Some background info
Aizen has already taken over Hueco Mundo but the guy isn't always there after all he has to keep up appearances in the soul society, so the entire war happened without him even knowing about it.
Also, there won't be any Soul Reapers except for a couple that were caught by the Hollows during their invasion of the Human world.
Meaning that the soul society has no idea what's going on only that something big happened, but they just don't know what caused it to happen.
As for everyone on Earth, the only thing that everyone knows is that people started to go missing, sometimes it was a single person, sometimes it was entire families and then all of a sudden all of the mass disappearances ended.
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The sounds of women and children crying filled the room as the knights and monsters handed the sick and injured people around them crystals and potions to heal or cure them of whatever was affecting them.
"What are we going to do?"
Ichigo hears a woman that's wearing white armor ask a man that's wearing bright red armor as they look at the people around him, Ichigo is tempted to yell at the pair to let his family go and to let everyone else go free but he stops himself from doing so as he hears Yuzu crying behind him.
"The only thing that we can do." the man wearing the red armor says to the woman before looking into the crowd and taking a deep breath.
"Everyone listen!" Heathcliff says to everyone in the room as he tries to get everyone's attention when the room was as silent as it could be he began to explain the situation to everyone.
"Everyone that's eight years old and older will be given a sword and a suite of armor, it will be up to you to go up the floors of the castle."
"The players and I will do our best to keep the hollows from entering the castle but if we fail and we die it will be up to all of you to defend yourselves."
"Infants and pregnant women are not allowed to limb as they can't defend themselves, as for the elderly, I'm sorry but everyone has to fight. Use the time that we give you to get stronger." Heathcliff says t everyone as the massive doors behind him opens revealing an endless field.
"Waite you can't just have the kids!' Ichigo yells at the man who silences him the moment their eyes meet.
"Don't get me wrong we don't want this, I don't want this, but if we fail to keep Aincrad safe, who is going to keep everyone here safe?" Heathcliff says to him as a blue light fills the room and all of a sudden everyone is wearing gray armor.
Ichigo watches as the people in front of him begin to walk into the field and he holds Yuzu's hand as he leads her and Karin who is holding onto both Yuzu's and their dad's hands as they are pushed deeper into the castle.
The light of the hot sun is nearly blinding and the col fresh air that carries the sweet smell of flowers and the mint-like scent that the trees in the distance are giving completely contradict the dark desert and cold room that they had left behind.
"What now? 'Ichigo asks himself as he looks at the empty field.
"Didn't you hear, we have to train and go up the castle. The people here are trying to buy us time." his father answers him as a group of boars run past them.
Ichigo looks at the sword he gained when the soul reaper gave him her powers so that he could kill and defend his family, while he did manage to kill the first two hollows, he wasn't able to stop the entire group.
The hollows had swarmed him and beat him until he couldn't defend himself anymore, he was forced to watch as the hollows took his family into the tear in reality before dragging him into the tear with them.
He can feel his hand begin to warm up as a hologram appears on top of his right hand, the hologram shows his health, level- strength, and even what abilities he has and to his surprise, he has three abilities.
Soul Reaper- Hollow and Quincy
The hologram also shows that he has been given some money and a map of the floor to help him, while there is a storage space that he can use to put his things away in.
"It's like a videogame." Karin says as she looks at her help screen.
Ichigo turns to see what his sister's help screens say and he's surprised to see that unlike his screen the two of them only have two abilities.
Yuzu's screen says that she has Quincy and Hollow powers, while Karin's screen says that she has Hollow and Fullbringer.
Ichigo turns toward his dad and his eyes widen when he sees that his dad's screen says Soul Reaper next to where the abilities are shown.
"Ichigo!" he hears someone yell his name and as he turns to see who it is he finds that the girl that gave him his powers is standing with a group of his friends and their families.
