The Soundtrack of Choice: Bleach Brave Souls OST #3 - Fuerza (3rd Anniversary)

Knowing how powerful their enemy has become, all the men within James's squadron tried to gang up on the newly empowered Espada.

...but it was all for not.

By raising his left hand, Ulquiorra unleashed a massive cyclone of black Spiritual power that consumed the entire squadron and pushed them back. All the while tearing and ripping their bodies apart, and when some tried to attack the Espada at a distance with arrows, the latter merely waved one of their wings at the projectiles and unleashed a massive wave of dark green flaming spiritual energy at them—consuming both the arrows and vaporizing the Quincies who fired them at the same time.

Enraged, James jumped at Ulquiorra and readied his fist while a star mark appeared on it.

'Star Murder Punch!' He yelled, and upon striking the Arrancar, he unleashed a powerful star-shaped burst of Spiritual energy on impact and indenting a large crater beneath him.

However, to James's disbelief, Ulquiorra caught the punch quickly with his right hand. Then after seeing the man's expression, the Espada gave his foe a look of pity...before brutally and causally ripping his arm off his shoulders. Leaving the Sternritter in such shock and pain that he didn't even notice the Arrancar's tail slamming him right into his face, knocking off his domino mask off his face and sending him tumbling to the ground.

Revealing his blue eyes with one of them now swollen and blacked by the blow.

'Now, do you realize how hopeless it is, Quincy?' Ulquiorra spoke lowly while slowly walking up to the fallen man. 'For no matter how much strength you have gained from your encouragement or how many men you have gathered, all are rendered impotent when face before true might and despair' He then began to charge a Cero Oscuras within one of his fingertips. 'And just in the same matter that a flashing star is a doom die in the infinite darkness of space, so too shall you be consumed by the darkness of my power.'

James looked at the charging orb of blackness, and for the first time in a long time, he let his despair sink into his soul. Even with all of his power and might, there was nothing he could do to defeat this enemy or anyone here, and it only seemed natural to give in and accept defeat.

But then Quincy heard someone call out to him.

The Soundtrack of Choice: Thunderbolt Fantasy Darkest

'Don't give up Super-Star!'

Orhime Inoue called out to him, urging him to keep fighting even against hopeless odds and as a hero who swore to protect the innocent, and he won't let her or anyone else down!

Standing up and holding his stance, James brach for the cero and promises to himself that he will use everything in his power to withstand this technique if he has any hope to defeat this villain and save his comrades. The hero then crossed his arms as Ulquiorra fired his cero. He was engulfed in the flaming darkness that consumed the entire horizon behind him.

However, when the darkness gradually faded, and expected to see his enemy reduce to cinders or at least maimed beyond recognition. James was still standing, and to even more of Ulquiorra's astonishment, the man's face was fully healed, while in front of his arms was an orange shield that completely blocked the blow.

One that the Sternritter can now deploy at will.

Impossible...' Ulquiorra spoke out and saw, to his utter bafflement, that the rest of James Squadron were also fully healed, even those vaporized by his attacks, with many also having shields.

But then he also noticed that in the center of them stood Orhime Inoue, but he was now wearing a stunning flowing dress of amber, gloves, and shoes. While around her forehead was an elegant golden circlet with a flawless ruby in its center. Along with a pair of matching earrings in the shape of six-petal flowers, and as she stood, warmth and joy radiated throughout the entire district. While petals of various flowers fluttered across the area, which included Ayana, Baigon, Hinagiku, Lily, Shuno, and Tsubaki.'

'Master Art...' Orhime stated calmly. 'Queen of The Six Flower Gardens!'

'You!' He snapped loudly before immediately rushing at her with his claws. 'Of all the people I have targeted, you should have been the first!' He declared viciously before thrusting one of his hands through the woman's chest.

However, instead of feeling blood and guts, he felt absolutely nothing. To his further shock, he also realized that upon looking at her body more closely, he realized that she was slightly transparent.

Orhime then smiled at the stun Espada. 'Sorry, Ulquiorra, but the light you desperately wanted to destroy is not easily snuffed out.'

Ulquiorra then frowned In frustration and was prepared to launch a different attack, Only to sense a barrage of arrows being shot from the squadron. In annoyance, he threw another wave of darkness at them to vaporize both projectiles and the Quinces like before.

But the arrows managed to pierce and disperse the wave of darkness and continued heading toward their target, forcing Ulquiorra to fly out of the way. Only to discover that dozens more of the squadron had used the flying step to appear above him and attack him with spears.

Agitated, Cliffer attempted to block the attacks with his wings, only for the weapons to pierce through them, drawing blood, much to his continued shock and confusion, and then he noticed that the guns had an orange glow over them.

Soundtrack Of Choice: Light of a Hero.

'So that is it...' Ulquiorra thought before blasting Quincy away with a flap from his wings. 'Her master art enhances all of these quinces with her power to reject phenomena, including her ability to split matter' he then avoided a barrage of arrows shot from other Quincies. 'However, even with such an enchantment, I am still far faster and more powerful than any of them' He then started to charge a ball of spiritual energy with his claws. 'And the simplest way to end them. Is to overcome their enchantments with sheer absolute power!'

Ulquiorra then rose into the air and began to charge his orb of destruction, but upon doing so, he was meant by all the Quincy squadron readying their arrows and James standing in the front.

'Do not think you can hide your intent, villain!' James roared while wrapping his arms around himself. For together, we all shall stand against you and your overwhelming might!

The Espada then narrowed his eyes as he charged and enlarged his orb of flaming darkness even more so that it could be seen throughout the entire Silver City.

'And do you think that your little tricks will be enough?' The Espada challenged dismissively. 'For all the schemes and methods you humans and Quincy used to match the power Hollows, it is, in the end, a wasted effort' He charged the orb fully and directed it at his group of enemies. 'What makes you think this mere delay would make any difference?'

James then grinned his teeth and held out a hand to Orhime, who stood beside him, and while he couldn't touch her, she returned it and felt it all the same.

'Because foul demon of Despair, it is not Cheer or Resolve who you face alone...' he stretched out his hands, and a star pentagram formed behind his back. When it did, it reformed his domino mask over his face, made his cape larger, and flashed, while his eyes Burts with blue and amber energy, and through it, he felt the hearts of himself, his men, and Orhime herself.

'But all together as one!' They all screamed out together in a single course, and the next moment, James and his men flew towards their dreadful enemy.

Ulquiorra looked at them with loathing and only gave them one word in response.

'...die'

The soundtrack of Choice: Might + U

He unleashed his attack from his orb as a gigantic torrent of black, green fire consumed everything before him for dozens of miles. In contrast, James and his men burrowed through the darkness like comets soaring through the blackness of space. But one by one, the stars were sniffed out by the overpowering wave of energy as if they were seemingly making their pursuit wasteful.

And Yet...the more the stars fall, the more the rest shine even brighter and reach far closer to their target, and Ulquiorra, in desperation, increased the magnitude of his attack to its very limit. However, even as more of the stars faded, the rest continued to shine that much brighter.

'This...can't be happing' Ulquiorra began to panic as the lights grew closer. 'No human or Quincy should even push me this far, and yet I am nearing my limit,' he ranted in his head before seeing the brightest light before him, James coming right before him and then conjuring a jagged green spear in his left hand 'My only hope now is to pierce that man's heart into order to be rid of his schrift and depowered them all at once!'

He then waited for James to come within his striking even as the rest of his men followed right behind him, and then once he saw an opening, Ulquiorra canceled his current attack and threw his spear...

Which then found its target.

'GAWK! James cried out as his mouth coughed up blood due to the spear piercing through his chest, heart, and spine and out through his back, and then fell from the sky.

'It's finally over...' Ulquiorra thought as he saw the Sternritter fall. 'Without him empowering his men, the rest should be weakened enough too...' But then the Espada noticed that the rest of Quincy not only didn't stop their charge at him...

But instead, they suddenly become much brighter and more powerful than James himself!

'No...' he spoke out in dread, realizing his mistake.

But by then, it was too late.

Four masked Quincy stabbed through Ulquiorra's chest together, one through his stomach from below, another through his lungs at the right, a Third through his spin from above his head, and a fourth through his heart from behind. In contrast, the rest of the squadron and James, that fell to his attack, stood and watched him with worn yet defiant faces.

From that moment, it was then Ulquiorra realized that for all of his efforts to install hopelessness into them and present himself as their superior.

In the end, it wasn't that they couldn't feel hopelessness, But instead, they dared to continue to face him and work together regardless of how many of them fell...or even who.

And through that defiance and their faith in one another, they overcame the overwhelming despair they faced and emerged triumphant.

Such arrogance that Ulquirroa thought to himself for not seeing something so clearly before him.

Perhaps that would be a lesson he will take...when he is reborn again in his next life.

Thus with that last thought and emotion, the Third Espada crumbled into dust.