Shadow and Espio

By Streak The Chameleon

Chapter 2: Streak

I do not own any of the Sonic characters. Sega does.

Espio stared at the figure before him. Then he grinned. "Streak, how's it going?"

Streak nodded. "Not bad. And that's Shadow, right?"

Shadow looked at Streak. "You know this guy?"

Espio turned toward him. "Yeah. He's my brother!"

"Your brother."

"Yeah."

Streak pulled out 3 Chaos Emeralds with an evil grin on his face. "Check it out!"

Espio gaped. "Where did you get those?"

"I, uh, found them."

Shadow pointed his pistol at Streak's head.

"Ok, ok! I borrowed them, got it?

"You stole them."

"Uh, yeah."

"That's why Sonic tried to attack you! He thought you were him!" Shadow whispered to Espio.

Streak cocked an eyebrow. "What was that?"

Espio turned. "Uh, so, where do you stay?"

"Angel Island."

"Does Knuckles know?'

"No."

"Huh."

Police sirens wailed in the distance.

Streak turned. "Uh oh, gotta go! See ya, guys!"

Shadow looked at Espio. "Why didn't you tell me you had a brother?"

Espio grinned. "You know, I don't know myself."

Shadow looked at his watch. "Oh, dang! See you later, Espio!" He dashed away.

"I'd better get back too." Espio said to himself. He darted away.

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Sonic half ran, half limped, not to his apartment, but Amy's. He got to the door and knocked.

"Hello Soni-Oh God, you're bleeding! Quick, come inside."

Sonic walked in.

After a few minutes, Amy sat down. "Sonic who did this? This shurikan is halfway into your arm!"

Sonic averted his eyes. "I was attacking Espio and-

"Why did you do that?"

"He's the suspect of the recent robbery."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"So, he did this?" Amy said, holding the bloodstained shurikan.

"I just don't know, Amy. Could we talk about this later?"

"Fine."

Sonic went upstairs to the bedrooms. He noticed that something was wrong when he opened the door. He gasped. Blood covered the entire room. A couple shurikan were straight through the bed. Strangely enough, it felt like someone was in the room with him.

"Everything all right, Sonic?" Amy called from downstairs.

"Uh, yeah, f-fine." Sonic stammered. "Ha, nobody's in this room," he said, trying to calm himself.

Then he heard a voice behind him. "Oh, really?"

Sonic jumped and ran through the open door.

Streak turned visible and vaulted out the window, taking care to break it thoroughly.

"Haha! That was great!" he thought, as he vanished into the shadows.

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Espio opened the door to the Chaotix headquarters. "Hello? Guys?"

The room was bare and dark. "They must have went out," he said.

Since he was going to bed anyway, he didn't need to turn on the lights. He took off his jacket and went to his bed.

Little did he know that two sets of eyes were watching him, getting ready to strike…