Arc 2: Canon 11: Order! Capture Sasori! [Complete]

[Zou ۞]

Name: [Order! Capture Sasori!] - The Adventure Name

Participants: [Shinigami only. 3 participants max.] - Who can participate?

Location: [Rukongai, Poor Districts] - Where does this take place?

Difficulty Level: [Hard-Extreme] - Easy, Medium, Hard, Extreme. How difficult is this adventure?

Setting: [DE] Is this DE or NDE? Death Enabled or Non Death Enabled?

Plotline: [He's been spotted! Maldaga Sasori! He's alone in Rukongai. Go, capture him. We'll make him talk. We'll make him give us information. Do not underestimate him. Aim to kill. If you do that, you'll probably injure him enough to capture him.] - Explain the plot of your adventure.

Estimated Enemy Strength: [1] Estimate the strength of the NPC's people will fight in this adventure. Class 7-1, what is their strength on average?

Estimated Time Until Completion: [4 pages] - How many pages do you think this adventure will run for until it is over?

Starts: [When Canon 9 ends] - When does the adventure begin?

Special Conditions: [3 participants max. Spots can be reserved NOW, by creating an intro.] - Any special conditions, limitations, or other things.

[Xaifer Regneis]

Zanken stood on the edge of the Rukongai, looking at the man he had been sent to apprehend. Zanken stood there, along with some of the other Shinigami who come with him. Zanken wore his normal outfit, a large gray, red, and gold color schemed trench coat over his regular gray Shinakusho, gray, red, and gold schemed human jeans, and red and gold army boots. His medium length gray hair blew in the slight breeze a little bit.

"Well well. . . Maldaga Sasori. . . haven't seen you in a while." Zanken stated coolly. What was a Vizard doing in the Rukongai? Was there something here they were trying to get? Or were they just scouting out the Seireitei? One way or another though, they had to be stopped. This was a single Vizard, perhaps there was a chance to beat him here. Then again a Vizard could single handedly take any one of them out in a single strike probably. Best to have caution then.

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Strength - [100] Points

Speed - [250] Points

Spiritual Pressure - [250] Points

Reitsu Strength - [200] Points

Light Aura - [75] Points

Dark Aura - [25] Points

Instinct - [100] Points

Senses - [50] Points

Energy Sensory - [50] Points

Healing Expertise - [0] Points

Total SP: [995] Points.

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C-Weapon Name

[/u]: [Kaihaku (Gray)]

Class:[/u] [1]

C-Weapon Type:[/u] [Animal Capsule]

Ability:[/u][Generates a large stone lion, easily the size of an elephant. The stone lion has wings, and moves at a stat speed of four hundred. You can ride this for increased speed, or the lion itself can attack in combo with you by breathing fire.]

Limit:[/u] [Can only be summoned 4 times per thread.]

Drawback:[/u] [None]

Owner:[/u] [Zanken Gairan]

Reserved? (Yes/No):[/u] [Yes]

Fusion Capability[/u] (Optional): [None]

I'm sure that I don't have to explain EVERYTHING, but Fusion Capability is what the capsule does if it's fused with the user's unique capsule. This is optional, some capsules can't be fused with unique capsules. Storage Capsules and Boost Capsules can't.[/u]


C-Weapon Name[/u]: [Boruto (Volt)]

Class:[/u] [2]

C-Weapon Type:[/u] [Animal Capsule]

Ability:[/u] [When summoned, this capsule turns into a little tiger cub. The tiger cub has yellow and black fur instead of orange and black, and its pupils are lightning bolt shaped. This little guy runs around the battle field at a speed stat of 400, and he can also generate a powerful electric volt that blasts people when he strikes them. Basically he runs around and harasses the enemys.]

Limit:[/u] [3 times per thread.]

Drawback:[/u] [Because this little guy's ability revolves around high speed runing and the creation of electricity, he tires out easily since it costs so much energy. At max, he can go one consecutive post for running and blasting with lightning before he reverts back into a capsule. He can run and blast around six times per time hes summoned. When fused with a Shinigami Capsule, the ability can only be used three times before it reverts.]

Owner:[/u] [Zanken Gairan.]

Reserved? (Yes/No):[/u] [Yes.]

Fusion Capability (Optional):[/u] [When fused with a Shinigami Capsule, Boruto turns into a whip. The whip has a black and orange grip, a red wrist loop, and a yellow thong. When cracked, this whip summons a full sized tiger made up of electricity and Reitsu. This tiger does the same thing as the normal ability, it runs around and can crash into the foe. However, this time when it crashes into them, it explodes in a blast of electricity. Basically its a kamikaze attack, and obviously after it detonates it needs to be re-summoned again.. The whip itself has no real power besides summoning the tigers. Basically each time a tiger explodes, the whip has to be cracked again to summon another. Can only have two tigers active at any one time. The tigers only last two posts before the Reitsu binding the electricity fades away.]

I'm sure that I don't have to explain EVERYTHING, but Fusion Capability is what the capsule does if it's fused with the user's unique capsule. This is optional, some capsules can't be fused with unique capsules. Storage Capsules and Boost Capsules can't.[/u][/spoiler]

[Zieg Revolver]

Zieg stood next to Zanken, rubbing the back of his next. "Sheesh... this is going to be hell..." Zieg sighed out loud lowly, closing his eyes briefly. The last time he had saw Sasori was when hm and a few other high leveled shinigami from squad seven had confronted him. Well... not really confront him, stopped and him and the others retreated while one of the shinigami he was being lead by faced off against Sasori and was killed, as the report went. Sasori was going to be a highly challenging opponenet to fight, even if him and Zanken were now back to full strength and Zanken had "the blade" with him. Yes, maybe it would of helped if Zieg had obtained a blade but Sayuri had earned the blade of hell and Zieg was now only waiting till the next set was found. Now, he had been sent with Zanken and other shinigamis to confront and capture Sayuri, advised to "shoot to kill" to capture him. He was that strong of a opponent that they had to aim to kill him to capture him. Zieg hadn't even been given a moment to try and fight Sasori, and he still held a grudge against the Vizard for two reasons. One was stealing the blade of heaven from Zanken when Zieg himself and Zanken were completely exhausted and couldn't move, and the other reason was trying to play a mental game with Zieg by fooling him into attacking Sasori head on. Zieg now wanted pay back and was determined to earn it, at any means necessary.

Reiatsu: 1650/1650

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Strength - [150] Points

Speed - [200] Points

Spiritual Pressure - [165] Points

Reiatsu Strength - [250] Points

Light Aura - [50] Points

Dark Aura - [50] Points

Instinct - [100] Points

Senses [100] Points

Energy sensory - [60] Points

Healing Expertise - [10] Points

Total SP: 1035 ]

[Zou ۞]

OOC: Uhh..Two Vice Captains? Any CAPTAINS want to join too? Or something. Or at least a Squad 7 member?

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"Aim to kill"

Well, you didn't have to tell this Vice Captain twice. Rin Minamimoto, she had rage like no other and as always, she was looking forward to carve something up. Rin came along with a few other shinigami and she was instructed to capture him. Quite frankly, she really didn't want to bring him back alive. That just made things hard, especially since it was far too easy to get carried away. But, orders were orders. She'll try to injure him. For a split second, she wondered if cutting his legs off and bringing him back before he died of blood loss would be acceptable.

Probably not. She was getting blood thirsty already. Well, that is what happens when you release all your pent up anger in battle. Maldaga Sasori was their man. Rin, as per usual, was fanning herself. However, the second orange eyes locked on to the vizard, she'd put it away. The vizard were no joke and by no means were they to be taken lightly! They were frighteningly powerful. Rin unsheathed her zanpakuto. "Maldaga Sasori? We're in for it, ne?"

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Strength - 150 Points

Speed - 200 Points

Spiritual Pressure - 150 Points

Reiatsu Strength - 200 Points

Light Aura - 51 Points

Dark Aura - 49 Points

Instinct - 200 Points

Senses 150 Points

Energy sensory - 100 Points

Healing Expertise - 50 Points

[Zou ۞]

Sasori was waiting for them in Rukongai. It was almost like he'd sensed their reiatsu from a mile away. Maldaga Sasori, Vizard. He still wore the eyepatch, and the way that he looked at them with his good eye was creeping, unnerving. Would he attack first, or should they? That was the question. This guy was really strong, after all. He was a Vizard. They were three Vice Captains. And they were trying to capture him. Not that they should hold back, since they wouldn't be able to catch someone this strong without aiming to Kill. Not even a Captain would be able to catch this guy without aiming to kill. Only an extremely strong and practiced one, such as Enma, would be able to. However, he was busy facing off against an army of hollows elsewhere in Rukongai. They'd gotten in as a distraction. The Vizards had planned ahead for this.

They'd known that Squad 7's Enma would have come otherwise, and beaten Sasori. Instead, Seireitei had poured resources to fighting the hollow army, only to realize all they could spare when Sasori arrived were Vice Captains. He didn't seem to attack first, indicating that the Vice Captains had the first attack. Good. At least they could get some kind of start. If he attacked first, they'd probably die.

[Xaifer Regneis]

Well, looks like they had been given the first move. Probably for the best to, if Sasori attacked, that would be it. Well, time to move. First of all Zanken reached into his coat and pulled out. . . a stocking. A Christmas stocking. Why in heck did he have a Christmas stocking? Christmas was long over! It became apparent what he was doing though as he reached in and drew out two capsules. Zanken quickly bit his thumb and swiped blood across both capsules before tossing them at each other and calling out, "C-Fusion. Boruto Whip." Suddenly there was a bright flash and the new weapon appeared. It was a whip with a black and orange grip, a red wrist loop, and a yellow thong. Zanken cracked the whip in front of him once. Nothing really happened, no attack raced out at Sasori.

However, a large, full sized tiger made up of lightning and Reitsu appeared in front of Zanken. Zanken put the whip in the stocking and some how it fit. Zanken drew another capsule out as well as a green ring. "Go." Zanken said to the tiger. Suddenly it raced at Sasori, at a speed stat of 400. The tiger veered off to the left as it neared him, and began to bound all around him in a random pattern of movements. It looked like a bright yellow cage it was moving so fast. It was fast, faster than Sasori even. However, Sasori could Shunpo. A tiger can not. Zanken also doubted whether a single tiger could do any damage to Sasori. What he had seen previously was that the guy had been totally unaffected by Kodaiyiseki's lightning. It ment one of three things. One, he was insanely resilient to pain. Two, he was to strong to be affected by the lightning. Three, the Vizards had made some sort of device to stop it. While all three were plausible, Zanken choose to go with option two with option one as something to fall back on. Zanken swiped blood on the new capsule and tossed it behind him. Suddenly it exploded into light and a large, gray, winged lion appeared. "If you need a speed boost, ride on him. He will help support us from the sky." Zanken simply said. After a moment of wait, the C-Weapon launched itself into the sky. Zanken put the ring in an easily accessible place and then grabbed his Zanpakuto.

"Bankai" Zanken stated, stabing his Zanpakuto into the ground. Suddenly, a huge pillar of pure darkness and shadow erupted out of the ground beneath Zanken's feet, consuming him. After a few seconds, the pillar started to be drawn to where Zanken was standing and was absorbed into the spot. Then, the thing exploded with a wave of force. After the dust cleared, Zanken was revealed to be still standing there. However, a drastic change had come over his clothing and weaponry. Both blades had widened and elongated into what looked like two buster swords, elegant runes flowed down the white blade, they glowed golden and at the center of them was the symbol of Alpha. For the dark blade, demonic looking runes were etched down the center and they glowed blood red, making it seem as if the blade was bleeding, at the center is the symbol of Omega. Zanken's usual attire was transformed into very flexible dark-as-midnight plate mail, making him look like a dark samurai general. His gloves turned into plate mail gauntlets at this point as well. Also his left eye turned black and has a gold iris and looks like a hollows eye, while his right eye turned white and gets a gold iris. "Hakumei Jinkun, Koutei no Heru." Zanken said. Zanken gripped both his swords and white fire and black ice appeared on each blade respectively. They needed to go all out and aim to kill from the start. Time to get it on.

Remaning Reitsu: 1800/2500 (-700 Reitsu for Two C-Weapons, Bankai, and Powers)

Powers Duration: 1/5

Bankai Duration: 1/10

C-Weapon Duration: 1/3

Tiger Duration: 1/2

Boruto Whip Charges: 1/3

[Zieg Revolver]

OOC: Going out with some friends so im not sure when Ill be back if it becomes my post again tonight. By the way Zanken, I checked and I indeed did purchase a Shinigami Capsule.

IC: "Indeed we are, Rin-chan, but we must give it our all and capture him." Zieg replied coolly, briefly glancing at her then returning his gaze back to their opponent. Zieg's eyes narrowed into a cold glare at the Vizard awaiting the three Vice Captain's arrival. Zieg knew that he would have to fight him at full power with the others and use combo attacks if they were to succeed with capturing him. "Lock and Load, Soshi Tanjuu!" Zieg shouted, his revolvers flashing white and splitting off into a pair of silver revolvers. He planned to use his zanpakuto first before using his c weapon. The revolvers appeared in his grasp and he leapt up onto the lion's back, seeing that he could provide ranged aerial support from above while the other two used melee attacks on Sasori. He squeezed his knees tightly on against either side of the winged lion, as if he was riding a horse and leaned forward a bit as the lion sped off into the sky. He looked, seeing that Zanken had unleashed bankai and he decided he should too. "Bankai...Soshi Tanjuu!" Zieg roared as a pillar of his crimson red and aqua blue reiatsu engulfed him and his blade. A second later and the reiatsu dissparted, revealing Zieg wielding a pair of two ,7.62mm GE M134 miniguns with two metallic cartridge belts coming out of both of them. The miniguns are about the size of a average human male's arm and weighed about 30 pounds. They had appear instantly in his hands, holding them by the grip, which is located directly in at the back of the miniguns. A few black leather straps appear on the backsides of the miniguns, strapping themselves around Zieg's shoulders and torso for support.

Zieg had his arms at his sides now and squeezed the triggers, the chainguns beginning to rev up, rotating around in a blur of movement. He aimed down from his current position up in the sky and chose the element of lightning to be infused with his bullets. He locked on to Sasori and squeezed the trigger, firing down at him a hail of bright, yellow colored bullets. Each of these bullets moved at a stat speed of 400 and were made of both reiatsu and lightning. The bullets would have the similar shocking abilites that lightning would if they were to impact on the Vizard. unlikley though, since he could probably move out of the way when he sensed the bullets or block them in some means. However, he would need to keep an eye on Rin and Zanken since they were also a threat if Rin too unleashed Bankai. Zieg's bullets were mainly a distraction as he stopped reving the one minigun he fired from but kept the other one going. He began chanting, out loud, a kido's incantation. "Carriage of Thunder. Bridge of a spinning wheel." Zieg began chanting, watching from above and waiting for the right moment to strike with the kido.

Bankai: 1/10
Reiatsu: 1050/1650

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Strength - [150](110) Points

Speed - [200] Points

Spiritual Pressure - [165] Points

Reiatsu Strength - [250](375)(525) Points

Light Aura - [50] Points

Dark Aura - [50] Points

Instinct - [100] Points

Senses [100] Points

Energy sensory - [60] Points

Healing Expertise - [10] Points

Total SP: 1035 ]

[Zou ۞]

Sasori drew out his sword. He ignored the bullets that flew towards him. "Shred, Reza-Sukin." Suddenly, his blade transfigured, turning black and scaly, also jagged. It was kind of like a very jagged scorpion's tail. No, scratch that. That was exactly what it looked like. It had the same jagged appearance known to be able to shred when moving across an enemy, and the blade was curved into a sort of crescent shape, the very end being home to a stinger. His blade had indeed become a large scorpion's tail. It appeared to be stiff, and very solid though, meaning that it didn't bend around and whip. That much was good. Still, the blade was large. Taking a hit from it would cause some pretty insane and painful damage, that much was obvious. Not much skin would be left, it would mostly be hanging off of Sasori's weapon. Suddenly, a Gran Rey Cero blasted out, annihilating Zieg's bullets, and all other incoming attacks. It headed straight for Zieg, meaning that unless he wanted to die, he'd have to break off his Kido.

The eyepatch on Sasori's eye had been shredded. The eye revealed itself to be large, three times the size of his regular eye, with black eye whites, and yellow iris. The pupil just wasn't there. No pupil. The iris moved around freely throughout the eye, as if it was a fish in a tank, able to go wherever it pleased. It was very creepy. The eye itself moved as well, rotating grotesquely. This must be Sasori's deformity that people mentioned. He had some kind of eye, which was capable of firing Cero. Well, so far it was just Gran Rey Cero. A small tear of blood was coming from the eye, flowing down the cheek. Sasori also pulled out a capsule. It was a C-weapon. What would he do with it? He hadn't activated it yet.

Sasori's Remaining Reiatsu: 2300 Reiatsu

Shikai: 1/10

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Escape, Chimeiyōki.

Rin only activated her Shikai. She'd only activate her bankai if she needed that extra boost. For now, she was going to stick with her shikai. She held a gold box in her hand. Maybe she could attempt something sneaky. Now, Rin didn't have a C-Weapon like the others, but she was well aware of what powers it could possibly have. Obviously, it something deadly. It was common sense to take precaution when dealing with someone who possessed that sort of thing. Especially a Vizard. Rin remained in the same spot, overlooking what happened so far. A rather lazy empress, ne?

Or not. She had hawk eyes and she saw that Cero as well as the capsule. That arrancar she met, he blew away her mist like it was nothing and that was her ace in the hole! What if Sasori could do the same? She wasn't going to take that chance. Instead. She was going to put a bullet to his head. Screw trying bringing him back alive! Rin ran over to a better spot as she changed her zanpakuto into a loaded sniper. She aimed for his head and shot 5 bullets. The first two would be aimed at his head, the third at the hand holding the capsule and the last two at his head again. It was either his head or his hand.

Rin's Remaining Reiatsu: 1300/1500

Shikai: 1/10

[Zou ۞]

OOC: Post skipped.

[Xaifer Regneis]

While the Gran Rey Cero HAD destroyed Zieg's bullets, Zanken hadn't attacked yet. The lightning tiger was still moving around, and its last movement had brought it close to Sasori. When he was taking out his C-Weapon, it quickly got close to him and bit down hard on his leg. If this hit, Sasori was going to be in a bit of trouble. As soon as it bit down, the tiger glowed for a second and then detonated, blasting Reitsu and lightning all over the place but mostly on Sasori. His leg was going to be burned from the blast if it hit, and even if he had a good pain tolerance, it would still hamper his movements a bit. The shockwave might also knock the C-Weapon out of his hand if he didn't have to good a grip on it.

Meanwhile over at Zieg and the lion, it had just bearly avoided the Gran Rey Cero by pumping its wings as hard as it could, the Cero taking off the last eight inches of its tail. That made it mad. After the tiger had exploded, the lion let loose a volly of rapid and powerful fire blasts at Sasori. Meanwhile, Zanken pulled out the whip again and cracked it twice this time. Two tigers of lightning appeared and charged out at Sasori this time. The whip glowed for a second and reverted back to two capsules. Zanken put them away and started to swing his blades in a circlular motion, end over end over end. The blades looked like wheels of fire and ice they were going so fast. Suddenly Zanken lashed out at Sasori and two wheels, one of fire and one of ice, raced out, charging at Sasori as well. What would he do in retaliation? Whatever he did, Zanken knew they had to injure him more and take out whatever he was trying to summon.

Bankai Duration: 2/10

Powers Duration: 2/5

C-Weapon Duration: 2/3

Tigers Duration: 1/2

Boruto Whip Charges: 3/3 (Reverted)

[Zou ۞]

OOC: My advice, Beyond, Jason. Mostly Beyond this time. Leave distraction coordination and spam attacks to people like Sayuri. He's far stronger than you, and he's actually good at it.

IC:

Sasori's hollow eye had a devastating little secret. There was a reason why the iris and the eye itself moved separately. The eye had already shot out the Gran Rey Cero, which, when hitting the lion, used a little something Zanken had forgotten about. Gran Rey Cero had explosive capability. It wasn't just a consumer, it was a detonator. The massive explosion shattered and obliterated the lion instantly, taking its passenger away with a blast of force, sending him flying against a wall with burns all over. Meanwhile, the iris itself aimed at the tiger, shooting off a regular Cero straight into it as it approached. The iris had been moving around to track this hostile, and the Cero charged fast. Besides, the tiger had to prepare itself as it did this, it had to charge its energy. That gave time. The Cero wiped it out instantly, stopping its attack to begin with, consuming the aftershocks and the power. It was a strong Cero, after all.

At the same time, Sasori himself was keeping track of what else was going on. Those bullets that Rin had shot for one. The monstrous hollow eye's Gran Rey Cero was still huge, so he didn't do anything about that, since the bullets were just caught up in that. Well, the ones heading for his head, anyway. The ones heading for the hand, he flicked away with a casual wave of his blade. He'd been able to do this because of his hollow eye, which, by itself, kept track of a lot of things on the battlefield. He didn't have much to keep track of, so he'd been able to feel out the field, sensing the focusing power of some kind of weapon like that, and using a mixture of instincts, guessing, and eyesight to see them heading for him, and cut them down. Most of that had been raw instinct, and also that there hadn't been many targets, and his sword was pretty big. When Zanken's barrage of attacks came, the hollow eye was ready.

A black Cero Oscuras charged, firing out to destroy all incoming attacks in an instant, with a gigantic blast that continued forwards, exploding with massive power. The threatening blast would easily be able to burn both Zanken and Zieg out of the fight if they couldn't escape the massive explosion. Meanwhile, Sasori himself was suddenly just above Rin, having sensed her out. He didn't have great energy sensory, but she was a Vice Captain in release state, not trying to mask anything at all. Sasori carved down with his blade, aiming to rake it across her. At the same time, he released the capsule with a flare of reiatsu, and the blood from his eye dripping onto it. "Nidaime Kami." he said. A white dove materialized, and then suddenly burst into dust, which scattered all around, vanishing.

Sasori's Remaining Reiatsu: 2200 Reiatsu

Shikai: 2/10

Nidaime Kami: 0/2

[Zieg Revolver]

His eyes widened a bit in surprise as he saw the Gran Rey cero fired from Sasori's eye. Zieg understood the basically capabilities of a Cero, from his past encounters with the arrancar and especially a potent espada like Kuroi. If a cero itself from a powerful arrancar was destructive, then a Gran Rey cero would obviously be devastating. Seeing that he was in danger, he instinct fully leapt backwards off of the winged lion, soaring back at a downward angle through the air. He landed roughly on his back, skidding across the ground. He clenched his teeth and looked aorund, seeing that he had landed on the far right side of Rin, seeing as he had traveled backwards and Rin hadn't moved from her current position since she used a range attack. He got up into a crouching position, watching Zanken and Rin's attacks rushing forward at Sasori. "Damn it, they didn't go in close!" Zieg cursed in his mind, seeing that his original thought hadn't occurred. Zieg had thought the two shinigami would attack together at close range, not use a mid-long range attack on the Vizard. Zieg looked and saw Sasori destroy the attacks with the Cero Oscuras, which now only threatened Zanken since Zieg had been knocked back close to Rin.

This gave Zieg view of Sasori as he appeared above Rin, threatening to attack her from the air. Zieg instantly reacted, releasing his miniguns, vanishing from sight and appeared out of a shunpo in a diving tackle motion into Sasori's side. By this time, Sasori would have just gotten blood onto whatever C-weapon he had out. However, if Zieg landed with the swift tackle, the added weight of his miniguns, which were now hanging down at Zieg's sides, would send the two crashing to the ground, Sasori landing on his side. Zieg had his arms wrapped around Sasori's torso from the side when he had suddenly tackled him down, trapping his arms at his sides to prevent usage of his blade. Zieg had little time now, since the Vizard could break out of his hold easily. As soon as they were hitting the ground, he shouted a kido. "HADO NUMBER 31, SHAKKAHO!" Zieg rapidly spoke, a large ball of crimson red energy forming in his left hand. He released his left arm's hold of Sasori to flick his left wrist out toward the ground and firing the Shakkaho against the ground at nearly point blank range. It would cause an explosion to form from the ground, consuming both Zieg and Sasori in it and sending the two flying. Zieg would land crashing to the ground on his back, his body smoking and mid to high degree burns would be on his body from that kind of attack. A sacrificial attack, that hopefully would injure the Vizard and allow the others to continue with the attack.


Bankai: 2/10
Reiatsu: 900/1650

[Zou ۞]

Burns still formed across Zieg's body as the Gran Rey Cero impacted the lion. He hadn't taken into account the raw explosive power. Gran Rey Cero was an attack that was technically impossible to dodge with regular movement. The explosive power, and the pent up energy made it impossible to escape. That had been attested to by Arashi Manako when telling people of his exploits in Hueco Mundo. When fighting a certain Espada, he'd been unable to dodge the Gran Rey Cero, or even deflect it. The reason for these was that the explosion was massive, and would still hurt him, as well as his comrades nearby. So of course, he'd had to use hollowfication so that he could block it out completely, destroy it so that not even a trace of its reiatsu managed to escape towards his comrades. But, at any rate, Zieg was now burned second-third degree across his arms, and a bit across his torso. That wasn't a condition that could take him out of battle, though naturally it would hurt. A lot.

When Zieg went to tackle Sasori, his movements were slowed by his injuries. They were also slowed by his miniguns, which, being heavy metal weapons, meant that his body wasn't capable of moving at max speed. So, of course, he took the time to drop them. This basically meant that when Zieg tackled Sasori, Sasori's high level instinct gave him a chance to intercept. He transitioned from a stance at Rin, twirling his blade into an upwards diagonal which would normally be rather reckless, the blade moving away from Rin. However, as he did this, his foot slammed on Rin's back, and he fell over onto the ground, his blade held just above his chest as Zieg tackled him. The blade carved across Zieg's left shoulder just a bit, pricking it as he aimed to Shakkaho. By that time, Sasori's eye had formed a Cero. Another reason he'd easily noticed Zieg, was that eye. It pinpointed the approaching enemy, and started charging a Cero as soon as that enemy came within range. The Shakkaho fired out, as did the Cero. This one was, once again, a Gran Rey Cero. Zieg had superior reiatsu strength, but he was using Shakkaho. Shakkaho was a 30's level Kido. Gran Rey Cero was a far superior technique. The eye did not misjudge enemies. It blasted away the Shakkaho, the massive explosion inflicting third to fourth degree burns on Zieg, while pushing Sasori away with first to second degree burns. One thing Zieg had stupidly done, get within close range of Sasori. Sasori's domain was close range.

After this, Sasori backed away, pulling out another capsule. "Yondaime Kami." he said as blood from his eyes dripped onto the capsule, reiatsu flaring. It opened up, and a gray falcon materialized, dispersing into dust within the area very quickly. Soon, it was gone. Everyone was within range of what had been a large field of gray dust, though no one really noticed it. No one would realize what was happening until too late, quite obviously. However, it was slow moving as well. Sasori did still have to survive for a bit. However, survival was his specialty. And when it came down to base strength, Sasori was a superior opponent to the three Vice Captains.

Sasori's Remaining Reiatsu: 2000 Reiatsu

Shikai: 3/10

Nidaime Kami: 1/2

Yondaime Kami: 0/2