"And...done, our little story is done." laughed Murdoc.
He hit the print button and the wireless printer came to life, spitting out paper after paper. Stuart grabs one to read and start laughing.
"This is too rich." laughed Stuart hard.
Murdoc grins big to snatch the paper up and put it in a folder with the photo.
"Let's get going, Ted said he'd be there till seven, we got about half an hour." said Murdoc.
The two leave the bluenette's bedroom to run past the living room.
"Be safe you two!" called Rachel.
The door slams shut and they hop into Stylo to speed off. Murdoc broke the speed limit but they got to the school in record time. Stuart grabs the folder while Murdoc rushes to the school doors, happy to see Ted left them open.
"Come Stu, we got a rich bitch to ruin." said Murdoc.
Stuart joins him and they get inside. The janitor is waiting for them by the newspaper club.
"About time, I was starting to think I'd have to leave." said Ted.
"Thanks for sticking around so long." said Stuart.
"Anytime, now, you two better get that story back." said Ted.
With that, the janitor unlocks the door and the two go in. The room has quite a lot of desks with a teacher's desk at the end of the room by the windows.
"Look, there's the bin with the stories." said Stuart.
The Satanist looks to see a metal bin by the slot with a small pile of folders.
"Help me find mine." said Murdoc.
They start looking through the folders, looking for Murdoc's.
"A story on the downs of smoking, who wrote this trash?!" demanded Murdoc.
"That's not what we're looking for." said Stuart.
The bluenette picks up another folder to see a photo of his friend as Pinocchio.
"Muds, here it is." said Stuart.
The Satanist rips the folder from his friends hands to eye it. It was indeed the photo, and Ryan's story.
"Murdoc was dressed as Pinocchio to win contests, and because of this, he has developed a crippling fear of all puppets to the point he'll cry and piss his pants." read Murdoc.
He started shaking and ripped the story into pieces.
"That piece of shit, I'll murder him!" yelled Murdoc.
"No killing, Mudsy, but with this story, he'll wish you did." said Stuart.
Murdoc chuckles evilly when he notices a note in the folder. Attached to it was a small stack of cash with the note reading 'Print it in color'.
With a grin, Murdoc stuffs the money and note in his folder to drop it.
"Since he so kindly paid for color, might as well use it." said Murdoc.
Stuart nods in agreement as his friend pockets the photo.
"Okay, lets get out of here, I'll drop you off at the house, then park Stylo elsewhere to head back." said Murdoc.
Stuart nods and they leave the room, thanking Ted as he locks the room back up. Stuart gets to the car to wait as Murdoc follows.
He gets to the door to pause before reaching into his pocket to see the photo again. He grimaces at it to read the back.
"Murdoc, are you okay?" asked Stuart.
"Give me a second and I will be." said Murdoc.
Stuart blinks in confusion to then see his friend pull out his lighter. He flicks it on and puts the flame to his photo.
The image goes up in flames and Murdoc watches. The flames consume the side of the image before spreading to the center. His face expades slightly before turning black.
Once it's close to his fingers does Murdoc let the photo go. It flutters to the ground but the flames devour it before it even hits the ground.
"Keeping that image is a curse, with it gone no one can use it against me ever again." said Murdoc.
The bluenette understands and gives a soft smile to his friend.
"So, you looking forward to lunch tomorrow?" asked Stuart.
"Considering what's going to be on the front page, you bet I am." said Murdoc.
They get into the car and drive back home, looking forward to the next day. What remained of the picture tumbled and flew away in the breeze.
It would never be seen again.
*~* GORILLAZ *~*
It was now Friday and the lunch bell had rung. Ryan was in the hallway with Zeke and Dan, they were smirking and laughing among themselves.
"So, think everyone has a paper?" asked Zeke.
"By now they should, heh, heh, Murdoc is never going to live this down." said Ryan.
Dan just nods and they soon reach the cafeteria doors. They hear talking but also laughter, they must be reading the papers.
"Wow, they must really think your story is funny." said Dan.
"Ah, the sound of success, lets go in boys." said Ryan.
They opened the cafeteria doors and walk in. The room is silent but soon erupts in laughter. Ryan is smug but soon the look is cast off his face.
The other students were laughing with a newspaper but not at Murdoc, they were laughing at them!
"Um, why are they laughing at us?" asked Dan.
Ryan is unsure till he sees a kid near him with a paper. He shoves the kid to rip the paper out of his hands to see. His whole face turns red as he sees the front page.
Instead of a colorful picture of Murdoc dressed as a puppet, it was a colorful picture of him and his friends from when hey were five...dressed as babies!
The poofy, pink ribbony dresses they wore with ruffles under the skirt showed off the large diapers they had to wear. Ryan remembered that humiliating Summer.
He and his friends teased a bunch of little girls who were playing with those life-like baby dolls that actually used the toy diapers. The teasing soon resulted in them completely destroying the dolls and the girls running off to tell their parents, who then told theirs.
As punishment, Ryan's mother decided that the boys would be the girls new dolls till the end of Summer or their parents got them new ones. So dressed like babies they were for most of Summer till the miracle day the girls got new dolls.
It had taken Ryan a lot of money to make sure all images of that incident were erased, but somehow one picture survived.
Ryan looked to his friends, who were also red faced and looking nervously around the cafeteria at the laughing students. Ryan then reads the article.
'Bad little babies destroy babies of younger girls, so forced to be their new toys till their parents could replace them. Ryan, Zeke, and Dan had to do what their new mommies said, being fed, played with, even have their diapers changed.
Even after the punishment was over, Ryan and his pals were so into it that they continued in secret to wear diapers. Thus proves that these so called 'big shots' are nothing more than diaper wearing babies.
The only thing missing from their little diaper wonderland is a mommy to take care of them and to spank their naughty little bums. But someday they will, don't worry little babies, you'll find someone to spank you.'
Ryan's whole face turns hot in humiliation. That was not true, he doesn't wear diapers, hasn't since that Summer!
The rich boy tears the paper up and looks around in anger. Who could have printed this, and where was his story?!
It then clicks, Murdoc.
He searches the cafeteria but finds Stuart, sitting alone without Murdoc. He stomps over and stands near the blue haired boy.
"Why if it isn't the wittle Rwan, where's your rattle?" asked Stuart, giggling into his hand.
"You piece of shit, you had a photo?!" yelled Ryan.
"No, my mom did though and was happy to give it to us." said Stuart happily.
"I never knew you could stoop so low." said Ryan.
"Coming from the guy who did it first, you tried to hurt Murdoc, so we gave you a taste of your own medicine, tell me, how bitter does it taste?" asked Stuart.
Ryan is shaking and grabs a fist full of the bluenette's shirt to haul him up.
"I'll fucking crush you!" yelled Ryan.
He never gets the chance as a hard punch knocks him to the ground. He looks up to see a furious Murdoc, his hand still formed into a fist.
"If anyone is getting killed, it'll be you, Rivers." growled Murdoc.
Ryan gets up, grabbing his backpack.
"You think I don't have a back up?" asked Ryan.
Murdoc raises an eyebrow when Ryan throws something at him. It was a puppet, a really creepy, horrifying one.
Murdoc just stares at it to then drop it and uses the heel of his boot to crush it's head into dust. He walks closer with a grin and leans down to the other's ear.
"That stunt you pulled cured me of my little phobia, I still hate them though." said Murdoc.
The rich boy was now shaking, he was so confidante when he knew Murdoc's fear, but now that he beat it, he couldn't do anything. Plus with that horrible secret from his childhood revealed, he was a laughing stock!
He backs away from Murdoc only to slip on the floor with his water bottle falling from his bag with the cap bursting off. A few students looked to start laughing.
"Hey, Ryan just pissed himself!" one student laughed.
Ryan was now a deep red as the water bottle did in fact make him look like he peed. Completely and utterly humiliated, Ryan runs from the cafeteria with his friends close behind.
Murdoc rolls his eyes to sit down next to his friend.
"Is it weird that I kinda feel bad?" asked Stuart.
"Nah, just shows how much of a kind person you are, too kind for a shithead like that." said Murdoc.
He pats his friend on the head and the two start eating lunch. Murdoc's childhood trama was cured and gone and Ryan was finally put in his place...least for now.
Murdoc smiles to bit into his sandwich with Stuart pulling out a new CD to show him. Things were now back to normal.
A/N: The baby theme took the poll by storm, 100% of you guys voted for it. Also for those who wanted to see the results, I took it down so that it could remain a surprise, but I suspect that you all knew what theme would picked. So Ryan is humiliated, feel a bit bad but not really, and things are looking up. What will happen next? Stay tuned and plz review.