Uyru Ishidia stood on top of a giant skyscraper as he watched the dark clouds swirling around the Tokyo Tower. Witnessing the flashes of lightning dancing around it, and from what he could sense, there are at least three Espada within that location. Two of them were the twin 8th Esapda, who seemed to be at the top of the tower. In contrast, Robert was battling another more powerful one.

Lucky for the sternritter, the white prince will soon join him in battle and finish off the 8th Espada for the last time. But before Uryu could do anything else, he senses a massive pulse vibrating across the city. Yet from what the prince could tell. It was not Spiritual pressure, only to widen his eyes in terror upon realizing it was something much worse.

With little time to lose, Uryu immediately used his fastest flying step to blitz toward the tower as soon as possible before the disaster struck.

Elsewhere with Chad and Ichigo.

'Okay, what the hell was that!' Ichigo shouted out as he too felt the same strange energy wave that vibrated across the city along with Sado.

'That Kurosaki was a rupture from the Reimyaku, The energy that runs through the world of the living. Also known as its spiritual pulse,' Chad explained grimly and then set his sights on the Tokyo tower. 'And whatever the Espada are doing, they somehow tap directly into it.'

Ichigo then shot Chad a confused look. 'Okay, so how bad is that?' Ichigo questions, and already the massive man runs towards the tower.

'Enough to endanger all Tokyo, let's go!' The director shouted in urgency, and Ichigo followed behind his friend.

Meanwhile, with Robert and Luppi.

'Well, this is disappointing,' Luppi mockingly said as he looked down at the tired Sternrriter. 'I thought that a Quincy of your reputation would offer for more of a challenge. But then again, like with Zommeri, you too are longed since past your prime.'

Robert then dodged out of the range from several of Luppi's limbs as they suddenly lunged at him. Yet he quickly found himself out of breath, a consequence of suffering the exhaustion from using his holy form and the fact that Luppi was much more powerful than Zommeri as his rank would suggest.

Nonetheless, as a star knight of the holy kingdom, He had to keep fighting and defeat this enemy, If he wanted any chance to stop the other two Espada from endangering the city.

However, before Robert could do anything else, he saw that Luppi was using all eight of his tentacles to charge a grand cero in each one. Much to his growing frustration.

'Sorry, sternrriter, for as much as I love to play around. I am on the time clock, you see, and I can't afford to drag out this fight anymore, then I have to,' Luppi said in a sarcastic apologetic tone. 'So, hopefully, you can forgive me for cutting this short!'

The seventh Espada was then ready to launch all of his eight grand ceros at once at his enemy, Only to find to his shock that all of his tentacles had been pierced by a reshi arrow that exploded on contact—canceling out the combined attack.

Then when the two combatants looked at the one who fired them. Both had different reactions, with Luppi growling in annoyance while Robert sighed in relief.

'White prince Uryu!' The older sternrriter declared as he saw Ishida still drawing his bow.

'Sorry for the delay Robert Acctrone. But I am here to end this conflict now,' the white prince said sternly, and sternrriter nodded in agreement.

'Ugh, how troublesome,' Luppi pouted as he regrew all eight limbs. 'It's bad enough to fight one of you knights, but a prince?' The Espada shook his head in dismay. 'That might be a bit difficult even for me.'

The Espada then readied his stance as his demeanor hardened. 'But regardless of my feelings on the matter. I do have a duty to uphold.'

The Arrancar then began to raise his spiritual pressure. Likey as a means of undergoing his second release.

Until a roar echoed over Tokyo Tower, Its voice sounded like the screams of a man and a female. Which then clued in everyone present on who those two voices belonged to, and as their roar echoed across the sky, the thunder and lighting became much more chaotic.

'Well…' Luppi said as he stared up to the top of the red tower. 'It would seem that Aaroniero and Arruruerie have finally merged back and are ready to unleash their full power.'

Uryru then stared at Luppi in dread.

'What do you mean!?' he demanded, and the 7th Espada gave him a sadistic smile.

'That means, my dear sweet prince, that the primary mission his majesty assigned us Espada is completed…' the Luppi explained with malice. While a negation field suddenly came down upon him. 'And you all have lost.'

Meanwhile, with Keigo, Mizuke, and Tatsuki.

'Damn, It sure is a massive storm gathering around Tokyo tower,' Asasno mused while sitting on the mat bed shirtless. He saved for a couple of bandages wrapped around the wounds on his tone, muscular chest, abs, and arms. 'I hope everyone is okay

'I am sure they are fine, you sap,' Tatsuki commented as she sat next to Keigo and who was also covered in bandages. 'After all, they did defeat one of those Espada bastards'

Mizuke then walked in on the two and sat next to his head, covered in bandages. 'I don't know, Tatsuki; have you felt that spiritual pulse? The Espada must be planning something.'

The dark-haired girl, however, huffed and rolled her eyes. 'Even if they were, we can do nothing about it. For a while, our bodies are fully healed. Our spiritual power hasn't, and unless we are at full strength, we would be a liability to everyone else.'

Keigo then stared at Tatsuki, sighed, and began to ponder.

'I know, all that, but I still want to get out there and fight alongside him….' Asano then looked down on the ground and saw his discarded Xcution tie shirt in tatters. But still intact enough to still have the X emblem on its back.

Keigo then picked up the uniform and stared at it long and hard.

'And yet…I am just content being a field agent even when I could be something more. Like Tatsuki, Mizuke, Rirukra, Chad…and Ichigo,' he thought as he stared off to the distance.

'Could it be because I lack the ambition to rise to the challenge, or I am still holding on to a dead old grudge?' Keigo has scolded himself as he remembered his sister's argument with him, his friends moving out of kakura town and his friend Ichigo…acting differently.

Keigo then wrapped his knees around himself while clutching his head down.

'Or maybe I just still acting like a child?'

However, before the teen lamented further into his thoughts, He then noticed that the clouds became much darker as purple lightning bolts struck the Tokyo Tower and when it did, a horrific Roar that sounded like a cross between a male and female beast echoed across the city sending shivers down Keigo's and his friend's spine.

But then, after the roar ended…an even greater disaster stuck.

Like a tidal wave from armageddon itself, a gigantic surge of dark spiritual pressure swept across the metropolis of Tokyo. That was far more twisted than anything the fullbringers had ever felt before. As the ripple spread, a black violet vortex of energy surrounding the entire Tokyo tower, obscuring it from view.

'What…' Tatsuki stuttered in fear and barely comprehended what she saw. 'What the hell is-'

Splat!

The woman stopped when she noticed a rain droplet fell on her right arm. However, it looked too slimy, purple, and reddish compared to water, and then moving tentacles with eyes and mouths suddenly sprouted out from it.

'AAAAGGGHH!' Tatsuki screened in panic as she immediately rubbed the slime off her arm. But to her horror, more of the slim began to rain down from the blacked clouds, and to make it worse; it was becoming more rapid in its fallout.

She saw the desperate situation at hand. Orihime immediately brought up her Santen Kesshun to protect her friends from the slime tentacle rainfall as it continued to pour. The cyclone that swirls around the Tokyo tower begins to compress itself.

Before transforming into a monstrosity more horrific than anything, they could imagine in the worst of their nightmares.

The 8th Espada's bodies were now a morbid fusion of octopus, a human, and the tower itself. As tentacles, fresh mouths, and eyes merged into one. While on top of the abomination stood Aaroniero and Arruruerie. Who now share one humanoid body, supported by two entirely hollowed heads. They had abandoned Everything that made them resemble humans anymore. In contrast, a bat-like collar surrounded their neck in a morbid attempt to appear aristocratic in design.

And then the two horrors spoke in a single verse, To highlight what they become.

'Sengunda Etpa.'