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Alright, just a quick note here, sorry for the lack of updates for this story, minor writer's block when it came to how this chapter was going to play out.
A skeletal snake rushed forward and with a roar slammed into a Kushanada while countless of cherry blossom petals surged forward, skewering through Kushanada attempting to bypass the snake.
From the barrage a dozen Kushanada charged through the gates in a wild rush that tossed aside the skeletal snake with their bulk and the first three were annihilated by the petals when a figure landed in front of them.
Ikkaku Madarame lunged forward with the giant guandao of his Bankai Ryumon Hozukimaru while the equally large Monk's spade with it slicing through the head of another Kushanada unlucky enough to get in his path.
"Is that all you got?" Ikkaku demanded before spinning the entire Bankai with the handle at the bottom of the large axe blade in the middle of the Bankai that was floating above him, turning himself and the massive weapon into a destructive whirlwind.
"Nemu, be ready to bind a Kushanada and transport it for study." Mayuri ordered his 'daughter' as the golden baby headed caterpillar that was his Bankai charged a Kushanada and slammed into it, bringing it to the ground where it was consumed in the poison flowing from tis mouth as purple mist.
"Bakudo #62: Hyapporankan." The Twelfth Division Lieutenant called out before throwing a rod from both hands and they quickly duplicated into hundreds that slammed into the Kushanada immobilized by the poison." Bakudo #9: Horin."
An orange-hued tendril of energy launched from both hands and quickly wrapped around the Kushanada as Nemu swung both arms forward and quickly replicated the spell, using it four more times from each hand to fully bind the Kushanada.
"Bakudo #37: Tsuriboshi." Mayuri whispered as he rapidly fired several orbs of blue energy that released six ropes that seemingly connected to midair before enlarging as an elastic platform, similar to a trampoline.
Nemu pulled down the Kushanada using the Horin spells still trapping it and it let out a final roar as it was pulled down and into the many Tsuriboshi spells that quickly wrapped around.
Nemu had already appeared above the falling Kushanada at that point and threw a long ribbon from each sleeve that quickly covered the Kushanada in a sphere.
"Sentan Hakuja." Nemu called out and in a flash of light they were gone.
"Kyoraku-soutaicho, permission to withdraw?" Mayuri asked as he appeared next to the acting Captain Commander.
"On what grounds?" Shunsui asked even as he dodged a Kushanada blade before cutting it in half.
"I've captured a Kushanada for study and a battlefield is hardly the appropriate setting for something as delicate as that." Mayuri answered even as Nemu reappeared through a Senkaimon.
"Since you we're going to leave anyway, permission granted." Shunsui answered after a moment.
Mayuri wordlessly disappeared into the Senkaimon and it vanished once he stepped through it.
The now winged form of Toshiro Hitsugaya flew past Shunsui and the veteran Captain was somewhat shocked at that.
'The kid is using his Bankai here, I thought he was still training with it?'
"Guncho Tsurara." Toshiro called out as he swung his sword down, unleashing a wave of ice daggers that quickly grew in size in the moisture rich air.
An energy wave from a Kushanada destroyed them and Toshiro frowned even as his ice wings covered him, protecting him from a second blast but still throwing him back only to be caught by a giant hand.
"Are you alright Hitsugaya-taicho?" the helmeted form of the Seventh Division Sajin Komamura asked the white haired Captain.
The massive armored giant of his Bankai turned to face the Kushanada and with a roar Komamura swung down, the giant mimicking him ad crushing several Kushanada with the large blade it wielded.
"Hado #31: Shakkaho!" Komamura called out as he rose a palm up and instead of the crimson sphere of energy forming in his hand it formed in the hand of the armored giant above him.
A crimson pillar of energy fired form the giant's palm and threw the mass of Kushanada back with nearly as much ease as swatting away a fly.
"Now Komamura-taicho, seal the gates!" Shunsui ordered and the giant immediately moved forward, grasping the edges of each gate with one hand each and with a roar from Komamura the gates began closing.
"Everyone, protect Komamura-taicho now!" Shunsui ordered.
As Kushanada blades raved forward to skewer the armored giant moments later a storm of cherry blossom petals intercepted them, shredding them immediately before a skeletal snake rushed forward and rapid crimson blasts pushed away several Kushanada.
Kisuke decided to pull back after a moment and stood with the masked Visored, acting as another line of defense against the Kushanada.
"What do you think this was for?" Shinji asked him almost immediately and Kisuke shrugged.
"No idea, it could range from distracting us here or even poisoning the Pulses here and turning them into something beyond Hollows." Kisuke answered after a moment." I'll be able to run a few experiments after all this so ask me in a few days."
"Why are we just sitting here, we could be out there dealing with these things easier than them." Kensei demanded, his Bankai gone and replaced with his Shikai once again.
"Hell is messing with our powers, you felt it, didn't you?" Shinji asked Kensei and then the Visored as a whole." Are powers are getting stronger and we're on the verge of slipping, letting the Hollow take control."
With Ichigo…
The orange haired teen finally managed to reach Karakura Town and with a sloppy teleportation he appeared on a rooftop and managed to see the massive armored giant attempting to close the Gates of Hell.
"What the hell is that?" Ichigo asked out loud as he looked at both the gates and the massive Bankai of a Captain.
"Good, you're finally here."
Zangetsu was up and blocking a sword aimed to remove his neck from the side but even then he was thrown back and into the street where he cratered it.
'Alright, what is this guy?' Ichigo asked himself even as he rolled out of the way of a downward stab, aimed to keep him on the ground.
"Drive." Ichigo called out as he released a crescent of energy forward before throwing himself forward." Stinger!"
His attacker managed to bring their sword up in time to block the tip of Zangetsu with the flat of their blade but they were still thrown back and into a nearby building.
"Overdrive!" Ichigo called out as he slashed Zangetsu a single time and sent a dozen crescents of energy forward, each striking the figure inside the building.
'Ichigo, get away from the souls here.' Zangetsu's voice ordered in his mind and Ichigo with a quick teleportation vanished, being struck by the figure at the same time he did so.
The sudden pain made him lose focus and the two slammed into a building.
Ichigo threw his attacker off of him and winced at the blade lodged in his gut.
'Today just isn't my day.' Ichigo thought to himself as he ripped the blade out and stepping forward he flung it at the figure like a javelin before flipping Zangetsu into a reverse grip and slashed up with it.
"Getsuga Tenshou!" Ichigo called out as blue crescent of energy raced forward.
At the Gates of Hell…
"Getsuga Tenshou!" Isshin roared as the blue crescent of energy slammed into a Kushanada, tossing it back into the gates with most of its large torso missing after the massive blue explosion engulfed it.
A second one appeared far off and Isshin immediately sensed Ichigo's Reiatsu even as it dropped for a moment before rising again.
"Kisuke, let me out of this thing!" Isshin quickly ordered the scientist who stopped him in a shower of sparks with the released Benihime straining against Isshin's own Zanpakuto.
"You know I can't do that Isshin." Kisuke spoke after a moment as he pushed Isshin away, Benihime's tip pointed at him." I want to get out of here just as much as you but I won't endanger the World of the Living because of it."
"I don't give a damn about that, he's my son!" Isshin shouted back as he held his Zanpakuto out in front of him, his knuckles white from his grip.
"Burn, Engetsu!"
With his Zanpakuto now sheathed in his Reiatsu he charged forward, the crimson covered blade of Benihime meeting his.
"Sorry about this Isshin."
"I am too."
With a shout Kisuke found himself thrown away by brute force but a quick Shunpo stopped Isshin from striking the barrier.
"Getsuga Tenshou!"
"Nake, Benihime!"
The two energy waves clashing threw both back in a violet explosion, slamming Kisuke into the barrier and throwing Isshin back, Kensei catching him moments later with his arms now trapped behind his back.
"I would hold still Isshin." Shinji told him, Sakanade pressed to his throat.
With Ichigo…
The orange haired Substitute Shinigami teen decided enough was enough at this point.
His first attacker had been joined by two others and the kicker was that they were all identical to the first one.
"Who the hell are you?" Ichigo finally demanded, struggling to hold Zangetsu up with his one usable arm, the other a broken mess hanging limply at his side." What are you even doing here?"
He only received chuckles from three different locations as his attackers emerged once again, moving from the shadows to surround him.
"It." the first one spoke as they rushed Ichigo from the front.
"Doesn't." the second released a beam of Reiatsu.
"Matter." the third spoke as they attacked Ichigo from behind with their sword.
The teen actually grinned at this before snapping his fingers.
"Quicksilver."
Time seemed to slow down around him as he walked out of the trap he found himself in and drew Ebony as he tossed Zangetsu into the air, he shot himself and found his arm healed and his fatigue gone from the Kaido infused bullet.
He fired several rounds behind him before holstering the gun.
The three attackers suddenly roared back to motion and the two attacking with their weapons were stopped in their tracks by the shots before they were incinerated by the energy blast of the third.
"What the hell?" the third figure asked before their head erupted into a shower of blood.
Ichigo lowered the smoking Luce and holstered it behind him and looked over his clothes once more.
He had replaced his tattered and burned clothes with a red dress shirt with a black vest over it while he had kept the jeans, chain, and boots from his invasion of Soul Society and keeping his black and red duster coat and black sunglasses with his hair once again slicked back as it normally was now.
"It's me bastards." Ichigo answered the now dead figure's question even as he saw them dissolve into a black slime.
"Freeze, Zangetsu." Ichigo whispered and in a burst of cold air the bo form of Cerberus appeared in one of his hands.
An axe head blade of ice from the tip of it shot towards each puddle of slime and froze it as he slipped on his fedora with his other his other hand.
"Man does it feel good to be back." Ichigo spoke up as Cerberus vanished and he turned to the gates." Now to deal with whatever this is."
He was stopped from moving forward by a wave of fire before having to dodge several bolts of lightning and then leaping over several bullets of water.
"What the hell!" Ichigo demanded as he landed on a rooftop." I just killed all of you!"
"You." the first one spoke as they appeared on the rooftop in front of Ichigo.
"Can't." the second figure spoke as they appeared on a rooftop to Ichigo's right.
"Kill us." the third figure spoke as they appeared above him, lightning covering their raised blade as they shot down towards Ichigo.
Ichigo leapt away from it even as he swung Zangetsu down.
"Drive!" Ichigo called out and the crescent of energy threw the figure back.
Ichigo stayed in the air as the figure stopped themselves from falling off the rooftop.
"Alright, enough of this, I'm going to kill you but first I want to know. Who the hell are you bastards and why are you fighting me?"
"Are names." the first spoke with lightning engulfing their blade.
"Don't matter." the second continued as flames consumed them in a miniature inferno.
"To a dead man." The third finished with water roaring down the blades and descending down on Ichigo as a crushing wave quickly shaping itself into a dragon, a roaring Chinese dragon from what Ichigo could see as he leapt into the air to avoid it.
He looked over the three and noticed each were identical with smoothed back long black hair and piercing gold eyes. They didn't even dress differently with the same white pants with three black lines running down the left side with the same white double breasted trench coat and white gloves over their hands.
Even their swords looked the same, the same silver octagonal guard and yellow and white braided hilt.
"We are here to kill you." all three shouted as lightning shoot into the dragons of water while fireballs rained down towards Ichigo, forcing him to either face the dragons of electrified water or the rain of fireballs.
"Burn, Zangetsu!" Ichigo roared and moments later hellfire roared out of the gauntlets, consuming the weaker fires and turning the electrified water into mist.
With a burst of flames two of the figures were consumed in twin bursts of hellfire launched from Ichigo's gauntlets with Ichigo flipping over the electrified sword of the other before grabbing it as they swung up at him before he ripped it out of their hands and snapped it over his raised knee.
"You bastard!" the figure roared as they charged forward, aiming to slam electrified fists into Ichigo only for his blows to be knocked away and leave him open to a kick from Ichigo.
Before he could be thrown away by the blow Ichigo grabbed him by his coat with one hand and lifted him up, the hellfire of Ifrit barely contained from rushing out and incinerating the figure in an instant.
"I've got some questions you really should answer." Ichigo told them, a grin slowly covering his face as the hellfire slowly spread." But please, don't answer them."
The figure began screaming as the hellfire slowly burned them, the pain a dozen times worse than any normal burn.
"I'm not going to lie when it's always more fun when they don't talk."
In Soul Society…
The flames of Ryujin Jakka once again engulfed a yellow Cero with ease and surged towards the blonde haired figure who had fired it, they barely avoiding the much stronger flames and this having happen a few dozen times had Yamamoto's attackers worried.
"What are you old man?" the brown haired man finally asked as they drew their sword." We've been unloading on you the entire time with those, how are you still standing!"
Yamamoto merely grinned as he held Ryujin Jakka at his side.
"You brats." Yamamoto spoke as the flames surged around them all, engulfing them in a sphere of flames." Do you really think you can stand against the strongest Shinigami in the entire history of Soul Society?"
"Well, not one of us could but all three of us should be able to." the brown haired figure spoke up.
"We believed you were still injured but you clearly aren't." the blonde haired figure continued." We shouldn't be surprised through."
Before Yamamoto could attack them each created a Garganta behind them and vanished into them, closing the tear in dimensions behind them.
Yamamoto merely snorted at their escape before swiftly opening a Senkaimon with his still released Zanpakuto, causing the doors to appear in a burst of flames.
"It is about time I finish this nonsense." Yamamoto spoke to himself, he had sensed the Reiatsu the opening of the Gates of Hell released all the way from Soul Society.
'I give you a few days in command Shunsui and this happens.' Yamamoto thought with a small grin.' Things really do get interesting when a Kurosaki is involved.'
In Karakura Town…
A figure watched as the gates were slowly being closed before sighing.
"It seems I have to involve myself in this after all." the figure commented before a black portal opened behind them and a massive crimson beam of energy erupted forward, slamming into the barrier as several others opened and a blue, yellow, and green beam soon joined it from more portals opening around the barrier.
Under the onslaught the barrier was very quickly reaching its limits.
"Meteor!"
Fireballs rained down on the figure only for them to step back into a black portal as it appeared behind them.
"Come back here bastard!" Ichigo roared as his gauntleted fist slammed into the ground, an eruption of hellfire consuming him." Where the hell do you think you're going!?"
"Away, now die."
Ichigo seemed to see the world around him change into a black void surrounding him in slow motion as he leapt high into the air.
He had just grasped Luce and Ombra's handles when he was bombarded from all directions by blasts of energy.
Well he would have if a figure hadn't appeared in front of him and the energy blasts were blasted into the escaping figure moments later, a cry of pain coming from them even as the portal sealed.
"Dammit!" Ichigo screamed as hellfire quickly engulfed him." Dammit!"
"Kurosaki, what is wrong?" Jushiro asked as he lowered Sogyo no Kotowari.
"I lost the bastard." Ichigo snapped as Zangetsu appeared in his hands once again." I lost the bastard responsible for whatever this is!"
Jushiro quickly left Ichigo at that point as he saw him about to snap and appeared back in the barrier.
He appeared just in time to redirect an energy blast from a Kushanada aimed at Aizen and took down several with the sweeping beam fire by his Zanpakuto.
"Thank you Ukitake-taicho." Aizen spoke as he stopped the blood flowing from his injured left shoulder." I need go see Unohana-taicho."
"Hikotsu Taiho!" Renji roared as a massive red beam of energy engulfed several Kushanada moments later as the pinwheel blades of Kazeshini raced forward and the chain on each blade wrapped around the neck of another Kushanada.
"Hado #32: Okasen." Shuhei called out as the Kushanada's head was removed from its neck by a wave of energy launching from the chains around its neck.
Ikkaku laughed like a madman as his guandao ripped through a Kushanada's neck before he swung his entire body forward and the Monk's spade at the other end of his Bankai shot forward as the chain extended and cut off the arm of another Kushanada before with a pull the guandao was freed from the neck of the Kushanada as Ikkaku spun the entire Bankai using the handle at the bottom of the axe head floating above his back, driving him through a Kushanada unlucky enough to be that close to him as the chains extended.
The dragon crest in the middle of the axe had long since turned crimson and the entire Bankai had a constant crimson glow to it.
"Tsuppane, Benihime." Kisuke whispered as he drew a large red circle in front of him, stopping a Kushanada blade from striking him and Yoruichi raced forward at that moment.
"Shunko!"
The Goddess of Flash had turned herself into a lightning bullet and her fist slammed through the Kushanada before she kicked off of it and landed on another, landing several blindingly fast punches on its back that shattered it's spine and her foot crashing down on its head as it fell backwards had it disappear even as she vanished with Shunpo to avoid four massive blades from crushing her and the four Kushanada behind them had their skulls shattered a moment later.
"That was impressive Yoruichi." Kisuke spoke up even a she appeared in front of her." Kirisaki, Benihime."
The crimson shield appeared and stopped a Kushanada fist before shredding it and the arm behind it with the barrage of energy bullets." But you could pay a little more attention to other things still."
"Shut up Kisuke." Yoruichi answered before vanishing and what seemed to be a bolt of lightning slammed into a Kushanada, cutting it in half vertically in an instant.
'She still doesn't take criticism well.' Kisuke thought as he saw several more Kushanada dropped by what appeared to be simultaneous bolts of lightning.' Thank the Soul King she has someone to take it out on.'
He sidestepped a blast of lightning as Yoruichi flew past him and saw an unfortunate Kushanada seemingly trapped in a sphere of lightning and was destroyed by it moments later.
Toshiro suddenly flew past him with his ice wings and slashed down towards a Kushanada, dragons of ice flowing from the arc of his swing and raining down on them and the barrage freezing them on impact before a single massive one slamming into it shattered the entire thing.
"Ryusenka." Toshiro whispered as he stabbed a Kushanada into the shoulder and they were instantly frozen before shattering into an explosion of ice shards that slammed through several nearby Kushanada, freezing them solid on impact.
"Urahara, when are the gates closing?" Toshiro asked as Kisuke slashed down behind him, a crimson wave of energy exploding against the head of a Kushanada, taking it down and destroying it.
"Some time soon." Kisuke answered before appearing behind the small Captain." Chikasumi no Tate."
A crimson shield appeared in time to stop a wave of energy from a Kushanada and Urahara's eyes narrowed as he saw the cracks along the shield.
'That was the true name of that technique, it shouldn't have been damaged like that from an attack like that.' Kisuke commented to himself even as he drew a red circle in front of him moments later.
"Tsuppane, Benihime."
A Kushanada's fist slammed into the circle and it was stopped in an instant.
"Everyone clear out!" Kisuke nearly screamed but it seemed he was too late.
A mass of black portals opened around them and the next thing Kisuke knew was darkness.
AN: I really don't see this as the best chapter so if you see anything that doesn't make sense leave a review on it.
Peace.