A/N: Once again, this is another story idea that popped into my mind when I was playing Sonic Riders! I thought it would be interesting to write so…here it is! Let's head into the story! Enjoy! I own nothing!
It was a rainy Sunday. A very rainy Sunday. No, it was a stormy rainy Sunday! Sonic and his team, Knuckles and Tails, waited beneath a large tree for their 'friends' to show up. They were in a forest that was dense and muddy, and the rain didn't help.
A flash of lightning and crack of thunder startled Tails.
"Ugh! Sonic! Do we have to race now? This weather is horrible!" the fox hollered under the roar of the wind.
"Jet said they would be here any minute now! I'll ask him if we can just schedule this race for tomorrow. I agree with you, Tails." Sonic replied back. They were waiting for the Babylon Rogues to show up, for a rematch after Jet lost to the last race they had. But, it seems they picked the wrong time to have this race.
The sound of many extreme gears were heard coming closer and closer.
It was Jet and his team.
"It's about time you showed up! We've been sitting here for at least 15 minutes!" Knuckles snapped harshly while wiping the water from his face.
"How was I supposed to know the weather was going to act up?" Jet barked back. He hopped off his gear and looked back Storm and Wave, his team.
"Jet, we should do this another time!" Wave said.
Jet stared at her. "Your sucking up to them? Come on! I've been waiting for this race all week!"
"B-but b-boss! Even if w-we do r-race, it'll be d-dangerous with this weather!" Storm supported Wave's statement of blowing off the race.
Jet let out a growl. "I'm the leader! I say we race!" he snarled. He turned back to Sonic. "Let's go. I don't like this weather any more than you do, but we've got to race today!"
Sonic sighed and turned to Knuckles and Tails. Tails just shrugged but Knuckles looked like he was going to explode. The blue hedgehog was proud of his friend for holding his temper.
The teams reached the starting point. They lined up.
"Since this weather is so bad, we'll make this only 2 laps." Wave said.
"Works for me." Sonic replied. "Come on! The sooner we start this, the sooner it will end!"
3...2...1...GO!
All six racers sped off in the rain down the forest's pathway with Sonic and Jet tied for 1st place. They were going slower than usual, but they went just fast enough for them to react to upcoming obstacles. Jet and Sonic were way ahead from everybody else, because they were well out of sight. But as they came into the heart of the forest, it grew even more difficult with more trees blocking the way.
Jet slapped a branch out of the way as it came flying to him. Sonic was well ahead of him. Maybe this was a bad idea…
Suddenly, he was slowing down even more. No matter how much he kicked to send himself forward, it wouldn't work. Soon he was going a lousy 80 MPH.
"What the-…?" Jet looked at the meter on his board that determined the air capacity. It was almost out of air. Suddenly, he just stopped. It reached it's limit and he was now stuck running.
Jet literally threw a temper tantrum like a 5 year old before taking off after Sonic.
When he reached the finish line, he realized he only had one more lap to catch up and make it as victorious. He ran as fast as his thin legs could take him and when he reached a hill, he thanked the gods. This will help bring air back to the board when he does at least one trick in the air. When he was in the air, he spun around as many times as he could and the air gauge went up again.
"Yes…keep going, keep going…" he repeated as he fell back down to the earth. There was a little air in his gear, but it was better than nothing.
It ran out again in less than a minute, which left Jet running again.
"GAH!" he cried out as he started running again. Suddenly, another board was heard from behind.
"Boss?" It was Storm. He slowed down to reach the hawk.
"You ok?" he asked. Jet just climbed onto the gear behind the albatross. "Go Storm! Go!"
"Uh, ok!" Storm was confused but he sped off with Jet holding onto him. When they reached the finish line, everyone was waiting impatiently.
"Finally make it, Legendary Wind Master?" Sonic smirked.
"Shut it, hedgehog! My gear kept running out of air. Thankfully, Storm gave me a lift." Jet sighed as he hopped off from behind Storm.
"Um…your welcome?" Storm called after him.
Jet ignored his right-hand man's comment, as he marched up to Wave. He bore holes through her with murderous glares.
"What?" She asked.
"I thought you tuned my gear last night!" Jet snapped.
"I did!" Wave retorted. "Why, what happen to it?"
"It kept running out of air, like, every 2 seconds! What's wrong with you?" Jet continued to yell and growl at his mechanic.
Wave narrowed her eyes in annoyance. "It wasn't my fault! I'll look at it when we get back to the-"
"No, no! Just stop! I'll just tune it myself!" Jet interrupted. Thunder rolled in the forest and it shook the ground. It silenced the six racers.
"How are you going to tune it yourself?" Sonic asked. "You know nothing about that kind of stuff!"
"Your right…" Jet sighed. His eyes trailed over to Tails.
"You! Fox-boy!" he pointed a finger at him. "I want you to fix it!"
"Huh? Me?" Tails was shocked. But no more shocked than Wave was."WHAT? Your choosing him over me? You really are crazy!"
The swallow pushed the hawk onto the ground…and into a muddy pit. Knuckles burst out laughing when Jet stood back up, dripping with mud.
Narrowing his eyes, Jet pushed his mechanic down as well, and into a muddy puddle. This continued and the rest of the mobians just watched it. Until Sonic grew bored.
"Knock it off!" he stood in the middle of the muddy birds. "Let's head over to the airship, shall we?"
Back at the air ship, everyone sat in Jet's office. Jet and Wave refused to talk to one another as they still had mud dripping from them.
"Ok…so I was thinking." Sonic stood in front of them all. They looked at him with attention.
"Jet's fed up with his mechanic. And my mechanic has had his fair share of screw ups too." the blue blur began. Tails eyed him.
"Sonic! You said I always do a good job!" the fox said with worry in his voice.
Sonic held his hand up to stop Tails. "…Which is why I think, we should swap mechanics for 5 days."
"What?" said the rest at once.
"Yeah!" Sonic smiled. "Wave could work with me and Knuckles and Tails could work with Jet and Storm."
Jet stood up. "You know what?" he began. "I think that's a great idea! Only one person can handle so much 'Wave'."
The swallow just glared.
"We shall swap!" The hawk continued. "And we shall race next weekend to see how it all turned out."
A/N: And yes, this will have a friendship test between Jet and Wave. You always got to have those conflicts. Haha! Well, kind of a soon ending, but next chapter will be up sooooon! Thanks for reading! Please Review!