Chapter 2:
A wolf watched Horace run out of the shop, "Good, so I'll ask if they've got in touch then I can complete my mission. And if I can kill those detectives that will just be an added bonus." The wolf chuckled evilly, and went to go to a pay phone. He needed to know when and were the Air Masters would be meeting the Jan so he could complete his mission.
Terra moved through the crowd easily towards Horace who was sitting on the edge of a fountain. She sat down near him, "Hey Horace, how did the mission go?" "Okay, they're going to meet us at three in the town square." "Okay, I'll tell the others, here's your cell phone, you forgot it yesterday." Horace nodded and caught the phone before it fell into the water. As always, his reflexes were lightning quick. "See you later Horace." Called Terra before disappearing. Almost immediately, Horace's cell phone rang. "Hello?" "Hello, this is Ice, Jan, when are we meeting? Were?" "Three o' clock at the town square." "Good. You will be well rewarded, the cash is in a fake extreme gear board which is already paid for in the shop Extreme Repairs, ask if you can have the Zapper 06, used, all the money is there." "Got it." Horace flipped the phone shut and put it in his pocket. He didn't have to inform the others, Terra would. He made his way to a cafe to get a bite to eat before the meeting.
"So they're gonna meet at three o' clock at the town square are they? Well we'll be there too!" Proclaimed Vector. Espio sighed, "Vector I'm not so sure we should be butting into this." "You agreed to put the tracker on and you pointed him out in the first place." "And I'm thoroughly regretting it now." Muttered Espio.
Amikus looked around uncomfortably. "Terra do I really have to be in this suit?" "Yes, if you won't cut your hair at least look presentable." Amikus sighed, his sharp eyes picked out the other Jan by their auras, but wait, there was another jan type aura, it belonged to a purple cat who was walking along with a silver hedgehog, three of his spikes spread from his forehead like a fan. Terra noticed who he was looking at, "Those two are Blaze the Cat and Silver the Hedgehog." Amikus smiled at her, "Sometimes it really pays to have a journalist on our team." Terra smirked, "Yeah, whatever would you do without me? Oh yeah, my newest project is to research the Jan. Us." They both laughed. "Hey Amikus!" Called Ricky, Ricky, a red hedgehog DJ. "How you doing?" They patted each other on the back. Soon all five of them, Amikus, Horace, Terra, Ricky, Larry, and Terry were sitting on a bench, waiting for the Air Masters.
"Espio, I do believe we are seeing the Jan, all of them, lined up right in front of us like sitting ducks." "Hey!" Yelled Bean who had been passing. "It's just an expression Bean." "Oh." The duck walked off, satisfied. "So what do we do now?" "I want to play a game." Whined Charmy. "Shut it you lazy bee!" Snapped Vector as the crowd began to excitedly point. Wizard was waving, Ahri gave a slightly forced smile, and Jan-la was smiling. "Well boys, we'll have to get closer to hear anything." They got up and began to casually walk that way.
Amikus hissed to Horace, "The crocodile is a jan too!" "Really?" They couldn't continue as the Air Masters landed in front of them. Ahri spoke while Wizard started signing autographs for some kids who had come over. "Hello Horace, how are you?" "I could be better." Amikus glared at him then held out his hand. "I'm Amikus." Suddenly a shout came from above them, "Good job Jan, you have completed your mission." The noise of a pistol shooting was heard, Ahri clutched his shoulder and swore, Wizard and Jan-la moved in front of Ahri, but Terra had already whipped around and shot her own pistol, a cry was heard and a wolf fell from the top of an apartment building. Horace looked outraged, "It's Team Chaotix again! VECTOR!" He yelled the last word, Vector turned around in surprise. "Why hello Horace, how are you?" "You were following me weren't you?"
Asked Horace furiously. "Now why would we do that?" Asked Vector. Espio was looking strangely at the wolf, "Vector, this lookes like that old G.U.N agent, what was his name? Ivardo Divard." "Yes he is!" Said Vector gaping. Ahri came over, despite Wizard and Jan-la's protests that he should go to a hospital first. "Yes, this is Ivardo." "I come as a representative of the government, at the moment, and I am supposed to ask you to please leave the scene of the crime so that we may find out all we can about it." A purple fox with grey eyes surveyed them calmly. Wizard stepped forward, "Actually, there isn't anything to find out." "Oh?" Asked the fox politely. "Yeah, you see, he was the only one there, and he hired the Jan." The purple fox's eyes immediately sharpened, "Do you know any of the members?" "No unfortunately..." "Yes, I am the leader, Amikus." Wizard looked perplexed, why did Amikus suddenly want to reveal the team to the public? "If you want our assistance in figuring out this mystery you have to promise only to call us if it's urgent, otherwise, we are to be left to our own business." A sergeant who had arrived in time to hear everything regarding the Jan hesitated. He called someone and after a brief exchange nodded, "Okay. What do we have to pay you for this job?" "Nothing except a meeting with some certain people." Amikus held out a piece of paper to the sergeant, who read it and a smile spread across the man's face, "We can do that, we can do that very easily, I'm Sergeant Hifflebruh." "Nice to meet you Sergeant." They shook hands. "Now. What can you deduce about this?" Asked Hifflebruh turning to Ahri, "Well he tried to kill me, so it must be one of my enemies..." he trailed off thoughtfully. "I have a few ideas, but nothing that can be said here, can we go somewhere more private?" "Wait a moment!" Before Vector could continue Wizard cut across him, "Can they come along too? We need all the help we can get, and it will be interesting to work in collaboration with other detectives for once."
The Sergeant nodded. He made a quick call and five minutes later they were getting into a limo. Vector was pretty impressed. Hifflebruh smiled at Charmy's amazement. "Do you like the limo?" "Yeah. It's pretty nice." The crocodile and the bee spoke at the same time. "I'm glad you like it."
A figure hidden in the dark hissed as he saw Ivardo fall. "Not again! I've failed to have him killed again! Let's see who else could do this..." The figure scanned a list, his eyes fell on a name, "Well well well well, if it isn't one of my old assistants, Fang."
The President interlaced his hands. "So you think that it's this...Darlaska?" "Yes, he was a very bad enemy of mine, it started when we were growing up and he tried to murder me in the night because I'd beaten him in a competition." The General started to pace back and forth while the President rested his forehead on one of his hands. "Sir, might I suggest we call agents Shadow and Rouge to investigate this as well?" The President looked up, "I see you haven't gotten the latest report." He handed some paper to the General, who quickly read it. "What?! This can't be happening!" "What's wrong?" Asked Wizard. The General tossed the paper to him, Espio read it over Wizard's shoulder:
Mr. President,
Agents Shadow and Rouge have disappeared, other disappearances include:
Sonic the Hedgehog,
Miles Prower,
Amy Rose,
Mighty the Armadillo,
and Amadeus Prower.
These disappearances are all recent except one, the disappearance of Mighty the Armadillo, he disappeared a few years ago sir.
"Oh so you finally found out about Mighty?" Said Vector curiously. "What do you mean, finally?" Asked the purple fox who's name was Ivary. "Well, we've known that he's been missing for a few years, he went off to find Honey who had sent him a broken message, and never returned." "You didn't look for him?" Asked Terra. "No, we did, but everywhere we asked after him no one had seen him, everywhere except Westopolis and Future City, so we think he disappeared around Future city, but we never found him." Everyone was quiet for a few moments. "I think that the disappearances are connected." Said Amikus so suddenly that everyone jumped. "What?" "I said I think that the disappearances are connected." The President looked doubtful, "Actually, I think you have a point, Darlaska disappeared a few years ago, Mighty disappeared a few years ago... when Darlaska had some power people were disappearing left and right." "So maybe he is involved!" Said Vector excitedly. "Yeah but if he is he won't hesitate to go to the biggest bully in the playground, which in this case means..." "Eggman!"
Author note: Sorry for not updating for so long!