Title: "War of the Worlds"
Fandom: Bleach
Characters: most of Gotei 13 executives
Rating: PG
Word Count: 256
Time: 10 minutes
Disclaimer: Bleach not mine. Neither is "War of the Worlds", the book or the movies.

The First Division mobilized the Gotei 13 into action. They didn't even try with an explanation.

Soi Fong treated it no different than any Hollow threat and ordered her ninjas around just as coldly and efficiently.

Gin smiled. Kira watched in awe as they very carefully skirted him in the path of destruction.

Unohana and the rest of the Fourth Division set up for a long, hard fight.

Hinamori would have been scared, but taichou was right there with her, so everything would be just fine.

"Taichou, it's…"

"Yes, Renji."

The energy beams made Komamura's fur stand up. They put static in Iba's sunglasses. The Seventh was mad.

Kyouraku took one glance at them and decided that maybe Nanao was right about cutting down on the sake.

Tousen didn't quite understand what all the panic about the new Hollows was and Hisagi could never quite figure out how to explain it.

Matsumoto made jokes that they must be very short to be compensating this much, while Hitsugaya glowered.

Zaraki spit on the ground, raised his sword, and laughed, while Yachiru bounced happily about the new challenge.

Mayuri and Nemu pulled out their scalpels. Scalpels are fun and good for everything.

"Well, let's mobilize," said Ukitake tiredly.

Sentarou and Kiyone had already jumped up and run out to see which could carry out their captain's request first.

Rukia just stared for a minute.

"There're alien… attacking… in big tripod monsters with laser beams."

"Yes."

"Just making sure I was clear on that, taichou."

Ukitake coughed. They won.