Backup Plan 2

by Xovinx

It has been over a year since the Aizen Incident, and the forming of the Fourteenth Division of Seireitei. The reincarnated Arrancar now work alongside their once-enemies to defend the Living World... but the line between friend and foe can be blurry, and the young Fourteenth Division cannot afford to make enemies. Unfortunately, that is precisely what they are best at.

34. Interlude 15

Interlude

Thoughts of a General.

Any initial ideas that I could work with this man were terribly misguided. All that talk of mutual loyalty comes to nothing. He throws away the lives of those that follow him as if they were nothing, just like Aizen. Loyalty is a word he uses often, but I have come to wonder if he has experienced true loyalty, true devotion, even once in his life.

My fellow generals are, as far as I can tell, in the same situation as I. Tied to Caro with a false loyalty that they cannot escape. We, at least, seem to be important enough pieces for him to keep around long-term, though what the end result will be, I can't guess. Death, most likely. But would that be so bad? There may be no artificial intelligence and short-cut through reincarnation waiting to get me out of this the easy way, but my soul would live on. No memory of this lie of a war we fight...

A peaceful takeover of Seireitei, indeed. Peaceful - perhaps, at least more then one might expect. Takeover, definitely - but not a change of government, not a reorganization of Seireitei from the ground up, like he implied. Just one added position, right above everyone else. He staged a battle... started a war... just as a smoke-screen.

That's what the lives of his followers are worth to him. Smoke on the wind.