In the middle of the ruined wasteland was laid the collapsed office building. A massive pillar of sp pressure and engulfed erupted from the structure. Vaporizing is the area around it for miles and shooting into the sky thousands of feet above. With force so great that it dispelled all the clouds within the sky itself. Before eventually dying down and fading away.

Quincy, fullbringer, and hollow alike, everyone on the battlefield looked up in awe and amazement at the spectacle before them. But especially Ichigo.

'Keigo…' Ichigo muttered in barely a whisper. For a while, he may not know how Keigo could do it. He can tell that his friend won his battle against Grandfisher. Yet even so…he couldn't but still worry about him.

Meanwhile, at a far-off cliff. Keigo himself sat on the ground. Tried, drained, but very much alive. At the same time, he watched the explosive results of his handy work.

'Well…I cut it close, but I finally managed to avenge you, Mizuiro' Keigo, and grab his left arm. Though not some much as him in pain. 'I hope you are a couple battling on your own…Ichigo's Asano said to himself as he looked down at his arm. The space around it distorted, and pieces of its skin and flesh pilled themselves off before floating up into the air and breaking down into nothingness.

On the other side of the battlefield, Bambietta's fight with grimjow concluded. But with the latter above his enemy victorious.

For a while, grimjow suffered a few slight burns. He was practically unscathed, while Bambietta was an utter mess. Her uniform was nearly coated red with blood, and her body was filled with punctured holes. She left the sternritters bones and internal organs pulverized, and her left was missing, having Been torn off from its sockets.

She was broken and beaten beyond all measure. Yet even then, the Espada was still not satisfied enough. He grasped her by the throat with his right claw and slowly crushed it.

'Well, Quincy, how do you feel now that I have finally beaten you?' Grimjow mocked. 'You know if you beg for mercy, I might spare your life …or put you out of your misery.

Bambietta, her once beautiful face now bruised with twin blacked eyes and swollen mouth, merely smirked. 'You fucking idiot, why would I have ever submitted myself to a loser like you? Who runs away whenever he gets himself in a fight he can't win and only brags when crushing someone weaker than them?' she insulted while Grimmjow growled lowly.

'If you want to kill me…just do it already…' she said in defiance, and the Espada, not wanting to be insulted anymore, prepared to ready his left claw to pierce her and slice off the arrogant sternrriter's mouth once and for all.

But he was stopped when he felt a burst of spiritual pressure and recognized it…before cracking a bloodlust grin.

'So…it would seem the black prince has arrived to save his dearly beloved comrade,' Grimmjow spouted sarcastically before tossing Bambietta to the ground like a discarded broken toy.

'You know, even this new form I gain. I thought it was a bit too powerful when dealing with small fry like her. But you the successor the Quincy king himself' the Espada then chucked in excitement. You will be more than enough!'

Then the Espada, without warning, rushed at Ichigo with such speeds that have broken apart the ground beneath his feet and the sound barrier within the air as Grimjow struck with his right claw, now blazing blue with highly condensed spiritual energy. Yet Ichigo, with almost casual ease, blocked the attack with his arm coated in blunt vien.

But even so, Ichigo grunted in slight pain from the blow.

'Just as I thought when I first sense it.' Kurosaki thought as he pushed away grimjow and forced him back. 'It is the power of Segunda Etapa. Just Like Ulquiorra's, and it is just powerful as his'

Ichigo then flexed his hands and then pumped more reishi into his veins. 'Even though I have a natural affinity for blunt. It is still nowhere near as developed as my shinigami powers, and I still have mouths to go before fully mastering it…' the Ichigo then stared back at Grimjow's and then to Bambietta. 'However, given his level of power now. It might just be enough to allow me to win or at least not blow my cover. Either way, I have to end this soon.

Kurosaki then readied his stance and got into a fighting position. While Grimjow then let a furious laugh. 'That's the sprite Kurosaki Ichigo!' Show me the full power of a king's successor before I crush it!'

The Espada then lunged at Ichigo, exchanging a flurry of kicks and punches at Kurosaki. Yet the latter continued to dodge and counter them with ease even as the blows themselves devastated the street around them. Side of the roads being uprooted, more ruined buildings are collapsing into rubble.

Eventually, Ichigo does not want Bambietta to get crossed in the crossfire head out of the sky, while grimjow follows suit.

'What is the matter, Kurosaki, running away while the battle just started?!' The Espada roared in glee. As he used, sondio appeared behind Ichigo to deliver an ax kick down his head, and then, to Kurosaki's shock, he saw the lift than was then descended in a massive blade of blue spiritual power. He Forced Ichigo to block the blow with both of his arms.

When the strike made contact, a massive explosion was ignited. It is powerful enough to push Ichigo back and leave his arms bleeding from deep cut wounds.

'Hahaha!' How do you like that Kurosaki Ichigo! Even your prized blunt viene can't protect you from my desgon! But even that was only a tiny taste of what was to come! Grimjow then stretched out both of his arms to the front and placed his hands to gather. Upon doing two glowing spikes emerged from the armor, black armor all over his body.

Designs in far!' The crazed Arrancar declared and immediately launched the profiles from his armor at a speed that even Ichigo had trouble following. But when he dodged several of them by moving his head to the side and saw one exploding to the ground far below. His heart nearly stops dead in shock.

The blast or the catastrophe from the landscape below unleashed an area of destruction so extensive that it engulfed entire forests and cities' mountain ranges. Leaving behind nothing but a hundred-mile crater would make the exploding white pillar of Grandfisher's death look like a bit of spark in the face of a supernova.

And from that, Ichigo felt a horrifying dread within himself. Not because of his chances of winning, but rather the full raw destructive scope grimjow's attack has and how much danger karakura town and even the country of Japan itself was endangered by this battle alone.

Cover or no cover, this has dragged on long enough.

So Ichigo decided to switch the vein inside his body to another technique Quincy technique, that he too had a great affinity for.

Vien Arturi. The pinnacle of Quincy's offense and its power might…no, it has to be enough to end this fight here and now.

Ichigo then dashed at Grimjow and took the lead using the flying step and grimjow instead of Ichigo, who dodged his blows with little to no effort. I struggled to keep up with Kurosaki. Much to his frustration. As barely escaped the fist and kicks from his relentless foe.

Grimjow then decided to counter-attack by swiping at Ichigo's face with a kick design, but the formerly used harkyira to evade it and appeared behind the Espada and kicked him at the left side of his head. He was sending the armed panther flying across the sky. Until he solidified the air with spiritual particles below his feet, slowing himself down.

'So…' the Espada wiped the blood off his mouth. 'You finally decided to go all on for the attack,' well, that is fine by me! Grimjow flexed his entire body, and a dozen glowing blue darts immediately spurted forth.

Let's see if you can dodge this!' He challenged before launching all the darts at once, and even when Ichigo managed to avoid them, they could track him.

'Great, now they can track my movements,' Ichigo said to himself as he narrowed his eyes. 'But even they feel a bit… off' Kurosaki noticed when he saw that some of the darts made far longer curves than usual when tracking him and then looked over to grimjow and saw that he was panting a bit, and from seeing that a revaluation was made to Ichigo.

Thinking fast, the Quincy soul reaper then made a head-line to the 5th Espada while the latter smirked in contempt.

'Oh, what you think that little trick would work on me! What kind of fool do you take me for!' ' Grimjow mocked as Ichigo came in closer to him. Only to realize at the last minute that several darts were coming from behind him, and then right before he could do anything, Ichigo used a flying step to escape from the Espada and allowed the darts to hit their launcher.

With nowhere to evade the darts. They exploded upon emending themselves into grimjow and when the dust settled. The Espada was heavily injured. With pieces of his black armor broken off and the skin on his face skin covered in 2nd-degree burns.

'D-dame you!' Grimjow screamed in frustration before launching several more darts. Only this time, much to his utter confusion and disbelief... They miss their target, with Kurosaki not even bothering to dodge them as they explode harmlessly into the distance.

'W-what!' He Stuttered in shock and then remembered Ichigo hitting him. 'You…' he said lowly in rage.

'What the hell you did to me ?!'

The Espada question and Ichigo remain quiet for a moment before answering. 'I disrupted the control of your…transformation.'

Grimmjow's eyes then widen in further Confusion. 'What!?'

'You heard me. I disrupted it,' Ichigo said cooly. Before ready his stance. 'Due to the enormous power of your second release and you not used to handling that level power. Your control over your spiritual power worsens to the point that if any were to disrupt its rhythm. Say like injuring you or even messing up your movements. You lose control over your form's power and damage yourself.

Grimmjow then stepped away from Kurosaki as a sudden dread overtook him as the Quincy soul reappeared and continued to explain.

'To be fair, though, against most people, it wouldn't be a problem. Given the massive strength that transformation provides for you,' Ichigo then narrowed his eyes coldly. 'However, it doesn't mean anything when faced by those who can rival that strength.'

Ichigo Kurosaki then raised his spiritual pressure and further readied his stance. And the Espada couldn't help but feel imitated. 'Sorry to say Grimjow, but I am afraid you shouldn't have used that form of yours with such an apparent weakness. At least when facing someone like me.

Grimmjow then remains silent for a few moments that seem to last for a few seconds. With a stunning expression that exposed his shock, doubt...and fear. But soon, such feeble emotions were replaced by humiliation and wrath as his face morphs into an expression befitting a rabid animal.

'I... don't need you to tell me how to use my power...and I sure as hell refused to be pitted on!' The 5th Espada raged out as his spiritual pressure spiked. I was causing the sky itself to sake and bellow before him.

Then Grimmjow lowered both of his arms in a stance and then stretched out his hands a few moments later. A pair of massive blue blades spiritual sprung from Espada's claws.

It looked similar to that of the Desgarrion the Espada used in his ressection form, only that it was far more majestic in scale and power. With each of the blades being far more extensive and solidified in structure. It resembled blinding white fangs that cracked with energy—at the same time, it radiated with so much power that it could cut up a decent chunk of the entire country itself if not stopped.

'Fauces Del Gran Rey Panthera!' the ultimate attack of my power Kurosaki Ichigo!' Grimmjow roared and boasted with rage and pride. 'This final blow will tear you apart and everything else's you stand for. Dare look down on me and think of yourself as my superior!'

Grimmjow continued to boast, but Kurosaki paid him no need as another more critical decision overcame him. As he looked down at his arms, bloodied and cut despite his best efforts in using blunt vein, he sighed in disappointment.

'Dame...I guess there is nothing for it then...' Ichigo thought to himself as he hardened his resolve. 'Even if I were to switch veins...it still won't be enough to deal with that attack of his...only my Shinigami powers would be able to overcome that' Ichigo then gripped both of his hands. 'But maybe if I combine my shinigami powers with my Quincy ones, it would have to be enough!' Ichigo shouted to himself with resolve and squished the doubt building inside of him.

He knew that he had very little information on this world. He has no idea what would happen if his cover was blown or the quinces saw him using Shinigami powers. But even so, what?

He is taking a gamble to expose himself using at least part of his full power. A risk that could very tell him and would likely use his actual full abilities. But even then, it didn't matter so long as he could protect those who looked up to him regardless of whether they were part of his world.

And so, with a deep breath, he channeled his Quincy powers while letting just the barest fragments of shinigami ones flow into his being, and even now, while he would no longer speak to them. He felt the warming and strong presence of both zangestsu, the one of white and one of black, within his very soul and heart. Parts of himself that he had too long denied.

Then a second later, two blades of reishi formed in both of Ichigo's hands. In his right palm was a large knife that equaled him in his height, and in his left palm was a short bald that just came up to his arm. However, they were pale imitations of his actual zanpaktou. They radiated power and might multiply far more when Ichigo switched from blunt vein to blunt Arteri.

As for Grimmjow felt something off when Kurosaki created those two swords of reishi, and while it felt like the power of a Quincy. There also seemed like another power seemed to lie just below the surface. But whatever it was, though, Espada ignored the feeling. Because to him. He would crush that power all the same.

'DIE KUROSAKI ICHIGO!' Grimmjow screamed at his enemy and then launched both of his claws at the shinigami. Who in turn held firm with both of his blades of reishi, and then the Maw of the panther king stuck.

The force of the blow was so great that push Ichigo across several feet. Along with unleashed a massive shockwave that dispersed all the clouds within the sky and vibrated the very ground below. It is forcing the remaining quinces and fullbringers to take cover. At the same time, Ichigo himself strains himself to fight against the blow of the Panther's Maw.

'HAHAHAHAHAAH' Grimjow laughed in utter hysteria. 'Now you see how helpless you are before me, Kurosaki. It doesn't matter if I can't fully control my power. It makes no fuckin difference. When the difference in strength becomes too great, such things mean nothing! Now die with your forsaken town and allies!'

Ichigo listened to Grimjow's speech and had to admit bitterly in this type of situation. The Espada was right. In this type of battle. Power does rule overall, and indeed, If Grimjow's attack had been more potent. Ichigo would have no choice but to reveal his true passion. Cover by a dame.

But unfortunately for grimjow...it wasn't.

After being pushed away by Espada's attack, Ichigo Kurosaki finally gathered enough strength to stop it in its tracks. Much to the 5th Espada's stun disbelief.

'You know Grimjow, you are right. After all, if you face someone much weaker than you. It really wouldn't have mattered if you lacked skill or not...but as I said before. I am not weaker than you, and if you did bother to train up your new power more...you would realize just how fragile your ultimate attack is' And then when a single swipe of both of his reishi blades. Ichigo slashes apart grimjows Fauces Del Gran Rey Panthera to pieces. Much to his shock and utter horror.

'You see, Grimjow, the output of your ace in the hole is practically unrivaled, nearly breaking my swords even. But the longer the attack went on, the weaker that force became and the more unstable the attack's structure became. Not helped because you were too busy being a crazed loudmouth to keep yourself focused or even realize the weakness of your technique.'

Grimjow's jaw then dropped in stunned shock. 'How can you possibly be able to figure that out? Are you some scientist or something!' the Espada question, but Ichigo snorted.

'Hell no! But I do know my basics when it comes to reshi, spiritual power, and from personal experience, I know what it is like to take them head-on, and as for that trump card move of yours, Grimjow...it doesn't take a genius to realize how flawed it was or rather it just a required a bit of...' Ichigo Kurosaki explained while raising both of his blades.

'Instinct'

The panther Espada's face then contorted with humiliation and disgust at his opponent. All the while denying the reality he had just lost this fight.

'You think that just because you disabled my attack with a fluke, you think you have won? I'll keep launching them until-'

'No,' Ichigo said, his voice immediately from behind Grimjow's back. With the latter widening his eyes in complete utter shock. Before jumping away from Ichigo.

'I believe I am ending this now,' Kurosaki declared sternly. As he once more begins to charge his shinigami spiritual power into his Quincy blades. At the same time, Grimjow continued to look on in complete and utter disbelief and fear.

'This can't be happening,' he screamed as panic and despair consumed him. 'This power the Segunda Etapa. It was supposed to give me the strength to crush Kurosaki once and for all. For all the times he has beaten me. He humiliated me for years and years on end for all the times, yet….'

The Espada then looked at Kurosaki's blades again with that underlying yet somewhat familiar power. 'He still stands far above me, awakening another power on top of that….' The Espada's arms and hands then began to tremble. 'In the end…nothing had changed between us, nothing at all!'

However, even when pushed to the brink of despair, Espada remains defiant to end. If only desperately so. 'No…no, I refused to accept, not after everything I have been through. I refuse to be looked down on; I refused to be humiliated; I refused to be second-rate and humbled!'

Grimjow readied his trump card again as brilliant blue fangs alighted his claws. At the same time, he was surging with far greater power than ever before. 'I will defeat you, Kurosaki, even if I have to crave this battlefield, this city, or even this forsaken country of yours to make it happen!

'Fauces Del Gran Rey Panthera!' the Espada cried out for one final as he launched his fangs of destruction to annihilate his hated enemy once and for all!

But then…it was over before Grimjow could even realize it.

A sound of blades chattering teeth and a bare gust of the wind was all the Espada heard…before he felt the pain of cross sharp wound of severed flesh ripped upon across his armor and chest. Before exploding in a gush of blood that rained down upon him. Draining away the last bit of strength he had left. Before he fell from the sky, he saw Ichigo standing behind in the air with his back turned. His twine blades raised. All the while uttering one word to label the name of the finishing blow dealt with the Espada.

'Gestusha Jushisou'