Humanz - A Gorillaz Story

Busted and Blue

We drive for a while, nothing in our way but ourselves.
573 grabs his side.
"What's wrong?"
"I got shot in the side."
"What!? Who shot you!?"
"001."
I look at him, confused.
"Oh, you guys don't know about that, do you?"
"Can't say we do."
"It's probably a good idea if I do, so I'll pull over."
He pulls into a motel.
"We're busted and blue, so we should here for the night."
"I mean, if you're paying."
"MURDOC! He's been SHOT!"
"And? I'm all out of cash!"
Russ checks for his wallet.
"Lost my wallet somewhere."
Noodle checks her pockets.
"I never had money."
I reach into my pocket and find about a thousand dollars.
"I guess I'm paying."

We all go into the same room with 573.
"Alright, so it's time to tell the tale of Boogieman and the conformist clones.
Boogieman is a very mysterious man. In fact, no one truly knows if he's even a man. Or human. But what we do know is that he's a conformist dictator. The only problem was there was no one to dictate.
So, Boogieman search for a man only known as Dr. Wurzel."
"We know him! He's a doctor and a Wurzel!"
"Yeah, anyway, he runs a crappy medical 'establishment'. There, he did things for cash including but not limited to, black market deals, unsafe surgery, illegal surgery, and even prostate exams."
"Why's that so bad?"
Murdoc puts his hand on my shoulder.
"2D, when you're my age, you'll understand why it's so evil."
"I don't know if I should be scared, disgust, or both."
"Yes."
Yikes.
"So, continuing, Boogieman had Dr. Wurzel make clones. No one knows who the real original is, since all the people it could be never show their faces.
After that, the whole 'Plastic Beach' thing happened with you guys and instead of continuing his conformist dictatorship, he had a new goal: kill Gorillaz.
I, as the 573rd clone, was the 25th to be given the task over the years.
I got shot because I saw that there were other ways to exist and I tried to kill 001, our vice leader that answers directly to Boogieman. 001 thought he killed me, but Jamie, the guy that fixes all the clones and secretly a non-conformist, fixed me up except for my liver.
A new liver is being by Zebra Katz, a medical genius and a friend of Jamie."
"So, what happened to Dr. Wurzel?"
"He was frozen in a cryogenic tank until he's needed again, which should be now, since I'm 'dead'."
"That makes perfect sense."
"Was that sarcasm?"
"No."
"Now get out of my room, I'm tired."