Stepping through the portal that Ichigo had made, was what Bruce imagined, stepping into Wonderland was like for Alice. Everything was simply...strange. In fact at the moment, they seemed to be someplace questionable. One look around got him no sort of visual information to go on as to their whereabouts.

Well, nothing except the endless stretch of nothingness that seemed almost akin to a deserted wasteland.

Or at least he would have assumed it was a deserted wasteland- if not for the fact that he could see a ladder. Way, way off somewhere several miles or so from their immediate location. But that was nothing like what he felt was coming.

He heard them before he saw them. But only because there were so damn many of them that their feet moving sounded weirdly like animal's stampeding towards them.

If not for the fact that he moved automatically to place himself between Ichigo and...whatever was making that very alarming sound, then he wouldn't have been aware of moving at all. Much less the fact that he was starting to turn green a bit.

The second that he saw them, he seemed to calm himself down enough to stop turning green and simply stared at them. Behind him he heard Thor and Loki both murmur something between the two of them about how many there were.

They weren't wrong either.

He'd never seen so many people fill up one space before. He was only mildly alarmed by the fact that so many of them seemed to pop into existence out of thin air in such a short amount of time. But he understood enough to quickly realize that they had likely appeared via portals themselves.

What he really found interesting though, was that a great number of them were kids about Ichigo's age- give or take a year or so- while many of the others that appeared were either young adults barely in their twenties or men about his own age. While only a small handful of the people present looked as if they were in their eighties and just so damn happy to still be alive, if their expressions were anything to go by at all.

A small slip of a girl, a tall red haired guy with face tattoo's, and a select few of the people dared to break away from everyone else so that they could walk up to them.

The small slip of a girl wasted no time at all in shoving him aside, much to Bruce's dismay, just to get to Ichigo before then latching onto her like a adorable little leech.

Ichigo huffed quietly and hugged the small girl as she greeted the others.

"Renji, Chad, Kisuke, Orihime, Uryu, Ganju, Honatoro."

Of course they also wasted no time in attaching themselves to her either. Their names had just barely left her lips before they had her surrounded, subtly pushing him even further away from her.

Bruce bristled. He couldn't help it.

Being pushed away from her was starting to upset him greatly. Especially since this was an unknown group of people with who-knew-what kind of intentions towards her. The fact that she knew them meant little in the grand scheme of things. The fact that they were probably her friends also meant little to him at the moment.

For fucks sake he'd left Tony alone with those assholes that he used to think were their friends. He wasn't going to leave Tony's little girl open to some sort of attack from her 'friends' too!

He was fully prepared to Hulk out and smash all of them to pieces if they dared to say or do anything even remotely hurtful to her.

Everyone took turns getting hugs, totally ignoring the guy with the malicious toxic green eyes even when the one adult amongst the group- a scruffy looking ash blond guy with a striped white and green hat- moved to stand beside him and quietly looked him, Thor, and Loki over for a second.

Apparently he was sizing them up. Though for what Bruce couldn't immediately tell.

"Man, oh man when she said she was bringing some new friends; I thought that she'd be bringing some more kids." The guy said a little bit too loudly to be ignored. "It never occurred to me that she'd be bringing two gods and a Hulk home."

"Wait a second, you know who we are?" Bruce asked suspiciously as the guy smirked at him.

"Sure." Blondy said with a slight shrug of his shoulders. "I keep track of everyone that could become a threat to my kids. But more specifically, a threat to Ichigo."

Bruce opened his mouth to tell the guy that he'd never do anything to hurt the girl. But Thor cut him off with a smoothly said, "Lady Ichigo will not be harmed by any of us. She is the child of a friend. That makes her one of us." Thor paused for a moment before then adding, "Besides, she had offered to help my brother. And it is a debt that I cannot let go unpaid."

The blond guy smiled at Thor and waved his hand as if to wave off his words as he said, "Oh I know that. She doesn't usually make a habit of bringing dangerous people home before they try to kill her though. I think it's bad luck or something."

"Wait. What?" Both Bruce and Loki said in alarm as they tried to figure out what the guy meant as the small group finally separated themselves from the girl so that she could move to stand across from Blondy, and flick him between the eyes with her fingers.

He yelped and staggered back a few steps, his hands shooting up to his forehead as he whined, "Ow! Now is that any way to respect your elders?!"

"I'll respect my elder when he stops tweaking the noses of my friends." She deadpanned.

"Your so mean to me, Ichigo." The man whined. She gave him a strange look before then saying,

"You don't know just how mean I can really be Kisuke. Now stop whining."

Kisuke promptly snapped his mouth shut. Apparently taking her words for the warning that they were before slowly saying. "Alright, I get it. Joke time is over," And then took a moment to dig around the inside of his overcoat for a moment before then pulling something- carefully folded black fabric that he held out to her. "Time to put your uniform on and make your return semi-official kid."

Ichigo took the folded up fabric from him and shook it out. Giving them a slight glimpse of what the fabric was.

It looked a tad bit like the man's own overcoat with the exception of the color and detail. Hers was black. Jet black, and looked like it was made of pure silk. With the embroidered words Piercer of the Heavens; Dragon of the God's on the back of it in scarlet red, and gold letters surrounded by what looked like flames that they got to see very clearly when she slipped it on.

Once that was done, she took a moment to change herself into a Soul Reaper while still in her body, knowing that the three men wouldn't know or really notice the change until they looked at her directly. The only thing that they probably would really take note of was Zangetsu when it suddenly appeared on her back.

Which they did.

She heard Bruce start cussing a blue streak that almost made her smile in amusement while Loki and Thor tried to calm him down before he turned green on them.

Once that was done, Kisuke handed her a small device that she was to attach to her temple, underneath her hair. It was a telepathy device that she'd asked him to try and invent around the time Aizen had been running loose and she'd been having trouble sleeping because of how worried she was.

And while she only half understood how it worked, she was very happy that it worked at all. She had taken up often using the thing to help her check in on the others and plan strategies with them without giving herself away to their enemies.

So it was only natural that it would come in handy now.

She attached it and smoothed her hair down over it to hide the slight protrusion and then turned to the others as Kisuke handed her a few more devices.

Rukia, Chad and the others already likely had theirs in place. Which meant that the extra's had been brought for her new friends. Excellent.

She'd help them attach them and test them to make sure that they could hear her thoughts and then it was game time. The one/ones who killed Chizuru may know that she was coming for them- but they would never see her coming until it was too late.