Chapter 10: Act I Scene VII Be Prepared
The scene had changed into a rocky, gloomy ditch with large cliff walls and green smoke billowing. Two hyenas were on the bottom. One was Ed and the other was Banzai. And Banzai did not look happy.
"How did they do all these scene changes so fast?" Flash asked. "No one's THAT quick."
"They have a magician, a speedster, and several people with super strength," Superman said. "I think they can be."
"I guess they can," Flash admitted.
"I hate Mufasa," Banzai exclaimed. "I'm not gonna be able to sit for week!" Ed was laughing away. "Hey, it's not funny Ed!" Ed continued laughing. "Hey, shut-up! You want a piece of me!"
"Will you knock it off?!" Shenzi exclaimed as she came down from some rocks toward the other two hyenas.
"He started it!" Banzai responded. Shenzi walked toward them.
"Look at you two!" Shenzi said. "No wonder we're dangling at the bottom of the food chain."
"Man, I hate dangling!" Banzai exclaimed.
"Yeah, and if weren't for those lions we'd be runnin' the place," Shenzi said.
"Yeah, I hate lions," Banzai agreed. "They're so pushy, hairy and stinky."
"And man, are they…" Shenzi began. "Uug-lee!" Both hyenas said at the same time. They both laughed at that.
"O, we lions can't all be that bad," The hyenas turned to their left and Scar saw on a ledge above them.
"O, it's only you Scar," Shenzi said.
"Yeah, we were afraid it was someone important, like Mufasa," Banzai admitted.
"Yeah," Shenzi agreed.
"I see," Scar sighed with degust.
"Now that's power," Banzai said.
"Tell me about it," Shenzi responded. "Just hearing that name makes me shuttered."
"Mufasa," Banzai said. Shenzi shuttered.
"Do it again," Shenzi encouraged.
"Mufasa," Banzai said again. "Mufasa, Mufasa, Mufasa!" Shenzi continued to shutter and then she fell onto her back to shutter some more.
"I'm surrounded by idiots," Scar said rolling her eyes.
"Not you Scar," Banzai said. Shenzi had stopped stuttering. "I mean you're one of us. You're our pal." The hyenas had not heard Scar's last remark about them.
"So Scar's working with them?" Wonder Woman asked.
"No, they work FOR him, I mean her," Batman said.
"So she WANTED the cubs to get eaten?" Wonder Woman asked.
"Yes," Batman told her. "H-She wanted the throne so she figured if she illuminated the heir she could get it quicker."
"She's willing to kill her own nephew?" Wonder Woman asked.
"She wanted the throne really bad," Batman told her. "Might I remind you that Scar is a male character in the film."
"Charmed I'm sure," Scar said to the hyenas.
"I mean, you're not a king yet," Shenzi said. "But you're so proper." She paused. "By the way did you bring us anything to eat?"
"Yeah, did you Scar, old buddy, old pal!?" Banzai asked. "Did-ya, did-ya, did-ya!" Scar pulled out a leg of meat from underneath her coat.
"I don't think you really deserve this," Scar admitted. "I practically handed those cubs to you on a patter. And you couldn't even dispose of them." Scar dropped the meat and hyenas immediately went to eat it. Shenzi came up.
"Well, you know, it wasn't like they were all ALONE, Scar," Shenzi told him. Banzai came up as Shenzi went back to the bone.
"Yeah," Banzai said. "What are we suppose to do? Kill Mufasa?" Scar's face went from surprise to a sneer in a second.
"Precisely," Scar said. The hyenas looked up at Scar in surprise. Music began to play. Scar then slid down the ledge and that broke the hyenas up. Green smoke was billowing around her. She began to sing low pitch. "I know that your powers of retention, are as WET as a warthog's backside." She walked over to Ed. "As thick as you are PAY ATTENTION." She knocked the bone out of Ed's paws and he saluted. She circled him as she sang, "My words are a matter of pride." She stopped at Ed's right side. She waved her hand in front of his eyes. "It's clear from your vacant expressions." She removed her hand from in front of his face. She walked toward stage left. "The lights aren't all on upstairs. But we're talking kings and secession." She glared at the other two hyenas as she sang, "Even YOU can't be caught unaware." She then stepped up to a rock step upstage and then to the next one as she sang, "So prepare for the chance of a life time." She stepped onto the large ledge. "Be prepared for sensational news." She walked on the ledge. "A shining new era." She tip toed as she sang, "Is tipping toeing nearer." She went back to gliding afterwards. Shenzi came out from behind her and sang,
"And where do we feature?" Scar grabbed her cheek and jiggled it.
"Just listen to teacher," Scar sang. She let go of Shenzi's cheek and then glided away to the end of the ledge where Banzai was eating a bone. "I know it sordid but you'll be rewarded, when at last I am given by dues. And injustice deliciously squared." She then side-kicked Banzai off the ledge and into a pile of bones. "Be prepared."
"Yeah, be prepared!" Banzai exclaimed. "We'll be prepared. For what?"
"For the death of the king," Scar shouted while standing on the ledge. Banzai had been climbing up and had reached Scar.
"Why is he sick?" Banzai asked. Scar then grabbed him by the neck.
"No, fool, we're gonna kill him," Scar said coldly. "Simba too." She let go of Banzai and he landed in the middle of a circle being made by Shenzi and Ed.
"Great idea! Who needs a king!" Shenzi exclaimed. They circled Banzai as Banzai and Shenzi sang, "No king! No king! La-la-la-la!"
"IDIOTS!" Scar exclaimed. "There will be a ruler!"
"Hey, but said…" Banzai began.
"I will be queen," Scar explained. "Stick with me and you'll never go hunger again!"
"Yeah!" the hyenas exclaimed. "Long live the queen!" Lights then came onto other cliff sides and it revealed more hyenas. All of them shouted, "Long live the queen! Long live the queen!" Scar then laid down on her ledge while of the hyenas marched in front of her as they sang. "It's great that we'll soon be connected, with a king who'll be long time adored."
"Of course with quid pro quo, you're expected to take certain duties on board," Scar sang. "The future is littered with prizes, though I'm the main addressee." She then walked down her cliff and the hyenas dispersed. "The point that I MUST is emphasize is." She then stomped toward one hyena as red smoke came on stage and she sang, "You would get a sniff without me!" The hyena sank away as red smoke replaced the green smoke. "So prepare for the coup of the century. Be prepared for the murkiest scan!" The rocks under her then began to grow. The rocks the hyenas were on grew too. Red smoke billowed around them. The red smoke mainly circled around Scar. "Mendacious planning." As hyenas sang, "We'll have food." Scar sang, "Tenacity spanning." As she rose some more. Hyenas sang, "Lots of food." Scar sang, "Decades of denials. Is simply while I'll." The rocks stopped rising. "Be queen undisputed. Respected, saluted and seen for the wonder I am." The red smoke circled around her. "Yes my teeth and ambitions are bared." Then the smoke blew up on her. It caused her long coat and hair blow upwards. "Be prepared." The smoke stopped billowing up and it just circled around each hyena and Scar.
"Yes our teeth and ambitions are bared," the hyenas sang. The smoke then stopped circling and it rose like regular old smoke.
"Be prepared!" they all sang. Scar then laughed as the lights turned off around the hyenas, one by one, until the light around Scar died last at the end.
"She is one TERRIFYING Scar," Flash told them.
"Yeah," Green Lantern admitted. "She's more terrifying than the original. At least in the animated one, the live action one is yet to come out."
"Why make a live action one anyway?" Wonder Woman asked. "It seems like something that should stay animated. Not mention there aren't any people in it. At least Beauty and the Beast had people in it and the Beast was person-like. Why make an all animal cartoon film into a live action one?"
"It's because Disney is running out of ideas," Batman told her. "Or at least that's what my boys think."