It's been a while since my last update (relatively), but I have a perfect excuse why I missed my Turkey Day goal. I procrastinated. And like some guy on youtube said once, 'procrastination makes perfect.'

Anyways, here's an action-filled scene of...action. We're slowly winding down towards the end of the first arc I'm calling the Arrancar Rebellion Arc.

Orihime was about to fly herself and Uryuu up to help Ichigo when Emelia and her group, Yggdra, and Roder all appeared. Uryuu quickly told them what happened, that being that Ulquiorra had dragged Ichigo up and through the ceiling of Los Noches while saying something about showing him 'true despair'. Roder knew immediately what that meant and so leapt up, causing the ground at least a meter around him to contort and crack before falling away as dust. They group saw that his jump was rocketing him towards the hole in the ceiling. Orihime went back to her original plan and lifted her, Uryuu and Kagome up on her Santen Kesshun and sped off after Roder.

Yggdra came up and cleared her throat at the two males left. They looked at her. "I will carry the two of you if you do not object." They nodded and she grabbed them from under their arms and leapt off after her Espada.

"Aw crap!" Emelia yelled. "Hey, Shinigami girl." Rukia pointed at herself questioningly. "Yeah, you. Is there another one that I missed? Hop on."

Rukia hesitated then sat on her gryphon-like back. Emelia sped off after the rest, quickly catching up to then overtaking Yggdra and then settling in just behind Roder and Orihime, who were neck and neck.

"What's happening?" Rukia shouted.

Roder looked back. "There is a rule that states that none of the top four Espada can use their Resurreccion or Gran Rey Cero within Los Noches, as that could potentially destroy the place. If Ulquiorra drug your friend out here, then that means he's doing one or both of those."

Everyone within earshot felt their eyes get bigger. The rest of the climb upwards was spent in a dreary silence.

As soon as they had cleared the hole, Orihime jumped off and ran towards the pillar that Ulquiorra and Ichigo were atop. She took a few breaths then stopped as she saw what kind of situation Ichigo was in.

"So you've come invaders, traitors," he looked down at Orihime, "even you, woman. You're just in time. Here is the man to whom you've entrusted all your hope." He lifted a single finger and it sparked. "Bear witness as his life comes to an end." The spark became a dark orb.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

And then there was darkness.

A beam that radiated darkness, rather than light.

Fired through a man's chest.

"Damn," Roder muttered. He hadn't suspected this. In fact, he was pretty certain that that wasn't even Ulquiorra's Resurreccion. Apparently, he had not been the only one to hold back his power.

Ulquiorra's tail unwrapped from the dead Shinigami's neck and let him fall from the tall pillar. Orihime immediately sent out her shield to catch him. As she desperately ran to his body, Ulquiorra suddenly appeared before her.

"Damn, it's like watching a puppy getting kicked," the Sexta mumbled.

"What do we do, Roder?" Emelia asked.

"I need the rest of you to stand back. I'm going to try and talk Ulquiorra over to our side if I can and beat the hell out of him if not. Orihime can still fix that Shinigami over there, and I'd rather have Ulquiorra for our fight and the takeover afterwards."

"I told you, it's useless-"

"Ulquiorra Cifer!"

The Cuatro looked over to see Roder. "Oh, it's you, the traitor."

"Saying I'm a traitor implies I once had loyalty."

"So then, it was your plan from the start, to wait until Aizen was unaware and off in the world of the living to strike and overthrow him?"

"In a way. I had to put most of the details together later, but in the end and from the start, his destruction has been my goal."

"I see. And how do you plan to go about this, Sexta Espada?"

Roder chuckled. "I've seen your Resurreccion before. This isn't it. You've been holding back, right?" A wave of monstrous spiritual pressure could be felt. Even Ulquiorra was surprised at the raw power he sensed. "You aren't the only one who suppressed their power away from Aizen's eyes."

Roder lashed out, not with his tonfa but with his bare fist. It collided with Ulquiorra's shoulder and suddenly the Espada was sent spinning through the air and through the base of a pillar, causing its collapse. Ulquiorra righted himself and felt his feet scrape the ground before tumbling backwards and finally stopping in a three point stance. He tried to catch his breath and looked at his left shoulder, which had ruptured and become displaced.

"See, my plan hasn't been to get to where I could overpower Aizen, or even surprise him. It's been to catch him as isolated as possible, so that I don't cause too much collateral damage. I want to take control over Los Noches and the Arrancar and destroy as few of them as I can in the process. Tell me, if I can disable this form of yours that is beyond Resurreccion without even a weapon in my base form, then how much of a chance does anyone else stand?"

Ulquiorra glared at him with the closest he could come to anger, which was more like annoyance on his face. "Disable? I'm afraid you are mistaken." And then suddenly his shoulder burst into repair, reknitting flesh and resetting bone shards. He rolled his repaired shoulder to test it and looked forward at his opponent. "You see, my greatest ability does not lie with my strength, but rather with my regeneration. I can regrow most any part of my body parts except for my brain and internal organs."

"Ah, I see. But you can still feel pain. You can still be beaten into unconsciousness."

"If you can defeat me, then there will be no point in fighting you any further. Show me this resolve of yours then. How badly do you really want to depose Aizen?"

Ulquiorra pointed a finger at Roder and began summoning another cero oscuras. Roder responded by biting the tip of his tongue and creating his lime green gran rey cero. The two beams meet each other and exploded into a pillar of flame. The combatants rushed each other, Ulquiorra dodged a fist aimed at his jaw and raked his claws against Roder's body. Small droplets of blood flew and he started to move to the side and a small cube left the furred tip of his tail and entered the hole over Roder's now exposed stomach area. Too late Roder noticed the caja negacion activate and envelope him.

"Are you kidding me?!" he shouted before being fully wrapped in.

'That was a most backhanded tactic, but I can't defeat him. It is good that I kept that with me. Now I need to get rid of the rest of them, lock that woman up so she can't heal them, and warn Aizen before he breaks out. It may take the full power of me and the other three Espada he has with him to stop Tyranus.'

As Ulquiorra was formulating his plan, two forms flashed on either side of him. Both loosed arrows on him before flashing to another location and firing again. Ulquiorra simply swatted them away with his wings. The Quincy appeared straight above him.

"Licht Regen!" Ulquiorra was suddenly showered by the hail of blue arrows.

Just outside of the dust cloud forming, Kagome aimed a single arrow that was glowing intensely enough to mistaken for a supernova. "Depuro (Purify)!"

Uryuu appeared a few meters away from Kagome and both waited and listened while the dust cleared. When Ulquiorra could be seen clearly again, he looked almost completely unharmed other than the small amount of steam rising from the back of his left wing.

"Looks like your attack did some damage to him," Uryuu said to his fellow archer. "Can you use it again?"

"Depuro takes a moment to charge up and a lot of energy. I can probably use it four more times, five if I strain enough for it."

"Not nearly enough in others words."

"I'm surprised," Ulquiorrra said. "Here I was thinking that you were the calmest of the humans, and that you were the least rash of all Tryanus's Fracciones."

"This isn't rash," Kagome said, pulling back her bowstring and summoning another arrow. "We can't beat you alone, but we aren't alone, are we?"

At that moment, Ulquiorra sidestepped and watched as a segmented blade crashed down where he had just been standing.

"A sneak attack? How-"

Suddenly Yggdra was upon him, thrusting her longsword rapidly. "Revolucion!" Some of the thrusts punctured skin, but none went very deep. She drew back her sword and swiped upwards. "Cruzada (Crusade)!" White energy erupted from her blade and washed Ulquiorra in the glow. The Espada leapt out of the blinding light with a few scratches. He looked over himself, mildly impressed.

"You are far more powerful than you've let on. You could be an Espada in your own right, yet you follow Tyranus?"

"Tyranus has never led me astray before. I may be powerful and a good leader, but he is a leader amongst leaders. Besides, his goals and mine are the same. His planning is just much better than my own."

"I see. His Fracciones hold many surprises, it seems." Emelia sonidoed behind him and brought her staff down, only for it to be blocked by his tail. "Not too many surprises though." He whacked her away with the tail and caught Zabimaru as it was swung from the side then pushed it backwards with enough force to wrench it out of Renji's grip. He moved to attack, but was forced to dodge out of the way of one of Rukia's ice attacks. He tried finding her, but then an energy attack came from Sado.

'They are too numerous. I need to take a few of them out temporarily so that I may fight more effectively.' His eyes fell on Uryuu. 'That one.'

He focused on his target and did the minimum needed to avoid being damaged as he locked in on the Quincy's speed. When he was certain he had him pinned, he dashed forward and caught Uryuu by the left arm. The Quincy was mortified, then screaming in pain as his arm was ripped off at the elbow before being knocked away from the Espada.

'He will be unable to fire without both arms.'

"Uryuu!" Rukia yelled as she went to assist him.

'That one.'

As the Shinigami woman went to help her ally, she felt pain running up her back and looked to see Ulquiorra holding up his claws with her blood on them. She couldn't feel her legs, or anything else below a certain point.

"I seem to have cut deeper than I intended," he calmly said as the now paralyzed girl fell forward.

"You bastard!" Renji shouted at the top of his lungs as he swung Zabimaru with all of his strength. Ulquiorra saw the attack coming and backhanded the sword, causing it to shatter and send a shockwave up Renji's arm. The Shinigami cried out in pain, holding just the hilt of his sword and one segment.

"What will you do with that, I wonder?"

"I'll show you what I'll do," Rennji growled. "Bankai! Hihio Zabimaru!"

Ulquiorra watched as the skeletal snake-like weapon came at him then raised his hand and pointed, firing a cero oscuras directly at it from point blank. The cero traveled over the weapon and hit its wielder, who shouted in pain and rage as the attack burned and knocked him back. Sado punched at him, but Ulquiorra caught his fist in his hand and head-butted him hard enough to render him unconscious.

Yggdra braced herself as Ulquiorra's attention turned to her. She parried his first strike at her then felt his tail hit her chestplate. She yelped as she was thrown back but recovered her footing and swung her sword up. Ulquiorra dodged the attack and lashed out again. This time Yggdra powered through the attack and swung her blade down with blue light arcing behind it, cutting Ulquiorra's arm. She swung up, orange-red light arcing this time as she scraped his chest. She held her sword up high and prepared her ultimate attack.

"Yihad Fin (Jihad End)!" She swung down and white energy burst from her blade in all directions in front of her with enough power to overtake five Getsugas. The energy was outlined in light blues, dark reds, and purples as they reached their peaks. The attack died down and Yggdra held her sword hilt while panting. The sound of clawed feet stepping towards her forced her to look up and see Ulquiorra. His wings were torn, but other than that he was virtually unharmed.

"Truly, you have power to match mid-level Espadas. It is a shame that you decided to betray us." He held up his finger and Yggdra's eyes went wide as the dark energy collected.

"Cruzada!"

Despite Yggdra's weakened state, the Cruzada was enough to keep off the worst of the cero, but she still ended up unconscious with her helmet broken in half. Ulquiorra decided that that was good enough for now and looked towards the last two. Emelia was less of a problem than even Kurosaki had been, but Kagome Kikyo had yet to use her Resurreccion, and he had no idea what it was like. However, it seemed like he would soon learn as she unstrung her bow and twisted its bowstring around her left hand.

"Purify," she clapped her hands together as if to pray, Joya de Cuatra Almas (Jewel of Four Souls)!"

Light purple-pink light shone from her for a moment before revealing her form that had changed from the look of a simple shrine maiden to one more ceremonial in appearance, with huge sleeves that reach he knees even as her hands were held in a praying fashion and red hakama. Her circlet mask fragment was replaced by one that resembled a hitaikakushi. Her bow was gone and instead what was wrapped around her hand was necklace with a round pinkish jewel.

"Ulquiorra, this is the last chance I'm going to give you. Surrender."

"Do you think you can make me surrender, Fraccion?"

"I really don't want to do this. Purification should always be the last resort." She held her free hand upturned and a disk of pink energy shimmered into being above it. "I don't see any other way with how everything's going though." She threw the disk.

Ulquiorra didn't feel much energy in the projectile. He held up his hand to stop it, but it passed straight through his hand and part of his neck. His fingers fell, severed from his hand, and blood spurted from the deep wound on his neck. He put his uninjured hand to the wound as his eyes widened. "How…?"

"I said I would purify you. Balas de purificacion do not cut or burn or break. They purify whatever they pass through into pure reishi. And they take whatever shape I wish." An orb of pinkish energy shimmered into being and fired itself from her palm. Another one formed as soon as it shot and went after it and so on in rapid succession. Ulquiorra dodged out of their way and began taking evasive maneuvers as countless orbs and disks tried to purify his body, aomw skimming the ground while others flew through the air until they canceled themselves. Kagome was not tiring or relenting in the least as she continued to rain a bullet hell upon the Espada. While she tried to make it as random as possible, Ulquiorra was starting to see a pattern in her attacks. Soon, he disappeared and she let up.

"Where-" An open-palmed strike met her face and sent her tumbling a few meters away. She held up her hand and made to fire more balas de purificacion, but nothing came. She was confused for a moment, then started in wide-eyed shock when saw what was in Ulquiorra's hand.

"I realized that your attacks would fire wherever you aimed this small jewel." He held up the jewel to his eye-level and observed it. "I can feel the power radiating from it. It's enough to compare to even Aizen's Hogyoku. Such power should not be held within the hands of a mere Fraccion."

"That- That jewel has belonged to me and my past lives for over half a millennia! Return it to me!"

"I think not." His tail flung up and swatted her face, causing her to collapse on the ground. "I may not know how it is used, but you do. I will not leave a powerful weapon in the hands of my enemy."

Emelia gritted her teeth as Ulquiorra's attention turned towards her.

'Damnit! I gotta hold out alone! I just need to keep him here until Roder gets loose. I don't need to really fight him, just keep him away from everyone else and focus on my defense. Focus, focus, and don't let him near the injured.'

"You are all that's left. Clearly you are nowhere near as strong as Tyranus's other Fraccion, yet you still seem resolved to fight me."

Emelia let loose a nervous chuckle. "Well, they got a lot of hits on you. Surely you're weakened up enough I could beat you even."

Ulquiorra scoffed. "Such foolishness. I will break that resolve of yours, and show you what kind of trash you truly are."

Ulquiorra had to call someone trash at some point.

Now, if you folks would be so kind as to leave me a review and let me know what you think it'd make me feel oh-so-special.

Next time on Tyrant Espada; Hollows get pissed and shit blows up. Also, Orihime cries instead of using her god-like powers to kill and/or fix people.
Read all about it next update.

Not gonna lie, pre-Christmas is being generous.