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Legend:

"Someone is talking."

'Someone is thinking.'

"A technique is being used.

Chapter 19:

(With Sidney)

At the moment, Sidney was floating inside a room he had found inside the hangar, directly in front of what he assumed to be 'the machine'. The 'machine' appeared to be a small two-by-two foot block of metal with numerous buttons and controls on the front of it and lines of green on the other sides. Perched on the top was a small disc with an antenna sticking out of it, aimed towards ceiling.

'Is that kooky dish thing the 'satellite dish' Tucker was talking about?' Sydney thought before he shook his head.

No, never mind it didn't matter right now. He could think about that later when they defeated Technus and had rescued Danny. To do that though, he needed to destroy the machine that was before him. 'Alright...' Sidney thought as he refocused on the machine and pulled out a single piece of paper from the remains of the prinny doll. 'There isn't that much... but it should due.'

Sidney then charged the single piece of paper with a good amount of his remaining energy. Sidney's ghostly Reiryoku quickly changed the properties of the paper, making it sharper then any blade. With the paper-blade in hand, Sidney faced the machine and raised his hand so that it was next to his left ear. There was a long moment of silence before Sidney swung his arm. The machine was cut in half before each half exploded in green fire.

"Now that that kooky thing is gone hopefully the guards will be freed." Sidney muttered before he placed the single sheet of paper into his pocket. He quickly passed the downed guards as their suits started to dissolve and the circuitry underneath their skin vanished. Not that Sidney noticed, so focused was he on his next task. "It's time to find Danny."

XXXXXX

(With Sam)

As soon as Sam had found that stupid machine in the room, hidden in a bin of mulched plants, Sam had taken her new sword to it. It was a great way to get some of her pent-up aggression out and strike a chink in Technus' plan. The Ghost would probably panic and start sweating as he lost control over his minions.

Served the jerk right.

After she had cut the machine into itty bitty, sparking bits, Sam turned on her heel and left. On the way out though, she picked up a few corn stalks in the unmulched plant bin. Hey, those things were useful, especially now with her new power. To think that her once useless ability of calling the ribbons would actually turn out to something useful. That, however, also brought up the question of what she was going to call it and her new armor.

No. There was no time to be thinking of names right now. She had to find and regroup with Tucker and Sidney and then go kick Technus' but. They would show him why kidnapping their friend, especially Danny, was a very bad idea. An extremely bad idea. 'Just hold on a little longer, Danny; we're coming.'

XXXXXX

(With Tucker)

Tucker slammed both of his armored fists down on the machine in front of him, making it buckle inwards. He raised his arms and linked his hands before repeating the procedure over and over again, creating a deep hole in the machine as pieces of it scattered into the air. The green glow of the circuitry died when Tucker hit it again, the machine now resembled a lopsided block of metal.

"I'll make you pay for making me destroy technology, Technus." Tucker muttered as he walked away from the broken machine. His eyes narrowed as he thought about all the advance technology that he was forced to break, "And then I'll hurt you even more for kidnapping Danny and using your mind-controlled minions to try and kill us."

XXXXXX

(With Technus)

"Oh, those brats think they are so clever..." Technus sneered as he watched the three brats travel down 'his' hallways on the monitor's screen. According to the schematics of the building all three of them would soon come to an intersection and meet up before coming for him. "Thinking that I would be so easily defeated! Hah!"

While they may have defeated his guards, destroyed his machines, and freed the Humans under his control, they had yet to face him. He would let them come to his lab and crush them as they tried to save their friend. It would be easy for a Ghost of his caliber to do so, especially when those brats had been weakened by his former guards.

"It goes to show you... if you want something destroyed right, then you have to destroy it yourself."

With that rather ominous saying, Technus turned away from the monitors and floated away. He would need to prepare himself for the arrival of the three brats as a true Master of all Science and Technology would. By making battle plans and maybe visualizing what he would say; perhaps he would rub it in their faces when their friend died.

XXXXXX

Right now, Sam could be found running down a hallway, making sure to not step on the unconscious bodies on the floor. 'I wonder how Sidney and Tucker are doing...?' She thought as she turned around another corner. 'They should be okay, considering that Sidney is a good paper-manipulator and Tucker has gotten good with his Muay Thai.'

Sam stopped near the end of the four hallway junction at the end of the hallway. There were three other hallways that she could take but she had no way of knowing which one was the correct one. All of a sudden Sam paused as she thought she heard something coming from one of the hallways. Sam then pressed herself against the wall, just in case what ever was coming wasn't friendly. With a minor application of her dwindling spiritual energy, her new sword buzzed to life, though quietly enough that person approaching her location wouldn't notice.

After she had hacked that machine apart, she had noticed that all of the guards in the hallways had collapsed, and looking like their regular selves again. It was cool, as she didn't have to deal with them, so it seemed that Tucker's plan, loath as she was to admit it, was working. But that begged the question of who, exactly, was coming towards her. Could it be another squad of those 'Super Guards' she had dealt with back in the room? It wasn't that likely, as she had seen the 'Super Guards' she had dealt become free like the other guards that were scattered about the hallways. Maybe it was a Ghost? She knew that Technus' goons had picked up that clownish Ghost—Peten—so who was to say Technus didn't have more Ghosts?

Either way, time had run out. Sam launched forwards from her hiding space as a dark figure rushed past, sending her sword in an arc towards its head. The figure seemed to sense her and ducked before it used one armored arm to block her sword, sending sparks flying from the weapons as the resulting 'clang' died out. Sam's eyes widened at the same time as the figure's did.

"Sam?"

"Tucker?"

Sam withdrew her sword, the electricity that ran up and down the blade dying down, and then stepped away at the same time as Tucker did. There was a short, awkward, silence between them as both of them tried to figure out what to say. Sam, however, felt the most guilty as she had almost cut off Tucker's head.

"So..." Tucker began as he glanced at the silver-gold armor over Sam's guard clothes. "I see that you unlocked a power too."

Sam gave a faint nod, "Danny both said that we had the same teal flames and we have the same colored ribbons, so I thought I could do the same thing as you did." She gestured to the armor. "As you can see, it worked."

"Yeah." Tucker agreed as he looked at Sam's new armor.

"So what are you cats talking about?"

At the sound, both Sam and Tucker jumped in surprise. They then whirled around—Sam's sword sparking to life as she began to channel energy through it again while Tucker brought up Data Crusher defensively—only to see Sidney floating there. At first they almost didn't recognize him, as he was out of the prinny suit and was in-color, but they did eventually. That was good as Sam didn't want to almost-kill another friend again.

"Whoa! Don't get too hasty, cats!" Sidney said, holding his palms up. "I'm not an enemy!"

Tucker gaped as Sam's sword died down, "Dude... what happened to you? You're in color!"

"And not in my prinny anymore." Sam added as she lowered her sword towards the ground. A second later, her eyes narrowed as a stray thought suddenly hit her. "Wait. If you're out of my prinny, then where is my prinny?"

Sidney grew paler at Sam's question about the prinny. He knew that Sam would be really upset when he told her what had happened to it, as he had promised to take care of it. She would be angrier, though, if he waited to tell her about it or lied to her.

"Well..." Sidney said as he slowly withdrew the ruined prinny plushy, "I got to the place Tucker told me to go to and I faced off against these kooky guys with guns... It went back and forth a little until one of those cats threw something at me and everything exploded..." Sam hadn't taken her eyes off the plushy. "I managed to go intangible before the blast hit me and saved most of the prinny..."

Sam clenched her fists, closed her eyes, and breathed out through her nose. In her right hand, her sword sparked dangerously, making Tucker and Sidney afraid that she would use it, only for it to die down after a couple moments. Then, after releasing a deep breath, she locked eyes with Sidney. "We don't have time for me to start yelling at you, but I will yell at you as soon as we've rescued Danny."

"A-Alright." Sidney nodded fearfully.

"Good." Sam nodded before she turned on her heel, "C'mon, then. We have some techy Ghost but to kick back to the Stone Age."

Nodding as one, the three friends began running—or flying, in Sidney's case—down the hallway to the left. Sam, now grasping Danny's black ribbon in her left hand, led the way. They had dealt with the machines and Technus' goons, so it was now time to kick Technus' butt and save Danny.

XXXXXX

(A few minutes later—Axion Labs)

"They're not that far from us now, guys." Sam stated as she, Tucker, and Sidney ran, or flew, down a hallway, black ribbon in hand. "The place they're in should be around the corner..."

Tucker and Sidney nodded at Sam's statement, "Right."

As one, the group turned around the next corner and towards a heavy metal door at the end of the small corridor. Once they were in front of the door Sam dropped Danny's ribbon and then re-gripped her sword before she swung the electricity-infused blade at the door that was separating her from Danny. Her sword cut through it like a hot knife through butter, slashing it into identical halves that two fists of paper then knocked inwards.

Before the flying door halves could go far, they collided with a wall of green Reiryoku that protected the center of the lab. The halves then fell to the ground, earning a loud 'boom' as they thudded onto the ground. Once the commotion from the doors settled down, Sam, Sidney, and Tucker ran into the room and got their first glimpse of Technus.

Technus was a green-skinned Ghost with a large forehead, a shock of gravity-defying white hair, and black sunglasses. He was wearing a white shirt, a black tie, green gloves, and a long gray trench-coat that flared at the ends. And, unlike Sidney, he didn't have any legs.

"So you finally have arrived here children?" Technus asked with a sneer.

Sam could feel her temper flare to new heights at what she saw in the lab. Sam's temper didn't flare at Technus' words but at the sight of Danny. Her friend was ensnared within some sort of pod by hundreds of small wires. Danny looked even paler then before, his skin now resembled the same shade as bones. The cables attached to the side of the pod were fluctuating with the color of Danny's spiritual energy, which was being sent into one of the two containers on either side of the pod.

It was quite easy for her to figure just what was going on. "You're using Danny as a battery?!"

"I didn't think it would be quite so obvious to one such as you but, yes, yes I am." Technus responded as if he was talking about the weather. "So, would you three be so kind as to leave? Le Piratage Vert (Green Piracy)."

Before Sam, Sidney, or Tucker could react the computer to in the room started to come alive. Wires burst from the backs of the computer screens, twisting and contorting to form arms and legs. The computers then tore themselves from the walls and leapt at the stunned teens. Sidney unleashed a small wave of paper at the computers, sending them hurtling back towards Technus. "Go! I'll distract this cat!"

"You think I'm stupid—?!" Technus roared as he phased through the computers, only for Sidney's Poing Juge to hit him squarely in the mouth. Small droplets of liquid ectoplasm flew from his mouth as Technus soared backwards, spider-webbing the wall in which he crashed into. Once Technus pulled himself from the wall, the rage in his eyes intensified. "You little brat!"

Before Technus could unleash his fury upon Sidney, he noticed that Sam and Tucker were almost at Danny's pod. Not wanting them to free their friend, Technus raised a glowing hand towards the ceiling above the two teenagers. Sam and Tucker were only ten feet away from the pod when the ceiling burst open and hundreds of metallic wires shot down in an attempt to ensnare them. Surprised at the sudden attack, the first few wires managed to grab them, but didn't last long as the two Humans began their counterattack. Sam used her sword to cut the wires while Tucker ripped them off himself with his uninjured arm.

Sam and Tucker were only ten feet away from the pod when the ceiling burst open and hundreds of metallic wires shot down in an attempt to ensnare them. Surprised at the sudden attack, the first few wires did managed to grab them, but didn't last long as the two Humans began their counterattack. Sam used her sword to cut the wires while Tucker ripped them off himself with his uninjured arm.

By the time that Tucker and Sam had managed to escape from the wires, Technus had recovered. He phased through Sidney's Poing Juge before becoming tangible again and throwing a couple of computer chips towards Sam and Tucker. The computer chips hit the ground in front of the two Humans and exploded into hundreds more. The chips then swarmed around Sam and Tucker, unnatural cutting edges gleaming in the light.

Seeing that the Humans were distracted, Technus turned and ducked the left fist of Sidney's Poing Juge. Angry now, he aimed an ectoblast at Sidney and fired. Sidney was blasted back by the attack that managed to burn a hole through his hastily mad e shield.

This time, he was the one to crash into the wall and cough up liquid ectoplasm, while Technus gloated. "How do you like that, little Ghost? I have mastered all the basic powers that being a Ghost grants and my Compétence des sciences is unbeatable! You should just—"

Technus' 'vortex' of computer chips was suddenly blown apart from the inside with a crackle of electricity. Sam, holding her still crackling blade, and Tucker, holding up Data Crusher defensively, looked a little worse for wear, with all the small scratches and lacerations. They, however, only appeared more angry and determined because of it.

"Stop making me hurt technology!" Tucker roared as he launched himself up at Technus, preparing to deliver a fierce elbow jab in the Ghost's face. It was what Technus deserved, for making him hurt technology and for hurting his friends.

Technus frowned, "Fool." He then went intangible and simply allowed Tucker to pass through his body. Once Tucker was all the way through, he sneered. "You think that such an obvious attack would work? You must be stupider than I thought you were."

"Papier Typhoon (Paper Typhoon)!"

'This is the technique that he used to finally defeat my guards...' Technus thought as he was consumed within a vortex of white paper. 'Judging by the number of pieces of paper present, he must be getting tired... he must realize that as well and is getting desperate.'

While Technus gathered his Reiryoku, Sam was running towards the pod. She reached it just as Technus released an enormous 'pulse' of Reiryoku that blew away Sidney's technique and knocked her off her feet. Sam grit her teeth and got up, preparing to swing her sword at the pod and destroy it.

"NO!"

Right before Sam would've sliced into the pod, she was blasted back by an overpowered ectoblast from Techus. Her sword was ripped from her hand and then sent flying, high into the air. Tucker and Sidney cried out in alarm as Sam was then sent hurtling backwards, blood flying from her opened mouth. An instant later, Tucker rushed towards Technus while Sidney released a literal wave of paper towards the other Ghost.

No one noticed that Sam's sword, knocked out of her hand by the ectoblast, stopped climbing into the air. Nor did they notice it as it began to fall gravity pulled the foolish, airborne sword back down to earth.

"I have had enough!" Technus roared as he pulsed his Reiryoku once more, dispersing Sidney's paper. He then swat Tucker away with his hand like his was an insignificant gnat. "I will not allow you cretins to interfere any longer! Le piratage—"

For the third time, Technus was interrupted. This time, however, it was not due to an attack. It was due to the sight of Sam's sword piercing through Danny's pod, only a couple inches away from Danny's forehead. The remaining electricity coursed through the metal, shocking Danny as well as causing the wires holding him down to grow limp.

It was only a couple seconds later before the worse thing, to Technus, happened. The damaged pod caused an electrical discharge that, fueled by Danny's Reiryoku, practically soared into the two containers on the side of it. There was a moment as the two unseen Hollows howled as the electricity before they began to thrash within it. They broke free without a second to spare and, wounded and angry and scared, they vanished within two flashes of black light.

Technus screamed incoherently.

Sam and Tucker tried to get up, but Technus was faster. He sent two overpowered ectoblasts that hit them both in the chests and knocked them backwards, blood squirting out from their opened mouths. He then unleashed his Reiryoku, bringing the two Humans down where even more blood escaped their mouths. Sidney was caught up within the wave as well, which forced him to the floor and locked him in place.

Throughout all of this, Technus was screaming with anger. How dare—how dare these moronic cretins ruin his plans?! How dare they stop him from getting his family back! How would he find his family now? How could he save his family now?! He would make them all pay for this!

"I'll kill you for this! I'll kill you all!" Technus screamed as he pulsed his Reiryoku again, causing Sam and Tucker to begin choking. "I'll kill you!"

Danny's eyes snapped open. Technus, however, didn't notice this, as he was more focused on preparing an ectoblast that would kill one of the brats. Sure, he could've simply increased the pressure his Reiatsu was bringing down on them and kill them that way but wanted them to suffer. Make them realize the enormity of their mistake and beg for mercy before killing them as painfully as—

The sound of a fist colliding against something rang throughout the room. In an instant, Technus lost focus and, subsequently, lost enough control over his Reiatsu for it to dissipate. This allowed the three formerly paralyzed and choking beings to take deep, relief-filled breaths. They then looked upwards to see that their savior was a ruffled-looking Danny who was engaging Technus in a fist fight.

"No one is going to hurt my friends as long as I am around." Danny said as he ducked underneath a punch from Technus and then leapt a couple feet backward. His eyes narrowed, "Especially a guy like you." His right hand moved to remove his Zanpakutō from his sash, which Technus noticed.

"You intend to duel me with a sword, Arrancar? How utterly foolish of you."

Danny didn't say anything for a moment. Instead, he moved his Zanpakutō so that it was over his chest before he grabbed the remaining, exposed hilt with his other hand. 'I hope this works, Leviatán.' He thought before taking a deep breath. "I don't intend to."

"It will work, Danny. Trust me."

While he wanted to mention that he didn't trust Leviatán completely, Danny refrained. Leviatán had been honest with him so far, telling him that it was his own fears that had caused his nightmares. It had been hard to accept that, as well as associate the subject of his nightmares with somebody that actually wanted to help, but he had no other choice. He knew that he probably couldn't beat Technus on his own right now, not with how exhausted he was, so he had to trust Leviatán.

"What are you doing?" Technus demanded.

Danny took another breath and then, finally spoke in a low, whispery voice, "Que Nadie Os Juzgue... Leviatán (Let no one be you judge... Leviathan)."

'A release command?!' Technus thought in panic. No, it wasn't possible! The Arrancar was suppose to not have even the most basic knowledge of what he could do; he shouldn't know how to release! But from the feeling Danny's build-up of energy that said, yes, the Arrancar was seconds from releasing. He needed to stop Danny soon, or else he might lose.

"... Danny?" Sam muttered as she stared at her friend's form.

Without warning, Technus unleashed two powerful ectoblasts from his hands and towards the Arrancar. All he had to do to prevent the Arrancar from releasing his sword was to knock him out. There was no other choice right now. He knew that if Danny released his suppressed power then the young Arrancar could become more powerful than him.

There was a reason that Ghosts feared Hollows and Arrancar, if they knew they existed, after all.

Danny's Zanpakutō glowed a pale, ice blue for a few short moments before the area around himself was consumed by an explosion of pure power. Technus' ectoblasts proved to be ineffective against Danny's surge of power and were merely absorbed into the explosion. Technus was too late to stop Danny from releasing his zanpaktou. A few seconds later, everyone in the room felt an immense pressure fall onto their backs. For Sam, Sidney, and Tucker the energy felt cool, yet comforting like the ebbing flow of a river.

"What... What is this?" Sam said with no small amount of wonder in her voice. It felt like Danny's energy was gently flowing around her. It felt cool and secure. Most importantly, though, it reminded her of Danny.

Sidney shoved out some of his own Reiryoku out in an attempt to lessen the effect of Danny's Reiatsu. "It's spiritual pressure!" And a lot of it, too. It brought Sidney back to when he had gotten into the Human World before and that Arrancar had attacked him. His eyes widened. "Danny's releasing!"

"What does that mean?!"

"I told you about that other Arrancar I fought, right? Well, he did something similar to what Danny is doing now; he released and assumed a different form!" Sidney answered as best as he could. "I don't know the specifics of it, but when that guy released, he gained a lot of power!"

What, thought Tucker and Sam. Both were aware that their friend was more powerful than them. Hurting him during their training sessions in the junkyard had been difficult because of Danny's steel-like skin, the speed he could achieve, and the fact that he could literally walk on air. Not to mention the fact that he had a sonar-like technique to find out where they were and three really destructive techniques: Cero, Cero en Espiral, and Cero Lanzas.

But, if what Sidney sad was true, then 'releasing' would give Danny a lot more power. This made them wonder how powerful Danny could become and getting 'front-row' seats to finding out. And not being able to move because of the pressure on them, it was all they could do.

Technus, struggling against Danny's Reiatsu, managed to get back into the air and was floating again. "You shouldn't be able to do this!" He shouted towards at Danny, absently noting that the explosion was beginning to die down. "You didn't have access to your release before, so how could you have gotten it now?!"

The only answer to Technus's question was but another pulse of Reiryoku that forced the Ghost to his non-existent knees. A second later, the Reiryoku that had been burning with such intensity dissipated. The bright light of Danny's Reiryoku was then cut off, allowing everyone in the room to turn their heads to see Danny standing in mid-air amongst the rapidly disappearing smoke.

Gone was Danny's traditional white Arrancar outfit, replaced by a completely different set of clothes. He now seemed to be wearing a black leather jacket that had bone-like spikes running down the sleeves with long coat-tails that ended at the back of his legs. On the back of Danny's coat, a pair of flapping bat wings were sewed into the coat; the wings seemed so life like that the wings looked as if they could start moving at any moment. To finish off his new look, Danny had numerous smoke-colored bandages winding around his chest and arms.

The changes to Danny were not limited to his clothes, though. His ever-present choker had merged with Danny's skin and had expanded to cover his entire neck and the bottom of his jaws with black scales. His pupils had remained a brilliant green color but they were now slitted, like a cat's or a reptiles. He also had black scales running up and down his legs, resembling formfitting black pants. And sticking out from his exposed toes on his sandles were razor-sharp talons.

Danny raised his right hand, which was now sporting a set of wicked looking claws, and brought it to his face, as if to examine it. He smiled at what he saw, showing off his slightly pointed teeth, before he turned he turned his attention back to Technus. "You know what Technus... I should thank you."

Here, everyone looked confused as to what Danny could mean but, before they could question him about it, Danny started talking again. "If you hadn't stuck me in that machine, I would've continued to deny what I am. I would never have met Leviatán and unlocked my Resurrección..."

"It doesn't matter if you've unlocked your release, Arrancar." Technus spat as he floated back to a pile of scrap metal. "You still don't know how to use it!" The former arrogance slowly began to return to him as he realized that even if Danny had released, he didn't know how to use his new abilities. "And without any experience, you won't last long against me, Technus, Lord and Master of all Science and Technology!"

"Wow, you sure think highly of yourself." Danny deadpanned as he stared into Technus' eyes. He then dropped to the floor, just as a barrage of computer chips flew through where his head had been. Danny then made use of his Chōkasoku to dodge to the left, only to grow surprised when he vanished and then reappeared exactly where he had wanted to go. There was an accompanying 'buzz' of sound as he exited his speed technique which only further confused him, as Chōkasoku didn't come with or make sounds.

Danny didn't have much time to ponder this new development as Technus' chips zoomed towards him again. Again he tried using Chōkasoku, only to reappear where he had intended to go with another buzz. 'Now I'm getting annoyed. What's going on here?'

Technus snarled at how easily the Arrancar was dodging his attacks, "I don't think highly of myself! I really am the Master of Technology! Let me prove it to you, Arrancar! La croissance des Gadgets (Growth of Gadgets)!"

While in mid-flight towards Danny, Technus' chips suddenly glowed an eerie green color before they suddenly exploded into the size of miniature refrigerators. Danny's eyes widened at the sudden transformation before he 'buzzed' to the right, avoiding a chip that impaled the ground he had been standing on moments ago. Technus really was trying to kill him, it seemed.

Not that he didn't already know that, but it was nice to have it confirmed.

"I already know how twisted you are!" Danny replied as buzzed to another location, bringing forth his right hand as ice-blue energy starting gathering in it. "So... thanks but no thanks! Cero!"

What ripped its way out of Danny's hand was the same color as Danny's ordinary Cero, but much larger. In fact, it could appear as if this Cero was made out of three of Danny's ordinary Ceros, which surprised everyone present. The most surprised, though, was Technus as he watched the Cero vaporize his computer chips and then rocket towards him.

Technus quickly created a layered green shield with various circuit-like markings on them in front of himself. At the same time, he also levitated several bits of technology around him and enlarged them for additional protection. It was a couple seconds later when Danny's Cero collided with Technus' hastily made fortifications, causing a small explosion.

"That..." Technus' voice could be heard through the smoke, pained and tired. "... attack exceeded my predictions... on its strength."

It was obvious even before Technus floated out of the dissipating smoke that he was injured. It was not, however, that obvious as to how injured Technus was. Technus' hair and parts of his skin were singed, his glasses were broken, and his lab coat with blackened in numerous places. He also had thin trails of liquid ectoplasm leaking from wounds on his head, his right arm, and dripping to the floor from the bottom of his lab coat.

'He looks horrible.'

Technus' red eyes glared at Danny from beneath his ruined glasses, "But just because you are more powerful... It does not mean that you will be able to defeat me! I am Technus, Lord and Master of all Science and Technology, and I will not be beaten by the likes of you!" His gloves, burnt and peeling off his hands, gained a sinister green glow as he raised them to chest-level. "Numérique Armée (Digital Army)!"

Every bit of technology still within the room gained a green glow and groaned as they assumed golem-like forms in all shapes and sizes. Some of the golems stood at a towering seven feet while others stood at a mere three feet, all of them looking ahead with glazed, pale green eyes. Bits of technology too small to form into proper golems twisted into the shapes of lances, swords, and shields to match the sizes of the golems.

Off to the side, Tucker almost fainted as Data Crusher drained the last of his spiritual energy and morphed back into his PDA. The same thing happened to Sam except her armor transformed back into her locket, whole and undamaged once more. Sidney, having exhausted his own Reiryoku, sat with his back against a wall with a fatigued expression on his face.

Having watched Technus create this army, each of them were notably concerned and frightened on Danny's behalf. They had no idea how powerful those golems were, but, judging by Technus' expression, they would have to be pretty strong. He was sending these things in after Danny after seeing his released Cero, so he must've believed that his army could stand up to it. What was Danny going to do?

Danny himself was feeling a little apprehensive but felt Leviatán's presence come to the front of his mind and seem to place a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "You can defeat these things, Danny. Let me show you how..."

"Attack!" Technus roared.

In an instant, all of Tehnus' golems stood at attention before they launched themselves at Danny. At the same time, Danny followed Leviatán's instructions and began to gather his Reiryoku in his hand. He expelled it from his hand and formed a vaguely sword-like shell that his Reiryoku quickly filled in. So, by the time that the first golems got within five feet of him, Danny was holding a flickering, ice blue sword of pure Reiryoku.

"Let's show him our power, Danny." Leviatán whispered into Danny's ear.

Danny nodded once and gripped his 'sword' tighter before the horde was upon him. With a move so quick, Danny lashed out with his sword and cut down the five golems closest to him. Even as they began to fall apart, they started to regenerate as their comrades climbed or jumped over them. Danny buzzed out of the way and watched as the golem's tore into the spot he had been, with their weapons impaling the spot his stomach had been.

"Do you think it'll be that easy, Arrancar?" Technus sneered.

The sneer fell from Technus' face when the golems the Arrancar had cut down were suddenly engulfed in ice. The golems that had climbed over them had their feet or hands frozen, immobilizing them as the ice slowly began to spread onto them as well. How had the Arrancar done that?! He hadn't detected any pulse of Reiryoku to signify a technique! His eyes widened as he realized his error.

He had sensed a brief pulse when the Arrancar had first cut down those five golems.

"Natoescarcha (Frostborn)." Danny announced as he pointed his sword towards the ground. "It's a technique told me about." He buzzed to the right to golem's lance. "It allows me to send a shard of my Reiryoku into an enemy when I cut him or her. When I pulse my Reiryoku it causes that shard to start freezing the enemy from the inside out..."

It was a pretty cool technique, Danny had to admit. That didn't mean, though, that he didn't think it was a bit creepy. If the positions were reversed, he would probably be scared out of his skin. He would also try to run like hell or, if that wasn't an option, make sure that the enemy didn't get a single hit on him.

Danny ducked just in time to avoid the lance that was aimed at the back of his head. He, however, wasn't able to dodge as the golem holding the lance regripped it and sent the tip towards his back. There was the sound of metal screeching on metal as the lance tried to pierce Danny's skin. Still, after a couple of seconds, it became obvious to Danny that neither the lance nor the golem had the strength to cut through his skin.

Moments later, Danny brought up his sword and cut through the torso of the golem. Ice began to spread from the cut as Danny pulsed his Reiryoku and buzzed away as the golem attempted one last attack before it completely froze. He came to an area filled with golems, causing his eyes to widen, before he buzzed away. Even if their weapons didn't seem to be able to pierce his skin, he had no desire to test that theory.

"Get him!" Technus ordered, angry.

Danny buzzed into the middle of the group of golems that had attempted to stab them and, as they slowly reacted to him, placed the flat of his sword against three golems. Ice slowly began to spread from the point where his sword made contact. Once the ice had covered their arms, he disengaged and ducked underneath a sword and spun on his heel to cut the remaining golems around him.

'That is different than his 'Natoescarcha'.' Technus thought as he continued to observe. 'He explained Natoescarcha to be a technique where he cut into them with his sword and imparted some of his Reiryoku into them at the same time... This technique, however, seems to work based on contact: when he removed his sword, the ice stopped spreading.'

A sword emitted a keening sound as it slid across Danny's skin to no avail. Danny spun around and lashed out against the golem responsible, creating a thin streak of ice in the path of his sword. He then backed up ad kicked the golem in the chest, right where the ice was, and watched as the golem was reduced to into numerous broken pieces.

'I'm starting to get a little tired, Leviatán...' Danny thought as he buzzed over to a pocket of golems that were going towards Sam, Tucker, and Sidney. He defeated them with a quick Natoescarcha which, afterwards, made him really notice his growing exhaustion. His sword flickered in his hand for a moment and then stilled.

"You are not used to this sort of power yet and your body is still tired..." Leviatán responded with an unseen frown. "But... we have yet to reveal all of our tricks to Technus and his goons. Allow me to guide you and I will show you and teach you one last technique."

"He's weakening! Get him!"

Danny took a deep breath as he felt Leviatán lend him the strength that was necessary for his next attack to succeed. As the horde approached him, Danny dispersed his sword and began to manipulate his Reiryoku in a different manner, creating a single glowing orb in the palm of his hand.

"Cadena de Invierno (Chain of Winter)!" Danny shouted as he gripped the orb of energy. This caused the gathering Reiryoku to surge outward from the palm of his hand as links of energy began to form from the extending orb. The orb now resembled a long chain of energy that coiled around Danny's arm.

Without warning, Danny tightened his hand on his end of the forming chain before he disappeared with a buzz. He reappeared a distance away with his chain now wrapped around all of Technus' golems. He then pulled the 'chain' tight, causing the golems' body to creak, as ice quickly began to spread across their bodies. With a flick of the wrist, he tightened the chain to its breaking point and severely crushed all of the captured golems.

"You... You little cretin!" Technus snarled before he surged towards Danny, unleashing a volley of ectoblasts at the Arrancar. At the moment, he was too angry to realize that what he was doing was a horrible mistake. He was too blinded by his own hatred, anger, and need for vengeance to listen to his own mind that was screaming for him to stop. "DIE!"

The chain within Danny's hand dispersed as Danny used his new speed technique to avoid Technus' ectoblasts. Swerving around in mid-air, Technus looked for the Arrancar with his bloodshot eyes. He soon found his quarry when it appeared to the right of him with a new chain in his grasp. Technus tried to strike at the Arrancar in front of him but before he could he found himself wrapped up in the energy chain. A second later, the Arrancar tightened his grip and his newly created chain wrapped around Technus' body.

"Freeze..." Was all Technus heard before his world went black.

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As the last of Technus' body finished freezing, Danny let out a relieved sigh and released his hold on his Reiryoku. His chain dispersed into millions of ice-blue orbs that then slowly faded from existence. Danny didn't notice that however as he was too busy dealing with a sudden sense of euphoria. He had beaten Technus. No, scratch that last thought; they had beaten Technus.

"Danny...?"

Hearing his name, Danny turned around to face his friends. Once he had fully turned around Danny could now see the varying degrees of shock and wonder that was on his friends' faces as they looked at him. Danny then became concerned as he finally got a chance to really look at their wounded bodies. He took note on how beat up and exhausted all of them looked. And—wait, what? Sidney was in color now? When did that happen?

"Are you guys okay?" Danny asked as he walked over to his friends.

Sam frowned at him from her place on the ground, "You got yourself kidnapped and who-knows what else Technus did to you and you're wondering how we're doing?" She weakly turned her hed over towards Tucker and Sidney, "I think he needs to reconsider his priorities." She then turned her attention back to Danny, "But thanks for the concern!"

"Yeah. A sprained arm and a little blood loss never hurt anyone." Tucker said before Danny could respond. Of course it did hurt, but he wasn't going to say that, as Sam might hurt him. "... The only thing I'm upset about is the fact that Technus made me destroy some technology and almost fried my PDA."

"Uh..." Danny said, trying to understand his friend's quick replies, and then shook his head. "How'd he almost fry your PDA?"

Tucker looked about to tell him but a glance from Sam shut him up, "I'll tell you later..."

"What we should be doing is figuring out what to do with these robots and Sir. Techy Frozo over there." Sam said, gesturing to said things with a jerk of her head. "We can't just leave them here... especially with all the people unconscious in the halls... It'll create a Ghost-Hunting frenzy..."

It need not be said that such a frenzy would be bad for Danny and his friends. Ghost Hunters from all over the country would come to Amity Park and would probably do horrible, unmentionable things to Technus and any other ghost that they could find. Even if they hated the techy Ghost, none of them wanted his capture, dissection, and who knows what else on their consciousnesses. Merely beating him up and preventing him from doing something similar was all they really wanted.

The question was: how would they do it? An unfortunate aspect of Danny's new ice techniques were that Technus, his minions, and a sizable area of the floor was frozen solid. It would take a miracle to get all of that out of there before the regular people woke up and sounded the alarms. So, how? How would they do it?

Four pairs of eyes began to glance around the room, looking for an answer to that question. Several impossible ideas were formed before dismissed as the half-baked plans they were. Then came another round of ideas, these ones more sensible, but still flawed in their own ways. The group as a whole denied them as they had the first slew of questions.

"Is that...?" Sam began, now having assumed a sitting position, squinting her eyes. "... the thermos?"

In an instant, Danny, Sidney and Tucker's eyes turned to where Sam was looking at. In a remarkably undestroyed corner of the laboratory stood the Fenton Thermos, on top of the room's half-destroyed supercomputer's control panel. How it got there was pretty obvious, when one thought about it. Technus' goons had probably given it to the techy Ghost when they brought Danny in.

"That's really... convenient." Tucker deadpanned.

"Maybe the universe is trying to apologize for what we've had to go through." Sam countered. A couple seconds later and each one of them burst out laughing at such an idea. Sam smiled, "Yeah, like that'll happen..."

"Still... it's very convenient." Danny said as he buzzed over to the area the Fenton Thermos was and picked it up. 'Why do feel like I'm forgetting something?' He tilted his hand and grabbed the lid and removed it with a small twist. Green light shone from within, "Wha—?!"

"Ooh! Peten thanks you white-hair! Yes, yes, yes!" Peten cheered as soon as the Fenton Thermos had released him, doing a little jig in the air. "You beat goggles and made Peten free! Free to have lots more fun!"

It was Peten?! When had he been sucked into the thermos? Oh, yeah. He had attacked the school earlier that day—or was it yesterday now?—and Danny had defeated him. After that, Danny had been kidnapped and the thermos had been taken. It seemed that they had forgotten about the attack during the situation with Technus.

"Lookie, lookie! White Hair and friends for Peten to play with!" Peten giggled insanely.

Danny took a step forward, "You don't want to do that Peten."

"Why would Peten not want to play with White Hair and his friends?" Peten asked with a confused expression. "You are a great person to play with White Hair! And your friends look fun to play with too!" He somersaulted mid-air, coming face-to-face with Danny. "Do why does White Hair not want to play?"

"Because..." Danny said as he released some Reiryoku into the air, making it tense and heavy. "I don't have time to play right now, Peten..."

Peten started to sweat lightly from the pressure, "On second thought, Peten has decided not to play with you today, White Hair!" He said with only the slightest of waver in his voice, "Yes! For freeing Peten, Peten will find someone else to play with."

Before anyone could protest Peten's words, Peten disappeared with the sound of someone sitting on a whoppie cushion. Everyone just stared at where Peten had been for a moment, before they let out a sigh of relief. They could deal with the clownish, 'fun'-loving Ghost later but for now they had other problems to take care of right now.

Such as the fact that Danny's body was beginning to crack. Fragments of skin, small bits of his claws, and slivers of clothing soon floated into the air. All of these objects transformed into silver ash that flowed around Danny in a very familiar vortex. It relieved those watching Danny into not shouting out his name, concerned with what they thought was happening to him. He was probably going back into his Human form or, at least, his normal Arrancar form. It was only a couple moments later when Sam, Sidney, and Tucker got to see that Danny had turned into his standard Arrancar form. As soon as the vortex left him, Danny's shoulders slumped and he began to pant a little bit.

"Are you okay?" Sam asked.

Danny gave a reassuring grin to his friends, "No worries, guys... I just didn't realize that using Leviatán would take so much energy..." Not willing to take any questions, Danny turned slightly and aimed the thermos at the frozen ice block that was Technus. "In you go."

The inside of the Fenton Thermos glowed green before it shot out a beam that connected with ice around Technus. It slowly ripped the ice from the floor and drew it, and Technus, into it. Fenton Thermos still going, Danny turned around and began sucking in Technus' golems and the ice that bound them. It was kind of fun, really. Almost like using a vacuum cleaner.

"I didn't know that the Fenton Thermos could do that." Tucker stated as Danny sucked up a whole group of frozen golems.

A tired grin appeared on Danny's face, "Me neither. Mom and Dad designed it to suck in Ghosts. When they explained it to me, I got lost after the first two sentences... But I think this proves that it sucks in anything with spiritual energy that it is pointed at." After the last of the ice and golems were sucked in, his capped it. "... It did seem a little slower, though."

"Maybe because that ice of yours isn't made of Ghost-ly spiritual energy?" Tucker said.

Danny shrugged, "That could be it..."

"Can we please not talk about that right now and just be thankful that it worked?!" Sam demanded with an irritated air about her. Both boys flinched at her tone, causing her to grin slightly. Good. They should be afraid of her. Just wait until she could control her new abilities and was a master with her new sword. Then they would really cower in their boots.

"Sorry, Sam..." Danny and Tucker said.

"Now, how are we going to get back home?" The boys looked at her as if she was speaking Gibberish. Her irritation returned full-force, "How are we suppose to get home? I can't walk and I doubt that you can either, Tucker... So how are we going to do it?"

Omake: The H.M.E.T.:

For the first couple of days after the new branches had been created, Las Noches had been best described as chaotic. Each of the Arrancar within the fortress were examined and, if there powers were deemed useful, they were assigned to a certain branch. It was chaotic since the leaders were unprepared to deal with the sudden influx of people into their branches and what each person was supposed to do.

As time passed, however, things calmed down as the Arrancar settled into their new branches and began to do things that they had been assigned to do. Arrancar going into the Medical and Poison branches of the army began to further their knowledge of Shinigami and Arrancar anatomy as well as how certain things would affect them. The Arrancar in the Science branch began to study under Dexter who, despite his attitude, instilled a thirst for science into much of his like-minded fellows.

In one branch, however, things weren't going quite as smoothly. The Huceo Mundo Exploration Team had been created by Dios Aizen to explore Huceo Mundo and map it while keeping an eye out for powerful Hollows that would help bolster their army.

The problems stemmed from the lower-ranked Arrancar that had been placed in the team. The majority of them couldn't see a viable reason why Dios Aizen would create such a useless branch when they could be training for the upcoming war. Soon, they were questioning their leader, Aaroniero Arruruerie, while secretly whispering behind his back; thinking Dios Aizen must've made him the leader because he was useless himself.

However, when Cirucci Sanderwicci, the team's deputy, heard these rumors, she was furious. She gave them a severe tongue-lashing, telling them that they severely underestimated Aaroniero and how their words could lead to their deaths. She would've killed them herself but Dios Aizen had forbidden it, saying that they needed all of the Arrancar they could for the war.

That, though, didn't stop Cirucci from making the team regret their words. For the very next day, she had convinced Aaroniero to fight them without releasing. The lower-ranked fools had thought that it would be so easy to defeat him and attacked. Twenty seconds after the beginning of the fight, the fight had ended, with Aaroniero standing without a scratch amidst a field of unconscious bodies.

So, it was to say that the Arrancar learned why Aaroniero was an Espada, and that he certainly wasn't useless. A repeated explanation of the team's purpose was pounded into the Arrancars' thick skulls, making them realize the truth. It was just in time, too, as the next day the Science division delivered new 'Sanders' to the team.

Dios Aizen, in his infinite wisdom, had known that it would take them to long to explore Huceo Mundo on foot. With this knowledge, he had set the Science branch on developing a transportation device that the army would be able to use to cover large distances quickly. Only a week after that order had been made, Dexter had designed, developed, tested, and delivered Sanders to the Huceo Mundo Exploration Team.

The Sanders were essentially long boats the color of bone with blue thrusters located at the back. In the middle of the boat, there was a dark-blue awning-like covering which held the controls for the Sanders as well as navigation and mapping equipment.

As the team could come into contact with hostile Hollows or natural Arrancar, the Sanders had been designed to allow an Arrancar to stand at both the front and back of them. This would allow them to release Balas, as Ceros would be too powerful and might tip the Sander, at an enemy, whether they attack from the front or back. Also, in case the 'Attack' Arrancar had been taken out, the navigator could activate a force field that would also send out a distress signal.

Right now, the H.M.E.T. could be found over 150 kilometers west of Las Noches, inside of a large cave. They had traveled past the point where the endless desert had slowly turning into outcroppings of quarts-like rock when they spotted a large mountain range in the distance. Deciding that the mountains would be a good place to start, Aaroinero ordered the speeders to move towards the mountain, which appeared to be honeycombed with caves. Once they were close enough the sensors on the Sanders detected a large grouping of Hollows inside of the mountain and all of them were 'powerful'.

With only minor grumbling from the other Arrancars, beside Cirucci, they disembarked from the Sanders and entered one of the cave entrances.

"I don't see why we're here..." An Arrancar grumbled.

"I know. I haven't seen any Hollows around, have you?" A female Arrancar asked. When the first Arrancar shook his head, she looked sourly over at the back of their leader, Aaroniero. "Is this just a wild goose chase or something?"

There was a sudden exclamation from the right, "Hey! These stalagmites and stalactites aren't made out of quartz!" An Arrancar with short, messy green hair and black eyes shouted, waving a piece of a broken, crystalline stalagmite in the air. "They're made out of Reishi!"

"So? Everything in Huceo Mundo is made out of Reishi—the desert, the quartz trees in the Forest of Menos, even the sky—so of course it would be made out of Reishi! It didn't take a genius like those guys in the Science division to figure out that!"

The green-haired Arrancar apparently noticed the skepticism, for he produced the scanner that he had used to scan the stalagmite. "Look at this! These stalagmites and stalactites have enough Reishi in them to feed a Adjudas-class Hollow for a year! Without them needing to eat anything else!"

In an instant, Aaroinero was beside the Arrancar, taking the scanner out of his hands, and then running over the stalagmite shard. The Espada said nothing as he checked the other stalagmites and stalactites around with the scanner. However, when he did speak, it was full of emotions that none of them could comprehend.

"Form a small team of five. Break off a couple dozen and place them on the Sanders; we'll send a couple back to the Science division so that they can analyze them." Aaroniero said to the previously gossiping Arrancar before he turned. "The rest of you will follow me: we'll be going deeper into the caves and explore."

Techniques:

1. Compétence des sciences (Science Skill): Nicolai Technus' power. It essentially allows him to control all forms of technology and even allows him to replicate things with his Reiryoku that technology can do.

2. Que nadie os juzgue... Leviatán (Let no one be your judge, Leviathan): By saying this release command, Danny Fenton can unseal the majority of his sealed Arrancar powers and assume his true form. The transition between his standard Arrancar form and his true form is enveloped within an enormous explosion and the release of a tremendous amount of Reiryoku and Reiatsu.

3. La croissance des Gadgets (Growth of Gadgets): By using his Compétence des sciences, Technus has the ability to enlarge any piece of technology that it within 50 meters of himself. The size he can enlarge technology varies: for example, he can make computer chips as large as miniature refrigerators or as big as a two sliding-glass doors.

4. Numérique Armée (Digital Army): An upgraded version of Technus' Le piratage vert. Like Le piratage vert, it causes all of the technology within a specific area to mutate but, unlike it, it transforms the technology into golems. Technus can mix this in with his La croissne des Gadgets to create 'giant', human-sized golems. They are extremely durable but a sufficient force and are also capable of regenerating from most wounds dealt to them.

5. Natoescarcha (Frostborn): A technique that allows Danny to send a shard of my Reiryoku into an enemy when he cuts him or her. When he pulses his Reiryoku, it causes that shard to start freezing the enemy from the inside out. The ice that freezes the enemy will also spread to those that come into contact with it, though Danny is noticeably immune.

6. Cadena de Invierno (Chain of Winter): A technique that allows Danny to create a length of an ice-blue chain from the palm of his hand. When it is wrapped around someone, that person will begin to freeze as ice creeps from the point of contact. The length of this 'chain' has been shown to be dependent on how much Reiryoku Danny pours into, which makes it useful for taking out a large group of people or just one person.

A/N: Author's Note: Well, that's the end of this chapter. I hope you guys liked it and will tell us how we did on it: comments, favorite parts, constructive criticism, etc. On the same note, I would like to ask you what you guys think of Danny's Resurrección, Leviatán, and the abilities it has displayed?

Also, on a completely different note, this chapter marks the end of the "Revealing of the Resurrección" and the "Defeat Technus/Rescue Danny" arcs. Tell us what you liked about them, what you disliked about them, how you would improve them, and what you would like to see in the future. It doesn't mean that it will happen, but your opinions will be taken into consideration.