The Final Plan - Part 2
The entire Anti Ichigo and Rukia Movement, except Byakuya, were all positioned in the park that night, with Rukia, their valuable hostage, tied to a lamppost, still unconscious from Mayuri's drug.
"When Ichigo arrives, all of you position around the girl." Kenpachi explained. "He'll do anything to get her out. If he gets her, he wins."
"Yaay~! It's like tag, right?" Yachiru cheered sweetly.
"Things are gonna turn a little ugly, Lieutenant Kusajishi." Izuru explained to Yachiru. "Maybe you should head back to the Soul Society to-"
"No way!" Yachiru growled. "I've waited ages to see Kenny fight Ichi again!"
"Let it go." Ikkaku mumbled to Izuru. "Once she sets her mind on something, it's impossible to get her off it."
"Captain Zaraki..." Renji interrupted.
"What is it?" Asked said Captain.
"What will we do with Rukia once Ichigo is dead?" Renji asked.
"Ain't it obvious?" Kenpachi replied. "We take her to her brother. He's the one who wants her most." Renji looked down to the helpless Rukia.
"How on Earth did it come to this?" Renji asked rhetorically.
"Heads up, guys!" Shuuhei called. "I'm picking up a Spiritual Pressure heading our way." At once, Kenpachi drew his unnamed Zanpakuto.
"Looks like the mouse has come out to play! Perfect!" Kenpachi growled in delight. But before the Spiritual Pressure could approach any further, a soft groan was heard behind them. Kenpachi tilted his head backwards to see that Rukia was regaining consciousness.
"Wh-What...happened...?" Rukia asked groggily.
"Rukia." Renji replied.
"Renji?" Rukia was about to get up, but her being tied to the lamppost made it impossible. "Wh-What is the meaning of this, Renji!"
"Shut up!" Kenpachi growled. "You're annoying!" He let loose an insane amount of Spiritual Pressure that made Rukia grimmace at it's force. "I won't allow anyone to get in my way when Ichigo comes."
"I-Ichigo...?" Rukia asked, through her weariness at Kenpachi's power. "Wh-What do you intend to do with him?"
"Use your head, girl." The large Captain muttered. "We plan to kill him!" Rukia froze, not in fear or the terrifying Spiritual Pressure from her kidnapper, but from worry, about what will become of her lover.
"Let me go!" Rukia screamed, trying desperately to break free from her bonds. "I won't be the cause of Ichigo's death!" Renji held Rukia down, trying to keep her from moving to violently. "Let me go, Renji! Someone help!" Suddenly, an attack came for Kenpachi, but his heightened senses made it easy for him to jump away from the attack. The attack was a Reishi arrow that dispersed on impact to the ground.
"It's rude to hold a woman against her will." Called a voice up on the trees. The owner of the voice jumped down to ground's level; he held a Reishi-made bow and wore a unique costume for battle: Uryu Ishida.
"Hmm?" Kenpachi mumbled.
"He was the Spiritual Pressure from before..." Shuuhei said to himself.
"Uryu?" Renji exclaimed.
"Renji?" Uryu identified. "Don't tell me you've lowered yourself to working against your best friend's lover?"
"It's not like that!" Renji shouted. "It's just...orders..."
"Hmph...You really are like a puppet to your master's strings." Uryu replied. Renji gasped at Uryu's words. "In any case, you creeps are about to cause quite the disturbance in Karakura Town. Let Rukia go, and we can all go home without spilling blood." Kenpachi, having heard enough, made a lunge towards Uryu, but with a swift Hirenkyaku, he made quick work dodging the attack.
"I dunno who you are, but get in the way of my plans to kill Ichigo, and I won't show any mercy!" Growled the attacking Captain.
"This is not good..." Uryu thought to himself. "I can't take on two Captains plus half a dozen Lieutenants alone..." He gave a glance over to Rukia. "But the least I can do..." He readied a Reishi arrow on his Ginrei Kujaku and aimed it towards Kenpachi. "Is free Kuchiki..." At the last second, he aimed his bow at Rukia and fired; the arrow cut the ropes tying her. The movement's precious hostage took this first chance to escape, without Uryu even telling. She ran in the direction less crowded by her captors, but her movements were intercepted by Shuuhei, who sported his Kazeshini. Rukia gasped, and as her blocker swung the chained scythe, to bind her once more. But the attack was blocked by another saviour: Captain Hitsugaya. His Hyorinmaru Zanpakuto took the attack, as the chain of Kazeshini coiled around it.
"Captain Hitsugaya?" The Squad 9 Lieutenant exclaimed.
"Not that brat..." Kenpachi muttered.
"Attacking an innocent does not become of you, Hisagi!" Toshiro said maliciously, as he swung his Zanpakuto, unwrapping itself from Kazeshini's chains. "Go, Kuchiki! Find Kurosaki and let him know of your safety!"
"Understood, Captain Hitsugaya!" Rukia said honourably to the young Captain, but as she was about to flee, Izuru got in the way also.
"Bakudo no. 4: Hainawa!" The Squad 3 Lieutenant called, and a flurry of yellow energy ropes flung itself for the defenceless Rukia. But another Soul Reaper came to her aid, one that Rukia never expected: Momo. She slashed the Kido ropes with her Tobiume blade, just in time to protect herself and Rukia from the attack and used it's fireballs to blast Izuru away from future attacks.
"Lieutenant Hinamori!" Rukia gasped, surprised she came to her rescue too.
"Hurry, Rukia!" Momo cried. "Hurry and find Ichigo, while we hold the Movement off!" Rukia looked to Momo, then to Toshiro and then to Uryu, who all came to her aid.
"Everyone..." Rukia whispered. But even with Momo's bravery, it wasn't enough.
"My, my, so much flies have come, it's unbelievable!" Taunted the bone-chilling voice of Mayuri. Rukia and Momo looked up to the Squad 12 Captain in fear. "The Quincy showing up was a surprise, but you too? Well it hardly matters." He drew on his Zanpakuto and transformed it into it's ugly yellow form. "All you need to do is swap them dead!" He swung it for Rukia, intending to paralyze her with his Zanpakuto's effects, but the attack was blocked yet again, by the only person who could match Mayuri's wrath: Ichigo.
"Ichigo?" Called the voices of many.
"How dare you raise your Zanpakuto at Rukia?" Ichigo yelled in searing anger, and blew Mayuri away with the force of his swing.
"Ichigo..." Rukia called.
"Come on, Rukia." Ichigo said to the frightened Soul Reaper. "We're-" But before he could finish, he reacted to an almighty Spiritual Pressure shoot towards him. Instinctively, he blocked an incoming attack from Kenpachi.
"Hahaha! I've been waiting for this!" Kenpachi laughed in ecstacy. "Now let's fight!" He swung at him again, but this time, Ichigo dodged, with both Rukia and Momo in his arms. He managed to jump to the location of both Uryu and Toshiro, who were fighting more movement members, but now the five were surrounded by the Movement.
"This is quite the predicament." Uryu said to his comrades.
"Couldn't you have brought more than just one Lieutenant?" Ichigo asked Toshiro.
"No!" Toshiro said. "We want to avoid a full-scale war. Plus, Momo was the only one I could trust for this situation." Ichigo looked around for a way out of this troublesome situation; and then he saw something, or someone, that gave him hope.
"Guys, when I give the word, we move, got it?" Ichigo commanded, silently for his four friends to hear.
"What?" Rukia asked in confusion.
"Trust me on this." Ichigo said
"I have confidence in your judgement..." Toshiro said. Ichigo closed his eyes and counted from 3.
3...2...1...
"Now!" Ichigo called. The five moved away with their high-speed movement, and then heard a voice in the nearby bushes.
"Bakudo no. 89: Undo Inkan!" The park glowed in a green light and the light faded to see many energy streams connecting themselves to the Movement members, including Yachiru who was hiding behind a tree. The Movement members tried, but their movements were frozen.
"What the hell is this?" Grunted Ikkaku, trying to speak.
"We're..trapped!" Nemu cried.
"Just in time, then!" Called the voice of the owner of the Kido: Kisuke Urahara. His Benehime sword was stabbed into the ground, where many of the energy streams were connected to.
"You!" Mayuri sneered. "What have you done?"
"You were being quite the ruckus, so I sealed your movements." Urahara explained.
"Damn...you!" Kenpachi growled, and then looked at Ichigo, who was safe from the Kido spell, with his fellow teammates. "This isn't over!"
"I know..." Ichigo said.
"Ichigo." Kisuke called. "Head to the Soul Society. Inform the Head Captain. It's high time we get this whole matter straightened out, don't you think?"
"Right." Ichigo said.
"We'll stay here." Toshiro informed, heading beside Kisuke with Momo. "That Kido of yours won't hold out forever, as soon as you start running low on strength, it'll cancel itself. You'll need people here to support you if that happens."
"Same goes here." Uryu said, also coming beside Kisuke. "Besides, I don't feel like a trip to the Soul Society."
"Go, Ichigo, Rukia!" Kisuke commanded.
"Alright." Rukia said, taking her Zanpakuto, which was confiscated by Kenpachi at the time, and opening a Senkaimon to the Precipice World. But before they could enter.
"Before you go." Kisuke said, just as Rukia was about to set foot into the purple world. "I'd be careful and avoid the final member of this plot. Not only is he the real brains behind it all, he is also the instigator in this whole affair." Ichigo didn't know how to respond. Could another friend turn into a foe, just like Kenpachi, Renji and the others?
"Alright. Come on, Rukia." Ichigo said, as both of them entered the Precipice World for the Soul Society.
"What now, Captain?" Asked Renji with difficulty.
"Tsh! Looks like we'll have to leave the fun to him." Kenpachi muttered. But just then, a large amount of Spiritual Pressure befell them all. Every one of them looked to the sky to see it rip apart, and from it, three giant Gillian-classed Menos Grande emerged. As soon as they emerged, they gave a ear-piercing roar. Not only were their appearance alarming, but right along beside their giant surface were hundreds, if not thousands of regular-classed Hollows.
"Menos?" Hinamori stuttered in fear.
"How did they get here?" Toshiro hollered.
"Through a Gargantua?" Kisuke suggested smartly. Toshiro glared at him, to end his stupidity. "Though, in reality, we do have three Captain-class Soul Reapers present, plus half a dozen Lieutenant-Class Soul Reapers. Any more, and I think we would have attracted much more." Uryu prepared his bow.
"Let me handle them." He told his other comrades. "If Urahara lose his control of his Kido, those idiots will break free and go after Ichigo. That we cannot allow."
"Hey!" Renji roared at Uryu. "You forget one important detail! We're Soul Reapers too!"
"Renji's right." Shuhei said. "Although killing Ichigo's our goal for now, the defeat of Hollows are our primary objective. No matter what the situation."
"You may be able to handle the pesky smaller Hollows, Quincy." Mayuri added. "But you cannot take down three Memos Grande on your own." He looked to Toshiro and Momo. "Neither could you two."
"Let us go, and we'll make mincemeat of the Hollows for yah!" Kenpachi offered, his voice genuine to his promise. "But in exchange, none of us will go to the Soul Society!"
"What kind of offer is that?" Toshiro asked the eye-patched Captain. But his reasonings couldn't be continued, as the Hollows approached.
"Deal?" Kenpachi offered.
"Guess we have no choice!" Kisuke sighed. And just at that moment, one of the Menos Grande had charged a Cero and released it for Kisuke. A large explosion followed up, surely killing Kisuke in it's blast. But when the dust settled, Kenpachi was the one to take the hit, taking almost no damage from his incredible Spiritual Pressure. Him, and the movement took their positions to face the Hollows.
"Tsh, you hopeless shopkeeper." Kenpachi growled.
"Glad someone sees me for face-value." Kisuke said, stunned by Kenpachi's appearance. "So, a truce then?"
"Until the Hollows are slayed." And with that, Renji, Shuuhei, Izuru, Mayuri, Nemu, Ikkaku, Yumichika, Kenpachi, Toshiro, Momo, Uryu and Kisuke all set forth to do their duties as Soul Reapers (and Quincies) to battle the invading Hollows.
Ichigo and Rukia ventured through the mystifying Precipice world to get to the Soul Society and only one description could be said from Ichigo:
"This place always gives me the creeps."
"It can't be helped." Rukia said. "We need to tell the Head Captain of Captain Zaraki's attempt to kill you."
"I don't see why he didn't do it any other time." Ichigo spoke. "Why couldn't he do it yesterday, or the day before that?"
"I can only guess. But it's worst case scenario and only speculation." Rukia told Ichigo. And as she said that, they were coming to the end of the long tunnel and finally made it to the other side: the Soul Society.
But the welcoming commity was already waiting for them: Byakuya. Both Ichigo and Rukia were stunned by his presense.
"Looks as though I was right..." Rukia gasped.