CHAPTER 4

THE EX WORLD GRAND PRIX BEGINS

Wave ran up to Jet, "Jet, Shadow is our friend remember?"

Jet turned to Wave, "You can say that, but he's a cop and he'll turn us in for stealing a Chaos Emerald."

"Actually boss, he's a detective", Storm corrected.

"Shut up, Storm!" Jet shouted.

Wave had agreed with him, "I guess you're right."

Jet took her hand, "Don't worry about it. After we get the treasure of Babylon we're gonna be rich."

Wave smiled at him and kissed him.

Storm covered his eyes, "Nasty! D-don't do t-that!"

Later at the race, Shadow, Rouge, and Charmy were at a waterfall deciding who will compete first.

Charmy sighed, "I'll go." He tightened his grip around his yellow board.

Rouge was worried about him since this would be his first time riding with Extreme Gear, "Be careful, Charmy."

Charmy smiled, "I can do it, I just know it."

Shadow glared at the bee, "You'd better win. Those Chaos Emeralds are important."

"I'll try."

"Trying won't be good enough."

Rouge faced Shadow in anger, "Shadow, leave the boy alone! We didn't yell at you for losing sight of the Babylon Rogues."

Shadow crossed his arms, "That was different."

They all saw Wave coming towards them with laughter. "You fools make me laugh."

Rouge was getting mad because of Wave's attitude, "What are you laughing about?"

"You of course. You trying to enter the race with that piece of shit? That's just pathetic. I can't believe you let this little runt make your Extreme Gears."

"My Extreme Gear is probably worth something", Charmy knew his Extreme Gear wasn't as good as hers.

"You mean worth nothing!" Wave bursted out laughing. "By the way good luck in the race. I know you'll need it, runt." She began to walk away laughing.

Charmy looked down to the ground with sadness.

Shadow couldn't believe that Wave had said those things to Charmy, "That was so wrong."

Rouge placed her hand on Charmy's shoulder, "Don't listen to her, Charmy. Show her what your Extreme Gear can really do."

Charmy put his goggles over his eyes and rode on his Extreme Gear towards the race. Once Charmy got there, he saw Wave putting her yellow lense glasses over her eyes. She looked over to him and smiled, but it didn't look friendly. Charmy looked over to the sidelines and saw Shadow and Rouge supporting him while Jet and Storm were supporting Wave.

There was only one lap around the track considering Charmy and Wave were the only two racing.

When the clock had counted down to one, Charmy and Wave bursted from the starting line. They were both heading down a large hill. It kinda scared Charmy to go down that steep hill, but he did it anyway. While going down the hill he quickly caught up with Wave.

Wave couldn't believe Charmy had caught up with her so fast. She took out her huge wrench and tried to hit Charmy with it.

Charmy was too busy trying to keep his balance on his board, "What are you doing?"

"Trying to hit you. Keep still, runt." Wave once again swung her wrench at Charmy.

Charmy moved to the side avoiding Wave's wrench. Charmy faced her with a glare, 'That girl's trying to kill me! I'm gonna win this race fair and square.'

They were on their way to the finish line.

Charmy had boosted and made his way easily to the finish line.

Shadow and Rouge ran up to Charmy.

"You won, Charmy!" Rouge shouted.

"Only two more races to go and those Chaos Emeralds will be ours", Shadow said.

Charmy was panting heavily, "That woman was insane! She tried to slaughter me with a gigantic wrench!"

Jet and Storm ran up to Wave with sadness.

Wave kneeled to the ground and hit it with her fist, "I lost. I can't believe I lost."

"Who sucks now, Wave", Storm said.

Jet glared at him and hit him in the arm, "Shut up!" Jet kneeled down towards Wave and kissed her forehead, "You tried and it's okay that you lost. Next time you'll need to try harder."

Wave looked up at Jet, "You're not mad?"

Jet helped her off the ground and looked into her blue eyes, "Of course not. I promise you, I'll win the Ex World Grand Prix for you."

"Oh, Jet", she tightly hugged him.

Storm turned his back, "How disgusting..." he muttered.