As they clash, Ethan is completely overwhelmed. He launches several kido in Taigen's blind spot only for Taigen to block it effortlessly. With such speeds, there's no way Ethan can actually catch him off guard. Taigen has been training hard in preparing for this and has a counter to every move Ethan creates "Release! Elysium!" He summons his zanpaktou and unleash a wave of light.

"Decimate! Hametsu!" Taigen destroyed the light with a single swing. He flashed stepped to Ethan and effortlessly deactivated his zanpaktou. Ethan is now in panic and tries to end the fight quickly but to no avail. Ethan was cut down, severely wounded.

The battle ends with Ethan on the ground bleeding profusely. Taigen lords over him victoriously. With Ethan heavily bleeding he said with a haughty voice, "Fool, do you know what you're doing? You're going to die."

"Says the man bleeding to his death. This is what happens when you get carried away. I've heard that you're slacking off your training and pushing your own subordinates too hard," Taigen said in a scolding manner. He has now proven everyone that the captains are not that big of a threat. "I'm not going to kill you, I'm better than that. You're going to be healed and you're going to prison." He calls some of his followers to heal and restrain him so he can't use his powers. Now Ethan is as weak as a normal human; he's taken to some make shift prison until they can take over soul society.

"Good work Taigen," Taigen hears a familiar voice one who he would call master. Aizen comes in publicly with the hogyoku on his hand.

"Lord Aizen!" Taigen bows which confused his followers. Taigen stands up and tells everyone on how he got this strong, "Everyone, Lord Aizen was the one who helped me with this kido. I've been training with him along with Captain Tosen and Captian Ichimaru. It is only thanks to them I was able to get this strong. With them we can overthrow the system and make things better!" He says it with pride. As everyone cheers they swore their allegiance to Aizen.

"Very good, Taigen. I have been observing all of you from the beginning. I have heard of Taigen's speech about the Soul King. It is said to say that it is true. Fret naught, when I replace the Soul King, everything will become better. I shall allow you all to prove yourself worthy of my cause by eliminating the entire 13 Court Guard Squads. Don't be afraid as I will be assisting you all in accomplishing it," Aizen shows an orb glowing with unbelievable power, "Thank you Taigen for telling me where the other Hogyoku is. Now that the hogyoku is complete we can begin."

Days pass, whatever the captains sent was swiftly taken care off. In their cave they finalize the plan. "So these parts, we would be able to effectively spread out the technique and weaken everyone in the sereitei enough to beat them easily?" Taigen wondered. The seireitei was large and the spell needed a lot of people to work with. They need the spell to be large enough to spread so the captains would be thoroughly weaken enough to be beaten to submission by Aizen.

"Yes. Our spies have already been stationed, all we need is to prepare ourselves and they would extend the technique from the inside. Don't worry about Kenpachi Zaraki and Genryussai Yamamoto, I shall take care of them. Now I have fused with the hogyoku, nothing can stop me."

The entire seireitei was suddenly enveloped by red lights, the captains felt weaker than before but they are still formidable. The only thing the rebels are not allowed to do is to kill anyone. Fortunately for the rebels, the once who infiltrated were given special protection as to not get caught by the seals. Would they follow the rules set by Taigen? Of course not, once the spell has been cast Taigen was suddenly stabbed from the back. He turned around only to find it was one of his closest friends, "you really think we want to change soul society for the better? Of course not; that's not how the world works. Only the strongest survives and the weak perish. Why do you think the old bastard was head captain for over a thousand years? Because he's the strongest one, but now he's gotten pretty soft. Good bye Taigen, you've been useful to us."

The betrayal hit him so hard. He was so enraged that he activated his shikai and lunged at the traitor only to be blasted everywhere with kido. He was taken prisoner with his power sealed and tortured every single day. He saw his prison mates to be all of the highest ranking Soul Reapers. In the days gone by, he saw the torture that his former "friends" have done. There were some people in the Rukongai that had been placed in the same facility. The men were experimented and constantly whipped while the women had an extra torture of rape. Mayuri . . . disfigured was an understatement, he was something like out of a horror movie. Taigen smirked that he finally go what he deserved. The one who he never saw was Yamamoto and Kenpachi. This remained a mystery to him.

A flash of memories sparked at Taigen. He saw Yamamoto, Kenpachi, and Unohana were forced into a gladiator fights. As much as Kenpachi love fighting, this was not how he wanted to fight and he was furious but couldn't do anything. His mental state is so bad that he became no more than beast, a shadow of his former self while Yamamoto wants to die, but the spell placed by Aizen, at the request of Taigen's traitors, would prevent it from happening. Yamamoto deteriorated into a greedy old man worse than his ruthless younger self proving him to be the strongest. Another was that the rukongai was ravaged beyond recognition. While some improvements were made, it was worse than before. The old nobles died and the new ones took their place and made slaves out of everyone, noble and the rukongai. It was basically everyman for himself. Hey, at least they have proper housing.

Taigen felt the pain of everyone who he had betrayed and the results coming from it. Surprisingly it wasn't as bad as it should be, but it was still very painful and traumatizing. He saw Momo Hinamori tied up, raped and abused every single day. Toshiro Hitsugaya was forced to make an ice prison for Yamamoto. In the early days he was whipped, boiled alive and has to watch his friend to be raped everyday before his transfer. He was so horribly mentally scarred that he went insane and made himself king of his ice prison that some people called him the Frost King with his Frozen Throne. He has plenty of ice warriors at his disposal but he still knows his true masters. Soi Fon was given the treatment worse than any of her torture methods. If she didn't know any better, she thought she was in one of Mayuri's labs. Mayuri being torn apart and reassembled again and again. Sajin Komamura placed in a zoo, treated like an animal. Gin Ichimaru was able to save Rangiku but was unfortunate to have to see her suicide in their bedroom when he woke up in the morning.

Another vision where he single handedly destroyed the 13 Court Guard Squads only for the people in the rukongai to try to fill in the power vacuum turning the Soul Society into a lawless state. Taigen tried to bring order but was killed in the process.

Taigen could feel all the pain and suffering everyone has went to and all the words echo in his head, naïve, foolish, delusion, arrogant, self-righteous, narcissist, childish. The words keep echoing in his head for several minutes. He could feel them being right and that is what he truly is.

"And worst of all its true," to his surprise he sees Ethan Maxwell is there. Taigen woke up to see his inner world being degraded he barely recognize it. It was still the beyond 2020's but this was like in those poverty stricken countries and it's erupting.

"Hametsu!" He cried out in panic. His Sword transformed into a battle axe with chipped blades.

"Elysium," Ethan said in a bored tone. The zanpkatous clashed but to Taigen's surprise, Ethan's shikai didn't revert back to an asauchi. "I told you that your zanpaktou cancels out energy constructs like kido. While our zanpaktou's are made out of spirit energy, it's not formed like kido at all so it's useless. It's only useful against zanpaktous like Hyorinmaru and Ryuujin Jakka."

"WHAT DID YOU DO?!"

"I suggest you calm down and take a breath and the destruction of your world would slow down."

"DON'T BULLSHIT ME AND TELL ME WHAT DID YOU DO!"

"I'm not bullshitting you and only you can stop this by being calmer."

Taigen releases the blade lock and tries to calm down. He immediately notices that everything is much slower, but the destruction is still there. "Is this the true power of your zanpaktou?"

"I'm not going say anything about that. Who knows? Maybe it's a special kido I've made. Just so you know those visions gives you a realistic possibility but not accurate ones."

Taigen decides not to push the question and begins asking him the real questions, "Why are you here?"

"Your people demanded that you'd join the Human Rights organization. With this, the people have a voice of sorts against the corruption in Central 46. Central 46 had no choice but to approve my request since they don't want to give reasons of rebellion."

"So you're here to recruit me?"

"Yes, as my bodyguard."

This infuriated Taigen. "Why would you make me a bodyguard when you're already that strong? Is this suppose to be a "fuck you?""

"No, rather your abilities are best suited for the job. That kido canceling zanpaktou is very useful in destroying illusions and other kido-related irregularities that may come up in the case. That and you aren't qualified for any of the positions I had in mind due to your extreme biases of the 13 Court Guard Squad. If anything you'd make things worse if I let you be in any of the position."

"I still have my position in Squad 9 . . ."

"Oh about that, Captain Tosen says you're fired."

Did he hear him right? He was being let go off? That didn't make any sense! "There's no way Captain Tosen would let go of me like that."

"True, if it weren't being under pressure from the other captains he wouldn't let you go like that. This is practically your only chance for work. Most Soul Reapers don't like you now and your followers are the only ones backing you up. So choose wisely: accept the job or save yourself the trouble and turn yourself in," with that Ethan leaves leaving Taigen completely bewildered as to what happened to his life.

On the outside, Isane was having trouble keeping him alive, his spirit energy keeps skyrocketing uncontrollable almost to the point of self-destruction. She could barely keep him low enough to survive. The spirit energy of Taigen was erupting so violently it knocked out a few doctors who weren't 3rd seat level. It suddenly stopped and became much more stable but it was still at high levels that it was dangerous.

"What the hell's going on?" Isane is checking everything on Taigen and could not find any anomalies. "This never happened before, better call the captain about this."