Happy Chinese New Year!
Chapter 9
Easiness Before the Storm
26 hours had passed. Horton and various council members were gathered in front of the "White House" of their country to wait for the people of World OYP to show up. News reporters were recording the whole thing for the whole country to see, as everyone was anxious about what the outcome would be. There were people gathered outside the gates of the "White House" to see things in person. The Smashers were there as well.
Horton and the council members waited for several minutes, and eventually, a portal appeared before them. Out from it stepped Edward, Elrond, and some other people that looked to be important council members. "Well, have you decided on what you want to do?" Edward asked Horton. "Remember that your decision will affect your country and people greatly, so let's hope that you've made a wise choice!"
"Before I get to that, let me ask if starting a war is really something your people have decided on," said Horton with a serious face. "Surely you know that wars are not something you can take lightly. Millions of lives will be lost if you start something like that. Starting wars is not something you should take casually."
"Trust me; our people are more than willing to engage in something like this just to get back what rightfully belongs to us! This is something that most of our world leaders have decided on! A vote was cast, and it only makes sense that we go ahead with the majority, which is willing to start a war if you do not yield to us!" Edward said to him.
"To think that you would start war over something like this..." said Horton, sounding disappointed.
"You have no idea how seriously our world takes the issue of yukkuris. After all, they are something your world didn't have since the beginning of time, so you have no idea how important they are to us!" Edward said to him.
While the leaders were talking with each other, Lucina quietly and slowly approached the portal from behind, careful not to grab the people of World OYP's attention. The people from World YB noticed her, but they kept silent about it and pretended to not have seen her in order to not ruin what she had planned in mind.
Lucina was able to make it to the back of the portal, which showed nothing but a wall of blue light, since the only way to go through the portal was from the front. Sneaking as closely as she could to the side, she looked around it to make sure that none of the folks from World OYP were looking back before slipping into the portal as fast as she could. She found herself inside Dr. Blak's lab, but the moment she went inside, the portal closed, much to her surprise.
"Well, look who we have here!" said Dr. Blak, who was present in the room she entered, standing next to the control panel. Lucina looked around and saw that several people were gathered in the room, many of them armed with weapons that mainly came in the form of everyday objects, such as frying pans, baseball bats, and hammers.
"Is this your idea of an army for starting a war?" asked Lucina.
"To be honest with you, we thought bringing actual soldiers, guns, and tanks into something like this is too overkill, so we thought everyday people with everyday objects are more than enough to cause chaos," Dr. Blak explained to her. "Our actual target are the yukkuris, so why waste something like those on those pitiful creatures?"
"Then things will be easy!" said Lucina, unsheathing her sword.
"Did you think we didn't see something like this coming?" Dr. Blak asked her. "We knew that you people would come up with some sort of plan, such as barging into this place to reconnect to your world again! This is why I closed the portal when you came in here!"
"You think trapping me here is going to do something?" Lucina asked him.
"Whoever said we're going to trap you here?" asked Dr. Blak before inputting some coordinates onto the control panel fast and then reactivating the portal. The portal this time showed the scenery of a desert. The people immediately charged at Lucina, ready to hit her with their weapons.
With quick movements and sword strikes, Lucina was able to knock down several of them. She used the flat part of her sword so as not to cause injuries, since she didn't see the need to use lethal force on common people. After knocking down several of them, she turned to Dr. Blak and was going to approach him to demand him to do something about the Iso-Lock Program, but the Role Model, on all fours, charged into her from the side unexpectedly and sent her flying through the portal. She tumbled onto the sand, and after getting back up, she looked at the portal to find it closing up, much to her horror.
"There! That's that! She'll never be able to find her way back here!" said Dr. Blak.
Needless to say, the portal closing was seen by those on the other side. The Smashers were especially shocked to see this happening. "So it seems that your words betray your intentions!" said Edward, looking at where the portal once was.
"That was her idea, not ours, as we intend to hand over the yukkuris to you," Horton told him. "We do not wish for a war to start and cause the loss of million of lives!"
"Yet you allow her to attempt to ruin things?" asked Edward. "Even if it was her idea, you should convince her out of doing this! Surely you have no intention of truly handing over the yukkuris over to us!"
"Please do not misunderstand! We truly do intend to hand them over to you!" claimed Horton.
While the two leaders were arguing with each other, Kirby angrily said, "That settles it! I can't watch this any longer! We better do something about this!"
"What do we do?" asked Luigi. "If we provoke them, we're going to make things worse!"
"I'm sure Lucina will do something by then, and things will turn out better for us!" said Gunner with confidence.
All the Smashers except for Luigi got to the other side of the gate and ran towards the leaders and council members in there. "All right, you bad guys! This is as far as you go! We will never hand over the yukkuris to you!" Kirby angrily shouted at them.
"Yeah! It's not nice to hurt anything that has life and is sentient!" Yoshi angrily said to them. "You guys are sick out of your mind to think hurting yukkuris is fun and even going as far as hurting people just to do that!"
"Be careful about what you say and do!" Edward angrily said to them. "The fate of this place depends on your actions, and you better make the right decision!"
"I appreciate you wanting to help, but I think handing some yukkuris over to them is the best option," Horton said to the Smashers. "We do not wish for anyone to get hurt because of this. It's not worth it... Human lives are, in the end, more important than animals."
"But Lucina just went to the other world! She'll definitely reconnect with our world and call for help to beat up these guys!" Kirby told him. "You have to believe her!"
"You will not succeed! We were prepared for something like this! I am sure that your friend is now in a situation where she will not be able to do anything!" Elrond said to them.
"Oh yeah? Tell me why!" the pink puffball angrily said to him.
"Our people on the other side likely have used the portal to send her somewhere she won't be able to come back from," Elrond told him.
"How dare you?!" said Yoshi angrily.
"This is what happens to those who come against us!" Edward said to them. "Are you going to hand over the yukkuris to us or not? If you continue to defy us, we will show no mercy and lay waste to your place just to take back the yukkuris!"
"You'll have to get through us first! We can take on whatever army you have at your disposal!" Kirby said to them.
"Yeah! We are heroes and powerful people back in our own world, known throughout the entire planet!" added Yoshi. "You think you can take on people who saved the world countless times?"
"Well, then this is one world you won't be able to save!" Edward angrily said to them.
"Bring whatever crummy army you have! We'll take on them and show you why we are not be messed with!" said Kirby, getting into a fighting stance.
"Yeah! Bring them!" said Yoshi, doing a karate pose. Hunt growled at those people, Duck glared at them while quacking in an angry manner, and Gunner readied her arm cannon with an angry look.
"You insist on coming against us, don't you?! You're asking for a death..." said Edward, but before he could finish speaking, Kirby lunged himself at him and attacked his face with a roundhouse kick, knocking him to the ground.
"How'd that feel?" Kirby asked him after landing.
Elrond helped Edward up and then angrily said to the Smashers, "How dare you hurt one of our leaders?! This is a declaration of war!"
"Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't realize he is a world leader! If he was a nicer person, I would've been able to realize it and not use violence!" said Kirby sarcastically.
"You'll pay for this! We're going to show you that we mean..." said Edward, but Yoshi chucked an egg at his face that exploded in a colorful burst of light, interrupting him. "Doh!"
"I can't hear you over my egg exploding!" Yoshi said to him mockingly.
"That does it! You're asking for it!" said Edward angrily. He took out a remote control that had a speaker on it and spoke into it, telling Dr. Blak to send over some people to teach the Smashers a lesson. A portal opened up next to them, and then some people stepped out, armed with weapons. "Get them!"
The people who just arrived raised their weapons and let out cries of anger before running at the Smashers. The people on the other side of the gate watched in awe as the Smashers fought them. There was the sound of crashing, punching, kicking, smashing, and also screaming.
All these happened off-screen, so you readers don't get to see what is happening, though it's not like that matters, since this is a story with no pictures. Of course, I can always describe it, but I don't feel like doing that...
It only took a couple of minutes for the brawl to end. When it was over, the people of World OYP were gathered in a pile, all beaten up. Kirby, Yoshi, and Gunner were standing in front of them, posing victoriously, while Duck and Hunt were on top of the pile, looking proud.
The people of World YB praised the Smashers, but Luigi had an unimpressed look as he said, "Saw this coming..."
Kirby turned to the council members of World OYP and said, "Shocked? I bet you are!"
Growling angrily, Edward said, "If you think things are going to be this easy, think again! We'd be a laughing stock if we make things this simple!"
"You're gonna be a laughing stock regardless," Yoshi said to him.
Suddenly, the people outside the gate began shouting at those from World OYP. "We won't let you take the yukkuris!"
"You can't have any if you're going to abuse them!"
"You will not have them back!"
"Abuse is wrong!"
"Yukkuris have the right to live!"
The shouting became louder and louder, and though the guards tried to calm them down, they kept increasing their volume even more. Seeing this, Edward became angry and said, "You people! I tried giving you an easy way out, and yet you choose to pick the hard route! You are asking for it!"
"Please give us time to think this over again!" Horton said to him. The former still wanted to avoid the possibility of a war, so he was trying to get on Edward's good side.
"Your people are going crazy. Do you think you can still convince them?" one of the council members from World OYP asked.
"A leader who cannot convince his people to do the same is a recipe for disaster!" said another one.
Horton begged, "Please! Give us a bit more time! I will try to address the people!"
"Very well, we'll give you a bit more time!" Edward said to him. "Do know that this is the last time! If we do not get a satisfying answer the next time we come, which is another 26 hours, we will do things the rough way!"
While all this was happening, in World OYP, a person dressed in a dark gray cloak approached Dr. Blak's lab. Opening the backdoor, that person carefully sneaked inside, making sure to not let anyone see him. He made his way through the place until he heard someone speaking, so he hid behind some boxes placed conveniently at one side of the room.
He saw people walking alongside each other through the room while speaking to each other. "Can't wait until yukkuris come back here!" said one.
"Hope the people who started all this mess in the first place won't mess with us!" said the other one.
"Our scientists managed to keep them from getting in contact with their own world, so I'm sure everything will be fine!" said the first one. "By the way, I heard one of them, a girl with blue hair, barged in here to stop us, but they managed to send her somewhere she won't be able to come back from."
"Serves her right for trying to mess with us! Now we can get back the yukkuris with nobody stopping us!" said the second person.
"Lucina?!" the cloaked person said in his head in surprise upon hearing about the blue-haired girl. After those two people left, he got out from his hiding place and made his way to where the portal was as fast as he could. Slowly opening the door, he peaked into the room to see several people inside, and the portal could be seen at the back of the room.
It seemed clear that there was no way to get to the portal without being seen, so that person decided to go all-out. Taking off his cloak to reveal himself as Kamui all along, the silver-haired woman went into the room and shouted while unsheathing her sword. "Everyone! This is as far as you go!"
Everyone turned to look at her, and Victor was surprised at the sight of her. "You! I thought you were killed along with the army stationed here!"
"That's what you people think! It'll take a lot more to kill a half-dragon like me!" said Kamui. "I know what you people are doing and what you did to my comrade Lucina! Surrender at once, or I will use force against you!"
"You won't stop us!" shouted some of the people present. They raised their weapons and ran at her to attack. Being a skilled fighter, Kamui was able to defend herself from those people with little effort, so much that those who didn't attack her became scared.
The portal was still open, so those on the other side were able to see what was happening. "What do we do?!" Dr. Blak asked Edward.
Growling in anger, Edward said, "Now that things are like this, there's nothing to lose anymore! We've come so far, so I'm not going to let things go to waste! It's all or nothing now! Invade this place! Make things as chaotic as possible! Let's see them try to stop us now!"
"What?! You can't mean you're going to start a war now?!" asked Horton in shock.
"Blame the troublemakers who made this happen!" Edward said to him. After Edward gave the word, Dr. Blak closed the portal, making the others wonder what they were doing. When asked, Edward replied, "Perhaps you should start looking around the place!"
Elsewhere, inside a yukkuri pet store, a portal showed up at the entrance, and people ran out of it and started tearing apart the place, killing the yukkuris. The portal closed up, and another one showed up at an alleyway that had quite a few stray yukkuris. People poured out from it to kill the yukkuris. This happened again and again in various parts of the city, and soon, news of this made its way around the place, causing widespread panic.
Back in World OYP, Kamui saw people pushing into the portal in large numbers. As if this wasn't enough, more were entering the room after learning that the "war" was starting. There were so many people pouring into the room that she found herself being pushed around and unable to do much.
"Let's see you try to stop us now!" Dr. Blak called out to Kamui next to the portal.
At World YB, Edward smiled evilly as he said to the shocked Smashers and citizens of said world, "The war has begun!"
TO BE CONTINUED