SBS Time!
Ziden115: Do you plan on having all the Smashers learn haki or only the ones that have the highest chance to use them in fights?
Game2002: Not everyone will learn it.

Sorry for the long wait... Got lazy and also distracted by lots of things, especially the Pokemon Sun/Moon leaks...

Chapter 3
Uneasy Feelings

It was no surprise that Edward and Elrond were interested in what Victor told them. After all, they wanted their world to be populated by yukkuris again, so it only made sense that they would go with Victor to a place where he claimed people were working on a plan to bring back yukkuris.

They arrived at a lab building and entered a typical lab room, one with lab equipments, computers, machinery, and scientists all over the place. "This is where you are conducting your plans?" asked Edward.

"Indeed," Victor told him. "Brilliant scientists from various places have gathered here for the sole purpose of studying more about the technology of that world so that we can use it to our advantage. They have actually managed to find out a lot. I dare say that we can start putting our plan in motion earlier than expected!"

A bald old man with a goatee approached them. "Leader Oblong! It's a pleasure to see you!"

"You're Doctor Blak, aren't you?" Edward asked him. "I've heard about your accomplishments. I'm impressed that you've managed to build a portal to another dimension!"

"It's no surprise that a genius like me is able to pull that off, but even I have to admit that ever since the people of that world did this Iso-Lock thing, I find myself at a bit of a loss," said the scientist. "Fear not, however, as we have several geniuses here coming up with a plan that will allow us to get around this!"

Just then, they all heard screaming. "What is that?" asked Elrond.

"Perhaps you should come and see for yourself," Dr. Blak told him, and then he led the way to another room. This room had glass windows with smaller rooms behind them, and in those rooms were people who were behaving in violent and barbaric manners, such as screaming nonstop, running into walls and glass, and pulling their hairs.

"These people... They're suffering from withdrawal, aren't they?" asked Edward in surprise.

"Indeed, these people have suffered too long not being able to abuse yukkuris," Dr. Blak told him. "Combined with the rage they have towards the people of that world, they finally lost their minds and were reduced to animal-like states."

"Such a sad thing to see people becoming like this..." said Victor. "We've contained some of them here in hope of finding ways to change them back to normal."

"However, research shows that their sanity may likely be beyond recovery, even if they get to abuse yukkuris again," said Dr. Blak. "You can even say that their behaviors become worse when they see yukkuris. We've tested this by showing them pictures and videos of yukkuris, and they behaved in terrifying ways. They cause a large amount of destruction around them just to tear apart the pictures and the screens showing the yukkuris. In fact, even tranquilizers can't guarantee putting them down! It is also for this reason that we did not allow them to participate in the weekly abuse, as we fear that they will cause unnecessary damage and harm people."

"Those people will pay! It is because of them that something like this happened!" said Elrond angrily.

"We may be too late to save some of these people, but we can prevent more from becoming like them," said Victor. "The weekly abuse is not enough to satisfy the desire of abusers. We demand something like this to be a daily activity. If those people refuse to give us what they want, then we will show them no mercy!"

"What is the plan you have in mind?" asked Elrond.

"The truth is that we have people masquerading as soldiers and scientists from that place for a while already," explained Victor. "They have been secretly providing us with information on their world's technology that we are reverse engineering even as we speak."

"Once we're able to fully understand their technology, we will sever the connection between both worlds and connect to the world where the yukkuris currently are," continued Dr. Blak. "So long as we are able to travel to the new yukkuri world without them coming after us, we have nothing to fear!"

"I see," said Elrond, sounding interested.

"We still need more information, so we'll have to wait for our moles to provide us with more," said Dr. Blak. "Perhaps it may take a while, but once we manage to pull this off, we will be able to reunite with yukkuris for eternity once again!"

"And let's see those folks try to stop us again!" said Edward, looking forward to this.

The locations where the abuse happened was a mess, obviously, after the event was finished. Soldiers from Tooneria were sent to clean the place, because there was fear that if they let the people of World OYP do the job, they might smuggle out the remains of the yukkuris and potentially do something like cloning them to repopulate their world with these creatures again.

While watching the soldiers below her do their job, Kamui could not help but think of the terrible sight she saw during the abusing. It was the second week and the second time she saw this, and she still couldn't get used to such a terrible sight. Before coming here, she saw videos from this world regarding yukkuri abuse and was disturbed by it, but seeing this happen in person made her feel even worse. She could still hear the agonizing screams of the yukkuris in her head, and images of desperate yukkuris running for their lives before being killed in brutal manners poured into her head uncontrollably.

Being a soldier herself, she fought in battles and saw people die, but when those happened, both sides were usually fighting on equal terms. Neither side showed fear for the most part and did the best they could to stay alive and take out opposing sides. They were battles where neither side was at a disadvantage. This, however, was no battle. It was purely mindless massacre. One side was completely defenseless, while the other side was filled with sadism and murderous intentions as they wiped out the opposing side. Even in wars, one did not hear cries of agony and despair to this extent.

Noticing the nervous look on her face, Corrin approached her and asked, "Still can't get used to it, right?"

"This is wrong... We didn't come here to let these people have their way, killing innocent creatures out of entertainment..." said the silver-haired woman. "We're supposed to keep them in check, yet we ended up giving them the opportunity to do the terrible things that made us come here in the first place..."

"I know... I can't say that I agree with this either... Even if they're animals, yukkuris still deserve the right to live and not be treated as abuse toys..." said Corrin. "I find it hard to believe that our higher ups would agree to this... If they hadn't decided that these people should be reeducated, they might have ignored them. Guess they wanted to leave a good impression... Plus, this world almost resurrected the Destructor. Had not the Smashers decided to intervene, dealing with the Destructor in a place alien to them would've been difficult. Realizing how messed up this place was to trigger its resurrection here is more than enough to put it on our government's alert list."

"Perhaps it was better off that the Destructor really did get resurrected int this world so that it would destroy this place and teach these people a lesson!" said Kamui in anger. "I want to talk with the higher ups about this and convince them to stop this! I can't stand seeing living things of any kind being killed for the sake of entertainment and nothing more!"

After he was done cleaning up the stadium Corrin and Kamui were at, a soldier left the place while no one was watching and headed for a public restroom conveniently located close by. There, he changed his clothes into casual ones taken from a bag, and after putting the former into it, he left the restroom and walked away, acting casually so that no one would suspect him.

He traveled all the way to the same building where Edward and Elrond were taken too. Upon entering the same room Dr. Blak was currently in, he smirked and said, "I've managed to get some more data on their stuff!"

"Good! I hope nobody saw you," said Dr. Black in delight.

"I'm a pro at this sort of thing, remember?" the man replied. He then took out a USB from his bag. "This should contain everything we need to know about traveling to different dimensions and ways to overwrite the Iso-Lock."

Obviously, the people of the new yukkuri world knew about this activity going on in World OYP. To be precise, only government officials, people related to them, and people working at the yukkuri research facility know about this, as there was fear that the general public would start an uproar if they find out about this.

A large amount of yukkuris had to be prepared before next week so that they could be transported to World OYP for the abusers to kill. This task wasn't as easy as one thought it would be, as gathering a large amount of yukkuris took a lot of time. The easiest way was to use high-speed reproduction serums to make yukkuris give birth instantly, but there was still one issue that had to be addressed.

"If this goes on," one scientist said to Barry, "there will be a shortage of adult yukkuris..."

"I'm aware... We'll only be able to supply them with newborn yukkuris in the end," said Barry.

This was indeed an issue, as yukkuris took an entire year to reach full maturity. In order to prevent a sharp drop in yukkuri population, yukkuris were forcefully made to reproduce using the serums at a high rate. If not enough wild yukkuris could be found, this method would be used in order to reach the demanded number of yukkuris to be transported to World OYP. Newborn yukkuris were not given time to grow up. Basically, they were born into this world for the sole purpose of being killed shortly afterwards.

This was something that the people of the new world didn't like, but after much debate and discussion with the governments of Tooneria and World OYP, this weekly abuse activity was finally approved, even if reluctantly.

"Are we seriously going to let something like this go on? Yukkuri population issue, this is inhumane! We're sending yukkuris to their deaths for no good reason!" said the scientist.

"I hate this as much as you do, but we have no say in this matter..." Barry reminded him. "We can only do what they tell us to do and hope that they will abolish this in the near future..."

He then turned his attention to a the sight of a long table placed in front of a conveyor belt. Yukkuris of various species were on the tables and held in place via plastic restraints that went around their bodies, and tubes were inserted into their bodies from which the high-speed reproduction serum was injected into them, causing them to give birth instantly either through mammalian method or stalk method. A few yukkuris gave birth using both methods simultaneously. The newborn koyukkkuris would fall onto the conveyor belt and then get carried off into another room, all the while either looking around in confusion, crying, or looking cheerful and telling people to "chake id eajy," completely unaware of the grim fate that awaited them in the near future.

Their parents were none too happy at what was happening. They did not like being held in place and forcefully made to reproduce, especially those that were giving birth in a mammalian method. As any female could testify to, giving birth to babies was a painful task. Imagine that happening nonstop...

Also, seeing their children getting carried off was a sad sight. Parents wanted to be with their children, but there was nothing they could do but watch their newborn children get carried off to another room. They cried out to their children, hoping to at least get their attentions. Some of the koyukkuris did respond to them, but due to being newborn, they didn't have the strength to move in their direction and unite with them. Some newborns were too immature to know what was going on and ignored the cries.

Though he was a scientist who performed experiments on living things before, Barry still respected life, so seeing the children being separated from the parents to be killed and knowing that there were people out there finding and capturing more yukkuris, both adult and children, for the same reason pained and angered him. "Please... Somebody do something about this..." he said in his mind.

TO BE CONTINUED