"Attention all slaves!" Lusamine's voice said over the radio, broadcasting across all of Alola from her command center within Aether Paradise. "Go to your battle stations! The time for war draws near!"
As the slave milf's voice echoed across the island of Providence, all of Ash's slave women acted in calm, collected fashion, much like they trained for. It was nine in the morning, and they had but mere hours before the enemy would reach their territory.
Serena took several of Ash's Pokémon alongside her own in the defense of Mele Mele, the Island projected to be where the most intense battles would occur. With her, she led a squad of slave women consisting of Misty, May, Hilda, Rosa, Alexa, Skyla, Lana and Mallow.
With Lana prepping Ash's armored yacht as a defense, She and Misty would lead a garrison of Alolan soldiers aboard their own attack boats and warships. As their ocean blockade took place, Skyla readied herself in her plane, ready and prepared to kamikaze the command vessel should she get the chance.
Serena and the rest of her allies remained at the coastline, willing to put their lives on the line in the event of a land assault. Even if they were at risk, none of them cared, for their devotion to their Master was so great, that they would even brave the most deadly of adversaries if it meant securing their Owner's claim to his throne.
Cynthia departed on one of her Master's attack boats alongside Dawn, Flannery, Korrina, Malva, Nessa, and Bea. While Nessa and Dawn defended the pier, Cynthia and the rest of her team fortified their position in the capital of the Region, with the assistance of Malva's airship, the War Thunder, ensuring the city and its trained citizens would be ready for a battle.
Annabel took her squad consisting of Elesa, Iris, Claire, Lillie and Diantha, assembling on Ula Ula as a means of organizing as reinforcements alongside the residents of the island.
Bonnie began to organize her slave sisters on Poni Island to cover Mele Mele Island's flank. With her, a squad of Sonia, Olivia, Marnie, and Solana.
Lusamine remained at her station alongside Sabrina and Nurse Joy aboard Aether Paradise. From there, Lusamine could give instruction and intel to her slave sisters alongside the help of Sabrina, whose psychic prowess not only mentally linked her to Team Rose's Admins, but also gave the ability to pull their slaves out of danger so Nurse Joy could treat them.
While all their other slave sisters went beyond the shores of Providence Island, Jesse and Domino remained their, tasked with defending the Island with the help of Clemont's special device, as well as some more of Ash's Pokémon, including his partner Pikachu.
While all of these preparations went other way, not a single slave noticed their Master had departed from the Island an hour prior, hiding away discreetly and suppressing his aura for just the right moment.
The next couple of hours passed like a Slowpoke, the tension and suspense completely palpable. By the time noon struck, Serena looked out to the North West, zoning onto the horizon with her Essentia suit's visor. And it was then she saw it.
A massive fleet of almost forty vessels, all decorated with massive cannons. Seeing that planes were beginning to take off from their airplane carriers, Serena decided to act before they could make landfall.
"This is it, people of Alola, slaves to our Emperor!" Serena shouted to her troops over the radio piece in her helmet. "The time for battle is nigh! If it means that our Lord maintains his power over us, then send them to a watery grave!"
"Yes, Empress of Fire!" Team Rose slaves and the subjects of Alola chanted alike, readying to meet the enemy head on.
"Gyarados, come out!" Misty called from the deck of the super yacht. "Swim underneath their vessels and drag them underneath!"
Upon hearing its trainer's command, the Sea Dragon Pokémon dove underwater, swimming swiftly to its enemies. As the forces of Alola began to close in on their targets, with people and Pokémon alike, Looker began to instruct from the command room of his own vessel.
"This is it, people." Looker began to say to each at every ship in the fleet. "Our last chance to stop that evil man and his ambitions. We won't mess up like last time. We can't take Solana's betrayal out of accounts. This time we'll focus all of our assets into taking down Mele Mele first. We'll roll over them like a wave and deal with the other Islands later. We have the numbers, so a war of attrition's by capturing and holding one island at a time will ensure our campaign's success."
"Quite and astute observation, Looker." Riley said over the radio call. "A perfect plan for a perfect leader."
"You can keep your mockery to yourself, Riley." Looker scoffed. "You seem perfectly content, hiding away on Team Rocket's stealth ship. If what you said is true, and Ash is really dead, then why even bother coming at this point?"
"I need to see this through to the end." Riley put bluntly. "I may not need to fight, but I will observe none the less."
"Well, in that case, as an observer, I grant you no form of command from this point forward." Looker informed his now former accomplice. "Leave this to the rest of us."
Upon cutting his transmission, Looker commanded an additional squadron of pilots depart from the aircraft carrier to intercept the oncoming attackers. As this happened, Riley and Giovanni looked to each other in the control room.
"So, you remember our deal then, yes?" Giovanni asked his cohort. "You will use the full power of the Life Stone to annihilate our 'allies' once they've secured the two Stones and take them for ourselves, correct?"
After Riley stood silent momentarily, looking at the Life Stone as its form now no longer shined brightly, instead showing a completely dark color as the artifact showed signs of fracturing, he turned back to Giovanni.
"I have no idea if will even work at this point, since your little experiments have nearly broken the thing in two." Riley replied. "I could only hope you will fulfill your end of the bargain as well."
"Fret not, my devious little accomplice." Giovanni chuckled sinisterly. "I will ensure that you have plenty of slaves to turn into breeding fodder for your precious guild."
As the two looked outside the airships window, its stealth field concealing their presence, explosions and attacks of Pokémon flashed in the distance. The battle for Ash's slave empire had begun.
As airplanes and Pokémon on either side began to be shot down into the ocean below, Lana began to make her move.
"Master said we should try and get their vessels to follow us." Lana told her slave sister. "I'll lead them through our mines.
"Good thinking, slave sister!" Misty applauded her sister in chains, the blue haired women steering closer to the group of assault ships.
Seeing the approaching craft in her sights, Caitlin began to make her move to seize a chance at claiming glory.
"All ships under my command, chase down that yacht!" Caitlin commanded of her crew.
"But Miss! What about General Looker's orders?!" The captain of the ship asked his superior.
"Looker wants as many people captured alive as possible." Caitlin explained. "Run them down, ram them if you have to, but make sure we take them in alive, if nothing else, for questioning."
Knowing better than to question a direct command, the captain of the Unova directed ships diverged the path of the main fleet, with all five ships pursuing Lana's craft.
"Caitlin, what are you doing?" Looker asked his ally, noticing she changed direction. "Get back in formation this instant."
"I'm through taking orders from you 'General'." Caitlin mocked over the radio. "You want this done right? Then I'll prove to you what the might of the Unovan people here and now."
"You are chasing down a single yatch with troop carriers. Turn around now, or I will not be held accountable for what your foolish actions do to endanger the mission." Looker warned her for the final time.
Caitlin's bluster soon turned to panic, for the troop carrier leading the charge struck a sea mine, the explosive shards puncturing the vessel, causing irreparable damage. As the frigate took on water, the entire crew began to abandoned ship.
"Mines!! Turn us around, quick!" Caitlin warned her vessel.
While she and two of her other frigates managed to successfully, the remaining ship was not so fortunate, for Misty's Gyarados emerged from the depths, wrapping its massive body around half of the entire ship.
As the crew of the ship struggled in vain to escape, Gyarados pulled the vessel under, never to emerge again.
"Damn!" Misty scoffed. "I was hoping we'd get more out of that.
Not accepting these results as true, Caitlin doubled down on her attempt at taking Ash's empire down on her own, commanding her vessels to wrap around the Northern side of Mele Mele to attack Providence Island. After seeing Caitlin fully abandon his movement, Looker resumed command once again, his moment to strike imminent.
"Sir, our cannons are now within range of their coastline." A deckhand informed the detective.
"All pilots, break off from attacking the enemy aircraft and return to the carriers." Looker radioed his troops. "All battery cannons, target everything on that ridge and fire on my mark."
After hearing their commands, all of the Alliance fighter planes and Pokémon alike turned tail, their movement being seen as a retreat to the grunts in the Empire of Alola's army.
"Yeah, run home you cowards!" An Imperial soldier shouted.
"You all shall learn to fear our Emperor of Ash!" Shouted a female soldier.
As the group of chanting and cheering soldiers echoed on the beachfront, Serena realized something was off. Zooming in on her helmet's visor, the Empress noticed that the cannons on the warships began to adjust to fire at just the right angles.
"Misty, their about to fire a barrage of cannon fire!" Serena shouted over her earpiece. "Have Gyarados fire its Hyper Beam at the ships quickly!"
Being closer to the enemy fleet, Misty fully understood what Serena meant, turning to her Gyarados now swimming beside the yacht.
"Quick Gyarados, use Hyper Beam!" She shouted.
As the Sea Dragon Pokémon began to charge up its attack, its gaping maw open to show a vibrantly colored orb of energy condensing in one single spot, every single cannon in the enemies fleet began to glow with a similar color.
"Fire." Looker commanded.
Sensing something truly devastating was about to occur, Misty reached for a shining gemstone wrapped inside her hair braid.
Only but a moment after, multiple intense beams of light escaped from the cannons onboard the vessels, their beams striking everything they pointed at. Lana, Misty and her Gyarados, everyone on the coastline itself, and even a few remaining planes in Ash's service were hit with intense firepower.
Just like that, a massive explosion erupted from where the beams impacted, the shockwave felt for miles. The intense heat from the cannons eviscerated almost everything, turning the beach sand to glass and causing steam to emit from the ocean.
Serena and her slave sisters could only watch in horror from the cliffs above, clenching their fists in rage. Their entire force was wiped out, with only a few people and Pokémon narrowly escaping the enemy's wrath.
"Misty, Lana!" Serena shouted into her helmet's communicator. "Are you ok?! Come in!!"
Ash's yacht was completely destroyed, the vessel torn asunder by the massive wave of energy. Zooming in on the wreckage, Serena held her breath in worry, afraid that her slave sisters met the same fate as the Alolan Soldiers.
Luckily, Serena was able to breath easy once more, for she saw Misty and Lana emerge from the water, clinging to some debris. In a moment of desperation, Misty had triggered the mega evolution in her Gyarados, using its improved body to better resist the oncoming onslaught, with such a maneuver being the sole reason she and her slave sister were spared from annihilation.
Seeing her fainted and badly injured Pokémon floating amongst the debris, Misty recalled her partner Pokémon to her side, withdrawing it to its Pokeball.
"They're cannons are terrifying..." Misty gasped in shocked. "Come sister, our Mistress will surely need us to retreat. There's no way we can take on that fleet now."
"Yeah, let's go." Lana nodded her head.
As the two slaves began to swim ashore to rendezvous with their Admin, Looker watched their movements from the deck of his command ship.
"Sir, we've confirmed reports." A deck hand said to him. "We took out the majority of their intercept party!"
"Good." Looker nodded before picking up the radio. "Attention all soldiers! Begin loading onto the water craft transporters! We shall keep the fleet here to avoid running into any more mines! We keep moving forward with the plan! Phase two is to destroy their power grid once more!"
"Yes sir!" The soldiers aboard the vessels chanted, rushing to fill themselves into smaller watercraft for personnel transport.
"Now begins the hard part." Lance said to Looker, walking with him towards a troop transport.
"We must ensure that no outside help comes this time." Looker said, stepping onto the smaller watercraft alongside several other militia members. "Ash Ketchum may be dead, but his infernal will he forced onto the populace lives on. I will see this madness ends, once and for all! Now charge!"
As so, the Alliance's army began to make its move, their enemies in a full retreat. Feeling the loss of his people echo in the waves of aura, Ash clenched his teeth, holding himself from rushing in. He needed to wait. Wait for the right time. Soon, he would ensure this battle's swift end by his own hand.