CHAPTER 2

JUSTIFY

Later at the Chaotix Detective Agency, a purple cat woman was sitting at her desk in the main lobby. Her arms and legs were crossed and her light blue eyes were fixed on a purple male chameleon that was leaning against her brown desk. Judging by her expression she appeared annoyed with the chameleon. "I just don't understand", she spoke. "You wanna take me on date so badly but I thought you were dating another girl?"

He placed a finger to his chin and paused for a moment as he thought. "I think you mean Krissy."

She huffed angrily and rolled her eyes. "Yeah whoever the hell you were screwing around with the past week."

"Well", he began. "To be technical, we weren't dating. We were just…hanging out."

When she heard him saying hanging out, she knew that he and the last girl he was close with were having sex.

He saw the angered look on her face and he figured she was getting upset with him. "But she doesn't mean shit to me. None of these girls I screw around with means shit to me. Tonya, you're the only one woman I want to be with and you know it."

"Then why are you screwing around with a new girl every week?"

He shrugged his shoulders. "Hey I need to get somewhat laid on the daily and let's face it. You're playing hard to get pretty badly."

She sighed heavily in irritation and stood from her desk . "A real man doesn't go around and aimlessly fuck a new woman every week just because the girl they're so called in love with isn't sure about her feelings."

He had figured out why she was so upset with him. He had thought that she liked him this entire time but was too shy to admit it. "…So you do like me?"

She gave him a sympathetic look, "Get your shit together first, Espio. Then we can talk."

He watched her turn away and walk away from him. He sighed heavily and looked down to the floor as he was feeling full of regret. No wonder Tonya thought of him so lowly. She thought he was just like the average and typical sex fiend and her mentality was far from what he had always done.

A yellow and black male kid bee had hovered beside the sad chameleon. "Ouch, Espio…strike one…" He teased.

The chameleon looked over to him annoyance. "Shut the hell up, Charmy."

The bee made a teasing laugh at him. "I bet Tonya probably hates you."

"She does not hate me! We're partners for God's sake! We work side by side almost every day! It doesn't make sense why she thinks so lowly of me…"

"Oh gee I wonder why she's not into you either", he spoke sarcastically.

The two were interrupted when they saw a white bat woman walking from the backroom and into the lobby while looking down at her cell phone. "Oh come on, Charmy. Don't you think the poor guy's suffered enough today", she spoke when she looked away from her phone.

The chameleon took his body away from the desk and approached the bat woman. "Very funny", he spoke in a bitter tone. "What is this? You guys organized a let's shit all over Espio's day thing or what?"

The bat woman let out a small giggle. "Oh how did you know?"

He crossed his arms and decided to change the subject. "Have you heard anything from your little boyfriend?"

Even though, he was teasing her she couldn't help but to form a small smile on her face. Her and Shadow have been friends and partners for years and just recently the two had decided to finally start dating. "He said they just left Mayor Wish's office and they have some interesting news to tell us when they get back."

"Interesting news?" Charmy asked in excitement.

"I wonder what Mayor Wish had wanted to see them for." As Tonya thought, she placed her finger to her chin.

Before anyone could say anything else, Shadow and Vector had entered through the doors and stepped into the main lobby.

Charmy was excited to see Vector's return. He flew over to his boss in happiness. "Boss! You're back!"

The green crocodile grinned with delight at the excited kid bee. "Good to see you too, Charms."

The group of detectives approached Vector and Shadow in curiosity.

"Well?" Tonya began to ask eagerly. "What did Mayor Wish want?"

Vector looked over to the silent hedgehog standing beside him.

When Shadow saw Vector looking at him, he knew the spotlight was on him. "Mayor Wish and a military officer offered me the position as third lieutenant of G.U.N."

The lobby was filled with shocking gasps coming from the group of detectives.

"What?" Charmy spoke in disbelief. "Captain Shadow? A G.U.N. lieutenant? How cool!"

"Shadow, that's unbelievable!" Espio said in happiness for the hedgehog. "I bet you're really excited!"

"Excited?" The black hedgehog spoke blankly.

"Well yeah! You took the job…didn't you?" He watched as Shadow cross his arms and form a cold expression while he remained silent.

The detectives gave the hedgehog a look of disbelief when they figured Shadow didn't take the job.

"What?" Rouge spoke. "Shadow, are you sure? You're turning down a huge opportunity here."

"I know that but you should know how much I despise the military. Joining them would be the last thing I do besides…my place is here and we're leaving it at that."

Tonya watched as Shadow walked away from the group and made his way into his office.

"I agree with Shadow", Vector spoke. "Shadow is needed here with us."

A sweat drop formed on the side of Tonya's head. "Oh please! If Shadow ever left, you wouldn't know your head from your ass."

"Come on, Ton. That's totally not true", he spoke in a hesitant voice.

The purple cat woman placed her hands on her hips and sighed. "You know you could be a little more supportive."

As Vector and Tonya argued, Rouge thought that Shadow needed a much needed talking to about his huge decision.

In The Next Chapter...

Rouge: We need to talk...

Shadow: There's nothing to talk about...

Rouge: Why do you hate the military so much?

Shadow: Do I have to really explain myself again?

Sarah: I'm sure you'll be the life of the party.