Two days after the first communication between worlds, the creature known as Mayuri had contacted Celestia again, on an urgent matter. He looked dishevelled and terrified, but he still managed to sneer at her.
“This is urgent, Celestia! I mean it!”
“What is it, Mayuri?”
“Kenpachi and two humans have travelled over to your world via the same method! You MUST find them, if you can.”
“Who is this ‘Kenpachi’?”
“Only the captain of the maniacs who came here in the first place. He’ll likely find strong opponents, so be worried.”
“That’ll do, Mayuri.” Closing the channel, Celestia could only sigh.
A leader of maniacs… if he hurts my subjects, if he even fights one creature, he’s dead and on the moon.
Fluttershy had finally recovered from the shock of the madponies, and felt ready to look after her normal animals when another explosion sounded- given the fact that she lived on the boundary of the Everfree, it sounded deafening from her house.
Not more madponies, please?
“MIZUIRO! I’M A HORSE- NO, WAIT, YOU’RE A HORSE TOO!”
“Calm down, Asano-San.”
A bright yellow Pegasus in a white shirt and a scruffy brown mane, and with a snowflake Cutie Mark was panicking at the sight of a white unicorn with a black mane, apparently checking out a small black box he was levitating, and he had a cutie mark in the shape of the black box as well. The third creature was no pony.
It’s huge!
It was much taller than an alicorn, standing at the height of the average bear. It walked on two legs, and didn’t appear to have any fur. Its black mane was styled into ten spikes, with bells on them. Its face was strangely flat, with only one sharp, almost triangular protrusion outwards. It only had one eye- the other one was covered in a black eye patch, and the eye that glared at her was grey, and very narrow. It seemed to be wearing something on its feet, to protect itself from sharp rocks, she supposed. It wore black, baggy trousers and a loose black shirt, as well as a white, scruffy looking coat with an indigo inside.
Wait… that’s the same shirt those ponies were wearing! Maybe he’s that… that-
“Hey, I’m Kenpachi Zaraki. Have you seen Yumichika and Ikkaku around? More importantly, have you seen Yachiru?”
Fluttershy fainted out of sheer terror. Kenpachi just glared at her and muttered, “weakling.”
His men weren’t here. He’d gone to the cold cure with the two humans, pumped spiritual pressure into it and attacked it, and his men weren’t here. Keigo had finally noticed his wings.
“MIZUIRO! I CAN FLY! SCREW LEVITATION, I CAN FLY! LEVITATIONS FOR EGGHEADS ANYWAY-“ He stopped when Mizuiro levitated himself to look at Keigo.
“Well, Asano-San?”
“WHAT? NO FAIR!”
Kenpachi just grinned.
Someone strong is here. They’d better be ready.
Yachiru, Ikkaku and Yumichika were watching the demolition of Applejacks old barn ala Twilight.
She’s progressed so fast with Kido; I almost think she’s the next Aizen.
“Seeping crest of turbidity. Arrogant vessel of lunacy! Boil forth and deny! Grow numb and flicker! Disrupt sleep! Crawling queen of iron! Eternally self-destructing doll of mud! Unite! Repulse! Fill with soil and know your powerlessness! Hado 90- Kurohitsugi!”
The massive black structure of magical energy finally stopped growing and solidified.
“Twi, what in the HAY is that?”
Twilight had collapsed from the effort. “Its-huff-called –huff- Kurohitsugi. It generates enough gravity to warp time and space.”
‘Could you repeat that in Equestrian?”
“That barn’s being crushed to pieces by gravity.”
“Ah. Gotcha.”
The spell disappeared, revealing a completely torn apart barn. As they started to celebrate, the most peculiar thing was happening on the border of the Everfree Forest, which only Ikkaku, Yumichika and Yachiru could discuss.
Fluttershy woke up when the wind started up, and discovered that the ‘Kenpachi’ had picked her up and was running through the Everfree forest with the other two ponies. Sheer overload of terror forced her to speak to the giant… thing.
“Um, where are you going?”
Kenpachi just looked at her with a huge grin on his face. “Well, I was going to the village, but I got confused.”
Fluttershy stared at him incredulously. “There is a path to Ponyville, you know.”
“Really? Well, I’m headed to that little castle in the distance. There’s a strong opponent there, I can feel it!”
“Why are you going there?”
“To fight. What else am I going to do?”
Fluttershy was about to argue, but the Pegasus put his hoof out.
“Hey, I’m Keigo Asano! Welcome to this garden of MANLINESS!”
He was promptly hit in the head by the unicorn.
“Hello! I’m Mizuiro! Could you tell us where we are?”
The one called Keigo suddenly turned as white as his friend.
“Mizuiro! I was just going to ask the same thing!”
As the two stallions argued (well, Keigo argued and Mizuiro ignored him in lieu of his phone), Fluttershy could only think one thing.
Why, Celestia, WHY?
He didn’t stop, or even slow down, but continued on a beeline towards Canterlot. Nothing seemed to deter him from his course, not even manticores- he just cut through them like they weren’t even there. Fluttershy wondered when he’d stop, or when he’d notice that he was running on train tracks, faster than the train that ran on them. He eventually stopped at the magical barrier that Canterlot was protected by.
Magically cast by only Shining Armor on such a scale, it was impervious to all harm- dragons, griffons and Angel had tried to take that barrier down, but failed. No power short of killing Shining Armor would take the barrier down. Kenpachi just looked at it with an interested expression on his face.
“Well, sister, that’s the human that Mayuri described. He really does look like a maniac.”
Celestia squinted through the telescope at the creature. It was a fighter, that was for sure. It was currently tapping the barrier with its hand. What really startled her was Fluttershy being on its back, with two other ponies arguing with each other about something. If this Kenpachi had abducted Fluttershy, then he was going to be severely hurt after all this was done.
“Alert Shining Armor. The barrier spell must be strengthened against this creature. Mayuri described him as an incredible fighter, who doesn’t back down from any challenge. Be wary of him.”
Kenpachi was now bored of this whole trip here. It hadn’t had any opponents worth his time, and now worthy opponents were hiding in a Kido spell of some sort. It looked like the barrier of Seki-Seki rock- blocking every hostile invader from entering the city. Maybe they thought it was impressive, but to Kenpachi, this barrier was just a nuisance. Never mind, there was always a way into this kind of barrier. Ichigo had simply pushed through the Seki-Seki barrier by sheer amount of spiritual pressure with his friends. And a barrier like this was going to be easier to break through than the Soul Society walls were.
The creature stood still for a moment, then it grinned menacingly at the wall. It unsheathed its sword, examined the wall, then struck the wall with a one-handed strike. Shining Armor visibly winced.
‘Woah, that’s almost as strong as a fully grown dragon. It’s not enough to break through, though.” He grinned. ‘He’s going to need a bit more than that to bring this barrier down. I’ve strengthened it, and I can keep it up all day.”
Kenpachi scowled at the barrier. Despite his attack, it wasn’t coming down. This was a good training dummy then. He gripped his sword in both hands, and swung it downwards in an even mightier slash.
“ARGH!”
Shining Armor nearly collapsed. His barrier was failing, but it hadn’t gone down yet.
“I’ll have to take the barrier down. If he does another hit like that, the damage could be severe.”
Temporarily lighting his horn to dispel the barrier, he finally collapsed unconscious.
“Canterlot is invaded today, sister, by one maniac.”