The Auto King

Disaster strikes

The next day, Megatron had now taken lilly to a large canyon for something he calls as a ''big surprise''. The cloud shadows looms across the landscape under the burning sun. Deep inside the gorge, megatron and lilly near a rock under a small tree. Things are going perfectly for megatron. So far, nothing went wrong. He has managed to drag lilly all the way out here. And they are all alone, and soon, lilly will be the only one. "Now you wait here. Your father has a marvelous surprise for you" said megatron. Lillywas already excited about it. "Oooh. What is it?" asked lilly.

"If I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise, now would it?" said megatron.

"If you tell me, I'll still act surprised" said lilly.

"Ho ho ho. You are such a naughty girl" chuckled megatron.

"Come on, Uncle megatron" said lilly.

"No-no-no-no-no-no-no. This is just for you and your daddy. You know, a sort of... father-daughter... thing" said megatron with a dismissive attitude. Through lilly's expression, she resents megatron's dismissive attitude, but soon shrugs it off. "Well! I'd better go get him" said megatron and starts to walk off.

"I'll go with you" said lilly.

"No!" said megatron turning back at her with a loud, snapping tone. Then he realizes what he's doing and regains composure. "Heh, heh, heh. No. Just stay on this rock. You wouldn't want to end up in another mess like you did with the hyenas..." said megatron as he nudges her up the rock. Lilly was then shocked when megatron mentioned the incident with the hyenas. How did he know that? "You know about that?" asked lilly feeling shocked.

"Lilly, everybody knows about that" said megatron.

"Really?" said lilly feeling meeked and embarrassed.

"Oh, yes. Lucky Daddy was there to save you, eh?" said megatron who is clearly enjoying himself. Then he brings himself close to lilly and said "Oh... and just between us, you might want to work on that little roar of yours. Hmm?".

"Oh... Okay..." said lilly. Megatron nudges her and starts to walk away. "Hey, Uncle megatron, will I like the surprise?" asked lilly. Megatron stops for a moment, then he turns his head back with a smile and said "lilly, it's to DIE for". Then he finally walks away, leaving lilly all alone.

Unaware of what's actually going to happen next, lilly just stayed there minding her own business. Lilly then paces back and forth on the rock waiting for the surprise to come. And she wondered what kind of surprise it is. Farther away in the canyon, there was a very large herd of zebras grazing on some grass in the gorge. Males were on watch as the foals were playing around by chasing each other. As the herd grazed, they were unaware that a group of savage hyenas were hiding in the shadows waiting for a signal from megatron. With the group are the same hyenas from yesterday, nightbird, rumble, and frenzy. The three hyenas were waiting off the edge of the herd, hidden under a rock arch. They tried to be quiet, but rumble's stomach was growling so loud that the zebras herd could hear him. "Shut up" whispered nightbird.

"I can't help it. I'm so hungry..." whispered rumble. Then he jumps up and whispered "I gotta have a zebra!".

"Stay put" whispered nightbird.

"Well... can't I just pick off one of the little sick ones?" whispered rumble.

"No! We wait for the signal from megatron" whispered nightbird. Then they see megatron walking to a top of a large rock high above in view of the hyenas. He looks down at them with a slight nod. "Let's go" said nightbird making an evil, almost humorous face.

Back to where lilly was left alone, she is now lying on the rock, thinking about what megatron said about her little roar. Lilly felt somewhat annoyed that her roar was little. Lilly knows she can make a perfect roar. If she roars at a predator, she knows she can chase it off. "Little roar. Puh!" said lilly to herself. Then, she sees a chameleon walking pass her very slowly at a time. Then lilly thought of something. What if she can scare this lizard? She follows it and growls at it. The lizard has no reaction to this first attempt. In fact, it just walked by like lilly wasn't there. Lilly then jumps at it and tries again. She roars, louder than before. But the lizard still has no reaction to her roar. For the third attempt, lilly moves closer again and inhales deeply, then roars, very loudly. That roar startles the lizard and it skitters away. Lilly 's roar echoes throughout the canyon, loud enough that even the whole valley can hear it. Lilly listens in on the echo, kind of glad that she was able to make a loud roar. The echo is soon eclipsed, however, by a low rumble. Lilly then hears the rumble coming from somewhere. Then she feels the ground shaking at her feet. She looks down and sees the pebbles jumping by the rumble. Then lilly hears the rumble getting louder by a second. Then she sees a large dust cloud coming from the end of the canyon. Then she sees the large herd of zebras coming right at her, which we begin to see the terrified look on lilly's face. Without thinking anything else, lilly takes off in front of the stampeding herd. As more keeping coming out, at the back end, we see the savage hyenas, including the same three hyenas, chasing after the herd, nipping at their heels to get them running. Then they stopped and watched the herd runs off. At the same time it happened, optimus and prowl were patroling the area when prowl sees something in the distance. They were only a short distance away from the canyon when prowl sees a large dust cloud coming out of the canyon. And prowl did remember that a herd of zebras were in there earlier. "Oh look, sire. The zebras herd is on the move" said prowl. "Odd..." said optimus who notices it as well. He thinks it's quite strange for the herd to act like this. Then megatron appears running up to them, but pretending to be out of breath and in a state of panic. "Optimus. Quick. Stampede. In the gorge. Lilly's down there!" said megatron.