Sorry for the wait, but I was doing other projects. But here is another chapter. I will get it done ASAP.

PEACE

The next day, Sonic was at his garage, setting some equipment and music CDs, getting ready for schooling of hard knocks, (or should I say hard rock). He was reading "Music Band Creating for Numskulls" while waiting for his friends to arrive. Knuckles, Tails, Shadow, and Silver arrived at his appointment. "You're all late," Sonic said, not looking up from his book.

"What? But we arrived at precisely eight a.m. on the button just like you said!" Knuckles protested. He pointed to his watch. "The big hand is on the twelve!"

Sonic chuckled. "I know, I'm just messing with you! Take a chill pill!" He consoled. "Anyway, I'm glad you're all here. Now we can begin our training." He held the music guide book in his arms.

"What do we have to do?" Shadow asked.

"Well, first we have to make sure we have the right stuff," Sonic instructed, reading his guidebook. He looked around him. "It looks like we do. And make sure everyone's here." He counted himself and his boyfriends.

"We're all here, boss!" Tails said.

"Good," Sonic said. He turned the pages. "'Step One: Know the basics.'" He read. "Watch some of the latest music videos to get inspired and influenced by the atmosphere of musical poetry." He plopped a DVD into the TV.

The boys watched some music videos as observance. They picked some rhythms and slightly moved their bodies to the music. They learned that some rock bands use musical instruments, such as the guitar, others went with typical body performance. They began to look interested and saw why girls love these boy bands. They are determined to impress their girlfriends and become the best pop group of all, hopefully better than those Jay Blue Birds.

"Step two: Learn the dance moves and practice'." Sonic read from the numskull book.

They boys read and fueled their minds with knowledge of art and poetry of body movement. They trained over the dancing mats, learning the simple moves.

"One, two, three, four, left, two, three, four!" Sonic instructed as he and his friends moved their feet on the step squares.

The even practice on one of those music video game machines at the arcade. During that time, the boys were a little sloppy at first. Silver slipped off the dance platform while he was grooving with Tails at the arcade machines. "Whoa!" Silver exclaimed. He grabbed the fox's tails and brought him down with him.

Knuckles pulled a muscle while doing the Nike and plopped to the ground. "Ouch!" He whined.

"Wuss!" Shadow smirked in a criticizing way. "Let me show you how it's done!" With his superpowered skills, Shadow performed several b-boying techniques perfectly and did a double airchair freeze, the most difficult and dangerous move of all. But for the ultimate black hedgehog, it was no problem. He smirked.

"Nice!" Sonic was impressed.

"Show-off!" Knuckles growled, still laying on the ground with a sprained leg.

But now Shadow has difficulty getting himself loose of the armchair. "Urgh! Little help here!" He blurted out in pain. Sonic came to his aide and tried to get the frozen hedgehog undone while Knuckles, still immobilized, snickered and groaned in pain.

It was an even tougher start when the boys decided to try it out as group. Their performance together was out of tune and disorganized. They moved their limbs in wrong directions at wrong times. Silver forgot to crouch down with the rest of boys and when they did the leg sweep, they kicked him off his feet while he was still standing. He plopped to the ground and groaned in pain. Knuckles accidently kicked Shadow in the stomach and Tails mistakenly stepped on Sonic's foot. "Ouch!" Sonic shouted in pain.

"Sorry!" Tails apologized.

Later, the gang decided to take five and nurse their sprains. Sonic sat on the easy chair, with his feet in the ice container.

"Step three: Test your voice," He read from the numskull book.

The boys tried out their voices. They sang at the top of their lungs. It was completely off-key. It was so horrible that the glass windows of the garage broke! The neighbors went around, complaining about the noise. The boys covered their ears in pain.

"You call that singing?!" Sonic criticized. "It sounded like screeching cats!"

"You didn't exactly sound great either, blue boy!" Knuckles snapped. "You sounded as if a pencil sharpener ate a box of thumbtacks!"

"You all sounded like the chalkboard screeching torture!" Tails exclaimed.

"Dude, the chalkboard's getting tortured!" Silver said.

"The old man behind the oxygen mask can sing a better note than you, fools!" Shadow girded.

"Then we're going to have to discipline our voices," Sonic said.

The boys started at the bottom. They learned all the notes. "Do, Re, Me, Fa, So, La, Ti, Da!" The boys hit all the notes carefully.

Then they listened to some more pop music. First they were lip-syncing, then once they picked up the words, they started singing along. They especially practiced with karaoke machines, memorizing the lyrics, and picking up the tunes. Their voices got better.

"Step four: Choose your musical instrument, which is optional," Sonic read.

The friends selected their instruments. Sonic and Knuckles picked out electric guitars, Tails chose the electric piano, and Silver sat behind the drum set. Shadow approached the DJ turntable system. The boy band strung out the first note altogether. The massive volume blasted throughout the garage and disturbed the entire land. Birds evacuated from trees. It blew out the boys who stood there stunned. Shadow tried to mix the discs on the turntable but ended up broken them. The boys decided that musical instruments isn't just for them. In the end, they decided to go with regular body performance.

For weeks, the furry animal friends endlessly worked hard to become a next boy band. With them occupied, Amy, Blaze, Rouge, and Cream haven't seen Sonic or the guys for while and wondered where they are. Eggman was also wondering where his archenemies went.

The developing boy band kept on rehearsing and practicing every step until they got it right. They made sure that they didn't miss a beat. They got better than better. Their singing transformed from screechy tone into harmonious melody. Their performance had improved, their dance of poetry had turned into perfect sync. They are becoming professionals.

Once they are filled with knowledge of music, they moved on to the next lesson.

"Step Four: Appearance," Sonic said importantly.

They experimented on a lot of fashions, hairstyles, clothes, jewelry, shoes, and body art. The pants were a little too big for them and they could barely walk in those oversized sneakers. Knuckles' scalp burned while Sonic and Silver tried to give him Liberty Spikes. Tails drew a large Yin/Yang symbol on Shadow's back. And the boys got a little uncomfortable while trying on earrings, nose rings, and tongue studs.

Finally, the gang chosen the clothes they want to wear and suits them. Sonic chose a blue, white, and red varsity jacket over his grey shirt with a gold medallion. Knuckles picked out a denim sleeveless jacket vest with armlets and long feather clip-ons. Tails had on red and orange varsity jacket over his white jersey shirt while Shadow had on a dark brown leather jacket with a fluffy collar and a cross necklace. And Silver had on a blue windbreaker over a black shirt with a gold chain. Like most male anthropomorphic animals, they don't need to wear pants. They were looking good.

"Alright, guys, looking hot!" Sonic said, looking in the mirror.

The guys checked themselves out in pride. "Thanks! So do you!" Tails admired.

Knuckles chuckled as he looked at himself in the mirror. Silver pushed him as aside and proudly checked out his handsome face.

"Hmph!" Shadow smirked.

"Now then, all we need is a name for our group," Sonic said, closing the numbskull book. "It has to be a catchy one! Any suggestions? Anyone?"

The boys thought hard for a while and then came up with something. "I've got it!" Tails spoke up. "How about the Tornado Twisters?"

"What? No way!" The boys disagree.

"I think the Psychic Pals work great!" Silver said.

"No!" The boys shouted.

"That's kid stuff!" Tails said.

"The Master's Guardian," Knuckles suggested. "Anyone who don't like it can walk out!"

"I would with a crappy name like that," Shadow sneered. "The Ultimate Lifeforms, I think it sounds cooler."

The boys strongly disagree on that. "Dude, that's you!" Silver said.

"This is rock/pop band, not an organized angry mob," Tails said.

"Yeah," the boys agreed.

"I got it!" Sonic spoke up. "We'll call ourselves 'Sonic Team'!"

"What?!" The band could not believe this.

"Why your name, Sonic?" Tails demanded.

"Because this was my idea and I'm the leader of band," Sonic explained, smoothing blue quills.

"Ah, come on!" The group once again disagreed.

"How about Sonic Nothing?" Shadow retorted. "How's that?"

"Watch it!" Sonic barked.

Everyone started bickering until Sonic came to a halt. "Cool it, guys! This won't help!" He settled down. The gang looked up quietly.

"Alright, I've got a new name that we can all agree!" Sonic announced surely. "Super Hyper Dudes!"

"Super Hyper Dudes?" The boys repeated, puzzled.

"Yeah, Super Hyper Dudes," Sonic said. "You know, like Super Sonic, Hyper Knuckles, and Super Shadow. I think it's pretty cool. Of course if that's what you want, if not we can change it!"

The boys thought about it and smiled. "Actually, I like it!" Tails said.

"Me too!" Silver said.

"Not bad!" Knuckles agreed.

"Works for me!" Shadow added.

"Alright then, Super Hyper Dudes it is!" Sonic christened. "We shall perform tomorrow at the Talent Showoff Competition at Club Shake-It-Off."

"Think we're ready for this?" Tails asked, smoothing his orange fur.

"Well, we rehearsed for three weeks," Sonic answered, adjusting his jacket. "We have to be ready, otherwise we're sunk!"

"I hope Rouge will get a taste of us," Knuckles said, adjusting his feather in his dreadlocks.

"I hope Blaze will like us," Silver added. "Namely me."

"I don't really care if we succeed or fail, I just want to get this thing over with," Shadow said.

"We're in this together!" Sonic held out his hand. Knuckles, Tails, Silver, and Shadow placed their hands together in teamwork.

"TOGETHER!" They shouted at once.

"May our band win!" Sonic hoped.

"May our gal pals see us!" Tails added. The five friends vowed their partnership in future success and called it a night. They must get ready for the big night tomorrow.