A/U: I made a mistake in the last chapter in the description of the old man..He doesn't have a gray beard, he has a thick mustache and eyebrows and wears a crown..so yea, I mistook his features. sorry about that. In this one, I might switch scenes a lot but I want to create a certain effect..u'll see. gonna be a long chapter

Bleach does not belong to me..

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Chapter 7- The Three Revelations

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The rest of the cast is finally revealed!

But knowing their names and rankings alone will not yield the destruction.

How will they be stopped

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Isshin landed hard on his lower back and kept rolling backwards until he stopped himself on his hands and knees. His red shirt had been ripped from the rocks hidden within the blades of grass of the park he had been dropped into. As he put his hand over the area the rocks stabbed him to feel the scratches that remained, he felt a presence appear directly above him and had to dive out of the way from the incoming enemy. With debris from the ground flying through the air, Isshin guided his body so that the mounds of dirt flew above and below him, narrowly missing burying him whole. Slowly he raised his eyes toward his aggressor as he stands up from the newly formed crater.

The thick-moustached old man slowly brought his fist from the ground to his side as he grunted. He had thought for sure he would've made a direct hit, seeing as how Isshin was still in his human form. He shrugged it off as pure luck however. "You are the one they call Kurosaki Isshin, are you not?"

Isshin rubbed the back of his head as he got up to his feet shakily. He looked unfamiliar with a serious expression on his face. "This is simply unbelievable..You invade my home and take me away from my kids with such hostility and you're not even sure who I am? I don't know what your plans or even whoever the hell you are exactly but you're not leaving an impressive impression of being a wise old man..."

The old man just smiled underneath his moustache, teeth bared. He removed the fur from his jacket as Isshin stared in shock at the tattoo carved on his neck. "My name is Barragan. And I am..."

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A blond, short-haired young man sat on a cliff, staring stony faced at his fellow comrades training with each other on the field underneath their hideout. A force-field had been set up around a barn-like building so only ones who were welcome within their clan could find where they were. The young man's frown appeared to be deeper than ever and the look in his eyes betrayed one out of focus of everything going on around him. One leg was brought up to his chin, his left arm wrapped around it. Suddenly something hit the back of his head. Hard.

"Owww! What the hell?!" His eyes nearly bulged out of the sockets from the force of the hit. He turned around to be face to face with a freckled, blonde girl with a scrunchie tying her hair in the back. She glared at him, daring him to do something about what she had done. "Hiyori! What was that for?"

"Stop staring into space like that, Shinji! I know it's a habit for you to have such a stupid look on your face but it gets annoying after a while!" She demanded. Shinji glared back at her in response. Then he stared off into the distance again.

"When did you get back? I thought you just left to get something to eat for the rest of the guys.." Shinji asked.

"Yea, well, the market isn't that far from here you know. It wasn't like I had to look for a long time. What's with you all of a sudden anyways? Why aren't you with the rest of them, fighting as usual?" Hiyori took a seat beside him, swinging her legs against the front side of the cliff. Even though she always called him an idiot and a good for nothing, she knew that their group looked to him as somewhat of a leader because of his strength and his desire of helping all of them show as much improvement as they could. It was strange seeing him on the sidelines.

"I've just had a lot of things on my mind lately. You know, from our past. How it could come back and catch up with us in the near future..." Shinji sighed. "It's not like I'm scared or anything but I am a little nervous that things could get very hectic for us very soon..." Hiyori looked at him quizzically.

"What are you getting at? It's like that for everyone nowadays isn't it? There's a war going on...No matter how much we try to stay out of it, it's inevitable to draw us in sooner or later. We're probably even more suspected now that Ichigo's gone on the offensive against Las Noches. Showing off that mask of his..." Hiyori said. She fought against Ichigo the most, so she knew how much he was starting to rely on his mask.

"Yea, that's the point. He got most of his ideas from us back then in the first place. He knew how powerful these masks made us so he formulated a plot to take over the world using what we started along with Kisuke Urahara. So, it's more of a problem for us than everyone else. We basically started this whole fiasco...Seeing another warrior in Ichigo with so much control of his hollow powers can only whet his appetite even more for our heads." The hate for himself oozed out of the tone of his voice. Hiyori glared at him.

"First of all, NONE of this war shit is our fault! That's the way I see it and screw anybody else in Soul Society saying otherwise! Yea, maybe we broke a taboo in Soul Society when we experimented to make all of our comrades stronger against the hollow but we did not just hand over our secrets to Aizen and tell him to betray everyone! Maybe we could've shown a good side to the hollows if it hadn't been for him proving Yamamoto right in thinking we were fools in thinking of the impossible...So if you blame anyone, it's obviously Aizen that you should be blaming, not you or any of us!"

"Yea, yea, yea..I know that, shrimp..It's still easier just to take the blame..." Hiyori nodded as she closed her eyes. She began to stand back up and lifted her leg behind her, preparing to make contact with Shinji's backside.

"Which brings me to my second point." She kicked him as hard as she could, Shinji flying down toward the ground screaming all the way. "If you feel so damn guilty, then get out there and work on releasing all of it you gutless bastard!" The hard landing on the ground received everyone's attention from the training grounds. A short gray-haired man was the first to reach the fallen Shinji.

"What's happened? How did you end up so beaten up, Shinji?" Kensei Muguruma asked. He then looked up in the direction his comrade had fallen from and comprehension seemed to dawn on his face. "Ahh, Hiyori.." Shinji's vein in his temple began to throb.

"Hey! Why do you say it like it's an understandable reason that I'm on the ground bleeding?!" Shinji spat at Kensei. The others had caught up with him and was looking at Shinji's bruise.

"Wow, that's a doosie...How did you get that one, eh? Hahahaha!" A small, ditzy green-haired girl inquired. Mashiro looked sort of like a child playing dress up, with a white body suit and long green boots and goggles placed on the top of her hair. She bent down and placed her hands on her knees, laughing deeply at Shinji.

"Look up there guys and all of your questions will be answered!" Kensei pointed to his right up at the cliff on which Hiyori still stood, glaring down at Shinji. The rest of the group caught on quickly. They all started guffawing loudly at Shinji's expense. Even the ever-gentle Hachi was giggling. The blond male felt as if he could've taken them all out then and there on the spot.

"There's no reason for you all to be catching on to anything! All he did was point at that midget up there! I just tripped ok!" This just erupted more laughter from his friends.

"What did you do, Shinji, trip over a boulder at full speed? I mean, you fell a long ways there, man!" A man wearing sunglasses and sporting a spiky afro jabbed. After seeing Shinji point his nose in the air in defiance, Love Aigawa added, "C'mon! We all know who wears the pants, Shinji!"

"W-what the hell are you talking about?! Ain't nobody talking about no damn pants! Or who wears any..." Shinji fumbled at the end of this sentence. The rest looked as if they were about to burst into laughter again. He rolled his eyes. "You know what I mean, you bastards!"

Lisa Yadomaru pushed her glasses up to the tip of her nose and Rose was clapping his hands in his frilly shirt as if he had just witnessed a fine scene from an opera. "You seem to be as goofy as ever, Shinji!" Lisa said.

"I'm not goofy..." Shinji retorted.

"I did not mean that in a bad way. It's funny!" Lisa grinned.

"Yea, well if anything from Hiyori's mindless drabble made any sense, it was that I shouldn't be walloping in self-pity all of the time. I can't be regretting the past when we still have the future to make certain we don't destroy. From here on out, we're going all out to pave the way of great fortune for all of us! No matter which side meets that end for us, we will make the best decision for our survival!" Shinji rallied. It seemed to do a great job in pumping up his friends.

"Yea!" Each pumped their fist into the air in a war cry. Even Hiyori, whom was still standing on the cliff she had kicked Shinji off of. "Hey, Hiy..o..ri..." A loud explosion from the entrance to their facility caused Shinji to cut off suddenly. All of the them got into their battle stances immediately. Kensei called forth his shikai, shrinking his zanpakto to the size of a hunting knife, energy sparkling at the tip ready to be released. Rose began to jump from one foot to the other, preparing to dodge anything that could head his way. Machiro was growling with her arms wound behind her back, her zanpakto held reverse in her right hand. The rest had their fists posed in a boxing manner.

As the dust settled, two figures began to form their complete silhouettes for them to see. They could tell the taller of the two was looking around at his surroundings, admiring the hideout he had worked to find. The shorter silhouette was female and she had her hands on her sides. Shinji glared up at Hiyori. "Hiyori, you were followed?!" He didn't wait for an answer as he jumped over to in front of the newcomer. "Who are you? How the hell did you find us?" Shinji bombarded him with questions.

"Whoa, whoa, one question at a time buddy! I'm not up to having to remember each individual one.." A man with a goatee and a bottom jaw that resembled a necklace smirked. "First, I'll introduce the little lady. Her name's Lilinette. Do not mistaken her innocent looks as being weak, I must warn you. I didn't pick her as my fraccion just for the company after all." Lilinette took a curtsey and giggled her welcome. "And as for me..."

The unwelcomed visitor bowed his head and closed his eyes, touching his jawbone necklace. "My name's Stark. And I am..."

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"Maybe you should've told Ichigo that before he left, Kisuke!" A black cat sitting on top of a brown barrel scolded a green and white jacket and hat clad man, whom was sweeping the front sidewalk to his store. Urahara looked sideways away from the black cat pointedly.

"You seen how Ichigo was when he wanted me to open that portal to Hueco Mundo for yourself, Yourichi! You know as well as I do that he wouldn't have taken no for an answer! He was gonna go after Inuoe whether I told him that small detail before he left or not..." Urahara tried to explain his side of the story.

"Small?! This isn't just a small detail, Kisuke! This is basically life and death for Ichigo and his friends!" Yourichi glared holes into Urahara. "If they've opened the Garganta for a second time with a non-hollow power, they could be..."

"Relax! I was only kidding when I said it was a small detail. And I really believe that they would not open the Garganta again unless there was a hundred percent chance that they could escape with Inuoe safely intact." Urahara grinned over at the black cat.

"If they have, and it closes before they have the chance to enter, they may never get a chance to come back over to this side ever again...That is, unless they have someone with hollow powers that will be willing to open the gate for them. I doubt Ichigo's hollow will be willing to do that for him, he'd be enjoying the time there I'd bet." Urahara raised his hand onto his hat, lowering it over his eyes even more.

"That I'm aware of, Yourichi. Who knows, though, Ichigo may just have gained a lot more control of his inner demon than we're aware of. You can never count him out of anything." Urahara stated.

A sharp, feminine voice suddenly cut through their conversation, causing both of them to stir a bit violently from their positions. "I wouldn't be quite sure of that really!"

Urahara and Yourichi both turned wide-eyed toward the direction the voice came from. A dark-skinned woman with blonde hair, wearing a skankish jacket and skirt outfit and a short sword sheathed on her back faced them. "He is now in the fight of his life with one whom nearly killed him before by himself as his friends have now left him." The mysterious black woman claimed.

"N-no way...Ichigo's friends would never leave him like that.." Urahara stammered.

"It is true. Kuchiki Rukia, Abarai Renji, Yasutora Sado, Uryu Ishida and the captains that accompanied them have returned to the safety of the Soul Society whilst Kurosaki Ichigo remains in Hueco Mundo surely dying in his fight with an Espada.

Urahara and Yourichi stared dumbfounded at her. She couldn't understand what was so difficult to understand about her words. She knew she spoke clearly and loudly enough for them to hear her. "Are you not going to react to this obviously shocking piece of news? Perhaps you don't care as much as you claim after all..."

"It's not that, at all. We simply do not believe you! How can we believe any words from the mouth of a complete stranger? No matter how much you say otherwise, Ichigo's friends would never abandon him like that..." Urahara refused to believe any of it.

"Hmm, is that all you require for you to believe me? Fine, I'll tell you my name. I'll even tell you my ranking amongst the Espada for you. To show why I should know everything that is going on inside of Hueco Mundo."

She brought the top portion of her jacket covering her neck and cheeks down. Urahara and Yourichi stepped back a little from shock. "Hmm, do I resonate a bit more credibility for you now? My name is Halibel and I am..."

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The old man's moustache bristled as laughter escaped through the small mouth that it covered. "Is it that shocking for you, young fellow? Maybe I shouldn't have revealed it so early on! Hahaha! Yes, my name is Barragan and as you can plainly see..." Barragan pointed to his neck, which had a tattoo of the number three emblazoned on it.

"I am Espada Numero Tres. The Third Espada!"

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Stark touched his jawbone, which began to change shape as if it was a sensor. It wriggled and curved until a number was formed. It seemed to melt into his skin, marking the number into his skin. "As I've said, her name's Lilinette and she's my Fraccion. I doubt you can handle her, let alone me, Espada Numero Dos! I did not climb to second in rank of the Espada just to lose to the likes of you guys!" Shinji and the others focused their attention on the now darkened tattoo of the number two at the place where the remaining of the Espada hollow mask once resided. "Are you ready to die?"

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With her top flap of her jacket now below her neck, it was easy to see the tattoo placed on her left cheek. Her green eyes seemed to become brighter. "Yourichi, as a woman yourself, you should know that a woman has finer features than a man. As you've heard, the more human an arrancar is, the more powerful their powers. This is true of the Vasto Lorde class. I'm confident enough to say that I'm the most human looking of the Espada, which should speak for my power by itself. This is why I am..The First Espada!"

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A/U: I hope you liked the way I introduced the rest of the Espada..I know that's probably not gonna be their order in the actual series but you know. And for the Garganta rule, I realized that Ichigo and company was trapped in Hueco Mundo in the manga so I wanted to add that depth of danger to this story as well. how did u like it..?