Sonic's POV

I was seeing things. The emeralds, all set up in a circle, and in the center, the Master emerald. Eggman caught us at just the right time... Shadow and I were on opposite sides and the Master emerald was perfectly between us. I don't know how Eggman pulled it off, but he did. Whatever he used to activate the emeralds was strong.

I felt so powerful for a minute there, when the chaos hit me. Weightless. I could feel it too strongly, though, like an overdose. Everything turned so bright, and then everything just turned to black.

I wake up to Amy shaking me, yelling. I'm sleeping so nicely though...

"Ugh.. what?" I ask her. There must be a really good reason for waking me.

"Sonic! Wake up! Are you okay?" she asks, her voice so shaky it finally occurs to me something isn't quite right. I open my eyes and sit up, and woah, I am heavy. Sitting up takes so much effort, I'm stunned when there aren't weights on my chest. Why am I laying in a field? "Oh, Sonic! You're alright!" Amy yells, far too loudly for me. She hugs me and I fall back, unable to stay up with any extra weight on me. "It'll be alright now that you're awake!" she smiles.

She must not know how tired I am. Suddenly I hear another familiar voice - a much less cheerful voice at that. Knuckles is yelling.

"What did you do!? What just happened? Do you have any idea how close I am to breaking your bones-"

"You ignorant little beast! How was I to know what would happen? You're alive, aren't you? Be grateful for that!" Eggman yells back.

Wait, Eggman?

With immense effort - this fatigue better wear off soon - I sit up again, and sure enough, there's that spherical scientist, looking mildly annoyed.

"What's goin' on?" I ask, noticing Rouge a few feet away standing next to Shadow. She's holding his Inhibitor rings, and he doesn't look amused in the slightest. Amy grabs my arm.

"Don't you remember?" she asks me. "Eggman used that crazy electrical machine and zapped both you and Shadow right by all of the emeralds!" She stands up, still holding my arm, and she pulls on me to try to make me stand up. I take a deep breath, and push myself up, expecting to fall. Somehow I stand, although shakily, and my world tilts a little before I find balance.

"So why are we here?"

"We don't know! We all just showed up here. It's gotta do something with your chaos control, right?" she asks me. I'd shrug if I felt the energy to. Another yelling voice - Tails.

"Shut up, both of you! None of us need your petty arguments! Let's figure out where we are first, and then you can plot each other's death!" Eggman and Knuckles both cross their arms in a nearly funny way, turning away from each other. "Thank you!" Tails mutters. The fox sighs deeply, then scans our surroundings. After looking around at the field we're in, he turns his attention back to us. He looks first at Shadow, then at me, then back and forth between us.

"You both look like you need to sleep. For a few days."

"I feel like it." I tell him. I look back at Shadow. He absently touches his inner wrist, where an Inhibitor ring normally is.

"You okay?"

"Never better," he replies. The look in his eyes is of veiled tension. He looks at Eggman. "What did you just do?"

"If I may speak without being interrupted," Eggman shoots a glance at Knuckles, then tells all of them, "you all need to know that was an experiment. I didn't know what was going to happen."

"So you just did it anyway, potentially killing all of us?" Rouge asks. She looks ready to throw one of the rings in her hand at the man.

"I am a scientist, Rouge! How can anything be learned without taking chances?" he combats. "This is beyond argumentation - we simply need to discover where we are. Believe me, I don't want to spend any more time than is absolutely necessary with you nuisances!"

"None of my devices are operating. I can't tell you where we are. I'm guessing the chaos energy was so strong, it caused all of these to malfunction." Tails says unhappily, looking over all of the watches and mechanisms on his wrists.

"Perhaps if we..." Eggman's voice loses my attention and I notice Shadow's not paying attention either. Shadow turns away from the group and takes a few (diffident) steps. He'll never admit it if he's just as fatigued as I am, but I'm glad to see I'm not alone. He's looking at our surroundings, and I copy him.

The mass of skyscrapers in the city in the distance looks just vaguely familiar. Shadow looks at me and says quietly, "Sapphire."

Sapphire City? We went there once or twice before, on missions from the agency. He must be wrong though. I look back at the skyscrapers, looking for something that resembled Sapphire City. It seems... weird. Shouldn't we be able to hear the city sounds from here? Something about it seems off.

"...well, look at what's around us." Rouge says, drawing my attention back from the city. "The mountains are too far away for most of us to get to by night, and I'm sure none of us feel like swimming across an ocean." The mountains.. I look behind me, and there they are. If Shadow's right and that's Sapphire City, these mountains would be.. what were they? The Endro-something Chain? Shad and I could be there in no time - but I guess none of us should leave Eggman around on his own. He'll probably send us to a whole different planet somehow!

"The city is clearly our best bet," Knuckles decides. "There's gotta be something there."

"Doesn't it seem a little... odd?" I ask, earning some looks. Shadow just looks like he's waiting for me to say something. Maybe he agrees. "I guess this is all weird, though. If we're gonna go, let's go before I pass out."

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