Dark stepped off of the train and looked around. The station platform was a gleaming white. Various posters hung from the wall, advertising GUN security robots with the tagline "Keeping you safe when the heroes can't", "BEWARE" posters warning about the dangerous Dr. Eggman, and updated posters showing how the world's heroes currently look. To Darks surprise, Sonic and Shadow looked exactly the same in these posters as they did in the eight year old posters that used to hang in Darks former room at the monastery.
"Hey kid," a voice called, "you one of the new academy students?"
"Uh yeah, I-," Dark looked at the person speaking to him, "you're, you're,"
"Sonic," the iconic blue Hedgehog finished Darks sentence, "and you should be over there with the other freshmen."
Sonic guided Dark to the other new students. Now that he was looking at him, Dark had to admit that Sonic really did look exactly the same as in his old posters.
"Forgive me," Dark said, "but, you look a lot younger than I thought you'd be."
"I get that a lot," Sonic admitted," and, between you and me, a little time travel incident from when I was a kid has made it so that I age at a much slower rate than everyone else. Don't tell anyone, after all, we don't want anyone trying to seek immortality through time travel now do we?"
"Then why tell me?" Dark asked.
"Because you've got this look about you. I just know I can trust you." Dark and Sonic reached the students, "Good luck at the academy."
Sonic waved good-bye as a monorail arrived at the station. It's sign read Heroes Academy. The other students filed into the different monorail cars, and Dark followed. He sat down in a booth that only had one other person in it. She was an albino raven wearing what looked like armor ripped straight from the Arthurian legends. She seemed to have blades growing from her arms. Dark felt sorry for her. Sure, he had blades too, but hers were iron, it was as if swords were sticking out of her arms.
"Are those your wings?" Dark slipped up and immediately put his hands over his mouth when he realized he had said it aloud.
"Yes," she replied, not at all disturbed by it.
"Uh," Dark hesitated, not knowing what to say next, "they look deadly. I mean nice, they look nice."
"You're blades look nice as well."
"How did you know that they were blades?"
I have an eye for that sort of thing."
The two sat in silence. Dark had a feeling he was the only one who felt awkward. She seemed to be examining him, probably waiting for him to say something.
"Uh... I'm Dark," he introduced himself.
"My name is Nevermore," she introduced herself, more calm and cheerful than Dark was at the moment, "but you may call me Nina if you so choose."
"Nina," Dark felt a little less awkward as he extended his hand, "it's nice to meet you."
"It is a pleasure to meet you as well Dark," Nina said, shaking his hand.
- 5 hours later-
Dark, Nina and the other students got off the monorail. The sound of clicking caused Dark to look to the monorail track. It was retracting into the station. It was then that they noticed that they were on the other side of a wall.
"Where are we," Dark asked.
"Inside the academy perimeter," a voice responded.
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw that it was one of the legendary heroes. Miles "Tails" Power stood before them. Though the reports said that he was younger than Sonic, he was currently taller than the Blue Blur, for reasons that Dark was the only student to be let in on.
"Heroes Academy," Tails explained, "is the most prestigious, well protected school for warriors in the world. Therefore, it only makes sense for me to design it as though it were a fortress. Now, if you'll all follow me, we're about to take off."
The wall closed behind the station as they all followed Tails into a big elevator. The whole place rumbled as the elevator began to descend. They were able to see outside through a window. At first they saw fish swimming around, showing that they were underwater, but then, even though the elevator was going down, they ascended out of the water. Dark didn't realize what had happened until he saw the city in the distance. They were flying. Dark, among others, gasped in amazement. Tails chuckled at their excitement.
"This is incredible," one student, a rabbit, commented, "but none of the reports on the school said anything about it flying."
"There's a lot of things the reports don't tell you," Tails stated, "do you honestly believe I'd let the press get the secrets of my greatest creation?"
Dark looked at the water below and saw that the school wasn't even entirely out of the water yet, even though they were about a hundred feet in the air, with the elevator still descending. He also saw something else something moving across the water. In no time, it reached the rising academy and started jumping up the side, parkour style. It wasn't until it was directly below them that realized it was Sonic. He jumped up and grabbed hold of the elevator, giving everyone inside a brief salute before continuing his ascension.
"Amazing!" One student cheered.
"I can't believe that was actually Sonic!" Another exclaimed.
"I can't wait to tell mom about this," a fox girl next Dark squealed.
"That was nothing," Tails stated, "you should have seen him when we took on the Egg Fleet."
The elevator lurched to a halt. The doors opened to reveal a yellow hallway lined with doors.
"These are your dorms," Tails explained, "you have free range to pick your room and your roommate, just remember, no funny business."
Everyone but Tails exited the elevator, which closed behind them. Everyone else, even Nira, rushed into the rooms, picking their roommates, leaving Dark with the fox girl and the room closest to the elevator.
"I guess we're roommates," Dark said, "I'm Dark."
"Komaki," the fox said shyly.
The two entered the room. It was fairly spacious, a two person desk was tucked into the far left corner, a bunk bed in the far right. There was a table in the middle of the room, which Dark placed his bags on. There was a closet next to the door and two bean bag chairs at the foot of the bunk bed beside a small shelf loaded with books.
"The closet is all yours," Dark informed Komaki, "I won't be using it."
Komaki opened the closet door.
"Uh," she tapped one of Darks back quills.
Dark turned around and saw that the closet was loaded with girls uniforms. There were also three buttons on the side of the closet, one blue, one yellow, the other red.
"Looks like you've got a uniform," Dark stated, "I wonder what these do."
Dark pushed the yellow button and the uniforms turned yellow.
"Cool," Dark said, clearly amused.
Komaki sighed and closed the closet door.
"You know," Dark said, "I think the colour of your uniform is supposed to represent which member of the team you'd be, as represented by the colours of Team Sonic. Blue for speed, Yellow for flight, Red for power. So which are you?"
"I would probably be speed since I'm not that strong and can't fly."
"Same."
Dark pulled some books out of his bag and placed them on top of the bookshelf.
"I hope you don't mind me using the bottom bunk," Dark stated, "it's just that I came from a monastery, so I'm used to sleeping on the floor."
"I don't mind," Komaki responded.
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