I forgot to say in the other chapter; W.O.M.B.A.T. stands for Waste Of Money, Brains And Time.

Anyway =D Final chapter! I'm actually glad this case is over...I'll be taking a break from This Is What We Do IV for a while...I mean it this time! I'm going to finish OC Heroes before I start up on this again. That one's been in-progress for too long w ...well, more accuratly, I won't posting for any other story until that one is finished...Once it's all done, I'll post whatever else I've written for the other stories...damn, I've got too many right now TT_TT

Chapter 5: Chemist's Code: SOLVED

The trio quickly arrived back at the Chaotix Detective Agency.

"What's so important that you have to call us all back?" Espio asked between gasps of breath; he had double-timed his run to the agency.

Vector grinned, "I'll explain later, but I need someone to deliver this to our client." The croc picked up a paper off the table. "And make sure he doesn't see you."

I'll do it." Kaity volunteered, reaching out for the note.

Vector quickly pulled back quickly, "And don't try and read it." he warned.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever." The girl responded with an eye roll, snatching the note and heading out the door.

OoOoO

Once the CDA was out of sight, Kaity flipped open the note and read it over:

LiC5AlB/CaP/Li3OH2/LiOHPCaFCr/HKHS=

The chameleon girl blinked dumbly; 'E figured it out?' she thought numbly, her mind whirling from trying to understand the message, 'But how...?' Kaity shook her head as if the clear it and high tailed it the rest of the way to their client's residence to secretly deliver the message.

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Espio observed carefully as Vector phoned the police and spoke with Sonya; the head honcho of the CDA promised the police woman her culprit if only they were prepared and hidden by the Agency in less than twenty minutes. Though when the chameleon boy inquired about the call and message after Vector hung up, the older detective refused to give out any information.

"Learn anything new from our client?" Vector asked casually, skirting around the chameleon's questions.

"Nothing we didn't already know." Espio reported, "But what was-"

"What about you, Charmy?"

The bee looked from his game at the mention of his name; "What?"

"Get anything from Mrs. Durley?"

"Not to help the case...though she really doesn't like him." The bee replied, "She kept using bad words when she was talking about him."

Vector nodding in understanding, "I see." He leaned back in his seat, "Well, boys, this case is about wrapped up."

Charmy opened his mouth to respond, but Kaity interrupted by bursting through the door. "Got it there. 'E freaked out when 'e saw the message' what'd ya write?" she asked. Vector only chuckled in response and shook his head. The Detective said nothing more until the police force arrived.

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Not even ten minutes after the police had arrived and took stations to watch the detectives, Robby Schwartz arrived, looking somewhat frantic. The human strode immediately over to Vector's desk and slammed down the message. "Who wrote this?" He demanded, "Who did you find that knows this code?"

The crocodile smiled calmly, being sure to show the human his sharp pearly whites. In case the human got any ideas. "That'd be me."

"What?" the human sputtered, "That's impossible!"

"It was actually pretty simple; once I had the right...elements." The croc stood up from his desk and walked around, the human looked awe-struck.

"Elements?" Robby repeated, his voice shook as he spoke. "I-I don't know what you mean."

"I think you do." Vector nodded, holding up the E-mail Espio had taken from their client's computer, "You even know the code." As Vector set down the paper, the remaining three detectives pounced on it; noticing the new writing on the paper. Vector had written the translations down. (A/N: I'm not too thrilled with the idea of trying to rewrite this coded message down again, so I'll leave only the translations)

Vic4life says:

I can't take the guilt, Robby

Robber says:

Stop worrying about it; we did what we had to.

Vic4life says:

But it was wrong! That woman...

Robber says:

Forget her, okay? She threatened us, don't forget that.

Vic4life says:

We should turn ourselves in.

Robber says:

Stop thinking like that! Do you want our project shut down?

Vic4life says:

I guess not...

Robber says:

Then find a way to deal with it. Besides telling someone else.

"Wait, Mr. Schwartz helped with that robbery?" Espio questioned, suddenly getting both Vector's and Robby's eyes on him, "The suicide note-" The male paused, the realization hitting him. He merely nodded to Vector to go on with whatever he had been saying.

the human was sweating and even looked scared as Vector went on, apparently walking their client though the events that unfolded the night of Victor's murder. He picked up where he had left off; "You spiked Victor's drink with Potassium Cyanide, a poisones substance, and murdered him to keep your secret you knew he would eventually give up. The note he was sending to the police scared you even more, though, didn't it?" Vector tapped a paper sitting on his desk; it was a copied version of the first note with the translations scribbled along the bottom:

I've committed a horrible crime. We've committed a horrible crime; Robby and I. Money was running short for our project, and Robby suggested a plan to get more money. At the time it sounded like a good idea. We broke in thanks to an old friend of mine. We stole 9,000 dollars and ran quickly. The woman...Oh God, forgive me. The woman saw us and threatened to call the police but Robby killed her. Oh God, please forgive me.

if you have decoded this message, please give the woman's family my deepest regrets and sympathies.

"So, why'd 'e call us, then?" Kaity asked after skimming the message over. "If 'e's the one who killed 'im, wouldn't it be easier to say it was a suicide?"

"He couldn't risk someone finding out it was murder after he tries to convince people it was suicide; he had to look concerned about Victor." Vector replied, "He knew no one else knew the code, so he didn't think to get rid of it."

"Or he didn't see it." Espio recalled, "If I'm remembering correctly, it was in an envelope when the police found it."

The accused stood quietly, having a look of numbness about him. The human finally bowed his head and muttered quietly, "Yes. That's exactly right...I must admit, detective, I didn't think you would figure it out." He lifted his head, an evil smile creeping over his face, "But you'll also be the last ones to know." He said, lurching forward at the four.

Vector had been ready for this; the croc easily caught the human the lifted him into the air. Before Robby could process this, the mobian tossed him to the side, making the human hit the wall and slide painfully to the floor.

At the sound of the thud, police rushed the room, weapons trained on the admitted killer.

OoOoO

"So, Vector, what was in the note ya sent?" Kaity asked after the police and Robby left.

"I wrote 'Come to the Chaotix ASAP'. I knew if I used the code he was more likely to come."

"But how did you figure out the code?" Espio questioned, "Not even all four of us could crack it."

"That was a bit harder, but I got it eventually." Vector admitted, "See, it's like a more complex version of the number code; instead of using just numbers, they used elements off the table of elements."

"...huh?" Charmy's head cocked to one side in confusion.

Vector sighed and shook his head, "Okay, let's say you want to write 'hi' or something.'H; is the eighth letter of the alphabet, and is represented by 'O'; Oxygen."

"Because Oxygen is listed as having eight as its atomic number." Espio added, nodding in understanding.

"Right." Vector nodded. "Then Fluorine would be used for 'I'. Unless you wanted to be tricky."

"Meanin' the numbers?" Kaity put in.

"Yep. If there's a number next to an element number, then you just count over that many letters."

"So ya could still use Fluorine fer 'I', but ya'd put a-" The chameleon took a quick moment to count over to the letter she was looking for, "Six?"

"Then it would look like this." Vector scribbled OF and OF6 on a paper. "Either way, you're sending the same message."

"Interesting." Espio mused, thinking about the simplicity of the code.

"Except one thing I found was that names were represented only with the original element's symbol."

"Sounds complicated." Charmy complained, "Who'd come up with a code like that?"

"Someone with a lotta free time." Kaity shrugged.

Yep, raggin' on myself here XD I have too much free time. Anyway, thanks to my buddy CBJ, I've already got an idea for the next case =D It's called The Stalker. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut it may be a while until it's posted...sorry...