The next morning at Urahara Shop…
Wonderweiss awoke to find he was no longer home or with any of his fathers.
He looked down at the plushy of a bug and hugged it with care as he felt alone. He noticed his cuts were healed as he peeled the bandages off his face and shoulders. The Hollow then felt the fabric of the bandage that had little flakes of blood. He then heard people talking to each other in the other room of the building.
He unintentionally crept out of his room with his plushy to see that Hollow Brother and the man with the hat Wonderweiss wants were talking to the man with his eyes covered, and the Quincy. The Arrancar bent down and pounced once more. The result was the same as Kisuke grabbed him with ease then tossed him to the couch for a safe landing.
"Looks like someone's awake from their nap." Kisuke chuckled as Wonderweiss puffed his cheeks in a pout.
Ichigo patted an opening for the little Arrancar as Wonderweiss came to the group.
"Oh, my poor Rukia~!" Kon sobbed as Wonderweiss looked to the strange toy, wanting to play with it.
"Awwuuuh." Wonderweiss vocalized as he patted Kon like a puppy.
"Don't worry about Rukia, she's being cared for by Miss. Inoue." Kisuke explained as Wonderweiss stopped listening for a moment.
Healer was here?
He liked Healer.
She made him food, she is very warm, and he likes the soft pillows on her chest. Wonderweiss liked hugging her, though he would see the odd looks from others. It made him wonder why some people have pillow chests and why others do not or why some chest pillows are fuller than others.
He was getting bored and wanted to go home. He wanted to see Healer too. He sensed her with Rukia and began to follow but was grabbed by the back of his shirt.
Hollow Brother gave him an irritated look.
"Not so fast. Leave Orihime be. She's busy tending to Rukia right now and I don't want you bothering either of them." Ichigo advised as he forced him to sit back down, "Stay."
Wonderweiss puffed his cheeks like a child but did as he was told. Hollow Brother was strict but cared for Wonderweiss.
"So, the Zanpakutō are revolting… Is that what Miss. Rukia said?" Kisuke wondered as he looked to the substitute soul reaper.
Ichigo nodded his head to confirm this.
"Interesting… I never heard of a Zanpakutō turning against its master before." Kisuke pondered with a fan in his hand.
"Yeah, and the only people who know what's going on are Rukia and Wonderweiss. Since Wonderweiss can't really communicate well…" Uryū pointed out as he knew that Wonderweiss still can't speak clearly enough to be understood.
"Then will have to wait until Rukia wakes up or wait until Yoruichi gets back from the Soul Society and give us the update." The former Soul Reaper sighed then noticed Wonderweiss's melancholy, "Hey kid, why so glum?"
"Awwuuuhhh… Sad, bad, mad." The Arrancar spoke as he held his toy tightly.
"Hey, don't worry about your Dads, I made sure Yoruichi made it her top priority into finding them, okay?" The man in the hate that Wonderweiss loved assured but Wonderweiss was still feeling down.
"You should not worry about your parents, little one. They are strong. They will be okay." Chad promised as he ruffled Wonderweiss's hair.
The mods notice him glum and came towards him.
"Hey, Wonderweiss~. Look at me~!" Kurōdo as he did a funny dance that made Wonderweiss clap and laughs.
He loved it when the talking plushies did a goofy dance.
Then the little Chicken Plushy known as Ririn came in.
"Rukia's awake. She wants to know if Wonderweiss is here." Ririn spoke as the group looked surprised.
In the guest room…
Kon was sobbing for the state Rukia was in.
"Hey… Kon. I'll be okay…" Rukia smiled gently but Kon still continued to cry for her.
"Ooh! How can you say that after getting so badly hurt?" Kon sobbed until he was kicked off the bed by Ririn.
"Would you knock it off. If Rukia says she's fine, then she's fine! You should really have faith in Orihime!" She scoffed at the Mod.
"Speaking of fine… Is Wonderweiss still safe?" Rukia asked as Kisuke pointed out the boy beside him.
"Yep, he's fine. A little banged up but already healed. He'll live."
"Awwuuhh!" Wonderweiss confirming with a smile.
"Good… I kept my promise to his fathers… They didn't take Wonderweiss." Rukia sighed in relief.
"Rukia, mind telling me who 'they' are? Or what happened?" Kisuke asked as Rukia recounted the events of last night…
Last Night in the Soul Society…
Muramasa's eyes bled as he set his sight on the Soul Reapers, but mainly on the Arrancar.
He cleared his eyes of the blood as he heard Wonderweiss's mantra-like words again.
"Sad, Bad, Mad." The hollow spoke as Komamura looked at him with an understanding of what those words truly mean.
"This… this is what you were trying to warn us. You saw this coming, you warned us, and we did not understand… I am so sorry, Wonderweiss… I am sorry I could not see what you have seen…" The Captain apologized as he fainted as it caused Wonderweiss to come by his side.
Shūhei followed suit to protect the captain and the child.
"Such a disgusting display." Muramasa sneered as it caught Shūhei's attention.
"Excuse me?" He snapped as he gritted his teeth.
"Pathetic, revolting, heresy… So many words to describe your imaginary relationship with this mindless abomination." Muramasa scoffed as Shūhei was beside himself.
"How dare you call my son that?!" The man with the 69 mark on his cheek growled.
This caused the man to laugh.
"Your son? Is that what you call your pet? Subjugating your own Zanpakutō was not enough for you, you decided to have a heartless monster to train to?" He mocked as he fueled the fire of his rage.
"Don't you dare call Wonderweiss heartless! He has more heart than any other being I have ever met! He is more than a hollow, Arrancar, or Espada-level! He is my son! He is Captain Komamura's son! He is the late Captain Tōsen's son! His family is the Soul Reapers and we will protect him from monsters like you!" He vowed as Wonderweiss looked concerned.
"Sad, bad, mad." The hollow warned as he pointed to the spirits and to Muramasa.
"Interesting little monster, but a threat to the new order of the Zanpakutō. While the soul reapers will not have a place as the masters of their swords… the Arrancar will not have a place in this world period."
By a wave of his hand, Zabimaru and Hyōrinmaru summoned their power and attacked!
Shūhei managed to teleport the three of them to safety before they could be hit.
"Attack the soul reapers and kill the Arrancar. He must not be allowed to draw breath in our world." Muramasa ordered as the battle began!
It became a battlefield as the capital was ravaged from the fight.
Soul Reapers were powerless as they could do very little against their own Zanpakutō! Rukia watched her own brother be swallowed by a storm of petals! Shūhei held tight to Wonderweiss as he was separated from the others! Then he heard the maniacal laughter of his own weapon spirit, Kazeshini!
"Aw, leaving so soon?" He mocked as he brandished his scythe-like swords and swung them in a circle.
"Kazeshini." The Soul Reaper muttered as he stood in front of Wonderweiss.
"You know, killing you would be the greatest thrill for me without your wimpy mercy and boohoo fear! But the kid, oh that kid, even the big bads have a nasty fear of him and his brand new Resurrección! It makes it more eager to fight him!" The shadowy man frothed as his former master looked confused.
"His Resurrección?" He questioned as Kazeshini laughed like a mad man.
"Oh, the irony is not lost here! Why do you think Muramasa wants him dead? He found himself a new little trick since you and wolfman have been undoing is mods!" He explained cruelly, "Come on, kid. Show me. Show me what you really look like now!"
"Awuh!" Wonderweiss gasped as he was afraid of his shadow and hid behind his adoptive father!
"You are not laying a single finger on my son!" Shūhei proclaimed as he spotted Renji Abarai and Rukia Kuchiki, forced to confront their own weapons.
He couldn't let Wonderweiss be in this chaos…
"Rukia, Renji! Take Wonderweiss with you and leave for the World of the Living!" He ordered as Wonderweiss didn't want to leave him alone to fight.
"Don't worry, we'll make sure the kid gets there safely!" Renji promised as the hollow didn't want to go.
"Wonderweiss, look at me. I need you to go with them, okay? You need to find Ichigo Kurosaki, Hollow Brother. Find your Hollow Brother and stay with him. I'll come back to you when the battle is over." Shūhei promised him.
Wonderweiss paused but nodded, then his adoptive father gave him a kiss on the forehead.
"I love you." He told him as he pushed Wonderweiss out of the way of the attack, "Take care of him!"
"We will, Lieutenant Hisagi," Rukia promised as Wonderweiss left with them, looking back on his father fighting Kazeshini.
In the present time…
"We managed to escape as we were being hunted by our own Zanpakutō. I lost track of Renji and was badly injured. Wonderweiss managed to carry me the rest of the way there." Rukia concluded as Wonderweiss cuddled closer to his toy.
"Awwuuhh… Sad, Bad, Mad." Wonderweiss spoke sadly as he missed his fathers.
"The Zanpakutō are rebelling and they're afraid of Wonderweiss's new Resurrección? This is quite a pickle. A Zanpakutō is the manifestation of a soul reaper's true power. They can tap the hidden potential of their masters through their bond to create new and strange powers. I, myself have my own Zanpakutō but I haven't noticed it behaving weirdly yet. What about you, Ichigo? Notice anything weird?" He asked.
"What? No, not recently." Ichigo answered as they then turned their sights to Wonderweiss.
"I didn't think it was possible for an Arrancar to change its Resurrección." Uryū pointed out as there was much he didn't know about the tiara-like mask-wearing Arrancar.
"Well, Wonderweiss is not a normal Arrancar or hollow for that matter. He's a modified being with the purpose of sealing the Head captain's flames. When I started lessening and removing some of the mods, he began to change spiritually. I think it's a form of adaption or maybe his true Resurrección if Aizen hadn't altered him." Kisuke tried to explain as he ruffled the child's hair.
"So, do you know what it is?" Ichigo wondered.
"No clue. The kid hasn't activated yet. But my safe bet that Muramasa does know and his new abilities could be a liability to his plan. Whatever it is having him afraid and if Wonderweiss figures them out, he could end this war."
Before they could continue, they hear uproar outside.
"Calm down. The kid's okay. Kisuke wouldn't let a thing happen to him." The feminine voice of Yoruichi Shihōin sighed.
"I have to be certain! I have to see him!" The voice of Shūhei shouted as footsteps can he heard rushing.
Wonderweiss's eyes lit up as he looked to Kisuke.
"Looks like your dad is here to pick you up," Kisuke replied with a smile, then Shūhei burst through the doors.
"Wonderweiss! Oh, Wonderweiss, thank god you're safe. Thank them and the Soul King himself!" the Soul Reaper sighed in relief as he hugged his son with tender love and care.
Wonderweiss did not listen to what was going on as his father was here and soon would see his other father too.