Well, here's the new chapter. Sorry if this took longer then expected but I hope the wait was worth it for you guys.

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It's been a few days ever since the battle between Ichigo and Venom had been dealt with. By the time the fight was over, Ichigo had been forced to get his wounds treated in the hospital. Thankfully none of his bones were broken, so it only took him for at least a full day to recover. By the time he did, he had thanked Ryuken for patching up his wounds.

As of this moment Ichigo was inside the Vizard's underground hideout. Reason being was that he decided to come back to train so he could improve the timing of his Hollow mask. Right now he was in his soul form as he was on the phone, trying to call Orihime. He could hear ringing coming, "Come on...please pick up…" Ichigo murmured as he sat on a boulder, looking at his phone with pleading eyes. "I'm sorry about what I did. Just, please pick up. I just want to apologize…"

The ringing ended, it had no answer. Ichigo groaned to himself as he lied on his back. "Oh great. Just perfect. She still doesn't wanna talk to me. Man, I really am an idiot." He said to himself. 'I just wish that we could talk over this already!'

"Hey dumbass! Break is over, get your sorry ass back here, right now!" Hiyori rudely called for him.

"Hang on! I'll be there in just a second!" Ichigo said, 'Maybe I can try calling her one more time…' but before he could call Orihime again, his Combat Pass started to ring again. "Oh come on! What now?!" Ichigo picked up his wooden badge to see the annoying ringing that kept giving off. 'Oh, of course it had to be a friggin hollow now of all times!'

"Are you deaf or something?! I said get your ass in gear already!" Ichigo turned to look behind him. He saw Hiyori charging towards him, with her sword raised to slash him. Ichigo instinctively jumped backwards to get out of the way in an order not to get cut. He managed to dodge in time, but unfortunately the same couldn't be said for his Combat Pass, as Hiyori had cut it in half.

Ichigo hanged his mouth open wide in shock at seeing his Combat Pass snap in two. "What the hell is wrong with you?!" He snapped at Hiyori. "What did you do that for?!"

"What part of "your break is over" did you not understand in the first place?!"

"You fucking cunt!" Ichigo went over to Hiyori by grabbing her collar, lifting her in doing so. "You couldn't have waited for just one minute, could you?! You just had to cut my Combat Pass didn't you?!"

"Hey! Let go dumbass!" Hiyori grabbed her sandal to slap Ichigo with it. But to her surprise, he grabbed it before she could hit him with it.

"Sounds like you want to get another beating from me like last time! Or have you already forgotten that? If so, how about I refresh that memory of yours!"

Before the situation could escalate any further, Shinji came in in time to stop them, "OK! I think you two should stop before this really gets out of hand." he went over to pick up the broken wooden badge. "Geez, you really did it this time Hiyori…you know you're not exactly supposed to break this, right?"

Before Hiyori could say anything, Ichigo put her down on the ground. "Well that's just great! Now what am I gonna do?!"

"Calm down." Shinji casually said, "I'm sure this can't be that bad. You can just go to the Soul Society and ask them to fix it can't you?"

Ichigo sighed. "Yeah...I guess you're right. I'll be back quick." He went over to get out of the underground hideout. However he had one person in mind he knew should be able to fix this before he went to the Soul Society.

[Urahara's Shop]

"What do you mean you can't fix it?!"

Urahara nonchalantly waved his fan while looking at Ichigo with an eerie childish grin, not batting an eyelash at him. "Well I never said I can't fix it, it's just more so that I can't exactly do that without the Soul Society's permission. I no longer belong to their territory, so it's not within my reach to do something like this, even if I wanted to."

Ichigo grew a tick vein on his forehead, "Yeah, sure you can't." he said, with an agitated tone while he glared at Hat-and-Clogs.

"Hey, if you want, you can just go to the Soul Society yourself and ask them to fix it."

[scene change]

"...Yeah I have no clue how to fix this thing." Renji bluntly said, who with him was Ichigo as both of them were in the Squad 6 department.

"Oh come on!"

"Hey, don't blame me! Do I look like a guy that can just fix things?!"

"Can't you guys use that magic thing?" Renji looked at Ichigo with confusion. "You know...the ones where you shoot energy beams out of your hands or something?"

"Oh! You mean Kido. Yeah sorry but I can't do that. Look how about I just take you to Captain Ukitake alright? He's the one who gave you the Combat Pass didn't he?"

"Well, yeah. I guess Jushiro could know about this."

[scene change]

"I'm sorry-" Jushiro coughed heavily as he was sitting on his bed. "-Ichigo. I wish I could help but-" he coughed again. "- As you can see, I'm not exactly in the best condition at the moment. So maybe you can come by some other time?"

Ichigo sighed. "Alright. I understand Jushiro. Just rest well."

Ichigo and Renji started to leave the Squad 13 headquarters as both teens were headed in the Seiretei. "Well that could have gone better." Renji commented.

"Well that's just great. Now what am I gonna do?"

"Maybe you can go to the Squad 12 headquarters?"

"...Do I look like I'm suicidal enough to approach that clown creep?!"

"Fair enough." Renji shrugged as he couldn't argue with that. "Well you can just come by some other time then?"

"Actually wait, maybe I can just ask a few more other if they know anything to fix this thing. Or hell, maybe I can just get another one?"

"Well...that could work I guess."

[scene change]

'Well this is just great…' Ichigo thought in boredom to himself as he was in his room, sitting on his chair as his computer was turning on. '...Now I gotta do some stupid history project instead, now that I missed days worth of classes due to my fight with Venom.'

The computer was turned on, and Ichigo clicked on the Internet to search for a history figure. 'Ok...so I need to find a history figure from the ancient times. A guy named Cu Chu...Chual - no that's not it - Chala- agh no! Ah screw it! I'll just keep googling it till I find the correct name!'

After some fails of searching and accusing of Google not responding well on his computer, Ichigo searched what he believed to be the correct name of the person he was looking for: Cu Chulainn.

"Ah, there we go. Well, since I was told I can't use Wikipedia to research this guy, I'll have to go with YouTube next." Ichigo said, with a shrug as he went on YouTube to do his work. 'I mean, it makes sense, since I'm pretty sure that reading him on papers would be boring as hell. So why not go with audio and visual? Or just the audio itself really.' He typed on his keyboard in search for the mythical Irish figure and he already found tons of videos displaying. He clicked on the one that seemed to be around 18 minutes long, and it was displayed by Tsiah IV.

[scene change]

Ichigo was gaping and was lost of any form of speech. He was just sitting there with his mouth open and his eyes wide. Even though he had lost words to emphasize his surprise, he wasn't thoughtless though. 'No...fucking...way!' he couldn't even believe what he heard from this. 'This- This has to be some sort of crime! Like, my God, Cu is a fucking supreme chad in this! He was born as a frigging demi God, he killed Ireland's most dangerous dog who had the strength of ten men, as a little kid! He snaked into the boys troops of Red Branch Knights like it was nothing, feared for his combat abilities, slept with that Scathach's twin sister and got her pregnant, he got Gae Bolg from that Scathach or whatever her name is - which I'm hoping I got her right - and capable of fighting for several days on fighting his brother cause of that Medb queen, the so called thot. To top it all off, he killed his son without realizing who he was, the sons of the fathers he behead years ago took revenge by grabbing Cu's spear, lost his kingdom…I think Ulster was a kingdom? I'm not sure, and he got pierced by his weapon through his stomach; blew his insides and he stood against a rock pillar till he died…'

Ichigo rubbed his face as his mouth stopped hanging. 'This has to be some crime. If Cu Chulainn is a freaking beast! Are him and other history figures this fucking awesome?! If that's the case, then why the fuck do our schools portray them like they're so boring? How do you even mess that up?! Oh and I'll have to check out the anime version as well.'

Ichigo picked up his broken pass, looking at the two pieces that made him sigh, 'I don't get it...I asked nearly every Captain and Lieutenant if they could fix this somehow or if I could get another one, yet everyone kept dodging my question. Why?!' the thought with those conversations he had with the other Soul Reapers made him irritated. 'For God's sake, it can't be that hard to answer what I'm looking for can it?! Well, fine then! If that's how everyone else is gonna be like, then I should just sneak in to the Soul Society and fix the damn pass by myself if I have to!'

But then a sudden thought came to his mind which Ichigo discovered a problem within. 'There's one problem with all this: How do I get in? My Spiritual Pressure is way too huge. It's impossible for me to hide it on my own. If I tried to sneak in, I would be detected within seconds. Hang on...Cu Chulainn managed to join the boys troops by sneaking in on the castle...maybe I can ask for some help…'

[Vizard's underground base]

"Wait, you want us to do what?" Love asked Ichigo with a surprised look on his face, as he wasn't sure if he just heard what the carrot top said correctly. Along that, the whole group of Vizards were standing beside him.

"I'm asking if you guys have anything to help me sneak in through the Soul Society." Ichigo said, in his Soul form.

"And just why would we help you with that?" Kensei asked. "You wanna steal something there?"

"No! That's not what I'm saying!" Ichigo responded. "Look, all I'm asking is if you guys have anything to help me hide my Spiritual Pressure, just so I can sneak in to the Soul Society, and fix my Combat Pass. Is that so much to ask?"

Shinji had a thoughtful look on his face before he took a sigh, cause truth be told; he thinks that the kid needed help anyways. "Actually, I think we may have something that could help you hide your Spiritual Pressure completely."

Ichigo gaped at blond Vizard. "Wait, for real?!"

"Give me a minute…" Shinji made a Flash Step to get something to Ichigo. Everyone waited for about a minute or so before the blond came back, as he was holding some black cloak. "Ah there we go. I almost forgot we even had this thing."

"What exactly is that?" Ichigo asked.

"This cloak is gonna have you hide your Spiritual Pressure completely, as if you don't even exist. Trust me, I am not exaggerating this. This shit works, it was made by Kisuke." Shinji stated as he gave the cloak to Ichigo.

"Wow. Well, thanks Shinji. I owe you one big time." Ichigo expressed gratefully as he took the cloak, but not before he pulled a black mask that Black Cat gave him. He put the mask on his face and then put the cloak around him. "Can you guys make sure to take care of my body as well?"

"Already on it."

Ichigo nodded. He took out his massive cleaver sword and the bandages unsheathed themselves automatically. He put the sword in front of him on sideways before he turned it sideways which opened up a Senkaimon. "I'll be back quick!" Ichigo announced before he ran through the gate, which then closed.

"Shinji...I gotta ask you something: why in the world did you help him so easily?" Lisa asked, as she was confused at the unofficial leader's actions.

"You do know that there might be a possibility where he might discover the secrets of the Combat Pass. Some of us used to be Captains ourselves. We were told why a Combat Pass existed in the first place, especially after what happened to the last Substitute Soul Reaper before him." Rose remarked.

"That's the point. I want the kid to know the real reason why he was given by that in the first place." Shinji said without batting an eye. "It's just...cruel for him to be kept in the dark like this, by them. I know it seems harsh, but come on! You can't admit to me that he wouldn't not know about this forever now. Someday, sooner or later, he will discover the truth. What will he do when he finds out about it, I can't be sure, but I think he'll make the right choice."

[scene change]

Ichigo kept leaping towards the location he had been looking for. It didn't really take long for him to go where he was supposed to. 'There it is!' the Substitute thought to himself as he leapt at Kukaku's...house let's say. He took off the mask just so he could talk to Kukaku without it. And much to his luck, he saw both Kukaku and Ganju in front of the house and seemed to be talking about something before they saw him.

"Hey!" Ichigo said, as he landed both in front of them.

This startled Ganju as he slightly backwards slightly. Kukaku only looked surprised. "Holy crap! Wait, Ichigo? Is that you?"

"Of course it's me! Who else would it be?"

"Probably someone who doesn't just scare people out of nowhere!"

"You mean scaring someone easily like you?"

"Easily?! I just wasn't expecting you to come out of nowhere! That's all!"

"Isn't that sort of a definition of what a jumpscare is?"

Before the two of them could bicker any longer, Kukaku stepped in. "Alright that's enough you two!" the busty woman shouted at them which made them stop arguing. "So why exactly did you come to me this time?" she asked, pointing her head at Ichigo.

"I only came here just to ask if you guys can take care of this?" the teenager responded as he took out Zangetsu and presented it to them.

Kukaku looked confused by this. "Why exactly do you want us to take care of your Zanpakuto?"

"Just so I don't get spotted by other Soul Reapers. Look I'm just here to head to the 12th division so I can fix my Combat Pass."

"So why do you gotta sneak in? Can't you just ask the others to fix it for you? Or get another one?"

"You don't think I tried that?! I kept asking everyone I knew, and for some goddamn reason, they keep avoiding that! So screw it, I'll just head there myself and fix the damn thing!" Ichigo said, irritatingly.

Kukaku thought about it for a moment if she could actually let him go by himself. It sounded way too risky just for him to go alone. "Well…I don't really mind you doing this, but even you should know that going alone sounds incredibly risky."

"Look, I've been practicing ever since I came back home. Just trust me on this…"

Kukaku sighed. "Alright fine. But if you get captured, then don't blame this on us."

"Trust me, I won't."

[scene change]

'Come on...where is it?' he thought to himself as he was running towards the squad 12 barracks. 'I'm not sure have much time I have now. I can't just wander off aimlessly in these places, otherwise I'll get spotted in no time. I gotta check if anyone else is getting close to me.' Ichigo closed his eyes and tried to focus everyone's Spiritual Pressures. So far he he hadn't detected anyone that was coming his way. Though just to make sure, Ichigo had to rely on the Spider-Sense to keep himself at high alerts.

Alright, he could sense a couple of Soul Reapers guarding by at the barracks. Though it hadn't been to worry about at all. Ichigo had started to take more steps. It was probably a good thing that he had this cloak on him. Combined with the spider powers, it shouldn't be too hard to sneak in.

"And where do you think you're going?"

Ichigo widened his lenses before he turned around to see Soi Fon standing in front of him with her arms folded, giving him a cold stare. Behind the black mask, Ichigo was sweating in a bit of nervousness. 'Shit! I knew I should have moved over the barracks!' Nevertheless he tried to keep his cool. "Oh, hello there. I don't think we've met before, have we? How's it going." he greeted her casually.

"Cut the crap. What are you doing over the Squad 12 barracks?! What do you seek there intruder?!"

"...Would you believe me if I said I dropped my coupon tickets somewhere here?" Ichigo quipped. 'I really need to come up with better jokes...'

Soi Fon grew a small grin as her eyebrow began to twitch. "Oh...well aren't you a smart guy. Since you won't give me a proper answer, I guess I'll have to beat it out of you instead." she cracked her knuckles before entering a proper fighting stance. "Actually, I think I should thank you right now. Cause truth be told, I've been feeling really, really stressed out lately from all the work I had to do, and I can't exactly find anything, nor anyone to take it out on. But now that you're here, you may be just what I need to vent out all of my frustrations. For your sake, I hope you survive long enough against me so I can calm down again."

Ichigo went to defend himself, as his strange vision returned to normal again now that he was cut from focus. "Sure, how do you wanna kill me? Want it to be a quick one or a slow painful one. I am totally in the mood for dying anyways." he said sarcastically. 'That's odd. Why isn't she drawing her Zanpakuto out? Is it because she's not taking me seriously as a threat? Well, whatever the reason may be, it increases my chances in survival anyways.'

"Hmmm...I can't really be sure myself. Guess we'll just see how it goes!"

Soi Fon was the one who charged at him first by leaping in the air as she performed an acrobatic spin kick which she had aimed at Ichigo's head. Ichigo's battle instincts and Spider-Sense had already kicked in by raising his left arm to block her kick with his wrist, to which she had managed to. Ichigo went for a counter attack by raising his fist to come in contact with Soi Fon's head. Soi Fon saw this coming and tilted her head to dodge the fist that came at her.

The Captain of the Second Division backflipped out of the way before she came running at him again. Ichigo fired some of his webs at the Captain so he could grab her. But Soi Fon reacted faster than him by Flash Stepping out of the way before she appeared in front of him and elbowed his ribs, making him gasp painfully but not before Soi Fon added by hitting his jaw with her hand. Ichigo stumbled backwards as he rubbed his masked jaw. "Ok, ow! You can really hit hard! What are your hands made out of?!"

"I already explained myself haven't I? I'm only using you as my stress relief for the moment!" Soi Fon said, and without letting a moment get lost, she got back to the fight.

Ichigo fired several web nets at Soi Fon so he could trap her. This doesn't work in his favor as Soi Fon kept avoiding them before she took another Flash Step; this time she appeared behind him in mid-air by kicking him in the back of the head. Ichigo stumbled forward from the blow. Soi Fon added momentum by leaping from the ground and threw a punch, except this time Ichigo had caught her fist and countered by punching her in the gut, sending her flying in the air in doing so. Ichigo did a Flash Step, so he could move quicker by get above Soi Fon. He did so and then he performed a double ax handle on her body, but not before Soi Fon shielded herself putting her arms in front of her just so she could sustain less damage. Soi Fon got sent flying below and she crashed on the ground, out of the squad 12 barracks.

'Damn. He hits harder than I do, and he's more tougher as well. There's something about the way he fights that bothers me…' Soi Fon thought as she saw that her masked opponent was coming at her again from above, with his fist raised. She rolled out of the way before the masked enemy hit the ground which formed a crater in doing so. Soi Fon leaped at him from the ground and she grouped her legs together which she kicked Ichigo in the chest. '...He seems to know what he's doing but...it's like he's relying on his reflexes and agility to fight.' Ichigo fired webs at her but the Captain caught them with her hand before she jumped at him again while holding onto the webs. This time, Ichigo had bended down and he raised his leg to kick Soi Fon's back. 'What bothers me even more, is that I can't sense even an ounce of Spiritual Pressure coming from this guy!'

The two of them started fighting each other again, with Ichigo and Soi Fon using whatever skills they could have against one another. They were fighting at high/fast paced speeds as the two looked like they were nearly a blur as the the sounds of their strikes and blocks could still be heard. Ichigo made a flip to avoid Soi Fon's roundhouse kick that came at him, and he crouched behind her so he could get a counter attack by sweep kicking her other leg. He had successfully done so as Ichigo saw she was falling down and then to his shock, Soi Fon used her hand to grab his leg that was still swept on the ground, and she twisted her body which she kicked her masked enemy's face. This had Ichigo roll backwards on the ground from the blow.

'Oh man, she's really good!' Ichigo thought in surprise before he sensed that Soi Fon was hovering behind him. He jumped out of the way, so he could get higher in the air to get some distance between them. 'She is way more skilled than I thought she would be! Not only that, but she's faster than me as well!' the teenager landed on the ground and he tried to come up with any type of strategy to win against her. Unfortunately for him, Soi Fon wasn't gonna give him a breather as she started leaping towards him again. 'She was dead serious when she meant she would use me for stress! She's not giving me time to think!'

Ichigo leaped ahead of her in the air before he pulled her closer to him by webbing her back. Soi Fon got pulled closer before she went to spin kick his head but Ichigo blocked by raising his arm in time. The two of them kept attacking one another before they split themselves apart as they planted their feet on the ground.

"Well, I don't know who you are, but I can certainly say that I'm glad you're still alive after this long. I don't get to up against many people like that nowadays. And you have managed to make me vent out some stress I've been having." Soi Fon said, with some smirk crossing her face.

Ichigo didn't dare to let his guard drop from this, not even for a second; if he did it would be all over, even if his Spider-Sense wasn't warning him anything right now. "Well what can I say, it's not like I'm fighting to live or anything like that. And...you're welcome I guess?" he replied with some tension noticed in his tone even though he was trying to hide it by using his humor.

Soi Fon then grabbed the handle of her sword and pulled it out slowly. "Good then. Now...let's see how long you can last in round 2. It would be disappointing if you died quickly." the Captain said, as she pointed her sword at Ichigo.

"Well then, I'll make sure to please as much as I can. I honestly got nothing better to do anyways." Ichigo replied sarcastically.

"Now why exactly should we leave you for dead?" Ichigo felt chills running up his spine by an eerie familiar voice coming by that was close. He looked over to the side. And he could see Kurotsuchi walking to them, with that everlasting creepy grin of his that was sending all kinds of dangerous vibes. "In fact, we could keep you alive. I was looking for a new different specimen to...study upon. And I believe that you may be the one I was looking for…" The mad scientist waved his hands in front.

Soi Fon glared daggers at the freak. "Back off, Kurotsuchi! This has nothing to do with you! He was mine first!"

"Yeah, what she said! Back the fuck away clownface!"

Mayuri rolled his eyes at this. "Oh please, I don't really see the problem with this. And I don't really see why you're persisting to fight him alone. After all, we are colleagues are we not?"

Soi Fon scowled deeply at him. "I'd rather finish my own battles then to have someone like you help me!"

"But it would be quicker would it not?"

Soi Fon growled as she gritted teeth. "Listen and listen well, Kurotsuchi, I'm just going to say this once, and just once...if you really want to get your filthy hands on him that badly, you'll have to get him faster than me!"

He felt his Spider-Sense ringing in his head. It was tingling like crazy. And it couldn't be surprising why. Soi Fon moved towards Ichigo by using her full speed. Ichigo whipped his head to see Soi Fon kick him so hard that he got sent flying through the 12th division barracks. He was yelling out before he crashed through one of the small buildings that fell down.

"Why did you do that?!" Mayuri yelled in frustration at her.

Soi Fon gave him a piercing glare that would make any normal person tremble in fear. "(You moron, can't you understand you're a worthless maggot that I would have killed if not for the research and development team?!)."

"...What the hell are you saying?" Mayuri asked with confusion as he did not understand a word she just said.

"Oh it's nothing much really. It's just another language I know. As for what I said? Well wouldn't you like to know. I have nothing to say about what I know to the likes of you."

"What?!"

Before the two of them could continue their argument, it became interrupted when a few a Soul Reapers from the barracks came running at them. "Captain! The- The masked individual that crashed here - he's gone now!"

"What do you mean he's gone?!"

"I-I-I don't know! We were looking for him but we can't find him at all!" the Soul Reaper reported to his Captain with nervousness detected in his body tone.

Mayuri glared at Soi Fon. "Well I hope you're happy with what you've done right now!"

'Well excuse me if I had to. Because no-one deserves to go through your torture. I wouldn't even want my worst enemies to go through that, and that's saying a lot.' Soi Fon thought. "Oh be quiet. I'm still not done with him anyways."

[scene change]

'Oh man, that was a close one…' Ichigo thought to himself as he hovering upside down down on his web, lowering till he made a flip as he landed on the ground. It was a good thing that he got out of the rubble he was in as quick as possible before others could see him and he felt his Spider-Sense warning him of the traps that were in this place. '...Good thing I got out before anyone else could see me. Alright, now I gotta hurry up and search up somewhere on how to fix my damn pass already, before anyone else finds me.'

He looked to see if there was some laboratory computer or something. To his luck one was already visible, and it was on a far front way. Ichigo leaped towards it, 'Oh man, if I came all the way here to fix my Pass and find out that this has a Google version on how to do that, I would be so happy right now.' he thought jokingly, even though he really doubted it would be that easy for him.

And just as he thought, it wouldn't be that easy for him as he saw that he needed to crack open a password, to which he had no idea what it even was. He didn't have time to crack it open anyways as he could be busted any minute. "Come on, come on...I don't have time for this right now! I know I'm supposed to be here for a reason!" he groaned frustratingly. Nevertheless he didn't have much other choice but to find it by himself.

It felt like it's been minutes already. Ichigo kept on looking high and low around the place. He then made a cartwheel on the back of a computer. There wasn't a key anywhere so he just ripped it apart by shoving his hand through it, just to see if there was anything there. To his surprise there were only some objects before pulling out a folder and... another Combat Pass?

"What the hell? Ok that's weird…you would think that there might be some alarm for doing this. Although…" he looked at the file of what he was holding onto with confusion and curiosity. "...What's this thing doing here? I know I probably shouldn't be doing this but, maybe I could take one quick peek. It's not like it'll hurt anyone."

He put the pass into his shihakusho before he opened the file, the pages themselves already interested the teen, "Huh...it's about the Combat Pass itself. That's...odd? Why would it be doing here of all places?" curiosity had fully taken over as Ichigo had found himself continuing to read the file further. He went ahead to turn another page, which he became confused when he saw some picture of a a man hanging onto the side by a nail clip.

Ichigo gazed his eyes to the page while he kept murmuring to himself. Each word he kept reading made his eyes get wider till they reached their limit. His hands were shaking from the shock he was receiving before he dropped the file. "The first...Substitute Soul Reaper was...Kugo Ginjo?" he felt like his mind was shutting down, the process was still trying form in his brain. "I-I can't - no! I don't- I don't understand this! This-This doesn't make any sense! Why would they do this?! !" when the information had finally been processed from his brain on what he just read must have been the truth, blood was boiling in his veins. Anger was surging through his face as the lenses were squinted to show this. His hands formed into fists, clenching them tightly. "Those bastards...they gave me that, so they could spy on me! Study my Spirit Energy, just to suppress it! And then eliminate me the moment I meet this other Substitute?! And what's worse with all this bullshit is that Jushiro is the one who made this?!" he said fiercely. "Bullshit! This is pure bullshit!"

Despite how furious he felt about all of this, at the moment he was now hunted down and had to get out before someone else finds him. And so with that Ichigo jumped to the ceiling and used his spider powers to stick to them. He started getting out of the labs.

[scene house]

It was quite difficult, but Ichigo had managed to somehow managed to get out of the 12th division without being caught or seen by the use of Flash Steps, the warnings of Spider-Sense, and the sticking powers. As of this moment Ichigo was Flash Stepping in air at full speed, his mind still reeling from the anger.

He saw Kukaku's house close by, and it took him less than a minute to get there. "Hey Ichigo! Did you get what you need-" Ichigo blitzed past Ganju which made him start spinning comedically which was making him get dizzy. "Woaaaa…!" Ganju stopped spinning and his eyes were circling. He felt lightheaded now…

Inside however, Kukaku was sitting calmly while she smoked. Then she felt some wind blowing behind her. She turned around to see Ichigo who didn't have the mask on like before. "Oh hey, you're back. So, how did it go? Did you get what you wanted?" the busty woman asked with a grin.

"Yeah...yeah I did." Ichigo replied a little quietly before he went to pick up his sword.

Kukaku immediately noticed that something felt wrong with his mood. "Hey, is something wrong? You don't really seem like...well, yourself."

"It's nothing. I-I just need to go now." he silently said, before he picked up his sheathed sword.

"Like hell it ain't nothing! Come on, what happened out there? Did something go wrong or what?"

"No. Everything went the way I wanted them to."

"So why exactly are you moping around then?"

"Maybe because I found out the people I trusted were not who I thought they were!" Ichigo finally snapped at her, which surprised Kukaku by this. "Because guess what! Turns out they were fucking using me without me even realizing it! This damn thing-" he pulled out his new Combat Pass, "- Had some surveillance to track my movements, suppress my power which who knows why this is even the case! And - and - and - and -"

Kukaku put her hand on the boy's shoulders, showing some concern for him. "Wow! Ok, listen kid, just...take some deep breaths and calm down alright…" Ichigo did as she told him. "...Ok, good. So, you mean to tell me that you've been getting spied by the thing you use by other Captains and Lieutenants? The people you trusted?"

"Well...I know the Captains did it. The other Lieutenants...I'm really not sure. From the file I read, it doesn't seem like they're supposed to know about that."

Kukaku took a major sigh as she let her hand go. "Alright then. I'll be honest, I don't have a clue how to do stuff like this...I guess it's better if you go home and take some rest."

Ichigo looked down. "Yeah…I guess you're right. It's been a really frustrating day. Thanks for trying."

[Ichigo's room]

'I just don't understand. Why would they just use me like some puppet?' the Protector thought as he was lying on his bed before turned around, lying on his stomach. 'When am I gonna be killed by them? When the war with Aizen is over? I don't even know anymore…' a mental sigh was heard from him. '...I should really push those away for now. Just...focus on tomorrow, things can't get any worse from there.' those were his final thoughts before he closed his eyes and started to sleep.

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Well this was shorter than expected. I'm sorry if this was a little disappointing to read and a little rushed.

Also, for that thing where Soi Fon was speaking on a different language? Yeah, that was Chinese, well more a simplistic version of it anyways. The () that werw used to speak was another language just so I wouldn't have to go through the trouble of translating it. And yes she is Chinese. Can't say why yet.

The next chapter might not be something you people would ever expect to happen! It really might take you out by surprise!

On a quick side note I completely removed what Ichigo's Spider-Sense had done. It didn't really feel like it would make sense because of the changes my Co-Author and I made later on.

[Preview]

In the corner of a back alley, there was a young couple who appeared to be in their early 20's hiding as much as they could in the pitch black night. Both of them seemed to be Asian as well, and they were holding a small baby as well. They refused to come out unless the coast was absolutely clear.

Though there was some wailing that came from the baby that the woman/mother was holding on her arms. "Shhh...it's okay Cindy. Don't worry, everything's gonna be alright. We'll get out of this." the woman whispered to her baby while rocking her, trying to calm down her crying.

"Yeah, if that's ever possible…" the father whispered while he kept peaking his head over the wall.

"Is it safe to come now?" the mother asked the father.

"I don't even know anymore. I can barely see anything here. And-And I'm not sure whether that thing is still here or not."

"How could all of this happen…"

"Actually, that's what I would like to know…" the couple whipped their heads above them in fear to see the demon that they feared. However to their relief, they only saw that Spider-Man was there as he was sticking to the walls before he leaped down to the floor with them.

"Sp-Spider-Man? Oh thank God! We finally have some help!" the mother sighed in relief, thinking that this Hell of a living nightmare would finally end by him showing up. And to her luck, the baby stopped crying as well.

"Yeah yeah, that's great and-and everything, but...please...I need to know - what the hell happened to this place?!" Spider-Man asked frantically in distraught.

"I...we're not even sure ourselves. It happened so fast; we were just having a normal day like every other by trying to support ourselves and the baby we have in our home. We were about to go bed, and then - oh God - and then all of a sudden we heard…screaming coming from outside…" the male individual felt a lump hit his throat, hesitating to even mutter the next words that would come from his mouth. "...And then, everything went to straight to Hell from there. It just wasn't safe for us anymore in this city! Everywhere we went - everyone kept dying! Everyone! Men, women, even children kept - kept dying left and right!" the father informed the Hero with some panic induced in his tone.

"I think seeing mutilated corpses was enough for that to see…" Spider-Man murmured to himself. "...Ok, listen, do you know by chance who or what exactly caused this?"

"I'm not even sure what that thing even was. It was like it came straight from Hell itself and caused a massacre on this city!"

"But, you can stop him right?" the mother asked with a hopeful expression. "I've seen you on the news, you stopped every villain you came across didn't you?"

"Honestly...I can't be sure, since I don't even know what I'm dealing with here. By any chance, have you seen anyone else who's alive?"

"Actually, I saw a couple of kids running to the streets, away from us. I'm not sure if they're trying to escape or hide like what we're doing." the mother replied.

"I'll find them. Meanwhile, I can get you two out of here. And when I get you close enough, you two are going to make a run for it and head straight to Karakura."

"And what if that thing attacks us again?" the father asked hesitantly.

"Don't worry, if it did I'll be able to see it coming."

Spider-Man carried the couple by his arms as he kept jumping between rooftops, not even trying to get anywhere close to the ground. But despite him leaping in the air, he could still feel some nausea filling him up. He also cursed his enhanced vision that even despite the pitch black night he could still see the same mutilated dead corpses. Minutes have passed before Spider-Man had landed on the ground, where the bridge was right in front of them. He became a bit surprised when he saw Mizuiro, Keigo, and his sisters already not too far off running on the bridge. He let go of the couple. "Alright, this is far as I'm gonna take you. I think you know what to do next right now."

"Yeah. Thank you so much for this Spider-Man. We owe you one." the father thanked him by bowing his head.

"Good. Now get out while you can."

They did as he told them. Spider-Man was left all alone in this massacred city that was once full of life on it. Now it was completely dead with the victims that were brutally murdered, with most of them lying on the ground dead. He was hit with nausea again, feeling like he wanted to throw up again like before. 'This cannot be real...this has to be some sort of fucked up nightmare I'm having. I-I feel like I'm in Hell now. Make it stop...' his felt his body tremble out of the amount of fear, disgust, and guilt that was eating him up badly.

He wasn't even sure if he was controlling his body anymore since Ichigo was finding himself walking down the streets, walking down to Hell itself. Suddenly he heard ominous footsteps walking by which made Spider-Man feel tense from this. He could hear the footsteps coming by from dark alley. "H-Hey! Are you one of the survivors?! It's okay! I'm-I'm here to help!" Spider-Man called out.

No response.

Even though his Spider-Sense wasn't ringing any danger coming, something about this felt very wrong. Even more so when these footsteps were approaching closer to where there was shadow of a sinnister sillohoute figure seen. There was also a sound coming as well, albeit faint. It sounded as though that something was getting dragged on the ground.

Spider-Man just stood there for what felt like hours, where only seconds kept passing, but it felt so slow. His entire body was screaming at him to move, but he just couldn't. It felt like something was preventing him from doing that. He continued to watch as the figure was approaching him closer, and closer…

The sinister shadow figure had now finally revealed itself. Spider-Man widened his eyes in sheer shock and hanged his mouth open when he saw that Carnage had stepped out of the corner, holding a dead body by its collar, and another one where it was stabbed through the gut by some spear. Carnage threw the bodies away before making an unnatural wide grin spread across its face.

"Are you afraid already little spider? Oh come now, we've barely begun the show." Carnage said, as he sharpened his claws before pointing them right at the Wall-Crawler.

[Preview ends]

See ya later people!