Team Rose

Team Rose is the friendship between Amy, Cream, and Big from the Sonic the Hedgehog fandom.

Canon
Team Rose searched for their missing friends during the incident with Neo Metal Sonic, whom the trio defeated alongside Teams Sonic, Dark, and Chaotix at the end of their journey. Though not as active as the other teams, Team Rose has occasionally resurfaced with new members to join their friends’ ongoing adventures.

Games
In Sonic Heroes, Amy, Big, Cream, and Cheese met each other by chance at the local news publisher. A quick exchange of stories revealed that all three of them were searching for someone; Amy was looking for her missing Sonic; Big was looking for his missing best friend Froggy; and Cream was looking for Cheese’s missing twin, Chocola. Furthermore, the only clue they had to their friends’s whereabouts was a picture of Sonic with Froggy and Chocola in the local newspaper. As they pondered on their only clue, Amy nearly lost it to a breeze, but Big and Cream got it back. Regrouping, the quartet then set out to find their friends, forming Team Rose.

Starting their search, Team Rose eventually had a run-in with Dr. Eggman and his Egg Hawk. After defeating Eggman, Team Rose followed Amy’s hunches to Grand Metropolis. After escaping the local Power Plant, Team Rose found Team Sonic. Amy, determined to make Sonic hers with force, then had her team fight Sonic’s team. However, Team Sonic soon escaped. Arriving in the big city, Team Rose changed tactics: since Team Sonic were hunting Eggman, all they had to do was find Eggman. After overcoming an attack from Eggman’s robots, Team Rose came to Rail Canyon. With Big and Cheese sensing that their friends were close, Team Rose headed to Eggman’s base. There, Team Rose defeated Eggman and his Egg Albatross. After the fight, however, the team discovered that the Eggman they fought was a copy, and Froggy and Chocola were nowhere to be seen. With Amy suspecting Eggman was behind Froggy and Chocola’s disappearance, Team Rose left to find Eggman. While later entering and escaping the jungle, Team Rose met Team Chaotix, who they ended up fighting over a misunderstanding. Afterward, Team Rose would enter a haunted castle and escape a mansion before finding Eggman, who attacked them with his robots. Overcoming Eggman’s robots, Team Rose traveled to the Egg Fleet, where they found Eggman in his Egg Emperor, whom Team Rose defeated. Though their opponent turned out to be another fake, they found Chocola and Froggy in its remains and had a happy reunion. No sooner, Amy saw Sonic nearby and quickly chased after him.

Not long after, Teams Rose, Sonic, Chaotix, and Dark united to see Neo Metal Sonic reveal himself. As it turned out, Neo Metal Sonic, who had been impersonating Eggman, was the true kidnapper of Froggy and Chocola and the one staging the teams’ adventures so he could copy their data for a plan to conquer the world himself. As Neo Metal Sonic transformed into Metal Madness, the real Dr. Eggman saw the teams had collected all the Chaos Emeralds and got the idea of using the Emeralds against Metal Sonic. Team Rose then volunteered to stall Metal Madness with the others while Team Sonic prepared the Chaos Emeralds. Despite Team Rose’s efforts, Metal Madness transformed into Metal Overlord, but a super transformed Team Sonic then arrived and defeated him. After the battle, Amy resume her chase after Sonic, saying goodbye to her teammates while doing so.

Big is absent in Sonic Free Riders, with Vector substituting for him. In the same way, Cream is absent in Team Sonic Racing, being substituted by four Chao.

Sonic X
Big has encountered Cream and Amy separately on different occasions. All three were present when they found some Chaos Emeralds for Sonic to transform himself into Super Sonic in order to calm down Chaos. Cream was one of the spectators watching Ella defeat Big, and Amy winning by default. All three were also present during a barbecue picnic, and were on separate teams competing to recover a meteor.

Fanon
It can be considered the least popular of the friendship trios debuting in Sonic Heroes. At least two fan-fictions have been written since September 2021. A handful of fan-art also exists.

One motivation for shipping the trio other than their short canonical status is Big’s screen time. For example, the cat has not seen a single appearance in the third and final season of Sonic X (Metarex saga). Fan works tend to have him an equal share of effort for the team.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

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WIKIS
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 * Team Rose on Sonic Retro

Variations

 * Amream — the ship between Amy and Cream
 * Bigamy — the ship between Big and Amy
 * Bigeam — the ship between Big and Cream
 * CreamCheese — the ship between Cream and Cheese
 * Vectamy — the ship between Vector and Amy