The Stepbrother Chapter 6, a sonic the hedgehog fanfic

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN SONIC OR ANY OF THE SONIC CHARACTERS IN ANY WAY.

Author's Note: Hey, readers and reviewers. . . soo. Remember when (during Christmas break), I said that I would have another chapter up during Christmas break? . . . Yea. He-he, sorry about that. My schedule's been more hectic than I thought it would be, believe me. I didn't know I would be half as crammed as I was. But I'm on spring break, now, so I had time to put up another chapter of the story. And thank you all sooooooooo much for continuing to review even though I haven't been able to respond quickly enough. Honestly, your reviews and adding me as one of your favorite authors on here means a lot to me, especially as a new author on this site. So.

Here's another chapter of my story. And I'll hopefully have another one up in much less of a longer time than the last agonizing wait. XD

R&R&ENJOY! 3

The Stepbrother

Emerald Hill High: a place where it was supposed that many teenage anthropomorphic animals came to learn, to fully educate themselves, and to better themselves as beings who would, later on , be better respected in the world.

. . . not.

The high school wasn't a disastrous place to be, as there were far worse around, but it was not the ideal foundation for geniuses seeking to obtain intelligence. The students acted like ordinary, insubordinate students; some females attended the school almost half dressed, some males made it a daily routine to get in physical contact with the females in a less than civilized manner, some of the popular students sought to pick on the ones that were much less popular, some students saw a need to set cruel pranks on friends, students, and even teachers, other students didn't feel it was a problem with initiating heated, public displays of affection in the middle of the halls, and almost the entire student body didn't mind using vulgar language every once in a while to express themselves.

But, hey, aren't all high schools this way?

Obviously, Sonic the hedgehog was a student of this school. He didn't seem to mind attending the school that much, mainly because he was a go-with-the-flow type of guy. He was also considered one of the popular kids, someone a lot of the student body looked up to. He was admired and appreciated by the guys, adored by the girls and some boys, and he was a friend of nearly the entire school. He and his group of friends were some of the envy of the students at Emerald Hill High. And despite the problems that he would sometimes go through at that school, when he thought it over, he would realize that he wouldn't change schools for anything.

As the mentioned blue hedgehog neared the sidewalk to the entrance of his destination, he glanced down at his watch.

6:59, it read.

Sonic liked to be at the school at seven, because his first class started at seven fifteen. This gave him time to grab the necessary items out of his locker, socialize with his friends a bit, and shake off any problems that he may have worried about the night before.

*THUNK*

"Oww!" Sonic exclaimed at a medium voice level and held the back of his head in light pain.

He had forgotten all about the problem behind him.

Sonic stopped walking, turned around, and looked on the ground to see a small, but painful rock lying on the ground, and came to a conclusion that this rock is what made contact, or was thrown, at his head. Still turned around, he looked up from the ground with disdain at the source of his mild agony. Smirking at him, with all intends and purposes of making the blue hedgie mad, was Shadow, still walking behind Sonic. Sonic glared at Shadow for a few seconds and continued the walk to the front door.

'Don't let him annoy you, Sonic. Don't let him annoy you. Don't let him anno—' *THUNK!*

Sonic winced. Yet again, another rock was thrown at his head. Sonic's face grew into a bigger scowl than the last, but he continued to walk, deciding to not even give Shadow the satisfaction of acknowledging his childish antics.

'Don't even pay him any attention. He's just trying to get to you. Just a few more steps to the front door, Sonic. A few more—' *THUNK!*THUNK!* Sonic growled quietly to himself.

How many stupid rocks was Shadow planning on throwing at him before they reached the inside of the building, Sonic wondered. And was the little jerk going to continue practicing his rock-throwing skills inside the building as well?

Sonic could hear Shadow chuckling to himself quietly, and he was getting a little tired of the silly charade of Shadow's. He decided that the next time Shadow threw another rock, he was gonna— *THUNK!*

"LOOK, you bastard!" Sonic jumped in Shadow's face and spat. "I'm sick of you throwing shit at me, and I want it to stop!" Sonic glared darkly at Shadow. He was well aware that Shadow was about half a head taller than he was, but he didn't care at the moment.

Shadow stared Sonic straight in his eyes for about ten seconds and smirked mysteriously. Sonic cocked an eyebrow up in question to what Shadow's smirking meant. Soon enough, Shadow reached down on the ground for another small rock, stood back up at his full height, raised his hand with the rock in it over Sonic's head . . . and he dropped it. *THUNK!*

Sonic was livid. He was sick of his 'brother' treating him this way. It hadn't been a full week since they met and Shadow was already giving him the hell he never thought he'd experience. Sonic closed his eyes and counted to ten, hoping to high heaven that this method would calm him down and keep him from doing anything brash.

' . . . 8 . . . 9 . . . 10! . . . Nope.'

Nope. He wasn't calmed.

*WHAM!*

"OOF!"

Sonic landed a heavy blow right on the left side of Shadow's face. Sonic shook his hand because of the sting of the hard connection with his knuckles and Shadow's face. He looked down at Shadow on the ground, put a satisfied grin on his face, let out a breath of air, and turned around and walked inside of the school, leaving Shadow on the ground outside.

Shadow glared at Sonic dangerously until Sonic got in the school.

"You are definitely going to pay for that, you little shit." Shadow said to himself, brushed himself off, and gathered his things. Then, he proceeded angrily to walk into the school building, plotting his revenge on his 'dead' little brother.

~.~.~.~

Inside the school at last, Sonic walked the hall to his locker. It was impossible for him to make it to his locker without a greeting from the majority of the students roaming the hallways.

"Whats up, Sonic!"

"How'ya doin', buddy?"

"Omigosh! Its Sonic!"

"Will you marry me? Pleeease?"

Sonic gave likewise greetings to everyone . . . except the latter. He glanced at the female awkwardly and shook his head while continuing on his way to the locker. Sonic could now see his locker in sight. It wasn't hard to miss what with a few pictures of him here and there on the front. Sonic made it to the front of his locker and opened it up, revealing a storage full of displaced books, disheveled papers, and other items out of place everywhere. The lockers weren't very big, so one could imagine the little amount of space Sonic had to stash all of his 'crap', to say the least. But, he didn't seem to mind the messiness of his locker, obviously seen by the way he would keep his room. He threw his books on top of another pile of books and papers, stood back with his hands on his hips, and grinned as if he had accomplished a job well done. He harbored no shame in his shoddiness. Right when Sonic closed his locker door . . .

"Hey there, blue."

"Ah!" Sonic jumped at the sudden smooth voice that seemingly appeared out of nowhere.

Looking to his right, he glanced at a green hedgehog leaning suavely against a locker right next to Sonic's. The green hedgehog clearly gave off the aura of a rebellious troublemaker. He was a little taller than Sonic, he had dark, evergreen eyes, a scar across his chest from an unfortunate event of his, and he sported a black motorcycle jacket with flames on the sleeves, green and black sneakers, and red sunglasses on his head. Sonic always wondered why the hedgehog wore sunglasses indoors, but he was never interested in questioning the act. The green hedgehog was known to the school as Scourge the hedgehog, and the reason he gave off a troublemaker's aura was because he was one. He always paraded around the school as if he were the king of the nation. He was very cocky and conceited, he always sought to be the center of attention, he held little respect for anyone, and he had to be number one in everything.

Sonic let out an annoyed sigh.

"What do you want?" Sonic questioned nonchalantly.

Scourge smirked and shook his head. "Tsk. Tsk. So hostile. As usual."

"I've got to get to class." Sonic brushed past Scourge and tried to walk away, until Scourge grab his arm and pull his firmly, but gently back against his locker.

"Hold on, blue. There's no rush." He explained. "And besides, I barely got to say two words to you without you walking away from me."

"You've said three."

" . . . have I? . . . oh, I didn't even notice." Scourge chuckled.

Sonic stared blankly at the green hedgehog, wondering how Scourge made it to the tenth grade with the rest of his class. And then he attempted to walk away, again. But, the same arm caught him again with the same tight grip. Again.

"Wait a minute, sexy." Scourge exclaimed. "Why do you keep trying to leave? If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were trying to get away from me." Scourge teased with a mock pouting face. "Do you not like my company or somethin' ?"

"Scourge, I—"

"Yes?" Scourge replied and advanced closer to Sonic, and Sonic backed up, nervously. This game of advance and avoid continued until Sonic's back was against the locker. Scourge was now hovering over Sonic with both arms against the lockers on each side of Sonic, successfully trapping him in.

'Damn! How do I keep ending up trapped like this?' Sonic looked down and thought. 'And by this idiot nonetheless.'

Sonic hated Scourge's persistence in these situations. He also noticed that ever since Scourge had made it known to the citizens of the school that he didn't mind 'going both ways', he became a little bolder in pursuing Sonic in a more romantic manner. Sonic remembered that before that event had occurred, he would every so often catch Scourge staring at him here and there, but it never dawned on him fully to think anything of it. Now, he really wished he was a little more wise to the subject; he might've cut it off earlier on, and then, just maybe, he wouldn't find himself in predicaments, such as this one.

'I really need to stop being so nice to people.' He thought.

Bringing Sonic back to reality was one of Scourge's hands moving from on the locker near Sonic's head to his waist and another grabbing his chin. Sonic's cheeks instantly became hot and bright red. He did his best to try and glare at Scourge to appear less vulnerable than he knew he must have looked. But, Sonic could tell it wasn't working.

Scourge chuckled to himself. "You're so cute when you're embarrassed, ya' know that?" Scourge teased. "And your facial expressions . . . everything about you just makes me wanna eat you up." He said to Sonic. His eyes, then, traveled to a personal area of the blue hedgehog's. "And I really mean 'eat you up'." He looked back up again, meeting Sonic's eyes with a lustful stare of his own.

Sonic's whole body became hot after this crude comment. "Look, Scourge. I-I've already t-told you a million times. I-I'm not like that. I-I'm not interested in you that way, o-okay?" He tried to sound strong and convincing, because even though he really wasn't interested, his current voice would never prove Scourge right.

Scourge reached down to whisper in Sonic's ear. "I don't believe you, baby." And he lowered his head to softly kiss and lick at Sonic's neck.

"Sc-Scourge! Stop it!" Sonic pushed against Scourge's chest with his strong, toned arms. Unfortunately for him, Scourge's were a little more strong and a little more toned. This struggle caused a deep chuckle to rise from Scourge's throat. "Mmm. You're so hot when you act like you don't want this." Said Scourge.

"Scourge, I said get off! I-I—"

*CRACK!*

"Aughh!" Scourge exclaimed. Out of nowhere came a pain in his arm so severe, he jumped away from Sonic as if the blue hedgehog was on fire. He looked to his left to inspect what could cause him such pain. Standing right in front of him were Sonic's friends; Tails, Silver, Amy, Rouge, and Knuckles, who obviously had hit Scourge and caused the excruciating pain in his arm.

" . . . and there's more where that came from if we ever catch you touching Sonic again. Got that punk?" Knuckles threatened.

Scourge, not one to be threatened easily at all, glared and bared his teeth at them. "You'll be sorry you did that, you moron!" And then he looked at Sonic and said, "I'll get you how I want you, one way or another. And I always get what I want. Remember that, babe." And with that, he walked off in the direction of the nurse's office, with Sonic and his friends watching his departure from them.

"And you'd better stay away from my boyfriend if you know what's good for you!" Amy shouted after Scourge as she linked her arm with Sonic's. Scourge looked back angrily and continued walking into the distance. Amy, then, turned to Sonic, gave him a sweet smile, and leaned her head on his shoulder.

"Heh . . . umm . . . thanks, Amy." Sonic chuckled quietly and nervously. And then, he slowly unlinked his arm from Amy's, and he moved aside quickly to separate himself from the love-struck girl.

"Geez, Sonic. Haven't you had enough?" Tails asked. "I mean, this is, what, the hundredth time he's done this to you during the school year, not including the summer?" He cocked his head to the side, questioningly. Tails was a young kit, but because of his high intellect, it was requested by his previous school that he moved up a few grades, which placed him in Sonic's grade: a sophomore. And Sonic and his friends didn't mind, either. All of them saw Tails as their little brother, so they were just careful as to what they said around him if they found it to be rated a little above his age.

"Yeah, Sonic." Knuckles chimed in. "Why don't you give that wuss what's been coming to him since day damn one?"

" . . . I dunno." Sonic replied, shyly.

"I know why." Silver responded in an as-a-matter-of-fact tone. "It's 'cause Sonic's a wimp."

"I'm a what?" Sonic glared at him, annoyed.

"Every time you get into problems of a romantic or sexual manner with him, you freeze. You've never had the balls to back him off, and you probably never will." Silver explained, pretending to be so interested in his nails all of a sudden. Silver was a silver-white hedgehog with golden eyes and white, black, and blue shoes. He was born with a rare ability of telekinesis, allowing him to move things within weight range with his mind. He was also a good friend of Sonic's, but just as Knuckles was, he was one of those sarcastic types. He was never afraid or ashamed to express how he felt or what he was thinking, and if he had something to tell, he would tell it. Sometime this would be a benefit to the gang, but mostly, it just served as annoyance.

This was one of those annoying times.

"You know what, you bastard?" Sonic growled and advanced toward Silver. But, Knuckles held him back to prevent Silver any harm.

"Calm down, blue." Knuckles chuckled. "You know he's just running his trap like he usually does."

"Sonic, you know we're all just really worried about you and that Scourge situation." Amy joined in, cheerily. "We just wished you'd end it, that's all. But, Knuckles is right. There's no need to attack anyone over this. And if there's anyone you should attack, it should be that slimeball, Scourge."

"Well, that's a first." Rouge spoke after Amy.

"What's a first, Rouge?" Amy asked, curiously.

Rouge crossed her arms over her chest. "You just said Knuckles was right. That should be recorded in history books everywhere." She answered with a sly grin on her face.

Knuckles turned to her and glared. "Don't test me, batgirl."

"Wouldn't dream of it, Knucklehead." Said Rouge and she stared at Knuckles. He glared back at her, and the two had a little stare showdown with each other.

Rouge was a white bat with blue eyes, a pink heart shaped top, black skintight pants, and white boots, a sarcastic wit, and a fetish for jewelry and shiny apparel. She was the type of female that had a good head on her shoulders and could attract the attention of every boy for miles with her physical appearance and shape. She also held a little crush on Knuckles that was known to everyone but the clueless, red echidna himself. Rouge had decided that until she felt the time was right, her crush would remain unknown the the echidna, and she felt no sudden rush to let him know.

Amy the hedgehog, on the other hand, didn't hide her major crush for her blue friend, Sonic. Her obsession for him was calmed a little when she grew in age, but it did not disappear. She, too, was often very bold with Sonic and for Sonic, her boldness, at times, bordered on the line between uncomfortable and annoying. But, Sonic learned to ignore it . . . most of the time. Amy had green eyes, as Sonic did, pink hair, and she wore a red dress hanging right at her knees, and red and white striped boots. She also carried around a big piko piko hammer, constantly, but it was usually concealed in her little backpack. How she got the hammer inside the little pouch, no one knew, and no one questioned it. They just knew to keep Amy in optimistic moods, because when she was mad, she had a big temper, the hammer would come out, and she would just start swinging and not care where the hammer landed.

Sonic, suddenly, got between Rouge and Knuckles. "Hey, hey, hey!" he said. "Don't get upset because of something stupid that happened with me. It's my problem, and I'll deal with it . . . when the time comes."

"You'd better." Silver said. "This game of cat-and-mouse is getting on my damn nerves. I'm really tired of—"

"Uh, heh heh . . . I think that'll do it, Silver." Tails cut him off, nervously, not wanting another problem to commence. "And besides, shouldn't we be getting to class? He asked.

Sonic looked down at his watch.

7:13

"Oh! You're right, Tails. Let's go, guys." Sonic said, and they all started toward their class. Amy caught up to walk beside Sonic and, one again, linked arms with him. Sonic just glanced at her and rolled his eyes, not having the strength to get her off as he did before. The friends had a couple of the same classes together, but most of the time, they were split up. It was nice to have a close friend in every class for them, but because they were considered some of the most popular kids in the school, it wasn't awkward for them to not be together in every class.

~.~.~.~

As soon as they walked into the class, the bell rang, and they searched for their assigned seats. They sat near each other even if they weren't right beside each other. This gave them the advantage to whisper quietly to each other or pass each other notes if need be.

"Okay, guys. Find your seats, please." The teacher, Mr. Sparklight, ordered coolly. He was a young, handsome teacher with a laidback appearance and attitude. He was considered one of the coolest teachers of the school, and all of the students took a liking to him. He also insisted that the students called him Sparks, because he didn't care too much for the last name 'Sparklight'.

The students all moved to their seats, the seats that they previously picked with the understanding that the seating arrangement would be permanent for the remainder of the year. There were other empty seats, but because everyone was content with the seat they were sitting in, there were no complaints. Sonic and his friends sat near the back row, not all the way in the back, but in the area of a couple of rows before.

"So, Sonic," Tails leaned across and talked to Sonic beside him. "What ever happened to your stepbrother?"

"Uh . . . he, umm . . . well, I don't know where he is." Sonic replied.

"Wasn't he supposed to come to school, today?" Tails asked again.

"Wasn't who supposed to come to school today?" Silver asked curiously.

"Sonic's stepbrother." Tails answered.

"You have a stepbrother, Sonic?" Amy asked aloud.

"Shhh!" Sonic urged her and glared. " . . . yes. I have a stepbrother, now." This immediately got Amy and Rouge excited, and led them to bombard Sonic with a million questions .

"Is he our age?" Amy asked.

"Is he a hedgehog, just like you?" Rouge followed.

"Is he as sweet as you?"

"Does he have his own house and car?"

"Is he as cute as you are?"

"Tell us something, Sonic!"

"Yea!"

"ENOUGH!" Silver roared. The whole classroom stared at Silver in slight fright, except for Sparks, who just raised a curious eyebrow at Silver and his behavior. Then, everyone resumed what they were doing. "Give him a chance to speak and stop acting like a bunch of desperate women! Sheesh!"

"What if they are?" Knuckles asked sarcastically, and he and Silver laughed lightly at this. Rouge and Amy just glowered at them, both.

"So, where is the kid, Sonic?" Knuckles added.

"I dunno. He was following me this morning to school, and then . . . " Sonic was recalling what had happened earlier before school.

*Flashback*

"LOOK, you bastard!" Sonic jumped in Shadow's face and spat. "I'm sick of you throwing shit at me, and I want it to stop!" Sonic glared darkly at Shadow.

Sonic closed his eyes and counted to ten, hoping to high heaven that this method would calm him down and keep him from doing anything brash.

' . . . 8 . . . 9 . . . 10! . . . Nope.'

*WHAM!*

"OOF!"

*End of Flashback*

" . . . and then, I dunno what happened after that. The freak must've gotten lost. Ha-ha! But, what should I care?" He said, pulling out the notebook for the class they were in; Geometry class.

"Sonic, what if he really did get lost. Wouldn't you feel bad about that?" Rouge asked.

"Wouldn't your parents, like, kick you out of the house or disown or . . . something?" Silver asked.

"Who cares? He's not my brother, anyway! I don't have one." Sonic answered stubbornly. "If I'm lucky, I won't have to see him ever again."

"Attention, class!" Sparks called. "We have a new student here who needs to introduce himself. And I want you to show him all of the kindness and respect that's due. C'mon in!" Sparks, grinning, gestured for the unknown student to walk inside the room.

The student walked into the room and stood beside Sparks, but, Sonic was looking down at his cell phone, secretly.

"Hey, Sonic?" Tails asked.

"What is it, bud?" Sonic replied.

"Isn't that—"

"Introduce yourself, please. Don't be shy! We're all friends here." Sparks suggested. "What's your name?" Sonic finally looked up and his eyes were immediately glued to the ruby eyes staring back at him with a menacing look and a sinister smirk on the student's face.

"My name's Shadow. Shadow the hedgehog." The student replied, still staring at Sonic with a threatening smirk.

'Why am I so damn unlucky?' And Sonic sank down into his chair, wondering what kind of trouble was awaiting him that day.