Penetrate the centre with an enormous bombshell?

The episode begins with a recap of Episode 24, when Ichigo lost his concentration, and everything went BOOM. Then Kuukaku told him that he shouldn't have lost his concentration. Then, Ichigo falls asleep, after being stomped on by Kuukaku several times. Ganju gets up looking surprised (with a big lump on his head, after he Kuukaku hit him telling him that he was also to be blamed). Yoruichi walks over to Ichigo, and explains to Ganju that he is just sleeping. Then Yoruichi screams, and the screen switches. It's later on in the day, and Ichigo is still sleeping, while Ganju is off behind him chanting something. Ichigo wakes up saying: "CATNIP!", than asks Ganju: "What the hell was I dreaming about?" Ganju [obviously] replies by saying: "How the hell should I know?" Ichigo then asks: "Why was I sleeping here anyway?" Ganju responds in the same way. Ichigo asks him what he was reading, Ganju then gives Ichigo a rather rude response; telling him it's none of his business. Ishida walks in and tells Ichigo and Ganju that it's time to go.

The screen changes to just outside of the cannon. Ichigo says: "Yoruichi-san! Your tail looks like one of those really bendy tooth brushes!" Yoruichi then gets a really displeasing red aura around him, and say's: "Do you have a problem with that!?” Ishida then explains to Ichigo that he's the one who did that, and that it took all three of them (Ishida, Chad and Orihime) just to get Ichigo off of Yoruichi's tail. Ganju then arrives, sporting a very err... nice... outfit. He explains that it's his Battle Costume. Ichigo's wondering what it's for, because Ganju is only seeing them off. He then walks up to Ichigo, and starts to say: "Listen. My brother was killed by death gods!" He also tells Kuukaku to listen. His speech goes like this: "My brother... was a genius. He was accepted to the death god institute on the first try. At that point, his spirit power was already at level 6. That was in the junior adjacent of the 13 court guardian squads. Then, he graduated the 6 year curriculum in 1 year and joined one of the actual squads. In only 5 years he managed to climb his way up to lieutenant. But he was killed! He was betrayed by the death gods who were his comrades! I was still a kid back then, so I don't remember the details. But there are two things that I will never forget: Faces! Two Faces! The deom-like face of the death god who dragged my beaten and dying brother home... and the face of my brother happily thanking that death god. Why he did that... Why he seemed so happy... I still don't know. But there's one thing I can say: My brother didn't depise the death gods. He didn't hate them."

The speech went on for about 3 minutes; Ganju then grabs Ichigo's shoulder and says: "You're different from other death gods." A flash back of when Ichigo tells Ganju why he wants to save Rukia plays. Ganju then say's: "That's the feeling I get. I think that if I go with you I might find something out." After this, Yoruichi asks everyone if they're ready to use the cannon. They all, of course, say yes. Ichigo then asks if Yoruichi is able to make the cannonball; Yoruichi then tries. Ichigo lay's the orb down, and Yoruichi walks onto it. Success! He emits a perfect cannonball on his first try. Kuukaku calls Ganju up to the foot of the cannon and asks him if he's ''mastered it'' yet. He say's yes, and Kuukaku uses some sort of demon magic to make an opening at the bottom of the cannon, where the people go in.

Everyone enters the cannon, and Yoruichi begins to explain the plan for when they get into the court. He states that; when you're in, if you find a captain, run away without a moment's hesitation. The screen switches to Kuukaku, who is just about to fire the cannon. She chants something strange and her artificial arm lights on fire as she holds it up above her head. She lowers her arm, and the oil around the cannon ignites, and Kuukaku chants the words: "Embraced by 25 suns, the cradle of sand will spill blood.". The fire then goes back into her arm, and back out, but up to the top of the cannon. It breaks a string of beads around the middle of the cannon, and the group is fired off into the air; "KAGIZAKI!". B part begins.

The group is in the air, and the cannon-ball speed's up and turns out towards the court. Ganju pulls out a scroll, and explains that Kagizaki is a 2 part spell: First, the chant to fire it off, and then the continuation spell. The continuation spell control's the speed and trajectory of the cannon-ball. Everyone begins to uniformly regulate their spirit power, while Ganju begins to chant the continuation spell. Though, Ichigo's spirit power is to high for him to control easily, so he has to work really hard to lower it to the levels of everyone else.

At the emergency meeting, an alarm is sounding saying that there are intruders. All squads must take defensive positions. At the meeting, Zaraki Kenpachi (The 11th squad captain) leaves to find Ichigo's group. On the way out, a small pink haired girl comes out and says: "Ken CH~AN!", Apparently her name is Yachiru. "'This unavoidable" the first squad captain say's, while in the meeting "The squad meeting is temporarily dismissed." "I will notify you later of Ichimaru's status."." All squads proceed to defensive positions." The captains begin to walk out of the room. "It seems the alarm sounds quite conveniently these days." Captain Aizen say's to Captain Ichimaru on his way out. "I 'Aren't sure I understand" replies Ichimaru "...What year trying' to say." "Do you think that excuse will work?" says' Aizen. "You had best not underestimate me." He walks away, and Captain Hitsugaya (the short guy) was standing behind him with a concerned look on his face. Rukia is sitting down, looking out the window. She then gives a surprised look- and the screen changes. Kenpachi and Yachiru are running, they stop. "W-What is that!?" Renji say's, after yet, another screen change. He looks up into the sky, and sees the cannon-ball closing in. Everyone in the ball begins to pour in all their soul power, as the ball hit's the anti-soul shield. The ball breaks through, but then when it's in, it breaks in mid-air. Everyone then has to grab onto someone else, so that they won't get separated when they fall. Ganju begins to move towards Ichigo, but Ichigo gets really freaked out and tries to get him away. They have to grab onto the person closest to them as hard as they can- of course that's not a problem for Ganju and Ichigo, as they're already at each-others throats. Yoruichi then goes onto Ichigo's shoulder, Chad holds onto Orihime, but Ishida is flying away. Chad let's go of Orihime, as Ishida is falling out of the safe zone. Chad goes out with him, and grabs him and throws him back into the safe zone and onto Orihime. Chad falls alone. Orihime and ichigo try to grab each others hand, but the safe zone dissipates first, and they all fly away. Now Kenpahi has to make a very... tough, decision. Which of the 4 separate balls holds the most powerful ryoka? ... "WHICH IS IT!?"

Assemble! The 13 divisions

It begins on the recap of late episode 23, where Kuukaku tells ichigo's group how she's going to get them into the Court of Pure Souls. Then, Koganehiko and Shiroganehiko are told by Kuukaku to 'raise it up'. They than start to rotate two strange handles and the ground under Ichigo's group begins to rise up, and the ceiling opens. Kuukaku passes an orb to Ichigo (well... More like ricochets it off of Ishida's head to Ichigo), and tells him to put spirit power into it. However, Ichigo does not know how to do this. She than tells Ganju to show Ichigo how to put spirit power into it. Ichigo is reluctant to let him take the orb and show him. Ichigo than says: "I'd rather die then learn anything from you dumb-ass.", while patting the orb. Kuukaku than hit's both of them, and tells them to "Quit that shit.”

Ganju then gets up and begins a demonstration of how to put spirit-power into the orb. It works, and turns into what Kuukaku says is a cannonball; a giant blue orb appears around Ganju. Kuukaku than explains that; the wall around the Court of Pure Souls is made out of a rare rock called 'Blood-thirst Stone', it completely rejects spirit power. While Kuukaku explains this, everyone listens intently... Except for our favorite death god, Ichigo, who is blinking impatiently? However, he begins to listen when she explains that the blood thirst stone emits a force field around the Court of Pure Souls, from the sky all the way under ground. However, that's where the spirit orb steps in: It can emit a field that can temporarily punch a hole through the barrier- if you fire the ball up into the air using the Kakaku cannon (the big chimney). They then go to an underground hall to practice putting spirit power into the ball. The screen changes to Renji and a Death-god from squad 7 walking on a catwalk. They start walking into a room, and see Hinamori (The 5th squad lieutenant) sitting down. Then the 4th squad lieutenant walks in (Matsumoto). Hinamori then asks Renji if he's seen Captain Aizen lately, because he's been acting strange. The screen then changes back to Ichigo's group training. The screen changes to Kuukaku, who is pouring water (or alcohol) into two cups, and she says: "Sorry bro, for helping those death gods... But if you were live and saw me not helping one, you'd yell at me... and you who loved death gods... and died as one”. Part 2 starts.


Orihime, Chad and Ishida go up to show the progress they've made in making the force field. If it were in places, it would go like this: 1st-Orihime, 2nd-Chad, 3rd-Ishida, dead last... Ichigo. Koganehiko and Shiroganehiko get mad at him telling him he has no talent, than he spars on them and throw's the orb at them. The day goes by, and when the moon comes up, Ichigo is still trying to make the orb form a barrier around him. A dinner call comes, and Chad, Orihime and Ishida go to eat. But Ganju and Ichigo stay behind. Once Ichigo tells Ganju why he wants to save Rukia, Ganju tells Ichigo his secret of how to make a barrier with the orb easier.

The technique worked for Ichigo-But it was to strong. It started to blow away Ganju. The reason for this is because, Ichigo lost his concentration. Kuukaku started to give him shit for this. Because she's so angry, she decides not to give either of them dinner. The screen changes to Soul Society, the squad leader meeting are being initiated. They begging to discuss matters like Rukia's execution- and Ichigo's group (which we learn is called 'Ryoka'). After the meeting, there is another alarm and "Intruders in the Court of Pure Souls!”. "Ichigo..." Rukia says.