As Cream was suddenly skipping along the way she heard a strange sound that almost seemed familiar. The realization that laughter had punctuated the air caused her to turn around when she saw Dr. Robotnik floating in his hover craft.
"Ah! Why if it isn't Cream? I haven't seen you since...well, the last olympics games? How are you dear?" The doctor said, in his most evil yet sweet voice.
"Um...um...um..." Cream said, her eyes going wide.
Not paying attention, the doctor stared at his gloves for a minute, then said, "Well, that's nice...NOW HAND OVER THOSE EMERALDS OR I'LL-"
"YAAAAH!!!" Cream cried, throwing both the flowers and the emeralds into the air. The doctor, using an arm attachment on his craft, caught the emeralds nimbly and flew off.
"Now...to analyze these crystals before the blasted hedgehog gives me any more trouble..." Robotnik said.
*minutes later*
Robotnik had continued to analyze the gems, his two lackeys, orb-bot and cub-bot, standing behind him.
"AHA! These aren't chaos emeralds! They're energy power is far too insufficient to be linked to them", the doctor said.
"A brilliant deduction as normally sir, but if they're not the emeralds we were looking for...then what are they?" Orb-bot asked.
"Costume jewelry? Rock candy...Ooh! I love me some of that there rock candy. Gives me glitches, but boy-oh-boy does it taste-" Cub-bot said.
"Silence! There is only one way to properly test this out", Robotnik said, 'Snively, report to my office in 30 mins."
*30 mins later*
Snively entered the door, wondering what his uncle would have needed for him now, "You called, Dr Robotnik?"
"Indeed I did, nephew!" Robotnik cried and pushed the green button on his latest device: a gun with two chambers on the sides with one stone in each, and two modes of fire, according to the doctors schematics.
Snively gave a cry of fear as the green bolt hit him. The next thing anybody knew, where Snively once stood, there was in his place a small ugly baby with clothes strewn about him. Looking up at the doctor, the infant proceeded to cry at the strange man.
"AHA! Do you know what this means?" Dr. Robotnik asked his lackeys.
"Um...that we're going to need a nursery in the Death Egg?" Cub-bot asked.
"Fool! We're going to finally stop that miserable blue pest once and for all! By altering the reality we live in, causing all of him and his pesky friends to turn into elderly people, allowing me the easiest point of conquering the entire planet! NOTHING CAN STOP ME NOW!!!!" The doctor cried.
"I feel a sudden case of deja vu. Doctor, if you'll permit me, the hedgehog is too fast! How will we plan to catch him? And for that matter, it's worked fine on your nephew, but how will we know it will work on a mobian?" Orb-bot implored.
Robotnik thought on those words, "Hmm...maybe you're right. This would be a too delicate procedure to botch up too soon. What shall I do?"