A/n: At the time of writing this, (9/25/16) I'm either sick or my allergies are really bad so let's see what happens. I don't own Sonic, okay now on with the story.

"See you later Tails," Sonic said to Tails as he turned to walk away after dropping the kid off at school. He was about to walk away only for Tails to grab his hand.

'Not this again,' Sonic thought to himself as he turned around to face his brother. He was starting to get annoyed with this since it seemed to happen almost every weekday now. He knew Tails didn't like school but he never asked to skip it this much.

"Tails we've been over this, You can't skip school it's against the law and if you do you'll get in trouble," Sonic explained in a calm voice.

"But, you skip school all the time," Tails pointed out.

"Okay first off I don't skip school all the time, only sometimes and that's only when I had a job to do whether it was working for that asshole I used to call my boss or for the Chaotix," Sonic argued. Although he didn't do it often since a majority of their activities were illegal sometimes Vector would ask Sonic if he wanted to help since they could really use his speed. Although the teen didn't like to help them he would sometimes agree since Vector paid him a generous amount of money which really helped him financially. However with every great reward their is always a great risk as well, if Sonic were to ever get caught he would be thrown in jail and their secret about their parents being dead would get out, which is the main reason he didn't like taking the jobs. Hopefully with his new job working for Robotnik he wouldn't have to take up team chaotix job offers.

"What's your point?" Tails asked crossing his arms.

"Unlike you I had a reason to skip school."

"Oh um...I-I have a reason," Tails lied.

"Oh yeah and what's that?" Sonic asked full well knowing Tails was lying. He was a terrible liar but he decided to humor the kid nonetheless.

"Oh, well uh...I'm sick," Tails said throwing a couple of coughs in his sentence.

"Tails if you're really not feeling well then go to the nurse. Now I have to go before I'm late for class. See ya later buddy!" Sonic yelled over his shoulder, running over before the strawberry blonde could get another word in.

Tails watched as his brother ran away and pouted.

"No fair."

"Vector Crocodile."

No response. The teacher rolled his eyes and marked Vector absent.

Knuckles had a feeling today was going to be a boring class. The history teacher, Mr. Zib was cool and all but Vector wasn't here and from the looks of it neither was Sonic. Then again he was always late to class.

The teacher made his way down the list and eventually reached Sonics name.

"Sonic Hedgehog."

Just then the door slammed open and their stood Sonic in the doorway, out of breath and drenched.

"...Present…" He gasped out.

Mr. Zibs walked over to a cabinet he had in the classroom and pulled out a fluffy pink towel and tossed it to Sonic. Sonic caught the towel and walked over to his desk (which is right next to Knuckles) and began to dry himself off.

"What happened to you?" Knuckles asked.

"I got caught in the rain when I was running here so I wouldn't be too late. Good thing I had Zibs first period. Any other teacher I had would have gone ballistic since I was not only late but also soaked."

The rest of history class was relatively uneventful. When the bell rang Sonic and Knuckles made their way to gym class which was a class they shared with Rogue Bat. When they got to the gym they went into the locker room got changed into their gym clothes and sat down the bleachers as the coach/teacher took attendance.

"Rouge Bat."

"Here."

The teacher looks and and let out a frustrated sigh when he saw what his student was wearing.

"Rouge, how many times have I told you, you can't wear a belly shirt in gym class."

Rouge pouted, "And why not."

"I already told you this, it goes against the school's dress code."

"Oh come on teach," Rouge said getting down from the bleachers and walking over to her teacher, "It's not like it's hurting anyone."

"Rouge, please change into something else or go to the principal's office."

Rouge a look of hurt on her face, "Are you saying I'm ugly?"

"I didn't say th-"

"I am not ugly, I am skinny enough to wear a crop top and make it work. What do you think all girls should have to cover every inch of their body? How sexist."

The gym teacher had just about enough of this and said, "Fine you can wear your crop top."

The girl smiled at walked up the bleachers. She sat next to Sonic instead of sitting back in her previous spot and whispered "And that's how you manipulate someone."

Sonic rolled his eyes while Knuckles was seething on the other side of him mumbling something about her being a dirty jewel thief.

After roll call was done the teacher spoke.

"Today we are going to be doing partner exercise drills."

Everyone groaned. Great, a class filled with crunches and pushups.

"Settle down, settle down. Now normally I would let you all pick your groups but seeing as how that went last time…," The teacher quickly glanced at two boys sitting in the top row of the bleachers who were watching a video on a phone and snickering instead of paying attention. The teacher took his his gaze off the two students, "I will be picking your partners."

"Alright let's see here….Sally you go with Bonnie. Knuckles with Antoine-"

"Oh come on!" The hot head yelled at getting paired up with the school's punching bag.

Said punching bag cursed in french and walked over to one of the stations with Knuckles following, still feeling pretty peeved at having been paired with Antoine. Sonic chuckled at his friend's misfortune.

"Let's see Sonic, you go with Rouge."

Sonic shrugged and said, "Okay."

"Fine by me," Rouge responded as she got up from the bleachers and followed Sonic to the crunches station.

"Ladies first," Rouge said as she laid down on the mat and crossed her arms over her torso. Sonic kneeled in front of her and held her feet and waited for the teacher's instructions.

"Alright, I'm going to time you for one minute. Once that minute is up you and your partner switch. On your mark. Get set...go!"

The students started to do the exercises they had to do. Sonic glanced over at knuckles group to see how he was doing with his partner and just as he expected Antoine was getting on the red haired boys nerves.

"Come on Blondie Sally's doing better than you are!" Knuckles yelled at his partner who had yet to do a full push-up

Sonic smirked and tried to suppress his laughter when Rouge interrupted his snooping.

"So this is your first day at your new job. Are you nervous?"

Sonic scoffed, "Yeah right. I don't care what it is a jobs a job. What exactly do they do at the lab? Like, what's so secretive about it that it's hidden under a donut shop?"

Rouge smirked, "Oh, you'll find out."

When school ended Sonic walked over to the elementary school and sat down on a bench across the street and did his homework as he waited for his little brother to get out.

"Maybe now that I have a job with reasonable hours I can actually try to graduate high school."

About 30 minutes later kids started to pour out of the school and onto either buses or into cars driven by parents. Sonic slide his History binder into his backpack and waited for Tails to come out of the school. After waiting for all the elementary schoolers to leave the teen pulled out his phone and checked the time.

"That's strange. He should have been out by now."

Sonic was about to go inside the school and look for the kid himself when he saw his brother walk out.

The blue haired teenager walked across the street to greet his little brother.

"Hey Tails what took ya so long?" He asked.

Tails face lit up when he saw Sonic only to dissolve into a sheepish grin when he was asked the question.

"Sorry Sonic, I had to help a friend of mine with something."

Sonic smiled, "Since you were so good today how about we have chili dogs for supper and I give you some mint candies for dessert?"

The child's face lit up again signaling to Sonic that the plan sounded good to him and the two walked home.

"Those tasted good. Can I have my mint candies now?"

Sonic rolled his eyes as he was still mid-way through eating his second chilidog and his kid brother had already finished inhaling his. Sonic took the two mint candies he had in his pockets out. Tails made a grab for them but Sonic swifted pulled them out of the 8 year-olds grasp, earning him a confused look.

"I'll give you these but only if you promise not to wreck the house while I'm at work. Normally I would try to get Knuckles or Vanilla to watch you but Cream is sick and Knuckles has work today and I don't think you wanna spend 4 hours at the jewelers."

"Okay, I promise not to wreck the house while you're gone."

Sonic handed Tails to two candies which he quickly unwrapped and put in his mouth. While his brother was on cloud nine Sonic glanced at the clock. 3:45.

"I better leave now. I don't wanna be late for my first day of work."

Sonic scarfed down the rest of his chili dog and walked towards the door.

"Bye, Sonic!" Tails called after his brother.

"See you later Tails!" Sonic responded before shutting the door and locking it.

The teenager then proceeded to jog to Central Square Donut shop. When he got there he skidded to a stop and entered. He saw that this time they actually had some customers, some chatting with friends and a couple sipping coffee and taking advantage of the free wifi that the cafe offered. Sonic the walked over to the counter and Rouge was behind it just like last time.

"Hey Sonic, just on time," She said leading him to the area behind the vat. She tapped in the code for him and the small pod popped up again."

"I better get back to work. Good luck," Rouge said before leaving.

Sonic walked into the pod and it brought him down to the lab. When he got there he saw Robotnik working with some rainbow colored chemicals. The doctor heard the sound of him entering and put the test tube he was holding in a test tube holder and turned around.

"Oh hello their Sonic."

"Hey Robotnik. So what exactly do you want me to do?"

"That's just what I was hoping you'd ask. Follow me."

Sonic followed Robotnik over to a refrigerator in the lab. He opened and and pulled out a vial containing a liquid that was as blue as Sonics hair. He walked over to a white door and opened it. Sonic went in and found that it was a small white room with a microphone, a loudspeaker and a mirror. Robotnik handed Sonic the vial before leaving and closing the door behind him. Shortly after Sonic heard the doctors voice through the loudspeaker.

"This is a test room so don't be alarmed. What I want you do is drink the liquid I gave you."

Sonic gave what he knew was a one way window, a skeptical look.

"Are you sure this is safe to drink? It won't make me go bald or burst into flames will it?"

"Oh no nothing like that. Just drink the liquid and if it's a success, you'll find out what it does."

The teen gave the liquid one more skeptical.

'A job's a job.'

The teen chugged the whole thing down in one quick swig. Sonic mentally noted that the concoction tasted like raspberries when suddenly he started to lose feeling in his legs. He tried his best to stay standing but eventually his legs did give way and he fell onto the floor. Once on the ground he felt a searing pain start to travel through is body. He screamed in agony whatever was causing him this pain slithered like a snake through his body. The pain lasted for about a minute before stopping. When it ended the teen was left gasping for breathe on the floor. While trying to regain said breathe Robotnik walked into the room.

"Well done Sonic. Too be honest I didn't think you'd be able to handle the pain."

Sonic glared at the man in confusion, "What the hell are you talking about?"

Robotnik smirked, "Follow me and you'll find out what that liquid did."

Sonic was feeling kind of mad since he didn't get a warning that he was going to feel pain but his curiosity got the better of him so he follow the doctor. Robotnik led him to the gym he had been in Friday that Robotnik used to test his speed.

"Step on the treadmill. We will repeat the same experiment we did last time," Robotnik said.

Sonic did as he was told and set the treadmill at a speed of 15 and incline of 5 like he had last time and started running once the doctor gave him the signal. Like last time the speed changed but unlike last time Sonic didn't feel like he had to put as much effort into keeping up with the changes. When the treadmill reached a speed of 20 and incline of 8 Sonic didn't fly off of the treadmill like last time. In fact, running at that speed and incline felt like a breeze.

'What's going on?' Sonic thought to himself. After 5 minutes of running the treadmill started to slow down and eventually stopped. Sonic hopped of the treadmill and the doctor walked in.

"Well done. It looks like my serum was a success."

"What did that stuff do to me?" Sonic asked.

"The serum I gave you was supposed to increase your speed and your endurance and it seems to be a complete success."

"So it increased my speed and endurance huh? So how much faster am I now?" Sonic asked.

Robotnik thought for a second before answering.

"If my calculations are correct then you should be able to reach the speed of light."

Sonic took a double take.

"THE SPEED OF LIGHT!"

Robotnik grimaced at the sound of the teen yelling. The gym was fairly small so the sound came off as very loud.

"Yes, however I would advise against it as of now. Your body is still getting used to the serum's effects. I would say we'll do some speed training for about a week and by the end of it you should be able to run at the speed of light without putting too much physical strain on your body."

The door to the gym opened and in walked Rouge.

"Hey Sonic, so how'd the test go?"

Sonic was confused for a second before he realized what she was talking about, "Wait, you knew about this?"

"Of course she did, she's one of my employees. Miss Rouge why aren't you upstairs like you should be?" Robotnik asked in a slightly annoyed tone.

Rogue shrugged, "Everyone left so I decided to see how my friend turned out," She replied, "Anyways I'm guessing the experiment went well?"

"It was a complete success! Although is that really any surprise?" Robotnik boasted.

Rouge smirked while Sonic pinched the bridge of his nose and shook his head at seeing the doctors ego come out for the first time. Sheesh and people said Sonic's ego was too inflated, they should take a look at this guy!

"Since the experiment went so well I suppose I don't really have much more of a use for you today. You are dismissed, and don't worry about losing money. I'm feeling generous today so I'll pay you at on Friday like you worked the 4 hours today."

"Thank's Robotnik. If that's the case then I'm gonna head home now. See ya tomorrow," Sonic said before leaving.

Once he was gone and out of earshot Rouge turned to look at Robotnik.

"We'll looks like he's officially apart of the team. When are you gonna introduce him to the others?"

"Hm...I guess I'll do it tomorrow. The faster he becomes acquainted with the rest of the team the better."

"Tails I'm home!" Sonic called as he walked through the door.

"Already? But it's only 6 o'clock," Tails said as he walked into the kitchen where his older brother was.

"My boss decided to let me go home early," Sonic said as he looked over his charge for any possible injuries he could have caused himself in the short amount of time he was left unsupervised. After seeing no such offenses Sonic decided to ask what his little brother was up to in his absence.

"Oh well I was able to finish working on my plane the X tornado. Now it can go faster than ever before."

The 8 year old ran into his room and came out a couple seconds later holding a remote controller. He pressed a button and moved the joystick. A couple seconds later the toy plane flew out of the living room.

"And now," Tails pressed a small blue button, "Turbo drive!" The 8 year old thrust the joystick forward. The plane suddenly shot forward and crashed into a wall causing a dent. This however didn't stop the plane. Instead it started flying in every which way.

Sonic ducked before the plane could fly into his face.

"Tails! Land the plane!"

"I'm trying but it's out of control!" Tails exclaimed as he fiddled with the remote. However no matter what he did the plane didn't respond. The 8 year old was too busy trying to get the remote the work that he didn't notice the plane flying straight towards him.

"Look out!" Sonic yelled as he yanked his little brother down before the plane could reach him.

Him and Tails crawled under the table and watched the plane continue its mayhem.

"What are we going to do?" Tails asked.

"I got a idea. You stay here," Sonic said as he cautiously crawled out from under the table. The blue haired teen crawled over to one of the bottom cabinets and pulled out a frying pan. Sonic stood up and held his frying pan like it was a baseball bat and waited for the plane to start flying his way

"Batter up!" He exclaimed as he hit the toy causing it to flying towards the opposite wall with a crack before dropping to the ground.

The child who had been hiding under the table came out and walked over to his now destroyed toy.

"Look's like I better bring it in for repairs."

"Tails why didn't you tell me it was gonna do that?" Sonic asked.

"It's not like that was supposed to happen. I guess it was too fast for me to control in such a enclosed space. I should probably also work on its durability so if it crashes into something else it won't go out of control like that."

"You go do that," Sonic replied.

Once the kid was gone Sonic walked over to the dent in the wall and winced.

"Well, at least it's not as bad as last time he tested something out in the house."

A/n: I decided to end this on a light-hearted note because why not. Also before anyone says anything I am not and will not make Sally or any of the other archie exclusive characters main characters. I gave 3 of them a cameo and that's all they're ever going to be mainly because I don't exactly like them. Well that's this weeks update. I look forward to seeing your reviews. Until next week!