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 5: The Battle of the Emerald Hill

The old man shook his scarred head to shake the few white dreadlocks from his eyes. The three black artificial ones clunked against each other. "When Robotnik was defeated, I escaped into the plumbing system. I soon found that Cream had followed me. She was very young, but smarter then any other child I've ever seen. She accompanied me when I escaped to Mobius.
"What's this got to do with the Echidnas?" interrupted Knuckles.
Zachary scowled. "I'm getting on to that. I just wanted to say what an incredible child the rabbit was, with such a brilliant chao." Knuckles caught his triumphant expression and glanced around.
Cheese, far from stunned, was sitting smugly on the control panel. Knuckles and Rouge both leapt, but the blue chao stamped on a button. The machine started, like bagpipes wailing as they warmed up.

Each Chaos Emerald was consumed by electricity. Dazzling flashes danced across the fur of the five animals. Knuckles and Rouge bumped heads as they both reached the terminal, too late.
Simultaneously, every steel wasp had two glowing red eyes. The army stood to attention in one movement. "You're too late heroes!" crowed Zachary. "Robots, reduce the Emerald Hill Zone to dust. I don't want a single blade of grass left alive."
The robots hovered into the air, poised. Then they jetted upwards, straight through the roof and into the unsuspecting world above. Rocks fell like fatal hailstones, cracking all around Knuckles frighteningly.
"Get out of here!" he yelled to the others, who were already leaving- Zachary and Cream were dodging boulders in an old egg mobile, and Rouge was flying. Knuckles leapt at the wall and shot up it, hands working too fast to see. The distance was eaten away and he found he was sitting on green grass.
They were on the highest peak of the Hill Top. From here, they could see the whole Emerald Hill Zone. The Badnik army was already shrinking towards it. "You lose, Knuckles. You can't do anything now." Knuckles spared a moment to smash the egg mobile. Cream landed and scurried away while Knuckles knocked Zachary out cold. Then he took a run up and dived off the cliff. Rouge followed him.

A slow repetitive beeping bored into his head. Porker opened his eyes, and blinked until he could see properly. He was in his workshop.
Rouge! He leapt to his feet, but the bat was long gone, as were the Chaos Emeralds. He bunched his fists and wept in frustration. The beeping abruptly stopped, and Porker stood up to see what had caused it.
Kintobor's face appeared on one of the screens. "Kintobor! You're back!"
"I'm still a little poorly but I'll survive. Just let me reconnect all by sensors." Kintobor had previously had the entire top floor to himself and appeared as a huge hologram, but an explosion with the Master Emerald had scrapped that. Now he just had a small laptop screen, and accessing all his sensors and surveillance cameras took much longer. "Uh oh."
"What's the problem?" Kintobor's face disappeared and the imaged changed to one of waves and waves of robots, leaving a scorched and blackened wake. "Uh oh." he agreed.

Sonic, Amy and Tails were already on their way when their wristwatches buzzed. "Kintobor here. We've got a huge Badnik army approaching. Huge. It's just destroying everything in its path."
"We're on it," said Sonic. More correctly, the robots were on them. The trees around them flared up like torches as black shapes shattered through them. "F- ooff!"
A metal fist sent Sonic flying into a tree trunk. He twisted around, ran up the flaming oak and jumped, spinning backwards through the insectoid. It splintered and spilt apart on the ebony lawn. Amy had her crossbow in her hand and was already surrounded by a circle of debris. Tails was flying in the middle of the swarm, and every time they missed him one went down.
"Now this is my kind of date," Sonic remarked as he propelled himself with pneumatic force into the horde. Satisfying explosions tailed him as he bounced madly. Amy grinned and agreed, but Sonic was moving too fast to hear her.
"Wahoo!" commented Tails. Then, "Ouch!" Sonic caught him as he plummeted to the ground. "Thanks Sonic," he said, but then they both had to dive to avoid a fireball.
"Watch it, guys!" called Amy, "We are outnumbered." Her stomach twinged- it had always been Johnny who said that.
"Just keep attacking," replied Sonic. The way she'd always replied. She caught Sonic's eye, and he nodded sadly, but confidently. He'd finally got over it. She grinned happily and shot a wasp in the face.

"They'll never make it," fretted Lewis. "There's way too many."
"Calm down," soothed Kintobor. "There's a way we can help."
"Can you hack into them again?"
"Had you not blown me up I could have quite simply. But stuck in this screen my range is way to small. I was thinking of the Tornado. You can fly it remotely, can't you?"
"I'll try."
"Get moving then."

"These guys just don't run out," moaned Sonic. Consecutive near misses were taking their toll. They were coming more and more often. Sonic never missed, but he'd been precariously close to not hitting the last four. They must have destroyed over twenty each, but the damn things kept appearing. This army must have taken years to build so big.
Amy dived behind a tree, twisting as she hit the charcoal to loose three shots into her attacker. There was a loud crunch, and her cover began to fall on her. "Help!" The familiar blue blur carried her clear, and Amy silently berated herself. Sonic hadn't had to save her since she was a little girl. Sonic stood her on the ground and zoomed off. She proved her worth by shooting five 'bots off his back as he ran.
There was way too many of them. "Look out!" came Sonic's cry. She turned, too late. There was a split second vision of a robot lashing out with deadly malice- and Amy took a fireball full in the face. Burns blasted through her clothes and into her skin. Every nerve she had was reduced to nothing, and the waves of heat were accompanied by waves of weakness. In clear stages she collapsed to her knees, fell to the floor and lost consciousness.
Sonic detonated through the creature standing over her. He sprinted over to Amy desperately, checking to see if she was alive. He spent too long staying still: he was grabbed from behind and hurled. Metal clouted his head on two sides and he hit the ground hard. Seeing stars, he tottered to his feet, and was knocked down again. Blood spilt from his face as the robots grabbed a limb each. A fifth hovered above his nose, charging up a fireball.
Tails heard Sonic's yell and turned to look, only to splat into a tree with bone breaking force. His fur set alight as he slid down the burning tree, but he was out cold and did not notice.