In case you haven't figured out yet, Rupert is the same person the Smashers saw "playing golf" using the koyukkuris and then running over the mother with a motorcycle in the second chapter.
And sorry for the wait once again…
Chapter 12
Factory of Uneasiness
The Smashers approached the backdoor, but they kept their distance from it to see if there were any security cameras nearby, and sure enough, they spotted one not too far away from the door. "To think that the Identity Bracelet would have such a function, the ability to conceal yourself from being detected by cameras," Snake said as he pressed a button on the bracelet he was wearing. "Handy, isn't it?"
"It sure is," Link said while pressing the button on his bracelet. Everyone else did the same thing. "Had we known this earlier, there wouldn't be any need for anyone to take over the security control room in Pyronicus's place."
"Just remember, however, we are only invisible to security cameras," Fox reminded everyone. "We can still be spotted by the people around us, so we still have to be careful."
"Now that I think of it, only hiding yourself from security cameras doesn't seem that useful, does it?" Luigi said. "Making you invisible is better if you ask me."
"You should be grateful that it still makes our job a bit easier," Falco said to him. "If you beat up people and hide them well enough, nobody would notice anything wrong, but if you destroy security cameras, someone will surely notice it, so you should avoid doing anything to them."
"You have a point…" Luigi said with a nod.
"Before we go inside, let's go over the plan again," Snake said to everyone. "Before that, let's hide somewhere where no one will see us." There were some crates and barrels nearby, so they went and hid behind them. "Okay, according to this map, there is a room where they store yukkuris. I'm not sure how many yukkuris they store here, because this factory makes abuse-related devices and not products made of yukkuris. Because of this, I doubt they need a large amount of yukkuris here for industrial purposes."
"But Eiki said we can rescue a lot yukkuris here," Olimar said, "so I think we might still be able to rescue a large amount of them."
"Whatever the case is, we'll have to get to the yukkuri storeroom first," Snake said. "Perhaps they are stored there for the purpose of being used to test the devices. There's also a recreation room where lots of abuse-related activities are going on, so one can imagine why there are lots of yukkuris stored here."
"To satisfy those abusers' sick entertainment, that's why," Falco said.
"Obviously, the storeroom is our main target," Snake continued. "However, traveling as a large group will surely make us easy targets, so we should split up and head to that room separately. Of course, we will also check out the place where they produce the gadgets to see if there are any yukkuris that need rescuing. After arriving at the storeroom, we will contact Yukari to help transport the yukkuris out of here. Remember, we should try to avoid causing chaos as much as possible, and if you do get seen by anyone…"
"Silence them in non-fatal ways," Falco said, interrupting him.
"Right… And why do I have the feeling that you really look forward to getting seen on purpose and then doing that…?" Snake said while looking at the bird with an odd expression. "So… let's form groups now."
They eventually decided upon the groups. Mario, Luigi, Olimar, and Chen were to go together. Donkey, Diddy, Pikachu, and Pichu were to go together. Fox, Falco, and Parry were a trio, and the last team consisted of only Snake and Link.
A reimu with burned feet was place on a box that had a device designed to grind things into fine powder place in front of it. An abuser approached her with a syringe containing yellow liquid in his hand and said to her, "Time for you to have lots of babies!" Then he injected the liquid into her body.
After being injected with the liquid, the reimu felt something in its womb, and then it realized that a baby was being born. It looked at its mamumamu and saw the face of a newborn koyukkuri coming out, exclaiming that it was being born easy. Knowing that being born in a place like this would spell death for the baby, it told the koyokkuri to stop being born. The abuser, on the other hand, chanted for the baby to be born fast.
The reimu was unable to stop the baby from being born, and when the baby came out from the mamumamu entirely, it instantly fell into the grinder and was killed, and grinded remains came out from the underside of the device. "MY BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" the reimu cried. The effect of the liquid instantly caused it to give birth again, and it cried in despair as its babies came out from its mamumamu one after another and falling into the grinder.
Needless to say, the abuser was laughing at the sight of this, and a friend of his was filming the whole thing while laughing too.
Dr. Blak and Arnold were both in a room with several computers and scientists, and the former was seated in front of and looking at a computer screen while explaining to Arnold something. "Each of the fingers is capable of firing needle-shaped bullets that can easily pierce through rocks and embed into steels. There are sprinklers built at the parts just above the feet that can spray water up to a distance of six meters. A flamethrower is built inside its mouth, and it can also release a very high-pitched sound that only yukkuris can hear, and being exposed to it for more than ten seconds will start to make them feel uncomfortable and eventually leading them to hurl up their fillings in discomfort and obviously dying.
"There is a compartment in the stomach that has an extendable arm for catching and bringing in yukkuris. The compartment will then kill them in various ways, either through microwaving, heating, filling with water and then becoming a blender, or compress them. The mouth also has an extendable tongue with a claw tip so that it can catch yukkuris like a frog and eat them. Of course, being a machine, it has no use for eating yukkuris. It simply does so to crush and gnash them into pieces with its mouth and teeth. Lastly, it is also equipped with missiles that track down and home in on yukkuris, no matter where they are. It can detect where yukkuris are from a very, very long distance. In short, no yukkuri on the planet is safe from the Yukkurinator!
"Very impressive!" said Arnold, pleased with what he heard. "When is it going to be finished?"
"It's closer to completion than you think," Dr. Blak replied. "In fact, I have confidence to say that it can get into action in just two days!"
"Good! Abusers will truly be excited by this masterpiece!" Arnold said. "A secret project that has been in construction for years! Finally, people will get to see a new form of abuse!"
"Now that I think of it, this truly is overkill, don't you think so?" Dr. Blak asked him. "I have never seen such a grand-scaled abuse!"
"There is no such thing as overkill or grand-scaled when it comes to yukkuri abuse," Arnold told him. "There can never be any form of abuse that is considered the worst of the worst for yukkuris! Yukkuris are the lowliest of all the trashes in the entire universe! If yukkuris are on the same league as dog excretion, then dog excretions are like diamonds! I'd rather be locked in a room filled with one hundred lions that haven't eaten or drank anything in months than to siton the same sofa as a yukkuri!"
"My! Your hatred for yukkuris knows no bounds!" Dr. Blak commented. "Not saying it's a bad thing, mind you. Heeheehee!"
"So… you can actually fly?" asked a rather surprised Luigi as he looked at Chen, whose feet was hovering a few centimeters in the air while moving alongside him.
"Yes," the nekotama replied with a nod. "Several people in Gensokyo have the ability to fly. Even people who come from the outside world can develop the ability to do so if they hang out around there long enough. I'm not sure how that is possible, though…"
"Then when they leave Gensokyo, will they still be able to fly?" Luigi asked.
"I don't know… Given the fact that I'm currently flying, maybe they can, or maybe it has to do with the fact that I'm not human…" Chen said.
"Must be very handy to be able to fly around freely! I'm sure Falco will love that place!" Luigi said.
"I'm sure eet will be very handy for uz here too!" Mario said.
"My babyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!" shouted a voice.
"That sounds like a yukkuri!" Olimar said. "And it's coming from down the hallway!" The four of them ran down the hallway and looked into the room beyond to see a conveyor belt that had several green guns moving down it.
Standing at the end of the conveyor belt was a worker, and when a gun dropped down the end of it and onto a table, he picked it up to test it on newborn koyukkuris that were given birth by a reimu that was being injected with yellow liquid via a bottle that had a tube connected to the top of it. Obviously, its feet were burned to keep it from moving.
The liquid caused the yukkuri to give birth continuously, and every time a koyukkuri dropped onto the table in front of it, the worker would blast the former away with the guns, which fired blasts of air, to see if the products were working properly. Due to having fragile skin, the air caused the koyukkuri to be blown into pieces.
Whenever a gun was deemed working and without flaws, the worker would put it into a box, but if a gun didn't seem to work properly, or only pushed the koyukkuri off the table, he would put it into another box that had the label "Defected Products" written at its side. All the while, the reimu was crying for its babies to stop being born, as seeing them getting killed was a very horrifying and sad sight for it.
"How cruel…!" Luigi commented. "They could've just tested those things on something non-living!"
"Well, those things are for abusing yukkuris, so it only makes sense for them to test them on one," Chen reminded him.
"Yeah, you're right…" the plumber in green said.
"We have to stop him!" Olimar said.
"But-a how?" Mario asked.
"There's got to be a switch for turning off the machine," Olimar said. "We'll just turn it off, and while the worker is off to check what is wrong with the machine, we'll take the yukkuri out of there!" Olimar looked around and noticed a switch on the higher part of the room that could be reached using a staircase that was across the room. "That must be it! Chen, since you can fly, can you go up there and pull the switch?"
"Leave it to me!" Chen said. After making sure that the worker wasn't looking in their direction, Chen ran up the wall on all fours and then kicked off it to get onto the ledge above.
"I thought I told her to fly…" Olimar said.
"But look at her go! I don't think an actual cat is even that skilled!" Luigi said.
Once at the top, Chen pulled down the switch, and at once, the conveyor belt stopped moving. "Eh? What happened?" the worker who was testing the guns wondered. Chen quickly ran away before he turned to look at the switch. "Hey, who turned it off?" The worker then headed for the staircase to get to the higher floor, and while he was doing so, Olimar and Luigi rushed over to the help the reimu and a koreimu respectively.
"Be quiet! We'll get you and your friends out of here!" Olimar said to it as he and Luigi returned into the hallway. Chen had also jumped down from the higher floor to rejoin them.
Unknown to them, there was a security camera on the wall nearby, and it lens was turned in their direction.
In the security control room, one of the security guards in there saw something peculiar on the screen. He looked as closely as possible to make sure that his eyes weren't playing tricks on him, but no matter how he looked at it, he was without doubt seeing a yukkuri floating in the air. "How is that possible…?" He told the other guards in the room to come over and see, and they were surprised to see such a sight too.
"How is that yukkuri floating in air?!"
"It's not even bobbing up and down! It's like it's being held in place by something invisible!"
"Look! It's floating away!"
"Quick! Send some people to that hall to see what's going on!"
Meanwhile, Link and Snake were in another part of the factory, and the former said, "You know, I expected a factory to be more crowded. I mean, shouldn't there be lots of workers running around and doing their jobs? It's as if this place is abandoned!"
"Makes you think if spy movies were really accurate in portraying facilities with few people wandering around, doesn't it?" Snake commented.
Suddenly, they saw Donkey's group up ahead, so they ran to each other to regroup. "Didn't expect to see you people here!" Donkey said.
"The map points to the yukkuri storeroom being here," Snake said, "so we simply followed it. Obviously, you guys came here for the same reason."
"Right, so it can't be a coincidence at all," Pikachu said with a nod.
Suddenly, there was the sound of an electronic bell ringing, and then the Smashers noticed the door they were standing in front of starting to open, so they quickly pressed themselves against the parts of the wall on both sides of the door in hope of not getting seen by whoever was coming out. When the door opened, a large amount of workers came out while chatting.
During the midst of this, Snake motioned for Link to get mixed into the crowd and then slip inside the room. On the other side, Diddy had the same idea, so his group also got mixed in the crowd and then squeezed themselves into the room. Using this method, both groups managed to get into the room without any of the workers noticing them.
After the workers were all gone from the room, the Smashers shut the door, and Diddy said, "Well, that sure went as planned! Good of you to come up with the same idea as us!"
"Maybe I came up with it first?" Snake said. "Anyway, it's a good thing that we managed to get in here with luck." He then looked at his map. "This is the recreation room, and the yukkuri storeroom is accessed through here."
"I understand now!" Link said. "So it was break time while we were sneaking around, which explains why we barely ran into anyone out there! The workers were all hanging out here in the meantime, and the bell just now marked the end of the break, so they poured out of here to get back to work!"
"Speaking of recreation…" Pikachu said, looking all around the room. "You might want to look at how they pass time here…"
The Smashers looked around and saw various forms of entertainments that had evidences of yukkuri abuse. At one part of the room, they saw some yukkuris placed in front of several targets, and there were koyukkuris splattered against the latter and the parts of the wall around them. At another part of the room, there was a tenshi hanging down from the ceiling via a rope, and placed on a table next to it were a pair of boxing gloves. Judging by the wounded appearance of the tenshi, it was obviously used as a punching bag, but for some reason, the yukkuri had a happy expression.
They also saw a crying reimu with a grinder placed in front and below it, and it was softly lamenting about its babies. Link walked up to the reimu and petted it, saying to it, "Don't worry; we're not here to hurt you. We're here to ensure that something like this never happens to you and your babies again!"
"Man! Being here makes me angry!" Donkey said while looking at a certain form of abuse that involved shooting water at models of buildings, and on certain parts of the buildings and the enclosed spot in front of them, remains of yukkuris could be seen, obviously melted water.
Snake said as he walked around the room, "Let's look for the storeroom and then contact Yukari." He then noticed some guns placed on a gun rack that was hanging on the wall, and out of interest, he picked up a machine gun from there. "Pretty neat-looking, eh? It's even the real thing! Don't tell me…" He looked to the side and noticed an indoor shooting range that had several dead yukkuris lying in front of where the shooters were supposed to stand. "Figures…"
Link walked up to him and said, "Geez… They even go as far as using real guns… Isn't this a bit too dangerous, even for abusing? Man… These people really go to the extremes, all for the sake of having fun…"
"And I have a feeling that we'll see even worse," Snake said, and then he looked up and saw a glass door with the words "Cyber Yu-Terminator" printed on it. "What's this?" Still with the gun in his hand, he entered through that door with Link.
On the other side, they were greeted with a large hole with railings around it, but what caught their attention the most was a large mechanical ride of sorts with arms, and the entire thing was connected to the ceiling via a long segmented "body". "Whoa… What is this…?" Link asked as he walked up close to the machine.
Snake also walked up close to the machine, and when he looked into the cockpit, he noticed a coin slot. Link looked at a sign placed at the side that showed instructions. "It seems to be a coin-operated ride," he said. "The goal of this game is to use this thing to terminate yukkuris down there in a given amount of time…" They both then looked down the hole to see a large amount of yukkuri remains, fillings, and tattered accessories. "Okay… I get the idea…"
"I'm sure this is, like, the most awesome-looking coin-operated ride ever," Snake said. "Would be nice if it weren't used for this purpose…"
"Hey, look over there!" Link said, pointing to a certain spot at the bottom of the hole. There leaning against the wall was an alice, weeping bitterly.
"Yep, I see what you're talking about," Snake said.
"Since it's still alive, we should get it out of there," Link said.
"How are you going to do that?' Snake asked him. "Other than using this machine to get down there or jumping down there, there's no other way down, and if you use the latter method, you won't be able to come back up."
Link took out his claw shot and said, "Are you forgetting that I have this? Just leave that yukkuri to me!" He then fired the claw shot at the railing across the hole, and after the claw had gripped onto it, he jumped into the hole and swung to the other side, landing his feet against the wall and then lowering himself. He immediately went to the alice, who looked up at him curiously. "Don't worry, little fella. I'm here to get you out of here!"
Just then, Snake noticed the door behind him opening, so he quickly rushed to the part of the wall next to it to avoid getting seen by the worker that came through it. "This game is too fun to pass up a second round!" he happily said. "Hope nobody sees me sneaking in here during work time to play this!" Snake quickly ran to the other side of the room when the person climbed into the ride so that he wouldn't get seen, and after the person seated himself inside the cockpit, he inserted the coin into the coin slot. The entire thing made the sound of engine starting and then moved.
From the bottom of the hole, Link looked up with a shocked look. "Oh boy… This is… not good…" Picking up the alice, he quickly got behind the machine when it came down. Suddenly, parts of the walls opened, and several yukkuris rolled out of them. In a moment, the bottom of the hole had several yukkuris, some of them looking scared, some looking cheerful, and some confused.
"All right! Get ready to be terminated!" the person in the machine said as he started pressing the buttons and moving the levers on the control panel. The arms of the machine released electricity from the tips and then used them to zap two yukkuris at the front.
BZAAAAAAAAP!
The yukkuris screamed as the high voltage electricity fried them completely, and when the other yukkuris saw this, they screamed and then huddled together for safety. The person snickered as he turned the machine in their direction, and he pressed a button that made the arms spin like drills. Suddenly, Link ran in front of him with his sword and shield out. "Hey! Who are you and what are you doing down here?!" the person asked in surprise. "Get out of here! There shouldn't be anyone down here! It's dangerous!"
"I won't let you kill these yukkuris!" Link loudly said to him.
"This is a game! Don't spoil my fun, will ya?!" the person angrily replied. "Move it before time is up and I don't get to kill all the yukkuris!"
"I told you I'm not moving from here!" Link shouted at him. "If you do anything to these yukkuris, I'll wreck your ride!"
"I told you to get out of the way!" the person angrily shouted as he made the ride swing its arm at Link from the side. He used his shield to block it, but he got knocked away. "Haha! Time to die, you yukkuris!" The arms spun like drills again and slammed forward to hit the yukkuris, but most of them managed to escape unharmed.
From the top of the hole, Snake looked down at the situation going on and wondered what he could do. He suddenly remembered the machine gun he carried with him here, and then looking at the segmented body, he fired rapidly at it using the gun. This caused the ride to malfunction. "Hey! What happened?!" said the person while pounding the buttons and moving the levers. "Why has it stopped moving?!" He looked up and screamed when he saw Link jumping at him with his sword raised into the air, ready to plunge it into him.
Link's sword went through the glass with ease, but it did not hit the person; it only went past his face and stabbed the chair. Link then pulled out the sword and slashed the glass multiple times to cut it into pieces, and then he pulled out the person by the collar and flung him onto the floor. The person crawled back in panic and said to him, "No! Wait! Please don't kill me! I'm sorry killing these yukkuris! Please forgive me! I'll leave quietly!"
"And let you tell everyone else about what happened? Yeah right!" Link angrily said before running at the screaming guy, and he hit him hard on top of the head with the hilt of his sword to knock him out.
Seeing Link knocking out that guy, the yukkuris circled him and started thanking and praising him.
"Thank you, kind mister!"
"Mister helped reimu take it easy! Thank you very much, kind mister!"
"Yu! You are a kind mister! Marisa likes you!"
"Alice wants to do rub-rub with you!"
"Parsee is jealous that mister is strong, but parsee still wants to thank you."
"Link!" shouted the voice of Snake, and then Link and the yukkuris looked up to see Snake and the other four Smashers up there.
"Thanks for the help, Snake!" Link said to him.
"Sorry that we didn't stop that guy from coming in here…" Donkey said to the Hylian. "We wanted to avoid being seen, so we hid instead when we saw the door opening."
"It's all right," Link told him. "Now how do I get out of here with all these yukkuris?"
"Use the door behind you?" Pikachu told him.
The Hylian turned around and saw that was indeed a door behind him. "How come I didn't notice this before?" He opened the door and saw a staircase leading upwards. He told the yukkuris to follow him, and they did. After reaching the top of the staircase, they emerged from a door at the top of the room, and the other Smashers ran up to them. "Now that's convenient. Guess it's made for people who accidentally fall down there."
"May be made for janitors to clean up the mess down there too," Pichu said.
"Theez eez really not-a good…" Mario said, commenting on his group's current situation. Standing all around them were guards and workers, and the former was pointing guns at them.
"Come quietly with us! And don't try to do resist either!" one of the guards told them.
TO BE CONTINUED
I originally intended for Snake to be down at the pit, rescuing the yukkuris from the machine, but I ended up using Link due to not being able to come up with a way for the former to get to the bottom. I didn't come up with the staircase idea yet too, and even after coming up with it, I purposely didn't make Link and Snake notice it right away.
Tenshi is not a masochist in canon; that is made up by fanon due to her "punish me" quote, which is more like a taunt to get the opponent to fight her, something she enjoys doing. Despite this, it's been established that yukkuri tenshi is a masochist, so because it's not the real Tenshi being used here, I'm fine with portraying it as a masochist.
