Disclaimer: I do not own bleach. That's what Tite Kubo does, not me.

Ichigo screamed as he felt the cold, bone like mask forming over his face. Keisuke, Jinta, and Ururu looked on, ready at a moment's notice to put an end to their failing project.

Ichigo's mask had almost completely formed around his head, and he was beginning to tear out of his arm restraints. Tessai noticed this and muttered an apology to Keisuke before slamming his thick fingers into the ground.

"Bakudo number ninety-nine, type 2," His deep voice rumbled "Bankin!"

White tendrils of cloth sprouted from around Tessai and slithered their way towards Ichigo. "First Dance: Shiryuu!" Tessai yelled out. The tendrils began wrapping themselves around Ichigo in a fashion similar to mummification. They wrapped themselves around Ichigo's entire body, restricting his movement and muffling his screams of agony.

"Second Song: Hyakurensan!" Tessai yelled while 5 large needle like objects stabbed into Ichigo's mummified upper body.

Jinta recognized Tessai's intents and shouted at him, "Hey Tessai!" he called, "If you hit him with that, He'll die!"

"At this point I have no choice." Tessai answered under his breath. "I have already reached the limit of simply holding him. He must be eliminated before he becomes a Hollow!" He took a breath as he clapped his hands together for the final chant. "Final Song: Bankin Taihou!"

A Massive box materialized about 50 ft above where Ichigo's soul was quickly dying. The box began it's descent towards the Earth as Ichigo's bandages began to rip open exposing his skin underneath. The box grew closer and closer to crushing Ichigo flat until when it was barely ten feet from the top of his head. Just then, a huge, dark pulse of Reiatsu, and a bright light shot out from the bottom of the hole. In pinballed off of seemingly nothing in the air before crashing down to the Earth in a huge explosion of dust and Reiatsu.

All 4 pairs of eyes present to witness the spectacle were glued to the crater left by the object. "Oi! Orange boy, is that you?" Jinta called out, "Answer me If you're still alive!"

The only reply that Jinta got back was a piercing, red-eyed stare and a deep, terrifying howl of a soul that has lost all of it's sanity.

Keisuke looked on in pity and disappointment at the once-human creature now standing before him. It's empty red eyes stared at him through a mask of some kind of horned animal. He had an extremely muscular upper body and blood red skin with various white markings and a thick white tail tipped in red. Ichigo gave a it a predatory wag behind him as Keisuke drew his sword out from his cane.

"It seems I was wrong about you, Ichigo. " he said as his sword began to glow red "I apologize in advance for what I am about to do." Ichigo just continued to stare at him.

"Sing, Benihime!" Urahara yelled as he swung his sword. A line of red light sped towards Ichigo at breakneck speed. Ichigo's sinister red eyes widened for just a moment as he saw the beam slice it's way towards him. He narrowly dodged a fatal blow through his chest, but a chunk was taken out of his left arm.

Ichigo howled in pain as he clutched his left arm with his right. The former human stared, hating this odd man in a bucket hat and sandles that had hurt him so. At the same time a bright red ball began to from at the base of his mouth.

Urahara's eyed widened, 'A Hollow of this level shouldn't be able to make a Cero!' he thought as the red light shot towards him. He managed to react in time to dodge it, but when he looked back at Ichigo, he wasn't there. He had gone to his new home, Heuco Mundo.

Keisuke Urahara cursed as he realized his mistake. Then he realized that he had to tell Ichigo's friends about his failure. He knew he couldn't just use the memory altering spray, they were all already spiritually aware.

Today is gonna be a loooooong day.

Woah cool! After all this time reading stories on here, I actually wrote one for once! Hooray for me!

Not much happens here, half of it's straight out of the anime, but needed to set the stage. More soon, I've been kinda bored lately and this is something I've been wanting to do for a long time, but only got an idea for a short time ago. Let's see how it plays out.