With my breathing and heartbeat slowing I suddenly gained my will to fight. Fuck this, I'm fucking Murdoc Niccals! I'm not gonna bloody die in some weird ass alternate reality! I thought then stuck my long tongue on the power outlet that was inches from my face. I received a small shock as I thought about the seconds before I had shot my father. The coin was in my pocket, I had hoped it would work even without direct contact of the coin.
I was suddenly surged somewhere else. My breathing and heartbeat pounded harder and faster, indicating that I was no longer dying. I opened my eyes to see my father and Hannibal with their hands up and fear written on their face. The gun still pointed sideways at them. My hand still held the gun, my finger still resting on the trigger. With speed and adrenaline in my blood, I ran to the light-switch and shot at it. It created a hole exposing the bare wires like it had before. With the coin still in my pocket, I thought about the present as I touched the wires and once again experienced electrocution.
I opened my eyes, panting on the floor of the Gorillaz house. Noodle, 2D, and Russel rushed over to me.
I began repeating, "Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck..." Over and over again as I tried to calm myself. I had almost died! I soon crumpled up into a ball and began rocking back and forth as the band members watched me with worry. When I calmed myself down, I looked at them.
"What did I change?" I asked but didn't really direct toward anyone. I hadn't shot my father or brother, did this mean I had fixed the future? Or had I changed something by electrocuting myself in my childhood?
"Tell me what just happened." I demanded breathlessly.
"Nothin'. The last thing you said was 'This will have never have even happened when I'm done with things.' Then you electrocuted yourself, you passed out and broke the goddamn outlet again! Here you are now, just woken up. Well buddy, you said that I wouldn't have to worry about fixing it, but looks like I am going to have to anyway." Russel complained to me. I breathed for a couple moments, and put my hand on my chest to feel my beating heart. This was the alternate universe where I hadn't hit Jeiel's family with the Winnebago.
Noodle looked at me concerned, so much care in her voice as she asked, "What happened?" Her hand lightly rubbing my shoulder.
"I went back in time and killed my dad. When I went to the present, I was in jail for a blimey death sentence! I almost died! I then went back in time and didn't shoot my father, and then I came back to the present. Here in this present, and I am a bit relieved to know that I didn't change anything else, mates." I calmly told them.
"I told you what powerful repercussions you can cause by changing the past!" Noodle scolded me. For the time being, I decided once again, not to listen to her.
"Well it looks like I can't change my childhood... Oi, any suggestions to change the past?" I asked the band members. Noodle glared at me as I ignored her warning once again.
"You 'fink you can go back in time... and not hit me with 'yur car? I wouldn't have 'fese migraines if you hadn't hit me. And it would be nice to look in a mirror and see my own eyes looking back at me, instead of just black..." 2D asked. Noodle sighed. Russel nodded his head in agreement.
I thought about this, then said, "Alright, but if this backfires, I'm coming back to this reality and kicking your ass, face-ache!" I threatened 2D. 2D nodded eagerly. Ugh dullard, fine lets go fix your eyes and your head. I thought then walked to the power outlet I had broken.
The coin was still in my pocket, but I had discovered that as long as it was on me, I didn't have to hold onto it for it to send me back in time. The fork still protruded from the light socket.
"Alright, I'm off to fix your face." I called behind myself and held onto the fork that was brimming with electrical energy. I thought of when I had burst into Uncle Norm's Organ Emporium. Before I knew it, I opened my eyes to find myself driving, about to crash right into the store.
I slammed on the breaks and the car squealed to a halt right before I came smashing into the store. Well, that's changed things... I thought as I got out of the car and walked into the store. Inside, I watched as 2D was cleaning a keyboard with a rag. He looked at me instantly when I opened the door.
"Welcome, can I help you with some'fing?" He asked me. I walked up closer to him. His hair was still blue, but his eyes were not black. Instead they were a clear blue.
"Look, Stu, you don't know me, but I know you. Your going to be in a band with me, the singer in fact, mate." I told him. He cocked his head to the side like I was speaking a foreign language.
I then decided that, that was that and I went to the nearest power outlet. I found out that it hurt less when you just licked the power outlets instead of stabbing them with metal objects.
My long tongue was about to touch the outlet when Stu called out, "I'm not a singer."
The younger 2D then chuckled then said, "And you can't make me sing in your band." I wanted to convince him more but I had already received the shock from the outlet and was already being transported to the present.
I opened my eyes to the feeling of being cold. I looked at my surroundings and found myself in horrible clothing and on a bench on a roaring street. My clothes were dirty and in tatters. Anger boiled in my blood. Damnitt face-ache! This is why you can't have nice things! I swear if I'm some homeless bloke, I'm gonna knock you out! I thought to myself with anger. I realized that I was near a library. Libraries had computers, right?
Upon entering the library, people regarded me like I was trash. They averted their eyes and ignored me. Fucking people... I thought to myself as they continued to try their very best to get away from me. At a computer, I got on the internet. I searched "Gorillaz". The only thing that came up was, Did you mean: Gorillas, so in this alternate reality, Gorillaz didn't exist. I then typed in my name. Nothing. Apparently not hitting 2D with my car meant no Gorillaz, and that wasn't happening.
I was so angry, I had a feeling this would happen. I took the wire that was connected to the computer mouse and bit down on it hard. My sharp teeth puncturing the rubber and exposing the wires. I was electrocuted by this and I thought about when I had crashed into Uncle Norm's Organ Emporium once more. When I felt the familiar feeling of my hands on the wheel, I opened my eyes. This time I didn't attempt to use the breaks til the very last minute. I crashed into the store and hit 2D, I had reset history to the way it was supposed to be. Then I got out of my car and ran to the nearest power outlet, where I then licked it and sent myself into the present.
My eyes snapped open to see my band-mates huddling around me as I laid on the floor.
"Are my eyes fixed?" 2D piped up and walked to a reflective surface.
"Face-ache!" I bellowed with such rage that 2D immediately stopped in his tracks and slumped over like I had stabbed him.
"What did I tell you if you fucked up the future?" I yelled at him, alarming Noodle and Russel. 2D stayed in his submissive position as I got up and punched his arm.
"Ow!" He winced and began babying his arm.
"I'm guessing things didn't go your way?" Noodle asked, unimpressed.
"Bloody 'ell they did! I was fucking homeless bloke, and Gorillaz never even exist because I didn't hit 2-Dent over there!" I said with my arms crossed like a 6 year old.
"You said we had girlfriends, Mudz. What happened? 'Da fuck did you do to change your future?" Russel questioned.
I sighed and said, "I almost accidentally killed Jeiel and her family." My eyes sinking down to the floor.
"Wot?" 2D asked, his black eyes glossy and huge.
"You almost killed my girlfr'end!" 2D exclaimed.
"Not like you bloody deserved her!" I screamed at him. I instantly brought my hands to my mouth after I said this. Where did that come from...? It had come out of nowhere, I mean, why did I care? Jeiel was just another broad, a dime a dozen. I tried convincing myself.
I remembered back to almost a year ago when we had escaped jail together, her blonde hair flowing in the hot-wired car I had stolen. I looked at her, and I lost it... I kissed her. The emotions that poured into me when our lips met. My eyes narrowed. 2D didn't deserve Jeiel. Jeiel could do much better than that stupid, wimpy...face-ache! The jealously laced my mind with envy.
"You're right, I'll just reset time" I said. ….I'll reset history, just with a twist... I thought to myself with a hint of evil.
I then went over to the broken power outlet and gripped the metal fork protruding from it. I was sent back in time to when I hit Jeiel's family. I opened my eyes, my hands on the Winnebago steering wheel. CRASH! I hit Jeiel's family, but instead of driving off, I called an ambulance. I then rushed over to the totaled car. I ripped open the dented car door and pulled Jeiel out of the car. I laid her on the grass, blood dripped from her forehead. Her eyes closed, I felt a bit guilty I had hit her. I caressed her face and whispered in her ear, "It's going to be alright." before the ambulance came. A tear trickled down my cheek as I watched her in this state of pain, in a state of almost death that I had caused her...
When the paramedics came, she was rushed to the hospital. I stayed the entire time with her in the hospital. It was about 4 in the morning when she woke, I hadn't been able to sleep so I was already awake to see her.
"What happened?" Jeiel asked innocently with a cough.
"Some bloke hit you. I called the ambulance and saved you from the wreckage." I lied to her.
"You... saved me." Jeiel whispered with a smile and lightly touched my face as I leaned closer to her.
After Jeiel fell back asleep, I licked the power outlet in the hospital bedroom and felt the familiar feeling of being electrocuted as I surged back into a new present, a new future. My eyes opened as I realized I was comfortably on my bed. I rolled over to see Jeiel laying beside me. I gasped with shock.
"Good morning!" Jeiel said sleepily and kissed me on the cheek.