A few words from the author: Sorry about the late update. I would like to say a big thank you to all who took time to read my story, and a bigger thank you to all who reviewed.

Notes on the Text: I realize that this chapter is very unrealistic, but I wanted to submit it in order to move on, hopefully my next one is better.

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The base's helipads were four crude squares of packed earth. There were two UH-1 "Hueys" parked on the first two pads. Next to them was an AH-1 Cobra, which was mostly used for base defense. The last pad was empty, it was the place where Ichigo and his squad had landed the day before.

"Last night we recieved confirmation of a small enemy supply cache fourty miles northeast of here. So your first mission is to find the supplies and destroy them." Urahara said as he pulled out a map. "We will land here," he indicated the area with his finger. "and proceed north to the cache. We will have air support compliments of the Seireitei airfield, which is about fifteen miles north of our current location." He said pointing to the north.

Urahara led his men to the first Huey, which was already fuled and manned by the pilots and door gunner. The pilots looked to be in their early twenties, their names were Kiyone Kotetsu and Kotsubaki Sentaro. Kiyone's flight helmet covered her short strawberry blonde hair, her flight suit was slightly loose on her small form and her blue eyes focused intently on the controls of the chopper. Kotsubaki's helmet covered his brown hair, he had a small goatee on his chin and thick eyebrows. The door gunner was a huge man with thin rectangular glasses and a well groomed brown mustache. His uniform said Tessai, but most people called him "doorman".

They piled into the chopper and sat down, the Huey left the ground and started the journey. They were soon joined by a Cobra from Seireitei, which escorted them to the LZ.

The LZ was an area about sixty square feet, it had grass that was four feet tall. To the north they could see the edge of a thick tropical jungle.

"Lock and load people!" Urahara ordered as he jumped from the Huey. Ichigo inserted a belt of ammunition into his M-60 and jumped out, followed by Kira, Ikkaku, Ishida, and the rest of the squad. Urahara made a hand sign to crouch and move forward into the forest. They moved slowly through the tall grass toward the thick jungle.

As soon as the last person had entered the safety of the jungle, Urahara ordered them to continue northward quietly in a wedge-shaped pattern. Urahara was at the front, flanked by Kira on the left and Ganju on the right. Ichigo, Ishida and Renji followed on the left while Chad and Ikkaku followed on the right.

They quietly advanced forward through the jungle for about an hour until they could see a small clearing. In the middle of the clearing was a thached hut surrounded by crates camoflaged with foliage. The hut was surrounded by six people, three of them were wearing tigerstripe camoflage outfits, two of them were wearing conical straw hats ("chinese hats") with civilian clothes, and the last one wore a green canvas uniform and a pith helmet. All of them were armed with AK-type weapons and apparently oblivious to the Americans that were crouching in the bushes.

Urahara motioned for Ishida to come, he then indicated his forehead with his finger and pointed to the man wearing the pith helmet.

Ishida raised his rifle and peered through the scope. He could see the man clearly in his sights, he steadied his arms. As his finger started to squeeze the trigger, the man looked square at him. The man's eyes widened in alarm; but before he could alert the others the crack of Ishida's gun went off and a red mist erupted from the back of his head, his limp body fell against the wall of the hut.

"NOW!" Urahara yelled. Soon the air was filled with the sound of gunfire as the five remaining sentries were gunned down.

"Ichigo, Ishida, cover the door." Urahara ordered. "The rest of you, follow me." They made their way to the hut and stood up against the wall. Urahara ordered Ganju in first.

Ganju ran inside and found that the building was empty, except for a few crude beds, boxes of ammo, a weapon or two, and a firepit in the center. Chad and Ikkaku followed him and confirmed that the building was clear.

"Ishida, Ichigo, get your zippos out." ordered Urahara, "Ganju, get some C4 on those crates. Cueball, you and Chad take these bodies inside the hut. Renji, get on the radio and call for evac."

The men did as they were told and in a few hours the supply depot was nothing but embers and they were back on the Huey heading home.