-shortly before-

Torin grabbed his zanpakto and slung it over his back, attaching the sheath to a harness that formed from crystal dust. Rida and Aurora were both with him, also preparing to depart.

"this is obviously a trap" Torin said "if Crisis wanted to attack karakura town he could be more subtle, he wants us to rush there and split our forces"

"Still, what choice do we have?" Aurora asked "if we let him attack it he'll just create the Ouken"

Torin scowled "that's what bothers me, he has the edge on us in too many ways, He's captured the head of the stealth force denying us an entire squad, taken down our walls, and now forced some of the Gotei's strongest defenders to leave the Soul Society." He complained

"well no use complaining" Rida said cheerily "let's just kick as much ass as we can, Crisis's forces will be split too remember"

With that the trio left to go the the senkaimon.

At the senkaimon were several other handpicked shinigami judged to be good fits for the mission.

Amongst these were many people Torin recognized, Byakuya, Konamura, and Toshiro were present as the captains beign deployed. Lower ranked shinigami being deployed included; Rukia, Renji, Ikkaku, Rangiku, Yumichicka, Kira, and Hisagi.

Torin walked to the front of the group, directing Rida and Aurora to join the others.

"You all know why you are here" Torin said "I've been assigned the duty of leading this mission, and have specifically chosen each of you. You all either know the substitute shinigami who defends this town, or have compatible personality types and combat styles. As he is local to the area, cooperation with him is critical to defend the town"

Torin turned to the gate "I'll be straight with you, this is probably a trick, and the enemy probably expects us, but we are shinigami, and this is our duty, so you all better give me 110% of your effort out there!"

With that, Torin opened and entered the senkaimon, the rest followed right behind him.

-Karakura town, present-

Torin walked over to Ichigo and the others "we came as fast as we could" he said "fat lot of good it did though"
"Torin" Ichigo said in surprise, now healed enough to sit up and see all the assembled shinigami "you made captain after all"

Torin smiled "thanks to your training" he said "thank you for that, I had hoped we would meet again under better circumstances though"

"They'd be worse if you hadn't arrived" Uryuu said grudgingly "we couldn't have stopped him ourselves"

Torin shook his head "you saw what happened, he only left because he was vastly outnumbered, this was a total disaster"

"Ichigo!" Rukia said as she and Renji rushed over.

"Rukia…Renji" Ichigo said "you're here too?"

"You idiot! Of course we are!" Renji said "you think we'd just let this town fall after all you've done for us?"

Torin nodded and gestured to the rest of the deployed shinigami "even if it weren't our duty, most of us would be here anyway, the gotei owes you a great debt Ichigo" he said "and so we're all here to defend Karakura town"

Torin turned to the group "set up the array, our first priority is the preservation of life, we'll pursue the enemy later" he ordered "Rukia and Renji, get Ichigo and his friends to a safe place, we'll meet you there"

"Yes sir" Rukia said as everyone disappeared to do their respective tasks