Chapter 4 of Comic Edition: Pizza with a Side of Disaster

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## Appearances

* Honest
* Shadow
* Doctor Finitevus
* Scourge
* Julie-Su (Mentioned)
* Knuckles (Mentioned)
* Ray (Mentioned)
* Rosy
* Rouge
* Sonic
* Fiona (Mentioned)
* Amy
* Akane

## Summary

The chapter begins with Honest explaining that what looks like a bunch of giant gumballs in the chapter's picture on Wattpad is actually a crowd of Sonic characters. She also notes that this chapter's title "sounds like one of the bad jokes only Sonic Colors could tell and get away with.)

Honest and Shadow meet up outside the main building on their way to lunch. Honest asks Shadow what happened in Biology. He says that Finitevus had all the students introduce themselves. Shadow is eating a packet of gummies that Scourge gave him. Honest says that seems pretty normal, but she's being sarcastic. Shadow doesn't seem to notice her sarcasm. Suddenly, Finitevus comes out of a crowd of people, holding some sheets of notebook paper. He hands them to Honest, saying that they're what he has "observed so far". He then tips an imaginary hat to Shadow, who puts his hand to his forehead in shame. He asks, exasperated, why the stories' plots couldn't involve something at least a little bit normal. Honest is reading one of the pages the doctor handed her. Absentmindedly, she answers Shadow, saying that there's no fun in being normal, and then suddenly jabs the paper with a finger. She comments on what Julie-Su said in the last chapter, laughs, and says that is so totally her.

They start walking down the sidewalk. Honest comments in the narration that there's no point to just standing there and being crowded off of the sidewalk into the grass. Shadow then asks where Julie-Su and Finitevus came from. Honest says that Doctor Finitevus got a job as a teacher to get close to Knuckles and that Julie-Su had been guarding the Master Emerald in Knuckles's stead, but Honest asked her to join her story and let Ray switch with her. Shadow asks how Ray is going to protect the Master Emerald all by himself when he's just a kid. Honest dismisses what he says and states that that's for a future chapter. She says that she'll need to cover Angel Island eventually, but right now Honest says she is starving, and she grabs Shadow's wrist and wrenches him towards the building.

Once inside the cafeteria, Honest visits each line and inspects the choices. She asks Shadow what the perfect thing to eat is on a first day. He suggests something delicious. Honest says that's a given, but she was really asking what theme she should go for. As she says this, she gets a little too close to a purple hedgehog girl's tray and gets a very angry glare shot her way. Shadow's eyes turn gray as he watches from a distance. He tells her she's being ridiculous and to just get something to eat already. Honest finally decides on a line and sets her tray down, deciding to eat pizza. Shadow says he'll eat that as well.

Once at the lunch table they sat at last year, they find everyone else sitting there, too. Honest sits beside Rosy. She asks her if she's gotten better at controlling herself this year. Rosy says she has, but gets cut off when she sees Scourge hiding behind a column. Rosy jumps clear of Honest's head, exclaims "Scourgey!", and pulls out her hammer just as she hits the floor. Scourge takes off towards the exit. Honest says something deflating under her breath. Shadow sits beside her and focuses on eating his slice of pizza. On the other side of Shadow, Rouge is sitting doing something on her phone. A bottle of water is sitting by her head. Honest explains that she uses the next period as her lunch period since she works in the library next period, and it is a very dull job.

Rouge tells Shadow that she and Scourge were talking about the Advanced Biology class earlier. Honest is surprised that she would still want to talk to Scourge after their argument in Chapter 16 of {w/Rosy}. Rouge drums her fingers on the table and explains that he's a cruddy guy, but when he tells her something, she doesn't immediately tune him out because that would be rude. She takes a sip of her water and turns to Shadow again, telling him that Scourge says that Finitevus is plotting against him personally, meanwhile Rouge says she thinks Finitevus is rounding everyone up to exterminate them. Shadow "pft"s, puts down his slice of pizza, and says that he doesn't believe he is because Sonic isn't a part of the class. Honest says that's because Doctor Finitevus didn't choose his students, Mephiles did. She also says that there's no way Sonic would be able to survive in Advanced Biology anyway because he's too "dim-witted". She puts her head down, but her eyes widen when she sees Shadow's fur beginning to bristle as he stares at something behind her. She says "what" and turns her head to see that Sonic had taken Rosy's seat at some point when she wasn't looking.

Sonic appears to not have heard Honest's remark about him being "dim-witted". He seems surprised that Finitevus is a teacher. Honest takes a second to realize that Sonic was speaking to her. She then tells him that Rouge says Scourge thinks he's going to try and take out everyone in his third period Advanced Biology class. Sonic says "Oh, well then sayonara, eggheads," implying that he doesn't care what happens. Rouge asks if he isn't going to try to save them because they're smart, and Sonic clarifies that he will try to save them, but he asks who they are specifically. Honest lists Knuckles, Scourge, and Shadow specifically, and Sonic cuts her off, saying that Shadow can't be in danger because he's sitting right there at the table with them. Honest suddenly remembers that she doesn't think he's in danger, which confuses Sonic. He immediately forgets his confusion however, and instead calls attention to the fact that Knuckles is in there, and he doesn't think that Knuckles is smart enough for an advanced class like that. Honest admits that bothers her, but then considers that Knuckles and Julie-Su might be exactly what she needs to get some sort of plot going with Scourge, Fiona, and Finitevus. She finishes her slice of pizza while thinking. Honest is brought out of her thoughts by Sonic asking for her pizza crust. When she sees how excited Sonic looks, Honest throws the pizza crust to him. He fumbles with a while before finally catching it and sticking it in his mouth.

Akane approaches the table, asking where Amy is. This is Akane's first appearance, so Honest describes what she looks like and a bit of her backstory. She also remarks that Akane's blue eyes look concerned as she asks her question in a shaky voice. Everyone shook their heads, signifying that they didn't know where Amy was either. Akane sits beside Rouge. Suddenly, Amy appears and announces her arrival before jumping into the seat beside Sonic. Sonic's eyes went wide as Amy grasps him so tightly that he begins to choke on Honest's pizza crust. She quickly gives him her chocolate milk. It ends up saving his life, but Honest is sad that her milk is now gone.

Amy tells Sonic to guess what she had just done, and Sonic just asks what, though he's not sure he wants to know. She says that she just saved Scourge's life. Rouge asks what she means, Honest asks if it was the biology teacher, and Amy tells them that it was Fiona and that she was about to strangle him, but she smashed her with her hammer. Sonic remarks that she must be cruel to everyone and then says "thanks" to Amy, beaming. She looks speechless, her mouth open. Sonic asks if she's okay, and she grabs him again, exclaiming that Sonic is so kind for saying thanks. Sonic begins to choke again. Sonic starts grasping all around him, trying to find something to help him. Honest is out of milk. Sonic's face starts turning more blue than normal, and suddenly Amy gets splashed with water out of no where. She stops choking him and falls out of her chair. As Sonic regains oxygen and starts looking around, she sees that Amy is standing there behind them with an empty bottle of water. The water turns out to be Rouge's. She looks very angry, so Shadow skates off to go get her some more. Rouge asks if Amy is okay, and she says that she is, but she doesn't look okay. She asks Sonic if she took it too far, and Sonic narrows his eyes at her and says "Uh, yeah."

The chapter ends with Honest saying that lunch is a disaster again. However, she says that is proof that this is still Honesty is the Best Policy because "what's a chapter of HBP without disaster?" She thanks the readers for reading this story and promises to continue to publish more chapters of it. She also says that she would continue to publish them with or without support from the readers because that's what she's been doing for the past six years anyway. She puts a final nail in the coffin of this chapter with a quote "It ain't much, but it's Honest work."

## Trivia

* When Sonic appears, Honest tells him that Rouge says Scourge thinks Finitevus is going to try to kill everyone in his third period class, but this isn't true. Rouge said Scourge thought that Finitevus was plotting something against him personally. Rouge was the one who thought that. Either this was a mistake, or Honest just forgot.

* This is the first appearance of Akane the Cat in {Comic Edition}.
* This chapter is referenced in Chapter 6 when Shadow says that he doesn't want to repeat everything that happened the day before at lunch, and Honest talks about when Shadow saved Sonic's life by splashing Amy with water.