Creamed This story is set after my Sonic Adventure 2 adaptation, which you ought to read first as it's completely different from the story in the game. I have never played on Sonic Advance 2, I have no idea what Cream's official story or personality is. All characters are copyright to whoever.

Part 2: Down And Out

"Sonic, you'd better get up here, fast!" yelled Porker from the top of the tree. Sonic and Cream arrived a couple of seconds later, Cream wearing an expression of amazement.
"How did you go so fast?"
"It's what I do. What's up, Lewis?" Sonic was actually quite grateful to have something to take his mind off Johnny Lightfoot. Cream had made him describe again how his friend had died, which Sonic hadn't done willingly.
"Badniks. Or robots of some kind. They're coming from the abandoned Chemical Plant and Kintobor's detected a huge amount of weapons with them. We ought to check it out before they reach any towns or cities."
Sonic nodded, and vanished in a blue haze. "Yo, Tails, get down here," he bellowed as he tumbled down the stairs. Tails shot out of a window just as Sonic blasted through the door and they sped over the grass just like old times.
"What's the situation?"
"Badniks. Chemical Plant Zone. The usual." The running and the prospect of smashing things cheered Sonic immensely. "Yeehaa!"

Amy heard the sonic booms and saw blue and orange streaks blast over the horizon. Curiously she operated her wrist communicator and got Porker. "What's up?"
"Badnik army. Near the Chemical Plant Z- hang, on, it's disappeared!"
An unexpected blow to the back knocked Amy to her knees. She dived and rolled and spun around to see the lead Badnik crush her crossbow to splinters.
"Um, Porker, I've found your army. Where shall I put it?" And then she ran.

The Badniks were patched together from old pieces they had smashed years ago. Most were orange and brown with different shades of rust, and two fell apart as they activated their engines. The other fifty of them were in hot pursuit. If only she had her crossbow. but she didn't, and she couldn't fight that many using just her hands.
Their base appeared over the horizon. She had a spare crossbow back there. Of course, the rest of them wouldn't thank her when the Badniks trashed the place. "Amy!"
It was Cream, running towards her. "Run, Cream!" Amy warned. The rabbit turned and bolted back to the base, Amy arriving gasping a few minutes later. "My crossbow!" she told Cream, "Get my crossbow!" Panic- stricken, Cream ran up the first staircase.
"Which room is yours?" she cried.
"Oh heck." Amy grabbed her hammer and pelted outside. Fifty to one odds weren't good. But she had a hammer.
The Badniks arrived in one unstoppable cloud. Amy swung her weapon over her head with a savage war cry of "Yahoo!" and leapt into the enemy.

"Oh no. not again." Porker saw the world outside the workshop's clear ceiling blacken as it was obscured by countless robots. He overcame his paralysing fear enough to dive behind the closest obstacle he could find as the dome cracked and metal insects poured in.
He crouched silently, his worst nightmare replaying all around him. He prayed that it wouldn't hear his gibbering over Kintobor's angry yells. A ball of flame reduced Kintobor's monitor to static.
"You aren't silencing me that easily," Kintobor growled as his face appeared on a hundred screens at once and his voice boomed out of the huge speaker Porker hid behind. "You call yourselves computerised? I can run circles around you. See?"
A Badnik collapsed on the floor as if it was having a fit. "Such simple minds you lot have," said Kintobor, as he targeted another one and hacked into it. He dumped several gigabytes of rubbished into the robot's mind, and watched it as it debated whether it was a Badnik or a banking system. He selected another victim and reformatted it. "Weak. That's what you are. What the heck are you doing?"
One robot had stopped vandalising its surroundings and was now inserting a CD into Kintobor's drive. Kintobor hacked into it and deleted all its programming but he was too late. He could feel the virus on the disk activate. He immediately bombarded it with pure binary data, but it had already spread like a cancer all over his system. Very slowly, fighting all the way, he blacked out.

"Mission objective attained." Porker opened his eyes in surprise. The Badniks simultaneously turned and fled, the few surviving robots that'd been fighting with Amy joining them. Cautiously he peeked over the speaker. Everything was in ruins. All his precious gadgets were strewn about like wrapping paper. The Chaos Emeralds were gone.
Porker leapt to his feet, but he found them all, amongst the rubble. He cursed himself for being so careless- those robots could have taken them so easily. Luckily they had only been programmed for one purpose. He surveyed the empty screen where Kintobor had been. The Badniks had somehow switched him off.
Rebooting him wouldn't take to long, provided there wasn't- Porker groaned. If there was a virus on that CD that could knock out Kintobor, it would take weeks to fix. He started straightaway.
Amy and Cream interrupted instantly by climbing through the trap door. "Oh my God." Cream remarked.
"Porker, are you all right?"
"I'm okay. The Badniks came in and gave Kintobor a virus. He'll be out of action for a while."
"You mean this attack was just meant to take out Kintobor?"
"Looks like it to me."
"Why bother?"
"'Why bother?' He's only the only thing controlling our entire computer system, our communications, all our spy cameras, everything we need to-"
"Okay, I get the idea. So we're out of action?"
"Yes."
"Can you fix it before Sonic gets back?"
Porker shook his head. "It'll take weeks to fix this." Sonic and Tails arrived back as he spoke. Sonic slammed open the trap door and hurried in, looking worried.
"What happened?" he demanded. "Why didn't you answer when we called? We thought the Badniks had captured you."
"The communicators won't work. I'll explain." Porker began to explain but Sonic was snappy and impatient and didn't care for the pig's explanations anyway, as they rarely made sense.
Amy butted in. "We were attacked by Badniks and they've given Kintobor a virus."
Sonic looked surprised. "Why didn't you both smash them?"
"I didn't have my crossbow. I had to use my hammer, and while I was doing that a few of them attacked Porker."
"Who hid somewhere?" Porker looked away.
"Well, anyway," said Amy quickly. "Porker, just get it fixed ASAP, and we just have to wait."

Someone else at this point had just finished waiting. The famous freedom fighters were out of business. Playtime.