The next morning, Sonic got up early. He decided he wanted to do something special. Sonic paused on his way to the cafeteria. Even just thinking the word boyfriend sent uncontrollable butterflies flying in his stomach and a blush to his cheeks. He continued to the cafeteria. After scavenging in the school kitchen cabinets, he found what he was looking for, a can of coffee beans. Rouge had told Sonic yesterday that Shadow liked to snack on them. After thinking about it Sonic had realized he'd seen Shadow do so a couple of times during class.

Now we know what you're thinking, no Sonic wasn't trying to celebrate their 'one day-aversry'. He just wanted to spoil his boyfriend. Shadow walked into the cafeteria and saw Sonic. "You're up early." He said surprised. "Because I wanted to get you a special treat." Sonic said and shook the can of coffee beans. "Oh. Thanks." Shadow said and blushed. Sonic smiled and handed him the can. "This isn't to celebrate us being together for a day, is it?" Shadow asked before opening the can. "Nope, it's just to spoil my boyfriend." Shadow was speechless. Who knew Sonic could be so sweet? Shadow plopped a few of the beans in his mouth and savored the bitter-sweet taste. Sonic gave Shadow a kiss on the cheek. Shadow smiled. "Thanks." Shadow said. "Of course." Sonic told him. Shadow gave Sonic a kiss as well, rendering the usually chatty boy speechless. And both smiled like idiots.

Amy pulled out her phone. She wanted to check up on her brothers. "Hello?" She heard her baby brother's sleepy voice. "Hi Miles."

"Amy!" He said excitedly. "How's everything going at home?"

"Well, the preparations for the party and recrowning are in full swing. Search parties are still under way across the country. But I was more interested in how things are going with you two. Did you get any trouble?" There was a pause and Amy heard her brother's breath hitch. "No. I didn't get any trouble. Sonic is fine. He just wasn't supposed to have his phone which is why he wasn't able to call. He is physically and mentally fine. We're still friends."

"You told me that he had some new friends. Have you met them?"

"Yeah. Prince Silver, Prince Shadow, Princess Rouge, and Princess Blaze."

"I thought he already knew Shadow and Rouge?"

"Well, he wasn't friends with them before."

"Good for him. Glad to know that he is working on being more diplomatic." Tails chuckled on the other end of the phone. "You should see him. He's so happy here."

"Really, I thought he'd hate the classes?" Amy was so confused. "Well, he does. But he likes the people. They also have a track that's been enjoying running on."

"So what have you been doing while he's been in class."

"I come to class with him, or I sit and tinker until he gets back."

Amy heard a soft knock on the other end along with a soft unfamiliar feminine voice. "Rouge says it's time for breakfast. I've got to go. Bye Amy."

"Just one thing before you end the call, tell Sonic that he can invite all his new friends to the party." Amy said. "You got it. I'll let him know." And Tails hung up.

"You coming?" Rouge asked. "Yeah, my sister just called, and I knew if I didn't answer she would become suspicious." He replied and got up. With a stretch and yawn Tails got out of bed. "Oh my gosh, you're adorable!" Rouge said. "I am not." He squeaked. "Awwww." Tails blushed in embarrassment. "Let's just go get food."

"Alright." They started walking in silence. Tails decided to use this as an opportunity. "So what about you Knuckles."

"What about me and Knuckles."

"Well now my brother and Shadow are together. So what about you and Knuckles."

"We're just friends."

"Bull shit!"

"Watch your language."

"Not when your spouting absolute BS!"

"It's not absolute BS."

"It is and you know it."

"That is enough of this conversation." Rouge crossed her arms, pissed and embarrassed. "You know I'm right." Tails insisted. "You're not."

"You both confessed."

"Not by choice."

"AH HA!" Tails shouted. Rouge paused, realizing her mistake. "I was right and you just admitted it."

"I admitted nothing."

"You did, I heard it." Rouge just scoffed.

"Sonic is up early, is it backwards day?" Silver asked when he came down. "I just wanted to do something nice for my boyfriend." Sonic said. "That doesn't change the fact that you were the first awake. That never happens."

"Because no one should have to be awake this early in the morning." Sonic groaned. "It would be nice to sleep a little more." Silver admitted. Knuckles walked in. "I think I need to go back to bed because Sonic is awake before me, so I must be dreaming."

"Would everyone please stop commenting on the fact that I am awake!" Sonic screamed at the world. "It is nice to see you up before me Sonic. Shows your commitment." Blaze said as she walked in, oblivious to the boy's previous declaration. Sonic double facepalmed and groaned. Shadow let out a chuckle. "I'm glad this is so amusing." Sonic said annoyed. "You're adorable, you know that." Shadow said. Sonic stared at his boyfriend in shock.

"Are we in an alternate dimension? Or did my brother get replaced?" Tails teased when he walked in with Rouge. Sonic screamed in annoyance.

Lord Eggman looked at his creation. His plan was coming together nicely. Now he just had to make a black-market phone call. Sure, he was an evil genius, but every evil genius has a lacky or two. And he knew about a lacky that was seeking jobs, and he had the perfect job for her.

"Today, things are going to be a little bit different." James walked in. "You guys are all doing pretty well with your own individual powers, but there are other aspects you are not doing as well at. Including archery. So that's where we're starting."

Outside, each member of the class continued to try and get a bullseye. Shadow got it first try, but that was chalked up to the fact that he had previously been working with targets in his own individual training.

Sonic, always being close to Shadow, hit the bullseye next. He hooped and hollered, starling Silver into hitting an arrow right below and now very startled bird. "Sorry Mr. Bird, my bad." Silver shouted at the bird. "Silver, it's a bird." Blaze told her friend. "I can still apologize." The boy insisted.

Knuckles pulled the string back just a little too far, snapping it. He cursed and Sonic gasped exaggeratedly, covering his little brother's ears. "Not in front of the small child Knux."

"But you say stuff like that all the time." Tails protested, pulling his brother's hands off his face. "That's different, it's my job to corrupt you, not Knuckles."

"Fair point." Tails said. "The two of you are ridiculous." Knuckles said and grabbed a new bow. "Not as ridiculous as you." Rouge said and fired another arrow, narrowly missing the bullseye. Knuckles grunted. He grabbed an arrow, and luckily, hit his target, the bullseye. "At least I didn't miss." Rouge smirked. "What do you want, a prize. I'll give you a prize." Knuckles felt his breath hitch in his throat when Rouge grabbed his chin. She looked like she was leaning in to give him a peck on the lips, but at the last second, she turned his face so she actually gave him a kiss on the cheek. The whole interaction left Knuckles an extra red, extra blushy, extra confused mess. Tails groaned. Blaze sighed. Sonic turned to his boyfriend. "Were we ever like that?"

"Literally a day ago." Shadow replied. "Oh, but that's ages."

"Not even 24 hours."

"That's like a bagillion in Sonic years."

"Bagillion isn't even a number Sonic." Tails told his brother. "That's because time in Sonic years is unquantifiable."

"When did you learn that word?" Tails asks. "I may be an idiot but I'm not dumb."

Knuckles just stared at the smirk girl in front of him. "Bat got your tongue handsome?" Rouge asked, leaning on her bow. Knuckles could say without a doubt, that he had no idea what in the world he was feeling at this moment in time. Absolutely zero clue (You idiot, it's love).

Rouge could say with one hundred percent confidence that her only regret was not taking the opportunity she had present herself to give the boy an actual kiss.

Silver and Blaze could both say with all certainty that their friends all needed serious help. Like, very serious help, because they were all helpless, hopeless, and dumb (you two are no better).

She was just waiting for someone to take her up on her offer for her... special... services. All she needed was for the burner to ring with the buyer. Just as she was about to give up waiting for the day, the phone began to ring. She picked it up. In her thick accent, she answered "May I help you."

"October, November, December." Came the reply of the man on the other end. "Speak." She told him, knowing that's to code she had given to her buyers. "My name is Lord Eggman, and I am in need of your unique talents."

"If you weren't, I doubt you would have called."

"That would be correct."

"You know my price."

"It's a price I'm willing to pay."

"Then let us discuss the details of your mission." The girl smiled to herself. "Gladly." Eggman told her.

"There are certain powers that can affect you, take Tuma's power for example. You have to learn how to resist those kinds of powers. Which is why Prince Tuma is here to help us." James explained. The students groaned. "Is resisting Tuma's power even possible?"

"With enough will. I've seen it done before." Tuma told them and grimaced at the memory. Each of the students had the same thought, "This is not going to be a fun afternoon."

"Who would like to go first?" James asked. Shadow, being one to never back down from a challenge, raised his hand. "Alright Shadow, let's see if you can resist." Shadow believed himself to have a strong will, and that belief was about to be tested. "Prince Shadow," Tuma started. "Don't be too mean." James told Tuma. Tuma just rolled his eyes. "Shadow, slap yourself." Unable to stop it, Shadow raised his hand to his face and hit it, hard. "Ow." He said out of reflex as well as genuine pain. Tuma tsked. "Like you could do better." Shadow said. "You're right, he can't." James said. "So why are we doing this?" Shadow asked and rubbed his cheek. "Because I'm learning from my mistakes as a teacher and adapting." James replied.

"Rouge, tell me something that you agreed to never tell anyone."

"One time when Shadow was in my family's kingdom," Shadow was shouting at her to stop, almost begging at this point. ", he asked if he could test something on me. I figured it would be a pick-up line or something. Well, he grabbed my face and kissed me. I thought he liked me and that was gonna be way weird. But it was a quick kiss and when he pulled away, he said 'nope, definitely gay.'" Sonic looked at his boyfriend and was trying really hard to stifle a laugh. Silver let out a chuckle, as did Knuckles. "Yeah, yeah, laugh it up. Like your coming to terms to your sexuality is any better." Shadow looked at Sonic. "I can tell you a great coming out story!" Tails says. "Sonic and I were looking at some pictures of animals in a textbook and we came across a picture of bison. Sonic said, 'Tails'" current Sonic was begging his brother to stop this torment, but Tails and everyone else was ignoring him. "'you wanna know what you and this buffalo have in common, you also have bi-son.' I told him I didn't have a son and he realized his mistake."

"Taaaaaaaaaaaiillssssss." Sonic protested. But Sonic's protests were quickly drowned out when he heard his boyfriend give one of his rare laughs. Previous humiliation now forgotten, Sonic smiled.

"Back to training." James said. "Sonic, kiss Shadow." Possessed by Tuma's power, Sonic grabbed the fabric of Shadow's suit and pulled him closer, forcefully gracing his lips with the feeling of his boyfriends. Shadow, despite the fact that it was a command, melted quickly into the kiss. Sonic moved his hands to Shadow's neck, in an attempt to get their body's closer together. Before Sonic could take things any further, Silver shouted "Get a room!" Pulling both boys out of the moment. "Tuma." James warned. "What, I was curious."

"Next person."

"Blaze, tell your crush you like them."

"No." She replied. Tuma stood there, shocked for a second. "Would you stop doing personal stuff." James told him. "I like the drama." Tuma told his teacher. "Blaze, do a silly dance."

"No."

"I guess she already is resistant to your powers." James said. Silver stared at his friend in awe. "Blaze, that's amazing!"

"Thank you, Silver. I guess once was enough for me."

"Was that a joke?" Silver asked. "Yes." She said unsure. "You never cease to amaze me, Blaze." Blaze stared at her friend. She got those little butterflies in her stomach again, a feeling she very much disliked, but Silver's smile was contagious, causing her to smile as well (Blaaaaaaaaaazeeeeeeee).

"Silver, tell Blaze what you think the best part about her is."

"If I had to choose just one, I would say her determination." He blushed a little. An act that didn't go unnoticed by his other friends. "So, the only person right now who can resist is Blaze." Tuma took note. "What about me!" Knuckles shouted. "On a scale of one to ten, ten being as bad as it can possibly get and one being happy, tell me how disappointed you were when Rouge didn't give you an actual kiss."

"A ten." He blurted out and immediately covered his mouth, regretting having said anything. "I stand by what I said."

"Can we please end this embarrassing training session." Shadow asked. "Go get some food." James told them and each of them ran to the cafeteria. "Things you never wanted to admit am I right." Rouge joked. "Yours wasn't that embarrassing Rouge, that was embarrassing for me." Shadow turned to the girl that he would never admit was his friend. "That's a really dumb first kiss story, you know that." Rouge said and flicked the prince's ear. In turn, the later gave the former one of his signature death glares. "Let's just pretend that didn't happen." Sonic said. The whole group agreed.

Her mission started with careful observation of her foes. This Eggman had informed her that he knew of the Secret Societies existence, and that he knew they may interfere with his plans. It had come to his attention that there were some new recruits, and her mission started with a covert operation. Gathering intel. She needed to know more about these recruits, because experience had taught her that it was usually the least experienced that had saving the world 'thrust upon them' (always the children am I right). She gagged at the thought.

She arrived at the school where she knew that training was taking place It was about dinner time, so she took this opportunity to do some snooping. She set up some security cameras in bedrooms. Then she found the rooms where it appeared the new recruits were training and set some cameras up in there as well. She then carefully snuck around, placing a security camera in James' room and one in the cafeteria, where she saw her foes. At the table was a group of seven. One of them appeared to be way too young, so she took special note of him, choosing to have a look into that later. In the rafters she watched the group. In a way, they reminder her much of the way her old group had acted once. She stifled a scoff at the thought. Who needed friends anyway. She looked at her adversaries. There was a boy with ivory hair that, in her opinion, had too much black eyeliner on, and it made his eyes look more yellow than they really probably were. There was another boy with excessive amounts of eyeliner, but this time in red. He also had black hair dyed with streaks of red and red eyes. He was holding the hand of a boy with blue hair and green eyes, talking a lot with exaggerated gestures and hand movements. Then there was a boy with bright red dreadlocks and violet eyes. Then one that really caught her attention, a girl with white hair, teal eyes, and what appeared to be the wings of a bat. Then there was one last girl, she had purple hair and yellow eyes, and appeared to be deep in thought.

The girl in rafters felt her breath hitch in her throat when James walked in with Tuma, Roxanne, Mateo, and Sam. This really complicated things for her, and she really hoped to every deity in existence that they would only be here for a short while.

"We should do something fun tonight." Sonic said over dinner. "What did you have in mind." Rouge said with a teasing smile. "I was thinking a game like in the good ol days."

"When we were all fighting all the time?" Shadow questioned. "You know, I didn't think about that. But you have to admit, looking back, those were pretty fun." Sonic said. The table nodded in agreement. "What game did you have in mind?" Blaze asked. "I was thinking Killer Bunnies again."

"I will play as long as Rouge promises not to cheat again." The girl in question was glaring at something on the ceiling. "Rouge." Shadow said. "Huh?" The girl looked at her friend. "Sorry, I thought I saw something, what did you say?"

"They want to play killer bunnies, but Knuckles would like you to promise not to cheat."

"Oh, yeah, I promise." Rouge glared back up at the ceiling but saw nothing. She chalked it up to some sort of bug on something she just imagined. But her gut instincts said that it was more. No one else seemed bothered, so she didn't say anything as they walked into library.

She didn't like this; it didn't matter how scarce she made herself in her following, the girl with the bat wings somehow seemed to know that she was there or was at least suspicious. And she didn't like that. Everything would be compromised. Everything she had built, everything she wanted, everything she had worked for, everything would be ruined if she got caught. And she could not let that happen.

The whole time they played, Rouge was very distracted. In reality, she was on edge watching for whatever made what she called her 'spy instincts' tingle. Something was doing it, she knew that. But to everyone else, she just to seemed to be really distracted. She didn't even attempt to swipe the winning carrot, which Knuckles had. After the game was over, Rouge was still staring at the ceiling with a steely glare.

The whole group attempted to get her attention to no avail. "Rouge." Blaze said. Nothing. "Rouge!" Silver tried. "Rouggggggee." Tails tried. Knuckles put on his best flirty face, which was admittedly not good, and took at play out of the girl's book and went "Hey beautiful." Nothing. She didn't even blink. "I got nothing."

"Rouge, will you pay attention." Shadow asked. "Rouge, I admit it, you're best friend, alright!" Not even that got her attention. "Wow, something must really be bothering her." Shadow said. "Guys, guys, you're all missing the obvious solution here." Sonic said. Before anyone could ask what he meant, he walked right up to Rouge, got right up to her ear, took a deep breath and shouted, "HEY ROUGE!" She screamed and fell off her chair. "Would you at least try to get my attention some other way before you do that."

"We did, we've spent the last ten minutes trying to get your attention." Knuckles told her, clearly annoyed. "What is so important that you need my attention?" She asked and got off the floor, dusting herself off. "What's so important that it needs your undivided attention?" Tails asked. "It doesn't matter." She murmured. "Clearly it does, not is Shadow admitting that you are his best friend pulled you out of your trance." Blaze told her. Rouge turned to her now sheepish friend. "You finally admitted it and I didn't even get to hear it." She said. "I'm not saying it again." Shadow told her. "So, you did say it." Rouge squealed and ran to Shadow, giving him a hug. "This changes nothing." Shadow insists to her. "Oh, this changes everything. Because now I know you like me." Rouge let go of her friend. "If I didn't like you, don't you think I would have said something."

"The exciting thing about you is I never know." She smirked. "I certainly wasn't expecting you to be my first kiss." Rouge teasingly flicked his nose. Sonic let out a snort. "I thought we already established that you were no better off than me." Shadow told his boyfriend. "That doesn't make it any less funny."

"This is too much." Silver said. "I'm going to bed." He told them. "Your just jealous because I have a hot boyfriend and you don't." Sonic yelled as Silver walked out. "Yeah, yeah." The later responded. "I can't deal with this." Knuckles said and followed after Silver quickly. "It is probably time to hit the hay." Sonic said and grabbed Shadows hand, going to the room for some sleep. Tails quickly followed as well as Blaze. Rouge took one last look at the rafters before following everyone else.