Shadow got up and looked around his room; he looked around with partial content at its emptiness.

"It's only temporary anyway." Thought shadow to himself, he descended the stairs into the Chaotix HQ, like he has for the past few months. The Chaotix (Espio the Chameleon, Vector the Crocodile, Charmy the Bee, and Mighty the Armadillo) were busy working on locating the seven chaos emeralds and so far had absolutely zero luck. But anyway Shadow was there only for the emerald… the Chaotix didn't matter all that much to him, but they gave him a place to sleep so he was cool about it. He found his desk a mess just as he had left it, papers with various leads and he didn't really follow any of them, he just sat there and pretended to work, in reality he was mostly playing Tetris. And vector would get on his butt about it but today was different everyone was not at there desk. They were all bunched up at something in the front door. He could here a voice it was female, and it didn't sound like Rouge (Who now a days was hanging around with knuckles who visits the Chaotix often). He looked over and caught glimpses and bits of conversation, It seemed to be two women. A white and grey Falcon and a jade porcupine.

"So are we in?" Asked the Falcon, She wore a black beanie, and a camouflage army vest, with some black pants that ran to her black Chuck Tailors.

"Come on Elly, we got the shit they need, let's just get paid and go." The Porcupine seemed to have something of an attitude; she had on a black tank top, and a matching black shorts that stopped at the knee showing an inch of leg before a black boot covered the rest.

"Goths?" whispered Shadow to himself.

"Says the emo." came a reply from vector who had apparently been behind him for awhile. "Yeah there here trying to get a job we turned them down a couple of times cause we can't really afford pay without making some cuts in other areas, but today they got something."

"What do they have?" Asked Shadow a little curious

"They say a chaos emerald, but I'm a little skeptic."

"So why not believe them until we can prove otherwise?"

"Shad man, its not that easy, they want pay upfront before showing us the emerald, they say we would steal it or something, but do you really want to have to fight that?" Vector pointed at the green porcupine, who was showing them her muscles as the falcon rolled her eyes "Shadow in this business its always good to trust people, if they have something you want, so im gonna stand on the sidelines and watch what happens, the falcon's name is Hellfyre and the porcupine's is Angel. Strange names I know, but meh." A small silence passed as they watched the scene "so Shad what are you gonna d-" As Vector spoke Shadow was already walking there way with some bills in his hand. He threw them to the Porcupine and Angel caught it.

"How much is this?" Angel asked

"1000" shadow answered simply "now give me the jewel"

"Take it" Hellfyer responded and tossed a small clear blue gem at shadow, he took one look and paused.

"Chaos Control!" Shadow shouted, nothing happened. "Its a fake." he remarked "The money? give it back."

"Try and catch me you cunt munching fuck-twat" The bad mouthed porcupine took off running and laughing as the falcon took flight. Shadow just stood there smiling

"Shadow you stupid hedgehog!" Shouted vector behind him. "You better get that back... NOW!" shadow opened his mouth and whispered some numbers.

"1... 2...3..."

"What are you doing" Espio asked from shadows side, Shadow held up a finger to hush him.

"4...5... 6..."

"I think he's goin' crazy" An annoying Charmy said from behind him next to Espio

"7... 8... 9.." Shadow bent down like a runner preparing for a race. "10!" Shadow took off in the direction of the Porcupine.

Angel Looked behind her and he eyes widened "Holy shit Elly we got the hog right on our asses!" she spoke unto a radio transmitter that sent the audio to a white and grey Hellfyre in the air.

"Don't worry I got his butt covered!" She swooped downward a little and hit the ground face first and twisted herself as she bounced back and stopped in front of Shadow.

"Sweet Jesus shit storm you alright?" asked Shadow, seeing the crash. The bird looked up at him with teary eyes.

"Ooh, I think I broke something, do you think you could help me?" The falcon could not help but crack a small smile at how good it was working. But the smile faded with Shadows response.

"Sorry, I will have to let you die here, you friend has my money." He took off his shoes jets propelling him to speeds enough to match Sonic's. And soon the jade green figure was visible.

"Just a little farther" thought angel to herself as she ran to the edge of the island "almost..." she came to the cliff drop that went down into the ocean off the floating island.

As Shadow ran toward the porcupine he could see where the island stopped. "Heh... she's trapped. A rookie mistake." Suddenly a white blur when past Shadow (Shadow is at max speed here and that's pretty impressive). Shadow ran trying to push his shoes to take him faster. Soon he was able to make out the blur was Hellfyre in flight. "Damn…" Shadow thought. "She's fast." the bird went past the edge of the island and flew in a small circle. He looked back to find Angel still running to the edge. "Son of a bitch!" he yelled as he realized what they were doing.

"There!" the porcupine jumped as she saw Hellfyre fall ahead of her, as they rehearsed she grabbed the Chuck Tailor shoe on The grey/white birds foot, and they began to float to the large continent that is only a few miles away.

"Oh no you don't!" Shad gave one more push to his boots and jumped as far as he could desperate to not be humiliated by returning empty handed, "So... close" he reached the apex of the jump and began to descend. "Fuck!" he began to fall to the deep waters beneath. "Damn! I'm about to die all for only 1G!" but the fall slowed and soon turned into an ascent and he felt someone holding onto his arms and eh saw an orange figure above him "The fox?" he asked to it.

"That's right and seems to be just in time." he let go of Shadow with one hand to point at his plane, the Tornado 2 and the blue pilot at its controls.

"I was handling this myself." Shadow protested. As the blue plane flew toward the bird and porcupine.

"Friends of your shadow?"

"Only as much as you."

"Then you want them to come back with you?"

"You drop me as soon as we are above ground, i didn't need your help tails."

"I know, you were doing a great job of getting your butt kicked."

"'Butt'? Any doesn't anyone here curse but me?"

Back at Chaotix HQ:

"So" began vector to the two thieves "You got anything to say for yourself?"

"Yeah" Began Angel "All you guys can lick my ass!" she was kicked by Hellfyer as she said this

"Maybe now is not a good time to piss them off."

"Right" Vector started "I can expect you back here tomorrow?" this answer surprised the two figures as well as shadow.

"What!" the hedgehog said his spines flaring a little. "These two tried to steal from us"

"Shadow what skills are needed to steal?" Said Sonic behind him

"No one asked you blue boy."

"I'm just saying if they could get away form you-"

"They got away from shadow?" Vector asked

"Yeah." Sonic said a little bit mocking Shadow. "I had to get em' in the tornado 2"

"Listen" Shadow said "I would have got them if this guy" he pointed at tails "Didn't grab me"

"Sorry for saving your life" Tails said with some sincerity.

"Take it easy" Hellfyre broke the argument. She walked up to sonic and nuzzled him, sonic awkwardly pulled back a little but was pulled more toward her, more specifically his nose pressed against her breasts, she was modest about them though, wearing the padded camo vest. She held him like this with sonic pulling away till someone in the room coughed although it was unable to tell who.

"Well today has been exiting, Sonic why don't you join me for a drink?" Hellfyre was being rather frank about this.

"Sorry but i got plans with someone already, and she's a little protective." He took off there wanting to be rid of even a more awkward moment, as soon as Sonic left she broke out in laughter.

"Well." Hellfyre started. "Now the nuisance is gone." she gave a wink to Shadow who was taken a little aback.

"You did that on purpose?" Shadow asked, a little please that she at least didn't like Sonic either.

"Of course, you think I would just come on to someone like that? I'm not whore." She looked at tails across the room "You gonna follow your buddy? This is an adult conversation."

"Uh... yeah" Tails left in a little bit of a hurry. And the room started to clear out leaving only Shadow, Angel, Hellfyre, Espio, and Vector in the room.

"So..." Hellfyre started again "Your a detective?"

"Um..." Shadow began "I have only been here a few weeks but-"

"I wasn't asking you" She pointed behind shadow at the pink chameleon behind him "Your names Espio Right?"

Shadow left the room into his bedroom of sorts, looked around at the plainness and was a little discontent. "How long am I going to be here?" he thought to himself, he looked at the plain round clock he had above the door, the only object in the room to disturb the generic white walls and the cot with the one sheet not even a pillow to sleep with. His failure of the day told him he was getting sloppy, "I even gave her a 10 second head start." His cockiness before just putting the icing on the cake, he plopped down on the bed and fell asleep.

He woke up a couple hours later, and went downstairs he found Angel asleep on the couch, he went back in his room to check the clock, it as 2:47 a.m., he returned downstairs.

"Excuse me" he said to the figure to find it was indeed asleep, never the less he tried again, "Excuse me..." He grew frustrated, he went to the front of the couch to face her and he stepped back, she was covered with a blanket but her clothes were in front of the couch, she was sleeping nude and one breast was almost exposed, he very slowly pulled the blanket over her more to cover her, and decided it would be better not to disturb her, Shadow walked into the kitchen and got some water and began to go back upstairs when he herd a voice.

"You didn't look at me..." It was Angel's.

"What?"

"You didn't even look under the cover when you put it more over me, you just covered me more."

"You were awake?" Shadow felt unneeded awkward.

"I was testing you... to see if you had good character" She paused before saying these next words "If you pass then I know I can trust you."

"Did I pass?"

"Yes, you had dignity to cover me back up but you didn't even look."

"And what if I had failed"

"Then tonight we would have had some fun." There was a long pause.

"So why are you still here?" She didn't answer almost as if she never herd that question before.

"Elly's still here, just listen in Picasso's room"

"Picasso?"

"Your chameleon friend, has been showing off earlier with his skill, I know he's not gay but why dose he chose to be pink?"

"How do you know he's not gay?"

"Just listen to his bedroom door" Shadow put an ear to the door and could here heavy breathing and springs creaking in a pattern Angel grabbed his shoulder and leaned up till he body pressed against him, he felt himself harden a little.

"I have been down here alone... and you have a nice comfy bed would you mind if i share it with you?" Shadow didn't turn around, he could not keep his cool if he looked at her, instead he grabbed her hand and moved it away.

"Sorry, but I don't even know you lady, and don't think that I haven't forgotten that just hours ago you tried to steal my money."

"Please…" she wasn't begging him this was whispered and said more to entease him, her hand moved back to him and she slowly began to run it down his stomach. "You know, I was thinking about you while I was down there naked, I touched myself to you." Shadow pushed her away and shut his eyes as he turned to go upstairs.

"I told you, not gonna happen." Shadow walked to his room and shut the door, and locked it just in case the Porcupine wanted to sneak in. he sighed to himself. "This is gonna be a long stay."