Race Practice

That morning, Sonic and Amy were at the horse training. Many fans asked Sonic and Amy for autographs; Sonic signed his name. Amy on the other hand did something different. She used a hoof stamp rubber that was made by Sonic’s best pal Tails.

(Flashback, 2 hours ago)
Tails used his machine from the lab to scan Amy’s right hoof print.
After scanning Amy’s hoof print to the computer, he measured her size, length, and width for a few minutes. After that, he made a copy of Amy’s hoof print on the rubber to create a stamp.
“There we go” Tails said, adding the handle tool to combine it together, “Voila!”
Amy was amazed by Tails’ creation, “Wow. My own hoof print stamp. Thanks, Tails” she neighs happily.
"You’re welcome, Rose" Tails said.
(End of Flashback)

Amy grabbed her hoof rubber stamp with her teeth and gave the fans her autograph. Her autograph appeared into a pink ink of her hoof print.
"Thanks Rose" some of the fans thanked her.
Amy whinnies happily and continues to give them stamps.
Sonic was fast giving them autographs.
"Oh boy thanks Sonic" a red fox similar to Tails said.
"No problem, I still got many to go" Sonic smirked.
Far away, Sally growled that Sonic is more popular.
"Damn it. He and his stupid horse are more popular than me. At least I got 10 awards and he only got one" she chuckled. There was a picture of her and Sonic before the breakup, “One day, Sonic. You will lose in the race”
She placed the picture back and continues to look at the fans surrounding Sonic and Amy, “Grrrr!!!” she got angry at this and walks away.

A while later, Amy was challenged to a practice race with Shadow’s ebony horse named Kage.
“Say, Rose. Do you wanna race against my horse again?” Shadow smirked at the pink horse.
Amy smirked back and neighs with a nod.
“Great. Show us what you got” Shadow chuckled.
As Amy and Kage are ready to race at the track to practice, Amy neighs with a chuckle to Kage with a grin on her face.
Kage neighs back and they started to run. At first the two horses were at same speed.
“Whhhhooooo! Go Rose!” Sonic cheering for the pink horse.
"COME ON, KAGE!" Shadow cheered for Kage. It seemed that Kage was getting before Amy, but she eventually gets past him. This made Kage stunned that the pink horse ran past him with high speed. Amy crossed the practice finish line and neighs in victory, standing on her hind legs and kicking her front hooves in the air.
"Wow, she beat Kage again” Shadow grumbles but smirks that it’s just a practice.
"Yeah, but I wonder if Rose can challenge Sally's horse at this training area, but I guess she won't allow" Sonic said, mentioning his ex-girlfriend.
“Hey, I know you’ll do just fine at the race. And I’m sure Rose will win the race with you. You just gotta believe in yourself” Silver said.
"Thanks Silver" Sonic smiled.
"No problem, lad" Silver said.

Now it was Silver’s white horse Shirubā to challenge race practice against Amy.
Like last time, they were both the same with their speed, until Shirubā pass by Amy.
"Yah! Go Shirubā!" Silver shouted.
Shirubā grinned in victory but did not notice that Amy has ran passed him.
"Too bad, Silver. But it seems like they were both gonna win" Sonic said to him.
"Yeah" Silver shrugs. Sonic goes up to Amy and rewarded her with a carrot.
"Good girl, Rose" Sonic said calmly to her.
“Hey, Sonic? Do you mind if we pet her?” Silver asked.
"Sure go ahead" Sonic said. Silver and Shadow pets Amy and she liked it. Silver took out sugar bits from his quills and gave it to her.
"Good girl, Rose" Silver said to her. Shadow pets her mane and smiled.
The pink horse whinnies in happiness that she likes it when she is petted.
Sonic watches them pet her and crosses his arms. Sally came up to him with her horse king.
"Hi there Sonic, I was wondering if my horse King can run with Rose at the ring?" Sally asked him with a sly grin.
Amy saw Sally talking to Sonic, she goes up to her and growl-neighs behind her.
"Whoa, whoa! Rose, calm down!" Sonic stops her from Sally.
"What's wrong with her?" Sally asked Sonic.
"She seems to not like you at all" Sonic answered nervously.
Amy counts her hoof on the ground dirt, glaring at the chipmunk but when she said that she wants her to race against her horse, Amy rolled her eyes and agrees but she still doesn’t trust Sally with this.

They got to the track to practice and King glared at Amy.
"Let's see what my horse is made of" Sally smirked, waiting for the horses to get ready.
"Yeah, right" Sonic rolled his eyes in annoyance.
The two horses started to run and King was shown to be better than Amy at running, Sally grinned but Sonic was shocked.
"Come on, Rose! Keep it up!" he bites his fingernails. Shadow and Silver were worried for Amy too.
Amy growl-like neighs in anger and she manages to catch up to King, it was now neck to neck. King tries to push Amy by the shoulder, trapping her near the metal rail fence but she had enough strength to push him off. As she pushed him off she sped up, running towards the finish line.
"NOOOO! Impossible!" Sally gasped. Amy came to the finish line and stands on her hind legs, neighing in victory. Sonic, Silver and Shadow cheered for her but Sally glared at her own horse.
"It's not over yet, Sonic! We'll see at the race!" Sally snarled.
Amy walks up to the chipmunk, snorts in her face and grinned evilly.
"Get out of my face you big doofus!" Sally pushes Amy away from her face. Amy then got angry being called ‘doofus’ and whacks Sally with her head. This made Sonic rush down to Amy and pulled her reins.
“Rose, calm down!” Sonic said. Amy calms down but glares at Sally for being so rude.
"I swear to god that if you let your horse hit me, I am going to make sure you never ride again! GOT THAT?!" Sally shouted at Sonic.
“You think my horse hit you on purpose?! You yelled at her which was rude!” Sonic shouted back at Sally.
“She got close to me in a menacing way!" Sally growled at her ex-boyfriend.
“Just drop it, Sal! Now leave!” Sonic growled angrily.
“Fine! But I will win in the race! You just watch!” Sally gets on her horse and leaves.
Amy growl-like neighs lowly at watching her leave.
"She's gone now, Rose" Sonic pats her neck. Amy nuzzled on his head.
“That was amazing, Rose” Shadow said to the pink horse.
She nods thankfully as she and Sonic walks away.
“See ya, guys” Silver said to them.

While walking along with Sonic, she spots Blaze putting the magenta blinker hood on her horse’s head. Amy whinnies in excitement that she wants something to wear for the race. Since all horses wear a blinker hood in the race.
Sonic then saw what Amy is looking at and smiled.
"Rose, I got something for you" Sonic said and puts his hand in his pocket. He showed Speedy's red blinker hood to her.
Amy gasped in amazement and neighs happily that she gets to wear it in the race soon.
He tried it on her and it perfectly fits her.
"It reminds me of my red headband" Amy whispers to Sonic.
“I see” Sonic said.