Chapter 2: Battle City -The Arrival
There was no in between world between Hueco Mundo and this new world. This was odd as most worlds have a dividing world. I immediately looked back to see If I could look at Szayel in his lab but just then the portal closed. Yes we are now marooned in this place. I decided just to go with the flow rather than panicing and looked around to get my bearings. Tousen, Grimmjow, and I were in a city of some sort. This placed looked exactly like the world of the living. Tousen began to cry, not Bo-ho crybaby cries more of its majestic. Grimmjow started to look around before running off. Now If he gets lost and can't find his way back It aint my falt. I watched Grimmjow try to fly and he fell strait on his butt I kinda wanted to laugh at him but I realized that I couldn't fly either. Oddly enough Grimmjow's hollow hole was gone. I looked at Tousen and realized that I couldn't sense reshi so Tousen was actually helpless in this world. He normally could use his ability to sense spiritual pressures to find people and things but here he couldn't, he was truly blind here.
"Tousen, are you alright? I can't seem to use any of my abilities" I said expecting to hear Tousen panic.
"Gin, I can see everything here. Clear as a bell. So this is the sky, must be a building…"
Somehow Tousen being able to see things as well as I can really wasn't to surprising since no world can be completely without advantage right? As Tousen began his monologue obviously oblivious to our current "Traped" predicament I looked at my zanpaktou to much of my surprise the blasted thing turned into a deck of cards. Tousen then stopped for a second about his new found sight and handed me a radio receiver. I asked him where he got it and told me that Szayel gave it to him. When this exactly happened I don't know since as I recall I was there when Szayel came up with this whole adventure for us. I put on the receiver and started to listen in, it was Szayel.
"Gin is that you? Listen the portal just closed. The only way you three can get back is if one of you summons the ultimate card. To do so you have to collect the three Egyptian Gods."
"Um what are you talking about?" I asked
Several seconds of silence passed and I realized that this blasted receiver was one way. I informed Tousen of the situation and he started to rant on how there are more than three gods in Egyptian mythology. To stop this from going on until the end of time I told him to look at his zanpaktou which like my Shinzor turned into a deck of cards. That other blade Tousen had earlier tuned into a single card. Curious about them I looked at my mysterious cards. It looked as though they belonged to some children's card game. I wanted to toss them but then again they could be what become of a zanpaktou in this world.
"Gin doesn't toss these away these could be what become of a zanpaktou in this world" Tousen stated.
I wanted to say thank you captain obvious but then again he was trying to act like Captain Aizen. The Question now was what the heck are these Egyptian Gods that where spoken of and how where we to get them. Just then a giant blimp came overhead; on it was a tv screen with a guy on it who just from his hair I could tell I didn't like him. The guy wasn't any older than twenty and he started to talk about a tournament and duel disk and other such nonsense. Before I dismissed this he mentioned something about a god of something and the tv went out. I asked Tousen if he got any of that he said something about ruling the card game world as he calls it and moving on from there. I didn't listen to what he had to say mostly because I never listen to what he has to say but I did get the whole play cards to get out of this place thing. I'm not quite yet convinced that this isn't hell.
After walking around town for a while, Tousen looking at every freaking thing we passed, we arrived at a shop selling these duel disk. We took two, thankfully it was free, and picked up a rule book. If playing this game would free us from this world then we better master it. I looked at the rule book for about an hour before just giving up as no freaking way a children's card game can be this difficult. I looked at Tousen expecting him to want me to tell him how the game is played. I wonder if my logic is flawed here but how can the man who was blind from birth automatically know how to read? He figured out how to play this freaking game and ended up giving me a crash course in how to play the game. Before we left the shop we were given a clear card each and told that if we win six of them we will know where the finals are. As we left the shop and Tousen challenged me to a practice match as we had to get good and fast if we wanted to go home. Well Not like I could disagree we were playing for the same reason.