Rex swore that he had never seen so many things that could kill him in his sight. Every direction he ran, something was there to kill him. Turn to the right? A line of danmaku. Turn to the left? A giant ass laser beam. He was ducking and weaving the best he could, but there would be some that slightly graze him, leaving cuts and burns on his clothes and body. Even if Yukari was "toying" with him, this was too much for him to handle alone. Dodging cooking utensils and tools had helped him, but this was on a whole new level.

"My~ you are pretty good at moving like that," Yukari praised, enjoying the chaos that was being brought down upon Rex. She sat on a gap, floating in the air, twirling her parasol. This was, however, no fun at all for Rex.

Judging how those violet balls of energy just destroyed his umbrella, he did not want to end up the same, not realizing that they aren't lethal. They just hurt like hell to most people, enough to make them pass out, but Rex wasn't going to take any chances.

He felt a slight burn across the ankle, danmaku shooting right past him. "Psh!" Rex hissed, leaping over another danmaku. "Why! Are you so! Damn! Persistent?!" He was gasping for air.

"Well, if you hadn't refused an offer, quite rare coming from me, then we wouldn't be having such a difficult time, would we?" Yukari kept smiling at him. Everything about that smile was unsettling.

He was about to respond until he blinked out of time and teleported back away from a carpet of danmaku. "You're making this extremely difficult for me to talk you know?!" Rex yelled, needing to teleport again to avoid an incoming spiral of danmaku.

"Oh, so you agree on coming along?" Yukari exclaimed, briefly stopping her attacks.

"Like hell, I would!" Rex replied, pissed off how much he hurt and how drenched he was moving in the rain. "Can't you find someone else to take?" He put his hands on his knees, taking a breather.

"Ara~ tricking me into giving you a break? This next wave will be harder now," Yukari cheerfully said, bothered by his remark. "I'll make sure to send you to Gensokyo with this one."

"Wait wait wait wait!" Rex begged, but it was no use. He was back into a frenzy of dodging for his life. In the middle of dodging, a gap opened up beneath him.

"What the-?!" He nearly fell in the gap but managed to leap over it.

"Hmph," Yukari pouted, missing an opportunity to take him. "You are unlike any human I've come across." She opened more gaps for him to fall into.

Great. Laser beams, killer balls of energy, and now portals opening beneath his feet to dodge. Every muscle in his body ached and his mind drained after teleporting so many times. There's only a finite amount of times he could teleport before his mind would collapse from exhaustion.

"How are you holding?" Yukari asked, looking down at him. That damn smile. She was still toying with him.

"Not... In the best... Shape." Rex panted at each pause. All he could think about was the stopwatch breaking and fixing itself back over and over to trigger his power. He felt a sharp pain across his left thigh and clutched at it, collapsing.

Yukari floated down in front of him, stopping her barrage of danmaku and bringing her gaps closer to him. "You don't look as serious anymore," taunted Yukari. "Well, because of how nice and merciful I am, the previous offer is still up~"

Rex lay there in the wet grass, still holding his thigh. He practically overworked his entire body to avoid this outcome, yet he couldn't escape her grasp. She had him trapped.

"Well?" Yukari asked. "I can assure you that your life will be different over there, than here. That I can promise you." Rex could feel that she seriously meant it with no ill intent behind it.

Rex had no choice. He sighed, finally giving in. "Fine, you can take me to Gensokyo…" He got up, still holding his pained thigh.

Yukari clapped happily. "How wonderful! Another addition to Gensokyo!" she cheered, swinging her legs in the air as she floated up and down on her gap. "We should head over there right now! I'm sure Reimu will be happy to see me bring another guest to her shrine!" She prepared to open a gap to send them both to Gensokyo.

"You can take me to Gensokyo… over my dead body!" Rex answered, imagining the stopwatch once more. He could hear the stopwatch crack once more in his head and Yukari's expression was blank, caught off guard by his statement. Before time froze, he could hear Yukari's voice cut off.

"WHY YOU?! AGH!" Yukari yelled. She was livid and her face red.

…

It was just him and time now.

Quickly, he ran in the opposite direction, his movement sluggish with his injury. The watch was ticking.

3 seconds passed…

8 seconds...

14 seconds…

Rex managed to get far enough where he could barely see Yukari. Going beyond his time limit, he risked getting a nasty consequence. His mind wasn't able to hold the time much longer from constant use of it. He dove behind a fairly large gravestone and hid, allowing time to start up once more after holding it for a total of 16 seconds. The stopwatch breaking and reforming in his mind.

Time was back in play.

At that moment, his chest started trembling in pain and suddenly was coughing up blood. He tried to cover his mouth, but only resulted in getting blood all over his hand and shirt, After a couple of seconds, it subsided and he let out a shaky breath. Rex was just done with everything. He spent so much energy on getting away at that last moment and could barely move. Laying behind the gravestone, eyes feeling heavy and head throbbing in pain. He stayed like that for a while, but couldn't get the thought of Yukari finding him out of his mind.

It was silent again in the cemetery which only made him uneasy. He struggled to peek out of his spot, risking getting caught, but to his surprise, Yukari stood there where he left. Ducking back, he started to feel anxious.

What kinda bullshit is she going to pull off? Oh god, I don't even want to think about it…

Suddenly, he started feeling as if the world was shaking.

Yukari looked at the spot where Rex just was, his words repeating in her mind tantalizing her. From his perspective, he couldn't tell that she had a creepy grin on her face. Yukari was done playing with this stupid human. She knew that he was injured from one of her danmaku and knew he wouldn't be able to have gotten far. Using her parasol, she drew a line on the floor which created a gap. It didn't concern her whether he lands in Reimu's temple or even the Underworld. All that mattered was getting that stupid time stopping idiot.

"Playtime is over~," Yukari giggled with a frightening grin, "Out, out wherever you are~..." She tapped the ground with her parasol causing the gap she made to start multiplying and grow in size.

"No fucking way…" Rex could start to see the gap she made starting to multiply and grow wider in a matter of seconds. Not even his time-stopping abilities can do anything about that.

He also knew that there was no way of outrunning the gap with it growing so fast.

Sore all over, he could not move an inch. He let his fatigue take over, starting to feel drowsy. Closing his eyes, he prepared for what was to come. His fate down in that hell hole that she created. The gaps seemingly filled to the brim with arms and eyes. He couldn't even feel scared at this point because of how exhausted he's become. The cuts and burns on his body slowly became number. His tattered clothes were torn up by now. Calmly, he fell into a trance.

Then he felt as if he was floating. Opening his eyes once more, he could see the world slowly grow smaller.

He was falling... into an endless void.

The hands and eyes of the gap slowly covered up the opening, darkness filling the hole.

Rex finally succumbed to his exhaustion.

As he was falling, in his dreams, he swore he could hear the whisper of Yukari Yakumo.

"Welcome to Gensokyo, foolish one"