Because it was Tuesday, Aizen was in charge of watching all the monitors in and around Las Noches. This was a tiring job that took up unnecessary time in Aizen's day. Suddenly, just as Aizen was about to dose off, the outside sensors went off, alerting Aizen of a mysterious cloud of dust slowly approaching the castle. Aizen knew of most of the natural accruing phenomenon in Hueco Mundo, but this was new to him, so he paged his leading scientist, Szayel Aporro Grantz.
Szayel sonidoedquickly to the monitoring room, knowing this was not the time to dilly-dally. "Whatever Aizen wants must be important." Szayel said to himself He opened the door finding Aizen standing up at one of the large monitors in the back. "Szayel Aporro-Sama you have lived here longer than I have, what do you make of this?" pointing to the large grey cloud on the screen. Pulling up his glasses Szayel responds "Hmm I don't believe I've ever seen this anomaly before, can you zoom…" Suddenly, with out a warning, a green beam of light shoot from the dust cloud into Las Noches. Quickly Szayel and Aizen scanned through the monitors, trying to locate the beam's target. Monitor six lit up reviling the beam's target, Ulquiorra, after the flash of light all that was left was his clothes. So they thought, unexpectedly a little head popped out of the pile of clothes reviling a child size version of Ulquiorra. The small toddler waddled out of the clothes, falling on his butt a few times. Aizen and Szayel looked at each other in total shock. Out of the blue a tall grey man appeared behind the toddler. Ulquiorra turned around wobbly and sent the grey monster a cero, with amazing power, destroying the man instantly. After that two other men appeared before Ulquiorra, but were met with the same fate as the other.
Szayel zoomed in on the monitor "It would appear the enemy is testing the strength of the child." Aizen looked up "Why would you say that Szayel Aporro-Sama?" Szayel rewound the video explaining to Aizen if they had wanted him dead they would have done so, it's really not that hard to kill a toddler. They watch the toddler for a few seconds, when he suddenly sonidoed to Orihime's room. "What in the h…" Aizen murmured under his breath as he glared at the screen. The small child then knocked down the door, using nothing but his hand and waddled in. Orihime was surprised, at first she thought it might be an invader or Aizen finally coming to use her, for whatever she was suppose to do. She turned around slowly only to find a small waddling child, steadily walking towards her. "Aww" She said to herself "He looks just like a little Ulquiorra." She picked him up and he nuzzled her chest.
Suddenly, just like the first beam, a second beam of light shoot from the grey clouds of dust, but this time hitting Grimmjow. Szayel zoomed in to see if the beam had the same affected, as it did on Ulquiorra. He was right. Aizen and Szayel sonidoed to Orihime's room "Orihime," Aizen called out looking at the smaller version of his forth Espada in her arms "I believe it's time for that small child to leave." She really didn't want to give him up, who knows what Aizen had planned for the child, but she knew better then to disobey Aizen's orders. She tried to take the small boy off her shirt, but he was holding on tighter then a cat about to take bath. "Um…Here…you…go…" she pulled and pulled but to no avail. Aizen smiled and said "Awww, isn't he cute," he reached out to the child "But I think it's time to go little one." But the child wouldn't budge. Growing tired of trying to force the child off Orihime's shirt he ordered Szayel to retrieve Grimmjow, so that the same thing does not happen with him.
The little blue hair child wobbled out of the pile of clothes looking around at his surroundings. This was all new to him, even though he knew somewhere in his mind that he had been here before. He heard a strange sound behind him and turned around only to find a tall pink haired man, standing before him. He tilted his head and tried to crawl back into his pile of clothes but Szayel quickly picked him up and sonidoed back to Aizen. Orihime looked up seeing another small child being held by a pink haired man who she had never seen before. Orihime loved small children it was something about their innocence's that she loved the most. She loved the way their faces glowed when they smiled and how warm they felt in your arms when you hold them. As soon as Ulquiorra and Grimmjow meet eyes, Ulquiorra released his cero, but Aizen quickly stopped him. Then Grimmjow tried to fire off his, but was quickly stopped by Aizen again. Aizen sighed and just as he was about to tell Szayel to take Ulquiorra a third beam off light shoot out and you wouldn't believe who it struck this time, none other then Szayel himself.
Szayel's body began to change his skin got oiler and red bumps started to grow in the oily patches, his body got shorter and more thin, hair started growing in wired places that he would never image, metal wire formed around his now jumbled up teeth Szayel began to think that he was being transformed into some kind of monster. The beam disappeared leaving a very confused Szayel behind. Aizen and Orihime looked at Szayel for a few minutes, when Aizen finally spoke up, clearing his throat before he spoke "Szayel Aporro-Sama…what do you make of this?" Szayel looked down at his feet and back up and down at his feet again "It would appear that the beings have the power to change our age into human like qualities, as Ulquiorra and Grimmjow are babies, I believe the set age for me, would be… how should I say this…a human's puberty or teen years?" Aizen nodded. Szayel, who was no longer holding Grimmjow, scanned the room for the missing baby when his eyes were suddenly fixated on Orihime's breast. After a few minutes Aizen cleared his throat trying to get Szayel's attention. Szayel's face grew red and throat dried "O-Orihime…have…y-you…seen Grim-Grimmjow anywhere?" He was sweating buckets as Orihime shook her head. "O-Okay…mm…I-I" He looked around nervously "I…" beads of sweat forming on his head "ONE OFF MY TESTICLES ARE BIGGER THAN THE OTHER!" his eyes widen and his face redden as he covered his mouth and ran out of the room.
'H-How c-could I say that" Szayel said running down the hall crying "It It It was Orihim…" Szayel was running so fast that he didn't even notice Nnoitra standing in the middle of the hallway. "Ah…I'm sorry…" Szayel looked up at the tall Espada. For some odd reason looking at Nnoitra was giving him a weird feeling, kind of what he felt back at Orihime's room. Nnoitra glared "What the fuck" Szayel moved back in terror at the tall Espada "Wa…I-I…" praying the he wouldn't say anything embarrassing "I-I-I LIKE YOU!?!" but it was too late he had already embarrassed himself and took off running to his domain, leaving a very confused Nnoitra behind.
Meanwhile back with Aizen, he had decided to put Orihime in charge of watching the kids, because they seemed to like her better. After that Aizen sonidoed to Szayel's domain, trying to look for his missing Espada. He walked around for a little while, checking various rooms, when he finally heard noises coming from Szayel's private quarters. He slowly opened the door, finding Szayel crying in his pillow on the bed. "Ah Szayel Aporro-Sama…h-how are you?" Aizen sat on the bed and Szayel looked up, eyes full of tears "I-I," wipes eyes "Feel so dumb, h-how could I say that in front of Orihime a-and then in front of Nnoitra too, which is outrageous. I mean why would I have feelings for him too? That that that big dummy." Aizen closed his eyes and held Szayel, who was still crying, in his arms "There there, it's alright Szayel," he held up his chin, he could see the embarrassment he felt in his eyes "It will be alright." Aizen held him and rocked him until he fell asleep.
Aizen ordered Orihime to put the children in the energy scanner chamber, as Szayel set the scanner to scan for foreign particles that may have remained from the beam shot from the dust clouds. Seconds later rows of white paper shot out from the machine. Szayel picks it up and reads "It would appear, the beam is sucking out the power and replacing it with human information," Szayel read further down "Ah, but the only problem is that the beam can only make clones of the power, and the real power remains." Aizen smiled "That's great news…" Szayel read further down "But, whatever age limit you set them on is the level of intelligences they receive." A worried Szayel looked up at a surprised Aizen "And that means?" Szayel coughs "Well, in other words, imagine a Menoswalking around, but only this time it's a baby with the power of an Espada." Aizen's eyes widen and slanted again, he knew it would be trouble to have two powerful Espada walking around, with no control of their power. "What can we do to contain them?" Szayel looked over at the children and back at Aizen "Keep them happy."
Tosen opened the door to Las Noches and exited with Szayel while Aizen stood at the door "Are you sure it's necessary for you to go Szayel Aporro-Sama?" Szayel nodded explaining to Aizen in order for him to truly understand the creature he had to study it up close. To make sure his head scientist doesn't get hurt he sent Tosen, who was one of his most trusted friends. The wind blew through Tosen's hair as he spoke "Why is this creature here?" Szayel put away his clipboard and said "That's what we're going to find out." Together, they both took off in the direction of the infamous dust clouds.