Water Attack! Escape from the Shutdown Hospital
World of the Living, Japan, Karakura Town, Bount Mansion
Looking out the mansion window, a figure immediately drew attention- a tall, fair-skinned man with a lithe but muscular body, crimson eyes, and a striking combination of white hair and thick black eyebrows. His unique features, including a thin vertical scar on the left side of his chin and a horn-like tip sticking out on either side of his head, made him a captivating sight. His appearance was unlike anything the world had seen before; a blend of beauty and mystery left onlookers spellbound.
He wore an asymmetrically designed dress shirt: the right half and the left sleeve and breast are red, but the flared collar and the left half of the torso are black, with the black portion of the left side rising diagonally at the front to terminate near his collar and doing so near his shoulder blades at the back; over this, he wears an orange tie whose end is entirely flat instead of pointed. Over this, he wears a predominantly dark blue, ankle-length coat with cuffs, upper strips of the sleeves, lapels, collar, and shoulders instead of light brown, as well as dark brown-red pants with a zipper at the front and black dress shoes.
Behind him was a Shinigami, a tall, fair-skinned, lean-built man with brown eyes, sharp eyebrows, and short, hairy, raven-black hair that framed his face and arched upward on either temple to hang down in the centre of his forehead in a large bang. He wears a shihakushō with removed sleeves and an added shirt underneath.
"So Ichiose, how are things going," The Bount, an influential figure in the supernatural world, asked the Shinigami, a group member tasked with maintaining the balance between the living and the dead.
"I have located Quincy. Utagawa fought. He is in Karakura Hospital. It looked like he was attacked by a random thug when he and his group were looking for the mansion," he said as the Bount rubbed his chin. The plot thickened, the mystery deepened, and the audience's curiosity was piqued.
"I see," He muttered before the Bount that saw Yoshino join Ichigo walk in.
"She must have told them where the mansion is, so why search," He said as the white-haired Bount turned to him with a hum.
"You're right, so why?" he asked as he considered what his opponent could be doing. "Send out Hō and Ban to find out what they are planning," he said to Ichiose.
"Yes sir," He said as he walked off.
As the Shinigami, lest the white-haired Bunt turns back to the window, he says, "You don't like my plan," as he looks at the man's reflection.
"Kariya, it's more than that; I just don't trust that the Quincy with the Shinigami is the way," he said as Kariya turned to him again. "That king has said he is sending us five Quincy to help us into the Soul Society, so why do you target the one in the hospital?" He asked his leader, who nodded.
"One can never have to much of one thing," Kariua said as the other man nodded at him.
Karakura Hospital
Ichigo and his team sat in Uryū's room as they waited, "So, do you want to tell me why you thought this was what you wanted," Ichigo asked his cousin.
The teen in question was lying in a hospital bed with one leg in a cast along with his right arm broken, bandages around his head and chest.
"There were holes in my plan, I will admit, but I saw this as some easy prey," Uryū said as he looked at Ichigo. And luckily, it is only my Gigai, and when we move out, I can leave it so that I can help you guys fight," he told them as they nodded.
"Good, but try to keep the act up as long as you can," Ichigo told him as Quincy nodded at him; the young captain turned the rest of his team, "Renji, you take three people and make sure that floor three is secure, Yoruichi floor two," Ichigo gave his orders as both people mention and six people left with the two of them.
"Luitenant Kira, watch the entrance, while Matsumoto has the first floor," He told them as they nodded and moved out with six more people following them.
Outside the Hospital
Outside the Hospital, looking up to the floor where the Shinigami and Quincy were, were two young men with raven-black hair, fair skin, and narrow maroon eyes. Both wear an orange shirt underneath a mostly-zipped-up brown sweater emblazoned on each side of the chest area with an inward-facing darker brown half-circle terminating in a thick black line with a black dot in the middle of the brown section, as well as baggy dark grey shorts with rolled-up legs. However, their hairstyles and hats set them apart; one had short hair underneath a red baseball cap styled after a skull, while the other had a white beanie over chin-length hair parted down the middle to frame his face.
"It seems that they were expecting us," one of them said, smiling.
"Indeed, brother, shall we show them why Kariya has us as his enforcers?" the other said as he pulled out two bottles of water. Both young men uncaped them and poured the water from the bottles. "Zeige Dich Guhl and Günther," both brothers called out as water started to swirl around the caps, forming shapeless bodies.
"Go in and bring the Quincy to us," the brother with the skull cap told them as the Doll moved into the nearby drain.
Uryū's Room
Kon, who was next to Ichigo on the floor, looked around. "Ichigo, there is a Bount nearby, and they just released their Doll," he said as everyone got ready.
"Momo," Ichigo said as she nodded and looked out the window.
She was silent for a while before speaking up, "I've got them, two men, looking around twelve years," She said as she spoke into a phone and told Izuru.
She turned the phone onto speakerphone while everyone looked at every possible entrance. "Sorry to say, Momo, but around me are a lot of children that look to be about twelve years old," Izuru's voice said through the speaker.
"This is Rangiku. Something strange is happening on the first floor," she said as her voice filled in from Chad's phone.
"Same on the second floor," Yoruichi said below them.
That was when the tap in the room started to turn by itself, and water began to flow out of it.
"Are we the only ones with water flowing randomly? It started to flow anywhere else," Renji asked through Rukia's phone.
"No, were getting it too," She told him before the shower started to leak water.
The back of Ichigo's right had the latter 'O' formed so that it looked like a crashing wave as it went around.
The teen held out his hand, took control of the water, and tried to push it back up the pipes.
"Ichigo," Uryū asked as he was ready to leave his body.
"The Bount's doll controls this water," he told everyone. "Luitenant Kira, get everyone out of this hospital. Renji, Luitenant Matsumoto, Yoruichi, find the Bount," Ichigo ordered everyone as he fought against the Doll.
"Understood," The four of them said as they hung up.
But that was when the Doll broke into the room from the shower. It was just a shapeless mass of water with a large bulbous head and a bottle cap within.
Before a second one joined it.
Uryū looked at his captain, who nodded, and he exited his Gigai and got ready to release his Geist Töten Bogen.
While Ichgio reached for his Hoja Alma.
But before either of the boys could try anything, Momo and Rukia cut the bodies with their Zanpakutō.
But the bodies did not splat across the water; they just stayed in two blobs.
"I have a bad feeling about this," Chad said as he changed his arm to his attack arm, and the blobs started to move towards them.
"Leave the room and cover the foot of the door," Ichigo ordered as everyone left. Orihime grabbed a blanket and put it under the door as they left the room.
Elsewhere in the Hospital
"Look, it seems like our Doll has caught them off guard," One of the brothers said as they watched their Doll through a water screen.
"And they'll all be dead before you know it and would not know that it was our Doll that killed them," The other brother said, "You should show some compassion," He added with a twisted smile.
"My compassion for them wore out long ago," The other brother told his twin with an equally twisted smile.
Kurosaki Clinic
Nemu and Hanatarō were testing Yoshino when Chappy, Rukia's Mod Soul, suddenly looked up.
"I sense another Bount, and it's at the hospital," She said as Yoshino looked at the stuffed rabbit doll.
She then looked over at the two examining her. "What you do will happen when I use my Doll," she asked them.
"I think that when Ichigo used that power on you, it did more than just make it so that you can reproduce, and I think that it affected your Doll as well," Hanatarō told her as she looked at him, "Now, this is a hypothesis, but I think that you now no longer need to eat souls to live on, but I do not know what elce," He told her as the Bount nodded.
"Right, I'll head out to the hospital to aid them," Yoshino said as the other two nodded, with Cappy jumping onto her shoulder before she left the clinic.
Karakura Hospital, Fourth Floor
Ichigo's small team was moving towards the elevator.
But then a drinking fountain started to bubble as the Doll they were fighting formed out of it.
"Dose this thing, give up," Chad asked as he punched the water blob.
Two tendrils of water burst forward and tried to get at them, but Orihime and Rukia cut at the tendrils, with Ichigo slashing at the head, but just kept moving.
"The elevator wound not be working so head for the stairs," Uryū told them as they turned left and headed for the stairs.
When they reached the third floor, they met up with Renji, Lieutenant Ise, and Yumichika, and the three were facing the two water Dolls.
"Hadō #31. Shakkahō," Rukia called out as she fired a red fire from her hands.
The ball hit one of the Dolls, evaporating as the three turned to them.
"So heat," Nanao muttered as she held out her and shot a Shakkahō at the other Doll, taking it out.
Elsewhere in the Hospital
"The Shinigami with them are more troublesome than we first thought," One of the Bount Twins said.
"This is taking too much time, and who would imagine it taking that long to execute our plan?" the other twin added.
But both of them kept their twisted smiles on their faces.
"But we have to deal with it," One brother said.
"Yes, we've delt with situations like this one before, but we always got it done, and we will do it again," The second brother said.
"Let's finish this quickly," Both brothers said as one.
Third Floor
They made their way to the next set of stairs, but they ran into a dead end, "This is the third dead end we have found," Yumichika said with a twitch above his eye.
"It was designed by my father, who wanted it to have a feng shui feel to it so that it would keep the pations calm," Uryū told everyone.
"Well, he should have thought less about feng shui or whatever that means and more about getting people out," Renji said as they made their way to find an exit to the second floor.
And so the now larger group started to head for the stairs before Chad stopped by a map.
"Hey guys, I don't think the stairs are a good idea," he said as everyone turned to him. The water pipes run down the third to the second floor," he told them.
"Well, that's just perfect," Ichigo muttered as he looked down one hallway and saw a rush of water heading his way.
And they found an elevator.
"Here are my orders: Renji, Momo, and I are going to keep the water up here, and I want everyone else in that elevator going down. When you're on the ground floor, contract Yoruichi and the others and tell them to meet you at the ground floor," he told them as they all nodded.
Ichigo drew his Hollow sword as black flames formed around the blade while Momo released her Zanpakutō.
"We keep this thing from getting past us, and we make sure that the others get to the ground floor," Ichigo said as he sent out an arc of black flames while Momo sent out fireballs with Renji using Hadō #31. Shakkahō to blase away at the water.
"How are we going to get down," Renji asked as he released Zabimaru and sent it out to cut the water Doll.
"I'll use V-The Vortex to form a slide of wind that we can use to get down to the bottom," the fifth captain said.
"What is taking it so long," Renji asked as he looked back and saw that the lift was stopping on the second floor.
"Possibly picking up the others," Ichigo said as he sent out another arc of black flames.
"You are making us late with getting this job done," A voice said as all three Shinigami turned to see the two Bounts walking towards them.
"I seem, Ban, that our Doll has them scared," one brother said as Ichigo's right hand grasped the latter 'I', which looked made of flames.
"Indeed, Hō, but we but get that Quincy, as boss will not be happy that we could not deliver for the first time," Ban said as he smiled creepily at the three.
Ichigo looked back at the elevator and saw it was now on the first floor, picking up Rangiku.
"I'm letting you or your Doll pass," Ichigo said as he placed his right hand on the back of Diablo Luna's sealed form, "Del Rey Seinaru Beurteilung," Ichigo called out as a flaming vortex shot forward with three flame clours.
Red, blue, and black.
Renji and Momo looked amazed at the now-exhausted Ichigo. They turned to the elevator and saw it was now on the ground floor, so the 'I' turned into a 'V' that looked like a cyclone.
Renji opened the doors as the captain held out his hand, "Feste Luft," Ichigo called out as he threw his will into the air to create a solid slide for them to use.
And so they all one after the other.
Ichgio surded down as Renji slid down on his back along with Momo.
As the three landed on the ground floor, Ichgio cut open the top of the elevator, and they ran out to meet with the others.
But to both their dismay and shock, they found it raining heavily.
"Shit what do we do now," Tetsuzaemon asked as he looked around.
As they looked out, both the Dolls started to form out of puddles. "It is useless to run away from water; it is everywhere," Ban's voice said, thinking of the water.
"I think it's time to stop playing around now," Hō said as both boys appeared behind their dolls.
The two water elements merged into one.
"I agree," Yoshino's voice said, and everyone turned to her as she held her finger claw over her metal bracelet. "Zeige Dich Goethe," she called out, creating a spark that grew into a flame.
Goethe takes the form of a giant, muscular, humanoid golem composed of an unknown substance that is filled with intense flames; his body is marked with thin, smooth lines tracing the outlines of a human's upper-body muscular system, specifically his abdomen, pectoral, and upper arm "muscles", as well as the joints of his fingers on each hand, effectively linking separate segments that make up his body. However, it is not entirely symmetrical, with a crack-like marking covering his left pectoral and a marking on his face resembling a reversed lowercase lambda that emits a long trail of fire at the top where his left eye would be and can emit a jet of flame from the centre, functioning as his mouth. Goethe's legs are unmarked and end at the knees, where powerful jets of flames constantly surge to keep him aloft, and he has an otherwise smooth body.
But what she said next shocked the Bount brothers, "Ritter Der Heiligen Flamme," She ordered her Doll, and then his form started to change as armour formed around his body.
Over Goeth's head forms a close-fitting helmet with a thin Y-slit, a breastplate and a backplate form, along with two pauldrons with vambraces and clawed gauntlets; over his new legs, greaves formed, and a sabaton that resembled talons appeared over his feet.
"It seems that I have undergone a change like we thought," Goethe said as he turned to Yoshino.
"Yes, not take out thouse two," She ordered him.
Goethe turned to the twin Bounts and held out his hand as if a broad sword had appeared in his hand. "Understood, my lady," he told Yochino.
Ichigo smiled as he drew Zangetsu and Diablo Luna, and they both erupted in flames.
Red around Zangetsu and black around Diablo Luna.
Both brothers did not know what to do as they saw the Shinigami charging them with two swords on fire one way.
While the other had a changed Goethe.
"Yoshino, have you turned on us? Why?" Ban asked her as the two swords defeated the water Dolls.
"I have grown tired of the stupidity that my ex-husband is showing. I am here to aid the Shinigami in taking you out," Yoshino said as Guhl and Günther reformed, thanks to the rain.
But from the heat that Ichigo and Goethe released with each sword's slash, they forced the Twin Bounts on the back foot.
Yoshino then used the Bount high-speed technique to appear next to the others, "While the captain and Goethe handle the Dolls, we have to separate them and then knock them out," Yoshino told them as they looked at her before looking over to the turtle plushy.
"Noba," Chad said as the plushy nodded, jumped onto the half-Spanish boy, and the two ran forward.
And so he changed his arm and drew his sword. "Fight On Maken," Chad called out as he held his Zanpakutō at an angle, its blade glowing magenta as it encased his fist.
Once the glow had faded, it showed his Shikai, a goldish-bronze fist with black line designs that fit over the wearer's hand and wrist.
"When did Chad get Shikai," Rukia asked Momo as the two were shocked by the tan-skinned boy.
"I don't know," Momo said as she looked over to Chad, "But it looks like his Zanpakutō is a Power-Type Zanpakutō," Rukia nodded as Chad teleported next to Ban.
Before they looked at Chad's arm and saw that it was starting to change before their eyes.
What covers his right arm up to his shoulder is a liquid, which then solidifies into a form of armour. The shoulder fans out a bit into an upward extension, parallel to his height. It has an indentation at the top in the middle of the extension, stopping where his shoulder begins and separating the upward extension into two. There are two wing-like protrusions on either side of his wrist. The arm is black, with a dark magenta strip running down the middle of the arm, tapering down towards a point that stops at the wrist. A thin white line outlines the dark magenta strip. These patterns are on the top and underside of his arm.
However, the shoulder extension became pointed and slightly longer, making it somewhat taller than Chad. The arm was still black, but the magenta became marginally lighter, the design became more intricate, while the white was lost altogether.
"Meet my power, Brazo Derecha de Gigante," Chad said as he punched Ban. When the fist landed, both Chad and Ban were teleported away.
Every three meters, they saw that Chad was pushing Ban away from the fight until Ban had his back to a wall, "Bugendai Shikansetsu," Chad called out as he punched Ban in the chest, and all saw that multiple tempers were sent through the Bount.
The Doll that Ichigo was facing also went down when he went down.
"Give up now and answer my question and you and your brother will not be harmed anymore," Ichigo said as he pointed the sealed form of Diablo Luna at Hō, who looked at Ichigo with narrowed eyes.
"Never, get him, Guhl," He ordered as the others soon joined in the fight with Orihime using Tsubaki to fly around that and destroy any water bullets that formed in the air.
Uryū fired arrow after arrow, with Momo joining the two fire users and sending fireballs at the Doll.
They started to back the Bount into a corner as the fire Doll kept cutting the water, steam erupting around the blade.
But then something shocking happened.
An arrow not belonging to Uryū shot through the Doll and into the bottle cap.
Hō clutched his chest as he fell to the floor. Ban started to rith in pain.
"What is happening to them?" Orihime asked as she saw that the two boys had started to age quickly.
"Bount and Dolls are connected more than on a spiritual level, but on a physical level so that if a Bount gets knocked out, the Doll will return to its sealed form," Yoshino said as she watched the brothers with pure sadness in her eyes.
"That is like when a Shinigami is knocked out, our Shikai or Bankai will be returned to it's sealed form," Yoruichi said as she watched in morbid fascination.
"Yes, but if the crest is broken, the back lash will kill the Bount, as the Bount and Doll are one," Yoshino said as Ichigo looked at her.
"Then I'm glad I changed your soul and body, as now your crest is like our Zanpakutō, so if it is ever broken, it will heal over time," he told her. Yoshino sighed in relief before everyone turned back to the twins.
Or where they were, as all that was left was their clothes. "They were a couple of hundred years old, so they got turned to dust," the female Bount said as everyone looked down.
Bount Mansion
Kariya looked off in the hospital's direction before sighing, "It seems that Hō and Ban are no longer with us," He said as the other Bounts in the room looked at him.
"It serves them right for putting to much faith in there Doll and not enigh in there own power," A woman said.
She is a young woman of average build and height, with brown eyes and long grey hair styled into dreadlocks. She was dressed in jeans, a punk rock shirt, and sneakers.
"Rosunde's right you know," A man said.
He was a tall, lean man with wavy brown-red hair arching at the front. He parted on either side with wing-like tufts brushed above his ears, maroon eyes, thin and flat eyebrows, pronounced cheekbones, and a thick goatee shaped like a straight line extending from underneath his lower lip to the underside of his chin, as well as a pointed tongue. He wears a purple vest with a black lining, in the left breast pocket of which he keeps the golden pocket watch, a dull green tie over a white dress shirt, and brown slacks and black dress shoes.
But these three were not the only Bounty Hunters in the room. The room was full of the remaining Bounts that gathered to Kariya.
"And it seems that Yoshino has realy joined the Shinigami in taking us out, and her soul has been changed," Another Bount said.
The Bount is a tall man with fair skin, thin, rectangular grey eyes, and white pupils. Just past his shoulders, his white hair is worn and swept away from his face. He wears black shoes, pants, and a tattered white jacket.
"Are sure Adruin," A woman asked.
She was of medium height and slightly dark skin with dark green-teal hair that reached the middle of her back, fell over the far left side of her face in a stomach-length bang, and had a slight part in the middle. She has pale green eyes, thin, furrowed eyebrows, and a flat mouth. Yoshi wears a sleeveless purple qipao that is slit up to her thigh and fastened at the front with several thin braids over beige pants with black shoes.
"I am, as I'm the only one here who has the best sensory range and can tell that she is with the Shinigami right now," Adruin told her as she nodded, conceding the point.
"So what is our next move," A Bount over by the fire asked.
He was a tall, muscular, and stockily-built man with orange-brown skin, pale green eyes, thin eyebrows, and a large nose. He has dark red hair cut short and completely framing his head with sideburns, a beard, and a partial moustache formed by spike-shaped strips of hair extending from either side of his upper lip toward the centre without merging; the top-middle section of his hair is instead orange, spiky, and noticeably longer than the red majority is. He wore a bulky black pair of headphones with no wire around his neck, a dark green tank top, blue jeans fastened at the waist by a black belt with a simple buckle, a tan-green pouch on his left thigh that is held around his hips by a thick diagonal strap, and plain black shoes, "But Master Kariya, can you tell us why we have all gathered here," He asked his leader as Kariya turned to the rest of the Bounts.
"As you all know, Yhwach, the king of the Quincy, has lent us aid in the form of five Quincy, but we have found a sixth here in Japan; I would like to ask you all to capture this Quincy, and with him we shall gain absolute power and bring the glorias era of the Bounts," He said as the rest of the Bounts smiled at each other.
Kurosaki Clinic
Everyone gathered around a kitchen table that served as a makeshift battel table as they weighed up their options.
"Yoshino, do you know why Kariya was a Quincy," Ichigo asked the newest team member.
"I do not, but I think that it has something to do with getting into the Soul Society, but that was when I left his group and started to gain power for myself to see if I can take him down," She told him as Ichgio narrowed his eyes.
Everyone was quiet before Nemu looked at Ichigo, "I have an idea, Captain Kurosaki," She told him as Ichigo nodded at her, "When I was skilled under Master Mayuri, he had a theory about the Quincy that I think would explain why our enemy wants one on his side," She said as Ichigo looked interested.
"Go on," He said as he indicated for her to speak.
"I was looking over the data that Captain Urahara gave us, and I found something unique within it. I found that the result from when a Bount feeds affect space," she said as Yoshino nodded while the others looked on in interest. I thought that if they have a Shinigami working with them," Nemu said as Suì-Fēng's eyes shot wide.
"They can acsess the Senkaimon," The captain of the second said.
"Yes, but they will need a compressed shot of Reishi to open a hole that will open a gate, similar to a Senkaimon, and thus let them walk into the Soul Society," She explained to the fifth captain.
"Then we have a mission, in the morning, we go to the Bount's location and put an end to what is going on," Ichigo said as everyone nodded, and so people started to leave and head home with the residents of the clinic starting going to bed.
But then someone knocked at the door, "I'll check it out, you two head to bed," He told his lutenists, who nodded and went upstairs.
Ichgio walked over to the door, and when he opened it, he found something that shocked him.
Tatsuki stood outside his door, "Can I come in," She asked him.
Ichigo looked at her before he moved to the side and let her in. He walked over to the kitchen and started to make some tea. "Can I ask why you are back, or is that not something an alive person needs to know?" Tatsuki asked Ichgio, who looked at her.
"What we're doing is make sure that nothing wrong happens, and Karakura town is currently a big red dot and a bigger red flag for something to go wrong as it holds both nothing of any note and something that if falls into the wrong hands could spell the end of possibly all live in existance," Ichgio said plainly to his old friend who looked shocked at him.
"But why are you back? It's been five months since you all left," she asked him.
Ichigo sighed at her. "A group of people that have some sort of power is making trouble for the worlds, and so I have been replied with a team to sort it out," he told her as she looked at him and nodded.
They said nothing as they drank the tea silently before Tatsuki got up. "I see," she said, looking Ichigo in the eye before sighing. Thanks for the tea," Tatsuki said as she left.
Zeige Dich = Show Yourself = Bount release command for their Doll.
Shakkahō = Red Fire Cannon = The User shoots a red ball of flames.
Del Rey Seinaru Beurteilung = King's Holy Judgment = Ichigo gathers the three types of flames that he has and sends them in a cyclone at his target, but in doing so, he exhausts him.
Ritter Der Heiligen Flamme = Knight of the Holy Flame = Thanks to Ichigo using his Soul Prince powers to change Yoshino, she can now tell her Doll to change form to their other forms, attack, defend, and beast.
Maken = Devil Fist
Brazo Derecha de Gigante = Right Arm of the Giant
Bugendai Shikansetsu = Infinity Knuckle = When Chad lands a punch with his Shikai, he can send waves of spiritual energy through his target.