Prologue

Cream was walking around the rim of the lake in front of her house. The last five days had been so exciting for Cream, she made three new friends, saved the world and most importantly, Cream's mother was safe again.

Cream was still worried though, after she and her friends parted they had decided to split the seven Chaos Emeralds they had between them, to keep them safe.

Cream still had hers in her hand, red as a ruby, impossible to shatter. She wasn't sure she could keep it safe.

Something struck Cream as odd; she twirled around and suddenly noticed it.

"Where is Cheese?" Now she was worried, she and Cheese hadn't been apart as long as Cream could remember. Out of the corner of Cream's eye there was a white and yellow egg on the other side of the lake. She flew to it, and as she got closer she saw that it was covered in blue spots.

Cream knew it was a Chao egg, but she was also aware that there were no Chao besides Cheese that lived around her house. She was worried about Cheese, but she also couldn't leave a Chao egg alone. So she picked it up, and that was her big mistake.

The egg was a trap, as soon as Cream picked it up she found herself hanging upside down in a rope trap. She tried to struggle her way out, but this was hindered by the egg that she still held.

Cream stopped dead, she had heard a sound. The worse possible sound. It struck fear deep within the young rabbit, and she knew that this moment would haunt her.

"Ho oh oh!" Cream was all too aware of the person behind her. He walked in front of her, and Cream knew there was no mistake. The moustache, the dark lenses of his pince-nez glasses, the red jacket and the strange black outfit that went from his shoes all the way up to his coat.

"Doctor Eggman!" Cream said softly, her fear clear in her facial features. Eggman sneered at her, and reached her hand through the ropes and grabbed the red Chaos Emerald that had gotten stuck in one of the holes in the net. Cream cursed herself, she had already let Sonic down. Cream did however feel a tiny shred of hope.

"Is that all you wanted? Will you let me go now?" Cream whimpered, her fear of the horrible man in front of her was overwhelming. Eggman's face twisted into a sinister grin.

"Oh my no. Your coming with me Cream, Sonic will have no choice but to rescue you. He'll play right into my hands. Then when I'm done with you..." Eggman trailed off, his grin ever present. Cream tried to move away, but simply couldn't because of the net.

'All alone, I'm all alone.' This repeated through Cream's head, not allowing any hope to gather. 'I don't even have Cheese!' Cream felt tears run down her forehead, then down her ears to the ground. They only got worse as Eggman began to laugh.

"Yes, sweet tears of sorrow! What I live for! Keep crying Cream, no one will save you." With Eggman's last remark out of the way he picked up the trap from the top and walked towards the Eggpod, Eggman's personal transport. He got in, and placed Cream on his left side, still upside down. They took off and slowly the Eggpod picked up speed.

After a while, Cream hadn't been keeping track of the time, they stopped at Eggman's current base of operations. Eggman got out of his Eggpod, and picked up the trap again. Cream winced in pain, the amount of blood that had rushed to her head was finally starting to give her a headache. Eggman grinned, and Cream saw it. He knew, and he was enjoying it.

He walked through the halls of his base, robots passing them by and not responding at all to their presence. Finally Eggman came to the command centre of the base. Circular in design, in the centre of the room was a console. The console looked like it had a keypad and several small screens for Eggman to keep track of things. This central console also housed the Chaos Emeralds in a Anti-gravity field. Off to the sides were smaller consoles being used by a tall and skinny golden robot, with a big head. To the golden robot's side was a much wider and shorter silver robot, who was also working at the console.

They were bickering between themselves, and Cream found it bizarre. Eggman paid them no mind, and they seemed to not have noticed Cream or Eggman's presence at all.

Eggman walked to the centre console, and stuck the red Chaos Emerald in with the six others. Cream did wonder how Eggman had managed to gather the other six, but decided that it was unimportant.

Eggman smiled smugly to himself, and after he returned to his senses he pressed a button on the console, and the floor opened up. A sphere lifted from the area beneath. The sphere was mostly glass, except it had a metal top with a computer built-in. Eggman pressed a button on the sphere, and the metal opened. Cream didn't like this.

Eggman ripped Cream's rope trap apart, and dropped Cream into her new glass prison. Eggman might have felt some pity, leaving the Chao egg with Cream as sort of coping mechanism. Either that, or he simply didn't care.

Time passed slowly for Cream, as her fear wouldn't allow her to relax. Eggman was finishing his final touches in his Chaos Emerald related machine, the gold and silver robots went on bickering as they worked. Every none and again a tiny black robot with devil horns and yellow eyes would sneak in, and stare at Cream like she was the most interesting thing in the whole base, but as soon as Eggman noticed him he would demand that he leave this room well enough alone.

Cream was feeling tired, and as she had no way of breaking out of her prison she figured she might as well get some rest.

Cream fell into a dreamless sleep with a Chao egg in her arms.


Hello! I'm The Biggest Dreamer, and thank you for reading! Leave a comment, or some constructive criticism. Have a good night now.

Also, just a side note, this game takes place after Sonic Advance 2, hence the beginning.