The World Ends With You And Your Choices Ch. 10

(Now! Pants! Off!)  Neku rolled back avoiding the punch launched by this behemoth. He reached for his side pocket and pulled out his player pin from Joshua. (Hopefully this works.) When Neku reached for his pocket he pulled out a set of pins. It was his Tin-Pin set. (What!? Where’s my black planet set?) Neku looked over to see the man rush towards him. He dashed around him as he slammed into a wall.
“They were right about you-” The man began standing up, “You’re very agile. But that won’t stop me!” He raised his hands and wings sprouted from his back. (Crap! Another fallen angel. My pin set won’t work here.) Suddenly the giant rushed at him knocking him backwards down the hall. When he stood up he looked around and saw he was next to Konoshi’s classroom. (There’ve got to be some confinscated pins in her desk drawers.) Neku opend the door and locked it behind him as he rummaged through Konoshi’s desk. (No…no…no dammit!) Neku loud thunderous footsteps reach the door. (There! Finnaly. Not the best set but it will have to do!) The door flew off its hinges as the man stomped into the room.
“You can’t run from me!” He bellowed
“I don’t plan to!” Neku placed the 6 best pins he had on his jacket and stood ready for him. He threw a punch and Neku shot a force round at his face blinding him. Neku sent a punch at his core sending him backwards, then he shot three icicles from the ground at him sending him into the ceiling and back to the ground, “Had enough yet?”
“Maybe you can take me on my own, but what about two of me?” Suddenly he phased out and when he phased in there were two of him standing there.
“What!?”
“I also have more room to fight than you do.” He phased out and phased back in behind Neku catching him off guard and as he flew forward the other man punched him into the floor. (Dammit! I can’t take them.) He looked up to see this man heckling over him before he balled his hand into a fist, “Let it be known that Daburu Chikara destroyed Neku Sakuraba permanently!” As he brought his fist down Neku shut his eyes tight waiting for it to hit.
“Neku!” Suddenly Daburu was hit in the back of the head stopping his motion. Neku quickly slid out form attacking range and saw on the other end of Daburu was Shiki (Shiki!?) and a moving Mr. Mew. Suddenly the second Daburu phased in behind Shiki and grabbed her.
“Hey! Let go!” Shiki screamed struggling against his tight grip. Neku shot forward at Dabutwo knocking Shiki out of his hands. Neku grabbed her hand and started to run.
“Come on, we have to run!”

They ran until they reached the gym. Stopping in the middle, they caught their breaths.
“So…why are you… here?” Neku asked in the middle of panting like a dog.
“I… came to help.” Shiki replied catching her breath and standing up, “Joshua gave me this after the concert attack.” Neku looked in her hand to see a player pin, “At first I didn’t know what it did in this ground but when I put it on Mr. Mew popped to life out of my bag.”
“Why were you carrying Mr. Mew around?”
“Joshua said I should keep him close by so I’ve been carrying him around everywhere I go.” (Did Joshua anticipate all of this?) (Or… is this his doing?) (No! Can’t think like that, not about my partners!)
“Anyway, Why did you come back into the school?”
“Well when she grabbed you I saw this fall out of your loose pockets, seriously Neku you need to keep an eye on your stuff.” When Neku looked he saw she had his black planet pin set.
“Oh, thank god! I thought I left it at home.”
“Hey are you even listening to me?”
“Yes I am but what do you want me to do? My pockets aren’t loose. I don’t know how it fell ou-” Neku put his hand in his pocket and felt it go through a hole. (That would explain that.)
“Is there a hole in your pocket? That’s it hand ‘em over.”
“This is neither the time nor the place!” Suddenly the gym doors opened up and both Daburus came through the door, “Come on Shiki! Let’s show them what we’ve got!”
“Right!”

The Daburus rushed at both of them when Neku moved in front of Shiki and shot powerful force rounds at them slamming them against the far wall. When they stood up they separated to different ends of the gym. They pulled each of the psyche users over to them separating Neku and Shiki into separate battles. Dabutwo pounded his hands on the ground causing the ground around Shiki to shake causing her to stumble and fall. He saw his opportunity and jumped up and pushed his fist down on Shiki but before it hit a black blur struck at his face scratching it making him fall to the ground with a thud. As he stood back up he saw Shiki push her hand forward as Mr. Mew flew at him and then suddenly there were five of those cats coming at him swarming him and knocking him out.

Neku watched as Daburu phased in and out moving around and when he came in for an attack Neku put up a dark barrier stopping him as it sucked his energy away. Neku then shot a large icicle into him sending him soaring. As he flew Neku shot force round after force round into him and to finish his combo Neku hit him with pyrokenisis when he came close to the ground.
“You can’t beat me! My strength and teamwork can’t lose!” Daburu was screaming in frustration as his doppelganger was thrown at him and Neku pulled out one more pin as he a Shiki re-grouped (This should end it!) He and Shiki clutched the pin in each other’s hand as it glowed.
“Neku, come on!”
“Righ behind you!” They jumped into the air and two much bigger Mr. Mews materialized under them. They charged at Daburu and his clone and rammed into him knocking them out of the gym.
“This isn’t over; you may think you’ve won. But I’ll be back to kill both of you!” With that he dismissed his clone and flew off into the pitch black night.

Neku and Shiki gave an exasperated sigh as they sat down in what remained of the gym. They looked at each other and after a few seconds started to laugh.
“It’s weird to see how well we fight after we haven’t had to do it in months.” Neku said with a smile.
“I know! And I don’t think we’ve been that in sync since the fight with Higashizawa.” Shiki replied. They looked around at how much had been destroyed in the fight.
“We cause more damage in those fights than I thought.”
“Yeah, it’s no wonder players don’t affect the real world in the UG, they’d destroy it.”
“Exactly why I prefer the UG in moments of combat.” They looked over to see Joshua standing there with a slight frown, “I know it was a fallen angel but couldn’t you two have done less damage?” Neku and Shiki chuckled in humor, “Well I’d better get to work on repairs and memory wipes, Neku we’ll talk about this later.” As he started repairs Neku and Shiki left the school area and headed home.
“Why are they after you Neku?”
“I don’t know, but that isn’t the first attack on my life.”
“You should be careful, also you shouldn’t walk around with holes in your pocket.” Shiki suddenly stopped causing Neku to stop, “Now hand over your pants, now!”
“What are you smoking!? I’m not giving you my pants in the middle of the street!”
“You can either hand them over, or I can take them by force, your choice.” Suddenly Neku looked down to see Mr. Mew’s eyes glow red. (Oh crap!)