Me: Here it is! The next chapter!

Sonic: Finally! Took you long enough!

Shadow: Yeah, I thought you gave up!

Me: Sorry, I got writer's block.

Shadow: Well, you could always just write a lemon between Sonic and I.

Me: I could, but no. You guys practically hate each other at this point. This is supposed to be logical, not 'ooh, let's make them have sex just because I can!'

Sonic: You could anyways…

Me: Not the point. Let me write.

Sonic glanced at the clock. Three more minutes until the end of the day. It had been a breeze. History had been a joke. It was just a movie about the Holocaust. Gym was a bit depressing, he couldn't see his boyfriend. Woods was just like engineering, except that he wasn't building a machine to do something. And cooking was a breeze.

Sonic glanced over at his cooking partner, Scourge. He did absolutely nothing all period. It pissed him off. Scourge was probably only there for the easy 'A.' Sonic shook his head. He looked again, only two more minutes left. He cursed time for passing so slowly. He stared at the clock. One more minute. The bell suddenly rung and Sonic bolted out.

Shadow had a miserable day. AP History put him to sleep. The teacher just droned on, and on, and on, and on. Statistics made absolutely no sense. He had no idea what sigma meant, what a standard deviation was, or even what a permutation was. AP Biology was torture. He couldn't figure out what the difference was between ADP and ATP, what made up phospholipids, or what the endoplasmic reticulum did. Spanish IV was terrible too. The teacher only talked in Spanish, and Shadow couldn't figure out what she was saying. He just gave up in every class and doodled in one of Sonic's notebooks.

The bell finally rang at the end of the day. He dashed out of the class room and ran towards the cooking room. Sonic was waiting outside.

"Did you enjoy your classes?" Sonic asked.

"Yeah. I loved learning about crap that I don't need to know," Shadow sneered. Sonic shrugged. "Why did you have to take such hard classes?"

"Because I actually want to succeed after high school is over. What will you do? I doubt you'll be able to get anywhere afterwards," Sonic countered.

"I actually want to go into culinary arts," Shadow admitted. Sonic's eyes widened. "Once this year got started, I fell in love with cooking. That idiot Scourge lets me do all the work and takes the easy 'A.' It pisses me off."

"I thought the same thing…" Sonic trailed off. There was something about this black hedgehog. Sonic shook his head to clear it. He noticed the halls were empty. The buses had already left. "Crap. We missed the bus." He turned to Shadow and in his best Arnold Schwarzenegger impression said "Come with me if you want to go home." Shadow stopped and started to laugh. It started out slow, but within a few seconds, he was on the ground laughing. Sonic noticed how cute Shadow looked when he laughed. He shook his head again. He was in a relationship with Knuckles! He wouldn't cheat on him.

Shadow finally stopped laughing. He wiped the tears from his eyes. Wow. Sonic is actually funny. He looked up. Sonic had reached out a hand to help pull him up. Suddenly, some strange feeling overcame Shadow. He felt warm and happy looking at Sonic. What was that? Shadow just smiled and took the hand.

He stood up. "How do we get to your house from here?" Shadow inquired.

"It's easy," Sonic assured him. "Just try to keep up!" Sonic dashed away. A huge grin spread over Shadow's face as he raced to catch up. Sonic had slowed down a bit to watch for Shadow. A blue blur whizzed past and stopped at the front doors of the school.

"Well? I can't lead," Shadow said. Sonic grinned and walked to the front doors.

"Just follow me." Sonic opened the doors and raced out with Shadow hot on his heels. Within five minutes, they arrived at Sonic's house. Sonic sat down on the front steps. "Okay, when we get inside, you have to say this: 'Hey, mom. I brought over a friend. We'll be doing homework together in my room. Silver will be by in a few to help us out with a project too.' Got all that?" Shadow stared for a little.

"I could have made something up…" Shadow grumbled.

"Yeah, but you don't know my mom. Unless it's schoolwork, no one gets into the house." Shadow nodded.

"But what about Tails? Did he find anything?" Shadow asked.

"I'm not sure. Maybe I could get him over too," Sonic said. "Well, let's see what she says." The pair got up and went inside. Sonic's mom was sitting on the couch, reading a book. She glanced up.

"Hey Sonic! How was school?" She inquired.

"It was fine," Shadow and Sonic said at the same time. Sonic silently cursed himself for talking. He forgot he was in Shadow's body.

"Who's your friend?" she asked.

"Oh, this is Shadow. We're working on homework together up in my room. Oh, and Tails and Silver might be over later too to help with a project," Shadow said.

"Sounds fine. But you really should have people over just because. Get out a little bit more. Get a girlfriend." Sonic reddened a bit.

"Okay, mom," Shadow said. He broke away and headed upstairs. He remembered where the room was and went inside with Sonic trailing. After the pair got inside, Shadow closed the door and turned to Sonic with an evil grin on his face.

"So she doesn't know?" Shadow inquired. Sonic reddened more. He looked down.

"No, no one in my family knows," Sonic admitted. He glared a Shadow. "You better not tell anyone."

"Me? Never." Shadow said sarcastically.

"I mean it!" Sonic growled.

He looks so cute when he's mad, Shadow thought. "Okay. Fine. I promise not to tell anyone. Happy?" Sonic grinned.

"Yep." There was a soft knock on the door. Sonic walked over and opened it. Silver was waiting.

"Hey guys," Silver said.

"Silver! Come on in," Sonic said happily. Silver noticed a soft smile on Shadow's lips.

"Did I interrupt something?" Silver asked. Sonic's and Shadow's faces flushed.

"Nonono," they both said quickly.

"There's nothing going on here," Shadow said. Sonic quickly nodded his head in agreement.

"If you say so," Silver said skeptically.

"Did you find anything out about the presentation?" Sonic asked. Silver shook his head.

"No," he said, looking glum. "What about Tails? Did he find anything?"

"Oh crap! I forgot to ask him over!" Sonic turned to Shadow. "Give me my phone," Sonic commanded. Shadow folded his arms, glaring. Sonic sighed. "Please?" Shadow's face softened and he fished into his pocket for the phone. He pulled it out and gently handed it over.

Their hands brushed and Shadow's breath quickened. His pulse started to pound. The same thing happened to Sonic. They kept their reactions well hidden. "Was that so hard?" Shadow asked. Sonic mumbled, unable to speak properly, and sent a quick text to Tails inviting him over.

"Are you sure there's nothing going on?" Silver asked.

"Silver, I'm straight. I'm 17 and I'm sure everyone knows if they're gay or not at this point," Shadow said.

"Hey, I didn't know until Knuckles kissed me last year!" Sonic said. Silver and Shadow both turned to him.

"Really? Tell me the story." Shadow said. He sat down on the bed, waiting. Sonic hesitated a moment.

"Fine," Sonic sighed. "Last year, Knuckles and I started to get really close. We did everything together. He invited me camping with him. We decided to share the tent together. After his parents went to their tent, it was just us. I started to feel sleepy and used Knuckles as a pillow. I woke up later in the tent. Knuckles was kissing me. It felt absolutely incredible. Things went from there, and we've been dating ever since." Sonic looked down at the floor, slightly embarrassed.

Shadow and Silver were silent. They were both lost in thought. Sonic broke the awkward silence. "Anyways, let's get back to the problem at hand. How did we switch bodies?"

"Well, we figured out it had to do with the presentation a while back. I still can't remember who it was about," Silver said.

"We have to wait for Tails…" Shadow started to say when the door burst open. An orange and cream fox barreled into the room. He flew into Shadow and gripped him in a bear hug.

"HeySonic!Imissedyou!Howwasschool?Didanyonefightyou?Didyoudowellinclass?Whathappenedduringlunch?Whodidyoufight?" Tails said rapidly. Shadow pried the boy's arms off.

"I'm fine, Tails," Shadow said. "Now slow down a bit." Tails took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. "That's better," Shadow said. "Did you find out about the presentation?"

"Actually yes," Tails said. He took off the bag he had on his shoulder and opened up his laptop. He typed a few things in and came up with a website. "It was the Grand Gem Corporation." The boys huddled around the computer screen.

"Apparently, they've been around a long time and they've been mining some precious stones in the area. Besides that, they do chemical production, robot production, they make weapons for the military, they provide a lot of the electricity to the area, and do biological research," Tails listed. "Whoever owns it must be a billionaire."

"Wow. We don't have a chance," Shadow breathed. Tails turned to look at Shadow.

"What do you mean?" he asked. Sonic and Shadow glanced at each other and nodded in unison.

"Tails, we switched bodies," Sonic said. Tails' eyes went wide.

"Really?" he gasped.

"Yes, really," Silver said. "I checked them psychically. They really switched bodies." A sheepish look came across Tails' face.

"I am so sorry, Shadow. I thought you were Sonic." Tails stared at the ground. Shadow leaned over and ruffled Tails' head.

"Don't worry about it. You didn't know," Shadow said soothingly. Tails smiled.

"What happened?" Tails asked.

"We don't know," Sonic said. "We both can't remember anything after three weeks ago. But we think it had to do with that presentation."

"Actually, I remember you two were called to the side," Tails said.

"Do you remember why?" Sonic asked. Something in Shadow snapped. He lunged for Tails, and pinned him to the wall.

"You better remember you little shit!" Shadow growled fiercely. "If I'm stuck in this body…" Sonic put a hand on Shadow's shoulder.

"Shadow," Sonic said softly. Shadow dropped Tails to the ground. Tails struggled to catch his breath. Shadow whirled around, anger in his eyes.

"What?" he exploded. Sonic didn't flinch.

"Tails is doing his best. Intimidation doesn't work well. Try to keep calm," Sonic said soothingly. Shadow took a deep breath and closed his eyes. He slowly exhaled. When he opened his eyes again, the anger had disappeared. Shadow slowly turned back to Tails. He offered his hand to help him back up.

"I'm sorry," Shadow said. "There's no excuse for what I just did." Tails took the hand and stood back up.

"It's okay. I forgive you," Tails said. He hugged Shadow. Shadow stiffened for a second, then relaxed a bit. He gave Tails a tentative pat on the back. Tails held on.

"Uh… Tails?" Shadow said. "You can let go now."

"Oh! I'm sorry," Tails said. Sonic snickered. "What?" Tails questioned.

"Oh, nothing, nothing," Sonic said smiling.

"Whatever," Shadow said. "Anyways, about this Corporation. Where is it located?"

"Uhh…" Tails went back to his overturned laptop. He went back to the website. "It's actually only ten miles from here. It's in the middle of the forest. Probably for extra security."

"What was the name again?" Sonic asked.

"Grand Gem Corporation," Tails said.

"Something seems fishy about that name," Silver said.

"That's going to bother me," Shadow said. Sonic scratched his head. Everyone was deep in thought for a moment. Suddenly, Silver broke the silence.

"Does anyone know how to do anagrams, or at least what one is?" he asked. Everyone else shook their heads. "It's when you mix up letters to make a new word. For instance, 'stone age' can become 'stage one.'" They laughed a little at that. Silver turned to Sonic. "Do you have Scrabble?" Sonic pointed. Silver opened the box and pulled out the tiles.

He spelled out Grand Gems on the ground. "Anyone got any ideas?" Silver asked. He mixed up the tiles. "Let's see…" Sonic knelt down. He spelt out 'German.'

"No, that's not it," Silver said. "That only leaves the 'g' and 'd.'" Sonic mixed the letters again. Shadow bent over and spelled 'Manger.' He shook his head and mixed them up again. He started to just push them around. Suddenly, he stopped.

"Guys," he said softly. They all crowded around and looked down.' "No. It's not possible," Sonic breathed.

Me: End of the chapter!

Sonic: What! Really? What's with the anagram crap?

Shadow: Come on! You could at least tell us what that was about!

Me: Nope. The cliffhanger ending was too perfect.

Sonic: Come on! Tell us.

Me: It's not that difficult to figure out.

Shadow: Maybe to geniuses…

Me: Well, tough. Wait until the next chapter.

Sonic: Write it. Now.

Me: We'll see.

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