...

Elsewhere, while the captains secret meeting/trial went on. A sole figure clothed in white stood in the middle of the barren section. It'd been filled with Shinigami but a few minutes ago. One of which had been a captain himself.

How unfortunate for them.

"Ishida-Kun!" The female voice from earlier suddenly called out the moment he'd returned from the other dimension. The current resting place of most of the Shinigami they'd encountered here.

Having already figured out from his memories who this particular orange haired girl was earlier, before they'd had the unfortunate run in with that disgusting Shinigami that called himself a scientist.

Though he won't be a problem any longer.

"What happened to them?" The girl questioned in a harrid voice, her head rapidly turning side to side.

"There's no need to worry about them," He remarked easily as he instinctively turned his face, so as not to alarm the girl with his, without a doubt, new right almighty eye.

Ishida Uryu, the current unstable host to the mental half of Yhwach kept a passive expression on his face as he minutely turned towards the flaring reiatsu in the horizon, he could not risk staying in this world too long... His spiritual half was no doubt causing problems for his empire this very instant... He knew Jugram had neither the mental capabilities nor the body to hold his full power. But seeing as he was here and his current host wasn't entirely useless... Though how he was going to fix the main issue in the end... Even he, the emperor of the Quincy, was uncertain.

"Come," He stated dispassionately, though he was somewhat mollified the girl seemed to follow orders well enough.

From the moment Aizen Sosuke had started reappearing in his visions... Everything had gone to hell.

And every second wasted counted.

...

-Huaco Mundo-

Barragan huffed, an action long forgotten to the aged hollow, as he focused every bit of willpower he could manage. He forced every drop of reiatsu out from his outstretched hands into the crumbling wall of energy that held Ulquiorra's wave of destructive javelins at bay.

The Espada himself, still in his unreleased state, stood a mere 100 feet away, a bored look on his face as he directed wave after wave of energy javelins with his mind.

A single one could leave a scar on their world.

Ulquiorra was throwing hundreds at him and if it hadn't been for his own power, he would've long joined his fraccion.

"Did you not say you would force me into unsheathing my sword?" The fourth Espada had the nerve to say.

He wasn't sure what had happened to his home. But he'd be damned if he was going to roll over for that upstart.

Aizen Sosuke had been one thing.

Coyote Stark was another.

Still, there had been one benefit to it all at the very least.

"I will!" Barragan snarled, earning nothing but a single raised eyebrow.

"I am waiting," The damn bat had the nerve to state before, to his further rage, he stopped the onslaught of energy.

Barragan raised his axe without skipping a beat, his reiatsu flaring out in its entirety.

"You'll regret those words Schiffer! Resurrection: Segunda Etapa!"

Ulquiorra watched on, mild interest growing, as Barragan revealed his trump card. Out of all the +Espada, the traitor's had been the only one he had yet to see. He watched on impassively as the hollows darkness swept out to every corner, though surprisingly enough, it didn't age/rot anything it touched.

Barragan himself seemed unchanging, signifying it as an external ability. Ulquiorra narrowed his eyes the moment the dark energy started to simply... Dissipate?

He quickly focused back on the, now grinning, traitor.

"Wake up you useless fools-" The mad man's words caused the very the space around them to twist as formerly dead hollows slowly started to reform.

Ulquiorra quickly narrowed his eyes as he, in the span of a second, unsheathed his blade. He held the blade with a single hand, his body crouched as he pulled it back behind him. Ahead of him, Barragan's skeleton head minutely twitched towards him, catching sight of his sudden movement. He quickly amped his reiatsu up three stages as he swiped his sword diagonally in front of him.

"Messing with the balance is punishable by death," He stated calmly as he rose back up. A sigh escaping him as he watched on, impassively, as his slash reaped a hole in the space before him, and unleashed a blanket of energy that covered the entire battleground... The previously reforming hollows taken into the storm of energy and covered with their self-proclaimed king.

He wasn't worried about the sudden storm of reiatsu that whirled around indiscriminately, it would eventually dissipate out.

Barragans attempt at resurrecting dead hollows however would not go unnoticed... Who knew what kind of alarms had gone off...

...

Barragan's eyes hadn't even had the chance to widen when he'd seen the arc of dark energy appear in front of him. It had collided and shattered his reiatsu before his power had even had the chance to kick in. The arc had quickly enveloped him and he knew no more.

...

Josh Groban relaxed his head on the head of his chair lazily as he stared at Ulquiorra's passive expression.

"I see, you believe them to have noticed?"

Ulquiorra nodded his head passively.

Josh Groban contemplated the response before a small smile filled his face. "Why don't we take a look, perhaps he's with them now..."

Ulquiorra raised a single eyebrow before sucking in a breath as he watched the reiatsu in the air suddenly fluctuate. Slowly but surely, his eyes widened minutely as the reiatsu's very nature twisted. The free-flowing energy slowly condensed itself into what looked like a table-sized mirror.

Ulquiorra said nothing as the mirror's reflection showed off another world. Showed off a room filled with Captains, and the commander himself.

"Who..?" Ulquiorar questioned, intrigue plain on his face. "How are you linking to them?"

Josh Groban lazily smiled at the question as he waved a hand before he quickly stiffened when the mirror's view slowly turned to show one of his, if not his main, mortal enemies.

He barely restrained the anger as he eyed the familiar hat he'd long grown to dread. The familiar blonde hair that could send him into rage within a matter of moments.

Without stating a single word, Josh Groban raised one of his pistols and fired.

...

He made no reaction to the man surviving. Kisuke had always been good at that.

No, it was the one responsible for saving him that concerned him.

"Perhaps it's time I introduced myself..." He stated passively.

Ulquiorra nodded at the words, indifferent. "Who would you like me to send?'"

...

-Ishida Uryu- (This and the previous section happened within seconds of each other)

Uryu Ishida, turned his bow the slightest, as his reishi slowly condensed itself, concentrating into a single point as he aimed towards the distance. His right eye's enhanced vision gave him the perfect angle. He squinted the eye in an attempt to make out the silhouette of the two captains in the middle, the rather sizeable chunk of the reiatsu surrounding them signifying his target as it swarmed around him.

"Ishida-kun-"

"Orihime-san, as I said, I am working on it,"

The girl nodded solemnly, a worried look on her face as she tried to make out anything through the binoculars she'd found on their way.

He focused as much reishi as he could manage without breaking his host. And just as he was about to fire, his eyes widened minutely at the sudden surge of reiatsu that had appeared out of thin air, warping space without care. A huge blast of unbelievably malevolent energy suddenly shot out of hole in reality, headed straight towards the building housing the captains. Energy that made his very skin crawl.

His own eyes briefly widened as he felt another flare of reiatsu come out of the building, though he couldn't make out what had occurred once it had gone in. Given the building hadn't been vaporised by the sudden blast of reiatsu however, they were likely still alive...

Aizen Sosuke and living, unsurprisingly enough, wasn't a concept the Emperor of the Quincy's felt appropriate.

And so, just as he'd been about to take aim once again, he suddenly felt the spike of reiatsu behind him. He immediately turned around, his gaze landing on one Unohana Retsu, signifying it as one of those futures.

He sighed as he turned his body fully, the orange haired girl beside him doing the same as she took a few steps back behind him.

Well, it's not like he was going to need her anymore.

"Hello-" The familiar woman started, a glint in her eye, just as he raised his hands, his spiritual bow forming-

Though he never got far before the woman had released the majority of her reiatsu. The heavy pressure quickly forcing his weak body into it's knees. The orange haired girl had been knocked out cold.

"Attacking a captain is a crime punishable by death," Unohana stated passively as she stared at the Quincy. "Tell me, where is Captain Mayuri? His Reiatsu disappeared the moment it'd run into your own..." She followed on as she narrowed her eyes.

Yhwach ignored the words as he slowly drifted off. Waiting for the moment he would reach his next, likely far more efficient, host.

He was to get the new body soon.

Kurosaki Ichigo would do until he figured out how to reverse Gremmy's utter stupidity.

...

-Ichigo Kurosaki-

Ichigo ignored the wince of pain that racked his body, the wound on his leg worsening as he leapt from one roof to the other. He'd long left his friends in the dust in his mad dash to Rukia. His sword gleamed in the light as he made another massive leap forward.

He scanned the ground before him quickly, his eyes widening momentarily when he caught a glimpse of Ishida, right beside him was the woman that had disappeared earlier, in the white tower, and left him with those shinigami. He narrowed his eyes as he dropped down beside the two, catching the woman off-guard.

Ishida on the other hand seemed to suddenly wake out of his stupor the moment he'd landed.

"Kurosaki!" Ishida's eyes widened at seeing him, a strange glow came out of his eye... Probably some Quincy nonsense. "What are you doing here!?" His classmate continued.

Ichigo had been abut to answer before his eyes caught sight of Orihime's limp body. Red briefly coloured his vision before he realised the girl was simply unconscious.

"How are you here... I left you with six lieutenants..." The woman remarked, a surprised look on her face.

Ichigo rose to his full height before he brandished his sword, pointing it towards the woman before him.

"If you get in my way, I'll add a captain to that list," He stated as he started gathering reiatsu.

"No!" Ishida's shout promptly broke his concentration as he suddenly turned his head in time to see Uryu reach a glowing hand out towards him.

When the boy's hand connected, Ichigo briefly felt an impending sense of doom before he felt a heavy presence fill his mind.

For a moment, he struggled as whatever Ishida had done tried to force him to obey. He briefly grabbed his head from the strain before he felt it. The feeling had started in his stomach. He felt something, almost soothing, fill his chest.

And then he and the entity promptly started screaming as he held his head with a vice grip. His eyes widening as his voice echoed out.

...

The screaming didn't actually last that long, as the moment the pain had started, he'd felt the entity that attacked him slowly start leaking out of him. The pain increasing in intensity as it went on.

He could feel the strain on his lungs as he struggled to breath, just above he could make out, in his peripheral, the darkness leaking out of him slowly condense. When he raised his head to take a better look at it, his eyes widened at the mangled creature that stared back at him, a hungry look in it's eyes.

He didn't even notice the arrival of the other captains as he watched the writhing creature reach a hand out towards him. Ichigo tried to will his body to move but for some unearthly reason he found it frozen. The feeling worsened as he started to feel something leave him.

Ichigo could do naught but hold his head as the pain intensified further and to his shock the mangled creature's body slowly started to change in shape.

"What the hell is Huya doing here!?" He heard someone say, though he couldn't discern the voice from anywhere as he closed in on himself, his pain intensifying.

When he raised his head one last time, his expression quickly turned to shock as he took in the familiar form of his own zanpakuto spirit! "Zangetsu..?"

The spirit in question focused it's hungry gaze on him as it reached out another hand. Ichigo's eyes widened as he aimlessly wondered if it was the end...

He doubted the Shinigami would help him after everythi-

And then he appeared before him, an easygoing grin on his face though there was a hint of worry aswell.

"Yo Huya! My name is Aizen Sosuke! Shatter, Kyoka Suigetsu!" The man exclaimed excitedly, the kind of excitement you had when you opened an unexpected gift...

And, though Ichigo didn't realise it. To both, Ryoka and brown-haired captain's shock, a myriad of colours suddenly burst out of the blade's tip, the light colliding into the, almost complete, manifestation of his Zanpakuto spirit. Though the face, looked somewhat different.

And then Zangetsu... Or as the Shinigami Captain before him called him, Huya, screamed alone... As the edge of his cloak? Shadows? Edge of his robe? Suddenly started to rot away. Ichigo barely even noticed the other captains that had arrived with the one that had saved his life. He barely even noticed Rukia with them as he watched. Transfixed.

"Damn you... Damn you..! This isn't over... You hear me!? Aizen Sosuke! I, if it is the very last damned thing I do, WILL KILL YOU!" Huya's scream echoed out as the space started to distort around the edges as more and more of the reiatsu simply started disappearing. A bright light flashed as holes in space started to knit itself back together, before disappearing entirely.

"Yes... Well, best of luck," The captain stated, a deadpan look on his face.

Ichigo released the breath he'd been holding as he fell to the ground, wincing the slightest as his back hit the ground. He felt... Oddly lighter. He held his blade morosely for a moment before to his own surprise, he felt something flicker through his mind. When he raised his gaze, he found the brown haired captain staring at him with an amused look on his face.

"What the hell just happened?" He questioned, somewhat bemusedly, his eyes briefly looking to his blade.

The man seemed to appraise him for a second before his smiled seemed to widen. "Oh... I think I might've, for lack of a better phrase, just saved the world... But... Knowing my luck he's probably going to come back... Oh sorry, I am rambling. My name's Aizen Sosuke,"

Ichigo briefly kept the gaze as he slowly stood up. "So I've heard, Kurasaki Ichigo," He remarked holding a hand out.

The captain seemed to stare at it with a look of amusement for a moment causing Ichigo to worry the slightest before, to his pleasant surprise, the man grabbed it. "It's a pleasure to meet you!"

Ichigo blinked before he released the mans hand and rubbed the back of his head. "Right... Say you kno- Rukia!" Ichigo suddenly realised the girl had been standing right next to and talking, rather cordially for that matter, the first captain he'd encountered.... He made to run towards the girl before to his own surprise, he realised she wasn't even wearing her cuffs. In fact... She looked-

As if she'd noticed his gaze, and definitely heard his voice, she gave him a simple smile before she pointed towards the brown-haired captain...

"By the way, Ichigo, you might wanna keep Urahara away from your siblings!" Aizen's voice suddenly caught his attention.

...

Author Notes: This is every interlude that went on in ch8 put together in the best order i can find. Hope you enjoyed! Don't forget feedback!