Night time. The world was peaceful in the desert, the moon shining over the grains of sand. Everything was serene in a barren sort of way. Only three people were enjoying this, living on a floating island known as Babylon Garden. One of them had spiked back green hair, and had a green jacket. His clothes seemed to be all green, except for his red boots, which had a black line in the centre. His name was Jet. On a computer, was a girl with twin back length tails of purple hair, with a purple T-shirt and white trousers. Her name was Wave. One of them was lying on a couch, wearing a grey shirt and jacket. He had long, grey hair and looked extremely powerful. His name was Storm, as if to say how strong he was. All of them were at least fourteen, Wave, who was fourteen, the youngest, with Jet and Storm at least fifteen. All three were relaxing, Jet and Storm watching TV, while Wave worked at the computer. Everything was quiet, except for the TV in the background. Wave looked back at the boys, wondering how they could just sit there doing nothing when they could be on their air boards. She looked back at the computer screen, seeing a message appear on the screen. She clicked it, finding a video of two people, around the same age as they were, running through the desert.
One of them was a boy, wearing a blue shirt and blue jeans. He also wore boots similar to Jet's, only they were yellow or gold where Jet's were red. His hair looked to be a mixture of dark blue, brown and black. The other was a girl, with long, black hair, a purple T-shirt and knee long denim shorts. She also wore white trainers. Both of them looked like they were running away from something, which was confirmed when they moved off camera, with flying, human like robots behind them. Wave recognised the robots. They belonged to Dr Eggman, and they were after them for a reason. She turned to Jet, who was still watching TV, and shouted "If your TV show is over, there's someone out there with robots on their tail." Jet got to his feet, with Storm getting up off the couch. They raced out of the room, Jet being the fastest. They ran into an open room, with small doors that were already opening. Jet had already grabbed his air board, jumping on it and flying into the night. Wave and Storm did the same, flying after him in the direction of the robots.
"How annoying are these things? We can't even lose them for one second!" the boy thought to himself. Not long ago, both he and the girl had escaped from Eggman's base, stealing something that looked important, but didn't know what it was. They were in the middle of nowhere, running away in what felt like a pointless effort to escape their pursuers. They were just visiting a nearby city when they heard about the base, breaking in to see what was being made there. "What were we thinking when we broke in? Now it might cost us our lives," he thought, looking back to his friend, seeing that she was slowing down. He couldn't blame her; they had been running through the desert sands for an hour, and he was surprised they had kept going for so long. They thought they would escape, but now every step they took made their feet sink into the sand, using up a lot of strength to pull it out and keep going. They took another step, their feet sinking enough to make them both collapse. They almost fell face down in the sand, but both supported themselves with their hands. They looked back, seeing the first line of robots landing behind them. The boy got up weakly, completely exhausted, and stood between his friend and the robots, as if to make a stand. The robots had raised their weapons to fire, loading them. A dust cloud was coming towards them, but no-one noticed it until it was almost upon them.
What emerged from the cloud surprised both the robots and the ones they were chasing. The cloud didn't even clear before the robots were blown away, lying broken in the sand. The boy and girl looked as the dust cleared, seeing three figures coming towards them, two boys and a girl. They didn't look like anyone who could create that kind of sandstorm, but then the boy noticed the air boards on their backs. They looked about the same age, around fourteen or fifteen. As Jet stepped forward, the girl stood behind her friend, looking at the people who had just saved them. As Jet stopped in front of him, the boy said "Thanks. I didn't expect anyone to be out in the desert at this time of night." Jet looked at him, saying "Neither did we, but who are you, and why were those robots after you?" The boy replied "The name's Skyfire," and the girl behind him said "Just call me Cynder." Everyone looked back over the desert, seeing more robots coming after them. Storm and Wave jumped on their boards, ready to fly away. Wave gestured to Skyfire, telling him to hop on. Jet did the same to Cynder, letting her jump on. As they flew away, the robots began to move faster, trying to catch them before they got back to Babylon Garden.
Flying away at top speed, the five of them looked at the wave of robots, much larger than the first. Storm looked to everyone "Guess you to must have really ticked off Eggman." Skyfire looks to him, simply saying sarcastically "You think he'd send so many to invite us to a party," and looks towards the robots that looked as if they were right on top of them. Skyfire looked to Jet, seeing that, even though he had the fastest board, they still wouldn't be able to outrun the robots. "If we can't run from them, then we're going to have to fight them," Skyfire said to himself, reaching down to his belt. He grabbed something, turning back to Wave "Think you can keep this thing balanced enough for me to hit those clunkers." Wave looked towards him, commenting "How are you going to hit them from here?" but as the words left her mouth, he had already turned to face the robots, as if he was going to jump off and take them on. She noticed a round disk with a ring around it, but saw him push a button and cause the ring to split into three curved points, forming a three curved-pointed star. She watched him throw it at the pursuers, and then watched as robots fell, some of them losing arms, legs, jets and even their heads. The star returned and Skyfire grabbed it without even coming close to the blades. "And I thought Espio was a skilled ninja," Jet thought to himself as they flew into Babylon Garden, landing in a small hanger.
All of them jumped off their boards, with Jet and Storm putting them where they stayed. Wave looked to Skyfire, seeing that he was wearing a belt with the disks she saw him use, nun-chucks and what looked like some kind of flail. She also noticed Cynder was carrying a staff. "Whoever they are, they certainly aren't without defences," she though, watching Skyfire reach into his pocket and pull out a small remote-like device. He also seemed to wear gloves that had two thirds of the fingers missing, showing a strange, sky-blue line on each finger. He noticed him look over the item that he was holding in a way that showed he was curious to know what it did. He handed it to her, turning to Jet and Storm as they came over "If Eggman was prepared to send a small army to get this back, then GUN need to get it. Think you could deliver this to them," he said, seeing Jet nod. Unable to hold in her questions, Wave asked suddenly "So who are you anyway, I mean, are you working with GUN?" Cynder looked her in the eye "Sort of. We were trying to get this in order to show GUN that we were ready to be SPEED agents. We've been working with GUN for three years, taking any assignment to prove ourselves. I just hope we didn't risk our necks for nothing." The five of them started leaving the room, Jet leading the way "Well I guess you're going to find out soon enough."