Kai sat outside the door of his room and thought. Many things ran through his mind but he tried to forget what happened in the past and what would happen in the future, and what he should do to prepare for it. He knew that tomorrow he would begin training to fight Dr. Eggman and his army of machines. The thought of losing any of his friends, even the girls who annoyed the hell out of him, in battle really hurt Kai's heart. "I've got to do my best to protect everyone. That's it! I'll listen to the captain's instructions and I might be able to destroy everything in the area before they get a chance to strike at us," Kai thought.
Before Kai could get everything out of his system, something grabbed his arm and dragged him into one of the rooms. Kai looked up and saw Stephanie and Cassandra. Kai sharply lifted himself and backed up to the wall. "What! What do you want?" Kai asked in fear.
"Please, be quiet," Stephanie said.
"We promise we'll be," Cassandra added.
"What! Wait, what are you-?"
Stephanie stroked Kai's quills. "We'll relieve you of your stress for the time being but you need to keep quiet or you'll get us expelled from the academy," Cassandra said.
"Relieve me of my stress? What?" Kai asked in utter confusion.
"Let me put it simple," Stephanie said, "we want to use that."
She poked as Kai's lower waist; Kai immediately placed his hands over that area. "What! What do you want to do with it? It's not a toy or anything!" Kai said.
"It can be if you use it correctly," Cassandra said, blushing.
"Now, now wait!" Kai said. "This isn't supposed to be a hentai! Keep away from me!"
"Come now, don't be shy," Stephanie purred.
Kai backed toward the door but then it opened. Kai looked up and saw Sophie. "Oh, darling! I was looking for you!" she smiled.
Kai covered his lower area again. "Hey! Not you too!" Kai whined.
Sophie picked up Kai and kissed his cheek. Stephanie and Cassandra gawked at Sophie as she kissed Kai; Kai was completely paralyzed. "Now onto base one?" Sophie asked.
Kai shivered as he tried to say no. Cassandra and Stephanie pulled Kai away from Sophie and yelled at her. "Kai is ours! We claimed him first!" Stephanie and Cassandra yelled.
"Look, how about I make things easy for you two. I get Kai but I'll lend him to you as many times as you wish. How's that?" Sophie asked.
"No deal!" Stephanie and Cassandra yelled as they tried to pull the motionless Kai away from Sophie.
"I tried to be fair to you two but you refused my offer," Sophie said as she pulled Kai towards her.
"Let go of him!" Cassandra yelled.
"Kai belongs to us!" Stephanie yelled.
"Kai's going to be my groom and that's final!" Sophie yelled.
"Stop it Sophie! You'll rip him!" Cassandra yelled.
With one might tug, Sophie pulled Kai out of Stephanie and Cassandra's arms; Kai's motionless body flew into Sophie's breasts. Sophie stared down at Kai but Kai remain motionless and began to slip out from between them. With a big thud, Kai's head hit the ground and he was completely immobilized. "Now look what you did!" Cassandra yelled.
"Don't worry Kai! We'll save you!" Stephanie yelled.
A small stream of blood began to flow down from Kai's nose. "Oh no! He's getting a nosebleed!" Cassandra gasped.
Sophie crouched down next to Stephanie and Cassandra and grabbed Kai. She began to shake him wildly trying to wake him up. "Kai! Snap out of it Kai!" Sophie yelled.
Kai dizzily moaned and fell back to the ground. Cassandra began to cry and wailed loudly. "Oh no! We broke Kai!" she cried.
Sophie and Stephanie glared dully at Cassandra. "You can't break someone, what do you think he is?" Stephanie said.
"He's not a vase or anything," Sophie said.
"Actually, I think it's pronounced vaaze," Stephanie said.
"You're brain must be damaged or something, it's pronounced vayse," Sophie said.
"No, it isn't!" Stephanie said.
"Yes it is!" Sophie said.
"No it's not!"
"Yes it is!"
"It's not!"
"It is!"
"It's NOT!"
"It IS!"
"That's not the problem now!" Cassandra interrupted.
Stephanie and Sophie turned to Cassandra. "She's right, what's more important is bringing Kai back," Sophie said.
"How do you plan to do that?" Stephanie asked.
"We'll ask around everyone else to help us."
"Are you mad?" Cassandra said. "If Kai's friends find out, they'll put up yellow tape around him!"
"We'll have to ask around the other members then," Stephanie said.
"We'll decide what happens next after that," Sophie said.
Stephanie stretched out her hand toward Sophie. "Temporary truce?" she asked.
Sophie stretched out her hand and shook Stephanie's. "Okay, for now," she said.
The girls snuck out of Stephanie and Cassandra's room and walked toward Nebula and Ben's room. Sophie knocked on their door and Nebula answered. "Hello Sophie of the large bust size," he said.
Sophie slapped him across the face and yelled. "This is serious you idiot!" she yelled.
Nebula rubbed the spot where Sophie slapped him. "That hurt you know," he said, "What do you want?"
Cassandra pulled Kai into view and showed him to Nebula and Ben. "We accidentally broke Kai, can you help us fix him?" Cassandra cried.
Nebula stared at the brain-dead Kai and freaked out. "Oh my god! Is this really Kai?" Nebula asked.
"Please! We need your help right away!" Cassandra said.
"Hey Ben, you should get a look at this!" Nebula yelled.
Ben stopped reading his manga "Ai Yori Aoshi" and got up to take a look at what was going on. "What is it Nebula?" Ben asked.
He then noticed Kai and nearly died of a heart attack. "What did you do to him?" Ben asked.
"They said they broke him," Nebula said.
"You can't break someone, it's not like they're a vase or something!" Ben said.
"Um, Ben. Despite us being friends, I think it's pronounced vaaze," Nebula said.
Ben turned to Nebula. "This isn't the time to bring that up, besides it's pronounced vayse," Ben said.
"No, it's vaaze."
"It's vayse."
"Vaaze."
"Vayse."
"Vaaze."
"Vayse."
"Enough!" Cassandra yelled. "This is no time to be discussing how to pronounce trivial words that no one can pronounce correctly! What matters is repairing Kai!"
Ben and Nebula stopped fighting and turned to the completely motionless and paralyzed Kai. They shook their heads and signaled for the girls to enter their room. They placed Kai down on one of the beds and Ben examined Kai's pulse. "He's alive, what did you do to the guy?" Ben asked.
"Sophie here was planning on claiming Kai to herself after we got to him first!" Stephanie yelled.
"Oh shut up! As if you weren't going to do anything worse than what I planned!" Sophie yelled.
"You always get in the way! You and your…your…melons!" Cassandra yelled.
"At least they're better than having nothing there at all!" Sophie yelled.
"Enough!" Ben yelled. "Tell me what happened already!"
"She stuffed Kai's face where it didn't belong!" Cassandra added.
"You mean…!"
"No, a little higher…" Stephanie said.
"No wonder he's out cold, shame on you Sophie!" Nebula said.
"Do you know how to bring him back?" Sophie asked.
"Don't ask me or Nebula, this is totally new to us."
"Try Alex," Nebula suggested. "Behind that lecherous face, he might know something."
They all stared at Nebula. "Do you know something we don't?" Ben asked.
"I was a childhood friend with Alex while my clan migrated to your world, then we were separated and I met you and Sophie," Nebula said.
"Thank you for sharing," Stephanie said.
"Thank you for your help," Cassandra said.
"Much appreciated," Sophie added as they left the room.
Ben turned back to Nebula. "So you didn't move into the neighborhood, you migrated there…" Ben said.
"You wouldn't have believed me if I told you then," Nebula said, "and it's pronounced vaaze."
"No, it's vayse."
"Vaaze."
"Vayse."
"Vaaze."
The girls pulled Kai over to Alex's room and knocked on the door. Alex was first to answer before Seina could and peeked out the door. "Yes, can I help you with something?" Alex asked.
"Could you speak to us for a moment?" Cassandra asked.
Alex looked back at Seina and turned back toward the girls. "I guess, since there's nothing to do," he said.
As Alex left the room, Seina stared at the door as a curious fact swept through his mind. "It's odd…when Rebecca isn't around, he seems like the type of person who just wants to make a friend with someone or be a normal guy…and I've been such an ass to him."
The thought completely haunted Seina and he rose up from his bed. "That's it," he said to himself, "I won't try to murder him when he flirts with Rebecca anymore. I've got to make a peace treaty with him so it won't seem like I'm the bad one and he's the letch…"
Alex exited the room and saw the completely motionless Kai. "You broke him didn't you?" Alex asked.
"You too?" Stephanie and Sophie exclaimed. "You can't break a person!"
"That's what we call it when someone's…how do you say…?" Cassandra said.
"Out cold?" Alex asked.
"Yeah, that's it!" Cassandra said, pointing toward Alex.
Sophie and Stephanie stared at each other completely confused with what Alex and Cassandra were saying. "You needed me for something now spit it out," Alex said.
Sophie lifted Kai in front of Alex's face. "Do you know how to cure him of this?" Sophie asked.
Alex thought about it for a moment and then began to pace around the hallway. Cassandra was smiling but Sophie and Stephanie were worried. Alex continued to walk about some more and looked as if he was going into deep thought. Cassandra's smile had faded slightly but it was still there; Stephanie and Sophie just stared at Alex. Alex stopped pacing and spoke, "Oh yes, of course!"
The brightest smile that anyone could possibly make appeared on Cassandra's face; Sophie and Stephanie smiled brightly but could not compare to Cassandra's. "Just place his feet in soil and water him a little," Alex spoke.
The smiles on the girls' faces faded slightly but their eye expression dramatically changed to a glum look; the kind of look a person gets when someone says something really stupid when they desperately need an answer. "What?" Cassandra exclaimed with the expression still on her face.
Alex smiled nervously and scratched his head. "Oh right, that's when one of us needs to eat but can't for some reason…" Alex laughed.
"The water treatment should work just nicely," someone behind them said.
They all turned and saw Seina. The girls struggled to hide Kai from Seina but it was way too late. "Please, don't tell anyone!" the girls cried.
Seina laughed. "Seeing how desperate you three are, I'll let this one slide," he said.
The girls sighed in relief and smiled at Seina. "Thank you Seina," they said.
The Cassandra held onto Kai while Sophie and Stephanie went to get a glass of water. Seina walked up toward Alex and reached out his hand. "Let's make a truce Alex," Seina said.
"A truce?" Alex asked.
"We both like Rebecca right?" Seina asked.
"Yeah," Alex said.
"So let's not fight, we'll let her decide when she's ready okay?" Seina smiled.
"Maybe we should try that," Cassandra said.
Alex shook Seina's hand. "Sure thing, that makes us rivals right?" Alex asked.
Seina looked away and thought for a moment. "Um…well…yeah, sort of…" he said.
"Okay, I'll tell Rebecca that we're rivals for her affection," Alex said.
Seina grabbed Alex's arm as he turned to go to Rebecca's room. "Don't! I'm too shy to tell her how I feel…please don't tell her," Seina said blushing.
Alex smirked toward Seina. "I see how it is. Since we have a truce between us I'll remain silent," Alex said.
Seina smiled and looked up. "Thanks Alex. I appreciate it," he said.
"I'm glad that worked out between you two," Cassandra said, still holding Kai.
Stephanie and Sophie returned with the glass of water. "Now what?" Sophie asked.
Seina smirked evilly. "Now pour it onto his forehead," Seina said, successfully holding back a laugh.
Cassandra held out Kai so Sophie could pour the water onto Kai's head. Alex noticed that Seina was hiding a laugh and he turned to him. "You're planning something, aren't you?" Alex whispered to Seina.
"Watch and you'll see," Seina whispered back.
Sophie poured the entire glass over Kai's forehead. "Like this?" Sophie asked.
Kai immediately woke up and ran out of the quarters. "My god! Someone help me!" he screamed as he ran.
Seina burst out laughing but the girls immediately chased after Kai. Alex stared at what happened in confusion. That was the weirdest thing he had ever seen from water being splashed onto someone. He turned to Seina and asked, "What the hell was that?"
Seina was laughing so hard that tears were forming at his eyes; Alex became freaked out by this and backed away a few steps. "Are you okay?" Alex asked.
Seina started to calm down and turned to Alex. "What you saw was Kai's reaction to water," Seina said.
"What an odd reaction that was," Alex said, turning to where Kai took off. "What is he, hydrophobic?"
Seina completely calmed down and answered, "Yes he is. One day when he was twelve-years-old, Kai and I would always have races with each other; it was our way of showing off to Samantha and Rebecca. One day we were having a race on the beach and a rip opened on the beach underneath Kai's feet; poor Kai was sucked out to sea before any of us could save him. If it weren't for Samantha's advice, Kai would have never made it back to shore…" Seina said.
"What is a rip?" Alex asked.
"Have you heard of erosions?" Seina asked.
"Yeah, and I know erosions can cause depressions along the beach shore," Alex said.
"Well when water from waves return to the ocean, sometimes the water will flow toward the depressions, making them deeper and wider and will quickly make a strong sea-ward pull. That's a rip; they're nearly impossible to fight against," Seina said.
"And Kai was caught in that?" Alex asked.
Seina decided to drop the subject and walked over to where the girls and Kai ran off. "You coming? This is going to be amusing," Seina said.
Alex took a deep breath and walked up to Seina. "Yeah, I need a good laugh," Alex said.
Kai began to run as fast as his leg could carry him down the long hallway, freaking out about the water that was still on his head; he still couldn't compare to Sonic's speed. The girls continued to follow and called out to Kai; Stephanie and Cassandra were running but Sophie was flying. "Kai, slow down will you?" Sophie called out.
Cassandra decided now was the time to try and bring up a permanent truce or they might never be able to catch Kai. "Girls!" Cassandra started, "How about we settle a truce between the three of us?"
Stephanie turned back toward Cassandra but continued to run. "What for? We've already got one up for the time being," Stephanie asked.
"We're all after Kai right?" Cassandra asked.
"You two want him together but I want him myself," Sophie said.
"If we settle a truce between us, I'm sure we can work something out," Cassandra said.
"You are absolutely nuts!" Sophie said.
"A truce isn't going to help us out with Kai!" Stephanie said.
"But—can't we--?"
"No! This isn't some sort of 'house' game! We need to keep Kai away from her!" Stephanie said.
Sophie stuck her tongue out at Stephanie and flew toward the two girls. "You're right Cassandra, maybe we should work out a truce," Sophie said.
"Really?" Cassandra asked with hope in her eyes.
Sophie dropped down onto both of their shoulders and used them as a launch pad; Cassandra and Stephanie fell back from Sophie's force. "Haha, you sucker!" Sophie said as she advanced closer to Kai.
Stephanie got up on her legs and glared at Cassandra. "You see! There's your truce!" Stephanie yelled.
Tears fell from Cassandra's eyes. "Why can't we work anything out?" she wept.
"Sophie's an evil kind of girl who thinks everything she wants belongs to her!" Stephanie said. "We are more pure than that!"
Cassandra began to cry more. "Why can't she share Kai with us?" Cassandra cried.
Seina and Alex had caught up with Cassandra and Stephanie. "What's this? Have you given up on Kai?" Seina asked.
"Sophie used us as something to ricochet off of," Stephanie hissed.
Cassandra grabbed Seina's arm. "Please mister Seina! Could you please help us catch Kai?" Cassandra sobbed.
Seina flinched and glanced at Cassandra with that look one would give if someone asked someone to do something unusual. "Um…well," Seina stuttered to find an excuse. "Well, that really wouldn't be fair to Kai…"
A river of tears began to flow from Cassandra's eyes; she gave an extremely saddened face. "Please mister Seina! You're breaking my heart and I'm not even engaged with you!" Cassandra sobbed.
Seina became uneasy and backed away. "Hey, hey, hey hold on now! I'm only doing what's fair for Kai," Seina said.
Alex nervously laughed and tapped Seina's shoulder. "Um Seina, I really don't think they'll really need your help on catching Kai now," Alex nervously chuckled.
Stephanie glared evilly at Alex. "You're going to help us catch Kai!" Stephanie yelled, "Or your life is going to be extremely miserable!"
"This isn't funny mister Alex," Cassandra sobbed.
Alex nervously laughed and pointed behind the two girls. Everyone turned to where Alex was pointing. There was Sophie running from something. Behind her was Kai, running extremely fast and still panicking. Apparently his fear of the water on his head had taken full advantage otherwise he would have noticed Seina and the others. The five screamed as the panicking Kai rammed into them. The six of them laid on the floor in a total mess. "Ow, my head," Kai moaned.
Sophie got up and rubbed her aching rear. She noticed Kai and grabbed his arm. "Oh fiancé!" she squeaked with delight, "I'm glad you're safe with me!"
Cassandra and Stephanie got up and grabbed Kai's other arm. "Kai will be safe with us!" they yelled.
Tears fell from Kai's eyes. "Oh god, this sucks…"
The girls began to pull Kai's arms while Seina and Alex got up. "Thanks for the heads up," Seina moaned. "Could you be any more vague when you speak?"
Alex rubbed his head. "At least I saved us the trouble of them grabbing Kai while he was panicking," Alex said.
"Yeah! You did a real good job of that now!" Kai yelled.
Alex and Seina looked up and saw Kai being tugged on again. Alex chuckled but Seina's hand slid down his face. "Oh Kai, what are we going to do with you?" Seina asked; Alex was laughing uncontrollably.
"It's not me who wants this!" Kai snapped.
"I think we need to put you in a safety bubble," Seina moaned; Alex laughed even harder.
"Oh yeah, as if that would do any good!" Kai said sarcastically.
"Well we can't put up yellow tape around you and say, 'Keep off the hedgehog' now can we?" Seina responded to Kai's remark; Alex just couldn't stop laughing.
"Oh just shut-up and help me!" Kai yelled.
Seina sighed and walked over to Kai. He managed to pull Kai out of the grasp of the girls. "Thanks Seina," Kai said.
"You really need to learn how to fight your own battles," Seina said.
The three girls leapt to grab Kai but all they managed to do was grab his legs. "Come on 'Tenchi Misaki'," Seina said as he and Alex dragged Kai by the shirt collar back toward the cadet's hall.
The girls let go of Kai and followed Alex and Seina.
The six were halfway to the cadet's hall when the lights promptly went completely out. The girls freaked but Alex and Seina covered their mouths. "This must be curfew," Kai whispered.
"We need to be quiet or we'll get caught," Seina said.
"Cadets shouldn't be out at this hour…" Alex said.
The three girls nodded and the six walked quietly down the hall. "How are we supposed to find our way back?" Alex asked.
Stephanie chuckled and answered, "Leave that to me and my nocturnal vision."
Kai smiled and said, "Cool! Thanks Stephanie!"
Stephanie purred. "Anything for you, Kai," Stephanie purred.
Kai nervously laughed and turned Stephanie's head away from him. "Yeah, let's just concentrate on getting back without getting caught," Kai whispered.
The six walked down the hallway, holding hands to one another to make sure they wouldn't get lost. Stephanie was in the lead and she led them down the deep dark corridor. Cassandra would often jerk her head left and right in fear for what might be concealed in the darkness. Alex could feel that Cassandra was moving because of the tremble and sudden movements on Cassandra's hand, which he was holding to. "Cassandra, what's wrong?" Alex asked.
"There's something out there in the darkness, I'm scared," Cassandra whispered with fear.
Alex's expression turned glum. "There's nothing on this ship other than the cadets and the members of the Revolution," Alex whispered.
"You don't know that! There could be a demon of sorts hiding on the ship," Cassandra whispered.
"As if," Sophie whispered ahead of Seina, to Cassandra.
Stephanie stopped dead in her steps. "What's wrong?" Seina whispered.
There was a small opening in the hall and Stephanie pulled everyone behind it. "Someone's coming!" Stephanie whispered.
Footsteps began to echo through the hallway and the six cadets began to sweat with fear. They peaked out and saw a purple weasel with a lamp was walking down the hallway. The weasel looked down both halls and continued to walk down the hallway. He pulled out a small phone like machine and pressed a few buttons. "Fang here," the weasel said.
A strange voice answered with, "Good, what do you have to report?"
"So far they don't suspect a thing, and they have the eighth Chaos Emerald on board."
"Excellent…steal the Chaos Emerald immediately!"
"I would but a failure of a hedgehog has it," Fang said.
Kai was about to get up from the hiding spot and attack Fang but Alex and Seina kept him down. "Sonic?" the voice asked
"No, some Sonic want-to-be named Kai Hibiki…" Fang said.
"I want that Chaos Emerald!"
"Don't worry, I'll steal the Chaos Emerald during training," Fang said.
"Don't fail me again! I need those Chaos Emeralds so we can put an end to this war," the voice said.
"The war between Sonic and Eggman won't last too long, Fang over and out!"
Fang closed up the machine and walked back down the hallway. The six glanced at each other as they returned to finding their way down the hall. "That weasel is up to something!" Alex whispered.
"He must be working for Dr. Eggman!" Sophie whispered.
"If so then why would he say 'the war between Sonic and Dr. Eggman'? It doesn't make sense," Seina whispered.
"Do you think it might be Rouge?" Kai asked.
"We'll have to report this to the staff!" Cassandra whispered.
Stephanie turned her head toward Cassandra and whispered, "They'll throw us out for sure if they find out we were out and about after curfew!"
"We'll discuss this tomorrow," Kai whispered.
The three made it back to the cadet hall and quietly snuck into their rooms. Kai made it back into the room Samantha and he were sleeping in. He found Samantha on the ground sleeping soundly. Kai sighed and said, "Fell off the bed, eh?"
Kai picked Samantha up and managed to place her back on the bed. Samantha's arms grabbed a hold of Kai's neck; Kai became startled. "Kai. Don't leave me…" Samantha moaned in her sleep.
Kai nervously laughed as he tried pulling Samantha's hands off his neck. Her grip tightened and she began squirming. "Kai! Don't go! I love you Kai! I don't want you to die!" Samantha moaned louder while swinging Kai about in her sleep.
Kai tried his best to keep quiet while trying to loosen Samantha's grip. "Geez, Samantha. I knew you loved me but never this much," Kai thought.
"Please…don't…go…"
Samantha loosened her grip and fell back to sleep. Kai managed to get Samantha off of him. He crawled into his bunk and turned toward Samantha. "This place never ceases to scare me…" Kai whispered. "And the worst part is that it gets worse tomorrow…"
Kai closed his eyes as he drifted into slumber…