The Captain Training Grounds Crystal

Looking ahead she would witness the Captain Commander unleash a massive amount of energy of highly destructive proportions. It was unlike any ability she had seen until then, and it peeked her curiosity tremendously. How did it worked, how did he achieved it, how could she replicate it. The thoughts were recurrent and they were likely to be a topic she would revisit as the battle and the training progressed and likely even beyond the spectrum of the battle. For the time being however, she would need to concentrate as she could not afford the luxury of goofing off in a battle with him. She had to remain focused. His attack had disintegrated hers nearly effortlessly, but still, Crystal did not show signs of panic or distress. Sure, it was a shame her attack had not been successful, but like with nearly every move of hers, she had tailored follow up strategies assuming the attack would have indeed failed. As soon as he raised his hand, it was almost as if a strange chill ran down her body. Perhaps it was sheer anticipation but she knew he was not pointing at her to speak or say something meaningless. In a life or death situation, every action could potentially have a very strong reaction, and for the sake of the battle, she treated as such.

Having been somewhat ready for perhaps a kido, or at most two, she was surprised at the arsenal that was unleashed on her, even if some were devoid of incantation. However, it was foolish to think she would fare just with the graceful speed she possessed. She had more. Rushing as far as she could, the holographic screens traveled with her. Where she once stood, a chain from one of his kido had encircled and trapped the structure she had hovering just a few feet from her which had been moved and configured into a cylindrical shape akin to a torso nearly before she had begun moving. At the same time, a set of structures rose from underground. Before she knew it she was hit by six rods of another kido coming from the Commander's location but not before she had set the rest of the events in motion. There were two thick and large structures at the front while three even thicker structures had risen just behind those. However, Crystal had no material outside. Whether the Commander had figured it or not, either before or if he had just done so now, it mattered little. She was able to accomplish what she had set out to do from the very beginning. The drill, the attack, the reconfigured drill into strands, it had all been a ruse to hide the real motive and intent. Now, it was a bit too late. Though his power was great, even if he had noticed the real notion and motive of her actions, it was nearly impossible to target and eliminate the effects she had cast upon the field as even destroying a large portion would still see it so that some was available and able to be replicated. Every action that Crystal had made from the very beginning had been purposely tailored. There was no wasted move, no silly change of pace...it all had a purpose. She could only hope, regardless of the way the battle turned out, that the Commander would at least look well upon her, for, though still capable of much more and having a long way to go, she showed definite and near unlimited potential...and that, was something he would have likely been happy to know. the large and thick set of structures served as a barrier which took the hit of the of the black holes, and thus sparing Crystal the need to deal with them.

Still, there was a problem. Trapped by the six rods, the Commander had cast a very powerful Hadō and the options of escape were limited. Clenching her hands in fists, she spoke, "Despierta, Princesa." With that, a large and nearly blinding light followed by an enormous release in reiatsu allowed her to break free of the bakudo. Though the cuffs had regulated her, her abnormally mastered use of her speed and her flash steps in combination with her released shikai enabled her to escape just barely out of the way of the Hadō while raising a small structure to be caught within the the attack. The attack had been a mighty one. All in all, she was far from disappointed. Though the Commander had made no compelling attempt yet to harm her to the full extent of his capabilities, she was glad she had been able to stand up against him, even if he was still holding back, while largely remaining in her most basic of states, with her sealed Zanpakutō. It had become clear that the field was on her side, and would likely be so for the majority of the fight regardless of the attempts of her Commander. Holographic screens still hovering to her side though significantly brighter, her outfit looked strikingly different than it was moments earlier, and her reiatsu and her abilities had intensified to nearly abnormal levels.

She wasn't specifically acquainted with the battle style of the Commander, but judging by the way he stood, the way he held his sword and the strength of his kido, even without an incantation, she was able to make a few observations. Smiling, mostly to herself, her large crimson red sword in one hand with an equally colored shield fixed to one of her arms, she readied for battle as she rushed in his general direction. Once again, he would have been mistaken to underestimate her. She had a point to prove. And she would do so.

Focusing a dangerously large amount of blue reiatsu on her blade after it had spiraled around her she shot it at extremely fast speeds at her opponent. Using her flash steps she was nearly on him as the attack drew closer. Almost in unison an enormous amount of reiatsu encircled her as gruesome chains erupted from her back. Spreading and extending they wrapped tightly against the intense flow of reiatsu. Accelerating her advance she would allow five chains to fire off in his direction while still maintaining a large portion of the chains wrapped against her dense reiatsu. The chains traveled at nearly abnormal speeds that would have likely been incredibly fast even for the Commander as the speed at which they traveled were comparable to a bala, one of the fastest attacks. The shrieking noise of the chains were quickly heard as they resonated all over the battlefield. Even if he had nearly perfect vision or better, the chains would look to be rather blurry and linear. With five chains continually being fed enormous amounts of energy and a full powered energy blast from her crescent strike attack, the Commander would surely face a peril. Because of the quality and nature of the chains there was an extremely good chance that they would hit as the chances of it missing were abysmal, and even fewer were the chances they could be destroyed as they were continuously being kept alive by the reiatsu emanating from the fully combat-capable Captain.

Though unexpected, Tsubasa had rushed behind her at extremely fast speeds. It was so fast she could barely see the passing edges of his body at the corner of her eyes. However, her modified ocular lenses and their extended field of view allowed her to keep at least the slightest track of the assailant as it gained speed on her. Though his speed was vastly beyond hers she was not quite finished. It was unlikely that the Commander, seeing her display of power would attempt to attack with an equally strong degree of power or weaker. His attempted strike could only mean he was going to strike he down with a force that exceeded her own. And that was just fine. In between the heat of the moment it was difficult to make out facial expressions and the subtle movements, but if the Commander paid attention he would catch a glimpse of Crystal as she bobbed her head in approval of his comment, even if the movement was so subtle because of the battle, her eyes never once left the place in which she looked. "You are right. I'm not the fastest yet Commander. leaving it at that she had an inviting smile. He was right. She had yet a lot to improve on. However, she was confident she would continue to grow and improve her abilities. And surprises were one of the things she enjoyed the most. Though she liked a lot more surprising her enemy than being surprised by them, it was something that just sent chills down her spine albeit in the best of ways.

To be able to whistand the force of his attack she would need to meet it with a degree of power that rivaled what he put out. Obviously his display of power was not all he could provide, but Crystal was not going to stick long enough to battle it out in a sheer tug of war of spirit energy. She merely needed to upset his balance momentarily. As the sword swung to her, she smiled creating a light particle shield around her. Because of the light particle shield's properties, regardless of the amount of force and strength behind the hit, the physical attack would be deflected and a large surge of pain would near instantly affect the commander as soon as the blade had hit. In this case, regardless of his wit, it was his own underestimation of her that had caused him to be harmed. "Thank you, she said as the actions progressed, "I shall keep that in mind, as speed is truly relative."

As she saw the sky darken and the large and menacing lightning in the sky and going to his blade, she was less worried than perhaps she should have been. It was truly imposing, but at least for the time being, though his degree of power pushed her powers and her being to the edge, it was not quite enough to make her struggle for dear life, albeit not being the purpose of the training. Creating a secondary shield, this time an energy shield, things did not look as bleak as they seemed. Because there was no absolute difference in the look, feel, or configuration of the shields, it was just impossible, even for the Commander to differentiate between the two fields regardless of his intellect or even be aware of which field was up or if both were instead up at the same time. Even then, he would have to actually know of her powers to even have the simplest of ideas about what her power did, but that was a different story. With her energy shield up, the shield's volumetric extended far enough to cover her whole body. With both shields up she had nothing to fear at the moment from his strikes or his lightning. The shields reduced the coherence of energy attacks and deflected physical hits, and much like a thermally conductive material, it diffused the energy applied onto it and instead radiated it back into the environment. Thus, the lightning merely got close enough to almost coat the field, but like magnets of opposite polarities, it just radiated back into the opposite direction and against the Commander who would have been stricken with the pain caused from his earlier attempt to strike her field.

Thanks to the exponential atmospheric speed boost created by the shields in addition to the already natural speed of Crystal's and her Shikai release she was able to rush off in a different direction almost in zigzagging motions as the Commander was left to deal with the problems he had brought onto himself. As she rushed, her hair grew to nearly a dozen feet in length and likely more. By its looks it looked to be a lot stronger, likely as tough as the hardest metals and as sharp as piano wires. Nevertheless it sped to the direction of the struggling Commander at bala speeds. Regardless of his advantages, the plethora of conditions that were forced on him and a speed like one of the fastest attacks was bound to give him trouble. Though the hair sped at those nearly-unbelievable speeds, it looked almost flexible as if it could move in any direction at will. In that same motion, a surge of spiraling blue reiatsu covered her as she launched an extremely large attack in an arch to further hinder and trap her opponent. Unbeknownst to the Commander, in the hair, some of the spiraling reiatsu had been embedded. Regardless of how well he sensed attacks or his visual capabilities, it had been embedded so carefully that it was nearly impossible to pinpoint it from mere observation of sensing alone. The Commander's training was doing a lot for her as she was being pushed to do what she did not remember doing ever before. However, Commander or not, it was fair to acknowledge that he had been pushed into a corner that would force him to react like he had not expected or otherwise face the consequences.