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POV 3rd Person
Lieutenant of Squad 12 Nemu Kurotsutchi was standing in the monitor room in the Department of Research and Development, when they received a distress call from Squad 10 member Ichitaru Mino, the Shinigami in charge of Krakura Town.
"Ma'am we have an incoming transmission from Karakura town." One of the seated officers stated.
"Patch him through, also bring up the current data for Krakura town." She responded instantly.
"This is Squad 10 member Ichitaru Mino, stationed in Karakura Town requesting immediate assistance." The Shinigami sounded like he was in distress.
She walked to one of the monitors and picked up a head set. "Ichitaru Mino we have received your request, this is Lieutenant of Squad 12 Nemu Kurotsutchi what is your emergency?" She answered.
"There is a Captain class enemy who attacked me. He has a strange Spiritual Pressure, the likes of which I have never seen before. I need immediate assistance, I am severely wounded and unable to hold him off."
"Lieutenant we are picking up an abnormally high Spiritual Pressure coming from Karakura Town, it doesn't belong to hollow. It's unlike anything we've ever encountered ma'am." Her 3rd seat said.
Nemu processed the information and relayed instructions to the wounded Shinigami. "Roger that, we are sending reinforcements and a medical team. Get somewhere safe until they arrive."
"Understood!" He said back to her before the transmission ended.
"Ma'am the Shinigami, his Spiritual Pressure just disappeared. Also there seems to be 3 more enemies appearing within the town all with equally high Spiritual Pressure." Another one of her seated officers said.
"I am going to report to the Head Captain. I want you to continue monitoring Karakura Town." She said leaving the 12th Division. There was supposed to be another Captains examination today and even though it hasn't started yet the Head Captain should be there. She thought to herself while using Shunpo to speed through the Seireitei.
Within moments she arrived at the 1st Division Arena and sure enough, Head Captain Hitsugaya was sitting in the observers tower. She appeared before him and got down on one knee. "Forgive me Head Captain, but we received a report from the World of the Living about a Captain class enemy. He attacked and killed the Shinigami stationed in Karakura town and as far as we can tell the enemy is still there. Also 3 more of the same class enemies have appeared." She reported quickly before standing up.
He contemplated for a moment before responding. "Report received Lieutenant, it looks like we are going to have to cancel today's examination." He said calling for a Hell Butterfly "Attention. Attention. This is an executive order from Head Captain Hitsugaya. The Captain's Examination for Mashi Yuujin has been canceled for today. I want Captains Tenshi Koukai, Byakuya Kuchiki, and Shuhei Hisagi along with Lieutenant's Mashi Yuujin and Isane Kotetsu to report to my office immediately for a priority assignment." He sent the Hell Butterfly to relay the messages.
"Thank you Lieutenant I will take it from here. Return to your Squad and continue to monitor the situation."
"Yes Sir!" she said before disappearing. He also disappeared.
POV 1st Person, Tenshi
I was in my office at my Squad finishing up some paperwork whenever I received the executive order from the Head Captain. I stood up and went to my Lieutenant's office only to find her sleeping on her desk. "Lieutenant wake up!" I shouted banging my fist on the desk. All of the stories about her were correct... Damn. I thought to myself as she jumped at the sudden noise.
My Lieutenant Rangiku Matsumoto stood up acting like nothing was wrong. "Captain! Why'd you have to go and scare me like that?" She whined.
"I along with a few other Captains and Lieutenant's have been called for an important assignment, the exam for today has been canceled and I need you to get caught up on all the paperwork while I'm gone. I also need you to make sure to help the 4th and 5th seats with their Kido. If you can manage all of that you'll get a nice reward. Understood?" I asked her. I was starting to realize how to work with her.
She squealed in excitement. "Okee Dokie Captain! Have fun!." I turned to leave and sighed to myself. I left the Squad and within minutes arrived at Squad 1. Before entering I checked myself over to make sure I had everything. I wonder what happened that would require three captains and two lieutenants. I asked myself entering the Squad. I arrived at the Head Captains office shortly and saw that I was the last to arrive.
"Nice of you to join us Captain Koukai." Mashi said to me sarcastically.
I turned to the Head Captain and bowed. "My apologies Head Captain. I was having some difficulties with my Lieutenant." He nodded and slightly chuckled. To my surprise I saw that my wife was there as well.
"So now that we are all here, the reason I have summoned you all is that we received a report of four Captain class enemies entering Karakura Town."
I have a squad member stationed there. I thought to myself.
"One of them attacked and killed the Shinigami watching over the town. I was originally going to send Captains Koukai, Hisagi, and Kuchiki along with Lieutenant's Yuujin and Kotetsu however the Captain of Squad 4 Chixyou Koukai has insisted that I send her instead of her Lieutenant. Based on the situation I have decided that is the best option."
We all nodded in agreement.
"Your mission is simple apprehend the enemy forces and bring them in for questioning. You are to leave at once. Dismissed!"
We bowed, and I went over to my wife who was talking with her Lieutenant. "Isane you are in charge while I am gone. I want you to make sure that Advanced Relief Squads 2, 6, and 10 get restocked on supplies. I also want you to make sure that the patient in room 204 remains stabilized, he just had a major surgery this morning and needs to be monitored. I shouldn't be too long." She instructed her Lieutenant.
"Yes Captain!" Isane said bowing.
Chixyou turned to me. "It's a shame we had to cancel Mashi's examination."
"Yeah I can tell he's disappointed but at least hes going on a mission to take his mind off of it." I responded as we walked out of the 1st Division with the other Captains, and Mashi.
"Oh I'm sure he'll be fine, I have to be honest Isane probably could have handled this assignment herself but I wanted to come along to make sure you would be okay." She said looking down.
"Thank you for the concern but I am a Captain now, not to mention I've never been weak. I am able to take care of myself, and my comrades. Sometimes I feel like everybody thinks the only reason I got this position is because you're my wife and the Granddaughter of the Soul King." I was flattered that she cared so much, but it just felt like she thought I couldn't handle myself sometimes.
"You're right and I'm sorry." She seemed to be really hurt. We were approaching the Senkaimon, and were stopped by the guards.
"Look it's fine just have some more faith in me." I said feeling a bit guilty.
"I do have faith in you." She said brightening up some.
Byakuya walked forward and presented the Hell Butterfly with our orders to the gate guard. After the message was relayed they stepped aside and opened the Senkaimon. We ran through the Dangai for fifteen silent minutes before emerging on the other side.
We arrived on the river bed the Shinigami had made the distress call from. My wife noticed the Shinigami who was in charge of this town lying on the ground surrounded by a pool of blood. She rushed to him and examined his body.
"He's dead. There's nothing I can do. I can tell you now that the cause of death was a sword wound. I can still sense some residual Spirit Pressure inside the wound which means it was inflicted with a Zanpakuto. Also he was immobilized with the first strike but by the amount of blood I would say he was left lying here for several moments before the final blow was inflicted. I think it's likely that he was supposed to make that distress call, with the amount of Spiritual Pressure his opponent had he could've killed him instantly. There is a very good chance we are walking into a trap." She said while performing her examination.
Captain Kuchiki who had been assigned as the head of our five man squad addressed us. "Your concerns are noted, however that does not change our mission. We are here to apprehend the assailant and their comrades. I sense their spiritual pressure near by. There are indeed four of them one in the north, south, east and west. Captain Koukai." Both myself and my wife looked up. "Captain Chixyou Koukai" he specified. "I want you to stay here and erect a barrier. In the event in which any of us are injured I want a secure place where you can administer Medical treatment, I also want you to develop a detainment barrier for our targets one that seals off their Spirit Energy." She nodded and began to construct several high level barriers.
"Now the rest of us are going to split up and investigate the enemies individually. Lieutenant Yuujin I want you to take the one to the south he appears to be the weakest. Captain Hisagi the one to the east, Captain Koukai the one to the north and I will take the one to the west. Do not engage in battle unless absolutely necessary." We all nodded.
"Captain of Squad 4" Chixyou looked up from her preparations, "The Head Captain has already authorized and initialized a Spacial Stasis, and the limiters were not applied when we went through the Senkaimon. Also I need you to make sure that we maintain communication with the Soul Society, in case we are in need of any reinforcements." She nodded.
"Okay everyone you have your assignments. Stay in contact and stay alive. " We all agreed and left in our own directions.
My target was not far away, I headed north and arrived at an abandoned train station within five minutes. I saw a woman standing on a tall pole. She had long deep red hair with bangs that covered her eyes, and wore a set of heavy blue and red robes. She had Zanpakuto tied around her hip.
She saw me and jumped down from the pole. "Well look who finally showed up. It took you guys long enough. Aren't you a little young to be a Captain?" She asked me walking towards me. She looked me up and down. "You know you're pretty cute too."
"Sorry I'm married." I said putting my hand on my Zanpakuto. "Stay where you are." She stopped with a disappointed look on her face.
"Come on I thought we were gonna have some fun."
"Identify yourself." I demanded of her.
"My names Tenar. What's yours?" She asked putting her left hand on her hip.
"Captain of Squad 10 Tenshi Koukai. Now why are you here?" I asked cautiously keeping my eyes on her.
"You know the usual reasons to visit the World of the Living, shopping, sight seeing, killing a few Shinigami. Just innocent stuff." She said giggling.
"Were you the one that killed Ichitaru?"
"Which one was he again? I've killed so many I don't know all of their names." She laughed at that like it was something to be proud of.
"He was the Shinigami stationed here. He was one of my men." I was trying to keep my cool but it was beginning to get difficult.
"Oh no that wasn't me." She said turning away from me.
"I said stay where you are." I warned her.
"Please I don't take orders from Shinigami Captains. Now I think the time for talking is over, it's time for you to die!" She quickly drew her Zanpakuto and rushed me. I drew my blade just in time to block the strike. We exchanged a few blows before jumping away from eachother.
"I don't want to fight you. I am charged with taking you into custody, if you resist I will have no option but to use force." I said to her. Okay her Spiritual Pressure is impressive but nothing I shouldn't be able to handle. The strange thing is that she has a Zanpakuto, only Shinigami are supposed to have those. That definitely is a Zanpakuto though I can feel it's own Spiritual Pressure. Based on the feel of her Reitsu and how it flows she uses large bursts of it instead of steady use. Which means that she uses Kido and energy based attacks instead of physical and melee based attacks which means that my Zanpakuto is not best suited for this battle.
My thoughts were interrupted by her coming at me again blow after blow I matched with her. She jumped away from me and relaxed a bit. "Couple of things. First wow you move nice, second pay attention to your opponent I am not someone to take lightly, and lastly I am not going anywhere without a fight. You will die here Shinigami, that is unless you want to come with me, I promise we can have some fun." She said playfully.
"Not interested!" I said charging her. I must say her Zanjutsu skills are really good. I thought to myself as we traded more blows. We clashed again, while our swords were connected I kicked her. She fell to the ground with a thud.
I took my chance. "Bakudo #21 Sekienton!" I yelled putting my hands on the ground creating a red smoke screen. She rushed me but I managed to dodge her slash. "Bakudo #9 Horin!" I shot a red and yellow Spirit Energy rope at her, she managed to grab it and pull me towards her. She aimed another well placed slash to my head as I was pulled through the red smoke. I barely managed to bring my blade up and block the attack although I sustained a cut right above my left eye.
I fell to ground as my spell disappeared. I quickly recovered and took to the sky trying to wipe the blood away from my face. I cleared my sight and watched for any movement inside the smoke screen.
"You know your Shikai might be better suited for a battle like this." I turned to see Tenar standing 100 feet away from me.
"I don't know what you mean." I said back trying to act like I didn't know what she was talking about.
"Don't play dumb with me. My Zanpakuto is already in Shikai. Her name is Riidaa, she has a few very special abilities." She said touching the blade of her Zanpakuto affectionately. "Riidaa has the ability to read the names and powers of Zanpakuto. She can also take on the form and abilities of the last Zanpakuto activated in the area I am currently in. I was quite intrigued by yours but it seems like you don't want to release it."
"Now that I know what your abilities are don't think you'll be seeing my Shikai or Bankai anytime soon." I said attacking her with my sword, she blocked the attack effortlessly and sighed.
"What's wrong, you don't want me getting my hand on that nasty reserve of Kinetic Energy you have stored up? Fine then I'll just use another Zanpakuto, one was released here before, granted it was over a hundred years ago but still." She held her blade infront of her and it started to glow yellow. "Bring them to the twilight Mirokumaru!" Her sword started to change shape into a golden staff with a circular opening at the top and four rings looped inside the opening.
"What the hell!?" I half said to myself.
"This Zanpakuto was used over a hundred years ago in this very spot. Now die!" She screamed twirling the staff around creating a tornado.
I used Shunpo and a series of acrobatic flips and turns to avoid the pillar of wind which seemed to be trained on me. Damn it looks like I don't have much of a choice. If I don't use my Zanpakuto there is almost no chance of me winning, but if I do use it she can just revert to her Shikai and copy mine. I thought about all of my options and decided I didn't have any. I have no choice, maybe if I bypass Shikai and go straight to Bankai she won't be able to copy it. I was running out of Spirit Energy and stamina quickly and from what I could sense Captain Hisagi had already engaged his opponent in battle.
I stopped trying to dodge and was enveloped by the powerful winds. It was hard to speak but I managed to call out to my partner. "Bankai!" There was an explosion of Spirit Energy that dissipated the tornado. As the winds cleared to reveal me with my new blade. "Un Douryoku no Hakai!" My basic Katana had maintained it's length but had transformed into an edgeless metal grey rod with a black handle. I need to end this quick. I thought to myself.
"You really are more foolish than I thought." She laughed to herself as her staff reverted back to her original Shikai.
I wasn't going to give her the chance, I rushed forward and clashed blades with her, I then charged my Zanpakuto with some kinetic force. We exchanged blows again except this time she was thrown to the ground. This is not possible his speed and power have jumped exponentially. His Spiritual Pressure is so high I feel like it's suffocating me! This just isn't possible I knew he was strong, but this is just unreal. Tenar thought to herself while trying to get up.
"This is over Tenar, you are coming back to the Seireitei with me!" I said to the woman.
She regained her stance and prepared to copy my Bankai. Her eyes went wide and she looked at me with shock. "Tha.. That's not your Bankai! Its a fake! What are you trying to pull?!" She screamed at me.
I began to charge up more of my Kinetic Energy, this time I was going to channel it into a blast. "Redirect!" I held my blade horizontally and a yellow ball of energy started to form. "This is all I need to beat you!" I swung my Zanpakuto through it causing it to shoot out and spread into a wide beam.
She attempted to dodge but was unable to get away. After being hit with my blast she fell to the ground. "You put up a nice fight. Master please forgive me, I failed you." She said before passing out.
I was breathing heavily and could barely move. I descended from the sky and reverted back to my sealed state. I formed a Kido barrier around her and radioed to the rest of my team. "I managed to capture my target, not without difficulties though. I will be transporting her back to Captain Koukai shortly." I informed them. I took a look at myself my Haori was ripped, my clothes tattered, and blood from my eye ran down my Shihakusho.
"Good work Captain Koukai, after you make sure your target is secure I need you to assist Captain Hisagi. I am almost at my target." Captain Kuchiki instructed.
"As am I." Mashi said.
"Roger that, Captain Hisagi I will be there shortly." I said using Spirit Strings to move the barrier along with me.
"Understood." Was all Captain Hisagi said.
I arrived with my prisoner back at the barrier site. My wife was expecting me and had already prepared a sealing barrier. We quickly sealed her away inside the barrier as my wife got to healing me. "Oh my are you alright?" She asked me genuinely worried.
"Yeah I'm fine, I just need to get to Captain Hisagi's assistance as soon as possible." I said to her sitting down.
"I understand you'll be good to go shortly." She finished healing me withing a matter of moments, then gave me a small container of liquid Spirit Energy. "This will only last for a little while so drink it right before you enter into battle. I'll keep an eye on this one." She said giving me a quick kiss on the cheek.
I quickly sped to Captain Hisagi's location all the while thinking to myself. Who are these strange people and what is it that they really want. I saw a clash of Spirit Energy in the distance and knew that I was getting close.