I'm back with a New Story! And my favorite muses, Sonic and Shadow! W00t! (falls to floor)

"What happened to you?" asked Shadow.

"Yea, and why is this so late huh?" demanded Sonic.

Uhhh…(sweat drop) Well…Two words party poopers…SPRING BREAK!

"When did this happen?" asked Sonic.

Sonic…(sweat drop) A few hours ago, literally, we just got back to my house like, 3 hours ago. After a weeks vacation in FLORIDA! WAHOO!

"Then why don't I remember this?" questioned Sonic.

"That would be because somebody gets seasick and the fact that all that we did was: go to the beach, swim in the pool, deep sea fishing (WITH NO DAMN FISH!), a tour of the water ways of Miami, go to the Keys over several long bridges and go snorkeling." pointed out Shadow.

And where were you then?

"Staying with Sonic back at the hotel watching MTV and Adult Swim, eating pizza and ice cream." Shadow said shyly.

(shrugs) Your loss! I worked on my tan!

"And got sunburn thrice." Shadow pointed out.

QUIET YOUS! (slaps upside the head) Sorry this is kinda sort, like we've been saying I've been on vacation, and I haven't done much planning on this fic. As well as I hate Sonic Heroes compared to SA2B, and Sonic X gave me down right depression. Plus I only got a total of 3 hours of sleep last night, a average of 6 hours of sleep a night during the week and have been on planes and in airports for the last 8 hours. It's so hard to sleep on a plane.

"QUIT YOUR RAMBLING WOMAN!" screams Eggman.

You're so lucky I have no energy for you right now. But I'm starting on the next chappy right away so don't worry. Now, ON WITH THE FIC!

Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic the Hedgehog, at least….not yet. MUAHAHAHAHA (cough) HA!

P.S.! This is about…I dunno a year after SA2B. I have no idea when Sonic Heroes really starts.

A darkened figure stood tall on a sand dune gazing out into the distance of the desert. Their black vest and hair flapping in the wind as the sun beat down upon their head. The heat was clearly visible in the area, rising in wavy forms into the air.

The mysterious body brought up its hand and wiped sweat from its brow, then dropped the hand.

It had been looking for a lead like this; maybe the quest would finally be over. The person had been staring down on a structure with an ancient Egyptian type look on it. It had runes and bricks like that of a prehistoric temple but it also had wires and tubes running through it. Plus about a few hundred-guard robots around it, some disabled, some still active.

The being grasped the necklace it had in its hand, rubbing it gently with its thumb. The deep blue gem gleamed in the sunlight and twinkled with power.

The figure smirked down upon the machines below it and vanished into the air.

The life form reappeared inside the building, in a dark and dank hallway, away from the brainless robotic sentinels. Walking down the corridor, the figure's shoes made a thunderous clunk every step, with the noise echoing off the empty and reflecting metal walls.

After a few moments of pacing, the figure reached a large and secure steel door, with a giant head with a mustache insignia on it. Pressing a few buttons on the lock pad, the door made a deafening rumble, moving out of the way.

The person sauntered into the center of the room where a computer console lay with a few remaining lights flickering every so often. The figure approached the computer and pressed the "On" button, causing the screen to glow a bright white. Soon, the white was replaced by black with green letters.

"Loading…"

Once the computer booted up, the figure started snooping around in the files, looking for any information that could help it, especially recent events.

A new window popped up into the screen with some interesting information on it. While quickly glimpsing over the little information that was there, the figure made a huge discovery that could help it greatly in its quest.

"So Eggman's on the move again eh?" it spoke, the cocky yet gentle voice, reflecting off the walls.

It was true, on the screen the summary of the information was that the Eggman forces have been multiplying and new robots and upgraded versions were being reproduced rapidly. The strange part was that there was no definite location of where they were being constructed or where they were going.

This made the figure displeased, so it continued hacking and digging deeper to try and find more information. After moments of endless searching, the only other piece of information was a name, "The Egg Carrier 2".

"This helps me so much…" it grunted, leaning on it's palms pressed against the keyboard.

Accidentally, the being pressed and "Alarm" button on the keyboard, making blinding red lights flash and a earsplitting screech call through the empty base, alerting all of the guard robots of her position.

"Shit…" the figure brought its head to shield its eyes from the bright flashlights now being pointed at her.

About 50 guard drones, with orange circular bodies and round fat heads stood in the doorway. Some of them had vivid flashlights pointed at the intruder and others had a joust like weapon, ready to attack.

"This is Sergeant Number: 4862 reporting, mysterious intruder has been located." one of the robots said.

The robots cautiously lowered their lights a bit, so that the trespasser wouldn't be blinded, but so that they could identify it. What they saw was a teenaged woman; a hedgehog in fact with shiny white fur with shaded blue-tipped highlights in her quills. She was wearing a white tank top with an insignia on it and a black vest as well. The interloper also wore baggy jeans with several wristbands and a peculiar looking necklace.

"Seize the suspect!" called the leader.

At once, all of the androids lunged forward, weapons in held in front of their metallic bodies, crying a strange techno type battle cry.

"This is not how I wanted to end my day." she grumbled, stepping back a few steps, away from her attackers.

Soon, the assaulters were a few feet away when she looked down at a disk, where she downloaded the little information she found. Quickly, she grabbed the disk and placed it in her jean pocket, and jumped onto a nearby table to try and avoid the weapons being thrust in her direction.

Again, the robots followed their previously programmed orders and turned to face off with the intruder once more. She whipped her head around to look at them, and gripped her necklace out of habit.

"I don't have time for this!" she cried in despair, trying to jump to another table.

A sudden, laser flew right next to her, searing past her shoulder and deeply burning some of her fur. Looking at where it came from, the hedgehog saw a fat robot with a huge laser gun, one which was like a similar model she had seen before, but she didn't really have time to think about it, for a few more robots showed themselves from behind the first one.

Now, she wasn't paying attention so an android sneaked behind her and whacked her back, causing her to fall of onto the floor in pain, closing her eyes and howling in agony. When she opened her eyes, all around her were ginger robots with lances and artillery pointed at her, ready to destroy her.

She closed her eyes and fingered her jewelry when all of a sudden; she opened them and shouted, "Chaos Control!"

In a flash of blue blinding light, the robots couldn't see anything, and when their sensors came back online, the intruder had vanished into thin air.

In the middle of a busy city stood a shabby building with an eye with a magnifying glass insignia on it. Inside was a huge lime crocodile sitting at a bureau with his legs lying on top. His hands were behind the back of his head, bobbing to and fro, with a set of headphones on his ears and this crock's name? Vector the Crocodile, the 20-year-old leader of Team Chaotix and the Chaotix Detective Agency.

Next to Vector was a 16-year-old purple lizard leaning against the wall next to a locker. In his hand was a Chinese throwing star, which he was twirling on his finger. Espio was really bored on this slow day, there were no cases to do at all, and he hadn't seen Charmy for a while.

Suddenly, Espio's head turned as he heard footsteps outside the shop, and watched as the doorknob turned, the door squeakily opening. At the noise, Vector turned off his headphones and placed them around his neck, away from his ears and withdrew his legs, placing them under the desk, trying to look professional.

Out from the doorway, walked a female hedgehog with a black vest and sunglasses in a blue color with silver frames and baggy jeans. She calmly walked forward and stood in front of the desk with Vector and gave a warm smile.

"Hello Vector."

The crock almost fell out of his chair he stood up so fast. Immediately, he stood straight and clapped his hands together, give her a very warm and friendly smile, showing off his giant pearly whites.

"Why Miss Lisa! What a pleasant surprise! What may we do for you today? Anything to drink or eat?" Vector asked courteously.

"No, I'm fine, thank you," she replied gently waving her hand in front of her and with her other hand she took off her shades, and then she turned to the lizard, "How do you do Espio?"

The ninja contentedly smiled and nodded in response and stepped away from the wall, and next to Vector and leaned on the desk.

"Is there anything we could do for you Miss Lisa?" he asked politely.

"Yes, anything at all?" inquired Vector.

"Actually…" she began until the door slammed open behind her, and out came a hyper little bee carrying a brown cardboard box.

"Hey Vector!" he cried, then he noticed Lisa, "Oh, hello."

After that the bee slowly placed the box onto the desk, then quickly zoomed behind Vector in a shy way. He then peeked out from behind the crocodile's shoulder, blushing madly.

"Charmy! You remember Miss Lisa right? Our most valued customer!" Vector introduced, pushing the bumblebee out from his hiding place.

"Aww, Vector! Don't be so modest! I'm just a loyal consumer!" she laughed.

"Exactly! You have to be our favorite customer Miss Lisa!" chuckled the boss, "So is there anything we can do for you?"

"Yes, actually there is Vec. I have an assignment for you, and I'm willing to pay you amply." Lisa took out a wad of money rolled up in a cylinder shape with a rubber band and threw it onto the desk.

Vector looked at the money and tittered uneasily, "Hey! We can't take this from a friend like you! Whatever it is we'll do it for free!"

Lisa snorted and crossed her arms, "I know that you're trying to be nice Vector, but I want a job done and I'm willing to pay you. Plus, I heard that your business isn't doing so hot lately, and because you are good friends of mine, I'm willing to pay you a little extra."

"Now, Lisa. We can't accept this! We can't just take this money from you! You need it!" argued Vector while Charmy gazed greedily at the cash.

The hedgehog shook her head; "I'm paying for the right amount for the dangerous job I have for you, and don't worry about money. I don't have any problems there. So, you up to the task?"

Vector glanced down at the many dollars and sighed. He then looked at his sides to see Espio nod in agreement and Charmy fly up to Lisa.

"You can count on us Miss Lisa!" the bee gave her a very cute victory pose and she giggled at his display.

"Thank you Charmy," she said, shaking the little 6 year olds hand.

"So, what is this job of yours miss?" questioned Espio.

At this she sighed and soothingly rubbed her temples before she began, "I need you guys to do some snooping for me. On a certain person, an old friend whose been hiding for a while, but he's now back in the open."

"Really? Who?" asked Vector.

Lisa rummage around in her pocket, pulling out a disk and some papers, throwing them onto the desk. On the papers were criminal records, robot designs and other things of the sort of one well known villain.

Espio curiously picked up a paper and peeked at the article and exclaimed, "Dr. Eggman?"

Lisa nodded curtly, "I've been on personal mission and I wondering if you could looking up some information for me. You know, some spy work."

"What is the mission?" Charmy asked semi-rudely.

Lisa's ears drooped and she lowered her head a bit, a look of devastation on her face. Vector realized that she must be in emotional peril and quickly spoke.

"So you want us to go look for this Eggman guy?"

She shook her head a moment and brushed away her sad mood and straightened her posture, "Exactly. I need you to go out and do some spy work for me."

Vector gave her a thumbs up and smiled, "Don't worry Miss Lisa! We'll get the job done for you!"

"Thank you Vector," Lisa went up and shacked his hand with gratitude, almost on the verge of crying, "This means a lot to me."

"No problem!" agreed Espio.

"Thank you all. Now, I need this done as soon as possible, any information you can get." she told them.

"But how are we gonna contact you?" Charmy asked curiously.

"Don't worry about that big guy," Lisa said, nudging him in the cheek, "I'll find you guys. But I must ask that you start this job immediately. There is no time to waste."

"Right," nodded Vector, "The Chaotix Detective Agency is on the case!"

Lisa gave everyone a nod and placed the sunglasses back on her face and swiveled in the other direction. She walked forward and opened the door once more, then she gave a two fingered salute and stepped out of the office, walking down the few steps in front of the building and onto the sidewalk, soon lost amongst the busy city crowd.

Meanwhile, Vector sighed and turned to Charmy, "Alright, now what was that thing you brought in while Miss Lisa was here?"

"What?" Charmy asked, already forgetting, "Oh here! We've got work!"

"What?"

Charmy picked up the crate once more and dropped it rather harshly against the desk in front of Vector. The top opened and out flew a red walkie-talkie, which Vector hastily grabbed.

"I have heard good things about you, and require your detective services. And I canpay you handsomely." a voice spoke through the device; it was high and kind of scratchy but also familiar.

Immediately, Vector and Charmy had golden dollar signs in their eyes as they looked at each other and then the walkie-talkie hungrily. Espio on the other hand, wasn't at all thrilled.

"I have a bad feeling about this. Besides, what about Lisa's mission?" he inquired.

"Don't worry Espio!" concocted Vector, "We can do Lisa's job at the same time. Besides, you know our policy, we never turn down work that pays!"

"Yea, you know our policy!" quoted Charmy.

"C'mon boys! Let's move out!" commanded Vector as he stomped out the door.

"Right!" cried Charmy, flying closely behind.

Espio shook off his earlier worries and let the ninja part of his mind take over, "Roger!"

No…energy…left…(lies on floor)

"Dude, she doesn't look too good." said Sonic.

"Yea, I think her brain was fried in the sun." noticed Shadow.

(falls asleep on keyboard)

"Awww." said everyone.

(keyboard fries)

"Uh oh." gulped Sonic.