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Touhou 2012 - the end is near *Chapter 2 finished*
Dead Princess Sakana:
Here we go, the introduction to a Touhou-version of the world-end-movie '2012'.
Some small notes beforehand:
-Please don't get discouraged by all the text, it's really easy to read. It's just that I write a lot more than planned once I start typing.
-This is my first ever fanwork and not in my mother tongue at that.
-This is no crossover, it's more that I took the opening scene of the movie and made it play in Gensokyo
-The physical explanations might be way off, but this is Gensokyo we're talking about, right?
More Notes:
-I edited the text a bit, I hope it's easier to read now
-From chapter 2 on, I don't stick to the '2012' movie anymore, only the world-end-scenario stays, which is for the better becuase it gives me more freedom
So, let's start. I hope you will enjoy it.
Chapter 1
It was a warm summer day, when Yukari received an urgent call from Nitori to come to her research lab deep below the Youkai mountain. It was a lab that Nitori had been allowed to build so that she wouldn't trouble the other inhabitants of Gensokyo with her experiments as it had happened before. The equipment that Nitori was using mainly consisted of material that Yukari had gappd for her from the outer world or that she had found at Kourindou. It was due to that involvement in the creation of the lab that Yukari had become kind of a supervisor for Nitori and that it was her that the kappa would call whenever there was trouble.
Now Yukari was flying through the long tunnels that lead deep into the earth. It was warm outside already, but the temperature in the tunnel was even higher and made her sweat.
'Where's Cirno when you need her' she thought, and her mind played with the idea of gapping her as an air conditioner, but she decided it would be better not to let that obnoxious fairy-brat near hight-tech equipment. She soon reached the giant barrier sealing the actual research area. It had been set up by the Hakurei shrine maiden, that had been more than willing to help when she was asked to lend a hand in the construction of the lab. Yukari suspected that this willingness was due to the fact that Reimu liked the idea of having a facility that could blow up anytime right beneath the Moriya family's shrine that she hated so much.
When she entered the lab, Yukari wondered why she had been summoned by the kappa. There didn't seem to be any exploded machinery around and she didn't notice anything burning as had happened several times before. Just then someone called out to her.
"Yukari-sama!". It was the voice of Nitori, who came running from the back of the area wearing a white lab coat and glasses that made her look highly intellectual when in fact she was more of a mad scientist.
"Yukari-sama, please come with me at once. It's terrible."
Without waiting for a response she turned around and made her way through the labyrinth of cables, monitoring devices and other machinery standing, lying and sometimes even flying around.
'What the hell did she do this time' Yukari wondered and followed her. 'I just hope we can get this over with quickly, I can't stand this heat. Wait...heat?'
Yukari frowned. She remembered the tunnels being hot all year round, but the research area itself? Didn't Nitori herself tell her that the machinery mustn't overheat and that therefor there was air-conditioning on all the time? Then, why was it so hot in here now?
"Um, Nitori...about the heat" she started, but was immediately abrupted by the kappa.
"Yes, Yukari-sama, that's the problem. You'll see soon for yourself. Please come here."
Following after Nitori she soon reached a large metal hatch in the ground that seemed to hide a tunnel leading even deeper into the ground. The kappa opened it and started to descend into the dark below.
While they were going down Nitori started explaining.
"Yukari-sama, you may never have heard of it, but there are smal particles in this world called 'neutrinos'. They don't have a mass, they're just pure energy. Neutrinos are for example created by eruptions on the sun and then form in a cloud that can hit the earth and therefore Gensokyo as well. Normally those neutrinos pas through matter without effect, but....recently we have been measuring neutrinos that affected matter, effectively heating it up to the point of melting. And a few days ago there has been the largest eruption on the sun that has ever been witnessed, sending a giant cloud of neutrinos to the earth that might be strong enough to melt the plaent's crust and cause unknown disasters."
Yukari was shocked, which was unusual for her.
"Is this the reason for the heat in here? So you're saying that the world is going to be destroyed? Why didn't you tell me earlier, we have to do someth..."
"NO! That's not the problem!"
"What? But you just said..." Yukari was confused.
"I said all this because it takes so long to go down this tunnel. Look, it takes almost ten minutes, so by telling you something interesting that time went by a lot faster. Isn't that nice?"
"So you were lying?"
"Not really, what I was just explaining is true for the outside world, but it won't affect Gensokyo. Soon Gensokyo might be the only world left on this planet."
"So, what about the heat here? Is it just that your air-conditioning broke, or what?" Yukari started to become angry at the kappa for worrying her like that.
"Well, no, if things go badly, Gensokyo might meet the same fate as the outside world."
"WHAT?"
"But I think you can prevent it Yukari-sama. You'll see soon."
As she said they reached the bottom of the tunnel and the kappa opened another door in front of them. The room they were standing in now was a small square room that was empty safe for another single hatch in the middle. several cords and pipes were coming from it and disappearing into the walls and ceiling. Yukari noticed that the heat had become almost unbearable.
"This is..." she started.
"This is the reason I called you, Yukari-sama. I call it the 'reactor'. I built it so I could make use of the earth's innermost energies and convert them into electicity for my machines. Because, you know, always having to ask Iku-san for some thunder every time I run out of energy is troublesome so I would rather have an own and infinite source..."
"So, what exactly is wrong with it?"
Yukari didn't want any more explanations, but the kappa wouldn't stop.
"You see, inside the reactor is ahole that leeds deep underground. So deep that if you went to the bottom there wouldn't be solid earth anymore, but melted lava. And there, deep down, nuclear fusion produces infinite amounts of raw energy that could run my research forever. But, of course, it's impossible to use it as it is, so I needed a kind of 'converter' to make it appliable for my lab, and well, it seems the 'converter' is acting a bit...funny."
With those words the kappa started to turn the wheel on top of the hatch in order to open it. Slowly and with screeching sounds the wheel turned around one time after another. Steam started to rise from the cracks that were opening and then, with a final turn, the hatch was completely unlocked. The kappa signaled Yukari to come closer and fully opened the hatch. Another big burst of steam arose, engulfing both Nitori and Yukari. As the steam started to clear Yukari stared at the inside of the hole the hatch had sealed. She was afraid of what she might see in there. Nitori's words had made an image form in her mind, but she hoped she was wrong. Even this mad kappa scientist wouldn't be capable of tha.....
"Unyuuu?"
Or would she?
"Unyuu!!"
The last bit of steam cleared away and Yukari stared at the hole. Inside was a person she had seen before, trapped inside what seemed to be a cage. The person was wearing green and white clothes and had black wings on her back. But the red stone on her chest, shaped like an eye, was what made her identy 100% clear. In her mouth she had several boiled egs that she was munching on, and she was holding several more in her hands.
"Your 'converter' is Utsuho!?"
Yukari turned to Nitori, angry and confused.
"Yes she is. Is there anyone else here that could fulfill that role?"
The kappa seemed surprised at Yukari's reaction.
"With her powers I can transform the raw energy an then transport it to my lab via these cables. The concept is perfect but it seems there's something wrong with it. And that's where I need your help, Yukari-sama."
Yukari was at a loss of words.
"You know, there's a lot of things wrong with keeping a person caged down here and using her as an energy converter. I'm pretty sure she's not even here by her own will."
"Oh no, that's not it. She clearly stated that it was completely alright for her to give away part of her freedom in the name of science" Nitori stated.
At the same time Utsuho was shaking her head with tears in her eyes, as if to say 'She's lying!'. Yukari nodded to her, signaling 'I will get you out of there' and stared at Nitori again.
"You know, I'm pretty sure you somehow lured her down here but let's leave the details for now. Did you honestly think that you could get away with kidnapping, confining and abusing her? If Satori were to know of this, she would gather all of hell to get that girl back. And now you're wanting me to help you because she doesn't want to cooperate?"
Yukari started to get seriously mad at the kappa.
"No, that's not it" Nitori said, but Yukari wasn't listening.
"Did you even think about what you were doing? If Reimu were to find out about this, she would crash this place and the whole mountain with it."
She pointed at Utsuho, who was starting to shake in fear at the thought of Reimu
"Ask her, she experienced that shrine maiden's wrath before."
"I SAID THAT'S NOT IT!" The kappa yelled.
"What?"
"I don't need you to convince her to cooperate, I have my own methods of doing that. Didn't you listen before? I said that Gensokyo might suffer the same fate as the outside world. You noticed the heat, right?"
Nitori was getting desperate.
"So what, are you trying to tell me that confining that crow here is gonna rescue us?"
"No, have a closer look at her, doesn't anything seem strange to you?"
Yukari did as she was told. She looked down at Utsuho, shivering in her cage, boiled eggs in mouth and hands, her body filling the hole completely...
"Wait... isn't she too... fat? Her body shouldn't be filling all of this hole. What the hell is this?"
Yukari didn't know how to feel about all of this anymore.
Nitori looked relieved at Yukari's realization and started another explanation.
"You see, this is the problem. As she is a living being, of course she needs to be fed. To keep her both healthy and happy I started feeding her her beloved boiled eggs. You see this pipe? It transports an unlimited amount of eggs to her cage, so she can eat as much as she wants. Unfortunately I seem to have miscalculated her energy balance. I assumed that the energy she took in with the eggs would equal the amount she would use for nuclear fusion. As you can see, that was wrong. Instead of staying as she was she started gaining weight, up to the point where she filled the whole cage and therefore the hole. Now as I said it reaches down to the earth's core, which means enrgy and heat rise up in the hole. With her blocking it, all of that accumulates below her, resulting in the increase in the earth's crust which you can feel her in the lab. If we don't somehow get stop the blocking, Gensokyo will suffer the same fate as the outside world and will be destroyed."
Yukari couldn't respond to what she just heard. She just stood there and looked at the kappa scientist in disbelief.
"So, here is what I want you to do.' Nitori continued 'I don't want to abandon the reactor, so I can't let her out of there. But I think if you were to gap away some of the fat she has accumulated every few weeks, we should be fine."
At that point Yukari couldn't take it anymore. She started yelling at Nitori.
"Let me get this straight. To get energy for yourstupid research, you kidnapped the pet of one of the most important people in hell, confined her in a cage, used her like a tool to convert energy, fed her so much that she got too fat and now you're asking ME to gap away her....her...fat so that you can continue that stupidity?"
Nitori backed away as she saw the crazy shine in Yukari's eyes.
"Hm yes, I think I get it. Yes, I will help you remove the stuff blocking your reactor."
Feelings of hope welled up inside Nitori, but then she heard Yukari's next words.
"Yes, I will remove it, and probably the rest of that facility with it. And I know just the way to do it."
She opened a gap right next to her and put her hand inside it, reaching around until she got hold of what she was searching for.
"This will teach you to not screw around with me or Gensokyo."
Nitori's eyes widened in shock as Yukari withdrew her arm from the gap. Her hand was holding what looked like a crooked metal rod with several coloured crystals hanging from it. Then Nitori saw the body of a girl attached to the rods appearing through the gap. When she could finally see the girl's eyes, she knew one thing: That girl wasn't happy to be here, and Nitori looked like a good target for her anger.............
Snaka:
Awesome! Keep it up, its getting pretty interesting. And by interesting I mean FLAN KILLING KAPPAS :D
Esifex:
Oh... CHRIST, ALMIGHTY.
Omnomnom-Okuu being all pudgied up and contentedly scarfing down more eggs is just a stupendously hilarious image.
Seian Verian:
I for one would definitely like to see this continue. (since you said for anyone that did to leave a comment)
Patorikku:
Must've really pissed Yukari off if she pulls Flan out of a gap. Remilia must be pretty pissed at this point too, letting her outta the basement...