..Oh, so the pull towards one specific vehicle was--

[... Maybe just him, and that thought cuts off whatever he was going to say entirely. Some things are better kept to himself, and the stranger they are the better it is if he doesn't say a word about it.

But Shadow .. does have a set of keys, further evidenced when it's held up. How did the hedgehog know it belonged to this one without trying it out first? Was it the same as his certainty the one he found went to the cybernetic chocobo?]

That's true. If it doesn't start and you have to find another, I want its fuses.

[That's probably called 'calling dibs' in other places. The key is given a long, hard look.]

You should try it.