Rubbing his sore head, Ichigo pulls himself up into a sitting position.
Where the fuck is he?
Has he been kidnapped?
The room he is currently in is as good as pitch black, so pushing himself to his wobbly feet, he starts to fumble around for a light switch.
As his hands trace the cold wall, his feet collide with something on the tiled ground.
The 'something' growls and Ichigo hears the something, or rather now the someone, shuffling around in front of him.
"WATCH WHERE YOU'RE FUCKING GOING MAN!"
Ichigo blanches at the familiar rough voice.
"G-Grimmjow?"
A huff sounds from within the darkness.
"Shit, of all things I gotta wake up in a pitch black room with you. Where's the fucking light switch?"
"I don't know, I've been trying to feel around for it."
As Ichigo begins to feel around again, being careful now to avoid Grimmjow, the lights overheard suddenly flicker on, and Ichigo squints his eyes shut to avoid going blind.
When he opens them, he finds Rukia standing a few feet away, her fingers on the light switch attached to the brick wall.
"Really, Ichigo?"
Ichigo growls.
"What? I can't see in the damn dark can I?"
It's only then that Ichigo notices there are two more figures with them in the room, both of them still unconscious on the ground, but he recognises both of them.
Rushing over, he pushes the unconscious girl's hair out of her face.
"Orihime, wake up!"
Grimmjow leans back against one of the walls, scratching at the bone mask on his jaw.
"I betcha this is Aizen's doing."
Ichigo frowns, glancing over at the espada.
"Huh, why would he knock us all out and put us in this room? That makes no sense."
"You got a better idea, Kurosaki?"
Ichigo decides to ignore him now, just as Orihime starts to stir below him. Her lidded eyes stare up at him.
"Ichigo? What's going on?"
Ichigo does his best to help her to her feet.
"I don't know yet, seems like we all got knocked out and shoved into this room. Where are we anyway?"
Rukia shifts over to a monitor station at the front of the room, fiddling with various switches, her eyes flickering to the fuzzy monitors.
"I can't be sure, but it seems like some kind of control room?"
Orihime notices the still unconscious male on the ground and kneels down next to him.
"Ulquiorra too? Is he alright?"
Grimmjow rolls his eyes.
"Can we just think of a way to get the hell out of here, this is boring as shit."
"Not gonna happen, Grimmy!"
They all stop and turn towards the monitor system, finding the source of the sing songy voice coming from a nearby speaker system.
Ichigo races over to where Rukia is stood, tapping on the speaker.
"Wait, Gin? What the hell is going on?"
A manic chuckle sounds from the other end.
"Ohh, don't cha know Ichigo?"
"Why would I be asking you if I did, dammit!"
"Sheesh, don't get yaself so wound up, ya are gonna want a clear head for this game."
Rukia roughly shoves Ichigo out of the way.
"Game?"
"Oh yes. See the monitors? Ya got to keep watching um, all the way to six am. If ya don't, ya won't know where they all are."
"Where who is?"
"The animatronics, of course! Ya might wanna keep an eyes on the doors too, cause if they get in, they're gonna kill ya!"
Grimmjow strides over and starts to toy with the labelled buttons and switches on the board.
The door to the room slides open, the corridor outside dark and ominous.
"Psh, big deal. Somethin get's in, I'll rip it's head off."
"Ah ah ah, Grimmy. Ya aren't allowed to use your powers in here I'm afraid, Aizen said so."
Rukia grimaces.
"Our spiritual pressure is being suppressed."
"Yep, so ya better get playin hadn't ya!"
Ichigo scowls and slaps the speaker.
"YOU HAVEN'T EVEN EXPLAINED THE RULES PROPERLY!"
"Ohh, I didn't? Oh well, I'm sure ya can figure it out together!"
"GIN!"
"TOODLES!"
Ichigo shakes the speaker.
"OI DON'T YOU DARE CUT THIS OFF!"
No answer comes from the other end.
"SON OF A BITCH!"
Rukia slaps Ichigo across the face, and his hands drop from the speaker.
"You need to calm down, if Gin's right, we need to figure this out before we get ourselves killed. What time is it?"
Grimmjow taps on one of the monitors.
"Midnight exactly."
Rukia nods, smoothing down her clothes.
"Time to start playing then."
Short I know, but this is only meant to be an intro, the fun and games are starting in the next chapter! This just randomly came to me as an idea, so I thought why not? I'm purely writing this for a bit of fun, so I hope whoever reads this can get some fun out of it too :3 thanks for reading!