The Adventures of the Chaotix Detective Agency
Chapter 6: The super awesome extraordinary great maze escape.
Okay so it has been a while since I made my last chapter, sorry about that. :[ Anyways, I hope to have more chapters ready soon. So go and read the story.
The detectives were just sitting at home with nothing to do… until the phone rang.
"I'll get it!" said Vector as he got out of his chair to answer it.
"Hello? This is the Chaotix Detective Agency." he said into the phone. Then the croc almost jumped as he got this reply.
"Vector? Vector, is that you?"
"Oh, hi Vanilla," said the croc, blushing a little. Charmey and Espio were snickering on the couch listening to Vector. Vector could hear them, but he tried to ignore it.
"What's the problem, Vanilla?" he asked trying to act casual.
"Well, I can't really explain it over the phone, it be best if you saw it too." Vanilla answered.
"OK, Vanilla," Vector replied, " we'll be right over." then he hung up and turned to see Charmey making a kissing face and Espio snickering at him. Charmey stopped as he saw Vector. "Espio made me do it?" Charmey said while he pointed at Espio.
"CHARMEY!" yelled Vector as he dove toward him.
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It took a while to get the Vector to stop chasing Charmey but they finally quit and were walking to Vanilla's house. When they got there, Vanilla was waiting there for them by her garden.
"Oh thank goodness you're here" Vanilla said when she saw the detectives.
"No problem, Vanilla," said Vector, "Now what's the problem?"
"Just look in this basket," she motioned toward her basket when she harvested. In there were carrots, she's a rabbit after all, except these carrots were different, they were covered in black splotches.
"I don't know what happened to them and I would like you to find that out."
Vanilla explained.
"Don't you worry Vanilla," Vector assured, " we'll figure that out."
"I have one idea of where to look first." said Espio.
"Where?" asked Charmey.
"Underground," Espio answered.
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"So wait what do you want?" Tails asked.
"We're wondering if you have anything we can use to dig underground," Charmey explained.
"Oh," Tails replied and he got up and went to a closet. When he came back he threw three miner's hats, three flashlights, pickaxes, and other tools on the ground in front of the detectives.
"Here you are," said Tails, "everything you need to mine. Helmets, flashlights, pickaxes, and I have some special tools you can use." He picked up one of the tools. It looked like an orange blow-dryer. "This is a specially designed tunneling tool. Just press this button," Tails explained as he pressed a green button on the device. And after he pressed the button a grey pole came out and a giant drill appeared. The drill could easily carve a hole big enough for even omega to walk through.
"Plus," Tails added, "it's light-weight."
Tails then moved to the next invention. He picked up a grey box with on button on it and showed it to the detectives. "This is a pocket sized mine cart." Tails pressed the button and threw it on the ground. It made some noise and it started to unfold into a life-size mine cart. The detectives were amazed.
"The cool part," Tails started, "is that you can drive it." And you could easily see it, in the front it had a steering wheel, a gas and brake pedal, a gear shift, and other controls. It had head lights, and a glove box too. It was a rear wheel turn vehicle with two tires in the back and the rest was treads so it had good grip. The vehicle had a maximum of four seats.
Tails got in the driver's seat and gave the detectives a tour, "So I'm pretty sure you know how to drive a car, but here are the extra controls." He explained.
"The buttons on the control panel is pretty self-explanatory," Tails said as he pointed to the panel. The detectives looked the buttons each had a picture and had a title underneath it. There were eight buttons total on the panel. One had a picture of a scoop in front of a car and had the words bulldozer mode underneath it. Another had a picture of a headlight and had "headlights" under it. Two of the buttons were used to make the container bigger or smaller, one was used to add spikes to the wheels on slick terrain, one activated the radio, one fired weapons, and the last was used for boat mode.
"And press this one to change it back," Tails said pointing to a green button protected by a glass lid. He flipped the lid and pressed the button, and in an instant, the cart was portable again. Picking up the compressed mine cart, Tails mentioned one more thing, "There is also a lid for the button while it's compressed, you don't want it to convert accidentally in the wrong place."
"Thanks, Tails," the purple chameleon said stuffing a backpack with the tools they got, "They should really come in handy."
"Well what are we waiting for?" Vector asked. "Let's go underground."
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"Great, a dead end." Espio said. The detectives were in the sewers and were as close as they could get to under Vanilla's garden.
"Dead?!" Charmey asked a little worried.
"It's not that kind of dead, Charmey," Vector assured him. " All we have to do is drill on from here."
"Good idea," Espio said as he got the drilling tool out. Espio pressed the green button and the drill popped out and started tunneling through.
"Hey, hey, hey Espio," said a impatient Charmey. " Hey Espio. Guess what you are?" he asked. "What?" came his reply. "BORING!" Charmey yelled excitedly.
"He's right," Vector said.
"Huh?" Espio asked confused.
"Boring is like drilling, it's a boring machine. I'm sure he didn't mean the other one." explained Vector.
"Oh," he said as Espio now understood.
"Uh, Vector?" Charmey asked tugging his arm.
"Yeah?"
"I actually did mean the other boring." said Charmey.
"Oh" went Vector.
A long way into the drilling process and they weren't halfway done yet.
"I wish there was an easier way to do this," complained Espio.
"Lets see," said Vector as he looked through the portable carts instruction booklet. "Ah, there is a place we can put the drilling tool on the cart so we can drill and drive at the same time."
"Let's do that," said a tired Espio.
Vector pressed the button on the grey box and in no time flat, the cart was ready. " Where do we put it?" asked Espio.
"Right there," Vector said, pointing to a hole on the dashboard. Espio plugged the tool in, which fit perfectly, and started it as Vector took the wheel and Charmey got in the back. Vector then started the cart and they continued on.
"Now Vector's boring!" said Charmey eagerly, telling he had been waiting for that to happen for a long time.
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Finally, the tunneling had ended for the detectives, which was good for them, Charmey had been whining "Are we there yet?!" for the past ten minuets.
"Are we there YET?" Charmey asked whining.
"YES! WE ARE THERE, SO STOP ASKING THAT!" Vector yelled at the little bee.
"where are we anyway?" asked Espio.
The place was a dark sanctum where the only lights were the headlights on the cart.
"Whoa!" said Charmey.
"Here," Espio handed him a flashlight. He and Vector put on miners helmets with lights built in them.
"Now… whoa," Vector stopped at the sight of a black lake.
"No way, A POOL!" Charmey yelled full of energy.
"This isn't a pool, Charmey," corrected Espio, " This is oil and a lot of it." Suddenly everything started to shake, and then, a stream of the black liquid sprung up and bashed against the roof of the room.
"Is this under Vanilla's garden?" Espio asked Vector.
"Yes, it is," Vector replied. "Guess we figured that out."
"Hey look over there." Charmey said. He was pointing at a metal door.
Vector pushed the door open to let Charmey and Espio through and brought his hands down. Surprisingly to Vector the door stayed open as he was expecting it to close behind them. The detectives walked down the sci-fi like tunnel to find more doors.
"Which one should we take?" asked Charmey.
"I don't know." Espio answered.
"I do," Vector exclaimed. "How?" Espio asked him. "Simple," Vector assured him, "eenie meenie, minie, mo." he ended on the first door to their left.
"Vector pushed open the door and found… " Nothing," said Espio.
"Wait," Charmey said. "What is this stuff?" he held up a rock and jar of black liquid.
"More oil?" said Espio, confused with all this.
"And coal." Vector said, taking the rock. "What's with all the coal and oil lately?"
"Don't know," Espio answered, "but I'm taking some."
"Alright, now which door?" Charmey asked Vector as they exited.
Vector did his process again and landed on the second door to their right. "This one," Vector said as he led the way. He pushed the door open and found weird creatures in what looked like black armor from the future. Unlucky for the detectives, one of these people spotted them.
"INTRUDERS! GET THEM!" he commanded to the others, which obeyed.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" went the detectives. Vector Immediately shut the door and ran with the others. They exited the hallway and entered the chamber. Vector followed and shut the hallway door, then bending it at the crevice to keep it shut.
"Let's get out of here!" Charmey yelled. "We need to stop the oil spring first." Vector reminded him.
"Well, hurry!" Espio said, that broken door isn't gonna hold them long.
"I got it." Vector said as he got in the cart again and activated the bulldoze button and bulldozed all the drilled rocks into the oil lake. After a little bit all the oil started to settle and the level of the lake began to sink.
"Alright, I think I got it," Vector said, relaxing a little bit. That relaxation was short-lived as the door broke off and the black army came after them again.
"Alright, time to go," Espio said as he grabbed Charmey and jumped in.
Vector drove in reverse and turned the weapons mode on, shooting all of their pursuers that got too close.
"It's not enough," Vector said as he saw they were getting closer.
"humph" said Espio as he stood up and started throwing his ninja stars at the black army, Charmy was crouching in the back seat, hands over his head.
Soon, the detectives were out of the sewer, but the pursuers were right there.
"Uh-oh" Vector weakly said.
Espio threw his exploding stars to the roof of the cave, the explosion caused a rock slide blocking the cave's entrance they were safe, for now.
"What was that?" Vector asked.
"I've got a hunch," Espio said with fear in his eyes, "but I don't like it."
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"Sir, the oil spring was blocked and destroyed by that chameleon's stars," said a black figure to the other.
"We must tell him," said the other black figure.
"Lord, we have urgent news!" they said to their leader. "Those pesky detectives, they destroyed our oil spring,"
"Do not worry," he replied in a deep voice, "We have all the resources we need, now to move on to the final phase and Mobius will be mine," he said chuckling. "Go now! Ready the army we must not goof this up." he motioned them to leave.
"Yes, sir," they replied, bowing, "We wont mess this up… Lord IX,"
Lord IX and the nocturnes are back, did you figure that out? And by the way, Lord IX, I don't know if it's a roman numeral 9 or whatever I've just pronounced it I-X, and the nocturnes, or marauders, are from the game Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood made by SEGA and are an ancient enchidna race with advanced technology when, at the peak of their power, were sucked into a different galaxy or alternant dimension, or whatever known as the Twilight Cage. They came once before trying to return to Mobius using the emeralds but were stopped by Sonic and friends. Now they conjured a portal back to Mobius's galaxy and have taken refuge on Little Planet, which every once in a while enters Mobius's atmosphere. So now you're all caught up.
Sorry for a late chapter, will try to have another soon. Have a great summer and 4th of July. Saw Despicable me two in theatres.
Stay cool, readers.