The Vacuum Filled (Kurai.)

Snap her lower spine.
The thought briefly entered her head. She had done it before. When she was alone and hunting hollows, she would tip her fingers in reishi claws, pry into as much as she could of the hollow's body, and then pull ourtward until they were ripped into separate halves. But as it were, things were not so simple.

This woman was not necessarily working alone. Killing her would mean losing valuable information. Tch. Seeing the woman turn their attention to Stella. Ehefra promptly, looped a hand around Kurai's throat from behind and TIGHTENED her grip, tugging back so that the arrancar was forced to bend backwards a little to be down on Ehefra's level. A savage, brutal type of strength would be all too palpable. Not just strong, but in her released state, she could grab this woamn's head and squeeze until her fingers caved her face in like the jaws of life on a world's best dad mug. But at least for now she wasn't.

Because while Kurai was speaking, Ehefra's partitions picked up the arrival. An arrancar, releasing their zanpaku'to above the dome. So she wasn't working alone. Fuck. All the more reason to keep them alive. She wouldn't get to pry the woman's chest open after all.

" Göttlichekrone" _{(Divine Crown)}

A burst of spiritual energy as she executed a powerful spell. though Vicente would find himself staggering a bit.
Rather than landing on a solid barrier, his body just...slipped clean through, rather than having to be broken into. No doubt probably surprising the hollow. After all, the Barrier was designed to ONLY keep people from escaping, not getting in. The inside was INCREDIBLY durable, while the outside, was like nothing to slip in.

Good. Now he was trapped as well.

As that Cero blared down and split itself apart. Four prongs of energy bloomed beneath the group and curved like the points of a very ornate crown, practically forming like bars of the cage with them pressed up against the building. The barrier was slammed into by the Ceros, but didn't just slide through. Though that acid DID begin drooling in, small cracks forming as her eyes narrowed, hissing as some of that acidic energy crackled in through the barrier, stinging her back and shoulders as she narrowed her eyes at the intruder. Shit. She wasn't strong enough to fully block his attacks with throwaway spells. Whatever. From the andle and positioning, she'd protect Stella, and ...well...unfortunately, PARTIALLY protect Kurai, from that acid with her body. There was of course likely some that would splash onto Kurai and chew at her hierro, but Stella was likely not to get touched at all, her barrier hadn't blocked it completely, but certainly enough that the stuff wouldn't be getting around both Ehefra AND Kurai to burn the pinkette.

And as the creature crashed in and slammed into the barrier that had already been weakened by the acid attack, it shattered completely and he'd find himself thundering down, directly into Ehefra's sword.Aiming to plunge the sword the gained in her vollstandig clean into his chest as he attempted to pounce on her. He was a tough one. But not only was ehefra's spiritual energy almost as potent as his own, but that sword would be rocketing upward with enough raw, brutal strength that she'd even her bare hands would have cracked his bones. Daring him to continue with his his all out assault, at the risk of that blade from skewering him, which she ultimately would simply rip upward and slash his body open like a cantaloupe if he didn't heed it.A fair trade for those claws and fists digging out chunks of her skin if he decided to test the strength of her blut in release.

Of course, arrancar were durable, and could even regenerate. It was entirely possible theyd just eat these hits and wear her down. This was a dangerous game, and frankly, she was worried about dealing with BOTH of these damn things. But all the same, Ehefra's voice would chime up with a hard, stony tone at both of the arrancar.

"I'm gonna give you both, one last opportunity... to reconsider peaceful surrender. Or Else."

Stella found herself being in a world she was probably not prepared to be in. Seeing the spider made her stomach flip as she did what she could to keep an equal grip on the arancar under her. Looking down at her she tried to ignore the cero coming at them as she trusted Ehefra with her life. Keeping the rede veins of arterie up as she tried to keep her grip on the woman. Once the cero passes she let's go of one of her hands as she summons a mini version of her axe.

Holding it up to the red heads neck she would try to keep the grip she had on that open hand..Looking down to the woman, she wished that they would just give up. For some reason she didn't think that was going to happen though. She would extend the offer as whatever was going to come from this was probably going to Hurt.

"Please just give up. It'll be alot easier on all of us."

The sudden clamp of hands onto her sword caught her by surprise, and for just a moment, that tip was shoved slightly to the side before her arm FLEXED and locked that weapon in place as Spiritual energy spiked along the edge of the blade, a mix of reishi and her own reiryoku blistering along the edge of the sword as her pupils narrowed and that look of calm collectedness twisted into a flash of teeth as Ehefra's temper suddenly spiked.

Stechendhimmel _{(Piercing Heaven)}

She twisted the entirety of her body, brutally overpowering the physical strength presented by Vicente as not only her own tremendous strength, but the sudden overwhelming pressure of her spirit energy unleashed in a diagonal slash, slamming into the Cero aimed at Stella as well as the creature's head, that full billowing burst she'd designed after Ichigo's Getsuga would plow clean through the charging attack and aim to blow a chunk out of Vicente's upper body, shearing his head from his shoulders, hierro and all unless he took action to avoid or mitigate the sudden explosive might that would erase the buildings near them before slamming into her own barrier. Keeping her destructive attack from reaching out to the general populace.

The residue of the attack still wrapped around her Katana, she followed through in that twisting motion, spinning around and unleashing a brutal uppercut aimed to slash up the length of Kurai's spine. Most of the energy would have gone into dealing with spider boy, but even with that energy petering out, the full, amplified strength of the slash itself would cause an explosive burst of wind, shattering the windows of the building they'd been up against, aiming to cut the muscles up the length of the woman's spine while she was still held in place by Stella.

As for Beeps, the little drone had been Floating up ahead, and promptly chose this time to act. A sudden loud crackle sounding as a flurry of Missiles were launched from its Overwatch Position, and needle-like Missiles would rain down with even more potency than the attack Ehefra had unleashed, aiming to slam down at high speed and pin Vicente to the ground. And rather than erupting into an explosive burst, those missiles instead would pop in short range, high-concentrated airbursts. Essentially concussion grenades aimed to heavily stun the creature without posing any threat to Ehefra or Stella.

"Fine. So long as your skulls are intact, I can still get what I want from your grey matter." The woman hissed, her bvodys moking from the silver shots that Vicente had plowed into her in the midst of all that energy flying around. Acceptable hit. Two cracked ribs. Severe bruising. Her blut, even with as much energy as she was pumping into it, wasn't able to completely block thoseh its, not by a long shot, but she was powering through. At least for now. Alas, this wasn't an anime, she wasn't going to cough up blood. But boy, was she not fond of the pang of internal bleeding starting to throb in her chest and along her sides.

Stella felt the heat after the arancar had released her sword. Not letting go of the woman as Ehefra did her thing she tried to grit through the pain. As Ehefras blade began to move through the woman Stella's blut would begin to slowly shift from the red to the blue. As the heat got worse and her clothes began to burn she refused to let go of the woman.Allowing the blut to do its work as the venes began to glow a deep blue. Scattered all the way around her body as she was doing what she could to fight the heat.

The arancar was fast so she was worried if she let go then there was going to be no catching her again. She didn't want to let Ehefra down now. Ehefra wasn't going to be able to fight both of these monsters alone. The fear of the ugly monster was pushed to the side as she found her resolve.

Her eyes darted rapidly, not just that, but her reikaku focused on this bubble around them. She was struggling. Having to deal with TWO strong opponents was pushing her, and the absolute agony in her fractured ribs was harrying her. But at the very least, she felt purchase, but not enough. As the creature lunged back away from her, she followed through with that swipe and felt her blade snagging flesh. She hadn't been able to cleave that spider fuck as much as she might have liked to. But at the very least, she managed to score a hit on that damn redhead, her reikaku having picked up on that stall. The attenpt at a Sonido while holding onto stella. She had to admit, she was glad that the soldat that dropped with her was her and not one of the other rank and file. But there was no time to count her blessings.

Two roaring Gran Rey Cero flared in her direction. One of her partitions produced a solution. A flish of her wrist, adjusting the pash of her slash's follow-through, slicing across her belt and cleaving through the ginto tubes that were stored there.
A second partition made note of their positional change, and her reiatsu flickered, a pulse sent out from her body, a signal to Beeps as Ehefra herself planted her hand into the ground.

"Gritz!"

The Gran Reys slammed into her just as three layers of Gritz popped, reishi mixed with her own reiryoku as that triple layer defense, using up almost half of her remaining ginto tubes as the ground promptly brokeaway. Twin beams ripping through the surroudning area and blowing out the bottoms of the two nearby buildings as the area around Ehefra was promptly left but a scathed crater from Vicente's obscene use of force. And at the very center, a trail of slightly less damaged ground, that triple layer Gritz barely holding on, chunks blown out of them. The first two layers having weakened the ammount of energy, but it still cracked that third layer, and Ehefra's frame was notably still battered and bruised as the pieces of the barrier fell away. More fractures, but those were concerns for later.

It was in that moment that the missiles veered course and swerved towards Vicente and Kurai. They were, after all, not simply bullets or rockets. They were Missiles, and they had tracked the lateral movement of the pair, and that spray of needle-like missiles THUNKED into the ground around them. But did NOT detonate.

One of her partitions had made note that Stella was still in Kurai's grasp after all.

She was panting, gritting her teeth as she did her best not to show the pain she was in as she leered at the two arrancar and flashed a crooked smile.

"I'm not generally in the habit of negotiations. After all. It's usually pointless. I'd usually just kill you. As quickly and viciously as possible. But, we're not ...quite so at your Mercy. Those needles. Are still very potent. I've cut you. And your boyfriend there. Gauging the strength of your Hierro. These cluster missiles will be sufficient to pulverize your insides. And neither of you seem to be regenerating. So I imagine unless you've got a healer. You won't be living for very long if I do that." She stated, her voice calm despite her injuries and the strain in her chest.

"I can't stop you. But if you snap her neck, or try to take her with you, rather than releasing her. Then these missiles will automatically detonate. So you're going to leave, and you're not going to weasel out of your word. Because if you do. You will absolutely be injured enough that I will finish you off." A slight snarl in her voice at the last few words. Truth be told, it wasn't as if she could fight on much longer. IF they were determined to fight? She could probably do so long enough for backup. But they were now all a ways away from her. She wasn't close enough that she was confident in her ability to fight them without taking more serious damage, or potentially leading to Stella's death.

For now, she was forced to bargain.