Author's Note: I apologize for the delayed update, things have been busier than usual in school lately. Also, this story being covered here was surprisingly really hard to work with, and it was difficult for me to come up with effective material towards it. If this chapter seems at all lacking compared to the others, I apologize in advance, as I wasn't planning on covering this particular story in the first place. But regardless, I hope you enjoy, and please review!

Chapter XXI

Next in the fanfic, the human/lion hybrid named Richard was taken to Pride Rock by Scar and Zira, where they turned him into a lion entirely with the help of what sounded like a scientist. Then Shenzi, Banzai and Ed met Richard, where Scar decided it was time to introduce him to the kingdom.

The real lions listening looked about as confused by this as they did towards... well, just about anything they'd been baffled by so far. Simba suddenly commented, "So they suddenly see a half grown lion there and they just go with it?"

Nala snickered. "Well then again, Simba, these are the hyenas we're talking about here."

He replied, "Even they're smarter than this... as far as I know, anyway."

"And what the hell is up with Pride Rock being a... a laboratory all of a sudden?" Kovu questioned. "When were they going to tell us that?"

Earlier Pumbaa had to explain in the best way he could to each of them what a laboratory was, and now suddenly having one inside Pride Rock made them feel as baffled as ever.

In any case, Pumbaa read on. In the story, the point of view switched back to the United States, where Richard's adoptive parents and the C.I.A had began the search for him.

"Well at least they're doing something about it now." Kiara commented.

"...Vitani, I need you to answer this as honestly as you can." Kopa said flatly to his mate. "Did... did someone bash my head with a rock in my sleep or something? Because that's about how I feel right now hearing this!"

it was a new morning for the Pride and to Richard, last night before he went to sleep, Richard meet Nuka and Vitani, Scar and Zira's Children

"Oh for Christ's sakes already!" Vitani blurted out. "Would these people stop saying I'm Scar's daughter?! I wasn't his, guys! I did not come from him!"

Kopa placed a paw on her shoulder as she began to catch her breath once more. She sounded angrier than usual, which raised his concern considerably. "Geeze, calm down, Vitani."

She shot him a look. "You calm down! If I'm supposed to be Scar's daughter, that makes us cousins!" Vitani screamed angrily, making her mate jump with shock.

Kiara said to her sister-in-law in a comforting voice, "Don't panic, Vitani. It's just their way of thinking things, it's not how it really is."

Vitani breathed heavily and angrily while Simba gave her a sympathetic look, as though he understood her sudden anger. He then returned his attention to the laptop screen and pointed out, "Besides, if Nuka and Vitani are in this story... shouldn't one of them be the king's heir?"

Nala shook her head. "If they're here, then what was the point of going to find Richard if they already had heirs?"

Simba sighed before he said, "This whole story's making me feel drunk."

Richard was glad to meet them, Scar told Nuka that Richard was their new heir to the throne, today Scar and Zira started to teach Richard everything about royalty and how it works, Richard was starting to like Scar and Zira and is also starting to like his new life here in the Pridelands, Scar was teaching Richard how to fight like a lion, Scar and Richard fought against each other and Richard won by overpowering him, Scar and Zira were glad that Richard is making progress, Zira says, " Well done Richard."

Kovu suddenly remarked, "Yeah, you might as well just have them totally accept his appearance out of nowhere too!"

And then out of nowhere, Vitani remarked in an unexpectedly cheerful tone, "I'm just glad we're in this!"

The whole den fell silent for a moment upon hearing her like this, and all eyes widened in confusion. Kopa looked at her as though she had just sprouted another head, painfully confused about her sudden change in mood. "Uhh... Vitani? What was that?" He asked. Before he could say anything else, his mate replied happily, "I hope we can get along with him!"

Timon looked up to her now as he lay on his back behind her. Remembering her pregnancy, he said softly, "Yep. It's official- the mood swings have begun."

In the story, Scar was training Richard until he suddenly got a random vision of C.I.A agents attacking him in some way and dragging him to a warehouse, but with the way it was described, no one could really make out what it was supposed to be. But then as Scar and Richard tried to piece together what he had seen, this went down:

My mother was a Human, while my father was a Lion, the only thing, I remember about him was that he had a scar on his left eye that just about It, that is how I was born a hybrid."

Upon hearing this, Simba suddenly gasped long and deeply in disgust. The old lion immediately recognized that description as easily as he recognized his own name. He stood up with his eyes bulging, and he said cowardly, "So... Scar is his father? That sounds exactly like how Scar looked!"

Unexpectedly, Nala was the first one to respond to this. "Okay, I knew the guy was horny enough to try and go for me... but this? They say Scar of all lions had sex with a human woman?!"

Kiara cocked her head. "Is that even possible?"

Kovu whispered to her, "The better question would be do you want to know?"

Kiara shuddered and shook her head now in disgust, hoping to God that she wouldn't get any images of that in her sleep. Vitani stood up now. She sneered, "Hey, I'd rather have him bone a human than bone Nala."

The queen gave her a bit of a disgusted look when she said this, as did Simba. Following a moment of awkward silence, she reluctantly said to her daughter-in-law, "I... I'm going to take that as a compliment, Vitani..."

And then, out of absolutely nowhere, this happened in the story.

Scar says, " In my vision, I was young male lion, in that cage." Richard, Scar and Zira decided to go see Day-Day to analyze their blood to see they are related, When they got their, Day-Day toke samples of Richard's and Scar's blood, after about an hour, Day-Day came back from his Lab and says, " You and Richard's DNA match and I found out that the boys human Mom and found that her name is Jamie Moore, his blood match with his mother and with your blood and I have figured that you are Richard's blood father and you, Richard Moore are Scar's blood son, the heir to throne and the new prince of Pridelands."

"I knew it!" Simba shouted mockingly. "The horny bastard! First Nala, now her? Geeze, he's got Zira with him, how desperate is he to go for a human of all things?"

Timon laughed all of a sudden, making several of them turn to him. He said in between laughs, "Hey, still not as horny as Kovu and Kiara probably are for each other!"

Kovu stood up and growled maliciously in the meerkat's direction, making him shudder and his laughter to desist. A moment passed before he defensively and yet simultaneously cowardly said, "I didn't mean that kid! I uh, didn't mean it, I know you two aren't like that... much."

"Would you shut up already?" Kovu said to him angrily. "Stop saying crap like that or so help me, I'm going to come over there and rip your-"

He would've gone on from there, but Kiara stopped him again. Standing up quickly, the lioness leaned herself into him and whispered into his ear, making him stop his sentence. "Let it go, Kovu... we'll get him after this. Remember the plan?"

Kovu looked over to her and sighed, remembering what Kiara had in mind for after this. As the lion sat back down and calmed himself down as best as he could, Kiara thought to herself as she smiled at him, And besides, Timon is kind of right about that.

Richard, Scar and Zira were all surprised about this, Richard and Scar were now reunited but as Father and Son, Zira just meet Richard and she has not only has Nuka and Vitani as her children, she now has Richard as her step son

"Ah, you've gotta love how Zira has no questions about Scar getting with a human instead of her." Timon sneered yawning on the ground.

"You know I'm really starting to wonder just why Zira stayed loyal to him if he openly hit on my mother." Kiara said curiously. She turned to Nala now. "Did he ever try to hit on anyone besides you?"

Nala slowly shook her head. "Kiara, you have no idea."

and after they lift tell told the Pride that Richard is Scar's blood son from far away, the Pride was both shocked and surprised, they looked into Richard's eye and saw no evil in them, but kindness in them, they felt that Richard would save them from Scar's rule, Nuka was surprised about having Richard as is older brother, then after the talk with everybody went to sleep inside of Pride Rock.

Timon cut in tiredly, "Okay, I'm officially bored and confused now."

Vitani shot him a glare. "Come on, Timon! You wanted him to read this to us!"

The meerkat replied, "Yeah, but..." He yawned. "I'm already more bored than I was the first time I heard this." Suddenly he shouted in a now enthusiastic tone, "But still a hell of a lot better than what you almost read them, Pumbaa!"

The warthog looked over and gave him a bit of an embarrassed look, still feeling genuinely sorry for his mistake earlier. Then Vitani glanced at Kopa and said to him softly, "And he says I'm having mood swings?... The douchebag!"

That last part she yelled loudly and angrily at him, which caught the attention of them all including Timon. The meerkat shut his eyes and sighed in a relaxed fashion, resting himself against the ground as though he were preparing to sleep. When Vitani fell quiet, Timon said in a mocking voice, "Hey, you hear that, Vitani? That is the sound of the lovely, lovely irony in what you just said."

As the story progressed following this repartee, Richard was getting to know Nuka as a brother when, out of absolute nowhere, this happened:

five days after Richard came into the Pride, Richard, Scar, Zira, the hyena's and the Pride found, five Old Nazi World War 2 planes, which were a Junker Ju 52 transport, a Junker Ju 87, a Messerschmitt Bf 109, a Messerschmitt Me 163, and a Messerschmitt Me 262, when Richard looked inside he found Nazi uniforms, he had also found MP40s, a Walther PPK, a Walther P38, a MG42, and a Mauser Kar 98K, Richard even found vehicles and they were a Nazi Panzer tank, a Nazi Motorcycle, a Nazi car, and a Nazi troop transport truck, when Richard came out, he was dress in a Nazi SS officer uniform jacket and a hat, after the discovery of the Nazi airplanes, weapons, and vehicles, Richard woke in his den still dressed in his found Nazi SS officer uniform jacket and hat, as Richard woke up, Scar also woke up and says, " Good morning, Son."

"Whoa whoa whoa!" Kopa shouted. "What the hell did I just hear?" He cocked his head. "I'm serious, I have no idea what just happened!"

Kopa looked over to his sister, and she shared his baffled expression. "He finds out there's... like a warehouse of World War II planes and... Nazi uniforms? What the hell even are those things?!"

Nala shook her head. "Where did that come from? They never mentioned things like that there before! And what did he do, he dressed up as a... nat say? Nat... see nats?" She said, obviously having trouble pronouncing the word. "Whatever he just said, and... he's still a lion?"

Simba sighed. "What the crap would a lion need with human clothes like that?"

Lazily and with his eyes shut, Timon added, "Trust me Simba. If Scar knew who those clothes belonged to before, he'd fall in love with them."

Richard was thinking about a queen, but could not think of anyone wanting to be his queen, he know that Nala won't do, he respects that and won't force her to, Nala and Richard see each others as friends not mates and they're are no other Lioness's that is his type, Richard was going into a deep depression,

"You see? I rest my case!" Nala suddenly said loudly. "He is better than Scar! He at least knows better than to try and screw me against my will!"

Later in the story Richard was with his hyena friends when they were attacked by a rogue lioness about his age, named Zainabu. She had been kidnapped from the Pride Lands as a cub, and was now returning after a good span of time. They introduced her to Scar and the others.

Hello there, I'm King Scar, ruler of the Pridelands, and this is my mate Queen Zira, I see that you ran into my older son."

"I bet ten thousand bucks that Richard's gonna try and get with her." Timon cut in.

During the mouths that passed, Richard and Zainabu have been having feeling for each other,

"Make it twenty." The meerkat added.

As the fanfic progressed, Scar was becoming more of the tyrant that he really was, and the drought that many had suffered through in real life was setting in. Richard and Zainabu officially fell in love, and Nala left the Pride Lands for help. But then Richard went into the den of Pride Rock one day to find that she had been beaten up for trying to get hyena food.

"Don't lions and hyenas eat the same thing?" Kiara pointed out. "Why would they do that for her getting them food? If there's a drought, shouldn't they thank her for finding anything?"

"Well then again this is Scar we're dealing with here." Simba said to his daughter.

After that affair, Richard was furious for Scar harming the one he loved. In some text that made each of them feel as though they were wasted off their asses, he hunted them down with human guns, still wearing his Nazi uniform for that entire time.

The real Simba rubbed his eyes with his paws, groaning in annoyance. "Oh my God... what is going on with this story? I am just... how does a lion use human weapons like that?!"

Then, Nala rested her head on Simba's mane and sighed. "Simba..." She began tiredly. "Just... why don't we stop questioning everything in this, okay? If we stop and ask every time some unexplained crap happens, we could be here all day."

Simba looked down to her. "Yeah, you're probably right."

When this happened, Kopa placed a paw on his face and whispered to himself in a highly relieved tone, "Thank you."

In the story, Richard and his friends went to an army base that he owned to stop intruders from coming into the kingdom where Scar currently was. Upon confronting him, Scar said he attacked Zainabu because she couldn't get them food when she was instructed to.

"But he said it was because she did get the food!" Kovu suddenly pointed out irritatedly. "Which is it? She did, or she didn't?"

Vitani shook her head. "Is this what it feels like to have your head underwater for too long? Is... is this what we would just start thinking or saying?"

Kopa gave her a look. "I say what we'd think there would be normal compared to this!"

In any case, Pumbaa went forth with reading once more. Scar tried to attack Richard, but his friends and the pride suddenly came in and defended him. Scar and Richard fought directly, and for a brief moment it looked as though there would be a good climax to see these two former allies fight to the death. They were genuinely beginning to get interested as to how this would go down. But instead, a squad of human NATO soldiers and military machines randomly came in out of nowhere and obliterated the place for no apparent reason. Richard, Zainabu and the group of hyena friends abandoned the place and made their way for the oasis where Timon and Pumbaa had raised Simba, resting there for the night.

"That didn't take long, now did it?" Vitani sneered.

Simba said lethargically, "That's it, I officially give up on logic here. I... I tried to follow this and understand everything, but now... I just give up."

"Well at least something's actually happening now" Kopa added. "... as trippy as that something may be, at least it isn't what it was before!"

"It is getting a little better now." Kiara admitted awkwardly. "I just wish they would stop bringing in the human world for all of this so Pumbaa wouldn't have to keep stopping and explaining what this crap is."

Nala chose to add, "You know Kiara, as strange or unreal as some of these human things sound... they do sound interesting."

"Yeah, they do." Her daughter admitted.

Simba said to her, "The same goes for me. All of these things in the human world sound incredible. Some of them sound like they could really help us, even."

With his eyes still shut, Timon said softly to his friend, "Just as long as you never find out what a zoo is."

Next in the story, Richard and his apparent hyena pride woke up in the jungle, and they stumbled upon Timon and Pumbaa at the exact moment that Nala was chasing them, and she didn't know they were friends at the time. Pumbaa was stuck beneath a tree root with Nala coming up to him fast.

"Holy crap!" Kopa said in a mocking tone. "Something that actually happened! Something that really makes sense, it's a miracle!"

Simba cheered in a fake tone. "Whoo! Yes! Finally something we understand here! Praise the Lord, something that doesn't just come out of nowhere happens!"

When he did this, Timon snickered. The meerkat had always known that even though Simba had been king for so long now, some remnants of his old Hakuna Matata lifestyle were still within him. His beliefs had just been confirmed in front of his closed eyes.

"I said it before, and I'll say it again... I invented Hakuna Matata."

Simba didn't want Timon to know that he had heard that, so he simply thought to himself, Well I still perfected it.

Anyway, in the story, Richard and his pride tried to intervene with this event. They met up with Nala, Simba, Timon and Pumbaa after Simba had realized who the lioness was. They recognized Richard too, where they formally introduced him to Simba for the first time. He and his pride told of what had happened in the Pride Lands, but it wasn't focused on for very long.

Then Nala turns to Richard and his followers, as she says, " Richard, what are you doing here?"

Richard says, " Me and my followers had to leave the Pridelands."

Nala see's the scar on Richard's eye, as she asks, " What happened to your eye?"

Richard said, " Scar did this to me."

Simba looks at Richard and says, " My uncle did this to you?"

Richard says, " Yeah, what do you mean, your uncle?"

Simba says, " I'm his nephew."

"Uh yeah, way to skip over the whole reason you're there!" Kopa sneered. "Great, just when my brain was starting to work again too."

Then there was confusion in the fanfic over who was to be heir to the throne, Simba or Richard. And here, they actually brought up a valid point: Would Simba be king because he was the son of Mufasa, or Richard because he was the son of Scar? At that point the listeners actually did become interested in the situation. Too bad it was just skimmed over like before.

Nala says, " Before Scar made you his heir, their used to be a prince of Pride Rock before that."

Richard says, " Are you telling me?"

Nala says, " Yes, Simba is the first prince of Pride Rock, but now there are You and Simba for the throne."

Richard fears the worst would come right in front of his door step, he had no idea what to do, as Pumbaa says to Simba, " King? Your Majesty, I gravel at your feet."

Pumbaa kisses Simba's foot as Simba says, " Stop it."

"Oh come on!" Simba said in annoyance.

Vitani blurted out, "They finally come up with something interesting and now they just ignore it again? Dammit! Dammit all!"

She turned to Kopa. "Way to focus on everything we already know about instead of his own new stuff, huh?"

Kopa's eyes bulged for a brief second. "Hey wait a second..." he said slyly. "This part's from that night in the jungle, right? And it says that night time's coming around...?"

"Oh my God." Nala said, bowing her head in embarrassment. "Are they really going for what I think they are?"

Timon said tiredly, "Don't worry Nala, I already told you they didn't show that in the movie. All of these writers only have the movies to go by, whatever they didn't show, it didn't happen as far as they know."

"Yeah, that's probably for the best." Simba remarked.

Back to the fanfic, Richard and the rest of the hyena pride left Simba and Nala alone together, which did absolutely nothing to calm everyone's suspicions about them doing here what they really did. Meanwhile Richard began to contemplate who was going to be king, and much to everyone's relief, that aspect was actually being focused on for longer than three sentences. Interest began to rise once more. Zainabu began to comfort Richard.

Then Zainabu then nuzzle Richard as he did the same, then Zainabu says, " I have thought that we have some alone time, for our selves."

Each of them suddenly stared blankly when this part was read out, with Simba's mouth falling open with shock. In fact, even Pumbaa stopped reading in uneasiness.

"This... helps... nothing!" Vitani said.

"Do... I even want to ask now?" Kiara asked sarcastically. Kovu shook his head reluctantly. "I should've known these two would be too horny to stay away from one another."

Kopa laughed from across the den realizing the irony in Kovu saying that, and he said to his brother-in-law, "You're one to talk, Kovu!"

Kovu opened his mouth to say something, but before he could, Timon cut in. "He has a point, kid."

The lion growled at the meerkat now, but he was undisturbed by it this time. Seeing this, he leaned back into Kiara and whispered to her, "Can we get the Shenzi and Timon crap up now?"

She shook her head. "As soon as this story ends, Kovu. It sounds like we're almost there."

Kovu grumbled to himself for Timon's attitude through not only this, but for everything, growing steadily more anxious about finally giving him the payback he deserved. But he held his patience knowing that retribution would come soon enough.

Richard then says, " Zainabu, I have decided to change my name, for now on, my name is Kimba."

Zainabu asks, " Kimba?"

Richard says, " Kimba."

Zainabu says, " Okay Kimba, you better get ready because I'm coming for you."

"Well that was random." Kiara said. "Why the hell would he do that? He's been called Richard since minute one, why would he suddenly change it like that for no reason?"

Kopa added for his sister, "It's not like he was trying to hide or anything either. He had no reason to change his name like that!"

Kovu said, "That's like if I just randomly decided to call myself something like Shaba or Athari and expected no one to question it."

"And Kimba? Kimba? Well gee, that doesn't sound like Simba's name at all, now does it?" Vitani said sarcastically. "That's gotta be the laziest original character name I've ever heard!"

The lioness turned to the king now and possibly to see if he thought the same, considering that his name was the one it sounded so close to. But when she did however, she saw something unexpected. Instead of looking humorous or mocking like he typically did up until that point, Simba looked sincerely troubled by something. Her expression lightened.

"Simba? Simba, what is it?"

The king hardly noticed her as a moment of brief silence fell upon the den. Nala turned to her mate now in concern for his troubled look. "Simba? What's wrong?"

Finally responding, the lion shook his head and snapped out of his silence, realizing what he was just doing. He replied, "Oh, sorry Nala. It's just that... something about that name sounds wrong... like I've heard it before, but I don't know where."

He contemplated to himself, "Kimba... I- I feel like I should know that name."

Timon decided to say to his friend while yawning, "Simba, let's just say that you're not the only one who knows that name."

Nala turned to him. "Why is that? Does Kimba actually mean something?"

Timon hesitated before he replied in a sneery tone, "Uh, how about we leave it at... it is not unknown to fans of The Lion King."

Nala opened her mouth to say something, but she decided against it, taking a deep breath. If his previous words and actions were any indication, she didn't know if she wanted to hear Timon's explanation for the odd name.

"I'll ask about that later, then." She said awkwardly. Timon snickered. "Not that you'd be happy with what you'll find."

Back to the story, it took some time to get used to Richard so suddenly changing his name to Kimba for no particular reason. In it, he comforted Nala after the argument she and Simba had earlier about the responsibilities of being king. Kimba decided to go and talk to Simba about it, and contemplated what it could've been like to meet Mufasa. Then Rafiki came around like he really did, and now interest was picking up once more for the readers.

Then Simba and Kimba see Rafiki is following them as Kimba says, " Will you stop following us."

Simba then asks, " Who are you?"

Then Rafiki says, " The question is ... who ... are you?"

"Someone who's clearly too normal to be in this story!" Simba cut in, mocking the fact he was the most normal of the original characters.

Rafiki coaxed the two of them through the jungle and gave them the same wise words that he had given in real life. From here, both Simba and Kimba met up with Mufasa's spirit. The real Simba began to feel somewhat emotional at this part, knowing it was repeating word for word what had really gone down there. Nala nuzzled him for comfort upon seeing his distraught look, which helped him greatly. Even though Mufasa had been referenced in nearly every story read off so far, he still felt somewhat anguished to think of him like this, especially when it dealt with the time he had seen his spirit in the sky. Simba appreciated his mate's comfort immensely.

Mufasa also spoke to Kimba and inexplicably game him an amulet of some sort. Deciding not to question things like that at this point, they listened as Rafiki said the same things he did before, and Simba and Kimba both ran off to return to the Pride Lands. From here, the scenario seemed to gradually become more and more familiar with the listeners.

"Hey, if it weren't for Richa- I mean Kimba here, this would literally just be the same thing that really happened." Nala pointed out.

Kiara laughed. She said to her mother, "Maybe now we'll actually get something that makes sense, then."

Her thoughts were confirmed rather well as Nala, Timon and Pumbaa had the same dialogue exchange as they really did but with Richard's pride of hyenas involved. When Simba and Kimba returned to the Pride Lands, the devastation had come not from immense tyranny from Scar this time, but from military forces from various countries. Nala and Zainabu caught up to them as did Timon and Pumbaa, and now everyone had an idea of how this would go down from here on out.

"Oh gee, I wonder what's going to happen." Nala said sarcastically, knowing precisely what was to go down from here... mostly.

And then Kimba figured that the hyenas in his pride would need a way to be distinguished from the enemy hyenas loyal to Scar. So he told all of the hyenas on his side to wear Nazi uniforms in order to tell them apart. He also gave them machine guns to carry... for some reason.

"Alright... I've gotta ask now." Kovu said. "What is going on?! I just can't follow this logic anymore!"

"How would hyenas be able to carry machine guns of all things?" Kopa asked. "I mean God almighty, this is stupid!"

Vitani nuzzled her mate. "Lighten up, Kopa. Maybe the ending could be good." She said cheerfully. Kopa looked at her. Right away he could tell she was going through another one of her mood swings, so he just sighed. "Well... I'll give it a chance, at least. Even though I'm not even going to try to follow this logic anymore."

"I don't want to say the same thing over and over again, but this is just so weird!" Kovu said awkwardly. "I know I wasn't alive to see this go down, but even I know it didn't happen like this!"

Nala added, resisting the urge to laugh, "At least it makes more sense than The Lion of the Rings did."

In the story, the climax was being set up.

The Lioness's and Kimba's followers help Sarabi help, as Simba says, " The choice is yours, Scar."

Kimba finishes, " Either, step down or fight."

Scar says, " Oh, must this all end in violence, I hate to be responsible to the death of a family member, wouldn't you agree, Simba?"

"That's not gonna work, Scar!" The real Simba said mockingly. "I've put it behind me."

Sure enough, those were his exact next lines in the fanfic. Simba took a deep breath. Nala said for him, "Are they going to add anything new to this at all? We know how all of this went down, they don't need to retell everything. If they skip something, we would know it!"

Lightening came out of the clouds, when the lightening, hit the ground, it caught on fire, fire was now spreading, Simba try's to hang on, as Scar says, " This look familiar. Oh, where have I seen this before? Hm, let me think. Oh, yes, I remember! This is exactly the way your father looked before he dead."

Simba started slipping, Scar then puts his paws on Simba ready to push him off, as Scar says, " And now here's ' my' little secret..."

"I tried to hit on your girlfriend who's half my age!" Nala whispered mockingly, trying to get her voice to sound close to Scar's.

When the long-expected happened, the battle for Pride Rock had begun. Only this time, military aircraft and armed forces got involved, almost as though it were a totally human-based war.

the Pride could easily see the difference between Scar's Hyena's and Kimba's Hyena's, thanks to the Nazi uniforms they are wearing, when the Allied force heard the battle at Pride Rock, they sent aircraft of Fighters planes, bombers planes, and attack helicopters, as allied troops moved in on Scar's Hyena's on the bottom of Pride Rock with Tanks and guns, soon the allied troops are joining the battle on top of Pride Rock, Timon and Pumbaa ramped into Hyena's joining the battle, Simba fight off a few Hyena's, one got on him, Rafiki beat the one Hyena off of Simba, Rafiki makes a battle cry, then he jumps in front of Scar's Hyena's, Scar's Hyena's then tried attacking Rafiki, but Rafiki attacked them using Kung Fu, Kimba couldn't even believe what he saw, then some Chinese troops helped Rafiki out, one Scar's Hyena's tried to attack Rafiki and Chinese Sargent, but Rafiki and the Chinese Sargent toke him out, some Scar's Hyena's are now retreating, most surrendered to the Allied forces, but there are still some of Scar's Hyena's that are still fighting and will not give up, Kimba then started looking for his step mother, and his brother and sister, Kimba looked inside a den, he found his step mother next to the wall with Nuka and Vitani, Kimba says, " Mom, Nuka, Vitani, I'm back."

Upon hearing these words, Nala was the first one to speak.

"Well then... looks like they are definitely adding something new, now. I can... at least give it that, I suppose."

Vitani cringed in confusion. "Wha... what the..." She tried to say. "How... when... I-I just don't know anymore."

She threw her head into Kopa's mane as gently as she could, saying to him, "Good God, I feel like someone just bashed my head with a rock."

Kopa nodded. "You know, I do wonder what Scar himself would have to say to this." He said with a hint of sarcasm.

Simba stood up suddenly. He said, "Geeze, how much more insulting could this be?! They are aware that hyenas died in that battle, right? As in, actually died in real life! And they're writing them like this?!"

"My Lord, how much longer is this?" Kiara asked herself softly, shaking her head.

Next up, Kimba met with Zira once more during the battle as well.

"Now wait a second!" Nala said. "Zira wasn't there during the battle! She was out with the rest of the Outsiders teaching Nuka how to hunt!"

Kopa faced his mother upon hearing this. "You know, even besides this fanfic... Why wasn't Scar with them? Shouldn't he have been the one to teach his own kid how to hunt?"

Nala shook her head. "That's just how terrible a father Scar was, Kopa."

In any case, Zira recognized the amulet Kimba had, and realized it was a part of some prophecy.

Zira then see's the amulet and says, " It can't be, it is, the amulet, where did you find it?"

" Mufasa's spirit gave it to me, it is gift from my biological mother." Kimba said.

Zira says, " So it's true, the prophecy is true."

"So it took them this long to finally mention that damn prophecy!" Kovu said flatly. "You'd think they would've brought that up sooner, huh?"

"As if this story has logical standards all of a sudden." Kiara said to him.

The battle progressed with the human machinery involved, Simba and Kimba confronted Scar together, both of them wanting revenge against him for different reasons.

Scar says with relief, " Oh, boys, thank you. You are truly noble. I'll make it up to you, I promise. How can I, ah, prove myself to you? Tell me; I mean, anything."

Kimba turned to his cousin and asked, " Are you thinking, what I'm thinking?"

"How about we go and find out if there's another fanfic we can go into that actually makes sense!" Kopa said mockingly.

As expected, Simba fought Scar in the climactic duel. However, while he did, Kimba was inexplicably shooting off hyenas with a machine gun he had on his back, making all of the listeners unbelievably confused as usual. But then when Simba tried to flip Scar over Pride Rock's edge, Kimba went after him since he didn't want another family member to die. And for once, the listeners of this story actually felt a hint of genuine suspense throughout them. Since this was a different turn of events than what'd really happened, they did in fact desire to know how this would end, especially since Scar was not quite as much of the sadistic monster here he really was.

Scar saw Kimba's amulet and he tried to get it, because it mentioned that the amulet would cause the end of the world if an evil king ever got a hold of it.

"Thanks for mentioning that before!" Kiara called out sarcastically. "Something that could end the entire world as we know it... uh yeah, that seems like something you might want to tell us about before this!"

Then out of nowhere, Scar revealed that he killed Kimba's real mother in a terrorist attack he was involved with, therefore erasing all sympathy Kimba could've had for him. Simba saw what Scar was trying to do by getting the amulet, so he went after him to save Kimba. Then the amulet turned Kimba into a glowing white lion all of a sudden, giving him the "power" to throw Scar over the edge.

The entire time this played out, no one knew how to feel in the slightest. Simba couldn't make heads or tails of it, Nala actually started to feel light-headed in bewilderment, and Kopa was cringing because he was so lost as to what was even going on. The same could also be said for Kiara, Kovu and Vitani.

After that, Scar was finally thrown over the edge and was killed by the hyenas firing machine guns on him, ending the climax. At the end, it was decided that both Simba and Kimba would be equal rulers while the human allied forces helped to restore the Pride Lands. The hyenas who were on the kings' side were officially named the Nazis. There, Pumbaa actually stopped reading for a second and gasped in disgust at that.

"What? What is it, Pumbaa?" Nala questioned, sounding genuinely concerned. Pumbaa turned around to face her as he said, "Uh, Nala? I assume you don't get what that means?"

"Why?" She asked. "What are Nazis?"

Pumbaa shook his head. "Let's just say that if you were a human, you would understand."

"Why does that not reassure me?" She asked him. He turned his gaze back to the laptop screen.

"It's not supposed to." He mumbled.

In the long run Simba and Nala, as well as Richard and Zainabu both had their cubs which were held up by Rafiki, ending the story.

Simba and Nala were nuzzling each other, Kimba and Zainabu were doing the same, then Rafiki came with two cubs, one is Simba and Nala's cub and the other one is Kimba and Zainabu's cub, then Rafiki left them both in the air, as they are the new king's heir.

Taking a deep breath now, Pumbaa caught his breath from reading so much, finally finishing the story. Right off the bat he knew what kinds of reactions to expect for this one, so he didn't hesitate to turn around. When he did so, he was met with some of the strangest looks he had ever seen like he had anticipated. Simba and Nala looked like they had just seen a murder. Kiara and Kovu looked like Pumbaa had just gorged an entire colony of bugs from a mud puddle, while Kopa and Vitani looked as though they had just walked in on someone while they were mating, ironically enough. Pumbaa hesitated before he asked,

"Well... what'd you think?"

Immediately, Nala was the first one to respond, but not vocally. Smacking her head against her forehead, she actually stood up and slumped herself onto the ground next to Simba, collapsing suddenly to her side. Simba gasped.

"Nala!" He said with concern. He and Kopa stood up now to try and get her back up, with the prince coming over to her spot. The two nudged at her for a short while before they heard her mumble the words, "So... much... idiocy..."

It took Nala a bit of time before she staggered while rising to her paws, with both Simba and Kopa aiding her. As they did, Kovu was the first one to say anything about the story itself.

"That was... the weirdest thing I've ever heard in my life. I really have... no words for all of that. I don't think I can say it's bad, but... I don't get it."

Kiara nodded. "I didn't get it at all either, honestly. I mean it was nice to hear about all of those human inventions with what they can do... but that didn't make any sense at all."

Simba was the next one to speak as he finished helping Nala up to stand once more. "Well, it was... interesting. I can give it that. But just... what was up with the beginning there? The thing about Scar and Zira turning to humans... i mean by God, how weird can you get?"

"I think the second half was definitely better." Kopa said. "There I was able to at least kind of follow the story and all. But still that was mostly because I already know about the events they went through!"

Pumbaa noticed that Timon had fallen asleep on his spot behind Kopa and Vitani, so he decided to skip him for the moment.

Now, Vitani spoke. "Well... it was stupid, I know. But you know something? I... I can't help but like it. Something about it was just... oddly entertaining. It was fun just making fun of it, it's weird."

Simba looked at her when he said, "Hey, you know... I feel the same. I actually did like it... despite ho idiotic it was in places. And yes, I had fun talking about it all the way through too."

Upon hearing these comments, Pumbaa nodded. "Is that what you guys say too?" He asked, turning to Kiara and Kovu. They both nodded slowly. "I... suppose so." Kiara said. "I certainly didn't hate it."

"Neither did I, really." Kovu added. "It's dumb, but it's somewhat entertaining at least. Unlike a certain other fanfic we read yesterday."

Pumbaa smiled. He looked back to the screen to change the page, but he stopped. Squinting, he said to the others suddenly, "Hey guys? Listen to this. It's a... a note left by the author."

They each perked up when he said this. "A note on the story?" Simba asked. "Well, what does it say?"

Pumbaa then read this off with a sincere tone in his voice.

I'm Sorry to Simba, Nala, Kovu, Kiara, Kopa, Vitani, and many others who are offened by people who wrote or drew bad stuff about them, and have say to the people to go piss off about Kiara, and have me defend her by saying she is not an idiot, a dumbass, or a whore.

Upon hearing this, Kiara stood up. Her eyes widened suddenly, and her mouth fell open slightly. She smiled. "Really?" She asked softly. "He... he doesn't hate me either?"

Kovu grinned immensely and happily when he heard this. He stood up and placed a paw on Kiara's shoulder, hearing now that there way yet another person showing appreciation for the one he loved so warmly and so deeply. Considering what the lion had seen about her before, it was refreshing and relieving to hear any kind of positive attention towards her now. He said to his mate encouragingly, "There you go, Kiara. Some people like you around here."

The lioness felt immensely comforted by this prospect, smiling warmly while she sat back down facing Kovu. She licked his muzzle gently. "Thanks, Kovu."

"No problem, Kiara." He replied warmly before they nuzzled tenderly, embracing one another passionately. Kovu glanced up to the flower he placed in between her ear, still appearing as alive and vibrant as it did the morning he picked it for her. He placed his paws on her back and lovingly brought her closer to him. Simba, Kopa and all of the others smiled at this sight.

"Looks like at least some of our fans are sane, then." Kopa remarked upon seeing and hearing this.

Had it not been for what happened next, this would have turned out to be a rather warm moment for them all, seeing as there was someone out there that felt just as disgusted as they did towards the dirty art about them, as well as the unfair hatred for Kiara. And also had it not been for what happened next, Kiara's plan to humiliate Timon with the Timon/Shenzi material would've gone into effect right then and there. But right as this went down between her and Kovu, something happened. Right at the entrance of then den of Pride Rock in which they were inside, there emerged a single lioness from the pride who walked in suddenly. Everyone noticed and looked at her when she did, surprised by her sudden presence. The lioness appeared to be one of the former Outsiders, as indicated by the shape of her nose, and by the beige tone of fur that she had. She had a strange look on her face when she entered reluctantly.

"Minara?" Simba said, speaking the lioness's name. She cleared her throat.

"I'm sorry if I'm interrupting anything here." She said sincerely. "Should I wait until later?"

Simba stood up and approached her, carefully stepping over the laptop and facing her up close. "What is it, Minara? What're you doing here?"

Once again, Minara spoke. "Oh, well I'm here for the other huntresses. See, we were at the Water Hole to get ourselves a drink just now, and well... the water tastes different, Simba."

Kopa and Vitani both gasped as Minara continued.

"It has this... really nasty taste to it today, when yesterday it was just fine. I mean, it tastes really bad now, like something got in there or something died in it. Do you know anything about that, Simba? T-that seemed kind of concerning to us."

Kopa cowered back in fear as his father faced him now. Growing a smug smile on his face, Simba knew exactly what was going to happen here. He cowered in fear as Simba calmly said, "Well... I think prince Kopa might know a thing or two about why it's like that. Kopa? Would you mind telling Minara what you know?"

Author's Note: Once again, story credit goes to RichardTerminator. Also keeping in line with my last author's note, the next story I will be covering is called "Someone Like You" by Kari Gilmore. I still need to get permission from them to use it, so this could be subject to change. Nevertheless, I do intend to cover it at some point or another, so I wouldn't worry about it that much. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and please review!