German Hollow Quest 15

After their shameful defeat at the hands of the axolotl, Aimee and Escamas were arguing with each other about what they should do next.
Unfortunately for them they were cut short by a strange man in a white garb.
The man who almost looks human is wearing a set of pristine white clothes that resemble that of a male flamenco dancer.

"Who the fuck is this clown?!"
Aimee erupts in her usual, vulgar tone.
Being so humiliated for a second time by the same hollow really managed to piss her off.

"My, my señora.
There's no need to be hostile.
I'd hate it if I had to kill a woman, especially a wounded one."
The man responds with cockiness emanating from his words.

"The fuck did you just say?!"
She lunged at the man standing in front of her.
But the second she would have made contact the man disappeared and then reappeared behind the attacking adjuchas.
Aimee screams at the top of her lung, since her arm was cut down almost in its entirety.

The man is shaking his head and swings his arm to the side, partially removing the blood from his hand.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Look at the mess you made you crazy chica.
Was that really necessary?"

"FUUUUUUUU-"
Aimee is incapable of responding to the man who just cut off her arm.

The man in white turns to Escamas now.
"I hope you'll be smarter than this loco."

"W-what do you want from us?"

"Oh it's nothing serious.
Just tell me where is the person who beat you up so well..."

Meanwhile at the great quartz tree.

After your attackers were driven off you started with cleaning up the mess they made.
Luckily for you the garden area was not harmed but the surrounding area was filled with debris.
As you are lifting one particularly heavy boulder you try to talk with Yata whom you managed to convince to help with the renovations.

"So what did you do with those guys before you killed them?"

"Oh I never killed anyone, they merely expired.
There is only so much live dissection that can be performed on an individual."
You frown as he said that.
It's true that those men were your enemies but not even they deserved torture.

"Are you saying you tortured them?"

"Hmm?
Oh Heavens no.
They were injected with a powerful numbing agent.
Not one of them felt a thing as I worked on them.
My research simply didn't require their suffering."

"You keep saying "research" and "examination".
Just how thoroughly can you analyze something with only your eyes?"

"While it's true that what I do is quite limited but I'm a resourceful man.
And I assure you, you'll like what I came up with."

After you cleared all the rubble and healed every minor injury the hollows sustained you feel exhausted once more.
With everyone heaving heavily Alistair comes to you for a chat.

"You know it's ironic.
I came here because you said things would be different but not a thing changed."

"Give it some time.
This was an unforeseen event."

He is simply standing over you with a look of exhaustion on his face.
It's clear that his heavy injuries still haven't healed.
"So tell me, could you always heal?"

"Pretty much yes.
But I wasn't always aware of it."

"That's funny, you are the most savage person I've known.
And now here you are, fixing my wounds for me."

"Just don't get used to it.
The next time you get your ass handed to you I'll kick you while you are down for being so useless."

That gets a chuckle out of him.
"I'll try to be more careful next time."

Hey Spooky.

No.

"After we rest for a while I'll get my boys ready for some hunting.
If that's okay with you."
He says.

"Actually I had something else in mind.
Just this one time you won't have to go out for hunting."

"What do you mean?"

"You'll see."

With that you stand up and dust yourself off before heading out to find Neliel.
You'd like to inform her about giving Alistairs men a little compensation for their efforts.
But as you are going to her you can feel a presence up above, near the branches of the surrounding quartz trees.
With a flash of movement the shadowy figure jumps from branch to branch.
It's so fast you have trouble following its movements with your eye.
Until you see it trip over and land head first in the dirt that is.

Everyone in the camp who witnessed it looks nonplussed at the intruder.
When he manages to stand up he simply starts coughing from all the dust he managed to send flying after his impact.

"I-I the *cough cough* great Dordoni *cough cough*...
Oh Dios mío! *cough cough*"

You can feel all the sweat on your head gather into one huge droplet around your right temple as you keep staring at this embarrassing spectacle.
When he finally stops choking on dirt the man regains his composure and strikes a quite goofy pose.

"I the great Dordoni Alessandro Del Socaccio have come before you!
You may now marvel at my presence friends!"

"Who?"
Alex asks while she is leaning to the side so much she is almost looking down.

"Gah!"
The man kneels down and quietly mumbles random stuff to himself.
Things like "How can this be?" and "How come they don't know me?".

But you aren't really sure what to make of this guy.
For one he doesn't look like a hollow, well except for his hole and the tiny fragment of his mask on his forehead.
He actually looks almost like a human now that you think about it.

>Ask him politely to go away.
>Introduce yourself and ask him what he wants.
>You were about to eat anyway, invite him.
>Other? (write-in)

>Dordoni Alessandro Del Socaccio

>Introduce yourself and ask him what he wants.

Best not to fight at this point, or even provoke.

>Introduce yourself and ask him what he wants.

>Introduce yourself and ask him what he wants.

>Introduce yourself and ask him what he wants.

>You were about to eat anyway, invite him.
Hospitality isn't a bad thing. It also demonstrates quite clearly that he's not dealing with ordinary hollows.

>Introduce yourself and ask him what he wants.

>Writing

This is almost too painful to look at. You genuinely feel sorry for the man.
So being the kind individual that you are, you spare him from further embarrassing himself.

You walk up to him and start poking his shoulder as he is kneeling and sobbing to himself.
"Erm, hey.
Dordoni, right?"

He looks up at you clearly very happy.
The man basically jumps up and begins gloating.
"Ah, so you did hear my name?
Of course, who could avert their eyes from the great Dordoni Alessandro Del Socaccio?
That's right! No one!"
He then proceeds to laugh loudly, clearly proud of himself.

"N-no actually.
My brain was overloaded and I only managed to remember your first name."

He abruptly stops his laughter and looks sad once more.
"I-I see..."

"Erm, my name is Kaizar Soize and these are my people.
I'm sure they'll introduce themselves.
But before we do that, may I ask why are you here?"

He stops pitying himself and starts to look serious.
"Oh right, I almost forgot."
He clears his throat and tries to speak in a more dignified manner.
"I'm looking for the Vasto Lorde of Hueco Mundo to unite them under our banner.
You see, I've heard talks of a particularly strong hollow who matches your description.
But now that I'm here I see that you are only an adjuchas.
A powerful adjuchas but an adjuchas none the less."

It seems that he doesn't want anything with you and he simply made a mistake but one thing got your attention.
"Wait, you've said "our banner".
Who are you people exactly?
At first I didn't even realize that you are a hollow.
So the more accurate question is, what are you?"

"Oh my.
You actually don't know?
I'm a bit surprised, but I'll tell you.
I'm no mere hollow my friend.
I'm an arrancar, a hollow who removed a part of his mask and attained powers quite similar to that of a shinigami."

Arrancar?
You've never even heard of such a thing before.
And now that he mentions it, he does indeed have a sword on his person.

"I've heard of those."
Neliel is the one who speaks up.
"It's true that there are hollows who try to become an arrancar and remove a part of their mask.
But the result is always the same, they stop their normal evolution and change into bizarre mixtures of shinigami and hollow with only a very minor boost in their power.
As such many hollows believe that "true" arrancar are nothing but an urban legend."

Dordoni begins to wiggle his finger left and right.
"No no no señora.
I can assure you that such arrancar do exist.
But you are right, most hollows are simply not cut out to become such higher life forms as the true arrancar."

This is certainly interesting.
He seems to look very much like a human with the exception of his mask fragment and his hollow hole.
But you still have a question.
"And tell me, do you eat?"

"Eat?
You mean hollows?
No amigo.
We don't need to eat the same way you have to.
We most certainly feel hunger and eat hollows from time to time but we are in no danger of becoming mindless beast like you are.
Indeed, most adjuchas rip their masks off to avoid regressing into a gillian.
But they either die due to trauma or find themselves incapable of becoming stronger and end up as meals for the menos."

That almost sounds promising with the exception of probable death.
But it's good to know that such an option exists.

"So, if you are looking for Vasto Lorde then you'll leave us alone?"
You ask him.

"I was going to but on closer inspection I find it weird that so many hollows are gathered here.
Tell me amigo, what are you doing here exactly?"

You shrug.
"Just trying to survive and gathering like minded hollows who are tired of all this crap."

"That's an ambitious idea amigo, but as long as Hueco Mundo remains the same people like you will always be in danger."

"I'm aware, but I'd rather die trying than submit myself to rules I don't agree with."

"That's a fine way of life amigo.
I'll pray for your success."

Dordoni then turns his back to you, ready to leave.

Do you invite him to eat or let him be on his way?
>What's one more mouth to feed?
>I don't want to get in his way, he can leave.
>Other? (write-in)

He seems harmless enough.
>What's one more mouth to feed?

What banner are you talking about?

>What's one more mouth to feed?
Whats the worst that could happen?

>What's one more mouth to feed?
He seems nice enough.

>I don't want to get in his way, he can leave.

Better not give him info on us, lest the keikaku master takes an interest.

>What's one more mouth to feed?
It'd be good to have an acquaintance such as this. Keep the line open, as it were.

>I don't want to get in his way, he can leave.

>A powerful adjuchas but an adjuchas none the less.

Ah fuck man he called our bluff

>writing

Not necessarily called our bluff per say, he received information on us from the two hollows who fled. 'Axolotl hollow that seems weak but isn't' doesn't leave much to the imagination and its pretty easy to figure out from there with minimal info.

Probably should have killed them before they left, imo.

"Well amigo, as promised I'll take my leave then.
I won't be troubling you any longer."
*A fine little group, too bad I'll have to report this.*

But before he could leave you put your arm on his shoulder.
"Listen we were about to eat.
Would you like to join us?
It's not much but I'll gladly share it.
It's rare to see a good person around here."

He looks confused.
"W-w-what?
Come now amigo, there is no need for that.
Besides I'm not in the mood of eating hollows."

"Come now, I'm sure the others won't mind.
What do you think Neliel?"

"I'm not going to object."

"Then it's settled."
You forcefully sit him down.
"Just stay here and we'll bring the food.
Oh and a fair warning, if the gillian asks you to pet her, do it."

Afterwards you bring the fruits down to the hollow encampment in large plates constructed by Pesci.
You can see that Alistairs hollows are still as violent with their pastimes as ever and that Alex indeed started to pester Dordoni alongside Pesche and Dondochakka.
When the food arrives you pass the fruits around and tell each individual to split it in half and share it with the person sitting next to them.
At first everyone gives a curious look to the fruits but curiosity quickly gets a hold of them and slowly but surely they start eating the stuff.
You can see their ecstatic faces just flare up after the first bite and everyone quickly starts asking for seconds.

Alistair in particular creates a waterfall of saliva as he speaks to you.
"Dude!
What is this stuff?
It's amazing!"

"This is what I was talking about.
An alternate source of food that we found.
We don't have much yet but if your men help out we can make more."

"Are you kidding me?
I think I'll have to force them not to keep pestering you with helping out.
This stuff is like edible crack!"

>crack
We hollow drug lord nao?

That would be hilarious. Develop a drug fruit with bad withdrawl effects, keep Baraggan and the Arrancar addicted to it, profit.

Even if its not addictive its the best thing to eat in this world whatsoever. if we seed the dependency for it in Barragan's army and the Arrancar they will sooner slaughter each other than let one of their piss us off. Do you think they'll even survive a week peacefully after getting cut off from uberfruit?

Though to be fair I'd say needing one a week or be forced to revert to a savage to feed yourself is textbook addiction.

I bet the most rash and aggressive ones won't survive a day. One side could try to take our crops over though, so we'd need to either keep two sides on constant war, or protect our merchandise somehow.

Off to the side you can see Dordoni surrounded by Alex, Pesche and Dondochakka respectively and you can hear him scream out of sheer joy after the first bite.
He quickly rushes towards you with blinding speed.

"W-w-w-what is this amigo?
It's amazing!"

You laugh a little and give him the same vague information that you gave Alistair.
After everyone has finished their meal they are sitting unable to even move with only a very small minority of the hollows still up and partaking in their favorite pastime, namely gathering in a circle and beating the ever-loving crap out of each other.
Your little group has a little gathering around them who are laughing at their little improvised comedy routine.

All in all you consider this a success, not only because you finally convinced Alistair of your idea but because you managed to give a little relief to these tired hollow after the loss of their comrades.
But after finishing his meal Dordoni stands up and gets ready to move out again.

"Thanks amigo, that was actually pretty fun."
He says as he is stretching his limbs.

"No problem.
Swing by if you are in the area, okay?"

"Hah, sure."

And with that he is gone.
He moved so fast your eyes didn't even picked up his movements.

With him out of the picture and Alistairs men being preoccupied you have a little free time on your hands.
You decided to visit the one person who choose to not partake in the festivities, Yata.
He can be seen at the opposite side of the tree fumbling with something.

"You ate your share of the food?"

"Yes and I found it to be a proper replacement for hollows.
So you have my admiration for creating something like this."

"Tell me, what was so important that you couldn't socialize with us?"

"Firstly, socializing is overrated.
Secondly, I was working on this."
He shows you a strange white substance in his palm.

"What's this?"

"Me being a useful addition to your camp.
It's the result of my experimentation on those hollows from before."

>strange white substance
Okay, NOW we druglord.

>white substance

[Spoiler] WAKE ME UP.

10 bucks it's macerated hollow masks mixed with our fruit

Guess were gonna become the drug cartel of hueco mundo.

As you inspect the white, sand-like substance you can't figure out what it's supposed to be.
The only thing you know for sure is the fact that it contains a lot of spirit energy.

"Don't even bother with guessing.
You won't figure it out unless you see it functioning.
I condensed and altered the spirit matter of the hollows to produce this.
Using the fruit you gave me I developed this as an artificial growth enhancer."

"So it's fertilizer..."

"Only if mere fertilizer accelerates the growth of the plant drastically.
With this within a couple of days you can multiply the quantity of your plants."

Besides him you can see a pile of the stuff just sitting there.

"I figured you'd prefer this over something like a toxin for hollows.
Now that you can see how dependable I can be, would you kindly give me a sample of your mucus?
I'm dying to take a closer look at it."

While it's true that he can be useful you are still not entirely convinced he won't do something insane with your goo.
Do you give him the sample he asks for?
>Yes
>No
>Other? (write-in)

Hail Kaizar Soize, druglord of Ghost Mexico.

Yes, he's earned it.

Let's wait to see if it actually works Yata. Still a bit hesitant to just give you access to my goop.

>Yes but for this you need to test it out

>Yes
Why would we NOT want something insane from our goo?

>Let's first see if it works, then I'll consider it.

>Other?

>"Yes, but only if you tell me what you plan to do with it after you examine it, and keep me informed on any and all discoveries."

>>Yes

Because theyre NANOMACHINES mostly, who knows what they could do after someone pokes at them for a long time.

10 bucks he uses a similar ability to our heal goo

>writing

I like Yata, I feel like he's gonna be our Mayuri.

Agreed. He meshes really well with our mucus ability.

He's almost exactly like a less insane Mayuri. Total sociopath, but he's not actively malevolent and he creates hella useful stuff.

Hes more of a sort of misanthrope than anything. he at least knows that its pointless to revel in his superiority so hes got that over Mayuri already.

>Firstly, socializing is overrated.
Yata da besta.

"What exactly do you want to do with it?"
You ask.

"Well first I have to determine its properties and figure out how it works.
Planning anything before that would be pointless.
But I think even you want to know just what are its true capabilities.
Or am I wrong?"

"No, you aren't."
With that you give him a large scoop of the stuff.
"But I want to know everything that you come up with."

"Naturally."

"But before I go, I still have a question.
How are we going to produce more of this fertilizer?"

"Well considering the large crowd out there who are getting free food..."

"No, we aren't doing that!"

"Let me finish.
They "donate" their limbs which I surgically remove after giving them proper anesthesia which you can heal with this stuff."

That actually sounds like a good solution.
This guy might be batshit insane and possibly amoral but he is a very smart man.
"I actually like that idea.
I'll check on you later Yata."

With that you let him do his work.
For days he hasn't talked to anyone other than the person who brought him food and even then all he said was a simple "thank you".
In the meantime you tested out his invention and found it working perfectly, not only did the number of shrubs you have increase but even the trees started to grow visibly faster than before.
But after all that waiting you were starting to get worried about the birdman.

Until he actually came rushing towards you in a stupor.
"We have to talk, NOW!"
With that he drags you to his own little part of the place which is isolated from everyone else.

"I've been working on this stuff for so long and I think I'm losing my mind!"

"Why?
What's wrong?"
You try to shake some sense into him.

"Wrong?
Nothing! Absolutely nothings wrong!
This thing is incredible!
Were you aware of the billions of micro organisms within it?"

"Yes I kinda knew about them.
Why?
Are they special or something?"

"Special?
Are you insane?
This is beyond even my wildest imaginations!"

We've got to make a hollow snort the stuff and see what happens.

"Stop talking in circles and just spit it out already!
What did you find out?"

He paces back and forth while randomly gesturing with his hands murmuring things you can't quite make out, something about "simpletons".
"After several attempts I managed to get a hold of these creatures.
At first they ignored me completely.
They just kept doing whatever they wanted, it was maddening!
But after a while I figured out how to "influence" them.
It took considerable effort but I managed to create this!"

He gets something from under his cloak.
In his hands is a perfect cube made from something that looks almost like wood.
You look at the bizarre item but you can't figure out what it is.

"I give up.
What's this cube?"

"The cube is not the important part!
Well, in a way it is but that's not the most important thing!
I managed to force the tiny life forms to rearrange the atomic structure of the spirit particles in the sand!
This cube was at one point nothing more than dirt!
And to top it all off they managed to create a perfect, cube like shape!"

What's this madman saying?
How come you weren't aware of this?
It's your power after all.

"Okay, so you can make wood out of sand?"

"It's not wood.
It might look like wood but it has more in common with metals.
With only minor alterations to it I can make it so soft you can bend it easily or so tough it'd sooner shatter than bend.
And there is no limit to how many times it can be changed, so you can shape it freely than make it hard once more to preserve the shape.
But it's a time consuming process and it uses up the mucus too fast.
As it stands right now it requires both of us to create more of this substance."

"Wait, you said you made this from the sand.
Can it be that the sand is somehow special?"

"The base is almost irrelevant, I managed to do the same with quartz.
I think we could make almost anything if the two of us work together."

Neat

>just over here, performing alchemy, no big fucking deal

Sheeeeiiiiit

Let's build our own Las Noches

With blackjack

And hookers

I second this.

>tfw now we can build actual houses without fucking up our super tree

I am rock hard right now.

Can't we also use the mucus to basically carve out the tree? If it can rearrange things, it could make the quartz sandlike.

Uh, yeah, that.

Also if we get hold of an enemy this could be used as a particularly nasty attack.

But why would you want to hurt our Grandpappy tree?

We don't need to live inside of it any more.

I doubt it works rapidly enough to be viable in combat, but if it does, yes, ouch.

Build houses on the tree.

Who cares about houses lets arm our army with mucus weapons

Or use it as self repairing shifting armor that can octo camo and even be temporarily given to someone else.

Who else hype for the pearlescent lord of the azure valley.

A.. tree... house? Not following you here, sir.

>we ewoks nao
>we Fern Gully nao
>we that kid next door who throws shit over the fence into your yard from his sweet ass treehouse you never got to go into and never had because the tree in your backyard was small and died so you never had the chance to live a fulfilling childhood nao

Sharp wooden swords soon.

Armor is actually a really good idea. Though the thing is of course would it be any stronger than what we have naturally? It'd have to be pretty dense, I think, and if it was it'd limit our mobility.

>he doesn't want to spend time on his porch playing HIS FUCKING VIOLIN HOLY SHIT WE CAN MAKE A REAL VIOLIN NOW

Huh, I guess we could.

We could make almost anything now.

Anything at all. Parts to complex machines, even.

Do you know what you have unleashed, Spooky?

Kaizar's orchestra confirmed. The dream is real.

That's it were gonna set up a orchestra with classical instruments.

BasicallyBuild a bunch of houses and boardwalks around the upper areas of the tree and have a treetop community.

We could also build a dome around our crops since they don't need sunlight.

We can build a lever that pets Alex!

>this thread

I don't know whose keikaku is bigger right now, Aizen's or ours.

FUCK YOU NOW I HAVE TO REWRITE THE STUFF SO IT HAS TREEHOUSES!!

Even if we can't make it harder than ourselves depending on the level of control we can potentially have a regenerating layer of explosive armor. it can either be tightly wound like a bullet proof vest or burst outwards in response to impact.

What he said all turned out to be true in the end.
Over the span of one year many things changed thanks to Yatas inventions.

Using his new inventions you managed to turn this segment of the otherwise lifeless wasteland into a hidden oasis of some sort.
With the small blue forest constantly growing outward and small log housings spread throughout the forest canopy.
You've even managed to create small household items such as chairs, tables, plates and utensils out of the stuff (each tailored to the various needs of the many different hollows in the encampment).
In time you even managed to cultivate other forms of fruits and vegetables that now brought some form of variety to your diet.

There were two downsides to this however.
-Firstly, many lesser hollows moved in on their own.
These tiny creatures are not even sentient and normally survive the natural ambient reiatsu of Hueco Mundo.
But they probably sensed the heavy concentration of energy in your area and now your forest has some critters in it.

-Secondly, after the constant dumping of large quantity of your mucus in the area a small stream of water erupted from underground.
Over time this spirit particle rich water collected into a small lake with a river leading outward.
The river extends to the very end of the forest and accelerates the rejuvenation of the Forest of Menos.

But for the most part life became much better with these developments.
The hollows around here enjoy the prosperity and the quiet life.
They showed a few times that they are willing to risk their lives to protect their new home.
Unfortunately they retain their barbaric ways to this day, but you start to grow fond of their little moshpits that even you enter from time to time.

Alex also managed to turn into an adjuchas long ago and has grown more fond of you over time.
Pesci acts as the camp cook, with his menu containing various dishes consisting entirely of fruits, vegetables and the occasional hollow meat.

Ours, Aiken simply has the small ambitions of ruling, which will fail. We have the ambition of making reality our bitch in the way of making the afterlife amazing as fuck.

You've unleashed the beast, Spooky! The ride never ends for you!

>Little lizard hollows
gotta love those little buggers

You had to have known we'd build a tree fort.

WE"RE DOING IT! WE"RE MAKING GHOST MEXICO GREAT AGAIN!

>we have babby hollow lizards and a river

How are those downsides?

We could bottle the water, mix in some fruit and vegetable juice and now we have Goop Brand Spirit Juice.

We are the megacorporation.

>Several decades from now Ichigo's party is going to invade Haeuco Mundo
>Its a jungle paradise instead of the wasteland everyone told them about
>"Are we in the right place?"

>Hey, who are you invading our forest?!
>"Ichigo Kur-"
>No we already have the best strawberries around, quite famous here, actually, not interested, go away.

Fuck.

The babbies probably nip at the crops and general be annoying to the farmers.
The RIVER IN THE MIDDLE OF A WASTELAND is a pretty big target on us.

>The babbies probably nip at the crops

Wait. Are the baby lizards going to evolve into full-blown dinosaurs if they do that?

I'm a little surprised Aizen hasn't shown up yet.

How has Barragan not noticed this shit yet?

I'm really wondering how shallow barrangans motivations were if Hueco Mundo was previously something resembling a living landscape. If that fruit was something that naturally occurred, then this was a world that could've always supported hollow lifeforms.

There's a lot of implications that makes.

But then we can trick people into eating and drinking our stuff.

>Enjoyed yourself?
>Well I hope you'll come back to enjoy a STEAMING PILE OF ME
>THE WATER IS ME
>THE PLANTS WERE ME
>THE CARPENTRY IS ESPECIALLY ME

To busy being Aizen's bitch, and Aizen sees no reason to interfere against free terraforming.

Baraggan wanted to be the King. Can't be King if your subjects tell you to fuck off because they have better things to do, like farming.

>giant ghost dinosaurs

yes please

He's waiting for it to be up and running nicely so he can swoop in and take over.

He's probably waiting for us to go vasto honestly.

It's still years(decades?) before Aizen tried becoming relevant in Hueco Mundo.

That's hilarious.
>"Here, take a seat. Eat some fruit and veggies, they're good for you."
>"I'm not one for small talk so I'll get straight to the point."
>"Are you enjoying myself?"

>He's waiting for it to be up and running nicely so he can swoop in and take over.

>"Bow to me, your King!" steps on a plant
>Kaizar REEEEEEEs so hard they feel it in the Soul King's Palace

It's a mystery
Depends how much Dordonii snitched on us
Too busy trying to shove his own femur up his bony ass.