"Interesting," Eggman mumbled to himself, reading the paper in front of him. "I've never seen anything like this..." Behind him, a computer started beeping. He jumped up and ran over to the machine. "Finally."
Quickly he tapped a few of the keys, and on the screen next to him an image appeared. Far from being a perfect picture, the image was blurred and the few things he did see couldn't be true. There was a banana in the center of the room the size of a couch and what looked to be windows were made out of yarn. Of course, if Sonic were dreaming all of it would make sense, but the information he was receiving from the printouts was definitely against it.
Punching a few more buttons he was able to sharpen the image a bit, he was able to make out a few people walking around the room Sonic was looking into.
"What's that?" Amy asked, approaching him.
"Right now, we are seeing what Sonic is seeing... More or less."
"And Sonic is seeing a giant banana?"
"The brain is a complicated thing. The "signal" I'm getting this from shouldn't even exist, so it's like I'm going down an alternate route to see what he sees. Because it's something that shouldn't exist and he technically shouldn't be seeing this his eyes are confused. He can see everything as it really is, but since this is just a readout from a non-existant, distant signal that has to be reworked by the computer which sometimes gets scrambled. That's why everything seems a bit strange."
"So what are you typing into the computer?"
"It seems that the computer is focusing on the stationary things and ignoring everything moving, evening though it is obviously center stage in Sonic's mind right now. If I can get the computer to change that, we'll be able to focus on the moving things and take all the nonsense out of focus. It should be relatively easy because the brain likes to see faces, and even if that isn't true for the computer we just need to hit the right buttons." He looked down at her and shook his head. "Let's make you useful. While I do this, go over to that other computer and type in everything on that paper next to it. If I did everything right we may be able to tap into the signal and speak through Sonic. If I can find out what the professor over there has found out we may be able to combine our efforts."
Amy picked up the paper Eggman had written the instructions on and began typing, though it took her a while to decipher some of the things he had written. Though she didn't understand how a lot of the things going on were possible, it didn't stop her from doing everything she could to stop it.
"What's going on, Sonic?" Miyako crouched at his side as he opened his eyes, shaking his shoulder lightly. "Are you all right?"
"Yeah, I just feel like- nevermind. Professor," he said, turning his head towards him, "have you found anything yet?"
"It's pretty extraordinary. Your brain has high concentrations of energy that it doesn't know how to release. It seems to just be shooting off at random."
"Not random, Professor," Ken called from the desk. "There's a pattern. Every 80 seconds it shoots off a new burst, just in different directions, making it seem random unless you're really timing it. And there's this one outlet that is releasing energy constantly, which I think is what is keeping him rooted here. I bet anything that it turns off when he goes to sleep."
"That doesn't explain why he's here," The Professor started to argue.
Ken motioned him over. "Look," he said, pointing at the screen. "Look at the reading we're getting from the timed bursts. They are filled with a whitish glow that I think is our own white light from Chemical Z."
"Sonic must have materialized in a place that had a high concentration of white light built up," The Professor nodded, catching on. "Maybe the concentration sent off energy that was timed perfectly with a burst from Sonic's brain as he slept. I bet anything that where he appeared in our world correlates exactly with where he was in that moment in his world. Like another dimension lying right on top of the other. The white light must have thinned the veil and the two bursts moved him into our world."
"And since our lab, and truthfully our entire town, has traces of white light everywhere Sonic's world must be getting it through the veil. So the bursts from his brain mixed with the energy from the white light are able to keep him rooted in both worlds at once."
"What does that mean for me?" Sonic asked. "How do we turn me back into one person?"
Ken and the Professor looked at each other. "I have no idea," they said together.
Eggman was able to pull an auditory reading from Sonic halfway through the Professor and Ken's explanation of what was happening with Sonic.
"Chemical Z? White light?" Amy asked looking up at Eggman.
"I don't know," Eggman told her. "Maybe it's something the Professor studies. If I can figure out what it is, and if what he says is true, I can search the air for Chemical Z and see if I can find readings. Then if I can send the Chemical Z back to his world. If Chemical Z is as strong as he says, I may be able to use it to close this 'veil.' And if I can simultaneously close the veil and reverse and release Sonic's 'brain bursts' we may be able to put him back into our world and stop the movement between dimensions."
"And what happens if..." Amy thought of the things Eggman just said and how much of it was all theoretical. "if the veil closes before hand, if you can't reverse the bursts, if you can't..."
"If Sonic were to somehow get stuck on the other side of the veil, you mean?"
Amy nodded.
"Would you rather him be exhausted and miserable everyday for the rest of his life?"
Amy looked up at Eggman with sad eyes before sighing. "How do we get the voice to work?"
