"Well, well things are really heating up...or more accurately they seem to be becoming more despair inducing wouldn't you say?"
To the eighth Espada all hell was breaking loose.
The once sunny sky was replaced by a veil of darkness that seemed to desire to choke out all the light, then a storm joined the dark clouds. A macabre performance to place the two stars, however the dancers of were the mad ninth Espada and his subordinate. They danced and screamed to their own melodies of madness and grief.
"Don't care!" Kevin flew in and slashed only for him to miss and air.
"That's a harsh thing to say now. After all, what about your comrades, hm? Does their safety matter this little to you?" Szyael used Sonido to avoid attacks, from the amalgam he was wary of his ability to steal energy.
"Ha! As if, I know those guys will be just fine." Kevin moved carefully as he slashed about he needed to feel out his enemy's abilities, after all just beforehand said, enemy devoured his subordinate.
His mind was also concerned about the others. He was not afraid of what the mad man's companions would do to either Gwen or Rook, he was worried about what the Soul Reapers would do.
"How cruel!" Szyael shouted in an over dramatic display of shock. He then in an odd turn drew his own blood with his sword. The crimson liquid made its way down to the hilt that was made of several beads.
"Oh, no matter, it is not as if I have any ground to comment..." The silver beads seemed to absorb the blood like a man who was on the brink of starvation.
The beads then flew away from the blade surrounded by a dark pink light. If anyone was to look at the beads from below the duo, they would not be at fault to mistake them for pink comets due to their speed and radiance.
"And this is?" Kevin seemed unbothered as he and the pink haired man were at the center of a ball constructed by a swarm lightning fast beads.
"Oh, where is fun in telling you after all. Actions speak louder than words as they say." The Espada smiled like a lunatic.
The dark environment, that was besieged by torrential rain and thunder, was bathed in a flash of pink light that could rival the now obscured sun.
In the next instant the light disappeared as it came about.
...
Farther away from the light, Gwen realized a change had occurred.
"Kevin's mana signature disappeared?" The blue glowing woman mumbled she hoped her companion Chad would not realize however the tall man was quite observant.
"Trouble?" Chad was clad in the armor his ally gave him, he knew something major was about to unfold.
"No. Whatever happened to him he should be able to handle it. After all, he could handle Ben for over nearly half a decade at this point, and I know for a fact he won't go down that easily." Gwen smiled.
...
In a room or perhaps a space both distant and close to the action, Eon and Skaya observed the events.
The fox woman's ears twitched as her tail waved.
"Oooo, that's new, did you give him something master~?" The pink looked over at her helmeted master.
"No, this is obviously a new development due to the appearance of Tennyson. To where he will be venturing off too we won't be able to observe unfortunately." The woman fell onto her back, the soft pillow-like object caught her.
In the light that came from the several observation portals, one could see the woman was young and beautiful, her choice of attire would have attracted the eyes of many. Her pink hair was in a braid, she had gold eyes and wore a very form fitting white secretary uniform that hugged her voluptuous body.
"Ugh, the more the merrier after all." The woman waited for a response, she received silence, she pouted and returned to view the action once more.
...
The cold got to him before anything else. Even with diamond skin the unnatural frost carried by the violent winds seemed to sap the heat away from him.
A storm brewed in the distance of the hellscape; the sign of its existence was in the form of a dark column of clouds in the distance.
"Like it?" Kevin frowned.
"No, but I could get used to it if your head was logged into the snow!" Kevin's wings filled with emerald energy as he took off aiming straight for the man in white above him.
"Oh, no!" The pink haired man raised his hands in a pathetic guard.
In the next instance the quiet and unchanging white void was filled with the sound of shattering ice as Kevin rammed through Szyael.
"Huh?" The alien hybrid was left confused.
He saw the remains of his opponent fall to the ground, whose was face stuck in perpetual horror.
"That was too easy."
A sharp pain shot through his body. He turned his head stuck in his left shoulder as an arrow soaked in a vibrant pink liquid.
Dread. It was alive and it shot through Kevin's body as he felt the liquid trickle into him, his blood stream was infested and most of all his mind.
"Ahhh!" The dark haired alien fell to the ground like a bird that was shot down by a hunter.
A small cloud of snow flew into the air to signal his impact, he held his head in agony as words and images flashed through his mind.
Excess, knowledge, fill, cut, understand, fight, blood.
The images of a parasite that hopped from host to host filled him, the memories of the mad scientist performing inhuman experiments infested him. Kevin writhed like a worm in the cold embrace of the snow as his mind crumbled.
In the haze brought on by the wind a figure could be seen approaching the now human Kevin.
"Oh, my mistake, did I forget to mention my unique ability?" The fully perfect condition Szyael asked his victim. "Whether or not, I believe you should know how hopeless your situation is. Thanks to this I can instill my aspect of death into my attacks more seamlessly." The scientist brought out a bow silver in color decorated by beads that glowed with a pink light.
"We Espada are the demi-gods of all Hollows, the ten swords of the current lord of our home Aizen. As such he gifted us with powers that allow us to make use of our aspects, like mine madness. Can you feel it? Your very mind is tearing itself apart at the seams!" The man was filled with jubilation, madness was the true state of everything in the world.
"Ahhh!"
"Huh?!" The Espada gained distance as a surge of electricity came from the downed body of his prey, the electricity took on a black color and shot into the sky.
"Oh, no." Szyael's eyes were stricken with fear as the dark lightning travelled higher until it seemed to disappear completely.
...
Underneath the canopy of Las Noches at the palace of the eighth Espada black electricity shot from the very structure and scarred the sand next to it.
Countless subordinates died within, however a greater issue arose as two beings who were on their own path of destruction took notice.
...
The eyes of the former hollow were filled with a fire that reduce even magma to smithereens.
"Do you know what you've just done, you-?!" The Espada stopped with his tirade as a towering figure rose from the snow and walked through.
He had a dragon-like head red in color and adorned in scales. One of his four abnormally muscular arms looked like it was ripped straight off a robot as green energy flowed through it. His other arms were a large purple diamond one, his lower right below the robotic one looked like a tree trunk forced into the shape of a human it was pulsing with a blue energy. Below the left diamond arm was an arm that seemed to be made of magma and rocks.
His torso was a military green and had a glowing red 11 at the center, he had three toed feet and scarlet legs as thick as an elephant's. His hair became a white mane that had blue spikes within.
"Oh, you look different." The mad man commented as his foe's now red eye and mouth turned soft as he pulled back his right robotic arm as green energy gathered in his closed fist.
With a monstrously deep voice he said: "Nuclear smasher."
The entire wasteland shook as the impact occurred, the ground beneath divided as the haze and wind were pushed back and in their place a green light and incinerating heat took their place.
A figure flew away from the origin of the attack, heavily battered Szyael ran, his arm was charred as black as coal, blood ran down his lips as his hair burned in the wind.
"R-radiation!" The Espada struggled with his voice, he could feel his body breakdown little by little. Instead of a smooth escape a wall made itself known in the form of an army of purple crystal weapons, imbued with that vile green power shoot up from the ground.
"Fornicarás!" The scream of desperation came from the heavens as from Kevin's place on the surface he saw a flash of pink light take over the dark sky. He frowned and the grew draconic wings, the webbing glowed with nero-shock energy and yellow electricity, he tapped into XLR8's power to control friction and made his body have zero friction.
He achieved a speed that would leave many stupefied, he reached the core of the light and aimed to slash it his diamond sword arm, but all that met him was empty air.
"Hahaha! You fool!" A maniacal laugh
Violent winds picked up as the alien's senses went into overdrive he activated Lodestar's powers to create an electro-magnetic field, inside his skull his brain underwent a change, his left half focused on sensing. The other half on potential powers to make use of, he had interacted with the omnitrix so much that he could shift into his full amalgam form at will.
However, the world seemed to be against him on this day.
From below a pillar of magma shot towards him. It turned to stone in an instant, Kevin had used Heatblast's ability to absorb heat and made it harmless.
He huffed in indignation. He preferred a head on battle no hiding were you and your opponent put everything on the line, nostalgia filled his heart as he remembered his fights with Ben when they were kids.
The harmless pillar cracked as steam escaped, and before Kevin realized he had been taken to a humid forest with trees that reached the clouds, a large drop of an orange liquid fell down.
"I'll make sure you never die, that you live forever as I cut open on my examination table!"
Above him hanged the Espada, dark purple tendrils replaced his legs as he clung to the branches of the trees for stability. His body was covered in viscous white liquid as three pairs of hand-like wings each with eyes at the center of each hand grew.
Kevin gave no response which infuriated the Espada.
"Act all you like, it won't change your fate!"
Szyael Lashed out his hand and from the leaf filled tree tops fell dozens of slugs and snails each a grotesque perversion of their original form. Each of them and the face of a human ranged from toddlers to even the elderly.
They moved along the ground via their twisted fingers that into the ground and pushed their disgusting body ahead.
Kevin's eyes were hollow, as he charged up temporal energy and fired the army of mutilated creatures who were each aged into dust, this caught the attention of the pink haired man.
"That power it's like Barragan's! Oh you just keep getting more interesting by the second oh don't you?!" The fingers of mad scientists' wings flexed and pointed to the sky at their tips. Pink light gathered and fired off into every direction, unceasing the space around them seemed to contort.
"Bastard." Without any sign of hesitation Kevin charged up his wings and took to the skies once more.