Hartley Witney, Oxfordshire, UK

Benoit planted a kiss on London's mouth. The little Eevee was excited at London knelt down to kiss him back. The Eevee always had this tender feeling inside whenever London kissed him, it was as if he was warming every part of his body and keeping his heart tender and warn, he loved it... He loved him. Benoit pulls away and laughs to himself.

"He finally rises" Benoit says.

London manages a lazy smile and pulls him in for a hug. He liked how soft Benoit was, the young French vee made him smile and he loved it... He loved how good Benoit was at drawing and how colourfulhe was. It was as if London and Benoit had their own universe together.

The Flareon let's go of Benoit and rubs his head, "Let's go eat-"

Benoit nods and follows him. The two end up eating at a restaurant in the centre of the village. The Flareon noticed Benoit was really chowing down on his food and laughed a little.

"You must have been pretty hungry huh?" London says.

Benoit realising he was being messy slowed his eating and averted eye contact with London, he was embarrassed. London puts his paw on his head.

"It's ok... I used to eat like that sometimes" London tells him, the Flareon gives him an assuring smile.

Benoit swallows his food and wipes his face, "Why are you so sweet?"

"Good question... I don't really know. I just like being kind I guess!" London answers.

Benoit's lovestruck smile grows as London messages his head. Later after they were done eating they decided it was time to go back to London so the two packed their bags and waited patiently for the bus at the stop. Benoit jumped onto him and hugged the Flareon tightly, the Flareon decided to stroke his head to soothe the excited Eevee but it only seemed to make Benoit happier somehow so London sighed and picked him up lifting the Eevee up in the air.

"Hug me!" Benoit shouts excitedly.

London does so and rests his head on his mane. Benoit moans happily as the tender feeling in his chest comes back to him again, the all to familiar feeling of burning love... And London was his flame.

"I hope we can do this again! I had a lot of fun!" London says.

Benoit and London lean in and kiss each other before seperating again, "I hope we can do it again too... But in France..."

London raises an eyebrow, "You think you can earn enough to take me to Paris?"

"If I work really hard yeah!" Benoit says excitedly.

"Alright... I believe you" London says.

"You'd better" Benoit says, touching noses with him.

The two share another kiss just before the bus arrives to take them to the station. The two separate and grab their bags before getting on. When they arrive back in London, the Flareon drops Benoit off at his place before going back to his.

The first thing London does when he gets back is get in the shower, the Flareon yawns and Poor's shampoo on his paw before rubbing it all over his fur and body... A certain somemon peaks his head inside the shower curtain. Moonlake's tail was wagging wildly, his heart pounding as he watched the naked Flareon wash himself. When London turned to pick up the fur conditioner he saw Moonlake staring at him with a nosebleed and a very thirsty look on his face, the Flareon screamed and covered in-between his legs.

"Wh-Wh-What the fuck are you doing?!" London shouts.

"Don't mind me just enjoy the view" The Eevee says, still bleeding from the nose.

London screams again and slaps Moonlake in the face with full force, "Get out! Now!"

Moonlake instead lays on the floor... Aroused by the stinging sensation on his face, "Heh heh, worth it-"

"Out! Out! Out! Out!-" London screams.

The Flareon tosses the Eevee out of the lavatory and gets back in the shower.

"And I locked the door this time" London groans.

The Eevee was still muttering in Japanese about how appealing London's body was to him. Standing over him though was somemon who didn't share his thoughts... Isabel... And she was furious. The Eevee feels the menacing presence and starts sweating nervously.

"You know... Just because your not my son, that doesn't mean I won't go ballistic on you for doing things like this. What did I tell you about watching London in the shower-"

"Oop, gotta run-" Moonlake says.

"Don't worry Moonlake... This won't hurt... That much" Isabel says, softly hitting the rolling pin on her paw.

Moonlake and Isabel start running around as their children and Tokyo watch the ridiculouness unfold infront of them.

"Let's... Just read a book" Perseus says to his siblings.

"Yeah-" Emily adds.

---

Paris, France

Delevio watched from across the River Siene as the Eiffel Tower glowed in the night lights. Her plan was to spend a few days in Paris and then go and check up on London in the UK. Tyler and Lydia were having fun as well... Well Lydia more then Tyler, all the Riolu had been doing was either brooding about his father not being there or practicing with the martial arts book his mother gave him. Delevio felt a tugging at her leg and saw Lydia had bought her some ice cream, she smiled and took the cone from her daughter before giving her a head pat.

"Did you give one to your brother?" Delevio asks.

"Mhm"

"Ok, good-" Delevio says.

She looks behind her and sees Tyler sitting on a bench eating the cone, if it was one thing the Riolu liked it was something sweet to eat. She smiled when she saw he was enjoying it.

"Mommy! Are you okay?" Lydia asks.

She snaps back to reality and looks down at her daughter.

"Yeah... I'm fine-" Delevio says, the Glaceon pats her head and picks up her bag.

"Alright! Who wants to go to The Louvre?" Delevio asks them.

"Me!" Both of them shout, excited to see the museum.

---

Rammstein Airbase, Germany

Luke, Rico and Alexa were shackled together as two soldiers and the agents that helped capture them led them to a jet plane. That plane would fly them to Washington DC where the two would get the chance to stand trial for their crimes... However, Luke had one last plan to free all three of them. The three were chained to a steel railing on the jet and had two soldiers and Tetrahyde sit with them. Greene who was flying back to DC as well stepped on board the plane.

"Tetrahyde. A word..." Greene says.

Tamara cocks her head to one side and walks over to him.

"Sir-"

"Can you do me a favour and not electricute them for no reason please. Logs showed you shocked them 9 times within 2 minutes yesterday, it's excessive and we need them alive right now. If I catch you screwing up were you shouldn't I'm putting you behind a desk... Got it?"

Tamara groans, "Fine..."

"Thank you" Greene says, the Arcanine sits in front of the trio.

Tetrahyde sits next to Greene and takes out a magazine for her to read.

"We're clear for take off" Waterlily calls from the cockpit.

"Get rolling then" Greene says.

The Sylveon nods and closes the door.

Luke scoffs and looks down at the ground, Alexa groans because the chains are tight on her wrists, Rico growls quietly when he sees Greene sitting in front of him.

"Howl and snarl all you want... You're already set for a mental ward" Greene says, the Arcanine looks over to Luke and hands him a letter.

"I suggest you read that" Greene says.

Luke looks down at the envelope and back at Greene, "How an I supposed to open this if I can't move my paws"

"They're chains Luke, they're not supposed to be comfortable. And even if I were to unlock it for you, you'd pose a threat to the entire crew onboard the plane" Greene says, "You can read it when you get to your holding cell in Washington... Or if you ever manage to open it"

Luke groaned and looked down at the piece of paper in his paws. He turned the letter over and saw the letter D handwritten om the back of it. He knew it was from Delevio, but what was she writing to him for?

---

Ottawa, Canada

"What in the world is it going to take you to understand that we need to go to war?!" Ketster yells.

"Look, I want to over this as much as you do, but we can't since it was a corporation."

"A corporation," Ketster slams his paw on the desk, "owned by a damned government!"

"Hey! Do not get riled up in my office, young mon! I can demote you anytime I want! Especially after beating a literal child to a pulp!"

"Oh, please, that child could tear you apart without issue. I only survived properly as long as I did because of me knocking him down a few notches."

"How so?"

"You don't want to know, some info is best kept unknown. Anyways, you can't demote me that easily."

"Yes I can, and I will."

"And then what? I'll just ask the UN and NATO to promote me again in their security force, to which will allow me to take control in about twelve to twenty years, and I'll be in charge of everything. Who needs to use backdoors and vents when you have the key to everyone's front door?" Mayvire sighs at Ketster's remarks.

"Do you know why, I was promoted to 'Field Colonel'? Because anytime I would talk to explain why the generals, the Captains, the Colonels, the Admirals were wrong in what they were going to plan, they would shoo me away... Those were in combat exercises, which we would lose due to poor planning and otherwise. I had been on the field doing stuff for ten years before I joined the CAF and CSIS, fifteen almost before the Surren properly surfaced. And you guys didn't even know I existed until I broke out and made contact with the RCMP in the middle of buttfuck nowhere where the only good thing is the buttfucking."

"Okay, okay, I get it. You know some things, but you also know why we can't just go to the Prime Minister and say 'We need to go to war now!'" Mayvire's phone rings. "Hang on a second."

"Hello? I am busy with... Oh, well then, put it through to my screen please." He hangs up and pushes a button under his desk.

"I think you'll rather." He smiles as several wooden panels move on the wall to show a large tv screen. "Enjoy this." The screen is split in half to show a Pine Tree Torterra and Goodra.

"Oh, Field Colonel Greane, I was wondering where you disappeared to when you gave the signal." The Torterra says in a surprised tone.

"I do apologize for dropping off the radar so abruptly, and from the presence of the Chinese President, I can take a guess or two for what the purpose of this meeting may be about."

"We were not made aware of the attack to your base until it had occurred, we were informed that it would be solely reconnaissance and monitoring."

"I'm not exactly fond of that statement and confession, continue." Ketster says.

"We have since cut off Kai Industries of all funding and resources from China. They are no longer protected by us."

"I assume they have resources and allies elsewhere, yes?" Ketster asks.

"Yes, they have allies in the middle east and potentially a few Surren allies that were too important to be jailed."

"Wow, that's almost a trifecta of personal problems for me, now comes my recommendation of logistics."

"Excuse me?"

"You are going to give me a blank cheque, I ask for it, you give it to me. Kai Industries has been screwing over both East and Western Hemispheres for the past who knows how long. They've been accused of and nearly convicted for an unknown amount of international crimes, not going short of kidnapping Eevees and other children from across the world and using them as genetic experiments."

"Uh, yes but-"

"Nope, you'll do what I say, when I say so, and if you even have so much as a defective soldier, I will ensure that your soldiers are treated with the utmost hostility required to put you into financial ruin and I will tear your nation apart on the world stage." There is a deafening silence as everyone soaks in what was said.

"Pardon me, Sirs," Mayvire interjects, "The Colonel has been agitated lately as he decimated the troops sent after him and his men-"

"Family." Ketster corrects.

"His family. I do believe that there needs to be talks with the United Nations of such a topic like war and financial ruin on a global scale."

"Funny thing," the Prime Minister chimes in, "the United Nations security council, among other representatives were quickly informed individually as social media is very quick, they made a group video discussion on the topic, official and recorded, and have given both Canada and NATO a green light to and I quote, 'Act as we see fit.' Now I do not know how NATO itself will be taking this, but since this is our land, I do feel as though we have an obligation to make it known that not all of us forgot what happened in Vimy Ridge and Paschendale."

"Thank you Prime Minister. What have you to say on the matter, Mr Lee Jiang"

"I feel confident that you know what you need to do. I will give you the full cooperation of China's resources."

"And 0.5% of your GDP."

"Excuse me?"

"Woah."

"Hang on a second."

"Hey, his country's basically got half the global economy under his thumb... what's 0.5% of the GDP to Canada's military procurement and funding?" There's a short moment of silence.

"Unless that is, of course, you don't want our help and the UN is sent in to do what they want to, ie America and there'll be several more 'Blackhawk Downs', 'Rwandas', 'Benghazis', do you want me to continue?"

"Nonono, it is alright. I will accept your terms of cooperation. We will help finance the Canadian Armed Forces with 0.5% of the Chinese GDP."

"For the next ten years." There is another pause in the room.

"For the next ten years." Jiang says slowly. Mayvire and the Prime Minister look at Ketster in shock of what he is saying.

"I think that these agreements can be finalized on paper now, yes Prime Minister and President?"

"Yes, I think so. We shall speak again Field Colonel."

"Goodbye, sirs." Mayvire says before cutting communications off with them. Ketster mouths a countdown before Mayvire explodes.

"ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?!"

"That I was and I am." Ketster says with a smile.

"Do you have any idea what the political implications of this will be?!"

"I've got a few good ideas. After a quick press conference, I think that Alberta, Libertarians and even the most peaceful of Canadians will be on the government's side calling for blood. We give some of our services in exchange for a foreign countries financial aid to help them with a problem they not only started, but allowed to go off the rails."

"They will take advantage of this later."

"Only if allowed to. That's why I said ten years."

"Probably should've made sure it was written down."

"Shit, I keep forgetting that he's got the memory of shale. Send him that message now. I need to get to Parliament."

"And do what?"

"Ensure that the Team Leader is somewhat present for the event."

"Would you like a car?" Mayvire asks as Ketster turns into a Jolteon.

"No thanks, I know my way." He says as he extends the brim of his hat and pulls it over his face before saluting Mayvire. Mayvire returns the salute and Ketster leaves.

"May Arceus help Canada if that's our saviour." Mayvire sighs as he sits in his chair and resumes his paperwork.

"Oh right." He pulls out a cellphone and starts typing.