Well... after some encouraging comments from reviewers... I'm keeping the publishing of this story. On this chapter, all the characters are copyrighted to Disney, including Fearless Buzz, who is a character cut from the final version of The Lion King 1,5: Hakuna Matata. Most of this is novelisation of an excerpt of the movie... except for one short scene. But this fanfic also mixes the two movies. Now that it's over, let's begin.
Edit: I've just made a small correction, because one reviewer kindly pointed one small blooper that I had done.
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Chapter 3 – The meerkat colony
/"Digga tunnah." song. Is like the one seen in the movie, but also has an extra verse, that was cut from the final version. We can see an almost completely desert landscape, with some herbs growing, and a lot of holes on the ground. Suddenly one meerkat comes out, and a lot of them follow him, until the screen seems full of meerkats. As they come out, they begin to sing./
What was that?! Shh!
What was that?!
What was that?!
Where? What?
Where? Where? Shh!
What was that?
/Camera changes to two meerkats that are on sentry duty, looking for predadors, like hyenas. The camera focuses on one, but allows seeing the other a little further./
Quick before the hyena comes.
/Camera changes to focuse on the other meerkat. The other meerkat shouts "Clear." The others come in the holes. We see meerkats digging down and in diagonal./
Digga tunnah
Dig, digga tunnah
/The meerkats digging in diagonal of the screen come off screen, but other meerkats appear, digging holes for the diagonal in the opposite direction, that cross with the previous ones./
When you're done you dig a bigger tunnah
/The meerkats begin digging just for down./
Digga tunnah
Dig, digga tunnah
/Camera changes to meerkats carrying stones and small logs. One of the smallest tries to help three adults carrying one of the small logs./
Quick before the hyena come
DIG
Digga tunnah
Dig, digga tunnah
/Camera changes to the main tunnel, and from the ceiling of that tunnel come out the previous digging meerkats./
You can dig and never get done
/The digging meerkats begin digging the ground of the tunnel. The singing keeps going. The parenthetical parts are some counterpoint singing./
Digga tunnah (Dig a little faster)
Dig, digga tunnah
/A lot of meerkats comes out of their holes, asking in unison "What was that?" They look at both sides./
Quick before the hyena come
/They come into their holes and song continues. Camera changes to a particular meerkat carrying a stone./
Sing the ballad of Fearless Buzz
/The meerkat comes out of the way, and we see a drawing on the wall of the tunnel. The drawing is of a meerkat with a challenging expression./
Bravest meerkat there ever was
/Camera changes to two meerkats, carrying a small log./
Said no meerkat should have to hide
/The two meerkats come out of the way, and we see another drawing in the wall of the tunnel. This time, Buzz seems to be outside, shouting to meerkats half-hidden in their borrows./
Wiped his paws off and went outside
/Camera changes to another meerkat carrying a stone./
Fought a fearsome hyena back
/The meerkat comes out of the way and we see a drawing of Buzz fighting a hyena with a stick./
Beat him 'till he was blue and black
/Camera changes to another drawing. We see six hyenas baring their teeth at Buzz./
But he forgot hyenas won in the pack
/Camera steps back a little bit. We see a lot of meerkats griefing at the memory of Buzz./
Meerkat bravey was meerkat snack
/Camera changes to a lot of meerkats in line, as they pass stones to each other./
Digga tunnah
Dig, digga tunnah
When you're done you dig a bigger tunnah
/Camera changes to a meerkat with red hair – that we recognize as Timon – who isn't doing anything and is particularly sad./
Digga tunnah
Dig, digga tunnah
/A lot of meerkats come out from holes on the ceiling and on the floor, and ask: "What was that?" They look at both directions. Song continues./
Quick before the hyena comes
/The meerkats come back into their holes. More other meerkats walk through the tunnel./
Digga tunnah is what we do
/The first meerkat grabs a stone, and the others keep passing it to the other who is behind him./
Life's a tunnah we're digging through
/More meerkats come out from the wall of the tunnel, leaving holes behind./
Digga tunnah is what we sing
/Camera steps back a little bit, and we see more meerkats carrying a small log./
Digga tunnah is everything
/Some meerkats carrying three small logs come to a corridor./
Mud and clay are a meerkat's friend
Always more around every bend
/The meerkats put the logs upright, showing that the logs are to help to keep the tunnel normal. Some meerkats come into the scene, dancing./
And when you get to your tunnah's end
Hallelujah, let's dig again
DIG!
/Camera changes to another line of meerkats with each one passing a stone to each other, always in the same direction. The parenthetical parts are some counterpoint singing./
Digga tunnah
Dig, digga tunnah (Digga tunnah)
When it's done you dig a bigger tunnah
Digga tunnah (Dig a little faster)
Dig, digga tunnah
/A lot of meerkats come out from holes on the ceiling and on the floor, and ask: "What was that?" They look at both directions. Song continues./
Quick before the hyena comes
/Camera changes to a fat female meerkat with orange hair – that we recognize as Ma - who is walking between the meerkats, but in the opposite direction. Song finishes./
"Timon", called Ma. She tried to ask to other meerkats: "Have you seen my son? Has he been through here?"
But no meerkat paid attention to her. Ma then turned to her uncle, Uncle Max, who was carrying a stone while he kept singing: "Digga tunnah, dig, digga tunnah".
"Uncle Max?" asked Ma.
Uncle Max got startled, dropped the stone, and shrank into himself with a terrified expression.
"Uncle Max, relax." said Ma. "Have you seen Timon?"
"No, I haven't." said Uncle Max, calming down. "And what a day it's been. No fractures, no lacerations, no concussions, contusions, or injuries or any sort."
Ma seemed to get more annoyed as her Uncle Max kept going, but she didn't say anything.
"As a matter of fact, there's no sign of Timon's handiwork anywhere!" concluded Uncle Max happily.
But, in the second after, Uncle Max got sorry for having said that, because a crack that extended to all the length of the tunnel was opened in the ceiling. The whole tunnel crashed. In the end, there were a lot of meerkats coming out from the sand. No one of them was happy, but Uncle Max was by far the most annoyed.
"That… would be… TIMON!" shouted an almost uncontrolled Uncle Max, as all the meerkats began looking at Timon, who was grabbing the only thing that left from the tunnel: a ring of dirt held up on a narrow protrusion.
"Hey, everybody!" said Timon, embarassed, trying to smile, but deep inside he knew that everyone was disappointed at him.
"Nice work, Timon." said a meerkat with ochre fur and brown hair, in a sarcastic tone.
"Way to go, tunnel klutz." said a meerkat with pale golden fur and black hair, with an annoyed voice.
"Who else could break a hole?" asked a meerkat with ochre fur and brown hair to himself, in a voice that is somewhere betwenn sarcastic and desperate.
"Four in one week, a new record!" said a meerkat with brown fur and blond hair, in a completely desperate tone.
"Not again." said Ma in a resignate tone.
"What?" asked Timon. Then, he added, in a defiant tone. "It's called a skylight!"
Then, the "skylight" crumbled to nothing, leaving the other meerkats even madder at Timon.
"Wow, isn't that creative?" asked Ma, dusting Timon off. "A skylight."
But, as the meerkats got angrier, Ma realized that discretion is the best part of valor, and grabbed Timon by his right arm, leading him to outside the collapse scene, saying: "I'll just have a word with him."
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"I was just trying to shed a little light on our pathetic existence." said Timon with a sad voice while Ma led him to outside the collapse scene.
"Timon, this can't go on." said Ma, when they finally got away from the collapsed tunnel, arriving to a zone that has some grass growing on the ground, but all of it is yellow and dry.
"Just this month, you've pulled down four walls and collapsed two tunnel exits." continued Ma. She licked her left hand, and began combing Timon's head, before returning to the talk: "We have to look after each other. Our survival depends on it."
"But what's the point of this?" asked Timon nervously. "All what we do is dig so we can hide, and hide so we can dig!"
Ma had finished combing Timon's hair, but, shortly after Timon stopped talking, his hair poofed up into a bunch of spikes.
"I wanna be where we don't have to dig tunnels and live with our heads stuck in the sand!" said Timon, putting his hands on his head and putting his hair to the normal position. Then, he opened a gap in the high grass, and asks loud: "What's so bad about dreaming of a better home?"
"I wanna show you something." said Ma, joining to Timon in the gap that he opened in the grass. She continued: "Look, Timon. Come on, look!"
Timon looked, and saw a panoramic view of his homeland, a relatively dry place with some half-dry grass growing on the ground, and some sparse trees. Timon looked beyond.
"Look out the horizon, past the trees, over the grasslands."
As Ma kept speaking, Timon looked, with a growing smile and a more and more dreaming look.
"Everyting the light touches… belongs to someone else!" concluded Ma sharply.
Timon got really disappointed and bored by the end of the sentence. He closed the gap that he opened in the grass, and said to Ma: "Funny, I thought you were going to a whole different direction with this."
"What can I say? It's nature's design." said Ma, while leading Timon to another place.
But suddenly, Uncle Max appeared from the grass, and shouted: "She's right, we're food for the other animals – a moveable feast! Feared by no one and eaten by all!"
While he shouted, he was grabbing Timon by his shoulders, while shaking him from one side to another.
"But when they die, they become the grass, and we eat the grass, right?" asked Timon, hopefully.
He didn't even know why he thought about this, probably some last resource to keep the meerkats connected with the other animals in another way that wasn't being eaten.
But Uncle Max destroyed his hopes by saying: "Not exactly; we can't digest grass. We're grass intolerant."
"Thank you, Uncle Max." said Ma, while snatching Timon away from his granduncle. Then she said to Timon: "Honey, I…"
But Uncle Max didn't allow her to finish the sentence, as he appeared from another stand of grass, and shouted: "Meerkat… is what's for dinner!"
"Thank you, Uncle Max!" almost shouted Ma, with an increasingfully sarcastic tone, pointing somewhere off into the distance.
Uncle Max groaned, but finally understood the message, and disappeared.
"I think Uncle Max dislodged one too many rocks with his skull." said Timon, poking his head with his finger.
"But he's right, Timon." said Ma. She started combing Timon's hair again, and then said: "I just know there's a way for you to fit in here."
Ma grabbed a bug that was flying close, squashed it into hair gel, and began putting it on Timon's hair. When she finished, Timon glowered from under his plastered down hair. Then, a single hair sprang back up again, and Timon sighed.
Then, Uncle Max's voice shouted from somewhere: "All right, who's on sentry duty?"
When she heard that, Ma perked up with inspiration, gasped, and said: "That's it! My son on sentry duty! Timon the sentry!
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"TIMON THE SENTRY?" shouted a terrified Uncle Max after being told of the idea by Ma. "Why don't you save the hyenas the trouble and kill me now? Just kill me now!"
"He has a point." said Timon, making Uncle Max to cover his face with his hands, terrified.
"All you have to do is watch for the hyenas and yell if you see one." said Ma, trying to calm them down. "Look at Iron Joe."
But if that was pretended to be the way to calm them down, it failed slightly, because when they looked at Iron Joe, he was in the middle of a nervous breakdown, shouting: "Don't close your eyes! Don't look away! Somebody's gotta guard us! Somebody's gotta protect us!"
In the end, he fell in the arms of other two meerkats, who took him away, while he sobbed persistently.
"Now I'm convinced." said Timon sarcastically.
"Listen…" said Ma, in an another attempt to cheer them up. "It's outside, up in the breeze, under the wide open sky, isn't that what you wanted?"
Then, she turned to Uncle Max, saying: "Or maybe you would rather have him go back on the digging crew."
"No!" shouted Uncle Max, Timon, and the whole colony.
Ma, Timon and Uncle Max turned their heads around to see that the other meerkats were looking at them, listening contently. When they realized that they were discovered, they began pretending nonchalance and clearing their throats.
"Good." said Ma. "Then we all agree. Timon, listen to Uncle Max. He'll teach you everything you need to know." Then she concluded earnstly, just to Timon: "And honey… try to make this one work."
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"Scurry, sniff, flinch!" shouted Uncle Max, while demonstrating the action. "Scurry, sniff, flinch! Scurry, sniff, flinch!"
However, Timon was unimpressed, and barely paid any attention to Uncle Max.
"Good." said Uncle Max, concluding the demonstration. He came close to Timon, and asked: "What do we do if we see a hyena?"
"Scream: Mommy?" answered Timon, trying to guess.
"That's right mister…" said Uncle Max. "… because the world out there is fraught with danger. Fraught, I tell you!"
"Oh, boy, it's the Fraught Fest." said Timon sarcastically over Uncle Max.
"Even all bloodthristy hyenas are waiting there waiting for rip us limb from limb." shouted Uncle Max, pantoming furiously.
"Bra-vo, Uncle Max." said Timon, applauding sarcastically. "Way to sell it to the cheap sits."
"Appauld now, sonny boy…" said Uncle Max, grabbing Timon's hands, and looking him right on the eyes, with his nose really close to Timon's nose. He then stepped back, and concluded: "But try clapping when you don't have any hands."
Then Uncle Max left Timon and went away.
Timon gulped, looked at his hands, and for once, he decided to take up his responsibility, and being on sentry. He took up his position on the rock.
"Scurry, sniff, flinch!" said Timon, while doing the actions that he said. "Scurry, sniff, flinch!"
Then, Timon realized that he liked the sound of that, and of the movements that he made, and said: "I like the sound of that."
He began dancing, while repeating: "Scurry, sniff, flinch." four times.
/"That's all I need" song. It's like the one seen in the movie. Timon begins singing./
There's more to life than panic
And being some other guy's snack. Yuck!
/Three hyenas – that we recognize as Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed – pop up from behind a rock in the background./
I may be delicious, organic
/The three hyenas disappear, and Timon makes some fighting movements./
But this little entree's fighting back!
I'm gonna put digging tunnels behind me
/Timon begins climbing a tree./
And live at a new altitude
/Timon climbs 'till the top of the tree. He arrives to the top, with two hand-fulls of leafs./
I'm gonna reach the stars to remind me
/Timon throws the leafes to the air./
That meerkats are not merely food!
For once I'll be…
/Timon's imagination begins working, as he jumps on a cloud, and the cloud begins moving on the sky./
Lookin' out for me…
/The moving cloud leads Timon to some big clouds, that hide a paradise of some green paradise with waterfalls, and lots of green trees, way different of Timon's home./
Yeah! I'll tell you what I want
/Timon jumps from the cloud to the waterfall, and begins surfing on it./
This cat's moving on
He's a bon vivant
Who's missin' out on bon
/Timon arrives to end of the waterfall, gets floating in the air for some moments, and dives in the water./
I'd be a bigger cheese
Far from the desert scene
A little cooling breeze
A little patch of green
/Timon swims inside a swarm of coloured fishes. They transform in coloured butterflies, who slowly come out of the way, revealing a coloured butterfly as Timon keeps singing./
And I'll be snoozing in my hammock
/The last butterfly comes out of the way, revealing Timon in a hammock with a drink, while two peacocks who are waving their tails to cool down the singing Timon/
By a ripping stream
Many miles from any tunnel
And the digging team
/Two huge bugs appear in front of the camera and block the view of Timon./
Looking after the number one
Will be my only creed
/Camera steps back, revealing lots of bugs, and Timon is under them. His eyes and mouth can be seen./
That's all I need
/Timon slurps all the bugs./
That's all I need
/Camera steps back even more, revealing that Timon slurped only a small part of the bugs. He is on the top of a "mountain of bugs" and begins making tap dancing while he keeps singing./
I've always been good at running away
Well, now I'm gonna run the show
I've always been seen as the ultimate prey.
/The background imagined by Timon disappears, revealing that he was on the top of the rock during all the time./
But now my status ain't so quo
/Camera zooms forward, and we only see Timon, part of the rock, and some of the sky behind the rock./
A dream sublime
/Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed appear around Timon./
It's hyena time…
/Suddenly, Timon becomes aware that the three hyenas surrounded him, and gets panicked. Song finishes./
"Oh, look, it's dinner with a show!" said Shenzi, clapping.
"And I thought beans were the only musical food." said Banzai.
Ed simply laughs stupidely.
Timon, on the other hand, is completely paralysed. He never thought that he would have to see those three hyenas again, ever since that day.
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"Dad, why do meerkats have to live hidden in the sand?" asked a younger Timon to his father, Buzz, commonly nicknamed Fearless Buzz.
A big hyena with two round cuts on each ear, and a merry smile had just appeared, but it had been stopped by the meerkat who was on sentry duty, and all the meerkats managed to hide in the den. However, the hyena was still on the outside, walking around, and waiting for any meerkat that would come out.
"I can't answer to that question, son." said Buzz. "Well, it's the Circle of Life. We have to hide, simply, and that's over."
"Don't tell me that you like to hide?" asked Timon, with a little bit annoyed voice.
"No, son, I don't like to hide." said Buzz, sighing. "In fact, if it was for me I would have left the meerkats colony a lot of time ago… to some beautiful place, outside, a place where I didn't have to hide or get worried."
"Why didn't you go?" asked Timon, getting curious.
"Well, I met your mom, I fell in love with her… and then I suggested her that we would leave to the beautiful land that I described you. But she refused."
"Why, dad?" asked Timon, without understanding.
"Well, I wanted to go, but your mother was pregnant of you." answered Buzz. "Then, she told me that we would raise you here on the meerkat colony, and one day, when you had enough age, we would all go to the paradise that I described you."
"Stop putting such nonsense in the head of the poor little guy!" shouted Uncle Max, who was passing by. "He's just a kid! Do you want him to be as crazy as you?"
"I'm not crazy, and my son won't be crazy!" shouted the furious Buzz. "What's so crazy about wishing for a better life?"
"Meerkats wishing for a better life is against the Circle of Life!" shouted Uncle Max. "Big animals can wish for a better life… like if they don't have one good enough already… BUT MEERKATS HAVE TO LIFE THIS LIFE, AND CAN'T CHOOSE!"
"That's a lie!" said Timon. "We can choose! We are living creatures, with brain, paws, organs, senses, and emotions! Like all the other animals! If the other animals can wish for a better life, why can't we?"
"Because we are small!" shouted Uncle Max. "Big animals can choose, small animals have to accept their lives, and live them, even if they don't like it!"
"That's not true!" shouted Buzz, getting more and more furious. "No meerkat should have to hide! And I'll prove right now! I'll go outside, fight that hyena, and, if I defeat him, you will have to recognize that meerkats don't have to live hidden in the sand!"
"No, Buzz!" shouted Ma, trying to stop him. "Don't go!"
"Relax, dear." said Buzz, smiling at her. "I will return."
And so, Buzz came out of the den. The hyena saw him, and attacked him, but Buzz avoided the attack, and bit the hyena's tail with all the strenght that he had. The hyena squeaked, and then Buzz grabbed a stick from the ground, jumped on the hyena's back, and started hitting the hyena with the stick. The hyena squeaked for each time that the stick hit him, and tried running away, but without result.
Buzz, thinking that is enough, jumped from the hyena's back, and assumed a heroic position. All the meerkats had been watching him.
"Maybe Buzz is right." said Uncle Max, thinking. "Maybe meerkats don't have to hide."
"Uncle Max, if that is so, why don't you apologize to dad?" said Timon, smiling at him.
All the meerkats came back into their holes, and Uncle Max went to apologize to Buzz.
"Well, Buzz…" said Uncle Max, seeming to be shameful. "I… want… to…"
"Strange." said Buzz, seeming that he didn't hear Uncle Max. "The sky got darker."
"I want to apol…"
"AAAH!" shouted Buzz, seeming terrified.
"What?" asked Uncle Max.
Then, Buzz, who seemed unable to speak, grabbed Uncle Max's head, and turned it up, and he could see why the sky got darker. Three huge hyenas were above them. The one that Buzz had defeated, and two more. Two males, and one female. Three more hyenas were waiting slightly further.
"What is the one who defeated you, Ed?" asked the female, looking to the one that Buzz had defeated.
Ed pointed to Buzz.
"Alright then, let's eat him." said the other male.
Then, the three hyenas threw their jaws to Fearless Buzz, and the poor meerkat disappeared in them. Terrified, Uncle Max barely managed to run to the nearest hole, and dive in it.
"What happened, Uncle Max?" asked Ma, where. "Where's Buzz?"
"Well…" said Uncle Max. "Buzz… is dead. The hyenas ate him."
"Oh, no…" said Ma.
She began to cry on Uncle Max's shoulder, while Uncle Max tried unsuccesfully to confort her.
"At least, tell me that Timon hasn't seen anything!" said Ma.
"I'm sorry…" said Uncle Max. "But he saw everything. He was outside, watching me trying to apologize to his father, and probably saw everyhing."
Ma ran to her son, who is looking on the horizon with seemingly dead eyes.
Ma hugged him, and then Timon reacted, asking: "What the hyenas did to dad?"
"I'm sorry, Timon." said Ma, hugging her son more and more. "They killed him."
Finally, Timon began crying in his mother's shoulder.
"I promise that I'll never let anything happen to you." said Ma.
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Timon's constant memory of what had happened to his father, and his mother's overprotective-ness had worked to keep him in the meerkats colony. Since that day, he had never seen those three hyenas again.
Now, to believe that he was actually seeing them again was like his worst nightmare come true. He had to warn the colony, but he only managed to say: "Hy-hy-hy…"
"Well, hi to you too!" said Shenzi, hitting Timon, and sending him rolling down the hill, agaisnt Uncle Max.
Uncle Max got on the ground for some time, but then he took Timon off him, and said: "This is no time for horseplay, Timon! You're supposed to be up there looking for…"
Then Uncle Max looked up, and sees the hyenas approaching, snickering.
"…Hyenas!" concluded a terrified Uncle Max.
All the meerkats popped up in terror, looking at the hyenas, and they all ran around in a chaotic dash for cover, while screaming with fear.
"Whoa, look at'em scramble." said Banzai.
"And that's just how I like them." said Shenzi.
A line of meerkats led by Uncle Max crashed onto Shenzi's snout.
"Scrambled." said Shenzi, before slurping Uncle, Max, lifting him to the air.
"And a little bit runny." she concluded, dropping Uncle Max.
While all the meerkats were running around, trying to escape the hyenas, Timon was static, covering his hand with his arms, paralysed with fear. But, for some reason, the hyenas ignored him, and turned to the other meerkats. Realizing that, Timon sighed at relief, but stopped when he felt himself being pulled.
He tried to grab the ground, but without success. He was pulled to inside one hole, where he realized that was his mom who pulled him.
"Get in here!" shouted Ma. "What are you, a meshugginah?"
"Your father died because of that!" she wanted to add, but she stopped in the last moment.
Meanwhile, on the outside, Ed was guarding a hole. He repeatdly tried to snap every meerkat that comes in the hole, but missed all of them. However, he blocked the hole before Uncle Max could come in. Uncle Max was terrified.
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Inside the den, Ma called for every meerkat, to see if everyone was there.
"Stumpy?"
"Here!"
"Flinchy?"
"Here!"
"Swifty?"
"Here!"
"Oh, what a relief. Everybody's…" started to say Ma, but then she gasped when she realized something, and shouted: "Where's Uncle Max?"
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Uncle Max was outside, trying to run for his life while the three hyenas pursued him. He ran to a second tunnel entrance, where lots of meerkats appeared and gasped at the sight. They all began to shout the most varied things to Uncle Max, like "Run for your life!" or "Play dead." or "Andale!" or "Almost there!" and even "You've got it, Max!"
But it was too late. Uncle Max was overtaken by the hyenas, and all the meerkats shielded their eyes as they heard crunching sounds.
They all came back inside the den, where they stayed, standing in shock, as, suddenly, Uncle Max dropped from the ceiling, falling in the middle of the meerkats, and without the fur of his tail. He got up, and said: "I flinched when I should've scurried." and then collapsed again.
Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed abandonned the place, and seemed somewhat satisfied with themselves, in spite of having captured anything.
"It just never gets old, does it?" asked Banzai.
"Oh, the classics never do, honey!" said Shenzi.
But, inside the den, everybody was angry at Timon, without listening to his attempts of apologizing.
"I… uh… I guess I owe everyone an apology." said Timon. But no one seemed to forgive him, so he tried a different technique: "All right, so I made a teensy mistake. Like we all haven't broken into song on sentry duty before. Come on. Let me have a show of hands."
But all the meerkats wandered off, disgusted, and Timon tried to change tactics again, by saying: "Okay. …Maybe it's a little too soon, but I'm sure we're all gonna laugh about this someday. Trust me!"
All the meerkats were looking at Timon severely, except Ma.
"I did trust you." said Uncle Max.
"But…" tried to start Timon after a pause, but he realized that he couldn't continue.
All the meerkats filed out after a while, except Ma. Timon sighed.
Some time later, Timon was outside, sitting in the rock, and watching the sunset. Ma was watching him, and, after a short moment, she approached Timon.
"Aw, sweetie." she tried to begin, but Timon didn't let her conclude.
"I'm never gonna fit in here. Nobody even likes me."
"Sure they do, honey!" said Ma, trying to cheer him up. "Sure they do."
"Besides you, Ma." said Timon, a little bit annoyed.
"Besides me…" said Ma, thinking. "There's…"
"I have to find my place, but it isn't here." said Timon, getting up.
He prepared to go away, but Ma hugged him, and said: "Yes, it is. We just haven't found it yet. But we will…"
She released Timon, but began combing his hair again, while saying: "Oh, here's an idea. You can run a trail…"
"Stop with the hair already!" said Timon impatiently. "My place is out there, Ma. I may not know exactly where, or how far, but I gotta go!"
In fact, the idea had returned to him since the time when the three hyenas had attacked. The hyenas brought up the memory of his father's death, but also the memory of the promise of a better life that his father had done to him. And in mind, he had already decided. His father could be dead, but he would look for a better life eitherway, and, if Ma didn't want to go, he would go alone.
However, Ma didn't want to leave her son go that easily, and tried one last idea.
"No, wait, wait, wait." said Ma. "I know. If we just..."
"Ma!" said Timon, sternly.
Then, Timon began leaving, without saying another word. Ma was silent for some time, then she said: "Well, I hope you find what you're looking for, honey."
By hearing that, Timon smiled, and turned back to hug his mom, for one last time.
"Oh, I love you." said Ma, in a motherly tone.
"I love you, Ma…" said Timon.
The hug lasted for quite a long time. Timon released Ma, but Ma kept hugging him tighter and tighter, saying: "Oh, Timmy. My Timmy."
"Mom… choking… not breathing…" said Timon, but Ma only hugged him tigher and tigher. Timon concluded: "And people wonder why I have issues."
Finally, the hug ended.
"I'll be okay." said Timon in a reassuring tone.
"I know you will." said Ma wistfully. "You will."
Ma slowly let go Timon's hands, and Timon began walking away from Ma. But Ma didn't want her son to leave without some advices.
"Be careful!" shouted Ma.
"I will." replied Timon while walking
"Don't talk to strangers!" shouted Ma, in a less distinguishable tone.
"I know, Ma!" said Timon while walking.
"Remember, wash behind your ears!" shouted Ma, in an even less distinguishable voice.
"MA, I'M NOT A KID ANYMORE!" said Timon, stopping, and then keeping walking.
"Never go swimming without a buddy!" shouted Ma again:
"I know!" replied Timon.
"And send us a message!" shouted Ma, but that shout was undistinguishable to Timon.
"What?" asked Timon, turning around.
"I said, send us a message!" shouted Ma.
"What?" shouted Timon, without hearing the scream again.
"I said, send us a…"
"Goodbye, Ma!" shouted Timon, turning around and walking.
This time, it was for good. He would leave the meerkats colony, he would fulfill his father's last wish, he would find his paradise home, no matter what dangers he had to come through.
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So, what did you think? I thought that this was the most logical explanation for what happened to Timon's dad. Please, for all those who are reading this, review! I need opinions!
