Fugitive

Escape

Time: unknown

Location: off-world

The winds of Hueco Mundo blew with bitterness as a scythe moves around from the ground. Then it loses its place and it falls over. Footsteps approached the scythe as Dark Rukia grabs it from being buried by moving sand. She sneezes. Her cat-like eyes jutted side to side as she finds a new hideout. Just as she is about to move ahead, a large hollow appears out of nowhere, sending a giant wave of sand around it. The hollow had a huge thirst for her soul, and it doesn't dare hesitate to attack her full on. As it raises its arm backwards, a gash circulates around its arm until it rips right off. The hollow roars in pain as it tries to grab its arm, but it gradually dissolves into the air. In anger, it opens its mouth and charges a cero. Just in time, blood splatters immensely onto the sand as its head rolls lifelessly down a slope while Rukia sends the unfinished cero in the air to explode in the distance. Then the hollow's head dissolves as well as the rest of its body. Rukia groans in pain as she receives a major headache from the sudden confrontation.

The trek was long. Painful, and long. Dark Rukia counted at least forty slopes she walked upon, which were colossal in close range as they were minuscule from far. She nearly slips into a fall just before stabbing the sand with the end of her scythe. Heavy breaths and sweaty palms, aching limbs and high blood pressure encompassed her entirely. And just after a few seconds, her vision blackens.

She was now inside her mind. A dark forest with a grey sky surrounds her with a gloomy edge. The sun was blue, which was unusual. She was in her normal body. The fairness of her skin revealed itself in contrast to her pallor-induced skin from her hollowfied state. In front of her stood Homura. She held a cheeky grin as she tilts her head to the side. But the sheer sight of her angered Rukia, for she and Shizuku was responsible for changing her appearance, and her behavior entirely. Homura walks closer until she was a foot in front of Rukia.

"How are you feeling, Rukia? You alright? Is everything okay?" Homura asks.

Rukia scowled. "How the hell, and what the hell do you mean by those questions?"

Homura's expression changed. "Huh? What are you saying?"

"I'm being controlled by you! How dare you do such a thing!"

"I wouldn't call it control..."

Rukia interrupts her, "Then what will you call it? Because, to me, it was plain obvious that you nearly killed me in the process!"

"I tried to tell her..." a distant voice countered.

Rukia instinctively swings herself to the source of the sudden speech. It was Shizuku. He came close to them and stopped in his tracks as Rukia eyed them with disdain.

"...but she wouldn't listen to me."

"How can you guys do this to me?" Rukia asked.

"We wanted to stay with you forever, duh." Homura said.

"But not like this! What you did back there nearly cost my life! Now I'm stuck as a hollow!" Rukia throbbed.

"I'm sorry, Rukia, but Homura damaged the procedure-" Shizuku said.

"I didn't damage the procedure!" Homura interrupted Shizuku. "I modified it."

Horror dawned onto Rukia and Shizuku.

"You did what, exactly?" Rukia pressed angrily and fearfully.

"I modified the hollofication." Homura paraphrased. "You can't transfer back to your original body, Rukia, not without my permission."

Rukia froze. "What the hell do you mean by 'without your permission'!?"

"We love you, Rukia. We want to be with you forever."

"You seriously have the nerve to use love as an excuse to trap me in my own mind? You're a damn fool if you think that I will stay like this forever."

"You're right. But, you're gonna have to deal with it, Rukia. We love you too much that we will continue to be together." Homura shed some tears as her voice strengthens in anger. "And I don't want anything standing in our way. If that happens, I swear, I will end them before they even think about how they end up dying!"

Rukia thought about her previous life, as she was wearing a gigai in the world of the living, and in the Soul Society. But something also dawns onto her. She had a strong feeling that something important in her mind was missing; rather erased. Her horror slowly swells to anger.

"I'm sorry, Rukia. I can't control her, she won't stop. It's like she's determined to kill someone out of reason if they happen to appear near us, even if it wasn't their fault-" Shizuku explains.

"SHUT UP SHIZUKU! I DON'T WANNA HEAR ANOTHER WORD OUT OF YOUR MOUTH!" Homura yelled. She got tired of his sappy apologies and a purpleish-black energy engulfs him whole.

"Hey, wait!" Shizuku reached out a hand but he disappears.

"Homura!" Rukia protests. Homura's eyes were slits.

"Understand this, Rukia. I nearly have control of all of your spirit energy, meaning that if you try to do something stupid, like try to find out ways to separate us, then you'll probably die. Shizuku and I are already souls and adding you to the equation will only make things easier for us since you're using a gigai right now. The only thing is, you don't want to die, and that's fine: though you're still a hollow until I leave your body for separate reasons. But just to let you know one thing though... you are mine, and there's nothing you can do about it. You can complain all you want but the main thing will always stand to confirm us in this form. And by the way..." Homura points at her as the background slowly begins to fade away.

"... I own you."

Time: 21:21

Location: Detention Center

Rukia woke up from the frightening flashback-dream. Rukia was currently in a cell, somewhere in southeastern Japan. Hiroshima. Rukia sensed her location via spiritual pressure. But a jail cell? What the hell was she doing here? The place, no, the atmosphere was filled with rust, must, and disgust. The walls were over-tampered as paint fell from its grip onto the floor. Holes scattered the floors as if a million colonies of ants dwelled underneath it. The ceiling fan creaked ominously as if it were to fall off-place real soon. Also, a foul smell lingered above the cell, coming from a carcass of a rat not too long ago. Maggots surround it, eating off the remains of the lifeless vermin. Rukia looks outside through the small window. Outside was just as ugly as inside. A heavy overcast clouded the blue sky and the ground was just as damp as the jail floor. Jail... What the hell!

"I need to get out of here..." she thought.

With that, Rukia gets up and walks towards the rust-covered bars. She raised her clawed right arm and sliced the bars off their places. Then she climbs up and into the air vents and crawls away towards the exit. With ease, she exits the large facility and makes a run for it. That was easy, no signs of guards were around. Rukia's stomach started to ache with a gut feeling. Something was not right, how come there weren't any guards around? Within a minute, all eyes were on her. A spotlight flashed upon her that nearly blinded her eyes. Rukia was seeing stars as she staggers towards a large gate. She reaches for it. Something unexpected happens as Rukia began to correspond to the upcoming horror. Electricity emitted from the gate to her nervous system as Rukia shrieks in pain and her body convulses in several directions. Then her brain cells were temporarily fried as she doubled over, crying as she still couldn't figure out what just happened. What the hell was going on? That gate was never there...

Rukia's mind was scrambled with many questions. But they were thrown into the trash as multiple squads with assault rifles surround her, armed and ready to fire without any signs of mercy. Rukia gets up, sick from electrocution, tired from fatigue, failing to remember. As she eyed the plethora of what to be the entire facility of cops, one of them began shouting through the loudspeaker.

"Get down on your knees with your hands on your head!" he yelled out.

"You want me to do, what?" Rukia said.

"Don't play dumb with me, you stupid-ass girl! Get down with your hands on your head, now! Or we will be forced to open fire!"

Rukia is soon overwhelmed with fear. She was going to get shot! The thought of that aroused her anger. Her body tensed. Rukia didn't intend to get angry, but her instincts took over as her palm summons a twirl of energy, thus forming a cero. The police noticed her as a threat and they had no other choice for the next few moments.

"She's going to attack... OPEN FIRE!"

Before Rukia had a chance to think, loud popping noises erupted as a barrage of bullets whizzed towards her, plummeting her skin like a hurricane of sharp flying objects. Her body screamed in agony as her pain receptors overloaded their own cells from the penetrating bullets. Blood flew everywhere, the ground, the gate, and nearby cameras were splattered by the crimson red substance. Rukia felt as if she was being torn apart and eaten alive by an imaginary menos, ripping off every single part of flesh that it can devour. Her body stood in place, as a hellish experience of being shot to death haunted Rukia. It lasted minutes, and Rukia felt as if she was about to die. The bullet storm ended, and the cops lowered their rifles. The result stands before them as they stare in terror. Almost all of Rukia's flesh was ripped apart, completely showing off her skeleton, her slightly torn muscles, and a bit of her jaw. Amazingly, her internal organs were intact, without any signs of significant damage. The cop on the loudspeaker can be heard whimpering. Rukia was still alive.

"Wha... What the hell are- AUGH!"

His body was blown apart from a bala that Rukia threw. The surrounding cops shouted in fear as they reload their guns, hoping to put her down with one last round. Too bad that they won't be able to accomplish that. Rukia's spiritual pressure increased dramatically, her eyes had gone completely black as she turned into a hollow. The cops panicked as higher ranked reinforcements appeared to the scene. Just as they raised their guns, Rukia summons her scythe, putting herself into a stance. But then, the cops stare with increasing horror as Hollow Rukia's organic tissues started to regenerate. It was swift, and in a few seconds Hollow Rukia was full flesh again. The cops opened fire. The first bullet misses as well as all the others. The last one tears off Hollow Rukia's cheek, and a split-second later it regenerates. Suddenly she wasn't there. The cops frantically search for her as an unlucky one splits in two. His organs spews out blood and stomach acid as the nearby cops were either blinded or suffered second degree burns. Then Hollow Rukia went into an all out frenzy, slashing at the remaining cops as she was searching for a way out. Blood pooled the grass as minutes passed by. The last few cops ordered a tank to aid them and a blast suddenly knocks over the front gate. That's it! That was the escape route! But it was blocked by something huge. A tank drives inside the area with two cannons on the top of it, ready for business.

Hollow Rukia smiled.

Inside, the co-driver load the cannons with rockets as they were ready to fire. At the driver's orders, a pair of rockets shoots out of the protruding rods as they make way towards Hollow Rukia in a hell-bent manner. Just before they reach, Holow Rukia lifts her heel, swipes the projectiles downwards, thus creating a massive acre-wide explosion. The force of the shock wave destroyed at least 94 acres worth of land. The tank sat there as the cops inside stared in fear at what just happened. They clearly saw what Rukia did to the rockers they shot at her and thought of retreating the area. Just as the smoke began to clear, a red light was visual to the eyes of the cops. In a flash, a horizontal blast of a cero blew off the smoke as the ground deforms due to its strength as it heads towards the tank at high velocity. It didn't have time to turn as it was obliterated by the ultra-violent attack. The cops' jaws dropped as well as their weapons. They retreated, scattering in many directions in one piece, and with missing limbs.

Within moments, the area cleared and Hollow Rukia zooms out of the gate and disappears, leaving blood and death behind for the investigators to see. The remaining cops that escaped were then stripped from the previous memory as Hollow Rukia's scythe phased through a witness that saw the event. Then she was gone. The sky slowly began to clear. The full midnight moon glares above the Armageddon that lies before it. Hollow Rukia decides to travel by water as she runs through it at a high rate of speed. She was en route to a more familiar location that would take an hour and a half to get there.