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Chapter 5- Teamwork
Elias and Rag stood before their opponent, the 4th Espada Carthas Quizas, who was seated on the ground in front of them.
Carthas spoke, but his mouth did not move. He spoke through telekinesis.
Carthas: Influe, Manipulador! You two must realized that you're doomed. Never before has any number of people defeated me in my Resurreccion form.
Ragnaroc: Well, then, I'm sure you've never fought anyone worth fighting.
Carthas: What could you possibly mean by that, Shinigami.
Ragnaroc: The point of battle, aside from protecting people, is to perfect your art: you must lose at some point in order to realize your weak points and then improve.
Carthas: That is because... I have no weak points!!
10 floating blades of black raitsu shot out at Elias and Rag at unbelievable speeds, causing them to backflip away in order to dodge. However, the blades simply followed them into the air, and began striking them. Elias and Rag did their best to block the strikes that came at them simultaneously, but it soon became clear that their speed with their blades was insufficient, as Carthas was fighting at the speed of thought: easily surpassing their speed of action.
Elias spoke to Rag, whilst fending off the attacks of the Espada.
Elias: It's time to take this to the next level. I have an idea, Rag.
Ragnaroc: Any idea would be welcome at this point.
Elias: *whispers*: he can't attack us if he can't see us. *points to Carthas's third eye, which was open, while the other two were closed*
Ragnaroc: Got it. Let me test it first.
Ragnaroc shot several balls of fire at Carthas, blocking their view of him, and his view of them. Almost at once, the blades stopped moving in their orderly manner, and began striking randomly, allowing Rag and Elias to simply walk away from their spastic movements.
Meanwhile, Carthas, seeing the large balls of fire approaching him, summoned up, through power of thought, a large shield of black raitsu, which blocked the shinigami's attack.
Carthas: Not a bad idea, but you'll soon see why I have no weak points.
Elias: Shut up about that!
Carthas's third eye opened even wider, until its lid was no longer visible.
Carthas: With my third eye opened like this, I have 360 degree vision, and I can see your raitsu outlines even through solid objects and attacks. That is why I have no weak points.
Ragnaroc: Your mind is only as fast as what you can perceive. You'll never be able to keep up with my speed.
While Elias continued to fend off the raitsu blades, Rag began image flash stepping around Carthas at incredible speeds, launching blasts of fire at him so fast that it looked like there was a 360 degree spray of fire coming at him. Shields of black raitsu appeared, blocking the fire attacks. Suddenly, Rag appeared beneath Carthas and stabbed at him, faster than a blink of an eye. Carthas reached his hand down, however, and created a small black raitsu shield in its palm, blocking Rag's sword.
Carthas: Your speed is impressive, I'll give you that, but you'll never keep up with the disciplined speed of my mind.
Ragnaroc: We'll see about that.
Ragnaroc shot at Carthas a second time, moving even faster, leaving after images at an incredible rate, and all the while shooting fire at Carthas. Carthas blocked the flames with well-placed raitsu shields, and readied himself for a sword strike, all the while keeping Elias occupied with his floating raitsu blades.
This time, the strike came from the front: it was a flurry of slashes which Carthas had to block with both hands. He held Rag's blade between his palms and said...
Carthas: That was brave, shinigami, but rash and foolish. Your speed cannot keep up with my mind, and now it shall be your downfall. Prepare for your...
Carthas's little speech was cut off, because, unknown to him, Kaze had released his Shikai, flash stepped behind him, and cut his head off.
Kaze: All I needed was an opening like that. Thanks for keeping him occupied, Rag.
Ragnaroc: Of course. O_O... all part of the plan. O_O
Elias: Damnit, you two. You never let me kill anything!
The fraccion, who was standing a few yards away, mouth agape in awe, simply stood there.
Elias: What're you looking at?
Elias shot two powerful blasts of dark red lightning out of his daggers at the fraccion, hitting her square in the chest, and sending her into the rubble of a downed building.
Ragnaroc: Well, I'd say that was successful.
Kaze: Ooh, look: a grocery store.
Meanwhile, in the Nevada Desert, TOBI! tended to the unconscious Zanji Uchiha, while Roku, Mizutoki, and Goro tried to make sense of it all.
Roku: What do you make of this, Goro?
Goro: Not sure... he could have recently suffered some sort of short term memory amensia. That sounds like it'd be the work of Aizen, and who knows what he's doing to the poor souls up there in Soul Society. Perhaps he was sent down here to run about as some sort of cruel joke.
Mizutoki: In that case, Aizen could be tracking him somehow. It would be dangerous to keep him here: as far as we know, Aizen doesn't know of our existence.
Roku: Nah, I don't think so. Take a look at his shinigami uniform... it looks brand new, save for a few scuff marks from all that running. Aizen wouldn't have manufactured a brand new shinigami uniform just for some experiment he's sending out into the world to run about in terror.
Mizutoki: Maybe that's just what he wants us to think.
Goro: What's that supposed to mean? You just said yourself that Aizen doesn't know we're here.
Mizutoki: I'm just keeping all our options open: we'd have no way of telling if Aizen knows of our whereabouts.
Roku: If Aizen knew of our existence, then why wouldn't he simply annihilate us by opening up a Garganta and sending in an army of Arrancar?
Goro: That's a good point.
Roku: So if there hasn't been any tampering with this shinigami's mind, there only leaves two options: he's lying, or he was somehow propelled into the future. And I don't think he's lying (I can usually sense when someone's lying). So that leaves only the second option open.
Mizutoki: Are you talking about time travel? We all know that's impossible.
Goro: Time travel's only impossible when going backwards in time. We're all constantly moving forwards in time.
Roku: Exactly: now, I propose that some event occurred where Zanji was put to sleep for an extended period of time, and only just awoke.
Goro: For 100 years? That's impossible, even for a shinigami. He'd starve.
TOBI!: Stop talking: just ask him yourself. He's waking up.
TOBI! was right: Zanji was slowly coming to, and as he blinked awake, the first thing he saw was TOBI!'s swirly mask hanging over him.
Zanji: O__O
TOBI!: Hey.
Zanji: Hey. O_O
TOBI!: Come here often?
Goro: TOBI!, stop hitting on Zanji!!
Roku: Zanji, welcome to the year 2110. Could you tell us what you remember last?
Zanji: It's all quite fuzzy... but I remember looking up and seeing Halibel and Captain Hitsugaya fighting. Halibel used some kind of water technique, drenching me and the ground beneath me, and then Captain Hitsugaya froze all of the water with some ice technique. The next thing I remember is waking up underwater on Earth. Then, I just ran.
Roku: Well, you're safe now.
Zanji: Thank you........ I'm hungry.
END OF CHAPTER 5
Elias and Rag stood before their opponent, the 4th Espada Carthas Quizas, who was seated on the ground in front of them.
Carthas spoke, but his mouth did not move. He spoke through telekinesis.
Carthas: Influe, Manipulador! You two must realized that you're doomed. Never before has any number of people defeated me in my Resurreccion form.
Ragnaroc: Well, then, I'm sure you've never fought anyone worth fighting.
Carthas: What could you possibly mean by that, Shinigami.
Ragnaroc: The point of battle, aside from protecting people, is to perfect your art: you must lose at some point in order to realize your weak points and then improve.
Carthas: That is because... I have no weak points!!
10 floating blades of black raitsu shot out at Elias and Rag at unbelievable speeds, causing them to backflip away in order to dodge. However, the blades simply followed them into the air, and began striking them. Elias and Rag did their best to block the strikes that came at them simultaneously, but it soon became clear that their speed with their blades was insufficient, as Carthas was fighting at the speed of thought: easily surpassing their speed of action.
Elias spoke to Rag, whilst fending off the attacks of the Espada.
Elias: It's time to take this to the next level. I have an idea, Rag.
Ragnaroc: Any idea would be welcome at this point.
Elias: *whispers*: he can't attack us if he can't see us. *points to Carthas's third eye, which was open, while the other two were closed*
Ragnaroc: Got it. Let me test it first.
Ragnaroc shot several balls of fire at Carthas, blocking their view of him, and his view of them. Almost at once, the blades stopped moving in their orderly manner, and began striking randomly, allowing Rag and Elias to simply walk away from their spastic movements.
Meanwhile, Carthas, seeing the large balls of fire approaching him, summoned up, through power of thought, a large shield of black raitsu, which blocked the shinigami's attack.
Carthas: Not a bad idea, but you'll soon see why I have no weak points.
Elias: Shut up about that!
Carthas's third eye opened even wider, until its lid was no longer visible.
Carthas: With my third eye opened like this, I have 360 degree vision, and I can see your raitsu outlines even through solid objects and attacks. That is why I have no weak points.
Ragnaroc: Your mind is only as fast as what you can perceive. You'll never be able to keep up with my speed.
While Elias continued to fend off the raitsu blades, Rag began image flash stepping around Carthas at incredible speeds, launching blasts of fire at him so fast that it looked like there was a 360 degree spray of fire coming at him. Shields of black raitsu appeared, blocking the fire attacks. Suddenly, Rag appeared beneath Carthas and stabbed at him, faster than a blink of an eye. Carthas reached his hand down, however, and created a small black raitsu shield in its palm, blocking Rag's sword.
Carthas: Your speed is impressive, I'll give you that, but you'll never keep up with the disciplined speed of my mind.
Ragnaroc: We'll see about that.
Ragnaroc shot at Carthas a second time, moving even faster, leaving after images at an incredible rate, and all the while shooting fire at Carthas. Carthas blocked the flames with well-placed raitsu shields, and readied himself for a sword strike, all the while keeping Elias occupied with his floating raitsu blades.
This time, the strike came from the front: it was a flurry of slashes which Carthas had to block with both hands. He held Rag's blade between his palms and said...
Carthas: That was brave, shinigami, but rash and foolish. Your speed cannot keep up with my mind, and now it shall be your downfall. Prepare for your...
Carthas's little speech was cut off, because, unknown to him, Kaze had released his Shikai, flash stepped behind him, and cut his head off.
Kaze: All I needed was an opening like that. Thanks for keeping him occupied, Rag.
Ragnaroc: Of course. O_O... all part of the plan. O_O
Elias: Damnit, you two. You never let me kill anything!
The fraccion, who was standing a few yards away, mouth agape in awe, simply stood there.
Elias: What're you looking at?
Elias shot two powerful blasts of dark red lightning out of his daggers at the fraccion, hitting her square in the chest, and sending her into the rubble of a downed building.
Ragnaroc: Well, I'd say that was successful.
Kaze: Ooh, look: a grocery store.
Meanwhile, in the Nevada Desert, TOBI! tended to the unconscious Zanji Uchiha, while Roku, Mizutoki, and Goro tried to make sense of it all.
Roku: What do you make of this, Goro?
Goro: Not sure... he could have recently suffered some sort of short term memory amensia. That sounds like it'd be the work of Aizen, and who knows what he's doing to the poor souls up there in Soul Society. Perhaps he was sent down here to run about as some sort of cruel joke.
Mizutoki: In that case, Aizen could be tracking him somehow. It would be dangerous to keep him here: as far as we know, Aizen doesn't know of our existence.
Roku: Nah, I don't think so. Take a look at his shinigami uniform... it looks brand new, save for a few scuff marks from all that running. Aizen wouldn't have manufactured a brand new shinigami uniform just for some experiment he's sending out into the world to run about in terror.
Mizutoki: Maybe that's just what he wants us to think.
Goro: What's that supposed to mean? You just said yourself that Aizen doesn't know we're here.
Mizutoki: I'm just keeping all our options open: we'd have no way of telling if Aizen knows of our whereabouts.
Roku: If Aizen knew of our existence, then why wouldn't he simply annihilate us by opening up a Garganta and sending in an army of Arrancar?
Goro: That's a good point.
Roku: So if there hasn't been any tampering with this shinigami's mind, there only leaves two options: he's lying, or he was somehow propelled into the future. And I don't think he's lying (I can usually sense when someone's lying). So that leaves only the second option open.
Mizutoki: Are you talking about time travel? We all know that's impossible.
Goro: Time travel's only impossible when going backwards in time. We're all constantly moving forwards in time.
Roku: Exactly: now, I propose that some event occurred where Zanji was put to sleep for an extended period of time, and only just awoke.
Goro: For 100 years? That's impossible, even for a shinigami. He'd starve.
TOBI!: Stop talking: just ask him yourself. He's waking up.
TOBI! was right: Zanji was slowly coming to, and as he blinked awake, the first thing he saw was TOBI!'s swirly mask hanging over him.
Zanji: O__O
TOBI!: Hey.
Zanji: Hey. O_O
TOBI!: Come here often?
Goro: TOBI!, stop hitting on Zanji!!
Roku: Zanji, welcome to the year 2110. Could you tell us what you remember last?
Zanji: It's all quite fuzzy... but I remember looking up and seeing Halibel and Captain Hitsugaya fighting. Halibel used some kind of water technique, drenching me and the ground beneath me, and then Captain Hitsugaya froze all of the water with some ice technique. The next thing I remember is waking up underwater on Earth. Then, I just ran.
Roku: Well, you're safe now.
Zanji: Thank you........ I'm hungry.
END OF CHAPTER 5
