She couldn't see much. Some rooms. No ways downward. She kept pacing slowly, withheld slowly by the life force that was being steadily sucked out of her.
She desperately kept turning around, and looking forward. Finally there seemed to be some hole in the ground on the right wing of the facility.
Some men were still able to survive inside that heat, holding swords, they charged at her, for heading in that direction. One could notice their angry expression on white silhuettes. Before their blades reached her, they got completely disintegrated because the temperatures were even higher near her.
I'm almost there. I can feel his reiatsu in there. I know it.
80%. That's how much of her lifespan she was now sacrificing.
She jumped into that hole. As she was falling, various traps and devices activated but they all melted before they could do her any harm. The fall was very long.
85% of her entire remaining lifetime was further being sacrificed.
Finally she reached some landing. The flames intensely gushing out from her have cushioned her landing, but it still was pretty intense falling from such length. An explosion outbursted from the wind hatch where she fell into. The flames stopped.
Momo's partially scorched, naked pale body was lying on the rubble.
She was keeping her eyes open, but barely.
"Kuh. Kuh-kuhucough. Cough."
She had to adjust to breathing air, or rather the surrounding smoke.
She slowly crawled off from the rubble to see what was in that place.
Some pillars in the distance. All that was surrounding her was blackness. Some small flickering white and red color was possible to be seen in the distance.
She continued toward it, slowly. Her face was clearly giving off an aura of exhaustion, and her legs weren't fully functioning back from the fall. She still was dragging her weapon inside her, very weak now, hands.
Slowly but steadily, with the patience of a saint, she coursed toward the silhuette in the distance.
After some time she reached the pillars. She looked at the figure stitched to them. She met Sōsuke Aizen. But he didn't spoke.
They stood against each other like that, for a while, him placated onto the pillars, and her, naked, and staring at him. Momo's current appearance certainly wasn't very presentable.
He decided to speak to her telepathically. He knew this person would be able to stare at him for hours without end so it was pointless to ignore her.
"Momo Hinamori. Foolish girl. Why did you come here."
She stepped closer to him slowly, trying to get a look inside his eyes.
"...zen"
"..izen.."
"...sa..."
"...ma..."
She desperately tried to utter some words but her body was too damaged to do that.
"Fool. Look at what have you done to yourself. Have you abandoned your sanity completely? You shouldn't have ever came here. I don't want to have anything to do with you!"
She approached the stakes which were plunged into Sōsuke Aizen's body. She tried to remove them manually, by using force.
"As if you could remove them. I am sealed. Not even I can do anything about this and my power is much greater than yours. Can't you see your own incompetence?"
Momo's grasp from the red stakes slipped, very, very slowly, lifelessly. She then reached even closer to him.
Her eyes were now meeting his. His empty look was looking straight in the distance, still ignoring her.
She couldn't speak a word. She was terribly damaged. But tears still poured down from her eyes at that moment.
She gripped her zanpakuto again.
The flames roared again. She activated her bankai.
91% of her remaining life was being sacrificed.
Now, Aizen's look was concerned. What is she doing? Is this how she was able to get into this place?
Momo's fires needed to get more intense. She wanted to burn away Aizen's shackles. All of them.
93% of her lifespan was gone.
Still not enough.
She had to continue burning like that, near him for some time.
95%, 96%, Her life was slowly going away. The seals were damaged, but it wasn't enough.
She knew she had to keep making herself burn hotter. She knew what that choice meant.
Thankfully in her bankai, her physical pains were also being burned away, so she was now able to speak.
"Aizen-sama."
Momo's sweet voice resounded in the middle of heat's intense burning fervor.
"I am happy to have met you. I...hope you will be able to enjoy freedom now. Please forgive me, forgive me that I wasn't able to follow you."
The fire immediately accelerated
99% of her remaining lifespan was gone. Finally, all of the things surrounding them, including Aizen's clothes, and all his seals were gone. They burned away. He had a very shocked expression.
"Fool! Stop!"
He covered her forehead with his hand, and her power immediately stopped. She was now under the control of his perfect hypnosis. He held her fragile body inside of his arms, both of them naked.
This, this damage. I can see her energy, it's almost completely gone. And it's not recovering. Even a cricket in this world can recover it's little spiritual energy after expelling it. But this, this foolish girl. She used a suicidal tactic to free me.
"Kido! Kaidō"
Green light flashed from Aizen's palms, trying to hold them over lifeless Hinamori's chest. No change. No response.
"This is bad. I have to completely cease her life functions."
Perhaps...
Aizen reached into his chest and grabbed the small jewel resting in the middle. He could fully control the Hogyoku, therefore he could briefly lend it away to grant others it's miraculous powers.
He sticked the blue jewel right into her chest and it mysteriously found its way inside Momo's body. A surge of reiatsu filled her lifeless body, resounding in a white flash of light quickly filling all her limbs and then dispersing.