Chapter 5
Things Got Uneasy
"What's happening?" asked a confused Lucina while looking at the yukkuri lab, which was surrounded by a large number of people and police cars. She had in her hand the pet cage containing her pet koyukkuris. She tried making her way through the crowd, but it was hard to do so, so she looked around for another way through. After a bit of searching, she ran into some of the Smashers, and she wasn't expecting to see them. "Oh, it's you guys!"
There were only a few of them. They consisted of Luigi, Kirby, Yoshi, Gunner, Hunt, and Duck. "Oh hey, Lucina! Surprised to see you here!" Luigi said to her.
"What's happening here?" asked Lucina.
"Not sure... Some say a robbery is happening," said Luigi.
"I heard there's a hostage situation," said Gunner.
"I heard a group of drunk people went in there to cause havoc," said Kirby.
"But I was told that a large group of people went in there to play Pokemon Go," said Yoshi.
"They have Pokemon Go in this world too?" Kirby asked him.
"At least their version of it... It has a different title, which escapes me at the moment..." said the green dinosaur.
"How are you people all getting different answers...?" asked Lucina.
"Honestly, we don't know the exact details of what's happening... People are saying different things..." Luigi told her.
"How about we ask someone who actually knows what's going on, like the police up front?" asked Kirby.
"But the crowd is too much for us to squeeze through..." Yoshi told him. Duck then quacked, followed by Hunt barking. Yoshi then turned to them. "Are you saying that you can go over there to check things for us?"
"You understand what they're saying?" Lucina asked him.
"Nope," replied the green dinosaur. "That was just a guess."
Duck then flew over the crowd and towards the front. A few seconds later, he flew back, perched on Hunt's back, and quacked. "So... anyone want to translate what he said?" asked Luigi.
"I told you I don't speak duck," Yoshi told him.
"Then what was the point of all that...?" asked Luigi.
Someone then turned around and said to them, "Heard that some people went inside to abuse yukkuris and are currently holding the people in there hostage."
Hearing this shocked Lucina. "What?! How can they do that?!"
"People here abusing yukkuris? That's unheard of!" said Luigi in shock.
"Guess there are bad eggs no matter where you go..." said Kirby.
"I won't let this stand! I'm going to do something about this!" said Lucina angrily. She then let Luigi look after her pet yukkuris before forcing her way through the crowd. Kirby, Yoshi, Gunner, Duck, and Hunt followed her, while Luigi stayed behind, as he didn't want to get involved in stuff like this.
After making her way to the front, Lucina asked one of the policemen there for details. Needless to say, she was shocked to hear that the people who took over the place supposedly came from World OYP. "What?! How did that they get here?! They shouldn't be able to leave their world!" said Lucina in shock.
"Soldiers from our world are keeping watch there, right?" Gunner asked her. "Is it possible that those people forced their way through or defeated them all?"
"No way! Kamui and Corrin are there! They both are strong enough to take down entire armies by themselves! There's now way they can lose so easily!" said Lucina. "Something must be wrong! No matter the case, I must stop the abusers in there before they kill any more yukkuris!" The blue-haired woman then forced her way through the police line and into the lab, despite the police trying to stop her.
Storming her way angrily through the lab, Lucina shouted out loud for the abusers to come out. The Smashers, other than Luigi, were following her.
"I think we should be looking for the hostages first. Their lives are more important, I think..." said Gunner, but Lucina ignored her and kept on shouting for the abusers.
Hunt sniffed the floor and eventually looked down a particular hallway before running down it, so the Smashers followed him, but Lucina continued on her own, heading in the direction where the yukkuris were kept. She came to this place before, so she knew where they were.
The Smashers followed Hunt until they came to a door that had two guys dressed like thugs standing watch. The two were surprised to see them and immediately held up their wooden sticks to attack them. Transforming her hand into an arm cannon at a fast speed, Gunner aimed and fired green energy beams at them and knocked them out just like that. "Stunning projectiles, so no harm done to them," she said to the others.
Yoshi noticed that those two had see-through plastic balls trapped to their wrists using ropes, and inside each of those balls were a koreimu and a komarisa, crying to be let out. "Interesting choice of accessories..." he commented.
"The hostages must be in there! Let's help them out at once!" said Kirby before running to the door. The door was locked when he tried to open it, so he took some steps back before shooting forward with fire all around him, breaking through the door. The people in there were surprised by his sudden appearance. After the door was opened, the other Smashers came in, and Yoshi said, "Don't worry! Everyone's gonna be all right! We're here to rescue you!"
"I knew you people would come!" Dr. Furhead said to them.
"What's the situation?" Kirby asked him. "We heard that folks from that old yukkuri world came over."
"Yeah, they claim to have come from there, but they didn't say how," replied Dr. Furhead. "They locked us all in here and then went to abuse the yukkuris."
"I think we shouldn't have to worry about that anymore..." said Yoshi while opening the plastic balls to let the koyukkuris out.
Lucina kicked down the door leading into the room containing most of the yukkuris. The abusers in there all stopped what they were doing and turned to look at her. Lucina looked around the place and was horrified that these people were indeed abusing yukkuris. There were dead yukkuris all over the place. Seeing this made her blood boil. "How dare you...? How dare you people?!" she angrily said while trembling nonstop. "How dare you come all the way over from your own miserable world to do something as atrocious as this?!"
Whiplash appeared before her and said, "I know you! You're one of the people responsible for what happened to our world!"
"If you people hadn't done all these merciless abusing, we wouldn't have done that!" Lucina angrily said to him.
"Do you have any idea how badly you messed up the lives of people by taking yukkuris away?! Our world is in ruins because of what you did!" Whiplash angrily said to her.
"You should be glad that our government is allowing you people to abuse yukkuris once in a week! Is that not enough?!" Lucina asked him.
"No! It's not enough! We want to be able to abuse them everyday and every minute in order to be satisfied, which is why we came over here with the intention of bringing them back!" Whiplash said to her.
"How did you people even came here in the first place? It shouldn't be possible!" said Lucina.
"That's a secret for you to find out!" Whiplash said to her.
"I'll make you spill everything!" Lucina angrily said while unsheathing her sword.
"You think you scare me? We have an army ready to come over here and take back what rightfully belongs to us! They will also see to it that you people get taught a lesson! There's no way you can stand against what we have at our disposal!" Whiplash said to her. "Go back and tell your superiors that this is war! They started all this, so they only have themselves to blame!"
Just then, a crying was heard coming from a koalice, which was crying over its dead parents lying next to it. "Shut the f*** up!" Whiplash angrily said to the koalice before swinging his bladed whip at it, instantly killing it. He then turned back to Lucina. "Where were we?"
Suddenly, Lucina dashed at him at a fast speed and slashed him diagonally across the chest and somehow destroyed the bladed whip in the process.
SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!
She had a face filled with rage when she did this.
Back in Tooneria, the situation of not being able to connect with World OYP had become known. Corrin was in the military lab, watching the scientists trying to figure out what was wrong. Chrom and Reflet came into the room, and the former asked, "What's this I heard about not being able to access World OYP?"
"It's exactly as you said," Corrin told him. "According to the scientists, the portal closed by itself all of a sudden and can't be open. Even communication with that place is completely impossible. They have yet to figure out what went wrong."
"It seems that we cannot connect with World YB too," said a scientist.
Hearing this surprised Reflet. "What?! Lucina went there!"
"Your daughter went to World YB?" asked Corrin.
"Yeah, she said she wanted to go there for a walk about an hour ago," Chrom told him.
"Then we better fix this problem..." said Corrin. "It would be bad for her to be stranded there... Kamui and the others will be stranded in World OYP if we don't fix this too..."
"They're strong, so I'm sure they'll be all right," Chrom assured him, to which Reflet agreed.
Back in the new yukkuri world, which was called World YB, the police managed to round up the abusers from World OYP. Whiplash was still alive, but was in need of medical treatment in order to survive. The hostages inside were all rescued, and the surviving yukkuris were secured.
Watching Whiplash being loaded onto the ambulance, Kirby asked Lucina, "You intended to kill him, didn't you?"
"He was asking for it!" replied Lucina, who was still fuming. "Such a monster had it coming!"
As he was being loaded onto the ambulance, Whiplash tilted up his head and look at Lucina and the Smashers, "This is not over! This is only the beginning of what's to come! Our world is getting ready for what you can call a full-scale invasion! No yukkuris in this world will be able to escape us! It is time that they return to the world of their origin! No matter how hard you people try, you cannot avoid the inevitable! People like you will never realize the purpose for yukkuris' existence. They exist for the sole purpose of being abused by us! That is the truth!"
"Yeah, and you people exist for the purpose of losing and getting beaten up!" Luigi angrily shouted back. The ambulance left after Whiplash was properly loaded onto it.
Whiplash wasn't the only one injured by Lucina. Most of the other thugs were injured by her, and if it weren't for the intervention of the Smashers, she might have killed them all. The ones who only received minor injuries were being taken to the police station for interrogation.
"I think we better contact our folks about this," suggested Luigi. "If what that guy said is true, then this world will be in serious danger soon."
"Good idea," agreed Gunner.
Luigi took out a remote control used for contacting Master Hand. Several seconds after pressing one of the buttons there, there was nothing at all. Luigi pressed again, but still got no response. "Strange, a portal should be showing up already," he said. "Master Hand said there would always be someone on standby to open the portal."
"Perhaps it's broken?" asked Kirby.
"Let's hope not... How else are we going to get in touch with our world?" said Luigi, sounding worried.
"It's not like they won't realize something is wrong if we don't contact them for a long time," Yoshi told him. "They'll surely be looking for us after a while."
"I think I should contact HQ as well," said Lucina. "This is a serious issue..." She took out a similar-looking remote and pressed one of the buttons on it, but nothing happened. She pressed again, but the result was the same. She tried contacting her world using a communication device, but there was no response either. "Strange... Why isn't it working?"
Back inside the Final Destination, a red Alloy was sitting next to the transdimensional machine, reading a magazine about the latest movies. Master Hand appeared at the room and asked him, "Are they not back yet?" The Alloy shook his head in response. "They sure are taking their time... Just be sure to respond if they do so, okay?" The Alloy nodded in response.
Thinking that their allies would eventually come to pick them up, the Smashers and Lucina decide to not think about going back for now and instead go to the police station to interrogate the thugs who were captured.
As much as Lucina wanted to interrogate one of them herself, she wasn't given the permission to do so, as there was fear of her harming the person being interrogated too much out of rage. After all, she injured several of them while at the lab, so it made sense that she wasn't allowed to do this. The Smashers and the swordswoman stood outside the interrogating room, looking into it through a one-way window and listening to the voices that was broadcasted for them to hear.
"How did you people get to this place?" a police officer asked the one of the thugs, who had an orange Mohawk and a nose ring.
"Why should I tell you? That's none of your business!" said the thug.
Hearing this made Lucina angrily. She felt like going into that room to scare the thug into confessing things. The policeman kept on interrogating the thug, who didn't give serious answers at all. The only notable thing he said was that their scientists were skilled. "At least we have an idea who helped them get here, I think..." said Yoshi after hearing that.
"Didn't realize they have the technology to do that..." said Luigi. "I know they did manage to come over to this world once, but I thought our government and military made it impossible for that to happen again."
"Indeed, it should be impossible if the Iso-Lock Program is activated," said Lucina. "Unless they know the exact details regarding how this program works, they shouldn't be able to do anything about it..."
"Unless they actually managed to find out how it worked?" asked Kirby.
"That would mean they managed to steal data from the military posts there," said Lucina. Then it struck her that there was the possibility of spies or traitors that allowed this to happen. "Can... Can it be?" She then busted into the room without permission, much to the surprise of the two inside, and grabbed the thug by the collar. "You! Answer me at once! Did you have spies that gathered info for your people to allow you to come over here? You found a way to counter the Iso-Lock Program, right?!"
"I ain't answering a mad b**** like you!" the thug angrily said to her. "You people messed with us bad enough already! I ain't spilling no beans to let you mess with us even further!"
"Answer me now!" Lucina angrily said to him before flinging him against the wall hard. The policeman tried to restrain her, but she shoved him aside before picking up the thug by the collar again. "ANSWER ME! TELL ME EVERYTHING!"
The Smashers rushed into the room fast. Luigi and Yoshi pried her away from the thug, and the former said to him, "Stop it! You're going to kill him if you keep this up!"
"Yeah! You don't want to make yourself look like a monster, don't you?!" Yoshi asked her.
"You people are monsters already when you took away yukkuris from our world!" the thug said to them. "Fine, I'll tell you everything I know! It's not like you people can do anything about it anyway! I don't know about this Iso-Lock stuff or whatever! I only know that our scientists and leaders are planning to take back yukkuris and even use force to invade this place if they have to! They already have something of an army prepared to get this done. I heard that they managed to kill of your army friends back in our world, which is why they have the guts to do this!"
Hearing the part about Tooneria's army being killed surprised Lucina. "Lies! There's no way our army can be destroyed so easily! Corrin and Kamui are not the likes to fall to you so easily!"
"I don't know how! They just did! I told you everything I know! You happy now?" the thug said to her. She then flung him onto the floor.
"Looks like things just got real..." said Kirby.
"I need to get in contact with HQ... now!" said Lucina while breathing heavily and angrily.
TO BE CONTINUED