Heart Crystals and Arrancars (SM/Bleach - SS arc spoilers)
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:14 pmHere's another plot bunny that needs a home. This one isn't quite as exotic a crossbreed as the others I've raised.
For the purposes of the story, I am operating under the assumption that Karakura is close enough to Juuban to make day trips from one to the other practical.
This is post Soul Society arc in Bleach, and occurs during the Death Buster arc of Sailor Moon.
Hino Rei is a Sensitive. She has honed this skill to aid in her official job as a miko at her grandfather's shrine, and in her unofficial job as Sailor Mars. She doesn't really know anyone else who is a Sensitive - her fellow Senshi technically qualify, but only when transformed - and as such she doesn't really know how other Sensitives view the world, or how they use the abilities that spiritual sensitivity brings. This ignorance is about to be shattered rather spectacularly.
One day, while walking through town (Insert plausible reason to go through town and NOT encounter another Senshi), she goes through a crowd which contains five people of Junior High school age. Suddenly, one of the boys in the group, a dark-haired boy with rectangular glasses, shouts "Look out!".
A split second later, Rei senses a dark force approaching. One of the Witches 5 has appeared, releasing a number of Daimons. Before she can call for help from the rest of the Senshi or get to a place where she can transform herself, something unusual happens. A girl with orangish-red hair touches her hairpins and a triangular forcefield appears. The rest of the group of students immediately move out and get everyone behind the shield. While Rei is being moved to apparent safety, the blond-haired boy getting her to cover is hit by an attack, and his heart crystal is separated from his body - or at least that's what should have happened.
Instead, from out of his body emerges an image of himself, dressed in a black gi, and wielding a five foot long carving knife (Aside: Zangetsu looks like an enormous carving knife. The Silence Glaive looks like a monster can opener. Ukyo has a mega-spatula. Maybe someone could make a spamfic about anime characters getting their weapons by raiding a giant's kitchen drawers? It's possible that Akane grabbed the meat tenderizer). He grasps his uberknife, er, sword, and charges to the offensive. At the same time, a dark-haired girl starts chanting, bringing out blasts of destruction, and a dark-skinned boy sprouts armor on one arm and proceeds to smash the daimons into pieces. Rei suddenly realizes that these people are fellow Sensitives - and that they've trained their abilities for use as weapons.
The daimons are rapidly destroyed. Before the Witch can flee, she is grabbed by the boy in the black gi - whom Rei realizes only she can see out of the people in the crowd. Then the boy with the glasses steps forward and asks "Where is Aizen Sosuke, and what is he after now?"
The group of students are apparently the enemies of this Aizen, and are under the assumption that the Witch is under his employ. Before they can get any information out of her beyond the fact that she isn't working for Aizen, a second Witch appears and helps the first escape. The group discusses the incident briefly, and the blond sums it up by saying "I guess we have to see if Uruhara's been hiding any more doomsday weapons in people's souls." Before Rei can decipher what this all means, the dark-haired girl walks over to the crowd of civilians and pulls out a device the size of a cigarette lighter. Rei (and everyone else) blacks out.
When she comes to, the group is gone. She also appears to have two sets of memories about what just happened. The version that included the attack, and a version in which a reckless driver caused all the damage and then took off. Everyone else seems to think the damage was done by the reckless driver, and their stories are amazingly consistent with each other.
Rei knows that the Senshi will need to know of this incident - and that she will need to figure out exactly what is going on here.
Who is this Uruhara who creates doomsday weapons and hides them in people's souls? Who is this Aizen who seeks them and what does he want with them? Who were those kids who destroyed the Daimons with such ease and they erased all evidence that they were there?
All these questions and more Rei will need to answer in order to solve the mystery and protect the general population.
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Additional comments:
Experience with Yoruichi will make the group from Karakura unimpressed with the Mau. A non-Mau talking cat will surprise the Senshi a lot more.
Any encounter between in-uniform Senshi and Kon the Possessed and Perverted Plushie will likely end with Kon getting stomped/smacked/exorcized/blasted.
Since all of the people from Karakura have first person experience with healing spells, they would see absolutely nothing wrong with Hotaru's powers. As a Kido specialist, Rukia might even try to teach her some more tricks. If the knowledge is automatically passed on to Mistress 9, that might be a bad thing.
Aizen and Prof. Tomoe should encounter each other at some point. Whether they allie with each other or come to blows is open to interpretation. I can see Aizen wanting to use heart crystals and the Talismans to further enhance his Arrancars (hence the title), and Tomoe wanting to use Aizen's research and tools to make super daimons. The question is whether they would share or try to steal from each other.
My selection of Rei as the person to first encounter the Bleach gang was based on the fact that she would be the one most likely to be able to see a shinigami. If she could learn reiatsu techniques from someone in the group, that would be an interesting plot point.
Would Moon's healing spells affect Ichigo's inner Hollow, or Ishida's burnt out powers? It would be plausible for her to try it and see.
I have no suggestions for the lame CANON filler material called Karakura Superheroes. Kanonji is my least favorite character by a long shot and all the episodes/chapters he's been in after his first appearance are lame.
For the purposes of the story, I am operating under the assumption that Karakura is close enough to Juuban to make day trips from one to the other practical.
This is post Soul Society arc in Bleach, and occurs during the Death Buster arc of Sailor Moon.
Hino Rei is a Sensitive. She has honed this skill to aid in her official job as a miko at her grandfather's shrine, and in her unofficial job as Sailor Mars. She doesn't really know anyone else who is a Sensitive - her fellow Senshi technically qualify, but only when transformed - and as such she doesn't really know how other Sensitives view the world, or how they use the abilities that spiritual sensitivity brings. This ignorance is about to be shattered rather spectacularly.
One day, while walking through town (Insert plausible reason to go through town and NOT encounter another Senshi), she goes through a crowd which contains five people of Junior High school age. Suddenly, one of the boys in the group, a dark-haired boy with rectangular glasses, shouts "Look out!".
A split second later, Rei senses a dark force approaching. One of the Witches 5 has appeared, releasing a number of Daimons. Before she can call for help from the rest of the Senshi or get to a place where she can transform herself, something unusual happens. A girl with orangish-red hair touches her hairpins and a triangular forcefield appears. The rest of the group of students immediately move out and get everyone behind the shield. While Rei is being moved to apparent safety, the blond-haired boy getting her to cover is hit by an attack, and his heart crystal is separated from his body - or at least that's what should have happened.
Instead, from out of his body emerges an image of himself, dressed in a black gi, and wielding a five foot long carving knife (Aside: Zangetsu looks like an enormous carving knife. The Silence Glaive looks like a monster can opener. Ukyo has a mega-spatula. Maybe someone could make a spamfic about anime characters getting their weapons by raiding a giant's kitchen drawers? It's possible that Akane grabbed the meat tenderizer). He grasps his uberknife, er, sword, and charges to the offensive. At the same time, a dark-haired girl starts chanting, bringing out blasts of destruction, and a dark-skinned boy sprouts armor on one arm and proceeds to smash the daimons into pieces. Rei suddenly realizes that these people are fellow Sensitives - and that they've trained their abilities for use as weapons.
The daimons are rapidly destroyed. Before the Witch can flee, she is grabbed by the boy in the black gi - whom Rei realizes only she can see out of the people in the crowd. Then the boy with the glasses steps forward and asks "Where is Aizen Sosuke, and what is he after now?"
The group of students are apparently the enemies of this Aizen, and are under the assumption that the Witch is under his employ. Before they can get any information out of her beyond the fact that she isn't working for Aizen, a second Witch appears and helps the first escape. The group discusses the incident briefly, and the blond sums it up by saying "I guess we have to see if Uruhara's been hiding any more doomsday weapons in people's souls." Before Rei can decipher what this all means, the dark-haired girl walks over to the crowd of civilians and pulls out a device the size of a cigarette lighter. Rei (and everyone else) blacks out.
When she comes to, the group is gone. She also appears to have two sets of memories about what just happened. The version that included the attack, and a version in which a reckless driver caused all the damage and then took off. Everyone else seems to think the damage was done by the reckless driver, and their stories are amazingly consistent with each other.
Rei knows that the Senshi will need to know of this incident - and that she will need to figure out exactly what is going on here.
Who is this Uruhara who creates doomsday weapons and hides them in people's souls? Who is this Aizen who seeks them and what does he want with them? Who were those kids who destroyed the Daimons with such ease and they erased all evidence that they were there?
All these questions and more Rei will need to answer in order to solve the mystery and protect the general population.
...
Additional comments:
Experience with Yoruichi will make the group from Karakura unimpressed with the Mau. A non-Mau talking cat will surprise the Senshi a lot more.
Any encounter between in-uniform Senshi and Kon the Possessed and Perverted Plushie will likely end with Kon getting stomped/smacked/exorcized/blasted.
Since all of the people from Karakura have first person experience with healing spells, they would see absolutely nothing wrong with Hotaru's powers. As a Kido specialist, Rukia might even try to teach her some more tricks. If the knowledge is automatically passed on to Mistress 9, that might be a bad thing.
Aizen and Prof. Tomoe should encounter each other at some point. Whether they allie with each other or come to blows is open to interpretation. I can see Aizen wanting to use heart crystals and the Talismans to further enhance his Arrancars (hence the title), and Tomoe wanting to use Aizen's research and tools to make super daimons. The question is whether they would share or try to steal from each other.
My selection of Rei as the person to first encounter the Bleach gang was based on the fact that she would be the one most likely to be able to see a shinigami. If she could learn reiatsu techniques from someone in the group, that would be an interesting plot point.
Would Moon's healing spells affect Ichigo's inner Hollow, or Ishida's burnt out powers? It would be plausible for her to try it and see.
I have no suggestions for the lame CANON filler material called Karakura Superheroes. Kanonji is my least favorite character by a long shot and all the episodes/chapters he's been in after his first appearance are lame.
