Ichigo stood in the middle of what was once Soul society. He walked with his zanpakuto blades in their shikai state.

He looked around hoping to see anyone, the war with Yhwach had taken took a dark turn and taken all he cared about.

Lying around Ichigo were dead bodies, the corpses of many Soul reapers and Quincy laid around him. The Quincy killed all the soul reapers, then when Ichigo finally finished off Yhwach all the Quincy died with him.

Ichigo held a hand over his heart, panting, he then heard Zangetsu speaking. "King you need to calm down. I mean, my hollow regeneration is the only thing saving you from Yhwach's declaration of 'all who have my blood shall die with me'. Your body needs time to recover before we get worked up."

Ichigo growled out loud, "What's the point? All this destruction, not to mention the hollow's lost, there are more souls in the land of the living then in the Soul Society. The balance is lost."

He then looked up in to the former soul society's sky he could see Earth, Hell, and Hecuo Mundo coming closer, "The universe is collapsing in on it's self. And with the Soul king gone, the universe will still fall apart, even if the universe was balanced. We won the battle, but lost the war. Zangetsu."

In Ichigo's inner world

Zangetsu growled his pale face with rage. "Fucking bastard king! And his fucking daddy issues, taking the whole fucking universe with him. This can't be how we go down king. After all we've been through, all the battles, all the loses, fun, friendship, rivalry, hell even love, we can't just die as the last thing in the universe. There has to be away."

Then old man Zangetsu strode out from a long shadow cast by the clouds that Ichigo's despair had created, "There is some hope."

Hollow Zangetsu turned to the Old man that was the embodiment of Ichigo's Quincy blood, he should have died with Yhwach. "Old man…how?"

The Old man spoke, "Like how your hollow regeneration saved Ichigo's life it saved mine. All Quincy have a special power, Ichigo's is to make the impossible possible. He is a Quincy who outlived the king and has the powers of a soul reaper and a hollow. He was an impossible being since the day of his birth. All that kept him alive was his power to make the impossible possible."

Hollow Zangetsu blinked, "So you think the King can pull one last impossible feet out of his ass and save the day. Well He's done it before." He then put his hands on his mouth to speak to Ichigo, "King the old man things with your luck and ability to do the impossible we got some hope!"

In the outside world Ichigo then spoke back. "I heard. Zangetsu I heard it all, but I don't see how it could happen. It's truly hopeless." He then sat down, but leaped back to his feet when he heard a new voice say "It's never truly hopeless!"

He then saw a stranger in a standard Soul Reaper captain's outfit white, very pale skin, black hair down to his shoulders and green eyes. He was about a foot taller than Ichigo. He vanished in a Shunpo and reappeared in front of Ichigo.

The new Shinigami then handed Ichigo a card. "Hello. My name is Dex Baster. I'm from an alternate dimension."

Ichigo looked at the card and read it aloud. "Prime universe fix it portal. Is your universe on the edge of ending? We can fix it!"

Ichigo blinked in confusion while Zangetsu cheered. "Finally some hope! At least we can leave through this thanks to this slider!"

Dex smiled, "Mr. Orange hair's Zanpakuto. I can do more than just save you and your master."

Ichigo and Zangetsu looked shocked, "You can hear other people's Zanpakuto spirits?"

Dex smiled, "That is a gift that runs in my family, but right now we need to save your universe. I know a kido spell that can take us back in time, but this is a once off spell and it will only effect this universe. It won't affect anything in the soul king's palace. So we need something to hold the universe together before we turn back the clock. And I'd say we have about an hour before this universe ends killing us both, so less talk more running."

Dex then dashed off the Soul king's palace, Ichigo stood bewildered for a second before sprinting after Dex. Ichigo caught up to Dex in what once was the king's chambers.

Ichigo crossed his arms. "I don't see how we are going to get a new soul king."

Dex then made some wide arm movements before he drew his sword with his left hand and ran it through his right hand, "Healing kido 109! Resurrection from the ashes life transfer!"

What looked like part of Dex's soul then left his body and pulled energy from the air which reformed into the Soul king's head encased in his crystal.

Dex then fell down to his knees panting with his sword still jutting from his palm.

The Soul king then spoke. "I see you gave up part of your soul to reform enough of me to hold the universe together, pulling the echo of my spiritual pressure together. Very cleaver. Though I must ask, how is it possible?"

Ichigo's jaw was dropped as he helped Dex up. As Dex got back to his feet smiled and panted out, "Simple my Zanpakuto's power is to give life. So I just created that Kido to use it in case of something like this. Now, come on Ichigo, we need to get out of here before we turn back the clock. And the king being alive won't pay us much time." Dex removed his sword from his hand.

The Soul king then spoke, "I see your time rewind spell will only effect the one universe and as my palace is in another nothing here will not be affect." The king's eyes then moved to the dead body of his son, "So this time around my son shouldn't be alive. It's for the best."

There was sadness in the king's voice after his son may have been a power mad monster, but he was still his child. "Rest in peace my child. May you be cured of your madness in death."

Once back in soul society.

Dex used his own blood to draw a symbol and he placed his bleeding hand on it. "For this spell to work we need to make an oath in blood."

Dex then put his hand in the symbol as Ichigo drew the shorter blade of Zangetsu and sliced open his right hand and placed it in the draw seal making it glow.

Dex's eyes glow and spoke in a strange voice almost as if something was talking through him.. "I most now read with you the laws of time travel. Do you Ichigo swear to the first rule, that I who turned back the clock, may fight anyone you Ichigo ever faced in battle."

Ichigo answered, "I agree." He then saw the Blood war going on backwards around him, to his shock.

Dex then said. "Do you, Ichigo Kurosaki, agree to return to the day evil first effect your life, the day your mother died, 12 years in the past."

Ichigo nodded in agreement and noticed nine chain link tattoos appear on his right arm, while three formed on Dex.

Dex then said. "The chain links on your arm are Memory links, one for each year we turn back time. You may use one to restore someone's memories of the old time line by placing your hand upon your head and saying, Memory link reconnect. Restoring all the power they had up to the point they died in the original time line."

Ichigo nodded, "Yes I agree."

Dex then chanted, "Now by my power turn back the clock time Kibo clock rewind!"

In a flash Ichigo found himself five years old the age when he lost his mother in the zaraki district, at night.

Dex then got up and summoned a hollow mask which was blank and featureless. He then snapped his fingers as the wound on his hand healed. "It is done. Let's get you home." A Garganta then opened to Ichigo's room. Dex picked up Ichigo and stepped in closing the door.

Dex removed his mask, "Ok now we're now back in time 12 years, the night before your mother died. But this time the Quincy king is a corpse next to his father's living head. So he won't be around to absorbed the powers of all non pure-blood Quincy, so your mom won't lose her powers and won't be killed by Grandfisher, That's big butterfly already."

Ichigo looked confused.

Dex smiled, "I know about your mother as I saw all of your life when I used the kido, Butterfly is short for Butterfly effect, which is what's changed thanks to time travel. Other side effects of no Quincy king are, all other non pure-blood Quincy will live, so Uryu's mother also lives as do many others who died from loosing their powers. So More Quincys."

Ichigo looked tired.

Dex then smiled, "Now your five and need sleep. You get to bed you've had a long reverse 12 years. I'm going to go use two of my three Memory links to restore your parent's memories, so I not only will have a place to stay but we can get started training. "

Ichigo blinked, "With no Quincy king, that means I only have to worry about Aizen. And I beat him before."

Dex rolled his eyes "The Soul king is less complete then he was before, so the barriers between the worlds is weaker leading to more humans who can see spirits and have powers, which will lead to stronger hollows, which lead to stronger Arancars. Which means stronger army, and stronger Aizen. Now while you may keep all your old powers, this will also just lead to stronger hollows by your now stronger spiritual pressure leaking out, boosting everything else spiritual power, making hollows even stronger. And that's before factoring in the butterfly effect, so yes we need to train so you can control yourself better and be ready for anything!"

Dex then finished with, "Besides you didn't beat Aizen you battled him to a draw where he fell into a trap, were you both lost your Zanpakuto, that's not victory in my book!"

Ichigo winced at the reminder and got in to bed, "I want to sleep now."

Dex left the room quietly closing the door behind him.

Ichigo crawled in the bed. "I have to do everything over, with a stronger Aizen, and I didn't technically beat him last time!"

Zangetsu then spoke up, "Well look on the bright side king, everyone is alive again, you saved your mom and the other Quincy, so you're ahead on lives saved so far, plus you still got me and all my powers. And no Blood War means after Aizen everything will go smoothly, once we take care of the Fullbringers."

Ichigo then rolled on to his side, "And what butterfly effect will this lead to? For all we know changing this much will probably lead to something worse than the blood war!"

In Ichigo's inner world.

A five-year-old version of Zangetsu stood by a teenage version of the old man. "Want to bring us down King? At least know Orihime is alive so we can get the girl this time around at least!"

To be continued.