2D continued his walk from nowhere to nowhere. One foot after the other, a steady beat, going nowhere, going everywhere, going anywhere. He had stopped looking where he was going. It didn't matter, he wouldn't ever crash into anybody. But, suddenly...
THWACK! "Ow!" 2D fell to the ground. He looked to see what the hell he ran into. It was a dark-haired woman, wearing black jeans and a black The Who T-Shirt. "I'm sorry!" they both said simultaneously. Then, "You can see me?!" Then they both laughed at how weird this was. "Wow, this is great!" the woman said, shaking her red-and-black streaked hair out of her eyes. "I thought I was alone. You too?"
2D smiled. Someone finally could see him. "Yeah," he said. "I dunno what's going on." "Neither do I," the woman said. "It's so great to be noticed again! It felt like I didn't exist, and I was beginning to think maybe I really didn't," she said. "Oh, yeah. My name's Tara. Sorry, I'm just so surprised to see someone else in my condition. You're 2D, from Gorillaz, right?" she asked. 2D nodded.
"So... erm..." 2D started. "Why...?" "Why am I out here?" Tara finished the question for him. "I don't know. I just... had to get away from everything. I was going to go somewhere with my friends, but... they couldn't see me, and they thought I forgot about them. So... I think I left to try and find answers. You?" she said.
"Erm... well, I left when Murdoc started talking about me being dead. I said I wasn't, but he didn't hear," 2D said. "At first I thought they were playing a joke on me, but..." he trailed off. "But it went on too long?" Tara said. "Yeah..." 2D said.
They started walking together, side by side. "There has to be a reason we ran into each other," Tara said. "This can't just be chance. Something really weird is happening. 2D nodded. "Yeah," he said. "I just wish I knew what it was." He grinned. "Today has been a fucked-up day," he said.
"You can say that again," Tara said. "That's about it in a nutshell. Seems we're screwed, huh?" "Yeah, just about," 2D said. They walked quietly for a moment. "Erm... so... what d'we do?" 2D asked. Tara stuffed her hands into her pockets. "I don't know," she said. "This was all too weird. I didn't do much planning before I left. I just... went." "Yeah, me too," 2D said.
"I don't like the rain," he said, laughing. "Me neither," Tara said. They continued walking, ignored by everyone they passed. "I have a sort of theory," Tara said finally. "It's weird, it doesn't make much sense, and it could just be the result of too much sci-fi, but..." she said. 2D looked at her. "What is it?" he asked.
Tara blinked. "What if... we're in some sort of weird parallel dimension? Y'know, like we can see everyone, but since we're here and they're there, no-one can see us?" she said. "Makes about as much sense as anything else that's happened," 2D said. "Maybe more." "Yeah," Tara said, grinning. "But, y'know, it makes more sense than any other explanation I could give. It's like they say- nothing's impossible."
"Who says that?" 2D asked. Tara shrugged. "I don't know... 'They,' I guess," she said. They both laughed.
"So... we have to figure out how to get out of this dimension thing, then?" 2D asked. "Yeah, I guess so..." Tara said. "I don't even know how we got in in the first place, though..." she said. "So how we're getting out is an even harder question to answer."
"Hey, is there maybe a door or something to get out of here?" 2D asked. Tara smiled. "I doubt it. If things were that easy, I'd've been out of here forever ago." "But I'd still be here," 2D said. Tara laughed. "If I could find it, you could," she said.
They continued their walk. "Why d'you think we can touch things, but not people?" 2D asked. Tara thought for a moment. "Maybe..." she said, "inanimate objects--like rocks and ground and stuff--share both dimensions? But since we're in one and everyone else is in the other, we don't exist there and we can't touch them. It's just a guess, but I'd say it makes some sense."
"Hey!" 2D said, having a sudden idea. "Could we write on paper then? 'Cos I think we could write that we're here and people could see it." Tara blinked. "That's crazy," she said. "So crazy, it just might work. Let's do it!"
"So, are we going back to Kong, or to your place?" 2D asked. "We'll go to Kong," Tara said. "I've wanted to see it anyway." They started walking back the way 2D came.