Team Rose

Team Rose is a group consisting of Amy Rose, Cream the Rabbit (with Cheese) and Blaze the Cat, which has come together on a number of occasions to aid Blaze in her efforts to recover the Sol Emeralds.

Formation
Team Rose first came together after Blaze met Amy, Cream, and Cheese on Mobius after traveling there in search of one of the missing Sol Emeralds. While the group was initially off to a rough start due to Amy's assumptions of Blaze being an enemy and Blaze's constant suspicions, they aligned anyway since the two were both allies of Sonic the Hedgehog and put faith in his judgement. Team Rose used Blaze's links to the Sol Emeralds and NICOLE to track the mystical gem to the Great Forest, where they encountered Rouge the Bat, who also volunteered to help locate the jewel. Rouge later proved treacherous when she stole the located Sol Emerald from a root cavern at the bottom of a ravine and then called in the rest of Team Dark to deal with Team Rose. (SU: #21)

During the fight, Cheese got a hold of the emerald and escaped with it, only to result in him and Cream getting captured by Team Hooligan. Once the rest of Team Rose caught up with them, Nack, Bean, and Bark tried to escape on the Marvelous Queen, but were overtaken by Blaze when she went to rescue Cream. They then attempted to recover the emerald from Team Hooligan, but were confronted by Team Dark a second time and quickly taken out before they could explain they no longer had the gem. (SU: #22)

After finally being able to tell them what happened to the emerald, Team Rose managed to get Team Dark to agree to an uneasy truce. Both groups then set off together after Nack's team with Blaze's ability to sense the Sol Emerald guiding them while using Shadow's G.U.N.-issued bike as transport. They eventually were able to catch up Team Hooligan, only to find that the Babylon Rogues had joined the fight as well, making it a four-sided confrontation. Amy Rose proposed they still could work together with Team Dark and win, but confided in her teammates her certainty that they would turn on them soon, to which Blaze needed no convincing. They then charged forward into the melee as did the other three teams, with Amy leading the way and rallying her friends on to victory. (SU: #23)



At first the battle was nothing but a hectic riot, and Blaze tried to get Amy, Cream, and Cheese to leave, saying it was her fight. However her teammates refused to go, vowing they were going to finish together, and they leapt back into the fight, with renewed determination to win. With Amy's help they were able to get Team Dark's cooperation again, and while their commando allies went about herding the Rogues, the girls managed to corral Team Hooligan together with them. Blaze then set off one of Bean's bombs and the resultant explosion was able to take both teams out of the fight in one move. At the battle's end, the girls braced to fend off Rouge's advances for the Sol Emerald again, but an intervention from both Shadow and Omega got her to stop on her own. After a cordial departure with the G.U.N. agents, Blaze took the recovered emerald, and left for her own world, promising to retrun once her quest was completed, and the team dissolved for the time being. It was only much later that Amy realized that they accidentally left NICOLE behind in the root cavern. (SU: #24)

Pirate Problems
The team was later reformed after Amy, Cream and Cheese inexplicably wound up in the Sol Zone, Blaze's native dimension. Learning that their old teammate had only one Sol Emerald left to recover, the trio readily joined her aboard the Ocean Tornado as she sought it out. Aided by Marine the Raccoon and the Coconut Crew, they eventually zeroed in on the Emerald's location: the Metal Marauder, which they engaged in battle. Despite the determined efforts of the heroes, the pirates possessed superior armament, and also carried two unexpected old enemies: Bean and Bark, who like the three heroes had been transported to the Sol Zone. Blaze managed to board the pirate vessel, but the ship's cruel master, Captain Metal, destroyed the Ocean Tornado anyway after the crew had abandoned it, seemingly putting an end to Amy, Cream, Cheese, and Marine while capturing Blaze. (SU: #55)

Fortunately for Blaze, who was taken to Pirate Island as a prisoner, her friends survived the destruction of the Ocean Tornado and soon came to her rescue. They were forced to pursue Johnny after the mechanical pirate stole the Sol Emerald from Bean and Bark, who had previously stolen it from Captain Metal. Commandeering the Metal Marauder and its crew, Team Rose pursued Johnny to his rendezvous with the ship carrying his master, Captain Whisker. The two ships were then attacked by Captain Metal's Kraken, which was destroyed thanks to Bark and Bean allying with the heroes. However, the resulting explosion knocked the Sol Emerald into the sea, where it was caught by the arriving Captain Metal as his submarine emerged from the depths. A three-way battle ensued, eventually leading to Whisker fleeing with the Marauder's crew added to his own as he sank Metal's former vessel. Captain Metal managed to power up his Egg O' War battle station, but Amy and Cream managed to release Blaze after he captured her again. Using the power of the Sol Emeralds, Blaze transformed into Burning Blaze and defeated Captain Metal twice, first by melting his body and then sinking the Egg O' War after he uploaded himself into it. Victorious, Blaze thanked her friends and allies from Mobius by sending them home, dissolving Team Rose yet again. (SU: #56, #57)

Background Information

 * The name Team Rose stems from the video game Sonic Heroes; however, the game's version of the team consisted of Amy, Cream and Big the Cat rather than Blaze. This is one of two modifications to the team featured outside Sonic Heroes; one of the Sonic Riders titles featured Vector the Crocodile taking Big's place.

Allies

 * Marine
 * Freedom Fighters
 * Sonic
 * Tails
 * Big
 * Chao
 * Omochao
 * Sally
 * NICOLE
 * Rotor
 * Bunnie
 * Antoine
 * Chaotix
 * Charmy
 * Espio
 * Vector
 * Team Dark
 * G.U.N.
 * Shadow
 * Rouge
 * E-123 Omega
 * Silver

Enemies

 * Dr. Eggman Nega
 * Dr. Eggman
 * Snively
 * Battle Bird Armada
 * Metal Sonic
 * Badniks
 * Black Arms
 * Mephiles
 * Team Hooligan
 * Bark
 * Nack
 * Bean