Here it is the 5th chapter and the longest yet, now I don't want people to thing that their will be massive chapters every single time the chapter will very in size depending on how of an is happening with that chapter.
Anyway quite a bit happens in this chapter so I hope you enjoy so on with the chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach or any of its original characters.
"Talking"
"Thinking"
"Zanpaktou speaking"
"Zanpaktou thinking"
'Zanpaktou/kido techniques'
Sometime later with Haelen stairs of the Sokyoku hill
After some jumping, running and plenty of flash steps Haelen had arrived at the start of the long zigzag stairway of the Sokyoku hill. During his journey towards the enormous hills stairs he took a minute to think over the intel he picked up from over hearing some local soul reapers " so it would appear there's a new Kenpachi and he was recently in a fight with one of the Ryoka and this particular Ryoka possessed a huge Zanpaktou, thats gotta be this Ichigo boy, apparently their fight was pretty damn destructive on the surroundings as well" recollected Haelen intrigued on mention of the battle between the squad 11 captain and Ichigo.
Helen's thoughts then shift to the second bit of information he overheard"than theirs word of a captain going by the name of Aizen being murdered and it would seem he received a pretty nasty end from the description of how his corpse was described" he exited he thoughts when he arrived at the start of the stairs.
Before Haelen made a move to begin his travel up the near endless looking stairway. Haelen absorbed in the feel of the great battles happening around Seireitei, he could sense it in the air the various great spiritual energies clashing and fighting for dominance.
One particular spirit energy grab his attention he could never forget this old powerful scorching spirit energy and the fact he could feel its strength from here was just another testament to its owners unyielding strength "old man clearly hasn't let himself get soft over the years ha" thought the cloaked man, amused and impressed by the head captains strength.
Haelen focused back on the stairway and then started gazing upward and whistled at all the steps there were "boy I forgot how many there are, well better get started it feels like the battle is reaching to an impressive level" Haelen began the long run up the lengthy stairwell, as he was making his way up he began to feel a pair of low energy signatures coming towards him.
As Healen took in the energies he could feel that they were both very drained and one was very injured on top of it all. After some time of running Haelen could begin to see the source of the energies. Coming into Haelen's sight was a man with blood red hair carrying with him a small angry looking girl in both his banged arms. She was struggling with him screaming, hitting and sometimes pulling at his cheeks, the last one was kind of amusing to watch really.
Haelen paused in his run and started thinking on how best to go about this "hum their running from the hill, he looks injured she's…. wearing white robes! and has a red collar around her neck! the ones used on prisoners before execution, is she Rukia?! yes she has to be!, now I can get some real answers, well better make my presences know" "hey!" Haelen shouted to the pair waving with enthusiasm, almost like he was waving two old friends he hadn't seen a while.
The pair stopped their arguing and halted in their stride to stare at the man in shock, they didn't sense anyone there. They were so court up in their disagreement that they didn't pay attention to their surroundings at all, not even taking the time to watch their steps properly.
For a moment everything was silent Rukia stared at the man anxious about what he could want, the man with red hair stared with a scowl and kept one arm holding the small girl while the other slowly reached for his blade by his hip. Seeing the man's movements Haelen decided he better defuse the tension before things started getting out of hand "wait their kiddo! am not here to fight in fact I think you and me are here for similar reasons" he said lifting his arms up in a surrendering manner showing he was not intending on attacking the pair.
The injured man and Rukia stared at him sceptically. The redhead decided to speak first " yeah right, why should I believe you? especially when you're all covered up in that cloak" he said with high distrust and with narrowed eyes.
Haelen sighed at how right he was he did look untrustworthy all covered up in his cloak "ok ok I see your point" he said with a slightly amused tone, with that Haelen pulled back his hood to reveal…..his masked face. The pair stared at him as if waiting for something "what?" he asked in a confused tone, completely unaware of what had them staring at him with expectation.
Rukia was the one answer his question"well what you waiting for? take it off so we can see your face" she said pointing at Haelen while other man did the same, except with his now drawn katana.
It was then that it dawned on him what they were waiting for "Oh you mean this" he said pointing at his mask and they both nodded "well sorry I'm afraid I can't take it off" he said hoping they would let it go after that.
The redhead growled in annoyance at Haelen "what do you mean you wont!" he demanded in an angered tone.
"I said I cant, I didnt say I won't, I'm not playing any game if that's what you're thinking kid, I just cant remove it, believe me on this if I could I would but I can't, not without causing risks to others" he said with sincerity thick in his voice which seemed to calm the pairs nerves. Haelen gave a quick cough to compose himself he didn't like talking about his suit's major faults talking about them only made him think of what he lost because of it. Haelen turned his attention directly to the girl in the man's arm "now tell me are you this Rukia girl that this Ichigo guy has come to rescue" Haelen questioned nonchalantly wanting to get straight back on track.
He sees he hit the nail on the head when the the pair gain surprised expressions on their faces. After coming down from her shock Rukia was able to start forming a response though she was clearly nervous "um yes how d-do you know? an-and what are you he-here for?" she asked stuttering a bit.
To the pairs unease Haelen began to laugh a little, though it was low and short it still put the pair on edge "good, this is good, to see that you are safe and out of the hands of whoever is behind this whole mess" spoke Haelen with a cheerful tone while he nodded in relief.
The paired stared at him in worried shock by the reveal that something else might be happening. Before either of them could speak or think on his words Haelen voice shut all those forming question down like a switch "you boy what's your name?" ordered Haelen in a sudden commanding tone which had both soul reapers taken aback by his sudden change in attitude.
The man in question swallowed the lump that formed in his throat before speaking "um Re-Renji Abarai" he said sweating a little he didn't know why that voice scared him so much that his blood felt like it had been frozen, the feeling was like he was standing before a dozen captains and he didn't know why. Normally Renji would yell at someone for calling him kid or boy like this masked stranger was, but in his presence he really did feel like child though he wouldn't admit.
"ahh Renji what a good name oh and may I ask Rukia what is your full name? I was only told your first name and never actually caught your surname sorry" he said in a slightly embarrassed tone at not thinking to catch her last name.
Rukia felt a little relieved at him asking her name in a more laidback manner"its well its um Kuchiki, Rukia Kuchiki sir" she said with a sad tone as she remember her brother and looks up the hill in the direction of the fight between her brother and Ichigo that still waged on strongly from the feeling of their crushing and clashing energies.
Haelen was shocked to hear her last name "Kuchiki?, really this young girl is a member of one of the 4 great noble houses? and she is being sentenced to execution like this? and so fast too, something like this should take way longer to be finalized not sped up, okay that seals it something is seriously going on here if someone of the noble families can be sentenced to death so….quickly" when Haelen left his thoughts storing the new evidence away he saw the girl looking up with a sad and worried look on her face, following her line of sight he saw she was looking in the direction of the fight happening at the top of the hill "and that must be where that Ichigo kid is fighting with Byakuya Kuchiki" he spoke in a solemn tone.
Rukia and Renji stared at the guy in more surprise at seeing that he knew of Ichigo and Byakuya's current fight. "how di-" was Rukia about to question the masked man before she was cut of by him lifting his hand up to pause her.
"Yeah I know of him and that he has brought some friends with him to aid in your recuse, I also know he is a Substitute Soul Reaper and that he has massive reserves of spiritual energy, it;s quite interesting that this boy has already attained a Bankia,I must say you sure did pick a hell of guy to turn into a Soul Reaper Miss Kuchiki, plus I know that he is fighting with the current Head of your clan plus also seem to be a captain quite bold move on his part" he said praising Rukia and Ichigo with gentle humour clear in his voice.
Rukia couldn't help but smile a bit at the man's words about Ichigo being a hell of choice. It was short lived when she reminded herself that she was the reason that he and his friends where here putting their lives in danger for her own incompetence and mistakes "yeah he is but he shouldn't have come, none of them should, this is my fault and I should pay for it" she stated in a self loathing but stern tone tone. Any facade of strength she may have shown was shattered by the sight tears beginning to form in the corners of her violet eyes.
Renji was about to protest before Haelen cut him off "maybe you're right, maybe you should pay for your actions" Haelen said shrugging his shoulders lazily. Both Renji and Rukia stared at the man in surprise at his word "but then again how do you know everything will turn out better if you die, how do you know it won't become worse, how do you know your death won't lead to something much more worse" Haelen said in a foreshadowing tone which sent icy shivers through the pair.
Rukia didn't know what to say she didn't think of it like that, she never thought her death could cause things to get any worse "I um I just think that with me death this will all stop and everything can go back to normal for everyone, the Head captain himself! promised to let Ichigo and his friends go as my final request" she said trying to get them to understand her point.
Haelen looked at the girl saddened from what he heard "oh my dear girl, I'm afraid generyise would not fulfil such a promise" he said with a voice of pity as he stared at the girl and saw her final hopes beginning to be crushed under his words "it's true he would not, they have invaded Soul Society his pride, the home of the Soul Reapers, a supposed to be impenetrable forte, do you really believe he or any soul reaper like him would fulfil such a promise?" after he said this he began to see the lingering tears in the young girls violet eyes begin slide down her pale cheeks. It broke his heart to see it, she reminded him of when he first met Soifon and when she cried.
"Wh-why? I ju-just want them t-to live I do-don't want them to be har-" Rukia who was now crying and beginning to throb was stopped by Renji when he decided he had enough of being quiet.
"Listen Rukia! they aren't going to die, Ichigo isn't going to die, and you're going to live no one has to sacrifice themselves, this, this is all bullshit OK you did nothing wrong, you have done nothing to deserve death!" Renji declared with a voice which showed he strongly believed his words.
Rukia didn't know what to say they all really believed she was innocent of any crime. None of them at all thought this was hopeless, that it would just be better to just let her be executed and be done with, let her just become a memory to fade into time. Wouldn't it just be better that way? with her gone the fighting would at least stop and if Ichigo's group moved fast enough maybe they could escape.
"He's is right, you don't look like you deserve any of this to me this is all well…. wrong very very wrong to say the least" commented Haelen in a deadly serious tone which had the pair on edge. Haelen looked up to the hill and thought it was time continue up the hill "well I'm going up, you two coming with?" Haelen asked as he began walking past them.
"No we are going to keep going down, but tell me why are you going up their are you going to help Ichigo?" asked Rukia a bit hopeful that he was.
Haelen turned back to the girl before he decided to answer " if he really needs my help then sure" "but I got this feeling that the hill is where everything will playout and whatever is going on here will reveal itself, but for now I will try and lay low, I know I shouldn't let her go but I still feel she is at the centre of it all and if I wait I may get answers" presumed Haelen.
"Thank you...um" thanked the young Kuchiki with a thankful smile and soft violet eyes, before it something struck her "um this is um little embarrassing but we never got your name?" asked Rukia turning red a little from embarrassment on not asking him for his name. As renji heard this he also felt stupid for not asking the masked man to identify himself.
After hearing the young girls request the masked Haelen felt rude for introducing himself to them "oh sorry, I really should have told you both sooner, well my name is Haelen, Haelen Bennet" he revealed.
For a moment the pair looked at him stranged they had never heard of any one with such a name living in soul society. Renji and Rukia quickly snapped out if their musing on Haelen name and refocused back on the man "thank you Haelen please just do what ever you can, and if you can also I would like if Byakuya was also not killed" requested Rukia sound very desperate.
Haelen simple nodded to the girl feeling their was no need for words. Rukia smiled softly at him showing her all her gratitude in that one smile, it warmed Haelens heart and but also filled him with guilt at letting her and Renji go of alone not knowing what was hunting after them.
With that Haelen began flash stepping up the stairs, when he reached the top he found himself nearly abal to taste the two concentrated masses of spirit energy. He could also pick up on the corner of his senses multiple smaller signatures at one part of the hills little woodlands that covered a part of the hill. Sensing these smaller signatures Haelen decided to hide at the top of one of the many trees and wait to see what happens.
When Haelen got into a good position to watch the battle he saw an impressive sight. On one end of the field he saw a captain with long black hair wielding a sword with a concentrated white spiritual energy coming off and taking the form of what looked like wings and a halo around the back of its wielder. The man himself looked pretty beat up possessing multiple deep cuts with his captains coat covered more freshly red than white.
On the other end an orange haired teen who was wielding a pitch black katana and sporting a long black capped robe. The young man was currently surrounded by pure black spirit energy that was lined deep blue and was flowing like ebony flames. The kid was in no better state than his opponent possessing an equal amount of cuts and overall general damage.
"impressive the pair of them, I sure hope neither of them end up killing each other, given the look of the captain he is definitely a Kuchiki given the scarf that they all seem to fancy and the head decoration too." he thought amused by the captains typical choice in style.
Haelen was harshly knocked out of his thought by the impact of the two captain level fighters colliding and causing a huge wave of black and white spirit energy, the two powers began to struggle between each other in a fight for dominance. Haelen was having a tough time holding onto the tree he was seated on threatening to be knocked out by the huge shock wave which seemed to be trying to do its best to send him flying.
After a moment the struggle ended and both opponents stud on opposite ends of the field covered and drench in their own freshly spilled blood, dust was lifted all around them and the sky above was filled with fading wisps of the pairs spirit energy.
Haelen was a little bit surprised but not by what just happened but by what didn't "huh you would think with power like that colliding their would be more damage to their surroundings especially given that shock wave just then oh well it was still an impressive display none the less" mused Haelen quite impressed by the young men's display of focused power.
After a second of just standing there the captain left side bust with blood and then a second later the same happened for Ichigo who had to use his sword for support. Haelen saw the captain reveal in one hand what looked glowing blossom petals "must be from his Zanpaktou" Haelen thought sensing some fading energy coming from petals.
Haelen watched as the two had a quick conversation which ended with the captain flash stepping away and Ichigo roaring into the air "um why he is doing that?, a victory cry maybe?" thought Haelen with a deadpan expression on his mask, somehow.
Next the cloaked man watched as the young man's friends came to his aid "Oh so it was their energies I sensed, some of them look pretty banged up but in good condition, I would follow them but I still think this is the right place for answers, I will let them go, and hope they stay safe" he thought with renewed guilt at letting them go alone especially in their condition, and watched as the kids picked up Ichigo and left for stairs probably to go an try to catch up with Rukia and Renji.
Haelen waited for a bit until he began to sense something in the centre of the hills clearing. Appearing in the clearing was a man with wavy brown hair, wearing glasses, alongside the man was another man with grey, purplish hair, a fox like grin, but the thing which caught Haelen's attention the most was that both men were wearing captain haori's "I don't like the look of this" as if fate was against him he sensed 3 more signatures appear and 2 of them he recognized.
A short distance in front of the 2 men was Rukia and Renji and a third man, he was a dark skinned man wearing silver sunglasses and some orange rope around his neck which also tied his purple hair into a ponytail. "OK so I really don't like the look of where this is going, but it doesn't mean I'm right, right?"he thought to himself hoping his feeling was wrong.
But the next thing Haelen knew he was hearing the voice of a woman in his claiming claiming to be the lieutenant of the 4th and was sending a message from both her and captain Unohana, then went of to tell about the supposedly dead captain Aizen of the 5th being a traitor along with some cohorts, he stabbed his own lieutenant and almost killed a captain named Hitsugaya and that he slaughtered the central 46 "well….shit" was all Haelen could think to describe his thought on the situation.
Haelen could only sigh in disappointment "traitors are always the worse, I can't imagine the effects this is going to have on their squads later" the masked man thoughts than shifted to his daughter"I wonder how Soifon's been doing since we parted, with our cloaks on no one should be able to sense use".
Earlier with Soifon
"Well that looks like a party" thought Soifon as she watched some black spiky haired captain with a little pink haired girl near by fighting with some giant samurai warrior that was shadowing the movements of a werewolf captain "wish I could take a picture of that" she thought in slight disappointment.
"I do too, that is like a once in a lifetime sight and it between two captains thats something you don't see everyday, but what really amazes me is that guy with the spiky hair, he ain't even using his bankai at all" Said Suzumebachi from within Soifon's inner world
Soifon nodded in agreement " yeah you're right that is impressive for sure, awww look at the little girl she's cheering for him how adorable….is she wearing a lieutenant's badge?" Soifon squinted her eyes to make sure she wasn't seeing things "holy shit, she is wearing one does that mean that, that kid is strong enough to be a lieutenant?"
Suzumebachi gave a little snicker at Soifon's shock at seeing that the young pinket was a lieutenant's "it would seem so my queen and from the looks of things she seems to be no stranger to violence either, so I would keep your guard up if you cross her, just because she looks likes a little girl doesn't mean that sword can't kill you" lectured Suzumebachi in a perky tone.
Soifon sighed "yeah yeah I know I know, so from the looks of it the captains have been replaced since the last century but it also seem their about the kill each other as well" she then release a mock sigh "but it makes for a good show at least" she feels Suzumebachi nod in agreement "shame I can't stick around to watch though" finished Soifon hearing Suzumebachi release whine at her from her inner world.
Before Soifon flash stepped away she took one last look at the fight and saw that a few more building became victims to pair of captains destructive battle.
As Soifon flash stepped through Seireitei she could see many soul reapers moving about the place and could sense some high levels clashing, not as high as the previous fight she just witnessed, so she was guessing some lieutenants were fighting each other some where.
Soifon stopped on the tiled tops of one the Seireitei's many walls when she saw intense flames burning in the distance and could sense some seriously strong spiritual energies coming from that direction, she knew one was Yamamoto's for sure and she could vaguely recognize the other two and if memory served right it would have to be captain Ukitake and Kyoraku two of Seireitei's of most experienced captains.
Once she had a good read of the situation she turned away from the fight, no way was she getting anywhere near that, not in a million years, her dad had told her stories about the old man and she now knew better than ever the strength of Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto and it was something not to cross recklessly.
"yeah you can say that again, he and Ryujin Jakka would destroy us especially since we aren't ever at full strength, but even then I would like to avoid a fight with those two, but! if we ever have too am ready for them!" exclaimed the fairy like zanpaktou while expressing her will to not back down by putting on a little suit of golden armour "SO BRING IT ON!" she exclaimed pointing her stinger in the air dramatically which briefly gleamed at the tip.
Soifon shook her head at her Zanpakuto's display of heart "yeah yeah calm down, we're not gonna go fight them, thought I will admit I am curious to see how my own strength fairs against today's captains? I really do want to fight one but finding Yoruichi and her group takes top priority, though..." Soifon turned back to look at the Sokyoku hill before continuing "I haven't spotted any of them and if I am correct dad said the orange hedgehog possessed big reserves of spirit energy, and the execution would have taken place so it's most likely where they have gone there, plus I haven't sensed Yoruichi any where near by so either she is staying hidden or is out of my range, and further given how I am now my sensing is currently limited" thought Soifon trying to picture the groups scenario on how they went about it and the most likely place they would be right now.
Suzambach seeing where her master was likely going with this "so you're thinking of heading to the Sokyoku hill to meet up with Haelen" she got a nod "well what you waiting for get a move on!" shouted the bee lady at her master
"I am jeez no need to shout, you're so impatient" spoke Soifon annoyed by her zanpakuto's restless attitude while she began her flash steps towards the Sokyoku hill.
"well I am your zanpaktou ~ so I must get it from you" sang Suzumebachi in a mocking tone sporting a huge teasing grin.
Soifon merely grunted in response to that, which only served to make her swords grin bigger seeing that her master had no come back.
Back with Haelen
Haelen then went on to watch how this Aizen floored Ichigo and Renji with next to no effort, then go on to defeat a wolf faced captain with Hado 90 Kurohitsugi "Hado 90 am impressed he used it without an incantation, and that fallen captain must be from the werewolf clan, am sorry kids but hang in there I swear I will patch you right up I just need to see what this guy wants, and whatever it is it must be stored within Rukia's body" so Haelen forced himself to stay put and watch to see what it was Aizen was after from Rukia.
Haelen watched on painfully as Aizen took Rukia by the collar and slowly started walking away with her to a less crowded part of the rocky hill. As they were walking the group who picked up Ichigo came rushing back on to the hill seeking to help but were sadly where stopped when Gin stepped in front of the group and started releasing a heavy spiritual pressure on the group which knock out the red headed girl and the nerdy Quincy due it's sheer unexpected power "I have really got to learn their names" thought Haelen briefly feeling bad on not knowing most the individuals names.
So with the group stopped in their tracks Aizen began to fill in the blanks of what was going on in soul society. Starting on how he located Rukia in the world of living, correcting the mistake on the time in which the central 46 were thought to be killed saying how he killed them straight after he found her, and took complete control of the central 46 by using his Kyoka Suigetsu on the central 46 assemble hall to make it look like they were still holding regular meetings, further more informing on how always either him or one of his cohorts were always in the Central 46.
Aizen then went on to speak of how they were issuing all the orders of Central 46 and with that control used to order the capture of Rukia using the captain and lieutenant of squad 6, Byakuya and Renji. Issued the destruction of Rukias gigai which will dissolve her soul and leave the Hogyoku open for the taking, he stated the easiest way for him to extract it was to have her die by the Sokyoku.
To further fill in the gaps, Aizen told how the only times when none of them were occupying the Central 46 was the few hours during two captain's meetings, he then reveals he fakes his death and goes to live underground. He states how he knew that her friends might save her and that the execution might fail because of it.
Haelen listened intently to the browns haired man's story and to say he was stunned by what he heard would be an understatement in its fullest "this man is terrifyingly intelligent, he has been playing Soul Society from the shadows this whole time giving out orders with central 46's stamp, then that sword of his what a terrifying ability, complete hypnosis, but I wonder if it affects the sixth sense the ability to sense spiritual energy? " pondered Haelen mulling over the possibility that Aizen's ability may have one flaw in it.
Haelen then went on to hear of the 2 different methods of extracting an object from a soul and talked about how Kisuke Urahara invented the method for implanting an objects into the soul "Kisuke? that's one of Soifon's friends from when she was lieutenant of squad 2, I remember her telling me he became some big shot scientist and turned squad 12 into a research squad or something that's always experimenting and tinkering, apparently the squad made some great things from what she said, but now it seems his work is causing problems" he thought frowning at the thought of one of her friends creations being in the centre of all this.
Looking down below Haelen saw Aizen pulled out of his robes a small light purple object that look to be made of some sort of metal, he said he spent countless hours over Kisuke's research looking for the second method to extracting an object from a soul, Aizen clicked a button on the object and some like gas began to spray out.
Suddenly Haelen saw sharp green spikes sprout out of the ground six in total standing over 8 feet in height possessing a small circuit like design on the surface with small currents of red electrical energy zipping between their tips forming a rough circle, Aizen's left hand began to transform and take on a look similar to a glove which was green in colour like the spikes and possessing a similar circuit design looking to be etched into the glove.
With his green covered hand Aizen trusted the appendage into Rukia chest making a horrid puncturing sound on impact. Rukia hovered in the air with Aizen transformed hand logged in her chest with a look a pure horror and pain etched on her face. Slowly and carefully Aizen began to pull his hand out her chest with a small glowing orb in his grasp, their was no blood, no jagged look to the wound or any scream of pain from Rukia just silence.
The hole in Rukia's chest looked just like that a hole black and void but not perfectly circler like seen on hollows, the hole in her chest began to close as if it was never there in the first place much to everyone's amazement even Aizen who showed a little surprised "Amazing and no permanent harm to the soul what an astounding technique, it too bad for you I just don't have any use for you anymore" he spoke in a calm tone as he picked Rukia up by her red collar and pointed her in the direction of the silver haired captain with fox like grin "kill her Gin" he ordered in a more sinister but still soft tone.
The silver haired captain turned away from the victims of his spiritual pressure and drew his blade while swaggering over to get into a better position"if I must" he said in voice which sounded like he was being asked to run an errand rather than take a life. Gin point his blade into the direction of Rukia with the sharp side facing towards the sky and the back side facing downwards.
Gin was about to call out his blades name, but was stopped when he found himself captured by a set of what looked to be flat strips of light pinning his arms to his sides, the constructs of light looked to take on a sort of blunt six point star shape one pining his biceps to his sides and the other doing the same to his forearms.
Everyone present was now frozen in place shocked to see Gin captured off guard like this. The next thing people heard was a voice coming from the forest calling out 'Bakudo 63 Sajo Sabaku!' suddenly speeding out of the shadows the forest flying towards Gin was a glowing golden rope which captured Gin before he or anyone could make a move to help him, however the rope did not aim for his upper body but instead bond his legs keeping him stuck in place for what was to come next.
Appearing in a flash step a small distance from Gin was Haelen with his cloak now removed with his black covered hand clasp together and spilling out green spirit energy with some wisps of golden yellow coming off, he sounded to have come to the end of an incantation when he shouted out 'Bakudo 75 Gochutekkan!'.
Those words seemed to have an impacted on Gin because for a moment he lost of bit of colour in his face before harshly pinned under 5 large pillars that look to built out of metal, connected by chains at the top of the pillars, the pillars fell right out of the sky and land directly on Gin with only a brief "oh my!" escaping his lips before finally getting firmly captured by the high level Bakudo.
Everyone witness to this stared stunned at seeing such a powerful captained taken by surprised by this unknown man. Aizen who was now without Rukia in his grasp thanks to her brother sweeping in and reclaiming her from Aizen, who was currently staring at the the masked man with face that showed no loss of composure but was mulling over on who this new arrival could be.
Tousen had not change in his facial expression either just deciding to stand their thinking on how best to deal with the unexpected interference.
Ichigo and the gang were staring at the man thankful and and a bit weirded out by his outfit, Orihime in particular was thinking "is he an alien come from out of space to lend us a hand? wait do they have aliens here in the afterlife? wait this is the afterlife so why wouldn't they? Well maybe..." well anyway you can see her thoughts might go on for a bit so... cough! moving on.
Out of everyone present the only one who spoke up was Rukia who was more than happy to see his masked face "Haelen!" she shouted coming out her shock of seeing him capture Gin and amazed at the speed and quality of his Bakudos.
Her voice captured everyone's attention ever Haelen who waved at her and said "hi Rukia glad to see you're okay, especially after that well...lets say unwelcome surgery" he said trying to find a lighter way of putting having someone stick their arm directly into your chest "but never the less am glad to see it didn't do any permanent harm" he finished speaking and turned to Ichigo's group.
The group stared at him nervously waiting for him to speak, well except Orihime who was still lost in her imagination "Hi there am back up sent here by Kukaku, oh and if one of you is her brother she ask, well …more demanded that you make it back alive or else" after his words he noticed the one wearing a bandanna flinched at his words and started shrinking a little into the group "bull's eye" was his brief thought.
When Ganju recovered from his slight foreshadowing on how his sister might cause him pain one thing raised his alarms "wait you said my sister sent you!? how did get in here!?" he questioned the mask man who was no longer taking his eye of the two still active captains and currently pinned one who was putting in some slight effort to get free.
"she sent me here using her canon" he answered.
Ganju was shocked how could this guy have gotten through barrier alone? and to top it off unseen? "wait how did you get through alive? let alone unspotted?" asked a disbelieving Ganju surround by a stunned group.
Haelen hmph at Ganjus words before speaking "I asked myself the same thing, the barrier was way too easy to get through even with the preparation and modifications made the orb miss Shiba gave me, but now I have my answer it was him" he said pointing to Aizen who did not react "he lowered the barrier enough so that your group could break through and not get killed, but it seems he never raised it back up which made it still easy to get through" Haelen then turned to look at Tousen who could sense his gaze but did not react to it "oh and I didn't come alone".
Before Tousen knew what had just happened to him he found himself flying and rolling past the Kuchiki's and skidding to the other end of the hill. When he finally came to a skidding halt he could feel the pain coming from the left side of his face and that his shades where now ruined, as for what hit him he could now despite still recovering from the blow to the head sense a small faint energy now standing next to Haelen.
Haelen turned to the cloaked form of Soifon and spoke with a smile under his mask "glad you could make it, I don't know if my odds would be in my favour right now" he spoke in an easy but serious voice.
Soifon turned her hooded head to him but never taking her senses of the traitorous captains"I can tell, but it also seems you got one pretty good though or was that a lucky shot or something?" she asked amused while pointing to the pinned form on Gin who was putting in more effort to free of binds.
He nodded and answered "yes it was lucky, he was in the middle of releasing his Zanpakuto for a kill on Rukia over their, but I stepped in and captured him in a double Rikujokoro, a Sajo sabaku and well you can see what I finished with" he said looking over at Gin and noticing some cracks slowly forming on his Gochutekken "and it would seem this captain is already beginning to break its hold" he spoke in a grim tone.
Soifon also noticed but was not worried for now it would take that captain some time to get out of her dads Bakudo, plus she could sense all the other captains stopping their fights and moving in on their position.
Soifon tilted her head to her dad and began to whispered "so give me the run down from what I understand this captain Aizen is a traitor along with this Gin and Tousen and has completely killed the whole central 46" Haelen gave slight nod to confirm he her information.
Halen whispered back to Soifon "yes but it's more complicated then that, he has been pulling the strings all along even before his faked death and right now he has extracted something called a Hogyoku which seems to have been made by your old friend Urahara, and if a man like this Aizen wants it and your friend was willing to go so far as to hide it in someone's very soul it's got to be pretty damn dangerous" he explained in a stern tone never taking his senses of the traitorous captains.
Soifon was surprised to hear that Urahara would do such a thing to someone, and she was also surprised to hear he made something so potentially dangerous, but she shouldn't be so surprised she knew he was always doing big experiments it was only a matter of time before one of the those experiments made something even he himself would have preferred left undiscovered.
Soifon's eyes hardened on Aizen "I see so Kisuke's work is at the centre of all this" she stated in factual manner.
Haelen nodded "it would seem so, it a glowing orb, Aizen's placed it in his robes" he responded informing Soifon on it's current location.
"I see so we would have to get pretty close to this guy to get it" responded Soifon slipping into a stance and readying herself.
Haelen seeing this placed a hand on her shoulder to halt her, she turned her head a little in his direction "yes we would and that's what put us at a disadvantage, he's very fast, his swords strikes are of very damaging and his strength is enough that he has been stopping Zanpakutos strikes with one hand, his kido is pretty good too he did Hado 90 with no incantation" he knew he got through to her when he felt her tense "but theirs unfortunately more his zanpaktou can completely hypnotize someone if they see its release, all five base senses become at his mercy though am not sure about the sixth" he finished still mulling over the last bit but he was hoping not to find out.
Soifon was not liking the sound of this guy it was bad enough that this guy was creepy but he was strong too, strong enough to have other captains following him, he has a zanpakuto that can completely hypnotize someone if they see its release "wow fates a bitch for deciding to make this guy evil" thought Soifon in bitter humor that a guy like this decided to become bad.
Soifon and Haelen's attention where focused back completely on Aizen when he finally decided to speak "I did not foresee any possibility that their would be any more Ryoka, especially ones as tactful as you pair, I never sensed either of you until it was too late and Gin had been captured and Tousen had received a most fearsome kick, but I must ask who are you two?" he asked in a confident and polite voice.
Soifon crossed her arms over her chest and huffed "Like we'd tell you" she exclaimed answering for both of them.
This only seemed to amuse Aizen as he grew a sinister smile "okay be stubborn I suppose it does not matter I will correct my little mistake and get back on course" He was going to reach for his Zanpaktou but before he could draw it some cloth wrapped itself around the hilt,guard, sheath and his hand keeping Aizen from drawing the blade.
Two figures could be seen holding Aizen in place one was a beautiful dark skin woman with long purple hair and sharp golden eyes, this was Yoruichi Shihoin and she was the one currently holding the cloth trapping Aizen's hand and Zanpaktou.
Soifon was happy to see she was safe and could further more see she had changed since she last saw her, she seemed more mature, her hair was longer and she seemed to have ditched most of the stealth force uniform except for the shirt "it's good to see she is safe though she does look like she's been in a fight she has a few cuts and bruises" she observed a bit worried for old mentor fighting condition.
Soifon turned and looked at the second figure, she was wearing a shirt like Yoruichi, a hakama and standard stealth force shoes. she was about Yoruichi's hight if not just a bit smaller, she has white hair patterned with streaks of black occasionally appearing, her skin was snow white and her eyes where two different colours the right being brown the other being pale blue. The woman who Soifon could only guess was the current squad 2 captain, and looked to be the one Yoruichi had been fighting was currently holding her zanpaktou against Aizen's juglar from behind him.
Yoruichi turned and stared daggers at Aizen "their no where for you to go Aizen it's over give up" spoke Yoruichi sounding to be in a particularly bad mood today. She was to use today's confusion to check in on Soifon and see if she could still salvage their friendship but she found out from the current captain of squad two, who at the time she assumed was Soifon, she couldn't tell the woman had her face covered, had also left soul society shortly after her and Kiskue and has not been seen ever since.
Yoruichi briefly thought back to that conversion with the 2nd's captain.
Flashback
"what do you mean she left!" shouted Yoruichi with a disbelieving voice and equally disbelieving expression on her face at hearing that Soifon abandoned soul society shortly after her and Kisuke. Yoruichi and her opponent where both bruised and scratched and some of the surrounding forest was a bit busted up by their battle up till now.
The second squad captain sighed hating to put a hold on their battle"it's like it said in the report given to me, Shaolin Fon went awol and hasn't been seen since, the head captain was planning on asking her to become your replacement but she disappeared before he could, there were mentions of her being seen heading into the west Rukon, and further talk about a soul reaper in a stealth force uniform roaming the Rukon's and sometime helping the locals, the mentions of these sighting ended at the 80th Rukon about a centry ago" explained the pale skinned captain professionally.
Yoruichi was not liking this her little bee had disappeared but she needed to know one last thing "why did she leave? can you please tell me that" she asked but not without a stern tone.
The captain stared with a blank look before saying "fine, the believe is she left because she was a Fon" Yoruichi cocked an eyebrow confused "what does that have to do with anything?" seeing her confusion the captain subtle smirked small, little, faint barely even noticeable before it was gone and replaced back with a placid face "you don't know do you?" she spoke in a even tone but held and under current of mocking.
Yoruichi could hear the under current in the womans tone and scowl at the woman for it"know what? what does the Fon family have to do with Soifon's departure?" at this point Yoruichi was demanding to know, she needed to know what happened to make her old student leave.
The other woman a held a little laughed back in her throat at Yoruichi's fading cool before replying "everything" was what she said, she saw the dark skinned woman confusion worsen, the 2nd captain saw she would have to elaborate "as you know the Fon take training their their young very seriously, but the reason they do so is for the Shihoin" she first stated before pointing at Yoruichi for an example, who stiffened a little at not like where this could be going "but do you know how seriously?" the woman asked in a knowing tone which just served to start pissing Yoruichi off.
Yoruichi started thinking back, she has never seen the children train but she has seen the near adults, but not the children of the Fon. She remembers looking into the cold lifeless eyes of all the Fon's, it honestly scared her seeing so many of them always looking emotionless. She remembers why she picked Soifon to be her guard, not because she was the strongest but because she was the least empty looking.
She always wondered why the Fon seemed like that but she always had to put it to the back of her head due to her duties as a captain, in the end she just came to the conclusion they were trained well in hiding their emotions and that Soifon was their black sheep, but with the feeling of apprehension rising in side of her she was starting to think there's more to it than she thought.
The current captain saw Yoruichi was thinking something through and had a good Idea on what "clearly not" she said in a monotone voice. Once she saw she had back Yoruichi's attention she continued "not many know about the Fons training methods due to clan privacy, I bet even the Shihouin house didnt know much about their methods or those who did just turned a blind eye to it, but when the Fon was found out it was truly horrifying and was quickly turned into a major political event" Yoruichi couldn't believe what the woman way saying, her clan turning a blind eye? and what was found out that was turned into a major event?.
Coming out of her debate Yoruichi looked back at the woman and steeled to ask "what happened? what was found that caused such trouble?" asked Yoruichi in steeled voice ready for what ever was to come.
The Captain shrugged and decided to answer "brainwashing of their children" she spoke with only the tiniest of distaste in her voice that most wouldn't even pick it up.
Yoruichi's eyes snapped open wide and was now frozen solid by the impact of woman words wors "no NO! that can't be it, Soifon was never like them, she was a black sheep never really good at hiding her emotions but maybe that was because…. because ….OH god dammit this is so fucked up brainwashing children! but into wha!..." Yoruichi thoughts froze when it dawned on her "into the perfect body guards, they were always describe as perfect always brave,always willing to lay down their lives for their charge, always for the….Shihoin, the major Shihoin's of the clan have always had a guard from the Fon, but they never really seemed to come across as brave, they mainly seemed to come across as empty" recalled Yoruichi as her hands tightened into fists and her gut felt like it was twisting and making her feel sick.
Yoruichi was about the ask for more details but was interrupted by the voice of the squad 4th's Isane delivering the message of Aizen's betrayal and shortly after both her and the 2nd's captain decided to end their fight and put a pin their conversion and headed to the Sokyoku hill to confront Aizen.
End of flashback
"well this is a surprise, how are you Lady Shihoin? and how is your old friend Kisuke doing? I hope he doesn't mind me making use of one of his discarded toys?" asked Aizen to the dark skinned woman in his most condescending tone, which only served to make the already confused and pissed off woman more pissed off.
Yoruichi gripped the cloth in her grasp tighter and scowled harder at the glasses wearing traitor, if looked could kill she would be staring at the sky through a hole in Aizen's head right now "quiet you! it ends here there's no where left to hide and nowhere left to run" she bit out in a tone of finality.
During the time Aizen was restrained Tousen was also forced to stay put by being captured by his lieutenants who had his sword held placed to Tousen's throat.
Over with Gin he was…. well still pretty weighed down if catch my drift "god its getting stuffy under here, what the hell is the deal with these things? I would usually be out by now but it's like these things were done by someone who would put an expert to shame" thought Gin a little frustrated and very impressed by the bindings still keeping him pinned, so for now Gin continued to flare concentrated burst of his spirit energy to wear the final Bakudo down. So far he manage to break the ones on his upper and lower body but he was still under the heavy pillars of Bakudo 75.
Gin could sense that a collection of high level spiritual energies have appeared on the hill, but did not pay them any mind; he just continued to work at breaking the Bakudo that was beginning to cause him some cramps from being still too long.
On the hill appear 3 more captains, 6 lieutenants including the one who had Tousen captured. Those new captain's where Kyoraku of the 8th, Ukitake of the 13th and the Head captain himself. Amongst the lieutenants where Rangiku of the 10th, Omaeda of the 2nd, Hisagi of the 9th, Nanao of the 8th, Iba of the 7th and finally Chojiro of the 1st.
When all had arrived, all were showing their distaste for the traitors in front of them, well except for Rangiku who was too busy trying not to laugh at Gins now serious struggle to get out from under the last Bakudo "okay now I'm seriously beginning to cramp gaahhh I think a pulled something." thought an annoyed and slightly in pain Gin who apparently fears nothing more in the world than the possibility of a cramp.
Over with the Head captain he took in his surroundings and easily spotted the very worn down and miraculously still holding together Gochūtekkan. Yamamoto was seriously amazed that the thing was still holding, it looked like it was ready to shatter, it had multiple large cracks running along on all sides to the very tops of its pillars, but the pillars were still holding strong despite the constant blasts of spiritual energy being sent through them "I have not seen a Gochūtekkan with such endurance like that since him" the old captain whose only sign of emotion was the little extra grip applied to his cane.
After refocusing he turned his head to Haelen and the cloaked/hooded form of Soifon "I wonder if one of them two made it, strange I can feel nothing from the hooded one but from the one with the strange body suit I can sense overly calm spirit energy, it's like am in the presence of another Unohana" thought the old captain sizing up the two unknowns before him.
Over with Soifon and Haelen they both picked up a rise in spirit coming from above and turned their heads to gaze up, they started noticing a crack beginning the form in the space of the sky. Acting quick Soifon shouted directly to Yoruichi "Yoruichi move!" lucky acting on instinct the dark skinned woman responded to the warning and got out of the way in time to avoid a squared shaped beam of light came shooting down from the crack in the sky.
Once Yoruichi had come to a stop she turned to the cloaked figure of Soifon staring at her with suspicion, replaying the woman's voice over and over again in head and trying to put a face to it until she found the one she was looking for "Soifon?" she asked hoping it was her.
Soifon smiled under her hood liking that her old mentor was able to recognize her voice even after so much time has past "am glad to see you still recognize me after all this time.." she paused to pull back her hood and reveal her face to her old captain "Yoruichi" she finished with a happy smirk on her face.
Yoruichi stood frozen surprised to see that her little bee was here, looking complete unchanged except for her skin seeming more tan and her hair a bit longer. What had the woman most curious was why was she here? and now? and who was that she's with? where has she been all this time? all these questions where driving Yoruichi crazy! but she would have to get answers later "Soifon am surprised to see you and I would love to catch up but there's a bigger problem that needs to be dealt with" said Yoruichi regaining her focus on the matter at hand.
Soifon nodded in agreement there would time latter to catch up later "agreed these guys seem like big trouble and cannot be allowed to leave" Soifon then stared forward to the light protecting Aizen and narrowed her eyes at what she saw "well actually I think we can also say their not all guys anymore" she spoke cryptically to Yoruichi.
Yoruichi turned to see what her ex-apprentice meant and what she gazed upon made her blood boil. Standing in the ray of light was not just Aizen, but also standing next to him was the 2nd division captain with her sword now sheathed. Yoruichi and everyone else present and conscious couldn't believe it there was not just 1 not 2 not 3 but 4! traitorous captains now!. What had Yoruichi so infuriated was the fact that this woman was supposed to be the captain of the squad 2 the squad that enforces law the same squad Yoruichi use to run and this woman was a traitor too!.
Aizen smiled at all the shock face staring his way "I suppose you all must be astonished by this, yes I did have another of my followers hiding in your ranks and she was one of my most valuable implants into your ranks" he revealed turning his head to the stoic woman next to him and smiling down at her "she has been gathering for me information ever since she became a captain, keeping an eye on all the other captains and watching out for anything which could interfere in my plans with her I have been able to move around more smoother than ever for the past dozen decades" he finished with a look that surpassed smug.
Aizen turned back to the captains "After all it's only right that someone I trained personally became a captain and nothing less" Aizen watched on in glee as the expression grew more shocked "thats right I trained and moulded her to become the perfect choice for the next 2nd squad captain"revealed Aizen to every one present.
His eyes then shifted to Soifon seeming completely unsurprised by her reappearance "I must thank you for your departure of Soul Society Soifon, with you gone that left the spot open for who ever was strong and skilled enough to fill the void left, so acting quickly I put in a recommendation for finding and locating a rumoured freelancer who was out in the Rukons, who I explained if trained and educated right could be fit to become the second squad captain and to reinforce my suggestion I said she was spotted using a zanpaktou to slay hollows that appeared" Aizen said watching as the realization brought more shocked expression on everyone's faces, only making him feel more proud that his plan worked. Aizen turned to look back source of subjeect "and it's all seemed to have work out, wouldnt you say Kagami?" asked Aizen to the now named Kagami.
Kagami look up at Aizen "yes lord Aizen your masterful plan went perfectly as alway" she replied in stoic reverence hoping a complementwill make him get a move on "can we go now? am getting sick of being stared at by the fat ass over their" she asked and then pointed over to omaeda who was staring at her with his jaw hanging and sweating grease, and whatever else comes out of his skin.
Aizen laughed at her impatience but decided to comply anyway "very well, we will leave I just need to see if Gin and Tousen are secure" at that Aizen took a quick glance and saw that Tousen was fine in his light ray, Gin on the other hand was…. in his as well but….he was still trapped under the Bakudo which now came with screams of struggle coming from its victim "wow that spell just refuses to let go" observed Aizen amazed that the spell was still active even in the ray of light, which was also a thought shared by many.
Haelen and Soifon were also looking at Gin also amazed the spell was still going at it "wow dad did a really good job with that one" thought Soifon impressed at seeing the spell was still keeping a captain pinned after so long, "wow sometimes I even impress myself" thought Haelen now pretty proud of his work.
Once everyone was done looking at Gin failing to break the free of the persistent Bakudo they all turn their head to look up to the sky and saw something that scared the hell out of most. up in the sky above the Sokyuku hill, ripping a jagged mouth shaped hole in the fabric of space was over a dozen Menos Grande. Behind those very Menos was a giant glowing purple eye with the rest of entity being masked by shadows of the void. The beams of light didn't seem to becoming from any noticeable source it was just coming from within the black void somewhere.
When the Hole was fully opened the ground around the traitors began to crack into imperfect circles and began to rise, like it was being pulled out by some unseen force creating three rocky platforms for the traitors captains that began to slowly rise up to the hole in the sky.
It was only then that the Bakudo pinning Gin finally released and began shattering into hundred of shards of metal that dissolves in the atmosphere as they fell leaving no sign of the spell ever being their. With the spell destroyed Gin began to do a little dance and cheer about sweet freedom at last. When he calmed down he looked into the direction of Rangiku and signed in sadness "am sorry Rangiku" he thought in remorse for what he is doing to her as he watched the sheer betrayal reflects in her eyes.
"Are those Menos? and their are so many of them" questioned Omaeda
"Yep they are indeed" spoke Haelen nonchalantly as he watched the Menos stare of in every direction like lost puppies.
Soifon stepped forward and narrowed her eyes into the direction the of hole in the sky "and their seems to be something bigger behind them as well I wonder what it could" observed Soifon curious about the creature behind the Menos.
"What your not even gonna fight!" spoke an angry Iba about to get ready to strike at Aizen.
"Halt!"came the booming commanding voice of Yamamoto stopping all possible attempt at an attack on the traitors. Yammoto moved forward until he was only 20 feet from the yellow ray of light that protected Aizen and Kagami "Do not attempt an attack " the old captain got looks questioning from less experienced soul reapers. The head captain thought it good to explain what the light was before any them did something foolish "it's a technique known as Negación and is used by the Menos in order to rescue fellow hollows, once in enveloped in that light it is impossible for those within and without to interact, it is an isolated world in their none but the Menos know it well and the moment that light fell on them it became impossible for you or anyone to reach them" lectured the head captain with firm finality in his voice which made everyone expect a few loose hope of capturing the traitors.
Haelen leaned into Soifon and began to whisper something into her ear, as Soifon listened her eyes widened and later narrowed and grew a smirk on her face, she turned to her dad and nodded never losing her smirk and readied herself for what was about to happen.
Haelen coughed into his hand louder enough to grabbed everyone's attention which was impressive given all the commotion"now, now I wouldn't say its impossible not to still get them, we just can't try directly" everyone stared at Haelen questionably "here let me show you all" he said before he turned to face the hole in the sky.
Haelen spread his legs apart to get into a firm stance he then clapped his hand together with his thumbs crossing over each other, then Haelen began to speak an incantation none of the soul reapers present have ever heard before "black void that's opened like jaw of beast, starve and close, crack shut and open up back to your darkness, bind, close and be bound shut!" as Haelen finished the unknown chant everyone watched curious and cautions as around Haelen appeared dozens of harpoons like objects made of spirit energy, with the sharps heads taking on a void black colour and the rods takings on a bright shining yellow.
Aizen who had changed his style while Haelen was preparing his technique, now no longer wore his glasses, he now had his wavy brown hair swept back with only a single thick curly bang going down the centre of his face, and resting on the bridge of his nose and finally showing off all his faces sharp menacing features. He was starting to have this growing feeling that his escape of Soul Society was not going to go, quite as planned.
"Bakudo!" shouted Haelen as the spiritual harpoons now aimed their pointed ends in the direction of the Menos filled jagged void in the sky "Dākuboidosutetchi!" and on command the harpoon shot off at the hole passing by the Negacion, and while on course theystrategically arrange themselves so that as they made contact they pieced not inside the hole but instead around it.
Once contact was established one harpoon from the farthest sides, bottom left on one side and top right on the other of the hole shot of what looked like yellow wires that started connecting with other the harpoons in zigzag order until each of the two wires reach their end harpoons. Once connected with their final harpoon those two harpoons began to glow and shot out a chain each, which had a repeating pattern of yellow and black links with a final round yellow shackle like link which was wide enough to fit something through.
Haelen moved in to incept one of falling chains while Soifon went for the other reaching out their hands they called in the chains the rest of way using their spirit energy to draw them in. With a chain in one hand the pair summoned up a pole of solid green spirit energy in the other and ran them through the shackle like link of the chains and continue until the poll pieced the ground and was secure. Finally the pair began to channel their spirit energy into their poles and watched as their currently green spirit energy began to travel up the chain and to the harpoons on both ends of the Hole.
What began to happen next shocked everyone present ever the always prepared Aizen couldn't believe what he was seeing. Both sets of wires connected to the harpoons began to glow green with both the father and daughter's spiritual energy and slowly began pulling the upper and lower sets of harpoons towards each other and in turn began to slowly close shut up the hole. Despite the Menos doing their best to either cut the wire or pull on the edges of the gap in space it was all proving in vain, because at best all they were doing was slowing it down and not by much.
The effects of the of the voids smooth sealing was beginning to show on the traitors as their platforms ascension was beginning to slow and the Negacion was being too grown fainter with each passing second and soon they would be exposed to all the high level soul reapers who waited below like sharks just waiting to strike.
Ukitake seeing that their was no way out for the traitors decided to step forward "so? now what Aizen? your only means of escape has been blocked, so will you surrender and maybe you will get off with a lighter punishment for you and your fellow traitors treachery" spoke Ukitake trying to reason with the traitors.
Aizen frowned as he looked at his means of escape being blocked, but never the less kept on a calm expression. Aizen spotted in the corner of his eye that Kagami was also a little tense at the sight of the void being blocked "don't worry Kagami" he spoke in his ever calm but smug voice getting the different coloured eyed woman's attention "I always have a plan B" he finished as he began to reach into his robes.
Down bellow everyone was watching as Aizen reached into his robe and watched as he pulled out a hand full of small silver objects that looked a lot like blank coin. These objects had everyone staring in sheer horror.
Ichigo who recognized the coin like objects spoke in a panicked voice "I-Ishida are th-those what I-I think they a-are? " asked Ichigo as he was being healed by Orihime who at some point during the commotion saw it best to start healing Ichigo before he bleed to death.
Ishida swallowed hard at the site of the silver objects decided to confirm Ichigo's thought even if he didn't like having to "yes Ichigo it's 'gulp' Hollow bait and lots of it" answered a very tense and powerless Uryu.
Over with Soifon who had let go of the poll and decided to leave in enough of her spirit energy to finish the job, she herself also recognize the coin like objects as hollow bait just as everyone else here could and was also not pleased to so much of the stuff. She could only imagine the chaos that would ensue if that was to be released "that's quite a lot of hollow bait you don't think he is planning to release that much do you?"asked a slightly anxious Soifon to her father hoping he would give the answer she was hoping for.
Haelen who had done the same with his poll as Soifon frowned under his mask "I think he will" he spoke like simply stating a fact "he's backed up into a corner now with his first exit blocked, so he is probably gonna have to create another" stated the masked man to his daughter who nodded in understanding his foresight but still was liking where this could be going.
But Haelen was not done "these more" he said regaining Soifons attention "the barrier around Seireitei may be weakened but it will be strong enough to keep the smell of the hollow bait in and won't allow it to spread into the Rukons" stated Haelen further.
Soifon thought about her father words "so the hollow baits smell will only stay in the barrier and won't go into the Rukon, yet he talks about it like it's not good...wait!" coming to a sudden realization Soifon spoke her thought "concentration!" she shouted getting everyone's attention as they decided to listen to the young girl and what she had to say"because of the barrier the smell of the hollow bait won't spread any further and that will mean the smell will be much more potent and may draw in stronger and stronger hollow, not just normals or Menos's!" her words had an effect on everyone present.
Up in the nearly completely faded light of Negacion, Aizen smiled sinisterly. He knew the barrier would house in the smell of the hollow bait and would bring in some seriously strong hollows and those hollow would spread all through Seireitei keeping every captain busy or at least keeping them too thinned out to stop him, even the head captain would have to go and defend the Seirieitei at some point. What the soul reapers didn't realize was that the hollow feed was also a distress signal that would be sent to Barragan who would open a portal in the precipice world, he knew Barragan would not betray him yet because he has offered him something he would never turn down, power.
So their Aizen stud creating a platform of spirit energy to stand on followed by his cohorts, as the last of the Negacion faded and the rocky platforms fell and mash into the ground with heavy thuds leaving small dirt clouds in their impact.
Aizen's cohorts flashed over to his position all facing back to back so as not to be caught off guard, each had the swords draw expect for Aizen who just stood their staring down at the captains,lieutenants and the Ryoka, while holding the hollow bait scarcely firm; if he was to hold them any tighter they would break and all of Hueco Mundo would come hammering down on Seireitei.
Aizen looked at the hollow bait then back at the enemies below, then looked out at the Seireitei picturing it swarmed with hollows of every class and smiled in pure glee at the thought of seeing it happen right now "it would be a most exciting sight to see, I always was more interested in this choice of escape much less dull"thought Aizen somewhat happy that it has come to this.
So with his mind made up Aizen turned to the occupants below "well since my first plan of escape has failed I suppose I am only left with.." and before ending his sentence and before any one could make a move to stop him, he shattered all the delicate silver coins of hollow bait of with a small concentrated burst of spirit energy so as to not leave any on himself "plan B" he finished with a malicious smirk place on his lips.
When the Dust of the coins had finally dispersed into the atmosphere, the occupants could only watch in horror as dozen up dozens of black rifts of various sizes began appearing all over Seireitei along with what sounded like hundreds of monstrous blood curdling screams coming from within the increasing black abysses.
The monsters of Hueco Mundo have just broken into Seireitei.
End of chapter 5
Dākuboidosutetchi- Meaning Black Void Stitch. Its a sealing Bakudo technique created by Haelen for the purpose of closing rifts to Hauco Mundo not much else is know about the technique.
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