(A/N: Here's that quickie I promised, requested by Adenn666. Let's begin, shall we?)

It was a quiet evening in the city of Petropolis. At Dudley's house, the triplets were waiting for Dudley to finish taking his bath (which they found odd, because Dudley and Kitty take showers in the future). That was when Summer noticed that Atin was sitting by himself, looking at a picture that he kept with him.

"What are you looking at, Atin?" Summer innocently asked. Atin showed her the picture, which was a picture of Shadow the Hedgehog.

"Hey, that's Shadow." she said, catching the other kids' attention.

"You know him? He's my mentor, and he's the one who taught me the Chaos powers." Atin questioned.

"I know Shadow from the "Sonic" games that Dad plays for us in the future." Summer replied. Atin groaned when he heard 'Sonic'. (A/N: Dudley playing video games for the kids is something my dad used to do for me and my brother when we were growing up.)

"Something wrong?" George asked, hearing Atin's groan.

"Yup, she mentioned the faker that I thought was my dad." Atin said, sounding mad.

"Who's your dad?" George asked.

"The person from the games." Atin replied.

"Is it Shadow? You do look a lot like him." Max pointed out, but Atin didn't seem too happy.

"Oh dear..." Molly said, seeing how unhappy Atin looked.

"The name of the games." Atin growled.

"WHOA!" the kids said, realizing that Atin had Sonic for a dad.

"Sonic's your dad? He's way past cool! But why don't you seem happy about it?" George asked, noticing how Atin was scowling.

"He and Amy left me to die when Eggman attacked our home! But Shadow rescued me, and I'm going to really hurt that faker of a dad when I get my hands on him!" Atin declared. (A/N: Truthfully, Sonic and Amy didn't leave him to die, but they had assumed the worst.)

"So you're an orphan?" Blossom asked.

"Something like that." Atin replied.

"I didn't think anyone could hate their parents so much." Annabeth whispered to George.

"Neither did I." George whispered back.

"Sorry about what happened, Atin." Summer said.

"None of this is your fault." Atin told her.

"I know." Summer replied.

"But she's sensitive. Just so ya know." Molly told him.

"I've noticed." Atin said.

"Atin, is there anything we can do for ya?" Max asked.

"Don't tell anyone who my so-called parents are." Atin told him.

"You got it." the kids replied, and Atin felt somewhat better.

Okay, quickie's done! If you have any questions about Atin, you can PM Adenn666 about it. Stay tuned for "Bored of Education"!