"YOWTCH!"

The booming cry made Noodle jerk awake from her peaceful slumber on Russel's massive head and instinctively leap into a karate stance. "NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI?" she warbled. "Oh sorry I woke you up baby girl, I think something stung me," said Russel, looking down at the water.

"Jellyfish, maybe?" said Noodle with a sigh as she plopped back down on her cranial refuge. "Superfast." said Russel, surprisingly quietly. "Russel, what do you…" then something in the water caught Noodle's eye, and she peered down at the ocean.

She gasped she saw a beautiful burst of purple, pink, and blue just beneath the water's surface. The mass of color gracefully floated up and down in the water like the huge rainbow parachutes children play with in elementary school. It was a massive bloom of Superfast Jellyfish.

"We gotta move," said Russel, wading faster in the water, "One's too small for me to really feel the sting, but there must be thousands of em." The giant winced as a large group of jellyfish stung his hand, smiling goofily up at the him.

Meanwhile on Plastic Beach…

"Yerrr, I'm pretty sure that's Russel in the water," said Murdoc through a puff of a cigarette. The green-skinned snaggletoothed bassist was dining on the upper deck of the plastic island, donning a captain's hat, a bathrobe, and Cuban-heeled boots. "Won't you take a little breakfast, mate? I don't want the crowd thinking that I have an anorexic 12-year old girl singing for my band. Go on."

"I won't take nuffink from you," came a cold cockney accent from behind a beach chair. "Nyawww, the little lass is having her first PMS," cooed Murdoc and let out a smug guffaw. "Murdoc you sod! You…you…" 2D turned around, scratching his head of blue hair with one of his black eyes half shut, "Erm, did you say Russel was in the water?" "Yer, he's huge. As big as a whale. A whale. Big as a whale. Whale. WHALEWHALEWHALE-" "SHADDUP MURDOC I DON'T BELIEVE IN WHALE PEOPLE!" yelled 2D as he swung his arm outward toward the ocean in a grandiose gesture, only to punch himself out cold. "He would have fainted anyway," smirked Murdoc as he trotted to the lift down to the pink, oily shore.

Russel emerged from the deep water like a sunken ship being lifted out of the ocean. "We're here, Noodle girl. You happy?"

"OOOOOOIIIIIIII RUSS!" Murdoc called to Russel as he walked over to the shore and under the shadow of the giant. Russel glared down at him with huge, milky white eyes and cracked his knuckles. "I found Noodle," he said curtly, pointing to the top of his head. "Err... what's my cyborg doing on your head, Russ?" "This aint your freakshow Noodle robot, this is the young lady you could have helped while you were on your ego trip. Show him your bruise, baby girl." said Russel. "She looks fine to me," shrugged Murdoc. "You little f-" All of a sudden the girl hopped hundreds of feet from Russel's head, landing knee-deep in the sand in a rigid stance. "I told you she was fine!" chirped Murdoc.

"NOODLE!" Russel lumbered over to her but stopped short when her head quickly jerked around, revealing 2 soulless black eyes and a smirking mouth dripping with synthetic spittle. "CYBORG NOODLE IDENTITY STOLEN. ONLY CAN BE ONE NOODLE ON PLASTIC BEACH. CYBORG PUSH IDENTITY VIOLATIOR IN WATER TO BE ELIMINATED WITH JELLYFISH. CYBORG DISRACT FAT MAN SO HE DOES NOT HELP."

Russel fell to his knees with a rumble and Murdoc turned a shade of pale green. "That robot's been on my head ever since the jellyfish attack 15 minutes ago…she tricked me…." He pounded the water, sending a torrent of water into the air. "DID YOU PROGRAM HER TO-" Murdoc cut him short, "What-no, no! Not even I'm that crooked. It must've malfunctioned when it detected her human form…look, I'll get the hang glider and I'll scout for her round the island. She'll be here in no time." Murdoc turned around to embark on his wild goose chase but suddenly stopped.

The authentic cat mask-clad Noodle was standing by the shore drenched and covered in jellyfish stings, with a harpoon dangling from her hand. Murdoc's Cuban heels seemed to sink deeper into the wet sand. "Er…Noodle love, is that you? Look, I know I could have done more to help you in your time of neeeeed but er, we can work this out…" In one clean motion, Noodle pushed him aside, raised the harpoon, and fired the weapon at the cyborg. The spear sliced cleanly through the cyborg's neck, and the robotic head fell with a thud to the ground. The smirk was still retained on its face, and its black eyes seemed even more soulless than before.

"I came in last," murmured Noodle out of breath, "but just in time for breakfast." She collapsed.