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And I am VERYVERYVERY sorry for taking so long. Had to get through exam week before I could start working on this chapter….but excuses, excuses. At least it's finished now! Hooray!

Replying to my reviews:

Anairathehealf: Yes, I agree. This is a weird story….and everyone needs a little bit of weird in their life every once in a while. Lol

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ballandcup: Yes, everything is going crazy. Even Dr. Eggman…poor guy is struggling with his own name…lol

CHAPTER 14

(Cream the Rabbit)

Cream pet Tails' ears affectionately. The rain had stopped shortly after he and Rouge had fainted and now, the sunset was clearly on the path to sinking beneath the horizon. It stood out against the gray haze sky, a strong reminder of the dark morning a few hours ago, and was reflected within each droplet of rain at peace on the grass and leaves of Earth. With such a warm and beautiful scene, Tails looked like a sleeping angel.

But it was ruined by Rouge's heavy body.

Unconsciously, Rouge's arm flung itself across Tails' chest. Cream roughly pushed it away. Unhappily, Rouge snuggled closer to Tails. Cream rolled her body back into its original position. After a few precious seconds, Rouge snuggled even closer to Tails.

That does it!

Fuming with jealousy, Cream dragged Rouge's body to the nearby river in the deeper parts of the woods and threw her in. For a few moments, she felt guilty and slightly panicked as Rouge's body splashed into the water and sank. But then Rouge reemerged, still unconscious, and drifted further into the forest. Cream just stood there in almost disbelief, but then she scoffed and marched back to tend to her little angel.

When she arrived back underneath the tree, Tails was gone. Worried, Cream looked around as if Tails was just lying around somewhere. Maybe she returned to the wrong tree? But the unmistakable fox-shaped print drawn with crushed grass blades told her differently. Looking up with a new focus on the distance, Cream could barely make out Tails heading back into the city, towards his home. Smiling brightly, she immediately went to follow him. It didn't take long at all to catch up to Tails. However, it was obvious that the fox was absorbed in his own little world, mumbling to himself about some math or science or whatever. Cream didn't really understand and it didn't help that she could only hear a few bits of information here and there. So she settled with what she could get: the opportunity to walk down the street with Tails (even though she walked a few steps behind him). Soon, they arrived at his house and immediately, Tails went to his laboratory with Cream at his heels.

The first thing Cream noticed was the large and vaguely familiar machine taking most of the room right in the middle of everything. Tails went to the main control board and started checking the status of the machine.

Cream slowly shuffled closer to the machine and hesitantly touched it with her right hand. She had never seen such a thing in her life yet it looked so familiar! She barely noticed Tails nodding to himself in satisfaction and leaving her alone in the lab. She didn't even wonder where he was going. Instead, she looked through Tails' notes.

She stared intently at one particular piece of paper. It was more of a little reminder Tails had written to himself.

Never let Amy Rose and Rouge the Bat into the lab ever again. And Cream, too.

Need all three to reverse the personality switch.

Effects will likely be permanent after three days. Running out of time…

Cream's eyebrows furrowed in confusion. From what she gathered, something must have gone wrong in the lab and by the looks of it, it was Amy's, Rouge's, or her fault. Perhaps the accident he seemed to be referring to had to do with the odd, looming machine. Cream looked at it with unease. A personality switch. Something changed her… and most likely Rouge and Amy, too. Was she not supposed to be her? Who was she supposed to be? Heck, who was Amy or even Rouge supposed to be?

Was that why she could telepathically talk to Amy and Rouge for a while? Was it one of the effects of the accident? Dang it, Tails! I'm so lost!

What was going on?

She glared pointedly at the machine. She had to find Amy and Rouge. And Tails, of course. She didn't like feeling confused and she wasn't going to rest until everything was set back in their rightful place.

Cream's lips pulled back into a silent snarl. It was time for the hunt.

(Amy Rose)

When Amy opened her eyes again, she found herself beside a river that gleamed with the sinking sun in a forest clearing. She blinked languidly and smiled softly as the edges of the world softened with the entrance of Shadow in her line of view. He had a small scowl gracing his face and his body was locked into a stiff posture, but the molten promises of passion were clear in his garnet eyes that stared steadily into the deepest parts of her soul. Amy stretched her arms up above her head as she let out a contented yawn like a cat that just woke up from its morning nap. The momentary flash of sparking desire flitted across him, breaking his restrictions for only a millisecond, but Amy caught it anyway and smiled a little uncertainly. She slowly sat up from her comfy makeshift bed of moist grass moss, keeping an eye on Shadow just in case he decided to act on his raging needs. They stared at the other, each a little lost in their own hesitance and haste.

'So what if you let him kiss you?' Amy thought to herself. 'It's just a little kiss…and his lips are 100% kissable. Just look at them. And I bet it won't take him long to…No! I am not even going to finish that thought! Bad Amy! Bad! Augh. Shadow, why couldn't you be a little less sexy? Why did you have to have such perfectly shaped abs and shiny quills…Gah! Listen to me! I shouldn't be wanting him to-'
"Kiss me."

Shadow blinked. "What did you say?" he more or less rasped.

Amy stared at him. "…what?"

"What did you just say?" Shadow demanded as he slowly advanced towards the pink delicacy in front of him.

"I-I don't know what you are talking about!" Amy huffed desperately, trying to sound indignant. She crossed her arms and turned her head away; hiding the blush she knew was spreading her cheeks.

'I can't believe I said that out loud!' Amy mentally slapped herself.

She was startled out of her thoughts as a dominating presence put both his arms on either side of her head and leaned in close, forcing her to lie back down on the forest floor. In last attempts to hide and shrink away, she covered her face using her hands and arms, forming a barrier between herself and Shadow. The black and red hedgehog never stopped his advancements and when faced with her "shield", he let his tongue slide from her fingers to her elbows in a very seductive manner that sent pleasant shivers throughout her entire body. Then he slowly kissed his way back up from his elbows until he was lightly nuzzling her neck.

In submission, Amy felt her arms slide away and her body shifting to reveal her neck even more to Shadow. Breathing was fast becoming a tricky activity. Shadow's volcanic gaze threatened to melt Amy's soul until all it could be was his.

And Amy had no problem with that.

"GYAHH! I'M DROWNING! SOMEONE! PLEASE! HEELLLLPPP!"

Surprised, Amy shoved Shadow off and looked around.

In the river was Rouge, frantically splashing around like a mad man. Her eyes were shot wide open and her arms were hysterically trying to remove all of the water from the river. How she had gotten there, Amy had no idea.

Amy ran to Rouge's side and tried to calm the albino bat down.

"Rouge! Stop it! The river isn't that deep. You can't drown!" Amy shouted, squinting into the spray of water Rouge was causing. Annoyed, Amy attempted to grab her arms, but they were flailing too randomly for capture.

"HELP ME!"

"I'm trying!"

Grumpily, Shadow picked himself up and dusted himself off from his place on the grass. Sending a glare that could turn skeletons into ashes, he barked at Rouge rudely:

"USE YOUR STUPID WINGS AND LEAVE THE RIVER, YOU IDIOT!"

Rouge was frightened so much that she flinched out of the water.

(Rouge the Bat)

"..and then I woke up in the water and started drowning!" Rouge finished.

Rouge had just told Amy and Shadow about her thoughts concerning Knuckles the Echidna and how she was with Tails when she fainted.

"Oh! And before Tails, I saw Dr. Eggman! Well, I didn't see him exactly, but I did see his floating ship. It was really big and had his name all over it! Literally! Although… I question his ability to write his own name correctly." Rouge said.

"Dr. Eggman is up to no good again, huh." Amy growled. "Well, I better go straighten him out! Show him to be careful the next time he blasts me with some zombie-attracting ray thing." Amy cracked her knuckles and stood up to go.

Shadow gently coaxed her back to sitting, but this time, on his lap. Amy blushed furiously and frowned at him with a dislike that didn't quite reach her eyes. Shadow playfully kissed her nose and smirked, his desires being sated with the somewhat innocent touches.

Rouge dropped her head into her hands and sighed inwardly.

'Such a lovely scene,' she thought. 'I wish I could the same with Knuckles…just like that last time….wait, last time?'

Rouge sat up straighter as an unknown memory played through her mind, a pretty picture of herself reading a book on Knuckles' lap.

'I-I….is that me? When did that happen? I can't remember…'

Before she could dwell on it for a bit longer, a loud whirling sound passed them overhead. All three looked up to see Dr. Eggman's new ship, the one Rouge had seen earlier before, heading straight for the city. Smaller ships trailed behind it like baby ducklings following their mother.

"Haha!" Amy laughed evilly. "It's time for revenge."

Rouge just stared at the splat where the 'man' part of 'Eggman' was supposed to be. Guess he still didn't realize his spelling mistake.

Yeah, sorry Rouge's part is so short. C'est la vie! I kind of got frustrated with her in this chapter. She keeps ruining all the romantic scenes!

Rouge: You wrote it that way!

Me: Yeah, yeah.

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