Twenty years ago within the wastelands...

Wonderweiess stood on top of a burnout skyscraper overlooking the remains of a raided shielded city, with the settlement, now engulfed in flames, while the bodies of Quincy, Fullbringers and Human's alike were litered all over the streets. While some of them have their souls being eaten by the remaining Hollows and Arrancars.

It was a complete victory for him and the squadron he was part of...yet he didn't feel much joy in it.

'Oh, so there you are NiƱo, and to think I have thought you would be among the casualties' A tall man with black horn-like hair, blue eyes, a van-dyke beard, and a mustache addressed him. Which made Maragela sigh in annoyance.

'Dordoni Alessandro Del Socaccio this is the 5th city we sacked sir.' The young Arrancar argued. 'If I didn't die in the other assaults it is unlikely I will die in this one'

The older man then chuckled. 'Perhaps, but even so one shouldn't underestimate, one's enemies despite how many victors the archived under their belt'

Wonderweiess then snorted and rolled his eyes. 'Look, Sir, with all due respect, unless we are going to face a Ritterlehrling or god forbid one of the Sternritters I don't have much to worry about' He reasoned half-heartedly while overlooking looked the ruined remains of the area below him. 'Especially since we have only been targeting small shielded cities like this one'

'Hmm...true' Dordoni agreed. 'However, I wouldn't completely judge an enemy based solely on their rank alone Nino and even then...' His eyes then narrowed. 'It is always possible his majesty may want us to assault one of the major cities in a Grand Imperial March'

Wonderweiess remains quiet for a moment and then sighs. 'Maybe he will maybe he won't. But I severely doubt he would call upon a mere Numerous and a Privaron for something that big' He then began to place both of his hands in his pockets. 'I am going down to eat some of the reaming souls and then I am returning to Hecuo Mundo' He then looked at his boss. 'If that is okay with you?'

Dordoni stared at the boy for a moment and then left his hands up in shrugged. 'Do as you wish Nino' He accepted and then used Sonido to disappear from sight. While the blonde Arrancar dropped from the skyscraper and into the city streets below.

A few minutes later Wonderweiss began eating some leftover Hollow remains. While gathering his thoughts.

'It has been over a decade since I was made into an Arrancar and joined this stupid army and I am no closer to becoming a Vasto Lorde or seeing the end of this war' He thought while continuing to bite into the Hollow's leg and then let out a deep breath. 'Maybe joining in an imperial march might not be so bad, if only so it could bring me one more step to my freedom'

Suddenly Wonderweiss heard a sound from a nearby store with broken windows and worried it was a surviving enemy. Immediately he used Sonido to rush to the source and found a figure trying to hide from the Arrancar by ducking beneath a nearby counter.

'You know if you are going to keep yourself hidden from nearby enemies you could at least try to be a bit less noisy..' Maragela spoke out to the person as he crouched on top of the counter, who stutter away in fright and it was then that the young hollow managed to get a good look at their face.

He was a tall man, with spiky raven hair and aqua blue eyes and dressed in gray pants, fastened by a brown belt, and a white shirt with an orange apron over it. At first, he looked no different than an ordinary human but upon sensing the man's spiritual power the Arrancar knew exactly what he was.

'So I came across a Shinigami huh?' Wonderweiss then clicked his tongue in disappointment. 'And here I thought it was another Quincy or Fullbringer I can devour...' He then shrugged 'Oh well' The boy then began exit the store much to the man's confusion.

'Hey uh...you are not going to kill me?' The man asked and the Arrancar growled in annoyance.

'And what you want me to!?' He spat making the Shinigami jump in fear before the former calmed himself. 'Look, the only thing I am duty bound here is to kill enemy forces and devour the souls of either the living or my fallen enemies and since you, Shinigami are practically poison ivy to me I have no reason to kill or eat you' He then waved his hand away. 'So buzz off before I change my mind'

The Shinigami then gave the Arrancar a sweet drop. 'Yeah but the thing is there are other Arrancar and Hollows out there that might not be so...'

Wonderweiss then snorted. 'Not my problem'

'Well if you help me get out of the city I can make it worth your time!' The young man argued and then the Arrancar shot him a fearsome look.

'And what exactly would a powerless, sniveling Shinigami could offer me?'

The young man then tried to rapidly think of anything he could come up with. 'Well, I can give you snacks, buy you video games, music players uhh...offer you other food than just souls?'

Wonderweiss then turn his back and continued to walk to the door. 'Goodbye Shinigami'

'I-I will be your slave and fight for you or offer you any fav-!?' The young was immediately silenced when the boy immediately pressed the tip his claymore's blade at his throat.

'Would you do me the favor of shutting the hell up or lie dead?' he said low and darkly. 'Because I am fine with either one!'

The man then lowered his head down in defeat and then sluck to the ground, while Wonderweiss began to turn his head around and exit the store. But before he could make himself leave, something made him stop. Perhaps, it was because he felt pity for the Shinigami that was so desperate to get his help, perhaps it was lingering guilt of abandoning someone who truly needed him despite technically being part of the enemy, or perhaps he just couldn't help but wonder how the man would repay him besides death and silence.

Either way, it's not like he has anything else to lose.

'Alright find...your crying and begging have convinced me' Wonderweiss said sarcastically. 'But I will take you no further than the nearest outskirts of the next shielded city alright?'

The man then shines his eyes with happiness. 'Really oh thank you so much, you have no idea how much this means to me!'

Maragla mumbled in irratation. 'Yes yes I will help you so quiet with the groveling already' He then looked up at the man. 'So tell me what is your name?

The young man then looked at the Arrancar and smiled warmly. 'It's Kaien...' he then hesitated for a bit. 'Kurosaki'

Later in the present.

(Soundtrack of Choice: Hollow Purple)

Wonderweiss smiled deviously when Cang Du entered his holy form and stretched out his arms and claws, hoping to tear the Sternritter apart piece by piece. However, he also noticed that the halo above the man's head began to glow. Which made the Espada snort out a laugh.

'Oh wait, don't tell me you are going to use Sklaverei are you?' The boy questioned sarcastically. 'Sorry to disappoint you, but I already made my spiritual body and power far too reinforced to be assimilated by that technique and I doubt you absorbing parts of the environment will make much difference!'

Cang then remain silent for a moment as he stared down at the Espada. 'True, if have used Skaverei alone then it would indeed not be much use against you...' He then activated the technique as all the structures debris and the streets themselves within the district broke down into spiritual partials and converted into spiritual energy before being absorbed into his halo and then gotten got into a fighting stance and retracted his iron claw. 'However, that is not the only thing I am using

Snorting dismissively, Wonderweiss then used Sondio to appear right in front of Cang and slashed his claws at him, while the latter narrowly dodge to the right side and this time counterattacked by striking a fist at the Arrancar's ribs, pushing him back and sending him crashing into a pile of debris. However, the hollow immediately got himself up confident that the attack didn't do squat.

That is until he coughed up blood from his mouth and nose.

'Wha-What!?' He stuttered and immediately started to feel woozy and weak.

Seeing his opponent looking dispassionately at him. Wonderweiss decided to shrug off the wounds and attack him again, this time appearing behind Cang and trying to hit him with a direct axe kick on the head. But the latter immediately elbowed him in the stomach before the Arrancar could even launch his attack, which was then immediately followed by the Quincy landing a kick directly at his head. Then when Maraglea tried to get up again he immediately felt a massive pain in his stomach from where Cang hit him, which was now darkly purpled with bruises.

'Again?' He grunted in a strained voice as he tried to fight off the pain. 'Just what the hell are you doing to me!?' The boy question while Du remained stoic.

'What I did, was use my spiritual energy to target your internal organs, instead of trying to attack you directly' Cang explain calmly which made Wonderweiss widen his eyes in shock, confusion, and fear.

'Target my internal...' The Espada began to stutter. 'But how is that even possible!?'

Cang then shifted his arms. 'I will not explain the full details, but let's just say it was a technique that I developed to counter the hierro of you Arrancar even when you enter your Segunda Etapa' He then flexed his hands. 'After all, it is one thing to enchant your skin into a layer of armor...' He then narrowed his eyes on the Espada. 'But it is another thing entirely for your internal organs'

Wonderweiss grunted his teeth before giggling and laughing to the point of hysteria.

'Well, we'll, an't that a neat little thing you learn. Bypassing my defense with a fancy martial art trick!' His face then turn murderous as his spiritual pressure exploded in a vast display of power.

'DON'T FUCKING MAKE ME LAUGH!' He screamed out and then from his back hundreds of black tentacle-like arms sported out, while his eyes glowed a bright shade of purple from his his mask.

'If you can potentially harm me...THEN I WILL JUST RETURN IT BACK A THOUSAND TIMES FOLD!'

Wonderweiss then used all his arms to attack Cang Du all at once. Forcing the Quincy to dodge and evade the attacks to the best of his ability and even managing to cut off a dozen of them by now using his claws. But more just simply grew back to take their place.

'Run as much as you like Quincy but it's pointless!' He boasted loudly. While Cang took to the skies to avoid the arms only for them to stretch up high and continued to rapidly follow him and feeling he had little to no choice. Cang then attempted to attack WonderWeiss himself by using the flying step to get within a blindside at his front to launch a blow at the Espada's chest.

But at the moment he tried to do so, dozens of arms suddenly erupted from the ground and managed to grab hold of his legs with the rest restrained both of his arms

With no other means to evade or defend himself, Wonderweiss took one long sadistic look at his once nimble prey and proceeded to launch hundreds of fisted blows at him all once for several seconds. Which unleashing such spiritual pressure and force that it shocked the area around them for several miles and when the Espada launched his last blow on the Sternritter. It impacted a huge and deep creator within the earth itself, which expanded over a hundred feet across in width and twice as much in depth. While Cang Du even with the use of his blunt vein and holy form was reduced to a pummeled mess of bruised flesh and broken bones.

Then upon seeing his fallen foe Wonderweiss let out a screeching laugh of victory and then pulled up the beaten Quincy by his black hair and stared directly at his badly battered face.

'Now do you see the difference between us Cang!' he roared at his fallen foe. 'The only reason why you are still alive or even put up this much of a fight, is because I was taking it easy on you!' He giggled in delight. 'At any given time I could have done this, at any given whim, I could have buried you into the dirt, regardless of what you do and now that you are crushed beneath my fury, I'm going to enjoy tearing you apart for daring to look down on me!'

Cang then stared at WonderWeiss, however instead of showing a face of fear, shock, or even despair like Espada hoped or even expected. The Sternritter gave him the same stoic look that he had the entire battle.

Almost as if...he was expecting this to happen.

Then without warning threads of Reshi suddenly formed around Cang's body, while a pair of Spiritual viper-like fangs quickly formed around his wrists and ankles and within half a second, the martial artist, severed the hands that bound him and hit the Espada with a double fist punch.

'Like I have said before child...' He declared to WonderWeiss as his body began to break apart. 'You leave yourself too many openings'

Blood then shot out from the Arrancar's mouth, nose and mouth, as Cang's spiritual power exploded from the inside out of the boy's body, disabling his Segunda Etapa and causing him to collapse on the ground in defeat.


Alright and with that the sixth Espada has been defeated and the Grand Hollow invasion has reached its halfway point. However Wonderweiss story is far from finished, as his full backstory will be concluded in the chapter. Which will likely be the longest one I have written for this story to date and after another chapter we will get back to Ichigo and the Royal Guards in Las Noches.

So you soon!