I found a new favorite kind of story in the form of "React to Death Battle." For those who don't know, it all began with the author Epicvictory2025 creating RWBY Watches Death Battle. Its popularity inspired several authors to create their own versions using different series. Unfortunately, Epic's story was taken down, supposedly due to plagiarism, and from what I can gather, there is a policy on this site regarding Death Battle reaction stories. Epic's story got re-uploaded by other people on other fanfic sites, but it's unsure if he himself will ever continue it. It would be a shame if he didn't, since it's so good.
As someone who enjoys crossover interactions and reactions, this kind of story is entertains me to no end. I recommend that you look for these kinds of stories. I'm sure you'll like them!
Anyway, I hope I am more motivated than last year so that I can update more frequently. I apologize for the long wait...
Chapter 7
Uneasily Mad
As the Smashers approached the park, they began to see the "zombies" from World OYP roaming around the place, going after yukkuris viciously. People who were trying to defend the yukkuris were attacked as well.
"What is going here?!" asked Luigi in shock. "Are they really zombies?!"
"Pretty random thing to be encountering, don't you think so?" asked Yoshi.
"Zombie or not, they shall pay for disturbing the peace of this place and hurting the people!" said Lucina angrily as she unsheathed her sword.
"I think you're more of being angry at the fact that yukkuris are being hurt," Kirby said to her.
Running close to some of the madmen from World OYP, Lucina pointed her sword at them and shouted, "In the name of the law, I order you to stop, or else you will face the justice of my sword!"
"Is it just me, or does that sound extra cheesy...?" asked Luigi.
"You tell me about it..." replied Kirby.
The "zombies" did not respond to her, however. They kept on walking in the direction of yukkuris to attack them. Seeing that they were attempting to attack a family of stray reimus and marisa on the sidewalk, Lucina dashed at those people and struck them in the waists with the flat part of her blade to knock them onto the pavement. Those people got back up soon afterwards and continued heading for the yukkuris.
Grabbing one of them by the collar, Lucina pulled him away and flung him to the side, but that person got back up and crawled towards the yukkuris at a fast speed. Yoshi and Luigi rushed at those yukkuris and picked them up in their hands before running away as fast as they could. Those "zombies" moaned loudly while chasing them, only to be cut down from behind by Lucina.
Gunner fired energy blasts at the "zombies" to knock them down, only for them to get back up again shortly afterwards. Duck and Hunt tried to stop them by pecking and biting them respectively. Kirby whipped out a hammer and smashed those people in the faces, but even that wasn't enough to keep them down on the pavement.
"What's with these people?! They won't stay down" said Kirby in surprise.
Meanwhile, Yoshi and Luigi ran as fast as they could from more of these madmen that chased them for the yukkuris in their hands. They ran into an alleyway and found themselves looking at a dead end in the form of a brick wall. They turned around to see that the people chasing them had come into the alleyway as well. Screaming in fright, Luigi and Yoshi performed an incredible leap into the air when they pounced at them, causing them to crash face first into the wall. Those people seemingly passed out on the ground, and the Smashers landed on them before running out of the alleyway, still carrying with them the yukkuris.
Lucina and the other Smashers continued to fight these madmen on the street. The police also arrived to help with the situation. "Seriously! What's with these people?!" asked Kirby. "They're behaving like nothing I've ever encountered before!"
"I remember the others saying that they became like this the last time they came," said Gunner while shooting down some of these people. "It was a work of one of their scientists. Can the same thing be happening again?"
"Same thing or not, we should find a way to stop these people from harming anyone first!" said Lucina as she cut the people in places that wouldn't kill them. Even with wounds on their bodies, these people continued to get back up and go after the yukkuris.
Yoshi and Luigi ran to a place that didn't seem to have any of those madmen. "This place looks safe," said the former. They walked up to an alleyway and put down the yukkuris, telling them to be careful and go hide in a safe place. The yukkuris thanked them before heading deeper into the alleyway, but then a madman showed up from around the corner up front. Roaring loudly, the madman jumped at the yukkuris and murdered them all in front of the horrified Yoshi and Luigi. When he was done, the madman looked at the two Smashers and let out a roar before running at them. The two screamed in shock and hurled themselves to the sides. The person wasn't going for them, but a yukkuri pet shop across the street directly behind them. He got hit by a bus, however.
"That was close..." said Luigi while breathing heavily.
"Yeah... Good thing he got hit by the bus so that he can't go to the pet store, but I still feel bad for him..." said the green dinosaur.
Their celebration was too early, as they immediately saw some madmen running in the direction of the yukkuri pet store. "We have to stop them!" Yoshi shouted before running across the street, barely avoiding getting hit by a car, and into the store to fight those madmen.
"Stop this abusing at once!" he shouted when he was inside. He saw the madmen destroying the terrariums to kill the yukkuris, and the store owner was trying to take out the madmen using a broom, though no progress was made. Yoshi started attacking those people using his head, tail whips, and unprofessional-looking karate moves. Those people kept on getting back up and did not retaliate at all, but went for the yukkuris instead.
"I told you to stop abusing these yukkuris!" Yoshi angrily shouted. He grabbed one of the people with his tongue from behind and then swallowed him before laying him out in the form of an egg. He did this with all the madmen until every one of them was encased inside eggs. He sighed with relief while wiping his forehead, thinking that he resolved the issue. Turning to the store owner, he said, "It's all right now." But then the eggs cracked and those people came back out, moaning for yukkuris to kill. "Oh boy..."
Suddenly, Luigi charged into the place while flailing his fists and shouting a silly-sounding war cry. He pummeled one of the madmen in the face until he fell onto the floor, and then he did a karate pose. "I may not look like it, but I can pack a punch when I have to! I won't let you hurt these yukkuris any longer! We tried so hard last time to bring them to safety! You guys won't get away with it for ruining our hard work!"
"That's the spirit!" said Yoshi happily.
Luigi let out his war cry again as he ran around the store, swinging his fists at the madmen there rapidly and knocking them onto the floor. The madmen got back up soon afterwards, however, and kept on going for the yukkuris, no matter how many times Luigi knocked them down. Luigi kept this up until he stopped to pant, as he had tired himself out from constantly running around. "I leave everything else to you, Yoshi... I'm out of ideas..." he said.
"Seriously? Just like that?! You're supposed to be better than this!" said Yoshi. The dinosaur then whipped out his tongue at the legs of one of the "zombies" and swung him in circles to knock him into the other "zombies." After swinging him in circles several times, he flung him straight out of the pet store. Yoshi then fell to the floor, dizzy from the spinning. "Shouldn't have done that..." He looked around to see that the "zombies" had been sent flying all over the place, some of whom had flattened yukkuris against the walls and floor as a result. Even Luigi and the pet store owner became victims. The whole place looked worse than before he did this. "Oops..."
The other Smashers and Lucina managed to subdue all the madmen in the area. Bounded with ropes and handcuffs, the mentally insane people of World OYP continued to moan and cry out for yukkuris to kill. The way they were behaving managed to send chills down the spines of some people.
"That's that, I guess," said Kirby. "Now what?"
"Since we can't send them back to World OYP ourselves, we'll have to keep them around until the people from there open up a portal again," said Lucina.
"Whatever made these people behave like this?" asked a policeman close by.
"The last time they came here behaving like this, it was the result of a drug injected into them," replied Lucina. "It's possible that the same thing happened again. We can make sure of this if we perform tests on their bodies. Get your scientists to confirm this."
"We will," said that policeman.
"Maybe it's faster if we just ask the people who took over the lab instead?" suggested Gunner.
"That's also an idea," said Lucina.
Unknown to them, the ones behind this were watching everything that unfolded through a small portal hidden inside a random person's car. "Curses! They managed to subdue all those people!" said Edward angrily.
"Relax, you already know that we have more in store than just this," Victor reminded him. "I am sure that the next part will be a success. There is simply no way they can do anything about what we are going to send over next!"
Yoshi and Luigi, after subduing all the madmen in the pet store and leaving things to the police, began making their way back to their friends. "Hope the others managed to deal with the remaining ones," said Luigi.
"I'm sure they're done with things," said Yoshi. "They're more competent than us after all."
They came across a playground that had some children and yukkuris. Some adults were there with them as well. They were fortunate that those madmen didn't come over to that place to kill the yukkuris, but they still heard about what happened and were scared. Luigi waved at them and assured them that everything was all right. As soon as he said this, a burst of light appeared behind him. Fearing for the worst, the plumber and the dinosaur slowly turned around, expecting to see more of those mentally insane zombie-like people, only to be surprised by the sight of a group of children, and normal-looking ones at that.
"Look at all those yukkuris! Let's abuse them!" shouted one of the children. The children exclaimed happily as they ran to the playground and began abusing the yukkuris in various ways. Needless to say, Luigi, Yoshi, and those who were at the playground in the first place were shocked at what was happening. The children who showed up from the portal were abusing the yukkuris in inhumane ways that made one wonder if they were really children in their heads. They even bullied children who tried to protect the yukkuris.
"Hey you! You shouldn't hurt little animals!" a woman angrily said to one of the children while trying to pull him away from hitting a patchouli with a stick.
The kid flailed wildly while shouting, "Waaaa! Let me go! I want to abuse yukkuris! I want to!"
The adults tried their best to stop the kids from abusing the yukkuris, but the latter were so rowdy that they were almost unable to anything to them.
"What do we do...?" asked a lost and confused Luigi.
"You tell me..." replied Yoshi.
The others arrived as soon as they received word about what happened. There, the police were trying their best to keep the children away from the yukkuri using barricades and shields held by fully armed policemen. As it was children they were dealing with, they had to take care not to hurt them. The children from World OYP cried like spoiled brats about wanting to keep on abusing yukkuris.
"What is this all about?!" asked Kirby.
"Like we told you! These children came from that other world and started abusing the yukkuris here! They're ridiculously spoiled, I tell you!" Luigi told her.
"How dare they use children to make things difficult for us?!" Lucina said angrily.
"We want to abuse yukkuris! We want to abuse them!" the children angrily shouted.
"We don't know what to do... The best we can do is to hold them back like this..." said Yoshi, pointing to said barricades and policemen. One could see several dead and injured yukkuris on the playground, and the children of World YB were crying, as they were terrified by what they witnessed earlier.
Lucina approached the children from World OYP, who were trying to break through the things barricading them from the yukkuris, and angrily said to them, "Enough, children! Hurting animals isn't good! You should know better than that! Listen to adults! They are keeping you from doing bad things that will turn you into bad people in the future! This is..."
"Shut up, you ugly sister!" one little boy angrily shouted back.
"Yukkuris aren't animals! They are toys!" shouted little girls.
"They are trash, and trash should be destroyed!" said another boy.
Lucina was shocked at what she heard. She had never seen such rude children in her life! Annoyed, Luigi shouted at them, "You brats! How dare you speak to adults like that?! Have you no manners?! What did you parents teach you?!"
"Our parents taught us that bad people like you who took yukkuris away should be punished!" shouted a little boy.
"Yukkuris should die! My mommy taught me that!" shouted a little girl.
"People who treat yukkuris nicely are losers!" said another girl.
"What the?! Why you?! You have the worst parents in the world!" said Luigi angrily.
As Luigi argued with the kids, Yoshi asked the others, "What now...?"
"It's children we're dealing with, so beating them up would be... wrong..." said Gunner.
"I can actually think of some of our folks who won't hesitate much to hit children..." said Kirby. Ganondorf was one such person he had in mind.
As Luigi continued to argue with the children, a portal appeared, grabbing everyone's attention. Victor, Edward, and Elrond stepped out of it, and some of the Smashers were surprised to see the first person. "It's you again!" Lucina angrily said to him. "So you're the one behind everything?"
"It's because of what you people did that you forced us to do this," Victor told her. "You took away what rightfully belongs to us, so it is only fair that we try to take them back!"
"And this is your idea of trying to take them back? Send mentally insane drugged people and then children?!" Luigi asked them.
"We did not drug those people like last time. Rather, they behave like this naturally as a result of suffering from withdrawal," Victor told him.
"You're saying that they became like that solely because of not abusing yukkuris? That's too exaggerated!" said Lucina.
"You people are too blame! You know nothing about our world and yet have the guts to mess things up badly! Our world and people are suffering because of your cruel and selfish actions!" Edward angrily said to them.
"Well, if you people hadn't been such a meanie to yukkuris in the first place, we wouldn't have done this!" Kirby said to them.
"What do you people know about our world and culture?" Elrond asked them. "Since the beginning of time, yukkuris have been treated in such a way by mankind! How can such a thing be considered cruelty if it is part of man's nature since the beginning?"
"Then you people have messed up ways of thinking and are a bunch of demented monsters!" said Luigi angrily.
"A monster accusing other people monsters? Who do you think are the monsters here currently?!" Elrond angrily said to them. "Our world is suffering from poor economy, hunger, depression, corruption, and more because yukkuris have completely disappeared from our world! Our world is on the brink of destruction because you people heartlessly took them all away with no care for our well-being!"
"If doing so will rid the world of monsters like you, then I'm glad that this happened!" Lucina angrily shouted back.
Ignoring what she said, Edward said, "We will give you 26 hours to go with our deal! All we ask for is for our world to be populated with yukkuris again. You only have to give us a certain number of them, and then we can handle everything afterwards. If you accept this offer, we will leave your world in peace, but if you insist on saying no, then do not blame us when we launch a full-scale invasion! We will tear apart this whole place just to take back the yukkuris!"
"You do realize this means war," Gunner said to him.
"And you people are the ones who started it! Blame yourself for all this!" Edward angrily said to them.
"We will take back all the people we sent here," Victor told them. "Remember, only 26 hours, and if we do not hear the answer we want after time is up, it is war!"
TO BE CONTINUED