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The bully boys messing about were roughly a little older than him, they probably could remember Japan before the invasion, probably. Still they were causing trouble because of the here an now, and if an idealized view of their country as it had been had an effect well that was too bad. Konig's massive bulk of red and white fur stood out, the Arcanine snarled large ears flattening across its head. Tolle did the same.

"I would suggest you leave," Lelouch remarked.

One of them clearly was braver than he was smart, "Yeah we were gonna say you should." He announced giving his pipe a practice swing. It was a mistake, they were paying too much attention to Lelouch and the two dogs beside him. Kuro came from one of the doors leading to an outdoor patio and took the brave one down trapping him to the ground under over forty kilograms of angry canine muscle. The brave one wasn't so brave now, and Lelouch could empathize, angry dogs, or angry pokemon in general were scary.

It had the desired effect in any case, Konig had but to barely take a step forward and the rest turned tail and run, a two meter plus dog would do that. With them gone the Arcanine relaxed settling back on his haunches tongue lolling out.

"Kuro heel." Slowly the black dog backed off, "Are you going to leave?" Lelouch didn't need to ask twice, he was going through the door by the time he had finished his sentence. This was the price of building in the ghettos though. "How about everyone go take a coffee break, think this much excitement merits thats much." Lelouch remarked, "Then we'll see about installing those lamps, yes?"
The workmen nodded as the prince picked up the abanndonned pipe. Hopefully they wouldn't come back, Mewtwo hadn't been kidding about needing to burn the midnight oil regarding fixing this place. Still maybe they'd taken the hint, and the pay was good for the people here so at least there was some benefit to the people living here, even if officially Britannia owned the land. Lelouch headed over to a mini fridge, that Jeremiah had brough over the other day, and grabbed a bottle of milk.

It was quite nice out today, nice enough that Clovis had called suggesting Lelouch could borrow his favorite gardener to help him plan his roof top garden. Lelouch knew he never should have told Clovis he was going to have a roof top garden, his brother was constantly bringing it up. It was a vegatable, and fruit garden not a flower garden. Though the blonde prince did have a point about the pool.

"Hi Lelouch," and that Suzaku coming through the door waving one hand with groceries in the other, "I brought some food over," ... damn it he'd told Suzaku to stop doing that Lelouch could buy his own food. "I figured I could give you a hand with that couch you wanted to move now that the power is working in that room." Actually the couch had been a gift from Clovis, as had the tv, and then all the movies. Clovis had been positively scandalized to hear Lelouch hadn't actually gone to see a movie in theaters in so long, but that was Clovis for you. At least Clovis had gotten distracted painting one of Lelouch's Flareons, which the blonde prince found absolutely fabulous. The Flareon of course positively preened at being painted.

Lelouch took the bag of groceries from Suzaku, "There are drinks in the mini fridge," He stated putting the bag on the newly installed counter, he hadn't actually gone about shopping for a full size refrigerator yet, for now the mini that Jeremiah brought was good enough, and that was next thing Suzaku asked about.

"If you need help I've got leave the entire weekend starting tomorrow unless there is an emergency Lelouch we could go get you one and install it." He suggested. "Still I thought I'd drop this off for you, while I had time."

As far as things were he was hoping to have most the doors on this floor put in before he started bringing things up but, "Well it might be easier to get it in, and up here without the doors." He admitted, though he had no idea where he should buy appliances in Tokyo.

"You need tables too." Suzaku added. The prince sighed, that was true to, there were a lot of things he needed to get to furnish this place. "Did you decide if you were going to get carpet or hard wood floors, or..."

Lelouch sighed again, "Suzaku I'm more or less making this up as I go along, with the exception of the greenhouses."

"Well they are turning out nicely." The honorary Britannian remarked, Suzaku was honestly trying to be helpful, just like he honestly tried to be friendly with Jeremiah and Kewell. "Do you know what you're going to plant. I never really figured you for a plant guy, though." Suzaku had been surprised, Clovis hadn't, he'd thought it'd been great that Lelouch liked plants, and then proceeded to drag Lelouch to the Viceroy's palace to show him his own masterpiece garden. With large greenhouses it'd be a place some of his pokemon could relax in relative privacy.

A chime came from the computer as Porygon happily appeared on screen, and began to rotate, "Mail, mail, you have mail. Mail." The pokemon happily chittered continuing to rotate around on screen. Thankfully no one found this strange, they just assumed it was some part of his email program, or his computer in general.

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Lelouch's temper flared fast before it abated as quickly. Clovis was not an idiot, or at least he hadn't been one when he'd left for Japan, so why was he acting like a complete fool now. Seriously Clovis was worried about him going off to pick fights with terrorists?

He stared at the screen in astonishment before the yip attracted his attention back. "Right," He muttered reaching his hand outward. What to do though... that was the question, Clovis was acting a fool not simply publically with this melodrama but in dealing with the terrorists. The rambling melodrama though had to be the worst of it to stomach, as his brother went on and on.

A ruckus caught his attention, another ruckus, no doubt more troublemakers. Lelouch had settled in the sky scraper, even if Clovis had tricked him, by inviting him to play chess, to come out of it long enough for engineers from the settlement to check and make sure the building was actually stable. The refurbishing was actually going well... even if Clovis had the most tacky since of house warming gifts, even rivaling Wallace in the other dimension.

Maybe whoever was wrecking stuff might accidentally, another crash, break some of Clovis's brilliantly colored ornaments they looked fragile at least. He stood up allowing the two hound pokemon to join him at the sliding metal door.

It was Jeremiah, and Kewell loaded down with groceries... and beer. "Ah Your Highness I apologize for the disturbance." The Margrave announced from the half completed room, there were boards, and planks everywhere, but slowing the skyscraper was coming together. "We, that is too say Kewell and myself tripped over your potting supplies."

"I said you could call me by my name," So he could see, actually Clovis swore up and down Lelouch's greenhouses were coming along spectacuraly. "Its alright though I'll get to it later," It was a late friday night anyway, the Japanese- elevens whatever would be getting here in the morning at six anyway to start daily construction, or reconstruction work rather. Clovis was still insisting Lelouch do the sensible thing and simply buy a mansion in the Settlement. Not that Lelouch could readily do that, gambling provided money but really buy a mansion in Tokyo, Clovis was being daft again.

Kewell had set the bag on the ground and had begun to pet Tolle, to the pokemon's delight, well that was one good thing at least both soldiers got a long with his pokemon, or at least the ones they had met so far. That was good, unlike Clovis finding his wallet, luckily he hadn't had anything compromising in there, all that had been removed, and replaced with appropriate stuff for day to day life in Tokyo. Luckily the only pictures there had been that beach picture with him and his friends, and thankfull that was lacking any pokemon. Still it'd been annoying.

"At least the power is working today." Kewell remarked to Jeremiah flipping the switch... at least they thought the power going out had been the fault of old wiring, as opposed to actually being one of his electric type pokemon overloading the grid. That had been a mess. Actually about the only one not acting weird, which was probably weird given the situation, was Suzaku, who was really just glad to see Lelouch doing well. He'd even volunteered to help out when he wasn't occupied by work; army obligations.

That was actually turning out to be pretty helpful, because of the need for discretion. Between Suzaku, Jeremiah, and Kewell Lelouch almost always had a second pair of hands to helm move around furniture the old fashioned way. Since he could rely on his psychic powers or most of his pokemon the extra set of hands was great. Still much as he missed his villa once this was done it'd be a nice place to stay.

"Did you hear?" Kewell was alot more at ease with calling Lelouch by name than Jeremiah was, but that was probably the dog thing.
"Hear what?" Lelouch responded,

"About the war against the MEF, Second Princess Cornelia is assuming command of forces," Kewell announced, "They're saying she'll have it done in a few weeks, the viceroy was talking about inviting her to Area 11 once she finished there." He remarked.

... CLOVIS WAS WHAT! Lelouch had to refrain from blurting that out. 'Is that a problem?' Mewtwo inquired telepathically, 'She can't be any worse than Sabrina.' That was a point Cornelia didn't... well most likely didn't have psychic powers which definitely meant Sabrina was definitely more dangerous, but still, this was definitely a problem. "Really?"

"Uh huh," Kewell remarked not noticing the pause, as Jeremiah unloaded the grocerries, "the second princess has an army of elite specialized knightmares at her command, even better than our unit's customized Sutherlands. They're called Gloucesters, they're really something, and all her subordinates have combat experience as well. A few even served in the invasion of Japan seven years ago."
"Indeed, I served with General Darlton during the invasion," Jeremiah remarked from beside the counter, "You want a piece?" He asked the large cat holding out a piece of roast beef. The Persian didn't need to be asked twice.

Lelouch laughed, "Careful Jeremiah they'll eat all before we get any,"
"I did bring extras after last time," The colonel responded, "I guess we'll be eating on the couch again?"
That was true he'd yet to get tables in here. "I haven't actually gone shopping, I was planning to go tomorrow, Suzaku had actually volunteered to help."

The two men shifted a bit, "Yeah Saturday is good then there is a great department store," Kewell paused, "What? I've got an apartment of my own offbase, geez you'd think its weird a soldier has been in a department store in a city he's been stationed in for the last three years, and besides we could always ask Viletta she probably knows everything about all the stores in the Settlement."

"I'll make the arrangements Martin,with the thirty-fifth, has a truck we can probably use, he's got nothing to do tomorrow"

Lelouch only vaguely knew the officer because Jeremiah had introduced him after the mess in Shinjuku, but he seemed a decent enough sort from what little he'd seen. In any event it seemed like a plan.
"Prince Clovis did want you to also come to the Ashford Accademy open fair tomorrow as well," Jeremiah remarked, "Might be a good way to kill time before or after, they still have the Empress's Ganymede." Lelouch hadn't actually known that, then again he hadn't actually asked what had become of the test knightmare his mother had owned.

"That will work," Lelouch agreed, wasn't like he had much else to do, his last chess match for the week had been Thursday, and the seeds he'd ordered wouldn't be in until Tuesday at the earliest, and maybe just maybe if he went along with Clovis to Ashford Clovis would stop nagging him for a bit. That and he really needed to talk to his idiot brother about Cornelia coming. Still life in Tokyo wasn't half bad, sure the news tended to go on about terrorist attacks, and Clovis liked to make a fool of himself, but there were no destructive brawls wrecking cities, well none he'd seen that was a nice change.

"You could invite your mates once you've got the place up to par," Kewell remarked offhand. That was slightly more problematic task, given they were in an alternate universe, and some of his friends were less than discreet with the fact they had juggernauts of destruction at their command. Ragnar had Groudon, and Jiao had Kyogre and they liked to challenge each other, and frequently; it was fairly even of odds those matches. Tolle laid out infront of the couch as Jeremiah took his time between examining the vast number of movies that had accumulated, between Clovis, Jeremiah, Kewell, and even Suzaku contributing, and watching his sandwhich.

Kewell made a suggestion, which Jeremiah balked at, proclaiming that it'd been on the television twice already this past week, and offered another, which Kewell said wasn't nearly as good as the first one. Lelouch having not seen the first one suggested that, to which Jeremiah agreed was a good idea.

Still watching a movie on friday night was a good change up from camping underneath the stars in some forest, or on a mountain somewhere. Elsewhere Clovis was talking with Cornelia over a secure teleconference line, and a minute later Porygon started shrieking about security alerts.

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Helltanz's notes: Yes a bit of a boring chapter, but it was more or less meant as a day in the life segment of Lelouch adapting, and settling in.

In other news the main reason Dark Prince (2) hasn't been updated is because the hard copies of the chapters are in storage, I'll get them out sometime in mid July, the thinking was to complete Dark Prince 2, and in the interim work on the much longer Third Book. So in any case about July 20th or so I'll start typing up and doing final edits on the next chapters of Dark Prince 2

Relating to God's Sword writing the next chapter is well underway, I'm attempting a 5k word chapter, and will continue the UFN meeting that has begun.