Arashi stepped forth from the gate to behold a sight from something very unusual going on, no wonder his presence had been requested, if the spiritual pressure he was feeling was accurate, there was an enormous hollow incursion going on, and he could feel the barriers between worlds were weakening at a specific point he couldn't quite pinpoint just yet, but he could tell already if it broke it would be a very large breach.
He'd received a number of alarming messages from Hana, his subordinate had lost her powers? How on earth had that happened? And then the messages had come in about a major hollow incursion, normally a lieutenant wouldn't have been called in but...
The point of the breach he was sensing, he was told was a Class 8, which meant a Menos of some sort was breaking through into the real world, an astonishingly rare event as it happens, Menos almost never took an interest in the human world or even Soul Society, they feasted on other hollow's after all so why would they care about human souls?
And as it so happened, he believed he'd heard a report that a Quincy was in the area, and had used hollow bait...but that was the strange part, in no way should such a thing be able to lure in the incredible amount of the creatures that Arashi was witnessing with his very eyes even now, there was easily at least a hundred of them, if not more, fortunately the hollow's didn't seem to be interested in eating the souls of humans, or there would have been a serious problem.
No for the most part, they seemed to be trying to go for several reishi signatures that gave off high levels of energy, focusing on the powerful souls rather then the weak, and for the most part the number's were being kept down by these signatures who were...You're joking me Came the thought to Arashi's mind, he could sense the spiritual pressure of Urahara Kisuke himself!
Not only that, but he was apparently helping take down the small fry, which was good because at the moment...the breach was beginning to crack open, and he could now sense the spiritual signature of a Menos...a Gillian, Arashi thought attempting to break free What on earth could tempt a Gillian from Hueco Muendo? He thought as he began to move with all haste towards Hana's soul pulse, which was close to the breach.
When he reached her, he eyed the people nearby, an orange-headed lad with...that was quite the zanpaktou he had there, Rukia and Hana and...a quincy who gazed at Arashi balefully, to which he merely smiled cheerfully in response before checking on his subordinate "Are you alright I...hear you lost your powers, though as to how I think I can guess now." Arashi said to Rukia with a pointed look at the orange head, she blushed faintly in embarrassment "Um, lieutenant! I wasn't expecting you here! I can explain! I swear I-" Arashi cut her off "Relax, I really don't care one way or another, Ukitake was merely worried about you, and so was I for that matter, so anyways, if you haven't figured it out yet, a Gillian is about to come through that hole," Arashi pointed, he'd put his hand on her shoulder and that's when he felt something strange...a slight wave of energy seemed to flow into him, and a faint chill moved down his spine before disappearing, not missing a beat he continued on. Strange...what was that?
The orangehead spoke up then "What the hells a Gillian?" Arashi smiled faintly at the question "You haven't even taught him that Rukia? For shame, a Gillian is a hollow formed from the body of many such creatures, about a couple hundred of thousand, so it's many times more powerful then other hollow's, that's why I'm here, such incursions on the human world are the jurisdiction of Lieutenant's and up, wouldn't want to see you lot get vaporized by a doom flash afterall."
"I think we could handle it," Said the orangehead confidently and Arashi raised an eyebrow as Rukia shook her head and muttered something about 'you idiot' and asked "Have you even seen a Menos before boy? I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here, the hole up there is just where it's head is level at, it hasn't even fully opened the breach yet."
The boy paled a bit, before flushing and muttering something uncomplimentary about Arashi to himself, what a firebrand this lad was...as hot tempered as his hair color was he could tell.
"He'll come through in about a few minutes." Said Arashi cheerfully before turning to Hana "You doing alright?"