Outsider Chronicles: Bringing Full Power
Getting reborn into a world of Heroes and Monsters was almost more than I could take, especially when my sister is potentially one of those monsters. However, the Monsters that infest the Human World are barely scratching the surface when it comes to what could kill me. My name is Jonathan Hebert and I can see ghosts.
So, here we go with an idea thats been brewing for a while. It was inevitable I'd eventually do something like this, so lets get started. My original idea was to have John be a Substitute Shinigami thanks to circumstances similar to what Kari went through in the Bleach/Digimon crossover Masked Angel (Incidentally, go read that, its awesome, even if it hasn't been updated in a while). However, everyone uses Shinigami and Zanpakuto, so I decided to do something a bit different. Instead of a Soul Reaper, or even a Quincy, our protagonist is gonna be a Fullbringer! Just wait till you see what I have in mind for his power. Enjoy!
Chapter 1
You know, for a world as fucked up and insane as Earth Bet, it says something when you can definitively say that theres no one quite like you alive. Or at least, I've never met anyone. After all, how many people can say they died and was reborn into a fictional world? Apart from bad Fanfic protagonists that is. Plus, I'm even stranger because I can see dead people. Yeah, I have no idea if thats because I'm a reincarnated Soul myself or something else entirely, but I can genuinely see ghosts. I suppose it could be a Cape power, but somehow I don't think so. Mainly because, although dieing is pretty traumatic, I don't think I've actually undergone a trigger event. Plus, I found out the reason at a later date.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. I don't remember much about my birth (thank god), but I can say that I was reborn in a place that would likely result in me ending up smack bang in the line of fire for someone, namely as Taylor's twin brother. Yeah, this is gonna blow…
Growing up in Brockton was actually surprisingly normal, despite the overabundance of supervillains. That said, I really wasn't willing to leave things up to fate and thus, decided it would be a good idea if I learnt how to fight. With that in mind, I got Mum and Dad to enroll me in a martial art class...which was where I met some people that made me realize just how fucked this world potentially was.
It started on my first day at the dojo when Mum ran into an old friend who was dropping her son off for the lesson. Said friend was a beautiful, motherly looking woman with fair skin, dark brown eyes and wavy, brown hair that her son shaired. She was also oddly familiar to me, despite the fact I'd never met her before. Then, Mum greeted her.
"Masaki, god its been years!" said Mum.
"And whos fault is that?" asked Masaki with a smile as she and Mum embraced, "Although I can't blame you that much."
"Can we not talk about that?" asked Mum, before catching sight of the little boy hiding behind Masaki's legs, "And whos this little fellow?"
"Oh, this is my Son, Ichigo," said Masaki, "Come on Ichigo, stop being silly and say hello!"
Ichigo blushed and ducked his head as he stepped out and mumbled a hello.
"This is my oldest, John," said Mum, putting her hands on my shoulders as I smiled politely as I swore violently in my head.
Suddenly, the Endbringers and even Scion seemed a lot less dangerous compared with the nasties that potentially waited in the future of the shy boy across from me.
Now, you might think that Ichigo could possibly be a coincidence, but nope, no chance of that! Not when Tatsuki spent most of the lesson time beating the crap out of Ichigo. Oh, and the fact that now I was looking for it, I could see that the Ghosts I could see had chains emerging from their chests and I occasionally heard the faint howls of what had to be Hollows...I think I'm in trouble…
So yeah, things went as you can probably guess from there. Taylor and I continued to grow, attend school and generally do what kids do. Of course, Taylor was kinda lacking in friends, having only Emma while I ended up making friends with Tatsuki and Ichigo. Kinda hard not to when I spend three days a week sparing with them and sat next to the latter in class. Ichigo's mother still met her end at the hands of Grand Fisher when we were Nine, he developed a habit of getting into fights with thugs over his hair colour and various ABB members trying to press gang him into the gang...that never went well for them, doubly so when Chad entered the scene. The fact I regularly helped out certainly didn't help the thugs from staying out of hospital, although it did often result in me getting scoldings from Mum about getting into fights.
Speaking of my family and the none Spiritual side of things, things were...normal surprisingly. I'm still not entirely sure who I got my insanely high Spiritual Powers from (and considering I could see ghosts as clearly as Ichigo, they had to be pretty fucking strong), but frankly, I didn't really care. While we weren't necessarily close, Taylor and I got on well and I tried to help my sister out when she needed it and she returned the favour. We didn't really spend that much time hanging out in school, but I think thats largely because I wasn't entirely sure I could hide the disdain I held towards Emma for the bitch I knew she'd turn into.
However, that was for later. For now, lets focus on the event that revealed the reason why I could see Souls. It was six months before the start of highschool and Mum and I were in the car heading to pick Taylor up from Emma's house. To be honest, I'm not sure why I was tagging along. Maybe it was because I thought that my presence might prevent the event I was pretty sure was about to happen, or maybe it was because I was bored….nah, it was the former. Unfortunately, I forgot to take into account the fact that A, I had an obscene amount of Spirit energy, B, that energy HAD to come from somewhere and C, this world had Hollows in it. Yeah, you can probably guess where this is going.
The first indication that the shit was about to hit the fan was when a girl in white suddenly appeared in the middle of the road through the driving rain, forcing Mum to swerve to avoid her. The car skidded, hit the side of the road, flipped and ended up upside down in a ditch.
"Owww, what was that?" I groaned as I released myself from my seat belt and fell to the roof of the car with a thump.
"No idea," said Mum, "Are you OK John?"
"I think so," I said as I rubbed my head.
My hand came away slick with blood, but the wound didn't seem to bad.
"Thats good," said Mum, "Come on, we need to…"
GYAHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Both Mum and I froze at the sudden howl.
"Wha…" I gasped as I felt a strange pressure start to press down on me, "W-whats going on?"
"No, not here!" gasped Mum, "Not now!"
CRASH!
We both jumped and looked up as something big landed next to the car and grabbed it.
"Hmmm, whats this?" rumbled a deep voice, "Two powerful Souls? My, what a treat!"
The car shifted as the creature pushed it, causing it to shift and bringing a white, skull-like mask and a furred body into view. My eyes widened as I recognized the monster. Well, that explained where the girl came from. Grand fucking Fisher. This...could end badly. Like, really bad!
"No, it can't be…" whispered Mum, her eyes widening.
I glanced over at her in surprise. She could see that thing? More to the point, she recognized it? How was that even…
My thoughts were cut off as Grand Fisher reached into the car towards me. I flinched, but before he could grab me, there was a flash of light and the Hollow wrenched its hand back as multiple cuts appeared on its limb.
"ARRG, what was that?" growled the Hollow.
"You won't touch him," growled Mum, snatching something up from the center console.
"What…?"
Mum brought the object to her mouth, tore something out and there was another flash of light and I found myself being shoved back out the door and away from the Hollow as Mum vanished in a flash of green light. She appeared a short distance away and did something that caused a blast of fire to shoot at the Hollow. Grand Fisher jumped out of the way as the fire hit the car and exploded.
"This power...what is this?" growled the Hollow.
"Words of Creation," said Mum, "My power."
Grand Fisher shifted to glare at her.
"Hmm, very interesting," he said, "That felt almost like a Hollows power...and familiar at that...have we met somewhere?"
"14 years ago," said Mum, "You attacked me while I was walking home from work. You massively underestimated me then and nearly ended up paying the price. This time, I won't let you get away!"
She held up the thing she was using, revealing that it was a small notebook of flashcards. She flicked a couple out and tore them out.
"Rain of Blades."
Grand Fisher jumped, just barely evading the glowing blades of green energy that appeared out of thin air and nearly cut him to shreds.
"Whats going on, what kind of power is this?!" spluttered the Hollow.
"Ice."
Another bit of paper and a wave of ice appeared bearing down on the Hollow. Fisher jumped out of the way of the attack and tried to charge Mum, only to meet a faceful of glowing ashes that exploded into a massive ball of fire.
"DAMN YOU!" roared Fisher as he emerged from the could, his fur smouldering and smoking, "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU?!"
Mum vanished in a flash of green light as Fisher slammed into the ground where she had been standing, only to appear behind him with a blade of green energy in her hands.
"Blade."
Fisher jumped, barely dodging the swing, but he still lost an arm to the attack.
"This Spirit Energy...it feels like a Hollow!" growled Fisher as his arm regenerated.
"Yeah, Fullbringers tend to do that," said Mum, "Now, hold still and let me kill you!"
What happened next can best be described as an utter slaughter as Mum proceed to use a frankly obscene number of different types of attack to batter Fisher while using Bringer Light to evade his attempts to counter. Frankly, the only reason he wasn't turned to a pincushion in the first couple of seconds was because Fisher was a lot faster than he looked.
"Tch, annoying bitch," growled Fisher, "I'm outta here!"
He dodged a rather large boulder that appeared out of thin air to squash him and used it as a jump point...to shoot right at me.
"BUT I'M NOT LEAVING ON AN EMPTY STOMACH!" he roared.
"NO!"
The sudden change in direction and sheer speed of the attack meant that I barely had time to close my eyes before he was on me. However, instead of teeth closing on my body and Soul, all I felt was something warm and wet splashing against my cheeks. Ahh shit, I knew enough about cliches and Bleach to know where this was going. I hesitantly opened my eyes and, sure enough, Mum was stood in front of me, defending me from Fishers attack with her body.
"You...won't...touch...him," she growled through the blood pooling in her throat, "Now, go to hell!"
She released her grip on the bloody book of cards that served as her Fullbringer. The book gleamed as it fell, before it exploded in a blast of green energy that shot straight up into the air, blasting away the cloud cover and sending me flying back. I hit the barrier at the side of the road, followed by Mum's body landing a short distance away with a splat. I ignored the slowly rising cloud of smoke from the crater Mum's last attack had made as I dashed to her side and fell to my knees. I could here the sirens approaching, but just by looking at her, I knew they wouldn't make it in time.
Mum opened her eyes and looked up at me, a pained smile on her lips.
"Are you OK?" she asked.
I couldn't answer, but I nodded.
"Thats good," she said, before coughing up a mouthful of blood, "John, I'm sorry I didn't tell you about your powers. If I knew you could see them, I would have taught you sooner…"
"Its OK Mum," I said, "I'll...I'll just have to figure it out on my own."
Mum gave a pained chuckle and shook her head.
"No, theres no need for that," she gasped, struggling to reach up to her throat.
She pulled an old fashioned key on a piece of twine out from under her shirt.
"Take this," she said, pressing the key into my hand, "It opens a box I put in the bottom of your wardrobe. I always suspected that you'd be the one to inherit my power. If Taylor gains them as well, help her."
"What if I need help?" I asked before I could stop myself.
"I don't think you will," said Mum, "But if you do, look for the Urahara Shop in the Docks. The owners an eccentric old geezer, but he'll help you if he can."
I couldn't stop the choked laugh that escaped through my tears. Of course Hat and Clogs would be here, why wouldn't he be? I bet the Visards are living in the Docks as well…
I was shaken from my hysterical thoughts by Mum's hand on my cheek.
"John...don't let your Father and sister slip," she said, her voice getting weaker with every passing moment, "I know how much my death will hurt them, but you can't let them give up. I will see you all again, but if any of you dare to follow me before your time is up, I'll never forgive you."
I nodded as I felt my eyes begin to well up.
"I promise," I whispered.
"Good boy," said Mum, "Now I can die without regrets."
And with that, she gave one last smile and closed her eyes. I distinctly heard something snap and, a moment later, a black butterfly fluttered away from my Mothers body. I like to think I took it well.
"RAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!"
KRACKOOOOM!
When the emergency services arrived ten minutes later, it was to find me kneeling in the middle of a massive spiderweb of cracks in solid stone and asphalt, soaking wet and covered in blood as I cried over my Mother's body.
Hoo boy, that got brutal. Then again, this is Worm...of course, its also Bleach so some humorous angst should be expected.
Yes, I made Annette a Fullbringer. Since I have no idea whether or not Fullbringer powers are genetic, she was also attacked by Fisher while she was pregnant with John and Taylor. Whether or not that means that Taylor has Spiritual Powers as well is unknown for now, although considering one of the ideas I have for this she'll probably end up with some at the very least.
Incidentally, Annette's powers work very similar to Oriana Thompsons Shorthand from a Certain Magical Index.
And Brockton gets to replace Karakura town as the center point for all the shit going down in the future and also has the distinction of being Bet's current Jūreichi. I'm going to be changing some names into Western ones, but the main cast of Bleach will likely go unchanged.
Due to the fact that, if I keep the timelines consistent, Bleach will start in the middle of Leviathans attack or before the Locker event, I'm obviously gonna have to flip the script slightly. Instead of using one or the other, I'm going to be using a combination of the two. Alternatively, I could use the former considering what I have planned, but then I might as well just do a Bleach fic. Plus, I'm making Ichigo and his friends a tad older so their in the same school year as Taylor and John. Yes, I do have a reason for that.
Do I really need to address power levels? Sigh, fine. Since Ulquiorra states that simply releasing his Zanpakuto could apparently destroy most Las Noches, a building that, according to Death Battle, is about the same size as California, I think that means that the Espada 4 and up are much more powerful than anything in the Worm verse. And considering that the Captains were able to take them on and win, albeit with a bit of ganging up, I think that likely sits them squarely at the top of the food chain. As for why the SS has never done anything about the Endbringers, remember that their not supposed to interfere with the World of the Living unless it affects the Balance of Souls. Despite the massive death toll, the Endbringers haven't. That doesn't mean a certain Substitute Soul Reaper and his friends can't help out though! Hehe, Tensa Zangetsu Ichigo smacking Leviathan around like a pinball…
Anyway, that'll do for now. Don't forget to leave a review on the way out!