Chapter 3: Meeting Cookie

The Green Train from Sandhill Canyon whooshed in the station like a great long dragon. The engine itself whizzed passed the station stopping at the point where only the passenger cars were able to access the landing. The doors to each of the passenger cars opened up and a bustle of people and mobians came in and out of the cars simultaneously. Cream and Amy were looking for two people in the crowds, although they would only recognize one of them.

Suddenly, Cheese flew of to the left of them, "Cheese! Where are you going? You'll get lost! Wait for me!" The young rabbit chased the blue creature until it stopped and gave a "Chao!" sound. It seemed like it found something, or someone. Instantly recognizing who that person was, Cream gave a shout of happiness, "Mom!" She called out, she dashed over a few feet into the crowd to a figure in a lavender satin dress. The figure, hearing the voice of her child turned towards the call, bent down and embraced her.

"It's so good to have you in my arms again" Vanilla said as she gave Cream a hug. One or two people may have said "Aww" or "That's so sweet", but the rest of them just continued with their day to day business.

"Um, I know it's a touching scene and all, but wasn't Cream's cousin supposed to be here as well?" Cream and Vanilla looked up to who was speaking, it was Amy, and she seemed to be a little out of breath.

Vanilla suddenly got up and looked around, Cookie was nowhere to be seen.

"Cookie? Cookie? Oh no..." Vanilla said with a tone of worry. She could remember holding Cookie's hand, but when she saw Cream, she must have let it go. Now normally, this won't be such a bad thing, but She knew that Cookie was prone to running off when least expected. So while she was hugging Cream, Cookie must have run off somewhere.

"We could look for her" Amy said, mirroring the worried look in Vanilla's eyes. "She couldn't have gone too far, what does she look like?".

Vanilla told them what Cookie looked like, similar to Cream, but in yellow.

"I'll go look for her in the lobby" Cream hurriedly said as she dashed off towards the lobby.

Amy quickly added "I'll check the cafe", and ran towards the cafe.

The cafe of Station Square Station was a relatively new addition. It was built sometime after Station Square was almost completely demolished by an aquatic being named "Chaos". It was nothing short of a miracle that Station Square was able to be rebuilt so quickly.

Amy checked around to see if she could find Cookie, maybe she could get some help by asking some of the people.

"I'm sorry miss, I didn't see anyone like that". That was the answer that Amy got from most of the patrons of the cafe. Maybe she would have better luck at the cashier. Amy proceeded to the counter to ask someone about the whereabouts of Cookie, but to her surprise, she found somebody who she didn't expect to be working in a cafe. A bee who seemed to be bored out of his mind by his job.

"Charmy Bee!" Amy gasped, she didn't expect a member of the Chaotix to be working in a Cafe. "What are you doing here? I haven't seen you or your friends since we defeated Metal Madness a few months back"

"Huh? Oh! I remember you! Your that crazy pink hedgehog that's in love with Sonic!" The bee had been snapped out of the complete boredom of waiting for people to order coffee. Amy wasn't exactly thrilled at being called "crazy", but Charmy was happy to talk to anyone at this point. "Yeah, well, after finding Dr.Eggman, we didn't get paid anything a single bit, so now Me, Vector and Espio had to take up some odd jobs to make ends meet. We still have the detective agency of course, but Vector is now going to a college to study something I wasn't exactly sure what, but it's probably way too complicated for me to understand, oh well, and now I'm stuck here in this ol' boring cafe". Amazingly enough, Charmy hadn't taken a breath during the entire speech.

Suddenly, a hoarse voice yelled from the back of the cafe "Hey bee, I already told ya, stop chatting with the customers, you're gettin' paid to serve, not talk!"

"Oh geez" Charmy said as he got back to reality "that's my boss, I think he has a rod up his butt or something, anyway, would you like to order something?"

"Actually, I'm actually looking for someone"

"Sonic?" The bee piped up.

"No! I'm looking for a young rabbit girl"

"Does she look like Cream but wears yellow?" Charmy added, his eye widened as he seemed to be looking at something behind Amy.

"How did you know?" Amy enquired.

"Because I see a young rabbit girl on the train tracks right now!" The bee pointed towards a figure on the train's tracks. Amy turned, to see if Charmy was joking or was really telling the truth, indeed, there was Cookie, on the train tracks. She seemed to be walking around aimlessly, quite a few onlookers were scared for her safety, then they became terrified because she didn't notice the train that was coming in.

"Oh no, COOKIE LOOK OUT!" Amy screamed as the train barred down on the oblivious rabbit. Cookie didn't seem to hear Amy, Or the hoards of other people who were at the station. She then looked up to see the train that was about to run her over. She suddenly realized where she was and was petrified. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, an orange blur game and grabbed Cookie just before the train chugged into the station.

The orange figure then flew to the top of that station's roof and then descended down to the crowd of relieved and cheering people below. Amy, Cream, Cheese and Vanilla pushed their way through them to see if Cookie was okay and to find out who saved her.

The person that saved Cookie was none other then the two-tailed fox, Miles Prower, more famously known as "Tails".

"Oh thank you so very much for rescuing Cookie!" Vanilla sobbed with tears of joy as she embraced Tails

"Um, It's no problem" Tails said as he was being smothered by an overjoyed Vanilla "I was... um, just in the right place at the right time... And you're crushing me!"

Vanilla immediately let go of Tails. "I'm sorry about that, it's just I'm so happy that Cookie is safe"

"I think we've have enough excitement for one day, I think we should go home now". Cream said as she looked at the small crowd that was gathered around the Mobians. Cheese added a small "Chao Chao" and pointed towards Cookie, she was walking towards a gift shop. Vanilla quickly caught Cookie by the hand and gave her a small tug in the direction of the doorway out of the station house.

After Cream said her goodbyes to Amy and Tails, Vanilla took each rabbit girl by the hand and walked to their house. To her right, Cream was busy talking about the last few days she spent with Amy, while to the left, Cookie simply gave a grimace as she walked away from the station.