In Urahara's shop Rukia and Ishida were questioning non-stop, Ichigo was painstakingly trying to tune them out and Orihime was unsuccessfully attempting to make Gin wear her knitted booties.
"Okay! Who has a question that doesn't automatically ask why I trusted some random scientists?!" He shouted.
"Please Kurosaki, don't yell we're back in civilization. And yes I do have a question, why are Gin and Tousen transformed as well? My belief is that it should only occur to Hollows, correct?" Ishida replied.
"Huh? Oh yeah, the science people-" Ishida groaned frustrated "-sorry the scientists said that Aizen had done unsuccessful hollowfications on them but even though they were proved failures they were still left a bit hollowfied...that enough for you? Eh Ishida?" Ichigo teased.
A black butterfly fluttered close delivering a message that Ichigo was needed near the edge of the Rukongai. When Ichigo and his friends arrived they saw the research facility had been broken into by hollows. One of which looked like a large purple snake easily twenty feet long. It's large round head only slightly wider than the rest of it's body. It was spitting thousands of needles which caused many shinigami to fall down with searing pain around the afflicted area. The poison apparently caused them to be immobilized for what seemed like days from the information gathered. But the real terror was the threat of the small yellow tarantulas which clamped on in hundreds and fed off of Reiatsu. It was too organized who was-? A loud obnoxious laugh filled the area.
"Look at you all!Can't you see how pathetic you all look!?" A tall wiry man appeared amidst the chaos. A young female scientist with long frizzy white hair that fell to her ankles cried out in disbelieving shock, her lab coat white but for the blood stains, she clutched at her black turtleneck " Xavi! Xavi something's gone wrong the others are acting strange!" She fell onto her knees dirtying up her khaki pants, her child like face crunching up in pain.
He smiled kindly as he lift a hand, the pokemon returning to his side being dissolved into a long black box with had a pokeball symbol on it. A storage box. He chuckled softly " I am so sovery sorry Marina, but you see, they're doing exactly as I tell them! Isn't wonderful the storage box? Nullified the mind and puts them in a dreamlike state, but what if I were to use it to permanently transmit that? They would be mere puppets!" He laughed cruelly as she stared in shock tears running down her cheeks solemnly.
"B-but what about helping them? YOU PROMISED! Y-YOU SAID YOU WERE GONNA BRING ALL OUR FRIENDS BACK! WHY!? Why would you betray us like that? why?"She sobbed.
"Oh please! Help you all? Bring your friends b-back? Are you an IDIOT?What would I get by helping you all? In the end I never betrayed you! You believed what you wanted to believe!" He laughed cruelly "I now have half of Aizen's army! As my slaves! None of you stand a chance! And now with so many new little test subjects I can finally perfect them into doing all I say!"
Some less battered bruised shinigami stared in disbelief" They would never do that so many of them are sick of fighting us after Aizen!"
He laughed softly and with a kind smile said "Do you know why hollows forget? Why there original life is lost to them? Because so many of them want to let go of the pain and sadness. Do you know what happens when a being that gives up all of it's emotions to let go of it's pain...these monsters as you call them regain those painful memories? They lose control, go insane...isn't it beautiful how strong yet so delicate the humans mind is? Oh well goodbye! I have an extremely priceless king to capture and when I perfect my device to work on people...well how much painful memories collected would it take to drive Aizen over the top?" He snapped his fingers and right on que a large brown barn owl the size of a grown man spread it's wings,painfully shrieked and they teleported away.
The High Council was beyond worried they were terrified.