The fight, was over. Aizen, had been defeated. Or that's what Ichigo hoped he has achieved. After using his final move that would sacrifice all of his power. Aizen still was able to regenerate after being hit, by his Getsuga. That bastard stood now, before him, again in a different form.

Aizen had long hair, reaching to the end his back, one of his eyes remained the same as in the previous form, his iris was white, while the conjunctiva was violet. That bastards skin was all white, his changed outfit also was completely white. His right eye seemed to suffer from cataract, it was dirty grey in color, Ichigo doubted Aizen could see with it.

The Hogyoku was still in Aizen's chest. Although it did not twinkle or shine, it was more like a point, from where further up, his clothes weren't present. Aizen's arms, from his elbows, were bare, the same with his chest. Revealing it about where his sternum was to his neck in a triangular shape. It looked like Aizen had layers on himself, withered on the edges. One ended before his abdomen, the second was a long tunic all the way to the ground.

Ichigo was kneeling on the ground, weakened by the loss of his power, sweating and trying to keep himself up to look at the criminal Aizen sure was. His clothes like Aizen's were ragged at the edges. The entire left side of his torso was naked, the same could be said about the right side, but there was a thick strip of his Bankai cloth that was the remain of his top, that held the lower part like a belt across the right side of his chest.

The battle area that was the highlands, were completely destroyed by the two of them earlier. Right now, Aizen was saying something, Ichigo didn't necessarily listen to him, anything Aizen says right now, is nothing more than gibberish and trash.

"The hogyoku has determined, that I no longer require a zanpakuto!" Aizen said proudly standing tall a few meters away from Ichigo.

Ichigo just clenched his fist in anger. The mad man was about to win? It didn't look like it for now, but he hopes someone, will interfere before Aizen can regain some of his power, and run. To later come back even stronger than before.

"You're finished, Kurosaki Ichigo!"

As soon as Aizen said it, so fast a bright red spike of energy burst from his chest. Aizen staggered at first, then a dozen more started to appear. Seven or less were on his chest, while only one was under the Hogyoku. Ichigo looked at what was going on with surprise, was this somehow related to the damn stone?

"W-What is this?! Is this Kidou?"

Aizen while saying out loud his thoughts backed away from Ichigo looking at the strange phenomena in his body. Ichigo still gathered strength to stand up, but the fortunate turn of events that was in his favor distracted him from even trying to stand on both of his legs.

"Seems like it's finally activated," Said a familiar voice

Ichigo looked the way the words came from. Urahara Kisuke, one of his friends landed just about the right moment. With a hard to miss the sound of his sandals touching the ground. The shopkeeper this time didn't wear his hat on his head. With his brown coat covering the dark green kimono he wears most of the time.

"Urahara Kisuke...Is this your doing?!" Aizen asked with a demanding tone.

"Yes, I concealed this Kidou within another one and implanted it in your body before your transformation was complete, when you were the most vulnerable"

Aizen's response was to growl, or perhaps gasp? Hard to tell, his voice still being altered by the fact Aizen was a half hollow.

Urahara continued on "It's a sealing technique, I determined that if you fuse with the Hogyoku, killing you would be impossible."

Aizen looked down, amazed by the trickery Urahara has presented him with. Aizen didn't lose yet, and he still had the hogyoku. He believed in his victory, in his right to win, in his destiny, to reach the spirit king. Aizen pointed the remain of his zanpakuto at the shopkeeper.

"Is that so? Then I'll have to disappoint you!" Aizen took an offensive stand.

But he went on.

"Behold! As I will attain a higher level of evolution!"

As Aizen was about to strike the two men standing not so far away from him, suddenly, the stone in Aizen's chest shone brightly. Blinding both Ichigo and the shopkeeper. Urahara couldn't believe this, it was impossible for the Hogyoku to do anything! Aizen's smile only grew and became sadistic.

The kidou in his chest disappeared at once, the ground under Aizen's suddenly lowered itself and a powerful wave of wind followed it. Urahara used his staff to impale it into the ground so that the force of the wind wouldn't blow him away. Ichigo wasn't touched by the wind whatsoever, the only thing he had to do was protect his face from the sand that was carried by the wind.

"The winner speaks of the world as it should be, not as it is! To try and fix it!"

Suddenly dark violet erupted from the stone, violently, chaotic patterns of it striking the terrain around the shinigami. Aizen laughed at them. Ichigo slowly stood up using his hands as a cover from the blinding light of the Hogyoku. Ichigo looked at Urahara, seeking a response from the man.

"Ichigo! Get out of there!"

Ichigo tried to back away, his legs wouldn't do as he commanded, he stood in place. The stone, covered Aizen in a sphere of weird reiatsu, the highlands started to collapse, the earth under them started to break into pieces and smaller stones started to disintegrate. Soon, Aizen's laugh was not to be heard anymore.

The reiatsu send a disk of energy, Urahara seeing the danger, took his zanpakuto out its cover in order to try and protect himself from the attack. Gravity, or perhaps the sheer amount of spiritual energy, pinned the shopkeeper down, the energy impacted with the genius and went right thru him. As Urahara fell on the ground, Ichigo noticed that where the man collapsed blood started to pour out from the back and front of Urahara.

"Aizen! You bastard!" Ichigo's voice could barely be heard in the violent wind

The same dark violet disc of energy went thru Ichigo. At first, he didn't feel anything, but suddenly something, like a hand or a rope pulled him closer to the source of the problem. The color of the spiritual energy looked like the night sky, mostly dark with countless pecks of blue and red, some green and pink. As if the reiatsu was an artist's canvas.

Ichigo looked behind him, to see the mountains around collapse and lover themselves to the same level as Aizen. Why wasn't he touched by the spiritual pressure? What was going on? Ichigo looked back, it horrified him, the Hogyoku expanded the area of its reach, swallowing new parts of the ground and the air.

It looked like a stain, that was the scariest in it. A two-dimensional monstrosity like in movies. That had the goal of destroying the universe. Ichigo tried to run, but as he went to Urahara, he heard weird, cracking noise, like ice or glass breaking, mixed with something similar to the sound of his spiritual energy being released.

The sphere released a wave of the "cosmic" energy. From a birds view it looked like a cone, the volume of the Hogyoku's area of effect got significantly bigger. Ichigo felt the weight of hundreds of kilos on his shoulder, he dropped to his knees. Gasping for air, he could barely breathe with. Aizen's, or maybe not even his, but the stones reiatsu, absorbed Ichigo.

The first thought Ichigo had, was that the stone wanted to again use nearby souls to regain power. Ichigo as soon as he was touched by it, felt extreme pain, all around his body. He couldn't see inside of the reiatsu, it was bright as if he was looking directly at the sun. The pain, it was present the whole time, he broke his arm a few times in his life, and a few other limbs. He couldn't relate to those times more than now.

Ichigo closed his eyes, he felt as he closed them and yet he saw a net, a red net. Something like a spider's web. These were the blood vessels in his eyelids, the brightness was so intense even his eyelids couldn't help. The overall experience was horrifying, the pain also had the feeling as if he was burning alive.

He didn't feel the reiatsu, he couldn't say, how it felt, if it was like water or something denser.

He lost the track of his moves, he didn't know if he was moving his hands or not anymore, as the pain was so powerful he couldn't tell if he even had his arms and legs. Perhaps he was paralyzed, or this was the process of how the stone regained its power? Ichigo couldn't get out, and Urahara was out there, probably also being absorbed right now.

His friends? They are in danger, he needs to do something, anything to stop the stone. He went so far, he has done so much, and all of this for literally nothing? Only to die, letting Aizen win? The Hogyoku will grant him even more power. Aizen after becoming one with the Hogyoku would be unstoppable.

Ichigo tried to do something, he tried everything he thought of. Moving, yelling, attacking, anything that could bring him to stopping the process currently going on outside of his prison. Ichigo gasped for air, he felt as the force expanded his lungs, he felt as it tore him apart inside of him. He could taste the metallic flavor in his mouth quickly after he noted the feeling inside of his chest.

Ichigo, suddenly saw darkness, in a matter of less then a second everything turned black. Was he blind? Did the light manage to take his ability to see? It seemed like it, his organs were failing, his skin started to burn. He felt as if one whole day has passed. Or was it a minute or less?

Ichigo wished it would end soon. The thoughts of his friends in danger, of his family in danger. That only made it even worse for Ichigo. Whatever was happening, it was torturing him, scenarios of what Aizen could do appeared in his head. Pictures of his home destroyed, reduced to ash so that nothing, not even grass could grow on the terrain.

Indescribable pain made Ichigo stop trying to breathe. It went all the way down his spine to the bottom of his legs from the top of his head. It, and the crushing psychological pain of his sisters dying, and he, not able to do anything because he allowed for it. It was truly the worst possible outcome for someone with a golden heart like him.

He was too weak, it's all his fault. Is his fault everyone will now have to join Aizen, or die.

"It's my fault, it's my fault…" Ichigo repeated in his mind

How did he manage to even think, while he suffered so much was a mystery. Ichigo was crying, although he didn't know it himself. It was too much for him, he has no reason to live. He wouldn't bare surviving and witnessing all the horrible things Aizen could do.

Ichigo felt...weak, he was losing strength, both his will and his life. It didn't matter anymore, if he will die, and everyone else too, then it's not that bad, is it? Eh, at least they won't suffer. He hopes they won't, he has hope, but was is worth hope and faith when everything tells you that what you believe in, is nothing more than a fairy tale?

The last amounts of strength Ichigo could master to keep himself awake, was hell. He spent it thinking of everyone he knows suffering for eternity like he is right now. Death would a merciful gift compared to the possibility of endless torture. Only an insane person would wish this...But if it would be the case, he'd wish everyone he knows a quick and merciful death.

Ichigo started to lose his consciousness, with it, the pain he felt seemed to go away. The last seconds felt long and grim. There was only one sentence constantly being repeated by Ichigo, its frequency lowering with each moment. Prolonging the process of Ichigo...dying?

"I...Refuse...No...Please..."

Ichigo at once, has begun to rest in peace. After the pain, he had to go through. Both in the living world, as a shinigami, and now.

Entry Log 2019-(Unavailable)

At 12:33 equatorial time, 25.01.2019 Satellite RU-MS14 has spotted an anomaly above the territory of the Russian Federation. The object has been later classified as potentially multidimensional. Three MTF forces have been dispatched to secure the anomaly.

Eta-10 has been sent to the landing site of the anomaly together with Sigma-9 that has been stationing in Japan for a military exercise. MTF unit Pi-1 has been ordered to accompany the two mentioned earlier.

Three level four clearance scientists have been accompanied by another five, level three clearance scientists specialized in biological, humanoid, and multidimensional, memetic anomalies. Dr. Emily Redfield is the head of the action, together with her assistant John (file corrupted)

/Enter level 4 clearance card or higher to view the rest of the log

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/Sorry, please contact anyone with the necessary authority to view the file.

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From: Satellite RU-MS14

To: Senior Administrator Cyrus Hourdoon. Site 32.

/Warning/ A entity, four meters in length, two in diameter, has been spotted above the territory of the Russian Federation. Above the Krasnoyarsk Krai, in the Evenkiysky district.

The speed of the object varies from twenty-two to forty-seven thousand kilometers a second. The shape of the object, is oval, as of generating this message, its speed has changed two times.

The route of the anomaly, is random, changing direction to the east and west. Yet it is moving towards the south.

The anomaly is made out of energy, generating vast amounts of light.

Please note, that the anomaly generates its own gravity, the radius is ten kilometers, the pressure is similar to Jupiters.

Sending a message to O5 council, and the government of the Russian Federation.

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From: Head director Dr. (************) Site 15

To: MTF Mu-4 members.

O5 council ordered you to create a fake report on a meteor that crashed in Tokyo. You'll receive in a moment pictures of the anomaly that has been seen above Korea and China. You have the permission to hack into public television, news networks, internet sites and block potential leaks about the anomaly.

I repeat, your mission is to stop leaks, and create false news.

AU

I hope you liked the prologue, I am very sorry for the grammar, I am tryin' to do my best even if for you it might not look like it.

I have tons of SCP's Ichigo will work with, and yes, the Romance tag is here for something. I know some users that are fans of the SCP mythos might worry I am one of those crazy (*cough*) activists that ban everything and everyone. Like that one time, there was some fuss about it. Don't worry, I am not one of them. No agenda's will be pushed.

If you'd like to know, what I have prepared, what SCP's. Then ask I will gladly show you what's behind the curtain.

Leave suggestions, maybe you want your SCP's here? If you are an author of one, tell me which, and I'll try to push it in so that it won't disturb the plot.

I think that the SCP mythos is very rich in lore, and I'll try to use what the community has accepted to be official. Be it fan arts, information, test ran on the SCP's. I will marginally add a few lore bending information to my narrative.