AN: Okay, I'm going to do a LITTLE reformating with the next chapter to see
if it will help you folks understand who's speaking better. Here's the 4th
chapter for you. Oh and another thing, if a chapter gets based on an Urban
Battle from the game, I will give you the heads-up in the title, okay?
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Soul of the Streets Chapter 4: Capture & Discovery
"Man, why do I have the feeling that I'm going to regret this?" Beat was skating through the fenced-in area and heading toward a cherry-picker that just happened to be in his sight, spray can in hand. "And Gemini had better not show off. When I taught her how to do the Graffiti Swipe, she took it one-up and figured out how to do it with no spray cans...geez..." Without him realizing it at first, he was soon shone upon by a sudden light, but it was the sound of a gun which brought Beat back to reality hard.
"Fire at will, men!" Beat yelped slighty at the command from the highest officer on the cherry-picker.
"Oh...SHIT!!!" In hopes to get out of the shooting in one piece, Beat turned around and skated in the other direction, until he was out of the range of the light and the gunfire. Beat's heart was pounding from the sudden panic he had just displayed. "Damn! That's what I get for allowing my train of thought to wonder off..." He looked back over toward the cherry- picker, making sure he didn't get close enough to get spotted by the light, when he saw a dark-skinned officer with skates looking down toward the ground, looking like he was feeling guilty for being who he was. Beat soon shifted his attention to something else when another officer, a higher- ranking one walked up toward the officer in skates.
"Why don't you go after that punk kid? You're the only one who can really catch him, Combo." Beat just shook his head in disbelief. Did he hear that right? Did that officer just call him Combo? The dark-skinned officer sighed and spoke with a monotone voice.
"Fine, but I've got the feeling that I'll regret it..." With those words spoken, the lower-ranked officer skated off toward Beat, who hid out of view. Beat watched as the skating officer took off his helmet and threw it as hard as he could down the street, while falling to his knees in despair.
"Man, what a predicament(sp?) I put myself in! If I don't find Beat, I'll be in major hot water with the Rokkaku Police. But if I DO find him, I would have to turn him in...I should have just stayed in that cell and found another way out..." Beat held his breath, hoping that he wouldn't be heard. Why the hell did Combo even THINK about putting on that uniform?! That's going to tarnish his reputation as a rudie and as a GG. Beat tried to control his breathing so that Combo wouldn't hear him, but that was his mistake. Combo turned around toward where Beat was hiding, recognizing who it was by the small part of skate that was still in view.
"Beat?" Beat winced at that. He was busted and he knew it, so he skated slowly into view with confused eyes.
"Combo, is that really you I see in that uniform? You'd better have a good reason for this..." Combo looked toward the ground, wishing he hadn't have been seen.
"Beat, I wish you weren't here right now...where's Gemini?" Beat turned around to see Gemini and Yo-yo in the distance, but he couldn't tell if they were standing or sitting.
"Why do you ask, Combo?" That's when he was hit on top of the head by something really hard. Beat hit the ground with a thud, laying spread-eagle on the asphalt. Combo put his helmet back on his head and gently picked up the redhead.
"I'm sorry, Beat. I have no choice." Combo skated back toward the highest-ranking officer in the area with Beat in his hands, a tear escaping his eyes in guilt and shame. Combo felt that he no longer deserved to be called either a rudie or a GG.
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"Yo-yo, please wake up..." Gemini had Yo-yo sitting back against a wall near the only tagged cherry-picker, like herself, and leaning on her right shoulder. She held Yo-yo's shades and her clear-framed eyeglasses in her right hand and was brushing through his soft, green hair with her gentle left hand. Yo-yo looked so adorable, so peaceful to her, she wished that this moment could last for longer than time, but she knew that it wouldn't be allowed. Something like this would never be allowed as long as the Rokkaku Police was around. She continued to pull her hand gently through his hair, when Yo-yo started to glow slightly with an indigo glow. Gemini jumped back, letting Yo-yo fall to his side, the glow ceasing. "What the flipping heck was that?!" She placed a finger above Yo-yo's eyes, which caused the glow to come back. The aura seemed faint, but she knew that a faint glow like this could be misleading. She got Yo-yo back into a sitting position against the wall, when she heard a faint mumbling coming out of him.
"Tigress...you silly cat..." Gemini raised an eyebrow at this.
"I wonder what Yo-yo's dreaming about..." If only she knew...
***Dream Scene: Yo-yo***
"Where am I?" Yo-yo looked around where he was in awe. He was in some type of labratory, the purpose for this place he didn't know until he turned around. What he saw was Beat strapped down to an operating table, protesting most profusely to his capture.
"Let me go, Dr. Avalon, before I call you something you don't like!" The female doctor turned around toward Beat.
"Listen, I don't have a choice in the matter. If I don't get a clone of you made soon, Rokkaku is going to hire another scientist and I will be taken out permenately. So deal." She reached for a needle filled with a yellow liquid, putting Beat on the verge of panicking.
"What are you going to do with that?"
"All this will do is put you to sleep, nothing else." She cleaned off the area where one would normally recieve a shot in the arm with a stertlizing(sp?) pad on Beat's left arm before she put the tip of the needle into one of his veins and injected the liquid into him. Beat winced from the pain, but in a minute he grew drowzy and fell asleep. Yo-yo gasped and went over to Beat's side.
"Oh, my lord...Beat, wake up...huh?" Yo-yo tried to shake Beat awake, but his hands went right through him. "How...is this a dream?" Dr. Avalon went right through him with another, empty needle and started to draw blood out of the redhead, which make Yo-yo close to fainting again.
"If I didn't have to do this, Beat, you would be free right now. But Rokkaku needs you later on, near the end of his plan, so I can't let you skate free again." The colors from the scene started to swirl, like they were going forward in time, until the colors stood still again with Yo-yo back in the labratory.
"Huh? How come I'm still...no." Yo-yo walked over to the operating table next to the one the still-sleeping Beat was laying on and got a good look at the girl on the table. "Gemini?" He soon heard a moan coming from Beat, who started to move around.
"What the hell...why do I feel like I was hit hard..." Beat looked over toward the operationg table to his right and gasped. "What that...who is she? Where did she come from?" Dr. Avalon smirked.
"Her name is Gemini Beat and she..is your clone."
***End Dream Scene***
Yo-yo started to stir into wakefulness as Gemini stood back up on her feet, ready to help Yo-yo get back up on his feet. Yo-yo looked up toward Gemini with a frown.
"Gemini, were you...created...by the Rokkaku Group?" Gemini looked down toward her white skates, her eyes closed and sighed.
"I wish I could say no. I'm sorry."
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Soul of the Streets Chapter 4: Capture & Discovery
"Man, why do I have the feeling that I'm going to regret this?" Beat was skating through the fenced-in area and heading toward a cherry-picker that just happened to be in his sight, spray can in hand. "And Gemini had better not show off. When I taught her how to do the Graffiti Swipe, she took it one-up and figured out how to do it with no spray cans...geez..." Without him realizing it at first, he was soon shone upon by a sudden light, but it was the sound of a gun which brought Beat back to reality hard.
"Fire at will, men!" Beat yelped slighty at the command from the highest officer on the cherry-picker.
"Oh...SHIT!!!" In hopes to get out of the shooting in one piece, Beat turned around and skated in the other direction, until he was out of the range of the light and the gunfire. Beat's heart was pounding from the sudden panic he had just displayed. "Damn! That's what I get for allowing my train of thought to wonder off..." He looked back over toward the cherry- picker, making sure he didn't get close enough to get spotted by the light, when he saw a dark-skinned officer with skates looking down toward the ground, looking like he was feeling guilty for being who he was. Beat soon shifted his attention to something else when another officer, a higher- ranking one walked up toward the officer in skates.
"Why don't you go after that punk kid? You're the only one who can really catch him, Combo." Beat just shook his head in disbelief. Did he hear that right? Did that officer just call him Combo? The dark-skinned officer sighed and spoke with a monotone voice.
"Fine, but I've got the feeling that I'll regret it..." With those words spoken, the lower-ranked officer skated off toward Beat, who hid out of view. Beat watched as the skating officer took off his helmet and threw it as hard as he could down the street, while falling to his knees in despair.
"Man, what a predicament(sp?) I put myself in! If I don't find Beat, I'll be in major hot water with the Rokkaku Police. But if I DO find him, I would have to turn him in...I should have just stayed in that cell and found another way out..." Beat held his breath, hoping that he wouldn't be heard. Why the hell did Combo even THINK about putting on that uniform?! That's going to tarnish his reputation as a rudie and as a GG. Beat tried to control his breathing so that Combo wouldn't hear him, but that was his mistake. Combo turned around toward where Beat was hiding, recognizing who it was by the small part of skate that was still in view.
"Beat?" Beat winced at that. He was busted and he knew it, so he skated slowly into view with confused eyes.
"Combo, is that really you I see in that uniform? You'd better have a good reason for this..." Combo looked toward the ground, wishing he hadn't have been seen.
"Beat, I wish you weren't here right now...where's Gemini?" Beat turned around to see Gemini and Yo-yo in the distance, but he couldn't tell if they were standing or sitting.
"Why do you ask, Combo?" That's when he was hit on top of the head by something really hard. Beat hit the ground with a thud, laying spread-eagle on the asphalt. Combo put his helmet back on his head and gently picked up the redhead.
"I'm sorry, Beat. I have no choice." Combo skated back toward the highest-ranking officer in the area with Beat in his hands, a tear escaping his eyes in guilt and shame. Combo felt that he no longer deserved to be called either a rudie or a GG.
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"Yo-yo, please wake up..." Gemini had Yo-yo sitting back against a wall near the only tagged cherry-picker, like herself, and leaning on her right shoulder. She held Yo-yo's shades and her clear-framed eyeglasses in her right hand and was brushing through his soft, green hair with her gentle left hand. Yo-yo looked so adorable, so peaceful to her, she wished that this moment could last for longer than time, but she knew that it wouldn't be allowed. Something like this would never be allowed as long as the Rokkaku Police was around. She continued to pull her hand gently through his hair, when Yo-yo started to glow slightly with an indigo glow. Gemini jumped back, letting Yo-yo fall to his side, the glow ceasing. "What the flipping heck was that?!" She placed a finger above Yo-yo's eyes, which caused the glow to come back. The aura seemed faint, but she knew that a faint glow like this could be misleading. She got Yo-yo back into a sitting position against the wall, when she heard a faint mumbling coming out of him.
"Tigress...you silly cat..." Gemini raised an eyebrow at this.
"I wonder what Yo-yo's dreaming about..." If only she knew...
***Dream Scene: Yo-yo***
"Where am I?" Yo-yo looked around where he was in awe. He was in some type of labratory, the purpose for this place he didn't know until he turned around. What he saw was Beat strapped down to an operating table, protesting most profusely to his capture.
"Let me go, Dr. Avalon, before I call you something you don't like!" The female doctor turned around toward Beat.
"Listen, I don't have a choice in the matter. If I don't get a clone of you made soon, Rokkaku is going to hire another scientist and I will be taken out permenately. So deal." She reached for a needle filled with a yellow liquid, putting Beat on the verge of panicking.
"What are you going to do with that?"
"All this will do is put you to sleep, nothing else." She cleaned off the area where one would normally recieve a shot in the arm with a stertlizing(sp?) pad on Beat's left arm before she put the tip of the needle into one of his veins and injected the liquid into him. Beat winced from the pain, but in a minute he grew drowzy and fell asleep. Yo-yo gasped and went over to Beat's side.
"Oh, my lord...Beat, wake up...huh?" Yo-yo tried to shake Beat awake, but his hands went right through him. "How...is this a dream?" Dr. Avalon went right through him with another, empty needle and started to draw blood out of the redhead, which make Yo-yo close to fainting again.
"If I didn't have to do this, Beat, you would be free right now. But Rokkaku needs you later on, near the end of his plan, so I can't let you skate free again." The colors from the scene started to swirl, like they were going forward in time, until the colors stood still again with Yo-yo back in the labratory.
"Huh? How come I'm still...no." Yo-yo walked over to the operating table next to the one the still-sleeping Beat was laying on and got a good look at the girl on the table. "Gemini?" He soon heard a moan coming from Beat, who started to move around.
"What the hell...why do I feel like I was hit hard..." Beat looked over toward the operationg table to his right and gasped. "What that...who is she? Where did she come from?" Dr. Avalon smirked.
"Her name is Gemini Beat and she..is your clone."
***End Dream Scene***
Yo-yo started to stir into wakefulness as Gemini stood back up on her feet, ready to help Yo-yo get back up on his feet. Yo-yo looked up toward Gemini with a frown.
"Gemini, were you...created...by the Rokkaku Group?" Gemini looked down toward her white skates, her eyes closed and sighed.
"I wish I could say no. I'm sorry."