The first thing Edgeworth noticed when he finally woke up was the pain stretching across his entire body. Every part of him felt like it had been punched, kicked, or cut. With a quiet groan, he managed to open his eyes to be faced with complete darkness. He tried to call out, but his voice came out as nothing more than a low mumble. He shifted his body slightly to find that his hands and feet were bound tightly with rope that scratched and scraped at his skin every time he tried to move. Slowly, his eyes began adjusting to the lack of light and he could make out vague outlines of objects around him. There were two wooden chairs sat directly opposite him and a few other chairs at random places about the room, all empty. He craned his neck in an attempt to look behind him and he saw a dim light coming from a half open doorway. After listening for a moment, he heard voices coming from the other side of the door but he was too far away to make out what they were saying. He moved his feet to try and stretch them out a little but the door started to open wider. A figure walked into the room and headed straight towards him. Edgeworth couldn't help the fear rising in his chest- whatever the man was coming over to do, it couldn't be good.

Phoenix was surprised at how relaxed Kay seemed to be as they walked through the prison towards the warden's office. Even he was shaking a little and flicking his eyes around to cautiously look either side of him every now and again. But Kay was her usual, bubbly self. In fact, she seemed to have cheered up a lot since they had entered the prison.

"We're one step closer to finding Edgeworth" was her only explanation when Phoenix asked her about her behaviour as he knocked on the warden's door. The door soon opened and the two of them were welcomed inside. The prison warden was a rather short, stout man with a head full of dirty blond hair and a uniform that seemed a little too stretched over his broad figure. He seemed kind, gentle, and not at all what Phoenix had been expecting as he told them to sit and offered them tea.

"We came to ask you about two of your prisoners; Augustus and Roland Ingimárr" Phoenix explained when the warden asked what they were doing here if not to visit an inmate. The warden suddenly tensed and froze half way through biting into a biscuit. Quickly, he struggled to swallow then took a wavering breath.

"They actually escaped the prison sometime last night. During the guard change over is when we believe they did it. But the news wasn't supposed to be released to the public until later today" the warden eyed the two of them suspiciously and Kay became very tempted to loudly rebuke his hidden insult, but Phoenix shot her a warning look that kept her mouth shut.

"We want to know more about them. We have reason to suspect that they kidnapped a friend of ours"

"Oh, really? Who?" the warden raised an eyebrow sceptically and Phoenix had to give Kay another sideways glance to keep her in her chair.

"The prosecutor who put the two of them behind bars several years ago. You may know of him; Miles Edgeworth"

"What?! Isn't he the Chief Prosecutor now or something?" the warden spluttered slightly.

"Indeed he is. We think he has been kidnapped by your two escapees"

"That's unbelievable..."

"Well believe it now!" Kay finally spoke, glaring at the warden. Phoenix reached over and placed his hand on her arm in an attempt to calm her. He understood her annoyance but he knew they had to remain levelheaded or they would not get anything useful out of this man. For someone who dealt with prison inmates on a daily basis, he didn't seem to cope well under pressure.

"Is there anything you could tell us that might help us find them? Any places they may go, things they may do, aliases they might use?"

"I'm afraid there is not much I can tell you" the warden sighed "But there is one place they may go to- their old house. They used to live there together with their wives before they came here. No one has lived in that house since. I mean, who would want to live in a house where two brothers abused and tortured their wives?"

Phoenix nodded as the warden wrote down the address of the house and handed it over to him. Since there was not much else the warden could give them, Phoenix and Kay thanked him and left. They decided to go back to Edgeworth's office to see if Gumshoe had found anything else and to tell him about the house. But once they got to the top floor, there was a crowd of people in front of the doorway of Edgeworth's office. As they approached, Phoenix started to recognise most of them as prosecutors.

"You! This is your fault!" a voice from the crowd suddenly said and Phoenix turned to see someone pointing at him.

"I don't know what you-"

"The Chief was taken because of you! Your friendship with him has angered whoever took him and this is their revenge. A prosecutor and a defense attorney should see each other in court and no other place. I see you, coming here to this very office to visit him simply for a friendly chat. It's wrong!"

Phoenix could only watch as the man glared before pushing past him and stalking angrily down the hall. He turned to see the others in the group either rolling their eyes and muttering or eyeing him warily, as if to assess if he really was the cause of the kidnapping.

"What a lunatic" Kay whispered in Phoenix's ear as they walked towards the door to the office. But before they could go inside, another voice spoke up behind them.

"Hey! How come you two get to go in there and we don't? Unless you're planning on defending the kidnappers when they're caught?"

"If I say they can come in, then they can come in" Phoenix and Kay turned to see Gumshoe standing in the doorway. Quickly he ushered them inside before shooing the crowd away.

"An angry mob of prosecutors. Now that's not something you see every day" Phoenix commented once Gumshoe had shut the door.

"They've been there for hours. Did you find anything at the prison?" Gumshoe leant back against the wall, running a weary hand across his face.

"The warden said they might have gone to their old house" Kay said and smiled when she saw Gumshoe's face light up a little at the discovery of a new lead. Phoenix reached into his pocket and handed over the slip of paper with the address written on it.

"I know where that is. Then again, there isn't a police detective alive who doesn't know the house of the Ingimárr brothers... I'll go down there and check it out"

"We'll come with you" Kay offered, already half way towards the door.

"It might not be safe. I'd prefer it if you stayed here" Gumshoe said as gently as he could to her.

"No way! I'm as much Edgeworth's friend as either of you two are. I'm going to help find him whether you want me to or not" Kay said with such finality that the two men had no choice but to agree with her. A few minutes later the three of them, along with several police officers as backup, were crammed into Gumshoe's car and heading towards the house. Phoenix could feel Kay tensing up beside him despite the constant smile she kept on her face.

"It will be fine, we'll find a few new leads if nothing else" he told her, giving her a small nudge in an attempt to cheer her up. She nodded slightly in agreement and her body lost a little of the tension it had been holding. After what seemed like a longer drive than it should have been, Gumshoe's car pulled up to the front of a pair of tall, iron gates. Behind them was a large, isolated building with a path that stretched from the gates up to the front door. No one missed the shiver that ran through Gumshoe as soon as he laid eyes on the place. Each one of them took a moment to simply stare at the house, imagining what horrors had gone on in there just a few years ago.

"Here goes nothing" Phoenix sighed before gently pushing the metal gate open, paint flaking off in his hand. Everyone filed in after him with the police officers and Gumshoe going further ahead to make sure the building was as abandoned as it looked, leaving Phoenix and Kay trailing behind.

"Do you think he's okay?" Kay asked nervously, coming to terms with just how violent these brothers were as they approached their house.

"He's been through so much already, he'll survive through this too. I know he will" Phoenix told her with a smile. He partly believed in what he said- he knew Edgeworth was strong- but some small part of him couldn't help thinking that maybe it was all useless, maybe he was already gone…

"All clear!" Gumshoe yelled, making the two of them speed up towards the house and helping Phoenix temporarily forget his darkening thoughts. All the officers were already thoroughly searching the house by the time Phoenix and Kay made it to the door.

"Someone has definitely been here recently but they must have left before we arrived" Gumshoe informed them once they walked in.

"They could have come here first before going to the Prosecutor's building" Phoenix suggested.

"Have you found anything useful?" Kay asked urgently, hoping that a new lead would appear.

"Easy tiger, we've only just started. We'll find something soon" Gumshoe reassured her. The three of them turned their attention to the officers, each searching their own section of the house. But Phoenix soon got distracted by the house itself. Despite the grand looking entrance, the interior was rather dark and bland. Layers of dust coated every surface but there were clear signs that it had been disturbed recently. His eyes caught sight of a red stain on the bottom of the stairs. After a closer look he realised it was blood in the shape of a smudged hand print, but it was faded and completely dry which suggested it had been there for a long time. Quickly he turned back to the investigation, not wanting to dwell on whose blood it was and how it had gotten there.

"Sir!" an officer standing by the coffee table called over to Gumshoe "I might have found something of use over here"

"What is it, Bryd?"

"Someone wrote something on this notepad before tearing the page out. But there's an imprint of what they wrote still on the pad. It appears to be an address of some kind" officer Bryd explained, showing them the notepad and what they had managed to pick up from it.

"I'll look up the address" Kay offered, taking out her phone from her pocket. After a couple of minutes, she figured out where the address would lead them to.

"It's some kind of warehouse. It used to belong to a shipping company but they went bust a few months back so it's currently empty. Do you think that's where they've taken Edgeworth?"

"There's only one way to find out" Gumshoe said, picking up his coat. They left most of the officers at the house to continue the investigation while taking five of them to the warehouse.

"I hope he's there" Kay mumbled, staring out the car window as the world rushed past them.

"He will be" Phoenix replied, "I'm sure of it".