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Trascender
"If you do not know, then I shall enlighten you. This is the form of true despair."
An explosion tore through the room and ceiling, causing Ichigo to grab Orihime and fly threw the ceiling, landing on the roof of Las Noches. Gazing through the dust and smoke, Ichigo noticed 'Ulquiorra' stand there. He was dressed in a tight, white robe, lined with black fur on its collar and the bottom. Ichigo narrowed his eyes when he saw the white hair and black helmet of 'Ulquiorra'.
"..."
"Wait... you're not... Ulquiorra..."
"..."
"...Are you... Tensa... Zangetsu?"
"... I do not answer to that name."
"...Are you La Luna Negra?"
"That's a feminine name, Ichigo. And Hollows don't have inner spirits in their Zanpakuto."
Ichigo scratched his head as the question continued to haunt him.
"Then, who the hell are you?"
"I may 'sound' like Ulquiorra to you... I may 'appear' to be your former Zanpakuto, Zangetsu... But I am neither... I am what you fear most... the ultimate form of your deepest despair..."
"My deepest... despair?"
"It appears that you can only understand another heart by combat. Let's get to it.
Ichigo was surprised when the robed figure appeared in front of him, sword raised in the air.
"Your Highness..."
Juhabach sat in his throne room, bandages wrapped around most of his body as his servant walked in.
"..."
I found it... much more enjoyable with Kurosaki... you have disappointed me.
Juhabach closed his eyes as her words struck through his skull like a blunted hammer.
"..."
"My lord?"
The man was cut down before he could realize it. Across from him, an older man, dressed in more formal robes, leaned against a wall as he shook his head.
"You can't keep killin' everyone, Juhabach."
"...Shut up..."
"You already know why she's interested in him..."
"..."
"This entire war is fruitless, Juhabach. Nothing you can do will help you."
"Be silent, Vater."
"I'm just saying, my boy... If he's the one, you can't replace him... She will never pick you over him."
"Vater..."
"You would do better... to find someone else, Juhabach... before you ruin everything."
The elder man walked out of the throne room, leaving Juhabach to contemplate the words of the Holy Emperor Vater.
"Gaaaggghhh! That hurts!"
"Keep the noise down, Nicholas."
"You bitch! Aggghhhnnn!"
Emma sighed as the medic slowly stitched back her arm. Nicholas screamed when they were surgically implanting his guts. A man, wearing long colonial robes and a privateer hat, walked in and sat on the table near the other Denego.
"You guys lost, I see."
"Shut up, William! You didn't even fight!"
"I didn't need to. My purpose was to scare the Espada into thinking we were attacking."
Realto limped from around his curtain and sat against a table.
"Why are you here!? Nobody likes you!"
Realto scoffed and turned away from Nicholas, staring at the door. Emma scratched her cheek as she whispered out loud.
"I think you got that backwards, idiot."
"Shut up!"
"Both of you, quiet. Her majesty is on her way."
"I'm already here."
Everyone in the room jumped when Kagura appeared behind them, eyebrow raised.
"Yo-Your Majesty!"
"Silence. I came here to see Realto. Come with me."
Still limping, Realto hurried out the door to catch up with Kagura. Falling in step with her, she finally addressed him on the way to her throne room.
"What do you have to report for me?"
"Ma'am? I thought my mission ended when you arrived?"
Kagura chuckled to herself, causing Realto to feel nervous as he hoped he didn't disappoint her.
"I'm sorry... that was too formal, wasn't it? I didn't mean a mission briefing."
Opening her door to her throne, she carried her self to her seat, sitting primly in her seat. Crossing her legs and arms, she restated her words.
"I meant... what was your opinion... of Ichigo Kurosaki?"
"My... opinion?"
"Yes... How did he... strike your fancy?"
"He... didn't?"
Seeing her narrow her eyes made him review that answer.
"I mean... I took him down pretty easily... I didn't think too much of him."
"You didn't... feel his potential?"
"Not really... May I speak out of turn?"
"You may."
"I don't understand your interest in him, My Lady. The prophecy was done with him the moment he became a Hollow."
Kagura chuckled, leaving Realto to recoil back in fear for his life. Kagura placed her elbow on the arms of her throne, resting her face on the back of her hands as she continued laughing.
"I'm not going to kill you... but you are quite wrong, Realto. He's the most human of all Hollows..."
"...Okay..."
"...And he never lost his Soul Reaper powers."
Kagura, shocked, jumped away when a blue energy blade swiped the bottom side of her chin.
"What... what is this?"
"I remembered how the Quincy formed their spirit weapons... so I attempted to copy them... By forming a Cero and condensing it into a smaller, constant form, I can create a blade of Reiatsu."
Nel and Halibel was shocked as they noticed his new ability.
'To create such an ability in such a short time... he's truly stepped into his Arrancar shoes...'
"I call it 'Cero Corte'. Got a nice ring to it, don't you think?"
The creepy, excited grin formed even while her chin was dripping blood unnerved Ichigo, as he imagined painful things happening to him for defying her. Suddenly, she dropped her head back and began laughing like a cliché comic book villain.
"Hahahahaha! You are an interesting man, Kurosaki! I can see why such a woman was interested in you!"
Ichigo stared back at her as she began cackling like a mad hag.
"Ooookaayyy... I guess I'll just kill you before the men in the white coats appear..."
"We're wearing white coats Ichigo..."
"Human joke, nevermind that, Nel."
"I don't get it."
"Shut up, Nel!"
Nel pouted and turned away.
Ichigo dashed at the slowly calming woman, who dodged and grabbed the back of his neck, kissing his forehead as she dodged the red beam from the side of her. Ichigo reared his head around, glancing at someone he didn't expect to see so soon.
"Urahara!"
"I should reprimand you about your dating choices, but now would not be a good time."
"Kisuke... Urahara..."
Kisuke and Ichigo narrowed their eyes at the lazy smirk upon the woman's face.
"Two men at the same time? Now I feel like quite a naughty wife..."
She held her fingers up as placed her hand on her hip, signaling them to come hither.
"Sing, Benihime!"
At the same time as Kisuke's blast was thrown forward, Ichigo dashed, Cero Corte in hand. As she stepped over the crimson wave, she turned, dodging Ichigo as she grabbed him and pulled him towards her, causing his blade to dissipate. Wrapping her arms around his neck, she leaned down and whispered into his ear.
"...Denego abilities won't work on me, Ichigo."
"...What?"
Smirking, she pulled him down, kneeing him in the gut before elbowing him and tossing him away before grabbing Benihime.
"Serenade, Benihime!"
The blade glowed bright red before vibrating in her hands, leading her to hop away before it finished her.
"Tch... Such toys are beneath me."
She flipped over Kisuke's next slash and landed on Ichigo's shoulders, hopping up towards the ceiling. She dodged a Cero from Ichigo and used Existere to appear next to him.
"That was pathetic Ichigo... If this ke-"
The entire room's eyes widened, including Ichigo, when a black and red blast of energy tossed Kagura into the wall. Silence ensued over the entire room as the last of the debris fell, revealing Kagura's equally shocked face.
'That... was definitely a Getsuga Tensho...'
"..."
"How the hell did you do that, Ichigo?"
"How the hell am I supposed to know, Urahara!?"
"Because you just did it, idiot!"
"...I guess they are returning to you, Ichigo."
"Returning...?"
Kagura slowly sauntered out of the rubble, appearing in front of them as if she hadn't been touched. In her fingers, a lingering trail of Reiatsu was being twirled.
"Your Soul Reaper Reiatsu... This is it... I wonder how you got it back...? This feels like you... but I sense someone else..."
Suddenly, the room shook and rumbled as everyone fell to the floor. Kisuke rubbed his head sheepishly as he stared into the ceiling.
"Yoruichi? She's going all out, huh!?"
"I've... never seen Yoruichi like this..."
"He molded his Reiatsu into weapon the way a Quincy and Denego use their Reishi... His Hollow powers has melded with his Fullbring... All that's left is for him to receive his Soul Reaper powers again... then he will be ready."
"Gran Rey Cero!"
"Not so fast, Ichigo."
Ichigo rolled when the being attack with his own Cero, causing Ichigo to roll away as he went for a return slash.
"I don't understand. Who are you...?"
"I am what you fear most... Ichigo Kurosaki..."
In the middle of his sentence, 'Orihime' and the entire scene disappeared. The face of the being changed as well, resembling Aizen in the final form of the Hogyoku.
"Fear is necessary for evolution. The fear that one could be destroyed at any moment. Let me prove this to you, Ichigo Kurosaki."
"Tch... are you changing to the moments that I was most scared? That's nothing to me!"
Ichigo rose as he attempted a swing, but was paralyzed when he gazed into the eyes of 'Aizen' and saw the reflection of his Hollow form.
"But that fear of failure lingering in your mind... The fear that you could fail your friends and family... That is what ceases your evolution. Hollows are creatures born of fear. To rid themselves of that is the key to Segunda Etapa. It is not the desire of evolution... bu the fear of being weak... to fear being afraid. And so long as you fear everything..."
Ichigo was sliced deep into his shoulder, falling to his knees.
"... You will never change. You have failed... in your evolution."
Ichigo fell to the floor, gazing upwards at the destructive form of Aizen... who began changing until he met the face of monster of terror. The twin horns and skull-like face of the long, white-haired Hollow would have caused Ichigo to panic, but he could barely move.
"...I...will...help...you..."
The monster leaned down as it looked Ichigo in his eye. Before it could react, Ichigo leaned forwards, slashing him..
"I'm not afraid of you! Fade to black! La Luna Negra!"
The mask of the monster was broken as the black fire of the Zanpakuto burned its body above its shoulders.
"You don't have to be afraid anymore... Hollow..."
The mask broke as an identical, pale face with golden eyes and black scelera stared Ichigo in his eyes.
"Are you back... King?"
"You lied to me... Zangetsu..."
Hollow Ichigo smirked as he watched Ichigo narrow his eyes in his Resurreccion.
"...So you have come to realize... that me and the old man... are one and the same?"
"How did... Yoruichi send you to me?"
"She's held a piece of me... ever since she saved you after our fight with Renji."
Ichigo stared at Hollow Ichigo, who smirked as he still recognized the confusion in his face.
"You don't get it, do you?"
"Get what?"
"I'm your inner Hollow... We are the same... Everything you have... I have as well..."
"..."
...You may not realize it Ichigo... or perhaps you do now... the old man... has never left you...
...Not now... nor ever...
"Resurreccion... Segunda Etapa..."
Grimmjow jabbed his finger in his ear, pulling out as he perked up. Halibel did the same on the other side of him.
"Did you hear that?"
"Yeah... it sounded like-!"
The Caja Negacion exploded, rendering the area with dust and smoke. Grimmjow and Halibel coughed as they waved the smoke closest to them away.
"I felt that... but I can't sense anything!"
"Me neither!"
Through the smoke and dust, a lone, golden eye pierced through the souls of Halibel and Grimmjow as the saw the black figure in the storm center.
Trivia
-Vater is German for Father, reference to him being like a Pope/Bishop Figure. He's the Holy Emperor of the Vandenreich (Based from Holy Roman Emperor title). He's like the Vandenreich's version of a Central 46 leader.
-Hollow Ichigo was morphing himself into different things that plagued Ichigo with one main fear- Losing his family and friends.
Feared losing Orihime to Ulquiorra
Feared not learning the Final Getsuga Tensho and failing Karakura Town by losing to Aizen
Feared his own Hollow and the fear that it would damage his friends
-The appearance of all the forms have the same basic appearance- the robe that Hollowfied Tensa Zangetsu wears.
-Ichigo is gathering the powers of the 4 races by using the outcast races.
Denego-A Hollow who molds Reiatsu like how Quincies use Reishi. (Quincy/Hollow)
Fullbring-Responsible for his human-like Resurreccion. (Human/Hollow)
Visored-Has Inner Hollow and can use Getsuga Tensho because Inner Hollow can. (Soul Reaper/Hollow)
-Yoruichi held on to the mask that protected Ichigo in the Soul Society Arc. She gave it back when she grabbed him during Ichigo vs. Kisuke.