Inoue sat in the white sofa that composed most of the furniture in her room in Las Noches, looking down at the barred window from where the moonlight entered she taught of her friends and everything that had brought her to her current situation, her eyes fell to the red carpet on the floor as she felt a knock at the door.
"I'm coming in." announced a very familiar voice, the voice of the one who originally brought her to such a place
Inoue quickly sat up and faced the door, as Ulquiorra Cifer opened the door his cold eyes meet hers causing her to instinctively look down and wait for him to speak.
"Lord Aizen has called for a meeting with the Espada, and he wishes for you to be present also. I've come to bring you to him." he said
She gave him a quick nod and started walking out of her chambers with the Espada following after her, as they made their way to the conference room a more unpleasant voice graced them standing up against a wall, accompanied by his ever loyal Fracción, Nnoitra Gilga the taller Espada gave the woman a sick grin that made her look away in both fear and disgust, seemingly satisfied with her reaction Nnoitra directed his words towards his fellow Espada.
"Taking your pet out for a walk are you?" he asked
Ulquiorra like always didn't reply and signalling the woman to follow him, finally they made it to the meting room it was a bast hall with a small table in the middle surrounded by eleven chairs, one for each Espada and the final one for their lord. Before they had arrived others were already seated, seemingly asleep was Coyote Starrk, on another chair was Szayelaporro Granz, Inoue noticed that the pink haired Espada seemed rather excited for the meeting. Her escort took his seat, but as he did so Cifer noticed that Inoue was visibly lost on where she should be for the meeting.
"You'll stand at my side." Ulquiorra replied
"Alright..." she answered, shyly going to the right side of his chair
Slowly all Espada arrived, and then Aizen and the two other former-Shinigami, he took his seat at the table with normal confident smile he looked around at his Espada, his eyes fell on the human for a short while, noticing that she bowed her head at this, he felt rather amused by this.
"My dear Espada, I welcome you all to this meeting. Before we actually begin I would like for Szayelaporro Granz to fill you in on the situation." he announced in a pleasant tone as the projector in the center of the table lit up
The scientist took a more formal stance in his seat with one gesture he fixed the position of his "glasses" so he could begin to speak of what had him so excited.
"Well, for quite some time now I've been perfecting our Garganta generating technology and thanks to the power of the Hōgyoku we have finally created a stable pathway between our dimension and another universe..." he preparing to continue his triumphant speech when Aizen interrupted
"Very good Granz. Since then we have already sent a team to determine what interest it could hold for us and this is what they return with." he continued, looking at the projector which now displayed a blue glowing cube
"The Tesseract, apparently a source of great power. But this was not the only interesting thing they found." with these words the projected images shifted from the object to several different being, one of them was wearing some kind of metallic armor, another was a blonde man in armor and cape with an hammer at hand and finally the other was split into the picture of a man and a green giant
"Apparently this world while Shinigami free, does present some type of anomalies..." he continued when Grimmjow interrupted
"What's with the green guy?"
"A human who can transform into that creature, and from what we know it should not be taken lightly. But also him..." the projector now showed the blonde man in combat armor
"An Asgardian, like those described in the old Shinigami writings, also not to be taken lightly in case of encounter." he made a small pause, to see the reaction of his subordinates to this new information
"Now the reason of this meeting, I'm going to send out a team to, if possible, bring back the Tesseract and gain information on these individuals, it wont be a failure if the extraction isn't successful and killing is not an option. Also there is the problem of if these beings have the ability to actually sense and see the team, that is why I've tasked Granz with developing devices that will make you visible to the normal eye when you arrive at your destination, just to be certain that the combat data is viable." he continued looking at the scientist during the final sentence
"Two Espada will make up this team..." he made another pause, his calculative eyes filtered through his Espadas
"...Ulquiorra, I want you to lead the team." he announced
"Yes sir." the Espada replied with a small nod
"And...Grimmjow will accompany you."
"What!? I'm not going anywhere with him!" the sixth Espada growled in reply
"Be sensible about the situation Grimmjow, ever since you recovered your arm, you've yet to be in a combat situation and let's not forget you seemed quit interested in that creature." Aizen replied in his usual calculated tone
The sixth Espada simply frowned in response acknowledging defeat and accepting his mission, the next one to speak was Granz.
"Excuse me Lord Aizen, but I believe that I should go, since all of this is possible because of my genius..." his protest immateriality stopped when Aizen's eyes darted at him
"Since Ulquiorra will be out who will take care of the pet?" Nnoitra asked with a wide grin
"Orihime please approach." Aizen spoke softly
Hearing this she gave a him a small nervous look and quietly approached the right side of the rule of Las Noches, she placed herself at his side Aizen gave her a warm expression in reply.
"Now Orihime, please don't take my words as an insult but I believe some of those here don't believe in your potential, what do you think we should do about it?" he asked
"I've already healed Jaegerjaquez arm..." she replied in a shy manner
"Yes we did, but maybe further demonstration of your powers is required, that is why I've decided that you will accompany Ulquiorra and Grimmjow on their mission I believe that a onsite showcase of your powers will satisfy all those who still dough it."
"As you wish Aizen-sama." she replied
"Good. Now everyone you may leave except the the members of the team and Granz, who will take then directly to the Garganta.
"Of course Lord Aizen." he replied with a bow
The group started making their way to the room where the Garganta would be opened, Grimmjow walked with his arms in his pockets but was visibly bored by the silence so he decided to have a conversation with his fellow Espadas.
"Ulquiorra have you considered putting a leash on her from now on, if she thinks of escaping when we get there." he spat with a happy grin
"She knows better then that." was the answer that came from Ulquiorra
"You hear that! He says he knows you, how cute." he replied looking at Orihime, who quickly responded
"I wouldn't try to escape!" she said nervously, where would she escape too she thought
"You should try, it would give us something to do instead of going after some cube." the sixth Espada replied
"You seem to forget the presence of possible resistance between us and our objective." Ulquiorra said
"You think they could be called "resistance"?" Grimmjow asked jokingly
"If the Shinigami acknowledge the Asgardians maybe we should too."
"And since when do you care for what the Shinigami do!?" he asked again, now somewhat more curious
"Maybe you should ponder on that question of yours." he replied looking back to the scar in his comrades chest
Grimmjow growled in anger, but didn't get time to react as they arrived at their destination, the opening to the room was a simple rectangular opening in the wall which lead to what another hall in which only to large black pillars stood and a small control panel. Granz made his way to the panel, while another lesser arrancar approached the Espada and the human, in his hand was a small box he bowed before them and opened it revealing two small black crystals.
"Those are the devices that will make you visible to the humans. You can call them Espejo they, like the rest of this room are the fruits of my genious and you will be first test subjects to test their briliance!" he announced in a mad tone
"What ever how do they work?" Grimmjow replied in an uninterested growl
"It works in a similar manner as a Caja Negación." the scientist replied
The Espadas didn't question it, even if Grimmjow looked less then satisfied with the situation, they placed the device in their respective Hollow holes. Orihime simply waited for it to be time to leave, the scientist pressed some buttons on the panel, as he did so the pillars began to glow, bolts of energy being passed from one to the other, small bolts hitting random spots in the room, the Espada simply stood there waiting for it to stabilize, while the girl ran back to the hallway for cover, soon the fabrique between dimensions began to rip away bringing forward a massive Garganta.
"Behold gentlemen the fool potential of my vision!" Granz roared in a mad laugh
"How stable is it?" Ulquiorra asked
"Enough, but I can't say what effect it will have on the human specially when you arrive there." Granz replied
"Let's hope nothing bad happens to her, Ulquiorra wouldn't be happy would he?" the Sixth Espada said mockingly
"I can handle it." Inoue said entering the room once more
"In any case, please report the experience back to me, it would be rather interesting." the scientist replied
"What is that busing noise in my head!?" Grimmjow growled looking at the scientist
"Aizen-sama requested me to implement in those devices an automatic way to fill you in on your objectives, so right now that device will make you visible but is also uploading into your head all the information you need to know."
Finally the Garganta was stable enough for safe passage, Grimmjow was the first jump in followed by Ulquiorra, Orihime found her self unable to enter as it was to hight for her to simply jump in.
"Can someone help me?" she asked with a small blush
"Aren't you the one suppose to protect her and stuff?" Grimmjow asked
Ulquiorra gave a small sigh and jumped back to her side, placing his right arm around her waist he jumped back into the Garganta.
"Thank you." she replied blushing
Once the Garganta closed the trip was rather short then what Orihime was expecting, considering that they were traveling through universes another thing she didn't expect was how the travel would end.
It was a sunny day in New York, Steve Rogers had made his way to a park at the edge of the city, it was part of several trails that lead into the forest, he preferred a quiet spot to workout so he normally went deeper into the woods and way from any path so it would be more difficult for people to find him. Has he was doing some routine push-ups when his eyes caught a bright light falling from the sky and into a a nearby parking lot, as the object crashed into the Earth the distinct sound of people screaming in horror soon followed, Rogers couldn't just ignore what had just happened he got up and started running as fast as he could to the site of impact. On his way there he crossed paths with several people who were visibly in shock but seeing no major injury he continued to the parking-lot, first he saw that most of the cars had been push back by the force of the impact, then something started applying pressure on his body the air was getting thicker as he got closer, thankfully his body could still power through this change.
"Look at that someone is still standing." a voice said from near the crater
Looking around he understood what they meant, most people were down most likely from the pressure, but right now what mattered was the source of the voice, he saw three figures, all in white, one of them was a woman o stood near another with black hair and what seemed to be wearing half of an helmet and finally there was another man with blue hair, with a whole in his abdomen.
"Who are you!?" Cap asked in a determined tone
"What's it to you?" the blue haired man replied
"You arrive and hurt innocent people seemingly without reason, I can't just stand by." Rogers growled back
"You want to take care of him Ulquiorra?" he asked to the figure standing behind him
The Espada didn't reply but he showed no interest not even taking his hands out of his pockets.
"Seems like I'll have to take care of you human." the blue haired man continued, as he began to slowly approach Steve
Steve lifted up his fists ready to fight, his opponent responded with a shocked look in his face followed by a laugh.
"I'm going to ask you once again who are you?" Rogers asked ready to charge, his opponent replied with a twisted grin
"Sexta Espada Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez. And you human? Grimmjow spat back
"Steve Rogers or if you want Captain America." Cap replied in a triumphant tone
"Come on Captain bring it." the Espada clacked
Rogers charged at his opponent, he went for a right hand just for the invader to step to the side, then he threw a left which once more Grimmjow dodged, Cap prepared to throw another blow when he felt a sharp pain in his midsection, his gaze dropped down to see the knee of his opponent rammed firmly into him, yet his head turned to look back at Grimmjow who threw a right of his own making contact with his skull knocking Cap out, the Sixth Espada laughed over the body of his victim when Inoue rushed to her knees and covered Rogers in her healing barrier.
Her actions didn't go unnoticed as Ulquiorra grabbed her left arm and pulled her away from the fallen Captain America, falling down from the pull she looked shocked at his actions, he simply replied with a stern look.
"I can't let him die!" she shouted
"Your powers aren't to be wasted with such trash, now get up." he replied harshly
Orihime staggered back to her feet, dusting off her outfit she noticed Grimmjow seemed rather amused by the situation and just to make things worse he threw another kick to the ribs of the fallen Captain.
"Enough Grimmjow, we have to move out." Ulquiorra ordered
"What ever you say, so where to?"
"The closest location of interest is Stark Tower."
