Bleach Returning War Part One Chapter 15

Returning War Part 1
Chapter 15 The Emotionless Arrancar Strikes; Oscuridad vs. Karin
(New Las Noches Throne Room)
"Hm it appears I've underestimated you Karin Kurosaki" said Oscuridad as the clash of energy subsided leaving Oscuridad with a blood-covered arm.
"That seems to be a common trait for you arrancars; underestimating us humans" said Karin raising her zanpakuto.
"Then I better stop doing so if I truly want to kill you" said Oscuridad raising his spiritual pressure.
"Don't think it will be that easy Oscuridad" said Karin following suit by raising her spiritual pressure and charged at the arrancar.
*CLASH*
"What makes you tick Karin Kurosaki?" thought Oscuridad in an emotionless curiosity while holding his ground.
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"YAAAAAGH!!" shouted a large group of Gillian class Menos slowly advancing towards Chad and Renji.
"Take this!!" yelled Renji swinging Zabimaru round hitting and destroying a few of the Gillians while they were in the middle of charging their cero blasts.
"El Directo!!" shouted Chad manifesting his Brazo Derecha de Gigante shield arm and fired a concentrated energy blast right through a Gillian while several more surrounded him.
"YAAAGH" screeched the Gillians as they began charging their cero.
"Okay looks like I'll have to revert to that form again" said Chad as he manifested is full upper body hollow armor, used sonido and fired rapid El Directo energy blast at the surrounding Menos, killing them all.
"Nice going Chad but make sure to leave some for me!!" shouted Renji continuing his assault.
"You got it" said Chad backing away while providing Renji with cover fire.
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"Well it looks like you're the only one left to deal with" said Momo in a serious tone.
"Foolish girl, I can create more soldiers with the very hollows that reside in Hueco Mundo so allow me to show you how, Raise Carne Necromancia" said Craneo unleashing his sword release, shrouding him in a dark energy.
"What on earth is that?" asked Momo in shock seeing Craneo with several skeletal-like hands protruding from his body along with ribcage hollow armor and bone teeth protruding from the top and bottom of his usual skullcap mask.
"This is my true form now allow me to display it's power" said Craneo.
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"Hyaa!!" shouted Karin charging at Oscuridad once more.
*CLASH*
"Hm how rudimentary" said Oscuridad flipping up into mid-air then dive-bombed downwards at Karin.
"Tenrai Ryukaze!" yelled Karin releasing her blast wave of wind at Oscuridad only for the espada to counter by firing his cero.
*FWOOM*
"Ugh" growled Karin seeing Oscuridad appear right in front of her with his sword aimed for her forehead only for Karin to counter with a quick upward motion swinging the espada's sword away from her.
*CLASH*
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"Grr" growled Karin holding her ground.
"Now die!" silently said Oscuridad charging his cero.
"Shit" cursed Karin as Oscuridad unleashed the blast, which overwhelmed her and blasted through the palace building alerting Chad and Momo.
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"Karin you can beat this guy so don't die on us" thought Momo staring down Craneo.
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"Karin your Ichigo's baby sister so I know for a fact that you can take this guy no problem all you have to do is believe in your inner strength and harness it" thought Chad charging at a group of regular hollows popping up out of the sand.
"YAAAAGH!!" screeched the hollows charging at Chad.
"Renji now!!" shouted Chad as he dove head first into the sand, firing his El Directo while Reji extended Zabimaru attacking from above successfully killing the hollows only for more to appear.
"Damn where are all these hollows coming from could it have something to do with Senken not being around to maintain order!" said a frustrated Renji charging through the hollows.
"It's possible or maybe…" said Chad in a pause as he wiped out the remaining hollows Renji didn't defeat.
"Ya maybe what?" asked Renji annoyed.
"Maybe their reacting like this because of Karin's battle with that espada" said Chad charging again.
"Can't rule it out I suppose" said Renji while the sand ground beneath them started rumbling.
"Hm uh Renji I think I might of found the reason" said Chad keeping his balance.
"Gee ya think" said Renji trying to stay on two feet while the rumbling suddenly stopped and a snake-like shadow loomed over them.
"Well he's definitely a different opponent from last time" said Chad getting a look at the new hollow which was revealed to be a worm.  
"So he's the one responsible well he can't be any tougher than that sand creep from last time!!" said Renji charging.
"Renji wait!!" shouted Chad.
"Ha you don't look so tough! Now Roar, Zabimaru!!" shouted Renji extending his sword at the hollow only for the giant worm to quickly dig beneath the sand, avoiding Renji's attack.
"Uh what just happened? Asked Renji dumbfounded.
"Well worms are natural tunnel diggers so maybe he's gonna attack us from another location" said Chad.
"Just great we never get it easy" said Renji  
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"Hm you truly impress me Karin Kurosaki or perhaps it's your endurance that I find to be impressive" said Oscuridad seeing Karin standing her ground from the aftermath of the cero.
"I told you that underestimating us humans is your downfall" said Karin.
"And yet that is why I'm most curious about, you defeated Caparazon, survived against Gilvo and all on sheer force of will so I ask what continues to drive you? What forces you to oppose us with such ferocity? These comrades you have accompanying you are your brother Ichigo Kurosaki's friends and as such you have no real connection to them so then you possibly can't feel a need to protect them" explained Oscuridad.
"Stop going around in circles and get to the goddamn point already, what are you trying to say?!" asked Karin.
"I'm just trying to understand what drives you to continue fighting when there is no basis or reason behind it" said Oscuridad.
"It's true my will protect those around me might not be as strong as my brother's however there is one thing I do know I need to protect and that's Karakura Town as a whole, so as long as bastards like you and Senken exist you'll continue to stand in my way so I figured I'll just push back! Is that good enough for you!?" shouted Karin charging at Oscuridad.
*CLASH*
"You humans sure are tenacious I'll give you that but no one can defeat Lord Senken, he is the true personification of a god" said Oscuridad holding his own.
"Heh, well then I'll just have to bring your "god" back down to earth but I'll start with you Oscuridad, Hiryuu Bofuu!!" shouted Karin unleashing a dragon scale storm at Oscuridad, surrounding and closing in on him.
"Hm foolish, huh what!?" said Oscuridad dispelling the storm with ease only to be shocked at seeing Karin standing right behind him.
"Tenrai Ryukaze!!" shouted Karin unleashing her giant windblast point blank at Oscuridad, surrounding them both.
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"Hm, I really don't like this one single bit, how can we fight this thing if we can't even see it?!" said an annoyed Renji standing back to back with Chad.
"Good question unfortunately the only reasonable solution I have so far is to time our attacks perfectly so that when the worm hollow comes up from underneath the sand we can hit him with in a critical spot" explained Chad.
"And where exactly might this critical spot be exactly?" asked Renji
"First thought would be underneath him" said Chad.
"Okay sounds simple enough" said Renji as the ground beneath them started rumbling again.
"YAAAAGH!!" screeched the worm as it came to the surface.
"El Directo!!" shouted Chad aiming for the worm's underside.
"Right with ya Chad!" said Renji following the assault.
"YAAAGH!!" screeched the worm as his underbelly suddenly hardened, deflecting the attacks and then buried back down beneath the sand.
"Heh of course it wouldn't be that easy, well we can at least prepare for his next attack, Bankai!!" yelled Renji as he became shrouded in a red spirit energy.
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(New Las Noches; Arruinador's Palace)
"Master Arruinador we're very sorry to interrupt sir but I thought you might be interested to know that the Substitute Soul Reaper and her friends have engaged in combat with several high ranked arrancar including Master Oscuridad" said Montes Gato bowing before the espada.
"Damn it straight to hell why did all this have to be going on right in the middle of my meal time!" said Arruinador tossing aside a half eaten bone of meat.
"If you'd like we could just stay out of this" said Montes.
"No if we stayed out of this and Oscuridad ended up dying then Lord Senken would have our asses handed to us so we better go for insurance, make sure Tragon and Ponerse come along for the ride" said Arruinador leaving for the battle.
"No need we're already ahead of you sir" said two arrancar appearing from the rafters.
"Then lets go cause some mayhem" said Arruinador smiling.
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(New Las Noches Throne Room)
"Hm I was wondering when I'd see that little parlor trick of yours again" said Karin seeing her Tenrrai Ryukaze getting swallowed into one of Oscuridad's dimensional portals.
"If you remembered the ability then why force me to use it?" asked Oscuridad.
"Lets just say I didn't trust your word alone that you were gonna take me seriously and to be honest with you I still have this unnerving feeling that your only using a portion of your strength in this so come on, give me everything you've got!" shouted Karin.
"You'll come to regret that girl" said Oscuridad raising his spiritual pressure.
"Unbelievable" said Karin standing her ground while being overwhelmed by Oscuridad's spiritual pressure.
"Now things truly begin" said Oscuridad taking a single step forward and disappeared by way of a high-speed sonido.
"Okay Karin close your eyes and concentrate, he hasn't disappeared all he's doing is moving at a faster speed so I should still hear the sound of his footsteps moving towards me" thought Karin.
"What is she doing? Has she accepted her fate or is this a foolish human tactic? No matter, she dies now!!" thought Oscuridad charging at Karin from behind.
"There he is!" thought Karin opening her eyes, dodging Oscuridad's strike and grasped onto his arm, leaving him in shock.
"How did you dodge that!?" asked Oscuridad in a silent rage.
"I told you underestimating us humans would be your undoing, now it's your turn to feel some pain!!" shouted Karin swiping at Oscuridad's arm in one quick motion.
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"Damn well this is a real pain in the ass, our plan A failed so what plan B? Chad?" asked Renji.
"Follow my lead Renji trust me you'll know what to do when the time comes" said Chad walking out onto the open field of sand while manifesting his Brazo Izquierda del Diablo.
"Uh Chad that's great and everything but how am I supposed to know what to do if you don't tell me what your planning!" said Renji annoyed.
"La Merte!" shouted Chad hitting the ground with such force it created a large devil skull imprint in the sand.
"YAAAAAGH!!" screeched the hollow worm as it flew out of the ground, tossing and turning in mid-air uncontrollably.
"Oh I see where your coming from then I better not screw this up!!" shouted Renji sending his Hihio Zabimaru hurling at the worm.
"Hikotsu Taiho!!" shouted Renji firing his bankai's energy beam at the worm.
"YAAAAAGH!" screeched the worm in his final moment as it was overwhelmed and destroyed by Renji's Hikotsu Taiho blast.
"Nice going Renji" said Chad walking up to the lieutenant.
"Thanks, I should've known that attacking that thing while in mid-air and vulnerable is what you had in mind but how'd you know it would work?" asked Renji.
"It's simple really, when we first attacked the worm I noticed that it's body had tensed up seconds before it defected our attack which simply meant that there had to be a brief interval where it's vulnerable before it hardens it's skin" explained Chad.
"Heh not bad Chad, not bad at all" said Renji smiling.
"Lets deal with these small fry now that there's nothing to disturb them" said Chad.
"Ya, lets go" said Renji as the two of them charged at the remainder of the rampaging hollows.
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"Hm" silently grunted Oscuridad as he backed away into a pillar and examined his arm, which was now bleeding profusely from Karin's slash.
"Well it looks like I finally managed hit on you" said Karin smirking.
"Yes you did and it's an unforgivable act, you, a mere human being able to read the full speed of my sonido is nothing but a bad joke" said Oscuridad propelling himself at Karin while firing several bala blasts.
"It's a nice combo attack I'll give him that" thought Karin dodging the assault of bala blasts only to see Oscuridad disappear under cover of the assault.
"Okay where did he go now?" asked Karin.
"Behind you" said Oscuridad standing right behind Karin with his sword swing aimed right at Karin's head.
*CLASH*
"Now die" said Oscuridad flicking his finger at Karin's forehead, sending her flying backwards into a pillar.
*FWOOM*
"Ugh, well that was bad" said Karin trying to make her way out of the pillar only to have Oscuridad blocking her opening.
"Your time is up" said Oscuridad rapidly stabbing within the enclosed area.
"Damn" said Karin desperately trying to dodge and parry the rapid-fire stabs from her enclosed space.
*CLASH*
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*CLASH*
"I'm done with this!" said an angered Oscuridad, stabbing Karin in the shoulder.
"Ugh! AAAGH" grunted Karin in pain as Oscuridad ripped his sword out of her shoulder.
"You will die here Karin Kurosaki and I shall kill anyone who mourns your death as you deserve nothing but sheer loneliness upon your demise" said Oscuridad preparing to strike again.
*CLASH*
"What!" said Oscuridad with a surprised shock on his face.
"Don't count me out just yet Oscuridad" said Karin smirking while raising her spiritual pressure.