CHAPTER 6

THE FINAL RACE

The next day came and Shadow was getting prepared for the final race.

"Be careful, Shadow. This is our only chance of winning those Chaos Emeralds", Charmy said.

Shadow sighed, "You think I don't know that?"

"You nervous?" Rouge asked.

Shadow shook his head, "Not really. I'm feeling pretty confident."

Charmy looked around for the Babylon Rogues, but didn't see them yet, "Why do I have a feeling that something bad will happen."

Rouge placed her hand on Charmy's shoulder, "Nothing bad will happen. Everything's gonna be okay."

"So you think", a purple bird said as she approached them with Jet and Storm.

Rouge gritted her teeth, "You're one cruel bitch."

Wave smiled, "Thanks for the compliment."

Rouge just got madder and madder with her.

Jet walked up to Shadow, "You ready to do this?"

Shadow smirked, "You bet."

Wave's red ball on her necklace started to beep. She touched it and then it stopped beeping. She faced Jet, "Jet, the race."

Jet still had his attention on Shadow, "I'll see you at the starting line." He left with Wave and Storm following.

Shadow clenched his fists. He looked back at Rouge and Charmy, "Let's go."

When they got to the race Shadow placed his blue lense sunglasses over his eyes and Jet put his yellow lense goggles over his eyes. The clock counted down to one and Shadow and Jet took off from the stating line at amazing speed. From the looks of it they were both very good at handling Extreme Gear.

Jet had went faster and went ahead of Shadow.

Shadow held out his hand and a yellow light came from it and hit Jet's board.

Jet almost fell off his board, but he kept his balance. He looked back at Shadow, "So you wanna play like that huh?" He jumped off his board and into the air with a blue light surrounding him. The blue light came at Shadow and almost hit him, but Shadow moved over to the side.

Shadow looked back at Jet getting back on his board and speeded up by taking this advantage.

Once Jet got back on his board he saw Shadow about to cross the finish line. He couldn't believe he was going to lose, "No! I can't lose!" He shouted while he was trying to catch up.

Wave was behind a boulder watching Shadow pass by. She held a small detonator in her hand. She smirked and pushed the button on top of the detonator.

All of a sudden Shadow's board blew up. He fell on the ground a little injured from the fall.

Jet then easily crossed the finish line.

Shadow angrily hit the ground with his fist.

Jet walked up to him and laughed, "The dirt suits you well, Detective Hedgehog."

Shadow looked up to him in rage, "You can't do that!"

"You heard the fat guy didn't you? Anything goes even blowing up your opponents Extreme Gear." He then walked up to Wave and she handed him the Babylon Control Box. While Jet walked towards the Chaos Emeralds, Rouge and Charmy ran over to Shadow and helped him up.

Rouge hugged Shadow, "Are you okay?"

Shadow gritted his teeth, "Fine, but Jet won. He's got the Chaos Emeralds."

Charmy stomped his foot on the ground, "No fair!"

Jet held the small clear cube in his hand as all seven Chaos Emeralds surrounded him. The light from the Chaos Emeralds touched the cube and the cube gave off a small white light that was headed for the Sand Ruins. Jet then saw a huge platform arising from the sand with the buildings on it completely destroyed. As the platform hovered above the ground Jet's mouth had hung open, "It's...Babylon Garden..." While he had his attention on his former homeland, the Babylon Control Box had disappeared from his hand. "What?" He looked over to Eggman holding the Babylon Control Box in his hands while he was riding his Egg Mobile.

Eggman laughed, "Now I can get the treasure of Babylon."

Wave was full of rage, "That fat bastard! He lied!" She jumped on the back of his Egg Mobile as Eggman flew towards Babylon Garden with Wave and the key to Babylon.

Jet clenched his fists, "Not only did he take the key to Babylon, but he took my girlfriend too."

Storm ran up to him, "Boss, we gotta stop him!"

Jet threw his board on the ground and got on it.

Shadow ran up to him, "Wait Jet, we wanna help too."

Jet faced him, "Why do you wanna help us? I screwed our friendship up."

"You just wanted the treasure of Babylon right? You just got grumpy because of that treasure."

"So you're forgiving me?"

Shadow nodded, "Of course, but we gotta save Wave together."

Jet smiled, "Let's do it."

Afterwards they all went after Eggman hoping that Wave was still okay.

N/A: Just a heads up that the next chapter will contain spoilers. Sorry I'm doing this, but I had to remake Sonic Riders with Shadow, Charmy, and Rouge.