CHAPTER 3

OLD RIVALS

Later on the Babylon Airship, Jet was in his office staring at the small clear cube in his hands while Wave was sitting on his lap with a white Chaos Emerald in hers.

Jet smiled, "Now that we have this Babylon Control Box, do you know what to do with it?"

Wave shrugged, "No."

Jet sighed, "This sucks. We have something valuable from our ancestors, but we don't know what it does. What kind of thieves are we?"

"Stupid ones", Storm said as he came in the room for some reason.

Wave looked at the albatross, "What do you want?"

Storm answered, "Some guy came here wanting to see you."

"Yes I did." A voice said from the doorway.

The three birds looked over and saw a egg-shaped man leaning against the wall. He didn't look like a threat.

"What are you doing here!" Jet shouted.

"I was looking for the rider known as the Legendary Wind Master are you him?"

Jet nodded slightly, "Yeah."

The man laughed, "Good because I'm starting something called the Ex World Grand Prix."

Jet thought it wasn't a big deal, "So?"

"You have the Babylon Control Box right?"

Jet nodded, "Yeah."

"You don't know what it's for do you?"

Jet shook his head slightly.

The man once again laughed, "This is your lucky night. I Dr. Eggman have all the answers for you."

"Dr. Eggman?" Wave said.

"Yes the greatest evil genius of all time."

Jet sighed, "Quit bragging about yourself and tell us about the Babylon Control Box already!"

"All right! The Babylon Control Box can bring forth Babylon Garden and along with it an even greater treasure."

"Treasure!" Storm shouted.

Wave looked over to Jet, "Jet?"

Jet shook his head, "I don't know. I don't like this guy."

"Come on Jet, you can trust me. Once you've won the Ex World Grand Prix the reward will be Chaos Emeralds and you'll need those Chaos Emeralds to work the Babylon Control Box."

Jet jumped out of his chair, "That changes everything! Sign me up, fatty!"

Eggman was a little upset from Jet's comment. He held out his hand, "All you need to do is to give me a Chaos Emerald."

Jet looked over to Wave and made a nod.

Wave slowly placed the white emerald in his hand.

Later in a garage, Charmy was looking at the yellow board with happiness, "Amazing, I've never seen this type of technology before. It looks so advanced."

"That's because their number one sport here is air boarding", Shadow said.

"Actually the boards are called Extreme Gear", Rouge said.

"Whatever they both float. What's the difference?"

Rouge walked over to Charmy making three Extreme Gears. One board was black, the second one was purple, and the third one was yellow except with a different design from the board the grey bird dropped. "What are you doing, Charmy?"

Charmy faced her, "I'm making Extreme Gears for us just in case we need them and who knows maybe we can catch those thieves with these."

Shadow grabbed the black board and stared at it, "We'll catch those thieves in no time."

Rouge sighed, "Some vacation this turned out to be."

Shadow held Rouge around her waist, "It was ruined from the beginning. Charmy just had to come along didn't he?"

"Is it my fault that he's too damn annoying?"

Charmy looked over to Rouge, "I heard that!"

That next day in Metal City, Shadow, Rouge, and Charmy were looking around for the three thieves.

"Do you see them?" Shadow asked Charmy.

Charmy shook his head, "No."

Rouge placed her hands on her hips, "What makes you think they'll just appear out of nowhere?"

Then they all heard a laugh coming from the giant advertising monitor beside them. They all looked on the screen and saw a man wearing a red coat with a brown mustache and dark thick lense glasses concealing his eyes.

Shadow just stared at him, "Who's the ugly fat bastard?"

The man spoke, "Greetings racers! I am Dr. Eggman the host of the Ex World Grand Prix. At the Ex World Grand Prix racers will go against each other to compete for the ultimate prize." The screen showed a picture of a blue Chaos Emerald.

Charmy's eyes widened, "A Chaos Emerald!"

Eggman had continued, "That's right racers, all seven Chaos Emeralds will be yours if you come out on top. And remember anything goes." Then the monitor had showed its usual advertising of the finest Extreme Gear.

Rouge turned to Shadow, "What do we do, hon?"

Shadow clenched his fist, "We're gonna enter the Ex World Grand Prix." He heard a laugh coming from behind him. He turned around and saw three birds approach them. Shadow's eyes widened, "No way! You're the three thieves from last night!"

The green bird sighed, "I thought I saw you before, Shadow the Hedgehog."

Shadow stood confused, "What? What are you talking about?"

"It's me Jet, Wave, and Storm remember?"

It all came back to Rouge, "Jet, I can't believe you're here. It's been awhile huh?"

Wave smiled at Rouge, "A long while."

This was Charmy's first time seeing the three birds, "So you're the Babylon Rogues Shadow's been talking about."

Shadow glared at Jet, "So what's the deal? You stole a Chaos Emerald last night. Was it worth getting into the Ex World Grand Prix?"

Jet smirked, "Heh, I guess I forgot to mention that the Babylon Rogues are a band of thieves."

"Thieves?"

Jet nodded, "If you think you're gonna stop us from getting the Chaos Emeralds, you're sadly mistaken." Jet turned to Wave and Storm, "Let's go." Jet walked away with Wave and Storm following.

Charmy faced Shadow with confusion, "I thought they were easy to get along with?"

"They changed a lot since the last time we saw them", Shadow thought Jet had completely forgot the way that he helped him last time.

Rouge took out her purple Extreme Gear, "Enough slacking around. We got Chaos Emeralds to win."

A/N: If some of you are thinking that this fic is somewhat similar to the Sonic Riders video game you're right. Sorry, I forgot to mention this earlier.Anyway look out for the next chapter.