After our little meeting at Rotor's house I decided to run back to the castle. Upon arriving, I spotted several dozen reporters and any sort of news folk swarming at the castle gates. No doubt they wanted my take on the recent murders. Luckily, I knew a ay in around the back of the castle so I wasted no time in getting there and going inside.

I walked into the living room, where Sally was sitting on the couch where I left her. She was asleep with her head resting on a pillow no doubt given to her by a staff member. She looks so beautiful when she's asleep, that I almost didn't want to wake her. But when I sat down next to her, she woke and turned her head towards me.

"Hi." She said softly with a smile. "One of the maids said that you went out for some air?"

"Yes, I did." I said laying my hand on her leg. "I ran into Megan and Alexis. They say "Hi.""

"Oh, good." she replied. "I hope they've been doing well."

"It's seems like they were."

We continued our talking for a few more minutes. I tried to make sure she didn't hear anything about last night, without making myself look suspicious. The less that Sally knew, the better she had no idea about what as going on.

The rest of the day went by pretty smoothly. Other than the fact that Sally made me go and get her all these random foods to satisfy her cravings. And she wanted only me to get them. She even told the staff to make sure I was the one who got them. Normally I could just order them to do it, but because Sally is pure royalty, she outranks me by just enough. Ugh.

By the time that Sally had gotten up, I was already gone. I told the staff to make up another excuse for me while I went to go see Rotor.

Everyone was already at Rotor's when I got there. He let me in and brought me to his computer with everyone else.

He pulled up the info that he found. It all looked like a foreign language to me but he started to explain it to us.

"I did a little analyzing on the brush." He said, "And I managed to find where he might have bought the brush."

"That's a good start." I told him. "Where?"

He took out a pen and piece of paper and began to write something down. He proceeded to hand it to me and I took it. And that's where I noticed something.

His hands were trembling and almost soaked in sweat. He also looked like he had slept all night. I became very concerned.

"Uh...hey Rote. Are you feeling alright?"

"Yes, Sonic. I feel perfectly fine. Why would you think otherwise?"

He sounded like he was telling the truth but his eyes were telling me a completely different story. His eyes were expressing fear, but not just any kind of fear, the absolute worst kind of fear. I gave that same look when I saw Shadow dragged Sally out to make an exchange for her brother. What he had done to her, made me fearful. And now Rotor was expressing it, obviously he wouldn't tell me what was wrong, so I played along.

"Oh, no reason. You just look tired, that's all."

Nicole then decided to speak up. "Sonic, I believe we should make our way to the location."

"I agree with Nicole." Antoine said, "And where are we going anyway?"

I took the paper and read it to myself. But there was no location, no address, just a small note.

He's watching us. He's making me trick you. If I don't help him, he'll kill Amy.

I looked to Rotor with the very same expression he gave me. If the killer had Amy, then this was very bad. He looked to me, then shifted his eyes to the hallway behind me, then back. If I didn't know any better, I would say that someone was standing behind me in the hallway. Taking the hint, I turned around.

Immediately, A cloaked figure ran down the hallway towards the back door. I ordered the others to call the police, then gave chase to the figure.

He burst through the back door and into the alleyway. I followed and attempted to grab him. I missed. Unfortunately, my speed just wasn't what it used to be and I began to fall behind. It seemed like I was going to lose her until the cop cars blocked off the alley.

However, there was a fire escape and he took it to the roof, I followed closely behind. The chase took to the rooftops. A police helicopter and several news helicopters took up the sky and lit up the roof for me. It made it easier to find him, he was running towards the edge of the roof and stopped. He then turned to face me.

Now that the light was shown I could finally get a better look at him, if there was anything to look at. His cloak and hood covered pretty much all of his body but the face, which had other things covering it.

"Out of rooftop?" I asked, sensing victory.

"Don't think that just because you cornered me that you have won." He said, his voice distorted by some type of gas mask over his muzzle. So recognizing his voice was out of the picture. Also, he wore red-tinted goggles so I couldn't tell his eye color was. This guy really didn't want me to discover his identity.

"Well you have nowhere to go." I retorted, "Unless you're planning to fight me, which is a bad idea."

I put my fists up, ready to fight. A chuckle came from the figure as he pulled out a combat knife and charged at me. I quickly avoided it and rolled away from the follow up attack. That's pretty much how the fight went, he attacked, I dodged. I didn't want to hurt him, I wanted to exploit him. With the camera's from the news copter undoubtedly filming, I could show everyone how weak he was before ripping that cover from his face. Even if he somehow managed to escape me, people will know that he couldn't even beat to an aging hedgehog.

"You honestly think this is going to work?" he said continuing his attack.

"Funny," I said, "I was gonna ask you the same."

"You always have to play the funny guy, don't you?"

"Yup. That's kinda my thing!"

"I mean, do you really think people will follow you after I hand you your ass?"

"From where I'm standing, you haven't even touched me yet."

"Keyword: yet."

He unexpectedly stopped and pulled out a cylinder shaped device. Upon further inspection, it was a detonator. He activated it and I was knocked off of my feet. The ground under me exploded and sent me into the wall of the building next to me. I hit the floor, hard.

The figure walked up to me and picked me up by my throat. I was too dazed to fight back. He brought me to his face so that we were eye to eye. Although I couldn't see his face, I bet he was smiling.

"You really think I didn't plan, in case that idiot told you about me. I knew he would tell you, but I didn't think that it would be this soon."

"Now, as I was saying earlier." he began, "Do you really think people will follow you? Things are about to change, Sonic. After today, people will doubt your leadership. After tomorrow people will lose faith in you. And after the next day, I will take everything from you. I will make you know what it is like. I will make you feel what I feel. I will make you suffer, like you made me suffer!"

He threw me to the ground and I looked up at him as I began to black out. His cold eyes stared into mine. He said one more thing to me before I passed out.

"This is my revenge, Sonic. And after today, nothing will be the same."

A/n

So how was that? I hope I got the point across with the killers speech that this is a personal vendetta against him. But the question is, why? Stay tuned and you might just find out.

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