Cool, two chapters at the same time! Not a very common thing for an author like me. Aw well, I hope ya like it!


"Good night Erin. Good night T." Alyssa said as the three laid down to go to sleep.

"Good night Alyssa. ...Good night T." Erin said, the last part said a little quietly.

"Night girls." T said, then turned off her lamp by her bed. After a few minutes, all was quiet.

T opened her eyes when she thought Erin and Alyssa were sound asleep. She slowly sat up in bed, revealing her regular clothes instead of pajamas. When the two girls didn't wake up, T quietly pulled the covers off of her, and placed her feet on the floor.

Then she reached under the bed to get what she was working on when Erin and Alyssa came over; a written out plan of how to disable a large unit of heavy machinery.

Then T quietly tip-toed across the room, a picked up her backpack off the floor beside her door. She put the paper with the plan on it inside the backpack, then carefully opened the door without a sound, and crept out of her room.

She silently walked down the stairs, she could see her three friends asleep on the couch in front of the TV. Ed was snoring on one side of the couch, while Shenzi and Banzai had their arms wrapped around each other and were cuddled up on the opposite side of the couch.

T couldn't help but smirk at the sight, then quietly put her shoes on her feet, and silently went out the door. She failed to notice though, that when she closed the door, Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed slowly started to wake up.


Meanwhile...

Nala and Simba watched the late night news together as they sat beside each other on their couch in their living room. Nala had a white robe on while Simba had yet to change out of his street clothes.

Suddenly, Nala saw something on the news.

"Thanks to the devoted citizens of our town, the original plan for the forest, near the community college, to be plowed down to make room for a highway exit, has now been terminated. Thanks to all the forms signed, filled-out, and sent to city hall, the mayor has decided an old road will be improved to make the exit instead. Although this has cancelled the destruction of the forest, the plowers used for this operation will not be removed until tomorrow." a news anchor said.

Nala's eyes widened. Could T have about known this? Or was she already halfway to the forest? Nala didn't want to take that chance.

"Simba, we have to get to the hyenas' place, right now." Nala said to him.


A few minutes later...

The trio yawned as they walked out of their living room.

"Well, guess it's time ta hit the hay." Shenzi said.

"Night boys." she said as she walked towards the stairs. But then, a knock was heard at the door. The three looked at each other confusedly, then took a glance out the window. Since they kept their ability to see in the dark after being turned into partly humans, they didn't need to turn the porch light on to see who was outside.

They could see Simba and Nala standing out by their door. The trio looked confused.

"What could they want this late?" Shenzi said.


T finally reached the forest that was to be plowed down. She saw her target; a big plower, right in the middle of the forest. T walked over to it, then took a wrench out of her backpack. She snickered mischieviously as she reached over to untighten the first screw.

"FREEZE! HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE 'EM!" came a loud voice from behind her as a bright light was shined on her.

T's heart jumped as soon as she heard it and she quickly turned around and put her hands up in the air, the wrench dropping to her side. But just then, she could make out five figures behind the light.

Then, she heard three very familiar voices laughing. Her eyes narrowed when she realized who it was.

"I told you she could be over here." Nala said as the five came over to her.

"Looks like you were right for once in your life." Shenzi said.

"Yeah so whaddya gonna do? Take the wrench from me? Go ahead, I've got plenty of other ways ta smash heavy machinery." T said.

"Yeah well you sure know how ta do it without gettin' caught." Shenzi said sarcastically.

"Whaddya mean?" T said.

"Well first of all, you're leavin' too much evidence." Shenzi said.

"Yeah, ya need ta wear gloves or somethin' so ya don't leave any fingerprints behind." Banzai said.

"Or tie your bangs outta the way so ya have less chance of any strands fallin' out and they can't identify ya by your fur." Shenzi said.

"Lastly, your technique for smashin' heavy machinery is a little sloppy. Ya need ta sabotage it, not murder it." Banzai said.

"You two would know, wouldn't you?" Simba and Nala said. Shenzi and Banzai meerly gave them a look.

Well this forest's not gettin' torn down on my watch." T said.

"Actually, it's not getting torn down. Thanks to all the paperwork Simba, myself, and all the other people in the town did, the construction has been cancelled and they're taking away all the machinery in the morning." Nala said.

"So it looks like paperwork really did get us somewhere." Simba finished. T looked a little embarrased, and just picked up the wrench and put it back in her backpack.

"Yeah well, let's just get outta here before the cops show up." Shenzi said.

"I think I heard it from over here!" came a voice as a flashlight was shined a few feet away. The six panicked and quickly hid in the bushes. Another flashlight shined beside the other, then two policeman came onto the construction sight. A third one came up to them in a police car.

The six nervously watched from the bushes as the third police officer stepped out of the vehicle. After hearing the officers talk for awhile, the six turned towards each other, speaking very quietly.

"Alright, while they ain't lookin', we'll make a run for it." Shenzi said.

"Too risky. We'll have to wait 'till they leave." Simba said.

"Excuse me? You forgettin' that we can see in the dark and they can't?" Shenzi said to him.

"But we can't see either." Nala said.

"We can help you." T said.

"We'll lead you through the dark." shes finished.

"They'll slow us down." Shenzi and Banzai said.

"Not if we do this right." T said, then looked at the officers for a minute before turning back to her friends.

"And we only get one chance." she finished. The other five looked at each other.

"So, which is it? Stay here and hope we don't get caught, or run and maybe have a chance at freedom?" T asked them.

A few minutes later...

"Hey I think I saw something in the bushes." the police officer said to the other two. Simba's ears perked up.

"Let's go check it out." another officer said. The three walked to the bush, and moved the leaves aside with their flashlights to find...

Nothing.

Shenzi smirked at Simba. And although he was almost completely blind in the darkness, along with Nala, he knew she was silenty gloating over herself being right. But he knew what direction she was in and gave a look in that same direction.

"Anything we could step on coming up?" Nala whispered to the darkness.

"You're doin' great. Just keep going." T whispered back to her. The four hyenas looked up and could see a dead limb in their path.

"Ok, guys. Obstacle in the path." T said.

"Okay." Simba and Nala said.

"Alright. Coming up a few feet is a dead branch. It's gonna make a huge cracking noise then all those human guys are gonna find us and we'll get caught, unless you two step over it when I tell you to. Got it?" T said.

"...Yes?" Simba and Nala said.

"Ok, get ready." T said. The six walked a few more feet in the darkness.

"Almost there." They heard T say again. Nala gripped Simba's hand. Wanting to comfort Nala, but also feeling a little nervous himself, he gripped her hand back.

"Steady...steady...now!" T said. Simba and Nala carefully lifted up their feet, then slowly brought them back down. They waited for something to happen...

"You did it!" They heard T whisper. Simba and Nala sighed in relief.

"Alright alright, enough celebratin'. Let's get the heck outta here." They heard Shenzi say. The two lifted up their other feet, but as they brought them back down, they were horrified to hear a scraping sound against the road. Also when they tried to put the other foot down, there was a loud 'CRACK'!

"You idiots!" They heard two hyenas say, they didn't need to see in the dark to figure out who they were.

"Hey, did ya hear that?" came a voice a few feet away.

"Run!" Banzai yelled. And without a second thought, everybody took off. Shenzi, Banzai, Ed and T easily dodged any obstacles in their way, while Simba and Nala just blindly followed the sounds of footsteps ahead of them.

The four hyenas looked up to see a wooden fence in their way. Shenzi and Banzai jumped over it with each other, as did Ed and T.

Simba and Nala were confused when they heard them because they didn't know what the four were doing. By the time the two lions realized what was in their way, it was too late.

Simba and Nala ended up tripping over the fence, fortunately for them though they landed on the other side. But unfortunately the two landed on hard and cold ground with a few hard or sharp rocks on it.

Simba and Nala painfully tried to get up, Nala rubbing a bruise, that was hidden by her fur, on her shoulder. Nala's skirt was also torn a bit, along with one of the sleeves on her shirt.

And Simba's shirt had a big gaping hole in one of the sleeves and a large tear at the bottom of one of the pant legs. Their clothes were smudged with dirt and for some reason Nala felt like crying; it took her awhile to realize that all she wanted to do was be back home.

T saw what happened and ran over to help them. Shenzi, Banzai and Ed saw her run over to them and annoyedly sighed as they rolled their eyes then ran after her.

T took Nala's arm and tried to help her off the ground. Nala felt a little better when she felt T gently trying to help her up. But then felt someone grab onto her other arm, hard, and force her to her feet.

Simba felt both his arms being pulled on so hard he thought they'd come out of their sockets. He was forced to his feet as well.

"Move it!" came two voices. Ignoring the pain, Simba and Nala ran as fast as they could.


Finally, after what seemed like hours, the six reached their block, gasping for breath. Shenzi took a glare at T. When T saw it, her ears drooped back and down; Shenzi hadn't looked at her so fiercely since the day they both met.

"We'll talk about this after your friends leave." Shenzi said. Banzai and Ed looked a little annoyed as well. T hung her head in humiliation. The trio looked up to see Simba helping Nala walk as the two lions headed in the direction of their house.

Shenzi looked at T again, T looked up at her. Then Shenzi, still looking angry, pointed to their house. T glumly walked in its direction. Nala looked back and saw what happened. Banzai and Ed walked ahead of Shenzi, just as she was about to leave, she heard somebody talking.

"Don't be too hard on her." Nala said in a soft, forgiving voice. Shenzi looked back, then meerly cocked an eyebrow at the lioness queen. Then the matriarch went in the direction of her block. Simba helped Nala walk back to their house.


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