Sonic awoke the next morning to a buzzing in his pocket. He looked at the time and saw that it was 4 am here. But her realized back home it was around ten, which is probably why Tails was calling him. Sonic quickly and quietly walked into bathroom. "Hey Tails, what's up?" Sonic asked. "Okay, so, don't be mad, but I'm flying to see you."

"What?" Sonic asked his brother. "Okay, I know that I'm not supposed to you and you're probably very busy. But what you told me about the other day had me really worried so Amy said that I could come and visit and just make sure you were okay. She also told me if anyone gives me any crap about it that I should call he and she'll come right over and put a stop to it." Sonic was freaking out inside. This wasn't good. "When will you get here?"

"In three hours."

"I'll see you then buddy."

"See you soon." Tails hung up. Sonic immediately began running to James' room. "James, James, James!" Sonic knocked on the door. James opened the door. "Sonic?" James asked. "What's wrong?"

"I maybe, sort of, messed up?"

"Do you mean last night? You did mess up by letting your guard down but in the end, it worked out okay. You kept the jewels safe, but had it been a real-life situation it might have turned out a little differently."

"No, not that. However, Shadow and I probably need to have a talk, but that's not what I meant."

"Then what did you mean?"

Sonic took a deep breath. "AtthebeggingingofthesixweeksImayhavehadabackupphonethatIkepttotalktomybrother." He took another breathe. "IpromiseIdidn'ttellhimanythingthatIshouldn'tbut," Sonic took another breathe, "ItoldhimabouthowIdrownedandhegotreallyworriedandso," Sonic took another breathe, "mysisterpulledsomestringsandhe'llbehereinthreehours."

"I only understood half of what you said." Sonic repeated himself slower. "Okay, we'll talk about the phone thing later, right now, we have to protect our secret. Sam, Roxanne, Mateo, and Tuma are still here so we can use them as teachers. We'll have to wake your friends and get them to help us set up to trick your brother into thinking this is actually summer school. You'll have to catch us all up on exactly what he knows so we can all get our stories straight. Get the boys to room 203, I'll get everyone else. Tell them to wear regular clothes." Sonic nodded and sped back to his dorm room. When he got in there, he turned on the light, causing the other three to groan in annoyance. "Sonic, s'too early for th'nonsense." Knuckles groaned and turned to try to get away from the light. "It's about Tails!" Sonic shouted. Knuckles sat up. "Is he okay?"

"What, he's fine." Knuckles groaned. "It's just that he's coming here, in a few hours!" All three boys sat up. "What? He'll figure things out in ten seconds flat." Knuckles said. "Who's Tails?" Silver asked. "And why is his name Tails? And why is he coming?" Shadow asked. "My brother. His actual name is Miles, but Tails is my nickname for him. I'll explain that later, but we got to get to room 203. James said that we should wear regular clothes." Everyone got out of bed and started getting ready for the arrival of one tiny genius.

"James, seriously, you got us up at midnight for that test and now it's five am. Why are we up?" Sam asked as the boys walked into the room. "I think Sonic should explain, since it is his fault after all." Everyone turned to Sonic. "What did you do?" Rouge asks. "You know when James took our phones a while back?" There were nods. "Well, I may have had a back-up phone."

"Dude, same." Sam said. "You had a phone the whole time you were here?" James asks Sam. "Cause apparently I'm better at not getting caught. Are you surprised?" James frowned. "I'm checking people for back up phones from now on." He says to himself. "Well, I've been talking to my brother. He still thinks I'm in summer school and not at a top-secret royal training for superheroes. But when I was forced into bed..." The four who didn't know why looked at James. ", I had nothing better to do so I called him, and I told him things that I didn't think would put us in danger. But apparently hearing about the elevator incident, me drowning, and my previous radio silence caused him some major anxiety, so my sister pulled some strings somehow and he's coming here to visit me."

"Elevator incident?" Roxanne asked. "Drowned?" Mateo looked concerned. "Can't swim." Sonic shrugged. "Well, I suggest we all kick Sonic out." Knuckles said. Everyone turned to him. "He's doomed us all by bringing Tails here."

"Tails?" Everyone asked. "It's his nickname." Sonic said. "How are we doomed?" James asked. "Yeah, isn't the youngest prince 8?" Rouge asked. "An 8-year-old with an IQ of 300." Knuckles said. Everyone turned to Sonic. "I said I'm sorry." He says. "Here's the plan." James says. Everyone turns to him. "We have to pretend that this is actually just summer school. Sonic needs to tell us what his brother knows so we all have our stories straight. Then we need to make everything seem like it's just a normal summer school. Tuma, Sam, Mateo, Roxanne, and I will pretend to be teachers."

"I hate undercover missions." Tuma complains. "The rest of you will be regular students. So Rouge, you'll have to cover your wings, no suits, and no powers."

"How long do we have till he gets here?" Blaze asks. "He's landing in 2 hours." Sonic tells everyone. They all begin a panic induced scramble.

Sonic waited by the front of the school for his brother to pull up. Without realizing, he began doing his foot-tapping thing. Knuckles walked up beside him. "You need to stop that. He'll know somethings up."

"Stop what?"

"The foot tapping."

"Foot tapping?"

"You tap your foot when you're nervous or you need to let out energy. Everyone knows it." Sonic looked at his foot and saw that it was, indeed, tapping. He stopped. "Maybe I'm just bored." He huffed. "You're nervous and he'll know immediately." For a while they just stood in silence waiting for the car to pull up. "So, you kissed?" Knuckles asked, no longer able to hide his curiosity. Sonic blushed at the question, hard. "I'll take that as a yes. I'm happy for you, I really am, but why in the middle of a potentially hazardous situation?" Knuckles pinched the bridge of his nose. "I don't know, it just kind of, happened, I guess. And he kissed me actually."

"Huh, good for him."

"But I started it."

"But he finished it." Knuckles argued. Sonic had no good retort, so they stood there in silence again, Sonic taking special care not to tap his foot.

Finally, a car pulls up and Tails hopes out, a suitcase behind him. "Sonic!" He shouts. "Tails!" Sonic forgets all his fears and goes and hugs his brother. They let go of each other. "Hi Knuckles!" Tails shouts from the bottom of the stairs. "Hello Miles."

"I told you that you can call me Tails."

"Hello Tails." The boy smiles. "Come on Sonic." Tails says. Sonic follows behind his brother. "Hey Knuckles, I have a question."

"Shoot." They open the doors. "What did Sonic do with the knowledge of what Shadow said by the pool?" Knuckles started laughing. Sonic frowned and started blushing. Tails looked at his brother. "So he did do something." Tails says when he notices Sonic's red face. "Oh totally." Silver walks up to the group. "Hi, I'm Silver." He says. Tails extends his hand and Silver shakes it. "I'm Miles, but my friends call my Tails."

"Nice to meet you, Tails." They stop shaking hands. "So, what did he do?"

"Alright, that's enough." Sonic says and begins pushing his brother towards the dorms. "Time to get you set up in a room."

"Oh, come on, shouldn't he know so he can tease you?" Silver asks as they walk away. "Yes, yes I should." Tails says. "No, no you shouldn't."

"Don't be a donut hole."

"You're a donut hole." Tails started fighting being pushed, so Sonic picked him up and put him on his shoulders. "No fair." Tails complained. "Totally fair." Sonic smirked. They began walking towards the dorms. "So what time do classes start?" Tails asked after minute. "They start at ten." It was the time previously agreed upon by the group. James suggested that it would give them more time to set up classrooms and prepare the 'teachers'. "That's nice, you get to sleep in."

"Yep." Sonic was excited to sleep in while his brother was here. It had been exhausting getting up so early every morning. "Anything new since we talked before this morning?"

"Well..." Sonic started blushing. "What'd you do?" Tails asked.

"Is this your brother?" They heard a sing song voice, so the boys looked ahead and saw Rouge coming toward them. She was wearing the same jacket that she wore on the first day. "He's adorable."

"I'm not adorable."

"You are adorable." Sonic said. Tails huffed. "Maybe you can be more helpful than this donut hole. He refuses to tell me what things he's done with his feelings." Tails says. "Ah, so he didn't tell you that he called Shadow a bunch of pet-names after the pool incident."

"You didn't?" Tails looked down at his brother, who was currently turning red with embarrassment. "You did. What did he say?"

"I think the most memorable was 'mine'."

"DUDE!" Tails looked at his brother. "Well, let's move on from this embarrassing topic of conversation."

"Would rather talk about how..."

"No I would not." Sonic said and began speed walking away, resisting the urge to run at top speed. "Sonic, what did you do?"

"Doesn't matter."

"It very clearly does."

"I'll tell you when you're older." Tails whined. "You didn't, biology?"

"Tails!" Sonic shouted. "I'm just saying that it's a logical conclusion based on the evidence that I have."

"No, no, no, no no no no no no no no no. No, no, no, no. nooooooo. No."

"Then what did you do."

"We kissed."

"You kissed?"

"Yes."

"Good for you." Sonic opened the door to the room next to his where James had to him to put Tails. "This is where you'll be staying at night." Sonic grabbed his brother and lifted him down. "Sweet. Where are you?"

"Next door. So's Knux and Silver if you're looking for them."

"So when can I meet everyone?" Tails asked and set his suitcase on a bed. "Right now." Sonic said and smiled. Tails smiled back. "Let's go see if we can find everyone." Sonic said. "Wanna ride on my shoulders again?"

"Nah, I'll walk." They walk out of the dorm room and back to where Knuckles, Silver, and Rouge are talking. "Hey guys!" Sonic says. They wave to him. "Where are the other two?" Sonic asks. The three of them shrug. "Why, wanna see your boyfriend?" Rouge teases. Sonic blushes hard. "I don't think we've actually defined our relationship, but Tails wanted to meet everyone."

"They might be at breakfast, let's go see." Rouge says. As a habit, Rouge spends a lot of time practicing by flying through the tall halls, and she and Sonic race (Sonic always wins) which is why Rouge tries to jump to take off but falls because 1. her wings are covered and 2. she realized she was with Tails. "You okay?" Tails asks concerned. "Me, I'm fine, I just tripped." This wasn't the first suspicious thing Tails had noticed. Sonic kept tapping his foot, which was something he often did when he was nervous. He noticed as well that Knuckles was walking more carefully than usual. But Tails saw that this wasn't a regular trip, for some reason, she had tried to jump forward horizontally. Something suspicious was going, and he was determined to figure it out.

The group arrived in the cafeteria and found Blaze talking to James. "That doesn't look like Shadow?" Tails said. "That's our main teacher, Mr. Marrow, but we all call him James." Sonic explained. James and Blaze both turned when their heads when they noticed the group coming. "You must be Miles." Blaze said. Tails extended his hand. "My friends call me Tails." He smiles. Blaze shakes his hand. "I'm Blaze. It's very nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too." He smiles. "Breakfast?" Sonic asks James. Behind him, James points to a bar of breakfast foods. "Thought we'd do something special with our special guest." Sonic quickly loads up his plate. Tails notices that Sonic is faster at everything than the last time they saw each other. James puts a hand on Sonic's shoulder and Sonic slows down a little. "Suspicious." He thought. Everyone loaded their plates, and they sat down. Tails asked questions and the group did their best to answer in non-suspicious ways. "What are you guys learning about?"

"You know, just the usual stuff." Silver said. "What's your favorite class?"

"Meals." Sonic joked. "What's been you're favorite thing you've learned."

"I liked learning about bats." Rouge says. "What caused the elevator incident."

"James." They all say. "But why?"

"So they didn't kill each other." James says. "Where's Shadow?"

"Hasn't appeared yet." Knuckles says. "I'm right here." Shadow says and walks into the cafeteria. "I was just working out." He says. He grabs some food and sits down at the empty seat at the table, right next to Sonic. After a minute of being flustered, Sonic drops his right hand to his side and starts eating with his left. Shadow takes the hint and drops his hand to his side. The others at the table are too busy talking to Tails to notice the increase in how red both their faces are as they interlock their hands.

"It's time to get to class." Blaze says and everyone follows suit.

James starts teaching them a math lesson and Sonic was ready to fall asleep. Tails was actually taking notes. Sonic wanted to be anywhere but this class at this moment. He kind of wanted to shout about the secret society so that he could go back to his training and not listening to a lesson about trigonometry. After an hour, a bell rang, signaling the start of a new class. James walked out and Roxanne walked in.

Tails noticed this new teacher was a little sweaty. He didn't know if she was nervous or if she was too warm. It could have been either. But this teacher also seemed kind of young to be a teacher. But then again, he was young to have already graduated high school and earn a masters.

Roxanne was trying really hard to seem like everything was fine. She gave a world history lesson about the second world war. Sonic was going to fall asleep at the rate of boringness that these guys were spouting. Tails continued taking notes about whatever Roxanne was saying. He even corrected her once.

Tails watched and took notice of everything Roxanne did. At one point, he could have sworn her hand just disappeared. When he blinked the hand was back, he thought for a second he hallucinated.

More problems arose when Mateo walked in to teach English. He just struggled to keep calm. Undercover missions were not his forte, it made him nervous.

When Sam walked in for a science lesson, Tails noticed that she was definitely different, the way she walked, the way she spoke, and the way she carried herself. She had a confidence that the two previous ones lacked. Sam was writing something on the board while Sonic passed a note to Shadow who was sitting behind Sonic and Tails. "Sonic, if you want to pass notes, you can do it in someone else's class." Sam did her best teacher voice (actually impersonating a teacher she had had before). "Sorry." He said. She finished writing on the board and showed them a model of DNA. Tails couldn't fathom how she had known they were passing note. They were so quiet. It was almost as if she had eyes in the back of her head, but that wasn't possible. He'd never seen a teacher do that to someone unless they saw it with their own eyes.

When the next class started, Tuma walked in. Tails noticed that this guy carried himself like he belonged wherever he was. It was different than the confidence that Sam carried, it was more of a self-assurance. Sonic had a feeling that this class wasn't going to end well. Tuma sat in the desk and put his feet up. "This is your time do whatever homework you were given." Sonic pulled some paper from somewhere (where, Tails didn't know) and began to work on it. Tails leaned back and started observing. Tuma was working on something on a computer. Knuckles started looking at what Rouge was working on and started asking her questions. Tuma looked at them. "You two, stop talking." They immediately obeyed. Something about it seemed off to Tails. Tails wanted to do a quick experiment. Tails got up and walked to the teacher. "Sir, I'm kind of shy, and I'm curious as to the relationship of Knuckles and Rouge. Could you tell them to tell the class." Tuma looked at the kid. This kid just seemed to be curious (and he was, just not in the way Tuma thought), he didn't see anything wrong here. "Hey Rouge, tell me, how do you feel about Knuckles?"

"He's more handsome than jewels and very interesting. I like how sometimes he seems smart and sometimes not so much, it keeps it interesting. I like his charm, his strength, and determination. I like him a lot and I would very much like to go on a date with him." She said and immediately blushed turning away from the boy she just confessed to. "Hey Knuckles, tell me, how do you feel about Rouge?"

"I like her a lot as well. She is smart, beautiful, crafty, and much more, and I think that despite how much I dislike being flustered I would like to go on a date with her as well." They both looked away from each other, multiple shades of red. Tails didn't know Rouge, but he did know Knuckles, and Knuckles wouldn't say something like that in front of all of those people of his own free will. That, plus everything else he had seen, he knew something was wrong. He could investigate himself and try to figure it out, but what he did next seemed easier.

For an eight-year-old, Tails was actually pretty strong, the only one who knew this was Sonic. He supposed it came with the inventing territory. This is why Tails stomped over to his brother, grabbed his ear, and started dragging him into the hall, all the while Sonic kept saying 'ow'. "Did he just do that?" Blaze asks. "What's happening?" Tuma asks. "Well, he knows, we're doomed." Knuckles says, still trying to recover from his impromptu confession.

Tails let go of his brother once they were in the hall and the door closed. "What are you hiding?"