A/N: Uhh first story. Hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I only own Hailey and Clyde the foxes, no one else. The Chaotix and all Sonic-related characters belong to SEGA or Archie, depending on which characters they are...

Warning: Contains FCxCanon (mostly one-sided, but eventually.. yea). Also, I'm not sure if this story has a happy ending or not. It might have a tragic ending, I dunno yet! Sorry!

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Ting!

"Excu-"

"Agh! What is wrong with this thing? Stupid virus!"

Espio glanced up from his meditation to see Vector shouting at the computer. Then he looked at the door where someone was standing. Vector was obviously oblivious to the newcomer. The newcomer, on the other hand, was staring wide-eyed at him as he shouted a series of really strong words at the computer.

The newcomer was a female fox, maybe five inches shorter than Espio himself. Her fur was a dark golden colour, and the fur that constituted for her hair was the same exact colour, only it was shoulder-length. The girl's eyes were blue-green and her muzzle, tail-tip, and eartips were all white. Speaking of her tail, it seemed thinner and sleeker than the average fox's.

Her shirt was a blue turtleneck sweater while her pants were bluejeans that, just under the knees, tucked into a pair of green boots. These boots had gold rims at the top that extended down the center front and down to the black soles. He didn't know for sure, but based on the rest of her fur, he decided that she was wearing grey gloves. Holding her bangs out of her eyes was a clip that resembled a little computer chip.

Overall.. She was an odd sight to see.

Espio went back to meditating without even a second glance. He was a very observant ninja, but he wasn't really interested in watching what was going to happen. Vector was simply going to scare away another customer, Espio believed.

"What's wrong?" The vixen asked curiously. She walked over to Vector's desk and looked at the desktop. "A virus? I can fix that!"

This got Espio up. He seriously did not want an amateur working on their computer.

"I do no-" Espio began, only to be interrupted.

"Ya can?" Vector asked, surprised. He had just noticed the odd vixen, but he was a little more observant than Espio gave him credit for. He believed she looked competent enough. Besides, he didn't know what to do himself.

"Yea. I got real good at this stuff back home," she replied without hesitance, leaning over the desk to pull the desktop around so it was facing her.

She hit a series of keys and a window Espio didn't recognize cam up. She began typing letters and numbers, pausing every now and then to think and, he thought, decipher something. Pretty soon she exited.

"There," she began, "Virus taken care of. I also updated your firewall, if you don't mind-you guys have a really horrible virus scanner!"

"What do you want?" Espio asked, slightly irked that this girl had simply waltzed in. He thought she was trying to show off. The girl turned to face him, and, instead of seeing hurt like he expected to, he saw surprise in her eyes.

"Oh, I almost forgot! I need your help finding my older brother!"

Espio blinked in slight surprise. So she really did need their help? Surprise there. "Well, tell us about him and we can help."

"Well," she began quickly without hesitance, "he looks like me, just several inches taller and his fur has a lot of black mixed in and his muzzle and tail tip and ear tips are black and his eyes are grey-green and he's usually wearing a yellow-green hoodie and-"

"Slow down!" Vector cried out, trying to write down the information.

"Oh, I'm sorry!" the girl replied. Then she continued, "His tail is really bushy, unlike mine, and-"

"Didn't you say he looked like you? These are a lot of differences," Espio commented dryly.

"I'm sorry! I'm just-I-well, I'm panicking!"

"Why? And why aren't your parents coming to us instead of you?" Vector asked suddenly.

"Our parents are not alive anymore, but that's a story I won't go into because it isn't important right now! Clyde is the only person I have left in this world. Well, not really, but he's the only one I trusts and-by the way, my name is Hailey!"

"Not meaning to offend you, but do you by chance have ADHD or ADD?" Espio asked, highly unimpressed by Hailey. She seemed way too hyper for her own good.

She thought for a second or two before replying, "You're not offending me! At least you didn't ask if I was crazy! But yea, I have ADHD. My dad told me four or five years ago!"

"Well... how old are you now?"

"Fourteen. Clyde is seventeen, though! So it's okay!"

Espio watched Hailey, who had begun bouncing on the balls of her feet, her eyes flitting to the side every few moments. He guessed she was wanting to see every litle aspect of where she was. She didn't seem nervous, just... hyper.

Way. Too. Hyper.

"By the way, you should probably update your computer-there are really easy ways to do it!" Without much warning, she was typing something in that little black screen.

"Hey, wait just a minute!" Vector exclaimed. He picked Hailey up easily-he was a croc, after all- and set her down away from the computer. She looked up at him in a confused way. "You can't just come in and mess with someone's desktop! When we wanna update, we'll update!"

"But your version is so old, all the up-to-date virus programs and firewalls aren't compatible, and it's easier for viruses to get through with your version!" she seemed to chirp happily. "I was just trying to help."

"Listen, we'll help ya find your brother, but don't ever mess with our computer again, okay?" Espio demanded. Hailey simply shrugged.

"Alright." Before either could stop her, she reached over and hit a key. "Before you asked, I just hit "cancel action" so don't freak out on me! I gotta get back to my home! Bye!"

She was gone in seconds.

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Vector sat down at the kitchen table. "Espio, got some bad news," Vector started. "I can't find any fox by the name of Clyde matchin her description of him!"

Espio sat down across from him while Charmy buzzed around the kitchen. "Well, the girl did seem highly distracted and admitted to having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder." At Vector's blank stare, Espio added, "ADHD."

"Oh," Vector responded stupidly. Then he nodded in understanding. "Oh! So yer sayin' she might have been too distracted to really give us a correct description!" Espio nodded.

"Maybe you should look up some information on Hailey as well," Espio suggested. Vector was silent before he groaned suddenly. "What's wrong?"

"I already did. I completely forgot I did. She doesn't have an existing file!"

"What?"

Espio stood up, confusion evident on his face. "But that's impossible! She has to have a file! If she does not, that means she is not real-or at least the government does not know about her."

Vector fell silent and stared at the ceiling for a few moments. "We don't know much about her," he stated suddenly. "We don't even know if she was born in a hospital. They might not have files on her. The government really might not know she and her brother are alive, or real for that matter!"

-To Be Continued-

She's a spazz, but she's my spazz! XD And if you can't tell, at first neither Espio nor Vector really like her very much... of course, I wouldn't like some girl to just randomly come in, ask for my help, then start messing with my computer...

I'm gonna suggest a spoiler and tell you to read my profile to find more info on Hailey.

If you like it so far, review. If you have constructive crit, review. If you have flames, review anyway-barbecue at my house!