"It's the fourth day of school and my locker is already a mess.." Honest complained as she pulled and pulled on a binder that was stuck inside her locker.

Shadow stood beside her and waited patiently for her to get her English binder so they could walk to class together. Soon Honest was distracted by a strange visitor to the school. He walked right past them and disappeared down some steps.

"Wait, no.. Is that-?" Honest watched him go down the hallway.

Shadow's mouth was hanging open. He was extremely confused. "Was that-?"

"The Doctor!" "Eggman!" They said at the same time. They looked at each other.

"Let's go to class and tell Sonic, quick!" Honest took off down the hallway. Shadow skated after her.

When they had made it to class, the bell rang. The loud noise made Honest remember something. "Oh, no! I never got my binder!"

Shadow just "pft"ed and sat down beside her. "You don't need it. You have paper in your notebook." He pulled out a composition notebook from his stack of books. "And you also have the composition notebook I bought for you yesterday."

"O-Okay.." Honest whispered in reply. She sunk in her seat. Well, this was great.

Suddenly a silver-colored fern rose from underneath the table in front of Honest.

"G-G-Great!" Shadow pulled out a weapon from nowhere and pointed it at his head.

"I'm sorry! I just- could feel the word being thought of, and I- I'll just go. I only wanted the pencil I had dropped anyway.." The fern, Silver, walked solemnly back to his seat.

Shadow watched him leave, slowly lowering his pistol. Honest just laughed nervously.

While this was going on, Honest and Shadow hadn't seen Sonic enter the room. When he took his seat beside Honest, she suddenly perked up her ears. "Oh! Sonic! Me and Shadow needed to tell you something!"

"What is it?" he asked. Roger Craig Smith's voice coming from Sonic's mouth startled Honest, and she forgot what she was going to tell him.

"I- forgot.."

Shadow sighed and leaned over Honest to reach Sonic's ears. "We saw the Doctor in the hallway just now."

"The Doctor?! I'm such a big fan of his show! I wonder if his companion is around here somewhere..." Sonic looked around the room.

"No, faker. I mean Doctor Eggman. You know, your arch nemesis?"

The sound of laughter erupted from between the two hedgies. It was Honest. "Normally calling Eggman by his name would sound out of place coming from Shadow's mouth, but-" Honest held her breath to keep from laughing again. "It sounds strangely natural for Kirk Thornton to say that. I can kind of hear T.W. Barker as well. Very strange."

Sonic and Shadow looked at each other in a confused manner as Honest began to explode into laughter once more. Sonic grinned.

"I think it's adorable," he told Shadow. Shadow got red and put his hands over his mouth. "No, no. Please. Keep speaking.."

Eventually the teacher had enough with the commotion being caused by the cat and the two hedgehogs. Other students began to watch them instead of the presentation she had been trying to show the class. She raised her voice, calling for attention.

"Guess what, Sonic Heroes?" Honest called as she entered the classroom sixth period. Shadow looked up at her from where he was sitting across the room.

Honest dropped the book she had been carrying on the table in front of him. He jumped a foot into the air above his seat.

"There's going to be an eclipse real soon," Honest informed him.

"Isn't Eclipse the name of that black alien that tried to get me to join him like Mephiles always tries to do, but in the comics?" Shadow asked, not really meaning it.

"No... an eclipse is where the moon goes in front of the sun!" Honest said, bristling.

"But doesn't it do that all the time?" Honest thought for a few seconds. "Yeah, but this one is casting a shadow on us, so.. yeah."

"I've never seen an 'eclipse' before. So.. does it block out the sun? Will it get dark?"

"It should," Honest said. "It should block out the sun about 90%. I heard about it on Satellite TV!"

Just then the teacher entered the room and exclaimed. "We're going outside!" The whole class got up and left.

"Come on, Shadow-kun!" Honest exclaimed. "Let's go out the front doors."

She then proceeded to drag Shadow outside.

When they were there, Shadow immediately started staring at the sun.

"What?! No! You can't look at it!" Honest pulled on Shadow's arm and he looked at her.

"But what's the point in there being an eclipse if we can't see it?" he asked.

"We can look at it, but we need glasses or else it's dangerous." Honest pulled two pair of what looked like movie theater glasses out of nowhere. Shadow took one.

He turned the glasses left and right, even flipping them upside down, but he couldn't get them to cover his whole eye. "Uh, Honest?"

"Just keep it over your pupil and iris, okay?" Honest let out a long, annoyed breath. "They should really make these in a bigger size.." A few excited students showed up.

Scourge, Blaze, Tails, and a couple other students Honest didn't recognize showed up in a group. Scourge held his red sunglasses in one hand and his eclipse glasses in another. Blaze walked to stand beside the entrance to the school, probably waiting for Silver. Tails flew around above their heads, looking at the sun with his glasses. The other students spread out and found places to sit while one fox girl stopped exactly where she was to stare at the sun.

The whole school was standing around the campus now, staring up at the sky, looking like complete idiots. The moon was really taking its time moving to block the sun. Shadow and Honest got bored and sat on the steps. Honest was asleep sitting up.

Honest... Honest...

Honest was deep in a dream where she was standing up for a little, chipmunk boy that was being bullied by the Babylon Rogues.

"Honest... Hey... Honest... Uh, Honest?" Eventually Honest opened her eyes. The sky was a deep, red color. "The sun's almost completely gone. Look at it."

Shadow held up a pair of glasses to Honest's eyes. "Huh..."

As soon as she looked up, the world began to darken around them. Over the sound of crickets came Sonic screaming. "It's the end of the world!"

"The end of the world? You mean the final story in Sonic '06? That took me weeks to win!" Honest stood up suddenly, her tail shaking. Shadow stood up as well.

It wasn't exactly pitch black, but it was still dark enough for the Sonic characters to begin seeing stars.

"Woah," Honest breathed. And, just like that, the moon shifted just a little bit more and the sky began to become red again. "Whelp, that was interesting."

I had to talk about it because it's kind of important. Not to the plot (if there even is one) but an important event nonetheless.

When a giant, talking egg walked into the classroom and took a seat at the front of the room, the whole class went deadly silent. He was an okay teacher. I mean, he went through school somehow and was able to earn a degree, so he was good at his new job. He was going through a lesson and having the students take notes, and everything. Eventually he had called on Blaze and asked her what the answer to a problem was. She answered terribly wrong and the Doctor got upset and hit his pointer on the board, the thin piece of wood shattering like glass on impact. Blaze's fur stood on end.

"Now I guess I'll have to ask you, Silver." He turned to the shivering, grey hedgehog.

"I-I th-think the-the-the answer is-"

Honest spoke up. "It's 120, isn't it?" Eggman turned to the board.

"Oh! I think it is! Good job, Honest. You get a star!" He drew a wiggly, little star on the board next to her name.

Honest beamed. Silver let out a huge breath of relief. Blaze looked the same.

Dr Eggman definitely was an interesting teacher.

It was August 22nd, 2017, and a particular cat-hedgehog pair was walking to school. When they began to cross a bridge, Honest used this opportunity to talk with him about a very sensitive subject.

"So... Sonic has been upset with me lately..."

"What did you do?"

"Why is that the first conclusion you come to?!" Shadow just shrugged.

"Uh, well, actually, he was upset with me because he thinks I'm abandoning you guys and Sonic altogether.."

Shadow didn't seem anything but curious, and this comforted Honest, so she continued.

"I've made, like, 150 Vocaloid song covers, and I have, according to Sonic, strayed away from Sonic."

"Remember when you made the mistake of watching that 'Anti-Sonic Fans' video?" Shadow asked, not giving Honest any time to go further into detail.

"Oh, yeah, that. What about it?" Honest replied with a question.

"Remember how you cried and swore to stand up for other fans?" Honest could've sworn she saw him smile for a second.

"What? You know I will have to write about everything that happens today! I don't want anyone to know about that!" Her ears flattened to her head.

"But you get my point, right? You feel way too attached to and responsible for Sonic and its community to be 'straying from it'." Honest slowly began to smile and lift her ears. "You should keep making Vocaloid stuff. It's good that you're branching."

"Thanks for understanding!" Honest hugged him. "I feel a million times better now!" Shadow stopped walking and waited for her to let go. Honest released him after what seemed like ten minutes to Shadow and laughed. "Sorry!" He just rolled his eyes and they continued to school.

Fifth period, Honest cut a bunch of wacky patterns out of a magazine to make a collage. In AP, Honest had a lot more freedom to make whatever she wanted to while in class. She spent a good chunk of the class period cutting out fabric patterns, but when she started putting them into a collage, she began to run out rather quickly.

That period, the students in their school were all given numbers as some part of a new plan the school was using for lunch this year. Honest got her lunches for free because of her and Shadow's nonexistent income (though people may argue that the money they get from performance royalties while working as game characters would be more than enough, it wasn't), so she was slightly confused as to why it mattered. She just memorized the four-digit number and threw the slip of paper into her backpack, never to be seen again.

Shadow read the numbers off the paper aloud and then proceeded to type them in. He then left to get ketchup. He liked to dip his roll in ketchup and eat it. Don't judge him. Honest came in next and typed the numbers right out of her brain and onto the keypad. Honest skipped right past the ketchup and went to sit at the table where they usually sat.

"Hey, Rouge. Have you played Sonic Mania-" She took one look at Honest, turned around, and left. "-yet."

Shadow sat down beside her and put his tray down. Honest solemnly ate her popcorn chicken. "Shadow, why doesn't Rouge like me?"

"She believes you're better at treasure hunting than her," he said instantly, his mouth stuffed with bread.

"What?" Honest laughed. "That's ridiculous. I've only hunted for treasure in SA2. That's completely different from real life."

"Honest," he stopped her. "You beat Egg Chambers' time limit mission and hard mode in just one day!"

"Shadow," she stopped him. "That was a game."

"See, what you don't understand is that Rouge has never beaten Dry Lagoon before. Egg Chambers is Rouge's second to last level!"

Honest gasped, almost inhaling a piece of chicken. "You mean to tell me that Rouge is jealous of me because I'm better than her at a game?! That's the perfect plot for a chapter!"

"It is?"

"Yup! I've definitely got to use this sometime!" Honest exclaimed, practically jumping out of her seat.

Shadow just nodded and looked down at his food. "But we also have to work at the cafe."

"Oh, yeah!" Honest beamed. Yesterday they didn't go to the cafe because of the eclipse. She couldn't wait to start writing some more chapters of {Cafe Edition}!

This was a longer chapter because I had to connect two parts together because I ran out of stuff to type. XD I hope you enjoyed this chapter! If so, please (leave a review)!

Date finished typing: August 30th, 2017

(Wow, back in the day. *o* I'm typing these notes on September 1st, 2020.)