Chapter 3: Sugar Rushed

The bus took them all to the subway station, so they decided to find out if the Noise Tanks knew anything. Beat grinded down the handrail to get ahead of them.

"Yo! Why the heck are there so many Poison Jam tags down here?" Yo-Yo asked when they reached the bottom. Beat shrugged his arms, took out a can, and started covering the tags up. Cube and Yo-Yo fallowed suit and they soon had reclaimed the subway entrance.

"You were going a bit over-board if you ask me." Cube said. "There weren't THAT many Poison Jam tags."

"Let's just go find the Noise Tanks." Beat said.

After what seemed like an eternity of wandering down the tracks, they found a smashed boom-box.

"That looks like Combo's..." Cube said nervously.

"Don't be a worry wort!" Yo-Yo said. Finally Cube couldn't take it anymore. She grabbed Yo-Yo and shook him while having a cursing fit.

"WOULD YOU SHUT UP YOU STUPID ELF! JUST... just..." See began. Then she realized that Beat had left her and Yo-Yo behind and was grinding on the tracks to gain speed. She quickly dashed after him, leaving Yo-Yo to lay up against the wall to recover. Then Beat stopped for a second, then started acting like he was fallowing something. Cube caught up to see he was fallowing a trail of blood.

A trail that led them to the three Noise Tanks, who were laying on the ground, each enshrouded in electricity, their circuits fried by spray-paint.

"Poison Jam tagged the Noise Tanks?" Cube said aloud. Then Beat realized it wasn't Noise Tank blood, they were too well-armored to really bleed, but their was someone bleeding somewhere.

Then that someone found Beat and Cube.

"Beat! Cube! Poison... They took... others..." Gum tried to say, but was too weak from loss of blood. By then Yo-Yo had joined up with them.

"Yo-Yo, you take Gum to the hospital whilst we teach Poison Jam a lesson they won't forget." Beat said, sounding even more leader-like than usual. He hugged the wounded Gum, forced a pathetic smile and dashed off for Kogane-Cho.

However, Beat and Cube didn't have to go very far, as Poison Jam was still in the tunnels.

"POISON JAM! I AM SO GONNA WHIP- erm, TAG YOUR-" Beat started to yell.

"Easy there, four-eyes!!!" The leader Poison Jam yelled. "Look! WE have no spray-paint! YOU have no spray-paint! So we'll settle this with a race back to Kogane!!! HAHA! First to tag in the Residential Aria wins your friends!!"

"Sounds fair...." Beat agreed uneasily. "I'll win this one for Gum. I'll WHIP YOUR-"

"THREE!!!! TWO!!! ONE!!! GOOOOOOO!!!!!"

Beat immediately leaped onto the tracks, as grinding greatly increases you speed. The Poison Jam he was up against did the same. By jumping often, Beat maintained the lead until he saw Poison Jam leap off to the side to take a sewer short-cut. Beat didn't hesitate for a second and just fallowed the Poison Jam.

"Give up, little punk!" The Poison Jam yelled You are NO MATCH for a SUGAR-HIGH champ like me!" Beat continued to fallow Poison Jam until they reached a long, green, terrible smelling river. Poison Jam emediataly leaped into the river and began to swim.

"Ug! I have to swim?" Beat yelled uneasily before jumping in after Poison Jam. He closely fallow Poison Jam until they got up onto some side-walk. Beat tapped his foot while he waited for Poison Jam to finish ripping open a round gate blocking the way to the subway tunnels. Then they both leaped onto the rails, each neck-and-neck, passing each other every once-in- a-while. Beat wondered to himself if it would have been faster to stay on the subway tracks instead of cutting through the sewer before.

Just then, they both heard the subway's familiar clacking. Poison Jam quickly jumped to the tracks on the left. Beat didn't know why until it hit him that there was a train coming on either side. Poison Jam leaped up onto the train coming up behind him while Beat had to dodge the one coming at him.

"Hah-ha! I can take the train to KOGANE! YOU CAN'T!" Poison Jam yelled before he and the train disappeared down the tracks.

"Jet Set Radioooo! Ha-ha! There's hope for the others yet! Beat can win! Wait... darn. I just read the part where Poison Jam cheats on the train. Beat'll have to faster than a locomotive and more powerful than a speeding bullet if he wants to save Combo, Garam, Tab, Piranha, Mew and Slate! GO BEAT! JET SET RADIOOOOO!!!"