TWEWY: A Fall Into Honor:

This story is about how Joshua became the Composer. The story is from Joshua's point of view, and others if the story needs to. This is a prequel of the game The World Ends With You. TWEWY is made by Square Enix. And I own the OCs. This is a FAN FICTION and not the real prequel. Enjoy! =3

Week 0, 3 days before week 1:

Chapter 30: Pork City Tower:

Izo tapped his fingers boredly on the railing as he looked down at Shibuya's vistas.

He was at Pork City Tower on the roof with Rei, his foster sister, who he was convinced had a child's soul trapped inside her. Of course, he never wanted to come here in the first place; he had homework to do for school and he wanted to get it done so he could just write more poetry about the senseless world he lived in.

Why couldn't the tyke just ignore him? She was the equivalent of a pesky fly, a hyper puppy, and an uncontrolled child all rolled into one adult-sized package.

"I see the whole city!" screamed Rei as she leaned over the railing to look around like a puppy exploring the outside world for the first time. "Ooh~ I see the Statue of Hachiko, the Scramble Crossing, and Cat Street-"

"Shut up!" snapped Izo as he stalked away from where he was standing beside Rei and felt his anger shake through his frame. "I can't yield another breath in your harrowing company!"

Rei's almost constant chatter deadened for a moment before she started calling after him. He ignored her; he was done with this. The cobalt haired teen went for the elevator anxious to leave the stupid building and leave Rei astray in her own meaningless wanderings. He pressed the button for the elevator as Rei appeared beside him looking flustered. "W-Wait Izo! Don't go yet. We just got here!"

Izo scowled at her as she began her wretched pleas for him to stay here in the dull air of this dreary spire. "I might not get a chance to see places like this once I get work. And you're still attending school- wait a minute!" Her face screwed up looking muddled as she breathed, "You never take time to explore places, or mingle with anyone at all! What's wrong with you, fos-bro?"

She only met silence from him. He saw no point in trying to reason with the 21 year old that was a lost cause in what responsibilities adults had. She was a child, a tyke! Nothing important could be gleaned from the torrent of words that flooded out of her mouth every second spent. He sullenly wondered to the heavens why he was destined to be stuck here upon birth.

A ding rang as the steel doors slid open. The cobalt haired teen stepped into it and turned around to press the button for down.

But, before he did so, his ash grey haired foster sister barred his path. Right then she had her annoying matching clipboard out that she'd hidden in a black satchel. She had a smirk on her face as she waved it in his own face. "Nuh uh. I still have business with you."

"Shoot me." Izo couldn't care less about Rei's terrible attempts to keep him here. He wanted to go home now and lock himself up in his room until his foster parents called him down for dinner. Unless, in the case that he was still feeling robbed of his free-will, he ignored their feeble entreaties. Everyone he knew whispered behind his back, ignorant that he heard each measly word spilled, about how much of a loner, jerk, or sourpuss he was. No matter what, he paid no open mind about it. What could he do when the world was filled with scatterbrains?

"Would you just listen?" Rei cried as she hit him with her clipboard.

The cobalt haired teen rolled his maroon eyes in spite of the throbbing pain. "Catch a mate who will."

With a huff, Rei closed her eyes as she put her clipboard away. Izo was content she had ceased her squabble and simply pressed the main floor button.

The humming of the elevator started as it began to descend. It would take a while to get to the floor they wanted, so Izo began to tug a bit on the choker Rei bought, and also made him put on today. He hated clothing, because it reminded him grimly from whence they came. Since he did have a flaw, store phobia, he knew he never would like to be 'Fashionable!" as Rei put it.

First of all, he felt simply fine today with his ordinary white shirt with the sandy collar and his slack white pants. His dark grey and silver running shoes were the only ones that could be adequate for him to wear in public.

Despite how he felt, the ranting Rei gave him seemed more like she was scolding him as if he was a child. That really irritated him. She dragged him into various stores, ignoring how he fought against going into the store vocally and physically, along the way to Pork City Tower… But, in his opinion, her 'help' did no avail but make him look worse.

Along his new choker, which he detested the most, he gained a insignificant dull black jacket. The jacket near the bottom grew lighter grey. That dumb jacket had something like a darker navy cape attached to the back starting at the shoulder; the addition was half the length of the jacket. It made him look like he was a vacuous sailor!

'At least it's merely for the day…' thought Izo sighing. 'I'll lob these abominations in the trash tomorrow. Better yet, burn them.'

As Rei was moving her lips to tell him something, a sudden jerk sent Izo colliding into her. Oddly the elevator didn't open up for the floor… nor did the dial for the floor they were on settle on the corresponding number.

"What the-" blurted Rei as she gently pushed off Izo.

Izo waited for the elevator door to open, anxiously, so they could get out. He repeated in his head that this was just the day's lousy luck pushing up one more inconvenience instead of a catastrophe; that in mere seconds he would be ridiculing Rei's alarm as everything resumed to normal. Sadly, he knew it wouldn't.

Rei was now banging on the steel door once the button to open it failed to respond. "Open door, open! Let us out!"

"Are you taxing to converse with the inanimate door?" questioned Izo, his tone was frigid as his nature.

The ashen haired lady spun around to face him with a flustered face. "C'mon! What else can we do? If we wanna get outta here than we better start workin'."

For the moment, Izo understood Rei was scared. Anyone stuck in a situation like this would definitely be scared, stressed, and aggravated all at the same time.

Before he could give a cold response to her nonsense, she went for the elevator buttons and began jamming on the main floor's. Izo let out a growl, the emergency button was right next to the one Rei was hitting while being ignored like it never existed. 'Stupid Tyke! Toss her in a vat of eels and she would certainly not cognizance them!'

"You're going to break it." cautioned Izo as Rei stupidly continued her ill-thought plan. "There's no sense in this."

Rei went on as she protested, "Of course it will! The button must have undid itself, that's all."

"'Undid.' How far dumber can you delve into? The button cannot purely rescind itself." snarled Izo as he clasped onto her wrists and began to tear it away from the elevator button. He grunted as she glued herself to the spot. "It won't work, Tyke! Press the emergency button-"

Then the elevator returned to humming. Rei stopped with a complacent smirk to Izo who let go."Ha! See! I got it to work, fos-bro."

Izo ignored her, only listening intently to the humming of the elevator. There was now a windy noise along with the humming, like air was flowing all around them, almost like they were in the sky. And instead of the fluent movement of the elevator, it felt like the ground was reverberating. At once the whole elevator began to quake violently.

Rei let out a cry of alarm when they began to lose their foothold; slowly they were forced to hover barely above the floor before they were sucked to the ceiling due to gravity. His foster sister shrieked as through she was losing her voice, "Gah! What's going on?!"

Izo wanted answer but couldn't. It felt like all oxygen was being extracted out of his lungs along with stimulating an excruciating headache. Even if he wanted to reply, he was too terrified to let out a word. He couldn't understand what was happening!

Then a deafening thud shook through his frame and darkness claimed him.

Week 1, day 7:

Joshua could see it: Pork City Tower.

Rei and Izo were still visibly uneasy, apparently sharing a sentiment for once. They hadn't spoken a single word since they began to travel to their destination.

Flanked beside him was Ayumu, who spoke a little and awhile along the way. Despite the disability he had for the moment, Joshua could piece together what he meant. "'Most here Josh?"

"Yeah, Ayu," chirped Joshua as he smiled. His lavender eyes swept across the area as Ayumu said something about the abbreviation being a girl's name.

Ayumu stopped suddenly. "Wall."

Joshua responded to his statement by freezing in his tracks. Joshua thought brightly, 'At least I'm saved from hitting it. Great job, Ayumu!'

"Aye," said Ayumu as he stared forward at nothing.

Rei and Izo had stopped as well when Rei noted quietly, "We've returned." A flicker of fright flashed in her eyes as she hung her head after. "I just- just never thought we'd come here again... And so soon..."

Joshua ambled over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "We're here for only the mission. I'm pretty sure you'll feel better after we're done, Rei."

Rei gave a smirk.

Izo was watching the tower warily. "We ought to venture now as swiftly as we can." His growl made him seem more annoyed than scared, "I will indubitably not come here again."

Joshua nodded before he saw the Wall's Reaper crouching defensively. "Looks like we have another fight to handle, everyone."

Rei had her clipboard out, her bright brown eyes sparkling. "Great!"

"Again..." hissed Izo under his breath in irritation as he primed his transparent threads on his pale fingers.

Throughout the whole time they traveled, they had to fight Reapers who wanted to erase them. It was all about their lengths of existence they had in order to survive. Each Player eliminated meant a few days (or whatever time period you want to give it) more life for them. Sanae told him that.

After the Reaper raised his hand in the air and clenched it, a red Noise symbol molded from overhead. It started to drift and emit sounds just as it headed towards them. At the moment it was about to hit them, dazzling light consumed them all.

Joshua's vision returned as the he saw they were in the battleground.

There was a gold wolf Noise with a purple tattooed tail and forelegs that was running around the area already. It nearly smashed Joshua's skull when it pounced onto him and sent them to the ground. For a moment, it tried to latch onto him by biting; but Joshua threw it off in time to send compressed fire at it only for the attack to meet empty pavement. The speedy wolf Noise snarled at him before it resumed running around the zone.

'Wow, that sure is a fast wolfy.' thought Joshua as he dashed away when it nearly clipped him in a rush, leaving purple blaze trailing behind it. 'It isn't like the normal Wolf Noise. Sort of like an… alternative I guess.'

While he avoided the Wolf Noise, he noticed that Izo and Ayumu were struggling with a red and white penguin with yellow tattooed head feathers and wing tips.

Another penguin Noise that he fought during the 2nd day accompanied this one by slapping Izo hard in the face, thus preventing him from using his whip-like threads to attack. Joshua ran over to help just as Ayumu rose up a golden yellow force field to defend himself from the new penguin Noise who was about to hit him.

Once he got there, he used his Thrash Splash Pin to send himself into attacking the Noise. So he battered at it as he felt the water gush around his frame, but at the same time too the red and white Noise smacked him repeatedly.

This went on until Izo gained control of the blue and white Noise to force it to betray the other. When it slapped its comrade, the red and white Noise got erased before Izo squeezed the threads on the other until it was gone as well.

'I'm impressed; are these new Noise modified from the old ones or evolutions of them?' Clearly he saw the resemblance in the Noise they were fighting.

But before he could say anything to the two other Players, they were knocked away and hurled from the spot they were.

The golden Wolf Noise had returned as it went on running around until it pounced at Izo. Just as it almost landed, it was blown away by a gale made by Rei. Joshua right away got to his feet sluggishly and used his Windy Whirl Pin to push it back to her.

Suddenly, it seemed they started a game of Ping-Pong, with the Noise playing the unwilling part of the ball, until Joshua finished it off with his Starblight Pin. Once the grand beam of celestial light left nothing but particles, they were sent back to where they were before the battle.

The Reaper who had sent them into battle in the first place was still there. He stiffened as they returned, undefeated.

"Wellll?" Rei tapped her foot impatiently when he remained frozen in shock. "You gonna let us in, or what?"

After a beat more of silently absorbing how easily his challenge had been trounced, the Reaper sighed and opened the Wall up; then stepped aside for them to pass.

"Easy-peasy, huh?" piped Rei triumphantly as she raised her pen up in the air with a gleam in her eyes.

Joshua relaxed as he walked into the district their target lay in. Ayumu was right behind him while Rei and Izo seemed keen on getting there by leading the way. So Joshua slowed down to match his half-brother's pace and leave the two foster siblings to their determined march.

"A whole week has passed, eh?" remarked Joshua as Ayumu looked at him blankly. Joshua blinked for a second before he added grimly, "Ever since we were killed..."

"By-" Before Ayumu could finish what he said, Rei was waving both of her arms over her head wildly, doubtlessly telling them to hurry up. Joshua knew they had limited time, so he ran ahead to catch up with the other members of their group.

Once he got there, he saw they stood in front of the building they had to be. "Rei... Izo... You better be right about where the mission is going to be."

"Twity, why else would the GM mention a place where two people died?" asked Rei as she put her hand on her hip, flashing a sly smirk. "Don't worry about it. We'll be A-Okay!"

'But it could also mean the site of my and Ayumu's demise,' thought Joshua fretfully as Ayumu joined them. 'The GM could have found out every secret each Player has from any of our files. Megumi saw ours... and that Kazumasa guy... so there has to be others who have as well.' He let out a sigh. 'Oh dear... That's bothersome indeed...' He looked at Ayumu who was staring at him, probably reading his mind. "Hey Ayumu."

The petite blond nodded. "Hi."

Before Joshua could ask about anything, Rei propelled him through the glass sliding doors while Izo dragged Ayumu in by his light grey shirt collar. By the time he stumbled over his feet and nearly fell flat on his face he whipped around to meet Rei. "You didn't have to shove me in!"

"You remained shelving too long, mate." Izo let go of Ayumu who stayed silent. The cobalt haired teen pushed his bangs out of his face as he snarled, "Iwoa needs to be erased promptly before I squander my rationality here!" To Joshua, Izo seemed quite scared and angry.

"Izo's right," said Rei as she swiped her pen furiously at her clipboard; she looked up at them after pausing. "We have to find and destroy the Whipster!"

Right away, Izo face-palmed along with a traditional groan.

Now that they were in the place they were supposed to be, Joshua saw that there were plain tan walls, mossy carpeted floor, and there was an elevator with sturdy blue grey steel doors that had across it crisscrossed ugly yellow tape like what the police used that said: Danger, under investigation.

Joshua remembered Rei revealed they died somehow in the elevator, but he had an impression that not everyone who possibly worked here would know that. To tell the truth, he could recall a little that there was a news report one day that the elevator in Pork City Tower mysteriously 'went out of commission' and the people there had no idea why. Unless they wanted to scale down the shaft, where there was no elevator to transport them, and discover both a dead young female adult and a dead mid male teen rotting inside it. Above all, no one mentioned if anyone died or was there in the first place.

"So where is the GM?" asked Joshua, confused as he looked around.

Rei shrugged while Izo closed his maroon eyes.

When Joshua went to face the youngest, he flinched when he saw Ayumu nearby the elevator. Briskly, he walked over as Ayumu slid his hand up the side of it while looking sightlessly at his feet. The blind teen turned his head and cut off Joshua, as he was about to speak. "Down."

"Down?" echoed Joshua as he joined Ayumu's side while blinking, his lavender eyes met Ayumu's pale pewter as he asked, "You mean like below this floor, right Ayumu?"

Ayumu nodded after a moment and looked down at his feet again.

Izo walked up while Rei had already darted over, the older boy narrowed his eyes as soon as he saw the tape. "Tsk, I should have recognized the constabularies from the RG would partake in this. The staple of reaching Iwoa contests our capabilities further."

"Yeah… whatever Izo meant!" exclaimed Rei pumping her fist in the air.

"But the question is… how?" mused Joshua as he scanned the lobby and its residents, they hastily moved around without pause and none of them looked the type to open up an elevator door with no functional elevator there to greet them. He frowned, as he had no success in finding anyone from a gander.

With a heavy sigh he blinked at everyone. "Suggestions?"

"Find…" slurred Ayumu emotionlessly.

The weather lady, Rei, grabbed Ayumu's hand and made him high five with her. "Yay! Recon! Let's do it."

She dashed off, leaving the rest of the group to watch her retreating form blankly.

'Uh… that was… random.' Joshua felt more vexed now than ever before. They could have sought out a better plan, but now… Rei made the decision.

Izo rolled his eyes before he stalked off in another direction after he spat, "Credits for being a Tyke, Rei!"

This left Joshua with Ayumu, but Joshua felt he needed to ask Izo about the other day still while he had the chance to, just in case either of them were erased.

Joshua gave a look to Ayumu before walking the way he saw Izo went. Ayumu would probably stay by the elevator; or at least… Joshua hoped he would. Despite that, he couldn't help giving glances back only to still see Ayumu looking down at where he might have sensed the GM was below them.

Just as Joshua got to his cobalt haired companion, Izo instantly turned around to face him. "What?" How callous Izo sounded made Joshua wince before he composed himself by taking in a deep breath. A wave of cold air was produced, chilling him down to his bones as Izo's maroon eyes narrowed at him.

"How di- never mind." said Joshua shaking his head before he gave a firm gaze into Izo's eyes. "About yesterday…"

Izo suddenly clasped the side of his head. "Ugh… Don't confer vis-à-vis it. I have a migraine from even evoking and suffering from it thanks to the Tyke."

'Ouch… Well she did hit him… seeing how much of jerk he'd been to Ayumu. And wait, how many times did she hit him?'

"Well, I hope it goes away before we fight the GM, Izo," said Joshua honestly.

"Feh. You didn't approach now to tête-à-tête idly, did you?" Izo shook his head through annoyance. "What is it?"

"Ok, straight to the point then." Joshua inhaled to free his mind from muddle before he asked what he intended to know, "Why did Ayumu go to the Station Underpass?"

Snorting, Izo looked away. "Catechize the Blind Brat himself, Aleck."

Joshua was unimpressed by Izo, so he pressed on. "He can't. So… Let me rephrase that: What made Ayumu go to the Station Underpass? Did you selfishly take him there, or threaten him because of the mission?"

The only response Joshua had now was silence from Izo. His maroon eyes darkened and his frown deepened. It was until he closed his eyes when he shook his head. "Neither."

This made Joshua's breath catch momentarily before widening his lavender eyes in disbelief. "Pardon?"

Izo reopened his eyes, now glaring at him, gritting his pale teeth as he took a step in front of him, close enough so that Joshua could feel and smell his rancid breath. "Must I make myself anymore clearer, Aleck? I said; I acted nothing entirely for anything you have asserted." He suddenly whipped forth his arm and elbowed into Joshua's chest coercing the scraggly haired boy to step back while nearly stumbling down. "The datum is, Aleck, your half-brother decided to go on behalf of his own will. Hmph."

The walking freezer snorted again before he stalked past Joshua and roughly shunted him. Joshua felt his blood disappear from his face just as he stared at the spot Izo had been.

"That's… impossible." Joshua felt numb from the new knowledge he received. "You would never do that, Ayumu. Would you?"

To be continued…

Hope you enjoyed the chapter =3