"Can't believe we're actually going to Ikebukuro again. Things have gotten pretty rough the last time we were there." Scott said.
"Yeah. I even formed my first rivalry with Raz here." David said.
"The Demon Style guy, right?" Mayumi asked.
"Yep. He was holding Sectonia hostage so that he would get to Jexi. He didn't expect me to react the way I did." David said.
"Well now it's the Elements we need to deal with. We need to stay on our toes in this place." Ross said.
David looked down.
"What's wrong?" Sectonia asked.
"It's just...I don't think the Elements are all bad. They were just manipulated by Dragon to do his bidding." David said.
"You're talking about that conversation you had with Water back in Gran Tesoro?" Jude asked.
"Yeah… I kind of feel like the Elements aren't really all that bad. They were just misguided because they didn't know what Ming told me back at the Shadaloo Base." David said.
"Well, don't worry so much about it. It'll work itself out in the end. It always does." Ming said.
"Alright." David said.
"Speaking of rivalries, David has formed one with Cheetah in the Injustice world, but to this day, we're not sure if she feels the same way." Genis said.
"And I've basically become an enemy of the entirety of CP0." Leonora said. "Not to mention that monsieur Flux placed a target on monsieur David's back now."
"Now that I think about it, David has gotten a lot of new attacks and words of wisdom lately." Kokoro said.
"It just shows that he's growing. Both as a hero, and as a person." Sectonia said.
"But now that we're back in Ikebukuro, things are about to get crazy." David said.
With the Hope Squad…
Hope sighed as he looked out the window.
"Not excited to go back to Ikebukuro?" Korra said.
"What do you think? I've already got a huge rep in a bad way, and that's not even getting into the stuff with gangs and everything. This town is crazy, and i don't want to cause any more trouble than i did the last time i was here." Hope said.
"Yeah. And from what Jexi told us, things have been spiraling into chaos since they were here last time." Titanica said.
"Maybe I'm just a little bitter about Gran Tesoro. All we did there was get kidnapped while everyone else saved us." Hope said. "But then again, not everyone has the floor sometimes."
"Yeah. Still, if you should owe anyone. Owe Jack. He was the one that saved you guys." Sabo said.
"Besides, not every adventure is gonna be completely happy and carefree. There are always going to be dark points during them." Gundham said.
"Yeah, that was cool of my brother to save us. Even if he was after some map. I wonder what was on it that was so important?" Hope said.
"Knowing him, it probably leads to some treasure." Lacy said.
"What it is, i doubt we'll know." Hope said. "Say, did Jexi even say where we all were suppose to be going?"
"Yeah. He got a text saying to meet at Shinra's apartment." Erica said.
"Understood." Hope said.
The group soon arrived to the apartment just at the same time as Celty.
"Hey, Celty! Long time no see!" Sunset said.
"Oh...you guys. I wasn't really expecting any of you." Celty typed.
"Good to see you again, too." David said. "Shinra told us to come here, saying that he's got something to tell us. Oh, let us introduce you to the newcomers." David said as the newcomers stepped forward.
"Uh...nice to meet all of you." Celty typed.
"A pleasure, Miss Celty." Kabuki said as she bowed. "My master and his friends have told us a lot about you."
"Uh...thank you." Celty typed. "And...welcome?"
The group headed up the stairs as a woman in white with a gas mask on her head took the groceries Celty was carrying. "Thank you so much, Celty."
"It's fine, Emilia." Celty said.
"Oh...but I'd wish you'd call me mother." she said.
"Uh...who is this chick?" Gajeel asked.
"Oh. We never met. My name is Emilia. I'm Shingen's second wife." she said.
"Uh...good to meet ya." Rainbow said remembering her one encounter with Shingen. As they entered the apartment, they saw an assortment of people inside.
"Hmm. An assortment of people here. Walker, Saburo, Seiji, Mika, Namie, Shingen, Egor. There's so many people here." Jexi said.
"Ah, welcome home, Celty!" a voice said as they saw Shinra approaching them still bandaged and in a wheelchair.
"Yo, Shinra." Hope said.
"Hope, didn't think you wanted to come back." Shinra said.
"Well, Jexi wanted me to come because of your text. I know i couldn't stay away from here for long." Hope said.
"What are you talking about? I sent you the same text." Shinra said.
"Okay, what's going on here?" Celty typed.
"Well, where to start. When I came in, my step mom was already in the kitchen. Then Walker came in talking about how this place could be a secret base. Then Seiji and Mika came needing to get out of their place for awhile. Before I could ask them what they meant, my dad came in with Egor there." Shinra said.
"Ugh, someone please tell me what is going on?" Celty typed.
"Uh, we're putting you out. I think we'll go look for another place to stay." Seiji said before Celty walked to him.
"Look you tend to speak calmly in these kinds of situations. So let's have it. What are you and Mika doing here?" Celty asked with a hand on his shoulder.
"Get your hands off him, you no good miserable pig!" Namie shouted.
"Relax Namie. Its platonic. Tell me why you're here!" Celty typed.
"Well, I think I would be happy to explain that." Shingen said. "Me and a few friends decided to go teach the man who hurt you a lesson, Shinra. I gave them a good old thrashing. Sure I could have sued the pants off that bastard but the last thing you and Celty need are the law poking around."
"Uh...what's he talking about?" Continella asked.
"Wait, I saw this on the news yesterday. Oh, here it is!" Indigo said showing a video on her phone.
"This afternoon, in a residential area in Shinjuku, several smoke bombs were detonated sending residents into a panic. According to eye witnesses, three men in white labcoats were seen fleeing the area soon after." the newsman said before Shingen turned off Indigo's phone. After which he was suspended by black tentacles from Celty's body.
"Whoa! Whoa! Can we please talk about this?" Shingen asked.
"Celty, those were my smoke grenades that went off yesterday. So I am the one you should be upset with." Egor said.
"Uh...who is this guy?" David asked.
"Where are my manners. My name is Egor. Me and Simon go back many years." Egor said.
"Nice to meet you." Leanne said.
"Nice to see ya again." Gemini said.
"Likewise." Egor said.
"Now that this is done with, I have something to ask you Namie." Celty typed.
"I have no reason to lend you an ear...woops, I mean an eye." Namie said.
"Woman! You realize you are in my house right now?! You stole my head and I want it back! Izaya Orihara has it doesn't he?" Celty typed.
"I don't have to tell you anything." Namie said.
"Come on sis, I want to know too." Seiji said.
"Seiji...okay. I had it the night I ran away from you and then gave it to Izaya." Namie said.
"Seriously?" Celty and some of the heroes asked.
"Yes. I can't tell you where it is cause it never says in one place. Sometimes he would bring it to the office and throw it around like a ball." Namie said.
"What?!" Rainbow said.
"Ulp… i think I'm gonna be sick…" Odd said.
"All this time...Izaya's had the head. The one person we never suspected was Izaya!" Pinkie said.
"How dare he?! You can't treat someone's head like that!" Celty typed.
"Bastard. Who does he think he is? I'll kill him." Seiji said.
"No, Seiji. You have so much to live for. But I would gladly kill him and go to jail for you." Namie said.
"Some big sister you are." Celty typed.
"Why don't you bring this up with the unlicensed doctor? He helped take it." Namie said.
"Yeah, let's not mention it." Shinra said.
"Trust me, he hasn't escaped my wrath." Celty said.
"If by that, you mean the two of you fornucated like a couple of wild rabbits." Namie said.
Celty's helmet blew off as black smoke erupted from her. "HOW DID YOU KNOW?!" she typed in shock.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" David said. "Everybody just calm down!"
"Yeah. Besides, she's more like a gentle little bunny." Shinra said before a black tentacle was blocking his mouth.
"Quiet! That is not the kind of talk we have with company around." Celty typed.
"Excuse me...but what do you and my son do in bed? I'm asking as your doctor." Shingen said.
"You and your son are pervs!" Celty typed.
"Hey, no one brings up anything sex related, alright?!" Hope said.
"Uh...excuse me...but what's this about your head?" Walker asked as everyone calmed down and explained it. "What? You mean your body is dating Doctor K while at the same time your head is dating Izaya?"
"Seriously, Walker. What did he just say?" David said.
"And it's not like that. My head and body have separate minds. I don't feel that kind of stuff happening to my head." Celty typed.
"This is some weird stuff i'm hearing." Hope said.
"You aren't the only one." Jexi said.
"Yeah. This is bizarre even for us." David said.
Things were soon calming down as they discussed things more smoothly.
"Okay, so Walker, you and the driver guy came over here to try and find the guy who ran Kyohei over and some wacko attacked you. Then you guys came over to think things over for awhile." Celty typed.
"Wait, hold on. After all this time, you don't even know my name?" Saburo asked.
"I don't." Celty typed.
"Geez. Its Saburo. Saburo!" Saburo said.
"Right. And Namie, you say your uncle and some secretary to some guy named Yodogiri tried to kidnap you. Seiji and Mika, you guys got tipped off that someone wanted to kidnap you too." Celty typed.
"Actually, Mika was the one who found out." Seiji said.
'Yeah. I bugged Yagiri Pharmaceuticals and overheard it. I was so scared." Mika said.
"And tonight we found out Izaya's a bigger snake than we realized. When I find him, I'm gonna kick his ass and then take back Celty's head." Natsu said.
"Shizuo will probably want you to save some for him." Lloyd said.
"I doubt it. Haven't you heard? He was arrested yesterday." Saburo said.
"How did that happen? Sure, he's crazy strong and tends to cause some damages, but he'd never intentionally hurt anybody." Zelos said.
"It was on the forums on the Dollars site. There were even photos to prove it." Walker said.
"First I've heard of it. Then again, I don't even look at that site." David said. He remembered that he had access to it after his encounter with Akabayashi.
"I wouldn't be too worried. This happens sometimes with Shizuo. He'll be out of there in no time when they realize he hasn't done anything wrong." Jexi said.
"I hope so. We need him to help with Izaya. He's the only one who can actually be equal to him in terms of fighting." Hope said.
"You guys...I think I have an idea. Let's team up! Join forces and stuff. What do you think?" Shinra asked.
"What, and be like the Dollars?" Saburo asked.
"Not like that at all. We could all pool our resources and share information. I guess...sort of like a guild?" Shinra asked.
"That...actually makes more sense." David said.
"I love it! A guild! Swords! Dragons! Fantasy!" Walker said.
"Next, we should appoint a leader and I think it should be Celty." Shinra said.
"What?" Celty asked.
"It's not like you'll have to give orders or anything. You'll be the one everyone reports to. You are tied into everything in this city and the only one to make sense of it all." Shinra said.
"Is everyone okay with this?" Celty typed.
"No complaints here." David said.
"You are the only one who can solve all of this." Aelita said.
"Well, if everyone's fine with it. I guess I am too." Celty typed.
"Yes! Everyone we're a guild!" Walker said as they all clapped.
"Well, its great to see everyone happy." Hope said.
"Hope...I was wondering...could you and I head to the hospital tomorrow. I want to visit Kyohei." Sonia said.
"I'll go, too. I know Erika's going to be there." Sectonia said.
"Okay, then I guess we know where we're gonna be tomorrow." Hope said.
But as the night grew long, they did not know that all of these events were to lead to a massive confrontation.