The Chaos Saga
Cream the rabbit's story
Chapter 2
When I was much younger, I used to encounter my chao-friend, Cheese, in a nearby chao garden. It was how I got to know him and befriend him as my new pet. But that has nothing to do with how I first met Sonic.
When Dr. Eggman threatened to take-over the world with his robot armies and the Chaos Emeralds, he also went far as to capture and imprison Mommy, Big, Cheese, and I. The best we could do while we were imprisoned in a capsule was to comfort each other and hope that rescue would come. We managed to get our wish, but it wasn't as we'd expected, because it was in the form of a speedy, blue hedgehog, Sonic. With his trademark speed, he'd free the four of us and defeat Eggman countless times over. However, because of the incident, Big the cat, our family-friend, vowed that anytime Sonic dies or disappears, he'd grow more powerful enough to protect even Mommy, Cheese, and I, with failing results due to Sonic doing all the work.
I also wanted to become stronger, because I don't want to do anything except get myself and my family kidnapped and used by Eggman, as it's humiliating. I tried everything I could to get myself and Cheese more powerful as well, but Big often doesn't want the two of us to die for Mommy's life, because I was just a little girl with a chao. That was, however, until that one, rainy day, that I'd get my wish.
Cheese and I were walking home from Station Square Elementary School after a long day there. It was a rainy Friday, and Cheese and I ran down the streets to the train-station, hoping not to get wet, since we forgot to bring an umbrella. However, by accident, we'd get lost and hit a dead-end. "Chao, chao," Cheese said to me as we hit the dead-end in the city.
"You don't have to remind me," I said to Cheese. "It's just that it's rainy, and none of us want to get wet! I know we're lost, but everything's going to be alright. I'm sure we'll make it back on time."
"Chao," replied Cheese.
As his back faced me, I asked, "Did you see something?" I'd look to where Cheese was facing, and saw nothing. "It's probably nothing," I said to Cheese. "Come on, Mommy's probably getting worried sick."
Before we could continue, I felt someone's cold hand touch my right shoulder from behind. As the two of us turned around, we were shocked to discover a blue, liquid-bodied monster with green eyes, his arm stretched like rubber to reach my shoulder!
"You're joking," I said, "right? Why are you touching my shoulder?"
The liquid bodied monster released my shoulder and slowly, menacingly walked toward me. We could've just ran, but we were too paralyzed in fear after seeing that monster.
Looking at Cheese, he then said to me, "I see you've raised your chao to be strong and healthy. Often, when a chao is raised like yours, it would defend its master with great and ruthless efficiency."
"Wait a minute," I said to the monster. "How can you talk? And why are you interested in my chao?"
"Tell me," said the monster, "do you hate Dr. Eggman?"
"As in the fat scientist that imprisoned my family and I," I asked. "What's going on? How do you know about him?"
"You and I share a common hatred for Dr. Eggman," the monster said to me. "With the way you raised your chao, you would've gained a strength needed to combat and destroy Dr. Eggman, and change the world in the way you want it to be! Take your anger and hatred for the mad doctor, combine it with your chao's strength, and use it to destroy him once and for all!"
"You haven't even given me your name yet," I said, "and why you're telling me to fight Eggman when you snuck-up on me!"
"How rude of me," said the monster. "I've forgot to tell you. I am Chaos, and like you, I share a desire to rid the world of every last accursed evil person. This world is divided through war and violence, and only through our combined power can we unite it under our rule, ridding it of every last evil person, Eggman included. All you have to do is collect the seven Chaos Emeralds and deliver them to me, and I can give you the power to kill Eggman and shape the world in the way you want it to be."
"Wait a minute," I said to Chaos, "I see where this is going. I've read a lot of books where the hero becomes a villain not by joining the bad guys, but rather by ruthlessly killing them out of anger and hate! If there's anything these books taught me, it's to see the world in all shades of gray, not black-and-white like you!" I then said to Cheese, "Right?"
"Chao, chao," replied Cheese.
"Think about it," Chaos said. "Would you want that fat idiot to determine your every actions for the rest of your life? Would you want him to end up destroying you? You possess power beyond imagining thanks in-part to your chao, and I suggest you use it to your advantage!"
"You haven't listened to a word I said," I said to Chaos, "right? There's some good within that giant sack of world-domination desires that makes-up Eggman! There's no way I'm going to be no different from Eggman himself simply by killing him!"
"Very well," Chaos replied. "If I cannot convince you, then I shall use you as an example of what happens to those who cross with the God of Destruction!"
Before Eggman could attack, there was a bright flash of light behind Cheese and I. We'd then face what was behind us, which consisted entirely of police-officers and their cars, aiming their guns at us. "This is the Station Square Police Department," one of the officers said to Chaos, "release the girl and her pet fairy, and surrender now!"
As Chaos walked past me, blocking me from the police officers, Chaos said to me, "Everything is going to be alright. I'll protect you from those violent men."
"I don't know what you're talking about," I said to Chaos, "but these men are here to protect me from you! They're police-men, it's what they do!"
"That's not how I see it," replied Chaos. He'd then face the police-men, as he split his arm into multitudes of them, stretching them to grab the police-men's guns, and snatch them from the officers. He then proceeded to remove the ammo from their guns, dropping both the ammo and the guns behind us.
"Did that thing just disarm us," asked one of the officers.
"Of course he did," said another officer, "master of the obvious!"
"Well," said the third officer, "if that's the case, then..."
"Retreat," called the fourth officer. The officers then quickly got into their cars, but before they could drive away, Chaos inserted his arm into the ground, and summoned a series of geysers that pushed the cars high into the air. Just when the cars were about to fall, killing the police-officers inside them, a bright, blue blur appeared out of nowhere and, in a couple of miliseconds, got the officers out of their cars and onto the ground. The cars crashed into the ground, with the police-men saved by none-other than the same person that saved my family and I: Sonic the Hedgehog!
"You again," one of the officers said to Sonic. "We're thankful that you've saved our lives and all, but you can't just shove into police-business without permission!"
"What," Sonic said to the police-men, "so that you could die because of that monster? Find a good place to hide while I handle the monster for you!"
"Right," said the second officer, as the police-men retreated, leaving Sonic alone to save me from Chaos.
"I'm afraid there's no running, bucko," Sonic said to Chaos. "You're using a little girl and her fairy as hostages, whom along with her family I used to rescue from Eggman. I suggest you release the two, unless you want things to get ugly!"
"Funny you should say such a thing," Chaos said to Sonic, "because I sense a desire for power within you."
"What," Sonic asked shockingly.
"What are you talking about," I said to Chaos. "Sonic's the hero! How can he desire power like Eggman?"
"Chao, chao,"
"Don't involve yourself in our conversation," Chaos demanded to Cheese and I. He then said to Sonic, "I possess the power to read other people's hearts. It's how I know your desire for power. But tell me, do you have friends you've sworn to protect?"
"Yeah," Sonic replied. "What does this have to do with anything?"
"You possess fear for your friends' safeties," Chaos said. "You're afraid that Eggman is growing more powerful than one could imagine. You hate Eggman, and yet you're not using that said hatred to your advantage. I can unlock your full potential, so that you can use it to destroy Eggman and shape the world in the way you want it to be! All you have to do is give me the seven Chaos Emeralds."
"I... uh," Sonic nervously said to Chaos.
"You see," Chaos said. "Just like that. I can see anxiety on your face, just as much as I can see it in your heart. Unless you want me to destroy you, help the girl and I destroy Eggman."
"No," I said to Chaos.
"Didn't I tell you to not involve yourself in our conversation," Chaos said to Cheese and I."
"The talking monster's right, you know," Sonic said to me. "It's best that you..."
"Sonic's not the type to become the equivalent of Eggman," I interrupted bravely. "He'd never stoop to Eggman's level to defeat him! He's the hero, and heroes never submit to their own emotions just to defeat the bad guys!"
"Is that so," Chaos asked. He then faced a fearful Sonic, as he continued, "You want to play the true hero, one that can never be corrupted through killing their own arch-enemies, then by all means, die like the uncorruptable hero you are!"
Sonic and Chaos's fight with each other would begin, as Cheese and I were involved in it. We just couldn't believe everything Chaos said about Sonic! Heroes are selfless, doing good deeds without any expectations for a reward! And yet Chaos said that Sonic desires power and is cowardly and hateful of Eggman's constant-return and his friends' safeties! How could Chaos say such a thing to the one hedgehog that saved our lives? Is he not lying?