(May 30th) (Bleach / Phoenix Wright) Order In The Court: Part XXX
Title: Order In The Court: Part XXX
Day/Theme: 30. Safe and dry in my sea of troubles
Series: Bleach / Phoenix Wright
Character/Pairing: All
Rating: G
"What?" Aizen said.
Von Karma straightened his cuffs and extended an emphatic finger. "You are mistaken," he said. "You claim that you have set up this entire mummery in order to remove the Hougyoku from Urahara Kisuke. What is your evidence that it is in him in the first place? Indeed, that such a thing ever existed?"
Phoenix and Edgeworth exchanged glances. Without needing so much as a single word, they moved into position on either side of von Karma. Edgeworth checked the evidence list. Phoenix cracked his knuckles.
"Simple," Aizen said dismissively. "I was aware of its creation a century ago. Of course, I would have investigated earlier, but I was too busy hiding the evidence from the Hollowification of several captains and vice-captains and ensuring his exile. I believe Twelfth Division still has the documents."
"Ah!" Edgeworth declared. "But if this is in fact the mysterious "Device X" mentioned in the Vizard Documents, it's quite clear from its description that it couldn't be hidden inside a shinigami!"
"Not precisely," Aizen said. "The experiments at the time were incomplete. What you can do is hide it inside a gigai, and then have the shinigami use the gigai. This automatically transfers it into the shinigami's spiritual substance, making it nearly impossible to remove. Unless you're prepared to incinerate the shinigami in question with suitable force," he added, indicating the hovering firebird.
"But how do you know it's in Urahara?" Phoenix said. "It could be in Shihouin Yoruichi! Or in anyone else he knows!"
Aizen shook his head gently. "You don't know Urahara Kisuke. He is a megalomaniac who has to control everything he comes in contact with. He wouldn't trust anyone else with the Hougyoku."
"It looks as if Urahara disagrees with you," Edgeworth said, pointing at the squirming figure on the scaffold.
"Well, of course he would," Aizen said, "since I'm about to rip his soul apart with the power of a million zanpakutou in order to remove it."
"That won't do you much good," Phoenix said. He put his hands on his hips, and prayed for a miraculous revelation or two that'd let him back up his next statement. "Because the Hougyoku isn't in Urahara Kisuke."
The crowd (or at least, those members of it who weren't creeping round angling for a good attack position) gasped.
"Ridiculous," Aizen said. "How can you prove such a thing?"
"Edgeworth!" Phoenix said desperately. "You've read the documents. Does Device X have any particular effects on someone who it's inside?"
"It does not," von Karma rumbled. "Naturally I memorised the documents, and my memory is perfect. However --"
The crowd leaned forward.
"It is effectively indestructible. The only way to destroy it, and that was a hypothesis, would be to conceal it inside a shinigami's gigai and then cause the shinigami to become human. This would degrade the Hougyoku and unbind it, thus destroying it. But this is quite impossible."
"Wait!" Edgeworth took a deep breath. His ruffles quivered. "We have before us the greatest gigai designer in the history of Soul Society --"
"Really?" Phoenix asked.
"It was in his press release," Edgeworth said. "But I digress. We have before us the greatest gigai designer in the history of Soul Society, and the man who built the Hougyoku. If anyone could create such a thing, it would be Urahara Kisuke!"
"Very true," Aizen agreed, "and I intend to remove it from his body."
"Give me those reports!" Phoenix grabbed the papers from Edgeworth and began leafing through them.
"What?" Edgeworth said.
"I'm saying," Phoenix muttered, "that there was something in the Twelfth Division reports about gigai --"
"Here," Mia interrupted, pulling out the page. "The one he built for Kuchiki Rukia on her being stranded in the human world; they ran an analysis on it when they brought her in, and apparently it was very close to being human in itself --"
"Give me that," Edgeworth gasped, snatching the paper from her hand. "And where the gigai was supplied by Urahara Kisuke after she ended up losing her powers by encountering Kurosaki Ichigo in an area which Urahara had been living for a while, and would therefore know about Ichigo, and might even have arranged the Hollow attack which touched off the incident --"
"Precisely!" von Karma snarled, his voice growing louder. "And whereas in the later weeks, Kuchiki Rukia does not regain her powers, but effectively declines towards humanity, as might be expected from having the Hougyoku inserted inside her as part of the dastardly plan of the scheming manipulator currently hanging from the scaffold!"
Dead silence.
"Wait," Aizen said. For the first time he looked actually uncertain. "That's far too complex and byzantine and needlessly complicated, even for Urahara Kisuke . . ."
"That is precisely what we would expect from Urahara Kisuke!" Phoenix took a step forward. "This devious, cunning, underhanded schemer would surely consider it a masterstroke! And it can easily be checked. If someone will examine Kuchiki Rukia to see if she has the Hougyoku inside her . . ."
"By all means," Rukia said, stepping forward, very small in her white robe.
And Aizen moved.
And at that point Ichigo hit the giant firebird with his big sword, Captain Kyouraku and Captain Ukitake did something dramatic to the firebird with the device they were carrying that had MADE BY SHIHOUIN trademarks all over it, Yoruichi snatched Urahara off the scaffold before it blew up, Captain Kuchiki threw himself in front of Rukia before Aizen could reach her, and a number of other shinigami hit Aizen very very hard indeed.
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Compilation Order in the Court post.
Day/Theme: 30. Safe and dry in my sea of troubles
Series: Bleach / Phoenix Wright
Character/Pairing: All
Rating: G
"What?" Aizen said.
Von Karma straightened his cuffs and extended an emphatic finger. "You are mistaken," he said. "You claim that you have set up this entire mummery in order to remove the Hougyoku from Urahara Kisuke. What is your evidence that it is in him in the first place? Indeed, that such a thing ever existed?"
Phoenix and Edgeworth exchanged glances. Without needing so much as a single word, they moved into position on either side of von Karma. Edgeworth checked the evidence list. Phoenix cracked his knuckles.
"Simple," Aizen said dismissively. "I was aware of its creation a century ago. Of course, I would have investigated earlier, but I was too busy hiding the evidence from the Hollowification of several captains and vice-captains and ensuring his exile. I believe Twelfth Division still has the documents."
"Ah!" Edgeworth declared. "But if this is in fact the mysterious "Device X" mentioned in the Vizard Documents, it's quite clear from its description that it couldn't be hidden inside a shinigami!"
"Not precisely," Aizen said. "The experiments at the time were incomplete. What you can do is hide it inside a gigai, and then have the shinigami use the gigai. This automatically transfers it into the shinigami's spiritual substance, making it nearly impossible to remove. Unless you're prepared to incinerate the shinigami in question with suitable force," he added, indicating the hovering firebird.
"But how do you know it's in Urahara?" Phoenix said. "It could be in Shihouin Yoruichi! Or in anyone else he knows!"
Aizen shook his head gently. "You don't know Urahara Kisuke. He is a megalomaniac who has to control everything he comes in contact with. He wouldn't trust anyone else with the Hougyoku."
"It looks as if Urahara disagrees with you," Edgeworth said, pointing at the squirming figure on the scaffold.
"Well, of course he would," Aizen said, "since I'm about to rip his soul apart with the power of a million zanpakutou in order to remove it."
"That won't do you much good," Phoenix said. He put his hands on his hips, and prayed for a miraculous revelation or two that'd let him back up his next statement. "Because the Hougyoku isn't in Urahara Kisuke."
The crowd (or at least, those members of it who weren't creeping round angling for a good attack position) gasped.
"Ridiculous," Aizen said. "How can you prove such a thing?"
"Edgeworth!" Phoenix said desperately. "You've read the documents. Does Device X have any particular effects on someone who it's inside?"
"It does not," von Karma rumbled. "Naturally I memorised the documents, and my memory is perfect. However --"
The crowd leaned forward.
"It is effectively indestructible. The only way to destroy it, and that was a hypothesis, would be to conceal it inside a shinigami's gigai and then cause the shinigami to become human. This would degrade the Hougyoku and unbind it, thus destroying it. But this is quite impossible."
"Wait!" Edgeworth took a deep breath. His ruffles quivered. "We have before us the greatest gigai designer in the history of Soul Society --"
"Really?" Phoenix asked.
"It was in his press release," Edgeworth said. "But I digress. We have before us the greatest gigai designer in the history of Soul Society, and the man who built the Hougyoku. If anyone could create such a thing, it would be Urahara Kisuke!"
"Very true," Aizen agreed, "and I intend to remove it from his body."
"Give me those reports!" Phoenix grabbed the papers from Edgeworth and began leafing through them.
"What?" Edgeworth said.
"I'm saying," Phoenix muttered, "that there was something in the Twelfth Division reports about gigai --"
"Here," Mia interrupted, pulling out the page. "The one he built for Kuchiki Rukia on her being stranded in the human world; they ran an analysis on it when they brought her in, and apparently it was very close to being human in itself --"
"Give me that," Edgeworth gasped, snatching the paper from her hand. "And where the gigai was supplied by Urahara Kisuke after she ended up losing her powers by encountering Kurosaki Ichigo in an area which Urahara had been living for a while, and would therefore know about Ichigo, and might even have arranged the Hollow attack which touched off the incident --"
"Precisely!" von Karma snarled, his voice growing louder. "And whereas in the later weeks, Kuchiki Rukia does not regain her powers, but effectively declines towards humanity, as might be expected from having the Hougyoku inserted inside her as part of the dastardly plan of the scheming manipulator currently hanging from the scaffold!"
Dead silence.
"Wait," Aizen said. For the first time he looked actually uncertain. "That's far too complex and byzantine and needlessly complicated, even for Urahara Kisuke . . ."
"That is precisely what we would expect from Urahara Kisuke!" Phoenix took a step forward. "This devious, cunning, underhanded schemer would surely consider it a masterstroke! And it can easily be checked. If someone will examine Kuchiki Rukia to see if she has the Hougyoku inside her . . ."
"By all means," Rukia said, stepping forward, very small in her white robe.
And Aizen moved.
And at that point Ichigo hit the giant firebird with his big sword, Captain Kyouraku and Captain Ukitake did something dramatic to the firebird with the device they were carrying that had MADE BY SHIHOUIN trademarks all over it, Yoruichi snatched Urahara off the scaffold before it blew up, Captain Kuchiki threw himself in front of Rukia before Aizen could reach her, and a number of other shinigami hit Aizen very very hard indeed.
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Compilation Order in the Court post.