Urgent Report! Aizen's Terrifying Plan!

'''Urgent Report! Aizen's Terrifying Plan!''' is the one-hundred-twenty-fifth episode of the Bleach anime.

Statistics

 * Original Airdate: May 9, 2007
 * English Airdate: June 13, 2009
 * Opening Song: Alones
 * Ending Song: Tsumasaki
 * Manga Chapters: Chapter 221, Chapter 222, Chapter 223.
 * Kanji: 緊急報告！藍染の恐るべき計画
 * Romaji: "Kinkyū hōkoku! Aizen no osorubeki keikaku!"
 * Arc: The Arrancar arc

Summary
Ichigo Kurosaki wakes up in a mysterious world facing a Kenpachi Zaraki that is ready to kill him. In the Human World, the almost completely Hollow form of Ichigo is now fighting against the Vizard Love Aikawa. Watching from outside the barrier, Kensei Muguruma tells Lisa Yadōmaru that out of their group, Hiyori took the longest to do this with a time of 69 minutes and 2 seconds. In comparison, Ichigo has already taken 68 minutes and 44 seconds. Back inside the mysterious world, Ichigo tries to tell Zaraki that their fight is already over, but Zaraki asserts that a fight is not over until only one person is left alive and that you do not need a reason to fight. Zaraki claims that Ichigo wants to fight and wants power - they were born that way. With Zaraki urging him to fight and memories of his past battles filling his mind, Ichigo finally regains his senses in his inner world and pulls the sword out of his abdomen.

He stabs Hollow Ichigo with it, and turning Hollow Ichigo clothes black, just like his own. Hollow Ichigo decides to let Ichigo be king for now, but he warns that if Ichigo lets down his guard even a little, he will crush Ichigo. He also says that if Ichigo wants to control his real power, then Ichigo needs to stay alive until his Hollow side appears again. Ichigo's Hollow body in the real world had been charging a Cero to fire at Love, but when the internal fight ended, there was a large explosion. The real Ichigo sheds the Hollow skin and falls to the ground soon after. He tells Shinji Hirako that it does not feel bad, and then tells himself that he will not allow his Hollow side to crush him.

Elsewhere, Orihime Inoue is coming back from school while trying to keep from being depressed about Ichigo not showing up. She thinks about going out for snacks with Tatsuki Arisawa, but then remembers that Tatsuki has not been energetic recently either. When she arrives home, Mrs. Shinmura tells her that her house guests have moved some unusual equipment into apartment. She finds that Tōshirō Hitsugaya and Rangiku Matsumoto have installed a special giant television screen in her apartment that allows them to communicate with Soul Society. Using it, Hitsugaya contacts Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto and learns that the Sōsuke Aizen’s true objective has been confirmed.

Jūshirō Ukitake had been investigating the Great Spirits Library when he discovered a document unrelated to the Hōgyoku that Aizen had accessed. This document had been about the Ōken - the key of the royal family. Inoue does not know what they are talking about, so Rangiku and Yamamoto explain that there is a king of Soul Society who has a symbolic and absolute existence. This king lives in a different dimension inside of Soul Society, and the key opens up that dimension. From all of this, Yamamoto has concluded that Aizen intends to kill the king, but it is more complicated than that. The location of the key is only orally passed down between generations of the captain-commanders of the Gotei 13, so there are no written records. What Aizen had been looking at was the way to create the key, and this requires 100,000 souls along with a jūreichi - a place with a great density of spirit particles. The current location of this in the Human World is Karakura Town, and if Aizen completes a key in the way the documents say to, then everything around there would be wiped out forever.

Yamamoto says that the Gotei 13 will stop him, and they have four months before the Hōgyoku awakens completely. Until then, Aizen will not attack. Yamamoto estimates that the decisive battle will be fought in the winter, so they need to train and prepare for it. He also specifically asks for the help of Inoue and everyone in the Human World. He wants her to go tell Ichigo. After Inoue runs out, Rangiku leaves too to go tell Ikkaku Madarame and Yumichika Ayasegawa. Yamamoto stops Hitsugaya from going with her because there is someone who has been waiting to speak with him: Momo Hinamori. At this time, Renji Abarai is training Yasutora Sado and Ryūken Ishida is training his son as Inoue hurries her way towards Ichigo.