Aizen, Tousen, and Gin arrive in Karakura town and are greeted by the remaining captains of the Gotei 13 and their lieutenants. Aizen states how he is aware that he is not in the real Karakura Town and says that after slaughtering them, he will make the King's Key in Soul Society. He says that Las Noches is in Ulquiorra's hands, at which Ulquiorra appears in the throne room behind Orihime. His appearance is sensed by Ichigo and he rushes to the 5th tower where Ulquiorra and Orihime are located. It then shows a young plus girl being chased by hollow in Kagamino City, 22km from Karakura Town, when suddenly the hollows are killed simply by the reiatsu of the Gotei 13 captains, Aizen, and his top Espada. A shinigami assigned to the area tells the girl to run before she is attacked again, then questions how the battle will end. It then goes back to the battle where the captains talk amongst themselves, when suddenly the captain-commander says for everyone to get back as he unleashes his shikai to trap Aizen, Tousen, and Gin. Back in Las Noches, Ulquiorra talks to Orihime, asking if she is scared. She replies that she isn't scared. Ichigo is temporarily delayed by the exequias and their leader, Rudobone. Rudobone and his men attack, but are stopped by Renji, Sado, and Rukia. Ichigo continues on his way eventually breaking though the floor into the throne room, ready to battle.

While Ichigo faces off against Ulquiorra in Hueco Mundo, Barragan takes charge of the Espada in Karakura Town. He then sets about summoning hollow to destroy the four pillars that were used to replace Karakura Town with the current replica. However, he had not anticipated that they would be protected by Kira, Madarame, Ayasegawa and Hisagi. As such he is forced to dispatch four of his strongest Fraccion to defeat them....

The battle of the pillars has begun with Yumichika fighting Charlotte, but can he keep a straight face battling someone nearly as arrogant as himself?..

With Charlotte defeated one of the pillars is safe but the others continue to fight the Fraccion. Kira in particular is having a hard time dealing with his opponent, until, that is, he manages to lure him into a close range battle....

When Hisagi faces off against Findor Carias, his opponent proves to be much stronger than he first thought. As such Hisagi is forced to release his Shikai, Kazeshini in order to defeat him...

When Madarame is defeated and one of the pillars is destroyed the real Karakura Town begins to reappear. However, even on the verge of death Madarame refuses to reveal his Bankai and he has to be saved by Captain Komamura...

With four of the Fraccion defeated, it is time for the real battle to begin, as the Espada face off against the Shinigami. While, Hitsugaya takes on Harribel it is up to Matsumoto to defeat her three Fraccion. At the same time Soi Fon and Omaeda fight against the last of Barragan's Fraccion...

Both Soi Fon and Omaeda are having trouble dealing with their opponents and things get even worse when the Fraccion enter their Resurreccion forms...

Soi Fon continues her fight with Ggio but when she gets into touble Omaeda must quickly defeat Nirgge in order to come to her aid. However, it may be Omaeda who needs help after he disrupts his Captain's strategy...

Matsumoto's fight against the three Fraccion is proving too much for her but luckily Hinamori arrives just in time to help her out. However, things soon go from bad to worse when the Fraccion enter their Resurreccion forms. Meanwhile, Ukitake, Hitsugaya and Kyouraku continue their own fights...

Rangiku and Hinamori are terrified of Allon. Allon is too strong for both of them so he quickly beats them. Luckily, Kira, Hisagi arrive for help. Kira heals Hinamori's and Rangiku's injuries while Hisagi is struggling with Allon. Iba comes to help but is very quickly taken care of. All the hope seems to be lost for Kira when Allon comes for him but suddenly Captain Yamamoto arrives. Meanwhile, Lilynette, Ukitake, Stark and Kyouraku continue their fights...

Captain Yamamoto is forced to take on Allon after the failure of the vice-captains. Unfortunately for Allon he is far from a match for the Captain-Commander. The other Captains are also working hard as Hitsugaya is forced to use his Bankai against Harribel, Kyouraku's fight with Stark intensifies and Soi Fon faces off against Barragan. Meanwhile, back in Hueco Mundo Renji and Chad face off against numerous Hollow, Rukia confronts the leader of the Exequias and Ichigo starts his battle with Ulquiorra....

This episode is set before the first episode of the series. In Soul Society Rukia is assigned to protect Karakura Town and Renji is promoted to vice-captain. In the real world Ichigo and his friends have their first day of high school...

The episode starts with women from Soul Society choosing their swimsuits. The women and Ichigo are at the beach on vacation because Byakuya destroyed Women's association pool. Later on, Byakuya, Ikkaku, Renji, Ukitake and everyone else join them. Everyone seems to be having a good time until Watermelon - type hollow shows up and gets two vice - captains and Inoue. In the end it was not a hollow but a game Byakuya, Unohana and Ukitake thought for everyone...