CHAPTER 1

GIRL NAPPING

That day at the Chaotix Charmy was assisting Shadow by carrying a box that contained dynamite inside of it.

Shadow on the other hand thought it was a terrible idea for Charmy to take it in his hands. He was way to active and would probably drop it. "You know, Charms I think this is a bad idea. You should let me carry that."

"No way, I got this." Charmy all of a sudden tripped and the box slipped from his hands.

Luckily Shadow was fast and caught it before it touched the floor.

Charmy made a slight smile at Shadow.

"You got it huh?"

"It slipped."

Shadow took care of the box the rest of the way and set it in the basement.

Afterwards they were in the main lobby trying to figure out who set the bomb there anyway.

"There's nothing to worry about, as long as the bomb never gets dropped, it won't go off. We'll keep it here so Charmy can figure out how to defuse it." Vector said.

"Charmy, to defuse it? Charmy couldn't save us if he tried. He'd be the death of us all." Shadow teased.

Charmy was twirling his gun in his hand, "Hey I defused a bomb before. So come on I'm not a total..." He dropped his gun on the floor and a round was fired. It had aimed at Shadow, but lucky for him he dodged the bullet. "...Fool."

Shadow looked at him angrily.

"It...slipped?"

Shadow took his knife from his belt, "I'm gonna slip." Shadow started to chase Charmy around the Chaotix swinging his knife around.

The rest of them didn't pay attention to them.

"Why was the bomb in the police station in the first place?" Tonya tried to figure out.

"I don't know." Vector was clueless.

Rouge was getting sick of Shadow chasing Charmy around. She grabbed Shadow by his coat and dragged him back, "Leave that boy alone."

"We need to rest our brains, lets work on it tomorrow." Vector was getting tired and the end of the day came.

Rouge and Tonya were walking on the streets on that dark night.

"Since someone's been planting bombs in the city, I've been a little...uneasy." Tonya said truthfully.

"Don't worry about it, Shadow will find out who's been doing this." Rouge was confident that he would.

Tonya tried to put on a slight smile, she looked ahead of her and saw a gray tall robot with a gun attached to its arm. "Look, Hao's robots are on the loose."

The robot walked up to them analyzing the frightened girls, "Tonya the Cat and Rouge the Bat. Capture."

Rouge heard what it said, she just hoped it didn't mean it "What did he just say?"

The robot ran to them and grabbed them both. Once it grabbed them it disappeared out of nowhere.

It was another morning at the Chaotix and everyone was there on time, but only the men had shown up.

"Wait this isn't right", Vector scratched his head.

"Where's Rouge?" Shadow said looking around.

"And where's Tonya?" Espio was doing the same.

"They could be running late or something", Charmy had thought.

Vector checked around Tonya's desk and saw a note lying there. "There's something written on this note." He read it, "It says., 'If you are looking for your girlfriends come to my fortress located in the Syherin Desert. From?'"

"Who could that be?" Charmy asked.

"Who cares, he took my girlfriend and he's going down." Shadow wanted to find the kidnapper and fast.

"I'm with you, no one gets away with taking my woman." Espio joined.

"Charmy and I will stay here to try to defuse the bomb." Vector said handing them a device they could communicate with. "Use this to keep in touch with us."

Shadow and Espio took both of them and put it in their belt.

"Be careful you guys, you're detectives for god's sake." Vector was trying to be supportive.

Shadow ran out of the door.

"We will." Espio followed Shadow out of the door.