There is some interesting BS science inventions in this because...well, if Kisuke could invent anything- I can imagine him inventing these cool, and destructive toys.

Because he is sort of a mad scientist.

Ichigo rested her head against the wall as she sat curled up next to the toilet, staring blankly ahead at nothing. Unaware for the moment that she was having a panic attack over Chizuru being killed because of her.

The moment that Thor entered the bathroom, he looked at her in an effort to gauge her mental wellbeing. And upon seeing that she seemed to be in shock he then grabbed a rag and wet it with some water from the tap and took a moment to flush the toilet to get rid of the acidic smell of her stomach contents.

Once that was done, he wrung the rag out and then knelt down and gently wiped her face in an effort to get her to calm down while attempting to listen to what his brother and Bruce were talking about in the bedroom.

Sadly, he could only make out various snippets of conversation between the two about whether or not someone should be alerted about what had just happened.

Bruce was firmly for it. For obvious reasons, plus the fact that someone had not only threatened Ichigo, but her family and friends as well. Which probably also included them, Tony, and the others too.

Whereas Loki was against it.

Arguing the point that if anyone else was told then their lives would be in even greater danger than they already were. He also pointed out that whoever had called the girl had probably expected her to be alone at the time of the call so that she would have to deal with the threat and the aftermath of the death on her own in isolation.

Thor hated to admit it, but despite the timing of the phone call, Loki was probably right. Whoever had just threatened the girl had obviously believed her to be alone.

The murder of the other girl was nothing more than a very dark and grim message. Keep our secrets or others will die too.

Oh how he'd love to get his hands on the person/people responsible for doing this to young Ichigo. He would teach the knave a lesson that he/they would never be likely to ever forget. But for the moment, he needed to content himself with seeing what he could do to help the girl.

He had a feeling that once she managed to shake off the shocked state that she was in- she was going to hit the ground running.

He couldn't exactly say what made him think this. But as the daughter of Tony Stark, he could imagine that she wasn't going to simply be idle while a killer was running around threatening people.

She simply didn't seem like the type to sit and do nothing while people suffered.

Running the rag along her face again, he noted the slight twitch of her body, the way that her eyes slowly seemed to come back into focus.

Ah, she's coming back to us already. He thought with a little bit of pride. Friend Tony's daughter would make a fine Valkyrie. He mused to himself as she finally blinked and reached up to take the rag from his hand while he sat back on his heels with a grin.

"Tell us what you need." She blinked at him again, perhaps not entirely comprehending. So he helped her along with a gentle nudge. "There is a threat to your family and friends- are you going to stand by and let the killer get away?"

She snarled at him, hellfire blazing in those eerie blue eyes of hers as she hissed out, "Fuck no." His grin got a tad bit darker, and grimmer as he reached out and helped her up and then re stood himself.

"Lead the way, little one. This is your fight, all I can do is offer my services should you need them." He said gently.

"Thanks. They'll definitely come in handy." She said as she brushed by him and walked out of the bathroom with him practically skipping after her in excitement.

He really couldn't wait to see what she would do. He'd bet that whatever she decided on was going to be spectacular.

"Friday, contact Rhodey and tell him to come back here immediately!" Ichigo said as she walked back into the room and brushed by Bruce and Loki, not even pausing in her movements for a second- not even when she retook possession of her cell phone, eliciting a small, 'Hey' of protest from the two men- and headed over to her dresser and began to go through the drawers and pull stuff out.

"Right away, mini boss."

"What are you doing Ichigo?" Bruce demanded when she pulled something that looked like a medium sized duffle bag out of one of the drawers and tossed it onto the bed.

"What's it look like Doc? I'm packing to go hunt down that bastard." She spat the word 'bastard' as if it were the most vile word in the world to her.

Startling both Bruce and Loki a little bit with the venom in her tone.

"Ichigo-" Bruce said as he walked over to her and grabbed her hands in his, "I know that the guy killed someone and even threatened you but-" He started to say that it would be best for her to stay put and let them handle this when the door to her bedroom opened and Rhodey stepped in looking as if he'd just attempted to run a marathon in his braces.

"What happened?!" The man shouted at them once he managed to catch his breath enough to speak.

Ichigo wasted no time in yanking her hands loose of his grip and walking over to the man and showing him her cell. Or more specifically, the pictures that had been sent to her as she ordered Friday to kindly play the phone call for him to hear.

They watched as Rhodey's expression went from vexed to utterly murderous in the span of seconds before he flipped her cell closed and then handed it back to her and asked, "Is this about your former work with those people?"

"It is..."

"Shit." He man growled out as he ran his hands over his face in frustration. "Your going to go after whoever did that to that girl, aren't you?"

"That girl was a former schoolmate and dear friend of mine." Ichigo said before then tacking on. "She had special abilities just like a lot of other people that I know and are friends with back home. This...this was a personal attack on not just me- but everyone of them as well. I can't let it stand. I can't let whoever did this do it to someone else. Please understand..."

"I do understand kid," Rhodey said as he reached out and took hold of one of her small hands and gave it s slight squeeze. "And I get it. I really do. I just don't like...that I won't be able to help you. Not when I answer to the Accords Council."

"Don't worry about it so much," Ichigo said gently. "I need you to stay and hold down the fort anyways."

Rhodey sighed, his shoulders slumping some in a defeated gesture that was surprising to see given how much he'd been fighting through of late. But it was no less understandable. "Alright. What do you need? Do you need me to get the jet prepped? I can have it fueled and ready to go in an hour. And do you need any suits? I can send a few with you if you do."

"I appreciate the thought. But no. I don't need suits or the jet. And I won't be doing this alone either. Thor has already offered his services to help me out. And I think Loki and Bruce might come with me too."

"Damn right I will." Bruce muttered while Loki smiled.

Rhodey looked at the three men for a moment before reluctantly nodding his head. Motioning for Ichigo to tell him everything that she could.

Like how she was going to get to Japan without a plane. How long she was going to be gone. How was she going to find the guy responsible for killing her friend ect.

The girl barely took a breath while she laid everything out for him. Mentioning that she needed to contact her godfather- he hadn't been aware that she had one back in Japan- but he supposed that it made sense since she hadn't grown up in America.

She also pulled out a little beaded bracelet and grinned evilly as she took a bead from it and showed him what they could do.

Because apparently she was armed all the time with things that could be classified as weapons of mass destruction. I mean honestly, portals to different locations in the world, portals to pocket dimensions, beads containing wildfires, lava, hurricanes, tsunami's, a solar flare straight from the goddamned sun itself.

He had no fucking idea how she had managed to keep those things contained inside of little beads- but he knew that he was definitely sold on them after she used one to transport him to Hawaii and back in the blink of an eye.

"C-Can I?" Was all that he could manage to get out as he pointed to the bead that she had just picked up off of the floor. She gave him a small smile- though it didn't reach her eyes- and handed the bead to him.

He took a moment to marvel a it and coo at it in a ridiculous manner, "I'm going to have so many vacations with you, yes I am." Before then clearing his throat when he caught Thor, Loki, and Bruce staring at him oddly as he asked. "How exactly are you going to manage to hunt the guy down? I mean, you're still wounded from being shot earlier today. And then there was that whole heart stopping thing."

"Believe it or not, I have a friend back home that can literally bend the laws of physics to her will. She can heal injuries and even bring the dead back to life...within a few minutes after death. I'll just have her heal me before I do anything...strenuous."

"Wait-" Bruce started to say something about what she'd just mentioned but Rhodey cut him off with a loud shout.

"What?!"

Ichigo huffed quietly as she began sorting through her duffle bag, randomly pulling out some things. Trackers- trackers would come in handy for Thor, Loki, and Bruce since they'd be coming with her. It would help them all keep tabs on each other and be able to find each other faster in case things went tit's up.

She also pulled out several semi automatic guns with special ammunition. And took a moment or so to check each weapon and it's clip- totally missing the way that Rhodey and everyone else practically did a double take upon noticing her handling the guns with such expertise.

The others she could understand reacting that way. But Rhodey? Not so much. Especially since he knew a little bit about her former line of work. Sure it was technically a cover story for her real job- but still... Did he really think that she wouldn't be around guns when she worked for the 'military'?

True Soul Reapers weren't exactly the type of people to pack heat. But they did carry weapons of all sorts. Not just zanpaktou's, scythes, spears and such. Some of them carries parodies of guns, rocket launchers, flame throwers, ect.

Those fucking things hurt like a son of a bitch when they hit you too.

Even so- Ichigo's knowledge of guns stemmed from her years of being dragged into alley's by gang members, yakuza, thugs, and even her dad- well...Isshin.

The second that he'd had found out that someone had threatened her with a weapon of any kind, he'd dragged her off and taught her how to use a gun, a knife, and her fists.

He'd wanted her to be able to defend herself well enough to give as good as she got.

And it was a damned good thing that he taught her those things since those skills had proven to be incredibly useful over the years.

Once she finished checking the guns, she grabbed three extra ones out of the duffle bag along with some clips of ammo and walked over to Rhodey and held them out to him.

"You, Pepper, and Happy will need these until the guy that killed Chizuru is caught."

He didn't even bother to hesitate to reach out and take them from her. Likely sensing that something much deeper was going on if she felt the need to arm him and the others with something in her possession, and given the fact that she had such interesting toys... Who was he to argue?

"What are they?"

"Guns."

"Well yeah I can see that but-"

"They're guns with very specific ammunition," Ichigo said as she retook the one of the guns from him and pulled the clip out to show him. "These aren't your typical bullets. They contain very strong tranquilizers that can take down mutant, and supers." She slipped the clip back into place and handed it back to him as she continued to explain, "The guy that killed Chizuru, is for all intents and purposes- an enhanced individual. He'll give himself away if he comes here. He'll be too excited about the possibility of pulling one over on me to bother to cover his ass. Shoot him. Don't hesitate. He'll kill you if you do."

She held up another of her little beads and then tacked on. "Once he's down use this to trap him. It's specifically designed to be used as a prison. It's undamageable, and unbreakable. So there's no chance of him managing to escape. Once he's in- he won't be getting back out again unless you let him out yourself."

She handed him several other beads, indicating that he, Pepper, and Happy should each carry one just to be on the safe side. And then turned and handed the others each a weapon.

Thor and Loki balked a little bit due to being unfamiliar with guns. After all, they had been raised to use swords.

Whereas Bruce simply checked it and slipped his in the waist of his pants for further use. After that she handed each of them a tracker- and explained that they were to wear them at all times while they were with her in Japan.

She pointed out that not having the weapons or trackers on them could put their lives in danger and make it very difficult to help them in time to possibly save their lives.

So once each of them had slipped their trackers on- each one cleverly made to look like vintage pieces of jewelry. Rings, and a pair of neat looking gold cufflinks. She then called out to Friday to call someone and put them on speaker as she rattled off the number that she needed to call.

A second or so the phone was dialed and someone was answering on the first ring.

"Ichigo! Is that you kid?" A man asked sharply. He sounded...worried. So maybe he already had an idea of what had happened and had simply been waiting for her to get into contact with him?

"Kisuke, I need you to do a head count, and implement the code The Substitute."

The guy didn't say anything for a second, whereas Thor mouthed the words 'The Substitute' questioningly at Bruce whom merely shrugged, but then swore viciously and growled out, "Implementing the code The Substitute." The guy muttered as they heard the vague sounds of fingers flying over a keyboard before he said, "Got it. Head count beginning. You should be able to see the red dots on your cell any second now."

"Understood." Ichigo said as she grabbed her cell phone and checked it. Sure enough, the screen of her cell was filled with little red dots. Dozens upon dozens of them that quickly multiplied into hundreds and then thousands. "Alright, I got the head count. Number is confirmed. Forty three thousand six hundred and ten." She said as she slowly flipped her cell closed and then pocketed it in her PJ pants.

Rhodey and the others blinked at the number that Ichigo had just quoted. Wondering what the significance was. After all, it wasn't as if she could have that many friends. Could she?

"Are you coming home kid?" The man asked after a moment or so of silence.

"I am."

"Awesome. The street haven't run red with anybody's blood in nearly a year so this should be fun."

"War is always fun." Ichigo said as she gathered up her duffle of weapons and goodies and then grabbed the bead that created a portal leading from one location to another as she said. "But only when you're on the winning side."

"Kid, any side you are on is always the winning side. I've never known anyone to send so many assholes fleeing in utter terror before... Since we're implementing the code The Substitute- does this mean that your coming out of retirement for a little bit?"

"Someone killed Chizuru, Kisuke. She was one of ours and under my protection. And I want their fucking blood."

"I know." The guy said softly before then saying, "The others will start to trickle in within an hour. Anyone who doesn't show up- I can send Chad or someone else after- so that they get here before anything happens."

"Good. I'll be there in a few minutes-"

"Alright."

"And Kisuke...I'm bringing some friends."

"Friends? What friends?"

"You'll see when I get there," She said before leaning over some and kissing Rhodey on the cheek and whispering that she'd call him later with updates and then tossed the bead against the far wall and watched as the portal contained within it opened. "Gentlemen, follow me."