Everyone sat in the back room of the Urahara shop. Shunsui, Ichigo, Byakuya, Iba, Yumichika, Rose, Love, Mashiro, Rangiku, and Momo laid out unconscious, all bandaged and under Orihime and Hachi's shields. "Don't worry, we'll be able to save them, but it will take a while." Hachi said.
"Yah, they'll be as good as new soon." Orihime said with a forced smile. No one felt like talking, but they knew they had too. They had to discuss the events that happened and figure out what to do.
"Let's assess the situation. Captains Kuchiki and Kyoraku as well as lieutenants Hinamori, Iba, and Matsumoto with Yumichika, Rose, Love, Mashiro, and Ichigo are injured and Shuhei was kidnapped." Kisuke said.
"You don't need to remind us Urahara." Kensei growled. He looked around the room to see everyone looking sadly at their friends. This was a hard mortal blow. Kensei stood up. "Kisuke, they mentioned they lived in the Dangai, is there any way we can track them?" asked Kensei in a desperate voice. Kisuke looked down, his hat shadowing his face.
"Quite possibly yes. You see, I found what they were truly after in my shop." Kisuke said. Everyone looked at him expectedly.
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Shuhei pushed himself up off the floor. 'Where am I?' he thought. He could taste metal in his mouth and his whole body felt numb. He managed to sit up and look around. It was pitch black and there was no way to see where he was. Then he remembered seeing Mashiro fall and getting stuck with Akane's lighting! Shuhei tried to get to his feet and fell down. "You need to calm down Shuhei, your two weak to do anything right now." Taunted a voice.
"Akane!" Shuhei growled. A door opened and light flooded in. Shuhei could see he was in what looked to be a decent sized bedroom.
"What do you think? Better prison cell than most if I do say so myself." Akane boosted.
"What do you want?" Shuhei asked. Akane smirked.
"I told you Shuhei, you're going to see us take over the Soul Society, and then we'll kill you." Akane said. Shuhei managed to stand up. He went to grab Kazeshini only to find that his katana was gone.
"We move it into the hall, that way you can't use it to break out." Akane said.
"H…how are the others?" Shuhei asked.
"Hmm… let's see, There was a boy with spikey orange hair, a small black haired girl, some guy with spiked black hair and sunglasses, some noble man with black those white ceremonial things in his hair, some boy with weird feathers on his face, a blonde man with a whip, some lieutenant with sunglasses and an attitude, a captain with a pink coat, a blonde woman with a pink scarf, and the green haired girl. They all were killed." said Akane. 'No!' Shuhei thought in horror.
"THEY'RE NOT DEAD!" Shuhei yelled.
"They're as good as dead! They had no chance of getting to any squad four members, unless you guys have a few people who excel in kido than they're long gone." Akane said. Shuhei started to panic, than a thought hit him, 'Orihime, Hachi! They may be able to save them!" Shuhei thought with a sigh of relief. "Even then though, they won't get up quick enough to stop us! We are almost threw to the other side of the Dangai to the Soul Society." Akane said. Shuhei glared at him.
"You'll never succeed." Shuhei said.
"Let me guess, you're going to stop me." Akane said.
"Maybe not, but you'll have to fight the Head Captain and Captain Unohana and between you and me, I think I'd rather fight Captain Zaraki than be on the wrong side of either of them." Shuhei said. Akane scoffed at him.
"Ah yes, the Head Captain and the doctor lady. Do you really expect me to be afraid of them?" he asked. Shuhei shrugged.
"That's up to you, but Captain Unohana does understand how the body works and it's week points. Don't mistake the fact that just because she can save lives that she can't take a life that easily." Shuhei said with a small laugh.
"You never change do you?" Akane asked. He stared venomously at his old friend. Shuhei sighed.
"I'm not the one who changed Akane." He said. Akane glared again, then left the room. 'Ichigo, Momo, Love, Byakuya, Yumichika, Rose, Iba, Shunsui, Rangiku, and Mashiro, how can they have been taken down so easily?' Shuhei wondered. He looked up at the celling. 'You guy's better recover fast!' Shuhei thought in desperation.
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Yamamoto paced the length of his office. The remaining officers stood around him. Sasakibe, Marechiyo, Retsu, Isane, Mayuri, and Nemu all stood quietly awaiting his orders. "It looks like the defense of the Seiritei will rest on our shoulders." Yamamoto said. Marechiyo and Isane were stunned. "I want you to each mobilize your strongest seated officers so they may be ready." Yamaoto said.
"How do you know this enemy is coming here?" Marechiyo asked.
"Because of what they had attempted to steal from Kisuke Urahara." Yamamoto said.
"What was that?" Isane asked.
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"It's called at 'war gate' it opens a permanent portal from the dangai to the Soul society. That alone is bad enough, but it wouldn't just open into the Soul society. You see, Hueco Mundoe is directly in the middle of the Soul Society and the World of the Living. This gate would stretch threw the Menos forest, unleashing an unlimited number of hollows into the Soul Society. Doing that, it would enable the enemy to use the hollows as a distraction to sneek up on the soul reapers and kill our officers while they are handling the hollows." Kisuke said.
"Why the hell would you have invented something like that anyhow!" Rukia screamed.
"It was a prototype, I never meant for it to actually be used." Kisuke said calmly. Uryu sighed.
"So how can you use it to track where these guys are hiding?" Uryu asked.
"I'm glad you asked. You see the only reason they didn't take it from my store is because they have designed one of their own! Because Aizen had destroyed the cleaner, they have nothing to fear anymore in the Dangai! They also have unlimited time to set up their gate, but they didn't count on one thing. For their plan to work, there is only one place in the Dangai they can set it up." said Kisuke.
"What do you mean?" Toshiro asked.
"You see, the only way they can open the gate to the hollows can get in is on the very edge of Hueco Mundoe. That is where they'll be." Kisuke said. Kensei stood up.
"Then what are we waiting for!" he yelled. He looked around to see the others. "Are we going to go or not?" he asked. Yoruichi, Soi Fon, Izuru, Renji, Sajin, Nanao, Lisa, Toshiro, Kenpachi, Uryu, Chad, Ukitake, Rukia, Tessai, Ukitake, Shinji, and Hiyori sand up. Yachiru flung herself onto Kenpachi's sholder.
"Of course we're going!" Yoruichi said.
Sorry for taking so long. I will update as soon as I can but on the 26 of June I will leave for a while. I won't be back for a few months so I won't be able to work on any of my stories, but I'll try to get a little bit of it going before I leave!
