This is a very long chapter!
I own nothing, just an insane passion for Transformers and Lion King.

last note, even if all of you already are confident with this convention:
"Bla" speak
/Bla/ Bee speak
(Bla) thought

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Smokescreen's rage disappears fast enough, and now he's ready to admit he really missed his Bumblebee.

(So many things to tell him

But how to make him see

The truth about my past? Impossible!

He'd turn away from me)

But, Bumblebee was wrong, he cannot go back.

(What would it prove, anyway? It won't change anything. You can't change the past.)

He really needs Optimus advice now, and he misses his dad now way more than usual, so he looks up at the stars and yell:

"You said you'd always be there for me! But you're not.

And it's because of me. It's my fault. It's my fault."

There are tears in his optics now, but he cannot allow himself to cry. The mumble from a old mech nearby distracts and annoys him, but when he moves away, the other one follows him. Suddenly a wrench hits Smockscreen head.

"Creepy old mech. Will you stop following me? Who are you?"

"The question is: Whooo... are you?"

Smokescreen is startled, then sigh: "I thought I knew. Now I'm not so sure."

" Well, I know who you are. Shh. Come here. It's a secret."

He pulls Smokscreen's head over to whisper into his ear.

He starts to mumble again in old cybertronian language into the youngling's ear and laughs.

"Enough already old one. what's that supposed to mean, anyway?"

" It means you are a baboon- and I'm not." Then he hit again the younger mech with his wrench.

"I think... you're a little confused"

"Wrong. I'm not the one who's confused; you don't even know who you are."

"Oh, and I suppose you know?"

"Sure do; you're Optimus's boy"

Smokescreen cannot suppress his surprise "You knew my father?"

"Correction- I know your father."

"I hate to tell you this, but... he died. A long time ago."

"Nope. Wrong again! He's alive! And I'll show him to you. You follow old Ratchet, he knows the way. Come on!"

Ratchet leads him on one energon pool. "Look down there."

Smokescreen release a disappointed sigh:

"That's not my father. That's just my reflection."

"Noo. Look harder."

Ratchet motions over the pool. Ripples form, distorting Smokescreen's reflection; they resolve into Optimus's face. A deep rumbling noise is heard. "You see, he lives in you."

And suddenly the reflection speak: "Smokescreens, you have forgotten me" "no!"

"You have forgotten who you are, and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself, young one. You are more than what you have become. Remember who you are. You are my son, and the one true king."

After that the image of Optimus starts to fade

Remember who you are.

" No. Please! Don't leave me."

Ratchet surprises Smokescreen speaking: "What was THAT?

The weather- Pbbbah! Very peculiar. Don't you think?"

"Yeah. Looks like the winds are changing."

Ratchet smile "Ahhh. Change is good."

"Yeah, but it's not easy. I know what I have to do. But, going back means I'll have to face my past. I've been running from it for so long."

Another wrench hit the younger mech's head "Oww! Jeez- What was that for?"

"It doesn't matter; it's in the past!"

" Yeah, but it still hurts."

"Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or... learn from it."

The fourth wrench fly towards Smokey's head, but this time he ducks.

"Hah, you see! So what are you going to do?"

"First, I'm gonna take your wrenches."

"No, no, no, no! Not the wrenches!"

Smokescreen grabs some wrenches from the older and tossed them aside. As the older mech go to collect them, he starts running off.

"Hey, where are you going?"

"I'm going back!"

"Good! Go on! Get out of here!" And mumbling at himself and shaking his head he sighs "youngling..."

Wheel-jack isn't happy, not at all.

Yesterday that yellow mech arrived and he could tell nothing will be the same now.

He spoke with Bulkhead, but his friend couldn't help him, sometime Bulkhead was so clueless...

(I can see what's happening

(What?)

And they don't have a clue

(Who?)

They'll fall in love and here's the bottom line

Our trio's down to two.

(Oh.)

{In a sarcastic mock-French accent}

Ze sweet caress of twilight

{Back to normal, but still sarcastic}

There's magic everywhere

And with all this romantic atmosphere

Disaster's in the air)

At the end, just before they went to sleep, he manage to convince the other Wrecker

(And if he falls in love tonight

It can be assumed

His carefree days with us are history

In short, our pal is doomed)

He really hope to wake up and find the yellow bot gone, but it's seems unlikely, especially since is the said yellow bot the one that wakes him up ...

/Hey. Hey, wake up. Have you guys seen Smokescreen?/

"I thought he was with you."

/ He was, but now I can't find him. Where is he?/

Ratchet appears from who-knows-where "You won't find him here. The king... has returned."

/I can't believe it.

He's gone back./

Wheel-jack isn't sure if he is following the conversation, he's just wakes up few seconds ago, sue him for the slow reboot... "Gone back? What do you mean? "

/Smokescreen's gone to challenge Megatron/.

"Who?"

/Megatron, his mad uncle/

"Oh, there were one in every family, you know, they're just a problem for the thanksgiving dinner"

/No, he's gone back to challenge his uncle to take his place as king/

"Ohhh"

/He will need my help/

"Bumblebee, a word before you leave.."

/Sure thing Ratchet/

"Are you sure you are ready to face Megatron? You are still recovering..."

Ratchet was the first to find Bee after Megatron 'incident', and he help the youngling to set with his new voice box and he still trying to help with the nightmares -memories- of the assault. He knows the yellow mech isn't ready, but he recognise that he cannot leave behind his long lost love.

/He needs me, I have to go/

Ratchet sign and shacking his head, "younglings..."

Smokescreen slowly crosses the desolated land. He reaches the lip of a cliff and looks out over his former home. Mostly lacking in life, it is painted in grays.

/Smokescreen, wait up! /

Bee join the other mech on the edge of the cliff. They spend few second remembering how colourful the view used to be.

/...It's awful, isn't it?/

" I didn't want to believe you."

/ What made you come back?/

" I finally got some sense knocked into me. And I've got the bump to prove it. Besides, this is my kingdom. If I don't fight for it, who will?"

/ I will./

" It's gonna be dangerous."

Bee just smiles, remembering their little tour in the Spacecraft Graveyard so many years before. That time Bee was the one concerned with the danger of the trip, and now he give to the other mech the same answer Smokescreen himself give him that time:

/Danger? Ha! I laugh in the face of danger. Ha ha ha ha./

" I see nothing funny about this."

"What are you doing here?" Only now Smokescreen notices the other two mech, too distracted first by the desolation of the landscape and after by the brightest and lovable optics he ever see.

(Don't go there, Bee is gorgeous but you cannot aspires to his spark, not with your past)

Bulkhead' bowing distracts him

"At your service, my liege"

Wheel-jack seems a little bit more cautious: "Uh. We're going to fight your uncle... for this?"

"Yes, 'jack; this is my home"

"Ffh. Talk about your fixer-upper. Well, Smokey, if it's important to you,

{bows} we're with you to the end."

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Notes:

so, just to be clear:
Mufasa = Optimus Prime
Simba = Smokescreen
Nala = Bumblebee
Sarabi = Arcee
Scar = Megatron
Hyenas = Decepticons
Zazu = Ultra Magnus
Timon = Wheel-jack
Pumba = Bulkhead
Rafiki = Ratchet