Author's Note: Okay, I have yet to play the World Ends With You, but from what I've read and researched, this might possibly work. Besides, Joshua is the only original Character who makes some degree of appearances on a regular basis. So, yeah. Alex is based on me, and Russ is based on my friend Remvis, so go check his page out. He only has two stories up on his page, but they're still good reads.

Chapter 1: Let the Games Begin!

(Day 1)

Alex groaned as he laid on the bare concrete. All around him, people were just walking by him as though he wasn't there. Sitting up on the ground, the people still kept ignoring him. Looking at the buildings, he saw electronic signs and the likes. Being multilingual, he recognized them all being in Japanese, so he had a decent idea of what each one said and that he was somewhere in Japan. The large screen was advertising the brand Sheep Heavenly, a brand he was well aware of and had a livid hatred for. But the screen seemed rather familiar to him, like he'd seen pictures of it before.

Sticking his hand in the pocket of his camouflage sweatshirt, he felt something off. Pulling it out, he found a black pin with a weird white design to give it the appearance of a skull.Weird, he thought. Tossing it up real quick, he caught it in his hand and suddenly felt his head pounding. He heard dozens of voices pounding in his head. The thoughts of everyone near him were going through his head. Aggh! Make it stop! "Shut up," groaned the brown haired teen.

Almost like throwing a switch, the thoughts running through his head stopped and he could only hear his own thoughts. He looked at the pin again. Really weird. Taking another look at the object, he pinned it to his hoodie near the base of the right sleeve so it sat in his palm.

When he did, he saw a bunch of weird creatures coming towards him. They looked like frogs, but the back halves of their bodies were made of graffiti in the style of tribal designs. They were going through the crowd, literally going through the people, some of those people even screamed when the frogs touched them.

Not knowing what else to do, Alex started running, hoping to outrun the frog creatures. A couple of minutes of running through the city and people, he managed to escape the frogs and could take a breather. As he caught his breath, he heard a familiar voice.

"Alex? Is that you?" Looking up, he saw a boy of the same age as him. His brown hair was tied back in a ponytail and went halfway down his back. He was wearing a black zip up hoodie and a pair of blue jeans. His glasses reflected a small amount of the sunlight. In one hand was the usable replica he had of a medieval sword.

Alex's grey-blue eyes widened at the sight of a familiar face. "Russ! What's going on? Where are we?"

He got a shrug. "Not sure," said his friend. "But, since we're both here, how about we work together?" He outstretched a hand to his friend. "Partners?"

Alex grinned as he took his friend's hand. "Partners." As he said that, the two saw a rush of blue lights fly down their arms and a matching glow from the two of them. Just as suddenly as the light show began, it was over. Alex looked at his hand in confusion. "Well that was unexpected."

"Yeah." Just then, their phones went off. Pulling the devices, the boys saw they had messages from a contact titled "Reapers". They got the same message: Go to 104 in 60 minutes or face Erasure. As they pocketed the devices, there was a distinct burning sensation in Alex's right palm. Looking at his hand, he saw a red timer counting down from 60:00 minutes, flashing each time it went down by a second.

The two shared a look. What was going on? Deciding to not find out what Erasure was, the two friends walked off towards the large building. As they did, Alex put his hands in his sweatshirt pockets and was confused to find even more pins in them. Looking at them, he saw one with a burst of fire, a series of lightning bolts, a soda can, and a large white hand. What's with all the pins?

"Alex, we've got trouble!" Looking around, he saw how right his friend was. Those frogs from before were surrounding them, and they had nowhere to go. "What do we do?" asked Russ.

Alex looked at the pins in his hand. "Russ," he said, "I've got a crazy idea. Do you have any weird pins in your pocket by any chance?"

"Yeah, why?"

The frogs got closer as he looked at his friend. "I think we can use them the same way I activated my weird skull pin and use them to fight."

"Are you crazy?!" shouted his glasses wearing friend.

"Possibly!" replied Alex before he gripped his fire pin. "Let's give this a try!" Focusing on the pin, he was rewarded when a fireball was launched at the frog in front of him. "Ah, yeah!"

Looking to his friend, he was shocked to find he was alone. "Russ! Where the hell are you?!"

"I could ask you the same thing!" came his friend's voice like he was right there. "I heard a frog scream and find you're gone!" Alex heard a yell followed by a slashing sound. He then noticed one of the frogs stagger as though it were struck by a sword.

"Russ, I think we're fighting the same enemies, but just not next to each other," he said. To prove his point, he picked up a garbage can and slammed it down onto the same frog using the glove pin. "See? If we work on both ends, we can blow these fuckers down!"

"Dude! Language!" shouted his sword-wielding partner.

"Sorry." With their revelation in mind, the two made short work of the creatures through a combination of sword and pins. When the last frog was gone, the two friends were reunited and could see one another again.

"Okay," said Russ as he sheathed his sword. "That was weird." Taking a look at their hands, they saw that their battle had taken up roughly ten minutes, so the two were now down to around forty-five. Grabbing his partner's arm, he started dragging him as they ran. "C'mon," he said. "If we don't hurry and keep fighting those things, we'll never get to 104!"

Wrenching his arm free, Alex found himself less aggravated than usual about someone grabbing him. Dismissing it as nothing, he ran behind his friend as they crossed the city square. Turning onto the street with the 104 building on it, the duo wound up hitting an invisible barrier.

"No, no, no!" panicked Russ. "We don't have time for this!" he said as he felt along the wall. He looked at his palm and checked the count-down. "Alright, we've got less than 40 minutes. I'm sure that if we look..."

As he droned on, Alex noticed a guy in a black sweatshirt with a red bandana over his lower face chuckling at the two. Curious, he walked over to the man. "Hey, can you see us?" he asked.

"Of course I can," replied the man. "I just work this wall so often that seeing new players run into it every week has become a bit of a hobby." He took notice of Russ walking over in curiosity. "Oh, and I see you two have a pact. Well done." Extending his arm, he put a pin against the barrier and caused it to shimmer and shatter like glass. "The wall has been lowered."

When the boys checked this and looked back at him to thank him, he was gone. Wigged out but not focusing on it, the two walked towards the mall. Unfortunately for Alex, the area entered they mall in only had stores for two brands: Natural Puppy, and Sheep Heavenly. The two he hated more than any other.

It wasn't until they were almost to the center hall that they got distracted. That distraction came in the form of a small group of girls dressed entirely in S.H. brand clothes. They were squealing and giggling over their outfits and made him sick.

"Oh my god!" said one girl. "Don't you just love Sheep Heavenly?" asked one girl.

"Who doesn't?" replied one of het friends. "I mean, we're so adorable, who wouldn't want to go out with us?" she giggled.

Alex ground his teeth as they kept talking about being hot. Gripping his skull pin so he had something to squeeze, he growled towards them. Sheep Heavenly is horrible. Lapin Angelique is way better for girls.

The girls all seemed to stop their conversation and looked at each other and themselves in distaste. "Uh, like, am I the only one who thinks we look like freakin' lolis?"

Her friends shook their heads. "Why did we even dress like this?" asked one of them. "I outgrew this stuff like, ten years ago!"

The others all started agreeing with her. "Hey," said one of them, "I saw a Lapin Angelique on the other side of the mall. Wanna see if we can get better clothes there?" The idea went over well, and the whole group ran off to the other side of the building, leaving a confused set of teens.

"What just happened?"

"I don't know," said Alex. "I was holding my pin in anger and thought that Lapin Angelique was a better brand, and those girls all started hating Sheep Heavenly."

Russ looked at his Skull pin where it was clipped over his heart. "Huh. Something tells me there's a lot to these pins we don't know about." Taking another look at their palms, the two knew they had to get it over with, even with thirty minutes left.