Ichigo seemed unfazed by the sheer pressure of Hikari's scythe being forced down on him. "Ichigo Kurosaki" Hikari said as he yanked his weapon back, causing him to stumble a bit as Hikari jumped away from him.
"You idiot, you never show up on time" Soi-Fon scoffed as she slowly got up to her feet as Captains Unohana and Shunsui appeared on the scene.
"That's a weird way of saying thank you" Ichigo chuckled as he held out his sword at Hikari who was leaning on his scythe. The chain from the base of his sword jingled as a light breeze blew by and the two stood off for a couple seconds until Ichigo moved his foot to the side a bit and flash stepped at Hikari, having his sword up to his throat. "It's over" he said as he thrust the blade forward, only to feel like his sword was still in the air.
"Remember kid, physical attacks won't work on me" he smiled as he walked through Ichigo until his back was to him. "Try to keep up" he smiled as he swung up his scythe, only to have it blocked. "Not bad, but I'm not even close to warmed up yet" he said as he let go of his weapon, causing the other captain's to watch confused as he dropped down on his hands, and proceeding to kick Ichigo in the chin, sending him up in the air dizzy and confused as Hikari pushed off the ground, grabbing the bottom of the staff of the scythe as he flew backwards at Ichigo.
"What the hell is that fighting style?" Toshiro said as Hikari passed Ichigo and raised his scythe over his head to slam the blade down.
He procceeded to swing it down on Ichigo, only to have Ichigo dodge it at the last moment and to have Ichigo flash step above Hikari with his weapon ready to stab him in the back. "Wrong move" he said as the mouth on the skull on the back of his scythe opened as a mass of green energy began to form into a ball between its rows of teeth.
"A cero!" Ukitake yelled as Hikari fired it at Ichigo, sending him to the ground in a ball of smoke. "Ichigo!" he said as he flash stepped over to see if he was alright. He found a large burn on Ichigo's chest as well as half of his upper robe missing from the blast.
"Don't give up so soon" Hikari said as he walked over with his weapon over his shoulder. "You should have hollowfied against me" he said as felt something wrapped around him, stopping him from moving. He looked down to see it was a golden colored metal whip with a flower on the end.
"You got him Rose" Shinji said as he approached with his sword drawn.
"Captain Hirako, so are you going to take me on now?" Hikari asked as he fazed through Rose's weapon's grip and swung his scythe at Hikari, only to have it blocked by Shinji's sword. The weight of the Attack was causing Shinji to slide across the ground.
"Damn it!" he said as he held his hand up to his face and started forming his mask. His mask fully formed and his spiritual pressure shot through the roof. He looked at Hikari with a smile on his face under his mask. "Collapse, Sakanade" he said in his hollowfied voice as Hikari began to feel strange as pink mist came from around Shinji.
"Not going to happen, I know the power of your shikai and I won't let you trap me in your mirror world" Hikari said as he formed his mask over his face and grabbed Shinji's sword, taking it from his hands before he could fully activate his Shikai. The others were shocked as Hikari broke the blade in two with his hand, although cutting himself in the process.
"Shinji" Ichigo said as he stood to his feet. "This is my fight, stay out of it!" he yelled as he held his hand over his face. 'I haven't done this since I got my powers back, I hope it works' he thought to himself as Hikari swatted Shinji across the face, sending him flying at Love and Rose who caught him as his mask shattered.
"Come at me boy" Hikari said as black spirit energy began to envelope Ichigo's head. He pulled his hand away and revelaed his mask with the two signature black stripes down the face. Ichigo opened his eyes and looked to see something strange about Hikari, now that he had his mask on, he saw chains attached to his neck and limbs which seemed to be controlling him.
"What the hell?" he said as Hikari charged at him with his weapon ready to strike and his mask over his face.
"Don't lose focus!" he screamed as he swung his scythe, only to have Ichigo stop it with his sword.
On the sidelines, the other Captains stood in amazement as the two of them fought at full strength only to have Kurotsuchi break the silence. "Very interesting" he said rubbing his chin.
"Have you found something out?" Toshiro asked.
"Yes I do believe so, I think I figured out the weakness of his Bankai" the stripe faced man smiled. "I've noticed when he fazes through things, he can't attack and also that only physical attacks won't work on him, but maybe if we used an energy based attack, we could hit him" he suggested.
"But wouldn't he just absorb it like he does with other energy attacks?"
"Not if we used the same principle he used to break the gate open" Kurotsuchi smiled.
"Ands that would be?" Ukitake asked.
"Overload it, if enough spirit energy is poured into the attack, he won't be able to absorb it all"
"That's….brilliant actually" Ukitake said surprised.
"Well would you expect any less from me?" he chuckled as he held his hands to his mouth. "Oh Ichigo Kurosaki, I believe the only way for you to hurt him is to use energy based attacks to overload his weapons absorption capabilities" he said as Hikari jumped back from Ichigo.
'Damn, he figured it out' Hikari thought as Ichigo took his sword in both hands and raised it over his head.
"Getsuga…" Ichigo began as black spirit energy formed around his sword "TENSHOU!" he screamed under his mask as the black energy attack flew at Hikari who held his scythe out to try to absorb it.
"Consume!" he said causing his weapon to open the mouth on the skull on the head of the scythe which started to suck up the attack. The process was cut short when the skull was overwhelmed and it shut it's mouth and the blast made contact with Hikari, causing a large explosion that was blinding to all those who were standing around. Captain Unohana put up a barrier around her, Soi-Fon, and Kenpachi whom she was in the process of healing.
"Did he do it?" Toshiro asked as he saw something fall from the cloud of smoke to the ground below with a loud thud.
"That actually hurt" Hikari said as he struggled to get up to his feet with blood running down his face. "A kid like you being able to possess that much power is amazing, but that doesn't mean you will win" he said as Ichigo landed across from him with his mask still on, looking to see that he broke two of the chains.
"Do you guys see them?" he asked Shinji and Rose.
"See what?" Rose said confused.
"Those chains connected to Hikari, I noticed them when I put on my mask, I broke two of them though" he said as Rose and Shinji put on their masks. They both looked closely to see faint chains attached to Hikari.
"He is being controlled, but how? Aizen doesn't have his sword anymore and this is a bit different" Shinji said thinking as Hikari propped himself up on his scythe as his mask fell off. "It must be some form of Kido that lay dormant until he released his Bankai."
"Quite possible" Kurotsuchi added as Hikari reformed his mask. "Try breaking the others and see what happens, but if you kill him I will get a nice research specimen" he smiled.
"Let's go again Kurosaki boy" Hikari smiled under his mask as he opened his mouth on his mask and charged up a large black cero that was bigger than the one he used to breach the gate. "Cero Del Diablo!" he said as he shot the large blast at Ichigo, which he flash stepped in time to dodge only to have it destroy all the buildings with a large explosion that destroyed several spirit miles of land.
"Such raw power…" Ukitake said trembling as Hikari closed his mouth and popped his neck.
"You were lucky to dodge than Ichigo Kurosaki, I used that attack in Hueco Mundo and took out several hundred hollows at once, all of them either Gillian or Adhucha in class" he said as all the captains looked at him in shock. "The total number of hollows I killed in one day there was 2398" he laughed.
"This guy is monster…" Shunsui said as someone approached all of them from behind. They all turned to see Head Captain Yamamoto and his Lieutenant approaching.
"Why are all of you just standing around?" the old man asked. "I guess I will have to handle this myself!" he said as his staff turned into his Zanpakuto.
"Head Captain Yamamoto, I finally drew you out" Hikari said as the chains attached to him became visible to everyone as they began to glow bright blue.