"Hey..." Amy said "Be quiet about it, it's supposed to be a surprise..."
Shut up, Amy, Im still the author, remember?
Amy groaned in misery and continued walking with the gang.
"Aw, this line is terrible!" Sonic groaned, face to face with a line that almost went to the door of the bakery.
Amy's attention was caught, however by a sign off to the side that read "Try our new SUGAR MAGIC DONUT". Amy was delighted just looking at the pink frosted treat, so she ditched the group to go get one.
"Ill take a sugat magic donut!" she exclaimed and happily recieved one, then heading back to a table to eat it as the others continued to wait in the long line "I'll just try a little of this..."
Amy took a bite and smiled with pleasure. The donut was DELICIOUS and very sugary as the name suggested. Just then however is when Amy expierienced the magic part.
Just moments before eating this donut, she had been taller than the table but now her head stood level with it... could it be, she was...?
"No, it cant be..." she said, but by the time she finished THAT sentence, she was an even smaller size... probably a foot tall, and still shrinking. "This cant be happening!"
And alas it was, as it had in previous episodes, Amy was now shinking and became smaller and smaller until the donut was now HUGE to her.
"Aw, you stupid donut!" Amy screamed, kicking the giant pastry on the floor, but she had more problems on her hands now, much LARGER problems... "Ack! Im so tiny..."
Now none of her friends could see her... in fact Tails even came back to see how she was doing but couldnt see her.
"TAILS!" she screamed, "IM DOWN HERE!"
But of course, there was no reply...
"Oh my god..." Amy sighed, "Im so small... noone can see or hear me..."
So Amy ran over to where her friends are, but she soon realized that was an even worse idea because they were all huge now and couldnt see her... anyone of them could step on her.
"I think Amy skipped out..." Tails said "Mustve gotten tired of the wait..."
"No, I didnt!" she yelled again but with no result "Im right here, guys... Im down here, on the floor!"
She almost wept but couldnt. She had to press onward no matter how bad her sitatuation was, but she just couldnt' , she wanted to break down and cry, she was so small.
Just then she gasped as a giant foot loomed over her. She dodged out of the way of it and kept running, clinging to the wall of the bakery where she thought she'd be safe.
She sighed with relief for a few moments to see noone was walking her way. Then she gasped as a giant salt shaker fell off a table near her. She gasped and let out a shrill scream that noone could hear before running away as fast as she could in any direction.
She ended up behind the counter now, but it didn't matter as noone could see her anyhow. "What am I gonna do?" she thought. "There has to be some way to get unshrunk?"
Amy screamed as some employees entered from the backroom. "Oh great," she sighed "More running..."
So thats what she did, she ran from the giants and went into the back.
So she was now in the back room, which was a HUGE factory making cakes and cinnamon buns, all kinds of delicious pastries... but now was no time to get distracted even though the idea of a giant cinnamon bun was appealing to the hungry hedgegirl, she had to keep going.
But this place was even more dangerous than the others, as carts were brought in and out constantly, and she nearly squished on many occasions.
"I have to get to higher ground," she realized, and began climbing onto some bags of flour to get up. The pile was somewhat unstable though and she could already feel it falling, even under her light weight.
She quickly leapt off it and landed on a conveyer belt now.
"Oh crap!" she said out loud "I shouldve looked at what was ABOVE it..."
Amy screamed, and tried running on it like a treadmill.
"Well, at least it's good cardio..." she said, panting from exhaustion as the conveyer belt was propeling her towards another tunnel. She screamed and kept running but she was getting pushed back more than she was advancing forward and suddely felt herself get COVERED in pink frosting. She screamed, and tried shaking the goop out of her hair but she couldnt.
"AGH!" she screamed, now crying "This is awful!"
But it wasnt done, as now sprinkles were thrown on her. She couldnt see now, completely coated with frosting and she found herself stumbling off the conveyer belt and she landed in something soft.
She pulled the goop off her face enough to see clearly that she was on one of the carts that had been loaded up with cinnamon buns. She decided to take this oppurtunity to try one. She tore a piece of bread off and started eating it, when she suddenly felt the cart moving.
"Ahh!" she gasped "What do I do now? Jump off, or wait for it to take me somewhere else?"
She wasn't sure where she would go next and didnt want to know. She jumped off the cart and landed on a counter, where she was ran as fast as she could, but still had no idea where to go...
"What now?" she sighed, smelling of sugar and covered with sprinkles. "What can I do?"
Suddenly she heard something... from above bags of sugar were pouring down like a waterfall, she ran away from them, but now short of breath was still covered in sugar which stuck to the goopy frosting quite well.
"Im a mess!" she screamed.
Now unable to see again she stumbled and landed in a metal chute of some kind, landing in something REALLY soft and she seemed to be spinning.
"Oh no!" she gasped, as a giant beater came down. "Im in the DOUGH!"
She tried to swim away but it was useless as the dough was being whipped, blended and mixed with her in it. Soon she ended up passing out completely...
THAT DAY
"Happy birthday Cream" Sonic said, taking out her cake. It was beautiful chocolate cake with vanilla frosting.
"Wonder where Amy went?" Tails asked.
"I dunno" Sonic said "She said she'd be here..."
"She must be running late..." Cream said, taking a slice of her birthday cake.
"Ugh..." Amy said, finding herself covered in breading, having come to hours later, "What happened to me?"
Just then she screamed as a spoon scooped her and some cake up. Now she remember, she had passed out in the dough, got baked into the cake, and was now about to be EATEN by Cream.
"CREAM NOOOOO!" she screamed, as loud as she could, but she was so tiny, she couldnt be heard. She screamed again and finally got Cream to stop from eating her.
"Amy?" she gasped, plucking the miniature Amy out of the frosting and bread "What are you doing in there?"
"It wasnt on purpose..." the tiny Amy groaned "I was shrunk and well... I ended up in your cake..."
"Aw... well thats okay" Cream said, placing Amy down on the table "At least you made it... and youre just in time cuz we're about to play pin the tail on the donkey here..."
"Uh...hello?" she groaned as the others ran off "Im kinda 3 inches tall here... if anyone cares... hello...? Oh well... at least I have this cake to myself..."
It was a thunderous night. What could happen? Amy thought. Well something did happen on that night. Something that changed her life... forever. Amy thought it was a good idea at the time. Of course, she was so absorbed in her neverending love for a certain blue hedgehog she hadn't been thinking at all. She was creating a machine that would give her all the attributes Sonic seemed to want in a signifant other. She hooked cables, wires and tons of stuff up to a huge console. It was so deadly in appearance even Amy was afraid to try it but she did, and that was her first mistake. She paces around first, examining her work before smiling somewhat evily
"It's perect... absolutely perfect!" Amy says with a cackle. I've downloaded data from all of Sonic's friends and girls he likes and sucked the best parts out of them into this helmet. Now all I have to do is put it on... and I'll become the perfect girl!"
All seemed flawless, at the time. Amy hooked some cables up to her computer and another to her machine. What she didn't notice was a small white mouse scamper in through a crack in the wall, and she very well should have but was too excited about her transformation. That was her second mistake. She sat down, typing a long start code into her machine. In the meantime the mouse ran over to the wires hooking the machine to the computer and started to gnaw on them
Amy starts the sequence and the machines both hum. Suddenly a bolt of lightning strikes. The mouse chewing the wire and Amy are both given an intense jolt
Amy sighs woozily and opens her eyes. Woah... Amy had hoped the lightning hadn't changed anything about the machine... and that everything was okay. She looks around and hopes that this was all a dream but it wasn't. Amy opens her large mouth to scream but cannot. She's been transformed into a mouse. If she could, she would cry out in agony. Her beautiful body... was gone. Her smooth skin had been replaced by white fur and her beautiful eyes were now small black, beady eyes. She looks to see the white mouse whom she now resembles lying on the floor. She hops off the chair and runs over to him
"YOU" Amy thinks "You're the reason I'm a mouse now!" Amy gnaws on the mouse to wake him up. He turns toward her and his eyes light up in an unusual way. "Uh-oh" Amy thinks "I think this mouse likes me". Amy runs as fast as she can, her tiny legs skidding across her tile floor as the mouse chases her to the edge of the room. The mouse gets closer and closer to her. She lets out a loud squeak to repel him, but instead he hones in even faster. "I hope that wasn't a mating call..." she thinks. She tries to dash past the hulking creature but with no luck. She's about to give up when a door slides open. It was Tails. Tails ends up scaring the mouse and Amy dashes out to his feet
"AHHHH! A mouse!" Tails screams, looking down.
"Oh my god" Amy thinks "What a wimp". Amy chases after Tails making sad, pathetic squeaks, anything to get his attention. Her wonderfully cheerful voice was now impossible to use. While she had maintained her intelligence she was still bound to the limitations of mouse hood which included being unable to talk. Amy wanted to cry so hard. Here she was, an ugly mouse, no more than a couple inches high and one of her good friends was afraid of her. Noone could help her if they couldn't hear her, so she gets an idea. She runs over to her computer and begins to type something although garbled. Even Tails, while afraid has to follow Amy for what she was doing was amazing for any species outside of their own. Tails looks at what she's typed and gasps. It was kinda screwed up but he figured it out almost perfectly. It read:
Taaaisl hlep me, Iev been tunred itno a muose!#!#$!
"Wha...what? A...Amy?" Tails says, leaning forward now, in surprise.
Amy types "yes"
"Oh my god, it's really you" Tails says in shock.
Tails puts his hands out and Amy gets into them. Tails looked at her with sypathy. All Amy could do in reply was squeak
" Ok, don't worry..." Tails says reassuringly " I'll take you back to my place, first thing's first, I can help you out more if you can talk"
"Talk?" Amy thinks "How could that be possible?"
Tails takes Amy the mouse into his house and places her onto the coffee table where he boots up some large machines. Well, everything was large to Amy, who was now, uh... very very small
"Ok, Amy" Tails says bringing a large speaker next to her "squeak into this speaker"
"Why?" Amy speaks suddenly, hearing her voice being amplified, "Huh? I can talk!"
"Excellent," Tails says getting more equipment out of a drawer "now we can communicate, I'll see if I can make a smaller one for you to wear"
Tails comes back in moments with a small headset. He kneels down and clips it onto Amy's furry neck. She sighs. At least someone was willing to help her
"Well does it work?" Tails asks after hooking it up.
" I don't know," Amy says letting out a tiny sqeauk. "I just want my body back..."
Of course the voice that came out of her mike was a computer synthesized voice, nothing like her old feminine voice she had loved. This, too made her depressed
"So Tails," Amy asks at last "can you change me back?"
"Maybe," Tails explains "first I'll need a DNA sample from you back in your hedgehog form"
"My old hairbrush is back home," Amy suggests "you could find something from that..."
"Cool, so we'll go to your house and I can restore you there" Tails says, scooping Amy off the ground.
" Thanks, Tails" Amy replies.
Tails takes Amy back to her house and the 2 look around for her hairbrush
"You sure you left it on here?" Tails asks
" Pretty sure..." Amy says, suddenly pausing, "wait what's that sound?"
There's a strange high pitched sound and what happens next is something noone expected. A huge whirring sound is followed by a low picthed squeak. "OH NO" Amy thinks. Had he touched her growth ray? The white mouse from earlier stomps into Amy's bathroom making growling squeaks at her. Amy fearfully squeaks and begins to cower in Tails' palm.
"D-Don't worry, Amy, I'll protect you..." Tails says shivering and backing off.
The mouse suddenly takes out a ray gun and shoots Tails. Tails shrinks down to Amy's mouse size and holds onto her in fear. The giant mouse picks them both up and puts them in a jar.
"A----Amy...? What's gonna happen to us?" Tails asks, sounding as if he's about to cry.
" I wish I knew Tails..." Amy says letting out a fearful whimper "but I don't, all I know is I'm gonna be a mouse... forever"
" Hold on I might be able to get us out of here" Tails says now determination, evident in his tone of voice, "... hold still!"
Tails shoots a loud highly concentrated laser at the glassy wall of the jar type prison. The glass splits somewhat and Tails is able to jump out. Amy however is too fat to fit through and...
" Hey! Who are you calling fat?" Amy says letting out an agitated squeak.
Sorry.
Anyway, Amy is too... big-boned... to fit through the crack
"Better." Amy says with a groan.
" Don't worry, Amy, I'll get you out of... AHHHH!" Tails shrieks.
SQUISH
" TAILS!" Amy squeaked.
Alas, Tails was too late to rescue Amy, and too stupid too for the giant mouse had seen his escape attempt and had ample time to lift his foot, and bring it down on the tiny fox.
Tails is now hit by the giant mouse... for the last time. Miles Prower was... dead
"NOOOOOOO" Amy says letting out a prolonged squeak, mourning the death of Tails.
Amy sobs for hours and hours... okay about 5 minutes. Just then when all hope appears to be gone, Sonic storms in and slays the mouse. Yanking Amy out of the jar by her long stringy tail and placing her gently on the dresser. He looks at her with concern.
"Amy, you alright?" Sonic asks, staring at Amy.
"Sonic..." Amy says in shock, "how'd you know it was me?"
"Uh... I don't know," Sonic says scratching his head "I came over here to get some peanut butter and well... I saw the giant mouse... so what happened?"
"Oh Sonic," Amy says letting out an anguished squeak, "I was trying to impress you... and something went horribly wrong! I just... don't know what... but... now Tails is..."
"What? Him? He's not dead" Sonic says indifferently.
"He's not?"
" Naw... I mean right now he is, but pretty soon this story will be over and we'll have another wacky adventure where we're all normal again, for a while" Sonic explains.
" So... I won't be a mouse?" Amy squeaks
" Not in the next story, anyway" Sonic says scooping Amy into his hands.
" And maybe... in the next story you'll want to go out with me?" Amy asked, looking up at him with a mousy smile.
"Well I wouldn't say the stories are THAT strange, now c'mon let's go home"
Tails sighed angrily as he threw away his chaos emerald to the side. He was using it to build a new shrink ray, but it just wasn't working.
"Oh well..." he sighed, putting the emerald precariously onto his windowsill. "I'll try again later..."
At that very moment, a very sad Cream the rabbit was walking by the road by Tails' house, depressed as the kids at school had teased her about her height, calling her names like Short Stuff, and Shorty, which, yknow weren't very creative nicknames but still, they hurt all the same.
"I wish those kids would stop picking on me..." Cream sighed "Especially that Melvin the rabbit, he needs to be taught a lesson..."
It was then Cream noticed a reflection of light coming from a shiny bauble at Tails place.
"Ooh shiny!" she said, and full of childlike wonder, ran over to the windowsill to explore the situation. There she saw the source of the energy, a glowing red chaos emerald. People had always warned her about staying away from the powerful energy gems because their powers would be too hard to control in such a young body but she had actually not really been paying attention cuz she had a short attention span and... "Hey, is that a bird?"
Hey, Im not done here...
Anyway, Cream decided to grab the chaos emerald, finding it's rays of lights too much to resist. She touched the emerald and felt a relatively mild shock go through her body.
"OUCH!" she screamed, "that hurt!"
I said, MILD...
Just then, Cream felt the energy surge through her and remembered just how much power a chaos emerald could have. She gasped as the gem seemed to be holding HER now, yanking her by the arm and through the park by Tails' house. By now, she had wanted to let go of the gem but simply couldn't. A physical and mental attracted to the emerald had kept her attached to it.
"Woah..." she said, suddenly feeling dizzy "What's happening...?"
She watched as her hand started glowing and let out a loud yelp but noone could hear her as chaos energy enveloped her and she unvoluntarily fired a laser at a tree. She gasped as the tree shrunk down before her eyes until it was no bigger than a piece of broccoli.
"Woah..." she said, going over to the miniaturized tree "What did I do? How did I do THAT? This emerald somehow has the power to shrink people!"
Cream smiled when she thought to herself what she could do to that bully, Melvin the rabbit but decided not to. Well at least her MIND decided not to. Somehow her body was already taking her to where Melvin was.
"What? Whats going?" she thought to herself "I dont wanna do anything BAD to Melvin... right? Then again, he has been picking on me about my size, so I guess I should... wait no... thats not right...I..."
Cream looked down to see the gem sizzling and sparking in her hand, but she somehow didn't feel the heat of it at all. She was more than comfortable holding the gem now, and it made her feel strong and in complete control of things. What she didn't know was that she hadn't been in complete control of her own mind.
"Hey look!" Melvin laughed, noticing Cream approach him "Its Shorty Short Stuff"
Cream simply flashed an evil grin and slowly raised the emerald until it was level with Melvin's face.
"Wh-what are you doing?" Melvin said, backing away.
Meanwhile, Sonic and his friends were searching all over for Tails lost chaos emerald.
"Why did you leave it on an open windowsill?" Amy asked "Anyone couldve taken it!"
"I was only gone for a few minutes..." Tails explained "And besides I had to go check on the brownies, they were getting a little overcooked..."
"Hey! Look over there!" Knuckles said, pointing to Cream who had the emerald and was confronting a group of small rabbit friends.
"So Melvin..." Cream snarled "Still think Im SHORT?"
Before the young rabbit could answer he was instantly struck with a beam and shrunk down until his face was level with Cream's shoes. He gasped and looked up at Cream's smiling face, completely awestruck.
"Perhaps I should ask again..." she bellowed "Still think I'm SHORT!"
She swept her hand down and scooped Melvin off the ground, noticing his fear intensify as she brought him closer to her face. His fear had been making her feel stronger but at the same time, part of her felt guilty. She used her other hand to pluck Melvin into the air by his feet and dangle him around.
"Cream, stop!" Melvin shrieked "What...what did you do to me?"
"I shrank you!" she laughed.
"CHANGE ME BACK!" he yelled, still swinging in the air as Cream laughed at him.
"Hmm..." she said, sitting down on a bench and putting Melvin down next to her "Let me think about that...NO!"
She suddenly stood upright again and pointed the gem at Melvin's friends. Instantly the young rabbits scattered although a few who couldn't escape got shrunk down as well.
"CREAM!" she heard Sonic shout. Panicked she turned quickly and zapped the young hedgehog with her emerald. She watched in horror as Sonic shrank before her eyes.
"Ah man!" he sighed "Cream, look what you did to me?"
As Amy scooped Sonic up off the ground, Tails went over to Cream.
"Cream..." he said "What...what are you doing with my emerald?"
"Oh Tails..." she said "Im so sorry, I just... I found this emerald, and next thing I knew, I learned it could shrink stuff, and Melvin had just made me so mad earlier and then...I dunno, I shrunk him..."
"I told you chaos emeralds could be dangerous..." Tails said "Why did you take it, I mean... hello, you listening to me?"
"Ooh a froggy!" the short attention spanned rabbit replied, running after the small amphibian.
"Great... what do we do now?" Tails sighed "Its only get worse..."
"What do you mean?" Amy asked.
"The emerald controlled her thoughts once... it can do it again..." Tails sighed.
"What I dont get is why did it shrink stuff?" Knuckles asked.
"Cuz..." Tails sighed "The last thing I had programmed it to do was shrink... and it acted on Cream's thoughts of anger... emeralds are erratic in how they react to emotion and because Cream's emotions were so strong it was able to tap into her brain and use it's energies in the way it did..."
"So what about me?" Sonic sighed, sitting only 3 inches tall, on Amy's palm.
"The effects should wear off in 3 days..." Tails said.
"Its okay" Amy smiled "Youre kinda cute this way anyway, Sonic, you're like a little doll"
"Oh great..." Sonic sighed "Im a doll..."
"Only for a few days though" Tails said.
"Well, then whats the big deal?" Knuckles asked "Sonic'll be back to normal soon and all the damage Cream did with the emerald will be reversed...problem solved"
"Not quite" Tails shuddered "She still has the emerald and it's already tapped into her brain once, there's no telling what kind of horrors she'll bring onto the city... let's go, guys!"
And so, the gang scampered off in search of Cream.
"Hey guys!" Melvin shouted, but with no response "What about me?"
Elsewhere in Station Square...
Once again, guided by the emerald, Cream kept getting more chaotic thoughts.
"What if I could be taller than everyone in the world?" she thought "I could shrink them all down and hold them in an ant farm and if any of them made fun of me, I would step on them... no wait, thats not right... I would never do that... I... I... ARGH!"
Cream completely lost control and fired off multiple beams, shrinking everything in a small radius. All the traffic in front of her was reduced to little toy cars and the buildings were no higher than building blocks. She laughed and continued on her way.
"Cream, stop!" Tails shouted.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!" Cream yelled. Completely under the control of the emerald, she zapped some rays at Tails who ducked out of the way "DONT MAKE ME SHRINK YOU!"
"Cream, this has to stop, youre gonna hurt everyone..." Tails said "Its too much power for you to handle, youre..."
"DONT SAY IT!" Cream shouted "You think Im too 'little' to handle this, Im ALWAYS too little to do anything, well maybe now YOURE too little... maybe now I'M the one in control and you dont like it so youre gonna try to take it away.. I DONT THINK SO!"
Just then, waves of Chaos energy caused Cream to rapidly grow and grow. Tails backed off as Cream's shoes became the size of tractor trailers and she became more than 50 feet high.
"NOW WHOSE TOO LITTLE?" she bellowed down on all the "tiny" people below.
"I thought the emerald only made things SHRINK" Knuckles said.
"Oh no" Tails said "She's learned how to tap into it's other powers too... there's no telling what she'll do now..."
Tails ducked as the giant Cream spread her unrelenting fury on the town in the form of energy beams all over the place. She was destroying everything and completely out of her control, yet still in her own mind, she was doing everything just fine.
"We have to use a neutralizer beam..." Tails explained "It'll sap the power of the emerald for a while, long enough to get it away from Cream and revert her to normal... let's go!"
Minutes later, the tornado, armed with the beam on the bottom came swooping in on Cream. Cream snarled and swiped at the toy plane, which swerved dangerously out of her reach.
"YOURE TRYING TO TAKE MY POWER AWAY!" she shrieked "BUT NOW YOURE THE ONE WHOSE TOO LITTLE AND IM THE BIG ONE AROUND HERE!"
Cream opened her mouth and spit out plasma blasts at the tornado. The gang screamed as the flames nearly blazed past their heads.
"Shes getting stronger..." Amy screamed, as Cream chased after the Tornado, trying to take the plane down.
"She MUST have a weakness..." Knuckles said.
"Thats it!" Tails said, turning the plane back.
Cream continued to chase them until they were on the other side of town.
"Now I have you!" Cream growled, reaching at the plane.
"Hey, look, its a butterfly!" Tails said.
"Ooh, where?" Cream said, getting distracted. Finally Tails had time to pull back the lever and shoot Cream with the blast.
Cream yelled in anguish as she felt the attraction between her and the emerald diminish, and her size was diminishing as well. The amount of energy to discharge the emerald was also shrinking her.
"Well that was an unforeseen side effect..." Tails said.
"But she'll stop shrinking once she reaches her normal size, right?" Amy asked.
"Uh..."
"Woah..." Cream sighed. "I finally have common sense again, and Im back to my normal size... wait, Im STILL shrinking...Noooo...NOOOO!"
She wept as she kept shrinking, beyond her height of 4'3 and more and more and more. By the time the rest of the gang found her, she was only 3 inches high. 'I guess I really AM too little now...' she thought to herself.
The next day...
"Easy...easy..." Cream sighed, as Tails brought her down the stairs for breakfast and set her gently on the table. "Thanks..."
"Well I hoped you learned your lesson..." Tails said, getting cereal out of the cabinet "Maybe being 3 inches tall for a few days will help you learn something..."
"Yeah, I learned something alright..." Cream sighed "Its that... ooh, a penny!"
Tails simply sighed in disgust. Would the young rabbit EVER learn?