Once they entered Szayel’s area Nnoitra stopped Kita where the strange ooze fell on him.
“It came from up there.” Nnoitra told her looking up at the ceiling.
Kita jumped straight up into the ceiling. It was pitch black up there and she could see very little. Closing her eyes for a few minutes she let her eyes adjust to the darkness. When she opened them she could see as well as if someone had turned on the lights.
Nnoitra could hear her moving around in the ceiling, after a few minutes Kita jumped down with a metal pail. He looked in the pail and it was empty, but in the very bottom was a clear ooze. He rubbed his finger along the inside of the pail catching some of the ooze on his fingertips. He drew his finger to his nose and sniffed it.
“That’s the shit that was on me!” Nnoitra replied.
“Well... only one way to find out what it is.” Kita said as she turned and walked toward Szayel’s laboratory door. Nnoitra followed behind as she walked in the room.
Szayel turned to them entering, “Hello, Kita my dear,” he then looked to Nnoitra, “You can leave now!” He barked at Nnoitra.
Nnoitra grabbed him around his neck when they stepped up to him.
“Put him down, Nnoitra. You catch more flies with honey than you do vinegar.” Kita told him. Both Nnoitra and Szayel looked at Kita confused. She sighed at the both of them. “It’s over your heads.” Kita lifted her hand with the pail. “Szayel, would you be as kind to test this for Lord Aizen? He wants to know what it is. It seems it is causing some problems around Las Noches.”
Szayel bent over looking in the pail and wrinkled his nose, “It stinks!”
Nnoitra shoved Szayel's head down into the pail as Szayel’s face hit the rim, “NO SHIT BRIGHT ONE!” Szayel lifted quickly glaring at Nnoitra, “we don't want to know what it smells like! We want to know what it is!”
“I thought this was for lord Aizen!?” Szayel barked at Nnoitra then looked to Kita.
Kita sighed, “It is for Lord Aizen.” Kita looked to Nnoitra, “he just don’t know how to speak.”
“Among other things,” Szayel spoke taking the pail and walking toward the counter.
“How long is this going to take?!” Nnoitra demanded to know.
“A couple of hours,” Szayel told him waving over his shoulder, “come back later.”
Kita nodded, “thank you Lord Szayel. We will be back shortly for the results.”
Nnoitra growled as he watched Kita turn to leave, “Now what?” He grunted as he to turned walking toward her.
“We wait. It won’t take him long. Lord Szayel is brilliant.” Kita reminded him.
“You’re the only one around here -- besides him that thinks that.” Nnoitra replied walking out into the hall.
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It was a couple of hours later when Kita and Nnoitra walked back into Szayel’s lab. The second Kita set foot into the lab Szayel was in her face.
“Where did you find this ooze?! It’s amazing! I have never encountered something so amazing in my lifetime! You have to tell me if there is more!”
Kita was leaning back so much she had to take a step back to keep from falling to the floor, “I am sorry Lord Szayel, that was all I found.”
Szayel quickly spun around walking back over to the counter as he waved over his shoulder, “So be it then. I shall create my own. After all I have the formula now.”
“So what is it?” Nnoitra asked walking over to him, Kita close behind.
Szayel spun quickly with some of the ooze in a jar, “Vanishing gel.”
“WHAT?!” Nnoitra questioned.
“Yes, vanishing gel.” Szayel repeated himself.
“Sooooo, why is the pail not gone or the jar you have there disappeared?” Kita asked in a puzzled tone.
“Or my damn fingers since I got it on my hands?” Nnoitra growled in disbelief.
Szayel spun again back to the counter, “It seems to only work on certain types of essentials.” He spun again with some on his hand and rubbed it on Kita’s glove.
The three watched as the part of the glove he rubbed it on disappeared. “On anything hard or a solid element.” He looked to Nnoitra, “like our hierro. The gel is not strong enough to work on it affectedly.”
“So how do you reverse this?” Kita asked as she watched more of her glove disappear.
Szayel turned going back to his experiments with the gel as he waved over his shoulder nonchalantly, “Just wash it, my dear.”
“THAT’S IT!? JUST WASH IT HE SAYS!” Nnoitra exclaimed throwing his hands in the air, “I HAVE BEEN RUNNING AROUND HERE FOR THE LAST WEEK TRYING TO FIGU--”
Kita cut Nnoitra short as she stomped on his toe hard. Nnoitra grabbed his toe and started cussing Kita.
She looked to Szayel with a wide smile, “Thank you Lord Szayel. Lord Aizen will be happy to know all this. Thank you again for all your help and hard work.”
Kita quickly grabbed Nnoitra by his forearm and drug him from the lab out to the hall. As soon as she stopped Nnoitra raised his hand to strike Kita as she sonidoed down the hall from him. She smiled brightly and waved at Nnoitra.
“You’re welcome for the help and the information, Lord Nnoitra. Just remember. You owe me one.”
Nnoitra watched as she sonidoed away. He then turned going back to his room as he mumbled under his breath.
“Thanks Kita.”
