"This is the end!" the blackened figure screamed, "This world, and Soul Society, will becom- OH SWEET YAHWEH WHAT WAS THAT?" A silver arrowhead protruded out of the King's chest, and behind him stood Urdu, resplendent in the light of his bow and torn Quincy raiment.
"It was a plot device," the younger Quincy spoke, "one that had never been seen or heard of before. Utterly invisible to even your eyes, oh Yhwach."
"The man sputtered, rising into the air to escape his foes in his now weakened state. Ichigo quickly followed. "Bu-but how?"
"It was all in the power you gave me, Yhwach. Born of your own soul. My ability was never the 'The Antithesis', but rather something much, much greater. 'The Anti-Climax.'"
"Fuck!" Yhwach roared, dodging and weaving away from Ichigo's ascending form. "Uh, wait a-, ah yes. So what if you managed to stop my powers for just an instant?"
"Because I can do this!" Ichigo roared back, swinging his blade.
"Ah, swing your sword at me. Very original," Yhwach replied, reaching out to grab the razor edge of Zangetsu. The white edges crumbled, leaving...
"Wait, was your Shikai your Bankai all along?"
"How should I know?" Ichigo screamed, cutting him in half.
"Well, shit." Yhwach murmured, "I probably should have seen this coming. Anyways, to the future!"
"Wait, what?" Ichigo asked, confused.
"Well you see, I'm going to the future to reappear when you're happiest and- wait, no, shit."
"Hmm?"
"Dammit, a child touched me. Gross. I'm out, see you guys never. Thanks for wrecking the future, Ichigo."
"Anytime?"
The black mist dissipated.
"Well, that was a whole thing." Ichigo looked around. Man, this place needed some serious cleaning up.
"Well done, Kurosaki Ichigo." He tensed at that voice, approaching from the side. "The Quincy King has finally been defeated."
"...and what are your plans now, Aizen?"
"I'm going to return to prison and wait out the rest of my sentence."
Ichigo blinked. "But...why?"
"Because you'll never know if it's part of some deeper, malevolent scheme." With that, Aizen walked away laughing maniacally and mumbling some bullshit about 'courage'.
"Ichigo!" Uryu and Inoue and Rukia and Renji and many, many others were running up to him, and there was much congratulations and many offscreen heartfelt moments.
"It's finally over," a deep voice from behind them rumbled.
"Chad! Where the hell have you been?"
"Punching people for money. It's my thing now."
"Makes sense. Guess it's time to go home now?" Ichigo looked around at his gathered friends.
"We'll probably have to stay here and help with the cleanup," Rukia said, grousing a little, "but don't worry, I'm sure no character arc endings will happen while you're out."
"Sounds good to me. Alright, let's head out!"
"Wait, Kurosaki, did you ever get the other two parts of your soul back?" Ishida chimed in, feeling that that might be important.
Ichigo blinked again. "I knew I was forgetting something," he mumbled. "Oh well, it's not like we talked much anyway."
Hah! You've all been fooled, and this was exactly how the series ended!/div
