This story follows 10-year-old Cream the Rabbit, who begins sharing her everyday life online after creating a Twitter account. Through her posts, often simple, slice-of-life updates, she gains a small following and documents her interactions with friends and family.
Cream is still following her path as a hero-in-training, spending her free time in a loosely formed hero group led by Shadow the Hedgehog, The Chaos Guardians, hoping to become the kind of person she had been looking up to her entire life.
When she receives a mysterious message stating that Sonic has been captured, she chooses to act on her own despite her mother's objections, sneaking out of her house to investigate. After she begins tweeting updates from her mission, Shadow and Knuckles intervene and go after her to provide support. During this mission, Cream successfully infiltrates one of Dr. Eggman's facilities and steals a hard drive, intending to pass it to Tails in hopes of uncovering Eggman’s future plans.
Upon her return home, Cream is grounded. Due to being on "house arrest," Cream ends up holding onto the hard drive until she can see Tails again. In the meantime, she resumes her usual life, though becomes increasingly unsettled by problems a little more serious than having to do more chores than normal, such as nightmares that had been gradually getting worse, and internal conflicts about the loss of her biological father after noticing her mother growing closer to Vector the Crocodile.

Metal Sonic eventually tracks down Cream, attacks her in her home, and forcibly returns her to Eggman’s base as punishment for stealing the hard drive. Cream is imprisoned and begins meeting various residents of the base, including Orbot, Cubot, and Sage. Multiple escape attempts are made but fail. Over time, Cream forms a bond with Metal Sonic, even causing him to bypass his programming temporarily. This act results in his full system reboot, erasing their connection. Orbot, sympathetic to her situation, quietly supports her from the inside, using her phone to update her audience on her status.
While at first, Cream was being held as a temporary prisoner, after multiple failed rescue attempts, Eggman began considering the value in pushing things further. He had fully intended for someone to retrieve her by now, and he would wave it in her face as a scolding on why she should keep her nose where it belongs. Now, he realized he had more options.
Eggman initiates Phase Two of a project called Project_X042, which involves injecting Cream with a mysterious purple substance known as Ichor. Leading up to the injections, Cream's nightmares had gotten so severe they were physically painful. Cream had begun experiencing vivid dreams and hallucinations of alternate versions of herself, often writing the phrase “see it all,” on any paper she was given, which held unknown significance to her and her audience at the time. All these symptoms stopped abruptly on the first day of injections.
This liquid drastically alters her physiology and cognition. Her eye color changes to a bright magenta, her IQ spikes from the mid-eighties into the thousands and she gains regenerative abilities. She no longer experiences most pain, hunger, thirst, or the need for sleep.
Cream’s Chao, Cheese, sneaks into the facility to rescue her but is also injected with Ichor and begins experiencing the same symptoms as Cream.
It was soon after this point Cream encountered Anathema, a technopathic cybernetic hybrid imprisoned at the base and forced to serve the empire. Cream feels a strange connection to this hybrid and communicates with her briefly on occasion despite the limitations of their imprisonment.
*Cream also begins developing tetrachromatic vision. She realizes the purple of the Ichor, as well as her eyes, is actually a color incomprehensible to the average mobian. She names this new color "prunkle" in an attempt to cope with the seriousness of her situation. Prunkle is the most frequently used word for Ichor, but for the sake of this summary sounding even a little bit professional, it will be listed under its official name.
As Cream’s abilities grow, Eggman returns her phone, intending to mock her and demonstrate her helplessness to the online audience she had accrued. She begins leaving cryptic clues online, hoping to guide someone, specifically Vector, to rescue her.
Another member of the Chaos Guardians, the group she was training in, contacts Vector after seeing Cream's situation. Despite Cream’s discontinued involvement in the group, he still felt a sense of responsibility for his former teammate. Using the clues Cream was leaving for Vector, they launch a successful rescue mission. With Metal having been reset and Orbot being the one of the only supportive figures within the base, he is broken out as well.
Anathema coaxes the doctor into unleashing her, insisting she was the only one who could ensure Cream's return. With no other options, Eggman obliged, but Anathema fully defected and never returned.
Cream is taken home, though she now struggles with the lasting effects of Ichor.

Back at home, Cream begins displaying symptoms of Ichor withdrawal due to not receiving the final dose. She starts experiencing physical pain and severe mental distress. Because of Cream’s inability to honor her body’s needs, her mother arranges for her to receive a feeding tube, desperate to give her daughter some semblance of a normal life.Cream begins hearing a comforting voice in her head, which is later revealed to be Anathema, who had formed a mental link due to the experiment. It is revealed that Ichor is Anathema’s own blood, extracted and measured carefully for use in experiments. Anathema used their mental link to find Cream’s home and hide in her attic, attempting to grow closer to her without her family finding out about her presence. Cream agrees to this, wary that her family would be afraid of Anathema due to her appearance.
As Cream and Anathema grow closer, Cream isolates herself from others. Anathema uses her technopathy to hide references to herself from Cream’s family whenever something is posted about her online.Then, Cheese suddenly goes into a coma-like state, later deemed "the Ichor Coma", and is handed off to Tails, who was using the final dose stolen from Eggman’s base to try and find a cure for the effects of the Ichor.It isn't much beyond this point that Orbot confesses to Cream that if she does not receive the final dose, the Ichor will consume her blood and kill her, but was previously withholding that information due to believing they’d find a cure before it was too late. Desperate and in pain, Cream steals the final dose (and Cheese) from Tails’ lab and, with Orbot’s help, injects it herself after failing to research the cure on her own.With the withdrawal symptoms gone, Cream tries to reintegrate into daily life, but her behavior becomes increasingly erratic. She begins testing her immortality through extreme actions, encouraged subtly by Anathema. She becomes further isolated from her family after seeing the distress she believed she had imposed on them by willingly taking the final dose, which only spurs on these impulsive decisions.During this time, Cream's audience begin noticing a box under her bed labeled "Ice the Rabbit." It is quickly assumed to be related to her father, but when questioned on it, Cream mentions she has yet to open the box and isn't sure if she's ready yet.
As the days continue, Cream notices a glowing sigil had formed on Cheese's back, a design with motifs resembling Anathema's appearance.Eggman attempts to recapture Cream, sending Metal Sonic after her. He is defeated by Sonic and taken to Tails’ workshop, but Cream breaks in and frees him in hopes of rekindling their previous bond. This act causes public backlash, including harsh words from Sonic himself.Though he later apologizes, Cream becomes more withdrawn, turning further toward Anathema.
Cream meets Dusk the Rabbit, a Restoration operative who had been following her story through social media and trying to find a way to help from the sidelines. Cream offers Dusk private information in hopes of finding a cure or understanding Ichor better, beginning Operation: Ambrosia, an attempt to find a cure for the Ichor-Tainted.Metal Sonic later returns to Cream’s and tries to fight his programming and rekindle their friendship, confessing he never went back to the empire, despite insisting he would. Vanilla has a hostile offscreen confrontation, not at all trusting of him or his intentions after what he’d done to her daughter. Despite this, hints of their former friendship still remain.
Eggman sends another agent named Kronos to retrieve Cream.
During the conflict, Gemerl is damaged trying to protect her. Cream hides in the attic with Anathema, who ultimately defeats Kronos.After all the attempts to recapture her, Dusk relocates Cream and her family to a hidden Restoration base for their safety. Upon arrival, Cream falls into her own coma.

Dusk assigns Cream her own room and secretly allows Anathema to hide in the ceiling, though she remains deeply suspicious of her. She believes allowing Anathema to remain close to Cream could both ensure Anathema wouldn't try to hurt anyone for separating her from Cream and also put herself in a position where if Anathema did harm her, everyone would know who did it.Blood tests conducted by Dusk reveal that small doses of Ichor are lethal, while large doses fully mutate an organic's blood cells, rendering the host permanently altered.Cream receives visits during her coma, including from Surge, who relates to her due to her own history as an experimental subject, and later volunteers her services to the restoration to try and offer what help she can.Surge, during this arc, donates some of her blood for testing. It's discovered that Ichor would only mutate the organic cells in Surge's blood, but the metal virus intertwined in it would remain at a permanent standstill against the parasitic cells trying to eat away at it.Cheese eventually awakens and is pulled into the vents by Anathema under the guise of protecting him from any experimentation from the restoration while Cream is not awake to advocate for him. Cheese believes her intentions are pure and willingly stays hidden.Dusk leads a raid on Eggman’s base to retrieve the hard drive Cream had stolen and Metal had returned, believing it to contain information on the experiment that could help them find a cure.Anathema intercepts the mission, destroys the hard drive, and attacks Dusk, but is incapacitated by Surge and a Wisp-powered weapon. While the attack subdues her long enough for the raid to end, the electricity used against her grants her new energy-based powers and immunity to electrical attacks.Having been essentially a sister of his, Anathema reveals herself to Orbot after the raid and her attack was posted online. Anathema connects to his systems and displays an altered version of what happened in order to convince him not to turn on her and instead accept her presence.Cream briefly awakens to record a video revealing that Ichor was injected with the intention to allow her to perceive the multiverse. She explains that she now “sees it all,” all being a simplified explanation of infinity. Anathema hijacks the video and declares that no one can separate her from Cream, revealing a sigil that Cream, too, had developed on her wrist. Cream then falls unconscious again.Anathema, frustrated with others’ constant presence and supervision of Cream, locks everyone out of Cream’s room for a brief moment alone with her. Surge sneaks in through the vents and attacks Anathema, biting her and inadvertently ingesting a small amount of Ichor. She begins experiencing withdrawal symptoms. Due to the metal virus in her body and her regenerative abilities, she is unable to die, forcing her to endure the process indefinitely.
Anathema injects her with a full dose without warning, under the guise of sparing her from eternal pain.Now beginning her own transformation, Surge begins hiding in the vents. It is revealed by Surge’s wife, Lanolin, that Surge had been experiencing pre-Ichoric dreams before the ingestion of Ana's blood, but tried to keep these to herself. It wasn't discovered until it was too late.Anathema is captured by the Restoration and placed in a containment device that overloads her mind with useless data, effectively comatizing her.
Surge retreats into the vents, ashamed of what has become of her and unable to face her peers.She finds Cheese in the vents, who still trusts Anathema and continues to advocate for her. This, on top of Anathema being able to maintain subtle influence over Surge, uses her mental link to the internet to gently promise her a family she never had now that all of them had been bonded by blood.Cream awakens briefly to message Surge, warning her about what the coma state is like, offering her comfort, and reaffirming her own trust in Anathema. She explains that throughout her coma, the state that was showing her the multiverse, Anathema was a constant reassuring voice, and insisted that if Surge could learn to trust her as well, her own coma could be partially managed by the hybrid. Cream goes back under after a few minutes.During a side plot, Rough and Tumble accidentally find themselves in the restoration's base and find a box under Cream's bed with her father's name on it. It contained a diary that, after being dropped, revealed a page repeating the phrase "see it all" and a book on multiversal theory, all indications that Cream’s father may have experienced pre-Ichornic visions similar to Cream, Cheese, and Surge.Rough and Tumble are captured and placed within a holding cell inside the base until restoration operatives can figure out what to do with them.

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Art by @Kibichi_ // @PunkSpeedster

Cream awakens permanently from her coma, profoundly changed by her perception of the multiverse and struggling to regulate the overwhelming flow of information.Although she continues to trust Anathema and defends her character, she respects the Restoration’s choice to keep Anathema in containment and gently advocates for her eventual release, insisting that Surge’s injection wasn’t malicious.Meanwhile, Surge begins forming a friendship with Rough and Tumble during their detainment, serving as the catalyst that will eventually help Surge cope with what she had experienced.Anathema’s belief that, through her blood, Cream and Surge are bonded as sisters begins to take root emotionally, especially as Cream seeks Surge out in the vents to comfort her. However, Cream’s continued physical and cognitive changes, including new technopathic abilities and the acquisition of Anathema’s electrical powers, place immense strain on her relationship with Gemerl, who struggles to protect her from threats that now come from within.After a confrontation and moment of vulnerability, Cream and Gemerl begin to understand one another and agree to grow together through these changes.With Vector and various other friends and loved ones joining Operation: Ambrosia, Cream forms a groupchat for everyone active in the restoration base to stay in contact. Being able to maintain all these relationships guides Cream to accepting Vector as a potential father figure, as well as offers her alternative sources of comfort while Anathema is locked away.Lanolin, Surge’s now ex-girlfriend, is added to Operation: Ambrosia, though her interactions with Surge remain tense and unresolved, implying a painful, off-screen falling out during Surge’s transformation.
Metal Sonic contacts the Restoration with an offer to help, bringing data that reveals Anathema’s tragic origin: once an organic child raised as an experiment in another universe, she was thrown across the multiverse and transformed into a unique anomaly following a catastrophic failure to harness another subject's powers. Eggman discovered her in this universe and began his own experiments. The same data also reveals that Ice the Rabbit was a failed Ichor experiment who died in Eggman's trials, confirmed by his diary detailing pre-Ichor visions._{If you would like to see this website for yourself, it's still up, and might be easier to understand than a simple summary!}While inspecting Metal Sonic for residual Eggman tech, Cream discovers her father's preserved ring hidden in his internal systems, implying Eggman had planned for Metal’s defection. Cream reveals that Eggman has been taunting her online since her awakening, and after seeing the ring, she publicly shares this with her audience, despite having kept this to herself previously. When Eggman offers to stop tormenting her loved ones in exchange for a complete Restoration data wipe, Cream, overwhelmed and desperate to protect others, agrees, using her newfound technopathy to sabotage her own faction. The act sparks an internal investigation, and Cream is deemed a potential risk due to her unpredictable behavior. She, Cheese, and Surge are placed on strict schedules, as it is believed the powers the Ichor grants pose a risk to Operation: Ambrosia.Shortly after, Lanolin impulsively injects herself with a blood sample taken from Cream, despite knowing the dangers of Ichor. Surge, acting quickly, is forced to amputate Lanolin’s arm to prevent the mutated blood from eating her alive. The traumatic event pushes Surge further into emotional collapse. She is moved into Cream’s room, and Cream, feeling a deep responsibility as her “sister,” becomes her primary caregiver, offering constant comfort and support during her catatonic state.
As the Restoration struggles to handle the fallout, Cream continues researching her father’s fate in secret and remains cautiously receptive to Eggman's manipulations.Rough and Tumble, inspired by Surge and their friendship, formally join the Restoration. Lanolin is placed under close watch in Cream’s old room and undergoes regular psychological evaluations. Eventually, Cream’s continuous care helps coax Surge out of her paralysis and back toward recovery.On Surge’s 22nd birthday, Cream learns of a boy named Kit who was once like a younger brother to Surge but went missing years ago. After Cream posts about it, Eggman hints at knowing what happened, and it’s implied he may be responsible.A therapy session between Surge and Lanolin is arranged by Serenity, an axolotl therapist who had been assessing Lanolin, but the meeting ends in emotional breakdown and the two are separated again. Despite the chaos and trauma, Surge shows signs of coping, supported by her bond with Cream and the emerging belief that only those touched by Ichor can truly understand one another.
Despite her earlier, briefly disclosed truce with Eggman, he grows bored and breaks it in dramatic fashion. He leaks a collection of images from Cream’s torture sessions, as well as graphic images of his own workers being mistreated. One image depicts Kit suffering under Ichor experiments and revealing this was the true cause of his disappearance. The leak devastates Cream and Surge alike, as all previous Ichor subjects before Cream are confirmed to be dead.Enraged, Cream retaliates by exposing Eggman’s infiltration of the Restoration group chat. He had been impersonating Veil the Serval, an actual but inactive Restoration member, to spy on their communications, made only possible by his grasp on Cream's psyche. In response, Eggman kidnaps the real Veil and forcibly integrates her into the Eggman Empire, openly blaming Cream’s “noble” attempt at truth-telling for the chain of events.~*It is during Veil's capture the concept of Veil's mist is introduced. The serval can produce an anomalous black smoke from her pores with powerful hallucinogenic effects that not only challenge a person's insecurities and identities, but breaks the barrier on what's real and what isn't. There will be a page describing this phenomenon in the future, as well as a deeper dive on how this ties to the main plot. Veil as a character is not main point to understand in this story, but the way her power is exploited from here on out becomes very relevant.~Surge has a catastrophic breakdown upon learning Kit’s fate. Vector manages to pull her back from the edge by stepping into the role of the loving father figure she never had, temporarily grounding her in reality.Meanwhile, side plots begin emerging in Visionary: Cotton the Sheep, a low ranking Empire worker, forms a forbidden romance with Mimic the Octopus, while Nitinol and Chromium, Eggman’s hand-raised wardens, are introduced to the main scene after being called in from overseas missions. Sonic begins casually posting about his own adventures, though his updates also note that Eggman has been conducting widespread excavations, as if searching for something, something the Restoration quietly flags as suspicious.In the midst of her confessions, where she had ratted out Eggman's schemes, Cream admits that Anathema had physically hurt her in the past, before either of them joined the Restoration. While Cream interprets this as a misunderstanding from someone who never learned what a healthy relationship looks like, Dusk arranges a formal meeting between them to assess Ana’s mindset. Around this time, Cream begins suffering headaches when in close proximity to Ana, symptoms that grow worse as her link to the Ichor strengthens.From her containment, Anathema bypasses her restraints enough to tweet using her internal systems. She insists on her innocence, claiming she wants only the best for her “children,” though her warped definition of love remains suspicious.As Cream’s headaches intensify to the point of incapacitation, she accidentally passes through her mirror and slips into the world of Nine the fox, an alternate version of Tails, who seems to have a vague idea of who she is despite them never meeting. The headaches vanish instantly, and she is chased back through the mirror back to her own world.While Cream adjusts to this strange realization of her power, Surge begins repairing her relationship with Lanolin, even creating her a prosthetic arm, aided by the intelligence boost the Ichor grants.

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Nine voice actor: @milo9purrh0ur

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The Restoration stages a stealth raid on the Eggbase where Mimic is held captive, per Cream's request to try and save him after learning of his situation. During the raid, they intend to find Veil's location to rescue her at a later date. Though successful in rescuing Mimic, the Eggpire had anticipated the attempt and lured Cream into a trap. When she connects to the base’s systems to locate Veil, Eggman floods her mind with data in a similar fashion that had kept Anathema trapped this long, forcing the team to retreat._{*Some of the data unintentionally shot through her includes information on Eggman's excavations and an artifact known as "The Paradox Prism," which is believed to be a tool Eggman would want to utilize to enter the worlds his successful Ichor projects can see and evaluate.}It's revealed in this moment that Nitinol/Niti had manipulated Mimic during his time hiding in the empire's vent system. Playing into the idea that she would help him from a distance, she coerced him into clueing her in on the future raid, giving the empire enough time to prepare in advance.While Mimic escapes, Cotton is left behind, still bound to the empire, and forced to undergo a cybernetic surgery that partially robotocizes her as punishment for her relationship with the octopus.
Eggman escalates his psychological warfare against Cream and the Restoration by manipulating those closest to her. He coerces Mimic into impersonating Cream’s deceased father, forcing her into a deeply personal confrontation, implying if he didn't do this, he would hurt Cotton while she was still within his empire's walls.Almost simultaneously, he engineers a trap using Cubot, who had defected against the empire but naively tried to say his farewells to his creator before his departure. When Cream inspects him for any tracking devices or dangerous eggtech, a hidden explosive is triggered, destroying Cubot and briefly disfiguring Cream before her regeneration kicks in. Cubot's hardware could not be salvaged.Afterwards, Eggman tempts the Restoration with an apparent olive branch: he provides Cream with a vial of Veil's mist and requests that she Veilwalk under restoration supervision, record her findings, and report them back. In return, he would allow Mimic to make contact with his captive lover from outside the walls of the empire. Cream obliges. Though she was tempted to take this deal in secret, she had grown a distaste for doing thing behind Dusk's back. Instead, she asked her for permission, and Dusk affirmed Cream had autonomy over her own decisions, even if she didn't agree with them.The Restoration next mounts a full-force raid to rescue Veil herself. At first, the mission goes smoothly, but Veil betrays them mid-operation, forcing multiple operatives into unwilling Veilwalks and crippling the attack. Amid the chaos, Lanolin manages to rescue Cotton from captivity. They escape with the others, but Veil remains firmly within the Eggpire. (Also, Cotton punks Chrom with a metal chair.)A large gap in time follows, during which, multiple side plots unfold in the background, including the Master Emerald falling into the empire's hands. Because of Knuckles's involvement in Operation Ambrosia, he is unable to make efforts to retrieve it.Eventually, signs of Surge’s decline become impossible to ignore. She, Cream, Cheese, and Vector are granted one final “good day” outside together before Surge's coma could begin. Surge collapses into her coma mid-outing, forcing the group to rush her back to base. Unlike Cream’s near-tranquil coma, Surge’s state is agonized, leaving her trapped in constant pain.Dusk and Cream decide to release Anathema, who reveals that Surge’s suffering is due to the absence of her guidance within the coma. During this, Anathema abandons her Neo Metal Sonic shell and reveals her true Mobian form as Echo. As soon as she is reunited with the tenrec, Surge's pain is soothed, and she continues to lurk among the Restorations base, surprisingly well behaved.While guiding Surge through her coma, Anathema gently tries to win her trust by acting as a steady presence, but her efforts are suddenly interrupted by a manifestation of Surge’s metal virus–tainted blood, which is evolving to resist and shut out the Ichor. The clash leaves Surge twitching and squirming in her sleep. Cream interprets this as a sign of her sigil manifesting, as her and Cheese's sigil both appeared during their comas, later finding the mark etched onto Surge’s tongue.When Cream voices concern, Anathema pretends to know the reason and brushes it off, though in truth she’s unsettled and afraid.
Cream, aware that Eggman had been pursuing the Paradox Prism, posts a drawing of it as a quiet signal that she’s onto him. Eggman responds by confirming his interest, setting off a race between the Restoration and the Eggpire to claim the artifact first.Cream leaves the restoration for a moment to exercise the electrokinesis she had developed, demonstrating her growth and adaptation to the power. When she returns, she finds that Surge has started going through physical changes the Ichor shouldn't be capable of. Over time, Surge's ears grew long and rabbit-like, and she developed an alligator tail, features belonging to people she had felt safest around. Starline is believed to be one of the only people who understands what's causing this, as well as have the means to stop it.The restoration manage to locate the Paradox Prism, however, due to negligence of one of their operatives, Eggman finds the location shortly after. He arrives on site in a massive mech, powered by the master emerald, forcing every restoration member on site into a fight to keep the paradox prism safe.As Eggman shows signs of losing the fight, Niti and Chrom, make an appearance and join the fight. The master emerald falls from his mech as Sonic manages to destroy it. Niti, Chrom, and Sonic, all gun to reach it before their rival. The emerald then shatters into countless shards. Niti and Chrom are reported unconscious, Sonic goes missing, and the shards are gathered in a near even split by either side as the empire flees, leaving the emerald unable to be repaired.The restoration keeps the Paradox Prism and uses their share of emerald shards to upgrade restoration weapons in the meantime.Niti and Chrom are revealed to be stuck in a Semi-Super state for a short amount of time, but eventually give up that power due to its instability, meaning Eggman now has an extracted storage of chaos energy. Sonic, on the other hand, is shaken from the event, as if whatever connected him with the siblings had been difficult for him to stomach. He is still missing.Surge shows signs of getting worse. Anathema suddenly goes missing, and is found guarding the Paradox Prism in its hidden location. Her anxiety around the stone is notable, and her surprising uncertainty over Surge's state only adds to it. Cream is alone with Surge most days now, and as Surge begins lashing out, the restoration is left with no choice but to restrain her until something can be done about it.Cream stays with her either way. One morning, however, Surge fully wakes up, mutated into something no one had seen before, and goes on a rampage throughout the base. Infrastructure is destroyed, people end up severely wounded, and one operative is confirmed dead.During the rampage, Cream manages to find her again. She tries to get through to her, but Surge cuts her off. Seeming to recognize her despite it all, she pulls Cream in for a hug. Her electricity, now extremely gold-tinted, starts sucking the Ichor out of Cream's system. For just a moment, Cream's eyes are brown.Shadow intervenes, believing Cream was getting attacked.Cream returns back to how she was, and the rampage continues.Sonic returns in dramatic fashion to fight Surge, but as their powers are practically matched, the metal virus forces Surge's mutations to double over, desperate to protect the host from any perceived threat.
Gemerl comes back online to restrain her, using the upgrades Surge had given him before her coma, as if she had suspected this would happen and needed a failsafe.Surge, still fighting Sonic, suddenly begins forming a black hole using her mutated electro-kinesis.Gemerl subdues her before anyone can be harmed by this.After the rampage, no one can afford to take any more chances. Surge is brought to a middle location to meet with Starline, who merges the defiant metal virus in her blood to adapt with the Ichor, rather than fight it, allowing her to return to normal. During the process, Cream confronts him about how he knew this would work, and he reveals he was informed during a veilwalk by none other than Carmen that his biomechanical experiment would prove beneficial.Surge's coma is suddenly forcefully speedran. By the time she's settled back at base, she seems to be perceiving the multiverse faster than Cream or Cheese had. It is also revealed that Surge had managed to successfully pull enough Ichor from Cream's system to allow her to eat, sleep, and feel pain again. She can still perceive the multiverse, but also develops a small sense of normalcy as well.Surge manages to wake up from her coma in time for Cream's 11th birthday.Trying to put aside everything that had happened just days before in order to give her a good day, they go to Chao Park with a few other family members and restoration operatives. After the event, however, she begins to isolate, seemingly torn by the effects her rampage had on the people who had taken her in.Cream shows signs of illness. While at first being written off as her being able to be sick again, images that feature her begin glitching, a slight chromatic aberration that only shows when someone is unwell from insufficient ichor in their system.This "sickness" progressively worsens, rendering it difficult for Cream to comfortably go about her day to day. Anathema reveals to her that it is because she is no longer fully dosed, and in order to make the pain go away, she'll need to be injected with more ichor.Surge is extremely vocal how against this idea she is. With the guilt of killing a Restoration operative still weighing heavy on her shoulders, one of the few things she could find the silver lining on was that at least Cream could feel a sense of normalcy again. To lose that would mean the rampage amounted to nothing.Understanding this, Cream did what she could to withstand the pain she was in. She managed to pull through for the upcoming holidays - Christmas and Dusk's birthday, in which she collaborated with Surge to make happen.However, in a video log she willingly leaked, she describes how much the pain has begun to intervene with her life. She bursts into coughing fits and is left unable to stay on topic.The log that was leaked ends abruptly with some heavy distortions reflecting in her mirror, with an unknown yet familiar voice breaking through into the playback of the recording.By complete chance, the restoration manages to capture a high ranking member of the Eggman Empire, Warden Cherry, and immediately seizes the opportunity to hold her for ransom in exchange for Veil, the Restoration operative who they had failed to rescue in the past.Eggman agrees to the trade, and Veil is safely returned to the Restoration, albeit extremely reactive due to the conditioning she was forced to undergo.During Veil's trade, Tails Doll, an eggpire member with questionable loyalty, convenes with one of the ichor tainted for a publicly unknown reason. He later returns to the empire, while the restoration keeps their interaction tongue-in-cheek.Surge and Cream talk about the state Cream is in. After a long conversation about their own personal struggles, Surge tells Cream she can get redosed if she truly wants to. The Restoration collaborates to find a way to administer a safe dose for Cream that will minimize the trauma she's already experienced from her first 7 doses, and she's given a few days to appreciate being able to eat and sleep before she loses it again in exchange for becoming fully Ichor-Tainted.

TW!! CENSORED GORE!!

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Art by @Kibichi_ // @PunkSpeedster

Art by @Kibichi_ // @PunkSpeedster (background by me)

Art by @Kibichi_ // @PunkSpeedster

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Dusk VA: @RestorOfficial

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Anathema VA: @YellowMelllll

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Anathema VA: @YellowMelllll

The Doctor hosts a yearly fair that he is contractually obligated to NOT attack people at. Cream chooses to attend this fair, though her motivations are publicly skewed as she seems to get into an altercation with Clove, a high ranking eggpire member, and then disappear through one of the mirrors of eggman's mirror maze. Eggman is the last person to have confirmed sighting on where she was, and she is now believed to be in another world completely.Things are quiet for a while, but shortly after Cream's disappearance, her Twitter becomes active again with images from another world. It's learned she's re-entered Nine's universe, and while her friends and family can see Cream's online interaction, she can't see theirs.She talks vaguely about wanting to see Nine for something important, though she seems to be keeping her intentions unclear, for whatever reason. After days of searching for him, and him avoiding her, still frightened from their last interaction, Cream accidentally triggers a trap set in place by the now fallen Chaos Council. (You may need to have watched Sonic Prime to understand this, but it's okay, they won't be relevant.)While she manages to use her now well-established electrokinesis to slow the trap to a halt, the neglected architecture of the tunnel she was in collapses overhead, and Nine begrudgingly locates her to drag her out of the rubble.He ties her to a chair and interrogates her about her reasons for being there. Upon realizing her intentions were pure, he reluctantly releases her.While the following days were quiet, they seem to be hesitantly getting along. Nine gives her clothes to borrow and they bond over music. She also finds the remains of Nine's Paradox Prism, shattered, and seemingly unfixable.