Bleach, Dark Dawn Ch31, The ambush

After he stood, Rida found himself thrown into the wall, It hurt, but then the explosion cut off any of his complaints.

"Torin!" Rida yelled over the roar of the flames

"I'm fine" Torin said as his reiatsu snuffed out the flames around him. He had several severe burns on his chest and arms, but he wasn't down yet.

Torin drew his zanpakto and slashed as an arrancar with a giant spear/axe weapon dashed at him and stabbed, the blades met in a shower of sparks, then the arrancar was pushed back. Another one was right behind him though, this one had his sword sheathed, he moved fast, punching Torin in the face immediately after his partner was pushed back.

Torin let the punch knock him into a backflip, then spun his sword in midair to deflect a barrage of bala shots from a huge arrancar man.

Torin scowled as a pale arrancar walked out and fired a blue cero at him. "Too many…" he cursed "bankai!"

The bankai release blasted a hole in the ceiling and also shielded Torin from the worst of the cero, the armor itself stopped the rest of it, but he was still driven outside, where he was immediately attacked by yet another arrancar. This time a dark skinned woman with a sword that had no center.

Torin grew a sword from his armor and blocked the woman's stroke, but was knocked back by the force towards an old man with no weapon.

"how many of them ARE there?" Torin thought as the man produced an axe from thin air and prepared to cut him down. Torin narrowly escaped the strike, pushing off the axe with his foot to vault away.

Then yet another arrancar showed up, this one was definitely in ressurecion, whit his grey coat and two pistols.

The man's right pistol glowed blue, then he spoke "cero metralleta" he said sofly, then fired several hundred cero at Torin, who was in no position to dodge.

"Damn!" Torin thought as he was pummeled by cero and driven into the ground, where he was then pummeled by some more cero.

Torin struggled to his feet, his armor had saved his life, but he could barely move after the beating he had taken.

The man with the guns appeared before Torin with a pistot aimed at his head. "Return Lord Aizen to us immediately" the man said

Torin blinked "huh?" he asked stupidly

"Don't try to lie" the pale skinned one said "we have evidence that it was you who abducted Lord Aizen"

"I'm not in the habit of lying to people with guns pointed at me" Torin said "what makes you think I'm even capable of abducting Aizen?"

"We found a haori in the wreakage with the squad 3 insignia on it" the woman said "you are the squad 3 captain

Torin frowned, his mind was racing,  this was all happening too fast for him to process, these were arrancar that worked for Aizen, and they were all captain level, so that made them the espada. They claimed he abducted Aizen, and had evidence that supported the claim, it was obviously a setup. But how could he get them to not kill him long enough to figure this all out?

Suddenly ropes of yellow light ensared all the espada around him, and Rida picked him up and carried him back to Aurora using shunpo.

The espada soon broke free of their bonds and turned to the trio to retaliate. Torin knew Aurora and Rida couldn't fight so many espada at once, especially when he was down already.

"ENOUGH!" he shouted, shocking everyone into stillness

Torin stood and walked forward with suprising steadiness for his condition. "This fight solves nothing, I propose we all stand down and talk about this rationally, then we can all figure out the situation" Torin said with authority.

Some of the espada seemed to want to attack, but the rest stopped them, oddly it was the four who Torin judged as strongest who were most open to discussing instead of combat. Torin thought these would be the most loyal to Aizen and least willing to talk with his alleged abductor. The pale skinned one, the woman, the old man, and the gunslinger were all inclined to talk, and they were all clearly a cut above the others.

Torin breathed a sigh of relief, and the espada followed him inside. On his way in he passed Rida and Aurora "get the senior captains, I hope to resolve this peacefully, but I need more people to represent the Gotei in diplomatic disscusions." He said, not mentioning the obvious fact that if things went sour again he would need the senior captains there to keep him alove.

His friends nodded and left, leaving Torin alone with a bunch of angry espada. "Oh boy, this is a nasty mess" Torin muttered as he went inside