9 Worth Remembering

9 Worth Remembering is a 2022 short film released on the fifth anniversary of the US/UM Massacre on November 17th 2022

It shows showing the victims as they might have been if the massacre had not occurred

Plot
It shows a party to celebrate the release of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet with all the victims, who are played by actors in order

Julie Ann Evans, would have been 17: She joins the girl’s softball team in high school and becomes their star player, she becomes a star rugby player on an all-women’s team

Carol Josephine Koll: Would have been 16, She is seen becoming a straight A student and becomes the head cheerleader.

Eva Burns, 23: Would have been 28; She and Keith marry and have two children, she works as a beautician after finishing university

Keith Johnson, 22: Would have been 27: He and Eva marry and have two children, he works as an ice cream man.

Fred Reades, 32; Woukd have been 37: Attends his daughter’s first day of middle school and even gets a picture taken with her.

Alexei Anosov, 30: Would have been 35 Becomes an anti-Kremling activist who writes a book on Russian atrocities committed by Putin which includes hundreds of testimonies.

Joseph Steven Reeve, 19: Would have been 24, Graduates from college with a master’s degree in literature and writes a novel called Lily of the Underworld

Jun Tadachi, 29: Would have been 34: He attends an acting school and has become a world famous actor and voice actor, he also visits his wife’s grave to talk to her about the new Pokémon games and tells her he’s going to voice act in Pokémon Journeys,

Masaru Takazawa, 23, Would have been 28: He would have graduated university in a degree in science and become a doctor, he specializes in helping disabled people in Japan getting better rights, becomes a disability rights activist in Japan.

After everyone is introduced, they all stand for a picture, with the camera making sounds similar to a gun cocking and Samadi’s voice (which has been done by a voice over) yelling while the eight disappear and achievements such as Jun appearing in the credits of Pokémon: Journeys and Joseph and Alexei’s books disappear and become blank, newspapers on Masaru helping schools have a better understanding of autistic people, pictures such as Keith and Eva’s wedding and their children, Fred’s picture with his 13-year old daughter, the Pokémon Ultra Sun game left on Grace’s grave and cards slowly disappear while screaming is heard in the background also done by a voiceover by the actors.

Afterwards, The room is empty, showing nothing but an empty room with no one there in the community center with a somber tone with no Pokémon Scarlet and Violet party occurring.

The message at the end read with the victims read:

”The US/UM massacre didn’t just destroy the lives of eight people who had their lives ahead but their families and the release parties thrown.

With Jun and Masaru dead and Ryu left incapacitated five years on, their release parties never happened soon after.

There has been no Sword and Shield, Let’s Go Eevee and Pikachu, Brillant Diamond and Shining Pearl and Legends: Arceus release party due to this, not even a Scarlet and Violet party.

The lives of several sets of parents, a daughter and many others have been destroyed thanks to one thoughtless action.