The one major problem with world wars as far as any Shinigami was concerned, was the fact that too many humans died too quickly. This meant that hollows were breeding at almost ferocious rates. Soifon was grateful that she was only operating in the Pacific Theater. At least here the death toll was somewhat manageable. Europe was a complete mess with those damned Menos Grande factories the Nazis had set up. Not even WWI had been this bad in terms of hollow breeding and that had been a bitch and a half! She had half a mind to put her name to the petition circulating about to have the Sokyoku unleashed against Berlin.
Unfortunately for Soifon, the Pacific wasn't a basket of roses. She was currently leading half of the Second Division in battle against several dozen hollows and two gillians. Soifon looked in horror as several of her lieutenants started to run. "Hold the line all of you or I'll transfer you to the 11th Division!" Sadly, the lieutenants were more afraid of the gillians' Cero then they were of Soifon at the moment.
Soifon's face scrunched up as she thought about her options. She couldn't call for reinforcements because the rest of her division and the Onmitsukido were all deployed at other hot spots. Getting help from other divisions was out of the question as they wouldn't have anything to send her. She quickly used her zanpakuto's Nigeki Kessatsu ability to dispatch several hollows to relieve the burden on some of her men. She then glanced at the gillians and considered her chances of cleansing them with her shikai.
She quickly determined that she didn't have a good chance and then sighed. "I hate doing this, BANKAI!" Suzumebachi instantly transformed into Jakuho Raikoben. Soifon quickly aimed Jakusho Raikoben and launched its missile towards the first gillian. The hollow was hit by the missile and cleansed in the explosion. She then did the same for the second gillian cleansing it as well.
The Second Division's captain fell to her knees panting for breath. For a brief second, Soifon thought that the battle would be won by her forces because her men would be heartened by the cleansing of the gillians. Unfortunately, another pack of hollows showed up and joined with the remaining hollows causing the tired shinigami to run.
Fear entered Soifon's heart as she watched her men run away. She knew that she couldn't escape on her own and that she couldn't fight off so many low ranking hollows in her current condition. Tears started form in her eyes as she thought that she'd die on this miserable field because her men couldn't bother to do their duty or help her out. Soifon spotted a hollow rushing towards her and she tried to lift her zanpakuto up as a defense. The fact that it had shifted back into its sealed form only illustrated how bad her situation was.
Suddenly, the hollow cried out in pain as its arm was unexpectedly severed. Soifon looked up in shock as a young boy suddenly appeared holding a zanpakuto which had obviously cut the hollow. The boy turned around and coldly called out, "Know no fear, Marneus Calgar!"
Soifon couldn't believe her eyes. An unknown child not only had a zanpakuto, but he also had shikai? She watched as the child quickly used the chain-saw edge of his sword to buzz though the hollow and saw it's mask in half from the back. About the only thing more shocking for Soifon as the hollow was dispatched was the see the Shihoin crest on the boy's shirt.
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