Noblesse Oblige.

I was curious how the captains and Visoreds intended to fight Aizen, and my question was answered: lamely. They started off by charging at Aizen head on with simple sword slashes and Shikai melee attacks. Only Kyoraku showed promise as he attacked Aizen from behind while Aizen was lecturing Hitsugaya. Of course, none of these attacks worked against Aizen. They should have known from what happened back in Soul Society that Aizen is strong enough to be invulnerable to straight up basic attacks. Hitsugaya and Komamura quickly realize the futility of their attacks and goes Bankai; however, this does not phase Aizen one bit. Aizen dodges all of Hitsugaya's ice attacks and defends against a combined attack from Love and Komamura. He then shows his overwhelming power by completing raping Komamura - again. Love and Rose now make a combined attack, but Aizen swiftly cuts down Rose. He proceeds to use Rose's whip to immobilize Love and then cuts him down as well. Ichigo watches in awe as Aizen just took down three captains in a couple of seconds. Lisa Hollowfies and attempts to decapitate Aizen from behind, but Aizen easily dodges and slashes her down while noting that the Visoreds are nothing more than Arrancars to him.
The captains finally decide to pull out some strategy and techniques: Soifon does shadow clones and rushes all of them at Aizen. With her real self she tries to stab Aizen twice in the same location with her stinger Shikai. Aizen first attempts to counter with a sword slash but Hitsugaya freezes his sword hand with an ice pillar. Aizen still manages to catch Soifon's weapon with his other thus preventing her from piercing him. However, since both Aizen's hands are occupied, Kyoraku manages to pierce Aizen through the chest from behind by suddenly teleporting there with his shadow technique. Hitsugaya says its over to Aizen and lunges towards him. Aizen breaks out of the ice to counter, but is disorientated by Shinji's Shikai inversion technique. Since he could not readjust fast enough to the change, Hitsugaya also manages to pierce Aizen through the chest.
It is confirmed that Unohana came back and will heal Hiyori, also Gin has been viewing the battle from the sidelines. Finally, let us not forget Kensei and Wonderweiss are facing off elsewhere while all this is happening.
Aizen's rapeage:

Thoughts: Other than Hitsugaya and Komamura, nobody else went Bankai to fight Aizen - who we know is tremendously strong. I was not surprised that Aizen could emerge victorious over them when all they did was run at him with simple Shikai releases. However, I was surprised at the ease of which Aizen cut them down. Komamura, a captain of "equal" level to Aizen's old position in Soul Society, was demolished by Aizen with a simple sword slash while he was in full Bankai mode. If we recall, he had fought on par with a Hollowfied Tousen a couple chapters earlier with the exact same Bankai. So either Tousen greatly weakened him in their bout, or Aizen had the ability to destroy Tousen anytime on whim this whole time. This also brings the question of how strong Gin is on the power scale. Now we basically know that Aizen can take down captain level individuals with even more ease than these captain level individuals taking down Menos.

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