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Operation: Steal the Goods
It was a cool December afternoon and the plan and
players had been assembled. There was only one thing
left to do: steal the incriminating evidence from
Shihouin Yoruichi before she uploaded it to the
internet! It was a risky operation on its own, but
Yoruichi had called in some favors and now this task
had gotten to be twelve times harder considering
that’s how many people she got to help her guard this
important information of hers. There was only one
problem: she picked the wrong people to film.
Anthony was at his house making the final preparations
for the plan and calling the contacts he had to meet
at the rendezvous point. After he had finished his
calls, Anthony threw on his shoes and his black
hoodie. The only weapon he was taking with him was
his zanpakuto, Mirror Image. He told his mom he would
be back a little after 8 pm and that he would probably
be getting food while he was out. She waves him off
and he heads to his cousin’s house.
After 20 minutes riding his bike, Anthony had arrived
at his cousin Brandon’s house. He rang the doorbell
and Brandon answered the door.
“Hey Brandon,” Anthony greets
“Hey Anthony,” Brandon says, “Byakuya and Orihime are
already here.”
“That’s good,” Anthony says, “so when will Zuko, Toph,
and Uryu show up?”
“They should be here any minute,” Brandon replies,
“you get the goods?”
“Yeah,” Anthony replies, “I got Sumomo and the
Skittles.”
“Good, then we’ll just be waiting on the others,”
Brandon says
Just then the doorbell rings. Brandon opens the door
and Uryu, Toph and Zuko enter. Then all five of them
enter into the TV room where Byakuya and Orihime are
waiting.
“I sensed a suppressed reiatsu when we entered,” Uryu
states, “I would have went after it but Toph and Zuko
showed up so I stayed put.”
“That’s fine Ishida,” Anthony says, “We need to let
the Stealth Force report back to Soi Fon so that they
think these are all the people coming.”
“The real meeting place is at Hinata’s house since
it’s closer,” Brandon says
“Then why are we all here?” Toph asks
“We needed to fool Soi Fon and the others by making
them think we are the only ones coming to the shop,”
Anthony explains, “then when Ms. Bitchninja thinks
that she has the info, she’ll send her informants
back. By that time, we’ll have already moved on to
Hinata’s place and when they follow us, we ambush
them.”
“That sounds like a reasonable plan,” Uryu says, “why
don’t you act like this at school Anthony?”
“School has nothing to make me serious or calm,”
Anthony replies, “I’d be like this more often if I had
challenges to face at school. Anyway let’s get moving
since the ninja have left.”
So the seven leave Brandon’s house and proceed to
Hyuuga compound while the Stealth Force reports to Soi
Fon at the Urahara Shoten.
The ninjas arrive at the store and enter. They then
proceed to the meeting where the lead people are
sitting at a meeting table. At the head was Yoruichi
with Kurosaki Ichigo standing behind her and to her
left was Urahara Kisuke with his workers Tessai, Jinta
and Ururu standing behind him. To the right of
Yoruichi was Soi Fon. Next to Urahara was Diva and
behind her were her five chevaliers. Next to Soi Fon
was Diva’s older sister Saya and behind her was her
Chevalier Haji. Next to Saya was Mayuri Kurotsuchi and
behind him was his daughter, Mayuri Nemu. Next to
Diva was Fire Princess Azula and next to Azula was
Kagurazaka Asuna. Across the table from Asuna was her
good friend Nagase Kaede.
After hearing the report from the ninjas, Soi Fon
sent them off to continue the surveillance of
Anthony’s group.
“Yoruichi was it really necessary to go to all this
trouble just to stop Anthony from getting the tape?”
Urahara asks
“Hey, it wasn’t my idea to invite all of these guys!”
Yoruichi says, “They all just showed up when they
heard that Brandon would be coming with Anthony. It
doesn’t matter though, the help is appreciated.”
“So Yoruichi,” Saya says, “if we help you, we get
Brandon right?”
“You get him once I’m done with him,” Yoruichi replies
“Ok then,” Saya says
“What’s so great about Brandon?” Diva asks
“It’s only something you can understand once you’ve
had sex with him,” Azula answers
“So you’re telling me I’ll understand once I’ve had
sex with him?” Diva questions
“Exactly,” Kaede answers
“Enough with Brandon,” Yoruichi says, “by now
Anthony’s probably already figured out that this shop
is too small to have an all out battle in, so he’s
most likely already figured out that I’ve sealed off
portions of the underground training facility and
split us up into teams.”
“I don’t see how Anthony could’ve come up with that,”
Diva remarks, “at school him and Brandon just run
around acting like idiots.”
“That means you’ve successfully fallen for their
trap,” Soi Fon says
“Why would you say that?” Diva asks
“Because I’ve dealt with Anthony before,” Yoruichi
says, “when that boy is serious, he shows his true
capabilities and they can be scary when fully
unleashed.”
“I don’t believe you,” Saya says
Yoruichi pulled up the right sleeve of her shirt and
showed a scar that extended from the base of her hand
to her shoulder.
“I underestimated him in a sparring match once and he
did this with his bare hands!” Yoruichi exclaims,
“Anthony is possibly the most dangerous person in his
group right now due to his seriousness. If you should
get into a fight with him, call for as much backup as
possible to help take him down fast. Anthony is the
leader and so as the leader falls, the soldiers will
crumble beneath our might.”
“Ok I understand now, but who’s on whose team?” Asuna
asks
“Since there isn’t that much space to fight,” Yoruichi
starts, “the teams will be as such: Jinta, Ururu,
Saya and Haji will guard the front door. Tessai,
Amshel, Soi Fon and James will guard the entrance to
the underground passage. At the first bulkhead will
be Diva Solomon, and the Mayuris. At the second
bulkhead will be Nathan and Karl. At the final
bulkhead will be Azula, Kaede and Asuna. The hallway
that leads to the computer room will be guarded by
Ichigo. And Kisuke and I will guard the computer room
itself. There will be no complaining about team
pairings so go prepare and take your position. This
meeting is adjourned.”
Yoruichi and her followers left the conference room
and proceeded to follow orders.
Meanwhile back at the Hyuuga estate, Anthony and his
group had captured the Stealth Nin that were tailing
them. The interrogation had succeeded and so now the
Recovery Group had all the info they needed to make an
intelligent plan.
The group gathered in the courtyard where Anthony was
prepared to give the invasion plan.
“Ok, great to see everybody,” Anthony greets, “let’s
just take roll to be safe.”
Anthony pulls out a clipboard and starts to take
roll.
“Allen, Miranda and Linali?” Anthony asks
“All present and accounted for,” Allen replies
“Byakuya, Orihime, Ishida and Hanataro?” Anthony asks
“I’m here,” Hanataro replies
“Ok,” Anthony says, “Sumomo, Toph, Anna, Zuko and
Haseo?”
“We’re all here and we’re going there!” Sumomo cheers
“Ok, and now for the plan,” Anthony says
“What is this master plan?” Uryu asks
“Shut it Ishida and I’ll tell you!” Anthony snaps
“Sorry,” Uryu replies
“Anyways,” Anthony says, “my intelligence has lead me
to believe that Yoruichi already know that we are
coming and that she has sufficiently prepared. So the
plan is an all out stall mission until I either
destroy the data or return with it.”
“That’s all?” Haseo asks skeptically, “Why am I even
here?”
“We need all of your forms, and if need be, we’ll
actually have to kill a few people so the more
deadlier people we have, the better chance we stand,”
Anthony states
“Fine then tell us the whole detailed plan,” Orihime
says
“Ok here goes,” Anthony says, “there will be two
teams: The Recovery team and The Attack team. The
Attack Team includes me, Brandon, Orihime, Byakuya,
Uryu, Zuko, Toph, Haseo, Allen and Linali. The
Recovery Team includes Hinata, Hanataro, Sumomo,
Miranda and Anna.”
“Wait one minute!” Anna interjects, “Why am I on the
Recovery Team?”
“Same here Anthony,” Hinata says hurt
“Anna, you and Hinata are really good with minor
injuries and you also have the ability to actually
fight back with sufficient damage,” Anthony explains,
“no offense Hanataro.”
“None taken,” Hanataro replies, “I know I’m pretty
much useless in a fight so I’ll just stick to
healing.”
“I still don’t like this,” Anna says angrily
“Me either,” Hinata agrees
“Trust me you two,” Anthony says, “We just need you to
stay behind to protect those who can’t fully protect
themselves.”
“Fine,” Hinata and Anna agree in unison
“Thanks,” Anthony says, “ok, the Recovery Team will
stay in the lot across the street so they won’t get
caught in the crossfire. The Attack Team will follow
me into the building and be dispersed as needed.
Since Yoruichi has called in some favors of her own,
the fighting ratio will be 2:1. I don’t know who’s
guarding where, so I’ll order the Attack team to split
off as necessary understood?”
Everyone nods their agreement and Anthony continues.
“It’s 12:45 pm and we attack the Urahara Shoten at
2:00 sharp!” Anthony says, “So make any last minute
preparations and then we’ll leave in an hour.”
Everyone disperses amongst one another and makes last
minute plans or just to talk. Anthony goes over to
Hanataro to get a vital tool.
“Hanataro, did you bring the stamina pills?” Anthony
asks
“Uh huh” Hanataro replies, “I brought five of them
just like you asked.”
Hanataro hands the pills over to Anthony who places
them in his hoodie pouch.
“Thanks Hanataro, these will come in really handy
later,” Anthony says
“No problem, Lady Unohana even gave me some of the
better restorative equipment for this mission too,”
Hanataro says
“Really? Thank Mom for me next time you see her and
tell her I owe her,” Anthony says
“Why do you keep referring to my Captain as Mom?”
Hanataro asks
“She just gives off a motherly vibe,” Anthony replies
“Ok, well I’m going to go talk to Miranda now,”
Hanataro says
“Uh huh,” Anthony replies
Hanataro walks off and starts talking to Miranda
while Anthony went off to find Hinata. Anthony looked
around the courtyard, but he couldn’t find her
anywhere. Anthony was worried and so the first place
he checked was Hinata’s room where she was curled up
on the bed crying.
“Why are you crying Hina?” Anthony asks
“Why… didn’t you… want me on the attack team?” Hinata
asks through her sobs
“Actually you were the first person I wanted on the
attack team,” Anthony answers
“Then why am I on the recovery team?” Hinata asks
“About half the people on the attack team, including
myself, thought you were a great addition but your
talents are better suited to healing than attacking,”
Anthony says, “we would have kept you, but no one on
the recovery team can really fight and you and Anna
combined are a really tough team to fight.”
“You really think so?” Hinata asks
“Uh yeah!” Anthony exclaims, “That’s exactly why I’m
having you stay behind. It’s not because I don’t
think you can’t fight, it’s because the recovery team
has people who aren’t battle experienced like you.
Now cheer up.”
“Ok,” Hinata says
Anthony hugs Hinata and she hugs him back. Then
things got awkward because Hanabi walked in.
“What are you two doing?” Hanabi asks
“We’re hugging Hanabin, what does it look like?”
Anthony says sarcastically
“Be quiet nii-sama,” Hanabi says, “Hinata, dad wants
to know why all those people are in the courtyard.”
“Tell him it’s personal business,” Hinata replies
“Fine,” Hanabi says walking off
Hinata and Anthony go to the courtyard and bring
everyone in to the sitting room. Since there was a
TV, they all (except Byakuya) decided to watch random
crap for an hour.
After an hour was up, Anthony gathered his group and
proceeded to leave. After ten minutes of walking,
they had reached the lot opposite to the Urahara
Shoten. In the next four minutes, the Recovery team
had set up their base and was ready to heal anyone who
got hurt.
Within the next minute, Saya, Haji, Ururu and Jinta
to their defensive places along the courtyard of the
store. Haji was waiting with daggers in hand and his
casket attached to his back. He had given Saya her
sword and she had already drawn her sword and
discarded the scabbard. Ururu had her rocket launcher
sitting in front of her and Jinta was standing next to
her holding his spiked mace.
Anthony got his team together and counted the seconds
until 2 pm. When the clock struck 2, Anthony and the
Attack team took off. As they approached the gate,
Ururu started to lift her cannon.
“Byakuya!” Anthony says
“Hadou 61: Six Bars of Light!” Byakuya recites
As Byakuya said and directed the spell, six bars
composed of nothing but light restricted any further
movement from Ururu. As Jinta tried to free her, the
Attack Team all moved ahead except for Brandon and
Orihime.
There was an intense stare down as Saya and Haji
glared at Brandon and Orihime. Brandon pulled out two
fuma shuriken and Orihime pulled out her steel, spiked
hammer.
“We said we’d have this fight eventually,” Brandon
says, “eventually just came sooner than expected.”
“I won’t let you hurt Saya!” Haji says defensively
“I’m here to beat the crap out of you; Orihime gets
Ms. Vapirella over there,” Brandon says
“After this is over Brandon, when you all lose, we’re
all going to rape you,” Saya threatens
“Over my dead body!” Orihime shouts
“That can be easily arranged.” Saya says turning her
eyes red
“Enough talk, let’s brawl,” Brandon says
Back with attack team…
Anthony and the rest of the Attack Team had gone on
ahead to the interior of the store. Inside, they
rushed for the ladder to the underground training
facility only to find it guarded by Amshel, Tessai,
Soi Fon and James.
“Hello Anthony,” Tessai greets
“Yo Tessai, what do I have to do to get past you
guys?” Anthony asks
“You must win at least one hand in a game of poker for
the number of people you want to continue,” Tessai
answers
“1, 2, 3… ok, that’s six hands we have to win,”
Anthony says, “Allen you’re up.”
“I won’t let you down!” Allen says with an evil gleam
in his eye
“Ishida, are you any good at poker?” Anthony asks
“A little,” Uryu says
“Then I need you to help Allen win at least four
hands,” Anthony says
Allen and Uryu take their places at the table and
Allen deals the cards. Using his amazing cheating
skills, Allen quickly won the six games to get
Anthony, Byakuya, Linali, Zuko, Haseo and Toph through
the passage.
The six hurried down the ladder and waiting at the
first bulkhead were the Mayuris with Diva and Solomon.
Anthony didn’t like this pairing but he knew what to
do.
“Byakuya, get Nemu!” Anthony commands
“Hadou 61: Six Bars of Light!” Byakuya recites
The beams pin Nemu down as Anthony runs forward.
“Haseo and Linali you’re up!” Anthony says
“Right!” They reply in unison
Linali invocates her Dark Boots and Haseo goes
straight to Flick Reaper form. As those two held off
the remaining enemies, Anthony and the other three
managed to get through the unprotected door.
Meanwhile, the battle outside the shop was getting
fierce. Brandon and Haji were blade to blade with
Brandon covered in small injuries while Haji was
looking a little ragged. Orihime was a little roughed
up, but she wasn’t about to lose to the woman who
tried to steal her boyfriend.
“Damn Haji,” Brandon says, “I’m not even trying and
I’m beating the crap out of you!”
Haji doesn’t reply, but instead he ditches his dagger
and whacks Brandon with his casket. Brandon was
momentarily dazed by the impact and that left him open
to Haji’s attack. Haji came at Brandon with his claw,
but because Brandon was under the influence of
Skittles, he dodged the attack and countered with a
flip kick. Haji reeled back from the kick and Brandon
ran backwards and grabbed a few of Haji’s discarded
daggers while putting together his shotgun.
On the other side of the battle, Orihime was blocking
Saya’s sword attacks while countering with hammer
swings of her own. Saya thought Orihime was swinging
slow and that she had an advantage, when really
Orihime was waiting for the perfect time to spring her
trap. She looked over and saw Brandon pulling out his
shotgun and thought it was time.
“Tsubaki!” Orihime commands
A tiny male black fairy appears next to Orihime.
“What do you want woman?” Tsubaki questions
“You know what we rehearsed for this kind of situation
so do it!” Orihime commands
“Alright already!” Tsubaki says transforming into his
origami form
Shifting back to Brandon, he had just thrown all of
Haji’s daggers so that they would be blocked by Haji.
Unbeknownst to Haji, Brandon had hidden some more
daggers at a specific point into which he was being
forced. As Haji blocked the last blade with his
casket, he removed the big metal coffin from in front
of his face only to see Brandon’s foot getting ready
to collide with his face.
“Dynamic Entry!!!” Brandon shouts making contact with
Haji’s face
Haji went down onto the blades and cried out in pain.
Saya looked over at him only to see that Brandon was
going to shoot his head off. Saya tries to rush to
help Haji, but Tsubaki flies into her face and
distracts her. When she goes to slash him down, she
misses and Orihime comes at her from behind and puts
all her power behind a swing and sends Saya flying
towards Brandon.
Haji saw his mistress flying through the air and used
his remaining strength to leap up and save her.
Though Haji’s save was admirable; it left him wide
open to an attack from Brandon, who shot both of them
through the abdomen followed by fast shots to the
ankles so that Haji couldn’t run when he landed.
When Haji landed, he pretty much collapsed on Saya as
soon as he hit the ground. Without the ability to
move, Haji and Saya were sitting ducks for any
incoming attacks.
Orihime slowly walks over to her fallen enemies and
turned her hammer over to the spiked side. Once
again, she placed all her might into the swing and
left Saya and Haji a bloody mess upon the concrete.
She wrenched her weapon from their carcasses and
dragged it over to Brandon.
“You know they aren’t dead right?” Brandon asks
“I know, but I did get pleasure out of beating that
whore,” Orihime replies
“Wait a minute,” Brandon says, “where are Ururu and
Jinta?”
“They went inside to get Tessai to undo the kidou,”
Orihime answers, “but let’s worry about ourselves for
now and go get healed.”
“Ok, after we get healed it’ll be round two,” Brandon
says
The two walk across the street to the Recovery team’s
tent. After entering they are greeted by Hanataro.
Hanataro escorts them to a table where he applies some
ointment to both Brandon and Orihime’s wounds and then
Miranda invocates her innocence and rewinds time to
heal their wounds.
“Thanks Hanataro,” Brandon says, “that goop made me
feel energized.”
“Oh, that’s because it has a special herb mixed into
it that restores stamina quickly,” Hanataro explains
“Thanks Miranda, you were really helpful,” Orihime
says
“Thank you so much for your kind words,” Miranda
replies
“Ok, well we better go out and get ready for round
two,” Brandon says
“Wait!” Hinata says, “How’s Anthony?”
“Don’t know,” Brandon replies, “he ran off with the
others as soon as Byakuya paralyzed Ururu. You
shouldn’t worry though, if anything bad were to happen
you’d know and we’d probably have to go save him.”
“Oh, ok then,” Hinata says, “do your best.”
“We will,” Orihime says
Brandon and Orihime leave the tent to see Ururu and
Jinta emerging from the shop. And all of this was
going on while Anthony’s group had reached the second
bulkhead guarded by Nathan and Karl.
“Oh great, a f*****t and schizoid with a weird arm,”
Anthony comments, “Byakuya I leave them to you.”
“This is where our agreement ends boy,” Byakuya states
“Agreed,” Anthony replies
Anthony, Toph and Zuko make a break for the door but
are blocked by Karl in his transformed state. Byakuya
shunpos in front of Karl before he can attack and Karl
stops dead in his tracks.
“I am your opponent now,” Byakuya says drawing his
blade
Anthony’s group made it through the next door only to
be confronted with the worst combination of people to
fight: the trio of Azula, Kaede and Asuna. Anthony
didn’t like this pairing, but he had no choice in the
matter.
“Zuko! Toph! I’m leaving these three to you,”
Anthony says, “take out Kaede first! Messing with
Azula will play into her hands!”
“Right!” They say in unison
“I don’t think so!” Azula says shooting off lighting
Anthony shunpos past her and goes straight through
the door into the hallway beyond. As the door closes
behind him, Zuko glares at his sister.
“Why are you helping Yoruichi Azula?” Zuko questions
“Stupid Zuzu, with Brandon as collateral for a
successful mission, why wouldn’t I be helping
Yoruichi?” Azula replies
“Shut it loser!” Toph shouts, “We’re going to kick all
of your assess and go back up Anthony!”
“Little earth bender, you are sadly mistaken,” Azula
says, “You will never make it out of this room.”
Toph shoots a boulder off at Azula and it is blocked
by Kaede’s giant shuriken. Asuna jumps off of the
blade of the shuriken and swings her sword, creating a
shockwave that Toph blocks with an earth wall.
“Nin-nin,” Kaede grins
Back at the poker table, Allen was undefeated due to
his cheating prowess. Unfortunately, he got caught
cheating on this particular turn.
“I win again,” Allen declares placing down his cards
“How the hell does this keep happening?” James asks
“I’m just lucky I guess,” Allen replies
“Very well, I propose to a handshake,” Amshel says
extending his hand
Allen takes Amshel’s hand and Amshel lifts Allen’s
sleeve up, revealing the extra cards he was hiding in
his sleeve. Allen pulls his arm back with a nervous
look on his face and stands up.
“Well Uryu, I think it’s time we leave,” Allen says
pulling Uryu up
“Get them!” Soi Fon shouts
As Allen and Uryu evacuate the building with Soi Fon
and James tailing them, they arrive outside in the
middle of Brandon and Orihime’s battle.
“Allen and Quincy, get your assess in gear and help
us!” Brandon shouts
Brandon had easily taken down Jinta, but now he and
Orihime were having trouble since Ururu had entered
Genocide Mode. It took all the energy Brandon and his
girlfriend had to dodge Ururu’s onslaught of powerful
physical attacks.
Allen invocated his arm as Uryu materialized his bow
and James and Soi Fon arrive outside. The four attack
team member move in back to back as their opponents
closed in from three sides.
“Hey Uryu,” Orihime whispers, “you still have enough
spirit particles?”
“Yes Inoue, but why do you ask?” Uryu replies
“I want you to use your Quincy explosion symbol,”
Orihime answers, “Can you trap all three of them?”
“If you guys can keep them busy long enough, I
probably can,” Uryu replies
“I call Bitchninja!” Brandon says
“I got James,” Orihime says
“Then I have Ururu,” Allen says
“Godspeed Allen, you are the only one we’re worried
about,” Orihime says
“All right, let’s go!” Brandon says
As Uryu takes off to set up his trap, the others take
on their opponents. Brandon kept Soi Fon busy with
hand to hand combat. They were and even match because
Brandon was coming down from his high on Skittles and
Soi Fon took the opportunity to unleash her zanpakuto.
“Sting my enemy, Suzumebachi!” Soi Fon invocates
As Soi Fon’s blade transformed into a claw that fit
perfectly fit over the middle finger of her right
hand, Brandon swallowed Hanataro’s pill. When the
sequence was done, both fighters had gained a new
level of power that would help determine the victor of
the battle.
In Orihime’s case, she was just dodging all of James’
attacks trying to wait out the time it would take for
Uryu to finish. Because she wasn’t paying attention,
James got in close to Orihime. Before he could land a
blow, she used her fairies.
“Santen Kesshun! I reject!” Orihime shouts
A triangular shield appears in front of Orihime and
she wills it forward to hit James. He is forced back
by the barrier right into Ururu’s path. Allen sees
the confusion caused by this moment and uses Cross
Grave’s explosion to incapacitate both James and
Ururu.
Back at Brandon’s fight, he had successfully been hit
on both shoulders by Suzumebachi and as a result, he
had the butterfly markers that were adhered to his
skin.
“If I hit you once more on either shoulder, you’ll
die,” Soi Fon states
“Bring it Bitchninja!” Brandon replies
Soi Fon charges at Brandon with her arm extended and
he catches it and forces her to strike herself. A
butterfly marker appears on her stomach as Brandon
throws her away. She looks down to confirm her being
marked and looks up as Brandon throws a fuma at her.
Soi Fon jumps up to dodge the shuriken and it comes
back and hits her in the back before returning to
Brandon. Brandon smirks as Soi Fon falls to the
bloodily to the ground.
“H-how?” Soi Fon asks
“Psychotic Shuriken Jutsu,” Brandon replies
Allen throws James and Ururu on top of Soi Fon and
all of them get out of the glowing Quincy cross that
had just appeared on the ground. Uryu drops a small
amount of liquid spirit particles onto the glowing
cross and three seconds later it exploded. After all
the bodies had been stacked by the door, the four went
to the recovery tent.
“We won,” Brandon says walking
“Great job, great job, you guys are the greatest
greatest!” Sumomo cheers
“Thank you Sumomo,” Orihime says
Back underground, Byakuya was having no trouble
stopping Karl. With rapid shunpo, Byakuya had easily
confused Karl. Karl tried to shoot off his arm
spikes, but their speed was too slow to keep up with
Byakuya’s speed. Getting tired of such a pointless
battle, Byakuya slashes Karl from three directions.
“Scatter, Senbon Zakura,” Byakuya invocates
Byakuya holds his zanpakuto in front of his face and
the blade glows white and then disappears.
“How are you going to fight without a weapon?” Karl
says flying towards Byakuya
Right before Karl could attack Byakuya, he suddenly
fell out of the sky covered in cuts as Byakuya’s blade
reformed on its hilt. Byakuya turns his attention
towards Nathan who shows no signs of attacking.
Byakuya sheathes his sword and walks away from Karl’s
body.
“There was no way that your blade would have ever
reached me,” Byakuya says coldly before leaving to
head for the recovery tent
Before Byakuya could get to the door to the next
room, Karl shot a spike that caught Byakuya in the
left ankle. Byakuya turned around to see Karl
standing up with his arm extended.
“Very well,” Byakuya says, “your persistence shows me
that only my true strength will finally let you die.”
Karl starts to run at Byakuya as Byakuya drops his
sword. As Senbon Zakura strikes the ground, it sinks
in. Once the sword had completely dissolved into the
ground, rows upon rows of blades rose up out of the
ground and dissolved into flower petals.
“This is my bankai,” Byakuya states, “scatter, Senbon
Zakura Kageyoshi.”
Karl was consumed by a wave of petal shaped blades
that ripped his body to shreds. Byakuya reclaims his
sword and sheathes it before walking away.
“You were never even worth my time,” Byakuya says
leaving
In the room next door, Haseo and Linali weren’t doing
so well. Solomon and Mayuri were proving very hard to
subdue. As a last ditch effort, Mayuri has summoned
his bankai Konjiki Ashisogijizo. Haseo wasn’t sure
why he was making his next move, but he made it
anyway. Haseo went to his X-form and invoked his
phase. Gaining the power of Skeith the Terror of
Death, Haseo went to work with his new abilities.
“Data drain!” Haseo shouts
Haseo’s attack rewrote the structure of Mayuri’s
bankai and turned it back into its sealed state. With
the giant caterpillar-alien baby thing gone, Linali
activated the second stage of her Dark Boots and Haseo
pulled out his guns. Haseo used his unlimited bullets
to inflict massive damage upon Diva and Solomon while
Linali proceeded to kick the crap out of Mayuri.
After about five minutes of non-stop attack, the two
back off realizing their opponents won’t be getting
back up. So Haseo and Linali leave the shop and
return to the recovery tent to be treated.
In the final room, Zuko and Toph were having the
hardest time trying to land blows upon their foes.
Kaede’s ninja training had conditioned her well enough
to deal with situations like this, and therefore she
wasn’t very easy to hit. Asuna was using her sword to
deflect all incoming attacks, but was still a little
susceptible to Toph’s earth bending. Azula on the
other hand, had no visible injuries at all considering
she was fighting her brother. Azula easily dodged all
of Zuko’s fire bending attacks and was shooting off
lighting to counter.
Toph sensed all the vibrations of the fight and
managed to pinpoint Asuna’s location. Toph shot up a
rock prison that incased Asuna so she couldn’t swing
her sword and prevent her from moving completely.
Toph then sensed that Kaede was going to help Asuna
and trapped Kaede in an earth prison that she easily
escaped by substitution.
“Stand still dammit!” Toph curses
Kaede keeps dodging Toph’s attacks until she
accidentally slips and is captured by Toph.
“Now stay in there!” Toph shouts
Meanwhile, Zuko was dodging all of his sister’s
lighting just as she was dodging his flames. They
stopped attacking for a moment and glare at each
other.
“Poor little Zuzu,” Azula taunts, “you just can’t seem
to land an attack now can you?”
“Neither can you Azula!” Zuko retorts, “I may have
never been able to beat you in combat before, but that
all changes today!”
“Bold talk from a failure,” Azula says, “tell you
what, I’ll finish you off now with my strongest
lightning and you can die so that father never has to
see your disgraceful face again!”
Azula takes up a stance and churns the air around
her, starting to form the electricity. Zuko takes up
an opposing stance and waits for his sister’s attack.
Azula focuses the energy into the index and middle
fingers of her right hand and shoots off an incredibly
large amount of lightning at Zuko. Zuko sticks out
his left index and middle fingers to absorb the
lightning and then he focuses the energy through his
body and shoots it off back towards Azula through the
index and middle fingers of his extended right arm.
Azula is hit square in the chest with her own attack
and goes flying into the wall behind her. Azula falls
to the ground after her impact and upon further
inspection is found to be unconscious. So with the
fight over, Toph and Zuko proceed to help Anthony only
to find the door is locked with no way to get through.
With no other options, the two return to the base.
Upon entering the tent, Zuko is immediately
questioned by Hinata.
“Where’s Anthony?” Hinata asks worriedly
“He went ahead of us into the hallway and when we
tried to follow after we finished fighting, we
couldn’t follow,” Zuko answers
“I can’t this!” Hinata snaps, “I’m going to get
Anthony!”
“No,” Brandon says, “he has to do this alone Hina.”
“No he doesn’t!” Hinata counters
“Hanataro, do it,” Brandon says
Hanataro takes a syringe and injects its contents
into Hinata’s neck. Hinata instantly falls asleep and
Allen places her on a table.
“Was this really necessary?” Hanataro asks
“It was,” Brandon replies, “Anthony told me he’d be
using some of his more dangerous techniques and I
think that’s why no one can follow him.”
“Let’s just hope he knows what he’s doing,” Anna says
Anthony had been running down the hall for about
seven minutes now and he could just make out Ichigo
guarding the door. Anthony stops about twenty meters
away from Ichigo.
“Move Kurosaki,” Anthony commands
“No can do can do Anthony,” Ichigo responds, “you’ve
gotta go through me to get to Yoruichi and Mr.
Hat-and-Clogs.”
“Fine,” Anthony says drawing his blade, “copy, Mirror
Image.”
Anthony’s pure silver, katana shaped blade, morphs
into an exact copy of Ichigo’s Zangetsu with the
slight differences of Mirror Image being a white blade
with a black edge and the bandages around the swords
tang being black.
“What the hell?” Ichigo asks
“I have no time to waste on you!” Anthony says,
“Bankai!”
A cloud of swirling black energy covers Anthony and
when it disperses, Anthony’s entire outfit had been
replaced with the white version of Ichigo’s bankai
clothes and Mirror Image had completely copied
Ichigo’s bankai, Tensa Zangetsu with the exception of
the sword being completely white instead of black.
“How?” Ichigo asks
“Mirror Image can copy any blade in any form if I will
it,” Anthony explains, “now here’s your bankai! Tensa
Zangetsu! Now Izora, give me your strength!”
Anthony pulls out a hollow mask and places it on his
face. Before Ichigo could react, Anthony had already
shunpoed behind him and was ready to attack.
“Getsuga Tenshou!” Anthony shouts
Anthony slashed at Ichigo’s back and sent him flying
with a white shockwave that was Zangetsu’s special
ability. As Ichigo struggles to get up, Anthony fires
off another Getsuga Tenshou and Ichigo stayed down.
“Come challenge me when you aren’t so easily
distracted,” Anthony says coldly before proceeding
through the door
Anthony walks into the next room in the same form he
left the other one. He walks around until he finds
the computer. Anthony stays where he is because he
knows that if he goes any closer something will
happen.
“Come out Urahara and Yoruichi!” Anthony shouts
Yoruichi and Urahara appear from nowhere and look at
Anthony’s appearance.
“Whoa, I think he copied Ichigo a little too much,”
Urahara jokes
“You know that’s his Zanpakuto’s ability!” Yoruichi
says, “he can copy any person’s blade and he also
gains their abilities and sometimes appearance.”
“Don’t think this is a copy of Ichigo’s mask,” Anthony
says, “this is my own, and trust me, it’s more
powerful than Ichigo’s could ever be.”
“That may be but-,” Urahara starts
Before Kisuke could finish his sentence, Anthony had
already run him through with his zanpakuto. Urahara
started to cough blood when Anthony retracted his
blade.
“You talk too much,” Anthony says, “Getsuga Tenshou!”
At point blank range, there was nothing Urahara could
do to block the attack. Urahara was consumed by the
blast and when the dust cleared he wasn’t dead, but he
wouldn’t be participating in the fight anymore.
“What are you?” Yoruichi asks frightened
“I’m pissed off!” Anthony replies
Anthony holds up his hand and starts to collect
energy for a cero. Yoruichi realizes what is
happening and rushes to the computer to upload the
data to the internet. Just as she was getting ready
to touch the mouse, Anthony fires his cero and the
black energy blast smacked into Yoruichi’s back
knocking her into the wall and destroying the
computer.
Anthony lowers his hand as Yoruichi struggles to get
up. He deforms and returns to normal as Yoruichi sits
up. He walks over to her and helps her up.
“I win,” Anthony states
“I know,” Yoruichi replies, “I was so close to
uploading that data.”
“I couldn’t let that happen,” Anthony says
“Why not?” Yoruichi asked, “You could’ve been more
popular than Brandon.”
“Unlike him, I didn’t want that title,” Anthony
replies
“Oh well, wanna have an all out sparring match next
week?” Yoruichi asks
“Let’s do it now,” Anthony says
“How can we manage that when I’m hurt and you’re
tired?” Yoruichi asks
“I have senzu beans and squad four stamina pills,”
Anthony replies, “you can take some sense all I need
is a stamina pill. Give a senzu to Kisuke so he
doesn’t die.”
Yoruichi eats a senzu bean and is instantly healed.
She gets up and goes over to Urahara and feeds him the
bean and he regains consciousness and his health.
Anthony goes to Urahara and helps him up.
“Sorry about that Kisuke, I needed to end that fast,”
Anthony apologizes
“It’s fine, I totally understand,” Urahara shrugs, “it
still amazes me how much more power than Ichigo you
have considering that his growth rate is much higher
than yours.”
“Let’s say that when I’m serious, my resolve is
stronger than Ichigo’s could ever be and that my
strength increases tenfold,” Anthony says
“Still, that cero was really powerful,” Yoruichi says
“Actually, that cero was only using a quarter of my
power,” Anthony says, “if I had no natural limits, I
might have accidentally destroyed the whole shop.”
“You were holding back?” Urahara asks
“Yeah, I didn’t want to kill anyone, just stop them
from stopping me so I also held back with those
Getsuga Tenshou. Here Yoruichi,” Anthony explains
while handing over a stamina pill
“Amazing,” Yoruichi says, “so are we going to fight
now?”
“I would like to, but I need more space,” Anthony says
“Ok,” Yoruichi says clapping her hands
The bulkhead walls rose from the ground and retracted
into the ceiling. As this happened, Anthony looked
around and saw the remnants of the fights of his
allies. It was a horrible sight, yet Anthony could
sense that nothing too bad had happened. Most of the
people had already retreated and the rest were already
climbing the ladder.
“Is this enough room for you?” Yoruichi asks
“I think it should do,” Anthony answers, “hey Kisuke
could you tape us fighting?”
“No problem,” Urahara says grabbing a camera from his
pocket
“That didn’t get broken when I attacked?” Anthony asks
confused
“Nope,” Urahara replies, “it’s an impact camera, so
whenever it gets into an impact it automatically
exerts enough force to counter the blow.”
“Interesting,” Anthony says, “you ready Yoruichi?”
“Of course,” Yoruichi replies
“Begin!” Urahara says
Anthony and Yoruichi charge at each other and they
clash with an intense display of martial arts prowess.
They kept fighting at a stalemate for five minutes
with neither one landing a successful blow. As
Anthony backs off, Yoruichi back flips onto the rock
behind her.
“You’ve gotten better,” Yoruichi says
“Thanks for noticing,” Anthony says
They take off from their respective places and
continue their fight while Urahara links his camera to
the internet. Urahara uses his camera’s web cam
feature and uploads the footage to his homepage and
then he sends the video feed to the internet at large.
Back in the recovery tent, Brandon was busy looking
things up on the internet with google when he got an
invite feed from Urahara. Brandon opened the link and
saw the footage of Anthony and Yoruichi’s fight. He
quickly full screened the video and told the others to
come. They all gathered around the monitor to watch
the fight.
Back on the battlefield, Anthony had redrawn his
zanpakuto to block the anken that Yoruichi were
throwing at him. Anthony resheaths his blade and
pulls on his hollow mask.
“Let’s end this Yoruichi!” Anthony says charging his
cero
“Fine by me!” Yoruichi says charging her shunko
The two charge their attacks to the limit and release
their explosive powers. The two blasts of
concentrated spirit energy hit each other and are then
caught in a power struggle. Anthony’s cero was being
pushed back further and further until he unleashed
three-fourths of his strength and completely overcame
Yoruichi’s Shunko. The blast culminated and hit
Yoruichi head on.
As she was about to be completely eradicated, Anthony
stepped in and saved her. After placing her at a safe
distance away, Anthony returned and cancelled out his
previous cero with a new one. After the dust settles,
Anthony goes and checks on Yoruichi.
“Looks like you win again,” Yoruichi grins
“Oh come on, you honestly had me worried for a second
that I was going to lose to you,” Anthony says
“Ok then,” Yoruichi says, “as a reward for winning,
when I’m better, I’ll train you to use bankai.”
“You don’t have to do that,” Anthony says
“Well I am,” Yoruichi says
“Thanks Yoruichi,” Anthony says
“Any time,” Yoruichi replies
“Yoruichi!” Urahara says, “Are you ok?”
“Yeah, Anthony held back again,” Yoruichi says
“Yeah, and I’m sorry to just fight and run but the
others are probably worried about me,” Anthony says,
“see you later.”
“Bye Anthony,” Urahara and Yoruichi say
Anthony leaves the shop and crosses the street to the
tent. As soon as he enters the tent, Anthony is
glomped by Hinata and everyone else rushes to the
opening.
“Anthony!” Hinata says hugging him
“Hello Hina, how’ve you been?” Anthony greets
“I was worried sick,” Hinata says, “what happened in
there? Did you get the data?”
“It’s fine,” Anthony says, “I went in, beat Yoruichi
and Urahara and destroyed the data in the process.
And then I had a sparring match with Yoruichi.”
“Is that what was on the computer?” Anna asks
“What do you mean?” Anthony asks
“There was this really intense fight between you and
Yoruichi on the computer right before you came back,”
Miranda explains
“Kisuke said he was taping the match so that was
probably it,” Anthony says
“Damn Anthony, that was crazy,” Brandon says
“Not really, I was holding back,” Anthony says
“What!?” Everyone but Hinata asks
“How is that possible?” Linali asks
“Because I can never overcome my natural limits or
else something bad will happen,” Anthony says
“Ok then I guess that means we won!” Uryu says
“We won, we won, we won the whole thing!” Sumomo
cheers
“Yep and I’ll call you all up for the party because
right now, I’m too tired to do anything but sleep,”
Anthony says
Anthony falls asleep with Hinata still on top of him
and everyone else leaves. Anthony is taken to his
room in the Hyuuga estate and it was all over with the
party the next day at Saya’s mansion.
- by Katana-crazy |
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- Title: Operation: Steal the Goods
- Artist: Katana-crazy
- Description: It's a fanfic about how me, my cousin and a bunch of anime characters try to break into Urahara Shoten. This was a loose story plot to be used in my guild, but I never got around to it.
- Date: 07/16/2008
- Tags: anime bleach yoruichi urahara
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Comments (4 Comments)
- Suki-Senpai - 11/04/2009
- Please make the story shorter. 4/5
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- Bowser634 - 11/02/2009
- 5/5, but try to make it shorter next time.
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- Tanner The Killer Panda - 02/20/2009
- *pant* *pant* that was great but, SO LONG!!! ugh! man that was good. 5/5 but next time shorter okay!?
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- Half Man-half otaku - 07/16/2008
- This pwns!!! 5 man.
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