Wow, I remembered this fic. Anyways, time for chapter 2.

Alerted!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything except for the main antagonist in this fic. Oh, and the plot.

The 7 spirits appeared on a literal mountain of sand. Well, that's technically not true. They were actually above a literal mountain of sand. But they didn't have any time to process that before they plummeted down onto the sand.

"Urahara, you bastard" spat Renji. "Oh well. Where are we?"

It was a good question. Once they brushed off the sand and stood up, they saw absolutely nothing except sand and sky. Since nobody bothered to give them directions, they were lost. Channelling Yachiru, Kenpachi pointed in a random direction and yelled, "Its that way. Definitely!"

So they went that way. They talked, and wondered, and did some other stuff nobody cares about. Unbeknownst to them, they were actually heading in the correct direction. Even as they spoke, sentinels were sent to kill them all. As they approached, Uryu had a sudden flash of intelligence.

"It's Aizen! He must have created these Hollows!"

"Huh? How'd you guess that?" Ikkaku asked.

"Renji", the Quincy boy said, "do you remember that Arrancar scientist we fought last time? Syel or something? He didn't have a hole either!"

"Shit, you're right! Was he one of these things?", Renji questioned.

"Don't know for sure. He didn't release that energy when he died. But I DID hit him with Quincy arrows, so maybe he lost the energy beforehand."

As they all tried to form their own opinions on this, Nel interrupted with an urgent yell:

"Hollowth! Der Hollowth 'tacking!"

Sure enough, hollows were approaching. They lacked the holes that showed their lack of a heart, but they were still hollows. Still, they seemed unnatural, like plastic soldiers with paper hearts desperately pretending to be real. Renji was right, these weren't hollows: these were just "things."

The Bezerker of Zaraki District was naturally the first to attack. As he cut down hollow after hollow, the others got into formation. Ironically, Ichigo wouldn't be doing much fighting. Because he was the strongest, the makeshift unit wanted his to save his energy for later. So instead of going Kenpachi on everyone, the deputy Soul Reaper protected the 2 non-combatants: Uryu and Neliel. Uryu was destroying the stuff coming out of the hollows, and Nel was watching. Everyone else was fighting.

Ikkaku grinned maniacally as he slashed at a large hollow with his shikai. As another grabbed the tip, he yelled "Split", separating the naginata into 3 parts. He twisted the part he was holding and bashed it into the hollow's head. He turned to fight the first hollow, but Chad had already destroyed it.

"Damn it, stop killing my hollows!" the disgruntled fighter growled after Uryu shot the next one the staff touched. He stabbed another one right where the hole should have been, and his captain decapitated it.

"Come on Ikkaku, stop being so lazy", Zaraki grinned. "I thought you liked fighting. So fight instead of just standing there!"

"That's it! The next one is MINE! Nobody touch it.", the bald one said.

Then the Menos appeared.

"It's all yours", Chad said.


"Interesting", a cloaked figure not too far away grinned. He, in his cave of glass, had done all this. As he looked down on the scene through a window/garganta he used for spying. He'd been using it ever since he had been exiled, just 84 years ago.

No, this wasn't Aizen. This man was Gaijuta Nakano (中野骸 呪太), the first and only Soul Reaper with a completely immaterial zanpakutō. He wanted to be King, but he didn't make a pact with lowly hollows like Aizen had. No, he was master of the thousands of hollows that made up his army.

Soul Society was his. "No, I am wrong there", he decided, "It will be mine. I shall make it mine".

And that's the end of that chapter. Sorry for making these so short. I'm just impatient to get to the climax. Actually, writing like this has sort of degraded my memory of the climax, so it might have been variably better than what I will write. Wait, what did I just say?

Please review, nobody has yet! Although someone did on my other story…does that mean that people are ashamed to write reviews for this? DO NOT WANT?

Alright, I'm done. Review please, so I can get motivated and write a 3rd chapter!