Karaoke: The Ultimate Unexplained Phenomenon

Chapter 5: Mulder Has Entered the Building

"Karaoke: translated from the Japanese as 'empty orcestra'"

            Frohike came and sat down with Skinner and Scully as Mulder took the stage. Mulder looked down at him and said, "Just watch Frohike, I'll top ya!" He turned his back to audience for a few minutes and when he turned back around he seemed to have gone through a trasformation…into the King. Mulder had removed his tie and jacket and flipped up the collar of his white dress shirt. His hair was more fluffy and sort of slicked backed and he was wearing sunglasses. He looked down at Scully with his best Elvis sneer and said, in his best Elvis voice, "You ready for this, baby?" Scully blushed and smiled.

            Mulder picked up the mike and said, "Hey folks, this song goes out to my gal, Scully!" Someone off stage handed Mulder a guitar and the music started.

            Mulder began to sing, in one of the best Elvis impressions she'd ever heard.

               Lord Almighty,
               I feel my temperature rising
               Higher higher
               It's burning through to my soul
 
               Girl, girl, girl
               You gonna set me on fire
               My brain is flaming
               I don't know which way to go
 
               Your kisses lift me higher
               Like the sweet song of a choir
               You light my morning sky
               With burning love
 
               Ooh, ooh, ooh,
               I feel my temperature rising
               Help me, I'm flaming
               I must be a hundred and nine
               Burning, burning, burning
               And nothing can cool me
               I just might turn into smoke
               But I feel fine
               
               Cause your kisses lift me higher
               Like a sweet song of a choir
               And you light my morning sky
               With burning love
 
               
               It's coming closer
               The flames are reaching my body
               Please won't you help me
               I feel like I'm slipping away
               It's hard to breath
               And my chest is a-heaving
 
               Lord Almighty,
               I'm burning a hole where I lay
               Cause your kisses lift me higher
               Like the sweet song of a choir
               You light my morning sky
               With burning love
               With burning love
               Ah, ah, burning love
               I'm just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
               Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
              Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
             Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
           Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love…"
 
Mulder looked down at Scully and smiled. Scully smiled back. He picked up the mike and said, throught the tremendous applause he was getting, "Ah, thank you, thank you very much. Once more, that one was for my gal Scully." He gave one more Elvis sneer then stepped off stage and sat down with Scully, Skinner and Frohike. Skinner and Frohike were gaping at him, neither of them had expected him to do anything like that. Scully grinned at him at he sat down next to her. 
               "Well, Scully?" He asked, in his normal Mulder voice. 
               "Great, Mulder. You, for lack of a better word, rocked." 
               "Awww…thanks, Scully. You know, it's your turn now…"
               "Oh great…"
 
A/n: It just keeps getting better….much more to come…
 
D/c: Yeah, I don't own the X-Files. The song of course, is "Burning Love" by Elvis Presley.