Beast Boy and the others were walking across the savannah. BB and Terra are still walking in a shamed manner behind Nightwing. Rave in flying between.
"Raven?" asked Nightwing in a still stern tone.
Flying forward and lighting in front of Nightwing, Raven brought up her hood and asked "Yes, sire?"
"Take Terra home. I've got to teach my son a lesson." Said Nightwing sternly.
Beast Boy crouches lower in the high green grass as if to hide. He almost blended in perfectly. Raven flies back to them.
"Come, Terra. And Beast Boy…" Raven put her hand on Beast Boy's shoulder, giving him a heavy sigh, and then a reassuring pat. "Good luck."
Raven and Terra leave leaving BB alone with his father.
"Beast Boy!" called Nightwing sternly.
The words reverberates in the night air.
Beast Boy slowly turns and walks towards his father. Beast Boy steps into a depression. Looking down he sees that it's his father's footstep. Nightwing could do well more than discipline him if he wanted. It also comes across to BB that he has some rather big shoes to fill, and is only now realizing his true position. But he continued to walk towards his father.
Nightwing thinks silently for a few moments, not looking at his son. Then, finally, he turns to his son.
"Beast Boy I'm very disappointed in you!" said Nightwing.
"I know." Said Beast Boy quietly and sadly.
"You could have been killed. You deliberately disobeyed me! And what's worse, you put Terra in danger!" said Nightwing.
Beast Boy was now on the border of tears. "I was just trying to be brave like you." His voice cracked when he said this.
"I'm only brave when I have to be. Beast Boy… being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble." Said Nightwing.
"But you're not scared of anything." Said Beast Boy.
"I was today."
"You were?"
"Yes…" Nightwing kneels down to speak closer to Beast Boy. "I thought I might lose you."
"Oh…I guess even kings get scared huh?"
"Yep."
"But you know what?" whispered Beast Boy conspiratorially.
"What?" whispered Nightwing back.
"I think those hyenas were even more scared." said
Nightwing laughed a little. "Cause nobody messes with your dad. Come here you."
Nightwing picks up Beast Boy and starts to give him a noogie.
"OH NO! Dude! The hair! Aaagh! Errrggh!"
Beast Boy and Nightwing turn into a lion and his cub and start to play chase in the grass.
"I'm going to getcha dude! Hah!"
A green lion cub ended up on top of a black lion's head.
"Dad?" asked Beast Boy.
"Hmm?"
"We're pals, right?"
"Heh. Right."
"And we'll always be together right?"
The Nightwing sat up and BB is now on his shoulder. "Beast Boy…Let me tell you something that my father Batman told me… Look at the stars. The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars.
Beast Boy was in awe. Really?
"Yes… so whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you…and so will I." said Nightwing.
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The scene now switches to where the Hive was last seen.
"Man, that lousy Nightwing! I won't be able to sit for a week!" said Gizmo.
Mammoth laughs insanely.
"It's not funny Mammoth!" said Gizmo.
Mammoth tries to stop laughing but bursts out worse.
"Hey, shut up!"
However, Mammoth can not stop laughing.
Gizmo activates his jet boosters and tackles Mammoth. A dust cloud soon develops around the fight.
"Will you two knock it off!" said Jinx.
Gizmo stops but Mammoth continues, punching himself in the stomach.
Gizmo and Jinx stare for a second.
"We really need to get him some sort of help or something." Said Gizmo.
"Look at you guys. No wonder we're dangling at the bottom of the food chain." Said Jinx.
"Man, I hate scum buffing dangling." Said Gizmo.
"Yeah? You know if it weren't for those changelings we'd be runnin the joint." Said Jinx.
"Yeah. I hate those snot for brains shape shifters." Said Gizmo.
"So pushy."
"And hairy."
"And man are they…UuuugLY!"
"I'm sure changelings can't be all THAT bad." Said a voice.
The Hive looks up to see Slade on a perch looking down on them.
"Ohh. Oh, Slade, it's only just you." Said Gizmo.
"We were afraid it was somebody important." Said Jinx. (A/N: Talk about asking for it)
"Yeah, you know, like that crummy Nightwing." Said Gizmo.
"Yeah." Said Jinx.
"I see." Said Slade.
"Now that's some stinking power." Said Gizmo.
"Tell me about it. I just hear that name and I shudder." Said Jinx.
"Nightwing." Said Gizmo.
Jinx shivered. "Ooooh. …Do it again."
"Nightwing." Said Gizmo.
"Oooh!"
"Nightwing. Nightwing! Nightwing!"
She starts to laugh hysterically. "Oooh! It tingles me." Said Jinx.
"I'm surrounded by morons." Said Slade.
"Not you, Slade; I mean, you're one of us. I mean, you're our pal." Said Gizmo.
"Woop de do." Said Slade unenthusiastically.
"Ohh, I like that. He's not king, but he's still so proper…in his own way." Said Jinx.
"Yeah. Hey, hey. Did ya bring us anything to eat, Slade, old pal, old buddy? Huh? Did-ya-did-ya-did-ya?" asked Gizmo.
"I don't think you really deserve this." Slade holds out the KOed Newfu leader. "I practically gift-wrapped those kids for you." He drops the leader and the Hive starts to eat it. "And you couldn't even catch them let alone kill them."
"Well, ya know. It wasn't exactly like they were alone, Slade." said Jinx with a mouth full of Newfu.
"Yeah. What are we supposed to do?" Gizmo swallows his section of the meal. "Kill stinking Nightwing?" asked Gizmo.
"Precisely."
The Hive looks up at Slade questioningly. Slade jumps down from his perch and music starts up.
Slade walks calmly through sheets of flame and gas. He paces slowly around Mammoth, who is chewing on the remains of the Newfu they were eating earlier.
"I know that your powers of retention, are as wet as a warthog's backside. But as thick as you are, PAY ATTENTION!"
Slade angrily swats the meal away and Mammoth comes to abrupt attention.
"My words are a matter of pride. It's clear from your vacant expressions, the lights are not all on upstairs."
Slade waves his hand in front of Mammoth's blank eyes to make his point while Mammoth's tongue lolls out.
"But we're talking kings and successions. Even YOU can't be caught unaware." Slade leaped at a laughing Gizmo and Jinx throwing them backward onto a pair of geysers, which then erupt, throwing the two of them into the air.
Slade is now doing some sort of dance along a ledge. "So prepare for a chance of a lifetime."
He dipped himself over to Jinx as he sung "Prepare for sensational news."
Now for some reason Slade was now walking on his toes as he sung "A shining new era, is tiptoeing nearer."
"And where do we feature?" asked Jinx.
Slade pinched Jinx's cheek and sung "Just listen to teacher."
Jinx rubs her cheek, which is now bruised red.
"I know it sounds sordid but you'll be rewarded. When at last I am given my dues and injustice deliciously squared."
Slade changes into a lion with a sliver S on it's head and leaps besides Mammoth who was chewing on a Newfu skeleton. It was at this moment that Slade kicked him off the ledge.
"Be prepared!"
The three Hive members land in a pile of bones and are submerged. They soon pop up again with a different horned skull on each of their heads.
"Yeah scum buckets! Be prepared. Yeah-Heh…we'll be prepared, heh. …prepared for what?" asked Gizmo.
"For the death of the king!" said Nightwing.
"Why is he sick?" asked Gizmo flying up to him.
Slade grabbed Gizmo by the neck. "No you moron…we're going to kill him. Beast Boy too."
He threw Gizmo back down onto the ground.
"Great idea! Who needs a king?" asked Jinx.
Jinx starts to dance around Gizmo like an idiot. "No King! No King! Tra la la la la laa laa!"
"Idiots! There will be a king!" said Slade.
"Hey, but you said…"started Gizmo.
"I will be king!...Stick with me, and you'll never go hungry again!"
Gizmo and Jinx started to cheer in praise of Slade. Then other Hive members appeared. "Long live the king! Long live the king!" they chanted.
Now Slade's army of Hive members is goose-stepping across the floor of the cave, now stylized into a Nazi-esque quadrangle.
"It's great that we'll soon be connected. With a king who'll be all timed adored."
"Of course, quid pro quo, you're expected to take certain duties on board." Sung Slade as he motions a slice across the neck. "The future is littered with prizes and though I'm the main addressee, the point that I must emphasize is…" He leaps off his rock throne to single out one Hive member. "YOU WON'T GET A SNIFF WITHOUT ME!" The Hive member slips and falls into a firey crevice.
"So prepare for the coup of the century. Be prepared for the murkiest scam."
Pillars of rocks started to shoot up with Hive members dancing on it.
"Meticulous planning. Tenacity spanning. Decades of denial, is simply why I'll be king undisputed; respected saluted. And seen for the wonder I am. Yes, my teeth and ambitions are bared. Be Prepared!"
"Yes our teeth and ambitions are bared! BE PREPARED!"
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Beast Boy and Slade are now in a canyon. Beast Boy was on top of a rock with a tree growing on it.
"Now you wait here. Your father has a marvelous surprise for you." Said Slade.
"Oooh. What is it?" asked Beast Boy excitedly.
"If I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise, now would it?" asked Slade.
"If you tell me I'll still act so totally surprised." Said Beast Boy.
Slade grinned evilly underneath his mask. "Your are such a naughty little elf."
"Oh come on Uncle Slade." Pleaded Beast Boy.
"No-no-no-no-no-no-no. This is just for you and your dear old daddy. You know, a sort of…father-son…thing!" said Slade.
Beast Boy looked a little disappointed at this.
"Well. I'd better go get him." Said Slade.
"I'll go with you." Said Beast Boy.
"NO! Ahem. I mean no. You just stay on this rock. You wouldn't want to end up in another mess like you did with the hyenas…"
"You know about that?" asked Beast Boy.
"Beast Boy, everybody knows about that." Said Slade.
Beast Boy's pointed ears dropped.
"Really?" asked Beast Boy.
"Oh, yes. Lucky Daddy was there to save you eh?" Slade, who was clearly enjoying himself, put a hand on Beast Boy's shoulder. "Oh…and just between you and me, you might want to work on that little roar of yours. Hmm?"
Slade lets go satisfied with his little mind game with BB.
"Oh…Okay…" said Beast Boy.
Slade pats Beast Boy roughly on the head, then moves off.
"Hey Uncle Slade, will I like the surprise?" asked Beast Boy.
"Beast Boy, It's to DIE for." Said Slade.
Me: "And that's all you get for now. You might have noticed that I changed Scar from Red X to Slade, well I did this because of popular demand. I'm sorry if the 'Be Prepared' song was a little pfffffffffffft but I promise I'll do Hakuna Mata better."