Sonic was lying in bed, thinking. An alarm started sounding startling everyone awake. "Attention trainees, suit up and meet in the loading dock immediately." The boys all got up and quickly got dressed and ran to the loading dock where James and the girls were waiting. "Everyone in. Let's go, let's go, let's go." They all hopped into the truck waiting of them and strapped in. "There's been a break in at the royal treasury. If the thieves steal the crown jewels, they could be sold on the black market for billions to buy weapons of mass destruction."
"No pressure." Rouge commented. "Protect the jewels at all costs. And don't take them." James looked at Rouge as he said that last bit. James leads them to the room with the jewels. Something seemed off about this whole thing to Shadow, but he didn't say anything.
When they arrived at the jewel room, the group stared at everything in awe. "These are amazing." Rouge says. James leaves, saying this is their mission, and he has to go inform the head of the society. Silver starts swatting at something by his face. "Silver, what's wrong?"
"I keep hearing a buzzing by my face." He continues to swat. Blaze starts walking away. "Blaze, where are you going?" Silver asks her. "I don't know. I heard something say follow and now my legs are moving on their own." She says concerned. Silver starts running after her. Knuckles starts looking around the room. "I saw something, I'm going to go investigate." He says and runs away. "I'm not going to let him go alone." Rouge says. "You two stay here." She says and runs after Knuckles.
Shadow and Sonic look at each other and blush. They both stand there in silence. Sonic begins tapping his foot, a habit he doesn't know he has, he just does it. After a minute, Sonic decides he can't take the silence. "I wanted to thank you." Sonic says. "For what?" Shadow asks and tilts his head. 'Cute.' Sonic thinks to himself. "For saving me the other day. I never got to thank you."
"Oh, you're welcome." Then the room turns to awkward silence, again. "You know, I meant what I said."
"About?" Shadow asks. "The stuff I called you."
"What, like idiot?"
"No, the insults were me teasing, but I meant the other stuff. The pet-names I mean." Shadow's face was getting really red. Sonic was feeling a little bit bold, and Shadow didn't seem to mind it the other day. Sonic got close, noses almost touching, he could feel his own face heating up, but he was feeling brave. "How would you like it if I called you mine?" Sonic leaned in a little more and tilted his head, about to kiss the boy in front of him. "Stop." Shadow said. Sonic pulled back, a little hurt. "What?"
"I said stop. If you don't mean it, stop it. This isn't the way to mess with me." He sounded upset, hurt even. "How do you know I don't mean it?" Sonic was hurt that Shadow thought that he would do this if he didn't like him. "I don't. I'm not sure anymore." Shadow sounded so vulnerable. He didn't like saying this stuff, but something about Sonic made him do a lot of stuff he didn't like. "Shadow, I like you. I like you a lot. I want you to be mine and I want you to call me yours." Shadow dropped any reservation he had out the window and grabbed Sonic's face, putting their lips together. After a moment of shock, they both melted into the kiss. This wasn't like the rest of whatever relationship they had, this kiss was sweet and gentle, just a way to express how they both felt. But the thing about these types of kisses, someone always wants more. Shadow seemed to be trying to be gentle, but Sonic was having none of that. Sonic wanted to bring him closer. Sonic brought their bodies together and began fighting Shadow for control of the kiss. Shadow wasn't giving up and fought back, and he had the upper hand.
Unfortunately, someone decided to walk back in at that moment. "I'm very happy for both of you," Rouge told them annoyed. They pulled their faces apart in shock, now both blushing panting messes, ", but WE'RE KIND OF IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMETHING YOU KNOW!" They both mumbled that they were sorry. "Yeah, yeah, just guard the jewels. We have to impress James."
"Where's Knuckles?"
"I don't know, I can't find him." Just then, a person about Shadow's height dropped in and another person seemed to appear out of the nowhere. "You," A deeper voice came from the taller of the two as they pointed to Rouge, "give us the jewels." Rouge began to comply with the request, walking over to the jewels. "Rouge, what are you doing?" Shadow asked. "I don't know?" She says concerned. Shadow tackles the one that commanded Rouge to do that. Sonic began to fight the other one. But they disappeared, then he got hit from behind and he fell to the ground. "This one can turn invisible." Sonic shouted. "Where, are Blaze, Silver, and Knuckles?" Shadow asks as he charges a spear to throw at his assailant. Rouge seems to have dropped out of whatever trance had taken her over. She began helping Sonic try to find the invisible person. A swarm of bugs began to surround Sonic and Rouge. Shadow threw his spear, and his enemy dodged it.
Blaze and Silver came running in one door. Knuckles came into room from the other. "These guys have powers!" Knuckles shouted. "This one could see and hear me coming from a mile away." He says and tries to punch the person who's run up behind him but the person dodges. Shadow keeps fighting but he starts putting pieces together. "Guys! This is a trick!" He shouts. "What do you mean it's a trick?" Knuckles asks. "Think about it. What did James tell us about on our first day?"
"His previous students!" Blaze shouts as he puts it together. "Hear that guys, James talks about us." The person Knuckles is trying to attack says. "Not surprised, we are pretty awesome." The person attacking Shadow says. Sonic crumples over. A person appears behind him. "Us, yes, you, not so much." Shadow powers up a spear and throws it, the person dodges. "Haven't I grown on you yet?" They ask. "Like a fungus." The person Knuckles is with says. "Come on guys, do we have to do this every single time?" The person attacking Blaze and Silver says. "The four of you talk too much." Shadow complains and trips his assailant. "Yeah, this is a battle." Blaze says and throws a flame at her and Silver's assailant. "So, this is all a test." Knuckles asks and throws another punch. James opens the door to the room, and everything stops. "It was." He walks in. The four assailants stand up and walk next to James. They pull off their masks to reveal the faces of James four former trainees. "Trainees, meet graduates Sam, Tuma, Roxanne, and Mateo." The group notices that Roxanne and Mateo are holding hands. "Grads, meet my current students. Silver, Blaze, Rouge, Knuckles, Sonic, and Shadow."
"They didn't do half bad." Tuma says. "They did better than we did." Sam says. "We did?" Sonic asks. "They failed." James says. "You guys protected the jewels, but you allowed yourselves to be separated and vulnerable." James glares at Sonic and Shadow, who turn away blushing. "What did they do after we left?" Knuckles asks James. "They kissed." Rouge says. Everyone turns to them. "About time." Silver finally says. "Not the best timing." James says. "I think they're cute." Roxanne coos. "Are not." Shadow says. James facepalms. "My goodness." He states. "I'm going back to bed." Silver says. James leads everyone in the room to the car to go back to the school.