Race for Your Life, Kion!

NatureRules1's updated movie spoof of Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown.

## Plot

The Lion Guard heads off to Camp Virginia somewhere in the mountains. Kion is accidentally left behind by the migration while at a desolate rest stop. He is then forced to hitch a harrowing ride with Blacky in order to make the rest of the journey to the camp, accompanied by rock guitar type riffs while he is roaring in excitement at Blacky's wild running.

Upon their arrival, the gang is immediately exposed to the regimentation and squalor of camp life which is a stark contrast to their comfortable residences back home. They are unfamiliar with the concept that the camp schedule is in the 24-hour clock (Shellington asks if "oh-five-hundred" [5:00 AM] is noon, and Olivia thinks "eighteen-hundred" [6:00 PM] is a year). Although they do their best to adjust to the rigors of camp life, Blacky, in a tent of his own, enjoys a feast while playing Planet Zoo on his computer set.

The gang must contend with a trio of ruthless hyenas (and their Griffon vulture, Brutus, vicious enough to intimidate even Blacky and Blu) who openly boast of them having won a raft race every year they have competed. The only thing that keeps them at bay is Zazu using his pecking (which also gets him unwanted attention from Olivia due to her praising the courage of her self-proclaimed "Leader of the Peacock"). It is revealed that they have only "won" through outright cheating — using a raft equipped with an outboard motor, direction finder, radar, and sonar. They also resort to every trick they could think of to hamper or destroy everyone else's chance to even make it to the finish line, much less win the race.

The gang is broken into three groups: the boys' group (consisting of Kion, Zazu, Ono, and Shellington), the girls' group (consisting of Serena, Korrina, Olivia, and Anga), and Blacky and Blu. Kion is the reluctant leader of the boys' group, struggling with insecurity but doing what he can to work things out and implement his decisions. His antithesis is Serena, the leader of the girls' group who is very confident despite her ineptitude as a leader, doing little more than stand around and give orders. Moreover, she insists on every decision - no matter how inconsequential - being confirmed by a vote of secret ballots. Predictably, when the voting is tied or she disagrees with the outcome, she often overrules the decision, to the disdain of the other girls. The bullies are overconfident; they use their cheating to burst ahead, but in their boasting, they fail to watch where they are going and crash into a dock, which costs them a lot of time and effort to dislodge their boat while the others sail past.

The groups see many unique sights along with the river race, such as mountains, forests, and a riparian logging community of houses built on docks. However, they also run into different obstacles: getting lost, stranded, storms, blizzards, and sabotage from the bullies. Blacky abandons the race to search tirelessly for Blu when a storm separates them; after a long search, they manage to find each other and are joyfully reunited. Blacky and Blu reunite with the gang by running into them at an abandoned cabin. Kion growls at the gang into his leadership role; ultimately, after the bullies sabotage everyone else's rafts, the boys' and girls' teams merge. Although treated as a scapegoat for problems, Kion handles it well, such as when the team is trapped on a dead-end of a water canyon; he decides that it is incumbent upon him as the leader to remove the obstacle.

Thanks to Kion's growing self-confidence and leadership, the gang have a good chance of winning the race at its climax, after overcoming considerable odds. Unfortunately, Serena incites the girls to celebrate too soon; they accidentally knock the boys overboard in their excitement. The girls attempt to rescue the boys, only to fall overboard themselves. The bullies seize the opportunity to pull ahead.

The bullies gloat about their apparently imminent victory, yet their brash over-confidence, infighting, and constant carelessness during the race have seen them become involved in numerous mishaps, causing them to suffer substantial damage to their raft. Just shy of the finish line, their raft finally gives out and sinks. This leaves Blacky and Blu as the only contenders left. Brutus slashes Blacky's inner tube with his talons, but Blu promptly builds a raft of twigs and continues toward victory. When Brutus attacks Blu, Blacky decks him and Blu wins the race. (It is never explained whether Blacky won the race at the end.) Conceding defeat, the hyenas vow vengeance last year. Their threats, however, are humiliatingly cut short when Blacky roughly beats up Brutus for threatening Blu again; this sends Brutus flying to the banner, now terrified of Blacky's wrath.

As the gang lines on migration to depart for home, Kion decides aloud to use the experience as a lesson to be more confident and assertive and to believe in himself. Unfortunately, right after he finishes speaking, the migration began again with Kion.

## Cast

* Kion (from The Lion Guard) as Charlie Brown
* Panamanian White-faced Capuchin as Snoopy
* Blu (from Rio 1 and 2) as Woodstock
* Olivia The Pig (from TV Series) as Sally Brown
* Anga (from The Lion Guard) as Lucy van Pelt
* Zazu (from The Lion King) as Linus van Pelt
* Serena (from Pokemon XY) as Peppermint Patty
* Korrina (from Pokemon XY) as Marcie
* Greater Roadrunners, Greater Rheas, Cassowaries, Emus and Ostriches as Longhorns
* Steller's Sea Eagle as Camp Announcer
* Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo as Bugles
* Ono (from The Lion Guard) as Schroeder
* Shellington (from Octonauts) as Franklin
* Secretary Bird as Bear
* Andean Condor as Owl
* Ruppell's Griffon Vulture as Brutus the Cat
* Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed as Bully #1, Bully #2, and Bully #3
* Bald Eagle as Weather Announcer
* Victoria Crowned Pigeon as Violet
* Indian Peafowl as Patty
* Bearded Vulture as Five
* Mute Swan as Frieda
* Red-Crowned Crane as Roy