Epilogue

"You can't say that was a boring mission," Jake concluded. He, Risa, Ichigo, and Jen were at the airport seeing off the SRU members and wishing them a safe trip to Canada. The Hogwarts term had ended and it was now summer. Jen was worried that England would be thrown into further turmoil because of the events at the ministry but because Risa's mission statement had run out that was no longer her concern. The Order would have to figure that out themselves.

"You'll come to Canada next right?" Sam asked Risa.

"Maybe, it depends on where they wanna deport me, how annoying I am. If I piss them off enough then maybe," she said.

"I'm not going to Canada," Jen scoffed. "It's made of ice."

Her remark earned her a slap upside the head from Jules. Jen shrunk back slightly and was oddly quiet. Somehow the female SRU member was able to inspire Byakuya-like fear in Jen. Jake was wary.

"We'll try to at least visit," he said in answer to Sam's previous question.

With the agreement made the SRU embarked on their journey back to Canada leaving the Soul Reapers in the busy London airport.

"I don't know about you guys," Jake said as they came up to the black rental Mercedes. "But I kinda feel bad about starting a revolution and leaving the underdogs to clean it up."

"Hey," Risa said as Jake hit the gas. "Mission was simple, raise awareness and we did so yeah don't feel guilty."

Jake drove off, the speedometer inching its way up the dial

~*~*~*~*~*~

Three days later the soul reaper team was back in the Soul Society where they belonged. The SRU had made it back to Canada safely and were reviewing their task in the ministry. Greg had agreed to send Risa their evaluation if she agreed to do the same and she did. After a three hour grace period the team including the members who were sent out halfway through, were sitting in the D-9 office. Though it was nothing like the conference room in the room of requirement it felt more comfortable. Risa sat on her desk while Marcus sat in her chair his feet resting on her desk acting like the head honcho. Everyone else was spread out sporadically.

"Hey, guys," Risa called them into order. "We need to evaluate the mission and the ministry event separately."

"Kay," Marcus said doodling on some spare paper.

"Firstly," Risa began. She hated speechmaking now. "I would like to say congratulations on surviving one of the most fucked up years at Hogwarts."

"Here, here!" Jake and Jack called. Risa continued.

"So with that in mind, we succeeded in our mission in general but the ministry fiasco is a whole other story. Any comments?"

"We could have organized better," Shuhei said. "We just plowed in without a real game plan and I think that's what hindered our efficiency."

"I don't think we had any real business getting involved in the first place," Jack said. "Isolationism is good policy."

"Once inside we could have split our units a little bit better," Rukia said. "They were really pell-mell and just not efficient."

"We could have focused on who we brought a little bit more," Jen said. "I think less numbers would have been better we had a lot and it was hard to keep tabs on them."

Risa looked at them taking in all their comments.

"Ok, I think we have a list on what we need to improve on, if were going to be a unit on future missions I think this is a good thing so we'll fix our problems now and next mission it'll go a lot smoother." And she dismissed her team on that note.

~*~*~*~*~

Later Risa walked up to the head captain's office. The giant number one loomed over her as the guards opened the door to let the young captain in. The other twelve were already assembled, evens on the left, odds on the right with Yamamoto in the middle. Risa slid into her spot between Kenpachi and Komamura. Jake shot her a small wave from the end of the line.

"Now that Uchimani has decided to grace us with her presence," Yamamoto started. "Let us here from her how her year in England went."

Oh god, Risa thought not this again.

She took a deep breath and stepped forward slightly and began her tale from the beginning. Jake was a huge help and interjected the right comments at the right moments. Byakuya and Jushiro helped with nods and comments and Kenpachi added his own flare to certain parts of the tale. A full twenty minutes later Risa concluded with the evaluation three hours ago.

Yamamoto surveyed Risa for a second. He looked at Byakuya and Jushiro in turn before focusing on Risa again.

"Uchimani-taichou," Yamamoto started again. "I cannot give this mission a pass."

Risa felt the color drain from her face. She opened her mouth in protest but the old man cut her off.

"I revoked your mission for a reason and the entire fiasco at the ministry proves you blatantly disobeyed my orders and acted on your own accord putting your team's life and the lives of the Canadian back up unit in danger. Therefore I cannot give you a mission pass."

"My mission statement was to raise awareness to the current situation!" Risa protested. "You gave me this mission based on prior experience and the SRU is equivalent to the stealth force, we needed help! I did the logical thing!"

"He's saying you disobeyed orders," Byakuya explained. "After your authority was revoked the charter went to me, but since it was I sent you thinking it would help the mission purpose then you cannot be failed."

"But you…"

"I sent you, you went on my orders," Byakuya said sternly. He turned to Yamamoto. "I sent Uchimani-san to the Ministry with the order to do what was needed and therefore she cannot be blamed since I was in charge. And being that my order was able to help her achieve her mission statement then I do not see why she should not pass."

Yamamoto was silent for a moment.

"Very well, Uchimani you have cleared your mission statement so please standby for the next one. You are all dismissed for the time being and we meet again tomorrow to discuss some other matters."

The captains filed out. Byakuya passed Risa and she grabbed his robe.

"What was that?' She asked him

"You worked too hard all year to have your pride shattered so shamelessly. I stepped in because we as G-13 captains defend each other even against our own." He walked past her and Risa smirked in spite of herself. She punched her right fist into her left hand bringing the icy blue fire back into her eyes. She skipped down the stairs of the building humming to herself:

"Because when I arrive

I, I bring the fire

Make you come alive

I can take you higher

What this is, forgot

I must now remind you

Let it rock let it rock LET IT ROCK!"