(Soundtrack Choice: Bleach OST 4 Track 4 Power to Strive)
A few minutes have passed during the Battle between the 5th Espada Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez and the Sternrriter E Bamibettia. With the two elite foe's nearly evenly matched. While the surrounding street around them was nearly leveled to the ground.
Bamibettia's power of the E explosion allows her to turn the entire area into a minefield, as it made everything infused with her spiritual energy explode on contact—making the Quincy superior in ranged and destructive force.
However, Grimmjow countered the sternrriter by being far faster, dodging all her explosions with ease, and closing in the distance between them repeatedly. Forcing Bamibetta to keep her blunt activated consistently to prevent the bloodthirsty Arrancar from slicing her into pieces with his sword...and even that didn't stop him from getting a few nicks in.
Thus, Bambietta's only course of action was to continue to blow up the area around her whenever Grimmjow got within striking distance. However, even when he caught him in one of her explosions, the density of his Hierro protected him from the worst of it. Making the Sternttier realize she would need her ace in the hole sooner than she thought.
'Hehe,' Grimmjow chuckled as he stood on top of a ruined building looking down at Bambietta. 'What's the matter, Quincy? Can't keep up after I have risen in rank a little bit because I am just getting warmed up!' The Espada mocked by rising both of his hands. At the same time, Bamabettia narrowed her eyes in worry.
'This is bad,' She thought as she looked down at her body, covered in multiple bruises and slash wounds despite her Blut vene, and while she saw that her enemy had his fair share of injuries and scars too they barely seemed to slow him down.
The Sternritter then closed her eyes. 'I can't believe I have to use this on a smug asshole like him' she muttered before raising her left hand.
'But I will just have to end this quickly.'
A moment later, Bambettia's glove began to glow from her hand, and then the sternrriter's entire body was engulfed in a pillar light while Grimmjow continued to chuckle.
'So you are going all out. Heh, took you long enough!' he commented with a smirk before releasing his transformation.
'Grind Panterea!'
And like Bambettia, Grimmjow, too, was engulfed in energy. But unlike Bambietta, which drew all the spiritual partials in the area into her transformation. Grimmjow's was a massive burst of power that leveled everything around him.
When both transformations subsided. Bamabettia revealed herself in her holy vollstanging form. Which is composed of wings on her back with white dots at the bottom of each. At the same time, Grimmjow's Ressecution transforms him into a white armored panther, with a long blue main of hair, long-clawed hands, cat-like feet, razor-sharp fangs, and a tail.
The two enemies then stare at each for the briefest moments before taking their stance and charging at each other once more.
Meanwhile with Keigo
Keigo began to walk steadily into the building where grandfather landed—simultaneously, using his senses to determine where the Arrancar was. Yet despite his enormous spiritual power, he hid it well enough to prevent the fullbringer from sensing it.
Keigo then narrowed his eyes as he remembered the lesson Ms. Bamambeitta taught about the rankings of Barragan's army and the people they were up against.
The Espada, or in the English language, the ten swords, were a group of the ten most potent Arrancar within the hollow king's command. They acted as his elite soldiers and commanders over the numerous lesser ranks. With the numbered tattoos implanted in their bodies, symbolizing their power and rank. With one being the highest and ten being the lowest.
Yet despite this ranking, even the weakest of the Espada like those numbered from eight to ten. Could easily challenge a sternritter in combat and even beat them. Ms. Bambietta is among the few exceptions.
The young fullbringer took a deep breath and looked over his surroundings.
He was in an abandoned office study filled with broken desks, papers, and cabinets covered in dust, mold, water, and rot. At the same time, its ceiling laid collapsed on the floor. Whenever caused by either age or a past battle. Which then exposed the upper floors above it and showed their ceilings had also collapsed.
Keigo then wrapped his arms around himself before leaning on one of the pillars in the room.
'I know I won't stand much of a chance against Grandfisher, sure, he may be weaker than Grimmjow, but he is still an Espada. The top dog among all hollows. Which is why I thought if I had Ichigo supporting me, we would be able to take down that bastard and finally kill him for what he's done to me...
The fullbringer then growled to himself.
'Yet ever since last morning, you have acted so weird Ichigo. You kept asking questions that you should have already known. Your skill with using your bow and arrow was sloppy even when compared to a beginner Quincy and when you talked to me...You act like you were a completely different person...as you just suddenly forgotten about me and were only pretending that you knew me...'
Keigo then frowns in frustration before looking over to the broken ceiling.
'Well, whatever...if you are not going to fulfill your promise about doing this together, I will do this by myself as I have always had...
The air became heavy as the fullbringer was pressed down by severe spiritual pressure. But Keigo didn't even flinch upon feeling it.
He just closed his eyes and waited.
Then upon sensing his presence, Keigo slowly began opening them up, and when he did, a figure within the shadows moved behind the pillar he was leaning on and struck him. Forced Keigo to use a bringer light to dodge the blow. At the same time, the structure itself was immediately cut in half before falling apart.
'Hahahaha. It would seem you have gotten stronger, brat. I cannot help but praise and be thankful for that! 'Grandfather laughed. He then pulled over his helmet. revealing his brown skin and gorilla-like face. That sported red tribal tattoos highlighting his eyes and a winded grin expressing his battle lust and sadism.
'After all, if you were as weak as you were when you and Kurosaki humiliated me.' The Espada chuckled once more 'It wouldn't even be close enough to satisfy the hatred I have for you lot!'
Keigo then smirked before cracking his knuckles. 'Likewise. It would be pretty dull to me if you were still just Grimmjow's lack. Keigo then narrowed his eyes and got into a battle stance.
'Let's end this here and now
Grandfisher then smiled even more so. Before lugging himself at his hateful human foe.
Meanwhile, during Bambettia's and Grimmjow's fight.
'It is over, Grimmjow, ' Bambettia spoke as she stood over the fallen form of the 5th Espada. His body is now sporting second-degree burns. At the same time, her own was merely covered with mild bruises and scratches.
'You may have become the 5th Espada. But that power and rank alone are not enough to defeat me. Maybe if you were the 4th, this battle could have turned the other way around' She raised her sword at the down blue-haired Arrancar. 'But unfortunately for you, there is a reason why you aren't elite, and your superiors are.'
Grimmjow lifted his head and growled at Bambettia.
'Surrender and get out of here. Enough souls have died and gone to soul society because of you, and the balance is already in enough jeopardy as it is' Bamabettia then gives the Espada a steel-cold death glare.
'Or do you want me to blow your body up until there is nothing of you to be buried?"
Grimmjow then stated at the Sternritter who stood triumphant over him...and then laughed boastfully, as if his beat down didn't bother him in the slightest, and then much to Quincy's shock, the 5th Espada got himself off the ground and brushed himself off.
'Typical...I wanted to beat you, you know?' Grimmjow chuckled. 'The one bitch who has been beating me down for years and looking down on me even longer. I wanted to see you struggle. To make you beg for your life before crushing your skull, ripping your heart, and tearing your soul to shreds.'
Grimmjow sighed. 'It's pathetic I have gained all this strength and power...and you are still a massive pain in the ass to deal with,' The Arrancar complained, but Bamebettia frowned in annoyance.
'If you are done whining now, I suggest you get your ass out of here or stay and die. Either way, your-'
'What makes you think that this fight was over?' The Espada snapped back at her. But to Bamebettia, the tone of his voice changed. When Espada spoke that line; it wasn't out of denial or defiance. But rather as a cold hard stated fact and as Bamebetta studied Grimmjow's body. Despite turning him into a bomb by the explosive. He didn't look anywhere near as damaged as she thought.
(Soundtrack Choice: Kekkai)
Grimmjow then cracked his head back and forth before walking over toward Bamebettia.
'Let me tell you a little secret that will soon be known to the rest of you Sternritter. We Hollows always knew that You quinces were stronger than us and to surpass and take you off your high horse. We began to discover the full ramifications of shimgaimizion and how to bring the full nature of our duality out.'
Grimmjow then raised his claw at Bamabitta. 'The first breakthrough was when we discovered the resurrections. The form of our past hollowed selves sealed inside a zanpakouto and then releasing it into a transformation.'
The Espada then flexed his claw. Suddenly, Bamabettia felt his spiritual power rising, becoming denser, heavier...and far darker as a primordial fear suddenly consumed her heart and then, to her horror. She realized that his appearance was changing as well.
'This is the second breakthrough—transforming the forms we had in our first life. When the world was ruled by chaos and destruction, when Hollows were born not out of sadness, fear, despair, or any of those worthless emotions of the weak. But out of nothing more than a simple desire to devour, conquer and annihilate everything and everyone that stood in their way!'
The 5th Espada's body began to glow blue as black spiritual pressure flowed out of his body like a dark tangible flame. Before exploding in a massive display of spiritual aura. At the same time, Grimmjow continued to boast and shout.
'So great is the power of this transformation. It couldn't be sealed in the single resurrection or merged with it, so we the Espada created a second release to unleash this power!'
The Fifth Espada then finished his transformation. As his white armor was replaced with a black jagged one. His main died in a glowing white with light blue edges. While the blades on his arms transformed into lasers.
Grimmjow then gave Bambietta the biggest bloodthirsty grin she was ever seen from him. As he now knows full well of much she fears him now and basks in every moment of it. Which only grew as his spiritual pressure easily overwhelm her own. To the point that the very light of her holy form was being diminished by the primordial darkness unleashed by the Quinto's new form.
'Segunda Etapa!'