Orihime did as she was told and rushed to the side of the fallen Avenger, knelling to his right she uttered the words "Sōten Kisshun, I reject" from her hairpins to lights emerged and flew to the bloodied stump, forming a barrier over it hey began the healing process, slowly more and more pieces of skin began to grow and rebuild the missing arm. Thor couldn't believe his eyes to see, what he assumed to be a human displaying such powerful healing techniques and in less then a minute his arm was back, he tried opening and closing his hand, flexing his arm just to truly convince himself it was there.
"Is this your idea of a joke? Do you just go around injuring people just to heal them after?" Stark roared out, startling Inoue
The Espada didn't reply, his gaze was to busy looking over the results of the healing process definitely it was useful, still the hammer had managed to catch his attention to be able to save the Asgardian from his Bala was more then an excuse to continue gathering information.
"That's enough Stark, I'm fine." Thor replied placing his newly grown hand on the armor's left shoulder
"Really? And now what we keep fighting him? He just blew your arm off and that was with Mjolnir protecting you, what do you think will happen if he hits you head on?" Stark argued, now completely serious in tone not showing any anger or sarcasm
"We just need an opening, with that I can try to use Mjolnir's powers succesfully on him." Thor explained
"Try?" Stark asked in disbelief
"Right now it's the best I can do." the Asgardian replied jokingly
"Can you power me up like last time?" Tony asked with a sigh
Stretching out his right arm Thor called for his trusty weapon, which soon came back to him, with one powerful motion he lifted it up calling forth lighting several bolts hit mjolnir, which were then redirected to the Iron Man suit. Ulquiorra's all seeing eyes didn't miss one step of this process, he could already calculate that the Asgardian was powering up his comrade, his attention then fell on Orihime who stood right next to him, then back on the armored warrior's glowing chest.
"Take cover." he said to her
"Let's see you dodge this!" Stark cried out in a deficient tone, firing a blast from his chest repulsor
Ulquiorra seemed rather unfazed with the incoming threat his free hand lifted up and took the full force of the blast, immediately he realized that he had somewhat trapped himself there which would give them a possible opening to attack. Thor using this distraction flew up to a position he could look down on his opponent and began to spin mjolnir at the same time attracting more lightning, resulting in a mass of revolving electricity gaining more and more momentum with each spin from the hammer. Finally he threw it, a magnificent display of accumulated bolts, the mass flew straight at it's target making a thunderous impact with the Espada and seemingly weakening him enough for Stark's blast to cause some damage of it's own.
"I would say that it worked!" Stark yelled up
"I don't think so." Thor replied in a grave tone
Stark's systems detected a sudden change in the atmosphere, the air was getting thicker in the same spot Ulquiorra once was and now only a cloud of smoke resided, this unnatural change forced the smoke to go down as if some force was making it do so. Above him Thor could feel the increasing reiatsu, it made him sweat just by it's increased pressure, but he couldn't get distracted now they had made one successful attack surely it had cause some effect.
"A good use of your numbers, it definitely is a deadly technique, yet it lacked in power...power that you can still generate." the Arrancar began, in his usual calm tone, ending his statement by joining Thor in the sky
"Is that your idea of a complement? I can see that it had some effect." Thor replied, pointing out that scorch marks in his enemy's clothing
Ulquiorra didn't reply, opting to stare the Asgardian down and wait for him to reply to his accusation.
"Even if I can do more then this, what good would it do?"
"It would do no good." Ulquiorra replied
"Still there's a chance, I believe that's why you're giving me this opportunity." the Asgardian said in a calm tone, while Stark ascended in their direction
"I'm glad to see that you guys are talking. Does that mean we are friends now?" he asked jokingly
"He's giving us another opportunity to attack him."
"How generous."
Back at the Tower, Grimmjow's Cero missed it's target yet it had the desired outcome, before the Espada stood the Hulk, looking over at the fallen Black Widow the creature showed a more sentimental sight, but his instincts all pointed to his attacker.
"Now the real fun begins." the Espada hissed pulling out his zanpakuto
The Hulk was the first one to charge, followed by the Espada, giant step after giant step he got closer till finally he was within range and threw a devastating punch which made contact with the floor, the green giant let out a confused grunt in reply and then one of pain tracing he source of the pain he saw a small scratch on his right side.
Grimmjow had taken advantage of his speed to land a clean hit on the behemoth, or at least he thought it was clean looking back he was surprised to see only a simple scratch not even blood was visible, this creature didn't have any reiatsu to match such resistance so he concluded all his abilities came from raw physical power, even so it was rather simple he just had to swing a little harder.
Once again their ran at each other, this time the Espada decided to just go head on, he stopped right in front of the Hulk and brought his sword in an upwards swing straight to the throat, his eyes widened when his blade meet the brute's left hand and stopped. Hulk grabbed on to the arm with his right hand, letting go of the blade, he pulled his opponent towards him and brought his head forward resulting in a devastating headbutt, the Espada seemed to go limp for an instant so the green giant threw him into a wall for good mesure.
Grimmjow's body collapsed soon after on the floot, with a loud growl he got back on his feet and turned to face his prey he could feel the blood pumping through his veins, he jumped to the ceiling right above the Hulk and then pounced on him, sliding his sword under the brute's neck to place him in a sort of a sleeper hold. The Hulk roared and trashed in anger in an attempt to throw this pest off of him, but the Espada just laughed bringing his clenched fist down on his face further angering the giant into sending himself crushing backwards into the ground. The Arrancar had already predicted such strategy and released his hold in time so that the behemoth crashed into the ground on his own.
"Come on use your head!" the Espada roared
The green Goliath stumbled back on his knees, eyeing down the confident Espada, he raised his arms with a loud cry apparently out of frustration but when they were completely vertical he gave a small smile to the Espada, and brought them down on the already weakened floor. The structure didn't resist such punishment collapsing all around him and his opponent, both men dropped down into the pit just to stare each other down, Grimmjow slowly ascended back to the floor they were originally and took aim with his left hand.
"Cero." another blue blast erupted from his palm into the cornered Hulk
The green giant new what this could cause to himself so in a final attempt he ran to the nearby window and jumped out saving himself from the resulting blast which heavily damaged the floor he was in, growling in relief he dug his hands into the walls of the building to stop his fall still with the speed he was going down, his stop was only possible midway through the building.
"Tough son of a bitch." the Sixth Espada spat
Walking back to the landing pad, Grimmjow looked at the sky it was darkening and the wind was also starting to pick up, observing the direction where they had landed he saw that it was darker their, he wondered if those two were still trying to beat Ulquiorra like the idiots they were. Staring down he saw the Hulk jumping his way up the building he started thinking of how he should throw him back down.
Grimmjow's thoughts were abruptly interrupted, the Goliath could was more agile then he had originally calculated, it was already above him after one significant leap, the Arrancar could only use his arms to protect himself when both of the green giants fists came raining down on him and the landing pad. Not being prepared for the situation Grimmjow ended up being nailed down into the landing pad and ultimately sent him into the streets bellow, the impact did not only cause this the structure also began to waver under the pressure being applied on it.
The Hulk walked a few feet away, much like what he had done with Loki, he assumed that a brutal beating like that would be enough to stop him for the time being, stumbling back inside he took in the destruction caused by their battle, his worries fell on his comrades next seeing their bodies scattered around his battle field.
"Where are you going!? Things are just now getting good." came a voice from behind him
The green brute released a roar as he turned backwards to see the Sixth Espada hovering a few feet from the landing pad, Grimmjow used his Sonido to close their distancie in a single instance, the giants right hand fell on him but once more there was nothing there and a sharp pain filled the Hulk's back. He staggered forwards, with his hands on his back, blood now flowing from a large cut on his back, the laughs of the Espada filled his ears swelling up his anger like a rabid beast he turned around punching him in the chest propelling Grimmjow into the crater below.
Again they lunged at each other, in the Espadas left hand a Bala was ready to be fired, Hulk's left fist was also clenched in his blind rage both made contact mid flight for a while they struggled, in the end it was the anger of the brute that overpowered his opponent, for a moment the Arrancar couldn't believe what had just happened yet he needed to redirect his attention to his opponent. The brutes right hand wrapped around his face and rammed him into the floor and began to crush it, the Espada could only struggle in his grip.
Ulquiorra limited himself to standing in the middle of the clearing and swat away several attempts at an attack made by Stark all this while he waited to see what the Asgardian could come up with, seeing that this was the last opportunity he was giving him he decided to wait and see. Right now around the clearing five massive tornados stood within them was lighting making them all the more deadly, the sky was a a dark grey and in the middle of it was Thor swinging Mjolnir with all strength he could call for rain and lighting swirled around him.
Stark had almost exhausted his ammunition and still his target just stood there dodging his every attack like they were jokes, then something came to him that if this attack was to be in any way useful their opponent needed to be distracted, he needed a way to create an opening looking up he shouted.
"Are you ready!?"
"Just waiting for your signal!" Thor roared back, causing Ulquiorra's gaze to go straight to him
"Did you forget you're still fighting me?" Stark spat at the Espada, receiving no reply
"I know that I can't touch you...but what about the girl?" Tony asked in a more menacing tone
Ulquiorra shifted slightly but didn't move in the face of this threat, either way Stark redirected his power to his propulsion system and rocketed in the direction of Orihime, finally gaining the attention of the Espada. Thor observed the strategy, he may not agree with it but he understood that it was the only way to possibly distract their enemy, with one upwards motion of his hammer the Asgardian called the five tornados to him and then he brought the mass of air and lightning down on the foe, surprisingly he felt some resistance that soon faded away drilling the attack and it's victim into the Earth.
The weather finally began to return to normal, looking down and exhausted Thor only saw dirt and dislodged trees, letting his strength leave him he collapsed into the ground below luckily Stark was there to to grab on to his right arm stopping his fall.
"Have you tiered yourself out already?" Stark asked sarcastically
"I'm just taking a break." Thor replied softly
"Slacker."
Stark landed near a tree sitting Thor against it soon taking a seat next to him, Inoue emerged from the trees taking a few steps towards the aftermath of the attack she stood there with an expression that seemed to be the mix of a worry and disbelief, it wasn't like she was worried but part of her didn't imagine to see this situation happening.
"How do you think they are doing back at the Tower?" Stark asked
"I was wondering if you had already pondered the property damage." Thor replied with a laugh
"Don't even remind me. I think that after this the next time we get attacked I believe we should move our headquarters somewhere else." Tony argued, while Thor laughed at the matter
"Girl can you help me?" the Asgardian cried out
"Yes..." Inoue replied
Turning in the direction of the Avengers a pilar of dirt erupted in front of her stopping her progress, Orihime turned away from the pilar startled to see the ground break away and open as Ulquiorra emerged before her.
"You seemed worried." were the first words out of his mouth
She didn't know how to reply, only shock bathed her face knowing that he was ready to finish them off, the Espada walked pass her and towards them only stopping when Inoue spoke.
"Should I help him?"
"There is no need. This situation is about to end." he replied
Grimmjow seemed to be regretting having landed that blow on the green titan's back, since then he had been badly beaten and thrown down the Tower taking a piece of the landing pad with him into the streets of New York, the Hulk let out one final roar, his wound had already closed up and with it the blinding rage that had enabled him to match his opponent and ultimately overwhelm him. By now Hawkeye and Widow had gotten back to their feet and dragged War Machine out of the battlefield, Romanoff eyed the green brute as he reentered the Tower and slowly walked their way with a much more calm intention on his face.
The peace of course didn't last long, her eyes widened seeing the blue haired figure emerged from the streets below, the Hulk had also sensed the return of his opponent, nothing seemed to have changed still a large grin filled his face.
"I wasn't expecting someone to get through my Hierro..." he growled, letting out a bit of blood as he spoke
"...I think that you've at least earned this much." he finished placing his sword below his left arm and his left hand on the blade
As much as it pained him to have to transform to fight the brute, he knew that Ulquiorra would sense him but him knowing was not that bad if it was anyone else he would never hear the end of it, locking eyes with the green titan the blue flame engulfed the blade and with one fluent motion he raked his hand along the length of the blade and uttered the words:
"Grind, Pantera."