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TV hums to life.
Strobe lights streak across a darkened auditorium. Camera pulls back to a full shot, reporters Hope McCoy and Roger Gibson come into view.
HM: Welcome to the After Dark events from New Cirra Olympic Village!
RG: : Tonight, we have something special. The Danceathon has been much anticipated, and if the crowd gathered outside the Callistoplex Auditorium is any hint to the palpable energy focused on the athelets, we better hold on cause there is going to be one heck of a show.
HM: (Looks at Roger as if for the first time, man that wasn't half bad.)
The dancers take their places on the floor. All players from each team are assembled, standing under electric stars and pulsing tones, the DJ, (a clone designed from our very own Wesser labs) announces that the next event will begin.
Warriors are dressed in their best Club Kids garb, the wild colors contrast starkly with the all black goth look of Basically Bards.
Team Medical, however just came from a GWAR concert except for Trancer, who looked like she fit in more with team Callisto, who, except for Callisto, (who never changes her style of clothing) were dressed for bed. It seems that they had forgotten that the event was tonight.
Matt longed for a cigarette. He didn't smoke anymore, but it is just too hard to look "like a badass" when you're wearing red argyle socks and a red/green/grey plaid sleep shirt; the kind you'd wear if you were cast in a Dickens novel. Melissa leaned up against her twin, barely awake. Sherry, with pen in hand was busy scribbling down what people wear to bed. Excluding her own ratted sweatpants and a Garfield (TM) t-shirt with an old taco sauce stain on it and 1stFire's boxers and MYST shirt. But, always one to try and look presentable, 1stFire tucked in her shirt.
The DJ opens up the mic. As a present to callisto,Wesser had the clone to be an exact replica of her favorite person inthe world, Pat Sajack!
When the first few notes of ABBA's "Take a Chance On Me" starts, Trancer and Matt are the early favorites for the simple reason that they both have expierience with disco and soundtrack pants.
There are a few members of Team Medical who look rather befuddled in the music choice and leave the auditorium. Most of Team Outlaws, having being yanked from different timelines are waylayed by teh bopping throngs of dancers and are ejected from the competition for not "being able to hang" as Paat Sajak (clone spelling) said.
But, then the song switches to "Time Warp" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, most of the scoring points points go to Law Religion and Red lights cause they are dressed as the cast. Most inspired costume was Saber's "Magenta" costume. They didn't know what song was gonna play, they just showed up to the event in "casual wear." Some dancers fall out during this sequence.
Next, due to the lack of foresight on behalf of the DJ, "Wish", by Nine Inch Nails is played, erupting the dance floor into a massive mosh pit.
Well, needless to say, Callisto was "Keeping it Real in '97" and several dancers were rushed to the emergency ward and three spectators wind up in intensive care, including one Helen Sherman a Cleveland housewife and a mother.
Paat Sajak, then trusting his natural DJ instincts needed to tone down the music, but geez, you can't go from a 7 to a 3 (radio jargon), so he spun "Human Being" by The New York Dolls.
Well, you can't play early 80's punk and hold our girl Melissa back! Sh erupts into a frenzy of blurred movent and primal screams. She wows the judges, teeth chips embedded in her knuckles from the mosh sequence catches the lights just so, making it one of the more impressive shows of the competition.
Well, then things slowed down as the Divynls "I touch myself" began to play. Michael Rudy's interpretive dance was a show stealer! It was one of the most devastating parts of the event. So many people had stopped to see the guy bug, that they were eliminated in groups of thre or four at a time.
Well, not having been properly filled in by the boys at the lab, all hell breaks loose when "Listen like Theives" by INXS begins to play. Now it's a 3 way dogfight between Griller, Callisto and Matt, who has to bow out due to a strained right thing.
Joy Division's "From Safety to Where" is a palette cleanser, which leads us up to "Vogue".
Who knew Shanya could vogue? It's a dead heat between Melissa, Michael and Brant. In a devastating-yet-inspired move Melissa's "Vogue" begins to lean more towards the "trapped in a glass box" (there is some conspiracy theorists who say that GC really did have you in a glass box cause she showed Callisto up and made the Goddess bow out during the punk number -- Melissa actually threw a speaker at her).
Michael, mixing interpretive dance AND vogueing was definately in the lead untill Brant amazed everyone with his breakdancing skills.
HM: Wow, Roger, that was one amazing display of grace on behalf of the dancers, don't you think?
Roger is oddly quiet for a few seconds.
RG: : My sources tell me that Michael Rudy, Silver Medal Winner had actually taken a few interpretive dance lessons from Wesser. Like the 1984 Team USA "do-you-believe-in-miracles?" Hocky squad who played on rented skates. Ach! Brings a tear to my eyes now, and I din'na cry when they hung me own father for stealing a pig, but I'll cry now!
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