Ash's Adventures of The Lion King/Transcript

This is the transcript for Ash's Adventures of The Lion King.

Opening/Circle of Life[edit | edit source]

(Cue lion roar in the background, calling the animals to gather to Pride Rock for the Ceremony. Sunrise on African grassland (lightly treed), in time with opening chant to The Circle of Life}

Lebo M: Nants ingonyama bagithi baba

BS: Sithi uhm ingonyama

{Various shots of animals raising their heads at the sunrise: rhinos, antelope, a cheetah, meerkats, storks…}

Lebo M: Nants ingonyama bagithi baba

BS: Sithi uhhmm ingonyama

Ingonyama

Lebo M: Siyo Nqoba

BS: Ingonyama

Ingonyama nengw' enamabala

{repeats 5}

Ingonyama nengw' enamabala (Sitha ngqwa!)

Ingonyama nengw' enamabala (Eshe!)

{repeats 1}

{The Circle of Life ground forms in the BS's and holds its pattern for eight bars. It is a non-chordal BS part. The progressions are in the medium ranges of the strings. Various pans and camera views of African animals, all moving. Coinciding with Carmen Twillie’s pickup in the eighth bar, we first view the giraffes, panning to a long shot of all the animals in their procession, Ash, Pikachu, Misty, Brock and Togepi were walking with the animals.}

Carmen Twillie: From the day we arrive on the planet

And, blinking, step into the sun

There's more to see than can ever be seen

More to do than can ever be done

{Camera is panning and jumping to elephants, zebras, ants, birds, storks, etc... }

Carmen Twillie: There's far too much to take in here

More to find than can ever be found

But the sun rolling high

Through the sapphire sky

Keeps great and small on the endless round

{When the "The Circle of Life" is mentioned the long- distance pan centers on Pride Rock where all the animals are gathering. Mufasa is on Pride Rock. Long camera arc to Mufasa and Zazu.}

Carmen Twillie: It's the Circle of Life

And it moves us all

{Zazu bows to Mufasa, who smiles and nods at him}

Carmen Twillie: Through despair and hope

Through faith and love

{Ash and his friends look behind them and sees the appearance of Rafiki, the mandrill. He passes between ranks of animals, who bow to him; he then climbs Pride Rock to where Mufasa is standing.}

Carmen Twillie: Till we find our place

On the path unwinding

{Rafiki and Mufasa embrace.}

Carmen Twillie: In the Circle

The Circle of Life

{Decrescendo in BS. Carmen Twillie drops out. Pan Flute takes simple lead.}

{Mufasa leads Rafiki, Ash and co. over to Sarabi, who is holding Simba}

Misty: What a cuite!

{Rafiki puts the juice and sand he collects on Simba's brow-- a ceremonial crown. He then picks Simba up and ascends to the point of Pride Rock. Mufasa and Sarabi follow. With a crescendo in the music and a restatement of the refrain, Rafiki holds Simba up for the crowd to view.}

Carmen Twillie: It's The Circle of Life

{The crowd starts howling, stamping, etc... }

Carmen Twillie: And it moves us all

Through despair and hope

Through faith and love

{The clouds part and a sunbeam highlights Rafiki and Simba on Pride Rock.}

Carmen Twillie: Till we find our place

{The crowd bows down, one by one.}

Carmen Twillie: On the path unwinding

Pikachu: Pika...

{Camera slowly zooms out to a striking panoramic view of the Presentation.}

Carmen Twillie: In the Circle

The Circle of Life

{Bass drum hit (fff) and immediate switch to black screen with title "Ash's Adventures of The Lion King" in blood-red caps.}

Mouse / Challenge Scene[edit | edit source]

{Cue mouse sounds}

{Visual fade into mouse in cave}

{Mouse named Nobi comes out and starts preening in the light. Begins sniffing. Becomes frightened. Suddenly a large lion paw swoops down and catches him.}

{Cue the Scar theme (dissonant, slow, reed theme). Fade in slowly and up full during speech}

{Camera switch to Scar holding the squeaking and struggling mouse in his paw. He talks to it while playing with it}

Scar: Life's not fair, is it? You see I -- well, I... shall never be King. {exhale lightly} And you... shall never see the light of another day. {closed-mouth laughter. Starts to place the mouse on his extended tongue} ... Adieu... {quiet laugh}
Zazu: {Interrupting} Didn't your mother ever tell you not to play with your food?
Scar: {Light sigh. The mouse is under his paw.} What do you want?
Zazu: I'm here to announce that King Mufasa is on his way. {bows} ...So you'd better have a good excuse for missing the ceremony this morning.

{The mouse runs away from Scar}

Scar: Oh now look, Zazu; you've made me lose my lunch.
Zazu: Hah! You'll lose more than that when the King gets through with you. He's as mad as a hippo with a hernia.
Scar: Oooh... I quiver with FEAR.

{On "FEAR" Scar crouches down and is baring his teeth at Zazu.}

Zazu: {Very concerned} Now Scar, don't look at me that way... HELP!

{Scar quickly pounces on the bird, catching him in his mouth.}

Mufasa: {Almost immediately and off-camera} Scar! ...
Scar: {Mouth full} Mm-hmm?
Mufasa: Drop him.
Ash Ketchum: That's your brother Scar?
Brock: He doesn't look very related.
Mufasa: Believe me. Brock he's my brother. Through and through.
Zazu: {Speaking from Scar's mouth} Impeccable timing, your majesty.

{Scar spits the bird out, covered with saliva}

Zazu: {Slimed} Eyyccch.
Misty and Brock: Ugh.
Scar: {Sarcastically overjoyed} Why! If it isn't my big brother descending from on high to mingle with the commoners. (turns to Ash and his friends.) And what's this? What are you supposed to be?
Brock: My name's Brock and I'm a Pokémon Breeder.
Misty: And I'm Misty. My specialty is Water Pokémon.
Togepi: Prry.
Ash Ketchum: My name's Ash Ketchum. And I'm trying to be a Pokémon Master.
Pikachu: Pika.
Ash Ketchum: Uh, oh yeah. And this is Pikachu. And we're actually humans.
Scar: Humans? In the Pride Lands? And what's a Pokémon?
Brock: Well, Pokémon are more like animals and they are living creatures from our own world.
Misty: Yeah. And my Togepi is an egg Pokemon. And Pikachu is a Eletric mouse Pokémon.
Scar: Is that so? Then let me take a closer look at your Pikachu.
Pikachu: PIka?
Ash Ketchum: Uh, Scar? What are you doing?
Scar: Is your Pikachu hungry, Human? Perhaps we could have a bite together!

(Scar tries to pounce on Pikachu but it dodges him. Ash blocks Scar from getting near his Pikachu.)

Ash Ketchum: Hey! My Pikachu is not your prey!
Scar: Are you sure about that? Because you are in a pride of lions, after all...
Ash Ketchum: Trying to come near it you'll regret it!
Mufasa: At ease, Ash. (turns to Scar) Scar, these are our guests here. They are not to be eaten, like Zazu is not to be eaten.
Misty: Yeah, we just got into the Pride Lands for a good reason.
Brock: You see Zordon send us to visit an old friend of his Rafiki so he can show us the Pride Lands and understand the Circle of Life and learned about it from King Mufasa.
Mufasa: And since these humans are new to the Pride Lands we must teach them what they need to know how we run this kingdom.
Scar: {Sarcastically) Well then my mistake then.
Mufasa: Speaking of mistakes...Sarabi and I didn't see you at the presentation of Simba.
Scar: {Faking astonishment} That was today? Oh, I feel simply awful.

{He turns and start scraping his claws on the rock wall. Zazu, Ash, Misty and Brock, cringes at the sound.}

Scar: {Admiring his claws} ...Must have slipped my mind.
Zazu: Yes, well, as slippery as your mind is, as the king's brother, you should have been first in line! {Scar clicks his teeth at Zazu, who has flown near his face. Zazu takes cover behind Mufasa's foreleg. Scar bends down to speak to him.}
Scar: Well, I was first in line... until the little hairball was born.
Mufasa: {Lowering his head and meeting Scar eye to eye} That "hairball" is my son... and your future king.
Scar: Ohh, I shall practice my curtsy. {Scar turns away and starts to exit}
Mufasa: {Warning} Don't turn your back on me, Scar.
Scar: {Looking back} Oh, no, Mufasa. Perhaps YOU shouldn't turn YOUR back on me.
Ash Ketchum: I'll...

(Before Ash can say anymore, Brock stops him)

Brock: Take it easy, Ash. Don't pay any attention to what he says.
Ash Ketchum: But Brock you heard what he--
Mufasa: {Roars and literally jumps in front of Scar, baring his teeth for the first time} Is that a challenge?
Scar: Temper, temper. I wouldn't dream of challenging you.
Ash Ketchum: Why not?
Scar: {Looking at Ash Ketchum} Well, as far as brains go, I got the lion's share. But, when it comes to brute strength {looking at Mufasa} ...I'm afraid I'm at the shallow end of the gene pool.

{Exit Scar}

Misty: That Scar has a lot of nerve insulting his own big brother and his own nephew like that.
Ash Ketchum: Yeah, he's trying to eat my Pikachu. Who does he think he is?
Zazu: {Deep sigh} That's just how he is and there's one in every family, children... Two in mine, actually. {perches on Mufasa's shoulder} And they always manage to ruin special occasions.
Mufasa: What am I going to do with him?
Zazu: He'd make a very handsome throw rug.
Mufasa: {Chiding} Zazu!
Zazu: And just think! Whenever he gets dirty, you could take him out and BEAT him.

{They exit, chuckling. Pan out into open savannah.}

Painting Scene[edit | edit source]

{Rise in music-- "This Land" track-- with theme stated in African flute, it broadens eventually with chorus and full orchestra. We see a rainstorm gently crossing the savannah. Multiplane as the thunder rumbes. Camera approaches to Rafiki's baobab tree. Camera switch to inside the tree. Rafiki is doing hand paintings on the wall. We see he is completing a lion cub.}

Rafiki: {Mutters to himself, in which the word "Simba" can be heard} Hmm... Ah heh-heh-heh-heh-heh... {completing the ceremonial crown in the painting} Simba.

{Horns and brass close theme in a stately manner with a decrescendo. Fade to black keeping the painting of the cub as a crossover to the fade in of Pride Rock in early morning}

The Sunrise / Pouncing Scene[edit | edit source]

{Simba is seen coming out on the rock. He runs back into the cave and leaps over several of the lionesses, accidentally jumping on a few.}

Simba: Dad! Daad! Come on, Dad, we gotta go. Wake up!
Random Lioness: Oomph!
Simba: Sorry! ...Oop.

{Simba starts to wake Mufasa}

Simba: Dad? Daad. Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad--
Sarabi: {Over Simba's endless noise of "Dad"s, sleepily} Your son... is awake...
Mufasa: {Also sleepily} Before sunrise, he's YOUR son.
Simba: Dad? Daad! Come on, Dad! {tugs at Mufasa's ear.} Daa-- Whoa!

{He loses his grip on Mufasa's ear and slips and crashes into Pikachu and uses electric shock on Ash by accident waking Misty and Brock.)

Misty: Hey, it's awfully early Ash.
Ash Ketchum: What are you doing, Simba?
Simba: Sorry, Ash. I have to get my dad up. He's gotta show us the Pride Lands today.
Ash Ketchum: Right, I forgot.
Brock: He's going to teach us about the Circle of Life just like he said.

(Simba comes running back on screen and butts Mufasa. Mufasa sleepily eyes his son.}

Simba: You promised!
Mufasa: {Seeing his son's impatience} Okay, okay. I'm up. I'm up.
Simba: Yeah!

{Mufasa yawns a well-recorded lion yawn. Mufasa and Sarabi follow Simba up to the top of Pride Rock. Simba rubs up against Sarabi; she nudges him ahead and stays behind. Departing shot of her, with a loving expression. The sunrise illuminates the top of Pride Rock impressively. Both Simba and Mufasa are on the point. Cue music.}

Mufasa: Look children. Everything the light touches is our kingdom.
Simba: Wow.

{The camera revolves around them, during Mufasa's speech, from a reverse view to a frontal shot.}

Mufasa: A king's time as ruler rises and falls like the sun. One day, Simba, the sun will set on my time here, and will rise with you as the new king.
Simba: And this will all be mine?
Mufasa: Everything.
Pikachu: Pika?
Togepi: Toge?
Simba: Everything the light touches. {Simba looks all around. He views the rip-rap canyon to the north} What about that shadowy place?
Mufasa: That's beyond our borders. You must never go there, Simba.
Ash Ketchum: But I thought a king can do whatever he wants.
Mufasa: Oh, there's more to being king than... getting your way all the time.

{Mufasa starts back down the rock}

Simba: {Awed} There's more?
Mufasa: {Chuckles} Simba...

{Camera switch. Ash, Pikachu, Brock, Mufasa and Simba are out walking on the savannah.}

Mufasa: Everything you see exists together, in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance, and respect all the creatures-- from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.
Simba: But, Dad, don't we eat the antelope?
Mufasa: Yes, Simba, but let me explain. When we die, our bodies become the grass. And the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
Ash and his friends: (awe in amazment.)
Zazu: {Lights on a nearby rock} Good morning, sir!
Mufasa: Good morning, Zazu.
Zazu: Checking in... with the morning report.
Mufasa: Fire away.
Zazu: Well! The buzz from the bees is that the leopards are in a bit of a spot...

{Zazu's speech will continue through without stop. Simba's and Mufasa's conversation is the focus.}

Mufasa: {Distracted} Oh, really?

{Simba, uninterested in Zazu, pounces at a grasshopper and misses}

Zazu: {Continuing, not noticing Mufasa's lack of enthusiasm} ... And the baboons are going ape over this. Of course, the giraffes are acting like they're above it all...
Misty: What are you doing, Simba?
Simba: {Disappointedly looking in his empty paws} Pouncing.
Mufasa: Let an old pro show you how it's done.
Zazu: ...The tick birds are pecking on the elephants. I told the elephants to forget it, but they can't...
Mufasa: Zazu, would you turn around?
Zazu: Yes, sire. {Continuing immediately} The cheetahs are hard up, but I always say ...
Mufasa: {Whispering} Stay low to the ground.
Zazu: Cheetahs never prosper...
Simba: {Whispering} Okay, stay low to the ground, right... yeah...
Zazu: {Realizing something is amiss} What going on?
Mufasa: A pouncing lesson.
Zazu: Oh very good. Pouncing. {Realizing} Pouncing!?! Oh no, sire, you can't be serious...

{Mufasa motions for Zazu to turn back around.}

Zazu: Oh... this is so humiliating.
Mufasa: {Still whispering} Try not to make a sound.
Zazu: What are you telling him, Mufasa? {Looking around uneasily-- Simba and Mufasa seem to have disappeared.} Mufasa? Simba?

{Simba does a full pounce leaving Zazu stunned on the ground}

Mufasa: Ha ha ha ha ha.
Ash Ketchum: (laughs)
Pikachu: (laughs)
Mufasa: That's very good. Ha ha ha...

{A gopher emerges under Zazu.}

Gopher: Zazu!
Zazu: {Exasperated} Yes?
Gopher: {Saluting} SIR! News from the underground.
Mufasa: {To Simba} Now, this time--
Zazu: {Interrupting and with urgency} SIR! Hyenas! In the Pride Lands!
Ash Ketchum: Hyenas?!
Brock: They must be on the hunt!
Mufasa: {Serious now} Zazu, take them home.
Simba: Oh, Dad, can't I come?
Mufasa: {Curtly} No, son.
Ash Ketchum: Then let me come! I can help!
Mufasa: No, Ash. You stay and watch over Simba.

{Mufasa heads off at a full gallop}

Ash Ketchum: If I don't do something fast, Those hyenas could the animals.
Misty: Reality check, Ash. Mufasa did task us to watch over his son.

(Ash slumps following the revelation)

Simba: I never get to go anywhere.
Brock: Sorry, Simba. But your father just doesn't want you to get hurt or worse.
Misty: And we did learn why hyenas aren't allowed in the Pride Lands. Because they could hunt to kill and throw everything into chaos.
Brock: Right, and if there's anything we can do to help he can call on us for help to keep the Pride Lands in peace.
Ash Ketchum: Yeah that's it. Keep the Pride Lands safe!
Misty: He'll never learn.
Ash Ketchum: I didn't ask you.
Simba: I know but still.
Zazu: Oh, young master, one day you will be king; then you can chase those slobbering mangy stupid poachers from dawn until dusk.

{They head off. Camera pulls back to wide view of savannah.}

Scar Tricks Simba Scene[edit | edit source]

{Camera change to Scar on his overhanging rock ledge. We see Scar pace once and kick an old bone off the edge.}

{Enter Simba, Ash, Pikachu, Misty and Brock}

Simba: Hey Uncle Scar! Guess what!
Scar: I despise guessing games.
Simba: I'm going to be king of Pride Rock.
Scar: {Sarcastically} Oh goody.
Misty: Quit being so glum. This is great news.
Brock: And Mufasa did show him the whole kingdom. And he's going to rule it all when he grows up.
Pikachu: (nods) Pikachu.
Scar: Yes. Well... forgive me for not leaping for joy. Bad back, you know.

{Scar flops down on his side.}

Simba: Hey, Uncle Scar? When I'm king, what'll that make you?
Scar: A monkey's uncle.
Simba: Heh heh. You're so weird.
Scar: You have no idea. ...So, your father showed you the whole kingdom, did he?
Simba: Everything.
Scar: He didn't show you what's beyond that rise at the northern border...?
Ash Ketchum: No, he said he can't go over there.
Scar: And he's absolutely right. It's far too dangerous. Only the bravest lions go there.
Simba: Well, I'm brave! What's out th--
Scar: {Interrupting} No, I'm sorry, Simba, I just can't tell you.
Simba: Why not?
Scar: Simba, Simba, I'm only looking out for the well- being of my favorite nephew.

{Scar rubs and pats Simba's head}

Simba: {Snorts sarcastically} Yeah, right, I'm your only nephew.
Scar: All the more reason for me to be protective... An elephant graveyard is no place for a young prince... {faking surprise} Oops!
Misty: (shocked) What did you say?
Simba: {Enthusiastic} An elephant what? Whoa.
Scar: {Faking dismay} Oh dear, I've said too much...
Misty: You didn't tell us there was a graveyard out there!
Brock: What's the big deal, Misty? A graveyard isn't so bad.
Misty: Maybe to you it's not bad but to me it is!
Ash Ketchum: I wonder what's in this Elephant Graveyard?
Misty: There's nothing out there what we should see in it!
Brock: Not true.
Ash Ketchum: What do you mean by that?
Brock: I read it in the guidebook that some hyenas like to hang out there.
Ash Ketchum: So that's why Mufasa banned them from the Pridelands.
Pikachu: Pika.
Scar: Yes it is true human. (to Simba) Well, I suppose you'd have found sooner or later, you being SO clever and all... {pulling Simba near} Oh, just do me one favor - promise me you'll never visit that dreadful place.
Simba: {Thinks} No problem.
Scar: There's a good lad. You run along now and have fun. And remember... it's our little secret.
Ash Ketchum: Don't worry we'll keep this whole thing to ourselves. We might as well get going.
Brock: We might as well.
Misty: Yeah, we should pick up Nala. And play around the savannah. I'm not thinking going to that awful place. (Ash, Pikachu, Brock and Simba leave the rock and Misty notices and follows them.) Hey, wait up! Don't leave me here! Ash! Brock! Wait!

{Scar walks away with an evil smile. Menacing music.}

Bath Scene - Intro to Water Hole[edit | edit source]

{Ash, Pikachu, Misty, Brock and Simba they running down the slope of the bottom part of Pride Rock. they run down towards two lionesses (Sarabi and Sarafina). Sarafina is giving Nala a bath. Music is light, almost jazzy. Pan flute lead.}

Simba: Hey, Nala.
Nala: Hi, guys.
Simba: Come on. I just heard about this great place.
Nala: {Through clenched teeth} Simba! I'm kind of in the middle of a bath.
Sarabi: And it's time for yours.

{Simba tries (too late) to escape; Sarabi bends down and grabs him. She proceeds to give the struggling cub a bath.}

Simba: Mom! ...Mom. You're messing up my mane.

{Sarabi smiles.}

Simba: Okay, okay, I'm clean. Can we go now?
Ash Ketchum: Go where? What's the big rush Simba?
Brock: Yeah, you didn't tell us where we're heading.
Nala: So where are we going? It better not be anyplace dumb.
Simba: No. It's really cool.
Misty: So where is this "really cool" place?
Simba: Oh. {thinks} Uh... around the water hole.
Nala: The water hole? What's so great about the water hole?
Simba: {Whisper} I'll SHOW you when we GET there.
Nala: {Whisper} Oh. {Normal} Uh... Mom, can I go with the others?
Sarafina: Hmm... What do you think, Sarabi?
Sarabi: Well...
Nala and Simba: {through broad, forced grins} Pleeeease?
Ash Ketchum: No need to worry, your majesty, we'll watch over them. (to Misty & Brock) Right, guys?
Misty: Yeah, they'll be safe with us, once we get to the water hole.
Brock: Plus if there anything goes wrong like hyenas in the pride land, will use our Pokémon to protect your son and Nala from them.
Ash Ketchum: And we will promise you at the end of the day, we'll get them home safe and sound. (to Pikachu) Right, Pikachu?
Pikachu: (agreed) Pika.
Sarabi: It's all right with me...

{Nala and Simba are overjoyed}

Nala: All right!
Simba: Yeah!
Sarabi: ...As long as Zazu goes with you.

{Simba and Nala stop dead in their celebration}

Simba: No. Not Zazu.
Brock: Okay, I'll go get him.
Misty: I can hardly wait to get to a watering hole for my water Pokémon to swim! Come on, guys, let's go!

Water Hole Scene/I Just Can't Wait to Be King[edit | edit source]

{Camera is at a ground angle slightly behind the cubs and humans walking towards the water hole. Zazu is visible in the sky overhead.}

Zazu: Step lively. The sooner we get to the water hole, the sooner we can leave.
Misty: Well Ash, it looks like we can let our water Pokémon take a dip in the water hole.
Ash Ketchum: Yeah, and they get to meet the other animals in the Pride Lands.
Pikachu: Pika.

{Camera angle changes to the cubs from an immediate real view}

Nala: {Whisper} So where we really going?
Simba: {Whisper} An elephant graveyard.
Nala: Wow!
Simba: {Whisper} Shhh! The others.

Nala: {Whisper} Right. So how are we gonna ditch them?

{Camera switch to just above Zazu. We hear the cubs whispering back and forth below}

Simba: {Whispering} Oh, I know how we can -
Zazu: {Flying down} Oh, just look at you two. Little seeds of romance blossoming in the savannah. Your parents will be thrilled... {He lands in front of them} ...what with your being betrothed and all.
Simba: Be-what?
Zazu: Betrothed. Intended. Affianced.
Ash Ketcum: What are you trying to say Zazu?
Brock: I think I know he saying that one day that both Simba and Nala are going to be married in the future.
Simba: Yuck!
Nala: Ewww.
Simba: I can't marry her. She's my friend.
Nala: Yeah. It'd be too weird.
Zazu: Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but you two turtle-doves have no choice. It's a tradition...

{Simba mimics Zazu during these last words}

Zazu: ...going back generations.
Brock: He does have point because that's how things are in life. I could write a book about the secrets of love and marriage!
Misty: I guess that book would be your autobiography?
Brock: (Sighs)
Misty: I have a natural understanding the the matters of marriages.
Brock: Huh, sure you do. (Before get ear pull by Misty)
Misty (take Brock away) I think you need a cool off in the Watering Hole.
Brock: NOT THE EAR AND THERE ARE NO BEAUTIFUL GIRLS IN THE PRIDE LAND!!
Ash Ketchum: (shook his head and thoughts) Some things never change. (flet a tug who turned out to be Nala) Hmm?
Nala: Ash, what does Misty mean about "natural understanding the the matters of marriages"?
Simba: Yeah and what Brock says about "there are no girls in pride land"?
Ash Ketchum (to Simba & Nala as he keel down to their level) Well you see, you two, Misty, know some about Loves and Marriages.
Simba: Really?
Ash Ketchum: Well not all the time and as for Brock, he has a things about with beautiful girls.
Nala: How come?
Ash Ketchum: You see whatever Brock see some beautiful girls, he trying to ask them to be his girlfriend but sometimes there are some already got boyfriend.
Pikachu: (agreed) Pika.
Ash Ketchum: Or some are proposed to marriage.
Pikachu: (agreed) Pika.
Ash Ketchum: or some is not interesting with Brock.
Pikachu: (agreed) Pikachu.
Ash Ketchum: But luckily for me, Misty and Brock's Croagunk are keeping Brock under control.
Pikachu: (agreed) Pika, Pikachu.
Ash Ketchum: So, does this make any sense to you now.
Simba: Maybe but still, I can't marry her. She's my friend.
Nala: Yeah. It'd be too weird.
Ash Ketchum: Maybe so, but who knows. One day in the deep future, you two might end up together as the new king and queen of the pride land, (to Simba) just like your parents, Simba.
Pikachu: (agreed) Pikachu.
Simba: Well, when I'm king, that'll be the first thing to go.
Zazu: Not so long as I'm around.

{Start fading in intro to "I Just Can't Wait to Be King"}

Simba: Well, in that case, you're fired.
Zazu: Hmmm... Nice try, but only the king can do that. {Pokes Simba's nose}
Nala: Well, he's the future king.
Simba: Yeah. {Thumping Zazu's chest} So you have to do what I tell you.
Ash Ketchum: What?!
Misty: What? Simba, you're still the prince. So you can't tell us what to do yet!
Zazu: And with an attitude like that, I'm afraid you're shaping up to be a pretty pathetic king indeed.
Simba: Hmph. Not the way I see it.

{Full song, colors change to wild pop-African. Background abruptly becomes surreal, brightly-colored cartoon style.}

[Simba]

I'm gonna be a mighty king

So enemies beware!

[Zazu]

Well, I've never seen a king of beasts

With quite so little hair

{Plucks Simba's hair where mane would be}

{Simba gets a mane of leaves}

[Simba]

I'm gonna be the mane event

Like no king was before

{Climbs a log}

[Simba]

I'm brushing up on looking down

I'm working on my ROAR

{On "ROAR" he shouts at Zazu, startling him backwards into a puddle}

[Zazu] {Drying on what appears to be a hanging towel}

Thus far, a rather uninspiring thing

{Camera pulls back; reveals the "towel" as the ear of a red elephant which hits Zazu with its trunk as with a golf club, sending him skipping like a stone across a shallow pool of water; the cubs follow immediately.}

[Simba]

Oh, I just can't wait to be king!

Zazu: {Speaking} You've rather a long way to go, young master, if you think...

{For this verse Zazu is making quick spoken-part replies to each line. Simba and Nala are on each side of Zazu; as he turns to talk to one, the other makes faces at him.}

[Simba]

No one saying do this

Zazu: [Now when I said that, I -]

[Nala]

No one saying be there

Zazu: [What I meant was...]

[Simba]

No one saying stop that

Zazu: [Look, what you don't realize...]

[Simba and Nala]

No one saying see here

Zazu: [Now see here!]

Simba: Free to run around all day

{Simba and Nala are now riding ostriches}

Zazu: [Well, that's definitely out...]

[Simba] Free to do it all my way!

[Zazu] {Flying ahead of the cubs, looking back to speak to them and so not paying attention ahead}

I think it's time that you and I

Arranged a heart to heart

{Flies into a rhino}

[Simba]

Kings don't need advice

From little hornbills for a start

{Zazu lights on a branch}

[Zazu]

If this is where the monarchy is headed

Count me out!

Out of service, out of Africa,

I wouldn't hang about... Aagh!

{The camera pulls back to reveal Zazu has lighted on a log being washed towards a waterfall. It disappears over the edge. Zazu yells in surprise, but quickly reappears flying towards and through the camera.}

[Zazu]

This child is getting wildly out of wing

[Simba]

Oh, I just can't wait to be king!

{The cubs trot up a corridor of zebras standing at attention; when Zazu, Ash and co. follows, they all turn and raise their tails; Zazu covers himself with a wing.}

Misty and Brock: Ugh.

{Nala and Simba dance about under a moving herd of elephants while the African flute leads a short instrumental sequence. Zazu flies overhead, looking for them. Simba ends up standing on a giraffe's head.}

[Simba]

Everybody look left

Everybody look right

{Zazu squawks as the herd tramples him}

{Simba hops up a ladder of giraffe heads}

[Simba]

Everywhere you look I'm

Standing in the spotlight!

{Sliding down a giraffe's neck into theatrical pose}

Zazu: {Speaking, but in strict time} Not yet!

[Chorus]

Let every creature go for broke and sing

Let's hear it in the herd and on the wing

It's gonna be King Simba's finest fling

{The Chorus lions close mouth of hippos, monkey, buffalo , giraffes, ostrich birds etc. forms a pyramid with the cubs on top}

[Simba & Chorus]

Oh I just can't wait to be king!

Oh I just can't waaaaaait lion roar gone birds teewt gone happy ... to be kiiiiiiiiiing! lion Roar

{The pyramid topples leaving the rhino sitting on Toucan Crash 1)

Zazu: {Muffled} I beg your pardon, madam, but... GET OFF! ... Simba? Nalaaaaaaaaaa!
Misty: Poor Zazu.
Pikachu: Pika Pi.
Ash Ketchum: And we lost Simba and Nala!
Misty: Huh? Where'd they go! We were supposed to watch over them!
Ash Ketchum: Mufasa is not going to happy when he finds out about this!
Brock: Alright you two calm down. We'll find them.
Ash Ketchum: Okay, Brock, maybe we'll have better luck if we look for them in the sky. (grabs Noctowl's pokeball.) Noctowl I choose you!
Noctowl: (appears)
Brock: Good idea Ash. I'll help too. Golbat I choose you!
Golbat: (appears)
Ash Ketchum: Okay guys, we gotta find Simba and Nala split up and report back in half an hour.

(Noctowl and Golbat files off to find the two cubs in the sky.)

Brock: I'll catch up with you later. I'll help Zazu out.
Misty: He's right. We have to go and find Simba and Nala.
Ash Ketchum: (nods and turns to Pikachu) Let's go Pikachu.
Pikachu: Pika.

(Ash, Pikachu, and Misty ran off to find Simba and Nala while Brock stay behind.)

Elephant Graveyard - Hyena Scene[edit | edit source]

{Camera change to Noctowl searching the around the Pride Lands in the sky until it saw Simba and Nala making their way away from Zazu, Ash and his friends. They are laughing. And flies back to Ash and Misty.}

Ash Ketchum: How'd it go Noctowl? Did you find anything?

(Noctowl points them into the direction to where Simba and Nala are heading to the northern borders.)

Ash Ketchum: They must be heading north. Which means...
Misty: They're heading straight to the Elephant Graveyard!
Ash Ketchum: Come on we better hurry!
Simba: All right, it worked!
Nala: We lost them.
Simba: {Arrogantly} I... am a genius.
Nala: Hey, Genius, it was my idea.
Simba: Yeah, but I pulled it off.
Nala: With me!
Simba: Oh yeah? ...Rrarr!

{Simba jumps at Nala; they tussle quickly. Nala ends on top and pins Simba with her forepaws, producing a resounding thump.}

Nala: Ha. Pinned ya.
Simba: {Annoyed} Hey, lemme up.

{Nala turns away smiling. Simba looks at her and jumps at her again. They tussle, rolling down a short hill. She pins him again in the same position with another thump.}

Nala: Pinned. Ya. Again.

{A geyser makes a loud noise nearby, ejecting steam. The camera pulls back to a view of the surroundings that the cubs have just noticed. Mostly in grays, we see a dark craggy vale filled with skeletons of elephants. Eerie music.}

Simba: This is it. We made it.

{They look over the edge of the ledge they are on. A large bull elephant skull is nearby. The camera follows to survey the entire bleak view.}

Simba and Nala: Whoa!
Nala: It's really creepy.
Simba: Yeah... Isn't it great?
Nala: {Relishing her naughtiness} We could get in big trouble.
Simba: {Enjoying it also} I know, huh.
Ash Ketchum: Hold it!
Simba: Ash? How did you...
Ash Ketchum: I send Noctowl to find you two and tracked you both all the way out here!
Misty: I knew something was going on, you wanted to come here instead of the watering hole. Why!
Simba: I just wanted to check it out, so they won't treat me like a cub anymore.
Ash Ketchum: Who told you that? Your dad said we're not suppose to come here!
Simba: My Dad gets to go on patrols so I just want to show him that I could be brave like him.
Ash Ketchum: What?!
Pikachu: Pika?!
Nala: {Looking at the skull} I wonder if its brains are still in there.
Simba: {Walking towards the skull} There's only one way to know. Come on. Let's go check it out.

{Simba walks towards the mouth of the skull. Zazu flaps suddenly up in front of them, emitting a sharp squawk of "Wrong!" and giving the audience a start.}

Zazu: The only checking out you will do will be to check out of here.
Simba: Aw, man.
Brock: I'm surprised at you, Simba. I know you're growing up. But that doesn't mean you should disobey you're Dad.
Misty: So, we should just leave right now.
Zazu: We're way beyond the boundary of the Pride Lands.
Simba: Huh. Look. Banana Beak is scared. Heh.
Zazu: {Poking Simba in the nose} That's Mr. Banana Beak to you, fuzzy. And right now, we are all in very real danger.

{Simba has moved nearer to the entrance of the skull}

Simba: Danger? Hah! I walk on the wild side. I laugh in the face of danger. Ha ha ha ha! (Following Simba's confident laughter we hear more laughing from inside the skull. Simba runs back and hides behind Ash and co, Nala and Zazu.)
Ash and his friends: (gasps)

(Three hyenas emerge from the skull's eyes and mouth.)

Shenzi: Well, well, well, Banzai. What have we got here?
Banzai: Hmm. I don't know, Shenzi. Uh... what do you think, Ed?
Ed: {Crazy laughter}

{They circle around the cubs, humans, Pikachu, and Zazu.}

Banzai: Yeah, just what I was thinking. A bunch of trespassers!
Zazu: And quite by accident, let me assure you. A simple navigational error. Eh heh heh...
Shenzi: Whoa, whoa, wait wait wait... I know you. {peering close into the camera} You're Mufasa's little stooge.
Zazu: I, madam, am the king's majordomo.
Banzai: {Looking at Simba} And that would make you...?
Simba: The future king.
Shenzi: And what else are you three?
Brock: Actually we're humans and Pokémon trainers.
Misty: So, don't mind us. We made a mistake coming here.
Shenzi: Humans? I heard of you. You're the three trainers from this other world.
Banzai: (looks at Ash Ketchum) And that means you're the so called the world champion Ash Ketchum.
Ash Ketchum: How do you know about me?
Shenzi: Let's say some friends of ours have told us all about you.
Ash Ketchum: Friends?
Pikachu: Pika?
Familiar female voice: (OS) That's right twerp.

(Ash turns and sees Team Rocket behind him.)

Jessie: Prepare for trouble.
James: Make it double.
Jessie: To protect the world from devastation.
James: To unite all peoples within our nation.
Jessie: To announce the evils of truth and love.
James: To extend our reach from the stars above.
Jessie: Jessie.
James: James.
Jessie: Team Rocket blast off from the speed of light.
James: Surrender now or prepare to fight.
Meowth: Meowth that's right!
Ash Ketchum: What are you doing here?!
Jessie: We thought the Elephant Graveyard could use a little excitment
James: And what's more exciting than a circus?
Simba: What's a circus? Do they have something to preform?
Ash Ketchum: No, just three freaks.
Mewoth: Now, we're taking something. We're gonna capture you twerps!
Jessie: Why not make this easy than just surrender.
Ash Ketchum: No way!
Shenzi: Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their kingdom?
Simba: Puh. You can't do anything me.
Zazu: Uhh... technically, they can. We are on their land.
Simba: But Zazu, you told me they're nothing but slobbering mangy stupid poachers.
Zazu: {Aside, surreptitiously, to Simba} Ix-nay on the oopid-stay...
Banzai: Who you callin' "oopid-stay?!?"
Zazu: {Harried} My, my, my. Look at the sun. {starts to try to hasten the cubs away} It's time to go!
Shenzi: What's the hurry? We'd looove you to stick around for dinner.
Brock: We didn't bring anything to eat.
Misty: It's gonna get dark soon we should be heading back to Pride Rock.
James: That's not going to be a problem. And our hyena friends could use some company.
Banzai: Yeaaaah! We could have whatever's... "lion" around! {In the background} Get it? Lion around! {laughs}
Shenzi: Oh wait, wait, wait. I got one, I got one. Make mine a "cub" sandwich. Whatcha think?

{Peals of uncontrollable laughter. Ed jumps up and starts gesticulating and jabbering.}

Shenzi: What? Ed? What is it?
Banzai: (Looking where Ed is pointing) Hey, did we order this dinner to go?
Shenzi: No. Why?
Banzai: 'Cause there it goes! (Camera view to the cubs, Ash and co. running off; they stop after a bit. Quick camera jump showing Zazu being caught in mid-flight.)
Nala: Did we lose 'em?
Simba: I think so.
Brock: Everybody here?
Misty: I'm here!
Ash Ketchum: Me too.
Pikachu: Pikachu.
Misty: Wait, where's Zazu?

(Camera switch. The hyenas have Zazu near a steam vent. Banzai is holding the bird.)

Banzai: The little majordomo bird hippity-hopped all the way to the birdie-boiler. {He walks Zazu to the vent and stuffs him into it, plugging it up.}
Zazu: Oh, no! Not the birdie-boiler! {It shoots him off in a puff of steam}

{The hyenas start laughing hysterically}

Simba: {Now near the hyenas} Hey! Why don't you pick on somebody your own size?
Shenzi: Like... you?
Simba: Oops.
Ash Ketchum: Pikachu, thunderbolt'em!
Pikachu: Pikachu! (shocks the hyenas)
Ash Ketchum: Come on, let's go!

{The hyenas start chasing Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, and the cubs. They dart around behind them and poke their heads through an active methane vent.}

Shenzi, Banzai, Ed: BOO! {laughter}
Ash Ketchum: You're not eating those cubs! Go, Cyndaquil! (throws his Pokeball and summons Cynadquil.) Chikorita, you go too! (summons Chikorita but she nuzzles on Ash's cheek.) Cut it out we got a battle to win.
Misty: Those hyenas, don't scare me, go Stary--uh! (Psyducks pops out of it's Pokeball instead.)
Brock: Onix! Go! (summons his Onix.)
Shenzi, Banzai, Ed: Huh?!
Ash Ketchum: Well, at least the hyenas aren't gonna out number us anymore it's 5 on 3.
Ed: (burst out of laugh and Banzai smacks him.)
Banzai: They're talkin' about us!
Shenzi: {menacing, advancing on them} For your last meal, you're gonna eat those words.
Jessie: Not so, fast! Arbok! Attack

(Arbok appears)

Brock: Onix, use Tackle attack!

(Onix uses Tackle attack on Arbok and knocks it to the ground.)

James: I'll stop them! Victreebel! Go!

(Victreebel Appears, and then Victreebel Gobbles Jessie)

Jessie: James, would you get this thing off of me?!
Ash Ketchum: Now's our chance! Come on everybody! Hurry!

{The hyenas chase the cubs, Ash and co. up and over another skull, and the cubs slip away by sliding down the spine.)

(They shoot off the end of the spine and land on a hillside of bones.}

Nala: Simba!

{Simba turns around and is horrified to see Nala slipping back down the pile.}

Nala: Aaaaiee!
Ash Ketchum: Chikorita, use Razor Leaf!

{Chikorita uses Razor Leaf on Shenzi across the cheek, drawing blood and distracting her while Nala escapes. Shenzi becomes enraged; the Hyenas pursue the Pokémon trainers and cubs quickly and corner them in a cave.}

Banzai: {Entering the cave, taunting} Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.
Misty: Oh no you won't!
Brock: We won't let you!
Ash Ketchum: If you want to eat those cubs! We might as well make it a battle!
Shenzi: In case you forgot human there are more than just three of us.
Banzai: Yeah, just look up there.

(Banzai points up to where legions of hyenas snarl down at Ash and his friends.)

Banzai: I say there's more than just three of us.
Ed: Slurps (laughing)
Shenzi: Get'em boys!

(The hyenas jumped at Ash and his friends but dodging they're bites.)

Ash Ketchum: Fine, we'll do this the hard way!
Shenzi: Let's bounce on them boys!

(They hyenas attack as one hyena tries to bite Ash's Cyndaquill but dodges it.)

Ash Ketchum: That's it. Save up your energy so you can attack when it's all tired out Cyndaquill.

(Cyndaquill keeps avoding the bites.)

Misty: Psyduck, use your Water Gun attack!
Psyduck: Psyduck?
Misty: (groans and palms her face.) Now, you're giving me a headache.

(The hyena leaps in to attack Psyduck)

Misty: Look out!
Ash Ketchum: Razor Leaf, and hurry!

(The attack launches, and the hyena changes its course)

Ash Ketchum: That sure was a close call.

(Another hyena pounces towards Ash, but Ash quickly ducks while a cetain paw of Mufasa appears on the cliff and watches on)

Ash Ketchum: Chikorita, Vine Whip attack!
Brock: Onix, Tackle attack!

(Onix charges in, but hyenas dodges in time as Onix crashes to the ground. While it's on the ground, two of the hyenas pounce on Onix)

Ash Ketchum: Pikachu, use your Thunder Shock, now!

(Pikachu does so, causing the Houndour to get off of Onix while Cyndaquil gets hit hard by one of the hyenas, causing it to light up its back flame)

Ash Ketchum: Cyndaquil's just getting warmed up. Go get'em with your Flamethrower attack!

(The attack launches, but the hyenas evade and ran away while Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed stood their ground.)

Banzai: Man, you kids really have tough Pokémon.
Ash Ketchum: You bet we do!
Pikachu: Pika!
Jessie: Hey, don't forget about us!
James: Well, you hyenas did your best.
Meowth: But now it's time to deal with you twerps.
Banzai: Yeah, no Pokémon is gonna make chump out of us.
Ash Ketchum: Fine, we can do this all night!
Simba: Wait, Ash, Let me challenge them for once.
Ash Ketchum: Simba, no! It's too dangerous.
Simba: I can try to be brave. Just trust me.
Misty: Simba!
Jessie: Well this should be interesting.
James: Go ahead and try you little cub.

{Simba tries to roar. He produces a nice medium yowl.}

Simba: MREOOOW!
Shenzi: Oo-hoo... that was it? Hah. Do it again... come on.

{Simba opens his mouth to roar again, but we hear a full- grown lion roar.}

Mufasa: (offscreen) Rooooar!
Shenzi, Banzai, Ed: Huh?!

{Mufasa charges the hyenas from camera left and knocks them about until Arbok is about use headbutt on Mufasa and but knocks it down.)

James: Get in there, Victreebel!

(Victreebel charged but Mufasa also knocks it down as well.)

James: He's nasty!

(Mufasa knocks Team Rocket to the ground while them and the three hyenas are cringing under him.}

Shenzi: Oh, please, please. Uncle. Uncle.
Banzai: Ow. Ow. Ow.
Mufasa: {Half roar} Silence!
Banzai: Oh, we're gonna shut up right now.
Shenzi: Calm down. We're really sorry.
Jessie: It was an honset mistake.
James: We promise we won't do it again.
Mufasa: If you ever come near my son again...
Shenzi: Oh this is... this is your son?!?
Banzai: Oh, your son?
Shenzi: Did you know that?
Banzai: No... me? I-I-I didn't know it. No. Did you?
Shenzi: No! Of course not.
Banzai: No.
Shenzi and Banzai: Ed?
Ed: {Stupidly nods yes}

{Mufasa roars}

Banzai: Toodles!

{With a gunshot sound they disappear.)

Jessie, James and Mewoth: Looks like, Team Rocket's running off again!

(Zazu lights in front of Mufasa, giving him a "that'll show 'em" nod... but then withers under Mufasa's angry glare.}

Simba: {Approaching his father} Dad, I...
Mufasa: You deliberately disobeyed me.
Simba: Dad, I'm... I'm sorry.
Mufasa: {Stern} Let's go home.

{They all start walking out of the Burial Grounds, but Ash walks up to Mufasa and tries to talk to him}

Ash Ketchum: Mufasa, we…
Mufasa: [stay firmed at Ash] Not right now, we'll have to take this discussion right after I have a word of my son. Understood?
Ash Ketchum: Understood sire.
Mufasa: Good. [walks away]
Misty: Something tells me he's not happy with us.
Brock: I agree.

{Ash and his friends walks away in shame, as well the cubs bent down in shame as well}

Nala: {Whispering} I thought you were very brave.

{The camera steadily pans up one of the walls of the cave. It stops on a horrifying image of Scar, standing on a ledge where he had been watching the cubs' near-demise.}

Disciplinary/Stars Scene/Ash and his friends talks with Mufasa[edit | edit source]

{Camera switch to out on the savannah. The cubs are still walking in a shamed manner behind Mufasa. Zazu is flying between.}

Mufasa: {Still stern} Zazu?
Zazu: {Flying forward and lighting in front of Mufasa, his trepidation showing} Yes, sire?
Mufasa: {Stern} Take everyone home. I've got to teach my son a lesson. [to Ash] And remember Ash, I'll still need a word with you and yours friends later.
Ash Ketchum: Right sire.

{The camera views the cubs and our heroes. Simba crouches lower in the grass as if to hide. Zazu flies back to them.}

Zazu: Come, Nala. You too, Ash and company. Simba... {puts his wings on Simba's shoulders, gives a heavy sigh, and then a reassuring pat} Good luck.

{Zazu, Ash, his friends, and Nala leave. The camera view is of Simba in the foreground with Mufasa facing away from the camera in the background.}

Mufasa: {Calling, still very stern, not looking at Simba} Simba! {The word reverberates in the night air.}

{Simba slowly turns and walks towards his father. The camera follows him forward. Ominous yet sad music. Simba steps into a depression. Looking down he sees that his forepaw fits inside just the palmprint of his father's paw. A very tense moment for Simba. It comes across to the audience that his father could easily do much, much more than discipline Simba. [It also comes across that Simba has some rather big shoes to fill, so to speak, and is only now realizing his true position. -BT] Simba is harshly reminded of how small and young he is compared to his father. He looks up and, quite courageously, continues to come forward.}

{Mufasa thinks silently for a few moments, not looking at his son. Then, finally, he turns to him.}

Mufasa: Simba, I'm very disappointed in you.
Simba: {Very quietly and sadly} I know.
Mufasa: {Continuing} You could have been killed. You deliberately disobeyed me. And what's worse, you put your friends in danger!
Simba: {Bordering on crying, voice cracks} I was just trying to be brave like you.
Mufasa: I'm only brave when I have to be. Simba... being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble.
Simba: But you're not scared of anything.
Mufasa: I was today.
Simba: {Disbelieving} You were?
Mufasa: Yes... {bends down close to Simba} I thought I might lose you.
Simba: Oh. {Lightening slightly} I guess even kings get scared, huh?
Mufasa: Mm-hmm.
Simba: {Whispering conspiratorially} But you know what?
Mufasa: {Whispering back} What?
Simba: I think those hyenas were even scareder.
Mufasa: {Gentle laugh} 'Cause nobody messes with your dad. Come here, you.

{Mufasa has bent down. He picks Simba up and starts giving him a noogie.}

Simba: Oh no, no... Aaagh! Errrggh!

{Music rises as Simba and Mufasa tussle playfully for a brief while.}

Simba: Oh, come here... {as Mufasa runs away} Hah! Gotcha!

{They end up with Mufasa laid down and Simba on his head}

Simba: Dad?
Mufasa: Hmm?
Simba: We're pals, right?
Mufasa: {Gentle laugh} Right.
Simba: And we'll always be together, right?
Mufasa: {Sitting up, Simba now on his shoulder} Simba... Let me tell you something that my father told me... Look at the stars. The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars.
Simba: {Awed} Really?
Mufasa: Yes... So whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you ... And so will I.

{Later that night, as Ash and his friends waiting for Mufasa to come back with Simba, they've disgust about what happen at Elephant Graveyard}

Misty: We've never seen Mufasa so angry before.
Ash Ketchum: I know. I guess we really goofed up. We were supposed to keep an eye on Simba and we failed him.
Brock: At least we mange to fight off those hyenas. But...
Ash Ketchum: I know I think we might've broken his trust with us and other humans.
Pikachu: Pika, Pi?

{We see Zazu flies to them, and land right to them}

Zazu: Excuse me, Mufasa want to see you now.
Misty: Thank you, Zazu.
Zazu: And good luck.

{We see Ash and his friends walk to where Mufasa is, as they go closer to him, Mufasa was still firmed at them since they left from Elephant Graveyard)

Ash Ketchum: Hi, Mufasa..
Mufasa: Ash, Misty, Brock, I’m very disappointed in all of you. I strictly told you to keep an eye on my son while I’m not around, and you deliberately disobeyed me. And what's worse, you put him in danger!
Misty: Look, Mufasa, this isn’t like that. We tried our best to keep an eye on him and Nala from danger.
Brock: Yeah, we’ve never meant to lose sight of them. It’s a good thing Ash and Misty follow them when we noticed they’re gone.
Ash Ketchum: But, Brock, that’s not an excuse that what we have done. We should've known what they’re up to something from the start.
Brock: (groans)
Mufasa: Do you all understand what’s in stake? You jeopardized the future of our pride.
Brock: Yes, sir.
Ash Ketchum: Mufasa, we...
Mufasa: I've asked you to do one simple thing and you failed to see it through. That's one thing you did that nearly made me lose my trust in you, but in light of the fact that you and your friends used your Pokémon to fight off the hyenas and this Team Rocket you spoke of, I am very grateful for that
Ash Ketchum: Thank you.
Misty: And don’t you worry about a thing, Mufasa. It won’t happen again.
Brock: Yeah, we promise.
Mufasa: See that it doesn’t. (leaves)

(Ash feels like he's a failure)

Misty: We really screwed up didn't we?
Brock: Yeah. I guess we did.
Zazu: Don't worry, kids. I'm sure we'll patch things up with the king tomorrow. Right, Ash?

(Ash turns around)

Misty: Huh?
Brock: Huh? Ash?
Misty: Where are you going Ash?
Zazu: Let's follow him.

(Misty, Brock, and Zazu follow)

Ash decides to leave/Ash and Friends meets Rafiki/Zordon helps Ash[edit | edit source]

Zazu: What? You're leaving The Pride Lands?
Ash: That's right.
Misty: But, Ash, what are you doing? This is crazy.
Ash: My mind's made up. Ah!

(Simba appears)

Misty: Simba!
Pikachu: Pika, pi.
Simba: Ash, I...
Ash: Simba, you stay here. I'm leaving. I know you'll be much happier here in the Pride Lands with the other lions.
Simba: Ash, I'm... I'm sorry.
Ash: (ignores him) Good-bye, Simba. Let's go, Pikachu.
Simba: Ash, wait!
Ash: Please don't.
Simba: But, I...
Ash: I failed your father, because I was suppose to keep you out of danger, but your crazy plan got us in trouble. So just... good-bye.
Misty and Brock: Huh?
Zazu: (gasps)
Simba: Ash!
Ash: Good-bye!
Simba: (Crying) Sorry.
Ash: [PANTING, THINKING] I failed you, Zordon. This is for the best, I guess. [PANTING]
Pikachu: Pika, pi!
Brock: Ash!
Misty: Why are you doing this?
Ash: I'm sure Simba will be better off staying here than being around with me. Simba will be happier this way.

{The camera backs to a far view and then zooms over to Rafiki in a nearby tree. We hear his chant.}

Asante sana!

Squash banana!

We we nugu!

Mi mi apana!

Misty and Brock: Huh?
Ash: Huh?

{Ash seems slightly annoyed by the chant. He moves away. Rafiki, elated by the sight of Ash and his friends, follows him. Ash sits down on a log over a pond. A rock disturbs the water; Rafiki, now in a nearby tree, starts his chant again.}

Ash: Come on, will you cut it out? {Rafiki, laughing, is doing random acrobatics in the trees nearby.}
Rafiki: Can't cut it out. It'll grow right back! {laughs}

{Ash and his friends start walking away. Rafiki follows.}

Ash: Creepy little monkey. Will you stop following us? Who are you?
Rafiki: {In front of Ash, then right in his face.} The question is: Who... are you?
Ash: {Startled, then sighing} I thought I knew. Now I'm not so sure.
Rafiki: Well, I know who you are. Shh. Come here. It's a secret.

Asante sana!

Squash banana!

We we nugu!

Mi mi apana!

Ash: Enough already. what's that supposed to mean, anyway?
Rafiki: It means you are a baboon - and I'm not. {laughs}
Ash: {Moving away} I think... you're a little confused.
Rafiki: {Magically in front of Ash again} Wrong. I'm not the one who's confused; you don't even know who you are.
Ash: {Irritated, sarcastic} Oh, and I suppose you know?
Rafiki: Sure do; you're Delia's boy. ...Bye!

{Ash is surprised by this revelation. Rafiki disappears off stage right.}

{Cue music: "Lala" theme.}

Ash: Hey, wait!

{Ash and his friends chases after him. When we catch up. Rafiki is in a meditative lotus position on a rock.}

Ash: You know my mother?
Rafiki: {Monotone} Correction-- I know your mother and father.
Ash: I hate to tell you this, but... my dad left. Like my friends in the other regions.

{Rafiki leaps off the rock over to a dense jungle-like area.}

Rafiki: Nope. Wrong again! Ha ha hah! They're here! And I'll show them to you. You follow old Rafiki, he knows the way. Come on!

{Rafiki leads Ash and his friends through the brush. They have trouble keeping up due to their combined size. The music slips into African chant.}

Rafiki: Don't dawdle. Hurry up!
Ash: Hey, wait.
Rafiki: Come on, come on.
Ash: Would you slow down?

{Rafiki is seen flitting through the canopy ahead of Ash and friends, laughing hollowly and whooping. They struggle to keep up. Suddenly, Rafiki appears with his hand held up right into Ash's face.}

Rafiki: STOP!

{Rafiki motions to Ash and his friends near some reeds.}

{He parts the reeds and points past them with his staff.}

Rafiki: Look..down…there. {Ash quietly and carefully works his way out. He looks over the edge and sees his reflection in a pool of water. He first seems a bit startled, perhaps at his own mature appearance, but then realizes what he's looking at.}
Ash: {Disappointed sigh} Sorry to disappoint you. That's just my reflection.
Rafiki: No. Look…harder.

{Rafiki motions over the pool. Ripples form, distorting Ash's reflection; they resolve into his friends and mother. A deep rumbling noise is heard.}

Rafiki: You see, they live in you.

{Ash is awestruck. The wind picks up. In the air the huge image of Zordon is forming from the clouds. He appears to be walking from the stars. The image is ghostly at first, but steadily gains color and coherence.}

Zordon: {Quietly at first} Ash . . .
Ash: Zordon?
Zordon: (Mufasa VO) Ash, you have forgotten me.
Ash: No. How could I?
Zordon: (Mufasa VO) You have forgotten who you are, and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself, Ash. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the Circle of Life.
Ash: How can we go back? I'm not who I used to be.
Zordon: (Mufasa VO) Remember who you are. You are like a son, and the greatest Pokémon Master.

{Close up of Ash's face, bathed in the golden light, showing in awe. The image of Zordon starts to fade.}

Zordon: (Mufasa VO) Remember who you are.

{Zordon is disappearing rapidly into clouds. Ash runs into the fields trying to keep up with the image followed by Pikachu, Misty, and Brock.}

Ash: No. Please! Don't leave me.
Zordon: (Mufasa VO) Remember...
Ash: Zordon!
Zordon: (Mufasa VO) Remember...
Ash: Don't leave me.
Zordon: (Mufasa VO) Remember…

{Ash is left out in the fields with his friends at his side. There is just a cloud left where Zordon's image was. The wind tosses the grass restlessly. Rafiki approaches.}

Rafiki: What was THAT? {laughs} De weather-- Pbbbah! Very peculiar. Don't you think?
Ash: Yeah. Looks like the winds are changing.
Rafiki: Ahh. Change is good.
Ash: 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.

{Rafiki whacks Ash on the head with his staff.}

Ash: Ow! Jeez-- What was that for?
Rafiki: It doesn't matter; it's in the past! {laughs}
Ash: {Rubbing head} Yeah, but it still hurts.
Rafiki: Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or... learn from it.

{He swings at Ash with his staff again. This time Ash ducks.}

Rafiki: Hah, you see! So what are you going to do?
Ash: First, We’re gonna take your stick.

{Pikachu tosses Rafiki's staff to the side.}

Rafiki: No, no, no, no! Not the stick!

{As Rafiki picks up his staff, Ash and his friends starts running off.}

Rafiki: Hey, where are you going?
Ash: {Shouting back} We're goin’ back!
Rafiki: Good! Go on! Get out of here! {laughs, hoots, n' hollers. As he holds his staff above his head, a few shooting stars zing across the sky. Music rises into celebratory "Busa" theme:}

Busa le lizwe

Busa lomhlaba

Sabusa le lizwe

Busa lomhlaba

Mufasa: (seeing Ash and friends heading back, looks up) Thank you, my friend.

{The camera steadily pans up one of the walls of a cliff. It stops on a horrifying image of Scar, standing on a ledge where he had been watching Ash and his friends returning to Pride Rock.}

Team Rocket, The Hyenas, and Scar/Be Prepared[edit | edit source]

{Camera switch from stars to Hyena cave. As we move into the cave, we first hear Banzai's voice and eventually see Banzai and Ed together with Shenzi to the side.}

Banzai: Man, that lousy Mufasa! I won't be able to sit for a week! {We notice numerous scratches on Banzai's rear}
Ed: {Laughs}
Banzai: It's not funny, Ed.
Ed: {Tries to stop laughing, but bursts out worse}
Banzai: Hey, shut up!
Ed: {Can NOT stop laughing}

{Banzai tackles Ed; they start fighting.}

Shenzi: Will you knock it off?!

{Banzai stops. Ed continues, biting himself in the leg.}

Banzai: Well, he started it!
Jessie: Look at you guys. All behaving like a bunch of wild animals!
Shenzi: That's because we are Jessie!
James: It's no wonder you're all dangling at the bottom of the food chain.
Banzai: {With drool dangling from his mouth} Man, I hate dangling.
Meowth: Yeah, but you know if it weren't for those lions and the twerps. You'd be runnin' the joint.
Banzai: Yeah. Man, I hate lions and humans.
Shenzi: So pushy.
Banzai: And hairy.
Shenzi: And stinky.
Banzai: And man, are they...
Shenzi and Banzai: UuuugLY! {laughter}
Scar: {From his perch we saw in the Hyena chase} Oh, surely we lions are not all THAT bad.
Meowth: MEOWTH!! Is that...
James: Relax, Meowth. It's just Mufasa's brother.
Shenzi: (sigh in relieved) Ohh.
Banzai: {relieved} Oh, Scar, it's just you.
Shenzi: We were afraid it was somebody important.
Mewoth: Yeah, you know, like Mufasa.
Shenzi: Yeah.
Scar: I see.
Banzai: Now that's power.
Shenzi: Tell me about it. I just hear that name and I shudder.
Banzai: Mufasa.
Shenzi: {Shivering} Ooooh. ... Do it again.
Banzai: Mufasa.
Shenzi: Ooooh!
Banzai: Mufasa. Mufasa! Mufasa!
Shenzi: {Builds up hysterical laughter} ...Oooh! It tingles me.
Scar: I'm surrounded by idiots.
Jessie: Not you, Scar; I mean, you're one of us. I mean, you're our pal.
Scar: {Sarcastic} Charmed.
Shenzi: Ohh, I like that. He's not king, but he's still so proper.
Banzai: Yeah. Hey, hey. Did ya bring us anything to eat, Scar, old buddy, old pal? Huh? Did-ya-did-ya-did-ya?
Scar: I don't think you really deserve this. {Holds out a zebra haunch.} I practically gift-wrapped those cubs and those human children and that Pikachu for you. {Drops leg to Hyenas} And you couldn't even captured them nor dispose of them. {Intro fade-in on Be Prepared}
Shenzi: {Chewing with full mouth} Well, ya know. It wasn't exactly like they was alone, Scar.
Banzai: Yeah. What are we supposed to do-- {swallow} kill Mufasa?
Scar: Precisely.

{Jessie, James, Meowth and the three hyenas pause from eating and look up at Scar questioningly. Three-top flutter to coincide with Scar's leaps down to Team Rocket and the Hyenas. Scar walks calmly through sheets of flame and gas into the camera over the opening bit of the song}

[Scar]

I know that your powers of retention

Are as wet as a warthog's backside

But thick as you are pay attention!

My words are a matter of pride

It's clear from your vacant expressions

The lights are not all on upstairs

But we're talking kings and successions

Even you can't be caught unawares!

So, prepare for a chance of a lifetime

Be prepared for sensational news

A shining, new era is tiptoeing nearer

Jessie: And where do we feature?

Scar: Just listen to teacher

I know it sounds sordid

But you'll be rewarded

When at last, I am given my dues

And injustice deliciously squared

Scar/Hyena clan: Be prepared!

Banzai: Yeah, be prepared! We'll be prepared!

Mewoth: For what?

Scar: For the death of the king!

Banzai: Why? Is he sick?

Scar: No, fool, we're gonna kill him. And Simba, too.

Shenzi: Great idea! Who needs a king?

Shenzi and Banzai: No king! No king! La-la-la-la-la-la!

Scar: Idiots! There will be a king!

Banzai: But you said, uh...

Scar: I will be king!

James: But what about the twerps?

Scar: You may still capture them and take them to your master. But I will be king! Stick with me, and you'll never go hungry again!

Shenzi and Banzai: Yay! All right! Long live the king!

Hyena clan: Long live the king! Long live the king!

King! King! King! King! King! King! King!

It's great that we'll soon be connected

With a king who'll be all time adored

Scar: Of course, quid pro quo, you're expected

To take certain duties on board

The future is littered with prizes

And though I'm the main addressee

The point that I must emphasize is

You won't get a sniff without me!

Scar/Hynea clan: So, prepare for the coup of the century

Scar: Be prepared for the murkiest scam (Hyena clan: Ooh...la,la,la)

Meticulous planning (Hyena clan: We'll have food!)

Tenacity spanning (Hyena clan: Lots of food!)

Decades of denial (Hyena clan: We repeat!)

Is simply why I'll (Hyena clan: Endless meat!)

Be king, undisputed

Respected, saluted

And seen, for the wonder I am

Yes, my teeth and ambitions are bared

Scar/Hyena clan: Be prepared!

Scar/Team Rocket/Shenzi/Banzai/Ed/Hyena clan: Yes, our teeth and ambitions are bared

Be prepared!

Stampede/Mufasa's Death[edit | edit source]

(The scene transitions to a sunny day at the gorge.)

Scar: Now, you wait here. Your father has a marvelous surprise for you.

(Simba follows Scar through the gorge.)

Simba: Ooh, what is it?
Scar: If I told you, [Simba clambers onto a rock beneath a tree.] it wouldn't be a surprise, now would it? (grins)
Simba: If you tell me, I'll still act surprised!
Scar: Ho, ho, ho! [Simba sits.] You are such a naughty boy!

(Simba jumps up on Scar's mane.)

Simba: Come on, Uncle Scar.
Scar: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is just for you and your daddy. [Simba sits back down.] You know, a sort of father-son [Scar waves vaguely with one paw. Simba sulks.] ...thing. Well, I'd better go get him.

(Scar turns to leave. Simba bounds after Scar.)

Simba: I'll go with you.

(Scar juts his head at Simba, halting him in his tracks.)

Scar: No! [Scar composes himself.] *chuckles* No. [Scar guides Simba back onto the rock.] Just stay on this rock. [Simba sits with a mutinous expression on his face.] You wouldn't want to end up in another mess like you did with the hyenas.
Simba: You know about that?
Scar: [with lips pursed] Simba, everybody knows about that.

(Simba ducks his head in embarrassment.)

Simba: Really?
Scar: Oh, yes. Lucky Daddy and those human Pokémon trainer friends of yours were there to save you, eh? Ooh, [Scar wraps a paw around Simba's shoulders and draws him close.] and just between us, you might want to work on that little roar of yours. Hmm?
Simba: Oh. Okay. [Scar turns to leave.] Hey, Uncle Scar! [Scar pauses in his tracks.] Will I like the surprise?
Scar: Simba, it's to DIE for.

(Scar grins slyly. Simba sits back down on the rock. Meanwhile, Scar walks off. At the top of the gorge, a herd of wildebeests grazes on grass, while Jessie, James, Meowth, Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed watch from beneath a rocky outcropping.)

Banzai: (stomach growls)
Jessie: Quiet.
Banzai: I can't help it. I'm so hungry. [Banzai stands up and stares longingly at the wildebeest herd.] I gotta have a wildebeest.
Shenzi: Stay put.

(Banzai sits and holds up a paw in appeal.)

Banzai: Well, can't I just pick off one of the little sick ones?
Shenzi: No! We wait for the signal from Scar. [Banzai lowers his head sulkily.)
James: I cannot believe we're doing this. Killing the King of the Pride Lands is not part of our Team Rocket record.
Meowth: True, but Scar did let us capture the twerps so we can take them straight to the boss.
Jessie: If they manage to get away. We might end up another failure.
Wobbuffet: (comes out of his Pokéball) Wobbuffet!!
Jessie: Yes, but you're not part of the stampede. Back inside!

(Scar appears on a ledge above Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed, his mane blowing in the wind.)

Shenzi: There he is. [Shenzi frowns dramatically.] Let's go.

(Team Rocket, Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed move off. Meanwhile, Simba lies on his rock, still moping.)

Simba: Little roar. Puh!

{A lizard walks past Simba. He growls at it.}

Simba: Merow!

{The lizard has no reaction to this first attempt. Simba then jumps down and tries again.}

Simba: Merrooow-h!

{For the third attempt, Simba moves closer again and inhales deeply.}

Simba: MEROOOW!!

{The lizard skitters off screen. Simba's roar echoes around the canyon. Shot of Simba lifting his ears to relish the echo. The echo is soon eclipsed, however, by a low rumble. Simba looks down and sees pebbles jumping. Cue the very sinister "To Die For" music. We see the herd coming over the lip of the canyon. Dramatic multi-layer camera pull up to Simba's terrified face. Simba takes off in front of the herd. Cut to the rim of the gorge, where Team Rocket and the Hyenas are seen chasing the wildebeest herd, nipping at their heels to drive them over the edge. Camera switch to Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, Mufasa and Zazu a short distance from the canyon.}

Zazu: Oh, look sire.
Ash: It’s a herd of wildebeests.
Brock: They must be on the move.
Misty: And they’re acting.…
Mufasa: Odd?
Scar: Mufasa, quick! Stampede in the gorge! Simba’s down there!
Mufasa: Simba?
Ash: Waah! C’mon, maybe we can save him!

(everyone heads down, meanwhile the Simba is still trapped until he leaps on a tree, Mufasa, Scar, Ash and his friends continue toward the gorge as Zazu flies ahead he sees Simba)

Simba: Zazu, help me!
Zazu: Your father’s on the way! So are Ash and his friends! Hold on!
Simba: Hurry!

(Mufasa, Scar, Ash and his friends made it down)

Brock: Where’s Simba?
Zazu: There! There! On that tree!
Mufasa: Hold on, Simba!

(a wildebeest hits the tree as Simba holds on)

Mufasa: Ash, stay with Zazu and Scar. (Leaps down)

{Mufasa runs out into the herd, joining the stampede.}

Zazu: Oh Scar, this is awful. What will we do? What will we do? Hah... I'll go back for help, that's what I'll do, I'll go back for he--oomph!

(Scar backhands Zazu into a rock wall, knocking him unconscious.)

Ash Ketchum: I gotta help them. (tries to follow but is stopped by Brock and Misty)
Misty: Think about this first, Ash!
Brock: I don't think getting in the stampede is such a good idea, Ash!
Ash Ketchum: I'm not scared of the stampede! We gotta help!
Brock: No way, Ash! When a stampede gets bad, it's best to stay here and let them run over! And besides, there's too many of them. Not even the bravest Pokémon master would wander around in a stampede like this.
Ash Ketchum: I guess you're right.
Brock: Good, then we'll meet up with Mufasa when he gets Simba out of there.
Scar: I'll see what I can do. You all look for them. Go!
Ash and Brock: Right!

(Scar then follows Mufasa's progress from the lip of the gorge, his shadow cast mysteriously from the bottom of the gully. Mufasa runs with the herd till slightly past the tree. He whips around the front of some wildebeest and runs into the herd towards Simba's tree. He gets rammed head-first once, throwing him to the ground. A wildebeest hits Simba's tree, throwing Simba into the air. Mufasa gets up in time to catch Simba in the air with his mouth. He gets hit again and accidentally throws Simba. Simba dodges a few oncoming wildebeest. Mufasa runs by with the herd and grabs Simba. He jumps up to a near rock ledge and sets Simba down, but is immediately struck by a wildebeest and carried off into the stampede.}

Simba: DAD!
Ash Ketchum: Mufasa! No!

(Simba watches in horror as he cannot find his father in the swirling mass of wildebeest below him. While Ash and his friends watch from the other side. At the last second, Mufasa leaps out of the herd and starts to climb with great difficulty up the sheer rock slope. Simba turns and starts to climb up to the top of the gorge.)

Misty: You can make it Mufasa!
Brock: The slope is too steep!
Pikachu: Pika.

(Out of Ash, Misty, Brock and Simba's sight, Mufasa reaches a point right below a ledge where he can't climb due to the steepness. His claws are scraping and his back paws have no traction. Above him on the ledge is Scar.)

Mufasa: Scar! Broth-- {slips, barely hangs on} Brother! Help me!

{Scar looks disdainfully down, and then suddenly latches onto Mufasa's forepaws with claws extended. Mufasa roars, primarily from the sudden pain of Scar's claws, but no doubt also due to the sudden flash of realization. His expression slowly changes to one of horror as he recognizes Scar's intent.}

Scar: (Slowly and evilly) Long live the king. (Scar throws his brother backwards. Mufasa free-falls, back first. The camera follows Mufasa down from under him, then from above him, showing the stampede raging below. Ash, Misty and Brock watched in horror of Mufasa's falling.)
Ash Ketchum and Brock: Ah!
Misty: Oh no!
Mufasa: {Screaming}

{Camera suddenly focuses in on Simba, who is watching his father hit the ground. No sound effects of the hit. No view of it either. Mufasa and Simba's screams mingle.}

Simba: No!

(Simba swiftly rushes back down into the gorge, just as the last few wildebeest ran by, finally ending the stampede. The chaos finally over, the little cub climbed back to ground level and saw a huge amount of dust covering the area; all gathered up by the stampede and leaving the premises covered in dust, almost like the aftermath of a wildfire. He looked around the canyon but couldn’t get a good view.)

Simba: (coughs) Dad!!!! (his voice echoes)

(Shaken by their traumatic experience, but determined to find Mufasa, the cub kept walking through the area, horrified by the carnage. The dust started to slowly dissipate, allowing Simba to get a better look around, but they couldn’t find Mufasa anywhere. It was also deathly silent so they couldn’t hear anything, not even something as quiet as a mouse. Walking even deeper into the gorge, he kept looking.)

Simba: (hears a rustling noise) Dad?

(But all that appeared was a stray wildebeest, having been separated from the herd and running down the canyon. Simba watched as the wildebeest ran off deeper into the gorge, before spotting the now broken tree that he used to escape the chaos. Beneath the tree, though, was a familiar looking silhouette, lying on the ground. It looked like a large lion, and upon seeing that this could be his father, Simba rushed to the body with worry. Simba approaches the body and saw that it was indeed Mufasa, but he wasn’t moving. Approaching the head, he could see Mufasa’s eyes and mouth closed, and he wasn’t breathing.)

Simba: (goes up to his motionless father) Dad? (silence) Dad, come on. (nudges his father's head) You gotta get up. (still no response; on the verge of crying)

(At that moment, Ash and his friends arrive and, just like Simba, are stunned to find Mufasa's corpse as well.)

Misty: (gasps) No... (on the verge of crying)
Simba: Dad... (tries to wake him up by pushes gently against his mane) We gotta come home.

(But Mufasa didn’t budge. Now desperate, Simba rushed to Mufasa’s ear and pulled onto it, but there was still no response. Nothing he was doing was making Mufasa respond, and with that, it became clear that Mufasa, the wise ruler of the Pride Lands…was gone.)

Ash Ketchum: (lifts Mufasa's dead head and gently caresses it) King Mufasa... (cries)
Brock: (clinches his fist and grunts in frustration while shedding tears)

(Refusing to believe the inevitable, Simba ran a few feet away from the corpse.

Simba: HELP! (his voice echoes) SOMEBODY! (his voice echoes) Anybody! (his voice echoes; unable to take it anymore he breaks down crying) Help...
Ash Ketchum: (while crying) Simba, I... I-I'm sorry. There's nothing any of us can do to help your father now. He's gone...

(The horrific tragedy was too much for poor Simba to take in. His father who had rescued him from the stampede was now dead. The devastated cub slowly approached the body, feeling helpless without his father. Putting himself under one of his dead father’s paws, Simba curled up against the body, desperate for any kind of comfort. He stayed by the corpse, only able to grieve the loss of such a beloved authority. As Simba grieves, Ash could only caress in comfort over the devastated lion cub.)

Pikachu: (walks up to Simba and lays next to him; sadly) Pikachu...

(But then, Scar approaches the group.)

Scar: Simba....
Ash, Misty, and Brock: Hmm?!
Pikachu: Pi?
Scar: What have you done?
Ash, Misty, and Brock: (softly) What?!
Pikachu: Pika?!
Simba: {Jumps back, crying} There were wildebeests, and he tried to save me... it was an accident, I... I didn't mean for it to happen.
Scar: {Embracing Simba, yet still distant} Of course, of course you didn't. No one... ever means {pulls Simba closer; Simba hides his face on Scar's foreleg} for these things to happen. ...But the king IS dead. {looking with mock regret at Simba) And if it weren't for you, he'd still be alive. {Simba is crushed, believing his guilt. Another thought "occurs" to Scar.} Oh! What will your mother think?
Simba: {Sniffing} What am I gonna do?

Scar: Run away, Simba. Run... Run away and never return.

{Simba runs off blindly, obviously broken. Ash and his friends are completely distraught at this.)

Misty: Why did you do that you, Scar?!
Scar: I beg your pardon?
Ash Ketchum: How can you say that Simba had anything to do with his father's death?! Do you have any idea how emotionally upset his mother will be?!
Misty: Do you even care that his father died?! He's a cub!
Brock: Simba cannot fend for himself out in the desert! He needs his mother in order to survive!
Scar: But why would Sarabi want to raise a young cub that purposely killed his own father? I did this for his own good. For if the pride found out about Mufasa's death, who knows what they would've done to him?
Brock: Scar, he may have believed to have been responsible for this tragic accident, but the three of us do not! We know that Simba doesn't have any of that kind of ability to kill another lion. No matter how good or bad they are. And we know fully well that he would never do anything to hurt his own father. Especially after bonding with him so much during his reign as king!
Scar: What's that supposed to mean?!
Ash Ketchum: What we mean is don't believe in any of your assumptions about Simba's involvement with his father's death at all! So, whatever happened to Mufasa, we think it might have something to do with you!
Scar: Ha! You fools can talk about me all you want, but none of that is going to change a thing. The Pride Lands is no longer his home now that he is running away in exile.
Misty: Well, if Simba's not welcomed here in Pride Rock because of this unfortunate tragedy, then we're not staying either!
Ash Ketchum: We'd rather be far away from this place than live under your tyrannical rule, you sick feline!
Pikachu: Pikachu!
Scar: (growls) Hmph...! Very well. Go ahead and live with him in exile if that's what you want. I never liked my brother's idea of having you around Pride Rock as "royal guests" anyway. Oh, and to be perfectly fair, you're worthless to me.
Ash, Misty, and Brock: (growl angrily at the evil lion.)
Pikachu: (angrily) Pika...!!!
Ash Ketchum: Wait! Before we go, let me tell you one thing, Scar. You may not like us, but what you did with Simba proved that you don't deserve the right to be king of Pride Rock. You're a traitor and a coward.

(Our heroes, seeing that Scar is a treacherous lion while they're still on to him for the death of Mufasa, rush off to go catch up to Simba. But not before they go behind somewhere where they can discuss what they should do.)

Misty: Do you think we should tell Simba what really happened? He does deserve to know the truth.
Ash Ketchum: I think so.
Brock: No. We cannot tell him about it yet.
Ash and Misty: Huh?!
Ash Ketchum: Why not, Brock?
Misty: Didn't you see how sad he was?
Brock: Yes, I did. But Simba has to figure out the truth for himself. Because if we tell him the truth about Scar murdering Mufasa now, it'll break his heart even further.
Ash and Misty: (gasps in horror; they look at each other in worry before looking out at Simba while he continues running away from home)
Pikachu: (sadly) Pika...
Ash Ketchum: (sheds a couple of tears) Then,...what can we do?
Misty: (sheds tears as well) Yeah, how are we going to help Simba now? Oh, I hate seeing him so upset now that his father is killed at the hands of his evil uncle.
Brock: (sighs while holding back the tears) The only thing we can do. Be there for Simba when he is needed. So, as of today, we're his guardians now. (sniffs) Look, I know Mufasa's death was tragic for all of us. Even for Simba. But we must be brave for him. No matter what happens to any of us or to Simba, we must be strong and brave.
Ash and Misty: (look at each other, think about how Simba reacted when he saw his father's dead body, and they both come to an agreement to pull themselves together and help Simba across the desert)
Ash Ketchum: (sniffs as he wipes away his tears and pulls himself together) Come on, guys. Let's go catch up with Simba before we get left behind.

(Our heroes continue forward. Ash glances back at Scar with an angry glare, but the evil lion couldn't care less. Scar glances at them with a sinister look as the three hyenas appear behind him.)

Scar: (to the hyenas about Simba) Kill him.

(The hyenas take off after him. And Jessie, James and Meowth arrived.)

Scar; (to Team Rocket about Ash and his friends.) Capture them.

(Team Rocket takes off after them Scar stands motionless. Simba is chased up the entire length of the gully. He reaches the lip only to see a sheer drop on the other side. Having no choice, he jumps and tumbles down into a patch of briars below. The hyenas pursue the entire way. Simba climbs through the briars and tries to find a way out. When suddenly....)

Ash Ketchum: (clears an opening for the cub) Simba! (holds out his hand) Over here!
Misty: This way!
Brock: Come on!
Pikachu: Pika, Pika!

(Simba runs towards them and makes it out. As they make a break for it. A smoke bomb hits them on the ground.)

Jessie: Thought you'd gotten rid of us, didn't you, heroes?

(Everyone turns and sees Team Rocket standing behind them with nets in hand as Jessie talks)

James: But Team Rocket doesn't give up so easily!
Ash Ketchum: Not you again!
Meowth: Alright, we ain't leaving without any of you!
Misty: Not if we have anything to say about it. Staryu, use Water Gun!

(Staryu appears and use Water Gun on Team Rocket and fell into the briars.)

Team Rocket: (jumping out) YEOW!!!!

Ash Ketchum: Come on let's go!

(Ash, Misty, Brock, and Simba make a break for it. Back to the hyenas, they are running down towards the briars, Banzai sees them and recoils.)

Banzai: Whoa!!

{After skidding extensively, Banzai manages to stop just above the brambles. He heaves a sigh of relief. Then Shenzi and Ed run into him, propelling him into the bushes.}

Banzai: WHOA!!! (falls into the briars) Yeow! {Jumping back out of the bushes}

{Shenzi and Ed are laughing as Jessie, James, Meowth and climb back up of the edge all covered in thorns.}

Jessie: Would you stop laughing at us, you bunch of fleabags?!
Meowth: This ain't funny!
Shenzi: {Seeing Simba emerge from the far side of the briars and running into the desert with our heroes} Hey-- There they go! There they go!
James: {Removing thorns} Ow. So, go get them.
Shenzi: There ain't no way I'm goin’ in there. What, you want me to come out lookin’ like you three, cactus butts?
Banzai: {Spitting out thorns into Ed's laughing face; Ed lets out a small yelp of pain} But we gotta finish the job.
Meowth: And the boss ain't gonna be happy about it since we messed up again.
Shenzi: Well, he's as good as dead out there anyway. And IF they come back, we'll kill 'im. (to Team Rocket) And you three can capture them and take them to your boss.
Banzai: (Shouting) Yeah! you hear that? If you ever come back, we'll kill ya!!!
Jessie: (shouting to Ash and friends) And if you twerps ever come back! We'll be ready for you!

("Kill ya" echoes off as we see Simba still running into the desert with our heroes. The hyenas and Team Rocket all laugh it off before departing back to the Pride Lands.)

Ash Ketchum: (looks back at Pride Rock in sadness; sighs sadly as he continues forward and begins talking in his mind) Mufasa, I hope you can forgive us for not saving you from your untimely demise. But I can promise you that Simba will grow as strong and powerful as you were. And maybe, when the time is right, he will know the truth of your death and will fulfill his destiny once he returns home.

{Ash continues forward with his friends and Simba as the camera changes to Scar addressing the lionesses by the moon on Pride Rock.}

Address and Depaint Scene[edit | edit source]

{Camera change to Scar addressing the lionesses by the moon on Pride Rock.}

Scar: Mufasa's death was a terrible tragedy; but to lose Simba, who had barely begun to live...And the human Pokémon trainers: Ash Ketchum, his partner Pikachu, Misty and Brock are also a loss to us...who have been with us for a short while....

{Camera pans around the lionesses. Some of them, with Zazu, are comforting Sarabi, who bends her head in extreme pain. Nala is rubbing against her mother's paw, crying.}

Scar: ...For me it is a deep personal loss. So it is with a heavy heart that I assume the throne. Yet, out of the ashes of this tragedy, we shall rise to greet the dawning of a new era... {The hyenas start emerging, casting eerie green shadows and laughing hollowly} ...in which lion and hyena along with three members of Team Rocket come together, in a great and glorious future! {Scar ascends Pride Rock as the hyenas appear in full force.}

{The camera pans to Rafiki who is shaking his head in the distance. The scene changes with Rafiki in the same position. He is in his tree house. After wiping away a tear, he reaches up and rubs his hand across the cub painting, smearing it.)

Timon and Pumbaa/Hakuna Matata[edit | edit source]

(The scene changes to Ash and his friends, wandering around the hot desert.}

Misty: It's hot.
Brock: Brutal.
Ash Ketchum: Blistering.
Misty: Do you have to keep whining about the heat Ash? It's only making me feel hotter.
Ash Ketchum: Misty, you're doing the complaining.
Misty: Oh, really? So that whining voice I've been hearing is my own?
Brock: There's enough hot air without you two adding to it.

(Our heroes soon stop and notice it before realizing they lost someone right behind them Simba laying out in the hot desert sun. Vultures are circling the cub's body. One descends, then all. They circle around it.)

Ash Ketchum: Simba!

(As Ash, Misty, and Brock rushes to get the vultures away from Simba.)

Ash Ketchum: (throws the rock at the vultures.) Knock it off!

(The vultures attacks Ash, but Brock forces it back.)

Ash Ketchum: Alright, Pikachu!
Pikachu: Pika!

(Pikachu was about to use thunder bolt on the vultures but they suddenly stopped and they heard the sound and saw Timon riding Pumbaa appears and dives into the midst of the vultures. They slap and kick the vultures all away.}

Timon: Yeeeah! Get out! Get out! Get outta here! Whoo!
Pumbaa: I love it! Bowling for buzzards!
Timon: {Laughing, dusting himself off} Gets 'em every time.
Pumbaa: {Looking at Simba} Uh-oh. Hey Timon. You better come look. I think it's still alive. And we got some company.
Timon: Eeeeghh...

{Timon walks to the front of Ash and his friends.)

Timon: All righty, what have we got here? (to Ash and his friends.) We never seen any of you around here before. Where you're from.
Ash Ketchum: We actually come from a long way.
Timon: Oh, travellers I see. But who are you?
Brock: My name's Brock and I'm a Pokémon Breeder.
Misty: And I'm Misty. My specialty is Water Pokémon.
Togepi: Prry.
Ash Ketchum: My name's Ash Ketchum. And I'm trying to be a Pokémon Master.
Pikachu: Pika.
Ash Ketchum: Uh, oh yeah. And this is Pikachu.
Pikachu: Pikachu.
Ash Ketchum: And we're actually humans.
Pumbaa: Humans?
Timon: Pokémon?
Brock: We're actually from a far away place.
Misty: Another world to be excat and we're Pokemon trainers.
Pumbaa: Oh. Well it's a start.
Timon: Please to meet you. I'm Timon.
Pumbaa: Pumbaa.
Ash Ketchum: Nice to meet you Timon and Pumbaa. And thanks for saving Simba from being vulture food.
Timon: Simba?
Misty: The lion cub whose lying unconsciously here.

(Timon also walk in front of Simba, who is lying with his paw over his face.}

Timon: Eeeeghh...All righty, what have we got here? {he smells Simba}

{He tries to lift Simba's paw. He can't. He gets under it and with a great push gets it above his head. He sees Simba's face.}

Timon: Jeez, it's a lion! {Jumping up on Pumbaa} Run, Pumbaa! Move it!
Pumbaa: Hey, Timon. It's just a little lion. Look at him. He's so cute, and all alone! Can we keep him?
Timon: {Yelling into Pumbaa's ear, which creates a reverberating effect} Pumbaa, are you nuts? We're talkin’ about a lion. Lions eat guys like us.
Ash Ketchum: Don't be silly I'm sure he won't eat you.
Timon: Well maybe for you. But lions are predators you know how carnivores are.
Ash Ketchum: But you can't just leave him like this,
Pumbaa: And he's so little.

{He leans over to regard Simba, and accidentally dumps Timon from his head.}

Timon: He's gonna get bigger.
Pumbaa: {Seen from Timon's point of view on the ground, with a huge nose) Maybe he'll be on our side. Along with those human Pokémon trainers here.
Timon: A--huh! That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. Maybe he'll b-- ...Hey, I got it! What if they're on our side? You know, havin’ a lion and these human Pokémon trainers around might not be such a bad idea. (to Ash) Alright, Ash. We'll help you and your lion friend out.
Ash Ketchum: Really?
Misty: You mean you'll help us take care of Simba?
Timon: Of course. Who's the brains in this outfit?

{Pumbaa scoops Simba up on his tusks}

Pumbaa: Uhh...
Timon: My point exactly. Jeez, I'm fried. Let's get out of here and find some shade.

{Pumbaa trots off with Timon on his back and carrying Simba.}

Brock: Well, if they are willing to help us. We should go with them.
Misty: We'll be able to cool off and find an oasis there.
Togepi: Toge.
Brock: And we might found out where we are.
Ash Ketchum: Come on. Let's go.
Pikachu: Pika.

(Camera switch to Pumbaa, Timon, and Simba near a pool of water and oasis. Simba has been laid near the water. Timon splashes some water in Simba's face. Simba stirs.}

Timon: You okay, kid?
Simba: I guess so.
Pumbaa: You nearly died.
Timon: I saved you.
Pumbaa: {Snorts at Timon}
Timon: Well, uh, Pumbaa helped. A little.
Ash Ketchum: You nearly got attacked by vultures. We tried to fight them off.
Brock: There were flocks of them. But Timon and Pumbaa manage to fight them off for us.
Timon: It's true.
Simba: {Dully} Thanks for your help. (to Ash and his friends.) Come on guys.

{Simba heads off quietly back out towards the desert.}

Timon: Hey, where you goin’?
Simba: Nowhere.
Ash Ketchum: Simba...
Timon: {Watching Simba, Ash and friends leaving, talking to Pumbaa} Gee. He looks blue.
Pumbaa: I'd say brownish-gold.
Timon: No, no, no, no. I mean he's depressed.
Pumbaa: Oh. {trots up to Simba} Kid, what's eatin' ya?
Timon: Nothin’; he's at the top of the food chain! (laughs) The food cha-haain! {Pumbaa and Simba stare at him silently} (chuckles) Ahem. {Realizing his joke flopped} So, where you from...?
Simba: Who cares? We can't go back.
Timon: Ahh. You're outcasts! That's great, so are we.
Pumbaa: Whatcha do, kid?
Simba: Something terrible. But I don't wanna talk about it.
Timon: Good. We don't wanna hear about it.
Pumbaa: {To Timon} Come on, Timon. {To Simba} Anything we can do?
Simba: Not unless you can change the past.
Misty: We can't go anywhere at this point!
Brock: So what now?
Ash Ketchum: Well, there's nothing we can do. We can't change the past.
Pumbaa: You know, kids, in times like this my buddy Timon here says, "You gotta put your behind in your past..."
Timon: {Waving arms} No. No. No.
Pumbaa: I mean...
Timon: Amateur. Lie down before you hurt yourself. {to Simba} It's "You gotta put your past behind ya." Look, kid. Bad things happen, and you can't do anything about it, right?
Simba: Right.
Timon: {Pokes Simba's nose} Wrong! When da world turns its back on you, you turn your back on da world.
Simba: Well, that's not what I was taught.
Timon: Then maybe you all need a new lesson. Repeat after me. {Clears throat} Hakuna Matata.
Simba: {Still lethargic} What?
Ash Ketchum: Hakuna what?
Pumbaa: Ha-ku-na Ma-ta-ta. It means "No worries."

{Full Song, no fade in except in marimba chords}

[Timon]

Hakuna Matata!

What a wonderful phrase

[Pumbaa]

Hakuna Matata!

Ain't no passing craze

[Timon]

It means no worries

For the rest of your days

{Timon pulls Simba over to a green bush and leans him back on it.}

[Timon and Pumbaa]

It's our problem-free

Philosophy

[Timon]

Hakuna Matata!

{Spoken section over background}

Misty: Hakuna matata?
Pumbaa: Yeah, it's our motto.
Simba: What's a motto?
Timon: Nothin’! What's a motto with you? Ahh ha ha ha...
Pumbaa: {Laughing} You know, kids, These two words will solve all your problems.
Timon: That's right! Take Pumbaa for example.

{Back into song}

[Timon]

Why, when he was a young warthog...

[Pumbaa]

{Italian counter-tenor range} When I was a young wart hoooog!

Timon: {Speaking, cleaning ear} Very nice.
Pumbaa: Thanks!

[Timon]

He found his aroma lacked a certain appeal

He could clear the savannah after every meal

[Pumbaa]

I'm a sensitive soul, though I seem thick-skinned

And it hurt that my friends never stood downwind

And oh, the shame

[Timon]

He was ashamed!

[Pumbaa]

Thoughta changin' my name

[Timon]

Oh, what's in a name?

[Pumbaa]

And I got downhearted

[Timon]

How did you feel?

[Pumbaa]

Ev'rytime that I...

Timon: {Speaking} Pumbaa! Not in front of the kids!
Pumbaa: {Speaking} Oh... sorry.
Ash Ketchum: Huh?

{Simba watches with growing interest as Timon hoists Pumbaa into a vine loop above his head, where he begins swinging.}

[Timon and Pumbaa]

Hakuna Matata!

What a wonderful phrase

Hakuna Matata!

Ain't no passing craze

[Simba]

It means no worries

For the rest of your days

Timon: {Not singing, doing a vaudeville knee-slide up to Simba} Yeah, sing it, kid!

[Simba and Timon]

It's our problem-free.........

[Pumbaa]

{Landing next to them, with a flatulent sound} ..................... philosophy...

[All three]

Hakuna Matata!

{Timon pulls back a fern leaf, revealing a beautiful view of a rift-jungle. Waterfalls and rugged terrain make a beautiful view. Harp runs accentuate the scene.}

Timon: Welcome... to our humble home.
Simba: You live here?
Timon: We live wherever we want.
Pumbaa: Yep. Home is where your rump rests. Heh!
Ash and his friends: (awe in amazment.)
Simba: It's beautiful.
Pumbaa: {Loud raunchy belch} I'm starved.
Brock: I forgot we've walking for a while we haven't had anything to eat all day.
Ash Ketchum: Great idea. I'm starving and Brock's cooking is awesome.
Pikachu: Pika, Pika.
Simba: I'm so hungry I could eat a whole zebra.

{Timon is rather disturbed by Simba's want for meat-- a little bit taken aback and a little bit I-knew-this-would-happen.}

Timon: Eh-heh. We're fresh outta zebra.
Simba: Any antelope?
Timon: Na ah.
Simba: {A bit desperate} Hippo?
Timon: Nope. Listen, kid; if you live with us, you have to eat like us. Hey, this looks like a good spot to rustle up some grub.

{Timon has stopped in front of a log. Pumbaa forces it up with his snout, revealing many insects. Timon picks one up.}

Simba: Eww. What's that?
Timon: A grub. What's it look like?
Simba: Eww. Gross.
Ash Ketchum: You mean, you eat bugs?
Timon: {Eating, mouth full} Mmm. Tastes like chicken.

{Pumbaa slurps up a large worm from the ground. Both Timon and Pumbaa are feasting on bugs by now.}

Pumbaa: {Slurping} Slimy, yet satisfying.

(Misty shivers with fear.)

Simba: Misty?
Pumbaa: What's wrong with her?
Brock: She's never been a big fan of bugs and Bug Pokémon.
Misty: (whining scared) Bugs really bug me!
Timon: These are rare delicacies. {Grabbing a bug} Mmm. {Crunches} Piquant, with a very pleasant crunch.
Pumbaa: You'll learn to love 'em.
Misty: Gross. I'm not too sure about this.
Timon: I'm tellin’ you, kids, this is the great life. No rules. No responsibilities. {Pokes his hand into a knothole-- many bugs scramble out} Oooh! The little cream-filled kind. {munch} And best of all, no worries.

{Timon has been collecting bugs on a leaf. He offers it to Simba. Simba picks out a grub.}

Timon: Well, kid?
Ash Ketchum: What do you think Simba?
Simba: Oh well-- Hakuna Matata. {He slurps it up and swallows}

{Sick music}

Simba: {Looking more cheerful} Slimy, yet satisfying.
Ash Ketchum: I guess we could give it a try.
Timon: That's it!

{The bugs fly off the leaf in a colorful flutter.}

{The scene switches to all eight crossing a log, walking and tossing their heads to the music. With a steady build in the music, a change occurs. We see the image of young Simba become an adolescent Simba, with a partial mane. And then again, Simba becomes a full grown adult. While the chanting of the title is happening, the camera is panning at the low level (6" off ground) where all the interaction between Pumbaa, Timon, and Simba as a cub had been occurring. First we see Timon, and then Pumbaa. The camera continues panning at a low angle to where the cub Simba would fit. Instead we see the adult Simba's paw come down. An immediate back up for a full view of a big Simba.}

[Timon and Pumbaa]

Hakuna matata, hakuna matata, hakuna matata.

[Simba]

{Adult voice now.} It means no worries

For the rest of your days.

[All six]

It's our problem-free

Philosophy

[Simba]

Hakuna Matata

{All six dive off of the log into a pond. First, Timon jumps in doing a cannonball, and makes a small splash. Then Pumbaa, Ash, Misty, Brock, and Pikachu, doing a swan dive, makes a small splashes too. Finally Simba swings out on a vine (gripped in his teeth). Before he can dive, the vine breaks under his weight. The resulting splash is big enough to wash Pumbaa and Timon ashore.}

{Simba joins Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, Timon, and Pumbaa on shore. The song breaks into gentle jazz voice improvisations on the words "Hakuna Matata." We see a rear view of Timon, Pumbaa, Simba, Ash and co. boogying off into the forest to the beat of "Hakuna Matata."}

Team Rocket and the Hyenas inform Scar/Under the Stars[edit | edit source]

{The camera switches to a far view of Pride Rock. Almost all of the coloring is in gray. Most of the plants and trees appear to be dead. We can hear Zazu's first line and then the scene switches to a view of Zazu and Scar. Zazu is in a cage made of some animal's ribcage, singing forlornly. Scar is laying out on a rock picking his teeth with a bone.}

[Zazu]

Nobody knows

The trouble I've seen

Nobody knows

My sorrow...

Scar: Oh Zazu, do lighten up. {He tosses the bone at Zazu and it clatters against the cage} Sing something with a little... bounce in it.

[Zazu]

{Thinks a moment} It's a small world after all...

Scar: {Interrupting, almost shouting} No! No. Anything but that!

[Zazu]

{Thinks, then holds up a feather as a tune comes to him.} I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts (diddly-dee-dee)

There they are a-standing in a row... {Scar is enjoying this and starts to join in}

[Zazu and Scar]

Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head...

Zazu: {While Scar continues} Oh... I would never have had to do this for Mufasa.
Scar: {Quick and angry} What? What did you say?
Zazu: Oh, nothing!
Scar: You know the law: Never, ever mention THAT name in my presence. I... am... the KING!

{Scar shoves his muzzle between the ribs of Zazu's cage on the last line. His breath blows Zazu up against the wall.}

Zazu: Yes, sire. You ARE the king. I... I... Well, I only mentioned it to illustrate the differences in your royal managerial approaches. {Nervous laugh}
Jessie: {Offscreen} Hey Boss!
Scar: Oh, what is it this time?
Jessie: We need to talk to you!
Shenzi: {To Jessie} I'll handle this. {To Scar} Scar, there's no food, no water...
Banzai: Yeah, it's dinner time, and we ain't got no stinkin' entrees.
James: We check every inch of the Pride Lands from our hot air balloon.
Meowth: And everything around here is a total wasteland.
Scar: {Exasperated} It's the lionesses' job to do the hunting... {makes helpless gesture}
Banzai: Yeah, but they won't go hunt.
Scar: Oh... eat Zazu.
Zazu: Oh, you wouldn't want me! I'd be so tough and gamy and... eeww...
Scar: Oh, Zazu, don't be ridiculous. All you need is a little garnish.
Jessie: He thinks only for himself.
Meowth: And I thought things were bad under Mufasa.
Scar: {Quick and angry again} What did you say?
Meowth I said Muf...

{Shenzi is smiling at Scar and thwaps Meowth to remind him.}

Meowth: I said, uh... "Qué pasa?"
Scar: Good. Now get out.

{The hyenas and Team Rocket start out but then pause}

James: Mm... yeah, but - we're still hungry.
Scar: Out!

{They run off; Ed lets loose a crazy laugh}

{The camera switches to a view of the jungle. We hear a monstrous belch reverberate across the landscape. The camera switches to Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, Togepi, Timon, Pumbaa, and Simba lying on their backs looking at the stars.}

Timon: Whoa. Nice one, Simba.
Simba: Thanks.
Ash Ketchum: Oh man, I'm stuffed.
Pikachu: Pika (Me too.)
Pumbaa: Me three. I ate like a pig.
Simba: Pumbaa - you are a pig.
Pumbaa: Oh. Right.
Misty: Yeah, that was delicious. Right, Togepi?
Togepi: chirps in agreement)
Timon: I have to admit Brock, you are a great cook.
Brock: Thanks, Timon. But there's nothing better than just get a chance to relax lying down under the stars toggether.
Pumbaa: You said it.

{All of them sigh deeply, in unison. Gentle music fades in.}

Pumbaa: Timon?
Timon: Yeah?
Pumbaa: Ever wonder what those sparkly dots are up there?
Timon: Pumbaa. I don't wonder; I know.
Pumbaa: Oh. What are they?
Timon: They're fireflies. Fireflies that uh... got stuck up on that big... bluish-black... thing.
Pumbaa: Oh. Gee. I always thought that they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away.
Timon: Pumbaa, wit you, everything's gas.
Pumbaa: Ash, what do you think?
Ash Ketchum: Well, I don't think about fireflies up there. But lay down like this you get connect the stars so you can tell which Pokémon is up there.

(Connecting the stars seeing the shape looking like an Onix.)

Ash Ketchum: (offscreen) It looks like an Onix.
Brock: (offscreen) Yeah that's right.
Misty: Hey, connect those two bright ones to the ones down over there.

(Connecting the stars shape looking like Pikachu.)

Ash Ketchum: (offscreen) Wow, it's Pikachu!
Misty: (offsceen) Yeah.
Pumbaa: You guys sure know a lot about Pokémon.
Ash Ketchum: Yeah, Pokémon are really wonderful creatures. And let's say a certain friend of mine show me how to connect the stars that night.
Misty: Oh yeah. Ritchie.
Brock: I wonder how he's doing.
Ash Ketchum: Well I hope he's doing well. Maybe we'll run into him again someday.
Pikachu: Pikachu.
Brock: So, Simba, what do you think?
Simba: Well, I don't know...
Pumbaa: Aw come on. Give, give, give .. Well, come on, Simba, we told you ours... pleeeease?
Timon: Come on, come on... give, give..

{Cue "Lea Halalela" theme.}

Simba: {Reluctantly} Well, somebody once told me that the great kings of the past are up there, watching over us.
Pumbaa: {Awed, either genuinely or mockingly} Really?
Timon: You mean a bunch of royal dead guys are watchin’ us? {tries to keep composure, then...} Pbbb.

{Timon breaks out laughing. Pumbaa joins in. Simba does half-heartedly.}

Timon: Who told you somethin’ like that? What mook made that up?
Simba: Yeah. Pretty dumb, huh?
Timon: Aw, you're killin’ me, Simba.

{The music rises again. Simba looks back up at the stars. He quietly gets up and leaves.}

Timon: Was it somethin’ I said?

{The music continues. Simba walks out on a ledge and looks up at the stars. Ash catches up to him.}

Ash Ketchum: Hey, they didn't mean to make you feel bad Simba. Honest they didn't
Simba: That's okay. I was just thinking that's all.
Ash Ketchum: About your father?
Simba: (sighs) Yeah. I just wish we could've saved him on time.
Ash Ketchum: (feels bad for him) Yeah, me too. But you know what? Your father reminded me a lot like my father. When I was a young boy, he and I used to do so many things together. But when he left me and mom on his own journey, I haven't heard from him ever since.
Simba: Really? Do you miss your father?
Ash Ketchum: (thinks about it for a bit and nods his head) Yeah, I do. I really do. But being on a journey with Pikachu, and my friends really did change me a lot when I started to become a Pokémon trainer. But later, I became the World Champion. And yet, I'm still aiming to become a Pokémon Master. And you know? Maybe someday, Pikachu and I are gonna find him and, perhaps, have a Pokémon battle with him. Right, buddy?
Pikachu: Pikachu!
Simba: Yeah, but it's not easy. (thought of something) What about your mother? I'll bet she worries you whenever you're on your journey.
Ash Ketchum: Yeah, she worries. I guess. Maybe that's just what moms do.
Simba: (chuckles warmly) Yeah. (sighs sadly)
Ash Ketchum: Look, I just wanted you to know that me and my friends are here for you. In case you want to talk about it.
Simba: Thanks, but I think it's best that I'd rather need some time alone.
Ash Ketchum: I understand. Take as much time as you want. Don't stay out here too late.
Simba: Sure.

(Ash walks away to give Simba some alone time. Ash looks back at Simba with a sad face and thinks about what Scar did to Mufasa.)

Pikachu: (concern) Pika?
Ash Ketchum: It's okay, Pikachu. Simba just needs some time to himself. He'll figure out the truth on what Scar did to his father soon enough. Mufasa's counting on us. I know he is. Believe me. I know.

{After Ash and Pikachu left. Simba collapses to lay on the edge of the ledge. Milkweed floss is stirred into the air by his flop. The camera follows its path. It crosses the desert. Next we see Rafiki's hand snatch some it out of the air. He sniffs it, grunts, and bounds down into his tree. He pours the milkweed into a turtle shell, sifts it around, and then eats from the same kind of fruit he anointed Simba and Ash with. Examining the milkweed floss again, realization dawns on his face.}

Rafiki: Simba? Ash? They're- They're alive? He he- They're alive! {He laughs}

{Rafiki grabs his staff. Laughing in delight, he picks up some paint and puts a mane on the smeared lion image on the wall.}

Rafiki: It is time!

Simba, Ash and co. reunited with Nala/Can You Feel the Love Tonight[edit | edit source]

{The camera switches to a jungle scene. We hear Pumbaa singing the familiar bass to "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". Timon joins in as they walk towards the camera. A Capella.}

[Pumbaa]

Ohi'mbube

{etc.....}

[Timon]

In the jungle

The mighty jungle

The lion sleeps tonight.

In the jungle

The mighty jungle

The lion sleeps...

{Pumbaa turns to follow a bug; he fades out.}

Timon: I can't hear you, buddy, back me up!

{Pumbaa has faded out, having followed the bug stage left. The following line is in full and good falsetto.}

[Timon]

A-WEEEE-ee-EE-ee ba-Pum-ba-bum-ba-way

{Realizing Pumbaa is not there}

Timon: A-Pumbaa? Pumbaa?

(The scene changes to Pikachu climbing in a tree to get a berry, while Misty and Brock relax)

Misty: The air's so fresh and the water's beautiful. What a great place this is for a rest!
Brock: Yeah, it sure is nice to kick back and relax a little. Right, Ash? (notice Ash sitting quietly on the log) Ash?

(Ash is thinking after Mufasa die and run from pride land as Pikachu climb down from the tree)

Pikachu: (worried) Pika-pi?
Ash Ketchum: (sad) Hey, Pikachu.

(Misty and Brock come up to Ash)

Misty: (to Ash) Hey, you ok?
Ash Ketchum: No I'm not, it's just.
Brock: Still worry about Simba?
Ash Ketchum: First of all yes, it is and second, it's not just Simba I'm worry about.
Misty: What is it?
Ash Ketchum: I'm worried about the Pride Lands, I could imagine it got worst after we left.
Misty: (realize) Oh yeah, I completely Forgot about the Pride Lands. The kingdom wouldn't be the same without Mufasa.
Brock: Yeah, Sarabi will be broken heart about Mufasa die & Simba run away.
Misty: So will Zazu, he won't serve Mufasa or Simba now.
Ash Ketchum: And not just them Simba's best friend "Nala" will miss him, they have been best friend before the stampede happened. I just hope she's ok.
Pikachu: (sad/agreed) Pikachu.
Misty: Well even though we don't know what's happened to the Pride Lands now but I'm sure they'll be okay, I hope.
Ash Ketchum: Hmm, I don't know about that.
Brock: Ash, I'm sure everything is going to be okay, but who knows maybe we'll run into familiar friends, you see.
Misty: And remember what Rafiki said about your mom and your friends from each region?
Ash Ketchum: I haven't forgotten them, Misty, they live in me and Zordon remind me about who I am.
Brock: Right, I don't forget about us, Ash, we'll keep helping you no matter what.
Pikachu: Pika-pi, Pikachu.
Ash Ketchum: (feeling a bit better) Thanks, guys, I'm a little bit better but I think I needed that.
Misty: (smile) No problem, Ash. Now why don't you and Pikachu go and see how Simba doing?
Brock: Yeah, I'm very sure Simba could use some company.
Ash Ketchum: Right, (to Pikachu) come on, Pikachu.
Pikachu: (understood) Pikachu.

(They left to find Simba.)

Misty: Speaking of Simba, I wonder how Timon and Pumbaa are doing?
Brock: Well they probably looking for more bugs to eat, as long they have to be careful and look out for each other.
Misty: I hope you're right, Brock.

{Camera switch to Pumbaa following the bug. He is still humming the bass. He stalks the bug up to a log, theatrically hiding behind a tree. When he tries to jump over the log he gets stuck momentarily and looks back.}

Pumbaa: {Spooked} Timon? {Looks around, then shrugs}

{He jumps over the log. As he views the bug at close range, the camera (at his viewpoint) switches focus from it to a pair of green eyes out in the grass. The camera closes up on a lioness (a fully-grown Nala) getting ready to jump.}

Pumbaa: YEEEEAAAHHH!

{He runs, with Nala in hot pursuit. Nala, with teeth and claws bared, chases Pumbaa around at high speed. Camera switch to Timon.}

Timon: {Hearing the noise of the chase} Pumbaa?
Pikachu: Pika?
Misty: What's that?
Ash Ketchum: Sounds like Pumbaa's in trouble!
Pikachu: Pika!

{While Ash and the others runs off to find Pumbaa. Pumbaa runs near Timon and gets stuck under the root of a tree by trying to squeeze through.}

Timon: Pumbaa! Pumbaa! Hey, what's goin' on?
Pumbaa: SHE'S GONNA EAT ME!
Timon: Huh?

{Timon gets up on the branch and sees Nala charging at full speed towards them. He gets down and tries to help push Pumbaa out from under the root.}

Timon: {Seeing Nala} Whoa! ... Jeez! Why do I always have to save your AAAAAA!

{On the AAAAAA!, Timon sees Nala was about to close on Pumbaa and he is in the line of attack.)

Ash Ketchum: Timon! Pumbaa!

(At the last minute, Simba bounds over Pumbaa and catches Nala head on at full force. They start fighting savagely.}

Timon: {To Pumbaa} Don't worry, buddy. I'm here for ya. Everything's gonna be okay. {To Simba} Get her! Bite her head! Go for the jugular. The jugular! {to Pumbaa} See, I told you he'd come in handy.

{The lions tangle for a bit more. The fight becomes a wrestling. Nala flips Simba and pins him with a loud thump. Simba is startled by this. Nala is still baring her teeth. Simba, however, is very surprised and no longer threatening.}

Simba: Nala?

{She immediately backs off and looks at Simba, examining him.}

Pikachu: PIka?
Brock: Wait, did he just say...
Misty: Could it be?
Ash Ketchum: Nala?
Simba: Is it really you?
Nala: Who are you?
Simba: It's me. Simba.
Nala: Simba? {Pause for realization} Whoa!

{Simba and Nala run together and greet each other. The greetings are enthused and run over each other.}

Nala: Well how did you.. where did you come from?
Simba: Aaah! How did you... who... wow... this is cool... it's great to see ya...
Ash Ketchum: Hey, Nala!
Nala: Ash! Misty! Brock! Pikachu!
Misty: Nala I can't believe it's you!
Ash Ketchum: (hugs Nala) I didn't even recognize you. You really grew up Nala.
Pikachu: Pika, Pika!
Brock: So, it's great to see you Nala.

{Camera view of Timon who is completely baffled by this sudden change}

Nala: (offscreen) it's great to see YOU... (etc)
Timon: Hey, what's goin' on here?
Simba: {Still to Nala} What are you doing here?
Nala: What do you mean, "What am I doing here?" What are you doing here?
Timon: HEY! WHAT'S GOIN' ON HERE!?!?!
Simba: Timon, this is Nala. She's my best friend!
Timon: {Thoroughly confused} Friend?!?
Misty: Uh-huh. They've known each other back when they were cubs.
Togepi: Toge-Toge.
Simba: Hey, Pumbaa, come over here.

{Pumbaa gets himself unstuck.}

Simba: Nala, this is Pumbaa. Pumbaa, Nala.
Pumbaa: Pleased to make your acquaintance.
Nala: The pleasure's all mine.
Timon: How do you do... Whoa! Whoa. Time out. Lemme get this straight. You know her. She knows you. But she wants to eat him. And everybody's... okay with this? DID I MISS SOMETHING?!?
Simba: Relax, Timon.
Nala: Wait till everybody finds out you all have been here all this time! And your mother... what will she think?
Simba: {Misunderstanding} She doesn't have to know. Nobody has to know.
Nala: Well, of course they do. Everyone thinks you guys are dead.
Ash Ketchum: Dead?
Misty: They do?
Nala: Yeah. Scar told us about the stampede.
Simba: He did? Well... {beginning to see something} what else did he tell you?
Nala: What else matters? You're alive. and that means... you're the king.
Ash and his friends: (awe in amazment.)
Timon: King? Pbbb. Lady, have you got your lions crossed.
Pumbaa: King? Your Majesty! I gravel at your feet. {Noisily kisses Simba's paw}
Simba: Stop it.
Timon: {To Pumbaa} It's not "gravel." It's "grovel." And DON'T-- he's not the king. {to Simba} Are ya?
Simba: No.
Nala: Simba?
Simba: No, I'm not the king. Maybe I was gonna be, but... that was a long time ago.
Timon: Let me get this straight. You're the king? And you never told us?
Simba: Look, I'm still the same guy.
Timon: {Enthusiastic} But with power!
Brock: I really hate to break this up Timon. But I think we need to let Simba and Nala be alone for a while.
Nala: {Apologetic} So, could you guys... excuse us for a few minutes?
Timon: Hey, {taps Pumbaa} whatever she has to say, she can say in front of us. Right, Simba?
Simba: Hmm. Maybe you'd better go.
Timon: {Aghast, then resigned} It starts. You think you know a guy...

{Pumbaa and Timon pad off. Pumbaa sighs.}

Simba: Timon and Pumbaa. You learn to love 'em.
Brock: They are nice guys. The did save Simba from the vultures.
Misty: You should've seen them Nala. Huh?

{Nala has her head bowed down sadly.}

Simba: What? ...What is it?
Nala: {Quietly} It's like you all are back from the dead. You don't know how much this will mean to everyone. {Pained expression} ...What it means to me.
Misty: You've taken this really hard. Huh? You must've been scared.
Ash Ketchum: We didn't mean to make you think about it like that Nala. Honest we didn't.
Nala: You all don't need to apologize...but still...
Simba: Hey, it's okay.
Nala: {Rubbing under Simba's chin, purring} I've really missed you.
Simba: {Startled by Nala's boldness for an instant, then reciprocating} I've missed you too.

(Brock stopping Ash from approaching. They are rubbing heads. We hear Timon sigh; camera switch to show them watching from the bushes.}

Timon: {Heavy sigh} I tell ya, Pumbaa, this stinks.
Pumbaa: Oh. Sorry.
Timon: Not you. Them! Him. Her. Alone.
Pumbaa: What's wrong with that?

Timon]

I can see what's happening

[Pumbaa]

(What?)

[Timon]

And they don't have a clue

[Pumbaa]

(Who?)

[Timon]

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

Our trio's down to two.

[Pumbaa]

(Oh.)

[Timon]

Ze sweet caress of twilight

There's magic everywhere

And with all this romantic atmosphere

Disaster's in the air

{The scene passes from Timon and Pumbaa to Simba and Nala in front of a waterfall.}

[Sally Dworsky]

Can you feel the love tonight?

The peace the evening brings?

The world, for once, in perfect harmony

With all its living things.

{After walking around each other, taking in each other's movements, they stop to drink at the water.}

[Simba]

So many things to tell her

But how to make her see

The truth about my past? Impossible!

She'd turn away from me.

[Nala]

He's holding back, he's hiding

But what? I can't decide

Why won't he be the king I know he is?

The king I see inside?

{During the Chorus the following occurs: Simba looks at Nala, smiles, and runs off stage. He runs back on stage, grabs a vine in his mouth and splashes into the middle of the pond. Nala looks out over the still water. Suddenly Simba lunges up under her and pulls her in the pond playfully. She immediately comes out dripping and miffed. When Simba comes out, she pushes him back in. The scene switches to them tussling. They end up play fighting. After tumbling down a hillside, Simba ends up pinning Nala for a first. She gives him a tiny lick, resembling a kiss. Simba looks startled and stares at Nala. Close-up of Nala, as she stares back with a seductive smile. Close-up of Simba, whose expression changes from a surprised one to a comprehending one.. The two rub heads (a cat-style kiss) as the last lyrics are sung.}

[Chorus]

Can you feel the love tonight?

The peace the evening brings?

The world, for once, in perfect harmony

With all its living things?

Can you feel the love tonight?

You needn't look too far -

Stealing through the night's uncertainties

Love is where they are.

{Camera switches back to a tearful Timon and Pumbaa.}

[Timon]

And if he falls in love tonight

{Pumbaa sniffs}

It can be assumed -

{Timon hugs Pumbaa, tearfully.}

[Pumbaa]

His carefree days with us are history -

[Timon and Pumbaa]

In short, our pal is doomed.

{They let loose crying full force.}

Simba, Ash and friends meet Rafiki/Remember Who You Are[edit | edit source]

(The scene transitions. Ash, Misty, Brock, Simba and Nala cross a log in the jungle.)

Misty: Well, they sure look happy to be together again.
Brock: It's no wonder. It's been a long time since they've seen each other.
Ash Ketchum: Yeah, so, what do you think of this place Nala?
Simba: Isn't this a great place?
Nala: It is beautiful. But I don't understand something. You've been alive all this time. Why didn't you come back to Pride Rock?
Simba: {Climbing into a "hammock" of hanging vines} Well, I just needed to... get out on my own. Live my own life. And I did. And it's great. {He sounds almost as if trying to convince himself as well as Nala.}
Nala: {Voice catching, as though barely under control} We've really needed you at home.
Simba: {Quieter} No one needs me.
Nala: Yes, we do! You're the king.
Simba: Nala, we've been through this. I'm not the king. Scar is.
Nala: Guys, he let the hyenas and Team Rocket take over the Pride Lands.
Simba: What?
Ash Ketchum: What?!
Brock: He did what?!
Misty: Team Rocket and the hyenas are working for Scar?
Nala: Yes, everything's destroyed. There's no food. No water. (to Simba) Simba, if you don't do something soon, everyone will starve.
Simba: We can't go back.
Nala: {Louder} Why?
Simba: You wouldn't understand.
Nala: What wouldn't I understand?
Simba: {Hastily} No, no, no. It doesn't matter. Hakuna Matata.
Nala: {Confused} What?
Simba: Hakuna Matata. It's something we learned out here. Look, sometimes bad things happen...
Nala: Simba!
Simba: (Continuing, irritated) ...And there's nothing you can do about it. So why worry?

{Simba starts away from Nala, walking on a fallen tree. Nala trots back up to him.}

Nala: Because it's your responsibility!
Misty: Simba, Nala, this isn't like you.
Brock: Let's just calm down and talk about this.
Simba: (Ignoring Brock and continuing talking to Nala.) Well, what about you? YOU left.
Nala: I left to find help! And I found YOU. All of you! Don't you understand? You're our only hope.
Simba: Sorry.
Nala: What's happened to you? You're not the Simba I remember.
Simba: You're right. I'm not. Now are you satisfied?
Nala: No, just disappointed.
Simba: You know, you're starting to sound like my father. {Walking away again}
Nala: Good. At least one of us does.

{Simba is obviously cut by the comment about his father; he tears into Nala with his words.}

Simba: {Angry} Listen, you think you can just show up and tell me how to live my life? You don't even know what I've been through!
Nala: I would if you would just tell me!
Simba: Forget it!
Nala: Fine!

{Simba walks off.)

Ash Ketchum: Simba!
Misty: Simba, wait!

(Ash and his friends followed Simba. Camera switch to Simba pacing in a field.}

Simba: She's wrong. I can't go back. What would it prove, anyway? It won't change anything. You can't change the past. {He looks up at the stars.} 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.

{He bows his head, choking back tears.)

Ash Ketchum: Hey, wait a second, Simba! You can't blame yourself for what happened!
Simba: Not now Ash! I just wanted to be alone!
Ash Ketchum: There's no way I'm gonna leave you alone!
Simba: Just go already!
Ash Ketchum: You've changed a lot since your father died! Maybe Nala is right! You're not the Simba we once knew!
Simba: What did you say?!
Ash Ketchum: The Simba we all know will never turn away! From the Becoming the King!
Pikachu: Pika, Pika.
Brock: Alright now that's enough.
Misty: This isn't helping Ash!
Ash Ketchum: I didn't start it.
Simba: Listen, you think you can stay by my side and tell me how to live my life?! You humans don't understand what it was like!
Ash Ketchum: Are you saying you don't trust us?!
Simba: Maybe, I don't! Why didn't even you guys tried to save him when you had the chance?!
Misty: We tried our best! But we told you before there's nothing we could have done! But you know I'm with Ash on this one! You ran away so you can hide from it and forget about it!
Brock: Hey, stop giving Simba a hard time. Have you two forgotten that Scar did exile us?!
Ash Ketchum: But we...
Brock: And If Team Rocket is working with Scar, it's obviously that Bowser It has to do with this.
Simba: Who?
Ash Ketchum: Bowser Koopa. The enemy of ours that we faced in the past, he's the Son of Dark Specter.
Simba: The Grand Monarch of Evil?
Misty: It's obviously that he wanted Scar to take over the Pride Lands as his new territory.
Ash Ketchum: And now we failed the Pride Lands big time after what Scar did.
Simba: You're right. We all did. I'm sorry guys. I'm not the same cub I was anymore. I just miss him so much. (choking back tears.)
Misty: I know we all do.

(The camera backs to a far view and then zooms over to Rafiki in a nearby tree. We hear his chant.}

Asante sana!

Squash banana!

We we nugu!

Mi mi apana!

Misty and Brock: Huh?
Ash Ketchum: Huh?

{Simba seems slightly annoyed by the chant. He moves away. Rafiki, elated by the sight of Simba, Ash and his friends.)

Ash Ketchum Rafi--
Rafiki: (covers Ash's mouth.) Shh.

(Rafiki gives Ash a wink and urged him and his friends to follow Simba. Simba lies down on a log over a pond. A rock disturbs the water; Rafiki, now in a nearby tree, starts his chant again.}

Simba: Come on, will you cut it out? {Rafiki, laughing, is doing random acrobatics in the trees nearby.}
Misty: We're not in the mood right now.
Rafiki: Can't cut it out. It'll grow right back! {laughs}

{Simba and the others starts walking away. Rafiki follows.}

Simba: Creepy little monkey. Will you stop following us? Who are you?
Rafiki: {In front of Simba, then right in his face.} The question is: Who... are you?
Simba: {Startled, then sighing} I thought I knew. Now I'm not so sure.
Rafiki: Well, I know who you are. Shh. Come here. It's a secret.

Asante sana!

Squash banana!

We we nugu!

Mi mi apana!

Simba: Enough already. what's that supposed to mean, anyway?
Rafiki: It means you are a baboon - and I'm not. {laughs}
Simba: {Moving away} I think... you're a little confused.
Rafiki: {Magically in front of Simba again} Wrong. I'm not the one who's confused; you don't even know who you are.
Simba: {Irritated, sarcastic} Oh, and I suppose you know?
Rafiki: Sure do; you're Mufasa's boy. ...Bye!

{Simba is surprised by this revelation. Rafiki disappears off stage right.}

{Cue music: "Lala" theme.}

Simba: Hey, wait!
Ash Ketchum: Come on maybe we can catch him!

{Simba, Ash and his friends chases after him. When we catch up. Rafiki is in a meditative lotus position on a rock.}

Simba: You knew my father?
Rafiki: {Monotone} Correction-- I know your father.
Ash Ketchum: Yep, Simba. I think we should tell you this. But this is Rafiki. He's known as the Royal Mjuzi of the Pride Lands.
Misty: Well after the incident of the Elephant Graveyard. When you notice that Ash is leaving the Pride Lands when he feel like a failure.
Brock: But Rafiki manage to talk some sense into him about coming back before your father gave us another chance to trust us humans.
Rafiki: That is correct Brock.
Simba: I hate to tell you this, but... he died. A long time ago.

{Rafiki leaps off the rock over to a dense jungle-like area.}

Rafiki: Nope. Wrong again! Ha ha hah! He's alive!
Ash Ketchum: Alive?
Misty: That's not possible he was long gone.
Rafiki: It's true. And I'll show him to you. You follow old Rafiki, he knows the way. Come on!
Misty: What choice do we have...
Ash: Come on maybe we can catch him!

(Ash and Pikachu run off)

Misty: Ash, no!
Brock: Hey, shouldn't we stay here? Wait up!

{Rafiki leads Simba, Ash and his friends through the brush. They have trouble keeping up due to their sizes. The music slips into African chant.}

Rafiki: Don't dawdle. Hurry up!
Simba: Hey, whoa. Wait, wait.
Rafiki: Come on, come on.
Simba: Would you slow down?

{Rafiki is seen flitting through the canopy ahead of Simba, Ash and friends, laughing hollowly and whooping. They struggle to keep up. Suddenly, Rafiki appears with his hand held up right into their faces.}

Rafiki: STOP!

{Rafiki motions to Simba, Ash and his friends near some reeds.}

{He parts the reeds and points past them with his staff.}

Rafiki: Look..down…there. {Simba and the others quietly and carefully works his way out. They look over the edge and sees his reflection in a pool of water. He first seems a bit startled, perhaps at his own mature appearance, but then realizes what he's looking at.}

Simba: {Disappointed sigh} That's not my father. That's just my reflection.
Rafiki: No. Look…harder.

{Rafiki motions over the pool. Ripples form, distorting Simba's reflection; they resolve into Mufasa's face. A deep rumbling noise is heard.}

Rafiki: You see, he lives in you.

{Simba, Ash, Misty, Brock, and Pikachu were awestruck. The wind picks up. In the air the huge image of Mufasa is forming from the clouds. He appears to be walking from the stars. The image is ghostly at first, but steadily gains color and coherence.}

Mufasa’s Spirit: {Quietly at first} Simba . . .
Simba: Father?
Ash Ketchum: That voice...
Pikachu: Pika...
Mufasa’s Spirit: Simba, you have forgotten me.
Simba: No. How could I?
Mufasa’s Spirit: You have forgotten who you are, and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the Circle of Life.
Simba: How can I go back? I'm not who I used to be.
Mufasa’s Spirit: Remember who you are. You are my son, and the one true king.

{Close up of Simba's face, bathed in the golden light, showing a mixture of awe, fear, and sadness. The image of Mufasa starts to fade.}

Mufasa’s Spirit: Remember who you are.

{Mufasa’s spirit is disappearing rapidly into clouds. Simba, Ash and his friends runs into the fields trying to keep up with the image.}

Simba: No. Please! Don't leave me.
Mufasa’s Spirit: Remember...
Simba: Father!
Mufasa’s Spirit: Remember...
Simba: Don't leave me.
Mufasa’s Spirit: Remember…
Ash Ketchum: Did you see what I saw?
Brock: Yes.
Misty: Mufasa just appeared in the clouds.
Ash Ketchum: Just like Zordon.

{Simba and our heroes are left out in the fields. There is just a cloud left where his father's image was. The wind tosses the grass restlessly. Rafiki approaches.}

Rafiki: What was THAT? {laughs} De weather-- Pbbbah! Very peculiar. Don't you think?
Simba: Yeah. Looks like the winds are changing.
Rafiki: Ahh. Change is good.
Simba: Yeah, but it's not easy.
Ash Ketchum: Well, now we know that Mufasa will always live inside our hearts.
Brock: Yeah. Even though he's long gone. He still knows that not all humans are bad.
Misty: We all runaway from the Pride Lands we forgot to keep our promise to him.
Pikachu: (nods) Pika, Pikachu.
Ash Ketchum: Well, what are you going to do now Simba?
Simba: I know what I have to do Ash. But, going back means I'll have to face my past. I've been running from it for so long.

{Rafiki whacks Simba on the head with his staff. Ash and his friends laugh}

Simba: Ow! Jeez-- What was that for?
Rafiki: It doesn't matter; it's in the past! {laughs}
Simba: {Rubbing head} Yeah, but it still hurts.
Rafiki: Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or... learn from it.

{He swings at Simba with his staff again. This time Simba ducks.}

Rafiki: Hah, you see! So what are you going to do?
Simba: First, I'm gonna take your stick.

{Simba tosses Rafiki's staff to the side.}

Rafiki: No, no, no, no! Not the stick!

{As Rafiki picks up his staff, Simba starts running off.}

Rafiki: Hey, where are you going?
Simba: {Shouting back} I'm goin’ back!
Ash Ketchum: So will I! Are you ready Pikachu?
Pikachu: Pikachu!
Ash Ketchum: I hate to do this to Timon and Pumbaa! But it's time for us to save the Pride Lands!
Pikachu: Pika!

(But as Ash and Pikachu start to charge down the hill, a familiar voice stops them)

Misty: Stop right there.

(Ash looks back and sees Misty and Brock looking to join in)

Misty: I'm going, too.
Brock: And you're not leaving me behind.
Ash Ketchum: Guys, you're the best. (to Rafiki) Thanks for talking some sense into all of us again Rafiki.
Brock: We kinda figured Zordon send you here to find us.
Rafiki: Yes, yes. Now you all got no time lose!
Ash Ketchum: Right, tell Nala, Timon and Pumbaa we're going back!

(Ash and his friends started to run off to catch up with Simba.)

Rafiki: Good! Go on! Get out of here! {laughs, hoots, n' hollers. As he holds his staff above his head, a few shooting stars zing across the sky. Music rises into celebratory "Busa" theme:}

Busa le lizwe

Busa lomhlaba

Sabusa le lizwe

Busa lomhlaba

Returning to the Pride Lands/Distracting the Hyenas[edit | edit source]

{Camera switch to Timon and Pumbaa sleeping. Timon is curled up on Pumbaa; Pumbaa is lying on his back. Both are snoring. In his snore, Pumbaa occasionally mumbles "Grubs, grubs." Nala approaches and taps Timon with a paw.}

Nala: Hey. Hey, wake up.

{Timon wakes up and see a huge lion face in his view. He starts screaming and Pumbaa joins in.}

Nala: It's OK. Whoa, whoa. It's OK. It's ME.
Timon: Don't ever do that again! Carnivores, oy!
Nala: Have you guys seen Simba, or Ash, and the others?
Timon: {Holding a hand to his head} I thought they were with you.
Nala: They were, but now I can't find them. Where are they?

{We hear Rafiki's laugh; he's sitting in a tree above them.}

Rafiki: Ho, ho, ho, ho. You won't find them here. Ha ha. The king... has returned.
Nala: {Quietly} I can't believe it. {louder, amazed} They've gone back.
Timon: Gone back? What do you mean? {Looks where Rafiki was; Rafiki is now gone} Hey! What's goin' on here? Who's the monkey?
Nala: Simba, Ash, and their friends have gone to challenge Scar.
Timon: Who?
Nala: Scar.
Pumbaa: Who's got a scar?
Nala: {Shaking head} No, no, no. It's his uncle.
Timon: The monkey's his uncle?
Nala: No! Simba's gone back to challenge his uncle to take his place as king.
Timon and Pumbaa: Ohhh.

{Simba, Ash and friends slowly crosses the desolated land.)

Brock: Nala wasn't kidding. Everything has changed since we were here.
Ash Ketchum: Yeah. There's no food, no water... and no life... Nothing but dirt and bones.
Misty: All the animals are gone.

(They reach the lip of a cliff and looks out over his former home. Mostly lacking in life, it is painted in grays. Seeing the desolation, a look of determination, even fury, appears on both Simba and Ash's faces.}

Ash Ketchum: Hmm.
Nala: Guys, wait up! {She trots up next to him on the ledge} ...It's awful, isn't it?
Simba: I didn't wanna believe you.
Nala: What made you come back?
Simba: 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?
Nala: I will.
Ash Ketchum: No, Nala. We all will fight.
Misty: And nothing will stand our way.
Simba: It's gonna be dangerous.
Nala: {Quoting young Simba} Danger? Ha! I laugh in the face of danger. Ha ha ha ha.
Timon: I see nothing funny about this.
Simba: Timon? Pumbaa? What are you doing here?
Pumbaa: {Bowing on one foreleg} At your service, my liege.
Ash Ketchum: How did you two get here?
Pumbaa: We came with Nala since she told us Simba was coming back here. So we decided to come with her.
Misty: That explains a lot.
Brock: Well besides our Pokémon. We could use all the help we can get from you guys.
Timon: Uh. We're gonna fight your uncle... for this?
Simba: Yes, Timon; this is my home.
Timon: Eeh. Talk about your fixer-upper. Well, Simba, if it's important to you, {bows} we're with you to the end.

{Simba smiles appreciatively. Nice scene with the 8 of them on the ledge viewing the work ahead of them. Camera switches to Simba. Nala, Timon, Pumbaa, Ash, Misty, Brock, and Pikachu, sneaking up to the edge of Pride Rock. From behind a log, they observe close up the hordes of hyenas.}

Timon: Hyenas. I hate hyenas. {To Simba, whispering} So what's your plan for getting past those guys?
Simba: Live bait.
Timon: Good idea. {Realizing} Hey!
Misty: Come on, Timon-- you guys have to create a diversion.
Timon: {Incredulous} What do you want me to do? Dress in drag and do the hula?

{Camera switch to Timon in a hula outfit. The music sung is The Hawaiian War Chant much like the Spike Jones arrangement. Pumbaa is set up like a roast pig, even with an apple in his mouth. Jungle drum riff.}

[Timon]

Luau!

If you're hungry for a hunk of fat and juicy meat

Eat my buddy Pumbaa here because he is a treat

Come on down and dine

On this tasty swine

All you have to do is get in line

{Parenthetical parts are Pumbaa singing; the apple is at his feet.}

Aaaare you achin'

[Pumbaa]

Yup, yup, yup

[Timon]

Foooor some bacon?

[Pumbaa]

Yup, yup, yup

[Timon]

Heeee's a big pig

[Pumbaa]

Yup, yup

[Timon]

You could be a big pig too.

Oy!

{They run off screaming to lead some of the hyenas away.)

Battle of Pride Rock[edit | edit source]

(Simba, Nala, Ash and his friends make it by.}

Simba: Nala, you find my mother and rally the lionesses. {determinedly} We'll look for Scar.

{Simba, Ash and his friends are making their way up Pride Rock.}

Scar: "SARABI!!"

(Scar shouts so loud that his mother's name echoed back and forth and Simba and the others gasped as they saw Simba's beloved mother walk through the crowd of growling hyenas and towards the top where Scar was. Simba frowns. Sarabi looks much older, malnourished and very unhealthy. How could he have turned his back on her?)

Misty: Poor Sarabi. She had to suffer like this.
Brock: I know. Brock: It's because of Scar's tyranny. Simba's mother had to go through these unhealthy moments all this time!
Misty: No wonder, after the horrible things she had to go through.
Ash Ketchum: Sarabi.
Pikachu: Pika.
Sarabi: Yes, Scar?
Scar: Where is your hunting party? They are not doing their job.
Sarabi: {Calmly} Scar, there is no food. The herds have moved on.
Scar: No. You're just not looking hard enough.
Sarabi: It's over. There is nothing left. We have only one choice. We must leave Pride Rock.
Scar: We're not going anywhere.
Sarabi: Then you have sentenced us to death.
Scar: Then so be it.
Sarabi: {Disgusted, amazed} You can't do that.
Scar: I'm the king. I can do whatever I want.
Sarabi: If you were half the king Mufasa was you would’ve never -

{Scar hits Sarabi, knocking her to the ground.}

Scar: I'm ten times the king Mufasa was!
Ash Ketchum: Hold it!

{Simba, Ash and his friends appears on the ledge, growling loudly. He leaps out and runs to his mother. Scar mistakes Simba as Mufasa and is understandably frightened.}

Scar: Mufasa? No. You're dead.

{Sarabi awakens at her son's nudge, but mistakes him as Mufasa as Scar did.}

Sarabi: Mufasa?
Simba: No. It's me.
Ash Ketchum: It's us, Sarabi.
Misty: We're here.
Sarabi: {Delighted} Simba? Ash? Misty? Brock? You're alive? {Confused} How can that be?
Simba: It doesn't matter; We're home.
Scar: {Confused} Simba...? {back in form} Simba! I'm a little surprised to see you, {giving the hyenas above him an angry look} alive...

{On the word "alive," Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed gulp audibly and slink into the shadows.}

Ash Ketchum: (glare) Hello, Scar.
Brock: Long time no see.
Scar: Oh yes. Ash and friends. You all looking...(giving Jessie, James, and Mewoth above him an angry look as they failed to report him.) well...
Jessie: The twerps are back!
James: We forgot to tell Scar that they've come back.

(Team Rocket panics)

Meowth: We're in trouble!
Misty: You can drop the act Scar! We heard what you've done to this place while we were gone!
Simba: {As Sarabi looks on with some pride} Give me one good reason why I shouldn't rip you apart.
Scar: (Backing into a wall, apologetic) Oh, Simba, you must understand. The pressures of ruling a kingdom...
Simba: ...Are no longer yours. Step down, Scar.
Scar: Oh, oh, ye - Well, I would, heh, naturally, heh - however, there is one little problem. You see them? {pointing to the horde of hyenas and Jessie, James and Meowth on the rocks above} They think I’m king.
Ash Ketchum: Well, we don't! You are meant to be king.
Misty: Your reign is over Scar.
Nala: Simba is the rightful king.
Brock: So if you want him. You'll have to go through all of us.
Simba: The choice is yours, Scar. Either step down or fight.
Scar: Oh, must it all end in violence? I'd hate to be responsible for the death of a family member. Wouldn't you agree, Simba?
Ash Ketchum: That's not going to work Scar.
Simba: I've put it behind me.
Scar: Eh, but what about your faithful subjects? Have they put it behind them?
Nala: Simba, what is he talking about?
Scar: {Delighted} Ahh, so you haven't told them your little secret. Well, Simba, now's your chance to tell them. Tell them who is responsible for Mufasa's death!

{Scar's last line causes the lionesses to start. All are concentrating on Simba, Ash and his friends.}

Simba: {Steeling himself, then taking a step forward} I am.
Ash Ketchum: Simba....

{Sarabi approaches her son.}

Sarabi: {With much grief} It's not true. Tell me it's not true.
Simba: {Regretfully} It's true.
Ash Ketchum: Sarabi listen, it's not what you think.
Misty: We wanted to help. But there's nothing we could've done to save him.
Sarabi: You couldn't get to him on time?
Brock: (regretfully) No, we're sorry.
Scar: You see! They've admitted it! Murderer!

{Lightning crashes behind Scar's head to punctuate the line.}

Simba: No. It was an accident.

{Scar walks around and around Simba as he accuses him; very nicely done animated rotation.}

Scar: If it weren't for you, Mufasa would still be alive. It's your fault he's dead; do you deny it?
Simba: No.
Scar: {Severely} Then... you're... guilty. (to Ash and his friends.) So are you human Pokémon trainers. Mufasa put his trusts in all of you. And I was right you three cannot be tursted.
Simba: No. Ash and the others had nothing to do with this! I'm not a murderer.
Scar: Oh, Simba, you're in trouble again. But this time, Daddy isn't here to save you. And now EVERYONE.. KNOWS... WHY!

{Scar has been backing Simba up the length of Pride Rock. After his last sentence, Simba slips over the edge and is clinging to the ledge by his forepaws. Lightning strikes below, igniting a fire.}

Nala and Ash: Simba!

{Scar sits back and pretends to think.}

Scar: Now this looks familiar. Hmm. Where have I seen this before? Let me think. Hmm... hmm. Oh yes, I remember. This is just the way your father looked before he died.

{Scar grabs Simba with his claws as he did Mufasa. He whispers into Simba's ear.}

Scar: And here's my little secret: I…killed…Mufasa!

{Simba has a quick memory flash back to that fateful instant. His voice blends with his younger voice in the scream of when his father died. In one giant leap he lunges up and pins Scar on his back. Scar is caught completely by surprise and is understandably very nervous and shaken.}

Simba: NoooooOOOO! ...Murderer!
Scar: No, Simba, please.
Simba: Tell them the truth.
Scar: Truth? But truth is in the eye of the behold - llgkkk!

{Simba starts to choke Scar.}

Scar: All right. All right. (quietly, venomously) I did it.
Simba: So they can hear you.
Scar: {Grudgingly, but clear} I killed Mufasa!
Ash Ketchum: I KNEW IT!!!
Misty: It was you who killed Mufasa! He's your own brother! How could you?!
Ash Ketchum: And you tricked Simba by exiling him and accusing him for Mufasa's death!
Brock: How low can you go?!
Pikachu: Pikachu!
Scar: I am meant to rule this kingdom! Not him!
Ash Ketchum: That's what you think! Totodile, I choose you!
Totodile: (appears)
Misty: (Gets her Poke Balls) We're with you Ash!
Brock: (Also gets his Poke Balls) Let's get them! Go!

(Brock and Misty release their Pokémon to fight Scar and the hyenas. Nala starts towards Scar, the hyenas attack Simba in a wall of teeth. The lionesses join in. We see Pumbaa and Timon come in. Pumbaa is charging with Timon riding him. Hyenas are flying everywhere.}

Timon and Pumbaa: Heeeyyyy-yaaaaah!
Timon: 'Scuse me. Pardon me. Comin' through. Hot stuff. Whoo!
Ash Ketchum: Totodile, Water Gun Attack!
Totodile: (Water Gun at the hyena.)
Misty: Staryu, double edge!
(Staryu uses double edge on the the rest of the hyenas.)
Brock: Onix, use tackle attack!
Onix: (roars uses tackle attack on the rest of the hyenas.)

{Bowling strike sound effect as hyenas fly. Rafiki whacks a hyena off Simba. Camera switch to him; with a battle scream, he joins the fray. As a bit of comic relief, Rafiki is fighting in kung-fu "B-movie" style, complete with cheesy sound effects.}

Rafiki: {As he hits various hyenas} WwwA! Hozah! Hazoww! Yaa! Yah! hhyEEOOWww!
Meowth: Wow, things are looking ugly here.
Jessie: Ready for battle?!?
James and Meowth: Okay.
James: Weezing!
(Weezing materializes)
Jessie: Arbok!

(Arbok materializes)

Ash Ketchum: Team Rocket!
Misty: We heard you help Scar took over the Pride Lands.
James: We admit helping him kill his own brother wasn't our style.
Jessie: But he let us spare you. So we can take you all straight to Bowser.
Misty: Well that's not going to happen!
Jessie: Arbok, Poison Sting attack, now!
James: Weezing, use Sludge attack, let's go!
Brock: Onix, use tackle attack!
Onix: (roars uses tackle attack on Arbok and Weezing.)
Ash: Go, Totodile, Water Gun, now!

(The attack fires, sending Team Rocket running)

Meowth: I don't like my fur getting wet!

{Camera switch to Timon running from Shenzi. He runs into the cave. Zazu spots him. Timon runs into his cage for safety from the hyenas.}

Zazu: Let me out! Let me out!
Timon: Let me in! Let me in! {To the hyenas, pleading} ...Ple-he-hease don't eat me.

{Pumbaa appears at the cave's entrance.}

Pumbaa: Drop ‘im!
Banzai: Hey, who's the pig?
Pumbaa: Are you talkin’ to me?
Timon: Uh oh. They called him a pig.
Pumbaa: Are you talking to me?!
Timon: Shouldn't 'a done that.
Pumbaa: ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?!?
Timon: Now they're in for it.
Pumbaa: They CALL me... MIIISTER PIG! AAAAAHHH...

{Pumbaa charges and drives the hyenas off.}

Timon: Take that! And that!
Banzai: Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ...
Pumbaa: Take that! And that! You yellow belly...
Zazu: Take that, you stupid...

{They start the Arsenio Hall "Ooh, ooh" chant. The scene switches to Ash and his friends battling Team Rocket.)

Jessie: I see! You wanna play grown-up?! Let's play grown-up! (grabs Arbok by the tail) Arbok, it's time to give those twerps a taste of your Headbutt, so let's go! (throws Arbok right at Ash)

(Simba thrash Arbok with his paw nailing it down.)

Jessie: What is that Simba doing?!
James: That's a...big attack!
Meowth: He decided to play grown-up!
Misty: That's because he is all grown up!
Simba: That's right! So I'm not a cub anymore! Now you and your Pokémon get out!
Jessie: No way! Arbok, use your Poison Sting!

(The attack launches, but Simba evades)

James: Weezing, Tackle attack!

(Simba effortlessly dodge the attack and hit both Arbok and Weezing back at Team Rocket.)

Simba: Leave, now.
Meowth: Uh, can't we talk about this?

(Simba roars furiously, forcing Team Rocket to retreat.)

Ash Ketchum: That was awesome.
Misty: It was way beyond awesome.
Brock: Talk about strength.
SImba: You guys okay?
Ash Ketchum: Yeah, thanks to you Simba.
Misty: But where's Scar?

(They spotted Scar slinking away. Scar pauses, looking back at Simba, Ash and his friends. There is a clap of thunder and a flash of lightning.)

Ash Ketchum: Get him!

(Simba, Ash and friends chase after Scar up to the high point of Pride Rock. Scar runs up to the edge and sees the sheer drop. Simba and Ash and friends leap up to confront him at the cliff-like edge. Scar is very apprehensive, seeing he is cornered and at Simba's mercy.}

Simba: {Quietly, severely} Murderer.
Ash Ketchum: It's over Scar!
Brock: You lost!
Scar: Simba, Simba. Please. Please have mercy. I beg you.
Simba: You don't deserve to live.
Misty: Why don't you just give it up?!
Scar: But, Simba, I am... ah... {unsure of his tactic} family. It's the hyenas {regaining composure} who are the real enemy. It was their fault - it was their idea!

{Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed are in the background. They overhear and back away growling at Scar's betrayal.}

Brock: But you helped them and Team Rocket to take over this kingdom! So you are the true enemy of the Pride Lands.
Ash Ketchum: Yes, we wanted to tell Simba about it. But we let him found out for himself.
Scar: I didn't mean to go that far. Please you have to believe me.
Simba: Why should we believe you? Everything you ever told me was a lie.
Scar: What are you going to do? You wouldn't kill your own Uncle...? {ingratiating grin}
Simba: No, Scar. I'm not like you.
Scar: {Greatly relieved} Oh, Simba, 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.
Simba: {Gravely, with deep anger} Run. Run away, Scar. And never return.
Scar: Yes. Of course. As you wish... {looking down and seeing a pile of hot coals} ...your Majesty! {Scar swipes the coals into Simba's face. With a cry of surprise and pain, Ash and his friends gasped in shock. Simba paws the coals away as Scar leaps and attacks.}
Ash Ketchum: You killed him! He was your brother and you killed him!
Scar: (roars while fighting Simba)
Ash Ketchum: He was your brother, Scar! He trusted you! How could you do that to him after everything he's done for you?!
Scar: This is my kingdom! My destiny!
Simba: (Leonardo's voice) You're a monster! A demon! Is that your destiny?!

{There is a fight in slow motion. Both Scar and Simba land heavy blows. Simba gets knocked on his back. Scar leaps through the flames at him. Simba gathers courage and uses Scar's momentum in a "throw" similar to Nala's fighting tactics to send him flying over the edge. Scar tumbles to the bottom. Simba, Ash and his friends looked over the edge.)

Ash, Misty and Brock: Ah!

(Scar weakly gets up. He sees Banzai, Shenzi, and Ed approaching and smiles. Ed has a very angry look on his face.}

Scar: Ahh, my friends.
Shenzi: (laughs) Friends? I thought he said we were the enemy!
Banzai: Yeah, that's what I heard.
Banzai and Shenzi: Ed?
Ed: {Laughs evilly}
Scar: {Very nervous} No. (stammers) Let me explain. No. You don't understand. No! I didn't mean for... No, No! Look, I m sorry I called you... No! No!

{The camera moves away and we can only see the shadows as the horde of hyenas closes on and devours Scar.)

Ending: The King of Pride Rock[edit | edit source]

(Rain begins to fall, extinguishing the fire. Timon and Pumbaa emerge through the smoke. Simba, Ash, Misty, Brock and Pikachu descends Pride Rock. Zazu stands on a nearby rock and, as Simba passes, bows. A lioness rubs against Simba. Simba exchanges nuzzles with Sarabi, then Nala. And Simba turned to Ash and his friends as they were began to bow to him. Simba draws Ash into a hug.)

Simba: I couldn't have done it without you guys.
Misty: You deserve to be king Simba.
Brock: It is your thrown after all.
Ash Ketchum: Yeah, and we're sorry we couldn't told about what Scar did before when you were a cub, we just...
Simba: Don't apologies Ash. You did what you had to do. I just had to find out for myself. Thank you. And you and your friends are always welcome in the Pride Lands.
Ash Ketchum: Thanks Simba.
Pikachu: Pikachu.

(There is a clatter of gourds, which makes Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, Simba, Nala, and Sarabi look up. Rafiki stands near Pride Rock. He gestures to the promontory. Simba approaches Rafiki, who bows. Simba draws Rafiki into a hug, and, after a moment, Rafiki returns it. He then grips Simba by the shoulders.)

Rafiki: It is time.

(Simba walks toward the promontory of Pride Rock. Sarabi and Nala watch from below. Simba begins to ascend the promontory. Zazu watches in awe. Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, Togepi, Timon and Pumbaa do likewise. The rain washes away an animal skull. As Simba reaches the edge of the promontory, he stops and looks up at the stars. The clouds part.)

Mufasa: Remember.

{Simba's expression gains confidence and strength. Time switch to the savannah in full bloom again. Cue "Busa" theme:}

Busa le lizwe

Bus-busa ngo xolo

{Obscured verse}

Lebo M.: Se-fi-le

Baba ti-tabo

Maye babo

Busa lomhlaba

{Obscured verse}

Lebo M. He!

Se-fi-le

Busa Simba! Busa Simba!

Ubuse ngo xolo

Ubuse ngo thando

Ubuse ngo xolo

Ubuse ngo thando

Ubuse ngo xolo

{Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, Simba, Timon, Pumbaa, and Nala are on Pride Rock. Zazu flies up to the point. Timon, of course, is shaking his arms in the classic victory sign. All the groups of herds are there and making noise as in the presentation of Simba.}

Ingonyama nengw' enamabala

Lebo M.: (ngw' enamabala-wa)

Full Chorus: Till we find our place

On the path unwinding

In the Circle

The Circle of Life

Circle of... Liiife

{Rafiki appears, holding Kiara. He lifts her to present her to the crowd. Bass drum hit and black out to title in red lettering as in the beginning. The Circle is completed.}

THE END!

Bonus Ending[edit | edit source]

(Scene: Command Center/Library)

Ash (OS): Do you want to tell me that you also had your encounter with Scar?
Rabbit: That's right, it was long after we had faced Gaston in the Beast's Castle.
Mewtwo: Even then, Bowser, Kamek and the Koopalings were still locked up in the Space Dumpster long before our encounter in New Island.
Ash: and the Kidnapping of Rini and Hotaru we know.
Winnie the Pooh: Yes, we never thought we would see him again after what he did to Mufasa and Simba.
Eeyore: And now he has returned again.
Mario: Wow, I'm not surprised that that animal made a pact with Bowser, as if the damage that crazy lizard did in Swan Lake by killing King William by allying himself with Rothbart wasn't enough.
Luigi: Mamma Mia, that's right. Mario, Peach, Toad, Donkey Kong, and I haven't seen Scar since Simba, Nala, Timon, and Pumbaa helped us take him down with the hyenas while we were battling Bowser back in the Mushroom Kingdom and Brooklyn.
Tigger: Hey, wait a minute! You already know Scar?
Donkey Kong: It's true. He and the hyenas were also working with Bowser when Simba and the rest came to the Mushroom Kingdom.
Toad: We also learned from Simba that he's one of the talking animals who are royal.
Misty: I know it sounded weird at first, Toad, but it was difficult to believe it all.
Mario: At least you three were lucky to make it out alive. Surviving in the African Savannah is not an easy task, unless you're the Phantom or Black Panther.
Ash: You have no idea, Uncle Mario. We even had to travel through the fesert and we also had to take care of Simba when he was just a cub.
Piglet: Why, that's right. Pooh and the rest of us went through that, too.
Ash: Seeing Simba in that situation reminded me of Hotaru, Can you imagine how difficult it is for Simba to grow up without a Father?
Pikachu: Pika (Nods).
Mario: I understand it, I know how much you would have done for your cousin, she had a hard time getting over Souichi's death as well her and Rini's Encounter with Bowser.
Good Fairy: However, you did a good job of warning Simba, Nala, Timon, Pumbaa, and Zazu before the Cubs were Born about the Menace of Bowser.
Misty: It was what we could do, Good Fairy who knows what Bowser would be capable of, even though Scar broke his Rules.
Mewtwo: If so, Bowser would have turned the Pridelands and Pride Rock into a War Zone.
Princess Peach: But What’s gonna happen to Team Rocket and the Hyenas? they will not think of getting away with this?
Ash: We only know that Jessie, James and Meowth are too cowardly to get involved in Mufasa's Death.
Mewtwo: I know Bowser, the loyalty of those three have always been to him and Giovanni, despite their Incompetence and it's Long History of Failures.
Mewtwo: He will not leave Loose Ends.

(Scene: Outside Pride Rock after Kion and Kiara's Birth Ceremony)

(as the Quantrons, alongside Kamek, Bowser Jr. and Team Rocket put some of the Hyenas as well Shenzi, Banzai and Ed in Steel Cages to Transport to the Bandora Palace's Dungeons as Punishment, we see Bowser and Mistress Nine with Scar's Lifeless Body and Pure Heart Crystal)

Bowser (to Scar): You got what you deserved Scar, you became Worthless, treacherous. weak...and pathetic. (Shatters the Pure Heart Crystal with his Bare Hands to the Hyenas' Horror)
Bowser: as long as I am alive, as future Grand Monarch of Evil. my plan to bring back my time of glory upon the Earth, the Multiverse and the Galaxy will go on as scheduled.
Mistress Nine: Yes, but you didn't have to shatter the crystal my king. Scar may still prove useful to us, Despite his treacherous Nature.
Bowser: I know but he can only cares about himself. But when the time comes I will bring him back so he can learn about loyalty and obedience with only one Purpose.
Bowser: Chosen Ones or no Chosen Ones.
Meowth: That's the boss for ya. A real genius.

(They got out of the Pridelands)

(Then Rafiki sees it All)

Rafiki: So Zordon was telling the truth, Mufasa. Dark Specter has a Son. I’m very worried, Mufasa. Things are not going well. No.

{Wind blows, rattling Rafiki's gourds.}

Rafiki: Hmm? You have a plan?

{One gourd falls, splitting in half. Rafiki holds up the two halves against the painting of a blue hedgehog and Pooh and Pals, and brings them together until they join.}

Rafiki: Pooh and Pals? And a Blue hedgehog? Together? This is the plan? {yells} Are you crazy? This will never work! Oh, Mufasa, you been up there too long. Your head is in the clouds!

{Wind blows hard at Rafiki)

Rafiki: Okay, okay, okay! Okay! All right-- okay! I don't think this is going to work... but I trust you. I just hope you know what you are doing!

(Camera trucks back, upwards, away from Rafiki.)