68 Catch Them All

Shinji sat in his office and drank tea. He looked through the paperwork in front of him nonchalantly and completed a few. Orihime had spent a lot of time thinking about the plan to expand her pool of mind's and decided the first step would be to exploit the captain position. Therefore, every few days Shinji would invite a few people to drink together and when they passed out, she would take one of their memories. She made sure to leave most of it intact to just seem like a really bad drinking binge. Unfortunately, there seemed to be a minimum requirement to form an ego, any less would just blend with Orihime's main ego and cause some minor confusion.

Because of this, she could only take from fifth seat or higher members. Fortunately, most of them were avid drinkers. In the last month, she had managed to get a sample from Momo Hinamori, Shuhei Hisagi, Tetsuzaemon Iba, Yasochika Iemura, Izuru Kira, and Ikkaku Madarame. There were a few she had difficulty inviting or did not want to mess with their heads. The people she avoided were anyone from division twelve, since she couldn't predict the extent of Mayuri's madness.

Orihime also avoided anyone from division one, since Yamamoto could likely sense something wrong, even slightly, with those close to him. Currently, she avoided inviting any of the members of the women's organization since it would be inappropriate to have them blackout drunk and they were quite intuitive to each other.

And finally, she avoided Renji, because she discovered that her goading a long time ago had finally made them take that last step with Rukia. However, that led her to her current predicament that she could not have anticipated. This was yet another drinking night that she had set up and Shinji had just arrived to the venue. Many familiar faces were there, mostly those she had already taken from. Her target today was Sentaro Kotsubaki, the third seat of division thirteen. However, just as people started to talk amongst each other and the jovial atmosphere intensified, Renji came bursting through the venue door.

"Lieutenant Abarai, what's that matter?"

"What's the matter!? You guys have been drinking together for the last month but never invited me!"

"Alright, alright, calm down. I was just being considerate to give you and Miss Kuchiki some time."

"Since that's the case, you wouldn't mind me joining as well!"

Shinji controlled his expression, but knew something was wrong. Rukia and Renji had both showed up. This situation was too dangerous so he decided to bail. After they sat down, Shinji stood up and walked over to the side.

"I'll go get some more bottles then, since we will be having more people."

"Don't mind that, I brought some from my personal collection."

When Shinji heard that voice come from the door, and saw Shunsui step in, he knew it was time to run. He had already assumed his strange behavior would be discovered, but Yhwach would be at full power in a few months and Orihime wasn't going to mess around. The plan was devised to collect as many samples in a short time without causing massive chaos in Soul Society. A few drunk amnesiacs were overlooked until it kept happening. Shinji could see the looks on the uninvited trio's faces and sighed. Shinji's body evaporated into spirit particles.

Somewhere outside of the Seireitei, inside an abandoned building in south Rukon district, Orihime opened her eyes. She had spent several weeks in Hueco Mundo practicing and was able to remotely control one puppet at a time. Orihime had several barriers and seals set up around the room and on her body to prevent her overwhelming spiritual power from leaking.

It was really annoying, since mindless Hollows would constantly attack her in Hueco Mundo due to her recent change. Even her Arrancar had difficulty keeping away from her. They were practically in heat! Orihime decided to escape and create seals in the exile regions of Soul Society. Once she was confident, she initiated her clone's plan. Fortunately, she was able to acquire more clones than she calculated before being discovered. The hardest part was constantly teleporting back and forth in order to do the memory stripping.

"Luckily, it was Shunsui and not Yamamoto. Looks like it's time to retreat and consolidate my strength."

A portal opened next to her and she quickly entered it. The seals and barriers were set to expire on their own so she wasn't worried about evidence being discovered. When she arrived in Hueco Mundo, she was immediately confronted by Tier. Orihime expected to be assaulted like before, but instead she noticed the serious look on her face.

"What is it?"

"A group of Quincy have holed themselves up in one of the outer bases."

"When did this happen?"

"It hasn't been long, only half a month."

"Alright, let's go then."

Orihime was really confused about this situation. According to the main timeline, any Quincy to arrive would be a force designated to recruit the Hollows or wipe them out. This could have changed because of the last failed attack, but Orihime highly doubted it. That means this group of Quincy were possibly defectors or it was a trap for her. However, if it was a trap it was better to spring it on her own terms, so she gladly went for it.

When Orihime and Tier arrived, Grimmjow and Nelliel were already waiting several kilometers from the base. There were various primitive Quincy barriers and other spirit particle reliant traps set up which caused Orihime to be confused. This was something she only ever saw Uryuu using when he lost his powers. She wondered if this was perhaps a group of Quincy unrelated to Yhwach.

"Why haven't you broken through yet?"

"Tch, I wanted to, but Nelliel thought it was best to wait for you to come back."

"Good job, Nelliel. Let's head down and see what is going on with these vagrants."

The barrier was fairly weak to someone of Orihime's strength. She easily absorbed the spirit particles with her enhanced bloodline. Surprisingly, the concentration of spirit particles was a hundred times the ambient spirit particles in Hueco Mundo. She began to lose herself in absorbing it since it was causing her ocean to fill up and stabilize quickly. However, the concentration soon reached a low point which was unable to maintain the barrier and it all shattered.

Orihime walked in first after pulling Grimmjow back, and what she saw confused her greatly. In front of her were an extremely weak Candice, Giselle, Liltotto, Bambietta, Meninas, and Bernice. These were the six 'female' Sternritter. However, Liltotto, Bernice, and Bambietta were lying on the ground bleeding out. Giselle was in a corner hugging her legs, and only Candice and Meninas were coolheaded.

As soon as Orihime walked in, they took out some antique Quincy weapons and formed bows. Orihime came to a realization and stealthily formed a clone behind her in the shadows. After acquiring many more egos and meditating for over a month, she was able to form a captain-level Bazz-B clone. Currently, only she could bring out his true strength, a clone couldn't suffice.

"What the hell happened? Why are you here?"

"Bazz-B! So, it's true… you did escape to Hueco Mundo. That day you came to us, did you know?" Meninas said.

"Did I know what?"

"That that bastard would betray us…" Candice said.

"Yeah. I knew, because he already did it to me. So can one of you tell me what happened?"

"Yhwach… took our powers. I… I almost died. But Bambie saved m-m-me." Giselle started stammering and crying. The group looked completely out of it and weekend. Orihime looked over at the clone of Bazz-B and nodded. He walked over which caused the group to stiffen.

"Do you want revenge?"

"Revenge!? Against that monster? We have no powers, what can we do? I just want to live." Giselle started to lose it.

"No powers?" Bazz-B pointed one finger up and a blue flame appeared. The room instantly became like an oven. The others looked at him in confusion since he already mentioned losing his powers. Bazz-B walked closer to the group and looked down on the girls that were sitting.

"But how?"

"Join me and you will become stronger than ever. Together, we will take out Yhwach and control the world instead."

Suddenly, the world started shaking and alarms in the secondary base went off. This was a safety measure placed by Aizen to alert to invaders. Bazz-B smiled and looked toward the group of powerless Quincy.

"It seems he has already sent the Jagdarmee, it's now or never."