~ Prologue 1 – Arisu Returns to the Distorted City ~
A year has passed since the Shinra agents Reiji Arisu, son of Shougo Arisu, and Xiaomu the Mystic Fox Sage, along with many other heroes from different worlds of time and space stopped Ouma's plan to merge all worlds, as well as defeated mortal enemies of the other worlds. After their celebration, everything returned to originality and everyone went back to their own worlds to continue on with their lives. However this end came with a price, because of the worlds' many actions, the once maintained balance of the universe began to slowly disrupt, which would soon be the start of a new threat. Now, the Shinra Organization has once again sent Reiji & Xiaomu on another mission to investigate another supernatural activity, but one that's completely different from what they've been dealing with in the past. Reiji is now at the crime scene in Shibuya, standing at the center of the large scramble crossing with the "closed city" as quiet as a ghost town.
[ Japan ~Modern Era~ – Shibuya, Tokyo ]
[ BGM: Project X Zone 2 - Facing the Wind ]
"So this is what the recon team left us with, the usual spot, or should I say the gateway to most otherworldly phenomena…" Reiji said as he looked around, only to notice his partner Xiaomu was nowhere to be seen, not to his surprise. "Where the hell is she anyways?"
"Right here, right here Reiji…." Xiaomu said with a bored tone as she approached Reiji.
"Xiaomu you do realize running off to the nearby music store doesn't exactly make the mission any quicker, right?" Reiji said with slight frustration.
"W-wait, how did you….oh who am I kidding, Reiji who cares, the big bad Ouma Organization is long gone, and lately our missions have been minor, kinda like those never-ending side quests, but without the EXP." Xiaomu answered with her hands behind her back and a smile at the end.
Disregarding the example she added, Reiji said "…The recon team said this case was different from anything we usually deal with, this time it involves the civilians rather than worlds."
"Right, somethin' about people goin' on a rampage?" Xiaomu asked uncaringly.
"Some of the civilians are apparently undergoing an "inner hatred", but that's only been half of the city so far….mostly Tokyo according to them and the news reports." Reiji said.
"Well ya know what they say "Come to the dark side, we have cookies"…boy people must REALLY be craving cookies today." Xiaomu replied jokingly.
"….Shut up, Xiaomu." Reiji said with annoyance as he closed his eyes.
[ Destiny Islands ~Part Era~ – Middle of the sea ]
In order to counter the coming return of Master Xehanort, Yen Sid put Sora and Riku through the Mark of Mastery exam in order for them to become full-fledged Keyblade Masters. As part of this trial, the two are sent back to the Destiny Islands before it was swallowed by the darkness and became a Sleeping World. Additionally, they were reverted back to the age they were when the world was destroyed, so they could relearn old and new skills. Avoiding their past selves, they decided to take the raft out to sea before the Heartless arrive.
"Riku, a storms coming." Sora said as he kneeled and looked at the water.
"I know, the waves are getting steep, furl the sail." Riku said as he stood behind him.
"Right." Sora acknowledged.
[ BGM: Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD ReMix – Night of Fate ]
Suddenly, a large shark's fin that was designed in a blue tattoo-like pattern jets out of the water from behind and rips through the raft's sail, breaking it apart before it dives back into the water. Now stranded in the middle of the sea, Sora looks up and sees Riku in the water, holding onto the mast for his life.
"Riku!"
"I'm fine…what was that?!"
The water starts to churn violently as lightning flashes, and slowly a large gray shark with blue patterns sticking from the side of its eyes, as well as its fin, rises from the deep. Both Sora and Riku both were cautious but also confused, not recognizing the shark at all.
"Is that what attacked us, what is that thing, a Heartless?!" Sora said as he turned to Riku, but then immediately asked, "Is this the test?"
"Come on, you can work it out later!" Riku said as he managed to stand on top of the floating mast.
The aggressive shark noticed Riku and pursuits the Keyblade wielder at high speed by diving under the water, with Riku unable to see it. However, Riku anticipated its attack by jumping into the air as the shark sends its head out of the water to make an attempt to bite the Keyblade wielder. Riku manages to land on the sharks head and slashed its face a couple times with his Keyblade, Way to the Dawn, before he flipped back onto the raft with Sora, who equipped himself with his Keyblade, the Kingdom Key.
The shark then circles around the raft with Sora and Riku prepared for its next attack, as it once again jumped out of the water aiming towards the two Keyblade wielders with its jaws wide open. Sora immediately jumps towards it and dodges to the side before he strikes the shark back down into the water as he then snickers.
"This is too easy, we're off to a good start eh Riku?" Sora bragged to his friend.
"Stay focused Sora!" Riku said as he looked around waiting for the shark to attack again.
The shark had quickly emerged from the water but this time he crunched its teeth onto the raft, continuously biting it apart.
"Hey, get off our raft!" Sora yelled as he ran towards the shark and starts swinging his Keyblade, strike the shark's large head, but it wasn't enough to get the shark off. However, as Sora balled his fists up, he moved back and said to Riku, "Riku, strike after me okay?!" The Keyblade wielder pointed his Keyblade towards the shark and launched a fireball into its mouth as it screeched loudly, removing its mouth from the half eaten raft before Riku leaps over Sora with a cry and slashes the shark with his Blizzard Edge, knocking the creature back as it screeched in pain and eventually fades out eerily. "Yeah, we did it Riku...Riku?" Sora looks to his silent friend with slight concern, but it was then that Riku thought to himself.
"(That couldn't have been a Heartless, or part of Yen Sid's test…..something's about that monster feels off…)"
[ BGM: Project X Zone 2 – The Gate of Resolved Fates ]
"Ugh!" Riku notices too late as the waves get rougher and toss about the raft, sending the two underwater with no way to escape. As the storm rages above with thunder and lightning, Sora and Riku drop down through the water, but then suddenly a bright keyhole appears and their keyblades flash into their hands. Almost with minds of their own, they aim at the keyhole and shoot a beam of light towards it, engulfing everything around them.
[ Japan ~Modern Era~ – Shibuya, Tokyo ]
Reiji and Xiaomu continued their search for the source of the "inner hatred", but they've had no such luck so far starts to become impatient and complains, much to Reiji's annoyance.
"Quit your complaining Xiaomu, the mission briefing didn't state anything about "quick and easy" last time I checked." Reiji said to his partner.
"My mystic fox senses have not tingled for the past 25 minutes since we've been here, Reiji!" Xiaomu jokingly complained, but then suddenly she sensed something nearby and said, "Hold on….oh a strange presence, alright creeps show yourselves!"
[ BGM: Namco X Capcom - Enveloping Dark Clouds ]
Suddenly, four dark clouds appeared and surrounded the agents causing them both to move back until they backed up onto each other taking out their weapons. Reiji pulled out his shotgun Hollywood, and his magnum Gold, and held them both while crossing his arms keeping an eye on the clouds. Xiaomu took out one of her two pistols, Silver, and held it up to her chin while she stuck out her pinky finger, smiling in a calm manner.
"There, now you have nothing to complain about." Reiji said in response to Xiaomu's complaining.
"Yup, three clouds of darkness, least they're not wicked entities blabbering "We shall devour your light, and use it to return this world to the Void!" he he…right?" Xiaomu asked curiously.
Each of the four clouds then formed individually into a humanlike figure, with red glowing eyes, and proceeded to a fighting stance, ready to attack the agents.
"Uh oh they're battle ready, Reiji I'm sensing MAJOR hate from these guys!" Xiaomu said.
"No kidding, evidently they're hostile which means we're gonna have to fight, but since you mentioned hate, you think these guys are connected to that "inner hatred"?" Reiji asked his partner.
"Hmmm…might be, it's hard to tell since ya know, they're a new bunch of baddies we know squat about…shall we do the old "Incase We're Surrounded" secret arts?" Xiaomu suggested jokingly.
"I wouldn't call it secret, but alright, let's go!"
With that said, Reiji and Xiaomu unload their guns with a storm of bullets on their approaching enemies, switching positions every couple shots. After that, their guns started to smoke out from the barrels, and with enough damage each of the human shaped clouds faded away one by one, but only for four more to reappear around the area, not much to their surprise.
"Of course, there's more of them, because that wasn't awfully easy at all." Xiaomu said sarcastically.
"Save the sarcasm for another time…" Reiji said.
[ Music Stops ]
Suddenly a red light flashed around them.
"What the…Xiaomu did you see that red flash just now?" Reiji asked as he looked towards Xiaomu, completely thrown off by it.
"Yeah, remind me to give Mr. Allen a good talking to about violating the laws of physics….whoa, hold on a second, I'm getting an even stranger vibe all of a sudden…and not the dark creep kind these new freaks are giving!" Xiaomu sensed as she turned and looked towards the large Shibuya 109 building, just to notice it's now called "104" and then the billboard's sign before she said, "10…4?!...h-hey Reiji, was that sign there before?"
THE TIME LIMIT IS 7 DAYS
"Seven days eh, I don't recall the recon team mentioning anything about mysterious countdowns, Xiaomu what exactly was that "stranger vibe" you caught?" Reiji asked as he observed the area, keeping an eye on the monsters.
"It's like, this IS Shibuya but then it's….NOT Shibuya, it's weird, but eh what else is new when ya walk into the infamous "closed city"?" Xiaomu said as she smiled.
Suddenly from above, a hooded man with black wings on his back descends to the ground and immediately spots the Shinra agents as he remains quiet.
"Maybe that hooded stranger has something to do with it…hey, who are you?" Reiji asked the mysterious hooded man.
[ BGM: Project X Zone 2 – Accelerating Chaos ]
The hooded man simply lifted his hands up as four red symbols appeared around him, summoning strange green frogs with blue tattoos for their hind legs as they crawl out of the symbols and hop onto the scramble crossing. The hooded man then put his fists up entering a fighting stance as he said, "Engaging unidentified target…."
"Well hello to you too young man, I can tell you're not very respected in the welcoming committee!" Xiaomu said slightly angered by the hostility.
"We'll figuring this out later, for now we're gonna have to continue the usual and clean this mess up, you ready?" Reiji said as he loaded his gun.
"I'm pretty sure you mean "unusual", we are Shinra agents after all Reiji." Xiaomu said jokingly.
Two of the human-shaped clouds started shooting ghastly blasts towards Reiji as he dashed towards them, but he jumped over the blasts and started shooting from his magnum with each bullet directly causing one of the humanoids to vanish. The other tried to sneak attack Reiji from behind, but the Shinra agent anticipated it and immediately slashed the monster in half with a double slash before it vanished. Xiaomu uses both her pistols, Silver and Platinum, to successfully shoot at the remaining clouded humanoids and chuckles afterwards, only for one of the weird frogs to leap onto Xiaomu's face, and then leap off, damaging her face as she holds it out of disgust.
"Xiaomu, are you alright?!" Reiji asked out of concern.
"Y..yuck, that thing touched my beautiful…YOU GUYS BETTER NOT HAVE THE COOTIES OR SO HELP I'LL…." Xiaomu yelled angrily as tears were shown on her face, but was then interrupted…
"GET THE HELL OUTTA MY WAY YO! A young loud voice yelled out from behind the Shinra agents.
[ BGM: The World Ends With You - Calling ]
Quickly riding passed the Shinra agents on a skateboard was a teenage boy wearing baggy clothes, a hat with a skull on it, and wore a skull chain around his neck. The teenager then began spinning himself around on his skateboard while striking three of the frogs away before they each dispersed in a black digital-like manner, leaving one more behind him. The last frog attempted jump onto the teenager's back, but he used his right hand to turn himself around and lunge forward on his skateboard, striking the monster away with it before it dispersed. The teenage boy balled his right fist up and exclaimed, "Hell yeah, dat was tight!"
"Tight, what kind of street slang are kids learning these days?" Xiaomu asked in confusion from the teen's vocabulary.
"Hey, this city's closed off to the public, get home kid!" Reiji said to the teenager.
"Who the hell you callin' kid, I ain't one of those obedient ass brats dat always listen to da grown-ups ya dig?!" The teenager said rebelliously but then realized something was off and said, "….Wai-hold up, who are you guys, you bossin' me around wit that Reaper bullshit?!"
"Reaper, I don't follow." Reiji said confused.
"I think he just called you the Grim Reaper Reiji, your skills made you a natural…well…thanks to me of course." Xiaomu said praising herself.
"Not Grim Reaper you dumbass, Reapers…REAPERS!" The teenager boy said frustrated by Xiaomu's obliviousness.
"Jeepers Creepers, where'd you get THOSE sneakers?!" Xiaomu said jokingly but irritated by the teen's outbursts.
"That story is about as old as your age pipsqueak…" Reiji said to Xiaomu before he returned his attention towards the teenager and said, "We're not "Reapers", but you seem to know what's going on around here…mind filling us in afterwards, we've got unfinished business with that hooded ruffian."
"Aight, fine…wait hooded ruffed up what?"
The teenager turned and immediately recognized the hooded person who became hostile and said, "Traitor found, prepare to die Daisukeno-"
"BWAAAH! Dontchu say it!" The teenager exclaimed out of embarrassment before he got angry and said, "It's Beat, I'm gonna make you remember dat Reaper, and then you're gonna tell me where you took Neku!"
"I don't know what you're talking about, but your fate is sealed traitor!"
The Reaper had then lifted his hands up again as two large red symbols appeared next to him, summoning two massive bears with orange tattoos for arms called Mosh Grizzlies that rushed towards the Shinra agents. The Reaper then started to flap his wings into the air and fired blasts towards Beat, but he immediately jumps onto his skateboard and hops into the air before dashing his way towards the Reaper, attempting to hit him with his skateboard, but the hooded attacker blocked the attacks and knocked Beat back as he landed on his rear.
"Ouch, you son of a…." Beat exclaimed but stopped to see that the Reaper was firing blasts at him again, putting his right hand in front of his face and bracing himself, however…
[ BGM: Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD ReMix – Night of Fate ]
A glowing sphere of darkness had moved in front of Beat out of nowhere and transformed itself into the Keyblade wielder, Riku, who wore different clothing this time which consisted of a white vest with a large black collar, a yellow back, and a black stripe along the bottom as well as around each arm hole. Riku then uses the power of darkness to generate a spherical barrier around him and Beat, blocking the blasts. Beat moved his hand away and noticed Riku had saved him and said, "Da hell, where'd you come from yo?" Riku didn't bother to turn back and answered, "Ask questions later…"
"Another unidentified target, continuing combat…" the Reaper said as he started firing rapid blasts from both his hands this time.
"Shit, look out man!" Beat yelled towards Riku, however Riku transforms himself back into a sphere of darkness and ascends towards the flying Reaper left and right, dodging each of the blasts. Once Riku got in front of the now defenseless Reaper, he knocked the hooded attacker higher into the air with his Keyblade and then slashed him downward. Beat uses this opportunity to lunge himself forward on his skateboard and knocks the Reaper back and he fell onto the ground, knocked out.
Riku landed safely on the street as Beat ran towards him and said, "Yo you got some skills, are you a Player too?"
Riku turned to the skateboarder and answered, "A Player…no, where am I anyways, what world is this?"
"Wuzzat, you mean you don't know anything about the UG, or the Reaper's Game, or those Noise over attackin' those cop actin' people?" Beat said as he pointed towards the Mosh Grizzlies.
"Noise, those monsters…their arms pattern look just like that shark that attacked me and my friend back in our world…come on, let's help them out." Riku said as he ran towards the fight.
Meanwhile, one of the Mosh Grizzlies raises one of its arms and attempts a wide slash through Reiji, however the Shinra agent uses his Lightning Quick Kata technique and dashes through the attack with lightning speed, before he appears behind the Grizzly Noise and thrusts his flaming Japanese sword, Karin, through the Mosh Grizzly as flames start to burn around it before its knocked back. However, barely effected the Mosh Grizzly growls and attempts to slash Reiji again, but from behind it, Xiaomu uses her Suiren swordstick to slash waves knocking the monster back and then traps the Grizzly Noise in a magic rectangular symbol. This allowed Reiji to fire continuously at the Mosh Grizzly with his guns before Xiaomu finishes it off with an upward slash, cutting the trap and the Grizzly Noise in two before it dispersed.
The other Mosh Grizzly was ready to attack them as it let out a loud roar, but Beat jumped onto its back while on his skateboard and slammed it down as he rode over it, he and Riku then approaches the Shinra agents.
"Yo you guys okay?" Beat asked.
"We're holding up alright, now who are you guys?" Reiji asked.
"The name's Beat yo, I don't know this guy though he just appeared outta nowhere…kinda like you guys did." Beat answered.
"It's Riku…" Riku answered coldly as he crossed his arms.
Xiaomu asked curiously as she looked at Riku's Keyblade.
"You might want to save the questions for later…" Riku said as he slightly turned his head to notice the Mosh Grizzly getting back up to fight, but then…
"Whoa, Reiji…!" Xiaomu said with a surprisingly concerning tone.
"What's wrong, you sense something else approaching?" Reiji asked Xiaomu.
"The strangest thing I've sensed today, in years…come out dark creatures, I know you're hiding!" Xiaomu yelled.
[ BGM: Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD ReMix – Destiny's Force ]
Suddenly, the sky began to turn dark, much to everyone but Riku's surprise as he showed a shocked expression on his face, recognizing this atmosphere. A large dark dimensional pool started to slowly appear on the ground from below the Mosh Grizzly, emitting darkness in the form of misty black and violet wisps as it dragged the Grizzly Noise down to its demise. Then rising from the darkness was a massive, muscular, humanoid with black skin called a Darkside. There was a large, heart-shaped hole in the humanoid's abdominal area, which penetrated straight through from the front to the back. The humanoid's head was covered in dozens of twisted, black, tentacles and only its small, glowing yellow eyes were visible. It used its long arm to punch the ground as it created a pool, summoning a group of little humanoid creatures with the same glowing yellow eyes as its summoner called Shadows.
"Woah woah what the hell, these ain't Noise!" Beat yelled in shock.
"They may be reinforcements with those new cloud beings we fought earlier, regardless they don't seem very friendly." Reiji said.
"…Because they're not, these are beings from my world called the Heartless…they must've followed me here somehow." Riku said before he thought to himself, "(But that's impossible, Yen Sid said the barrier to the Realm of Sleep couldn't even be penetrated by the likes of the Heartless, unless this isn't…!)"
"Crap, just as I thought, everything's becoming unstable again and could be sealed off at any moment…I can only wonder what's causing it this time." Reiji said, but then he unsheathed his Karin sword and continued…
[ BGM: Project X Zone 2 – Arisu in Fluxtown ]
"Nonetheless, it's up to us as noble Shinra agents to stop otherworldly threats that'll harm humanity...Xiaomu, let's finish off this giant menace." Reiji said ready for battle.
"Don't have to tell me twice, I always love the giant boss battles, because now I can bring out the big guns and get those bonus points!" Xiaomu said with excitement.
"Man ya'll are weird, but I ain't one to run from a fight, lezz do dis man." Beat said to Riku as he moved forward on his skateboard.
"Yeah, sure." Riku said before he thought to himself again and said, "( He kinda remains me of Sora, always ready to take any chance without a second thought…Sora, where are you? )"
As Beat dashes towards the group of Shadows, Riku follows behind him and points his Keyblade forward to launch a single ball of dark flame that splits apart and ignites some of the Shadows. With dark flames lying on the ground from Riku's dark magic, as Riku leaps into the air and fires two more balls towards the remaining Shadows, Beat rides onto the dark flames from the ground and spins himself around, creating a dark spinning flame from his skateboard as he continuously attacks the Shadows before he finishes them off by flipping backwards on his skateboard, while trailing the dark flames upward as the Shadows vanish.
Meanwhile the Darkside creates a dark force in the heart-shaped hole, which then fires blasts of dark energy as they target everyone. Xiaomu ran towards the Darkside, jumped into the air and cut through some of the dark blasts with her Suiren as the blasts instantly split in half and disappeared. The Mystic Fox then exclaimed, "Xiaomu Kick!" as she rocketed towards the Heartless and kicked it in the face, causing its head to move back a bit before it slowly moved back up as Xiaomu yelled, "My precious attack lead to no avail, curse you and your high defense stats you beast!"
The Darkside then reaches his right arm out and attempts to slam it towards Xiaomu, who gave a dumbfounded look as she quickly dodged out of the way, but the Heartless's hand goes through the ground as it pulls a dark energy orb as it launches it into the sky, causing it to disperse into spiked orbs raining to the ground. Everyone but Riku got out of the way of the raining orbs as Beat called out to him and said, "Yo you wanna die or somethin', get your ass away from it!"
[ BGM: Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD ReMix – Fragments of Sorrow ]
"No, don't let fear stop you, I wasn't afraid of the darkness before…and I'm not afraid of the darkness to this day!" Riku said as he body is surrounded by a dark aura while he floated in the air.
"Yo are you serious bro?!" Beat yelled.
"What is that kid doing, I can hardly reach him with those orbs closing in on him….tch, Xiaomu wait here!" Reiji said and ran towards the battle.
"What?! Reiji hold on!" Xiaomu yelled to her partner.
Beat watched as Riku still remained floating and thought to himself, "(Damn it, I don't even know dis dude, tho at da same time he don't know me either but saved me from that Reaper….them orbs is gettin' to close, if I go and save him…will I end up erased…like Rhyme did savin' my ass….)" The skateboarder had looked down, balled his fists up irritated by the situation as he growled and yelled, "PLAYER OR NOT, YOU AIN'T GETTIN' ERASED HERE YO!"
Beat immediately runs towards Riku while holding his skateboard, as some of the orbs that landed on the ground created pools of darkness, but the skateboard managed to evade enough of them to jump and reach his hand out to Riku and said, "Yo, you're gonna form a pact with me, whether you like it or NOT!" With that, as soon as Beat grabbed Riku's arm as the Keyblade wielder said "Hey, what are you…!" a binding force caused their surroundings to engulf into light.
[ BGM: The World Ends With You – Long Dreams ]
[ Start at 0:15 ]
Suddenly the light fades as Beat and Riku are within a gray space with the Darkside's attack cancelled off. Beat chuckles using this opportunity to jump into the air and throws his arms down as chains appear out of nowhere surrounding the area as the chains cross through the giant Heartless leaving him trapped. Beat hops onto the chains with his skateboard and said, "The beat is on!" as Riku does the same with both of them riding through the chains. They both strike the Heartless as they pass through it while riding on the chains, attacking it six times until they both cross paths again, give one last strike simultaneously through the Darkside before they both jump off. Riku then hovers in front of the trapped Heartless while surrounded by a dark aura and said, "No more fooling around, it ends here!" Riku lifts his Keyblade up as he rushes the Darkside with strikes from all directions, and finishes by plunging his weapon into the ground, releasing a pillar of dark energy to damage the Heartless as the chains break from the columns of energy that disperses, reverting everything including the atmosphere back to normal as the Darkside slowly vanishes from defeat.
~ Super Attack: Chain Attack (Fusion) & Dark Aura ~
( Riku & Beat )
[ BGM: Project X Zone 2 - Because It's the Right Path ]
"Alright, now that everything's cleaned up, let's get down to the chase…where did you two come from?" Reiji asked Beat and Riku.
"Before we even answer any more than what's already been said, who are you people, and what world is this?" Riku asked.
"My name is Reiji Arisu, and this is Xiaomu, we're agents of the Shinra Organization that handle situations like this on a daily...and you're in Shibuya, the city's supposed to be closed off due to abnormal activities such as what was just witnessed today." Reiji answered.
"Shinra, Shibuya…can't say I've heard of them." Riku said as he looked away.
"Never heard of this "Chin-Ra", but I'm from around here, not exactly from "dis side" of Shibuya though." Beat said.
""Dis side?!" can you speak proper English please, didn't they teach you this in school?!" Xiaomu asked irritated by Beat's vocabulary.
"Nah, I flunked…" Beat said as he scratched the back of his head, with Xiaomu put her hand over her face.
"What did you mean by "this side of Shibuya" Beat?" Reiji asked out of curiosity.
"Dis side is called the Underground, it exists only for us Players brought from the dead, and those Reapers runnin' shit….we're all part of this stupid game called the Reapers' Game, a competition where Players do missions for a week…or else we get erased if we screw up ya dig?" Beat explained before he looked down in thoughts of his sister, Rhyme.
"W-wait, you mean you're actually dead?!" Xiaomu asked before she thought for a moment and then said, "WAIT DOES THAT MEAN WE'RE ACTUALLY DEAD TOO?! BUT I HAD SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR!"
"I highly doubt that, but from what I understand so far is that we were somehow dragged into a parallel plane of existence of Shibuya, probably due to the unstable force on our side of Shibuya…but then you're world somehow got connected as well Riku?" Reiji said.
"Yeah…my friend and I were taking part in the Mark of Mastery Exam, part of it was being brought back to the past and as we started…we were attacked by a monster similar to those bears…and then we drowned, got separated…I ended up here thanks to my keyblade." Riku explained to everyone as he looked at his Keyblade before he asked, "Have any of you seen him, my friend Sora, has spikey hair, and holds a Keyblade as well…kinda acts like you except the weird way you talk."
"Wuzzat, what's wrong wit how I talk?!" Beat asked out of anger.
"Do I have to answer the lost list of wrongs from that question?!" Xiaomu said irritated.
"…Unfortunately we haven't, you and Beat are the only people we've seen since this whole mess started, and then these new monsters added to that." Reiji answered.
"I didn't think I'd run into the Heartless again." Riku said.
"You mean those shadow creatures, they seem to be a big deal in your world." Reiji said.
"That's right, they're mindless beings born from the darkness within people's hearts, negative emotions, and they consume hearts to create more of them." Riku explained.
"Negative emotions, I think that's what brought the Heartless here in the first place, we're currently investigating a case that involves an "inner hatred" that's effecting this city, and those clouds we fought is our only lead." Reiji said as he looked at Xiaomu before he continued, "I have a feeling this is gonna be another long case just like last year's."
"Not gonna lie, I'm actually kinda happy, things started to get pretty boring around here lately." Xiaomu said with excitement.
"We should probably return to base to report…Riku, until we figure out a way to bring you back to your world its best you come with us back to headquarters." Reiji said before he turned to Beat and said, "Beat, is there a way for us to get out of here?"
"Only Reapers got dat kinda power to go between the Underground and da Realground, if you wanna get out of here quick then you gotta become a Reaper yourself…." Beat said before he quickly realized something and held his head before he yelled, "AH SHIT I COMPLETELY FORGOT, MY FRIEND NEKU, AND THOSE REAPERS TOOK HIM AWAY….!" Beat had turned and noticed the Reaper that attacked everyone was already gone, then he looked around before he became frustrated and said, "Damn it, he got away!"
"We'll run into him again, for now we should get going." Reiji said as everyone followed.
When everyone went on ahead, Riku stopped and looked back at the intersection as if someone was there watching him as he thought to himself, "(This is all very confusing, that "Noise", the Heartless, not being in the Realm of Sleep, then Sora's missing…I have to figure this out quickly.)"
[ Music Stops ]
Meanwhile from above the 104 building, someone covered by a hooded black coat with a fairly tall and masculine build watches the group.
"How did you get here, by choice or by chance, regardless you cannot control what you aren't aware of…but these recent events that have transpired, can prove to be in our favor." The hooded man said before a group of Reapers had appeared behind him as they watched as well.