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Finally he felt upset, perhaps he had made an error in judgement coming to Hueco Mundo, he tried to look around the desolate world that he was in at the moment, it appeared nothing like Hueco Mundo. Strangely he felt another person approach and expected Sai to appear however that was not the case, instead he was looking at the legs of someone standing above him. Izuna heard the man say something but didn't hear it. Finally the man grabbed his shoulders and lifted him like a rag doll, he was then lowered onto his feet and it surprised him he didn't fall. He actually felt weightless at the moment, the man who he now noticed was his captain, Luke or the illusion of Luke smiled before adding to his previously unheard comment. "Come now Lieutenant, I don't want to replace you just yet" he said smiling and walked away, now he had a clear view of the remaining members of the group and he felt sadness well up inside him.

His brother. Kurochi stood in front of him in Luke's place and he grinned before poking him in the forehead, "Use that big head of yours... I can't believe you are actually being outsmarted by an idiot." he said to the shocked Izuna, Kurochi disappeared years ago and yet here he was acting as if it was all normal. Izuna watched as he disappeared with his trademark disappearing act, the final person truly shook Izuna's mind and core, Violet stood before him and he thought she was going to touch his chest however saw her stop short and picked up the Magatama necklace, it was originally only one however she gave him hers when he saved her for "safekeeping". From then he always wore it and she seemed to admire it. "How about you live long enough to give it back to me" she said with a smile and disappeared.

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Strangely after everything happened Izuna's mind fell forward into the deep void of darkness it originally was, however this time he felt different. Almost empowered by what just happened in his mind, he felt like he was surrounded by water and as his resolve grew that he wouldn't die here so did his power in the world around him, eventually it reached a point when the darkness illuminated into a bright flash. Izuna didn't know when or why it happened, however when he came to his conscious state of mind he was in fact standing as Luke had done in the illusion dream or whatever it was to Izuna. The Arrancar was there still looking upon his now fearful band of monsters which saw what he had done, however a few started looking at it all in shock. With their gaze now focused on Izuna, the Arrancar turned to see what he had never expected. "What the Hell!" he roared, as Izuna appeared in front of him and brought a fist into his jaw, he was torn from the world around him and crashed into a tree.

"WHY WON'T YOU DIE!!!" he shouted before charging and firing a Cero from his broken jaw, Izuna felt different. He didn't feel like he was his normal self, he lacked the desire to talk and he felt no pain, no emotion, and the only thing he had in mind was the destruction of the scourge that was the Arrancar before him. When Izuna saw the cero approach he once more disappeared and caught the previously superior arrancar off guard. He brought a roundhouse kick into his target's stomach and heard the crunch or ribs. Quite pleased Izuna used Seipo once more to appear one hundred meters away and stared at his target.

Without mercy he clenched his fist and telekinetically grabbed his opponent in the vice-like grip, slowly tightening his own right hand he earned a shouting sound which at first protested however as he squeezed became more of a twisted scream as he was crushed under Izuna's will. He felt no mercy, nor did he care what he did; the Arrancar was evil and he would kill that evil. After a small moment he let his open and gave him some deep but short lived breathing as he began screaming again however this time, he screamed as Izuna compressed his body into itself, then his body couldn't contain it anymore. He imploded and ultimately covered the surrounding landscape in blood. Finally Izuna fell forward and collapsed on the ground.

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-Fifteen Minutes Previous-

The Squad Three barracks was active with chaos, the Squad had received a report about ten minutes ago that the lieutenant went to Hueco Mundo, alone and it was completely unknown why he would do so. After he failed to return the Squad had assembled a small force which included a few members of squad two. It didn't take very long and the small group consisting of two members of Squad Three and four members of Squad Two. The group arrived at the Senkaimon where about an hour ago Izuna had disappeared into. Using the previous coordinates they were able to open the Senkaimon exactly where Izuna had been standing.

Caught by surprise as they ran out was that the ground was missing and upon arrival they all fell into the void which previously Izuna created to get down to the lower world. They got up and the sound they heard first was one they didn't expect, it was a screaming sound like someone was being tortured. They ran to the sound and with much speed and luck they arrived to see an explosion of blood and gore as something exploded in the sky, however while the squad two members were looking at the explosion the squad three members found the Lieutenant as he finally fell down and collapsed. Without hesitation the group dashed through the hollows and grabbed the Lieutenant, he looked like his body was mortally wounded. He needed medical attention.

The group of six shinigami then fled and as the Squad Two shinigami created a protective zone, the squad three members opened a senkaimon and fled through with Squad two on their heels. Arriving back in a flash the group didn't stop running as they ran to Division Four's barracks and found the captain, leaving Izuna in their care the group disbanded leaving the two members of Squad Three to watch the lieutenant's recovery. The squad two members informed them of the fact they have other things to attend to and left. The group waited anxiously for Izuna to be finished with the Captain although it was strangely only fifteen minutes until she emerged.

When she emerged she was quite surprised and informed them that Izuna was physically fine, simply tired by the looks of it despite the Shinigami's description of mortally wounded although she wasn't going to let Izuna go for a few days to let him recover fully. Sending them on their way, although at the meantime Izuna found himself partly conscious. I did it. I defeated a Vasto-Lorde class Arrancar he thought as he was happy he was able to do something that the Gotei Thirteen advise only captains face Vasto-Lorde.