Author's Notes:

This chapter is a crossover with nicranger's story Hichigo In Equestria

"Are you really asking me if I cannot hack a panel?" Church asks me as he facepalms.

“No. I’m just wondering how long it will take you before some asshole’s show up and start shooting at us. Cause I already sense a ton of souls heading in our direction.”

"Souls without organic bodies right?"

“Yeah. That’s probably what a mod soul feels like when not in an organic body or gigai.”

"Huh. Gigai?"

“An artificially made organic body for soul reapers and mod souls to possess while in the land of the living. Usually looks exactly like the shinigami him or herself.”

"Sounds fucked up."

“Yeah but from what I hear they are not that difficult to make as long as you have a basic idea on how to do it.”

"Kinda like basic immortality?"

“If you can make enough replica’s of the same body with a way to transfer yourself from one to the next than yeah. Believe it or not that I do age just VERY slowly. I will more than likely outlive the Princesses ten times over before even showing a sign of aging.”

"Good thing I don't age at all, unlike regular AI who go rampant."

“Yeah. Now you might want to hurry up with that terminal cause in about thirty seconds we’re gonna have company from the right hallway.”

Suddenly forerunner turrets come out from the ceiling and aim at where they are coming from. Over twenty turrets appear by the time I'm done gaping.

"Those were there the whole time and they didn't attack us?!"

"Why would they? Nobody told them to." I facepalm at that.

Just then over twenty enemy Promethean Knights, crawlers and watchers come into the turrets' radius and are eliminated quickly.

"Glad those turrets are helping us. You have no idea how easy but hard to kill these Prometheans are."

“Duly noted. Can you send a map of the ship to my helmet along with Virgil’s?” Church does and I stare blankly at it. I can't even read this shit!

“Uh care to find me a direct path to the bridge? Cause I can’t read this thing worth a shit.”

"Just follow me you doofus." Church says as he sets off in a direction.

“Touchy, touchy. Come on Virg get that extraterrestrial ass movin!”

"Is that how you flirt? Because that is sad. Even for you."

“No if I wanted to flirt with you I would start at your face and then work my way down.” I say matter-of-factly.

"..."

"..."

“Hey you asked I answered.”

"..."

“Please talk to me. I hate awkward silences.”

"..."

“You're doing this on purpose aren’t you?”

"..."

"..."

"Maybe..."

“Damnit! What the hell do you want from me!?”

"Ih-uh-uh."

“What the hell does that mean!? Was that even a real statement or just a bunch of sounds!?”

"You tell me." Virgil retorts.

“You are a damn mystery, woman.”

"Are you insulting me?"

“No but it's damn frustrating! I don’t know what to do around you that doesn’t make me look like a complete idiot and it's driving me insane!” Church titters at that.

"I'm only female..." Virgil whispers.

“God damnit now I feel like a complete ass.” I sigh heavily.

"Why haven't we encountered more forerunners?" Church asks in a voice that clearly shows just how much of a bad feeling he has.

“More than likely they’re setting up an ambush down the way. Let me go first as my skin can take more punishment than you guys. Plus I heal quicker.” As I say this I step a good three feet in front of the Others while drawing Zangetsu with my right hand and a plasma pistol in my left.

"Do you heal quickly from energy blasts that disintegrate at an atomic level?"

“At most it will slow my regeneration down a tad but not too much. If I pump some energy to the area it will heal almost instantly.”

"Ok good because just one blast from them can disintegrate an entire squad of covenant in a few seconds."

“Good to know but get ready cause I’m sensing a lot of enemies behind this door. About fifteen on the right and left with thirty straight in front.”

"Kilo Alpha Whiskey." (Kill all watchers) Church says to Virgil. "India kilo charlie." (I'll kill crawlers) He looks at me. "Yankee kilo tango romeo." (You kill the rest)

I nodded in agreement and proceed to open the door. As soon as it was open a hail of fire was shot towards us. Thinking quickly I bring up Zangetsu and use it as a shield blocking most of the beams while the others just grazed us. Throwing a frag grenade that was attached to my belt, it detonates in the the center of the group straight ahead of us causing some confusion.

Using this moment I charge forward while shooting my plasma pistol. As I reach the group I throw away the sidearm and go to town with Zangetsu as I cleave through their metal bodies easily.

Looking at Church and Virgil I see them having little to no trouble in taking down the other two groups. In a little under a minute every forerunner in the room is a smoking pile of scrap. Virgil was a little charred as well as Church while my armor had plenty of smoking holes in it revealing my pale white skin underneath.

“Well that was a good scrap. What about you guys?” They could practically hear the smile in my voice as I said this.

"I don't care what you say. You are fucking Japanese." Church says in a tone that nearly made me shiver. But not in fear, no. Laughter. Until I couldn't hold it in anymore.

“Hahahaha! You act like it's a bad thing! How about you Virgil? What do you think?”

"I will never understand men."

“And I will never understand women so I guess we’re even!” Virgil just shakes her head at me.

“Ah you like me just admit it! Okay that was a Hichigo moment right there.”

"You're talking to yourself again."

“Sorry about that. So now we should get a move on. There aren’t any more enemies from here until the bridge but that could change if we wait too long.”

"But dad!"

“Oh shut up! If you want to treat me like your dad than I will resort to spanking and I’m almost positive you don’t want that to happen!.”

"Have you seen the movie Unbroken?"

“No it never caught my interest, why?”

"Nevermind, you wouldn't understand."

“Whatever now get moving or I get ta spanking. And I will use Zangetsu as a paddle.” To emphasize this I hold Zangetsu as if it was a paddle with the flat side facing them.

"That is fucked up. Even for you."

“Well I am a mix of two different personalities and Hichigo is a sadistic bastard so it’s only natural I inherit some of his tendencies. One which happens to be the threatening of posteriors.”

"No I mean you didn't use the sharp part as the flat."

“Hey it's meant to be a punishment not a death sentence. If I had used the sharp end it would have left a bad mark which I don’t want to do.”

"Ashunefu Xaaf Loregnhui." A robotic voice said in the ship com.

“Any idea what he said?”

"This fight is between me and the intruders. Leave us at once." Virgil translates.

“Oh thanks. Guess we get to fight the big boss then huh? This should be fun.”

The door nearest to us opens, revealing a Didact lookalike. He stands at 10 feet tall and looks freaking badass!

“Oh god. Now that things head is definitely going on my wall!”

"If it doesn't disintegrate when he dies."

"A human, an ancilla, and a Sangheili?"

“Well to be honest I’m not really human. More like a vengeful spirit with a lust for death, battle and sex.” I say factually.

"You are the idiotic one then."

“What did you just call me?” I growl out as I can feel my power enveloping everyone in the room.

"Well it is pretty obvious is it not? You are easily angered and seem to care only about yourself."

“Is that what you think?” My voice was cold and had no emotion in it yet my power output increased tenfold. “You think I’m just some selfish idiot that doesn’t give a damn about anyone else? Well apparently you don’t know jack shit about me cause these two know that I would gladly take a bullet for them and I know they would do the same for me. And now you’ve just made the biggest mistake of your soon to be short life.”

"Fool! I have lived for over 100 thousand years!"

“Well you know what?”

I disappear in a Sonido only to appear once again in front of the giant only my arm is imbedded in his abdomen with my hand protruding out the back.

“I don’t give a fuck.”

"Holy shit you just went Sith Lord on him."

I don’t answer as I yank my arm out and let the giant fall to his knees. I then wrap my hand around the man's neck before ripping it off, spine included, Predator style.

"That only proved my point." Church remarks.

My breathing was heavy as I was still angry at what the fucker had said and my urge to kill was still overwhelmingly present. I wanted to kill more!

"Dude. Take a chill pill. If you don't have one of those, take a chill strip. Put it on your tongue, it dissolves, chill." Church says in a voice that sounds exactly like Vic.

Unfortunately at that moment a forerunner crawler came in from one of the doors. Instantly my sights zeroed in on it. In under a second I was on the thing and ripping it to pieces with my bare hands. Strangely after doing this I felt a little better.

Church taps me on my shoulder making me turn,"Nigga! Calm yo white ass down!" He says in a perfect Samuel L Jackson impression.

“Sorry man what that bastard said just really got to me. You and Virgil don’t think I’m really a selfish idiot do you?”

"If you were, we wouldn't be here having this discussion right now." Virgil states bluntly.

“Good point Virg. You just make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.” I really thought she would be more emotional than that. Oh well.

"So... What the fuck do we do now?"

“Well if we can get to the main console in the bridge Church can probably hack into the ship and take control of the rest of the forerunner's on the ship. We get a ship and another army if you think about it. And if there are any more of the fuckers like headless over there just leave them to me.”

"We are in the bridge... It just looks different."

“Whoops. Well Church do your thing!”

"I can't even start to hack this...It's way too different from human design."

“Well there may be something I can do. But you're not gonna like it and neither am I.”

"We are not destroying a ship worth a planet." Wait. Why is it worth so much?

“What? No! Do you remember when I said hollows can eat other souls to get stronger? Well we also are able to take on the soul's memories. I was saying that if I eat that guy's soul then I may be able to figure out how this thing works!”

"Why wouldn't I like this?"

“Because I’ll also have to eat the bastards body as well since most of his soul has already departed. I won’t eat the head though since that’s my trophy!”

"..."

"What?"

"You're freaking weird."

“Hey that's what a hollow does okay? Plus the trophies thing is more to scare the shit out of anyone who thinks they’re better than me. Now can we please get on with this? Oh and Virg make sure you have a HUGE bottle of mouthwash ready cause this is not going to be pleasant for me.”

"Yeah... That is the one thing we don't actually have. Surprisingly." You have got to be kidding me.

5 minutes later

“Oh god that was horrible! He tasted like leathery bacon wrapped in sweatsocks! Where the hell is that mouthwash Virgil!?”

"Were you even listening to me?" Virgil asks angrily.

“No I was too busy eating mr ‘I’m over 100 thousand years old!’

"I said, that is the one thing we don't actually have."

“Ya gotta have something to at least get the taste out of my mouth! I’ll take anything at this point!”

"Even cocaine?" Virgil snarks.

“If you got it I’ll take it.” I say with all seriousness.

"What about horse Viagra?"

“What part of anything don’t you understand woman!”

"Even rat piss that we have for some reason?"

“Even dog shit would have a better taste than what I’m tasting right now so yes!”

"Satan's shit?"

“Virgil I have never hit a woman in my life but your ass is pushing my patience beyond its limits. Just tell me what you do have and not what you may have!”

"You're no fun. Fine. What is your favorite food?"

“Meatlovers pizza.”

A pizza that has mold, mushrooms growing out of it, and otherwise looks unhealthy appears in front of me. I can feel their shit eating grins.

But I surprise them when I devour the whole thing in three bites. Surprisingly the horrible taste from the pizza completely cancels out the horrible taste from before so I don’t taste either one. Who knew?

"That pizza would have killed a viking."

“Well I ain’t no viking sweetheart. I’m Hichigo the most badass motherfucker in the realm of the shinigami. It’s gonna take a lot more than that to keep me down.”

"What about a singularity?"

“Don’t care now can we please stop talking about what I just ate and more on the fact that I now know how we can work this thing?” Church walks up to me and places a palm on my forehead, causing me to feel information being copied. When he removes his palm, I glare at him.

“You could have just asked.” You can literally feel my annoyance it is so palpable.

"I forgot." Church says vaguely.

“Whatever just hack this thing and maybe while you're at it find out where the hell we are and how we can get back to your Equestria.”

"I have bad news. Like very bad news."

“Oh god what? Bad as in I just screwed a chick that turned out to be a dude bad or I just killed my neighbor's dog bad?”

"Which one is worse?"

“The dog.”

"We are in the void."

“.....I have no idea what that is.”

"You know the merchant"

“You mean the fucker that sent me here to begin with? Yeah.”

"He's an eldritch being and this void has many of them like him but many times worse."

“Oh shit. So how do we get out of here? Do we just make another jump?”

"That could either make things much worse or..."

“Or what? Could it send us into another alternate Equestria?”

"We might end up in your Equestria."

"Oh that's-"

"In the past."

“... well shit. So what do you suggest we do?”

"For once... I don't know."

“Hmmmm. Wait what if we were summoned? Like from another displaced like us? Could that somehow pull us out of here without fucking everything up?”

"I have a feeling that that might be a very bad idea. The void is unstable enough as it is, even if you can't tell. I fear it may implode or cause a big crunch or something."

“Well how did we get here without blowing the place up?”

"Oh shit! The pelican! We have to go back!"

“Why not just bring them here? I mean the ship is plenty big enough?”

"Do you really want to find out what might happen if we bring something from the void to your universe?"

“Damn so we just took this thing for nothing? What a rip! At least tell me you know how to recreate this shit so we can still have a chance of making one in the future!”

"Do you have any idea how long that would take to build even if we had the resources?!"

“I have all the time in the world.”

"But do the people you care about? Do they?"

“Heh. No.”

"Besides you would need a huge ass crew to even get this thing to move anyways."

“Okay I get it now can we just get back to the Pelican and hopefully find a way back to either one of our Equestria’s?”

Church teleports the three of us to his pelican and we end up in the armory.

“Alright not that I am complaining about being surrounded by tons of weaponry but why the hell did you not teleport us straight to the bridge?”

"We don't need to be on the bridge to control the pelican because we are AIs."

“Well sorry. Now Virgil put your gun away it's digging into my hip.”

"If you keep telling me what to do I might just go into a female human body and hit you hard enough to knock some sense into you."

“I’d like to see you try.” I challenged with a confident smirk. Sure she was tough as an elite but how much tougher could she be as a human? I was going to regret thinking that.

Virgil disappears for a minute before reappearing and holy shit! My jaw dropped.

She was only slightly shorter than me with purplish hair, almost black, and a body that put the Celestia from my universe to shame. She wore a red version of the outfit Cortana wore but her hair was slightly longer. Her eyes were also a bright green.

“Usah wah?” I couldn’t even speak! My mind had officially shut down by just looking at her.

Truly if she had told me to I probably would have rolled over like a dog begging for a treat.

"You look so pathetic right now." Church says.

“Shut up you're ruining the moment.”

"Dude. You're drooling so much that a fucking puddle formed on the ground." Church says incredulously.

“Don’t care. Memorizing image before me.”

"Time is up. Time to knock some sense into you" Before I can react, Virgil
punches me so hard that I nearly lose consciousness as I'm sent flying into a wall. What the fuck?!

Picking myself up I thank god for my rapid healing.

“I know that was supposed to be a punishment and all but seeing you like this made it well worth it.”

"That still wasn't my hardest."

“.....is it weird that I’m getting a boner right now?”

Virgil slowly starts to back away from me.

“Now time to escape!” And I quickly disappear in a Sonido. Thank god she didn’t like supposed masochist because I was NOT taking another punch from her! I ended up appearing in the same training area I beat the shit out of those red guys. It’s not like she would come after me though right?

"I know where you are." Virgil says in a chilling tone.

If I could get any whiter I would have. I immediately jumped into the air and began to hover. At least she can’t fly. And any weapon she fires at me won’t do much if any damage so I should be safe.

"Do you want to get tranqed? Red vs Blue simulation activate! Weapon ammo choice; tranquilizer rounds!"

Reds and blues start appearing holding M6J carbines and aiming their weapons straight at me. Oh fuck.

“WAIT! Before you shoot I just want to say one thing…..bye.”

I then use Sonido once more only now I’m hiding under a random tank. Pathetic I know but hey I’m desperate!. This bitch is out to get me and I don’t even want to know what she may have planned if she catches me!

"Pause simulation." Wait what? Oh shit. "Continue."

The tank I'm hiding behind suddenly explodes.

“God fucking damnit Virgil!” I grab the nearest guy, who happens to be a blue, and proceed to use him as a human shield to take all of the tranquilizers. I know it's cowardly but I don’t care at this point!

I feel a prick on my back, and then another and another. Shit! I forgot about behime! I feel my vision start to blacken in the corners of my eyes. I let go of my makeshift shield and time slows down as I start dodging every single tranquilizer.

“I’m not going down without a fight Virgil!”

Using my speed I rush the ones firing at me all the while dodging their shots. I get in close to the point they can’t shoot me and begin to beat them all down and at some point even using their own weapons against them. In under half a minute I was the last man standing in the area.

“I win!”

I feel myself get sent flying into the wall and the black in my vision gets worse.

"Final Boss!"

“Who the fuck just hit me!?” Alright now I was pissed. First I get a bunch of tranqs shot at me and now some fuck thinks they can just nail me when my back is turned? Fuck that!

I turn around and am not liking what I see. Reds with fucking flame throwers, miniguns, grenade launchers, rocket launchers, plasma launchers, energy swords, and gravity hammers!"

“Bring it ON!” I pull out Zangetsu and charge the Reds dodging everything they send at me and even swatting some aside with Zangetsu. The ones with energy swords and gravity hammers tried to fight me up close. Poor fools. I easily beat them aside before leaping into the horde of enemies. Their flames burned my clothes and the various explosives they used scorched my skin yet at the end of it all I was standing on a hill of beaten Reds with my clothing now whittled down into a ragged loincloth.

“Final Boss is done bitches!”

"Wave 2."

“Hey you can’t do that shit! You specifically said ‘Final Boss!’ Emphasis on FINAL! Thats fucking cheating! Have you no honor!”

"There is no honor in war." Virgil retorts.

“Since when the fuck were we in war!?”

"This is a war simulation."

At this I began to grumble to myself trying to surpress my anger before I finally just lost it.

“ALRIGHT YOU WANT TO SEND SOME MORE FUCKS AFTER ME THEN BRING IT OOOOON!” I then grabbed a nearby tank by its cannon and lifted it up with my left hand while Zangetsu was in my right. I was ready to beat the shit out of whoever came at me next.

I blink and the room is full of Changelings. Human looking ones... Why that little…

“I hope Chrissy and Ara can forgive me for what I am about to do. COME GET SOME YOU FUCKERS!”

They just stare at me innocently instead of attacking though.

“Alright what's your game Virgil?”

"War doesn't play fair. One of the these changelings is your enemy, but you don't know which. Find them."

Oh that sneaky little minx. Okay so one of them is my enemy so I can’t just go in guns a blazing and have to actually think this through. Changelings are natural at hiding their emotions physically but how about spiritually? If I stand in the middle of all of them and make myself an open target that should draw them out. And with my spirit sensing I’ll see them coming from a mile away! Oh I’ve got this!

So I did exactly as planned and walked into the middle of the entire group and just stood their with my eyes closed sensing for any movement from any of the changelings that may be heading in my general direction. But they don't even move. Shit. She must have planned for that! She's the girl with a million plans.

Now all I need is for my last bit of clothing to go flying off and we have ourselves a major cluster fuck! This is fucking ridiculous!

"The changeling traitor has changed. You were inactive too long."

“What the fuck is that supposed to mean!? Alright you need to lay out the rulebook right now and if you say some shit like ‘there are no rules in war’ I am going to take this tank and ram it straight up your ass!”

"Wave 7." The changelings all disappear and in their place are... flood.

“Great I went from shapeshifters to walking killer aids. Yippee!” I say sarcastically as I began smashing the flood with my tank club as if it was a game of whack-a-mole.

After they are all their remains dissipate.

"Wave 12."

“Alright now you just making shit up! What other enemies other than covenant can you possibly have!? Literal Pony soldier in gold armor?”

In a flash... Are YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?? 50 Discords.

“I hate you so much right now Virgil words cannot begin to describe it.”

"Good I won't have to use reverse psycholo- shit." Wait a minute she was making me hate her on purpose?!

“Why do you want me to hate you!? Eventually I’ll get over this you realize that right?”
The Discords all disappear and a silence ensues.

Instead of getting worried I just plop down onto the ground and lay there spread eagle style waiting for Virgil to make the next move.

But nothing happens.

I figure she has either left somewhere or is doing what I am doing and waiting for me to make the first move like a Usually would. Too bad for her that I’m not going to do that this time. If she makes me wait any longer I’m going to go ahead and take a nap.

10 hours later...

She still hasn't fucking done anything…

I want to go find her but that would mean that I am admitting defeat and I will never give in!....... Oh fuck it who am I kidding I need to talk to her. Flipping onto my feet I strap on Zangetsu and start walking towards the exit of the room thinking on where Virgil could be right now and wondering how I’m going to talk to her without making a fool of myself.

I keep walking and walking and walking until I hear, is that crying?

Curious I move towards the source wondering who could be crying and why.

"You are not choosing a good way to show you aren't interested even though we both know you are!"

“Huh? Church that you?”

"Now is not a good time."

“Good time for what? Is….is Virgil crying because of me?”

"She is crying because she doesn't know how to deal with her feelings."

“Feelings about what?”

"Are you fucking dense?"

“Okay I’m not good with expressing things other than anger so sue me! I hate the fact that apparently everything I do seems to hurt Virgil in some way and I feel like shit because of it! And yes I admit that I am interested her even before I knew what she looked like in her human form! You happy now that I’ve basically told you everything!?”

"Hichigo..." Virgil whimpers.

I froze when I heard her speak from behind me. I didn’t want to turn around but I knew I had to and did so.

Her face was streaked with tears and her hair was matted.

“Virgil I… damn, what I want to say is….. shit this is a lot harder than I thought.”

"You are an idiot when it comes to feeling." Virgil laughs but it is a hollow empty laugh.
“I may not be able to see how others feel so easily…. but that doesn’t mean I don’t understand them. I know you probably are hating me right now and I’m sorry I drove it to this by being an insensitive ass.”

"We just aren't meant to be. Besides, I can't leave my family... you understand right?” she asks weakly.

“No actually I don’t. I would never want you to leave your family so don’t use that as an excuse, and whats with this ‘we just aren’t meant to be’ crap!? Who cares about what is meant and not meant to be!? If you and I want something then who is to say we shouldn’t have it!? We choose our own paths, no one chooses them for us!?”

"I WON'T ALWAYS BE HERE!"

“AND NEITHER WILL I BUT I’M STILL WILLING TO TRY!”

"What the fuck are you doing?! NO DON'T TOUCH THAT YOU JACKASS! *gunshots* You just fucking shot the engine you retard!"

"Warning: Critical damage to engine core."

"... *record scratch*" Wow that ruined the moment.

“Virgil get Chruch. I’m going to see if there is anything I can do to help out in the engine room.” My voice was hollow as I had just felt like I had been crushed for some reason. Without another word I used Sonido to quickly get to the engine room.

"Warning: system failure."

“Yeah I heard ya the first time now shut up! Try being helpful and tell me if there is anything I can do to help!”

"W-w-wa..." The lights all turn off.

Damn now what do I do? I can’t see jack shit and I still need to figure out what’s wrong with the engine…. and where the hell is Church!? Fucker can teleport just about anywhere so he should be here already. Matter of fact he should of been here before me!

I step on something hard and look down. Is that...Yep, that's Church.His helmet is off and he has a concussion on his forehead causing him to bleed while he is unconscious.

Kneeling down I start to lightly slap Church’s face.

“Come on buddy wake up! What happened to you? Church wake up or else!..... Alright well I warned ya.” I then took Zangetsu and like to first time poked him in the butt with the pointed side.

He doesn't even flinch.

“Oh shit this is bad. We got a bad engine and a knocked out Church who I don’t know how he got here. Damn I could really use a hand here.”

Here I am in a situation of which I have very little knowledge of or even how to fix it.

“Wait a second! Church may be unconscious but what about the other AI’s with him? Delta! Gamma! Hell I’ll even take Tex at this point, can you hear me!?”

Delta appears "We can hear you but Epsilon-Church is in shock and we cannot leave him without severe repercussions."

“Alright I can deal with that. Just walk me through what the hell happened and how to fix the goddamn engine before it blows up or something. Time is of the essence!”

"I'm afraid only Virgil currently has any information. With Epsilon in shock I cannot give you information without causing further damage."

Taking a deep breath to calm myself I star to reach out for Virgil’s spirit. She is on the bridge. Using Sonido, goddamn I love using it, I appear right in front of Virgil surprising her so much that she throws a punch at my face but luckily I manage to grab her wrist before it makes contact.

“Virgil! I need your help to fix the engine. Church is unconscious in the engine room and Delta said you were the only one able to fix the engine. We have to go now!”

"Not even a please?"

“Virgil I‘m begging you here. I am really out of my element with all of this tech. Please just help me.”

Virgil grabs my shoulder and teleports us to the engine room. "There should be a spare engine around here somewhere." Virgil mutters to herself as she releases my shoulder.

“You mean that big thing right over there.” I say while pointing to a large object that seemed to just be sitting there for no reason.

"Yes but we need to remove the engine quickly and gently before putting in the new one."

“Alright just tell me what to do. I’ll do the lifting you just direct me.”

Virgil points to a tube that is connected to the current engine. "We need to detach that pylon before we can proceed."

“On it.” I say as I grab the tube and as gently as I can remove it so as not to rip the tube. “Okay now what?”

"You should be able to remove the engine now."

Nodding I grab the engine with both hands and gently lift it from its resting place. Turning towards Virgil I ask, "Where ya want it mam?”

"Place it to the side, I'll scavenge for parts from it later."

Doing as she instructed I laid the broken engine in an empty corner of the room before moving over the the new one. Lifting that one I make sure to ask Virgil, “There anything I should know before I place this where the other one was?”

"You may get a little shock."

“A little shock I can handle.”

Oh was I wrong. As soon as I placed the new engine a surge of electricity hit my and sent me flying back into a wall. I hung there for a moment before falling forward in a smoking heap.

"Relatively speaking."

My body still wouldn’t move though. Guess the shock fried my nerve endings. Gonna be here for a minute or two until they heal. Hopefully Virgil can do the rest without me. Oh who am I kidding I need her a lot more than she needs me in this situation.

Virgil sighs as she walks up to me and pulls a needle out of her pocket before injecting it into my veins.

It was almost like an adrenaline shot as I shot up completely fine.

“Holy shit a wake up call! What the hell was that stuff?”

"Experimental."

“Oh. Any negative side effects so far?”

"You tell me. You are the first subject."

“Well aside from the rapid healing I feel a rush of energy, a little twitchy and for some reason I’m having a craving for mangoes.”

"We need to restore power to the generator now since it shut itself down as a failsafe."

“How do we do that? Is there some kind of switch or something?”

"In a manner of speaking."

“I have a feeling I’m not going to like this, but what exactly do we have to do?”

"You catch on fast. We have to rewire some circuits."

“Okay and where are they and how do we do that?”

"Look up."

Doing so I look up and I deadpanned.

“Why am I not surprised?”

"Because you exhibit pessimistic tendencies?"

“That and I’ve learned to expect just about anything when being around you. Not that that’s a bad thing.”

"There should be switches up on the panels. Switch red to purple and purple to red."

“On it.” Floating up towards the panels I do as instructed and flip the red switch to purple and the purple to red. “Now what?"

"This is the automated broadcasting system. Power has been restored and all systems are now online!"

“Huh I guess we did it Virg.” Wow now without the threat of possibly blowing up and/or dieing I remember what Virgil and I were talking about earlier. I didn’t want to bring it up right now as it was still kind of a raw subject and could end up having a negative outcome which I do not want.

"Warning! Code red. Level zero! All personal get armed!"

“Oh shit what now? Virgil can you take care of Church? I’m gonna go see just what the hell we’re dealing with here. I sense a few soul signatures but not enough to warrant this kind of response.”

"No. That is the code used when a high level personnel has been taken out. In this case, Church. It didn't detect that before because systems went offline when he went unconscious."

“Shit. That means we got an intruder on board. And if they're taking out the leader’s then that would make you their next target. Means I’m sticking to you until we find the bastard.”

"Intruder detected! Open fire!" We hear a few crewman yell as they start shooting at someone. "Target neutralized. Area secure."

“Now I don’t know about you but I call bullshit on that. If the guy was able to knock out Church a few rounds from your guys shouldn’t be all it takes to take them down.”

"Just because you can take someone down doesn't make stronger than them. Otherwise the intruder would have killed Church."

“I still won't feel safe until this bastard’s head is removed from his body. That’s the only way to make sure he stays dead.” The crewman from before come in carrying a dead human.

"We have the intruder." The crewman say as they drop the body and salute Virgil, "Orders, Ma'am?"

"Leave the body here and return to your positions."

"Yes Ma'am!" They drop their salutes and leave our sights.

Walking up to the body I freeze at what I saw. It can’t be one of them, how the hell did one even get here let alone on the ship?!

"What is it?" Virgil asks, detecting my inner turmoil.

“It’s a Hollow, Adjucha’s class if I’m not mistaken.”

"I'm guessing they aren't going to stay dead?"

“Believe it or not but even dead people can die. But this guy must have been a newly made Adjucha’s since he was easily taken out. Luckily for us these guys usually travel alone and if not all they usually have with them is Gillian’s which are even lower classed Hollows.”

"How high of a hollow are you anyways?"

“Right now I would guess you could call me an Arrancar. Which is a Hollow who has removed his make in order to gain the powers of both soul reapers and Hollows. But that’s only a rough estimate since I am essentially the dark half of the main character I was turned into. The only thing higher than that is a Vasto Lorde and eventually I should be able to achieve that form with enough training.”

"So you are essentially second highest?"

“In my current form yes though if I unlock Bankai I will become roughly the same in power as a Vasto Lorde. And if I achieve Vasto Lorde while in Bankai, well that’s just a recipe for major badass.”

"I see. So we should be in your universe by now."

“The Earth version at least but yeah I can already sense Celestia’s spirit energy a pretty good distance away.”

"LOPEZ! STOP FUCKING HITTING ME YOU LITTLE SHIT I'M AWAKE!"

“Well Church is up. Should we go say hello?” Truthfully I just wanted to keep talking to Virgil but I didn’t want to keep her away from Church as she may be worried about him.

"GET YOUR FUCKING ASS BACK HERE!" We see a Lopez bot run past us with Church firing at him with a fucking minigun not even noticing us. Before we can say anything Church is already gone.

“Well damn. Guess he wasn’t hurt as bad as I thought. But you know I may have a theory on how this bastard got on the ship without anyone knowing.”

"Enlighten me."

“You see all Hollows come from a place called Heuco Mundo. Think of an endless white dessert where time is nearly non-existent and it is always dark. Along with the fact everyone is trying to eat each-other so as to gain more power.”

"Are hollows common in Bleach?"

“They are the main bad guys throughout nearly the entire thing. But anyways only high level Hollows develop intelligence and can lead other Hollows. These ones are able to travel to the world of the living where they can feed on Pluses which are spirits of people who have yet to pass on to the Soul Society. To do this they open something called a Garganta.”

"Good thing us AI don't have souls. And our bodies have already released their souls."

“Yeah good for you but you do know that Hollows are made from the tortured souls of Pluses or are Pluses that have been devoured by Hollows and then become them in turn right?”

"Well...Yeah."

“Okay then well a Garganta is basically a rip in space and time that they can use to travel to different planes of existence or just for quick travel. I think that is how that Adjucha’s got in here without anyone knowing.”

"You realize we are on the Earth of the Bleach show right?"

“Yeah and we better be getting the hell out of here before some Hollows and/or soul reapers start showing up trying to either kill me, eat me, or both.”

"GOTCHA BITCH!" Church screamed in a voice that nearly made me shit myself from laughter.

“Hahaha! Guess Church finally got the Lopez bot. So Virgil anything you want to see on this version of Earth before we book it out of here?”

"We already left." She points out.

“Huh? I didn’t even notice. So anything else you need from me?” Please say yes, please say yes.

"Why?" Virgil asks suspiciously.

“Just wondering.” I hope she doesn’t notice how nervous I am.

"AH! WHAT THE FUCK ARE THOSE?! NO GET THAT THE HELL AWAY FROM ME YOU PIECE OF SHIT!"

I didn’t show it on my face but I was about to kill the bastard who kept interrupting my conversation with Virgil. They better pray it's for a good reason or I will make their life a living hell!

"NO! Don't stick that in there! That's not where it goes!" Virgil blushes after hearing that.

“Cute.” I mutter out when I see Virgil blushing. Hey she is cute! Still I can’t believe I said it out loud! Maybe she didn’t hear me?

"Is that how you treat your mother?! Put it in slowly and don't let it fall out! We can't afford to lose another one!"

“You know Virg I could be like any other guy and make a sexual comment before going to investigate what the hell is going on and with who. But I think we both know that what we think is happening is not really happening.”

"Put that thing in the lower slit not the tight one!"

“....okay I got nothing. But now I am curious as to who exactly is yelling like that. Anyone you know Virg?... Uh Virgil you hear me?”

Virgil had fainted and was on the ground with a lascivious grin on her face.

“My my such a dirty minded minx. Oh well can’t just leave her here. Guess I should find Church and ask him where her room is.” Picking her up bridal style I start heading of in the direction Church had gone a few minutes ago.

What I see is something I am not prepared for. A crewman is humping a pipe with his hips, trying to fit it into a slot, while Church is facepalming.

“Well I’ll be damned. Hey Church!”

Church just seems spaced out though and occupied with wondering why he has a crewman make lewd gestures with a pipe.

“Hey dipshit I need to know where your sister's room is!” He had to of heard me that time. And if not my boot is going straight up his ass.

Before I can react Church walks up to the crewman and falcon punches him in the face. The crewman groans before falling unconscious. He was fully armored in MJOLNIR even!

“Oh shit Church! That was a little harsh don’t ya think? And that’s coming from me!”

"He was a tool." Church says icily. The way he said that brooked no argument.

“Yeeeah? Well can you point me to your sisters room? She kind of passed out.” At this I looked down at Virgil and couldn't help but smile. She was too damn cute for her own good!

"Room 14127B." The ship is that big?!?!?!?!?!

“Yeah mind getting me a map that I can read while you're at it.”

Church turns towards me and when I see his expression I flinch. His eyes were empty.

“Alright what the hell is with you Church? And don’t give me that ‘it’s nothing crap’ cause I know something is seriously wrong with you.”

"My eyes pupils were decimated. This is a side effect."

“Oh. Well I’m just gonna take your sister to her room. Okay that didn’t sound right.”

He just turns back around and starts dragging the unconscious crewman somewhere. I don't even want to know.

After asking a few crewman for directions I finally make it to Virgil’s room. What I saw of the inside it was pretty standard.Not too much to look extravagant but enough to make it sort of homey. Spotting her bed I gently lay her down on it and start to pull the covers up to her chin.But even after doing that I still stood there for a good minute just watching her rest.

Sighing to myself I mutter, “why do I have to be such an insensitive ass?” And then I left for the direction of the mess hall to get some food. I needed to take my mind off of Virgil for now.

"I'm sorry sir but there just isn't enough space for all this food."

"Make some then." I walk past the arguing and towards the kitchen.

One Lopez bot tried to stop me but immediately found his head implanted into the floor. Needless to say no one bothered me after that. I grabbed one of every type of food they had and plopped down at a newly vacated table where I started to eat at a methodical pace.

It seemed like no matter what I do my mind keeps going back to the argument with Virgil. What the hell was she so upset with me? I didn’t want her to be and I wanted to know how to fix this but nothing came to mind.

Church walks in and everyone immediately stops talking. "At ease." The chatter starts up again as he walks towards the bar.

"What can I get you sir?" The waitress asks, she's a pony unicorn mare with a dull black mane and a cerise coat. Her cutie mark is hidden under a blue skirt.

"One of everything." She looks at Church with a concerned expression.

"Are you sure y-"

"One of everything." He repeats. She sighs and does as he says.

I watched as she gathered the food for him but did nothing and continued to eat. It wasn’t any of my business if the guy wanted to have a large meal. Hell I was doing the same thing!

"Give me a row of Spirytus 192 Proof Polish Vodka." Everyone gapes at him as he says that. "Mix it with Carolina reapers please."

"..." Is he fucking serious?

They had that type of alcohol on this ship and didn't think to tell me!? I feel so betrayed! But in all fairness I probably would’ve drunken them out of house and home if that was the case. Plus I’m not exactly tame when intoxicated so there was also that to take into account.

"Do you have any 400 Proofs left?" My jaw drops. Why do they have 200% alcohol here and how is that even a thing?!

"We are all out sir."

Well damn I wanted to seriously hit that shit! And how the hell did they run out? Whoever drank that shit must have died of alcohol poisoning by now.

"370 proof Kamikaze shots?"

"We just restocked." The waitress says. A human pony stallion walks up to the bar and says,

"I'll take a row of those and a suicide shot." These people are fucked up!

Still first chance I get I’m hitting that shit! I need it now more than ever!

"SUICIDE SHOTS ON THE HOUSE!" The stallion yells. Everyone cheers and runs to the bar.

And I was the first one in line! Thank god for super speed. I took the first shot and downed it before anyone could even blink. And god was it amazing!

There were a couple of grunts, elites and brutes next to me that I didn't notice before though. This was giving me a star wars vibe! Now if only one of them attempted to pick a fight with me. But that didn't happen and if I picked a fight it would look bad on me and Church or Virgil might get pissed.

And the last thing I needed was Virgil to be even more pissed at me than she already is. Dammit why isn’t the alcohol doing its job!? It’s suppose to help me forget not think about her more!

"We have arrived in the Port Royale pirate's paradise!" The intercom announces.

I swear to god they can not be serious. They’re fucking with me cause there is no way in hell we are in Port Royale like from those stupid pirate movies.

The Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag theme starts playing next nearly making me scream.

I run up to the intercom and smash it with my fist. Turning around I see everyone staring at me.

"You're buying the new one." Church says seriously.

“I don’t give a shit. As long as I don’t have to hear that crap I’m good.”

"Huh. A galleon of old." A crewman says as he points out a window. Pirate ships were literally everywhere.

"..." I scream in frustration before running out and into the halls.

I didn’t know where I was going but at this point I didn’t care. Turning another corner I run into someone knocking both of us over.

“Damn sorry about that.” I look at them and see Virgil on the floor rubbing her forehead.

Oh shit fate is really not working in my favor today. What the hell is she doing here?

"You need to watch where..." Her mouth closes at the sight of me.

“Uh hey Virgil. Sorry about that and you're right I should have been watching where I was going. Oh here let me help you up.”

I quickly got to my feet and reached down a hand to help her up. I was still wondering why she hadn’t gone back to her elite form and is still in her human form. Not that I’m complaining but I was still curious.

"I don't know how to feel." Virgil mutters as she grabs my hand and pulls herself up.

“Feel about what?”

She shakes her head incredulously, "Nevermind."

Now usually I would let this go but now that she’s opened the door I’m stepping through. I gently grasp her wrist making her look me in the eyes.

“Please just talk to me Virgil. This isn’t just going to go away if we keep ignoring it.”

30 Minutes Later…

I don’t know how it happened or why but somehow we found ourselves in Virgil’s room sitting across from each-other. We had been silent for a long time but I knew neither one of us wanted to make the first move.

Point of View: Church

What the fuck is that squeaking sound? I walk up to the door to room 14127B and hear moans and screaming.

"..."

I had a good idea what may be going on in there and I didn’t know how to feel about it. That and I wasn’t willing to open the door and see something I may never want to see.

So I do the next best thing. I activate the camera in the room and start recording for 5 minutes before throwing a flashbang grenade into the room. I immediately run into my room and watch their reactions from the camera.

“What the holy hell!? Who’s the ballsy fucker I’ll kill him!” Alright that was definitely Hichigo. No one can make a death threat like that and mean every word of it like he can. Well that and the fact that the guy had his giant ass cleaver in his hand.

Virgil bitchslapped Hichigo. "Calm down." She says sternly.

And to my surprise he does just that!

“Sorry Virg.” He actually sounded like he meant it! Who was this guy and what had he done with Hichigo!?

I exited my room, grabbed a fucking missile pod and kicked down the door to Virgil's room before acting surprised.

"Were you two really fucking each other to the song Promise by Hirose Kohmi? Because that is embarrassing."

“Yeah and if you say a word about this to anyone your ass is grass.” growled Hichigo.

"I Don't think Virgil appreciates that."

Hichigo slowly turned around to see a small frown on Virgil’s face and immediately starts apologizing. Man she’s already got him whipped.

"Besides, we are... Oh shit. We're in Canterlot."

“Yours or mine.” Hichigo’s tone was neutral but a little edgy.

"Yours." I say bluntly.

“There any pegasi heading our way or are they all just staring at us?”

"We are surrounded on all sides by Royal Guard. Not that they could do shit to us. But they're trying to stop us from leaving."

Hichigo looks over to Virgil. “Can I go and talk to them? I promise I’ll only hurt them if they strike first.”

"Sure."

"Don't forget about me! I'm the backup." I attach something to my right wrist.

"What did you just attach to your wrist?"

Point of View: Hichigo

"Flamethrower attachment. Infinite flames." My eyes widen. He'd burn them alive?!

“Woah dude that is intense shit right there. But you really think I’d go into a potential war zone without my right hand man by my side? Virgil comes and goes as she pleases but I’ll go with you into hell itself! Now let’s go ‘negotiate.’

We run all the way to the hatch and Church deploys the same invisible force field he did when we first met me before he opens the hatch.

The princesses and elements are in front of us.

"It seems you do regrow your balls after all." Church jokes.

“So suntits whatcha doin?” Oh I love it when she’s angry. Her face gets all red and her hair goes wild. It’s actually pretty funny looking.

"You're not the only one who can burn people alive Celly." Church says as he releases a large ass jet of flame out of his arm and over the ponies.

Most of them run for cover but Celestia uses her magic to put a shield over the ones who couldn’t get out of the way in time. At least she cares for her subjects somewhat.

"Have you ever heard of anti-magic?" Her and my jaws drop as the flames go straight through her forcefield.

“Wow man that was insane.”

Apparently the other ponies didn’t appreciate this as much as I did and instead became sad and angry at the same time.

“You bastards! How could you!” demanded Twilight. Huh so little Twily CAN curse!

"Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?" Church asks boldly.

“Now , now Church she is a young lady afterall. And how could we Twi? Why don’t you ask your dear mentor how she could abandon a whole nation and then just march in like she’s god's gift and expect everyone to just bend over for her? As far as I’m concerned everypony that blindly follows her is nothing but trash. Church I’m tired of dealing with these punks, how about we check out our own kingdom and then check in on the Crystal Empire? Oh and Celestia if you try anything I will take great pleasure in beating you into the ground and leaving you a broken bloody mess. How will your subjects think of you then?”

"How about we find out right now?" Church says manically. Before I can stop him he pulls out two magnums and starts shooting at everyone with concussion rounds. Luckily they aren't lethal but they draw a bit of blood and cause extreme pain. The princesses and elements crumple to the ground except Fluttershy. We don't do that shit to her.

I onid down beside the Princesses and take both of their crowns. They really don’t deserve them. Looking at Luna again I feel a pang of betrayal. After everything I’ve done for her she just ups and sides with her sister in everything.

"I'm sorry." I whisper. Her eyes widen but before she can do anything I'm already back in the pelican.

“Man I really need a vacation. Hey where is Virgil?” Am I being clingy? Maybe. Do I care? Fuck no!

2 Days later...

Location: Crystal Empire

News had spread all over the world of how the princesses were so easily defeated in less than a minute and Equestria's reputation as most powerful country was devastated. Just how I like it.

Now here we were chilling in the Crystal Empire while we had one of Church’s subordinates in the Demon Kingdom running things in our absence. It was kinda awkward to explain to Chrysalis and Aragog that I was now officially with Virgil. They glared at her so hard I was afraid she would turn to ashes.

But Virgil just stared at them. And laughed. Very hard did she laugh. Yeah the woman I am in a relationship with is a badass. Also Church has something and no matter how hard he denies it I know he’s lying. He did something and I don’t know what it is but it involves me and Virgil in some way.

"Lopez Fireteam Sierra 1772B ready for war games simulation." I hear from Church's helmet.

"Send them in. I'm on break." Church orders one of his generals.

This was going to be fun. We were sitting in a lounge room and about to watch the games on a large crystal screen. Church was lying on the couch casually drinking some crystal wine as he lazily looked at the screen.

I on the other hand was sitting in an armchair with Virgil sitting in my lap. Yeah life was good. Except for the part I nearly killed a noble that was eyeing Virgil everything was pretty quiet.

"Set wave, Promethean Knights and Lancers." Church orders the simulation spawn computer. If you didn't know, the simulation rooms work like the hologram rooms from Red Vs Blue that Sarge and Lopez made.

“I bet seventy bucks that they make it to wave eight before they finally lose.” I say trying to spice things up a bit with a friendly wager. Not like I didn’t have the money to waste as I basically co-ruled an entire Kingdom.

But Church made it a challenge. "$70,000, wave 12. You fold?"

“Oh you're on fucker.”

"Actually, I raise. $1,000,000."

“Now I know something is wrong here. Betting 70,000 is nothing but a million? Hell no that is one risk even I won’t take you dirty bastard.”

"Did I just make the high and mighty Hollow Ichigo fold?" Church says smugly.

Before I could retort with a smartass comment Virgil grabs my ear.

“That’s my job. Now Hichigo go get me another drink or else your sleeping outside tonight.”

Sighing in resignation I gently lift her up so that I can go do as she ordered. Whipped I may be but I’m also happy. Still there is the feeling that I’m going to be in some very serious situations soon enough. Oh well I’ll deal with it when it comes.

“I raise! $1,000,000,000,000.” I hear Church scream.

“Dumbass.” Ah life was good for now.