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(Those giant gumballs in the image are a crowd of Sonic characters. Also, this chapter's title sounds like one of the bad jokes only Sonic Colors could tell and get away with.)
"So~ What happened in Biology?" Honest asked Shadow once they had met up for lunch outside the main building, near the base of the stairs leading from the second floor English hallways.
"Finitevus had the students all introduce themselves," Shadow reported, stuffing his mouth with some gummies Scourge had given him.
"Seems pretty normal," Honest told him, grinning.
Shadow didn't notice. "Yeah, well, nothing is ever what it seems over in 'Sonic Land'."
Suddenly the same echidna whose classroom Shadow had just left began to separate from the crowd, grasping some sheets of notebook paper within his left hand.
"Here," he said, extending the sheets to Honest. "What I've observed so far."
Doc Fin tipped an imaginary hat to Shadow and fused himself with the crowd once again.
Once the mad scientist had left, Shadow put a hand to his forehead in shame. "Why can't the plots of these stories involve something at least slightly normal?"
Honest was scanning through the words on one of the pages he had given her. "You know there's no fun in that..." Her finger moved down the page until she suddenly jabbed the paper. "Ha! 'My hobby is my business'?? That's hilarious! And sooo Julie-Su!"
They started walking down the sidewalk. There was no point to just standing there and being crowded off into the grass. "Where did Julie-Su come from, anyway? ...And Finitevus too for that matter."
"Oh, well..." Honest's ears lowered as she thought with a finger to her cheek. "Doc Fin got a job as a teacher to get close to Knuckles, and Julie-Su, well... traded places with Ray."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡChYreOboRd
"'With Ray'?" Shadow repeated after her as if making sure he had heard right.
"Yeah," Honest told him. "Julie-Su has been guarding ME in Knuckles's stead all this time. When I started {Comic Edition}, I asked her to join my story and let Ray switch with her."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnNuYZtHDjC
"But Ray's just a kid. How is he going to protect the Master Emerald all by himself?"
"Uh..." Honest flapped her hand as if trying to get rid of a bad odor. "He isn't. But that's for a future chapter. Remember, this story is going to delve super deep into the Sonic Universe and be the longest story I've written yet. So... we need to cover Angel Island eventually. It can be an... extended vacation. And murder mystery. And family get together. And... well, anything, really. But it will be covered. Eventually." Even outside among so much noise, the atmosphere was able to dip just enough that Honest had to take action. "But right now I'm starving. So let's go eat!!" Honest grabbed the dark hedgy's wrist and wretched him towards the building.
"What's the perfect thing to eat on a first day?" Honest was visiting each line and inspecting the choices.
"Uh, something delicious?" Shadow asked.
"Well, of course it's gotta be delicious. But I mean... what theme should I try to go for?" Honest got a little too close to a purple hedgehog girl's tray while trying to find a line to go to, which resulted in her getting a very angry glare shot her way as she did so.
Shadow's eyes became slate voids as he watched from a safe distance. "A 'theme'? Good Chaos, Honest. Just get something to eat already."
Honest seemed to have listened for a second as she finally went to a line, setting down her tray with eyes firmly closed. "Okay-" Then Shadow realized she hadn't listened at all. "I'll eat pizza."
Shadow got a few slices, too. "Fine. Then that's what I'm going with as well."
When the two finally made it to the table they sat at last year, they found everyone else sitting there, also. Honest placed her tray on the table and sat beside Rosy.
"So, you think you've gotten better at controlling yourself this year?" Honest asked, smiling a cat smile and gripping the edge of the table.
Rosy set down her fork. "Oh, yes! I'm really confident this year in my ability to contro- o- ol..." Rosy began to focus on something in the distance.
"What is it?" Honest asked, frightened. She turned her head, and then Rosy suddenly stood up in her chair and jumped clear over Honest to get to whatever it was.
"Scourgey!" Rosy pulled out her hammer as her hi-tops made contact with the tile flooring of the cafeteria. That's when Honest saw a familiar green pincushion hiding behind a column. When he heard Rosy's yelling, he poked his head out from behind it and took off towards the doors a distance away.
"Well, so much for that confidence she said she had," Honest said under her breath. Shadow had sat in the seat next to her and focused on eating his slice of pepperoni pizza. He was sitting on the other side of Honest next to Rouge as the bat lady did something on her phone. She didn't have anything besides a bottle of water. She often didn't because she used the next period as her lunch period. She worked in the library that period and it was so boring that she brought her lunch there to eat while she stood there and checked books in for forty-five minutes.
"Scourge and I were talking about the AP biology class," Rouge told him calmly, looking over at the shadowy hedgy as she spoke.
"You still wanna talk to him?" Honest asked, sounding surprised.
"Oh, uh... yeah," Rouge answered, drumming her fingertips on the surface of the table. "I know he's a pretty cruddy guy, but when he tells me something, I don't immediately tune him out. That would be rude." With a sip of her water, the female spy turned back to Shadow.
"He says that Finitevus must be plotting something against him. Personally I think Finitevus is rounding everyone up in order to exterminate them all."
"Pfft." Shadow blew air out through his mouth and put down the slice of pizza he had been about to bite another time. "I genuinely believe he isn't. I mean, just think about it for a second. If he really was gearing for exterminating all of his students in the end, why isn't Sonic a part of the class?"
"Because Doc Finitevus didn't choose his students. Mephiles did. Besides. Sonic couldn't make it one day in advanced biology. He's way too dim-witted," Honest retorted, laying her head in her palm and her arm on the table.
Then Honest's eyes widened when she saw Shadow's fur began to bristle as he stared at something behind her. He resembled an angry cat. Honest said "what" and slowly turned her head.
"Doctor Finitevus? You don't mean that creepy echidna scientist that showed up suddenly while I was floating around in space for a year in the comics, do you? He's a teacher?"
Honest jumped. Sonic had taken Rosy's seat at some point while she wasn't looking.
"Y-Yeah," Honest said, realising after a while that he was talking to her. "Rouge says Scourge thinks he's going to try and take out everyone in his third period advanced biology class."
"Oh, well then sayonara, eggheads."
"You mean you're not going to try and save some poor, innocent students just because you think they're smart?" Rouge asked, leaning forward to see around the still slightly bristling Shadow.
"Oh, I'll save them... but who are they exactly?"
"Well, let's see," Honest said, beginning to count off her fingers. "Knuckles, Scourge, Shadow-"
"Wait, Shadow's in danger?" Sonic turned to the hedgy in question. Shadow looked confused. "But he's right here."
"Technically he's not in danger," Honest said, suddenly remembering what they were talking about.
"Huh," Sonic said. Then he perked up, seeming to forget. "Wait, Knuckles is in there? Not to be nice or anything, but he's not really what I would consider an egghead."
This, Honest had to admit, bothered her. Finitevus and Knuckles... Well, Knuckles and Julie-Su might be who she needs in order to start something with Scourge, Fiona, and Finitevus. She finished her first slice of pizza while thinking.
"Can I have that?"
Honest looked up when Sonic poked a finger at her plate, on which sat a pizza crust.
"..." When she saw the stars in Sonic's eyes, she picked it up and threw it at him. He fumbled with it a while before catching it and sticking it in his mouth.
"Hey, where's Amy?" Looking behind them, the group watched as Akane the Cat approached. She was a cat that Honest adopted that ended up being a cat girl. She was orange, had a short tail and long hair, and wore a red dress. She also had one brown stripe on her left ear and blue eyes, the latter of which looked concerned as she asked her question in a shaky voice. Everyone shook their heads, signalling that they too had no clue as to where Amy was either. Akane still looked worried as she took a seat on the other side of Rouge.
"Here I am!"
Amy suddenly jumped into the seat beside Sonic. His eyes went wide. That's what happens when you don't guard the seat next to you, Honest thought, sighing. Amy didn't seem to have food as she just grasped Sonic tightly, making him almost choke on Honest's pizza crust. Honest quickly offered him her chocolate milk. It might've just saved his life as he quit hacking up crumbs shortly after he drank that. Amy was completely oblivious. Honest looked at her now empty milk box sadly.
"Guess what I did, Sonikku!" the pink hedge-rat exclaimed, her eyes firmly shut and hearts flying all around her.
"What...?" he asked, not sure he wanted to know.
"I just saved your green double's life! I'm sure you're very proud of me since he is your doppelganger."
"Huh? What do you mean?" Rouge asked, leaning over the table again but this time in intrigue rather than disappointment.
"Who was it? The biology teacher?" Honest asked her.
"Nope!" Amy answered happily. "It was Fiona! She was about to strangle him and I smashed her into jelly. You're welcome!"
"I guess she's cruel to everyone," Sonic said, sighing. He opened his eyes and beamed. "Thanks, Amy!"
Amy looked speechless with her mouth open.
"Uh, Amy? Are you okay-"
Suddenly Amy grabbed him again. "You said 'thanks'? Oh, you're so kind, Sonikku!" And yet more choking.
Sonic started grasping all around him, but Honest just shook her head. She didn't have any more milk. Sonic's face was starting to turn bluer than normal. That's when someone decided to react.
Suddenly Amy was doused in water and stopped choking him, falling out of her seat completely.
Sonic regained oxygen and looked around, startled. Shadow was standing there behind them with an empty bottle of water. No one had even seen him get up. Rouge even looked at her hand and, upon seeing that her water was gone, started spouting steam from her ears. She looked fiercely at Shadow. He just took off to get her another bottle from the kitchen.
"Are you okay, Amy?" Rouge asked, coming around to help her out. Amy now sat up in the floor and started to wipe water out of her eyes.
"Yeah, I'm okay," Amy said despite being most certainly not okay. She looked up at Sonic who had been looking at her in wonder. "Sorry, Sonic. I took it too far again, didn't I?"
"Uh, yeah," he said, narrowing his eyes.
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O.O; Well, lunch was a disaster. AGAIN... Well, at least you can tell this is still Honesty is the Best Policy. What's a chapter of HBP without disaster? Anyway, thank you all for reading this story. I will continue to publish more chapters of it. Well, I would continue to publish them with or without support from the readers. That's what I've been doing for the past six years anyway...
"It ain't much, but it's Honest work."
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