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Chapter Nine

Starting to Get Chaotix

-Why them? Out of all the people in the god damn world, why them?-

Fang just stared at the three people that he used to call his allies and scowled at them. The weasel couldn't help but notice that Bean was snickering a bit while Bark just smirked little. This intrigued the Sniper since he wondered what was so funny about this situation. –What the hell is so god damn funny? These guys are crazy strong, hell they're part of the Sonic fucking Heroes!- In the back of the weasel's mind he was panicking a bit but he had to make sure that it didn't get in the way of the fight that was sure to come. Bark seemed to notice his unease and the polar bear set a hand on his shoulder.

"Don't worry Fang." he said solemnly before getting out of his seat and cracking his knuckles. "Like I said, Bean and I have gotten stronger."

Bean jumped out of his chair and stood on his seat with a psychotic smile. The duck reached into his red backpack which he had brought and took out a couple of grenades. "Heheh, always come prepared." he murmured with a devious giggle.

-Fucking psycho.-

Vector growled at the sight of having to fight and the croc took a step forward. "Just surrender now or else we'll beat the crap out of you." warned the detective angrily, making Bark chuckle.

"You really have no idea who you're dealing with do you?" asked the polar bear with a smirk.

"Yeah! A bunch of low life retards who kill for money!" piped up Charmy tauntingly.

"That may be true," –Way too true.- "But the one thing that separates us from the rest is the fact that us three," Fang gestured to his two allies to his sides before turning back to Team Chaotix again and smirking. "We're the best!" yelled the weasel before quickly taking out his revolver and aiming it at Vector's head.

-Alright, well, if Bark and Bean feel like they can win this then so can I.- Fang was starting to feel cocky now. He was happy that he had brought his revolver in case of emergencies. –Seeing that I'm starting to become such a badass assassin I figured packing some heat everywhere I go would help. Turns out I'm right.-

Without warning the weasel quickly pulled the trigger and saw his bullet soar through the air right towards Vector's big green head. -Good ol' bar shoot out, haven't done this in a while.- Fang smirked at the thought.

"Time for me to step in." interrupted a calm, cool voice before a kunai knife flew right towards Fang's bullet, cutting it right in half and sending the two halves sailing past Vector's head harmlessly. The kunai then soared right past Fang's head and hit the wall behind him. –Holy shit!-

Espio stepped forward, an array of kunais clenched between each of his fingers. There was a serious look on the chameleon's face, but that didn't scare Fang. Instead, the weasel's smirk just broadened at the sight of the purple reptile. –I always did hate Espio.- The tension in the air seemed to double as Fang and Espio's eyes met for the first time in years. It was obvious that the two still hated each other after Fang's abrupt departure.

"Bean, would you like to do the honors of having the real first shot?" asked Bark, knowing that the demolition happy duck was just itching to fight.

"Hell- fucking- yes." replied Bean before pulling the pin off of one of his grenades.

-Espio's just going to slice that thing in half how does this count as the first hit?-

Unlike most people who would throw the grenade Bean did something different. The duck tossed the explosive in the air and let it fall, but before it could hit the ground he caught it with his foot. –The fuck?- Like a professional soccer player, the duck then began bouncing the grenade up and down off of his left foot before switching over to his right. Seeing this just awed Fang, and Team Chaotix, while Bark just chuckled a bit at the sight. –He's playing . . . soccer?-

"Hey kid!" called Bean, talking to Charmy. The Dynamite tossed the grenade into the air with his foot before bringing his leg back. He then kicked the grenade with a soccer player's precision, launching it right at the bee. "Catch!"

Since Espio was too preoccupied with how surprising the duck's abilities were the grenade flew through the air before slamming right into the bee's chest with a thud. Charmy coughed up some spit before realizing that it had been too long before the grenade had went off. The bee's eyes widened in shock after finally realizing that.

"Crap." murmured Charmy before the grenade exploded, sending the bee flying backwards and slamming into a wall. Right after this all of the bar patrons began filing out of the bar and running for their lives since they knew that shit was about to get real.

"Charmy!" yelled Vector and Espio simultaneously in total shock.

"Hey," whispered a voice right next to Vector's head before the croc turned to see Bark was standing in front of him with a fist pulled back. "Pay the fuck attention!" yelled the polar bear before launching a fist straight at the croc's face, sending him flying backwards as well.

Seeing that everyone else was fighting, Fang moved his aim over towards Espio and fired. The chameleon was too fast though and he weaved to the left to avoid the bullet. –Fucking ninjas!-

Before Fang could go out and continue firing off rounds at the chameleon, he turned to Bean. "How the hell did you do that?" he asked curiously. –Oh come on, don't you want to know to?-

Bean just giggled evilly before starting to juggle some more grenades. "I told you! I used to play sports!" he said gleefully.

Charmy and Vector began getting up, the bee's entire front-side charred black while a huge bruise grew on the croc's left cheek. Vector growled as he touched the bruise. He had a date with Vanilla later and this lump on his face would definitely make him look like a bum. Rage then started to burn in the croc's eyes at the thought of the bruise ruining the date.

"Damn it!" roared Vector angrily before charging Bark.

-Let's kick it over to Bark and his fight. Gotta admit, never knew he had powers.-

The croc tackled the polar bear and kept on charging until the two smashed right through the wall of the bar and into the parking lot where they would continue their fight. From there, Bark brought both of his fists above his head and slammed them down onto Vector's back with a loud thud. Vector's grip on Bark then loosened as the croc hit the cement ground. Bark then back pedaled away from him and took on a fighting stance. It was never like him to talk during a battle him so he said nothing.

Vector got to his feet with a snarl before entering a fighting position as well. Both of them were well trained close combat fighters so they made sure to make their moves precise and tactically. The two combatants then began circling each other, waiting for one another to make the wrong move.

Usually Bark would've taken his time during things like this, but he knew that the cops would be coming soon so he did have to hurry. The bear dashed forward and brought a quick punch to Vector's gut before launching another right to his face again. Vector was fortunate enough to block the punch aimed for his face, but his chest ached. He then pushed Bark away before taking a couple of steps backwards, not ready to give up yet. The croc then inhaled deeply, making his chest puff out.

"Dragon's Breath!" he yelled before exhaling orange flames from his mouth and at Bark.

Bark just grunted before diving to the side and landing on the pavement. The bear then jumped to his feet and noticed that his right arm had caught on fire before finally patting it out. He then snarled at Vector before holding out both arms in front of him.

"Frost Boxing." stated Bark as his brown gloves started to exude wisps of cold air. The water molecules around his gloves then froze around them making ice hard gauntlets around the bear's hands with five spikes along the knuckle lines. There was still a serious look on the bear's face, it was about time to finish the fight.

The bear charged Vector and unleashed a barrage of rapid punches at the croc. Vector was surprised at how fast Bark was for a person so big and the croc had a hard time trying to dodge each punch. Bark abruptly ended his barrage before bringing both hands above his head and slamming them downwards onto Vector's head. The croc saw this coming and quickly stepped backwards to avoid the lethal hammer swing before Bark's ice coated fists hit the ground with a loud, concrete smashing force.

"Glacier Rise!" said Bark before as big as Vector himself suddenly rose out of the ground.

"Crap!" yelled Vector before trying to quickly back away from the row of glaciers that was coming after him.

Bark had other plans though and he was far from finished.

"Glacial Pine." he stated before thin spikes made of ice shot out of each glacier that he had summoned.

Vector brought his arms in front of him in a cross guard as the spikes cut into him before he landed on his back with a thud. Once the glaciers were done shooting out spikes they now resembled bare pine trees. Bark then walked over to Vector's body and stared at him as he struggled to take out each of the icicles. Vector still looked like he was ready to fight and before Bark could get close enough, the croc got to his feet and jumped back before crushing an ice spike in his hand. There were still other spikes in his body but since it was summer, they were beginning to melt away anyways.

"It's going to take a lot more than that to take me down." snarled Vector before inhaling again. "Gum Trap!"

A pink gob of bubblegum then flew out of the croc's mouth as he exhaled. Since Bark expected fire to come out of the croc's mouth, the bear jumped backwards but right as his feet hit the ground, the bubblegum struck his shoes and got all over the floor. Bark struggled to get away from the sticky trap but found that Vector's gum was stronger than he had expected. The polar bear grunted, this wasn't going to be good. Seeing this as an opportunity to attack, Vector charged Bark and swung his right fist at the bear's gut. Bark felt the impact of the punch like he was being hit by some sort of battering ram and he coughed up some spit and little bits of blood. The croc then followed up with a left swing at Bark's ribs and then finishing it off by pulling his right fist back once more. Swirls of dark green energy surrounded the croc's fist as he charged it up with energy.

"Drago Pound!"

Vector then launched his glowing right fist straight at Bark's face. Once his fist impacted the bear's face the green energy just shot out of Vector's fist, increasing the power of his strike and sending Bark right out of his gummy predicament, straight into a car door. Bark grunted as a sharp pain shot through his back and his face was throbbing with agony. Vector was turning out to be a pest.

"The cops will be here soon and I don't have time for this." growled Bark, his first words during the fight.

The crocodile walked towards the bear. "Then just give up." he replied.

Bark just snarled at him before smashing his ice coated fists together. "Ice Gauntlets." he growled as the ice gauntlets then grew in size before extending over his arms and formed to look like the sleeves of a knight's armor. The fist part of Bark's gauntlets then rounded out to look like spikes wrecking balls.

"Glacial Wrecker!" yelled Bark before aiming his left fist at Vector before the entire wrecking ball part of his gauntlet shot out at the crocodile while connected to an icy chain.

Vector quickly brought his arms up in front of him in a cross guard as the icy wrecking ball smashed into his arms. The spikes on the wrecking ball dug into the croc's arm making him yell out in pain before the force of the shot threw him backwards. After pushing him a couple feet back the wrecking ball retracted back into Bark's gauntlets.

Bark then took the opportunity to charge the croc as his icy gauntlets melted away. The polar bear then seized the croc by the neck and gripped him tightly.

"It's over, Ice Cap." stated Bark.

The moisture within and surrounding Vector suddenly condensed and froze the crocodile completely in a thick coating of ice, trapping him. Once Bark was finished, a large explosion sounded within the bar, blowing a hole right through the wall.

-Fucking Bean.-

Bean was having the time of his life.

Charmy had no idea how to combat the psychotic duck and ended up dodging every single grenade Bean kicked towards him.

"Come on kid! Let's play!" yelled bean before pulling the pins off of three grenades and starting to bounce all three of them on his left foot.

Every time Bean fought he always got a kick out of it, winning or not. What he valued the most was seeing fiery explosions and things go boom during a fight and he loved kicked grenades right into his enemies' faces. Explosions, fiery plumes and basically anything that went boom entertained Bean and he was having a hell of a time.

Charmy yelped a bit before ducking under two of the grenades and flying to the side to avoid the third. Each of the grenades then went off behind the bee before he began charging Bean. Despite the fact that he could be blown into tiny bits, that did not deter the bee. Charmy, like the rest of his team, was determined to beat the group of assassins. The bee then stuck his stinger out at Bean and continued to charge him.

"Hydraulic Sting!"

Being the maniac that he is, Bean didn't yell out in terror or curse. Instead, he smiled as the stinger jammed into his right arm. The duck then used his other arm to grab the bee by the neck as his stinger stayed in his arm.

"What the hell are you doing!" screamed Charmy, trying to get free.

The smile on Bean's face grew. "Having fun!" he yelled before ripping Charmy's body away from his body and throwing it forward. Blood seeped down the round puncture wound on Bean's arm and he ignored it simply. "Heheh! You know, after nearly blowing myself up so many times, pain doesn't really affect me anymore." giggled the duck evilly before taking out two more grenades from his backpack. "Heheh, I like this game of catch we're having here kid!" giggled Bean.

Charmy was just appalled. "Are you nuts!" yelled the bee.

Bean simply pulled the pins on both grenades before juggling them. "Heh, me? Kid, there are a lot more crazier nut jobs than me. Compared to them, I'm nothing. Just be happy you're not fighting the other psycho assassins." giggled the duck.

"There are other loony killers like you!" asked Charmy in total shock.

The duck just giggled under his breath before tossing both grenades out in front of him. "Hell yeah! Soccer Blast!" yelled the duck. Bean then hit one of the grenades with a windmill kick before twisting his body around and hitting the second grenade with a powerful roundhouse kick. Both of the grenades zoomed through the air at incredible speeds and with no time to react the two explosives slammed into Charmy's body before exploding. A large ball of fire lit up most of the bar before black smoke filled the room.

"Are ya dead yet!" asked Bean childishly as he peered through the smoke.

"Graahhh!" Charmy roared before suddenly bursting out of the dark smoke, his fur matted in black ash and an enraged look on his face. "Bee Line!"

With a sudden increase of energy, neon yellow energy streamed out of the bee's body before his speed increased incredibly. The sudden increase in speed and power took Bean by surprise before the bee slammed right into the green duck with an audible thud. Charmy then swept Bean right off his feet before pushing him back into the wall.

"Heh, cool trick y'got there." giggled Bean, as he struggled to get free. "But getting close to me is never a good idea." said the duck with a devious grin.

Charmy kept Bean pinned to the wall and looked at him. "What do you mean by that?" he asked, wondering what on Mobius the duck was talking about.

A loud rapid beeping then filled the air before Charmy looked down to see that two gray grenades were blinking with red lights rapidly. The bee then looked up at Bean, a horrified look on his face since he was utterly shocked at what the duck was doing.

"Heheh, Masochism!" giggled Bean.

-God damn idiot.-

Before Charmy could back away the grenades exploded, engulfing the two in a large ball of ferocious red fire and black smoke. All the while, Bean's demented giggling could still be heard.

Meanwhile bullets smashed into flying kunai knives as two ex-allies fought intensely.

-Finally back to me!-

"Stop fucking doing that!" yelled Fang angrily before aiming his revolver at Espio and firing two times.

With perfect ease, the chameleon withdrew two kunai knives and sliced both of the bullets before they could touch him. Espio then dashed towards Fang with ninja speed –What the hell is ninja speed!- and once the gap between himself and the assassin was closed, the chameleon swung at him with precision. –Shit!- Fang jumped back to avoid the first slice before shifting to the right to dodge the next attack. Espio then brought his right hand up in an overhead slice making Fang panic a bit since he knew he didn't have enough time to dodge it.

-Damn it!- Fang closed his eyes, ready to take the hit.

A loud clang filled the air, like the sound of metal hitting metal. Fang opened his eyes and he could see Espio struggling to bring his kunai down onto him, making the Sniper wonder what was stopping him in the first place. The weasel then looked up to see what was happening and his jaw dropped open in shock.

He had raised his gun upwards so that Espio's kunai was hitting the barrel. –When the hell did I do that?- Fang was bewildered at the sight since he couldn't recall ever lifting his hand up neither did he recall ever being able to stop a blade with the barrel of his gun before. –Fuck it, fluke or not, I'm taking it.- The weasel then pushed the kunai away with his revolver before readjusting his aim so that it was point blank with Espio's chest.

"Die!" yelled Fang, intent on killing the chameleon.

His bullet tore right through Espio as his eyes widened in shock. Before Fang could bust out in celebration though Espio's eyes glazed over before his body turned a husky brown coloration. Seconds later Espio's entire body turned a brown color before flaking apart to reveal that it was just some huge husk of scales.

"Chameleon Technique: Shed Skin." stated a familiar voice from behind Fang as a kunai knife was raised to his neck. The weasel could feel the cold blade against his furry neck and gulped.

-Fucking ninjas.-

"Just give up Fang." said Espio calmly as he kept his blade pressed to the weasel's neck.

"Can't do that. Bark!" yelled Fang suddenly, making Espio wonder what was going to happen.

Bark then came barreling towards Espio and slammed right into him, throwing the chameleon off of Fang. –Thank god, that was just a fluke!- Espio then flew right off of Bark's body before crashing into a couple of tables and stopping. The polar bear then turned to Fang, a serious look on his face. –Good ol' Bark, always the mute during fights.- As if communicating without using any words, Bark ran off into the smoke that was leftover from Bean's explosion to go look for him. Fang was just about to join him before he heard Espio cough up and try to get up.

"Fang! Wait!" yelled Espio as he tried to reach Fang. "Look, we're trying to do you a favor!" he yelled. –A favor?- "If you don't give up here, G.U.N. will send their agents to kill you instead." said the chameleon as he made his way over to Fang. "Please, from friend to friend, I don't want you to die." he said.

-Awwwww, so wittle Espio still thinks as me as a friend. How sweet. Fucking idiot.- Fang just smirked at hearing this before Bark came through the smoke holding a singed, giggling Bean in tow. –So G.U.N. wants to send their dogs to kill me eh?-

Fang laughed before exiting the bar with a bruised Bark and a singed Bean. –Bring it on!-


So there we are, Chaotix with their warning and Bark and Bean show off their new skills. Another thing to take into consideration is why Fang was able to deflect the blow without knowing it. As much as it just seems random, an explanation will be given later.

But anyways, next chapter is the lowdown on their next target! So stick around and please review!