Chapter 11: Act I Scene VIII Stampede

"Now you wait here," Scar told Simba. They were in a vacant gorge with only one rock. "Your father has a marvelous surprise for you."

"What is it?" Simba asked his aunt.

"Now if I told you it would no longer be a surprise. Now would it?" Scar said.

"If you tell me I'd still act surprised," Simba told her.

"Umm, no," Scar said. "It's a father-son thing. I'll go get him."

"I'll go with you," Simba responded.

"No," Scar said sharply. "Now, you stay here on this rock and be a good boy. You don't want to get into another mess like you did with the hyenas."

"You know about that?" Simba asked.

"Simba, EVERYONE knows about that?" Scar told him.

"Really?" Simba said sadly. His head drooped.

"Yes," Scar lied. "Good thing daddy was there to save you, right?" Simba nodded. "O, and just between us, you might want to work on that puny roar of yours." Simba gave a look of degust as Scar turned to stage left.

"Auntie Scar, will I like the surprise?" Simba asked.

"Simba, it's to DIE for," Scar answered. She exited the stage and then the light shown on the left top of the gorge. It showed wildebeests and three hyenas hidden away.

"I'm hunger!" Banzai complained. "I've gotta have a wildebeest!"

"No," Shenzi ordered.

"Just one of the tiny or sickly ones?" Banzai asked.

"No," Shenzi repeated. "We wait for the signal from Scar." Scar then appeared on the right top of the gorge. "That's the signal. Let's go." The lights on them disappeared. Then light fell back on Simba.

"Puny roar?" Simba sniffed. He then saw a small lizard. He roared. The lizard kept walking on. He roared again and it echoed around the gorge. Then wildebeests came down inside the gorge. Simba's face was filled with horror as wildebeests came down into the gorge. Hyenas were knocking them forward as they headed for Simba. Simba ran away and headed for a tree in the middle of the gorge. Simba was clucking a branch on the tree. Just then Mufasa and Scar showed up on one of the gorge's sides.

"Hold on, Simba!" Mufasa yelled.

"Do you know when intermission is?" Hawkgirl asked.

"No, why?" Green Lantern responded.

"I'm out of soda," Hawkgirl told him. "And I don't want to miss this."

"Ask Flash. He can do it for you," Lantern said.

"Uhuh," Flash said. "I ain't missin' this. You can wait."

Mufasa jumped into the stampede and quickly grabbed Simba and he got Simba onto a ledge. Then he fell into the stampede.

"Dad!" Simba yelled. Mufasa then emerged on stage left as he tried to climb up that side of the cliff. Scar was on top of that gorge.

"Scar! Sister, help me," Mufasa asked. Scar then sunk her nails into his "paws". The lights were solely on Scar and Mufasa. Scar grinned evilly at her brother.

"Long live the king," she said slowly and with terror. She then retracted her nails from his "paws" causing Mufasa to plumage into the stampede below. The light then moved onto a screaming Simba.

"NNNOOOO!"