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Chapter 3

It was a peaceful Sunday morning, and Vector had just woken up. He sat up in his bed, staring out of the window for a while, and eventually getting out of the bed.

"I'd better count my money like I do every morning to make sure that sneaky chameleon didn't take any." Vector thought.

He opened his drawer, but then drew back away from it in shock. It was empty!

Vector started getting short in breath, then ran out of his bedroom. "ESPIO! CHARMY! WHERE IS MY MONEY?!" He didn't get a response from either.

Just then, the house began to shake. Vector looked up to see a giant Aundrey with all of his money in her hands.

"Hey! Put that down kid! That's mine!" He shouted. Aundrey seemed to ignore him.

"Sharing is caring." She said before laughing hysterically and eating it.

Vector broke down to his knees and had a nervous breakdown. "NOOOOOOO-"

Aundrey looked down at him strangely. "Cheese?" She asked him.

Vector looked up at her. "W-What? Cheese?"

"Cheese!"

"Cheese?"

"CHEESE , CHEESE!" Aundrey said, stomping on Vector repeatedly.

The next thing Vector knew, he was splashed with icy cold water.

"WAKE UP DAMMIT!" Screamed Aundrey, who obviously sounded angry.

"Wha- Where am I?" Vector asked.

"You're home! God, you're a heavy sleeper! Do you know how many buckets of water I had to use to finally get you to wake?! " Aundrey said, shaking her head.

"What are you doing here? You start tommorow!" Vector told her.

"I need all of the time I can get. I'm low on money this week." Aundrey told him.

Money? Speaking of money, That reminded him about his money! Vector got out of his bed to check his money. To his relief, it was all there.

"Why did you get up so suddenly?" Aundrey asked Vector.

"I uh, had to check up on some things. Yeah." He said.

"You don't look so good. Are you sick?"

"Me? Sick? No, I'm fine." Vector reassured her. "I just had a crazy dream!"

"Do tell."

"Well, everything was starting out ok at first. I woke up to check on something, and it was gone. I called Espio and Charmy, but they were not around. But then, this giant came out of no where and stole my mone- er, precious items, and ate them. After that, it started sayin' somethin' bout cheese..." Vector told her.

"Ooh, that part was on me. I was asking if you wanted cheese on your bagel but you never woke up so I threw water on you. Sorry." Aundrey said, tapping her foot.

"I guess that explains the giant..." Vector muttered to himself.

"What?"

"Nothin."

Charmy and Espio came into Vector's room.

"Does knocking mean anything, to anyone, ANYMORE?" Vector asked.

"Nope! Teeheehee! But anyway, a client called! She needs serious help!" Charmy exclaimed.

"Aundrey needs serious help, but you don't see her complainin' bout it." Vector joked.

Aundrey dropped the hot bagel with cheese on Vector's lap.

"AAH! HAWT HAWT HAWT!" Vector yelled, jumping out of the bed.

Espio and Charmy stifled a giggle. Vector glared at the both of them.

"If you would excuse me, I'm going to get ready for this day. In the mean time, all of you can kindly GET THE HELL OUT OF MY ROOM!" Vector shouted.

Charmy, Aundrey, and Espio got out of there fast.

30 Minutes Later...

Vector was in his office, about to call the client that Charmy had talked about earlier back.

"Hello? Is this...?" Vector started.

"Rachel!" Aundrey whisper-shouted to him.

"...Rachel? Yes, my name is Vector, leader and founder of Team Chaotix, inc. You seemed to have called earlier?"

"Yes, it's about my car. You see, It has been stolen, and I'm not quite sure who took it."

"Not to worry ma'am! Here at Team Chaotix, we are willing to take on any job that pays! You do have money, right?" Vector asked slyly.

Aundrey rolled her eyes in response to this.

"10 grand if you find my car without any problems."

For a split-second, Vector thought his heart stopped.

"D-did , you really say?"

"Yup. 10 grand if you find my car without any trouble whatsoever. I also have the car's papers and documents here in my office. You can come by Monday to retrieve them-"

"Why wait?! I'll be over there to retrieve the mone-Um, papers and documents for the car very soon. Alright then. Goodbye."

Vector slammed the phone on his desk and did a fist pump.

"Looks like that summer home is going to be a reality!" Vector thought.

"Why so happy, Vec?" Aundrey asked him.

"It's Mr. Vector to you." Vector said.

"Sorry, Mr. Vector to you." Aundrey apologized playfully.

"Real funny. Anyway, I have a task for you, assistant. Please stay here and monitor Charmy and Espio while I'm gone. Those two always tend to misbehave when I'm not around. I should be back in about an hour and a half." Vector told Aundrey.

"Where you goin?"

"NOSY, aren't we?"

"I just asked a question..."

"And I just answered it. See you soon." Vector said, leaving the office.

"Wait, Vector!" Aundrey called out.

Vector peaked his head back into the door half-way.

"Can I eat that pail of rocky road ice-"

Before she could finish, Vector shook his head no and shut the office door.

"Bastard." Aundrey said, leaving the office herself...But not before grabbing Vector's megaphone.

"Testing, testing..." She said in a low voice just to make sure the megaphone worked. Then she turned it on full blast.

"ESPIO! CHARMY! GET YOUR ANTHROPOMORPHIC ASSES DOWN HERE!" Aundrey screamed.

Both Espio and Charmy came down the stairs, holding onto their ears which had been ruined by Aundrey.

"LISTEN UP! MR. VECTOR IS OUT RIGHT NOW AND HE LEFT ME IN CHARGE! I RUN THIS THING NOW, UNDERSTAND?!"Aundrey said, still yelling into the megaphone.

"No, I don't understand!" Charmy said. "Why are you yelling into a megaphone that already makes your voice loud?!"

"BECAUSE I CAN, THAT'S WHY!"

"I don't have to take this. I'm going back to my meditation time." Espio said, rolling his eyes at Aundrey.

"Yeah! Espio's the oldest anyways, so he should be in charge! Besides, we're not gonna take orders from a GIRL!" Charmy said.

"Oh yeah?! Purple butt! How old are you?" Aundrey asked Espio.

"Too old to be getting childish nicknames like 'purple butt'!" He replied.

"Teeheeheeheeheehee! That was a good one- ...I mean, I still don't like you!" Charmy said, crosssing his arms.

"I'm waiting for a response, grape jelly..."

"Fine. If you must know, I'm sixteen years old. I assume you are only ten." Espio said, smirking.

"Thirteen you idiot!"

"What's wrong? You ran out of smart remarks to call me?"

"Huh. It's gonna be hard to manipulate these two. Well, Violent Violet over there, anyway. I can get Charmy with a pack of skittles and a bottle of sprite..." Aundrey thought.

"You know what?! Age is just a number, anyways! What's important is that Vector left me in charge, and not you! So...DEAL WITH IT!" Aundrey said, Yelling the last part into the megaphone and storming off.

"See ya." Espio said, waving her off.

"Dumb purple grape vine! So he wants to play dirty?! We'll see who gets the last laugh though when I'm done with him!" Aundrey said, running into the kitchen.

Espio smiled to himself, knowing that he had won this round.

15 minutes later...

Espio was back in his room, doing the thing he liked to do most, meditate.

Unfortunately, Espio was too deep in thought, and did not hear when a sly 13-year-old red head crept into his room.

Aundrey slowly crawled to the end of the room where Espio was meditating, praying that he didn't open his eyes.

Aundrey took out an empty super-soaker water gun, and a pail of Vector's now melted ice cream he told her not to touch.

She poured in the melted rocky road ice cream and added ice in the ice compartment. She shook it up quietly, then aimed the target straight for Espio's head.

"Ready...aim..."

"FIRE!" Espio shouted, taking out his water gun which was filled with chocolate and strawberry syrup and shooting it on Aundrey.

"AAH! STOP! STOP! HOW IN RED HELL DID YOU- I MEAN, YOU WERE-"

" 'Meditating'? No, my dear. You see, I overheard your plan. I outsmarted you." Espio said, picking up Aundrey's gun.

"Ohhhh! This is Vector's PREMIUM ice cream! I'm tellinnnnngggg..." Espio said in a childish voice.

Aundrey clenched her fists. "YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST OF ME, YA HEAR?! I'M GOING TO CHECK ON CHARMY..." She said, wiping chocolate out of her eyes.

Espio gave her a thumbs up, and went right back to meditating.

Another chapter done! In the next chapter, we'll see what happens between Charmy and Aundrey!