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 3: Turncoat
Sonic crumpled something small, electronic-looking and very expensive in his hand. "This is dull," he stated.
Amy hit him with her hammer. "Cream hasn't complained once in two hours. You've only just arrived."
"I arrived half an hour ago."
"And you haven't stopped moaning since then. Come on, get to work."
"Who made you boss?"
"The hammer." She swung it again and Sonic caught it with a blur.
"My turn then," he tried to pull it off her but she twiddled it out of his hands and clipped him on the head yet another time.
They were supposed to be re-connecting all the systems up once Porker had cleared the virus from them. Porker, and Tekno who'd been conscripted to help, hadn't got as far as they predicted in fixing the virus, and suggested that the rest of the gang could tidy up the workshop while they were waiting. Amy had immediately stepped in as supervisor and was thoroughly enjoying her job. The rest weren't so keen and Sonic was pointedly being as clumsy and destructive as he could with the pig's delicate gizmos.
"Sonic the Hedgehog saves the world. Sonic the Hedgehog fights off evil," Sonic stamped on something complicated. "But you won't find a single newspaper that tells you Sonic the Hedgehog is a house-cleaner."
"We will when I tell them." Amy bopped Tails casually. "Keep it up, there."
"That thing's gone to your head," Tails ducked as the hammer whooshed above him.
"And how're you two getting on?" Knuckles and Cream cowered behind the treadmill they were shifting.
From the other end of the room, Porker and Tekno gave a cheer. "Have you got anywhere?" asked Cream hopefully.
"We've made a breakthrough."
"Well when you come up with your solution, call us. Let's go, guys." Sonic's patience had finally given out. Everyone else agreed readily. "Here, Amy, wait a minute," he said as the rest of them filed out, or in Tails' case jumped through the broken roof.
Twenty minutes later he strode out triumphantly onto the lawn holding the infamous hammer. "Whew," said Tails. "How did you get it?"
"I have to go out with her on Saturday," he groaned. The others dutifully made sympathetic sounds. "And you've got her share of the washing up for two weeks."
He walked up and down the rows of robots. Unlike the others, these had been built properly. The little light there was gleamed off the shiny surface of the huge metal bugs. When he was ready, they would sweep out into the world and destroy the entire Emerald Hill Zone. He would not rest until it was a smoking wasteland.
Then, and only then, with all resistance annihilated, could he proceed to his real objective.
Sonic was finally doing something he considered useful. He was at a theme park. "Dare you to go on that one," he said, pointing to a roller coaster that dropped from two hundred feet to ground level, corkscrewing the whole way. Even looking at it made Amy feel dizzy.
"Okay," she said.
"Hey, Sonic!" came a call from the hot dog stand. Tails and Knuckles jogged over. "Fancy meeting you here."
"Yes, fancy," glared Amy. "Such a coincidence." Sonic looked innocent.
"Hey, a deal's a deal. I didn't know they'd turn up."
"Are you sure?"
"Nearly."
"Fair enough. I think I'll have another go at that archery game." Sonic hurried after her.
"Beat it, you two!" Tails and Knuckles gave each other an 'it was worth a try' look and ambled off. Amy grinned.
"Looked like Sonic's enjoying himself," commented Knuckles.
"Yeah. I bet he's having even more fun than when he was Robotnik's prisoner. Oh, hi Rouge." Knuckles spun around.
The bat nodded to him. "Howdy."
"What are you doing here?"
"Having fun. What would you do at a theme park?"
"I mean. aren't you on the run?"
"Here seemed as good a place to hide as any. No one notices me when it's this crowded." Rouge did in fact hate crowds and queues but she didn't tell them that. Tails chose that moment to fly off in search of something else to eat. Rouge asked quickly, wondering whether to hope. "Have you decided about the Island?"
Knuckles didn't know how to answer. Luckily, he didn't have to. "What the." A tingling swept through him. A familiar sparkling just under his skin."
"What's up?" Rouge looked surprised and suspicious, as if Knuckles was making something up to avoid answering.
"It's the Chaos Emeralds, I think. I'm not sure." Rouge was uncomprehending. "I've been able to sort of sense them. That's how I found the Master Emerald shards. But I've only had this since the Island fell, and I don't know how it works. I just think something's happening to the Emeralds."
To both of their surprise, Rouge found she believed him. "We'd better check. Where are they?"
"At the top of the Control Tower, c-" Knuckles was about to kick himself. Rouge did it for him, one steel-booted foot smashing the breath out of his chest, the other splintering his shin.
"Thanks, sucker." She leapt into the air and flew. Knuckles became a fading dot and blended to nothing in the teeming crowd. Rouge laughed out loud in triumph. To think she'd almost given up this life when G.U.N. was everywhere and there was no rest, day or night. She'd been ready to never steal again. What a loss that would have been. Thieving was her life, and she would not renounce it so readily for a second time.
Now G.U.N.'s power was waning, and she could blend in again. And the Chaos Emeralds were almost hers. She hovered above a roller coaster for a minute to congratulate herself. A carriage whooshed past, and a huge padded fist caught hold of her wing. The world blurred and she was yanked away from it.
Then she was hurtling down a tunnel of speed, pain throbbing from where Knuckles was crushing her. "You traitor!" he roared over the wind.
"Let go of me!" Rouge swung her leg up over the side of the carriage. "KIHAI!" and she managed to kick him in the head as she flipped onto the cart. Knuckles grunted and threw a fistful straight into her. She braced herself, but still collapsed lie a doll.
"I nearly trusted you." Knuckles' violet eyes were filled with hate. She pushed her clenched hand six inches into it with a squelch. "Aaagh.!"
"I'll see you later," she began, but the cart twisted and threw her off balance. By then Knuckles had finished rubbing his eye and wouldn't let her escape. "You ain't gonna quit, are you?" He shook his head, then lunged forward as she opened her wings. Her steel boots buckled and cracked as Knuckles crushed them.
She landed yet again, and punched him hard. It would have made more of an effect if he'd been a brick wall. They both faced each other, ready.
The cart ceased climbing and began to fall.
Rouge spread her wings and raced away from the park, aware of Knuckles gliding behind her. She outdistanced him with ease, and within minutes she was approaching the huge trunk of the Control Tower. Trusting fool.
The glass dome at the top had already been shattered. Rouge landed lightly in the middle of a critically untidy workshop. A quick search revealed the Emeralds to be stacked up in a corner, out of the way of the techno-mess. Rouge deliberately crunched as much as she could as she walked over to them; she'd always hated computerised things.
"Rouge!" She turned around. It was Knuckles' pig friend. "What are you doing here?" And he was scared out of his wits, too. She picked up a chunk of metal and pitched it directly onto his forehead. He toppled over with a comical squeal.
Someone was trying to sneak up on her. You couldn't not be heard by this bat. Rouge turned around. It was just a small kid rabbit. "Get away from the Emeralds, whoever you are."
"Make me."
"I said, get away. Those don't belong to you. Go, now." said Cream. Cheese the chao socked the bat over the head. "These things belong to the Doctor," said Cream, stuffing them into her backpack. "Let's go, Cheese."
Part 3: Turncoat
Sonic crumpled something small, electronic-looking and very expensive in his hand. "This is dull," he stated.
Amy hit him with her hammer. "Cream hasn't complained once in two hours. You've only just arrived."
"I arrived half an hour ago."
"And you haven't stopped moaning since then. Come on, get to work."
"Who made you boss?"
"The hammer." She swung it again and Sonic caught it with a blur.
"My turn then," he tried to pull it off her but she twiddled it out of his hands and clipped him on the head yet another time.
They were supposed to be re-connecting all the systems up once Porker had cleared the virus from them. Porker, and Tekno who'd been conscripted to help, hadn't got as far as they predicted in fixing the virus, and suggested that the rest of the gang could tidy up the workshop while they were waiting. Amy had immediately stepped in as supervisor and was thoroughly enjoying her job. The rest weren't so keen and Sonic was pointedly being as clumsy and destructive as he could with the pig's delicate gizmos.
"Sonic the Hedgehog saves the world. Sonic the Hedgehog fights off evil," Sonic stamped on something complicated. "But you won't find a single newspaper that tells you Sonic the Hedgehog is a house-cleaner."
"We will when I tell them." Amy bopped Tails casually. "Keep it up, there."
"That thing's gone to your head," Tails ducked as the hammer whooshed above him.
"And how're you two getting on?" Knuckles and Cream cowered behind the treadmill they were shifting.
From the other end of the room, Porker and Tekno gave a cheer. "Have you got anywhere?" asked Cream hopefully.
"We've made a breakthrough."
"Well when you come up with your solution, call us. Let's go, guys." Sonic's patience had finally given out. Everyone else agreed readily. "Here, Amy, wait a minute," he said as the rest of them filed out, or in Tails' case jumped through the broken roof.
Twenty minutes later he strode out triumphantly onto the lawn holding the infamous hammer. "Whew," said Tails. "How did you get it?"
"I have to go out with her on Saturday," he groaned. The others dutifully made sympathetic sounds. "And you've got her share of the washing up for two weeks."
He walked up and down the rows of robots. Unlike the others, these had been built properly. The little light there was gleamed off the shiny surface of the huge metal bugs. When he was ready, they would sweep out into the world and destroy the entire Emerald Hill Zone. He would not rest until it was a smoking wasteland.
Then, and only then, with all resistance annihilated, could he proceed to his real objective.
Sonic was finally doing something he considered useful. He was at a theme park. "Dare you to go on that one," he said, pointing to a roller coaster that dropped from two hundred feet to ground level, corkscrewing the whole way. Even looking at it made Amy feel dizzy.
"Okay," she said.
"Hey, Sonic!" came a call from the hot dog stand. Tails and Knuckles jogged over. "Fancy meeting you here."
"Yes, fancy," glared Amy. "Such a coincidence." Sonic looked innocent.
"Hey, a deal's a deal. I didn't know they'd turn up."
"Are you sure?"
"Nearly."
"Fair enough. I think I'll have another go at that archery game." Sonic hurried after her.
"Beat it, you two!" Tails and Knuckles gave each other an 'it was worth a try' look and ambled off. Amy grinned.
"Looked like Sonic's enjoying himself," commented Knuckles.
"Yeah. I bet he's having even more fun than when he was Robotnik's prisoner. Oh, hi Rouge." Knuckles spun around.
The bat nodded to him. "Howdy."
"What are you doing here?"
"Having fun. What would you do at a theme park?"
"I mean. aren't you on the run?"
"Here seemed as good a place to hide as any. No one notices me when it's this crowded." Rouge did in fact hate crowds and queues but she didn't tell them that. Tails chose that moment to fly off in search of something else to eat. Rouge asked quickly, wondering whether to hope. "Have you decided about the Island?"
Knuckles didn't know how to answer. Luckily, he didn't have to. "What the." A tingling swept through him. A familiar sparkling just under his skin."
"What's up?" Rouge looked surprised and suspicious, as if Knuckles was making something up to avoid answering.
"It's the Chaos Emeralds, I think. I'm not sure." Rouge was uncomprehending. "I've been able to sort of sense them. That's how I found the Master Emerald shards. But I've only had this since the Island fell, and I don't know how it works. I just think something's happening to the Emeralds."
To both of their surprise, Rouge found she believed him. "We'd better check. Where are they?"
"At the top of the Control Tower, c-" Knuckles was about to kick himself. Rouge did it for him, one steel-booted foot smashing the breath out of his chest, the other splintering his shin.
"Thanks, sucker." She leapt into the air and flew. Knuckles became a fading dot and blended to nothing in the teeming crowd. Rouge laughed out loud in triumph. To think she'd almost given up this life when G.U.N. was everywhere and there was no rest, day or night. She'd been ready to never steal again. What a loss that would have been. Thieving was her life, and she would not renounce it so readily for a second time.
Now G.U.N.'s power was waning, and she could blend in again. And the Chaos Emeralds were almost hers. She hovered above a roller coaster for a minute to congratulate herself. A carriage whooshed past, and a huge padded fist caught hold of her wing. The world blurred and she was yanked away from it.
Then she was hurtling down a tunnel of speed, pain throbbing from where Knuckles was crushing her. "You traitor!" he roared over the wind.
"Let go of me!" Rouge swung her leg up over the side of the carriage. "KIHAI!" and she managed to kick him in the head as she flipped onto the cart. Knuckles grunted and threw a fistful straight into her. She braced herself, but still collapsed lie a doll.
"I nearly trusted you." Knuckles' violet eyes were filled with hate. She pushed her clenched hand six inches into it with a squelch. "Aaagh.!"
"I'll see you later," she began, but the cart twisted and threw her off balance. By then Knuckles had finished rubbing his eye and wouldn't let her escape. "You ain't gonna quit, are you?" He shook his head, then lunged forward as she opened her wings. Her steel boots buckled and cracked as Knuckles crushed them.
She landed yet again, and punched him hard. It would have made more of an effect if he'd been a brick wall. They both faced each other, ready.
The cart ceased climbing and began to fall.
Rouge spread her wings and raced away from the park, aware of Knuckles gliding behind her. She outdistanced him with ease, and within minutes she was approaching the huge trunk of the Control Tower. Trusting fool.
The glass dome at the top had already been shattered. Rouge landed lightly in the middle of a critically untidy workshop. A quick search revealed the Emeralds to be stacked up in a corner, out of the way of the techno-mess. Rouge deliberately crunched as much as she could as she walked over to them; she'd always hated computerised things.
"Rouge!" She turned around. It was Knuckles' pig friend. "What are you doing here?" And he was scared out of his wits, too. She picked up a chunk of metal and pitched it directly onto his forehead. He toppled over with a comical squeal.
Someone was trying to sneak up on her. You couldn't not be heard by this bat. Rouge turned around. It was just a small kid rabbit. "Get away from the Emeralds, whoever you are."
"Make me."
"I said, get away. Those don't belong to you. Go, now." said Cream. Cheese the chao socked the bat over the head. "These things belong to the Doctor," said Cream, stuffing them into her backpack. "Let's go, Cheese."
