Boss 1: The Masked Badger 

Objective: Get Cream’s Chaos Emerald Back.

The Badger dashed through rooftops at incredible speeds, using her vines whenever she could to keep up her momentum. She was so excited to gather a new shiny of such magnitude, which she has rarely seen before. She examined the emerald as she continued to blitz away. 

???:  So this gemstone was the shiny that rabbit was carrying. It feels more wonderful up close, this one is going to my burrow! (She looks down at her tattoo quickly and thinks to herself.) I wonder if there are any more gemstones like it……

Before the Badger finishes her thought Amy and Cream finally catch up to her, Amy running as fast as she can; while not being as nimble as she was years ago she’s still a strong runner. Cream and Cheese are flying right beside Amy, using their ears and wings. 

Amy:  Uh Hey! My friend worked hard to find that, would you care to give it back! (she yelled assertively.) 

Cream:  Yeah, it’s not right to steal under someone’s nose, so please hand it back to me! (She yelled as kindly as possible.) 

Cheese: CHAO! CHAO! CHAO!  (Trying to get the Badger’s attention.) 

???:  (Looks behind her) What, they caught up already! They’re persistent! (Talks directly to them) Sorry, Finders Keepers Loser Weepers!  (She yelled, antagonizing them.) 

The Badger swings her vine faster to get a larger difference between her and Team Jubilee; to their annoyance of course. 

Amy: No, wait, come back here! (She yelled in frustration.) 

Cream: Don’t just run from us, please! (She yelled with slight frustration in her voice.) 

The Badger while continuing to get away puts several neon seeds on her boomerang. She smirks at them cockily.

???:  Hey, catch this! (She yelled to the team.)

The Badger throws the boomerang near Team Jubilee. It swerves right past them. 

Amy:  Ha, you missed! (She teased the badger.)

However, the seeds on the boomerang quickly grew into vines and begin circling back. The badger while swinging away was using her hands to direct the vines and in turn the boomerang. 

Cheese: Chao!? (Cheese yelled surprisingly.) 

Cream:  Wait, Miss Amy watch out it’s a trap! (She yelled.)

Amy:  Huh? (She quickly turn around and noticed the vines.) 

The boomerang and vine combination was quickly wrapping Team Jubliee inside. Cream and Cheese noticing the trap earlier was able to fly away from it. Amy however was completely wrapped around in vines. After the trap was done the vines detached from the boomerang and returned to the badger. The badger snickered and swung faster than ever. Cream could have continued chasing after the Badger but decided to help Amy.

Amy:  Argh! She grew those vines in less than a second! How was I supposed to see it coming?  (Also surprised while stuck in the trap.) 

Cream: She must have some kind of chlorokinetic abilities, she can control plants and make them grow faster. Are you okay? (She explained to Amy while trying to get her out of the vines.)  

Amy: I’m fine, man that’s impressive she had that much precision over it too. (She said genuinely.) But it’s nothing that raw strength can’t break through! 

Amy uses her incredible upper body strength to tear apart the vines in half make an opening for herself. 

Amy: She’s getting away! We have to hurry! (She yelled.) 

Cream: Right! (She responded.) 

Amy continued to sprint as fast as she can while doing large jumps and flips to try to keep up her speed. Cream and Cheese continue to fly to try to keep up. However, after all of that, they were still behind the Badger. The Badger is about to reach the edge of town, to the bridge that exits out of New Hope.

Amy: Drats! She’s already so far ahead of us! (Amy yelled in frustration.) 

Cream:  She’ll be in the mainland in no time and we will have lost sight of the emerald. (Cream worriedly cautioned.) 

Amy: (Sigh) We can always tell Tails to give us the Emerald Radar but I prefer not to bother him or the Resistance over one person…. Wait! 

Amy quickly thought of an idea. 

Amy: Cream! I know Tails warned you about using your rocket boots at full power unless necessary. (Amy quickly asked Cream.) 

Cream:  He doesn’t want the thrusters to be overloaded since repairing them is a lot of work. Plus... (Points to her ears, Cheese as well.) 

Amy:  Yeah, but of course, he wouldn’t mind if we used it to get a stolen Chaos emerald back. If we max out the thrusters we can catch up to that Badger and the Emerald in no time! 

Cream:   Hmm, that plan seems risky, but it just might work. (Cream agrees.) 

Cheese: Chao.  (Cheese also agrees.) 

Amy:  Alright, let’s do this!

Cream starts flying above, she lets down her hands for Amy to hold on to her. 

Cream:  Reminder it’s harder to pull you up since you’re so much larger than me now. (Cream replied somewhat sarcastically.) 

Amy:  Oh come on, you carried Mr.Big and me on your legs before, stop bluffing! (Amy replied to her sarcasm.) 

Cream:  I know, (giggles) I was just teasing. Rockets Boots Engage Full Power! (She yelled.) 

The thrusters on the bottom of the Cream’s boots begin to activate and let off a burst of flames. 

Amy/Cream/Cheese: (CHAAOO!) GO! (They simultaneously yell.)

Team Jubilee jets away in a blink of an eye. A bright fire trail of magenta and orange colors is left behind. They burst through buildings in mere seconds and rapidly closed the gap between the Badger. The Badger was oblivious to this, still swinging around without a care. 

???:  Those two weren’t half bad in trying to catch me, probably more of those government agents. Too bad those suckers are long gone by now….(turns around and sees Team Jubilee jetting towards her.) WHAT! AAAAH! (She screamed.) 

When Team Jubilee got close enough distance they started to reorganize.

Amy: Cream now! 

Cream: Ok! 

Cream stops her rocket thrusters and quickly slows down. Cream drops Amy off her arms. Using the momentum from the flight Amy somersaults towards the Badger; who is completely flabbergasted. Amy winks while smiling and grabs the Chaos Emerald and lands gracefully. The Badger lets her guard down, the vine she was swinging on disappears and she falls straight to the ground; making her skull mask fall off completely.   

(The Masked Badger Conclusion)

Amy after catching the emerald starts to stretch and relax. Cream flies down to see if Amy’s alright. Amy happily passes the Chaos Emerald back to Cream; Cream was thrilled to get her emerald as Cheese happily danced around her. Amy walks up to the Badger who was trying to recompose herself. The Badger preparing for an attack tenses up, ready to strike back. To the Badger’s shock, Amy was reaching her hand out to her with genuine concern. 

Amy: Hey, you okay? 

???: …..Yeah, I’m fine. (She replied hesitantly.) 

The Badger grabs Amy’s hand and gets her up. Cream goes up to both of them. 

Cream: Sorry that we had to make you fall, Miss Badger but that Chaos Emerald is very important. We couldn’t just let you steal it from us. 

Cheese: Chao Chao.  (Cheese in agreement with Cream.) 

The Badger looks confused after what Cream just said.

???:  That was a Chaos Emerald? Wait, I thought the Chaos Emeralds were supposed to be giant green gemstones?! 

Cream was surprised to hear, the Badger didn’t steal Emerald for any purpose. 

Cream: You didn’t know that was a Chaos Emerald? Then why did you steal it?

???:  Easy, I just saw you had a beautiful shiny in your bag, and something in my gut telling me to grab it. And I did. I really like shinies and that one seemed special. (The Badger told honestly.)

Cream: Oh….well the emeralds are certainly pretty to look at and I guess it’s easy to get confused with the name. (Cream trying to understand the Badger while giggling awkwardly.)

Cheese gives a slightly baffled look towards Cream. Cheese finds the badger kind of odd.

Amy:  Huh, so I assume this is your first time coming to New Hope? (She asked the Badger.) 

???:  I mostly stay close to the burrows I make. I have traveled through some cities to get food, shinies, and seeds for myself and the animals I don’t hunt. But never too long, I don’t want those nasty government agents to come and dissect and probe my mind. (The Badger answered…vividly.)

Amy: (Laughs) Come on, I’ll show you around the city! We can all go sightseeing!  (She happily replied to the Badger.) 

???: Really? You guys aren’t secretly taking me in for stealing that shiny emerald? (She asked skeptically, still not fully trusting Team Jubilee.) 

Amy: No, I just thought that a tour would be a nice change of pace since you’re new here. (Amy replied honestly.) 

Cream tapped Amy’s shoulder.  Amy told the Badger to wait for a moment, so Cream can give her input on the situation. 

Cream: Miss Amy, it’s very nice of you to try and invite the Badger to explore New Hope, but something about her seems… off to me. She could bring trouble to us and the Resistance. (Cream cautioned.)

Cheese nods their head in agreement with Cream.

Amy: I don’t see any malicious intent she would have, our friend has her own way of expressing herself that’s all. 

Cream:  Good point, I’m sorry if I sounded mean. I’m just trying to be cautious. (Cream told Amy apologetically)

Amy: I understand, but there’s no need to worry, I got this. (Amy replied to Cream sincerely) 

Cream fully trusting Amy nods her head. The Badger can overhear the conversation unbeknownst to Team Jubilee. She feels moved that Amy fully has trust in her and Cream later follows suit. The Badger didn’t know such honest and caring people were still living outside her world. Amy turns around to ask the Badger a question. 

Amy: By the way, what’s your name? 

The Badger looks down for a second and quietly announces it.

My name is Sticks, Sticks the Badger.  

Amy: (Smiles) That’s a cute name. I’m Amy Rose, (points to Cream and Cheese) and that’s my best friend Cream the Rabbit and her Chao companion Cheese. (Amy introducing themselves as well.)  Ok, Sticks let’s get going, there’s so much I’d love to show you! (Amy cheered on.) 

Amy starts running off, Cream and Cheese run behind her trying to keep up. Sticks takes a look over the beautiful city horizon as Team Jubilee runs off. She’s wondering to herself, maybe this is the path she needs to go on. Sticks smiles and happily follows Amy and Cream.  Unbeknownst to all of them, the animals that have been following Sticks from the forest were in New Hope and saw everything. The gray Owl was disgusted by the whole affair, the magenta Lizard could barely hold himself together and looked ready for a fight, the green Fox however kept her composure, knowing all is about to be set in motion. 

???:  There’s our little Amber-light. (The fox said to her group with a devilishly enticing voice.)