Chapter 34

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It was half an hour after they had rescued Dana, and Heller and the others were sitting in the safe house Dana had told them about. It was fairly bare, only a bed, a wide wood table, bill board, and a couch, with a fridge and small kitchen, but it would do. It was in the center of an apartment building, so no windows, but Dana had been sure to set up a network of cameras in the hall way and stairs, with no blind spots for people to hide.

Dana was currently working her hacker magic, typing away with inhuman speed at her laptop key board, while Heller was impatiently pacing the apartment. They had decided she would look for Maya and maybe any leads to Orihime while they took down Blackwatch. Everyone else was sitting on the couch, quite, except for Unohana, who was standing near the wall calmly. Tōshirō was in the next room, calling soul society to let them know what had transpired. Heller couldn't hear the exact words, but the tone he heard fine, and he could tell that whoever Tōshirō was talking to was not pleased.

Dana stopped typing and said "oh boy."

Heller stopped. If he knew anything from the little bit of information of Dana's person, 'oh boy' was her equivalent of 'oh shit.'

Heller and Ichigo were looking over her shoulders in an instant. "What do you have?" Ichigo asked.

Dana tapped a few keys and pulled up a transmission a contact had just sent her. She hit play and the sounds they heard immediately were the roars of brawlers, the shouts of phase 1 Orion's, and the contestant firing of machine guns.

Then they heard the panicked voice of a Blackwatch commander say "RED CROWN, WE NEED REINFORCMENTS, INFECTED ARE POURING INTO THE COMPOUND!"

"Copy that, all units, report to white light disposal base to provide support."

The recording stopped and Dana said "Sounds like they figured out whitelight is tainted."

Heller growled "and sounds like mercer is taking things into his own hands again."

Ichigo said "not surprising really. If he can release enough white light, he could make his army right here, composed of Blackwatch evolved. Dana, where's this taking place?"

"About 12 blocks north. Never thought I'd say this, but you better go help them destroy that whitelight."

Heller and Ichigo nodded as Tōshirō walked back in. he looked grim as he said "we may have a bigger problem. I just got off the phone with Kisuke. It seems that the hollows in Hueco Mundo are gathering and eating each other."

Ichigo was confused as he asked "does Kisuke have any idea why?"

Tōshirō nodded and said "he has a theory. He thinks that they may be trying to evolve."

(A/n: the rest from here is explanatory for those who don't read bleach. If you know this, just skip it.)

Ichigo looked concerned as he thought. Hollows underwent a unique evolutionary process. They started out as regular low level hollows, maybe a few special powers that made them tricky, but nothing a low level soul reaper could handle. These hollow feed of human souls until they become too hungry for human souls to satisfy that hunger. Then they turned on and ate other hollows. This began the process to become Menos, different and stronger classes of hollows.

The first class were called Gillians. These were formed when hundreds of hollows came together. They were huge beings, at least 2-6 stories tall, easily dwarfing even the largest standard Hollow. They all had a white mask with an elongated nose. Their bodies were covered from theirs head to their feet with a black covering reminiscent of a cloak. Around their neck was a row of thin white spikes. They had large, pointed feet wrapped in white bandages. They have large white hands with long, sharp, white nails, but they are commonly hidden within their cloak, rarely revealed even in combat. They have long tongues capable of breaking a fellow Hollow's mask.

Now despite their size, they were rather weak, like foot soldiers, with beast like intelligence and instincts. A captain could defeat them with ease. But in a few Gillians, the mind of one of the hollows that make up this being may become the dominant mind. They will then eat more hollows, even other Gillians, until they achieved class two, named Adjuchas.

These hollows were smaller, closer to human size with humanoid forms but still massive, and they were much rarer. When they evolved, they became stronger and more intelligent, but if they didn't keep eating hollows, then they would regress into a Gillian again. When they finally ate enough hollows, they became the third and last stage they can reach naturally. This class was called Vasto Lorde.

Not much was known about these hollows, on account of them being incredibly rare. What was known was they were the smallest of hollows, human sized and appearance, and they were very powerful, enough to give a captain a run for their money. It wasn't known if there were any special requirements to reach this class, other than eating hollows.

(A/N: okay, back to the story!)

Ichigo didn't like that implication. There were many, many hollows in Hueco Mundo. Granted, the higher the level, the less of that type of hollow there was, but lots of hollows, all in the same place, could poised a threat if enough evolved enough.

Ichigo shook his head and said "while we can't ignore this, right now we need to help Blackwatch dispose of the whitelight."

Tōshirō nodded and said" fine, let's go."

Heller stepped and said "sorry, this time I think it'll just be me and Ichigo."

Tōshirō frowned and said "I have orders from the commander…" Heller cut him off. "And I believe I said I'm not one of his men, so screw that." Everyone save from Dana drew in a breath. To insult Yamamoto was to practically sign your own death warrant.

Heller didn't' care as he said "let's go Ichigo." Ichigo snapped out his daze and nodded. Tōshirō said "now wait a…"

Heller and Ichigo flash stepped away, leaving Tōshirō smoldering. Matsumoto smiled and said "Heller's very brave, I'll give him that. Maybe braver then you Tōshirō." "MATSUMOTO!"

With Ichigo and Heller

The two of them had flash stepped to the area where Dana said Blackwatch had set up the disposal unit. They could see that they had set up a small watch tower at street level, an incinerator with a wide open door, set to close automatically when a barrel was thrown in. black watch had set up barracks as well, around the disposal, but they weren't doing crude. Infected were surrounding them on both sides, mostly brawlers and walkers, roaring and trying to breach the wall, but Blackwatch was using machine guns, grenade, and missile launchers to keep them away while phase 1 Orion's were using hand to hand combat.

As Heller watched, a phase one was running through the infected, and leaping when he could, carrying a steel container about 6 feet tall and 3 feet wide. But as they watched, a brawler hit him in midair, causing the barrel to go skidding forward. They saw a total of 6 or 7, including the one the Orion dropped.

Heller quickly looked over the set up and said "you help Blackwatch with the infected. Those barrels are to big to effectively move with one hand."

Ichigo nodded and said "go."

Heller and Ichigo flash stepped down. Blackwatch shouted in shock as they swung their weapons to face them. They stopped though, as Ichigo began slicing through infected with ease, and Heller grabbed the barrel that the phase 1 had then leapt up and threw the container into the incinerator door, causing it to beep and drop as it was burned. Blackwatch was watched as Heller landed.

He looked at them and shouted "HURRY UP AND BURN THIS CRAP!"

Blackwatch shook off their shock and went back to fighting the infected. A nearby Orion punched a brawler in the head, breaking the neck with a grisly crack, then ran over and grabbed a barrel. The door snapped back open, ready to burn another, and the Orion threw it in, knocking in a stray walker that had gotten through.

Ichigo was doing great while Heller was helping dispose of the barrels. Ichigo was using his high speed and past experience to take out walkers and brawlers left right, sometimes getting them to take out the infected themselves. He would be fighting a brawler when another tried to charge him from behind, then flash step at the last second it tried to hit him with its claws, resulting in the brawler hurting or killing its own team mate. Heller threw in the last barrel and the incinerator snapped shut.

He dusted his hand sand thought "that's the last of it." Then he heard a transmission. He turned to see a Blackwatch listening to his radio. A Blackwatch truck that had been delivering the last load of white light had been intercepted, by brawler and what sounded like evolved. The white light tanks were leaking it into the atmosphere. He speed dialed Dana and told her the situation then asked "what happens if the whitelight gets into the atmosphere."

She decided to go for plain and simple. "We're fucked."

Heller thought "just great!" he hung up and shouted "ICHIGO, STAY HERE AND PROTECT THEM, I GOT A STOP TO MAKE!" Ichigo nodded and then cut of a brawlers head as he shouted "GO!" Heller knew it was to the north east. So he flash stepped to a high point in the air. He used looked around for any sort of cloud forming then spotted it. It was a light red and quickly growing bigger, snaking through the streets with a good amount of speed.

Heller flash stepped to the center and got a 'welcome' sight. Standing around about 4 cracked containers of white light were 5 evolved. They were civilians it looked like, but they all had blade arms, but he noticed they looked more like real swords, thinner and longer, but growing out of the arm below the elbow.

The evolved noticed him and one said "glad you could join us Heller. We've heard a lot about you." He didn't respond, merely shifted to sword and claw as he stood ready. The evolved kept talking, trying to keep Heller's attention of the barrels until the white light reach the atmosphere.

"We've also heard you and your friends have had trouble with just 3 of us. I guess alone, not even you can handle five." They all got into battle stances.

Heller grinned then, his face twisting evilly as he reached. Reached for the new power he had. He raised his claws to his face as he said "that's old news boys. This is the new stuff." And pulled down, putting on his hollow mask.

Heller knew he could maintain his mask for 1 minute before it shattered, so he had to do this fast. Heller's power skyrocketed and a darker red aura formed around him. The evolved stumbled for a second, not expecting the surge of power that had come from Heller.

They looked to see the hollow mask was the same as before, but with slight changes in coloring blood like marking going down the sides of the mouth were now red, while the part above the eyes had changed to a dark black, giving Heller's now gold and black eyes a more sinister and predatory look.

Heller didn't waste any flash stepped forward, his mask enhancing his speed to Ichigo's Bankai speed, stabbing the evolved in the chest with his sword, then used his claws to decapitate him. He consumed the body, and then moved to the next 2. These he sliced of both arms, one after the other, then sliced them in half from head to toe. The other 2 evolved had gathered their wits then and charged Heller

"Thirty seconds left." Heller thought.

Heller began sword play, using his blades to keep the 4 for the evolved away from him, dealing some good hits when he had a chance. He managed to take of the leg of one and as he fell, Heller stomped on his head, bursting it like a balloon filled with tomato sauce. The last evolved was panting. It had taken a lot of energy to block Heller's hits and to heal the wounds he had gotten. He said "what the hell are you?" Heller looked at him, bored, as he said in his hollow voice "your worst nightmare."

And he flash stepped behind the evolved, his claws now hammer fist, and swung down to crush the evolved into a pile of mush. Heller rose his arm just as his mask shattered, revealing his face and draining away the power boost.

Heller sagged slightly. He always felt drained after his mask disappeared without him taking it off. Heller quickly shook his head. The evolved that had been running in the street were charging towards him. He had little time left before the whitelight reached the atmosphere. Heller was looking at the barrels, trying to think on how he could stop the white light spread, when he got an idea.

Heller quickly tapped into another of his powers he hadn't used recently, or even trained with. He had found that sine the phase 2 had Rukia' powers in it, he could create ice out of his body of the moisture in the air. And since the white light was leaking through a crack… He quickly put his plan in action.

He grabbed the barrels and placed them all side by side, then raised his arms. The evolved were only half a block away now. He concentrated and felt his body, almost always at the same temp, begin to feel cold. Ice began to form around his arms before suddenly shooting out in a white explosion, covering the barrels and sealing them in a block of ice as tall as Heller and 6 feet on all sides.

Heller grinned before he grabbed and lifted the cube. Despite the size, it was light enough for him to lift without much strain. The evolved roared as they charged right at him, almost there, but before they made contact, he shifted both arms to tendrils, which then wrapped with snake like speed around the cube, allowing better grip, and he flash stepped back to the disposal.

Ichigo had done a splendid job, having sliced most of the infected into shreds or with death blows, wetting the ground with blood that was flowing like a river into storm drainage in the streets. Ichigo himself showed no wounds, but he was spattered with blood from those he had killed. When Heller appeared and set down the block of ice, Ichigo said, "Nice. I take it you used Rukia's power?"

Heller nodded as he adjusted his tendrils. When they were set, he tightened them until he heard 2 clear cracks. The ice split into 4, each containing a barrel of white light. Heller turned to Ichigo as he shifted back to his regular arms and said "let's go."

He and Ichigo left then, leaving black watch to dispose of what was left of the white light. Back at the apartment, they found that Tōshirō ad Matsumoto were gone.

"Where'd they go?" Heller asked. He didn't want them wandering the city, no matter how strong they might be.

Renji, who was leaning against a wall, shrugged. "Tōshirō got another call from soul society. Seems that the commander wanted them to come back, but for what reason, he wouldn't say."

Heller wasn't sure why, but that unsettled him. Based on what he knew, the commander was crafty, and the fact that Tōshirō didn't particularly like him did not sit well.

Rukia, who was sitting on the couch, added "he did say to expect some new company in a day or two. Didn't say who though."

Again, Heller didn't like it. Sending in more people, just after he took out two? Something wasn't adding up.

He shook his head and decided he would think more on it tomorrow. He turned to Dana and said "any leads?" Dana shook her head and said "not so far, but the white light cloud was dissipating when you got back. You saved NYZ yet again Heller." He grunted. He may have saved NYZ, but the people behind the problem were still out there and they could handle a setback. Mercer especially.

Then his phone began ringing. He pulled it out to see the name Sabrina Galloway on the screen. He felt his anger rush back. He had forgotten about her, and she was not someone to forget about.

He picked up the phone and growled "what?" Sabrina didn't seemed affected by the rude greeting as she said "Heller, we may have a problem. Have you heard of an operation Fire Hawk?" Heller shifted through the memories of those he had consumed. He had a few vague mentions of it and said "sounds familiar. Remind me why I care."

Sabrina said in an urgent tone "trust me you care. Can you meet me in 5 minutes at 20th and Grandview?" Heller said "fine." Then hung up. He said "seems Galloway dug up something big." Ichigo stepped forward and said "I'm going with you. If she's unpredictable, you're going to need some back up. Plus, she might know where mercer is keeping Orihime."

Heller nodded and turned to the others as he said "we'll be back in 15 minutes."

Then they left out the front door and exited the building to flash step to the meeting point.

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