"X-Files" Fan Fiction "The Mmmm Bop is out there"

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Hi MyLot , here's a little break from the type of stuff I usually post. If you like it, go thank @xander6464 . If you don't like it, feel welcome to blame him. This was a little bit of fan fiction that I wrote via pen and paper in the 90s. I'm re-writing it now as I can't find the original. Ha! I know, I know, it's got lots of boy bands in it. Hey! It was the 90s! Cut me some slack already! LOL - this was inspired by the fact that I actually did like a number of songs that those boy bands put out, but I couldn't understand the waves of girls my own age who were in love with Taylor, or Nick, or Brian or.... whatever their names were. With no further ado.... I bring you : "The Mmm Bop is Out There". Agent Fox Mulder looked up from his desk and Agent Dana Scully entered their shared basement office. Fox looked a little disheveled because he had spent overnight at his desk. Again. He was working late, trying to get somewhere with the latest case involving people who had no memory of being tattooed with crop circle designs all over their bodies in a community in Iowa. Happily, Fox had been able to comb his hair somewhat and splash some water on his face before Scully showed up to work. Uncharacteristically she was 15 minutes late. Also uncharacteristically she was humming a song and skip-hop-dancing - with a large shopping bag under her arm. "Well, you're unusually pert this morning, Scully". Mulder offered. "Huh?". Scully pulled the earphones off of her head. She was listening to a Sony Discman. "Sorry!" I just discovered this great new band. Oh you just gotta listen to this.... She tossed her shopping bag on the ground and out spilled teeny bopper magazines, posters, t-shirts, trapper keepers, cds, and 100s of other little items, sticker, lip glosses, nail polish, pins, action figures, patches, all emblazoned with many popular boy band names on them. "N'Sync". "The Backstreet Boys", but mostly the band "Hanson". Scully skipped over to the under used office radio and flipped in a cd. "MMMmm Bop sha dig a dop a wah bo bop eeennny ep oh ah do wop sha dooooooo" (I'm not kidding, this is an actual song) - Taylor Hanson's vocal filled the room. Mulder cringed. It was an alright song. Kind of upbeat and happy and all. But annoyingly loud. And Scully, well, this wasn't like her. But he could play along. "Alright Scully, as long as you keep it turned down". He continued :... here's what I found out about the tattooed people in Iowa. They were all alien abductees , I think we should drive up there and investi.... Scully?" Scully broke into song along with Taylor Hanson. The song had changed ""Cause I'm looking through the yearbook, ...." all of a sudden Scully was slow dancing with an invisible partner. "Eh, Scully".... no response "SCULLY!" She rolled her eyes at Fox. What a buzz kill. "What! You're always carrying on about silly UFOs and abductees. I just want to be abducted by my Taylor..... *sigh* " So, Mulder tried throughout the day to get her to listen, to which he had varied success - finally giving up and getting to do some filing. She was quiet. Headphones firmly on. Mulder went home that night. He had to feed his goldfish. So the week wore on - and gradually Scully and turned their office into a palace of all things boy band. Mulder had mentioned his concern to her, but the more he mentioned, the more she fell in love with the Hanson and the rest. So he brought it up to his old friends, the trio known as the "Lone Gunmen". Apparently this boy band craze was taking over the country. Mostly this behavior was in pre-teen and teenage girls, but apparently, also, sometimes grown women. Some people thought the boy bands were actually government agents. But the Gunmen? They thought the boy band members were aliens. There were many photos where odd halos of light were around the guys. And somebody who had analyzed the recordings said there was a weird tone in the background, like a subliminal. Well, none of this was proven yet. So Mulder hoped that the agent's road trip to Iowa to talk to the tattooed abductees would being Scully back to her senses. Monday came and Scully came to work sans her usual pantsuit. Instead she was wearing a Hanson t-shirt and shorts. "Uh, hey Scully, that a real, uh, keen.... outfit you got there" he muttered. "Oh Fox, I know, I just love this picture of my little Taylor Waylor! She squealed. I got us music for our roadtrip! A bag with the entire discography of all of the boy bands spilled out of Scully suit case, on cue. So, they drove in silence except for the blaring of "MMMBop" like, what seemed like a billion times. Finally Scully reached over and turned the car's sound system off. Wheew. She picked up her phone. "Hello...." Mulder was hopefull Scully was coming to her senses and making a call about their case. An earsplitting shriek interrupted Mulder's train of thought. "Thank you thank you thank you thank you so much" she foamed..... So Mulder found out for the next hour or so that Scully had won tickets to the meet and greet for the Hanson concert in West Valley Springs, Iowa. She had won 2 tickets to the show, and the meet and greet. So he could go with too. Mulder really suspected something was up. Were the gunmen correct? The real alien phenomenon might be right under his nose. "oh boy Scully this is going to be really uh, great. I just love uh, Tod , uh, I mean, Taylor...." So Mulder went alone the following day to talk to the tattooed abductees. Scully begged for the day off to prepare for the concert that evening. It became apparent that the tattooed abductees were a hoax. A bunch of high schoolers looking for recognition. Their marker-done tattoos were already fading. Though Mulder noted, uneasily several of the girls had Hanson t-shirts. Well evening came soon enough, and Mulder ditched Scully - it was alright, as she was in the front row of seats and drooling literally. He crept around. Sure enough. The Hanson tour bus was pulling a trailer behind it. He came forward and 4 beefy security guards warded him off. I need to go in there, he said. It's for the Hansons safety. He flashed his winning smile and FBI badge. He was allowed to look inside the trailer, and found that other than a small table, a row of computer monitors and a weird locked cabinet - it was empty. Except for a bright green glow. Mulder re-joined Scully, he couldn't be late to the meet and greet. So Mulder and Scully got out their backstage passes and were escorted to a large banquet room behind the venue. Mulder was ignoring Scully's blathering about Hanson.... something was up here. Sure enough, after an hour's wait, in came the boys. They seemed normal. Except they had oily, shiny skin. And a faint glow to them. The crowd of girls didn't notice and the beefy security guys locked the doors and placed the locked cabinet in the middle of the room. But Mulder noticed. The popular boy, Taylor, shouted into his headset microphone. "You've all been specially chosen... to be our.... experiment subjects!" You won't remember anything that happens because of our secret technology in this very cabinet..." he punched in a code to the keypad locking the cabinet, and a green glow exploded out of it.... and when the Hanson boys stood in the green light - the light got rid of their disguise and they appeared as they really were - green aliens! Mulder reached in his pocket and took out an alien-signal disrupting flashlight. He got it off of an infomercial and could only hope it would work. He shone the flashlight into the cabinet. The cabinet and it's green glow exploded. "Boosh!" And dazed girls slowly came to their senses. There were shrieks of "They're they're... aliens!" all around. The rest of the night was a blur. In the morning, there was no trace of the Hanson boys or any of the other boy bands, either. Their homes were gone too, in their place - a ring of singed grass, like a craft had lifted off. Also - all merchandise with photos of the various boy bands, you could now see they were green aliens. When Mulder alien signal disrupter blew up the Hanson's green glowing signal - it unmasked all of the boy bands and even their images on merchandise and so forth. Scully was amazed. "Mulder, I'm sorry. I don't know how I can repay you for putting up with me and for rescuing me. I don't know what got into me. It was like I was in a trance". "It's alright Scully, even though the media is publicizing this as a publicity stunt by these bands, we know the truth and we have exposed them to those who want to believe" The agents took a few days off after the exhausting ordeal. Scully fully cleaned the basement office, keeping only a small poster of the alien-Hanson band as a reminder of the ordeal. In fact Scully was there early, getting done cleaning the rest of the boy band posters off the walls when Mulder came in to work. 15 minutes late. Uncharacteristic of him. Also un characteristic of him he did several jerky dance style leaps in the air and some off key singing. "If you wannna be my lova.... you gotta git with my friennnnnnndddddddssss" he belted. At first Scully thought it was all a joke. Then she had a real nervous feeling in the pit of her stomach. Mulder turned around. Gone was the suave casual suit ... in it's place... A "Spice Girls" tshirt and torn jeans. "Scully, you gotta listen to this awesome new band I discovered....." And there you have it! Link is to the actual song "Mmm Bop" Disclaimer stuff : "The X-Files", Mulder, Scully, The Lone Gunmen, nor any of the bands mentioned "Hanson", "N'Sync", "The Spice Girls', "Backstreet Boys" - none of those are my creation, though this story is a fan fiction using those characters.