That lift took them somewhere, and Yumi was willing to bet it was where the Beastmen were hiding. Why else would the Elites have been blocking this way if it wasn't where they wanted to be? Walking over and examining the panels she rolled her eyes when Viral patronized her a bit, sticking out her tongue and stepping back to give him access to the panel. "I don't imagine this is going to be very sneaky, seeing as its a huge lift and all. We should probably be ready to fight when we get down," she pointed out, glancing around as the clasps on the lift released and it began to slowly descend. Lights along the walls lit up as they moved deeper and deeper into the facility, illuminating the passage that stretched several dozen meters before it finally came to rest. Initially the room it stopped in was pitch black, the lift itself barely illuminated by the lights above. With a dull droning hum however lights began to come on, revealing yet another spacious room with a set of hefty doors before them. That had to be it, Yumi couldn't imagine anything else being in a place tucked away like this.

"I don't suppose we're prying these ones open," she mused as she approached the doors and craned her neck to look all the way to the top of them. They were quite high, easily 15 meters, and lightly rasping her knuckles on the door itself she guessed fairly solidly built as well. So pulling them apart might not be the best idea, and she doubted it was a good plan to blast it open either. The alternative then? Going over to the panel beside the door she gave it a staring at before pressing a series of buttons, furrowing her brow when the pad buzzed and turned red in response to her faulty passcode. "Come on you stupid thing..." Yumi growled as she tried again, and again, failing to guess the password 5 times in a row. Finally growing frustrated she grabbed the sides of the panel and ripped it off the wall, finding wires inside that were torn apart from the act. Inspecting a handful of them she began grabbing them one by one and pressing the wiring against itself, and at last managed to complete a circuit and prompt the doors to open. Smiling proudly she turned to enter the doors, pausing at the baffled look Takeshi was giving her. "What? I've had to hotwire vehicles before, I just kind of guessed it would work," she stated, shrugging it off. 

So it was purely dumb luck then she'd managed that? At least she admitted it was a stroke of luck and not her actually doing that, he doubted she'd know how to do something that complicated. Vegeta maybe, but not Yumi. Watching as she and Viral went ahead into the room he smiled reassuringly at Shu, placing a hand on his back as he eased him through into the room as well. Lying beyond the massive doors was a long room, similar to a hangar, with several lights mounted on the wall illuminating the floor below. At the head of the room there were massive monitors with some kind of diagrams plastered on them, and even if they were visible from here Takeshi doubted he'd know what they meant. As they got further into the room however he began to notice something else along the walls too, something that was fairly unsettling. Embedded in the walls were several steel doors with sliding hatches at about eye level, and presumably beyond them were the people they were looking for. Takeshi felt his stomach churn uncomfortably at the sight, recalling some of the cells and holding blocks he'd seen back on Kortal. His father and his men had some weird fascination with these fricken things.

There was no mistaking it, beyond those doors were the Beastmen. Yumi could smell people locked in those cells and yet as she went to one door she found no handles, furrowing her brow as she tried to push it open to no avail. Blowing them open or breaking them was out of the question, they could accidentally hurt whoever was inside if they weren't careful. Was that what those computers at the front of the room were for then? "Just hang on, we're going to get you all out!" Yumi shouted before running to the computers, hoping to find some way to release the doors. As she began fiddling with the screens however she found quickly there was no way she'd know how to do it, she had no clue what half the buttons were or how to even get off the screen she was on. After trying unsuccessfully a few times she let out a sigh, turning to the others with a sheepish smile. "I uh... I don't know how this works," she admitted, rubbing her hands together and looking at Viral. "Can you try it...?" 

Just behind her she heard something scrape against the tiled floor, her ear twitching in response to the noise. Glancing over her shoulder to see what it might have been Yumi quickly ducked when she saw a weapon aimed at her, narrowly avoiding a projectile that was fired. She dodged it handily, but while it had missed her she watched in silent horror as it went straight for Viral, nailing him in the right shoulder. "Viral!" Getting back to her feet she rushed over to try and help her friend, stopping in her tracks when a blaster went off and the shot narrowly hit her feet. 

"Oh my... Well, I suppose I'm not much of a marksman now am I?" a voice laughed from the shadows, and soon after emerged a scientist. A short man with green skin and rumpled orange hair he smirked as he removed the blaster from his wrist, throwing it aside and breaking into an eager grin. "I missed you young lady, but it seems like I've struck the former Commander! Not a bad accident if I do say so!"

Yumi whipped around on her heel to face the scientist, glaring at him as she flexed her hands. "What did you just do?! What did you shoot him with!" It wasn't a blaster, and looking back at her friend she saw it was some kind of dart; inside that dart was a vial containing a very special serum, something which she couldn't possibly know. "Viral, are you okay?!"

"He won't be for long my dear, he'll soon be another one of my puppets!" the scientist laughed, clasping his hands together as he eyed Viral, "Inside that projectile is a serum I've created for the more... Unruly Beastmen. It's a sedative that puts them into a very submissive state, and it makes them do as I say. It's fast acting too, so it'll only be mere moments before Viral is under my command. And when he is..." the scientist laughed again, "I'll have him kill all of you! I've no use for you woman or the King's traitorous children. Once the King sees how well my creations work I'll be given a promotion for certain! The program will be given more funding, I'll be given more subjects, and soon we'll have an army that no one will be able to stop!"