Once More With Feeling Yu-Gi-Oh Style Remake

Alister walks into the Bronze, looks around, sees Sweet and Serenity sitting in chairs on the stage.
SWEET: I love a good entrance.
ALISTER: How are you with death scenes?
Sweet just chuckles. Alister walks a little closer.
ALISTER: You got a name?
SWEET: I've got a hundred.
ALISTER: Well, I ought to know what to call you if you're gonna be my brother-in-law.
DAWN: Buffy, I swear I didn't do it.
ALISTER: Don't worry. You're not going anywhere. (Sweet looks at him) I am.
SERENITY: What? (Sweet looks interested, sits forward)
ALISTER: (to Sweet) Deal's this. I can't kill you? You take me to Hellsville in her place.
SWEET: (scoffs) What if I kill you?
ALISTER: (deadpan) Trust me. Won't help.
SWEET: Hm, that's gloomy!
ALISTER: That's life.
SWEET: (chuckles) Come now, is that really what you feel? Isn't life a miraculous thing?
ALISTER: I think you already know.
ALISTER: (verse one, ballad-like melody)
Life's a show
And we all play our parts
And when the music starts
[unbuttons her jacket, opens it]
We open up our hearts.
[drops jacket to the floor]
It's all right
If some things come out wrong
[looks over, sees the minions holding pool cues]
We'll sing a happy song
And you can sing along.

The beat changes to a harsh hard-rock tune with lots of electric guitar. The minions attack.

ALISTER:
Where there's life [grabs pool cue from minion, hits him]
There's hope
Every day's [elbows second minion]
A gift
Wishes can [kick]
Come true
Whistle while [punch]
You work [blow with pool cue]
So hard [blow]
All day [throws pool cue, impales third minion]
Back to the original ballad melody.
ALISTER: To be like other boys.
Dartz , Marina, Raphael, Valon, Joey, and Duke run in.
ALISTER:
To fit in in this glittering world. [Sweet watching, listening]
Don't give me songs.
DARTZ: (spoken) She needs backup. Duke, Valon.
ALISTER: Don't give me songs.

Duke and Valon take up positions behind Alister to be his backup singers and dancers. The three of them move in sync.

ALISTER:
Give me something to sing about.
VALON/DUKE:
Ahhhhh...
ALISTER:
I need something to sing about.
VALON/DUKE:
Ahhhhh...
More dancing. The hard-rock beat returns. The boys dance to it for a minute, then return to the first dance and the ballad.
ALISTER: (verse two)
Life's a song
You don't get to rehearse.
And every single verse
Can make it that much worse.
[Valon and Duke stop dancing, move to background]
[Alister puts up a hand as if to shield himself from the sight of his friends]
Still my friends
Don't know why I ignore
The million things or more
I should be dancing for.

Back to the hard-rock tune. Alister continues dancing alone.
ALISTER:
All the joy
Life sends
Family
And friends
All the twists
And bends
Knowing that
It ends
Well that
Depends
Back to the ballad melody.
ALISTER:
On if they let you go
[looking around at the Scoobies]
On if they know enough to know
[walking up the steps to the stage]
That when you've bowed
You leave the crowd.

he walks up onto the stage, looks back at the others, then at Sweet still sitting. He makes his string-pulling gesture. Alister walks right up to him.
ALISTER: (verse three, new melody)
There was no pain
No fear, no doubt
Till they pulled me out
Of Heaven.
[looks back at the others. Dartz and Raphael looking surprised]
So that's my refrain.
[Valon looking horrified]
I live in Hell
[Raphael looking horrified]
'Cause I've been expelled
From Heaven
I think I was in Heaven
[Valon looking horrified]
So give me something to sing about.
[whirls around to look at Sweet]
Please
Give me something...
Sweet shakes his head. Alister gives a desperate look, turns and flips off the stage onto the floor. The hard-rock tune returns with the electric guitars playing a wild riff. Alister dances, faster and faster. Serenity watches in dismay. Sweet leans forward expectantly.
Alister spins wildly round and round and round, smoke begins to curl off her.
Suddenly Seto appears, stops him by grabbing him upper arms. Alister gives him a desperate unhappy look.
SETO: (verse four, same melody as verse three)
Life's not a song
Life isn't bliss
Life is just this
It's living
[brushes hair back from his face]
You'll get along
[Serenity stands up]
The pain that you feel
You only can heal
By living
[Alister looks about to cry]
You have to go one living
So one of us is living.
Alister stares at Seto. Serenity walks forward to the edge of the stage.
SERENITY: (spoken) The hardest thing in this world ... is to live in it.
Alister looks at Serenity, then back at Seto.
Shot of Joey trying to comfort Valon.
Last few chords.
Sweet applauds.