Sorry I'm late but I had school and piano and driving but I'm back and ready. so let us play a game. How many references to the original game did I make, not including characters or personality in it but things about them.
"Come on Phones, you gotta choose something! The faster you pick the fasterer I get to pick." Beat pleas, shaking the frail teens shoulders.
"Fasterer isn't a word Daisukenojo." Joshua states as if he's above the muscular teen.
Shiki puts a hand on Neku's spiky hair and ask, "What about it? The thing you told me about."
The ginger shoots his hands up out of his hands and sighs. "I don't think I'll like it Shiki."
"You'll never rest until you ask."
Neku looks at the Composer annoyed before his scowl turned into a frown. "Josh, what would happen if you never brought us back?" With that solemn question in the air the ashen blond face grows cold and he presses the button on his phone.
"Ai, hurry up! We have to save Shibuya!" A bandana wearing teen shouts as he runs at the horrendous noise like no tomorrow, fist pumping in the air as if he'd take on the world.
"SHOOTER!" The brunette college girl yells as tiredly trots up to the bundle of energy, "I-if you want to save the city then don't go getting yourself erased! We're partners you brat!"
The teenager stops his heroic sprinting and turns bashfully at his companion. The teenager catches up to him, gently holding his hand protectively around her own. The odd duo stare at the ignorant crowd together, each tightly holding the iconic black skull pin to their heart. The two smile gently at each other before walking slowly past the noise and towards 104.
"Ai..." Shooter asks quietly as the approach the tall building.
"Yeah." She hums gripping his hand tighter.
He gently tugs on her hand and complains, "I'm not a fifth grader anymore, I'm fifteen." She chuckles a bit before jabbing the pins on his orange hoodie playfully with her free hand.
"Yes, a fifteen year old who still plays tin pin."
"Oh shut up, you still like King. Aren't you kinda old for that?" Shooter comments with a bright grin.
"Hey!"
They reach the front of the shopping center, witnessing the vast sea of other players around them. They both notice people they've seen on the streets before but no one they personally know. "Just how many people die in Shibuya?" Shooter mumbles under his breath.
"Yo, it ain't just the people here who died. It's all of Tokyo's dead!"
Simultaneously the players swing their heads to the top of 104 searching for the source of the booming voice. A young teen about Shooter's age with a strong build rides a flying skateboard, looking down at the people like they were beneath him. Well more than they already are.
"Welcome to the game yo. I'm BEAT! Your game master this week!" The blond shouts, holding pointing at himself with his thumb.
"Let us go!"
"This is crazy!"
"What's going on?"
"Give us back our love ones!"
"I want my memories!"
"I want my company back!"
The players start screaming up at the reaper calling him a thief, a monster, and criminal. All of them screaming about their entry fees. Ai kneels down to her partner's hight and to whispers, "Does he look familiar to you?"
The brunette closes his eyes for a minute and frowns. "I don't think so Ai. I would remember a villain like him when I seen him."
"Oh. Okay."
Suddenly gasp where heard around the area as Beat jumps off the tower and slams to the ground unharmed. He scowls at the group and a now visible pink squirrel noise on his shoulder mimics his actions.
"Stop your complaining. Imma gonna tell it to ya straight. You died, you agreed, and you're sore losers. You wanna get your stuff then win!"
The cries escalated from complaints to full out threats. The reaper scowls at the crowd and snaps his fingers, the sound echoing through the masses. With that the players dropped to the floor one by one. A sudden tiredness fell upon out heroes, Ai fall first as she whispers, "Mina...". The last thing Shooter whiteness was a disappointed scowl at the ground and a hush sob.
"Phones..."
"What do you mean we can't pass!?" The tin pin obsessed teenager shouts at the pink haired wall reaper.
Said reaper glares poisonous daggers at the boy and starts shaking him by the collar, "The objective was to dress trendy not cosplay yourself as a power ranger!"
"I'm not some lame power ranger, I'm Black from Tin Pin Slammers you bi-"
Ai shook her hands in her face solemnly as she contemplated the incompetence of her partner. The kid was full of energy and positive but he had no culture. This boy was fifteen for God's sake, he should at least know that D&B was soooooo in. Then again the clothes this reaper was sporting were pretty hot. Where in the world did that reaper buy such a cute yellow jacket?
Come to think of it, just where do these reapers come from? She looks kind of like her college roommate but...younger.
"Just you wait! When I win Yammer back you'll regret manhandling me because he's gonna kick your sorry a-"
"Hey you," Ai calls out to the cat holding reaper, "I've been thinking, have you always been a wall guardian or something?"
The girl pauses her mangling for a moment before solemnly taking her eye away from the pair. "That reaction tells me I'm right, you used to be one of us."
"What are you talking about?" The teen ask in the strong grip. "There's noway a player would become on of the enemy."
"Shut up!" The reaper screeches, the stuff animal in her arms eyes turn and her wings expand. "What do you know huh?!"
Ai yanks her partner to her side and glared at the reaper. "I'm no Sherlock Holmes but I am perceptive. It doesn't take a detective to put two and two together."
"Is that true?" The teen asks aghast, covering his mouth with his fingerless gloved hands. "W-why? Why would you want to become a murderer!? Do you know how many people dyed because of you reapers? I saw a little girl and her mother ripped in half by one of those noise you create. Did you enjoy hurting people when you were alive?!"
Ai put a hand on his shoulder to calm him down, never taking here eyes off the wall reaper. She doesn't know why she's trying so hard to break this question in half but all she knows is that she has to.
Long pink hair. Her roommate Eri had that when they were in highschool.
Deep auburn eyes. Just like Eri.
A wonderful figure. Eri also has that.
And a sewing kit on her belt. Eri wanted to be a designer but she gave that up along time ago after an accident. She also wasn't skilled in sewing.
"Does the name Eri mean anything to you?" The twenty year old asks slowly, waiting for her reaction. The girl's eyes widen as tears begin to prick the ends of her eyes. Bingo. "It does doesn't it...Shiki."
"Ai, what are you doing?" Shuto whispers nervously. "I think she's going to kill us if you keep pissing her off."
"I'm getting us pass that wall. We're going to complete this mission no matter what. We just have to make it to cat street." Ai holds out the timer on her right hand for emphasis. Only one minute left.
The cat in her arms start to growl and the wall doesn't disappear. It shatters. "GET OUT OF MY FACE!" The broken reaper yells viciously as tears flow down her face. The two run for it once all the shards hit the pavement, Shuto Dan's acute hearing acting up once again.
"Neku... Why?"
The red bandana wearing teen oddly stares at the blank pin in his hand, wondering how it got in his jean pocket and where it came from.
"Well, well, well what do we have here." Shooter turns to see a blond pretty boy about his age walk over to them in the Tin Pin store. Immediately recognizing him, the teen waves frantically. "Kiryu-san!"
Ai walks over to the two boys and smiles. "So Shooter, who's this cutie?"
"Don't even try it old hag, he's too young for you." The hoodie wearing teen teases. "This is Kiryu-san! He and bro used to play Tin Pin with me and Yammer when we were kids. Man, he hasn't changed a bit."
"You have a brother?"
With a big silly grin on his face he elaborates. "No it's his friend Sakuraba-san, that's just what me and Yammer called him before he moved. Where have you been for the past five years man?"
"Oh you know, where ever Nekky goes I go."
"So you moved with him?"
"You can say that."
Ai looks at the beautiful teen when something catches her attention. Bright purple eyes. They look so inhuman.
"Is there something wrong with my face Ai." The ashen blond asks, holding his chin and smirking at her. She blushes brightly for a moment at being caught red handed.
"S-sorry. Your eye are just so beautiful."
"Why thank you. If you can excuse me Shuto, Ai. I have no time to reminisce about the past right now. I'll see you later." With that the lean teenager leave the two to themselves.
Shooter eyes widen for a moment and his fist clench on his player pin. "Ai?"
"Yeah?"
"Did you ever tell him your name?"
The last remaining pair run into the Dead Gods Pad, barricading the door behind them with all the furniture the see in the room. They ignore the burns and claws marks on their bodies as they scatter through the room. "What kind of messed up last mission is this?!" Shooter shouts as he helps Ai push a foosball table to the door. "Save the black angel from the Dead God, what the hell? Now every reaper is out for our head!"
"Yeah but I never thought a place like this was in the sewers." The tall girl states, looking at the fish floor.
"Never mind that Ai. The black angel is in here somewhere. We're so close!"
"I know." She says, "Just a little more Mina."
With that said the pair trash the room in a desperate attempt to find an angel they've never seen. Ai smashes down cabinets, tears the floor opens and turns every table. Shooter me while is standing still, staring to the front of the room the whole time. "Shooter! Hurry up! We're almost there! What are you doing?"
"Scan the room." He explains unemotionally, almost dead.
Ai does what she's told and represses a scream. In front of her is a boy boney with stunning orange hair and unhealthily pale skin is slump against a throne and chained to the wall, unmoving.
"Bro!" Shooter cries, running up to the teen and yanking the chains on his arms and legs desperately, the boy not moving one bit.
"Shuto Dan you stop that this instant and get away from him!" Ai screams as she runs up to her partner. "Take a better look around you!"
The teen stops his prying for a minute to realize that the room has changed. Long black web-like bones are patterned to the wall, seeming stuck or fused to it, tall pillars that seem to reach the heavens and hold the chains, a bight white light seeps through the cracks of the rock hard web. The large intricate pattern ending at the back on the shackled teen.
"T-the-they're h-his-"
"Reaper wings." A distorted voice brakes through the shocking atmosphere from behind the duo. A figure fades into the room from what looks like static and fills the two with a fear unlike no other. It was flowing with pure white energy and had the outline of an angel but it opened its mouth again and they no that it was no angel.
The moment it was fully phases into the room the cuffed boy gasps to life ,color re-entering his skin, and pulls on the chains. "W-what are you two doing here!?" He panics, pulling his arms forward.
"Nekky..." The horrid sound calls out to the sapphire eye boy. That awful awful voice. The pitch and volume is inconsistent, switching from high to low like a fragmented record. Noise, the only definition for the sound coming from it.
"J-JOSHUA DON'T HURT THEM!"
"Ohh my little Conductor, I'm not going to hurt them. Your idiotic friend Daisukenojo sent them here to 'save' you. So by promise I'll have to punish you again."The figure explains with a crazed look in his nearly visible eyes, floating closer to the trapped teen. "Turned into a reaper, chained to the throne, fused to the walls, hidden from sight and dead without my presence. I'm starting to believe you're enjoying this. The people don't deserve a cute gem like you"
Shuto and Ai jump in front of Neku ready to fight the being approaching. "I don't know who this kid is but your not hurting him anymore!" The female shouts with her white smart phone and stylist out for battle along with Shooter and his Tin Pin deck.
The monster starts laughing its hideous laugh, confusing the partners, before going right up to their faces and morphing into a familiar figure. Purple eyes bulge forth along with silky flaxen blond hair and creamy skin. The duo gasp at the boy close to them and jump back.
"Fine, I'll humor your heroic attempts but two against one is unfair. Don't you think Neku?" Joshua says in a smooth voice.
"AAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!" The duo teleport to their separate plains before they could turn to look at the captive.
The two phone users face each other; Joshua pressing numbers on an old orange cellphone as he floats above his opponent. Ai on the other hand writes words on her phone, running and skidding away from the heavenly beams.
"B-L-A-S-T" she writes in her phone, the attack directly hitting the pretty boy.
"You are gone!" Joshua yells as a light lands on the woman.
Meanwhile Shuto is dogging flames and thrust from his "bro" rarely attack him. Neku turns to Shooter with empty white eyes and tries to impale the brunette with his incredibly large needle-like wings.
"Bro snap out of it!"
The teen rapidly scratches one of his pins and is sending a flurry of hits to his opponent. The Conductor holds his arms over his body to protect himself. The blank pin shines with the pattern of a pen sketching and he presses it shouting,
"We're the heroes!"
"And your going down!" Ai shout as she feel the Lv. 1 fusion activate.
A large pen appears and scratches the enemy repeatedly at rapid fire speed causing a large amount of damage. Joshua falls to the ground hard and continues his assault of Jesus beams. The older woman whips her lipstick off and continues to doge ready for their fusion.
"You have to learn to conserve yourself little Ai-chan." The blond coos as rises in the air. "Work for you?"
"What do you think?"
The minute the words leave Neku's lips flaming meteors pound Shuto into the ground as he's helpless to defend himself. He quickly drinks a soda from one of his pins and get back up to use his own Lv.2 fusion. A picture of a hammer.
"Our goals are different." He says solemnly as his bro is no longer there.
"But out sacrifice is the same."
Hammers smash down repeatedly on her opponent enabling the adult to use her phone and heal her. Ai groans out as she strikes down the Composer again with another blast. "How does he keep getting up?" She thinks as she rapidly writes K-I-L-L in her phone to keep him down and hopefully get the final fusion. Black projectile constantly paralyze the teen, stoping him from touching his cell phone.
An electric shock courses through her veins and she cries,
"I'll see you in Heaven!"
"But first let's drag them into Hell!"
Shooter presses the holding hands on the pin and flys into the air the arena turning into a flaming inferno. The red head cries in agony at the burning, finding that he can't fly up and is sinking to the ground.
"Bro..."
Joshua is levitated into the sky and speared through his chest with heavenly arrows from the clouds, a godly light shining on him. He screams in his distorted noise mode, shifting into the monster he is.
"That'll show you." Ai grunts as she falls to her knees.
"Ai?"A petit black haired girl asks her best friend. "What's wrong? You're staring at that pin sewer again."
"Huh?"
"Yeah you old hag, come on we're going to be late." Shooter says gently, placing his right hand on top of the pin with a smile that explains what she needs to hear.
"Aww Ai has a Shota fetish~" the other girl teases as she pokes her best friend.
"Mina! Don't say things like that, Ai is out of Shooters league anyways." A strong looking brunette teen chuckles at his best friends shocked face.
Shuto, not really understanding what Mina means jumps up onto Hatchiko and proudly shouts, "I'm not really sure what you're talking about guys but I'm the best Shota. I mean it's only one letter away from my name!"
Bystanders pause and stare at the group agast, Ai blushing as she pushes them all into the Sunshine of the bus station. "Mina now look what you did! You of all people should know I like older men."
Mina giggles as she looks at the two teens next to her, one is incredibly confused while the other is laughing his ass off. She sighs contently and smiles at her. "Sorry, I know I shouldn't get you two so worked up after you both got discharged." she grins brighter when the taller brunette whispers something in the shooters ear and hits him upside the blushing.
"You know, if you didn't hit him with your motorcycle then you would have never became such good friends."
Ai stares towards the sewers sadly one last time and whispers "Thank you." Before she continues talking to her Mina about King's new movie. Shooter looks at the dog statues with a depressing frown as he recalls the event that saved them in the end and quietly cries "I'm sorry." They all walk further into the store with the game behind them and a gruesome memory for our losing team.
For they never completed their mission.
The group quietly looks at the blank screen, no one dares to utter a single word. Joshua looks away from the group, even he seems shaken by the outcome, as he refers to Beat by pointing at him with his phone. "It's your turn Daisukenojo."
Hey, thank for readying. I got lots of reviews and favorite and I really appreciate it. Keep up the awesome work and tell me what you what to see next. I promise it'll be quicker this time.