Ch. 6 El Mañana
"Sing another" the voice repeated. It sounded like a girl's voice, but it was as drunk as Murdoc's on a Friday night. 2D looked up from his hands and out into the crowd. The voice came from a girl sitting right in the middle. She was sipping a beer and staring at 2D. "C'mon man, sing another song, unless your chicken!" she jeered. 2D shook his head in a mocking way and turned his head to face Murdoc.
"Can we?" he mouthed. Murdoc shrugged his shoulders and took a sip of vodka. Murdoc turned toward Russel and mouthed for him to start plying a song. "Latin Simone" 2D groaned. He really didn't like that song. He stood up and looked over at the drunk girl who pushed him into this. "Happy now?" he asked.
"No I wanted to hear a new one. This is so old." She sipped her beer. "I want one as new as the one you just sang." She smiled evilly and winked at him.
"Fine" 2D mumbled. He went over to Mudds and Russ to give them some crumpled pieces of paper with notes he scribbled when he was bored. "Okay guys figure 'em out and I'll see if I can find the lyrics." 2D said heading toward the door. He put his hand on the door latch. He jiggled it and it wouldn't budge. He banged on the door and it still wouldn't open.
"Hey dullard!" Murdoc yelled "Try pulling!" 2D blushed and pulled on the door. It didn't budge anymore than his first futile attempts. "Maybe you aren't pulling HARD enough." Murdoc got up and stormed over there to do the job himself. "What in the name of hell, is going on with this damn door?" Murdoc yelled pulling the latch with all the strength he could muster up.
"Give up man, they locked the door." Russel said trying to help the two lost causes.
"Great observation" Murdoc sneered at Russel as he was going back to his lovely ladies. 2D hit his head on the door and banged his fist on it.
"Damn it! I don't want to be stuck with all these talent hungry drunks!" he said to himself. "Damn it" he put his hand down his back pocket to get a light and found it worthless to do so. "Stuart, one of these days your going to get cancer or asthma and regret all those bloody cigs." he mumbled on the way back to his seat. He sat down and tried hard to remember the song. 2D got up and walked to the giant window. "Summer don't know me no more…" he began to sing. "Eager man, that's all…" people started shushing each other in an effort to hear the blue-haired angel vocalize. He peered out the window and saw the island flying in bliss. "Summer don't know me, he just let me love, in my sea." He turned his head and looked at the crowd who was so quite, you could hear the cigars burning. "What?" 2D had no idea he had just been singing so beautifully, or singing at all for that matter. He glanced at Murdoc. "What is it man?"
"I thought you didn't have the lyrics to the song." Murdoc yelled at his band mate. 2D looked rather confused.
"I don't have the lyrics Murdoc." 2D rubbed the back of his head and tilted his head sideways as if to look even more lost. "Why'd you say that I 'ad 'em?" he asked.
"You just sang them dullard, don't play stupid."
"No I didn't, what are you talking about?" Murdoc walked up to 2D and lowered his voice so no one could hear.
"Dullard, you just sang that 'summer don't know me no more' crap. If those aren't your lyrics, then what the hell are they?" 2D looked into Murdoc's eye seeming to be lost in them. "Snap out of it 2D!" Murdoc said, slapping the vocalist and reviving him from the abyss he was apparently in.
"Murdoc, I didn't sing when I was over there, heck, I didn't even open my mouth. Then I turn around and all of you are staring at me like when I got out of that coma. What is going on here?" 2D was practically shaking Murdoc. Tears began to well up in his eyes again and he lowered his head to conceal them. Murdoc took 2D's hands off his shoulders and let them fall, limp, to his side. He picked his hands up and put them on 2D's shoulders.
"Man, what happened to you when I got you out of that coma? Did you always go into your own little world before?" 2D shook his head and sniffed. "Stop being a wimp! I can't stand seeing anyone so defenseless and weak. That's what Jacob tried to make me. I'm not going to let that happen to anyone, because I know how it hurts! I have felt that pain and it burns me up inside to see that happen to anyone else! SNAP OUT OF IT 2D!" Murdoc was shocked at what he had just whispered to 2D. He actually cared? This freaked 2D out as well.
"What's wrong with you Murdoc, what's with this all of a sudden Mr. Softy?" they both laughed after 2D's comment. "Mudds, my lyrics go like 'lost my leg, like I lost my way, so no loose ends, what are we going to do?' not 'summer don't know me no more'. Where'd you get that from?" Murdoc looked shocked.
"Look man, you just sing whatever, and Russ and me, we'll play your notes, deal?" Murdoc put his hand out to make a deal with 2D
"Deal"2D shook Murdoc's slimy hand. Murdoc went back over to his place with all the ladies and gave Russel a signal that 2D was okay.
"Sing 2D" Murdoc said.
"I can't" 2D just stood there frozen. "Hey people!" 2D shouted. "Take a breather and have another drink, or sumthink." 2D went over to the window and placed his hands on the grime-coated glass. "Windmill, windmill, for the land…" 2D sang silently to himself the chores of his newest song. He looked out again at the windmill for the land. He could see Noodle doing cartwheels and handstands. She had never had this much fun at Kong. She fell over after one cartwheel and 2D could feel his heart skip a beat. She popped up and stood very still facing the Feel Good Inc. tower. He felt as if she was looking strait at him. "Noodle" he whispered, letting his hand fall limp by his side. He looked down and sighed. "Summer don't know me no more, eager man, that's all…" He started singing and a hush came over the crowd. "Summer don't know me he just let me love, in my sea." He turned around to Murdoc and Russel. He nodded and they started playing, not that they weren't already by pure instinct, but they played louder and people began to enter 2D's world of existence, a world of happiness. "Cause I do know, Lord, from you that, just died, yeah." He looked out and saw the helicopters fly to the island in the sky. The helicopters started shooting at her and he could see the outline of her body run for cover. "I saw that day lost my mind. Lord I'm fine, maybe in tome, you'll want to be mine." People started pointing out the window, whispering things like "Look at that?" and "What are they shooting?" or "Who's on the thing they're shooting?" you know things like that. 2D turned back around and almost fell at the shock of what he was seeing. "Don't stop the buck when it comes, it's the dawn, you'll see." He was trying to make himself feel better by saying this. "Money won't get there, ten years passed tonight, you'll flee." He was wishing she could flee from this. He would be the one to save her. "If you do then, I'll be some to find you." The island in the sky was in flames. Noodle was running in and out of the windmill in panic. "I saw that day, lost my mind. Lord, I'm fine, maybe in time you'll want to be mine." 2D kept slowly singing this and got lower and lower each time.
QUICK FLASH TO NOODLE
Tears streamed down Noodle's cheek. Did it have to end like this? She was sitting inside the windmill that found her at Kong. Her favorite black and white striped shirt was torn and stained with her blood. "Maybe in time, you'll want to be mine" she sang in between sobs. She had made up this song a long time ago and just now thought to sing it. She felt the weight of the floating island shift and she fell forward. Glancing out the window she saw that she was falling. She ran to the door and pushed it open, almost falling out. She stumbled and realized that she was falling out of the sky. The island was almost to a crashing point. "IYA!" she screamed. "NI-" she couldn't even say the last part in Japanese, although she tried. "2D help me! KOISHII!" she put her hands in front of her face and felt a huge bump. The island began to fall into her face. She jumped out of the window and onto a rock. The island kept falling. She looked up at the helicopters and stuck her tongue out in a playful way. "Na-na-na-na boo-boo" she laughed to herself. Then they launched a bomb on her already crashed island. The bomb was so powerful that she was sent flying back and hit a tree that was at least a mile away.
Back to the drunks…
2D looked out the window and saw the island start to sink and fall. "NOOOO" he screamed and plunged his hand through the glass window. Blood began to seep from his hand and he cried and lost control of everything. "No, no, Noodle. Don't die like this!"
A/N: See? I promised you all death and blood (2D's arm) so be filled with joy. Trust me, the next chapter is going to have you SHOCKED! Till then, my loyal reviewers…(surfs on a piece of sushi to Japan) CHOPSTICKS HERE I COME!