"Timon/Shenzi the sentries?!" Max and Vitawny yelled out simultaneously in shock and horror.
"Why don't you save the jackals the trouble and kill me now? Just kill me now!" Max pleaded desperately.
"He's got a point." Timon remarked as Max dropped his face into his hands.
"All you have to do is watch for jackals and yell if you see one. Look at Iron Joe!" Ma referred to a meerkat currently on sentry duty having a nervous breakdown.
"Don't close your eyes! Don't look away! Somebody's gotta guard us! Somebody's gotta protect us!" Iron Joe shouted out before he started sobbing, and two meerkats carried him off.
"Well, now I'm convinced." Timon said as he shrugged his shoulders.
"Listen, it's outside, up in the breeze, under the wide open sky, isn't that what you two want?" Ma asked her son and his friend, "Or maybe you two would rather have them go back on the digging crew?" She asked Max and Vitawny.
"NO!" Max shouted along with Timon, Shenzi, Vitawny, and a bunch of other meerkats. The group turned to the other meerkats, who cleared their throats, and started to act casual.
"Good... then we all agree. Timon, Shenzi, listen to Uncle Max and Vitawny," Ma said, "They'll teach you everything you need to know. And honey, try to make this one work."
"Scurry, sniff, flinch!" Max yelled out, making weird movements.
"Scurry, sniff, flinch!" Vitawny yelled as she made the same movements. Timon and Shenzi glance at each other with half-closed eyes, unimpressed.
"Scurry, sniff, flinch! Good. Now... what do we do if we see a jackal?" Max questioned as he and Vitawny went down the rock and stopped at Timon and Shenzi.
"Scream "Mommy"?" Timon tried.
"That's right, mister! Because the world out there is fraught with danger. Fraught, I tell you!" Max yelled.
"Oh, boy. It's the Fraught Fest." Timon said sarcastically as Shenzi rolled her eyes.
"Even all bloodthirsty jackals are waiting to rip us limb from limb!" Max exclaimed as he was furiously pantomiming.
"Bra-vo, Uncle Max. Way to sell it to the cheap seats." Timon said as he sarcastically clapped his hands.
"Applaud now, sonny boy!" Max yelled as he got in Timon's face. "But try clapping when you don't have any hands!" He finished in a quiet, severe tone before turning and leaving. Shenzi opened her mouth to say something, but was interrupted.
"Say 'what about with feet,' and you're jackal food," Vitawny threatened her before following Max. The two friends looked at their hands/paws in fear before they took their positions on the rock.
"Scurry, sniff, flinch," Timon started, doing the actions.
"Scurry, sniff, flinch," Shenzi started performing the actions as well.
"Huh, I like the sound of that," The meerkat smiled, and the tiny hyena nodded in agreement.
"Scurry, sniff, flinch," Timon said again, then started dancing more flamboyantly, along with Shenzi.
"Scurry, sniff, flinch," Shenzi said again.
"Scurry, sniff, flinch!"
"Scurry, sniff, flinch!" Shenzi exclaimed before Timon started singing.
"There's more to life than panic," He laid his hands on his head in a panicking way.
"And bein' some other guy's snack."
"Euugh," Shenzi grimaced. Meanwhile, three jackals popped up from behind a rock in the distance, but ducked back down.
"We may be delicious, organic
But these little entrees are fightin' back!" Timon spun around with his hands bunched into fists, as Shenzi made a growling face with her teeth bared.
"iWe're gonna put diggin' tunnels behind us," He marched up to the tree behind the rock, and jumped up on the trunk.
"And live at a new altitude,
"We're gonna reach for the stars to remind us," He stood on a branch, and threw a bunch of little leaves in the air.
"That meerkats are not merely food!" He smiled with his arms out.
"Or hyenas!" Shenzi chimed in enthusiastically as she joined him on the branch.
"For once we'll be..." Timon and his friend imagined themselves stepping onto a cloud and surfing into a fantasy waterfall setting, as they sang together.
Lookin' out for me... yeah!"
"iWe'll tell you what we want
These cats are movin' on," Timon started singing solo.
"They're bon vivants
Who're missin' out onbon
We'd be a bigger cheese
Far from the desert scene."
"A little cooling breeze
A little patch of green!
And I'll be snoozin' in my hammock by a rippling stream
Many miles from any tunnel and the digging team
Looking after number one will be our only creed
That's all we need," The pair slurped up some bugs together.
"That's all we need!" They drew out simultaneously before they started dancing.
"We've always been good at runnin' away
Well, now we're gonna run the show-ow," Timon sang solo.
"iWe've always been seen as the ultimate prey
But now our status ain't so quo!
A dream sublime… it is jackal ti-i-i-i-me!"
Just when they were getting finished, the three jackals, named Shelly, Bruno, and Bin popped up, with the boys at either side of the pair, and Shelly, who started clapping her paws, behind them.
"Oh, look, it's dinner and a show!" Shelly exclaimed before laughing.
"And I thought beans were the only musical food!" Bruno remarked before laughing as well, as the two turned around and saw Shelly.
"Ja, ja, ja!" Timon and Shenzi stuttered, both frozen with fear.
"Well, "cha-cha," you two!" Shelly smiled before she smacked the pair away.
Meanwhile, Max and Vitawny were taking a walk around, as Timon and Shenzi rolled down the hill, until Timon crashed into Vitawny, and Shenzi crashed into Max. "This is no time for horseplay!" Max exclaimed angrily, "You two are supposed to be up there lookin' out for…" He stopped when he saw the snickering trio approaching. "Jackals!" He yelled out, before a mass panic started.
"Whoa, look at 'em scramble!" Bruno smiled.
"And that's just how I like 'em," Shelly had knelt down so her chin was on the ground. Max skidded to a stop, but was unintentionally pushed up to her nose. "Scrambled," She lifted her head up, slurping Max up with her tongue before licking her lips, as he fell to the ground, "And a little bit runny," She smiled, referring to the meerkats dashing around.
The trio chased a group of meerkats, obliviously passing Timon and Shenzi, who were covering their heads in defense. After they sighed in relief, they felt two hands grab their scruffs, and pull them down a hole; it turned out to be Timon's mom.
"Get in here!" She exclaimed at them, "What are you, meshugganah?!" Outside, Bin was snapping at meerkats, and Vitawny last, until there wasn't any more. Then as Max came dashing up to the hole, Bin blocked it with his paws.
Inside the hole, Timon's mom was checking if everyone was in there.
"Stumpy?"
"Here!"
"Flinchy?"
"Here!"
"Swifty?"
"Here!"
"Oh, what a relief," She smiled, "Everyone's…"
She was interrupted by another female suddenly gasping. "Where's Max?!" Vitawny yelled out. She and a bunch of meerkats peeked out of the hole, and saw Max being chased by the trio of jackals. "Max! Run for your life!" Vitawny yelled out to him.
"Play dead!" One of the meerkats exclaimed.
"Ándale!"
"Almost there!"
Suddenly, the screen showed a shopping program.
"Hey! What's going on?" Timon asked from the audience. Then Shenzi found the problem.
"Pumbaa, you're sitting on the remote!" She told him.
"Huh? Oh, sorry," The warthog grabbed the remote from his seat, "I thought it was a brownie." He changed the channel back to the movie, where Max was still running from the jackals.
"You've got it Max!" Vitawny exclaimed, but the jackals had unfortunately caught up to him. She and the meerkats grimaced and shielded their eyes before ducking back down.
When a few seconds passed, Max suddenly dropped down, looking beat up, with fur missing from his tail. "I flinched, when I should've scurried," He said weakly before flopping face-down on the ground. The jackals were walking away from the scene, guffawing at what had just happened.
"Oh man! That never gets old, does it?" Bruno laughed.
"Ooh, the classics never do, honey," Shelly agreed.
Meanwhile, Timon and Shenzi were standing amidst a group of angry meerkats, one of which, along with Vitawny, were tending to Max.
"I uh, I guess me and Shen owe everyone an apology," Timon said awkwardly. There was a moment of uncomfortable silence. "Alright, so we made a teensy little mistake. Like we all haven't broken into song on sentry duty before," He chuckled nervously, "Come on. Let me have a show of hands." But the meerkats walked away in disgust. "Okay… maybe it's a little too soon, but I'm sure we're all gonna laugh about this someday. Trust me," He smiled awkwardly.
The others, including Max and Vitawny, stared at them severely. "We did trust you," Max said quietly, referring to himself, and Vitawny.
"… But," Timon started, but all the meerkats, and Vitawny, except his mom, filed out, leaving him, her, and Shenzi alone.
(A/N: Sorry I took so long to update! I've just been obsessing over other stuff, like Epic and Guardians of the Galaxy. XD But my love for The Lion King is coming back, so I'll most likely be able to work on this more frequently. Just so you know, "Bin" means "Son" in Swahili. Plus, meshugganah is a Jewish term for "Crazy." The original movie and its characters belong to Disney, but Vitawny belongs to me. Also, at the beginning, Max says "Timon," and Vitawny says "Shenzi.")