"I thought you said this is where it appeared." said Ichigo.
"That's strange…I could have sworn this is where the Hollowtron was supposed to have translocated…" replied Rukia.
"Goddamnit, and after how you got us out of class, I could have gone for a way to release this embarrassment-induced stress."
"What? I think my excuse was particularly ingenious."
"You said we had to change our tampons!"
"And the teacher didn't ask for any more information, now did he?"
"Just goddamnit where's that Hollowtron already!" yelled Ichigo as he stomped around in anger.
"Maybe I can shed some light on that matter!" spoke a nearby voice loudly, full of confidence and cocky arrogance.
Ichigo and Rukia turned around to see who was talking.
"Who are you?" asked Ichigo loudly.
"MY NAME IS ISHIDA URYUU. YOU metal reapers KILLED MY grandFATHER, PREPARE TO DIE!"
Ichigo stared at him, mouth slightly agape.
"Ichigo, who's the nerd?" asked Rukia.
"Hell if I know."
"You don't recognize my name?" asked Ishida, somewhat hurt.
"Not really, no".
"I'm the student who aced virtually everything!"
"'Cept P.E. and How Not To Be A Loser." said Rukia, pulling down her lower eyelid with her index finger.
"All right then…" mumbled Ishida. "Kurosaki, I challenge you to a contest!"
"What? Why?"
"We will have a competition to see who can destroy the most Hollowtrons!"
"Wait, why am I supposed to go along with this?"
"With this can of vile Akusu spray, dozens, if not a hundred or more, Hollowtrons will be attracted to this place, thereby allowing us to have this contest of skill!"
"Looks like we have no choice, Ichigo." said Rukia with a serious look on her face.
"Uhh, what if I just back down to his challenge?"
"Then you'd be forsaking your manhood!"
"My manhood aside, don't either of you see any problem with him summoning a ton of Hollowtrons in such a small area, and only having Ishida and I being able to get rid of them all?"
"None whatsoever" they both replied.
Ichigo looked at them with a deeply annoyed looked on his face.
"Do it!" Rukia yelled to Ishida.
Ishida sprayed the noxious stuff into the air.
A minute later, large amounts of Hollowtrons started appearing, and their numbers increased practically by the second.
Soon enough, they numbered at least two hundred when Rukia said to Ichigo:
"This is all your fault."
Ichigo sighed in response.
"Wait, how are you supposed to fight them?" he yelled to/asked Ishida.
"Heh, about time you asked" smugly said Ishida, voice full of smugness and smug-ity.
He ran towards the side of a nearby bridge (they were near a bridge by the way) and jumped off.
"Huh?" grunted Ichigo, sorta-very-confused.
Seconds later, loud noises came from where Ishida had leapt in to, and then a flying vehicle shot out into the sky.
"What the crap?"
"Kurosaki" came Ishida's voice in Ichigo's mech's cockpit. "Do you intend on beating those Hollowtrons with the power of gawking at them?" he asked mockingly.
Ishida's jet fighter-like machine was sleek, fast, and proceeded to strafe through many of the targets, dropping many of the Hollowtrons like flies.
"Ichigo, are you going to let him threaten your manliness like that!" shouted Rukia.
Ichigo started.
"When the hell did you sneak into here, and why the hell would you yell like that!" shouted back Ichigo.
"There's no time for that! Just start destroying those things!"
"Goddamnit!" yelled Ichigo as five enemy machines had gathered around him, taking swipes at him.
Ichigo blocked the first attack with his large sword, then countered with a spinning movement, taking the five of them out at once.
Overhead, Ishida's spirit jet fighter was shooting spirit missiles at the Hollowtrons (who were themselves spirits), resulting in spirit explosions as he flew by, leaving heavy trails of spirit exhaust in his wake.
"Ichigo, behind you!" yelled Rukia. "To your left! To your right! Above!"
He didn't really need her help to know where they were coming from, as 'all around you' would be a fairly accurate way to put it.
"What? No 'below'?" asked Ichigo as he was cutting through waves of the creatures.
He then tripped on something, falling on the front side of his mech.
A snake-like Hollowtron had apparently been the cause of it, and it, along with the rest of the nearby machines, were approaching a quite helpless Ichigo (and Rukia, but she doesn't have her own mech (yet (wink wink))).
"Helpless as ever." came a voice through the intermodular commlink.
A barrage of missiles and rapid gun fire wiped out the Hollowtrons that were encircling the two of them.
Ichigo was about to thank him when Ishida's fighter suddenly pulled up rapidly until it started to plunge downwards at a 90 degree angle with the ground.
"What the hell are you doing, Ishida?" shouted Ichigo.
Ishida smirked, before hitting a couple of switches.
Before Ichigo could say anything else, a large collision occurred, sending chunks of pavement flying, and resulting in a large cloud of smoke hang in its wake.
As the smoke cleared, Ichigo could see a figure emerging from the small crater.
Ishida's machine had transformed into a more humanoid shape; it was now a mech with a sniper rifle.
Ichigo stood there, mouth agape, before asking loudly:
"Where the hell do you keep pulling these things out of!"
"Heh, no need to be jealous of my superior…equipment, but I guess you can't help it."
The fight continued for an hour or so, the two fighting side by side, back to back and shoulder to shoulder.
The number of Hollowtrons was dwindling, but there still seemed to be too many of them left.
However…
"Wait, why are they pulling back all of a sudden?" asked Ichigo.
"I must have scared them off with my huge -"
Ishida was interrupted by a loud shrieking noise.
The noise thundered across the area, as if the sky itself were being torn apart.
Ichigo, Rukia, and Ishida looked up, frozen in shock, as the creature entered their world.
It was as tall as a ten story building, and as wide as 5 cars side to side. It was entirely black, except for its hands and head, which were white. The face itself wasn't too menacing, but its eyes were terrifyingly devoid of emotion, save hunger.
"Oh no…" said Rukia in a low voice.
"What's that?" asked Ichigo, kind of worried.
"That's a Mocha Grande, it's formed when hundreds of Hollowtrons gather together, and crash into each other. When they do, their reactor cores are exposed, and the energy released allows their frames to fuse into a larger, single entity."
Some red lines were swirling in the air in front of what looked like its mouth.
"Oh no…" muttered Rukia grimly.
"What?" asked Ichigo, troubled by her tone.
"It's charging up a Negative Ion Beam."
"I take it that's bad."
Rukia didn't answer. She didn't need to.
"Well, this day is getting crappier and crappier."
The Mocha Grande was about to unleash its energy beam.
Ichigo charged towards it.
Rukia shouted:
"What are you doing, you idiot! Do you want to die!"
"I can't let it destroy the neighborhood with that ability, so I have to block it somehow!" he shouted back.
"You won't be able to do anything if you're dead!"
Ichigo wasn't listening anymore, to him all that mattered was protecting the people around here, regardless of whether or not they would ever know about any of this.
When Ichigo was around 50 feet away from it, the Mocha Grande unleashed its attack, aiming it right at Ichigo.
He raised his large sword to block it, given that he couldn't find any other alternative.
To his great annoyance, it wasn't a one-burst attack and so Ichigo was forced to persevere through it, holding off against what felt like a stream of energy pushing against him, with the intent of destroying him.
And then it stopped.
Ichigo felt relieved, but it wouldn't last long.
"It's going to charge up another one." said Rukia. "We need to come up with some kind of plan, because simply trying to block it with your sword won't work the next time."
"I don't like saying this, but given the circumstances, I think it might be better for me to listen to what you have to say."
Before Rukia could say anything, Ishida spoke up with a serious tone:
"Kurosaki, I have a plan to deal with that monster."
"I'm not liking this." said Ichigo, face full of not-liking-this-ness.
"Don't worry Ichigo! It looks like a great plan." said Rukia, trying to reassure him.
The fact that she could barely contain her laughter didn't help to convince him.
"No worries, Kurosaki, all plans I come up with are infallible."
Ichigo sighed.
To any onlooker, what they would see is one mech on all fours, with another on its knees behind the first, slightly bent over, one hand on the other's shoulder, the other hand holding the sniper rifle steady.
"Can't believe I went along with this…" Ichigo muttered.
"Kurosaki! Do you know what my sensors say about your power level!"
"Don't tell me…"
"IT'S OVER NINE THOUUUSAAAAAAAANDDDDDDD-"
"GODDAMNIT ISHIDA!" yelled Ichigo, breaking from their uncomfortable (but hot) formation.
"What are you doing, Ichigo!" shouted Rukia, as the former charged their shared mech towards the Mocha Grande which had been charging up its attack.
The massive being unleashed its beam-o'-doom straight at Ichigo, who had massive balls or something, cause seriously what the hell, but he took it, straining against the pressure building up, when suddenly two large metallic orbs appeared at the base of his mech, between his feet.
Ichigo looked at them, then looked back up at the Mocha Grande, before smiling and casually saying:
"Motherfucker, you're going down."
He kicked up the orbs a few feet into the air, where they ended up blocking the enemy's energy beam, and absorbing the attack. He then hit the two spheres with his massive sword, sending them flying straight towards the M. Grande, before smashing against its head, cracking it a bit.
The creature wailed in agony, and opened up the sky again, retreating from this area, this battleground.
"Hell yeah!" shouted Ishida, taking some potshots at the remaining Hollowtrons who were retreating with it.
Ichigo breathed a sigh of relief. The unholy creature had finally left.
Rukia gave him a pat on the back, and exited the cockpit, which smelled like an unbelievable amount of sweaty testosterone.
She looked at the sky, tired and weary, but glad it was over.
She looked around to see Ishida, finding him reflexively crouching and standing up repeatedly over the frame of a downed Hollowtron.
The three had gathered back together, when Ichigo said:
"Well, guess we can get back to class now that this is over."
"Guess so." said Rukia.
"So is your feud over yet, Ishida?"
"What? I mean, I-I guess…But it's not because I like you or anything!" said Ishida loudly, stammering a bit.
Ichigo stared at him perplexedly.
"Was just trying a change of role, see how it was."
"But why a tsundere?..."
"Nerds will be nerds." said Rukia, hands on hips, smile on face.
"Wait…there was something I had to tell you…it was important too…uhh…urr…hrm…"
Ichigo looked at Ishida, waiting for him to find whatever it was he forgot.
"RIGHT! Your friends are in danger, cause they've been around you and so you leaked some spirit energy around them (cause you're apparently radioactive), causing them to be more attractive than normal people to Hollowtrons, and so…yeah."
Ichigo looked at him, somewhat unamused.
"You couldn't have found a better time to say this?"
"What? And be non-dramatic?"
Ichigo raised his hand to his forehead and sighed.
There wasn't much he could say.
Elsewhere, Chad was being stalked by a flying Hollowtron.
As for Tatsuki and Orihime's boobs, they were being observed by a weird flower/octopus-like one.
(Cue dramatic wind)
