In fact, Baraggan thought Ben was mocking him by turning into such a weak looking form. Charlotte on the other hand, didn't look bothered one bit. In fact, he seemed rather interested in Chromastone.
"Ah," he said while running a hand through his own hair. "So you have decided to compete with my beauty by turning into a form made of precious stones, Ben Tennyson?" he asked. "I'm sorry but there is no beauty in all creation that can compare to mine." He then let out giggle.
Chromastone blinked at him. "Beauty? Uh, sorry pal I think you need to get a reality check. It's kinda freaking me out."
Nnoitra, Grimmjow, Grimmjow's Fraccion, and anyone else that could starting laughing at Chromastone's comment. Now it was Charlotte's turn to blink at Chromastone. "Oh my," he gasped.
Then he walked up to Chromastone, who naturally took a step back. Charlotte looked at Chromastone for a moment, brought his hand back, and slapped Chromastone right across the face.
Being made of silicon, Chromastone hardly felt the slap. But he was still thrown off by the fact that the guy actually slapped him. Just how bad did this guy think he was a woman?
"How dare you?" Charlotte yelled, obviously very offended by Chromastone's words. "What right do you have to judge a person by their appearance?"
To be perfectly honest, Charlotte did have a point. Ben had plenty of encounters with weird people and creatures. But then again, none of them had ever acted like the opposite of their gender before, so Charlotte was something. And in a disturbingly bad way. And since he slapped him, he was not gonna show mercy.
"Come on, already," Grimmjow yelled. "We came to see a fight, not some beauty contest. Start fighting."
"Hmph," Charlotte said with his hands on his hips and nose up in a girly manner. "Fine then," he huffed. Then he turned to face Ben.
"I guess it's time to start now isn't it?" he winked at Chromastone.
With that, Charlotte leaped high up into the air. Chromastone looked up and saw him flipping back down to where he was standing.
"Beautiful Charlotte Cuulhourne's Miracle Sweet Ultra Funky Fantastic Dramatic Romantic Sadistic Erotic Exotic Athletic Guillotine Attack!"
Chromastone had been so baffled by the long and pointless adjectives that Charlotte was shouting out, that he had almost failed to notice that Charlotte was now right above him, bringing his sword down.
Chromastone sees a giant gust of sound that burst from the ground when Charlotte struck down with his sword. His eyes widened. This guy may be a little cracked in the head, but he was certainly strong.
"Ah," Charlotte said, smiling at Chromastone's amazed expression. "I see my beautiful technique has left you completely speechless."
"No," Chromastone said. "Not really." With that, Chromastone raised his hands and fired what appeared to be a rainbow colored beam of energy out of them and right into Charlotte's stunned face. The blast knocked him backwards and fell butt first on the desert's sand.
"Interesting," Szayel said as he looked like Chromastone. "Judging from the fact that the beam he shot was rainbow colored and had absolutely nothing to do with a Cero, I'd say that this 'ChromaStone' has the ability to absorb sunlight and convert it into offensive blasts. Quite impressive actually."
Apache shrugged as she overheard Szayel. "So he's got some moves. Big deal."
Grimmjow snorted. "So he picked a rock monster that shoots rainbow beams? Tch. That's pathetic. I liked it better when he used things like that Humungousaur that beat up Yammy."
This got the attention of all the other Fraccion. No one had bothered to tell them that Ben could fight on par with an Espada. Not even Grimmjow's own Fraccion were told about this. They looked at Ben with greater interest.
Charlotte brushed the sand off his clothes and looked at ChromaStone. "Not bad, Ben Tennyson. Seems this is a fight to see who can pull off the more beautiful technique."
Ben was really starting to regret choosing ChromaStone. Every time he made a move, Charlotte would misinterpret it as an attempt to upstage him in "beauty". Ben shivered at the thought. He had to hurry up and end this fight now, or his taste would be changed. He charged at Charlotte, ready to punch him. Charlotte dodged out of the way and swung his sword. It clanged off ChromaStone's silicon body.
Charlotte tried to strike again, but ChromaStone charged forward, grabbing Charlotte with surprising strength for his scrawny size and slammed Charlotte into the ground. He fired another rainbow colored blast, but Charlotte blocked himself with his hands. This time the blast didn't do anything.
"You caught me off guard with your little technique before, Ben Tennyson," Charlotte said. "But now that I know, it won't work on me again."
"That's enough," Saying that he touched the Ultimatrix dial, and transformed. This time, he transformed into what appeared to be a pile of slime in humanoid form. A strange UFO floating above his head.
"Bad Goop!" the creature yelled in a high pitched voice.
"Ugh!" Charlotte cried in disgust upon seeing Goop. "What…what is that disgusting thing?"
"Hey!" Goop yelled at Charlotte. "I have a name you know."
Baraggan snorted in annoyance. "Are you trying to mock me brat, by transforming into these ridiculous creatures?"
"Hey, Goop is a good choice," Goop snapped at Baraggan. "I'll prove it, too."
With that, Goop made his body loose its humanoid shape and shot forward at Charlotte, the UFO device seeming to follow him as he did. Charlotte swung his sword, but it simply passed through Goop's slimy body. Charlotte recoiled as he regarded Goop like he was some kind of germ.
But soon, Goop wrapped himself around Charlotte's body, completely immobilizing him. Everyone else watched as Charlotte struggled to break free of the slimy situation he was in. One, it was disgusting and two , it was ugly. For someone like Charlotte, having something so ugly be so close to him was torture.
"Let go of me!" Charlotte practically screamed. He tried to flay his limbs, but Goop had wrapped them up pretty tight.
"Say uncle!" Goop taunted, amused at how Charlotte was freaking out. He also wants to slap his ass, if the girls were not present here.
"Fascinating!" Szayel cried. "This form seems to be some kind of polymorph. Lacking a solid structure, Ben is capable of morphing this form to his needs. And the fact that it's immune to any kind of physical attack makes it even more useful of a form than at first glance. Oh, Ben you naughty boy, keeping such useful forms up your sleeve."
Harribel nodded in agreement with Szayel. It was rather clever for Ben to have a form like Goop around.
"Do you see that girl?" she asked Apache, Mila-Rose, and Sun-Sun. "Ben is a resourceful boy."
Mila-Rose silently admitted that she had to agree with Harribel. The boy was definitely full of surprises. And the fact that most opponents would drop their guard due to Ben's human appearance only gave him one more advantage in a fight. She could not deny that Ben was very valuable to the cause. Then she found herself wondering what his human side was like.
When Sun-Sun had set eyes on Ben, she could see something about him. Something that made you want to believe that no matter how hard the odds were, he would come out on top. She realized it was the type of feeling that Arrancar felt around Aizen.
Apache on the other hand, just laughed out loud. "Come on, Harribel-sama," she said. "He's only doing this good cause he's battling Charlotte of all people. That drag queen is too vain and full of himself to be a challenge to anyone. I'll respect this kid after I see what he can do in a real fight."
Unfortunately, her comment did not go unnoticed by Baraggan, who was now fuming by Apache's words.
"It would be best if you were to keep Fraccion's tongues in check, Harribel," he said to her.
Harribel turned her head to face Baraggan. "And perhaps it would have been best for you to not have underestimated Ben Tennyson."
Baraggan grit his teeth. He had to do something or he was going to be disgraced in front of the other Espada. He knew that he had to tip this in his favor.
"Alright, Cuulhourne!" he yelled to Charlotte. "That'll do for the warm up."
"Warm up?" Goop yelled. "Can't you just admit that I was winning the fight?"
"Because you used a slime form due to the fact that you were too cowardly to trade blows with Cuulhourne?" Baraggan asked. "I think not. I have someone else in mind for you to fight."
Truth be told, Baraggan had actually expected Charlotte to have defeated the brat long before now. He hadn't counted on the boy using a form like Goop. But to be honest, he should've known better than to send Charlotte out there. He had always deemed the man the most useless of his Fraccion. He was too vain and too fearful of ugly things to be of any true use. No, Baraggan should've known to send a much more capable dragon to fight this cocky brat.