Back to Back Tenma's and Kaoseu's Predicament

Tenma walked through the newly opened senkai gate and into the living world. He knew Kaoseu was right behind him and they had ended up on a hill in the middle of a huge open field. The starry night sky was beautiful and Tenma couldn't help but look up and smile. However Tenma then noticed someone there. He looked toward the person and it looked to be a quincy. He knew immediately that it probably meant trouble, especially since that quincy was smirking evilly. Suddenly to quincy ran away after calling "The bait worked! I can sense the incoming reiatsu!" and suddenly tons of hollows came into the living world, surrounding Tenma and Kaoseu. "Kaoseu, call in for assistance, and get ready for a long wait time..." He said as he drew his blood red zanpakuto and stood agaist Kaoseu's back.

Kaoseu heard the Quincy's words and smirked just as evilly. He called in for the requested backup and took position near Tenma, back to back. "Backup? I don't see why we need it for these guys!" he laughed as the first wave attaked and Kaoseu began swinging madly but carefully with his blades and 4 Hollow disentigrated.

"Kaoseu, if that quincy left hollow bait like he claimed then we're going to need back up. It could end up calling a meno. There is a time and a place to get cocky and this isnt it" He admonished as he himself flicked his blade out and slashed through a hollow's skull. Then however another hollow attack from the side, and he swung quickly and easily, slicing its mask in half. Another hollow slashed at Tenma, and he parried the strike swiftly. He then stabbed the hollow through the forehead and continued the killing. "Call the back up, explain that we have a hollow problem, they are being drawn by a bait of unknown potency and we don't know where it is." He told him as he sliced through another hollow and stabbed another easily. He then silced the arms off of another and kicked it back into the crowd of them and watched as they swiftly ate the creature. "Disgusting creatures." He commented as he stabbed another in the chest and brought his blade up to slice its mask in half.

Kaoseu silently mocked Tenma, then giggled and called for backup, relaying the message. He feinted left as a Hollow eyed him hungrily and then leaped. He stuck up his blade, spearing the Hollow through the face. As it disentigrated, another Hollow jumped from Kaoseu's left. He reached up a hand and caught the small, dog-sized Hollow by the throat. It's masked face gnashed out at him and Kaoseu grinned, smelling the blood on its breath. He merely brought his blade in a wide arc, and piked the entire Hollow in the ground.
"Havin' fun yet, Tenma?" he called.

"Define fun" He repled as he got an idea and used his zanpakuto like a javelin and stuck it in the mask of a hollow. He then chanted quickly "Hado number 1 Thrust!" and watched the blade immediately shoot through the mask of about six more hollow. He then chanted again "Engulfed by the need of want come forward" and caught his zanpakuto once more as he flew back. He then immediately brought his blade down onto another hollow and sliced it in half. Then he parried another attack from the left, and kicked the hollow in the skull, after it was stunned, he thrusted his zanpakuto behind him and between kaoseu's right arm and into the mask of a hollow trying to sneak up on him. He then flipped his blade once more in hid hands and sliced the stunned hollow in half up the middle. He then spun around quickly and sliced another hollow in half horizontally. At that point he side stepped a hollow attack from above and after a quick blade thrust, watched it crash into more of the hollow on the ground. All the while, more and more hollows continuously spawned and he knew his and Kaoseu's stamina reserves wouldnt hold out forever. They needed that back up and soon.

Kaoseu was about to reply when he felt the air thicken with reatsu and spiritual pressure. He looked towards the sky and saw a rip appearing, the opening of a Garganta. He cut down a Hollow in the corner of his vision that wandered too close as he watched the opening widen. Finally, he saw the pointed nose close to the top of the opening and cursed silently. He parried a set of claws that were aimed at his face as the procession of Menos walked through. He counted 5 in total and grinned.

"Fun; waiting for backup, surrounded by Hollows that we get to cut down as we watch helplessly as 5 Menos walk through a Garganta." he siad, and right as he finished, the Garganta snapped closed with a reverberating "BOOM!"

"Your not serious are you?!" He called as he sliced down a few more hollow and looked behind them. Sure enough there were 5 Menos Grande and they were about to get royally screwed. "Where the hell is our back up?!" He yelled as he dodged and parried a few more hollow. They had been here for over half an hour tryig to fend off this army of hollow and there was only so much they could do. The Menos Grande would destroy them if they didn't get their back up and quick. He saw them notice him and Kaoseu and suddenly he felt a sharp pain bit into his back. He stumbled as the hollow tried to attacking again however Tenma had pointed his index and middle fingers behind him before it could. "Hado number 4 White Lightning" He said as and saw the hollow die from the lightning that sprouted forth from his finger tips. He then turned and blocked a heavy blow from a rather large hollow and then shifted and pulled it left, severing all of its claws. He then spun around quickly and sliced the hollows head in half. He then back flipped and stabbed his zanpakuto into the top of another hollows head at the apex of the jump. He then landed on top of another hollow and stabbed it in the head as well.

A senkaimon opened up on the other side of the field and revealed Kuro coming through from the Soul Society. He had recieved the order to answer the call for assistance from the unseated shinigami. Looking out over the ensuing chaos, he saw the two shinigami fighting against masses of small fry hollows and the gargantua that had brought forth five menos hollows.

"What is going on here?" he muttered aloud to himself as he thought of all the major hollow attacks happening recently. Taking out his zanpakuto, he watched the menos emerge from the gargantua and start looking for souls to eat. "I suppose those two are capable of handling the little ones. I'll just focus on the big guys."

Leaping up high with a flash step, Kuro let his reiatsu flare out over the field and focused his power into his small blade. His sword didn't have enough length to effectively cut the big menos in half, so Kuro leapt straight at the first one's mask, traveling right through its head with a piercing lunge. This along with his enormous presence attracted the attention of the other four menos. Comedically opening their mouths, they all charged ceros and fired them in synch, converging on Kuro's position in the air. His face grimaced in shock and pain as all four ceros hit their mark and tore through his body. A bloody heap, his body began to fall from the sky.

hehe....fools....

Kaoseu felt the presence of a massive reiatsu and almost buckled to his knees. He then felt the disappearnce of a Menos and looked up to see Kuro come out the back of its head. Then, there was a flash of red and Kuro was engulfed. Kaoseu watched helplessly as the body fell through the air towards the ground. He was too engrossed in watching the Shinigami and was mildly shocked when he felt a large collision on his right side and the bitingly sharp claws of a Hollow tear into him a bit. He fell to the ground in a heap of claws and steel, both flashing in the light. The Hollow disentigrated as he managed to ram his blade down its hungry maw.
"Tenma! Kuro, I think something happened." he called over the roars of Hollow.

Tenma watched Kuro suddenly come out of the Senkai gate and destroy one of the menos. He then saw the rest of them hit him with their cero's and he cursed audibly. His instincts told him to duck, which he did of course, and a hollows claw raked through the air where his head was. He then stabbed the hollow through the mask and began moving to intercept Kuro from his fall. He moved as fast as he could, tearing hollows up left and right as he went. Soon he arrived directly under where Kuro should land and began trying to clear the hollow's around the area.

With a small wispy sound like a soft gust of wind, Kuro's body disappeared into thin air. At the same time, thin fissures exploded all over another one of the menos's mask. Kuro was standing in the air behind it as it disolved holding his zanpakuto up to show everyone what had just cut the creature. He spoke from this spot to the remaining three menos.

"Sure isn't hard to fool you clowns is it?"

What the hollows and the other two shinigami had seen get hit was an afterimage of Kuro left after a high speed flash step. A new tecnique he'd recently learned called utsusemi. This had been his first practical use of it, and he'd cut the dodge a little close gaining a small burn on his arm from one of the ceros. But otherwise, he was completely unharmed.

"Concentrate, Seishou-sejin."

Kuro's zanpakuto trasformed into his shikai gauntlet with a golden flash and his reiatsu's presence disappeared from the field as his power was contained and focused within his weapon. Holding up his palm, he fired a beam of energy out of the gem on his gauntlet that shot through another menos, destroying it.

"That's payback for the cero. Don't worry. You two will get your share too."

Kaoseu called out to Tenma to get back over there as he felt the captain's reiatsu suddenly flare again as he released his Shikai, and then it was gone again. He ran towards where Tenma was and found the ground teeming wth more Hollow and set to work on any that came near. He resumed his position of being back to back against Tenma and weaved left and sprung back, a flash of silver cutting through a tiger sized Hollow that leaped at him.