Well this chapter didn't turn out like I wanted, but I hope it's enjoyable.
Chapter 34: Fall Of An Invisible Empire!
It had been three days since Frieza took control of the adjuchas, and the gillians by default. After talking with his new generals, Frieza is informed of the Quincy threat and how only two weeks ago they had started attacking the arrancars and any hollow that they encountered. At first the attacks had only come from a small group of three or four, as they tried to infiltrate Las Noches, but after a while they had increased in numbers.
The last attack had consisted of over a hundred Quincy's all armed his incredibly powerful weapons. A good number of Arrancars and hollows that resided in Las Noches had either been killed or taken away by the Vandenreich before they were able to drive then off. All through this the Vandenreich had only lost five men, while they had weaken the defenses of Las Noches.
While that battle had happened, a smaller group of Quincy had come to attack the adjuchas. Which only fared better than the hollows from Las Noches, because of lack of knowledge of the meno's forest and the heavy amount of gillians at their disposal.
"How long ago was this attack?" Frieza had asked.
"Three days ago my lord." Crespin had answered. As the scout who was sent out to see how Las Noches had fared, he was currently the person with the most knowledge.
"Then they are going attack in full force soon." Frieza concluded. "They already scouted their enemies and are coming for kill. Enriqueta, Achiopita, Lammerslint!" he called out in a strict voice. "I want you to prepare your forces for all out war in the surface. Once these Quincy's attack have the gillians used their cero's to separate them and have all the adjuchas attack and pick them off in the confusion."
"In the mean time I will stay here and block all entrances to the meno's forest except the one they came through before." he continued not allowing them to answer. "Once they take the bait I'll collapse the ceiling on their heads and pick off the survivors."
Looking at them expectantly, Frieza raised a brow when they didn't answer him.
"Well?" he asked.
"My lord," Lammerslint began. "How shall we hide our forces when they come to attack Las Noches?"
"You don't." he simple stated. "From what you've told me about Quincy's they are particularly good at sensing energies of their prey. So You will go to Harribel with all your forces and make a claim about how you need to fight together or perish, but make no mention of me." he explained. "Once the fighting starts if no Quincy come to the meno's forest after five minutes I will join you in the battle field and we will exterminate every last one of them."
"As you command my lord!" they all answered before turning to heading out to gather all their forces.
Now here they were at Las Noches with Harribel and her forces as they prepared for another attack from the Vandenriech.
"Enriqueta," Harrible greeted as she stop by his side on the wall of Las Noches. "I'm glad you and the others decided to join us. With your support we should have an edge over our enemies."
"I hate to admit it, but we needed to swallow our pride if we wanted to keep on living." he said as he glanced her way. "The forest of meno's provided us with better protection, but as you said before, it would will only delay the inevitable."
"Hmm," Harrible responded with a nod. "Even if that is the case, I'm glad to-" she stopped as she felt the now familiar reiryoku of the Quincy as they appeared in the distance.
Turning her head she called out. "All forces prepare for battle!"
Immediately, all assembled hollows, adjuchas and arrancar jumped from their perches on the walls to meet the Quincy head on. While the adjuchas left in charged of the gillians standing on top of the dome order them to assemble facing the in coming flood of enemies.
"Harrible-sama!" Apacci, Mila Rose and Sung Sun called in unison as they joined her and Enriqueta at the top of the wall, with Achiopita and Lammerslint not far behind.
"Get ready you three," she called out and reached for her zanpakutou and pulled it out, prompting them to do the same.
"Destroy, Tiburon!"
"Pulsera Cuerno, Cierva!"
"Devour, Leona!"
"Quimera Parca, Anoconda!"
As they each took on their ressureccion, all the arrancars at the bottom of the wall followed suit. Readying themselves for war, as Enriqueta gave the order to the adjuchas to have the gillians start their attacks.
Standing not to far from Las Noches, the Vandenreich army stood at the ready, dressed in white military uniforms. They were two thousand strong not counting their king, who in their eyes was an army all on his own and the two hundred plus hollows and arrancars they had converted to their side. When they had first arrived, they were going to follow the plan of splitting into two and sending the hollow forces with some extra quicy's to attack the meno's forest. Using the knowledge of their newly acquired soldiers, they were aiming to attack the adjuchas and take them down in their own territory.
So it came as a surprised when they traveled from the Ice palace to soul society, to find that the adjuchas, who their intelligence had discovered weren't willing to join forces with the arrancars. Had decided to mount a joint defense of Las Noches.
"Well," the Vandenriech king commented as he smile at the sight, and felt the rise of all the arrancars reiryoku. "It looks like they mean to give us a real war." turning to his men he nodded to his captains.
As the captains of each squad of the Vandenriech, turned to order their men into battle the sky got blanketed in light and the air with reiatsu. Looking up into the sky, they all saw hundreds upon hundreds of ceros, in ball form as they headed towards.
The weaker, inexperience soldiers, panicked and started to move towards their left and right hoping to get out-of-the-way in time. This proved a mistake, as they made themselves easy targets for the hollows who surrounded them as they cleared the cero's range of attacks.
"Tsk," the Vandenriech king let out with a frown, as he saw the results of their lack of faith in his power. Activating his revised ransoteigai, he used the spiriton strings coming from his body to create hundreds of power pack reishi arrows and launched them at the cero's.
Moving at a speed that can only be matched by the powers given by taking off the sanrei gloves, the arrows cut through the air and closed the distance of between them and the cero's before they could get any closer. As they collided, the arrows exploded outward releasing all the energy in one explosive blast powerful enough to match a cero.
Covering the desert of hueco mundo in light as they exploded. Using the distraction caused by the light, the king moved by passing the hollows that had moved from the front and headed towards the gillians standing on the walls of las noches. Using hirenkyaku, he appeared above. Spiriton strings already creating new arrows to attack with.
As his arrows fired out, a massive wave of water got between them. Before it was hit with and electric blast causing a massive discharge of energy that threw him back towards the sand.
Hitting the ground, the sand shifted turning into spikes that chased him into the air. Where multiple spikes chased after him at an incredible speed, forcing him to use hirenkyaku to dodge. Noticing that no matter where he went the spikes kept chasing him, he moved towards them and at the last second dodge towards the sky. Gathering reishi, he created enough arrows to destroy the spikes and using his hands he pointed down towards the spikes with two fingers.
Suddenly, a sonic wave hit him above. Destroying the bonds of his arrows, and throwing him crashing towards the spikes.
Once the spikes hit, they exploded. Blanketing the Quincy kings from in fire and smoke, before he fell from the sky and hit the ground. Lammerslint, flew down to the side of his fellow adjuchas and Harribel.
"We should finish him off while we can!" he called out and gestured for a cero.
Nodding, Enriqueta and Achiopeta joined him as they gathered their energy into their triple cero attack. Following suit, Harribel cut her hand on her sword and allowed her reiatsu to surround her as she brought her sword to her side.
"Gran Ray Cero!" she called out as she slashed her sword in front of her launching a massive, wave of pinkish-purple energy, as the three adjuchas launched their joint cero.
As the two cero crossed the distance between them and the Quincy leader, the triple cero, twisted around the grand ray cero, like a moon orbiting a planet.
At the other side of the desert, hidden behind the smoke cloud. The Vandenreich king, stood arms raised high into the air. When he was hit with the sonic wave and thrown at the spikes, he had used hirenkyaku revised form, to create a cocoon of energy around him protecting himself from the explosion. Now right above his hands a massive arrow loomed, as tall as he was and twice as thick. Once the smoke cleared he saw the cero coming his way, throwing his arms forward. The arrow got launched, creating a sonic boom as it cut through the air and hit the cero head on.
At first it seemed that the two attacks would struggle against one another, before the reishi arrow started dissolving the bonds of the cero and pushed right through, splitting the cero into two pieces that would pass by him harmlessly.
Grabbing the person closes to her, Harribel used sonido to dodge the incoming attack. Lammerslint, reacting on instinct alone flew into the sky with sonido and, glancing back he saw that Enriqueta would not dodge in time.
"En-" he shout to his fellow adjuchas as he had turned to move out of the way.
Suddenly, the arrow veer of course. Flying straight into the air before crashing into the ground far into the horizon causing a massive explosion, that covered the desert in light once more.
Once the light died down. Harrible, Achiopita, Lammerslint, Enriqueta and specially the Vandenreich king watched in disbelief at the sight before them.
Suspended in the air between the Enriqueta and the Quincy king, was Frieaze with his foot expended as though he just finished a kick.
Frowning, Frieza looked at his foot before putting it down. 'Such a dangerous technique,' he thought as he turned to glare at the Quincy. 'To think, that I had to put that much power into my kick just to reflect such a weak attack.'
"H-h-how?" the Quincy leader stuttered out as he looked at the former galactic emperor. "That attack should have burned right through you!" he yelled as he felt his fear and anger rise.
"Yes I suppose if I were anybody else." Frieza responded. "That ability to weaken the bonds between energy attacks would certainly be a sure kill. However, the I have more than enough energy to counter act it's effects."
"F-frieza-sama!" Enriqueta began, as he turned to fully give his new lord his full attention. "You saved me?" he asked confused about this turn of events, from every talk he had with Frieza he had gotten the impression that he wouldn't bat an eyelash about killing him.
"Hmm," Frieza responded as he turned his head to look at his new general. "Oh don't get me wrong. I didn't save you because I care about your existence, I did it because I'm going to need all my generals in top shape for our conquest of soul society and Earth." he said the name of the planet with so much inflections, that everyone could tell that was his true prize.
"Don't ignore ME!" the Quincy king yelled out as hundreds of power packed arrows were form around him. Throwing his hands forward with all fingers extended, the arrows moved at the same speed as the large one, creating a powerful sonic boom as they did.
All around Frieza the world seemed to move in slow motion, as he raised his hand and shot out enough death beams to counter all the arrows. The beams hit all the arrows and caused them to detonated no more than a few feet from the Quincy, the explosion completely canceling out the sonic boom.
"Ignore you?' Frieza asked as he moved his arm to his side. "frankly I think you're the one who needs to pay more attention." He commented as he gestured towards the battle that the rest of the hollows and Quincy were having.
Throwing Frieza a wary gaze, the Quincy leader glanced to his side. Turning completely at what he saw, the Vandenriech king couldn't believe his eyes. There before him his was his army, reduced to nothing but food for the hollows even his captains who he had been certain could hold off even the most powerful of arrancar.
'No,' he thought as the situation became clear. 'This can't be happening.' he thought as despair filled his soul.
"How?" he asked aloud, as he shook his head. "We should have been able to win this battle, even if the adjuchas and arrancars had joined forces. Were suppose to win and have our revenge against soul society for all their sins against us. Were the ones on the side of righteousness," he yelled as he turned to glare at Frieza. "SO HOW COULD WE LOOSE TO A BUNCH OF HOLLOWS?" he screamed at the top of his lungs.
"Because I'm here." Frieza answered with a bemused smirk. "I'm certain that in the long run, if I hadn't been here to interfere you would have won this battle and go on with your plans for revenge. As it stands I killed your most powerful soldiers and allowed the rest of the hollows to pick off the small fries." he explained with shrug. "Though your power is something that interest me, which is the only reason your still alive."
Glancing towards Harribel, to make sure she understands that this applies to her as well. "You have to choices in the matter, join me and have your revenge against soul society. Or become food for one of my generals."
He couldn't belive this! This small insignificant looking creature was actually trying to recruit him. 'I should just kill the miserable bastard right now.' he raged in his head as his body shook and his fist clenched so tight that his hands started to bleed. 'But I can't! He deflected my most powerful attack as though it was nothing. Until I can create a technique that could kill him, I have no choice if I ever want to have my revenge.' he thought as he took a deep breath and let it out.
"I accept." he said in a dry empty tone.
"Good, now kneel."
Watching the exchange, Harribel could tell that she had no choice but to join up as well. If fighting the Quincy leader on her own could have led to her death, then fighting this Frieza without any back up was nothing more than suicide; and as the Quincy kneel she followed suit.
'I need to send a message to Kurosaki Ichigo.' she thought as she look at the ground.
Soul Society: 12th division
Standing behind his partners and co-workers, Rin Tsubokura and Hiyosu. Akon watched the display of data on the continued monitoring of hueco mundo.
"A-akon-san," Rin stuttered out as he worked at his station. "These readings, they aren't possible are they?" he asked with a glance at the stoic man.
"I've never know us to get it wrong before." Akon answered with a frown. "Hiyosu, contact the captain we need to tell him about this immediately."
"Yes, Akon-san." Hiyosu answered as he got to his feet and ran out the doors.
"Then this means there are two of them." Rin said aloud dread filling his voice, as the reading indicated what he saw.
"Hmm," Akon answered. "Lets just hope that the guy staying with Urahara is strong enough to defeat this one. Because if all the arrancars and adjuchas have gathered together under this new ones command, it won't take long before they attack soul society in full."
Sitting in front of his monitor going over the data he had acquired from trying to kill Trunks, Mayuri rubbed his chin as he pondered. 'It's obvious his physical strength is unmatched even with the modifications I made to Nemu to hold him in place.' he thought as he glanced at his silent vice-captain. 'But he cares for others like Kurosaki Ichigo and the Quincy boy. Otherwise he wouldn't have bother to push Nemu away.'
Pressing a few more keys on the keyboard, he brought up footage of Trunks in his transformed state, 'That aura of his is flashy but dangerous and useful.' he analyzed as the footage got put through different analytical programs. 'From out first encounter, the poison from my Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo was destroyed as soon as it made contact with it, and the power increased had been enough that he could treat captain class Shinigami like insects.' he glared at video as it showed him being cut in half.
'Not to mention make something like the Fusatsu Kakei worthless.'
Lean back, he thought of everything that he had gathered the speed, agility, strength, power, techniques and sensory abilities of the visitor from a different universe. 'To think that I thought the Letzt Stil was going beyond the power of humans. If he were to beging teaching his abilities to the humans of the world their would be no end to powerful souls that can become shinigami.'
"Captaaaaiiiinnn!" Hiyosu yelled as he threw the doors to his private research area and ran inside.
"This better be good!" Mayuri growled out through clenched teeth. "If this is anything like the last time, I will cut you open without any anesthesia."
"I-i'm sorry captain." Hiyosu apologized as he fell to his hands and knees. His head bowed all the way to the ground, "But sir! Akon, Rin and I were monitoring the Las Noches for any sigh of the unknown enemy activity as you ordered."
"So what is it then, have they finally attacked las noches in full?" Mayuri reasoned with a raised brow.
"Yes captain, but that's not all." Hiyosu answered. "As you expected they were Quincy, and from what we deduced from the data they were going to win the battle even with the adjuchas joining forces with the arrancars, But" he paused and looked up at his captain who had an interested look on his face.
"But?" he asked as he walked towards Hiyosu with Nemu at his side and stopped in front of him.
"There was an incident," he continued. "A new person showed up in the battle and decimated the most powerful of the Quincy forces in a blink of an eye." he said as he looked up at his captain.
"What can you tell me about this new force?" Mayuri asked now genuinely interested.
"The way it used its powers is the same as our visitor from another universe and, it looks like he maybe gathering the arrancars and adjichas under his command sir."
"Tsk," Mayuri grounded out. "Looks like that's the reason Urahara wanted us to keep a close eye on things within hueco mundo and the soul society. Our little "friend" must have made a mistake when coming here and dragged one of his problems along with him." he concluded as he walked past the kneeling Hiyosu. "Get up and follow me," he order as he and Nemu reached the door. "I want every scrap of information you can possibly get me from, I'm going to need it if I want to present my case."
"At once captain!" Hiyosu yelled out as he ran to catch up.
Hueco Mundo: Las Noches
In a darken hallway of Las Noches, Harrible stood with her back to the column her arms crossed in front of her chest. After the Vandenreich leaders defeat and subsequent merging into Frieza's new army. Frieza had order all the hollows to return to Las Noches as they needed to prepare to attack soul society in full.
While a lot of the hollows there had cheered at the thought of finally destroying their enemies who have slain their race for millenniums. Harribel and her three fractions had not joined in, knowing full well the type of power that the gotei 13 wielded. So when Frieza made his way into Las Noches she had sent Sung-sun to find Nel and tell her to meet her within Las Noches.
Sighing, Harribel shook her head. 'Neliel is our only hope of getting Kurosaki to help us.' she thought, as the familiar sound of the child like hollows running feet could be heard.
"Hathibel!" the Nel called out happy to see her friend was okay. "Nel'th heard what'th happened." she continued as she stopped in front of her. "What'th do you need from Nel?" she asked with a serious tone.
"I'm glad that you understand the situation were in." Harribel answered, as she pushed of the column. "Neliel, I need you to get Kurosaki Ichigo."
For the Vandenreich kings powers I decided to go with what was already part of the bleach world.
The arrows that he launched at cero's were are similar to a cero themselves, except that they are faster and more precise, because they happened to be arrows launched by a master marks man.
The new edition to the ransotengai is pretty much something that I thought could work for faster shooting of arrows whether they happen to be the cero like versions of the regular ones. Think of it this way, instead of having one bow that can shoot thousands of regular arrows he has hundreds of them under his command though he can only shoot hundreds of the cero like arrows.
The Cocoon that he used is a further variation of the hirenkyaku that Ishida used to create the platform that he and Orihime used to travel to the top of Las Noches. Except that it is that because of the ransotengai allows him to create a shield to protect himself from damage.
And last but not least is the arrow giant arrow that he launched at Harribel and my OC Adjuchas. The attack it self is first a massive arrow that can be shot with as much precision as regular arrows. Next I added the seele schneider ability to loosen the bonds between spirit matter plus energy, with the final attack being an explosion comparable to Ulquiorra's Lanza Del Relampago.