Bleach Hereafter RPG

For the briefest of moments, as Kios charged Yoshinori's form, the Eighth Division Third Seat offered no observable reaction. Instead of preparing to dodge or preparing some form of Kido barrier with which to defend himself, Yoshinori simply stood there, staring straight at the Hollow as the misshapen lump of flesh prepared to dig his claws into the dark skinned man's gut.



"You Shinigami will fuel his ret-!" Just as Kios' clawed hand was about to make contact with Yoshinori's flesh, the silver haired Reaper's visage flickered as the man utilized the ever reliable Shunpo to just narrowly avoid contact with the man's attack. A daring dodge indeed, but one that managed to pay off. Still within Kios' space, the Hollow attempted to swipe his hand to the right in order to still catch Yoshinori in a hasty backhand, but the Third Seat beat him to the punch in terms of follow-up attacks. Laying his own hand atop Kios', Yoshinori's body would suddenly exude considerable spiritual power as he prepared one of his many spells. A flicker of electricity dancing across the back of Yoshinori's hand, suddenly Kios' body would be enveloped in a powerful bright light as electricity flooded his body, causing Kios' flesh to contort and near liquefy.

"Hadō #11. Tsuzuri Raiden" Yoshinori chanted as the electricity continued to wrack and ruin the man's flesh. As if to escape physical contact, Kios allowed his body to fully liquefy once more, becoming a goo-like substance once more that would immediately fall to the ground as gravity took hold.

But Yoshinori had a plan for that too.

"Goyōgai." As Kios' goo-like body slapped against the ground, he would meet not the solid concrete of the building roof that he was perched upon, but rather solid energy as the beginnings of a barrier formed beneath him. Then, the platform began to build as walls were constructed around his form. Four of them actually, creating the interior of a box in which Kios was nestled safely inside. Finally, the box would be sealed off with one more addition at the top, that would serve as the sealing cover to the man's latest geometrical cube. Within moments, the silver haired Kido Specialist managed to trap Kios in his semi-solid form, the Goyogai spell serving to preserve the individual's state of body at the time of encasing. While such was usually used to save allies from what would normally be mortal injuries, in this case Yoshinori used it to trap Kios in a state where he could no longer pose a threat..at least for as long as Yoshinori could hold the barrier.

Meanwhile, Rekka was having similar success with Yasha.



With the tip of Rekka's blade buried in Yasha's Cero, the gaunt, hunchbacked Hollow attempted to bite back on his energy attack, only for the fruits of Rekka's labor to take root sooner than expected. Faced with the rays of his very own attack lashing back at him, the entire Cero detonated a moment later, knocking him back into the portal from which he came. Blinking once, Hiro banished the portal once Yasha was safely inside, and instead directed his one eye to the ground in front of him, where Yasha was promptly spat out a moment later. Tendrils of smoke wafted up from his upper body, and as the Adjuchas directed his attention at Rekka once more, it was clear to see that Yasha was not a happy camper.

"RAAAAAAGH! I will kill you! I swear I will kill you! And I will enjoy it!" Despite his injuries and the numerous cracks along his mask, Yasha bounded forward regardless, his scimitar like claws outstretched as he closed the distance between himself and Rekka. Against the fiery Third Seat, Yasha had but one strategy. Hit hard. If that didn't work, he would hit harder. And if that didn't work, then he would just dig deeper and hit even harder. A simple strategy that had managed to keep Yasha alive for this long, but against an opponent who was able to match him blow for blow thus far, the Hollow's chances of victory were unclear.

Perhaps Rekka would be able to shed some light on which way the scales will turn.

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With Yoshinori's combination of Tsuzuri Raiden and Goyogai succeeding in trapping Kios in his liquid state, and Rekka's own counterattack managing to reflect Yasha's Cero, the tide seemed to be turning in the Shinigami's favor. Additionally, Rekka had reverted from his bulked-up form, and now looked like his regular self again. Which was a shame, as the injured and enraged Yasha charged again, all too eager to ruin the Ninth Division Third Seat's pretty face with his scimitar-like claws.

"Your rage makes your technique sloppy, y'know?" said Rekka. "It's over, Hollow. I have the high ground."

As Yasha rushed Rekka yet again, the fiery Shinigami would, in the blink of an eye, angle his body and blade in such a way that when the attacking Hollow committed to his claw slash while thinking his foe was in one location, Rekka's Zanpakuto would be in such a position to sever the creature's clawed limbs using both combatants' momentum. If it failed, Rekka would default to a backup stance of dodging and parrying.

"Yoshi-san! We need a plan for this eye-portal guy!" he called while locked in combat with Yasha. "I don't think putting my portal inside his portal would work."

In certain games, putting a portal inside another portal would lead to a disastrous explosion that sucked everyone in the vicinity into interdimensional space. While Rekka wasn't exactly banking on that idea, he did think double teaming Hiro should do the trick.

As soon as he dismembered Yasha, that is.

Slowly but surely, the tides began to change. As Rekka and Yoshinori continued their due diligence against the Hollow coordinators of the raid, the members of the Twelfth Division sensory team were not just standing idle. Within the warehouse, the sensor technicians and research aids secured machinery into place and began hooking up equipment in record time, with pure hard work and just a little bit of Kido to accelerate the process. At the head of the operations, Shinra couldn't help but sneak peaks every now and then out the nearest window, taking note of Yoshinori and Rekka's struggle.



"They're doing alright for the time being..." He muttered under his breath, biting his lip. The Sensor Technician lead was nervous, pacing up an down the warehouse, only stopping briefly to shout orders or to assist one of the technicians with calibrations or occasionally heavy lifting. His task was in ensuring everything was in proper order, or else there would be an even greater delay. No one wanted a major malfunction.

Once again, the warehouse doors opened as team of heavy lifters came in, holding smaller pieces of equipment compared to the large towers they were originally lugging.

"This is the last of it! Once we're done installing, we're good to go!" The lifter announced as he rushed towards the nearest engineer.

A satisfied hum escaping him, Shinra turned more fully towards the window, watching the Seated Officers take on the marauding Hollows.

"Only a little longer..."

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Hiro was no fool. But he was surrounded by them. A low growl escaping him as he noted Kios' capture by the hands of Yoshinori, he could only then watch begrudgingly as Yasha charged towards Rekka with little care for his own well being. Rocking back on his heels, Hiro merely closed his eyes. Biding his time. Waiting.

"The weak do not deserve his master's favor. Only oblivion awaits." The stout Hollow declared.



Yasha was indeed blinded by his own rage and viciousness. To him, the persistent thorn in his side could be easily remedied by just applying force, force and more force. As he closed the gap between himself and Rekka, the wild Hollow was moments away from ripping flesh from bone when suddenly the same thing was done to him.

In a clean stroke of his blade, Rekka's Zanpakuto cut cleanly through both of the Hollow's wrists, separating his hands (and therefore his claws) free from the remainder of his body.

"GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Yasha howled, his voice reaching the high, echoing pitch that Hollows were all too well known for. Immediately skittering back, the tall, gaunt Hollow doubled over in apparent pain.

"Rekka! Now is your chance! Kill him before he has a chance to regenerate his lost limbs!" Yoshinori called out to the Ninth Division Third Seat. He knew too well from experience against multiple Hollows and even some Arrancar that High-Speed Regeneration was an annoying factor to contend with. At most, Rekka had moments to capitalize on the opportunity before the creature regenerated. But Rekka was more than capable of handling that task, Yoshinori mused.

After all, he had his own beast to contend with.

His right hand drawing his Zanpakuto, Yoshinori released his Kido spell over Kios, immediately freeing him from the time-freezing suspension that trapped him. Regaining full control over himself once more, Kios' liquefied body began to shift away from Yoshinori, already trying to take solid shape once more. But the silver haired Reaper did not release Kios to let him escape. His cutlass now firmly nestled in his right hand, Yoshinori lunged forward in a fencing stab, his blade stretching outwards...and impaling Kios right in the center of his Hollow mask.

Unlike his taller partner, however, Kios did not scream. Instead, a light hiss escaped from behind his mask as his hate-filled eyes met Yoshinori's,"His return is upon us..." Before Yoshinori could ask any questions of the deformed Hollow, his body disintegrated into nothingness.

"One down..." Hiros grimaced, his one eye flitting towards Rekka.

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"GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"

"URUSAI!" Rekka, having severed his opponent's hands, was now annoyed by the Hollow's screams of agony. However, there were more important matters to be addressed at the moment, which Yoshinori aptly pointed out.

"Rekka! Now is your chance! Kill him before he has a chance to regenerate his lost limbs!"

"Wakatta." As if it was the most obvious thing in the world, Rekka closed the distance between him and the screaming Yasha in an instant, and, gripping his blade in a two-handed stance, brought it down hard on his foe's head with the intention of cleaving him in half.

"Your karma is exonerated," Rekka declared, a wry grin on his face. "Time to set your spirit free."

The Ninth Division member was all but certain that his foe would not be walking away from that. Now, it was time for Hiro the Eye Portal Guy to go and die.

And so, Rekka pointed the tip of his sword at Hiro, and nothing else. He simply stood there, his hat and hair obscuring one side of his face in shadow while his exposed eye, glowing scarlet, glared menacingly. And fittingly for Egypt, several instances of the "go" katakana materialized around the young Reaper and promptly started rumbling. What Hiro wouldn't notice until it was too late was that Rekka's Zanpakuto was invisibly focusing heat into the void in his single eye, and there were two choices. One was to not notice this, and remain in position until an internal explosion took off the Hollow's head. The second was to dodge and still be affected by the AOE damage.

Furious was not an adequate word to describe Yasha's temperament right now. In fact, there weren't enough words in the English lexicon to describe the pure emotion that pumped through his veins as he glared at Rekka. This was pure, unadulterated hatred, directed towards the mere idea of a single Shinigami proving so undeniably burdensome so as to put him into a corner. To threaten him with destruction? How dare he? How dare--

"HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!" Yasha howled, his voice once more reaching the high, echoing pitch unique to Hollows. Thrashing about, the gaunt Hollow's eyes never left Rekka, and with a final roar of defiance, he charged forward at the raven haired Third Seat. Caution was abandoned and thrown to the wind. Yasha didn't care how many injuries his body sustained. All that was on his mind was his desire to kill Rekka. So blinded was he in his charge that he didn't register Rekka closing in until it was too late. In an instant, the Shinigami's Zanpakuto broke through his skull, slicing clean through flesh and mask alike. Unable to even fully process what was going on, Yasha's form began to disintegrate into open air before Rekka's very eyes, before vanishing completely.

Two down, one left to go.



"A shame..." Hiros grunted, before setting his one eye upon Rekka once more, noting him to be the more immediate threat of the two combatants. A full teeth bared smile crossing his features, Hiro was quicker to act than his now deceased companions. Almost immediately, Hiro's body began to distort as Rekka began channeling heat towards the Hollow. Warping himself out of view, Hiro dealt with the would be attack by simply taking himself out of the equation...and into his own pocket dimension of course.

Opening up once more behind Rekka, Hiro would swipe to his left with his well muscled fist, intending to smash into the side of Rekka's body to knock the young man prone. Even if he wasn't successful in such an endeavor, Hiro would simply retreat back into his self created portal, warping himself from one place to the next. His next reappearance would bring him several meters away but still perched onto the rooftop.

"I am not so easily felled as Yasha, boy. You may have to try a bit harder to..." Hiro quickly turned his body towards Yoshinori, his eye opened wide as a portal opened up in front of him, proving just in time to warp away Yoshinori's attempt at a Byakurai towards the back of his head.

"You will have to try harder to save your allies." Hiro chuckled simply, before turning back to Rekka, as if daring him to make another move.


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"A shame..." Rekka, seeing Hiro warp out of the way of his attempt at an Atomic Shooting Star, echoed his foe's words. But there were only so many places the Hollow could reappear, and since the scarlet-eyed Reaper was a fellow portal user he was well aware of how to use such a power. Sure enough, Hiro emerged behind Rekka and threw a punch at the Shinigami's midsection.

Unfortunately for him, the Shinigami's midsection was no longer there. Instead, as Hiro retreated back into his portal, the last thing he saw was Rekka's upside down face, with the Ninth Division Third Seat sticking his tongue out at him and just as quickly disappearing. This time, Hiro transported to a rooftop several meters away, even blocking Yoshinori's sneak attack Byakurai.

"You will have to try harder to save your allies."

"C'mon Yoshi, blast him with all you've got! Or at least bind him! He's only got one eye after all!" Rekka half-encouraged, half-complained. "Let's double team this sucker!"

Rekka hoped that his ally would arrive at the same conclusion as him. Usually, portal users could at most create two portals: an entry and an exit. Therefore, if one of them attacked Hiro, the Hollow would be forced to use his portal on that person, enabling a second attacker to close in from another direction. Also, portal users tended to require tremendous amounts of concentration for their ability, so sneak attacks while outnumbered had a great chance of success.

"Tell me, boy. The raven haired one." Hiro suddenly said aloud, pointing a pudgy finger in Rekka's direction,"Do you understand the nature of the powers you so challenge? It was my hope to provide sacrifices for the master, but it appears that I will not have the opportunity to do that now. At least, not as the circumstances permit..." The creature grumbled, a low guttural growl growing in his throat.

"But, out of all of you I can probably kill one. Or maybe two, before the opposing force overwhelms me into a retreat. The question now posed before me is the subject of who. Who will I kill before you stop me? Will it be you? Will it be your friend?" Hiro directed towards Yoshinori.

"Or will it be the researchers..." At that point, Hiro deviated from what could be the expected course for him. Opening his eye towards the direction of the warehouse, the Hollow intended not to attack Yoshinori nor Rekka directly, but rather creating a portal with intention to attack one of the many workers inside the facility. Who was it going to be? Shinra would be the best case scenario, given that the Sensor Technician lead had proven to at least possess a moderate degree of combat effectiveness. But what if it wasn't him? What if it was one of the many non-combatant scientists that populated that warehouse. They were easy pickings, weren't they?

Fortunately, Yoshinori and Rekka weren't going to allow that to happen, now were they?

Suddenly, Hiro's concentration would be rudely broken by the appearance of multiple threads of blue light that began to swirl across his form. Clasping his hands together, Yoshinori's brow furrowed as he began to focus on what was to be his final act of the mission. The threads soon materialized into thick tendrils of spiritual fabric, the likes of which would rapidly enclose around the Hollow, binding his arms and legs together, with an added piece of fabric swirling across his head before tightening around his eye. The fabric pinning itself to the ground, several iron shafts would swiftly follow, impaling the fabric and securing it tightly in place, thus forcing Hiro to fall forward into a prone position upon the floor.

Immediately, Rekka would be able to note a sizable decrease in the spiritual presence of the Hollow, which only continued to decrease with time. A powerful seal indeed, if Rekka had ever seen one.

"Bakudō #99, Part 1. Kin." Yoshinori recited. Already preparing to change the formation of his hands, the young Shinigami paused briefly, his eyes flickering instead to Rekka, before a slow nudge of his head was flitted in the direction of the bound Hollow.

"You have your opening. Take it."

All the while, Hiro grimaced and thrashed against the bindings, to no avail," "What is this?! Why can't I...escape?!"

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