"Ah…" Yylfordt sighed and gazed out at the nice swimming pool in front of him as he sat in a nice lounge chair with a dish of sake. "I am having the time of my life… It's so nice…Wonder why?"

"Maybe they wanna kill us." Nelliel suggested, still a little disappointed that she was still in her child form. She had tried to ask Mayrui two days ago, but he told her no. "But if they wanted to, they all ready would have."

"You're right." Yylfordt couldn't believe he got off the hook so easily for escaping his prison room and attacking the guards. And what was best of all, Ikkaku had been able to convince Kenpachi to let Ciricci's head be buried in a small corner of the graveyard of the Eleventh Company. Which would happen when there was a day free which was surely not far away. (As Kenpachi pointed out: "The way her head looks at the moment, there is no real rush. So get back to work.)

"But… I think Harribel has something to do with it." Yylfordt pointed out to Nelliel who was sitting in the lounge chair next to him. A small glass of lemonade in hand. "Queen Tia said if I'm killed, Yumichika dies. So… I guess it kinda works out…"

"As long as no one eats him." Nelliel laughed, sending a wave of pretty sound through the air. "For what I heard from Ichigo was that Heuco Mundo has cut itself off from the other worlds almost completely. You can still sense it, but you cannot access it. So, they must be having a great party over there in desert land."

"Heh." Yylfordt snickered at the idea, "I bet if you could hear what was happening, you could hear all of them complaining. I would pay to hear-"

Someone poked him in the shoulder and he glanced up to see Ikkaku staring down at him.

"What?" Yylfordt asked, offering him a sip of sake.

"Thanks but no thanks." Ikakku held up a whole bottle he was drinking while off duty. "I came to tell you that the captains want to meet with you. We managed to get some of the footage from the Spies we sent to investigate the inter-workings of Heueco Mundo and you know more about all the strange people we are seeing than we do. It's all set up in the main meeting hall and Nel, you can-"

"It's Nelliel." Yylfordt corrected, not wanting such a high ranking Espada to be short changed.

Ikakku sighed. "Nelliel, you are invited to come and give what ever information that Yylfordt here lacks."

"Wait…" She crawled out of her chair and walked over to the two of them. "This is sounding more like an interrogation. Do we have to tell?'

"Yeah. It kinda is. I just wanted to make it sound nice. Now, let's go."

Yylfordt wasn't sure what to say ten minutes later when Ikakku led him into the main meeting hall where all 13 court guards were standing awaiting his arrival. "Why does this make me feel like some kind of rockstar?" Yylfordt whispered to Ikakku who grinned, "Or some kind of prisoner on death row?"

"Don't be so nervous." The soul reaper whispered back, with a small pat on the shoulder. " You know Kenpachi and Matsumoto."

"Yeah…" Yylfordt hated to say it, but, "What good is a drinking buddy who might not actually help me."

"Donno. Wait, you said: Drinking Buddy."

"Yes, Ikakku. We met in a bar and we shared a few stories and then later, we met again. I understand you aren't to talk about the whole mess in Heuco Mundo. I still don't really understand why, but I'll go along with it."

"Good." Ikakku led the two hollows to the middle of the room and after making sure Nelliel and Yylfordt were setting on a pair of nice pillows in front of a large viewing screen, stepped back. Turning to Kenpachi as he did so. "Sir. I have brought them. Captain Mayrui may begin the film."

Kenpachi nodded and gestured to the Twelfth Captain across the room from him.

"Yes, yes…" Mayrui walked to the front of the audience, a wide smile on his painted face. "And now, we have a film we'd like for you hollows to watch and-"

Yylfordt raised his hand.

"What?" The creepy clown asked.

"Arancarr, please. It is less…offensive term as we take much pride in our evolution."

Yylfordt and Nelliel put on their sweetest smiles.

"Whatever, Hollow." Mayrui hardly cared what he called these things. "Continuing on. Soi-fon of the… sixth Company? Oh, whatever, sent spies to Heuco Mundo to investigate Harribel's new order of…Hollows. And somehow, we were discovered by…a thing….I don't know if it likes My Chemical Romance, but whatever….You two just watch and tell us what you know of this thing and then tell us about the other fragments of footage I was able to salvage."

Nelliel and Yylfordt shared another look. Did no one here understand how horrid it was to be called a simple hollow who was a brainless idiot and had no free thought?

The two sighed in unison. "Yes. Fine. We shall watch."

Mayrui smiled. "Wonderful. And here we are." He pressed a button on the chunky remote control he was holding and the screen flickered onto show-

"Oh… no… " Yylfordt moaned. "I bet you just thought he was weak because he looked scrawny…."

"And" Nelliel hated to say this, "What's worse… it's the Territorial Emo-thing."

"Yeah…" Yylfordt added, "And there… he just ripped their hearts out…before they could blink. What kind of… What kind of idiots are you, soul reapers?!"

"Although…" Nelliel patted her friend's shoulder, "It could have been the Old Married Couple."

"Right." Yylfordt opened his mouth to speak when it hit him. "Nelliel-sama, how do you know those names?"

"Word gets around when no one can get a wink of sleep."

"True. And…wait…Mayrui-sama," Yylfordt began as the scene changed to peer across the white desert to stare at a small window which had the inside light on. "What is this scene?"

"Something else I was able to salvage, from about two week ago, don't bother me with the details, hol-"

"There!" A voice cried on the video,"Now we can go to sleep."

"No way!" Another cried and the lone window was opened, " We leave it open."

Yylfordt leaned see if he could see their forms from inside, and sure enough… there they were:

"Szayel, I am not having the window open!" Nnoitra marched back to the window and promptly shut it. "People could jump through and attack!"

"I don't care!" Szayel walked over and opened it again. "I like fresh air."

"There is never a breeze!" Nnoitra pointed out, slamming the window shut again.

"This…" Yylfordt was doing all he could not to laugh. "Is really, really amusing."

"And if you want some breeze," Nnoitra grouched, "Turn on a fan."

"I don't like fans! It gives me wing-flop!" Szayel complained, "Besides, I like hearing the sound of the wildlife!"

"We don't have any! Heuco Mundo is not a zoo!"

"Nnoitra, dearest, You have to understand. I like to listen to all of the hollows outside scream as they are slowly consumed."

"It's really just a headache, Szayel! One I don't like!" Nnoitra was going to get his way and so, he shut the window. Again. "Now go to sleep!"

"But I can't!"

"Yes you can, you just don't want to!"

There was a long pause, the window shut at the time.

Szayel sighed and disappeared from the window frame. "FINE! I'm going to sleep! Tomorrow, the window is open! DEAL?!"

"Deal!"

"Good night!"

"Good night!" and the light in the room was turned off. Leaving the 13 Court guards baffled by what they just saw. First. Hollows went on dates? Second. Hollows fell in love at all? Third. They fought over the window being open. What kind of strange world was this Heuco Mundo?

"What is it?" Yamamoto asked the two Hollows in front of him who were rolling on the floor with laugher. "What is so funny?"

Yylfordt and Nelliel only laughed harder.

"And this," Mayrui wasn't sure if he should start the video again by the way the two hollows looked like they were dying. Oh well. They were just test subjects. "Is next piece is an hour later."

Yylfordt tried his best to sit up as the film began again, only to burst out laughing again when the first thing he heard was:

"Stop messing with the window while I'm alsleep! I thought we had a deal!"

"But I want the nice sounds of the wild-" The small window was opened and something was tossed out into the white sands.

"If you want to hear the wild life, go LIVE with the wildlife!"

"Oh…" The thing that was tossed out stood up and brushed the sand out of its pink hair. "Nature hates you, Nnoitra!"

"I don't care!" Nnoitra slammed the window shut, leaving Szayel outside in the dark and sands. "Good night!"

Szayel sighed and sat down in the sands next to the window and the camera caught a frown on his face. "Awe… Nnoitra… Let me back in…"
The window stayed shut.

"Come on!" Szayel stood up and knocked on the glass. "Honey…aw… damn you! It's cold out here! I demand you let me back in!" He knocked on the window again and no one came to open it. "Come on! Don't make me go all the way around this large ass fortress to get back inside!"

He sat back down in the sands and crossed his arms. "Geez… I would never toss him out a window…"

Suddenly some sound which could not be heard by the cameras distracted his attention. "Oh…" Szayel smiled, suddenly happy about the change of pace. "On another note, maybe being tossed out a window wasn't so bad…When there is midnight-a-snacking to be-"

"And someone should fill my bathtub!"

Yylfordt stared in shock. The scene had suddenly changed out of the blue to…"Aaroniero taking a bath?!" He screamed, not sure if he wanted to see anymore of this film. "NNOOO!"

"What is this?!" Nelliel screamed, not sure if she should laugh or wet herself.

"I told you the footage is choppy." Mayrui muttered, not seeing the humor or the horror of watching a creepy tank of water with two heads in it, take a bath. "Keep watching."

Nelliel gave Yylfordt a look. "Okie…if ya want…"

"Awe…" Aaroniero complained from his bubble bath as he lifted a leg out of the tub to scrub it with a brush, "Why me? Why am I still Szayel's punching bag?! I can't stand it anymore! I… I am quit! I told told Yammy I was going to quit! When I get back home! That was! I am going march up to Tia and say, I. Quit. And she will smile and say, 'good job' or, "Get your ass back to work! No one quits!' But I'll say, 'but you don't understand, Tia! I've been home for only two days and Szayel broke my legs for fun so I had to crawl all the way to my bathtub where I am now! Not to mention he made me Nnoitra punching bag! Which was worse than being Szayel's! Nnoitra hits millions of times harder, Tia! I tried to talk to Ulquiorra but all I got was, 'get to work' and Grimmjow just laughed at me and added more bruises!' and then, I will cry. Yeah. I will cry a lot. Maybe like: WHAHHHAAAA! Or… wait, maybe: AHHHHWWWAAWAAAA! Will be more effective… Or, I could just walk out of this-damn it, can't walk! WHHHAAAAA! I WANTTOBECOMEAVASTOLORDEORIQUIT! I HATE BEING A GILLIGAN! ALL YOU PEOPLE THING YOU CAN BOSS ME AROUND! AHHHHH! IT'S NOT FAIR! AND I DON'T WAANNA GEEET A TATTOOOO! WHAAA-"

"What do you want to do?" the Emo-thing asked another man with blue hair who was sitting on the couch next to him, game controller in hand.

"I donno." The blue-haired one replied, "Let's play more mario-cart."

"Okay, that sounds lik-"

Tia stared out the window of her room. "Mel-rose. I'm bored."

"I know, my lady."

"And my bed has been taken over by Grimmjow…that darn cat. Must he always insist on purring while he sleeps? It drives me nuts."

"I know. Do you want me to kick him off your bed?"

Tia shook her head. "No. I will just steal his bed, even though it is covered in cat nip. Thankfully I like the smell of fish. Speaking of which, please bring me my dinner."

"Yes of cour-"

The screen went black, leaving the meeting hall dead silent.

Until Yamamoto cleared his voice, "Now, hollows, tell us what you know of Tia Harribel's Elite Force."

"Or…?" Yylfordt wanted to keep his mouth shut before anyone screamed or beat him up for being unwillingly related to Szayel. "What?"

"We will make you talk."

"Um…" Was it him, or was the head of the Soul Reaper party wish to violate the deal between Tia? "But didn't Queen Harribel say not to hurt me?"

"Yes." Yamamoto said, "But she will not know what goes on in here as she has isolated her own world from the rest. So, you are under our laws, hollow."

Yylfordt sighed. "Darn it."

"That's better." The old man said with a scowl. "Start talking."

"Okay…' Yylfordt looked at Nelliel who made a 'we are in an icky mess' face. "I'll go first. Emo there, is named Ulquiorra. Aka The Territorial Emo-Thing."

All the Soul Reapers raised an eyebrow.

"No," Yylfordt continued, stepping towards the middle of the room a little more. A kind smile sliding on to his face to hid his nerves, "Really. That is what we've called him until we learned his name was Ulquiorra."

"And where does he stand in the Espada?" Yamamoto asked, not understanding this whole nick-name thing going on under his nose for years and years.

"He…He was the fourth." Yylfordt wanted to keep as much information away from the soul reapers as he could. Tia would love him for it and she might be nice enough to promote him or demote Szayel. One or the other, it was fine with him.

"And where does he stand now?"

"Uh… Captain…Yama…what your name is, I don't really know now. I'm only a lowly Numeros."

"But you surely know the ranks of your superiors, no?" The old man knew this hollow was more well informed than he was letting on.

"Ah….Yeah. We do." Yylfordt knew it was better to tell the truth and so he could get away with a lie when he really needed one. "Ulquiorra there is the Third Espada now. I think anyway."

"And…" Yamamoto stared at the blonde hollow who only stared back at him in return. "Who are the others and where do they place?"

"Um…Let's see…Lady Nelliel, do you know anyone else in that film?"

She frowned sightly and stood up, brushing a bit of green hair behind one ear. "I do. The man with Blue hair is named Grimmjow and he's… an Espada."

"Yeah." Yylfordt grinned wider. "Where he ranks now a day, I have no idea. Honest. The numbers got screwed up after Aizen died."

"And…the…" Yamamoto really did not want to remember the strange footage, "But the… thing. The thing in the bathtub."

"That…" Yylfordt really didn't want to remember that weird scene. "That was Aaroniero. He's…it…is…. Aaroniero. An Espada."

"…Okay. " Yamamoto wasn't going to argue as he wanted to move on and wipe the strange image of pretty girl legs attached to a two heads in a tank out of his mind. "Next… The…Window people. Wildlife lovers… Or not."

Yylfordt made a face. "Ewwwh…Um…Nnoitra and Szayel. They battle over the window all the time."

"And…"

"And?" Yylfordt tried his best to play dumb. But he was just too smart. "What?"

"Tell me more." The old man ordered, "Such as rankings."

"Um…Last time I heard, Nnoitra was the Fifth Espada and Szayel was the Eighth. Things have changed though, as I was saying. So, did Aaroniero have hot legs, or was it just me?"

Nelliel tried not to gag. Worst subject changer in all of history, folks! Let's give him a hand! Not.

"And so," She picked up the conversation as quickly as possible. "Can we leave now?"

Yamamoto sighed heavily. He needed more than a briefing of Harribel's Royal Court, but… from the sound of their replies, he wasn't going to get more than that at the moment. And there was no use in trying to force them to talk either as he had a feeling the two would just laugh at Soul Society's Torture room. "Fine… You may leave… But you will be returning here in the morning to tell us more."

"Great!" Nelliel grabbed Yylfordt's hand and the two disappeared into thin air.