The Flash came as a sudden shock. Jon looked at his pocket, mortified. Karyn looked at his pocket, mortified. They looked at each other, mortified. And as they did, the first few notes of music somehow became audible, and they started to sing.
𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮
Karyn: "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?"
Jon: "WHAT HAVE I DONE!?"
Karyn: "WHAT ARE WE DOING!?"
Jon: "WHAT DID I DO!?"
Both together: "THIS IS SOMETHING TOTALLY NEW!
"THE WISH JUST REMADE ME AND YOU,
"UNMADE THE WORLD WE LIVE IN TOO,
"IT'S GOTTA BE WRONG, IT CAN'T BE TRUE!
"TELL ME, TELL ME, OH TELL ME, YOU,
"WHATEVER ARE WE GOING TO DO!?"
𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮
Karyn: "Jonny, we're moving in time!"
Jon: "Karyn, we're speaking in rhyme!"
Karyn: "Jonny, look I'm dancing!"
Jon: "Karyn, hear this man sing!"
Karyn: "Jonny, look, I CAN'T STOP!"
Jon: "Karyn, hear, I CAN'T STOP!"
Both: "CAN'T STOP, CAN'T STOP,"
K: "Moving,"
J: "Singing,"
K: "Dancing,"
J: "Wishing, too!"
K: "Jonny,"
J: "Karyn,"
Both: "JUST WHAT DID WE DO!?
This is something totally new!
The Wish just Remade Me and You,
Unmade the World We Live In Too!
It's Gotta be Wrong, It can't Be True!
Tell me, tell Me, Oh Tell Me, You,
WHATEVER ARE WE GOING TO DO!?"
𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮
K: "I've got new Lipstick, Mascara, new hairdo, and ballet flats!"
J: "I've got a haircut, and make-up!? New dance shoes, and fancy hats!"
K: "I've got new earrings, a necklace, a purse patterned with kitties!"
J: "And a new red dress with a neckline that shows off your-" K: "JON!" J: "Sorry."
Both: "All around's Music, and Color, and Cheering for the Show Tune!
"Oh Tell Me, Oh Tell Me, Oh Tell Me, You,
"WHATEVER ARE WE GOING TO DO!?"
𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮
K: "Did the whole town of Lake Point change!?"
J: "Look out, look out, the window pane!"
K: "There's dancing out on Arbor Lane!?"
J: "Has the whole town just gone insane!?"
K: "No one knows things weren't the same!"
J: "And I don't want that kind of fame!"
K: "What have you done!?"
J: "What have I done!?"
K: "What did you do!?"
J: "What do I do!?"
Both: "This is something totally new!
"The Wish just Remade Me and You,
"Unmade the World We Live In Too!
"It's Gotta be Wrong, It can't Be True!
"Tell me, tell Me, Oh Tell Me, You,
"WHATEVER ARE WE GOING TO DO!?"
𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮
[Interlude]
𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮
J: "What have I done? What do I do?"
K: ("People are gonna want answers, Jon.")
J: "Or better asked: What CAN I do?"
K: ("People like the background dancers, Jon.")
J: "There's only one thing to turn to!"
K: ("Should've just turned that movie on...")
J: "We've seen ourselves what it can do!"
K: ("Wait, hand out of your trousers, Jon!")
J: "I can just make a wish or two!"
K: ("That THING brought all of this on, Jon!")
J: "I'll just use this!"
K: ("Please don't do it!")
J: "I'll say I wish!"
K: ("Won't undo it!")
J: "I wish that this-"
[Music stops abruptly]
Karyn was on top of him just in time. In a matter of moments the stone was wrestled from Jon's hand, and safely in Karyn's. She unceremoniously climbed off him afterwards, and collapsed in a heap nearby.
"Holy crap," Jon muttered. He'd been singing and dancing with such intensity, that the very instant the music and the compulsion to follow it stopped, he and Karyn both suddenly felt exhausted.
"Sorry man," Karyn said eventually, suddenly very grateful she could just say the words without it being a whole production. "But, uh, I don't like the idea of making a wish on this thing while some, um, magical Broadway Geas is controlling our voices."
"...Y'know what, fair," Jon replied, sitting up where he lay. "At the risk of triggering a reprise or something-..."
"DON'T SAY THE LINE," Karyn warned.
Jon continued anyway. "...What. The. Fuck."
