The Heroes Remember Their Pasts!

Logan made his way back to the Squad 2 Barracks with no trouble at all. This was due to the fact that he didn't fight the Squad 11 Captain. He got to the hallways and heard an 'awww' sound coming from Soifon's office, so he decided to check it out. Once he got there, he saw Soifon and Yoruichi looking at a picture. He looked over Soifon's shoulder to see what it was. It turned out to be a picture of him and a cat. "Logan, you never told me you had a cat," Soifon said.

Yoruichi smirked at her apprentice. "I thought you liked black cats, Soifon," she said.

"Lady Yoruichi, I have a like for all cats. I just happen to love black cats in particular." They heard Logan chuckle when she said that.

"I'm sorry, Soifon, but I can't change the color on Oreo's fur. He probably wouldn't like that," he said.

"'He'? I didn't know that was a boy."

"Well, not all cats are girls, you know." Soifon looked scandalized as he said that. So with a flushed face, Soifon put on her usual scowl.

"Are you implying that I'm an idiot? I know full well that not all cats are girls! It's just that a majority of the ones I see are!" she exclaimed.

"I'm not calling you an 'idiot', Soifon! I'm just making an obvious point!" he shouted back, getting his point across.

"Hey take it easy, you two. There's no need to fight over something silly such as a cat's gender," Yoruichi said, finally getting a word in. "So how did your meeting with Squad 11 go, Logan?"

"Eh, it was alright. I knocked the wind out of Yumichika and stabbed Ikkaku in the shoulder before knocking him out. I had to get away before fighting with their Captain, though." Both of the women present went wide-eyed when he explained it.

They even had one thought on their minds: 'Poor Isane is not going to like that.' Soifon looked at the picture again and blushed, smiling that she saw her boyfriend with a cat on his chest. The cat had white fur with big black spots on its head, sides, and tail. "So his name is 'Oreo'? He looks adorable."

Logan nodded. "He's not just any cat, though. He became my best buddy before I became an Assassin. His previous owner happened to be my stepdad at the time. Over time, though, he just got worse. This was due to his inflated ego at the fact that he was working in Hollywood. It didn't help matters any that he was hit by a pickup truck while trying to help someone out of a burning car. I'm sure you could imagine the drama he put us through after that. I'm glad I'm stationed in St. Louis and not in Houston."

This earned him even more respect from Soifon than he already had, as she knew what it was like to go through that kind of Hell with families that didn't feel like it. He also had her sympathies because, just like she lost her 'mother-figure'/'pseudo-sister' Yoruichi for 100 years, Logan lost his father in a car wreck when he was only 3. The main difference was that Logan didn't even get to know his dad. Soifon then remembered some friends of his that he mentioned 8 years ago. "You mentioned some friends of yours that you told about me. How are they doing?"

Logan smiled before answering. "Everyone's doing fine. Lacy and Cory Stephens are having fun in San Antonio the last time I checked. JR, whom I figured out was one of my distant cousins, married a girl I had a slight crush on named Carrie Rinne." Soifon (and to a lesser extent, Yoruichi) grew a bit jealous when he mentioned Carrie, but were relieved when he mentioned that she got married to someone other than the only man in front of them.

"How did you come to meet Carrie?" Soifon asked, causing Logan to tense up.

"I met her when I found out she knew about you, Soifon. Apparently, she knew about my Aunt Donna's death. Once I told JR and the Stephens sisters about you, I figured out that she eavesdropped on us. Ever since then, she's been in our little circle. Lacy and Carrie often got into small arguments every now and then, but other than that, we all got along alright.

"One of my bigger bonding moments with her was when she heard a rumor about a haunted warehouse in our hometown. We investigated it for any clues, but while it turned into a good moment, it turned out that my cousin Colt was pulling a hoax on us. That in turn resulted into me doing to him what I did to Renji the next day," he explained.

"You whooped the living hell out of him, right?" Yoruichi asked. Logan smirked and nodded. "And what about your bonding moments with Lacy and Cory?"

"I only bonded with Cory through the advice she usually gave me. I only saw her as sort of the older sister I never had. I don't know how she saw me though. As far as Lacy was concerned, I enjoyed the time we spent together. In the 9th grade, we made animal sounds from the Ace Ventura movies; 10th grade, it was throwing paper balls and mouse pads at a buddy of ours," he said before his face went into a sunken state. "Our Junior year, we hardly ever talked, primarily because she was hanging out with her new boyfriend and I was talking with Carrie.

"We got back to talking again in our Senior year, but no antics really. I've mostly been participating in the activities that were going on while she was acting as a teacher's assistant for the gym coach. Aside from the annual visit from the Kuchiki siblings, the occasional fights, and the Baseball games, it's been pretty boring. To this day, no matter what I do, I still miss my friends, especially Lacy and Cory," he finished, earning a smirk from the Flash Goddess.

"It sounds like you lived an easy life before meeting the guy who gave you Oreo."

"Yeah, I did. Even if I did graduate High School, I was too stupid to see the Hell I was going to go through with that jackass, but at least I got a buddy out of that ordeal. Unfortunately, I had to endure his wrath for 4 years before my mom decided it was all over. He's in Houston, I had to leave Oreo with my mom while I helped Ichigo and the others, and now I'm here."

"At least the hard part of your life is over, even if you had to complete a few assassination contracts in the process," said Soifon. Logan nodded.

"Soifon, I think it's high time we got Logan back to the World of the Living, don't you? Kenpachi hardly ever goes there anyways," Yoruichi suggested.

"Okay then, as much as I want to spend time with you, you still have to deal with that Cloak character. See if you can't get any more info on him other than his name."

"You got it."


They got Logan through the Senkaimon and back to the Living World. He searched for Cloak's Spirit Energies, remembering that he has two of them. He also managed to pick up on the Energies of Ichigo, Rukia, Renji, Toshiro, and Rangiku. He then picked up Cloak's energies and turned around. He saw Cloak leaning against a door. He proceeded with caution, remembering that he was the same bastard who sent him falling 8 stories from a building he was parkour running on.

"You've been gone for too long, Washburn. I had to fight Kurosaki and his new girlfriend last night," said the man in black. It didn't take Logan long for him to find out that it was Rukia he was talking about.

"Let's talk," the Assassin simply stated.

"What do you want to talk about?"

"You." Cloak was surprised about this. "I want to know who you are, where you came from, why you're here, and why I picked up two Spirit Energies coming from you. And if I find out you're withholding information from me, I will personally slice and dice you to bits before using Chidori to make your remains extra crispy."

Cloak chuckled at the threat. "You sound pretty serious about that."

"I am."

"Very well then, I'll tell you, but it stays between us, got it?" Logan nodded. "My name is Todd Platinum and I come from the planet Exanton, or Exo as most would call it," he began.


(Flashback…)

A human-looking Todd Platinum was leaving the building that he worked in. He turned on the radio, only to hear some astonishing news that Sonny Seconds, the planet's fastest hyper car racer had just got into an accident due to a sabotaged engine. Todd turned off the radio with one thought on his mind: 'That is one bastard that probably won't make it.'

After a while, Todd finally made it to his house. He opened the door and got jumped by a living black liquid. He tried to fight it, but to no avail. The living liquid managed to cover all of Todd's body before disappearing inside of him, which he managed to find out quickly. "It is alright, Todd Platinum. I will not hurt you," said a voice in his head.

"Who are you? What's going on?" he asked frantically.

"I am the Symbiote that currently resides in your body. You've been listening to the news reports, have you not?" Todd nodded, not knowing where this was going. "Then you need to know that I intend to help others in need. I am getting sick of the criminal activity here in Crag City. It's about time someone put these criminals in jail. It's obvious the city police are not going to do it."

"Is this about Sonny Seconds' accident?" asked Todd.

"Not just that. Besides, that was no accident. That was the work of Sabotage, someone who didn't want him to win that race."

"Let's go find him." With that determination, they set out to find Sabotage and bring him into jail. Todd started at the race track for any clues regarding any tinkering with Seconds' Hyper Car. He investigated the skid marks on the pavement, which led to the wall that the car crashed in. Todd and the Symbiote decided to check out Seconds' garage for any other clues. It was then that he discovered something unusual: a few bolts from the engine. 'Well now I know how Sabotage did it,' he thought. The Symbiote agreed with him.

"Hey, who are you?" asked a security guard. Luckily, with the Symbiote's, Todd discovered that he could change his appearance a little, so he did just that.

"Roger Bennett, Freelance Detective. I'm here on account of the Sonny Seconds accident." The guard didn't seem to believe him, so he checked his database for 'Roger's' detective agency. He didn't find anything to match. That's when Todd noticed something. Sabotage had left behind a wrench which had a metallic-looking Skull-and-Crossbones on it with the 'Crossbones' being two wrenches. He saw the same design on the guard's tablet.

"Do you know anything about that wrench?" he asked.

"W-what do you mean by that? Every one of the mechanics has a wrench," the guard answered. Todd knew he had caught him.

"Each wrench has its team's logo on it, buster. Or should I call you 'Sabotage'?" The 'guard' knew he had been caught, so he ran away. The Symbiote covered all of Todd's body in black, making it look like he was wearing a full-body suit. "Well this is freaky, but pretty cool." He chased after the 'guard' and caught him in a couple of minutes. He slammed Sabotage to a wall, thus scaring him.

"Who-who are you?" Sabotage asked.

"Just call me 'Cloak'," Todd said before knocking him out. After that ordeal, the police came and arrested Sabotage, thanking Cloak in the process. Ever since then he has been taking down criminal after criminal, sending each one to jail. Unfortunately, a mutant invasion occurred and lasted for a couple of months. Cloak was even forced to team up with a speed demon cyborg who calls himself 'the Blur'. Unfortunately, these two hardly got along.

They even picked the wrong time to get into a fight over how to take down mutants, and it escalated into a brawl. Cloak timed his slashes and webbing perfectly, while receiving several hits himself, given that Blur's main power lies in his speed. The fight lasted for a couple of hours until Cloak won. Despite the circumstances, Cloak helped Blur to his feet. "Now we can take out the source of the mutant invasion. I hope you've finally agreed with me, Blur," he said before turning to his bike. "Pitch, we need to get back to the hideout." 'Pitch' flashed its blinkers.

(End Flashback)


"…and there you have it, Washburn," Cloak finished.

"I take it you, Pitch, and this 'Blur' person dealt with the mutants?" Cloak nodded. "Hmm, I actually did a bit of research on Exanton," Logan said, shocking the hero in front of him. Logan saw this and added to his explanation. "In the Assassin's Guild, I specialize in the supernatural and paranormal. This includes Hollows, Soul Reapers, and extraterrestrials. Hell, Astronomy's sometimes needed to help prepare you. How did you wind up here, anyway?"

"Blur and I were going after an arch-enemy of ours named Yukon McSleez. He specializes in making cyborgs as tough as he is ugly. After Blur and I cleared out a couple of his big guns, he trapped me in an unbreakable glass tube and sent me here. You and Kurosaki know the rest," explained Cloak. Logan sensed Ichigo's Spirit Energy again.

"Hold that thought, Platinum. Okay, Ichigo, you can come out now! I know you were listening!" Ichigo stepped out into the open in his Soul Reaper form. Blur tensed up when he saw the orange-haired substitute, but relaxed when he saw that he wasn't drawing his blade.

"I guess we need to hear about your past, huh Kurosaki?" Cloak asked. Ichigo complied, revealing everything to them, including his mother Masaki's death at the hands of the Hollow Grand Fisher, his first meeting with Chad, His first meeting with Rukia, right down to the events of the Winter War, the Fullbringer issue, and the 1000-Year Blood War. Logan knew what it was like to be in big battles at such a young age since he's had his share of Hollows himself.

"I take it that that was the sum of it?"

"Yeah, basically. The whole job kind of made me distant from my friends, but I still did my job."

"Your mother would've been proud, Kurosaki."

"Thanks, Platinum." Logan got an idea from the conversation they had.

"Hey, guys, why don't we find a way to get Cloak home while we're dealing with Hollows? I'm sure we could think of something," he said.

"What about the Senkaimon?" Ichigo suggested.

"That's not going to work, Ichigo. The Soul Society has no links to Exanton other than when a person dies, they're automatically sent to the former."

"Well until we find a way, I'll help you guys deal with your Hollows. Knowing McSleez, though, he'll find a way to send his cyborgs my way. I'm going to need your help with that as well." Logan and Ichigo smiled and nodded.

"Okay then, it looks like we're a team. Are you in?" asked Ichigo as he stuck his hand out.

"I'm game," Logan said, doing the same thing.

"Count me in as well," said Cloak, doing the same thing.

CHAPTER 7 END


Okay folks, after a few weeks, that was Chapter 7. The pasts of the three heroes was finally revealed, the end result being that a new team was formed. Hopefully, Cloak will get along with Logan and Ichigo better than he ever did Blur. We'll just have to wait and see.

P. S.

I made a poll asking what girl you would want to be with Yuma in a Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal Halloween one-shot. The choices are: Tori, Cat, Anna, and Rio. Make your pick on the poll, not in the review section of this chapter.