There is one new character in this chap, but I think she gets a good enough introduction in the story.
I think do need to say that in this story, Knuckles is not only hopelessly stupid, he is also extremely shy around girls. So basically, he has all his original faults, just pushed a little further.
Part 3, The Last Peptalk
It was Monday morning, and Tails and "Sonic" were going to school. Tails was reminding "Sonic" what he would have to do, to make people believe the act.
"...And try to care more. You're so indifferent to everything!" Tails said.
"key!" "Sonic" answered.
"And look as if you think everything is funny."
"I don't!"
"I didn't say you had to feel it!"
"I heard that!"
"Just act!"
"I'll try!"
"You're so depressing!"
"I know!"
"And you're driving me mad!"
"My pleasure!"
"Argh!"
"That's the spirit!"
"Shut up!"
"Any time!"
"..."
"..."
So they walked in silence for a while.
As they approached the gate to the schoolyard, Tails said "And one more thing!"
"What?" "Sonic" said grumpily.
"You have to hate Pepper!"
"No Way!"
"Way!"
"I'm not gonna hate her! She's my freakin girlfriend!"
"Nope, she is Shadow's girlfriend!"
"I am..."
"You're not Shadow ultimate lifeform, you're Sonic the Hedgehog, and she hates you, and you hate her!"
"...I... forgot!"
"...!"
"I still can't believe I'm actually going out like this!" "Sonic" said suddenly.
"What do you mean?" Tails asked.
"My quills look terrible!" "Sonic groaned.
"It's how Sonic looks all the time!" Tails said, slightly affronted.
"Yeah, as I said, terrible!"
"Arrhh! Are you saying that Sonic looks terrible?" Tails said,horribly affronted over the fact that anyone could talk that way about his friend.
"Yep!" "Sonic" said indifferently.
"Why you..." Tails said furiously as they entered the schoolyard.
"Whatever!" "Sonic" blew him of, and set of into the schoolyard at a slow jog. (For "Sonic", that means something like a 200 miles per hour sprint!)
"DON'T SAY WHAT..." Tails yelled, but he gave it up, as "Sonic" was already at the other end of the schoolyard.
"Oh, whatever!" he snorted without thinking. Then, as he realised what he had just said, his mood sunk even further. "Argh!" he moaned. "That... that... hedgehog is freakin contagious!"
He punched himself in the forehead with his fist, silently ordering himself to never say whatever again, but it didn't lead to anything, except adding another pain to his growing list, so now he had one in the hand, where he had cut himself while fixing the Tornado Two the previous week, one in the forehead, where he had, sadly enough, just punched himself, and one huge, big, enormous, monstrous, fake, black and red pain in the ass called Shadow!
"Wzup, Tails?" Knuckles said, catching up with him. "You look so pissed, it's a wonder you haven't blown a vain yet!"
"Oh, it's nothing!" Tails said. "Its just Shad...onic annoying me!"
"Yeah, he can really piss me off sometimes, too!" Knuckles said, frowning over all the times he had hated Sonic.
"Hey, have you noticed that new girl?" he said.
"No, where?" Tails said, looking around. In his eyes, new girls were always welcome.
"Over there!" Knucklespointedat a purple and blue cat with a huge baseball-cap turned backwardson the head. Sheseemed to be around thirteen years old.
"Oh, her! That must be Big's sister! She was coming over from Australia, remember?" Tails saod.
"Is that her? I thought she would be... You know, more like Big!" Knuckles said.Cause that catdidn't look much like Big.She was slim, and hadlike a cute, boyish look going.
"Yeah! They don't look much alike!" Tailssaid, his head tilted to one side as he tried to get a good look at the girl.
"No, she's really ...cute!" Knuckles blushed furiously, and looked in another direction.
Tails laughed, but he did watch her with considerable interest, and with a, kind of longingly (the word "pervert" comes o mind!) expression on the face.
"I wonder what she wants with "Sonic", though!" he said, cause the girl was watching him with obvious interest.
("Stupid Sonic" Knuckles grunted enviously.)