Sing Record Run
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Ch 8 Pocky: Hero or Tyrant?
Grimmjow and Ulquiorra were running to find Pocky. According to Lilinette, this snack called 'Pocky' was going to stop the Hollow that was going berserk in the recording room.
"Hey, Ulquiorra!"
"What is it?" said a monotone voice.
"Where can we find this…stick?"
"Probably the shops."
"Right. So they're sticks covered in chocolates?"
"Yes, trash."
"Stop calling me that, jerk!"
"Trash. Hurry up or Halibel will kill us both."
Grimmjow imagined the blond Espada with flames around her. He shook his head. He didn't like that image.
Soon enough, they reached a shop named Sweet and Sour. In front of the store, there were many confectionaries that looked like sweets. The two Espada stopped in front of it, trying to search for a chocolate covered stick. They went inside and looked madly around the little building.
"Grimmjow. I think I found it."
Grimmjow rushed over to the revel haired Espada. He saw a long box with a picture of a stick with something brown on the top. The label said Pocky.
"Yeah, I think it's that. Let's go and buy it."
However, he felt a grip on his arm when he turned around to leave. Grimmjow looked back and saw a pale, Gigai hand grabbing his arm.
"What? Let go of me!"
"Use your eyes, trash. Look at how many types of Pocky there are."
When the blue haired Espada followed the Cuarto's gaze, his eyes widened in shock. There were so many boxes saying Pocky. There were strawberry Pocky, marble tea Pocky, almond pocky, dark chocolate pocky, milk Pocky, green tea Pocky, banana Pocky, etc.
Grimmjow frowned and picked one kind of Pocky up.
"What's the difference between a Lucky and a Pocky? They look the same."
"Read the descriptions, trash. It says it's like a lucky Pocky."
"So if you eat that, you get lucky?"
"Probably all trash."
"Well which one do we get?"
Ulquiorra thought for a while. He wasn't sure either. He came up with one final important decision.
"Get two each from all flavors."
In the meanwhile, Rukia and Szayel were fighting the Hollow. Zangetsu was in the Hollow's hands.
"You're a Shinigami. Can't you do anything about it?" asked Szayel, hitting the monster with a chair, which broke immediately in half as it came contact with the white armor. Rukia was struggling hard to get out of her Gigai.
"What's wrong with Gigai? I can't get out of it!"
Szayel dodged once more.
"You're useless."
"I am not!"
Suddenly, Szayel thought of a way that could possible let the Hollow's guard down.
"Hey, Shinigami!"
"What?"
"Show that Hollow that bunny drawing of yours!"
"My drawings? Why?"
"Because, Ichigo said that he has been having nightmares about your horrib-ack!"
Szayel was lying on the ground, clutching his head. Rukia was standing over him with her dark aura.
"It is not horrible and if you insult my Chappies, I will give you a harder kick that you will never live to experiment a single object again!"
The Hollow raised a hand to kill them. Rukia quickly took out her drawings right before the hand penetrated her. There was silence as the Hollow stared at the drawings Rukia was flipping over.
"It's working!" whispered Rukia as Szayel got up slowly.
However she was wrong. The Hollow had seen too many bunnies now that his view had gone wrong. From the Hollow's point of view, he could see a black haired bunny, flipping a sketchbook with thousands of bunnies and another green haired bunny getting up behind the black haired bunny.
"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
The Hollow snatched the sketchbook and threw it in the air. Before the other two bunnies could make their move, the Hollow took out his Zanpacto and started ripping the papers into shreds.
Rukia looked at this in horror.
"NOOOOOO!"
The fighters in the waiting line out side were discussing tactics. They had told Nnoitra and Tesla what was going on.
"Maybe we should get…
"No."
"How about…"
"Flame throwers…"
Their discussion went on until Tubo jerked his head up, looking at Halibel in horror.
"What's wrong, Tubo?"
"Did you give Ulquiorra and Grimmjow money?"
"Why would they need that?"
"Because they need to buy the Pocky."
There was an awkward silence as Halibel thought about the situation.
Oh. I forgot.
Ulquiorra and Grimmjow were waiting impatiently as an old lady on the counter worked out the number and the cost.
", iiiiitttt iiisss tthhhhiiirrrtttyy ttthhhrreee dddoolllaaarrrsss," she said, very slowly as she put the boxes of Pocky in two separate plastic bags.
"What did she just say?"
"Thirty three dollars, trash."
"Thank you for the answer, jerk!"
"Trash."
"Jerk!"
"Trash."
"Emo jerk!"
"I am not emo, trash."
"You are so!"
The old lady interfered.
"Mmmmmoooonnnneeeyy, ppllleeeaaasseee."
Grimmjow frowned.
"Is this geezer purposely going all slow motion?"
Ulquiorra sighed as the 'geezer' put out her hand in very slow motion.
"Maybe, trash. He picked up the two plastic bags and gave one to Grimmjow.
"Pay the money, trash."
Grimmjow stared at the other.
"Money? I don't have it."
"What?"
"Halibel never gave us any. Neither did Aizen nor Tubo."
Ulquiorra was shocked. How were they going to get out of this?
Only one way. They're human after all.
"We'll run," whispered Ulquiorra.
Suddenly, a booming voice came from behind the two Espada and they felt a large hand grab one of their shoulders, each. They looked around and saw a Yammy sized shop assistant glaring at them.
"Are you thinking of running away? Hmmm?"
The two started to think as fast as they could. This woman was scary. The grip tightened as they tried to get out of the grasp.
"Oh, no. Don't even try. I was a sumo wrestler before and I doubt that two teenagers can escape my grip," said the woman.
After hearing that, the two stopped trying and Ulquiorra looked at Grimmjow vise versa. Ulquiorra made a signal with the hand that wasn't holding the bag. Grimmjow looked at it and made his own hand signal back at the other. The woman didn't miss this.
"What's this? Signals? Tell me what they mean or else."
Ulquiorra looked up at the Yammy sized woman.
"If you really insist, trash. I will tell you. I said, 'Bite this trash and once the giant lets go out us, run.'"
The woman's turned red with anger. However, Grimmjow cut in before she could say anything. He grinned.
"And I said, 'Roger that.'"
On the cue, the two Espada bit hard into the woman's huge hands.
"AHHH!"
The woman let go of her grip. Her two captures jumped and kicked her face with strongest force their Gigai could manage. While they landed softly, the big woman fell on her back. The ground shook as she touched down. The vibrations made a much of boxes, which were stacked behind her, fall down.
"Yeah! Bye bye!" yelled Grimmjow as he ran after Ulquiorra out of the exit.
"Sssstttttttooooooppppp," said the old slow motion lady.
Out of the store, the two were running as fast as they could in their Gigai.
"Uh, that woman tastes gross!"
"Yes, I agree. We should eat one of the snacks. They might taste better."
"Good idea!"
Ulquiorra opened one of the Pocky boxes and pulled a chocolate cover stick out. He gave one to Grimmjow and put one in his own mouth.
"It's the original flavor," he added before savoring the taste.
"This is good!"
"This trash doesn't taste trashy…"
"Jerk! This is not trash at all! Give me another one!"
So they ran and shared a pack of Pocky at the same time, not realizing that Halibel was very angry with them back in the S.A.R. building.
"When are they coming?" yelled Halibel. Flames were coming out from her.
Nnoitra and Tesla were back in as everyone else had their 5 minute go. Halibel was angry that Ulquiorra and Grimmjow were taking so long. She was going out of control.
She was ready to destroy the huge building when the two came. They had a chocolate covered stick in their mouths.
"It's Pocky!" yelled Stark.
Grimmjow threw a packet at the Primera, who caught it easily and started devouring the whole packet.
"Why were you so late?" said Halibel in a scary voice that made both Ulquiorra and Grimmjow stop happily eating their sticks.
"…You didn't give us any-"
"I DON'T CARE! JUST GET YOUR FUCK"N SELVES INSIDE AND DEAL WITH THE HOLLOW!"
"Hai!"
They started bickering though.
"Ulquiorra, just get your bag inside."
"Bring yours, trash"
"Jerk! Yours!"
"Trash!"
Halibel erupted.
"HURRY UP! JUST BRING BOTH PLASTIC BAGS WITH YOU!"
The two decided to follow her orders and rushed into the room. They saw Nnoitra and Tesla dodging here and there out of the Hollow's attacks. It was Tesla who spotted the new comers first.
"Ulquiorra! Grimmjow!"
"Took you long enough!" spat Nnoitra.
"Shut up! You don't even know what happened!" retorted Grimmjow.
"I don't care!"
Before they could anger Halibel, outside, more by taking time, Ulquiorra stopped the bickering.
"Stop it. Nnoitra, Tesla, come here."
Once they were in a group together, Ulquiorra gave out the boxes.
"These are the sticks?" asked Tesla.
"How are we going to make that thing eat it?" asked Nnoitra.
"I don't know but we'll all eat a Lucky," said Grimmjow as he took out a box labeled 'Lucky'.
"What's that?"
"It's a lucky Pocky, Nnoitra. Apparently, it brings you luck if you eat it."
"We'll eat it then."
While Nnoitra and Tesla eyed the stick they were given with doubt, the other two, who had already tasted the pure taste of Pocky, ate the Lucky so fast that they looked like they were using Sonido.
"Wait! Don't eat them all! Tesla and I haven't even tried one, yet!"
"Then eat it," said Ulquiorra as he nibbled on his stick.
The other two mentioned earlier with doubts, bravely out their stick in their mouths. They're eyes opened wide as the chewed on the stick.
"This is great!" yelled Nnoitra. They both joined the other two and the four Arrancars started eating the boxes of Pocky in supersonic speed. The Hollow, interested in the sticks stopped knocking the chairs over and went over to the group in the corner.
"Grrr…."
Grimmjow looked up. He stuck out a Pocky at it before going back to his. The Hollow put the stick in his mouth without much thought. It chewed and chewed and chewed. The taste of Pocky overwhelmed the Hollow and the orange haired Hollow joined the Arrancars and started gobbling the packs of Pocky. Strangely, the more Pocky the Hollow ate, the more he turned to his normal self. Soon, Ichigo was back.
"Ichigo! You're back!" yelled Tesla.
"Hm…looks like it."
They didn't continue after that but only started concentrating on their Pocky.
However, the other outside were nervous. What happened if the Pocky didn't work? Why weren't they coming out? It had been over 10 minutes since Ulquiorra and Grimmjow entered the room. Halibel, who was angry before, was worried to hell.
What if they're dead? I wasn't intending it to become like this.
Soon, she decided to check for herself.
"I will check what's going on in the room."
The rest, except for Stark, who was sleeping while clutching the empty strawberry flavored Pocky box like a teddy bear, gulped in fright. The watched slowly as Halibel opened the door. No body dared to move even when the door closed behind the blond Espada.
When Halibel entered, the first thing she saw was a number of empty Pocky boxes thrown around the room.
Maybe the Pocky didn't work! Oh no…It's all my fault…I should have never sent…
She broke off from her thought when she saw the five Pocky eaters in the corner. She went over to them and saw them eating. Her worries disappeared into ash and a new emotion came into her. Anger.
The five didn't notice Halibel until Ulquiorra felt a aura and turned around. He gulped.
"What's wrong Ulquio-" Grimmjow had looked too, soon followed by the rest.
Veins popped out and red surrounded Halibel.
"She's going to kill us," whispered Ichigo.
"No she won't!" said Ulquiorra. He snatched a Pocky from the pile and took a stick covered in red chocolate out of it. He pushed it into Halibel's mouth before anything could happen.
If the Pocky calmed Ichigo's Hollow, then it should work for Halibel as well.
"Good thinking! "
Ulquiorra didn't reply to the blue haired Espada as they all watched Halibel chew on her Pocky. Their eyes widened as a sudden burst of red energy blasted of the woman.
"What the!" yelled Nnoitra.
"What flavor did she eat?" asked Tesla urgently.
Ichigo checked the label and looked up in horror.
"What is it Kurosaki?" yelled Grimmjow.
"It…it's…jalapeno flavored."
Suddenly, Halibel started breathing out fire. The five backed away until the wall blocked them. The fire breathing Halibel slowly approached.
"I…I will KILL ALL OF YOU THIS TIME!"
All Ulquiorra, Grimmjow, Nnoitra, Tesla and Ichigo could do was scream.
"AHHHH!"
So? Hope you liked it. Thank you to mysteri0s who told me what a Pocky was and how good it was. And I love all my reviewers too! Not as in love love but you know what I mean. I made up the jalapeno Pocky by the way. Review!
