Chapter 5: Charmy's Training

In the Chaotix Detective Agency office, it's morning in the household. Vector woke up from a long sleep after a night of business. When he walks to the desk, he sees a note left by someone in Japanese. Vector knew the language very well. He looked at the handwriting closely and said this as he was sipping a cup of coffee.

"So Espio's gonna train Charmy how to fight, huh." said Vector. "Well let's see how this turns up." he concluded.

Meanwhile, Espio arrived at a martial arts dojo with Charmy. From there, Espio told Charmy, who had a gym bag full of martial arts equipment, to do the following:

"Charmy, go get changed to your uniform. I will change in a separate room. Come back to the mat, and the both of us will start from there." said Espio.

"Yes sir!" replied Charmy.

The 2 went their separate ways. A few minutes passed by. Later, Charmy and Espio finished changing, and this was the result;

Charmy was wearing an orange karate jacket and orange karate pants. In the holes of both parts, the color was white. He was wearing a white belt. More noticeably, he was not wearing his helmet. Espio was wearing a black sleeveless karate jacket with black pants. No hole colors were on the pants. He was wearing a black belt. Espio was a longtime professional ninja and martial artist, and has had many people fight him. On his left hand, there was a white boxing wrap. Espio proceeded to put it on Charmy's hands following the exact procedures. After that, the two were ready to start their training.

"Let us commence our training. We will begin with punches and kicks." said showed him how the punches and kicks work. 30 minutes later, Charmy had gotten the hang of the basic punch and kick, along with knowing how to do foot sweeps as well a variety of other moves.

"You now the moves. Good job." Espio said. "We will proceed to self-defense." he concluded.

Espio went on to take out an air gun, showing Charmy how to disarm a weapon from a person. This took a while to do, but eventually Charmy learned how to disarm a weapon.

Espio took Charmy to a black punching bag after that excersize.

"Okay, this is the part where you focus on your moves. Give it a try." said Espio.

"Yes sir." Charmy replied.

Charmy went into fighting stance, and started hitting the bag with a few punches. After that, the bag swayed a tiny bit, but he continued to punch on. He started to do some kicks. For a few minutes, he tried a variety of the moves learned from earlier on in the lesson. He started sweating, stopped, and took a break. Espio dropped water from a water bottle all over Charmy's hair. After that, the two eat lunch they made themselves.

"Are you ready to continue?" said Espio.

"Yes." replied a determined Charmy.

"Then let us continue." replied Espio.

And so they did. Over the next few hours, Espio showed Charmy how to use weapons, special techniques, and many more. However, Espio wanted to do one more thing before wrapping up the training.

"You have made great progress, but now it is time for sparring." Espio said.

"The last one left standing wins."

The two went to a side of the dojo. As the both of them went into their fighting stances, a thought came into Charmy's mind:

"beat Espio. You can do this."

Then, the sparring had begun. At first, Espio made direct attacks on Charmy, but the bee dodged them. He made a counterattack by making a right punch to Espio's stomach. Then, Epsio made uppercuts and kicks, landing on Charmy, but he kept fighting back. As the fight progress on, the two started using weapons and a variety of moves. Then after a while, they had alot of cuts and bruises.

Espio was going for a special attack on Charmy, and decided to use it with a surprise; his ninja skills. While Charmy was in fighting stance prepared for the next move, Espio dissipated.

"Where did he go?" Charmy asked himself.

Suddenly, Espio pops-up doing direct punches, and a few kicks which one Charmy blocks. Then, Charmy makes a hard left blow to Espio's face. Blood started flying, and the chameleon was soon on the floor.

*THUMP!*

Then Charmy goes to check on Espio.

"Are you okay?" Charmy asked.

"Yes, I am." replied Espio. "You are one good fighter. I see potential in you." he continued. After Charmy helped Espio get up (as well as putting on white bandages for him and Espio), they returned to the office to see Vector at work.

"Damn, that must have been one hell of a training." said Vector.

"It sure was, Vector." said Espio. "You must have read my message, yes?"

"Yes I have." replied Vector. "You still have good sense of kanji."

"I beat him at sparring!" excitingly said Charmy.

"That's great to hear." replied Vector. "At least know you aren't to be messed with."

"That's right!" said Charmy. "One day that I'm gonna use all those skills to fight against the most well respected fighters; Sonic and Shadow."