Plastic Love: Chapter 41

Chapter 41: Rhinestone Eyes Part 2

"He's somewhere in the house." Rei closed the distance between them and hugged the woman she called her little sister. "But I'm so glad you're back."

"So am I." Noodle hugged her back and smiled up at Araiya. Then she turned her attention to her replica and sneered. So it was true that Murdoc made her. "This is my replacement." It wasn't a question to be asked.

"Yeah. I was just as pissed as you are right now when I first saw the thing."

The guitarist walked up to it and they both stared at each other. "Shūtai," Noodle said and scowled.

Cyborg Noodle had scanned her and Russel and recognized them as the long lost band members. Murdoc had shown her a picture of them. She didn't know where she would fit in since the real deal was back because the bassist had told her that if Noodle came back, then she would be shut down and put away because her work would be done. The machine wouldn't let that happen and after the battle she would prove her worth to stay alive.

Noodle gave Cyborg Noodle one last look and went back over to Russel where he and Araiya were catching up.

"...when he gets out here, I'm gonna have a few words for him."

"Go on right ahead and say them because I won't stop ya." Rei smiled up at him.

"Plus after this fight that you all are in, he'll need to shrink me so I can punch him in the face without killin' him."

"Rei-sama, where's 'D-sama?"

The second bassist's eyes widened. "Oh my god! He's still in the house. C'mon!!"

She and Noodle ran to the house and entered it. They took the still working lift down to the singer's room. They ran down the hall and luckily the door was unlocked. The women saw him  in the corner shaking with fear with his back to them, his clown mask on top of his head. Before Rei or Noodle could speak, 2D said something first.

"P-please don't kill me! Y-y-ya can have anything in this room, just please spare my life." The singer thought the two people entering his room were pirates.

"It's okay 2D it's just me and Noodle."

"Please don't call that fing Noodle Rei, it ain't her." He turned around to face the two. His onyx eyes shifted to the woman standing next to his friend.

For a few minuets the two stood looking at each other. Both knew who the other one was but at the same time for that second Noodle and 2D thought this was just a dream but it wasn't. The singer made the first move by walking up to her.

"Noodle?"

"Hai."

He dropped to his knees in front of her and teared up. "I've missed you." he pulled her in for an embrace. "I've missed ya so much." The tears finally poured from his eyes.

Noodle hugged him back tearing up himself. "I've missed you too Toochie." she used the name that she called him when she was still trying to learn English.

"Noodle love. Glad you made it back."

The three looked at Murdoc who was standing in the doorway with guns and ammo strapped to him.

"We can finish this little happy reunion later after we defeat these pirates. Now let's go."

The guitarist turned fully to the bassist and marched up to him a heavy scowl set on her face. She didn't say a word and only pulled back her fist and struck the Murdoc in his face hard which sent him staggering back into the outside wall. "BAKA!!!" she stood over him as he held his nose.

Murdoc looked up at the woman standing over him. "What was that for?!?" he already knew the answer but tried to play it off.

"You know why. I'll save the rest of my beating for later because right now, we have bigger problems to face." Noodle grabbed an AK-47 a bullet belt, and a RPG launcher from him and turned on her heel heading back to the lift.

Araiya and 2D followed her leaving the man to get up himself and follow them. Once outside, Murdoc spotted Russel who was swatting away a second incoming of planes. The four ranover to Cyborg Noodle who was firing at them. He shoved a gun into the singer's hand and told him to fire.

All of the members fired upon the incoming pirates striking them as they came onto shore in small boats. Araiya noticed that some of them weren't affected by them. She let the others know and they noticed as well.

Boogieman watched from the ship and saw that his minions were starting to fall, so he conjured up more ghost pirates and sent them to shore with guns. The first ghost pirates he sent out were given orders to capture Araiya.

Gorillaz fell back behind some mounds of plastic.

"Mudz, some of them aren't even affected by our bullets." Rei said as she reloaded her gun.

"I know, they're ghosts and I don't know if you've noticed, don't some of them look
familiar?"

"I don't know. I can't get a good look at them."

"Try to keep an eye on the one with the red and black striped shirt." he reloaded too and he looked at the others and nodded giving the signal to go back out there and keep on fighting. Russel had once again dwindled the planes down to just a few.

One of the under bosses for the Black Cloud stood on deck with the Boogieman and looked through a pair of binoculars as his fleet went crashing down into the ocean or on the pink plastic shore. He turned to the masked man.

"I thought we were supposed to be winning! We're losing!! What do you plan on doing about it?"

"Patience."

"I want him dead, now!"

In one quick motion, the Boogieman grabbed the burly man by his throat with one hand, lifting him up into the air. "I said patience. I have a plan. My pirates will bring back a hostage."

The man struggled for air. "Ok...I-I-I can't breathe...." he clawed at the horseman's arm.

Boogieman dropped him unceremoniously to the wooden deck. "My plan should be going down right about now..."

Back on the beach, most of the live pirates had been killed or injured. Cyborg Noodle noticed this and reported the status to Murdoc who nodded in confirmation.

The ghost pirates had spotted their target and headed for Araiya. The keyboardist was fighting off a few others who were trying to come onto shore and she had her back to the others. Another Cloud member who was wounded saw his opportunity, and lifted his hand gun, pointing it straight at Araiya. He cock it and fired. The bullet hit the woman in the shoulder, and she fell to one knee and let a hand go to her shoulder.

"AHHH!!"

Murdoc heard the shot and turned around and saw Rei falling to the ground and then he saw the pirate smirking. Filled with rage, he ran over ad pointed his weapon to the dirty man and shot him dead then ran to Araiya. "Sit down." He sat his gun down, and helped her sit.

"It think it got me in my shoulder blade and didn't pass through." Blood was staining her shirt and she gritted her teeth in pain.
Murdoc ripped the bottom of her shirt and pressed it against the wound. "You're staying here, you're done fighting."

"No I'm not, I can still move. It doesn't take both arms to fire a weapon." Rei moved to get up.

"No, I won't let you get hurt anymore. You stay here."

Before Araiya could say anything, the ghost pirates crowded around them. She looked at the faces of some and saw that they truly did look familiar. Then her eyes landed on the one Murdoc told her to look out for. It was Damon Albarn. "Damon?"

Then Noodle, 2D, and Cyborg Noodle had successfully killed off their wave of pirates and hurried over to Araiya and Murdoc and stopped right behind them as they saw the ghosts.

Noodle recognized Damon right away and was shocked. "Damon-san, what's going on? Why are you with these people.?"

Boogieman appeared before the guitarist could get an answer. He separated Murdoc and the rest of the band from Araiya by putting up an invisible block.

Murdoc realized what was about to happened and he stood up and was about to hit the man, but his fist came in contact with the wall. "STOP!!! NO!!!"

The dark deity looked at the bassist before he picked Araiya up and slung her over his shoulder. "You've got two hours to give yourself up to me. If you do, I'll let her go, if you don't you get to watch her die." He gave an evil cackled and disappeared in a cloud of thick black smoke along with the ghosts.

The bassist along with everyone else look on in shock and horror as their friend was kidnapped right in front of them.

They had to come up with a plan and fast.