Janja's New Crew
After a rainstorm the previous night, mudslides blocked some of the trails, and the Lion Guard was hard at work clearing each and every one of them.
"Nothing better than the feel of squishy mud under your feet," Beshte grinned as he jumped in a medium-sized mud puddle.
"Except maybe the feel of no mud under your feet," Fuli rebuked, shaking mud off her paws.
"After last night's big storm, I'm glad the mud is our only problem," Kion noted but unbeknownst to them Janja and his hyena clan were hiding behind a nearby rock pile.
"That's what he thinks," Janja chuckled under his breath before turning to his clan. "Everything's going exactly as planned."
"You mean you planned for the Lion Guard to be here?" Cheezi questioned.
"No!" Janja snapped, "I planned to go after those wildebeests." He corrected, motioning to the nearby herd. "With all this mud, they'll never outrun us."
"Wait, you planned on the mud?" Chungu blinked in confusion, before letting out a drawled-out gasp. "Did you make it rain?"
"No, fur-brain!" the pack leader growled. "Look, we just gotta wait for the Lion Guard to clear out... " The hyena pack watched as the six animals walked out of sight, "...and now it's lunchtime. C'mon, fellas!" Janja cackled, taking a step forward, only for his paw to slip on a patch of mud. He let out a yelp as he slid down the hillside.
"Huh?" Kufu stopped and raised his ear.
"What is it, Kufu?" Bunga asked.
"I thought I heard something," the lion cub answered. "Ono, take a look?"
"Got it," the Keenest of Sight gave a nod and flew higher to get a better view. He saw a line of black, spotted furred animals sliding down a hillside a few feet back. "I see what you heard, Kufu. It's Janja and his clan."
"Let's go Lion Guard," Kion ordered as he and the Guard doubled back to cut off the hyenas.
Janja ceased his sliding when he ran right into Beshte. The rest of his clan stopped shortly after, all of them lined up single file.
"Well, look who it is, the Lion Guard," Janja chuckled, the six animals glaring back at him. "What are you guys doing in the Outlands?"
"Nice try, Janja," Fuli smirked.
"We all know this is the Pride Lands," Kufu corrected. "And you don't belong here."
"Yeah, yeah..." Janja rolled his eyes and got back on his feet. "C'mon, fellas, let's go. It's too muddy around here, anyway." He turned his nose up as he walked away, followed by another pair of hyenas.
"But, Janja, I thought you liked the mud," Cheezi said.
"Yeah!" Chungu agreed. "'Cause it slows down the wilde... The wilde..."
"Wildebeests?" Ono finished with a quirked brow, from his perch on Beshte's back
"Yeah! Them!" the muscular hyena nodded.
"We was gonna have 'em for lunch!" Cheezi laughed, only to be hit on the head by Janja.
"Fur-brains! Shh!" Janja snapped.
"The mud might slow down the wildebeests," Kion stated, stepping forward in front of his team. "But I don't think it's gonna slow you down." He opened his muzzle and unleashed his Roar, sending the five hyenas flying back into the Outlands.
Bunga wiped his hands together, "Good riddance." He crossed his arms over his chest.
"Come on, guys, let's get back to work," Kion voted, leading his Guard back the way they came, searching for more trails needing to be cleared.
Janja and his crew then landed in The Outlands after being roared away, Cheezi and Chungu then landed on Janja who instantly pushed them off of him.
"Get off of me, Fur-Brains!" Janja told them as he growled in frustration. "Another plan ruined! And do you know why?" He asked glaring at the two hyenas.
"Cause you slipped on the mud?" Cheezi asked.
"And slided into the Lion Guard?" Chungu added
"No! It's because of you two!" Janja blamed.
"Us?" Cheezi and Chungu asked in unison.
"That's right!" Janja snapped. "Every time I come up with a brilliant plan, you two mess it up!"
"We do?" Cheezi asked.
"Uhh… I thought we messed it up together," Chungu said in confusion.
"Hehehe, yeah, we're great at that," Cheezi said with a chuckle as Janja growled in annoyance.
"Argh, you know what, I can't take it anymore! You're both fired!" Janja told them as he stormed off only to see Cheezi and Chungu following him. "Weren't you two Fur-Brains listening? I said you're fired!"
"We're on fire?!" Cheezi asked as he started running in circles in a panic.
"But I don't even smell smoke!" Chungu said as he checked his body to see if he was on fire.
Janja rolled his eyes in annoyance. "You're not 'on fire', you are fired!" He firmly told them. "It means you're finished, you're done, you're through, I don't need you anymore!"
As Janja continued to rant, two hyenas one with a black stripe down his face, a spiky mane, two fangs sticking out of his mouth, and two hairs on top of his head; and the other had a sleek mane, four fangs sticking out of his mouth two pointing up and two pointing down and three hairs on top of his head looked at each other in shock by what was happening.
"Of course, you don't need us," Cheezi said with a chuckle.
"Yeah," Chungu chuckled. "So what's the new plan?"
"THERE AIN'T NO NEW PLAN!" Janja yelled in anger. "You're not in the crew anymore! Get out of the Outlands!" He growled before turning to the two hyenas. "Nne, Tano, I'm giving you two a promotion." He told them much to the two hyenas' surprise.
"OK," Nne said
"Thanks," Tano thanked him.
"Now, here's your first job," Janja started before glaring at Cheezi and Chungu. "Get rid of those two Fur-Brains." He ordered.
"You got it, boss," Nne nodded as he and Tano turned to the two hyenas.
"You heard Janja!" Tano growled.
"Get lost!" Nne growled.
"Uhh, sure, no problem," Cheezi said fearfully.
"Yeah, we're lost most of the time already," Chungu agreed as he and Cheezi ran away from the two hyenas. Janja watched his new crew chase away those two hyenas with a smirk.
Fuli let out a frustrated groan as she walked through another mud puddle, "Remind me again, why are we slogging through all this mud?" She asked, sticking her tongue out in disgust.
"We gotta make sure all the trails in the Pride Lands are safe after the big rainstorm," Kufu reminded her, standing beside the cheetah. Then he felt the ground beneath them start to rumble, and quickly after, a portion of a nearby hillside came sliding down. "And that includes this one!"
"Mudslide!" Kion warned. "Everybody! Run!"
The wave of mud swept past some boulders and trees. Bunga jumped onto Kufu's back as he leaped over a fallen tree, landing safely away from the mudslide.
"OK, so this trail is no longer safe," the Guard's Slyest noted, the Bravest still on his back.
"But this is the main path from Big Springs to Mekundu Cliffs," Beshte informed. "Everyone uses it."
"So we'll need to clear it and make it safe again," Kion ordered. "Kufu, you take Ono and Bunga, keep everyone off this trail till we're done." He met the eyes of the lion cub beside him.
"You got it," Kufu gave a nod, glancing to the egret hovering above him and then to the honey badger on his back before spinning on his heels and running down the hill to the base of the trail, Ono flying above him and Bunga still on his back.
Kion faced the strongest and fastest members. "Fuli, Beshte, you're with me." He continued. "We have to get all these trees and boulders off this trail."
"Sure thing!" Beshte agreed with a grin.
"Well, if I have to get muddy, I might as well do it for a good cause," Fuli chuckled, jumping from the boulder she was on to the ground, and landing right in the mud.
"That's the spirit, Fuli," the hippo smiled.
Back in the Outlands, Janja, Nne, and Tano have regrouped in their lair by the volcano as Janja stood in front of his new recruits.
"Alright, you two, listen up," Janja started as he looked at his new crew. "Now that you're my seconds-in-command, you gotta learn the rules. Rule number one: I am the smartest hyena around! Rule number three…"
"What about rule number two?" Nne asked.
"What about it?" Janja questioned.
"What is it?" Tano asked with a raised brow.
Janja started thinking about what rule two should be before he shook his head. "Forget the rules!" He said quickly. "The main thing is that I come up with the plans and you guys..."
"Actually, Janja," Tano spoke up. "We already have a plan."
"What?" Janja said in surprise. "Didn't I just tell you I'm the one who..."
"It's an awesome plan!" Nne cut in.
"How awesome?" Janja asked.
"OK, so this is a herd of antelope," Nne said as he grabbed a bone.
"Pfft, no it's not! It's a bone!" Janja laughed.
"Shh! Let us explain," Tano said.
"Alright, first, we stampede them in this direction," Nne explained moving the bone to the left side.
"Then, the Lion Guard comes in and runs off after the antelopes," Tano said, moving a leaf towards the bone.
"Oh, I get it!" Janja said, rolling his eyes. "And then we come home hungry! That sounds like one of my plans!"
"No, see? After they run off, we find a herd of oryxes," Nne started as he patted a rock beside him.
"Wait, those are oryxes?" Janja asked.
"And then, we chase them in a different direction," Tano finished.
"Then, we catch the oryxes over here," Nne gestured the rock left. "While the Lion Guard's still busy with the antelopes over there." He gestured the bone right.
Janja looked at the bone and rock before looking at his crew. "Uhh, well good plan, yeah," he said with a smile. "Finally, hyenas with smarts like me, those other Fur-Brains never knew what they were doing."
"Just like some other hyenas we know," Nne whispered to Tano.
"Right," Tano agreed with a smirk as they both chuckled quietly.
"Still not sure why we're giving up a nice juicy bone for a rock," Janja said, looking between the bone and the rock.
Back in the Pride Lands, Twiga the giraffe leader made her way towards Big Springs.
"Excuse me," Ono called, flying up to Twiga's eye level. The female giraffe took a step back, "Sorry, didn't mean to startle you." The egret apologized. "You might not want to go this way."
"But I have to get to Big Springs," Twiga defended, trying to step around the bird.
"Sorry, Twiga, but you've got to go around," Kufu informed, walking up to the giraffe. "There's a mudslide up ahead."
Twiga craned her head a bit higher, seeing there was a mudslide blocking the trail. "I see what you mean. Thanks for the heads-up." She gave the three Guard members a smile.
"Heads-up, good one," Bunga laughed, holding one arm over his stomach while the other one rested against Kufu's side. "You're a giraffe. Your head couldn't get more up!" He continued to laugh. "Wait till Beshte hears that one."
"Oh boy," Kufu said, rolling his eyes.
"Don't mind him," Ono muttered to Twiga, who gave a small nod and walked around the trail to find another way to her destination.
The sound of rapid hoof steps broke Bunga out of his laughter, "Whoa!" he halted as Thurston came to a stop in front of him. "Slow down there."
"Hello. I'm trying to get through," the zebra leader huffed. "Step aside."
"Sorry, Thurston, but you can't go this way," Kufu spoke up, standing next to Bunga. "There's a mudslide up ahead and..."
"You don't understand," Thurston scoffed. "You're in my way!" He gave a whinny and charged right past the two animals, heading right for the mud.
"Well, we tried," Ono sighed, hovering just above Kufu and Bunga.
"Maybe, he'll get through OK," Bunga shrugged.
They heard a distinct splash, followed by Thurston calling out, "Excuse me! A little help here?" The zebra closed his eyes and turned his snout up.
Kufu rolled his eyes, "Bunga, you pull and I'll push." He said, glancing down at the honey badger beside him. The two ran to help the trapped zebra, who was slowly sinking into the deep mud.
"Twende Kiboko!" Beshte grunted as he moved the final tree out of the blocked trail. "That was the last one." He sighed.
"Great job, Beshte," Kion praised. "Looks like the trail's safe to use again."
"At least till the next big rain," Fuli pointed out.
"Does that mean we can take a break?" Bunga asked as he and Kufu regrouped with the rest of the Guard, both of them nearly completely covered in mud.
"What happened to you two?" Beshte asked with a raised brow.
"Would you believe me if I say Thurston?" Kufu replied with his own brow raised.
"I'd believe it," Fuli chuckled as she jumped onto a rock and started cleaning her paws.
Kufu groaned and shook out his fur, getting rid of most of the mud, only his paws remained muddy.
"Hey, Big B, wait till you hear what Twiga said when we told her about the mudslide!" Bunga grinned, standing in front of his hippo friend.
"What's that, Little B?" Beshte questioned.
"She said, 'Thanks for sticking your neck out'," the honey badger laughed, earning a raised eyebrow from the hippo. Kion exchanged a confused glance with Kufu, who just shook his head and smiled. "No, wait, that's not right," Bunga muttered to himself. "She said..."
"Heads up!" Ono alerted, flying over the rest of the Guard.
"Was that it?" Bunga mumbled.
"No, I mean, heads up!" The Keenest of Sight corrected. "I just spotted two animals in trouble."
"Then let's go," Kion ordered, looking to his friends. "Till the Pride Lands end...Lion Guard defend!"
Ono led the Guard to the next mudslide, "Hurry!" he called down to the rest. "They're headed for the canyon's edge!"
"Beshte, block their path," Kion looked at the hippo he was running next to. "You're the only one strong enough."
"I'm on it!" Beshte jumped into the mud and held his ground as the two animals slammed into him.
Once the mud slowed down, the Guard was able to drag the animals out.
"Bunga, you and Fuli help the smaller one," Kion glanced between the cheetah and honey badger. "Kufu, help me with the big one."
Bunga ran right into the mud with Fuli right behind him, the two lion cubs following suit. Bunga grabbed the smaller animal's tail and pulled him out with the help of Fuli pushing, while Kion took the larger animal's tail in his teeth and pulled while Kufu pushed.
Bunga wiped his forehead, "You're pretty heavy for a..." He looked at the mud-covered animal, unsure of what it was.
"Whatever you are," the Guard's Fastest finished, quirking her brow.
Both Kion and Kufu grunted as they pulled the larger animal to safety, spitting out the mud that had fallen into their mouths.
"That was a close call," Kufu sighed, stepping back.
"Are you two all right?" Kion asked, closing his eyes as the pair shook off the mud covering them, revealing it to be Cheezi and Chungu. "What?" the prince blinked. "You two?"
"Is it?" Cheezi questioned, glancing at his larger companion.
Chungu looked down at himself, "I guess so." He shrugged.
"If you're here, then Janja's here, too," Kion stated, looking from the two hyenas to the Guard's Keenest of Sight. "Ono," the egret gave a nod and took off, searching for the hyena leader.
"Janja's here?" Cheezi gasped, looking around. "Do you see him?"
"Maybe he's come back!" Chungu exclaimed with a grin.
"Yeah!" Cheezi agreed with a laugh. "Maybe, he's gonna let us back into the Outlands!"
"Wait," Fuli blinked. "What?"
Chungu's ears fell to the sides of his head, "Janja kicked us out of the Outlands." He informed.
"We ain't on his crew no more," Cheezi whined.
Kufu quirked his brow, "You really expect us to believe that?" He asked stoically.
"He said we always messed things up," the larger, muscular hyena added.
"OK, that I believe," Fuli spoke up, sharing a glance with Kion and Kufu.
"Now, he's got two new guys," Chungu continued with a roll of his eyes.
Cheezi nodded, "Yeah, Nne and Tano." he narrowed his eyes.
"And they're mean..." the larger hyena quickly added. "...and ugly," he muttered under his breath.
Ono flew back to the Guard and landed between Kion and Kufu, "No sign of Janja," he informed, earning a groan from the two hyenas.
"So..." Bunga spoke up, "...what are we gonna do with these two?" He looked from Kufu to Kion.
"Well, they can't stay here," the prince answered. "You two have to go back to the Outlands."
"But we can't go back!" The smaller hyena rebuked.
"If we do, Janja's new crew will just kick us out," the larger hyena followed. "Again," they both groaned.
"You know, Kion," Beshte said. "I don't see these two guys causing much trouble."
"Yeah," Fuli agreed. "They're not smart enough." The two hyenas laughed and voiced their agreement with the young cheetah. "See what I mean?" She quirked her brow, looking right at her best friend.
"But what if they chase after the herds like Janja always does?" Kion pointed out.
"Why would we do that?" Cheezi asked, him and Chungu running to a nearby rib cage. "When there's leftovers lying all over the place?" Both hyenas chewed on the bones.
"Maybe we should let them stay," Ono said, the rest of the Guard to look at him. "After all, hyenas are scavengers."
"You got a point there, Ono," Kufu agreed, looking from the egret to the lion prince. "By cleaning up after everyone, they'd actually be helping the Circle of Life in the Pride Lands."
"Maybe, you're both right," Kion pondered, "And I guess letting them stay would be the nice thing to do."
"Feels weird, though," Bunga noted.
Kion sighed, "OK, as long as you two don't cause any trouble, you can stay in the Pride Lands." He told the two hyenas. "Just don't make us regret it." The lion prince glanced back to his Lion Guard, "Let's get back to our patrol." The Guard left the two hyenas to their scavenging. "Ono, check in on them every once in a while," Kion told the egret once they were away from the hyenas. "I still think this might be one of Janja's plans."
"Affirmative," Ono agreed.
As Ono flew a little ways ahead of his friends, he caught sight of a stampeding herd. "Hapana!" he gasped.
"Problem, Ono?" Kufu asked, skidding to a halt, looking up at his avian friend.
"Is it those two hyenas?" Fuli wondered, standing to the right of Kion.
"No," Ono answered. "A herd of antelope is stampeding in the Rocky Plains!"
"Lead the way, Ono!" Kion ordered, "Till the Pride Lands end..."
"...Lion Guard defend!" The rest of the Guard finished as they raced towards the Rocky Plains.
The antelopes were stampeding across the Rocky Plains as Janja and his new crew were chasing after them.
"That's it, boys, we almost got em!" Janja said as he started panting. "And I can almost taste them."
Nne and Tano then looked at each other and nodded before stopping in their tracks, Janja saw this and screeched to a halt.
"Hey! What are you doing? You're letting them get away!" Janja exclaimed. "Don't you remember the plan?"
"We do, do you?" Nne asked
"Of course I do… I think," Janja said as the two hyenas gave a sigh.
"OK, so the plan is t..." Tano stopped himself when he spotted something. "Uh oh!" he said in a panic as he and Nne hid behind the rock behind them.
"Guys? What are yo..." Janja tried to ask as he was dragged behind the rock just as the Lion Guard showed up.
"Did you see what made them run?" Kion asked, catching his breath.
Ono shook his head, "No, I didn't." He informed them, landing on a boulder next to the others.
Kufu took a few more steps and sniffed the air, "Doesn't matter. I think I know." He informed.
"Come on!" The Fiercest looked back to the others. "We gotta catch that herd and calm 'em down."
The Guard ran right past a large pile of boulders, where Janja, Nne, and Tano, were hiding.
"Oh, great!" Janja groaned. "The Lion Guard spoiled the plan... Again."
"No," Nne rebuked. "The plan's working perfectly."
"It is?" Janja raised his brow, "What kinda plan lets the Lion Guard win?"
"Janja, they're not winning," Tano corrected. "They're doing exactly what we want them to do."
"Did you even listen when we explained the plan?" Nne asked with a quirked brow.
"Sure I did," the pack leader held his head high. "It's all about rocks and leaves and...stuff."
"We scared off the antelopes so the Lion Guard will chase after them," Tano explained.
"While they're busy, we're gonna go after something else," Nne added.
"In the opposite direction," Tano finished.
"So the antelopes aren't dinner?" Janja asked.
"No," Tano said with a smirk.
"But I like antelope," Janja said in disappointment.
"That's dinner," Tano gestured to a herd of oryxes close by which cheered Janja up a bit.
"Ooh, oryxes? They're good too!" Janja said with a smile.
"Come on Fur-Brain," Nne said as he and Tano began to walk off.
Janja then stopped in his tracks as he realized what Nne called him. "Wait a minute, what did you call me?!" He demanded.
"Oh sorry, boss," Nne said sarcastically as he and Tano ran off laughing.
"That's better and..." Janja stopped himself as he saw them run off. "Hey! Wait for me!" He yelled before running after them.
The Guard caught up with the stampeding herd. Ono flew above them, "Slow it down. No need to run." He said calmly. "The Lion Guard's here to help."
Bunga jumped onto the back of the antelope's leader, pulling on his horns to get him to stop, "Yeah, but help them with what?" He asked, scratching the back of his head.
"Good question, Little B," Beshte agreed. "I never did see anyone chasing them."
"Me neither," added Ono, who landed on Beshte's back.
"Kufu," the prince stepped up to the brown-furred lion cub. "You said earlier you've got an idea what started the stampede?"
"Yeah," Kufu answered. "It's all our fault."
Fuli blinked, "What?"
"How could it be our fault?" Ono asked.
"I'd never start a stampede," Beshte shook his head, sharing a glance with Bunga.
"We didn't start the stampede," Kufu clarified. "But we let Cheezi and Chungu stay in the Pride Lands."
"You think they had something to do with it?" Kion questioned, his tail swaying back and forth.
"Either them or Janja," Kufu answered. "I caught the scent of hyenas earlier."
"Then, let's find out," Kion said before glancing at the egret on Beshte's back. "Ono, find Cheezi and Chungu and lead us to 'em."
Ono saluted and took off from Beshte's back.
The two hyenas in question were laying back to back, snoring away. They didn't even notice a herd of oryxes stampede right past them, along with Nne and Tano nippin their heels. They only woke up when Janja crashed into them.
"You two Fur-Brains?" Janja said with a growl.
"Janja!" Cheezi exclaimed. "Is it really you?"
"Did you come looking for us?" Chungu asked. "Do you want us back?"
"Are you kidding?" Janja laughed. "I got two new hyenas that do everything I say. They really respect me." He held his head high with pride.
"Janja!" Tano called back to him. "You coming?"
Nne rolled his eyes, "Just let him stay behind."
The pair ran off after the oryx herd.
Janja let out a nervous laugh, his ears falling flat. "See what I mean?" He chuckled, turning back on his heels. "Fellas! Wait up!" He yelled after his new hyena crew.
Cheezi blinked, "Did that really just happen?" He asked, glancing at his friend.
"Maybe, it was just a dream," Chungu guessed, meeting Cheezi's glance.
"Yeah, yeah," the smaller hyena nodded. "I'm gonna dream about Janja some more."
"Me, too," the muscular one agreed.
They went back to their position, back-to-back and snoring away.
Nne and Tano kept chasing after the oryx herd as they both noticed a canyon up ahead.
"There's a dead-end canyon up ahead!" Tano pointed out. "We can trap them there while the Lion Guard is busy with their wild goose chase!"
"Wild goose?" Janja repeated as he caught up to them. "I thought they were chasing antelopes."
"I thought we dumped you," Nne said with a glare.
"You can't dump me, I'm the boss!" Janja reminded them.
"Oh yeah?" Nne said with a smirk.
"Watch us!" Tano said before pushing Janja over a cliff and landing on a cliff's edge.
"So long, Fur-Brain!" Nne taunted as the two hyenas laughed and ran off after the oryxes leaving Janja stuck on the edge of the cliff.
The Lion Guard soon came upon the two snoring hyenas.
"You still think they started the antelope stampede?" Kion asked, glancing at his best friend beside him.
"Let's ask 'em," Kufu said before looking back at the hyenas. "Wake up!"
Cheezi and Chungu awoke with a gasp.
"OK, you two, why'd you start that stampede?" Kion interrogated.
"Stampede?" the smaller hyena repeated.
"It wasn't us!" Chungu defended. "We was busy dreamin' about Janja."
Cheezi nodded in agreement. "Maybe it was Dream Janja that did it."
"Dream Janja?" Ono repeated.
In the distance, they heard the voice of the real Janja, calling out for his two new subordinates.
"That sounds like the real Janja to me," Fuli said.
"I knew it!" Kufu said with a growl.
"Lion Guard, let's go!" Kion ordered as the Lion Guard raced in the direction they heard the voice.
"Janja's actually here?" Chungu asked in excitement.
"It's a dream come true!" Cheezi said happily before the two hyenas followed the Lion Guard.
"Those double-crossing no-goods," Janja growled. Ono swooped down over Janja, turning his attention to the Lion Guard staring down at him from the cliff's edge. "Oh, great, just when I thought it couldn't get any worse."
"Why'd you scare off the antelopes, Janja?" Kion asked, narrowing his eyes at the hyena leader.
"What's your plan?" Kufu asked with a growl.
Janja rolled his eyes, "Bad enough I got pushed off a cliff. I ain't gonna take the blame, too." He muttered. "It was their idea! The new guys!" he informed. "Something about getting you to chase the antelopes while we chase the oryxes!"
"Sounds like a pretty good plan," Fuli pointed out, casting a glance to Kion.
"Ono," Kion's eyes moved to the egret on Beshte's back, who immediately took off and searched for the oryx herd.
"I see them!" The Keenest of Sight alerted. "They're chasing the oryxes into a dead-end canyon!"
"Lion Guard!" Kion called out. "Let's go!" The six animals ran after the stampeding herd.
"Hey, wait, where are you going?" Janja yelled after the Guard. "You're just gonna leave me here?" Cheezi and Chungu slid down the cliffside to keep their clan leader company, much to his annoyance as they landed on top of him.
"How is this supposed to save me?" Janja asked.
"Save you?" Cheezi repeated with a chuckle. "We're not trying to save you."
"Yeah, we just wanna keep you company," Chungu said, much to Janja's annoyance.
The oryx herd ran all through the canyon and stopped when they realized that they were trapped as they saw the two hyenas creeping up to them.
"Oh, whatcha starin at, oryxes?" Tano chuckled as he and his partner advanced on the now-trapped oryx herd.
"Never seen smart hyenas before?" Nne taunted.
"They still haven't!" Fuli hissed, tackling Nne and knocking him a few feet back. Tano went to run away but ended up running right into Kufu, who kicked him in the face with his hind legs.
The two hyenas shook off the blows. "Don't tell me." Nne rolled his eyes, "The Lion Guard."
"And you must be Janja's new crew," Kion deduced, standing on a medium-sized boulder with the rest of his team split up on either side of him, Kufu standing at his right and Fuli on his left.
"We're our own crew," Tano corrected with narrowed eyes.
"So now what?" Nne pressed. "You gonna scare us off with the Roar?" He cackled.
"Hmm, look at that, guys, they really are pretty smart," Kufu said with a chuckle, raising his eyebrow as he looked at Kion.
The Guard's fierce leader narrowed his amber-brown eyes and unleashed his Roar, creating a strong wind that blew the hyena pair back into the Outlands.
The Roar's echo reached the cliffside where Janja, Cheezi, and Chungu were stranded. A grin spread across the hyena leader's muzzle,
"That's the first time I was ever happy to hear that sound," Janja chuckled. However, the power of the echo was enough to shake the ledge loose and it slid down the cliffside to the ground, covering the trio in mud.
"So, what are we going to do about Janja?" Fuli asked as the Guard made their way back to the cliff where said-hyena was stranded.
"Can't we just leave him on the ledge?" Bunga suggested.
"I wish," Kion chuckled. "But we gotta get him off the ledge and out of the Pride Lands."
"Might not be easy," Beshte noted, seeing how steep and slippery the cliffside was.
The Guard lined up along the ledge and looked over, seeing that the three hyenas weren't anywhere to be seen.
"Uh, are we sure this is the right cliff?" Ono wondered, landing on Beshte's back.
"Janja? Cheezi? Chungu?" Kufu called over the cliff, the three hyenas poking their heads out from the mud pile.
"You OK?" Beshte asked.
"Uh, yeah," Janja answered. "I think so."
"OK, then," Kion smirked. "It's time for you to go home."
Janja pulled himself out of the mud, shaking off his paws. "Fine with me." he huffed. "I've had enough of this place for one day." He walked a few feet, before looking back at Chungu and Cheezi, "You coming?"
"Sure, Janja," Cheezi grinned, his eyes lighting up.
"We thought you'd never ask," Chungu laughed, the pair running up to their leader.
"I love a happy ending," Beshte grinned as they watched the three hyenas run back to their den in the Outlands.
A/N: And that was Janja's New Crew. This show has a streak of great episodes and there's not a lot of changes in this one but some episodes don't really need that many changes and the same is gonna go for my Ninjago Yin and Yang series, so I hope you all enjoyed the chapter. Leave a review and tell me what you think.
Up Next: The Lion Guard has to help Kiara and her friends get off an island while Fuli deals with getting a baby baboon home.
Here's the Cast List:
Max Charles as Kion; Caleel Harris as Kufu; Joshua Rush as Bunga; Diamond White as Fuli; Dusan Brown as Beshte; Atticus Shaffer as Ono; Andrew Kishino as Janja; Kevin Schon as Chungu and Thurston; Vargus Mason as Cheezi; Beau Black as Nne; Dee Bradley Baker as Tano; Kari Wahlgren as Twiga.