I own only the stories under the penname scapheap, the characters of bleach are Tite Kubo's and Alex Mercer and Blackwatch belong to Radical Entertainment I think, they do own the copyright, right?

Hollow 2.0

Chapter 1:Negligible

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This story of blood and battle start on a quiet night. The setting is a large town know as Karakura town following a black hair teenage with a boyish figure, her blue eyes sweeping around the empty streets. Her name is Tatsuki Arisawa, a student at the Karakura High School and right now she is taking a walk to nowhere in particular. At least at first it was.

Sounds of bangs and crashing drifted through the air, faint at first, no more than a suggestion of something which drew Tatsuki toward it. Now they were loud and were just around that corner. Tatsuki knew she should probable leave, but she wanted to know what was making that racket.

She turned the corner and spotted a fight between some soldiers and a man in a black jacket. Something hit her waist and a saying came to her as she watched her legs fly away lacking anything above the waist 'Curiosity killed the cat'.

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The man in the black jacket kicked a soldier into the wall, the sound of a neck snapping didn't give high hopes for the man. Jacket man name was Alex Mercer or ZEUS as some in the know called him. His black hair and blue eyes along with his overall human-like appearance, one would guess him to be a human, but as his arm melted into a claw that pulled off someone head before changing back, one could see this as an incorrect assumption. Alex was a virus incarnate, the man-made Blacklight created by Blackwatch to wipe out whole races, stole by a scientist who noticed his colleagues were dying in mysterious ways and ran. Blackwatch caught up and he broke the vial which took over his body and became him.

Mercer lazily avoided a rocket coming at him before shooting the idiot that fired a rocket launcher in an alley. Mercer noted that the rocket seem to of hit a soft target than the wall judging by the sounds. He turned to the remaining two soldiers standing next to each other. Mercer just swung his arm, which change to a gauntlet thing that stretched, killing them in one go.

He counted the bodies. Mercer had been here raiding a Blackwatch base and found another vial of blacklight. Seem Blacklight wished to create another him, but had change the strain to not replace the mind of the host so they didn't have to deal with a unknown persona. However on the way out, a scouting party of Blackwatch which was searching for something completely different, ran into him.

Mercer eyes looked at a body that did not belong here. Black hair, pale skin, female, teenage, missing everything below the waist, another innocent caught in the crossfire.

A movement of her chest show she wasn't as dead as she seem, but Mercer had already wrote her off 'The only way she could possible live is if she had...my regeneration.' Alex pulled out the modified Blacklight 'It not like I have a use for this anyway.' Looking at the dying teen, he gripped the vial firmly in his fist which he ploughed into her chest, the sound of breaking glass could be heard just over the sound of tearing flesh.

Alex withdraw his fist, avoiding tendrils bursting out of the teen's chest, seeking materials to rebuild. Jumping out the way, Alex watched the teen unconsciously devour the nearby bodies, bones then flesh then skin form her legs, her burn marks disappearing as well.

Mercer grabbed the tendrils before they could return to the girl, his tendrils seeking them. A brief struggle occur, Mercer's overpowering the young blacklight and devouring it.

Mercer's eyes change and look over the girl 'One hundred percent human, good!' eyes shifting back to normal, he look at the alley 'Handled clean up too, not even a blood stain.' Picking up the unconscious teen, he rile through the memory of his victims, finding someone watching the girl in his arms opening the door of a flat.

"Better than nothing." he said to no one.

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The sound of knocking woke up a orange hair teenage with quite large breasts and blue hairpins called Orihime Inoue from her dreams. She opened the door to a odd slight of a intimidating blue eyed man holding her good friend Tatsuki in his arms.

Stepping away from the doorway, she told the man to put Tatsuki on the couch before grilling him.

"Why is Tatsuki unconscious?" "No idea, just found her like that." "How did you know to take her here?" "Saw her once coming here. How long this game of 20 questions going to take? I need to catch a plane." "Fine last question, your name?" "Alex Mercer, farewell."

Alex left, leaving Orihime to care for Tatsuki.

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As ZEUS left Japan on a air-plane, he had miss three factors that even if he had be aware of them, he would of label them negligible.

The first was the fact that Karakura town was rich in spirit particles, which before now Blacklight had no dealing with which would change very quickly.

The second was the human Alex Mercer was a spiritual weak person and thus the virus Alex, even through he had a large amount of reiryoku from the amount of people his has devoured, he just had no clue what to with it. Tatsuki on the other hand, is a very spiritual strong person and thus her Blacklight knew how to use it's reiryoku, if only a little.

The final factor was a orange hair teenage called Ichigo Kurosaki taking up a black hair Shinigami called Rukia Kuchiki's sword and stabbing himself with it at the same time as Alex devouring the blacklight, leading to a sudden rise in spirit particles which the Tatsuki's blacklight used to fuel a soul hop into the nearest soul that it could hide in, Tatsuki Arisawa.

It would be a while before Alex found out about the Blacklight's survival.

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Not a lot to say here, this is based on the project Arisawa challenge by someone I can't remember the name of, please help. It a little different from the guidelines, mainly Alex's survival, but that because I have a role for him.

Anyway review, flame or lurk.