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It was exactly 4 hours later when the interrogation room blew up and took Slick along with it. Luckily everyone else in the room made it out safely, but not only did they lose a life but they also lost the only lead to the museum case, so Sally decided to drop the it for now. The outside of the room was ok, it was just the inside that was completely destroyed. The sector that the room was located in was off limits until the MPD construction workers could get it completely fixed.

Meanwhile, Amy was in her bunker along with Z, still traumatized over what had happened.

"I can't believed that happened!" Amy exclaimed. "We almost got ourselves killed!"

Z gave her a look. "Seriously Amy? This is apart of our job. Things like this are going to happen."

Amy sat up from her bed and looked at her partner, who was leading against the doorway from her bunker to the hallway staring off to space. Amy sighed. She signed up for this jobs so that means she had to put up with all the work that come up with it. She looked at Z who was think harder than usual gave her a sign to know that something was up.

"Hey what's up?" she asked. Z cut of from her daydream and looked at Amy.

"What do you mean?" Z replied. Amy stood up from her bed and walked up to her raised a eyebrow at the orange hedgehog.

"Your thinking about something. Tell me?" said Amy as she now stood in front of her, leaning on the other side. Zakayla huffed but gladly gave in, knowing that Amy has a habit of not dropping things to easily.

"Well you know how Slick got killed." said Z. Amy nodded.

"Well yeah. That watch he was wearing on his wrist." replied Amy. "Why?"

"The thing is I've seen this type of kill like this before." Zakayla told Amy rubbing her chin.

"Really? How?" asked Amy curiously. Zakayla chuckled nervously.

"Um, I might of did something like this during my little 'Saga'." said Z looking away from her. Amy gave her a frown.

"Oh, well that's something new." said Amy then she suddenly got an idea. "So do you know what the watch did exactly?"

Zakayla looked at the pink hedgehog and then suddenly caught on to her idea. "Yeah. The watch he was wearing is called the Timepiece Terminator. It tells people how much time they have left until there deadline is up. They are mostly used by dangerous gangs and criminal organizations a lot and are extremely hard to get."

"So basically, Slick ran out of time to turn in the money that he owes to his employer?" said Amy, piecing the new found information together.

"Not exactly, apparently he still had some time left. The Timepiece Terminator can also receive directions from either a voice activator or a typed in password." explained Z. Amy tapped her chin and decided to ask her another question.

"So what happens if there time runs out?"

Z gave her a serious look. "They go boom." Amy eyes widen.

"WHAT!" She shouted jumping up in shock. "Ok, but it still doesn't add up. Slick was going to tell us who his employer was and since he's dead…" She wander off. Z shook her head.

"Don't you get it Amy? It's directions was to self destruct if he was about to spill the beans. That is what this watch is all about. If your time is up you explode, if you say anything you also explode but a lot quicker." finish the orange hedgehog. Amy paced around her room slowly sinking in the info at hand, into her brain. The watch self destructed as soon as Slick was about to reveal who he owed money too thanks to directions instructed by the mystery employer. Amy rubbed her chin and thought about the options left. Zakayla watched her patiently, blowing the bangs out of her eyes.

"Maybe the case isn't a total bust after all." thought Amy and pounded her fist on her hand confidently. "Do you think that the exploding watch may have left so evidence behind?"

Z thought for a moment then answered her. "Well maybe. Usually explosives tend to not leave any evidence behind, but with this specific kill, you need put a certain chip in the watch. The chip needs to be surrounded by anarchy berly (chaos emerald) for it to turn into a bomb.

"Right! Anarchy Beryl hold chaos energy that is very difficult to break, so that means it must still be around then!" exclaimed Amy.

"I guess so. Let's hope that the person who put the explosive in the watch, messed up somehow. Only certain people know how to make a clean kill with a Timepiece Terminator." Z told Amy.

"Would some certain people include you?" questioned Amy. Z shrugged her shoulders and smirked at her. "Maybe."

Amy walked out of her police dorm. "Come on let's go and see." Amy walked down the hallway until her partner stopped her.

"Hold on a sec Amy." said Z now in the hallway along with Amy. "No one is supposed to be in the sector until construction is done."

"Yeah I know, but if we don't go now, they'll get rid of the evidence. And knowing the construction workers, they take forever to get done. Most of them are very stubborn as well." Zakayla sighed. In the matter, Amy is right.

"Ok, so what's the plan? We can't just walk up to them." asked Z going along with her plan.

"Here. I got an idea. Come on." The two hedgehogs then ran down the long wide hallway.

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Soon enough they made to the sector that located the interrogation room. The duo was currently standing outside it, looking down at the yellow tape reading CAUTION. Amy whispered to Z.

"Come on." she said and went underneath the tape. Zakayla followed her repeating her actions. The walked some ways undetected from the construction workers that was working around them chatting with each other and fixing thing with the equipment they had. Finally they made it to the room. The door was completely gone so it made it easier to sneak it without the squeaky handle, but before they could even step into the room they were stopped.

"Hey! You two aren't supposed to be down here!" yelled a voice which made both girls freeze in there traps. They slowly turned around and there eyes met with the head boss of the construction. He was a middle age, buff bear with a military haircut and a small beard, wearing a construction uniform like the others. His name tag read 'Bill' and he didn't look too happy to see them. Zakayla was the first to talk.

"Um…Hi to you too?" she said and shrugged nervously at him. He crossed his arms and glared at her. Then at Amy.

"Chief Acorn gave specific orders not to let anyone come in sector until further notice. Why are you here?" he asked still looking at them.

"Um, we were just leaving, but I couldn't go because I left something valuable to me in the interrogation room. So if you could jus-"

Bill cut her off bored with her story. "Aye boys! Come and get these girls outta here!" he shouted and two mobian cats that was apart of the crew quickly grabbed them and pushed them towards the exit. Both Amy and Zakayla were struggling against them, complaining on the way.

"Get off!" Z shouted and punched the cat in the gut earning a grunt from him. Before she could swing at the cat that hold Amy she was stopped by Sally.

"Police officer Z, stand down!" spoke Sally as she came into the scene. She stopped and looked at her, crossing her arms and huffing. Despite everything else, Z hates taking orders from Sally sometimes, especially when it comes to fighting. But if she doesn't listen, she would most likely lose her position and get kick out of the station. She had an irritated look on her face showing Sally she won this round and she wouldn't argue.

Sally turned and looked at Bill. "What going on?"

"These two broke the rules." he said, earning a glare from Amy. She stood up and looked at Sally.

"I just left my phone in there after the explosion occurred." Amy lied. In reality, it was in her pocket but she got them into this mess, the best she could do is get them out. Sally was gazing at her suspiciously and then she glanced at Bill.

"Let them in." she told Bill. Bill was about to oppose, but Sally stopped him. Amy thanked her and walked right in while Z stuck her tongue out out at bill and follow in behind her. Bill growled in dismay.

The girls strolled and examined the room. It was completely destroyed inside. The wall was coming off, the glass was shattered into a million pieces and the ground was broken up with tiles. Trust me, you do not want to be in there. Amy shuttered at the sight.

"Creepy." she muttered.

"Yeah, get moving Amy, that anarchy beryl has to still be here. Somewhere." said Z. "It should shine bright since its a special type of crystal." Amy smiled and they began their search. Z looked in all the scraps of wood and under the rubble. Amy looked near the glass and scraped wall sconces, careful not to cut her gloves on something. After a good three minutes, something shiny caught Amy's eye. She walked over to some scraps and shuffled it and the came face to face with a green gem.

"Hey, I think I found it!" she called over to Z. She rushed over and stood next to Amy observing the piece. Z smiled.

"Yes that's it!" said Zakayla happily. "Here let me see." Amy gave it to her and stood next to her. It was small as a little pebble, big enough to put inside a watch, or as a matter of fact, any watch.

"So what now?" asked Amy examining it.

"I'll take this with me and have a friend of mine look at it." said Z. "I'll call you when I have something ok?"

Amy nodded at her. "Ok." The two walked out of the room just in time to see Sally and Bill talking. Sally gazed at them.

"Did you find your phone Amy?" asked Sally to the pink hedgehog.

"Phone?" Amy thought, then it clicked in her mind. "My lie! Yes, yes I did. Thank you Sally. Me and Z are going to go now."

"Your welcome Amy and next time, don't sneak inside." said Sally waving them off. They nodded and walked away from the scene. After a good distance they chatted for a bit then Amy's phone buzzed. She picked it up and read the text.

See you soon Amelia :)

Zakayla looked at her phone along with her. "Is that from your sister?"

"Yeah my mom and sister and my brother-in-law are coming for a visit. There staying at my house since there was some 'trouble' in the town they were currently living in." Amy explained as she and Z were now in on the sidewalk in the city of Mobius, a few block away from the station.

"Oh ok. Good luck with them. Trust me your going to need it." said Zakayla waving off Amy. "I'll call you about our little problem when I have a lead."

"Ok Bye!" waved Amy as Z walked down the sidewalk and turned on to Stardust street. Amy sighed and shook her head and looked up towards the sky.

"I am in for a lot of drama with family…."

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Late at night in the city of Mobotropolis (which is far, far away from Mobius) stood three figures in an alleyway.

"No no no please don't -" BANG! The third figures body laid lifelessly on the ground, surrounded by his own pool of blood.

"Finally. Been trying to catch this guy for weeks." one figure said. The other one chuckled in agreement.

"Yeah, that what he gets for not paying on time." The other figure said. They laughed evilly, but it was cut off short by a buzz sound. The other figure digged through his pocket and grabbed his phone and read the text.

Mission Complete. Target Terimated.

"Looky here." He said and showed his phone to his comrade. "Looks like Slick tried to talk."

The first figure scoffed. "Serves him right. He tried to sell us out." He put his gun in his pocket. "Do the BOSS know?"

He nodded. "Yeah he knows. This a prime example of what would happen if you cross The Speed Demon.

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Aw snap, We got something big people. The girls have finally found a clue to Slicks death. And also, who are these figures and most importantly who is The Speed Demon? Find out next in the next episode.

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