Disclaimer: Gundam Wing doesn't belong to me. Neither does this song, it belongs to Weird Al Yankovic.
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Shi-chan: This was another idea brought on in a dream I had last night. Luckily, it's normaller (is that a word? LOL!) than the "Iron Lung," one. Read on!

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Broken Mirrors -- This Is The Life
Quatre Raberba Winner

By Shimegami-chan
Warnings: OOC-ness, that's all...

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is first in a series of alternative 'image song,' vidfics. More to come, r&r please so I know what you guys want out of these!


[Opens with a shot of Quatre standing in a plush living room. His eyes are closed and one hand lightly touches his chest while the other holds a microphone.]

I eat filet mignon seven times a day.
My bathtub's filled with Perrier.

[Quatre looks up, a devilish gleam in his eye.]

What can I say?
This is the life!

[Cut to Quatre in a hot tub in the back of a limo with a pistol in his hand, twirling it on his finger. He's wearing a Speedo and looking pretty damn good too.]

I buy a dozen cars when I'm in the mood.
I hire somebody to chew my food.

[Quatre grins maniacally and grabs onto the edge of the tub, leaning out over it to watch the awed pedestrians. He dons a pair of dark sunglasses and grins seductively at them. Several fangirls faint on the spot.]

I'm an upwardly mobile dude.
This is the life!

[Cut to Quatre sitting in a Scrooge McDuck-esque money bin, on top of a HUMUNGOUS pile of gold coins. He picks a handful up and lets them slip through his fingers and into his lap.]

They say that money corrupts you,
But I can't really tell.

[He then picks up another handful and starts flinging them outward toward the camera]

I got the whole world at my feet,
And I think it's pretty swell.

[Cut to Quatre jumping off a diving board into the sea of money.]

I got women lined up outside my door.
They've been waitin' there since the week before.

[Quatre peeks out a window at the thousands of fangirls waiting for him and grins a very Zero-system-ish grin, then pulls the curtains shut.]

Who could ask for more?
This is the life!

[He stirs some sugar into a cup of tea and looks innocently into the camera.]

You're dead for a real long time.
You just can't prevent it.

[Duo shows up and claps him on the back, twirls a scythe over his shoulder, and disappears in a poof of purple smoke.]

So if money can't buy happiness,
I guess I'll have to rent it.

[Quatre counts out money by the thousands at a huge wooden table, tongue sticking out from between his teeth. He looks deep in concentration.]

Yeah, every day I make the front-page news.
No time to pay my dues.

[Cut to Wufei, walking down a city street. He goes to a newsstand and buys a cup of coffee and a newspaper. On the front of the newspaper is a picture of Quatre from the earlier scene in the limo-hot tub, flashing a victory sign at the camera. Wufei spits out a mouthful of coffee on the table.]

I got a million pairs of shoes.
This is the life!

[Quatre is doing a little tap-dance in a set of 6-inch red stiletto heels.]

I got a solid gold Cadillac.
I make a fortune while I sleep.

[Quatre's monstrous Cadillac pulls up beside Relena's pink limo and gives her a fender-bender. Oops.]

You can tell I'm a living legend,
Not some ordinary creep.

[Quatre in pimpin clothes complete with a feathered hat, twirling a stick around in his hand and peering out over a pair of sunglasses.]

No way, I'm the boss. The Big Cheese.
Yeah, I got this town on its knobby little knees.
I can do just what I please.
This is the life!

[On stage. Duo, Heero, Trowa, and Wufei tap-dance in similar stilettos on top of a piano while Quatre saunters out waving the stick.]

That's right, I'm the king. Number One.
I buy monogrammed Kleenex by the ton.
I pay the bills, I call the shots,
I grease the palms, I buy the yachts.

[The five Gundam boys file into the limo, Duo pausing for a moment to leave his heeled shoes on the ground outside. Quatre clamours up into the hot tub once again.]

One thing I can guarantee.
The best things in life, they sure ain't free.

[Wufei is trying to climb out the window of the moving car but Heero and Trowa stop him.]

It's such a thrill just to be me.
This is the life!

[He leans back in the hot tub seductively, tipping a wine glass to his lips.]

This is the life!

[The limo drives off into the sunset.]






~OWARI!

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Shi-chan: So, whaddya think? Who should I do next?