Cop and the Thief

Chapter 02

Nebula made it to the abandoned apartment with the stuff she stole.

Silver saw her and smiled.

"How is it going Nebula?" Silver asked her.

"Just fine, Silver. I managed to escape from Shadow. He didn't see me" Nebula said.

"Good, but hey. Where's your hair clip?" Silver noticed her missing hair clip. Nebula touches her quills and it was not there.

She gasped, "Oh no. That means that Shadow will find me somehow!" she said, "Oh what am I gonna do?"

"Sis, calm down! We'll figure this out. Just relax and breathe deep" Silver said, holding her shoulders down.

Nebula inhales deeply and calms down, yet still scared.

"He does not know where we live yet" Silver said to her reassuring.

"You're right. If he finds me, I better hope I don't get abused in jail" Nebula said.

She gives him the box of toothpaste, "I found some toothpaste for me and you. We better brush our teeth now before we end up getting cavities in our teeth this late at night" Nebula said.

"Oh, good" Silver sighs in relief and grabs the toothpaste.

Nebula takes hers too and they go to brush their teeth.

At the police station

Shadow packed his stuff to head back home to his house. He even had Nebula's hair clip with him.

"Did you find her, Mr. Badass Cop?" Sonic asked.

"No, but I believe this hair clip is from her. I don't know but it could come from someone else" Shadow said, looking at it.

"Okay, if you find her don't treat her like an object, treat her like a person" Sonic said.

"Shut up. When I find her I'll be asking questions before I throw her in jail" Shadow said, crossing his arms.

"Okay okay. Sheesh" Sonic said and goes back to his desk.

Shadow sighs before going back to his apartment. The street he was walking on was nearly empty with a few stores open. He then takes out the wanted flyer and looked at it again.

"Well what do you know? She looks too cute to be a thief....Wait, what am I saying!?" Shadow said, realizing what he thought.

"Grrr....women are always seductive sometimes. Hmph! This time I won't fall for that charm" Shadow growled under his breath.

He then arrives at his apartment and gets in to rest after a long day of chasing criminals. He lies down on the couch and turned the TV on to see the news.

"Good evening everyone. Today Shadow the Hedgehog has done once again an epic struggle in the bank truck lead by Jet the Hawk, one of our city's most wanted criminals" the news anchor said.

"Yup. That hawk always fails. But I need to focus on getting this thief arrested, unless she tells me a reason why she steals stuff" Shadow talked to himself.

He goes up to a window and looked over the city, "Wherever she is, I will find her" Shadow said.

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The next morning was a gorgeous day in Station Square. Shadow was on his way to the police station to have a word with Sonic's best friend Tails in the lab room. He goes to the lab to see him fixing a device.

"Hi Tails, I need your help" Shadow said to him.

Tails turned to see him, "Hi Shads, I'm working on a new tracking device that can find scents in a few seconds" Tails said.

"A what?"

"A tracking device that can find scents. Its like scanning any object covered in DNA of a person and it will track their scent miles away" Tails explained.

"That might be something for me" Shadow said while looking at it.

"Why?" Tails asked curiously.

"Because I need it to find this girl" Shadow said. He showed him the flyer of Nebula to Tails.

"Oh, she looks cute" Tails smiled.

"Yup. But that won't stop me" Shadow said.

Tails handed him over the tracking device and Shadow walks to the prison cafeteria to interrogate the criminal he mostly knows, Jet. He saw him sitting on a bench with a grey albatross and a purple swallow.

"Jet, we need to talk" Shadow said to him.

"What do you want from me Shadow?" Jet asked him, "I'm busy having breakfast. So go do your job and kiss my fat ass" he snarled.

"I need to ask you something. Have you seen this thief before?" Shadow held out the flyer of Nebula.

Jet takes a closer look, "Hmmmm, I believe I saw her taking some oranges from a store while driving my car. She doesn't look so scary" Jet said.

"Mmhmm? Anyone else seen her?" Shadow asked the fellow prisoners. They shook their heads.

"Do you know where she lives in this city?" Shadow asked Jet again.

"No I don't. But I do know she has a grey hedgehog living with her but I don't know where exactly. She's very hard to find and she's very acrobatic. Good luck finding her because she's taken down cops before" Jet chuckled.

"Oh really? She won't take me down" Shadow said as he left. He activates the device and scans Nebula's hair clip.

"I will find you" he said and grins.

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Silver was the first to wake up and he saw his adoptive sister sleeping peacefully in her bed.

He smiles and walks up to her and placed a hand behind her ear, "Nebula, wakey wakey eggs and bakey"

Nebula wakes with a cute yawn and rubs her eyes.

"Slept well sis?" Silver asked.

"Yup. Now let's go find some food" Nebula said.

"Yup" Silver nods as he and Nebula gets out from the abandoned apartment to get some food from a food store.

They got into the store and makes sure the security camera doesn't see them.

Nebula goes to the meat shelf to take a white meat chicken for dinner. Silver was taking bread and fruits without being noticed.

"Hmm.... What else would be great? How about chilidogs, nope, cupcakes, yes" Silver picks up a box of cupcakes.

"May I help you young man?" a familiar voice came behind Silver. It was Shadow in a disguise.

"Uh, no thanks" Silver said and pretends to go to the cash register.

"Hmm...." Shadow in disguise knows that grey hedgehog but where is the wanted thief. All of a sudden, the device starts to bleep that it's picking up a scent from Nebula.

"Gotcha!" Shadow smirks and sees Nebula wearing a hoodie to hide her face, sneaking into the back side where the door says 'employees only' with Silver.

"You won't get away this time, thief" Shadow chuckled and follows them.

Silver and Nebula walks inside to the back to get out. There were no employees in there and they make their way to the exit.

"Oh, shit. My ears are twitching. We're being followed" Nebula said, her ears twitching.

"Let's get out of here!" Silver said as he and Nebula ran out from the store. But then Shadow ran out from the store and chased after them.

"Oh, shit! He's fast!" Silver gasped.