Mindless Self Indulgence (Fuck Off)

Beginnings

The next day we have the song set.

"Maybe we should make a video for this one," I suggest, "I know they're both pretty fabulous but..."

"Let's have a vote," Lyn-Z suggests.

"Okay."

"Who votes for Lights Out?"

I'm the only one who votes for that song.

"Shut me up it is."

"How do we want to make this?" Steve asks.

"We could just do us singing and that's it," I suggest.

"Alright but make sure to look as irresponsible as possible."

"Make it mindless self indulgence," Lyn-Z says.

The video ends up consisting of me jumping around everywhere. Kitty acting like a homicidal maniac on her drums. Lyn-Z doing one of her backbends and Steve just doing whatever.

"Now we just need to find this dude and give him our video," I tell everyone, "Shall we do it now?"

"Sure," Steve says.

***

Turns out this guy is just some guy who spends all of his time in front of a computer. His name is Dale.

Wow.

"So you want me to hack into the City's system just so you can put this video on there?" he tries sorting it all out, "How much am I getting?"

"I have pills," I tell him, "from the City."

"Really?" his eyes widen, "How many?"

"Do your job and I'll think about how much."

"Fine," he slumps down in his seat, "give me your camera."

It's a while before Dale smacks his hands down on his desk. "Done!"

"You did it?" Steve asks standing up.

"Yes!" He answers excitedly.

I high five Steve.

"Okay, here are your pills," I give him a bottle half filled with them.

"Oh, wow. This is a lot," he says staring at them. He sticks one in his mouth and swallows, "Yup. They're real."

"Of course they are."

"It's been nice doing business with you," he says as we start walking out the door.

***

"That was fast," Lyn-Z says when we get back.

"We're super fast," Steve says sitting down on the couch turning on the TV.

There's nothing yet.

"We'll give it some time," Steve says.

A shrill noise fills the room. The television screen goes black.

Our video comes on.

"That faggot! He wasn't actually doing anything!" I yell at the TV, "Fuck you Dale!"

"He's putting it on now, that's good," Kitty says reasonably, "at least we get to see it."

Nothing else comes back on after the video.

"What you have just seen is what happens outside of the city," a government person comes up, "Violence and mindlessness."

"Hell yeah!" I shout at the screen.

"This is the gang Mindless Self Indulgence at work again. They have been identified as as the runaways Jennifer Dunn, James Euringer, Lindsey Ballato and an unnamed native from the ruins."

I turn to Steve. "You were born here?"

He nods.

"If you see them please report to the police immediately. They are very dangerous."

"Dangerous? We haven't done anything."

"We're disturbing the peace," Lyn-Z explains, "We're probably one of the first to challenge the city like this."

"Do you think anyone else paid attention?" I ask, "or are we the only ones who didn't like the pills?"

"I don't know. We'll have to wait and see."