So many reviews! I'm crying! Where did I go right?! But that doesn't mean stop, people! I always value your opinions, suggestions, and complaints!

To reviewer The Great Critic 2: THANK YOU!!! I wanna be an author when I grow up, so would you say I'm on the right track?

To reviewer Raiegki Leviathan: Really? No one else writes about that thing? Yeah, Rouge doesn't know what she's getting into, but neither do I, so we're even, I guess. (I don't own Sonic R and haven't played it, so I'm just going on the typical evil-invention stereotype. He, he...but I'm researching the subject right now...)

To reviewer mister-too-bored-to-sign-in: Really? The concept's new, I mean? And yeah, I agree that the writing's simple and not very descriptive, but I'm trying a new thing where I don't take a whole page to describe something, because when I do that, nobody reads nor reviews...

To reviewer DarkXeno: Carmine might be a word I'll use a couple more times, and yes, it's an actual word, I didn't mean 'crimson'. It means pretty much the same, though—red.

To reviewer (who asked about the size of the doll (sorry I can't remember your name)): The doll is about as big as Cheese.

3. Chaos Rising

"More tea, Cream?" asked Amy, lifting the jug and ready to pour.

"Yes, please, it's delicious!" Cream replied, holding her cup steady as the orange juice cascaded into it.

Cheese started to cry for food, and Cream handed her a nut. The chao devoured it, causing Amy and Cream to laugh. Cream then looked to her doll. "Would you like some more, Tails?"

The doll sat propped up against the back of the chair, silent as death. Yet Cream reached for the jug and poured it into the cup in front of it. Amy watched, and glanced at her own Sonic doll across the table from Tails. She had an uneasy feeling about Cream's doll. The way Cream admired it, it was almost as if its eyes were hypnotic. And the jewel atop the head looked oddly like a Chaos Emerald. But it couldn't be. No way, Amy told herself.

"Bingo!" Rouge exclaimed, finally noticing a blue streak zip across the landscape below. She swooped down, but of course, was unable to keep up with the blue blur.

She cleared her throat, and, "SONIC! SONIC! SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!" She coughed, her throat dry and painful. "How unladylike!" she rasped. "But if I wanna help those two for some reason, I've gotta cross that border..."

Sonic's ears perked up and he turned his head to see what was behind him. He raised his head and saw a figure in the air some distance behind him. He began to slow down and came to a complete halt, watching the figure land in front of him. The bat stood, hands on knees, breathing heavily to catch her breath as Sonic contemplated her impatiently.

He began to tap his foot. "Yeah? What is it, Rouge?"

Rouge raised her head to lock gaze with him. "I...hurried...fast as "

"And?"

"Amy..."

"What about her?"

"And Cream...New doll...that looks like Tails..."

"A doll that looks like Tails?!" Sonic cried, stopping his foot and taking his hands from his waist.

"Jewel on head...looks like Chaos Emerald!" Rouge managed to finish.

"You mean the Tails Doll?! Oh Man, I'd better get to that doll before they do!" Sonic concluded before zipping off in another blue streak.

Rouge sighed as he disappeared. "He doesn't even know where he's going!"

She took to the air again and headed back to Amy's house. "Obviously that 'Tails Doll' isn't a good thing. Maybe for once I can be the hero instead of that hedgehog! I wonder what types of rewards heroines get?"

"Wow, I'm full!"

"My mother's going to be mad that I won't eat my supper," Cream added.

Amy leant forward and smiled. "That's okay, you can stay over that way you won't have to go home for dinner!" She then looked to her stomach and patted it with puzzlement in her eyes. "I'm just worried that I gained some weight...If you stay you'll boxercize with me, right?"

"Boxercize?" Cream asked, taking the Tails Doll in her arms.

"Yeah, you remember? Practice fighting? I need to look good for Sonic!" Amy said as she lifted the plates from the table. She headed for the screen door of her house. "I'll just put these away and be back in a moment, kay?"

"Yeah, sure!" Cream replied. She hugged the doll again, Cheese watching almost enviously.

"Rouge! Rouge! Where are you?!"

His feet gyrated so rapidly that they were all a blur of red, blue, and white. As they covered the dusty desert ground, dense clouds of sand were kicked up behind them creating a wake bigger than the object that made it. He was just a blue, indistinct figure in the middle of the hot desert area.

He continued to keep his eyes peeled for the snow-white bat. "Where is that girl? I forgot to ask where Amy and Cream were..."

He finally ground to a halt. The dust blown from behind him was caught in the wind and blown right into his face. He hacked away for a moment until it settled once more. "I've gotta get that Tails Doll away from them right away, but since Rouge isn't here, I've gotta look myself." He scrutinized the landscape repeatedly. "But where to start...?"

He pondered this for a little while before taking off in the direction he had come from. "Oh well, I'll just check everywhere! I just hope I won't be too late..."

Amy re-entered the garden, being careful to close the screen door behind her. She admired the beauty of her garden momentarily. The bright sun shone down through the dense deciduous trees near the back fence. Small rhododendrons and various flowers sat in front of the trees and outlined the fences. The most recurring flower were pink roses, Amy's favourite, but there were also quite a few blue flowers, always nestled in among the pink. Amy glanced to where Cream sat, still and silent at the table in the middle of the garden. She held the Tails Doll in her arms and her head was down, almost touching the doll with her ears flopping down in front of her face.

"Hey, Cream! I'm ready, are you?" she exclaimed, rushing over to her friend.

Cheese popped out from behind Cream and zipped over to Amy, twittering in her face exuberantly. The little chao seemed frantic, alarmed, and scared. Amy just stared back, dumbfoundedly. "Huh? What's going on, Cheese? Whoa!" She cried as Cheese took hold of her arm and began to pull her over to their rabbit friend.

Amy bent down to try to see her face, but Cream's head and ears made such an angle and cover so that it was impossible to see. "Cream? Is something wrong?"

There was no response.

Cheese started to tug at one of Cream's long ears. Again, there was no response, just the limp stiffness of a doll. That's when Amy and Cheese noticed that the crimson jewel on top of the doll in Cream's arms was scintillating its vibrant colour...

Ooooh! Suspense... Tell me what you think, everyone! Too descriptive, could it use a little more descriptive? What do you think of the plot? Good, bad, or downright ugly? I wanna know everything, so please keep the reviews coming! Love ya!