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Ares was walking around the Halls of war impatiently. He looked outside and saw the remains of a once glorious army as he waited. "I can't stand this any longer." He said to himself, "Hecate where are you?" Suddenly a woman appeared in front of him. She was wearing a long black dress and had long, black, beautiful, wavy hair. "Ares don't get impatient with me these things take time." Hecate said sternly. "How long can it take to say a quick poem?" "It's no a poem it's a spell, and I didn't just have to say it I had to write it." "But you know that this will work. This is the big one, with it the Greek Gods will rule over man once again." "I realise that Ares and you know how much I want this, we all want it, but I had to get it just perfect." "Well is it ready or not." "It's ready." Hecate said softly while making a green gem appear from nowhere. "You did it, you repaired the gem of the fates." Ares said smiling. "I don't know why you didn't just think of this before Xena smashed it." Hecate said sarcastically. "It's taken the best part of a year to get this right." "Now we truly can rule once again. When I use this to go into the future I will bring back the best weapon I can find. How far forward do you think I should go?" "Try 2000 years, but if they don't have anything then just come back and try again even further in the future. There must be a weapon, some weapon better then anything even the Gods could imagine we just have to find it." "Sir, it is time for you to go on stage." A large bodyguard said to man sat in a black, leather chair looking nervous. "I don't think I can do it, I mean I haven't sung like this in a long time. People might hate me." "Sir, I am sure they wont." "Well we'll see." The man got up and was taken to the side of the stage still out of sight behind a black curtain he waited patiently as he was introduced. "Ares, you know what to do, now go." Hecate said to Ares who was still in the halls of war. "OK, this is it I will see you soon." Ares said and disappeared. "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is what you have all been waiting for." A voice boomed through a huge stereo. "Wish me luck." The man behind the curtain shouted over the noise of the crowd. "I am proud to introduce you to the one, the only Mr Michael Jackson!!!" The man walked out of the curtain to the centre stage, as he did so the excited crowd let out a tremendous cheer. Different coloured lights were turned on randomly all over the huge arena making the crowd cheer even more. Click here to download music Then the music started up and the previously nervous man gained his confidence and began to sing. "Here come ol' flat top, he come groovin' up slowly, he's got Joo Joo eyeball." Suddenly Ares came on to the stage in a blue light, "What the…where the hell am I." He shouted. Security guards started running over to him to get the man off the stage while Michael Jackson kept singing, "He one holy roller, he got hair down to his knees. Got to be a joker he just do what he please" "I'm getting out of her." Ares said and disappeared back to Ancient Greece. Ares opened his eyes, he was back in the Halls of War. "How did it go?" Hecate asked excitedly. "Not well, I think we need to go further forward in time." Ares said still shocked. Slowly Michael Jackson opened his eyes, he looked around and saw he was in a market place. "How did I get here?" He asked himself dazed. Suddenly two women and a man came running over to him. "Are you OK?" Asked the shorter women, with short blonde hair, "My name is Gabrielle, this is Xena and that's Joxer. You looked ill are you alright?" "I…where am I?" Michael asked. "Greece." Xena replied. "Greece, I don't understand I was singing at a concert, then a man just appeared on stage the next thing I knew I was here." "Ares." Xena said suspiciously. "It has to be." Gabrielle added. "Ares? Who's Ares?" Michael asked. "The God of War." Gabrielle said confused. "Ha, like Greek Mythology God of war?" Michel laughed. "Hey mister, he may not be your chosen god but we happen to have met him. I'm getting fed up of these non believers, you know it's because of people like you Ares is winning this war." Xena said. "Winning this war, what…what year is this?" "Year?" Gabrielle said even more confused. "Yeah, what place in time?" Michael asked. "Um…well the Roman emperor is Nero, the festival of the God…" "Wait," Michael interrupted. "Roman Emperor. I knew it I'm in ancient Greece aren't I. And you are Xena and Gabrielle from the TV program. I don't believe it." "Your from the future?" Gabrielle asked. "The gem of the fates, Ares must have put it back together." Xena realised Suddenly Ares appeared in front of them. "Did someone call my name?" "Ares, what the Hell have you done, how did this man get here." Ares turned around and saw Michael Jackson, "You're the guy who was singing, how did you get here?" "Ares why were you in the future?" Xena asked "I am going to beat you Xena. I'm going to get a weapon and get all the world to be to afraid not to worship me." "Hey I don't mean to be rude, but I have a really important concert I'm suppose to be at." Michael interrupted. "Ares take him back." "I'd love to Xena, really I would, but I can't." "Why not?" "You see there was a bit of an accident with the gem. It hadn't been repaired properly and wasn't suppose to have to take two people." "You mean it's broken." "Yeah, Hecate's working on it now, but it doesn't look like she will repair it for a while." Ares looked up into the air as if he could hear something. "Love to chat but I've got to go." He said and disappeared. "Well at least we don't have to worry about him going to the future for a while." Xena said. "But I don't know what to do about you." "I do." Gabrielle interrupted, "Well since you're here we need your help. Ares is trying to take rule over mortals, but last time he was in charge he was so cruel that mortals got rid of him. We need to make him lose his power again, but we aren't winning. Now the few who were prepared to fight wont because they are to scared they will lose." "So what do you want me to do?" Michael asked. "Do you know anything from the future, anything at all that will help? A weapon, a tactic anything to boost peoples moral, we need more fighters if we are going to stop the Gods." "Actually, I have just the thing." Michael replied, "Get as many people as you can back here. Joxer stay here, I need your help. You two can go get the people." Michael said to Xena and Gabrielle. "Are you sure you want Joxer's help I mean he's a little…" "Gabrielle, I have seen the episodes, I know what Joxer's like. He's perfect for this." "Episodes?" A few hours later Xena and Gabrielle returned to the market place with many people from the nearby villages. When they saw Michael he was having a deep conversation with Joxer. "Are you ready?" Xena asked. "Yeah, come on Joxer, the crowd awaits." Gabrielle and Xena watched Michael led Joxer to the front of the crowd so they were facing them. "What's that in Joxer's hand?" Gabrielle asked. "I don't know it looks like a lyre." The crowd went silent and watched in anticipation of the weapon they were about to be shown. Click here to download music Michael and Joxer started clamping their hands in a certain rhythm. "Um…Xena what's he doing." Gabrielle asked. "Let's get him back here now." Xena replied. "Wait, give him a chance." Suddenly Michael started singing, "Skinhead, dead head, everybody, gone bad, situation, aggravation, everybody, allegation, in the suite, on the news, everybody, dog food, bang bang, shock dead, everybody's, gone mad.All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us, all I wanna say is that they don't really care about us. Beat me, hate me, you can never break me, will me, thrill me, you can never kill me. Chew me, sue me everybody do me. Kick me, kike me don't you black or white me. All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us. All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us. Tell me what has become of my life. I have a wife and two children who love me. I am the victim of police brutality, now. I'm tired of bein' the victim of hate. You're rapin' me of my pride oh for God's sake. I look to heaven to fulfil its prophecy. Set me free. Skinhead, dead head, everybody, gone bad, trepidation, speculation, everybody, allegation. In the suite, on the news, everybody, dog food, black man, black mail, throw the brother in jail. All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us. All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us." "It's not bad." Xena Smiled. "Tell me what has become of my rights, am I invisible 'cause you ignore me? Your proclamation promised me free liberty, now. I'm tired of bein' the victim of shame. They're throwin' me in a class with a bad name. I can't believe this is the land from which I came. You know I really do hate to say it the government don't wanna see but if Roosevelt was livin', he wouldn't let this be, no no." Xena and Gabrielle watched as the crowd started to clap to Joxer's and Michael's beat. "Skinhead, deadhead, everybody gone bad, situation, speculation, everybody lilligation. Beat me, bash me you can never trash me. Hick me, kick me you can never get me." Suddenly the crowd started singing with Michael, "All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us. All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us." Then the crowd stopped and listened to Joxer's lyre solo. Until Michael started singing again. "Some things in life they just don't wanna see. But if Martin Luther was livin' he wouldn't let this be, no no. Skinhead, deadhead, everybody's, gone bad. Situation, segregation, everybody, allegation. In the suite, on the news, everybody, dog food. Kick me, kike me, don't you wrong or right me." And then again the crowd started singing the chorus: "All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us." Michael: "With deep in the fire" Crowd: "All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us." Michael: "Until you remind new" Crowd: "All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us" Michael: "Don't you slip back, that sucks, stupid it" Crowd and Michael: "All I wanna say is that they don't really care about…All I wanna say is that they don't really care about….All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us." The crowd let out a huge cheer and Joxer and Michael walk back over to Xena and Gabrielle. "Well it may not be a weapon," Gabrielle started, "but it sure has got peoples moral up enough to see this war through." "Well done Michael!" Xena said pleased. "Hehehe, did you see the way I played the lyre, I mean that was legendary." "Well Joxer it sure beats the Tartarus out of your Joxer the Mighty song." Gabrielle joked. "Hey!" Joxer replied angrily. Then Ares and Hecate appeared in front of them, "You never leave it alone do you Xena. Well if it's a war with words you want it's a war you've got." Ares raised his hand and threw an energy bolt at Michael. It didn't hurt him at all but make him shake rapidly. "Now then you little worm follow me." Ares said to Joxer and went over to the front of the crowd. Again he shot an energy bolt out of his hand this time though it hit Joxer. Joxer quickly picked up his lyre and started to play it. Click here to download music The crowd watched and waited for what Ares was going to do next. Then suddenly he made his move and started singing "Your butt is mine, gonna tell you right, just show your face, in broad daylight. I'm telling you, on how I feel, gonna hurt your mind, don't shoot to kill. Come on, come on, lay it on me, all right..." "He must have taken one of my songs from me with the energy bolt" Michael shouted over Ares's voice. But Ares started singing again, this time even louder, "I'm giving you, on count of three, to show your stuff, or let it be. I'm telling you, just watch your mouth, I know your game, what you're about. Well they say the sky's the limit, and to me that's really true, but my friend you have seen nothin', just wait 'til I get through. Because I'm bad, I'm bad-come on." Hecate walked to the front of the crowd and join in with Ares. "Bad bad-really, really bad" Ares: "You know I'm bad, I'm bad-you know it." Hecate: "Bad bad-really, really bad" Ares: "You know I'm bad, I'm bad-come on, you know" Hecate: "Bad bad-really, really bad" Hecate and Ares: "And the whole world has to answer right now just to tell you once again, who's bad." Hecate stopped singing and started to dance to Ares's song, "The word is out, you're doin' wrong, gonna lock you up, before too long. Your lyin' eyes, gonna tell you right, so listen up, don't make a fight. Your talk is cheap, you're not a man, you're throwin' stones, to hide your hands. But they say the sky's the limit, and to me that's really true, and my friends you have seen nothin', Just wait 'til I get through. Because I'm bad, I'm bad-come on" Hecate: "Bad bad - really, really bad" Ares: "You know I'm bad, I'm bad-you know it" Hecate: "Bad bad - really, really bad" Ares: "You know I'm bad, I'm bad-you know it, you know" Hecate: "Bad bad - really, really bad" Ares and Hecate: "And the whole world has to answer right now, just to tell you once again, who's bad." Ares: "We can change the world tomorrow, this could be a better place, if you don't like what I'm sayin', then won't you slap my face. Because I'm bad, I'm bad-come on." Hecate: "Bad bad - really, really bad" Ares: "You know I'm bad, I'm bad-you know it" Hecate: "Bad bad - really, really bad" Ares: "You know I'm bad, I'm bad-you know it, you know" Hecate: "Bad bad - really, really bad" Hecate and Ares: "And the whole world has to answer right now, just to tell you once again." Ares: "You know I'm bad, I'm bad-come on Hecate: "Bad bad - really, really bad" Ares: "You know I'm bad, I'm bad-you know it, you know" Hecate: "Bad bad - really, really bad" Ares: "You know, you know, you know-come on" Hecate: "Bad bad - really, really bad" Hecate and Ares: "And the whole world has to answer right now, just to tell you." Ares: "You know I'm smooth-I'm bad-you know" Hecate: "Bad bad-really, really bad" Ares: "You know I'm bad-I'm bad baby" Hecate: "Bad bad-really, really bad" Ares: "You know, you know, you know it-come on" Hecate: "Bad bad-really, really bad" Ares and Hecate: "And the whole world has to answer right now, just to tell you once again" Ares: "You know I'm bad, I'm bad-you know it" Hecate: "Bad bad-really, really bad" Ares: "You know I'm bad-you know-hoo!" Hecate: "Bad bad-really, really bad" Ares: "You know I'm bad-I'm bad-you know it, you know" Hecate: "Bad bad-really, really bad" Hecate and Ares: "And the whole world has to answer right now, just to tell you once again." Ares: "Who's bad?" Xena and Gabrielle watched slightly as the crowd started to leave, discouraged by Ares's song. Slowly Ares and Hecate started to walk over to Xena, Gabrielle and Michael. "So Xena, try and win this war now." Ares laughed. "Ares!!!" An unseen man shouted. Suddenly a winged man appeared in front of them. "Cupid?" Xena said surprised. "Cupid!!!" Michael said even more shocked then Xena. "What do you want?" Hecate asked "You two are wrong, you can't fight against good using music." Cupid warned "Well it seems to be doing a good job to me." Ares replied pleased with himself. Suddenly Aphrodite appeared from nowhere. "By using music to fight good your corrupting what is good and that's going to far." Cupid continued "What are you on about?" Ares whinged. "I refuse to help you any longer." Cupid said sternly. "Cupid, what are you doing. We agreed, all of us that we need to be worshipped through out Greece." Aphrodite explained. "Aphrodite, you're usually on the side of good." Gabrielle said surprised. "Gabrielle, I have had ten visitors to my main temple this week, ten! Soon we will be forgotten completely like all the other gods before us. I don't want to see that happen." "Fine." Cupid said angrily. He walked up to Michael Jackson and put his hand on Michael's shoulder then walked to the front of the crowd, "If you wont help me I'll do this on my own." "What's he going to do shoot me in the butt with one of his arrows." Ares sniggered to Hecate. Cupid clicked his fingers and made Joxer, and his lyre, appear next to him in front of the crowd. Then he clicked his fingers again and Joxer started playing. Click here to download music Then Cupid started to sing, "I'm gonna make a change, for once in my life. It's gonna feel real good, gonna make a difference. Gonna make it right. As I, turn up the collar on my favourite winter coat, this wind is blowin' my mind. I see the kids in the street, with not enough to eat, who am I, to be blind? Pretending not to see their needs. A summer's disregard, a broken bottle top, and a one man's soul. They follow each other on the wind ya' know. 'Cause they got nowhere to go, that's why I want you to know. I'm starting with the man in the mirror, I'm asking him to change his ways. And no message could have been any clearer, if you wanna make the world a better place take a look at yourself, and then make a change. Na na na, na na na, na na, na nah." Cupid looked over to Aphrodite and continued singing, "I've been a victim of a selfish kind of love, it's time that I realize. That there are some with no home, not a nickel to loan, could it be really me, pretending that they're not alone? A willow deeply scarred, somebody's broken heart and a washed-out dream. They follow the pattern of the wind, ya' see, cause they got no place to be, that's why I'm starting with me. I'm starting with the man in the mirror. I'm asking him to change his ways and no message could have been any clearer, if you wanna make the world a better place take a look at yourself and then make a change. I'm starting with the man in the mirror, I'm asking him to change his ways, and no message could've been any clearer. If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and then make that..." Suddenly Aphrodite came running over to Cupid and joined in. Aphrodite and Cupid: "Change!" Cupid: "I'm starting with the man in the mirror" Aphrodite: "Man in the mirror-Oh yeah!" Cupid: "I'm asking him to change his ways" Aphrodite: "Better change!" Cupid: "No message could have been any clearer" Cupid and Aphrodite: "If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and then make the change. You gotta get it right, while you got the time, 'cause when you close your heart you can't close your... your mind!" Cupid: "That man, that man, that man, that man with that man in the mirror" Aphrodite: "Man in the mirror, oh yeah!" Cupid: "That man, that man, that man I'm asking him to change his ways" Aphrodite: "Better change! You know... That man" Cupid: "No message could have been any clearer." Aphrodite and Cupid: "If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and then make a change." Michael run over to Cupid and Aphrodite and sings, "Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!" Cupid: "Na na na, na na na, na na, na nah Gonna feel real good now!" Michael: "Yeah yeah! Yeah yeah! Yeah yeah!" Cupid: "Na na na, na na na, na na, na nah Ooooh, oh no, no no. I'm gonna make a change, it's gonna feel real good! Come on!" Aphrodite: "Change!" Cupid: "Just lift yourself, you know. You've got to stop it. Yourself!" Aphrodite: "Yeah!-Make that change!" Cupid: "I've got to make that change, today!" Michael: "Hoo!" Aphrodite: "Man in the mirror" Cupid: "You got to, you got to not let yourself, brother..." Michael: "Hoo!" Aphrodite: "Yeah!-Make that change!" Cupid: "You know-I've got to get that man, that man." Aphrodite: "Man in the mirror" Cupid: "You've got to…You've got to move! Come on! Come on! You got to...Stand up! Stand up! Stand up!" Aphrodite: "Yeah-Make That Change" Cupid: "Stand up and lift yourself, now!" Aphrodite: "Man in the mirror" Michael: "Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Aaow!" Aphrodite: "Yeah-Make that change" Cupid: "Gonna make that change... come on!" Aphrodite: "Man in the mirror" Cupid: "You know it! You know it! You know it! You know... Aphrodite and Michael: "Change..." Cupid: "Make that change" Suddenly the crowd let out a huge roar of excitement. Cupid, Michael, Aphrodite and Joxer walked over to Ares each with the same smug expression on their face. "You think you've won?" Hecate shouted, "You haven't won anything." She quickly clicked her fingers and both her and Ares disappeared. When they re-materialised Ares looked around. "Where are we?" He asked. Click here to download music Hecate didn't answer him and open the door of a huge palace. The door made a loud creaking noise and slowly she led Ares inside. "We're in the Bacchae layer." Hecate said. "But the Bacchae are dead?" "Not for much longer they wont be, I'm going to bring Bacchus back from the dead. With him any mortal who was a Bacchae when he died will be changed back and come here to find him." "Xena and Gabrielle." Ares smiled. Slowly Hecate started to do a strange dance around the Bacchae cave, and started to sing, "It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark. Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart. You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it. You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes, You're paralyzed. 'Cause this is thriller, thriller night. And no one's gonna save you from the beast about strike. You know it's thriller, thriller night, you're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight. You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere left to run. You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun. You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination. But all the while you hear the creature creepin' up behind. You're out of time." Ares starts to join in the dance, and sings with Hecate, "'Cause this is thriller, thriller night. There ain't no second chance against the thing with forty eyes. It's thriller, thriller night. You're fighting for your life inside of killer, thriller tonight." Then Hecate puts her hand over Ares's mouth and begins her spell, "Night creatures call and the dead start to walk in their masquerade. There's no escapin' the jaws of the alien this time. This is the end of your life. They're out to get you, there's demons closing in on every side. They will possess you unless you change the number on your dial. Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together. All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen, I'll make you see. " Again Ares joins in on the spell, "That this is thriller, thriller night. 'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost would dare to try." Then he finishes on his own, "Thriller, thriller night, so let me hold you tight and share a killer, diller, chiller, thriller here tonight. Cause this is thriller, thriller night. Girl I can thrill you more than any ghost would dare to try. Thriller, thriller night, so let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller. I going thriller tonight." The caves start to shake and stones fall from the ceiling, suddenly a deep voice begins to talk. "Darkness falls across the land. The midnight hour is close at hand. Creatures crawl in search of blood. To terrorize y'awl's neighbourhood. And whosoever shall be found, without the soul for getting down, must stand and face the hounds of hell, and rot inside a corpse's shell." Ares and Hecate run over to the centre of the caves and desperately try to avoid the falling rocks and stone, but then the voice starts again, "The foulest stench is in the air, the funk of forty thousand years, and grizzly ghouls from every tomb, are closing in to seal your doom. And though you fight to stay alive, your body starts to shiver, for no mere mortal can resist, the evil of the thriller." Slowly the dead body of Bacchus starts to rise up into the air and then laughs hysterically. Meanwhile Xena, Gabrielle, Joxer, Michael, Cupid and Aphrodite are celebrating their victory over Ares. "So Michael when are you going back home then?" Joxer asks. "I don't know, maybe never." "Na, Xena will get you back, isn't that right Xena." Joxer says, but Xena doesn't reply, "Xena? Xena?" Xena turns around and reveals her Bacchae face, Joxer falls back in surprise. Quickly Xena starts to run followed closely by Gabrielle. "What was that?" Michael asks "Oh no, Ares and Hecate must have raised Bacchus!" Aphrodite replied. "How do we stop them?" "There is only one way to kill a Bacchae and that's with a dryad bone." Joxer explains "Where can we get them from?" "I'll take you there." Cupid says and clicks his fingers, taking them to a dryad graveyard. "So what we just dig them up?" Michael asks "Not exactly." Joxer says drawing his sword and shaking. Suddenly a huge dryad burst out of the ground, Cupid grabs Joxer's sword and flies up to the dryad's height, and kills it. "Well one down." Xena and Gabrielle walk into the Bacchae layer and are greeted by Bacchus, "Xena it's been along time. But now finally I can make you into a proper Bacchae at last." He says in a deep, bloodcurdling voice. He takes them over to a large, golden chalice filled with his blood, "Drink, and become one with me forever." Ares and Hecate watch happily as Xena puts the cup to her mouth. Just as she is about to drink Joxer, Michael, Cupid and Aphrodite appear in the cave. "For god sake!!" Ares shouts. "You can't stop us now." Hecate smiles, "Xena and Gabrielle are already Bacchae and soon you will never be able to get them back." "Joxer," Michael says, "Let's dance." Click here to download music "Aaow!!! Joxer begins to play the lyre, making Xena, Gabrielle and Bacchus fall to the ground in pain. Michael then begins to sing. "As he came into the window, it was the sound of a crescendo. He came into her apartment, he left the bloodstains on the carpet. She ran underneath the table, he could see she was unable. So she ran into the bedroom, she was struck down, it was her doom. Annie are you ok? So, Annie are you ok? Are you ok, Annie? Annie are you ok? So, Annie are you ok? Are you ok, Annie? Annie are you ok? So, Annie are you ok? Are you ok, Annie? Annie are you ok? So, Annie are you ok, are you ok, Annie?" Aphrodite and Michael: "Annie are you ok? Will you tell us that you're ok? There's a sign in the window that he struck you-a crescendo Annie. He came into your apartment, he left the bloodstains on the carpet. Then you ran into the bedroom, you were struck down, it was your doom." Michael: "Annie are you ok? So, Annie are you ok? Are you ok Annie? Annie are you ok? So, Annie are you ok? Are you ok Annie? Annie are you ok? So, Annie are you ok? Are you ok Annie? You've been hit by, you've been hit by-a smooth criminal. So they came into the outway, it was Sunday-what a black day. Mouth to mouth resuscitation, sounding heartbeats-intimidations. Annie are you ok? So, Annie are you ok? Are you ok Annie? Annie are you ok? So, Annie are you ok? Are you ok Annie? Annie are you ok? So, Annie are you ok? Are you ok Annie? Annie are you ok? So, Annie are you ok? Are you ok Annie?" Cupid runs over to Xena and Gabrielle and pulls them off the ground. While Michael and Aphrodite sing, "Annie are you ok? Will you tell us-that you're ok? There's a sign in the window, that he struck you-a crescendo Annie. He came into your apartment, left the bloodstains on the carpet. Then you ran into the bedroom, you were struck down, it was your doom." Cupid quickly takes out one of the dryad bones and get ready to stab it into Xena's heart. But Xena hits him to the ground and takes the dryad bone. Michael: "Annie are you ok? So, Annie are you ok? Are you ok Annie? You've been hit by, you've been struck by-a smooth criminal." Xena quickly runs over to Bacchus, Ares realises what she was going to do and runs over to stop her but Gabrielle pins him to the ground before he can. Quickly Xena stabs Bacchus in the heart with the bone. Michael: "Aaow! Woo! Woo! Woo! Aaow! Annie are you ok? Will you tell us, that you're ok? There's a sign in the window, that he struck you-a crescendo Annie. He came into your apartment, left bloodstains on the carpet, then you ran into the bedroom you were struck down, it was your doom-Annie! Annie are you ok? Will you tell us, that you're ok? There's a sign in the window that he struck you-a crescendo Annie he came into your apartment left bloodstains on the carpet then you ran into the bedroom you were struck down it was your doom-Annie! Aaow!!!" Xena watched as Bacchus dies and they starts to turn back to normal. Gabrielle pulled Ares off the ground and took him over to Xena. "Now then Ares, find a way to take Michael back." She said. "OK, but we are all going to have to do this, Cupid, Aphrodite, Hecate, me and all the other remaining gods." "Aphrodite go and round up the other gods and bring them back here." Aphrodite clicked her fingers and soon returned with many other Gods. "Now what?" Xena asked. Ares held out the gem of the fates and each god put their hand on it, and started to concentrate, suddenly the gem began to restore. "It will have enough power to transport you, Michael and I to the future and bring us both back." Ares said to Xena. "Then let's do this." Ares put his hands on Xena and Michael and with in seconds they were back at the concert. Click here to download music Michael was on stage looking dazed, some security men ran over to Xena and Ares but Ares clicked his fingers making them both invisible. They watched Michael sing, "He wear no shoeshine, he's got toe jam football, he's got monkey finger, he shoot Coca-Cola. He say "I know you, you know me" One thing I can tell you is you got to be free. Come together right now over me." "It's like he never left." Ares said. "No one will ever know except for Michael." "He bag production, he's got walrus gum-boot, he's got Ono sideboard, he one spinal cracker. He got feet down through his knees, hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease. Come together right now over me. Come together baby. Come together. He roller coaster, he's got early warning, he's got muddy water, he one Mojo filter. He say "One and one and one is three". Got to be good looking 'cause he's so hard to see. Come together right now over me." "Well I guess we should go then Ares." Xena said. Ares nodded and sent them back into the past. Xena looked around, she was in the Bacchae layer but all the gods had gone, all except Ares. "So what are you going to try next then?" Xena asked sternly, "Are you still going to find that weapon of yours?" Ares brought out the gem of the fates, but it was now just a plain rock. "I don't understand?" Gabrielle said confused. "The gem has lost its power, it has been used, broken and mended to many times." Ares revealed. "You knew that was going to happen didn't you?" Xena questioned. "Maybe." Ares said softly and smiled, then he disappeared. Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer smiled at each over and slowly walked out of the Bacchae layer. "So Joxer, ghost can play musical instruments then?" Gabrielle laughed. "Well, they can try." Xena joked. "Hey!" History by Kitana copywrite Kitana 2002© This episode is dedicated to Michale Jackson and all his work. All songs in this episode are copywrite of Michael Jackson, and they were all written by him (except for Come Together which was written by the Beatles). In no way does this episode claim that I own any of the songs in this episode.

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