Chapter 13

This chapter is one massive info dump, I must admit. The action will continue next chapter.

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Yasutora and Uryu stared each other down. Uryu's eyes moved onto Yasutora's right arm and he said, "You're arm," He started," What happened to it?" He asked suspicously. Yasutora answered,

"No idea, I was looking for Rukia and a Hollow was following me so I tried to lead it away but I ended up leading it towards some kids playing soccer so I protected them and for whatever reason my arm changed and I managed to kill the Hollow and others that stand in my way." Yasutora explained, he looked down at his changed arm,"I don't know what caused it."

"I see" Uryu said.

"Its about time this thing is drawn to a close, I'm getting sick of your crap, Ishida." Yasutora put his fists up," Work with me to defend the town or I'll beat the crap outta you."

Uryu didn't answer, instead his eyes were fixed on the sky and he was scowling.

" Yasutora, look up there." Said Rukia pointing up at the sky.

Yasutora did so and when he looked up he saw a large crack on the sky as if it were made of glass and more cracks were appering up near it as if they were gathering. Not only that but, all of the Hollows in town were rushing towards that crack in the sky. Suddenly a beam of light pireced a Hollow in its mask, Yasutora looked down and saw Uryu firing arrows at the Hollows.

" Wait Ishida! Look at how many there are! Think before you attack!" Yasutora shouted.

The other young man glanced at Yasutora, " Are you scared, Sado?"

"No its jus-"

" If you're scared watch from here! I won the contest!" Uryu decleared and then he ran up a flight of stairs," Over here Hollows! The Last Quincy, Ishida Uryu will destroy you all!"

" Last Quincy?" Yasutora said confused."What's he talking about" He asked aloud.

"Two hundred years ago... the Quincies were wiped out." Said Rukia.

Yasutora turned himself around and faced Rukia, she continued," All surviving Quincies despise Shinigami. The origin of that hatred lies in their annihilation because two hundered years ago the Quincies..."She paused," Perished at the hands of the Shinigami!"

Yasutora's eyes widened," You're kidding, right?"

Rukia shook her head," They had to in order to prevent the collpase of the entire universe." She revealed,"In the Soul Society, the Shinigami are often called Balancers. An equal amount of Souls must be maintained in the Soul Society and this world at all times, otherwise the balance of the two worlds shifts...bringing descruction to both!" Rukia continued," Its the job of the Shinigami to adjust the number of Souls in the two worlds. The souls released by the Soul Society are accounted for by the the Shinigami when they're both into earthly creatures. The Souls that die here are returned to the Soul Society by the Shinigami. The same goes for Hollows. By entrusting the transfer of all Souls to the Shinigami, the Soul Society can moniter the number of Souls to maintain the balance between the worlds."

" But then the Quincy appeared." Rukia said darkly," Quincys completely eridcate Hollows! So the Souls released to this world don't return to the Soul Society. The number of Souls only increases in this world! Which makes the whole universe tilt this way and the Soul Society begins to spill into this world! Life and death are mixed together creating chaos. In short, the collpase of the universe."

Yasutora only looked even more surprised and slightly unconfortable.

Rukia went on,"The few years after the Quincies were discovered, the Soul Society began pleading with them to leave the management of Hollows to the Shinigami, but the Quincy stubbornly refused and the number of Quincies rapidly increased, the transfer of Souls was disrupted to the point that the universe was on the verge of collapse and it was decided that the Quincies must be eliminated." Rukia conclouded.

Yasutora's face returned to his stoic state, he then looked back at the staircase where Uryu ran ,"Uryu..."He walked towards Rukia," Maybe that's why he did all of this... to avenge his people."

"Maybe." Rukia said,"Well you need to get to work." Rukia pulled Yasutora's collar down and kissed him on the lips and there was a massive explosion of smoke, "I think I'm getting better at this," She smoke cleared and Yasutora was there as Mighty, Rukia noticed that his shell was a darker shade of red. Mighty performed a thumbs up and then ran to where Uryu ran to.

Mighty set off after Uryu with thoughts of what Rukia told him"Could the Shinigami be that cruel?" Mighty saw Hollows covering his path, he charged and sliced through several Hollow's in his path,"Man, I have no idea..." Mighty punched a Hollow with his free hand knocking it into some others, he jumped on top of the fallen Hollows and saw in the distance standing on his own, Uryu shooting Hollows around him with a bleeding hand. Mighty jumped down and continued to plow his way through the Hollows.

"AAHHHH!"

Uryu turned and Hollow's being flung into the the air and piling ontop of each other and then on top of it he saw Mighty jump on top of clenching his teeth angrily, he was emitting a faint red glow, Uryu only stared incredously.

"Uryu!" He yelled," I know your story now! I don't know about who was right between the Shinigami and the Quincy, but I do know one thing! Uryu your way.."

"That's ancient history"

Mighty fell silent and his angry look was replaced by a confused one.

Uryu adjusted his glasses,"I don't care what happened to the Quincies two hundred years ago. I heard the stroy from my Master. Its just an old legend to me."

"..."Mighty looked at Uryu carefully after he said that.

Uryu continued,"That's not why I fight. I'm not so sentimental. When I heard the story of the fall of Quinces, I actually thought the Shinigami were right, until... I saw my Master die before my eyes."

"My master was a kind man and he never taught me to dislike or hate anyone." Uryu continued," As one of the last surviving Quincies, Master was under constant surveliance, but Master kept aruing the cae to the Shinigami that Quincies were necessary. He thought of ways for both groups to fight together. Shiniami in the peace of the Soul Society are always slow to responde to Hollos in this world. He argued that it would it would be better to have a contingent of Quinces in this world who would be constantly on the lookout for Hollows' and able to deal with them quickly. But," Uryu paused as the scowl already on his face deepened,"But the Shinigami reaction to that was always the same-"Don't interfere with out work" so my Master was killed. " Uryu paused again.

"In the end...Master's philosohpy never reached the Shinigami. If they had embraced his ideas.. if they had recognized the strength of the Quincies, they would have arrived in time to save him and Master wouldn't have to die. Do you understand, Sado Yasutora. I must demonstrate to you the streghth of the Quincies!."

" Okay! I get it!" Mighty shouted waved his hands in the air let out a deep sigh and rubbed his temples, " oh my god." Mighty moaned,"First Rukia's lecture now this... look the point is that your Master doesn't want to prove that the Quincies are better than Shinigami, he wanted them to fight togther!" Mighty yelled.

The anger and biteerness that once inhabited Uryu's face suddenly dissapated.

Mighty let out a deep breath and then walked towards Uryu and looked around at the Hollows that were slowly increasing in number," If we don't do this now, we might not get another chance and your grandfather's idea will never become real. What do you say?" Mighty stuck out his hand and to his surprise Uryu immediatly shook his hand. Then the two stood back to back.

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Rukia was running to where Yasutora ran off, she saw piles of Hollow ontop of each other that were slowly disintergrating one after the other. As she ran she felt something grab her leg, she looked down and saw a monsterous hand over her ankle, she tried to free herself but the grip was far to strong for her.

"Stupid Gigai," Rukia she cursed.

" Brrrish! Brish!" Suddenly a beam of red light hit the hand causing it to sizzle, the hand instantly retracted itslef. Rukia saw next to her a the computer based robot she saw, its screen had a neutral expression on it.

"Good work Tin-Tin, lets clean up here." said a voice in a soft tone.

The robot moved with its tractor wheels and satrted cleansing the Hollow's with the same beam attack that came from the screen.

Rukia saw behind her the ginger haired man she had saw back when she and Yasutora were going to meet Ichigo, he wore the same white coat like the last time. The man saw Rukia and leaned forward slightly, and squitned his eyes while adjusting his glasses," You're the young lady from the cemetary," He said,"What are you doing in all this chaos?" He inquried, polietly.

" I'm jsut looking for my friend." Rukia replied.

" I see," He said,"Well I was out on a walk and I saw all these Hollows appear, do you have any idea who could have caused it?"

Rukia blinked,"You know what Hollows are?"

"Indeed. Speaking of which, it looks like a big one is coming through." The man pointed to the sky and the crack was getting bigger and bigger until a a pair of white hands tore open the sky and a..being that easily towered over everything and wore a mask like a regualr Hollow.

" No way..." Rukia set off in a sprint right away

"Brrrrsih!"

The man watched the giaantic creature slowly walk through town, a grin spread on his face" I want to see the end to this."

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"What the hell is that thing!"

Mighty pointed at the masked creature that was slowly making its way towards them," It looks like a giant Hollow, thats just what we need right now."

"We'd better take care of these things before we move onto that." Uryu said,

Mighy nodded, he was about to charge when all of a sudden the Hollows that surrounded them, some of them blew up and suddenly a kid with red hair holding a bat that was much bigger than him, jumped in and crushed a Hollows mask with his bat and after him a large musclar man with dark-skin slammed a Hollow into ground with his hand. It wasn't long before the Hollow were gone.

"Fear not Sado-san, we're here to save you." In the midst of the fighting stood a man with blonde hair, he wore a bucket hat that covered his face, old fashioned clothes and wooden clogs on his feet. The man fanned himself casually as if he were at the beach.

"Who're you?" Mighty questioned with suspsions on his tone.

"I'm a friend of Kuchiki-san, after hearing so much about you, I felt that I should lend a hand." He said, he apporached Mighty,"Fasinating, I didn't expect you to be so small in anycase, we'll take the small fy and you can focus on him." The man pointed up at the sky where the giant Hollow creature stood, it slowly turned its head and looked directly at Mighty.

Mighty nodded and turned to where the Hollow was,"Gotcha, ready Ishida?" He took a deep breath,"There is only one way to defeat that thing...with" He sheathed his sword and clenched his fits "GUTS!" Yelling at the top of his lungs Migthy charged and Uryu followed behind.

"Yasutora stop!" Shouted Rukia, she stopped running when she saw that they were too far aaway,"Damn it," She cursed. Just then the blonde haired man moved infront of her as if to stop her from going onward,"Urahara! Are you trying to get him killed!" The man held his index and middle finger out in front of Rukia and all of a sudden, she fell to her knees and was unable to move.

" I want to see what he can do." He said cryptically.

Mighty yelled at the top of his lungs as he ran at the Hollow, once he got near it he jumped onto the foot and grabbed on to it he unshethed his sword and stabbed it but his sword bounced off the creatures foot, he looked up and then jumped high grabbing onto its garment-like body and then he began to climb but the creature started to move once again and Mighty was having a hard time hanging and as a result he sword slipped from his fingers.

" Crap!" He cursed.

He gripped the creature's body to keep himself steady and he began to climb up the creature until he neared the creatures mask. Suddnely a giant white moved quickly to where Mighty was hanging and Mighty pushed off the Hollow and landed in the the Hollow's hand, which was beginning to close, Mighty's eyes widened in shock before he jumped again and slipped through the creatures fingers and landed on the creatures forearm,

The creature began to move its body moreand more rapidly, causing Mighty to fall over, but he grabbed the creatures body again but this time climbed back onto the Hollow's arm. Breathing heavily, Mighty broke into a sprint and began to run up the creatures arm and he jumped and grabbed onto its sleeve and then continued to climb up onto the creatures shoulder which is when he drew his sword.

Meanwhile below, Uryu looked up in shock,"What is he doing? Does he intend to hit it from up there!?" Uryu readied his bow," If thats the case, I'd better distract the creature." And Uryu began firing arrows at the creature so it would turn its attention away from Mighty. The arrows had little effect, but the creature had it attention turned away from Mighty.. for a little while.

Back on the Hollow's shoulder, the creature turned its head to face Mighty and it opened its mouth and moved towards Mighty with then intention of eating him. Mighty gulped and he jumped again and landed on the creatures pointy nose where he had little footing, it was there the creature got both hands and they were quickly moved towards its face. Mighty eyes widened as he let go of the creatures nose and was falling through the air.

"SADO!" Shouted Uryu.

Mighty watched the creature violently jolted backwards and began to fall. On the face of the creature, a crack appeared on its face and the crack speread throughout its face eventually its face shattered it completely, as a result the creature slowly dissapated.

" I did it.. oh crap I'm falling!" Mighty yelled, he closed his eyes and tried to stop himself from shaking.

There was loud crash and Mighty blacked out.

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Mighty's eyes opened slightly and after a few blinks his eyes opened fully. He saw standing above him, Rukia and the guy with the striped bucket hat and wooden clogs. He tried to get up but whenever he tried, he felt pain all over his body.

"Idiot, don't move." Gently chided Rukia, she smiled at him relieved to see that he was okay.

"What...happened?" Asked Mighty.

"You fell from a height of a six story building after defeating that Menons Grande, Sado-san." Said the man with the the bucket hat," You didn't break anything surprisingly, you must be made of some hard stuff. Maybe that shell saved you."

"That thing? I didn't defeat it, I got lucky and it defeated itself" Mighty said weakly.

The man chuckled,"Well whatever the case, your actions saved Karakura Town." Urahara revealed.

"Wait.. where's Uryu?"

" He went home." Rukia answered, "He said that you're the winner."

"Winner huh?" Mighty said, he smiled weakly,"Does he still think its a game?" He slowly shut his eyes as fatigue over took him and then he had fallen asleep.

Urahara proceeded to walk out from the room, he slid open the door but he looked behind him and glanced at Mighty,

"What a fasinating turn of events."