(A/N: So like I said this chapter was going to be the 2nd part of the last one but because of the length I wound up splitting it in two…you people probably aren't even reading this I'll bet)

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or Tales of the Abyss

Sokyoku Hill

28 minutes 22 seconds after the destruction of the Sokyoku

Having defeated Byakuya, his war cry ended. Ichigo began to lose his balance. Everything's spinning around. I can hardly stand up. He fell backwards as his head hit something soft. It was Nebilim's chest. She caught him and smiled down to him. Nebilim-san

"Good job kid," she told Ichigo as she lowered him to the ground.

"Ah Nebilim-san!" Orihime cried out in joy seeing the white haired Soul Reaper as Ichigo was eased down to the ground.

"Oh so you were the one I was sensing," Asch said.

"Good to see you all," Nebilim smiled.

"Ichigo-san are you all right?" Ion asked him.

"Ion, Inoue, Chad, Ishida, Nebilim-san…" Ichigo recognized Asch by image, "You're from the gate."

"Yeah we meet again, but at least now we're on the same side of things," Asch said. He looked at Nebilim, "Aizen didn't come by here did he?"

"Aizen?" Nebilim was confused, "Did you hit your head or are you not caught up with the news? Aizen's dead Asch!" she told him.

"I see," Asch said and continued to think, If he's not here then…damn it!

"I have to go!" Asch said and immediately took off.

Nebilim sighed, "That's the 3rd Seat of the 6th Division for you always in a rush to be somewhere."

30 minutes after the destruction of the Sokyoku

Central 46 Chambers

"Stand back," Hitsugaya told Luke and Rangiku. He drew his blade, slammed it down on the door, and the door crumbled away like old ruins. Luke got a jolt from what Hitsugaya just did. He never thought out of all the people in Soul Society, Hitsugaya was the one to take this kind of action.

Never thought I would be busting through these same doors that convicted me before. Luke thought.

"That was the door to Central 46 you know!" Rangiku exasperated, worried about what the future holds now that they came this far.

"No alarm. You would think that breaking down the door here would cause uproar all over Soul Society?" Luke pointed out as he pondered the thought.

"Yeah, I can guess that someone took out the court guards here and walked right in. Then that person sealed the door and made sure the alarm wouldn't sound if anything happened." Hitsugaya theorized.

"So no one would notice." Luke finished. "We should go on Captain." Hitsugaya nodded and continued onwards passing through a series of doors and stairs as they descended downwards to the main hall of Central 46. Eventually, they made it to the bottom level of the building and entered through the door of the office gathering hall. Inside they were both awestruck and confused. The Sages and Judges of central 46, had all been murdered in cold blood. "W-What happened here?"

Hitsugaya proceeded slowly around to one of the bodies. He swept two fingers on the desk where the pool of blood is soaking. "It's dry."

"Dry?" Luke questioned. "Then they have been dead for a long time."

"But how can that be?" Rangiku questioned as well.

"After the defeat of Renji by the Ryoka, the special wartime order was issued to us all." Hitsugaya began. "After that the central underground assembly hall was isolated with no one allowed to approach."

"Until you broke down the door that is. But even then there were no signs of intruders on our way down." Luke added as he began to ponder as well with Hitsugaya's train of thought, until he came up with his possible conclusion of, "Then they would have to be killed before that."

"Yes." Hitsugaya nodded.

"Then that means that all those orders we've been given throughout the entire time-"

"Were fake." Hitsugaya concluded what Luke was about to say. Hitsugaya gritted his teeth in frustration. Who could this? Ichimaru? Could he really have been into something this huge all this time? Hitsugaya thought. Or does he have an accomplice as well with him?

"I thought you might have come Hitsugaya-Taicho." A familiar voice was heard at the top of the steps near the entrance of the office. Luke was the first to turn to see that it was Kira that was up there. "Luke? I didn't expect to see you here."

"Kira? What are you doing here?" Luke questioned him. Right now according to Luke, his credibility is very low on innocence since he is so calm. "Don't tell me that you're behind this?" Kira said nothing in response and simply began to walk away.

Hitsugaya growled. "Let's go you two."

"Right!" Luke and Rangiku said in unison as they ran up the stairs of the office back into the main chamber. Kira already has a head start from them, so they began to use flash step periodically to make it to the top. After running up even more flight of stairs, Kira had exited the building. Luke however was ahead of everyone else since he leapt from railing to railing to get an advantage of clearing more distance, so he was already outside on the bridge. Kira however took a leap of faith to the air and onto the roofing of the buildings in the area. Luke made his pursuit close to him then Hitsugaya and Rangiku. However the two that were behind managed to get a burst of speed to catch up with Luke.

"Hold it Kira!" Hitsugaya shouted. "Answer our question! Are you the one who slaughtered the office of Central 46!"

"No" Kira said plainly. "The door was unlocked for me and I was inside the underground assembly hall."

"No way." Luke called out. "How did you get access to the hall when everyone has been dead for so long? Who could have let you in!"

"You think this is a good idea for you to be chasing me now?" Kira questioned. "Isn't protecting Momo more important right now?"

"The hell are you talking about? Momo's in-" Luke began to speak, but stopped midway in his sentence as he looked behind himself to see Central 46. Don't tell me she followed us without notice! Damn it! Luke immediately turned around and Flash-stepped back at the direction of central 46.

"Luke?" Rangiku said.

"Rangiku." Hitsugaya said to her. "Can I trust you to handle things here?" Hitsugaya's voice was firm and commanding. Rangiku knew that something was going wrong.

"Of course captain."

31 minutes 24 seconds after the destruction of the Sokyoku

Luke was already speeding down the stairs to the lower levels of the building in order to reach the bottom levels of the facility. To Luke he believed that Momo had gone AWOL again—about to do something she would regret later. Luke didn't want that to happen, and rushedfaster than before. He made it to ground level of the office and entered it. No one was around, but he could feel three different spiritual pressures in the area. One of which he recognized as Momo. It was coming from the other doorway that leads further down to the residence area for the court.

"Momo, what are you doing?" Luke gritted his teeth and pressed onwards. He passes through even more series of doors and stairs until he makes it into the vast area that was the resident zone. It was expansive, but he could feel the spiritual pressures of all three people in the one building in front of him. He runs forward, but before he entered the building he was stopped short by one person. This one person completely stopped all other thoughts in Luke's head and the only thing he could ask to himself was why. It was Captain Aizen. Asch, please tell me you're seeing this!

I am. If I'm seeing things correctly, then I can truly confirm that he's behind all of this. Asch summarized. Stay on him, don't let up.

"Hello Lieutenant Luke Fon Fabre." Aizen said in a friendly gesture. "You seem to be doing well."

"Aizen. I heard you were dead." Luke said to him. Luke's gaze became fierce after that. "No, you were dead. There was your body that was reported and everything. How are you alive?"

"Ah yes, about that-" Aizen began to speak. "I tried to keep you away from any visual evidence of my death you see."

"What?" Luke questioned.

"Although, you arrived so early." Aizen said to himself. "Much earlier than I anticipated."

"Sorry about that." Gin apologized. "Looks like Izuru didn't do a good job now."

"What are you talking about!" Luke shouted as he placed his hand on his sword and took a battle stance.

"Oh dear, it seems Luke here is rather feisty right now isn't he?" Gin mocked.

"Don't go making your credibility even worse than it already is Gin. That goes the same for you Aizen." Luke said in contained rage. "I had my suspicions before, but I didn't think it would be like this."

"Oh, is that so?" Aizen said rather calm of being accused. "Then why don't you see what's behind me." Luke was perplexed at what Aizen was getting at, but he quickly realized that one of the three spiritual presences was fading away, and it was coming from behind Aizen. Without a second thought, Luke flash-stepped forward inside the room front of him. He saw Momo bleeding on the ground with a dangerous wound to her chest. Blood was oozing out of her mouth, as she remained motionless.

"I suppose I should have ground her to dust before you found her like this." Aizen mocked.

Those last few words really gotten underneath Luke's skin and his flame-red spiritual power began to flare violently from his body as his anger began to rise. "Who the hell are you?" Luke's tone began to become even fiercer then before, like something clicked inside of him, something dark. "You're not who she thought you were, not the one she respected for so long. You used her, played with her thoughts and feelings, and threw her away like she meant nothing." Luke turned back around; his aura began to surge like a burning flame. "You meant everything to her! Why did you betray her! No not just her! ALL OF US!"

"Betray?" Aizen asked with a gesture of his hand. "I never intended to betray anyone. Merely, you all never comprehended my true nature." With that said, Luke's anger exploded as his aura intensified so much that his figure was only seen as a shadow with the only features noticeable was his eyes which were completely white.

"Oh dear, I think he inherited something from Kenpachi." Gin joked. "Or is it something else?"

33 minutes 41 seconds after the destruction of the Sokyoku

Damn it, I have to hurry! Hitsugaya said to himself. He is rushing down the same corridor that Luke was in to get down to the lower levels. He moved faster because he could feel Luke's spiritual pressure all the way from upstairs. It was dense to, even for him. This made Hitsugaya worry about what he may encounter down below. When he made it into the office, he proceeded to the next doorway. Suddenly, flames surged from the doorway like a pillar of light. The forces of the flames were so powerful that a jet engine couldn't compete. What the hell? The flames died away, but to his discourage, so did Luke's. Hitsugaya rushed inside the doorway, down the corridors, and outside to the residential zone. He saw many things that were wrong. The first one was Gin, then Aizen being alive. Finally he saw Luke, bleeding on the ground with a large gash in his back and chest. His eyes were wide open and shallow, like he was close to death.

Luke! LUKE! WAKE UP YOU DRECK! Asch shouted in Luke's head. There was no response back.

"Oh dear, it seems you came rather early as well." Gin noted. "Sorry, but Luke really jumped the gun and started to attack us, too bad he couldn't do anything-" Gin turned forward to Hitsugaya, holding the injured Momo in his hands as if he was using her as a shield. "That he couldn't turn his blade towards me with her here."

"Momo!" Hitsugaya shouted. "ICHIMARU!" Hitsugaya shouted as his anger rose to its peak. "BANKAI!" Ice and snow flooded the area As Hitsugaya's arms and legs became encased in Ice. Wings and a tail sprouted from his back and 24 'flowers' floated in between the wings. "DAIGUREN HYORINMARU!" At that moment Unohana and Isane came rushing onto the scene. "Aizen, Ichimaru…you deceived us. You deceived all of us. You manipulated us all. How could you?"

"I'll tell you the same thing I told Luke, I never intended to betray anyone. It's just that no one in Soul Society could comprehend my true nature," Aizen said smiling.

"Just how many people did you involve in your twisted game? Momo, Luke, Central 46…just how many people did you involve?" Hitsugaya shouted, "Asch Fon Fabre always said he didn't trust you, always said how there was more to you than meets the eye," Hitsugaya held up his sword arm, "I think I finally understand what he meant."

"Ah yes, former lieutenant now 3rd seat of the 6th Division Asch Fon Fabre. He was always too intuitive for his own good. Luke as well, but to a lesser extent," Aizen said.

"I see, so you wanted to keep Asch from ascending you got him demoted so that he couldn't function as a lieutenant. You couldn't outright kill him he had too much of a reputation so you kept him from making any progress in his research by finding a way to get him demoted. But still…why would you hurt Momo? She looked up to you. You were everything she aspired to be like! Why then would you stand by and watch her be cut down!"

"I'm going to give you a few words of wisdom that you should take to heart Captain Hitsugaya: admiration is not the same as understanding!"

Hitsugaya raised his spiritual pressure. That's it. This conversation is over, "Prepare to die!"

"You shouldn't make such strong remarks, it only makes you look weak," Aizen taunted. Hitsugaya lurched forward and ran Aizen right through and froze the area around him, but in actually Aizen wasn't there at all. In fact he was several feet off to the left and now behind Hitsugaya. And in actuality Hitsugaya had been struck pretty damn hard when he made to attack Aizen. His entire Bankai was crushed. Aizen's sword now dripped with Hitsugaya's blood. "It's the wrong season, but I rather like seeing ice this time of year." Aizen joked.

"Aizen-taicho…no that's wrong after what I've witnessed it wouldn't be right to call you captain anymore," Unohana stated from across the room, "Aizen Sosuke your title is high traitor."

Aizen gave a really big smile to the 4th Division captain, "Well hello Captain Unohana. I have to admit that your arrival is not completely unexpected. I knew you'd figure out that I was staying here."

"It was the only explanation. Central 46 had been declared totally off limits to everyone. This location was perfectly suited for you to carry out the plans you had in mind. You needed to stay in isolation after you faked your own death with that exquisitely designed corpse doll. And what better place to go completely undetected than here that was your plan at least wasn't it?" Unohana gave her summary of events.

"Not quite," Aizen answered, "Some of that is true, but you did make two mistakes. Let me clear things up for you. First of all I have no need to hide from anyone. That's not what I came here for. Secondly," in a flash Aizen's 'corpse' appeared in his hand, "What you're looking at is not a corpse doll."

Isane was confused, "But when did he—"

"When did I what?" Aizen smiled like someone who just declared checkmate, "I've been standing here holding it the whole time. It's been right in front of you. You simply weren't able to see it. That's because I didn't allow you to see it until just now."

Unohana and Isane were still perplexed. "Wh-what do you mean?" Isane asked.

"You'll soon understand," Aizen smirked, "I'm going to release my Zanpakuto. Shatter, Kyoka Suigetsu." The 'corpse' shattered and transformed into Aizen's sword and then Aizen let his Zanpakuto dropped to the ground where the blade jammed into the floorboards and held fast. "This is my Zanpakuto Kyoka Suigetsu. Its ability is perfect hypnosis."

"Impossible!" Isane cried out, "It couldn't change. Kyoka Suigetsu has always been a running water type Zanpakuto. It uses the running mist to confuse enemies into attacking each other. You yourself explained to us exactly how it worked Captain Aizen. And we saw it with our own eyes you specifically gathered all the lieutenants together because you wanted to demonstrate it!"

"I see now, your demonstration was actually the hypnosis ritual," Unohana explained.

"You're catching on quickly," Aizen said.

"Complete hypnosis controls all five senses and is able to completely manipulate every dimension of a target. It changes its form, shape, mass, feel and smell, even its vocal patterns and the way it tastes to perfectly replicate that of an enemy. In other words it is possible for me to make a fly appear to be a dragon or a marsh a flowerbed. And all I need to do to activate it is show my opponent my sword's release. After they have seen Kyoka Suigetsu's release even once they fall completely under my hypnosis."

"Wait a minute," came a tired injured voice.

"Hmm, so you're still able to move and breathe. You were a bit too easy on the kid Gin," Aizen looked over as Luke was getting up.

"Lieutenant Fon Fabre!" Isane called out to Luke.

"I don't…" Luke panted, "I don't remember that day at all. Aizen just how long ago did you show the lieutenants your sword release?"

"On a margin of my own error I did it exactly two years before you and Asch became lieutenants. I've also shown my release to all those in my squad on more than one occasion. It would've been suspicious of me to have isolated you two and shown you my sword's true power and you became Lieutenants without once entering my division. I'll be honest you two grew quicker than I expected you to. Therefore I had to resort to other means and methods to make sure you wouldn't figure out the truth. Keeping the wool pulled over your eyes was easy Lieutenant Fon Fabre. You were quite friendly with Momo and therefore whatever she spoke about me you usually believed so your suspicions of me were dulled some. However, Asch is a different matter all together, but I don't enjoy talking about others behind their backs. Now Luke if you can stand and pay attention then listen closely to what I'm about to say." Aizen increased his volume so that Luke, Isane and Unohana could all hear him, "The power of my Zanpakuto is limited only by mind. Therefore anyone who lays there eyes on it even once will forever be under my spell."

"Even once…no it can't be!" Luke shouted.

Dreck, what is it? Asch had been listening the whole time. He had to if he wanted to learn Aizen's plan without the man knowing that he was.

"I see you figured it out," Aizen spoke to Luke, "Very good, you see whoever lays their eyes on it is manipulated so unfortunately those who can't see will never be under my power. In other words Captain Tosen Kaname was always my subordinate."

Dreck, where's Captain Tosen now? Asch asked.

How the hell should I know? Luke asked. Unohana is here and Aizen is preparing to leave, Luke told Asch as the aforementioned individual prepared a transportation spell with the help of Gin. Don't worry about me follow your original plan.

My original…got it. Don't go dying on me dreck. You'd better make sure you stay the hell alive!

"I bid you all farewell," Aizen said. "I don't think I'll ever see any of you again."

"Wait," Isane shouted and rushed forward, but Aizen was long gone.

40 minutes after the destruction of the Sokyoku

Sokyoku hill

"What the hell was that all about?" Renji grumbled having been forcibly transported with Rukia in his arms by Captain Tosen. He then realized where he was, "This is Sokyoku hill!"

"Welcome Renji," Aizen said as he and Gin appeared behind the lieutenant.

Renji was completely confused. "Captain Aizen how did…what the…then Gin?" What's going on?

"Leave Rukia where she is Renji and back away," Aizen requested.

"Captain Aizen, how can this be? And what was it you just said?" Renji asked.

"How odd, I'm sure you must've heard me the first time. I said to leave Rukia there and I told you to back away Renji."

At that same time Isane cast a Seireitai wide Bakudo 77 Tenteikura explaining exactly what she and Unohana had discovered.

46 minutes after the destruction of the Sokyoku

"Nebilim-san," Ichigo asked her, "Is all of that true?"

Nebilim nodded, "It would have to be, given what Asch and Luke have been tracking for so long it's the only thing that makes sense."

"I can't believe it…Captain Aizen how could he…" Ion was in shock.

"You were in squad 5 at one point Ion you probably had the wool pulled over your eyes. However, Luke, Asch nor I have ever been in Aizen's squad and that should make all the difference. Come on Ichigo," she ordered taking a leaping bound up the stairs.

"Hey wait for me!" Ichigo scrambled after her.

"Wait for us Ichigo!" Orihime called after him.

46 minutes 25 seconds after the destruction of the Sokyoku

Sokyoku Hill

"What was that?" Aizen asked Renji.

"I told you, I won't leave Rukia," he said, "I refuse to let her go."

"Very well then," Aizen said. Gin put a hand on his sword. "That won't be necessary Gin." Aizen told him and began to walk forward.

"You are stubborn Renji, since you won't let go of her and stand down as I ordered you I have no choice, but I'll take your feelings into consideration and I will let you have your way." Aizen drew out his sword, "She can stay in your arms. The rest of you goes." Filled with fear Renji took an instinctive giant step back, but he didn't move fast enough. Aizen cut him right down the arm. Renji now stood defiantly holding Rukia in one arm and holding his sword with the other. "I can see your defensive skills have improved a great deal Abarai Renji. I am happy to see that you've continued to progress, but I hope you won't struggle for too long. It's difficult for me to control my power. It's difficult to step on ants without crushing them. As your former superior I would prefer not to kill you."

"Yeah right!" Renji shouted in defiance, "You don't want to kill me? Then what about Momo? You killed her in cold blood!"

"What happened to Momo couldn't be helped. I had trained her so that she couldn't live without me. So don't you think that killing her was an act of mercy? Still what I said is true, I didn't want to kill her myself so I went through the trouble of forcing her to attack Izuru and Lieutenant Fon Fabre, but that didn't work, so I had to finish her myself."

Renji grit his teeth, "So Momo and Izuru they were all just puppets in your twisted scheme!"

"And you too Renji," Aizen added.

"I see," Renji snarled, "I don't know who the monster in front of me is, but you're not the Aizen I knew. And I don't know why you want he so badly, but I'll never hand Rukia over to you even if it costs me my life."

"I've got some news for you about the Aizen you used to know. I'm sorry to break it to you since you seem to remember him so fondly. That Aizen you knew was just and illusion. He never even existed in the first place."

"But that makes no sense! I heard it from Isane, Lieutenant Fon Fabre was never your subordinate neither was Asch. I bore witness to your Zanpakuto's release when I was in your squad so where's your explanation huh!"

"Ah yes, Luke and Asch Fon Fabre; two men of whom threw a spanner in my works with their appearance. Having those two around made it difficult to operate so I had to put on a showmanship while I was around them. Of course even the best of actors can be found out and I was sure Asch and Luke would figure me out once they reached Vice Captaincy. So I tried to throw them off as best I could. Given that I'm standing here and neither of them made a move it would appear that they never figured it out," Aizen explained

Renji had heard enough and made to attack Aizen with his Shikai. Aizen stopped it with his bare hand and then slashed it apart with his sword.

"Between you Momo and Izuru I always though you would turn out to be the most troublesome and it appears I was right." He then slashed Renji wide along the shoulder and down the front and back of his torso. Renji dropped to his knees. "I'll give you one more chance. Put Rukia down and get out of here."

Rukia made to save Renji by shouting, "I'll do it Captain Aizen. I'll go with you wherever you want just leave Renji alone!"

"Shut up!" Renji huffed.

"Renji!" Rukia was concerned for the man's very life.

"I won't let him have you," Renji panted and looked at Aizen with a defiant smile showing he was willing to be like that to the end. "You thought I would give her up. Are you that dumb?" he asked.

"Then so be it." Aizen said, "Too bad." He swung down, but his sword was blocked by a black katana.

"Hey there," Ichigo said standing in between Aizen and Renji, "What's the matter Renji? The way you're crouching down I'd almost think Rukia was too heavy for you to hold or something. Good thing I came to give you a hand, right friend?" Ichigo pushed off Aizen's blade and he and Renji leapt back a good distance.

All right, I'm set in motion, Ichigo looked around, Huh where'd Nebilim-san go, I thought she was ahead of me.

"Sorry bout dat," Gin apologized to Aizen, "I didn't think ya wanted me ta interfere Aizen so I let de Ryoka kid slip by me."

"No matter, it's fine," Aizen said, "When cleaning the house it doesn't matter if there's one speck of dirt or two." They're in some form of strategy meeting it seems, Aizen said looking at Ichigo and Renji chat with each other, however, not matter what they try neither of them are strong enough to reach me yet. Speaking of reaching I haven't seen Asch at all, I would've thought he'd want to face me head on at this point. Aizen watched as Renji used Broken Baboon Fang. Oh it appears they're ready. Aizen completely ignored Renji's attack as the reiatsu difference was too vast between them and when Ichigo came in he stopped his blade with one finger and slashed him across the waist. Hmm, I meant to cut him completely in half…I guess my cut was too shallow. Leaving Ichigo Aizen rushed by Renji and cut him in the shoulder and then picked up Rukia and prepared to take the Hogyoku from her.

55 minutes after the destruction of the Sokyoku

Damn it, how dare he divert my attention like that! Asch cursed in his head. Because of that now I'm not going to make it in time to stop Aizen from getting the Hogyoku. Damn it! Asch knew it all. In the time he spent researching he had completely unraveled Aizen's plan. The documents that Nanao risked her rank over several times for him to get and the reports that Nebilim had handed to him helped him to completely realize Aizen's intentions, plans and most importantly his objective. By the time the 3rd seat reached the Sokyoku hill he walked into one war torn scene. Ichigo Kurosaki, Captain Komamura, Lieutenant Abarai. Ichigo's nakama and Ion were all down for the count. Asch's captain was also cradling Rukia in his arms, pierced through by Gin's Shinsho. In Aizen's hands was a glistening orb: the Hogyoku.

"Captain Kuchiki!" Asch leapt forward. Tosen raised his reiatsu in an attempt to restrain the red head, but Asch brushed past him without even so much as a flinch.

That's impossible, he's only a lieutenant turned 3rd seat, my reiatsu should have crushed him, Tosen was dumbfounded.

Asch ran forward and struck at Aizen with his sword. The glasses wearing Shinigami jumped over Asch and landed next to Tosen. "Oh hello Asch," Aizen said, "I was wondering if you were going to bother to show up."

"Aizen…from the very start…since the day Luke and I met you…you've always been plotting haven't you?" Asch asked. "And the letter you had sent to me was all a lie. Did you think it would make me make amends with you after I got demoted because of you?"

"I haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about," Aizen said with a smile.

"Don't play games!" Asch said standing stoically. "I'm sick of your games! I know it all. From the Hogyoku to Rukia to using Kurosaki Ichigo as a diversion so you could plot out your little scheme. Albeit I didn't think you'd go so far as to murder Central 46. I know what Isane said, but I don't buy it you probably murdered them the minute you needed them so you could get your hands on information that only they were privy to. Luckily for you, I don't have to resort to your methods to get my hands on vital pieces of information."

Aizen twitched, "Explain."

Asch smirked, "What's that, sounds to me like I did something even you couldn't fathom. You want to know how I managed to unravel your plan fine by me. It all started way back when I was still in the 2nd Division. When you took Ion on me out on that so called mission. I had my suspicions that you had set Ion and me up, but I kept my suspicions to a minimum. However, then we forward a few years to Nebilim's expedition. You forced my hand and used your knowledge of my psyche to manipulate me into abandoning my post to save civilians. Then while I was gone you smashed the crystal and pretended to pin everything on me forcing my demotion. At that point I suspected you were up to no good. Whether at that time or not you knew I was onto you, you didn't exactly scream innocent to me in the least like most of your co-workers made you out to be. I didn't suspect you of anything other than being a monster behind the veil you wore, but then you did that."

"That, could you be a little more specific?" Aizen asked.

"Of course," Asch answered not losing his grin, "You authorized the mission to send Rukia to the world of the living. She got lost and then after a month she was conveniently found. As the man who authorized the escapade you had full reign to send whoever you wanted to fetch her. In this case my captain and vice captain. What struck me as odd though was that they knew what they were doing before they went into the Senkaimon you already knew from the moment you sent Rukia to the world of the living that Kurosaki Ichigo would become a Substitute Shinigami. Once she was found you went into Central 46 and eliminated them then you manipulated the situation to make it look like Central 46 was still alive by having you Tosen or Gin stay hidden at one point or another. The only time you three were all on the surface together was whenever there was an emergency captain's meeting. I confirmed this when I got Head Researcher Assistant Nebilim to goad Head Captain Yamamoto into holding an emergency meeting for all captain about the Ryoka Situation. As a former subordinate of his he would most likely take her seriously. You got anxious you knew someone may have been onto you and you couldn't afford to be so vulnerable so you staged your death and made it so that you could stay in Central 46 at all times. At the time I didn't know who I could trust and who I couldn't I avoided contact with anyone who had never been in your squad before and I found someone I could trust: Head Researcher Assistant Gelda Nebilim." Aizen frowned. "I see you and I are on the same page. Nebilim's been around the Seireitai a lot, but she's never been in your squad. I don't know whether it was dumb luck that she had never wound up in your squad or what, but the fact remained that 3rd Seat Nebilim had only ever been in Squad's 10, 13, 2, 6, 4, 1 and 12 in that order."

"And just how did you gain access to that information? Only captains and lieutenants can gain access to the special archives libraries," Aizen inquired.

"How very astute, but you see luck was on my side in that instance. You see before I started heavily suspecting you I fell in love and am currently going steady with Vice Captain Ise of Squad 8," Asch stated. Aizen blinked and his eyes shook with surprise, "Now is it all making sense?" Asch asked. "If I needed an archive all I needed was to ask Nanao and she would stick her neck out for me to get me my information. She has a clean record, unlike Luke, no one would ever suspect her of suspicious conduct. And then there's 3rd seat Nebilim. As you may know, of all corruption in Soul Society the biggest pile ran amuck in 12th Division from Kurotsuchi's experiments and studies right down to the fact that there were monitors strung up all over the Seireitai. Of course none of that makes any difference. What does make a difference is Gelda Nebilim's incredible scientific gift: hacking."

Aizen's eyebrows converged, "but if the head researcher assistant constantly hacked into the database wouldn't she have been found out?"

"Who said Nebilim ever hacked in using her own credentials?" Asch asked. "She knows a lot, how to throw off which terminal she using, who she is and how to bypass the security encryption on anything. If I needed something it was an almost guarantee she could get it. Someone like you who's a mighty thinker, but not one too keen on technology you probably never thought to go that route at all. At any rate, with all the information at my fingertips it was a simple matter of making sense of it all and bit by bit I unraveled your whole plan to myself and here I am to confront you, which you probably were expecting anyway."

Aizen clapped his hands ever so slowly and then looke directly at Asch, "How very clever that you were able to figure out that much without getting caught. Having come so far I suppose it's only fair I share some information you forgot to mention."

"If you're going to talk about how you demoted me to prevent me from getting all the information I needed I know, but that sort of worked against you since because I was demoted I wouldn't be as easily traceable. And I also know that you put Renji's name forth to replace me as Vice Captain. It's true until Isane announced it over the loudspeakers that I didn't know about the powers of your Zanpakuto until recently so at the time I didn't understand why you did that, but now I do. It was to cover your ass. Renji was afflicted by Kyoka Suigetsu so he didn't bother you at all and because Luke was so friendly with Momo he didn't worry you, but that's just on the surface. Luke's been working with me since the day Rukia came back from her mission to the world of the living," Asch pointed to himself, "the only other thing unaccounted for is why the letter. Luke told me about the one you gave Momo did you really think I would eventually turn on him, are you that stupid?" Asch asked.

"Again I don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about," Aizen answered with his arms folded inside his haori, "I am quite secure in my superiority. You were the furthest thing from my mind. The last thing I needed to do was contact you after I was dead."

"Well you can deny it al you want," Asch said and reached for his sword.

"You plan to fight me? Don't you think that's a bit pointless?" Aizen asked as Asch drew it out. "I've already won Asch Fon Fabre you may have figured out my plans, but you did so far too late. The game is over Asch Fon Fabre I win."

Asch smirked, "How could you possibly say that you've won? The hogyoku might be in your possession, but I could still take it from you if I tried. How can you say you've won when you have yet to make your escape and there are still those who are willing to get in your way?"

"Touché," Aizen said and dropped the Hogyoku in Tosen's hand, "Kaname hold this." Aizen strode towards Asch, "Very well Asch I'll humor you, but I don't see what it's going to gain you. You will hit the ground before you can even blink."

"Is that so? Let's test that theory shall we?" Asch asked.

Aizen struck towards Asch who blocked with his sword, "I'm impressed you could block me without your sword snapping in half. Very good." Asch flung Aizen off and the man disappeared and made to attack Asch from behind. Asch swung down and deflected Aizen's strike and parried. "You can even parry me, most impressive." Aizen said as he dodged away from Asch.

"Of course I can," Asch said. "You see all the time I've been here in Soul Society people have always asked me, why did I become a Soul Reaper, I always knew it was to surpass someone. That's why I joined, but along the way the person I wanted to surpass changed and even now I aim to surpass that same person. Former Captain Aizen Sosuke the person I wish to surpass," Asch said and spun his sword above his head and thrust his sword into the ground the tip digging into the earth, "is you. BANKAI!"

To be continued…

(A/N: Yes Asch has mastered Bankai and he and Aizen are about to face off in the most epic confrontation ever. But the bigger question is WHERE IS NEBILIM? I know a lot of this was rehash of stuff that happened in canon, but it's just too awesome not to reproduce it to its fullest. Anyway I hope to have the next chapter out either later tonight or sometime tomorrow. Until then see you).