Zooms slowly back to Pride Rock, where Kitty is playing at Scott's paws atop Pride Rock, gazing down over the side.

"Wow." Kitty breaths. "Ha like i've never seen this before when i freeking live hear..." A white paper book gets thrown at the back of her head.
"SCRIPT!"
"Whatever."

She giggles continuously, and Scott catches her as she comes near the edge.

"Whoah. Where do you think you're going in such a hurry?"
"What are you my father?"
"Kitty will you stop being so stubborn!" Rahnes yells from off stage.

Kitty wriggles in Scott's grasp as he moves her to safety.

"Daddy! Let go!" Kitty frowns. "That just sounds weird!""Yeh...does she have to call me daddy?" Scott yells off stage.
"YES!"
"Fine fine!"

She keeps giggling as she tries to escape.

"Well, I just want you to be careful."

She pounces after a butterfly; Scott steps on her tail to pin her down.
"OUCH!"
"Sorry too hard?"
"Way to hard!" Kitty grummbles. "I should so call social services."
"Sorry Kitty,..." Scott shruggs. "Kitty... are you listening? Accidents can happen. You could easily get hurt, or stepped--"

Kitty says this well-practiced line along with Scott, and finishes it for him.

"...Hurt, or stepped on, or even get lost."
"And remember,... I want you to stay in sight of Pride Rock at all--"
"At all times, I know."

She's testy at the repetitive warning; she continues reciting

"And if I see any strangers, don't talk to them. Come straight home. Okay, okay. Can I go now? Please?"

She gives him a cute and innocent smile as Jean and a grumpy Angel enter. Scott exchanges a glance with Jean.

"Mind your father, Kitty." Jeans laughs gently.
"Yes mom," She shivers again. "Do i really need..."
"YES KITTY!" She gets a script thrown at her head again.
"And stay away from the Outlands." Scott tells her.
"Nothing there but a bunch of backstabbing, murderous Outsiders!" Angel says happy her finally got a line.
"Angel's right... you can't turn your back on them."
"Really? How come?" Kitty asks curiously.
"Mmm... never mind. Just run along now."
"But Dad, I--"
"You'll understand someday. Go on."
"Dad..."

He runs a paw over her, then nudges her off; she resumes giggling and runs off down Pride Rock.

"And stay on the path I've marked for you!" He yells after her.
"Scott. Who does she remind you of? Hmm?" Jean chuckles.
"Huh? What? Who?" He replys cluelessly.
"She's just like you were when you were young."
"Exactly do you realize what kind of dangers we put ourselfs in?"
A lot off laughs and 'Yeh rights' come from back stage.
"Hush guys!" Rahne ordered. "Go on Jean!"

She tackles Scott and puts him on his back.

"You mean the dangers YOU put us in."

They chuckle and nuzzle for a few moments, then Jean gets up.

"She'll be fine." Jean assures then leaves.

She moves off. Scott waits till she is out of earshot.

"Hey, Bobby. Freddy. Come here."

Bobby enters, on Freddy's back.

"Good morning, mon Capitan." Bobby grins bowing down then mummbles. "This is very emmbarassing...i have to bow to Scott!"
"What was that Robert?" Rahne growls from off stage. "Are you moving away from the script? I hope not."
"No, no just ehhhh...saying how wonderful a director you are and that your very very pretty?"
"That's what i thought." Rahne nods her grass green eyes still narrowed.

Scott starts the lines again much to everyones dissapointment at wanting to see Bobby be scared and possibally beaten by Rahne.

"Don't worry guys! After this scean, he's going down!" Rahne promised and there were cheers from everyone.
"I want you to keep a close watch on Kitty. You know she's bound to run off." Scott tells them.
"No worries, Scooter. We're on her like stink on a Freddy!" Bobby grin wavers a little keeping his eye on a growling and very evil looking Rahne.
"HEY!"
"It's the hard truth, Freddy. Live with it."
"Guys, I'm counting on you."

Everyone off stage gasps and you hear a very girl screech. Everyone looks at Kitty.
"Wasn't me!"
Then Pietro.
"Not this time!"
Rogue coughs uncomfertably. They look at her.
"WHAT! HE JUST SAID I'M COUNTING ON YOU TO BOBBY! BOBBY! PEOPLE COME ON!"
Everyone thinks for a moment the nodds.
"On with the script people! I wanna get this scean finished so i can beat on Bobby!

"Danger could be lurking behind every rock." Scott finishes his line.

Bobby looks quizzically at Scott, then takes him mock-seriously.

"Ahhhh Ha!" He and Freddy begin looking theatrically from side to side, scanning behind every rock..
"All clear hear Freddy!"

The scean shifts out to the open savannah. Kitty is walking through the tall grass, chasing a butterfly.

"Hey! Wait! Come back! I just wanna play!" She sees the butterfly land, and crouches to attack. "This is totally unfair on the butterfly i would never do this!" She shakes her head. " Ahhh... the mighty hunter has cornered her prey.." She snarls cutely in a way only Kitty could. " Errrrh!"

Kitty's pounce takes her up the side of a small rise, from which she can see a distance into the Outlands.

"Whoah... cool! The Outlands! I wonder what's out there..."

A rustling in the grass behind her draws Kiara's attention. She turns, and the grass separates. She ignores the moans of pain and yelps and the occasional. "Ouch Freddy you just sat on me!" All from Bobby.
"Eeeeeeep!"

Kitty is frightened backwards, and falls off the far side of the rise into a pool below. Freddy gets set to leap after her; Bobby jumps off just as he throws himself into the pool.

"I don't belive i'm saving Kitty...Oooh, don't worry, Kitty-- Uncle Freddy's comin'!"
"Oh, no... ohh... uh... uh... let's see, uh..." Bobby goes in-character as though talking to Scott. "Gee, Scotty. The good news is, we found your daughter. The bad news is, we dropped a warthog on her. Is... there a problem with that?"

Freddys looking from side to side in the water.

"Kitty? Hear Kitty-Kitty?"
"Freddy! Let me define the term "babysitting"!" Bobby yells pulling his hair out.

He finds Kiara underneath him, spluttering, and he gets off.

"Sorry. Now, Princess Kitty... as Scott's daughter, you know better than to go off all alone. You could have been hurt!" Freddy scolds her.
"But... but.."
"Hurt! Oh... Scotty would kill us! You didn't slip a disc, did you?" He starts jumping around Kitty cheaking her all over for injurys.
"B-but--"
"Catch a fever? Get a hangnail?"

Bobby is examining her claws; she pulls her paw away.

"Nnngh! Bobby!"
"I had one once."
"Very painful!" Freddy added in.
"Excruciating!" Bobby nodded.

Bobby is holding a fern branch over Kitty's head, shading her.

"Darling... with your complexion, you should stay out of the sun." He says sounding just a tiny bit too gay.
"Hey i'm straight!"
"Sure you are!" Rogue rolls her eyes nodding.
A white book is thrown and hits Kitty on the back of the head.
"SCRIPT!"
"HEY! I wasn't doing anything!" Kitty yells at Rahne.
"Sorry force of habit!" She shrugs.
Kitty grummbles about getting some silver bullets then swats the branch away
"Whaaat? Do you wanna wrinkle?" Bobby asks
"Would someone please just listen to me!" Kitty yells.
"I'm sorry; I wasn't listening. Did you say something, Princess?" Bobby looks at her with an eyebrow raised.
"I'm not just a princess, you know. That's only half of who I am!"
"Oh, uh... who's the other half?" Freddy asks stupidly getting a glare from Kitty who was still sour about him sitting on her.
"Uh... well, I, uh... um..."
"Well, while you're figuring it out, let's eat...this is gross!" He snaps his fingers, and Pumbaa lifts up a log. "Grubs!"
"The other white meat!" Freddy grins not phased at all by eating bugs.

Bobby offers a leaf-full of grubs to Kiara

"And so high in protein!"
"Ewww gross!" Kitty sticks her tounge out. "Atleast my charecter agrees with me!" She ducks a script thrown at her. "Missed!" Another one comes and smacks her on the back of the head. "Ouch!"
"No?" Bobby doesn't look suprised. "How 'bout you, big boy?...that just sounds so wrong!"
"Aaah. Love grubs!" Freddy sniffs them.
"Not like!" Bobby smirks.
"LOVE!" They say together.
"Slashy!" Kurt coughs from off stage

Bobby tosses a bug into Freddy's mouth; he crunches and coughs on it a little, then hiccups and spits the fragments back onto the leaf, coating them all with saliva.

"Ohhh.. you always do that! You take a bite out of every one, and then put it back. It drives me crazy!" Bobby moans grossed out.
"Lovers spat." Kurt coughs again.
Kitty giggles.
"But you can't tell from the outside which are the real slimy ones!" Freddy sighs.
"Slimy? Freddy... my corpulent compadre. It's the crunchy ones that make the meal!"
"Slimy!"
"Crunchy!"
"Slimy!"
"Crunchy!"
"Slimy!"
"Crunchy!"
"Less filling!"
"Tastes good!"
"Less filling!"
"Tastes good!"
"Less filling!"
"Tastes good!"

Kitty wanders off while they argue. She crosses a river on a log, and tumbles off-- directly into Lance, bowling him over. He snarls at her confrontationally, and continues growling.

"Who are you, Pridelander?"

Kitty does not answer, but keeps jumping from side to side, staying facing Kovu at all times. Lance keeps growling menacingly, but eventually his curiosity gets the better of him.

"What are you doing?" He raises an eyebrow.
"My father says to never turn your back on an Outsider!"
"You always do what Daddy says?"
"No!"
"Bet you do. Bet you're Daddy's little girl! Ha ha!" He moves away, hopping on logs across the river.
"After this we're having a seriouse talk Lance" Kitty growls.
Lance gulps then carrys on with his line. "An Outsider doesn't need anybody. I take care of myself!"
"Really? Cool!" She follows him across awed.

Lance looks back at Kitty, and notices a huge crocodile rising up behind her with its mouth gaping.

"Wuhh... waaaahh!"
Kitty turns and sees the crocodile. She lets out a high pitched scream that is actually really cute, just like in the movie. "Run!"
"No really!" Lance barks scarcasticly

The crocodile's teeth crunch just behind them.

"This way!"

They narrowly escape, leaping from rock to rock across the river and out of the reach of the crocodiles' jaws as more and more rise up out of the water. They rest on two unmoving "stones" further down, and begin to pant and giggle.

"Woah that was a close one!" Lance laughs.
"Yeah!" Kitty nods giggling.

The stones they are sitting on rise up and reveal themselves as more crocodile heads.

"Wooooahhhh!"

Kitty runs up a tree limb, getting out of reach; however, Lance runs past her, leaping from crocodile to crocodile down the river.

"Hey what about me!" Kitty yells.
"Run! I'll distract them!"

Lance slips off the last crocodile into the water; as he comes up, gasping for air, the crocodiles loom over him.

"Look out!" Kitty warns swiping at crocodiles from her branch.

Lance is paralyzed by fright; the gaping mouth in front of him is suddenly clamped shut by Kitty leaping on top of it.

"Move it!" She pants.

The two cubs scramble up a branch and up onto the bank, out of reach of danger. From the top, they pant and rest for a few moments, then move back to look over the edge. The crocodiles are massing below, furious at being cheated of their meal.

"We make such a good team! And you... you were really brave!" She blushes lightly.
"Yeah... you were pretty brave too. My name's Lance."
"I'm Kitty!" She purrs looking at him flirtily. Lance looks shocked.

She crouches down playfully, waving her tail; she reaches out and bats him.

"Tag! You're it!"

She jumps back, laughing; instead of chasing, Lance just looks at her silently. She tries again.

"Tag! You're it! You're it!"

Still no response; he just stares at her.

"Hello? You run, I tag... get it? What's the matter? Don't you know how to play?"

Getting an idea, she crouches down and goes back to playing his style, with bared teeth and growls. He gets the idea and mock-growls back, but suddenly he finds himself growling at Scott's leg. Scott roars, and Mystique jumps out of the grass and roars back.

"Mystique."
"Scott."

Jean, Freddy, and Bobby arrive behind Scott, with other lionesses.

"Jean."
"Mystique."
"Bobby, Freddy. Great. Now that we all know each other.. GET OUTTA OUR PRIDE LANDS!"
"Your Pride Lands?" Mystique snarls, making Bobby leap backwards over Freddy's head in fear. "These lands belonged to Scar."
"I banished you from the Pride Lands! Now you and your young cub... get out!" Scott growls happy to be ordering Mystique AND Lance around.
"Oh... haven't you met my son, Lance? He was hand-chosen by Magneto to follow in his pawprints... and become King!"
"Phhh! That's not a king... that's a fuzzy maraca!" Bobby jokes.
"Watch it ice boy." Lance snarls.
"Lance was the last born before you exiled us to the Outlands, where we have little food, less water..." Mystique trys to lay on the guilt trip.
"You know the penalty for returning to the Pride Lands!" Scott looks all high and mighty.
"But the child does not! However... if you need your pound of flesh... here."

She nudges Lance toward Scott, daring him to show either ruthlessness or cowardice.

"Lance i need quivering, i don't see quivering! Give me quivering!" Rahne yells from off stage.
Lance gives a quick quiver. "There."
"SCRIPT!" A book is throw at--you guessed it. Kitty. She then pulls Bobby infront of her so he gets hit.
"STOP AIMING FOR ME RAHNE!"
Mystique and Scott are glaring at each other ignoring the yelling around them.
"Take him and get out. We're finished here." Scott growls.

Scott picks up Kiara in his teeth. Zira walks over to Scott and looks down at a terrified Kitty.

"Oh no, Scott... we have barely begun."

She glares wickedly at Kitty, then turns and picks up Lance in her jaws. He and Kitty watch each other dangle as they move apart.

"Bye."
"Yeah...bye."

Scott and the lionesses move off over the ridge, back toward the Pride Lands, while Mystique takes Lance back to the Outlands. Once within sight of Pride Rock, Jean looks back at Scott.

"Scott..."

He clears his throat. Jean smiles back at him, understanding that it's time for The Talk. She and the rest of the pride move off back home. Scott drops Kitty, who grins ingratiatingly up at him; he glares sternly back. She looks at the ground, sighing.

"Kitty! what did you think you were doing? You could have been killed today." Scott scolds and Kitty rolls her eyes before putting on a sweet and innocent look.
"But Daddy, I-- I didn't mean to disobey--"
"I'm telling you this because I love you. I don't wanna lose you...in a totally platonic way ofcourse."
"Stick to the script Scott or i get hit with one." Kitty mutters to him dodging a script thrown at her. "RAHNE!"
"Eh sorry?"
"If something happened to you, I don't know what I'd do. One day I won't be here... and I need you to carry on in my place. You are part of the great Circle of--" Scott carries on ignoring the fact Kitty is glaring of stage.
"Circle of Life. I know." She finishes it off for him.
"Exactly. And you need to be careful. As future Queen--"
"But what if I don't wanna be Queen? It's no fun."
"That's like saying you don't want to be a lion. It's in your blood... as I am. We are part of each other."

He pushes her playfully off a rock and music starts up.
"Ohhhhh finally a song in English!" Kurt grins.

Scott:As you go through life you'll see
There is so much that we
Don't understand

A mother bird sternly prevents one of her chicks from trying to fly; a wildebeest calf gets up for the first time as they watch. All Jaminals.

Scott: And the only thing we know
Is things don't always go
The way we planned

But you'll see every day
That we'll never turn away
When it seems all your dreams come undone

Monkeys grooming each other, hippos jumping and playing once again Jaminals.

Scott:We will stand by your side
Filled with hope and filled with pride
We are more than we are
We are one

Kitty sings to her reflection in the river during her verse.

Kitty: If there's so much I must be
Can I still just be me
The way I am?

A Jaminal fish jumps out of the water and into her reflection at "The way I am?"

Kitty: Can I trust in my own heart
Or am I just one part
Of some big plan?

Wind blows during this verse by Scott, underscoring the reference to Xaivor's spirit.

Scott:Even those who are gone
Are with us as we go on
Your journey has only begun

Tears of pain, tears of joy
One thing nothing can destroy
Is our pride, deep inside
We are one

They run through groups of curiously unafraid Jaminals, many with their young, as they approach Pride Rock.

Scott:We are one, you and I
We are like the earth and sky
One family under the sun

Running back up Pride Rock. He indicates it to her.

Scott:All the wisdom to lead
All the courage that you need
You will find when you see
We are one

He stops singing.
"As long as you live here, it's who you are." He hugs her and licks her side, lifting her body off the ground. She seems unconvinced. "You'll understand someday."
"Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd Cut!" Rahne yells threw a megaphone that appeared in her hand. Ray comes upto her with a pile of scripts that came from the sets. "Ahhhh i was wondering it they would get back to me. Now where is Bobby?"
"There." Ray points across to the corner where a merecats hiding.
"Let make this fair!" Rahne shifts into wolf form and runs after him.
"I'm away to buy some silver bullets." Kitty mummbles rubbing one of the many lumps on the back of her head. "Then we're having that talk Lance!" She calls over her shoulder and Lance whimpers and quivers.
"Why couldn't you do that when Scott was going to eat you?" Pietro asked.
"Are you kidding! She hit harder than him!"
"Next scean will be...A new hope for the outlanders!" Roberto yells taking over his girlfriends place.

R&R people!