Chapter 4

"Miles? Where are you?" asked Amy. Before she left the Prower's the night before Miles said he wanted to show her something. She'd agreed to come by before she went to school and she'd done just that, but now she couldn't find him.

"I'm down here!" he said from the basement.

She walked down to the basement and stopped and stared in disbelief when she saw an airplane. "Wow…."

"You like it?" he asked with a huge smile.

"How did you get an airplane?"

"I built it, it doesn't work yet but it's going to!"

Amy was amazed. "That was an understatement when you said you were kinda smart."

"Yeah, well, like you said I can't brag too much."

She looked from the plane to him. "Wow, you mean you actually listened to all that?"

Miles laughed.


"Want to have lunch outside?" Amy asked Tikal.

"OK, but why are we leaving our usual table?"

"Cause the further we can get from Rouge the better."

Tikal nodded. "Good point, outside it is."

"You've been quiet," Espio said to Sonic over at the jock's table.

"Hmm? Oh I'm just thinking. There are a lot of things that don't make sense lately."

"I'll say," Knuckles butted in to the conversation. "Like whoever decided that this qualifies as mashed potatoes."

Sonic rolled his eyes. "Don't be such a baby!"

"Baby? You try eating this garbage," he waved his fork with the mashed potatoes on it in the air.

Sonic started laughing. "OK, just don't blame me if we lose a game because you're so scrawny from not eating your vegetables."

He glared. "I aught'a throw it at you."

"I'd like to see you try!"

Knuckles pitched the potatoes at Sonic who quickly ducked making the potatoes fly into the back of Shadows quills.

"Nice knowing you knucklehead," Sonic said, laughing.

"But I was trying to hit you!"

Someone grabbed Sonic's arm and jerked him out of the chair. "Hey! What's going on?"

"Funny, I could ask you the same question," said Shadow.

"But I didn't do anything!"

"Oh, so you think you can throw whatever you want at me and get away with it?"

"Not so funny now is it Sonic?" asked Knuckles.

"You find humor in throwing food at me?"

"I'm not the one who-"

"Shut up! You should know better than to pick a fight with me," he said balling his hand into a fist.

"You know what you need?" asked Sonic.

Shadow just looked at him.

"You need…TO LEARN TO DODGE! He picked up a chicken leg and threw it at Shadow's head.

Shadow let go of Sonic's arm and stepped back. "OK, that's it," he flung the mashed potatoes that were still stuck in his quills at Sonic then punched him in the face.

The potatoes hit Knuckles in the face. "Hey!"

"Serves you right," said Sonic.

Silver threw his green beans at Shadow but missed and hit Sonic. "Heh heh, sorry."

"I'm staying out of this," Espio said while seemingly turning invisible.

Shadow threw the chicken leg back at Sonic.

Sonic dodged and it flew past the jock's table and hit Rouge in the arm.

"GET THEM!" Rouge yelled.

The cheerleaders jumped up and started throwing things at the jocks. Then the whole lunchroom went crazy, food was flying everywhere.

Sonic was trying to dodge all the flying food but got hit with a cupcake. "Hey!"

"Oh I'm going to do a lot worse to you than that," said Shadow.

Sonic tried to run away but slipped in some mashed potatoes someone threw in the floor.

"What do we do?" asked Silver while ducking a flying spoon.

"Take this!" Knuckles said as he threw a chicken leg at someone, he was completely ignoring Silver.

Silver sighed and looked at Espio who was no longer invisible thanks to the food all over him.

"What?" asked Espio.

The lunch lady ran off to get help but no one seemed to notice.

Sonic got out of the floor and there was Rouge standing in front of him.

"I can't believe you threw something at me!"

"Why do I get blamed for everything?"

"EVERYBODY STOP!" shouted a teacher who had learned of the incident from the lunch lady.

Everyone did as they were told.

"I want to know who stared this!"

Everyone immediately pointed to Sonic and Shadow.

"I'm gonna' kill that knucklehead," Sonic grumbled to himself.

Minutes later Sonic and Shadow were sitting in detention.

"So maybe we got off on the wrong foot," said Sonic.

"Shut up!"