"Lusamine, come in!" Serena shouted through her radio as she and he team of slaves retreated back to Hau Oli City. "Our defense on the beach was destroyed! I'd advise backup!"
"I'm afraid we can't do that now, my Mistress." Lusamine replied with hesitation. "Until we know of our enemies motives, there's no way we can meet them in a head to head slug fest! Especially since Jessie and Domino reported that several more enemy vessels were spotted circumnavigating Mele Mele. I'm sorry, but you're on your own for now."
"Damnit!" Serena snapped.
Even know she as the Empress of Alola held supreme command of her subjects only after her Master, she knew that Lusamine spoke true. Rather than press the issue and force her slave to make a bad decision, it was then when the Empress of Fire formed her new plan.
"There's a change of plans." Serena said to her Master's faithful servants. "Alexa! You go with Skyla and coordinate an attack on the enemies ships! Kamikaze your plane into whatever you think their command ship is! Use your flying Pokémon to escape and attack the enemies once they've reached the city!"
"Got it!" The two slave women obeyed, calling their Pokémon out and flying off to the Hau Oli airport.
"The rest of us will hunker down!" Serena commanded. "Make sure we hold the line here! If we lose the city, they'll surely attack the power plants like they did last time!"
"Yes Mistress!" Said the group of harem slaves and Alolan Imperial Soldiers alike.
As the main group dug into defensive positions, strategically placing themselves inside buildings and behind road barricades, Lusamine began to relay necessary info to the rest of the group.
"Cynthia, its seems like you'll be having company soon." Lusamine warned her Mistress. "Two enemy frigates are beelining their way to Akala right now!"
"Thank you for the warning, slave." Cynthia remarked, turning to face the enemy approaching fast on the horizon. "That's it? I was expecting something more...challenging."
"I'm unsure as to why the enemy would divide their forces like this, but as it stands, another of the enemy troop carriers was spotted by Jessie and Domino. It looks like they'll be touching down on our Master's private island!"
"I will send back up." Cynthia said, turning to Dawn, Flannery, and Korrina. "You three sluts get ready to teleport. Sabrina will now come and transport you to Master's Island."
"Yes Mistress!" The slaves obeyed, waiting for transport.
As this happened, Alexa and Skyla were now flying high above the enemies heads, their target locked on the enemy fleet moored a few hundred feet off the shores of Mele Mele. With but only a measly skeleton crew left behind, the enemy was left completely unprepared for such a bold counterattack.
"Eat this!" Skyla shouted, setting her plane into a dive bomb as she and Skyla left the rapidly falling aircraft.
After Alexa and Skyla called out their Noivern and Swanna respectively, the duo began to watch the plane as it finished its decent.
With a rumbling boom, the ship in the center of the fleet had several tons of steel crash on top of it, the force of the impact causing a chain reaction of explosions. Before the two slave girls knew it, they successfully had taken out around a quarter of the ships presently anchored in the area.
"Yes!" Skyla cheered energetically, pumping her fist with one hand as she held onto her Swanna's leg with another.
After basking in the glory for but a brief moment longer, the duo began making their way back to the main fight, but only after Alexa noticed a shimmering object in the sky right around the same height as them.
"Hmm?" Alexa wondered, reaching her hand out to Team Rocket's invisible airship, a fact that she was not privy to.
"Come on, slave sister!" Skyla reminded her sister. "We've got a battle to win here."
"You're right." Alexa replied, shaking her head to focus herself, following behind the former gym leader back to the chaos that now consumed Hau Oli a city.
"Was it wise to let them go?" Giovanni asked Riley. "Not only did they take out a good portion of the Alliance's fleet, but they almost noticed our ship as well."
"Trust me, Giovanni." Riley said back to the mob boss. "This is all according to plan.
As Alexa and Skyla returned to the fight in Hau Oli, they were both shocked to see that Serena's squad and Alolan Soldiers were backed into a corner. As the Alliance began to force their way into the city, block by block, Serena and her forces were left with little options.
"There's too many, my Empress!" Mallow said to Serena over the comms unit. "We need to fall back!"
"Never!" Serena commanded of her lesser slave sister. "We will hold out until our Master's plan is in effect!"
As Serena said this, she looked up into the sky, noting Alexa and Skyla were descending upon the enemies flank, attempting to strike a nerve in their command unit taking up the rear.
"Take this!" Alexa said from atop her Noivern.
But before she and Skyla could react however, a blast of dark energy emitted from out of nowhere, striking Alexa, Skyla and both of their Pokémon.
As the duo screamed in agony, they fell limp to the ground, captured by the very enemy they intended to destroy.
"That was you, wasn't it, Riley?" Looker said into his earpiece.
"How did you guess?" Riley said smugly, the stealth field surrounding Team Rocket's aircraft disappearing.
A giant cannon, very much like the PEMP cannons Looker's Interpol unit once used was fixed beneath the ship, sparks of black, vile energy jumping off of the device.
"Say hello to the power of the Life Stone!" Riley shouted. "The Power over Life itself is at my fingertips!"
As the cannon charged up, even more sparks began to pulse from the cannon's mouth. A streak of dark energy poured from the weapon, range bow fully demonstrated. Firing shots out to every single island, the black energy consumed all life on every one of the six islands in Alola, even including Ash's own private island of Providence.
While the vile act was carried out by using Riley's aura as a conduit in order to activate the Stone, it was through Giovanni's evil scheming that caused the Holy Artifact to be corrupted beyond measure. The immense, vile energy sent from Riley's Aura into the Stone put immense stress on the artifact.
And hust like that, upon the Life Stone shattering in two, every subject of Alola, and even the Alliance members was hit with the blast, causing acute and extreme pain and damage, both mental and physical. Those few who didn't pass out from the unbridled cruelty were only subject to more pain.
"Riley-agh!" Looker gasped in agony. "What the hell are you doing?!"
Riley didn't bother to answer the question until he and Giovanni departed the vessel, meeting the defeated detective, crawling on the ground helplessly.
"I'm doing what's called: 'tying up loose ends." Riley knelt down next to Looker's face, looking him dead in the eye. "It looks like the Life Stone did as it was intended to."
"What do you mean?!" Looker asked, still in pain from the surging sparks around him.
"You see, Looker. The third and final Stone, the Life Stone, holds power over life itself." Riley began to explain. "It is the most powerful of the three stones, influencing the very fabric of nature itself. It was theorized to counteract the other two Stones of Power."
"It has the power to steal away life, sealing the essence of the Stone's target to further strengthen itself." Riley added. "Where the Vigor Stone grants its user an undying body, the Life Stone can sap life away. But that's not the best part."
"There's more to it than that?!" Looker asked even more as he, and everyone around him quivered in pain.
"Oh Yes..!" Riley chuckled. "The Life Stone has the Power to remove any outside influence on the body as well as the mind. And to that end, every single person who was influenced by the Mind Stone has now been freed from its slavery."
As he said this, Looker began to look into the eyes of Alexa, who he still clutched next to her from her fall prior. While she was clearly in just as much pain as he was, if not more so, her eyes seemed to show a sign of confusion, as if this was the first time she'd been awake in many months.
"If that's true, then that must mean you've freed Alola from Ash's tyranny." Looker began to say, only for anger to swell up. "If you had this ability from the start, then why didn't you use it until now. And why on us?!"
"You're so foolish!" Giovanni chuckled. "Do you really think I, Giovanni, would turn down the perfect chance to take down all of my enemies?!"
"That's right." Riley said, taking a step behind Giovanni, raising his Aura Guardian staff, striking the Mob Boss across the back of his head.
After taking a moment to realize what just happen, Giovanni Rose in anger, reaching for one of his Pokeballs in his suit, only to be stopped at gunpoint by his own henchmen.
"What is the meaning of this?!" The mob boss yelled out, stopping in his tracks upon noticing the weapons trained on him.
"It's like I told you before, Giovanni. I always have a plan." Riley said, taking the broken shards of the Life Stone out of his jacket pocket.
"How did you?!" Giovanni questioned, only for his traitorous former underlings raising their guns at him.
"I picked them right out of their pedestal when you were busy soaking in the might of your pathetic weapon." Riley chuckled. "Did you really think we would be partners after you stole what was mine to begin with?! How stupid do you think I am?! From my time coordinating with your underlings, I found out how irate they had become of you these last couple of months. Wasting time, not giving them payment for all the bull shit they've had to endure from these little conflict, so I struck a deal with your crew."
"What?!" Giovanni asked in anger.
"I offered your group my factions ancestral sanctuary, filled with priceless jewels and gold in exchange for their service." Riley told him, only to pull out a familiar gemstone. "This holds no point any longer to me."
As Riley dropped the aura gem on the concrete street beneath him, he took out yet another one.
"The gem I just dropped holds the souls of several innocent bystanders. I will let them be free of my threats now, if only on a mere whim." Riley said. "But you, Giovanni, deserve no such mercy. I will trap you in a gem of my own design, let the endless void of oblivion make you my prisoner forever!"
"Damn you!!" Giovanni screamed with fiery vengeance, only to be helplessly absorbed into Riley's second gemstone, now forever a prisoner for Riley to gloat and taunt whenever he wished.
"As for you all, I will simply let fate decide what happens to you, I have a bigger score to settle." Riley said, waving his new army back into their airship before looking down at the fractured Life Stone shards in his hand. "He will soon reveal himself. I feel it."
Just as Riley said this, a massive surge of glowing aura erupted from the Western side of Mele Mele. All of the sudden, glowing light emitted from beneath the vessels of the Alliance fleet that still remained intact. Just a moment later, several massive titans of glowing earth emerged from the water, hoisting the ships onto their shoulders, carrying them further inland.
Atop the tallest of the titans was Ash himself, now set to crushing Riley in a surprise attack here and now. Using his supreme powers, Ash surrounded himself in water, jumping off of his giant and flying ever so quickly to meet Riley head on, in the blink of an eye.
Only through sheer skill was Riley able to intercept Ash's attack, blocking his punch with the broad side of his staff. As the duo began to trade blows, Riley began to see he would soon be outmatched.
Coming up with a plan on the spot, he dropped the currently useless shards to the Life Stone at Ash's feet, all before propelling himself into the air with aura, jumping into the already escaping Team Rocket airship.
"If your pride is anything to note, Ash!" Riley began to shout down to his rival. "We will meet again soon. That is if you ever have the knowledge needed to mend the Life Stone!"
As the airship retreated, even as Ash's titans launched attacks to no avail, it enveloped itself in a stealth field, hiding itself away once more.
After picking up the shards to the discarded Life Stone, Ash began to ponder why Riley would leave the last Stone of Power in his hands. Before he thought more about the strange occurrence, Ash turned his attention to his slave army, now sensing that their connection to his Mind Stone had been forcefully severed.
"Serena!" Ash called out, searching through the ruins of a war torn city using his aura, he found the body of his Empress, now freed from the pain inflicted by the life Stone, same as everyone around them.
After waking from her unconscious state, Serena blinked a few times only to rise in a mixture of panic and shock.
"Ash!" She stammered, no longer calling him her Master immediately. "What happened? I was in a state of bliss and joy for so long, then that shock of pain..! It's as if I was woken up from a very nice dream. What happened?"
"Are you ok, my slave?" Ash asked her, his words resonating with her.
"Slave..?" She pondered to herself.
And then it hit her. For the last several months, she was completely entranced by the Mind Stone's magnificence, compelled to do everything its user dictated all while giving her deepest subconscious the most exquisite euphoria imaginable.
"That's right..!" She said, piecing it all together. "I was your sex slave for so long. Forced to take part in some of the most erotic and lewd acts imaginable! I was so happy that I was stripped of my need to think for myself!"
Serena began to think for herself for the first time in months. The feeling of it all was so bizarre to her. So strange. She began to recount every single act she performed in the name of her boyfriend, even remembering that she had been married to him in her state of servitude.
The strange feeling washed over her like a total wave. She felt exposed. Vunerable. Weak. She hated having this feeling. Even if it meant signing away her life into slavery forever, surely to her, it was the better option.
"Ash, I can't live like this! Not anymore!" Serena stammered to Ash who still knelt beside her. "Make me-no! Make us you're slaves again!"
"Really?" Ash asked, shocked and yet equally aroused by Serena desire to be made his personal plaything once more.
"Yes!" Serena demanded, the Mind Stone's effects on her mind like a drug she can't put down. "I can't live a life where I live in uncertainty. When I'm your mind slave, I know that everything is fine when you're in control of my life! My body and mind are yours to use however you wish! Just don't let me have free will ever again!"
Seeing his most loyal slave committed to his desires even now, Ash smiled before pulling out the Mind and Vigor Stones. As Ash amplified the light of the Mind Stone several thousand times with the Vigor Stone, the rainbow light washing over the honey blonde women, Serena smiled blankly as her eyes began to dull. She, like everyone else now in the Alola region, even the former Alliance, was now under Ash's thrall once more.
Sensing its owners original desires, the Mind Stone then automatically instilled commands respective to each slave to took control of. As of this moment, Ash's power within the world was almost absolute. After putting away the two Stones of Power in his use, Ash turned to both the fractured Life Stone, as well as the aura gem Riley left behind.
This was the resurgence of Ash's empire, and he was only just beginning.
AN: hello once again dear readers. I apologize for being very tardy with this latest installment to the hypno harem, but I was dealing with a writer's block during the earlier conception of this chapter. Some of my original ideas were dropped earlier on so that this fight didn't drag out too long. After all, the smut should be the front runner to this little story of mine anyways.
Speaking of which, as of the next chapter, Ash will be making use of his new slaves from the Alliance, including several female trainers I originally promised before. There will also be a special addition to the harem many might not expect or maybe even enjoy.
For a time, I wondered what the harem would look like if I included Ash's mom, Delia, into the harem. Of course, that would naturally involve incest, but since I already have had plenty of Lillie on Lusamine scenes as well as promising Misty's sisters and Alexa sister, Viola, I would hope most people would feel accustomed to that particular taboo at this point.
Of course, if you feel inclined to disagree, and you feel that Ash shouldn't be with his mom, feel free to tell me in the reviews as well as your takes on this chapters. I will assess all of your preferences on the matter and will adapt accordingly. Regardless, I hope to hear from you all, and I hope you all enjoy!