-No Regrets- Chapter 13

-Gemini Mercedes-

SonicxTails, SonicxShadow, SonicShadowTails, SilverxBlaze, JetStorm, KnucklesRouge

"Listen to this." Rouge began as she sat down with her echidna boyfriend at her dining room table and placed a bowl of fruit salad on the table.

Knuckles nodded as he grabbed for the bowl but the white bat snatched the bowl out of his grasp.

"H-hey! What was that for?" The red echidna moaned angrily.

"I said I wanted you to listen!" Rouge retorted.

"Well I can eat and listen!" He yelled back.

"Really, Knuckles?" She asked calmly, raising an eyebrow. After a moment of silence the echidna gave up and gestured with his hand for her to continue.

"Whatever, go ahead." Rouge smiled as he said this, happy that she had won the disagreement. But regardless, she had important business to discuss.

"So, do you know who Fiona Fox and Scourge the Hedgehog are?" She asked as she got up from the table and went to make her self a cup of tea.

"No, I don't actually." Knuckles replied as he grabbed for the fruit bowl, took a couple of grapes out and started quietly munching on them.

"Well they're some over-graduates at our school. They were supposed to graduate last year but they had failed some courses and none of the universities or colleges wanted to deal with them." Rouge continued as she added some sugar to her tea and swirled the drink around with a spoon.

"Not only that, but they have a track record for bullying students, stealing from local shops, and getting into fights. To make a long story short; they're bad news." She walked back to the table with her tea in her hand and rolled her eyes as she watched Knuckles try to place the fruit bowl back on her side.

"You know that fruit isn't going to finish itself." She said with a laugh, pushing the bowl back towards her boyfriend, who accepted it happily.

"Anyways, they weren't supposed to come back to our school. They were supposed to take some online courses and then apply to a university or college in the spring."

"So why didn't they?" Knuckles asked between stuffing his face with fruit.

"That I don't know. But what I do know is that they are back at our school this semester and I'm worried for Sonic, Tails and Shadow." This grabbed Knuckles interest.

"Why would you say that?" Knuckles asked, his protective instincts coming out.

"They're bullies, and almost everyone knows about Shadow and Tails and if you ask me Sonic is a bit suspicious as well." Rouge replied, sipping on her tea. She wasn't about to give out any more information than that.

"Well what do you suppose we do about it?" Knuckles said, sitting back in his chair and sighing loudly. Rouge smiled and patted his hand.

"All I'm saying is that we watch out for them. I'll help you look out for Tails and Sonic, and I know you and Shadow aren't the best of friends but if you could look out for him too…" She trailed off, unsure if he would like this proposition.

"Of course, no one's getting hurt if I'm there." The red echidna said proudly. Rouge could almost feel tears of happiness brimming from the edges of her eyes but she quickly blinked them away. It was nice to have a great support team, especially when school was running her on empty.

"Thank you, you're the best." She whispered, staring at her lap. She felt two warm arms envelop her.

"I promise you, I'll always be there for you." Knuckles whispered in her ear as he hugged her tightly.

"I know." She muttered before tears began to fall down her cheeks.

/

"Hey guys, what's up?" Silver said with a yawn to Tails and Blaze who were sitting in his family room, waiting for him. Blaze and Tails had decided to go over and check on Silver's condition. In all honesty, Blaze had wanted to go and since Tails was mopping around after the fight at school, she had decided to drag him along.

"Nothing much, how are you feeling?" Blaze asked as she got up and hugged her boyfriend tightly.

"Pretty good actually, my headaches are slowly but surely fading away." Silver replied with a genuine smile.

"Again, sorry about all of that…" Tails said softly, trying to avoid eye contact with Silver. The grey hedgehog walked over to the blonde fox and shook his shoulders, causing him to look up in shock.

"It wasn't your fault, buddy. I shouldn't have intervened…or tried to intervene." Silver said with a laugh. Tails smiled and nodded.

"Oh, by the way, I invited Sonic over, is that okay with you guys?" Silver asked before heading to the kitchen to make some food for his guests.

"Yeah, its fine with me, I don't know about…" Blaze replied, looking over to Tails as she trailed off.

"Yup, Sonic and I are friends again." The blonde fox replied with a wide grin on his face. Blaze's eyes widened and she almost took a step back.

"You guys are friends again, since when?" She asked as she regained her composure and smiled happily.

"After the whole situation, Sonic and I just let the past go." Tails explained. Blaze nodded and looked towards Silver with a smile.

"That's great Tails. You guys shouldn't have been at odds in the first place." Silver yelled over from the kitchen.

"Thanks, to both of you, I mean. You guys have really been there for me." Tails exclaimed while his face began to red.

"It's no problem Tails, that's what friends are for." Blaze said with a smile as she sat beside the blonde fox and gave him a hug.

Ding dong!

"Still can't stand loud noises!" Silver screamed from the kitchen. Blaze and Tails looked over to him in concern but started laughing when they saw that the grey hedgehog was clutching his head but trying to smile at the same time.

"Hey c'mon guys don't laugh! I'm in serious pain here." The grey hedgehog tried to make himself sound as serious as possible but even he started laughing in the middle of his sentence.

"I'll get the door," Blaze said with a giggle as she got up from the couch. She opened it to see the blue speedster standing at the door.

"Hey Blaze; I didn't know you'd be here." Sonic said with a smile, giving the violet cat a hug as he walked in. He turned to see the blonde fox sitting on the couch and sent him a wave.

"Hey bud, what's up?" Sonic said as he walked over and took a seat beside Tails.

"Hey Sonic, it's nice to see you. How've you been?" Tails asked as he gave the blue hedgehog a hug.

"Great, it's really nice to see you too. Now where is Silver? How's he feeling?" Sonic asked.

Blaze and Tails gave each other a quick glance and turned back to Sonic with depressed expressions on their faces.

"Well you see…" Tails started.

"He's gotten worse…" Blaze added.

"We just don't know…" Tails continued.

"…If he's going to be okay!" Blaze said as she covered her face, pretending to cry. Meanwhile Sonic was sitting down with his mouth open.

"A-are you guys serious, I have to go see him! He just called me today and he seemed alright, as he really gotten worse?" He asked with pure shock and concern. Blaze and Tails couldn't hold it in anymore. They both started laughing. Sonic stared at them like they had lost their mind.

"W-what is wrong with you guys? Hey wait are you guys kidding?" Sonic was suddenly enveloped by two grey arms from behind him.

"Aww was Sonic the Hedgehog, the fastest creature in the world, hero of the century, worried about me?" Silver joked as he pretended to be a fan girl, hugging Sonic tightly from behind.

"H-hey Silver, you guys that is not funny!" Sonic said indignantly, although he was started to smile. Blaze and Tails were trying to hold in laughter.

"Sorry Sonic, I just had to play along with them!" Silver said with a laugh, giving Sonic a real hug and thanking him for coming over.

"Now let's eat guys, before the food gets cold!"

/

"I seriously hate Mondays, why do we even have school on them?" Knuckles asked to Tails as the two of them began walking towards school.

"It's not that bad honestly, your mind is most receptive to information by Monday. Did you notice that by Friday you don't even seem to listen to teachers anymore?" Tails replied honestly.

"Well I still hate them, I'd rather be sleeping."

"…Or going over to Rouge's." Tails teased.

"H-hey okay maybe that is true but…whatever!" Knuckles huffed, crossing his arms in mock anger.

"I actually feel good today, the last time we were here was when that fight broke out and I was upset about that. At least now everything is cleared up, well except for the Shadow thing…" Tails trailed off. Knuckles' eyes suddenly opened wide as he remembered what Rouge had told him.

"Hey Tails do me a favour and just watch out for yourself okay?" Knuckles explained with concern in his voice.

"W-what do you mean?" Tails asked his eyes wide with sudden confusion.

"Well let's just say some local bullies have decided to check back into school and I just don't want you getting into any bad situations." The red echidna explained as he stared at the school they were quickly approaching.

"Okay, I will thank you." Tails replied, recovering from his recent shock.

"Okay, no problem." Knuckles said before the two entered the school and went their separate ways.

"Still he's really going to need to be on the watch, I need to find out who is Fiona Fox and Scourge." Knuckles thought to himself.

/

As Tails walked towards his math class, the anxiety began to build up. Since the incident had happened on a Friday, the blonde fox and the midnight hedgehog hadn't seen each other for a couple of days. Now that he was back in school, he was worried, and a bit upset at Shadow's reaction to everything. The midnight hedgehog had every right to be pissed off, but Tails wanted to make things right. In the same token, Blaze and Silver had warned Tails to walk on eggshells when it came to Shadow for a little while. The midnight hedgehog was known to have a short temper, and even though he had shown Tails his friendlier side, the blonde fox doubted that he was in a position to make Shadow happy.

With that being said, he still walked into his classroom and took his seat beside the midnight hedgehog who was reading a large black book with golden stitching. The blonde fox contemplated saying something, but at this point he felt it was just better to leave the whole thing alone, at least for now.

"Hey guys, have a nice weekend?" Rouge asked the two as she walked into the classroom and placed her books down on her desk. Tails gave her a small smile and Shadow ignored her presence. Unsatisfied with the response she had received from the two, the white bat opened her mouth to say something else but was interrupted when someone else walked into the classroom.

"Um, hello, is the teacher here?" the stranger asked a random student.

"Yeah, he's right over there." Said student replied. Rouge and Tails turned to see a tall, auburn fox in a yellow and orange zippered jumpsuit walking over to the math teacher.

"Who is she?" Tails asked in wonder, completely oblivious to the glare Rouge was giving the auburn fox.

"Hi, I'm Fiona Fox; I just transferred into your class. I used to go here but I got into some trouble…however I'm back for a fresh start!" The fox said cheerfully, smiling at the teacher.

"O-oh right, we had a staff meeting about some students coming back…you can sit right over there behind Shadow. He's the red and black striped hedgehog." The teacher replied, pointing towards a seat directly behind Shadow.

"Alright, thank you." Fiona chirped as she walked over to the designated seat and sat down.

Rouge sat down in her seat and started rapidly texting someone on her phone. Tails turned back towards the seat Fiona was sitting in and smiled at the fox. She smiled back and gave him a small wave, which he returned before turning back in his seat. The blonde fox failed to notice the glare Shadow was sending him all the while.

/

The bell rang for lunch to proceed and Rouge speed-walked all the way to Knuckles' locker. The red echidna was currently pulling out his lunch bag from the bottom of his locker and throwing some textbook in at the same time.

"Where were you? I was texting you all morning." The white bat asked as she poked Knuckles in the arm rather hard in order to get his attention.

"Sorry, I had something off for breakfast this morning so my stomach was in a lot of pain, and I didn't even finish that math homework he assigned so I didn't really want to come." He explained, only to have the white bat smack herself on the forehead.

"What were you thinking? I would have given you my homework, better yet when you were at my house on the weekend I would have helped you with it." She replied angrily.

"Well sorry, I forgot. Now what's the problem? Is it really just because I wasn't in first period?"

"Give me your phone." She replied, stretching out her arm and placing her hand up to his chest.

"I left it at home, sorry about that too." He answered. She was tempted to smack herself again on the forehead but she could do without a headache.

"Look, you know that Fiona chick? She's in our math class. You know the class with Shadow and Tails? You can't tell me that wasn't planned out!" Rouge yelled back.

"Look, they haven't done anything yet, maybe you should just relax." Knuckles reassured, trying to calm his girlfriend down.

"I just don't like her that's all." The white bat hissed before walking towards the lunch room, leaving her boyfriend to follow swiftly behind.

/

I'm so sorry for the turbulent updates. Sometimes they're fast, sometimes…I don't know. Honestly, I cannot stress this enough but as great as getting an education is, it can be so stressful! My school year is almost over but that isn't stopping my teachers from giving me incredulous amounts of work with little to no time to get everything done. I wasn't even going to write this chapter but I gave myself a half hour break during one of my crazy study sessions and made it happen. Hopefully this summer I'll be able to update faster and also start on some new stories! I'm thinking this story is going to be about 3 to 4 more chapters, and then I might have a SonicxTails ending and ShadowxTails ending…We will see! Anyways, please review, you know I reply back to most of them and I love to here you guys give me feedback.