I woke on a cool, metal surface with a blinding light from above. I blinked at the brightness and tried to move but saw I was strapped down. " Glad your finally awake," a voice cooed.

I slowly turned my head to the side and my body immediately stiffened at the sight of Szayel. In a surgeons uniform. " Wha-"

" Shut up woman," he hissed. A moment later the smile was back. " You. You filthy American whore. You've ruined everything since you came here! Wrapping Grimmjow around your finger like that. And now fuehrer Aizen?! No. I will not drop in rank again I refuse it!"

He stepped back over and put a gag in my mouth, still smiling. I screamed behind the gag and flailed about. " A woman should know her place, especially an American one. So now you will take the place of your comrades as my experiment. An experiment on how much pain the human body can handle before dying."

I shook even harder but he held my arms down and showed me his scalpel. He dug into my arm and I screamed. " Oh look at this: red blood, blue eyes, and white skin. Truly an American woman. Let's see what makes you tick," he said. And with that I screamed and flailed for what felt like hours until I passed out.

Ichigo POV

I impatiently tapped my foot waiting on the bridge. Several other captains and lieutenants were here waiting for the pick up. We'd be trading some of their men for some of ours but most importantly Haruka. Hana. She's finally coming back to me. I couldn't help but smile thinking of her. " Hey here they come straighten up," Renji said.

And there it was, 2 German cars one filled with soldiers the other only 2 soldiers and 3 sacked hostages. I grabbed my own POW, the elderly man, and Renji grabbed his as we moved forward. Our three were roughly escorted forward until the halfway point. " Remove the bags," I said sternly.

One of the men said something in German to the blue haired man. Probably the translator. Wait blue? The blue one grunted and removed the bags. Shunsui, Ukitake, and… Hisagi? " Here are your men yes?" the translator asked.

" We wanted Hana," I said sternly. The man mumbled to the blue hair one who answered back to the translator.

" Who is Hana?"

" Haruka Yamada!" I shouted and the blue haired one stiffened at the name.

He hissed to the other man in German, the translator shaking in fear, who then turned back to me. " We were told that there was an option of the man or the woman and we kept the woman. You want these hostages back or not?"

I looked coldly at the blue haired one who glared back at me. Wait… he was the one. The one with Hana. " You… You took her! You were the one win the explosion with her!" I shouted and nearly lunged forward but Renji held me back and more of our soldiers moved forward, successfully making the exchange.

The translator mumbled and the blue haired one looked back at me. Realization came on his face and he smiled widely. He leaned right up into my face and said, " Ja, und Sie werden nie bekommen sie zurück, Herr Mitspieler," then laughed and began walking back.

" What the hell did he say?" I asked Renji. Uryuu stepped forward just then.

" I know just a bit of German. He said: Yes and you are never getting her back, Mr. Teammmate," Uryuu said sadly and questionably at the end.

He knew? I grit my teeth and looked over at the man. He was just handed a radio. " Listen to what they are saying Uryuu," I muttered and Uryuu nodded.

" Come back quick… Why the hell should I Nnoitra… Its Haruka Szayel got to her. She's hurt bad," Uryuu said.

I looked back and saw a look of shocked horror on his face then complete anger as he gripped the radio receiver so tightly he smashed it. A second later he was shouting out orders and a minute later they were gone. Szayel, the mad scientist of the Nazi army has Hana. I leaned against the wall of the bridge and put my head in my hands. She's not going to make it. I'm never going to see Haruka again! "Hana," I cried softly.

" Hey… Kurosaki," a voice said. I looked up and past Renji and Uryuu to see captain Shunsui motioning me over. I walked over slowly, noticing he was the least banged up. " Haruka is doing fine. The blue haired one is taking care of her."

I clenched my fists. That does not make me feel any better. " We just listened in to a conversation. She's been injured by Szayel," I said.

Shunsui cringed and clenched his fists. " Damn that monster. He hurt all of us."

" I know. And we can't even stop them we have no idea where they are!" I shouted angrily now.

" Now that's not completely true," Shunsui said pulling on his arm sleeves. There were little marks on his arms. " I spent 2 whole days looking out the window in the infirmary memorizing every inch of the landscape. And I was able to count part of our journey here after I woke up in the back of the car. Each mark is a turn, horizontal for right vertical for left. If we get a map and some time we can get back to that place and possibly end the war," Shunsui said.

He injured himself with those scratches for us, for Hana. And I won't let that go to waste. Smiling I shook his hand. " Let's get you fully stitched up and fed then in front of a map," I said.

Shunsui nodded then we all got in our own vehicles back to our own camp. Hold on Hana, not much longer until we find you.