Cream Knows Best - Chapter 16: Chapter 16

Cream's P.O.V
After last night, I knew I had all my notes sorted out and our team was ready to do what we had to do. "Alright, we have everything set up, we have our confessions, and we know who likes who! They also know that we've figured it out ourselves. So now, all we have to do is get them to tell their princess or prince! Like in the movies!" I told them.
"How are we gonna get them to confess to the rest? I mean if Shadow here isn't going to do it that easily, we already know it's going to be hard for the rest!" Tails asked. "First of all fox, I plan on telling him, all I am is nervous." Mr. Shadow snapped. "He does have a point, how exactly can we get the others to talk if they're so nervous?" Charmy. "Here's what I was thinking, we could call all of the ones we confronted and meet up somewhere. Then, we help everyone get themselves together, then they confess and everyone lives happily ever after!" I told them. "Oh boy, this is gonna be interesting." Tails sighed.
~ 1 hour later, in an abandoned building ~
Knuckles' P.O.V
I approached the building that the address stated where my presence was needed. I wasn't sure what to think since this place is mainly broken and abandoned. But when I approached the door, I knew there was no turning back. I reached out to open it up, except it decided to snap off the hinges completely. "Hopefully no one will miss this." I said to myself and left the door on the floor.
Taking the first few steps inside, it seemed to be alright for the most part. Just a little creepy. "Hello?" I shouted. My voice echoed across the room but I still didn't get an answer back.
"Is anyone here?" I shouted again. Suddenly, I felt something hit the tip of my shoe. I looked down and saw it was a weird bread crumb. Another hit my shoe, then a trail of them made a trail leading into a certain direction. This was is so weird. I walked down the pathway and found out where it was going. When the trail came to an end, there was a piece of paper on the ground. I picked it up and unfolded it.
Sorry Knuckles :/ We just wanna help you!
What? I asked myself and suddenly heard a loud noise. Something had caught my ankle and it was holding me tightly. I tried punching at this weird thing but for some reason, I couldn't break whatever this thing was. I tried tugging at it but nothing was working. It seemed to be chained to the ground. "Ugh!" I growled and just sat down helplessly. "Hello? Is anyone here?" I heard in from the next room. "Hey! I'm over this way! I need help!" I shouted. "Where are you?" the voice shouted. "There's this weird trail of bread crumbs! Just follow it this way!" I shouted back. Hopefully, they could find me...
Silver's P.O.V
I wasn't sure what to think about any of this. Meeting in a sketchy place like this? But since someone is said they were done here, I might as well help them out. I was looking for this mysterious trail of bread crumbs, yet I couldn't find them. That's when I stepped on something soft. It was the bread crumb! I saw the long trail leading to some weird place and I raced off to the room and saw that Knuckles was there on the floor. "Knuckles! Are you okay?" I asked.
"Could be better, I'm stuck though." he replied, motioning to the weird clamp around his ankle. "Alright, hang on," I said. I tried prying this thing with my powers, but nothing budged. "It's not moving!" I cried. "W-What are we gonna do?" he asked. I wasn't even sure at this point.
"Just hang in there Knuckles, I'm sure we can fix this!" I cried trying to pull it by hand. "So why are you over this way?" I asked him. "I got a message saying someone needed me here. This was the address that the letter gave me so that's why I'm here. How about you?" I explained to him briefly. "I came for the same reason. Let me see that letter you got!" he demanded. Surprised, I just handed him the letter that was in my pocket. "Hang on... this looks just like..." he uttered and pulled out his own letter. "Do you think this was..." I began to ask. But then suddenly we heard something coming towards the front of the building.
It sounded like small taps. "Is anyone there?" the voice asked. Uh oh. Apparently, someone else was supposed to be here too. "You've gotta stop them!" Knuckles cried out to me and tried to stand up properly this time but couldn't. "Got it!" I said and began to run. But a few steps forward and I got stuck in something. "Ew!" I whined looking down at whatever this goo was. It was slimy and pink, just like bubblegum, yet I couldn't get free from it. "I'm stuck!" I cried.
Espio's P.O.V
What's with all that shouting? Is someone else here waiting? "Are you okay?" I shouted. "No! We need help! Follow our voice!" one went. "Hurry!" the other shouted. I looked through the dark finally seeing the figures in the distance. When I got closer, I saw it was Silver and Knuckles in the building just there in the middle of the next room. "What are you guys doing here?" I asked fearfully. "I think we were lured here." Knuckles said. "We can't leave anywhere else either. Do you think you can get us free?" they asked.
I looked and saw Knuckles' ankle was trapped and Silver was trapped in this weird pink goo. "Alright, I'll try!" I said. I tried using my skills to break this weird restraint but nothing was working. "This is something weird." I said taking a break. "How are we gonna get out of here now?" Silver asked us. "I don't know. I'm scared no one else is coming." Knuckles said. "I'm scared about who's trying to keep us here." I replied and looked around.
Behind me, I heard something that sounded like a paint can falling. I snapped around and heard something wandering around the other side of the room. I crawled over towards the sound, wondering what it was. I looked over a pile of paint cans that were in the corner and tried to see the figure that was hiding behind it.
There was another figure too but I couldn't tell who they were. I reached down below to touch these weird things to get a feel of what they were. But right as I did, a bright light was flashed in my face, causing me to go blind. "Agh!" I shouted and fell backward. "Get back!" Knuckles shouted at the strangers that I couldn't see. I tried standing up but the light had been so bright that it made me dizzy as well. I tried remembering my training and prepare to fight the enemy anyway. I felt someone gently touch my shoulder.
"You guys can stop freaking out now Mr. Espio!" I heard a comforting voice say. My vision was still blurry but soon I could see the face of who was talking to me. "C-Cream?"
Cream's P.O.V
Thank god nothing went horribly wrong! We settled them down at a table where they just stared at us surprised at what we had done. "I'm still confused, how did you do all that?" Knuckles asked us. "Wellllll, Mr. Shadow was able to set up the location with this building! It's just an old movie set! He thought it was a good idea since everyone knows about this place!" I explained. "That still doesn't explain why that weird chain thing was able to keep me down the way it did!" he replied. "It makes more sense if you have Chaos energy from a Chaos emerald." Mr. Shadow said. "Okay, how about that weird pink goo?" Mr. Silver asked.
Right then Charmy blew a pink bubble out, it popped in the air, making it splatter across his face. He peeled it off and threw it on the ground. "Reinforced bubble gum! Stole some from Vector the other day!" he explained. "And that random light?" Mr. Espio asked. "Chew chew!" Cheese replied, holding the heavy object in his arms. "Just a plain old flashlight!" Tails explained. While the rest of them took a moment to breathe, the four of us took a moment to pat each other on the back.
"Well, I'm glad we don't have to freak out about our lives anymore, but is there an actual reason we're here?" Knuckles asked. I cleared my throat and walked up to the table they were seated at.
"Gentlemen, it has come to my conclusion that every grown guy in this room has feelings with a significant other in this town. And I know exactly who it is! Knuckles there likes Ms. Rouge!" I said beginning the statement. "What! Really?" Silver shouted, not being able to hold back laughs. "Oooh!" Espio chimed, however, Knuckles couldn't stop blushing. "Mr. Silver likes Blaze!" I added going down the list. "He does?" Knuckles gasped. "Haha!" Espio laughed. "S-Shut up!" Mr. Silver cried. "Mr. Espio likes Mr. Victor!"
"Vector?!" Knuckles shouted in shock. "That's insane!" Mr. Silver added. "W-Who told you?" he gasped. "I already knew! I figured out about all of your crushes! Even Mr. Shadow's! He likes Mr. Sonic!" I replied happily. "SONIC?" they all shouted, surprised by that fact.
"Really? HAhA!" Mr. Silver laughed, falling from his chair. "Out of all of them, it's Sonic? HAHAHA! This is too good!" Knuckles snickered banging his head against the table. "Not surprised!" Mr. Espio replied, holding back a laugh. "Shut up! Or I'll tell all of them about you!" Mr. Shadow snapped, his face turning a light shade of pink. "Wow, so childish." Charmy sighed, shaking his head. "I know right?" Tails added. "Well, now we know you can't deny it either. So this is what's at stake tonight. All of us here know about your "secret" crush. So we wanted to help you get that special someone!" I told them.
"It's sweet and all Cream but I doubt it'd do any good. They probably don't like us back. We're probably out of their league anyway." Mr. Espio sighed looking down. "He's got a point. We'd rather just hang back and not do anything to get hurt." Mr. Silver added. "Can't disagree. It'd just be too painful for us if we're rejected..." Knuckles added.
"How do you know if you don't try?" I asked. They just shrugged their shoulders and looked away.
"Hmmph. Fine! Be that way," I told them and pulled my phone out of my pocket. I dialed a number and waited for someone to answer. Charmy and Tails knew what that meant and followed my lead. "What are you guys doing?" Knuckles asked. "Just calling up everyone. We've got them on speed dial!" Tails replied. I tapped my foot impatiently before hearing the tone change. "Hello?" the voice went. "Blaze! You picked up!" I cheered. "Of course I did! What's up?" she asked. "W-Wait? You called Blaze?!" Mr. Silver freaked. "Well, you see I have this really cool thing to tell you! You see, a few friends of mine went to do our thing the other day, you know, just being goofy? We happened to be near Mr. Silver's place and found out the most amazing thing!" I began.
"N-No! C-Cream!" Mr. Silver cried. "Hello? This is Agent Rouge speaking? Can I help you?" the other phone said. "Hi Rouge! Its Tails! I've got some exciting news for you!" Tails said into his phone. "Tails! D-Don't you care!" Knuckles growled. "Oh? And what might that be? " she asked. "You might've noticed Knuckles has been acting weird, I can tell you why!" he added.
"What do you need? I'm busy!" the last voice went. "Taking a bubble bath with a rubber duck doesn't mean you're busy Vector! Besides, I've got something you might wanna know!" Charmy said. "Ugh, fine, make it quick!" Mr. Vector whined. "You know how Espio got kind of grump the other day? Well, wouldn't you like to know!" he said. "CHARMY! I will stuff you inside a beehive if you don't quit!" Mr. Espio snapped.
"We'll only stop if you agree to confesssss!" I teased waving the phone. For a minute they were quiet, just staring at the phone in our hand. "Shadow, you're not going to do anything!" Mr. Silver cried. "What can I do? They've even got Sonic on speed dial." he replied sadly. "Ugh! Okay, fine! We'll confess! J-Just hang up!" Knuckles cried hiding his face. "Okie! Sorry Blaze! It'll have to wait!" I said and hung up. The rest hung up and finally, they looked relieved to see us hang up the phones. "Alright, so what do you want us to do?" Mr. Espio asked.
"First off, we gotta work on everything. You can't confess looking like that and you can't confess empty-handed! We've gotta go shopping!"