CHAPTER 7

(Cream the Rabbit)

Despite being wet and cold, Cream was happy until she saw Tails' face. The fox next to her was anything but happy. In fact, he was pretty angry.

"This has gone far enough! I'm getting you fixed Cream! You and Rouge and Amy! All of you!" Tails erupted, throwing his hands into the air as a sign of defeat. "I've got to get working on the machine. Until it's finished, I need to be alone!"

Tails stomped out of the water and started trudging towards his home and lab. For a long while, Cream stared after him. However, the tears didn't appear until after he had disappeared from her vision.

Amy's voice entered her mind. "It's bad enough to hear Rouge crying. I don't want to hear your sadness through her mind. Gah. You two are so pitiful. Get your act together!"

"Tails hates me!" Cream cried out loud, turning a few heads her way. She covered her mouth quickly and blushed. "Now people are staring at me like I'm a psycho." she mumbled.

"You are a psycho...kind of." Amy thought.

"Stupid, pink hedgehog!" Cream thought angrily.

"Please don't fight!" Rouge thought.

"Hey, anyone else realize that us being able to communicate like this is a little weird?" Cream thought.

"Nooo." Amy thought sarcastically. "It's completely normal!"

"Maybe Mr. Tails knows." Rouge wondered.

"Of course, he knows. He's a genius after- ack!" Cream caught herself praising Tails again.

"You're hopeless." Amy snickered.

"I don't wanna hear that from you!" Cream pouted.

"What's that supposed to mean?!" Amy said.

Cream span around, only to come face to face with Amy Rose in the flesh. The pink thief smirked down at her and chuckled.

"Amy!" Cream cried. "What are you doing here?!"

"Thought you needed a little cheering up, so I'm going to take you out shopping!"

"Really?! What are we wasting time for then? Let's go!"

(Amy Rose)

"I knew it was too good to be true... Amy Rose... being nice..." Cream mumbled.

"Oh, shut up! You'll trigger the alarm!" Amy hissed.

The two girls were currently in a museum for priceless stones. Everywhere you looked were glittering gems locked up safely in glass cases. For now. Cream and Amy had changed outfits into cat-bugler suits that clung to them like a second layer of skin. While Amy went around freeing the jewels, Cream caught them in a raggedy sac.

"I can't believe I'm actually helping you steal these priceless jewels..."

"Yeah, I know, me neither! Okay. I think that's all of them."

Cream blinked around and surely enough, Amy had pried open each and every display case in the entire museum.

"That was fast!" Cream shouted in surprise.

"You idiot!" Amy growled.

The museum's alarm went off loudly as its cries attracted the police's attention. A flash went off somewhere and took a picture of the thieves which made Amy even angrier.

"Sorry." Cream squeaked.

Amy glared at the young rabbit. "I'm never taking you out for shopping ever again!"

"Puh! This wasn't even shopping!"

"Just hurry up and flap those waffles!"

"Don't call my ears waffles!"

"Put your hands up!" the police burst in with their guns and lights, but the girls had already escaped with the jewels.

The chief lowered his gun and checked the camera that took the girls' picture. Unfortunately, it was an old camera and the photo was blurry and black and white. The other policemen circled the photo and they all tried to figure out who it was.

"Looks like... a hedgehog..." one said.

"And a...um... alien?" another guessed.

"Alien? Hedgehog?" the chief said. "It's got to be that pathetic blueberry and the other one that bailed him out!"

"What makes you think that, chief?" someone said.

Chief rubbed his mustache between his thumb and forefinger. "Never question the mustache!"

Chief turned around and finally revealed his face.

It was Dr. Eggman in disguise.

From a hidden space in the ceiling above, Amy's hands covered Cream's mouth as the angrily surprised rabbit tried to shout and protest.

(Rouge the Bat)

While Knuckles was walking Rouge home, the two saw Tails' house and an eerie laughter coming from it.

"Mr. Tails must be really happy..." Rouge commented as a fox shadow appeared in one of the windows with the hands up and mouth wide open. (Like those evil scientist laughter poses.)

"Or he just finally snapped." Knuckles mumbled.

"It is FINALLY COMPLETE!"

Rouge and Knuckles flinched as Tails' voice carried out of his house and down the street, right into their ears. Rouge clutched her ears as if the laughter was dangerous knives instead of harmless soundwaves. Knuckles pat Rouge soothingly on the back.

"Let's go check up on Tails." Knuckles said.

Rouge nodded. The two went into Tails house without knocking and went straight into the lab where they found their fox friend. Tails looked up at them and laughed gleefully.

"Knuckles! Rouge! Glad to know you're already here! One down...two to go..." Tails said.

"Um...you okay there, Tails?" Knuckles reached out with one hand towards the fidgeting fox.

"It's done! The machine to return them back to normal is DONE!" Tails laughed.

"Great!" Knuckles exclaimed. "You hear that, Rouge? We'll be getting you back to normal in no time!"

"That's-" Rouge started.

"Where's Amy and Cream?!" Tails shouted. "I need all three of them to be here!"

"...Well..." Rouge scratched her head. "In a ceiling...?"

"What?" Knuckles said. "That makes no sense."

Then the television came on and reported the news about the stolen museum.

"That would be Amy and Cream's work..." Rouge sighed.

"Man...What is up with these televisions?!" Knuckles shouted. "It's like they know...stuff."

Hey guys! Sorry for the wait! I've been really busy lately and will be for a long time...but hopefully, I'll get another chapter or other done before the end of this year. Enjoy^^