[Sonaze] Love At The Olympics

Rematch!

Attention, ladies and gentlemen! The rematch of the Bike Racing event is about to commence! The racers are as last time BEFORE Jet the Hawk interrupted the competition: Luigi, Yoshi, Miles "Tails" Prower, and Silver the Hedgehog!"Omochao stated over the loudspeaker. Silver and Tails looked in the audience and saw their friends, Sonic, Blaze, and Knuckles included due to the fact that the Hockey rink was still being re-frozen to its initial thickness on account of Eggman Nega ruining the whole thing with the bomb he planted to knock out Sonic. Tails even recognized the Freedom Fighters due in no small part to Bunnie Rabbot waving a flag that said "TAILS RULES" on it.

'Oh no. Bunnie is embarrassing me!' he thought. He then realized that Sally was in the audience as well. It didn't take a rocket scientist to find out he was a little saddened at this due to the argument that she and Sonic had that broke them up. He knew that Sonic was happy with Blaze and he, like Amy and Silver, wasn't going to let Sally come in-between them. He wanted to make sure that Sonic stay with the feline princess and not go to the Freedom Fighters' leader.

"Are you okay, Tails? You seem a little zoned out," a voice snapped Tails out of his thoughts. It turned out to be Silver, who (despite what Chapter 1 said) never saw the young fox as a rival.

"I'm alright, Silver. I'm just a little worried that Blaze might have an even tougher rival than Amy in the race for Sonic."

"Oh? Who's that?" the white hedgehog asked.

"Princess Sally. It's a good thing she's concentrated on this race for now, but I think we're going to have to protect Blaze while Sonic & Knuckles are on the ice tomorrow."

"What about tonight? Surely Amy wouldn't be enough."

"With that big hammer of her's, she might be for a little while." The racers got to the starting line. When the starting gun went off and each racer was vying for the front. Eventually, by the start of the 3rd lap, Silver and Tails had left Luigi and Yoshi in the dust, even though Yoshi is technically the only Speed-type racer on the track. This is due to several experiences in the past that the two have had trying to keep up with Sonic and Shadow. It was a close call between the hedgehog and the fox, but in the end, Silver had won the race, with Tails coming in second by two seconds. Luigi got third and Yoshi got fourth.

"The winner of the Bike Race event has been decided: Silver the Hedgehog is our Bike Race Gold Medalist!" Omochao exclaimed over the loudspeaker as he handed Silver his Gold Medal, this time happy that he crossed the finish line. He and Tails met Sonic and the others at the Lobby. They were waiting to congratulate the two. A few moments into the conversation, Tails saw Sally and the other Freedom Fighters. They could tell from the look on Tails' face that he has changed; Tails, like Sonic, Knuckles, & Amy, didn't see the Freedom Fighters as family anymore, especially the one he called his 'Aunt' when he was younger. They expected this from Sonic, Amy, and (to an extent) Knuckles, but not the two-tailed fox in front of them. This scared them a little, especially Antoine, who is a scaredy-cat anyways. The only one who was scared the least by Tails was Rotor the Walrus, as he was the one who taught Tails his mechanical skills.

"What are you doing here, Sally? Getting sick of staying cooped up in Knothole?" This caught the attention of Sonic and the others. The wording of the question also shocked—and even hurt—Sally.

"Tails, I had no idea you decided to stop calling me your aunt. Why is that?"

"When YOU called off our relationship and kicked me off the Freedom Fighters' roster," said Sonic, who heard the whole thing.

"Sonic, I-"Sally began, but was interrupted.

"I know what you're going to say, 'Princess', but keep it to yourself! As far as I'm concerned, we're not even friends anymore," Sonic stated, using her title in a mocking way. This continued to sadden Sally, but then the sadness for Sonic & Tails quickly turned to anger towards Blaze. Neither of them said a word, only letting their animosity for each other do the talking. "We have to catch up sometime, Rotor, Bunnie, Ant." The sound of Sonic's voice snapped Sally out of her thoughts, which consisted of malicious things to do to Blaze. She then realized that he and the other three ex-Freedom Fighters still saw her three comrades as friends.

"I will be rid of Blaze the Cat and Sonic the Hedgehog will mine again," Sally mumbled once the others left…except for Knuckles.

"You know you shouldn't say that out loud, right?"

"What I say or do is none of your business, Knuckles!" she said. Knuckles merely shrugged it off.

"Do you want to know the best way to be someone's friend, Sally?" this caught her attention. "Support the decisions they make, even if you don't agree with them. This especially goes in terms of Sonic's relationship with Blaze. There may have been a time where you two were meant for each other, but that time is long gone. In case you haven't noticed, he hasn't flirted with Bunnie at all, and Amy stopped trying to chase him. I think she might be working her way to Silver's heart. She doesn't even know that she has it yet."

"So what you're saying is that I should just leave Sonic to that hotheaded feline and not go after him? Never in my life, Knuckles!"

"It would do the world a lot of good," he stated.

"Like I said: 'Never in my life'." She then stormed out of the room. Knuckles shook his head, knowing the trouble she was likely to cause.

Meanwhile, Mario and Donkey Kong had just run into Dry Bowser and Dry Bones. They challenged the Boney duo to an Ice Skating match on the lake. Since the ice was thick enough, it would be a team event, as the ice was way more than enough to hold DK and Dry Bowser. The heroes won with enough points to beat the skeletons, as they were uncoordinated. "Yahoo! That's-a four down and-a two to go!"

"Who are the other two that were taken care of?" asked Donkey Kong.

"Jet-a the Hawk-a and Eggman Nega," answered Mario. "Sonic, Silver, Blaze, and Knuckles took care of them."

"And the two that are left?"

"Magikoopa and King Boo." Donkey Kong then saw Sonic and the others approaching. They survey the 'battlefield' and Tails came to a conclusion:

"It looks like you guys beat Dry Bowser and Dry Bones. Nice work."

"Well what would you expect, Tails? It was a team consisting of a heroic plumber and a bow-wearing gorilla," Vector stated.

"Yeah, that's true." Everyone then shared a laugh. They didn't know that Sally was spying on them, still not listening to Knuckles' advice.

"I will make you mine, Sonic. No matter what it takes."

CHAPTER 6 END