Neku and Beat couldn't believe it: they vanished. How?

"Yo, where 'r we?"

"I don't know. This place is so strange... I'm sure this is Shibuya, but..."

A sound at his back shut him up. When he turned, he could see a claw approaching to him. Neku and Beat jumped away and avoided the attack. They looked around them, and checked that they were surrounded by...

"NOISE?!", both shouted with their eyes very opened. They had three Garage Wolves, a Mosh Grizzly and two Funkfrogs.

"What the fuck, man?", Beat was surprised. "Ain't we in RG?"

"That's what I thought, but...", Neku covered his head with the hands. "No, not again!"

The Noise started to attack them again. "Take care of the ones at the left. I'll erase those ones at the right!", Neku commanded his friend. He was about to fight them, when he realized... That he didn't have Psychs Pins to defend himself. How was he going to defeat them if he was defenseless? "Crap! What should I do now?".

"Hey, yo, we're in trouble!", the other teen shouted. "You can't fight! And I can't take 'em alone!". Just when he finished talking, Beat erased one of the frogs and one of the Garage Wolves performing acrobatics, and Neku smiled when he threw two pins towars him. "Catch 'em, Phones!"

"Yeah!", Neku caught them and checked those pins: they were a Lightning Storm Pin and a 1000 yen Pin. He sighed when he saw he just could attack using one of them, but at least it was better than being harmless.

He created two electric charges than began moving around him and hurting the Noise. Beat hit them as hard as he could, moving fast, jumping and making aerobatics, while Neku dealt with them using that pin's Psych. It was hard, but finally there was just the Mosh Grizzly. Both were prepared to face it; unfortunately, luck wasn't by their side at that moment...

"More of these?", Neku sighed when five new Mosh Grizzly appeared.

"They ain't goin' to give up, man!", Beat took again his skateboard and ran towards one of them.

One was a problem; six, much worse. Neku and Beat could erase two of them, but the other four beat them up. Both ended up rolling on the green and black ground. "Oh, man, what the fuck they eat?"

"I thought this would be easier... They've become stronger!", Neku tried to stand up, but he hadn't strength to do it. The Noise surrounded them and continued attacking them. Both were lost...

Or that's what they thought. A beam of light erased the Noise in a matter of seconds. They had their heads covered with their arms, and they just felt a white flash, followed by the scream of the Noise being erased. Beat was the first one to open his eyes and look what had happen. When Neku heard his short exclamation, of confusion and surprise, Neku dared to have a look around him.

There were just a 500 Yen Pin and a 1000 Yen Pin instead of the Noise, but the aspect of Shibuya didn't change. Everything was like before they were attacked. Neku didn't understand why his friend was so surprised, until he turned at his back and saw the smiling person standing there.

"Long time no see you, Neku", the person chuckled while looking at them with his half-closed eyes.

"J-Joshua...", Neku murmured and blinked twice. Was he really Joshua? How was that possible?

"Ain't that the dude of tha secon' week, yo?", Beat asked once he could stand up.

"Yes... Yes, he is...", Neku shook his head, still dizzy, and tried to stand up too. However, his legs made him fall again.

"Do you need some help?", Joshua offered him a hand, still smiling with a flash of arrogance, but happy too.

"Out of my face!", Neku ordered him angrily. He moved away Joshua's hand and finally stood up by himself. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"

"You seem annoyed... You should calm down, Neku", Joshua chuckled again.

"Shut up!", Neku was getting more annoyed as Joshua pretend that they were great friends or something. "Do you think that helping us will make us trust on you?"

"Mmmm... 'Thank you' would have been enough...", Joshua said a bit more serious, yet he had his arrogant voice and that grim that Neku hated so much.

"Are you kidding me?"

"Man...", Beat tried to catch their attention, but it didn't work.

"I missed these conversations, you know? We had such a good time in 'The Reapers' Game'..."

"Damn you! You tricked me, you used my friends for a fucking bet, and now you pretend nothing of that happen? Do you think that goes so easily?"

"PHONES!", Beat called him nervously; nonetheless, Neku looked to be deaf, as he still ignored him.

"Everything is ok now, Neku..."

"Sure it is!", he said ironically. "What do you want now? Why did you do this?"

"Do what?", Joshua asked a bit surprised.

"Don't say you don't know anything! I know you're behind this! Rhyme saw you up there, in front of the 104!"

"I didn't do anything Neku...", Joshua changed his attitude and his voice turned really serious. "I'm not the one who made this to Shibuya. In fact..."

Joshua sighed and shrugged his shoulders. "I have no clue of what's going on. I've appeared here, like I suppose you also did, and Noise attacked me. I couldn't control them, it was like if they weren't the Noise of the Game. I can't get out of this plane... it's like if we were in the UG plane, but not the same one. I wonder who made this."

"What?", Neku was shocked. "Stop lying!"

"I'm not lying, Neku. I would like it was a joke, but it isn't. It's the truth, this time I can assure you it.". Joshua's look was calm and deep; Neku even could feel... Guilt? Sadness?

"Then, if you didn't do this... Who took Shiki and Rhyme? What happened to Shibuya?"

"I would love to know that, Neku", Joshua answered while folding his arms.

"YO DUDES, LOOK THERE!", Beat grabbed both teens and shook them. When the two boys looked at him without knowing why he did that, Beat pointed at the two Minimal Rhinos that were about to charge to them.

In fact, they were really close to them when the group noticed them. Joshua avoided them with a simple move and Beat jumped away, but Neku wasn't so lucky: Beat pulled him unconsciously, so he tripped and fall on the ground. The Noise weren't too fast, though they could hit him with their horns; they were close enough. He rolled and saved himself from stomping, although his clothes got caught on one of the Noise's horn. The Noise shook him violently and beat him several times; he couldn't get off there, and his partners weren't able to attack the Noise, as they could hurt him accidentally. During the shaking, his only offensive pin flew away, too fast to be caught on time.

"Man, this ain't good", Beat said nervously.

"Ugh...", Joshua didn't know what they should do either.

"Dammit... At this rate, I'll be...", he was beaten again before ending that sentence.

Without any warning, he was thrown in the air, and finally rolled three yards, more or less. Beat and Joshua went to help him quickly. "You'r' okay, dude?"

"Niahg... My head is spinning...", Neku was dizzy, disoriented.

"Well, at least you're alive, aren't you?", Joshua said while smiling.

Neku had to wait some seconds until he stabilized. Then, he rose and brushed his clothes, very surprised. He looked to the Noise and found two big ice stalactites, which were shattered seconds later. He blinked and stared at the melting pieces for a while.

"What the hell was that?", he wondered aloud. Joshua was smiling, but he changed his face when he saw something behind them. Beat and Neku didn't know what he was looking at, so they turned...