Espio's eyes shot open to the sound of the phone ringing. He pushed himself up off the floor and stretched his body. "Coming…" The chameleon yawned as he walked over to the phone and answered it. "Hello Team Chaotix detective agency…" He covered his mouth as he yawned and rubbed his eye a bit. "How may we help you?" He leaned back on the desk and heard a masculine laugh from the other side of the phone. He chuckled. "Hey Knuckles! What can we do for you?" He heard a lot of shuffling on the other side of the phone and a feminine voice shout at Knuckles. "Eh? Is that Rouge?"

"Yeah, yeah we gotta be quick. Er…Are you free tonight?" Knuckles asked "oh shut up Rouge!" Knuckles threw something at the bat girl. "Well are you?"

"Well…I don't know yet." Espio looked over at a sleeping crocodile on the sofa "we may randomly get a mission or meet up with Vanilla…"

"Hm…Well we just wanted to know if you wanted to hang out with u-"

Rouge snatched the phone from Knuckles. "Hey hun, look, were going to a club today, just thought you might like to join us, anyway, its the club 'SixNine' we'll be there at around…8, so just meet us there, if you don't come before 9 we'll just assume you aren't coming okay hun?"

"U-Uh…Ok."

"Bye." The phone was hung up and Espio placed the phone in its case startled. He hadn't been asked to meet up with anyone for a couple of years; Most people just assumed he was too busy with work and used it as an excuse. Even though Espio wasn't much of a party person, he was flattered that they invited him, and was even considering going. A smile appeared on his face as he walked over to Vector and sat on the arm of the sofa. "Oi Vector wake up!"

The crocodile near him mumbled and sat up slowly. "Vector I'm going out tonight ok?"

"No you're not." Vector replied "You're cleaning the place remember? While I'm at Vanilla's with Charmy." Espio frowned and crossed his arms.

"C-Come on! Can't I do it tomorrow? I actually got invited to go somewhere!" Vector shook his head and poked Espio in the forehead. "Why not? Please Vector!"

"NO! We need it clean FOR tomorrow, the inspectors are coming. And yes that is kinda weird they probably just had no one else to invit-" Vector felt Espio's hand hit against his cheek hard. "H-Hey!"

"Why didn't we just clean up yesterday!" Espio shouted "Because YOU were too busy fucking Vanilla! You're always too busy fucking her! You never think about the agency."

"Fuck you Espio! You're just jealous I actually have a girl" Vector stood up and threw Espio onto the sofa "you are fucking cleaning this place up OK? If the inspectors come and it's a mess I'll fucking fire you OK?" Espio lied there, in shock of Vectors actions; Espio winced at Vector's strong clench to his arm.

"…Roger…" Espio whispered, pushing Vectors arm away. He looked around; The place was a tip. Bottles and papers lying about everywhere, heck Espio even spotted a few mice crawling around and eating crumbs. He knew he wouldn't be able to clean the whole place, even if he started then. A loud buzzing noise came from the cupboard and a bee flew out, sitting on Vector's lap. Espio got up and rubbed his arm before picking up a mop and starting to clean. "I am not going to miss out just because some fucking douche of a Vector tells me so…" Espio muttured, mopping the floor.

"Excuse me?"

"!Nothing…" Espio continued to mop the floor, until a crocodiles reflection appeared behind him in the water. "What is it? Can I not start now?"

"Who asked you out?" Vector asked "Is it a date?"

"No." Espio answered, mopping faster "Knuckles and Rouge asked me." Vector sucked on his own teeth and shook his head. "What's wrong with them?"

"They're flipping alcoholics! You could get hurt!"

"Oh yeah like you don't hur-" Espio was about to continue when he noticed Charmy looking at Espio from Vector's lap. "That would be my own fault." Espio didn't want to make Charmy scared; He didn't think Vector would ever hurt him. But he knew when Vector drank he went extremely violent and had even beaten Espio til he was unconscious.

"Well, it's good you're not going then." Vector gulped, gritting his teeth.

"…Sure it is."

Espio began to get a bit irritated by his team mates; All they did was watch TV and eat while Espio was mopping the floor and throwing dead mice into bins. "Couldn't you help me Vector?" Espio asked bitterly, throwing a can at Vector's head. Vector grumbled and turned to Espio.

"Nah I'm fine thanks, almost time for us to leave so…" He turned back to the television. Espio clenched the mop and continued cleaning, doing his best not to start a fuss because Charmy was sitting next to Vector. Espio saw Vector get up and begin packing things in a bag. "We best get going." Espio rolled his eyes as the two left the house without giving their goodbyes and threw the mop on the floor. His eyes diverted to the clock which read the time 7:00.

"Geez I've been cleaning for 5 hours…" Espio murmured, flopping back on the sofa "I think I deserve a break…" He felt inside his pocket and pulled out some money. "Hm, that'll do." It was a 20 ring note. He stuffed it back in his pocket and picked up the travel map on the table nearby. "SixNine huh…Best get going…Thats central if I'm right…"

Espio was sitting on a bus, watching the rain pour down outside. It had gone 7:45 by now, the bus was delayed because of the weather and Espio's clothes were already soaked. He leaned his head back when he heard someone call his name. "Hey Espio!" Espio looked up and noticed a pink hedgehog had got on the bus. She sat down next to him smiling.

"Oh hi Amy…" Espio said looking around. "Where you off to?"

"Uh I'm going to the mall to try and get a new dress! Hopefully a blue one…So I can match Sonic!" A sweat drop formed on Espio's head.

"Good luck with that Amy…"

"And where are you going?"

"Oh…" He looked Amy up and down; He didn't know whether to tell her, as she may end up telling Cream…Who could tell Vector "Just around."

"Why's that?" Espio shrugged.

"Vector kept me in to clean up, but I was getting to stressed…Just need to walk about you know." Amy nodded and smiled.

"I understand that feeling completely!" Espio tried to put on a laugh as he looked out the window, noticing the bus driving pas SixNine. He pressed the button to make sure the bus would stop and stood up.

"This is my stop, you have a nice day Amy!" The bus stopped and Espio walked out of the bus, waving to Amy as the bus left the stop. He sighed and began heading towards SixNine. "Guhn stupid rain…" Espio felt his shoe get soaked but did his best to ignore it. "Karma for me eh…"

He crossed the road and walked into SixNine. The bear at the entrance looked him up and down. He got out a clipboard. "Name please."

"…Espio." He watched the bear flick through the papers and tick off a name.

"Alright, you can go in." The bear stepped aside and Espio walked in.

The place was packed, there was over 200 people on the dance floor already. Lights were shining everyone of all the colours of the spectrum. He noticed several poles, and on those poles woman in revealing clothing. Espio shivered a bit; He was never one for sluts or even clubbing, but he was really glad he got invited so put all his hatred toward these kinda places aside for the night. His eyes widened when he heard his name being called. He spun around a few times until he saw Rouge waving to him. He pushed his way through to them; They were at the bar on the other side of the club. "Hey guys!" He sat down and noticed a black hedgehog looking at him, somewhat shocked, next to Knuckles. "Oh..Oh hi Shadow!" Espio waved a bit and yawned "If you guys tell Vector I'm here I'm fucking screwed."

"Don't worry we won't…"Knuckles reassured before turning to the barman. "We'll take 4 shots please.