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Hideki hit the ground and rolled on it, before standing and brushing himself off. "Ow. Well...I kinda found this bottle lying around when you first made them...they were just there....So I took them. Its my first time using them." He then blew raspberries at Shadow from afar.

Upon hearing the raspberry, a comical popping vein appeared on the side of Shadow's head and he stared to shake his fist, essentially ignoring Shinji, even though he was sorta proud at the length. His skin began turning black and where there should be shadows, it became lighter. In a sense, the shadow's were reversed. He dashed forward at around 1/100th of his top speed and slammed his elbow into Hideki's stomach. "What was that, Hideki-tan!?"

Hideki, again, rolled with the punch, flying quite far along the ground. He then stood and did the same thing he had before, but then was gone from sight and then behind Shadow, and in a very dramatic and slow way, blew a raspberry in to his ear. "I believe that is what I did..." He grinned widely after doing so and knew that something was going to hit his face after this action.

"Humph..." Shadow swung his hand back, rotating his arm along the shoulder joint and hit Hideki's chin. He reached to the side without turning around and ran his hand up Hideki's arm where he grabbed the upper arm, and grabbed the forearm with his other hand and threw him once more into the air. he was above him in less than second, using his lifted knee to prevent him from falling down. He placed his palm on his face and shut his eyes. "Sai... Dai.... Rin..." he unleashed the shockwave unto his face and then released his long-time friend as well. "Rokuougan..." He ran a hand through his own hair and grinned widely.

Hideki was hit and flung to the ground with great speed. He slammed in to the ground with his back and he buckled upwards, blood coming from his mouth after doing so. He fell back down to the ground and pushed himself up. " No holding back, eh?" Within a millisecond Hideki was now under Shadow, his foot going for his chin, making contact and sending him towards the sky, higher than where he was. "Having fun are we? Its been a while." After kicking him he was above Shadow and his fingers pointed at him. "Gran Ray Cero." A large orb of grey appeared and shot down towards Shadow when he was just 5 feet from his finger.

He touched his chin lightly with his left hand then let his hand drop to his skin. "Oh yeah..." Shadow grinned widely, his eye becoming slits as he hardened the skin in his left hand to the max, and grabbed the cero in his hand. "Stagnet! Complexio! Supplementum Pro Armationem!" He took the energy of the cero into his own body and his skin darkened then turned gray to match the color of the cero. "Magia Oscura!" He hooked his foot behind Hideki's right and delivered three high-speed punches to Hideki's stomach, amplified by the speed increase granted to him by the energy of Hideki's cero.

Hideki used Tekkai to help lessen the blunt power of the impact and as he was flung from the punches he pointed up and formed 2 Gran Ray Cero's sending them up to Shadow, blocking he himself from view. After flying into the ground, he got up and smirked, disappearing again and appearing behind Shadow, the Cero's still approaching. His entire body became like iron and brought back his right arm, 3 parts of it popping open like vents and a surge of energy flowing into them. His arm started to gain energy and the molecules started to vibrate at high levels, making it seem as though it was shaking quickly, and made a low humming sound. "POWER SHOT!" He closed the vents and his fist glowed and he jammed it into Shadow's back, flinging him towards the oncoming Cero.

His eyes widened slightly then he grinned fairly quickly. "The improvement shows! Haha~" His whole body began to glow as it took the cero into his own body and suppressed the power. "Stagnet! Complexio! Supplementum Pro Armationem! Agilitus Fulminis!" His shihakusho was blown away, revealing his now pure white hair and white skin. "Magia Lucis!" His speed was now far beyond light-speed as he had turned himself into tachyons and was able to bypass the real-life restrictions on faster-than-light travel. Within a nanosecond, he delivered several thousand tekkai enforced punches to Hideki's chest and sent him several hundred feet underground. The whiteness began to fade as his hair reverted in color. He looked down at Hideki, or rather the hole he was in. "Get up! No way that killed my only student!"

"ESSENCIA CERO!!" A large brown color's Cero was launched from the hole and was followed by a tattered Hideki jumping out of it. He then began to appear and disappear until he came to rest in front of Shadow as his cero made contact. Both his arms popped open 3 vents and began to absorb Reishi from around him. "Mass Power Shot." He uttered the moves name as the vents closed and his arms began to vibrate. He was then suddenly behind Shadow after the cero had hit and began a barrage of these punches to his back before appearing before him and taking both his hands and pulling them back, the vents popping open and absorbing just a bit more energy and then closing. "Power shot...Rokushiki Ougi!" He pushed both hands into his stomach and created a large impact there, sending him flying down into the ground. "...Rokuougan" He smiled and then kicked a few swiftly executed Rankyaku Hakurai.

Hei appeared about an inch behind Hideki and facing the complete opposite direction. He was looking slightly flustered and was gripping the hilt of the white katana as he slid it back into it's sheath. "Whew... I'd have been a bit doomed if it weren't for the whole mist thing." He rubbed the back of his head and looked down, while laughing slightly like he often did when something amused him. He looked over his shoulder and saw Hideki standing there, he couldn't see his face so he didn't know if he was surprised or not. Whatever expression he wore, Shadow pretty much expected it. If he was surprised, that just meant that Shadow was still able to move with a normal soru and surprise him. If not, it meant his protege was growing. Either way, he was happy. "Ahahaha... maybe it was a mistake to teach you the Rokushiki...hahaha..." He let out a series of nervous laughs as he stood there behind him. "Maybe you'll surpass me in strength..."

Mitsuki, Hisoka and Chihari were all off some dozen feet watch the fight take place. "The master is showering the boy with praise..." Mitsuki cocked his head to the side and cracked then adjusted his glasses. "Wonder why..."

Chihari shrugged and bent down in front of one of the dead bodies of the sixth division. "Well he does show improvement, unlike most of the residents here..." He placed his hands over the heart of the shinigami and within seconds had brought him back to life. He did this to the rest of them as well while the others talked.

"I don't think I've seen him so happy... except maybe when the mistress is around..." Hisoka looked towards Mitsuki and then scratched her left cheek. It was odd for her to around people all this time. She wished that she could be a wander again, like Satoshi was. But she was under orders.

"Has it been confirmed that this is indeed the master and not Hikari in disguise?" Mitsuki wondered aloud as he watched them stand back to back for the longest time.

Chihari stood up and pushed his glasses to the bridge of his nose. "Nothing is certain... It could be Hikari... Discerning between the two is beyond anyone..." He crossed his arms and continued to watch for a few seconds until looking over as the rest of the espada appeared, excluding the primera. "Well that answers that..."

Satoshi walked forward first, gripping the piece of cloth that covered his face. "Order from the master... set up the reiatsu disruption barrier, he plans to lift his limiter in this fight. Hopefully no one dies.

Hikari looked from side to side, noticing a severe lack of the primera. "Ayame is not here... Then I will take charge..." She began issuing orders to the others as quickly as they came to her. "Chihari, be on stand by in case someone dies in this fight. Katashi, Minoru, prepare the barrier... Mitsuki... You know what to do... Everyone in their places..." She looked to the side and then the espadas 2-9 dispersed into 8 corners around Hideki and Shadow with several hundred feet in between them.

Kazuo moved quickly, making sure everyone else was outside of the barrier's reach.

"Gekitai suru, fisico, magia" Both Katashi and Minoru released in that moment, and the barrier began taking shape, stretching around Hideki and shadow and using the other espada as vertexes.

Mitsuki cracked his neck and drew his blade. "Resurrección Segunda Etapa: Hakku, Materia.." Upon his release the composition of the barrier was altered slightly so that not only did it block physical and non-physical attacks but also disrupted reiatsu that touched it, ensuring the safety of the others around.

Hideki lifted his right hand and arched it so he was holding Shadows left shoulder and then looped his left ankle around Shadows right ankle and smiled. "I don't know about surpass you..." Hideki then began to pull Shadow against his back and in the process, starting a flip. "But I did say that I would always try to!" Hideki flipped Shadow over him and flung him forward, smiling like a child and laughing from nostalgia, as Shadow had flipped him in this sort of way when he first met him, and then launched towards him. He put out his hands and pushed them into Shadow's stomach. They then began to glow green with swirls of black. A small hole ripped from the left shoulder area of Hideki's Shihakushou, and reishi began to fill it. He was forming a cero. "Oscura Essencia Cero..." At the end of these words, these cero were shot point blank into Shadow's stomach and Hideki flipped up, keeping his hands in place, and once vertically parallel with Shadow, he dropped down with the cero's initial fire, and kicked Shadow in the face. He then noticed that the Espada had put up a barrier. "Shadow...what do you plan on doing to have issued this amount of protection for the others?"

A tekkai took most of the blast, the rest was dealt with by sheer force of will and a sudden change in muscle mass by using Seimei Kikan. He did, however, still get knocked backwards and roll comically for several dozen feet before flipping up into the air and using a geppou just before touching the barrier. He landed on the ground with his arms spread as if he had just stuck a flip onto a pommel horse. he bowed slightly, as if expecting cheers and then stood straight up. "Oh.. that... It's time you started getting used to my insane reiatsu... Lift the limit; 20 percent..." He held his hand over his chest and on of the inlaid circles on his special limiter came loose, unleashing about 1 and a half captain's level of reiatsu. Nothing flashy this time except that it would bring any Lieutenant and unranked arrancar to their knees within seconds.

Hideki smirked and laughed a little. "Always a little flare with you." Once he let off his limiter some, he stopped laughing and his eyes became a little stricter with their stare. "So that's why, eh. I can't say it won't send shivers down my spine... but I can tell you, that it won’t do what it did during our last bout." He smiled and then removed the top half of his Shihakushou, via tearing, and let it fall to the ground. "This will be fun, Shadow-kun." He pushed his weight into the ground and shot forward towards Shadow, and just seconds before he came to hit him head-on, he pulled back a fist and the vents popped open, but this time not just three on his forearm, but three on his upper arm, and jabbed it into his stomach along with the force of his push off. "Power Shot: Alpha."

"Well, you know me... And I should hope not.." He eyed him removing his shihakusho and tilted his head to the side as he attacked. "What strange attack names, I thought you only ever used Japanese." Pushing both of his palms against Hideki's wrist, not even bothering to wrap his fingers around it. He stopped the said blow centimeters before it hit, but the friction from such an attack could still be felt. His hands were a blur in the next moment and it was presumed that he grabbed Hideki by something and threw him in the opposite direction, but one couldn't be too sure.

Chihari looked over to Satoshi and then then spoke. "Hmm... Satoshi, take my spot over here and Kazuo, you take his spot." Chihari said as he pulled his hands from the barrier. Satoshi ambled over to Chihari's spot and Kazuo moved to his, placing his hands onto the barrier as well.

Forming a garganta, Chihari stepped into it and was outside his lab within the minute. He lifted his hand and broke the barrier that responded only to himself and blocked others and stepped inside, putting the barrier up once more. He looked over to his tools and the first thing he laid eyes on was the Quincy's body. He was hung in stasis, all his vitals being monitored by a complex machine system, one far beyond the comprehension of anyone besides Mitsuki and Chihari. He was inside a large tube of glass filled with amniotic fluid to preserve and nourish the body. The Quincy was covered in cuts made by a scalpel that had been expertly stitched up but for reasons of Chihari's own, not healed up yet. Chihari gave the glass a small tap as if expecting a response, but of course there wouldn't be. The reason for this was in a container attached to, but separate from, the glass tube. It was Shadow who had removed his consciousness and put it in the container, thus making sure he wouldn't come back to life. It was the weirdest thing to look at, the Quincy's consciousness. Almost like a weird ghost it was.

Chihari sat down in his chair and hit a button his his desktop. There came a low hum as the computer came to life and all three screens flickered on. After a few minutes, and after inputting several bioscans to unlock it, his fingers began flying across the keyboard at amazing speeds. Within a few minutes, he had several pages of material written in a dead language. Some told Chihari he could be a writer, be he liked the science more.

As Hideki was flung he shouted, "These are brand new....I didn't have time to give them awesome names yet....except for one." He pushed his behind him, still going in that direction, so it seemed that his feet were pulling him, then he executed a Geppou to stop the throws decent and jumped back to about 10 feet in front of Shadow. "I would have guessed you would have done some sort of combo with that grab and throw..." A small tone of disappointment rode on his words, which was strange, as not many people would "want" to take a hit from Shadow.

Shadow turned his head to the side, surprised that his only protege hadn't noticed what he had done."Oh? But I did..." He said in slightly disappointed tone, letting his head hang down. "I was going to give you a taste of the hell I went through for a while... " He pulled back his sleeve and looked at his watch. "Delayed-release age and gender pills. New formula... 3... 2..." He looked up to see the result of such a thing.

Hideki's eyes widened and looked down to see that his body was gesticulating in a strange way and he suddenly just popped. Then there was a pile of clothes hulking over a 10 year old girl. She looked down to see she was pretty much naked and then sighed. "This'll...be a problem." She looked at her arms and noticed that "his" modifications to them were now gone. "Dammit! Oh well. I guess I'll just have to save that for later." She then took the rim of his haori and tore 2 strips. She wrapped one around her top half and the other she made a type of rustic underwear, ones that Sumo's wear, but smaller. She was then one from sight and 3 feet in front of Shadow. She pulled back on hand and used Tekkai to harden her skin, only to hit Shadow and recoil back from her lack of muscle. "Oh god..."

"Training Lesson Number Three; Adaptation!" He drew his fist back and buried into the pit of her stomach and sent the small girl flying. He was nothing like others, namely that former captain Ukitake. Anyone who approached him in battle was deemed an enemy. And since it was Hideki, Shadow didn't even think of holding back by much. He vanished and caught her before she hit the barrier and held her up by both arms.

Hideki hung there and looked at him in the eyes. "Well....I guess sheer force is out of the question...So, why not leverage?" He lifted his legs quickly up and flipped them over Shadow's shoulders then pushed up so as to flip her up, using his hands as a pivot point. She knew what would happen next and so used Kami-e to make her arms become like rubber and swung around his hands once, and once past the 180 arch and starting to go back to where she was, she lifted her feet and kicked Shadow in the face with both. Successfully, this would rid her of his grip.

It was some minutes later, after reading and re-reading what he had written that an epiphany hit Chihari. His eyes widened as he pushed up his glasses and began shuffling through his papers, picking up one labeled "Delayed-Released Pills" that contained a case number. He typed that into his computer and a file pulled up. He sped through it and then looked over to his shelves. "Damn...He really did take them... Want to tell him.. but I can't leave... Let's just hope they aren't used..." Up on the second screen, 14 words were highlighted.


The words soon disappeared as Chihari went back to work, cursing to himself for leaving them out like that.

"If all you wanted to do was get free..." He said, releasing the girl from her grip and then kicked her in the gut afterward and sending her into the air. "You could have asked..." He then laughed and pointed a finger at her, forming a cero at it's tip. "Right, like I'd have listened." He then shot the cero at a normal speed and lowered his finger.

Hideki was flung, forming Tekkai at the last minute, to take most of the kick, and then saw the Cero. She twisted herself and executed Geppou to jump over it. Once over, she sent a few Cero towards Shadow. As she did this she thought to herself, "What is this feeling...I keep getting more fatigue the more this fight goes on....but its not from using techniques, as it usually is....My arms are getting weak...my legs are getting weak. What the hell is wrong with my body!" She hopped back to gain distance from Shadow and looked for where his Shihakushou was.

Once she spotted it she used a Soru to appear, grab them, and disappear within seconds, appearing back where she was. She shuffled through her robes and grabbed a vial. She stabbed it into her arm and took some blood. She then took out a small device, and placed the blood in it. It began to read its composition and her blood came up clear for any abnormalities, other than the drug that caused the change. She then took out a scalpel and carved out a small piece of muscle, of which a revelation had occurred. She saw that the muscle was discolored and already knew what was happening. She placed that into the small device and it read out the composition of the muscle. She tapped a few things on the screen and tapped a few things. It began to break down the muscle and isolate the invader. This would take a small while, as she was going to form an antidote to counter act the effects of the pills as well as whatever was added to them. She slipped it back into the robes and then tore out the pocket, wrapped and tied it to her waist, and then sighed. "Im going to have to fight evasively for now..."

Shadow rubbed his head and then sighed, and for some reason had abstained from kicking the crap out of Hideki as she made him wait. "I dunno what that was all about... but... Eh..." He wrapped his fingers loosely around one of the black nodachi and slid it about a centimeter from the sheath. "Sekai wo eien no yami no shizumeru, Kagezume..." His mist filled the air, shrouding both of them, but seemingly doing nothing. He retreated into the darkness and unbeknownst to Hideki as he couldn't see that far, runes began to appear just in front of the barrier, all over it and on the ground as well.

Hideki sighed when the mist was activated, but when it was her device beeped and she lifted it up, almost directly in front of her, so she would be able to see it. She clicked a button and a small pill fell out onto her free hand. She ate it and within a few seconds "she" was a grown "he" once more. He was naked for a brief moment, before he put his robes on and welcomed the cover of the black mist. He looked at his arms and was glad to see that they were working right. He pocketed the device and looked around, which was pointless in his mind but did it nonetheless. He didn't know where Shadow was, which disappointed him, so he simply sat there in the air, completely enhancing his senses by a small meditative moment.

From inside the darkness a guttural voice was heard. "Nanda? You've been fighting the boy again? How stupid of you. What's this, the third fight?" It said. "Fifth... actually." Shadow's normal voice could then be heard as the mist began to clear away. Two figures began to take shape, both identical in stature. One was Shadow in an inverted set of espada robes, with white hair, pasty white skin, and carrying two white katana and one black katana. The other was Shadow looking normal wearing a repaired set of espada robes, black hair, regular colored skin and carrying two black katana and one white one. "Can I kill him?" The hollow asked. "I don't care what you do..." Shadow answered, flicking an imaginary piece of lint from his shoulder. The hollow smirked and drew one of the white katana. "Let's go wild." He bared his canines and began to release reiatsu equal to three captains. Shadow rolled his eyes and watched from the side.

"I see. So that's what that was. This should be fun." Being that his Shihakusho was already in half he drew one of the katana at his side and took out the device that hid his Hollow hole. He placed it in front of him and 3 small holes appeared, belonging to Datenshi, and they began to spin around him. He executed Soru and appeared in front of the Hollow Shadow crouched down. He kicked this Shadow with a Tekkai kick to the chin, also using Rankyaku upon impact to add a little "oomph" to the kick. Once shot up, Hideki appeared where he would go and kicked him in the back of the head sending him straight in front of him. He then lifted a finger and fired a cero at him as a follow up to this kick.

Hollow Shadow's grin spread across his face as he was struck, he was much different than his retainer and didn't mind getting hit. As he flew the the air, he began to laugh manically. "Most amusing! BANKAI!" He landed in the air and drew the other white katana and let them both vanish, forming a giant white orb that nearly touched the barrier Shadow appeared behind Hideki and hooked his arms under his shoulders and placed them behind his neck, putting him in hold. He also hooked his feet around Hideki's ankles and held him too. "Sorry..." He whispered and looked over at Hollow Shadow who was now making the bankai collapse and gather inside a newly formed white daikatana. "TENMOU KAGIZAKI!" He took it in both hands and swung it down, sending a massive burst of reiatsu, more powerful than an oscuras cero, that hit both of them head on. Shadow melded with the attack itself and disappeared, leaving Hideki to take the other 95% of the blast. He reappeared several feet away, clutching his now bleeding chest with a glowing hand.

When Hideki was grabbed by Shadow his eye widened and they jot around. When the new attack came for him he used Tekkai and formed an Oscura's cero at the tip of his tongue to and let it loose before it hit. This wouldn't do anything, but slightly weaken its initial hit. He was thrown back but managed to stop his violent recoil before touching the barrier. He was bloody, with a large slash on his chest and and many little ones all over his body. He was bleeding far to heavily to move on right now, so he pulled out a needle filled with a colloidal liquid that will stop the massive bleeding on his chest. Once he inserted it he sighed and pulled out his other katana and held them out in front of him. "I guess I might need to use this now..." He disappeared and was now in front of the Hollow Shadow. He then started a series of slashes that would hit him all around him he would then dive down in front of the Hollow form and swung up with one of his Katana letting loose a bright white surge of energy along with it. "Kyokujitsu..." Once at the the peak of his decent he swung down with his other, letting out a dark black surge of energy with it. "Tsuiraku Gyokuto..." He then disappeared and reappeared in front of the Hollow form with his two Katana blades facing towards the hollow form. He swung them towards each other meeting in the middle, both sending out their respective Black and White Energy surges. They met in the middle and shot out like a beam, and when the met the Hollow form they exploded into a large explosion. "Onmyou!" He then dropped his to hand to the side, letting his arms and katana hand loosely at his side.

[Kyokujitsu Tsuiraku Gyokuto: Onmyou (lit. Rising Sun Falling Moon: Cosmic Duel Forces)]

When the smoke cleared, Hollow Shadow could be seen as only a pair of legs and a waist. He was slowly regrowing. Shadow stepped down from higher up, having sensed the attack. His hollow had always been a bit dumb. He held up his sword and ran an electrical current through it with a Tsuzrui Raiden and then dropped it, letting the lightning take the shape of a large ball of reishi held in his hand above his head. "Emittam Stagnet Chilipl Astrape" The ball stopped and halted in movement. "Complexio..." Shadow took the ball and absorbed the lightning doing something to his own body composition as he did so. Supplementum Pro Armationem..." His body began to flare with lightning, turning into such as he did so. "He Astrape Hyper Ouranou Mega Dynamene"

When the smoke cleared, Hollow Shadow could be seen as only a pair of legs and a waist. He was slowly regrowing. Shadow stepped down from higher up, having sensed the attack. His hollow had always been a bit dumb. He held up his sword and ran an electrical current through it with a Tsuzrui Raiden and then dropped it, letting the lightning take the shape of a large ball of reishi held in his hand above his head. "Emittam Stagnet Chilipl Astrape" The ball stopped and halted in movement. "Complexio..." Shadow took the ball and absorbed the lightning doing something to his own body composition as he did so. Supplementum Pro Armationem..." His body began to flare with lightning, turning into such as he did so. "He Astrape Hyper Ouranou Mega Dynamene"

Shadow looked over to see his hollow vanish and shrugged. "You'll bring him back won't you?" He then turned towards Hideki and his fists began to flare. "I hate this move, because it's so unsuitable for battle, takes forever to set up, and is really only useful in Hueco Mundo. But now it might work..." A wave of his hand and water mist filled the air. He then vanished and was absorbed into the runes, spreading himself all over. "Levitas Tempestas..." All around the area inside the barrier, lightning began to spray out of the runes in every dieractions, amplifying themselves by the water in the air. The stuff came out in piercing bolts that cut down whatever be in their path and reflected off the surrounding runes. Then there were the simpler but more powerful shocking bolts that were drawn to Hideki and would move at 60,000 m/s, sending 100,000 volts of electricity into his body and raising the temperature in the area to 54,000 °F.

[Levitas Tempestas - Lightning Storm.]

Hideki felt the air moisten and wondered what would happen. He didn't know what was going to come from this new wet air, but when Shadow activated this Lightning Storm, he immediately went to action. He formed his tattoos that were on his entire top half and created a small area around him empty of the water and only had O2 and some Hydrogen. He then sat down floating in the air and he formed many small portals to Datenshi's realm and they began to swirl around him giving a slight grey blur from its movements. Once danger from one of the lightning bolts one of the small holes would intercept it, and shoot it out through a different hole back out. If ever he was overwhelmed He would be shocked and would fall a little before going back to where he was. He was there for awhile doing this, and was shot many times, if another were to hit, he may fall upon the ground and become slightly hindered in movement. He hoped for that not to happen...If he felt it was coming he'd form a large portal around him.

A hand reached out from one of the runes and shot forward towards Hideki. It began to surround itself in the black mist, dispersing lightning that touched it, reached forward shut down the usage of his portals for a while and essentially ripped the tattoos off of Hideki's body. They looked like ethereal strings as the hand brought them back to Shadow who was having bolts pass through him every second.

Shadow floated forward and grabbed Hideki by the collar, hurling him to the ground. He lifted his hand and formed a giant fireball in his hand. "Blazing Heat in the Sky; Stagnet. Complexio. Supplementum Pro Armationem. Incendium Gehennae." The fireball was absorbed into his body and it took the characteristics of the flame, the water vapor surrounding him being evaporated quickly and the lightning going through him. The shocks to Hideki's body would be keeping him from movement as Shadow plummeted to the ground, burying his elbow into his stomach, driving them far underground and stopping about 10 feet from the barrier that lie beneath the ground.

Once there, Shadow activated his bankai, but one far more advanced than one he normally liked to use. The darkness seeped from his palm and encompassed the walls of the hole they were in and began to crawl up the walls slowly at first but then sped up until all with the barrier was inside the darkness.

They both appeared in this world of infinite darkness and although there was no light, one could see quite clearly. The bodies of Leucious, Spike, Shinji, Yuki, John, Eli, Neko, Meme, Alice, and the other Gotei members, the current and former espada, and the entire former Gotei were hung in suspended animation like decorations.

There was nothing holding them up, but they looked at though they were crucified with their heads hanging down. Each of their individual reiatsu signatures could be felt emanating from their respective bodies. To anyone unfamiliar with this dimension, it would simply seem as though the actual people were trapped in here. "Welcome... to the World of Darkness." Shadow stood next to his hollow, and spread his arms out as if to get Hideki to take it all in.

Hideki spit out blood when he was slammed farther into the ground and his eyes widened. He looked all around him to take in what he saw. "What....the....hell." This was all he could say when he came into the realm. He looked over to the Neko body and walked up to him, touching his cheek. "This is trippy Shadow...." He turned to him. "So what's it gonna be? A fist fight then?" He smirked slightly and pocketed his hand and looked up into the darkness.

"Exactly. Until your strength runs out. Mine wont go as fast as yours though... Everything is useless in here... Machines... powers... Even mine will fail, but not instantly... I imagine you have a few minutes before you run out of energy and your internal organs fail. I've got... a bit longer than that, persay." His hollow, now disrupted and no longer able to take form, vanished into the air. Shadow's grin widened and he took a stance, pushing his feet apart casting off his Espada jacket. "Show me what you have learned."

Hideki smiled. "I never did like the feel of this place....I guess I know why now." He laughed a little and then suddenly went into a position that had his arms slightly bent out in front of him and his hands let out loosely. en, "Alright thlets go... While I still have life left in me." He rushed up to Shadow and stopped maybe 5 feet from him. He then lifted his right foot and executed a High Kick to the head, making Shadow go toward Hideki's left. After this he brought his right leg down, but instead of simply dropping it, he shoved hit down and pushed up with his left foot, essentially bouncing from one leg to the other, and slammed his left leg into Shadow's stomach. Once his kick was done he quickly dropped his left leg, ducked down, balled his fists, and began to punch Shadow repeatedly in the stomach and ended his fierce combo with a hard uppercut with his right hand.

He caught Hideki by the wrist, lifted his foot up and hooked it around his shoulder then slammed his other palm into his elbow, pushing it in the opposite direction with the intent to break it. Whether or not it succeeded was not on his mind at the time. He dropped his foot and hooked it behind his ankles, using a pseudo sweep kick too distract from the palm that would connect with his jugular. It was at that moment that Shadow could no longer hold the Seimei Kikan and his muscles began to expand and grow several times larger. He had, in fact, been using it to tone down his body to make it easier to move about. It was still very easy to move around like this but he preferred the small form.

Hideki's arm busted in half and many mechanical parts could be seen falling to the ground as it did so, and when he was hit in the jugular his eyes went black for a few seconds only to come back to the "beefed-up" Shadow form. "s**t...that's gonna be hard to hit..." He sighed and ran towards him, jumping and slamming his foot into Shadow's face, pushing him into the ground. When they fell to the ground, however, Hideki, instead of getting off, began to jump on his face, in a slightly playful manner, considering he was going to die whether he wanted that to happen or not, and had a lot of fun doing it, but he ended it in a lavish manner, with both feet into his face and his hands up as if there was an audience watching. He then crouched at the knee and dismounted of his face, doing a spinning flip to an area about 10 feet away.

Shadow winced, not from the jumping on the face but the fact that his legs were killing him, he wrote it off as a side-effect of loading Incendium Gehennae twice in such a short time. His finger stabbed ground, or what could be considered ground, it was really all black as there was really no gravity to begin with so no way to tell. Nevertheless, they stabbed into something and he hopped to his feet. He tilted his neck and cracked it, noticing that his left arm was now useless and that he himself, for the first time in several years was tired as hell. Determined to save his last bit of strength to kill his opponent, Shadow merely ambled over to Hideki and slugged him in the face with his right hand. "30 seconds..." He drew his fist back and punched him again, then let his arm fall to his side.

Hideki smiled. "I made that far, huh? Is it bad to feel proud about that? Well I guess I'll make use of it." He ran towards Shadow and began to punch his chest with his good arm, which harmed Shadow naught in the least bit and he knew this. He punched it so hard so many times that his hand began to break so he came back from the hits. "5..." He lifted his hand. "4..." He brought it back. "3..." He then punched Shadow in the face. "2...heh...1...It was fun..." His eyes then became wide as his heart failed and he had a massive heart attack. His legs fell limp and he fell to the, what would seem to be the ground, his face and good arm, ironically, pointing towards the body of Neko. His face had a smile, or what would count for one, considering that he was dead, and his eyes were blank and devoid of that lively twinkle.

Shadow smirked and used the last of his strength to alter the dimension so that it would send them out of it. Once outside, he flopped onto his back and rolled his eyes. "Until the very end, you refused to do as I say. Wouldn't even let me kill you..." He let out a small sigh and motion for the espada to release the barrier. "One of you call Chihari, I'm too tired... Never did get to release my limiter... Such a shame." He traced a circle over the limiter with his index finger, thus remaking the first seal and bottling up all but 5% of his reiatsu.

After a few minutes, Shadow hopped to his feet and wandered over to the barrier. It faded as he got closer and from a garganta off to the right, the dark doctor appeared, both hands glowing blue. Chihari made his way over to Hideki and placed his hands over his chest. It would be a few minutes later that Hideki would rise from death once more and in the meantime, Shadow was barely being held down by 7 of the other espada while Mitsuki stuck a needle into both of his legs. Every muscle in his body tightened as whatever was in the syringe flowed through his bloodstream. He didn't cry out, but he did wince in pain. "Master.. you cannot keep using that technique... It's going to destroy your legs..." Mitsuki stood up, shaking his head and stashing the syringe in hits coat as he looked at Shadow writhing on the ground. A few minutes later, a little before Hideki would rise, Shadow stopped moving and merely lay there on the ground.