CHAPTER 12
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Later that night, the detectives arrived at the last house however it wasn't a house at all. Instead it was a huge mansion. The group was standing beside the mansion admiring its height.
Charmy looked up trying to find the roof which was really high up. "Wow, these guys must be richer than your mother, Captain Shadow."
The hedgehog crossed his arms, "Shut up, Charmy."
Vector turned to Rouge, "Hey where's Midnight? I thought he was going to help us again tonight?"
The bat sighed, "I really don't know but when I saw him earlier, he said he wanted some time to himself."
Shadow had thought it had something to do with Rebecca but he quickly took his mind off it. He placed his hands on his hips and sighed. "Okay just how the hell are we supposed to get up there?"
The bee took a rope out of his belt and started to fly towards the top of the roof. "Leave it to me!"
After a moment of silence, Espio had spoke up. "Think the little guy got lost up there?"
Then a rope had swung from the side of the mansion with Charmy smiling down at them. "Going up?"
Rouge spread her wings and smirked at the rest of the group. "See you guys at the top."
Everyone gave her an annoyed look.
"Man if I could, I'd go demon and kick their ass", Shadow had said.
Vector took the rope in his hands and turned to Shadow. "Please for the love of God don't say that."
Afterwards, Espio and Tonya gave him a cold glare.
"What!" Shadow shouted dumbfounded. "Okay I'm sorry! God!"
After they all got on top of the roof, they were almost ready to enter the mansion.
Charmy walked over to Shadow, wondering why he was sitting down. "Why did you take so long to get up here?"
"Because my leg still hurts from where you kicked me!" He shouted.
"You deserved it!"
"Why you little..."
"Shut up you two!" Vector shouted. "You might wake everyone up!"
Charmy then covered his mouth and turned to Shadow. "Yeah, Captain Shadow", he whispered. "Shh!"
"You little runt", he murmured under his breath.
While they were quietly arguing, Vector noticed that the chimney was big enough for even him to fit in it but still he was afraid that he would wake everyone up. He looked over to the rest of the group and saw Charmy arguing with Shadow and definitely knew he was too loud and talkative, but Shadow always was the quiet one until Charmy had messed with him. He faced Shadow, "Shadow."
The hedgehog had his attention on him, "What is it, Vec?"
"You're going to defuse those explosives."
He pointed to himself, "Me? But why?"
"Well you're often quiet and you get the job done faster. So stop complaining and do it."
He sighed, "All right." He closed his eyes, "Chaos Control!" A green light had appeared then faded as he disappeared.
Soon Shadow had made it into the living room. He stared at how big and wide it was with all the expensive and fancy things hanging from the walls. He sighed with a smile, "Anita's living room is bigger." He then started to look around for the Christmas tree. "Where is that stupid tree?" He murmured. He then spotted it in a small corner of the room with lots of presents underneath it. "Bingo", he whispered as he took out his tracker. He pointed it at the presents and saw that their were only three gifts with the toys inside them. He walked over to the tree and kneeled down at the presents with the tracker, ready to scan them until he heard a small yawn from behind him. He jumped and turned around only to find a child that looked maybe between the ages of five and six.
She was a white cat that held a small stuffed teddy bear in her hands while she stared at the stunned hedgehog. "Are you that green guy from the movies that try to take away all our presents?"
The hedgehog rose an eyebrow not following what the little girl was saying. 'Green guy?' He thought. It then clicked that the child had no clue who he was and still had a chance of lying to her. "Um, no I'm not that...green guy. I'm Santa Claus."
The child gave him a strange look, "No you're not. Santa is fat and jolly. You're skinny and emo."
The hedgehog felt like collapsing to the floor. 'Emo!? Where the hell did that come from?' He sighed, kneeled down to the child, and started to explain why he was there. "Listen kid, this may not make sense and don't panic but there are explosives inside those presents and I have to stop it before they go off. So please you have to let me do my job so you and your family can live to see tomorrow."
She smiled, "Okay."
He sighed with relief, "Thanks, kid." He turned to the presents once again and started to scan them.
The child stared at the red light coming out of the tracker, "Pretty light. Where did you get that?"
"A friend designed it for me."
"Neat."
After when Shadow finished scanning the presents he stood in the middle of the room, "Well time for me to go. Thanks for not freaking out when I told you about the explosives."
She made a warm smile, "You're welcome."
"Later, kid", he had said when a green light formed around his body.
"Goodbye, emo guy." While he faded away, the child heard him murmuring words. She giggled a bit before she went back upstairs, "What a funny hedgehog."
Back on the rooftop, Shadow appeared in front of the group with a small smile. "Mission accomplished."
Rouge gave him a warm smile, "Way to go, baby."
Tonya looked down at a sad bee beside her. "What's wrong, Charmy? Aren't you happy?"
"Well of course I am", he answered. "It's just Christmas Eve and I wanted to prove to Captain Shadow that there was a Santa Claus."
The hedgehog sighed sadly, "Charmy..."
They were then all startled when they heard a voice hover above them.
"Ho! Ho! Ho!"
Everyone looked up and saw a huge sleigh with reindeer in the front pulling it.
Charmy jumped up and down in excitement, "Hooray! It's Santa! It's Santa!"
Shadow's mouth had hung open in disbelief, "I don't believe it...he's real!" Suddenly a large piece of coal was dropped on top of the hedgehog's head. He winced and groaned as he took it off his head and stared at it. "It's freakin' coal!"
"Wow", Rouge said. "Judging by the size of that thing, you've been pretty naughty."
The hedgehog angrily threw the coal on the ground and crossed his arms. "It's official. I hate Christmas."
The others laughed while Santa drove away in his sleigh throughout the night.
The next day was Christmas and there were no reports of any explosions in Tech City so the Chaotix decided to throw a party to celebrate their hard work. They were opening their presents that they had received from each other.
Charmy was sitting on the floor opening his gift from Vector and saw he had gotten a new camera. "Cool! A camera! Thanks, boss!"
Vector smiled warmly, "You're welcome, Charms."
While Charmy was enjoying his new camera, Rouge walked over to Shadow with a gift in her hand.
The bat handed it to him with a smirk, "Santa may hate you but I don't. Merry Christmas, baby."
He kissed her forehead and started to open it, "Thanks babe, I wonder what it could...be..." When he opened it, the box that she had gave him had a whip, blindfold, and handcuffs in it. "Uh...wow, Rouge. Thanks."
She wrapped her arms around his neck and whispered in his ear. "That's for when we finally get some time off."
The hedgehog blushed deeply, "Uh, looking forward to that too, hun. Oh, I have your present too." He took a small box that was wrapped up with a purple bow on top of it out of his coat pocket and gave it to Rouge. "Merry Christmas, sweetheart."
She took it and started to open it until she saw a silver necklace loaded with small diamonds around it. She gasped in surprise, "Oh my...Shadow...it's beautiful!"
"Isn't it, darling?" He smiled, took it out the box, and put it around her neck. He then led her to a mirror to see how it looked around her neck.
She practically died of happiness at the way the necklace had fit around her neck. "Oh Shadow, it's wonderful!" She leaned her head on his chest as he embraced her. "I love it so much!"
He placed his finger under her chin and made her look up at him, "I love you, Rouge."
She traced her fingers over his chest lightly, "I love you too, Shadow." Her lips met his and soon they had begun to make out.
Charmy looked over to the couple making out over in a corner and took out his new camera with a sly smile.
Shadow and Rouge had stopped kissing each other when they saw a bright white flash over near Charmy.
The hedgehog walked over to the bee in annoyance, "Why the hell did you do that?"
The bee formed a wide smile, "Because I can."
Shadow held out his hand towards him. "Give me the camera."
The bee used his wings to fly off the ground, "You gotta catch me first!" He then began to fly around the Chaotix while Shadow had tried to run after him.
"You stupid brat! Get back here!" He shouted while he was chasing him.
While they were at that, Espio had Tonya pinned to the wall while he held up a mistletoe between them. "Come on, Ton. It's the rule of the season. You gotta kiss me."
She crossed her arms and sighed, "Fine if I do, will you finally leave me alone?"
He made a nod, "Yeah sure thing."
She sighed and pulled him closer to her with her lips locking to his. When she felt his tongue slipping into her mouth, she quickly pushed him away and kicked him in his cock. "You pervert! You said from the beginning that you wouldn't shove your tongue down my throat!"
Espio kneeled to the floor holding himself, "Aw come on, Ton! Give me another chance!"
"No way!" She began to walk away from him while slightly blushing, secretly loving the chameleon's taste in her mouth.
Shadow then gave up on chasing Charmy around and clenched his fists in frustration. "Screw this! I got things to do anyway." He started to walk out the door until Rouge shouted out to him.
"Shadow, where are you going?"
"To take care of some business", afterwards he had left the building.
Later at the Tech City airport, Midnight stood on the second floor watching Rebecca meet with David with her happily hugging him. He sighed in sadness as he watched the two lovers greet each other. He was then suddenly startled from behind when he heard a familiar voice.
"I thought I'd find you here, Midnight."
The wolf turned and saw a black and red hedgehog standing beside him. "Shadow? What are you doing here?"
"Looking for you."
He turned away from him and saw David giving Rebecca a basket full of flowers probably as an apology.
"So", Shadow spoke. "That woman over there is Rebecca and I'm guessing the guy giving her all those flowers is David?"
He made a small nod, "Yes." He then felt Shadow's hand fall on his shoulder.
"Come on, Midnight. There are other girls out there just dying to be with you. You'll get another chance."
He faced him full of hope. "You...think so?"
He formed a smile, "I know so."
The wolf's sad frown then formed into a small smile.
"Come on. There's a party down at the Chaotix and it wouldn't be the same if our newest member wasn't there with us."
"Okay I'm coming."
Shadow made a smile and left him while he was going to catch up.
Before Midnight left, he took one last look at the couple walking towards their flight. 'Farewell, Rebecca.'
A/N: Woot! Finally finished and I wish you all an extremely late Happy Holidays. XD My next fic, Imprisoned will hopefully be up next.
