Sonic ran into KHS in fear of his talking dog. 'What is going on? One moment, Chip is barking like he normally does and now he is talking like me. HOW?!' Sonic thought to himself. "Sonic, wait up!" Chip shouted as he was chasing Sonic. Sonic kept running till he hit a dead end in the hallway. Sonic backed up to the wall and looked at Chip nervously. "Sonic, what happened? What did you run away like that?" Chip asked. "Um, oh, I don't know. Maybe it has something to do with the glowing boy in the front of the school, or the hole in space. Or my talking dog!" Sonic shouted. Chip scratched his ear and said, "Yeah. Weird, right?" Sonic walked closer to his dog and went to his knees to be closer to him. "Are you okay? How did you feel? What happened? Where did you go?" Sonic asked Chip. Chip licked Sonic to make him stop talking and asking questions. "Hey, one question at a time! This is pretty new to me, too." Chip explained. Sonic blushed. "Sorry."
"All I know is I chased that pointy rabbit through the glowy thing and then I was somewhere else. Next thing I knew, I was back in that nice boy's arms and I could talk! I don't really understand why I couldn't before. I mean, it's so easy like running after squirrels." Chip told his owner. Sonic smiled. 'Chip is okay but it's so weird. How can Chip talk now when he couldn't before?' Sonic thought to himself then a voice took him out of his thoughts. "Sonic." Sonic stood up and saw Dr. Robotnik coming from around the corner. Sonic opened a locker nearby and pointed inside. "Chip, quick! Hide in here!" Sonic told him then Chip jumped inside and Sonic closed the locker just as Dr. Robotnik came up to him. "Who are you talking to?" Dr. Robotnik asked. Sonic started to mess with his bandana nervously. "Um, myself. It's a nervous habit. Were you looking for me?"
"Indeed, I was. Quite a coincidence that the KHS students moving on to next event are the same nice students who were so interested in you, don't you think?" Dr. Robotnik asked. "I'm not sure." Sonic said nervously. "Perhaps you should get to know them after all." Dr. Robotnik suggested. "But I thought you didn't want me to, sir." Sonic said reminding him what he said earlier. "Let's just say I'm covering my bases. Who knows? Perhaps they will reveal to you the secret behind Knothole High's newfound success." Dr. Robotnik said while walking up closer to him and puts his hands on his shoulders in excitement. "I don't know. Spying feels kind of… wrong." Sonic told him. Dr. Robotnik removed his hands, turned around, and started to walk away. "Well, it's your decision, Sonic. It's not as if your application hangs in the balance." He stops to say this before walking away completely, "On second thought, yes, it does."
Sonic hugged himself worried and nervous. Chip got out of the locker and said, "Man, he's awful. What are you going to do?" Chip asked. Sonic sighed while leaning at the lockers and slowly sits down. "I don't know, Chip. I don't know." Chip walked over to him and sat by him comfortingly.
Now in another part of the school, Tails was telling his friends about his Chaos Energy experience. "All I did was give Sonic a hug. Then I foxed up." Tails explained. Shadow groaned in frustration. "I just don't get it. Amy's chaos energy came out when she made up outfits. Sticks's when she fixed the party and put up those defenses and now Tails." Shadow said clearly frustrated. 'How is all this Chaos Energy being activated? I really need Prince Sonic's help now before things get worse.' Shadow thought to himself. "And then Sonic's pendant thingy just pulled the chaos energy right out of me. I couldn't even stand up." Tails told his friends. "Like me at the party!" Sticks said. "Or me right before we met Sonic!" Amy said. Sticks gasped. "It's all a conspiracy! The aliens are here to steal our chaos energy!" Sticks shouted. "Sticks, I don't think that's it. I think Sonic is stealing chaos energy." Shadow said. "I don't think so, Shadow. Sonic doesn't seem like the dude who would steal chaos energy." Knuckles told him. "Yeah, but he had something to do with closing the portal. If his pendant can pull in chaos energy, maybe it stole the portal, too." Shadow said hypothesizing what he thinks is happening. "How?" Tails asked. Shadow sighed. "I don't know. And the hedgehog or person or prince who could help me figure this out is completely unreachable now." Shadow said while looking at his book still empty from Sonic still not answering. Then Sticks popped out of nowhere several times saying, "Which is too bad, because Sonic know everything about chaos energy and portals and chaos energy portals and portable chaos energy!" Sticks then opened a door to the back to the school outside and fell to the ground. Manic walked out with her and helped her up. "For now, let's just focus on beating the Thunder Bolt Hedgehogs. And as long as this even puts me in a playing field, I don't think we've got anything to worry about." Knuckles then opened the other door and pointed to the next event, which was outside. Sticks gasped loudly as there were mountains of dirt with ramps in between each one a track like field and an archery range. "Am I the only one who thinks this is overkill?" Shadow asked his friends who were still looking at the next event in shock. Knuckles then looked at Amy. "Ames, you make any motocross outfits?" Knuckles asked. Amy rolled her eyes and scoffed. "Oh, please Knuckles. Of course, I did!" Amy shouted while showing all the outfits she made for her friends.
"You will race in pairs. Bunnie and Mighty will handle the motocross." Dr. Robotnik told the two then he walked over to Antione and "Time to teach y'all a lesson in motocross." Bunnie said. "Antione and Rouge have requested the short track." The two high fived each other. Then he walked over to Nicole and Sonic. "Since archery is a standard requirement at our school, any of you should be able to do it. Sonic and Nicole will start us off." Then Nicole smiled sweetly. "Well, that's just marvelous!" Then she had a grumpy look on her face. "If you want to lose before we even start!" Sonic gulped nervously. "Given Sonic won the last event single-handedly, I have every confidence that he will be able to pull his weight here. Won't you?" Dr. Robotnik asked while looking down at Sonic harshly. Sonic nodded nervously. 'Man, I hate archery more importantly I stink at it.'
Now everyone in the schools were cheering for their school at the next event. "Welcome, everyone to the Friendship Games Tricross Relay!" Dean Blaze shouted. Everyone cheered loudly. "In this event, our qualifying competitors will face off in archery, speed skating, and finally, motocross." In archery, it's Knuckles and Tails vs. Nicole and Sonic. In speed skating, it's Sticks and Amy vs Antione and Rouge. And in motocross, it's Shadow and Manic vs Bunnie and Mighty. "So, if the competitors are ready…" Dean Blaze shouted then she blew an airhorn and they were off. "Each competitor must hit a bullseye before their teammates can start the next leg of the relay. Nicole and Tails started off. Nicole easily run up head while Tails, who wasn't a great runner, was lagging behind. Nicole grabbed her arrows, fired three at once, and one hit the bullseye signaling that Sonic can now run. He looked at Knuckles and started to run at an incredible speed but tripped on his shoelace. Nicole growled in frustration at her lagging teammate. Meanwhile, Tails was having trouble hitting the bullseye in archery. Sonic then grabbed the rope to swing across but he nearly fell into the puddle of mud. This caused Nicole to growl even more especially since Tails finally hit a bullseye and now Knuckles was on his way. Knuckles made it to his friend fairly quickly. He grabbed the arrows and his bow. Now Sonic was up with his bow and arrows and was attempting to hit the target but was missing every time. 'I suck at archery.'
Knuckles shot an arrow and miss but this time he studied the moving target, he took a deep breath, shot the arrow, and it hit the target. A green light comes on near while Amy and Sticks are and they started skating. "And Knothole is off to an early lead!" Dean Blaze shouted. 'All those years of archery to protect my home made this all worthwhile.' Knuckles thought to himself. Meanwhile Sonic is still struggling to his target. 'I should have been in the skating relay. I would have been better at that.' Sonic thought to himself. Sticks and Amy are making lap after lap and are getting closer for their Shadow and Manic to start their leg of the race. "Well, that's just fantastic!" Nicole shouted sourly. "I'm sure glad I don't go to Sol Emerald Prep." Tails said while messing with the outfit Amy made for him. "I agree, dude." Knuckles said. Sonic kept trying and trying to hit the target but failed each time and was nowhere near the bullseye. "If Sol Emerald Prep can't hit another bullseye soon, they'll be out of this race." Dean Blaze shouted. Feeling even more pressure, Sonic grabbed another arrow but they all fell out of his bag and landed on the ground. Sonic picked one up and his hands started to shake really bad and tears started to form around his eyes. 'I can't do this. My application will never be approved if I can hit this stupid target.' Sonic thought to himself. "You're really bad at this!" Mighty shouted. Finally feeling angry at the students from Sol Emerald Prep, Knuckles handed Tails his bow. "I can't take any more of this!" He shouted.
He walked over to a nervous Sonic and spoke calmly to him. "Dude, you need to stop aiming at the target." Nicole looked at the two annoyed. "Oh, that makes perfect sense! Don't aim at the target! Thanks so much!" Knuckles rolled his eyes. "Listen, you have to stop aiming at where the target is and aim at where the target's gonna be." Knuckles said while gesturing to the moving target. "Yeah! Definitely take advice from the person you're competing against!" Nicole said rudely. Knuckles ignored Nicole and looked at Sonic, who was on the verge of crying. "Do you wanna hit the bullseye or not?" Sonic wiped his tears away from his eyes and nodded. "Then trust me. Take a deep breath." Sonic took a deep calming breath. "And let the arrow go… riiiight… now!" Then Sonic let the arrow and it hit the target. The crowd cheers loudly as Sol Emerald Prep starts the skating relay. "YAY! Go, Sonic!" Chip said coming up from the side of the ramp Sonic was standing on. Nicole slowly backed away at seeing that a dog was talking. Knuckles was about to high five Sonic's hand but Sonic hugged him happily. 'If it wasn't for this guy from KHS, we would have lost and my application would have been terminated.' Sonic thought to himself. Knuckles hugged him back. "See? I was telling you the truth." Then Knuckles started to glow red a bit, he got his echidna ears and echidna tail. 'Whoa. I guess it was my turn to echidna up or something.' Knuckles thought to himself. Then Sonic's device started to go up in the air again and started to absorb the chaos energy from Knuckles. "Eh… what… are… you… doing?!" Knuckles said while struggling to keep his chaos energy inside of him. "I don't know!" Sonic shouted. Knuckles then passed out since his lost all his chaos energy. Sonic closed his device but he tripped over Chip, his device fell on the skating track, opened up, and started to create portals that robots started to come out of. "Knothole only has two laps to go! But it looks like Sol Emerald Prep is making up for lost time!" The Thunder Bolt cheered for their teammates. The device was hit by one of the skaters, Sonic tried to get it but a vine made of metal stopped him from getting it. 'I know these are robots but where are they coming from?' Sonic thought to himself. Robot plants, bugs, birds, and much more were coming out and attacking the students on the motocross who just started their leg of the race. Sonic was about to grab his device but was being pulled away by a robot. Meanwhile, Manic jumped over a large pond and shouted, "Radical!"
As the students were racing, a robot with many arms came out in front of them and while Manic was able to successful dodge them, Mighty was not as lucky and Shadow dodged it but fell of his bike. Manic turned around to help his friend. "Manic, thanks for saving me." Shadow said as he narrowly escaped from the robot. "Bro, I never leave my friends hangin'." Manic told him. Then Manic started to glow green and his bike transformed into a bike for two people. "We can still win this!" He shouted. Then Dr. Robotnik looked Principal Aleena annoyed at what just happened. She just shrugged her shoulders. Manic then got of the bike to let Shadow drive and started to fight the robots. Meanwhile, Bunnie, who fell into a ditch, got up and started her bike again since Shadow was now ahead of her. It was a close one but Knothole won! "Knothole wins!" The Lightning Bolts then started to cheer at their victory. "Attention, students, please proceed to the gym. Finally, after a long struggle, Sonic got his device back and closed it, causing all the robots to disappear.
"Is everybody all right?" Knuckles asked his friends as they all got together. "Better than all right, compadres! We won!" Manic shouted excitedly. Shadow scoffed. "Yeah, we won, but somebody could've been seriously hurt. The chaos energy is going haywire and I have no idea how to fix it!" Shadow shouted clearly frustrated. "Um, excuse me, I didn't mean for any of this to happen. I just wanted to learn about the strange energy coming from your school. I didn't know it was chaos energy or… how it works." Sonic told them as he put his device back around his neck. Manic smiled and walked up to him. "That's okay. Neither do we." Then Sonic's device started to float again and absorb the chaos energy from Manic. "Oh, no! Oh, no no no! Not again!" Sonic shouted. Manic started to struggle from the device taking his chaos energy. "I'm sorry! It just started absorbing energy on its own! But I'm not sure how!" Sonic told them. "What do you mean you don't know how?!" Shadow shouted clearly angry at Sonic. Another portal to Mobius opened again, this time revealing the night sky. "It also causes these corresponding rifts to appear! I don't know how that works either." Sonic explained as he struggled to close his device then Shadow closed it for him. "It these anything you do know?! Like how to get our chaos energy back?! Or how to fix the portal to Mobius?!"
"Mobius?" Sonic asked. "You're supposed to be smart, but did you ever think that you shouldn't be messing around with things you don't understand?!" Shadow shouted at him. "But I want to understand!" Sonic pleaded. "But you don't! And worst of all, you put the lives of my friends in danger!" Sonic then started to form tears in his eyes. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to." Then Sonic ran off crying. "Sonic, wait up!" Chip shouted as he chased after Sonic. Meanwhile, Dr. Robotnik was watching from a distance.
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