I still don't own any of the Jet Set Radio characters. Sorry. I know you wanted me to buy them and all, but I'm a poor college kid. I'm sure Sega wouldn't hand them over for $40 (that's all I've got right now). I stole this chapter's title straight from a Coheed and Cambria song..."Blood Red Summer," in fact! Haha I am so lame.
I am posting (and doing 99.99999% of the writing, for that matter) in the wee hours of the morning. I checked over everything and I don't think there are any majour mistakes, but I don't put much faith in myself this early in the morning. Just let me know if something is really messed up.
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"The Sheriff of Tokyo"
Chapter 2: 'Faint White Figures Paint My Sleep..."
by dustedbunnies (still not a good writer...)
Sheriff Corn and Deputy Yoyo left the "Station" (formerly known as the "Garage") at about midday. They saddled up and skated down the exit to the Shibuya Terminal, armed with...spraycans in their gunslings. They figured that, their skates were their horses and their spraycans were their pistols. Made sense to them.
"Right on!" Corn yelled as they skated along, entering the Shibuya Terminal.
"Yeehaw!" yelled Yoyo, throwing his cowboy hat into the air and catching it.
The pair got more looks than normal. What were two cowboys doing in the middle of Tokyo? The pair were decked out in dirty brown leather chaps, dirty jeans, cowboy hats, crusty long-sleeve button-down navy blue shirts, dirty brown leather vests and matching gloves, sheriff badges, and dirty white hankerchiefs tied around they're necks. The look was completed with their belts, gunslings (containing spraycans), lassos, and spurs attached to their skates. They looked like they came from the Wild West...well, save for Yoyo's dorky glasses and his green hair and the pair's skates and spraypaint cans.
"What y'all looking at?" Corn demanded. "The sheriff is here now. What's the trouble?" Corn received blanks stares from the crowd. "What? Cat got ya'll tongues?"
"Yeehaw!" yelled Yoyo. "Dat's da trouble, Sheriff!" He pointed off in the distance as some of the members of the Rokkaku police came in their direction. "Dem be the outlaws, yeehaw!"
"I reckon you is right, for once, Deputy Yoyo. The sheriff is on his way!" Corn and Yoyo quickly skated to meet the police officers.
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The head officer glarred at the "Law of Tokyo." 'Teens these days! They're all wierd!' he thought to himself.
"Why you folks causin' trouble 'round here for?" asked Sheriff Corn.
"What? It's you two who are causing the trouble. You boys need to get home to your parents and stop goofing around!" the officer responded. "Goofing around like this is going to get you two sent to jail!"
"Jail? What?" Sheriff Corn asked in return. "Oh, I understand. Well I got something worse you at mine. If you don't obey the law, you gonna get hanged!"
"Yeehaw!" exclaimed Yoyo, thrusting his hat into the air and catching it again. "You tell 'em! Let the hangin' begin, yo!"
The officer was losing his patience. His face darkened.
"Now listen here, you little punks! We're the law around here and you are disobeying it!" the officer screamed. "I have half a mind to take you in right now and - !"
"The law!?" Corn grinned. "You messin' with the law right now. I am Sheriff Corn, the Sheriff of Tokyo!"
Sheriff Corn and Deputy Yoyo preceeded to wrestle with the cops, spraying them down and lassoing them down with their ropes. All in a day's work for the two "lawmen."
"This here is my town! I reckon you gonna respect that!" Corn expalined to the crowd of frightened people and defeated cops.
In all of the chaos, no one noticed the two boys were Rudies...
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Meanwhile, back at the Garage, a few of the GGs had begun showing up. Gum, Beat, Ryth, Boogie, Clutch, and Combo made their way to their respective places at the Garage.
"Man, it was hard to get out of here this morning without waking up Corn," said the lovely Gum.
"Damn right," replied Beat. "Speaking of, he ain't here. That's good."
Roboy spoke up. "Yeah, he and "Deputy Yoyo" left a long time ago." Roboy chuckled in this own, robotic way. The rest of the group blankly stared.
They left early this morning in order to get presents and decorations for a party tomorrow night. A SUPRISE party. For Corn's birthday.
The planning had been left up to Gum, who was organising the event. They were to leave early in the day and sneek presents and supplies back later that day. Of course, they wanted to leave Yoyo out of this since they were afraid, with the way that boy's mouth ran, he'd tell Corn. Whether Corn believed Yoyo or not was another matter, one they didn't want to bother with.
"Whatever." Gum rolled her eyes at Roboy's comment. "Let's bring everything in everybody!"
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"JET SET RADIOOOOO....FUTURE! Hey, it's yo' DJ, Professor K baby! Here with the lowdown on all the Rudies and spinnin' all your favourite tracks!
"The GGs ditched they're leader, Corn this morning, for somethin' big and special! Can't talk about that 'cos they don't want Corn to know about it. They all left about 9 o'clock this mornin' and left Corn back at the GG's hideout. Left him all alone with Yoyo.
"Hah, I bet ol' Corn's pulling his hair out now!" Ooh, what's this? Just a sec...."
There was a short pause on the program. The GGs sat around waiting.
"Woah, I just got this in," began Professor K. "Seems when the GGs left Corn with Yoyo, somethin' strange happened. I don't know what, but Corn and Yoyo are skating around the city dress like they from the Wild, Wild West."
Beat, who was drinking on Coke, spit it out all over himself and began choking. Ryth tried to help by hitting him on the back but it seemed to make matters worse.
"They callin' themselves 'Sheriff Corn, the Sheriff of Tokyo' and 'Deputy Yoyo.' They even talking like they're from the West. Saying words like 'reckon' and 'yeehaw.' They got spurs on their skates and spraycans strapped on their belts! They even got cowboy hats!
"The two went to Shibuya Terminal and scared the whole place. People started panicking and the Rokkaku police came out. Those boys took 'em down, too! Sprayed 'em and lassoed 'em all down. Some people was saying they heard that the cops were so scared, they did believe that those boys were the law.
"I don't know what these boys are doing but somethin's gotta be done about 'em.
"GGs! Go save Corn and Yoyo from themselves! This whole city's gonna be taken under before long!"
Gum pushed up her helmet and rubbed her temple. "What in the hell did Yoyo do to Corn?" she asked.
Beat, still choking, was turning blue in the face as Ryth began to cry. "I killed Beat!" she wailed.
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(Man, my writing feels really rusty. I guess I should try to write more. Practice makes perfect, kids!)
In the next episode, our righteous duo saddles up to fight other street teams with the GGs hot on their tails.
"I got a bad feeling about this..."
Eh, Beat? You hanging in the there, boy? Don't die on us!