Chapter 3: Lab Work
Shadow kicked the lab door wide open. The place was smaller than he had thought, but it had essential equipment. Sonic slipped passed Shadow and walked over to a printer-like machine.
"I can't remember very well, but I think Tails used this to scan crap." The blue hedgehog said coldly. Shadow turned on a screen and stuck the note he had found into the supposed scanner. He pressed down on a green button. The machine made a grinding noise as the note appeared in a green shade on the screen.
"Well...this is apparently his analyzing gadget." Shadow stated. He turned a knob to zoom in on the note. His ruby eyes scanned the screen closely. "There appears to be material from a glove on the note. But not any glove...a special type of glove that contains a strange energy source. Some of that energy has been left on the paper."
"How do we locate the person with this glove? Every-damn-body we know where's gloves."
"The energy resembles the chaos emeralds' power, only slightly different. Perhaps we can use the fox's emerald tracker to locate this murderer." Sonic blankly stared around the room.
"You do know where he keeps it, right?"
"Maybe..."
"Well. Where the hell is it?"
"Somewhere..."
"You don't know, do you?"
"All I know is that it's somewhere in this damn lab."
"You better get to looking hedgehog. My patience is wearing thin with you."
"Same to you, a-"
"I said look for the damn tracker, faker!" Shadow snapped at the Sonic, who in return gave a cold stare. With out saying anything further, the two browsed through some cabinets and drawers. Eventually Shadow spotted a flat screen gadget on a desk. He picked it up and activated it.
"This is it. It's reading my emerald's location."
"How are you so sure that thing will find this glove?"
"Simple, I'll combine a sample of the energy on the note with the tracker's data source."
"You're not making sense...how are you going to do that?"
"I'm more intelligent then you. Enough said." Sonic growled as Shadow grabbed the paper and placed it under a small telescope. He opened the tracker and located it's data source, the small scanner that read the energy of a chaos emerald. He grabbed a sharp pin and began scrapping microscopic bits of the paper onto the miniature scanner. Shadow placed it back into the tracker and turned it on.
"It's reading something." A green flashing dot moved across a small map on the screen. "We've got a moving target."
"Where at?"
"Its several cities away and heading for another state. And it's moving at a fast rate. We better head after this guy and quick."
"Yes...I myself wish to rip that bastard apart." Sonic cracked his knuckles as Shadow dashed out of the lab. The blue hedgehog followed right behind him.