Chameleon means "earth lion" in Greek

properly moving in

"charmy, I'm in the office, no you can't, teas cooking" Vector answered those three questions back, earning a groan from the little bee who appeared with a small rabbit and chao

"what are you doing Mr vector?" Cream asked happily as she walked and gave the crocodile a small hug which the big green reptile happily reciprocated

"oh just reminiscing, remember this charms?" Vector replied, showing the photo in hand

"oh yeah, jeez I was so tiny!" the bee responded as he flew up to the photo

"you still are" Vector commented which made charmy argue against his statement

queuing the last third main Chaotix to join them

"Hello, what are you all doing" Espio asked as he came into the scene, curious and slightly suspicious of what was happening

"vector found a picture of old us " charmy pointed out

"oh, that's nice" espio stated in a way that tried to hide his awkwardness

which failed and seemed to get a smirk out of vector, knowing what was going through the chameleon's mind

"Yeah, brings back memories doesn't it?" the crocodile added as he walked to the sofa and sat down, where the three followed

"of course, it wasn't easy at first, especially for this one" vector continued as he elbowed the magenta reptile playfully

"vector" espio grumbled warningly

"what, you did, it was the first proper time with you living from your clan" Vector grinned

"yes but you don't have to put me in the spotlight" Espio sighed with an eye roll

"Alright, I'm sorry I'll stop" Vector apologised although he couldn't help the smile on his snout to stay

"Good, now I'm going to meet blaze and shadow for dinner, don't wait up" Espio commented, happy to shut the conversation down as he headed out once more

once the door closed vector wasted no time in getting back to business

"Alright, so where was I," Vector asked the remaining children who happily placed themselves on the sofa

"telling us stories of classic espio" Charmy chuckled

"oh yeah, alright now where was I?" Vector ahhed as he began to remember

he was going to happily drop it, but if the chameleon thought he could blow them off on such short notice after making a meal then this seemed good enough revenge

(storytime)

after the battle against the evil Eggman, the chaotixs decided that they made a great team

one that each individual didn't believe they wanted to dispatch from

it did take little to no persuasion for the group to try and continue their teamwork and try to make something of their collective skills

and thus the chaotixs detective team were here to stay

knuckles however were the only one that had a place of his own that they could call base, charmy and Mighty were more travellers so it was no surprise they had just bare essentials and then vector had a tiny apartment that wouldn't suffice for the five males and then espio, he shared a room within the base of his clan, but there was no universe where bringing 4 outsiders into such settings was going to happen

knuckles were hesitant but decided to try and give it a shot, since meeting the blue blur he tried to open himself up, but made it clear if any of them took one step on the stone steps they would be kicked off in a heartbeat