A/N: Chapter 2. Sorry it's really rushed but I'm already getting a slight writer's block heh...

Disclaimer in the first chapter.

It wasn't hard to find the strange vixen. No, not at all. The hard part was getting her to come back to the Chaotix.

He found her sitting on a park in the bench, doing something on a little... MP3 player? Espio blinked in confusion and watched as she clicked random buttons. It didn't take him long to realize it wasn't an MP3 player, but a mobile phone.

After a few moments of consideration, he walked over to her. "Hailey?"

She glanced up at him. "Oh, hi detective! Did you find my brother?" Before he could answer, she was suddenly on a totally different subject. That let him know she wasn't taking any kind of medication for her ADHD like most people did.

"I reprogrammed this phone so it'll let me go on the internet without having to pay for the app and-oh, did you hear about the new super computer the CIA has? Maybe one day I can see it-Oh look! A message! I wonder who it is! Oh, never met them before, delete! And-"

Espio tuned out her rambling to think of something. He watched her as she bounced up and down in her seat. She seriously needed medicine, Espio decided. Finally, he commanded in a quiet but stern tone, "Silence."

She immediately fell silent and looked up at him, confusion evident in her eyes. Espio held his hand out for the phone, and she hesitantly handed it to him.

Looking at the phone, he saw things he'd never seen before. At least, nothing that anyone he'd ever met who actually had ADHD could understand-or take the time to understand.

He glanced through the numerous apps. There seemed to be way too many for the old phone to even handle! Espio glanced up at the girl, who for once wasn't smiling or bouncing. In fact, she seemed serious. Confused, but serious.

Oh great, split personality disorder, maybe? That or she is simply bipolar...

"This phone has way too much to fit on its limited memory," he stated suspiciously.

"Oh, well, you see, I upgraded it earlier so it had a wider memory. I increased its storage space by up to twelve times!" she replied chipperly, suddenly returning to her childish, bouncy state of mind. "All it took was me finding the pass key into the company's-"

Espio's eyes widened. "Wait! How long have you had this phone?"

Hailey shrugged. "A few years, but I had it activated yesterday, so my brother can track me down if he needs to!" She smiled at him, reminding him a lot of a naiive child.

That information was all he needed to know. "So, you are a hacker?"

She blinked in confusion. "Hacker?" She thought about it, a look of familiarity on her face. "Oh! Yea, my mom and dad trained me since I was old enough to walk and talk to hack. They taught me all kinds of codes and sometimes they would even put me in this thingie that..." she trailed off, thinking. "Actually, I can't remember what it did, but it never hurt. It gave me headaches. Clyde said it gave him headaches as well, but he never learned to hack. We were always better at what we were being taught after being let out of it though!"

Espio watched the girl incredulously. Experimentation? That could be reason for her, ahem, "health issues", but she seemed so happy about it.

Well, she should be glad she was not simply an experiment when she was born, not like Shadow.

"Listen, Hailey, we need you to come back to the agency with us. We have a few... questions for you."

Hailey's smile faded into non-existence as she realized that he was there on serious business. After a few moments, she stood up and took her phone back. "Well... okay. But I can't answer all of your questions..."

-Line Break-

"Listen, Hailey, we ain't gonna yell at'cha, we just got a couple of questions for ya... like why you and your brother ain't got any government files."

Hailey stared up at the crocodile. She laughed suddenly. "Oh! I should have told you! Me and Clyde don't have any files, we weren't born in a hospital."

Espio opened his eyes and looked at her from where he leaned against the locker-closet-thing. "Oh? Then where were you born? Someone had to know you were alive-someone had to deliver you and your brother."

"Mom never told me who birthed us, but we were home-deliveries," she answered in a voice that suggested it was normal. It probably was, in her mind.

"You are aware most homes are not-"

Espio never got to finish his statement. He grabbed Hailey by the back of her shirt as she suddenly jumped up and went to the desk where her cellphone lay.

"Can you please pay attention for just ten seconds?"

Hailey looked at him in a way that seemed to say "you really want to speak to me like that?" Espio was unfazed by it.

"Listen, you need to stop doing that, it is getting extremely annoying," Espio stated. Hailey simply stared back with a blank expression.

Vector sighed. "Espio, let go of her. Just let 'er look at her phone."

Espio glared slightly at Vector. He looked back at Hailey and said, "You do know hacking is against the law, right?"

Hailey suddenly laughed. "Mom, Dad, and Clyde always said the law didn't apply to us since we don't exist as far as the government knows! Maybe they were wrong, but I was raised into hacking! I can't stop, even if I wanted to. Computer science is the only thing I know-programming, hacking, encrypting... creating viruses..."

"Wait, did you just say 'creating viruses'?"

"Umm, yea, why?"

Espio stared blankly at her before stating in a dry tone, "Creating viruses is not permitted either."

She stared at him, then all of a sudden became angry. "Well, listen here, chameleon! It's all I know, okay? It's my only defense and offense-I can't fight, at all! Hacking and using viruses is the only way I can fight. All I'm good for is recovering information, so why don't you just shut the Hell up and stop telling me what I can and can't do?"

Vector and Espio stared at the usually bubbly teen in surprise, though Espio didn't show it. He released her and watched as she stomped over to the desk and grabbed her cell phone. She turned her angry glare back to them.

"This is my only chance at ever finding my brother, since it seems you guys ain't gonna help me," she hissed at them. "It's the only way I'll ever find him, and it's my only defense."

Yep, definitely split-personality disorder. There is no other way she could go from sweet to vehement so fast.

Hailey stalked out the door and slammed it on her way out. Espio looked at Vector, who simply shrugged.

"Well, we're gonna find 'er brother, that's a given. We can't have the girl goin' 'round tellin' people that we're bastards or somethin'."

-To Be Continued-

So... Umm... Hailey's a messed-up kid, ain't she? Hehheh... She has ADHD and Split Personality Disorder... if you really read, I'm sure you'll know why. Also, if you read her profile, you can probably guess.

So, uhh... review please? I know it isn't that good but it was reeeaaally rushed because I'm in the middle of exams this week and I need to study...