The Amazing Shiba Kuukaku

[Kuukaku is sitting in the room she's taken over, an array of fireworks building materials spread across the floor around her and there's a wooden box that's top is missing but the feed doesn't show what's inside. Currently holding a newly made explosive by the wick in her teeth, Kuukaku is very carefully using what seems to be ink or paint and brushing words onto the special papers covering the explosive with her good hand and lightly steadying it with her other one.]

Rizelle, Gokudera, Ryohei, whatever...

[She pauses for a moment, brushing something else a bit more carefully onto the surface of the explosive. Once she's satisfied with it, she sets the brush down on the mat beside her and carefully takes the wick from her teeth.]

We're takin' a bit of a break. I don't want any stupid shit compromising it so we're gonna wait till this is over.

[A mentally and physically younger version of Kuukaku... by one hundred years. She's standing outside in front of the in-the-works fireworks platform with one hand on her hip.]

Oi, Aniki, come check this shit out! When this is done this is going to top any fireworks display anyone's ever seen in Rukongai or the Seireitei!

[She waits for a reply from her older brother before she turns around... then noticing the strange scenery.]

...Oi. 'the hell is goin' on around here?! Aniki?

Oi, Rizelle. You up for that land survey? The winter's finally broken and now is a good a time as any to start workin'.

Gokudera, if you're up to it, you're more than welcome to join us. If we manage to find a good location I'll treat you both to a drink.

[The video feed shows part of the large blanket that Kuukaku had set up outside, a bottle of sake and two saucers resting on a thin board to keep them upright. Kuukaku is coming back on-screen a distance away with a small chest supported by her left arm and hip, looking bored but her expression changes into one of confusion and she stops. Closer to the feed, the alien is looking at the little sake set up a little too close for her liking.]

Oi, what are you doing?

[Her expression goes from mildly confused to horrified as the alien purposefully tips over the saucers of sake, more importantly--whether intentional or not--the one meant for her older brother Kaien was spilled first onto the board.]

Y-you... You disrespectful little bastard! How dare you do that!

[From horror to rage, she watches as the alien purposely looks at her then tips over the bottle with a finger. Dropping the chest on the ground, Kuukaku runs over with her good arm pulled back, an orange aura appears around her fist as she readies a kido attack.

The moment her fist hits the ground where the alien was standing, a pillar of fire explodes up and outwards. The communicator is thrown back and lands back in the shallow snow as the video goes dark but the audio continues. Another explosion is heard over the sound as Kuukaku yells angrily.]

Come back here!!

[Kuukaku is sitting in the middle of a room, dipping her brush into a small bowl of black paint before she resumes painting the banner she's been working on.

She didn't know why the room changed when she decided to temporarily settle into it and how it eerily seemed like home but she ignored it and got to work straight away.]

Heheh. Perfect.

[She grins at her penmanship and from where the communicator is sitting on one of the pillows, the words "The Great Amazing Shiba Kuukaku" are read... in Japanese but no matter. It's not bold and obvious at all, nope.]

[Kuukaku is sitting cross-legged on the floor in the foyer of the main hall, smoking her pipe and looking at the sunken-in zen garden. She was fairly sure she wasn't anywhere in Soul Society or in the Seireitei for that matter; nothing in those places looked so expensive and foreign. And the fact that she was above ground and the cannon she made was no where in sight... It would have been pretty hard to miss.

Instead of freaking out and panicking, she's just going to sit here and smoke her pipe until she decides to bother with trying to find some answers. Now if she didn't have her pipe then people were going to die she was going to be even more irritable.]