Act 8: The alternative

"Sonic, Sonic?" Amy asked "Are you coming to?" Sonic slowly started to wake back up. "How long have I been out?" He groaned, "You were knocked out for 4 days" "What!?" he shouted. "You went berserk when Knuckles was killed," Tails explained, "Scratch tried to impale you with a drill but Knuckles jumped in the way and it got him instead." "You were so angry that you jumped on Scratch, ripped his beak of and stabbed him in the face" Amy continued, "Then you attacked Grounder. They're probably dead too. I had to stop you from going mad by hitting you with a rock." she finished. "Did you at least get the Super Emerald?" Sonic asked, "I'm sorry Sonic..." Tails sighed. Sonic got off his bed and grabbed Tails by the torso. "Are you trying to get us all killed!?" He shouted, "I was afraid that Dr. Eggman would try to come and steal it from us while you were unconscious." Tails said, "You're right. I'm sorry, I must still be upset about Knuckles dying." Sonic sighed. "But we can't just give up and let Dr. Eggman win," Tails started "which is why I've thought of another source of power. The Chaos Emeralds." "But they're not as powerful as the Super Emeralds." Sonic said, "It's better than nothing." Tails replied. "All seven of them are at the Angel Island Zone so it should be easy to get them." Sonic and Amy both agreed and they went outside their house to head to the Mystic Ruins zone.

"Wut just happened?" Vector asked, "I think Cream snapped," Ray answered "we better go get her and get those emeralds back before she hurts someone." and they chased after her. As they caught up to her Cream said "Stop following me, you jerks. This is my emerald now." And she started flapping her ears and took flight. "Ha, you fags won't catch me now!" she laughed, Bean and Ray jumped in the air and took flight as well, "Duh" bean laughed. Since Vector couldn't fly he could only watch them fly away, he walked up to a nearby bench, pulled a harmonica out of his pocket and whistled a tune. Ray and Bean were chasing Cream in circles for twenty minutes until Cream finally got tired and started to descend. Ray tried to follow her but he flew too close to a lamp post and hooked his patagium on it. Once she touched the ground Vector ran to her, trying to get one of he emeralds, she kept backing away. Bean stood behind Cream so when she backed away once more she bumped into him. "Ok, Cream play time is over, give me the Super Emeralds." "Ok" Cream said, "But first let me clean up my groceries" she says and looks to her bag of groceries she dropped right before snapping. She bends over and starts rummaging through it for something. "I meant to give you guys this earlier" She says and pulls out the pepper spray and sprays Bean and Vector again. "Aargh!" Vector yelled, "That's it, you're fucking dead." and pulls out his gun. Bean or Cream don't have any time to react, he quickly pulled his gun out and pulled the trigger on her. Once Ray saw that Vector pulled his gun put on Cream he tried to jump off the lamp post and stop him but his skin was pinched under part of it. All they could do was see her be shot...

They expected Cream to drop dead but Vector shot a blank. "W-wait, hold on. I'll get ya this time." He said, while reloading. Cream only hesitated for a second before running away. Bean ran after her. Cream tripped over the curb and dropped the Super Emeralds. She didn't pick them up, she stopped moving for a few seconds. "...Cream?" Bean asked. "Oh, I'm sorry I dropped your emeralds," Cream said politely, "Oh now you want to be all polite." Vector yelled "What do you mean?" Cream asked, "You guys were fighting, I took the emeralds, and I dropped them, what did I do that was rude?" "Oh, cut the crap, you took the emeralds and went all psycho on us." Vector snarled. "Hey, maybe it was one of the Super Emeralds that made her act like that. One of them mad me brave, one made Bean act like an emerald locator, maybe the emeralds make people act weird ways." Ray said. "Hey let's go take these emeralds to Tails, he might know something about these." Bean said. He picked up the emeralds and he, Cream, and Vector all went to the train station that led to Tails' house. "Hey, what about me?" Ray shouted, but they didn't hear him and they left him there, still stuck on the lamp post.

And thus ends Act 8...