Prologue

Peace was a rarity in station square. There was always some kind of monster going around scaring people, or else a mad scientist trying to destroy their town, or else the moon was on a collision course with earth, the point of impact being their town.

Yet when peace did come in station square, as short as it might actually be, the days seemed long, and the mood of the residents was calm. Which did not sit well with a certain blue hedgehog.

"Tails, do you mind speeding this up a bit? I'd like to get out of here in the next year or so."

Sonic the Hedgehog stood on Station Squares beach. Impatiently tapping his foot while watching his friend and former sidekick, Tails, do several seemingly needless checks on his biplane.

From inside the cockpit, Tails was flipping through his mental to-do list

"Just hold on a minute Sonic, I don't want a repeat of last time. You DO remember what happened last time, right?"

Sonic gave a visible shiver, "Yeah, stuck in the middle of the ocean for five hours, not my idea of a party."

Tails poked his head out of the cockpit, "You're just lucky I had a raft ready in case something like that happened, imagine SWIMMING for those five hours."

Sonics foot tapping increased in speed, "Lets focus on the now, as in, are we ready to go now?

Tails gave a sigh. "I guess, just let me put in the destination coordinates." He paused for a minute,"Um, sorry, but where are we going again?"

Sonics impatient foot taps were putting up small sprays of sand, and he gave a glare to the young fox, saying "All those nice brains of yours and you still can't remember what I said ten minutes ago?" Tails gave him a sheepish look, and Sonic gave a sigh. "I told you, Christmas Island is having a race, it's called the 'Sights to See' race or something like that. But that's not the point, the point is that it's not HERE, by which I mean I won't be bored out of my skull."

Sonic gave a short jump into the copilot seat of the biplane, and then quickly buckled his seat belt. Tails pressed a few buttons, and then lowered the glass ----.

"Hey Sonic, when does this race start anyway?"

Sonic reached down and searched his shoe, "I grabbed a poster that had all the information, but I didn't take a real good look at the dates." He pulled a folded piece of paper out of his shoe. "Let's see, it says here that the race starts in…TWO WEEKS?!"

Tails gave a snicker at Sonics exasperated expression. "You didn't think you could just go there and they'd start the race then, did you?"

Tails grabbed the biplanes controls and started take-off. "Congrats Sonic, you just guaranteed yourself complete boredom for fourteen more days."