When Jane got home. All she wanted to do was fill her tub up with hot water, use the very expensive soap basket her mother got her for graduating from the academy, and try to forget today had happened. Unfortunately, there was one rather large armored individual who had four large deep dish pizzas and several drinks in his hands while she fumbled with her keys to get the door open.

Three locks and twice dropping them later, she and Lukas entered her spacious apartment fit for a small family. A living room and kitchen area with a hall leading to three bedrooms and a bath, and her room, the master room had its own bathroom. The plan was to live with the graduates of the academy, but the three she roomed with never completed the academy. One was rejected for drug charges the first year and the other two were unable to keep up physically and educationally and eventually dropped out.

“ Put the pizza’s on the table. Down the hall and first door on the right, that room is empty and you can use it.”

Lukas looks around a second and finds his path through the half-cleaned-up mess of fast food trash and dirty clothing to a clear spot on the table before heading to the hall.

“ I am going to freshen up a bit.”

She nods to him before blushing to see his suit catching the strap of a bra with his foot.

“ Good idea... I’ll clean up for a bit.”

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Lukas opened the door to the unexpectedly clean room. He could tell it had not been entered in some time. In fact, if he wanted he could have the suit give him a timeline of its last visitation and probably the full history of the last three occupants. Instead, he put the bra in his inventory before taking it out again and throwing it on a bare table, and moved to the foot of the bed.

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“ Begin, disengage sequence.”

The suit forcefully straightened as the locks holding the suit on around him started to disengage. As with his training, after the locks were removed, he pulled his right foot back first before pulling the left out of the suit. The always fun part came after he got his privates out of the protective cup while keeping his upper body still. Getting his arms and head out at the same time while using none of his upper body to do so. Otherwise, he might push the suit over with a part of him still in it.

After five minutes of the delicate dance getting out of his suit, he tapped the crystal on his temple and a stylish pair of eye protection appeared on his face. This in fact was his personal link to the Warden System. With them on he begins his external examination of the suit, making sure to make note of any scratch or ding he found. As his armor is military-grade combat armor, nothing as mundane as steel or concrete should even do more than scratch the paint. And in fact, the only true damage he found is when he caught the fist of that low-level criminal.

With his check done Lukas accessed his inventory and got a change of clothing and went to the shower, and he was glad it was a shower and not a tub as he turned on the water and started rubbing the heavy sweat from his fur. Twenty minutes and a large bottle of conditioner later he felt like a new man. After putting away the magical drying array and the disintegration disk for breaking down his fur, he left the bathroom and noticed the door to his room open.

Slowly Lukas approached the door and found Jane looking at the back of his suit. Then she imitated the pose the suit was in during it’s standby, and that is when he noticed the bra in her hand that he dragged in earlier.

“ Jane Carter, can I assist you?”

Jane let out a surprised yelp that a pup would make surprised and turned to see Lukas in the doorway.

“ I, um, came in here to get this and tell you the pizza is getting cold.”

“ Right, and the fact you pretending to be in my suit is playing around.”

The look he got of both shame and annoyance caused him to laugh gently as he went to get himself some pizza.