Disclaimer: Ok, I would like to thank Talluah for her permission to let me use her stuff in this part of the story. As usual JSR belongs to Smilebit and I'm only doing this for fun yadda yadda yadda.
Ladies in Red
By Echo Garrote
The love shocker patch is a piece of magenta fabric and black leather.
Love Shockers…what was their story? Oh yeah Love broke their hearts now they wanna do some breaking of their own…
Etched on the broken heart patch in green thread is an address, way out in the middle of Kogane-cho.
I skate my way there…but something's not right…
The Love Shockers are Shibuya located…they don't work in Kogane…
Unless…
Unless what?
I don't know, I thought you had an idea.
I'm you! Your talking to yourself, Echo…
Oh yeah…heh.
A house. Simplistic, normal Jiro Taxpayer.
THIS is IT?!
No…something more, this is only the area.
Area for what?
I don't know…look around.
I must be losing it. I'm talking to myself and answering.
There…the river behind the house.
A river…no…an execution site.
Something happened here, someone died. Horridly. Why is this important? Why do I need to know this? HOW DO I KNOW THIS?
Water…someone was afraid of water…no…something in the water…
No, someone in the water.
Am I afraid of the water? Am I who's in the water?
Maybe this is the end.
Hold on…heh I say that a lot. I can see into Shibuya from here. There's this big old factory. Sides covered with tags…including mine!
A large abandoned factory.
Doesn't look so bad. It's covered with tags, mostly Love Shockers. I open the large steel doors and walk in slowly. Empty as a tomb. Well I don't like it makes me more paranoid than I already am.
The catwalk…
I skate up the steel ramp to the upper offices. No not this one, not this one…
THIS one…
An executive's old office now long departed.
The minute I went into that room I felt like puking. Torquemada would feel right at home here. Old spent matches littered the floor. One person here was less a human and more a daemon. Keeping a person alive just for the pleasure of seeing them scream and breaking their minds in two. How could I tell these things had happened was I some kind of psychic you see on prime time cable? I had to get out.
As I left the boardwalk and walked to the exit doors I heard the sound of skates whizzing towards me. I spun around just in time to get the air knocked out of me. Two sets of arms grabbed me and dragged me in front of a Love Shocker. The one they take me two makes me want to scream in terror. I don't know why though.
"Well, well, well. Looks like we caught us a patchwork man." The standing one says. "What's the matter couldn't decide so you figure you'd take them all?"
"Should we 10 tag him?" A love shocker holding me says to the one standing in front of me. They outnumber me 3 to 1. Probably more on the way.
"I don't know." The other LS replies. She's the leader…I'm shaking in front of her.
Wait…I know her. She's important.
"He's a solo so I mean it's not any challenge. We could just rough him up and dump him on Onishima's door step."
Why does that ring a bell? Something about this love shocker and Onishima. Does it connect with the stream and the office?
She's different. Just the leader, nothing else.
What was THAT?! Well I mean that was me but that wasn't me so was it another me? Heh, back to the schizophrenic idea. God I'm about to be killed and I'm going insane as well.
Well…that's it almost.
"Hey K!" The love shocker holding me points to my uniform. "He's wearing our uniform!"
K…
"What!? Fine that settles it, 10 tag then trounce him"
Kell of the Love Shockers.
"KELL!" I yell as loud as I can. It gets the reaction that I'm hoping for. She raises her head.
"So the patchwork man has a mouth huh?" She says. "What is it?"
You can restore one memory, one will kill, and one will save.
There goes my voice again…what the hell does he…I…whoever, mean by restore memory? Well, I guess there's only one way to find out.
"What happened at the stream behind the house in Kogane-cho, with the one who was afraid of water?"
"Kell what is he babbling about? Kell KELL!" The Love Shockers are amazed as they see their leader reduced to a sobbing wreck.
"…Akina…" Was all I could understand as I blasted out of there.
So I had reduced the leader of the Love Shockers to an emotional wreck. Great. And I still had no idea about the voices in my head or anything else.
So now where do I go? I have no more clues and no home.
I looked down at the ridiculous uniform I wore. The outfit of the lost.
Wait a minute…
The tip of the shocker heart points to a noise tank symbol, which in turn points to another and another…a road map.
A memory road map. Go figure. I should head for the noise tanks then…