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G.U.N Headquarters…

Shadow walked into his office and found Rouge in his chair; the bat had her legs crossed on top of his desk, flipping through a dark red file. Shadow was surprised as red files were rare. When given to government officials, it meant big time trouble. Rouge looked up and smirked at her partner. "Did you have fun last night?" Shadow narrowed his eyes and shook his head. "No? I would've thought so; you kicked us out pretty quickly." He looked at his partner, as if to say Seriously? The bat put her legs down and stood up from the chair. She walked over to where Shadow stood and handed him the file. "A kid's gone missing."

"Shouldn't this be with the NYPD? We usually don't handle missing children." He flipped the file open. "Christopher?" He thought about it. "Well I'm not surprised. No normal kid chases a bright blue hedgehog on 'adventures' without any doubt in him that he's snapped." He closed the file and handed it to Rouge, grabbing his gun and badge off his desk and tucking the items safely in his head quills. Rouge lead the way out the door and into the hallway.

"Ella reported him missing since six 'o clock yesterday evening. He was kidnapped from his home after he'd finished community service. Ella noticed he was very anxious to get to his room." Shadow scoffed and opened the door for Rouge to walk out of the building. He followed and helped her hail a taxicab. "It's been turned over to us because we owe a huge debt to Mister Thorndyke's computer company. He's threatened to sue for the money if we don't at least participate in the investigation."

"Blackmail." Shadow opened the door and let Rouge get in the backseat. "Excellent strategy to get a highly intelligent government agency to search for a missing boy. This is for NYPD, not G.U.N. business." Rouge scooted over and let Shadow get in and close the door.

"Stop complaining; the job is ours; we can't refuse it." She looked up and met the eyes of the nosy cabdriver. "Hey! Mind your own business!" The driver cleared his throat and scratched his nose. His mustache was lopsided and seemed fake. Shadow looked at the driver; he was oddly familiar. Once he caught Shadow looking at him, he immediately turned away and began to drive, his eyes staring at the road before him..

"Where to?"

"The Thorndyke Mansion." Shadow looked at Rouge, waiting for her observation. If she was such a skillful thief, surely she'd have enough observation skills to spot out a fake mustache. She looked at him staring. "What?" Apparently she didn't.

Shadow sighed and looked out the window. They were no where near the Mansion for all he saw was trees. They were in the middle of nowhere. Shadow turned back just in time to miss the cabby turn his eyes swiftly in the road's direction. "Excuse me."

"Yes, sir?"

"We are in the middle of nowhere. No where near the Thorndyke Mansion. It's the other way." Shadow had half a mind to add a vulgar line of insults but decided otherwise to save time. And the fact that the cabbie had made a sharp, illegal U-turn into the ditch and onto the other side of the street made it impossible to speak under the crushing pressure of Rouge's breasts.

The cabbie straightened out the car and Shadow pushed Rouge off of him; the bat huffed and pulled up her suit in order to prevent a "Janet Jackson" as Topaz called them. The cabbie looked back to check on the two. "You okay back there?" Shadow, blushing and steaming (the poor thing, he almost died), had had enough.

"I should report you!"

"I'm going the other way like you asked, sir."

"Do you think I give a damn? That, in no way, stops me from reporting you! You were just now endangering two federal agents! I'll get you fired!"

"Calm down, baby." Rouge moved to rub his back but he shifted away and glared at her. "Oh please. You're acting like a little kid." She looked up at the driver; he was constantly staring at her and her partner. "Um, I'm sorry about this kettle pot here. He's pretty irritable right now. He needs some blueberry doughnut holes." Shadow raised an eyebrow and Rouge giggled at herself; she was so going to use that phrase.

"It's okay. But if I may, what are you two in such a hurry for? Going shopping for the Couples' Ball? I've had plenty of couples going there." Shadow's frown advanced ven further.

"We already told you our destination. Just shut up and take us there."

"Yes, sir."

Shadow glared his way, fuming and frustrated. "You're still talking!"