SCSI (Sonic Crime Scene Investigation)
Chapter 1
Ok so this is my last shot at a decent story. I'm begging you guys to please put some thought into your reviews and tell me the areas I need to improve in. It would really help me a lot. And if this just doesn't work out... bye bye to me.
Disclaimer- All Sonic the Hedgehog characters are owned by SEGA. I own Squirt the Chao.
Sonic- 24
Shadow- No age
Blaze- 25
Amy- 21
Tails- 18
Espio- 26
Knuckles- 26
Vector- 37
Tikal- 20
Sonic the Hedgehog stressfully ran a gloved hand through his long royal blue quills as he sighed inwardly. His emerald green eyes focused on the yellow folder in front of him. The light fixture above flickered and illuminated the mug shot of a suspect on the run. Sonic starred cold-heartedly at the picture... it was all his fault. He tapped his fountain pen on the pad of paper to his left hoping by doing so it could help him solve the five -year old mystery that sat in front of him; mocking him. He buried his head in his hands, he wondered if he would ever solve this damn cold case. He reached over and flipped on the heater so the Winter night coudn't chill him. Suddenly he heard a light tap on the glass window of his office door. He looked up to see his friend and co-worker Blaze leaning calmly against the metal threshold with an investigation kit with her.
"Come on, Shadow needs us at Western Knights High School." Blaze informed. Sonic quickly got up and pulled his black fleece jacket over his white work shirt and grabbed his black CSI hat and fitted it over his head.
"Was a kid murdered?" Sonic asked as he hurriedly packed up his crime scene kit.
"No. High school reunion and a body was found in the bathroom. I don't have all the details but Shadow will fill us in as soon as we get there." Blaze informed.
The two walked up to the school and were met by Shadow, who was busy shooing away the press by the school's taped off doors. "Shadow!" Sonic called and tried to get the dark hedgehog's attention. It seemed to work as Shadow let the security take over and whisked Blaze and Sonic through the crowed doors of the school. Shadow started to give the details of the murder as he led Sonic and Blaze towards the gym;
"So it's the high school's 10-year class reunion. Everything was going just fine up until about 9:00 PM when a certain Silver the Hedgehog came in to use the restroom and he found him. 26-year-old Knuckles the Echidna." Shadow had lead the two to the nto-so-pleasent smelling gym bathroom and on the floor lay a dark red echidna, laying face- down in an even darker red pool of blood.
"Did anyone touch anything?" Blaze inquired as she got out her camera and proceeded to take numerous pictures of the crime scene as future evidence.
"No, you guys are the first here. All the paramedics did was check his pulse only to find out he was gone and pronounced him dead at the scene." Shadow responded as he took out a small notepad and a pen from his black suit and scribbled down a few notes. "Look I'm gonna go and make sure that Silver guy is alright." Shadow informed as he walked out of the one-stall men's room and into the open gym.
Blaze continued to photograph the body. She then set the camera down and slipped some plastic gloves over her purple hands. Then carefully, she lifted Knuckles' eyelids up revealing stunning purple eyes. Sonic also dawned a pair of sterile gloves as he walked up to the deceased echidna sprawled out on the floor. "Well the pupils are dialated... he knew something was coming." Blaze stated. Sonic continued to look over the body. The first thing he noticed was that one of the spikes on the echidna's right glove was chipped off at the tip and all the spikes on the right glove where covered with blood. Sonic retrieved a cotton swab and carefully wipped some blood off of the white spikes. He then removed the glove completely and carefully set it into a brown paper bag. It was then that Sonic noticed that the bathroom mirror was shattered. He carefully studied the glass- shatter pattern while snapping some pictures of it. He was pulled from his thoughts by Blaze's confident voice.
"Well I think I have a pretty good guess of what the cause of death was." Blaze spoke. Sonic turned around to see that Blaze had turned the body over and their was a horrendous, bloody gash across the echidna's forehead.
"Apparently hit his head on something." Sonic muttered as he looked around the men's room while Blaze snapped a few photos of what she suspected to be the fatal wound. Suddenly Sonic spotted the white, porcline sink with a blood streak on the rim. Blaze walked up behind the hedgehog.
"I bet he hit his head on that." Blaze guessed. Sonic walked back to the body and re-turned Knuckles over and saw a welt on the back of Knuckles' head in the shape of a hand.
"Or someone did it for him."
After swabbing for fingerprints and collecting any other evidence Sonic called for the medical personnel to take the body back to the morgue for further examination. As they were slipping the body into the plastic body bag Sonic stole a quick glance at Knuckles. Suddenly Sonic had a pang of reconization... Sonic knew this person from somewhere... but where? The blue hero couldn't put his finger on it. As they wheeled the body away on a gernie Sonic knew the not knowing would plaque him for awhile. Sonic felt a tap on his shoulder and turned around to face his purple pyro friend.
"Hey, you mind taking the evidence back to forensics? I need to help Shadow out here." Blaze asked, starring at Sonic with yellow eyes.
"Sure." Sonic responded as he and Blaze worked together to pack up all the evidence.
"Hey Tails." Sonic greeted his old friend who was at the time leaning over his desk peering intently into a microscope inside of the forensics lab were the little kitsune spent most of his time.
"Oh hi Sonic." Tails responded taking his aqua eyes away from his favorite "toy" as Shadow put it and facing the blue hedgehog standing in front of him.
"Got some evidence for 'ya." Sonic said in a voice that sounded like his mind was somewhere else. Tails being a bright young fox picked up on this vibe.
"Something wrong?" Tails asked curiously.
"Nah I'm fine." Sonic answered quickly. Tails gave Sonic a look but decided to drop the subject.
"Hey Blue Boy!" Sonic, hearing his pet name, turned around to see a pink hedgehog wearing a white lab coat by the name of Amy Rose walking toward him. For reasons unknown to him, every time he saw Amy he always had a flutter in his stomach and he completely forgot what he was just thinking about.
"Another crime scene?" The petite female asked him.
"um yeah. In fact I'm here dropping the evidence off right now." Sonic reported, giving her a grin.
"Well just be sure to send all the blood my way, ok?" Amy grinned.
"Uh sure." Sonic sputtered. Amy then gave him a smile and walked back down the hall of the crime lab with Sonic starring, hypnotized, after her.
"Why?" Tails wondered out loud, smiling and shaking his orange head, pulling Sonic from his trance.
"Why what?" Sonic asked, not having a clue to what Tails was talking about.
"Ever since you met Amy you've had a huge crush on her yet your too stubborn to admit it!" Tails exclaimed. Sonic smirked.
"Tails, I have no idea what you're talking about." Tails just smiled and rolled his eyes at his blue friend. Sonic gave a chuckle and asked Tails if he wanted to go out to eat after he got off his shift.
"Sure." Tails agreed.
Sonic fiddled with the little pink and white sugar packet in his gloved hands. He could feel Tails starring at him.
"Sonic?"
"Hmm?" Sonic looked up to see Tails looking at him with a worried expression.
"You ok? You haven't been yourself lately." Tails confronted him. Sonic put the un-opened sugar packet back and folded his hands in front of him on the restaurant table where he and Tails where seated.
"Yeah yeah... it's just that case I worked on today." Sonic began.
"Uh huh..." Tails urged taking a sip of his coke and raising his eyebrows showing Sonic he had his attention.
"Well, I could have sworn I knew the vic from somewhere. But I have no idea where."
"Well I'm sure you'll remember sooner or later." Tails reassured as he picked up his menu and held it up to his face. Sonic sighed and did the same.
"I hope so."
Sonic fumbled with his keys for a second before finding the one to his house. He inserted the brass instrument into the lock of his apartment door and opened it into the warm refuge from the winter winds outside. He closed the door behind him and removed his shoes by the entrance. His pet chao, Squirt, flew to the door to greet his owner.
"Sup Squirt?" Sonic greeted while petting the little chao and got a yelp of excitement in response. "Apparently fine." Sonic chuckled as he headed to the kitchen. But on his way he accidently tripped over a box in the darkness and spilled it's contents all over the living room.
"Great." Sonic sighed as he switched on the light and knelt down to pick up contents of the box, which just happened to be a box full of old photos. As he scooped them up and put them back into the cardboard box were they belong, Squirt flew up and picked one up and handed the picture to Sonic.
"Thanks Squirt." Sonic thanked. He read the words scribbled in sloppy handwriting on the back of the old photograph, "Sonic and Knuckles at the big game." It read. Sonic's eyes widened in reconization.
"Knuckles?" Sonic mumbled to himself. He quickly flipped the photo over to see a miniature version of Knuckles and himself playing baseball together. "Of Coarse!" Sonic shouted at no one in particular scaring Squirt slightly. Sonic stared intently at the old photograph clutched tightly in his hands. This is where he remembered Knuckles from! Sonic's mind was overflowing with old memories flooding back to him of his old childhood friend. It was then that he decided he had to find his friend's killer.
R&R please! And no flames!!