Thanks, and maybe it was rushed but I can't remember. This part has more dialogue and is a little shorter. TailsXCream also begins here, yay! And don't get confused after the second line, it'll be explained in the end of this chapter.
Back on Angel Island, there's a big flash of green light and Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow and Cream all appear on the floating hunk of land. They all breathe easy and relax, except for Shadow who always seems to be ready for anything, but it's not long before they begin to question.
"Thanks Shadow, I guess there's nothing that can keep you down" Sonic says.
"It was nothing. Please to mention anything about it." Shadow replies.
"Alright," Sonic starts, "So what exactly were you too doing there in the first place? And Shadow…"
"Well-" Cream tries to say before Knuckles interrupts.
"We were chasing after Chao that Eggman had captured for some reason." Knuckles says.
"Yeah, but how did you get to be with Cream?" Tails asks, suspiciously.
"I can answer that." Shadow replies. "That rabbit, this morning she was given the responsibility of being the guardian of Chao. She went to the garden to save them from Eggman"
"What?!" Sonic exclaims, "I'm still confused!"
"Hey! How would you know all this?" Knuckles asks Shadow.
"I just happened to be there at the time." He replies.
"Guardian of Chao? What do you mean?" Tails asks, still in the Cyclone.
"This morning," Cream begins, "My Chao brought me here and some girl came out of Knuckles Emerald and told me that I was in charge of protecting all the Chao everywhere. So, I guess I am the guardian of Chao." She shrugs.
"But you're only six!" Tails says. She shrugs again.
"Okay, now that we're all on the same page, can you all get off my island!" Knuckles yells.
"But this is important Knuckles!" Tails retorts.
"I don't care! Talk about it somewhere else."
"Geez Knuckles, don't have a cow." Sonic says. "Come on Tails."
"Wait, I need to get the Cyclone out of here. You go on." He replies.
"Stop Sonic." Sonic turns around and Shadow walks up to him.
"Look whose up again. I'm not surprised you're alive."
"Whatever. I've finally found you and I'm challenging you to a race."
"Oh, you're on!" Sonic and Shadow run off, too fast to be seen. Cream begins to walk away.
"Cream, wait," Knuckles calls to her. "Come here."
Cream turns around and walks back to him. "Yes." She says nervously.
"I noticed that you're not really the fighting type, but now you're supposed to protect Chao from danger. How are you going to do that? If you can't fight back against someone threatening them, then there's no point in being a guardian."
"But…people get hurt then."
"Yeah, but that's sometimes the only way to get rid of them. I want to see you here tomorrow at 9:00 to start training."
"But-"
"No buts."
She frowns and begins to walk home. Tails jumps out of the Cyclone and runs to catch up to her.
"What was that about" He asks her.
"Knuckles thinks I should come to him so he can teach me how to fight."
"Why? You don't need to be able to fight."
"Actually he's sort of right…so tomorrow I have to come back here so he can teach me."
"Oh, well, I'll see ya later then!"
She nods and Tails leaves her alone.
The robot grasps Cream tight. Tails considers his options. He stands at the foot of a 6-story robot that wants to kidnap Cream and take her away from him. He doesn't have any planes to use. He's not sure where he is or how he got here, but he has to save Cream. He looks around, maybe there's something he can use to reach her. There's a building next to him that he never noticed. He could worry about the sense in this later. Tails runs at it and spins his tails so he can "fly" up the side of the building. He pushes his feet off the building to fling him towards the robot. He still spins his Tails so that he'll make it to the robot. Tails lands on its arm and runs to Cream.
"Cream, are you alright?" She nods at him. He tries to pull the fingers open but who's he kidding, he's not that strong. The robot turns its other arm towards him and tries to hit him. He jumps so that the fist smashes its own arm and breaks it off. He just hopes Cream lands softly on the ground. Tails runs up the rest of the arm to the neck and flies to the top of its head. Maybe there's an opening to the inside, he thinks. Fortunately, there is a door that leads inside. He opens it and climbs down the ladder inside. Oddly, there's no one at the cramped controls. Like before, he'll worry about the sense in this later. He begins working at them, trying to find an off switch somewhere. He presses a button that is red and bigger than the others and the robot shuts down. He climbs back out of the control room and flies down to where Cream landed.
She is out of the hand that had fallen off; Tails can't even see the arm anywhere. "How do you get out of that Cream?" He asks.
She acts like he never said anything. "Thank you Tails. That was really brave of you." Cream gives him a light kiss on the cheek. Tails blushes, and then…he wakes up.
Tails opens his eyes fast and sudden. He's at his house in bed.