"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?
Sonic sighed.
"Another mother's day..." he said to himself "And another day I dont have enough money to buy her anything good... well that'll change... I'll just have to get a job... somewhere high class and fancy, somewhere... somewhere..."
Later at McDonalds... "So, couldn't find a better job, huh?" a co-worker remarked to the blue hedgehog as he donned his McDonald's uniform.
"Guess not..." Sonic sighed "All the other jobs I went for had to take 2 weeks to come up with a decision and mother's day is coming up so I had to take this job..."
"Well just hope you dont get put on 'fry duty'..." the co-worker teased.
"Yknow I heard about that!" Sonic said "Some people were saying how something with the fries has radiation in it or something..."
"So the legend goes..." another co-worker remarked "The reason McDonald's fries can be cooked so fast and in such large amounts is because of radiation accelerating the cooking process and that anyone whose ever been put in charge of making the fries is exposed to harmful gamma rays and suffers weird effects"
"That cant be true" Sonic scoffed.
"So most people say" the coworker shrugged "But you never know..."
And so, it was Sonic's first day on the job and sure enough, he was assigned to 'fry duty'
"Be careful man" a coworker joked.
"I will" Sonic chuckled.
He really wasn't worried though, the fries couldnt have been made with radiation cuz, well that just wasn't safe and wouldn't the FDA do something about that? It just wasn't possible, so he wouldn't let it worry him.
And thats how it went. Sonic worked at McDonald's for about a week when he had realized, the job was a lot harder than he thought it would be. Having to stand and serve fries for 6 hours at a time was pretty tough, just standing there with all the heat and grease around you, it also gave off an offensive odor that lasted until even after the workday. Finally, after a week of hard work, Sonic anticipated his paycheck, his compensation for all he had done, his great beacon of hope... his...
"55.00?" Sonic said "Thats all I get?"
"55? Not bad" another co-worker commented.
Sonic just sighed. It was enough money, he thought, although still not much for all he had done. Oh well, he sighed, as he took off for the day, at least it'll be a better mother's day than usual.
And so Sonic flopped onto his bed that night, feeling kinda woozy. It was then the legends of the 'radioactive' fries hopped into his mind as he didn't know what else had caused him to feel so weird. He decided to just get some sleep and worry about it tommorow though...
The Next Day
Sonic woke up, still feeling woozy, not knowing what had happened. He had had a terrible night sleep and it was about to get much worse as he looked down and noticed...
"Oh my god...! Whats happened to me?" she yelled, realizing her voice was now high pitched and her chest had become more curvacious. Upon looking in the mirror she saw exactly what had happened. Fry related radiation had altered her body entirely. Panicking and not knowing what to do, she called her doctor. Maybe he would have a sane, logical explanation for what had happened to her.
LATER
"Im afraid I have no sane, logical explanation for what has happened to you..." the doctor said. "Maybe through some kind of radiation, perhaps fry related, you were turned into a girl, but this is surely a myth..."
"You would think so..." Sonic groaned "But look at me! Im a girl!!"
"I can see that..." the doctor drawled in his boring 'dry eyes' kind of voice "There's no need to raise your voice..."
"ARGH, I dont have time for this" Sonic yelled "If youre not gonna help me, I'll just have to get to work as is..."
At Work
"Woah," a co-worker said "What happened to the new guy from before?"
"I AM the new guy!" the female hedgehog groaned.
"Oh my god..." another worker said "You dont think it's..."
"The fry radiation, it has to be!" another worker added.
"I dont know guys..." Sonic groaned "I mean, french fries dont have radiation, do they?"
"All I know is, if you find proof of radiation in the fries, youre talking MAJOR lawsuit!" someone said.
"You think so?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah! I mean, look what they did to you!"
"Hmmm..."
And so, Sonic took some fries to be analyzed by Tails who confirmed their fears.
"Yep" he sighed "There's type 3 gamma radiation in these fries, very small amounts but prolonged exposure to it could feasibly be what caused your transformation..."
"Then that's gotta be it!" Sonic said. "Ok then, Im gonna sue McDonalds..."
Tails shrugged "Eh, wouldnt be the first time..."
Days Later
"And so, in a bizarre case..." a reporter said "Local hero Sonic the hedgehog is accusing McDonald's corp. of exposing him to so much fry related radiation that he turned female... this reporter can only comment by saying... uh... I dunno, this has never happened before..."
"So you say our fries are radioactive..." the CEO of McDonald's said in the courtroom to the young female hedgehog. "But you have no proof besides what your 10 year old fox friend says, and how do we know you weren't a girl ALREADY?"
"Maybe cuz of the fact that I WASNT!" Sonic groaned, holding out a picture of herself before the fry related accident. "Now judge, all Im asking this CEO of McDonald's to do... is eat this large fry..."
Sonic smiled as she held out a large fry. "Note that this fry was placed in the same environment I was in for 4 hours so if these fries AREN'T radioactive, Im sure the CEO would have no problem eating them..."
"Well uh..." the CEO shivered, reaching forward for a fry. "I guess I uh..."
"We're waiting..." Sonic smiled, holding the box of radioactive fries "Why wont you eat your own product, Mr. CEO?"
"Well I... I... I CANT DO IT!!" The CEO screamed, smacking the box of fries away "Of course the fries are radioactive, I wouldnt serve this garbage to my own KIDS! I only eat Burger King!!"
Just then, everyone in the court room gasped. Sonic grinned, knowing she had won the case.
"I rule in favor of Ms. Sonic!" the judge announced "And as for you, CEO, you have to stop using radiation in your fries..."
"But no!" the CEO said "The radiation is what makes the fries taste good at all, without them, theyre just fried talcum powder with some salt... cant we just put up a sign for workers that says "WARNING: RADIATION"?"
"Eh...works for me" the judge said "But you also have to give Ms. Hedgehog here some monetary compensation..."
"You heard the man..." Sonic smirked. Maybe being a girl wouldnt' be so bad after all.
Mother's Day
"Oh Sonic!" Sonic's mother said "This has been the best mother's day ever!"
"You mean it doesnt bother you that I was turned into a girl?" Sonic asked.
"Are you kidding?" she laughed "I had always wanted a daughter anyway, and now we're RICH!"
And so, Sonic had to smile too, for even though her life was changed, she had a new house, a new butler, and well... she was rich and could have any guy she wanted anyway.
For some unexpliquable reason though, people were STILL eating at McDonald's even more so than before...
Amy always hated her last block gym class... for one thing, she wasn't very physically fit. On her physical fitness test, she was compared to a sloth with bad reflexes, and on the running portion, she finished in last place, behind the slowest girl in class, Sally the Sloth. After that, they used "Amy Rose Standards" for students who just plain sucked.
But besides all that, which was bad enough in itself, and besides the bruises in personal areas due to prolonged exposure to aggressive boys with dodgeballs in their hands, Amy hated the locker room most of all. The gossip, the laughing, not to mention how inferior she always felt when the other girls took their shirts off. Her arch-rival in the class had to be Melissa the hedgehog, stuck up cheerleader who had it out for Amy since day one for some reason. Well perhaps that had been due to what would always be called...the basketball incident.
FLASHBACK
"Go Amy go, defend her, defend her!" the gym teacher yelled as the other team passed the ball downcourt. Melissa took the ball and dashed downcourt with it. Amy wasn't too far behind.
"Ha, youll never keep up with me, Rose!" Melissa chuckled, evading a few defenders as she aimed for the hoop. Amy got up close and personal and swatted the ball from her but it went to another of her teammates, who tried to lay it in. It was blocked by Sonic, and the deflected ball went back to Melissa. Amy ran and tried to swat the ball away again but she missed and struck her right breast instead.
"Ow!" Melissa screame, dropping the ball and grimacing in momentary pain, "My perfect boobs!"
She then whipped out her cell phone and in seconds several of her butlers came and checked to make sure her boobs were alright. They were, but Melissa never forgot about what happened.
So maybe that was it, or perhaps the volleyball incident in which Amy spiked a ball at her head, or maybe the soccer incident in which Amy slid into her, despite it being no contact and dont even get me into the badminton incident...
Anyway, another thing Amy hated was the showers that the girls had to take. For one thing, theyd always make her late to the bus and for another she didn't like the idea of being naked around the other girls. Amy got into the shower and turned the water in. She hung her towel outside her shower like she always does. What she didn't count on was an unpleasant surprise this time.
She had finished her shower when she reached out of the curtain to grab for her towel, except it wasn't there. She then opened the curtain a little more to have a quick look, but she saw nothing. She then looked across the hall and saw Melissa, chuckling, holding her towel. Amy growled.
She took a cautious step outside of the shower still partially covered by the shower curtain when she slipped on a bar of soap that was suspiciously right there. She slipped and fell and got the attention of every girl in the shower room. Some chuckled, some felt bad but most didn't say a word, except Melissa who laughed and jeered, finally throwing Amy her towel. Amy growled. She sure as hell wasn't going to pick that shower again, Melissa had found her...
So, the next gym class, Amy went down the hall to another shower, one that had been abandoned for years, Shower #13...
"This is okay, I guess..." Amy said, stepping into the shower. The faucet dripped ominously, one small drip after another in a haunting rythm.
DRIP...DROP...DRIP...DROP...DRIP...
Amy turned the faucet on to stop the dripping and the hot shower water harmlessly fell to the floor as Amy began the dreaded procedure. She liked to take quick showers but as she reached for the soap she noticed an intoxicating mist was surrounding her. Had the water been that hot?
Within seconds, Amy was covered with smoke and a strange voice spoke to her inside the shower.
"Tell my story...do my bidding..." the voice spoke.
"What? Who are you? What are you? Where are you?" Amy asked, bewildered as the smoke seemed to snake around her entire figure, finally going up into her brain. She felt some air escape her and didn't know what to think next. She gasped as her eyes seemed to glow.
She blinked and looked in the mirror once again. Now the glow was gone...odd...
It got even stranger for Amy that night. As she was brushing her teeth, she looked up and saw another girl's face in the mirror. She dropped her toothbrush and stumbled backwards, tripping over her toilet and landing in the tub. She gasped and felt short of breath as she saw more swirling smoke. The room went dark and bolts of lightning seemed to appear from nowhere...
"Tell my story...do my bidding...!" the voice spoke again. Amy couldn't stand it. At least she had her old face back, so it seemed as she could see her own reflection now in the porcelain toilet bowl in front of her. But the voice was closing in on her, again and again it spoke that same torrid message, until finally Amy screamed.
"FINE! FINE! ILL DO YOUR BIDDING, ILL TELL YOUR STORY! JUST LEAVE ME...ALONE!"
Amy got out of the tub cautiously, for the time being the smoke and light show had stopped and her bathroom seemed to have returned to normal. Just then more smoke came up from the sink and seemed to strangle every fiber of Amy's being. She tried to fight it but the fight was futile and she was soon captive under the mysterious entity.
The next morning...
Amy growled under her breath and hid her weapon in her jacket pocket. She was filled with rage on this day, for she was under control of a spectre most ancient who threatened the existence of all at Amy's High school. And who wouldve suspected sweet innocent Amy Rose to do what she was thinking of doing today?
She said nothing as she passed her classmates on the way to her locker, thought nothing as she held in her concealed hand a weapon most dark. She threw her books in her locker but kept her jacket on, for it was the only thing between society and danger. Danger she looked to unleash. Still in her mind, the battle raged on. The only reason she hadn't shot anyone was because her good side still prevailed, but that was about to change.
While walking in the halls, she accidentally bumped Melissa who yelped at the foolish girl.
"Ugh, Amy! You idiot!" Melissa screamed.
Amy growled and wrapped her hand around it tighter now, and then let all sanity leave her body and she whipped out a gun and shot at Melissa's head.
BAM!
She had missed but the school was full of fear now, as Amy started running, the clacking of Melissa's high heel shoes and the stabbing sound of shot after shot signaling the entire school body to run as fast as they could. Amy chuckled and laughed as she shot at Melissa and nearly everyone who got in her way. Many hid in classrooms, while many others hid behind things, hoping they could make it out unscathed. Amy had gone nuts, possessed by the spirit of a dark ghost.
"No stop..." Amy thought to herself.
"Do my bidding...tell my story..."
"No... this is wrong, I have to stop!" Amy said
Suddenly, her physical self stopped in the middle of the hall, still clutching onto the gun, her hand shaking, her knees wobbling, as she pondered this. To kill Melissa or let her go and end the madness. She now began to argue aloud with herself, another sinister voice joining her.
"Who...who are you?" Amy said, beginning to break down on the floor. She still had the gun as she fell to her knees.
"I am...KATRINA!" the ghost growled.
Suddenly, Amy's eyes glowed red and her head snapped back to view a frightened Melissa. She held the gun tighter than ever and ran towards Melissa who screamed and ran from Amy.
They ran down the halls once more, Amy armed and dangerous again. While her legs still ran, so did Amy's mind as she confronted the ghost in her head.
"Katrina?" Amy asked.
"Yes, I was shot in that shower stall many years ago... and now I seek REVENGE!" Katrina growled.
"No, this isn't the way..." Amy said, weeping to herself as she chased Melissa with her gun. "This isn't ANY way, all you're doing is endangering MORE lives, is this what you want?"
"Is what happened to me what my parents wanted? Besides, Satan promised to bring me back to real form if I killed a person, or someone agreed to let me have their body..." Katrina explained.
"Wait, is that what I have to do to stop you from killing her? But then...what happens to me?" Amy asked.
"Beats me..." Katrina said, "But for now, my target is MELISSA!"
Amy growled and pursued her foe. Melissa seemingly vanished as Amy had chased her into the locker room.
"Katrina, we need to end this, okay?" Amy said "I'll give you my body..."
"What?"
"I said... ILL GIVE YOU MY BODY!"
A bright flashing light surrounded Amy and her body was transformed. Amy felt herself being ejected out of her self conscious and dumped onto the floor. Amy's hedgegirl body turned into an older female with dark hair. Just then the police ran in and took her down.
By giving up her body Amy took the form of the first thing her spirit hit, a bar of soap... now she would be a bar of soap for all eternity.
"How can this get much worse?" Amy sighed, in her new soapy form.
"Hey, a bar of soap!" Melissa said, picking Amy up off the floor. Amy felt her heart sink even further, being held in her rivals hand. She shed a tear that appeared in the form of an air bubble "Mmm, smells like cinnamon... I'll use it when I take a shower...speaking of which..."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Amy cried.