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A question one would ask why type this up? Simple – why not?
Chapter 27: Existence Vol. 2
(Que Bleach ost "Cometh the Hour")
The wolf Vasto Lorde let out howl that froze the Vizards blood. Her very voice crumbled whatever rocks lay about, making the basement a definite flat expanse. The earth cracked under her clawed feet. She stopped, pebbles dropping around her, and she turned her gaze to the Vizards with a predator's gaze. The mindless Vasto Lorde of Ruby pounced upon Hachi as her first victim. But her glaive met black steel in the form of Tensa Zangetsu. Red eyes glared into golden ones with equal ferocity.
The opposing spiritual pressures of the two Vasto Lordes built a storm of wind pressure that pushed the Vizards away. When the two simply broke the lock, the subtle swings of their weapons ripped through the ground to create deep crevices. Their weapons met and parted again with the crack of thunder. With each impact and parting, they sent an earthquake through all of Karakura Town. The Vizards were no different than the pebbles being blown away from the shock of the power. Some even passed out from the spiritual pressure alone. Neither Ichigo or Ruby could gain an edge, no matter how ferocious or brutal they attacked.
This wasn't some battle between shinigami, Quincy, or even Hollows. This was a catastrophe far beyond the likes any mortal has ever felt or seen.
(Inner World)
"Zangetsu," Ichigo demanded as he could feel his arms shake as though he was attacking and parrying with a blade, "what the hell is happening out there?"
One moment, Ruby seemed to get an edge in her fight against Gruby. All of a sudden, the Grimm got some power boost and the Huntress found herself on the receiving end of a very angry Gruby. Without the glaive proved to in fact increase Gruby's battle prowess. Ruby was no longer fighting a doppleganger but a true alpha predator out for blood. Gruby fought on all fours, leaping and jumping with incredible speed and agility of a true hunter of the wilds. Black fluid dripped like poison from her canines and claws, and there was a bloodthirsty look in her eyes, highlighted by the black and red hue.
A blur of black and red, and Ruby found her left eye blinded in red. Pain stung badly on the side of her temple and a trail of blood ran down from three slash marks. Her head felt a little dizzy from the blood loss and trauma, but Ruby bit it away.
"Don't get worked up," said Zangetsu, a bit sheepish to answer, "but your girlfriend just broke the barrier and is trying to destroy everything in sight. It's taking all I have to hold her back."
Ruby was met with a clawed hand grabbing her face and tossing her through the asphalt and a few buildings where she eventually landed right by Zangetsu and Ichigo. Her clothes were torn revealing scratches on the skin, and a bit of her bra (Ichigo turned away with a blush). Her red cloak was in tatters like it went through a war zone, which is pretty accurate.
"Dammit, I'm not just going to stand here." Ichigo growled, ready to charge after Gruby.
"Don't." Ruby barked, getting to her feet with the help of her glaive. "This is my fight."
"Cero."
A purple cero fired in their direction. Ichigo stiffened in a stance ready to block it, but Ruby dashed in between and held it back instead. Ruby looked as though she would lose the contest in power until her glaive glowed in silver reiatsu and she split in two with a cry. On the other side, Gruby stood with a curled lips snarling in rage.
"Just die." snarled Gruby, "Just die so I can have my own existence."
Ichigo was going to voice his protest, but was caught off by a glare Ruby gave him for a split-second before she dashed to meet Gruby halfway. As sparks flew from claws and blades, Ichigo turned to Zangetsu who had a focused expression on his face. Alarms went off in Ichigo's head when Zangetsu widened his golden eyes.
"Uh oh."
"'Uh oh'?" Ichigo repeated, "What do you mean 'uh oh'?"
"Queenie is going to fire a cero." said Zangetsu, "Not like the one in here. This one is huge. I could cancel it with my own, but that would level your town in a crater. You are not going to like what I am going to have to do."
Ichigo widened his eyes as the prospect of his hometown leveled in a smoldering crater. Whatever was going on up there, he doubted the Vizards could even touch them. He gave a look to Zangetsu that told him that he had his complete trust.
(Real World)
True to Zangetsu's word, Ruby was charging a purple cero between the ram horns. It looked like a regular sized cero being charged, but the amount of power packed into it could easily flatten a mountain range. Zangetsu in control of the white Vasto Lorde knew if he clashed with his own cero, the resulting clash would level most of his wielder's home in a crater of ashes.
Using sonido, the white Vasto Lorde flanked behind the wolf Vasto Lorde and locked her in place with one arm wrapped underneath her arms. With his other free arm, Zangetsu opened a Garganta. Normally, the Garganta would open a portal instantly to either Hueco Mundo or Soul Society, but Zangetsu had no real destination since he was too focused handling Ruby. It was already hard enough just to keep her in his grasp as Ruby thrashed and clawed to get free. With one final heave, the two Vasto Lordes disappeared into the Garganta.
Ren and Senna immediately arrived a second later, and were treated with the sight of all of the Vizards lying on the ground. Ren went to the most awake, which was Shinji who had his mask currently chipping away by the second.
"Where did they go?" Ren asked.
"Through...the Garganta." mumbled Shinji, losing consciousness.
Senna glanced to the Garganta and hardened her gaze. She suddenly grabbed Ren's arm and hoisted him up.
"C'mon, let's go after them." Senna called.
"Wait!" Shinji choked out, but his warning went on deaf words.
Not even Ren could stop Senna using a short shunpo to get to the Garganta and pull herself and the Huntsman into the portal before it closed. That was all Shinji saw before his vision went black.
(Dangai)
Without proper thought of a destination, the white Vasto Lorde hurled himself and Ruby into the Dangai. Their massive spiritual pressure made the fissures of the dimension part for their way into a flat expanse. They were soon joined by Senna and Ren, in horror and shock at the two practical monsters waging war against each other. The power alone they exhaust was ripping tears in the Dangai to other dimensions.
Ren and Senna couldn't get a word out due to multiple things. One, 'Ruby' was charging a purple cero between the curled horns and mouth. Secondly, 'Ichigo' sonidoed in front of the pair with his back turned. Thirdly, he was also charging a cero between his jagged horns, red in color.
Once Ren caught on the inevitable, his eyes widened like dinner plates. He focused all of his spiritual energy into one spell that he trusted with his life.
"BAKUDOU 81: DANKU."
The two ceros fired with the shock akin to thunder and roared like plasma. The Dangai fissures etched away for miles from the two powers that let out their inner destructive capabilities. Red and purple reiatsu surged towards each other with intent of overcoming the other. Upon impact, all that Ren and Senna knew was a flash of white light blinding their vision.
(Unknown)
Team SIRR no longer found themselves in the Dangai. The first sense that came to the non-Hollowfied shinigami was cold. Snow was falling in a storm around them and cushioned them on the ground. Ren and Senna got up from a laid down position, a bit groggy coming out from the clash of the massive spiritual pressures. Speaking of...
Ren grabbed Senna and covered themselves with a Bakudou shield when a flood of blown snow and ice threatened to bury them. The spell withstood the elements, melting the snow from the reiatsu. Senna and Ren turned back to the source where Ichigo and Ruby, possessed by their demons, continued their battle despite the scenery change.
Realizing not even himself could stop the two Vasto Lordes, Ren grabbed a hold of Senna once again, despite her protests, and shunpoed a great distance. Another question lay in Ren's mind in to where the heck they were.
The two Vasto Lordes were not even winded from firing the ultra-powerful cero. Ichigo parried back a flanking overhead, and the force went out devastating the landscape in an earthquake to the left side. The white Vasto Lorde landed a punch to Ruby's mask. It didn't even crack, but it got a snarl from the wolf Vasto Lorde. She blurred away in her speed and Ichigo staggered from a slash wound on his right pectoral, followed by the glaive slicing a shallow cut across his back. Ichigo let out a hiss before blocking claws inches from his mask with Tensa Zangetsu. Pushing it back caused the ground to give out in a crater of massive proportions.
'Ruby' howled a war cry of a demonic wolf, and 'Ichigo' retorted with a great roar of a dragon that sent shivers all the way to hell. Neither side was losing the will to fight despite how even in combat they were.
Ruby snarled and quickly charged another cero. Ichigo reciprocated by charging his own in opposition. However, Zangetsu in control was caught off guard when the wolf Vasto Lorde used sonido to get right in front of him and fired. The devil Vasto Lorde quickly canceled his cero, and used both hands to hold back the cero and throw it into a different direction.
Ren followed the path of the purple cero. At the end he saw a mountain with a train track. Unfortunately, there was already a train running on that track. It really wasn't a good day for that train since it was already being besieged by these black and white creatures.
Shock and pure joy flooded Ren's system. His knees gave out and sunk into the snow. Senna could only watch in morbid confusion at Ren's episode.
Black and white creatures. Those were Grimm! As wrong as it was to feel joy at a train beong attacked by Grimm he couldn't help it. Finally, they were back in Remnant.
"We're home..." Ren mumbled.
"Please snap out of it, Ren-san." said Senna, "You are freaking me out."
If Ren squinted, he could see familiar faces fighting off the horde.
(On the train)
Yang Xiao Long, the first thing you could say about her was wild, carefree, and charming to a certain extreme. A bombshell to the common eyes of men, and a golden haired, red eye nightmare to those who dared to trek too far. Strike her with lightning or tear off her limbs and she will bounce back like nothing happen and stronger than ever. Just like her Semblance.
But that night when Ren and Ruby...were gone. They were gone, only leaving singed pieces of their weapons left to remember them. For the first time in her life, Yang felt something break, and it was permanent. There was a piece that went with Ruby that she could no longer get back. Yang couldn't smile casually, either in public or among friends. In private, she unconsciously emptied her eyes of her tears.
After burying what was left, they stayed in Mistral for weeks in mourning. Yang felt herself falling in an endless pit, and neither she nor Qrow had the bravery to text Tai about the tragedy. One day, Yang had enough. She took charge of the gang to set out what Ruby would've wanted them to do: finish the mission.
When they boarded the train, they immediately dispatched to save the civilians when Grimm attacked. They managed to hold off the first wave, but their troubles wouldn't end with the Grimm unless they got the people attracting them away. Jaune made a plan where he and Nora would detach the leading rail car with all of the passengers while the others fended for themselves against the Grimm.
It worked better than they expected. Less Grimm came and were easily dispatched, and none of them were fast enough to catch the leading car. Everything looked fine for them. If only Ruby and Ren were here with them.
A brilliant purple glow caught the party's attention to the horizon to the right. All Yang saw in that moment was what could only be described as a giant purple laser easily dwarfing any kind of weaponry Atlas could ever make. It not only destroyed the tracks in front of them, but also the entire top of the mountain. Snow blinded her vision as the train derailed down the mountain.
(On the ground)
As Yang's vision came back, she felt the cold embrace of snow all over her body. She pushed off her body and surveyed around for the Relic of Knowledge and her friends. The blonde let out a sigh of relief finding Weiss, Qrow, Blake, the Relic, and Ozpin/Oscar fine, though they did bring along an extra in the form of a very short old lady. And thank Monty, the God of Creation, that her motorcycle was okay.
Suddenly, something crashed into their area, with Yang the closest to the new arrival. A pressure unlike any she had ever felt pushed down on their shoulders like boulders trying to weigh them down in water. Yet, her fear couldn't stop her head swiveling back to look at the menace behind her. Her lilac eyes stared in fear into blood red eyes the most powerful she had ever seen. Yang stumbled back a few steps to make out the figure as the smallest, yet the most terrifying wolf Grimm. It stood on two legs to reach a height that reached to Yang's nose, had a hole right through it just below a chest that strangely had an endowed figure, and a awfully familiar red cloak with black veins draped on its back. The most strange thing was that it was holding a weapon in the form of a blue and silver glaive.
It snarled, and its breath stung on Yang's neck with a bitter cold. Everyone else was also frozen on the spot, their eyes wide with fear. Even Ozpin who gained control to find the Relic was shaking on the spot. Never in his countless reincarnations did he ever see something of this caliber. It reminded him too much of the God of Destruction himself, especially with those horns. A purple orb formed at the wolf Grimm's mouth and grew in size.
A buzz of sound followed the arrival of another bipedal monster. This one came out as the literal devil in white skin and red tribal markings and wielded a pitch black daito. It slashed at the wolf Vasto Lorde and pushed it back. It stood in front of Yang until it glanced back to which the blonde jumped back in fright.
Then, to every Remnantie present, it spoke in a hissed voice. "Not be...afraid...your side...get away..."
It spoke! The freaking Grimm or whatever the hell that thing was spoke! And it was looking out for them. What the hell did Remnant become since Ruby died?! What's next, will the dead come back with powers from a different dimension?!
A purple cero formed between the wolf Vasto Lorde's horns and took aim at the Hunstmen and Huntresses.
"Bring them to the Twilight, Mirokumaru."
A tornado carrying autumn leaves and yellow lightning blew into the wolf Vasto Lorde and sent her slipping a few yards away. With a snarl, she spun the glaive with reiatsu and released it into a wordless Haitososa. A girl with purple, spiky hair and honey maple eyes wearing a shihaksho jumped in its path. She wielded a khakkhara that she used to block the blast and cancel it out, but it left her winded.
Another arrived and when they saw who it was, they nearly passed out. The long black hair, the green outfit, and the single strand of purple hair. Standing before them was Lie Ren, not as a pile of ash but in proper flesh and blood wielding two green bayonets with longer-than-average blades. Seconds of silence, except of the fighting between the Vasto Lordes, permeated the air between the reunited Remnanties. It was Weiss who spoke up.
"Is that...really you, Ren?" muttered Weiss.
"It's good to be back." Ren simply replied, "Really good to see you all again."
Suddenly, all that crippling fear vanished from Yang as one question rose to her mind.
"Is Ruby...alive too?" Yang asked/pleaded. If Ren was back, that would mean Ruby was too, right? She had the right to hope so, right?!
Bless the gods of Remnant yet again, Ren gave Yang a genuine smile.
"She is fine." Ren answered, causing Yang to smile with tears of joy, "She'll be so happy to see you."
"Where is she?!" Yang exclaimed, desperate for more about her sister now confirmed to not be dead.
To her ire, Ren's smile fell and his eyes had a sheepish look to them. He lifted one of his bayonets and pointed it to the fighting Vasto Lordes, specifically the wolf.
"Ruby's over there." Ren said, "We're just...having a problem."
Senna chuckled. "In a way, this is an extreme version of a lovers' quarrel with Ichigo and Ruby."
Ren gave the maple-eyed girl a look that read 'are you seriously doing this right now'. Suddenly, Ren and Senna were lifted off their feet and color left their faces when they stared back at red eyes at a very livid Yang.
"YOU BETTER EXPLAIN, NINJA BOY, BEFORE YOU ARE DEAD AGAIN!" Yang roared, shaking the two shinigami, "HOW THE #### ARE YOU BACK FROM THE DEAD?! WHO THE HELL IS SHE?! WHO THE HELL IS ICHIGO?! WHY AND HOW IS THERE A MONSTER THAT IS SEEMINGLY ON OUR SIDE FIGHTING MY BABY SISTER WHO HAS SOMEHOW TURNED INTO A ####### WOLF DEMON THAT I CAN'T HELP BUT BLAME YOU FOR?! AND WHAT THE #### DO YOU MEAN BY A LOVERS' QUARREL?! ANSWER ME NOW OR I WILL DO SOMETHING THAT WILL MAKE OUM THE DESTROYER TIMID!"
Ren was silent, only out of fear of Yang's burning fury being cast onto him. However, Senna unfortunately melted, figuratively, and fell into a near jabbering of answers to some of Yang's questions.
Senna spoke in a panic. "We fell through a portal that's how we're here. Ichigo is actually the other 'monster', and is actually Ruby's boyfriend which is why I made that joke of a lovers' quarrel. Ruby is like that because she is trying to conquer her inner Hollow, but something went wrong. That's all I know, so please don't hurt me."
"On that note," Ren added, as black, red, and purple reiatsu turned into a maelstorm above their heads as the two Vasto Lordes continued their battle with more ferocity, "we need to get the #### out of here."
Before Yang could protest, Ren put a hand on her arm and transported them away with shunpo. Ren repeated with the other Remnanties and the Relic in several seconds, just in time to see two ceros explode on impact. The sky was set on fire by the reiatsu, and the earth suffered under the pressure of unconquerable power.
We're back in Remnant. How is that for a reunion with a Vasto Lorde-sized "Yang"? Yeah, that's right. There will be Yang puns here of the most torturous and cruel in poor design. You have been warned.
Up next is the conclusion to the Vizard Arc and the beginning of the Return to Remnant, Chapter 28: Existence Vol. 3
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