for his own plans. She understood Ventus was the key to forging some different Keyblade that would allow him to unlock the secrets of this Keyblade War. That she more or less understood. Then there was Terra who was also being tempted by the same power Xehanort uses. And he encouraged the apprentice of his friend to use that power.

"Um... you okay, Wanda," She heard Peter ask her. Why did he sound so nervous? They've talked before. Heck, they've been talking ever since they got caught up in this mess.

She smiled in apperception, as she was about to open her eyes to look at him, "I'm fine. But there's something you should... know..."

She stopped, finally looking at Peter and Sora, as her eyes widened in shock. Peter was there, and from the looks of it, they were back to normal size. But Peter's suit was gone, and he looked away at her blushing. She blush too as she realized the only thing he was wearing was a red loin's cloth. She turned to Sora as he was wearing the small version of the same thing as Peter. She pulled herself together as she wondered, "Um... what happened to your clothes?"

Peter blinked looking between her and the jungle area around them, "Well... y-you... see... the thing is..."

Sora tilted his head as he cut him off, "Do you mean our clothes? You're superhero costume's gone too."

Peter nodded, "Yeah... that..."

Wanda blinked at Sora and Peter's before slowly looking down at herself. Her usual clothing that she wore even before she was an Avenger was gone, now like Peter and Sora, the only thing she wore was a red loincloth but she also had a red tube top around her chest. Her eyes widened in horror as the blush returned hard than it had before looking back to Peter. Part of her wanted to cover herself or hide behind a tree, but she didn't want to leave Sora both confused and concerned when they had faced crime lords, Greek myths, and tons of monsters. The only words she could make out were, "When... how..."

"The moment we got here," Peter answered as he gestured to the world, "I get why we had to be small on the last world but we end up in the middle of a jungle and we end up wearing the fashion choices of Tarzan, Jane, and... I'm not sure if they ever had a kid but if they did they'd be wearing what Sora is wearing."

Sora tilted his head in confusion, "A swimsuit?"

Poor kid didn't even know what he was wearing, and probably didn't get the idea why the adults were so embarrassed about wearing them. Especially in front of each other. Peter then turned back to Wanda, "As for the how... I was kinda hoping you would know. It's your power that brought us here."

"How should I know?!" Wanda exclaimed before gesturing to herself, "You think I wanted us to run around in a jungle dressed like this?!" She then looked around at their surroundings, "Just where are we anyway!"

The Ancient Jungle

"I gotta level with you..." Peter admitted, "I don't know."

Wanda turned to him, "What about the movie? Can't that tell us anything?"

"Well, here's the thing," Peter admitted, "I'm not sure about that either. There are at least four Disney movies that take place in a jungle, one of which was a remake of the original, and I can't say for certain which one it is until we meet someone."

Wanda sighed before nodding in understanding, "Fair enough. Could you let us know those options at the very least?"

"Well, we've got Tarzan, George of the Jungle, or Jungle Book. Both original and remake." Peter answered before adding, "Though I kinda hoping it's not Jungle Book."

Wanda looked concerned, "Why not?"

"Well... I never say Jungle Book as a kid," Peter confessed, "And I didn't have time to see the reboot either. So, if this world is like that movie..."

"We're flying in blind," Wanda sighed to herself, "Great. And you don't know anything of the plot?"

"Maybe some of the characters and the songs," Peter shrugged, "But that's as far as I can tell ya."

She then turned to Sora with concern, before back to Peter, "Did any of those movies have to worry about predators?"

"I think," Peter nodded, "Although some might be on our side."

"I'm not taking any chances," Wanda crossed her arms as Sora spotted something, "Is there any sort of civilization nearby or other humans at very least?"

"Yeah," Spider-Man admitted unaware that Sora went off on his own for a moment before coming back with something in his hands, "But it's not like I would know where?"

Sora then handed him a large rolled-up paper to him, "Can this help?"

Both heroes blinked in shock before Peter took the paper and unrolled it. His eyes widened, "It's a map!"

Wanda turned to the boy, "Where did you find it Sora?"

Sora gestured to his right, "In that chest."

Both heroes turned to see a large chest opened up, leaning by a large tree. Wanda then turned to Sora, with concern Pom her face, "Okay, we think it's nice you want to help but you can't just wander off on your own. Even without Xehanort or the Heartless, there are predators all around here. You need to stay with us the entire time so we can protect you. You gave us both a scare when Ratigan had you."

Sora frowned, "Sorry, Miss Wanda." He then asked, "But what if Riku and Kairi are here?"

"Then we'll find them," She promised before asking, "But do you understand what we're asking of you?"

The islander nodded in agreement, "Stay with you and Peter the whole time."

"Good," Wanda smiled as she picked up the boy before turning to Peter, "So, did you figure that map out?"

"Yeah, I think so," Peter stared at the map, "It looks like we're here." He pointed to one spot on the map before going to another, "And it looks like there's a village right over there."

"Alright, let's go," Wanda told him, "Maybe we can get the next crack there... and possibly better clothes."

Peter nodded as he proceeded to lead the group, "I hope you're right."

Wanda's eyes widened in realization, "The backpack... Where's the backpack?!"

"Relax," He reassured her as picked up the bag full of the Reality Orbs, "That's the one thing that stuck with us."

"Oh, that's a relief," Wanda sighed, before slightly hoping, "Any chance any spare clothing?"

"The was the second thing I checked," Peter shook his head disappointed, "Nada."

Wanda groaned as she prayed quietly, "Please don't let this be a long walk."

Little did they know, Xehanort watched the group, and already had a problem. Just as he arrived on this world, the crack had already been discovered and joined with a dark force on this world. The good news is he would use this new power on the heroes. Bad news, he won't listen to Xehanort even if he tried and would swear to kill Sora if he discovered him, something he couldn't allow to happen.

There were others close to the darkness, but all of them would want the boy for food or their own reasons. He needed a third party. He crossed his arms thinking to himself, before smirking, "Fine. If you two are so instant on joining our war, then I shall bring one of yours to deal with all of you."

He just happened to know the perfect candidate for this situation, he vanished through a Corridor of Darkness. Even he was unaware, of the third party watching both parties, "So... you decided to call in a favor from another world. Well... two can play that game." He then pulled out a special children's book, "Hope Merlin don't mind if I borrow this."

On the cover, the book read, 'Winnie the Pooh,' the Master of Masters looked through the pages, "Let's see, Pooh... nope. Piglet... definitely not. Poor little guy scared of his own shadow. Owl... probably bore the kid to death with his stories. Kanga... we've already got a mother figure here. Roo... No." He skimmed through a few more pages, "Eeyore, Rabbit... C'mon... I've got to get something better to help them out in the long run..." He then spotted one particular page, "Oh... you'll do."

He opened the book as if he was going to present it to the world, before waving his hand causing light to shin from the book before someone bounced right out of it...

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An hour later, Peter observed the map again, "Uh... I think we go..." He gestured to his right, "That way."

"How much longer until we get there," Wanda asked as she carried the very sleepy boy on her soldiers, "It's starting to get dark out and Sora can barely keep his eyes open and my feet are killing me."

"Can't be too much farther," Peter answered as he held the map to his side, "But yeah, couldn't we've at least gotten sandals."

As the two Avengers wished they weren't barefoot or half-naked, Wanda asked, "Can't you just swing us there?"

Peter held his fingers in the air as if he was going to shoot a web, but nothing came out, "Yeah, when the clothes vanished, so did my web-shooters. I would if I could."

Sora, who was currently half-awake, gestured to the vines high in the trees, "Why not swing on the plant ropes?"

Wanda giggled as she ruffled the islander's head, "Those are called vines, Sora." She then turned to Peter, "But not a bad idea, what do you think Peter?"

"So, you want me to go all Tarzan, eh?" Spidey turned to her, "I mean, I guess I could give it a try. It'd be a little difficult since I won't be able to shoot webs on the fly but I think I can manage without going George of the Jungle on every tree."

"Um..." The Scarlet Witch blinked in confusion, "George the who now?"

"Long story, but the real challenge is to carrying both you and Sora will vine-swinging," The New Yorker admitted, "If it was my webs, it'd be no problem but I'm not used to the vines, I'm not sure I could carry the both of you."

Wanda thought for a moment before suggesting, "Then how about you teach me how to swing?"

"You?" Peter blinked in shock.

Wanda nodded in agreement, "Yes, that way you can care Sora and I can follow behind you."

"You sure," Peter asked in concern, "I took me quite a few bruises before I got the hand of web-swinging."

"I'll be fine. I'm a full-time Avenger, remember," She smiled at him, "I'm sure I can adapt and become Queen of the Jungle..." Peter blinked in confusion before she sighed, "That last bit was my own attempt at humor... did I not say it right?"

"Oh no, I just wasn't expecting it, that's all," Peter lightly chuckled with a blush on his face taking in her beauty, "Okay, how about we just get to the river, then we can figure out how to set up camp. Then in the morning, after I try it out, I can teach you when we're all fully awake."

"Fair enough," She wondered, "We almost there?"

"Yeah, should be just ahead," Peter nodded as they walked past the trees ahead... only to arrive at a place with no rivers, Peter blinked in shock, "What? I could have sworn... there should be a river right here!"

Wanda then asked, "How about I see that map?"

Peter nodded as he took the boy as she took the map. She gave a quick scan before her eyes widened, "Um... Peter... I think you've been reading the map upside down."

"I've been what?!" Peter gasped in shock, making Sora fully awake as she showed in the map holding it the correct way. He groaned, "Of course, I did! Of all the lousy luck!"

She looked at him with sympathy, "It's okay, Peter. These things happen." She then frowned, "Though, it looks like we're not going to the village for a few days now."

"Yeah," Peter sighed, "So, you still want to set up camp?"

"Right..." She nodded before wondering, "How are we going to do it though?"

"You can always buy a tent, Kupo."

All three blinked in shock before turning to see a Moogle standing there, Peter turned to the alien seller, "Wait, you guys are here too."

"Of course, Kupo," The Moogle answered, "You didn't really think we make all our munny by staying on the same world 24/7, did ya? We're all over the worlds," The Moogle sighed, "Of course, unless you're from another world or you're on a world were actually from, no one can really see us, so you're my first customers here in a long time. So, how'd you like that tent for half the price?"

"That'd... that actually be great," Peter smiled in appreciation, before realizing, "Except my loincloth, doesn't have any pockets on me."

"Oh, that's not a problem, Kupo," The Moogle reassured him, "Just open up your palm."

The two Avengers raised an eyebrow but the spider-themed hero did as requested. Sure enough, the right amount of munny appeared in his hand, "Huh?"

Wanda gasped in shock before attempting to do the same and succeeded, she whispered, "How is this possible?"

"That's the beauty of munny, Kupo," The Moogle answered, "It not only changes into the world's currency but on the chances you're on a world were you have blend in, even if you don't have pockets, your munny is never too far from ya, Kupo."

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Later, Wanda was preparing the tent for the group, as Peter went to buy some food and hopefully clothes for them. She had just finished setting up before smiling at her work. Sora yawned as she smiled, "Well, I guess we can always get you something to eat in the morning."

She picked up the small child and tucked him in a sleeping bag. She smiled fondly at the boy, as he snuggled in the bag before falling asleep, she whispered to him, "Good night, Sora."

She crawled back outside, before seeing Peter with some fresh fruit in his hands, "So... I take it the kiddo's knocked out."

"Yeah, it's been a long journey home," The mutant woman answered, "So... any luck?"

"I didn't want to get anything that could litter, so I just got us some fruit," He offered placing some in the tent next to the sleeping child. Wanda smiled as he handed her an apple, which she happily took and took a bite. Peter took a banana for himself, before unpeeling it, "But when I asked him about the clothes... he just burst out laughing at me."

She swallowed the piece of the apple before frowning, "So... guess we're going to be dressed like this for a few days?"

"Or until we find the crack," Peter admitted as he took a bit from his banana, "Whichever comes first. I just hope on the next world we visit, we don't end up having any clothes at all."

Wanda's eyes widened in horror nearly choking on her apple, "Don't jinx us... I do not want to scare Sora for life than Xehanort already has."

"Sorry," Peter apologized before finishing his banana, "I wish I had better luck to spare..." He tossed the peel aside before looking around, "I should probably gather some wood to start a fire. You know, in case of predators."

"Go ahead," Wanda nodded, "I'll keep an eye on Sora in case, Xehanort, the Heartless, or any predator that tries to come for Sora." She then raised a hand with her red power shining, "I best suited for that task anyway."

"Yeah," Peter smirked, "I pity any monster, lion, tiger, or bear that comes within an inch of Sora. Heck, I almost even pitty Xehanort."

"You're sweet, Peter," Wanda giggled before giving him a light peck on the check. Peter blinked in shock before Wanda pulled away equally shocked, blushing, "I- I'm sorry... I don't know what came over me."

"Oh, it's... it's fine," Peter blushed, he slowly backed away, "I'm going to get that firewood." He turned around bumping into a tree, he looked back even more embarrassed, "Heh, tree."

He then looked around to pick up some loose wood they could use for a fire. As he went off to gather some wood, Wanda smiled before turning back to the tent Sora slept in.

As she finished her apple, her concerns continued to grow for Sora. As far as they knew, this boy was the only one who managed to escape the destruction of his world. She knew she promised him, they'd help find his friends and parents, but what if they couldn't? What if they didn't escape the fall of the Destiny Islands?

So far, they visited four worlds including this one, with no sign of any of them. No, she couldn't think like that, she didn't want to give up on Sora's hopes, maybe they ended up on a world where they had visited yet. Maybe Scrooge and the Guardians of the Galaxy already found them and we're bringing them back home.

Sora seemed certain that they were still out there. His friends at least. But what of his parents? If they were gone, who would raise the boy? It was no secret that she always wanted to be a mother, and she loved Sora as if he was her own child. She sat down by a large tree, as she watched the child sleep, she thought to herself, "If the worse situation comes, maybe I could raise the child. He would most certainly be safe at Avengers Mansion or Genosha. And Peter could help..."

She quickly blushed again, what was she thinking, it had only been a few days and she was already considering raising Sora with him. No one could fall in love within a short amount of time. She may be traveling to worlds of Peter's childhood films where that sort of thing happens, but that sort of thing doesn't happen in the real world.

"I mean... he is kind... and handsome. Good with kids. And not to mention that six pa..." Wanda thought before blushing harder, she closed her eyes in embarrassment, "No, no, no... can't think those thoughts! I have to stay focused on the task at hand!"

However, with this brief distraction, she failed to notice the tail of a large serpent, which lower its tail from the trees above before wrapping its coils around her waist. Feeling the cold-blooded body around her, she took notice of it, "Wha...?!"

She was then pulled up to the branches above her, "Hey!"

Once, she was upon the level, she came face to face with a python, as she observed her with hunger in his eyes, "Ssssssssay now, what have we here? I mate of a man. A deliciousssss mate of man."

As Wanda quickly unwrapped the snake's tail from her body and stood on the large tree branch. She quickly pushed its head away from her, as it was getting too close for comfort, "Go away. Trust me I'm one woman you wouldn't want to make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."

The last thing she wanted was for this predator to discover the young defenseless child in the tent below them. Since it could take, she thought she give it a fair warning before she blasted it away from their camp. She knew she could handle anything the snake could throw at her.

However, this was no ordinary python. This was was Kaa, and he too had a power that would always lure in prey. He smirked as he stared right at her eyes, "Sssssomeone issssss cranky. Perhapssss ssssssome ressssst will be good for you."

"I warned y-" She glared as she raised her hands, and was about to send this creep to the other end of the world... except she didn't. She felt her arms going limp as she gazed into Kaa's eyes, "What... what's... happen...?"

Her thoughts, her will to resist the beast, were slowly slipping. But why? She never hesitated on an enemy before. The only thing she could do was be enchanted by the pretty colors of Kaa's eyes. She sat right back down in the coils that were slowly wrapping around her body, "Go to ssssssssleep. Resssssst in peace."

Wanda's suddenly felt very sleepy, although, part of her knew she was in danger and tried to resist. If she didn't break free of the spell soon, Peter and Sora would be in danger as well. However, she could do nothing as the coils reached her shoulders. Kaa commanded her, "Ssssssssleeeep. Ssssssssleeeep."

Wanda was almost completely under Kaa's power, but the daughter of Magento mustered enough force of will to weakly moan, "N-n-no, I-I won't... 'GULP'!

His coils tightened around her neck causing her to lose breath and be completely under the python's control. She forced a dizzy smile, as the snake nodded as he lifted her body with his coils, "That'ssss it jussssst ressssst... and trussssssst in me."

He opened jaws over the woman's head, ready to feast...

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Minutes earlier, Sora slept soundly in his sleeping bag underneath the tent. Just then, he heard Wanda's voice cry out, "Hey!"

Sora's eyes opened up as he looked around, "Miss Wanda?"

He turned to see the fruit beside him, then he climb out of the tent. And saw that he was very much alone. He called out quietly, "Hello? Miss Wanda? Mr. Peter?"

Then he heard bushes to his left shake a little, "Hello?"

When Sora didn't get a response, he saw a fallen twig beside him. He picked up the stick giving a few swings before going into his battle stance as if he was going to fight Riku. He wasn't sure if the person in the bushes was a friend or for so he slowly approached it, without letting his guard. He asked again, "Miss Wanda? Mr. Peter?" Taking another step closer, he whispered, "Riku? Kairi? Is that you?"

All of a sudden, an orange cat-like animal with black stripes jumped out of the bushes and tackled Sora to the ground. The two tumbled around for a moment before Sora was lying on his back while the animal looked down upon him with a friendly smile, "Hello, I'm Tigger!"

Seeing how he wasn't going to harm him, Sora sighed in relief, "You almost gave me a scare there."

Tigger nodded as stood on all fours on Sora's bare chest with a laugh, "Yeah, sure I did. Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Everyone's scared of Tiggers. Who are you?"

"I'm Sora," The islander introduced himself."

"Oh, Sora, sure," Tigger nodded before looking at the boy's face in confusion, "Eh, what's a Sora?"

Sora answered, "Well, you're standing on one."

"I am?" Tigger asked before looking down to see that was the case. He then finally got off the boy, then helped him up all while shaking his hand, "Oh, well, glad to meet you! Name's Tigger! T-I-double-Guh-er. That spells Tigger."

Sora was currently learning spelling and the alphabet so he was quite sure if that was spelled correctly. However, he nodded, "Nice to meet you, too." He then couldn't help but wonder, "So, what are you doing all the way out here?"

"Well, funny you should ask," Tigger smiled as he recalled the events that led to him meeting Sora, "I was bouncing in Long Ears' garden when suddenly the was this huge flash of light, so I bounced towards it! Then I ended up in a part of the Hundred Acre Woods that I had never been before."

Sora tilted his head, "So, you're lost?"

"Don't be ridiculous," Tigger waved it off, "Tiggers never get lost." He then rubbed the back of his head, "Although, all my friends seem to be disappeared."

Sora nodded in understanding, he knew what Tigger was going through too. Tigger then smiled, "So, I decided to go look for 'em! I thought I heard Buddy Bear's voice and well, I bounced into you."

"I'm looking for my friends too," Sora told the Tigger.

Tigger gasped in amazement, "Really? What a small world we live in." He then wondered, "You don't suppose our friends are friends too, do ya?"

"I mean, we're friends so I guess," Sora rubbed the back of his head, "I bet if we work together, we can find them."

Tigger laughed as he bounced around him, "Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! I like the way you think, Sora!" He then stopped in front of him, "So, any ideas where we should look?"

"Well, I heard Miss Wanda's voice when you... bounced into me," Sora admitted, "So maybe she found one of your friends."

"Make sense to me," Tigger nodded as they looked around, "So, they've gotta be close..."

Sora looked up to see something wrapping up the Scarlet Witch from the trees above, "There! I see Miss Wanda!"

Tigger looked up, and smiled, "Good eye! Pooh Boy must be up there too!"

Sora tilted his head, "What do you think they're doing?"

"I don't know..." Tigger admitted as he stared at the wrapped-up Wanda, "Doesn't look too comfy though..."

"We've gotta get up there," Sora looked around to find a way up, he tried climbing it but the tree was too wide. The boy then thought again, before turning to Tigger, "Can you bounce us up there?"

"Of course," Tigger smiled as he picked up Sora and placed him on his shoulders, "Why bouncing is what Tiggers do best!" Sora's new friend started bouncing on his tail going higher and higher before they started over to the first branch, "Here we go! Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!"

Once they were out of sight, Peter returned with a bundle of wood, "Okay, Wanda. I'm back. How's our sleepy little..." He blinked in shock to discover she was no longer there, "Uh... Wanda?"

He looked around, "Wanda? Where did you go?"

Okay, he was used to having attractive women ditch him since high school, but he thought she would be different. There was definitely no way she would leave Sora on his own. She's been very protective of him from the moment they met the boy. Something must have happened to her. His Spider-Sense went off as he located the danger, he looked up to see a familiar-looking snake lifting a hypnotized young woman, preparing to eat her whole, "Oh no!"

Wasting no time, Peter quickly jumped and scaled the tree with the speed and agility of a spider. Once he reached the branch, he dashed his way to save his teammate, "Let her go!"

Peter punched the snake away from the woman, and the snake groaned in pain, "My ssssssssinussssss!" He turned to Spidey with a glare, "You have jusssssst made a sssssserioussssss missssstake, little man, a very stupid..." Peter looked away from the python's eyes, ready to blind him with his webbing, only for when he pressed on his palms, there were no web-shooters, "...missssstake."

While Kaa was focused on Spidey, Wanda was free from the snake's control. Her eyes widened in horror as she remembered what had happened, she tried to wiggle herself free. If she could at least get one of her hands freed, she would be able to handle the serpent. Problem was, that Kara's coils were still around her tightly. Not too tight that she couldn't breathe but still pretty tight.

As she tried to squirm herself free, she heard a few 'bong' noises beside her, she turned as Peter, unfortunately, didn't get one of his eyes closed fast enough. He fought with all of his willpower, "No... I won't... let you... win..."

"Both eyessssss pleasssssse," Kaa ordered the unmasked hero. Peter complied with that opening his other eye, he was now in Kaa's complete control.

Wanda saw Sora on the shoulders of some short of living 'stuff tiger toy' who managed to get on their level. Sora opened his mouth to speak but Wanda quickly shook her head, she didn't want Sora to get that snake's attention. He stopped where he and the tiger stood before she whispered to him, "Go! Hide!"

Sora complied with what Wanda told him, as he turned to the other end of the tree branch with the living toy. Kaa turned his attention back to Wanda, "Don't think I've forgotten about you."

Wanda quickly shut her eyes before Kaa could get her under her spell again. Kaa mocked, "Don't be rude. Look at me when I'm talking to you."

He tightened his closes around her as she groaned in pain, although still refused to look into his eyes. She could only hope she could hold up long enough for Peter to break out of Kaa's control. However, that's not what happened. The stuffed tiger bounced out of his hiding spot and landed on the snake's head. Tigger rubbed his head in confusion, "That's funny. I could have sworn I heard Pooh Bear's voice."

He started bouncing on Kaa's head, "Hello?! Where are you, Buddy Boy?!"

Kaa grunted in pain in every bounce, loosening some of his coils around Wanda, bringing her some relief. She opened her eyes to see her unintentional savior, still bouncing on the snake's head. Kaa tried to speak up as Tigger continued bouncing him, "Get... off... of... me!"

Tigger stopped before noticing the snake's head, "Oh, hello there! I didn't see ya there! I'm Tigger!" He then wondered, "So, why do you sound like my friend?"

Sora looked over to the rest of Kaa's body and noticed the danger the adults were in. He gasped, "Tigger! That snake is a bad guy!"

"Bad guy?!" He gasped in shock.

Kaa briefly turned his attention to Sora, "Ssssssay... isssss that a man-cub?" With that, Tigger started bouncing on him again, "Oof! Ouch!"

"Tiggers do not like bad guys!" Tigger glared at the snake as he continued to bounce, "Take this! And that!"

Kaa continued to wince in pain as Wanda struggled to get herself free. As she did this, she turned to Peter, "Snap out of it, Peter! Sora needs us!"

Spidey however remained in his current state. Sora looked at the trail to Kaa's body and saw where the majority of him was hanging. He then spotted a vine before leaping over to it and climbing upon it. He had a much easy time, especially with Tigger keeping the snake distracted.

He reached the branch above him, ran over to Kaa's body, and tried pushing him off the tree. He made very little effort though. He was still small and not strong enough yet. Suddenly, he heard a loud yawn, "What is all that racket?!"

A black panther was trying to get some sleep, and went to investigate the source of the noise. He blinked in shock to see Sora there, "What...? A man-cub?" He walked over to the boy, "What are you doing all the way out here?"

Sora turned to the panther, as he continued pushing Kaa's body off the tree, "We're trying to save our friends from the snake."

"We?" The panther blinked as he looked down to see Tigger continued to bounce on Kaa, the Scarlet Witch in Kaa's coils trying to free herself, and Spidey was entranced. He didn't need to think long about what happened. He knew the law of the jungle said he was supposed to stay away from mankind, but he could not in good conscience let Kaa make an orphan of this man-cub. He turned to Sora, "Here. Let me help."

Placing a firm paw on the Kaa, he helped Sora push the snake off the tree. The python continued getting bounced on the head, when suddenly, he was forcibly unwound from the branches of the tree, as well as Wanda, hitting his head in the process before crashing down to the ground. The young woman fell not far from him hard as the two tried to recover. Sora turned to the panther, "Thank you."

"You're very welcome," The Panther smiled at the boy.

As Kaa began to recover, he turned to Wanda who had recovered first... and she wasn't happy. Her eyes were glowing red as her hands glowed with that same power. He laughed nervously, "Y-you look stresssssssed ... jussssst... look into my eyesssss and relax..."

She glared at the snake a bit longer before smirking, "What eyes?"

The next thing Kaa knew, his eyelids were closed shut and refused to open. In actuality, Wanda had bend reality to make it so Kaa never had eyes. He was blind. The snake began to panic.

In truth, Wanda hated using that power. It was part of the reason why the people of Sokovia thought she was an actual witch. She never wanted to use that power again, although, for Kaa, she make an exception.

Kaa screamed as Wanda then lifted Kaa with her power as she warned him, "Never come near me, my friends, or my kid ever again."

The now blinded snake nodded in fear before she blasted him off away from their camp. Tigger shook a fist, "And stay out!"

Wanda looked up to see Sora, "Sora! Sweetie! Are you okay?!"

"I'm fine!" Sora beamed and waved his hand from above of tree branches as the black panther wondered what just happened, "Come meet my new friends! They helped me save you!"

Tigger smiled and waved to her as the panther simply nodded. Even seeing the panther there, she could tell he wasn't going to hurt them, "Thank you. Both of you."

"You're welcome," The panther nodded, "But you might want to check on your mate."

"My mate?" Wanda blinked in confusion as her eyes widened in realization who he was referring to, "Peter?!"

Spider-Man was still under Kaa's spell as she ran up to the tree, and began to climb up to it the best she could. She asked the panther who helped them, "Could you help Sora to the branch out other friends are on?"

"Might as well," The panther nodded before turning to the boy, "Come now, Man-Cub. Let's join the others."

Sora climb on the panther's back and he hopped down to the branch where Peter and Tigger were on. Wanda grunted as she finally climbed onto the large tree branch where her teammate was on. She ran up to Peter, "Peter? It's me, Wanda. The snake's gone. You have to snap out of this."

Tigger turned to Sora, "Say, how was your friend able to do that?"

"Oh, Miss Wanda and Mr. Peter are superheroes," Sora proudly stated.

While the panther turned to Sora in confusion Tigger gasped in amazement, "Really?" After receiving a confirmation nod from Sora, Tigger bounced passed Wanda and onto Peter making them tumble over until Tiger stood on Peter's chest, "I never met superheroes in person before, let alone save them. Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!"

Peter blinked in shock and gasped out, "Tigger?!"

"That's right, I'm Tigger," Tigger nodded as he helped Spider-Man up as he shook his hand, "T-I-double-Guh-er. That spells Tigger." He chuckled, "You really must be a superhero if you knew my name like that."

Sora tilted his head in confusion, "You know, I forgot to ask. What exactly is a Tigger?"

"Well, I'm glad you asked," Tigger smiled before the music started playing as he laughed, "Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!"

Peter realized what was coming next, "And here comes the song."

"The wonderful thing about Tiggers~" Tigger started to sing as he danced, "Is Tiggers are wonderful things~!"

"Their tops are made out of rubber~" Tigger explained as he pulled his ears before bouncing on his tail around Sora, Peter, Wanda, and the panther, "Their bottoms are made out of springs~! They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy! Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun! But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers is I'm the only one~"

Tigger then proudly declared, "IIIIIII'm the only one~"

Tigger made a small growl at the end of his song. The panther shook his head, "You are no doubt the strangest tiger I have ever met."

"Ah, you forget the second 'gah' in there," Tigger wrapped an arm around the panther, "But yeah, that's because I'm the only one!"

Wanda turned to Peter as she whispered, "Okay, so where are we?"

"Definitely Jungle Book," Peter answered, "But Tigger isn't supposed to be here. He's part of the Winnie the Pooh franchise."

"I thought he felt out of place with everything else with the world," Wanda nodded before turning back to the panther, "Anyways, thanks again for your help."

"You're welcome," The panther nodded before asking, "But why are you here?"

The two Avengers were quite sure how to answer, before Sora tried to answer, "Oh, we're to save the..."

Acting quickly, Wanda covered the boy's mouth before he said too much, she answered for him, "We have friends missing... and we're trying to find our way back to the village to see if they arrived there." She then turned to Sora, "Isn't that right, Sora?"

Despite, having his mouth covered, Sora nodded. Peter then asked, "We have a map to show us the way back but we kinda took the wrong turn..."

Sora tilted his head, "You mean, you were looking at the map upside down?"

Peter groaned as Wanda giggled, "It's alright, Peter. I'm sure you're not the only one who's done it."

"If you know what's good for you, Kaa is the least of your worries," The panther told them, "The jungle isn't as safe as it once was. I suggest you head back to the man-village."

"Let me guess," Peter sighed, "It's because of all the monsters that have been running around."

"So, you've met them," The panther realized, "Besides them, Shere Kahn has returned and he's sworn to kill your cub."

"Me?!" Sora gasped in shock.

Wanda instantly held Sora protectively, "Who is Shere Kahn? And what does he want Sora? He's only been here for only a few hours."

"He's a Tiger," He answered, "And he hates man. Shere Kahn is not going to allow him to grow up to become a man, just another hunter with a gun."

Wanda became really concerned at what the panther was saying about this Shere Kahn. She didn't want this tiger anywhere near her kid. However, shook his head, "No, no... it's pronounced Tigger. And he can't be a Tigger after all..."

"You're the only one," The panther rolled his eyes, "You've made that very clear."

Tigger crossed his arms, "Who does this... this... impostor think is going after my new friend like that?! Why, I'd like to give him a piece of my mind!"

"But I don't wanna be a hunter," Sora frowned, "I wanna be a superhero just like Miss Wanda and Mr. Peter."

Wanda was deeply touched by this statement, "Awwwwwwwwww!" She then shook her head, "Can't we just explain to Shere Kahn that Sora would never become a hunter."

"Nonsense," The panther answered, "No one explains anything to Shere Khan. He won't listen to reason."

Wanda couldn't help but ask, "Will he be safe if we take him to this Man-Village?"

"Yes," He nodded, "Even Shere Kahn wouldn't risk going into Man-Village."

"Okay, T'Challa," Peter nodded, "We could use a guide to get there safely. Something tells me you know a lot more of this jungle than we do."

"The name's Bagheera, actually," The panther corrected, "But yes, I do happen to know where the man-village is, and I don't want anything happening to the Man-Cub so I'll help you."

"Thank you again," Wanda nodded, "My name's Wanda, that's Peter, and you've met Sora... and I think we all know Tigger at this point."

Everyone turned to Tigger, who happily waved to them, Bagheera sighed, "Well, at least you're not a certain bear I know of. I suggest you rest for the night, we'll travel at dawn tomorrow. If you start a fire, it should work off anyone else trying to come for you. At least for the moment."

Peter nodded, "I'll work on it. And thanks again."

Wanda then handed Sora to him, "Here. You're a better climber when you're carrying someone down. Could you..."

"...yeah, I'll make sure the little guy gets back safely," Peter reassured her taking the child as he climbed the both of them back down, "I can help you down in a second too."

"I'll be fine," She reassured him.

As she watched as he watched Spider-Man carry Sora back to the camp. Tigger bounced over to Wanda, "Say can I stick you guys too. I've had friends who are lost too."

Wanda couldn't help but smile in amusement, "Well, I suppose you did help save us, so you can stay until we find friends."

Tigger nodded before looking down from the tee branch, "Uh... a little help down would be nice to... I have this little thing against heights."

"Figures," Wanda thought to herself before calling back down, "Peter!"

"Yep!" Peter already climbed back up, "I've got him too."

He took Tigger before helping him back down from the tree. Wanda followed shortly but not before warning him, "Don't look up my... outfit."

"Sorry." Peter apologized, looking down and focusing on climbing Tigger down...

---

Later that evening, Sora slept back soundly in his tent while Tigger slept in the sleeping back next to them. Peter found Moogle and bought a second tent for the adults but not before starting a fire.

It was a bit difficult without matches or a lighter, took longer to make because of it, but Peter managed to accomplish it. Bagheera kept watching until the flames started up.

Afterwords Wanda kept the fire going while Peter set up the second tent for them. As Peter finished, "So, if this world is like the film the Jungle Book, how did Tigger get here?"

"I can't say," Peter admitted, "Could be a number of reasons. It could be like Sora, his world could have been overrun with Heartless, or stumbled upon something like one of the cracks in reality and traveled through them much as we did. Either way, I'm glad he was here because I'm not sure what would have happened if hadn't bounced in."

"Same," Wanda nodded, "Maybe if we can find King Mickey, perhaps he can get us some more answers."

"Speaking of answers, you never explained the visions of Xehanort when traveled here," Peter reminded her.

"Oh, that's right. Our... jungle clothes... kinda through us in a loop," Wanda blushed slightly before answering, "But anyways, Xehanort 'patched' things up with Eraqus and he was able to help him judge his students in some sort of final exam..."

Wanda like before told Peter everything she had seen in the vision before they arrived in the jungle. After she finished, Peter crossed his arms, "So, after failing this Terra because of darkness in his heart, he then tells him that it's a good thing. Yeah, he's acting like a Sith Lord alright, it's right up their alley."

"What is a Sith?" Wanda admitted, "I never seen the... Star Trek movies."

"Star Wars but I do love a good Star Terk film and show as well," Peter corrected her, before answering, "But in most of the lore, they were the ancient enemy of these keepers of Peace and Justice of the Republic Jedi. They both use this power called the Force."

Wanda raised an eyebrow, "The Force."

"It's what gives them their power," Peter answered quoting the words of Obi-Wan Kenobi, "It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. While the Jedi use the light side of the Force for others, the Sith crave the dark power for themselves to rule. And they happen to be experts of manipulating people to evil."

"And now I see the comparison," Wanda realized, "But I haven't a clue what he wants with him. A new pupil other than Vanitas?"

"No, that can't be the only reason," Peter shook his head, "There has to be more to it than that."

"So, keep going, focus on the visions until we find something vital we can figure out what he wants with Sora," Wanda assumed, "Is that all we can do?"

"Unfortunately, other than keeping the kid safe and alive, it's all we can do," Spidey admitted as he threw more wood into the fire. He turned to her as she gazed into the fire, "What's wrong? If it's about Sora, I'm with ya on that. I'm worried about the kid too but we can keep safe from Shere Kahn and Xehanort. I know we had a few close calls with Ratigan and Kaa but once we get home, we can deal with the Palpatine junior with the rest of the..."

"It's not that, I know we can do that," Wanda stared at her hands, "It's just I'm concerned about what I will become after what I did..."

"I don't follow," Peter blinked unaware of what had happened with Kaa. He was informed after Sora and Bagheera freed her, she beat him and practically flew him to the other end of the jungle.

"Peter, my mutant abilities, they're a lot more dangerous than the public knows," Wanda informed him, "After our foster parents died, I wanted to do anything to bring them back and wanted everything to go back to normal... and for a moment, they were back, damage to our home had gone, and they're still around. Like nothing had ever happened."

Peter turned to her in confusion, Wanda continued to explain, "I didn't even understand what was happening, and neither did my brother. I was just pulled into it, everything was normal again. However, people began to ask questions... questions they couldn't answer... as it turns out, 'they' weren't real. I had, in a way, brought them into existence from my mind."

Peter blinked in shock, "What do you mean?"

"My mutant abilities to create 'hexes,'" Wanda began to clarify, "There's more to them that I don't quite fully understand... I can sort of bend reality."

"Bend reality?" Peter repeated.

"It was how I was able to repair Basil's violin and your costume," Wanda answered, "They were small and manageable, but a much bigger one like making fake parents over the ones that had just been killed... it can have a nasty effect on my mind."

"Really," Peter gasped in shock.

"While we were happy for a time, but when people kept asking our 'parents' questions that they couldn't answer, I just wanted them to keep their mouth shut," Wanda's eyes narrowed before widening in horror, "I was shocked when their mouths just... vanished from their faces."

"Yikes!" Peter's eyes widened in horror.

"Yeah," Wanda nodded in agreement, "That was a mild version of our reaction too." She continued, "Thanks to a talk from our 'parents' I ended the illusion, including them but when people saw the truth..."

"...they thought you were an actual witch," Peter realized.

"If it wasn't for my father, my real father," Wanda nodded, "My brother and I would have burned on a stake."

"Look. You were only really figuring out how your powers work and you missed your family," Peter reassured her, "That wasn't your fault and you made it right in the end."

"That may be," She sighed, "But not long after, my father turned to Charles Xavier for help. He managed to fix my mind but warned us what would happen if I tried something like that again... or I could make things worse for the world."

"Well, as I grew, so did my powers," She continued, "Xavier had a theory if I fully intended what I did long ago to the entire world... I would go mad and might even bring the mutant race to an end with a simple three words. I promise myself to never use that power again... but when that snake tried to eat us, I feared what would happen if what would happen to Sora if we weren't there for him... so I put the fear of God into him, by making his eyelids stuck closed as if he never had eyes."

"Uh..." Peter's eyes widened in shock, "Does this mean..."

"No, I didn't make it permanent, that wouldn't have been good for my mind," Wanda reassured him, "But I said I would if he ever came back. I just hope Sora didn't notice."

Peter turned to the sleeping child, in the tent ahead of them, who seemed to happily dreaming, "It looks like he managing just fine."

"Good," Wanda stated before yawning, "We still have... a long journey ahead of us."

"Why don't you catch some shut-eye," Peter offered, "I'll keep the fire going."

She turned to him concerned, "No, I can stay up a bit long."

"I'll be fine," He reassured her, "I'm used to late sifts like this, besides, I'll wake you up in a few hours so I can get some sleep as well."

"Take turns, huh?" Wanda thought out loud, "I guess I'm fine with that..." She then turned to their own tent, "Just don't forget to wake me up."

"No problem, it's for the best anyway," Peter nodded as she crawled inside, "I don't want to give your boyfriend the wrong idea."

Wanda blinked in shock turning back to him, "I- I don't have a boyfriend."

"You don't?" Peter blinked in shock, "I... would have thought..."

"Yeah, dating the daughter of the man wanting to wage war on the human race where no one wins," The Scarlet Witch pointed out as she opened her sleeping bag, "Guys aren't exactly lining up on my doorstep, I'm afraid." She then turned to him, "What about you? Do you have... some lucky girl back home?"

Even though she asked this, she hoped he would say no. She knew he had an ex so she was hoping he was still single.

"Oh, no..." Peter shook his head slightly frowning, "My luck on woman... hasn't been so kind. Guess, it's just not in the cards for me."

While, Wanda was relieved to hear that he wasn't in a current relationship... that last part, for some reason looked like he had lost all hope in finding the right woman for him. But why? What could have happened to a guy like him? She smiled softly at him, "Maybe you just haven't found the right woman yet. You shouldn't give up just yet."

Peter thought of all the girls in his life, his relationship with Liz as a bust, Gwen was... well, it went even worse than he could have imagined, Black Cat was just bad luck, and MJ... she helped him get through the loss of Gwen but it really didn't go anywhere outside of friendship. Was Wanda insulating that she was interested in him?

That would be great if she did, but he didn't want to get the wrong idea as he did with Sally. He regretted asking her out ever since.

Either way, if Wanda had feelings for him or not. It was late and they were both tired. Peter asked, "Could we continue this discussion another night?"

Wanda nodded as she whispered, "Good night, Peter."

She then tried to get some sleep as Peter gazed into the fire, throwing some more wood in there...

---

Peter and Wanda switched out taking places to keep the fire lit, as they went through the night. The sun was rising as Peter, Bagheera, Sora, and Tiger slept soundly Wanda could barely keep her eyes as the fire was dying out. She yawned as she turned to keep watch was almost over, she could use some more sleep or at the bare minimum a hot cup of coffee.

All of a sudden, they could hear the stomping of footsteps, waking her up as she prepared to attack whatever came at them. The stomping woke Sora and Tigger up, and what they saw were no monsters, but a herd of elephants, marching like a an military force saying, "Hup, two, three, four! Keep it up! Two, three, four! Hup, two, three, four! Keep it up! Two, three, four!Hup, two, three, four!"

Wanda blinked in shock, lowing her arms, "Elephants?"

Sora gasped in amazement in his tent, "A parade!"

"Oh no," Bagheera cried from the tree above as he tried covering his ears, "The Dawn Patrol again."

The leader of the Dawn Patrol ordered, "Company, sound off!"

The elephants sang as they continued to march, "The aim of our patrol~"

A single male elephant then added, "Is a question rather droll~"

"For to march and drill~ over field and hill~" The elephants sang before blowing the trunks.

The leader of the herd sang, "Is a military goal~!"

"Is a military goal~!" The rest of the herd repeated as they continued to march, "Hup, two, three, four! Dress it up, two, three, four!"

From inside their tent, Tigger couldn't help but comment, "That's quite a lot of Heffalumps."

Sora turned to the Tigger, "Don't you mean elephants?"

"That's what I said. Heffalumps. Minus the Woozles." Tigger didn't realize the difference, "They steal honey."

Sora looked around before stating, "But we don't have any honey."

Tigger looked around, and saw that what Sora said is true, as he couldn't help but comment, "I suppose there's not. So, I guess we're good."

As they watched the military elephants march by, Sora couldn't help but ask, "So, you think it's safe to get a closer look? I never seen elephants before?"

Tigger thought about more a moment, before smiling, "I don't see why not. Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!"

Both Tigger and the jungle boy exited their tent to the unaware Wanda to get a closer look at the elephants. As Sora ran to them as Tigger bounced, they could hear them sing, "By the ranks or single file~ Over every jungle mile~ We stamp and crush through the underbrush~"

As the two watched in awe at the large elephants, they were quite surprised to see at the end was a much small elephant. As the young elephant blew his trunk before singing, "In a military style~!"

"In a military style~!" The rest of the elephants sang.

Sora and Tigger walked beside the calf as the former asked, "What are you doing?"

"Shhh..." The child elephant shushed him before answering, "Drilling."

"Say, it looks like fun," Tigger beamed quietly.

Sora couldn't help but admitted but agree with Tigger as he whispered to the calf, "Can we join, too?"

"Sure. Just do what I do," The calf nodded before telling them, "But don't talk in ranks. It's against regulations."

Sora and Tigger nodded. The latter joined in behind the calf while the jungle boy followed behind the latter...

---

Meanwhile, with the adults, Peter yawned as he crawled out of his tent. He asked the Scarlet Witch, "What's all the noise?"

"Apparently," The woman gestured to the elephants, "The elephants are the military around here."

Peter rubbed his eyes, "Really? Are they pink?"

"Um..." Wanda stared at him curiously, "Nooooo."

"Oh, I must be thinking of a different movie then," Peter stretched his arms, before stopping as he realized two familiar people at the end of the herd, "Uh... It would seem you lost track of Sora and Tigger."

Wanda turned to him, slightly concerned, "What do you mean?"

Peter gestured to the end of the elephant herd, "Uh... did you not see their latest recruits."

Wanda raised her eyebrow, before noticing Tigger and Sora following a child elephant on all fours. She blinked in shock, "Oh! Sora!"

She then stumbled to her feet as she ran after the boy and Tigger. Peter rolled his eyes in amusement before calling out, "Hey, Bagheera! We're missing two certain individuals!"

The black panther removed his paws from his ears, to see what Spider-Man was talking about, before noticing Sora and Tigger as Wanda tried to reach him. He groaned finally waking up, "Oh, I'm getting too old for this."

He then climbed down from the tree, "Come now. Hopefully, the Colonel won't be too upset when he discovers those two!"

Peter and Bagheera chased after Wanda as they went to catch up with the child and Tigger...

---

Back with the elephant herd, Tigger and Sora continued mimicking what the young elephant did until the leader of the herd ordered, "To the rear! March!"

Tigger and Sora continued moving forward only to be shocked to see the herd heading in their direction as Tigger's head collided with the calf's while Sora's head was now on Tigger's tail. As the two for the outside world began walking backward, the young elephant told them, "The other way. Turn around."

Both Tigger and Sora turned around and started marching the other way on all fours. Sora whispered, "I think we're getting the hang of this."

Tigger nodded in agreement when all of a sudden they heard the leader's voice again, "Hup, two, three, four! Keep it up! Two, three, four! To the rear! Ho!"

The elephants turned around to the two unaware of Sora and Tigger. The latter noticed and quickly got Sora's attention. The to turned around again just in time to hear the leader exclaim, "Company! Halt!"

When noticing the elephants stopping where they stood, Tigger stopped but Sora bumped into him and fell on his back. The young elephant explained, "That means stop."

Sora groaned as he got back on his feet, "Now he tells us."

The leader of the herd stood in front of the patrol before ordering, "Company… left face!"

With that, the elephants turned to the left facing him. A female elephant named Winfred complained quietly, "March, march, march. My feet are killing me."

An elephant next to her spoke up, "I'm putting in for a transfer to another herd."

The leader, Colonel Hathi, overheard the grumbling as he then ordered, "Silence in the ranks!"

Hathi walked behind the elephants and saw their rears were close to the ground. "Dress up that line!" The elephants stood up more straight except Winifred. He whipped his bamboo at her and she stood up straight, "Pull it in Winifred."

Hathi walked back up to the front of the patrol line, "Inspection! Arms!"

The elephants stuck their trunks out for inspection. Tigger and Sora turned to the youngest of the elephants in confusion as he whispered to them, "Stick your nose out."

Sora and Tigger complied as the latter asked, "Like this."

The calf nodded, "That's right."

Tigger chuckled quietly to himself, "Tiggers love inspections."

Hathi began inspecting the elephant's trunks starting with the one next to Winifred, "Tsk-tsk-tsk. Dusty muzzle. Soldier, remember in battle that trunk can save your life. Take good care of it, my man."

The elephant stood in attention, "Yes, sir!"

"Very good, carry on." Hathi nodded before inspecting the next elephant who was chewing on grass, as he had rotting tusks and looking bored out of his mind. Hati gave him a hard glare, "Ahem. Mmm. Let's have a little more spit and polish on those bayonets."

The elephant dropped the grass and stood at attention, "Yes, sir!"

"Esprit do Corps! That's the way I earned my commission in the Maharaja's pachyderm brigade." Hathi told his herd, "Back in '88 it was, or was it?"

While, Tigger, Sora, and the young elephant couldn't help staring in awe, the other elephants rolled their eyes. Winifred grumbled, "Here it comes, the Victoria-cross bit again."

"It was then I received the Victoria Cross for bravery above and beyond the call of duty. Ha-ha!" Hathi continued with a chuckle, "Those were the days!" He leaned on his bamboo stick until it snapped in half, "Discipline. Discipline was the thing. Builds character and all that sort of thing."

Noticing his broken stick, he seemed to lose track of where he was at, "Oh… Where was I?"

Sora went back to sticking his nose in the air as he reminded him, "Inspection, sir?"

"Ah, yes," Hati nodded over to Sora's voice unaware that he was a man-cub, "Thank you, young man."

Hathi continued inspection. He looked at the next elephant in the platoon, "Well, very good."

He then turned to the next elephant, who had a huge smile on his face, until Hati scolded him, "Wipe off that silly grin, soldier. This is the army."

The smiling elephant frowned as Hati turned to the next elephant. His eyes were distracted by a fly buzzing around his face, Hathi swatted the bug, "Ahem. Eyes front."

The elephant turned his attention back to him before the Colonel turned to the next elephant, who had very long hair, "Tsk-tsk-tsk. Lieutenant, that haircut is not regulation. Rather on the gaudy side, don't you think?" Hathi used his bamboo stick to straighten out the Lieutenant's hair before cutting it into a short military-style hair cut, "There. That's better."

"And as for you…" Colonel Hati turned to the next elephant only to realize the next one wasn't his height. He looked down to see the young elephant, who just happened to be his son, he chuckled happily with pride, "Oh, there you are. Heh-heh-heh. Let's keep those heels together, shall we son?"

"Okay, Pop," His son replied doing so, before correcting his response, "Sir."

"Very good," Colonel Hati nodded before turning to Tigger and Sora, "Well, new recruits, eh? Hahahaha!" He couldn't help but wonder, "I say, what happened to your trunk?"

He pointed the bamboo stick in their faces, as Sora answered, "We don't have ones, sir."

That's when Hathi finally realized that they weren't elephants, "A tiger? And a man-cub?! This is treason!" He grabbed Sora with his trunk, "Sabotage! I'll have no mman-cubin my jungle!"

"Sorry, sir," Sora apologized to him, "It's just... I nhave never seenelephants before not and... well you're just so cool."

Hathi was taken back by Sora's response, he couldn't help but chuckle, "Well, ha ha ha, I suppose I can't fault you there." He cleared his throat, setting the boy down, "Be that as it may, you belong with your own kind. Now, where are your parents?"

Sora frowned as he hadn't seen his parents since the islands, just then he heard Wanda's voice speak up, "Sora!"

She ran up to the Colonel, as he turned to Wanda, "Ah! Ma'am! I take it this is your cub?"

"Yes," Wanda smiled in relief as she picked him up, "I'm so sorry for any trouble he may have caused."

"It's quite alright," Hathi nodded, "He's quite a respectable man-cub, but can be too curious for his own good. Best to teach him not to let it get the best of him."

Tigger tthencleared his throat, getting the Colonel's attention, "Excuse me, sir. You forget the second 'gah'."

"Gah?" Hati raised an eyebrow.

"That's right. It's Tigger, not tiger," Tigger nodded as he spelled his name once again, "T-I-double-Guh-er. That spells Tigger."

Hati blinked in shock as he couldn't help but wonder, "What exactly is a Tigger?"

Sora and Wanda noticed the music started picking up aandthe latter couldn't help but ask, "Again?"

"Tiggers are cuddly fellas~" Tigger answered as he offered followers to the Winifred, "Tiggers are awfully sweet~"

He turned back to the Colonel, "Ev'ryone el-us is jealous~ That's why I repeat and repeat!"

"The wonderful thing about Tiggers~ Is Tiggers are marvelous claps~ They're loaded with vim and vigor~ They love to leap in your laps~" Tigger sang bouncing around the Colonel, his son, Sora, and Wanda, "They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy! Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun! But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers is I'm the only one~"

Tigger then proudly declared, "IIIIIII'm the only one~"

"Well... that was... educational, I suppose," Hathi was quite sure how to respond to Tigger's song, "But I think it's best you stick with bouncing, you don't seem cut out for the military life."

"Very well," Tigger shrugged, "After all, bouncing is what Tiggers do best!"

Just then, Peter and Bagheera appeared before Hathi on a branch as the latter called out, "Hold it, hold it! I can explain Hathi."

Hati turned to the panther, "Colonel Hathi, if you please, sir."

"Oh yes, yes, Colonel Hathi." Bagheera grumbled in annoyance, "The man, his mate, and their cub are with me. I'm taking them to the man village. The... uh... Tigger is helping me."

Peter and Wanda blushed at that statement, as the latter couldn't help but wonder, "Why does everyone assume we're together."

"Well, to be fair," Peter rubbed the back of his head, "We're young adults with a kid who kinda looks like us."

Wanda blinked before turning to Sora with a confused look. She took a moment before finally seeing it. Except for the spiky hair, she could see how one could think that Sora was their blood child. The Colonel turned to the panther, "To stay?"

"You have the word of Bagheera," Bagheera promised the leader of the herd of elephants.

"Good," The Colonel nodded, "The jungle is no place to raise a man-cub. Especially with all the monsters on the loose."

Sora raised his hand, "Excuse me, Colonel? I have information about the monsters."

"You do?" Hathi turned to the boy in shock, "Well, what are you waiting for? What do you know of the enemy?"

Sora whispered to Colonel Hathi's ears, as he hummed and nodded, "Yes... yes... hmm... a description of their leader? ...man... silver hair... yellow eyes... dresses in black... goes by the name of Xehanort..." He turned to the adults, "Is what the boy say true?"

They both nodded. Hathi laughed as he patted the boy on the head making him giggle, "Ah, then it is good intelligence! Excellent work! Keep your nose clean and maybe.. you can have a small place in this herd as a scout or spy!"

Sora beamed as he saluted him with the wrong hand, "Oh, thank you, sir!"

"Other hand, buddy," Peter whispered to the child. Sora switched hands and properly saluted the Colonel, much to the adults' amusement.

"Good man... cub! Man-Cub!" The Colonel nodded as he stated proudly, "And remember, an elephant never forgets."

"Aye aye!" Tigger also saluted the leader of the herd.

While he was making his way to the front he was mumbling to himself about what the army has gotten to. The elephants were dozed off until the Hathi ordered, "Ahem, let's get on with it. Right face!"

The elephants woke up before turning to the front, only to squish up against each other until Hathi ordered, "Forward March!"

With that, the elephants began marching again, as they marched off, Winifred came to his side, "Dear, haven't you forgotten something?"

Hathi turned to his wife with a confident grin on his face, "Nonsense, Winifred, old girl. An elephant never forgets."

"Well," She gestured to behind the herd, "You just forgot our son."

"Ah yes... Son? Son?" He blinked in shock before turning behind him to see that Wanda has set the boy down as their son, Hathi Jr, was playing with the man-cub, "Oh yes, quite right!" He then ordered the herd, "To the rear! March!"

The elephants turned around, smushing against each other before marching back to pick up the Colonel's son.

Back with the others, Junior turned to Sora as he told him, "When I grow up, I'm gonna be a colonel. Just like my pop."

As much as he wanted to be proud of his boy, the colonel wasn't happy as they nearly left him behind. He picked his son up with his trunk as he scolded, "If I told you once, I've told you a thousand times..."

Wanda lifted a finger to warn the colonel that his herd was still marching towards him from behind, "Uh... sir?"

Junior also noticed this and tried to warn him, "Pop! Look out!"

Everyone winced for the elephants as they crashed right into each other forming a huge elephant pile. Junior was the only elephant unharmed as he looked down to his father, "Pop, you forgot to say 'halt.'"

Wanda and Peter were holding back their laughter while Sora and Tigger laughed out loud, as Peter chuckled, "An elephant never forgets, huh?"

Bagheera gave them an unamused look, "That's not funny."

"Well, it kind of is," She giggled before clearing her throat as she turned to Sora, "But we really shouldn't laugh."

Sora tried to calm himself down, as he chuckled out, "Sorry."

Peter cleared his throat, "So, man village?"

"Yes, without further delay," The panther nodded, "We'll never know if the monsters or worse, Shere Kahn will show up."

The two Avengers nodded in agreement, as Peter stated, "Alright, I'll pack up the camp, then we can keep going."

"Fair enough," Bagheera nodded as it sounded fair to him, "Quickly now."

Wanda picked up the child as she carried him back to their camp as Tigger bounced beside them...

---

As Wanda drowned out the fire, Peter finished packing up the tents before they vanished once they were packed up. Peter muttered to himself, "I'll never understand magic."

Sora sat on Bagheera's back with Tigger, who carried their backpack with the reality orbs. Wanda then turned to Peter, "Hey, remember what I said last night?"

"We talked about a lot of things last night," Peter recalled, "You're going to need to be more specific."

"You know," She replied before mimicking his swinging, "Swinging practice."

"Oh, that!" Peter finally recalled, "You sure about this? It's not going to be easy..."

"I'll be fine, Peter," The Scarlet Witch reassured him, "Besides we need this in case we need to move quickly with Sora. We'll probably get the village faster this way."

"She has a point," Bagheera couldn't help but nod in agreement, "The sooner we get to the village, the safer your cub will be."

Peter sighed but nodded, "Okay..." He gestured to the tree behind him, "Let's try this tree over here."

Wanda nodded before Peter picked up bridal style making her blush. Peter leaped from branch to branch with the young woman in his arms. Once on a strong tree branch, he set her down. She nodded, "Okay... now what?"

"Okay, this is going to be a little different from what I'm used to so..." Peter tried to explain, "I'll go first, then once I figure out the basics, then I'll teach you."

She nodded in agreement before grabbing a vine, he tested its strength to see if was strong enough to hold him. After seeing that it was he began swinging. Peter's years of experience impressed everyone. Peter went from one vine to the next. After a few minutes, of swinging, he swung back to Wanda. Sora and Tigger clapped and cheered from below. Wanda couldn't help but do the same, "Not bad, Tarzan."

Peter nodded in apperception, not surprised that she knew Tarzan. He was a famous fictional character even before Disney. Peter smirked, "Okay, Princess. Your turn."

She stood on her feet as he handed the vine to her, he then instructed, "Okay, so you want to get a good grip..." She took to and did as instructed as he continued, "... since this is your first time, and we're working with vines, try to wrap your legs on it to hold on to it better..."

She once again did as instructed, before telling her, then while you swing try to grab on the next vine of where you want to go, but make sure you know where you're going or you'll get George'd..."

Wanda blinked turning to him in confusion, "George'd?"

"You know..." Peter lightly joked, "George'd... like George of the Jungle?" He got a blank stare in response, so he shook it off, "Never mind. Just be careful, okay?"

"I'll be fine," Wanda reassured him, "I promise!"

Sora cheered from the ground below, "Go, Miss Wanda!"

"You've got this Miss superhero!" Tigger joined in as well.

Wanda smiled at the others, as Peter asked her, "Ready?"

The full-time Avenger took a deep breath before nodding, "Ready."

He gave her a light push causing her to yelp clinging onto the vine as she swung. She screamed as she swung quickly spotted the next vine and grabbed onto it to change her direction. Her screams turned to laughter as she seemed to be enjoying herself.

Sora, Tigger, and even Bagheera cheered for the Scarlet Witch. Peter just stared at her in amazement. She was like a Queen of the Jungle... like she joked for earlier. She was just so beautiful, fun... he haven't felt this close to a woman since Gwen. He felt like he was in love all over again. He almost forgot what it was like as Wanda continued laughing a swinging...

...but she seemed to get distracted by all the cheering, she forgot to look where she was going. Everyone turned concerned as Peter warned her, "Wanda, watch out for that...!"

Wanda then just noticed the tree directly ahead of her. Her eyes widened as she had no other vine to turn her away or even stop. All she could do was scream, "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH-OOF!"

She crashed into it, leaving an imprint of her body on the tree. Everyone winced in pain, "Ooooooooh..."

Peter muttered that last bit as opened an eye, "Tree..."

Wanda let out a groan of pain, "Oooooooooooooowwwwwwww..."

She let go of the vine and began to fall, acting quickly, Peter took a vine and began to swing towards her. He caught her mid-fall before easily bringing her to the ground where the others were. Peter carried her in his arms, "Wanda, are you okay?"

She turned to Peter, seemly out of it, she muttered, "Peter... you never told me you had brothers... they all look just like you..."

Peter chuckled in amusement, "Hey, you did great for your first time. Last longer than I did with my webs before I got George'd." He muttered to himself, "You didn't even have a spider-sense."

She stared at him lovingly before finally recovering, she turned away blushing, "Um... thank you, Peter. I can see why you like swinging." She cleared her throat, "You can put me down now."

"Huh?" Spider-Man blinked before realizing she was still holding the beautiful mutant woman, "Oh, right. Are you sure you're okay?"

"I'm fine," She reassured him as he set her on her feet. Still, not fulling recovered she nearly fell over and held on to the closest person to her. Which happened to be Peter again. She smiled sheepishly, "Um... maybe I will be in a minute."

Bagheera rolled his eyes but was clear he was happy for the two of them. Sora raised his hand, "Can I go next?!"

"No... none of that until your..." Wanda shook her head before turning to her current crush.

He suggested the same age as his own portage back home, "14."

Wanda nodded back in agreement, "14."

Sora frowned in disappointment as Tigger patted him on the bag, "Ah, you'll be swinging with superheroes in no time. Just you wait."

The panther then recalled Sora's description of the leader of the monsters from earlier so he couldn't help but ask, "So... how exactly does Sora know this man.. who leads the monsters?"

Wanda winced before realizing they owed him an explanation, she then Tigger, "Tigger could you take Sora and give us some privacy."

"Sure thing," Tigger nodded as he took Sora from the panther's back, "C'mon, Sora! Let's bounce!"

With that, the two bounced off, before Wanda called out, "But not too far, okay?! And come back to the moment you see trouble!"

When they were out of earshot, Wanda had finally recovered and stood on her own two feet. Peter then turned to Bagheera, "You want the long version or the short version?"

---

Meanwhile, Tigger and Sora laughed as they bounced as they sang Tigger's theme together, "Oh, they're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy! Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!"

"But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers is that I'm the only one~" Tigger concluded, "IIIIIII'm the only one~"

Once in a clear environment, Sora couldn't help but ask, "So, what should we play until the grown-ups are done taking?"

Tigger thought to himself, "Let's see... not quite ready for a bouncing contest... can't you play Pooh Sticks..."

Sora thought, "How about hide and seek?"

"Oh, Tiggers love hide and seek!" Tigger declared, "You can hide first!"

Sora nodded eagerly before Tigger covered his eyes and started counting, "1, 2, 3..."

The jungle boy looked around looking for a good hiding spot, he spotted a big rock to hide behind. He ran over to it and hide behind it, giggling to himself as Tigger finished, "...9, 10. Ready or not here I come!"

He could hear Tigger bouncing around looking for him, "Oh, where could he be?"

The bouncing then became distant, just then from the bushes came a large sloth bear who was strolling around the jungle singing to himself, "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 dee-doo~"

The bear didn't even notice Sora as he continued singing to himself, "And with—"

That's when the bear finally noticed the small child, "Well now, ha-ha! What have we here?" He then walked up closer to Sora, "Hmm... Hey, what a funny little bit of a—"

"Shhhhh!" Sora shushed the bear much to his shock, he whisper to him, "I'm playing hide and go seek."

"Ah! Hide and seek!" The bear understood rubbing the back of his next, "Now that's a classic." He then whispered to him, "But what are you doing playing it all the way over here?"

"Miss Wanda and Mr. Peter wanted to talk in private," The boy answered, "I think they're discussing about training me to be a superhero."

"A superhero, huh?" The bear thought out loud. He may not know the difference between a superhero and a regular hero but he did know one thing, "So, if you're going to be a hero, it means you're going to need to learn how to defend yourself and others, is that right?"

He nodded as the bear smiled picking the boy up, "Well, you're in luck. Because old Baloo is gonna learn you to fight like a bear."

"Really," Sora's voice went less quiet to amazement.

"You better believe it," The bear, now known as Baloo, nodded setting the boy down, "Come on. I'm gonna show ya."

Baloo growled and began to dance around in a fighting stance. Sora began dancing too to mimic Baloo's moves, "Like this?"

"Ha-ha. Yeah!" Baloo nodded excitedly. "All right now, kid, loosen up, get real loosen, then start to weave, weave a little, now move." Baloo instructed the islander as the two began to weave around each other in their fighting stances, "That's it, kid! Now you're gettin' it!"

They continued to dance around each other like two boxers in a match before they finally stopped. Baloo then instructed him, "Now give me a big bear growl! Scare me!"

Sora nodded eagerly before making an angry look and raised his hands like bear claws, "Roar!"

After hearing that tiny sound, Baloo couldn't help but tsk as he shook his head, "Tsk-tsk-tsk. Oh boy."

It looked like he was going to have his work cut out for him. He then instructed, "I'm talkin' about like a big bear! Like this!"

"RRRRRRRROOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRR!" Baloo let out a mighty roar that knocked the little island boy back...

---

A few moments earlier, Peter and Wanda tried to explain the situation the best they could to Bagheera without letting him know they were all from another world. However, from what they did tell him, the panther was able to put the pieces together, "So, your man-cub has been chosen by the Keyblade?"

The two Avengers blinked in shock, as Peter couldn't help but ask, "Wait, how do you know about the Keyblade?"

"In case you don't know. We don't see a lot of men this far in the jungle. And no man can do the things your mate can do," Bagheera spoke directly.

"We're not married," Wanda denied with a blush.

While they did get to the point where they admitted Sora was not their son, they hadn't quite got to the point where they admitted they were not married. Bagheera blinked, "Really? Not even dating?" They shook their heads, as the panther shrugged, "That's a shame. You two make a handsome couple."

"Okay, can we turn our attention back to Sora," Peter tried to get back on topic as the two superheroes tried to pull themselves together, "Look, the point is, Xehanort, who also can wield the Keyblade, is controlling the monsters. He's been after him since day one and we haven't got a clue why."

"But from what we heard about him, it can't be anything good," Wanda continued, "We're worried for him. It's why we need to get him back home. The Avengers, our pack, can protect him."

"And the monsters," Bagheera asked.

"They've come from these cracks in reality," Peter told him as he removed the backpack with the reality orbs, "We use these to close them and to traverse to other worlds with Wanda's power. Once they're closed, that should take care of the monsters."

"However with this Shere Kahn, and God knows what else in this jungle," Wanda spoke up, "It'll be a challenge to keep Sora safe from both Xehanort and his forces as well every danger in this jungle. If it wasn't for you, Tigger, and Sora realizing something was wrong... I don't think we'd be here right now to protect him."

"I see," Bagheera nodded in understanding, "Even if this crack is not in the man village, the man-cub will be better protected over there while you two find the crack and find a way back to your world where you can truly protect until he grows and makes the Keyblade his power." He nodded, "I'll do what I can to help you and protect the boy."

They smiled in appreciation, as the panther stated, "Now then, let's see.. we should probably call Sora and Tigger back and head on over to the man-village."

Just then, they heard a loud, "RRRRRRRROOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRR!"

Wanda's eyes widened in horror, "Sora! SORA"

"C'mon!" Peter told the others as he slipped the backpack over his shoulder, "Let's check on him and Tigger and make sure their not in any sort of trouble."

The other two nodded as they rushed off to find the duo...

---

Tigger was looking behind a tree when he heard the roar, thinking it was Sora, he smirked as started bouncing his way over to him...

---

Back with Sora and Baloo, they continued to growl at each other showing the toughness of a bear. Sora attempted another bear roar, "Roar!"

Baloo followed through with another powerful roar, "RRRRRRRROOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRR!"

"Roar!" Sora growled a little louder, "Rooooaaaaar!"

Baloo nodded as he encouraged him, "That's it! A big one, right from your toes!"

Sora looked up to him after another attempt at a bear roar, "How was that?"

The bear smiled as he complimented, "You're getting it, kid!"

Just then, the two Avengers and panther joined the scene. Wanda prepared to attack the bear in case he tried anything to Sora, Peter calmed down when he saw who it was, while Bagheera's eyes widened in horror, "Oh no! It's Baloo!"

Wanda blinked as she turned to their panther guide, "Wait... you know this bear?"

"Oh, I know that shiftless stupid jungle bum," The panther grumbled under his breath, he sighed, "You can calm down, he won't try to kill him."

Sora beamed to the Avengers, "Look! Baloo's teaching me how to fight like a bear!"

"And he's doing great," Baloo added getting Sora attention back to him, "Alright come on kid! Let's keep goin'!"

The islander turned jungle boy and the bear went back to the boxing stance. Wanda turned to Peter cautiously, "I know this wasn't one of the films you saw but can we trust him?"

"Yeah, I know enough to know he's one of the good guys," Peter reassured her, "Of course, I didn't expect this."

He knew this film was supposed to be a bond between Baloo and the boy, Mowgli. Except, where was he? Was Sora supposed to take his place as one of the main protagonists of this world?

"Weave about, now look for an opening. Keep movin', keep…" The bear instructed as Sora attempted a few light hits as Baloo commented, "Ha-ha! Ya, you're getting it kid, ha-ha. Come on, that's it. Ha-ha-ha!"

The two laughed playfully making Wanda feel more at ease. It didn't seem like this Baloo was trying to the boy in anyway. Until, Baloo playfully slaps Sora a little too hard, "He's a dandy!"

Sora continued to tumble until he bumped into a rock. Wanda quickly went to check on him, "Sora!"

Bagheera sighed after seeing what happened before laughing and sarcastically told him, "Heh-heh. Fine teacher you are, old Iron Paws."

"Oh," Baloo noticed the face of an old friend, not at all detecting the sarcasm, "Thanks Bagheera."

"Yeah, tell me, tell me after you know your pupil senseless," The panther asked as Wanda aided Sora like a mother checking on her injured child, "How do you expect him to remember the lesson?"

Baloo rubbed the back of his head, looking concerned for the boy, "Well, I- I- Well, I didn't mean to lay it on him so hard."

Sora shook it off with a big smile on his face, "I'm alright! I'm fine!"

Wanda asked again in concern, "Are you sure, sweetie?"

"Yeah," Sora nodded to her, "After this I'll be as tough you, Mr. Peter, and Baloo are."

The bear couldn't help but smile in relief from that comment, "You better believe it."

Sora was about to join back in the training session before Tigger bounced out of the bushes and tackled Sora to the ground. He once again stood on Sora's chest, "Ho-ho-ho-ho! I found ya!"

Sora chuckled, "You sure did Tigger. Guess what, I'm getting taught to fight like a bear."

"Oooh, really now," Tigger smiled, intrigued by this new information, "By who?"

"By me," Baloo smiled to the new comer, "Name's Baloo."

"Oh, hey," Tigger shook the bear's paw, "Good to meet you. I'm Tigger. T-I-double-gah-er. That spells Tigger."

Bagheera groaned as he face-pawed himself, "Of course, they had to meet."

Peter chuckled to himself as Tigger help Sora up, "Well, don't stop on my account. Get in there and show him what you got!"

Baloo gave Tigger a nod, thanking him, as he told Sora, "You heard the man! Now let's go once more!"

Both Sora and Baloo went back into their battle stances as Wanda mouthed to the latter, "Be gentle." She then turned to Tigger, "And where were you?"

"Sora and I were playing hide and seek," Tigger answered, "He hid, and I went to find him. Guess Baloo beat me to it."

Wanda facepalmed herself, on any other occasion, she would have been fine with hide and seek but not when everything out there was out to get him. Whether Baloo heard her statement to be gentle with Sora or not, the bear instructed the boy, "Now you keep circling' or I'm gonna knock your roof in again, you better keep movin'..." Just then, Sora's little fist just reached Baloo's jaw. Acting like he laid a punch, "Ooph! Hey! Right on the button!"

Baloo then playfully laid down, 'unconscious.' Wanda sighed in relief to realize the bear was just playing with him. Peter then walked up to Sora and whispered something to Sora. He turned to Spidey, who encouraged him, "Go on."

Sora smirked mischievously as he ran over to the down bear. Wanda asked him, "What did you just say to him?"

"Keep watching..." Peter told the young woman.

Sora then climbed onto Baloo and started tickling him making the bear laugh, "No, no, we don't do that here, no cheating, no, you're tickling, I can't stand tickling, heh-heh-heh!"

"Atta boy, Sora!" Tigger cheered as he bounced, "You've got him on the ropes!"

Peter snickered to himself as Wanda rolled her eyes but giggled all the same. Baloo laughed as Sora continued tickling the bear, "Help! Bagheera!"

Bagheera couldn't help but grin, "Now that's all he needs. More confidence."

Sora continued to tickle the bear before asking, "Give up, Baloo?"

"I give up, I told ya! I give..." Baloo laughed. Sora finally stopped tickling him, letting the bear sit up. He smiled at the young boy, "You know something? You're all right, kid." He then asked, "What do they call you?"

"I'm Sora," The boy introduced himself, before adding, "We're going to the man-village."

"The man-village?!" He glared at Bagheera, "They'll ruin 'im! They'll make a man out of 'im."

Well, they were actually taking him to the Avengers' world, but they weren't going to let him know that. Sora added, "We're also looking for my friends, Riku and Kairi. They might be somewhere too. Can we look for them?"

"If they're anything like," Baloo nodded, "Then you better believe it. We search every corner of this jungle until we do."

Sora seemed happy about that answer, and Tigger did too. Wanda and Peter were glad the bear wanted to help, but they believed would be safer in the man village. Bagheera had similar thoughts and criticized him, "Oh? And just how do you think he will survive?"

"'How do you think he will' - What do you mean 'How do you think he will'?" Baloo asked mimicking Bagheera's words leaving a nasty taste in his mouth, "He's with me, ain't he? And I'll learn him all I know."

"Learn him?" Wanda blinked. The word, Baloo, should have used was: teach. She couldn't help but feel concerned, "Why do have a feeling to be concerned about that?"

"You'll see," Bagheera answered, "It wouldn't be long before he teaches him all he knows."

She didn't feel comfortable with that statement, as Baloo turned to Sora, "Look, now, it's like this, Little Spiky. All you've got to do is..." He clapped his paws together as he sang, "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."

Sora and Tigger started dancing along to the bear's song. Wanda couldn't help but look around, "Just where is that music coming from?"

"I wouldn't worry about that too much," Peter told her as he gestured to the dancing trio.

Baloo grabbed himself a coconut from a tree, "Wherever I wander~" He then proceeded to throw another to the four-year-old, "Wherever I roam~" He began twirling the coconut with his claw before splitting it open with his head, "I couldn't be fonder~ Of my big home~"

Sora tried to do the same with his head. Before he could, Wanda quickly cast a hex that split it open before he hurt himself. The boy was shocked by this as Baloo continued to sing and dance, "The bees are buzzing in the tree to make some honey just for me~"

"When you look under the rocks and plants~" Baloo lifted a large rock revealing underneath it, "And take a glance at the fancy ants~ Then maybe try a few~"

Sora turned to Baloo shocked, feeling uneasy, "You eat ants?!"

"You better believe," The bear answered after licking some off the ground, "And you're gonna love the way they tickle."

Sora turned to Wanda, who quickly shook her head, telling him that he didn't have to eat ants. Peter muttered to himself, "Good thing Hank isn't here... or Scott for that matter."

Baloo then dropped the rock much to Peter's, Wanda's, and Bagheera's horror, "Sora! LOOK OUT!"

Peter quickly hustled getting Sora out of the way before it could fall upon him. Everyone eased up when they knew the boy was okay as Baloo sang, "The bare necessities of life will come to you~"

"But when?" Sora turned to the bear as Peter picked himself up.

"They'll come to you," Baloo sang in response as he bumped a banana tree and a whole branch of bananas fell into his claws. The bear picked one out and tossed the rest aside. Baloo unpeeled the banana before eating the fruit in one gulp, "Look for the bare necessities~ The simple bare necessities~ Forget about your worries and your strife~"

He then lowed the tree so the islander could take one. Sora grabbed a banana before Baloo let go. The boy smiled at his prize until the peel fell open to reveal that it was the only thing he grabbed onto. Sora blinked before looking back up at the banana tree. Just then, banana tree shook and another banana fell to Sora's feet. He began to dance again happily but a pile of bananas fell on him. Wanda rushed over to him and helped him out of the pile of bananas as Baloo continued singing, "I mean the bare necessities~ Are Mother Nature's recipes~ That bring the bare necessities of life."

Baloo then danced over to the prickly plants, as he sang, "Now when you pick a paw-paw~ Or a prickly pear~" As Baloo collected some for himself, Sora tried to do the same only to be saved again, by Scarlet Witch, who pulled his hand back to avoid getting injured by the thorns. She then gestured to the thorns making the boy glad he didn't pick one as Baloo sang, "And you prick a raw paw~ Well, next time beware~"

The bear picked more prickly plants with his claws. He then began to stack the plants along with leaves, a banana and a mango into a line. He then gulped them all down with one bite, as he advised Sora, "Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw~ When you pick a pear try to use the claw~"

He then bumped another tree as two mangos fell to his claws before tossing one to Sora, "But you don't need to use the claw~ When you pick a pair of the big paw-paw~" Wanda caught it before handing it over to Sora much to his happiness, as Baloo asked, "Have I given you a clue~?"

"Yeah," Sora nodded in gratitude, "Thanks Baloo." He then turned to the two Avengers, "You too, Mr. Peter and Miss Wanda."

Wanda had to catch her breath trying to keep Sora out of harm's way. She nodded, "Yeah... no problem, Sora."

"You need me to take over," Peter offered her.

"Yeah," She nodded, "Just make sure nothing happens to him. I'll just be a minute."

"Paw-paw, ha! Of all the silly gibberish." Bagheera complained, "Making Sora's guardians run back and forth to make sure he's okay."

Tigger then pulled on the panther's tail, as he told him, "Lighten up, Baggy Boy! Bounce to the beat!"

Baloo continued to sing, "The bare necessities of life will come to you~"

Sora and Tigger hopped to Baloo's back as he went on all fours, "They'll come to us?"

"They come to you~" Baloo confirmed. As the gave them a ride, the bear couldn't help but asked, "How 'bout scratchin' that old left shoulder while you're up there, Sora?"

"Sure thing, Baloo," Sora nodded. He was always happy to help a friend. He started scratching Baloo's back as the boy told Tigger, "Come on, Tigger."

Tigger joined in the scratching much to Baloo's gratitude. The bear instructed the duo, "No. Just a hair lower. There. Right there. That's it. This is beautiful. That's good."

Peter just shook his head in amusement, as Wanda joined him. Peter asked her, "You okay?"

"Honestly, I'm more concerned for our kid," The Scarlet Witch admitted before freezing with a slight blush on her face, "We'll not that I don't love yo... Sora! I meant, Sora! I love Sora as if he was our own son... but it's like we're not together..."

Peter chuckled as he rubbed the back of his head, "I get the idea."

Wanda blushed in embarrassment before clearing her throat, "So... he's still in one piece?"

"For the moment," Peter gestured to him with Tigger and Baloo, who as as now where just scratching their backs by rubbing them against trees, "Just trying to get that itch."

Wanda blinked as they went from trees to rocks until Baloo finally got it as he sighed in relief, "Oh, man... This is really living..."

He then slide in the water's of the river, he floated along the current as he slowly sang, "So just try and relax~ Yeah~"

Sora jumped in and joined the bear as he swam up to him. Tigger rubbed the back of his head, "Well, that was fun but Tiggers don't swim."

Peter, Wanda, and Bagheera walked up to the river, as the part-time member of the Avengers declared, "We'll follow them on land then. Come on!"

Spider-Man led the others by the river side, as Baloo continued, "Cool it~ Fall apart in my back yard~ 'Cause let me tell you something, Little Spiky~"

The four year old climbed on the bears chest as Baloo gestured to the bee and the flowers nearby, "If you act like that bee~ Uh-uh~ You're working too hard~"

"And don't spend your time looking around for something you want~ that can't be found~" Baloo advised the boy as the streamed picked up. Tigger started bouncing past the others in order to keep up. Baloo and Sora splashed in the small waterfalls and as they reached the surface, the former picked up the beat of the song, "When you find out you can live without it~ And go along not thinking about it~ and I'll tell you something true~ The bare necessities of life will come to you~ They'll come to you~"

Peter grumbled in annoyance, "We're losing them."

Wanda looked up to the trees above, as she started to climb up one, "Then we'll swing there!"

Peter and Bagheera turned to her in concern, the latter asked, "You sure about this? You had a nasty crash last time."

"I'll be fine," Wanda grunted as she reached a high branch. She then took a vine as she began to swing after the future Keyblade Wielder, "I'm not losing him!"

"Uh... Wanda?" Peter looked to her as she wasn't paying attention where she was swinging into as he tried to warn her, "You might want to watch out for that..."

"OOF!" Wanda crashed into another tree before groaning in pain, "Ow~"

Peter and Bagheera looked to her with sympathy, "Tree..."

---

Meanwhile, Sora and Baloo continued floating down the river as the latter told the former, "Sora, how about you singin'?"

"Okay," Sora nodded excitedly before he sang with the bear, "Look for the bare necessities~ the simple bare necessities~ Forget about your worries and your strife~"

Sora sat up on the bear's stomach, as he agreed, "Yeah, man!"

"I mean the bare necessities~," The duo sang together, "That's why a bear can rest at ease, with just the bare necessities of life~"

"Yeah!" Baloo exclaimed in glee as they finished the song, "With just the bare necessities of life~"

"Yeah, man!" Sora exclaimed in glee.

"Beautiful," The bear complement Sora, "That's real jungle harmony."

"Hello!" From just over the river beside them, Tigger bounced along side them.

Sora and Baloo waved over to them, as the latter greeted him, "Hey, Tigger! Where are the others?!"

"Oh, Wanda tried swinging again," Tigger answered as he bounced along the riverside.

Sora smiled, "Did she do any better this time?"

Tigger stopped bouncing as he rubbed the back of his head, "Well, not exactly..."

---

Wanda laid in Peter's arms unconscious, as he and Bagheera watched the unconscious woman. Peter tried to wake her up, "Come on, come on, Wanda... Sora needs us..."

---

Tigger smiled in amusement, "Donkey boy could probably teach her a thing or two about swinging! Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!"

Sora turned to Baloo, "You think she's going to be okay?"

"I'm sure she'll be fine," He reassured him, "Your mother seems like tough woman."

Sora blinked in confusion, "Miss Wanda's not my mom."

Baloo blinked in shock, "Really? Then where are your folks?"

Sora frowned at that before Baloo gave him a sympathy smile, "Tell ya what, when we find your friends, you can stick around with me until we find them too."

"Really?" Sora brightened up a little.

"You better believe it," Baloo nodded as they went into a thinker part of the jungle, Tigger had to bounce around as Baloo told him, "You're going to make one swell bear."

When they exited the thicker part, Sora was gone and replaced by a monkey. Baloo not even staring at him, even realized Sora was missing continued, "Why, you even sing like one."

While Baloo starting to feel sleepy and singing a fly landed on his nose. "Hey Sora, how 'bout you flickin' that old mean fly off of your papa bear's nose?"

The monkey then grabbed a stick, and with a sneaky grin, smack Baloo on the noise, "Ow!" Baloo wasn't even angry as he rubbed his noise, "Ha, ha! Boy, when you flick a fly you really..."

When he finally opened his eyes, he saw who really hit him. His shocked expression quickly turned to anger as he realized who sent him, "Why you, flat-nosed, little-eyed, flaky creep!"

He swung his claw at the monkey but missed. From above, the real Sora was held captive by other monkeys. He glared at them, "Hey! Let me go! That is so unfriendly!"

The monkeys simply laughed at him. Baloo walked himself out of the water as he exclaimed, "Take your flea-picking hands off my cub!"

"Come on and get him, champ!" One monkey said with mischief in his tone.

"He ain't no champs, he's a chumps!" The monkey next to him said mockingly.

"Baloo!" Sora cried out to Baloo while he was being swung around by the monkeys.

"Yeah! Ha-ha! A big hothead!" Another monkey said making gestures with his hands.

"Okay you guys asked for it, I'll-OOF!" Baloo tripped and fell in the lake.

"That'll cool him off!" Another monkey said before laughing wildly.

Tigger then bounced out of the bushes, hearing Baloo anger, "Say, what happened here!"

"Those little freaks have Sora!" Baloo pointed to the monkeys who were mocking them.

Tigger saw this was the case, and glared at the monkeys, "Hey! Let go of our friend!"

Two monkeys lowered Sora to the front of a tree as one of them told Baloo and Tigger, "Here he is, come and get him!"

The former ran to the tree but the monkeys yanked the islander turned jungle boy back up into the trees. Baloo crashed into the tree and in a daze, he fell flat to the ground.

"That's how a bear can rest at ease!" Another monkey said making fun of Baloo.

"Here's some bare necessities!" Another monkey exclaimed as it began throwing fruit at them. Tigger managed to dodge the incoming fruits but Baloo wasn't so lucky as he was getting pelted by fruit. He started to get more annoyed at the monkeys, "Now just try that again you-"

Before he could finish, another fruit smacked him in the face. A monkey laughing wildly, "That was a bare necessity!"

"Alright," Tigger raised his fists, "Turn him loose or I'll show you all why everyone's scared of Tiggers."

"We give up! Here he comes!" The monkey swinging the boy exclaimed and then he threw Sora sending him flying.

"Baloo! Tigger! Catch me!" Sora cried out.

Both Tigger and Baloo brought their hands out to catch him and was running in one direction to catch him as the former exclaimed, "We've got ya! We've got ya! We've..."

However, neither of paid attention to the two monkeys, holding an fallen vine, tripping the both of them as another monkey caught the panicked four-year-old, as they mocked, "A rolling bear or tiger gathers no hair!"

As they tumbled down the hill, the rocks they bumped into rolled after them. When they reached ground level, the rocks hit Baloo on the head.

Feeling dazed, the two new friends of Sora watched helplessly as they carried the child away. As he called out for them, "Baloo! Tigger! Bagheera! Miss Wanda! Mr. Peter!"

Tigger snapped his fingers in anger, "They got away!"

"Bagheera!" Baloo called out to the others, "Peter! Wanda!"

---

Wanda finally began to open her eyes, moaning in pain as she gazed to her teammate, "Peter?"

"Yeah," He smiled in relief, "You crashed again."

"So, that's why I feel so much in pain..." She rubbed her head as she sat up on her own. She then looked around, "Where's Sora?"

"Still with Baloo," Bagheera answered, "Tigger went after him... but that's not saying much."

Wanda's eyes narrowed, "We've got to go after them."

She tried to stand on her feet but she tumbled into Peter, "Hey, easy... You need to take a few minutes to rest... I'll go after them. I'm sure Sora's fine."

That's when the three heard Baloo's voice, "BAGHEERA!"

Everyone's eyes widened as Peter admitted, "Though I could be wrong."

Bagheera told the two Avengers, "Come on! We've better find them!"

Wanda turned to Peter, "I'm going too."

"Fine," Peter nodded as he carried her, "But this time, I'll swing."

She nodded in agreement as Peter carried where with quick and amazing agility to get to the trees above as he swung her to keep up with Bagheera as if they were Tarzan and Jane. When they reached a small cliff the saw a bear with Tigger climb just in the exact moment they arrived as Baloo yelled, "Bagheeraaaaa!" Everyone screeches and sits stunned for a while as the bear laughed sheepishly, "Oh, you heard me, huh?"

Wanda began looking around them looking for the islander. She mentally prayed that he was there with them. She called out, "Sora? SORA?!"

The panther glared at the Baloo and Tigger, "All right, what happened? Where's Sora?!"

Baloo recalled the whole event, "They ambushed me, thousands of them! I jabbed with my left!"

Tigger then filled in, "The I bounced in from the right."

Baloo nodded in agreement with Tigger, "We tried fight them of but..."

A red mist had began moving around them, everyone turned to a full recovered Wanda, who did not look very happy. She glared at them while her eyes turned red, "WHO?! HAS?! MY?! BABY?!"

Everyone took a stepped back in fear as she looked like she was going to tear this world in half if it meant finding Sora. Baloo raised his hands, "Easy! Easy! It's like I told ya, them mangy monkeys carried him off."

"It's true," Tigger nodded in agreement before adding, "Please don't hurt us!"

"YOU MEAN MY LITTLE BOY IS IN THE HANDS OF BUNCH OF MONKEYS!" Wanda snarled as she continued to glare.

Everyone else backed away in fear, except for Peter who took her hand, "Wanda. Calm down. We'll get him back."

Turning to Peter, she began to ease up before taking a deep breath, and calmed down, her apologized, "I'm sorry. I don't know what came over me." She then turned to Bagheera, "Do you know where they could have taken them?"

The panther's eyes widened in realization, "The ancient ruins. Oh, I hate to think of what will happen when he meets that king of theirs."

Everyone, except Baloo, was confused about what the Panther was talking about as the Master of Masters watched the events from the tree branch above them...

---

Meanwhile, back on Earth, in the Sword base, where the Avengers attempted to stop Kang from escaping, two sword agents guarded the scene to prevent anyone from tampering with the evidence. All of a sudden, a dart struck one of the guards, he began to tumble over, and went into a deep sleep.

"What the-?" One of the guards raised his gun, trying to figure out who took out his friend, only to be also struck by a dart, he tried to stay awake but began to lose consciousness, "What... is... going... who..."

He dropped his weapon before falling into a deep sleep himself. The intruder approached them, and spoke with a Russian accent, "Sleep. This hunt does not concern you."

Sergi Kravinoff, better known as Kraven the Hunter, stepped out of the shadows. He had heard that his greatest prey had vanished from the newspapers. Cruel as the Bugle was, it did provide some truth. He sniffed around, before realizing, "So, he was here."

He began sniffing around, he turned to the scorch marks on the ground and sniffed it too, "In a great battle, although I cannot determine the victor. Could it really be that you..."

Kraven's eyes narrowed with determination, "No, you cannot be. You would not fall so easily. You are the only prey worthy of Kraven. It doesn't matter where or when you are... I will find you, Spider."

"I'm glad to hear."

Kraven drew one of his knives at the new voice. Xehanort simply smirked, not at all threatened, "Sergi Kravinoff... I believe I have an offer that should benefit us both."

Kraven narrowed his eyes, not sure who this individual was, but if he knew where his greatest challenge was, "If you know where he is... tell me..."

Xehanort's smirk grew as he knew he'd be perfect for his goals...

---

At the same time, in the Sanctum Sanctorum, Dr. Stephen Strange and Wong had also received a message that Spider-Man and the Scarlet Witch were missing. Strange was a good friend to the both of them, and he suspected that there was more to Wanda's mutant abilities than met the eye, so he agreed to meet them. Of course, that was a few days ago, they had to stop another of the dreaded Dormammu schemes.

Thankfully with the Eye of Agamotto, he made a bargain that would keep him at bay for a time. So, because of this, they didn't hear about the two heroes' disappearances until now. So, they thought they'd stop to get some lunch and then head right over to help. Except there was one problem with Wong, as Strange stared at him shaking his head, "I still can't believe you don't have any money."

Wong turned to him as they headed down the stairs, "You should know by now, that attachment to the material is detachment from the spiritual."

"I'll tell the guys at the deli," Strange replied sarcastically, "Maybe they'll make you a metaphysical Ham on Rye."

When Wong checked his pockets again before realizing, "Oh, wait, wait, wait, I think I have 200."

"Dollars?" Strange hoped, he didn't need to buy the guy lunch again.

Wong shook his head as he corrected, "Rupees."

The Sorcerer Supreme raised an eyebrow, "Which is?"

The Keeper of the Ancient Books did a rough estimate in his head, "Uh, buck and a half."

Strange rubbed his eyes as they turned back to the door before sighing, "What do you want?"

Wong smiled in apperception, "I wouldn't say no to a Tuna Melt."

Suddenly, there was a cracking noise behind them. The two sorcerers turned to each other. Dr. Strange asked, "You heard that too, right?"

Wong nodded as they turned to face the sound behind them. Much to their shock and horror, reality began to crack behind them...

...and there was something trying to crawl its way out of the crack. Strange and Wong quickly prepared to face this new threat with powerful magic as a Neo-Shadow leaped out to attack the two Sorcerers...

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And that will conclude the first half of the world of the Jungle Book. You just gotta love those cliffhangers! On the bright side, we get to see what's happening on the Avengers world where very STRANGE things are happening... Pun intended! XD

And yes, many of you have guessed it! Kraven's on the hunt! It doesn't look for our heroes. Peter's not in his costume so nothing is stopping Kraven from knowing he is under that mask, Sora's been captured and is on his way to King Louie, and it's only a matter of time before Shere Kahn learns of Sora. Can our heroes save young Sora? Will they be able to keep him safe from the dangers of this world and the others? Can Dr. Strange and Wong stop the Heartless long enough until they figure out how to fix their universe? Stay tuned!