Chapter 5

A Fight…

Round #1, and…

MY HOUSE!!!!

A caramel tan-spotted rabbit was running down the hallway at full speed, carrying an arm load of spray paint, lead paint, and brushes, how she managed to persuade the teacher to lend her this she had no idea. Seeing a pink hedgehog further down she picks up the pace to meet her. The pink hedgehog spots the rabbit and as she approaches asks, "Did you bring everything, Cream?" "Y-Yes, everything you need is here." The rabbit responds. As the rabbit sets the painting materials on the ground she ventures to ask, "Umm… Amy? What do you need all of this for?"

"A painting job."

"Oh, really, who's the victim?" Cream asks, all previous signs of nervousness gone.

Amy's lips curl into an evil smile.

"You'll see."

This time they were meeting in the history classroom Sonic was talking to Silver and Tails, Shadow and Knuckles were sitting in front of a desk talking to Scourge who was looking very frustrated. Sonic asked them how they ended up here, apparently Sonic wasn't the first to be black mailed, Tails was first and was supposed to be the last according to Silver. "How old are you guys?" Sonic asked. "15." Tails said. "16." Silver responded.

"And you're a freshman, Silver?" Sonic inquired.

Silver just nodded.

Sonic was completely confused, "Were you held a grade back or did you drop out and then come back?"

Silver was quiet, and started shifting in his seat, like he was wondering if he should speak. Sonic leaned in a little closer to Silver, Silver turned away but Sonic caught a glimpse of such sadness, hurt and fear in his eyes that he marked one subject that he was never to speak about to Silver again. The room went silent as Scourge looked in Silver's direction, a mask of worry on his face.

"Silver? Are you okay?" Scourge asked.

Silver just nodded and turned away.

"Great job, you idiot," Sonic thought, "you haven't been friends two days and you have brought up something you shouldn't."

"Look, Silver… I'm sorry man." Sonic apologized, "I didn't mean to…"

"It's okay," Silver interrupted, not even looking in Sonic's direction, "You didn't know."

Silver finally turned and made eye contact and said, "I will tell, but I'll tell when I feel up to it."

Silver's disposition changed in an instant from afraid and angry to a happy and cheerful mood as he change subjects, "So where did you move from, Sonic?" Silver asked. Sonic inwardly cursed, he wanted to avoid this subject and before he could, tell the truth or make up lie, whichever he was going to do he was interrupted.

The door was suddenly thrown open, and a group of 4 rushed in, everyone jumped out of their seats, preparing for the worst. Sonic was quite surprised to see boys, teens around his age, a black armadillo, a ruby red hedgehog, a blue chameleon, and a black and white "zebra" striped hedgehog who was clearly the leader.

Tails approached the four, asking, "Is there something we can do for…" Tails was cut off as the armadillo stepped forward and punched Tails so hard it sent him flying into pile of chairs, Sonic jumped out of his chair running over to Tails. He was okay but that punch did a number on him, he was out cold. The zebra hedgehog smiled and said "Yes, in fact, there is something you could do for us."

"Let me introduce everyone, the red hedgehog is Ryan, the armadillo is Tucker, the chameleon is Jake, and my name is Luther."

But before Scourge could say anything Sonic got up from Tails and shouted "HEY! WHAT DID YOU FUCKERS DO THAT FOR?!?!?" This time Ryan stepped forward but was stopped by Luther, who simply smiled and said, "You have been helping the enemy."

Sonic found himself in a battle between his reason and his anger… and reason was losing. Silver was looking over Tails.

"And who is the enemy?" Sonic asked straining to keep himself getting angry. These guys have about 3 more chances before he snaps.

"The girls, Who else?" Tucker responds

3

Sonic faces the armadillo, "I wasn't talking to you, Fucker."

"How?" Scourge asks

"We know about you guys and that you're acting as gays to get the girls approval," Jake said.

The air in the room instantly turned hostile.

Jake continued, "If you pay we might forget."

2

This time Silver spoke, "Why would you want to blackmail us?"

Tucker just shrugged and said, "We need money."

1

"SO WHY HURT MY FRIEND?!?!?" Sonic shouted.

The red hedgehog pushed his glasses higher on his nose, saying "It gets a point across."

Snap!

Knuckles, Scourge, and Shadow moved forward about to start fighting when Sonic said, "Hey, all three of you step aside and let me take this one." Scourge asked "Are you su…" "Let me make this clear." Sonic interrupted, "That was not a request, That's an order."

Sonic walked forward passing Scourge, who saw so much anger in Sonic's eyes that he instinctively back away.

Jake laughed and said "You think you can handle us?" The chameleon lunged. In a split-second Sonic had lifted his whole leg above his head and gently tapped it on the chameleon's shoulder before Jake could punch. Sonic smirked at the chameleon's surprise and explained, "This kick would have broken you collar bone and popped you're shoulder out of its socket."

"Wha…"

"Now," Sonic cut in, "If you don't leave now you will get hurt. This is my first and last warning."

"Who do you think you're talking too?" the zebra hedgehog said

"Come on guys, we can take him!" the armadillo shouted.

"If you want to do this then let's take it outside, so you won't get embarrassed." Sonic says coolly.

Sonic turns to face everyone and says, "Get Tails to the nurse and no one is allowed to follow me."

Sonic left the room with the four guys following, he led them all the way to behind the gym where no one would see.

The fight didn't even last 30 seconds; Sonic had taken them all down.

All four of them were on the ground, Luther was face down in a pool of his own blood, Ryan was screaming, clutching his dislocated shoulder, and Jake was not moving. Tucker was in the worst shape, his collar bone was broken and all of his ribs were either fractured or broken.

Sonic walked over to the face-down leader and grabbing a hand full of his spines brought the Luther's head up to eye level with his.

"Your legs aren't broken so get up, and don't ever come anywhere near my friends." Sonic said giving a death glare, "And if any of you can't get up on your feet, drag your ass out of here."

Sonic walked back to the classroom. No one asked questions.

The next day was a new day or at least it was…

"I told you to stop touching my ass, motherfucker!"

Shadow chuckled, "Stop kidding yourself, princess, you are just afraid that you will enjoy it." Shadow leaned in closer and whispered, "Just like you enjoyed my kiss."

Sonic was just about to snap back, but seeing the smirk on Shadow's face, he remembered Silver's advice.

A thought and an idea.

Bingo!

"You're not a good kisser."

Shadow's cool, calm, domineer shattered as he shouted, "What?!?!"

A reaction.

Seeing Silver's and Tails's nods of approval and motions to keep going Sonic continued

This time he repeated slowly, "You… are… not…a… good… kisser."

That struck a nerve.

"You want a good kiss?!?!" Shadow said, "I'll give you a good kiss."

Shadow reached out to grab Sonic's collar but Sonic stepped out of reach.

"Shadow, you're going about this wrong." Sonic said in a mocking tone.

"First, you need to make eye contact." He said looking deeply into Shadow's ruby eyes.

"Then, you need to breathe deeply, not to hard, not to soft."

Sonic moved closer to Shadow.

"And lastly, you need to lean in, not to fast, not to slow and then…"

Sonic leaned in, his nose and Shadow's were less than inches away.

Sonic unexpectedly stepped back, saying, "… Turn around and walk away."

Shadow's face was a cherry red.

"You call that a good kiss?!?!"

Sonic walked to the door, turned and said, "No, but think about how great that could have been."

Sonic walked out, leaving everyone shocked, and Shadow taken down a peg or two.

Sonic: 1

Shadow: 0

Knuckles: 0

The school bell rang and Sonic was on his way home

"Hey!"

Sonic turned around and saw Tails running after him.

"Dude, that was awesome!" Tails said, "How did you know where to hit him?"

Sonic shrugged, "I remembered what Silver said and the rest came naturally."

"You should have seen Shadow after you left." Tails started laughing, "He couldn't speak complete sentences, he even left me and Silver alone, so we know you really hit him where it hurt."

"It wasn't like he didn't have it coming; maybe he might start acting normal."

"You should hope that he doesn't get you back, right?"

Tails waited for an answer that never came.

Sonic's attention was on the gathering just down the street, he started running to it.

That was where his house was!

When he pushed his way through the people he saw it and boy did it not look good.