While Ichigo and his fellow captains recover, it's up to the Lieutenants to take out Superchunky. Enjoy!
As a note, I'm well aware that his name is Fura and not Superchunky, but I wrote him in at a time where I didn't know, so it would be weird to change it now.
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach. If I did, I would probably be busy drawing instead of writing fanfictions.
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26: Gotei Lieutenants vs. Superchunky from Hell
Massive hands smashed all buildings in its vicinity, as Superchunky gave a massive unearthly roar. Rukia heard the same roar while running towards her gargantuan enemy, still half in his garganta. She arrived on the outskirts of the destroyed section of Soul Society where the hollow was residing. She sighed when she saw the destruction he was causing and his massive size.
"Maybe I shouldn't have gone alone," she said dolefully to herself. "I had no idea the enemy would be this big. Oh well…Dance, Sode no Shirayuki."
Her black-hilted zanpakuto transformed into a completely white blade, the ribbon on the back flowing artfully. She quickly used shunpo to appear close enough to attack, but not close enough to get noticed.
"Well, here goes nothing. Tsugi no mai, Hakuren!"
Rukia punctured the ground four times, making a semi-circle in front of her. Unfortunately, this drew Superchunky's attention, and he let out a roar and reached his hand out towards her. He was too late as Rukia released a white wave of ice towards the monstrous hand, instantly freezing it.
Superchunky paused for a minute as he looked at his frozen hand. Realizing now what he was in, he started to shake it around furiously in hopes of destroying it. He then slammed it into the ground in front of him, shattering the bonds of ice. He then looked at Rukia with anger in his single eye and launched an attack.
Rukia quickly escaped the attack, using shunpo and suddenly appear above her confused enemy. She pointed her free hand at the top of the hollow's head and recited, "Ye lord! Mask of flesh and bone, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws. Hado 33: Sokatsui!"
Superchunky didn't even move as the blue waves of energy shot down on his head. A massive explosion erupted, followed by his scream. Rukia landed a good distance away and waited for the smoke to clear. Surprise showed on her face when she found Superchunky unharmed from her attack.
"Great…" she commented before disappearing to the side of her enemy.
She gave his arm a quick slash with her sword to see it barely leave a nick on his skin. Superchunky swung his arm towards her, but she jumped away and landed unharmed. "Just as I thought," she said, inspecting her blade. "His skin's very thick and tough. I'll have to use more powerful attacks to finish him off."
Superchunky saw her and started slamming his fists on the ground rhythmically. After several seconds, he pointed his head to the ground and spewed out black liquid with white chunks inside of them. It took a second, but the blobs formed into five gillian, all staring at the shinigami.
"Damn!" Rukia cursed as she quickly stabbed the ground. "Tsugi no mai, Hakuren!"
An ice wave hit all five of the gillian freezing them in place. The ice began to shake, however, signaling to Rukia that their bonds were loosening.
"Gotta hit 'em quick," she said to herself. She quickly dropped her sword and pointed both hands at her hands at the frozen gillian in front of Superchunky. "Ye lord! Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! On the wall of blue flame, inscribe a twin lotus. In the abyss of—"
"Howl, Zabimaru!" Rukia heard a voice say, cutting off her chant.
A segmented blade suddenly came out of nowhere and pierced all five gillian in a row, killing them all instantly. Rukia turned around to see the blade returning to Renji, with Hisagi and Hinamori right beside him. He smiled and gave her a small gesture.
"Hey!"
Rukia quickly picked up her sword and used shunpo to appear in front of the trio. Just as quickly as she appeared, she hit Renji over the head with anger. "What the hell was that for?!" he asked while rubbing his head.
"Why do you always have to enter in a flashy way?" she retorted. "If you were smart, you would have seen I was about to hit him with Soten Sokatsui, which would have killed them and wounded the enemy. Instead of attacking from behind, you enter in a flashy way, exposing all three of you."
"Calm down Rukia," Hisagi tried to intervene. "You know attacking from behind's not Renji's style."
"I know; that's why he's so frustrating!"
"Let's all just stay calm, okay?" Hinamori said, trying to stop the infighting.
"Why are you here anyway?" Rukia asked with a hint of anger still in her voice.
"When this guy first appeared, Captain Kuchiki told me to go attack it before disappearing. On the way, I met up with Hisagi and Hinamori, who had the same orders, so we all went along together," Renji explained. "Now that that's out of the way, let's focus on this big guy here."
All four lieutenants stared at Superchunky, who looked witlessly back at them. Realizing he had their attention, he took a deep breath and released it towards the enemy. "Out of the way!" Rukia said with danger.
All four of them quickly jumped into the air above the breath, landing a safe distance away. Meanwhile, all of the grass and vegetation caught up in the breath shriveled up and died.
"Don't let that touch you," Hisagi warned. "We need some kind of strategy."
"Here's the strategy," Renji stated. "You and me attack front, Rukia and Hinamori take his back with kido spells."
"Why are we stuck with just the spells?" Rukia complained. "I can take the front as well."
Her voice fell upon deaf ears as Renji and Hisagi already departed towards their enemy. A visible vein popped up on her forehead as Hinamori tried to comfort her. "Renji only gave us that task because he knew we're both good at kido. Let's hurry."
"Fine," Rukia sighed in defeat.
Renji roared as he swung his blade towards Superchunky. It hit his arm as Hisagi went down the middle, and went for his eye. Before he could get close enough, however, Superchunky blew his breath at him, forcing him to take another route. Renji's blade came back to him as he jumped in the air and shot it down at his head. The sword caught a few strands of the hollows hair before he looked up at him and started to charge a cero on his single eye.
He was about to shoot it at his enemy when he sensed both Hinamori and Rukia behind him, charging their attacks. "Ye lord! Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! On the wall of blue flame, inscribe a twin lotus. In the abyss of conflagration, wait at the far heavens. Hado 63: Soren Sokatsui!" Rukia chanted.
"Burst Tobiume!" Hinamori shouted at the same time, charging a huge fireball on the tip of her newly transformed sword.
Superchunky sensed the danger and quickly retreated back in his massive garganta before the two kido spells hit him, finding their marks with the ground instead. "Damn!" Renji cursed. "He retreated!"
He was so focused on the fact that the hollow disappeared he didn't notice the massive garganta appearing behind him with Superchunky inside of it. "Look out Renji!" Rukia yelled.
Renji turned around in time to avoid the massive hand coming down on him. "Bastard!" he said as he swung his sword, causing a small wound on his chest.
The blade quickly retracted as Renji jumped away from his enemy. Hisagi, Rukia, and Hinamori joined him, all wondering what they were going to do. "He's getting smart," Rukia explained. "He is using that garganta to his advantage to avoid our attack and sneak up on us when we don't expect it."
"Well that's just fantastic," Renji sarcastically replied. "But his skin's so tough Zabimaru can't cut him."
Superchunky decided not to wait around anymore as he spat out more gillian at his enemy. They quickly formed and went towards the shinigami. They all sighed with frustration before going to confront the enemy that was brought before them. Rukia froze three of them before smashing them angrily with her sword, while Renji used his sword to his advantage and took four out at one time. Hisagi avoided a cero shot by one and stabbed it right in its mask before moving on to the next one, while Hinamori shot several blasts at several gillian heads, destroying them all. When they were destroyed, all four lieutenants appeared by each other again.
"We can't do this forever," Renji angrily said. "We need a solid plan."
"Well if we can't cut his hide, we just have to aim for his eye," Hinamori suggested. "There's no way we can't cut that."
"But how?" Rukia asked. "He'll just charge up a cero and hit us before we get to his eye."
"I think I have a way to get him wide open," Hisagi chimed in. "Please bear with me for a second while I explain it."
A few seconds later, Rukia and Hinamori disappeared while Hisagi and Renji charged straight towards Superchunky. Slightly confused, he blocked Hisagi's attack as Renji's attack just bounced off of his skin. He then felt the presence of the two other shinigami again, both of them charging kido blasts. Repeating what he did last time, Superchunky retreated into his garganta. All four shinigami spread out, waiting to see which one the hollow would decide to attack.
A giant garganta appeared behind Rukia, and she knew it right away. "Now!" she screamed to her allies.
"Reap, Kazeshini!" Hisagi declared as his sword separated into two scythes. He quickly moved in and wrapped both of his swords around Superchunky's massive right arm. Not wasting anytime, he said, "Hado 11: Tsuzuri Raiden!"
Electricity shot through both of his chains, temporarily stunning Superchunky. Renji knew it was the time as he hopped into the air and shot his sword towards Superchunky's exposed eye.
Unfortunately for the shinigami, Superchunky recovered faster than anticipated and swung his captured right arm towards him, sending Hisagi flying straight at Renji. He collided with his friend before Zabimaru could reach its intended target.
"Renji, Hisagi!" Rukia yelled running towards her fallen friends.
The massive hollow didn't want to waste anymore time, so he reached his arm out and grabbed the sprinting Rukia, trapping her within his grip. "Shit! Rukia!" Renji yelled as he jumped towards Superchunky.
He didn't have time to maneuver in the air as Superchunky's other arm reached out and grabbed him. Both lieutenants struggled to get out of his massive grip, but found no avail.
"Hold on guys!" Hinamori yelled as she charged several fireballs on her sword.
She shot them all desperately, but it didn't faze Superchunky at all. He simply stared at his two prisoners as he brought them close together. Without so much as a second thought, he threw both Rukia and Renji towards his mouth, and swallowed them whole.
"NOOOOOO!" Hinamori yelled before getting knocked away by Superchunky's hand.
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Both Rukia and Renji landed in Superchunky at the same time. They both quickly realized where they were and struggled to find some dry land. They found refuge on a small island that wasn't covered in black ooze.
"Well then…" Renji started. "What the hell just happened?"
"I guess he ate us," Rukia bluntly replied.
"Ate us huh?" Renji said with an ironic tone in his voice. "So how the hell do we get out?"
"Why are you asking me?" Rukia replied in a calm manner.
Both shinigami stopped staring at each other and strained to look through the darkness, desperate to find a way out.
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Trapped in the monstrous hollow's stomach, how will Rukia and Renji escape?
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