We found ourselves in some sort of hanger filled with aircraft ranging from really old heaps of junk that probably couldn’t even fly anymore to top-of-the-range aerial fighters. I stared in awe them; this place was a pilot’s dream...

“Attention contestants.” The Darkling spoke up, interrupting my train of thought. I turned to face him; not too happy about having to pull my attention away from the aircraft. Out of the corner of my eye I saw that tails was doing the same.

“Wha’ da ya want?!” I demanded as I folded my arms, I probably looked angry but could you really blame me?

“Uh... What he said,” Tails said, he also seemed slightly irritated but he was hiding it well, his good nature covering up his currently harsh feelings.

“My name is Scuro, welcome to round one.” Tails and I glanced at each other; obviously we were supposed to be opponents in this tournament thing. This Scuro dude was obviously under the impression that we would actually agree to fight. Yea, like THAT was ever going to happen. “Now it has come to our attention that you are both Pilot’s-” I did a double take, I didn’t know Tails was a Pilot. I looked at the fox and smiled, finding a new amount respect for him at the same time as noticing that he was doing the same. “-So to make this more... interesting... we’ve decided that yours will be an aerial battle-”

“Wait, wait. Hold up.” I interrupted, anyone who knew me (and probably everyone else) would be able to see that I was seriously ticked off at the Idea of needlessly fighting; especially not with someone who I was starting to Like and respect.

“What makes you think we’re going to agree to this?” Tails said, he looked equally ticked at the idea, and I couldn’t blame him.

“Yea, Tails is alright, I have nothing against him.” I continued.

“Sprx is ok; I have no intention of fighting him.” Tails said.

“You’re completely Nut’s if you think I’m just going to randomly attack some guy I barely know.” By now I was resisting the urge to pull out my Magnets and give this Scuro person as taste of my Magna Tingler Blast!

“This is completely un-called for. What gives you the right to do this?” Tails said, I noted that he had his hands on his hips and seemed to be extremely miffed.

“And besides-” I began to say.

“He doesn’t stand a chance against me.” We both said at the same time.

My eyes narrowed as I looked at Tails and saw that he was doing the same thing to me. I couldn’t actually believe what I just heard. There was no way he could be better than me, I’m the best Pilot in the Universe... well... except for Quint. “Is that a challenge?” I said, my Ego being the thing most in control at this point.

“You bet it is; I’m the best pilot I know.” The fox said, he had one hand resting on his hip and the other up with his thumb pressing against his chest. He looked like he was being slightly cocky to me.

“Well I’m the best pilot in the known universe.” By now it was defiantly my Ego talking.

“You think so do ya?” Tails asked.

“I know so,” I replied.

We turned back to Scuro, “You know what? An aerial battle sounds like fun,” I said, one of my signature grins plastered across my face. “Bring it on.”

Scuro smirked, “Good, you have free pick of all the aircraft here, choose wisely. Oh, and one more thing, every one of the aircraft here are fitted with a small bomb, if the Battle lasts more than ten minutes I will activate them and you will be blown out of the air, just to add a little… incentive.”

“No Problem, I’ll take him out in five minutes.” I said, cocky grin plastered all over my face.

“Oh yea? Well I’ll take you out in three minutes.” Tails countered. We turned back to each other.

“One Minute.” I said.

“Thirty seconds!” Tails said.

Scuro cleared his throat to get our attention, “Now, now, let’s save the fighting for the battle shall we?” Tails and I folded our Arms and turned away from each other. “Good, now you have five minutes to pick your aircraft, chooses wisely.”

To get a closer look at one of the Aircraft that seemed particularly... interesting I had to walk past the Darkling, and as I did so I... uh... accidentally knocked his top hat off with my tail. I knew exactly what I wanted, something that was powerful and had a good number of weapons at the same time as being small, fast and maneuverable.

And in five minutes the battle would begin...