- Rataxes: [Having just arrived before his army soldiers, Rataxes sits beside a table] The time has come to play our hand. The army's ready, now here's the plan.
- [Draws his knife and holds it over a map]
- Rataxes: At dawn we march on the Elephant Land!
- [laughing wickedly]
- Boy Babar: [watching on a ledge overhead with Celeste] No!
- Rataxes: By night, we'll reach the city wall. By morning... WE! SHALL RULE! THEM ALL!
- [slams his dagger into the map]
- Cornelius: We'll set up a committee, to discuss and interact,
- Pompadour: Then authorize a study to investigate the facts,
- Cornelius: Then summarize the data, to find out what we have to do! Get out all the files, we have work to do!
- Pompadour: We'll call in all the experts,
- Cornelius: To hear just what they say,
- Pompadour: What's their general agreement and consensus today?
- Cornelius: And then submit a survey, to get a public point of view!
- Pompadour: [cheerfully shouting] With colored charts, projected curves!
- Cornelius: Demographics, too! And then we'll stamp it, date it,
- Pompadour: Duplicate it,
- Cornelius: Double-space and collate it,
- Pompadour: Never fold or mutilate it, that will NEVER do!
- Cornelius: [in unison with Pompadour] Then send it to committee for review!
- Cornelius: Then we'll circulate a memo, to all the staff concerned,
- Pompadour: Discussing all our options, and note what we have learned,
- Cornelius: And then submit the matter to a thorough democratic debate!
- Pompadour: [excited and thrilled] It will be glorious, GLORIOUS!
- Young Celeste: [Babar and Celeste reach a rickety wooden bridge above the river] You've got to be kidding!
- Boy Babar: Huh?
- Young Celeste: We'd be safer crossing with the Rhinos!
- Boy Babar: [laughs] Come on, it's a..
- [nearly loses his footing]
- Boy Babar: Whoa!
- [high-pitched]
- Boy Babar: a piece of,
- [coughs]
- Boy Babar: a piece of cake.
- [Celeste steps forward]
- Boy Babar: You can do it, just don't look down!
- Young Celeste: It's too late... I looked!
- [jumps on Babar's back and holds on for dear life]
- Boy Babar: Well, Just hang on tight.
- Young Celeste: Okay!
- Boy Babar: Don't let go.
- Young Celeste: I won't!
- [Celeste closes her eyes and Babar carries her and a piece of wood snaps under their combined weight but they make it across undeterred]
- Young Celeste: How long have we been...
- [opens her eyes and realizes they're across and Babar has come to a complete stop then dismounts]
- Young Celeste: Oh, you!
- [Babar chuckles and Celeste chases him]
- Zephir: You must be nuts! Nobody wants to *find* Rataxes.
- Boy Babar: We do.
- Young Celeste: He's taken my Mother captive.
- Boy Babar: And We're going to rescue her.
- Zephir: And who's going to rescue *you*?
- [hides under leaf]
- Boy Babar: [Babar, Celeste and Zephir are heading back over the rickety bridge] Hurry up, Celeste!
- Young Celeste: I'm going as fast as I can.
- [falls through board and screams]
- Boy Babar: Celeste!
- Young Celeste: [swinging from a rope by her trunk] Babar!
- Boy Babar: Hang on, I'll pull you up.
- [uses his trunk to pull the vine]
- Boy Babar: Hold still!
- [strains to lift her, bridge collapses under his weight, Zephir falls too]
- Young Celeste: Babar!
- Boy Babar: Zephir! Climb up and throw down some vines!
- Zephir: No problem
- [climbs rope, rope snaps]
- Zephir: *Big* Problem!
- [the three of them fall into the river and are swept towards the rapids]
- Young Celeste: Babar!
- Boy Babar: Celeste!
- Zephir: Anybody!