Chapter 14 (Remastered Version)

The Lanes Bewteen

The party headed towards another world that had a large city on one part of it, as well as many different looking places elsewhere on it. They decided to head for the city area first.

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Metal City

When the party landed in the city, they were shocked at finding out they had air boards on their backs that were modeled after their weapons. (AN: So in Ven's case, it's his regular Keyblade Glider, and for Terra and Aqua, it's a hover board version of their Keyblade Gliders.)

"Where'd these come from?" Riku said in shock as he examined his board.

"Maybe it's a law of this world, or somethin' like that." Goofy said.

"This place is so cool." Sora awed as he admired the the futuristic metal city, with flying cars, and just about everything people would expect the future to be like.

"Scuse me!" a voice called. The party all turned around to see three anthropomorphic animals approaching.

"You guys are new around here, right?" said the blue hedgehog. The shorter one was a yellow-orange two-tailed fox, and the other one was red echidna.

"Yeah." Sora answered.

"I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog. That's Knuckles, and he's Tails." Sonic said.

"I'm Sora, and this is Donald, Goofy, Kairi, Riku, Roxas, Naminé, Terra, Aqua, Ven, and Mickey." Sora introduced. Everyone said hi.

"We're looking for a Chaos Emerald that should be somewhere. You guys haven't seen one have you?" Tails asked.

"A Chaos Emerald?" the whole party asked, confused.

"The Chaos Emeralds are these mystical gems with unlimited power. We need to find them before the bad guys get their hands on them." Tails said.

"Sure, we'll help you guys out." Naminé said.

Tails looked at his radar looking for the Chaos Emerald. "I think there's a signal coming from around here." Tails said. Then he saw something started jamming the signal. "That's really weird it looks like something's blocking the radar signal."

Then suddenly, everyone heard the sound of glass breaking. They all turned to see three dark silhouettes coming out of the shattered glass. "There! What's that!" Knuckles yelled.

Then the radar that Tails had locked onto something. "Sonic, the Emerald's over there!" Tails pointed in the direction the three strangers were flying. The party saw the strangers had air boards like the party, and they were heading in the direction Tail's was pointing to.

"All right! Now we're talking!" Sonic excitingly said as he jumped off the edge of the area. He did a series of quick front flips into a free fall, with the others right behind him. The three strangers turned around as police cars were headed their way. Sonic landed in front of them, but the leader flew passed him. Knuckles quickly landed in front of the bigger one, and landed several hard punches and an uppercut to him sending him flying off his board. The board landed on the ground, and Tails noticed a strange mark on it.

Sora and the others landed to see the big guy had grabbed onto the other's board. "Shoot!" Knuckles said as the strangers went into a tunnel with the police cars in hot pursuit. "You up for it?" Ven asked Sonic.

"You bet." Sonic answered. Sonic and Ven ran towards the tunnel at high speed. Sonic grabbed the big stranger's board and threw it into the air as Ven did the same with his board. The two jumped and landed on their boards, which immediately accelerated after the strangers. The two were easily able to fly passed the other two and after the leader. The leader looked back to see Sonic and Ven maneuvering through cars with ease. They managed to catch up to him, but were having a hard time getting in front to stop him.

Sonic and Ven nodded to each other, and quickly boosted ahead. They maneuvered quickly and managed to flying passed the leader.

"Huh… Not bad." the leader complimented.

Sonic, and Ven turned their heads to see that the leader was gone. They then sensed an energy above.

"What the-!" Sonic exclaimed as he Ven looked in the air to see the stranger in the air. He boosted down with a stream of visible wind behind him. He hit the Sonic and Ven, and sent flying in the air. The two crashed on the ground hard.

"Hmph! So, you're supposed to be the fastest thing alive?" the leader said as he made his escape. The other two came and the big guy grabbed his board as they flew away. Sonic, and Ven got up as the others arrived.

"Ven, are you alright?" Aqua asked, very worried.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Ven assured.

"Looks like we've got new competition." Sonic smirked.

"Who were those guys?" Roxas asked.

"Trouble, that's what." Mickey said. Tails noticed the signal on his radar disappeared.

"Looks like they got the Emerald before us." Tails said.

"Then we gotta find the rest before those guys do." Donald said.

"Yeah." Sonic agreed.

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The next day

The party was exploring the city, while listening to Sonic had talk about Eggman, his friends, and his adventures. Then on the giant tv screen something appeared. "Muhahahaha!" laughed the person.

"Eggman!" Sonic said in shock.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome everyone! I hope you're all ready for a show. We've got an exciting event just for you. Since you all seem so bored. I've put together a little extra something to spice things up! I call it the "EX World Grand Prix" A tournament to see who's the best of the best with Extreme Gear! Not just a race… But a special race to see who's the fastest. And… these races are no holds-barred! All contestants pay a simple entrée fee of one Chaos Emerald, and the winner takes it all! So, let's see who among you dares to meet this challenge!" said Eggman as the image disappeared.

"Eggman again! Just what is he up to this time?" said Sonic. Then Eggmans image reappeared on the screen. "And there's more! Before I forget, I'll present the current contestants. These players, they're hot, the best racers I could find!" said Eggman as the screen showed three anthropomorphic birds on Extreme Gear.

The first was a large grey albatross, the second was a purple swallow, and the third was a green hawk. "Hey that's! said Sonic recognizing the green hawk as the leader of the three they saw last night. The Ex World Grand Prix huh? Let's do it!" said Sonic. Everyone agree and they were able to participate because they already had one chaos Emerald on them.

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Metal City

The first race took place right there in the city. For this race, only the top three racers would advance to the next round. The racers from Sora and Sonic's party in here were Sonic, Sora, Roxas. Two green robots and one green robot that were built by Eggman were also in the race, as well as a few new Heartless with boards made of darkness. "Figured as much." Sora said seeing the Heartless.

"Who're those guys?" Sonic asked.

"Nothing but trouble." Roxas answered.

There were four seconds left until the race began. All the racers ran to the gate with their boards in hand. When the counter reached zero, the electrical line disappeared, and all the racers threw their boards in the air, and landed on them to begin the race. The racers flew down the slope towards the first ramp. Sonic, Sora, and Roxas boosted forward to get ahead of the others. The slipstream blew the robots away. They went off the ramp. Sora did two front flips and a Jessy, Roxas did two three-sixties and a Melon, and Sonic did two front flips, a three sixty, and a Sky. They landed on the top ledge of the next area. The other racers were flying beneath them.

When they entered the next spot, they saw a yellow ramp that led towards two rings. A heartless boosted up from behind, and after sprouting wings, flew through the rings giving it the lead. "We gotta speed up, fast" Sonic yelled. Sonic rolled into a ball and dashed forward at incredible speed. He smacked into the Heartless, and sent it flying into the air as Sonic went of the edge to the lower area. Sora and Roxas dashed forward off the edge after Sonic. They maneuvered their way through the cars ahead. They went through the small freeway before making the next turn.

Up ahead was another ramp. They boosted forward and went off the ramp high into the air all three doing a series of back flips. They landed and grabbed the glider ahead which dragged them forward back to the start. With their speed they easily made it through the second lap. When they started the third lap, they noticed Wyvern Heartless appearing and attacking them. "I got this." Sonic said. Sonic quickly spun in a circle and released a tornado. The Wyvern's were sent flying away, and into oncoming cars. Two more Wyverns came forward. Sora and Roxas brought out one of their Keyblades, and smacked them away. They saw the final ramp, and the glider to the finish line up ahead. Sonic grabbed Sora and Roxas by their wrists as he boosted forward as fast as he could.

After clearing the ramp, they reached the glider, and passed the finish line. The board showed they were the top three to pass. "Alright we advance!" Sora shouted in delight as he threw his fist in the air.

"That was some hot stuff out there." Sonic complimented.

"Well we're not push overs or anything." Roxas said.

They rejoined the group and told them of their success. Kairi and Naminé gave them a kiss on the cheek of course, and the party proceeded to where the next race would be held.

But little did they know, Eggman was watching them from afar. "Those fools, they don't realize that once the Grand Prix is over, I'll just swipe the Chaos Emeralds, and use their power along with the Light of the World, to consume this world in darkness. With the Heartless at my command, there will be nobody that can stop me, and the Eggman Empire will be a reality! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Eggman laughed as a few Extreme Gear Heartless appeared behind them.

"Now go and make things a little interesting for Sonic and his friends." Eggman ordered. Understanding their orders, the Heartless flew off to the next race area.

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