Ah, yet another chapter of Shock to the System. Hope you enjoy. Please R&R!

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Ch: 4 Live a life of Junk

It had been all but peaceful for the GG's. Beat, Yo-Yo and Tab had been missing, ever since they went to confront that sewer sunk gang of girls, the Ratz. With little clues to their friends and leader's where-abouts, Gum, Piranha, Slate, Garam, and Mew headed out in search of them. Having a run-in with some nasty Keisatsu bikers called the mech-riders, the GG's managed to take 'em out with some paint, only to be later confronted by a mack Truck. Gum had managed to find the nickname of the rider," Pepper" etched on the driver's clothes. After taking her truck out with an unusually explosive can of paint, they continued their search. Heading into Kogane, the GG's have to get to Benten quick, before the Junk Assassins, the mysterious gang of Kogane, finds them first…….



" I can't take this anymore," Slate moaned, slowly skating past a broken toilet and

scattered asphalt.

"I should have stayed at the comfortable, Dj box seat in Benten"……

"Well, we're here now, might as well make the best out of it.." Garam replied, kicking a

can of Fizz.

" Once we get through this junkyard, we can turn into that tunnel that leads to the housing

areas of Kogane," Gum said.

Gum was clearly sweating, the orange-red sun hitting her skin, making her want to sleep

in the nearby abandoned factory. Mew noticed the large amount of tags scattered through

the junkyard, only a few of the Junk Assassins.

" Junk Assassins?" Mew said, trying to find some clue of that gang within her memory. "

"I've never heard of them before."

" Neither have I," Garam replied, skated under an awning that hid the sun from his skin.

Piranha looked around, seeing one old Poison Jammer tag on a car.

" As long as we don't run into them, I don't care who they are."

Slate nodded with approval, and followed Gum and Mew to a rusting construction crane,

leading to a higher landing.

" Once we're atop that landing we can jet out of this junk heap, and get on the subway

train to Benten," Gum said gladly.

She backed up a ways, then ran forward, front flipping onto the crane's arm, grinding to

the ledge. Garam followed suit, emerging from the awning and grinded up the crane's

arm. Piranha came next, followed by Slate, Mew in the rear.

"Here we go," Gum said, hastily dashing to the rusted green gate, with a

large "Do not Enter" sign hanging from it's middle.

As she began to jump, she made sure one skate pounded on the lock, breaking it quickly.

Soaring through the air she landed opposite the junkyard, a narrow, dirty walkway

straight infront of her.

"That's right," she said, pleased with her efforts.

"Yeah, that trick was OK," Garam replied, dashing to the gate and backflipping through

it, ending in a nice roll where Gum was standing.

" Not bad," Gum said. If this was a video-game, I'd give you 100 points.

Garam looked at her with a grin, then they both began to laugh, as Mew stepped up to

them.

"Well, what is it, Mew?" Gum said, seeing she had a questioning look on her face.

" Oh, I don't want to break up a good time, but can we get going now?"

Gum nodded, her face still dawning a slight look of playfullness.

" Finally!" "This heat is killing me.."

Mew skated past Gum and Garam, heading to the rooftops of Kogane, as something

strange happened.

The vile hiss of spraypint. Rival Gang, spraypaint.

"What?""Where is that comin' from?" Garam said, sure that no one still had a can

left.

Wait!

Where were Piranha and Slate?

Odd techno, metallic music began to play in the distance, courtesy of Dj, Prof J

"Yoouu Areeee Innn JuuNkk TerRiTTory. LEaaVE nOWw."

Those words said it all. The Junk Assassins had arrived.

The hulking trio of rudies, allcovered in garbage and junk, were somewhere behind them.

Piranha then emerged from the distance, skating up to Garam and Gum, her arm streaked

with a dirty, almost green colored paint.

" One of those bastards tried to tag my shirt!! There was clear anger in her

voice, as the sound of skates could be heard behind her.

"HURRY! Go, NOW!!" Slate said as he skated madly to them, the rattle of spoons and

and aluminum ringing throughout the area.

"They're Crazy!"

Not wasting any more time, Gum skated through the walkway to the Kogane rooftops,

Garam quickly skating past her. Piranha had the mind to stay and

tag them up, but followed Gum non-the-less. Gum jumped onto the rooftops, right behind

Garam, seeing Mew in the distance. Pirahna was right behind them, grinding on a roof,

hurriedly heading for the warehouse below, which would lead to safety.

As Slate was winding through the walkway of Kogane, mounds of spraypaint cans rolled

his way, almost making him fall. They exploded suddenly, making a giant hole in the

ground. Wondering if he should even move, Slate managed to get onto the rooftops.

Piranha looked back, making sure he was allright. Seeing Slate's leg was bleeding,

horror filled Piranha's eyes.

" Yooouu Cannn'ttt Esccaaappe. Itt'sss too latee.." A Junk Assassin said.

One dashedto Garam, the other two dashing to Gum and Mew.

"Great, now they want to blow us up!" Gum said, skating down a slanted, brown

colored rooftop.

A Junk Assassins hot on his trail, Garam judo back-flipped, hoping to

reach a far away rooftop, but didn't reach it. Instead, he fell through a gap parting the

two buildings, the fall stunning him slightly.

Ignoring the fallen GG, the Junk Assassin joined the other two, one heading for Mew.

They quickly grabbed jagged pieces of metal from themselves, and threw them at her,

ripping her clothes. Desperate, Mew tried to jump to long telephone wire, in hopes of

losing the assassins, but a spraypaint can caught her off guard.

" Watch out!" Slate yelled, as the can exploded, sending Mew down to the hard pavement

below.

" This is it, we've had it!"

Garam said, managing to skate inside a small apartment. Piranha quickly

leaped down to where Mew was, grinding along the wire she had tried for. A Junk

Assassin, jumped to Gum, and took a strong hold of her arms, with the shouts of, " Let

me go, or I'll punch you a new face!" ringing her in her voice. Slate attempted to go over

and help her escape, but was caught by a Junk Assassin behind him and tied

to a pipe with Gum, near an old warehouse.

"Yooouuu see?" " It's hopeless to run."

The Junk Assassin said, looking over her captives.

The murky, very elongated voice of the Junk Assassin changed, as the heaps of trash and

junk were discarded.

"We tracked you down ,you know,with the help of some rodents!"

" Must have been the Ratz!" Slate said to himself, feeling slightly sorry for the power-

crazed group of girls.

" So there really wasn't a gang called the Junk Assassins in Kogane,"

Gum said, now knowing it was all just a trick. She then saw Pepper approach

her. Pepper looked darkly at Gum, then clenched he fist and punched her in the gut.

"That's for my truck!" Pepper said, staring at Gum.

" I was hoping you died!" Gum shouted, in pain, slightly bending over.

"Too bad for you," Pepper hissed.

"And after we eliminate you with some tags to the back, we'll go after that other group,

what was their name..?"

Another so called assassin" removed their costume, only revealing a rudie named

Hammer.

" Shock Syndrome," he replied, turning his head.

"Oh yeah," Pepper retorted. Those bunch of geeks!"

Away from the discussion, Piranha picked up Mew and tried to head for a safe spot, but

was stopped by another assassin.

" Don't move!" The rudie said, as he removed his garbage filled guise, only to

reveal another member of the LL's, Plug. He poked a broken spork into Pirahna's back,

making her head to where the others were, Mew moaning.

Garam watched them go, thinking he had to do something, but what?

There they were, some rudies threatening to end their skating lives forever.

Pepper, Hammer, and Plug.

Atleast that's what their clothes said.

Brown-skinned Hammer in a tank-top, navy jeans with pockets, with dark brown skates

and a cowboy hat.

Red-haired Pepper with freckles, clad in knee and arm pads, wearing a red and black

mini-skirt, and red skates.

And Plug, wearing a grey trench-coat, a pilot's helmet, safety goggles, and a mean pair of

black skates.

Where these the rudies Prof J had assembled? One word from Pepper mouth's made it all

clear, "We are the LLs and we're going to make your lives, well,"

Hammer smirked, finishing her sentence,

"Like you were in a Kiesatsu jail cell."

Garam knew what to do now. Dashing from the apartment he was hiding in, he broke into

the warehouse, falling into the residential district of Kogane.

He had to find the Ratz HQ. Skating out into the open, he past a group

of kids playing tag, a giggle from a small girl easily heard.

He had a bad feeling about this, a really bad feeling.

Some Kiesatsu where bound to be around the area. Looking behind him, matters got

worse. Plug was on his tail, wielding…a bazooka?

(Well, that's ch4! Please R & R) ( That's right, push the button down there..)