Boring Legal Stuff.

I don't own any rights to any of the charactersExcept for Giggy, the rest belong to Sonic Team (I think).

Chapter 1: A Birthday Party to Remember

"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! It's Espie's birthdeeeeee!"

"Quiet Charmy or we won't hear him coming"

It was Espio's 17th birthday, Vector and Charmy had planned a party in the detective agency office. The guests were hiding for when Espio arrived while Vector finished putting up the decorations. A table of food sat in the corner of the room and ribbons and streamers hung from above.

Espio walked up the corridor, he had been told by Vector to get to the office.Vector had phoned him earlier to arrange a meeting. Apparenty he found an important clue as to who stole that plumber's sandwich. Espio was suspicious though, why was Charmy shouting "Weeeeeeeeeee! We're gonna have a party!" During the phone call?". It didn't take a genious to know something was up.

"I hope it's not a party!" Thought Espio to himself "I can't stand parties."

"Look out he's coming!" whispered Rouge from by the door before jumping into her hiding place behind the filing cabinet."

"Err whose coming?" asked Big before an impatient looking Knuckles shoved one of Espio's numb chucks into the purple cat's mouth.

Espio entered the room and turned on the lights.

"SURPRISE!" shouted everyone except Big who sat and choked before swallowing the numb chucks.

"Ah crap!" said Espio under his breath. This was the last place he wanted to be but everyone else had gone to the effort he should at least sit it out.

The party went on (I won't bore you with the whole thing as it bears no relevance to the story what so ever) anyway everyone was invited, Sonic, Tails and Knuckles were sitting in a corner looking at a chaos emerald, Rouge and Robotnik were both sitting at various places glaring at the emerald; no doubt they were each pondering how to make it there's. Amy and Cream sat huddled together gossiping about Sonic and Cheese. Even Giggy had made it to the party and was bouncing around happily until Charmy followed suit, at this point Giggy started to scowl at the bee; cursing under his breath. Espio however sat in a corner looking almost completely uninterested.

"Cheer up Espio!" said vector brightly "How about you open some of your presents."

"Open mine first! Open mine first!" Screamed Charmy excitedly; shoving a small parcel in Espo's direction.

Espio begins to open the present, "I know you like Ninja's and all that sneaky stuff so I got you a new disguise!"

Espio tears open the parcel and is left with some plastic novelty glasses with a fake nose and moustache attached to them. "Yes…..thank you Charmy." He said quietly.

"Whoopee!" cheered the overjoyed Charmy before flying into a window and landing on the floor in a dazed heap.

"This year Espio I've got you something practical" said Vector handing him a present.

"It isn't a new motor for the washing machine I never owned like you got me last year is it?" said Espio looking slightly uneasy.

"Whoops." said Tails quietly in the background before slipping a shiny new motor into the filing cabinet unnoticed.

"It's a fact file on Chameleons!" said Vector excitedly as Espio pulled out a piece of paper from the Parcel (wrapped in lots of bubble wrap) "Nobody seems to ever recognise you as a chameleon; more often referring to you as the weird purple triceratops thing. I was thinking you could pin it on the wall there to remind peop-"

"Hang on!" Shouted Espio. As the now recovered Charmy approached the bubble wrap. "This says that I have a life span of ten years, I've nearly doubled that!"

"Yaaaaaaaaaay!" Cheered Charmy. "When Espio snuffs it I can be the new ninja, and I'll wear his new disguise."

"I know you're not seven till next week Charmy, but here's your factfile on the honey bee , apparently you're almost seven times your life-expectancy."

Charmy looked at Vector horrified, he opened his mouth to speak but no sound came out, he instead disintegrated into small grey powder right on the spot. Everyone stared at the dusty remains of Charmy until shortly afterwards when Giggy and Tails got to work on sweeping him away.

Espio left the room unnoticed (he never was the life and soul of the party) "I can't have long left!" He muttered to himself "I need to find an apprentice to carry on my work and to pass on my secrets of NINJA POWERS!" Even saying ninja powers had lost its appeal, he fought back a tear and wandered home while Giggy flushed the recently deceased bee down the lavatory.

There you go the first chapter, next one coming soon hopefully. Sorry if its crap but this is my first ever Sonic fic so be nice!