"The arrancar… They're back…"

No kidding. He's not even in his shinigami form, yet he can actually feel the powerful reiatsu coming from a numerous number of arrancar.

"Shit! Has Aizen actually started the war this early already?!" Ichigo exclaimed, panicking slightly as he used his shinigami badge to get out of his human body. Rukia looked at him gravely.

"No… These arrancars…Their level of powers are varied, but I can safely say that they're not as strong as the guys we faced before. It's just that the number of them..." Rukia paused.

"Hitsugaya-taicho speculates that they are failed experiments or just an army of the weakest arrancar…."

"…So, probability is he just sent them on a whim, not really caring if they succeed or not." Ichigo voiced out his own thoughts, gripping Zangetsu hard. Needless to say, the two shinigami rushed out to face their adversaries.

MEANWHILE…….

Hirako Shinji.

Vaizard, blonde, age unknown, residence unclassified, intentions unknown, and a guy who seems to know a lot about what's going on, but seems to take a preference on not telling. And single. Let's not forget that.

Currently alone, floating in the air facing a shit load of arrancars.

"Yahhh…!! Pleased to meet'cha, the name's Hirako Shinji!" Said man remarked, an easy-going, happy-go-lucky stature greeting the army of arrancars. The humanized hollows gave him an unappreciative, murderous look.

"Who the fuck're you? Outta the way! We're after those shinigami punks!" An arrancar shouted at the peculiar blonde-haired figure facing them.

"…" At that remark, Shinji's face darkened slightly. This was getting dangerous, and he's not talking about his current enemies before him… No, he needs to interfere sooner than he would've liked, but the next chess piece has already made its move.

And like it or not, he needs to make his own next move now.

"…I have a pretty good idea on what your master's up to. Give him my message that he ain't getting 'em." He told them calmly, a threatening demeanor laced in his words. An arrancar pointed his zanpakutou at him.

"Getting what, you punk! Move outta the way, before we kill you. We're here to kill those shinigamis!"

"…?" Shinji's face turned confused, until the arrancars attacked him. He managed to kill quite a number of those arrancars within a short amount of time, and at the same time intimidated the rest.

"What…? What is he planning?" He wondered out loud.

"These arrancars purely don't understand what I'm talking about. Aren't they here to capture Ichigo? Wait, think, this is already strange in the first place. Even though there's quite a massive amount of them, they're incredibly weak. And why now?" He killed another attacking arrancar.

"Then, why would Aizen send out a riot-making number of weak arrancars to capture Ichigo instead of just sending out one powerful arrancar with a good stealth capabilities to kidnap him?" And another arrancar bites the dust.

"Wait… Is he…? Then that means! But why would he…?"

"Oi! What's going here! How'd you—?" A certain orange-haired shinigami exclaimed, entering the scene.

"…Wait, you're Hirako Shinji aren't you? The new guy in my class?" Shinji's eyes widened, as realization dawned him.

"Oh shit!"

KUROSAKI HOUSEHOLD

A frustrated Kon paced around Ichigo's room, sulking. Why you ask? Well, if you were an artificially made soul who is in love with a black-haired nee-san just like how a yaoi fangirl is in love with a good hentai doujin of their most favourite male characters, who is also stuffed in a God-forsaken stuffed toy, who gets regularly used as well by a person, and ignored after all these times you helped said person who used you, wouldn't you sulk as well?

Not to mention, said 'person' who regularly 'used' our dear Kon made his nee-san ignore him as well! The nerve!

"He didn't even say 'please take care of my unworthy body, lord Kon'! Or a 'I will let you see up Rukia and Inoue's skirt as payment for my atrocious request'! One of these days, that Ichigo will understand how important the great Kon is, and he will—" Before he could continue rambling to himself, the mod-soul suddenly got rejected by Ichigo's body, his pill form flying out from ichigo's human form.

And for the sake of his convenience (And to just pity him), his pill form flew into his doll body's mouth, landing right inside the stuffed lion toy.

"What the! What happened to—"

A cold, death-threatening and lethal stare of Ulquiorra Schiffer looked his way.

"Playdeadplaydeadplaydeadplaydeadplaydeadplaydead."

Needless to say, Kon didn't do much when Ulquiorra carried Ichigo's body away, taking it into a gargantua; the portal to Hueco Mundo.

HUECO MUNDO

"Good job, Ulquiorra." Aizen praised his most devoted soldier, clearly pleased.

"Thank you, Aizen-sama. I will now give out the order to let those other arrancar cease their attack…" He stated, bowing humbly. Before he could do anything, however, Aizen's voice stopped him.

"No need. Let those shinigami have fun with them, their loss is not of importance to us."

TSUZUKU