Bagheera Asks Colonel Hathi for Help

(Shere Khan comes close to a deer grazing, lies down ready to pounce, but elephants trumpet and the deer runs away)

Elephants march and sing: Hup, two, three, four Hup, two, three, four Keep it up, two, three, four.

Shere Khan: What beastly luck. Confound that ridiculous colonel Hathi.

Hathi: Comany, sound off!

Elephants march and sing: Oh we march from here to there

Elephant #3: And it doesn't matter where

Elephants: You can hear us push

Through the deepest bush

Hup, two, three, four

Hathi: With a military air!

Elephants: With a military air

(The elephants trumpet)

Rarity: (riding on trolley) Mowgli!

Sunset Shimmer: (riding on trolley) Come on! You have to be somewhere!

Pinkie Pie: (riding on trolley) Mowgli!

(They hear the elephants trumpet)

Foghorn: Do you hear that?

Bagheera: The jungle patrol.

Elephants: We're a crackerjack bridage

On a pachyderm parade

But we'd rather stroll

To a water hole

Hathi Jr: Hup, two, three, four

Elephants: For a furlough in the shade

Bagheera: (arrives) stop!

(Elephants don't notice)

Sci-Twi: I think you mean halt.

Bagheera: You're right. HALT!!!

(Elephants stop, crashing into each other)

Hathi: Who said "Halt"? I give the commands around here. Now speak up, who was it?

Bagheera: Oh, it was me, colonel.

Daffy: And us as well.

Hathi: What do you mean, taking over my command? Highly irregular you know.

Bagheera: Colonel, I am sorry, but-but I need your help.

(Shere Khan comes closer to listen)

Hathi: Impossible. We're on a cross-country march.

Bagheera: It's an emergency, colonel. The man-cub must be found.

Hathi: Man-cub? What man-cub?

Shere Khan: How interesting...

Bagheera: The one I was taking to the man-village.

Hathi: It's where he belongs. Now sir, if you don't mind, we'd like to get on with the march.

Sunset Shimmer: No, no, you don't understand, Hathi.

Foghorn: He's lost. He ran away.

Shere Khan: How delightful.

Hathi: Well, serves the young wippersnapper right.

Bagheera: But-but Shere Khan, the tiger, he's sure to pick up the man-cub's trail.

(Shere Khan nods)

Hathi: Ha, ha. Shere Khan. Nonsense, old boy. Shere Khan isn't within miles of here. (Shere Khan chuckles) Sorry Bagheera. Fortunes of war and all that sort of thing you know.

Winifred: (walks to Hathi) This has gone far enough.. Now just a minute, you pompous old windbag!

Hathi: Winifred? What are you doing out of ranks?

Winifred: Never mind. How would you like our boy lost and alone inthe jungle? (Hathi Jr. poses as illustration for the words)

Hathi: Our son? But Winifred, old girl, that's an entirely different matter.

Winifred: Humph!

Hathi: Different. Entirely.

Winifred: That boy is no differnet than our own son. Now you help find him or I'm taking over command.

Hathi: What? A female leading my herd? Utterly preposterous.

Hathi Jr.: Pop, the man-cub and I are friends. He'll get hurt if we don't find him. Please, Pop? Sir? Please?

Hathi: Now, don't you worry, son. You father had a plan in mind all the time.

Winifred: Huh. Sure you did.

Hathi: Troopers, Company, left face! Volunteers for a special mission will step one pace forward. (Hathi turn around, all elephants do one step behind, except Elephant #3, who then notices it and step behind too)

Hathi: Ha, ha. That's what I like to see. Devotion to duty. You volunteers will find the lost man-cub.

Bagheera: Thank you colonel. Now there's no time to lose. (Bagheera, Sci-Twi, Sunset Shimmer, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Daffy, and Foghorn leave)

Rarity: (riding on trolley in Dorothy's voice) Goodbye, Colonel Hathi, and thanks a lot.

Hathi: Yes, well. Good luck. (in whisper) When the man-cub is sighted, you will sound your trumpet 3 times.

Elephant #2: Yes sir. (he trumpets and Hathi silences him)

Hathi: Shh. Not now soldier.

Elephant #2: Sorry, sir.

Hathi (comes to Elephant #7): Leutenant, our strategy shall be the element of surprise. You will take one squad and cover the right flank (Shere Khan leans forward to hear the whisper)

Elephant #7: Yes sir.

Hathi: (even quieter) And I shall take the other squad on the left flank (very loud) Company!!! Forward... March!

(Elephants walk away, falling trees as they go)

Shere Khan: Element of surprise? I say. Ha, ha, ha. And now for my rendezvous with the lost man-cub.