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"I am sorry sir but that is the rules. I can't just do that; I need to see all three members." The cheetah explained, getting nervous of Jet getting too agitated.
"Come on! I need to register too!" Someone said from the back of the line.
"Hurry up!" Somebody else said.
Jet started to get nervous. How is he going to beat Sonic now?
"Come on. Can't you just let us slide in? Im sure Wave wi-"
"Wave?!" The cheetah cut off Jet. "I didn't know that Wave was in your team."
Jet was a little confused that the cheetah girl was surprised about the information he had told her.
"Uh, yeah. She's our tech and I can't seem to find he-"
"Oh! I know where she is!" Jet was cut off again by the girl.
"Wait…really?" Jet was ecstatic. If the girl in the registration knew where Wave is, then Jet can go and apologize to her.
"She's already inside and have registered all of you already. She told me to tell you guys to meet her in bunker 5. She's been waiting for you guys in there for hours!" The cheetah explained.
"For hours?" Jet mumbled to himself as the cheetah girl rummaged around the papers she had to give out.
"Here is the map of the course and bunker 5 is right on the other side. She has all of your numbers and all of the information you guys need."
"Thank you!" Jet exclaimed as he practically ran into the course. Storm was a bit slow and took him a while to realize that his friend had ran away. Right before he ran after Jet, the cheetah grabbed onto Storm's hand.
"If I was you, stay back from Wave a little. When she came in this morning, she looked very mad." She warned the albatross. Storm nodded and then looked towards the little emerald blur.
"Thanks," he finally told the girl before he ran off, leaving her with impatient attendees.
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As Jet arrived to the bunkers, he saw the other teams prepping their boards by tinkering them and testing them out. Too busy looking at the other teams, Jet didn't notice where he was going and accidentally bumped into someone.
"Well, well, well…if it isn't the frohawk." A familiar voice mocked. Jet finally looked up, being thrown back where he fell onto his tushy, and saw the red meatball head.
"Great," Jet mumbled to himself.
"Watcha doin here, kid? You might get hurt here." Knuckles smirked at him and lent him a hand. Jet inspected the hand for a while and then took it, wanting to get off the ground already.
"Im not gonna get hurt. Im gonna ride." Jet sort of mumbled as he dusted himself off; black isn't really good at hiding dirt stains.
"Watcha say, frohawk? You gonna ride?" The echidna pretended not to hear, which annoyed Jet. Storm finally catched up and walked behind Jet.
"Yes, im going to ride. Perhaps you should clear your ears a little more." Jet growled from under his breath. 'Stay cool, Jet. Don't waste your energy here.'
"Wadja say?" The red meatball joked around as he pretended to clear his ear and lean in closer to Jet.
"Come on, Storm." Jet groaned as he walked past Knuckles who laughed at the hawk leaving.
Jet walked in silence, trying to calm himself down. Unfortunately, by doing so, he forgot where he was going and still hasn't figured that out yet. Storm, lingering behind, trying to tell him but was too busy trying to watch his back with Knuckles.
"That stupid meatball…"
"Uh…Jet?"
"He thinks he's so tough,"
"Jet?"
"I'll show him…"
"Jet?"
"I'll beat him in any race. Anytime."
"Jet…Wave is…"
"Anywher-." Jet bumped into someone again; this time, he didn't fall back.
"Hey!" He rubbed his beak from the impact.
"Hey? You should pay more attention. First you bump into Knuckles and now me; I doubt this is my fault." The person explained, a wrench in hand
Jet looked at the swallow as he rubbed his beak.
"Wave?"
"Yeah, it's me you dork." She hit him slightly with the wrench. "You're hours late and seeing that Knuckles is here…our greatest enemy is as well."
"Ow! You kno-"
"Don't fight with me right now, hawk! Hurry up and get your gears into the bunker. I need to tinker them up a little if we even want to have a chance of beating Sonic." Wave commanded Jet as she stared at him, wrench in hand.
As he rubbed his head and didn't want to get hurt again, he walked back towards the bunker, that thankfully had the number 5 written all over it. There, he placed his gear onto a table, Storm doing the same.
Wave went immediately to work as she changed some of the mechanics of the gears. She worked in silence as Storm and Jet just looked at each other. In hand, Jet had some special cookies that Auntie Arial had made just for Wave. Jet's palms started to sweat thinking about how to give it to her.
"Storm," Wave caught the boys off guard, making them jump from the sudden command.
"Can you go and check who else we will be up against? You know, like people from school." Wave asked Storm as she kept working on Type-J.
"Uhhh…Sure, Wave." He replied and looked at Jet once. Storm was sort of trying to give Jet some support so he can give her the cookies, giving him the eye and then pointing to Wave. Storm started to walk away from the bunker, not wanting to anger Wave. As he walked away, Storm pretended to be pushing Jet towards Wave and then he finally left.
'Storm… don't make it seem as if it was that easy.' Jet thought to himself, his palms getting sweatier. He fidgeted with the bag of cookies and stared at Wave.
"What do you want?" Wave asked in an annoyed tone as she worked on the gear. It scared Jet a bit but he tried not to show it.
"I uhh…"
"Yeah, yeah. I get it. You want to apologize. But don't. Well, not like this at least. You can apologize by winning this damn thing. Well, you can at least win second." Wave cut Jet off and explained. Jet stood quiet for a little, processing the information.
Wave sighed and wiped some sweat from her forehead, some oil getting onto her.
"I have a reputation, you know. Being the best Gear Tech in the school and the only way I can keep it is to win this whole thing with my own creations. But, seeing that Sonic entered the competition this year, I know we won't win first. That guy can win anything, even if he had the worst tech there is." She sighed once more before she started to clean herself up. She looked up from her cleaning when she saw a bag fly towards her. She immediately reacted and catched it. The purple bird examined the bag; it was transparent which showed the cookies that were inside and were decorated with a red bow.
"What is…?" Wave wondered as she looked at Jet. The green hawk grinned at her as he looked out at the course, some of the contestants were practicing.
"Second? I'll win you first. I'll beat that Sonic guy…for you." Jet stated, giving his back at her.
{{ Short?... yes, I know.
Sorry for this whole year long wait for an update. I will never lie to you again.
Recently, a bunch of people started to like this story by favorite it and putting it up on Alert. I would like to thank you all. It made me want to work on this fanfiction again.
It is also an RP so go RP with Liz Thompson if you have an RP blog.
Well, seems that Jet and Wave are finally happy again... for now. Let's see how this continues in the next chapter where Jet and the gang have to go and race against others and perhaps even Sonic?
To the next chapter! I will see you all in the next update!