After meeting with Lusamine, Ash and co made sure to stock up on any supplies the Vipers were able to spare, before taking off in the van and leaving the city. After about a couple hours, the trio reached the Lumiose Badlands outskirts, where Rosa began to come up with a plan.
"So, according to the tracker Lusamine gave us, it wont be terribly far out from where we are now. Only problem is that cross referencing the tracker with gps coordinates shows that this facility they got is in an open area. Nothing but wide open space." Rosa informed the others. "If we even think about driving anywhere near the place, we'll be made immediately."
"Any ridges or high ground around the area?" Ash asked.
"Hmmm... well, there's a plateau to the northeast. It'd be a good vantage point, but getting up and down it will take time, so parking there won't allow us a fast getaway if we need one." Rosa explained, looking at the holographic map projected by her Holocaster.
"It's the best choice we got. We can set up base there and just scope out the base from there. We got this neat little recon drone, thanks to Lusamine as well." Ash added, digging through the case Lusamine provided the group. "We scan the area, check for security measures and guards and make up a plan. Then, come night fall, we'll make our move. Agreed?"
"Your the boss, babe." Hilda smiled as she drove the van, turning off the main road onto the dirt path, following the coordinates to the plateau Rosa mentioned.
Reaching the top, Ash and Hilda got out of the van while Rosa began to dig into the chest to fetch the necessary devices. Grabbing a pair of high zoom binoculars, Hilda went prone onto the hot desert rock, smudging the lenses with desert sand and debris before searching with them.
"Making sure nobody sees lens flare from the binoculars by wiping dust on them..!" Ash smiled proudly at his slave, laying down next to her. "You really think things through to a fault. I can see why you lead the Vipers."
"In truth, leading was never something I wanted to do. I just was fed up with people walking all over us. I founded the Vipers, but I never figured they'd want me and sis to lead them like some general or whatever." Hilda admitted. "But I saw how they looked up to me, and I didn't want to let them down, ya know?"
"Well, it's fine either way, now. Ash own us now, and that makes him the true leader of the Vipers, whether they know it or not." Rosa spoke as she exited the van, carrying a remote controlled drone in her hand and a controller for it in the other. "What can you see, sis?"
"Have a look for yourself." Hilda said, passing her surrogate sister the binocs.
Looking out over the vast stretch of land, Ash and his crew noticed a rather large facility, a compound with concrete walls defending its borders. Within the walls resided what seemed to be three buildings, two of which were noticeably smaller in size. The third was a two story building, with spotlights and cctv camera lining all corners.
"Well, it's definitely what we're looking for. Could this be the very same place that truck we raided was going?" Ash asked.
"Very well possible." Rosa noted before scoffing. "Can't see too much from this angle, but from what I can see, security is definitely tight. I spot at least two squads of four patrolling the perimeter. More than likely even more on the inside. Could've very likely upped security measures after our theft."
"Well, let's give the drone a spin, shall we ladies?" Ash asked his slaves, gesturing for Rosa to deploy the recon drone.
Activating the machine, it's propellers began to beat, the drone now began hovering off the ground.
"It's quieter than I expected." Hilda noted, the drone's propellers abnormally soft in noise projection.
"Expect the best from Aether Foundation." Ash smiled.
"Activating its cloaking field." Rosa said, pressing a button on the controller.
Suddenly, the drone seemingly vanished right in front of them. Upon closer inspection, Ash noticed where the drone once was was now a faint outline of the machine, its active camouflage like an Inteleon's. Sending the drone out, using the screen on the controller as a guide, the trio began to search for weak points in the compound's defenses. After about an hour's worth of searching, the group noticed a breach at the top of the north facing wall, opposite of the front gate, where security also seemed more lax.
"We have our infiltration point, but we still don't know where exactly Silvally is." Hilda pondered.
Just as soon as she said that, Ash looked over the other side of the plateau, seeing a vehicle rapidly approaching the facility.
"We got a personnel carrier inbound!" He blurted.
Laying down flat in the ground, the trio watched as the vehicle pulled up the the front entrance, stopping at the checkpoint. Reaching for the binocs, Ash spied a stout man exit the vehicle, wearing a red lab suit and a pair of goggles. Seeing the man approach another scientist type accompanied by the front gate's security detail, the man began to speak.
"Can you get the drone closer?" Ash asked Rosa. "I want to pick up what they're saying."
"Sure!" Rosa obeyed, slowly maneuvering the cloaked drone just close enough to avoid its shimmering outline be noticed, hovering overheard of the man.
"-experiment? Is it underway?" The man asked.
"Yes, we just got a bus load of them in from the city the other day. Nothing but a bunch of loser brats with no families or livelihoods. Nobody will ever know or care. I wager they'll be flying our colors soon enough." The other scientist responded, chuckling to himself.
"We may have lost the prototypes in the raid the other day, but the plan still continues on. The Vipers have an edge due to their Pokémon, but soon, very soon, that will mean little in the face of our 'Company's' sheer numbers." The man in the lab suit laughed maliciously. "Now, as for the creature we took from Aether Foundation..."
"It's pod has been relocated to the sub level. As for our 'benefactor', he wished to have an audience with you come nightfall." The other added.
"You hear that?" Rosa asked the others. "They're doing something tonight!"
"Then we wait for the sun to start setting to make our move. We can't get closer with the van, so we'll have to let it on foot." Ash sighed, looking out over the vast desert stretched out before them.
"Actually, I have something for that." Hilda said with a wink, clutching a pokeball.
The ball opened, a Zebstrika appearing from it, the electric type equine neighing kindly at its trainer.
And so the trio waited out the day, the sun finally began to set. As it did, Ash and Hilda put on the specialized body suits Lusamine provided them, the modular outfit fitting like a glove on them.
"According to Lusamine, these things can't be picked up by heat sensors. I don't know if that's a problem we'll be facing, but considering this base, who knows what Prospect's has up their sleeve.
"Ah, this suit is so skin tight!" Hilda giggled, spinning for her Master, her busty rack making two voluptuous mountains beneath the buddy suit. "What do you think, Ash? Do I look hot or what?"
"I'd pin you down and destroy your cunt all night long." Ash smiled, kissing his servant sensually upon the lips. "But we got a job to do. Rosa, our earpieces linked with your's?"
"All our tech is good to go!" Rosa said from the van, giving her sister and Owner a thumbs up. "I'll stay on the drone and be your eyes until your inside the main building. After that, I won't be able to see much until you install that flash drive I gave you. Should give me a back door into their security systems. And don't forget that device miss Lusamine gave us!"
"Right." Ash noted, grabbing the small hard drive shaped device, fixing it to the utility belt on his stealth suit.
"Keep the engine running, sis. We might need a speedy getaway if things go south." Hilda asked her surrogate sister.
"You got it, sexy!" Rosa smiled, smacking her sister on her rump and blowing a kiss before she and Ash took off.
Getting on her Zepstrika, Hilda and Ash rode the thunderous steed off the plateau they camped on, crossing over the desert at a breakneck speed.
"This Pokémon of yours is amazing!" Ash complimented Hilda, the young man wrapping his hands around the girl's hips as she steered her Pokémon.
"Thanks! I got her as a gift from my dad, way back when. Was only a Blitzle when I first got her, but she's been there for me almost as long as my Dewott's been. I've always been fond of horse Pokémon, ya know? The kinda of Pokémon that live out in the rugged wilderness? There's a certain...freedom to it that I enjoy."
"It sounds to me you're quite the country girl, Hilda!" Ash joked with her. "I'd bet you'd pull off a cowgirl cosplay perfectly!"
"Sure as shit beats city life. Sure the tall buildings are nice every now and then, parkouring on rooftops, like when we met is thrilling, but I prefer open space. Nature. That kinda shit..!" Hilda responded. "Maybe one day, when this whole Prospect's thing is over and we graduated, maybe you and your other slave girls, my sis and I could go out on our own? I mean, that is to say, if you're ok with that, Master!"
"Would be a nice change of pace." Ash admitted before realizing they were getting up to the eastern wall of the compound. "Here's good! Let's head around the northern wall on foot. Well use that weak point in the wall to get in."
"Roger! Zebstrika, stop!" Hilda ordered her Pokémon.
Recalling her Electric type to its ball, Hilda and Ash clung close to the wall, watching to make sure security cameras mounted on it noticed them. Coming to the wall they intended to scale, Rosa swept the area to make sure no patrolling guards noticed their ascent. Using climbing gear given to them by Lusamine, Ash and Hilda scaled the concrete obstruction. With the main building right in front of them, Ash and Hilda discreetly descended from the top of the wall, taking a service ladder on the side of the building onto its roof.
Overlooking the entire compound, Ash and Hilda looked in dismay at the sheer scale of the operation Prospect's was running. Noticing some large cages on the other side of the compound, Ash and Hilda grimaced as they saw a bunch of people, teens and adults alike, standing in the cages, lifelessly rigid, staring into the distance like a zombie.
"This must have been what they had in mind for those prototypes..." Hilda scoffed, clenching her first. "Damnit..! If we didn't steal those prototypes and put them in your hands, who knows what other damage they could have done!"
"Only question is, if they don't have the prototypes, what the hell did they use to brainwash all those people..?" Ash pondered, his question making Hilda realize.
"You're right..!" She gasped. "We need to find Miss Lusamine's Pokemon. Quickly!"
"They mentioned a sub lab. That means there's something underneath this building. And if there's a sub lab..." Ash began to say.
"Then there has to be an elevator." Hilda finished her Master's sentence. "Good thinking, babe. Let's look."
Noticing a skylight on the roof, Ash and Hilda decided to discreetly peer through the window, looking down onto the floor beneath them. Just beneath where the two were observing was a large industrial service elevator. Just as the duo looked on, the man they saw before approached the elevator. Sliding a keycard against the electronic reader, the doors to the elevator opened, with the man stepping inside.
"Shit, that meeting! Did it end or did it start?!" Hilda whispered.
"Only one way to find out..." Ash replied, examining the roof. "Found our ticket down."
"Where?" Hilda asked.
"Here." Ash replied, pulling the grate off a large air vent. "If a sub lab is beneath us, the people down there still need to breath. And judging by the size of this vent and its position relative to the elevator, then this vent is it."
Fastening his grappling tool he used to scale the wall to the roof's metal catwalk, Ash hastily wrapped Hilda in his arms.
"Ohh!" Hilda moaned before pressing her arms against her man, giving her dominator a sultry look. "Aren't we bold..?"
"Hang tight, babe. I'll lower us down." He ordered her, slowly descending into the vent.
"Oh yes, Master..!" Hilda hummed, making sure she'd press her body as much against his as she could.
Going slow to avoid making too much noise in the vent, Ash and Hilda continued to worm their way down, the large air duct thankfully large enough for the two of them together. After descending for what felt like forever, Ash and Hilda saw light coming from a vent grate just beneath them. Peering through the cracks, Ash and Hilda took note of a singular, yet spacious room, the wall on the side of the room they peered into ordained with a plethora of computer monitors and a wide, sprawling desk equipped with keyboards, buttons, switches, and levers.
Seeing the man in red watching the screens on the wall, Ash and Hilda focused their attention on the words they faintly heard coming from the man and whoever was talking on the screen.
"My tenure at Aether Paradise has ended." A man on the screen said. "Wicke has become suspicious of my actions. I wasn't able to secure Type Null's memory discs before she shipped them to Lusamine. It's only a matter of time before they find out I leaked Type Null's delivery to Kalos. I need to leave before I'm caught!"
"The loss of the chance to receive the memory drives is unfortunate, but not too great a loss. Soon enough, we will retrieve them, as well as the pokeball needed to release this, dare I admit, sturdy cryo pod lock. Your ability to provide us the creature is sufficient for now. I have already instructed a private plane to arrive at Mele Mele International Airport to receive you, Faba." The man in red replied, the man completely ignorant of the two teens spying on him from the air vent.
"So does that mean I'm in?!" Faba asked hastily. "I'm no fool, unlike that stupid cunt, Lusamine. I understand your goals. I can be of support! Surely this boon I offered you all should be enough to see my ascent into your group!"
"Don't worry, Chief Scientist Faba. This prize you've brought us is all our Boss could've hoped for." The man in red said. "You'll be taken care of. We reward all who understand the goals of Prospects."
"Just be careful! Lusamine almost certainly has searched for a means to recover her property!" Faba warned the man.
"Oh, Faba! You underestimate us! The security at this facility is second to none. Once I've left this room and armed the security measures, all access fo this room is sealed. Even the air vents will be sealed and purged with toxic fumes so potent, even the most virulent Poison types would succumb to it."
Hearing this, Ash and Hilda realized their time in the air vent was drawing near, with the man in red cutting off the communication. Turning from the control panels and looking at the cryo pod beside them, the man looked upon Type Null, pressing his hand against the glass of the pod.
"Such a scientific wonder..!" He whispered. "Type Null... soon, we can study you. Once we get those memory drives, we can see just how powerful you really are. You'll be a wonderful prize for me to offer our great Leader!"
Walking back to the elevator, its doors closing behind the man, Ash and Hilda leapt from the air vent, the grate swinging shut the moment they did. Suddenly, a robotic voice played over an intercom in the room.
Security Protocols Enabled. Sealing air vents. Dispersing Toxic Agent. Disabling Elevator Access.
"Rosa, we ran into a snag. We're in the room with Silvally, but the man we saw earlier activated some kind of security system. We're locked in the sub lab, and we won't have a whole lot of oxygen." Ash advised Rosa. "Any ideas?"
"Plug me into their system. Is there a computer around?" Rosa asked.
"Yeah, but I don't see any traditional ports on it." Hilda answered, checking the control panel the man stood at earlier.
"Shit! Let me try and find something on the drone!" Rosa replied, hastily searching for a way to rescue her team.
Looking to Silvally, Ash fetched the Premier Ball from his belt. Noticing a slot on the cryo pod that matched the shape. Fitting it in, the cryo pod began to hum, LED lights on the machine flashing as the cryogenic freezing began to become undone. As the pod emptied Type Null onto the ground, the beast began to stir, its eyes inside its control mask widening. Suddenly, Mull began to roar underneath the mask, the chimera recklessly charging into the wall, banging its head against any surface it could find, using its metal claws to fruitlessly break off the giant chunk of metal that clung to it's face. Stepping back, Ash and Hilda watched cautiously as Null began to move about the room in a clumsy, unpredictable manner.
"Rraaaaagh!" Null cried out, the Pokémon still unable to remove the mask.
"Shhh..! It's okay... calm down, Silvally..." Ash said with gentle words, the beast turning to face Ash, growling underneath the mask.
"Careful..." Hilda warned him.
"It's okay...You're in pain, aren't you..? Can I help..?" Ash said with hushed tone.
As Ash slowly approached Null, the chimera seemed to be on edge, ready to attack at a moments notice. Showing his hands were empty, Ash continued to approached Null, encouraging it.
"It's okay... I'm a friend. I want to help you..."The teen continued, his words now seeming to calm Silvally.
Letting Ash approached, Silvally watched closely as Ash rested his head on the control mask, his fingers lingering on a small crack on the side of it.
"There. Frogadier! Use Cut on this part of Silvally's mask!" Ash commanded his Pokémon, calling his starter from his ball.
With deft, surgically accurate hand, Frogadier used a blade of energy to cut into the mask, the pieces of dense leaded steel collapsing to the ground. It's head now free from its confinements, Silvally shook its head, realizing that the tremendously heavy weight it was made to bear was now gone. Howling a metallic roar, Silvally's eyes lit up with joy.
Looking at Ash in gratitude, Silvally nudged its head into Ash's chest, it's metallic feathers on its head smacking Ash in the face.
"H-hey, that hurts!" Ash joked with Silvally as it continued to nuzzle him.
"Seems he really likes you, Ash." Hilda smiled.
"What? Who likes Ash?" Rosa asked, completely out of the loop as to what was happening in the sub lab.
"Silvally, we were sent here to rescue you, but now it looks like we're all trapped." Ash said to the Pokémon, looking at the doors to the elevator. "Think you can help us out?"
Taking a look at the doors and back to Ash, Silvally nodded.
"Alright! Then let's cause some mayhem!" Ash cheered.