Comic Edition

**Honesty is the Best Policy! {Comic Edition}**

Honesty is the Best Policy! {Comic Edition} (or just {Comic Edition} or even {CE}) is a story written with the intention of being "the longest of the Honesty is the Best Policy series". This story has definitely reached that goal with 60 chapters at the time this article is written. (July 25th, 2023) Chapters 1-9 where written throughout 2019 and 2020, and chapters 10-16 were written in 2021. The frequency of additions to the story picked up, and chapters 17-42 were all written in 2022. Then, 43-69 were published from January 1st to November 6th, 2023. The story is still on-going. In chapter 38, Honest mentioned that she hoped the story would go on to be at least 76 chapters long at completion. Notable moments include:

* The Play
	+ In chapter 6, the Honesty club members (minus Rouge and Akane and with the addition of Fiona) get caught skipping class by Infinite and get sentenced to detention.
	+ Mephiles gets into playwriting and creates the Death of Sonic the Hedgehog, an attempt on Sonic's life disguised as a harmless school play, and forces everyone in detention to participate in it
	+ The Play story arc concludes with a mission in the dead of night which succeeds in freeing Sonic, effectively cancelling the play before it can begin.
* Frank makes his first appearance
	+ In chapter 18, he meets Shadow for the first time on a pathway between the buildings. He also meets Amy for what we think is the first time in their shared first period class in Dr. Eggman's room.
	+ In chapter 19, Scourge sees Frank for the first time as he's walking outside with Amy. This chapter is occurring at the same time as the previous chapter, so this is the actual first meeting of Frank and Amy.
	+ In chapter 20, Scourge and Mephiles meet Frank formally for the first time.
* The Derby
	+ In chapter 29, Sonic, Honest, and Shadow attend a destruction derby in No Zone in which the participants are prisoners from No Zone prison. Dr. Eggman used his Egg Wrecker to bash a giant hole into the side of the stadium, effectively setting all the prisoners free. Once outside the stadium, mysterious portals were opened all over the city, through which all the prisoners escaped to the far reaches of the multiverse.
* Fiona took over the Castle and was eventually apprehended by the Zone police.
	+ In chapter 12, Scourge retook the Castle by way of sending all of its occupants to Null Space using the Phantom Ruby.
	+ Sometime between the events of chapter 12 and chapter 31, Fiona kicked Scourge out onto the Cosmic Interstate and took the Castle over herself. In chapter 45, Fiona is arrested by Zone cops and in chapter 46, we see Fiona for the last time as she is transferred to a temporary holding cell in No Zone HQ.

* Infinite is deleted
	+ In chapter 62, Zonest switches the real Phantom Ruby, which is in Zonic's office, with the Phantom Ruby prototype, and then takes the real Phantom Ruby for herself.
	+ In chapter 63, Honest gets Doctor Finitevus to put a hex on the Phantom Ruby, as is revealed later on, although at the time, it is completely unknown what she had been doing
	+ In chapter 64, Honest reveals to Jet that she is "pretending to apologize to [Infinite] so [she] can give him the Phantom Ruby back and get him to attack Shadow". Also in this chapter, Zonest lies to Zhadow and tells him that she stole the fake Ruby and destroyed it. However, at the end of the chapter, we see that Zonest instead took the real Ruby to Mobius and gave it to Honest.
	+ In chapter 65, we are shown the moment when Honest asks Zonest to steal the Ruby for her.
	+ In chapter 66, Honest gives the Phantom Ruby to Infinite.
	+ In chapter 68, the deletion finally occurs.

**Chapters:**

The Introduction--

* Chapter 1: The Beginning of the Longest Day
* Chapter 2: Scourge Helps Others and Learns Respect
* Chapter 3: Introductions
* Chapter 4: Pizza with a Side of Disaster
* Chapter 5: In the AM

The Play Arc--

* Chapter 6: The Product of Boredom
* Chapter 7: Carnage Before Custody
* Chapter 8: The Death of Sonic the Hedgehog Part 1
* Chapter 9: An Intermission Session
* Chapter 10: An Intermission Confrontation
* Chapter 11: An Intermission Justification
* Chapter 12: An Intermission Reclamation
* Chapter 13: The Death of Sonic the Hedgehog Part 2
* Chapter 14: An Intermission Digression
* Chapter 15: The Death of Sonic the Hedgehog Part 3
* Chapter 16: The Death of Sonic the Hedgehog Part 4

The Post-Play Arc--

* Chapter 17: Silver's Dark Secret
* Chapter 18: Amy Gets Us Up to Speed
* Chapter 19: Getting a Few More Things Straight
* Chapter 20: The Red and White Elephant in the Room
* Chapter 21: Eliminating All Doubts
* Chapter 22: Kinda Cringe
* Chapter 23: New Pets and New Problems
* Chapter 24: Welcome to Moebius
* Chapter 25: The Chaotix Ghost Detecting Agency
* Chapter 26: Nostalgia and School Projects
* Chapter 27: Perhaps
* Chapter 28: Thinking Impossibly Hard about Anything and Everything

The Zone Hopping Arc--

* Chapter 29: Derpy Derby Disaster
* Chapter 30: Where Did This Egg Come From?
* Chapter 31: The True Plan
* Chapter 32: Trans-Dimensional Spring Cleaning and Other Nonsensical Activities
* Chapter 33: The Bookkeeper of All Realities
* Chapter 34: A Meeting with Zonic
* Chapter 35: Operation Liberate Scourge
* Chapter 36: Peace Out, No Zone
* Chapter 37: Scream
* Chapter 38: Soupicide
* Chapter 39: Sacrificial Soup
* Chapter 40: Mephiles has Joined the Party
* Chapter 41: Doddering Through the Desert
* Chapter 42: Yet Another Desert Chapter
* Chapter 43: Into the Tunnel
* Chapter 44: A Mouse Problem
* Chapter 45: Mission Accomplished...?
* Chapter 46: Dramatic Monologuing
* Chapter 47: An Alliance Across Dimensions

The Post-Zone Hopping Arc--

* Chapter 48: The Return
* Chapter 49: Sonic Holmes
* Chapter 50: A Summary of Events
* Chapter 51: Hard Questions
* Chapter 52: Four Meetings
* Chapter 53: Endless Dialogue
* Chapter 54: Dina's Feathered Admirer
* Chapter 55: Roulette Rolls and Heroic Goals
* Chapter 56: The heArt Club
* Chapter 57: Envy, Suspicion, and Weirdness
* Chapter 58: The King's Wimpy Return
* Chapter 59: Dates and Deliveries
* Chapter 60: Cake, Coffee, and the Cruelty of Storytelling
* Chapter 61: An (Alledgedly) Tantalizing Interview

The End of Infinite Arc--

* Chapter 62: Phantom Transactions and Other Unnoteworthy Things
* Chapter 63: Trust Tests
* Chapter 64: A Truly Selfless Quest
* Chapter 65: Shadow's Lie and Zonest's Crime
* Chapter 66: Rubies and Rivalries
* Chapter 67: The Long Way Home
* Chapter 68: Infinite's End
* Chapter 69: A Change of Pace

### References

1. ↑ {Comic Edition}'s original description on Wattpad: ...*Due to how many characters are in the Sonic comics, and the fact that they will all have their own plots associated with them, this will most likely be the longest of the Honesty is the Best Policy series...*
2. ↑ The author's note at the end of Chapter 38 of Comic Edition: Soupicide: ...*If I continue to write at the pace I am now, it should only take about two years to double the amount of chapters to 76. Can I do it? We'll just have to wait and see.*