Anz was having an interesting week; He had run several experiments and was currently in the process of analyzing the data. His lab buzzed with life and hurry, though he had yet to meet the captain of his squad despite having spent the entire week in the lab he took it upon himself to organize all the experiments and to begin data analysis of his own work delegating filing and grouping to several younger squad members. At the moment he sat at a bright terminal his hands covered in silver mailed gloves, dotted with barnacles but dancing across the keyboard as he tried to analyze data trends on random garganta opening. Meanwhile PATCH split the vision of his other eye into two separate sections, the first detailing a pair of his gauntlets correlating the upload of data from his MSL to the computer main frame while the second was working on calibrating an ionizing mini-collider. The light from the large intersecting lasers danced across the lab contrasting the soft florescent lighting with streaks of purple and red.

Anz smiled he’d never been so busy or happy in his life. With no captain seen as of yet he had nearly infinite access to the research budget as well as the ability to run up to three projects simultaneously thanks to his recently achieved shikai. On top of all that good news, Rayleigh his two tailed three eyed large black cat had made a lovely home just above the lab door and was busy kneading the pillow he had dragged up onto the shelf. With a pause to stretch his neck and crack his knuckles, Anz adjusted his goggles and straightened the tie under his lead lined lab coat, Yes he was home.

Ika Mazi had been looking for his Lieutenant due to them not being properly introduced so he decided he would go find him. He ran around the lab looking and realized all that was there was his Unseated members and they were looking at him like a madman. He had his eyes narrowed on them all "Get back to work unless you want gasses again and be at my mercy". They all looked away and began working. He loved being an imposing Captain and having his subordinates respect and fear in the palm of his hand and used it whenever he could though just for shits and giggles he loved to do all this shit.

He ran out the door and saw his Vice Captain and brought a few of his new Inventions namely his Visor that he made 50 pairs of already and his Reitsu Mines which there where thousands of still in production and even more out to the Gotei 13 and he figured he would bring some to the Lieutenant. He lit a good joint and took a quick puff as he lazily walked towards the man. Some people thought he was Bipolar when he was like this lazy to hyper. It was a good guess but not true.He took another puff and walked forwards when something caught his eye. It was a shiny brief case. He ignored it though no matter how hard it was.

He walked up to the man and saw his Zanpokuto which was pretty cool in Ikas mind but that wasn't what interested Ika. The man had an eye patch but Ika had no clue why he ignored this to and besides this he looked average. Average height average weight all of these where basically average hell in the face he looked like Kisuke with different color hair.He laughed and aid hello but then he noticed something weirder a cat with three eyes and two tails which completely bewildered Ika. "Okay I am lost whats with this cat two tails and three eyes how the hell did you do that".

Upon the man answering Ika took a puff of his joint and spoke "How rude of me my bad my name is Ika Mazi I am your Captain and I came to say hello". He took a longer puff of the Joint now and as he exhaled and the smoke filled the air. He sighed and looked at the man "okay I can not resist temptation any longer dude whats in the briefcase". He looked at it very bewildered at what it could be until he snapped back to reality. He took a quick puff of the joint and spoke again. "Oh yes I had more business here as well than to chitchat you see"...

(I will say what after you reply)

Anz watched as the new man entered the lab snapping at the subordinates and then making his way slowly towards him. Suddenly the stranger lifted a joint lit it and brought it to his lips, frowning Anz ran the numbers through his head thinking of any active experiment that could be disrupted by the gaseous form of tetra-hydra-canabonolic acid or any of the other carcinogens rampant in the smoke. Before he had the chance to speak the man spoke mentioning Rayleigh in a upstart manner causing the cat to dash from his pillow and slink behind some cabinets.

“Rayleigh, is the result of some earlier attempts of mine in the field of rapid genetic manipulation, however he is quite sensitive about his appearance and a good friend so I’d appreciate if you did not stare… Now if I might inquire, who are you? And what are you doing in this lab?”

With an inquisitive glare Anz listened silently to the mans’ introduction, the fact that the person who stood in front of him was his captain was a little disturbing. He had entered the lab with no safety equipment, scared his cat, and worst of all was still contaminating the air with smoke. However, by right this lab was his so he could not judge.

“My apologies Taicho, I am Dr. Anzai Kuro your new Vice Captain. I hope you don’t mind, I took the liberty of setting up some preliminary experiments and data analysis while you were out… The case is one of my Mobile Support labs it’s downloading some data gathered from the human world and I am correlating it into our database to run against some preliminary algorithms… However Taicho, I hope I am not crossing any lines by saying this but I really must insist on you putting out the cannabis, for it could alter some of the readings on the ionizing collider running to your left… A side note from that I would also recommend perhaps placing on this protective lab code before the latent radiation from the aforementioned sterilizes you”

Anz spoke in a calm cool demeanor his voice contained and his body language friendly however it greatly upset him to see his commanding officer so lackadaisical when it came to standard lab procedure. While one of his gauntlets floated over to the newly arrived captain holding a lead lined lab coat he placed a surprise safety and security drill for the squad on his calendar using PATCH hopefully at least the other members of the squad would understand their importance.

He sighed and put out his Roach (Joint) and just nodded to everything the man said "I in my opinion think that cat is pretty damn cool". He smiled at the cat and knew what he said was loud enough to be heard like he wanted to to make it feel better.He did think it was a very cool cat though genetic mutations must be awesome he thought.He yawned and looked at the dude in amusement as he realized the lab people must be utterly disturbed at the Vice Captain and the Captains appearance. He laughed aloud and went to grab for his Joint but restrained himself.

He then pulled his Zanpokuto out and looked at Anz with a grin hey do you want to test your luck with your Captain in a scrimmage he said. It really wasn't a choice as Ika was heading towards the practice field anyway and wanted to test him. His thoughts then wandered as he waited to why does his Lieutenant and third seat get pets??? It was so unfair to him and he decided he would make a modsoul of his own for fun. He then grinned and maliciously looked on at his Vice Captain."Time for the spar".

He grinned at his Vice Captain as he began to light his first joint and then took a quick puff and threw it in the air. He launched a Hado 4 to destroy it and looked at his Vice Captain in amusement as he began to point his sword towards the man. "I am ready when you are my accomplice and once we begin we shall have a fun chat and battle". He grinned as he said that. He knew that his "accomplice" would soon learn why Ika was called the most painful spar of all times". "Make the first move if you will".

Anz watched as Ika extinguished his joint, and turned back to his work to check on his algorithm for a moment when the captain made his offer. “I have a lot of work to do and I’d really rather….. Not”. Sighing, as he saw the man had already left he contemplated whether it was technically direct insubordination to just ignore the request entirely and continue on with his work. However, in the end, Ika was his commanding officer and thus he had to follow. Turning to a division member Anz gently instructed the young recruit to monitor his work until he returned from his meeting with the captain. That done he released his Shikai sheathed his zanapkuto and left the lab, removing his lab coat and grabbing a small black bag he called his combat kit. Within was all his battle ready inventions as well as a few other miscellaneous objects such as a pad of paper and some pencils.

Arriving at the training field as Ika released a bolt of lighting to destroy his joint, Anz set the kit down on the ground and removed his suit coat and tie, unbuttoning the top two buttons on his blue button down and rolled up his sleeves. Shifting through his bag he took out four small metal cubes sliding them into his pockets a small brown leather sack, which followed the cubes and finally a pair of grey thin metal gloves that he slipped over his hands.

Standing in front of his captain he listened as the man spoke finally saying that he may come when ready. With a nonchalant smile Anz had PATCH run some preliminary data analysis marking Ika’s reiatsu signature, estimating maximum swing length of his sword, as well doing preliminary muscular structure analysis to help Anz to determine the mans fighting style. Stepping back Anz lowered his stance, with his feet pointing perpendicularly and his right foot forward his stance was reminiscent of a boxers stance except he kept his palms open and his weight shifted just slightly onto his back leg.

“While I appreciate your desire to test my combat prowess, Couldn’t our time be better spent perhaps, discussing some of the research designs for the division or funding allocation? … However, if you truly wish to spar it goes against the law of soul society for a subordinate to strike his commanding officer first. Therefore if we must fight I insist the first move be yours”

Technically speaking the law held that he could strike first if ordered to but Ika had used the term if you will, implying a choice in the matter. To be honest Anz was less then thrilled so far with his impression of his new captain for some reason he had envisioned the captain of the 12th division to be a serious, scientifically driven man, with a passion for knowledge and research. Instead the man had shown no interest in the current state of the labs various research projects, broken several safety codes, and had even dragged him away from his work.