Bleach: Invasion

Chapter 3 : Rebellion

PHIL STOOD before May, Skye, Lance, Mike and Leo who sat around a table in a submarine.

"Okay, we're about ten minutes out," Phil said, "Scans show that there's an underwater fortress on the seafloor, explaining where PVL's deliveries were going to,"

"Talk about your common pizza delivery spot," Skye said.

"May, Skye, you'll be the diversion. Cause a stir and draw them out," Phil said, "Fitz and Mike, while they draw them out, you disable their defences and find us a way in. Lance, you and I will take a team to gather intel,"

"Sounds like a plan," Lance said.

A call came in on Phil's earpiece.

"Sir, you'll want to see this," A SHIELD said on the other end.

PHIL, MAY, Skye, Lance, Mike and Leo walked into the cockpit of the submarine.

Their mouths fell agape as they looked out at the ocean.

"Oh my God," Leo said.

"That's some major real estate right there," Skye said, "It is better on the dark side,"

The sub was a league away from a large dome-shaped fortress that rested on the seafloor. The sub looked extremely small in comparison to mammoth of a building.

ICHIGO SAT in his room and wondered what would happen next. Urahara had passed on the message of Rukia's death to the Kuchiki clan in the Sereitei and he had fabricated a story for his friends.

Ichigo was falling apart. He had missed several classes; he ignored texts and phone calls and spent a lot of time at Rukia's shrine. He could not believe that she had just died right after he had finally said that he loved her. He spent so much time with her and he thought they would always be together. Then, she had to tell him that the Sereitei would pull them apart for a very long time and now life had pulled them apart forever.

He found his only solace in beer at this point as his friends were of no help in unburdening his sorrow.

Telling his friends about Orihime's disappearance was impossible for him to do, so he had to lie that he did not know what happened. He told his friends that the Hollow attacked him and Rukia, and luckily, the wound sustained from the fight was good enough evidence for them to buy the story. Tatsuki, however, was very difficult to convince about Orihime disappearing. Although she claimed to have seen him as a Shinigami as he fought Hollows, Ichigo decided to ignore her and stop trying to argue. At this point, there was very little he could care about and he did not care what his friends thought of him at that point.

Ichigo lifted up a beer bottle to his mouth and threw it away, smashing it against a wall. Ichigo shook his head and held it angrily.

He knew it had to end. He could live his life drinking and he knew Rukia would want him to move on. Whether he would or not, he knew that he had to stop drinking. In honour of Rukia who never drunk, he would never touch another bottle again.

Ichigo stood up and walked up to the bathroom. He washed his face and looked up at the medicine cabinet. It was odd not having a mirror anymore, but he could tell that he needed a shower. He walked up to the shower when the white being that looked like him stepped out of it.

The being grabbed his neck and walked up to a wall. The being pinned Ichigo against a wall and stuck his face close to his.

"You're weak, Ichigo, you couldn't even protect Rukia," The being said.

The being strangled Ichigo with one hand and he failed to break free of his death grip.

"If you weren't fighting me I would have taken over and the fight would have ended in a second," The being said.