Let me devour you(Urufu)

The surprise was evident on Nuvena's face. Maybe if she acted faster she could blow up the puppets. Except that they were all now trying to slash and hack her skin-and-bones body. Shit. The arrancar's arrogance had placed her in a difficult position. Two quick pumps of her zanpakuto and a click of the flintlock would give her a distraction to get out of range with. The only problem was that the Puppet Master was behind her now. Reiatsu blades in front, unknown weapons behind. The only opportunity Nuvena had was if her puppet replica was as weak as she was. Highly unlikely, seeing as it was pumped with reiatsu and had no bug in its stomach. Still, it was the smallest opponent. Aiming the flint at her replica and letting go, there was another fish-smelling explosion. The explosion wasn't quite enough, and even as Nuvena laubched herself at a small opening the claws of the paleolithic hollow caught her on the shoulder, tearing through her dress and staining it with blood. Shit. Still, it wouldn't kill her, not yet at least.

Before the confusion of the explosion wore off Nuvena ran a few yards away, opening her mouth and inserting her zanpakuto into it. She had underestimated her opponent and the limitations of this form were working against her. Before completely obstructing her mouth the arrancar uttered her release in her thin, cracking voice, "Nube mortal de veneno." It wasn't as intimidating as other arrancar who might even shout theirs, but the transformation was scary enough. The girl worked her jaws around the glass and metal, resisting the urge to bite down. All the while her eyes were wide and staring at her opponents, like those of a deer facing death. Saliva ran down Nuvena's cheeks and neck, as her head was upturned to make swallowing the rather large object easier. After coughing quite a bit, the weapon had passed the arrancar's gullet and was safe.

Immediately Nuvena bent over and it looked like she would begin the painful process of coughing the zanpakuto back up. Instead a wad of white material passed through her raw throat and began crawling over her body. Part of the white stuff stayed attatched to her face, taking the form of a gas mask, attatching itself to the bottom of the goggles that were her mask fragment. The rest of the material crawled down to Nuvena's hands, solidifying to form a common exterminator's gear. A tank of poison and a wand-like sprayer connected by a hose. While this happened she became hunched, making it look as though the tank weighed quite a bit. Her arms got a little longer by maybe a foot. The overall effect was that of an emaciated gorilla with a gas mask. Turning around and taking a defensive stance, the girl waited for the next attack.

All the while Nuvena was going through her resurression she was being attacked, thin, pale skin being cut like paper. Now, she was used to pain from her stomach, be it hunger or upset, but this was entirely different. She had to fight the urge to gasp with the pain, which of course would cause her to begin choking. She should have done this at the get-go, but no, she was confident that she could beat a simple puppet master without her ressureccion. The only thing the arrancar could do now was to hope she wouldn't be killed before she could counter.

The two hollow puppets began charging their cero, and finally Nuvena was able to safely move. The first thing she did was turn around to face the boy behind her. He too was charging what appeared to be a cero. This was bad. There was only one thing the girl could think to do. She shifted a little to the side of the Puppet Master's hand, doing her best to dodge the painful looking attack. At the same time she brought up her left arm, letting it extend and smoothly swing her tank at her opponent's body. She tried to aim for the face, but it was a rough estimate, the tank being rather large. There wasn't a chance she could miss at this range, but for good measure Nuvena decided to spritz her opponent with a bit of acid. While sulfuric acid may not hurt him, it would still cause damage to his body.

The blow didn't cause anything to happen in relation to the building ceros, though it did damage the Puppeteer's rotting body. The three opponents hemmed Nuvena in, a triangle of death. There was no way to escape this. The only thing she could do was hunker down and wait for the pain. Now, she knew she could deal with a cero, maybe even two, but the arrancar had no idea what the energy from the Mastermind could do. In that case, it would be best to not to let it touch her. As the attacks were fired she held up her tank to try and deflect the energy from the Puppet Master. At the same time, she figured why not cause a little more damage? Nuvena sprayed even more Arsine into the air. By this time the entire area smelled of fish. It would take a lot to replenish her stock, meaning no crispy hollow for a while. Still, this was more important than food, sorta'. As the ceros hit her and Nuvena let out a grunt of discomfort she also managed to spray the sparks from her poison wand and ignite the Arsine. She didn't know if it did anything to her opponents, but it did hurt the girl quite a bit where she was still sore from the attacks. Odd, normally Arsine explosions felt like the warmth of the sun on her flesh. Could something be going wrong?

In a flash of curiosity Nuvena wondered what might happen if she tried to eat the strands of reiatsu acting as puppet strings. They would most likely end up controlling her body, but the starving arrancar couldn't help wondering if she could eat them to feed her own strength. Perhaps the worm would start sucking on that instead of her own power. No, that was too unlikely, and might get her killed. Well, the girl still had two gases she could utilize at the same time as the others. From what Nuvena had seen, the Puppet Master would use his reiatsu to either protect himself and his puppets or else to dispel the effects of the gases. There was one thing that the arrancar could do, though it may take a while. She had to whittle down his reserved reiatsu until he became exhausted. The first step was to kill the dinosaur shaped hollow with more Tabun, which was expelled from the gas mask. At the same time she also expelled a strong base from her gas mask as well. The tabun would kill the last living arrancar and impede its easy movement, the alkaline substance would cause burns and corrosion on the flesh they came into contact with.