Part 5
No one really knew how, but Dib, Gaz, Membrane, MiMi, Tak, and Zim were all situated as statues on a large stage. Each statue was dressed in a black sequined unitard with extravagant feather boas and WAAAAAAY too much make-up. The MiMi statue was the first to wake up, whereupon she began singing.
It was great when it all began,
I was a regular Tak fan!
But it was over when she had the plan,
To start working on a muscle-man.
Now the only thing that gives me hope,
Is my love of a certain dope.
Rose tints my world,
Keeps me safe from my trouble and pain!
Zim was the next to wake up, seemingly under some sort of trance.
I'm just seven hours old,
Truly beautiful to behold!
And somebody should be told,
My libido hasn't been controlled!
Now the only thing I've come to trust,
Is an orgasmic rush of lust,
Rose tints my world,
Keeps me safe from my trouble and pain!
Dib awoke next, also hypnotized into believing all these campy sparkles.
It's beyond me,
Help me mommy,
I'll be good, you'll see,
Take this dream away!
What's this, let's see,
I feel sexy!
What's come over me?
Here it comes again!
Gaz was stirred out of petrification, singing along as if it were natural.
I feel released,
Bad times deceased,
My confidence has increased!
Reality is here!
The game has been disbanded,
My mind has been expanded,
It's a gas that Tak has landed!
Her lust is so sincere!
Tak awoke next, center stage, ready to accept any and all applause.
What ever happened to Fay Wray?
That delicate satin draped frame,
As it clung to her thigh,
How I started to cry,
'Cause I wanted to be dressed just the same!
Give yourself over to absolute pleasure,
Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh!
Erotic nightmares beyond any measure,
And sensual daydreams to treasure forever!
Can't you just see it?
Don't dream it, be it!
Don't dream it, be it!
Don't dream it, be it!
Don't dream it, be it!
Don't dream it, be it!
Don't dream it, be it!
Membrane was the last to wake up. He was fighting the hypnotism.
We've got to get out of this trap.
Before this decadence saps our wills!
I've got to be strong,
And try to hang on,
Or else my mind may well snap!
And my life will be lived,
For the thrills!
Dib: It's beyond me,
Help me mommy!
Gaz: God Bless Lilli St. Cyr!
Tak: My my my my my my my my my my my my my my!
I'm a wild and an untamed thing!
I'm a bee with a deadly sting!
Get a hit and your mind goes ping!
Your heart'll thump and your blood will sing!
So let the party and the sounds rock on!
Gonna shake it 'till the life is gone!
Rose tint my world,
Keep me safe from my trouble and pain!
We're wild and an untamed things!
We're bees with a deadly sting!
Get a hit and your mind goes ping!
Your heart'll thump and your blood will sing!
So let the party and the sounds rock on!
Gonna shake it 'till the life is gone!
Rose tint my world,
Keep me safe from my trouble and pain!
During the chorus, Red and Purple began to walk down towards the stage. They had changed from their servant uniforms, and were instead wearing dress-like armor color-coded to their names.
We're wild and an untamed things!
We're bees with a deadly sting!
Get a hit and your mind goes ping!
Your heart'll thump and your blood will sing!
So let the party and the sounds rock on!
Gonna shake it 'till the life is gone, gone, gone!
Rose tint my world,
Keep me safe from my trouble and pain!
Purple: Frankenfurter!
It's all over!
Your mission is a failure!
Your life style's too extreme!
I'm your new commander,
You are now my prisoner,
We return to Transylvania,
Prepare the transit beam!
"Wait, we're going back to Irk?" Tak asked the taller males.
"Told 'ja." Gaz bumped her brother in the arm, not really feeling like she should rub this in, but still teasing out of habit. "Wait, is Zim leaving too?" She clutched at her alien lover's chest, not wanting to let him go.
"Zim will remain here. It is obvious that he has been exiled. We are going back to our home planet of Irk, in the galaxy Transylvania. But-"Purple started to explain. He was cut off by Tak's babbling.
"We're going back? We're going…home?" Her monochromatic eyes filled with tears, which slid down her painted face. For some reason, she started singing.
From the day I went away,
(Goodbye) Was all I had to say,
(Now I) I want to come again,
And stay. (Oh my),
Smile, and that will mean I'm there,
'Cause I've seen,
Blue Skies
Through the tears,
In my eyes,
And I realize,
I'm going home!
(I'm going home!)
Everywhere, it's been the same,
Like I'm outside, in the rain,
Free from trying to find the game,
Cards for sorrow, cards for pain,
'Cause I've seen,
Blue Skies
Through the tears,
In my eyes,
And I realize,
I'm going home!
I'm going home!
I'm going home!
I'm going home!
Tak managed to hold that money note for well over thirty seconds. Red gave her a pissed glare and cleared his throat.
"What I was saying," Purple continued, "was that you were not meant to come, Frankenfurter. You were meant to remain here, in spirit form." He pointed a tri-pointed gun at her head.
"Tak!" came the high-pitched, robotic cry from the aisles. "You little bitch!" MiMi cried. "You traded Red and Purple for me, then me for Zim, and now you're trading Zim for Dib! Well, I'm not going to let you break another- AIEEEEEE!" Purple swung his gun arm around and, without aiming, shot the android in the heart with a pink laser beam. Her eyes went grey, and she fell to the floor with a heart-dropping hollow sound.
"Good. I wanted to get rid of that robot the day it showed up." Red muttered.
"Now, as for you…" Purple swung the gun back to its original position under Tak's chin. She turned and ran, that being the only logical course of action. Purple fired the laser, which landed in the center of her back. Tak's body landed at Dib's feet.
Dib bent over her body. Tears were clearly filling his eyes. He lifted the lifeless body to his shoulders, turned around, and started climbing the radio tower prop. Purple slowly moved his arm up to where Dib was climbing. To give him credit, it took a few shots to take Dib down. The flat toppled over, throwing Dib and Tak, now just a pair of corpses, into a pool that no one realized was there. "You killed him! You really killed him!" Gaz yelled in astonishment.
"This castle is going to be beamed back to the Massive. I suggest you leave." Red pointed toward the door. "NOW." Zim, Gaz, and Membrane quickly shuffled out, leaving the bodies of Dib and Tak to be dealt with by the residence.
The remaining trio just managed to exit the castle grounds before the whole thing simply lifted off from the ground. Smoke filled the vast crater the building used to occupy, flooding over the confused survivors.
I've done a lot.
God knows I've tried.
To find the truth,
I've even lied!
But all I know,
Is down inside I'm
Bleeding.
And Superheroes
Come to fist
To taste the flesh
Not yet assist,
And all I know
Is still the beast is
Feeding.
And crawling across the planet's face,
Some insects, called the human race,
Lost in time, and lost in space.
And meaning.