Chapter 12 of w/Sonic: A lot of Derp

## **Summary:**

The chapter begins, after a quick note saying these events occurred on September 22, 2016, with Honest waking up at 6 AM. She says "darn it!" and looks at her phone to confirm her alarm clock is correct. It is, so Honest goes downstairs to meet Sonic and eat her breakfast. She complains to him about how her alarm clock isn't working. Next, Honest goes to her room to get ready and finds Mephiles there, examining a Silver plushie. Honest calls him a weirdo inwardly. He sees her when she enters the room and melts into a puddle before sliding up a wall and out the window. Later, at lunch, Honest wishes she were at home. She is sitting at her desk in the back of the room and drinking a can of lemon-lime soda while taking notes on ancient groups of humans. Honest hates that the desks in this classroom are spread so far apart. She complains that she feels cold and alone. Then, Mephiles, who is sitting to her right, grabs her with his tentacles, causing Honest to drop her pencil and watch as it slowly rolls away. Honest says that it looked like she was shivering, so he was trying to warm her up. However, Honest argues that he's not cold, but that he's cold, wet, sinister, and slimy. Shadow hears her complaint from across the room and sends a Chaos spear flying her way which causes the tentacles to explode and black goo to go everywhere. Honest is free and once Mephiles reforms, he asks to go to the restroom and never returns, at least for the rest of the morning. The next period, Shadow stays with her the whole time and helps her with her homework. Honest remarks on how grateful she is to have Shadow as a friend. Honest then says she lost a thing she had written where Honest had to save *Shadow* from Mephiles and that she'll try to include it in a chapter later if she finds it.

The chapter skips to four days later, September 26th, 2016, the day that Fire and Ice was originally slated to release. Honest draws pictures of what she imagines it will look like. She draws all of the characters in their Boom redesigns. She then looks over at Shadow, who has his head down on his desk, his quills standing up into the air awkwardly, and his ears flattened against his head. Honest sketches what she sees but adds his Boom gloves and shoes despite him not wearing them. Honest assumes that's a sign that he won't be in the new game. She shades her sketch of Shadow in and beams. Shadow lifts his head and asks her what she's smiling about. Honest tells him it's nothing and draws a cartoony border around her picture. Shadow looks over at it and laughs, pointing out that it's him. Honest tells him it is and he puts his head back down. Honest turns to a new page and draws Sonic in the same pose. She wonders what he is thinking but then realizes how silly she's being. It's just a drawing, so he isn't thinking anything. At the end of the day, Honest and Shadow are walking to the Café when Honest notices Shadow's reading a book titled "World History for Aliens." She laughs. Shadow is startled and asks what she's laughing at. Honest tells him it's the title. Shadow explains that it's easy for him to understand. Honest shrugs and they keep walking.

Time skips to Tuesday during second period. Someone behind Honest asks if they're in the right class. Honest turns around and sees it's Manic, Sonic's brother. He has always been in this class. Honest tells him that he is in the right class. She "pft"s at his stupidity and starts typing a new chapter to her story. (This story) Shadow comes in and sits beside her. He plugs his headphones into his laptop and began to listen to the Sonic '06 soundtrack. Honest admits that, despite the game being a universal symbol of nightmarishly horrible video games, it had some awesome music. Silver is playing a flash game in the seat to Honest's left. When the teacher sees him playing games, she sends him to go sit in the back of the room. Shadow watches the situation soundlessly while listening to *Dreams of an Absolution*. Honest draws a quick drawing of a scene from a music video and uses the rest of the time to perfect it.

The chapter then skips ahead to the beginning of the next day. Honest, Sonic, Amy, Silver, Blaze, Mephiles, Knuckles, and Tails are sitting at a picnic table behind the school. Sonic and Honest are sitting at one end of the table talking about things happening around the school while Shadow and Akane hover behind them. Walking into the school buidling, Honest notices that Sonic wrote on a poster reminding students of picture day "Sonic was here". The poster says "Smile!" on it, which is similar to when Sonic says "Just smile!" in Sonic '06. Honest can't help but laugh when she sees it. However, as soon as she reaches her locker, her laughter stops and she looks disgusted. Honest's locker has black ooze dripping out of it and a cloud of pure darkness floating around it. She needs her English binder, so she slowly opens the door. A number of black tentacles start to reach out of the locker and towards Honest. She jumps so high she hits the ceiling and falls back down on the floor with a *thump*. The grab her and pull her into the locker head-first. Shadow's locker is opposite hers. He is standing in front of it and immediately notices, bolting over. He tries to reach out to pull her out, but he gets grabbed by the tentacles as well. He begs Mephiles to let go, but he gets pulled in really fast and disappears into the muck. Sonic is standing nearby. He pretends not to notice and starts whistling. Shadow yells out from within the locker for Sonic to come help them. Sonic caves and walks to stand in front of the locker. Instantly, tentacles wrap themselves around him as well. Mephiles says that he hears the fans love "Mephonic". Time skips to when they eventually get set free. They enter class late and, when they go to turn in their late-slips, the slips get stuck to their fingers and they have trouble explaining this to the teacher. The chapter ends with Honest asking for people to leave feedback in the comments. The chapter doesn't get a single comment, even to this day. (March 28th, 2022)

## **Trivia:**

* This is the first mention of the mysterious Sonic plushies.
* Honest never found that lost scene of Honest saving Shadow from Mephiles, though she goes on to do that multiple times throughout the series.
* This is the first mention of Manic and Akane.
* The events at the end of the chapter serve to establish Mephiles's rivalry with Honest, which continues to be a large part of the series until {Comic Edition} when their relationship becomes slightly more complicated.