Chapter 28- Hey, It's the Actual Dance!
Sonic and Co. came up to the school door and a cheerleader in a dress approached them, "Hey gang, you look great!" she said cheerfully, "It's ten dollars for a ticket!"
"Oh too bad, I'm broke!" Shadow said turning to leave.
Knuckles grabbed his shoulder and forced him back, "You're staying!" he shouted.
"Liz gave us access to her tab." Amy said, "It's strange she'd have a tab with a school though…"
"I think it's for the school store… but it all goes to the school anyway." Sonic said, "Wait, why would she want us to come?"
"Because she wants to blow us up!" Hannah said, "We should leave! NOW!"
The cheerleader watched all this in puzzlement but she never stopped smiling, "Do you want to buy tickets?" she asked.
"Sure, but we have a school store tab, just take it off there." Sonic said, "Should be under the name Liz."
"Okay." The cheerleader said, then she turned and went off to sit at a table with another cheerleader to sell more tickets.
"Is there something wrong with her face?" Rouge asked.
"No, she was just smiling." Tails said.
"Is that healthy?" Hannah asked.
The others shrugged off this question and went inside the gym where the dance was being held. There were decorations slung across the walls almost halfheartedly.
"Oh this is fun…" Shadow mumbled sarcastically.
"Come on Sonic! Let's dance!" Amy said dragging the blue hedgehog off.
Knuckles, Rouge, Tails, and Cream followed them.
Hannah turned to Shadow, "Don't think you can just push me aside and objectify me like all these other idiots do to their sluts! I expect more than that. And no holding hands, eye contact, or any form of intimacy at all! In fact you have to remain ten feet away from me at all times!" She said.
"Fine…" Shadow said, just staring at her.
Hannah paused but then turned and stormed out of the gym, "I'm gonna hide in the bathroom till this blows over." She shouted back to Shadow.
Shadow sighed and left through a door on the opposite end of the gym.
Sonic was arguing with Amy, "We can't dance to this music! It's Led Zeppelin! It's physically impossible to dance to Led Zeppelin!" he shouted.
"Then go complain!" Amy shouted pointing at the DJ, "I want to dance with my Sonikku!"
Sonic mumbled angrily and approached the DJ, she had dark sunglasses, long brown hair, and was wearing… a paperclip necklace?
"Liz?" Sonic asked.
She took off her sunglasses and glared at sonic, "Keep it down!" she whispered urgently, "This isn't exactly legal in this state!" Then she slipped the glasses back over her eyes.
"What isn't legal?" Sonic asked.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you, say how did you recognize me?" Liz asked.
"The necklace." Sonic said.
"Damn, I should've known…" Liz mumbled, "Well what do you want?"
"You have to stop playing Led Zeppelin before Amy rips my head off!" Sonic shouted, "What are you thinking playing this music? You can't dance to it!"
"Exactly!" Liz said, "Glad you caught on so fast. Komodo, Dana, and I are trying to sabotage the dance."
Sonic paused, "What about Mel?"
"She turned traitorous." Liz said pointing to the punch bowl.
Sonic looked and saw Mel standing next to a red haired boy, "Is that Chris?" he asked.
"Unfortunately." Liz mumbled bitterly, then she smiled, "Want to do me a favor?"
She reached into her pocket and pulled out a little red pill, "Slip this into his drink." She said.
"What'll this do?" Sonic asked, nervously taking it from her.
"He'll start to parody the Matrix. It'll make all of us happy so just do it." Liz put her feet up on the stereo system and leaned back in her chair, "Now get lost, I'm waiting for the signal from Dana. And don't tell anybody about this either or you'll be sorry!"
Sonic paused but then went off to Amy, "She won't change the music." He said.
"Well then we'll have to dance to this." Amy pulled Sonic onto the dance floor and they joined the other couples awkwardly trying to dance to classic rock.
Shadow had wandered around the school twice. He yawned and glanced into the main office. He passed by then paused, he looked back and saw Hannah sitting on the secretary's desk and writing something in a purple folder.
He went into the office and approached her, "What are you doing?" he asked.
"The bathrooms smell like pot smoke so I decided to come and screw with tomorrow's morning announcements." She said wickedly.
Shadow stared at her, "Good idea." He said sitting on the desk next to her, "Give me some of those."
Hannah gave him half of the stack of papers and the two scribbled away.
Tails and Cream were standing near the food stand and talking when Chris ran by them wearing sunglasses and a trench coat and wielding a gun. They stared at him for a moment then Mel ran after him screaming 'CHRIS COME BACK!'
Knuckles and Rouge came up to the young couple, "Too bad I forgot my camera at home." Knuckles said.
"Can we leave now?" Rouge asked miserably.
"No!" Knuckles said angrily.
Rouge mumbled then glanced around, "WHERE ARE SHADOW AND HANNAH?" she screamed in a fury.
"Who cares?" Knuckles asked.
"I DO!" Rouge shouted.
Knuckles pulled out a tape recorder, "DID YOU HEAR THAT? SHE AGREED TO MARRY ME! I have proof!" he shouted waving around the recorder.
Rouge could no longer hold herself back; she kicked Knuckles' happy place and ran off.
Tails and Cream just walked away leaving Knuckles to writhe on the floor.
Meanwhile…
Komodo and Dana, wearing all black were connecting wires under one of the tables.
"No, blue goes to red!" Dana whispered.
"Are you crazy? What kind of idiot would wire a bomb like that? It's blue goes to blue!" Komodo snapped.
Then the table cloth lifted and both girls pulled out nail guns. Liz glared at the two from the gap, "Calm down, it's me!" she said.
The two put away their weapons, "What's taking so long?" Liz demanded.
"Tell us, does the blue wire go with the red or blue wires?" Komodo asked.
"Blue of course." Liz said.
"Ha! In your face!" Komodo shouted pointing at Dana.
"Hurry up! We're running out of time!" Liz dropped the table cloth and headed back to the stereo system.
The Dance shall be in two separate chapters. Get over it!