"Looker..." Annabel said yet again, all but her mouth still numb from the electrocution she received the day prior.
"You and you're two friends here were out for a while now. Figured we'd have to restrain you somehow." Looker said, pointing to Hilda and Rosa, the duo still unconscious. "I think it's time for me to ask you some questions now."
"There's nothing we need to talk about. Not now, anyway." Annabel said bitterly.
"Oh, I beg to differ." Looker scoffed in disappointment. "Look at you. You were once top of the field in Interpol. You were the best damn partner I ever had and you were even in line for promotion. And yet you just... threw it all away? Why?"
"What do you mean why?" Annabel asked him.
"I know you are doing this of your own volition now, Annabel. Riley used his powers on you and told me that you were unpossessed by whatever strange power Ash holds over the rest of these women." Looker began to explain. "To think you would voluntarily betray us is appalling. I need to know why you did it."
"You want a reason, Looker?" Annabel said in anger. "I'm in love!"
"What..?!" Looker stammered, confused by her painfully blunt and plain statement.
"Yeah, it's love. I love Ash, a man who I now serve willingly as slave." Annabel added on.
"But why?! Why would you give your free will to a man who captures women like you for his own selfish gain?" Looker asked the violet haired women.
"My Master had experimented once with the Mind Stone. He told me during one of his conquests, the hold the Stone had on one of my slave sisters was momentarily broken." Annabel explained to him.
"Do you think she was angry at him? Upset she was turned into his personal play thing? Guess again." She continued. "If anything, slavery through the Mind Stone has awakened bliss in my slaves sisters that is so great, they would give their minds and bodies to be consumed by it forever."
"So is this what happened to you?" Looker asked, still unsure of her point.
"No. I support my Master because I've known him for years. When I was depressed about my inadequacies, he inspired me to get back up. His determination was what allowed me to pick myself up, and I've regretted never telling him that to this day." Annabel said, tears welling up in her eyes.
"And you decided to throw away your whole career, your whole life away, just so you could honor something so trivial?" Looker asked her.
"You make it sound so cut and dry, but it isn't. I may not be under his true thrall, but I've seen how happy he is when he continues his goal for conquest. And when I see him happy, I am happy." She added.
"You seem happy for his conquering of other women, but have you ever considered your role in his story? To what end does Ash conquer? What is his endgame?" Looker asked, kneeling down on the floor to meet her eyes with his own. "And if you know what his endgame is, have you ever considered your role in it?"
Looker waited to see Annabel question her Master's loyalty to him, allowing his questions to allow her to question her own loyalty. But this attempt at deception proved meaningless.
"I know I'm apart of Ash's dream, but I'm not so much of a turncoat as you were hoping I could be, Looker." Annabel chuckled.
Seeing he was out of options, Looker left the cell, locking it behind him and walking down a large corridor to a conference room.
"She's not willing to cooperate." Looker said to the room.
"Oh, she will cooperate." Giovanni said to the policeman. "She will serve as ideal bait for her Master. When he arrives, we'll capture him and bring an end to all of this."
After his comment, the Rocket Boss departed from the room upstairs, making his way to the precinct roof to order his minions.
"Are we really going to let him have his way of things?" Looker asked Riley.
"I was never going to trust him to hold up his end of the deal to the end. I expect a double cross if we manage to restrain Ash." Riley explained to the officer. "That's why I've devised my own plan. Ash will play hard and aggressive to get his companions back, which is why we play that to our advantage."
"How so?" Agent M asked the man.
"As far as we've seen, we've captured the person Ash uses to infiltrate other regions via teleporting. That means he'll use that massive airship we saw in Alola to get here. He'll let his mind slaves lay siege as a smokescreen to infiltrate our station. We'll allow him to do that."
"Why?" Looker asked the man.
"Because when a man as proud as he is is so close to his objective, that's when his guard is lowest. Men like Giovanni and Ash are easy to read in that regard. When he's attempting to unlock the cell, Agent M here can subdue him secretly, giving us enough time to conceal him somewhere in the building so Giovanni doesn't know."
"But you do realize that to create that kind of window would require our policemen to hold back in the fight, right? If things go wrong, we'll take even more casualties and losses, enough to warrant us from pulling out of the mission." Looker added on.
"It's a risk we should be willing to take." Riley said, walking to the door. "Looker, you should come with me. Giovanni might find it suspicious otherwise."
"Give me just a minute." Looker told the man as the door slid shut behind him. "Riley's plans have only led our police into trouble. We'll follow his instruction just this last time, but if it fails yet again, we'll have to step down from attempting to catch Ash Ketchum."
"Sir, might I suggest a change in strategy?" Agent M offered to her superior. "It may not be the best time for it, but it will take some time for Ash to get down to this sub level."
"Your point, officer?" Looker asked her.
"With your permission, I'd like to search our Aura friend's private quarters in the precinct. I frankly don't trust the man with how he's been acting lately, and I want to see if I could find anything in his possession that could explain that."
Giving a sigh of frustration, realizing that breached several laws preventing such things, Looker's faith in the system wavered for just this moment.
"Very well, you have my blessing." Looker said reluctantly. "But make it quick. I don't want you being unavailable during the action. Honestly, I'd have denied if your request had it not been convenient for Riley to be away from his office we lent him."
"Thank you, sir! I'll keep it brief as I can." Agent M saluted to her superior, charging out the door to Riley's quarters.
Making his way out the room himself, Looker began to board an elevator to the roof when a great rumbling in the ground shook him off his very footing.
"What the?!" Looker gasped in shock, mashing the roof button to the elevator after getting back on his feet.
"They're here!" A Team Rocket grunt shouted.
It was Nessa's Dreadnaw in Gigantimax form! It's towering figure reaching a dozen stories high without contest. Standing atop the great beast was Nessa herself, commanding her partner.
"Nessa's got there attention, let's go, slaves!" Ash shouted to his subjects aboard the airship.
Allowing the vessel to circle around the side opposite of the massive Pokémon, Skyla gave her Master the signal.
"Keep their attention, slave Nessa! We need to get inside without them knowing!" Ash called to his slave over an earpiece radio. "Slaves on the War Thunder, use your cannons to tear apart their building, but keep your fire away from the back door!"
"Yes, Master!" The slaves obeyed in unison.
Just like that, combat lit the night sky, shots from the airships cannon fire tearing away at the police defenses. Seeing his change, Ash and his squad jumped from the hatch of the airship, free falling just long enough before they were a couple hundred feet from the ground.
"Gardevoir, lift us with your Psychic!" Diantha ordered her signature Pokémon.
Releasing from its Pokeball was the elegant form of Gardevoir. It's eyes glowing rose red with psychic energy, Gardevoir slowed the squad's fall, allowing them to softly land their feet on solid ground.
"Pachirusu, use Spark on the door's keypad!" Dawn cried out, calling her Pokémon to the front.
As the Pokémon's move overcharged the door, it took disrupted the security camera nearby, destroying it before it could relay the location of the retrieval squad. Making their way around the police station, Ash and company made their way to the basement levels, the most likely place to detail high value criminals.
Meanwhile, as Ash's group made their way through the labyrinth of hallways, Agent M was just finishing searching Riley's possessions, finding a notebook inside his carry bag.
"Bingo!" Monica said under breath, flipping through the pages. "No, this can't be! That bastard!"
Upon discovering all the incriminating evidence she needed, Agent M pocketed the notebook, making her way down to guard the prison cell.
"This must be it." Ash said, he and his crew making their way down the cell rooms.
As they turned their way around the corner, they were greeted by a very conflicted Agent M.
"So it was Riley all along. He put you up to this." She said empty minded.
"Monica?" Ash asked the woman. "What do you mean?"
"I found Riley's personal notebook just recently." She said, holding out the ledger in front of her face. "He wanted to make you a breeding tool to resurrect his lost group. He wrote how mad he was at you going rouge against his plans."
"He really kept notes like that?" Ash asked.
"As well as contingencies to finding a successor once he pried the Stone from your hands." She added on, her tone lifeless. "All that time, resources, and manpower, all so he can have his own slave army..."
"What are you getting at here?" Ash asked the woman. "I can sense your aura. It seems you don't want to fight me."
"Let's get this perfectly clear! You are scum, Ash Ketchum. There's nothing I would enjoy more than to take you down right now, but that would only play into Riley's hands." Agent M said, pulling a key out of her pocket and throwing it into Ash's hand.
"If I let you get out of here, the losses here at the police station will cause us to abandon this pointless mission. We won't pursue you anymore, but the world will hear about this attack you've made on Galar. People will act and unite to face you again in Alola." Agent M explained to the man before her. "I'm only buying your little group a few precious more days or weeks, now get out of here before I change my mind."
Without another word between them, Agent M walked the opposite way, whilst Ash and his slaves opened the cell and freed the still limp and unconscious bodies of his companions.
"I knew you'd come..." Annabel smiled slightly, her body and brain still numb and tired.
"Can you walk?" Ash asked his slave.
"I don't think so. I was injured pretty bad. I'm sorry for my failure, Master." Annabel said, sickened by her weakness.
"Don't let it get to you, my pretty little slave. Let's go home." Ash said in a happy tone, holding his slave in a bridal position. "Do you ladies have the others?"
"Yes, Master!" May said, her Blaziken slinging Hilda and Rosa's bodies over its shoulders.
"I've got Misty!" Dawn said, giving the red headed slave a ride on her back.
"I've got Sabrina, but she's badly injured. She needs treatment immediately!" Diantha said in a rush, her Gardevoir gently suspending the Psychic woman's body in air.
"Then let's waist no time." Ash said, as the trio made there way to the exit.
Meanwhile, on the surface, Nessa and the zeppelin team continued to lay waste to policeman and Team Rocket goons alike, with Giovanni and Looker standing back, commanding their units from afar. Suddenly, the airship stopped firing its cannons and the Gigantimax Dreadnaw ceased its rampaging as well.
Wondering what possibly led their assault the stop, Looker noticed the bodies of several people flying through the air to the airship.
"What?! They got the prisoners!" Looker shouted.
"Shoot that blimp down, you fools!" Giovanni ordered his henchmen.
"Heh, glad I was able to stall for them." Nessa chuckled, readying the wrist fired grappling hook.
Hooking on to the blimp, Nessa began to be whisked away, whilst her Dreadnaw got into position to intercept oncoming attacks, its Max Guard move shutting down all projectiles fired at the zeppelin.
Returning her Pokémon from the safety of the airship, Nessa laughed in delight as the ship pulled out of range from the station.
"Damn it!" Looker stomped his foot in anger. "How could they have gotten past Agent M so fast. Riley, you have a backup plan rig-"
Looker turned to where he believed his ally to be, but he simply was staring at nothing.
"Riley..?" Looker asked out, charging into the police station.
Back downstairs in the basement, Agent M was washing her face in the bathroom. After turning off the sink and making her way to the door, she was met with a familiar face, one she found absolutely revolting.
"Riley..!" Agent M said in disgust.
"That was quite a stunt you pulled back there." Riley said coldly, his eyes raging like fire. "It seems you were a little too inquisitive for your own good."
Seeing the jig was up, Agent M cut to the chase.
"I have evidence of all your little plans you had in mind for the Mind Stone, bastard! You wanted a personal slave army of Aura Guardians, all the while allow Ash to take the heat of the police. It's a shame your grand scheme is all going to fall apart. I'm bringing this to Looker."
"Oh but my dear Miss Monica, you've only given me what I wanted. You've given me the perfect way to cover up all my loose ends at once." Riley said, an evil, smug smile stretching over his entire face.
"What?!" Agent M asked the man before her.
"I wonder what looker would think after he saw a 'mind controlled' Agents M assisted in the release of several high value criminals." Riley said, pulling a flash drive from his pocket. "You've been a naughty girl, little agent, and a foolish one at that. Security camera caught your entire encounter with Ash. A pity that a 'malfunction' prevented the audio of that discussion you had from being recorded."
"No!" Agent M shouted, rushing the man down, only to be blasted by an Aura Sphere. "What the hell are you planning, Riley?"
"I'm planning on ensuring another fight is to take place in Alola. I will ensure that the two Teams exhaust each other. And when the end of the battle draws near, I'll swoop in and steal the stones. When I get what's rightfully mine, I'll remove several loose ends at once." Riley monologued in a sinister tone before readying another Aura Sphere.
"And that brings me back to you. I can't have you bringing attention to that little book you got there. It truly was a shame that after Ash controlled your mind, he programmed your mind to shut down after your cover was blown." Riley finished saying.
Seeing his intent to remove her from the picture, Agent M could only attempt to rush the man down again, but to no avail. Riley hammered her in the face once again, forcing her down to the ground again. Placing a hand upon her head, Riley's hand began to glow ominously.
"What I'm about to do is forbidden even amongst us Aura Guardians, but as recent times have shown, desperate times and all that, am I right?" Riley chuckled psychotically, his Aura digging into the woman's very own life essence.
"Goodbye, Agent M. It was a pleasure." Riley muttered under breath.
Removing his hand from her head, his Aura tugged away at Agent M's very soul, ripping her life force from her very body. As the now deceased body of Agent M lay limp before him, Riley retrieved the notebook from her pocket, putting it in is own as he heard footsteps from down the halls.
"Somebody help!" Riley said in a staged tone of sorrow. "Officer down!"
"Riley! There you are, where were-" Looker began to say, his eyes staring in shock, the sight of his police partner laying helpless on the floor.
"Looker, Agent M, she-" Riley stammered through faked tears. "She's dead! It was Ash! I saw it on camera! She was brainwashed by him! She helped him open the cells and when he had no more need for her, he destroyed her brain!"
Pausing for a moment to soak in the scene, Looker could only feel rage boiling in his blood, his mind red with vengeance on his mind. While this was happening, Giovanni began to rally his men for his own plan.
Sensing that his plan was starting to fall together, Riley turned away from Looker and the other police, his smugness causing him to smile from his victory. Soon enough in time, Riley's plans began to fall into place. The next battle for the Stones was soon upon him.
AN: Hello again dear readers. I'm back yet again for another new chapter of the hypno harem. This time, we're dealing with some heavy handed stuff.
With the passing of Agent M, Riley has now begun to sway Looker back to his side. I understood that the concept of death in Pokémon of all things is very heavy handed, but with the subjects currently in this fanfic, I felt it was acceptable, at the very least for my story progression.
If such topics are too depressing for what's mostly just a smut fanfic, fret not, for this will not be an often occurrence. In fact, in the next following chapters, Ash will once again be bolstering his harem further to prepare for the coming struggles.
Who will he bend to his will? Who will get their way with the Stones of Power? Stay tuned and find out. Be sure to leave your opinions and takes of the chapter in your reviews. Hope to hear from you all soon!