Here I go, oversimplifying a complicated battle strategy. Why? Because I really wanna get through the show's Invasion Arc. To explain why it's going so much faster though, it's simply because in this fic they now have an inside man AND backup, when in the show, they were scattered, disorganized, and had no idea where anything or anyone was. So yeah, lot more advantageous now.
Disclaimer: Bleach is Tite Kubo's and some companies or something or another. Whatever, it doesn't belong to me, at all.
Almost as soon as Roder had arrived back, Aizen made his announcement about trapping some captains in Hueco Mundo while he went to go do his thing. As if Roder needed anymore points as to how they were just tools for Aizen's ends. Nessiah immediately began healing the three injured people concurrently, remarking how amazing it was for the two men to have survived with so many ruptured organs and broken bones, let alone remain conscious. The other three weren't happy he had also rescued Szayel, or that he had vaporized a captain. Nemu, as they called her, seemed pretty dead, but Nessiah assured him that the spell could bring her back to life, which it did. Yggdra locked her unconscious form up into an actual dungeon cell, which was designed to negate any powers a Shinigami, Arrancar, or anything else might have.
"Well," Roder said once everyone else was in place, "we should go and pick up your friend, then head out and kill Aizen before he levels your town."
"You make it sound easy," Ichigo remarked.
"Maybe if I keep it up it'll get easier. Seriously though, while I could easily get rid of Ulquiorra, I'm going to be busy dealing with whatever locks Aizen put on the Garganta."
"Locks?"
"Yeah, look." He waved his hand and a sort of distortion shown for only a moment. "It may be affecting just Los Noches though. My descorrer is working fine, so it's not that. If we want to leave we're going to need to either deactivate the locking mechanism, or exit Los Noches first."
"Uh, hello," Emelia pointed a thumb at Szayel's nearly frozen body standing in the corner.
"I would, but I don't know how well he'd take to betraying Aizen. Also, I don't know if Orihime's powers can remove poisons or any such. I'd rather not risk testing it on the best and only scientist we have."
"So we need to storm Aizen's place, rescue Orihime, and get a Garganta opened," Renji said. "Certain death and small chance of success. What are we waiting for?"
He and Uryuu stood up and tested their restored limbs.
"It's almost as if Orihime herself did it."
"Nessiah's special ability is Copio Mago (Copy Magician). Any spell or energy-based power he…witnesses, he can replicate. When I saw what Orihime could do, I had him go to her and learn all that he could about her power."
Nessiah shut his giant book, how he carried it no one was certain, and grinned smugly. "Most of her abilities I already hold more powerful variations of, but some, like her fate rejection healing, were truly unique. I will treasure them always."
"Any energy-based power?"
"Don't worry about him stealing your moves. He's got more than a few that he made himself that he'd prefer. Now, we need to get a move on. Yggdra, you and Emelia will join us. Nessiah, send Kagome after us then take Inu and go to Gulcasa."
"It will be done," the blind Arrancar said before…floating down the hall.
"Now, before we go, you should know about who we'll face. Yammy will be there, but you all know about him by now. Yggdra, you take care of him if he shows up. Whatever you do, do NOT let him use his Resurreccion. If he starts to call for it, go for the neck, dig in deep, and lop it off. We need to kill him either way it goes.
"Rudbornn and the rest of the Exequias will almost certainly try to halt anything we do. Emelia, Rukia, Sado, and Renji should be able to handle them. Just remember, his Calaveras are throwaway troops. He can make more with his Resurreccion. You need to take him down before he can do so. Don't let him make a speech or gloat or whatever. If you get an opening, take him down.
"Loly and Menoly will probably not budge from taking Aizen's side. I almost feel sorry for them actually. They shouldn't be a problem so long as you don't let their Resurreccion forms touch you. They're poisonous. Very much so. A good grip and you're done. Uryuu, I trust you're good at dodging and such. I know Kagome is.
"Nnoitra shouldn't even be close to healing, and the top three are with Aizen. That just leaves Ulquiorra. Ichigo, I'm counting on you keeping him busy while I disable to locks. Just talk about rescuing Orihime and act like you're fighting him seriously to keep his focus on you. I'll join you once the lock's down. Everyone got it?"
"Right." "Yes." "Good to go." And several other affirmatives were said.
"Then let's go."
Ulquiorra couldn't say he didn't see it coming. He had begun suspecting the Sexta Espada of treachery; he just didn't expect it to this degree. He was now apparently in league with the trespassers and some of his Fracciones were helping them to attack Aizen's keep. He wasn't sure what he was planning, but sending the Shinigami he had already defeated once was a poor decision.
"Hey, I think it's getting easier to see your sword while it's moving."
A very poor decision.
Meanwhile, Uryuu and Kagome were squaring off against Loly and Menoly. The Quincy was surprised that the Arrancar woman used a bow, but that surprise ended when Loly began creating a mountain out of slurs and curses, which kept increasing in frequency and creativity. 'Bitch' and 'bastard' eventually turned into things like 'dog fucking whore' and…'four-eyed bastard'. Come to think of it, the most creative ones were aimed at Kagome. Must've been a familiarity thing.
"You cum-drinking fucker!" Ooh, that was new. And aimed at Uryuu. To be fair, he had shot her in the back of the knee just before the obscenity was shouted.
Kagome fired off a few arrows at Menoly, who was noticeable cursing less than her best friend and doing a better job at dodging and blocking the arrows as well. She just didn't have the vocabulary for it.
The two pincushions were now back to back facing the two archers. Uryuu prepared to fell them in one shot, when an odd, long arrow came up beside them then wrapped around them before turning into rope.
"Atadura Fletcha. Not very useful for most one-on-one opponents, but you two gave me such a golden opportunity."
"You shit-sucking cunt! When Aizen gets back, you're dead! You and your four-eyed boyfriend!"
Kagome crossed her arms. "I don't even know this guy. Inu Yasha is my actual boyfriend, idiot."
"Fuck you!"
"Shall we go?" Uryuu asked.
"Yeah, your friends should be pretty well right now."
Things were not going well. Emelia had tried to get Rudbornn while his first wave was down and before he brought up his Resurreccion, but the others seemed to have forgotten that little detail and Rudbornn swatted her aside. By the time Renji got his 'oh shit' face on and swung for him with Zabimaru, Rudbornn was in his release form and had summoned more Calaveras, many of which blocked his attack. More came and now it was a fight against the waves. Sado's El Directo tore through many of them as well as Renji's blade, but more and more kept coming. Rukia was beginning to wonder what had happened to Emelia when she leapt up holding her kanabo.
"Dive in from the Heavens, Gryphon Jinete (Gryphon Rider)!"
Dusty wind swirled around her and then dispersed, revealing that her lower body was now like that of a gryphon's in a fashion similar to a centaur. In her hands was now a long staff with a weighted end. Red markings trailed from her eyes down to her exposed collarbone. She spun the staff in her hands to get a feel for it and looked directly at Rudbornn.
"Here's a present for you!" she yelled as she dove down hard and collided with him, ripping him from the spot where he was rooted. They hit the ground and the others could see that she was pinning his arms with her eagle-like forelegs. She spun the staff around and smashed its weighted end against his face, cracking his mask and knocking his jaw loose.
The others ran up next to her and looked him, his Resurreccion having canceled itself.
"Is he dead?" Renji asked.
"Just out cold. Roder said he would rather have him alive for everything after this. Besides, Nessiah can fix him up good as new once Roder takes over."
"You sound so sure of this."
"You just don't know him like we do. I don't know how long we were out there together, but he saved our lives a few times and pulled us together when it looked like we were all ready to call it quits. That guy's a leader. My brother looks up to him, and he was a goddamn emperor when we were alive."
This surprised the two Shinigami, but if Sado was surprised he did a good job of hiding it. Emelia got off of the unconscious Arrancar and lead their charge into the palace.
Yggdra was not having fun at all. Yammy had apparently been doing some growing while no one was looking. If her fight with Tesla could be called 'a little bit hard' then this would be 'so goddamned difficult', even if it was the same general kind of opponent; brutes with fists.
She leapt out of the way of his fist and heard him laugh.
"I gotta thank your boss before we shred him. Now that you guys are fighting us I can kill whoever I want and claim they were on your side. And no one will question it." He made a bigger, more boisterous laugh and fired a Bala at her. She barely dodged out of the way and clenched her sword.
"At least I can't feel guilty about killing you. There's no crime in destroying a murderer."
Yammy raised an eyebrow. "That so? And who's gonna kill me? You, little Fraccion?"
"My resolve cannot sway. Not now, no." She lifted her sword above her head and let it go so that it floated just above her hair. It began spinning wildly; threatening to split her in half if it fell even a little.
"Join the Revolution, lead the Crusade, and bring the Jihad," her hands came back and grabbed its hilt, stopping its wild spinning, "Santa Espada (Holy Sword)!"
She began glowing bright white, causing Yammy to cover his face with his hand and close his eyes. When it died down, he looked back to see that she was covered from head to toe in white and silver armor, her helmet bearing protrusions resembling wings. The only parts of her that could be seen were her face and her hair. Her sword had also changed, now much slimmer, resembling a longsword with a grip that could be held comfortably with either one or two hands.
"Huh, that it? You got some armor? Fine then." He drew his Zanpakuto. "Be en-" He stopped as something blurred by his face and Yggdra stopped a few meters away from it with her back turned to him. She looked at him with a face of cold indifference and raised her sword to show that it was now covered in blood. Yammy wanted to reach up and feel his neck, but his arm didn't move. Nothing below his chin would move. He felt himself slipping forward and he hit the dirt, but his body was still standing over him. It too collapsed after a moment.
Yammy's life flashed before his eyes, and for the life of him he couldn't understand how this had happened. Yggdra calmly walked over to his severed head and looked down at him so coldly that Ulquiorra seemed warm and approachable in comparison. She held the tip of her blade over his forehead and looked forward.
"Justice," she stabbed downwards, "is served."
It had taken him quite a while, but he finally had it. The device was pretty easy to shut off and he decided to remember it for whenever he would need a lockdown himself. Once it was done, he began to make his way back up and stopped by a door he felt a faint reiatsu behind. He looked through the bars on its window.
"Oh, so this is where they put you."
The Shinigami woman looked up and grimaced. "Oh, you."
"Yeah, me. Sorry about this. I'd let you out now, but I may need to make a prisoner exchange later. You understand right?"
"I guess," she huffed. Roder began to leave when she called out, "Wait. Gin said, if anyone should come by, to tell them, "It's in his chest.""
"Huh, what'd he mean by that?"
"I don't know, but I figured no one would come by so I almost forget. But now…it's almost like he knew you'd come through here."
"Ah, I see. Well, I'll send someone down here soon. Whether to free you or feed you, we'll see."
"Go kill 'em."
"Oh, I will."
Like I said, I rushed that on out of the way. I know there are Yammy fans out there (I have no idea why, I liked literally every other Espada more than him, Nnoitra and Aaronierro included) so I am sorry, but he would not have been able to last through what Roder plans to do anyway.
Next time on Tyrant Espada: Ulquiorra plays dirty, and most of our heroes get their asses kicked and then promptly handed to them.
Find out how next time I bother to update.
By Thanksgiving, hopefully.