Part 7

"I hate this place already" I sighed as we skated into the Sewage Facility, and I knew I wasn't the only one. Rhyth was starting to look a little green at the edges

"Why?" Yoyo looked back at us, since he was in front of us along with Beat and Corn, and Combo was next to Rhyth and I

"Well. . .it's a sewage facility. . .and Poison Jam hangs out here" I shuddered

"You're just a-Holy Shit!" Yoyo fell down as the floor disappeared, going down into a straight drop 20 feet below. Corn and Beat had already stopped before the cliff, but it looked like they had forgotten to tell a certain someone

"You might want to stop, there's a drop" Beat yelled at him kiddingly

"Could of told me earlier yo" Yoyo rubbed the back of his head, sighing "I'm so glad you're using me for trap bait"

"Isn't there a way out of there?" Rhyth asked

"Nooooo" Yoyo was starting to look pissed

"You're the 30th person to fall for that trap" We looked up at the other side where the floor went back normal and saw another guy. He had dark skin, but it more of a creamy caramel color than a straight brown like Combo's, a gray tank-top, orange insect glasses, gold arm bands, and sweats.

"Well, I wouldn't of if some certain people had told me to stop soon enough" Yoyo turned his head and glared at us, and Beat shrugged

"Well, for the 30th sucker anniversary, I'll help you, but you have to pull off an Invert to an LK Back flip"

Invert to LK back flip? That was a pretty advanced trick. Well, Invert was kind of easy, just a hand plant. But then you had to pull of an LK back flip almost instantly after, which is when you jump right before the edge of the halfpipe or you'll go into a grind, and you get enough air to do a back flip

Yoyo just grinned at the guy, then skated to one side of the half pipe and kicked up his feet, balancing on one hand, pulling off a hand plant, then let his feet fall down and skated really fast to the other side and went pretty high into the air and pulled of the back flip. Holy hell he did it that easily?

"Awesome" Rhyth smiled

"I didn't he'd be able to pull it off so easily" Combo seemed to sigh in relief

"Not bad" The guy commented "Stand back a little, unless you want to get squished"

We all stepped back a little as the guy skated off. A couple minutes later, a bunch of iron beams came down from the ceiling, letting Yoyo get back up and us get across

"Thanks!" I yelled when the guy came back, and we all grinded across to him

"No problem" He replied, grinning when we reached the other side "But, do you mind if I join you guys. GGs, right"

We all looked over at Corn, and he nodded

"Sure, you helped us, so it's only fair"

"Thanks. Name's Garam" He grinned again

"Wait, you aren't a Poison Jam or something?" Beat squinted at Garam

"Nope, I just crash here" Garam shook his head

"Why?" Rhyth cocked her head

"Don't really have any other place to stay, so I just stay here" Garam shrugged

"Poison Jam actually lets you?" Corn raised an eyebrow

"Well, they tolerate me, but only because I'm related to The Master"

"The. . .Master?" I gulped. Great, the creepiness just kept pilling on.

"Yeah, as you probably haven't heard, Poison Jam has a leader"

"A leader? Those dumb asses actually have a leader?" Yoyo blinked

"Must be one tough dude to control them" Combo commented

"You'd be surprised" Garam rolled his eyes, then stopped, and we all stopped with him "We're here"

Could this place get any fucking creepier? I swear to God this was worse than those slasher films I was forced to watch by Yoyo 2 months ago, and I had nightmares for weeks from that. There were flames popping out of nowhere, and eerie statues. In front of us, Poison Jam was standing there like a pack of hungry wolves, but on a balcony above them was a person sitting down on a rather large chair. But I couldn't really make out anything, since the person was pretty far away

"So you've finally betrayed me Garam" Holy shit that was a female voice. The Master was a girl?

"What did you expect Cube? You knew I was looking for a gang to join" Wait? Garam was one of us now? When did this happen? All well, I guess we kind of unconsciously accepted him when he helped us at the entrance

"Cube. . ." I heard Combo whisper. Did Combo know her too

"Whatever" Cube sighed and stood up "Boys, its dinner time"

Fuck. Poison Jam started advancing on it, and we all did the smart thing. Run

But, for some apparent reason, Combo was just standing there, staring at Cube. I sighed, stopped, then grabbed his free arm and continued skating

"Run now, reunion later" I sighed again, half dragging Combo behind me. We eventually lost them, which was pretty easy, since Poison Jam's slow.

"That was a failure" Corn sighed

"We need to find some way to get them on the Defense" I sighed, thinking hard. How would we do that? Holy shit why didn't I think of that before?

"Tagger's Tag, duh" I palmed my forehead "If we get on the offensive side of Tagger's Tag, we'll be chasing them, which will be really easy because they're so slow. And we can Derudie them as well"

"There's our chance" Garam made a small gesture to Poison Jam, who was on the other side of the platform, and seemed to be completely oblivious to us"

"Come on then!" I jumped up and skated towards them, Corn beside me, and the rest behind me. We were getting closer and closer, almost close enough to tag them, and then they split up in three different pathways. One going right, one going left, and one going straight

Corn made a sharp turn right "Gum and Combo, you take straight. Beat and I will take right. The rest of you go left"

We all made some kind of gesture to show that we understood and split up as Corn ordered us.

"Hey Combo?" I asked as we skated

"Yeah?"

"How did you know. . .um. . ." Crap, I had forgotten her name

"Cube?"

"Yeah!"

"We were in the same gang when we lived back in Grind Square"

"Grind Square?"

"You probably wouldn't of heard of it, it's a ways away from here" Combo sighed "Anyways, she moved here a couple years ago, wanted to see what it was like being a Rudie in Tokyo-to. I moved here last year, but I couldn't find her any where 'till now"

"Mmm. . ." I nodded in understandment, then my eyes widened "There!" I pointed to the Poison Jam member in front of us that I just spotted. I skated as fast as I could and jumped on the blue pipe that he jumped on and started tagging

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3. . .Fuck

I wasn't paying attention as the pipe suddenly ended and didn't have enough time to jump, so I fell, but I was able to grab the edge of the pipe with one hand. I looked down, and holy fuck that was a big drop if I let go. I looked back up and tried not to think of it

"Gum!" I looked down again and saw Corn and Beat right below me

"What the hell happened?" Corn yelled

"Um. . ." I sighed "I kinda didn't pay attention while tagging"

"Nice" Beat called at me

"I wasn't my-FUCK!" I screamed as my hand slipped and I fell. I closed my eyes, not wanting to see the ground coming closer and closer

But then I landed on something that was a bit too soft to be ground. I looked down and saw that I lying was on top of Beat, who was now lying on the ground

"Sorry Beat" I sat up on his body

"Just get your fat ass off of me" Beat growled

"For that, I'm staying on" I stuck my tongue out on him and crossed my legs. I could clearly hear Corn cracking up behind me while Beat sighed

"Hey Gum, you down there?" It was Combo, who was on the other side of the room, which I would of gotten to if I had noticed the rail ending

"Yeah, I'm fine!" I called up at him "Did you get that Poison Jam?"

"Mmhmm. Sorry I didn't help you up"

"It's okay" I smiled and pointed to Beat "He unwillingly helped me down"

I heard the sound of skates against ground, and turned to see Garam, Yoyo, and Rhyth

"What happened?" Yoyo blinked, but Rhyth giggled and skated over to me

"Is it comfy?" Rhyth smiled

"Totally" I smiled back, and she sat down on Beat next to me

"You're all dead once they get off" Beat grumbled as everyone else burst out laughing

"You're right, it is comfy" Rhyth giggled again

After a couple more minutes of embarrassing Beat, we finally left the Sewage Facility. We decided not to go back to Cube, she'd be able to find out herself when her little fishies didn't come back fed. It was still about the middle of the day when we got back, but I curled up on Corn's couch and almost instantly fell asleep, since I could finally get my mind off of Poison Jam.

But that didn't last long

"Gum, wake up!" Rhyth was shaking me pretty hard as I slowly opened my eyes

"Just a couple more minutes" I groaned and closed my eyes again

"Yoyo's gone!"