While searching for Knothole in the Southern Baronies of Mobius, Robotnik noticed a mystical energy coming from one particular area of that region. Strangely enough, a further scan of the area revealed no Power Rings or Chaos Emeralds located there. However, the fact remained that there was still a power source there, and with some luck it might even be possible to use this new source of energy to make his empire even stronger, thus allowing him to crush that meddlesome hedgehog and his allies once and for all.

The aforementioned mystical energy was coming from a special garden lake that sat in front of a large estate where a mother and a daughter Mobian rabbit lived together, along with a decent number of creatures known as Chao. Because the Chao lived in the garden, the two rabbits had started calling it a Chao Garden. You might be wondering how these two mobians had managed to avoid getting captured by Robotnik up until now. Well, they lived pretty far away from civilization, and there was little of interest anywhere around them for miles and miles. The area had previously been overlooked as being of no value until Robotnik actually scanned it for mystical energy readings.

None of this was known to the daughter rabbit mobian, Cream. She yawned as she awoke to the sunlight flowing into her room, rubbing her eyes as she tried to remove the last remnants of sleep from them. She sat up in bed, thinking that today would be like every other day, where she would simply get dressed, eat breakfast, and play with her Chao friends until her mother called for her, or until it was lunch or dinnertime.

That was not to be, as today would be very different. Her mother, Vanilla, came rushing into her room shortly after she had gotten dressed.

"Come here, Cream, there's something I want to show you in the cellar." her mother said, though Cream noticed that, from the tone of Vanilla's voice, it seemed like she was worried about something.

However, she was curious about what her mother had to show her. She followed her down to the cellar where all the Chao from the garden, including Cheese, her best friend, were sitting. The young rabbit was taken completely by surprise when she was forcefully pushed into the room, while the door slammed and locked behind her. The stunned child then heard something being moved in front of the door that further prevented her from getting out.

"Mom, what's wrong? Why are you locking us in here?" Cream asked, feeling very scared and confused at what her mother had just done.

"Just stay there, keep quiet, and if I come back here sounding funny or talking strange, DO NOT listen to me!" Vanilla told her child.

Her mother's footsteps faded as she got further and further away, and Cream's young mind raced as she tried to understand just what was going on. Vanilla had dragged her down here and locked her in the cellar, along with all of the Chao from the Chao Garden, yet she could not figure out why.

At first, the little bunny thought that this was another one of her mother's drills, since she often made Cream practice something like this, where she was told to go the cellar and stay there. Feeling bored one time, Cream had discovered a hidden passageway that led outside. It put her quite a long distance from their house, but she had eventually made it back, completely shocking her mother as to how she had gotten out. When she'd tried to tell her mom how she had escaped, though, Vanilla had instantly told her not to use the passage, and the matter had never been brought up again.

Now, Cream quietly began playing with her Chao friends, hoping this was just another drill of her mother's, and that she would let her out eventually. If she got too bored, though, she could simply exit through the hidden passageway.

After what seemed like hours, Cream was really started getting bored, and she was starting to think about leaving. That was when she heard loud footsteps, sounded a lot like metal, walking around on the floor above her head. Several crashes and thuds came from upstairs. It sounded like someone was possibly throwing things around while searching for something.

Feeling scared, Cream kept quiet and told the Chao to keep still as well, in order to prevent the intruders from noticing them down here.

"Power Source detected, along with one organic life sign." a monotone voice said. Even in the midst of her fear, Cream was barely able to recognize it as her own mother's voice, since it was distorted nearly beyond recognition.

Suddenly, all the creatures in the cellar heard something pounding on the door. This noise stopped, and then they heard the object that was blocking the door being forcefully pushed out the way.

"Inquiry on the status of finding the power source." another strange voice asked the first intruder, the one that sounded so similar to her mom.

"Targets, and one organic life signal, are located behind this door. However, the door's structural integrity is beyond its appearance, causing difficulty in knocking it down." 'Vanilla' stated to whoever she was talking to.

Remembering what her mom had said before leaving, Cream decided that it was time to flee with her friends, as it sounded like her own mother was demanding some kind of power source, and she kept calling her an organic life form, trying to break the door down all the while. However, by the time 'Vanilla' managed to break into the cellar, Cream had already used her hidden passageway to escape, leaving the being who no longer acted like her mother to wonder where she had gone, as no one was to be found in the room at all.

At the exit of the tunnel, Cream poked her head out a little way, only to see that the area was completely surrounded by what she could only guess were robots. The confused little rabbit remembered hearing her mother mention such things in her sleep from time to time, always sounding so sad, as if these robots had done something bad or taken something away from her. This knowledge did little to comfort the child, as she also recalled the many scary stories that her mother had told her now and then.

As she peered at the strangers from her hiding spot, she noticed that among some of the robots, there were beings that looked almost like Mobians, just like her. Well, not completely like her, as they seemed to be made of metal, and they talked similarly to the robots around them. Even as she watched, one of these strange creatures noticed her and swiftly came at her, much to the bunny's dismay. The young rabbit quickly slid the hidden cover back into place over the tunnel entrance, hoping that she could get away. As she turned to flee down the passageway, she heard the cover being lifted. Before she could even try to run, something grabbed her by the ears, dragging her out into the open.

"Let Go Of Me!" Cream cried repeatedly as she struggled against a robot that look like a male mobian of some kind. Her protests were silenced as a powerful jolt of electricity shot through her body. The young child fell limp in her captor's arms, knocked out by the force of the attack. Seeing this, the Chao, Cheese in particular, tried to help defend their friend, but they too were overpowered and captured with ease.

"Targets Acquired. Returning to have the organic life form roboticized." the robotic male reported as the other robots fell into step behind him, all of them marching back to the house.

Author's Notes:

This chapter did not have Cream getting roboticized mostly because it just the set up chapter for how Robotnik goes about finding Cream and how she get captured. The second chapter will feature Cream getting roboticized.