"RACERS TO THE STARTING LINE!" Boomed Mr. Zero. Sonic was transported to the starting line next to the other participants. The first thing he noticed was how menacing the other races looked, and how out of place he looked compared to his competitors. This only stoked his desire to win. He'd show them all what he was capable of! Even if it must be while holding this ridiculous box! He was just glad that none of his friends were there to see this. Knuckles would never let him live this down.
He could sense the other drivers' eyes on him, feeling amused at his mode of transportation. In particular, he could feel the glare of the one to his left. The vehicle was red with a little shade of yellow at the tip and had "Hell Hawk" written in white on its right side. Sonic couldn't get a good look at the driver inside of it, although the name sounded familiar.
"Captain Falcon mentioned something about it" he said to himself. The guy always loved to boast about his races.
"ALRIGHT FOLKS, TODAY WE HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST PARTICIPATING IN THIS RACE. INTRODUCING TO YOU, THE BLUE BLUR, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!"
The crowd went silent for a second as confusion settled in, but suddenly exploded into loud cheers. Sonic smirked. He had to give them a show to remember now!
Pikachu cheered enthusiastically from the audience when a young girl pointed at him. "Mom! Dad! Look at that little yellow mouse with the red cheeks! It's so adorable! Can we keep him?"
Pikachu motioned her to stay away frightened. "Pika? Pika Pika."
Before long, Mr. Zero began his countdown.
"3...2...1… GO!"
Immediately Sonic zoomed off, barely giving any of the other racers time to think. Sonic put some distance on his competitors, even though he was being weighed down by the gravity shoes. The other racers were visibly not happy about it, and they quickly began to catch up to Sonic. They started ramming into each other and blocking other racers from getting past them, with a few knocked off the track during all the commotion. The fans, however, were having the time of their lives, loudly exclaiming their favored racer's name as they witnessed the havoc taking place.
"Piece of cake, even having to carry this stupid package isn't even a problem for me.'' Sonic said while blazing through the track. "What could possibly go-"
He was cut short as the deafening noise of an explosion and the following shockwave rocked the track.
Sonic's reflexes prevented him from being blown to bits, but he was still launched several feet into the air, obliterating a chunk of the track he was just on and causing him to lose his grasp on his 'vehicle', which flew out of the track. Sonic struggled to gain his balance in the air, but to no avail. He came crashing right back on to the cold metal of the track, avoiding falling through the recently made hole in the track by a few feet. Luckily, he was relatively unharmed.
"What was that?!" he groaned while clutching his head.
Wolf had been watching the race via monitors just outside the stadium grounds, impatiently waiting for the hedgehog to be… permanently disqualified. "He's still alive? Blast it all!" He exclaimed, seeing him land harmlessly in the tracks. "It seems as though I must do this myself." He stormed off toward his ship angrily.
Meanwhile, the audience didn't seem to care that the hedgehog had nearly been blown to smithereens as the explosion instead further fueled their excitement. That is, with the exception of Pikachu, who scampered through the crowds looking for answers.
While Sonic struggled to regain himself, two ships approached at full speed. He quickly recognized them as Wolfens, who belonged to Wolf's mercenary team, Star Wolf. Not very creative, he'd noted with a laugh when he first learned about it, something that Wolf didn't appreciate.
"Alright hedgehog, since it takes more than a bomb erupting under your feet to kill you, I'll just take care of you myself and that stupid yellow rat myself." Said Wolf, with his voice booming from his Wolfen.
"You've got to be freaking kidding me." He replied. He decided to do what he knew how to best. Run.
Changing into his normal shoes, Sonic bounced onto his feet and zipped away. This time he didn't have any gravity holding him back from running at his full speed.
"Alright boys don't let the little hedgehog get away, I want him dead, I don't care if you have to tear down this whole track in the process!" Wolf snarled.
Immediately the four other Wolfens started chasing him down and firing their lasers at full force. All I've got to do is lead them away from the stands, so that Pikachu and the people can get the hell out of here, contemplated Sonic.
Mr. Zero was absolutely loving what was going on, who would've thought that THE Sonic the Hedgehog would be getting chased down in the middle of an F zero by the intergalactic criminal himself, Wolf O'Donnell. "STAY IN YOUR SEATS FOLKS, THE RACE HAS JUST HEATED UP, A DEATH RACE BETWEEN SONIC AND STARWOLF HAS JUST BEGUN".
In contrast to Mr. Zero's excitement, the fans had started to panic, and some of the racers started to fly right off the track as they didn't want to get caught in the crossfire. They swore revenge on however had dared ruin their race.
Pikachu raced through the fleeing crowd to get to a point where it could use Thunder on the Wolfens without hurting anyone else.
All this commotion had begun to attract the attention of Captain Falcon, who had been patrolling the area. He saw both Sonic on the track and the Wolfens-both enemies of Galeem that were to be destroyed. He made his way to the hangar storing his vehicle, the Blue Falcon, in the middle of the chaos with no signs of emotion.
Wolf noticed Sonic's little plan to lure his gang away, so he too decided to make a plan of his own.
"Alright boys change of plans, time to take out some of these civilians don't you think" he said with a smirk as he proceeded to turn his aircraft around and take aim the people trying to escape.
A voice spoke up from one of the Wolfens chasing Sonic. "Sure thing, boss!" happily exclaimed the pilot, green chameleon humanoid that went by the name Leon Powalski. Immediately they removed their attention from Sonic and made their way towards the panicking crowd.
Sonic noticed this and immediately skidded to a halt. They figured me out, he thought while looking at Wolf's team fly off to the crowd.
"PLAY TIME'S OVER!" Sonic took off at full speed, heading straight toward the crowd. He leapt over the giant crater in the track with relative ease, before long he overtook Wolf's team. He vaulted into the stands, landing neatly in between a frightened couple.
"Now's not the time to play freeze tag!" he told them, trying to snap them back to reality. "Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta take out the idiot over here!" The couple scurried away and Sonic patiently waited for the Star Wolf crew to get closer.
Here they come! He started to bounce up and down as if to get warmed up. He then ran back to gain some speed, and with a mighty leap, he launched himself into the air. As he approached one of the ships, he rolled into a ball to perform his signature Homing Attack. Leon Powalski's eyes widened as he saw the furry blue ball drawing nearer at a speed that should be impossible for such a creature. Sonic crashed into the Wolfen, shattering his windshield in an instant. "You insolent little-!" raged Leon as his ship's systems blared.
Sonic used the recoil of the impact to bounce off the aircraft. "You guys must have forgotten who I am!" He said in midair with a huge grin.
Wolf snarled at the hedgehog's arrogance. "Oh, I know exactly what you are: A big, fat, rotten, petulant, sailor-mouthed, cocky, stubborn rat. SET ALL BLASTERS ON THE PORCUPINE!"
"Sir, he's technically a hedgehog." Noted one of the other Wolfen pilots, a humanoid feline named Panther Caroso.
"That was a deliberate insult, you idiot! Who cares what he is? All that matters is that once we're through with him, he'll be a sorry pile of quills, and we'll have our reward!"
Hearing Wolf's remark made Sonic even more eager to knock him down. Just another Eggman. Sonic prepared another homing attack and charged at Pigma's Wolfen and rammed into it. He then bounced to Panther's vehicle and straight to Andrew's, all hitting each of them several times as he swiftly avoided their blaster fire. They aren't used to dealing with something so small and fast, were they? Wolf's aircraft was the last one that remained.
"I've got something special for you, Wolf!" he yelled while standing in Andrew's ship as it was falling. Leaping up from it, he balled up once more and charged up his Spin Dash. He aimed at Wolf, smashing into his ship as hard as he could, coming out from the other side. The Wolfen exploded on impact.
Once the smoke from the explosion cleared up Sonic was back on the ground dusting himself off almost as if this was light work for him. The rest of wolf's team had abandoned their aircrafts leaving them to crash land in the distance as they floated down to the track. Wolf himself however landed on the track without his parachute, he somehow made it out of the explosion unphased, but he was struggling to pat down a piece of his fur that had caught fire. He looked enraged.
"Oh, did the big bad wolf get a little burn on his fur?" Taunted Sonic.
"You're going to get it now you little porcupine. You ready, boys?"
"Sure thing, boss". replied Leon Powalski, the second-best fighter in Star Wolf. Wolf and the rest of his team started to slowly surround Sonic.