The group of men confidently gather onstage, Itachi standing in front of them. He smiles and waves at the judges.
“Hello, let me just say it’s an honor to be performing here today. We’re proud to present a dance we’ve worked day and night on for countless weeks. We are Encryption!”
Suddenly, the lights go dark, making the stage feel like a pitch back void. The audience is able to see through led light strips strewn across the floor and the judging area like those on the steps of theaters. Suddenly, bright gray lights shine from the stage, making the shape of a factory with a moving conveyor belt with boxhead robots laboring endlessly. Itachi would have gray lights outlining his business suit, red lights outlining his tie and white lights outlining his shirt. His head would be covered with green and orange lights arranged to look like an angry tiki face. He looks between a paper outlined with white lights and the robots, getting progressively angrier before throwing the paper on the ground, stomping his right foot, knocking everything off the production line and then pointing his right finger to the air as the opening to “September” by Earth, Wind & Fire begins to play and every other light on stage besides his disappears. He then swipes his right hand across his chest, subsequently the lights making up his suit appear to “rip off” and fly across the stage. His body’s outline would immediately be replaced with a red disco suit. He then holds a kabuki mask illuminated with red and white lights in his hands, putting it on his face to the rhythm of the song. Itachi would then idly dance for a brief moment before all his lights turn off. The number 21 would show up in giant orange lights at the back of the stages, the robots from before popping their heads out to the side of it one by one. They then do various flips off of it, landing on three conveyor belts which relit and began sliding them so they would be evenly spaced out when they all landed, 4 of them landing on each conveyor belt before each belt comes to a halt. The leftmost column of dancers would take a big step to the left with one foot as the column right next to them would take a step in the other direction, the other half the stage repeating this pattern as every dancer then faced away from the adjacent dancer and then bumped hips repeatedly. Itachi then lights up at the forefront of the stage, doing the cabbage patch energetically. He then shuffles his feet to the left and quickly bending his elbows to a right angle as he revolves his arms around themselves rapidly. He would then do the pointing dance. As his finger reached its height, all the dancers in the front row on his side would jump down behind their conveyor belt. The two rows would follow suit as he repeats the motion two more times. Itachi would then repeat this dance pattern at the right side, the conveyor belts becoming dark when no one was on them. Itachi would then disappear again as the backup dancers all did the running man. Itachi would then reappear in front of the 21 which then disappeared before a giant disco ball appeared beneath Itachi’s feet, outlined with a variety of vibrant colors. He would then dance the robot as a projection which would resemble a night sky with myriad stars would appear on the walls of the room. This would continue for a couple seconds before everything went completely dark.