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It was then that Maniak turned around, and released the shadow-dimensional break, and the room lightened some. The closer he got to the Garganta, the more darkness seemed to enter it instead of the sandtable's room structure. The only sound heard other than the shinigami's heartbeats after these last events, was the rattling of Maniak's bones, as he neared the garganta to Las Noches.
"See ya' around. or well, maybe not.." he laughed dryly, and then entered his garganta.

[EXIT]

Rawtoon felt relieved to have the immense spiritual pressure lift from him. He was able to move again, and flexing his muscles became a simple task in comparison of with the Espadas present, let alone Tagg. But that was the strangest puzzlepiece of it all. Regardless, all Toon could go was stand there, silent and shocked. The only thing that could be used to charagterize his long face was the bloodshot look of anger and disrespect in his eyes!
He let out a long, deep breath and then proceeded to say. "Rrmmm, these attacks are one thing, but kidnapping, this is totally unacceptable!"
He stopped, and the began breathing deeply, baring his teeth, and flexing his arms and legs dangerously. Since he was always in a wolf-form, his instincts were hard to supress, but now even every fiber of him wanted him to transform fully into a werewolf, leaving his regular-wolf form behind.
"I now ask what it is we plan to do about this, this... Abomination of procedures!, this Taboo!?" he breathed, through gritted teeth.
He knew that with that garganta there, he would make haste in transfomring once on the other side, just to let out this rage for a moment.

"Well, to the untrained eye, there is nothing different about the sandtable, but if you were here earlier. you would not only know it was fuller, but..."
Slash stopped, leaned up from the wall he had bee posted against, opened his eyes and pointed. "You would have also known that that Garganta wasn't there."

MockaDash leisurely entered the room, as if unaware of what had just happened... Hello everyone!!!!! He shouted out, with a warm smile across his face, as he bowed to the Shinigamis that were present there. I have heard of what happened here... The kidnap situation, the Garganta... Razil, my squad 3rd seat, is also one of the kidnapped... I came to bring assistance!!! His tone of voice dramatically changed over the last sentences, into a serious and harsh one. A change done, to match the look on his face!...

I'm also here, in the quality of Vice-Captain, to represent the 1st Squad of the Gotei 13!!! Daven is unable to join us at the moment... For now, I guess I will have to suffice... He grinned... So... Do we already have a plan, or what???...

Ryan had felt the reiatsu when he'd reached his squad, and it was quite obvious that something was up. He needed to at least figure out what exactly it was.

A captain, two vice-captains, and assorted other shinigami. The presence of one captain and two lieutenants is more than enough, though. "What in the hell has been going on here?", Ryan said out loud as he entered the room, taking in the situation with a quick check. "And what..." Ryan looked at the garganta, his eyes narrowing, "...is that doing there?"

Ryan looked at the other shinigami, one by one. "Anyone who was here, describe it now. Who was assigned to this area, who entered by way of that garganta, who exited by way of that garganta, who created the damned thing in the first place, and why I was not informed as to the presence of anyone in the most sensitive area of my division." At this, he looked at Mock, then at Yamoto, then at Evil. "At any rate, most of the information here is only available to you three...anything else can be found in the Grand Library or in the individual divisions for all to see. Unless there was some sort of top-secret meeting or deployment...but even then I should have at least been informed that something was going on here."

Ryan sighed. He was more than annoyed - he was almost incensed that an arrancar had been here, and this was only added to the fact that he was irked by there being people here without him having been informed. He didn't mind comings and goings of Captains or Vice-Captains, but the fact that lower seats were also here was what bothered him about being informed. He wouldn't be much help in operating the displays, but he just wanted to make sure that nothing got wrecked. This place existed so that Ryan didn't have to clog up his head with information when he could simply access it at the touch of a few keys, meaning that he was more free to do the actual tactical work. Striding over to one of the holotables, he fiddled with it for a moment before remembering how to replay the security tapes.

When they finished, Ryan almost broke the panel when he smacked the button that paused the recording with his left hand, but his right hand was already getting identification on all the hostiles present. "The 9th Espada, the 8th Espada, one of his fraccion, former Captain Tagg Masaru, and a vizard. Then if we go over we've got two traitors and the rest of the Espada to deal with..." He looked up. "Minus one - Captain Nagi's engaged with one at the moment. So scratch one Espada, that leaves us with nine, plus their leaders and their fraccion...at least, those would be present."

Ryan wished his fingers could fly as fast as his mind was moving at the moment. He was rearranging the profiles he had up, ordering them by strength and categorizing them as they were displayed, but his thoughts seemed thirty seconds ahead of his fingers, and that gap was slowly increasing. "What we need..." He looked at Slash quickly. "You. Get Vice-Captain Kuchiki of Squad 9 and tell him to come here. Once you've done that, you're dismissed - we can't have extra baggage holding us up. We will be facing captain-class opponents, and you won't be much more than a messenger, a light distraction, or possibly a human shield. As for everyone else..."

Ryan looked up at the rest of the shinigami, but more specifically Evil and Yamoto, who were the two most senior, in addition to both being zaigou. "Stealth will be of the importance, and with a member of Squad 2 captive, I'm quite sure Captain Rhia will be along soon. If not, we need to get word to her about this..."

Ryan felt something of a bright flash in his head, and heard voices again. Something inside him...

What he remembered next was pressing the index and middle fingers of his left hand to his left temple. Damn it, I can't think... Shaking his head, he looked up again. I can't let this bother me now. It can wait...I'll go to 4th Squad when this is over and ask about it. Right now, though, we have prisoners of war to rescue.

Slash pounded his fist on the table, now frustrated, but knew it was not his place to show it!
"Look, I was there when it all started, they origionally tried to kidnap Hikari, and I prevented it, and they responded by taking many others instead. I will not slow anyone down in any way, and I know how to carry my own weight."
Slash slowed himself down, and stepped back from the sandtable. "I shall get Xeion Kuchiki, but you shall have me return. Pipiri is made for these such events."
Slash gripped the handle of his left zanpakuto as le silently exited the room.
[exits to squad 9]

Tenrai was slowly pacing his corner of the room. Images of the Arrancar circling in his mind. Then it focused on one, the one who had entered first. Tenrai was still pacing when he noticed another strong power enter the room. It appeared as though he was somewhat angry. Tenrai wasn't paying any attention, he was back in his mind and his mind was still stuck on that Arrancar. The way he just waltzed into the Soul Society and took all of those people hostage. Suddenly one question came to Tenrai's mind.

"Does anyone have any idea why he would target the prisoners that he did? I know one of them personally and she is still just an unranked member of Squad 11. It doesn't make any sense to me." Tenrai yelled in frusteration. "From the little that I know about Arrancar they always have a strategy in mind, expecilly when they risk a trip to the Soul Society. This just doesn't make any sense..." said Tenrai trailing off into his own thoughts. He didn't even notice when his fellow Squad 11 member, Slash, left the room in anger.

"What is our plan of attack?" asked Tenrai suddenly coming back into the conversation in the room. "If no one has any suggestions, I think that I might have one." said Tenrai. Despite the desperation in his mind a small smile made it's way onto Tenrai's face.

Yamoto couldn't help but laugh at Maxi display. "Ryan I am going to go ahead to just to make sure there is no trap." Yamoto picks up the top half of his uniform and looks at it. "Still wet, well forget it." Yamoto throws the uniform down back where it was. "See ya when I see ya." Yamoto walks over to the garganta. He pauses and turns around to face the group. "In chess you send the pawns in first, but this isn't like a regular game of chess so let us see what happen when you send a rook in first." Yamoto waves good bye to every one then walks into the garganta.


(Exits to hueco mundo)