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A new character will appear and Teku Noroji's abilities will be revealed.
Chapter 7: Strongest of Batch
The hollow sped at the two captains. It swept its spiked arms at the captains, one arm for each captain. Jumping up, the captains grabbed the hilts of their zanpaktous and pulled the zanpaktous out of the scabbards. They landed the hollow's arm and ran towards the face of the hollow, expertly keeping their balance on the arm, despite it being barely wide enough to stand, rather run on and its sharp spikes. They hopped up once more, this time dangerously near the hollow's face, and lifted their zanpaktous high in the air, ready to strike the hollow's mask.
Mayuri immediately punched in the letters and numbers for the Alerts department main computer password. Mayuri did this in less than a second. He immediately accessed the tracking program, which admitted him into a page with numerous icons with words by them describing the little pictures. Mayuri clicked the "Children Hollow" icon, an icon that was added recently. A few little green dots appeared over the screen. The bigger the dots were, the stronger the hollows were. Mayuri clicked the "Search" button, which opened up a mini-page that asked him what he desired to search for. One of the options was "Strongest Hollow," of which Mayuri instantly clicked. The biggest dot suddenly appeared in a zoomed in form. Mayuri zoomed in further so that the program would be able to find out the exact coordinates of where the hollow was at. Bingo! "Teku Noroji," Mayuri muttered, "go fetch Nemu and Haikibutsu!"
"Yessir," replied Noroji loyally. He immediately walked out of the computer room and went to find Nemu and Haikibutsu, the fourth seat of the twelfth division.
Ukitake prepared to slice the hollow's face, while Shunsui was going to stab it. The hollow pulled its arms back and pushed the Ukitake and Shunsui back. Shunsui managed to land on the ground safely, but unfortunately for Ukitake, he flew into a building's wall. Coughing out blood, Ukitake attempted to stand up, but fell down.
"Ukitake!" shouted Shunsui, lowering his guard.
The hollow slyly took that chance to attack. The hollow's cheeks puffed up. Spitting out saliva, the hollow directed it at Shunsui. Shunsui was overwhelmed by the saliva and fell to the ground beside Ukitake.
"Sh-shunsui," coughed Ukitake.
"HAHAHAHA!" laughed the hollow. "I see you have noticed my saliva is super-sticky. Now then, you next whitey!"
Ukitake could not afford to be hit by that saliva, or it would be the end of both him and Shunsui. Risking his life, Ukitake used up most of his energy trying to stand up and activating his dual zanpaktou shikai. "D-die!" coughed Ukitake, blood profusely leaking out his mouth. "Nami kotogotoku, waga tate to nare. Ikazuchi kotogotoku, waga yaiba to nare." Ukitake's zanpaktou began to shine. It split into two thin-bladed swords.
Ukitake charged at the hollow. He ducked as the hollow swept its arm at Ukitake. Leaping up in the arm, Ukitake readied his two swords. He created an "X" with his sword.
"What is it, Mayuri-dono?" asked Haikibutsu.
Mayuri closed out of the program. "Hurry, we have no time to waste!" he giggled evilly. Mayuri motioned for the others to follow him. Outside, Mayuri jumped up and to run at a high speed, almost the speed of shunpo, but not quite. Nemu, Noroji, and Haikibutsu proceeded to follow Mayuri.
The hollow puffed his cheeks up once more. The saliva managed to hit the swords, but did not manage to hit Ukitake. However, he was pushed away. The hollow was about to puff his cheeks up yet again, but was interrupted by a certain someone.
"Ku, ku, ku," laughed the shinigami. "I found you!"
"Y-your…" uttered Ukitake.
"How unexpected, Mayuri saving us!" chuckled Shunsui light-heartedly.
"…Don't misunderstand!" giggled Mayuri. "I? Save you? No way! Technically, I've actually came to "save" the hollow. Actually, more like weaken him and then retrieve him back to my lab."
"Fu-" said the hollow, but was once again interrupted.
"Hey, Number One!" shouted a nearby hollow.
"Another one…" said Haikibutsu.
"Damn it, die!" yelled Number One. He immediately charged up reiatsu into his mouth and then shrieked, "CERO!" The Cero blast immediately exploded the hollow that interrupted him. "Heh, dead."
"Oh my," smiled Mayuri. "Two of the stronger captains have been defeated. Looks like we'll have to handle this!"
"Tch, I can still-"
Number One shot out saliva at Ukitake before Ukitake managed to finish, but at the same time, Noroji released his shikai.
"Kirikaeru, Dimenshon," muttered Noroji. Noroji's eyes looked in all directions and then stated, "50 meters."
Suddenly, a black hole sucked in everywhere 50 meters around Noroji. The background became a swirling green, orange, and yellow. Noroji put his zanpaktou forward. Suddenly, a one feet long sword appeared in front of Noroji. He did not move an inch. The sword flew at an incredible speed, cutting off the left arm of Number One.
"AH!" shrieked the hollow. It immediately faced Noroji and sped at him. "Die! Die! Die!"
Haikibutsu appeared in front of Noroji, although Noroji continued to throw knives at Number One and shouted, "Shou! Jishin!" Haikibutsu took out a pen and traced the kanji on his zanpaktou's blade. Suddenly, the zanpaktou turned into a humongous mallet. Haikibutsu charged at Number One shouting, "DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!" He literally made a crack on the hollow's hard mask after smashing Jishin at the hollow.
Noroji took this chance to attack directly once more. However, since he couldn't move, his aim would not be as good. He directed another sword at Number One's arm, slicing it off.
"So, this is the legendary NoroHaiki combo eh?" muttered Ukitake.
"I've heard that they were only a third seat and a fourth seat, but separately, they were each about as strong as a lieutenant!" said Shunsui.
"Ergh!" shouted Number One fiercely. "I'm done playing games! Just go to hell!" Number One charged up a humongous dark purple ball. "Watch my Uno!"
Mayuri was both frightened and excited at the same time. Uno, he thought. Amazing! Uno is a Vasteroode-level technique. But we're in for some trouble.
Number One released the Uno. An enormous explosion blew the dimension they were in away, returning everyone back to Soul Society, all injured, but not seriously.
"I've had enough games!" laughed Number One maniacally. "Cien!" Numerous small blasts came flying out of Number One's mouth, blasting everyone at least sixteen times. Everyone was basically finished. There was no hope left.
Number One smiled and declared, "You see, the previous attack, Uno was only charged up at fifty percent! I saved the rest of my reiatsu up to finish you guys off! Now then, DIE!" Number One charged up an even bigger dark purple ball in front of the shinigami.
"D-damn," muttered Mayuri. "I didn't realize I actually had to use this." Mayuri threw a tiny object up and muttered a long incantation.
The Uno was released right when Mayuri finished the last word of the incantation. A humongous barrier reflected the attack right back at Number One, obliterating it.
Mayuri stood up. "Damnit! It took me ten years to create something like that and I just finished it recently to protect myself from more powerful Children hollows. But damn! I wanted to experiment on these, yet I wasted ten years of work and an experiment for some stupid thing." Mayuri furiously stormed off without motioning for his division members to follow him or assist Ukitake and Shunsui.
Haikibutsu and Noroji skillfully managed to get Shunsui and Ukitake up, while Nemu quietly followed Mayuri. Ukitake coughed out more blood. Shunsui told Haikibutsu and Noroji that he could help him and told them he would be going to the fourth division. They waved good-bye and went their separate paths.
Meanwhile, a hollow that had been spying on the battle immediately reported back to Father. "The strongest of the batch was killed," he reported.
"Damn it!" yelled Father. "A Vasteroode-level hollow is incredibly rare… Hopefully, another Vasteroode-level hollow will come up in the next batch…"
"The sky…" uttered Isshin from his house.
