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Prize of Victory 2
By : NovaAlexandria
Category: Bleach > General
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General
It was late, or early depending on which way one wanted to look at it. The battle officially ended at 01:32 and it was 04:02 now. Szayel was spent, both from coordinating the battle and from the shock of emotional stress, which hadn’t subsided. His chest was killing him from the combination of tension and the acid reflex that went with it. If Ajuga, Hana and Diaemus hadn’t been at one of the towers to reactivate the alarms, the Net would have been down and the Swarm on them before they could have mobilized at all. He had never considered the Swarm might tunnel under the Net; none of the Swarm’s previous incarnations included tunnelling or burrowing insects before.
He’d ordered his staff to excavate at least one body each of the two new Swarm species from the debris of the collapsed tower. Most of the smaller, pill bug-like insect bodies were in transit to the Science Division, but the larger creature that resembled a cockroach would require more effort to move thanks to its massive size and weight.
A search of the other towers showed no sign of these two new creatures. The holes they left behind, however, told a different story. While they’d retreated for now, the size and depth of the tunnels was something to behold. With this new threat, Szayel would have to devise a new method of defence. With these new troops, the Swarm could tunnel anywhere, coming up in the middle of the city if they desired.
Szayel had put together, a little too quickly for his liking, two theories about the presence of the heretofore-unknown tunnelling bugs. The fact they’d never been seen before gave rise to the first theory, that the Swarm had co-opted them from the wild in their efforts to find a better way to get around the Defence Net, a tactic that had worked beautifully to Szayel’s dismay. His second theory was that the Swarm had bred the pill bug to enable an attack on the Net. He did have his doubts about the second theory; it took a great deal of time to create and breed complex organisms of such a size. Five years wasn’t nearly enough time for something like that to evolve in order to meet such a specific need, and Szayel was more convinced that the Swarm coerced the creatures into helping. He would know more when he got to study and catalogue the new specimens.
When Aizen’s orders delaying the meeting arrived, he felt a small amount of relief. He’d hoped for a bit of rest. Then he’d worried that the delay was so that Aizen could have a private chat with him about turning a real alarm off, even though the order had come from Aizen himself. After two hours with no Aizen on his doorstep, he relaxed a little, but not too much. It wouldn’t be the first time Aizen decided to punish him in front of the others.
“At least the children are in bed with their mother,” he thought with relief.
He had sent his family to bed an hour ago, although he doubted his son or mate was sleeping. The first was probably typing away on a tablet, working out the designs for a simple, yet effective, vibration detector that his staff could plant into the ground to detect any more tunnelling. The latter would be watching their children and making sure the room remained secure. In fact, their living quarters were better protected than Aizen’s own chambers. Szayel had made sure there were enough layers of security between his family’s private rooms that even Aizen would need a few minutes to break into them. The delay would give Szayel time to get there so that he might try to plead for their safety. Aizen had yet to hurt any of the children, but that didn’t mean that he might not if ‘Kami’ proved angry enough.
As irritating as he found Abarai Renji, the muscle-head had brought up a valid point the day that Aizen decided to use Vindula to threaten her father over that blasted Quincy break-in. He wasn’t willing to risk his children on an assumption that ‘Kami’ would follow his own rules.
Szayel was so distracted between fretting over Aizen’s displeasure and analyzing the data that that day’s battle generated that he missed the very creature he feared walking into the control room until a hand fell upon his shoulder. He spun about, but the tongue-lashing he had planned to give to the fool for interrupting his work quickly died before the first word was even finished.
“Kami-sama,” he bowed deeply. “What can I do for you?”
He was actually proud that his voice only stuttered slightly.
“What have you learned about these new creatures?” Aizen asked, stepping beside him and easily pulling up the screen that had what little information they had collected so far.
Szayel felt himself relax a bit, but only a bit. Talking about research was a soothing balm for his emotions and it wasn’t unlike Aizen to be interested in new and interesting things. After all, Kami-sama had a superb understanding of most of the sciences.
“I have not had much time to study these new creatures. We’re gathering the specimens now. My staff managed to extract the pill bug like creatures, one of which I have temporarily labelled as Specimen S5. The cockroach, or Specimen S6, is still half-buried and very heavy. Getting it back to the lab will take time and resources, which I’m utilizing now to make sure we’ve no ‘lurkers’ that could cause more damage. I am sure you will agree to the current staff deployments,” he pulled up the screen showing said allocations.
Aizen glanced at the screen and gave a small nod of his head in agreement and Szayel let out the breath he hadn’t realized he’d been holding.
“This is the first time we have seen the Swarm include insects that exhibit tunnelling behaviour, I trust plans are being made to counter this new move of theirs?”
“Yes, Abisara is working on a device as we speak, despite having been sent to bed,” Szayel couldn’t help the pride that touched his voice and the small smile that touched his lips as he thought proudly about his son. “He wanted to try to help, so I gave him something to keep him busy.”
“Yes, about your son…”
The prideful feeling in Szayel’s chest drained away and fear quickly took its place.
“He is turning out to be a rather sharp child, isn’t he?”
“He has a thing for circuitry, but that is about all,” Szayel interjected. “He has shown no interest or aptitude for anything else as of yet.”
If Aizen feared that Abisara was becoming as intelligent as his father was, there was a good chance his son would face a future similar to that of his sire, one full of fear and pain as Aizen made certain that he understood his place in the hierarchy of things.
He could not, would not, allow that to happen to his son.
The glare Aizen sent him for his interruption caused that small pain that had been riding in his chest for hours to flare up so it felt like there was a spike shoved through his chest. He was honestly a little surprised Karin hadn’t come to investigate yet. Given what he knew of Grimmjow’s character, she was probably far too distracted by the usual after-battle activities most Arrancar preferred to enjoy to notice his fluctuating emotions.
“My apologies, Aizen-sama,” he bowed deeply.
“Are you lying to me Szayel?” Aizen questioned pleasantly.
“No, of course not,” he stammered out quickly.
“Shall I summon your son and test his intelligence, to see whether or not you are deliberately playing down his potential to me? Earlier you couldn’t wait to brag about how advanced your children are.”
“I… I’ve already sent them to bed.”
“And yet you just told me you suspect he is still awake. Has it been so long since our last session that you actually miss my punishments and as such are now seeking new ways to incur my wrath?”
“No!” the Seventh nearly cried in desperate denial. “It’s just…” he struggled vainly for an appropriate excuse and came up with nothing that wouldn’t sentence him to another round in that torture chamber below Aizen’s palace, despite the agreement between Aizen and Karin that all punishments were to be carried out by her.
This time he heard the door open and close and the sound of three pairs of feet striking the floor tiles.
“Szay, we brought a gift for you!” Ajuga’s cheerful voice broke the tension. “Oh! Evening, Kami-sama,” Ajuga greeted Aizen flippantly.
Both men turned their attention to the three newcomers. Unlike Ajuga, Hana and Diaemus greeted Aizen far more formally and properly.
“Ajuga, shouldn’t you be at home?” Szayel asked worriedly.
“Yeah, but we thought you might like to see the present we got you first,” Ajuga smirked. “You are going to go absolutely insane when you see what we dragged in.” Her smirk widened and, at that moment, she resembled Grimmjow a little too much for Szayel’s already rattled nerves.
“Ajuga, please get to the point,” Aizen ordered and his tone indicated he wasn’t in any mood for games or dissembling.
“You’re no fun,” she stuck her tongue out at him and pouted. “Alright, fine, Diaemus-kun, if you would be so kind please,” she turned her attention to the only male in their little band.
Without a word, Diaemus tossed the large, tightly wrapped bundle he had draped over his shoulder onto the ground. It appeared almost human-shaped but it made a strange noise when it hit the ground. Whatever was in it definitely wasn’t made of flesh.
Ajuga stood proudly over the bagged thing before bending down and pulling the canvas back to reveal a black carapace. Szayel felt excitement well up in him, followed quickly by a shot of fear, which quickly turned into relief and back to intense interest when he realized the thing was dead and not likely to reveal anything about Karin and her bloodline in front of Aizen. The fact it was dead was almost a pity, as he would have loved to interrogate and study a live one, but this was, honestly, for the best.
“Sorry, Szay, we tried to take it alive, but it gashed out its own throat before we could stop it,” Hana apologized with a short bow.
“Where did you find it?” Aizen asked, now intrigued by the find.
“We detected it in one of the Early Warning Towers. I caught its scent as we were clearing the poles of Locusts,” Ajuga answered. “There were three of them but the other two managed to escape down the tunnel they had dug to get in and collapsed it behind them,” Ajuga scowled in annoyance.
Szayel knew she absolutely hated it when prey escaped her, and it didn’t happen very often. Grimmjow had trained his daughter to hunt in a very efficient manner. Letting a target slip away induced the same response in the young girl as it did in her father, but with less swearing since Ajuga was still fond of her rear and Karin had no problems reminded her daughter what she thought of such language. Szayel knew, from humiliating personal experience, that when Karin decided to tan someone’s hide, she did a thorough job of it.
“This is wonderful, Ajuga,” Szayel praised her. “Perhaps now we can learn how these Generals control the Swarm and, eventually, I may even be able to find a way to break that control, or even initiate a control of my own!”
He could learn so much from these creatures! Unlike the ones Grimmjow had massacred, this one was still in good shape. There was little damage to the specimen, other than the slit throat and more importantly, no damage to the head or brain. Of course, for all he knew, they controlled the Swarm with pheromones instead of telepathy or some other mental abilities. Now he had the chance to find out.
“The meeting is in an hour, Szayel. Do not be late.”
Aizen’s warning broke the Espada out of his discovery-induced glee and reminded him that he had guests he needed to keep entertained.
“Of course, Kami-sama! I will see to it this specimen is catalogued properly, and then I’ll be on my way,” he assured Aizen. The source of his fear took another long look at the body at Ajuga’s feet, turned on his heel and left without further commentary.
That suited Szayel just fine.
Exhilaration replaced any fear he’d been holding onto earlier at the prospect of studying, not one, not two, but three new Swarm specimens. Oh, he could just imagine all of the secrets these creatures could spill, just waiting to be unravelled! Even distracted, he could tell that Aizen also wanted to know what they could learn from the dead General. In addition, Ajuga’s fortuitous arrival with her dead prize had diverted Aizen’s interest and quelled his antagonism towards Szayel. Once again, her perfect sense of timing saved his hide. The girl had a knack for doing so and he suspected that maybe, just maybe, Aizen’s gentle demeanour no longer fooled Ajuga. It wasn’t as if the adults didn’t try to curb their dislike.. none of them wanted to find out what Aizen would do to them, or their children, if he ever suspected that they were whispering words of sedition in their children’s ears in private. Therefore, if Ajuga had any inkling of Aizen’s true nature it was because she had worked it out herself, not because any of them had dared to tell her or taught it to her.
“We should get going too” Hana sighed. “Our parents, or more accurately our mothers, will start having conniption fits if we don’t get home.”
“Hmm, yes, of course,” Szayel noted, waving his hand absently at them and signalling to a few researchers hovering in the doorway to fetch a lab cart. The kids left, no doubt to return home to semi-hysterical mothers and, with the exception of Hana, proud fathers.
The way things were going, it was going to be some time before he would be getting any sleep, but that was fine. He was used to going for days without slumber, especially if he was working on a particularly important project. Fortunately, he had a mate trained to care for a scientist caught up in research, and to his delight, he hadn’t even been the one to instruct her. Nemu was far more useful than his many fraccion had ever been. The only downside to her was that eating her wouldn’t heal him. Then again, unlike his fraccion, she wasn’t expendable.
Unfortunately, ‘Kami’s’ reminder about the meeting meant that Aizen expected Szayel to attend and he had best not get engrossed in dealing with the new specimens just yet if he didn’t want another trip to the basement of Kami’s Palace. He also didn’t want a repeat of the public humiliation he’d received at Karin’s hands years ago, when they had been struggling to get the Defence Net up and running.
“At least it doesn’t seem like I or my son will be blamed for turning that alarm off,” he thought in relief. He could only hope his good luck held for a while.

Edit: Answered questions removed since, apparently, I exceeded the 600 word authors note limit and was warned to shorten it or have my story removed. I understand the reasoning for such a rule. Amazing how quickly 600 words can show up.
I may decide to do Bi-weekly updates instead of weekly to remain ahead in my writing, at least until I have more stored Chapters and I am not worried about overtaking myself. The next Real King chapter is about ¾ done and I am really not liking how it’s turning out…..
Next Chapter: Ah yes, we see a bit of Rangiku, Tesra and Tatsuki and what life’s been like for them.
This Weeks Question: Lately, a lot of sites have been removing stories/artwork that have to do with characters that are under the age of 18 in the cannon story, ie Ichigo is 15 when bleach starts so he is underage, regardless of weather or not the fanfiction character is aged forward or not and are being labelled as Sex with a Minor. Now, in my personal opinion, 16 is not a minor. At 16 a good number of teens are already having sex, they are permitted to start learning how to drive and even get a job. About the only thing they can’t do is vote or legally buy alcohol. Hell, barely 100 years ago not having a child by 14 was considered outrageous.
Do you feel that it is right to label any story where the cannon character is under 18, despite being aged forward in the fanfict/art, as the work of pedophilia and that they should be removed? What age do you feel does a person no longer constitute as a ‘minor’ when it comes to things like sex?
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Prize of Victory 2	By : NovaAlexandria Category: Bleach > General Views: 56251 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 5
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach nor make a profit from this story

Prize of Victory 2