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Chapter 7- Dancing Police Officers?!
I suddenly feel my phone vibrating in the middle of Saotome-sensei's lesson. That's odd. My phone never usually goes off during class time. I ignore it and continue to focus on the Japanese poem that's being taught to the class. After class ends, I pull my phone out and see a text message and a voice message from an unknown number. "Huh," I mumble, looking at the text message.
Oga Tatsumi! Yeah, we know who you are! This is the MK5, and we challenge you to a Flash Mob challenge! Meet us this Friday at the Ishiyama Train Station on platform 12 at 6:30 pm! Prepare to be crushed, JD Dancers!
"MK5…?" I decide to listen to the voice message.
"You have one new message, sent today, at 3:00 pm." I put the phone to my ear and listen to the message.
"Oi, Oga! How dare you ignore my call?! This is Ikari, the leader of the MK5, Ishiyama's strongest! We've heard all about your little dance crew, the JD Dancers, hm? They've been all over the news recently! Now, I propose a challenge! You and your crew, meet us on platform 12 of the Ishiyama Train Station this Friday at 6:30 pm, and prepare to be crushed by us! You may have more members, but we're much stronger than you are!" The voice message ends and I save the message, deciding to show it to the crew.
"Da bu?" Beel looks at me curiously.
"Oh, it's nothing," I say.
The MK5 are one of the gangs at Ishiyama. They were suspended a while ago for their cruelty and disregard of the rules. Despite calling themselves 'Ishiyama's Strongest' (when they really aren't), they're pretty pathetic, actually. The members are known as Ikari, Shimamura, Nakata, Chatou, and Buu, and they all wear ties.
"You're probably wondering why I gathered you all here today," I say at the studio.
"Yeah, why? I was planning on playing video games for the rest of today!" Kanzaki snarls.
"What's the reason, Aniki?" Yamamura asks. I pull out my phone.
"Listen to this," I say, playing the voice message on speakerphone. The message plays once again, and I see everyone looking rather surprised.
"Wait… the MK5 are challenging us?" Shiroyama asks.
"Pfft, those guys are pathetic!" Himekawa scoffs. "They can't even win the fights they start themselves!"
"What's the MK5?" Hilda asks. Kunieda rolls her eyes.
"They're the most pathetic, stupidest gang in Ishiyama, and yet they consider themselves to be the strongest," she explains. "Like Himekawa said, they can't even win the fights they start."
"I once heard that when they challenged the Red Tails, Kunieda defeated them so badly that they had to be sent to the hospital!" Furuichi says.
"Those guys are crazy!" Hanazawa adds.
"Crazy stupid," Tanimura says. Tojo nods.
"Yeah. They're not the brightest tools in the shed as well," he agrees.
"Very well then," I say, smirking slightly. "I'll give 'em a call and tell them that we accept." Right then, my phone rings. "And speak of the devil." I pick up the phone. "Hello?"
"Oga Tatsumi, is that you?" a guy asks.
"Yeah. Who's this?"
"This is Ikari, the leader of the MK5, and we challenge you to a-"
"I know, I already heard your damn voice message!" I snap. "I hate it when idiots like you repeat themselves a thousand times!"
I hear him laugh smugly. "Well, do you accept our challenge? As an added bonus, you get to choose the music. Also, to make things interesting, we'll be using improv in our dances!" he declares.
"We accept," I say. He laughs on the other end.
"Well then, prepare to get your ass kicked, JD Dancers!" Ikari laughs before hanging up.
I put my phone in my pocket, a smile slowly forming on my face. "What is the one thing that delinquents fear the most?" I ask casually, smirking when everyone stares at me in confusion.
"Police officers," I say when no one answers the question.
"What're you getting at, Oga?" Furuichi asks, confused.
"For the dance-off, I've decided something," I say. "Let's give them a real surprise by showing up in police uniforms!"
Right then, I see Kanzaki and Himekawa grinning slightly. "That's a crazy idea!" Hanazawa says.
"Breakdancing police officers," Yamamura muses.
"Me likes it!" Fujisaki praises.
"They'll be wetting themselves once they see us dressed as cops!" Tojo laughs.
"Wait, how are we going to get cop uniforms?" Oomori asks.
"My sister's boyfriend is a police officer," I say. "I'll ask him if he can lend us some uniforms. Or, if he can't lend them to us, we'll just make our own. Now, let's discuss how we can plan this out."
"Here! I have an Ishiyama Train Station map!" Furuichi declares, pinning the station map up on the bulletin board.
"All right, guys. There are different lines that connect to the main station," I start. "What I'm suggesting, is that some of us go to different stations and take trains to Ishiyama Station."
"Why can't we all just show up at the same time?" Yamamura asks.
"Well, I was planning to have some of us arrive at the Ishiyama Station platform, just as the dance off starts, and get off the train and join the people who are on platform 12. Wouldn't that be more badass?" I ask.
"That sounds like a clever strategy!" Kunieda agrees. "Now we need to decide which stations we will choose, who will go to those stations, and how we can time it right."
"Yeah," Furuichi agrees. "The stations that are closest to the Ishiyama Station are the Mikasa Station in the Mikasa district and the Akihabara Station in the Akihabara district. Now, I looked at the train schedules, and there are trains that leave at 6:15 pm, and they are a 15-minute ride to Ishiyama Station."
"So," I start. "Kanzaki, Shiroyama, Natsume, and Himekawa will be taking the train from the Mikasa Station. Coming from the Akihabara Station will be Kunieda, Tanimura, Hanazawa, and Oomori. Hilda, Furuichi, Beel, and I will be at Ishiyama Station, as well as Tojo, Yamamura, and Fujisaki."
Fortunately, platform 12 at Ishiyama Station is a side platform, and both trains from Mikasa and Akihabara arrive at platform 12. I can't help but grin to myself. Things are definitely going to get interesting.
Friday finally comes around, and I have managed to get the police officer uniforms from Jiro. Now, Tojo, Yamamura, Fujisaki, Furuichi, Hilda, Beel, and I are standing on platform 12, trying to act as professional as we can. I see Tojo holding a cup of coffee, sipping it as he talks to Yamamura and Fujisaki.
"You excited for this, Beel?" I ask.
"Da!" Beel says excitedly. Yes, I somehow managed to find a police officer costume for a baby.
"I wonder what people will say when they see us dancing, when we're dressed like cops," Furuichi muses.
"They'll definitely be surprised," I say.
"Yeah, it's not everyday you see a bunch of breakdancing cops," Tojo jokes.
After a while, I look at my watch and see that it's almost time. I pull the small amateur radio device on the police uniform and hold it near my mouth. "This is Officer Oga, and we have our five suspects, the MK5 just up ahead," I say.
Right then, Furuichi starts to play a rap song with a police siren sound in the beginning, and the two trains arrive, and soon, everyone gets off. As the song starts to play, we slowly walk up to the MK5, who look surprised and scared. A look of shock and recognition immediately crosses their faces as Kanzaki and Himekawa start breakdancing.
After the two of them finish, two of the MK5 start to breakdance, and I'll hand it to them, they're pretty impressive. As our dance battle continues, I see many people watching in surprise and also recording the dance battle. Throughout the battle, we take turns doing our own, improvised dance and so do the MK5. Soon, it's my turn, and I step up with Hilda.
We start doing a breakdance with touches of ballet in them, doing moves that Hilda taught me. As she does a backflip, I do an a la seconde spin. As I do a series of windmill moves, Hilda does some graceful spins and X-swipes. We end the dance battle with a suicide move as the music finishes.
We receive some crazy applause, and it's clear that our crew won. "Ha! Take that, MK5!" Hanazawa teases.
"What?! How could you beat us?!" Ikari asks, shocked.
"Let's just say that we were creative," Natsume adds.
When we arrive at the studio, we decide to celebrate our victory with some melon soda. "Good job everyone!" I praise. "We really did well in surprising everyone! Cheers!"
"Cheers!" Everyone toasts. I smile at Hilda.
"You did awesome as well," I praise, and I swear I see her face turn red for a slight moment.
Ever since I met Hilda and got to talk to her, I've been feeling a lot warmer and more... optimistic. What could this mean?