Dr. Eggman sat looking at the merciless assassin before him, he was perfect, he was a sharp shooter, he looked the part, he inspired fear, but above all he was the best at what he did, he was known only as Fang the Sniper, he finally spoke.

"You're hired!" Fang nodded and walked away.

-

The Chaotix sat in their office, well office sorta thing, Mighty was punching the punching bag, Espio meditating, Charmy watching Barny, Vector listening to music, as usual, unaware of the danger they was in, outside their window was a gun pointed at them, well at one of them Vector, the assassin unleashed their fire, luckily for him, Vector fell from his chair, he then noticed the bullet holes in the wall.

"Guys, we are under attack!" Espio shouted as he came out of meditation, Mighty burst the punching bag, Charmy, with great reluctance, turned the Barney show off, and Vector turned his headphones off, Mighty punched the window out and saw someone they never expected to see again.

"Well, if it isn't the traitor, Nack the Weasel!" Vector shouted as he spotted him, the purple weasel dropped from his rope.

"Well, nice to see you too!" Nack remarked, sarcastically. Mighty growled as Nack then aimed for Vector again. "Say goodbye!" Nack said as he put his finger on the trigger, Mighty dived at him and knocked the gun out of his hand, they wrestled on the floor for a while.

Mighty was kicked into the air by Nack, and he was sent over a railing. Charmy dived and grabbed him

"Thanks Charmy!" Mighty said as the bumble bee helped him up. Espio jumped into the air and threw a Shuriken star, Nack shot it out of the air with extreme skill. Charmy then tackled Nack, the weasel simply swatted him away, Vector watched, preparing his headphones for something, Espio tried another Shuriken star, which Nack shot out of the air again. Mighty was yet again kicked over after tackling Nack, again, and yet again, Charmy saved him.

"GET A LOAD OF THIS, TRAITOR!" Vector pressed a button on his headphones and a ocean of Supersonic waves washed over him, rendering him stunned.

"NOW, MIGHTY NOW!" Vector barked, Mighty ran up and punched the mercenary far, far away.

-

Nack woke up a few hours later, unconscious on the floor.

"Haha, they think they got the drop on me, well they did, but I really got the drop on them, I am now fully aware of their capabilities!" Nack got out a computer that was concealed in the pocket on his beltt and pressed a button.

"Receiving data via USB port." It said in it's robotic voice.

"Heh, they didn't notice the camera I had watching, I saw all of their moves!" Nack sat down as he watched the recording of their moves.

-

"He has gotten better! If it weren't for my headphones we woulda been goners back there!" Vector said, slightly worried as they they all nodded in agreement.

"We need to improve, drastically!" They all nodded again, Vector got up and walked over to another part of their house "This is the training room!" They all walked inside.

-

"YOU FAILED?" Eggman shrieked, Nack nodded.

"I planned to, the first time wasn't about beating them, I was collecting data about their moves!" He said, quite proudly.

Eggman slowly nodded "Oh, I see! Nice idea! Very nice, indeed.."

Nack nodded "You see, sir, this time I play for keeps!" They both laughed.

-

It was Charmy's turn first.

"Okay, hit me as hard as possible!" Vector said puffing up his chest, Charmy grinned, he charged and applied all his bodyweight. Vector fell over from the force.

"You ain't too bad as it goes!" Charmy grinned

"Yippidy-yappady-dippidy-doo-da!" Mighty, Espio Vector gave him strange looks as he danced out of the room.

"Um, okay, anyway, after that disturbing display we have to move on, Mighty, these!" Vector threw one brick, Mighty punched and single handedly smashed it, Vector done this repeatedly until he missed one "Still good, the average score on that test is 30, you got 41!" Mighty cheered, Espio stepped up.

"Okay, stealth and reflexes challenge! GO!" Espio turned invisible as things started to fall, Espio back-flipped, narowly avoiding an object, he continued to do this for another 15 seconds. Infra-red lasers then suddenly came on, Espio tried to avoid an object and fell over, tripping a laser. Overall he lasted for 20 seconds "Okay, Espio, the average is 23 seconds, still not bad though." Espio shrugged as he stepped out of the room.

-

Nack was waiting outside, he had his rocket launcher ready, he would fire, and their entire place would go up, he aimed at their place, steadied his arm, three, two, one, he fired, it went through the apartment's window and the entire apartment went up in flames.

-

Chaotix were sitting peacefully inside their office until a giant fireball crashed through a window.

"Damn! Vector, I bet this is Nack's doing!" Charmy got scared and hugged Mighty.

"Don't worry, Charmy!" Mighty said as he held him, he then smashed a hole in the wall and the rest of the Chaotix followed him, Mighty smashed another wall and they escaped the apartment before the fatal explosion.

-

Nack looked over and saw his former allies.

"Well, well, I ain't surprised, I worked with you, I know how resourceful you all are!"

Mighty growled at him "ENOUGH! Nack, you are going down!" Espio shook his head as he pushed him out of the way.

"No way! He is all mine!" Nack got out his rocket launcher out and aimed it, he fired at the group, Espio threw one of his trusty Shuriken stars, it cut straight through the rocket, the object exploded in a fireball and Nack grinned, before growling.

"DAMN YOU! WHY DON'T YOU DIE?" They all grinned.

"We "were" your team-mates, that is why you can't beat us, we know you too well!"

Nack shrugged "I thought of that and come prepared!" Nack snapped his fingers and a giant mecha appeared.

"You for real? That is lame!" Charmy commented, Nack jumped in and the Mecha got ready for combat.

-

"Attack 337!" Nack called, the Mecha zoomed forward, knocking all of the Chaotix over.

"Hmm, he means business!" Mighty said as he got up.

"Attack 471!" The robot mecha spun into a ball and zoomed toward, Mighty grinned, he braced his hands against the giant approaching ball and pushed forward, keeping it away from his team-mates.

"Grr, Espio, do something!" Espio jumped up with his agility and landed on top of the spinning ball, and threw a few shuriken stars "Damn! Vector, it ain't working, my Shuriken stars are ineffective, Vector nodded as he tinkered with his headphones, Mighty was tossed backwards when he lost grip of the ball, he fell unconscious, Espio continued to throw Shuriken stars when the robot returned to its normal form.

Espio was swatted away by one of the mech's giant hands eventually, he landed on the floor partially unconscious along with Mighty, Vector grinned as he held his headphones, Nack noticed his grin and shouted.

"You won't grin when I trample you!" Vector then pressed the button and the Supersonic waves yet again washed over him, but this time with a different effect, the armour of the mech cracked "Uh-oh!" The rest of the Chaotix woke up and got ready to finish him.

-

Mighty stood up, just then Espio did the same as Charmy simply hovered in the background, Espio threw a shuriken star, which decapitated the mech, Mighty then run up and batted the mech's cockpit.

"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Nack screamed as he and the mech's cockpit flew away into the distance.

-

The Chaotix walked back inside and sat down.

"What a surprise, seeing him again after all this time!"

Mighty nodded "Well, I hope he don't return for a long time!" Charmy added, Vector shook his head.

"That ain't the case, if I know anything about Nack, it is that he is persistent!" They all nodded again.

-

Nack the weasel traipsed into the office of the elite Dr. Eggman.

"I failed!" Eggman spun around at the sound of the familiar voice.

"YOU WHAT?" Nack smiled.

"I did get this though!" He handed him a small device "It is a copy of the Chaotix's battle data!"

Eggman grinned "Fantastic, you may of failed, but I can work with this, you may now leave! And your credits will be transfereed to your account immediately." Nack nodded and left the office, quietly "Watch out, Chaotix, Sonic, you have no idea!" He said as manically laughed.

TBC