Okay not a totally long chapter this time but it was taking ages. Again thank you all for the reviews, I got some really nice ones and they made me happy so thank you, please keep it up ^^

Again sorry for any miss wording and spelling errors, I'll proof read... one day.

On with the chapter and hope you enjoy.


For once the world felt as if it was in total bliss. Nothing could feel as comfortable as the soft bedding that Sonic nested himself in, his head lay deep in his pillow that was stuffed with soft feathers. There was no disturbance, the annoying sound of his alarm never went off that morning, and neither did his Uncle come in to push him out of the bed. Instead he had the chance to simply lie there, the sun shining through his window keeping him warm as his body rose up and down slightly from his soft breathing. He wasn't asleep at this point though, he had woken up ages ago when the dawn broke out, but for the first time it felt in his life he was far too tired to leave the bed. He loved to sleep past the alarm but he never stayed in bed for more than half an hour, there was far too much he could be doing instead. So today he himself was a little surprised that despite waking up at dawn, he had yet to actually get out of bed and it was near 12 o'clock.

He never bothered to open his eyes, or else he might have gone on his phone for a bit, it was a miracle it was still in his possession. He expected his Uncle to have taken it away from him along with seventy other punishments, but Chuck hadn't spoken to him since he lost the emerald.

This was the first time he had ever been like this, normally if he got angry he would just let it go after a while, he's never ignored him for this long before. Last night a few hours after Sonic had ran to his room he had fallen asleep, only to wake up near midnight from another nightmare. He had wanted his Uncle then so badly, but he wasn't humble enough to go to him, so spent the night afraid and alone.

Even now, he had expected his Uncle to just walk in to see if he was okay, after all he never spent the day in bed; wouldn't he be worried even a little? But his Uncle never came, didn't check up on him or anything. Sonic was grateful for the lack of disturbance but the lack of his Uncle's care also hurt him. He felt so miserable and that alone made him stay in bed.

However if he had to be truthful, he was starving right now.

He hadn't eaten in ages and now his peaceful silence was replaced with the growls his stomach erupted. He really wanted Chuck to walk in with a plate full of chilly dogs, if the man was a mind reader then he would have done it, but he knew that wasn't going to happen.

Truthfully he didn't know what was going to happen, would his Uncle ever forgive him?

A vibration from under his pillow snapped him back to his senses and grudgingly he opened one of his eyes. With a moan he moved from his extremely comfy position and grabbed his phone. He rubbed his eyes before looking at the screen to see who was trying to call him, it was Tails?

With a tired curiosity, he answered the call.

"Hello" he mumbled, only to realise he wasn't just hungry but thirsty as well, his throat practically scratched when he spoke and when he placed a hand to his neck from the pain it felt like something inside was swollen.

Tails picked up on it instantly, "Are you okay Sonic? You don't sound very good"

"Wha? No I'm fine honest… I'm just not feeling so great" he admitted, his eyes feeling heavy as he rested them once again, ready to just fall asleep.

"Is that why you're not in today? Everyone said you got suspended"

His attention started to pick up a little; so everyone's been talking about him? "Well… both I guess. Are people saying anything else?" It wasn't exactly subtle, but he was far too tired to care.

"Um… no not that I heard" the young fox mumbled, he didn't fully believe he was being truthful though. So instead of an actual reply he huffed to himself, leaving Tails silent for an awkward moment.

"So um… I was wondering… do you want to come to my house today? You know like hang out?"

Sonic felt himself snort, only this time not because of the pure notion that the kid had of inviting him, but because Tails was still so shy to him. Tiredly he rubbed at his eyes and gave a soft moan as he started to wake a little more, "Sorry kiddo… I'm just not feeling up to it. Sides I'm kinda grounded for the rest of my life" he laughed.

"Oh… do you want me to come to yours?"

He raised his brow at momentarily stared at the phone as if he could see Tails through the screen, had the kid never been grounded before?

"Hey I'm happy you coming over but I'm not sure if Unc will be happy about it" he sighed, his eyes drifting down slowly as he continued on the thought chain he was having about Chuck before his phone rang. He closed his eyes wanting to be swallowed up in his blankets; he felt nothing but guild drill through him and it added to his nausea.

"It's okay, he's at the School now so I can ask him now"

"WHAT?!" Sonic screamed while lurching his whole body up from the bed, his eyes startled and wide and sleep being an unconsidered memory. "Why is he at School!?"


Sitting with his legs crossed and his elbow resting upon the desk, Chuck watched wearily as the bigger man walked from across the room with two steaming cups in his hands. He placed one down for the old hedgehog that thanked him before taking a sip then sat down on his own chair.

"It's bad enough that he lost the Chaos Emerald, but to go as far as attacking his Teacher? I just don't understand where this suddenly came from. He's normally so well behaved at home and you've never had a reason to complain to me about anything before" the old man started to explain his poor defence for his nephew. He was so wrapped up in his thoughts he never noticed the eye roll Robotnik gave at the mention of having nothing to complain about. There was so much wanted to tell him, laughing at the man broke down at how much of a brat Sonic truly was, but like everything else he knew all good things come to those who wait. "Well we're keeping a full investigation open for that emerald but as for Sonic, as much of a model student he may be-" he felt irritated by just saying that "- Sonic pulled a stunt that is not to be taken lightly. Not only could it have actually hurt Mrs. Winters had she actually been hit, but just think about the other students. What if one of them had been hurt? How would that be explained to their parents?... not to mention the paperwork" he slyly added under his breath.

Chuck placed his head into his open hand and groaned, "I know Robotnik, I just don't know what's gotten into him. I feel like something is going on but he won't talk to me about it, he just keeps saying he's okay and nothing is wrong" instead of drinking his coffee he started to just swirl it in the cup, a habit he often did when he was deep in thought, normally it only occurred when he was brain storming though.

There was a small cold sweat that fell down Robotnik's forehead but he quickly wiped it away with his gloved hand, "Bah, I'll tell you what the problem is, you spoil that kid too much! He's probably annoyed because you didn't buy him the latest computerized game or whatever you call those things" he said while waving his hand in dismissal "the likelihood is he's sulking and taking it out on everyone else."

Chuck frowned at the obese man for his lack of interest in the situation, "Robotnik I'm being serious, I'm genuinely concerned about him!" he huffed. The human man however disregarded it, "And I'm concerned about the reputation of my School! If this got out I'd have the Ministers of Education on my backside quicker than it takes me to brush my moustache. What we need to do is get that pest under control"

"What we need to do is find out what the problem is and resolve it!" Chuck snapped back, clearly unhappy by the man's priorities, but Robotnik wasn't pleased either, he rubbed his temples and groaned deeply. "What a mess… Don't you remember the good old days where our troubles went as far as finishing an invention before a deadline?" he smiled with his hands crossing over his large stomach while leaning back into his chair seemingly lost in his thoughts at that point.

Chuck didn't resist the smile, they were good memories. There was so much history between the two it didn't matter how much they disagreed with each other, they could always carry on as if nothing had been said, they had always been great friends. "I must admit, I do miss it. Like the time we borrowed the King's crown for an experiment and we accidently blew it up" he chuckled.

"Haha, yes and in the end we blamed it on that Dave the intern guy. He was too much of a suck up anyways" The two men sighed lightly to themselves and Chuck lightly shook his head as he mused, "We had a lot of good stories to tell people."

Robotnik huffed to himself, "We could create more you know" he offered with a large grin under his brown nose hair. Chuck looked at him questionably before brushing him off as being foolish, "No… no. I'm retired now, I've done my bit for society and put my two pennies in" he answered, but the human pushed on "Oh come on, we have so much work left to do! Think about all we could build with the more recent technology that's available, even if we did build most of it"

The elderly hedgehog shook his head more firmly, "No I couldn't, I have Sonic to think of"

He was interrupted as the man let out an angry growl before leaning on his desk aggressively, "The kid is old enough to look after himself! Besides it's not as if we'll be working 24 hours throughout the day again!" he tried to argue, but he wasn't getting the response he wanted, "You know as well as I do that when we get into the job we don't stop until it's finished. Something is going on with Sonic and I am not going to just ignore that because you're sick of running a School!" he said while standing up from his seat, ready to leave if the argument took that turn.

"Yeah okay, fine! I am sick of this dump. I thought this would have been a good idea but it's more tedious then cleaning out my robots motor oil. But what do you expect? We were on the verge of greatness! Wealth! Complete and total power over everyone! And you gave it up due to a letter from you so called 'Nephew' and abandoned everything!"

"Well what did you expect me to do? Huh? Just leave him to be beaten to death? The poor thing couldn't even walk! And that machine should never have even been thought of! It was nothing more than a plea for war" he fort back, both men now glaring eye to eye. "There was no guarantee that that brat was even related to you in the first place! Your brother never told you he had kids and he died when the boy would have been five years old! And that Cry for War was by far none of our concern. We could have sold it to the highest bidder and enjoyed the rest of our lives rich and in bliss of what it was being used for. We would have had it made!" Robotnik shouted, finally standing up from his chair and looming over the hedgehog, though unlike his nephew he was nowhere near intimidated by such actions.

"He is the only family I had left and it was thanks to that machine that my brother is dead!" he paused for a moment to see if the words would strike something in Robotnik, but nothing was seen on the outside, "He was injured, your brother was dead either way. But we didn't have the knowledge we have now. We can improve the Robotersizer by 100% I've been looking over our blue prints and I know where we went wrong-" he gestured like he was about to go into an elaborate explanation but this time Chuck raised his hand to stop him from talking, "I am not interested in anything to do with that… weapon! We were wrong to even think of such a thing. I'm ashamed you would even think of attempting to rebuild it."

"And I'm ashamed you gave up on it for something as pathetic as a crying child" the round man spat. They had both been known to bicker before, spending so much time with someone will only lead to that, but now it was past the point of laughing it off and reminiscing about the past. That was the reason they started this fight.

With his brow lowered deeply and his anger remaining calm and dignified, Chuck took his seat once again and drank the rest of his coffee, "I believe we've gone off topic Principle Robotnik" he used formal addressing to show this was no longer a discussion between friends. So with a glare of hatred the principal sat back down as well and locked his fingers together before the hedgehog continued, "Something is going on with Sonic. I moved him from his last School because of that kid Shadow. I think this is happening again and I want it dealt with promptly and firmly" he spoke as if offering his terms in a business deal, each man holding his own poker face in place and not letting any emotion show through. "Oh don't worry Charles; I'm positive there's a bully going round this School. And I promise you… I will give him what he deserves" he finished with his lips curling up into a menacing smile that exposed his grinding teeth as the starting of villainous laughter poured through them.


"WHAT!? Why is he at the School!?"

Tails held the phone away from his large ear and groaned at the sudden uncomfortable vibration that rang through them. His hands went instantly to massage them as he tried to shake the pain off. "I-I'm not sure, I just saw him walk in before-" he went silent and turned to look at the bell that rang loudly throughout the entire School building. Instantly teenagers much older than him grouped up and walked towards the doors.

"Look Sonic the bell rang so I'll call you later okay? Bye" with that he placed his phone back in his bag before quickly turning around and running towards the School. He only stopped when his big blue eyes went wide when they laid upon the adult he was hoping to see. So instead of going back to class, he ran towards the older hedgehog who walked slowly with his head fixated to the ground.

"Hey! Mister Hedgehog!" Tails called out to grab his attention which sure enough worked as the man looked for him. As it was though Tails was a small fox within a crowed of much taller teenagers, so whenever he jumped or waved his arms around in the air, the old man just wasn't able to see him. So decided to shrug it off and walk away.

Gasping in the worry of losing sight of the man, Tails acted quickly and spun his two twin tails together creating his own personal helicopter and used them to fly above the crowds of teens and land firmly behind the older hedgehog. "Hey Sir. Charles!" he cried out once again. Finally Chuck turned around and smiled when he finally saw who was calling him, "Oh Tails nice to see you" he offered, though it looked only half hearted. "Hi Sir… ugh…" Tails felt himself grow nervous as his hands started to fiddle together while his tails curled between his legs. "I ugh…" why was talking so hard? He'd met this man before, even if he is his biggest idol in the whole world. He could see the inventor was getting impatient as he tapped his foot on the ground and waited with a raised brow. So Tails just went for it, "Um… Would it be okay if I see Sonic today? I wanna know if he's okay" he mumbled shyly, swaying his body side to side like he was asking for candy with a grin on his face.

Chuck's face softened as a smile made its way to his lips, "Well that's very kind of you Tails but I'm afraid he's having the day off from his big social life" he explained kindly, much to the foxes disappointment. "Oh… okay" he sighed.

Chuck was about to take his leave and say a goodbye, but a sudden thought came to him, "Tails you know what goes on around here, would you say Sonic was having any problems with any of the students?" he asked. Tails was slightly taken aback, not really expecting to be asked such a responsible question. He placed his hand to his mussel and thought for a moment, "I-I suppose there's a lot of people who has a problem with him…" he said trying to be careful with his words, but the worried look on the older man's face made him feel he said something wrong.

"Wait you mean a lot of people are bullying him?" he pushed wanting a straight answer, but Tails looked ready to panic, "Oh no no no no! No Sonic is fine! No one would be brave enough to try and bully him!" he blurted out. But Chuck froze at his words "… what?"

Eyes darting wildly, Tails looked back at the School building pleadingly "I'm sorry b-but I got to get to class. Bye!" he cried out before turning tail and running towards the doors, sending a large wave over his shoulder before disappearing into the building and leaving Chuck to think upon what he was told… and not wanting to believe it.


Pulling into the driveway Chuck had nothing prepared for when he walked into the house. The likelihood was that Sonic was up and awake, though he was concerned at how late the boy had actually stayed in bed for before he left.

Getting out of the car, he locked the door before walking to his patio. For the first time he genuinely wasn't prepared. He didn't know if he should ask about it? Make the assumption and force a confession or ignore it because his only source was an eight year old?

He opened the door and placed his keys into the small bowl that was upon the sideboard. He sighed as he knew it was now the time to deal with… whatever. He could hear the sound of footsteps walking back and forth from inside the living room, so with curiosity he walked to the entrance way and stood with his nephew in plain sight. There were a couple of cushions thrown to the floor, probably because Sonic was running around the house maybe, but he was walking back and forth across the room with his arms crossed over and holding himself far too tightly on his covered up body for Chuck's liking. The poor boy was practically shaking he was so frantic.

Clearing his throat lightly, he caught Sonic's attention as the speedster's head snapped towards him. With a sharp gasp he cried out "Chuck!" and he dashed to him. The older hedgehog hardly had time to brace himself as the smaller body crashed into him, arms wrapping around his chest as he held him tightly, burying his face into the nook of his neck.

He wasn't sure if Sonic was crying or not this time, it didn't sound like it but he was trembling so badly he could feel it affecting himself. He placed a light hand upon his quills and held his arm gently, not knowing what had brought this on, "Sonic?"

"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry for everything please! Please…" he breathed out almost fearful, his voice sounding harsh and gritty from too much strain over the past few days. He could hear from his shallow breathes that he was struggling to hold back his tears, but this time he was successful. He sniffed a couple of times before pulling his head up to match with his Uncles, but he kept his eyes close not wanting to see how he felt, "What.. did… Robotnik say?" he asked, sniffing back after each word.

Chuck frowned sadly. He gently cupped Sonic's face in his hand and used his thumb to brush away the one tear that got away. Sonic finally opened his eyes and saw that his Uncle wasn't angry with him at all, but instead was smiling with sympathy, "Nothing… Everything is going to be okay". Then surprisingly his Uncle pulled him back into his arms and hugged him, letting Sonic lean his heavy head on his shoulder while the old man stroked his quills.

Sonic was nothing more than a big kid, ready to have fun but always wanting parental comfort, the things he never got as an actual child. Why wouldn't he? Chuck knew that no matter what Robotnik, Tails or anyone else said, they had to be wrong. Sonic had a heart of gold, he could never hurt anyone.


Huh... not much plot detail but yay Chuck's not mad at Sonic anymore, so that's one less thing for our blue hero to worry about.

Please tell me what you think and what you're hoping to read happening in future chapters :D