AN: Yo. Been...too fuckin long hasn't it? Yes it has. Well I'm back and I'm kickin off my return with yet another rehashing of spirit rise to Azeroth. I said I put a lot of work into the last version but I was wrong. I left out a whole lot that would have been great additions. I believe I've fixed that mistake in this version. It also helps that Bleach has progressed since I last did anything with this fic, allowing for more interesting concepts to be added. I think yall will be pleased with this final FINAL version of this promising, (According to others) Bleach wow crossover.

Hope you guys still like me enough to read my stuff again. haha

Enjoy

Chapter one

Memoirs of Kings and Gods

*Captain commander Isshin Kurosaki*

…"They came, shortly after what is now dubbed the Thousand Year Blood War..."

"No..."

"That isn't quite right."

"They came just before the conclusion."

"In truth, we probably could have seen them coming if we weren't so completely wrapped up in our conflict. The Quincy, a race of monk-like archers clad in white and wielding powers on par with some of the strongest hollows and Shinigami had invaded the Soul society and the Soul King's realm, seeking revenge for their Genocide at the hands of Genryusai Yamamoto one thousand years ago. Their leader, a man named Juha Bach, led the Quincy against the Shinigami, his power so vast that he may as well have been considered a God. In fact I believe he was a god, or something very close to it, a natural born transcendent. He gave birth to the Quincy race and sought to use his people as pawns to slay the Soul King...the very balance of the world."

"He succeeded."

"We were to stop him."

"But we were too late."

"And as the Soul king died, and the world around us crumbled away, it was my son and his friends that fought that…god. It was they who engaged the Quincy King as we tried to fix the world."

"The demons came just as the battle hit its climax. They interfered with the battle between Juha'Bach and my son, causing both to change in ways that would forever alter the course of destiny for our very world. But we wouldn't know of any of that until sometime later, as the interference caused by the demons also caused Juha'Bach and Ichigo to vanish without a trace. And at the same time, they rained down upon the earth, assaulting the Humans in a tidal wave of invasion and attack. Garganta, Senkaimon and the hellgate were hijacked soon after, and blown open, allowing the demons to move across all realms, unrestricted, and allowing for the beings that dwell within those realms to move just as freely. The resulting interactions were disastrous. Our species were not meant to coexist. The six of us were not meant to interact with each other so…freely. Our conflicting reishi alone supercharged the air with unstable energy. Then there was the countless generations of hatred built up between certain species."

"Chaos and war spread quickly across the realms enveloping all in a nightmare more disastrous than world war one and two combined."

"The demons took advantage of that. Our conflicting races were quickly becoming like the ancient tribes of Africa and North America, divided and vulnerable and easy to conquer."

"We were on the verge of annihilation."

"Then came our wake up call."

"It came about two years after the demons invaded. The planet was already mostly a devastated battleground. But when the demons began actively targeting the cycle of rebirth, the very life blood and spirit of the planet and all birthed on its surface, we all began to see just how serious this threat was."

"But it was nearly too late. We almost lost…everything."

"The cycle of rebirth, as if angered by any being's arrogant attempts to steal its essence away, and already unstable as it was by the breaching of the barriers between the realms and the lack of the pillar that was the soul king, exploded forth from beneath the surface of the planet in a violent display of power that devastated everything. Huecho mundo, Soul Society, Hell…Those realms ceased to exist. Anything or anybody that happened to be in those realms at the time were broken down into spirit energy along with them, save for the fragments that were lucky enough to transfer to earth instead, such as the city of Seireitei and the will of hell."

"The rest of Earth seemed to crack open like and egg and energy blew across the whole planet, devastating entire populations. Whole countries vanished in an instant and the death cries of millions of souls colored the air for days, and the realities of living and dead blended together, never to be the same again, and the demon invasion was nearly wiped out completely, leaving an eerie null silence that lasted an entire month."

"After that, when the cycle of rebirth seemed to stabilize, becoming a free flowing river of colorful energy that flowed across the sky and through the planet itself, we called a truce. We had to. The planet…our peoples… We could NOT take another blow like that again. So we held a council. We called a gathering of leaders and we had to iron out a truce. The protection of the cycle of rebirth became our only priority."

"I went as the representative of the Shinigami group I was with. All other suitable candidates either refused or had been killed during what we call the great upsurge. And many of us had scattered to the four corners of the world, wandering with no purpose. And my son had been missing for two years since his fight with Juha Bach."

"Looking back it is actually quite shocking the people that showed up that day. Every race had been dealt a massive blow and like everyone else they had been splintered and scattered across the globe. It seemed the strongest or most charismatic people had been selected to represent their people at the gathering. There were also a lot of lone wanderers that showed up. It was also shocking just how many of my Son's friends were there. I saw Sado-San and that Arrancar hoodlum with blue hair, that misguided traitor Uryu. Tatsuki was there with the human President, and many more individuals were present. People here representing the groups they had been a part of. And then, to my utter shock, I saw my daughter, sweet Yuzu. She stood there, looking so different than I remember. Her appearance was completely foreign. But I knew it was her. I didn't think she was alive! I had lost track of both she and Karin when the demons came. I had returned to Karakura as soon as I'd heard but it was already too late. The city was a demon infested hovel and any sign of human life anywhere was long gone and I had no choice but to give up on seeing them again. What a fool I'd been. My spawn are made of tough stuff. They'd survived. Seeing Yuzu proved it and caused happiness and hope to explode forth in my very soul."

"But I had a job to do. Yuzu could wait a few more hours. I cast out all emotion and sat there, as we ironed out the terms for a non-agression pact. We had A LOT of work to do. The demons had held dominion over half of the world before the cycle of rebirth nearly wiped them all out. There were pockets of survivors though and it was up to us to unite against those survivors and to forge something once again. So as we concluded our meeting, we set out to do just that…"

*Will of Hell Yuzu Kurosaki*

"I had changed."

"There was no denying that. I knew even before I saw my father again for the first time in two years that I was a vastly different person than I had been before all of this went down. I was…harder, more closed off, less caring of the well-being of others. I have seen the horrors people are capable of inflicting upon others. I witnessed countless atrocities at the hands of those of other groups even before the demons had gotten to me. So I gave up trying to... make nice with others."

"It was about one year after the demons invaded and blew open the gates to the afterlife, when the small group I was travelling with came under attack by a squad of Quincies. I was Human then. Or I thought I was. I had no evidence of any sort of spiritual power. Unlike Ichi-Nii, Karin-Chan or my father, I was as normal and powerless as one could get.

They swept down upon us without mercy and without any warning, utterly gleeful at the slaughter they were committing. We tried to fight, even managed to take a few of them down, but we were just too weak. They killed everyone down to the last woman and child, leaving only me as the lone survivor for the moment. And as I witnessed death slowly approaching me, something finally snapped. I felt a deep hatred suddenly burst forth from the very center of my soul. I cursed my Human existence. I cursed my inherent weakness, hated my powerlessness and loathed being the only one in my family too helpless to do anything!"

"Something suddenly awakened inside me."

"A power unlike anything I'd ever felt before suddenly exploded out like a geyser, bathing the area in golden, red light, fueled by my intense emotion. I watched in shock as a large circular puddle of what looked like boiling blood suddenly appeared at my feet, and from it a massive monster with an elongated skull and glowing yellow eyes crawled out of the portal and descended upon the Quincy like a ravenous beast. I thrummed with spiritual power. It guided my body and told me how to direct this creature."

"Drunk on my sudden power I surrendered myself to it and allowed my instincts to take over."

"And when I came to there was nothing left of my attackers. There were only the monsters. There were at least two dozen of them. They stood around me in a circle, staring so intensely, gathered around me as if waiting for something until finally, the one I had summoned, stepped forward. It seemed to say something to the others before it reached for me."

"I panicked of course but there was no need. The monsters all suddenly broke apart into golden spirit particles and flowed into me. And as I gasped at the sudden surge of power I suddenly came to know what these things were and what I was truly destined to be. The knowledge of what these beings original purpose was, and why it was that I seemed to be so able to channel their power and to bond with them."

"I became something more than a Togabito that day, but not quite a transcendent. I became the embodiment of the will of hell. The Kushanada I had learned, were lost without their purpose, traversing the world combating the demons that invaded our world while at the same time looking for Ichi-Nii so that they could give him their strength and entrust him with the legacy of the hell verse. But when they couldn't find him, they sought someone else, someone who has the potential to become something more, someone who has prior experience with the hell verse. When I awoke my power, they flocked to me instantly. I didn't know it at the time but I was a hybrid already tainted by hell. I was a being perfectly suited to taking on foreign energies and making them my own. I had already done so during my brief stint as a prisoner in hell so that made me the perfect candidate for the job."

"I spent the next year wandering the planet wreaking havoc upon the invading demons until the Cycle of rebirth tried to stabilize itself by bursting out from the planet and utterly wiping out millions of lives in an instant…"

"So yes…"

"When this…gathering was called forth in order to discuss rebuilding our shattered lives and keeping enemy hands off of the cycle of rebirth, I set out to attend."

"I knew I had changed."

"I didn't need to see my father's shocked and pained look to tell me that. Nor did I need him to say as much when we finally were able to get some time to catch up."

"It was really good to see him though."

*Hollow King Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez*

"Never thought I'd ever actually say this shit, but my respect for the humans became greater than the respect I had for anything else, as little as that may be."

"From the day of that gathering to right now, they have continued to outshine the rest of us when it comes to accomplishments."

"They were the first to unite. They were the first to reclaim a land and they were the first to build themselves a new nation. It took ten years for the rest of us to do what they did. It took them only five."

"As a Hollow, it stung to be so outshined by such a weak species. The human race is prey. They were fodder for those with real strength. That is what my instincts told me. But I knew better. The Human race didn't grow to become the dominant living species on earth for no reason. They'd EARNED their place at the top of the food chain. And on top of that, a couple of Kurosaki's friends were at the helm of the human race, advising the one called the President. It really was no surprise the humans rebuilt so quickly."

"Those sinners were next behind the humans to rebuild. Under the command of an extraordinarily powerful young woman whose name no one would learn for years, the Togabito claimed the lower half of South America and turned it into their domain. I've never been to hell. I'd heard stories of it of course and even seen a few depictions of what one would think Hell was. But I gotta say whatever images those fools thought were clever depictions were absolutely nothing compared to what that girl turned those jungles into."

"The Shinigami reclaimed the Seireitei. Apparently, when the cycle of rebirth destroyed and absorbed the essences of the other realms, bits and pieces were able to escape and were somehow relocated to the world of the living. The ancestral home of the Shinigami had been turned into a bastion of demon infestation floating in the skies above the remains of the continent of Australia. Kurosaki's father led the remains of his people in a conquest raid that lasted almost a full month. Little details are known but the demons were there trying to unearth something powerful buried beneath the streets of Seireitei. Knowing the Shinigami, it was probably a prisoner of some kind, wrongfully captured or some kind of ancient artifact that had no business existing. Kurosaki wouldn't divulge more than that. Not that I really gave a shit."

"The fullbringers, a name I still think is seriously fucking stupid for a species by the way, claimed Japan. The island nation was a wasteland when those Human Hollow hybrids got to it, and more than a third of it was permanently suspended in the air as if by magic, but they'd rebuilt more and more of it each year until nearly all of the island had some kind of city or town on it. And yet another one of Kurosaki's friends led this group to prosperity. Yasatora Sado was there when the demons blindsided Kurosaki and that Quincy bastard. He'd been one of the only two survivors of that ambush. And since that little Shinigami bitch seemed to vanish somewhere way down south, only he was able to give any sort of pertinent info on that event. It's just too damn bad he didn't feel inclined to give anyone any information, saying, 'What does it matter now? Ichigo will return I'm sure.' Bastard knew something, but I let it drop. I still curse myself though for runnin off after that cowardly prick of a Quincy during that battle."

"The Quincy moved up north, creating a massive frozen bastion upon the arctic ice cap, or should I say islands now, seeing as more than half of the ice up there had melted away, leaving behinds several frozen islands of ice instead of a massive ice cap. I really didn't care too much about the Quincy. Before all of this other shit, they'd been one hell of a major ass problem for everyone. My instincts as a Hollow used to scream at me to teach them their place for even daring to invade Huecho Mundo but I suppressed it. Wasn't worth the drama."

"And finally there were the Hollows."

"I hadn't paid attention until that moment, but looking back, ever since the great upsurge, Hollows seemed to have disappeared. And now that I was actively setting out to gather em I was at a loss."

"What the fuck happened to them all?"

"That also explained why I was the only hollow to show up at the gathering. Don't ask me why I fuckin bothered to go. Most would assume I'd be the last person to go to a conference that wanted to discuss peace and love and all of that hippie shit, but I'm not a fuckin moron okay? I knew how important it was for us to do this thing. I, just like everyone else at that damn meeting had seen the world nearly tear itself apart trying to ward off the parasite leaching off of its life force. I am not a mindless beast. I care about the survival of the world just as much as anyone else. It is my home as well god dammit!"

"But for me to be the only one? No…something wasn't right…"

*Commander and Chief Yasatora Sado*

"My respect for Grimmjow went up by leaps and bounds when I saw him at the gathering. He had changed over the last couple years. That much was obvious. There was a certain hardness to him that wasn't there before all of this. He stood there amongst a group of hundreds, the only Hollow in attendance and he commanded the respect of those around him. It was also shocking to see him as well, considering the noticeable absence of Hollow kind anywhere."

"That was the last I'd see of him for a long time."

"He vanished right after. I had intended to offer him a place with my kind. It was painfully obvious that Hollows had disappeared. For all anyone knew Grimmjow was the last of his kind, but he went missing right after the ceasefire was solidified and I never got the chance to make the offer."

After that I turned my sights to my…species. It is still hard for me to consider myself anything other than human. But it became more and more obvious over the years that Fullbringers and Humans were so very different. We began to change more and more as our bodies adjusted to the very potent reishi free flowing through the air. We started gaining certain physical aspects that very clearly separated us from the human race. Our bodies became sturdier, our eyes took on a glow, and our hair transformed from actual hair to whispy spiritual energy that took on the shape of our hair but flowed around as if always underwater. And in quite a few more extreme cases, even body parts transformed, becoming limbs constructed purely from condensed, transparent reishi. And this was before you include the diverse aspects of our fullbrings."

"I, like grimmjow arrived at the gathering alone, but unlike grimmjow, there were quite a few other fullbringers there as well. It was fascinating seeing the different clans that had sprang up. Already there were cultural differences and traditions. It makes sense though. Some of us were from opposite ends of the earth. I approached them and we wasted no time. I led them to the remains of Japan where we settled and began to rebuild. I didn't tell them exactly why I brought them here but they got the gist. They knew I was waiting for someone. Ichigo, when he returned would return to where Karakura used to be, looking for his family and I intended to be there for him. Perhaps I would help him locate his family. I already knew where Isshin was and there was something extremely familiar about that Togabito girl."

"So we built, reached out across the world to our wayward kin and guided them to a new home, and all the while I sat upon the seat of a leadership I didn't even know I was on until it was too late to try and contest it and I awaited the return of my best friend…"

*President Uryu Ishida*

"The world transformed. The changes were subtle at first, unnoticed because at the time we were so focused on our own survival and so busy we were with the rebuilding of our societies that we didn't notice that the earth was changing just as much as we were."

"But once the rush of building up and maintaining a new homeland had dimmed, we took notice almost immediately. The massive amounts of spiritual power blanketing the earth changed the very nature of the planet itself, fueled along by the cycle of rebirth. I watched over the course of ten years, as the Earth transformed into a wonder straight out of a fantasy novel. Dimly glowing forests, floating islands, transformed and spiritually empowered animals…Earth was reborn, revitalized and enhanced. Like the denizens who had survived the harrowing trials brought forth by the demons, Earth too had evolved and grown stronger. It changed from an ailing planet into a primordial world of spiritual power that sat in between the borders of life and death itself. The cycle of rebirth colored the skies, no longer unbalanced. It lit up the skies day and night, illuminating parts of the world with shifting colors. For the first time in my life I had simply stared up at the night sky and admired the stars and the river of spiritual energy. The beauty overwhelmed me and I came to value our world like no other. I would protect it…We would protect it. And without the tainted influence of Juha Bach or the twisted freaks that were his Sternritter, I would be able to lead the Quincy back into the right path and remind them of our proud heritage. We would redeem ourselves. I would redeem myself. My original goal may not have been realized, but I now had a new one."

"Unfortunately, the growing peace was not to last…"

*Hogyoku Shinigami Transcendent Aizen Sousuke*

"The concept of time is woefully absent down in mugen."

"But I suppose I was aware enough to know that it had been over a decade since I had been imprisoned there. Although, it's not like I was ignorant. I knew more than anyone would ever be able to guess for a long time. I am a Transcendent, and after the world went ahead and completely altered itself, I came to realize that as a transcendent I was the closest thing to a god this world has ever had with the exception of the soul king. And as a god, I was far more connected to the world than anyone else would ever know, except perhaps Ichigo Kurosaki."

"I witnessed the merging of the realms and knew the taint the invaders brought with them. Heh, I even felt them as they occupied the Seireitei, trying to break into my prison in a hopeless bid to obtain my power. I also felt when the cycle of rebirth wiped out nearly everything trying to stabilize, resulting in the invasion being stopped in its tracks for a while, until they returned."

"And of course I felt that too."

"They came en masse this time. There was no subjugating of humans or hollows, and forcing them to open portals to their realm so that they could sneak in. No not this time. Instead they came here with an armada with numbers even I couldn't fathom and they rained down upon the planet. I felt the disturbances in the air as the planet itself suddenly stirred into action and I chuckled in amusement as the societies that had sprang up rallied together to combat this invasion. At that time I wished I could have at least witness this conflict in person. These…aliens are interesting in their arrogant boldness. I'd have thought they'd learned their lesson the last time they came. But they'd apparently had assumed we'd still be the divided savages they'd come after the first time, and that they had counter measures in case they destabilized the cycle of rebirth again. Oh how wrong they were, because this time they didn't have the advantage of having the beings all fighting against each other. The people would fight with a zealous attitude to protect the planet and the cycle of rebirth, and they would succeed. So I was not all that worried about them. As surprising as one would be at my sentiment, I knew the planet was in safe hands. And if not, well…I too enjoy the world I live upon even if only slightly."

"And I knew the demons would come for me again. I simply had to bide my time."

"I was kind of surprised when not even a few days after that thought, one of the invaders suddenly stepped out of a corrupted senkaimon gate and into my prison. He was a horrid looking thing, tall and heavily built, with ash grey skin and sharp facial features. He was a horned demon looking creature with massive bat-like wings and goat legs. His eyes registered surprise at seeing me, as if not expecting a living creature to be sealed down here. This led me to the accurate conclusion that he and the rest of his kind was under the assumption that I was some kind of artifact of power. Technically I was if you wanted to account for the hogyoku. Not that it mattered in his eyes, as he smirked and started talking."

"You know? After being on the receiving end of a gloating fool with a lot of power and misplaced arrogance, I kind of felt a bit of sympathy for all those I had faced off against in the past. It was annoying, listening to him speak of how the burning legion was going to drain this world dry and harness the vast power of the cycle of rebirth and the reishi that comes with it, and about how the fools of this world were idiots to have me so restrained and easy for the taking. I just sat there and endured his drivel, waiting for him to make his move, knowing what he was planning on doing next and smirking at the foolishness of his actions. Not that he had a choice. Certain actions had to be taken if he wished to transport me after all. So I waited."

"I wasn't disappointed."

"This…dreadlord, as he called himself, it turns out, was a survivor of the raid that Kurosaki Isshin and the scattered remains of the Shinigami had done on the Seireitei. He was powerful, impressively so. This was further evidenced by the fact that he pulled the preserved body of Kyoraku from seemingly nowhere and began to undo the locks to my prison that were engraved into his very body. All the while he talked and gloated, already looking to the future as he bragged about the many rewards his masters would grant him."

"I did nothing as he released my restraints only to immediately place new ones upon me, shackling my ankles and my wrists and drawing runes to my neck that actually worked in a similar way to Zaraki's eyepatch. I felt the symbols latch onto and try and contain my reiatsu and I chuckled internally as I suppressed my power in an illusion of containment. I was interested in what they had planned for me, so I allowed myself to be escorted to their main base of operations."

"Only after I'd gleaned all useful information from these beings would I show them the power of a Transcendent. It's been close to twelve years since I'd seen the outside world. I was going to have so much fun… "

*Alpha Tatsuki Arisawa*

"Before any of us knew it, we were once again locked in battle with these invading demons. Only this time they seemed to be going all out. This was NOTHING like the previous invasion! And that's saying a lot, considering it was essentially a seven-way war. Sure we had thought we were prepared, and truthfully we were."

"We just weren't prepared at first for the numbers in which they'd come this time. We were caught off guard and as a result, all of us lost numerous small towns and villages that had been starting up. The demons brought their A-game this time around it seemed. They brought machines and monsters. They brought massive floating fortresses that seemed to constantly spew forth more and more demons for us to fight. And they started building gateways to some of their already conquered worlds in order to bring even more terrifying monstrosities and conquered, twisted alien races. And on top of all that, they were beginning to get better and better at absorbing the reishi in the air. The demons were getting close, too close to achieving the means to tapping directly into the cycle of rebirth."

"Obviously this just wasn't gonna fly. So we too stepped up. And since we were no longer killing each other, the demons found a much, much harder fight than they'd had the first time around."

"In four short years, the whole world was at war. It was like a scene from an action, fantasy movie. Fighter jets and helicopters zigzagged across the sky chasing down fast moving fliers and bombarding floating fortresses. Quincy and Shinigami zipped across the sky, massive clashes of kido and magic lit up the night and evening skies. It was a hellish warzone that purged the weak in no time at all by either killing them off or making them stronger. And it made those, strong already, even stronger."

"I found myself fighting alongside long time former enemies. I no longer cared who stood at my side, as long as they were on the side that protected Earth."

"War has a funny way of changing people. Entire countries have changed policy of ways of life because of war. I transformed from a High school tomboy to a hardened survivor, then once again into a top class general capable of leading thousands in battle. It's humbling and terrifying and…exhilarating all at the same time."

The human race was a mere fraction of what it once had been. And never had they ever had to share the planet with another sentient being. We as a whole are not used to not being the top dog…the ONLY dog in the yard. But we'd accepted and adjusted to this new world. We moved on, ignored the other five races and we focused on rebuilding something for ourselves. Our species is the pinnacle of evolution. We altered the environment to suit OUR needs, or we changed ourselves to suit the environment. This was no different, and we came out stronger for it. So when the demons came again, we launched ourselves to the battle field, ready and knowledgeable. We were the commanders. We were the generals and we were the leaders of the earth. The others rallied behind us. It didn't matter that we were the "weakest" species." They followed our lead because we had proven to them all that we were capable of doing so…"

"Perhaps that's why the demons targeted our country first."

"They brought it from another world obviously, from a rather particular portal they'd erected a few hundred miles south of our border. I didn't know or care about why this portal in particular was so heavily guarded, or why the feel of the energy coming from it wasn't tainted like all the others. All I know is that the creatures they brought from there and unleashed upon our nation would forever alter our destiny…"

"I don't want to say what it was, because it just sounds ridiculous, but I have to. They threw werewolves at us. And before we even knew what was happening, nearly a third of us had been infected. The curse swept through the nation! It devoured us all, there was no escape! The Human race crumbled. We were forced to pull out of the war, to shut down or borders. We just couldn't…we could fight the demons and ourselves at the same time."

"I remember my last thoughts as my human mind began to fade away and be replaced by pure murderous instinct."

"I will return! This shit won't break us!"

"Ichigo….wait…wait for….Awwwwwoooooo!"

*Demon Hollow Transcendent Ichigo Kurosaki*

"For years I floated, stuck in a cage, my power bound and sealed while horrific images of entire civilizations being viciously decimated assaulted my mind."

"For years I endured the torment, fought against the foreign presence trying to subjugate my will and character and the tainted energy of this realm trying to twist my body into something horrific."

"But even I had a breaking point."

"It lasted only moments, but it was enough to bring about changes that'd never fade away."

"While I was in that…prison I was unable to do anything except pound away and struggle against the bars of the cage. I had no idea what the hell happened. How the hell had they even managed to seal my power? Let alone Juha'Bach's? They tossed the two of us into this cage designed to hold us hostage and flood our bodies with tainted energy and mind control tricks. They wanted to break us down, crush our spirits and remake us into something they could use, like attack dogs. I marveled at the Quincy emperor at this time. He seemed completely unaffected. He just sat there, looking so much like the false Zangetsu, meditating. I knew he was being assaulted with images too. But I doubted he was seeing the same things I was seeing and a doubted he even cared about what he was seeing."

I lost track of time. My sense of direction was sent askew, hell I didn't even have energy or time to talk. One slip in concentration and my mind would be overwhelmed. It was a never ending cycle that would have broken anyone far sooner. I fought and I fought and I fought some more until finally, even my resolve gained a small crack."

"It was one simple thought, one sentence spoken in my head. It came and went as quickly as a flash of light, but the mere microsecond it was there, everything changed forever…"

"I'm not sure I can keep this up any longer."

"That's all I had thought. That's it. There was no sudden, despair ridden exclamation of my desire to give up. There was no sudden snapping of my mind. No…it was simply an exhausted muttering…."

"But it was solid proof of my weakening state."

"It was enough to cause the slightest hole to open up in my resolve."

"The tainted energy pounced on that one little chink, as if alive and overwhelmed my entire body in an instant. Liquid fire coursed through my veins as I finally succumbed to the twisting nether…"

"I'm going to start out by saying that what happened next was similar to what happened while I was fighting Aizen's various transformations. There seemed to be a lull as I sat there frozen in a silent scream under the inquisitive gaze of Juha'Bach, before suddenly everything happened all at once. The energy latched onto my soul, congregating there like a leech and embedding itself within the deepest part of my very being. It gathered there in increasing amounts, rapidly building and building until finally a breaking point was reached. My reiatsu, even contained, did not take kindly to this invader. It surged to that point as well in an attempt to purge the taint…"

"The following explosion of power ripped through the binds containing my spiritual energy. A primal scream tore from my throat as the energy coalesced upon my body and bathed the area I occupied in a triad of colors. I felt my body transform as my ancestral traits, Hollow, Shinigami and Quincy, all exploded forth to the surface only to fuse with the energy gathering in my soul from the twisting nether. It was like nothing I'd ever felt before. I couldn't stop it. I couldn't even stall it for a second to try and get my bearings! All I could do was wait it out. The whole transformation took about fifty seconds. It was quick and destructive. And when it was all over, I rose up, a new man…a new being. It was something akin to my final getsuga tenshou transformation with a few very obvious additions that I wouldn't notice until I looked into a mirror. This form was stronger though…darker and permanent. I marveled at myself examining the parts that I could see and stood in wonder at the sheer amount of power I could feel."

"And then I had a sudden realization."

"I was free of my binds…and I was still myself. The corrupting voices that had been in the back of my mind since the first second I'd landed in this realm were simply gone. The…burning legion had bestowed upon me all of this power…but never thought to make sure it would remain in their control. My reiatsu overwhelmed whatever it was that was threatening to subjugate my will and left only the benefits of this new power. Adrenalin surged through my veins and my energy thrummed with the vengeful excitement I suddenly felt as I prepared to rip a hole back to earth. And that is when I noticed Juha'Bach standing there."

*Soul King Quincy Transcendent Juha'Bach*

"I waited patiently for Kurosaki Ichigo to realize his potential as we sat here within our combined prison. I knew it'd only be a matter of time. I watched as the boy fought with his every being to hold back the energies of this realm as they tried to taint his body and soul. I watched as his mind resisted, like an immovable wall, the subtle voices trying to muddle his ideals and character, and twist him into a puppet. He lasted years. It was absurdly impressive."

"But I knew it was only a matter of time. The boy would break, but in doing so, would finally take his place as a Transcendent, a being closest to a true god this world has ever had. I saw what this energy wanted to do to him, to the both of us. It was undoubtedly a very tempting source of power, but I had just absorbed the essence of the soul King when I was placed here. I was still in the process of stabilizing and settling into that power. It is the only reason they were able to capture me."

"But I didn't have the desire to try and tame two sources of power at the same time, and I didn't desire to have any of that tainted energy flowing inside me. I had no need for it, had no desire to become some kind of demon."

"But Kurosaki was perfect for this energy. I saw his reishi purging the negative effects of the energy as it assaulted him, changing it to suit the needs of its master without his knowledge. I simply waited for it all to come to a head until the moment came, and I was suddenly facing the end product of that buildup."

"So…what happens now?"

"Ichigo's question came in guarded, slightly hostile, wary tones as his glowing burgundy eyes stared directly into mine. It was understandable, considering our rather…shaky past relationship, but I wasn't about to let the past play a role in what was to come next. The two of us spent the last sixteen years together. Sure we didn't talk much but one tends to come to understand a person after that amount of time. And even if we never really were destined to become friends, we could become kindred spirits in our desire to pay our…captors back a hundred fold for the indignity they'd handed us."

"But I knew there was still a chance that Ichigo wouldn't care about any of that. Not quite yet, when he could simply solve one of his problems then and there. I was still bound. He'd never have a better chance to kill me. I saw him struggle internally with his decision before he finally gave a deep sigh and flooded my body and my bindings with energy, shattering those restraints and allowing for my power to finally burst out, unrestrained."

"Come on," he said. "I'm sure you know that we got more important things to worry about now."

"I chuckled as a portal began to open before the two of us, revealing a world engulfed in war. Several different types of energies assaulted my senses, filling me with a sense of wonder at what I was seeing and feeling. Just how changed had the world become?"

"Heh, 'I don't care about the same things that you do Ichigo Kurosaki,' I told him."

"But you no longer have to worry about me."

"I pretended not to notice the slightly relived smile he sent my way as we prepared to return to our home…"

"Whatever had imprisoned us and attacked the world would learn to fear the monsters they'd awakened."

AN: Boom! And here it is. I hope you all liked it. Tell me what ya thought. Hmm this is the longest chapter of any fic I've written in years lol.