The Outback Adventure

The Outback Adventure is a short story inspired by The Lion King. It was published by Grolier in 1996 as part of Disney's Year Book: 1996.
==Synopsis==
While hiking through the Australian Outback, Timon and Pumbaa stumbled upon an emu egg. The egg soon hatched, and the baby emu imprinted on Timon. Upon noticing that the baby emu was hungry, Timon and Pumbaa began feeding him grubs. When the emu continued to demand more and more food, however, the two resolved to find his mother.
First, Timon and Pumbaa searched a grove of eucalyptus trees. As they searched, a koala demanded that they keep the baby emu quiet. Though Timon and Pumbaa asked him if he had seen the infant's mother, he commanded them to leave and began throwing leaves and sticks at them. Timon kept one such stick to help him walk.
After leaving the eucalyptus grove, Timon and Pumbaa spent the rest of the day searching for the baby emu's mother, to no avail. Eventually, the trio reached a river, where a crocodile emerged from the water and offered the friends a ride on his back. Despite Timon's misgivings, the friends accepted the crocodile's offer. Just as they were about to reach the opposite bank, the crocodile attacked, and Timon used his walking stick to wedge its jaws open.
The friends fled the river until they were hot and tired. As Timon and Pumbaa were debating what to do next, they noticed a mother kangaroo searching for her baby, and Pumbaa proposed that they let her carry the baby emu to his mother. Timon approached the mother kangaroo, only for her to mistake him for her baby and stuff him into her pouch. She then carried him back to the other kangaroos, where she discovered that her real baby was already home.
After apologizing to Timon, the mother kangaroo asked if she could help him, and Pumbaa requested that she carry the baby emu back to his flock. She explained that she had seen a flock of emus nearby and agreed to carry the infant there. As she hopped away, carrying both her baby and the baby emu, Pumbaa remarked that Timon had been a bird's mama and a kangaroo's kid, then asked if he would be a monkey's uncle next.
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Category:The Lion King short stories
Category:Real world
Category:Short stories