The pair made it into the city ten to fifteen minutes later, and were soon looking down every street and in every window they could see, hoping for some sign of Sonic, Shadow, or Dr. Eggman. But they had no luck so far. "How hard is it to find somebody in a city like this?!" Turbo finally muttered angrily. Knuckles sighed, his expression one of boredom.
"Harder than you think." The echidna replied dully. "But we…wait a moment. Turbo, look over there." He said this last bit quietly, and nodded his head in the direction of a small, rundown building without any lights on. Just barely visible through one of the grime covered windows, were thick iron bars, and…an Anthro? But before either Turbo or Knuckles could get a good look at it, the figure was pulled back very fast, out of sight.
"Let's check it out." Turbo said at once, starting for the building. Knuckles grabbed her wrist and spun her around.
"Are you crazy?!" He said in a hushed voice. "We can't just waltz up to the front door and say: Hello we're looking for Sonic and Shadow, have you seen them." It'd be suicide!" Turbo thought about that a moment, then nodded, realizing the truth in his words.
"What other choices do we have Knuckles?" She asked, unable to tear her gaze away from the window where the figure had been. The echidna thought a while about that, and finally said.
"Well, old buildings like that usually have hatches in the roofs, large pipes going under the house, etc. What do you think is our best bet?" Turbo considered this for several minutes, and replied after a while.
"We split up. Knuckles, you take the underground, I'll tackle the rooftops. Sound good?" The echidna nodded.
"I'm on it." And with that, he quickly, when nobody was looking, slid down a manhole and out of sight, pulling it shut behind him.
"And be careful." Turbo said quietly before heading off to find a way onto the roof. She pretended to drive by on Shadow's bike, and was about to park out of view from the windows, when she thought she saw another figure in a window closer to her. This one was smaller than the other, but still a somewhat similar shape. This was definitely an Anthro. It waved at her with a worried, nervous look before quickly vanishing from view. "Ok, this has got to be our house." She thought out loud, parking the bike down an alley with no windows so it wouldn't be seen and stolen. She pulled out the pistol that Shadow had tossed her earlier that day, and looked for a way to the roof. There was an old ladder around the back of the house, and she smirked. "Too easy." She said softly, starting to climb up the ladder quickly, soon pulling herself up onto the roof and taking a look around. Sure enough, as Knuckles had predicted, there was a hatch, barely visible, but still there. Turbo quietly lifted the door and peered inside. She was looking down into an attic with old machine parts, cobwebs, dust and other random paraphernalia all over. Just as she was about to lower herself inside however, Turbo heard, a sniffing sound, as if somebody was just stopping, or starting to cry. Cautiously, Turbo stuck her head down into the hole, and saw a cage in the shadows, but couldn't make out who or what was inside it. With nothing for it, she pulled herself up, and lowered herself in properly, landing quietly on the floor with a dull thud. The sniffing stopped, and the sound of soft footsteps was heard from inside the cage.
"H…h…hello?" Somebody whispered. "Who's there?" Turbo took a deep, but quiet, breath, and walked as quietly as possible towards the cage.
"Who are you?" she whispered back, looking at the now visible figure carefully. Her color returned to dark blue, but she didn't notice, and wouldn't have cared.
"Sonic the Hedgehog." The voice replied. The figure came closer to the bars, and now Turbo could make out that it was indeed Sonic.
"Thank goodness!" Turbo whispered with relief. "I'm Turbo. I've come to get you and Shadow out of here." Sonic paused, and asked with shock.
"Shadow's here too?! When did that happen?! And when did you show up?!"
"Yes Shadow's here, he got captured around noon, and I got here this morning." Sonic nodded as he listened, gripping the bars in his gloved hands. Though the light was very bad in the attic, Turbo could tell that Sonic'd had a rough time in there. He seemed to have bruises and scrapes all over himself. "Where's the door to the cage?" Turbo asked as she moved closer to try and find the lock. Sonic sighed weakly and muttered.
"There isn't one. The floor drops down. That's the only way in or out as far as I know, and I've been here quite a while." Turbo groaned.
"Just brilliant. And here I thought this wouldn't be too hard." Sonic was about to reply, but the floor quaked beneath him.
"Uh oh…Here we go again…Better hide, they're coming for me. Rather, I'm going to them." And with that, the floor lowered, leaving a large hole with bright light coming from it and filling the attic. Only now did Turbo realize the challenge that this would prove to be. Somebody looked up through the hole, and Turbo hadn't moved fast enough to hide.
"We've got an intruder!" The voice shouted loudly. Turbo's eyes widened and she ran quickly to the attic door at the other end of the room, only to find it was locked.