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"Hmm, let's see.....I need two pairs of wheels and a new motor..." Rae muttered to herself as she ducked and wove through the crowds at the mall. All while looking down at a small piece of paper. Technically riding wasn't allowed inside the bulding but the guards could care less so long as you didn't steal or break anything. As Rae rolled past a group of high school aged looking kids, she heard a cat call from one of the boys in the group. Without looking, Rae tapped one of her wheels on a hanger that had fallen on the floor. The spinning wheel shot the hanger right at the boy's face. Fortunately for the boy, the hanger missed but only by about an inch. "Did you see that?! That b***h just tried to kill me!!" Rae heard him shouting as his friends laughed their asses off. Before the boy could call out to her, Rae turned a corner and entered a small store. "May I help you?" a girl in her twenties said to Rae as she entered. Her back was turned to Rae as she placed a shirt in a bag for a customer. She turned around to hand the bag to the waiting customer when she saw Rae looking into a display case on the other side of the store. "Ah, Rae! Long time..." she bowed to the customer and stepped around the counter to walk over. The girl had medium length hair styled into a ponytail. That, however was the most normal thing about her. She had several piercings in her right ear and her hair was a pale purple with blue streaks. "Hey Kim." Rae looked at the girl and pointed to a set of bright-green AT wheels. "Can I see those?" Kim nodded and took out a keyring. A few seconds later, the case was open and Rae was inspecting the wheels. "Ugh.....these things sure are expensive considering how crappy they are..." Rae set the wheels back where they were and picked up another set of wheels. This time they were a dark grey with a dark red ring on the sidewalls. Rae let our a low whistle. "Yet these things are top of the line qulaity for less than the other ones." Kim smirked. "I guess that means you're getting them huh?" Rae grinned. "I'll take your entire stock." Kim's eyes nearly popped out of her skull as Rae pulled out a credit card, courtesy of her Dad back in America. "S..sure thing...." Rae then remembered something. "Ah! And four of those motors." Kim nodded and took out the small electric motors before shutting the glass case. A few minutes later, Rae left the store with several large bags in hand. Without wasting any time, she headed back to hers and Kaoru's hideout.

As Roku rolled throughout the closed down mall, he mnoticed that nobody had used it in a while. "This would be the perfect spot for me to train," he said with a huge smile on his face. He started to skate up the escalator and somersaulted onto the railings when he got ot the top. He continued to grind on various obstacles there: benches, food carts, and chairs and tables, and the lighting cords. He was trying to see how long he could go without touching the ground, and so far it had been 6 minutes and 28 seconds. When he finally got tired, he skated over to an empty AT parts store. He kicked open a window and crawled through. There he found a pair of wheels that had better brakes. "This should help a lot,"he said as he left the store to practice some more.