Chapter one.

Back at the Chaotix Detective Agency...

Vector was sleeping on the lounge , it appeared he was sleep talking. Charmy and Holly had walked over to Vector and Observed the sight. Holly started randomly laughing like she couldn't control it. Charmy then looked at her. "shush! You'l wake him..." He said pointing at Vector.

He was still asleep , he started mumbling some stuff. He couldn't talk propably due to his face being stuffed into the pillow.

Charmy looked. "er...whats he saying?"

Holly scratched her head. "hold on , I can translate Idiot..."

Charmy laughed A little bit as Holly Inspected Vector as he mumbled.

"hmm..." She said "...He appears to be saying something about-" She would continue but the door opened slightly. "...holy crap..." She grabbed Charmy by the Arm and jumped over behind a bench.

Espio and Phoebe walked in the room. Phoebe appeared to be blushing a little bit.

"...oh...It's just them...Espebio..." She said squinting. "But what are they up to...?" She asked herself.

"MAYBE THEIR GOING TO GO TO THE MOON!" Charmy shouted while jumping up from the bench. Holly grabbed him and pulled him back down.

"SHUT UP CHARMY! YOU WANT THEM TO KNOW WERE SPYING ON THEM!?"

Phoebe starred at them from where she was standing. "...er...What are they doing?"

Espio shut his eyes and crossed his arms. "...hopefully it's not the same incident as last tuesday..."

She turned to him. "What happened last tuesday?"

He opened one eye and looked at her. "...Charmy thought he was an Elephant..."

She looked back at Charmy and Holly. "...What the hell...How did he-"

"-You don't want to know...trust me..." He walked off into the kitchen and went through the fridge then sighed.

Phoebe shrugged and walked into her room.

Holly seen the two leave and took her hand off Charmy and starred at him.

Charmy awkwardly laughed a little bit , flying off slowly as he did.

Espio came out of the kitchen and walked over to Vector and started shaking him. "wake up! Vector! C'mon Vector! Wake up!"

Vector grunted as he turned onto his back and starred at Espio. "What!?"

Espio sighed. "We only have some old milk and tuna left in the kitchen , we need food..."

Holly had heard Espio and ran up to him. "What!? Were out of food!?"

Espio facepalmed and sat down.

Vector scratched his head. "...er..."

Espio looked back at him. "We need more food Vector , but for that we obviously need money...soo..."

Holly stopped her rampage she starred at Vector.

"...We need a job to do...And we need you to get up off your ass!" He said in an annoyed matter while kicking him softly in the leg. "Get up!"

Vector got up and grabbed Espio's face in his Hand. "...shut up Espio..."

Espio stoppd. He knew he wasn't allowed to hurt him...much atleast...he could get kicked out...After all , Vector ran the agency. "..." He went silent , thinking what to do in this situation.

Phoebe came back out of her room with a drawing book and a pencil. She walked down the hallway and seen Vector holding Espipos face , she dropped her Book and Pencils. "ah!? Vector!? What the hell are you doing!?"

Vector looked over to Phoebe and shrugged.

"Let go of his face!"

Vector sighed. "fine..." He let go of Espios face. "happy?"

Phoebe picked up her pencil and book. "yes , actually..." and she walked outsied the back door and sat outside under the apple tree that , unfortunatly , had no apples.

Espio looked back at Vector and turned away and started walking. "...tomorrow we start looking around for jobs Vector...we can't go on like this forever you know..."

Vector yawned and crossed his arms. "...well...Isn't someone acting like the leader..."

Espio stopped and cluched his right fist. "...well...If I was...I would be doing a better job then YOU atleast!" He then walked out and sat under the tree with Phoebe. "bah...Stupid Vector..." He mumbled under his breath. He cluched his fist even harder but then he released it's hardness a little.

She looked at him. "geez...Er...Is he always like that?"

He looked at her. "...Not always...Just when he's in a terrible mood..."

She looked at him. "well...Just don't let it get to you...ok..."

He just closed his eyes and put his arms behind his back. "...I'll try..." and he sighed.

She smiled a bit. "good~" She turned bac to her drawing and continued.

Espio couldn't help but look over her shoulder and see what she was drawing. He observed her for a minute.

She laughed. "I see you are watching me..." She showed the picture to him "What do you think?"

He grabbed the book and looked at the picture. It was a picture of him. "...nice..."

She grabbed her book back. "If you don't mind I would like to finish."

He nodded and let go. He just sat there and looked around. It seemed he was about to talk but nothing came out. He tried again. "So Phoebe..."

She looked at him. "yeah?"

"...well..." He looked over to see Charmy and Holly in the bushes. "a-hey! Is that Charmy and Holly!?" He pointed to the two. They quickly ran for it immediatly.

Phoebe smiled and laughed. "yeah! I think it was!"

He smiled a bit and mumbled to himself. "seeing you smile could make me..."

Phoebe looked at him and blushed a bit. "...oh...It...does?"

His eyes widened. "Did I say that outloud!?"

She nodded. "yes , you did!"

He blushed even more. "oh , S-Sorry! I..."

She scratched her head and looked away. "oh...erm...You don't have to be...I guess...It's sweet...ish...I think..."

He looked away.

Phoebe laughed a little bit. "Sometimes I Think that My life is a series of awkward moments..."

"I can see why..."

She nodded and went quiet. There was an awkward silence between the two for a few minutes. Phoebe went back to her drawing as Espio watched. He kept watching untill a leaf fell on his horn. He looked at it and grinned. He reached for Phoebes arm "hey Phoebe...check this out..."

She turned and seen the leaf balancing on his horn She smiled and looked at it. "I wonder how long it will stay on there..."

Espio shrugged and went off balance a little bit. The leaf started tipping over. "oh , well , looks like it's gone now"

"Hang on..." She placed her stuff down and got the leaf from next to him. She picked it up and sat it back ontop of his horn. "Its cute...but it's not the same..."

He smiled. His tail started flickering a little . He closed his eyes and tried to stop smiling , but he couldn't. He just shut his eyes even harder.

She seen him trying not to smile. aw...He's just so cute...I... , She thought to herself. "ah..." She moved closer towards him a little.

out the front of the Chaotix detective Agency...

Vector was leaning against the wall thinking to himself.

bah! Espio...What does he know? nothing. That's what...but...I guess the Chaotix haven't really done a job since Phoebe showed up...You know what...now that I think of it the last time we had a job was when Phoebe needed our help...Crap...I need to find a job for us and fast...

He had looked up as he heard something. It sounded like screaming. "huh?" He didn't see anyone. He then heard screaming again.

"LOOK OUT!" The male voice shouted.

Vector looked up and the next thing he knew he was down on the ground. "HEY!" Vector shouted pulling whoever landed on him off him. He grabbed him by the arm.

A brown hedgehog with red markings was hanging by his arm. He was also wearing bkack shoes , plain white gloves and a baseball cap. He looked down at the ground, He looked up at him to see it was Vector. "...wha...Vector...?"

Vector dropped him on the ground. "TOM!? THE HELL!?"

Holly had run out the front door with Charmy at the sound of them screaming. She was carrying a sack but then dropped it. "TOM!?"

"...y-yeah...I...uhg..." He had scratches and marks all over his legs and his right arm. He nearly fell over but landed on the wall face first. His face had some blood on it and he then closed his eyes and passed out.

"CRAP!" Holly screamed. "VECTOR WHAT DID YOU DO!?"

Vector looked just as shocked as she was "I DONT KNOW! One minute Im standing here , the nex he lands on me! i...uh...Holly?" He looked around but seen no-one.

Holly had taken Tom inside with Charmy. Charmy had started poking tom.

"Stop it!" Holly slapped him and got a bottle of water and placed it next to him.

"boy...I wonder what happened to him...He looks beat up badly..."

Holly nodded "yeah..I know..."