Thanks to RicoTheLegend for the story idea.

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London

Night sky, an empty park, a gentle breeze, and the sound of panting. Two Eevees one with glowing blue eyes, the other with purple eyes. The two both looked battered and bruised but they both managed to smile at one another.

"Everytime we turn up the heat..." Omar said.

"... Yeah, mmf, you gotta admit how fun this is though" Melody replied, then she walked up to Omar and gave him a hug, he hugged her back.

"Have you decided on a university yet?" Melody asked, her eyes returned to a light shade of pink

"Nah... I can't choose" Omar replied, his eyes returned to a sky blue colour.

"Hmm, I can help you look if you want-" Melody offered, putting her paw on his shoulder.

"Really? Thanks, you're a lifesaver" Omar responded, beaming a happy smile.

"Anything to help a friend-"Melody responded, rubbing his forehead.

"Hey, have you mastered that tracking spell?" Omar asked, the Eevee was eager for a response.

"Somewhat... I bet you're worried about Moony, that's why you're asking" Melody teased.

"So what if I am..." Omar replied, trying to hide his embarrassment.

Melody giggled, "Here... Watashi no iu koto o kiitekudasai, watashi ga aisuruhito no kokoro wa doko ni aru no ka, kare ga dokoni ite mo, watashi wa motto yoku shitte imasu! (Hear me, Hear me, where does the heart of the one I love flutter, for where ever he is, I know better!)" Melody chanted.

A cloud swirled around the two Eevees and a map of the world formed, soon a glowing wisp revealed the location of Moonlake.

"He's in... Canada... Near Winnipeg-" Melody said, pointing at the wisp.

"Hmm" Omar replied.

"I just hope he's ok-"

"I hope so too"

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Laying in his bed staring at a picture of him and London together by the beach was Benoit. The green eyed Eevee continued to stare at the photo of him and London hugging eachother, he couldn't help but smile.

"Je t'aime pour toujours... Ma douce (I love you forever... My sweet)" Benoit whispered.

"Benoit!" A muffled voice called.

"H-Huh?!"

"Go to bed"

"Momma!..."

"Go to sleep!"

"Hmph... Fine!"

The Eevee waited a bit before scurrying out of bed and going over to his laptop. He logged in and the first thing he saw was a picture he took with London the day he met and fell in love with him, in the messy Parisian apartment, he was holding onto London, who was comforting him. The Eevee smiled and opened the browser. Benoit spent the night watching memes and chatting in Discord and such, eventually he saw the DM with London he sent, there were no messages sent yet between the two so he took a deep breath and started typing.

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Canada

The Flareon who was fast asleep, felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. London flinched then he pulled his phone and saw the message Benoit had sent him

"Comment ca va? (How are you)" The message said, Benoit's avatar was drawing he drew for himself, an Eevee winking at the viewer of his profile picture with the same green eyes he had.

London laughed quietly when he realised who it was, "That Eevee..." He whispered.

"Je vais bien, comment vas-tu? (I'm doing alright, what about you?)" He typed back.

Benoit sent a thumbs up emoji, and then a custom emote of his Eevee character peaking from below.

"Where did you get those?"

"I drew them" Benoit responded.

"Wow... You're an artist now? Cute!"

Benoit's face turned red and he poked his fingers, "Eh heh heh"

He reacted with an animated emoji showing as if his Eevee was in love with somemon.

London laughed a little more, Moonlake who was sleeping opened an eye. Isabel was out cold, it was as if she was hibernating.

"Keep it up, I want to see you become the best artist in the world" London replied.

Benoit was getting excited, he was blushing and jumping around in his chair happily, he loved when London praised him for things likd that, it was as if he was being given a medal.

"Come back soon... I miss you"

London sighed, "I'll try to"

"I better get to bed before mum sees me, gn" Benoit replied, adding an animated emoji of a waving Eevee.

"Gn"

- - -

Benoit closed his computer, leaped on the bed and sighed, his excited grin came back and he started giggling excitedly.

"I knew he'd love my art!" He says to himself.

His mother, Mary, then swung open the door.

"Who...?" She said with a thick Irish accent.

"P-Personne! (N-Nobody!)" Benoit shouted quickly.

Mary glared at him, "Just go to sleep ok?"

"Fine" Benoit replied, crossing his arms.

She gestured she was watching him and then closed the door.

The Eevee sighed and went back to being excited and giggly.

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"Who were you texting?" Moonlake asked.

"Benoit"

"You still talk to that weirdo-"

"At least that weirdo doesn't try to look at my naked body in the shower-" London replied, squeezing his fist.

Ketster, who chose to be a Vaporeon, choked on his food, when he finally cleared his throat he turned around, "What?!"

"What I couldn't help myself-" Moonlake moaned.

Both Ketster and London stared at Moonlake blankly, "Congratulations, you're a pervert"

"How did this go from talking about Benoit to my habits" Moonlake said.

"Because this crush on me you have... It's weird! It's unnatural-"

"But love is natural" Moonlake said, inching closer to London and biting his lip.

"This is not natural!" London fired back.

"Natural is your body on-"

London's face turned red and he immediately covered the Eevee's mouth, "Shut up, are you trying to make Ket uncomfortable?!"

Ketster started banging his head on the steering wheel gently, "I'm stuck with idiots"

Isabel, despite the noise, remained in a deep sleep while London and Moonlake went at it. Ketster eventually had enough of the unsettling debate and stopped the car on the side of the road.

"Who wants to walk?"

They both fell silent.

"That's what I thought, I swear if you have this dumb argument again, you'll be trekking through the cold and wet weather. Moonlake, you shouldn't be looking at him naked, it's gross, it's weird, it makes you look like a fucking pervert, London you should have locked the fucking door, like any logical mon-"

"But I did lock the door-" London started.

"Ah ah ah! I don't wanna hear it... You hear that......... Much better then whatever shit you were talking about-"

London groaned, Moonlake scoffed.

Then he pulls off the side of the road.

Kitami, Japan

Luke arrived back at the safehouse. The Lucario had a bag full of groceries so he set them down on the table in the living room. He pulled a cup of ramen noodles from the bag and put it in the microwave, once it was ready he started digging in. Rico was in the living room, also there was a Mew, who was the Pokemon tending to his wounds by using healing pulse.

"Satoko-san... How close are you to being done?" Lukarin asked.

"Nearly there" She replied.

"I never knew Mew existed, this is an interesting experience-" Rico said.

"Done!" Satoko said, then she flew over to Luke's shoulder.

Rico sat up, there wasn't any pain in his stomach anymore. Almost as if he had never been stabbed there.

"Whoa, this feels... Awesome" Ricardo said, he jumped up and started punching the air.

"So... Luke where's my payment?" Satoko said.

"Ugh... Here..." Luke groaned, giving her some yen, she counted it then looked back at Luke. It was as if she was expecting something else to happen, the Lucario was dumbfounded for a second, then he realised what she wanted.

"Really... You want a kiss?"

"I told you I wasn't joking"

"You're still doing this shit? Come on..."

"I'm waiting..." She said with a grin.

"Ugh"

Luke grabbed her and smooched her on the cheek, she got excited and started flying around the place wildly. Eventually she stopped and sat on the couch. The Lucario pinched his nose.

"Whaaaaaa?!?!" Rico shouted.

"Oh will you fuck off?!" Luke shouted.

"You kissed her?!"

"It's one of the ways I 'pay' her sometimes... Don't start jumping to conclusions"

"I won't... But I do think it's kinda sweet seeing you kiss a girl on the face-"

Luke towered over Rico menacingly, that was Rico's queue to stop talking.

"... Yeah I'm gonna shut up heh heh"

"I best be in my way now... Sayonara!" Satoko said, then she flew out of the house through an open window.

"Don't even think about asking-"

"You know I won't stop bothering you until I find out what history you have with her right?" Rico says, crossing his arms.

Luke glared at him, then he went to go prepare some tea for himself. After he had his cup of tea, Rico came into the room, putting on a shirt as he did.

"Hey can we talk?" Rico asked, sitting on one of the cushions by the table.

"Yeah... What is it?" Luke responded, opening a newspaper.

"Can you even read that-" Rico asked, noticing the paper was in Japanese.

"Yes, I know 89 percent of the world's languages... And is that what you're here to talk about or is it something else-"

Luke closed the newspaper and sat across the room from his brother, who had switched on some kind of body camera that Luke didn't seem to notice. Back in New York and in DC, the 3 agents tracking the two down got notifications on their laptops.

"The hell-" Delevio said, then she finished eating the Pocky stick she was chewing on and opened the feed.

Keyen who was at his home in Boston opened it too.

Tamara who was in her bedroom back in Australia opened the feed as well, her boyfriend a Blaziken named Darnell was sleeping behind her, and snoring very loudly, so she moved into the living room.

"So... quite the mess we're in, huh?" Rico chuckled nervously. To the Suprise of everyone watching, Luke smiled in return. "Of course, you'd find a way to laugh at a time like this. That's one reason I can't really live without you around. Always a light in the blackest of darkness. That's one reason you'll probably out-live me. Your optimism draws people to you."

Rico was a bit stunned by this. Usually, Luke didn't open up so much. He continued. "Y'know, Mind if I just... say a few things? Bro-to-Bro?" Rico nodded.

Luke smirked. "Thanks, Rico. Really, I just hate the whole Facade of being such a tough guy on the run. Truth be told, I was tempted to take that offer. I wanted my life back. I wanted her back..."

When Delevio heard that she gasped.

"...But... that shit in my veins... It kickstarts my adrenaline and turns an easily defusable scenario into a violent one. It's not like I can help it, the Surren made me a war machine, and I have to accept that. I can't help that my mind is hardwired to never back down until my body lay lifeless. It's just another way of keeping my pride. You see, there's no pride in Facing any courts. No pride in peaceful measures... But dammit, pride isn't always everything. I can tell myself, This time I'll give in and do the right thing, but it never happens..."

Rico gulped a little. "What're you saying?"

Luke sighed. "I wanna have my life back. I want to see my kids, I want my home... I miss it all, man. But... Delevio just doesn't understand one thing about me that could've avoided this whole shitfest."

Greene, who was at the house helping Delevio take care of the children knocked on the door, Delevio immediately gestured for him to come in immediately, Greene came over and sat on the ground by her, looking up at the screen.

Rico sat up a bit more. "And that would be...?"

Luke glared at him before closing his eyes and leaning back. "Pride. I mentioned that word before. It's always my worst flaw. I always think it's a sign of weakness to actually ask someone for assistance. So when I had these problems, I didn't ask. I didn't confide in anyone. I went to solve the problems my own way because at that moment, thats what seemed like the best option from my vantage point. Hindsight's always 20/20... wait, you're filming, aren't you?" Luke had noticed Rico had barely moved.

"Uhhhh"

He didn't want to irritate Luke so he nodded. Luke, however, didn't seem mad, "Fine, I guess you can do it. But you know... Greene harped on me for failed missions and killed targets who were to be captured alive... and he thinks I don't hear those voices when I sleep at night? He thinks it's easy knowing how many mons had to die because I couldn't restrain myself? He doesn't know because he's never been in that position. I have. It honestly sucks, but I'm trained not to show my remorse. But one mon can only take so much... Example... That last Paine brother. I should've let him live. It took me a while to come to terms with that one. I regret pulling that trigger. And after that, many more regrets followed. If Greene learned about this, he'd deactivate me. So I purposely went to join that club. I did it to hide my demons, to keep them at bay. I knew I'd be discovered. I just thought it'd be someone else ratting me out. And I knew Delevio wouldn't like it. But again, pride made me want to go down swinging rather than sit in counseling for years to come and never see action again... if Rico sends this to anyone... Tyler... and Delevio... I'm sorry." And with that, the camera feed cut.

Greene and Delevio looked at each other.

Keyen sighed and closed his computer.

Tamara on the other hand, pinged the location of the camera feed and tracked them to Japan, she smirked and closed her laptop, "Don't worry doggies, you'll be back in your cages soon"