Hello everybody! Boy, it's been a long month since I last updated this story. I'm sorry to all of you who have been waiting ever so patiently for this new chapter to come out. I've been having to deal with my new summer college classes along with having to juggle my summer job as well. It's been hell to really find any real down time to be working on this since homework takes up the rest of my free time. Thank god there's a sort of a small rest period last week since it was midterms and all that, but it's still hell to juggle it all around. Then again, that's just life catching up with me. (boo!)

Anyway, I hope that you all understand why there's the big wait, and I hope that this new chapter was well worth the wait. I'm just happy that I managed to finish the last chapter where I did because it gave me a basis to work on after that month long hiatus. I'm telling you, I nearly forgot what this case was going to turn out, and I ended up having to make a last minute change to this case's plot because I couldn't find a way to make my original plan work. I'll tell you all what it was at the end of this chapter.

So without further ado, I'll go ahead and set all you readers free to read my new chapter. And just as a reminder for those who have been waiting so long and forgot how I formatted the story, all the evidence that is stated in the story will be capitalized as if they were a proper name. The new ones along with the updated ones will be listed at the end while the current ones will be at the beginning. Profiles of the characters introduced in the case will also be done in the same fashion.

With that reminder out of the way, I hope that you'll all enjoy reading this new chapter as much as I did creating it. Please don't forget to leave a review when you're done reading!

Evidence:

Attorney's Badge: Nobody would believe that Sonic was one if he didn't have it pinned proudly upon his chest. He proved that he was deserving of it despite his age after successfully completing his first career case.

Newspaper Article: A clipping talking about Ms. Kuro Rose, a woman running for the position of senator in her district. It talks about how she served her country in the military's Special Forces team before being forced out because of a battle injury rendering her incapable of conducting anything overly stressful or strenuous. She promises to try and reduce the crime rate in her represented district if elected.

Profiles:

Sonic Hedgehog: A seventeen year old blue furred male hedgehog. Passed the bar exam with flying colors, allowing him to earn his Attorney's Badge a year earlier than normal. Has a likable and confident attitude about him, but sometimes gets nervous when in the courtroom. He's Tails' adoptive big brother.

Miles Prower: Best known by his nickname Tails. He's a twelve-year-old orange furred fox with two tails. He spends most of his time in the Robotnik Law Firm where Sonic works making sure the place stays relatively clean. He doesn't go to school because of the school board recognizing his brilliant mind surpassing even the most advanced high school work.

Dr. Ivo Robotnik: A fifty-three year old defense attorney of some renown. He owns his own law firm, albeit a small business version, and hired Sonic to be his understudy. He's usually too busy working on some kind of case to be seen in the office much. He allows Tails to hang out in the office regardless if he does any work in there or not. He's currently out of town on business and entrusted the upkeep of the office to Sonic and Tails.

Knuckles Echidna: He is an eighteen-year-old detective who works at the local precinct and is good friends with Sonic and Tails. He also knows Prosecutor Vector and his gang in his little detective agency. He sometimes works with Silver on certain cases, although he tends to be on other cases most of the time because of his lower ranking status.

Vector Crocodile: A twenty-year-old crocodile prosecutor. He loves the gold chain necklace that rests against his neck along with listening to music through his headset, including during his time in the courtroom. He can sometimes be a bit rash in making decisions and has a sort of stubborn side, but he always strives for the truth within the heart of any matter.

Charmy Bee: A hyper little bee who's attitude sometimes surpasses his eight-year-old body. He works alongside Prosecutor Vector as a sort of small rag-tag group of detectives that work apart from the local precinct detectives.

Silver Hedgehog: An eighteen year old detective who worked painstakingly hard to earn his promotion to senior detective after one official year on the force in conjunction with one year of internship. He knows Knuckles and sometimes works with him on cases. He has just received a new office in conjunction with his recent promotion as reward for conducting investigations to the best of his abilities without fail.

Espio: He's a purple chameleon with a white horn on his forehead. For some reason, he doesn't like to give people including his team members his last name. He's skilled in ninja arts and has his own dojo for teaching others said techniques. However, Knuckles says that he probably prefers detective work being that he spends most of the week with Vector and Charmy.

Kuro Rose: A woman of Japanese decent who speaks very fluent English. She is trying to run for the senate seat of the district that she's representing. She was once a member of the military's Special Forces team. According to Knuckles and Silver, she constantly comes to the precinct to ask them about cases that they are working on or have already finished ever since she announced her candidacy.

Chapter 8: Dangerous Twists and Turns Part 2

"…And that's what happened in the LK-9 incident investigation three years ago," Silver said with a small sigh as he just finished explaining a case he had worked on in the past to Kuro. He was sitting behind his desk and had a closed file in front of him. "I might've been just an intern student at the time, but I was more than qualified to work alongside detectives then. It still stays unsolved and shuffled away into the cold case files to this day."

"I suppose it would only stand to reason that there hasn't been any new evidence to help shed new light onto it," the woman running for senator replied with a sense of thoughtfulness in her voice as she sat in a chair on the other side with her legs crossed. "From what I remember of it, a well-known police detective and the then senator for this district were killed in that incident. Because of the lack of adequate evidence, they were unable to make any kind of arrests or further advancements on it. What made it worse was that three teenagers and a young boy happened to be in the same building where this double homicide took place."

"According to the statements they gave the detectives then, they were kidnapped by the very person or persons that killed the senator and detective," the silver furred hedgehog recalled as he got up with the folder in hand and moved to his file cabinet to file it away. "They all said the same thing, so we can safely conclude that they were used as a means of ransom in order to lure the two there. It's the only thing that makes sense especially when paired that one is the son of the then senator and another of the detective."

"And the other two just simply happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time at the time of the abduction," the woman finished as she crossed her arms and gave off a sigh as she thought about what she just heard. "It's so sad to hear that a murderer has to resort to kidnapping innocent children just so that they can pursue their personal agenda. By the way, do you happen to have the names of those children detective?"

"I hardly think that they could be considered children now Ms. Rose. It's been three years since that incident, and all of them save one has already graduated high school and achieved a steady job. Actually, even the youngest one has graduated high school thanks to his brilliant and excelled mind. Regardless of that, why do you want to know their names?"

"Oh, I just wanted to know them so I can have a little conversation with them about the incident. They might be able to shed some new light onto the case that detectives might have accidentally overlooked at the time."

"Ms. Rose, I'm sure that the last thing those four want is for you to go digging up horrible memories that they be better off forgetting about. They've all gone on to live rather successful lives despite having to live with these dreadful memories, and I would rather that it stays that way. And besides, giving out their names to anybody outside of the police force would be a breach of protocol. Unless there's an official order from my boss or the chief of police, I'm not allowed to give out that kind of information."

"But you've already given me all this information about the case. I don't see why you can't just say everything else without having to abide by rules."

"I'm sorry, but you had special circumstances being that you are a running candidate for this district's senatorial race. You were allowed some knowledge on some of the cases that we detectives are working on. However, that doesn't allow you to know everything about them like the names of those involved, for example."

"Oh, and just when I was about to get to the potential crux of the case," Kuro said with a small playful pout on her lips as she uncrossed her arms and got up from her chair. "Oh well, I suppose that you just can't blame a girl for trying. I thank you Detective Silver for indulging me on the workings of your cases."

"It's no problem Ms. Rose," Silver stated as he closed the open file drawer and turned back to face the running senator. "If you don't mind me asking, however, why is it that you seem so inclined to know whatever you can about the cases that police have been and are working on? I mean no disrespect, but I have a feeling that this has to do with something besides providing a front with the public in order to earn voting points."

"My, your mind is as sharp outside of a fresh crime scene as it is in one," the woman responded with a small chuckle leaving her lips. "I'm afraid, however, that that's something that you need not worry yourself over about. Although it might be hard for you to believe, I'm merely just trying to figure out how the cases of the past have been taken care of in comparison to those handled today. I need to make sure if there have been any improvements or downfalls in the process and system."

The silver furred hedgehog had his doubts that this answer was anywhere near what she was really doing. Unfortunately, all he could do was speculate at this point in that it seemed like she was not going to be budging anytime soon. And even if he were not out of gas in asking her about it, he would not have had a chance to once again speak up about it because a knock on the door disrupted the two's conversation.

"Hmm, I wonder who's at the door," the detective wondered out loud as he raised an eyebrow and stole a glance at the clock hanging against the wall. "Everybody who works here knows that my shift has been over since eleven. It's already a half an hour past that."

"Maybe they know that you're staying late because of your meeting with me," the woman suggested as she walked over to a small portable water machine and poured herself a cup. "I did tell the secretary outside that I would be meeting with you tonight, so she probably told whoever's out there that you're still here."

"Oh, this is just my luck here. I just hope that they aren't going to be giving me more work on top of the other stuff I'm already working on."

And with that said and a heavy sigh, Silver moved around his desk and towards the door with the intent of figuring out who it was and trying to make them leave as soon as possible so that he would be able to go home quicker.

Meanwhile…

"…And that's why I think that you need to start working on that report the moment we get back home Sonic," Tails said as they were riding in the back of a cab headed back to their apartment. He was still going on about the report that Dr. Robotnik had assigned him to complete by the time he had returned from his out of town trip. "Take advantage of the fact that he had to stay away for a few extra days and work on it before you leave it to the last minute and end up working on it at the last minute and stressing over it."

"Don't you think you worry a bit too much about me Tails?" Sonic asked with a small innocent shrug as he had an indifferent look on his face. "You're supposed to be acting like my bratty little brother, not my overprotective mother."

"Hey, if I don't worry about you here, then who in this world is going to?" the two tailed fox countered as he continued to make a valid argument. "Knuckles' too busy down at the precinct to be checking up on you on a regular basis, and we hardly ever have a chance to see Shadow ever since we first reconnected with him during that case two weeks ago. And Silver hardly knows us well enough beyond the case we were involved in two years ago, so he could practically care less about you in this case."

"Jeez, talk about trying to give your older brother a sense of tough brotherly love," the cobalt hedgehog responded as he allowed a small pout to appear on his face in both annoyance and defeat. "Then again, I guess I couldn't really live on my own here if you weren't here helping me along the way."

"And don't you go forgetting it. You'd be lost in the complications that you create in your own life if I weren't around to help you. By the way, did you make sure you didn't leave anything behind in Silver's office before we left?"

"I think its way past impossible for me to have left anything back in that posh office of his. I never took anything of mines out to show off or anything like that. If anything, I actually ended up gaining something from there, a Newspaper Article about Ms. Rose."

"And did you make sure that nothing fell out of your gloves while you were putting that piece of paper away? You can never be too sure about these things when it comes to something small like your Attorney's Badge, you know?"

"Fine, I'll go ahead and check my gloves if it'll make you shut up about this. I'm telling you, you're almost worrying about me like my mother sometimes. I can't live life with you following so closely to my tail, you know?"

For the next couple of moments, Sonic took off his gloves and checked inside them for the small things he usually kept inside them in hopes of appeasing Tails' worries. He took out the Newspaper Clipping from one of them, but his face then fell a bit as he began scavenging through the other and found nothing inside it.

"Uh oh," he whispered in hopes that Tails would not have catch it. Unfortunately for him, he did and immediately rolled his eyes at his older brother. "Don't tell me I really did manage to leave something back there."

"What did you forget Sonic?" the two tailed fox asked with a heavy sigh leaving his lips and resisting the urge to do a face palm. He had a feeling that this was going to be a long night in the way that things were going right now. "It'd better not be something important that we can't wait until tomorrow to get back from Silver's office."

"Uh, I think this thing is something that you might actually consider to be important," the cobalt hedgehog responded as he looked up at his little brother and gave off a sheepish smile. "I think I managed to lose my Attorney's Badge during that party. I don't know how it happened, but that's the only place I can think it can be."

"…Driver, could you please turn around and bring us back to the Precinct?" Tails asked with an annoyed sigh as he rapped at the plastic that separated the back portion of the car from the front after spending a few seconds in silence. "Somebody here needs to go back because they forgot something important."

"You want me to drive you two back to where you came from after we're over halfway to your destination?" the cab driver asked with strong annoyance in his voice as he continued to drive down his instructed route. "Why in the world did you even ask me to drive you if you're just going to be back there?"

"Because we never intended on going back there tonight in the first place," he stated with an equal amount of annoyance as he shot his older brother a piercing glare. "Could you just please bring us back as soon as possible?"

"Fine," the man sighed out in frustration as he turned the car around at the next available green light and made his way back to the Precinct. "You better not be asking me to stay behind and wait for you to come out. I've got other customers who're more grateful for me taking time to transport them around than you two."

"If you're going to be like that, then you can just leave the moment we get out and pay you the fare. We'll just go ahead and take another cab home."

With a few more grumbling words, the cab driver continued to drive them back to where he had first picked them up in relative silence. Sonic chose to just sit quietly with his gloves in his hands as he tried to ignore Tails. He knew that he was really annoyed with him right now and that no amount of talking would be getting him out of that anytime soon.

After spending ten minutes backtracking through the streets they had previously driven through, they made it back to the Precinct much to the cab driver's aggravation. When the two exited the car, an equally aggravated fox paid the cab fare before the driver zoomed away in search of another potential customer.

"Uh, sorry for making us come all the way back here Tails," Sonic apologized as he rubbed the back of his head with his free hand. His other one was still gripping onto his gloves with one of them holding the Newspaper Clipping inside it. "I hope you're not going to stay too angry with me about this."

"Just shut up and get to Silver's office before he leaves," the fox stated bluntly as they entered the building and past the female secretary. Being that she recognized them from earlier, she gave them only one glance before going back to what she was working on her computer. "I only hope that he's still in there talking with Ms. Rose. Otherwise, we'll have to go and wait until tomorrow when he gets back to get your Attorney's Badge."

"Look, I already said that I was sorry," the cobalt hedgehog repeated as he started to get annoyed with the cold shoulder attitude he was getting from his little brother. "Just stop giving me this anger treatment just because I forgot my badge and made us come back here. It's not like I'm not allowed to make mistakes like this in my entire lifetime. I'm only human, you know? And I mean that in a figurative sense."

"I just can't understand how you can manage to lose something both small and important like your badge," Tails stated as he shook his head while they headed down the hallway. "That's the one important thing that you should always have on you whenever you go out to occasions like the party. It'll give the detectives and officers a chance to figure out who you are if they happen to suspect you of being where you're not supposed to be."

"If that's the kind of logic you're going on, then what's to stop them from kicking you out of this place if they stop us?" the attorney countered as they turned a corner that led to a set of stairs that went upwards. "I would at least have some reason to be here being that I'm an attorney. You're nothing but a regular person from the streets to them."

"Not if I say that I'm with you as your assistant," the fox countered as they climbed the stairwell. "And even if they didn't allow it and tried to cite me for skipping school, I have a special card issued by the leaders of this district stating that I have no legal obligation to be in the school system due to my mental talents."

"And how is that supposed to help you stay with me here? All that does is keep you and me from getting into trouble with the law. That and it's in the middle of the night on a Friday soon to turn Saturday. School shouldn't have anything to do with this conversation."

"Okay, so you got me there. I got a bit carried away with the whole explanation thing. But still, me telling them that I'm your assistant should be more than enough for them to let me come in here with you."

"Yeah, that's considering if Knuckles or Silver are the ones we manage to run into here. Let's just hurry up and get to Silver's office and get my Attorney's Badge before we get pulled to the side by the other detectives around here."

After spending a few seconds ascending the stairs, the two finally made it to the fifth floor where Silver's new office was located. While it was true that they could have used the elevator to make the trek up easier on them, they remembered that it was out of order when they tried using it earlier in order to leave the building. In front of the elevators that were just a few yards away from where they were was a desk that belonged to this floor's secretary. However, it was currently empty with its computer monitor turned off and the surface cleared of any kind of important papers and other loose items.

"Huh, I was sure that there was a secretary here when we left before eleven," Sonic thought out loud as they passed by the desk. "I wonder where she is right now."

"Read the sign on the front of the desk Sonic," Tails stated as he pointed somewhat listlessly at a small placard nailed on the desk's front. "This entire floor is supposed to be closed to the general public by eleven. Some detectives probably stay behind sometimes for late night work, but the time for regular people to visit them are over. Of course, you and I are hardly considered to be regular people due to your legal status."

"Yeah, immunity through power," the cobalt hedgehog stated with a sort of smug smile as he stole a glance at the sign as they passed by it. "I never thought about it like that before. I guess that means we can stay up here for as long as we want, huh?"

"As much as that might sound fun for you right now, I want to hurry up and get this over with. I want to sleep in my own bed before the night is over."

"Well, it doesn't look like you'll have to wait long for that. We're here at his office now," the attorney said before he walked up to a door that had Silver's name stenciled into a placard and knocking lightly on it. "Hey Silver, are you in there?"

"I really hope that he's still in there," the two tailed fox said with a sigh as he allowed his eyes to wander around a bit. When he let his gaze rest to the floor, he noticed something protruding out from the small space between the door and floor. "Hey Sonic, there's something underneath the door."

"Really?" he asked as he stopped knocking and looked down at the object. Figuring that he could not figure out what it was, he then bent down and grabbed it with his free hand so as to have a better look. "Let me just pull it out and we'll see… What the?"

"Wh-what is it Sonic?" his little brother asked, startled by his older brother's sudden outburst of surprise and stepping back a bit.

"Th-this is the knife that I used to cut my apple during the party earlier," Sonic explained as he recognized the feel and simple design of it. However, the fact that it was the same knife he used in the party was not the thing that had caught his attention. What did was the fact that there was something crimson red staining the blade and a bit of the wooden handle where metal met wood. He then said as he showed the blade to Tails, "I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that this red stuff is from a ketchup stain."

"Uh oh," the fox groaned out as his nose suddenly caught the scent wafting off of the blade and instantly recognized it to be the stench of blood. "I don't think ketchup ever had a strong metallic scent to it."

"Silver, hurry up and open this door!" the cobalt hedgehog exclaimed as he dropped his gloves and began trying to turn the knob, fear starting to run through his body. To his surprise, the door opened with little ease and showed them a room bathed in darkness with the light by the window hardly enough to reveal what the office had in store for them. The strong smell of blood, however, made it more than clear what was inside. "Damn, what the hell happened in here? It smells so darn strong in here!"

"I'll go ahead and turn on the light," the orange furred animal offered as he tried to keep his voice calm while putting himself into the blood-scented room. After finding the light switch along the wall a couple seconds later, the bright lights installed on the ceiling illuminated the room, and the two immediately regret having done so. "Oh my god…!"

Inside the room was the clear reason as to why the room had such a strong scent of blood the moment they had opened the door. There were two bodies lying motionless on the floor, both of them with blood surrounding the area where they were. One of them was of Ms. Kuro Rose, the woman who was running for senator in the upcoming election. She had a wound that was directly over her chest that was still oozing out fresh blood and slowly sliding off of her dress. The two could only assume that she was dead at that point being that her eyes did not move upon seeing them standing just outside of the room.

The other body was that of Detective Silver, his silver fur now marred by the crimson coloring of blood despite there being no signs of any open wounds on his body. There were, however, a few large bruises here and there that seemed to indicate that he managed to get himself into a physical fight of sorts with the person who attacked them. Clearly, he had come up short in the battle and was now lying on the floor with his chest slowly rising and falling, a clear sign that he was still hanging onto life.

"Silver, Ms. Rose!" Sonic exclaimed as he immediately ran towards the woman's side in an attempt to find any signs of life from her, dropping the knife onto the floor in the process. Never in his life did he think that the first aid and CPR classes he took in high school would have come in handy. "Damn it; she's already gone! Tails, don't just stand there! Go and get somebody in here! I'm going to make sure that Silver's still hanging on."

"A-alright!" Tails responded rather dumbly as he forced his legs to move from the spot they were currently frozen on and ran out of the room.

"Come on Silver!" the cobalt hedgehog said under his breath as he made his way over to where the detective was at. Even in his current panic mode, he could still see the man's chest rising and falling slowly but surely. He then started to do the regular vitals check as he murmured, "I know that you're stronger than this. You die on me and I promise to never let you hear the end of it every time I come to visit your grave!"

Suddenly, a small and soft groan of pain was heard escaping from the detective's lips. His eyes then slowly opened, and he saw the teen hedgehog accessing the damage done to his body. "S-Sonic…"

"Don't worry Silver; you're going to be alright here!" the attorney responded, his voice filled with relief upon hearing the detective talking to him albeit weakly. "You just take it easy here. Tails is already out getting some help."

"Sonic…," Silver struggled to get out. "Ms. Rose…murdered…"

"Did that woman try to kill you? Is that why you're so beat up and she's the one dead in here? Did you ended up killing her by trying to stop her?"

"No… I…protect her," the detective said as he tried to explain what had happened in that room some time ago in choppy sentences. "She was… murdered by…by…" he started to say before he started to have a coughing fit.

"Silver?" Sonic said in a worried tone as he saw the other starting to fade out of consciousness again. "Stay with me here. Don't you dare fall asleep on me here! Who murdered Ms. Rose and attacked you? Tell me who did this!"

"…Desk… Underneath… … …"

Soon, Silver's eyes closed again, and he had officially lost consciousness once again.

"Silver, Silver!" the cobalt hedgehog shouted as he tried to rouse the detective back into alertness. His efforts were in vain, and he ended up just letting him rest until professional help arrived. "Damn it; he's out again! At least he's still alive and kicking. Just what did he mean by underneath the desk? Maybe there's something down there that can help me identify who it was that did this to him and Ms. Rose."

Seeing that there was nothing else that he could possibly do to help the detective, Sonic decided to do a little bit of investigating in order to see if he could pick up some clues that would lead him to the person that murdered Ms. Rose and severely beat up Silver. It did serve as both a way to get some answers in this disaster as well as help pass the time while Tails was still out there trying to look for help. The best place he felt would be a good start to look at first was where the detective had struggled to say, underneath his desk.

As he walked the few steps to his destination, he noticed the bloodied Knife that he had abandoned earlier along with his gloves a few inches away from them. Seeing as this was now considered a crime scene, he picked up his gloves and put them on, being careful to not let the Newspaper Clipping fall out from one of them. With that done, he left the weapon where it was and continued the last couple of steps to the desk.

Once he was there, he finally noticed the condition that the area was in. The hard wood floor around the desk was bloodied along with parts of the desk itself. The contents on the desk were strewn all over the floor with the table lamp knocked onto its side. A chair was overturned and was relatively clean with the exception of a few flecks of blood here and there. Lying on the ground in front of the desk was the body of Ms. Kuro Rose, her eyes open and set in a way that showed the fire of fight burning brightly in them even after death. Her legs were pointing towards the right while her head was resting along the top of her left arm and looking towards where Silver was at. Both her hands were bloody most likely from trying to stop the flow of bleeding after being mortally wounded. The cobalt hedgehog immediately figured that it was the Knife he had picked up earlier that had done the job being that there was nothing else nearby that was sharp and had blood on it.

Deciding that he had spent enough time looking at the body, the attorney continued on with his regular train of thought. Not wanting to mar the scene before the proper authorities had a chance to examine it, he walked around the desk from the left where the path was relatively clean of any kind of debris save for some sheets of paper. The right side had books from the bookshelf nailed to the wall scattered around and an overturned table, a clear sign that there was some kind of struggle during the time of the crime.

It looks like they were having a real struggle here during the entire thing, he thought as he observed that the entire backside of the desk area seemed undisturbed. The file cabinets did not looked to have been touched at all, and the drawers were all closed tightly with the chair in its rightful spot in the nook underneath the desk. Looks like whoever was in here wasn't interested in what Silver might've had in here. Guess this means that this was simply just a man wanting to commit murder. But why target these two?

With these questions begging for answers continued their assault on his brain; he carefully made his way to the floor and began to check what was underneath Silver's desk. Besides the stuff from the surface of the desk that had fallen over during the scuffle, he noticed something bloody resting next to the leg of the chair. Curious, he carefully picked it up and immediately recognized what it was the moment he wrapped it around his fingers. It was his Attorney's Badge, but it was completely covered in blood that was partially dry from front and back as if someone tried to give it a new paint job.

How the hell did my badge get all this blood on it? he wondered with wide eyes as he examined the piece of metal that was most likely now a piece of evidence in this scene. Even the serial number on the back's been filled in with blood. I can't even read a thing on this now! Boy, am I going to have a hard time bleaching this sucker clean. But how in the world did it get managed to make its way here? There isn't any blood underneath this desk except from probably being kicked over here.

It was while he was in this position that he noticed something even more strange. From what he could interpret from the scene, he felt that it was safe to assume that Kuro was stabbed before the fist fight occurred because Silver was covered in some blood despite not having any kind of visible open wounds. It then made sense why his shoes were bloody being that they probably stepped in the puddle at some point, hence the bloody footsteps all along the wooden floor that he had failed to notice beforehand. However, his gaze just happened to rest upon the sole of Silver's Shoe, and he noticed a round blank spot underneath it where the blood for some reason never reached it.

Why is there blood all over the bottom of his shoe yet none on that small spot? Sonic inquired as he raised an eyebrow at this discovery. There must've been something on the floor that got stuck underneath there during his fight. I need to get a closer look at that if I'm going to try and figure out what he stepped on.

Just as he was about to move away from underneath to examine the detective's shoe, another thing caught his attention. Deciding to investigate further, he moved towards the left front end of the desk where something small was resting there. When he got his hand on it, he felt that it was smooth with jagged ends. Once he pulled it out from the darkness, he saw that it was a very small White Fragment of some sort.

And what is this? It feels like it broke off of something. It's all jagged and rough at the edges. The question now is what did it break off of? It's barely noticeable because it's so small, but I don't think it came from a piece of the table lamp or something like that. Just what the hell is this thing?

"What the hell is going on here?" a voice suddenly exclaimed in both shock and surprise from somewhere at the doorway. Completely taken off guard, Sonic immediately brought his head up and ended up smacking the back of it against the bottom of the desk. With a slight groan of pain, he rubbed the sore area before scooting back a bit and looking up to see who had so suddenly came onto the scene.

"What happened in here?" the person, who the cobalt hedgehog instantly recognized to be Espio from Silver's promotion party earlier, stated as his eyes gazed over the murder scene before him and took a step into the room. "Were you the one who did all this? I never knew that a defense attorney like you had the ability to stoop so low as to murder a police detective and a senatorial candidate."

"N-no, you got it all wrong!" the cobalt hedgehog stuttered with his hands in the air in a defensive gesture as he felt a chill take over his body. He automatically knew that he was in hot water now that he was caught loitering around here. "I didn't murder anybody here! I just came back here because I forgot something and saw these two already down. They were already like this when I got here. I had nothing to do with any of this!"

"Sorry it took so long Sonic!" Tails' voice was suddenly heard shouting from the hallway outside and was accompanied by the sound of running footsteps from both him and another person. Apparently, he finally managed to find somebody to help them. "Almost all the detectives were off, and I just ran into Knuckle when…!"

Just then, the sight of bright orange and white fur was seen flashing by behind the purple chameleon before he collided into the freelance detective's back and pushing him forward slightly. Thankfully, he was quick to recover and regained his balance before he fell onto the scene and messed it up.

"Wh-who is this?" the fox's frantic voice asked as he rubbed his nose a bit and looked up at who he ran into. It was clear that he was still in a panic since he did not recognize the person standing in front of him as the one from the promotion party earlier that night. "I didn't know you already got help Sonic."

"Espio!" the familiar sound of Knuckles' voice stated as he appeared through the doorway and was immediately assaulted with the scent of fresh blood that forced him to recoil a bit. "Good god, what in hell's name happened in here man? I was just about to come here when I ran into Tails frantically telling me to follow him. How did this office managed to smell like a butcher's butcher shack?"

"Ah, you're just in time here Knuckles," Espio responded calmly as he turned halfway around so he could look at the two newcomers while still keeping an eye on Sonic at the same time. "You came just in time in order to witness the arrest the person responsible for these two murders you see before you tonight."

"Wh-what are you talking about, you crazy horned chameleon?" Sonic exclaimed as he stood rooted to the spot, not wanting to make the situation any worse than it was right now. "I never murdered anybody here; and Silver is still very much alive here! You can check him out for yourself if you want to."

"I don't think it really matters much on the details on who is dead and who's not at this point," the chameleon responded calmly as he shook his head in a sense of disagreement combined with some other kind of unreadable emotion. "The only thing I know for sure here is that I caught this attorney loitering around in an office that just so happens to have two bodies in it. He acted as though nothing was wrong in here and was scavenging under the desk when I first came in here after smelling all this blood. As such, I'm making a citizen's arrest upon him based on the circumstances that I witnessed."

New Evidence:

Knife: A fruit knife that was found underneath the door of Silver's office. Dried blood is seen covering the entirety of the blade with flecks also on the wooden handle. Only Sonic's fingerprints are known to be on it at this point since he touched it earlier without gloved hands.

Silver's Shoe: A shoe that is covered in blood. Oddly enough, there is a small round spot underneath the sole that is unmarred by the crimson liquid. It is unclear on what caused this unnatural occurrence or why this is so.

White Fragment: A small white piece found underneath Silver's desk. It is smooth with rough and jagged edges, almost as if it were broken off of some kind of clay figure. It is unclear as to where it originally came from.

Updated Evidence:

Attorney's Badge: Sonic lost it during the promotion party earlier that evening. It was found under Silver's desk completely covered in blood on both the front and back despite there being no significant traces of blood around that area. It is believed to have been kicked under there during the scuffle after being bloodied.

Updated Profiles:

Sonic Hedgehog: A seventeen year old blue furred male hedgehog. He and Tails were the first to discover Kuro Rose and Silver in his office, one dead and the other unconscious. He's currently under suspicion for the murder of the running senator and the assault of the detective.

Miles Prower: Best known by his nickname Tails. He's a twelve-year-old orange furred fox with two tails. He and Sonic were the first to discover Kuro Rose and Silver in his office. He ran off to find help while the attorney stayed behind to see what he could do for the two victims.

Knuckles Echidna: He is an eighteen-year-old red furred echidna detective who works at the local precinct and is good friends with Sonic and Tails. He ran into the fox while on his way to visit Silver and followed him back to his office.

Silver Hedgehog: An eighteen year old senior detective who worked hard for his current position. He was found in his office severely beaten up with bruises all over him. It is currently unclear as to who it was that caused his extensive injuries.

Kuro Rose: A woman of Japanese decent who speaks very fluent English. She was a running candidate for her district's senatorial race and a former Special Forces member in the army. She was found stabbed to death in Silver's office. It is unclear as to who it was that murdered her.

Espio: He's a purple chameleon with a white horn on his forehead. He's skilled in Japanese ninja arts and has his own dojo for teaching others said techniques. He was the first to appear on the scene after Sonic and Tails discovered it. He is now using his powers as a freelance detective to accuse Sonic of murdering Kuro Rose and assaulting Silver.

Wow, that was a lot of updated stuff to put on here. And I hope you enjoyed this new twist I put in this chapter that was in stark contrast to the happy setting from the last chapter.

And now for the changes I made from my original thought to this chapter. I had originally thought of keeping Kuro Rose alive and have her be the attempted murderer of Silver while the blame was shifted onto Sonic. However, I found the entire process to be completely complicated and overall confusing to really put onto paper without confusing both me and you guys. So in the end, this is what happened, her dead and the detective severely beaten with nobody knowing who did the deed. And Sonic is still being accused for it.

There was also another change that I decided to make to this case, but that will be introduced in the next chapter. And until then everybody, I hope that you all enjoyed this new chapter and felt that it was worth the wait. Don't forget to leave a review before you move onto another story.

And just as a little note to those who read my other stories like my Jak and Daxter one and the new Yu Gi Oh one. I will also be working on those. They have not been abandoned, although it is hard to work on them because of school. Just wait patiently for them.

Until the next update everybody!