=====<br/>Uako Kinme<br/>About 07:05<br/>Over the North Wall<br/>Heading down to join others<br/>=====<br/><br/>Uako was just clearing the wall.  The stop over at the 7th Baracks had taken a little more time than she would have liked.  She hadn't even grabbed her secondary weapons for this go around.  She wasn't certain she'd need them, but still she made a mental list of everything she currently had.  Her Zanpakutou, of course, was already in her hand.  She had a Positioner on her: a device that read energy signatures in a limited range and would track their location.  It wasn't perfect: some energy signatures were a little too big or a little too small for the device to track accurately.  Not that she typically needed it: energy sensing was one of the few things she did better than many of the other Captains.  And she had a flare apparatus.  She wasn't as trusting of Kidou communications as some people were, and so she had her squad habitually carry flares, just in case something happened and they needed help.  Uako never went anywhere without hers.<br/><br/>Since that was all she'd seen a use for this morning, that was all she had on her.  She didn't feel helpless for not having brought her Ivory Cestus, or any of the other tools she constantly worked to improve.  But she didn't feel particular warm about it either.  As she had been nearing the wall, she'd detected something pretty nasty looming just over it.<br/><br/>Uako landed nearby Corin, Aomine and Satsu, making a slight sound as her feet touched the ground.  She was smaller than the other Captains, and looked much nerdier with her large glasses and wispy hair.  But at that point, she was also a little pissed off, for various reasons, and her aura was intense.  She acknowledged the other two with a glance, not bothering to ask what was going on.  The rubble, and the energy in the air, was enough of an answer.<br/><br/>The tail of her cloak had barely settled when the crash came.  A roar and a burst of energy cast the fog away, revealing the awe-inspiring black mass of a powerful Menos variety.  She flinched a little, not having expected there to actually be such a threat, and certainly not so soon after she'd gotten there.  Part of her was intrigued:  what kind of weapon would<em>this</em>one become, she thought.  But then again..  she looked sideways at Corin and the others, she probably wouldn't get the chance to do find out.<br/><br/>With a few words, her Tai Chi Sword extended into a beautiful bronze long-sword, part of the snake-like hilt wrapping around her upper arm.  She didn't smile or frown, but began to make mental notes about the area: the position of buildings, structures, scraps, and other life forms nearby.  She prepared her next flash for when the thing attacked.<br/>Plan A) Get on its back, and use her ability to scale it down.<br/>Plan B) Distract it, trip it, and overclock Corin so he could finish it off.<br/>Plan C) Use her ability to power the allies and get the wounded out.<br/><br/>Depending on what the Menos did next, she'd pick one of the three.  Wow, five minutes ago, she'd been enjoying the last bit of a really good sunrise..