The beach came into their sight, and Sonic longingly reached his hand towards it. And then something crashed into him and barreled him over. Sonic stood up and rubbed his head, looking at the figure that crashed into him. He sighed when he saw who the girl on the ground was.

She had short, rainbow hair and a long rainbow tail. The girl had cyan wings and could use them to fly. In fact, this girl was considered the second fastest thing alive. She couldn't be the first, because that position was already filled by Sonic.

The girl stood up and said, "I want a rematch, Sonic!"

"I already told you, I'm not racing you again Rainbow Dash." Sonic said with an exasperated sigh.

"The last race wasn't fair, I had the sun in my eyes the whole time."

"It doesn't even matter, the last time we raced I beat you by a mile, and that wasn't even my top speed."

"I know, but I've gotten much better since then, honest." Rainbow Dash said, using the puppy dog eyes tactic.

Sonic had grown used to this tactic and was resistant to it, but the race would be an easy win, so he said, "Fine, one last race." Rainbow Dash smiled and hugged him before flying over to their usual race track.

"You didn't have to do that." Tails said, sad that they were yet again getting distracted from the beach.

"If I didn't say yes, she'd be bugging me all day." Sonic sighed. He then stretched his legs before he ran after Rainbow Dash. Tails looked longingly at the beach before he followed Sonic.

The race track for the two speedsters wasn't very complex. They both merely had to run from the entrance to the Holy Summit from Emerald Town, through Night Babylon into Central City, and back into Emerald Town where they repeated the cycle a few times. It wasn't complicated, but wasn't an easy task and required great speed to win.

Rainbow Dash and Sonic stood next to each other, prepared to take off when it was time to go. Tails caught up to the two and reached into his pocket, pulling out a starter pistol. Why he had this in his pocket, nobody really knew. Tails raised the pistol into the air and fired a single shot, signaling that the race had begun.

The two racers took off at great speeds, staying almost neck and neck. The two sped into Holy Summit. The mountainous terrain slowed Sonic down slightly, while Rainbow Dash was able to fly over the terrain easily. Once through the mountains, the two raced into Night Babylon.

The sidewalks were crowded with people who had money to spend or who had already lost all of their money. This once again made it difficult for Sonic to run through everything, but Rainbow Dash could just fly over everything. Even with this problem, Sonic had nearly no issues keeping up with Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash looked down to see Sonic following closely behind her as he weaved his way through the crowds. Sonic noticed Rainbow Dash looking down at him, and smiled at her with a cocky grin. The two then quickly raced into Central City.

The streets here were less crowded, and Sonic was able to speed up. After gaining a lead on Rainbow Dash, Sonic ran at a brisk pace, never getting too far ahead. Sure, Sonic wanted to win to prove that he was still the fastest, but he didn't want to seem like a jerk.

The two continued to race around like this for just another minute or two. Sonic continued to keep his lead, but never went too far ahead. By the time the race was finished, Sonic took a deep breath at the finish line, savoring his first place win. Rainbow Dash stood close by, panting quietly.

"Now that we have that settled," Sonic said, "we can leave the races behind us for a while and move on."

Rainbow Dash looked up at him and said, "I'll accept the loss for now, but I'm going to train and get better."

"I'm counting on it. Next time I want to break a sweat." Sonic said as Rainbow Dash flew away.

"Do you think we'll finally make it to the beach this time?" Tails asked.

"I sure hope so." Sonic sighed. "All I want to do right now is relax." The heroic duo didn't even notice another one of their friends walk up to them. This particular friend was different from the rest since she was quiet and wouldn't really speak up.

"Hi guys." The girl said quietly. The two boys jumped into the air from the shock before turning around to see who had snuck up on them. She had long, pink hair that matched her tail. Part of her hair covered one of her eyes. Sprouting from her back was a pair of light yellow wings.

"Fluttershy, I didn't see you there." Sonic said.

Fluttershy seemed to shrink into her clothes when she said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you guys."

"We weren't scared, just surprised." Tails said.

"Well, I was just wondering if maybe you two could help me." Fluttershy said quietly.

The heroic duo looked at each other before looking back at Fluttershy and agreeing to help her out. Fluttershy quietly led the two towards her house. At the house, there were many pens for animals. What Fluttershy lacked in social skills, she more than made up for with her skills with animals.

"I promised Twilight that I would help her with some spells, but I still need to feed my animals. I was wondering if you two could feed them for me." Fluttershy said quietly.

Sonic smiled and said, "That's it? That'll be a piece of cake. We can definitely handle this." Fluttershy thanked them for about two minutes before finally leaving. Sonic and Tails were left instructions on which animals should eat what and just how much to give each animal.

The task seemed easy enough, and should have seemed even easier with Sonic's speed, but the animals were extremely picky. No matter how hard they tried, the animals wouldn't accept any food given to them by anyone who wasn't Fluttershy. After about an hour of attempting to feed the animals, Sonic and Tails left bags of food out before leaving Fluttershy's house.

"I think we'll finally be able to make it to the beach now." Sonic said.

"We really need to make some more guy friends." Tails said.

Just as the two were about to take off towards the beach, a voice shouted, "Sonic, Tails, we need your help!" The duo looked at each other before sighing and running towards the voice.