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// Episode 3 Part 1 
// Story: Sonic EGX (Book 1) 
// by Will of Radiance 
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Sonic and Silver were fast asleep in their little corner hidden in the library, with Sonic sleeping on the makeshift bed made of books and Silver on the ground. The library was dark and quiet, with the center of the library lightly illuminated through the glass dome above by the stars and the moon. The entire school was empty, so they didn't have to worry about being caught.

Silver was sleeping quietly on the ground, wrapped in his sweatshirt to keep himself warm. 
Sonic on the other hand, didn't feel the need for covering himself while he slept, so he just relaxed on the makeshift bed with his hands cushioning his head. 
Unfortunately, Sonic was not having the best time sleeping, despite being on the makeshift bed. He frowned as the feeling of not having his powers, having to attend boring classes, and being one upped by Dash all frustrated him to his core. He imagined Dash taunting him, with her tongue sticking out and pulling her eyelid at him. 

"Grrrrr...!!! Why you!" The frustration caused Sonic to bolt upright from sleeping position. He breathed heavily as he stared ahead, letting his anger towards Dash burn off. He finally let out a sigh as he calmed down, closing his eyes wearily. 

"Hey, what's going on Sonic." Silver asked, still wrapped in his sweater, with his white hair sticking out. Unfortunately, Sonic's out burst woke him up, leaving him feeling drowsy and tired.
Sonic looked down to see Silver peeking out from his sweater blanket. He felt somewhat bad for waking him up. 

"Sigh It's nothing......" Sonic reassured Silver, laying back down on the bed. Silver didn't say anything at first. He then thought that maybe something was bothering Sonic, despite him saying otherwise.

"Are you still mad about losing to that Rainbow haired girl?" Silver asked, having forgotten Rainbow Dash's name. Sonic doubletaked as his ego strained upon hearing Silver mention her. He really didn't want to admit that he was upset at his loss, but then he sighed and decided to speak truthfully to him. 

"Sigh A little I guess."  Sonic admitted, looking up towards the stars through the glass dome above. He felt like his power was back on mobius, left behind, leaving him powerless here, and his loss to Rainbow Dash really hammered that fact in. 
"It's that smug smile! I swear it drives me nuts!" Sonic pounded the makeshift bed underneath him angrily, with Dash laughing at him in his mind. Silver flinched a little at Sonic's anger. While he understood why Sonic was angry, at the same time Silver remembered how Dash told him that she wanted to challenge him again the day after tomorrow. 

"Yeah but.....didn't she say she will race you again the day after tomorrow?" Silver reminded Sonic of her talk with him. 
Sonic put his hand to his chin as he remembered what Dash said to him. While he did remember Dash telling him that, he couldn't help but feel like Dash was being patronizing towards him. He thought that perhaps she told him that out of pity, which frustrated him. 

"Sigh You know what...never mind! Just go back to sleep." Sonic frustratedly laid back down on the makeshift bed and closed his eyes, leaving Silver hanging. 

"But I.....yawn!" Silver was too tired to respond. He figured that he should probably try and go to sleep as well, so he proceeded to wrap himself in his sweatshirt. 

With that, the two otherworlders fell asleep, awaiting the next day to come. Silver, as he fell asleep, thought about Blaze, and how much he missed her. 
Sonic managed to push Rainbow Dash out of his head, and managed to fall asleep. He could finally rest peacefully now. 

However, about an hour into his slumber, Sonic began to hear whispers. Not outside, but in his head. Then suddenly, he began to see the image of a person in the darkness, he couldn't make out who it was. The whisper's in his head gradually began to get louder and more clear. Eventually he discerned it as a female voice calling out his name. 

"Sonic.......Sonic.....Sonic......Sonic" The voice called out to his name. 

"Huh? Who's there!?" Sonic called out in his mind. The figure in the distance didn't respond. But before he could call out again, he saw the pitch black environment turn into above the stratosphere of the planet, gazing at the world in almost it's entirety. 

"Whoa!" Sonic was surprised at the sudden change in landscape. He stumbled a little, thinking that he was going to fall, but he relaxed when he found that he was held up by an invisible platform beneath him. He looked around at his surroundings, figuring that the planet below him was the world that he and the other's currently were on. 
"Okay....." Sonic wasn't sure what to say about what he was seeing right now. He looked around some more, but then he saw the figure in front of him earlier, her appearance much more clear now. He ran towards her, wondering who it was. 

She had long, waste length violet hair with a purple and pink stripe, with lavender skin. She wore a blue button up shirt with puffy sleeves,a purple pleated skirt, with purple leg warmers and black loafers. 
He squinted his eyes when he saw her, swearing that he saw her somewhere before. He scratched his head as he tried to remember where he saw her, but he couldn't find her anywhere in his memories. 

Before he could ask any further questions, suddenly the girl turned to face him, revealing her purple irises. She looked just about as confused as Sonic was when she locked eyes with him. She tilted her head curiously, as if she wanted to know more about him. Believe it or not, Sonic found himself tilting his head as well, as if he was mimicking her. 

"Who.....are...." Sonic slowly asked who she was, but he was suddenly cut off when they both felt the invisible ground beneath them shake, knocking both of them off balance. 

"Whoa! What the-!?" Sonic stumbled a little, managing to stay upright. The girl gasped in fear as she stumbled a little. Sonic looked around for any sign of what caused the shaking. But he didn't find anything in front of him. So he decided to ask the girl if she knew.
"Hey! What's going on!?" Sonic called out to her. 
Once again, she didn't respond, but she her eyes were dilated as she was horrified at what was behind her. Sonic was confused as to what she was scared of, but then he noticed a red light had enveloped them both. He turned around, and what he saw, horrified him. 

It was a super massive black planet enveloped in a red glow, thousands of times larger than the planet below. It was so massive that it nearly enveloped the entirety of space around them. In it's center was a pulsating red symbol, from which red veins branched out and spread across the planet. At the end of these viens appeared to be other planets, that had been merged with this gigantic planet. It appeared to be drawing energy from these subjugated worlds and feeding it into the center. The planet gave off a menacing, ear-splitting roar, which was powerful enough to make the planet around them shake. 

Sonic slowly backed away from the eldritch abomination he gazed upon. His heart was racing, his breath was shuddering, and he was trembling in fear. He had no idea what to do, he was powerless and had no way to even run from this thing. 
Suddenly, he saw the veins that covered the planet detach from the surface. They lingered in space around it for a few seconds before suddenly stretching towards them.
Sonic gasped in fear as he saw them rocket towards him, the girl, and the planet below. He eventually succumbed to his fear, and started running towards the girl. 
The girl didn't move as Sonic ran towards her with the eldritch veins closing in on the planet, continuing to stare at the super massive celestial body. 

"Hey!!??....what are you doing!!? RUN!!" Sonic yelled at her. He proceeded to grab her hand as he passed her, with her finally running with him as they feebly tried to escape. Sonic looked behind him as he saw just how massive the elongated veins were as they were now close enough to literally skewer the planet. The two of them kept running and running, but it felt like they were getting no where. The red viens had now begun to envelop the planet below, causing massive fissures to form and lava spewing out from the world. 
"No....NO!....NOOOOO!!!!" Sonic screamed as he and girl were obliterated by the massive veins. 


"NO!!....STOP!!!" Sonic bolted upright, reaching out in front of him. However he stopped when he realized that he was back in the library where he was sleeping. He breathed a sigh of relief as he realized that it was just a dream. He looked down to see Silver still sleeping on the ground. While it was still early in the morning, it was certainly a lot brighter in the library. Sonic moved to sit on the edge and began to think about the dream he just had. 

"Another weird dream........" Sonic thought, remembering the first one he had back on mobius. He began comparing various aspects of both dreams in his mind, and he immediately drew one comparison. 
"Wait.....that girl!.....who...." His train of thought was interrupted when he heard someone approach from outside their little corner. He got up and hid behind the entrance to their hideout. 

"Hey! Who's there!?" Sonic called out, trying not to sound to loud. He quickly looked moved out from his hiding spot, only to see a pair of intimidating red eyes in front of him.

"AHH!!" Sonic stumbled back, startled by the mysterious interloper. "Who're-!? Oh?" Sonic then realized who it was.

"It's me faker." Shadow berated him in his usual calm, yet intimidating tone. 

"Shadow? Where the heck have you been all night?!" Sonic retorted, irritated at Shadow's untimely arrival. 

"Hmph. Unlike you two, I don't need to sleep." Shadow crossed his arms as he touted his superior physical abilities, which cued an annoyed grunt from Sonic. 

"Yawn! Hey, Sonic......" Silver came from around the corner putting his jacket back on. "Oh, hey Shadow. Where were you last night?" 

"I was taking a look outside the school. I didn't explore as much as I wanted to on account of not having my powers." Shadow explained, opening and closing his fist, noting how he didn't have the same strength as before. 
"Anyways, the school's about to open. We need to be out of here before the librarian comes in." Shadow told them. The three wasted no time in leaving their little hiding spot, and headed out of the library. 


It was a windy day outside, with more clouds in the sky than yesterday. The wind caused Twilight and Rarity's purple hair to flutter in the wind behind them as they walked to CHS. 

"Oh dear! I detest windy days like this." Rarity complained as she straightened out her hair, it covering one of her eyes from being blown around in the wind. 
Twilight wasn't that bothered by the wind, although her hair occasionally got in her face.  

"You going to be alright?" Twilight asked Rarity behind her. Rarity finished straightening out her hair before replying.

"Oh I'll be fine Twilight, I just- Oh!" Rarity was interrupted when a sudden gust of wind caused her lavender skirt to be lifted up around her waist.
"Oh goodness!!" Rarity's face blushed as she immediately pulled her skirt down over her thighs, afraid of appearing indecent. Twilight, hearing Rarity's exclamation, turned to see what was bothering her. 

"What wrong!?" Twilight asked. 

"Eh...heh heh....it's nothing...." Rarity replied embarrassingly, still tugging at the front of her skirt, preventing it from flying up. She looked up at Twilight to say something, but then she blushed again when she saw Twilight's purple skirt flying up, revealing her pink undergarments. And for some reason, Twilight wasn't embarrassed about it. She didn't even seem to notice her indecent situation. 

"Uh.......Twilight....your....." Rarity pointed at Twilight's windblown skirt, trying to get her to notice her indecent situation. But Twilight only gave her a confused look. 

"Huh?" Twilight looked down at her skirt, and saw that it was perfectly normal. Unfortunately for Rarity, the wind had past, causing their skirt's to stop blowing in the wind before Twilight noticed. 
"Uh.....is something wrong with my skirt?" Twilight asked, putting her hands on her skirt, wondering what Rarity was getting at. Rarity was silent for a few seconds before responding. 

"Um....it's nothing! False alarm." Rarity decided to not to prod her further and continued walking, not wanting to embarrass her. Twilight shrugged her shoulders and continued walking as well. 

"Uh....I guess Twilight doesn't know that showing your undergarmet's in public is incredibly indecent." Rarity pondered the reason why Twilight didn't show embarrassment at her indecent predicament. But she pushed that thought out of her mind as she and Twilight approached CHS.

2 hours later

Sonic sat at his desk, enduring the boring grind of class. Silver sat next to him, listening intently to what the teacher was saying. Sonic still couldn't understand why Silver was remotely interested in learning stuff that had no use to them at the time, but he thought Silver put up a good front for their cover. That and Sonic noticed that other students had the same bored and tired expression as he did, so he thought he was fitting in pretty well. Granted, he had to keep himself from falling asleep, which was easier said than done. 

Sonic let out a yawn as he kept his drooping eyes from closing. Silver let out an annoyed grunt at Sonic's typical laziness, but continued listening to what the teacher said. Sonic continued biding his time with his elbow on his desk, with his head leaning on his hand. 

"Man.....I already miss Green Hill Zone." Sonic thought to himself, the image of Green Hill Zone with it's naturally formed loops. However, his body tensed up when he realized that he wouldn't be able to go even through the smallest loops without his speed. Then he started to get frustrated when he remembered how Rainbow Dash beat him yesterday.

"That's it, I gotta work on getting my speed back!" Sonic thought, determined to show Dash what his true speed was. But for now, he continued to sit at the desk, biding his time while he waited for class to end. With how bored he was, he began to wonder if sitting through class was really worth getting his powers back.

1 hour later

The school bell rang, cuing students to flood the hallways. Twilight and Sunset pushed their way past some students in the crowd. 
"Oof ow! Sorry!" Twilight said as she bumped accidentally into some students. 

"Ow! Hey watch it!" Sunset snapped as her skirt was stretched by being snagged by a student's backpack before snapping back against her thigh. 
They tussled with the crowd for a minute or two before the hallways cleared up a little. Twilght squeezed past another student and into the clear. 

"Phew! That was a doozy." Twilight noted, brushing off her shirt.

"Tell me about it." Sunset added. The two continued on towards their classes.

Nearby, Shadow was walking to his next class. He kept his eye out for anything that seemed suspicious. Of course without his powers he had to rely on his other senses. He let out an annoyed sigh, knowing that this would be much easier if he had his powers.

"Sigh I'm starting to get why Sonic is so annoyed with this place." Shadow began to slightly sympathize with Sonic's grievances. But he decided to stop his internal complaining and get back to work. He walking around a corner, shifting his way through some students when out of the corner of his eye, he saw the girl from yesterday who showed him around the school: Sunset, alongside the girl who sat next to her in his algebra class.

"Hmph. No doubt they'll recognize me. Best to not draw any attention " Shadow thought. He continued to walk down the hallway without making eye contact with them. 

"Hey Twilight." Sunset nudged Twilight and quietly signaled towards Shadow, who was walking by them from across the hallway. Twilight instinctively shuddered a little at the sight of Shadow, whose silhouette matched that of the person she encountered in the library. 
The two stopped in front of their classroom door, keeping their eyes on Shadow.

Shadow kept himself from making eye contact with them as he walked by. However he felt something that caused him to pause for a second. This feeling was alerting him to something nearby, in the direction of the two girls. But he resumed his pace, not wanting to attract attention to himself. 

Twilight and Sunset kept their eyes on him until he was out of earshot. Both of the magic senses had gone off, pointing in the direction of Shadow.  Twilight sighed, wanting to get to the bottom of this as soon as possible. 

"He's up to no good. I can feel it." Sunset wanted to get answers from Shadow, as well as give her a piece of her mind for trying to hurt Twilight.

"Sigh I don't know Sunset. Like I said, the person in the library only looked like Shadow. That doesn't mean it was him." Twilight tried to prevent Sunset from jumping to conclusions. Sunset thought that Twilight was probably right, but she couldn't be too careful. With that, they both headed into their first class. 

Sonic and Silver entered their first class. Sonic plopped down on the seat, 'totally wanting to get started with class.' (Sarcasm). He let out a sigh as he waited for the borefest to begin. 

"Well look who it is." A snarky female voice next to him said. Sonic flinched as he realized who he was sitting next to. He slowly looked to his right, to see Rainbow Dash sitting with her head resting on her fist, with her smug smile looking at him. 

"........Oh great" Sonic said, his mood becoming even more depressed. 

"Heh. What's the matter? You can't be still salty about yesterday are you?" Dash said semi mockingly. Sonic said nothing in response. Just thinking about his loss yesterday put a huge dent in his pride. Dash could sense he was still miffed about losing. As much as she wanted to make fun of him, she could tell that he was quite the competitor, which she respected.

"Look man. You lost okay? That's a fact." Dash told him. Sonic proceeded to grunt a little in response.
"Course, that doesn't mean you have to like it." Dash continued. Sonic looked back over at her, wanting hear what she had to say.
"Let's just say, you weren't at your best yesterday. Maybe you were tired from sitting in class all day or something. Trust me I know" Dash explained.

"Heh, something we agree on." Sonic begrudgingly agreed with her. 

"So like I said, we'll race again the day after tomorrow when you're 110%. Then you can show me how fast you really are and kick my butt. Right?" Dash put her hand on his shoulder. Sonic, while still annoyed that he had to sit next to her, couldn't help but agree with her.

"Sigh Sure.....I guess." Sonic said, becoming slightly less depressed. 

"Good!" Dash said enthusiastically, patting Sonic on the shoulder. "I'll be waiting! Heh heh." Dash leaned towards him mockingly. She then got back in her seat. Sonic continued sitting at his desk, simply waiting for the class to end. Then he felt Silver nudge him a little.

"Hey man. Could be worse." Silver said optimistically. Dash happened to hear Silver's comment, making her a bit miffed.

"Hey! What do you mean by worse!?" Dash objected angrily, looking over at Silver. 

"Uh nothing! Nothing!" Silver held his hands up, chuckling nervously. 

The teacher entered the room and went behind his desk. 
"Alright! Class has begun!" The teacher called out, causing all the students to cease their chattering and pay attention. Sonic and Dash were silent, but internally they were envisioning their rivalry in the future.

"Heh! Don't think for a second that I'm gonna let you off easy blue boy. I may be giving you a second chance, but I'm still number one around here, don't you forget it! Dash spoke in her head, not going to let some newbie one up her. 

"Just you wait Skittlehair. You don't know the first thing about who I am!" Sonic thought, eager to get his powers back and leave Dash in the dust.

1 hour later

10:00

The school bell rang once again, and students began flooding out of the classrooms and flooding the hallways. Sonic and Silver pushed their way through the hoards of students until they were in the clear. 

"Grr! Almost there! Gah!" Silver managed to squeeze out from the sweaty backside of a burly student and stumbled out into the clear. Sonic was able to find away around by hugging the lockers, and managed to rejoin Silver. 

"Pant, man! Are we gonna have to do that every time?" Silver protested, still brushing himself off. Sonic rubbed his shoulder after being hip checked by a random student in the crowd.

"I hope not! This is exactly why I hate places like this. No place to move." Sonic complained at how claustrophobic the school halls was. Silver, while not as cynical as Sonic, couldn't help but agree with him. 

"Eh it's not too bad Blue boy." Sonic heard Dash next to him. He glanced to his left to see Dash right up in his face. 

"Hey! What the-!" Sonic flinched and stumbled backwards a little. Dash chuckled a little at his reaction. 
"Wait. How did you get past the crowd?" Sonic asked, wondering why she looked unfazed.

"Because I'm awesome. Deal with it." Dash smugly stated with her cocky grin, which cued an annoyed expression from Sonic. 

"Say, do you have another class with us?" Silver asked her, noticing her presence.

"Nope. Looks like we part ways here!" Dash told him, turning to head down the other hallway. "Well, smell ya later "Hedgehogs" Dash taunted before heading down the hallway, but not before sticking her tongue out and pulling her eyelid at Sonic. 

Sonic having enough of her taunting, decided to throw the exact same taunt back at her. 

Dash double taked at Sonic mimicking her taunt, she didn't expect him to resort the same humor she did. Dash chuckled a little in response and continued walking down the hallway, leaving Sonic still fuming. 
Silver couldn't help but feel the same way a little, but he quickly pushed that thought out of his head. He began walking down the hallway, but he stopped when he noticed that Sonic was still looking down the  hallway down where Dash had left them. 

"Uh Sonic.....?" Silver raised an eyebrow, wondering what Sonic doing, still looking down the hallway. Sonic didn't answer, as his eyes were still fixated on Dash as she walked down the hallway.
"You still looking at Dash?" Silver spoke again. 

"Huh? Wha?........No I wasn't." Sonic finally noticed Silver talking to him, sort of embarrassed. 

"Sigh Well why are you just staring out into space then?" Silver asked. "Come on!" Silver continued walking down the hallway. Sonic briefly looked back down the hall where Dash headed off, but she had already dissipated into the crowd.

"Hmph!" Sonic let out a last harrumph before following Silver. 


Meanwhile

Fluttershy was outside her math classroom, waiting for class to begin. She nervously looked around for any sign of Scourge. But she was also looking out for Sonic, she wanted to both thank him for saving her, and apologize for getting him sent to detention. 
She let out a sigh, trying to get over her anxiety. She didn't know how to apologize to Sonic, as she barely knew him, and she didn't want to appear rude.
She clutched her arm. Her anxiety beginning to eat at her self esteem. 

"Why.....why am I like this?" Fluttershy asked. She felt pathetic, it was bad enough that she was terrified of Scourge, she couldn't even talk to Sonic normally. 
"I wish I was like Rainbow Dash, or Applejack. Brave....... and strong." She envied her other friend's confidence, which was something that she lacked.
"But why.........why!?.......why am I so.........so...." Fluttershy clutched her arm tighter, as her insecurities began to overwhelm her.

"Hey Fluttershy!" She heard a voice, along with a hand on her shoulder. 

"AHHH!!" Fluttershy screamed. She let out a whimper as she slowly opened her eyes to see who was speaking. She saw that it was Rainbow Dash, which made her breath a sigh of relief. 

"Uh.....it's just me...." Dash said, somewhat annoyed with Fluttershy's shyness. Of course, this was nothing new to Dash. Fluttershy has been like this ever since she met her. 
"Sigh Shy, you're never gonna get up to the likes of me if you're scared by even a knat." Dash said to her. Fluttershy wiped some of the tear building up in her eyes.

"Sniff I....I know...." Fluttershy agreed with Dash, though it didn't do much to make her feel any better. Dash had been giving her these kinds of pep talks for a while now, hoping to get Fluttershy over her anxiety, with limited results.

"I know you know. But knowing isn't enough!" Dash pumped her fist, trying to encourage Fluttershy. But it only served to unintentionally make Fluttershy feel worse. "You wanna get over your fears, you gotta face them head on! Like I did!" Dash praised herself. Fluttershy slouched against the lockers as her self esteem dropped.

"Yeah, easy for you to say." Fluttershy said to herself.

"Ey there" Fluttershy and Dash heard another voice from across the hall. They looked and saw Applejack from across the hallway, leaning against the lockers, arms crossed, her hat obscuring her eyes.

"Dash, you picking on Fluttershy again?" Applejack said sternly. Dash double taked, taking offense to Applejack's comment.

"Wha- Pickin-......" Dash stepped forward to give Applejack a piece of her mind. "Hey! I may be cocky, but I'm no bully like Scourge." Dash defended her actions, getting up in Applejack's face.

"Hey calm down. I was just kiddin' alright." Applejack tried to diffuse the tension. Dash, while still visibly offended, decided to back down anyway.

"Hmph! Fine. I was only trying to help Fluttershy." Dash said begrudgingly, stepping away out of confrontational range.. 

"Anyways. Say Dash, you keepin' an eye on those two from yesterday?" Applejack asked her, walking over to Fluttershy. 

"Huh? Oh yeah. Turns out I have a class with them." Dash reported. Then she raised an eyebrow when she wondered why she would ask about them.
"Wait, why are you asking about them?" Dash asked her. Applejack tipped her hat up so that it didn't obscure her eyes.

"It's only a hunch, but I honestly think they have something to do what's been happening recently." Applejack said what's been on her mind. 

"Huh?" Dash said, perplexed by the thought. 

"W-What do you mean?" Fluttershy asked Applejack. Applejack scratched her chin as she thought out her reasoning.

"Think about it. This emerald crashes on earth. Then those two weirdo's arrive the next day. Don't ya think that's a coincidence." Applejack speculated. This got Dash and Fluttershy thinking for a few seconds. After a few seconds of thinking, Dash began snickering to herself.

"Pffft! Hee hee! Really, Blue boy has something to do with this?! Ha! Hilarious." Dash boasted.

"Huh?" Applejack and Fluttershy wondered what Dash was talking about. 

"So what if their weirdos. Doesn't mean they have anything to do with this." Dash arrogantly dismissed Applejack's theory, making Applejack a little irritated. "And besides, after Blue boy's dismal performance yesterday, I hardly think he's part of this."
Applejack wanted to say something in defiance of Dash's arrogance, but let out a sigh when she thought that it would just be a waste of time. 

"Sigh Whatever.....just somethin' to think about." Applejack brushed off Dash's snide comment, walking over next to Fluttershy.

"But I will admit. Blue boy is pretty interesting. " Dash admitted, getting Applejack and Fluttershy's attention again. "I mean, I haven't seen someone with that much fire in him in a long while." Dash remembered Sonic's immense confidence, which was something that she couldn't help but respect. 
Applejack smiled, knowing that Dash couldn't resist a rival

"Hmm. And you want to race him again right?" Applejack speculated, knowing full well that Dash never turned down a challenge.

"Yep. I'll race him again tomorrow, when he's at full strength!" Dash thrust her fist into the air, excited to face Sonic again tomorrow. 


Nearby, Shadow was eavesdropping on their conversation. 
"Great. They're onto us." Shadow said under his breath. He quietly moved along so that they wouldn't notice him. 

2 hours later
12:00 pm

Sonic and Silver opened the doors to the messhall. They both looked around for any sign of Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, or anyone they talked to here. Thankfully they didn't see them anywhere among the students yet. 

"Okay. Let's not make a scene this time okay." Silver said to Sonic, remembering him flipping out over chili dogs. 

"Yeeeah. Let's not." Sonic agreed with Silver, noting to himself to not make a scene again, although, he swore that he was on Chili Dog withdrawal right now. They both got their food without making a fuss and found a table near the windows. 
They quietly ate their food while they waited for Shadow to get back. They both were somewhat drained, and slightly depressed. 
Sonic looked over at Silver as he bit into his 'normal' hotdog, noticing that he looked slightly depressed. 

"Hey, what's up?" Sonic asked, curious to know how he was doing. 

"Hmm? Oh I'm fine. Just......" Silver paused for a moment, trying to think about his reason for feeling so depressed. 

"Just what?" Sonic wanted to hear what Silver had to say, while chewing on some chips. 

"Sigh......guess it's getting a little annoying being without our powers and everything." Silver explained. Sonic swallowed what he was chewing. He completely understood how Silver felt. 

"Yeah, I know what you mean. Sucks doesn't it." Sonic leaned back in his seat, understanding Silver's frustration.

"I'm wondering if we'll ever find the chaos emeralds like this. Because I can't sense them without my powers." Silver explained further, noting how he could sense any energy now.

"Huh? You can sense the chaos emeralds?" Sonic asked, unaware of Silver's ability to do so. 

"Huh? Y-yeah I could sense them. I could always sense sources of energy, whether it be objects or people." Silver explained. "I could even sense yours when we first met." 
Sonic couldn't help but be a little intrigued about this whole energy sensing thing.

"Really? So, what does it feel like. I don't really know because, well....., I don't really have this sense." Sonic explained to him.
Silver double taked when Sonic said that he didn't have a sense. 

"What!? What are you saying?" Silver said, baffled that Sonic didn't have an energy sense. Sonic was rather confused at his bewilderment. 

"What?" Sonic asked.

"Sorry, but, I was told that anyone who can use their energy could at least sense a little energy." Silver explained. "That's how I was able to read your moves when we first fought."

"Hmmm.......well, what does it feel like to sense energy. Maybe I've been missing something." Sonic asked, sitting back as he began sipping his drink. 
Silver rubbed his chin, trying to think of a way to explain it to Sonic. It was hard to necessarily describe the feeling as it pretty much was second nature to him. Regardless he decided to try and explain it anyways.

"Well, from what I remember, it feels like a stream of energy going through your heart. Depending on the energy, it feels different each time." Silver did his best to explain the feeling to Sonic. Sonic continued listening, still sipping on his drink.
"For example, your energy feels intense, wild, but noble at it's core." Silver explained how Sonic's energy felt. "Shadow's felt dark, powerful, yet......kinda sad." Silver recalled how he felt about Shadow's energy. Sonic stopped drinking for a little while, wondering what Silver meant by that. 

"Hmm......I don't know. But I don't remember feeling anything like that. And if I do feel anything like that, I probably ignore it most of the time." Sonic explained. Silver put on an unimpressed face. "But to be honest, I would have put grumpy in his description of his energy." Sonic snickered a little at his own snide comment towards Shadow. 

"Heh, talking crap behind my back are we now faker?" The two heard an intimidating voice as soon as Sonic finished his comment. 

"Huh? Eeep!!" Silver jumped when he noticed Shadow standing over them. Sonic just nonchalantly looked over at Shadow.

"Oh....there you are Shadow." Sonic said to him, like nothing ever happened. Shadow decided to ignore Sonic's snide comment, and sat down next to Silver. 
"You sure took your time." Sonic commented.

"I made sure I didn't run into anyone on the way here." Shadow explained. "Anyways, we've run into a problem." Sonic and Silver stopped eating.
"It looks like some people here may be onto us." Shadow said, looking back and forth for any sign of Sunset Shimmer, or those girls that he eavesdropped on. 

"Gulp! Oh no. Is are cover blown?" Silver said worryingly. Sonic didn't say anything, but he was noticeably worried. 

"Not yet. But any more stupid moves, and are cover will be blown." Shadow further elaborated. Silver breathed a sigh of relief, and Sonic relaxed a little.
"Oh, and another thing. It appear's I've regained my Chaos energy senses." Shadow said, which caught Silver and Sonic's attention.

"Wait really!?" Silver said louder than usual. 

"Ssshhhhhh!!! Be quiet!" Sonic said through clenched teeth, not wanting to attract attention. 

"Uh...sorry. You said you got your senses back. How do you know?" Silver asked, reverting to a more subdued and quiet voice.

"Well, it turns out I think I sense a chaos emerald nearby." Shadow explained further, still sensing the energy nearby. Sonic and Silver flinched at his words.

"Really! Awesome!" Sonic said enthusiastically.

"Ssssshhhhhh! Quiet!" Silver said through clenched teeth. 
"So....where is it!?" Silver asked, eager to know where it was. Sonic leaned from his seat, wanting to know where the emerald was. 
Shadow decided to break the news to them. 

"It's in that girl's bag." Shadow pointed out into the crowd of students without even looking. Sonic and Silver looked into the crowd where Shadow was pointing, and their eyes went to a backpack that was on the ground beneath two girls. One had lavender skin and purple hair, the other had orange skin and yellow and red hair.
Their hearts sank. The first Chaos emerald they find is now in the hands of some girl.

"You're kidding me?" Sonic said, hardly believing what Shadow told him. 

"Great. This just got a whole lot harder." Silver added, sharing Sonic's plight. Shadow let out frustrated sigh, agreeing with Sonic and Silver's comments.

"We need to be careful. If they catch us, then were good as gone" Shadow warned the two of them. "I've seen those two before. And the red and yellow haired one is little bit too interested in me." Shadow explained further. Sonic chuckled a little when Shadow said that one of those girls was 'interested' in him. 

"Wait! I have an idea!" Silver raised a finger into the air. Sonic wanted to shush him again, but he felt it would be just redundant at this point. Shadow waited for Silver to further elaborate on his idea, as he thought he may be onto something.
"I could sneak up, and take the bag right under their noses!" Silver stated confidently. Shadow's hopes immediately dropped, as did Sonic's anticipation.

"Uh.....that sounds like a terrible plan." Sonic commented. "Seriously, I'm not even that stupid"

"I agree. No offense but I don't think someone like you is very good at sneaking." Shadow added, not wanting to risk getting caught on Silver's sneaking skills.

Silver felt rather dejected at their comments. "Oh come on! This is our only chance to get it! We might not get another chance!" He attempted to convince them. 
Shadow still wasn't convinced, still sitting with his arms crossed with his perpetual scowl. 

"Just wait. If we make a move now. We'll run the risk of getting caught." Shadow told him firmly. 

Silver however wasn't going to give up on his plan so easily. 

"Oh would you look at that! My plate is empty and I'm still hungry." Silver faked still being hungry, planning on using it as an excuse to walk away. 
"I'm uh......just gonna go.....get seconds." With that he quickly scurried off with his plate 

Sonic and Shadow were silent for a few moments, wondering if Silver really was going to get seconds.
"Were getting caught aren't we?" Sonic said depressingly. Shadow only let out an exasperated sigh. 

Twilight and Sunset were eating their lunch while thinking of the next course of action they should take regarding the emerald, all while unaware of Silver hiding nearby. 
Twilight bit into her sandwich, still thinking about the secrets that the emerald held. However she sighed as asking all these questions in her mind made her tired. Part of her just wanted to forget about the emerald and just go about her life until she made it back to Equestria. But she knew that she didn't have that luxury.

"Hey Twilight, you okay?" Sunset noticed Twilight looking tired. Twilight didn't respond at first, which only served to worry Sunset even more.

Twilight put her arms on the table, deciding to relay her thoughts to Sunset.
"Sigh Sorry. It's just I wish I could think about something else other than this emerald." Twilight explained. 

"Oh. Well....Sure. What do you wanna talk about?" Sunset smiled as she was happy to just have a casual talk with Twilight.
Twilight thought for a few seconds about what she wanted to talk about. Since she was just thinking about her home back through the portal, she figured she should ask Sunset about her life back there.

"Do you.....miss life back through the portal at all?" Twilight asked, wondering if Sunset felt homesick the way that she was right now. 
Sunset thought for a few seconds, wondering if her feelings were really the same after living here for approximately five years. She then put down her drink and gave her answer.

"This might come off as a shock to you but.....not really" Sunset answered. Twilight was visibly surprised and confused. 

"Really!? B-But don't you have family and friends back home? Even Celestia wrote to me that she wonders how your doing." Twilight replied, somewhat concerned that Sunset would think that. 
Sunset anticipated that Twilight would react that way, she she figured she should explain why she felt that way. 

"Unfortunately, when I was still my old bad self. I cut off all ties with my family and friends back in Equestria." Sunset explained, guilt crawling into her heart. Twilight calmed down as she listened to Sunset's story. 
"I lied to, exploited, and abandoned them." Sunset continued, her voice filling with sadness. "I just don't think they want to see me again, after how I've treated them." Sunset finished, wrapping herself in her arms as the guilt sank in. Twilight felt Sunset's sadness. She felt a little bad that she didn't know about that. But she wouldn't let Sunset feel that way for long.

"Well, like I said, Celestia still worries about you. So, you're not completely alone." Twilight told her, hoping to cheer her up. Sunset smiled back at Twilight, relieved that she was friends with her.

"Well, that's Celestia for you. She always looks after her students." Sunset replied. "Even those who go off the beaten path." She added at the end. Twilight chuckled a little at her comment.

"Also, I wouldn't give up on your friends and family. They.....probably miss you." Twilight continued. Sunset wasn't so sure about her last statement. But she smiled none the less as the notion of seeing her family and friends again warmed her heart. 

"Sigh Thanks Twilight." Sunset thanked her.

Nearby, Silver was still sneaking up on them. While he was heart warmed from eavesdropping on their conversation, he knew that he had a mission to do. He hid behind one of the pillars in the mess hall about twenty feet from them. He figured that they would see him if he got any closer so he decided to get down on his hands and try to sneak the bag from under their noses. 
"Carefully......" Silver said to himself as he creeped on all fours. 

"Say, that can't be the only reason you don't want to go back. Is it?" Twilight asked, wanting to know more. 

"Hmm? I guess so. After coming here, I just figured that....this is where I belong." Sunset gave a quick explanation of her feelings for this place. 
While Twilight couldn't argue with how Sunset felt about the human world, she couldn't say she herself felt the same way.

"Really? No offense but, I found the whole experience first coming here very scary!" Twilight replied, recounting how she fumbled and staggered around on her wobbly human legs. 
Sunset was about to respond, but she was cut off when noticed something on the ground beneath them. 

"Twilight...." Sunset said trying to alert Twilight to the thing beneath them. 
Unfortunately Twilight was caught up in describing her experience coming here. 

"Being 5 foot six inches and walking on two legs felt like I was walking on stilts. Not to mention my hooves turned into.....these things" Twilight continued, noting that she still had trouble using her hands. Admittedly even though she's been here longer than usual, her fine motor skills were practically non existent.

"Twilight." Sunset said a little louder.

"Not to mention these clothes I had on. Where'd they come from?" Twilight continued rambling, not noticing what Sunset was looking at. "Not that I mind them of course, though I wouldn't exactly agree with the choice of-"

"Uh...Twilight" Sunset finally said.

"Hm? What is i- uh?" Twilight finally noticed what Sunset was looking at. She looked down at the ground to see a boy with white hair, on his hands and knees, reaching out to grab her bag. 

Silver was completely frozen as the two girls stared down at him. The purple haired girl had a look of utter confusion, while the Yellow and Red haired girl had a scowl on her face with her arms crossed. He began sweating nervously, knowing that he was in an extremely bad situation. 

"Uhh....?" Twilight honestly didn't know what to say, for it looked like he was trying to peep up their skirts! The thought of this caused her to blush slightly, placing her hands between her legs. Sunset added by giving out an intimidating grunt at him. 

"Uhh....." Silver was literally panicking on the inside. His eyes frantically darted back and forth as he tried to think of a way out of this mess. "Oh god! What do I do?! What do I do?!! WHAT DO I DO!!!?"
There was silence for a few seconds.

"Tch! Stupid contacts!" Silver frantically waved his hands all over the floor, appear like he was searching for something on the ground, while also squinting his eyes to appear if he was near sighted. Sunset when from visibly aggressive to just plain confused, with Twilight sharing the same expression.

"Oh there it is!" Silver suddenly held up an imaginary contact lens. "Better go wash it off heh heh!" Then he proceeded to dart away from them before they could say anything else. 
The two looked in the direction he darted off in, still utterly confused as to what just transpired. 

"Oooookay? That was weird." Sunset commented, still suspicious of just what he was doing on the ground.

"Maybe he's new here?" Twilight inquired. 

"Must be, because I've haven't seen him here before." Sunset decided to let it pass, for she has seen weirder things happen at this school than this.


Nearby, Silver was hiding behind a pillar, sweating his tush off and hyperventilating from being nearly caught. 
"PANT PANT PANT PANT That was close.....too close." Silver said to himself, relieved that he didn't get caught. But now that he was too scared to go and try again. With that he slumped back to Sonic and Shadow in defeat. 
"Well...I've done all I can do.......sorry guys." Silver apologized as he sat back down with them. Sonic and Shadow were not very surprised at Silver's failed attempt. 

"Sigh How are we going to get it now?" Sonic let out a sigh of disappointment, knowing that he won't be getting his powers back any time soon. 

"Not to mention those two girls are suspicious of us already." Shadow added. The three were silent for a moment as they were at a loss. Not only did they not have their powers, but the first chaos emerald they find is out of their reach. 

"For now let's just keep an eye on them from a distance." He further explained. Sonic and Silver wished that they could just grab it right now. Sonic knew that if he had his speed he could snatch if from right under their noses, while Silver thought that with his psychokinesis he could also get it. But they both let out a disappointing sigh and decided to roll with Shadows plan. 


Back over at Twilight and Sunset's table, Sunset was keeping a close eye on the three, particularly on Shadow. She had watched Silver go back to the table as he ran off after they spotted him. While Silver did his best to appear innocent, Sunset didn't buy his act. Looking at them, she suspected that Silver, as well as the blue haired person sitting next to him were related to Shadow. She knew that considering Silver's suspicious behavior a minute ago, that he had something to do with Shadow. She decided that from now on she will be keeping a closer eye on all three of them.

4 hours later 

Class has been dismissed and the main seven had gathered outside on the soccer field to discuss their day. Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Pinkie Pie were playing Soccer out in the field while the rest of them were on the bleachers talking with each other. 

"You felt the energy coming from that guy, right Twilight?" Sunset asked Twilight while munching on a granola bar. 
Twilight recalled her magic senses going off when looking at Silver earlier. She was too caught up in her confusion that she didn't notice. 
Rarity and Fluttershy were listening intently on what they had to say. 

"You're right Sunset. You remember Shadow from our math class? We sensed energy from him too." Twilight added as she finished going over some books she borrowed from the library. 

"I swear, those three are getting more suspicious by the day." Sunset stated. 

"Three?" Twilight asked, wondering who the third person she was alluding to was.

"Oh. There was a third guy with spiky blue hair sitting with them." Sunset explained. "Come to think of it, those three have a thing for spiky hair." She continued, noting to herself how ridiculous their hair looked in comparison to everyone else 

"By the by, did this suspicious person so happen to have white hair?" Rarity said, having a hunch that she knew who it was.

"Oh yes! He did! How'd you know?" Sunset asked. 

"He did!? Then.....that's the person in my class." Rarity replied,  her heart sank slightly at the thought that Silver was being unscrupulous. "He seemed like such a good boy"

"So it was the person that Rarity mentioned yesterday that was snooping on us." Sunset commented. 

"I....wouldn't jump to conclusions yet." Twilight replied. "For all we know he could've really just been looking for his contacts." She further elaborated, willing to give Silver a chance.

"Yeah! Besides, I hardly doubt that a sweet boy like him would ever hold malicious intent!" Rarity agreed with Twilight, still reminiscing about how she met Silver yesterday.

"Hey, I could be wrong. But we can't just rule out the possibility that they are up to something." Sunset replied, still holding on to her hunch. 
Meanwhile Fluttershy was combing her hair while she was listening in to their conversation. She remembered meeting Silver along with Sonic. To her, Silver didn't seem bad. 
She was about to pitch into the conversation, but she was cut off when a soccer ball hit the bleachers near her.

"AHH!!" Fluttershy yelped in surprise, looking at where the ball landed, noticing it bounce out back into the field. She shivered a little from the shock before letting out a sigh of relief. 

"Ey Dash! Watch it! Ya nearly hit Fluttershy!" Applejack chastised Rainbow Dash from out in the field. 

"Would you lay it off!? I know what I'm doing!" Dash spat back as she ran up to the bleachers to retrieve the ball. She happened to overhear a little of Twilight, Sunset, and Rarity's conversation and decided to pitch in her two bits. 
"Say, if you are so suspicious of them why don't we just confront them about it?" Dash proposed. This got Twilight and Sunset's attention. 

"Well, I guess that would be the extreme way to go." Sunset commented on the idea. Twilight on the other hand wasn't so enthused by Dash's suggestion. 

"But we can't just accuse them of things that we don't know that they did! Were not vigilantes " Twilight refuted Dash's idea. Dash leaned against the fence separating the bleachers and the field. 

"I'm just saying, if we don't do something about this, it could come to bite us in the ass." Dash understood Twilight's point, but she wasn't going to back down just yet. 

"Y-you....don't think Sonic is.......bad......do you....?" Fluttershy questioned Dash's reasoning, not liking the notion that Sonic may be a bad person when she already placed her faith in him. Dash took a few moments to think about her question. 

"I never said blue boy was bad. In fact, I think he's one of the more interesting guys here." Dash replied still maintaining her confident demeanor as she continued playing with the soccer ball with her feet, causing Fluttershy to be slightly relieved. 

"Are ya sayin' ya like him?" Applejack said mockingly. Dash double taked and accidentally kicked the ball away, her confident demeanor immediately turning into a flustered one. 

"Tch! I do not! What made you assume that!?" Dash retorted angrily, unaware that she was blushing. Fluttershy and Applejack giggled a little at Rainbow Dash's outburst. However Dash managed to collect herself a little as she attempted to explain herself. 
"Besides! He's way in over his head, not to mention he's a idiot." Dash explained smugly with her arms cross and head up. Applejack rolled her eyes and proceeded to ignore what she just said. 

"Sigh I don't think we can come to any definitive conclusions about them just yet everyone." Twilight stated, causing every to pay attention to her.
"So....I think we shouldn't worry about them so much" Twilight continued, wanting to focus more on solving this problem instead of seeking out conflict with potential foes. Dash let out a disappointed groan at how her idea was being rejected. Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie all nodded in agreement with Twilight's sentiment. Sunset on the other hand wasn't so sure.

"Sigh I'm not sure Twilight. I just can't rule out the possibility that they have something to do with this." Sunset explained how she felt about the situation. Twilight, while she disagreed with her at the moment, she smiled understandingly knowing that Sunset was just looking out for them.

"Well, in that case. I'll leave you in charge of keeping an eye on them. Ok?" Twilight smiled at her, placing a hand on Sunset's shoulder. Sunset looked over at Twilight, realizing that she is becoming more like Celestia day by day. She smiled back at her.

"Heh! Thanks Twilight. I'll make sure they're not up to no good. For all of us!" Sunset said, determined to do her part. 

"That's the spirit!" Twilight complimented her. "Is everyone else in?" Twilight asked the others enthusiastically as she stood up. 

"Eh......sure. Why not." Dash made herself comply begrudgingly. 

"Yep, let's solve this mystery together!" Applejack said positively with Pinkie bouncing on the soccer ball they've been playing with. Rarity and Fluttershy also agreed with Twilight on their new course of action. 
As the group prepared to leave, Sunset looked back at the school, knowing that she would have to come face to face with Shadow eventually. But she decided to go along with Twilight's plan and focus on uncovering the mystery of this mysterious emerald, while keeping an eye on the three new students at the same time. 

Inside Canterlot High, Scourge was walking down the hallway towards the entrance, wanting to go home. Ever since his fight with Sonic the day before, he has been seething about how he's going to take him down the next time they fought. As he continued walking with a perpetual frown on his face, his presence garnered dirty looks and condescending whispers from the other students. But he didn't pay them any mind, for he was used to it. 

"That Blue rat is gonna get it. I swear." Scourge said under his breath. He exited the school, quickly went down the steps, and began his walk back. However he heard someone stumbling nearby as he exited the school. 

"Wh-Wha-WHOAA!!-Ooof!!" A female voice cried out followed by the sound of them crashing into a trash can. Scourge looked over to see a female student face down in the trash can with her legs dangling upwards out of the can.
"Oh of all the times! Grr...the great..and, hrg..powerful..Trixie, should not...Ack!...have to suffer....Blech!....such humiliation!" The girl said through mouthfuls of trash as she tried to pull herself out of the trash can to no avail. She kicked her legs frantically, causing the trash can to rock back and forth spilling trash everywhere. However she was unaware that her skirt was flipped upside down, showing her white panties! Scourge blushed slightly at what he saw, though he kept his same grumpy expression. He just stood and watched as Trixie continued to struggle in her mortifying situation. 

"Dch Agh! Come on!" Trixie continued kicking her legs in the air. "I- Grr! swear! I will- Dch!- make whoever-Agh- placed this garbage can here....PAY!!" Trixie angrily shouted. But before she could say anything else, she felt a hand grab her boot. 
"Huh? What the- WHOOAA!!" She felt her body being pulled upwards out of the trash can. She then saw a boy's upside down face as she hung above the trash can. 

"Uhhh.....?" Trixie with her face covered with a banana peel, not knowing what to say. Scourge didn't say anything back, still having his grumpy face, albiet his face still blushing. Trixie eventually realized that this person had helped her out of her predicament. "I.....WAH!!OW!!" Trixie was dropped on her head before she could say anything else. 

"Hmph!" Scourge let out an annoyed grunt as he dropped Trixie on her head before she could thank him and continued walking onwards. 

"Ow! That was....unnecessary." Trixie sat up as she rubbed the side of her head. "Huh?" Trixie then realized that her skirt was still flipped up, showing her frilled white panties! 
"AH!!" Trixie immediately blushed with embarrassment and brought her skirt down, bringing her knees together. She let out a sigh as she let the embarrassment pass. She looked up to see the person who helped her walking away. As she looked closer, she actually recognized who it was. 

"Um...thank you!" Trixie waved to Scourge as he continued walking away. Scourge heard her, but he didn't acknowledge her thanks. While Trixie was put off by his Scourge's aloofness, she blushed as she actually found it charming about him. 
"Sigh" Trixie let out a romantic sigh. While she was aware of his violent behaviors, she liked to believe there was a better person underneath all that. 


Nearby Sonic, Shadow, and Silver were returning to their little hidey hole in the library. Silver was still bummed out that his attempt at getting the chaos emerald failed. Shadow remained quiet as always. Sonic on the other hand, was diverting his thoughts to the dream he had last night. Of course this was hard for him to do as he was also obsessing over his rematch with Rainbow Dash. 

"Sigh So what do we do now?" Silver asked Shadow as they walked down the hallway. Shadow thought for a moment before answering. 
"From what I observed from them, that the Yellow and Red haired girl is pretty feisty" Shadow explained, recounting his time talking to Sunset Shimmer. 

"Wait?" Sonic interrupted. "You mean that bacon haired girl?" Shadow and Silver looked at him with utter confusion at what he said. Sonic sensed that he confused them.
"...............What? I mean, does her hair look like bacon heh heh?" Sonic chuckled to himself at his own comment. Unfortunately Shadow and Silver were not amused. 
"Nevermind, does she have a name?" Sonic quickly changed the subject. Shadow and Silver decided to promptly forget Sonic's stupid comment. 

"Sunset. Sunset Shimmer." Shadow replied. Sonic and Silver took a few moments to take that name in. 

"Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Sunset Shimmer. What is it with the names here?" Silver asked bewildered by the names of this world. 

"Well, our names probably are weird to them so don't act so surprised by it." Shadow brushed of Silver's question before he started asking more. They were coming up to the library when Sonic suddenly stopped after bumping into someone as they rounded a corner.

"Oof!! Hey watch it!" Sonic retorted to whoever he bumped into. Shadow and Silver looked to see who bumped into Sonic, Shadow recognized who it was. 

"Ow. Sorry." Flash apologized quickly rubbing his shoulder. Flash looked up to see who he bumped into. Two of them he didn't recognize, but the black/red haired taller he did.

"Oh! Hey...It's you again." Flash said to Shadow. Shadow was surprised that Flash still recognized him. Sonic and Silver gave Shadow a confused look.

"Uhhhh......you know this guy?" Sonic asked. Shadow was a bit hesitant to answer as Flash was now looking at them confusedly as well.

"I don't. I just happened to bump into him yesterday." Shadow quickly explained. "Let's go, we've wasted enough time." Shadow quickly changed the subject and started moving again. Sonic, Silver, and Flashed looked on as he walked off.

"Um...is he always like that?" Flash asked the two. 

"Eh pretty much." Sonic shrugged. 
Flash then figured that he would try and talk to them since he had little success talking to Shadow. 

"So uh....you guys are new here right?" Flash asked them in a friendly tone. Sonic and Silver glanced at each other for a moment, unsure of what to say. But they both subconsciously decided to answer him.

"Pretty much, got here yesterday. Still not used to it thought."  Sonic said tiredly, proceeding to stretch his arms afterwards. Flash smiled at Sonic's comment, understanding how he felt a little bit. 

"Heh yeah. Oh by the way. The name's Flash, Flash Sentry." Flash extended his hand to the two of them. Silver extended his hand first. 

"Silver. Silver Genesis." Silver sincerely shook Flash's hand.

"Sonic." Sonic quickly said his name afterwards. Flash looked back momentarily wondering what Shadow's name was. 

"Um what about his name?" Flash asked them what Shadow's name was. 

"Hmm? Oh, he's Shadow." Sonic replied. "He's the grumpy one of us."

"Heh, yeah. I can see that." Flash chuckled at Sonic's comment, with Silver letting out a small chuckle afterwards. The two figured that they should get to their hiding place soon.

"Well, it was nice talking to you Flash. But we need to get going." Silver said, continuing on ahead. . 

"Ok then. See you around." Flash replied as he walked down the adjacent hallway, leaving Sonic and Flash behind. 

"Well, see you." Sonic said goodbye to Flash and began following Silver to the library. 

"Bye." Flash said and continued on his way. "Oh one more thing, nice hair cut." Flash complimented Sonic on his hairstyle, which was, coincidentally, the same color as his spiked up hair do. Sonic took a moment to observe Flash's hairstyle, and he admitted, it wasn't bad.

"Heh, thanks. Yours ain't bad too." Sonic complimented back with a smirk on his face. Flash chuckled in response running a hand through his hair. The two blue haired boys went their separate ways, with Flash going down the hall, and Sonic going into the library. 
However Flash took a moment to look back, as his curiosity for them grew.

"What was that thing I felt when I was talking to them?" Flash pondered. A mysterious feeling crept into his being as he was talking to them, and it pointed to the three otherworlders. The notion both confused and frustrated Flash. 
"Sigh This place just keeps getting weirder and weirder" Flash held his head, not wanting to question it any further as it already concerned him too much. He proceeded to go on his way and head home.

To be Continued