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Matsuya's grip slip[ped and she fell from the air. While falling she correctedherself. Upon landing on the the ground she regained her footing. gripping her sword with both hands she watched Zack closely waiting for his next attack.

A hell butterfly floated into the room. Bullene's voice came from it, speaking to Matsuya and Zack. "Menos Grande are converging on the Sandtable in Squad 6. Report to the outer wall to protect it from any Menos Grande class Hollow."

((You will NPC the Menos Grande, making longer posts describing its movement and your movement. There is a thread labeled with [War Plot] in Squad 6. Go there and have fun!))

Zack calmly caught his balance, and walked over to the portal after Matsuya not bothering to sheathe his zanpaku-to. "Another Menos Grande... It's been awhile..." He muttered aloud as he jumped into the portal heading for squad six.

Mari appeared with a burst of sonido, remembering her target. "Third Squad...ah, this is it!" She twirled fancily as she took a step toward the door. "Pretty...and you have a nice release, Wulf," she said, nodding toward the Espada that stood to her left.

Smiling not at Wulf but at the door, Mari put a hand on her zanpakuto. "That attack was nice, too. Hopefully we got all of the little shits. Now...time to do some showing off of my own." She drew her zanpakuto, raising it high above her head and pointing it to the heavens as she held it in both hands.

"Avenge, Serafines!"

Light streaked down from the sky, running through her zanpakuto and enveloping her body. Her left sleeve tore as the bony protective shield manifested itself, with the number 5 imprinted on the bone exactly over the spot where her rank was tattooed on her arm. The back of her uniform also tore in six places as the wings grew out from her back, and the mask remnant on her head grew slightly taller, the point becoming more defined and the bottom of the mask extending down to cover her eyes. The elaborate cross on the mask was now seen in full, rather than only mostly being there and looking more like a Nazi Iron Cross than the traditional symbol. "Always nice to be in this form from time to time," she said. She had levitated slightly during the transformation, and now hung in the air with all the apparent majesty of one of the highest-ranked angels in religious texts. "Hm...I think that with both of us in our released forms, a Gran Rey Cero from each of us should do the job well enough to stop them even thinking of going back to Earth for fifty years or so. I don't know about you, but after that I'm going to get out of this form and go make some shinigami lives a living hell. I might even see if I can get the 8th Captain's possessions through a garganta and into Hueco Mundo...I'd love to see the look on his face when he gets back!"

Mari laughed, the index and middle fingers of both hands pointed toward the gate yet at an angle so that lines extending from them would intersect one another directly in front of her. Bright blue reiatsu was charging at the tips of the fingers, and as the balls of reiatsu expanded they merged into one. "The last time I used one of these, I was able to stop myself from dying at the hands of a bankai...hopefully this time I can put it to more active use than saving my skin."

((Note, nobody can actually stop us, so don't try. You will be ignored.))

((So intervention is useless? sweatdrop I'm aware stopping the destruction of the gate is somewhat useless but you wouldn't ignore an attack to your persons would you now?

*waits for answer before posting*))

(( Well, it's the 4th and 5th Espada present, so one Captain will be very hard-pressed to fight us both, especially considering that we're both in released state. What was meant, though, is that it's really useless to try and stop them blowing up the gate - two Gran Rey Cero are being fired at it, I don't think you can survive that unless you're Daven, and even that's a giant-a** maybe.

Not to mention, Maniak, we aren't trapped here. A garganta is just a hole to Hueco Mundo, and a gillian-class or higher menos (or of course an arrancar) can tear one at will. Aizen was taken from Soul Society to Hueco Mundo by a gillian-class Menos Grande. Ulquiorra tore a garganta to the void between Earth and Soul Society in order to capture Orihime. The pitiful shinigami are trapped, but we arrancar can leave them trapped. ))