A/n: Hello. I don't have anything to say beside I own nothing except for OC's. On with the chapter!
Added AN: Sorry about not updating on the days I said I would. Friday I how work and Saturday I had a wedding to attend. Anyways, on with the story.
Rouge led the three to a room labeled Simulation Room. The punched in a couple of numbers on a keypad and the door slid open. Inside was a large grey, metallic room. In the left side down corner was a small box with a door and a mirror, and standing in the middle of the room was Shadow, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed and his eyes closed.
"This is a Simulation room made by Eggman. It can become almost any environment imaginable. That grey box over their is the control room. You and Shadow get ready for your race while I set this room to an ideal environment," Rouge said before walking over to the control room.
Sonic walked over to Shadow and started stretching while Shadow continued to just lean against the wall.
"Shouldn't you be stretching?" Sonic asked.
"I see no reason to," Shadow replied, making no signs that he was going to move.
Sonic scowled, "We'll see about that."
The room glowed white before it was replaced with a lush green open field.
"Whoa! I gotta hand it to the doctor. This place looks pretty realistic," Sonic commented.
4 walls suddenly appeared. 2 on side and 2 more about 50 meters away.
"Will each of you take your starting positions?" Blaze asked pointing towards the set of walls on the left.
Sonic and Shadow walked over to them.
"This is a 100 meter dash. Whoever makes it to that wall and back wins. Are there any questions?" Blaze asked.
After waiting a couple of seconds Blaze started talking again.
"On your mark."
Sonic lowered his body in the running position.
"Get set…"
Sonic's eyes narrowed. He was ready.
"Go!" Silver yelled instead of Blaze earning a glare from her. Not that the silver haired teen cared since he was too busy watching the race.
Shadow started out about 5 meters ahead of Sonic. Sonic, seeing this pushed himself to run faster however the more he sped up the more Shadow did. Soon what started out as a 5 meter gap grew into a 10 meter gap, then 15 and then 20 all the way 50. By the time Sonic reached the wall on the other side he was out of breathe and Blaze declared Shadow the winner.
The simulation disappeared as well as the wall Sonic had been leaning on and he clasping on the ground. Silver and Rouge, who had just emerged from the control room walked over to Sonic.
"Are you okay?" Silver asked in a concerned voice.
"Don't take it personally, Sonic. Shadows been here longer than any of us and he's had more training than you have," Blaze explained.
Sonic didn't respond. Instead he got up and walked over to Shadow with a determined look on his face. Shadow stared back, with a scowl. The two just stood there before Sonic smiled cockily.
"Good race."
Shadow rolled his eyes.
"Whatever."
Shadow started to walk away before Sonic stopped him once again.
"Don't think this is over! I will beat you in a race one way or another!"
"We'll see about that."
Knuckles walked into the school library and set his backpack down. The bus dropped him off at school early today so since none of his friend were their he had decided to spend some time in the library studying.
"Hey Knuckles," Amy said as she walked up to the table he was at.
"Oh hey Amy," Knuckles responded.
"You're here early."
"Yeah well my bus dropped me off earlier than usual. Now if only Sonic could do the same."
The two laughed at the joke earning a couple of 'Sh's!' from the people around them.
"I remember when we were younger and Sonic actually made it to school on time and neither of us had to sneak him in. I wish we could back to those days," Amy said with a sad smile.
"You two talking about me?"
Amy turned around and to her surprise their was Sonic standing there.
"Sonic!" She exclaimed earning another chorus of 'Sh's!' that she just ignored.
"You're here early for once," Knuckles said in a surprised tone.
Sonic shrugged, "Yeah well, sometimes a change of pace is good for you," He said smirked inwardly because of how his speed literally gave him a change of pace.
"Hey since you're here do you wanna study for that English test we have today with me?" Amy asked.
Sonic's eyes widened, "We have a test today!"
The students in the library went to shush the three again but were beat to the punch by an angry school librarian.
"What is the meaning of all this yelling!"
"I can't believe we got banned from the library for a week!" Amy exclaimed as the three walked towards their lockers.
"Aw come on Amy, it's not like any of us used the library anyways," Sonic said in a carefree voice.
"I did!" Knuckles said in an angry voice, "Now where am I supposed to go in the morning before class starts!?"
"How about you just hang out in the cafeteria like a normal person," Sonic suggested.
"It's too loud in their to study."
Sonic rolled his eyes, "Whatever ya say ya nerd."
Knuckles growled, "Oh you wanna go blue boy!"
"Hey guys," Said Rouge while walking up to them.
"Hey Rouge," Sonic greeted.
"What do you want thief?" Knuckles asked in a defensive voice.
"I just wanted to talk to Sonic for a second."
Amy crossed her arms. Why would Rouge want to talk to Sonic?
"Sure Rouge what's up?" Sonic asked.
Rouge looked at both Amy and Knuckles before saying, "Let's go somewhere more private."
"Okay."
A look of horror crossed Amy's face. As Sonic and Rouge walked away Amy grabbed Knuckles arm and pulled his close to her.
"Did you see what just happened?" She whispered in a frantic tone.
"You mean you pulling me in close and almost dislocating my shoulder? No, I can't say I saw that coming," Knuckles said in a condescending tone.
"No not that! Rouge wants to talk to Sonic in private! She's trying to steal my man away!"
Knuckles rolled his eye's. He had known about Amy's crush on Sonic ever since she told him all the way back in middle school. He also knew that she was extremely paranoid and this hadn't been the first time she accused someone of trying to "steal" Sonic away from her.
"What? That's ridiculous," Knuckles replied as Amy finally let go of his arm.
"Look at the way she just casually walked up to him. Why would she be so comfortable around him?"
"I don't know but I can assure you that that thief doesn't have time for a boyfriend."
Just then the bell rang.
"I better head off to class. Tell Sonic I said good luck on the English test. We both know he's gonna need it."
"So Rouge what do you need to talk to me about?" Sonic asked in a unsure voice.
"Nothing. I just wanted to give you back your wallet. You left it at the lab yesterday," She said handing him the brown item.
"Thanks Rouge," Sonic said gratefully. That's when he noticed something, "That's weird. I thought for sure I had 10 bucks in here."
Just then the bell rang.
"Well I better go, don't wanna be late for class. See ya later blue," Rouge said before walking away.
"See ya," Sonic said. Suddenly he had a idea of what had happened to his 10 dollars.
"Wait a minutes she….hey!"
School went by relatively normal. After school Sonic did his usual and went to get Tails from school. As the two brothers were walking home however Sonic noticed something odd. Tails was limping.
"Hey Tails, why are you limping?"
The eight year old tensed up.
"Its nothing. I just tripped in gym and hurt my leg."
Sonic quirked an eyebrow. That didn't seem likely. If it had happened in gym and he had limping then they probably would have sent him home early (meaning Sonic would have had to sneak out of school to go get him). Something else was going on, and Sonic was going to get to the bottom of it.
After doing their homework, watching TV and eating dinner Sonic left and went to work (but not before bribing Tails again with the promise of mint candy if he didn't destroy the house). After doing some tests for Robotnik such as seeing if his speed had increased, during his break he walked into the room he had seen Blaze in last. Just like he expected she was in their training with Silver.
"Hey Blaze."
"Oh hey Sonic, what's up?" She asked as she deflected a fire ball Silver had repelled back at her.
"Listen, you mentioned you had 2 sisters right?"
"Yeah but ones my step sister and the others only my half sister. What about them?"
"Well my younger brothers keeping something from me and I don't know how to make him tell the truth. Usually he's so open with me but not recently and I'm worried about him. I was hoping you could tell me a way to get the truth out of him since you have two sisters."
Blaze thought for a minute, "Well you could always just wait and be patient until he's ready to tell you."
"He came home limping, I need to know what's going on asap!" Sonic exclaimed.
Blaze rolled her eyes, "Jeez, you're starting to sound like my step sister Sticks. Speaking of her you could always do what she does when she wants to know something and just spy on him although I really don't advise it-"
"Alright thanks!" Sonic said, leaving before the purple haired girl could even finish her sentence.
Blaze let out a annoyed sigh, "Why do I even bother?"
The teen took the pod up to the donuts shop and walked over to Rouge who was sitting on the counter painting her nails.
"Hey Rouge, you got a minute?"
"For you anything blue," She responded.
"I was wondering if you could tell Amy and Knuckles that I'm not gonna be in school tomorrow."
"Why's that?" Rouge asked with a hint of curiosity in her voice.
"Its private business. Look can ya do what I just asked," Sonic asked impatiently.
Rouge laughed flirtatiously, "Someone's impatient today. Alright, alright I'll tell them but only because you asked."
"Thanks."
Sonic felt his leg vibrate and took his phone out of his pocket.
"Looks like my break is up. Later Rouge."
Rouge watched as Sonic walked into the back so he could take a pod back down to the lab.
'I wonder why he was so snappy about me telling the others he won't be in school. Whatever he has to miss school for it must be important to him...and that just makes me want to find out what it is even more.'
A/n: And done. It's shorter than normal but still a good chapter. Also in case anyone is wondering, no Rouge and Sonic do not like each other in that way. She's just naturally a flirt and he's just naturally nice (unless you're reading the British Sonic comic which in that case he's a total jerk!) Anyways tell me what you think and see you next week :).