Armadillamingkat Begins
A Lion King/Timon Pumbaa fanfic
by DecaTilde
Chapter 1 - Father and Son
It's been quite some time since the Calgiostro Laboratory exploded, and since the Mook Island adventure, and since then, both Doctors Cagliostro and Screwloose befriended.
During his time since the lab explosion, Dr. Cagliostro managed to find love in his assistant Torgo, who was rendered beautiful in the aftermath of the destruction of his machine, the metamorphitron. It's main purpose was to change the appearance of any animal, be they ugly or beautiful.
Since his decision to be nice to people, Dr. Screwloose made up with his old flame, Tiffany, and even managed to check the math on his experiments.
More recently, Dr. Screwloose helped Dr. Cagliostro rebuild the metamorphitron, and together, they made a deal to clone animal DNA using their experiments. Luckily, Dr. Screwloose had a piece of meerkat fur left over from a few years ago for a test.
"Cagliostro," Dr. Screwloose addressed, "I have just the piece to begin our test for Project X-Mammal." With that, he showed Dr. Cagliostro the meerkat fur.
"Perfect," Dr. Cagliostro replied. "We must begin with the metamorphosis at once." He called his assistant, "Torgo my love, place the fur in the metamorphitron."
"Torgo obey," replied Torgo, who had the appearance of a tall beautiful blonde woman wearing a red dress, as the scientist handed her the fur.
Meanwhile, after receiving a letter, redhead meerkat Timon Berkowitz and his warthog friend Pumbaa Smith were called to the island unexpectedly.
"This place still gives me the creeps, Pumbaa," Timon addressed, shuddering in fear. "Last time we were here, those clones of me were really angry at me for calling them dumb."
"Dumb?" Pumbaa repeated. "You were rude to those clones. As I said to you before, Timon, if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all."
"Well, at least bad old Dr. Screwloose turned over a new leaf, last I heard of him," Timon shrugged.
The duo walked over to the castle-apparent laboratory on the island. When they approached the wooden gate, Pumbaa knocked the door.
"Now be polite, Timon," Pumbaa addressed. "If Dr. Screwloose gets angry at you, don't blame me."
When the gate opened, the duo gasped in shock and horror upon the sight of...
"Dr. Cagliostro?!" they shouted.
"Ah, my most-favorite specimens," the doctor greeted. "I was expecting you. Please come in."
The two went in and followed him to the main lab where Dr. Screwloose was next to a large blanketed object.
"What is this about, doctors?" Timon asked uneasily. "If this is about mutating me again, or cloning me again..."
"Actually, Mr. Berkowitz," Dr. Screwloose interrupted, "it's something that's going to change your life forever. As you and Mr. Smith may have known, I became a changed man, and decided to become a nice person after repenting. And my good friend Dr. Cagliostro and I have started a project. However, after you see the result of our test for this project, we need your okay."
"My okay?" Timon repeated, confused. "My okay for what, exactly?"
"Torgo?" Dr. Cagliostro addressed.
The assistant pulled back the sheet to reveal a liquid-filled test tube. Inside the tube was a familiar-looking creature; it was about the same size as Timon, only the creature had pink fur all over its body, the head and tail feathers and legs of a chicken or fowl, a large fuchsia nose, cat whiskers, and an armadillo back with yellow rock-like features. They gasped in surprise at the appearance of this creature.
"Hey," Timon said in awe. "That looks like... me, when the metamorphitron mutated me."
"Of course he does," Dr. Cagliostro replied. "Of course, he's not a clone. He's... your son."
"My son?!" Timon repeated.