“Got any fours?” Iron WIll asked Discord, who was on the opposite side of the table.\
“Nope, sorry bully...” Discord replied, as he set up a card below.
“Got any six?” Discord then asked.
“Nope...” Iron Will said.
“GOLDFISH!” Discord announced, making Iron Will depressed on the fiftieth time today.
‘I hate you, you know that?” Iron Will said, reshuffling the cards...
“Yeah, well I get that a lot.” Discord said, he then looks at the reinforced circular seal behind him. “Can you tell me what’s behind this seal again?”
“I don’t know, I think some kind of dangerous creature or something...” Iron will said, while dealing the next game up. Just as he was going to finish his dealing of the cards, Celestia and Yoruichi came down, followed by Rukia, Toshiro and Mayuri.
“Your majesty!” Iron will stood up, making a salute. Celestia smiles over her diligent guard then sees Discord waving at her.
“Yes, may I ask for the both of you to leave the area for a bit, we're here to do some... work in the vault...” Celestia said, as the two near the table nods and left the area with no words spoken.
Celestia then looked over at the Soul Reapers then began to speak.
Inside this vault, lies my former faithful student... She is contained here, hoping that we might find a way to return her to her former self... What you are about to see, may be disturbing to behold.
Celestia called upon Yoruichi to help her open the vault. Rukia and Mayuri waited on the sideline, as the vault slowly opens, as the contents inside it revealed, all of them lets out a gasp, not believing what they had just witnessed deep in the bowels of the vault...
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Meanwhile, back at the bench near Sugar Cube Corner Fluttershy was left alone outside, still unconscious on what Hanataro did to restrain her. No one seems to notice the ghost of Fluttershy laying on the bench. Every now and then, when a passerby sits on the bench he or she will immediately feel a cold chill run down through their spine, and just leaves the area.
Just as she was dreaming something nice, she heard a voice breaking through her current dream.
“Shy? Are you okay?” A voice echoes on Fluttershy’s ear. She slowly opens her eyes then immediately saw Twilight’s face looking right back at her.
“T-Twilight?!” Fluttershy said, her eyes as wide as two golf balls. “I thought... you were... but I saw you... and you’re...” Shy said, not completely saying what she wants to say, but Twilight just put a hoof on her lips to quiet her down.
“It’s okay, Shy.” Twilight said to her calmly. “C’mon, lets go to somewhere where we can be alone...” Fluttershy just nods and follows her towards the forest...
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“So you were sent here to eliminate some of the Hollows, huh?” Ichigo said to Rangiku as they heads to the rendezvous point of the other Soul Reaper.
“Yes, we were sent here two days ago, apparently we got a bit of a handful, since they just keep coming back!” She explains, then thinks about something.
“I wonder where are they coming from? It’s not like they came out of Hueco Mundo. They can’t go out without a gate... can they?” Ichigo asked, Rangiku just looked at him with a blank expression on her face.
“I don’t know, Ichigo...” She simply said, then looks back on the road that lie ahead. Ichigo fell silent and just followed her through the forest.
At the end of the trail, Kenpachi, Retsu Yachiru and Soi Fon was sitting down and playing cards with each other when they spot Ichigo and Rangiku coming over.
“Well look who’s here...” Kenpachi started. “If it isn’t the orange-haired hero of Equestria!” He said, referring to Ichigo.
“Knock it off, Kenpachi. He’s been through enough...” Soi Fon said, stopping his words before he could say anything more, then looks back to Ichigo. “So, did you really save this world?”
“Well... I~”
“Look, now’s not the time... We’re here to say that all of us should go back to the castle and rest up there.” Rangiku said, cutting off Ichigo’s sentence.
“Yey! I can see Pinkie Pie again!” Yachiru said as she jumps around like Pinkie does.
“Stop that, it’s annoying as t is...” Kenpachi said, but Yachiru just continues to hop around aimlessly.
Retsu giggles and then looks over to Rangiku. “Should we go then?” She asked.
“You go ahead... I’ll go and let off steam... and kick some hollow or monster ass while I’m at it.” Kenpachi said as he walks off the other direction.
“Right... lets go then guys...” Rangiku said, as they all went back to the castle to meet the Princess...
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“No, no, no, no! NO!!!” Yoruichi shouts, thile Discord and Iron Will was investigating the vault on how Twilight escaped.
“So, Twilight was inside this huge vault, eh?” Discord said, while combing the entire interior of the vault.
“Why is it so important that she’s being kept inside here, anyway?” Iron Will asked Yoruichi.
“She’s been possessed DON’T YOU GET IT!? If she’s loose she might consume more souls as she can!” Yoruichi claimed. “Remember Aizen? You see that wasn’t the real Aizen.”
Rukia and the others were speechless on what they heard from Yoruichi.
“Not him?! How could that be! We saw him die in front of us!” Rukia said.
“We even saw him got destroyed by Ichigo remember?!” Toshiro claimed.
“Yes, we all saw him got obliterated, but don’t you have at least a little suspicion that he’s not that strong when he fought Ichigo that day?”
All of them think back to the day they encountered Aizen, and to their surprise, they realized that his spiritual pressure was a bit weak than Ichigo, but was unknown due to the heat of battle that day.
“My god...” Rukia said. “Then who did we just fought?!”
“We fought a Doppelganger Hollow. One that can consume a soul or take over a body of a living being.” Yoruichi explains further on this matter to the rest of them...
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Meanwhile back at Sugar Cube Corner. Hanataro walked out of the shop, with his stomach as big as a sack of potatoes... As he sees the sunlight once again, he begins to feel, he was losing something... something he should have done earlier...
He just shrugs this up and goes straight back to the castle, obviously to him that Fluttershy was nowhere to be found...