Hollows of War

[Zhiel]

It was just another late night in Karakura Town, quiet and dead, with the occasional sound of a car passing by. Completely different from the neighboring Tokyo, which was a city that seemed to never sleep. However all was not as it seemed, as the voice of an older man called out into the night, however no one could hear him. "Help! Please!" In a dark alley not far from the main road a middle-aged Japanese man was running away from a dark ominous figure with a sword hanging from its side. However before the man was able to outrun the dark figure he came upon a dead-end, realizing his error the man turned around, fear etched on his face as he fell down on his knees, a chain clattering against the solid ground, hanging from the mans chest. A plus.

"Please! I beg of you, don’t kill me!" The main said, pleading, tears streaming down his eyes. All it did was make the dark figure laugh, a cold unnatural echoing laugh. As it drew closer it raised its head slightly, revealing its two glowing golden eyes, filled with malice. In a sudden burst of speed the figure was suddenly in front of the man, and merely a moment later, just after the man had noticed just how close the figure was, but before he could even give a surprised yell he was yanked up into the air, as a white claw-like hand dragged him up to the same height as the figure stood, which was nearly a foot taller than the man. Face to face the man could tell just what a demon this was, but he could do nothing even as he struggled in the firm grasp on his throat.

"Wh..Why? Ple... Please let m.. me go!" The man managed to say, even as he was nearly being strangled by the figure, its lips growing into a slight grin at that, and merely a moment later the points of the clawed fingers was pushed into the mans throat, however the man was unable of screaming, as a pain far greater than anything he had ever experienced filled his entire body and mind. Suddenly pieces of the very flesh of the man was torn off, as it seemed to nearly disintegrate, turning into pure spirit particles as it was absorbed into the arm holding the man up in the air. It took nearly a minute before there was nothing left of the unfortunate mans body, during the entire painful process he had been unable to say or do anything, but his eyes had told everything he had gone through.

The dark figure let its blood soaked hand fall, as it moved over to some nearby crate and sat down on it to rest, as it closed its eyelids and leaned against the wall, letting the absorbed reiatsu course through its body, hastening the healing of several by now mild injuries. However even for this evil creature there would be no rest tonight, as suddenly the very air around him seemed to be filled with a pressure that pulled on its body. The being recognized it, however its body did not, and as such its body cringed under the weight it produced. Suddenly a man stood in front of the being, due to the darkness and the pressure the mans mere presence created the being was unable to see much, but it could tell that the man wore fine black pants, a white shirt that seemed tucked in, over it he wore a black west and had blonde hair, yet it was unable to see the mans face in detail, it was unnecessary however as it knew full well who this "man" was.

"My, my, how the mighty have fallen." The man said in a half-mocking tone, the being could make out a slight smirk on the mans face. "Keh... Did you come all this way just to mock my failure?" The being said in its dark, echoing voice, like two voices speaking in unison. The man merely smiled at that. "Hardly. Kalverian Kehieleth the sixth Vasto Lorde, we have need of you once more. Prove yourself to us and you may still return." The man said, his voice was no longer mocking, instead he sounded completely serious. This naturally caught Kehieleths interest, as he slid off the crate and kneeled in front of the man. "What would you have me do?" Kehieleth asked, he disliked being in servitude, but he had sworn himself to this man long ago, there was no turning back.

"There is a warehouse in this... Town, under it in a secret area are the confined hollows that the organization known as the New World Order has experimented on, find them. You know what to do." The man explained, handing Kehieleth a small sheet of paper while doing so, where an address was written. Kehieleth took the paper in his right hand, before he bowed deep. "It shall be done." Kehieleth responded. The man nodded in acknowledgment, before he suddenly disappeared, taking his impressive presence with him. For a moment Kehieleth wondered if he had merely seen an illusion, but the paper in his hand told him otherwise. He looked at it for a moment, memorizing the address written on it, then dropped it and let it fall to the ground.

Kehieleth leapt from his position, up onto one of the buildings he had been next to. The first thing that greeted him as he came out into the open was the illuminating light of a full moon, which reflected off of a white carapace that covered the area around the possessed shinigamis left eye, forming nearly a quarter of a complete mask, with three dark purple lines going over it. The black shinigami robe Kehieleth wore was ripped and torn, but had been make-shift fixed to hold it together, however a careful observed would have been able to see several strange and unnatural protrusions under it. The former Vasto Lorde looked around for nearly a minute, before suddenly shooting off into the night.


Merely an hour later the form of Kehieleth appeared on top a tall fence that surrounded a series of large warehouse like structures. At first it looked like any kind of warehouse made by humans, but as Kehieleth scanned the area thoroughly he noticed that there was something more to them. They seemed to be shielded in some way, and if what the man had said was true, there would be hollows somewhere under these buildings. 'I see... They have somehow managed to create reiatsu blocking barriers, to make sure no one finds them. Interesting, I did not think humans capable of such things.' Kehieleth thought, as he jumped off the fence and landed on the hard ground underneath it.

Scanning the area once more, he made sure there was nothing to disrupt him while he was doing his job, if they were able to construct barriers, they would no doubt be able to create some kind of sensors. However after making sure there was nothing scanning the area, other than a few security cameras, which should be unable to see him anyways, he decided they had probably skipped such contraptions in order to keep it even more hidden. Casually, and yet cautiously, Kehieleth made his way to-wards the closest warehouse, streaking his left hand along its surface as he wailed past. This was not it; he could sense the emptiness within it, making it clear it was not shielded.

Making his way around the area Kehieleth walked by several other warehouses, before he finally stopped at the middle one, the moment he touched the surface of the structure he could feel his reiatsu being rejected, it was a pretty bad barrier, but for being technological it was still impressive. 'Even if they notice when the barrier is broken, I will have plenty of time to find these hollows.' Kehieleth thought as he moved a few feet back-wards and aimed his left hand to-wards the wall of the warehouse, his palm open to-wards the door with his fingers clawed, as a swirling torrent of red energy began to gather in-between his fingers.

A moment later a huge blast of red reiatsu burst forth from Kehieleths hand, its edges being a darkened color. And as it slammed into the wall of the structure the steel that it was made off bent inward, that which had gotten in direct contact with the energy completely destroyed. Even for his own limiters strength, Kehieleths Cero was devastating. He did not wait longer than a second after the cero had hit before he began to move, going inside the new opening quickly.

It only took a moment for Kehieleths sight to adjust to the near pitch black darkness of the warehouse interior, however the moment he set foot inside the building his senses were overrun by a flood of hollow reiatsu. Yet most of it seemed dampened, probably due to whatever kept them imprisoned here. Walking calmly through the darkness of the warehouse Kehieleth observed his surroundings, even in the darkness he had near perfect sight, and with it, it was easy to find the source of the hollows reiatsu. Looking down a staircase that lead deep down under the earth Kehieleth could make out a large steel door at the bottom, the hollows were most likely there. With the goal in sight Kehieleth made his way down the metal stairs, and once he reached the large door he could tell it was pretty sturdy, for a human construction.

With a loud bang the one-foot thick steel door was pushed off its hinges and fell to the floor with a loud clang, into the inside of the room. Kehieleth had simply struck out with his left hand, the door was obviously meant to keep workers out, and not spirits, like the warehouses wall had. Once the door was smashed open Kehieleth could feel a number of significant reiatsu emanating from the large room, with a dozen smaller ones surrounding them. Whatever this New World Order was, they were certainly fond of doing mad things, however to be able to catch these hollows and then use them for experiments? Quite impressive.

As the possessed shinigami walked through the large rectangular room, massive cages could be seen littering the sides of the room, several containing a number of hollows constrained by some strange devices that seemed to dampen their spiritual energy. The more powerful ones began to scream and roar as they noticed his presence, probably mistaking Kehieleth for a shinigami. He did not care however, there was one specific reiatsu that had caught his attention, and as such he made his way through the rooms, passing cage by cage, until he finally reached it. It was at the end of the room, a much smaller cage that was completely surrounded by steel with more than five times the amount of devices surrounding it. Whatever they kept in there it was certainly powerful.

A grin spread on Kehieleths face as he approached the steel container, to the right of it he noticed several consoles, computer screens and the like, probably used to regulate whatever devices kept these hollows, especially the one in front of him, contained. Not paying the container any mind he walked up to the consoles and examined the computer screens, he himself was not very familiar with the new technology of the humans, but his access to some of Azerin's memories was very helpful, and as such he could make out most of the text which scrolled over the screens, and after examining the console for a minute he tapped a few keys, and then walked up in front of the steel container.

As he watched the cage, movement rippled across its steel surface as several parts began to depressurize and then lift away or slid to the side. The first thing that became visible was a broken white mask which covered the top of its head, all the way down past where the nose would be on a human, it also had part of a jaw on its left end, covering half the chin, but leaving the mouth bare. The whole mask had deep red runic markings over its surface, however where the mask was missing dark grey skin could be seen, the beings lips parting briefly to breathe, one could see predatory fangs lining the inside of the mouth. With a loud clicking noise a large part of the machinery surrounding the cage was disconnected from it, and mere moments later the apparently sleeping being began to stir.

"Greetings captured one." Kehieleth said as the being opened one of its masked eyes, the inside of it burning brightly with an infernal golden energy. "Who... Are you?" the being asked, its voice making it obvious it was a male. "My name is Kehiel; I have come to offer you freedom, in exchange for your loyalty to my master." Kehieleth explained, purposely giving off his hollow-ish aura to make it obvious to the being he was no mere shinigami, or even vizard. The being seemed to ponder this for a few seconds, before it turned its attention to Kehieleth once more. "I have heard of you, former Vasto Lorde. Very well, release me and I am yours, along with every hollow present in this... Accursed prison." The being offered, giving the most it could to a bow in its constrained position. All Kehieleth gave in response was a crazed grin that seemed to nearly split his face in half.


It was all too sudden, the silence of the night exploded as a flurry of reiatsu made their presence known in Karakura Town as the multitude of hollows that had been sealed under the warehouse made their escape. The very structure they had been under exploded as large metal debris rained down in the surrounding area and only moments later the town was bombarded like if by engines of war. Dozens of the hollows now walking the streets and flying above had been improved during their imprisonment by the NWO, in some cases even been bio-engineered and attached with spiritual weapons. However there was no sign of Kehieleth or the strange arrancar like hollow amongst the thralls.

[Mr. Butterfly]

Quiet.

The silence was surreal, filling the entire void. The sound of no sound, the breaking of the quiet nonexistent for the moment. A gentle breeze blew, giving in to sound, the whisper of the wind echoing throughout the entire place. The gentle green of grass was complacent among the clear, baby blue sky. For, green and blue were the only colors seen - the endless grassy knoll stretched as far as the sky itself did, the only thing in sight for as far as you could go and beyond that.

And standing among the colors of green and blue were two figures. One was a teenage boy, the other a young woman. One was clad in a blue denim overshirt over a white undershirt, with black pants and no shoes on. The young woman was shoe less as well, but wore instead a silky white dress. Her maroon hair fell down upon her shoulders like a flower upon the ground. Violet eyes looked upon the back of the teenager's head, where untidy white hair was. The teenager turned around from where he was facing away, and his yellow eyes caught her stare.

The woman looked down and away, uncertain what to say to his previous question. the white haired figure sighed, then looked up to the bright blue sky. In the midst of the air was the moon. It wasn't like seeing the moon during the day, where it was distant and faded; this moon was big and clear, like midnight on a dirt road. The woman turned around, slowly walking off.

Barda Kaazaki sighed again, unsure of what to do. His question was most problematic, and needed to be resolved. And the one he needed for that was not here. Yet.

[shadow=red,left,300]"Hehehe...so, Host, you've come back. Lovely."[/shadow]

The voice was shadowy, cold and full of malice and temptation. Every syllable was like the drip of poison upon a glass of water, icy and dangerous. Even it's laugh sent chills down mighty opponents.

Barda kept staring up at the moon, as if thinking before speaking. He blinked once, twice, three times as his eyes scanned the moon, looking for an answer that simply wouldn't show itself. Then he spoke.

"Yes....and you know why I've come. I need answers. And beating them out of you is not out of the question."

The was silence again, Barda's slow breathing the merest of sounds. Then the voice spoke again, the presence filling the entire plain. It was cold and dark, a sense of foreboding within it.

[shadow=red,left,300]"Yes,well, Host, I have something to say about that."[/shadow]

As if by magic or on command, the wind picked up. Barda turned his head to the opposing hill, where another presence began to build, the dark presence itself forming up there. As the wind blew again, tiny specks of white flew past Barda's head at a whippoorwill's pace, the swirling around the hill like water down a drain. The specks came together, forming a figure.

As the figure was completed, it smiled, revealing white teeth and a black tongue. It's pure white skin was donned with white pants, a Grey over shirt and black undershirt identical to Barda's own attire. The eyes, however, were not normal - the pupils were black while the eyes themselves were purple.

And it was in the exact image of Barda Kaazaki.

The figure in white licked it's lips, then looked around, his eyes darting back and forth, back and forth as it scanned the area. They seemed to take in all, much like Barda's own eyes, both of them hawk like in nature. Then it spoke.

[shadow=red,left,300]"I can presume why you must talk to me. However, I feel like the information I hold is mine and not yours. Why should I talk to you about anything?"[/shadow]

Barda retorted with silence, like the silence that usually invaded this place. The grassy hill, the clear sky, the craterous moon.....all of this were apart of Barda, apart of Garasu....apart of his zanpaku-to. And here he was, talking to the one that had ruined all of his life....his fear, his enemy, his opposite. His inner Hollow.

"Kyoumen....I need to know. What's going on, whats with all these dreams I know you've been sending me?"

As Barda said this, a recollection of one of the dreams filled his mind, one of a small boy and a dog. The boy and the dog were walking in a black void, a sense of desperation sensed. Suddenly the dog runs ahead, and is swallowed by darkness. As this happens, the boy notices nothing, it keeps walking. Suddenly the dog is back from the shade of the dark, but something is wrong - the dog is different. As the boy walks ahead of the dog, the dog rears back, the attacks the boy, and the dream is over before Barda witnesses the worst of it.

Kyoumen grinned, squinting his eyes. He gave a slight laugh, a slight glance, then started laughing in a ferocious manner, doubling over as if holding his sides in mockery. He straightened up to meet a glare from Barda.

[shadow=red,left,300]"Wow, Host....you really do know NOTHING....nothing of me, nothing of your dreams....or your future."[/shadow]

At this Barda was taken aback. His future? Kyoumen? What the hell did it mean? All those dark dreams of death and gloom...was that in Barda's future? And...was his future represented by the dog, or the boy?

Before he could think any more, he looked up, to see that Kyoumen had vanished. Barda blinked, and then the malevolent spirit was beside him to his right, his hand drawn back to punch.

[shadow=red,left,300]"Your future is NOW, Host!"[/shadow]

Barda felt a pain on his face before he fell back a few feet from the force of the blow, hitting the ground on his back. Damn suckerpunch....since when was his foe that fast? He could usually block stuff like that. As Barda got up, Kyoumen was giggling with glee, like a child who held a secret. Barda's hand reached down to his side, and a sheath appeared, along with a blade within it. Barda drew the weapon - a katana, his zanpaku-to. It glimmered as it left it's casing, the cold metal a beauty to see. And yet, as Barda looked at Kyoumen, he vanished again.

Like a lightning strike Barda brought his sword up, and a clash of metal and steel occured. Kyoumen had drawn his own sword, a mirror image to his own, much like Barda and Kyoumen were identical, and yet so different. Barda then noticed something - Kyou's blade had nicked his shoulder, the clothes tore but the flesh okay. Barda's eyes widened slightly - that had never happened before. Why now?

But he had no time to think as Kyoumen pulled back his blade and struck again and again, the two combatants flashes of steel, and yet Barda was being pushed back. How? How was this happening? The one who formerly won every fight....succombing to defeat?

As Barda recieved many paper cut like blows, Kyoumen pulled his sword in, the flicked the blade. This caused Barda's own sword to unbalance in his hands, and then a simply blow knocked it from his hands. Kyoumen then kicked out, knocking Barda down and away from the sword.

Barda's grimace changed to shock. How had this happened? He was....losing?! No, impossible. It must be a fluke. Barda then saw the look on Kyoumens face, and it was one of pure glee. That was when it hit him - Kyoumen was doing something to level the playing field, and he needed to find out what.

Kyoumen stepped closer to Barda, raising his sword one last time.
[shadow=red,left,300]"Say goodbye, Host!"[/shadow]

KA BOOM

Barda was shocked out of his trance by a nearby explosion. Out of reflex he jumped out of the tree he was in to the sky. A quick glance showed that something had decimated the tree he was in...but what? Barda suddenly felt something, and felt a sweat drop fall from his face. It was an enormous spiritual pressue, coming right this way.

And yet, as it grew near, Barda's fears dissolved, as the sole pressense dropped to many. Five, ten, twenty....Barda lost count. But, he was sure they were Hollows, and yet not....they felt different. Barda had to intercept them, as it was obvious they would cause damage to Karakura town. But.....with as many of them as they were, could he do it?

Barda said a quick chant a the few specks in the sky came closer, lit up by the explosions they were causing along the way with minor cero blasts and....canons? Were those canons on their backs? At any rate, Barda held out his left hand, drawing his zanpaku-to with his left.

"Hado Number [31]:Shot of Red Fire!"

The red energy enveloped Barda's hand before rocketing away, towards the many Hollows. As it grew near some tried to dodge, yet a few were confumed by the red burst of energy and kido. The hado itself exploded, taking with it only a few of the Hollows....their were just so many.

[Zhiel]

Yes there was a multitude of hollows in the air, however the majority of them was on the ground, crushing cars by their massive feet and tearing things appart with their clawed arms. Most of the hollows on the ground had a more humanoid shape to them and most stood at a height of atleast eight meters, with strange contraptions seemingly having been forcibly attatched to their shoulders, arms or backs, resembling something out of a sci-fi story, and they were not just for looks either as every few seconds they fired barrages of concentrated reiatsu, ripping entire building appart. What would be most peculiar however would be that they did not seem interested in eating souls, but rather simply to destroy everything in their path.

Upon being attacked by what the hollows assumed to be a shinigami, atleast those who had even a speck of intelligence, the aerial hollows scattered, flying off in every which direction except straight at Barda, and only a second alter, after getting rather far away due to their high speed several of them fired blasts of reiatsu towards the Vizard, most of them not stronger than a bala, but a few nearly as strong as a Gillians cero. However in cover of all of this a small line of purple reiatsu shot out towards Barda's exposed back from the cover of the streets and alleys below, though small it held an incredible piercing power, and only a moment after it had been shot that which had fired it had disappeared.

---

Alarms went off in a secret complex under the Mallory Arms Main HQ, as all available agents and troops was called on for an emergency mission. Throughout the corridors of the New World Orders main base people, both men and women in white coats ran around carrying papers or data discs, even more was in their offices tapping their keyboards at exhilirating speeds.

In a large room simply called the "Briefing Room" was a large force of soldiers, each wearing an insignia on their advanced Mark 1 SCS armors identifying them as squad leaders in the NWO. However there were others as well, most was not wearing any armors at all, while others were in the more advanced Mark 2 of the SCS, and a few was in the lighter styled Mark 1 SSS. In the middle of the far end of the room stood Richard Mallory fully dressed in his Spirit Combat Suit Mark 2, with the sole exception of the helmet, which he held under his left arm as he gestured towards a large screen to his right.

"As some of you may know a facility where we kept experimental weapons, as well as Hollow which we were conducting study on has been compromised, from our alarm system and camera feeds we believe it was an outside source, possibly a Shinigami." Richard explained, pausing slightly to let what he had just told them sink in, while he pulled up satelite pictures on the screen, as well as a feed of the spirit activity radar on another smaller one under the main screen. "Unlike what is customary for these Shinigami however the Hollow we held there was not slain, instead they seem to have been released and are now wreaking havoc in Karakura Town. Apparently it seems several of these Hollow have somehow aquired the experimental weapons held in the facility, it is your job to reaquire these weapons before someone else gets their hands on them, and if possible, try to capture the stronger of the hollows as long as you do not put yourselves at risk. That is all, dismissed." Richard finished his briefing, after which all the squad leaders and several of the other participants in the room saluted, before they quickly turned around and calmly exited the room, after which they either went to get their equipment, or joined up with their squad.

Only minutes after the order had been issued, was choppers and armored transports leaving the complex, the later through an underground tunnel leading out into an abbandoned warehouse district as to not attract attention to Mallory Arms.

OOC: NWO members may now officially join, I hope this was good enough of an introduction for you

[Kiyoshi]

Click click click click BOOM!" erupted an explosion from a small game. Such a small device putting out such power was amazing to its user. Kiyoshi Hinamoru was having a wonderful tume playing his handheld game. He sat at the edge of a large building kicking his feet back and forth like a school child waiting for his mom to pick him up. It was rather quiet tonight, just like every other night in the small town of Karakura. The cool night breeze blew through Kiyoshi's black leather jacket making the buckles on it jingle. "Oh yea who's the man?! You alien scum cannot defeat me, the mighty Kiyoshi!" he said in a heroic voice. Another explosion emmited from the handheld as a spaceship was blown into small pieces.

[glow=red,2,300]Is that all you ever do kid?[/glow] An ominous voice rang through the air coming from now particular place. The voice sounded a little agitated and malicious.

Upon hearing the voice, Kiyoshi simply rolled his eyes ignoring it completely. He didn't feel like being bothered with his old "pal" Moru, his inner hollow.

[glow=red,2,300]Hey kid don't you dare ignore me![/glow] The voice was more loud and vicious this time around, with more of an echo to it.

"Shutup Moru, I'm trying to beat my high score. Now leave me alone." Kiyoshi was annoyed. If there was one thing he couldn't stand in the world it would be people interrupting him while he was playing a videogame. That was a quick way to piss him off and Moru knew it. But he was the one person that care less. For some reason, tonight Moru was more eradict with his behavior as if he was anxious about something.

[glow=red,2,300]You know what kid, f*ck you and that piece of sh*t. YOU'RE COMING IN![/glow]

With that being said, a pale white transparent arm emerged from his chest. At the sight of it Kiyoshi accidently dropped his game, he watched helplessly as it plummeted to the ground below. His expression was that of pure sadness. He couldn't believe that that just happened to him. He gritted his teeth as his expression quickly shifted to anger. He was pissed now. The hand turned upwards with its palm facing Kiyoshi, lined up with his face. Kiyoshi stared at the hand, his breathing a little heavy now. "Bring it."

The hand leaped forward and attached itself to his face and pulled him inside. As Kiyoshi opened his eyes, he was no longer sitting atop the building in Karakura Town. In fact it seemed like he had been sucked into a blackhole. He was now surrounded by complete silence.... and darkness. The type of darkness that could scare the life out of the average person. Good thing he wasn't average, not by far. As Kiyoshi looked around, a lone spotlight appeared shining down on him giving about ten feet of visibility, it rocked back and forth with a slight creeking sound. Kiyoshi looked infront him and saw two glowing red eyes peering back at him. The eyes then began to come closer towards him until the head of a jet black dragon appeared. Its color matched the darkness perfectly. Kiyoshi stared at him for a moment before opening his mouth to speak.

"Where's Moru?" he asked in a calm yet stern tone that said he meant business.

The dragon cocked its head a bit then smiled at him. I'm not getting involved with you two. Let me finish my rest.

"Whatever Zetsumei."

The dragon then faded away into the darkness. Kiyoshi placed his left hand on the hilt of the sword on his back. He gripped it tightly as his eyes scanned the area for any signs of life. "Come out you bastard!" he shouted

Just then another being walked forth, its appearance mirrored that of Kiyoshi's except his skin was pale white and his eyes black with gold iris. He stood a few feet away from Kiyoshi with his arms folded and a sadistic smile.

"Son of a bitch, you cost me the all time high score!" Kiyoshi yelled.

[glow=red,2,300]Shut the hell up whining you little prick! I'm tired of sitting on the sidelines watching you have all the fun.[/glow] Moru paused for a moment, unfolding his arms. A zanpaku-to just like Kiyoshi's materialized into his hand. [glow=red,2,300]I'm taking over whether you like it or not kid![/glow]

In a flash, Moru had disappeared from sight. Kiyoshi got into his battle stance and awaited patiently for the oncoming attack. He looked around wondering which side his opponent was going to attack from. He soon got his answer as the sound of metal slicing through air came from his right side. Kiyoshi quickly drew his blade just in time to stop the attack from hitting him in the shoulder. He gritted his teeth as Moru gave an arrogant smirk. "I'm gonna kick your ass Moru." Kiyoshi gave a battle cry as he pushed his opponent back with his sword then swung down vertically, but he missed. A white blur flew pass his left side followed by a cut on his arm. Kiyoshi looked at his injury with disbelief. Moru was never this accurate before with his attacks, he must really be pissed. Another blur passed his right side but Kiyoshi managed to dodge at the last second. Moru laughed insanely through the darkness as he watched Kiyoshi.

[glow=red,2,300]You're nothing compared to me kid. You're lazy and incompetent. I should be the ruler of this body, not you.[/glow]

"Shutup you bastard!" Kiyoshi flipped backwards as a blade shot towards his head. Upon landing, he pulled his right arm down to his side, blue energy become to engulf it. "SHOT-GUN!!" He thrust his arm forward releasing a blast of energy that split into six separate beams.

[glow=red,2,300]Who you shooting at?[/glow]

Kiyoshi's eyes widened, his opponent was standing right beside him ready to strike. Just as the blade tip was about to pierce the side of his head....

ROOOOAAAAAAR!!

Kiyoshi stapped back into reality at the sound of a hollow's wail. His breathing was heavy and beads of sweat dripped from his forehead. But before he could have time to catch his breath, the source of the roar flew right at him. Kiyoshi jump over the beast just in time while unsheathing his zanpaku-to and jabbing it into the hollow's back. He pulled the blade vertically down the length of its body and landed on the rooftop edge. "What the hell? Where did that thing come from?" he asked himself. Seconds later he looked towards his left and saw multiple buildings being torn down by many hollows. The number of them was too great for him to even try and count. Amongst the multitude of hollows, he could feel familiar reiatsu of a friend. It was Barda's, his fellow council member. With a smile on his face, Kiyoshi leaped from the building top and speed over to the location of the chaos.

Upon arrival, Kiyoshi glared at the hollows surrounding him. There was something different about these creatures. They seemed to have large weapons attached to their bodies that they were using to destroy the town. How in the world did this happen? It was like something straight out of one of hs videogames. Either way, these beast had to be stopped immediately. Kiyoshi charged forward releasing a battle cry and began hacking away at the hollows before him.

[Galihan]

The night was late in downtown Tokyo and business was unusually quiet. Not much was happening in terms of spirits, tonight so far had been rather boring with not a single hollow to shoot up and only a single weak plus which was barely worth the effort to hunt down. Atop a small apartment building stood Daniel Conrad of the New World Order, the secret armed faction of Mallory Arms. founded for the purpose of exterminating the spirits that threaten the world. The tall man in heavy black armor scanned the crowds below, looking for any traces of spirit-activity for him to deal with before deciding to call it a night and return to HQ. Adjusting the radar inside his helmet, he was able to detect a pair of pluses blending into the crowd below him but he was unable to make a visual contact from his vantage point so he decided to move down below to continue his search on foot.

Hopping off the ledge of the apartment, he landed in the alleyway below causing a loud thud as he connected with the asphalt ground. People on the sidewalks turned to see what made the crashing noise but moved on when they saw nothing. Luckily the Spirit Combat Armor which Daniel wore was able to let him fall from such a distance without any injuries asides from being a bit shaken up, and came with a built-in stealth shield which rendered him invisible to those unable to sense spirits. He moved onto the street, avoiding a few cars and keeping an eye for the pluses among the crowds of people on the sidewalks. He caught a glimpse of his targets turning a corner, and proceeded to make pursuit. As he turned he corner there were too many people to just fire his machine gun, so he ran as fast as he could following his radar until he turned another corner, encountering a duo of pluses. The spirits of two children who had been killed in a car crash staring at him, terror in their eyes as if they knew he was after them. He raised the barrel of his gun at the two unsympathetically, as if to say,

"Nothing personal, it's just business."

Before he could pull the trigger, an alarm went off inside his helmet informing him of an urgent situation requiring all agents to return to HQ immediately. The distraction was enough for the kids to scurry off inside the building next to them as it's back door opened for a man to take out his garbage to the dumpster. Daniel scoffed, but decided to let them go, he had pressing matters to address.

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Back at HQ, Daniel made his way to the briefing room just in time to hear the boss himself explain the crisis at hand. So something set the hollows out of their cages at the Karakura warehouses? Saluting in unison with the fellow soldiers gathered, Daniel, still in his full armor, proceeded in making his way to the hangar to catch a ride in one of the transports set to go to Karakura Town. Once inside, he removed his helmet to take in a breath of fresh air, and took a seat. He'd rest up while he could, because once that door opened again, he'd be ready to weaken any hollows he'd encounter for his companions to recapture.

[Mr. Butterfly]

Upon seeing the flying creatures of death swarm around in different directions and then launch their own minor ceros and such attacks. While they would not be stronger, it was more of the fact that the phrase "The More the Merrier" did not apply here. As the sky became a view of colored specks of reiatsu that would hit Barda and engulf him in a ball of fire, the Vaizard decided that simply dodging the ceros would be the best thing to do.

As Barda let reiatsu cover his feet and shunpo, moving at lightning speed as his afterr image disapated, right as the globs of cero congrigated and imploded, a ball of what might have been fire and flames in a mass in the sky.

Barda, now up higher and to the left of his previous position, was thinking of a way to conterattack when he heard something wizzing at him at high speed. Barda's instincts and training kicked in, And he went to shift over sideways to the right when it hit him. A small, beam of red hot energy penetrated through his abdomen, entering and exiting quickly. It had burned a clear path through him, a one inch hole that had seared the bottom tip of his left lung and nudged the upper portion of his kidney.

Barda had the wind knocked out of him before, and so it was no new expirience when he tried to inhale from the previous breath. He looked down, his hand coming up to his fresh wound. There was no blood, seeing as it was burned completely through and had stopped the bleeding. However, it stll hurt like beating your head into an iron tipped bedset. Barda looked behind him by tilting his head sideways, seeing nothing nor feeling nothing. What was that?

At any rate, whatever had hit him was gone. Barda looked to the task at hand, the Hollows. Hopefully, his wound wouldn't hurt him too much.

[Zhiel]

The flying hollows surrounding Barda seemed to have waited after their blasts, but once the thin beam-like attack had hit him whatever that seemed to have kept them in check was released and they were once more flying about shooting beams of energy towards the town, some using their mouths, but most using small cannon like objects grafted to their bodies.

A large amount of the hollows focused on Barda however, trying to surround him completely as they shot small blasts of energy to keep him on his toes as they closed in. It became apparent that several of these hollows were atleast adjuchas class, however they seemed far more powerfull than an average adjuchas, not counting their odd add-ons. A chorus of piercing screams could be heard as dozens of them raised claws or some even blades of some kind towards Barda.

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On the ground however the majority of the hollows seemed completely oblivious of what went on above them, even the massive explosion only made most stop for a second before they continued tearing the town appart. If one analyzed the situation they could see they had all split up, but in most cases were still in view of each others.

Once Kiyoshi began to dispatch the hollows closest to him, most of them being your average hollows with a few oddities to them, who fell easy under the vizards onslaught, if one payed attention they would be able to see that the larger hollows in the surrounding area had suddenly stoped what they were doing and silently turned towards the vizard as their large cannons began to charge up.

Suddenly a group of weak but swift hollows seemed to come out of nowhere, trying to surround Kiyoshi and hold him in position, as well as keep his attention on them, just as a storm of massive reiatsu blasts flew off towards the vizards position. And even among all this, just as the blasts was about to hit the mark and disintegrate the smaller hollows, and possibly the vizard, a small thin line of purple reiatsu shot out from the shadows of an alleyway not even twenty meters away from Kiyoshis position, and just as with Barda, the moment it was shot the being was gone.

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The sound of helicopters filled the night sky above Tokyo City as nearly a hundred military styled choppers flew off towards Karakura Town, however they were all out of sight from the ground with any forms of external light turned off. Inside them in the troop transport spaces sat several elite squads along with a few battle operatives here and there, with Daniel Conrad having found transport in Zeta Squads chopper, a group of new ELITEs, with this being their first mission togheter and with their new equipment.

"You one of those Battle Operatives, right?" The one who sat right across from Daniel inside the chopper asked, gesturing slighty towards the mans armor. Along with the other six members they all wore helmets that made you unable to see their features. Their suits looked slightly like the more advanced mark 1 SCS, but still even more improved from that, which suggested they were prety well geared. "What did ya have to do to get yourself one 'o those?"

"Shut it, Thompson, show respect to those of higher rank." A man that stood up at the front of the 'room' said towards the other ELITE who had apparently spoken out of turn. From the insignia on the other mans chest and shoulder guards one could tell he was a squad leader. The younger one who had just been scolded made a sound of displeasure as he stared a hole in the chopper floor. "Now then," The squad leader began once he had the squads attention. "The LZ which we will chute into is looking prety hot, so keep your wits with you boys and make sure your suits got full shields up until we can regroup. Remember that our mission is to capture if possible!" The squad leader explained, then turning his helmeted head towards Daniel. "Sir, requesting your assistance in this task" He 'asked' as he saluted towards the Battle Operative.

From a screen inside the small 'room' they could see the drop zone was not far away now.

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In another chopper sat Richard Mallory with his helmet in his lap as he went over all the data on the situation gathered so far on a PDA he held in his left hand, while fiddling with a laptop that laid on his right side with his right hand. The few other soldiers that was in the same chopper seemed impressed at how well he seemed to multi-task. Then he suddenly put down the PDA as he picked up a cell-phone on his left side while still fiddling with the laptop. After a few seconds the person on the other end picked up.

"Miss Truax, I have a special mission for you and Harue. Ask your pilot to take you too the warehouse district. I want you to investigate the warehouse and see if you can figure out what caused the outbreak, and what may be left there. If anything happens I want you to call for help immidiately, is that understood?" Richard ordered, and without really waiting for a confirmation he pushed a button on the phone, cutting the connection between the two.

Only a few minutes later a voice could be heard over the radio of the drop room. "I've got clear visual on the LZ, seems its mostly clear, although there are a few flyers around the area... They seem to be distracted however. Beginning approach." The pilot explained before the radio died. With that Richard put his helmet on and did a system check-up, before he stood while readying his weapon. This time he carried a semi-auto rifle that looked more powerfull than the regular kind of machine guns the average soldiers carried around.

OOC: Sorry if its confusing, kinda tired xD

[Galihan]

Daniel was glad to be able to hitch a ride in the back of the helicopter, even if he had to share it with a squad of ELITES.

Zeta? Thought the Battle Operative as he scanned the compartment, examining their equipment which looked better than the stock SCS-1, and being in mint condition suggested that this squad was inexperienced. Probably their first mission outside of training, most of them probably had no idea who it was that decided to join them in their transport, which would probably be better for their morale than if if they did.

He had a bit of a bad reputation regarding his teamwork, so much that some told stories of the violent Battle Operative named Daniel Conrad who'd never be able to complete a mission team without causing friendly casualties among his teammates. Most of it was exaggerated to scare the rookies, he actually rarely worked in a team.

He looked up as he heard the man across from him speak up,
"You one of those Battle Operatives, right? What did ya have to do to get yourself one 'o those?"

The squad leader shut him up pretty quickly before Daniel could, and got down to debriefing the Zeta Squad and asking the Battle Operative for assistance in the operation.

"Shut it, Thompson, show respect to those of higher rank. Now then, the LZ which we will chute into is looking pretty hot, so keep your wits with you boys and make sure your suits got full shields up until we can regroup. Remember that our mission is to capture if possible! Sir, requesting your assistance in this task."

Daniel didn't have to open his eyes to tell that all eyes were on him, most of them would probably be pretty grateful to have him fight along side them and he knew that with his help they'd be able to do just fine if they didn't get in between him and a hollow. He grinned while raising his large SLMG off the floor and putting on his helmet, a small hissing noise heard signifying that the seal was airtight and all the systems inside his visor were beginning to boot up and synchronize with the rest of his modified SCS-II,
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[FULL SYSTEM ANALYSIS]

RADAR UPLINK (FUNCTIONAL)
COMMUNICATION NETWORK (FUNCTIONAL)
WEAPON SYSTEMS (FUNCTIONAL)
STEALTH FIELD (FUNTIONAL)
PRIMARY BATTERY (100% CHARGE)
EMERGENCY BATTERY (100% CHARGE)

ALL SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL
MAY DEATH BE WITH YOU
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A cold, filtered voice echoed from under the mask of Daniel as he responded to the squad leader,

"No problem for me, just stay out of my line of fire and I'll leave any hollows we meet a bloody mess for you guys to capture. No problems, right?"

Daniel put on the parachute in the seat behind him, seeing as a fall from this height might not be fatal but would still probably fuck him up pretty badly and leave him vulnerable like a wounded animal to the monsters who'd be all too glad to devour his soul. The door opened up and the voice of the Battle Operative could be heard through the quiet roar of the spinning blades.

"We're here!" Daniel began, giving last minute orders to Zeta Squad before jumping out of the helicopter himself, "Don't get eaten, and don't get in between me and the bastards, got it?"

[Kiyoshi]

The hollows that Kiyoshi battled seemed to be falling rather quickly, they weren't putting up a huge fight but there sure was a lot of them. After a few minutes of hacking away at the moddified hollows, he actually began to break a sweat. The hollows rampaged around the area destroying everything in sight, this was truely a battlefield. A smirk began to form on Kiyoshi's face as a few hollows surrounded him. This ones were a little different, small and swift with their movements. Just who did these creatures think they were going up against, some rookie kid with a little skill? Hell no they were up against the 5th seat Council Member, vaizard Kiyoshi Hinamoru. As the swift hollows charged him, he waited for a moment before doing anything. He allowed that's right allowed on of them to attempt an attack on him. With a smile, Kiyoshi vanished from sight in the blink of an eye. Seconds later he reappered behind the creature with his sword pulled to his back. With a smooth, swift movement he slashed right down the center of the hollow splitting it in two pieces.

"Dumb asses. I'm the fastest in my group, you can't touch my speed." he gloated. But he was telling the truth. No one on this battlefield would be able to outrun him, they maybe could come close but they wouldn't outrun him. As Kiyoshi was about to finish off the remaining hollows surrounding him, his eyes darted forward as his senses kicked in. Something was heading his way at an extremely fast speed. What he saw was a large wave of energy speeding towards him, the smaller hollows were actually successful in their attempt at distracting him. The larger ones had fired their cannons right at him. But Kiyoshi wasn't worried about that, he could easily avoid it, there was another reiatsu coming his way one he had never felt before. A thin beam of purple reiatsu shot clean through the left side of his chest narrowly missing his heart.

The beam had felt like somewhere stabbed him with a scorching blade. He let out a fierce and painful yell, this was like nothing he had ever felt before. But there was no time recover from the sneak attack because the wave of energy was nearly at him. Mustering up his strength, Kiyoshi flashstepped out of the way of the incoming combination of attacks. He retreated to the top of a nearby building where he could rest and analyze what just happened exactly.

"AAHH....what the hell was that?!" he asked while placing a hand over his wound.

A stern and booming voice emitted in his head, it was Zetsumei. Kiyoshi, you got careless and let your guard down! What were you thinking?! It was obviously by his tone that Zetsumei was disappointed with him.

"Forgive me, Zetsumei. I don't know what happened down there. But it won't happen again, trust me."

[glow=red,2,300]Whatever you say kid. Just don't get us killed.[/glow] said Moru.

Kiyoshi's face twisted a little bit at Moru's comment. Earlier before he was just trying to kill him, now he's telling him not to get killed. What the hell? Kiyoshi shook his head for a moment to clear his mind. He looked around the area and noticed that the reiatsu that hit him was no longer around, it just vanished completely. With the way things are going, you might actually get a little action, Moru." he said.

[glow=red,2,300]Hmph[/glow]

Kiyoshi's eyes were then drawn to a familiar sight, a fellow council member and friend, Barda Kaazaki. It looked like he was injured as well in the same fashion. This was not good, not good at all. On top of everything else there seemed to be soldiers approaching the area. Things were really about to get hot and heavy now. With one last sigh, Kiyoshi leaped off the roof hurling towards the nearest hollow with his sword drawn, ready for attack.

[Mr. Butterfly]

Barda held his right arm limp,,since that was where the burnt hole was. It was starting to sting now, especially when he moved. So he would now fight single handedly - literally. The outlook grew worse when he figured out that several of the strong hollows had decided the town was now easy pickings....and so was he. Apparently, circling around him was not just a wolf tactic. And the build up of reiatsu suggested ceros headed his way. Before they were released he swung his blade out with his right hand, releasing his shikai silently. The blade glowed then changed, becoming slimmer and longer.

"Zekkyou Umou!"

A bright yellow concentration of reiatsu gathered in his arm, then raced down to his blade. It was shot off at the blade, the result of his spin causing it to loosely engulf him. He then dropped the blade into the air, tossing it up slightly, as he performed his own counter.

"Hado [63] Twin Lotus blue Fire, Crash Down!"

From the tips of his hand pure kido energy burst forth in two shots, aimed at what Barda felt were the two strongest of the odd like Hollow. His earlier burst of his attack abosrbed the worst of the energy bolts, and the rest missed, fired to wide. The smoke cleared, and as Barda's hand shot up to catch his zanpaukuto...

..and a pair of claws scraped his hands, almost causing him to slip and miss. His's spiritual senses kicked in, suddenly alerting him to the fact that theses damn Hollows were right around him. Claws, swords, a sharp tail..all closing in on him in a second.

Barda's zanpaukuto may have been slower than normal, but it was enough to handle these guys. It sliced into one's skull-like mask, and chopped off another's hand, before and opening of escape presented itself. He quickly shunpo'd, and two Hollows squabbled into each other, slicing tough skin. Their weapons were sharp, after all.


He reapeared in the trees below, leaning against a tree. What the hell was happening?


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The sound of the chopper grew silent as it landed about a few hundred meters from the designated target zone. Green hair blew gently as the propellors shut off. Behind a visor the eyes sparkled. Marisa Truax was ready for this...but nervous. She turned back to the chopper to the other girl within.

"C'mon, Harue....we got a job to do."

[Zhiel]

OOC: Galihan, you can control the Zeta Squad to move your characters part ahead if you feel like it, they are simply NPC's so I don't really care what you do with them, though keep in mind they are ELITEs so they aren't your average cannon-fodder
Sorry for craptastic quality, tends to get like that when I write from a multitude of sides @_@ Also, prod me if I forgot someone.

Though no faces were visible it seemed the entire Zeta Squad was relieved when Daniel agreed to accompany them, though they were all sufficiently trained this was their first big mission, and a really dangerous one at that. "Yes sir!" The squad leader said with a salute, just as the lights in the helicopter shifted to green, signifying that it was time to jump. As the soldiers already had their chutes on them they simply had to stand up and grab their weapons before lining up near the hatch. Though no one directly commented on it the soldiers exchanged worried glances with how the Battle Operative seemed to keep telling them not to get in between him and the hollows worried some of them slightly, but seemed to shrug it off once they saw him jump. The ELITEs followed shortly after Daniel, jumping from the chopper just a second after one another. "Heads up, we've got incoming flyers." The squad leader said over the comm, being so close Daniel would also pick up on the squads channel. The squad raised their rifles to the surrounding area, noticing that there was indeed a group of small flying hollows heading their way from every-which direction, realizing they were more or less impossible to catch alive in this situation as well as being worthless to the NWO they all opened fire, sending dozens falling toward the city below as they slowly began to dissipate, however there was a lot more than they alone could take care of in their current situation.

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With Kiyoshis tactical retreat the hollows once again resumed destroying the town, which now had paniced townsfolk running away from what to them must seem like a terrorist bombing of some odd kind, naturally the smaller hollows did not let this opportunity go and started hunting them instead. However they had not completely let go off Kiyoshi, merely that they did not know where he had gone, and so when he once again revealed himself by cutting a pretty large hollows masked head in half several energy blasts was once again heading his way. In the smoke left by those blasts came a torrent of bladed stabs toward Kiyoshi, whatever caused them not caring whether it hit or not, and as the smoke cleared he'd be able to see the culprit.

It was an odd hollow, its form was almost human, except it was so thin it seemed like a walking skeleton, but with arms nearly as long as its legs, claws on the feet and hands and a large number of strange bony tendrils sticking out of its spine, each with a one foot long steel blade fused to it with reiatsu coursing through it, which explained what had been stabbing at Kiyoshi through the smoke. However even stranger had to be its face which seemed to be two heads stuck together at the back, one looking to his right, the other to his left, with them fused to seemingly form a distorted third face in the middle. And yet, even though it was clearly a hollow its reiatsu was far far greater than what you would expect from even an average vasto lorde. "Kekekeke... Seems we get a worthy fight hmm?" the two "heads" spoke in unison, then it once again lashed out with its bladed tendrils, just as more smaller hollows came from behind the vizard.

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There would be no respite for Barda, merely seconds after he had landed on the branch of a tree, was it cut off by what seemed to have been a bala blast, with only another beam of purple energy following a moment later aimed toward Barda's chest. If Barda was quick enough he would catch sight of a white ragged coat disappearing into an alley not far away from his current position, most of the assailant's features had been out of sight, however it was clearly a humanoid, though its reiatsu which was swiftly disappearing was clearly that of a hollow. But he would have no time to think about this as it now seemed the surrounding hollows once again knew where he was and attacked accordingly, cero and energy blasts flying left and right crashing into the ground around him, some would no doubt hit if he didn't move, however if he had attempted to track the running attacker he would be able to locate him if he hurried after.

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The sky above Karakura Town was soon filled with lights and turmoil as hundreds of New World Order soldiers jumped from their transport choppers and begun to fire upon the flying hollows trying to prey on what might have appeared to be easy prey. Naturally some fell to the faster hollows, a few of the choppers even exploded and crashed toward the town below, but all the men who dropped from the choppers were veterans or highly trained, and as such the hollows was quickly dispatched. Luckily enough there had been no particularly strong ones around them, but that was not so odd considering the massive reiatsu that the two vizard possessed. With only a short distance left to the ground the many soldiers activated their parachutes while still shooting at any surrounding hollows.

Only a short while later the majority of the forces landed, quickly and efficiently regrouping before announcing to command that they had arrived at their respective landing zone and was starting the mission. All over the small town teams of five or more soldiers moved about, several taking up positions on roofs. They did not fear being seen by the human inhabitants, as they all had the spirit cloaking device built into their suits. One particular squad of ELITEs had found their way on top of a roof overlooking the area where Kiyoshi was fighting. ["Command, we have discovered what appears to be a spirit and a hollow fighting, readings on both of their spiritual strength is still being scanned but we assume they are powerful. Also the spirit is wielding a sword, orders?"] the squad leader asked over the radio, a few seconds later came a reply from Richard ["Observe them, and if you find an opportunity to strike, do so. Try to avoid risks and retreat if discovered."]. The squad leader relayed the orders he had been given to his squad mates, causing them to split up and hafly surround the area silently, using the surroundings as cover, with their suits nullifying their reiatsu signatures they would be hard to spot.

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Even though the bulk of the NWO elite forces were chuting down into the streets and rooftops below, Richard were still in his chopper typing away on his laptop as he responded to the different squads questions and gave out their orders with a headset. The massive spirit radar had picked up several more powerful reiatsu in the town, two had been very similar to that of shinigami, yet still somehow different, while the rest were all hollow or still unknown. However it had been proven even the mightiest shinigami were still vulnerable against a bullet with enough force behind it, and this rule also applied to the majority of hollows, even though explosives proved most effective against their kind.

The few soldiers inside Richards chopper turned their attention toward him once more as he dropped it onto the floor. "Alright, its time to move." Richard then said as he closed the laptop and grabbed his helmet that laid to his left. "You two, go grab project 0241 in the weapon cache," He said as he gestured to two of the soldiers in the 'room' before turning to the one closest to the cockpit door. "Tell Kaeshi to take us down, about a hundred meters to the ground should be good." He continued, and after watching the soldier leave through the cockpit door of the rather large chopper he stood up, sliding his helmet on his head, a moment later several barely audible clicks and crackling sounds could be heard as the helmet connected to the rest of the suit, then a moment later came the familiar sound of depressurizing.

Richard did not pay attention to the read-outs on his visor, he had seen it a thousand times and knew already what it said, he would have noticed if there had even been a slight error to it without truly looking. About the same time the two soldiers came back from the weapons cache that were held on the chopper, carrying a nearly two meter long and two decimeters thick black box, with a digital keypad on the front end. After coming up to him the soldiers handed it over, with obvious strain as they stretched it out, Richard on the other hand just grabbed it gingerly with one arm as he looked at the keypad for a moment. "Good, this is the right one." He said as he nodded to the two soldiers.

Just a minute later a voice came through on the comm-unit in Richards helmet. "Sir, we're closing in on the target location, prepare for drop." Kaeshi's voice came over. "Good work Kaeshi, open the hatch when ready." Richard replied, his suit blocking his voice from reaching outside the suit, but came out clearly on the comm-unit. With only a few seconds wait the hatch on the back of the chopper opened, at which Richard and his group ran out the back and dived out, several devices on the side of his suit began to glow during the fall as he slowed down, still holding the project under his left arm during the fall. The soldiers coming after him however had to use parachutes, and due to how close they were to the ground compared to the other soldiers they had to pull them rather fast, on the other hand however there were barely no hollows directly around their area.

This was not to last though, as moments after the first soldier had landed the sky suddenly grew darker than before in several places as hollows of all sizes and strengths came out of nowhere, all over the town. It seemed something had drawn them from Hueco Mundo, but whatever it had been it would not be long before nearly everyone in the town were being swarmed by the massive horde of hollows.

[Mr. Butterfly]

Barda's 4 second rest brake was appreciated, even if it was interupted. The second the bala shot rammed into the inside of the tree branch, cutting it off from the trunk, Barda knew something was up. His blade came up instantly and with a slight grunt he was able to do what he was unable to do before. The thin purple beam of pain hit the exact edge of his blade as the vizard pushed reiatsu into into purely. This caused a slow motion moment - his blade looked like it was cutting into jello, and the purple beam went from a straight line into causing a sort of Light-in-a-Crystal effect, miniature beams scattering around. The mini-beams sliced into the surroundings, not entirely cutting through a tree like the mother beam could but able to slice initials, patterns traced on the ground and bark.

Barda grunted, and with a final shove the beam was entirely sliced away, spent out. However, this was not without toll on Barda. That took alot of stamina to pull off, and it was only worse since the deflection was a big "OVER HERE YOU GUYS" to the Hollows in a loud, high pitch voice over a megaphone. He was barely able to sidestep a large cero, and a quick cero burst of his own consumed a few more blasts, taking out 2 small hollows in the proccess. He had time to think as several pairs of claws came down from a single angle, easily blocked with a simple parry. Where were these beams coming from, who was attacking them? He vaguely remembered a reaitsu signature matching one from earlier, in the direction of the beam...

He leapt up and one Hollow made a stab, only to inpale a fellow death-dealer, killing it since the mask was cut in half. As he was higher in the air, he was so lucky in this event. He witnessed Kiyoshi, a fellow Vizard and a good friend of his, being blasted with multiple blasts.

"KIYOSHI!"

Barda's yell echoed but was cut off, as a small bala rammed him in the face, knocking him back. He fell a few feet, moaning as blood trickled from his mouth. His face was burnt badly, and Barda turned to see the small swarm of Hollows firing balas. This wasn't the best night in his life.

[Kiyoshi]

As Kiyoshi continued his decent from the building where he had taken refuge, he placed both hands on the hilt of his zanpaku-to and swung down full force. The result was him cleaving a large hollow's face clean in half. A smirk of joy came across his face for a moment, but this was no time to celebrate for more energy blast were heading his way. Thinking quickly he pulled his right arm back to his waist, blue energy began swirling around it. "SHOTGUN!!" He yelled as he thrust his arm forward. Six separate blast shot from his hand colliding with the other energy blast headed for him. The collision of power kicked up a lot of dust and smoke and pushed him back a few feet. For the moment Kiyoshi had managed to avoid potential serious injury.

Good counter. praised Zetsumei.

Sadly, there was not going to be any rest for him at this time. Before the smoke could even clear, a barrage of blades lashed out at him. Kiyoshi raised his sword in front of him placing a hand on the blade to steady it. He managed to blocked and parry most of the attacks that came close to hitting him. He was pushed back a little further from the force of the barrage. He winced in pain as the pressure from blocking began to affect his shoulder that had been damaged earlier by a vanishing source. "Sh*t!" he said as the pain slowly became unbearable. With a yell, he pushed forward knocking away the bladed attack. As the smoke cleared, Kiyoshi now had a clear visual of the coward that was attacking him. His face twisted a bit at the creatures appearance. It's body was human shaped but very thin, like a skeleton or something. It's arms hung down at its sides matching the length of the creatures legs. The creature's hands and feet were replaced with claws, the back had tendrils with a blaed fused to each one. And the face of this thing, good God what a face. It was like two faces fused to make one hideous one.

[glow=red,2,300]Gat damn this piece of sh*t is ugly. Not even a mother could love it.[/glow] said Moru.

Kiyoshi nearly burst out with laughter despite the seriousness of the situation, but he did have a good point. He shook his head to get the words of his hollow side out and focus on the task at hand. The most remarkable thing about this creature though was its reiatsu. It was different from all the others in the area, much much stronger, and slightly frightening.

"Kekekeke... Seems we get a worthy fight hmm?"

The creature spoke, both heads in unison. As it finished its speech, it lashed out once more with its blades. Simultaneously a few smaller hollows tried to sneak in from behind, dumbasses. Before they could reach him, Kiyoshi was standing slightly crouched with two fingers on his blade towards the hilt. He gave a slight chuckle at what was about to come. "Kill 'em dead, Zetsumei". He ran his fingers down the blade causing it to glow with a bright light. Seconds later the, blade split in half right down the center becoming two, the hilt extended to hold both blades. The light faded away revealing a steady surge of black lightning between the blades. Shikai, what a wonderful thing.
In a flash, Kiyoshi spun around swinging his zanpaku-to releasing a large arc of lightning. The attack was to quick for the hollows to react properly, instead they were disintegrated instantly by it. As Kiyoshi finished his turn, his blade met with the bladed tendrils of the opponent infront of him.

"KIYOSHI!"

A familiar voiced called out to him from the sky. He snapped his head to the right and saw another on the battle field besides him. It was his good friend and fellow council member, Barda Kaazaki. Before he could respond, a bala nailed Barda clean in the face knocking him to the ground. "Screw this!" Kiyoshi said sounding like a fed up customer at a crowded convient store. He vanished from the sight of his opponent using shunpo. In doing so he managed to barely escape a fatal blow from one of the bladed tendrils. Moments later, Kiyoshi reappeared standing next to Barda as he lay on the ground, bleeding from the mouth. With a few quick slashes of his sword, he sent out multiple arcs of lightning to block the incoming energy blast. Without taking his eyes off the hollows surrounding them he spoke to Barda.

"This is getting ridiculous man. I think it's bout time we showed these bastards what we really are." He spoke the last part with a smirk on his face.

[Zhiel]

OOC: Just a quick reply to Kiyoshi and Steven, their part in the rp needs some catching up on anyways (The other parts in my last post took way longer than both theirs and their own posts ) I'd prefer if the rest of the members would post though to keep it moving.

The hollow that was attacking Kiyoshi seemed to hesitate when it saw him crouch and put his fingers near his blade, probably having some experience fighting shinigami and knowing something was comming. But when he began saying the phrase to release his zanpakutou the two-faced hollow lashed out with its eight bladed tendrils, all aimed at the same spot. However before the blades could rip through his flesh the shinigami finished his zanpakutou's transformation and in one simple turn disintegrated the pawns that tried to take the man from behind, before turning back and blocking the hollows blades in the last moment.

"Kehehe, worthy opponent indeed." the left face of the hollow said, ignoring the shout of Kiyoshi's companion from behind him as it raised several of the blades, then struck just as the man used his shunpo to pass the hollow by, the blades missing barely. Though if he payed attention to the hollow he'd have noticed how the eyes behind the right mask seemed to follow his every movement like if he was moving in slow motion. After the shinigami had disappeared up into the sky the hollow slowly turned around and stared up towards the two shinigami. "Keh, cowardly shinigami..." The hollow's right face said, though even if it said so it was itself hesitant to pursuing, two opponents of that calliber could be too much for the hollow. That was when it felt a familiar reiatsu signature, sent like a message.

"What you really are, huh?" A voice sounded out behind Barda and Kiyoshi, if they turned to look who it was they would see a humanoid figure cloathed in what appeared to be a raggy white lab coat that was slightly too small for it, and due to certain white spiky protrusions along the arms and legs, it was clear why it was so raggy to begin with. The figure stood at nearly two and a half meters height and while it had no obvious muscles, most of its skin being covered in a white carapace like plating, with the few patches of skin visible being a light shade of gray, it was not slim nor fat, simply big. Its head however seemed to be a kind of face mask that covered the upper part of its nose and up, continuing back towards its neck and covering its ears and anything above it, deep red runic symbols covering the mask, with black hair being let out at the neck, falling down to nearly its waist. Other than seemingly having predator teeth, what was visible of his face seemed mostly human. There was also a fist sized hole in the center of his chest, signifying his relation to the hollows even more than the rest of his appearance.

"We cant have that, now can we?" The pseudo-arrancar said, a sharp teethed smirk crossing his lips for a moment as another precense appeared a few meters infront of, or by then most likely behind Kiyoshi, in the form of the two-faced hollow. "Kekekekeke! Cant escape, cant run, we eat, you die!" The hollows left face said, with the right seemingly frowning, making the imagined middle face look really weird, all the while the bladed tendrils waved about uncontrollably, though not in a threatening manner just yet. Not really giving any reaction to the hollows weirdness the pseudo-arrancar raised his right arm to gesture in a rather elegant way to the two shinigami. "So what will you do...?" A sly grin spread on the arrancars face. "..Vizard."

[Mr. Butterfly]

Barda wiped his sleeve on his face, cleaning the blood away. He took in a breath as he realized Kiyoshi had popped in by his side, destroying the other ceros and spirit attacks. Barda stood straight up, zanpaukuto in his right hand, his left hand dangling freely. There was a gash on his face where the bala had slapped him, but it wasn't serious. The vizard looked to Kiyoshi's previous opponent, then at Kiyoshi.

"You sure know how to pick'em."

The white haired Vizard sighed, then nodded in agreement to what Kiyoshi said. They might as well go ahead and give it their all. They needed to get the situation under control. Besides, he could use the speed. The Freak seemed to use his multiple head's eyesight to it's advantage. Barda had raised his left hand to the side of his face when suddenly a reiatsu signature popped up behind them, with a trace of familier carnage within it. Barda's head whipped around, and he saw what might have been Dr. Frankenstein. It was humanoid, if that meant large and covered in spikes. The hole in th chest meant Hollow, though he would have guessed Arrancar of some kind. To make things worse, the mask was oddly different than many others. It had these weird runes covering it, and Barda could only think that this one wasn't normal. To put more fire on the pile, the other misfit hollow Sir Blades A Plenty decided to join them, on the other side.

"Kiyoshi...you take the on with the culinary equipment on it's anatomy. I'll get the ragged one."

His hand fell across his face. In a slow instant white carapace materialized and molded to Barda's face, etching out eye sockets and large molars, and brown curving marks. The moment his hand stopped moving the change was noticable, as his reiatsu surged forth, becoming lightly visible around him, a slight purple aura. Barda's voice had changed; now a horse and rasp whisper.

[shadow=blue,left,300]"C'mon...let's get this over with."[/shadow]

Barda felt the reiatsu beneath his feet propel him forward towards the pseudo arrancar, his blade coming down at a sideways angle from the right in a straight on attack. The released blade's added length would add to the assault, though Barda didn't know what this thing could do. It seemed to know about them, certainly - that was certain from it knowing they were Vizards, the Masked Army.