Ch 7 Ambush In The Zone
"Fight Music" by D12 and Eminem
Invictus
"Out of the night that covers me
Black as the Pit from pole to pole
I thank Whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul."
-William Ernest Henley
The noise of each territory in Tokyo was broken by the sound of grinding, as representatives from each rudie group came towards the residential zone.
The Rokkaku police were getting complaints from all parts of town. In the Skyscraper District a women was calling for an ambulance.
An Immortal skating by had knocked out her husband, who had thought that the man was getting in his way. All of the R. Police were swamped with work, and Hayashi was nowhere to be seen.
The area of Rokkaku-dai was filled with screams from pedestrians, and yells from rudies trying to get by to the sewers. In all this chaos, no one saw three different rudies skate by, two of them with guns, and the third yelling at the other two, trying to make them back off.
"Dude, I know you're pissed, but you can't do this. Those kids made that school a fort; you'll never get passed them to see Jack." Soda was yelling at him.
Grave was at the end, his hands not moving as he skated, and his guns clearly visible in the broad daylight. "I have to see Jack. If I don't, he might be next. Corn said that all of the Doom Riders died during an outing. Two things wrong with that. One, Jack wouldn't have gone, he doesn't drink, and he's not old enough to. Two, he never liked the other Doom Riders and he told me he was going to hide after our attack last year." Yoyo said, his face contorted into a grim scowl.
Grave spoke up after a half an hour of skating.
"I don't think the school will be a great challenge to get into. I'll just knock out any."
"No!" roared Yoyo, turning around suddenly the butt of his rifle coming up as if to hit Grave.
"We will not attack the school. None of these children must be hurt, even if they attack us, we mustn't hurt any of them. I still need to get to Jack, because if I don't, someone else might first." Soda said, his teeth gritting on the last sentence.
"Okay, but if we are caught, what are we going to do?" said Soda, brushing past a frightened civilian.
"We will run, and if we're lucky, we wont have to hurt any of them." Replied Yoyo.
The trio ran through the sewers, hiding behind barrels whenever another rudie came by. They didn't even look to see if it was one of their own or a poison jammer scouting around for intruders.
They jumped off the ladder, landing on the ground to the sewers. Yoyo went in first, wall riding to the entrance of Kibogaoka. He was followed by the other two, their skates the only thing coming from the sewers.
The scene of Kibogaoka Hill couldn't have been more disastrous. Fires burned out of control. The clock tower and other buildings had been knocked over, and there wasn't any sign of anyone.
"Those kids hit this place harder than last time" remarked Soda as he skated by a swing set, pushing it over with barely any momentum.
"Still, we have to get through." Yoyo replied, shaking his head at the destruction around him.
They skated on, leaving the playground and the rest of Kibogaoka behind, as they neared the entrance to the school.
As they reached the school more noise was brought to the already loud school. Kids were shouting together, playing on their own playground. The kids were so busy that they didn't see Yoyo, Soda, and Grave skate by, using the shadows to hide themselves. ---
Back in the Fortified Residential Zone, Corn stood overlooking the small crowd of rudies that had gathered to question what they were going to do with rising pedestrians.
Ender and Jason stood next to him, talking quietly to each other, only occasionally turning to see if anyone was listening in on their conversation.
The rudies were sitting in-groups of their own, sitting on pipes and other things that littered the Residential Zone. The meeting came to be, and all of the groups quieted down, and Corn stood up.
" As you all know, the rising forces against us have been a nuisance, and we have to figure out what we are going to do about them."
Corn looked around, and then resumed. "I am of course talking about the constant siege on Tokyo by the Golden Rhinos, the interference of the Rokkaku Police, and the riots of all of the peds. We need to decide what to do, because if we can't, we might just have to abandon Tokyo."
Poison Jam sat there reclining on pipes, while Rapid 99 sat there in their own little circle talking to one another. It was a Love Shocker who spoke up.
"We need to fight back. Hikage St has been attacked by overwhelming peds, but your rules make it so we can't hurt any of them. We've lost too many forces to take it any longer. If we have to, I propose we declare war on the streets."
The room fell quiet on her proposal. War on the streets would mean they would have to take on all forces, but would it come to that? Corn stood once more to address the congregation of rudies.
"It may come to that, but I don't think war on the streets is the level we need to take this. However, we could vote on it. By hands, how many think war is appropriate?"
Poison Jam, The Love Shockers, and The Immortals all raised their hands. When Corn turned around, however, Jason and Ender had their hands up as well.
"It seems that only the GG's and Rapid 99 oppose the idea, but since we aren't the body of the vote, we go by what the whole says." Corn skated across the Zone, going to the top of it. Reaching for a microphone that would transmit through Jet Set Radio Future, going all over town to all of the peds, police, and the Rhinos.
"Listen up!" he boomed. "I, Corn, Leader of the GGs, representing the body of the rudies of Tokyo, hereby declare war on the streets of Tokyo. If we cannot stop the Rhinos and the peds, we will have to take the streets back by force, by any means necessary."
He ended the announcement, and then turned around to skate back down to his team. Not noticed by Corn, a red dot was trained on his chest. A loud crack of a gun was heard, and all of the rudies looked up.
Something fell from the sky, landing near the Immortals. Everyone looked to it, and was scared to see Corn lying face up; a look of pure hatred sketched on his face, and a hole through his chest the size of a grapefruit.
Ender ran over to him, but knew as he approached it was already too late. Corn was dead and there was nothing he could do. He picked up the body and started to skate away when a crash was heard from the windows in the corner.
Yoyo, Soda, Grave, and a teenage kid in a fire blue clothing crashed through. The four skated around, oblivious to anybody else's face.
"Corn!" Yoyo shouted, skating over to Ender, looking at Corn's limp body. He fell over as he got to Ender, sobbing and punching a wall uncontrollably.
"God damn it!" he yelled grabbing hold of Corn's limp hand. "I will get the son of a bitch who did this Corn. I promise."
The Breakers and the GG's skated away, but Grave stayed behind observing the rest of the gangs. The only ones who hadn't left were Poison Jam. He walked over to them, and they all turned to face him.
"Been awhile, Acid." Grave said looking at the lead Poison Jam.
The leader broke into a weird smile, not at all an attractive look, but took his mask off to reveal his handsome face.
"Same to you, Grave." The smile on his face was only second to his sparkling eyes, which reflected Grave's face to him.
"Time for us to do some hunting, for this travesty of Corn's death should not be aloud to pass."
"Yes, even I have to agree that this was misfortunate, and I know I am not the only one to think so." As he said this, his eyes darted to a corner.
Grave took the hint. "Isn't that right, Jack?" he said turning to a corner where the kid with the blue flames stepped out.
"I think so, yes. I think it's time to get the old gang together." Jack said, his eyes twinkling like a cats in the shadows he was in.
Grave looked up at where Corn had stood. "We will see" ---
The noise of each territory in Tokyo was broken by the sound of grinding, as representatives from each rudie group came towards the residential zone.
The Rokkaku police were getting complaints from all parts of town. In the Skyscraper District a women was calling for an ambulance.
An Immortal skating by had knocked out her husband, who had thought that the man was getting in his way. All of the R. Police were swamped with work, and Hayashi was nowhere to be seen.
The area of Rokkaku-dai was filled with screams from pedestrians, and yells from rudies trying to get by to the sewers. In all this chaos, no one saw three different rudies skate by, two of them with guns, and the third yelling at the other two, trying to make them back off.
"Dude, I know you're pissed, but you can't do this. Those kids made that school a fort; you'll never get passed them to see Jack." Soda was yelling at him.
Grave was at the end, his hands not moving as he skated, and his guns clearly visible in the broad daylight. "I have to see Jack. If I don't, he might be next. Corn said that all of the Doom Riders died during an outing. Two things wrong with that. One, Jack wouldn't have gone, he doesn't drink, and he's not old enough to. Two, he never liked the other Doom Riders and he told me he was going to hide after our attack last year." Yoyo said, his face contorted into a grim scowl.
Grave spoke up after a half an hour of skating.
"I don't think the school will be a great challenge to get into. I'll just knock out any."
"No!" roared Yoyo, turning around suddenly the butt of his rifle coming up as if to hit Grave.
"We will not attack the school. None of these children must be hurt, even if they attack us, we mustn't hurt any of them. I still need to get to Jack, because if I don't, someone else might first." Soda said, his teeth gritting on the last sentence.
"Okay, but if we are caught, what are we going to do?" said Soda, brushing past a frightened civilian.
"We will run, and if we're lucky, we wont have to hurt any of them." Replied Yoyo.
The trio ran through the sewers, hiding behind barrels whenever another rudie came by. They didn't even look to see if it was one of their own or a poison jammer scouting around for intruders.
They jumped off the ladder, landing on the ground to the sewers. Yoyo went in first, wall riding to the entrance of Kibogaoka. He was followed by the other two, their skates the only thing coming from the sewers.
The scene of Kibogaoka Hill couldn't have been more disastrous. Fires burned out of control. The clock tower and other buildings had been knocked over, and there wasn't any sign of anyone.
"Those kids hit this place harder than last time" remarked Soda as he skated by a swing set, pushing it over with barely any momentum.
"Still, we have to get through." Yoyo replied, shaking his head at the destruction around him.
They skated on, leaving the playground and the rest of Kibogaoka behind, as they neared the entrance to the school.
As they reached the school more noise was brought to the already loud school. Kids were shouting together, playing on their own playground. The kids were so busy that they didn't see Yoyo, Soda, and Grave skate by, using the shadows to hide themselves. ---
Back in the Fortified Residential Zone, Corn stood overlooking the small crowd of rudies that had gathered to question what they were going to do with rising pedestrians.
Ender and Jason stood next to him, talking quietly to each other, only occasionally turning to see if anyone was listening in on their conversation.
The rudies were sitting in-groups of their own, sitting on pipes and other things that littered the Residential Zone. The meeting came to be, and all of the groups quieted down, and Corn stood up.
" As you all know, the rising forces against us have been a nuisance, and we have to figure out what we are going to do about them."
Corn looked around, and then resumed. "I am of course talking about the constant siege on Tokyo by the Golden Rhinos, the interference of the Rokkaku Police, and the riots of all of the peds. We need to decide what to do, because if we can't, we might just have to abandon Tokyo."
Poison Jam sat there reclining on pipes, while Rapid 99 sat there in their own little circle talking to one another. It was a Love Shocker who spoke up.
"We need to fight back. Hikage St has been attacked by overwhelming peds, but your rules make it so we can't hurt any of them. We've lost too many forces to take it any longer. If we have to, I propose we declare war on the streets."
The room fell quiet on her proposal. War on the streets would mean they would have to take on all forces, but would it come to that? Corn stood once more to address the congregation of rudies.
"It may come to that, but I don't think war on the streets is the level we need to take this. However, we could vote on it. By hands, how many think war is appropriate?"
Poison Jam, The Love Shockers, and The Immortals all raised their hands. When Corn turned around, however, Jason and Ender had their hands up as well.
"It seems that only the GG's and Rapid 99 oppose the idea, but since we aren't the body of the vote, we go by what the whole says." Corn skated across the Zone, going to the top of it. Reaching for a microphone that would transmit through Jet Set Radio Future, going all over town to all of the peds, police, and the Rhinos.
"Listen up!" he boomed. "I, Corn, Leader of the GGs, representing the body of the rudies of Tokyo, hereby declare war on the streets of Tokyo. If we cannot stop the Rhinos and the peds, we will have to take the streets back by force, by any means necessary."
He ended the announcement, and then turned around to skate back down to his team. Not noticed by Corn, a red dot was trained on his chest. A loud crack of a gun was heard, and all of the rudies looked up.
Something fell from the sky, landing near the Immortals. Everyone looked to it, and was scared to see Corn lying face up; a look of pure hatred sketched on his face, and a hole through his chest the size of a grapefruit.
Ender ran over to him, but knew as he approached it was already too late. Corn was dead and there was nothing he could do. He picked up the body and started to skate away when a crash was heard from the windows in the corner.
Yoyo, Soda, Grave, and a teenage kid in a fire blue clothing crashed through. The four skated around, oblivious to anybody else's face.
"Corn!" Yoyo shouted, skating over to Ender, looking at Corn's limp body. He fell over as he got to Ender, sobbing and punching a wall uncontrollably.
"God damn it!" he yelled grabbing hold of Corn's limp hand. "I will get the son of a bitch who did this Corn. I promise."
The Breakers and the GG's skated away, but Grave stayed behind observing the rest of the gangs. The only ones who hadn't left were Poison Jam. He walked over to them, and they all turned to face him.
"Been awhile, Acid." Grave said looking at the lead Poison Jam.
The leader broke into a weird smile, not at all an attractive look, but took his mask off to reveal his handsome face.
"Same to you, Grave." The smile on his face was only second to his sparkling eyes, which reflected Grave's face to him.
"Time for us to do some hunting, for this travesty of Corn's death should not be aloud to pass."
"Yes, even I have to agree that this was misfortunate, and I know I am not the only one to think so." As he said this, his eyes darted to a corner.
Grave took the hint. "Isn't that right, Jack?" he said turning to a corner where the kid with the blue flames stepped out.
"I think so, yes. I think it's time to get the old gang together." Jack said, his eyes twinkling like a cats in the shadows he was in.
Grave looked up at where Corn had stood. "We will see" ---