Upon entering the boardroom, Solana and Riley were greeted by the Alliance of Regions, Looker, and Giovanni, already sitting in their chairs, awaiting the duo.
"Let us begin our discussions." Looker said, taking a tablet into his hand. "What progress have we made on the war front preparations, ladies and gentlemen?"
"My shipbuilding crew have already salvaged the scuttled ships in Slateport and have begun patchwork as we speak." Steven reported. "We've also made increased progress with the assistance of Mr. Watson's connections to the Sea Mauville Project. That oil rig out in the middle of the ocean is now a staging ground for all our other constructed ships in case the main harbor is attacked again."
"Good to know we are doing better on that front then." Looker nodded his head. "As for the other Regions at the table who are providing manpower for the actual assault, I would like to get a headcount at this moment."
"After small setbacks with a good portion of the public completely opposed to conscription, we've been able to get a headcount of about nine hundred men and women." Lance reported. "Any of my available Gym Leaders are assisting in training these individuals across my two regions."
"Impressive figures, let's hope there are more to come." Looker said, jotting down the details in his tablet. "What about the rest of you?"
"My Region has already signed on roughly six hundred people to fight for our freedom." Caitlin offered. "But I'm sure we'll get plenty more to join us. Unlike these weaker regions, us Unovan are tough built and enjoy combat."
"Leaving that underhanded comment aside, the nation of Galar has been training about three hundred strong to be prepared for the war." Leon stated. "It's hard getting people to agree to the notion of war when our nations have seen relative peace, barring the odd insane world destroying criminal."
"And that brings us to you, Giovanni." Looker said to the mob boss next to him. "Are you willing to offer details of what you'll contribute to our common goal?"
"My men are sufficient in backup." Giovanni bluntly spoke. "I don't see it prudent to give you the exact numbers."
"Oh, I think you should." Alain said to the man. "We've been working our asses off to ensure our safety. What have you done?!"
"Investigative work." Giovanni said while gazing directly at Solana, his gaze unsettling her. "I think I have some details that might interest you lot."
After putting his hands into his inner suit pocket, Giovanni pulled out a set of pictures taken of the Slateport harbor and its surroundings.
"These photos were taken the day that Miss Solana here arrived in Hoenn to inspect the progress on the ships." Giovanni informed the group. "Notice anything odd in the pictures?"
"What are you getting at?" Solana asked the man, retaining the composure her Master programmed her with.
"Why don't we direct ourselves to one photo in particular." Giovanni offered, putting his finger on a picture of Solana on her personal ship. "Notice what she has in her hand?"
"A black box?" Steven asked, looking at Solana.
"Oh this is no mere box, my dear Champion." Giovanni chuckled sinisterly. "This is a long range radio transmitter, capable of sending messages to other transmitters of its make and model. It's a one of a kind technology only my scientists have developed."
"What do you mean, Giovanni?" Looked asked the man. "Why would she have something only you possess?!"
"Before Alola was brought entirely to his command, Ash Ketchum raided a private island my organization was staged on." Giovanni informed them. "They were cut off from the main branch of the group, but they were supplied with state of the art tech made for long term missions. This radio is one of those technologies."
"What?!" Caitlin gasped, looking at Solana. "Then that means..!"
"Solana was compromised in her attempted survey mission, brainwashed into being a spy." Giovanni stared at the woman with cold, vicious eyes. "At that point, Ash gave her tech he stole from my base so that she may use it to make contact with him to give him all the info he needs."
"Solana, is this true?!" Looker stammered, standing from his chair.
"Maybe this is all circumstantial evidence." Alain said. "Who knows if Giovanni's even telling the truth."
"No, he's speaks true." Steven said, standing from his chair. "I myself found it odd how the woman who inspected our harbor did it mere hours before it was raided. I'd think I'd be coincidence, but she even asked me a bizarre question. 'Is there room to fit my belongings', or something along that line."
"Then, if Solana truly is a spy..." Lucian began to say. "Then we've been playing into her brainwasher's hands this whole time!"
"Solana, I don't want to doubt you..." Looker said, approaching the woman with handcuffs. "But until we can prove your innocence, we'll have to place you under arrest."
"No!" Solana screamed, bolting for the door.
"She is a traitor!" Leon screamed.
"Stop her!" Lance cried out.
Looked attempted to catch her by the wrist, but the teal haired woman proved to be a challenge for him. Using her training as a ranger, the slave woman judo flipped the Interpol officer over her shoulder, throwing him to the ground.
As the groups of Champions sprinted to stop her, the door to the elevator closed behind her, preventing them from following. As Looker called out over the radio to the Rose Tower security team to apprehend the woman, Giovanni and Riley sat calmly in their seats.
"So you knew too, huh?" Riley asked the man. "I was hoping to use that woman as a bargaining chip. Why would you give her the chance to run away?"
"Now that she's been outed as a spy, she has no hope in the unified regions." Giovanni explained. "She'll take that special plane she was gifted right back home to her 'Master'. There, that foolish young man will be given quite a surprise."
Placing his hands back into his suit pocket, Giovanni withdrew a strange looking stick with an antenna and a red button on it.
"You... rigged her plane?" Riley asked.
"When Ash Ketchum comes to greet his distressed slave, the camera I smuggled onto the aircraft will show me the perfect chance to pull the trigger on my little bomb." Giovanni said sinisterly, flashing the detonator in his hands. "When my special package goes off inside the plane's fuel tank, well, let's just say that Ash Ketchum will be a little more than bruised."
As the two remained inside the top of the tower, Looker and the Champions continued their search for Solana, who of as this moment, was just making her way to the roof.
Making her way to the helipad where her VTOL jet plane currently resides, Solana was met by a trio of Macro Cosmos security personnel.
"We found the suspect on the roof, Looker!" The leader said over the radio. "Get up here quick so we can detain her!"
"Don't let her get away, but be careful! She's got hand to hand training!" Looker warned the trio.
Wasting no time, Solana rushed down the three men, using the brief training she received from her slave sister Bea to incapacitate the group. After knocking two of the goons down with a leg sweep to one and a throat jab to the other, the leader of the group pulled out a shock baton.
Swinging for her torso, Solana stepped back with acrobatic skill, turning her momentum into a cartwheel, striking the man over the head with the back of her heel. After successfully dispatching the group, Solana rushed to her aircraft, with Looker, Steven and Caitlin in pursuit.
"Gothitelle, stop that plane with your Thunderbolt!" Caitlin shouted, calling upon her Pokémon.
Charging its body with electricity, the Psychic Pokémon threw from its hand multiple bolts of lightning, but to no avail. Using her quick wits, Solana was able to evade the projectiles, now going full throttle back towards her new home.
"Shit!" Steven said, dropping his usual calm demeanor. "What happens now?! She has too much info about our Alliance! We will have to delay the invasion to change our plans!"
"I'm afraid that's impossible, as much as I want that to happen." Looker said to the concerned man. "If we wait any longer, Ash Ketchum could potentially bring the fight to us. We won't be prepared for an invasion when he has two of the Stones of Power."
"So, then we march to our demise then?" Caitlin asked, withdrawing her Pokémon.
"No. We can change our strategy, but we do not delay the invasion!" Looker said, wiping his forehead of sweat. "Let's return to the meeting room. We need to discuss how we go about this."
As Solana raced back to headquarters in her plane at Mach speed, She took the special radio from her cockpit into her hand.
"Master! Slave sisters, come in!" She said in distress over the radio. "My position in their ranks has been compromised. My duty as a slave is a failure. Please come in!"
As this radio transmission occurred, Ash was in his hot tub, enjoying the lewd bodies of Marnie and Sonia.
"This is quite a relaxing afternoon, wouldn't you say so, my mindless fuck toys?" Ash teased to duo as they stroked their Master's massive cock underwater.
"Yes, Master!" The duo giggled, making out with each other for their Owner's amusement.
Grabbing Sonia by the waist, Ash forced the nude woman onto his throbbing shaft, the girth of his member driving Sonia mad with lewd thoughts.
"Oh, Master!" She gasped as she tucked Marnie's head into her large D cupped breasts. "You're so big..! I might split in two!"
"Always remember that you can enjoy your Master's cock as long as you continued to know your place as my slave!" Ash reminded his broken minded servant, rubbing his hands along her thighs.
"Yes, Master!" Sonia gasped. "We live and exist solely for your pleasure. Our bodies were meant for this life! I couldn't think of anything more fulfilling than this!"
"That's my girl..!" Ash chuckled, taking his hand out of the water to gently stroke his slave's head.
As this happened, Bonnie approached the group in the hot tub with concern on her face.
"Master, I'm so sorry to bother you while you relax with my slave sisters, but there's a situation with our spy slave." Bonnie said in worry. "She's been compromised. She's making her way back home now."
Sensing the need to address his slave personally, Ash commanded his two slaves with a wave of his hand to remove themselves from him. Stepping out of the tub, snapping his fingers, Nessa and May came to his side, dressing him in his clothing.
"Let's see what she has to say." Ash said as May put on his suit jacket.
As Ash and Bonnie made their way to the airfield, they saw Solana's aircraft slowing down for its landing. Allowing the aircraft the land, fully stopping just in front of the hanger doors, Solana exited the vehicle, running to her Master's side.
"Forgive me, my Master!" Solana said in worry, taking a knee before her Lord. "I was found out for providing you info on the Slateport docks. You even went out of your way to program my mind to manipulate the Alliance. I'm so sorry!"
"Think nothing of it." Ash said dismissing her apologies with a wave. "What was the last amount of intel you could gather?"
"I've got a bit of intel on their soldier numbers." Solana said to her magnificent God. "They have roughly amassed eighteen hundred soldiers, and with more to come!"
"That's troublesome news." Ash mumbled to himself. "We've only amassed about five hundred militia members ourselves. We're gonna need a strategy to overcome those numbers."
After making note of the plane, Ash approached the aircraft.
"Impressive vehicle." Ash noted, stepping even closer to the airplane. "What do you think, Bonnie? Do you think weapons can fit on this?"
At this moment, as Ash placed his hand onto the plane, on the other side of the world, Giovanni watched from his hidden camera, thumb on the detonator.
"Say goodnight, you measly little speck." Giovanni taunted, pushing down on the button.
At this moment, a noise was heard from the fuel tank in the aircraft. In a moment of instinctive reflexes, Ash attempted to back away, raising a barrier of Aura in front of him and his slaves to protect them.
But the force of the bomb was too strong! The shockwave blasted Ash and the others off their feet, with shrapnel puncturing the barrier with so much force that the shield gave way, dozens of metal pieces of debris now flying into Ash entire body. Some of Ash's skin and clothing began to catch fire from the heat. It took Ash's entire will to extinguish the flames before passing out from the pain.
The force of the explosion could be felt in the ground all the way across the island and the sound of it all the way to Mele Mele. As the hanger caught fire, the roof to the building began to collapse.
"Master!" Bonnie said in a dazed panic, barely making out her Master's body from her blurred vision.
As she and the equally shell shocked Solana struggled to pull Ash's injured body away, the ceiling finally gave way. Bonnie and Solana made it just in time, saving Ash before he was crushed under the roof.
"Help! All slaves off duty report to the airfield! This is an emergency!" Domino shouted over the radio, watching in horror from the air traffic control tower. "We just had an explosion in the hanger! We've got fire spreading! Get as many Water Pokémon out here ASAP!"
As the entire harem still on the island rushed fo the scene, Ash's Greninja and several other Water Type Pokémon began to act quick, using their water moves to drench the roaring flames.
"What happened?!" Misty asked in panic, noticing both Bonnie and Solana bleeding from their heads.
"Forget us..!" Bonnie said in a daze. "Save our Master! He's hurt bad!"
Without a moment to spare, Nurse Joy rushed to the aid of her King, only to be met with a horrifying sight. Examining the man's body, the nurse noticed several shards of metallic debris puncturing his chest and legs.
His face was in even worse shape, with several burn marks from where the fire scorched him, and several deep gashes from where debris impacted or grazed him covered his entire face. One particular piece of metal just narrowly missed his left eye.
"He...saved us..." Bonnie said, on the verge of passing out. "He used his own body to take most of the explosion..."
"Hold on, we'll get you all to a hospital, quick!" Annabel reassured Bonnie, who passed out shortly after. "Sabrina, take them to Hau Oli General Hospital!"
"Yes, Mistress!" Sabrina obeyed, teleporting the three injured people to Mele Mele's best hospital.
"My King...Ash..!" Serena prayed for her God. "Please be okay..!"
Meanwhile, in a private board room in Galar, Giovanni was laughing out loud.
"Yes, finally!" Giovanni howled in evil laughter. "With a bomb of that size, Ash Ketchum is dead for sure! So as you said, when the user of the Stones of Power dies, they will forget their host and make themselves available for their next user?"
"I did say that, yes." Riley replied to the man beside him. "But that's not the only way we could have played that out. A user who has the Stones removed from his presence for more than a week's time will cause the Stones to reach out to the next user. I would like to keep those women alive to breed me my army of Aura Guardians."
"There's plenty of women for you to turn into your little breeding machines, fool." Giovanni chuckled. "You'll have your request met. I shall give you those women, and in return, I will get my Stones of Power."
"Yes." Riley said simply. "And then our business with each other will be concluded then."
"I must say, Aura Guardian, you definitely aren't the paragon of purity you make yourself out to be." Giovanni said to the man. "How truly devious. Of course, I'm referring to this deal we're making behind the Alliance's back."
"I'm just a man who realizes that crime and chaos are constants in this world." Riley replied. "I'm just a man smart enough to play that system."
"I guess we aren't so much different then, you and I." Giovanni said sinisterly.
"No, there is a difference between us." Riley replied.
"Hmm?" The mob boss questioned.
"Unlike you, I've got a good deal of insurance policies." Riley said in his own mind. "I know such a measly blast couldn't kill Ash. He'll be back, and that's when I will reveal my trump card."