//------------------------------// // Why would you guys even suggest these?! // Story: The Conversion Bureau: Worlds Where It Wouldn’t Work // by Sora2455 //------------------------------// Bleach "Getsuga Tenshō!" The heavily distorted voice of Ichigo roared, the spiritual attack surging out and impacting with the Barrier. With a swipe over his own face, the substitute Soul Reaper dismissed his Hollow Mask. "Well?" "I think you made it ripple a little." Orihime offered from her vantage point on the ground. Hearing Uryū snort made Ichigo annoyingly certain that Orihime was being overly generous. "Okay, fine. What's next, Uryū?" He asked, dropping out of Bankai and back down to the ground from his airborne perch. The Quincy consulted his list. "'Throw giant slab of Sekkiseki at Barrier.'" He read out. Ichigo glared at his friend. "And where exactly do you expect me to find Sekkiseki in the World of the Living?" Without a word, Uryū moved on the next item. "'Have Orihime Reject Barrier.'" Orihime squeaked in slight panic. The Barrier was far, far larger than anything she had Rejected before, and was the Cause of so many Effects that removing it from the time-stream would be... well, it wouldn't be as difficult as her last-ditch plan to Reject the Hōgyoku... probably. Fortunately, she was saved from having to try when a Senkaimon opened up, depositing Rukia among Ichigo and co. "What exactly do you idiots think you're doing?!" She hissed, striding toward the orange-haired teen. "What's it look like we're doing?" Ichigo asked in annoyed confusion. "We're getting rid of that thing, of course!" He indicated the Barrier with his thumb. Rukia glared at him. "You know full well that the affairs of the Living are no concern of yours!" She poked him in the chest angrily. Ichigo spluttered. "No concern of...?! Rukia, I live here! Besides, you can't look at that Conversion thing and not tell me it's messing with the Soul." He accused right back. Rukia crossed her arms. "Given that it's basically the opposite of Hollowfication, Central 46 doesn't have a problem with it." Ichigo stared back in shock. Then he turned to Uryū. "Can you call Hat-And-Clogs and tell him that we'll be needing his backdoor into Soul Society again? I need to go beat some sense into - ow!" He cried as Rukia slapped him. "None of that!" She told him sternly. "You are going to sit here, and not cause any trouble, you hear?" "Yeah Human, get out of here!" Blinking, both full-time and part-time Soul Reaper turned to find a small army of ponies emerging from the Barrier. All of them were armed (mostly with lances) and were wearing steel barding. Interestingly, all of them were flying - despite the usual three races being represented evenly, the non-pegasi somehow flying using wings made of the same steel as their armor. One pony with more ornate armor than the rest flew forward and addressed the assorted humans - living and dead. "Equestrian souls are the purview of the Valkyries, guardians of the fields of Elysium! You are neither needed nor wanted here. Begone!" She added, for good measure. Rukia slowly assimilated the knowledge that the ponies had their own version of Soul Society. Obvious in retrospect - ponies had souls, ponies died, pony souls had to go somewhere when they died. That was going to make everything more complicated. "Well, this makes everything simple!" Ichigo grinned. Then he charged with a cry of 'Bankai!' The head Valkyrie tapped the breastplate-equivalent on her barding, causing it to glow with runic symbols all over as she flew to meet Ichigo's charge. Rukia's eye twitched. "Dance, Sode no Shirayuki" She intoned as she unsealed her Shikai. Who she would use it on, she hadn't decided yet. Halo -BOOM- Hooves over her ears, Xlestia dragged herself up out of bed. "They still haven't run out yet?!" She half-screamed. The royal pony had barely gotten any sleep in the past three weeks due to the deep explosions that went off precisely at five minute intervals. Token Minion grabbed a comb and started brushing her princess's hair as best she could. "I believe that's explosion number six thousand three hundred and two." "What were they planning to blow up with that amount of explosives, a star?!" Xlestia's hysterics were mostly due to sleep deprivation, but also partly due to how slow her plan was going. Given the amount of radiation and heat the Barrier had to absorb before it could move on, the magical wall had slowed to a snails pace. After the first ship had tried to nuke her kingdom, she had reached out telekinetically and 'politely' shoved it all the way out of the solar system as a warning. She had planned for that to be the end of it - 'don't bother, we can withstand your bombs and I can crush your ships in return.' Unfortunately, she had underestimated how crafty humans were. They had started the tactic of simply emerging from wherever their ships went, dropping the bomb, and vanishing back into their space-bruise before she could even find them in the sky. Now, the nukes weren't damaging her Barrier - she had designed it specifically to withstand whatever humanity could throw at it - but nopony could leave the Barrier either without bursting into flames and burning before they had a chance to die of radiation poisoning. All the humans on this world had retreated to the other side of the planet as expected, but she had not expected them to simply load up on ships and leave at their leisure. She couldn't even stop the leaving ships because the humans kicked up their bombing campaign and broke her concentration when she tried! -BOOM- "That's it! I can't take it anymore!" Xlestia screeched. "If the humans want to stay unhappy war-mongers forever, fine! Token, we're leaving. Lets go find a more grateful planet." Up in orbit, the UNSC Ponies go home emerged from Slipspace for its usual bomb-drop, only to find the continent they had been targeting had left as mysteriously as it had arrived. The cheers couldn't be heard from the ground, though not for lack of trying. Justice League With a great splash, Aquaman leaped out of the ocean and landed next to the assorted members of the Justice League. Standing up, he gave them all the stink-eye. "What?" Flash asked defensively. Aquaman was looking far more serious than he usually did. "I just had to organise the evacuation of half an ocean. Why is that giant eyesore still there?" The ruler of Atlantis demanded. Superman held up his hands in the classic 'surrender' pose. "Magic." Aquaman switched his gaze to Green Lantern. "My Ring can't analyze that thing, and I can't brute-force it. I could call for backup, but I'd have to convince the Guardians that the low-tech, planet-bound civilization is an interstellar threat without, y'know, some pretty impressive abilities that they don't have. It's a big universe, they have to prioritize where they send the super-cops." The green-wearing hero defended himself. The Martian Manhunter met Auqaman's gaze evenly. "...you know how I feel about mind control." Finally, the Atlantean glared at Batman. The caped crusaded didn't even glance at Aquaman, simply continuing to watch the Barrier though a pair of binoculars. "I have a plan." "Do you." "Yes." "Care to share?" "Not really." Superman interceded before the discussion could get heated. "We're currently waiting for Zatanna and Wonder Woman to get here. This stuff's more up their alley. I sure breaking this dome shouldn't be hard for them." "It'd better be." Aquaman muttered grouchily to himself. Just inside the Barrier, Token Minion held Xlestia's tail firmly between her teeth. "Come on, Princess. They're the protectors of Earth, you're the protector of Equestria. I'm sure you'll get along fine." Unknown to Token, Xlestia had been using magic to eavesdrop on the League's banter. "Nooo!" She wailed, straining to fly away. "I can't leave the Barrier with them out there! They'll destroy me!" Watching Xlestia freak out though his bat-noculars, Batman smirked. His plan was working just fine. One Piece On one side, the Straw Hat crew stood on deck and watched the Barrier slowly edge closer. On the other side, the Mane Six clamored to the side of Twilight's hot air balloon to watch the group of crazy humans who had just sailed right up to the Barrier. Didn't they know it could kill them? (They didn't, but they wouldn't have been in the least bit surprised. In the Grand Line, everything was trying to kill you.) They were far more surprised about what happened when their balloon floated to the human side of the Barrier. The Straw Hat wearing human stretched his arms out so far he was able to grab the side of the balloon and pull himself right up face-to-face with the ponies. While everypony other than Pinkie recovered from the shock, the human smiled so widely he had the pink Earth Pony feeling vaguely insecure. "Who wants to join my pirate crew?" He bellowed, as friendly as could be. Rainbow Dash suddenly jumped up. "Oh! I do! I do!" Team Fortress 2 "Eat death, ponies!" Soldier bellowed, firing rocket after rocket into the Barrier. "Soldier." Spy growled in his french accent. "I realize that your skull is the densest material in the known universe, but surly even you can see that your rockets aren't making it through?" "Ha! Of course I know that!" Spy gave the helmet-wearing member of the team a long-suffering look. "I know I'll regret asking, but then why are you still firing?" Soldier gave one of his crazed grins. "Because they are making it through!" "I knew it. I do regret asking." "Naw man." Scout intersected. "Look harder, see? His rockets are turning into roses, that's all. You should've been here earlier, Heavy's bullets were turning into watermelon seeds." Blinking, Spy saw the spread of flowers along the other side of the Barrier where Soldier had been firing. "So they are. And what exactly do you hope to do with these thorny presents?" Soldier pointed at a pair of curious ponies huddled on the other side of the Barrier. "I figure if I aim it juuuusssttt right, I can nail the suckers in the eye!" Spy murmured something unflattering in French. "S'cuse me, coming though." Engineer called, carrying one of his red toolboxes. Spy puffed angrily at his ever-present cigarette. "Ah, Engineer. Had a better idea since that fiasco with the teleporter, I hope?" "Tha' would'a worked if Pyro hadn' messed it up." "It might have helped if you had explained to it that our world is not normally invested with grossly-proportioned talking ponies." "...anyway, this here's not a gadget per se. Actually, its just a chunk of Australium." Spy looked from Engineer to the Barrier and back. "'Throwing Science at the wall to see what sticks'?" He quoted one of Mann Co's main competitors. Engineer adjusted his goggles and shrugged. "I'd stand back, y'all." Removing the chuck of yellow metal from its box, he gave it a deft swing through the Barrier. As it passed through, it changed color from yellow to a light blue. "S'cuse me miss." Engineer called to the nearest pony. "Could you do me a favor and toss that back please?" "Um, sure." The mare replied in the pony race's usual American English. Trotting over to the chunk of mutagenic metal, she picked it up in one hoof and tossed it back. "Hmm..." Engineer examined his prize carefully, unchanged by it's second trip through the magical wall. "I'm feeling unusually polite, and a craving for hockey." Scout whistled. "You thinking what I'm thinking?" Soldier nodded. "Lets see them try and invade when all their marching tunes are Justin Bieber songs!" "Soldier, that's a war crime." Spy remarked. "So?" "Just making sure you knew." Dragon Ball Stepping out of her hovercar, Chi-Chi resisted the urge to skip. Her husband's life was absolutely crazy, and sometimes she could feel a little left out. Not this time! This time she would solve the... problem.... "Bulma, what are you doing here?" She asked the Capsule Corp heir. The inventor looked up from where she was up to her elbows in machinery. "Oh, I'm just building a ray gun to get rid of that thing." She gestured lazily at the Barrier. "What are you doing here?" Chi-Chi's eye twitched. "I just finished gathering the Dragon Balls." Proving her point, she opened a draw-string bag and showed Bulma the seven orange orbs. "I'm about to summon Shenlong, and he will take care of that thing!" "You can't do that!" Bulma protested. "I've spent hours working on this thing. You can't just steal my thunder at the last moment!" "What, you think finding the Dragon Balls without Instant Transmission is easy? Who is stealing who's thunder here?!" Flying several hundred meters above their wife's heads, Goku and Vegeta watched the argument unfold. "You know, I really don't get women." The prince of the Saiyans commented to his rival. "I know, right?" Goku replied. "If they wanted to get rid of that thing, they could have just asked one of us. One Destructo Disk would have done it." Vegeta snorted. "Why bother with that?" He held out his hands and gathered his ki. "Galaxy... break-" Goku quickly crash-tackled Vegeta when he noticed that Vegeta was pointing the attack down.