I don't own anything that relates to Sonic except my own made up designs like Alpha One, Phi, Ralph, and Destructor or any other robots I made up to be specific. This will be shorter than the last one I swear.

Chapter 2

Miles "Tails" Prower was messing around with his plane, he was wearing goggle that were placed over his head instead of his eyes. The Tornado, he named it, was probably the best plane he has ever made yet. He has made many other aircrafts, but he couldn't help but prefer this old one as he builds more upgrades into it. He and Sonic were on different missions against Eggman every once in a while and they would almost always take this plane. They received a note from him that explained how, Tails' Christmas gift had helped a lot. Now that the fox thinks about it, Eggman's "attempts" feel more like he was really trying.

They have been against Shadow the Hedgehog as well. He almost destroyed the planet, but thanks to the help of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles (Who hated meeting the fox again and almost hit him if it weren't for Sonic, but they did fight over it, physically fight), Rouge, Eggman, and surprisingly Shadow to stop it. Amy had convinced Shadow that what he was doing was wrong and Maria would be most disappointed in him.

During the adventure Shadow had "killed" himself saving everyone, but later Tails found the hedgehog still alive. Eggman shrugged it off. He'll never be partners with him again.

Tails knelt down next to the other side of the plane and heard Sonic come in "Hi Sonic. Need anything?"

"Not realy, but I do have a riddle for you." Ever since Eggman got Sonic that riddle book the hedgehog has been trying it to find difficult ones for his little brother.

Tails shrugged "Shoot."

"Okay. I'll go get the riffle Ralph gave me."

Tails rolled his eyes "No. Go ahead say the riddle."

"Okay. If a blue house is made of blue bricks, a yellow house is made of yellow bricks, and a pink house, like Amy's-." Tails snickers at the remark still turned away from Sonic as the hedgehog continued "A pink house is made of pink bricks, what is a greenhouse made of?"

"Glass."

"Dang, you're good."

"Come one. It's obvious, a greenhouse holds plants inside and has to be made of glass in order to let sunlight through."

"You're the smart one. How about a joke then."

"Go ahead."

"What do you call a fake pasta?"

"… I don't know." Tails tightened a bolt.

"An impasta."

Tails looked down with a smile and shook his head, but Sonic continued "Did you hear about the joke about the roof?... Never mind, it's over your head."

Tails looked up with his smiled and continued working, but the blue blur had another "What three kinds of candy do you find at school?... Nerds, DumDums, and Smarties."

Tails looked at Sonic, but then there was a flash and Tails blinked. Sonic had his camera ready the whole time and had finally got Tails in a picture… with a smile. The fox jumped up "SONIC!"

"What. That looked good. Come on. Look how cute you look." Sonic showed the picture.

Tails went to grab it, but Sonic pulled it away. Tails jumped after him yelling "DELEAT THAT PICTURE!"

"Okay, okay… tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?"

"Yah."

"No. Do it right NOW!"

"No can do. Sally has called us. Someone has been stealing the chaos emeralds from the "secret" hiding places. Come on."

As the fox followed he said pointing at Sonic "I'm not going to forget about that picture Sonic."

"I bet."

Sonic blasted out and Tails was not far behind.

…

Sally stood in front of the palace. There was a loud boom and Sonic was right in front of her "Hi, Sal. You called?" Then there was one more bang and Tails was right next to him. The guards there began to rush at the fox but Sally saw them "STOP! The fox is fine. Leave him alone."

The guards obeyed. The fox only looked at them sinisterly. Sally then noticed the goggles on the fox "What's with the goggles?"

Tails looked surprise and grabbed them "Oh, jeez. I'm sorry. I forgot I had them on."

"Forget it Tails. Keep them. You look fine with them. Now on to business. The chaos emeralds we have had, you know, the three we locked in our vaults. We have two missing. The last one is at the Java Plaza."

"That tall building?"

"Sonic, they're all tall."

"I know, I was kidding sheesh. No one can take a joke."

A messenger suddenly came "Your highness… uh." He then spotted the fox who turned from keen to angry when he realized why the man has hesitated, or IS hesitating.

Sally flew her arms in the air and yelled "JUST GET IT OUT! WON'T YOU PEOPLE ACCEPT TAILS NOW!? HE'S NO LONGER THE PERSON HE USE TO BE!"

"The Java Plaza emerald is being hit right now."

Sally only looked shocked. Sonic looked back at her "Want us to go ahead to the plaza?"

Sally shook her head "YES!"

Tails smiled and rubbed his nose with his forefinger "That was one of Sonic's sarcastic jokes Sal."

"Ohhhhh. JUST STOP THE CRINIMALS."

"On it." Sonic blasted away.

The Java Plaza

Three birds flew out of an open vault on floating boards. One was a green male hawk, the other a purple female swallow, and a big grey albatross. The green hawk turned and yelled over the wind to the swallow "Hey Wave. There security truly sucks, don't it."

The swallow, Wave, rolled her eyes and groaned out "It is completely embarrassing. Especially since the so called "security" belongs to a large dumb king nut-case."

The albatross flew next to her "Was that a pun. The king's a squirrel so it must be a pun."

The hawk and swallow yelled at him "HE'S A CHIPMUNK, STORM."

The grey bird placed a finger below his beak as if he was thinking with a puzzled expression "Opps."

Suddenly there was a huge gust of wind and Storm was blasted off his board by a pair of gloved hands. Another pair of gloved hands pushed Wave and she fell as well. The hawk stopped and looked to see Sonic over Storm and Tails over Wave.

Sonic smiled and said "Where you gliding off to green penguin."

"I'M A HAWK."

"Whatever."

Tails was watching this as he kept his person on the ground with his hands and only looked at her when she yelled "HEY! GET OFF!"

Tails quickly looked down and noticed where his hands were, on her chest. The fox jumped back and forced his hands together behind his back squeezing them tightly trying to hurt them for doing that. His ears fell and a sweat drop fell from his head "Ohh… I'm so sorry."

Wave got up, giving him an ice-cold glare, and swiped the area the fox touched as if it was infected.

Storm, who was under Sonic's foot, threw the hedgehog on top of him. Sonic went flying "WAAA-OHHHHHH!"

The fox's ears flew up at that sound and looked at his flying friend "TAILS! A little help would be niiiiice."

Tails took off and in a matter of a second held Sonic still in the air. They came down and watched the two birds get back on their boards. Before taking off the birds looked at the two with anger in their face. Wave though, before following them, gave the fox a not so nice gesture.

Sonic looked down at Tails and nudged the fox "She likes you."

Tails gave a dirty look at him in response. Sonic sped off saying "Come on. Time to tell her you love her too."

As Tails followed he said "Hardy-har har. Very funny."

"Who's joking."

"Wait- WHAT!"

"I was, Tails. I was joking."

"Don't do that."

"Whoo."

They passed the birds who stopped in surprise. Sonic spun around front of them and stopped as if he intended that. Tails soon stopped alongside his brother and crossed his arms.

The hawk was stroking his chin "You must be that Sonic the hedgehog."

"Wow. Worst fan ever."

"I'M NOT A FAN!"

"Well you're surly not cheerful."

The hawk looked as if he was about ot lunge at the blue hero in till Wave got in the way "That's enough. How about we introduce our selves first."

The hawk straitened up and patted his own shoulder "Right, right. We are the Babylon Rouges."

Tails tilted his head toward Sonic "Batty pirates apparently."

"We are not BATS squirt." Wave coiled her fists.

"You steal right?" All of them didn't even nod, so the fox continued "So you are therefore called pirates."

Sonic smiled "Hey Tails. Why are pirates called pirates?"

Tails noticed the humor in Sonic's voice and smiled "I don't know."

"Because they arrrrrrrrr." Sonic and Tails began to snigger. The three birds now blasted at them and struck them. Wave made sure she got Tails and slammed him into a wall "That's for earlyier creep."

Tails rubbed his head and opened one eye to stare at her "I said I was sorry."

The hawk had Sonic and smiled "How does it feel to have nothing to say."

Sonic looked up with a glare replying "I don't know, that has never happened to me." The blue hero pushed up and flipped over the front of the board so his feet were in front striking the bird trying to mock him.

Storm charged at the hero as he got up dazed. Wave looked over from her pinned victim to the fight allowing Tails to open a panel in her board. He messed with the circuitry. Suddenly her board flipped and she fell.

Wave looked over at the fox to see he held a remote. He pressed a button and her board flew over and struck the albatross and he fell off. The green hawk got up and wave yelled at him "JET! WE NEED TO GO! THEY'RE TOO MUCH!"

Jet, as it appears, looked at her with anger. He was about to argue, but soon Sally and other gaurds were running up at them. Jet began to sweat "Fine!" He pressed a button on his wrist "Doc. We need assistance down here."

Suddenly the sun faded away. Sally and the guards stopped and looked up. Eggman's new Egg-carrier hovered above them. A green beamed down and snatched the three thieves. The boards followed as well.

Tails was about to use his remote, but Wave took her board and ripped out the unite the fox placed in it and gave him a dirty look. As the metal, round doors rotated shut Sonic smirked and bumped Tails "She defiantly digs you."

Tails glared at him. Sally walked up still looking at the carrier "What is that? Eggman is with them?"

Tails was patting his finger on his bottom lip "They must be ahead of us."

One of the guards whispered to the another "I bet the fox was in on it."

Suddenly a metallic hand slapped the guard "Take that back." Ralph stood there in his black armor; he also has been wearing a dark trench coat to make him appear more intimidating. He has also been busy doing secret missions for Princess Sally with a group he was allowed in called Team Dark. This includes Rouge, Omega (One of Eggman's robots he programmed to be helpful and gave it to Sally), and Shadow (Amy recommended him so Sally made him part of the group, but he is still left out like Tails, except treated better. Knowing slightly how Shadow Feels Tails sometimes visits him trying to be his friend, but the hedgehog ignores the fox not realy caring).

Speaking of Team Dark the whole group was there and Rouge was looking crossly at Tails. Omega slightly waved and Shadow only stood there with his arms crossed with the same old scary emotionless face. The fox said hi but the dark hedgehog ignored him yet again and said to Sonic "We're now assigned to the case Sonic so you might as well just drop it."

"Last time we had a fight I won. So maybe Tails and I are better suited for this."

Sally stepped forward "Woah, woah, woah. Who assigned you?"

"The king." Rouge replied "What is that thing doing here." She pointed at Tails.

Tails only stood there looking irritated. Rouge flew over and continued "No one wants you around, sicko. Crawl to your grave and die."

Tails looked up at her "Ladies first."

Shadow let out a small grunt "Looks like he got you."

"I'm not done." Rouge tried to continue but Sonic walked in front of her and with an expression of pure rage and savagery he said "Yes… you… are."

Rouge lowered her ears in fright and backed off. Omega soon boomed out "Maybe we should work together."

Ralph almost yelled when Shadow opened his mouth "Yah. Good idea."

Sonic smiled "How does it feel to be the only good person on the team Ralph?"

"Terrible. Shadow doesn't realy care and so Rouge can get him to do whatever and Omega doesn't know bad to good and only cares about getting missions done. So… I have little leverage, but it's enough. I have been through worst."

Sonic shrugged "True."

Eggman's laugh was then heard. "OH, HO, HO, HO!"

"Santa?" This time Ralph said it.

Eggman continued "Hello people of Mobius. I am Doctor Eggman. Scientific genius."

"Nooooo. I thought he was the tooth fairy."

Shadow closed his eyes and sharply spoke "Ralph! Shut-up!"

The doctor continued "I am holding the World Grand Prix. A race where you are only allowed to use Extreme Gear as the racing transportation."

"Now he's just making up words."

"SERIOUSLY! KNOCK IT OFF!" Shadow yelled.

The Doctor finished without Ralph's comments "Extreme Gear are boards that can hover above ground and if fallen off a high place it can slow your decent, but cannot fly. It is faster than cars though." The screen showed a picture of a board. Tails looked at it quickly; he had designed something like that, but was unwilling to test it.

Eggman continued "I have picked three of the fastest racers on these boards I could find. Jet the Hawk," a picture appeared with the green hawk "Wave the Swallow," Showed a picture of the purple Swallow "and Storm the Albatross." And a picture of the big grey bird appeared. "These are the best I could find, so there are no amateurs allowed like… cough… Sonic."

Sonic rolled his eyes "Riiiiigght."

"To enter this contest to see who is the fastest, you are required to have a chaos emerald for each person entering and the winner takes all. These three already have there's, so get the last four. To enter, you shall find me at the Prix's racing arena. The new one in the desert. Cha-cha. And may the fastest thing alive win. Oh… and no cheating." Eggman ended the last two sentences slowly.

The screen went to commercials and the giant warship flew off. Sally looked at Sonic and the others "Those are our thieves."

"Well. Me and Tails are definitely entering." Sonic stated.

"No. He's not." Rouge snapped.

"Okay. He won't and the only person who can make that board will not make one. Boo-hoo. How will we race?"

"… fine. He can join." The bat sighed

Shadow stepped forward "I know you and the fox have a chaos emerald already." He pulled out his favorite emerald, the green one "But I have mine as well. So I'll be joining your group for now."

"… Yay? So it's a double hedgehog with a double tailed fox team. So we're a double team. No offense." Sonic looked at Tails.

The fox shrugged "None taken."

Ralph piped up "That leaves the red emerald."

Sonic looked at him "That won't matter. Someone else can join if they want, but they'll lose. Tails, I know you have a design for something like that. I saw the blueprint."

"Well…" The golden fox began to tap his teeth "I did make one, but I didn't want to test it out."

Shadow didn't care "How fast can you make better ones."

"About… a day."

"Start right now."

"I need to be at my lab."

"Then get to your lab. We don't know how to ride these things, so we need to get use to it… quickly."

"I can make create items in it to make it eais-."

"Whatever, just start." The black and red striped hedgehog walked away with his team, Ralph looking back apologetic. Sonic watched them leave and looked back at Tails "You don't have to."

"I will. Eggman is obviously up to something. We need to stop him."

Sally just stood by and watched "Um… can I do anything?"

"Just look for the red emerald. It can't be far. Tails and I will start working on the boards. Come on buddy." They both blasted off.

But off in the distance a pure black hedgehog flipped a red emerald in his hand. His purple eyes watched the two go "Interesting. A grand prix. Very interesting. I would love to join." He then smiled as he turned and walked away, and in a flash… he was gone.

Done. Sorry it took so long to update. I have been busy. You all should know who that pure black hedgehog is if you read the last chapter. Chapter 3 coming up.