The day prior to the Ex-World Grand Prix was a busy day for everyone. Tickets were sold out to every race, VIP tickets were sold out and given away, the racers were working on their air board skills, and Robotnick was giving Metal Sonic all the data he needed to ensure he won and everyone else lost in the finale, assuming his team of riders lost. Meanwhile Sonic was training Ally to ride her air board as Tails was briefing Shadow and Silver the track layouts and pointing out where and when to jump and pull off tricks. Ally was just getting the hang of the basic air board riding, she stopped and watched Sonic pull off insane tricks that he spent years practicing to master and she thought she was never going to be able to even master, let alone pull off amateur tricks.
Jet was watching the screen and his eyes narrowed as he thought to himself "Well, Sonic the Hedgehog… you mastered the tricks… I'm for once impressed by you. But you won't beat me once we hit the race tracks we're gonna race on." In the secret GUN control room that was to be used if Robotnik were to take over the main GUN control room, Alex, Fletch, and Claw were discussing track layouts and Alex was pointing out to Fletch and Claw jumps weren't to be taken lightly and also power-ups could the difference between winning and finishing dead last. Fletch had finished making recording bugs so they could over hear Robotnik talking to the Babylon Rouges and have enough proof to arrest him for theft and kidnapping, Alex knew the Rouges were gonna be fooled and Robotnik was going to be likely kidnap the one of the girls, they just didn't know WHO. Alex sent Fletch up to main control room to update Robotnik that were ready to race and once Fletch left, the door shut behind and Alex said to Claw "This time, Robo McBozo won't even know what hit him." Claw nodded in agreement. Fletch came back and told Alex he not only reported they were ready to race, he also secretly launched the recording bugs to pick up everything Robotnik says and that Tails was going to have a special item for them come race time. Alex smile as everything was set in motion, the outcome would be determined by action and reaction.
*SLAM!* Ally fell to ground while trying to pull off an ollie, a simple skateboarding trick that didn't quite end the way she wanted it too. Ally got back up and tried to do another trick… which wielded the same result. She was getting frustrated until she finally decided to try using a ramp. She used the ramps JUST once and she messed up her tricks next thing she knew… *WHOMP!* She conveniently fell to the ground face first and had messed up her landing. Sonic helped her up and said as he got her on her feet again "Ally, sweetie, I know you're trying your best, but keep working on it, you'll get 'em down. In fact, why don't I help you?" Ally said that she appreciated the help, but she wanted to do it on her own so she wouldn't be be dependent on him. Sonic totally understood and gave her support and advice from the side. The more she failed, the more she thought she was never going to pull off tricks, but she wasn't willing to give up that easily.
30 minutes later, she decided to work on each part separately. She practiced jumping first, then she jumped off of ramps, then she worked on landing. After she worked on jumping and landing, she tried tricks once again, at first, it ended the same way as it did when she started practicing : try to pull trick off, fail, fall flat on her face, rinse and repeat. Then she did a backside 360º and nailed the landing, she could handle the basic tricks but once she tried the complex tricks, she failed. So she decided to try and string the basic tricks together to make combos, as Sonic, Tails, Shadow, Silver, Blaze, Ally, and Lizzie were having lunch and Tails was explaining how he wasn't sure getting more air to keep racing would work, he was highly certain tricks were one way to get air. That's when he came up with it : a wrist band that had an air gauge.
Once they finished lunch, Tails and Silver set to work creating the wrist band air gauges for everyone who would need one. As he tested the wrist band out, Silver filled up the boards with air. As the air boards were getting recharged, they handed the wrist bands out everyone that was at Tails' house. Tails explained this would show them how much air was left in the board and would warn them when they were running low on air. Thrash explained to everyone that he made a device that looked like a watch, but was really a map with rival tracking capabilities. Tails and Thrash were thinking ahead and even tested out the devices. Knowing Alex, Claw, and Fletch would need these devices, they made 3 more of both the air gauge wrist band and the map watch and Tails would personally deliver them to the Delta Crew on race day. It was only a matter of time before Alex would have Robotnic in cuffs and in prison.
That night, Ally and Sonic were looking up at the stars while everyone else was asleep. Sonic never slept because it slowed him down and Ally couldn't sleep because she was nervous about her races tomorrow. Sonic told her not to worry, but she said she was worried that she'd let Sonic down if she didn't make it to the championship race. Sonic held her close and said that it wasn't about winning or losing. It's all about having fun and enjoying the thrill of speed and feeling the wind rush against your face. Ally feel asleep in Sonic arms and he never let her go. As far as he was concerned, he was enjoying life right now
Robotnick sneered "At last, everything is in motion. Once Metal Sonic kills Sonic, I will take the girls and make them my slaves. And then I will finally have Robotnik Land, the world's greatest empire ruled by yours truly!" Orbot clapped and said "Most impressive, Boss. But who are you going to force to marry you?" Robotnik smiled and said "They're all so tempting, but I can't pick one to marry. I'll just let my wheel decide who I marry when the time comes." Cubot was skeptical about this race being the world conquering scheme that would succeed and even pointed it out to Robotnik that if anything goes wrong, it all goes back to set up of the plan. Robotnik knew Cubot was right, so he chose to kidnap Ally and said with an evil gleam in his eye, "This time, if Sonic REALLY wants to see her again, he's gonna have to do everything he can to stay alive! He only gets one last chance, and if he fails,we will finally win this time!" and he let out a maniacal, sinister laugh that Orbot and Cubot enjoyed hearing and they even joined him in maniacal, sinister laugh.
