Prologue:
Sonic, Tails, Amy and knuckles were having lunch at Meh Burger.
"So Shadow used the reward for capturing Nack and his gang to repay my equipment*" Finished tails.
(*see last episode)
"Too bad for him, I mean he still needs money to eat like everyone else." Said Sonic.
"I am pretty sure Sticks mentioned that Shadow has a job." Stated amy.
"Shadow has a job! I didn't know that!" said sonic.
"yeah me neither, what kind of job is it?" asked tails.
"I thought you guys knew! You used to be in same team, right?" Said amy.
"well I knew, but nobody ever asked me!" said knuckles.
"and what is his job?" asked tails.
"I dunno I forgot" answered knuckles.
Dave the intern came to them.
"need anything else?" he asked.
"no we're good" answered sonic.
Dave left.
"Well I won't count on sticks to tell me, she never tells me anything about shadow." Said amy.
"about those two, do you know where they are? I didn't see them all day." Asked Sonic.
"sticks said she had something to do in the forest, but for shadow your guess is as good as mine." Answered Amy.
Dave the intern came to them again.
"need anything else?" he asked.
"no we're good!" answered Tails.
Dave left.
"by the way amy, about the picture of the rock we found that you totally took in episode 4 and that the other totally didn't forget to mention, Did you finish translating it?" asked tails.
"about that, when I came back home after the game yesterday the picture just vanished! Good thing sticks made a copy in case It was stolen by a government agent" answered Amy.
Dave the intern came once again.
"need anything else?" he asked.
"No we are good!" said amy a bit frustrated.
Dave went away.
"did someone steal it?" asked sonic.
"nothing else is missing at home, and I am pretty sure I've put sticks"s defense system before coming to watch the game." Said amy.
"what about when that bear attacked? Did you put it then?" asked knuckles.
"… actually I don't think I did, good thinking knuckles." Said amy.
"oh my god, did I just think! NO! NO! I need to do something stupid!" panicked knuckles.
Dave the intern came to them once more.
"need any…" but before he could finish, knuckles head butted him.
"was that stupid?" asked knuckles.
"yeah and the authorities will probably get here soon, let's pack up and finish at home." Said Amy.
The forest
Sticks was digging and searching again*
(*she was doing that in episode 2)
"I really need to find it! Before anyone else does!" said sticks out loud.
"Is it because it's embarrassing, or because it's dangerous?" Came a voice behind her.
She threw he boomerang in voice's direction.
"wow calm down it's me" said shadow lowering his head to avoid the boomerang the raising it back, only to be hit by it when it came back.
Shadow started rubbing the back of his head.
"you deserved that, you should know better than try to surprise me." Said sticks going back to digging.
"what can I say, I like to leave up to my name." said shadow, "so are you gonna clue me in on what your searching for?" asked shadow.
"well without going into details, for personal reasons, I am looking for a shoe box I buried here a few years ago." Answered sticks, "I've had some personal stuff in it, but now I can't find it!"
"when did you burry it exactly?" asked shadow.
"I don't know, a few years ago." Answered sticks.
"Years!? No surprise you can't find it" said shadow.
"yeah well i didn't WANT to find it until recently." Said sticks.
"let me guess, for personal reasons." Said shadow.
"exactly." Said sticks.
"well maybe you could…" but before he finished his sentence, something hit him from behind and he lost conscience.
"could what?" asked sticks before turning around.
"shadow! What happened?!"
She then felt something grab her from behind.
"Let me go!" she yelled.
"Calm down miss! We are not bad we just want to talk!" said her captor with a weird accent.
Then in front of her a purple chameleon with a ninja mask and a katana on his back appeared right behind shadow.
"did you really need to do that Espio?" asked he captor.
"he might have caused trouble." Answered Espio.
"what do you want?!" asked sticks.
"just calm down! My name is Vector, I am a detective! This is my team, Chaotix Private Investigations.