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Chapter 10

Sonic was getting nervous as he sat with everyone in the limo. They had been asked over the phone by the president to come see, talk with, and have lunch with him. Sonic knew this wasn't a good thing after what had just happened at the mall yesterday. Sonic winced at the memory. He had wanted a nice and normal time here with Chris, Ella, Chuck, and Mr. Tanaka, not an 'adventurous' one.

"We are almost there," Ella said as she sat across from Sonic. Since the Thorndike's lived in California they needed to take a plane and rent a car to go to Washington DC. It always took a few hours.

Ella could tell that the blue hedgehog was a little bit jumpy. She had never seen him like this, so surprise flooded her.

"Will you calm down?" Knuckles snapped at Sonic. "We are all nervous, but just look at you! You are acting as though you're going to court and if they declare you guilty you will spend half your life in prison!"

"I do feel like I'm going to court, though," Sonic murmured. Knuckles blinked.

"Oh, will you shut up? Sheesh, man, you are acting as though you killed someone. Now quit being so blue and calm down."

Sonic looked over at Knuckles with a smirk and raised an eyebrow. "Knuckle, you do know that that is actually physically impossible for me, right?"

"Yeah," Knuckles said. "But at least it lightened your mood a little."

"Yeah, Sonic," Tails finally spoke. "You need to just sit back and take a breather." Sonic stuck his tongue out playfully at the fox. Tails did the same back and Amy rolled her eyes.

"You are all just a bunch of children," the pink hedgehog complained. Shadow's head popped up at this.

"Hey," said the black hedgehog defensively. "I didn't say or do anything, so watch your mouth!" Silver rolled his eyes at his older brother.

"Calm down, you moron," Silver ordered. "All you are doing is proving her point." Shadow growled at Silver and crossed his arms. Sonic snickered at his oldest brother's actions.

"So," Chris spoke from the front. "How was it when you all found out you were brothers?"

Shadow groaned. "There was a lot of research and blood tests because Sonica had a hard time believing us."

"Two things," Sonic said. "One, with all the crap you two pulled on me I would be CRAZY not to doubt you when you suddenly came to my door and said, 'Hey, you're my brother!'. Second, DO NOT CALL ME SONICA!" Shadow smirked as Sonic tried to launch himself at him. Silver, though, held his younger brother back. "Let me at him, Silver! Let me at him!" Silver rolled his eyes and Shadow laughed.

Chris turned to Tails and raised an eyebrow.

"Do they do this a lot?" he asked the two-tailed fox. Tails looked at the fighting hedgehogs, rolled his eyes, and then turned back to Chris.

"Yea, ALL the time," Tails muttered loud enough for Chris to hear. "It's funny though, until it gives you a headache."

Amy took two rubber bands out of her pocket and flicked the first at Shadow. Shadow yelped at the sting of the rubber band.

Sonic turn to Amy, sat down, and gave her a sheepish smile.

"I'm good," He told her. Amy rolled her eyes and put the second rubber band in her pocket. Shadow glared at Amy and Sonic before slouching and pouting.

"We are here," Mr. Tanaka announced to everyone as they pulled into the little road that was opened for them. It led to the white house and as some of the passengers of the limo looked out the window they saw a lot of flowers surrounding the white house.

"Wow," Cream said. "This place is so pretty."

"Yea," Rouge agreed. "It's just like I remember it."

The limo pulled to a stop and they all climbed out one at a time. They were welcomed by the president himself as he stood in front of the steps.

"Welcome back," he spoke. "It has been a while."

"You're telling me," Sonic said as he put his hand in the president's for a hand shake. "Have you guys had any excitement since I left?"

"Sadly, yet fortunately, no," the president answered with a laugh. Sonic shrugged, showing his nerves. The president raised an eyebrow at this, but before he could say anything Rouge walks over to the two.

"Hey," Rouge said. "You better remember me." Topaz stepped forward from where she hid behind the president. She blinked with surprise at how Rouge looked. The bat wasn't wearing the regular attire she had worn the first time she was on this planet. Instead, she wore a pair of black skinny jeans and a dark purple tank top. She also wore a darker purple belt and a jack to match it.

Topaz was also surprised to see Shadow and another hedgehog she had never met before, and clearly she wasn't the only one.

"Sonic," the president whispered. "Those two-,"

"Don't worry," Sonic reassured him. "They're fine. Actually, they are great. Shadow helped make sure a lot of people weren't hurt and buildings weren't damaged."

The president looked a little taken aback, but made an effort to put on a nervous smile.

"So," Silver said shyly. "Where's the party?" The president honestly smiled and spread his arm towards the white house.

"Just follow me," he told them as he led them into his home. "I hope you are all hungry."

Sonic waited for everyone to pass him before he followed. Silver was in front of him and was giving him worried looks. Sonic had his hands in his pockets as he kept from making eye contact with his brother; he didn't really want to talk about how everything would be ok. He was getting really sick of all those lectures, and he knew that one day they would be wrong.

He had a very funny feeling that that day was coming fast.

Annime: Looks like Sonic's gonna have some issues!

Knuckles: You've been writing this chapter for HOURS.

Annime: Yeah, that happens when you have writer's block.

Cream: PLEASE REVIEW!