I know I said I would be publishing chapters for this story regularly, but then I started going places and haven't had any inspiration until now.
Disclaimer: Faith and every other character unaffiliated with SEGA belong to me. Sonic and Co. belong to SEGA.
"You guys got roped into this too?" Knuckles the Echidna asks, looking positively irritated. He adjusts his tie with a grimace as the three of them walk into the classroom.
"Yeah. How did they get a hold of you?" Sonic inquires, raising an eyebrow. He knows that the stubborn red echidna would've never agreed to something like this.
"They… uh… tricked me into it," Knuckles coughs, his cheeks turning red.
Sonic snickers, and he hears Shadow sputter.
"That doesn't take a lot, does it, dumbass?" the black hedgehog chuckles.
"I am not a dumbass! They took the Master Emerald and led me to this place!" Knuckles snaps. "It's not my fault that it was a fake!"
"They led you here with a fake Emerald?" Shadow snickers. "Don't you have, like, a 'psychic connection' with that thing?"
"Uh… yes?" Knuckles' cheeks turn as red as his fur.
"How did they get the uniform on you?" Sonic sputters, withholding his laughter. "Trying to put clothes on you is like trying to wrestle a rabid dolphin."
"Rabid dolphin?" Shadow looks at him, confused.
"Yeah, 'cause they're all slippery and stuff," Sonic explains cheerfully.
"Why were you trying to put clothes on him anyway?" Shadow asks, raising an eyebrow. "You don't even wear clothing."
"We were playing truth or dare and Knuckles picked 'dare' and so I dared him to wear Amy's dress until his next turn and he said 'no' so I told Tails to hold him down and we tried to put the dress on him and it just ended with me soaked in mayonnaise and a bald tail. It took weeks for my fur to grow back!" Sonic says, his voice rising gradually.
"Not that your story doesn't interest me, but… it doesn't interest me," Shadow growls, sitting in an empty seat.
Sonic opens his mouth for a snappy retort, but is cut off when the teacher walks up to them. He's a brown cat with darker spots and a pure white muzzle.
"Are you three the new students?" he asks.
They all nod, and Shadow grumbles something like "No shit, Sherlock."
"Welcome to my health class! My name is Mr. Howard!"
They nod again, unsure of what to say.
"Of course, I know your names. Um… here are your books." Mr. Howard hands each of them a textbook. Sonic stares at it, dumbfounded.
"Another one?" the blue hero gasps, poking at it cautiously. "Where am I supposed to keep two books?"
"Where every other student keeps their textbooks, of course," a student, a black fox with red accents chuckles, "in a locker."
"What's a locker?" Sonic asks.
"The metal things lining the hallways, smart one," Shadow snorts.
"And you called me a dumbass," Knuckles mutters.
"I bet you didn't know what they were either!" Sonic snaps, his ears flattening.
"Yes, I did!"
"Shut up, you two. You're embarrassing me," Shadow growls under his breath.
"You do a good enough of that on your own," Sonic snorts, only to promptly receive a punch to the arm. "Ouch! What was that for?"
"For you being a dumbass," Shadow snaps.
"Well, I never!" Sonic gasps, trying to look genuinely hurt.
"Okay, class, open your books to page eighty-six and take notes on the different viruses for a test on Friday," Mr. Howard orders, taking his seat behind his desk.
Notes? Sonic gasps inside of his head. I don't even have a pencil let alone paper!
The black, red, and white fox from before hands him two sheets of paper and a pen. "Here, I thought you might need this," he mutters before turning back in his seat.
Sonic blinks at him, confused. "Uh… thanks?"
The fox ignores him and bends over his work.
Sonic blinks, still bewildered, and opens his book. What the hell am I supposed to write about? He wonders, his eyes moving across the page.
He flashes a look at Knuckles, who looks just as dumbfounded as he does. The red echidna scratches his head and begins writing stuff down, most likely a bunch of scribbles.
Which comes to this question… do they know how to write? We never actually see them write, so do they know how? I know they know how to read, but isn't writing a part of that? Can't really do much with that if we don't know, eh? Anyway, back to story…
After deciding to write a bunch of bullcrap down, which basically means copying every word on the page, Sonic begins writing at a lightning-fast pace. Before he knows it, the bell rings, signaling the end of the period.
Sonic drops the pencil onto the desk as he gathers his things with a sigh. The black fox that had presented him with the supplies is just about to leave before the Blue Blur catches him.
"Thanks for the pencil and paper, by the way," he says.
"No problem." The fox nods. "My name's Vincent, by the way. I'm a telepath. That's how I knew."
"Was it really a smart idea to tell him that?" Shadow mutters. "You know, he'll screw with you because you told him."
"That doesn't bother me. I think he deserves to know so he doesn't feel violated," Vincent says with a shrug. "Plus, he's just too easy to read. His mind is an open book to me."
"What're you trying to say?" Sonic snaps. "I'm not an idiot."
"Could've fooled me," Knuckles coughs from behind.
"Oh, shut up, Knucklehead," Sonic scoffs before brushing past Vincent and into the hallway. The others follow him.
"Oh… Sonic!" a shrill, female voice calls from the end of the hallway.
Shit! Don't be Amy don't be Amy don't be Amy! Sonic begs silently.
It's Amy.
Why do you insist on punishing me?
The pink hedgehog's arms are around him, and she begins to smother him with a flurry of kisses.
"Amy, cut it out!" Sonic wheezes, his lungs constricted by the female's embrace. "Get off!"
"Oh, great. Amy," Shadow growls. "This day keeps getting better and better."
Sonic shoves Amy off, his ears and cheeks burning. "What about 'get off' don't you understand?"
Amy just gravitates back towards him, sticking to him like bad rash that no ointment can cure.
Sonic sighs, suddenly having the urge to bang his head against the nearest wall.
"Do you guys need help getting to your next class?" Vincent's voice comes from behind.
"Whoa! I'm forgot you existed for a minute there, buddy!" Knuckles gasps, jumping at the sound of the fox's voice.
Vincent grimaces. "Yeah, I get that a lot. So do you need help or not?"
"I was actually going to wait on-"
"Vincent! I see you met the new kids!" Faith comes out of nowhere, bowling the fox over in a hug.
"Hi, Faith," Vincent greets. And, get this: he kisses her on the cheek. All of Sonic's hopes and dreams shatter right then and there, the hopes and dreams that an incredibly gorgeous fan character would have sex with him in an alley where only the horniest of hedgehogs go to relieve their sexual cravings.
"I expect that you met them in first period?" Vincent asks Faith, his arm around her shoulders.
"Yah. I brought them here. And I expect you're all standing in the middle of the hallway because you want to get in everyone's way," Faith teases, her nose against Vincent's ear.
Sonic's cheeks burn. How come whenever I like someone they're either with someone else or from a different dimension?
He and Blaze had a thing. It was complicated. Let's not talk about it.
"Who are your friends, Sonikku?" Amy asks, gripping his arm tightly. "Who's she? Who's he?" She looks Vincent up and down. "Holy crap."
"She's Faith and that's Vincent. They aren't friends; we just met them this morning."
"Well, I know who I want to be friends with. Me-ow."
Sonic hears Shadow snicker from behind. He whips around to slug him.
"Shut up! Since when do you laugh so much?" he snaps, hitting his opposite square in the jaw.
Shadow twists his wrist in response. "You touch me again and I will end you, are we clear?"
"No, we're more like muddy shit-water if you ask me." That earns the Blue Blur a slap across the face. "What? You asked!"
Faith giggles from between Vincent and Knuckles. "Aren't those two funny?" she murmurs to her boyfriend.
"Hilarious," Knuckles growls, rolling his eyes.
Sonic and Shadow both glare at the red echidna.
"What?"
The two hedgehogs simultaneously shake their heads and mutter "dumbass" under their breaths.
Yeah, yeah, i know it's short as heeeelllll but I don't care. I just want to see how it goes before I continue. I really don't think I'm being all that funny. I guess it's because I don't work very well with making the canon characters say things that would be... acceptable for them to say. Stuff that doesn't make them seem too stupid. Blech. Please review.