Chapter 15: Back to Hueco Mundo

The others were lucky they had Grimmjow on their side, thanks to him they were able to get through Hueco Mundo with limited problems, dividing the space between worlds before their feet hit the sands of Grimmjow's home world, "Well, that didn't take long at all." Ichigo smiled looking around the landscape of the crumbled kingdom.

Everyone looked into the distance, the Espada being the only to had to be forced to return once again. The others could think the same thing as they noticed the change in the darkened skies. Lightening bursting in the clouds that swirled around the rubble.

It gave a bad scent in the air almost enough to make Grimmjow cough and spit just to get the smell out of his mouth.

Then he got it, another scent. The smell of Ren's blood reaching his nostrils as it blew up wind. His eyes widened his pearly whites gritting when he felt her rieshi in the old not-so- abandoned castle of Sousuke Aizen.

"There!" They all tried to keep up with in their flash step but the Espada. He was just in such a rush he was leaving everyone else in the dust, "Damn it! Grimmjow slow down! We'll save her, alright?"

"I can smell her! I can sense her better than the lot of ya, and her time is up!"

"I know, but Kisuke told you to take it easy. Remember your wounds haven't fully healed."

"Yeah, maybe it has to do with the fact that he left so abruptly otherwise Orihime could've healed him completely." Renji snickered eyes flat and a mischievous cat like grin on his face.

"And if I let the woman do so we would be too late. So either way I'm screwed." Grimmjow growled, getting impatient by the minute, "And ya know me. This kitty cat scratch won't keep me from getting what I want! I'm getting what's mine back!" Suddenly, from the left of him Renji popped up, his eyes concentrated on the Sexta. He almost seemed disappointed in Grimmjow, "And what the hell do you want!"

"You know, the more you keep being reckless the less chance you'll have at saving your girlfriend." Grimmjow's face flustered a bit, frustrated at Renji's words. Why? Did he really need a reason? "Say something else, ass wipe! I'm not in the mood for words of wisdom right this second!"

"You want to start something blueberry?"

"You bastard!"

"Wait-, you call him red all the time…So why is it he can't call you a name?"

"Kurosaki! I swear!"

Suddenly Rangiku flew over the two, "Oh, knock it off you too! You're all whine like a bunch of cry babies! If we want to do this right, we're going to need back up! My Captain has already starting evacuating certain part of the Seretei(sp?), and they're permitting Kentai Keijo if the rest of us need it."

"Uh…..M-Matsumoto?" Renji asked doing a double take to his friend flying next to him.

"That's my name." The busted broad seemed to be clueless of why the three seemed so surprised to see her.

Her untimely arrival leaving the three boys staring at her smiling face, "Where the hell did you come from?" Ichigo pointed from here, eyes widen and blinking mindlessly as he seemed transfixed seeing Ikkaku and Yumichika "Oh no way you guys are here too?"

"Of course, this things bigger than we thought, so what can we do. Soul Society will be destroyed if that happen, and we can't allow that."

"Good, we're going to need if we're going to get rid of Aizen for good. It seems that he wanted to finish the job this time."

"Speaking of which. We saw the other Espada's there too…" They all had a feeling they were thinking the same thing, but Ichigo had to ask, "…Doesn't it seem weird that they just…I don't know, decided to take his side after he attempted to kill them before?"

"What?" Grimmjow looked at Ichigo's suspecting face, a little annoyed still from the previous statement from Renji, "I noticed this when you were fighting Ren. Ulquoirra seemed, way too obedient to be doing something as to take another Arrancar, especially after Aizen put everyone through hell. Not only that I thought I killed Ulquiorra. I don't get it, what the hell is going on?" Grimmjow began to wonder it himself looking down at the sand beneath him, only to finally come across the center of the palace.

The hallways were quiet and dark, the only thing making noise in the area was the sound of droplets, and in the distance Ren's screaming. It sounded so far away, that it only left a fearful tingle in Grimmjow. It pissed him off to feel it. He didn't fear anything, and this sound. It was so painful to his ears, "This place still gives me the creeps. Even more so than it was still intact." Ichigo was spoke for the rest of them as Grimmjow smelled the air around him. It was silent for a split second, before the panther pulled out his Zanpakuto to the darkness in front of him, "Grimmjow what the hell are you doing?"

"You don't sense that Shinigami? You're not opening your senses enough! You best be on your toes, because we're about to be in a whole heap of trouble." Ichigo was confused about what he was talking about, until he felt a large sharp slash at his shoulder blade causing a yelp to release from his mouth.

Drops of his blood fell to the floor, as he got a hold of himself pulling out his Zanpakuto as the wind around them began to swirl. The strains of sand on the ruined floors made little tornados beneath their feet, "Shit. What was that?" Their eyes searched around in the dark before ducking at once when a huge Cero came at their heads, "Grimmjow…" The voice spread like venom through his ears as he recognized the tone off the bat, "Ulquoirra…" He growled putting his hand over his Zanpakuto's blade, preparing it for their release mode, "Welcome home…" The white faced gravitated down to them, tapping his toes as he hit the reflective tile floor.

Blue eyes met with Green, both just as deadly and cool as the other, before Grimmjow slowly pulled out his sword, his finger tips scratching across the blade, "Grind…Pantera!"

Ren was still falling into extreme agony, her body constantly gushing with blood, but steadily continuing to reconstruct her flesh, from head to toe. When it had completely the outside in started with the inside. Her eyes were dry of the blood, but her mouth continued to spill of the copper taste, the feel cold of her body growing cold and pale as she tried to keep herself on conscious side of the abyss, "How long will you persist on holding yourself back, Ren? The longer you wait, more the pain will only eat away at you until you either exhaust yourself or you die. Either way you will see things my way." Aizen put his hand up to her violet Reishi that spat out around her, and the walls of the room, swirling up to the ceiling and coming down like a chandelier, forming into a shape of an animal, "You're afraid. I understand. No one could ever appreciate the true strength your body possess. That's why they're afraid of you. But I see the urge behind those eyes. The need to be free." He continued to play with her Pegasus, watching the spirit animal spread its wings and neigh up into the thunder lit sky, "You're almost there…I can feel it in your soul." He knew the time was getting close now, and decided on one factor as he snapped his fingers to open a portal, "I guess this means we should get going. Soul Society is waiting for our arrival." Now, unlike the portals that soul society or hollows used, this portal was able to transport a bunch of people at once. One of his own inventions that he had kept for so long as well. One that would take him straight to the Sieretei, as well as everyone else. He needed to make sure everyone was there for the finale.

From where he stood, he could feel the others coming for the girl not too far off from where they were. Aizen knew this would happen, how could they resist when they care about the girl so little and yet so much? From here on out it was now or never, "I'm sure by the time we arrive Ren…You'll be ready to do your part. I'm counting on it." He gazed at the woman's body now, her reishi was still out of control but the pain was getting so bad she could only laid there staring off into the distance, shaking uncontrollably as it continued to break her down and build her up again.

A few cries would seep passed her lips every now and again. Aizen could tell she had just about enough by the way her eyes fell tired and the tears streamed silently down her face, "I know my darling Ren. It hurts so much…It'll all be over soon, all you have to do is…Let go…Just let it all go…" He cooed to her before the portal closed between the worlds, transporting them all to soul society.

"What is that?" Renji, Ichigo and the others looked up from battling the other Arrancars, including Grimmjow who seemed distracted by his fight with Ulquoirra at the moment, "It seems Aizen's opened the portal to the Seireitei. But this doesn't make sense…" Suddenly the entire walls and ceiling glowed a neon violet, sparks electrocuting the walls, and everything in between them, "He's transporting us…"

All of us? How?" Ulquoirra glanced over at Renji before looking over to Grimmjow again, "Ren isn't a person, Grimmjow. She's a thing. Nothing more than a machine. Don't you get that? Aizen only calls her his daughter because she was made from his DNA. Nothing more. Other than that she is but a tool." Grimmjow chuckled to the Cuatro Espada with a venomous smirk, "You think you got us of all figured out huh? Well, you don't know nothin' about Ren. You might think she's not real, but what about us? Are we real? Humans can't see us because of their weak spiritual energy to be able to see creatures like us, and what makes her any different than a mod soul, basically she is one if you know who to talk to." Grimmjow's eyes were wide with rage, only having Ulquiorra stay the same. Unfazed, emotionless. It was always the same look every time, never different.

The panther always found him so dull, "Who?" Ulquiorra finally asked.

"It doesn't matter. When this is all over, I'm going to shred you till you are splattered all over the walls!" The fight continued Zanpakuto's clashing to one another's in an all out quick speed, swift keen battle.

The others could almost, barely keep up, "Damn, he's so fast. I almost forgot how strong he was." Ichigo admitted pulling out his mask over his face as Renji released his Bankai on another arrancar. Wasn't sure of the name, but they wouldn't respond to Renji even if he tried, "Yeah, well, he's been training with Ren a little so I wouldn't be surprise if her speed stuck to him."

"What? How strong is Ren exactly? It's not like I've ever seen her fight." Ichigo destroyed another Fraccion hearing it cry through out the rubble before it diminished into dust. This is too easy, it took me days to kill off Espada's and Fraccions, what the hell is this?

"You'll just have to ask her one day." Renji smirked as he clashed with his enemy, Ikkaku and Yumichika fighting the same enemy (Even though usually had strick circumstances not to get in each others way), and Rangiku was already on her way to help Renji. They all hoped at this pace they could defeat the horde quick enough to get to Ren.

Speaking of which, Ren wasn't too far off from walking up to the portal leading through S.S. Grimmjow could feel it, and he growled even further pushing Ulquoirra away with his feet to his face, before leaping off to sonido down the halls, following the extraordinary Reishi, "So, trying to go after the girl are you?" Ulquoirra followed after him leaving Ichigo wide eye, "Grimmjow! Hey! You can't just leave us behind like that! Asshole! "

"What an idiot. Should we go after him?" Renji asked jumping up to the ceiling to block an attack, "We might not have a choice, Aizen wasn't really thinking when he got these arrancar. I don't even think these are the real Espadas. Those ones were at least a challenge, but these guys...They're just as strong as the Gillians or the Vasta Lordes."

Renji itched his face as he pondered on it a little more, "Come to think of it, you do have a point. Yammi, Szayel, Nnorita, Halibel, all of them were a bigger challenge to the ones that fought them. I mean, we've fought Yammi, I fought Szayel, and they were all hard as butts to defeat!"

Ichigo thought about it more, "Maybe it's because all he needs is Ren. Considering how bad she could destroy all the worlds if she wanted to. That is his goal after all. Right? To make a New World?" Renji stared at his orange headed friend and smirked confidently, throwing his Zabimaru into the Arrancars face behind him, watching as it dissolved off his Zanpakuto, "Then, we'll just have to stop her before that happens, won't we?"

"Grimmjow's already ahead of us. Doesn't he have that thing that Urarhara showed us?"

"You mean that mod soul? Well, body…Whatever, yeah, he already knows what to do with it." It was an interesting device, big enough to fit Ren's soul, but small enough it could fit into a small dimensional box. Grimmjow had it safely secured in his pant pockets, ready to give it to Ren even if he had to make a daring move to get to her, of course trying to avoid getting killed in the process if it was possible. After everything, Grimmjow wanted to prove to, not just Ren, but to himself that his sacrifice would be for something. Something big, and something worth every ounce of strength he possessed.

A moment flashed through his mind where he could see her smiling again, back when she wanted to stay alive, to see the world before she died.

He didn't know why, but hearing the echo of that memory made his mind race, his heart throb and his body move faster. He was determined to save her. Ren, I'm gonna make sure you live! You will! His speed persisted to speed swiftly, ignoring the Cuatro Espada that was right on his tail.

He was trying to grab for him, trying hard to catch the Sexta, but then something occurred to him. Something he had to ask Ulquiorra, if he didn't it would probably bother him to no end to know a reason for his actions, "Hey, Ulquoirra. Why are you listening Aizen? After he abandoned you in your fight with Ichigo and let you die at his hands, he had cared less about our survival. In the end we were just the same as Ren. Toys for him to do as he please with. Well I won't let him get to me. I won't let him take Ren no matter what you do to me. You can take my arms and my legs, and I will still continue to fight you both until I get Ren back! You know, the Ulquoirra I know wouldn't have taken too kindly to something as betrayal from his so called 'Lord'. Or is it something else…" He looked closer into the eyes of his rival seeing only a murderous intent, almost like the one Ren had when she fought him in Kurukura. "Or maybe you're not the real Ulquoirra. Maybe you're a fake like the rest of them." Grimmjow's back was faced the other way, his face turned towards the white face Arrancar chasing him, "Who the hell are you then? A replica?" Ulquiorra kept silent still coming at Grimmjow with a burst of speed making the panther jump out of the way, and back flip over him in a Sonido before he tried to Cero him, "You'll have to do more than that to stop me." Was all Ulquiorra said before spinning off into the darkness.

"Shit, this again. I'm tried of this game Ulquiorra get out here and let's finish this!"

It was a race against time now, and Ren was already walking through soul society, barging through the Seiretei as she destroyed everything in sight. Any Shinigami she saw, she killed them, one by one, "EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY! INTRUDER IN THE SERETEI! I REPEAT-, No! No, no, no wait please! GAH!" The alarms still sounded while the announcer gagged to death by the chains wrapped around his neck. Ren had brought him to his knees, slowly letting him suffocated until he took his last breath, "We'll have enough of that. I was so sick of that when I lived here and now…They'll all parish for sealing me away…Finally, the royal key will be mine at last as well…." Aizen smiled confidently, triumphantly walking behind Ren with ease, her head sway back and forth to find the next victim to raise her sickle to.

"Aizen!" A voice called out from behind the two. Aizen of course looked back, curious to see that it was a few of the Captains of the Gotei 13, Yamamoto, Soi Fon, Ukitake, Kyouroku, Unohana, Zaraki, Byakuya, Kurotsuchi, anyone where a Captain's uniform was there, standing before the traitor, unaware of Ren's innocence in this, only seeing the girl as a threat, and a menace, "Sousuke Aizen, we were soft once before sealing you away with Kisuke's assistance! But this has gone on long enough! You will be destroyed! Ashes when we are done with you!"

"Hm…Sounds like fun." Aizen only smiled when he heard the sound of Ren's chain chiming against the ground as she gripped her daggers tightly in her fist, "And I appreciate the fact that we're just getting right down to the point." A vicious grin consumed his face, his eyes turning to the woman getting into a quick sharp stance, her movements as still as a statue, "Ren, dear~..." His soft voice sang to Ren, her ears perking to the hypnotic tune before suddenly disappearing from the sights of the Gotei 13.

Their eyes scanned for the girl's, knowing her would be instinctively easy to find since it was so different and so powerful, but unfortunately for them, just like Kenpachi's spiritual pressure, Ren's was actually a lot hard to detect, "Damn, do you think Urahara could've been more specific on her abilities?" Kyoroku cursed shifting his eyes around from underneath his sakkat until he suddenly felt himself fall to the ground in an instant, "Captain!" His subordinate Nanao called out before being slashed from the back with Ren's long extraordinary chain that wrapped around the group, "Stand your ground! Don't let her take you by surprise!" The old man exclaimed loud enough for everyone to hear, but Kenapchi only seemed to laugh him off and lick his canine's before he leaped forward, releasing his Zanpakuto from its sheath, "You don't have to tell me that old man. What an interesting opportunity this is..." He grinned chuckling eagerly to start a one on one with the mysterious girl.

He slashed the chain down wrapping the metal around his blade to pull Ren down to the ground, a cloud of cloud of dust bloomed from the ground covering Ren in rubble and dirt as he dragged her across the plain between them.

He may have dragged her about 20 feet, but it did little to nothing when she merely arose from the dirt and dusted herself off with a small eerie hum.

She continued to hum too while she stared at the 11th Division's Captain tilting her head sideways with a big grin, almost as wide as his. She too licked her lips thinking of this man as if he was her next meal. Her next fix to taste the bitterness of flesh blood against her face.

Slowly, she took her time making her way to him, step by step she swayed her hips making only the sound of her heels clomping to the floor as she strolled towards the spiky haired man.

Zaraki could feel it, the idea of her about to come right at him enthralled him. She sped up her pace, flash stepping towards him, their Zankpakuto's the first thing to go off in sparks of violet and yellow. The blades clashed back and forth, one blow after the other, until Kenpachi was hysterically laughing with excitement, "Is that all you got little girl! I've fought Arrancar that put up more of a fight! Come on! Show me what you really got! Don't start holding back now!" Ren didn't seem intimidated by his small taunt, but instead, if anything, her body to push her to push hard against the unknown name of his blade, tasting the blood in the air when she finally pulled back enough to counter block the Captain's attack, cutting him off guard enough to stumble back, surprised, but even more ecstatic than before, "Ha ha! Good! Good! That's what I like! An opponent I can finally enjoy taking down!" He brought down his sword again, missing by an inch slicing a small cut in Ren's cheek, but nothing seem to make her loose her breath or energy, "It's futile, Zaraki, fight her all you want, she will only end up breaking you down till she CUTS you down."

"Fine by me, Aizen! I got admit, you made an awesome creature here!" He laughed slashing his sword down to counter block her chain that attempt to wrap around him, until something in the distance began to come into view for the others that prepared to take down Aizen.

"What is that? That…Spiritual pressure…" Their eyes slightly widened sensing the other Arrancars heading in their direction, the fake Ulquoirra tried his hardest to throw his attacks at Grimmjow who had had just about enough with his shenanigans, "Damn it! Get off my back, you bastard!" Grimmjow attempted to charge up another Cero pointing it straight at the white face Espada, until he was finally able to set it off, causing a large blood red explosion in his direction.

It cleared only to reveal another spiritual pressure that had finally caught up the two arrancars. Grimmjow was actually surprised to see who had come to his rescue, somewhat piss to know he'd have to come and interfere, "Kurosaki! Damn it get out of the way!"

"Go Grimmjow! You're the only one that can get to Ren fast enough to save her! I'll handle him!"

"I don't need-,"

"This isn't up for discussion! You've said before we're running out of time. Now, do you want to save Ren or not!" The panther knew he was right. As much as the boy annoyed him, but saving Ren was his priority, and it made Grimmjow growl considering he wanted to finish Ulquoirra himself, but as he scanned the eyes of the green eyed Cuatro, he realized that it wouldn't of matter, because the real one was dead and Aizen was the one to fool him and the others. That, once again, Ulquiorra and Aizen would both pay for their undoing's.

Everything, "You better hurry the hell up Shinigami! We don't have time to deal with the small fry. So, don't die!"

"Right." Ichigo laughed before bringing his combat face to the table and began to push Ulquoirra back, freezing in their place in the sky as they battled it out on their own.

Grimmjow couldn't help but watch the two race off, Ichigo wiping his hand across his face to bring back his hollow mask.

Seeing that Ichigo also had Renji to back him up, Grimmjow could've cared less if the two returned dead or alive, and sped off as fast as his being was able, I'm always off by a matter of seconds, but I'm getting close, if I can just…Get to you this time…Get close enough to get this…mod body to sync up with your soul…Maybe…Just Maybe…You'll come back to me, "Goddamn it I hope this works."

Next - Chapter 16: The Hell I'm Afraid

I'm so close to where I left off on Quizilla I can feel it guys…Can you feel it. I can feel it…I can feel it-, (sound of a dart) in my NECK! RUUUN! UNTIL NEXT TIME GRIMMY FANS! R&R!