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Here is my latest fanfic piece, 'Tick Tock, Tick Tock'. This was a request sent in by SoraRose7, thanks so much girl! I hope you enjoy this! Be sure to read and review everyone! Enjoy!

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'Come on, Egghead, you know as well as we do that you wouldn't hurt Cream.' Sonic folded his arms and rolled his eyes through a cocky smirk.

'Sonic!' Amy exclaimed nervously as she locked eyes with a frightened Cream.

'You might as well let her go now, Eggman. We're leaving here with both her and the Emeralds.' Tails chuckled.

'Tails?!'

'Amy! What are they doing?!' Cream tremored within her cage.

Amy glared at both Sonic and Tails who chuckled to themselves and with each other at the steam coming out of Eggman's ears as they continued to taunt and tease him. In the middle of his base, a new and improved capture device stood proud and tall holding Cream still in the middle of it. The fuchsia hedgehog turned her attention towards the young rabbit, wondering how to speed the rescuing process along.

'Listen to me, you cocky little brat! Hand over the emeralds or this one gets it!' Eggman snapped as he gestured to Cream.

'Sonic, help me!' Cream tremored as she wrapped her arms around herself, her legs shaking.

'Oh, come on, Cream. We're just catching his bluff!' Tails insisted.

'Guys, this isn't funny anymore!' Amy exclaimed as she grabbed onto Sonic's arm.

'It wasn't funny to begin with?!' Cream snapped.

'I've got to agree with the kid.' Eggman huffed.

'Come on, Ames, you know as well as I do that he's full of it.' Sonic smiled down at her.

'Sonic the Hedgehog, you-'

'Alright, alright!' Sonic cut her off with an eye roll through a cute smile.

Amy took a step back as she shook her head at him, but still unable to hide her blushing smile. Sonic gave his brotherly figure a smirk as they jumped up into the air ready to attack. Amy watched them ready to attack, locking eyes with Cream who now looked far more relieved and relaxed than before. As the two tailed kitsune flew towards her cage before Sonic, only to be caught off guard by two metallic limbs appear out of nowhere.

'Tails, look out!' Cream called out.

One limb tangled around his tails, causing him to hang painfully from its clutches before the other snaked around his torso and began to squeeze him painfully. On instinct, Sonic followed behind him in his signature spin dash only to get captured by another two limbs concealing him in a small cage above the ground. Its limbs snaked through to squeeze him, allowing the cage to fall and hit the ground with a clang.

'Why send a man to do a woman's job?' Amy sighed to herself, loud enough for the boys to hear.

The fuchsia bundle whipped out her hammer with a determined smirk on her face, one that Sonic managed to catch out of the corner of his eye and making him chuckle subconsciously. Eggman saw her run toward the two tangled up boy that were still hanging in front of Cream, making him aggravated before he slammed his fist down on his control panel, releasing four more metallic limbs.

One tripped her over, sending her hammer flying from her grip before they came back up to suffocate her wrists and ankles before stretching her out and hanging above the ground as she faced the boys. Tails raised a brow before bowing his head to shake it while Sonic looked at her with a cocky smile, holding back his laughter until a little later.

'Looks like you're one of us, eh?' Sonic cocked a brow.

'Shut up, Sonic.' Amy spat.

'I warned you, didn't I, Sonic?' Eggman chuckled to himself. 'Last chance! Hand over the emeralds or the girl's a goner!'

'Oh dear.' Cream murmured to herself.

'I have to admit, Egghead,' Sonic began before grunting in the device's embrace, 'this is pretty nifty stuff.'

'Let go of me, you big piece of-'

'When we get free, she's really going to get you, Eggman.' Tails sighed, cutting her off as he rest his elbow on the limb wrapped around him, his face resting in his hand as he watched Amy attempt to squirm free.

Eggman began to laugh and cackle, his body doubling over as he held his stomach, continuing to laugh at his prisoners. He sat back with a thump in a large chair by the control panel as if to get comfortable and watch them squirm uncomfortable, almost painfully, in front of him. He turned around briefly to key in a few controls before turning back around to eye off Sonic.

As he did, the cobalt hero looked up to find what appeared to be a gun lowering down in front of him, Amy and tails froze as they gasped, taking in the sight before them. Even Sonic was a little visually unsettled before he shook it off and the others tried even harder to get out of their restraints, including Cream.

'Whatcha got here then, Eggman?' Sonic asked as he raised a brow at the 'gun'.

'Just a little something I whipped up for a special occasion.' The doctor smirked.

'Oh yeah? Do enlighten me.' Sonic said, a little sarcastically.

'Thank you, I will!' Eggman began as he got to his feet. 'This here, my spikey little friend, beholds a small but very powerful bomb. When demand it to shoot, the bomb will dig itself into your fur and attach. So if I were you, I wouldn't try any funny business!'

'Sure thing, Eggbreath.' Sonic smirked.

'Don't test it, Sonic.' Tails warned him.

'Let's just focus on getting Cream out without you having a bomb attached!' Amy added.

'Can't you just let me out, Doctor Eggman?' Cream began, causing everyone to turn and face her before locking into her sparkling brown orbs, 'I didn't do anything wrong? I was just wandering in the field picking flowers for Mama. The others haven't done anything wrong either? Why don't you just let us all go?'

'You may be the youngest, Cream, but you're little cute act is starting to wear very thin.' Eggman insisted, using her name for the first time.

'The end of an era.' Tails mumbled.

'You're still cute, Cream, don't you listen to a word he says!' Amy insisted on reminding her, despite the fact she knew it was merely a plan.

'Let's discuss this when we get home.' Sonic suggested.

Before anyone had a chance to say anything else, Sonic knocked the bomb backwards with a simple swat of his hand before breaking out of his restraints and making his way towards Cream. Eggman's brief shock was quickly replaced with anger at being so easily fooled by his enemy. He tried to key in demands quickly to stop him but only ended up releasing both Tails and Amy.

'Winning!' Amy cheered as she picked up her hammer, Eggman screeching in frustration.

'You won't get away so easy.' He bellowed before turning his attention to Sonic.

'Let's get you out of here, Cream.' Sonic smiled at her before breaking a hole in the glass.

He jumped in and scooped up the young rabbit in a bridal style before she clutched to his chest in fear and shock of what was happening around her before he jumped out. As he was falling to the ground, Cream still in his arms, Eggman managed to key in the controls and aim the gun towards Sonic and fire. The bomb attached firmly, throwing Sonic forward and the young bunny out of his arms.

They both hit the floor hard, Sonic getting to his feet fast as he shook off the effects, Tails rushing to Cream's aid. Amy came to Sonic's side, ready to help attack, before the sapphire hedgehog leapt up and spin dashed Eggman out of his chair, forcing him to the ground before attack the contraption, giving the fuchsia heroine time to smash the control panel.

'Sonic! Amy! Wait!' Tails called out as she watched the two about to smash both the control panel and machine in sync.

Before the kitsune had a chance to get up and stopped them, the two pounded into both the contraption and the control panel causing the base to explode. Tails curled over Cream in just enough time before they both got blown away, Sonic and Amy following behind separately and hitting the ground outside in front of the Tornado.

As they slowly began to get to their feet, the rest of the gang were running up to them from in the forest, most with genuine looks of concern while the others were frustrated. Cosmo and Tikal helped Cream to her feet and made sure she was ok while the other joined Tails beside Sonic and Amy. As they watched the flames burning and the debris falling, Eggman was managing to flee the scene.

'I told you we all should have gone in, Faker!' Shadow snapped.

'What did you do, Sonic?!' Manic added.

'Why do you assume it was me?!' Sonic questioned.

'Sonic The Hedgehog, don't try and pretend we don't know it was you.' Sally eyed him off.

'It doesn't matter now, we just need to get out of here.' Tikal insisted.

'You still have all the emeralds, right?' Rouge cocked a brow.

'Of course you're the first to ask, bat.' Knuckles rolled his eyes.

'Here they are,' Sonia said as she scooped up the bag, 'and we have Cream now let's go!'

As the gang silently agreed, slowly turning and getting ready to get ready to get back into the Tornado to head back to the garage, Sonic's communicator began to sound loudly. Amy, standing next to him, startled nervously and watched him cautiously as he brought his wrist up to his face to answer it. He turned it on and saw a familiar face come up on the screen.

'I warned you, didn't I, Hedgehog?' Eggman chuckled over the communicator.

'Warned you about what?' Blaze cocked a brow.

'What's he talking about, Sonic?' Cosmo asked nervously.

'That small and powerful bomb is now very, very firmly attached to you, Sonic. It will activate and obliterate you and your surrounds into a million pieces if you run so much more than a jog! So if I were you, I would suggest taking things much, much slower from now on! Have fun!' Eggman cackled before the connection cut off.

'This is a joke, right? Surely to chaos you didn't really get yourself into something that deep?!' Silver exclaimed.

'It looks pretty legit to me.' Tails began as he stood behind Sonic and found the bomb within his quills. 'I'm going to have to look at it a lot more closely.'

'Why can't you just take it off?' Manic questioned.

'It'll probably activate it.' Blaze assumed.

'Exactly, let's get out of here.' Tails insisted.