Later at the battle site of Cang Du and Wonderwiess.
'Well, guess that happens when I allowed my hopes to get up,' Margela said to a down and gravely wounded Cang Du. The sternrriter barely had enough strength to raise his head from the ground from where his sunglasses were smashed against, exposing his pale blue eyes.
'But then again, I have to admit, for you to be still breathing after the beat down gave you...that has to mean something, right?' the child Arrancar asks sarcastically with a sadistic grin as he walks over to the broken Quincy.
Cang Du himself did not know what happened during his fight with Wonderweiss. At one moment, he was fighting evenly against his resurrección with his Quincy: Vollständig. Then in the next moment, the cheeky Espada punched right through his iron skin like it was nothing, and, through that one opening, he hit him into the pavement without remorse before beating him down to an inch of his life.
It just did not make any sense. While the Sternrriter knew the Arrancar's spiritual power increased several times fold upon releasing his zanpaktou. It should not have been enough to punch through his iron skin; in fact, his holy form should have magnified its defense even greater!
However, when Cang tried to activate his schrift once more. To his shock and horror, he suddenly realized that he could not.
'Ah, so it would seem you finally figured out my ability, didn't you?' Wonderweiss commented while standing above his fallen adversary.
'Well, since you are one the few that managed to survive this long against me and that you will die anyway and regardless of what you do at this point. I might as well honor your efforts and tell you exactly what the power of my resurrection is...' the Espada explains as he kneels to Cang's level.
'Its power, as its name Extinguir, suggests...is the power to extinguish one's abilities, ' Wonderweiss spoke forebodingly, and Du widened his eyes in shock.
'You see, Mr. Cang, all living beings within this world and beyond have a unique power and ability tied to the essence of their very soul. Regardless of how they manifest that said ability. Whenever they are human, hollow, Shinigami, or Quincy, my unique power can seal it away,' the Arrancar explained with glee while the Quincy gained an ever-growing horrible realization on his face.
'So that means...all those...sternritters you killed?' Cang slowly stated as he slowly got off the shattered pavement.
'Were felled by me because I negated their ever so reliable schrift,' Wonderwiess explained in a dark, playful tone. 'Oh, how I loved the anguish and confusion on their faces, upon seeing their god-given gifts stripped away from them, rendered helplessness before me and right before I put them out of their misery,' the boy Arrancar ranted sinisterly.
'Which is exactly what I'm going to do to you here...AND NOW!' The Espada then lunged his right hand at Cang Du's head, intent on piercing open Quincy's skull just like how the latter once tried to do to him.
…only for the iron sternritter to suddenly grab the Espada's hand, much to Wonderweiss's disbelief.
'What the-SLAM! That was all the Arrancar said before Cang slammed his fist right into his face with Blut Arterie, his punch enchanted with his blut arterie, which sent the Espada ramming into several skyscrapers at once before crashing into the street below and forming a crater beneath himself.
'Ugh...dammit,' Margiela whined in pain as he slowly got up from the crash site. Only to find himself nearly collapsing back to the ground, much to his confusion.
'What is...!?' Wonderweiss Margela then felt a wet flesh wound near his stomach and then realized, to his fright, that there was a massive bloody hole in it.
And upon seeing that, the Espada... begins to panic.
'He was able to punch through m-my Hierro in my Resurrección ...in MY RESURRECCION FORM!' he screams in his mind as he slowly and shakenly places both hands on his head. 'That...shouldn't be...
'Possible?' Cang answered for him as he suddenly appeared in a flash before Wonderwiess and stared furiously at him.
'Let me tell you, something child, for a while; it's true that most appointed sternritter over-rely on the Schrifts that his Majesty gave them. That alone does not apply to all the star knights who serve the holy kingdom, especially those who have a seat on the order's council, where proficiency in all Quincy abilities is required.'
The sternritter then slowly walked up to the down Arrancar, who slowly backed away from him in fear.
'A lesson that I will soon bury deep within your ill-gotten soul,' Cang declared in rage as he lunged at the now frightened Espada.
Later with Robert and Zommerai.
'You are mistaken, Romeri,' Robert said while keeping his gun train on the Arrancar.
'You underestimated the strength of the order of the sternritter. Which had now cost both of you dearly' the elder Quincy then tightened the trigger on his gun. 'Are there any last words for you to say before I deal with the final blow?
Zommeria then remained silent for a few moments and then chuckled darkly. 'Nothing, but merely the expression of my ambition,' the Espada spoke ominously, and Robert, not wanting to waste any more time with his opponent, pulled the trigger on his piece and fired.
...Only to see in his shock that the reshi bullet he shot from his gun failed to go through the grants shield like he expected but instead only embedded itself into it.
'Well, that is peculiar,' Robbert thought in confusion and concern, 'the great printz shield I modified is meant to be nigh impenetrable from the inside. Yet fallible on the outside to both trapped and shot down my targets in a single go. Yet he could reinforce the outer shell with his spiritual pressure…is this another ability?'
The veteran pondered, but before he could continue his train of thought. He then noticed that the Printz shield was darkening in color. At the same time, glowing with the deep pink spiritual of the ninth Espada…before a sizeable yellow eye suddenly sprouted out from the center shield!
Which only left Robert half a second to evade a massive pink blast of spiritual energy. That was much more concentrated and potent than even a Grand ray cero as the ray of power shot out across the horizon and vaporized countless skyscrapers to dust within its path.
The sternriiter looked back at the grintz imprisonment in bafflement as the shield began to bend and split open like a blooming flower and revealed the 9th's Espada's new form.
Zommeris's skin turned pitch-black while his highly muscular body was left entirely naked, saved for a white rope that maintained his modestly. His legs lay cross sharp and hovered below a white, pink flower of spiritual energy. His arms multiplied into that of four, with each carrying a golden ball of energy in each hand, and in the center of the Arrancar's chest was a giant pink and golden tribal marking in the form of a lidless eye that radiated and glowed with power. Then when the Espada turns to face Robert. His eyes glowed with a lusting, sickening yellow. He grins at his foe with malice and delight as his spiritual pressure skyrockets.
At that moment, the sternrriter realized to his dread what exactly the 9th Espada turned into.
'Behold Robert Accotrune, my Sengunda Etpa! the ultimate reawakening and expression of my armor!' Zommeri reviled as he fully stretched out all four of his arms and conjured hundreds of tiny yellow orbs within the air itself. With each having the same tribal eye tattoo on the Arrancar's chest.
'So, tell me, the beloved elder of the star knight order…do you have any last words before facing your ultimate demise?'
Meanwhile, with the Keigo, Tatsuki, and Mizuiro.
To even call it a fight for survival would have been an understatement. In describing the struggle Keigo and the rest of his friends had to face against Arrurenrei. As the female counterpart of the 8th Espada proved far more unhinged and ballistic than her pragmatic male partner could ever be.
It became significantly worse when she unleashed her resurrection form, which turned her body into a mass of tentacles, red mouths, octopus-like limbs, and an uncanny deformed fusion of her hollow mask fusing with her face. While her speed and strength vastly increased.
The crazed woman Arrancar danced across the battlefield like a mad harpy, swiping her clawed hands and feet at the fullrbingers in rapid succession. They could barely avoid her attacks and prevent themselves from being shredded to pieces. But it only got worse as the battle dragged on as the Espada began to use more of her collected hollow powers. Luckily for them, she had yet to call out her hollow hoard to aid her.
The first power she called upon Niebla De Sombra (Shadow mist) involved turning her into a black fog to avoid Keigo's and Mizuiro fullbring from hitting her and later using it to get past their guard attack them from behind multiple times.
The second ability was named Extremidades Y Polilla De Expulsión (limbs and mouth of expulsion), which involved Arrurenrei transforming her limbs into two sizeable white tumors like tentacles that absorbed all solid matter into themselves like a sponge and then spawning all the gripped parts from a massive jaw that morphed open from her chest and belly.
And as of now, a third ability named Pluma Corruptors (corrupting quill) involved shooting spikes from every portion of her body. They are coated with a poison that turns everything; they impale into stone.
Thankfully with a bit of determination, skill, teamwork, and luck, the Fullbrigers held their own against the Espada…Unfortunately, that was about the only thing that they could do.
'Oh, what is the matter, little younglings? Tucker out already?' Arrurenrei mocked while pushing back her white hair and then smiled teasingly. 'It would be ashamed for this dinner and show to end soon!'
The rest of the field agents looked barely capable of even offering a retort as all of them were covered in bruises, cuts, and sweet from exhaustion. With Keigo's uniform missing its right sleeve, Mizuke sporting a lousy cut on top of his forehead, and Tatsuki's armor showing multiple scars and dents.
They were running low on stamina, and their enemy knew it too well.
'Alright, guys, I finally figure out how to take down this bitch…but it is a long shot….' Keigo explained, and Tatsuki huffed.
'What else is new?' she said, half tired, half agitated, and then stared at Aasno. 'Are you ready to pull it off?'
Keigo then looked back at her, nodded, and turned his Mizuiro. 'Are you up for Kojima' he asked sincerely, and the younger man nodded.
'I am ready when you are, Asano, ' Mizuiro answered with a kind smile that Keigo returned.
Keigo then closed his eyes and grabbed hold of his friends' hands, resonating his thoughts, feelings, and motives for the upcoming endgame.
'Well...this is an all for in or nothing gamble that will likely get us all killed if we mess up...but if we don't put in our faith in it at all. Then none of us will be walking out of here tonight' Agent of Xcuation opened his eyes and stared directly at Arrurenrei before he and his friends broke off in unison.
'Alright, let's go!' Keigo roared out in a battle cry as he then used bringer light to instantly zip right in front of the eighth Espada and lunged a kick right at her head, which she dodged with ease.
'Oh, what's this now?' the white-haired sadist pondered while dodging an uppercut from the desperate man.
'Not too long ago, you tried to evade me, upon realizing your fullbring was useless against me,' She commented before transforming into mist, swirling around Keigo's body, appearing behind him, and posing herself to strike at his spine.
'Unless you only did that to distract me... isn't it?' Arrurenrei guessed, and soon after that, she felt a massive blast of flame coming from her right.
But instead of evading it or even looking in its direction, the female Espada just lifted her right hand and revealed another hollow power, which involved absorbing the flames into her arm, completely negating the attack. Then, in the same move, Arrurenrei transformed her arm into a long white tentacle and swiped at Keigo, who did a high black flip to avoid the swipe.
Which unleashed enough force to cause a shockwave so powerful it leveled the entire left side of the city block, crushing buildings and uprooting sidewalks in its wake.
Yet even with that level of destruction, the crazed Arrancar was not finished. Several hundreds of spikes surged out from all over her body and shot themselves all out at once towards the fullbringer agents. Each of which was all laced with the stone turning venom. However, Mizuiro managed to appear right in front of the spikes and launched hundreds of his black coins at them, snapping them simultaneously in mid-air.
Unfortunately, however. Arrurenrei used the opportunity to blitz towards the leveled site of the city clock and stretched out her two white tentacles once more. She then used them to absorb all the nearby rubble and fires of the demolished area into them, and a moment later, a massive, fanged mouth began to open between her chest and stomach.
They realized what was about to happen. Keigo and Mizurio suddenly got behind Tatsuki. She then spikes her spiritual pressure to its absolute limits to prepare for the worst.
Then the mouth was opened and exhumed.
With the force of a tidal wave, hundreds of tons of rubble, pavement, trees, and flames poured out from the mutated stomach mouth of the Arrancar. At the same time, Tatsuki counters it with one of her ultimate techniques.
'Moeru yōna kaiten suru tate! (Blazing spinning shield)
She roared out as a massive disk of fire swirled in front of her, blocking the wave of debris as the rapid spinning fire disk reduced everything that struck against it into ash, and then, after a few moments of struggle. The flame-wielding Fullbringer then expanded the blazing spinning shield and caused it to detonate, which resulted in a massive explosion of fire and ashes that obscured the movements of the agents of Xcution.
But the 8th Espada could still very much sense them.
With an almost casual movement, Arruneri sidestepped out of the way of Keigo's fist, coming down upon her while giving him a practically conceding look of compassion.
'What an utter pity...' She mused in thought.
'All that effort, all that spectacle, and in the end, the only thing they amounted to was coming with another mundane ambush' Arruneri then readied her sharpened claws. 'It nearly makes me want to spare them...but sadly, witnessing their despair is too tempting to pass up!'
The Espada then waited for Keigo to slam his fist uselessly into the ground and prepared herself to take the opening to finish the human off.
But that was not what happened when the Rules of Choas hit the shattered pavement.
Arruruerie suddenly found herself floating and rising into the air in a moment of complete bafflement. She then realized that the field Agent used his Fullbring to break the law of Gravity to trip her off. But even then, this would only temporarily hinder the Espada. She immediately began to call upon her stone turning spikes from her body to impale her foe...
Only to find out that several black coins from behind suddenly pierced every vital organ of her body. From her stomach, lungs, heart, and even her head, she saw that Miziro had emerged from a shattered piece of space when she turned her head around. Having used to it evade her senses and attack her while she was momentarily helpless.
The life of Arruruerie then suddenly faded from her eyes as her corpse floated further up into the air before dispersing into reshi, and upon seeing that, Miziro and Keigo let out a deep breath of relief.
'Well, seemed like your plan worked, Asano,' the younger man congratulated Keigo nodded.
'Yeah, it would seem like our luck finally won out' Aasno then went silent. When he suddenly felt a pricking from behind his left abandon and saw to his horror that one of the petrifying spikes had pierced him. With Keigo already seeing and feeling himself turning into stone.
'Impressive human…very impressive,' a cruel, amused female voice called out from one of the devoured hollows outside the battlefield. It slowly transformed itself into Arrunrei, who looked alive and well.
'Unfortunately for you, it is still not enough to defeat me,' she spoke menacingly as she slowly walked up to the two exhausted full bringers. 'And from what I can see, that was the last gamble you had in killing me.'
Keigo then stared at the Espada, too tired and injured to offer any more of a fight. But instead of expressing a look of hopelessness and defeat, he smirked.
'What makes you think…that was our plan?' The tired teen asked, and before Arruruerie could answer, She heard a loud crack from the other side of the battlefield and witnessed to her shock that the negation shield trapping Uryu Ishida was shattered.
Well, another chapter is done, and I hope you enjoy it
Now let's discuss the powers and characters seen in this chapter.
The first one to discuss is Wonderweiss Margela. He is already much different than his canon counterpart as he was able to maintain his intelligence, speech, memory, and reasoning. But as a result, he is much weaker than his canon counterpart...when not using Segunda Etapa.
But the most significant change I made for Wonderweiss is expanding his resurreccion ability from just sealing away Yamamoto's zanpakuto to sealing anyone's unique ability in general, to make the Arrancar less of a one-trick pony.
The second one is Zommeri. In which his Segunda Etapa is heavily based on his beyond resurrection form. While also adding my unique twist to it. With Zommeri's armor power being extended to take over even inanimate objects and the ability to reinforce his power through them.
And lastly is Aaroniero'sextremidades y polilla de expulsión (limbs and mouth of expulsion)ability. Which is heavily inspired by the Nuppeppo from Nioh 2. An enemy can crush you, swallow you whole, eat you, and then spit you out.
Anyway, that is all, for now, see you soon.