A/N: Hello again! Here's another chapter of "The Heart's Reward"! In this one, Tailsko and Sonic are getting ready for gym class but Darkheart and his friends has other plans for Tailsko. But with a little help from Sonic and a new friend, Knuckles the Echidna. Things might go more smoothly for Tailsko or will it? Read on and find out! (I love doing that! It makes story more suspenseful!) Enjoy!

The Heart's Reward

Chapter 5: Another New Friend

Written by: KingSnow5092

Sonic, Tailsko and Amadeus were sitting down at the table ready for supper. Then Rosemary came in with a pitcher of milk, she poured each of them a glass. She served Sonic first since he was a guest. Then Tailsko, then her husband, and then herself. Then she set down the pitcher of milk on the center of the table so everyone can pour their own glass in case they need more. Then Rosemary walked into the kitchen and brought out supper. The plate was filled with chilidogs with lots of chili, ketchup, mustard, and cheese, with a side of fries. Sonic's mouth drooled at the sight of chilidogs.

Sonic's favorite food was chilidogs, he loved them ever since he first bite into them. Every time he sees chilidogs, he wants to devour them all! Rosemary served them two chilidogs with some fries, with some ketchup on it. Everyone started to eat, Sonic grabbed one chilidog and he started to gobbled it down like a great white shark eating a fish! Sonic chomped and chewed his chilidog. The three foxes watched the hedgehog in surprise. Tailsko slapped her forehead and then she tapped Sonic's shoulder, Sonic stopped eating and looked at Tailsko.

"What?" Sonic asked, with his mouth full.

"Sonic." Tailsko whispered pointing to her parents. Sonic turned to find Amadeus and Rosemary looking at the hedgehog with their eyes wide and mouths hung wide opened, anime style! Sonic blushed a bright red in embarrassment. "Oh, my bad." Sonic said. Then he wiped some chili off of his face with the napkin. Then Sonic continued to eat his chilidog slowly this time. The foxes smiled then they continued to eat.

As they were eating her father began to speak. "So Tailsko, how is school going?"

"It's going great!" Tailsko smiled.

"That's good!" Rosemary said.

Tailsko then frowned. "Well, kind of. I've been having a problem at school." The two adult foxes looked at each other and then looked back at their child in surprise. "What do you mean?" Amadeus asked. Sonic put down his chilidog after he heard Tailsko said that she was having a problem at school, he knew what she was talking about. Sonic didn't care if his chilidog got cold or not his friend was more important than food. Then he turned to the vixen. Tailsko explained to her parents about Darkheart and his friends were bullying her everyday ever since she became friends with Sonic. She told them they were making fun of her twin tails, how she looked, and that she was friends with Sonic. She also told them about how Darkheart almost raped her but Sonic came in and saved her. Then she told them that she was still worry that they might do it again. When she was finished the young vixen had tears in her eyes.

The adults were silent when she was finished. Sonic was rubbing Tailsko's back making sure she doesn't cry again like she did when they were in her room. The four of them were quiet for a long time until Amadeus spoke up breaking the silence. "Tailsko...Darkheart...he tried to rape you!" Amadeus asked. Tailsko nodded. The father slammed his fist on the table and stood up. "THIS IS THE OUTRAGE!" Then he turned to his wife. "Where's my coat? I'm going over to Darkheart's house and..." Amadeus began but Rosemary grabbed him by a wrist and pulled him down.

"NO! You will do no such thing!" Rosemary said sternly. She knew that Amadeus was a war hero and when the bully tries to hurt one of his friends he gets violent and starts attacking the bully with whatever he has on him. Rosemary appericated that Amadeus wanted to protect their daughter but she knew that if he hit a child then he'd be the bully. Amadeus then calm down and said "You're right, I shouldn't. But we have to do something!"

Rosemary nodded. "You're right, we should do something."

"Don't worry about the thing." Tailsko said, brightening up. "Sonic is with me all the time at school to protect me from Darkheart and his friends, and other bullies as well." She continued pointing at Sonic with her thumb, Sonic sat there with his head held high, smiling, eyes closed, and his fists at his sides like a superhero. "That's right. Mr. and Mrs. Prower I'll protect your daughter from those bullies." Sonic said, pointing at himself with his thumb. The parents smiled.

"We thank you for protecting our daughter, Sonic. But we really should let the teachers deal with the bullies, after all they are in charge of the school." Rosemary said. Sonic and Tailsko looked at each other and looked back at the adults and nodded. "Good." Amadeus said.

"So what are we going to do?" Tailsko asked.

-The Next Morning-

The bell rang for gym class. All of the kids were excited about gym class, because it was their favorite subject, but mostly Sonic. Sonic loves Gym class because of the sports, games, and other things but his favorite sport was running! Sonic was very good at running, since he was the fastest hedgehog in the universe. This blue hedgehog can outrun a cheetah, a jaguar, a falcon, an ostrich, a lion, a jackal, a rabbit, and other fast animals as well. To his luck, today Sonic was going to be a race today.

Sonic, Tailsko, and the other kids walked into the gym class. The gym class was huge, the floor was brown, the walls were blue and green, and there was a large race track where the students can ran laps around the gym. Sonic, Tailsko, and the others ran into their locker rooms to change and they came out in white t-shirts and blue shorts so they don't get sweaty when they run. Then the coach came in and stopped in front of the students. A male gray badger with yellow eyes, a purple fur mask around his upper face, peach muzzle/inner-fur, gloves, a tail with purple rings around it, a gray whistle, and fuchsia shoes, his name was Mr. Hancock, the gym teacher aka the coach.

"OK class, we going have a race around the gym." Mr. Hancock explained. "But first we're going to do some exercises." Then the students did some jumping jacks, crouches, stretches, and other things as well until they were ready. "OK class, line up in single file." The badger said pointing to the starting line of the race track. Sonic, Tailsko, and the other racers ran to the starting line. Tailsko was running behind Sonic until she tripped on something and fell over on her face. Tailsko looked up to find that it was a familiar purple eagle, Darkheart and his goons Slick the iguana and Turbo the turtle. "Did you have a nice trip?" Darkheart asked. Turbo and Slick laughed as their leader said that. "Oh real funny, Darkheart. I bet there many other kids starving for good humor around the world!" Tailsko said sarcastically. Darkheart and his goons laughed as they walked away.

Tailsko decided to take her father's advice about bullies, make a joke about it and laughed along if that didn't work then pound him. But her mother said just ignore them and they'll go away. She like her father's advice but she'll take her mother's advice for now that is. "Are you OK miss?" Said a kind voice. The fox looked up to see a male red echidna with purple eyes, dreadlocks, a white crescent moon like symbol on his chest, peach muzzle, gloves with spikes on them, a crooked tail, and green shoes, his name was Knuckles the Echidna. Tailsko grabbed Knuckles' hand and he lifted her up. Tailsko dusted herself off and thanked Knuckles.

"You're welcome but are you okay?" Knuckles asked.

Tailsko nodded. "I'm fine. Darkheart and his goons tripped me while I was running but I'm okay."

"That's good. Don't worry about Darkheart though he's just a jerk who thinks he's better than everyone because he's an eagle." Knuckles said. "He's no eagle, he acts more like a vulture instead of an eagle!" Tailsko laughed. Knuckles and Tailsko laughed. "By the way, my name is Knuckles." Knuckles introduced himself. "I'm Tailsko, sorry I have go race around the laps." Tailsko said. "No problem, bye Tailsko!" Knuckles said. "Bye, Knuckles!" Tailsko said. Then she continued to run where Sonic and the others are standing. Tailsko stood next to Sonic and Darkheart the one that tripped her earlier. "There you are, little sis' where have you been?" Sonic asked.

"I got delayed by this purple vulture!" Tailsko whispered pointing to Darkheart the eagle. Sonic glared at the eagle, Darkheart turned to Sonic and mouthed "What?" Then Mr. Hancock came over while holding a whistle in his hands. "OK students, now here's are the rules!" Mr. Hancock said. As he was explaining the rules. The eagle turned to his friends. "Now remember the plan?" Darkheart asked. The iguana and the turtle nodded. Then Darkheart grabbed Tailsko's namesakes and tied them together next to the barbell. Darkheart and his friends snickered. When Mr. Hancock was finished explaining the rules, he grabbed his whistle and held it toward his mouth.

"OK! On your mark, get set, GO!" Mr. Hancock shouted. Then he blew the whistle! Sonic, Darkheart, and the others started running Tailsko tried to run but as she did she stopped and got pulled back and bumped into the barbell. Darkheart looked at and snickered. Tailsko turned to find her two tails tied together by the barbell. "Mr. Hancock!" Tailsko shouted. The badger ran over to see what was wrong. "Tailsko, what happened?" The badger asked. "Someone tied my tails together on this barbell!" The fox explained. The badger grew angry and he untied Tailsko's tails. "Thanks!" Tailsko said. "You're welcome, now get going!" Mr. Hancock said. The vixen ran after the other racers.

Tailsko was running across the track now with her long hair flowing in the wind. Tailsko ran pass a male orange cheetah who was running but then he stopped as he looked at Tailsko admiring her long hair with his tongue sticking out as he panted, another runner, a male black panther also stopped noticing Tailsko's long hair flowing in a breeze, he too panted. The male runners stopped and looked at the orange beauty doing the same thing. The female runners stopped and looked at Tailsko they all pouted when they saw her, they were jealous of her beauty. But then the whistle scared them they turned to find Hancock standing there with a stern look on his face. "You men stopped drooling and start racing, you too ladies!" Hancock shouted. The runners began to run again.

Sonic, Darkheart, Slick, and Turbo were the only runners in front since the other runners were far behind thanks to Tailsko's beauty. Darkheart turned to Sonic and said. "Give it up, hedgehog. I'm going to win the race!" Sonic glared at him and said "No way! I'm the fastest blue hedgehog around!" Darkheart chuckled. "Oh yeah? While I'm the greatest flying purple eagle around!" Then the eagle jumped up and spread out his wings and flew over the blue hedgehog. Sonic growled. "Hey no fair! That's cheating!" Sonic shouted. Darkheart turned and said "Well, too bad hedgehog!"

Slick and Turbo laughed. Then they heard running steps in the background, they turned to find it was Tailsko catching up to them. Slick and Turbo grinned. The eagle's plan was to embarrassed Tailsko so much that when she was alone, Darkheart and his goons would have a chance to grab her! Since Darkheart knew they were running laps today this would be a perfect idea, since Tailsko can't run as fast as Sonic. She would be ridiculed by the other students so much that she would run away somewhere with no people around so they can grab her and rape her! Turbo was reluctant at the plan at first, because he was afraid that someone might catch them in the action, but now he knew that Darkheart was too quick for that.

"OK, here she comes!" Slick whispered.

"Right, I know the plan!" Turbo said, winking. Then Turbo got out a banana peel and he threw it in front of him and then he fell over on his back. Turbo laughed he meant to it. "Oh help! I've fallen and I can't get up!" Turbo said trying to get up but he can't thanks to his shell. Since turtles have shells on their back it's harder for them to get up by themselves, they try to get up but they can't until a kind-hearted human comes over and tipped them over on her front side. Tailsko noticed that Turbo has fallen over. Tailsko ran over to him and asked. "Are you okay, Turbo?"

The turtle grinned. "Oh yes, I'm fine. But I've fallen on my shell and I can't get up please help me!" Tailsko grabbed Turbo's hand and help him up but as she did. The turtle grabbed her by the tails. "Ha! I got you!" Turbo sneered. Then Slick the iguana came over and said "Now, we got you freak!"

Then Turbo rolled Tailsko into the ball as Slick turned his hands into fists. "I hope you have a nice landing!" Turbo sneered. Then he threw Tailsko to Slick who bumped the fox with his fists. Tailsko was sent flying into the air. The fox noticed that she was going to hit the ground but she knew that she could use her twin tails to fly herself to safety. Tailsko then twirled her two tails and hovered above the reptiles. The two reptiles gasped at the sight. Tailsko then flew away from them. Sonic and Darkheart were neck and neck in the race.

Darkheart was going to win for sure, but then Tailsko whizzed by Darkheart. Darkheart looked in shock that Tailsko flew passed him. Then Tailsko landed down on the race track and cross the finish line. The other runners cheered for Tailsko, Sonic did too. Tailsko blew kisses at them. Darkheart, Slick, and Turbo were angry at the fox.

When gym class was over, the students got out from their uniforms, took a shower, dry off, and went out into the gym. Mr. Hancock walked to the students. "I congratulated you students all of you did the splendid job today! But most of all, I like to congratulated you Miss Prower." Mr. Hancock said pointing to the blushing fox. Sonic and the other students cheered for her, Tailsko blushed a bright red. "BOO!" Darkheart shouted. Mr. Hancock looked around and asked. "Who said that?" The kids pointed to Darkheart and his goons. Mr. Hancock glared at them. Darkheart blushed and said "I mean yay!" "That's better!" Mr. Hancock said.

In the locker room, Sonic and Tailsko grabbed their backpacks to get ready for the next class. "You were great Tailsko." Sonic said. "Thanks Sonic, I'm sorry you lost the race." Tailsko said. Sonic put his arm around her shoulder and said "Don't worry about it, winning isn't everything." Tailsko smiled. "I'm glad you're not a sore loser Sonic!" Sonic laughed.

"BUT I AM!" Shouted a mean voice.

Sonic and Tailsko turned to find Darkheart, Slick, and Turbo standing there with angry looks on their faces. "Darkheart!" Tailsko exclaimed. Darkheart stomped over to the fox and pushed her against the wall. "You have cheated you freak! And now you will pay the consequences!" Darkheart threatened. "Make me, Darkheart!" Tailsko said. Darkheart grinned. "Oh, I will!" He said, then he grabbed Tailsko and pushed her down on the floor. His hand was about to touch her breast when...

BONK!

Darkheart was smacked in the head with something. Darkheart had a goose egg on his head, the eagle turned to find Sonic standing there with a hammer in his hands. "Oh, it's you again, hedgehog!" Darkheart said. "You leave Tailsko alone!" Sonic shouted. Slick and Turbo came up from behind and grabbed Sonic by the arms. The eagle cracked his knuckles and said "Oh, I won't be bothering Tailsko for now hedgehog, since I got you in my clutches!"

"Like, to fight people eh Darkheart?" Said a voice.

Darkheart, Slick, and Turbo turned to find Knuckles standing there with his arms crossed. Darkheart, Slick, and Turbo looked at the echidna and laughed. "Oh, it's Knuckles the Hedgehog!" Darkheart laughed. "I'M NOT THE HEDGEHOG, I'M AN ECHIDNA!" Knuckles shouted, then he charged at the bullies which Slick and Turbo ran away from dropping Sonic. Darkheart jumped out of the way from the enraged echidna. Causing Knuckles to slammed into a random locker.

Sonic and Tailsko winced in pain when this happened. Knuckles got out from the locker and fell down dazed. Sonic ran over to Knuckles to see if he was okay. "HA! You two are more worthless than I can imagine protecting the freak because she has two tails! Ha! Sonic, you maybe fast! But I'm more faster and you maybe strong Knuckles, but I'm a lot stronger than you! And Tailsko is just a two-tailed freak, why she deserves me because I'm an eagle and eagles are better than hedgehogs and echidnas everywhere! Why doesn't she just give up and dump her bestfriend!" Darkheart boasted. "Yeah!" Slick and Turbo agreed.

Tailsko got up and heard the whole thing, then she grew angry. She had enough with this purple bully! Darkheart can call her names, he can make fun of her, he can take her belongings because she'll always get more, he can even get her knock down and she'll get up again and he can never keep her down! (Sorry, felt like a little song ditty). But when someone says that she could dump her best friend that's going too far just like her father, she gets angry and angry until she snaps.

Tailsko then screamed and charged at the eagle like a rhino hunting for it's food. Darkheart turned and got tackled by the angry fox. Tailsko then starting beating Darkheart's face as she was swearing loudly. Then she bites Darkheart in the arm and then she slaps him several times, and then she continues to pummel him down. Sonic and Knuckles turned to find Tailsko beating the crap out of Darkheart. The boys smiled. "Alright Tailsko! You get him, girl!" Sonic cheered. "Yeah! Get him! Bite his face off! Go for the ear, Mike Tyson style!" Knuckles cheered on. Slick and Turbo gasped as they saw Darkheart getting beaten.

Slick and Turbo decided to go help Darkheart but Sonic and Knuckles jumped on them and held them down. The fight continued until...

"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?"

The six students turned to find the gym teacher, Mr. Hancock standing there with an angry look on his face. Tailsko then got up and let go of Darkheart who was now bloody. The badger turned to Tailsko while giving her an angry look. "I can explain everything!" Tailsko said. "Tell it to Principal Vector!" Mr. Hancock said.

-Later that Day-

Vector was a male green crocodile with vermilion eyes, black headphones, greenish-yellow under scales, gold chain around his neck, white gloves with black ends, red scales down his back, and black shoes. He was a principal of the school, he spends most of his times goofing off by listening to some music by his headphones but when there was trouble, he turned off his headphones and went straight to work. The principal's office was huge with a big window in the back, a brown desk where some files were, a huge red chair where Vector sits, and some other chairs where rebel rousers sit. There was a red door far left from his desk which leads to Espio's room, Espio was Vector's helper, he reports when something is wrong.

Right now, Vector was sitting at this desk listening to some music on his headphones dancing to the tune with his feet up high on the desk. Then there was a knock at the door. Vector turned off his music and said. "Come in!"

The door was opened by a male purple chameleon with yellow eyes, a yellow horn on his nose, three pointed head, peach muzzle/inner-fur, gloves with black metal ends, a curly tail, and royal purple shoes, it was Espio, Vector's helper. Espio came in and walked to Vector. "Principal Vector, I believe we had a fight in the gym as it was told by Mr. Hancock!" Espio said. Vector frowned. "The fight? Without me?" Vector yelled. "Bring the troublemakers in!" Vector shouted. Espio nodded. The chameleon gestured the teacher to bring in the troublemaker that started the fight.

The gray badger came in with Tailsko with guilt on her face. Tailsko sat down on one of the chairs and looked at Vector. The crocodile was surprised that it was Tailsko who started the fight. "Tailsko? You're the one who started the fight?" Vector asked. Tailsko nodded. "Yes, it was me." Vector was shocked to learn about this. He knew that Tailsko had some good records by not picking the fight with the other students, he read in her records that she was a genius that she used brains instead of brawn to solve problems. And now, Tailsko was in the principal's office because she picked the fight with someone.

"What happened?" Vector asked.

Tailsko explained to the principal that Darkheart and his goons were bullying her because of her twin tails, her looks, and her friendship with the hedgehog. When Darkheart started to taunt her best friend Sonic, she began to attack Darkheart like Ralph attacked Scut Farkus in the Christmas Story and that's when the teacher came in and break up the fight. When she was finished, Vector smiled. "That's good enough for me! OK, you're free to go!" Vector said.

"Hold it!" Mr. Hancock said, holding up his hand. "She should be punished for what she had done." Vector turned to Mr. Hancock and said. "She was only trying to defend herself against that bully!" Tailsko nodded. "But she might have injured him very badly!" The badger argued. "Well, she had to protect herself somehow!" The crocodile shouted. "What was she suppose to do? Stand there and let the bully hurt her?"

"I agree, she had to stand up for herself but violence doesn't solve anything!" Mr. Hancock shouted.

"Well, it worked did it?" Vector argued.

The vixen listening to this felt small as the two adults argued. She felt ashamed of herself beating up another student even if he did deserve it. It was still wrong for her to do it. What will her parents said? She didn't know what to do, now. Then the knock on the door interrupted the agurement. "Come in!" Vector called out. The door swung opened again and it was the school nurse, Vanilla. Vanilla was a female cream-colored rabbit with brown eyes, pink lipstick, large floppy ears, short tuft of hair on her head, a purple and crimson dress, gloves, and red shoes, she was the school nurse and Cream's mom. She was bringing in Darkheart with a tissue at his nose, he had a bloody nose.

Vector smiled when he saw Vanilla. The crocodile has a crush on the rabbit, the school nurse. But Vector snapped out of it and had his serious face on. Then the crocodile got up from his desk and walked over to the rabbit. "So, how's Darkheart doing?" Vector asked. Vanilla frowned. "His nose is bleeding but he'll be fine in a couple of days." Vector sighed in relief. "Was anyone else hurt?" Vector asked. "No, everyone is okay." Vanilla answered. Vector sighed again. "That's good." Vanilla nodded. Then the crocodile looked down at the eagle and said "As soon as you get better we'll have a lot to talk about, young man!"

"And as for you young lady..." Vector said turning around to find Tailsko to his surprise. Tailsko wasn't in her seat! The teachers gasped. "Where did she go?" Vector asked. "I don't know she was right here the second ago and now she's gone!" Mr. Hancock said. Vector slapped his forehead in fear. "Oh man, I'll be in even more trouble than Darkheart is!" The crocodile said. Then he ran over to his desk and grabbed a mircophone. "Attention all faculties. Tailsko the vixen is missing from school, if you find her let me know! That is all!" Vector said on his microphone.

The teachers began searching for Tailsko all over the place but all the same, they could not find her. Sonic and Knuckles had overheard the dreadful news while they were waiting outside of the principal's office next to Slick and Turbo. "Oh man, this is not good! My best friend is out there somewhere, she could get hurt or worse!" Sonic said. "Well, Good riddance!" Slick said. "Yeah, it will be a nicely place now without her around." Turbo agreed. Sonic ignored their rude cheers. Then Sonic jumped off the bench and ran off. "Sonic! Wait! Where are you going?" Knuckles called out.

"I'm going to find Tailsko! My bestfriend!" Sonic called back. Then he sped off quick as lighting. Knuckles jumped off the bench and shouted. "WAIT FOR ME, SONIC! I'M COMING WITH YOU!" Then he jumped up and guilded with his dreadlocks in the air after the blue hedgehog. Slick and Turbo looked at the scene and turned to each other and laughed. "They'll never make it!" Turbo laughed. "Yeah! They'll die!" Slick agreed. The two bullies laughed at their own joke.

Meanwhile, Tailsko was flying by her tails away from the school with tears in her eyes. She was afraid that everyone will hate her for what she had done. She had beaten up another student. The others might think of her as the bully herself or worse, her parents might not love her anymore. Which is not true, but she was too scared to know what will happen to her. So she flew away from the school, she didn't know where she was going but she didn't care. She was never going back there again.

A/N: End of Chapter 5! Chapter 6 will be up soon (maybe!). Chapter five is completed. Tailsko has finally beaten up Darkheart the Eagle, YAY! But she got in trouble with the principal. OH NO! Now, she has runaway from the school and hopes from never returning for what she had done. But on the bright side, she made a new friend named Knuckles the Echidna who tried to help her fight off the bullies. And now, Sonic and Knuckles are off to find Tailsko and bring her back to safety! What will happen next? Stay tuned and find out! (I love doing that!). Oh and the gym teacher, Mr. Hancock was named after the hero in the movie "Hancock". Read and Review! NO FLAMES PLEASE! Thank you!