Lois Lane (4)

Zaraki in his bankai mode was more terrifying to look at. He really looked like an incarnation of a devil. All that was missing were the horns. If Zaraki seemed like a bloodthirsty maniac before, now he looked like someone who had crawled out of hell to reap the blood of anyone he could come across.

And right now his main point of interest was Lois. And that's what he targeted this time was Lois. Everyone was really getting serious now. The Avengers weren't perfectly happy with the arrangement. A person like Lois needed someone who had greater control of things around but then again she was a Kryptonian and only a high level person could take care of her and right now they didn't have one other than the Captains.

Sentry wasn't brought back to this mission due to his dual personality and Hyperion was in another team. So all they could do now was go by the arrangement the Captains had decided. Zaraki now was flying around and hacking at Lois much more furiously.

And after a couple of struggles, Zaraki finally got the upper hand. With one large hack, he separated her right hand from her body. The blood splashed all around and mostly on the face of Zaraki. His skin was already red due to bankai and now there were big drops of blood on his face and his haori.

Lois cried out in instant pain. The attack had gone right across her shoulders. Zaraki didn't stop there as he wanted another piece from Lois. She was already bleeding profusely. And seeing no other way to escape she went right to the only place where she could hide.

Behind Superman!!

She flew away fast and stood behind Superman. Zaraki had already lost quite a bit of sanity and already could differentiate between ally and enemy. He used shunpo and came in front of Superman.

For Zaraki, Superman was just in the way. Lois was panting in pain. She was trying hard to stop the bleeding but there was no time for that because she saw Zaraki lifting up his sword to hack at both him and her.

She was horrified. She didn't expect a day would ever come when she would have to take refuge from another person. Batman who Laughs and Perpetua came to her on the promise that she would get her old fiance back. That was all she wanted.

But now she was using another version of her own fiance as her shield. And even then it wasn't effective. The enemy would go through anything just to kill her.

Superman himself was surprised with what had conspired in the last second because everything happened within the blink of an eye. Everyone's eyes went wide open when they saw this sudden situation. The Avengers who could keep up with the fight ran at their fastest speed possible. Iron Man used his celestial armor and almost teleported near Zaraki before he could kill their very own friend and leader.

But Tony and others who had come to save Superman, were stunned to see all the Capatin standing between Zaraki's blade and Superman. Even Yamamoto had come and used his cane and placed it on the neck of Zaraki. Every other Captain had incapacitated Zaraki from different directions placed their Zanpakuto or using their bodies to make sure Zaraki didn't take even one step more. (Imagine how Ichigo was stopped in hollow form by the Vizards when Hiyori went full crazy with Ichigo)

Everyone sighed in relief seeing that. They didn't really expect Zaraki to go full crazy when he was in bankai mode. His bankai was really a headache for everyone. He always needed supervision.

"Yamamoto- san please don't use such kind of heart attacks next time." 616-Tony laughed in a very hollow manner in order to release the tension in the room. Zaraki who was stopped slowly came back to sanity.

"Tch!!! what a shame in the name of Captains."

"Should have given me the responsibility."

"Would have blasted this woman with my bankai."

The red skin and the marks slowly faded away and his sword turned back into the normal one which he uses. Seeing that everyone was standing in front of him and making sure that nothing would happen, he already knew what had happened.

He looked at Superman for a second before walking away. That one look at Superman was enough for him to understand that he had asked to excuse himself for whatever he had done or whatever he was going to do.

He didn't care about the fight anymore. None of the Captains said anything. Even Shinji, who was blabbermouth, didn't say a word. Meanwhile Lois who was standing behind Superman was the ire in everyone' eyes.

She was responsible for whatever just happened. Everyone was up to date with the bankai of Zaraki so they didn't really blame him for his insanity. But Lois took Superman as a shield.

There was no going back from there. Even DC Batman had a look of anger in his face.

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