CHAPTER 2

BACKING DOWN

When Shadow and Vector had arrived inside of Mayor Wish's office, they were walking down the narrow hallway towards her office door. Vector and Shadow turned to each other and took deep breaths before opening the door.

"Well, let's get this thing over with." Vector nervously placed his hand on the handle of the door and slowly opened it.

They looked inside and saw a yellow fox woman with her brown hair held back in a ponytail dressed in a brown blazer with the matching skirt sitting in a black desk chair at a huge desk talking on the phone. Beside her was a red wolf man with blond spiky hair standing beside her wearing a GUN uniform.

Shadow saw the sight of the wolf glaring at them and decided to whisper over to Vector since Mayor Wish was currently talking on the phone. "Look, Vec", he whispered. "He's a GUN soldier."

"Yeah no shit. I can see that", the crocodile whispered back.

"I wonder what he's doing here." He glanced over at the wolf again and spotted a dark blue armband that was pinned to the arm of his gray coat. He read the gray kanji of the armband and his eyes widened afterwards. "He's not just any GUN soldier. The armband he's wearing says 'Commander.'" He turned to Vector in uprising panic, "What the hell is going on here?"

Vector couldn't help but to shout at him, "Will you calm the fuck down!"

Suddenly they were both startled when Mayor Wish slammed the phone back down on the receiver that was on her desk.

The yellow fox formed a frown as she looked up at them. "Nice of you to join us Vector, leader of the Chaotix Detective Agency and Shadow, second in command of the Chaotix Detective Agency. Please take a seat", she spoke as she pointed to the two chairs in front of her desk.

"Uh no thanks", Vector spoke in an uneasy tone. "We'd rather stand…"

"Park it!" She spat.

Vector and Shadow jumped from her sudden shouting and quickly sat down to confront her.

"Now…", she spoke. "…Let's begin shall we?"

The wolf who was standing next to her never took his menacing eyes away from the two as he spoke. "Allow me to introduce myself while introductions are being made. My name is Fakir. I'm the current commander of the GUN military. It's a pleasure to meet you…"

Shadow's eyes widened as the wolf held out his hand to him. "Uh, yeah same here, Commander Fakir." He slowly extended his hand so he could shake hands with his.

"I've heard many things about you, Captain Shadow. I have a feeling we'll be crossing paths many times", he spoke with an evil smile.

The hedgehog arched an eyebrow, 'He's heard things about me? Like what ?' He thought. "Uh, why you being so formal to me and what's up with the evil look?"; He was suddenly punched in the arm by Vector.

"Shut up, Shadow", he murmured.

"But don't you see that look he's making?"

"Shut it."

"He's acting weird."

"I said shut the fuck up!"

He quickly turned away from him and looked down at the floor after hearing Vector silence him. "Shutting up, sir."

Vector sighed and turned to the confused fox woman. "Sorry, Miss Sarah Wish. As you were saying?"

She paused for a moment before actually talking again. "Anyway, this little meeting I called today is very important. There's destruction going on in this world. Especially hitting in this city, Metal City, and Future City."

"What do you mean?" Vector asked.

"You all know what I'm talking about. Those creatures…no…demons. They're wreaking havoc and it seems no matter how many we kill, more just come back in their place.'

"Well, they're more powerful demons controlling them", Vector spoke.

"Like Dark", Sarah spoke in a low voice.

"And Darkness…", Shadow had murmured.

Vector continued, "They're the only demons we know of with that kind of power controlling them."

"But when was the last time we saw any of the two?" The fox asked.

The crocodile shrugged and shook his head. "It's been awhile. We don't know where they are or what they're up to."

Sarah clasped her hands as she laid them on the desk. "Let me get this straight. The last time you and your team confronted them, they both got away. I don't want that happening anymore, Vector."

"Well", he began. "It's pretty hard trying to stop them when they're always throwing Almas in your face…"

"Besides…", Shadow had spoke. "…The only one to defeat them is me."

A chuckle escaped from Fakir. "Bragging? Well why haven't you done so?"

The hedgehog glared towards the wolf, "Ever since Darkness and I have separated from each other it's been impossible to kill him. Even if I fire a bullet at him, I without a doubt will feel the same pain he's feeling. We can't attack each other without feeling some sort of effect. If I succeed in killing him, I die as well."

"If that was the case, you two should've remained as one and then all you had to do was kill yourself. One less demon to worry about", he spoke with an evil smile.

"I knew there was something about your ass I didn't like!" Shadow stood from the chair and clenched his fists as he approached the wolf.

"Shadow, don't!" Vector quickly jumped from his chair and held Shadow back. He pushed Shadow away from the smiling wolf, "Cool it, Shad! I got this!" As Shadow tried to calm down, Vector turned to the smirking wolf in anger. "You listen up, Fakir! I don't give a shit what your armband says! What you just said to my second in command was way out of bounds! People who say that are nothing but scum!"

"Scum?" The wolf repeated. "I think your entire detective team is scum. What the hell is wrong with you, Vector? Demons, artificial life forms, half demons? I even heard you have a Street Punk on your side. Your sad mistake for a team couldn't be anymore fucked up."

Shadow's mouth hung open from Fakir's words and saw Vector quickly raise his fist and punch the wolf directly in his face.

The wolf practically fell back from Vector's powerful punch to the face. He held his bleeding nose as he glared at the crocodile. "Heh, now look who's not acting professional here?"

Sarah's eyes shifted over to Fakir. "Commander Fakir, leave now."

The wolf glared towards Vector for a few more seconds until he finally stormed out of the room.

Afterwards, Sarah turned to a furious Vector. "I apologize for…"

"What the hell is this shit, Sarah!" He shouted with his hands trembling from his unbelievable rage. "I'm not going to stand here pretending to kiss your ass so assholes like him can trash talk my team! My family!"

She saw him trying to control himself but it didn't look like it was doing much. "Calm down…"

"No! You fucking calm down! You have no fucking clue how much I care about them! I didn't come here for this bullshit, Sarah! I want to hear what you wanted to tell us so my second in command and I can get the fuck out of your shit hole of an office!"

The fox paused for a moment and sighed, "Very well. Vector, you and your team are done patrolling for Almas. It is now in GUN's hands to secure Tech City."

"What?" Shadow spoke in disbelief. "I don't believe this. You want us to back off and leave this all to GUN?"

"Exactly."

Shadow and Vector turned to each other blankly.

"Look this order wasn't made by me. Commander Fakir desired this order to be carried out."

"What!" Shadow and Vector both shouted.

"Detectives are a way lower rank from an official military. Really and truly, you and your team shouldn't have interfered in the first place. It's military business. Not detective business."

Shadow turned to Vector in worry. "Vector…"

The crocodile looked down sadly. "…This is true."

"What? So we're supposed to sit on our asses and do nothing?"

"Well…", Sarah began. "There is another way you can participate in this. You must agree to fight by GUN's side during all grave situations. In other words, your team would have to join GUN to be active in any military related mission."

"Join GUN?" Shadow murmured.

Vector remained silent for a while until he spoke again with his answer. "Forget it! I'm not going to make my team work with that asshole of a commander!"

"…I understand. I'm sorry, Vector."

"Yeah", he spoke. "So am I, Miss Wish."

Sarah then watched as Vector and Shadow storm out the room.

A/N:

Charmy: I'm back, everyone!

Espio: Charmy!

Charmy: Whoa! What the heck!

Vector: I can't believe this! That guy is a complete jerk face!

Tonya: Does this mean we have to sit around and do nothing?

Shadow: We could possibly lose our jobs...

Spike: Mom...dad...I don't want to lose you...