Kyle 10: Soul Reaper Chapter 2: Quincy Training

I was working inside of the Urahara shop with the kids, sweeping up again like Kisuke asked. I have already learned quite a few new things about trying to sense spirit energy and seeing spirits on my own, even though I seem to not have the best hold on it. Sometimes I might see a flicker, and then I have to transform into an Anur Phaetos form to fully see what it is I have to look at. Tessai keeps trying to remind me not to transform just to see a spirit, but at least I can see flickers easier than I did when I had to fight my first Hollow.

"Oh man!" I yelled. Jinta and Ururu ran out to see what I was looking at.

"Kyle, it's just another random ghost." Jinta said. I groaned. It still just looked like flickers in the air like a Hollow would to me. I can't determine the difference between both the energies yet. Urahara met up with me after the sweeping was done.

"Still having trouble with seeing spirits, are we?" He asked. I nodded. This was getting annoying. "Alright, come on." He said, leading me to the back. He made me sit cross-legged on the ground, while I put the Ultimatrix across my lap.

"Taking it from the top again?" I asked him. He shook his head.

"Nah." He replied. He also sat cross-legged across from me while putting his cane across his lap as well. He looked at me. "You know I won't be able to help you once you go to the Spirit World, right?" He asked me.

"I know. What'll happen if I can't see anything?" I asked him.

"If you can't see anything by the time you get there, it'll be pitch black the entire time, unless you're in a specific form the entire time. That significantly limits your options. I may have to force you to leave your body to make you learn how that works, because training both you and Ichigo is getting hard." He said. I had a tick on my forehead.

"WHY NOT JUST TRAIN US TOGETHER THEN?!" I asked him angrily. Urahara gave me a serious look all of a sudden, making me snap to attention.

"Ichigo can already see spirits without a crutch. Training you and him at the same time would be way too confusing not only for you both, but for me. If you're still having issues, I'm going to have to give you a different training partner that may have more patience for you." He explained. I looked back down to my Ultimatrix, which was still not showing any reaction. It's crazy. I have Chaos powers, Codon energy from my watch, and even Chakra that powers myself up beyond my normal human/Mobian limits if I can call on it. It also lets me utilize very simple Jutsu techniques, at least at the moment. I could learn more later. It was more of a priority for me to learn about how to see spirits over harnessing my other skills at the moment. I went back to focusing on the environment around me.

Urahara said, "Yeah. Try to look for the spirit ribbons. That's your best bet right now. You remember how we discussed many are white while some are red?" I was still trying to see if I could feel anything new. Spirit energy is still foreign, but I can still identify flickers in my environment. That still had not changed.

"Sorry, Mr. Urahara. I still can't locate a ribbon." I told him. He facepalmed.

"God damn…" He muttered. I decided to close my eyes tighter, and used my Chakra to amplify my ability to sense them. I got hit on the head by Urahara's cane.

"HEY!" I yelled as he looked at me.

"You can't use your life energy to focus on spirit energy like that." He said. I just sat down and tried to focus even harder on my ability to sense spirit energy again. These stupid ribbon things I have to find just aren't showing up. I opened my eyes.

"There has to be something I'm missing." I said. Urahara got up.

"We'll get back to this later." He said, heading to the back. Probably to get back to helping Ichigo with whatever he needed to learn. Obviously he's making way more progress than I am. I got up, and went to Tessai.

"You know, Kyle, maybe Urahara's right about you seeking someone to help you understand." He told me. I raised my eyebrow.

"I thought about that. I was thinking about Yoruichi, but I can't see him without transforming." I said. I began to think about training with Orihime or Chad to figure it out. If I can expose myself to that kind of energy, maybe I can gain some actual familiarity with it.

"You think Orihime or Chad may be available to help me?" I asked him.

"It wouldn't hurt." He said. "Exposure is the best way of development, of course. But, maybe there's someone who could help you much better than either of them." He continued. My interest was piqued.

"Go on." I told him.

Tessai responded, "Those two aren't the only ones training to go and save Rukia."

I said, "I know. Ichigo is, too, and-" Tessai interrupted me by getting right into my face immediately. He then said, "I'm not talking about Ichigo. He has a friend that is a Quincy." That was shocking to me.

"What's a Quincy?" I asked him. Tessai sighed.

"Right, you're still new to this. But this is the best way for us to advance your training without getting away from Ichigo's…" The floor shook a lot all of a sudden.

"GAH! What the fuck?!" I yelled.

"Don't worry about that. I'm guessing the next stage in Ichigo's training has started down there." Tessai announced. "Anyway, as I was about to explain, Quincies are an almost extinct race of beings who used to hunt Hollows just to eradicate them from existence instead of preserving the balance. They had to be hunted down by the Soul Reapers thousands of years ago to preserve the balance, because when a Soul Reaper kills a Hollow, the spirit left behind at least goes to Soul Society. The Quincy's arrows kill them outright, resulting in a shift in the balance."

"Seems like Soul Society's main answer to get around problems is to kill the person causing them!" I yelled. Now granted, I have killed before, but I'm pretty sure those people were too dangerous to live. I don't want to just go killing just because. I was getting extremely angry at these people.

"Soul Society reasoned that in order to preserve existence itself, it had to be done. No one knew what would happen if the Quincies were allowed to stay alive. This Quincy I'll have you meet is the last one alive." I looked to Tessai again.

"So… why would this help me?" I asked.

"Quincies are experts in sensing and locating spiritual energy. They are even better than Soul Reapers at utilizing their ability to find specific sources of spiritual pressures. They can kill a Hollow without even physically having to see it. If this Quincy can help you, we can speed the process along." Tessai said.

"But we need to find him, right?" I asked.

"Yes, Mr. Tennyson." Tessai concluded. I looked him dead in the eye.

"We can't afford to be wasting any time, then." I said. Tessai nodded. He dragged me out.

"Wait!" We stopped.

"Yes?" He asked. I got up, then asked, "What about the store?"

Tessai responded, "Well, service is slow at the moment."

"I haven't actually seen anyone stop in our store…" I told him. Even though I got employed, and I am getting paid here, I haven't seen anyone walk up to buy something from us. It never seemed like we had any business, and I was beginning to wonder where our income came from all of a sudden. But I do need to pay off Dr. Kurosaki for his extremely gracious service. He could have just left me out in the cold, but he didn't. He did his job as a clinic doctor and helped me rest up. I feel like I should pay him off. It was only right and what not. Tessai continued to drag me away as I pondered my situation some more. We stopped in the middle of the forest I was sure Orihime and Chad were training in. I saw Chad punching away part of a tree. Chad looked over to see me.

"Oh, Kyle. Hello." He said. Tessai looked to him.

"Is Yoruichi around?" Tessai asked him. I then saw Chad look towards a stump in the distance. I'm guessing he was watching from the stump.

"Yes. Hello, Yoruichi." He said, looking in that direction.

"Can you see him?" Chad asked me. I shook my head.

"Honestly, I've only been seeing flickers of random ghosts. And I've been trying hard." I told him. Chad sighed.

Tessai looked to me. "Seems like he still can't see you." I looked in his direction.

"Oh, should I start talking to him now?" I asked Tessai. Tessai nodded. I transformed into Ghostfreak, and when I looked back at them, I saw Yoruichi looking at me, without any impairment in my case.

Yoruichi said, "Hello, Kyle. If you're seeking me out, I can only imagine you're still having issues with your ability to sense and see spirits." I nodded.

"That's true, Yoruichi." I told him. "Tessai said something about meeting with a Quincy you guys know." Chad looked to me.

"Uryu?" He asked me. I looked to Chad, nodding.

"That's his name?" I phrased it as a question. Chad nodded in agreement, even 'hm'-ing at me. Yoruichi came to me. He motioned for me to follow him. Tessai waved good bye to me.

"Tell me how it goes, Kyle!" He yelled. I flew through the trees after Yoruichi as he leapt through the trees, using branches as footholds. I kept my intangibility up as we flew.

"What's this Uryu guy like?" I asked him.

He replied, "Well, he chose to train on his own because he had other techniques to learn or master that we couldn't help him with. We all know nothing about Quincies learn their techniques. All of us know more about general spirit energy and Soul Reaper techniques. Uryu elected to train on his own. But if he's made aware of your circumstances, he MAY change his mind." I nodded. If this guy was a Quincy, and Ichigo was a Soul Reaper, or getting his Soul Reaper powers back… why would he even remotely consider helping out? At all? If he and Ichigo were old friends, before they knew about their history, I'd understand, but it seemed to me that Rukia was also a Soul Reaper. Why go out of his way to help any Soul Reaper at all?

Once we hit a clearing, we were near a waterfall. There was a guy wearing glasses with a bow on his arm. I say that since he seemed to have the bow extending out of a glove. It looked like he had been shooting it for a while. He was panting as we found him. He was in an orange dress shirt with a tie on, as well as black hair that was longer than most cuts. He turned in our direction, and he saw me as Ghostfreak, then turned around to shoot me with his arrows. I stayed intangible to dodge them, and floated down towards the ground. I then turned back to me, and noticed he was shocked.

"Don't be shocked. I'm not a Hollow, I'm a human! Well… I'm half-alien, but still, a human." Just as I was about to lift up my watch to show him, he shot at me. I teleported using Chaos Control. I then got next to him, knocking his arm upwards, dispelling his bow, and then I flipped him so he landed on his gut, and I restrained his arms behind him as I pinned him down.

"AGH!" He grunted. "What the hell?!" He asked, looking up at me. I was looking angry.

"As I was trying to say, Robin Hood…" I said, then continued, "I am NOT a Hollow. Your arrows won't vaporize me in an instant. I need your help." He kept looking at me angrily, when I heard some grass moving, and he looked in the direction of the grass.

"Yoru… ichi?" He asked. I looked there as well. That's where Yoruichi probably was standing. I kept holding him just in case. Uryu then said, "Then can he let me go?!" so suddenly. I let go of him. He asked me, "You didn't hear a word he said, did you?" I shook my head. "So, you can't see or hear spirits, and you want to help us save Rukia?" He asked. I nodded in agreement.

"I can't do it without seeing Spirits and Hollows. I can't figure it out at-" My Ultimatrix beeped loudly.

"Uncatalogued DNA detected." My arm automatically shot up, and aimed a yellow beam at Uryu. It scanned him, and got him up and down. It then put the faceplate down, and displayed a loading hologram. The Ultimatrix then said, "This sample will take time to load. Time estimating… 10 minutes." Uryu and I looked shocked.

"I knew you were a Quincy, but… I didn't think your DNA would be different enough from mine to add." I told Uryu. He extended his hand out.

"I apologize for attacking you, but your ghostly form does look a little bit like a Hollow. Uryu Ishida." He said. I ended up shaking his hand.

"It's fine. Kyle Tennyson." I told him. "I mean, my name is Kyle Tennyson." Uryu nodded, adjusting his glasses. I smiled at him. "This watch is the source of my powers. The Ultimatrix. This allows me to transform into many different alien forms. Only problem is, I have no ability to use spirit energy, really, except see spirits in a few of my forms. I can't be any help if I don't know how all of this works. I hope you don't mind training me for a while, and I don't want to intrude, but Urahara wasn't being a lot of help. I can only see outlines and hear movements right now." Uryu began to consider what I had to say. As he pondered, my Ultimatrix let out a tick. I looked at it, and it looked like it was trying to connect to another person. The silhouette looked like another person, anyway. It was sending a signal, but it wasn't receiving anything back yet.

"We could use some more help, especially if you have many forms you can utilize to combat many of the potential enemies we could be facing in the Soul Society. Can you give me an accurate estimation of how many forms you have access to?" Uryu asked me.

I was happy to explain, "1,000,935. Soon to be 1,000,936 by the looks of this thing. As soon as it makes a connection to… something shaped like a person?" Uryu's mouth dropped to the ground. "Well, I only know about slightly under 200 of them, though. Should still be plenty!" I said happily.

"I'll say!" Uryu yelled loudly. I chuckled. I haven't had people react like this to my watch in a long time. Then again, I never did give someone here an actual number of my aliens, though. Yoruichi must also be reacting surprised to my claim. I transformed into Snare-Oh again to look at Yoruichi, and of course, as I expected, he was very shocked as expected. I chuckled about it. Yoruichi collected himself, and cleared his throat.

"Yes. It is quite expansive." He admitted. He leapt up into the trees. "I trust you two will be fine for a while, then?" He asked Uryu. Uryu nodded.

"I will help him the best I can. With a roster of one million transformations being added to our combat options, it would be a fool's choice to not accept his help." He raised his glasses up. As he leapt away, I turned back to me.

"So… what do we do first?" I asked him. Uryu mentioned the same thing Urahara was talking about related to spirit ribbons, which are supposed to be parts of trails leading to different spirits, as was mentioned in Urahara's training in the past. He then grabbed at the air, and I felt something tug.

Uryu said, "Maybe Urahara didn't show this to you earlier, but you may be feeling a strong tug right now. This is YOUR spirit ribbon. How does this feel?"

I answered, "Wow… it feels like someone is tugging something within me. It's kind of nuts." As I looked in his direction, I saw it as a streak of white mist now. It took a second, but I saw it. Maybe he's trying to speed my training along as safely as possible?... Or is it something else? He kept going.

"If you were a Soul Reaper, this would be red. If you were anything else, it would be white, like yours is. This should be a definite odd feeling. They can also be cut." He said, as he briefly demonstrated it. It felt bad, but not painful. "It isn't a bad thing if it gets cut, but I bet it certainly has a bad feeling. That's how Ichigo seemed to react anyway." I saw the white mist fall to the ground, and it felt clearer than it was before. My Ultimatrix made another beep.

"Connection established." The Ultimatrix said. I looked at it again, and Uryu looked at it with me. It seemed that the connection had been found, and it was synching up properly. There was then a loading bar. I never had this happen when I got a form before. This connection was getting stronger. It felt like the Ultimatrix was connecting to another person. Like that person was transferring files to me, and I was sending something to them as well. Uryu looked worried, and even I began to admit something was up. The loading bar seemed to speed up considerably, and when I tried to pull the watch down, it beeped again to show the transfer was complete. It put up a hologram of a teenaged human with a cloak-jacket on. My eyes narrowed. Was this thing tampering with my watch?

Uryu asked, "Is this normal for the Ultimatrix?" I shook my head.

"No…" I answered. "It usually just gives me the form. I never had to wait for a data transfer before. Did we just transfer something to someone elsewhere?" I looked to him. Uryu looked very worried.

"We'll tell the others after we get Rukia back. We'll need all the help we can get." He answered. I agreed. We needed help from everyone we trust, I suppose. Uryu then tasked me with trying to grab his spirit ribbon, which I admitted Urahara never had me try to do. I had to do so without transforming into Snare-Oh, Ghostfreak, or any of my other forms like that. I was trying to concentrate on seeing if I could find a white mist like I saw before when mine was grabbed. Uryu seemed like he was waiting for me to concentrate on a spirit ribbon. He wasn't rushing me yet, but I was in a pose like I was about to run. Uryu knew I wasn't going to run unless I saw it. Maybe it was easier to see mine once I felt it being grabbed, but man, it was very hard to concentrate on a different one for me. I was standing there, looking at Uryu for minutes at a time. We were frozen, staring at each other. I then sighed, collapsing to my knees.

Uryu said, "Yes, I was getting rather bored as well. Just when I thought you were waiting for me to be off guard." I shook my head.

"No…" I replied. "I was hoping you would think that and I would get lucky, but-" He gave me a grave look.

"This mission will not be a game, Kyle. It's the real deal. We could die if we screw it up. Any one of us. The Soul Society will probably have people stronger than most, if not all of us!" He said. "I understand your abilities will give you the most versatility and strengths compared to the rest of us, but you also have many exploitable weaknesses depending on what they are and how powerful you are. Each form must be related to your current ability, correct?"

I replied, "Actually, no. Each form is the prime specimen of the species in question. Each of my forms are different DNA samples of different alien races. Their power levels are pretty independent of my own. Most of the time. I can transfer my Chakra… or living energy… into my forms to boost their overall effectiveness, or my Chaos power to do things like power up their energy-based moves, or teleport, like I did before. I can also evolve my forms into their Ultimate or Giga evolved states, making them even stronger. It involves millions of years of evolution in a simulation for Ultimate. My Giga Forms tend to blend my Chaos power into the Ultimate forms even more than normal to enhance their effectiveness, or even change their skills and appearances altogether, though evolution is still a factor." Uryu was very intrigued by this exposition.

"You already seem to trust me quite well…" Uryu said.

"Well, I did scan your Quincy DNA. I kind of want to have a more open connection to you. Most of the other people I scanned DNA from wanted to kill me, so this will be a first." I explained. I mean, I got Chaotix and Terramorph from Kevin, but he didn't become my friend until later. Being a close friend with the source of my Quincy DNA now seemed like a great idea. I wanted these people to know that I was with them to save this girl and I wanted to convince the Soul Society that they did not need to just kill outright to get their point across. Granted, as I said, I have killed before, but only when I had to. Not just to enforce laws. They need to understand that. Uryu smirked.

"You may just be able to turn into one, but it will be good to have another Quincy around for once. I'm the last one." He said.

"I heard that from Urahara and Tessai beforehand. I'm sorry that happened." I said. I almost told him I could resurrect his race with the watch, but I didn't want to say that immediately, especially because of the balance disruption the Quincies caused in the past. I didn't want to cause the apocalypse of this realm, as much as I thought Uryu should not be the only one. Maybe I could help him out? But at the same time… it was downloading info from another source.

"I do have an idea, though. Can you access and transform into the Quincy form right now?" He asked me. I nodded.

"I should be able to do it now." I pulled the hologram up again, and slapped the faceplate down to transform. I felt only a very small change physically. My hair grew longer and changed from blonde to black, and my clothes changed into a crimson trench coat that also had a tattered white collar. It went all the way down to my feet. I seemed to get a stubble on my chin, along with red shades on my face. There wasn't much there. I raised the cloak up to reveal a white shirt with a red Ultimatrix symbol on it. There were some blue lines on it. My name immediately came into my head.

"Hochroter Engel." I said. I surprised myself, it sounded so German for me. The instincts for the powers flew into my head at an amazing rate. Even faster than with my other forms. I looked at Uryu, and saw his Spirit Ribbon like I was searching for to begin with, but I also saw several ribbons going in many directions. Some red ones as well as some white ones. I didn't feel sensory overload, but I did feel like a new world of senses opened up to me. I looked at Uryu directly, and vanished, then grabbed Uryu's ribbon.

"Got it." I said. Uryu turned to me, surprised. "Oh, right. I was supposed to be me." I said. I changed back to me. Suddenly, the ribbon vanished from my sight, but I knew I was still holding it, and it was a much more clear white mist than it was before. Hochroter Engel really helped me finally understand the difference between spirit energy and my 'life' energy I had been using my whole life. I released Uryu's spirit ribbon.

"Hey, what was that speed thing I used?" I asked him. Uryu was still shocked, but finally took a deep breath when I turned back into me.

"It's called Hirenkyaku. Quincies use the skill primarily to increase their speed and ride spirit energy to do so. You were not kidding when you said that was a prime example of a Quincy, now that I have a frame of reference to compare your Hirenkyaku to. I am an expert in it as well." He began to move around very fast, demonstrating the effectiveness of his Hirenkyaku powers here. I kept looking around, trying to follow him as he blitzed around the place. He stopped behind me. I turned around to see him.

"It seems from that one transformation into the Quincy state, you learned the distinction between life energy and spirit energy. You learn very quickly once you're presented with the proper material. It makes me wonder why your watch never scanned Urahara to learn about being a Soul Reaper. That would have also helped you greatly." I had to shrug on that one. Uryu pushed me so many steps ahead in so little time! He pulled out his bow.

"If you would like some extra tutelage in the general abilities of the Quincy, I can show you how we fight." I nodded, transforming into Hochroter Engel a second time. He still winced as he saw me do this, but I wasn't primarily concerned about that right now, though my first conclusion is that I may have resembled someone he did not like in this form, or my energy in this form felt similar to something he didn't like. Or I'm reading too much into it, and he's basically just still surprised I can transform. He'll get used to it in time. He was helping me by making sure I could summon my bow and shoot arrows effectively in it. I was never a good archer myself, I was much better with thrown balls of fire or streams/beams of an attack, for example. Using a bow felt foreign, but good. It wasn't hard to grasp, almost as if this form was meant to naturally be able to do this. It flowed into my head over time, pretty quickly in fact. We worked to enhance my accuracy with the bow. He wanted me to hit in similar areas that he fired his arrows into, if not close. He also wanted me to keep up with his Hirenkyaku, but that was very easy for me to do. He decided my ability to pick up these things quickly would help me very quickly master the rest of the skills I needed to learn. We ended up training together into the night.

Uryu said to me, "I think you should be set. Your archery needs work, but otherwise, whatever other lessons you'll need to learn from Urahara should be enough." I nodded.

"Thanks, man! I hope once Ichigo's done, we can all get together and be pals." I exclaimed. I changed back to me, beginning to head back to Urahara's store. As I remembered the way walking back, I felt a spirit ribbon that seemed to just swing past my face as I ran. I turned, looking in the direction of it. I ran in the direction of it. There was a person on top of a building, looking down in my direction. He seemed not to immediately realize I was rushing at him, and when he saw I was heading for him, the expression on his face changed to surprise. He began to get on the move, when I active Chaos Control.

"CHAOS… CONTROL!" I yelled, activating my technique. His eyes widened. I ended up coming from behind him, and tackling him off the building, and I finally got a good look at the person. He had black hair that was pretty messy with a single bang between his eyes, which were blue. He also had a scar on the left side of his lip. He grunted, and sped off. Now it was my turn for my eyes to widen.

"Hirenkyaku?" I said. I grew out my spikes, rolling into a ball to rush at the next place he would end up in. He summoned energy claws from his hands, looking similar to Wolverine's adamantium claws, and blocked me, forcing me to make an indent into a building.

"So you're the one that pulled information out of His Majesty's head. I must demand that you return it." I looked at him. The guy was dressed in white robes, with the lower part of a trench coat flapping around in the wind that was blowing. I saw the claws disappear. I jumped out of the hole in the wall.

"I don't know who 'His Majesty' is." I told him. "But if you wanted to fight, you picked the WRONG time to pick one, dumbass!" I transformed into Heatblast, and shot a flamethrower. He dodged me, and came at me with his Hirenkyaku again, and extended his claws out again. I swung at him again, with my fist being lit on fire, and managed to graze him with some embers, and he then kicked me through the city. I didn't want to cause damage, but it seems to be unavoidable here. I transformed into Fasttrack, and zoomed at him again. I kept up with him by also throwing in some Chakra to boost my speed more. I landed a flying kick to his cheek, and began to punch him in the chest. Then there was a sudden clang, and he only flew back an inch before I ran into him again, constantly barraging punches into his chest and gut, making many clangs, and he did not budge. He kicked my face into the ground.

"YOW!" I yelled. He stomped on my head as well.

"Now that I have found the source of the information, being you, I will take you back to the-" I exploded again, becoming Rath.

"RAAATH! LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, METAL-COVERED QUINCY GUY! RATH HAS A BETTER IDEA! RATH IS GONNA KEEP POUNDING YOU UNTIL YOUR IRON SKIN BREAKS! YAAHH!" I swung at him, and slammed my claw into his armor, cracking it. He yelled in pain. His power just straight up makes his skin metal?! SHIT! That helps me in so many ways here! He completely covered his skin in armor, and then made his claws, slashing at me again. He seemed very annoyed with me here. I pounded him with another punch, but his body glowed in blue streaks. He slashed me across the chest, making me roar. I elbowed him into the ground, and ran up the top of a building.

"FROM THE TOP ROPE! URSA MAJOR BODY SLAM!" He summoned a bow, and was shooting iron covered arrows at me. I turned into Nanomech midflight, and shrunk to bug size to avoid them, then grew back to normal human size, shooting lasers at him, and they bounced off of his skin. I turned into Fourarms, rushing at him again as he dodged my punch, making me shake the ground. More iron arrows were shot at me as I turned into Goop. The shots went through me, and I began to shoot goop balls at him. He saw them splat around him, and as soon as he landed, the goop hit him right on the shoulder. He grunted in pain as the goop began to dissolve his armor skin. He dispelled it, and re-made the skin.

"My power, The Iron, will not be defeated my mere acid, human. Your shapeshifting powers are impressive, but you have yet to transform into a form that can affect me." The Iron Quincy said. I narrowed my gaze, then a light bulb went off in my head internally. I hit my symbol, turning into Lodestar.

"LODESTAR!" I yelled. I pointed my hand at him, and exerted my ability over magnetism onto him. I slammed him through many of the buildings, and walked out to keep him pinned into the ground.

"Seems your iron is still subjected to my magnetic personality, even if it is magic." I stated, chuckling. He undid the iron over his body, and shot at me with regular arrows. I transformed into Hochroter Engel now, and exerted spirit energy over my hands, grabbing all of the arrows. I saw my arm was glowing in the blue light as well.

"Hm. Nice ability. Figured I could do it if I saw you do it." I said. The guy stopped fighting now, in utter shock. "What?" I asked him.

"His… Majesty's… old form?!" He kneeled before me all of a sudden. I raised my eyebrow.

"What ARE you talking about?" I asked him, changing back to me. He looked up to see me again. He then looked angered.

"You dare take the form of His Majesty?" He asked angrily. I facepalmed.

"WHO IS HIS MAJESTY?!" I asked him. My ears were practically blowing steam. He froze, noticing my genuine confusion. I then pulled up my Ultimatrix so he could see it.

"This watch turns me into other forms! I can be a Quincy now, yes, but I had no idea I looked like the old Quincy King or whoever!" I realized there must be something Uryu didn't like about the guy, then. Maybe he was responsible in some way for the near-extinction of the race? Then, if this dude is a Quincy… why is he in hiding? Did my scanning of Uryu trigger something in a hidden area?

"You seem to have stumbled into something you don't quite understand fully. You have met Uryu Ishida as far as I can tell. You obtained the form from Ishida somehow… and His Majesty sensed this. He felt information leaving his mind, and he had to relearn it. I was sent by the Grandmaster to find out the source of this impairment. I went to the town it was detected in, and found you. You forged a link to His Majesty via your new transformation." Iron Quincy said.

"How about a name, Iron Man? Mind telling me that?" I asked him.

"Cang Du. Come with me." Cang said. I didn't move with him.

"Sorry, man, I have to go through preparations to save a Soul Reaper that's going to be wrongfully executed. Plus, it's late. I gotta get some sleep for my job tomorrow. I work for this guy, Kisuke Urahara, and-" He froze, turning to look at me.

"I'm willing to be somewhat flexible. I will meet you here first thing in the morning tomorrow."

"Nah." I answered, with my hands behind my head. "I'll talk to you after work and training. If you want to meet me when I train on my own, I'll meet you then." Cang looked annoyed at me.

"You have no idea at all about the forces you involved by obtaining the Quincy form. It's bad enough you denied my request to meet first thing in the morning tomorrow."

"Is that a threat?!" I responded. "Just come at me. I'll just go Lodestar and pin you down again." He winced, remembering how I trapped him and gained control over him. He decided to relent for now.

"The Grandmaster should have sent someone else here…" He admitted, using Hirenkyaku to get away.

"Well… that was something. Should I tell Urahara about this?" I wondered.

To be continued.

A/N: Oh yeah, Stern Ritter I, Cang Du appears. Seemed logical to have at least one Stern Ritter show up to investigate the Quincy DNA scan source. Yhwach definitely would have felt it, and he at least would have his body and intelligence at this point. Maybe at least some of his power back as well by now. Would he get involved himself? I don't think so, and maybe Cang was entirely the wrong Stern Ritter to send, but I wanted to give him some more screen time. Hell, maybe I should have had BG9 or Lille show up to get info instead, but… Wolverine claws guys. That's my only justification.

Anyway, hope this was a decent chapter. The Soul Reaper part will come later. As to how… I'll leave it up to you to guess.