Return of the boss

The sheer uncouthness of the words coming out of Today's mouth was of no surprise to the Monsuta King. You see, after interacting with people like the Nature Iramasha Moonie, Stefan really wasn't bothered by barbaric rudeness at this point, though perhaps what bothered Stefan was the fact that Tora so willingly acted like that to his commanding officer without even a hint of respect. Yes, Stefan was pretty open about things like that and was less strict about it than perhaps some other powerful organization leaders, but he always demands loyalty, and right now he was unsure of Tora's.

"Gahahahahaha! Coming from a youngster like you, that means absolutely nothing! I don't need to prove myself to an ignorant shithead that hasn't even bothered to do some research about his King like you. Hell, if you weren't so damn weak I'd probably go and kill you right where you stand for such insolence! I rule with the policy if you aren't strong enough to stand against me, then you can't stand with me.......so the fact that you're demanding ME to prove my strength to you is just plan disgusting! Gahahahaha! Besides......."

After he had finished speaking, Stefan had drawn his Zanpakutō from it's sheath, swung it in a full three hundred and sixty degree motion vertically, and returned his weapon to it's scabbard so suddenly and quickly neither Tora nor Sherri would even see this motion; all they would notice is that the walls, ceiling, and ground about a half foot behind Stefan had been sliced through cleanly rather instantly, splitting the hallway into two. About half a second later, with a wide grin still on his face, Stefan brought his left leg back to where the ground had been cut through, and pushed with the tip of his foot in the crack.

With such force generated from his body, the gap in the middle of the hallway where Stefan had sliced through began to widen and widen until it was a great chasm about three feet wide.....Stefan had with sheer physical strength pushed half of the Monsuta base apart from the other half, even the Earth was quaking from such an action. Stefan turned to face the area he had just separated from his current position inside the hallway, and drew the extremely long odachi sword from it's scabbard upon his back. Faster than should even be possible, and certainly faster than the other two Vizards would be able to see, Stefan swung the odachi roughly a hundred and fifty two times in the direction of the other half of the Monsuta base. After doing so, he turned back to face Sherri the young Vizard, and continued to speak where he had left off.

"........we are already outside."

As Stefan finished speaking, the entire section of the Monsuta base separated due to the Monsuta King suddenly collapsed into thousands of small pieces, the previously gigantic section of the headquarters being turned to mere rubble in just a couple moments. The sun shined into the rest of the hallway, as technically the group was now outside. After letting what had just happened be processed by his subordinates, Stefan leapt from his position and landed on top of the rubble about thirty feet from his previous position, and raised his odachi known as Joe Sharp, the blade's tip pointing directly at Tora. He was challenging them to cross the gap in the earth he had created with a single sword swing that seemed to stretch endlessly deeper and deeper into the Earth.

"You said you wanted to fight outside, right? Well come on already!"

Tora's words helped Sherri push past her fear of the Monsuta's leader. As she stood up, that manic glint returned to her eyes, the glint of her lust for battle. She grinned devilishly as she watched Stefan destroy the area, at the same time calling out the release phrase of her zanpaktou.

"Growl in to the dark, Mastiv!"

Black fire poured forth from the gems embedded in to the hilt, covering the blade completely, then she turned her attention to Stefan. As Stefan started to speak, having pointed his blade at Tora, Sherri took the liberty to flash step to his side, crouching low in a way that would show him her cleavage should he look down. She was only there for a second though, as the shadows started to rise up from the ground, she flashed back at a 30 degree angle of difference from her original flash step. Standing there, she watched as the shadows formed the two hundred foot diameter dome which blocked out light, making it difficult, if not impossible to use normal eyesight in combat. After the sphere was complete, she would then flash step behind Tora, touching him lightly on the back before whispering to him.

"It's fine, just me, Sherri."

After issuing his challenge to his two subordinates, Stefan simply waited for their replies. He had been standing completely still with his odachi Joe Sharp now being held loosely in his grip, the blade tip now pointing downwards diagonally. The first thing he noticed was the girl Sherri making the first move by trying to flash step to his side, which is eyes followed pretty easily. Even while using shunpo, she still appeared to move in slow motion to Stefan, as though someone with a universal remote had press 'Slowmo' while pointing at her.

About three yards before she would have reached her destination, his side, Stefan intercepted her by countering with his own, impossibly fast flash step technique that not even Tora would be able to keep up with with his eyes, instead he appeared to teleport instantly to the two young Vizards. Moving just as quickly, threw his arm out and caught Sherri's throat with his right hand, gripping her neck with his powerful hand. After catching her like this and stopping her in her tracks, Stefan lifted her up about a foot off the ground, which was really rubble at this time, pushed her head forward slightly and then slammed her down onto the ground with the middle of her back making contact first, which would not only potentially break bones with the force he used but also knock the air out of her lungs making it difficult to breath.

The impact from slamming Sherri was so powerful, Sherri was actually about three inches into the extremely durable stone rubble, and there were also massive cracks in said stone stretching out and criss crossing from her location, appearing like a gigantic spiderweb. Though Stefan had used a huge amount of force and speed in this slam, he hasn't used all of his strength, which most likely could have snapped her spine and neck both into multiple pieces. After a few seconds of continuing his crushing grip around Sherri's neck, he finally let go, allowing her to breath again as well as preventing her from blacking out. At the same time, Stefan noticed Tora was making his move as well. Before Tora could even begin his assault on his Commander in Chief, the Monsuta King used flash step to near-instantly close the distance between the two fighters, and even moved above and behind Tora, so quickly he most likely wouldn't even notice the moment, especially since a completely identical speed clone had been left behind.

After moving behind Tora, Stefan did a complete front flip in the air and then brought his heel down upon Tora's upper back which would serve to send him flying down to the ground and crashing into the rubble right next to Sherri, as a matter of fact he'd land only a few feet away thanks to Stefan's impeccable aim during combat. This attack had quite a bit of force in it, enough to the point that it might even crack, or maybe even break, Tora's Hollow Mask from the impact with the stone rubble. After intercepting both of his opponents, Stefan's speed clone vanished into thin air, returning the amount of Stefan Soan's in the battlefield to one. His gaze looked down to the Vizards below him, with a smile still on his face as though he were actually enjoying the combat.

"You're gonna have to do better than that, yanno! Come on, did you actually think you'd be able to catch me off guard?"

Sherri lay there among the rubble, attempting to regain her breath for a minute or two. Damn it, it hurt, guess they don't call him the leader for nothing. Seems no broken bones, for now at least. He's strong, and fast, I could probably barely keep up with his movements with my mask, anything else and I'll be destroyed. Even with the mask there is little to no chance for me here. She sighed, having finally regained her breath, and then did the only natural thing for her. The shadows started to rise off the ground, forming in to the large dome of black mist. It was her that Sherri would be at home, in the darkness, the place perfect for her guerilla warfare style.

She quickly stood up, donning her hollow mask as she pointed her sword at Stefan, the flames forming in to the jaws of a dog as the shot towards him. Flash stepping fifty feet to her left, she then fired the technique at him again, then flesh stepping till she was fifty feet in front of her starting point, watching to see what Stefan would do.

Having sent both of his opponents spiralling downwards, and straight into the massive pile of rubble that sat dust-covered on the ground, Stefan simply waited until his opponents recovered from the damage they had just received. Having hit her first, it was of no shock or surprise to Stefan that Sherri was the first one standing. She seemed to either have recovered from the blow quickly, or was just trying to stay fighting without care of her own body. To Stefan, she just seemed like she was trying to show off to his other opponent, Tora.

Seeing the blast of jaw-shaped flames erupt from Sherri's Zanpakutō and begin to head towards him, Stefan pulled his arm back, cocked his fist, and then unleashed a furious punch at thin air. Why oh why would he punch the air? Doesn't seem very productive.....or does it? You see, from the sheer strength placed into the punch, Stefan seemed to create a sonic boom that originated from his location, and travelled extremely quickly towards the shadowy fire, dispelling and dispersing it on contact, though it kept going until it hit the ground, creating a miniature explosion that sent various pieces of rubble flying in every direction.

When Sherri did this again, Stefan repeated his action, however he placed more power into the 'sonic' punch this time, which caused it to travel much quicker than before, as well as pack a much more powerful punch. It, again, expelled the black flames as it went through it, but kept going to Sherri's location without being slowed down in the slightest. If it hit her, it would cause severe damage to her skeletal system, potentially fracturing or breaking many of her torso bones, such as her ribs. However, she would have more time to dodge it than if it had been a punch directly from Stefan instead of a long-ranged attack.

'Really, he's using his Bankai this early...? So much for a good fight.' Stefan's thoughts were riddled with statements like this during Tora's transformation, and his previously-smile covered face had changed into that of boredom and even a little annoyance. The now-Bankai transformed Vizard Tora rushed at Stefan, to which he didn't even try to move away from, and simply drew the sword he had previously been wielding from it's scabbard across his back. As Tora's blade fell upon Stefan, he blocked it relatively easily, and despite the vibrations coming from Today's weapon, neither Stefan nor his weapon were being moved and were actually pretty still.

While blocking the attack from the now much larger Monsuta Commander, Stefan also commenced a counterattack. With his left hand, he grabbed the shaft of Tora's weapon without receiving so much as a small amount of damage from the intense vibrations of the Zanpakutō. Stefan's grip of the weapon was so tight and powerful that Tora most likely wouldn't even be able to move it from it's current position, much less strip Stefan's hand from it. It should also be noted Stefan moved his hand even faster than Tora had attacked. Well, after gripping the weapon, Stefan brought his weapon known only as Joe Sharp away from it, pulled his arm back, and then slashed diagonally from Tora's right hip to his left shoulder both quickly and powerfully, breaking his defenses as well as inflicting a major wound upon the Vizard that would, without doubt, begin bleeding quite a bit all along the cut. After doing so, Stefan pulled Tora around by his weapon, and then threw him down to the ground, causing yet another massive impact with the rubble below.

"You? The 'true power' of the Monsuta? Being a commander doesn't make you powerful, boy! You won't be seeing the true power of the Monsuta here, because its not something thrown around so conspicuously! You will, however, see the true fear of the Monsuta!"

The mist wavered at stefan's punches and when Tora released his bankai, but the dome held through it all. Sherri was lucky, her guerrilla attack style had meant that the shock waves from stefan's punches had not hit her, having already moved to another spot. Anger boiled up in her as she saw stefan's blade cut in to her father, gripping her blade tightly as she bared her teeth beneath her mask. How dare he, how dare he hurt Tora. That's it, I don't care anymore, he is dead, dead meat. Bright white flames engulfed her body, surrounding her in an aura of flames. It extended one inch from her body, having a heat of five hundred degrees Celsius.

As the dome heated up another fifty degrees Sherri pointed her blade at stefan one more time. The black flames shaped like the maw of a dog shot from it once again, and by the time it had left the dome she had flash stepped fifty feet to the left, then flash stepped upward, swinging her blade up towards stefan's chest. Anger was written all over her, the injuries on her father driving her further then she would have gone under normal circumstances.