Chapter 2: Welcome to Green Hill High

So now you know how Shadow wound up in the predicament he has now, become a guinea pig for this pompous idiot's experiments and in return he gets a place to stay. Mind you, nowhere in that deal did Robotinik say anything about food, clothing, or entertainment. Shadow had to do that part on his own. Robotinik's experiment's weren't like the one's at the lab, instead most of the time he was placed in a tube and given a Chaos Emerald to hold, with the emerald he was capable of expanding his chaos control abilities into new realms. Shadow didn't mind experimenting with the emeralds since it benefited him as well, but the thing about it though was what his energy was being used for. Shadow didn't like being used, he was the Ultimate Lifeform. Why should he be following orders? He should be the one barking orders, it doesn't help that he's following the orders of a low life human either. Turns out that said low life human has a new job assigned for him; collect the other 6 chaos emeralds. Sounds easy enough, but no it won't be since 5 of the 6 are in the possession of several students at the stupid high school the old idiot works at.

Shadow's P.O.V:

So now I'm forced to be one of the students at the high school and "befriend" all of the students in possession of a chaos emerald so I can take the emeralds and hand them over to Robotinik. You might be wondering, "Hey, why don't you just take them?" Well I would but that would cause a scene and these students are already aware of the abilities of the emeralds apparently so I can't just walk up and take them. Robotinik would do it himself but turns out they know he's a tyrannical scientist and from time to time they do battle with one another. So here I am off to Green Hill High to snag these Emeralds for the old man so he can do who knows what with them. But you see I have another idea, I haven't forgotten about Maria's promise all those years ago, I've been practicing with my one chaos emerald day in till day out. I've already mastered chaos spears, who knows what other techniques I can create with these emeralds. With their power I can erase all malevolence in this world, and recreate it with my own sense of justice. Even if injustice must be used to achieve said goal.

I break myself away from my train of thought and look up at the clock in the dining room area; it read 7: 42 AM which isn't good considering school starts at exactly 8: 00 AM. I'm fast and the school is only a 5 minute run away (for me at least) but I haven't even been assigned my classes yet plus I have to see Robotinik before heading into class anyways. I grab a makeshift back pack (which was originally just a wet umbrella bag), my cell phone that Robotinik got for me so he can annoy me when I'm away, and the house keys. I finish my meal that I just finished cooking and run out of the apartment on my way towards the school.

As I approached I saw some of the students outside of the school's halls. There was a toucan who was doing something weird probably a dance since I heard that's what teenagers like to do, three badgers and a chipmunk were talking, a ferret and a bull frog looked like they were in a heated argument, and lastly a spider girl who looked like she had a bad attitude. Each one had a stupid looking face and I couldn't wait to find the kids with the chaos emeralds so I wouldn't have to see anymore of these pathetic students. My cell phone began to ring with that stupid ring tone that Robotinik put on it so he'd immediately know who was calling (what did he think someone else would call me?). I picked up the phone and replied with a stern "What!"

"Shadow, why are you being so harsh? You act like I'm a bill collector. Have you gotten your classes yet?" replied the doctor in his annoying little voice.

"No, I just arrived on campus. What do the kids with the emeralds look like so I can hurry this up?" I replied in a monotone voice.

"My my, somebody is definitely an eager worker, I would give you a raise if I gave you any pay." said Robotinik with a chuckle at the end.

"Look I don't have time for these jokes doctor, I just want to get out of hear there is nothing this school can teach me anyways."

"Oh calm down, it's the first day on the job enjoy it because I won't perform any chaos control experiments on you while your attending the school, I can't be seen interacting with you while your on the mission since it would ruin everything. But to answer your question, the holders of the chaos emeralds are a blue hedgehog and his annoying little pals!"

"A blue hedgehog shouldn't be hard to find I'll call you when I've gotten more information." I said as he hung up the phone.

I found the cafeteria where he was supposed to pick up his schedule. Luckily the line wasn't very long but sadly the woman checking through the class lists was an elderly sloth who was living up to her species expectations. In front of me were only three kids, a small bee child who looked like he should be in 2nd grade, a boar kid who stood about 4 inches taller than shadow, and a red echidna whose arms were crossed. The emerald in my pocket began shining and as I pulled it out the Echidna turned around to face me with a stupid look on his face.

"Wait a minute, Sonic when'd you dye your quills and why'd you bring your chaos emerald?" said the echidna.

Will you look at that I haven't even been here 10 minutes and I've already found someone who at least knows something about these emeralds. I looked him in the face and told him blankly that I'm not Sonic.

"I swear Sonic, if this is one of your stupid back to school pranks your not gonna live to do another! Got that!" said the echidna with anger in his voice.

Anger must be contagious because this guy really got me pissed.

"Look you ant eating freak my names not Sonic its Shadow. I know both start with an S but surely on your way into high school you figured out a way differentiate words that start with the same letter."

"Boys boys, please settle down we just started a new year we don't need a repeat of last year." said a female cockatoo dressed in formal attire.

She must be a teacher, whatever I won't let this freak yell at me and get away with it. I'll just beat the information out of him; Robotinik didn't say anything about physically harming them.

As the teacher walked back to her table the red echidna just stood there with a stupid smirk on his face.

"What are you snickering about?" I said with a smirk of my own on my face.

"Ant eating freak, eh? That's a good one, I'll have to remember that one. I'm Knuckles." He said while holding out his hand for me to shake.

He was wearing some odd glove which looked like a cross between a boxing glove and a brass knuckle. I shook it regardless of the odd sense of fashion.

"I heard you mention something about a chaos emerald, do you have one too?"

"He he, no but I have something better. Ever heard of the Master Emerald? You're looking at it's guardian right here in the flesh."

A master emerald? How many different chaos emeralds are there? Am I even after the right ones? I have to run this by Robotinik when I have the chance.

"No never heard of it must be something of value for you to be guarding it."

"Ya, definitely the chaos emeralds are it's servers and… well so I don't bore you with the details it's basically their Daddy."

Hmmm, I see so this Master Emerald is like the king and the chaos emeralds are just mere pawns. I'll have to remember that, this Master Emerald might have some potential for me.

"I get it, thanks for the info you're not half bad Knuckles, by the way it's your turn in line."

With that the Knuckles turned back around and started to speak with the elderly sloth woman.

"Attention students, class will begin in 5 minutes. You've had a whole 3 months to slack off so now it's back to the drawing board let's not have a repeat of last year." said an alarm system.

Apparently some stuff must have gone down last year especially if these teachers keep reminding the students. I'll have to ask someone about that exactly.

"Excuse me young man but it's your turn. What's your name" said the elderly sloth woman.

"Shadow" I said bluntly.

A green piece of paper with 7 periods and a locker number on it was given to me. I looked it over once and it read:

Locker no. 134 Combination: 12 9 30

1st Period: Health and Body, Room 42

2nd Period: Language Arts, Room 7

3rd Period: Computers and Technology, Room 53

4th Period: Lunch

5th Period: Construction and Building, Room 67

6th Period: History, Room 12

7th Period: P.E. GYM A

Looking at the schedule I could tell Robotinik had to have had something to do with it, why on earth would I have construction and building as a class. What good would that do for me, the Ultimate Lifeform? No matter I'll just head to the 1st period class and hurry along with this day.

Narrator's P.O.V:

Rouge was already late for school but she didn't care, she wasn't here to learn anything since she already graduated from their last year. She was here solely for business purposes. You see, Rouge the Bat was a top class government spy who doubles as a treasure hunter. She spent most of her teenaged life working for G.U.N gathering information for them. In return they gave her a place to stay, food to eat, clothing to wear, and government immunity (so if let's say a pair of rare alexandrite earrings went missing from a mall jewelry store, if she was a suspect she would automatically be classified as not guilty. Pretty snazzy huh?) However this comes with a cost.

Rouge must do any and all orders that G.U.N asks of her without any form of argument, if she does not comply she could face dire consequences. Which leads her to this high school, she was ordered by G.U.N to not only spy on Dr. Robotinik the school's janitor who doubles as a national terrorist but also to find out more about Shadow, a student who is suspected of being an experiment designed many years ago to be the Ultimate Lifeform. Because of this G.U.N has assigned Rouge with all of his classes.

"Let's see here, if G.U.N copied this correctly my first class should be in Room 42."

Walking down the halls Rouge felt like she was being watched so she spun on her heel to see two boys looking at her with stupid grins on their faces.

"Don't you know it's rude to stare?" Rouge said with annoyance clearly in her voice.

"Oh, calm down doll if anything you should feel flattered." said a bear student.

"Yeah, keep your panties on… for now." said a short snickering mouse boy.

That's all it took for Rouge to snap, with a quick leap she flew over to the two boys and slapped the bear in the face. She decided to give the mouse something special since he actually conceived the idea that he actually had a chance with her. A quick knee in the groin and upper cut to the face was all it took to leave the little boy in tears. Rouge didn't feel bad she actually kind of enjoyed that but she wasn't going to stick around, she was already late for class and didn't want to get into anymore trouble. So she flew to the door of room 42 and walked in.

Rouge's P.O.V:

"Hello there, it might be your last year of school but that doesn't mean you should be the last one in class. What is your name?" A ram said with a smug smile on his face.

He must be the teacher, great now I have to deal with a little jokester for the rest of the year.

"My name is Rouge, I'm not always late I just had a little trouble on my way is all."

"It's quiet alright miss, let's just hope trouble stays out of your way for the rest of the year. Sadly tardiness seems to be a contagious bug that all students are vulnerable to." He said while looking at the class.

I took a quick look around the class to see if I could find Shadow. All I had was an old black and white picture of him from out of an old G.U.N government report, but it didn't do his figure justice since it was basically a blur. She could make out quills that curved upwards and what could pass as highlights so that's something to work off of. My commander said he was a red and black hedgehog and had chaos control abilities so he shouldn't be hard to miss. There weren't any hedgehogs in the class however so that leads to two possibilities. He could have ditched class or they messed up my schedule. Either way I sat down in a desk two seats from the back of the class and put my purse down. Just at that moment a black and red hedgehog walked through the door like he owned the place.

"Looks like the tardy bug has already spread through the air. I'll get the disinfectant." the ram said as he sprayed Lysol through the air in a joking manner.

The hedgehog just stood there not amused. I can't say I blame him though, that was very corny and apparently everyone else agrees since no one laughed, chuckled, or giggled.

"Ok young man I don't suppose you have a note for me?"

"No, I had to speak with somebody before I came here. Unless you happen to allow phone calls during class I don't have an excuse." the hedgehog responded nonchalantly.

With that the class started to chuckle a bit. Even I had to grin a little at that, it was some what humorous.

"Hardy har har, ok class now that everyone's arrived I may introduce myself, you may take a seat next to Rouge, you shouldn't have to worry about your tardiness spreading to her since she already came in late today."

I simply rolled my eyes at the teacher's response. As the black and red hedgehog casually walked by and placed his bag down by the chair next to me I began to wonder if this was indeed Shadow. He fit the description but for a being who is apparently suppose to be the Ultimate Lifeform you'd think he'd be taller.

"Now class, my name is Riley the Ram, we won't go with that Mr. stuff in my class since you all are seniors now so I might as well treat you like them.-

I stopped listening to the teacher's speech after that, instead I directed my attention to the boy sitting in the seat next to me.

"Should I be taking notes or what? Is this really the ultimate lifeform? Should I ask him his name-

"Those gloves look nice." said the black and red hedgehog in a monotone voice.

Narrator's P.O.V:

She simply looked at him for a brief moment and then she realized that he asked her a question.

"Oh, thanks your shoes look expensive"

A bit of blush crept onto her face, she was used to men giving her compliments but that was simply out of the blue. He didn't even say his name he just bluntly told her that she had nice gloves.

Shadow's P.O.V:

"Hey, would you mind telling me your name? You look familiar." said the white bat sitting next to me.

She probably thinks I'm that Sonic character that Knuckles got me confused with. Might as well nip that in the bud while I can.

"My name is Shadow, you're probably confusing me with Sonic right?"

"No, but that's funny I bet people confuse you with that national hero a lot though. You're probably going to have to wear a name tag if they do since I've been told he goes to school here." She replied with a small smile on her face.

So he's a national hero then, and from what the echidna told me he's also a prankster. So far who ever this "Sonic" guy is he sounds like a real tool. Which sadly means I look like a tool.

"Sonic is the one who will wear a name tag, I won't put that crap on. People shouldn't confuse me with anyone." Shadow said though mainly to himself.

With that I crossed my arms onto my chest and leaned back against my chair. That bud was nipped. However as soon as I did that a student placed three pieces of paper on my desk so I put myself in an upright position and looked down at them. The first one had a wall of text on it but the bottom read, Parent's signature: followed by a long thin line.

Narrator's P.O.V:

Shadow was thrown aback by that, what was he supposed to do? Get Robotinik to sign it? Like his teacher was going to allow the Janitor's signature or even accept him as his parent, which Shadow couldn't blame him for that one since no way was he related to that imbecile. Shadow turned to the next sheet of paper, this one had Anatomy Worksheet printed across the front of it as well as a place to put his name. Shadow signed his name there and put the paper in his makeshift backpack. The next paper was a list of class room rules which Shadow ripped up and tossed onto the already dirty floor. Shadow did not follow orders.

"I know you're a hedgehog but are you part litter bug too?" said Rouge with sarcasm evident in her voice.

"No, I was just offended by that that's all." Replied Shadow with a serious tone.

"What did it say? No scowls after 9: 00." Rouge said while chuckling to herself.

Shadow was about to make a comeback but he was interrupted by the sound of a bell. He assumed it was the bell to leave class so he got up out of his seat and preceded out side the door.