Torin met with Ichigo and his friends at his house. Rida and Aurora accompanied him. They were all covered in soot from head to toe.

"What happened to you three?" Ichigo asked

"The sub-stasis array is a prototype" Torin grumbled "ours blew up"

"What does this array do exactly?" Uryuu inquired

"It places all individuals below a certain level of spirit energy into a state of suspended animation and transports them to the soul society, where they'll be kept safe" Aurora coughed "um, could I, you know, use your shower?"

Even through the soot, Aurora's blush was clearly visible, Ichigo seeme rather uncomfortable himself.

"Uh, yeah, sure, it's right down the hall" Ichigo said

Aurora went off to use the shower, and the topic became more serious.

"So what about the town? What protects that?" Ichigo asked

Torin shook his head "I hear a man named Kisuke Urahara is making something to do that during the fight with Aizen, but it isn't done yet, we'll have to repair anything that becomes damaged in battle" he said

"what's the plan then?" Uryuu asked "judging by the size of the enemy force, this was just a vanguard, a larger force will probably come soon"

Rida passed Torin a device, which Torin activated. A holographic map of Karakura town appeared in the air.

"It seems that a garganta can only transport a certain number of people and hollows at a time" Torin said "which is why the vanguard came, judging by our readings, only a third of the enemy that came through actually attacked, the rest left to establish a base of operations here"

Torin tapped a point on the outskirts of the map, enlarging it, sure enough, there was a black stone fortress standing there.

"we believe the enemy plans to build a device here that will allow a larger garganta to be made that can transport the rest of the army" Torin finished "so our plan is to crush these advance troops at the moment the device activates, then destroy the device, trapping the majority of the enemy army in the space between Hueco Mundo and this world."

"That's risky" Chad said "If we fail"

"We won't fail Torin said "we have no choice, even if we destroy the advance force now, if the army itself is not destroyed there will be another vanguard, with better security and more preparation. If we beat them there will be yet another advance force. No, if we are to win we MUST defeat the enemy in one fell swoop"

"He had a point" Uryuu conceded "we need to minimize the length of the war, if we don't act decisively we could be locked in combat for years"

The others all agreed after that, and they were about to move on to discussing individual strategies when they were cut off by Aurora's scream.

-Meanwhile, in the shower-

Aurora had been enjoying a nice long shower, washing all the soot from the explosion off her body. She took her time, with all the hustle and bustle of the war, there were very few chances to take a long hot shower. She felt so rejuvenated and relaxed… Until a stuffed lion jumped out at her and landed on her naked breasts.

"KYAAAA!" Aurora screamed

-back in Ichigo's room-

"What's going on!" Torin yelled as he lapt to his feet "Aurora!"

The door to the room exploded inwards as a burning Kon sailed into the room, hitting the wall and falling to the ground. It beat out the flames and tried to run, but a yellow rope of energy ensared it and brought it back into Aurora's hand

Aurora began to crush Kon with both hands "You are DEAD you little pervert!" She snarled, venom dripping from her words as she glared at Kon with fire in her eyes

"s-s-s-sorry!" Kon wailed "please don't kill me!"

"It's too late for that! You…" Aurora trailed off as she realized she had an audience. She was standing in the doorway of the room, completely naked. Torin was passed out, having be struck by an explosive nosebleed, Rida was trying to revive him. Ichigo's eyes were covered by Rukia, who had her own eyes squeezed shut. Renji and Uryuu were covering each other's eyes. Orihime had no clue what was going on, and Chad was taking a moment to thoroughly and intently examine the engravings on his gold medallion.

Aurora went red from the tips of her toes to the roots of her hair as she tried to cover herself.

"HADO 88! Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō!" Aurora screamed, making the whole room, and a large portion of that side of the house, explode.
- a few hours later…in a still intact building-

"Well…" Torin said, he was conscious again, and had tissued plugging his nose to stopp the bleeding "that was…unexpected"

Rida was torn between laughing himself to death or just letting his burns do it, but he couldn't resist getting a comment in. "It was a rather bold move for Aurora, she must be really crazy about you Torin" he chuckled

Aurora glared at Rida and he cringed, if looks could kill… Rida shuddered at the thought of what she was gonna do to him later.

Torin cleared his throat "so where were we… before the incident?"

Aurora glared at him too; he winced, but continued the discussion. "We were discussing plans for individuals right?" Torin said. After that, the conversations continued, strategies were made, and the incident was not mentioned again thanks to an unspoken, and correct, consensus that the next person to mention it would probably be killed with their own zanpakto by Aurora.