Hello, and welcome to the next chapter!
Oblivious IJ; Unohana, yeah perhaps she could be. And she probably is~
Clarent excalibur; Yeah, it's gonna be quite the fight alright~ There might be a scene like that here~ I can't reveal why or how, but there will be a scene like that in the Soul Society. Lets just say Nemu's gonna have a bigger part in that arc than she did in canon. Tier vs Takumi would be a pretty sweet fight huh~? Nemu vs Mayuri would be interesting to see.
oro03910; He's not gonna do that, but he'll help her see the errors of her ways. Yeah, she wouldn't if she did kill Takumi considering Kisuke's around. I can't spoil it, but any of those could be right~
Skull Flame; He did yeah~ She held back a good bit but Takumi managed to give her a few surprises. Maybe she does, I can't reveal yet~ He does yeah, we'll get some reveals about that in the future. Yup, he's tech support for them~ She doesn't, but Pesche was doing it to push her buttons, which worked. They did yeah, Bambietta's been through a lot. Yup, Liltotto doesn't hold back. It's gonna be hard yeah, but Takumi's been planning for her just as much as she's been for him, so he's got some plans up his sleeve.
Crenin; Well, you never know, Liltotto could join it. Yeah, his name can be annoying to spell if you aren't used to it, even now I have to look it up sometimes to make sure it's the right spelling. I'll think about her~
ShadowUzumaki55; She is yeah~ There is a reason why she's doing it~ She was testing him, but he managed to surprise her~ Yup, Orihime's gonna be shining her powers quite soon~ Nemu and Yuzu worked quite well together, along with Karin and Kon! They'll allow them to return with Nel. He has yeah, he'll help her with her memories. They are yeah~
Andrew123456; I would change a few things around, there's too many to list here, but some of the major ones are I'd make it so they wouldn't have a deus ex machina ending to main villains like Aizen and Yhwach, and have them have powerful abilities but not have such OP abilities that no one could ever beat them. Bleach's ending with the final villain was disappointing, but the ending itself where everyone was happy, and had kids and what not was fine for me, I liked that.
Silver crow; Thanks very much! Yeah, she's quite stubborn due to her past and how guarded she is when it comes to others. Nel just doesn't waste time, and cuts to the chase~ Well, you never know, she might be acquainted with him. It seems that he might know the dog yeah~ Tier vs Takumi! While she held back a bit, he did manage to surprise her. Haha, he did yeah, he knows how to motivate them~ Yeah, they had some good fights it seems~ Bambi vs Liltotto was a fun fight to write with their powers. Yeah, he takes most things in his stride, it intrigues him, he's always curious about the world, and learning about Arrancar's didn't bring fear, it brought new things to explore for him. Well, he could have known of them, who knows~ He will in the future~ We'll see their fight happening this chapter~ Sure, he could do. That would be funny~ The Captains are way stronger than the Fullbringers in canon so yeah, by that time Takumi would be. I've got some ideas for the Fullbringers that might diverge from canon. Yeah, they're great ideas~ It's a simple Sacred Gear, simple isn't bad or anything. It's not been translated quite yet. Yeah, the illustrations are cool. Seems so. I don't mind either way if they're siblings or cousins or anything, it doesn't really change anything. No, it wouldn't change anything. Yup, it's his power, and it's pretty cool. Yeah, seems so. It's probably better since it's been stated that some members could flood a city. It wouldn't matter either way if they are or not. You're right about Zephyrdor. I don't know, it would depend on a few things.
A fan; I'd say Jugram, Sternritter B from the final arc, was underrated, he only got one true battle with Bazz B which was a good fight, and we barely saw the fight with Uryu when he had much potential to be quite a dynamic character since he was introduced as Yhwach's right hand man and he barely did anything, so I'd say him.
Guest 1; Yeah, that sounds like an awesome story idea to me! Being his son would bring some cool dynamics to the story. That's pretty cool, I like those ideas!
HolyKnightX; Thanks! Glad you like it! Yeah, I'm aware that's their names. Haha, yeah quite fun~
Guest 2; I don't know yet, maybe a rewrite. That would be an interesting route to take it, I like the sound of that~ Yeah, that would be a cool kind of power and it probably does exist, as we've seen others have God and Dragon equivalent.
Well, with those lovely reviews out of the way, it's time to start the chapter!
Protect Karakura part three!
Nemu stood beside Kon while they guarded the Hollows Dondochakka, and Pesche. Nemu was silent and didn't move an inch, while Kon gave her a slightly perverted gaze…
But then the images of Rukia coming after him frightened him.
He didn't want to be attacked by her or anyone else.
However Nemu's eyes drifted to Kon, holding no emotions there.
"You're a Mod Soul, correct?"
Kon jumped at her voice, reeling himself backwards ever so slightly.
"Y-Yeah, that's right. Why do you ask?"
"What is your opinion on Takumi Urahara-sama as a person?"
Kon was caught by surprise with that question, and looked troubled on how to respond.
"Erm...well, I guess he's cool. He said he's going to make me a body for myself to use whenever I want."
Nemu didn't even give a hint of change in her appearance, but she did feel a tinge of something within her behind.
"I see. Do you believe that Takumi Urahara-sama can change the thought processes of others?"
"Y-You mean mind control?!"
Nemu shook her head.
"No, by his actions."
"His actions huh...well, I suppose that's right. He's done that with me. I hated Shinigami before, and I hated anyone that treated life as if it was a mere game. That guy helped me out and helped me see that there was more to life than hatred consuming you. So I guess that he can change the way people think. Why are you asking? Do you think he's gonna change that Bambietta chick?"
"I currently don't have the information to determine if he could or couldn't. However, going off the information you just explained to me, it could be possible that he might be able to change her desires of slaying Shinigami, to the betterment of our different species as a whole. I also believe that he has helped me along within my own decision making."
Kon cocked an eyebrow up, intrigued.
"What do you mean?"
"He has allowed me to express myself, and I have begun experiencing individuality, when Mayuri-sama usually frowned upon me gaining interests outside of his own interests. I do not quite understand this change within me. Could it be an error?"
"Haha, no way is it an error!" Kon shouted, to the bewilderment of Nemu who kept on a straight face. "It means you're getting to know yourself better!"
"However, I must also understand about Takumi Urahara-sama. He is a very curious person. He also understands about the situation with Kuchiki-san, and what it might mean. Yet, he has decided to take care of her himself, and make sure that she wouldn't be punished. It wasn't in his duty to care for her."
"I don't think that matters."
Nemu tilted her head.
"Explain."
"W-Well, that's just being kind I guess. It doesn't matter if he's going to get into trouble or not...he did the same for me. He went out of his way to help me gain a new body, and the treatment of me by the Soul Society got him angry. I think that he's a rather weird person, but he's a genuinely nice person."
Nemu furrowed her eyebrows, understanding more and more about the enigma, at least to her, that was Takumi Urahara.
"The being known as Kon. Are you happy you have met Takumi Urahara-sama?"
"Haha, I guess. Are you?"
Nemu blinked a single time.
"Yes, and I do not wish for him to be punished."
Alarms went off inside of Kon's head.
"Punished for what? Helping out Rukia-chan?"
Nemu remained blank faced.
"Takumi-sama is not the person I had imagined that he would be."
"How?"
Kon was surprised, and wanted to know more.
"I am quite...the word is, pleased that he is a kind soul, and willing to help out anyone that asks, it is a quality I wish that others would share."
"So, that's good then?"
"It is. Also, I believe that I...I do not mind being within the human world. It feels as if my input matters."
"Why don't you say this to Takumi?"
"I will explain my thoughts before I have to leave to go back to the Soul Society. I wished for a none bias opinion on him. The one known as Orihime Inoue is in love with Takumi-sama, Yuzu Kurosaki also has romantic feelings for Takumi-sama. The one that is a Zombie also is acknowledged to possess some romantic feelings for Takumi-sama. The one designated as Baldy, denies she does, but she does. Karin Kurosaki is an unknown at the moment. And as for Rukia Kuchiki-san, her feelings are complex. I myself do not quite understand the relationships between two people, but I am assured that my assessment is quite accurate."
While they spoke, Zombie Chizuru skulked through the town, and happened upon them. Also, she saw Pesche, and Dondochakka, and released a growl, while the Hollows behind her, cried, fearing for their lives from the Zombie herself.
"Zombie Chizuru is pleased you are here." She moved forward, Kon shed a few tears while Nemu remained calm. "Zombie Chizuru is recruiting Hollows now." Her eyes went to Nemu, and snarled. "Beautiful..." Zombie Chizuru's hand went for Nemu, but she slapped it away. "Why?"
"No, that is wrong. Please go and find your nearest girlfriend to do so."
Zombie Chizuru snarled, and looked at Pesche, smacking her lips together, igniting fear within him.
"Zombie Chizuru will offer love if you join her army."
"N-No...I don't want your love..."
Pesche cried, Dondochakka saw that the Zombie was eyeing him up.
"No! We're here for Nel! Don't come any closer!"
Zombie Chizuru ran her tongue over her lips, and showed a dark smile.
"You will join..."
"No, they will not."
Nemu stated with a melancholic expression on her face.
"E-Excuse meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!?"
Zombie Chizuru snapped at Nemu who pointed a finger at the Zombie.
"No, you may return home now, and think about what you have done." Nemu scolded her, while Kon cried for dear life. "You have been a bad Zombie, return home, and stop building armies full of Hollows."
Zombie Chizuru wore surprise over her face…
But then she bowed her neck in acceptance, and walked off, surprising Kon.
"H-How did you do that?"
Nemu just stared at him, which made him shiver.
Coming face to face with Bambietta, she merely announced "Then lets go Shinigami!" and came towards his body with her sabre in hand, swinging it for Takumi's neck, who pulled away, but Bambietta allowed her power to spew off her sword, which he found rather surprising to see, heading right for his body.
Quickly thinking, he unleashed a spark from his sword, it collided with her energy attack, and blew up from impact of the spark, but the intense shock wave rang out, and swept across Takumi's form, only for Takumi to have used a makeshift barrier with his knowledge on Kido, Bambietta showing a dirty smile on her face.
"That's good Shinigami, it seems you've grown stronger. I wouldn't want this to end so quickly."
Takumi adjusted his stance with his blade, pointing it right at the young woman.
"You're right about that. Now you're going to see my powers displayed before you!"
"Bring it on!"
Takumi disappeared with a burst of speed, Bambietta focused her eyes, and directed a hand to BG5 who came in with two blades produced from his arms, appearing left of Bambietta, as Takumi appeared right, she bent down as the robot swung up above her, attempting to catch Takumi off guard, only for Takumi to disappear once more with a flash of speed.
"If that's what you want Bambi, then I wont hold back!" Takumi directed his sword outwards from behind the robot. "Raigeki!"
Unleashing a devastating bolt of electricity from the blade, he thought he would have succeeded in catching the robot off guard.
But what he saw next surprised him, and Liltotto.
The chest of BG5's opened up so there was a hole in his body, allowing the bolt of lightning to pass harmlessly through him, as Bambietta directed her hand towards the lightning above her, sending off her energy, pulling backwards.
The energy crept up the lightning, forcing Takumi to leap backwards, but the energy followed due to the lightning being connected to the blade, so Takumi stabbed his blade into the ground, allowing the energy to hit the ground and forced it to explode, rather than catch his own weapon and body up in the explosion.
But in that moment, BG5 appeared behind Takumi, with many missiles appearing across its body, with Bambietta stood beside it, with her energy circulating across all of the missiles, and all of them were aimed at Takumi.
"This is where it ends. Brief, but a memorable existence, huh. Well, at least to those who care about you. What was your name again?"
Takumi gave a nervous chuckle.
"So, that's it then Bambi?"
"That's how it is. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. In this case, you lose."
Takumi didn't even seem to care, all he did was raise his sword into the air, as the missiles were fired off against him.
The missiles went towards Takumi…
Until Takumi casually sent off a blast of lightning into the sky, and the missiles to Bambietta's and BG5's shock, the missiles changed course, and rather than go for Takumi, they went for the lightning bolt instead, that began taking the shape of a rod.
"Lightning Rod!"
The lightning rod within the air drew the missiles towards that location, and set off a cascade of explosions within the air, surprising everyone within the area, besides Nel who kept cheering "Yay Saku Taku!" which made Bambietta more angry than before, not seeing what Liltotto was seeing and that was Takumi having a barrier around.
"Of course, those missiles would have been tuned into his spiritual signature. So, by using Kido to hide that signature, but not on the lightning, which came from his Zanpakuto, essentially himself, the missiles followed the only signature they could, and that was the lightning, thus diverting the missiles away from Takumi himself, saving his body from total destruction. Very clever Takumi, that's how you fight Bambietta. She has power, and you have your wits, and the more angry she becomes, the more prone she is to making mistakes."
While Liltotto thought about it, Bambietta was becoming more and more angry from what had happened.
"B-But how?!"
Takumi didn't answer that, and instead appeared above Bambietta and BG5, charging up what seemed to be a very strong bolt of electricity, but it changed shape and bent towards the young woman and robot.
"Have this! Lightning Bomb!"
The dome of electricity concentrated deeply within the sword, forming the sphere, and shot it down with an intense burst. Bambietta's eyes barely saw it coming, it moved faster than her eyes could witness, and the electricity bomb came on top of them, sending a huge shock to their system.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"
Her skin began to get burned from the intensity of the electrical attack as was the metal that the robot was made out of, despite being enhanced to take electrical attacks, Bambietta screamed from the attack, while BG5 unleashed what seemed to be a device attacked to its waist, which opened up, and began sucking in the electricity surrounding the pair.
Takumi's eyes narrowed slightly, while placing his hand outwards, summoning some Kido energy.
"Hado 33: Sokatsui!"
Sending off the pale blast of energy, it headed for Bambietta who felt her skin tingling from the attack, managed to aim her hand upwards, and announced "Explosive shock wave!" and rather than explode the Kido spell, since she didn't have time, she unleashed an explosion near her body, which sent off a powerful shock wave which connected with the Kido spell, creating an explosion within the air itself.
BG5 took advantage of the situation, and aimed its gun upwards. But rather than it be a minigun, this time it looked like a cannon, and all of its power was turned right onto Takumi, using its sensors to cut through the smoke, and see Takumi's body, charged by Takumi's electricity, it fired off good sized spheres of energy right for Takumi.
He didn't see it at first, due to how he was in the middle of reeling from the attack he used.
But then it became clear when it shot through the smoke, and headed right for Takumi himself.
"Dam-"
Before he had time to dodge, he was caught within an explosion, Bambietta had sent off her energy and collided it with the powerful cannon ball, the intensity of the shock wave broke through most of the area.
Liltotto and Nel were safe within the barrier, but the land around them was being destroyed by the intensity of the attack. Takumi himself was flung backwards with some blood dripping from his body, while Bambietta's burnt skin was causing her irritation.
"Even with Blut Vene, he managed to damage my skin this much. If I didn't have that, could that attack have killed me? I need to be more careful, if I'm not, then I could end up as dead, rather than him before me."
Bambietta thought that to herself, while BG5 continued firing off the energy cannon balls at Takumi.
He rebounded in the air, and used his incredible speeds to avoid the blasts of energy, and even though they were big, they weren't slow, and could keep up with Takumi quite well. Even then, Takumi had the advantage of speed.
"I have to do something. That robot can absorb my electrical attacks it seems. But it isn't immune to it either. I'd have to output my strongest electrical attack in order to overload it. Though the attack I used against them before was one of my stronger ones. Damn it, I need to do something against them. If I could get the robot out of the way, then I could concentrate on Bambietta herself. But she made sure that the robot would be able to deal with my electricity, but she didn't count on other tricks in my arsenal."
While he thought about it, Bambietta didn't waste anytime with her sword, coming in like a battering ram, and swung it right for Takumi. He went to evade the slash, only for BG5 to come in from behind him, and swung his own blade for Takumi.
Coming in from two different locations, Takumi knew he wouldn't be able to fight both off at the same time. However, he also knew how he was going to get out of this.
He placed his finger outwards towards Bambietta, who came in slashing, and yelled "Shibireyubi!" which released a white light before her eyes, and she felt her body become immediately numb, forcing her to drop her sword, while Takumi clashed backwards with BG5, charging his electricity through his sword.
"Lightning Blade!"
Takumi discharged electricity from his blade, and swung it outwards, forcing back BG5's blade, allowing him to slice through it with controlling electricity, and sharpening it to a point where it would cut through the Reishi of BG5's, and went for his body, when he absorbed the electricity from Takumi's sword, so by the time his sword reached BG5, it had lost electricity, but the blade itself still managed to slice right through BG5's metal plating, cutting deeply into its arm, forcing it to jump backwards, along with sending a Sokatsui at close range for the Quincy robot before him, while having a sad expression.
The reason he had a sad expression was because he truly didn't want to destroy a fine piece of technology like BG5, he wanted to study him even more than before.
But this is what he had to do.
As the energy came for the robot, Bambietta broke through her binding, and attempted to slice at Takumi, who bent his body, and took the slice with his own sword…
"Aaah!"
Only for the sword to explode when Takumi batted it away with his own blade, the shock wave forcing Takumi backwards with a small groaning sound. While he was exploded backwards, BG5 charged up his cannon attack, and fired it off at Takumi in a giant sized cannon ball.
Takumi didn't seem to care though, and watched as it came closer towards him, he flicked his blade before him, and channelled a thin piece of electricity before him. Expertly weaving it together, Takumi shot off a thin needle of electricity from his blade, piercing through the middle of the sphere, and then burst, sending electrical currents all through the sphere that came for him, and destroyed it with the intense burst of electrical powers.
Bambietta's eyes span around angrily, her anger growing by the second.
"How did you do that…? It shouldn't be possible..."
Takumi however remained calm, and focused.
"It's power was enhanced with my electrical energy, it mixed with BG5's own energy output. So, all I did was send my own electricity into it, and severed the bonds of electricity flowing through that sphere, therefore it lost its stability, and was forced to split into oblivion like you saw. I told you I'm not messing this time Bambietta, this is me being serious. If you want to stop, then I'm fine with that. But don't be mistaken, I wont hold back now."
Saying it with a strong disposition, Bambietta felt her anger growing even more.
"If that's how it has to be, then we have no choice. BG5, come here!" Takumi raised an eyebrow, while Liltotto focused her eyes. BG5 shot beside Bambietta, and showcased a bomb. "It's time to be blown out of the sky Takumi!"
Takumi narrowed his eyes while Bambietta infused her energy into the bomb, aiming it for Takumi himself.
He went to avoid it, only for BG5 to send out tendrils towards him, which seemed to also be pulling the electricity from Takumi's sword towards it, and absorbing it.
"Heh, so you've thought of everything, haven't you Bambietta?"
"Damn straight I have." Takumi disappeared, reappearing before her, only for Bambietta to snicker, while dodging a sword slash from her. "You think that's going to be enough to defeat me? Can't you see that I've planned for everything you can do? Your Kido, your sword, I've got it all planned out! You can't beat me!"
Takumi chuckled lightly, which ignited rage within Bambietta, her not noticing something within Takumi's clothing that gave off a faint glow.
"Perhaps so, but I wouldn't underestimate me."
Bambietta's face twisted, as BG5 unleashed another giant cannon ball of energy right for Takumi himself.
Since Takumi had to avoid that, he couldn't react to the bomb that she had thrown at the same time, nearing Takumi, then exploding on Bambietta's command, catching him up in the giant explosion.
"Tsubaki! Koten Zanshun! I reject!"
Orihime unleashed her attacking ability, slicing through two Hollows at once, and released a small pant, while Rukia shot off a Sokatsui from beside her, slaying a good few Hollows with her powers, also releasing a pant.
"Don't push yourself Inoue, you only just awakened your powers. You might not be ready for this kind of assault yet. You've done more than enough for us, by fighting beside us, and destroying some Hollows, and protecting us with your barriers."
Orihime, to Rukia's surprise, simply shook her neck side to side.
"Taku-chan fought immediately when he got his own powers, against a very strong Hollow, according to what Karin-chan and Yuzu-chan told me, and keeps fighting even now, when he's still got a lot of people to fight. If I can't match that, then I can't walk beside Taku-chan."
Rukia understood that.
In the end, it made sense to what she was hearing from the girl with orange hair.
"Because you have feelings for him, yes?"
"W-Whaaaaaaaaaaaat!?"
Orihime panicked, while Rukia chuckled, seeing Karin and Yuzu slaying a few Hollows by standing back to back.
"It's obvious to anyone that sees it. Do not worry Inoue, I don't see a reason why you can't tell him after this battle is over with."
"But, what about you, Kuchiki-chan?"
Rukia cocks her neck sideways.
"Me? What about me?" Rukia didn't quite understand what Orihime was saying. But then she seemed to come to an understanding when seeing Orihime's face. "Inoue, Takumi needs you right now."
"W-What do you mean?"
"He needs someone to stand beside him, you know how he gets. He needs someone there to make sure he survives. He's an inventor, he needs inspiration, and he gets that from you."
"But, what about here? The Hollows..."
Rukia glanced upwards at the sky, seeing the hole having vanished.
"They've managed to close off the hole connecting our worlds. The Hollows numbers will decrease. We can take it from here. You just need to get yourself towards Takumi, and make sure he doesn't do anything reckless."
"Kuchiki-chan..." Rukia nodded, so Orihime did too. "Yes, I understand. But Kuchiki-chan, you can lie to Taku-chan and say you don't feel anything, but I can tell that you do really feel something for Taku-chan, don't you?"
Rukia's face tinged red while Orihime gave an understanding look.
"...If I did, or didn't, it wouldn't affect your relationship with him."
"I know, don't worry~ I can share Taku-chan~"
"Pft!" Rukia did a spit take while Orihime ran off down the street. "W-What in the heck..."
"What's wrong with you?"
Karin wondered, Yuzu also tilted her neck to the side.
"N-No! It's nothing! We should hurry and slay these Hollows!"
Karin gave suspicious eyes, while Yuzu wondered why Rukia was blushing a little bit.
But they did as she had said, and began dealing with the enemies around them.
As the explosion went off, Takumi's body was flung out of it, with light burns across his body. Bambietta truly wasn't messing around, but she also panted after using her powers so much, and felt her knees shaking.
"H-How about that Shinigami?"
Takumi landed on the ground, while drops of blood fell to the ground.
Even then, he still was going strong, which pissed off Bambietta.
"How can you still be standing!?"
"As I've said, I've studied your powers, I know how to counteract them a good chunk. Sorry Bambietta, but your explosions aren't going to work forever. It's draining your spiritual energy doing these things." His eyes went towards BG5, and grinned. "I also know your weakness robot." Takumi raised his sword into the air, and began gathering electricity. "You can absorb electricity alright, but you can't absorb two things at the same time into that belt you have, it's designed for electricity, not for anything else." Takumi placed one of his hands outwards, and began channelling his power. "Hado 58: Tenran!"
Combing the tornado Kido with his Zanpakuto, the winds and electricity mixed together, and blasted right into BG5, and because it was electrical based, the device activated automatically, and began absorbing the winds, and electricity that was all around it.
"N-No! BG5! Switch it off!"
Bambietta demanded, but BG5 couldn't do it.
He couldn't switch it off.
He didn't get why that was…
But then he saw a thin line of electricity going from the device, to Takumi's Zanpakuto.
"It's nifty, my sword huh. On top of controlling electricity, I can also activate, or deactivate things that need electricity to operated, like your device there, it's based on technology, and has a charge inside of it. All I had to do was hack it with my sword, and replace that charge, with my own change. It was simple enough, it happened when I swung for you. There's a little device on your belt, that's connected to my sword, and I can have it switch on or off as I please. Oh, if you try and get it off, then it will be quite difficult as it is magnetized to stay on your belt and you're made of metal, so it might magnetize your hand to your belt."
Bambietta looked on with shock, fear, and anxiety.
She thought that she had finally managed to get the upper hand.
But she wasn't in the end.
She couldn't do it...
"N-No! BG5! You can't!"
BG5 attempted to dodge out of the way, but he couldn't escape the violent winds, and electricity, which were being absorbed into the device. Then Takumi separated the electrical energy from the winds as soon as they entered, and the giant vortex of wind completely smashed through the device, ripping it asunder, and blew it off of BG5's body, sending its body crashing into the ground, Liltotto face growing with a smile.
"I understand what he did now. It had the power to convert electricity into energy, but it couldn't handle the sudden increased tornado, localized into the device thanks to the electricity that was surrounding it, being absorbed, and with BG5 unable to switch it off thanks to Takumi taking control over it, there's no way that BG5 could avoid it once the attack began being absorbed. I knew he was intelligent, but damn Takumi. He managed to overcome a glaring weakness by his own ingenuity, and planning ahead. Already having fought BG5, he expected BG5 to be used against him somehow, so he turned that around and had their strength be a weakness. With this, he's changed the battle in his favour."
Liltotto couldn't be more pleased with what she was seeing.
She was glad that Takumi managed to pull out a good victory against her, and the robot companion on Bambietta's, using his wit, and intelligence on his side.
Bambietta's eyes narrowed considerably.
"I see how it is. So I didn't think you'd be able to stop both of us together like this, and you've stopped BG5 from being able to assist me directly in battle. I guess I'll just have use it."
Takumi, Liltotto and Nel looked on with confusion.
"Use, what exactly?"
Bambietta began snickering as if she had just been found out.
"I'm about to show you a new trick between myself, and BG5 here. Something that's kinda like a Bankai actually."
"Like a Bankai?"
"Well, I suppose it is a little. Call it second evolution. Call it merging. Call it harmonization. Call it what you will. But this is what is going to change the tide of battle." Bambietta sticks out her arms, and allows her energy to soar. "BG5! Merge with me!"
Takumi was intrigued by what this merging entailed.
Then it happened before his eyes.
BG5's body began to shed some of its armoured plating, and they flew through the air.
"Not on my watch!"
Takumi went to attack to stop the merging as he thought that would be highly dangerous, but a giant burst of energy swept across the land, forcing Takumi backwards with a thudding sound, the young boy skidded across the ground, watching Bambietta and BG5's merging.
The ejected armour from BG5 attached themselves to Bambietta's legs, arms, and chest area. More than simple armour, it seemed to also send out tendrils, which pierced through her skin, which she cried out at, but it also began fuelling her powers ever more.
"Holy shit, she's actually gaining power from BG5..."
Liltotto gulped, feeling Bambietta's power grow higher and higher. It went past Lieutenant level, and it reached Captain level easily. Even a weaker Captain level, it was a scary level for the newly realized Shinigami Takumi, who felt the pressure, and sweated slightly.
But he also had a curiosity like no other, leaning forward, and inspected what had actually happened.
"Damn, so you merged on a different level than I had assumed. BG5 here is sharing its power directly with you. More than just sharing actually, he's become immobile, and given you all of his energy. So rather than fighting two separate ones, I'm fighting you both together..."
"That's not all. He constantly gathers in spirit energy for me, so I don't have to waste time doing that with my arrows, like this."
Bambietta flicked her hand, and not even a second passed before the arrow shot out of her hand, nearly piercing Takumi's shoulder who managed to react to it in time, but then felt Bambietta's hand grabbing his face.
"Shit-"
Before he could do anything, she unleashed a devastating explosion in his face. More than that, his head became the explosive, and a large gash appeared on his forehead, as he was flung backwards through the air.
Bambietta noticed however at the last second, he used a Kido barrier to transfer the explosive energy to that, rather than his head becoming the explosive all together, so he was saved himself from having his head be blown off his body.
The blood from the gash on his head rained down his face, coating his left eye, while Bambietta's smirk grew more and more.
"Would you look at that? A Shinigami bleeding. It seems that I've got the power now, and you don't anymore."
"I hate to admit it, but you're right. You are powerful Bambietta, your robot and you have surpassed me in power. However, there's an area you haven't surpassed me in."
Bambietta gained a question mark.
"And what's that?"
Takumi's smirk grew on his face.
"That's planning ahead."
Bambietta scoffed.
"As if! Are you delirious or something?! I have the power, you don't have the power anymore! I can slay you with my explosions! You can't escape me! I am powerful now! I could even take on your Father, and kill him!"
"I highly doubt that."
Bambietta raised an eyebrow.
"Oh? And why's that exactly?"
"Because my Father is stronger than I am, and I can still keep up with you. If I can, then he definitely can. And as his son, I'm always thinking moves ahead. I admit that this transformation did catch me off guard, but I can already see a fatal weakness within your form."
"You can't have!"
Bambietta didn't want to believe it, and sent off many arrows. Because she didn't have to charge up the energy, she could fire them off without delay, and they came like bullets. Faster than bullets. It was like they were moving at hyper speed, and all of them were coated within her explosive energy.
Liltotto watched on with wondering eyes, not sure what Takumi had seen, while Nel just kept yelling "Get her Saku Taku!" but did feel a little nervousness within her, seeing that Takumi's speed wasn't going to save him from the onslaught of arrows from Bambietta.
"So, what's my fatal weakness then? Come on, show me!"
Bambietta demanded, firing off more arrows that Takumi was expertly dodging.
She didn't know how he was doing that, but he was avoiding her arrows expertly. He dodged as if he had done so before. Though she didn't know that he had trained with Yoruichi, who was a very fast woman, so her arrows seemed slower than Yoruichi who could blitz him within a second, he was able to dodge the arrows for that reason.
However, the explosions were a different story.
When he dodged, they exploded, and forced the explosion towards Takumi.
Slowly, he was becoming encumbered by the power of Bambietta, and she was reveling in it.
However, Liltotto noticed that as he dodged the explosions and kept getting caught up in them, small markings appeared across his skin. It wasn't wounds. It was something else entirely.
It was…
"Oh God, it couldn't be..."
Liltotto was stunned.
She understood something that no one else did on that battlefield, not even Takumi seemed to be aware of it either.
Why his body was taking punishment, and not giving out so easily.
It was because Takumi...
Meanwhile, Rukia and the others had just finished off the Hollows in question. They looked around the area, and then towards each other.
"Is this it?"
Karin wondered to Rukia who closed her eyes briefly.
She couldn't sense anything around her.
"I can't feel anymore Hollows in this area. I think it is safe to assume that we've got the Hollows taken care of. I'm sure that the others are also making good time with vanquishing the Hollows. If we keep this up-"
"Already done!"
Candice came flying in with Meninas.
"Seriously?"
Yuzu murmured, Meninas nodding.
"Yes, we've taken care of the Hollows together with that Kisuke-san and company who have gone to get reinforcements."
Rukia released a breath.
"So, all that's left is to find Takumi, and help him out."
"We can help with that!"
Giselle yelled, pulling on her cheeks, and showed a goofy smile on her face as she came with Hiyori, and both didn't look happy with the other.
"Oh, it's you girls. How did you get on?"
Rukia's question was followed with a frown from Hiyori.
"We drew, it sucks! We killed so many Hollows, and we still drew!"
"How many?"
Yuzu asked kindly, which made Hiyori narrow her eyes even more.
"1268 Hollows each."
"D-Damn..."
Karin was flabbergasted they had taken that many out, meaning they must have had been hard at work.
"E-Either way, we should go and find Lieutenant Kurotsuchi, and then make our way over to Takumi, to deliver those Hollows back to this Nel girl."
The others agreed, and set out to do what was necessary.
Back with Takumi and Bambietta, he had some more wounds on his body from Bambietta's attacks, while she was showing a very happy, and also terrifying expression that could be considered close to perfection in her eyes.
"So what happened to your great ideas Takumi?! Come on! Think moves ahead, it isn't going to save you!"
Seeing that he was just going to avoid, decided to take the fight to him, withdrawing her sword, and shot off at speeds that even Liltotto was unsure of, appearing before Takumi, and swung her sword, which also released an explosion at the same time, Takumi swinging his own weapon to bat her sword to the left hand side, forcing the explosion in that direction so he wasn't caught up in the wave of energy.
"You're right, this is quite a pickle, but I told you, I also understand about your power, and the major weakness of that form you've attained is that it is placing a heavy burden on your body." Bambietta went to refute it when Takumi spoke up. "You can deny it, but I can see the signs on you already. The power is too much for your body to handle, you've not trained to handle this power. As you are, you've not got the stamina to keep this power for long. Even now, you're burning out, it is only a matter of time."
Takumi's words rung true within Liltotto's ears.
She could see the same thing, but wondered who could outlast who.
Bambietta, or Takumi.
Bambietta's face contorted angrily, swinging her sword around.
"I'll admit that it is taking more of a toll on me than I had expected, but it is enough for me to handle it for as long as I need too. So, I'll take you out with a final explosion. It's better than leaving you to try and combat me. If this is going to drain me, then I'm going to unleash my most powerful explosion upon you Takumi! You wont survive it!" Bambietta gathered her energy around her, swirling and became a mass before her, while Takumi pulled backwards. "It doesn't matter what you do now, I'm going to end you with this giant explosion. Not even you can escape this fiery death!"
Takumi looked on with slight worry…
He didn't know if he would be able to combat this threat.
If he'd be able to fight it…
But then he sensed Orihime coming towards them.
"Orihime-chan...she's in danger...everyone is. If I don't stop Bambietta now, then everyone I love could be in danger...I can't let this end yet. I have to do something, I have to summon all of my power to beat her...just give me the energy..."
Takumi went into his robes from his top, fishing for something.
Confusion came over Bambietta, but she didn't care, and formed a giant arrow that was within the centre of Bambietta's explosive energy, making sure that she had finished off Takumi once and for all.
"Whatever you're doing, it isn't going to work with me! So try me, and I'll show you my resolve!"
Bambietta thrusted her hand forward, and the large arrow that was nearly the size of a three story house, shot for Takumi. The blast radius of that wouldn't allow him to run away from it, he was going to be caught whether he wanted to or not.
However Takumi had planned for that.
He revealed what appeared to be a sphere, that was filled to the brim with energy.
Bambietta couldn't cancel her attack, but she wondered what the hell Takumi was wielding.
"See this Bambietta? This has been filled with your constant bombardment of attacks since you begun this fight with me. Your energy has gone into this time and time again. I thought you'd be able to counteract some of my powers, so I made this to deal the finishing blow to you. I didn't just let you explode me for nothing Bambietta. This has stored your power, and put it in a suspended animation type situation, until I release it of course. I had to make this to your specific spiritual signature, which wasn't hard after all the attacks you've given me."
Takumi pressed a button on the side, and then launched the sphere forward.
Bambietta gulped, as Takumi raised his Zanpakuto, and charged it with his strongest attack that he could muster within Shikai form.
"Raijin Oni!"
From Takumi's blade, wisps of electricity circulated around Takumi's blade, then erupted outwards heavily. The air around Takumi became electrified, creating a dome of lightning around him, then that electricity was directed outwards.
The visage of a Demon appeared around Takumi yet it also looked like a God at the same time, a perfect mixture between the two of them, shocking Bambietta, and she watched as the power connected with the sphere that Takumi had thrown, and then it created a massive explosion that brought up Bambietta's arrow, releasing a massive explosion that decimated all of the trees around the area.
"N-No! Saku Taku! Don't be dead!"
Nel cried out, tears flowing down her face.
Liltotto had to admit that either Takumi or Bambietta caught in that swirling vortex of flames and electricity was going to suffer, no matter if Blut Vene was activated. It was a terrifying blastwave that could destroy weaker people, and even stronger people would be damaged a good deal.
Liltotto couldn't even try and go out of the barrier to see if Takumi was alright, or Bambietta.
It was simply too wild of an attack.
However, after a minute or so, she saw Takumi jumping through the fires, with the marks across his body, glowing, and he raised his sword up to the sky, using electricity to harness the power of the explosion.
"This is it Bambietta!"
Bambietta, who was fighting off the heat and explosion herself, saw Takumi coming towards her, so she activated the Quincy version of Flash Step, but it was already too late.
Takumi had swung his sword down, and released a massive vortex of fire, and electricity right for Bambietta, who screamed out loud, doing her best to use Blut Vene in an attempt to protect herself from the amazing and deadly power heading for her.
"Wait, wait! This can't be! I powered up!"
"You powered up, but you forgot the core of how to fight an enemy! You also forgot your enemy can prepare for you just as much as you can for them! While you prepared for my attacks, you didn't consider I would prepare for your own! Tactics is a major part of the fights I'm in! So have this!"
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
Bambietta screamed, and thought that this was the end…
But she was surprised when she saw that rather than hit her, the attack targeted the robotic parts across her body, melting them off of her, and even though they were embedded into her skin, she was surprised that she didn't feel any pain from the melting process, not realizing Takumi was using Kido to keep her body safe, knowing that if he had continued with the assault, she would be dead.
Bambietta however was still caught in the violent winds, smashing her backwards, and her body ate the ground, wounds appearing across her body, but nothing life threatening, making her cry out in absolute pain.
Liltotto watched as the fires controlled by the electricity went into the sky with a single swing of Takumi's sword, destroying a good number of Hollows that were circulating the area above them all, destroying them in the fiery tornado.
Bambietta looked on with a broken spirit.
She had lost the fight.
It was as clear as day.
Orihime arrived soon afterwards, seeing the wasteland of the area, and saw Takumi covered in burns and wounds, and felt worry coming over her…
But then she saw Bambietta on the ground, defeated, and the robot, defeated.
Liltotto exhaled, and smiled "You kept your promise." seeing that Bambietta wasn't dead, when she could have easily been killed if Takumi had aimed all of the power right for her. Instead, she was merely unable to fight.
Nel gained a wide smile, and broke out of the barrier, rushing Takumi and yelled "Yay Saku Taku!" tackling Takumi to the ground, and he cried out.
"Ow, that hurt Nel-chan..."
"Saku Taku! You did it! That was amazing!"
Takumi lightly patted her head, seeing Orihime walk closer, and bend down to Takumi's level.
"Hey Orihime-chan, mission accomplished. I can't see her fighting for a while."
"Yes, you did amazing Taku-chan. I felt it all the way back there, and saw how you stopped Bambietta-san." Orihime hugged Takumi around his neck, embracing him tightly. "Well done Taku-chan, you saved us all."
"I don't know about that, but I'm glad that you're all safe."
Orihime continued to hug Takumi tightly, while she activated her Soten Kisshun ability, and began healing Takumi's wounds.
Since they were extensive, and Orihime had just recently found out how to use her powers, it was difficult for her to keep them going, but she would do to make sure that Takumi would be safe and sound.
"Are you sure you can heal me Orihime-chan? Don't push yourself."
Despite looking tired, Orihime still allowed a smile to appear on her face.
"Don't worry about that Taku-chan. You've pushed yourself further than anyone else. Allow me to help you now Taku-chan."
Takumi adopted a soft smile, and gave her a simple "Thank you." before resting his head on her shoulder, Orihime blushed slightly, but held his head gently as she healed his wounds the best that she could.
Liltotto walked over to Bambietta.
She looked up at Liltotto with confusion within her eyes.
"Go ahead, finish me off."
"I'm not going to kill you."
"But why?!" Bambietta demanded. "I have to know! Why don't you want me to die!?"
Liltotto exhaled deeply, glancing over to Takumi and the others who were laughing together.
"Because, he stopped you. Your life isn't in my hands, it is in his, and he's already decided to spare your life. He's not going to kill you, but you can't do this again Bambi, you need to stop before someone less merciful than Takumi becomes involved." Bambietta's face curled downwards, and began shedding a few tears. "Have you realized it? That Shinigami isn't out to kill you, nor is the Shinigami in this town. There's evil Shinigami, but that's also true for the Quincy's as well. You can't tell me you've never met an evil Quincy."
Bambietta ran a hand through her hair, and felt her regret coming over her.
She was realizing what she had done wrong.
Being lost in her anger, being lost in hate…
Now that she saw it with her eyes, how Takumi's attack could have destroyed her, but didn't.
How he hadn't tried to kill her the other times they fought.
She felt so stupid, so lost that she didn't know what she was going to do with her life.
"What have I done Lil?"
Her voice was cold, and lonely.
Like she had lost everything.
And how she had done it by her own hands, rather than anyone else's fault.
"You let your sadness and pain cloud your better judgement. These Shinigami aren't evil, they aren't out to hurt us. Hasn't Takumi just proved that? He had the chance to end you, but he didn't, and had chances in the past, but he didn't. Because he understands something. You aren't completely evil, you're misguided, and lashing out in the only way you know how, how His Majesty has informed you on how to deal with your pain."
Bambietta continued shedding tears, throwing her hand to the side, hitting the ground.
"I'm sorry Lil...I'm so sorry..."
Finally hearing those words, Liltotto knew that Bambietta was going to be okay.
She was acknowledging what she had done, and now wished to make amends for what had transpired.
"You don't have to apologize to me, apologize to Takumi. Then if he forgives you, consider myself already have forgiven you."
Bambietta swallowed her pride, and tried to stand up, but fell onto her knees.
Liltotto got close, and helped her friend up, while Candice, Meninas, Giselle, Hiyori, along with Rukia, Karin, Yuzu, Kon who brought Pesche and Dondochakka with him, and Nemu had appeared. Upon seeing Nel, Pesche and Dondochakka cried out happy tears, yelling "NEL!" at the top of their lungs.
"Saku Taku! Look! It's Nel's big brothers!"
"Haha, it seems that they're safe Nel-chan. How about going over to them?"
"Yes!"
Nel rushed Pesche and Dondochakka, and hugged them tightly while they said stuff like "I'm so glad you're okay!" and "We were so worried!" among other things, while Karin adopted surprising tears in her eyes. Yuzu noticed it, and prodded her sister.
"Tears Karin?"
"I-It's just a beautiful scene, that's all!"
Karin defended as they watched Bambietta moving closer, and closer to Takumi. Giselle released a breath.
"It seems to be over."
"About time is all I can say."
Candice breathed out happily, while Meninas played with a lock of her hair.
"I don't know, what happened to those Gillian's that Kisuke-san was speaking about?"
Candice shrugged, while Rukia looked on with worry.
"Gillian's..."
Rukia hoped that they wouldn't make an appearance.
But it was getting more and more likely that they would.
Bambietta walked over to Takumi, and Orihime, getting before him, and stared into his eyes.
"Shinigami...no, Takumi Urahara." Bambietta released a small breath while everyone stared on. "You beat me in battle...I lost to you. I came at you with everything, and even then, I still lost against you. But more than that...I attacked you, because I couldn't see you as anything other than the Shinigami that murdered my family."
Orihime's eyes lowered sadly, while Takumi gave an understanding look.
"I didn't know...I'm so sorry that happened to you."
"...I don't deserve sympathy, especially after all of the problems I caused. I understand now...you're not like them. I've given you every reason to hate me, to kill me. But you didn't. It took me this to realize that...you actually aren't a bad person. And all I can say is, I'm so sorry for doing all of this. I never meant for it to get this far. But as my anger grew, my better judgement just went out of the window. I just...couldn't let it go, my parents faces as they were killed, how they felt so betrayed, I promised I'd never let anyone walk over me again, no one close to my heart...and then I met these girls, the Quincy's that looked at me, and we laughed together...but then I saw you Shinigami, laughing together, and I couldn't accept that. Why did Shinigami get to laugh when they had caused all these problems?"
"It's alright..."
He tried to speak, but Bambietta spoke over him.
"Just then...I realized that you could have killed me then, and I couldn't have done a single thing. Everyone here wouldn't of even blamed you for doing it either. After everything I've put you and your friends through, I've done what I promised I wouldn't do to myself, and that was betray my friends trust. Lil, Gigi, Minnie, and Candy, they all realized it as well. They realized this was a path of darkness I was going down...and I can't make it right, I know that I can't-"
Suddenly, she felt Takumi's arms wrap around her.
She tried to resist, but he wouldn't allow her.
"It's okay, I forgive you."
With that, Bambietta broke down and sobbed openly into his chest.
The others watched as she cried, Rukia turned to Giselle who nodded.
"She's not going to be a problem now. She closed off her heart a long time ago, and it took us a while to break through it. But now that she's understood the error of her ways, she wont attack again, I know that she wont."
Rukia looked relieved.
"That's great, we can finally return to peaceful times once more..."
But that's not how it could go.
Because they all suddenly felt an overwhelming spiritual pressure.
More than one, it was leading up into the twenties, the thirties and growing.
"Oh God, I've never felt so many..."
Karin glanced at Yuzu, and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Don't worry, we'll deal with this."
Yuzu wasn't so convinced, while Takumi held Orihime in his arms, seeing how she was getting overwhelmed.
"It's alright Orihime-chan, I've got you now."
"Taku-chan, those presences..."
"I know...it's those Gillian's, they have come..."
True to his word, Gillian's began to fill the area. Their giant feet, their giant bodies, dwarfed skyscrapers easily. Their long noses, and the way that their eyes went down towards them. Nel ran to Takumi, and hid behind his leg.
"Too many Saku Taku."
Takumi could understand that, seeing how they were all staring down. Takumi counted so many that he knew that they wouldn't be able to defeat them all. Pesche and Dondochakka were freaking out behind Takumi and the others, while Kon rushed behind a rock, and sat down in the fetal position, Karin sighed deeply.
"Great, so crushed to death by giant monsters. Lovely. I always assumed I'd be killed by something like this."
"We can't give up yet Karin-chan."
Takumi spoke to her, but Karin held her Zanpakuto nervously.
"You sensing what I am? Even if we teamed up, we can not take all of them."
Takumi could understand why she was being pessimistic about this, considering how many were showing up. Though he found it odd that Bambietta's bait alone drew that many's attention. It seemed something else was going on with this but he wasn't aware of what it was.
"This is my fault...I'm sorry everyone, I led them here with my bait..."
Bambietta apologized, Giselle lightly tapped her head.
"You're right, it is your fault." She shed a few tears, but then Giselle chuckled deeply. "But, you've repented so I guess we can't blame you."
"Well, I can!" Hiyori jabbed her finger at Bambietta. "Your fault this is! Next time you wanna rain down destruction, don't do it with Hollows! Especially the Gillian's! Even I couldn't take them all on! We're freaking screwed!"
Takumi and the others watched as one of the Gillian's raised its foot, and aimed it for Takumi and the others.
They felt the intense pressure of all of the Hollows around, along with the first one that was attacking.
They pulled backwards, expecting to be crushed…
But then a single crescent shaped energy blast which was red sliced right through the Gillian's leg, cutting it completely off, then that was followed by a slicing attack right onto the face of the Gillian, killing it off completely.
"Hello son, and friends." Kisuke appeared before them, with his signature smile on his face. "So, you've run into trouble-"
"It's about time Urahara!" Hiyori snapped, throwing her shoe at him, which he dodged expertly. "We could have used you, I don't know, sooner! I'm sure you love doing this for the suspense of the situation!"
Kisuke released a soft chuckle.
"I'm sorry, I was picking up some allies, along with making sure that normal people wouldn't become involved in this battle. Plus I had to round up all the Gillian's to come to this location, I've been a busy man~"
The others, besides Takumi raised an eyebrow.
But then it became clear when Shinji appeared on the battlefield, looking at Takumi with pleading eyes.
"Please don't say you'll stop fixing our computers, and internet! We need them!"
Takumi gave a sideways glance.
"Take care of the Gillian's, and we'll be fine."
"Ah, alright then, shouldn't be an issue!" Shinji, and the others with him donned their Hollow masks. "Come on everyone! Lets mess up some Gillian's!"
Shinji raised a hand to his mouth, and gathered energy for a Cero to be released. The red energy appeared as a sphere at first, before releasing into an arching beam, encompassing three Gillian's all at once, slaying them out of existence.
"Ooh yeah!" Mashiro rushed forward, leaping into the air, and delivered a kick towards one Gillian, breaking its mask apart. "Oh yeah, it's all in the kick! Mashiro Kick!"
Mashiro leaped between three different Gillian's, and began destroying their faces with her kicks.
Kensei then came in with his knife Zanpakuto, and stabbed one of them in the head, creating an explosion that took off the Gillian's head.
"Is there even a challenge here?"
"Be quiet, or we lose the internet. I'm not losing it Kensei, or you'll be the one receiving my complaints."
Lisa murmured, dashing forward, and delivered very thin slices towards a Hollow Gillian, up and down its entire body. She diced it up into very thin chunks, which all split apart, and dissolved into the air, while she spun around to stab another in the face.
"I know, we can't lose that, especially with everything we do..."
Love jumped up at one Gillian, punched it in the face, creating a large dent in the mask, allowing his fingers to slide into the hole, and then used his strength to rip the Hollow into two pieces, the others watched on while Meninas muttered "I could do that easily." referring to her Power ability, believing herself to be stronger than Love.
"Either way, these aren't so bad, we'll just have them die in a requiem."
Rose, with a super thin wire, wrapped it around tightly on one of the Gillian's. Constricting around it so tightly that it couldn't even move, and was getting sliced apart with the thin wire alone, and destroyed a good chunk of it, before it disappeared.
One of the Gillian's opened its mouth to fire off a Cero, only for Hachi to click his fingers numerous times, creating several barriers around the Hollow's heads, counting up to five and he brought his hands together. The Gillian's attacks didn't break through the barriers, instead their heads were snapped off of their bodies, decapitation, and dropped to the ground, harmlessly being destroyed.
"Ooh shit, this is hardcore."
Bambietta muttered, as a few Gillian's appeared beside them.
Takumi went to defend, when the Hollow, and several others, were sliced right through.
Appearing behind them, was Tier herself, who looked Takumi up and down, with Kukkapuro on her shoulder.
"Sorry for my tardiness, had some business to deal with."
"Nope, that's fine with me Tier-chan!"
"Yay! Big sister is becoming involved! She'll take them out no problem!"
Tier gave a hint of a smile, before continuing to destroy Gillian's left and right.
Takumi thought that since the others were becoming involved, he would too.
But then that's when he felt a hand grope him from behind.
"Y-Yoruichi-chan!"
Yoruichi gently licked his face, making his cheeks turn slightly red.
"Look at all these bad Gillian's. How about everyone I slay, I'll pleasure you in a different way?"
Takumi's cheeks continued to turn red while Giselle strolled forward.
"Screw off, he's mine."
Yoruichi gave a playful laugh, then disappeared.
A few seconds later, several Gillian's got pierced with Yoruichi's fists, and feet, smashing their entire bodies apart all together.
They all looked on with blank expressionless faces, while Yoruichi playfully thumbed her hair.
"All easily done."
Rukia felt sweat dropping off her forehead, then turned to Takumi.
"You weren't kidding when you said you'd call in allies."
"Yeah, pretty strong huh."
Hiyori, smirking at Giselle, stepped forward.
"I'm not done, not by a long shot!"
"Oi! Don't you dare!"
Giselle, despite being tired, jumped up with Hiyori, and did a combined arrow, plus sword slash to a Gillian, and completely destroyed it out of existence, while Liltotto murmured "Great, we've got a crazy meeting a nutter." while Karin nodded slowly.
"Couldn't agree more." Karin turned to Yuzu. "Come on Yuzu, we can't leave it to these idiots! Lets get in on the action!"
"Wait Karin, how can we!?"
Karin placed her sword onto Yuzu's body, and channelled her spiritual energy into Yuzu. Yuzu watched as her thin bow grew into a giant one, pulling back the string, creating an even larger arrow than normal.
"I've been told I've got great spirit energy, you can gather spirit energy. Use mine to fire off those deadly arrows of yours!"
Yuzu nodded, firing it off against one Gillian, and pierced it right through the head, then unleashed a good chunk more, all of them piercing the Hollow in different areas of its body, until it crumbled under the power of the two, Kisuke's eyes narrowing slightly, thinking "They took down a Gillian together, they definitely have untapped potential." before watching Candice grab her head in annoyance.
"Ugggggggggh! I'm not sitting out of this one! Come on Minnie, lets mess them up!"
"Yes! Lil, come too!"
"Ugh, I guess we could..."
Together, the Quincy trio all jumped into the air. One Gillian attempted to punch them, when Meninas raised her fist, announcing "I've got it!" and clashed with the Hollow.
Due to her Power ability, her strength toppled the giants own, forcing its fist backwards, allowing Liltotto to raise her arrow, and aim for the Hollow's head, putting her all into it, firing it off, and pierced the mask of the Hollow.
"Now Candy."
Candice adopted a smirk.
"Alright then!" Candice gathered her electricity, and aimed it for the hole that Liltotto had created. "Now, eat my Galvano Javelin!"
Releasing her electricity in the form of a javelin, the javelin went right into the Gillian's body, and shocked its body with all she had, and obliterated it out of existence.
Rukia couldn't understand what the heck was going on.
She was seeing Gillian's being destroyed by these people, when she had heard that special forces had to deal with them. Definitely, she felt very different to how she thought she'd feel at this moment in time.
Takumi placed a hand on Rukia's head, causing her face to meet his.
"Isn't it lovely what people can do with cooperation? Shinigami, Hollows, Quincy's. All of them together, fighting for a common goal. Maybe it is naive of me to think like this, but seeing this before my eyes gives me hope one day we can work together like this."
Rukia's face turned upwards.
"Maybe I'm being optimistic as well...but, I hope that also."
Takumi released a chortle, as Nemu came walking over.
"Kuchiki-san, allow us to fight together. You freeze, and I shatter them."
"W-Wait-"
Rukia was grabbed from behind, an arm around her waist, and disappeared into the sky. One Gillian attempted to fire off a shot of energy for the women, but Orihime announced "Hinagiku, Baigon, Lily! Santen Kesshun, I reject!" and created a barrier between the attack and them.
Though the barrier held it back for a few seconds, it broke through, but that gave Nemu the time to navigate around that, and got close, so Rukia stabbed the Gillian in the head, and activated her Shikai's power, freezing it down so it became a block of ice, allowing Nemu to swing her leg out towards the Gillian's head, smashing it apart.
Takumi couldn't help but grin at the sight before him.
Everyone uniting together against a common enemy.
It was quite beautiful in his eyes.
"Hey Orihime-chan, look after Nel-chan for me, would you?"
"Hehe, are you going to fight too?"
Orihime showed a peppy side, glad to see that their allies were winning.
"I think it's time for me to become involved yeah~"
"I see, then I'll take care of Nel-chan, don't worry Taku-chan!"
"Yes Saku Taku! Give them hell!"
Takumi nodded slowly, and began walking forward.
While he did, his smile grew larger, and larger, seeing how everyone was cooperating, even people he didn't expect. Like Karin and Candice, or Yuzu and Tier, even Rukia was cooperating with Giselle, and Hiyori with Shinji.
He just thought it was very intriguing to see that happening, and also brought him happiness.
"Hey, what's with the grin weirdo?"
Bambietta asked as she pulled closer.
Takumi lightly laughed at Bambietta's words.
"Oh, nothing at all. Say, wanna get in on the action?"
Takumi offered his hand to Bambietta.
Before, she would have felt that would be insulting, but now it seemed different.
She took his hand with a sly smile on her face.
"Lets finish this."
Takumi stuck out his Zanpakuto, allowing his electricity to surge. However, rather than turn into a blast, Takumi combined it with Hainawa, and wrapped the energy rope around the Gillian's, five in total, and because of the electricity added, they were being shocked at the same time as being bound, causing them pain.
"Your turn Bambietta-san!"
Bambietta grabbed the ropes in Takumi's hand, and added her explosive energy to them.
They travelled up and wrapped around the Gillian's, setting off massive explosions, which decimated the Gillian's out of existence all together, Takumi and Bambietta glanced at the other, then smiled brightly, seemingly coming to an understanding.
Kisuke watched as the fight continued on for a good ten minutes, and added in his own power once in a while.
But for the most part, everyone was able to get in good shots against the Gillian's.
However, he also realized something else.
"Definitely, this isn't normal. Even with the baits, and powers colliding here. This is an abnormal...it has to be him. It has to be. And if it is..." His eyes drifted to Takumi who just finished doing a double slash with Karin. "...then Takumi's in danger. What am I going to do...?"
While he watched the slaying of the Gillian's, he knew that he'd have to do something.
Eventually, there was only one Gillian left, so Takumi walked towards it with his Zanpakuto, and Rukia followed him. But not just Rukia, Karin, Yuzu, Giselle, Nemu, Hiyori, Liltotto, Meninas, Candice, and finally, Bambietta, followed him, and took up a stance.
"It's time to finish this!"
[Yeah!]
Concentrating what little power they had left, they unleashed their strongest attacks against the Gillian itself. Because of the bombardment of attacks, the Gillian lost its body, being destroyed by the overwhelming attack, thus ending the Hollow invasion.
Takumi exhaled, falling down to the ground with the others soon following.
"I'm exhausted."
Takumi groaned, while Rukia chuckled lightly.
"I know what you mean, my body is sore from all of this."
"We should get a medal for this."
Karin brought up with a shocking smile on her face.
Yuzu grinned, hugging her sister.
"I'll make you one! We did it Karin, we protected Karakura!"
Giselle cracked her neck side to side.
"I'm glad, but also kinda pissed that we drew Hiyori-chan."
"Yeah...but, I'm too tired to care. Lets just call it a draw, and we both can have him."
"I'm fine with that."
Giselle was too exhausted to even fight with Hiyori, and she felt the same after the slaying of the Hollows.
The others just watched on happily as peace had been restored once more.
Finally, the peace had come over Karakura…
But, for how long?
End chapter!
So, the climatic battle happened between everyone!
Takumi fought off Bambietta, with BG5, even seeing BG5 combine with Bambietta to increase her powers. But eventually, after trading blows, Takumi who had studied Bambietta's powers, created something to unleash that kind of power right back at her, and defeated her. After that, Bambietta realized what she had done is wrong, and as Takumi had said to Liltotto, spared her life.
Then the Gillian's came, but fortunately, the Shinji and the others showed up! They dealt out large damage, even Tier got in on the action, and by working together with the Quincy's, Hollows, and Shinigami alike, they managed to defeat them all.
Next time we'll deal with the rap up, and the continuation of what's going to happen next, with Rukia, Takumi and the others. The Soul Society definitely would have been alerted to this presence.
Takumi; Orihime, Rukia, Yuzu, Karin, Nemu, Giselle, Liltotto, Soi Fon, Yoruichi, Hiyori, Nelliel, Tier, Rangiku, Toshiro (fem).