Disclaimer: The Show Victorious, its characters and other associated copyrights are property of someone else and not me. I don't own the rights to the the show The Twilight Zone Either.
Somewhere over the rainbow.
Chapter 1 – Life of Illusion
This is a Victorious story adapted by me, from an original episode of the 60's show "The Twilight Zone" Entitled "A world of Difference" written by Richard Matheson
No One's POV
The bell rang and the students in Sikowitz's sat down, wondering where he was. In the center of the stage was one of his coconuts but nothing else. Suddenly a puff of green smoke blew up from the stage and when it dissipated there he was. Though no one saw Sikowitz enter through either the door or the window.
"Hello Children. How are we today?"
He didn't bother to wait for response, before getting down to his lesson about entrances and exits. It was announcement the end of the class everyone was waiting for.
Just before the class ended Sikowitz finally said.
"OK, now what you are waiting for. Who got what part in our production of Wizard of OZ."
Jade, Tori, Andre, Beck and the others in class sat up and paid rapt attention.
"Robbie, you are the Tin Man."
"Andre you are Scarecrow" He announced, causing the youth to smile.
"Cat you are the Glinda Good witch of the North."
"Off with her head" Cat suddenly blurted out rather menacingly, causing the classroom to look at her strangely.
"Very nice, but that was the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland." Sikowitz said looking mildly impressed.
"But I have red hair, I'd be perfect for the part." Cat pointed out, showing off her long red hair which everyone was already painfully aware of.
"Yes you would be if we were putting on Alice in wonderland, but were not so you're Glinda the good Witch of the North." Sikowitz said somewhat sternly.
"Can I still say off with her head?"
"NO" the teacher barked unexpectedly, silencing Cat.
"Beck you are Cowardly Lion" Beck then nodded in approval and sat back in his seat.
He then rattled off several other parts to the kids in the class who strangely never speak
"OK, now down to the final two parts. Dorothy and the Wicked Witch of the east. And our two aspiring actresses. Tori and Jade."
Tori nervously smiled at the Goth who simply glared back. Jade smiled knowing that she would play the Witch and Goody Goody Vega would play Dorothy. Jade love the thought of menacing Vega on stage.
"Tori you are the Wicked Witch of the West and Jade you are Dorothy."
"WHAT!" Jade barked out as she shot out of her chair.
"Yes Jade, you are our sweet loveable Dorothy."
"I can't be sweet and loveable, do I look sweet and loveable to you!" Before anyone could answer Jade pulled out a pair of scissors and waved them around. "Don't any of you dare answer that."
"It's called playing against Type Jade, or would you rather play a munchkin?" There was a tone of finality to his voice.
Jade just sat down sulking for a moment and then glared once again at the now very nervous looking Tori.
As soon as the bell rang, which happened only, a few seconds later Tori couldn't get out of the class room fast enough.
"VEGA!" Tori heard a familiar female voice bark at her, as soon as she exited the room causing her only to run faster.
Tori would have been perfectly happy playing Dorothy and that was the part she auditioned for, but Sikowitz had spoken and she was the witch. It wasn't her fault that he switched and put her in the role that Jade wanted.
Tori managed to barely avoid the Goth the entire rest of the morning. But lunch was soon approaching and she dreaded the thought of facing the Goth.
Lunch had arrived and she had decided to eat lunch in an empty classroom when she ran into beck in the hallway.
"Tori, Where are you going?" He asked.
"To eat lunch, Beck." Tori answered.
"But, the asphalt café is that way." Beck said, pointing in the direction that she wasn't going.
"Yes Beck, but so is Jade. So I'm going this way. Away from her." Tori said letting her nervousness show.
Beck put his hand on her shoulder to calm the Latina. "You're supposed to be the wicked witch for crying out loud. If you can't stand up to Jade now you're going to never be able to pull it off on stage. She's more bark than bite, you can do it."
"You're right. Come on let's go."
Jade on the other hand was in a most foul mood all morning. She spent most of her time grumbling to herself about "That Latina". Even Cat had the good sense to avoid Jade until she cooled down.
She sought out Tori to have words with her, but somehow the Latina skillfully managed to avoid her. That only worsened Jades mood further. Once again Tori had gotten a role that she wanted. It was all about Tori, Jade seemed to think and really hated it. Something about that girl drove her nuts.
Lunch time rolled around and Jade arrived at the asphalt café, got her lunch and sat down. She fully expected Tori to ditch lunch and avoid her once again.
But much to her surprise, a few minutes later Tori walked up to the table talking to Beck. Though they were not going out anymore, Jade never liked Tori talking to Beck. It always brought up this odd kind of jealousy. The thing is, that Tori even rejected his advances before the platinum music awards. Jade wasn't sure why she had a problem with Tori talking to Beck.
"Well Well, look what the Cat dragged in." Jade said with a smirk as Tori sat down looking slightly nervous.
"I didn't drag her in, she walked in." Cat noted, sounding somewhat confused.
"That part was mine Vega! As always you got it, why does everything have to be about you?" Jade said, going on the offensive right away.
Tori looked like she was wavering for a moment, but a subtle nudge by Beck gave her the courage she needed.
A look of determination formed on Tori's face. "You know what Jade, Sikowitz picked the roles not me. Just get out of my face and bitch at him if you have problem. So why don't you stop acting like a fucking baby and perform the role you were given. Cause I'm sick of your bullshit."
For a moment there was dead silence at the table as the last words came out of Tori's mouth. Tori hadn't meant to be so harsh, but the Goth had gotten to her as she normally did and it just all spilled out.
Jade opened her mouth to speak, looking rather shocked. But nothing came out of Jade's red lips. Tori instinctively tensed her muscles up, fully expecting Jade to destroy her on the spot.
Instead Jade, without a single word ran from the lunch table into the school. She very much looked like she was going to cry.
Tori felt guilty for trashing Jade like that and got up to run after her.
"Tori let her go." Beck said, as she ran from table after the Goth. But Tori kept going.
The first tears formed on Jades face as she got in the school. Somehow Tori had punched straight though her defenses and smashed up her insides. Jade had decided to leave for the day and got to her locker when she heard.
"Jade wait!"
Turning around she saw Tori had come up behind her.
"What do you want Vega?" Jade said tearfully, as she opened her locker.
"I'm sorry I said those things Jade. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings." Tori pleaded.
"Well you did so leave me alone." Jade said, as she grabbed he purse and keys from her locker before slamming it shut.
"No Jade I want to talk, I don't want us to…" Tori began to say before Jade cut her off.
"Us to what? Vega. It isn't all about you Tori." Jade said as she moved to the door.
Jade's ears began to ring and felt strangely dizzy as she moved to the door. Jade took another step closer to the door but her whole body seemed to give out and she collapsed to the floor.
"AND CUT!" a male voice somewhere called out rather loudly. A second later Jade heard a bell ring.
Lying on the floor, Jade didn't know what was happening. She suddenly felt fine again and stood up.
The first thing Jade noticed, was Tori standing there no longer looking upset.
"Good take Liz" She said with a smile, before walking off.
Jade looked towards the direction Tori had gone and noticed the entire wall was gone. In its place was a camera, lights, people.
In fact looking around, Jade quickly realized she was on a film set that looked exactly like Hollywood arts. She saw stage lights where the ceiling used to be. Cameras, boom mikes, and all kinds of crew operating the equipment. On a wall off the "Set" was a giant picture of Jade and her friends, below it was a word. It was Victorious.
Before Jade's paralyzed mind could make any sense of it a larger man who looked to be in his 40's with brown hair stood up and pointed to her and said.
"Once again, an excellent performance from Miss Elizabeth Gillies. Let's get set up for the next shot."
Jade was sure she had gone insane. Two thoughts spun around her mind, like a washing machine on a spin cycle.
"Why am I on a film set looking exactly like my high school?"
"And who in fuck is Elizabeth Gillies because my name is Jade west?"
Surprise, Surprise Jade wound up in the real world. What will happen next?
I'm still working on my "You promised me forever" Story and will have the next chapter up in a day or so. I just had this story idea rattling around my mind so I decided to run with it.
It will not be too long.