Yo everybody! Originally I was gonna have this chapter after the fights, but I wrote about two-thirds of this chapter last night in one siting, so I decided to move this chapter ahead a few chapters. That and I've gotten over six hundreds hits since I posted my last chapter. So enjoy.
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Chapter Nineteen
Holding Cells of Los Noches
"Pathetic. They weren't any fun at all." Clotho said as he and Orga tossed the unconscious and beaten bodies of Loly and Menoly into a cell.
Orga slammed the cell door shut, locking the two girls in. "Look them. They're so weak, they probably won't survive unless we get a medic."
"Screw that!" Clotho shouted. "The Emo said to lock them up. He never said anything about getting a medic for them. If they die, it'll be his fault. Not ours."
Shani was leaning on the bars of the cell between them, staring into space while listening to his music, when suddenly, his eyes widened in panic.
"The Boss!" he frantically shouted. "We forgot about the Boss!"
All three of them started panicking.
"Shit!" Orga cursed. "We gotta get her a medic!"
"I don't think you'll be going anywhere." a voice said.
The three of them looked in the direction of the voice. It was Exequias and their leader.
"What the hell do you want?!" Clotho shouted at them.
"The three of you have attacked other arrancar without the authorization of Aizen-sama or one of the Espada." the Exequias Leader answered. "Because of that, Aizen-sama has ordered that the three of you be locked back up in your cells until further notice."
"The hell we are!" Clotho shouted. "The Boss is injured, Bullface! Get out of the way!"
"If you had bothered to check your pesquisa, you'd know that she was fine." he replied.
The Fraccion check their pesquisa. Their Boss was indeed back at a hundred percent. In fact, she had just released her zanpaku-to.
"Hm...That changes things. But we're still not gonna go back to those cells." Orga said.
"You don't have any choice. We have you outnumbered and cornered. Surrender and relinquish your weapons and you will not be harmed." the Leader said before signaling for three of the Exequias to approach the three arrancar.
A split second later, said Exequias members fell to the ground, dead. One's head was torn off, another was cut in two, down the center and the last one had a large round hole going through it's body. While Shani, Clotho and Orga stood there, grins on their faces and blood staining their weapons.
"What?!" the Exequias Leader shouted in shock. "You dare to kill members of the Exequias! The only punishment for such an action is death!"
"Get out of the way." Shani said. "Or else."
"Or else? You're kidding. We have the advantage. What could you three possibly do against all of us."
"Or else, you'll be a...FATALITY TOO!!" Clotho shouted at the Leader before launching his spherical breaker at him.
He sonidoed out of the way, but three of the Exequias behind him weren't so lucky. The heavy spiked ball tore through their bodies, killing them instantly.
"Kill them!" the Exequias Leader ordered.
Shani, Orga and Clotho chuckled at the advancing Exequias.
"Strike from the ground, bringing their end, Calamity!" Orga shouted as he drove the tips of his shields into the ground. (1)
"Soar in the skies above to annihilate them, Raider!" Clotho shouted as he spun his weapon over his head. (1)
"Arise from the depths and destroy them, Forbidden!" Shani shouted as he slammed the base of his scythe on the ground in front of him. (1)
Three explosions followed, pushing the Exequias back.
Orga was the first to reappear. His shields had lengthen considerably, almost reaching the floor, and had fused to his forearms. There was also a pair of gun barrels on each one. His arms and torso were now covered in matching blue armor with orange trim. On his chest was an orange skull-like design with his hollow hole sitting in between the eyes. He also had large, armored shoulder pads that extended far beyond his shoulders. On his back was an armored backpack-like hump with a pair long cannon barrels, resting just above his shoulder pads. His mask fragment was completely gone. It now was a plate covering his forehead and angeled upwards into a pair of spikes. (2)
Clotho's arms and torso, like Orga's, was covered in armor. But his was of a different style and was black with red trim. His feet had changed into bird claws. His spherical breaker remained in his right hand. On his back was a pair of folded armored wings. Like Orga, Clotho's mask fragment had completely changed and was now a pair of spikes extending from his forehead, at a perfect 45 degree angle with a pair of smaller spikes beneath them, at a 35 degree angle. (2)
Lastly, there was Shani, still holding his scythe. Like his comrades, his arms and body was covered in armor. His was a pale green and black, and lacked the long shoulders the others have. His mask was the same as Clotho's, minus the second, smaller spikes. The most noticeable feature was the large, dark green turtle shell-like object on his back. The area directly behind his head had a protrusion sticking upwards. On it was a second face, for a lack of a better term, that resembled a knight's helmet, consisting of a pair of slits for eyes and a matching horn spikes. Beneath the face, was a square, mouth-like opening. On the sides of the shell were a pair of large shields attached to the shell by small arm-like limbs. In the spaces between the shields and his arms, were a pair of black tentacles that almost reached his ankles. (2)
"Fools! You honestly think you can beat us. Very well then." the Exequias Leader said as he and the rest of the Exequias backed out of the narrow, cramped corridor and into a larger, empty room. Waiting.
Suddenly, three cero-like beams shot out through the doorway, obliterating several of the Exequias. Orga emerged, grinning like a maniac.
"Kill him." the Exequias Leader ordered.
Six Exequias silently drew their swords and charged the lone arrancar. Orga raised his arms, aiming the gun barrels on his shields at them and fired balas at them. Four of them managed to dodged the balas, the other two weren't so lucky. The balas tore through their bodies, killing them. The four remaining ones attacked, but Orga quickly blocked the blades with his shields. Orga pushed them back and sliced through them with the shields' razor sharp edges.
A second later, a section of the ground near the hallway exploded. Shani emerged, the shell that had been on his back was now resting on his shoulders, covering his head. Several Exequias opened fire with balas. Shani's shields moved in front of him and when the balas hit the shields, they were harmlessly defected away from him. Before the Exequias that attacked him could react, the shell on his head, moved shifted back onto his back as Shani lunged at them, slicing through them with his scythe like a bloody harvest, chuckling all the while.
Suddenly, there was an explosion on the ceiling. Clotho, his wings spread open, flew down through the hole and fired a cero from his mouth, killing three Exquias.
"Triple kill!" Clotho shouted in triumph before swinging his spherical breaker at more Exequias, killing and injuring more of them.
A group of Exequias flew up at him. Only for most of them to be destroyed by a pair beams. Which almost hit Clotho.
"Orga! You bastard! You almost hit me!" Clotho shouted at his comrade on the ground as he finished off the remaining airborne arrancar.
"Less complaining, more killing!" Orga shouted back.
Meanwhile, Shani fired a cero at a group of Exequias from the mouth opening on his shell. They dodged the beam but what they didn't expect was for cero to suddenly curve and hit them. "How is that possible?!" one of the Exequias shouted.
"How is what possible?" Shani asked as he cut that Exequias in two.
Shani fired a curving cero again. Killing more Exequias before it streaked towards Orga. Orga leapt out of the way of the beam.
"You're bugging me Shani!" Orga shouted before firing a trio energy shots from his cannons and his hollow hole at him.
Shani deflected the shots with his shields, causing them to hit nearby Exequias.
"You're terminated!" Clotho shouted as he swung his weapon at more Exequias.
The head of his weapon impaled the chest of one while the cable sliced through several others.
"Killtacular!" he shouted in joy at his growing number of kills.
Clotho pulled his weapon back, the body of the arrancar was still stuck to the head of the weapon. Clotho shrugged at the sight of the dead Exequias on his weapon. Two Exequias fired a barrage of balas at him. Clotho spun his spherical breaker in front of him, creating a shield against the balas and caused the body on the head of weapon to be torn apart by the g-forces. The second the Exequias let up their barrage, Clotho fired a cero at them, vaporizing them.
"Damn you. You're not arrancar. You're not even hollows. You're nothing but beasts. Savage, insane beasts." the Exequias Leader said as he watched the slaughter of his subordinates.
Just over half of the Exequias that he had brought were either dead or maimed.
"What'd yah say?" Orga asked as he destroy a few more Exequias with balas. "Didn't catch that."
"Monsters." he muttered.
The three of them laughed and continued attacking Exequias members.
Clotho launched his breaker at an Exequias, sending it and the arrancar into Shani, knocking him into the ground.
Shani growled as he got up and aimed his tentacles at Clotho and fired balas from them at him. Clotho flew out of the way of the balas. The balas flew pass him and hit several members of the Exequias.
"Knock it off Shani!" Clotho yelled while Shani smirked and laughed.
"That's enough!" the Leader shouted to the remaining Exequias. "Fall back!"
The surviving Exequias silently withdrew, some had to be carried away. The Exequias Leader, however, did not leave. He surveyed the room. The walls, floor and ceiling were stained with blood and scorch marks. Bodies and body parts littered the ground. It looked like a warzone.
"Aww...C'mon. We were having fun." Orga complained.
"You want fun? I'll deal with you three personally." he said as he drew his sword. "I won't even need to release my zanpaku-to destroy you."
The Leader sonidoed and attacked Shani. Shani blocked his sword attack with his shields, causing shallow cuts in his shields. The Leader sonidoed again, reappearing behind Shani and slashing his back. Shani fell forward onto one knee. The Leader raised his sword over Shani's shell covered head.
"Shani! You bastard!" Orga shouted before firing an trio of energy beams at the pair.
One of the beams hit Shani, he still had his shields in front of him, protecting him. The other two beams streaked towards the Exequias Leader. But he managed to sonido out of their paths before they could reach him.
The Leader fired a cero at Orga, who canceled it out with a cero of his own.
"Is that the best yah got?" Orga asked before firing barrage of balas at him.
The Leader leapt out of the path of the balas, only to be hit by Clotho's spherical breaker, knocking away from the balas and into the ground.
Shani, Orga and Clotho all started laughing. "Pathetic." Shani sneered.
"Told yah, you're gonna be fatality too!" Clotho shouted.
"You monsters think that I can be beaten that easily! I am the Leader of the Exequias! Beasts like you are nothin-"
Orga sonidoed and slashed the Leader of the Exequias with his shields, interrupting him.
"You talk too much." Orga commented.
"Damn you!"
Suddenly, Clotho's spherical breaker hit the left side of his head, destroying most of the left side of his mask.
"Bullseye!" Clotho shouted.
"How?! How can you monsters be this strong?!" the Exequias Leader said in disbelief and something he hadn't felt since he became an arrancar, fear.
Then Shani struck. Slicing his sword in two and cutting a deep gash in his chest.
"Why are you so weak?" Shani asked as the Leader fell to his knees.
"Damn you monsters! Do you actually believe that Aizen-sama will let you get away with this?!"
"Get away with what? You guys attacked us for no reason." Orga said. "And if the Exequias are this weak, than were doing the Big Boss a favor by getting rid of the weaklings."
All three of them simultaneously fired ceros at the Exequias Leader, completely obliterating him in an instant. They then resealed their zanpaku-tos. Shani slung his scythe over his right shoulder and put his headphones back on. Clotho clipped weapon back on to his belt, then pulled out his handheld video game and started playing. Orga strapped his shields back onto his back and reach into his pocket for his book.
The three quietly, aside from the occasional stray shout from Clotho, left chamber, kicking aside any bodies in their way. Insane, feral grins still spread across their lips.
Elsewhere
Aizen sighed as he felt the Exequias Leader die. He had felt him and most of the Exequias engage those three. He was surprised that the Exequias had been massacred that easily. He had clearly underestimated their power or overestimated the power of the Exequias or perhaps even both. An extremely, extremely rare mistake for him. Perhaps he shouldn't have locked those three up. Though by doing that and later allowing Tatsuki to permanently release them from their cells, he fixed that problem. It had guaranteed their loyalty to her and since she was completely loyal to him, they were completely loyal to him.
Then there was the question of who ordered them to arrest Shani, Orga and Clotho. It certainly wasn't him. Nor could it have been any of the Espada. Aside from Nnoitra and Ulquiorra, all of them were still in their domains or fighting the intruders. It was possible that it was Gin, playing one of his games, or Kaname, in an attempt to destroy the arrancar that reminded him the most of Kenpachi Zaraki. Or it could have been their creator, Scion, seeking to destroy his biggest failures. Failures that had cost him his position on the Espada.
Scion, former Second Espada and top scientist of Los Noches. He had promised him, that he create the ultimate shock troops for his army. With power near that of Espada-class arrancar and utterly devoted to him.
Unfortunately, when he had turned them into arrancar, they proved to be less than ideal. Aizen could more than tolerate their insanity and their tendencies to attack each other in the middle of combat. What he couldn't tolerate was that they had zero regard for other arrancar and frequently the other arrancar got caught in the crossfire of their attacks. And unless he gave them an enemy to fight, they tended not to obey his orders that well. So he locked them up, letting them out only when he could use their skills.
Perhaps, he'd have Szayel duplicate and try to improve on his former mentors work. If he wasn't trying already.
The doors to his chambers suddenly slammed open. It was Kaname.
"Aizen-sama." he said urgently. "The Exequias has been almost entirely wiped out by Arisawa's Fraccion."
"I know Kaname." he calmly said.
"Please Aizen-sama, allow me to bring justice to those beasts."
"That won't be necessary Kaname. The three of them managed to devastate the Exequias. Something that few non-Espada would be able to do. It would be a waste to dispose of them."
"But Aizen-sama-"
"No buts, Kaname." he interrupted. "To think that Scion branded them as failures simply because he couldn't control them. I think they'll be quite useful in the battles to come."
"Aizen-sama! They've devastated the Exequias! Killed their leader! You can not be serious about letting them live!"
"I am. They revealed to me just how weak the Exequias were. If they couldn't beat those three with their numbers than they are completely useless to me. But there is one thing you can do for me Kaname."
"Yes Aizen-sama?"
"Find out who ordered the Exequias to confront them and bring them to me."
Elsewhere
Arturo sat in chair in front of a dozen security monitors, in his hidden Domain. Things were proceeding better than he expected. Hisiki had successfully tricked the Exequias into believing that Aizen ordered them to arrest Tatsuki's Fraccion, which resulted in the unit almost being wiped out entirely. While she did that, he altered the security footage, leaving no trace of who gave the order to the Exequias.
With the Exequias gone, Aizen's control over the lesser arrancar had weakened and a possible threat to his future rebellion had been crushed.
But he couldn't congratulate himself yet. He still had much to do before he could even consider his rebellion ready to start. Fortunately, the intruders were providing an excellent distraction to Aizen and the Espada.
He glanced at some of the other monitors. Keigo was fighting one of the humans, Yasutora 'Chad' Sado, if his intelligence was correct. Tatsuki was fighting Grimmjow and Ichigo Kurosaki while Miss Orihime and a strange little arrancar. Arturo learned in closer to monitor. "It can't be..."
But it was.
He started laughing. "Well, I'll be damned! She's alive! And of all the people she meets, she meets Kurosaki and the others!"
"Who is it, Arturo-sama?" Hisiki, standing in the back of the room, asked.
"An old subordinate of mine. I thought Nnoitra killed her sometime ago." he said with a smirk. "Things are getting more interesting every minute."
He would need to have Miss Inoue restore her mask, which would permanently restore her to original state first. But that wouldn't be a problem.
He glanced at another monitor. Aaroniero's dead body was sprawled on the ground. Near him was the dying body of Rukia Kuchiki. He was surprised that she was still alive. But she was a Kuchiki, in name and spirit. Which meant that she was as stubborn as they come. Just like her older brother.
Arturo stood up and said, "I have some things I need to do. Remain here and inform me if anything important happens."
"Yes Arturo-sama."
(1) The release commands. Now these were tough for these three. I had a dozen or so single word commands for these guys, but they just didn't seem to fit. Than Shani's command entered my head and stayed there. After awhile, decided to use phrase commands instead. And any Gundam Seed fans will recognize that the names of their zanpaku-tos are the names of their mobile suits.
(2) The release forms. Again, I used their mobile suits as base of their release forms. Below are some links to the Gundam Wiki website that has pictures of said machines. This should give those of you who read this and know nothing of Gundam Seed, a better idea of what they look like. Just copy, paste, and delete the spaces.
Calamity: gundam.wikia .com/wiki/ Image:Gat-x131 .jpg
Raider: gundam.wikia .com/wiki/ Image:Gat-x252 .jpg
Forbidden (sadly it doesn't show the backpack that well, so you're on your own for that): gundam.wikia .com/wiki/ Image:Gat-x370 .jpg
I'm also toying with the idea of adding the second generation druggies from Gundam Seed Destiny but I'm not quite sure and would like some input on that. And this will be the last chapter of Hollowfication for awhile, so I can work on my other story ideas.
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