Chapter 50
Hell Chain, Erasing Blast
"What in the fuck is that?!" Risa asks, pointing at the huge building that just surrounded the obvious leader of the enemies, along with one of the captains.
"I have no clue! I've never seen anything like it!" Nanao says, worriedly. Kensei and Hisagi, nod their agreement.
"I don't like how it appeared from nowhere. It could be a trap." Nanao says, as she stares at the huge structure.
"What the fuck?" Kensei asks, as a powerful hollow suddenly flies at them.
"What is this thing!?" Hisagi asks, with wide eyes.
It looks like pieces and parts put together to make a pathetic creature. It has a large body, with mismatching arms and legs, along with a half broken pincher. It's body is yellow, but it's arms and legs are all different colors. They can hardly even take it seriously, until it attacks.
"Holy shit!" Kensei gasps as the thing begins to shoot bombs of reiatsu at them.
"That sorry looking thing, has that much power?!" Risa yells, as they all jump out of the way, of the oncoming bombs.
"Way of Destruction, Number Thirty-One, Shot of Red Fire!" Hisagi chants, catching the worthless hollow in one of his legs, blowing it off of his body.
"Way of Destruction, Number Thirty-Three, Blue Fire Crash Down!" Nanao calls out next, blasting the thing in its body.
It seems like that should have been enough to injure the thing, but it releases an incredibly powerful bomb even with the damage. They all jump to avoid it, but Kensei immediately jumps for it, and cuts it in half, in the body.
"Is is dead?" Nanao asks, hesitantly, and Risa shrugs.
"I've never seen a creature like this…ever." Risa comments, as she stares at the thing.
"You're right. It's like this thing wasn't naturally made, but created…by someone with a really sick mind." Kensei says, as he watches the thing on the ground, for any movement.
"Get away from it!" Nanao screams suddenly, and everyone heeds her warning. As they jump away, the thing releases a gas of some sort, and everyone looks at each other.
"What in the fuck was that?" Hisagi asks, and Kensei growls.
"Whatever it was, I presume it was dangerous." Kensei responds, and Risa nods mutely.
"Another one!" Hisagi shouts, and they see a second one, flying above them.
"We need Hachi to bind these things, so that they can't release anything dangerous into the air. I hope whatever the first one released, won't be a problem later." Risa says, as she narrows her eyes at the creature above them.
"Go and tell the others, what we've learned here." Kensei instructs Hisagi, who hurries to move.
Ichigo can hardly believe his eyes.
"Grimmjow?" Ichigo asks, and the creature looks at him, as though he's never seen him before.
"Yes, I go by that name." The creature who looks like Grimmjow says, and Ichigo gives him a weird look.
"What…do you have amnesia or some shit?" Ichigo asks, and Grimmjow starts to laugh, but not in his normal manner. Instead, it's a much more effeminate laugh. Even Rukia looks surprised.
"What's going on here? He's acting weird." Rukia says, and Ichigo nods.
"You know this blue haired guy?" Mashiro asks, staring up, and Hiyori rolls her eyes.
"You want to fight me again?" Ichigo shouts at Grimmjow, who suddenly starts to bat his eyes at him, giving Ichigo the willies.
Ha! King, you've beaten this guy before, just kick his ass!
"Oh…so you've fought me before. Then you're familiar with my amazing powers!" Grimmjow says, and Ichigo just looks more confused.
"Why are you acting so weird?" Ichigo asks bluntly, and Grimmjow looks offended.
What the fuck? I don't ever remember him looking offended without slashing while looking it!
"It's rude to call people weird." Grimmjow lectures, causing Ichigo's eyes to pop out of his head.
"Huh?!" Ichigo asks, and Rukia just stares upward.
When did this fucker start getting sensitive?!
"Finally!" Rukia suddenly exclaims, and she smiles at Ichigo as she withdraws her tail from the Captain Commander.
"Finally finished?" Ichigo asks her, and Grimmjow crosses his arms. He begins to pout.
"I don't like what I'm feeling…" Rukia mutters, as she looks up at Grimmjow.
"What are you feeling?" Ichigo asks, and Rukia looks like she's concentrating.
"I can't explain it. Be careful, Ichigo." Rukia says, as she stares up at the imposter Grimmjow.
"Let me fight him." Hiyori says, as she pulls out her zanpakutou.
"Wait! Don't fight yet!" Hisagi is waving his arms, and the Grimmjow imposter turns to look at the newcomer.
"What?! Why?!" Hiyori screams, and Ichigo nods his head in agreement.
"I don't know if that thing is like the ones we encountered, but after slaying it, a gas of some sort came out of it! We had all jumped away beforehand, but there's no telling how dangerous it could be, and whether or not all of the enemies will have a similar effect!" Hisagi yells, and the Grimmjow imposter laughs.
What a fucking bitch! We will have fun, killing these enemies. Their fucking gas can't hurt us, don't worry too much, King!
"Our leader is very intelligent. He understands that there are battle tactics that can be deployed if the warrior fails to complete his mission!" The Grimmjow imposter shouts, and Ichigo looks back up at him.
"You never used to praise anybody other than yourself. What happened to you?" Ichigo asks, and the Grimmjow imposter laughs.
"I find it hard to believe that a Shinigami would act as if they know me that well." The Grimmjow imposter says, and Ichigo gawks.
"We fought many times!" Ichigo roars, and he gets a laugh from the Grimmjow imposter.
"Then you must be pretty pathetic, because I am still standing!" The Grimmjow imposter looks pleased. "My power is hard to match, I understand." He adds, and Ichigo scowls.
Hey! I'm the only one allowed to call you pathetic, King!
"You're an imposter! The Grimmjow I knew, was a hard ass! You're just an embarrassment." Ichigo tells him, and the Grimmjow imposter looks like he's fed up. Nobody notices Mashiro with her eyes closed, chanting.
"I've tried to be patient with you, but-" He starts to say, but Ichigo begins to laugh.
"The word patient, wasn't even in Grimmjow's vocabulary!" Ichigo announces, and Rukia glares up at the thing.
Suddenly the imposter is wrapped up in a binding spell, and Mashiro looks very pleased with herself.
"Thanks for distracting him!" Mashiro says with a wink, and Hiyori growls.
"I want to fight!" Hiyori announces, and Rukia looks at the group.
"Now that I'm done here, maybe we should head over to the others." Rukia says, and everyone agrees.
They leave the Grimmjow imposter, and head towards Szayel Aporro Granz.
Shinji stares at the creatures surrounding him, and he wonders what in the hell they are, since they don't look like normal hollow, or any other creature he's ever seen. Instead it looks like a compilation of hollow parts, made to create a hollow.
"I see. These things are very dangerous." Hirako says, before he glares up angrily.
Whoever did this…is one messed up motherfucker!
Unohana arrives at the Captain Commander's side, and begins to administer emergency treatment on the spot, while eyeing the imposter Grimmjow, who is currently bound, and crying about it.
"After we decided they should be executed, they're protecting Soul Society. They had every right to just walk away, and let us deal with the consequences of this, but they're fighting." Unohana whispers, as she thinks hard about the situation.
Why do we have to remove their inner hollows, anyways? Shouldn't it be their choice?
Love and Hachi look around at the several monsters, that Hachi has bound.
"Something about these creatures, gives me a strange feeling." Love says, as he stares at them, and Hachi nods.
"They aren't normal." Hachi says, and they look towards the building that has materialized.
"I'm still tripping over that building being there." Love says, as he stares at it, and Hachi nods.
"It gives off a dark feeling." Hachi agrees.
"The others are heading in that direction. We should follow." Love says, and Hachi nods.
"Unohana is nearby too." Hachi says, and Love's eyes widen, as he realizes Hachi is right.
"I'm not fucking with her." Love says, and Hachi laughs.
"Some things, never change." Hachi says, and Love shakes his head.
"You've never seen her in battle, like I have. As wonderful as she is when healing, she's like the wrath of hell when she fights. Very scary." Love says, and Hachi smiles.
"It's a rare occurrence, when she fights, though." Hachi says. He had always liked Unohana Retsu.
"I've never forgotten it…I had nightmares for a month." Love mutters, before he starts to head for the building.
Hachi chuckles, and then they shunpo in the direction of their comrades.
"Oh! Captain Ukitake! You're awake!" Isane says, with a breath of relief.
"Where's Kuchiki!?" Ukitake belts out, and Isane points at Byakuya, who is still out.
"He's there." Isane says, and Ukitake shakes his head.
"Not him, my subordinate! Kuchiki Rukia!" Ukitake clarifies, and Isane shrugs.
"I'm sorry, but I haven't seen her. Captain Unohana brought you back here." Isane says, and Ukitake puts his hand on his belly where Rukia had stabbed him, with her tail.
She said she'd take me out of the fight…and she did. She's so powerful, and she grew so quickly!
"What is this insanely evil presence that I sense?" Ukitake asks worriedly, and Isane shrugs again.
"It appeared awhile ago." Isane tells him, and Ukitake stands up. He suddenly realizes how many high level Shinigami are incapacitated in the room.
"This is…! This happened because we wanted to extract their inner hollows, didn't it?" Ukitake asks, and Isane shrugs helplessly.
"I really can't say. I've been in here healing. Captain Unohana went to go see to the Captain Commander." Isane says, and Ukitake's eyes widen.
Even the Captain Commander went down?! Who took him out?!
"Things seem to gave gotten really bad." Ukitake says, and Isane nods.
They can't get much worse.
Szayel is getting aggravated, that nobody has entered the building. He figured if he waited here, after unleashing the hollow and reconstructed Espada, that one by one, he could kill off anyone who opposed him.
The captain who liquefied himself, slipped through the cracks in the door, and Szayel is certain he won't see anymore of that annoying bastard.
"Hurry and come in, march your way, into your death!" Szayel sings, as he waits for someone, anyone, to appear.
"Ken-chan!" Yachiru breathes, and he gives her a look of surprise.
"I thought you were lying when you said you were going to learn healing kidou." Kenpachi admits, and Yachiru giggles.
"Ken-chan is up! Look Ken-chan, there are so many things, for you to cut!" Yachiru chirps as she points up. Kenpachi's mouth drops open, as the Nnoitra imposter lands in front of them.
"What the fuck?" Kenpachi breathes, and Yachiru looks surprised too.
"Hey! You're supposed to be dead! So drop dead already!" She shouts, and Kenpachi grabs his zanpakutou.
"I'm a hell of a lot more powerful than I was, the last time we met." Kenpachi tells him, and the Nnoitra imposter is a much better fit personality-wise than the Grimmjow imposter.
"Fucking Shinigami, you can't fucking cut me." The Nnoitra imposter says, and Kenpachi smiles.
"You never change, do you?" He asks, as he charges forward.
"Every sense in my body, is telling me that we shouldn't enter that building." Mashiro says, as she stares at the structure.
"Then we should demolish it." Ichigo says, and everyone looks excited by that idea.
"How?" Hiyori asks suspiciously. "It looks pretty damned strong." Hiyori says, as she eyes the place.
"I have a way…but I'm going to need everyone except for Rukia to get far, far, away." Ichigo says, and Mashiro nods.
"Come on, everybody, we'll fly back in, after their attempt to destroy it!" Mashiro says, and Kensei looks at the structure, wondering what on earth Ichigo could have planned.
Within a moment, they're all gone, binding as many of the hollows flying around as they see, while Rukia looks at Ichigo.
"What is your plan?" Rukia asks, since she knows he has one.
"My hollow promised to show me my new move. I'm hoping it will enough to demolish that building." Ichigo tells her, and Rukia's eyes widen in shock.
"It would be amazing, if it could." Rukia says, and Ichigo nods.
Don't doubt what I've told you, King, we will tear that building to shreds!
"Come on!" Ichigo says, and he grabs her up in his arm, and waits for his inner hollow's instruction.
Get above the building, King.
Ichigo jumps high up into the air, holding onto Rukia, to get above the building.
Pull your mask back on, and then call out these words! Jigoku Kusari, Shoukyo Bakuha!
"Jigoku Kusari, Shoukyo Bakuha!" Ichigo shouts, as he swings his zanpakutou.
Oh yeah, King! We are the sexiest most bad ass fucker out there!
Rukia is blinded temporarily from the gargantuan flash that happens, as Ichigo completes his attack, and then an attack at least ten times as large as what was needed, crashes down onto the building, before blowing it into nothingness.
"Holy shit!" Rukia breathes, as Ichigo's attack is far stronger than anything she could have imagined.
That is one hell of a devastating attack!
Rukia and Ichigo watch, as the smoke clears, and then they're quickly joined by their companions.
Finally, they're able to see, a pink haired man, with a white suit, black cape, and glasses, looking really pissed off. It's obvious he felt the effects of the blast. How he managed to survive it, is beyond Rukia and Ichigo, though.
"It's rude to destroy a building like that." Szayel's voice shakes as he speaks, from his fury.
"It's rude to suddenly put up a building in a place where it doesn't belong." Ichigo informs the man, and Szayel eyes him.
"You are the one who did this, are you not? I hope you enjoyed your last hurrah." Szayel says, furiously, as he glares at the group. "Your lives end, now." He finishes, and Rukia rolls her eyes.
"I've heard that before. Try coming up with something new." Rukia says, and Hiyori snickers. Szayel glares at her.
"Don't worry, bitch…I have something extra special, planned for you." Szayel says, as his eyes flash angrily.
Mashiro flies in with her zanpakutou, the instant he threatens Rukia.
"You have many opponents, so stop focusing on them!" Mashiro hisses, before she uses her foot to send him flying in the air.
She feels an instant of victory, but then he's suddenly back in front of her, as though he never got kicked, and he kicks her in her face.
Mashiro flies back, and is caught by Kensei.
"Hey! Mashiro! You alright?! Mashiro!" Kensei gently sets her down."For that…you'll pay." Kensei's face is twisted in fury. "Blow, Tachikaze!" Kensei roars, releasing his zanpakutou, as he jumps in, at Szayel Aporro Granz.
A/N-Jigoku Kusari, Shoukyo Bakuha means-Hell Chain, Erasing Blast.
