Saturday has arrived and Nebula was on her way to Shadow's house. She even brought her dog Bella to come since she's always bored at the house. But she has to wear her dog collar which she doesn't like to wear when going out.

"I know, I know. You don't like wearing the collar but you have to" Nebula said to her dog sitting on the passenger seat while she's driving.

Bella rolled her eyes and lies down on the seat grumpily, ignoring the itchy collar around her neck.

"Remember what I told you. If dogs don't wear collars in public the dogcatcher will catch you" Nebula said.

Bella nods and looks away. They soon arrived at Shadow's house and Nebula puts the dog leash on Bella as soon as she parked it and they walked up to the front door. She knocks a few times on the door and waited for Shadow to open it.

He did open it and he was not alone today, he had his pals there too.

"Hi Nebula, come in we have waited for you. And I see you brought Bella as well" Shadow said. Bella barked happily at him and runs to the others.

Nebula chuckled and stepped in to join them, "Hey guys. Oh, this is my dog Bella. She's a Jack Russell Chihuahua mix" she said and removes the leash from her.

"Awww..... She's so cute" Silver said and pets Bella.

"Ruff ruff ruff!" Bella barked happily and jumps on the couch to be petted by Sonic as well.

"Hi there little girl" Sonic said as he pets Bella. She jumped off the couch and ran back to her owner.

"So, what's the plan for today?" Nebula asked them.

"Well we can have fun playing at the backyard or playing a board game" Shadow said.

"Hmm.....the backyard. Like tasks or something" Nebula said.

"Hmmm, that could work" Shadow smiled.

On the backyard when everyone has arrived, they were ready to do the tasks.

"Okay, you did running track with me and Sonic before which was good. Compared to humans and mobians, you're quite an athlete. Now we wanna test your abilities to see how yours is different than ours" Shadow said.

"Since we know your dark form comes from your anger. We wanna know how your powers work with your emotions" Silver said.

"All right. Sounds like fun" Nebula said, accepting this.

-

The task starts out with Nebula verses Amy, not in a battle fight. Into comparing how their strengths work differently between them.

"My main weapon is my Piko Piko Hammer" Amy said, snaps her fingers for her hammer to appear in a poof, "It's ten times stronger than any normal hammers"

"Wow. That's amazing" Nebula grinned.

"Thanks" Amy said.

She held her hammer up over her head and she smashes the log in half.

"Ta Da!" Amy smirked, "My strength comes with the power of love within me"

Now it was Nebula's turn and she cocks her neck to make a cracking noise. She then chops the log in half like an axe, "When I use my super strength it comes with the feeling of confidence. That's my strength" she said.

Tails walks in to see who has more potential damage, "Amy's strength in smashing is the winner"

"Wow, nice job, Amy. When you said the power of love you're right. Love and sanctuary protects us from evil spirits" Nebula said.

"Yep, who's next?" Silver asked.

"I'm next" Blaze said.

"And what's this task?" Nebula asked.

"To throw an energy or fire ball at the dummy over there" Blaze pointed at a stuffed up dummy.

"Most damage is the winner"

"Ok, I'll go first" Nebula said, holding up her fist to make it glow violet. She threw it at the dummy with strong force, blowing it up.

"Wow, now it's my turn" Blaze said and charged up fire in her palm, then sending a fireball at the other dummy, setting it on fire and it burns into ashes afterwards.

"I say Nebula's is more destructive" Tails said.

"Wow. So what is your emotion when you use your flames, Blaze?" Nebula asked.

"Anger, rage, frustration" Blaze said.

"Interesting. Mine is similar, I use my energy blasts by thinking of something that makes me angry" Nebula said.

"Okay, now what's next?" Blaze asked Tails.

"Hmmm, how about speed?" Tails asked.

"Maybe" Nebula smiled.

There was a race of Sonic's speed and Nebula's flight ability since she can't run as fast as him.

"1...2...3!" Tails counted down and signals them to start. Sonic ran in a square in the yard and Nebula flew as well in a square. Tails had a timer of which one was faster.

"Come and get me Nebs!" Sonic taunts Nebula while running.

"Oh yeah? Check this out, Sonic!" Nebula flew over Sonic but didn't see the cloth-line in the way.

"Haha!" Nebula taunts him with a grin on her face.

"Huh? OOOUFFF!!" they both crashed onto the cloth-line at the same time, bumping into each other.

The others were laughing too hard at this moment as the two hedgehogs got up.

"Let's try it again" Sonic said and got off Nebula.

"Maybe we'll just run at normal speed. That way we won't hurt each other" Nebula suggests.

"Yeah, I agree" Sonic said.

They get back in their positions from the starting line as they wait for Tails to say go.

"Ready, set, GO!" Tails counted down and they both ran at normal speed. First it seemed that Nebula was gonna win but Sonic soon came past her. But in the end they both came to the finish line.

"Who won?" Sonic asked Tails. He checked the timer for the two.

"You came past 29 seconds more than Nebula" Tails said, showing the time for the two.

"Oh, well. Now I get why you are the fastest thing alive" Nebula said with a slight smile.

"That's right" Sonic smirked.

Now it was time test out her flight against Silver to see how exactly they use flight by their emotions.

"I know you don't have super strength but you do have a strong mind. So how exactly do you use flight? Feeling? Levitation?" Nebula asked Silver.

"By keeping myself concentrated" Silver said and levitates in the air slowly. Nebula took a deep breath and flies up in the air next to Silver.

"You're doing great, Nebula. Now let's continue" Silver said and flies higher up in the air.

"So what do you use to feel flight?" Silver asked.

"It's simply easy for me. I think of flight by feeling the air around me" Nebula said.

"Oh okay, let's see if you can fly after me" Silver said and flies away from Nebula. She follows him and flew faster. Silver was not as fast as Nebula in flight and dives down.

"Very clever, Silver!" Nebula grinned and dives down to fly after him a little faster.

Silver then did a backflip and lands on his feet in a heroic pose. Then Nebula landed with her fist down to the ground while kneeling.

"Whoa!" Silver backs off from the dirt by the impact Nebula made.

"Excuse me Silver" Nebula said and gets up dusting off herself.

-

The next task was balancing on the balance beam in the dark with Rouge. This wasn't gonna be easy for Nebula since she can't see in the dark.

"Be calm now Nebula, use your hearing" Rouge said in the dark. She easily tiptoed on the beam and held her arms out for balance. Nebula gulps nervously and carefully began to walk on the beam, using her hearing and senses to not fall over the beam.

"Good job Nebula, keep walking" Rouge said. Nebula inhales deeply and focused on walks straight forward. Her left foot almost loses balance but managed to get back up on the beam.

"I can't see but I can hear" Nebula said, inhaling calmly.

She continues to walk forward and focused to not fall over the beam. Rouge was watching her and she was impressed that Nebula can make it, "Good job Nebula" she said as Nebula was close to the end of the beam.

Nebula jumped off the beam and walks up to Rouge, "Well that was not so bad Rouge. Now what's the next task?" she asked.

-

The next task was to test out her super strength against Knuckles to see how is the strongest to lift or carry heavy objects.

"Alright let's do this" Knuckles said. He walks up to a large boulder and lifts it up over his head.

Nebula lifts up a truck over her head which made her friends really surprised that she indeed has super strength.

"Wow! You are strong" Knuckles gasped and placed the giant boulder down to the ground. Nebula smirked at his expression and placed the truck down without causing any damage.

"I can only hold it when I feel confident" Nebula said to Knuckles.

"Oh, I train a lot to keep my strength" Knuckles said.

"Interesting. So what feeling do you feel when you use your strength?" Nebula asked.

"I feel better and tougher" Knuckles said with crossed arms.

"I see" Nebula said.

-

Later Tails and Nebula has a contest in how to fix a car in the model of the corvette.

"This looks like a tricky car, Tails. What are we gonna fix?" Nebula asked.

"Replace the tires on the corvette in a matter of time and fix the engine on it" Tails took out a wrench. He walked up to the corvette and opens the hood on the car, starting with the engine. Nebula thought of replacing the tires.

She picked up a drill to unbolt the tires and pulled them off one by one. As Tails fixes the engine, Nebula looks at a pile of tires to find the right ones.

"Ah, man. I'm not very good with mechanics" Nebula said.

She took the ones that resembles the one the corvette had and began bolting them on. It was not easy for her to make them connect to the car but she did her best after 10 minutes.

"Phew, that was some hard work on that corvette" Nebula wipes her forehead in exhaustion.

"Believe me Nebs, the engine is harder" Tails said, sweating a bit.

"Well at least we are done with this task" Nebula said, "I'll say you're the smartest one"

"Thanks" Tails said and they both walk out from the garage for the next task.