In order for the Great Allie to get back into practice with the Super Papes vibe, I tried a little experament: I took 3 songs that reminded me of Bleck and Tippi, and used the dialogue of the game to mix with the song as if it was some sort of musical. I'm still not sure how I feel about them in general, but it was a lot of fun. I'm thinking of knocking out more of these for the heck of it! But not before I finally finish Travels with Bleck... I realized the plot made no sense, and I fixed it, and it's... it's just plain bad. But I think it's good... Anyway, here we go.

Song 1 "Somewhere Out There"
from "An American Tail," released 1986
music and lyrics by James Horner
new lyrics rewritten by the Great Allie


It was late at night, but there was no rest for the wicked, especially not ones that sought to bring destruction to every world in existence. That's why Count Bleck was standing in the meeting hall, listening to Nastasia's latest report. Well, he was mostly listening.

"Yeah, so just a quick ping from Dimentio? We've had a little insubordination."

"This worthless world's destruction matters not! Far better for Count Bleck to wipe it out of existence than let it remain!"

"How can you say that? That's... horrible!"

"Yeah, according to his report, our Mr. L took on a hero-fighting initiative..."

"All things have a heart. They're all priceless. You can't just... erase them!"

"Of all things, you defend the heart? Nothing could be more worthless... All things are meaningless... aside from Timpani, no treasure mattered in the least to me..."

"I accept full responsibility," said Nastasia in the present. "It was my administrative breakdown that allowed this..."

" ...Tim...Timpani?"

"I see, remarked Count Bleck. Well, what's done is done. This prophecy will not be fulfilled without sacrifice."

Count Bleck seemed to shrug the news off easily, yet there was not a hint of aloofness in his voice. It was hard to get a bead on what he was feeling. Nastasia, slightly concerned, went back to her report. "So, 'K... um, and just another quick update on Mimi... Yeah... she, um, also left the castle."

"Did she now?" Count Bleck was staring off to the side, clearly not focusing on anything in the hall at the moment. It was a wonder he was still a part of this conversation. "Well, Count Bleck will leave you to dispense the minion discipline."

As his personal assistant and devoted follower, Nastasia decided it was in her place to raise the question. "Count?... Um, you seem... a bit different today. New monocle? Or did something happen?"

"Count Bleck feels fine," said Count Bleck, and although his voice sounded all right, his face was still empty. "Leave me."

"Oh, um, of course, yeah... Please excuse me." Nastasia took her leave, leaving Count Bleck alone with this thoughts, which were more than enough.

"Could that Pixl have been... Timpani?" he thought. He shook his head to clear away that ridiculous notion, and answered himself out loud. "No, no. Completely impossible. I should know better than anyone."

"She no longer resides in this world... This is the price those who resist their own fate must pay, my son."

"And besides, it's far too late to do anything now. The prophecy is in motion, and no one

"Blumiere, don't! Even your ancestors could not handle that dark book!"

"The first prophecy beckons! I will erase every inch of this world!"

not even I, can stop it. No one can stop this now...

"What have you done!"

"I am Count Bleck! And no one shall stand in my way!


Tippi didn't want the memories. She'd waited so long to get them back and now that she had them, she didn't want them. Not if they came with the pain and grief that she felt just now. It was easy to help Mario on his mission to defeat the Evil Count Bleck. It was easy to destroy the man who wanted to do nothing but spread destruction and end entire worlds. It was a far, far harder thing to do the same to the man she loved.

"Count Bleck scoffs at you! An insignificant Pixl lectures Count Bleck on what is right and wrong?"

But he isn't the man you love. Not anymore. He's become twisted, and evil.

"This is not up for discussion! You're wrong... and sick!"

I must fight, Tippi thought. For the fate of all the worlds, I must fight we have to defeat him. The power of the pure hearts can destroy all evil... they can assure a future filled with love.

"All things have a heart. They're all priceless. You can't just... erase them!"

"Of all things, you defend the heart? Nothing could be more worthless... All things are meaningless... aside from Timpani, no treasure mattered in the least to me..."

Nothing else mattered... but does it still matter?


Far away, in the courtyard of Castle Bleck, Count Bleck lowered his hat. He could not lie to himself. He could not stop that wishful thought that had been in the back of his mind.

All he did was raise his head, look out through the vast nothingness of the void, and pour out his heart.

Somewhere out there, beneath a void-stained sky
Someone's thinking of me, and sadly wonders why

Tippi shivered to think of her beloved that way

Somewhere out there, someone deep in his lair
Is wishing that I'll find him in that big somewhere out there

And though I know the distance in between us is so vast
It helps to think he may remember our loving past

And Count Bleck wrapped his nonexistent arms around himself and imagined that, for one more time, he could hold the woman he loved close to him and erase all he'd done

And when the blackness stretches out and seems so very wide
It helps to know they all are fighting hard to stop my side

And one of them, or perhaps both of them, said the same prayer before going to sleep that night, that same heartfelt prayer full of pain and longing, and most of all love

Somewhere out there, if love can see us through
Then we'll be together, somewhere out there
Where our love's still true