Chapter 1 - When a meme becomes your reality
Warning - Does contain spoilers for TYBW Anime and Manga, proceed at your own risk
Somewhere in the Desert of Hueco Mundo - Bleach World - 3 Days before Rukia's Execution
(SI/Seele's P.O.V)
I groan as I slowly wake up, feeling incredibly strange as my eyes open and adjust to the light around me. It takes me several moments of blinking to realize that I'm staring at at a bunch of grey sand dunes…
The moment I realize this though, I quickly sit up but as I do, I feel my strangely much longer hair getting caught under my ass. I instinctively look down and to my utter surprise, what I'm looking at is not my old body but Seele from Honkai Star Rail…
It takes me a short moment to process it, but when I finally do I begin to growl in annoyance as I soon get up, taking a moment to get used to my new body as I begin looking around me, seeing nothing but constant grey sand-dunes around me with the occasional withered tree.
Part of me wants to deny what's going on, to believe that this is some weird dream and not actually happening, but the harder I look for a sign that this is some sort of REM sleep situation rather than being cold and undeniable truth of my new reality…
In the end, it's when I look up at the sky and see the moon shining over what I know acknowledge is Hueco Mundo, I find myself tightening my fists as I soon scream and say… "OF ALL THE BUILDS I MADE THAT I COULD HAVE BEEN THROWN INTO, I JUST HAD TO BE DUMPED IN THE ONE I MADE FROM THE HONKAI STAR RAIL MEMES!"
As I scream out, I feel a surge of power flood out of me that breaks me out of my anger, feeling the sensation of….power for the first time both from my previous life and since coming here, the euphoric sensation flooding my body and mind with….ideas
I find myself chuckling with a slightly deranged grin as I struggle to calm down the sheer feeling of elation as well as trying to rein in the power I now possess. It doesn't take long to reign in the incredible power I now possess and even now, I am unable to remove the eager grin from my face.
Instinctively, I reach into the pocket space that my build possesses and draw out an intimately familiar weapon, slowly putting it out from its scabbard, the Legendary Yamato. It's mesmerizing to gaze into the blade of the Yamato that is illuminated by the moon of Hueco Mundo…
Well, not mesmerizing enough to notice the incoming Adjuchas hollow that is barreling toward me, making me jump high into the air as the Adjuchas pounces where I just was. As I glance down from behind me, see that the Hollow looks similar enough to a monkey as its hollow mask is that of a baboon's face.
"Tch, of course, my little outburst would be felt by some sort of Hollow although I am surprised it turned out to be an Ajuchas of all things due to how rare your kind are…" I say as I hold the Saya of the Yamato behind me while holding the Yamato in front of me in a guarded manner…
The Monkey Hollow turns around with a jovial-looking jig while making a minor, silly dance before saying… "It's a really bad day for you to be out here on your own soul-reaper, I'm gonna eat you out!"
An awkward, long-lasting silence ensues as both of us register what the Monkey Hollow just said before I look at him with a furious death glare, complete with an atomic-level blush. Meanwhile Moneky Hollow looks incredibly embarrassed as he quickly goes to correct himself and says…
"W-what I meant was to eat you up, not—" I don't give him another moment to speak as instinctively, several blue summoned-swords appear at my side and fire insanely fast, forcing the Hollow to block with his arms as they bounce off of his Hierro.
As the Hollow is about to try and say something cocky, I am suddenly in front of him as I swing and slice both of his arms in two from the forearm right down to the elbow. The Monkey Adjuchas screams in pain and confusion as he doesn't know why his Hierro did nothing to block the Yamato.
Seconds later, the Yamato is swung and carves the Adjuchas Hollow in Two, the two pieces of the Hollow's body falling down onto the sand. However, what happens next concerned me greatly as the Adjuchas Hollow's body evaporates as if it were destroyed by a Quincy arrow.
I slowly look at the Yamato with a slight bit more trepidation than I did prior before I flick the blade clean of blood before slowly and carefully putting the Yamato back into its scabbard, both to put it away and as a symbolic gesture of respect as I briefly recall slamming the blade into it's scabbard is a sign of disrespect.
This essentially means that killing Hollows with the Yamato is an absolute no-go and should be used only in a fight with everything on the line. It's admittedly disappointing, but I am not about to be the next casualty of the Soul Society simply because I feel like trying to take the easy way out with battles against non-arrancar-level hollows.
Besides, it's not the only weapon that I have at my disposal as I have all of Vergil from DMC 5's power as well as my abilities and weapon as Seele From Honkai Star Rail. I do admittedly also have the Ichigo template as well….but there is a problem.
I can't bloody feel the presence of the Hollow or Quincy spirit within me that forms Zangetsu…
But that doesn't mean I am entirely out of luck as I do at least have options, one such option I decide to retrieve as I swap it out for the Yamato. As within my hands, I stare down at the Substitute Soul-Reaper Combat Pass…
It doesn't take me long to tap into the power the combat pass has as I quickly allow the white ribbon-like material to flow around me. Within seconds my outfit as Seele from Honkai Star Rail is replaced with the Completed Fullbring of Ichigo Kurosaki, complete with the Combat pass Machete blade…
As my new Fullbring finishes forming, I feel strange as it feels like the Fullbring is Resonating with the world of Hueco Mundo. Odd as it is for the moment, I decide to put it out of my mind for the moment as I soon sense more roughly Adjuchas level hollows approaching.
Deciding that it would be better to fight another time, I quickly make use of the bringer light high-speed technique of a Fullbringer as I leave them in the dust. Thankfully with the benefit of Inexhaustible, I am able to make full use of the technique without needing to think of what Reiryoku reserves I have at my disposal…
Especially when I have absolutely no backup and no credits to make use of…
Somewhere else in Hueco Mundo Desert - Three hours later
(Seele's P.O.V)
I sigh as I look into the minor fire I've made for myself, not to get warm but to have something that isn't sand, sand, and more sand. Ironically, I might now share Anakin Skywalker's disdain for sand now, especially with the long purple hair I have.
Not to mention I am sitting on a chair made purely of Ice, courtesy of the Ice Shroud that I have as my chosen binding, thank fuck I chose to max out both wild and Environmental defenses or else I would have gotten frostbite from my own chair.
Amusing thoughts of dying by frostbite when I have an Ice shroud aside, the last few hours have been a cascade of experimentation with my abilities. It has me admittedly concerned as one of the first things I tested after finding a lone patrolling Adjuchas was to try and use my Scythe against it alongside my teleporting and Stealth abilities as Seele…
Well, I can safely I can do both Seele's Ultimate and her nifty stealth skill from the game…..but unfortunately, my scythe does absolutely nothing against a hollow. When I say nothing, I don't mean I do very little damage against a hollow…
I mean that my Scythe flat out goes right through the hollow as if my Scythe is unable to connect with the Hollow in Question. This did mean I had to quickly draw the Fullbring Machete out to quickly kill the Hollow before it could take advantage, but the experience did spook me.
I was stumped for a bit as to why that happened until I came to a pretty interesting conclusion, which was the fact that Seele's Scythe, while made with otherworldly metals, has no innate properties that allow it to make physical contact with the spirits of Bleach.
I'm not sure if I need to give it time to soak in the environment so to speak, or if I need to find someone who can adjust it so that I can use it as a weapon against spirits like hollows, but the bottom line that I can't use it right now remains.
At least testing out the use of the other Devil Arms I got from the Vergil Power swap was a success. As for the Devil Trigger transformation, I did admittedly attempt it but realized that I would be attracting every fucking Hollow under the moon of Hueco Mundo if I actually went through with the transformation.
I have no fucking idea when exactly I am in terms of the plotline, but I am not risking drawing Sosuke "I have a plan for everything" Aizen's attention this early in my time here. There is one thing I should note though regarding my fullbring…
During every single test, I did not remove the fullbring, and I think every time I struck down a hollow with the fullbring active it may have absorbed some of the lingering spiritual energies of the hollow and it's doing…..something….within the core of my being.
If I could actually try and attempt to enter my inner world, or even perform a successful Jinzen in the first place, I could find out. The problem is that every time I attempt it, I feel as if I'm trying to enter something that is akin to a burnt-down building that was left in shambles after a great and sudden blaze before just not being successful in my attempt into my Inner World.
However, it was during my final attempt while focusing entirely on the part of the completed fullbring that is purely Ichigo's soul-reaper powers that I manage to get a slightly different reaction.
I still got the same vibe of a burnt-down ruined building as I try to enter, I still eventually was forced to leave, but this time there was the faint trace of blue energy I could feel within that husk right before I was once more pulled out of Jinzen involuntarily.
While I was tempted to try again one more time, I ended up being forced to stop my attempts as I quickly had to move to another location before a nearby Adjuchas Hollow sensed my location. One final thing that I took note of during my tests, is that I never felt hunger of any sort nor any feeling of thirst requiring me to slake my throat with some water made from my own Ice.
Ultimately, I know I can deal with things for the moment until I figure out how to use the Yamato to go directly into the world of the living rather than risk entering the Dangai and potentially running into the goddamn cleaner.
At least, that's my assumption as I don't know if the cleaner only exists for a Senkaimon or if it is a genuine threat that Hollows using a Garganta could…..also…..
A flash of realization hits me as there is actually one very familiar Arrancar that should hopefully exist at this point that could help me, one that I could potentially help in turn to restore her full strength.
The problem is, I need to avoid drawing the attention of Nnoitra and Szayelaporro if I can help it, as I would rather not reveal myself to Aizen so soon. But I need to risk it regardless as in the end, this is the only chance I have at confirming or debunking my assumptions…
Although if I'm being totally honest, I'll feel like a complete fool if it turns out that the Yamato can actually just send me there directly. Plus I do wanna experience how an Arancarr forms a Garganta myself, if only to see if I can replicate it later on if the Fullbring is able to even do that…
Suddenly I am broken out of my musings as I sense a nearby Hollow spiritual pressure, forcing me to pack up my Impromptou campsite and rush away with a flare of green bringer light, not wanting to get involved in yet another fight right now.
However, now that I have a destination in mind, I head toward what I believe is the fortress of Las Noches. While I do so, I work on trying to hide my spiritual pressure and demonic power as much as possible, although it's clear that I'll need to work on that though…
Thankfully, if what I recall about the sheer size of Las Noches and the distance of it, It'll take me a day or two to get there regardless so at least I won't be bored on the way over there. Assuming that I don't encounter another Adjuchas hollow that is because my power seems to be strangely attracting them to the point that one has actually called me a once-in-a-lifetime delicacy during the combat tests.
However, my stealth ability as Seele also seems to work to hide both my presence and any immediate trace of my power for as long as I am able to keep it up. Not to mention during the use of my ultimate technique, I can temporarily stop time but I don't know if I can make it work outside of combat just yet.
Idle musings aside, I should keep an eye out for hollows as I continue making my way toward Las Noches, intent on finding out where a certain green-haired Arancarr is currently located, although if I am being honest a growing part of me is becoming excited at the thought of fighting a particularly strong hollow on the way there…
Somewhere in the Desert of Hueco Mundo, One day from reaching Las Noches - One day until Rukia's Execution
(Seele's P.O.V)
It seems that the closer I get to Las Noches, the more and more I am forced to use my stealth ability in order to continue making my way undetected. Either way, I'm making good time in regards to making my way toward where I believe Nel should be thrown off the side of Las Noches…
Ironically, I think I've been in Ichigo's completed fullbring longer than Ichigo in the show and manga at this point, although part of me is starting to wonder If there is more I can do with my new fullbring powers than what Ichigo had the time to actually demonstrate.
Assuming what Tsukushima said about the Fullbring merging with Ichigo's soul-reaper powers is correct, I wonder if it's possible to perform Kido in this state, it's something to test when I'm not stuck in Hueco Mundo to be sure.
Normally in a state of perpetual night, you may or may not have it fuck with your sense of time, but thankfully I got something that I can use to track the time. The object is my phone because ironically the smartphone I got as Seele is also now a company-protected phone complete with the slew of applications for a company-issued phone.
I let out a growl of annoyance that breaks me out of my musings, almost exposing myself by accident through my agitated spiritual pressure as I soon say to myself… "Fuck me, I'm so goddamn bored that I'm monologuing in my own goddamn head about the shit I've been doing lately…"
I sigh and just shake my head before looking around me, trying to see if there are any nearby hollows before noticing that there is a strange lack of hollows near my location, making me wonder if I forgot about something else important that might be happening in Hueco Mundo…
While I do spend a small amount of time trying to think of anything that might fit the bill for this, I eventually just decide to instead focus my attention on once more building a camp for the night, with me being so close to Las Noches I should take the time to rest and sleep for a time in order to ensure I am in top condition…
After all, I am unsure exactly when I am in the time-line, so for all I know I could be dealing with more than just Nnoitra and Szayelaporro and potentially could garner the attention of someone like Tier or heavens forbid, Ulquiorra with his goddamn Segunda Etapa…
It's a risk to be sure, but I prefer to ensure that if I am tackling a risky situation, I am as close to 100% strength as possible. Basically, while I hope to slip in and grab Nel, I should probably be ready to run into an Arrancar or hell even potentially an Espada during this impromptu mission of mine.
With that in mind, I look around my immediate area for the perfect spot to set up camp, eventually finding a nice, out-of-the-way spot to set up a small camp although I chose not to make a campfire this time due to being so damn close to Las Noches.
As I set up camp, I decide to use the Ice shroud to create a full-on Igloo so as to try and blend into the color of the sand as best as I can, it won't hold up to scrutiny if viewed up close but my hope is that at a distance it blends in with the sand dunes around me.
Once I am done with the Igloo, I decide to take a very quick look around the immediate area one last time to make sure I haven't missed any of the sneakier hollows that can exist, only returning when I am absolutely certain I haven't missed anything.
When I return, I check the time on my phone briefly to continue maintaining my sense of time in this land of eternal night, setting up an alarm clock to go off in several hours' time before turning in for the night…
Somewhere close to Las Noches, roughly 4 hours from reaching the fortress itself - 6 Hours until Rukia's execution.
(Seele's P.O.V)
As I quickly make my way toward Las Noches today, I can't help but feel like something big will be going down soon, wondering if my new demonic instincts are warning me somehow but it's little more than a sense of restlessness to me currently.
Even so, it has me using bringer light at full speed, occasionally blurring forward with my abilities as Seele to cut down on travel time as much as possible, all to get to Las Noches as fast as possible.
I know I risk detection moving so fast toward Las Noches, however, I am unable to rid myself of this sense of restlessness that compels me to make all haste toward my destination. But much to my surprise, there seems to be a constant, almost eerie lack of hollows patrolling near Las Noches today.
Eventually, I soon have the gigantic structure of Las Noches itself within my sight, the expansive fortress practically dwarfing me with ease as I can feel several strong spiritual pressures inside of Las Noches itself.
I do my absolute best to keep my own spiritual pressure from being detected as I continue making my way closer and closer, hoping to detect a hint of what I'm looking for as I make my way over.
It takes some time, but I eventually manage to detect three spiritual pressures, one that feels distinctly female falling from Las Noches and two more that seem to be somewhere on the upper levels of Las Noches nearby that first one.
This means that I've just arrived near Las Noches right as Nel is being thrown out of the fortress by Nnoitra and Szayelaporro, which is both a good and a bad thing. It's good because I can swoop in and grab Nel today…
But the bad thing is that if I'm not careful, I could be detected by one of the two remaining Espada, which would blow my cover completely. I take a deep breath to calm myself, trying to make my spiritual pressure as hard to detect as possible before rushing forward to intercept Nel's falling body.
As I get closer and closer to Nel as she falls, I sense what I believe to be Szayelaporro heading back into Las Noches, meaning I no longer need to worry about him discovering me and reporting me to Aizen.
After that, I soon sense Nnoitra moving to return to Las Noches itself, likely grown bored now that Nel has been dealt with. With that in mind, I should be in the clear entirely, increasing my speed as I rush toward the falling rag that contains Nel's body.
Eventually, I am in close enough range that I am able to leap up towards the falling body of Nel that I am able to catch it in mid-air, wincing as I feel the blood come from such a small form. I land back down on the sands of Hueco Mundo and carefully examine Nel's wounds, seeing that they're at least healing so I don't have to worry about that…
However, just as I am about to make my move to leave, I sense a rapidly approaching Espada-level spiritual pressure coming from above. I have only moments to draw the Fullbring Machete blade and block an incoming swing from Nnoitra's large axe-like Zanpakuto, gritting my teeth as I stare at Nnoitra's downright bloodthirsty gaze…
It seems that I moved too soon and had forgotten that while my own spiritual pressure may be suppressed, Nel's own dwindling spiritual pressure is exposed and the sudden change in direction must have caught Nnoitra's attention as a result.
"Hehehehe, seems that my fun isn't over yet, while that bitch may be weaker now she seems to have attracted a brand new pray…" Nnoitra says as he pushes his blade against my fullbring blade much more harshly, making me grit my teeth before briefly using my control over the Quantum element to teleport several meters away.
I look down at Nel before trying the rag that covers her around me, tying her still-recovering body to me so I can properly focus on the fight ahead, knowing that I have to kill Nnoitra here and now in order to escape…
I get into a fighting stance as I prepare myself mentally to face down an Espada on my first few days of arriving in this world, briefly wondering if I'll continue to have such shit luck down the line too…
Seconds pass as both me and Nnoitra stare each other down, eventually, it is Nnoitra who breaks the silent stalemate as he charges, I soon rush forward with a green glow erupting from from my heels as our blades clash…
Let's see how Ichigo's Fullbring stacks up against an Espada…
Author's Notes
Hello everyone, welcome to the first chapter of Quantum Hybrid. This is a story I've had in mind for a while now, and only recently have I found the chance to get it going.
This story will be like Devilflare Princess in terms of update timing, with irregular updates of at least once a month.
Now then, that being said that is one hell of a cliffhanger to leave the first chapter on, I know. Not to mention as you all probably have noted so far, the events that are happening in Hueco Mundo are lining up with the events currently happening in the soul society timeline-wise.
This is to properly get an idea of where and When Seele is in comparison to the main canonical story, which for the most part will be unchanged save for select things that will come into play later on, you'll know what I mean when you eventually see it.
Now then, before I give out my usual Next time on X story spiel, I've decided to make a bleach fanfic unique section that anime watchers may be familiar with the format of, keep in mind none of the events that happen here in these skits are canonical to the story Unless I specify otherwise
With that out of the way…
Welcome to Quantum Mechanics Episode 1 - By Kisuke Urahara
The lights come on in a room with a projector as a blonde man wearing a white and green bucket hat, loose Kimono shirt and geta sandals walks into the room with a fan covering his smirking face.
"Welcome everyone, to my humble little corner of this fanfic, today we'll be diving into the racial makeup of Seele as she is right now…." Kisuke Urahara says as he turns on the projector to reveal a pie chart with various colors indicating the various racial traits that Seele has running through her veins.
"Now then, much like Ichigo Kurosaki, Seele here is a Hybrid made out of a combination of the four core races of our world, Human, Soul Reaper, Hollow, and Quincy….but that does not mean that she's completely alike Ichigo in terms of genetic makeup…" Kisuke says with a smirk as he taps his fan on the 5th section of the Pie chart…
"You see, Seele is also technically a half-demon due to her power-swap of one Vergil from Devil May Cry 5, which leaves her in a unique position in our world as demons do not actually exist in the same way that Seele's demonic heritage does, the closest we have are the sinners from hell.." Kisuke Urahara says before smiling mysteriously as he suddenly changes the projection to an Image of the Yamato
"Now, before I end today's episode of Quantum Mechanics, I do wish to make a note of the Yamato and how in this chapter we see how it is able to cut down a hollow in a similar fashion to Quincy arrows killing a hollow in turn, It makes me wonder what else the Yamato is capable of severing.." Kisuke Urahara says as he hides his smile with his fan, looking rather intrigued at the prospect before without warning a piece of paper pops into existence as Kisuke Urahara reaches up and grabs it, reading what's written on it as he chuckles…
"Alright then everyone, seems that today's Episode of Quantum Mechanics is over as the author wants me to move on to the announcement of the next chapter's events in a nutshell…" Kisuke Urahara says as he shakes his head in amusement before he stares directly at the camera, addressing the reader directly as he simply says…
"Next Time on Quantum Hybrid: Seele VS Nnoitra and the capture of Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck…" With that Kisuke smiles and waves goodbye to the readers as the room he's in darkens once more until the next time he's able to enjoy being the host of Quantum Mechanics..