Sonic motored around a couple of cars during the annual Cliffside Descend. The race has been held since 1925, and its main objective is to be the first to get to the bottom of a mountain. Sonic was running side by side with Jet the Hawk. Jet was racing Sonic hard through the twists and turns of the cliffside. Sonic quickly downshifted and got the nose of his car up under the driver in front of him. He was flying solo this time, as Tails had other obligations and Knuckles was in Long Beach, California at Race Control. Jet pulled his green machine up to Sonics' bumper, so there was a three car chain racing down the cliff.
"Alright. We need to make sure they don't try to take each other out" Hal Marsh said to the Racing Panel. Hal was chosen by the International Racing Commission to be the Controller for this race. He looked over the several people in the control room. A wall at the front of the room had the on board cameras of all 35 drivers in the race. Knuckles walked in.
"Did you get what I asked you?" The muscular echidna shrugged.
"I couldn't find it. The room it's supposed to be at is so unorganized" Hal facepalmed. He looked back up at the video screens. Mike Hanamara had the lead, and Sonic and Jet were closing on him.
"You might as well give up now, hedgehog! I have you beat!" Jet yelled at Sonic.
"In your dreams, Jet" He punched the throttle and got around the yellow car of Mike Hanamara. Jet followed suit. Knuckles was in Race Control rummaging around for what Hal wanted him to get. It'' gotta be here somewhere, he thought to himself. Sonic was running in the lead with Jet hot on his tail. Jet was rubbing up alongside Sonic. He noticed something was off on Jets' car.
Knuckles found what Hal was looking for. He walked back into the race control.
"I found what you…" he paused as he looked at the panel of onboard cameras. "What's Sonic doing?" he asked as he saw Sonic shove Jet off the cliff. The green hawk desperately tried to spin his car around, but got hit in the driver's side by an oncoming car. He was able to bail and use his wings to fly away.
"That got rid of him" Sonic said to himself. Knuckles quickly grabbed a headset off the table in the back of the room. Hal ordered an investigation be launched into this. Sonic cruised across the finish line with Mike Hanamara second and Antonio in third. Sonic looked over and saw the remains of Jets' car being hauled off, covered in a tarp. A race official came up to him.