Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Sonic the Hedgehog characters

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Sonic the Hedgehog characters.

James stormed out of the house without grabbing his coat. He wanted to get out of there before anyone could see him in tears. This is the first time he ever felt heartbroken, he ran down the street not caring if anyone say him now.

"James!" Shadow called out as he caught up with him. James turned around violently and glared at the hedgehog with tears in his eyes.

"What!?" he said as his fists clenched and he stared daggers at Shadow. Shadow stepped back a bit he never seen James this mad before. He always was an easy going and calm guy, but now he looked more angered then ever.

"Why did you run off James?" Shadow said his voice remained calm as he looked at the enraged hedgehog.

"It's none of your fucking business! You'll probably figure it out on Monday!" he said as he turned around and started to walk off again. Shadow caught up and grabbed his wrist and turned him around.

"Why did you fucking run away like that James?!" Shadow said irritated with James. James glared back at him and they continued to keep up their fierce glares until James spoke.

"Nikki has a boyfriend." He said in a whisper and he looked down and fresh tears started to appear. Shadow's glare softened as he looked at the upset hedgehog as he fell to his knees in tears. "The worst part of it is that it's that fox guy from the party." James said he brought his head between his legs. Shadow sat next to him and put his hand on his back to comfort him. "I can't believe I let her play me like that. I'm such a dumbass for believing she even cared for me." James said coldly as he looked away from Shadow.

"It'll be alright James, she picked the wrong guy. You're probably the best boyfriend a girl can have. That's why I didn't like you when I met you; I thought you would sweep Amy off her feet before I could." Shadow said as James continued to keep his focus away from him. "She doesn't know how wrong she is. You're the perfect guy for her and she's the dumbass for thinking otherwise." Shadow said as James finally looked at him. James only nodded as Shadow gave a small smile and nodded as well. They both got up and started to walk back at to the house.

Nikki was sitting in the passenger seat of Devin's car as she stared out to window. She felt incredible guilt as she thought of James's face when she said the word boyfriend and not referring to him. She felt a single tear fall down her cheek as she used her powers to make it go back to her eye. She remained silent as Devin drove her home.

"It's this one, right?" Devin said looking out the window.

"Yeah." She said quietly as she grabbed her bag and exited the car.

"I'll see you tomorrow." He said from the car.

"Bye." She said never facing him as she walked to her house. She walked in and saw her father sleeping in a recliner with the T.V on. 'Probably fell asleep waiting for me to come home.' She thought as she smiled and turned off the T.V and covered him with a blanket. She walked upstairs and stopped at a picture of her and her father with her mother. Nikki didn't know why her father kept that picture since her mother left them when she was only two. She didn't care about her mother; she could never forgive her mother for leaving them. She snarled at the picture as she continued to go upstairs to her room. She opened the door and fell on her bed as she stared at the ceiling. 'Have I made a big mistake?' Nikki thought as she thought of James and what the others will think. On Monday everybody already knew about the whole James and Nikki thing and they completely ignored Nikki at school. Nikki walked up to Amy thinking she was the most understanding after school. "Hey." She said quietly. Amy looked at her and closed her locker and started to walk away. "Amy please understand!" Nikki said as she tried to keep up with her.

"Understand what?! That you continued to play James along that you liked him and you just broke his heart without even a sign of sympathy?" Amy said coldly as she glared at Nikki with her emerald eyes. Nikki held her head low as she tried to hold back tears.

"Can you please let me explain?" Nikki said as she held her head up and looked at Amy with tears at the brim of her eye. Amy rolled her eyes as she crossed her arms.

"Fine, but you got two minutes." Amy said as she continued to glare at her. Nikki exhaled and wiped her eyes.

"I met Devin two years ago, are families worked together. I found out that our powers were similar and together we had more power. When I'm with him I can control people's mind and can make them do anything I please. Like a puppet. We eventually started to go out before he broke up with me because he felt that he was getting to power hungry. When he left I felt drained physically and mentally. It was liked when he left me he drained everything I used to posses. Now he came back and I wanted that piece of me again that I so desperately missed. Don't think I played James, I liked him and still do, but I'm afraid I can't let this chance pass up." Nikki said as Amy looked at her confused.

"Did you say that when he left you, you felt drained?" Amy asked as Nikki looked up her like she was stupid.

"Uh…yeah." She said and Amy eyes widened as she remembered something.

"Come with me." Amy said as she grabbed Nikki's wrist and pulled her as she ran down the hall. They soon saw Tails with Cream by her locker. "Tails I need to ask you something." Amy said as Nikki stood next to her.

"Uh…ok? What is it?" Tails said as his eyes shifted to Amy and to Nikki and back to Amy.

"Do you remember that battle we had with Eggman and he had some creature that drained Esipo's power?" Amy said as Tails raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah? What about it?" Tails said still confused.

"I think one of those might be here." Amy said as Tails eyes widened.

"How are you sure?" Tails said as he looked at Amy.

"The guy that Nikki's with was her boyfriend before and when he broke up with her she said that he was power hungry and after he left she felt drained." Amy said as everybody looked at Nikki.

"Nikki, does he have weird mark on his upper right arm?" Tails said as he looked into Nikki's magenta eyes.

"Yes?" Nikki said as she looked at the troubled kitsune.

"He is one of them. Nikki he only wants you for your power. He'll stay with you for awhile and then drain you of your power. This time he won't leave anything behind." Tails said as Nikki's eyes widened in fear. She quickly ran down the hall and turned the corner.

"Where are you going?" Amy called out.

"I'm going to break up with him before he does." She said as she continue to run down the hall. She left the school and walked out to the parking lot and saw her soon to be ex-boyfriend leaning on his car waiting for her.

"Hey Ni-"He was cut off by Nikki.

"Save it! I know what you are and I know why you got back with me!" Nikki said now glaring at him.

"What?" Devin said confused.

"I know what you are. You drained my powers before and you're planning to do it again." Nikki snarled at him. Devin smirked and chuckled a bit.

"I thought I would get away with it, but I can't hide anything from you." He said putting his hand on her chin and she slapped it away. "Don't worry I promise not to hurt you." He said as his eyes turned gold and he grabbed her and pressed her against his cars. Nikki tired to scream, but he stopped her before she could. "Don't try to resist you know you can't escape."

"Get off her!" James said as he tackled Devin to the ground. His eyes flashed back to white and Nikki was back to herself. Devin kicked James off and wiped his mouth.

"I knew you be in my way." He said as he glared at him.

"I'm not one for violence." He said as Devin raised an eyebrow. "But my friends are." He said as he stepped to the side and Knuckles, Sonic, Shadow, Spark, and Static were standing there cracking their knuckles.

"Finally I get to fight!" Static said as they all ambushed him and started to beat the crap out of him. James walked past the beating and over to Nikki.

"Are you ok?" He asked not even bother by the screams for mercy. To him Nikki and him were the only ones there.

"I-I'm so sorry James. I never me-"Nikki said, but James put her fingers to her lips.

"I know and it's ok. Nikki I fell for you when you said, 'hi' and I will never stop even if you do." James said as his hands move down to her shoulders.

"I didn't stop and I felt guilty for what I did to you. I never want to hurt you again." Nikki said putting her hands on his face.

"Then agree to be my girlfriend." James said as he took her hand off his face and held it.

"Do you even have to ask?" Nikki said before she kissed him and the guys stopped for second as Knuckles was holding Devin by the collar.

"Aw!" They said then continued to beat up Devin. James helped Nikki up as she smiled at him and held his hand.

"Ok guys you can stop now." James said and everybody stopped and let out an annoyed groan. Spark the beaten Devin against the fence and jogged to catch up with the rest of the group.

"Can I send electric through his body?" Spark said hopefully.

"Nah, I think he's dead now and that'll probably just revive him." Sonic said as the group walked to the bleachers. Spark gave out an annoyed groaned as he followed along. Everybody was there waiting for them arrive.

"I can't believe you guys didn't get me to fight!" Jerry said as he stood up.

"Hey, it's not our problem we couldn't find you." Static said putting his hands up defensively.

"So…are you guys together?" Midnight said as Static sat next to her. Nikki smiled and blushed as James put his arm around her.

"Does Knuckles have an anger management problem?" James said as everybody laughed and hugged them.

"I do not have a problem." Knuckles said as he pouted and crossed his arms.

"Do you guys realize we are all together with someone?" Blaze said as everybody nodded.

"I'm not." Todd said his head hanging down low.

"Aw, don't worry you'll find someone." Midnight said as she comforted Todd.

"Yeah, but you're not his someone." Static said as he picked Midnight up and sat her back next to him. Midnight laughed, she always thought it was funny when Static got jealous.

"Hey isn't there a girl on the soccer team you like?" Midnight said looking excitedly at him.

"Yeah?" Todd said as he raised an eyebrow.

"I can totally set you guys up! It would be perfect! You'll guys go to dinner and then a movie and you'll ask her to be your girlfriend! It would so work out!" Midnight said bouncing up and down.

"Nah, I'm ok. I want to stay single for a bit." Todd said as he leaned back putting his hands behind his head.

"Has anyone seen Silver?" Blaze asked with a hint of worry in her voice.

"Dude, we always have someone missing in our group." Jerry said as Blaze rolled her eyes and got up and ran down the bleachers. Everybody glared back at him as Blaze ran off. "What? It's true!" Jerry said putting his hands up defensively. Blaze looked around the whole school looking for him and stopped when she was at the library.

"Cell phone, duh!" Blaze said as she pulled out her Verizon enV2. She dialed Silver's number and waited for him to pick up.

"Hello?" Silver said as he answered his phone.

"Silver! Where are you? I've been looking all around school!" Blaze said as she put her hand on her hip.

"Uh…I'm at home." Silver said inconvincibly. Blaze rolled her eyes knowing it was a lie.

"Silver, I know you're lying! Where are you really and what are you doing?" Blaze said as she started to walk. She could hear Silver sigh and knew he could never lie to her.

"Meet me in the cafeteria in five minutes." Silver said as he hung up the phone. Blaze started to become concerned as she started to walk over to the cafeteria.

'What is he planning? Does he want to break-up with me?' These thoughts continued to stir around her head as she walked through the cafeteria doors. She saw Silver sitting in the far table with his head down and hand intertwined together. Blaze walked slowly and cautiously as she looked at him worriedly. "Silver?" she said as she sat down. Silver raised his head and gave a soft smiled to her.

"Hey, I need to tell you something." Silver said is voice more serious then Blaze has ever heard.

"What is it?" Blaze said as her heart started to race.

"I…love you." Silver said as he looked up at Blaze who eyes were wide and mouth opened. Blaze was shocked, Silver never ever said those words. She knew it was hard for Silver to admit his feelings and she never thought he'll tell her I love you. She continued to stare at him as he started to shuffle with his hands. "If you don't feel the same way back I understand." Silver said as he got up and started to walk away. Blaze snapped out of her daze and grabbed Silver's wrist and spun him around and kissed him passionately. Silver's eyes widened in shock and stayed that way until Blaze pulled away.

"I love you too." Blaze said hugging Silver. Silver was still frozen in the same position he was when Blaze kissed him. Blaze laughed as she pulled him out of the cafeteria. Days passed and soon turned into weeks. School was starting to get really boring for the group until they heard about the big basketball game against their rivals from New York (That's right West coast VS East Coast).

"Oh yeah I'm going to kick ass in this game!" Spark said in an overly cocky way.

"I'm sure you will." Winter said kissing him on the cheek which made him blush.

"I'm going to crush those East-coasters!" Reese said as he grabbed his bag.

"How do you know that for sure?" Shadow said with a cocky smile.

"Shut up! You know we'll win." Jerry said pushing Shadow.

"I wish one of us can predict the future." Amy said as she walked by Shadow's side.

"I can read minds." Reese said.

"Well woop-te-doo! How is that suppose to help us?" Arielle said as they grew closer to the gym.

"Well wish us good luck." Silver said as they turned around.

"Good luck! I hope you win!" Winter said lightly kissing Spark on the lips.

"Break a leg! I know you'll win." Alchemy said as she hugged Jerry and kissed him on the cheek.

"I love you. Play well and jump high." Blaze said softly as they swayed back and forth slightly.

"I love you Reese. I want to see you win." Luna said as she kissed him on the lips. All the guys walked away blushing and almost running into each other.

"Good job, now they're going to fall all over the court." Todd said as he got glares from all four girlfriends. The group went to the bleachers to hang out for a while before the game started. They all entered the gym seeing stands filled with cheering fans.

"Damn good thing we got seats reserved." Knuckles said looking at the cheering crowd. They all sat in the first row and waited for the game to start.

"I got to go guys." Todd said as he got up.

"Where are you going? The games about to start!" Tails said as he pointed out to the court.

"I'll be watching don't worry." Todd said as he walked off.

"Where do you think he's going?" Cream asked as she held Tails's hand. Tails shrugged his shoulders as they continued to wait for the game to start. All of a sudden they heard a familiar voice over the intercom.

"Alright Tornadoes are you ready to see some basketball!" Todd said in a wrestling announcer kind of voice. Everybody eyes widened as they saw Todd sitting up in the box above the bleachers.

"He's doing the play by play?" Rouge said as everybody mouth dropped except Tails.

"I don't know why are you guys so shock. It's Todd! He is always full of surprises." Tails said as everybody nodded.

"Let's introduce the team the blows the other teams away! The team that sucks up the competition and spits back out! The CM High School Varsity Tornadoes!" Todd yelled as the team came out to the cheering crowd. Spark and Reese were leading the team as Reese and Jerry took the sides.

"WE LOVE YOU SPARK!" a couple of girls screamed. Winter turned around and put her hands on her hips and glared at them.

"Excuse me?" Winter said as the girls sat down looking down.

"Now the Beasts from the east. The team that will rip you to shreds. The NYM High School Varsity Tigers." Todd said in a voice like he was reading off a paper. The team came out and was led by a white tiger that was skinnier then regular tigers. Reese glared at the tiger from across the court as he came on the court. Silver stood in the center waiting for the ball to be thrown in the air. He glared at the monkey across from and looked at the ref. The ref. threw the ball in the air and blew the whistle. Silver jumped in the air and hit the ball first.

Spark grabbed the ball and dribbled down the court and passed it to Jerry who shot at the three point line and made it. "The first points made by Jericho "Jerry" Mondair! Who is a close personal friend of mine." Todd said the last part fast as he got a few laughs from the crowd. The game went on with Spark doing two lay-ups and Reese and Silver making three free throw shots. Sadly the other team's tiger made four three point shots and the monkey making a lay-up. The score was fourteen to nineteen with Tornadoes in the lead. The teams went to the locker rooms as the half time show started. A yellow hedgehog came up to Static and tapped him on the shoulder.

"Hey Conner, what's up?" he asked the yellow hedgehog.

"We need you to sing a song for the half time show." Conner said as Static's eyes widened.

"What?! I can't do that! Why don't you get David to sing a song?" Static said.

"He has strep throat and can't sing." Conner explained.

"But my band broke up, remember?" Static said putting up more excuses.

"I bet your friends can play instruments." Conner said. Static looked back at all his friends staring at him. "Just do it once and hurry the cheerleaders and dancers are almost over." Conner said as he ran off.

"Conner, wait, no!" Static said as he watched the hedgehog run off. He turned to his friends who were all waiting for what he said. "Can any of you play instruments?" he asked with a weak smile.

"I can play the drums!" Sonic said proudly.

"I play guitar." Shadow said simply.

"And I can play base." Knuckles said looking at Static. "Why?"

"Come on, we're going to perform a half time show." Static said getting up and walking off.

"What?" Midnight said as she watched walked the guys walk off. All the girls looked at Tails and Elijah.

"Hey we don't know anything." Tails said as Elijah nodded along. All the girls and two guys were left confused as they tried to figure out what was going. All of a sudden they saw Shadow, Knuckles, and Sonic walk out to set up instruments. Sonic started to play the drums as Shadow started to come in with his guitar. Knuckles followed up and the group suddenly saw Static coming out on the stage as he played guitar and walked up to the mike.

I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know…

Midnight's mouth dropped as she heard Static sing. She never knew he could sing so well, but then something started to click in her mind, the lyrics. Shadow started to play his guitar louder along with Knuckles and Static.

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you

I'm sorry that I hurt you
It's something I must live with everyday
And all the pain I put you through
I wish that I could take it all away
And be the one who catches all your tears
That's why I need you to hear…

Static backed away for the mike a little as he caught his breath. He looked at the cheering crowd and he looked over to Midnight who was sitting front row. He smiled and continued to keep his gaze on her.

I've found a reason for me
to change who I used to be
a reason to start over new
and the reason is you

And the reason is you

And the reason is you

And the reason is you

And the reason is you

Static swung his guitar so that it was lying against his back. He pulled of the mike from the stand and continued to sing.

I'm not a perfect person
I never meant to do those things to you
and so I have to say before I go
that I just want you to know

He started to walk over to Midnight continuing to singing. Midnight didn't realize he was coming to her until he was only a few feet away. Static held his hand out that Midnight took and picked her up and brought her back to the center of the court and sang to her.

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you

I've found a reason to show
A side of me you didn't know
A reason for all that I do
And the reason is you

Static never let his eyes leave hers as he sang to her. When he finished the song the crowd cheered and smiled at Midnight. Midnight was speechless, she started to feel her eyes start to water as she smiled. She wrapped her arms around him and the crowd cheered louder. The guys in the locker room were listening the whole time.

"Good job little brother." Spark said as he walked back to his locker. Midnight walked off stage while holding Spark's hand.

"Hold up lover boy. Do you expect us to pack up the equipment?" Shadow said as he pulled his collar backed. Static sighed and waved to Midnight as he continued to get dragged by Shadow. Once everything was gone the game continued. The Tigers scored more points bringing it to a tie. Jerry was glaring at the tiger who had the ball. The tiger dribbled around Silver while pushing him down. The ref. blew the whistle calling foul shot for Silver. Silver looked up at the clock and realized this was the only chance he had left to win the game. He looked up at the basket in front of him and stared at.

"Silver has the ball and is waiting…and waiting…and waiting." Todd said

"Shut up!" Silver said as Todd put his hands up defensively. Silver rolled his eyes and regain focus. He exhaled and shot the ball, it bounced on the rim and started to cycle around the rim. Everybody was on their toes waiting for the ball…and it went in. The right said stood up and cheered for Silver. Silver was picked up by his team as people continued to cheer.

"Tornadoes win the game!" Todd yelled jumping out of his seat. Everybody continued to cheer as the resided into the locker room. Silver, Spark, Reese, and Jerry came out into the parking lot to be greeted by their friends. Everybody ran up to them and hugged them and the guys gave the HG. They all went back to Spark's house to celebrate.

"To Silver, Spark, Jerry, and Reese for kicking those guys' ass!" Sonic said holding up a glass of soda. Everybody said cheers as they clanged their glasses and took a sip.

"Hey where are Elijah and Arielle?" Cream asked.

"What did I say? What did I say? We always have people gone from our group." Jerry sad as he leaned back on his chair. Elijah and Arielle were sitting by the small Koi pond in Spark's backyard. Arielle was sitting on his lap as she rested her head on his shoulder.

"I mean it's just weird how the biggest games always end up like that." Arielle said referring to how every game ends in a tie with the winning point being scored at the last seconds of the game.

"Maybe that's just how fate works. You never know for sure how it will play out." Elijah said in his soft gentle voice.

"Sometimes I just wish it wasn't like that." Arielle said looking at the fish swim around.

"What do you mean?" Elijah asked forwarding his brow.

"I just wish sometimes I could just know what will happen, so I don't have to make stupid mistakes." Arielle said as she played with her fingers.

"Well without mistakes, the world will be some weird creepy perfect creation." Elijah said as Arielle giggled a little bit.

"Can I ask you something?" Arielle said looking into his gold eyes.

"Anything." He said which made her blush and smile.

"When did you start liking me?" She asked looking down.

"Uh…when I said anything I di-" he said as he got cut off by her.

"Oh I see you're too embarrassed to answer." Arielle said as she smiled and crossed her arms.

"Fine…" Elijah said rolling his eyes. "…the day after I met you. When you came to school and I saw you talking to that guy. I felt incredibly jealous, but I didn't know why. I shook it off, but I couldn't stop thinking of you. That's when Jerry made some joke and I over reacted a bit and he said, 'God calm down. If I didn't know better I'd think you like her.' That's when it hit. I liked you!" Elijah said as Arielle rested her head back on his shoulder and smiled.

"See that wasn't so hard." Arielle said.

"Yeah for you." Elijah said as Arielle lifted her head from his shoulder and looked him in the eyes. Elijah looked into her grey eyes and leaned closer. Arielle suddenly felt his warm lips on hers and she kissed him back wrapping her arms around his neck. She pulled away and smiled.

"That was easy." She said as he smiled. Monday came around with everybody happy and nothing bringing them down. Amy was at her locker with Luna, talking about her wedding.

"When do you plan to get married?" Amy asked as she pulled books out of her locker.

"Not until I finish college." Luna said as she waited for Amy.

"College?" Amy asked poking her head out of her locker.

"Yeah, I want to go to college and then get married." Luna said as Amy closed her locker. Amy never thought about it, but college seemed like a good thing to her. She could get a more successful job and won't have to depend on Shadow. She continued to think about as the walked down the hall until they were stopped by none other then Karen.

"What do you want Karen?" Amy said rolling her eyes and crossing her arms.

"Nothing from you! I'm just here to talk to loser Luna." Karen hissed at them.

"She's more popular then you." Amy said. "You're the bitch that no one likes. That's why you didn't win! Luna has a heart and actually cares for this school on like you. You have a stick shoved so far up your ass that you can't even realize it." Amy said as Luna just stood trying to hold back laughter.

"Please bitch, I don't care what you think." Karen spat back as Amy rolled her eyes.

"Don't be jealous that you lost your little 'prize' and homecoming queen." Amy said. She always knew Karen only liked Shadow because he would be a nice trophy to her collection. Karen walked up to Amy getting in her face.

"At least I don't have a fat ass like yours." Karen said. That's it Amy was pissed! You never call Amy the Hedgehog fat and get away with it. She smiled and watched Karen turned around and she grabbed her hair and threw her to the ground. Karen got up and slapped Amy across the face. Amy pulled her with one hand and slapped her repeatedly with her other. Karen did the vilest thing that anyone could do. She spit in Amy's face. Amy wiped her face and punched her right in the nose as he friends caught her as she fell. Amy had enough and walked away to the girls' bathroom. She washed the spit out of her face and stormed out of the school with Luna following behind.

"Don't worry Amy you gave that bitch what she deserved." Luna said as they walked through the parking lot. All of a sudden Shadow appeared in front of them at great speed.

"I heard you got into a fight are you ok?" Shadow said as he looked at Amy.

"Yeah I'm fine. Karen on the other hand may need a nose job." Amy said with a cocky smirk. Shadow smirked as well as he put his arm around her.

"That's my girl." Shadow said proudly as the walked to his motorcycle and home.