New Taggers in Town
Chapter 3: The Second Challenge! Crazy Goes All Out!

A/N: I still don't own JGR or the world. Onishima stopped me... Hajime Ojimawa- I'm sorry. I can't trade the world for my creativity. I would if I could, but I believe that anyone's creativeness is too big to get out of their head and if it were small enough, if would be too painful a procedure to endure, for me anyway. Thanks anyway. And thanks to all of you who reviewed!

"Blazing Benten-cho!" Crazy chuckled happily.
"Alright, if you're so cocky, I'll do the next challenge!" Gum blurts out.
Benten-cho wasn't as busy as it usually was. The streets were nearly abandoned. A loud grumbling was heard.
"Heh, I'm kinda hungry..." Beat explained sweatdropping.
"It's almost lunchtime. Let's grab a bite to eat first." Speed suggested.
They walked into a restuarant and sat down at a table.
"Take your time ordering." a waitress said as she give each of them a menu.
"So," Beat began. "How come we've never seen you three around town?"
"We're from America and we've been traveling for a few years." Omega said while glancing at the menu.
"Yeah. We just arrived this morning and decided to raise some heck." Crazy included.
"And then we found Onishima." Omega laughed.
"I found Onishima! I pinned him up against a streetpost and he was about to shoot me when...BAM!" Speed hit the table with her clenched fist. "Crazy whacked him with a 2x4! We tagged him and left when Omega told us 'bout the choppers!"
"We saw! That was so funny!" Beat said through laughter. Everyone joined in and pretty soon, all their laughing was earning them some strange stares. Soon, they ordered and ate, alot. They walked back out onto the street with full stomaches and lightened moods.
"That was pretty good!" Beat exclaimed happily. "And thanks for footing the bill."
"Whatever." Speed replied, shaking her empty wallet.
"Anyways, let's get this over with!" Gum said.
"Follow me!" Crazy yelled.
She skated down the street and grinded up a rail. She painted over a Noise Tank logo and flipped off the rail onto another rail. She grinded down that one, and flipped onto a streetpost. Crazy pumped her arm triumphantly and hopped down.
"Ah, your test of balance! No one but you can do that, Crazy." Speed whispered happily to her friend. Crazy grinned evilly.
"I can do that!" Gum insisted. Apparently, she had heard Speed.
Gum jumped on the rail and grinded up it. She tagged over Crazy's logo and jumped to the other rail. A spray paint can came flying out of nowhere and smacked the side of her head. She had to jump to another rail to prevent herself from falling. It was a Noise Tank who had thrown the can; a Noise Tank who was obviously out for revenge. And was doing a pathetic job at it, too.
"Surprise, surprise..." Gum muttered.
Gum jumped towards him and tagged his jacket. She grinded down a nearby rail, and barely flipped onto the streetpost. She hopped happily on the streetpost as sort of a miniature victory dance, but lost her balance. However, Tab caught her just before her butt was busted on the concrete.
"Heh, Smartboy you did it again." Omega chuckled.
Tab's face turned a funny shade of pale blue as he looked down and fell into yet another open manhole with Gum in his arms screaming "How dumb are you, Tab?!".
"Somebody has it in for me!" Tab screamed in defense.
"Good save, Gum!" Beat complimented ignoring the present situation.
Omega seemed indifferent about Gum clearing Crazy's test of balance. Crazy was a little ticked. Speed, however, was furious to the point of exploding. Tab and Gum scrambled out of the sewer trying to reclaim their dignity.
"Freaking Noise Tanks... Why'd they have to interfere?!" Crazy screamed. She immediately felt better after having screamed, and shook Gum's hand. Crazy looked at her own hand and scowled. Then she wiped her hand on Omega's, who wiped her's on Speed, who wiped the sludge off her clothes and used Beat's shirt as a towel for her hand.
"Hey, she's in your gang, so you can have her sewer sludge!" Speed grunted disgustedly.
Beat grabbed Tab's hat and used it to clean up his shirt. Tab wiped the sludge off his hat with the back of Gum's helmet.
"Here, girl. You can have this back." Tab said while cleaning his hat,
"That's two out of three!" Beat exclaimed, happy that his shirt was sludge free. "I'm next!"
"Don't forget. So am I!" Speed coolly responded.
"How could I forget?" Beat said sarcastically.
"Then follow me!" Speed yelled angrily as she raced back to Shibuya-cho.
The others once again followed, but reluctantly because of Speed's anger.
"Good going, Beat." Crazy sneered. "You got her mad."
"Does that matter?" Tab asked snorting.
"Quite a bit!" Omega laughed. "Why do you think we call her Speed?"
Beat gulped nervously.
'Speed probably gets an energy rush from anger.' Beat thought nervously trying to push the mental image of Speed kicking his scrawny butt from Tokyo-to to Hawaii out of his mind.
Speed was a considerable distance ahead, barely visible by any of the others. She was probably five times as nervous as Beat.
"Aw, man!" Speed grumbled when she was sure that she was out of the earshot of the others. "I hope Beat doesn't have an ace up his sleeve! If he does, Speed will become Tortise."
Pushing aside her fear, Speed stopped to let the others catch up. She counted how long it took Beat to get to her, trying to measure his speed.
'At least I've found a worthy adversary...' Speed thought as she rejoined her traveling companions.


"Wassup? Beat here. Speed isn't nearly as confident as she was earlier! But she certainly is way madder! Gum and Tab can only watch in wonder at the next challenge when I face off against Speed! The epic race of the leaders next time in "The Final Challenge! Why She's Called Speed!"
"Hmph! Nobody's faster than me! Beat, you're going down!" Speed screams.