Rouge laid in bed. For some reason, she couldn't sleep. Something was bothering her. Keeping her awake. She couldn't put her finger on it. She had a feeling that it had something to do with what she saw in the corner of her eye and the feeling of being watched for the last few hours. She couldn't take it anymore and got out of bed. As her feet hit the cold floor, she realized she didn't know why she got out of bed. She decided to go get a glass of water, hoping it would help. She walked the halls of the school. The eerie quiet only put Rouge more on edge.

She would, however, thank he lucky stars later that it was quiet or else she might not have heard the quiet footsteps following her. As tempting as it was to confront the stalker, Rouge knew better. It was best to pretend that she didn't know the person was there. So, she continued on her journey to get some water. After grabbing the water, she went back to her room and laid back in her bed. The person didn't come into the room, leading her to believe that there was some kind of surveillance in the room. The eyes that she trained to spot things that others could not, did indeed spot the small glint in the corner that wasn't there this morning. She knew it was a camera. She stayed in the same position but didn't look at the camera. She didn't want whoever was watching to know that she found the camera. But what she wanted to know was how this person knew about the classes that were going on here.

At breakfast in the morning, Sonic was the last one there per usual. Rouge was currently trying to work out a way to warn everyone that they were being watched without tipping of their little spy. Something was going on and she didn't like it, not at all.

Shadow noticed that she was still distracted, and having finally declared their friendship, he was determined to figure out what was wrong. Rouge beckoned for him to follow her after breakfast, and he did. Rouge at in a chair in the corner, with her back to the security camera. She had typed a message on her hidden phone earlier, in the bathroom after searching in their for security cameras. "I have a problem. I have a crush on Knuckles." At the same exact time, she had pulled out her phone in a way that couldn't be detected by the camera and showed Shadow the message, 'we are being watched. Try not to raise suspicion. Discreetly respond to what I said.' Shadow raised his brow. "Really?"

"Uh huh."

"Well I think the best thing to do would be to confront him."

"By myself?" She asked.

"No, I'm going to help. And I'm sure the others would help to. Once you tell the others how nervous you are. I will just explain the situation to our group. We can leave James and the other four out of it."

"Agreed. Let's not tell them about our personal stuff if we don't have to."

"So is this what was bothering you? Yesterday I mean."

"Yeah. It's kind of a lot having a crush on someone."

"Agreed."

"Tonight."

"Tonight."

After a long day of training and having gotten no sleep the previous night, Rouge was tempted to call the whole thing off and try to get some sleep, but with what she knew, she knew that she wouldn't be able to sleep at all. No, she has to figure out what was going on here and now. She sat in the large entrance to the school. Where she and Shadow had agreed to meet for this. Currently, he was grabbing the rest of their group. Rouge just hoped that the person watching them hadn't been tipped off. The others walked in. The group of five (they had decided to leave Tails out for his own safety) walked into the room, with all six of them in their pajamas. This was a decision Rouge was now regretting. Shadow nodded to Rouge and Rouge nodded back. "Alright Rouge, what's wrong. Shadow said it was urgent." Silver yawned. The girl turned to look at the ceiling. "Come on out. I know your there!"

The Rouge girl knew, and this was something she could not allow. "Rouge, what in the world are you talking about?" The boy names Sonic asked sleepily. The girl pulled out her knife. She did not like doing this, but they could not be allowed to live.

"Rouge, you're scaring me." Silver said and Rouge shouted at the ceiling again. "Yeah, well be scared." Rouge turned around and looked at just the wrong time, because a person jumped down from the rafters, attempting to stab Rouge with a knife. Rouge dodged just in time, giving the assailant a round house kick in the face.

The other five got into fighting stances, as Rouge attempted to stop the assailant, a brown-haired girl with a skinny and tall build from stabbing her in the heart. "I could use some help guys." Rouge said to her friends. Shadow was the first to jump in, knocking the assailant away with his own body, then kicking her in the gut. He was regretting not putting on his rocket shoes, because this fight would be over now. He was now the target of the assailant, who attempted to stab him. The others joined the fight, trying to stop the assailant. But it was hard for six people to hit one person, and it was hard for one person to avoid six simultaneous attacks.

The assailant seemed to realize she was going to lose, but randomly, she touched Sonic's shoulder, then with great speed identical to Sonics, sped around the school as came up behind them, kicking Silver to the ground. They tried to catch her, but she was too fast. "Sonic, what's are you doing, run after her!" Rouge demanded. He was trying, but he could only go so fast right now. "This is as fast as my legs are letting me go. What is this madness." The girl came around again, and Sonic narrowly dodged the knife attack, because for some reason his speed was gone. "James' fifth student." Blaze said in horror. "What?" Shadow asked and tried to chaos spear the girl. "His fifth student. The one that trained with the other four." Blaze said as the group huddled together, their backs to each other to try to see the assailant from all sides. "She could take other people's powers!" Silver said in realization. "What the hell have we gotten ourselves into!" Knuckles shouted. "We need James!" Shadow said. He didn't like this, he really thought the six of them could handle it, but he was starting to think this was beyond their skill level. Rouge unfurled her wings and took off. She booked to James room. Hoping to Chaos she could get him and get back in time. What had she done?

James awoke to the sound of someone screaming his name from down the hall. James lazily slung his legs over the bed. He figured it was something like that time Sonic came to his room in the middle of the night. He walked out of his room to find Rouge wrestling someone on the ground, trying to not get stabbed, holding the hand with a knife just above her heart. James knew the girl that Rouge was wrestling. "January?" He asked. She smiled at him devilishly, "Hello James." She said in the unmistakable accent of his former student. "Rouge don't let her touch you!" James shouted and ran to them, kicking January off. January sped off, with Sonics speed. James looked at Rouge, shocked. "I'm sorry okay!" She told him. "I need you to go get the others, they would be the most helpful in this situation. Go." James said and ran after January.

The group of five laid in wait. "How long will she hold my speed?" Sonic asked. "Hopefully not long." Shadow said. He didn't like having his boyfriend be without his main defense. For a moment, nothing happened, but none of them dared let their guard down. Each of those that still had powers at the ready to use them.

The girl sped past them. Slicing Knuckles arm, which is better for him then the abdomen that he had blocked her from slicing. Knuckles screamed in pain. As she sped by Silver used his powers to stop her, but it was short lived, because she grabbed an air horn out of her pocket, playing the sound, startling Silver, and he dropped her. The girl sped and touched Silver, taking his power but giving Sonic back his speed. She used Silvers power to hold everyone of them in place. "I deeply apologize for what I'm about to do, but business is business, and I have a deal to uphold." She said. She grabbed her knife and prepared to stab Blaze. Silver screamed and cried. Blaze tensed but made no move, knowing it was useless. "Take me instead! Take me first! Don't hurt her!" Silver shouted, begging the girl not to hurt his best friend. Tears steamed down his face. The girl raised her knife, and before she could get Blaze in the heart, she was knocked from behind by an invisible force right behind her knees. She missed Blaze's heart, instead getting Blaze's thigh, causing her to scream. Silver rushed over to his friend as they were dropped.

"Hello Roxanne." The girl said. "January." Roxanne appeared and punched January in the face. Knocking her further to the ground. January quickly turned from the stomach to her back, kicking Roxanne in the stomach. "January, pause." January appeared to be frozen in place by Tuma's command. Sam appeared from the shadows with a collar of some kind and went to place it around January's neck. "You know Sam, I had more than one teacher." January said, moving her arm, stopping Sam, Tuma, and Roxanne with Silver's power. "And Edmund," she annunciated the name, "was even better than James." She grabbed the collar from Sam's hands and when she was rushed by Tuma, she kicked him in the abdomen, causing him to fall over. She was rushed by Sonic, which she stopped and then placed the collar around his neck. Sonic tried to pull it off. Shadow tried to throw some chaos spears at her, but she effectively dodged each one. She caught one with her stolen power and turned it, facing it towards the one who threw it. "How much would you bet that this is very, very painful." She smiled but it wasn't a smile of joy, it was a smile of malice. Sonic screamed at January not to hurt Shadow. But January launched the spear, only missing Shadow because of his skillful dodge. Knuckles tried to punch her, but she stopped him with Silvers power. "You know what the problem with all of you is, your attachment. Look at you. Incapacitated two people with one. You begged me not to hurt each other. It makes you weak. And I think this," she flicked her hand, causing a crying, panicked, and tied up Tails to float out of the next room into the one they were currently fighting in, "just further proves my point." Sonic screamed. "Don't you hurt my brother you monster! You let him go, let him go right now!"

"Sonic! Save me! Please!" Tails begged. "I guarantee his safety if you all surrender, drop to your knees, hands behind your head. If not, I will use the powers I stole to crush him." She let everyone but Tails go. She was letting them choose.