"Alright, another one of us has to go now, so who wants to go first?" Sonic says clapping his hands together

"Me!" Knuckles calls out excitedly

"Too late." Wave says finishing up the final touches to her board with an extremely smug look on her face.

"Oh come on!" Knuckles says punching the wall to massive effect

"Knuckles, calm down. Do your best, Wave!" Sonic says, waving her off.

Wave gets outside to the competition area. Ready for a match. Her competitors come out specifically the fox she saw earlier. Wave sighs to herself and goes out once she's called out to the race.

Tails knows no matter who goes, she'll be the winner. She has perfected her board to the best of her possible abilities. Making sure every detail is perfect and in the best shape of its life. No one is passing her today!

She goes out and sees she's going against the bird, Wave Tails thinks her name is. Doesn't matter, Tails is going to win easily, watch and learn from the master. There is absolutely no way this could go wrong at all.

The two go out along with all the other contenders. They brace themselves and get ready for the race.

"Welcome contestants and a specific thank you to the audience for joining us today for this swell race! Which I have organized myself. Of course I will count down from the three and when I say 'go' everyone will go, all good? No questions? I would hope not. …Alright….. 3…2…1…go!"

Tails' takes the early lead. Letting nothing get ahead of her. Sure Wave is close behind, but comfortable enough to where Tails can hold her own. Going fast to not let her catch up. Making sure to keep distance. The distance can make the difference. Again, like she planned, nothing can go wrong.

That's until Wave passes her unexpectedly, catching Tails off guard. The air rushes through Wave's hair as she passes by. Excited and reinvigorated, Wave goes forward and pushes the board to a hopeful victory. Making sure that the other is in the dust and gone. Wave goes for the gold.

Until Tails comes back, efficiently and precisely. You didn't think she was out, did you? Now, Tails is determined to not let that happen again. Using all of her strength to get farther and farther away from that purple bird. She manages to get ahead. But this time Tails doesn't get cocky. Making sure she's always ahead of her. No space left for her to pass and nowhere to go but the finish line for Tails. She breathes, she will win and get what she needs to make sure that she isn't throw away again.

Until Wave comes back again. Passing Tails surprisingly again. She taunts Tails before going forwards again making the fox angry. Not stopping and now determined to rub it in the other's face whenever this race ends. Making sure to try hard and go fast. Making perfect clean cuts everywhere. Despite not being experienced, Wave is confident in herself. Maybe a bit too confident but Wave doesn't care.

That's up till when Tails comes back, with a vengeance and a goal. Passing Wave with determination in her veins and a way to win. A full absolutely dead on crosshair locked on plan. Going harder, pushing faster. Pushing herself till it's all gone past her and nothing else is left besides her. Tails doesn't care if her gear breaks as long as she wins this race. Proving herself. No matter the cost to herself or her gear. Tails will do this and do it well with no mistakes or problems.

Tails gets her wish without all that damage. Winning successfully. Tails has won. Even if it did come close. She won. She did it. Nobody can take that away from her now. Tails cheers for herself and so does the crowd. Tails is thankful she won. She could care less for the crowd and all its applause that's probably the worst part. She got what she wanted and now who's going to stop her from doing what she and the others need to do to win? This is going to be a cakewalk from here.

Wave is tired. Stretching herself out till she feels better. Sonic looks at her sympathy while Knuckles is doing whatever he's doing, fooling around and such.

"Hey! good job out there Wave!"

"Not good enough. Still got second place."

"That's still good!"

"We aren't going to win in second place, Sonic."

"I know… but we were close!" Wave laughs at that.

"Don't be so hard on yourself, Wave." Sonic says patting her shoulder, she smiles at him before taking a drink of water to hydrate and replenish herself from the sport.

"I hate how good they are at this!" Tails exclaims as she works on her teams' boards. Making sure they're absolutely perfect for tomorrow. No mistakes.

"What's the matter?" Storm asks coming into Tails' workshop

"Storm, we are going to lose if we keep this up. They're too good. Either that or they're cheating. HOW WOULD THEY EVEN KNOW HOW TO CHEAT?" Tails screams to Storm.

Storm proceeds to back out of the room slowly and then run away for his life. Leaving Tails to her devices again. Tails sighs and goes back to work. Alone. Like almost always. But she doesn't mind that too much. She convinces herslef she would rather be working.

At least Jet seems happy.

"Good job on the race Tails!" Jet hugs his friend

"Thanks!" Tails says, probably enjoying that hug way too much.

"…Are you going to bed soon?"

"Nope I still have to finish these. But after that, yes!"

"Okay! But get to bed this time!"

"Fine…"

Tails does in fact not get to bed that night. Instead staying up cracking open probably way too many energy drinks. Tails is addicted but she won't admit it. She is up and ready the next morning with bloodshot eyes and a smile that says 'if you say anything bad to me I will kill you'. Today is going to be a great day Tails' thinks to herself.