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Demkat: Ahahah, glad to see that everyone is apparently already looking far more forward to this than Shadow is XD Not gonna lie, I had a lot of fun writing this chapter :p As for how the syllabus works concerning there's like dozens of different species at this school...please read on to find out! :D Thanks for the review!

Guest: Try my "Tails of a Samurai", that should be up your alley. Other than that, did you, like, like or read this story, actually? Because your comment didn't say anything about the chapter...

Guest: Well, I'm assuming you meant what Shadow's reaction will be during sex ED, rather than just sex, because this story will remain T-rated. XD Hope you like!

LoneGarurumon: Believe me, writing and coming up with this entire chapter was just so funny. XD

DEV: Ahahah, ja, ich *liebe* immer Momente, wo der Unterschied zwischen Sonic und Shadow sehr deutlich wird - ohne Konflikt geht's zwischen denen halt nicht :p Und jupp, Robotniks Plan scheint voranzuschreiten...blöd nur für Shadow, dass er zwischen Cafeteria und Hauswirtschaft festhängt XD Es sollte aber bald deutlicher werden ;P Was Sonics Taktik angeht - also, wenn ich nur durch Supervillain-Angriffe aus dem Matheunterricht rauskäme, würde ich die vermutlich auch entwischen lassen. XD Shadow hat hier allerdings auch Glück, dass Sonics leniency zu seinem Vorteil wirkt, würde ja nicht jeder einen Typen mit unregistrierten explosiven Superkräften UND PTSD an der Schule seines kleinen Bruders unbehelligt lassen...Und jaaaa, die gesünderen Beziehungen in den fics sind immer so ein bisschen ein Outlet gegenüber anderen Serien, die ich gucke, wo sich Figuren öfters immer so...unproduktiv benehmen.^^; Und Shadow verdient einfach mal n bisschen ne Break gegenüber seinen ganzen Canon-Storylines, dammit. XD Freu mich natürlich auch total, dass dir die Weihnachtsstory gefallen hat (und der Bat Credit Card Witz XD), ich bin momentan wirklich auf 'nem Fic-finishing homerun - bald hab ich nur noch die hier und die mit "Sonic und Co in Pokemon Welt" am laufen, dann kommen auch Kapitel schneller :p Allerdings würde Shadow bei diesem Kapitel vermutlich wünschen es wäre *nie* gekommen. XD Hoffe, dir gefällt es und wie immer vielen vielen Dank für das MEGA review! :D

Mantarays: Hey there, glad to have you still onboard! :D One-and-a-half-sided friendship between Shadow and Sonic will continue, and hopefully entertain further XD And you didn't even have to wait long, please enjoy!

Author's note about last chapter: In regards to Shadow's PTSD-flashback last chapter, I had a couple of review and PMs, asking me whether he is "remembering" canon. That isn't quite right - Shadow is, in fact, remembering the events of how he and Maria escaped from the ARK during the raid in this AU ficverse. Anyone who is interested to read how that went down in detail, please have a look at my fanfic (and semi-prequel to this one) "Life could have been so different", Chapter 53 'As I Lay Dying', which is easily readable even if you haven't read the chapters before. I actually think that one turned out really well, too :p

That said, hope you're all ready for Shadow basically wishing he had died in that raid, in...

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Chapter 18: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About…

"What," Shadow said, although that was more or less under his breath.

"So if you look at your schedules online," Mr Steward continued, "large portions have been replaced. This is because with prom right around the corner, we decided to have a school-wide two day crash course of sex ed for senior grade – yes, this all hugely funny, I know," the human teacher deadpanned at the commotion this caused in class, giving a distinctly non-impressed glance at the giggles of a bunny girl in the second row and the snickering pair of human boys in first.

"So please make sure to be on time and in the right room. We'll go over the basics in your homeroom constellation today, but getting all of you into groups separated by gender for one day and animal classes for another was a logistical nightmare, so I hope you appreciate it."

"Animal classes?!" Shadow hissed at Amy, feeling his quills bristling. "Do they mean segregating us from the humans or-?"

"What? No! Calling Mobians 'animals' would be incredibly rude, they couldn't do that in a school!" Amy whispered back quickly. "No, Mr Steward means separation into mammals and reptiles and birds and the like. As hedgehogs, we'll probably end up in a group with some humans in it, too."

Shadow could feel his spines settling down again at this explanation, but still drew his eye ridges into a frown. "But, then…why do they split us up at all?"

Amy gave him a look. "Do you want to listen to a 30 minute presentation about how to lay and hatch an egg correctly?"

"Uh, Mr. Steward?"

Shadow's attention snapped back toward the front where the blonde human girl – Helen – had just raised a hand. Steward nodded toward her. "Yes, Helen?"

"Um, I don't want to be rude, but…why are you teaching this? I mean, isn't your subject modern lit…?"

Mr Steward muttered something that sounded suspiciously like 'Because nobody wants to, which means it goes to the most doormat-like teachers possible', but aloud, he mostly sighed.

"If you actually look at a larger portion of human and sapient literature, you'd understand why we would be the most qualified," he said, then cleared his throat. "So, in homeroom today we'll be starting with the most important part of this crash course, which is contraception. We will not have half of you postponing college after Prom this time, okay?"

As that of course only prompted another round of giggling and back-row hooting, he looked at them sternly. "Yes, laugh it up. But remember, some of you can have up to five babies per pregnancy. Looking at you, here, Bunny, and you, Fiona, so no need to laugh." Mr Steward rubbed his forehead. "Yeah, not fun as a teenager, so pay attention, alright? Any questions before we begin?"

The hand of a dark-skinned human boy seated next to Helen shot up, whose name Shadow still couldn't remember but who was definitely the one who had accosted him in the human bathroom on his first day.

Now the boy was was grinning as Mr Steward nodded at him. "Yes, Danny?"

"Yeah! Is it true that lizard guys have two-?"

Shadow heaved a very big sigh.

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"…so you need to make sure you're buying the appropriate size and a product for the appropriate species. This means especially you lot," he said, frowning at the corner in the room where the sapient kids that had giggled the loudest at the beginning were sitting.

"No buying human condoms to try and impress anybody, alright? If anything, it'll freak your date out. And now, everybody, please look at your schedules and go to your gender-segregated classes after lunch. Class dismissed," Mr Steward finally said, also muttering something under his breath that sounded suspiciously like 'kill me now', but Shadow wasn't sure whether he had really overheard this or whether it was projection at this point.

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During lunch, the younger members of their table were alternatively in awe and in stitches. Tails especially listened with the widest eyes (and reddest ears) as there were a couple more rowdy jokes made in between the Chaotix Detective Agency members, Amy mostly only giggling, looking at Sonic, blushing and then giggling more until the blue hedgehog seemed to be begging to be called away to run around in burning chemicals.

When the bell rang to signal that the gender-segregated half of the school day was about to start, Shadow wasn't even sure whether to be grateful or not.

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"…so, outward signs of male puberty will include a breaking and deepening of the voice in all species, but very often also a change in body hair, fur, scales or plumage," Mr Silver, who had apparently also lost the fight in the teacher's lounge, explained. The silver hedgehog looked if possible even more uncomfortable than Mr Steward had, and not for the first time, Shadow found himself wondering how old the other hedgehog even was.

Their current constellation included all of the boys of their homeroom class, and also a few more that Shadow had seen in other classes, but the overall balance of around one third humans, two thirds sapients didn't seem to have changed. He and Sonic also continued to be the only two male hedgehog students. Mr Silver cleared his throat and continued.

"The most visible change is usually facial hair, or a lengthening of a neck frill or growth of longer fur, feathers or coarse body hair, especially around the chest area, but also – yes, Jet? Is that a question?" Silver asked, now basically looking like a man on an execution block.

"Uh, yeah," Jet drawled. "So, if male birds get gorget feathers when they become adults," – he let the white plumage on his chest puff up a bit – "and male mammals get more fur around their necks, like your fluff there…" he gestured lazily at the white pelt around Silver's shoulders, "does that mean that, for example, a hedgehog who hasn't yet gotten any chest fur is still basically a little kid?" he asked, at the same time throwing a downright nasty grin back at Sonic, of course accompanied by a couple of snickers around the room.

Sonic, unsurprisingly, was immediately up on his feet, quills raised and glaring. "Funny question, Jet. Hey, Mr Silver, while we're at it, if a bird is still squawking like a twelve-year old at fifteen, does that mean he's still technically a chick?"

The question, of course, had been asked while not actually looking at Silver at all, and now Jet was leaping to his feet, tail feathers fully fanned out and glaring daggers,

"Okay, you evolutionary dead-end, if this is how you-!"

"SONIC THE HEDGEHOG AND JET THE HAWK WILL YOU SIT DOWN!"

All eyes in the classroom had instantly widened (and Shadow for a moment wondered whether he had actually imagined several items on the teacher's desk and on the classroom shelves briefly lifting a few inches into the air). Even Sonic and Jet were now looking at the puffed-up silver hedgehog with some surprise, none of them used to the usually quiet substitute teacher getting this loud.

"Guys." Mr Silver seemed now to be taking a couple of deep breaths. "Please. Sit down and quiet down, okay?" he asked and then seemed relieved when Sonic and Jet actually did (Sonic mostly with crossed arms, muttering something along the lines of 'stupid bird, aerodynamic is what it is, like you need extra fur', and glowering down at his chest, seeming slightly dejected).

Mr Silver ran a gloved hand through his very much frayed head quills and then tried to continue.

"Okay, so, Jet, as to your question, some people may not display all of these changes. Even within species, amount of hair growth may differ. Just look at human beards for weirdness," he added as a muttered aside before continuing more loudly, "And now, can we please all return to actual questions and act like adults?"

There was a moment of quiet.

Then:

"Yo Mr. S," Jet squawked, "Is it true that male hedgehogs can suck their own-?"

Shadow wasn't quite sure what happened then, only that something in Silver's eyes seemed to flash, Jet's beak suddenly seemed to glow and slam shut, and then the entire bird had somehow stopped moving, sitting incredibly still in his seat while only his eyes were suddenly the size of Shadow's inhibitor rings.

Silver (who for some reason now seemed entirely serene) replied calmly and with a friendly smile.

"You know, Jet, that is not really a question that needs to concern anyone but hedgehogs or their romantic partners. Are you the romantic partner of a hedgehog, Jet?" he asked, which of course prompted a wave of laughter from the class (while Jet's eyes were now probably about as wide as they could possibly go, as the hawk's head moved mechanically from side to side.) Mr. Silver grinned at him.

"No? Well, I thought so. Also, incidentally, chest fur growth and analogous developments may kick in anywhere from 14 to 19 years of age for most species, it doesn't follow a fixed schedule." (At this, Sonic also slightly seemed to perk up). Then another teen raised his hand, a light-brown coyote in a blue jacket.

"Uh, Monsieur Silver?"

"Oh? Yes…Antoine?"

"Are you ze sure zat ze puberty growing can start at 14? Zat seems very quick."

"Ah, um, yeah. Pretty sure that you can already have a full growth of chest fur at 14," Mr Silver replied, curiously also talking very quickly and attempting to hide his face behind his lesson notes. "Literally any other question, anyone?"

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A little while later, question time was thankfully over and Mr Silver had moved on to simply pairing them up and handing out work sheets according to species. Shadow had (of course) predictably ended up with Sonic and was therefore now sitting next to the last person he had ever wanted to label a diagram of male hedgehog unspeakables with. Though at least he was sure Sonic wanted to die as much as he did.

"Okay," Shadow muttered under his breath. "So. Since we didn't get to actually talk during lunch, what is the current plan concerning the Doctor's activities?" he asked while he tried to pretend he wasn't colouring in what he was colouring in. The one relief this whole ordeal gave Shadow was the knowledge that apparently he seemed to be, for once, actually quite...normal.

A venture onto the internet for comparison had previously not been helpful in that regard (but instead had left the Ultimate Lifeform for the first time in his existence with a severe feeling of inadequacy).

In the here and now Sonic glanced at him with a supremely grateful expression for the topic change. "Er. Yeah. Right." He swallowed. "Basically, what I did was relate the entire info the Kukkus told us to Tails, who is now running a search pattern for the signature of the white Chaos Emerald Eggman stole from them. He's also attempting to hack into the servers of Prison Island right now to find out whether Robuttnik actually stole anything from there before we chased him off. Chaos knows GUN wouldn't tell us," the blue hedgehog rolled his eyes. "But yeah, anyway, I'll tell you as soon as Tails has something. Only now I think his mind is a bit elsewhere after we told him what we're learning about right now. I bet he'll have questions. I bet he's probably writing a list," Sonic groaned as he rubbed his head. "Oh man…"

"Ah. Yeah. About that." Shadow said. "I meant to…I wanted to…I meant to ask…" he began, and hated how he was stumbling over his own words here, but the thought had stuck in his mind, and the worst thing was that Sonic was the best person to ask here-

Shadow took a breath.

"Is it true that male hedgehogs can-?"

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It was a little while later that school had thankfully let out and Shadow had returned home, fully intending to never, ever speak of this topic again if he could help it.

Oh, if only he could help it.

But, as it were, there were still one or two questions lingering and there was only person he could reasonably ask, who definitely wasn't a school teacher.

Feeling like he was walking toward his own execution, Shadow stalked downstairs and opened the door of Gerald Robotnik's home laboratory.

"Uh, Professor?"

"Ah, hello Shadow." His creator briefly glanced up from his workbench. He seemed to be working on a self-defence mechanism for a suit case, as far as Shadow could tell. "Had a good day at school, for once?"

"...mostly," Shadow replied, semi-truthfully. "Only, we're covering some...biological matters right now and I wanted to ask..." He sighed. "Did you design me capable of any...romantic attraction?"

"Erm." Gerald gave Shadow a vaguely unsettled glance over his shoulder, looking a lot like a man who was currently wishing he had gone into particle physics instead of genetic engineering.

"To be honest, my main goal when designing you was to create something viable at all. For, uh, fine-tuning I was mainly concerned with your immune system." He cleared his throat. "However, your bonding and social behavior with friends and family seems within the realms of normal, so for any attraction..." Gerald looked at him, slightly helplessly. "It should probably be either typical for hedgehogs or maybe your...alien parentage?"

"…uh-huh. Great," Shadow replied weakly, also trying to recall what Gerald had told him about the Black Doom the alien overlord, and really hoping he wouldn't at some point develop an attraction based solely on tentacle hentai.

"Um." Gerald began again, expression rapidly shifting from 'uncomfortable' to 'in front of a firing squad', "Are - are you..?"

"Ye- n– well, I mean,in my Home Economics class there's this bat and – look, I think I'm pretty normal, then, okay?! If you say I should be," Shadow tried to answer hurriedly. To be honest, while he had felt some pangs of curiosity for some of the girls at school, he would also rather try and go out with a feral wasp hive for all the potential social disaster the idea of dating or courting held at this school. Nevertheless, being thorough here also meant asking about…

"And…professor, what about...fertility? Not that I'm planning anything!" Shadow added just as quickly as before, certain that the horror currently on his creator's face would likely mirror his own. "But I would like to know, am I…capable of getting anyone pregnant?"

Gerald stared at him like a moustachioed deer on the freeway. "...since the Black Arms seem to be an oviparous species more akin to amphibians, that is a good question. To be honest, to answer that one in detail I'd have to, well, analyse a sample of your-"

"You know what never mind!"

"Yes, thank you," Gerald said with feeling, "Though if you're curious I suppose a fertility clinic could help you out – you, er," Gerald once again looked reminiscent of a morbidly fascinated scholar who couldn't stop turning the pages of the Necronomicon, "I mean, you do generate-?"

Later, Shadow thought, simultaneously yelling "YES!" while slamming the laboratory door behind him and then hiding on the roof of the house for an hour might not have been the most mature method to handle this conversation, but he was also seriously not in the mood to deal with it in any other way.

When Maria came home, it was at least easy enough to drop down from the roof and then update her on the current plans to find her cousin, while also spending the rest of the evening with her in her own lab. In there, he was mostly listening to her on her progress with the stealth technology, a project Shadow was now more than interested in, if only because he was largely hoping to get a device to make him disappear.

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No such luck, of course, he thought very resignedly the next morning, when he was sitting in home room class again, and it was once more Mr Silver standing in front of them, looking a bit like he was wondering if a teacher's salary really was worth this.

"Oookay," the silver hedgehog exhaled. "Let's start the second and thankfully the last day of this program. First, any questions you might still have from yesterday? Yes, Sonic?"

"Yeah," Sonic said, lowering his hand again. "Can you pass a mutation on to your kids?"

Mr Silver cocked his head. "A mutation...like your speed, you mean?"

"No," Sonic shook his head, "not powers, I mean more like, physical mutations. Like…for example, multiple limbs or something? I'm…asking for a friend," he said, looking just slightly awkward. Shadow now noticed that the blue hedgehog indeed was holding a piece of paper that appeared to be some kind of handwritten list.

"Uh, well…" Mr Silver scratched his head. "Generally, any physical mutation has a chance to be passed on to your children, though it's usually quite low. As always, male children will have a higher chance to inherit or develop any mutations and being around substantial amounts of Chaos energy during pregnancy may also cause abnormalities. If you're in doubt, always visit a medical professional before you plan a pregnancy." Silver nodded, seemingly relieved he was able to answer that question and eager to move on. "So, any other…?"

"Um, yes, actually," Sonic continued without having raised his hand again. "I've got a…few. Like, uh…" He looked at the list again, then frowned. "Is...is it normal to find...plants kinda cute like…girls? Oh man, Tails," he added under his breath slightly desperately after half of the class had already broken out in giggles while the other half was mostly looking at the flushed hedgehog with clear bafflement.

Silver, to his credit, was keeping a remarkably straight face.

"Um, well. As long as the plants don't mind, sure? It is, uh, probably a great way to practice asking for consent. Just please don't do anything in a flower shop. And avoid poison ivy. Uh, how many more of these questions do you have…?"

There were a few more, among them "If you're really smart but the girl you like isn't, can your kids still go to college?" ("Good question, that, Tails," was Sonic's wryly muttered comment for that one) and "If your brother gets a kid even if you're adopted, are you then still an uncle?", "Do older fox girls maybe like younger fox boys if they maybe wear stilts so they're taller?" and "Are you allowed to name kids after engine parts?" to which Silver's answers were 'Probably', 'Yes', 'Please don't' and 'Only if Mobian', respectively.

"…even if I don't think any female child would appreciate being called 'Wrench', and please don't christen anyone 'Hacksaw the Hedgehog' so just…exercise some common sense, right?" Silver asked, already looking like he had developed the biggest headache from this first quarter of an hour alone. "Does literally anybody else have a question? Yes, Vector?" he asked, looking toward the crocodile hopefully.

"Uh, yeah. As a reptile, can you get non-reptile girls pregnant?"

"Why honey, you got someone in mind?"

There were a couple of gasps, and heads rapidly turning. Even Shadow could feel his eyes widen in surprise because he had been sure that seat behind him had been empty at the beginning of the lesson.

"What the - why are you in this class?!" he hissed.

"Oh, well. It sounded like hella fun," a particular, white-furred bat replied equally quietly, grinning at him like a shark. "Oh, hello, Mr. Silver," she then said more loudly, waving at the teacher and also giving a wink at Vector (who temporarily seemed to have lost the ability to speak). "Please don't mind me, I'm just a new exchange student. Rogue the Bat, just started last week," she said, smiling innocently at the silver hedgehog.

Curiously, Mr Silver seemed to return to this quite the flat stare.

"…'Rogue'. The exchange student. Uh-huh." He said, tone rather unimpressed, which seemed to surprise Rogue a little. "And I suppose the fact that I also just happened to see the new 'substitute' E-123 Omega roll through the teacher's lounge this morning-no, you know what? Forget it," Silver shook his head, and Shadow was indeed very curious to see a sort of expression flash across Rogue's face that was gone too quickly for him to make sense of.

"Uhm, Mr. Silver, I'm sure I don't know-" Rogue began, eyes wide and confused, but he waved her off.

"No. It's fine. Not my circus, not my bats. Gotta remember. Let's continue this lesson, alright?" Mr Silver asked, looking a bit done with the world. He also muttered something under his breath that sounded suspiciously like 'as long as she's pretending to be High School student maybe she won't help release the Iblis trigger this time' (which also didn't make much sense to Shadow, but then again, what did, these days?).

Next, the silver hedgehog shook his head. "No, Vector, reptiles and non-reptiles are genetically incompatible and no male of one animal class can get a female of another pregnant. Next question? Anyone?"

"Oh, um, yeah," a very shy-sounding light brown wolf girl (that Shadow also hadn't seen before) asked, her voice barely above a whisper. "Is…is it normal if a girl likes…other girls, or, or…if you're technically a girl, but sometimes don't feel like a girl, or like a boy, more like something…in between…?" she wasn't actually looking at Silver as she spoke, instead staring at her desk, the strange half-face Kabuki mask she was wearing sliding over what was visible of her face.

(Maria had explained to Shadow that teenagers liked to try out fashion statements. Shadow was currently going to a school whose principal was wearing Hawaiian shirts, a pink baseball cap, shorts with lightning symbols on them and carrying a skateboard around so he had resolved not to question anything anymore.)

Now Silver was frowning at the Mobian girl, looking genuinely confused. "I'm sorry? What do you mean, is it norm-oh." He paused. "Twenty-first century. Riiiight." He heaved a rather large sigh. "So, yes, actually…"

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After a rather lengthy explanation that had lasted most of the rest of the double period – where Shadow felt like he had understood about fifteen percent maybe, and most of that was that he was SO glad that Gerald had at least apparently managed to set any orientational and identity-related wiring in Shadow's head to the simplest settings possible – the bell had finally rung and they were released into lunch time. (Rogue, of course, having excused herself about five minutes beforehand and then was nowhere to be seen afterwards when Shadow glanced around the cafeteria for her).

During the lunch break, Shadow noticed how it felt almost natural by now to follow the others to their usual table, even if he preferred to sit at the end with Espio and Mighty rather than the part where Tails, Sticks and Marine usually settled. As soon as the younger members of their table had also sat down with their food, Sonic handed the piece of paper he'd had during homeroom to Tails.

"Here you go, kiddo. All written down in sordid detail."

"Thanks!" Tails squeaked, rapidly grabbing the list and shoving it into his bag, ears turning an interesting shade of dark orange. "I- I mean, this is purely for scientific purposes…!"

"Never believed for a second it wasn't, buddy." Sonic gave him an easy grin. "And, because Shadow here basically has ants crawling in his quills about it, can you give us an update about that Emerald screening program...?" he asked, jabbing a thumb into Shadow's direction who by now at least only felt like glaring and not snapping as a response.

Tails gave an eager nod. "Er, yeah, working on it, honest! At the moment it hasn't found anything, though…" he frowned. "I briefly got a ping from the east coast – but there isn't anything there but the Sand Ocean desert anyhow. And then just nothing," he added with wide eyes. "As if Eggman's disappeared off the face of Mobius!"

When Shadow only frowned in response, not sure what to make of this, Tails rubbed the back of his head, looking slightly sheepish. "Also, well, Knuckles' Master Emerald splinters don't exactly make tracking down foci of Chaos Energy any easier, unfortunately. I think he said it broke when Angel Island was somewhere above a desert, so maybe it was just a ping from them…"

"Heh. Wouldn't be Egghead if he wasn't a pain in the butt every which way," Sonic gave Tails an encouraging pat on the back. "Thanks for keeping on trying, buddy. Sorry, Shads," he added with an apologetic shrug toward Shadow.

"Hmph," Shadow scowled at his scrambled eggs. It wasn't the fox kid's fault, of course, but none of this forced inactivity without info was sitting well with him. He drummed his fingers on the table, watching absent-mindedly as Marine and Sticks had now somehow spotted Tails' list and a wild battle ensued for it at the other end of the table, Espio currently commenting to Mighty how he was glad that for Charmy, they so far only had to literally explain about the birds and the bees.

Shadow let out another displeased huff about the general lack of attempts to protect the free world at their table, but then again, what were they supposed to do without info? Run around aimlessly? Shadow inwardly groaned in frustration.

Well.

At least he had been making progress in figuring one thing out last night.

"Sonic?" he said, voice just quiet and casual enough that it wasn't overheard over the threeway fox-badger-raccoon battle royale on the one end, and Amy complaining about how the girls had gotten stuck with Ms Blaze as a teacher for the gender-segregated section yesterday and how she was so scary no-one dared to ask anything.

"Hm?" Sonic replied back, also not really looking at Shadow but rather absentmindedly grabbing Sticks' bladed boomerang out of the air above their heads before it could come back and decapitate at least three of them.

"About…my question. From yesterday." Shadow cleared his throat.

"Ah." Sonic said, and it was interesting how someone could go from casually not looking at you to determinedly not looking at you in just an instant. "...yeah?"

"You were right," Shadow stated, also very purposefully staring anywhere else. "The…effort involved is not really worth it."

Sonic nodded. "Word."

To be continued…

I apologize for everything and nothing.

...that said, if you read, please review! Can't wait for the opinions, fav bits and questions on this chapter :p