School is School!!

Chapter 7# Like a Queen

Sonic and the gang were walking along a pavement, talking and gossiping about the latest news. "Have you heard about that school? That all boys school? Street High? I saw that school on tv, they said it was better than our school!!" Sonic complained. "I saw the boys there on tv too! They were awesome!" Maria said, giggling. Shadow clenched his fists. Awesome? He whispered to himself, "Awesome? What about me? How I wish I could see how 'awesome' they are!" 

Suddenly, Sonic and the gang accidently bumped into a group of boys. "Watch it!" Amy yelled at a blond haired overlander who was wearing a black leather jacket and matching baggy jeans. His hair was in a total mess...in a cool way "Hey cutie, you look hot today," he said. Amy blushed and hid behind Sonic, "I wish Sonic could say that." "Who do you think you are? You whamed against me and i think you owe me an apolagy!" Sonic retorted. "You watch where you're goin'!" the boy said calmly, "Name's Nike. I'm from an all boys school, Street High. I'm sure you've seen us on tv."

"That must be the 'awsome' guy Maria was talking about," Shadow thought, his red eyes blazing in fury. In a speed of light, Shadow whizzed pass Sonic and grabbed Nike by the collar "You idiot!!!" Shadow roared at him. Nike gave him a calm and puzzled look. "Shadow! How could you?" Maria cried angrily and ran towards Nike.

"Shadow, let go of Nike's collar!" Maria ordered angrily. Shadow unhappily obeyed and stepped back. Maria turned to Nike,"I'm sorry about Shadow's rash actions!" Nike nodded and smiled, "No prob babe, I'm as cool as ever." Maria went pink and giggled. Shadow narrowed his eyebrows and fumed angrily.

"Our school can't be beaten!" a guy from the group said with full of confidence. He was a neat red head, he had a bandage strapped around his right arm, a blue vest, red jersey and torn jeans,"I'm Jan and I'm the sports captain. Our team has never lost a game before!" He then glanced at Sonic and added mockingly, "Unlike some other lousy teams!" "We'll show you who's school is the best!" Manic snarled. "Fine, there'll be a reporter coming to every school! He'll announce who's the best and the worst school!" Nike said and turned to walk off. "We'll see..!!" Sonic muttered.

~Next day~

Sonic was delighted to hear that the reporter was coming to interview QA within 30 minutes. He rushed to tell everyone except for Meczy who was spying on someone else...

"I really have to go," Queen Aleena said to Athair. Queen Aleena and Athair were in the headmistress office. "Must you?" Athair asked, "The reporter is coming in 30 minutes! If you're not here, this school will lose its reputation!" "Yes, yes," Queen Aleena mumbled, not paying attention, "I need a break Athair!" "If that is what you wish," Athair said and dissapeared in a puff of smoke. "Oh no..." Meczy whispered to herself...

"WHAT??!!" Shadow yelled as Meczy told everyone what happened. "We can't let this happen can we?" Manic asked the rest. "We can't?" Knuckles asked. "Of course not blubber brain!" Rouge said, bopping Knuckles on the head. "Ow! You've flattenend my flat head!" Knuckles complained. "Well, someone's gonna knock some brains in that thing right?" Rouge said, tapping Knuckles head.

"I got a plan!" Sonic cried. Everyone crowded round Sonic. "Okay, first we...."

After 30 minutes, the reporter entered the hallway together with a cameraman beside her. "This is the Royal School. I'm suppose to interview the principal of this school today but it doesn't seem like she's here. Oh well. That's too bad!" the reporter said, shrugging. "Yoo hoo! Oh reporter!" a high-pitch voice yelled.

The reporter's eyes widened, "Oh Queen Aleena! Is that really you? You look different!" Sonic who was walking on stilts, wearing make up and a long flowing dress, faked a giggle, "Must be your imagination!" "You look..." the reporter began. Uh-oh... Sonic gulped. "You look younger, slimmer and prettier!" she continued. Sonic heaved a big sigh, "Why thank you. Let me introduce you to my way past cool... I mean best students."

Sonic introduced his gang to the reporter, praising all of them. (excluding him) "I thought you had a son, that blue hedgehog, Sonic?" the reporter asked, "I'm a fan of his!" "Oh uh, I'll get him here and besides, I uh...I think I smudged my eye shadow," Sonic stammered before dashing off. "I never knew queens were so fast," the cameraman said.

In a dark corner,"Shadow, your turn!" Sonic said, shoving all the equipments to Shadow. "Why me? I'm no gurlie!" Shadow complained. "Shadow!" Sonic hissed. At the corner of Shadow's eye, Shadow saw Maria sitting at a corner, talking on a handphone. "Who's she talking to?" Shadow asked. "Oh Maria? She's talking to Nike," Amy said. "Wha-? Give me that Sonic! We need to prove that our school is the best!" Shadow said grabbing the costume from Sonic.

"Where is that Queen Aleena? She's taking a long time to just put on her make-up!" the reporter mumbled. "Hello again. Remember me? I'm the worlds ultimate ---- heh .... I uh... mean.. let me show you the ultimate -- I mean the great rooms we have here," Shadow said, forcing a weak smile. "What about Sonic?" the reporter asked with big puppy-dog eyes. "He's sick," Shadow said simply. The reporter nodded and dragged the cameraman along to see the other rooms.

"I sworn I saw Queen Aleena. Girls, did you see Queen Aleena? I need to talk to her!" Athair asked Amy and Meczy. "Uh...no! Nothing at all! I never did see her!" Meczy lied. "Err.. yeah...we uh... didn't see her at all! No where in sight!" Amy added. "She must be in that room," Athair said, pointing at a classroom where Shadow was with the reporter and cameraman.

"You can't go in there!" Amy screamed, blocking Athair. "Why not m'lady?" Athair asked politely. "Because..." Amy said and looked at Meczy. Help? "Because the girls are changing in there!" Meczy blurted out quickly. "Then I better not go there! Thank you girls! You've saved me!" Athair said and hurriedly walked off.

Soon, Shadow got bored of walking about and said,"I think there's an emergancy in the canteen. Just stay here and I'll be right back." The reporter nodded understandingly as Shadow dashed off.

At the same dark corner, "Shadow! I can't walk about! I've got to put these props in the library!" Sonic yelled. "Then who'll do this job? I'm bored! I nearly fell asleep!" Shadow shot back. During all that panic, Knuckles walked by casually. Sonic and Shadow looked at each other and grinned.

Knuckles was dressed up as Queen Aleena in a speed of light. "Wha-?" Knuckles asked. "Oh nothing, just do as we say or you'll have to clean the class for 2 whole weeks!" Sonic snickered. "Okay, okay, what do I have to do in this ridiculous outfit?" Knuckles asked, looking disapprovingly at the long white purple dress he was wearing.

Shadow connected something digital to Knuckles' ear. "Okay, just say what we tell you through this ear-microphone okay?" Shadow said. "O-kay..." Knuckles said slowly and walked off. Shadow muttered through the microphone he was holding, (Whatever Shadow says throught the microphone, Knuckles can hear it) "Remember, walk like a lady and speak like a lady." "Remember, walk like a lady and speak like a lady," Knuckles said.

Knuckles managed to reach to the room the reporter was waiting at without much difficulty... "Oh my dear lady, you look different everytime you go away to do something." the reporter commented. "Err...that's what you think," Knuckles mumbled. Knuckles then brought them to the self-defense training room.

"This is the self-defense training room. It has lots and lots of fighting equipment. Our best student at punching is uh... is uh.... Rouge!" Knuckles said and waved at Rouge who was guarding the room. "Yoohoo! Rouge darling! Come here!" Sonic said through the mic. "Yoohoo! Rouge darling! Come here!" Knuckles repeated. Rouge looked at Knuckles, raising an eyebrow. "Oh just come here!" Knuckles muttered. Rouge walked towards Knuckles with a puzzled look on her face.

"This is Rouge, you know, my one and only best school puncher!" Knuckles said, beaming at the camera. "Go on," the reporter said, scribbling something on her notepad. "Knuckles!! I can't punch!" Rouge whispered fiercely to Knuckles. "You can't?" Knuckles asked. "Of course not you adorable nitwit!" Rouge whispered silently. "Oh, she's just shy, It'll take a few minutes to make her punch that punching bag," Knuckles said to the cameraman. "Knuckles!!!" Rouge hissed. "Why does she call you Knuckles?" asked the reporter. "Oh uh.. it's just a nickname for me. Although I don't know how they made that nickname," Knuckles said quickly. "Oh. Okay," the reporter said.

"Please Rouge, you're on camera!" Knuckles whispered back at Rouge. "Really? Ooh! Okay! I'll try!" Rouge said gleefully. Rouge reared back and punched the metal punching bag with all her might. There was a loud BANG!!!!! And a deep dent on the punching bag. "Woow!" the reporter and the cameraman said at the same time. "Owowowowowowowowowow...." Rouge winced, nursing her wounded fist while walking away. "That was totally cool! What are you going to show us next?" the reporter asked, excitedly.

"Err...." Sonic mumbled on the mic. "Err....." Knuckles said. "No!No!No!" Shadow hissed on the mic. "No!No!No!" Knuckles said. "Knuckles!" Sonic muttered on the mic. "Knuckles!" Knuckles muttered. "Stop it!" Shadow yelled on the mic. "Stop it!" Knuckles yelled. "Stupid fool!" Sonic shouted on the mic. "Stupid fool!" Knuckles yelled. "Wha-? What the-?" the reporter asked, looking at Knuckles questioningly. "I need to go to the ladies. I think I've got a headache," Shadow said on the mic. "I need to go to the ladies. I think I've got a headache," Knuckles said and walked off.

At the dark corner (as usual), Knuckles panted heavily,"That was a lot of work!" "Sez you!" Shadow mumbled. "Idiot," Sonic cursed under his breath. Sonic turned to Manic, "Manic, you're a master of disguise aren't you?" "Yeah I am," Manic said proudly. Sonic then handed the same costume to Manic. Manic looked at the dress and quickly said, "Err... no I'm not. I'm just a Master Thief." "Aww, come on Manic! It's no biggie!" Sonic said, grinning.

As soon as Manic finished dressing up as a queen, Sonic grinned and said,"You know, you don't look half-bad!" Manic shook his head and glared at Sonic,"Thanks for the compliment."

Manic brought the reporter and the cameraman to the library. "Welcome to the wonderful place of reading and learning," Manic said in the most girlish voice he had. "In other words, this is a library," the reporter replied. "Yes," Manic said, rolling his eyes. Sheesh. "This is the section where the students learn how to improve their languages, spellings and grammar. Let me show you a book," Manic said politely and snagged a book from that shelf. "This is....The Little Red Riding Hood?!" Manic yelled as he looked at the book, "Uh...I got this wrong, uh...this section are for the uh... weaker readers."

"Anyway, let's look at another section, this section is for magazines. It is very knowledgable," Manic said, picking up a magazine,"This one's called....Playboy?! Oh... who put this trash here?" Manic dropped the magazine in the dustbin and took another magazine,"Ah, my favourite. This one is.... Pretty Gals? This doesn't belong here! I don't know who put it here!" Manic dumped that magazine too. Pretty soon, all the magazines were in the dustbin. I guess Sonic couldn't get any other magazines...

Manic went to the encyclopedia section. "Encyclopedias are the best don't you think?" Manic asked. The reporter and cameraman nodded. "This encyclopedia shows us about.... ants? There are red ants...white ants... black ants... BLUE ANTS?" Manic blurted out. He flipped to the other pages and found out that the whole book was empty---it was just a prop.

"Oh! Uh... students uh... make their own encyclopedias... how..smart," Manic said and placed the book back. "Why not go to the cafetaria? You can head there first while I comb my hair," Manic said, walking away in small steps.

Manic and Sonic quickly exchanged places. Sonic dashed off to the cafetaria. "Ah yes, the cafetaria!" Sonic said and walked to a counter. Leaning on the counter, Sonic said, "Two chillidogs with the works pal!" "Okay..." the cook said and placed two chillidogs in front of Sonic. Sonic stuffed both of them into his mouth and munched noisily. The reporter and cameraman stared at him silently. "What?" he asked in a muffled tone.

As soon as Sonic finished his meal, he brought them to a table, "Please sit down while I uh... get you something. Ice-cream perhaps?" They both nodded in agreement. "Good!" Sonic dashed to the counter and told Shiora (who was at the counter) to prepare ice-creams. She simply plopped all the different flavours together without looking for she was writing something on her notepad.

Sonic grabbed the ice-creams and put them on the table, "Eat up!" The both of them dug into the ice-cream hungrily as Sonic waited eagerly for their opinion. "Ouch! What's this?" the reporter asked and spat out a mechanical pencil. "Yuck! What the-?" the cameraman asked and spat out an eraser. Sonic looked at Shiora who was franticly searching for her pencil and rubber.

"Uh... sometimes the canteen gives a lil' present by putting something into their guests food. So whatever you get, you can keep it!" Sonic piped up quickly.

Somewhere else in the school, Queen Aleena burst into the school while grinning happily, "I've done some serious shopping! Now I shall get back to work!" Queen Aleena dropped her heavy shoppe bags as she heard the sound of her rumbling stomach. "Oh gosh! I'm famished! I should get something to eat in the canteen," she said and rushed to the canteen.

Shadow and Manic saw that scene and ran towrds Queen Aleena, blocking her from reaching the canteen. "May I ask what on earth are you two doing?" Queen Aleena scolded, "I'm hungry!" "We know that mom," Manic tried to explain but Queen Aleena simply snapped,"Then let me through!" "Please queenie, i know you're exhausted so why don't you go rest in your office?" Shadow suggested. Queen Aleena shook her head and crossed her arms, "No can't do!"

"Uh... uh..." Manic and Shadow looked at each other. They were speechless. Their minds went blank---no more excuses---all they could think of was---they're dead!

 Queen Aleena made her way through to the canteen. She screamed as she saw another version of her! "Imposter!!!!!!" Queen Aleena shrieked. "Oh no!" Sonic yelled and ran off. Unfortunately, he tripped and fell flat in front of Queen Aleena. All the equipment fell off.

Manic and the rest gasped in horror. Queen Aleena was dumbfounded. The reporter and the cameraman were confused. Sonic looked at his mother, "Oh no..." "Come here sir! You've got a lot of explaining to do!" Queen Aleena fumed, dragging Sonic to her office, followed by the confused reporter and cameraman.....

The next day, everyone was watching the school's television. They had one more hour before they were sent to detention. The reporter and cameraman promised not to tell anyone about the incident because the reporter was a fan of Sonic and the cameraman was a fan of Manic.

But it was announced that the Royal School was the worst school of the year! What great embarressment! Sonic and the rest grumbled as they walked into the detention room.

After a few hours, everyone was asleep except for Shadow and Maria. Shadow was playing with his pencil, not knowing that Maria was awake. Just then, he heard Maria laugh. It was coming from behind him. He turned around and saw a blond guy laughing with Maria.

Shadow sulked and walked towards the two laughing comedians. He tapped on the guy's shoulder, "Hey kid, you better not be flirting with her!" The guy ignored him and smiled at Maria who blushed slightly. "You're such a charmer," Maria giggled. Shadow extended a fist to punch that blondie but stopped as soon as he recognized the blondie. It was the same guys who they bumped into that morning! Nike!

Nike grinned as Shadow frowned. "Why're you here?" Shadow asked icily. "I wanted to inform you that you guys will be spending a night at our school tomorrow. We're going to have a football match," Nike answered. He then turn to walk off.

Shadow grinned for the first time. Good. Thanks Nike, heh, now I can show Maria who is the awesome one!

 

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Will they win the match?

Will Shadow lose Maria?

Will disaster fall on them?

Find out in chapter! 8# AAAHHH!!!