THE LION GUARD: BONGO THE SLYEST
BUNGA THE WISE
Today there was a thunderstorm at the Pride Lands, with thunder roaring and the rain pouring down from the sky.
But instead of staying away from the rain, the soaked wet Lion Guard was dutifully trying to save the troop of baboons whose tree was in danger to fall over a cliff. Beshte, with his mark flashing, held onto the tree to keep it from falling, but he was struggling due to the cliff becoming slippery in this intense storm.
"Baboons, you gotta come down from there!" Kion called up to them "It's not safe up there!"
"We're dry up here! Whoo-whoo!" the baboob leader whooped stubbornly. "We'll come down when the rain stops."
"Is staying dry worthy of going down with the tree that is about to tumble over the cliffside?" Bongo questioned, unceasingly shaking off the water from his fur.
"As long as we stay dry, whoo-whoo, everything's fine for us." the baboon leader hooted, crossing his arms and raising his nose up haughtly.
"This guy is un-bunga-lievable!" Bunga said, throwing his arms up.
"Oh, baboons!" Fuli groaned with the eyeroll, as if she wasn't already annoyed enough from the downpour.
The baboons' jumping movement in the tree caused it to become even more unstable, with its roots snapping up from the ground and its weight pushing Beshte towards the edge, making the hippo grunt and groan from the strain.
"Kion! The tree's gonna go!" the Strongest informed. "And I don't wanna go with it."
"It's not just the tree, Beshte! The cliff itself is gonna go!" Bongo barked in worry, seeing the cliff beginning to collapse bit by bit.
The tree's jolting made the baboons whimpering and covering.
"Calm down." the baboon leader said oblivious or uncaring about the danger his stroop was facing. "As long as we stay dry, whoo-whoo, everything will be fine."
"No it won't!" Ono exclaimed as he flew over to the baboon leader, who frowned annoyedly at the egret. "Your tree is about to fall off a cliff."
"He's right! Look!" gasped a female baboon holding her baby to her chest, pointing down at the long fall over the cliff.
Now freaked out, the baboons began to move way more and even huddled all together to the top of the tree that teetered over the edge, putting more weight on the Strongest member's back.
"No, no, no, no, no!" Stay on this side of the tree!" Kion yelled out of the primates.
"Can't... hold it... much... longer." Beshte grunted.
More of the cliff began to collapse and fall down into the valley below, leaving Beshte with a very little space between the tree and the edge.
"Hapana!" Ono gasped worriedly.
"Bongo!" Fuli said, turning to the wild dog pup. "How do we get the baboons out of the tree before the tree goes over with them and Beshte?"
"Thinking, thinking, thinking!" Bongo said, eyeing both the tree, the baboons, Beshte, the collapsing cliff and then to... Bunga!
The wild dog's eyes popped wide open in realization before turning to the Strongest. "Beshte! I got an idea! Think you can take a little more weight?"
The hippo grunted some more. "Sure! But whatever you're gonna do, do it fast!"
Wasting no time, Bongo turned to Bunga. "Bunga, climb up there and scare those baboons down from the tree!"
"With pleasure." the Bravest said with the wide griwn. "Zuka Zama!" he shouted as he started to climb up the tree, reaching quickly to the top and the baboon troop. "Alright, baboonies, you can thank me later." Bunga said, cracking his knuckles nefore turning around and lifted his rear end up towards the primates, releasing a huge green gas cloud.
Scared off Bunga's stench, the baboon troop jumped off the tree, with Bongo catching on his back as many baboons as he could carry.
Two of them, including the troop leader, landed on Fuli's back.
"I got you!" Kion called as he caught one baboon that nearly rolled over the opposite cliff by the tail, saving it from falling down.
The baby baboon slipped off his mother's arms, only to be caught by Ono from the air, before Ono returned him to his relieved mother.
"Come on outta there, baboonie!" Bunga groaned and he dragged yet the most stubborn baboon by its tail down from the tree as it struggled to stay on the tree.
"Alright, Beshte! You're all clear!" Bongo called.
Beshte nodded and stepped out from under the tree, which toppled over the cliff, causing it to collapse completely off, and fell into the valley, shattered into pieces upon impact.
"Whoa." Beshte gasped, looking down over the cliff. "And to think that could've been me."
"Ugh. You can get off now," Fuli pleaded with the glared at the two baboons on her back.
"We'll get down, whoo-whoo, when the rain stops," the baboon leader hooted, crossing his arms again.
Irked by their stubborness, Fuli rolled her eyes. "Ugh. Baboons."
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Finally, after it stopped raining, the exhausted Lion Guard dragged themselves to a nearby hill after drying themselves off.
"Whew!" Bunga said as he trudged himself near some rocks and collapsed on his back. "I'm beat."
"Agh! I'm feeling sore from everywhere." Bongo groaned, stretching his limbs before lying down on his stomach next to Bunga. "Gotta need a little rest."
"Don't get too comfortable, guys." Ono said upon landing on a rock next to the two. "There's bound to be another storm coming." he cautioned, pointing his wings up at another mass of dark clouds approaching in the distance.
"Ohh. Another one?" Fuli complained, limping up to the hill and lied down on the grass next to Bongo. "We're still cleaning up the mess from the last one. How many more storms are here to come?"
"Rainy season, Fuli." Bongo reminded the cheetah. "Meaning many, many more."
"Ugh. Thanks for reminding me, Bongo." Fuli said sarcastically, rolling her eyes before resting her head over her paws.
"Poa! Who knew a tree full of baboons would be so heavy." Beshte said as he collapsed with the heavy thud on his belly with a little groan.
"Especially full of a rather stubborn baboons." Bongo said, before letting out a loud whining yawn.
"Okay, everybody. Take a breather." Kion told his friends as each of them began napping. "You've earned it."
Bongo tiredly lifted his head up and looked up at Kion. "You're not gonna rest yourself? You worked just as hard as we did?"
"In a minute, Bongo. I'm just gonna have a look around." Kion said before the prince walked off.
"Well, okay." Bongo shrugged, before he rested his head over his crossed paws and took a nap himself.
While making a sole patrol to oversee the aftermath of the rainstorm, Kion came across with a little butterfly that was stuck in the puddle of water. Taking pity of the tiny creature, the prince reached out his paw and gently lifted the tiny insect up in the air. The butterfly then flew around of Kion's head.
"There you go, little guy." Kion told it, before the butterfly landed on this nose, to the prince's surprise. The small insect looked the prince in the eyes briefly as if to say "thank you," before it took off and flew away. Kion chuckled as he watched the butterfly's go. "You're welcome." he called after it.
However, the next sight wasn't quite as comfortable. A flock of egrets flew away from the landscape that was riddled with fallen trees and massive puddles.
"Hevi Kabisa!" Kion sighed. "The storm's caused so much destruction."
Kion, thinking he needed to speak with someone about this, headed to the edge of the cliff and looked up to the mass of clouds howering low above the Pride Lands.
"Grandfather?" Kion called, hesitatingly.
The clouds parted, releasing the heavenly light, until Mufasa's spirit appeared, smiling warmly down at his grandson. "Yes, Kion? I'm here." he said.
"I was thinking. The recent rainstorms have caused so many problems for the Pride Lands." Kion said, voicing his concerns while pacing around. "What if I use the Roar to blow the big rainstorms away?"
Mufasa chuckled. "The rain is part of the Circle of Life, Kion." the former king reminded. "The Pride Lands will need that water for the dry season."
"Kion." Mufasa cut him off. "Always remember that what might be the easy solution is not always the best solution to solve the problems."
Kion sighed, but nodded in acknowledgment. "Yes, grandfather. I'll remember that." he said. Mufasa nodded before his spirit disappeared back in the clouds while Kion turned to head back to his friends.
But the prince was alerted when he saw a large stream of water heading for them from higher hills.
"Oh, no!" Kion gasped and wand over to them.
Oblivious of the danger, the rest of the Guard continued napping, with Ono resting on top of Beshte's snout. The hippo then let out a huge yawn, which knocked Ono off his mouth and the egret fell into his mouth. This stirred Ono awake just before Beshte closed his mouth.
"Beshte, let me out!" Ono's muffled voice called from inside the hippo's mouth, which awakened him.
"Let Ono out, Beshte. I don't recall hippos eating birds." Bongo told him half-awake.
"Pfft!" Fuli nearly chuckled at this in her own sleep.
"Oh!" Beshte gasped and opened his mouth, letting Ono, who was drenched with Beshte's saliva, to fly out.
The egret then landed on top of Beshte's back and shook the saliva off his feathers, before letting out a deep sigh. "Smells like the fish in there." he commented.
"Guys!" Kion called as he ran up to them, waking everybody up. "Get up! Break's over!"
"What's the kerbubble, Kion?" Beshte asked.
The prince didn't have time to answer before the stream flowed over another hill and hit them, catching the guard by surprise by splashing water over them, making them all stand up, coughing and spitting out a water they got in their mouths.
"Siamini!" Bongo gasped in shock and soaking wet while looking left and right in disbelief, seeing nothing but water.
Bunga, Bongo and Fuli then went over to Beshte and Ono, as the former was blocking some water with his body, leaving some dry land next to him.
"What's going on here?" Fuli asked. "There's never been a river here before."
"No. There never has been." Bongo confirmed. "This water comes from the higher hills. But where exactly?"
"Affirmative!" Ono nodded before he flew off Beshte's back and followed the stream in the higher hills to see where the water was coming from. He then let out the gasp upon finding its source with his vision. "Hapana! Lake Kiziwa! It's too full and the water's pouring out."
The prince groaned. "Ugh! The last rainstorm is still causing some trouble."
The rock barrier arround the Laek Kiziwa then broke loose a bit, pouring more water out.
"It's getting worse, guys!" Ono called out as he flew back to the Guard.
"And if that rock barrier in this side of the lake breaks completely, it'll cause the flood that will destroy this valley... and drown all those herds down there." Bongo pointed out, looking down in the valley, where the various animal herds such as buffaloes, zebras, giraffes, oryxes and other small animals grazing down there.
"Lion Guard! We need to do something before the water floods the whole valley." Kion told the Guard. "Bongo? Any ideas?"
"Well, we could..." Bongo began, but was cut off by Bunga.
"Hey, I got an idea." Bunga said, causing everyone to look at him, with Bongo in particularly taken aback that the honey badger came up with something faster than he did.
Bunga's idea turned out to be to knock a pile of rocks over the leaking hole in the rock barrier of the lake to dam the Lake Kiziwa.
"You know, Bunga that this was supposed to be my idea, right?!" Bongo said with the strained voice as he, Fuli, Kion and Beshte were pushing the pile of rocks towards the leak.
"You're doing fine, guys!" Bunga called while he was surveilling the progress of their task, while ignoring Bongo's words. "Come on, Beshte! We gotta block it up!" the honey badger exclaimed.
"Twende Kiboko!" Beshte groaned as he did one final push and the rocks tumbled down, blocking the water from the lake and creating the makeshift dam.
"Poa!" Beshte said pridefully.
"We did it!" Ono sighed.
"Nice." Fuli said, impressed.
"Yeah. No thanks to me." Bongo muttered under his breath.
Thurston the zebra along with Shingo the giraffe then trotted over to the dam. "Oh my!" the zebra exclaimed. "Whose idea was this?"
"Mine." Bunga answered proudly, leaning against the rocks. "Pretty awesome, huh?"
"Impressive." Shingo the giraffe agreed, "What a great idea to stop the flood."
Bongo rolled his eyes at this, which Kion noticed.
"And do you know what makes this a great idea?" Bunga questioned. "It was so simple to do. Quick and easy. That's the way to do it."
"I can't believe what I'm hearing!" Bongo whispered to himself, shaking his head.
"I don't know, Bunga." Kion said, standing behind Bunga. "The easy solution is not always the best solution." he added, remembering his grandfather's words.
"And you want to know why?" Bongo questioned. "While damming the lake was a good idea, Bunga, it still needs to be supported and still rising water level on the other side checked. And that's neither a simple, quick or easy way to do."
"Well, it sure worked for this dam." Shingo noted.
Thenm a string of water began to leak out from the dam.
"Uh-oh!" Kion gulped.
"See what I mean, Bunga?" Bongo told the honey badger as he nodded his head to the leak. "The water pressure in the other side of the dam is pushing through."
"But that's just the one leak." Bunga pointed out. "How can that be a bad thing?"
"As my dad once said, even the smallest things can lead to huge catastrophic consequences." Bongo pointed out. "And that small leak could lead to the entire dam breaking and flooding. So tell me, what do we do about that?" Bongo raised a brow to Bunga.
Bunga pondered it for a moment before he picked up a stick from the ground and slammed it into the hole of the dam, blocking the leak. "Simple! We just put a stick in it. That's my advice." he said, putting his paws on his hips and smiling.
Bongo stared at the honey badger with the blank look on his face.
"Hey, it worked!" Thurston noted. "What a good idea."
"Yeah. He gives great advice." Shingo agreed with the zebra.
Bongo stared wide-eyed at both of them, with his mouth hanging slack and his left eye twitching, unable to believe what he was hearing.
"Good idea? Great advice?" Fuli repeated, sharing Bongo's feeling. "You guys know you're talking about Bunga, right?"
"Unbelievable!" Bongo exclaimed. "And what next? Rafiki leaping down from the tree to tell us that the honey badgers are, what, the smartest animals in the Pride Lands?"
"Hee-hee! The Slyest in the Pride Lands is more right than he himself can even believe!" Rafiki said when he came down from a nearby tree with some fruits in his arms, making everyone to turn to him.
"Wha?! "Siamini! Where did he come from?" Bongo said in wide-eyed disbelief how correct he had been guessing at least the part where Rafiki would leap down from the tree.
"The thing about the honey badgers, they're actually the Pride Lands' smartest animals when... Oh, oh, oh! Wait a minute!" he was cut short when the fruits fell off his arms onto the ground.
"Whatta...?!" Bongo gasped in wide-eyed shock, now even more shocked to see how right he had been about that one too.
"You hear that, everybody? I'm the Pride Lands' smartest animal!" Bunga gloated. "Rafiki said so. I'm smart and give good advice. Say, wait until my uncles hear about this."
Bunga then began to rush towards Hakuna Matata Falls.
The remaining members of the Guard glanced at each other, before they all rushed after Bunga.
"Bunga! Wait up!" Kion called after him.
Rafiki picked up the last fruit that fell and continued what he was saying, "Yes, yes. Honey badgers are the smartest when they think before they speak. But if they do not... Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! There will be a TOTAL DISASTER!" he laughed until he realized that there was no one around.
Rafiki simply shrugged before going back to his tree.
But what everyone didn't know was that more water began to drip out from the spot where Bunga had put the stick.
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The Guard kept chasing after Bunga across a marshy area, while Ono flew overhead, though the honey badger was so far ahead with the headstart he had gotten that he had already managed to vanish from their sight.
And while they did, Bongo had a sulking look on his face. The puppy was quite annoyed that Bunga had come up with the whole dam thing before he did and had takenm a credit for it, even though he was supposed to be the Bravest in the Pride Lands, not Slyest or Smartest or whatever, and that as the Slyest, he was supposed to do all the thinking.
"Bunga! Wait up!" Kion called out to him.
"Um, a little help here!" a voice called out nearby, making the Guard to skid to a halt.
Going to check out what was the problem, the Lion Guard learned that the voice belonged to one of a turtles who were laying on their shells, struggling to get up.
"Oh, yeah! We forgot to flip the turtles!" Bongo gasped. "How could've I forgotten than!"
"Sorry about that." Kion apologized as he walked up one of the turtles and flipping him over with his nose.
"Thank you." the turtle said with the sigh before walking away.
Bongo, Fuli and Beshte then flipped over the rest of the turtles back on their feet.
"There you go, little guys." Beshte said as they watched the turtles walking away. "Well, the turtles are all flipped."
"Did we forget anything else, Bongo?" Fuli asked, glancing at the pup.
"Well, such as the porcupine brothers." Bongo recalled.
"Though that'd be easier if we had Bunga to help." Kion pointed, before he turned to Ono, who was currently nipping at one of his wings. "Ono, go find Bunga."
"Affirmative." Ono said and flew off.
The remaining four members of the Guard then found the log where the porcupine brothers lived and flipped it over together, dumping all the water that had accumulated inside during the rain.
"There you go, guys. See you next time." Kion said, giving the smile to the porcupines.
"Thanks." the porcupine brothers said before they hopped back into their log.
"Every storm is the same thing." Fuli noted. "Don't you think they should just move?"
"They like it here." Beshte reminded. "It's cozy."
Fuli rolled her eyes at this. "Yeah, well, how cozy do you really want to be if you're a porcupine?" she questioned as the Guard walked off.
"Ow! Watch those quils!" one of the brothers complained inside their log, probably having gotten just prickled by his brother's quills.
"You don't wanna know, Fuli." Bongo said with the chuckle.
Next, the Lion Guard went to the den of the snakes, with all of them circling around of it and looked down into the hole.
"OK, who wants to crawl inside and make sure Ushari and the cobras aren't stuck in the mud?" Kion asked.
"Don't look at me. I'm way too big to fit in there." Beshte said.
"Same here." Kion said with the shrug.
"Me too." Fuli nodded.
They all then turned to look at Bongo, who let out a sarcastic scoff in return.
"Yeah, sure. Just because I'm the smallest of us, you guys are actually expecting me to stuff myself in there?" the pup said. "And trust me, this got nothing to do with the fact that there are snakes down there."
"Come on, Bongo." Kion said with the glare. "Just zip it and get down there. Check out are Ushari and the cobras fine and then crawl back up."
Bongo rolled his eyes. "Ugh! Fine. But if even a single one of them is in a bad mood today and bites me, I'll bite off your tail, Kion." the pup added and got ready to crawl into the hole.
Fuli sighed in annoyance, "It's times like this we really need Bunga."
"Oh! And remind me top bite him too for ditching us with this "honey badgers are the smartest animals in the Pride Lands, just because Rafiki said so."" Bongo said with the mocking tone.
"Deal." Fuli agreed, intrigued by the idea.
"Everyone, everyone!" Ono's voice suddenly called, getting the Guard's attention as the egret flew back towards them. "You gotta see what's going on at Hakuna Matata Falls."
###
Upon arriving at Hakuna Matata Falls, the Lion Guard's eyes went wide in surprise upon seeing a large crowd of various animals lined up outside of a large baobab tree.
"Hevi Kabisa!" Kion gaped.
"You said it, Kion. Siamini!" Bongo gaped as well. "Look! Everyone are here. Thurston's here, Shingo's here, Mbuni the ostrich is here, Mongoose is here, Zito the elephant is here, Muhanga the aardvark is here, Bushbuck is here, Hedgehog is here, some oryxes and wildebeests are here, a members of your flock and pod are here too, Ono and Beshte, heck, even a member of Makuu's float is here. GAH! EVEN CHIKA, WIBA AND GUVU ARE HERE!" the pup barked in surprise to see his youngr siblings in the line too.
"What in the name of Mufasa is all of this?" Kion wondered. "C'mon. Let's find out."
The Lion Guard made their way past the line, during of which they heard a various animals saying a lots of stuff that annoyed Bongo even more.
"Rafiki says he's the wisest..." Thurston started.
"Of all the animals..." Shingo followed.
"In the whole Pride Lands." a male mongoose added.
"Ooh, amazing." Mbuni sighed.
"Never would've thought about that myself." one of the two wildebeests said.
All of this made Bongo to roll his eyes at them, until they just came by Chika, Wiba and Guvu, who were whispering with each other about something.
"And just what are the three of you doing here?" Bongo asked with the raised eyebrow.
The three pups stopped whispering with each other and turned around upon hearing Bongo's voice speaking to them and smiled upon seeing him. "HI, BONGO!" they greeted.
"Yeah, yeah. Hi, hi." Bongo said sarcastically, along with the eye-roll and waving his head from right to left, before he turned back to his siblings. "Now answer the question."
"We're here to see the one, whom Rafiki himself claimed to be the smartest animal in the Pride Lands!" Chika said, putting her paws over her cheek while wearing the look of admiration on her face,
"And we're gonna ask him for some advices! We really need the guidance from the smartest animal in the Pride Lands." Wiba added, wagging her tail intrigued.
"Which is pretty odd, also, because I've always thought that you were the Smartest in the Pride Lands." Guvu added with the raised eyebrow as he looked up at Bongo.
"Slyest, actually. But I'm also the smart." Bongo added firmly with the annoyed frowm. "And I can't believe that Bunga actually talked you guys into this, you little back-stabbers!"
All three pups were taken aback when Bongo revealed the identity of the so-called "smartest animal in the Pride Lands", which made then to turn to look at each other.
"Wait! The smartest animal in the Pride Lands is Bunga?!" they all three said in unision.
"So they say." Bongo added, nodding his head at the other animals in the line, before he continued onward towards baobab tree. "And we're gonna see what Bunga's doing this time."
When the Guard made it to the entrance of the baobab tree and was about to go in, Timon and Pumbaa blocked their paths. "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" Timon halted. "Not so fast, kids."
"If you wanna see him, you gotta wait in line," Pumbaa added.
"See who?" Kion asked, quirking his eyebrow as he glanced at Bongo and Fuli.
"BUNGA THE WISE!" both Timon and Pumbaa chorused proudly.
"The sage of Hakuna Matata Falls." the warthog added.
"Bunga the WHAT?!" the Guard exclaimed, unable to believe what they were hearing, espesially Bongo.
"Seriously?" Fuli said.
"Great. Are they now gonna give us a song to tell us about this nonsense?" Bongo asked with the eyeroll.
The upbeat tune then began to fill the air, as Timon and Pumbaa started to dance in front of the tree and the animals swayed their heads back and forth along the tune.
This made Bongo to growl in frustration. "Grrrr! Me and my big mouth!"
Timon and Pumbaa
"Here's one honey badger who's smart as can be"
Timon
"He's smarter than Pumbaa"
Pumbaa
"He's smarter than me?"
Both Timon and Pumbaa came up to Kion, with the meerkat standing - and leaning to Kion's left leg - by his left and the warthog by his right.
Timon
"It may sound kooky, but it came from Rafiki"
Pumbaa
"He's one smart cookie"
Timon
"He's amazingly geeky"
To the young bushbuck.
Timon and Pumbaa
"His IQ's off the charts"
"He out-thinks the best of us"
Pumbaa
"But he's also got heart"
Timon and Pumbaa
"So he'll think for the rest of us"
Timon then swings around and down to Mbuni's neck before jumping onto Pumbaa, who is standing next to her.
"Sooooo, Step right up, meet Bunga the Wise"
"The wisest of all and he loves to advise"
Timon and Pumba were swinging by Zito's trunk and Thruston's tail over the member of Makuu's float.
"If you're feeling down and don't know what to do"
"Let Bunga the Wise do your thinking for you"
The meerkat and warthog duop then slipped their heads in through the tree.
"Kid, that's your cue." Timon whispered.
"Come on, Bunga you know what to do," Pumbaa followed.
The aforementioned honey badger, wearing rather a cocky smirk on his face, then jumped out of the tree and landed on his feet, "Guess whoooooo?"
Bunga
"So, step right up, meet Bunga the Wise"
"The wisest of all and I love to advise"
Bunga came up to the gloomy-looking male mongoose and used his claws to make him smile, as Timon and Pumbaa joined him around the mongoose.
"If you're feeling down and don't know what to do"
"Let Bunga the Wise do your thinking for you"
Bunga then donned a hat made of the top half of a gourd and began to parade down the line of animals.
Bunga
"So, ask any questions, I'll tell you my thoughts"
To Thruston.
"Those strips don't suit you, I changed them to spots"
To the wildebeests.
"Your beard looks out"
"You gnus outta shave 'em"
To Muhanga while taking the pile a grubs in front of her.
"Give me your grubs"
"I'll be sure to save them"
To Zito.
"You gotta blocked trunk? I tell you sneeze so hard"
To the member of Makuu's float while examining his teeth.
"You sharpen these in the rocks or they just go blunt"
To hedgehog.
"You wanna friends?"
"Then nip those quills off"
To Chika, Wiba and Guvu.
"And what can I do for you"
"Come on! Say the word"
The Lion Guard was looking at all of this and they were both confused and shocked.
"I. Can't. Believe. What. Am I. Seeing." Bongo said with the deep frown.
"You and me both, Bongo," Fuli agreed.
Bunga then joined his adopted uncles at the base of the baobab tree and formed a pyramid with Pumbaa at the bottom, Bunga in the middle, and Timon at the top.
"He can solve almost any problem conceivable." Timon bragged.
"I got so much wisdom, it's unbungalievable!" Bunga exclaimed as he and Timon jumped off of Pumbaa's back.
Timon, Pumbaa, and Bunga
"Step right up, meet Bunga the Wise"
"The wisest of all and he loves to advise"
"If you're feeling down and don't know what to do"
"Let Bunga the Wise do your thinking for you"
The animals, minus the Lion Guard, joined in on the song.
Animals
"Step right up, meet Bunga the Wise"
"The wisest of all and he loves to advise"
"If you're feeling down and don't know what to do"
Pumbaa
"Let Bunga the Wise"
Timon
"Bunga the Wise"
Bunga
"Bunga the Wise"
Timon, Pumbaa, and Bunga
"Do your thinking for you!"
As the song and the music ended, the animals began cheering and whooping in excitement as Bunga waved to them all.
"Thank you. Thank you very much. Nice of you to drop by." Bunga grinned, though not watching where he was going. "Oh!" he grunted when he bumped into Shingo's leg.
"Bunga the Wise, everyone thinks I'm so stuck-up because my head is so up in the sky. What do I do?" Shingo asked, looking down at the honey badger.
"Simple." Bunga said, as he picked up the leaf of grass from the ground and tied a knot in middle of it to show Shingo. "Tie a knot in your neck."
"What in the name of Mufasa?!" Bongo exclaimed as his head jumped up, looking baffled at such of ridiculous advice. "What kind of advice is that supposed to be?!"
Even Kion and Fuli were sharing a questionable looks with each other.
Shingo then left to do as he was told, allowing Mbuni to approach Bunga on her turn. "Bunga the Wise, how can I keep from being scared whenever I see a hyena?" she asked, lowering her head down in Bunga's level.
"That's easy! Just..." Bunga said, before the honey badger began to whisper something into Mbuni's ear, with her nodding with "Mmm-hmm" in understantment.
"Thanks." Mbuni said with the smile before she left.
"I don't know what that advice was, but it can't be anything good." Bongo commented with the raised eyebrow.
"Mmm, Bunga the Wise," Thruston then asked next. "Suppose I see a pile of rocks with the leak in it. Where do I find the stick?"
"Just climb up a tree and grab one." Bunga said, pointing up at the nearby tree. Trees are full of sticks.
"Is he serious right now?" Fuli asked, glancing at Kion.
"Well, you know, it's Bunga." Kion shrugged. "Whenever he gets something in his head, then of course he's serious."
"Hey, where did Bongo go?" Beshte then asked, seeing their dog friend nowhere.
The rest of the Guard then realized that Bongo had disappeared, making them to look around in surprise and confusion.
"I don't get it. He was standing right there. Where he had gone?" Fuli questioned with the raised eyebrow.
That was answered immediately by the weird sound of banging behind them, making the Guard to turn around to look, only to see Bongo standing in front of the tree and banging his head repeatedly against it in frustration.
"BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! "BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
"HE CAN'T BE SERIOUS!" Bongo barked to himself.
"Uhh... Bongo? What are you doing?" Kion questioned.
Bongo ceased of banging his head against the tree before turning to the others, revealing his bruised forehead. "Thurston being an idiot is a one thing, but Bunga actually suggesting him to climb up a tree to get the stick to stop the leak in the pile of rocks?! That's ridiculous! Zebras can't climb in the trees!" the pup explained, before he continued banging his head in the tree.
"BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! "BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
This made the rest of the Guard cringe.
"Boy. I see that Bongo is taking this whole "Bunga the Wise" thing pretty personally." Fuli commented.
"PRECISELY, FULI!" Bongo exclaimed.
Bunga kept answering the question and giving to various animals more advice, which sounded even more ridiculous than the last ones did, until Timon stepped in to shoo the animals away from his adoptive nephew.
"Alright, alright. everyone back in line. No more freebies." he ordered as the animals scattered.
"Don't worry. You all will get your turn eventually." Pumbaa reassured them.
Timon stood beside his adoptive nephew and took his arm. "Come on, kid, er, I mean, your sage-iness," he said dramatically, before he led Bunga back to the tree.
"Uh, okay. Talk to you soon." Bunga said, waving back at the animals as he entered into the tree, before Timon cleared up his throat.
"Next!" Timon called. "And don't forget the admission fee!"
The male mongoose then stepped forward, carrying the grub in his paws which he handed to Timon. The meerkat took the grub and ate it with one gulp "You're too kind." he commented with the satisfied smile.
"Alright, that's it!" Bongo barked, having enough with this as he walked to Kion and Fuli's side. "We gotta talk some sense into Bunga's head."
Kion let out a sigh. "Agreed. Lion Guard, let's go deal with this."
"Now, if you follow me..." Pumbaa told to mongoose as he and Timon were about to let them in, until the watrhog saw the Lion Guard heading towards them. "Uh-oh."
Timon immediately stepped in to stop the Guard in their tracks. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! What part of "wait in line" did you kids not understand?"
"Give me a break, Timon." Fuli hissed at the meerkat. "We need to talk to Bunga. Now!"
"It's Bunga the Wise," Pumbaa corrected the cheetah.
"More like Bunga the Moron." Bongo said sarcastically with the eye-roll. "Sometimes I really wonder why we're even friends with him."
Bongo then stepped forward. "Timon, Pumbaa, step aside. This is the Lion Guard matter, so we need to talk to Bunga."
"Oh, no, you don't!" Timon refused stubbornly, before he folded his arms. "Not without the admission fee and I see none of you having none."
Bongo was having none of it, and lowered his head to Timon's level with the narrowed eyes and partially bared teeth. "Are you doing this just for Bunga... or... are you doing this to make a profit of him?"
"That's preposterous!" Timon exclaimed in denial.
"Then what. Is. That?" Bongo challenged, nodding his head to his left and Timon's right.
There was already standing next to the tree a pretty big pile of grubs the animals had brought as "the admission fee" to see this Bunga the Wise, which only kept growing up with the grubs the animals in the line were carrying in their arms and mouths.
This made Timon chuckle dryly as Bongo kept glaring down at him. "Uhh, that is, err." Timon was trying to sheepishly explain, just before Bunga poked his head out of the tree.
"Oh, hey, guys. I didn't see you there." he said, waving his paw at them. "Come on in."
Timon let out the sigh. "Fine, but make it fast. We got lots of folks here waiting their turn!" he said, gesturing towards the crowd of animals.
"And to fill your tummy with so much grubs that you'll bursts." Bongo added sarcastically as he and most of the Lion Guard went inside the tree.
Beshte, however, had a littletrouble to get inside the tree himself, due to the entrance being too small for someone the size of him to fit inside. "Okey, I'll just wait out here." he said.
Inside the hollow space of the tree, they saw Bunga lounging cockily on one of the large roots shaped into the chair, with various gourds hanging overhead, as they went up to him.
"Bunga, what's going on here?" Kion asked.
"Are you seriously giving all of those animals advice?" Fuli questioned, standing beside Kion and Bongo.
"That's right." Bunga confirmed. "You heard Rafiki: I'm super smart," he then removed the gourd-hat and dropped it, unknowingly on Ono's head.
"Hey, why it's dark all of the sudden?" Ono asked, looking around.
Bongo went up to him and took the gourd into his mouth and lifted it off the egret's head before spitting it out.
"And what exactly makes you think that you're actually smart?" Bongo questioned with the frown.
"Well, remember me having the great idea to stop the lake from flooding?" Bunga reminded.
"Which was actually my idea before you jumped in." Bongo muttered with the eye-roll.
"So then, I had an even greater idea: I can share my great ideas. I can help every animal in the Pride Lands by telling them what to do." he said, once again not looking where he was going till he bumped his head on a low hanging gourd.
"Ow." he groaned.
"Seriously? You barely even look where you're coming or going." Fuli sighed.
Kion then stepped forward. "Bunga, you're already helping every animal in the Pride Lands. You're on the Lion Guard. You're the Pride Land's Bravest."
"Kion's got a point, Bunga." Bongo added.
"But now, I'm also the Smartest," Bunga bragged. "It's difficult being so gifted."
"But I thought that I was the smartest." Bongo protested. "Not to brag about it or anything, but Kion did name me as the Pride Lands Slyest, so I do the thinking. And if you're now doing all the thinking, what in the Pride Lands I'm supposed to do then?"
"Well," Bunga shrugged. "Maybe you should just go to an early-retirement and led me do the thinking from now on. That's my advice, Medium B." Bunga stated, holding his claw up.
"WHAT?!" Bongo barked in utter disbelief and the hurt in his eyes of Bunga's words. "BUT-BUT-BUT... BUNGA!"
Both Kion, Ono and Fuli were taken aback by this as well, but before either one could've protested in Bongo's defense, Timon stepped in and got in between Bunga and the Guard.
"Alright! Time's up! Now out a lot of you!" the meerkat called out and rushed them out of the three, "Folks outside ain't getting any smarter."
"Thanks for coming over, you guys!" Bunga called out. "Next time, please make an appointment." he then turned around and bumped his head on the same gourds again.
"Ow." he groaned.
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Later, the Guard continued their morning patrol while walking through an open field, while Ono flies overhead. And as they walked, Bongo's ears were pressed against the back of his head while he looked down with the scowl on his face.
""Early retirement," he said. "That's the advice of the Bunga the Wise," he said." Bongo repeated while mimicking mockingly Bunga's voice. "Bunga has clearly let this whole smart-thing to get into his head! And he even got the guts to advise me to get on an early retirement from the Lion Guard!"
"Well, I am not going to do something like that to you, Bongo. I chose you as the Slyest member of the Lion Guard for a reason. Nothing changes that." Kion assured his friend.
Though that didn't change Bongo's upset mood.
"Well, if you ask me, Bunga is the one animal in the Pride Lands who should never be giving advice." Bongo stated.
"I agree with Bongo here." Fuli agreed, "In fact, Bunga shouldn't be doing this at all."
"Why's that, guys?" Beshte asked.
"Because it's Bunga! He never gives anything the slightest thought but just jumps headfirst into things and get himself and the others with him into trouble!" Bongo answered frustratingly, before he glanced at Kion. "You and I both know it's true, Kion, because we've been there every time he finds himself in trouble since we were all little."
"I guess." Kion said with the shrug.
"Well, he did figure out how to keep the lake from flooding." Beshte pointed out as they walked past the dammed lake. "No offense, Bongo, but he did came up with that idea faster before you did."
"Yeah, he did, Beshte. I'll give him at least that." Bongo sighed. "But I would've come up with a several details to ensure that this dam keeps and stays firm under the water pressure behind it."
"Well, the dam was one thing. but I still got a bad feeling about all this." Kion admitted uncertainly.
As the Guard walked past the spot where Bunga blocked the leak with the stick, the stick was suddenly pushed out of the hole by a small spurt of water that created a small river heading towards the valley bellow.
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The Guard continued their patrol until they stopped dead in their tracks and gaped wide-eyed at the sight before them.
"Hevi Kabisa!" Kion gasped.
"Whatta...?!" Bongo gasped.
Mbuni was letting out the muffled scries as her head was burried in the hole. She was trying to pull her head out but it proved out to be difficult.
"I didn't think ostriches could do that," Beshte said, blinking his eyes.
"They don't." Ono said.
"And I don't think she likes it very much." Kion added.
"Definitely. And she'll suffocate down there if we don't do something." Bongo said, putting his brains into work. He gave the situation the moment of thought before he turned to his friends to give them instructions. "Fuli? Kion? I need you two to pull from her tail feathers. Beshte, you lift her neck up, gently. I'll ease it by digging that hole a bit bigger."
"Then let's do it. Come on!" Kion said and led the Guard to Mbuni.
Following Bongo's instructions, Fuli and Kion each grabbed from a part of the ostrich's tail and began to pulled back while Beshte gently lifted her neck up with his snout, and Bongo began digging he hole a bigger with his paws, while watching his claws so that he won't accidentally hurt Mbuni.
Mbuni gasped for air once she was freed, "Thank you," she said. "It was hard to breathe down there." she spat out sand, some of it landing on Ono and Bongo.
"Hey, watch where you're spitting!" Ono muttered as he flew over, landing on Beshte's back. "Tall birds."
"At least she's not a camel, Ono. That'd have been a lot more disgusting." Bongo pointed out, shaking the sand off his head.
"Are you alright, Mbuni?" Kion asked.
"I am now. Thanks." Mbuni replied, before coughing out some more. "Sand! Ugh!"
"So, why did you stick your head in the sand in the first place?" Fuli questioned.
"Bunga the Wise said that it was the best way to avoid seeing a hyenas." Mbuni answered. "And he's the smartest animal there is."
Bongo gave Kion a look with a loud "Hmph!", which Kion heard.
"Don't say it, Bongo." Kion warned, knowing what the dog puppy was thinking.
"Whatever." Bongo said, shaking his head. "Uh, Mbuni, you know that as an ostrich you can outrun the hyenas by running, right?"
"But Bunga the Wise said..." Mbuni started, until she was cut off when Ono cried in alarm.
"Hapana! Everyone, everyone! Another emergency! I see some bushbucks heading towards a field with the pink flowers." Ono called out.
"Wait! Did you said pink flowers?!" Bongo gasped with his eyes widened, looking at where Ono was looking.
"What's the big deal about that, guys? I thought that bushbucks love eating the flowers." Fuli said with the raised brow.
"But they shouldn't eat these ones! They're are very poisonous" Bongo said. "Trust me, I know! When Chika, Wiba and Guvu played here once and chewed on one, they got sick from them! And so will the bushbucks if we don't stop them!"
"Bushbucks! Stop!" Kion called out as he and the Guard rushed over to the herd and while Ono, Bongo, Fuli and Kion pushed the bushbucks away from the flowers, Beshte started to trample them under his feet.
"Hey! Those are our flowers!" the leader of the herd complained, both confused and annoyed of what the Guard was doing.
"You shouldn't be eating these." Beshte informed.
"Yes! These flowers will make you very sick!" Bongo warned.
"But Bunga the Wise said that pink flowers were the tastiest." the leader defended, "And he's the smartest animal there is."
Knowing of why they were abiout to eat these flowers, Bongo rolled his eyes. "What does Bunga know about eating the flowers than what he knows about eating the grubs." the pup asked, before he glanced at Kion with the narrowed look, and Fuli was doing the same.
"I know what you're thinking. So stop it." Kion met his eyes.
"Uhh, Bongo?" Beshte called, getting Bongo's attention. "I think I see Chika, Wiba and Guvu playing nearby on top of the big rock."
Ono used his vision to see if the three pups were in any short of danger, before he gasped. "Hapana! I think they're about to jump off the rock and into that thorn bush!"
"THEY'RE WHAT?!" Bongo gasped and looked on.
And indeed, Bongo saw the trio of his younger siblings standing on top of the large rock that towered over the thorn bush, and they indeed looked like they were about to jump off the rock and into the bush!
"SIAMINI!" Bongo exclaimed in wide-eyed shock and quickly rushed over to his brother and sisters.
On the top of the rock, Chika, Wiba and Guvu were bracing themselves for the jump off the rock and into the thorn bush in the feet of the rock, and looked like they were not caring about their personal safeties.
"You're on... get set... and fly!" Chika called out.
The three young pups then sprung on the run towards the edge of the rock that was above of the bush. Out of the three of them, Guvu proved to be the faster than his sisters and was about to reach the edge of the rock while Chika and Wiba were just in a halfway.
However, Chika and Wiba halted in their tracks when Bongo leaped out of nowhere all of the sudden and landed in front of them, blocking his sisters' way. The stern look on his face he gave to his sisters warned them to stay put, before Bongo turned around to chase after Guvu.
"Guvu! Wait! DON'T!" Bongo called out to his little brother just when Guvu reached to the edge and jumped off it!
Moving fast, almost as fast as Fuli did, Bongo reached out and grabbed Guvu by his scruff, before he himself stood up on his hind legs, pulling Guvu up and then tossed him away from the edge, making him land on the flat top of the rock, next to his sisters.
However, Bongo's own speed was too fast for him to slow himself down, and when he got up on his hind legs, he leaned too much over the edge of the rock that he eventually lost his balance.
"Aaaahhhh!" Bongo cried as he fell off the rock and right into the thorn bush.
His siblings huddled to the edge of the rock to look down after their brother, along with the Lion Guard who ran up to the edge of the bush, all of them looking on in wide-eyed shock when they saw Bongo disappearing into the bush.
"YYYYYEEEEEOOOOOUUUUUCCCCCHHHHH!" Bongo yelped in pain from the top of his lungs as he shot up from the bush like rocket, holding his rear end with his paws, for it was full of thorns he had gotten from the bush.
Chika, Wiba and Guvu, unable to hold themselves, burst out in laughter like hyenas at their big brother's misfortune
"HEE-HEE-HEE!" "BWA-HA-HA-HA!" "AH-HA-HA-HA-HAA!"
The rest of the Lion Guard instead cringed at it, except of Fuli, who neither couldn't hold back her laughter at the such of amusing sight in her eyes.
"AH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAA!"
Bongo soon pulled himself out of the thorn bush, littered with thorns all over his now ragged body, while yelping and whimpering in pain as he limped out to join his teammates.
"AGH! AH! OW! OW! UHH! UHH! ARGH! YEOUCH!"
And his siblings and Fuli kept laughing at him.
"HEE-HEE-HEE!" "BWA-HA-HA-HA!" "AH-HA-HA-HA-HAA!" "AH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAA!"
"Guys! Knock it off!" Kion said sternly, making the four stop laughing, before he turned to Bongo. "You okay, Bongo?"
"I live." he said curtly, before he lied down and started to pull the thorns off his fur. "And as for you three up there, Know this that I will spank all three of you for this later."
Chika, Wiba and Guvu gulped nervously at this and huddled down to hide from their big brother.
"What were you guys doing, anyway?" Beshte asked gently.
"Well... we asked Bunga the Wise that is it possible that we could fly like birds from this rock over this thorn bush without getting ourselves prickled by the thorns." Chika confessed.
"He said that we can if we try." Guvu added. "And he is the smartest animal in the Pride Lands."
"But we didn't meant to get you into trouble because of us, Bongo. Sorry about that." Wiba apologized innocently.
Bongo growled both in pain as he pulled the thorns out of his left fore legs, and irritation after hearing that it was Bunga who persuaded his younger siblings to do something so stupid.
"It's... It's okay, Wiba. I'm not... I'm not pissed off with you three." Bongo assured, forcing himself to calm down. "But I think that someone else needs that spanking instead."
Fuli, despite Kion telling her not to, still kept chuckling at Bongo's state as the dod pup leaned over his shoulder and began to pull the thorns out of his bottom.
"Hey, Bongo? Maybe you should go get acquainted with those porcupine brothers in their log. They would welcome you because you are just as prickly as they are. And maybe I'll find out how cozy you can get when you're a porcupine." Fuli joked.
Bongo, with some thorns in his mouth, scowled at Fuli for the joke she made of him, before he spit the thorns out of his mouth at her in retaliation, hitting Fuli in the nose.
"OW!" Fuli groaned in pain and began rub her nose with her paw, as the thorns Bongo had spit at her and gotten lightly stuck.
"Very Funny, Fuli." Bongo growled. "I think that there might be another one in my list who's waiting to get spanked too."
Then they heard a voice calling out for help from a nearby canyon, making the Lion Guard to turn towards it.
"Ugh, now what?" Fuli groaned, after managing to remove the thorns off her nose.
The Lion Guard, with Bongo limping after them along with his siblings, rushed to the canyon and looked down, seeing a male oryx trapped on the lower ledge.
"Hang on!" Kion called out to the bovine. "We'll get you out."
"Please, hurry." the oryx pleaded. "I don't like high places."
Kion glanced to Fuli, "Fuli, you pick a horn." then he glanced at Bongo, "Bongo, tell us when to pull," he looked to Ono, "And Ono, get the oryx to calm down and not move while Fuli and I pull."
"Affirmative!" Bongo saluted and flew down to calm down the oryx while Kion and Fuli grabbed his horns in their mouths, while Bongo positioned himself between of the felines and looked down at the oryx.
"Don't worry. They hardly ever drop anybody." Ono assured as he hovered in the oryx' head level.
"Hardly ever? Oh!" the oryx shuddered fearfully.
"Now! Pull!" Bongo told his friends.
Kion and Fuli grunted and groaned as they backed up and pulled the oryx up and back onto the cliff.
"Thank you so much." the oryx said after he caught his breath.
"How did you get trapped down there?" Kion asked.
"It wasn't advice from Bunga the Wise, was it?" Bongo asked, his voice laced with sarcasm.
"Why, of course, it was." the oryx confirmed, looking to the other side of the canyon where his herd was. "I asked him about the fastest way across the canyon and he just said to jump."
"He told you to jump?!" Bongo gasped in disbelief.
With this being the last straw, Bongo turned to Kion and growled intimidatingly at him, making Kion to flinch slightly. "Kion, I dare you to say to me "don't say it" again!" he growled through of his gritted teeth.
The prince sighed and rolled his eyes. "Alright, alright, alright. Go ahead and say it." Kion groaned.
"I TOLD YOU BUNGA SHOULD NEVER HANDING OUT ADVICE!" Bongo barked furiously. "THEY HAVE BEEN NOTHING MORE BUT HARM... AND THE PRICKLING PAIN IN MY BOTTOM!"
"Bongo is right, Kion." Fuli agreed. "My advice is that we go back to Hakuna Matata Falls and tell him to stop before anymore trouble arouses."
"Do we have to stand in line again?" Beshte wondered, aloud.
"If we have to, then I'll give both Timon and Pumbaa two choices! They can either stay out of our way, or I'll have them as my chewing toys!" Bongo threatened.
"That won't be necessery, guys. Look," Ono said and pointed to a direction where they saw a large group of animals, a baby elephant, Timon and Pumbaa, male mongoose, two giraffes, two zebras, Mbuni, buffalo and so on, parading after Bunga and singing.
Animals
"Bunga, Bunga, ho, make way make way"
"He's the wisest we know"
"Make way for Bunga the Wise"
"Make way for Bunga the Wise"
"Bunga, Bunga, hey Bunga, Bunga ho"
"Make way, make way he's the wisest we know"
"Make way for Bunga the Wise"
The Guard watched with wide eyes and in confusion.
"Ugh! Now what is that dump honey badger up to?" Bongo groaned, narrowing his eyes at Bunga.
Fuli's mouth fell open and she blinked in confusion, "Well, now I've seen everything."
"Oh, come on." Kion motioned the Guard and went over to Bunga.
"Oh, hey guys." Bunga greeted his friends as they approached him. "Don't stop." he told to a baby elephant behind him, who was holding a large leaf with his trunk with which he was fanning him.
"Bunga, what are you doing?" Kion questioned.
"Bunga's advice was so popular, we decided to take it on the road." Pumbaa answered.
"Bunga the Wise "The Pride Lands Tour"!" Timon pitched.
"I advise you to come along with us." Bunga added.
"Sounds like fun!" Beshte exclaimed, instrigued, until Bongo slapped him on the snout with his paw. "Ow!"
"More like, "stench like trouble." the pup told him with the glare.
"Bunga, you need to stop this." Kion spoke up, glaring at the honey badger pleadingly. "We already have enough problems trying to deal with a rainstorm."
"And guess what, Bunga the Wise," Bongo said sarcastically, walking up next to Kion and nudging Bunga in his belly with his paw. "Your bad, and outright ridiculous advice is making things even worse, you moron."
Bunga gasped, through a little too dramatically. "Me? Bad advice? And a moron am I?"
"What?" Pumbaa questioned, rhetorically.
All of the animals in the parade gasped aloud after hearing this.
"No!" Thurston shouted.
"Yeah!" Bongo countered. "The ostriches don't dig their heads into the sand to hide from hyenas. They outrun them! You cannot tell the animals to eat the pink flowers just because they look pink and delicious, 'cause they'll only make them sick! And you can't tell anyone just to jump over a dangerously high and wide canyon! Somebody would get hurt!" Bongo then showed Bunga his rear end, still prickled by the thorns. "And try to guess where I got my wounds, after you told my younger siblings that they can fly like birds by trying!"
"Yeouch!" Bunga cringed at the sight.
"But Rafiki said that Bunga was smart." the male mongoose reminded them.
"You see, Bongo, everyone loves my advice." Bunga pointed out, "They wouldn't know what to do without it. Am I right?" A chorus of agreement came from the animals behind him, showing proof of his statement.
"That's right." Shingo said.
"Yeah!" the mongoose added.
"We're clueless." Thruston said.
"And Bunga gives good advice." Pumbaa defended, looking at Bongo."And he is not a moron, Bongo."
"You said it, Pumbaa." Timon agreed. "He's even giving the Lion Guard advice. Anybody remember a little thing called - the dam?" He asked, pointing to the dam blocking Lake Kiziwa behind him.
"Yes! Whoo!" Shingo whooed.
"Love it!" Pumbaa exclaimed.
"That's right!" Timon exclaimed, poking at Bongo's nose before motioning to his nephew. "His idea. His advice. Problem solved. The end."
Everyone then heard a loud increasing rumble, making all of them to turn towards the dam.
CRASH!
The rocks of the dam then suddenly gave away under the huge pressure of the water behind it, and a large rush of water washed out, at least ten times bigger and more powerful than the last time, and it was heading right towards all of them.
Bongo gave Timon a side-eyed glare. "You were saying?" he deadpanned. "Bunga may have beaten me to the idea about the dam, but my idea would have included ensuring that that dam stayed firmly supported, which Bunga left out. Now it's too late for that!"
Timon chuckled nervously under the wild dog's glare, before he turned to everybody else, clearing his throat.
"And now, I have some advice." he said calmly, before he let out a panicked yell. "RUUUUUUUUN!"
This caused the every animal in the parade to panic and run into the valley while Timon and Pumbaa headed back to Hakuna Matata Falls.
The tidal wave headed down into the valley where the herds of buffaloes, zebras, giraffes, oryxes and other animals were standing right on its way.
"We've gotta get those animals to safety." Kion said to the Guard, "Lion Guard! Let's go!"
"Kids! Follow me! And stay close!" Bongo told to Chika, Wiba and Guvu
As the Guard and Bongo's siblings raced towards the valley, Bunga stood motionlessly where he was, looking torn between his friends heading towards the danger top rescue the animals and his family running away from it to safety.
"Don't be a mook, kid!" Timon called out from the cliff he and Pumbaa had ran for safety. "Head for the hills!"
"But... I'm a member of the Lion Guard, I can't let my friends down like this." Bunga said to himself. "Hey, guys! Wait for me!" he called out and ran after his friends.
"Everybody split up! I'll take the buffaloes! Beshte, zebras! Ono, giraffes! Bongo, oryxes! Fuli, make sure that no animal gets left behind in the harm's way!" Kion instructed.
Kion ran up to the herd of buffaloes and told them to follow him while Bongo, who had picked his siblings on his back along with the male mongoose, alerted the oryxes and made them to follow Kion. Ono flew around the giraffes' heads, alerting them of the coming danger and telling them and Shingo to run after Kion while Beshte chased after Thruston's zebra herd, making them to run in the same direction as everybody else while telling them to stay together. Meanwhile Fuli, with her Mark shining brightly, used her enpowered speed to scan the area for any animal who had fallen behind, while directing Mbuni and Muhanga after the everybody else and then she rescued a lone hedgehog from being caught by the flood by picking him up in her mouth. All the while, Bunga led the baby elephant behind him after the others, having told him to stop fanning him and ran for his life.
With the animals rounded up, Kion led them and the Guard away from the raging water, which unstoppably flooded the whole valley.
"Hurry!" Kion called out to the Guard and the herds. "Into the canyon."
The Guard and the animals ran into the canyon where the tidal wave followed them. Bunga then stopped and gasped upon noticing the baby elephant falling behind and running just ahead of the huge tidal wave.
"Come on, kid! Run!" Bunga urged the small elephant. "Take my advice! Don't look back."
After running along the canyon for a while as the tidal wave kept getting closer and closer, threatening to wash over all of them, Bongo looked onward and noticed the split end right ahead of them.
"Oh, no! The split end!" he called.
Kion heard him out and looked up to Ono. "Ono! Which way do we go?"
The Keenest in Sight flew up and used his vision to scan the area to find a safest way out of the canyon. He gasped when the way on the right led to a cliff with the sheer drop, so he opted for the way on the left. "Left! Go left!"
"This way, everybody! To the left!" Kion called and led the herds down the left path, with the tidal wave right on their heels.
"Where is this path gonna take us, Ono!" Bongo called up to the egret.
Ono followed the path with his vision, and gasped upon seeing that the path was actually leading to the large hole with no way out.
"The dead end? Oh, no!" Ono groaned with worry. "Kion! Guys! It's a dead end!" he alerted.
"Dead end?!" Kion gasped as he reached the end of the path, only to skid to halt and look up in worry when he saw the wall of the hole and with no other way out. "Oh, no!"
"Wowowowowowow! Look out!" Bongo yelped when he tried to slow down, only to bump into Kion along with his siblings and mongoose, followed by Muhanga, Mbuni, oryxes, buffaloes, giraffes, Beshte, zebras, Fuli and the hedgehog, Bunga and the baby elephant, creating a large pile up of various animals.
Great! Just great!" Bongo groaned as he looked up the wall. "Wall ahead, and the tidal wave right behind of us."
The rumbling in the canyon kept getting stronger and stronger as the tidal wave kept coming even closer at the fast pace, making the herds turn towards the entrance and whimber in fear.
"Kion, the walls are too steep to climb and the water is getting closer." Beshte noted.
Kion observed the walls himself, seeing that Beshte was right, before he turned to Bongo. "Bongo? Any ideas or suggestions?"
"Why do you even ask them? They know nothing." Thruston said before looking down at Bunga. "Ask Bunga the Wise."
"Bunga the Wise!" the baby elephant exclaimed.
"What do we do?" the hedgehog quivered.
"What is your advice, Bunga the Wise?" Shungo asked.
"Tell us!" Thurston begged.
"Are we gonna die?" Wiba asked fearfully.
"Where to we go?" Chika asked as well.
"What is your advice, Bunga the Wise?" Guvu asked.
"Uhh..." Bunga stared up at the animals in frozen horror. Realizing for the first time he was put into the position where he was supposed to actually think what to do rather than randomly come up with some sensible advice.
Not to mention that he was running out of time, for the water had reached to the split end of the canyon and was flowing along the pathway they had taken. And it would be upon them within minutes, if not seconds.
"I don't know!" Bunga said, shrugging his shoulders helplessly before turning to Kion and Bongo, with the latter giving him a narrowed look.
"Kion's the leader! He knows what to do! Or what about Bongo? Bongo knows even better what to do with this kinda stuff!" he said, pointing at the prince and the dog. "Right, guys? Right Bongo?" the honey badger said, giving especially Bongo the apologetic look.
However, to Bunga's dismay, Bongo shook his head. "I don't think I can. After all, I am an early retirement, as Bunga the Wise advices me."
"Ugh, come on, Medium B!" Bunga begged. "I was just joking! I was never serious about that whole early retirement-stuff! You're the Pride Lands' Slyest but also a way smarter than me! Pleeeeaaaasssseeee!"
Despite the situation, Bongo couldn't help but chuckle at Bunga letting go of his pride and admitting that he was a way over his head with this whole Bunga the Wise-stuff.
"Alright, alright! Fine, fine, fine, Bunga the Not-So-Wise." Bongo said eventually, as the canyon began the shake around of them. "You're right, though. I know what needs to be done. Since there's no way out, there's only one way to survive from this."
The wild dog pup then turned to his best friend, faith in him gleaming in his eyes. "Kion? As the Leader of the Lion Guard, you know what to do, right?"
"Right." Kion said determinedly. "But it's not exactly quick and easy. Everyone, get behind me." he told to the other animals as he stood on top of the sloped rock, facing the canyon firm and tall.
"He means it!" Ono warned. "Get behind him! Get behind him!"
"And brace yourself!" Bongo added.
When the water emerged out of the canyon and razed towards them, Kion's eyes and his Mark flashed as the power surged through of him, before he opened his maw wide open and unleashed his Roar, with the heads of the Lions appearing in the clouds above them, enpowering his Roar even more.
RRRRRROOOOOOAAAAAARRRRRR!
The Roar caused the floodwaters to shoot up in a sheet, then roll back the other way out of the canyon, which also caused the rocks to fall into the canyon in front of the Pride Landers, not only blocking the water from reaching them but also creating the way out. The floodwaters continued receding until they formed a waterfall outside of the canyon.
With the danger past, Kion ceased roaring, and all the Pride Landers burst into the loud cheer that they had survived from the flood, thanks to Kion.
Kion looked over one shoulder at the Pride Landers, including his his friends, then back at the canyon, smiling proudly at himself.
Everything was now peaceful in the Pride Lands again.
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Outside the canyon, the new waterfall had created below it a new watering hole, around if which the animals were resting and relaxing, with the baby elephant spraying some water with his trunk and Chika, Wiba and Guvu playing with the water by splashing it at each other. Kion, Bongo and Fuli were lying down on top of the rock at the bank watching over the watering hole, while Beshte was standing in the water with Ono on his back.
"I like this view." Fuli sighed, stretching her limbs.
"Me too." Kion agreed, laying on the rock above him with Fuli by his side.
"Yep. Everything is once again peaceful in the Pride Lands after the craziness that's happened today." Bongo agreed.
"Yeah. This is a great place to rest up after a rainstorm," Beshte noted.
"Until the next one." Ono reminded them.
"And I hope that Bunga has at least learned his lesson about not to abuse his "supposed" smartness." Bongo said with the eyeroll.
"Well, you know Bunga, Bongo." Kion told him. "That is until the next time he gets something crazy in his head."
"Hopefully that'll be not so soon." Bongo added, sighing and shaking his head. "It was today a total disaster with him, anyway."
"What's the matter, Bongo? Still sulking over Rafiki telling Bunga being smart, which he in the end wasn't, or sulking over your wounded, or should I say, prickled pride following your fall into that thorn bush?" Fuli asked jokingly, before the cheetah burst into another fit of laughter. "AH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAA!"
Bongo glared at Fuli for her joke, because, much to his dismay, his rear end was still full on thorns he hadn't nipped off yet.
However, Bongo's scowl soon turned into a sly smirk when he came up with an idea of payback for the cheeky cheetah.
"Hey, Fuli? If you can go fast, then can you think fast?" Bongo asked with the mischievious smirk. "Then think fast!"
With that, Bongo used his right hind leg to literally and swiftly kick Fuli off the rock, making the surprised and screaming cheetah to fall into the water with the splash.
The soaking wet Fuli glared up at Bongo, as he and Kion shared a laughter at this.
"Yeah. Very funny, guys." Fuli said sarcastically, shaking the water off her head.
Meanwhile, Timon was making himself comfortable on Pumbaa's tummy while the warthog was resting under the shadow of the tree, before the meerkat flopped onto his back and exhaled.
Nearby, Bunga was humming a tune to himself as he walked around the watering hole to find a spot to relax, walking past Rafiki as he was sitting in a meditative position on the flat rock.
"Hey! That spot with the flowers looks like the perfect place to bask in the sun." Bunga said, staring at the spot with the flowers.
"I would not lie there if I were you." Rafiki warned, opening his eyes and looking over one shoulder at Bunga.
"Pfft! Come on, Rafiki." Bunga scoffed, waving his paw dismissively. "I can tell the best spots to bask. After all, I'm the smartest animal around. You said so yourself," he reminded.
"You did not hear everything I said." Rafiki noted, holding a finger up. "I said that honey badgers are only smart when they think things through, which they do not."
"Think things through?" Bunga repeated, already in mid-air in his jump, before he landed with the SPLASH face-first in a pool of mud that was beneath the flowers.
"Whoo-hoo-hoo! You see?" Rafiki laughed. "Total disaster! Whoo-hoo-hoo!"
Bunga got up from the mud and looked down at himself and saw himself being covered with mud and stuck flowers.
"Huh. I guess I'm not so wise after all." he said before casually shrugged. "Oh, well. I can live with that." Bunga said as he folded his claws over the back of his head and lounged on his back in the mud.
THE END