When I look at yukkuri-related stuff, I sometimes don't feel like I'm looking at Touhou at all. This meme has created such a name for itself that it feels like it is its own thing and has no relation to Touhou whatsoever. At least that's how I feel…
Chapter 4
The Real Uneasiness Begins
That night, back at the Smash Mansion, Falco gathered together the Smashers who went to the original yukkuri world to tell them about what happened in the new yukkuri world he went to during the day.
"I smell something fishy going on…" he said. "The abuse at the park and a few yukkuris found dead at the petting farm… This sounds like the work of an abuser!"
"I can't-a believe da people there being abusaz…" said Mario.
"You can't say that for everyone," said Snake. "No world is perfect. Wherever you go, you're bound to find some bad apples. I'm sure there are people there who enjoy abusing animals, and they don't spare yukkuris as well."
"I'm sure there won't be a large amount of abusers there at least," said Fox. "Anyway, let's hope what happened at the park was just some drunk guy messing around and that the ones at the petting farm are just little kids not being careful…"
"I still have the feeling that something isn't right… I'm going back there tomorrow to get to the bottom of this!" said Falco.
"I'll go too!" said Donkey. "We tried so hard to rescue the yukkuris, so I won't let danger befall them again!" Everyone turned to look at Donkey with wide open eyes after he said that, causing him to become curious. "Uh? Something on my face?"
"Did you just hear everything we said perfectly?" asked Link.
"Oh, it's these hearing aids Doctor Mario gave me," said the gorilla while showing them small devices placed at the side of his ears. "They allow me to hear things perfectly!"
"Should've given it to you a long time ago…" said Snake.
After some discussion regarding going back to the yukkuri world to check on things, they went separate ways to do their own businesses. As Link and Donkey were leaving the room, they saw Dark Pit leaning against the wall on the other side. "Heard everything ya said," he said. "I hope you don't mind me tagging along. All this talk about abuse makes me curious about just how despicable and annoying yukkuris are to deserve such treatment."
"You talk like you want to abuse them…" said Link. "Among us, I would say you're probably the one most likely to abuse them for no good reason…"
"Hey, I may not be the nicest person in the neighborhood, but I sure as hell won't cause trouble without a good reason," Dark Pit told him in an annoyed tone. "In fact, I don't like people who enjoy being evil and causing trouble just for laughs. Don't lump me with those kinds of people!"
"Fine, fine… Feel free to come with us if you want to… Just make sure to stay out of trouble, even if some yukkuris do get on your nerves…" Link said to him.
The next day, Link, Donkey, Diddy, Falco, Dark Pit, Samus, and Mewtwo were all inside the Final Destination, in the same room as the dimension-hopping machine.
"After going through all the trouble of transporting an entire species out of a world, I'd hate to know that they may be in big trouble again…" said Master Hand while entering the coordinates for the yukkuri world. "I hope whatever issue you find there, it's nothing big. I'm not sure if I want to go through everything that happened in the prequel again…"
"You're not the only person hoping for the best…" Link said to him.
"So… what is he doing here again?" asked Falco while pointing at Mewtwo with his thumb.
"The thought of wild animals with behavior that are very similar to humans and can even speak properly intrigues me," replied Mewtwo. "I would like to see these yukkuris for myself and find out what their minds are like. Perhaps there is some sort of link between them and humans. You did say they supposedly resemble certain people who live in our world, right?"
"Yeah, that's what those people from wherever in Japan this Gensokyo is told us," said Link.
"Perhaps I can find out the reason regarding this if I can look into the minds of yukkuris," said Mewtwo.
"All right, it's done," said Master Hand after pressing a button that made the portal appear on the machine, and then he gave them the remote. "As usual, give it a press if you need me to open the portal from that side. Check out if the folks staying there are fine as well."
"You don't have to tell us that," said Falco as he caught the remote and put it into his pocket. "All right, guys, let's start our mission!"
Lucina, Reflet, Olimar, and Alph were currently at a theater that was going to showcase a series of performances done by yukkuris.
"I wonder what sort of performances they're going to do," wondered Lucina.
"Perhaps this is a good time to see how intelligent yukkuris are," said Olimar. "How good they are at performing is factored in the level of intelligence of animals. Most yukkuris are said to be rather unintelligent, so this is a good opportunity to see what they are truly capable of."
"Let's hope it's enjoyable!" said Lucina with enthusiasm.
After a bit more waiting, the speaker for the show got onto the stage and thanked everyone for his or her patience and said that the show was going to begin with a choir. Everyone gave a round of applause as he walked off the stage, and then the curtains moved aside to reveal a table with an alice, a marisa, a mystia, and a reimu on top of it. They were wearing fancy clothing designed for yukkuris and had miniature microphones in front of them.
"Awww! They're so cute in those clothes!" said Lucina in delight.
A piece of music started playing, and then the four yukkuris started singing along with it, though their lyrics consisted only of "Yu, yu, yu, yu." Despite this, it was a cute-sounding song that brought smiles to the audience's faces.
"So cuuuuuuuuute!" squealed Lucina with hearts in her eyes, causing some people to tell her to be quiet.
The singing went on for a few more minutes when suddenly someone shouted out loud in anger, "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!" Everyone turned to see a muscular man with a black, flat-top haircut standing up from his seat and making his way towards the stage. "I HAVE ENOUGH OF YOU YUKKURIS' ATROCIOUS SINGING! YOU MAKE MY EARS BLEED!"
The yukkuris looked at him in shock as he climbed onto the stage. He walked up to the mystia and forcefully opened its mouth in a way that the former was torn in half, horrifying the other yukkuris. He then grabbed the reimu next to it and stuffed it into the torn mystia before tearing it open by the mouth the same way.
The marisa and the alice tried to flee, but the man caught them both and then put the marisa into the reimu before doing the same thing to it, and then he put the alice into the marisa. He then closed the upper portion of the torn yukkuris over the alice and then slammed down his fist onto them so hard that he squashed all four of them.
Needless to say, the audience was horrified at what they saw. After killing the four yukkuris on the stage, the man stormed off to the backstage. Seeing this, Reflet got up from her seat and ran towards the stage. "Hey you! That is as far as you go!" Lucina also got up to follow her.
The man stormed into the dressing room, surprising the actors and actresses inside, not to mention the yukkuris that were in there. He immediately headed over to the yukkuris and punched a reimu in the face so hard that it flew into a wall and splattered, shocking everyone. He then turned to a bodied reisen that was going to run away, but he caught it by the shoulder and pulled off its head by the ears.
Everyone in the room ran outside, while the man killed the yukkuris inside that were unable to escape. He had a bodied mystia cornered and was about to kill it when suddenly Reflet came into the room and angrily shouted at him, "Stop right there at once!"
"I MUST KILL ALL YUKKURIS!" he shouted before punching the bodied yukkuri so hard in the abdomen that it spit out its chicken fillings.
"Enough is enough!" Reflet angrily shouted as electricity appeared on her hand, and then she fired a blast of electricity at him to zap him. "Elthunder!"
The man screamed in pain, but he was still standing afterwards and turned to her before running over to attack her. Reflet easily evaded him by stepping aside, and then with a hand full of electricity, she touched his waist and created a burst of x-shaped electricity. "Arcthunder!"
The man was zapped badly once again and finally fell over charred. Lucina came over just in time to see what happened. "You got him!" she said while looking at the man.
Soon afterwards, the police came to deal with this issue. When the other group of Smashers who came to this world heard about what happened, they rushed over to the theater as soon as they could.
Going over to Reflet and Lucina, who were standing among the crowd that was looking at the man who caused all this, Link asked the former, "Is everything all right?"
"Oh, it's you guys. Yeah, it's all dealt with," she replied.
"What exactly happened?" asked Samus.
"We were enjoying the yukkuris' singing when all of a sudden that man stood up and shouted in anger before running up the stage to kill those yukkuris," replied Reflet. "He then went to the dressing room to kill the yukkuris there. I've managed to stop him."
"Why did he do that?" asked Diddy.
"Who knows?" replied the tactician with a shrug. "He doesn't like the singing, I guess…"
"That's still going too far!" said Lucina angrily. "You can't kill someone just because he or she sings badly! Besides, I think the song is cute!"
While they were saying this, the man kept on shouting loudly, "I'M GOING TO KILL ALL YUKKURIS! I'M GOING TO KILL THEM ALL! THEY MUST ALL DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!"
"What's that guy's problem…?" asked Link while looking at him. "Even back when I had anger management issues, I wasn't like that… I think…"
Mewtwo went over to the man and told the police that he wanted a word with him. He then said to him, "I have some questions to ask you."
"ALL YUKKURIS MUST DIE! I WILL NOT LET ANYONE STOP ME!" the man angrily shouted.
Mewtwo asked him why he wanted to kill yukkuris, but that man kept on shouting that he was going to kill them all and gave no useful responses. Seeing that it was pointless asking him questions, the Pokemon decided to look into his mind to get answers instead. After spending a few seconds to read his mind, he moved away from him while holding his hand over his head, looking as if he had a headache. "So much rage…"
"What happened? Did you find out anything?" Samus asked him.
"His mind is filled with thoughts of hating and wanting to kill yukkuris, but I was still able to get some useful information," replied the Pokemon. "His name is Ben Holler, and apparently… he's not from this world…"
Hearing this surprised the Smashers. "Not from this world?!" asked Alph.
"The world he comes from used to be populated with yukkuris," explained Mewtwo. "It seems that he came here using a machine that can bring people to different dimensions."
"So you're saying that this guy came from the world where we took the yukkuris out of?" asked Olimar.
"Man! Those guys sure are something to follow them all the way to this world! Gotta give it to them, I suppose!" commented Falco.
"To think that they would be able to open up a portal to this place…" said Olimar. "They refuse to spare these poor things, don't they? Why does he hate yukkuris so much?"
"When he was a child, he was very weak and constantly got bullied," said Mewtwo. "He was angry at all those who bullied him, but he had no strength to fight back. The last straw came when a yukkuri called him weak. He killed the yukkuri and has been venting his anger on yukkuris ever since, and throughout the years, he built his body until he was muscular like now."
"Guess I can understand his pain of being called a weakling, but that doesn't give him the right to vent out his anger on innocent creatures!" said Falco.
"He's not the only one here," continued Mewtwo. "There are several more of them, and they are currently in a forest nearby, seeking yukkuris to abuse."
"What?! Then let's go stop them at once!" suggested Donkey in panic. "We mustn't let them abuse the yukkuris living there!"
"But which forest are they heading to?" asked Reflet.
"There's only one forest I can think of that is located close to this city," said a policeman who heard everything. "That would be Greenday Forest, located about five kilometers away from the city. According to people who've been there before, there are indeed several yukkuris living there."
"Then let's go fast!" said Donkey. "We have to stop them before they kill any of them!"
Greenday Forest, a forest located not very far outside the city, was a popular place for hikers and nature lovers due to its easy accessibility. Due to being a peaceful place with no dangerous animals, it was no surprise that yukkuris were able to populate that place in a short amount of time ever since their arrival at this world.
In fact, it was so peaceful there that the yukkuris more or less had no awareness of danger. None of the animals there really possessed danger to them. The only creatures that would prey on them were predatory yukkuris, which wasn't that big of an issue.
Having little to no awareness of danger proved to be fatal for them, however, as a certain group of people was on the loose at the place.
Various yukkuri families were happily enjoying their time when they saw someone approaching them, most of them with malicious-looking smiles on their faces. The yukkuris, however, did not sense any danger coming from them and instead smiled and greeted these people cheerfully with a loud "take it easy."
If only they knew what these people had in store for them…
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