Chapter 5: Finding Cream

Back at the van, Vanilla and the others were waiting for Amadeus and Cream to come back. Rosemary had gotten out of her vehicle with Sonic and Tails in her arms. The two babies were asleep. “Don’t they look adorable like this?” she said to Vanilla.

“I’ll say,” Vanilla replied. Just then, Amadeus returned, nearly out of breath when he got to the van. “Amadeus?” asked Rosemary. “What’s wrong? And where’s Cream?”

Amadeus, still out of breath, handed Vanilla the note he found. She took the note from Amadeus and read it, and she was instantly worried. “What’s the matter, Vanilla?” Rosemary asked her.

“My baby’s been kidnapped!” Vanilla stated.

“What?!” she said, handing Sonic and Tails to Amadeus then taking the note and seeing it herself. She then read it outloud and it said, “Dear Mr. Prower, I’ve snagged your daughter the instant I spotted her just outside the bathroom while you were in it. I’m doing some tests on her to confirm my theories on something Dr. Robotnik had constructed. You and the whole world will find out what it is soon enough. Signed, Dr. Starline.”

“That fiend,” an enraged Knuckles said as he and the others got out of the van. “How could he do this to such an innocent child?!”

“Knux, not so loud,” Vanilla interrupted. “You’ll scare the kids if you talk so loud.”

“Ohp, sorry,” he said, stopping himself before he could continue being loud.

“Now what do you suppose it could be that Starline said Eggman had built?” asked Rouge while holding Amy and Shadow in her arms. The two hedgehogs were also asleep.

“I don’t know, Rouge,” answered Amadeus. “But it can’t be good.”

“I’ll say,” added Vanilla. Rouge then thought for a second. “What if I go and sneak into the facility where she could be at?” Rouge said. “I’m an on-and-off G.U.N. agent after all.” Then she handed Knuckles the babies and showed her G.U.N. badge as proof of concept.

“Okay, but where could she be at?” asked Vanilla.

“And why am I holding these two now?!” complained Knuckles.

“Chillax, Knux,” Rouge said to Knuckles. “You can handle two babies.” She then faced Vanilla again and said to her, “I have a pretty good suspicion as to what facility she could be at.”

“You think so, Rouge?” asked Vanilla. 

“Yeah. I do,” Rouge answered. “I think it might be somewhere near Egghead’s lair.”

“That’s entirely possible,” added Rosemary. “But won’t there be several robots everywhere guarding the place?”

“Most likely,” added Rouge. “But I could probably get past them and see if I could snag Cream and whatever it is Starline had mentioned and bring them back with me.”

“Sounds dangerous,” Vanilla said.

“Yeah, no duh it’s dangerous. But like I said, on-and-off G.U.N. agent. I can handle it,” Rouge added before handing the three adults a tracking device. “What’s this for?” asked Amadeus.

“It’s so you guys can see where I am while I’m infiltrating the facility where Cream could be at,” she added as she also handed Amadeus a special communication device for them to communicate with her. “This’ll get you in contact with me as well.”

“Understood,” replied Amadeus.

“Be careful, Rouge,” Vanilla said to her. “And please bring back my baby girl safely and unharmed.”

“Don’t worry, Ms. Vanilla,” Rouge said as she prepared to fly off. “I’ll be back with Cream in no time.” And then she flew off to go and find Cream at where she believed she could be at. Knuckles, Amadeus, Rosemary, and Vanilla all watched as Rouge went off on her journey.

“I hope she comes back alive,” Vanilla said.

“Us too,” added Rosemary and Amadeus. Soon, Rouge arrived at the outskirts of Eggman’s base. Robots were everywhere, and they were all guarding the fortress. “This must be where they’re holding Cream hostage at,” she said to herself. “I hope they don’t babyfy her too.” She then proceeded to infiltrate the base, making certain she didn’t get detected by a single robot.

Once she got close enough to the facility, she flew up to a nearby vent, opened it up, and went into it. Then she quietly snuck around within the ventilation system to avoid being detected. And using her echolocation ability, Rouge began searching for Cream.

Meanwhile, in another part of the fortress, Eggman was tinkering with one of his badniks when Starline came in with a still-unconscious Cream in his arms. “Dr. Robotnik, sir,” he said. “I’ve got the test subject for your device.”

“And what’s the stat on your testing, Starline?” Eggman asked, still tinkering with the badnik.

Starline then set still-unconscious Cream down on the floor and said to Eggman, “So far, it seems that your latest weapon knocks people unconscious instead of annihilating them. But from the scans I did earlier on the glowing object you shattered when it failed you, it also regresses the same people to baby age, first mentally, then physically.” Starline then handed Eggman the research papers.

“WHAT?!” said Dr. Eggman, suddenly turning around and grabbing the papers to take a look at them. “That bites. What use are babies for anyways?”

“I do believe there is ONE potential use for them,” Starline stated.

“And what would that be?” Eggman asked.

“Maybe we could raise them to be your loyal servants just as your grandfather did my father, and my father did me.”

Eggman then thought for a second. “Hmm, not a bad idea, Starline,” he said. “I can raise them in my own evil image instead of them being those goody two-shoes defenders of Mobius! But I’d have to build some robots solely to raise them just like that.” Cream then started to regain consciousness. Both doctors saw this.

“The rabbit girl! She’s waking up!” said Starline. Then they both waited to see what would happen after she fully awakened. When she did so, Starline said to her, “Wakey wakey, little bunny.”. Then Cream stared at him and said a simple “Gaa”, then started sucking her thumb.

“This is a promising sign,” Starline stated, turning back towards Eggman.

“I assume this is the mental phase?” asked Eggman.

“I believe so,” answered Starline.

“When do you think the physical phase will kick in then?”

“That I don’t know, sir. But let’s hope it’s sometime soon.” Suddenly, some hissing could be heard. It was dead obvious as to where it was coming from. Both doctors looked and saw that Cream was wetting herself.

“Orbot! Cubot! Tend to that at once!” Eggman ordered. Then the two robots did as they were ordered to and went straight to Cream, picked her up, and took her out of there to another room, leaving behind a wet trail from her tinkling.

“Those two’ll be back to clean that up,” Starline stated.

“I know,” Eggman added. Then he resumed tinkering with his badnik, with Starline helping him.

Meanwhile, Orbot and Cubot brought Cream into what appeared to be a nursery for villains and put her in the playpen. “I remember using this nursery years ago,” Cubot said while he and Orbot went over to the changing station to get some supplies from there. “Don’t you, Orbot?”

“Sadly, yes,” Orbot replied, a little disappointed. “Oh, the horror. So many diaper changes. So much baby nonsense.”

“I know that feeling a lot,” Cubot stated. Then the two robots grabbed the supplies they needed and went back over to Cream, who by now had finished wetting herself. “Seems like someone needs a diapee on them,” Orbot said to her while holding a diaper in his hand. Cubot then got out a ray gun and shot it at the diaper to make it big enough to fit Cream. “Thank you, Cubot,” Orbot said to him.

“No problem,” Cubot replied. Then the two robots proceeded to put Cream in the diaper. Orbot noticed that a wet trail had been made when he and Cubot carried her all the way to the nursery. “Looks like we’ll have to clean that up afterwards,” he said to Cubot while they removed Cream’s panties from her.

“Do we have to?” Cubot griped while he held her legs up so Orbot could clean her crotch up.

“Both doctors would tell us to, so yes,” Orbot answered. Then he opened up the diaper and put it onto Cream. However, unbeknownst to them, inside the ventilation system, Rouge had found Cream in the nursery. She saw the two robots putting the diaper onto Cream.

“Who knew that big ol weapon Dr. Robotnik used could turn someone it’s used on into a baby?” Cubot stated. “A shame it makes them like that mentally first, then physically.”

“I’ll say,” Orbot agreed. “Though I’m certain Master Robotnik will figure out a way to fix that so that it could turn anyone into a baby both mentally and physically at the same time.”

“You think so?” asked Cubot.

“I don’t see why not,” answered Orbot. “I mean, he probably could if he ever wanted to.”

“That’s true,” stated Cubot. Just then, a voice could be heard from a speaker in the room. It belonged to Eggman. “Are you two done pampering her yet!?” he stated.

“We just finished, boss,” Cubot said with a salute to the speaker.

“Good! Now clean up that trail she made while you two carried her to the nursery!” ordered Eggman through the speaker.

“Told ya they’d order us to,” Orbot whispered to Cubot.

“Gahhh, do we have to?” complained Cubot. Then Orbot and Cubot left the nursery, locking it tight so Cream wouldn’t escape. She was distracted by a baby mobile anyways. “Don’t worry, Cream,” Rouge quietly said, having seen and heard it all. “I’ll get you outta here very soon.” Then she crawled through the ventilation system to find the weapon Orbot and Cubot had mentioned.

“Now where could that weapon be?” she thought to herself while crawling through the ventilation system. “If I could get it outta here and somehow set it in reverse, I can use it to change everyone back to normal.”

Soon, she found a weapon in what appeared to be a testing room while crawling in the vents. “This must be it,” she thought to herself upon seeing it. “Now to just figure out how to get it outta here.” Then she opened the vent cover and flew into the room.

She examined it and thought, “Now how am I gonna get this thing outta here?” She then went towards the device and took a closer examination of it. It was bolted to the ground, but if Rouge tried to simply unbolt it from the ground, the whole thing would topple over, triggering the alarms. Rouge knew this, so she had to figure out another way.

Meanwhile, the two doctors were almost finished tinkering with the badnik. Orbot and Cubot came in with cleaning supplies to clean up the trail left behind when Cream tinkled during transport to the nursery. “We got the cleaning supplies to clean up the mess with, boss,” Cubot said.

“About time,” Eggman said. “Now get to it!”

“Right away, Master Robotnik,” Orbot stated. Then he and Cubot started cleaning up the wet trail from where it began. “So after we’re done tinkering with this badnik, I’m guessing we could check on the weapon even more so to see how we can fine tune it to regress people both mentally and physically at the same time without making them unconscious first, sir?” Starline asked.

“That’d be smart to do,” Eggman answered. “I mean, nobody wants an unconscious baby, after all.”

“I’ll say,” added Starline. Then they resumed tinkering with the badnik. Meanwhile, back in the room where the weapon was, Rouge was still trying to figure out to steal the weapon without setting the alarm off. She was tweaking it a little, hoping to not only somehow get it out, but also to get it to reverse the effects it did on the others.

“Why does it have to be so hard to get this thing outta here?” she quietly said to herself. But what she didn’t know was that she fine tuned it to regress people both mentally and physically at the same time without making them unconscious first, exactly as the two doctors would intend to.

“Ah screw it, I’m just gonna snag it,” she stated to herself. Then she flew up and attempted to take the weapon by force. When she did so, however, her foot slipped and pushed a button which turned the machine on. Both Eggman and Starline heard this from where they were.

“That sounds like the weapon!” Eggman exclaimed.

“I think that IS the weapon, sir,” Starline stated.

“Those two nincombots better not be messing with it,” stated Eggman as he and Starline left the badnik behind to head to the weapon. Back with the weapon, Rouge tried everything she could to shut down the machine, but to no avail. She even tried the separate control panel, which was away from the weapon but in front of it too. She tried everything on it, but she pressed a button, which fired the weapon right at her.

Eggman and Starline heard the weapon going off by the time they got to the entrance to the room it was in. The door was still closed. Starline inputted a code into the keypad next to the door, which unlocked it, giving the doctors access to the room. Upon entering, they discovered something that caught their attention.

In front of the weapon was what appeared to be Rouge’s outfit, but Rouge wasn’t seen anywhere. “It seems that Rouge had attempted to steal the weapon from us,” Starline theorized.

“You don’t suppose she got disintegrated by the thing, do you?” Eggman said.

“I don’t know, sir,” answered Starline. “But last I recall, it only turns its victims into babies. She could’ve fiddled with the controls while attempting to steal it, though. That could’ve altered it.” Just then, something was moving within Rouge’s outfit. “What was that?” Eggman said upon seeing it.

“I don’t know,” Starline said. “But I’m gonna find out.” He then went towards it and lifted it, revealing a now-baby Rouge, completely naked. Both doctors were VERY surprised at this. She not only looked like one, but acted like one as well. Plus, she wasn’t even unconscious at all. “It seems like Rouge redid the weapon to do exactly as we intended to redo it to do,” Starline said while picking her up.

“You’re right, Starline,” Eggman said upon examining the controls and settings. “She actually saved us the trouble of reworking this thing to our new targeted plan.”

“I’ll say,” Starline agreed while he and Eggman grinned evilly. “Now it’s ready for use on the whole planet.” But before anything else could be done, Orbot and Cubot came in quickly, and Cubot said “Hey boss, you might wanna come to the nursery real quick.” The two doctors then followed the two robots to the nursery, with Starline carrying Rouge, and when they got there, both Orbot and Cubot pointed to where Cream is, only now, she shrank down to baby size.

“It seems like the weapon is closer to what you two are achieving now,” Orbot said. But both doctors smirked, then Starline said, “Funny you should bring that up actually, Orbot.”

“Why’s that, Dr. Starline?” Orbot asked, a little confused. Then Starline showed Rouge to them and said, “Because Rouge here adjusted it even more so to exactly what we were achieving, then it fired on her and turned her into a baby instantly.”

“Whoa! That’s GREAT!” Cubot said in cheer. “Now we can go after all those Mobians and turn them into babies!”

“Exactly, Cubot,” Eggman agreed. “But first, there are a few other things that need to be taken care of first.”

“Like what, Doctor?” Orbot asked.

“Several hundred robots built for the sole purpose of raising the little ones into my own evil image, for one,” replied Eggman.

“That is so true, boss,” Cubot stated. “I mean, can we imagine just Orbot and myself raising several thousand babies on our own?”

“No, but I can imagine you two helping to build all those robots,” Eggman remarked. This got their attention, and upon hearing it, they both sighed in grief. “Me and my big mouth,” Cubot griped at Orbot.

Meanwhile, Vanilla and the others were back at her place, with Vanilla still worried about Rouge. “No worries, Vanilla,” Amadeus said to her. “I’m sure Rouge will be back with Cream in no time.”

“I know, but I wonder what happened to her,” Vanilla said, still worried. “And if Cream will be safe.”

“Well, worse comes to worse, they both might wind up being babyfied somehow,” Knuckles stated.

“Knuckles!” Amadeus griped at him. “Please!” Suddenly, Amadeus realized something. “Wait,” he said, taking something out of his pocket. “Rouge gave us this tracking device!”

“Oh that’s right,” Vanilla stated upon seeing it. “I forgot about that.”

“Now to just turn it on and….” But when Amadeus turned it on, he couldn’t get anything on it. Then he got the communication device out of his pocket and turned it on, but all he heard from that was static. “Strange,” he said. “I can’t get a thing on either of these devices.”

“Do you think something happened to Rouge?” asked Vanilla.

“I dunno, Vanilla,” answered Amadeus. “But Knuckles could be right and both she and Cream got babyfied the same way the other four did.”

“It’s entirely possible,” Knuckles stated. Vanilla then thought for a second. “Why don’t you go after them, Knuckles?”

“What?! Nuh-uh! No way! Not without backup!” Knuckles complained.

“What kind of backup?” Amadeus asked. “We don’t know of anybody who could help you at the moment. Sorry.”

Vanilla then thought for a minute. “Hold on, what about the Chaotix?” she asked. This made Knuckles suddenly realize. “Oh yeah, I forgot about them,” he said. “But yeah, that sounds like a good idea. I used to be their leader after all before I let Vector be leader when I stepped down from them.”

“Maybe you could ask them to be your back-up, Knuckles,” Amadeus suggested.

“You know, Amadeus. You’re right. I could ask them for help,” Knuckles agreed. “And I’m gonna do that right now.” Then he got out his cellphone and called the Chaotix.