Note: Thanks Tethys for this beta read.

(Road near Spiral Hill)

Jewel saw this coming. There was no way she couldn't have seen this coming. Of course Sonic and Tangle were going to be on the hunt for a speed radar after the lesson today. At least they weren't as much trouble in class for once, but still…

She pleaded with them, "Seriously, you two?"

Tangle nodded, "You know the one, Jewel!"

Sonic was growing a bit impatient, "You sure this thing is out here?"

Tangle smirked, "You bet!" They exited the forest and found a road. It was almost deserted, but sure enough: it had a speed radar.

Sonic asked, "Huh. How'd you know about this?"

Tangle winked, "This ain't our first rodeo, boy!"

Jewel glared to the side, "Ugh, stop with the fake drawl please."

Sonic giggled, "I like it, pardner!"

A car drove down the road while they spoke, Jewel noting it, "I don't think this is a good idea…" She looked around, noticing a certain hedgehog was gone, "...Sonic!"

He reappeared as fast as he left, "What was that?" He looked at the radar, and it didn't register anything, "Are you kidding me?! It didn't work?"

Jewel tilted her head, "Why didn't it work?"

Sonic waved a hand in front of it, then running to the side, "It worked! It says 4!" Sonic then ran by it again, still nothing, "Oh come on!"

Jewel breathed in and out, next flying up and looked at it from about it's height, "I think you need to be this high to-"

Sonic zoomed by her, jumping this time to hit her eye height, and this time, it read 99. He ran back to see it, and it annoyed Sonic, "Ugh, I'm surely way faster than that!"

Jewel pointed out, "It only has two-."

Then he looked around, "Hey…Where's Tangle?"

She shouted, "Over here!" She had found a sign further back and was getting a running start with stretching her tail.

Jewel was panicking, "TANGLE ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!"

Tangle shouted back, "Sorry, can't hear you!"

Jewel glared at Sonic, "You're a bad influence…"

Sonic grimaced in horror himself, "This was not my idea." He dashed towards her, "Tangle, what are you doing?!"

She had a pained grin, taking a deep breath, then winked with the pain in her grin suppressed, "Gotta go fast!" After that, she started her slingshot with the sign, "Wahoo!"

Jewel was alarmed, dodging out of the way. Tangle got very lucky and sped right by the radar, also registering a 99. Sonic stopped for a moment, "Huh."

Jewel quickly stated, "Focus, Sonic!"

The hedgehog looked back in the direction of the launched lemur, "Right."

He sped down the highway, Tangle still flying, "YEAH!"

Sonic kept his arms ahead of him, ready to catch the lemur, "Don't worry Tangle, I got you!"

Tangle, after a few seconds, began to panic, "Wait, how do I-" Then she landed in Sonic's arms.

Sonic didn't anticipate the amount of force she landed with, sending him rolling forward, "I got us Tangle, this is my other specialty!" He began to roll into a ball, and it worked for a few seconds, but then it broke apart, "Drat! I haven't done this before!"

Tangle smirked, "Don't worry pal, I got this!" She rolled the two of them up into a log made of her tail, and they continued rolling down the road. They slowly, in terms of time, lost speed, hitting a tree at just slow enough a pace to not be seriously wounded, making the Lemur with a dash of Hedgehog tail wrap stop, and Tangle then unrolled them onto the ground.

It took a minute for Jewel to catch up, flying like her wings have never flown before to catch up to her friends. When she found them, they were laying next to each other, unbelievably dizzy.

Sonic commented through the dizziness, "Ooooooo…Pretty rings…"

Tangle asked similarly dizzy, "You talking about me?"

Sonic wondered, "I'm collecting them, silly."

Tangle teased, "The only rings you collected were on my tail!"

Sonic broke out into a laughing fit at that, Tangle joining in thereafter, as they sat up.

Jewel caught up, "There you two are! Tangle, what were you thinking?!"

Tangle scratched the back of her head, "Had to go fast…"

Sonic grinned awkwardly, "That's my job, not yours."

Tangle responded smugly, "We don't work, silly!" She then lit up, asking Jewel, "How fast did I go, by the way?"

Jewel sighed, "You also went 99 Miles per hour."

Tangle's tail stretched back and upwards in shock and awe, "No way!"

Sonic gave his smug smile towards her, "As fast as me!…According to that radar."

Tangle squeed, "EEEEE!" She ran up and hugged Sonic, "Speed buddies!"

Sonic was a bit stunned to get hugged, giving a fake smile, "Uh…Well done…"

Jewel giggled, "Tangle does tha-aAh!" As Tangle's tail roped her into the hug too, the tail now hugging the two of them.

She insisted, "You two are the best!"

Sonic whispered to Jewel, "Does she do this a lot?"

Jewel answered with a whisper back, "...yes, but not usually with the tail."

She put an arm around Jewel now to hug them each with different arms, "I love you sooooooooo much!"

Sonic chuckled with closed eyes and a grin, "Sure."

Jewel thought to herself in bemusement, You two deserve each other… Then she smiled, …But I'm happy for you.

Sonic ran for about a minute, then stopped for a break, "This place looks far less…Inviting."

He was waiting for a bit before out of nowhere, a hedgehog just like him tackle hugged him, except this one was Pink. Sonic was confused, "Wha?"

Amy shouted, "My Knight in shining armor, I knew I'd find you here Sonic!"

Sonic was dumbfounded for a moment, then tried to push her away, but her grip was too tight. He requested, "Give a man his space already…wait, how did-."

Tangle Shouted as she approached, "Yo! Sonic, how's-" But then she saw what was going on, "PFFFT!"

Jewel glanced to the side with a smirk, "Should have seen this coming…"

Sonic sweat, waving, "Hey Tangle, hey Jewel."

Tangle teased, "Someone found his very first admirer?"

Sonic scratched his head, "I guess."

Amy fantasized, "Oh, all the adventures we'll have…I just know you'll be mine."

Sonic grimaced and tried to break from her grip, "Okay, that's enough! Tangle, can you-"

Tangle began stretching her tail, "On it." She tapped Amy on the back with a tail finger.

Amy was startled, "Wha-" Opening her eyes and finally letting go of Sonic. Then she looked over towards them, "Oh…Hey again you two! Aren't you excited! I found my knight!"

Jewel looked confused and concerned, "Your knight?"

Tangle faked a smile while closing eyes, "Uh…Amy, I hate to break it to ya-"

Sonic immediately dashed over and put an arm around Tangle, closing his eyes, "This knight has already found his Princess!"

Tangle smiled and closed her eyes too, "Yeah!"

Jewel narrowed her eyes, "Uh, your highnesses…"

Both of them looked back at Jewel, "Yes, our loyal advisor!"

Jewel pointed behind them. Amy could be heard in shouting from the distance, eyes closed, "Sonic, SAVE ME! Use my hammer to stop Eggman!"

Both of them were very embarrassed, "All that mushy acting just to let Amy get kidnapped!" Tangle complained.

Sonic glared to the side, "At least Eggman didn't make a robot duplicate of you!"

Tangle looked at the ground where Amy had been, and spotted a hammer, using her tail to pick it up, "Why did Eggman leave us a hammer?"

Jewel was frustrated, "Were you two even listening?! That's Amy's hammer!"

Sonic grinned, "Let's not keep her waiting then!"

The two girls nodded, "Right!" Tangle immediately handed the hammer to Jewel, "I think you'll need this the most…"

Jewel groaned, "I'm not that weak. But thank you." And accepted the hammer.

They made their way through the zone, and upon reaching a past sign, Sonic grabbed it, Jewel suggesting, "How about this time, we make the jump together!"

Tangle nodded, "sure."

Sonic then picked them both up in different arms, "On it!"

Jewel grimaced, "Not exactly what I thought you me-AAAAAAHHHHH!"

He then dashed and caused the teleportation into the past.

Upon escape, Sonic clarified, "Not taking chances after last time. Figured you'd appreciate me thinking ahead for once."

Tangle joined in the pile-on, "Think he's got you there, Jewel!"

Jewel sighed and conceded, "Thank you." Jewel was kinda dumbfounded at the result, "This place was overflowing with tech, and now it's almost all gone?!"

Sonic smirked, "Time travel!"

Jewel pondered it, "But then, if you changed the past, then wouldn't it change how events happened when we came here-" Her wings started fluttering, "And then we would have never-"

Right as she was about to fly out of reach, Sonic grabbed one of her shoes, "Don't get carried away overthinking it!"

Jewel regained her composure at this, taking a moment to meditate, and fly safely to the ground, "Thanks for stopping me this time."

Tangle declared as she hands off, "Now let's take out more of those generators!"

Jewel and Sonic nodded, the trio splitting up to find them.

Shortly thereafter, Jewel found one, pulling out the hammer and bashing the generator. She then put it-Wait…away?! She looked at her hand, confused that she no longer held the hammer, and yet it felt like she could-and it did just barely reappear. How does this thing work?!

Tangle tapped her on the shoulder with her tail, "Jewel, something the matter?"

Jewel went crosseyed, "I just have a weird creepy hammer from a fortune teller girl that keeps re-appearing and disappearing. But otherwise no, I feel totally fine!"

Tangle scratched her head with the tail, "Surely you're overreacting. Let me try it, Jewel!"

Jewel sighed, "Fine, here you go, Tangle."

Tangle grabbed it from her, then it "disappeared" into her tail in a way Jewel couldn't see it, "Woah, Jewel, you were right."

Jewel's eyes widened, "You did it too?!"

Tangle grimaced, "Yep, now if I can just make it appear…" And then it popped out into her tail 'hand', "Haha! I made it reappear again!"

Jewel giggled, "Doing the tail trick again with the hammer, okay…"

Tangle put a hand on her friend, "Just trying to help."

Jewel sighed, Flying up to grab it back, and then holding it in front of Tangle, and thinking to make it disappear, "But I am being serious."

Tangle shrugged, "We'll have to figure it out later, I guess."

Sonic came back, "I found a generator, how's-" he saw the ruins of one where they were, Tangle and Jewel waving, "Guess that answers it." He also showed the gemstone he found while running, "And I found one of these!"

Jewel and Tangle giggled, "You wouldn't believe what we did." Tangle asserted.

They then went on, finding a future sign right in front of a…"Pinball machine?" Sonic wondered.

Tangle grinned widely and squeed, "Oh, I love pinball…But where is Eggman and the other-"

Jewel mused, "In the future, I'm guessing. Sonic, you know what to do!"

Sonic nodded, holding them again to grab the future post and take them into the future…

Eggman waited impatiently for them, "Where are my new menaces?! They better come here soon!"

Then he saw a portal open up, out coming the trio of danger…he needed to come up with a more biting name for them.

He didn't get to wait any longer as the 3 of them showed up shortly thereafter. He taunted, "Good luck making it through my maze! It's sure to pin you down!"

Sonic shouted as he entered the contraption, "Good luck!"

Tangle shouted too, "We're coming for you, Eggman!"

Eggman saw them trying to get up, smugly smirking at their struggles, he was about to gloat-

But then he found himself getting hammered, literally, by the beetle. He was stunned, "Where did you get that?!"

Jewel growled, "Tell me what you did to Amy and I'll tell you!"

Eggman growled back, "I don't know who that is, you have any idea how many prisoners I keep?!" This made her angrier, and so his contraption was toast, "Should have thought about you more, stupid bug!" He then fled, Jewel trying to attack more, but found he'd built a force-field for his Egg-Mobile too, "Always need a backup plan with you meddling kids around! Later losers!"

Right as that finished, Sonic and Tangle made their way up, Sonic complaining, "Couldn't have left some of him for us?"

Tangle added, "Yeah, we could have teamed up on him."

Jewel asked them, "You two absolutely promise you didn't have some fun being giant pinballs again?" The both of them looked embarrassed in response, "Thought so. At least you had fun…Unlike me."

Tangle smiled, "I'm glad you took initiative."

Sonic agreed, "Your ability to stay on task we will always appreciate." He ran towards the next destination, pointing onwards. And thus, it was onto the next zone.

Note: Apology for the even bigger delay, but I am trying to avoid burning myself out again by pushing writing too quickly. Thanks for reading.