Cream hears the sound of an old man begging for mercy in the nearby woods. She reaches for her guns, but her pockets are empty. Damn, I forgot I left them back at the manor…she thought, sprinting in the direct of the cry. As she entered, she saw a pack of snake men dressed in all black, beating up on an old man.
"Hey! Stop that!" she screamed; the snakes halted their assault, turning their attention to her.
The leader of the pack slithered forward; he wore a black fedora with a knife sticking out the hat. "You're quite the cute one eh? Sticking your nose where it doesn't belong…"
He snaps his fingers, motioning all his men to aim their machine guns at her; Cream got in a fighting stance, ready to kick some ass. A couple of snakes ran forward without the leader's command, and they surely suffered the price. Cream grabbed the first one by the arm, twisting it so hard that it popped out the socket-grabbing the gun at the same time. She shot the next one, diving behind the trees as they all fired shots at her; Sonic and Richard heard the loud gunshots and immediately made a break for the woods, realizing Cream wasn't with them.
Back in the woods, Cream was quickly picking off every one of their men like a plant, blasting a round in everyone and landing fatal blows to the grunts as some heads exploded from the powerful impact. She did a quick forward roll and shot the men guarding the old man, but she didn't keep her vision on the enemy and only focused on retrieving the old man. The leader shot her in the leg as she ran for the old man. Cream writhes in agony as the bullet secured domain in her leg, seeing the blood oozing out quickly grabbing both of them by the hair and hurrying off into a fancy SUV as he heard someone coming. The rest of the men left-leaving the dead bodies behind.
Sonic and Richard arrive a moment later, seeing all the fresh dead bodies scattered across the ground. Sonic looks away in disgust at the wounds they all suffered. Richard walks over to one that appears to still be alive, only he is near death.
"Quite the wound you got there…mind telling us how you got it? You tell us, we'll save your life…" negotiated Richard.
"Cmon, it's heartless to play with a man's life. We should bring him back to the manor and get him treated." Said Sonic, handing over the man to Richard; the man was breathing lightly as he looked at the sun with wide eyes.
"Where are you going?" asked Richard.
"I'm going to go look for Cream. Please notify everyone there that Cream has gone missing." Said Sonic; Richard nodded, placing the man in the passenger seat and reclining the chair for him and driving off afterwards; Sonic continued his search.
Sonic looked around, finding tire tracks close by the woods on the other side of the park. No doubt...she was kidnapped.
Back at the Manor, Amy and Lily were in a fancy room, discussing the current status of Gordana. Amy was intense as she was up and out of her seat yelling, while Lily remained calm and stayed in her seat.
"Amy, it is a simple process. All that we need to do is send your friends in as a decoy until the others arrive. Why won't you simply agree with the plan?"
"Why…? Because you're throwing my friends into harm's way! I refuse to risk their lives for the sake of this terrible country!"
A vein popped from Lily, "Don't talk about this country as if you're not of any relation to it, you ungrateful rat!" yelled Lily in anger, getting up out her seat and in Amy's face.
Both of them had an intense stare-down when Richard called Lily's phone, filling her in on what was currently happening. Lily hangs up the phone afterwards, taking a deep breath, having Amy sit down.
"Cream's gone missing…that's what Richard's saying…" she said, looking at her phone.
"What…? No way…" responded Amy, clutching the sofa. "Cream wouldn't…she …she's got an iron mindset with keen awareness! She couldn't simply have gone missing!"
"Well, she's missing. Richard said he recovered one the accomplices…but apparently he must need some heavy treatment. So he must have taken some serious damage from something…"
Cream…what did you get yourself into!? Amy thought, shaking her leg rapidly and biting the 2nd knuckle of her index finger with great concern for Cream's whereabouts.
"We have to find her…" she said hurriedly.
"Wait…we can learn what happened from the dude that Richard is bringing. Just relax…" said Lily, crossing her arms.
"I can't…"-Amy has her aha moment-"I'll ask Tails!" sprinting out the room.
"Don't run in the hallway!" yelled Lily, shaking her fist.
Tails was in the lab, building different creations just off the spurt of the moment. Amy enters the room, seeing the dozen of creations that the yellow fox pulled off. She approaches Tails, who's currently building high tech gauntlets.
"Tails I need your help!" shouted Amy, jogging over to him.
"What's wrong?" he responded, wiping the sweat off his face and adjusting his glasses.
"Cream's gone missing…"
"…"
"Tails..?"
"Well, that unfortunate to hear. So, exactly why have you come to me?" he said in a plain tone; Amy's a little unsettled by Tails nonchalant reaction towards the news.
"What's up with you? Aren't you a little bothered by her going missing?" she said, wrinkling her mouth and lowering her eyebrows.
"Nothing, I just don't feel like I should worry about Cream. I think that where ever she is right now, she'll be ok."
"Tails, she's only 8. No matter how much training she's undergone, she's still just a child! You're 10! You of all people should be worried the most about her!"
Tails' eyes sharpen, "How about showing more faith in her instead of worrying so much…"
An awkward silence befalls the room as the only sound heard is the sound of Tails, shuffling his tools around, and the sound of metal clacking with the table as he balances the two gauntlets.
"Tails, do you think you have a GPS that could track her?" ask Amy, looking to put that conversation behind.
"No, but I could one. If you have anything that contains any of her DNA, bring it here. I can take that and build a GPS that will read her DNA and find her location."
Cool, I think she should have some hair on her brush…I'll bring that!" she said, Rushing out the room.
Meanwhile in an unknown location in a dimly lit room lies Cream on the floor, handcuffed. Cream wakes up to see herself in a square room, all dull and very gray with nothing in the room at all. She sees a metal door with a small rectangular opening with a small bit of orange light emitting from it. She crawls over on her knees, hearing the sounds of men and women screaming in agony and begging for mercy, pleading to be released.
Are they being tortured? She thought where am I? Where's the old man from earlier?