Mitsuhide cursed. Uryu fired another arrow, which he dodged, but two more shot into his left arm, knocking his scythe out of his arm. He cursed, and a pistol sprang into his right hand, which he fired at Uryu, but Orihime summoned her host of spirits, which formed the shield before them and blocked the shot. Mitsuhide phased his arm out, dislodging the arrows, before another two sailed towards him. He jumped away, cursing.

"I frickin' hate Quincy." He jumped away and fired again, but Orihime used her shield spirits to lift them up with a shield below and fly them away. Now, Orihime and Uryu where circling around him, and Uryu fired shot after shot, and although he dodged them, they where now coming from all sides. It was all he could do to fire randomly, but they where moving too fast for him to target. Just when he thought he could get a bead on them, he heard someone land next to him, and he flew away as Chad smashed the ground up beneath him. He swivelled in mid air, but this time Rukia jumped up behind him, her sword arcing around and cutting him across the back.

He flipped over and landed on his feet, healing his back, but a swarm of arrows stuck into him and Uryu leapt over him, off Orihime's shield and into the air above, and he mumbled something, and Mitsuhide had a brief moment to raise his hand before a thousand arrows made of light poured down and rained on his location. Uryu landed gracefully on the shield at the other side, Orihime having spun around, and Chad, Rukia and the two on the shield stood, watching the smoke for a second, to see if their joint attack had worked.

A shape staggered out of the smoke. It was indeed Mitsuhide, and he looked like a porcupine, stuck with hundreds of arrows. He was bleeding all over, and Uryu raised his bow again. Mitsuhide looked up, and then, his pupils dilating, he roared out, and he bent backwards and let out a true roar of anger, sending the others staggering backwards. Chad stayed and watched, stoically behind his shield arm, as the arrows shot out of Mitsuhide. The arrow-holes remained, and he realised Uryu was right, and light-based attacks where effectively the only way to hurt him.

He raised his arm, ready to shoot the beam from his fist that he was sure would obliterate Mitsuhide, but the man finished his roar and glared. Chad faltered for a moment. A moment, in which Mitsuhide disappeared. All of them looked around, but heard a whistling above them. They looked up. Mitsuhide was stood on the ceiling, and he was holding two large scythes, each twice as big as he was. He grinned for a moment, and then he bounded off the roof and sped towards them. Before any could react, he was moments from cutting them to ribbons.

A shield, made of ice, sprang up from the ground, and blocked the attack, although both scythe blades actually punctured the ice. Hitsugaya, bleeding heavily, appeared before them, his Bankai unleashed, and with a deft movement of his hands, he sent his ice roaring forward, encasing Mitsuhide with a sphere of ice with a tiny hole remaining uncovered. Soifon sprang up, her Bankai on her arm, and she fired the missile into the sphere, which imploded and sent shards flying through the chamber. In the cloud of smoke, Uryu sent arrows, Orihime sent her attack spirits, and Chad sent a blast wave, and before the smoke was even clear, they had exhausted most of their energy.

Uryu walked forward, holding his bow at the ready, but he needn't have worried. Mitsuhide collapsed, heavily injured, to the floor, and he lay there, completely still. Uryu nudged him with a boot, but the man lay still. He turned back. "It's okay. He's-"

He looked down. Mitsuhide had moved. Orihime gasped and pointed, and Uryu followed her gaze down to his chest, where a scythe blade protruded through his chest. He collapsed forward, and Mitsuhide stepped up, bleeding like a tap, removing his weapon from the Quincy. "I……frickin'…….hate……Quincy." Mitsuhide used his scythe as a support. "Too smart…….never any fun."

"You-!" Orihime ran up, but a slap knocked her away, rolling across the floor.

"Don't even think about it." Mitsuhide was healing, except from where the arrows had hit him. "Stupid Quincy. You know, I was glad when they where wiped out. With them around I was no longer the top guy anymore. Their arrows hurt!" Mitsuhide looked around. "Move. You guys don't have to die too. This guy," he said, kicking Uryu. "He doesn't need to die neither. But unless you move, he will. Trust me on this."

"Where's Ichigo?" said Rukia. Taken aback, Mitsuhide clicked his fingers, and Ichigo fell from a portal hovering above the ground. "Ichigo!" Rukia ran forward and lifted him up as he coughed blood. Chad and the two captains formed a triangle around Mitsuhide.

"I was serious. You don't have to die."

"We know." Chad smirked. "You do."

It was then that Mitsuhide noted the tiny pinprick on his back. Without turning, he looked back, and Uryu was there, his bow pressed to his upper back, a smile on his face. "Game over." he said, laughing, and, before Mitsuhide could turn, he fired ten arrows into his chest, through his heart and lungs, and out the other side. Mitsuhide coughed, and then, with a final thud, he collapsed onto the ground. Uryu fell forward, but Orihime caught him, and her healer spirits immediately went to work on him and Ichigo.

"Son of a bitch nearly got to the king." Soifon cursed. "Good thing he's dead now." She kicked the corpse, and laughed. Chad frowned at her disrespect, as Hitsugaya fell to his knees, exhausted. Even his fights with the Arrancar or Aizen hadn't been this draining. He noticed something though. A feeling in the air. Like all the Reishi was being sucked from the air. He looked around. Soifon was doing a sort of dance in celebration, while Ichigo and Rukia conversed about what had happened. Hitsugaya looked to Mitsuhide's body. It was most certainly dead. Unless……

Soifon exploded. Her back cascaded with blood, and she looked surprised as cuts appeared all over her skin. She was flung forward, and then her front burst open, and she laughed as her eyes glazed over, and she fell backwards. Chad and Hitsugaya where now up and about, looking around, but they had no idea where the strike had come from. Mitsuhide was still laying on the floor. But, before they could find the source, from the stairs came the sounds of footsteps.

"You know, I really would have left her alone, but then she kicked me." Mitsuhide laughed. "That hurt my feelings." Behind him, as he walked, darkness fell like the tail of a long robe, covering his shoulders and head as he dragged a long scythe with a handle made of bone, along the stairs. "Tough luck, guys. Turns out not even Uryu can kill me." He smirked and launched himself forward. Chad blocked the blow, but only because Mitsuhide had let him. He punched the boy in his face, breaking his nose, and as he fell to his knees, Mitsuhide looked at Orihime and Rukia, the only uninjured ones there.

"Let's have some fun, shall we?"