Standing at the edge of the city was the Axion building. There they worked to develop the latest technology. Inside one of the labs, Damon Gray was working on the defense systems. He was head of the security division of the facility, working on the most advanced security system in the country.

His daughter had came to visit him one day. Valerie Gray, she was considered one of the most popular in school, not as popular as Paulina but still up there. She was free that day so she came to check on her dad.

"There and there." He was finishing up some last minute touches, "That should do it. Sorry sweety but I need to present this to my boss. Mind waiting here for a bit?"

"No problem. I have some homework to do in the meantime." She sat at one of the desks and pulled some books out. With that her father left.

As she was sitting there alone she began to hear some strange noises. "Hello?" She looked around. Seeing how there was no answer she just went back to reading. But not long after she heard something else. It was very faint, but it almost sounded like, growling. The noise gave her chills, but what scared her most was that she couldn't see anyone else in the room.

*CRASH*

Suddenly one of the desks was smashed. Valerie ran over to it to see what happened, but there was nothing there, like if the desk fell on its own. If she wasn't already scared, she would be now.

*CRASH CRASH CRASH*

More areas of the lab were also being smashed, and again she couldn't see what was causing it. When she could feel the 'nothingness' crash right next to her she ran to the security control and turned it on. Many security devises started turning on, including extra door locks, a netting, even what looked to be a disco ball that shot lasers.

As she watched the destruction continue she then dove under one of the desks that was left standing and hid under it. The crashing noises kept going on, the security system adding to the noise, it seemed like it was going on forever for her. Then suddenly it all stopped, the room became silent. Feeling it was safe she poked her head out to check. It had stopped, but the lab was destroyed. Equipment was wrecked, walls torn up, even the security system was lying in ruin.

She then heard the entrance door slid open. Standing in the doorway was none other than her father, and to top it off his boss too. They looked in horror at the state the lab was in, the amount of work that was put into it, but more importantly the amount of money spent. As they stared at the lab they were unable to notice a certain white hair shinigami sneaking right pass them. Damon just slid his eyes towards his boss, "I'm fired aren't I?"

The guy didn't even waste the effort of looking at him. "You're not just fired, you are ruined."

Not long after the incident, the Grays were moving all their stuff out of their very large house. To make it worse for them they were selling practically all of it.

Walking up to the house was Danny the others. Danny had a pretty sad look on his face, "Man, this is all my fault. If I could have stopped that hollow she wouldn't be like this."

Sam put a hand on his shoulder, "Don't be so hard on yourself. You did the best you could right?"

"She's right," Rukia added, "Not every fight can go smoothly. Sometime things happen because of it."

The pep talk didn't do much to cheer him up, "Yeah, and one of those 'things' is being taken out on Valerie."

They saw Valerie walking out of the house holding a giant box labeled 'Valerie's cloths', the size alone baffled some of them. Tucker then shot a sharp grin, "With her down in the dumps, this the perfect time to catch her on the rebound." He ran over to help, while the two girls behind him were still glaring at him in disgust.

Almost losing her grip on the large box she started to trip, but was quickly caught by Tucker. "Hey Vale, heard about what happen."

"Oh great. Word has already reached all the way down to the loser gang." The fact that the 'unpopulars' were the one's willing to help didn't help her outlook on the situation.

Danny walked into the conversation, "Look, he's just trying to help, I am too."

"As am I." Rukia added with her pretend happy smile.

"I'm not." Sam said bluntly, obviously she didn't appreciate that loser comment, or the several hundred before.

"Well 3/4 do." Tucker tried to clarify, "That's still most."

*beep beep*

"Um make that 1/2." Danny said, "I just remembered I have to do… something." He then ran down the street and out of sight.

Tucker forced a smile to try and make everything look normal, "So, after we help move this stuff wanna grab something to eat." He tried to move forward with his original plan.

Valerie responded by yanking the box out of Tuckers hands, "Look geek, I'm having enough problems as it is, last thing I need is to be seen going out with you."

She then carried the box away. Tucker then started to hear and even feel something coming close. He was able to is it coming, but Valerie, "Um, Vale." He tried to warn her.

"What part of what I said didn't you get, beat it." Simply ignoring him and walking in the thing's path.

"Oh hell." He built up his courage and ran right at her. With a fast tackle he knocked her out of the way. But it caused her to let go of the box making it drop to the ground. Only a second later the box was smashed by something.

Valerie pushed Tucker off of her, "Just what the hell do you think you're.." she cut herself off after she saw the crushed box. "My clothes!" she ran over to them to see the damage.

*BASH*

A loud noise came from the moving truck. There was a large indent on the side. Whatever hit it was hard enough to make the truck lean. Very slowly the truck gradually started falling to its side, until…

*CRASH*

The truck fell flat on its side.

For those who could see spirits they saw Danny lifting himself from the huge indent, grabbing his sore ribs. "That's the hollow that attacked the lab." He pointed to a hollow that walked on four legs, its bone mask almost resembled a dog's. After Danny recovered himself the hollow took off from the scene. "Hey! Get back here!" Danny then chased after it.

Mr. Gray dashed out of the house. "What happened?!" he could quickly see the truck. Running to it he opened the back to check the stuff, but they already knew, it was all ruined, broken beyond repair. All Valerie could do was look in growing disappointment.

The next week or so didn't really get any better for her. Without the money her dad used to earn see couldn't go out and buy new clothes, she couldn't afford the concerts and events she went to, and all of this resulted in her not being considered popular anymore. In time like those people would turn to their friends, but without her old status her so called friends didn't even bothered. It looked pretty sad for her. Until her dad had some news for her.

"Great news sweetheart. I'm getting one last chance. I convinced them to let me guard what's left of the research lab, while they rebuild it."

"That's great dad. How many of your employees can you put on it?"

"I don't have any more employees, I have to guard it myself, at night, in that." He pointed to a very old style security guard uniform hanging on the door.

"Nice." She responded with a sadden tone, "And if things get worse you can use that outfit to deliver packages."

"That reminds me." He then picked up and handed her a box, "this package came in for you."

She looked at the box and decided to open it in her room. Inside was a wooden case, and on top of it was an envelope. Choosing the envelope first she opened it, inside was a letter.

Unfolding the letter she read, 'Dear Ms. Gray, you don't know me, but I know of your troubles. Until now you have been powerless against it, I am giving you the tools to help you, to take control, to fight back.' "Fight?" The letter did nothing but confuse her. There was no name on the package, not even a return address, and how could he even know about what was happening to her.

She read more in the hopes that it make some senses. 'Inside this box is your key to a new world, and your weapon to defend against it.'

Putting the letter down she examined the box. She opened the lid, and inside was silver square rod. "Ok? Weird?" She picked it up to get a better look, it really was just a silver rod, it had some indents to give it some design, and a square loop at the bottom, but that's all. "This is supposed to be a weapon? Doesn't look like it could hurt a-" suddenly the tip of the it started to glow, shining a bright blue light. "What the-?"

Back in the living room, Valerie's dad was almost out the door to wor- *crash* the loud noise stopped him. "Valerie?"

"I'm okay!" she answered as fast as she could. Any other time he would go to check, but he couldn't be late on his first day, so he left.

Vale cracked the door open to check if he left. When she was in the clear she looked at a smoking slash mark in her wall, and her bookshelf on the floor and in half.

Still shocked and surprised by what she just did she held out the 'weapon' away from her. "Right. Weapon." She grabbed the letter and read it again to herself, finally to the last part, 'Your friend, Uryu Ishida.'

"Ok, Mr. Ishida, let's see this world of yours."

A few days later, Rukia and Danny, in his shinigami form, were chasing the four legged hollow. "You are not getting away this time!" Danny shouted at it. The hollow turned around a corner and into an ally. When the two reached the ally he saw nothing, the hollow was gone. "And he got away this time. Can you track (dogs name) for me?" He asked Rukia.

She pulled out her phone to check, but she was surprised. "The signals gone, looks like something destroyed the hollow."

"What? How can it-?" Something caught his attention. "Sshh"

"Huh?" She looked at what he saw. Down the alley someone was walking up. Danny made a good call, figured Rukia would seem strange looking like she was just talking to herself. So she just stood there looking like she was just minding her own business.

The person became clearer as she walked up. It was Valerie, she was just strolling along. She wasn't wearing her usual yellow dress but a new white one with blue outlining. If she had noticed Rukia she probably just ignored her.

When she was far enough away Rukia whispered to Danny, "Funny how that hollow kept appearing around her."

"Right." He answered heavily, "Still feel bad for everything it did because I didn't stop it. But if it's gone then I'm sure things will get better for her."

Rukia hid her pride in him for caring so much, "Come on, we need to investigate what happen to that hollow."

The two ran off to look for any clues. As they did they were unaware of Valerie looking back towards them. "So he's one of them, and I'm betting he was involved." She muttered to herself as she gripped her gift.

A/N: So here is the quincy of the story. I know many of you have been asking who for a while. I choose her cause I thought it fit pretty well. Also hope you like that small cameo. If you followed the bleach story I'm sure you know what happens next, so expect that in the next few chapters. So thanks again for reading and following this, and tell me your thoughts in the review. See ya then