A/N: If you like my 'Chosen' story, you should look for the crossover I'm working on with DragonKnight159. He's an amazing writer and the first chapter is already up.

Chapter 12:

Sonic burst out of the back of another building, causing it collapse behind him. The citizens around him increased there screaming as they continued to try and escape the city, only to be rounded up by the other members of the Ring of Justice. He had been at this for a few hours, leveling one street after another, but he wasn't even breathing hard. He turned toward the next street when he heard someone walking up behind. Thinking it was just a Ringer, Sonic didn't even bother to look around. He prepared to take off when the person spoke.

"I've come to get you back Sonic," Professor Fredrick said seriously.

Surprised, Sonic stumbled and crashed into a nearby car. He quickly got up from the wreckage and faced the calm fox.

"I am not the Sonic you know, he's gone. You have one chance to surrender to the Ring of Justice or I will be forced to eliminate you."

"I know the real Sonic is in there and I will get him back. Just try and stop me!"

The Professor turned and ran through the crowd. Sonic sighed and smirked that the fox thought he could get away from him. Sonic took of a very slow pace, not wanting to end the chase too soon.

When Sonic burst out of the crowd, he saw the Professor turn around the corner in a car. Sonic immediately picked up his pace and chased after the car. The Professor made many and random turns, which forced Sonic to slow down to follow him and kept Sonic from getting to full speed.

Sonic eventually caught up with the car and began smashing it. The car swerved and crashed into the side of a building. Sonic observed the wreckage as the Professor got out of the car. The fox looked dazed and had a few cuts, but was mostly unharmed.

"I'll give you one last chance," Sonic said as he approached the Professor. "Surrender."

"I'm not done yet," the Professor replied. "NOW SAM!"

A sound came from behind Sonic. He whipped around just as a blast hit him the chest, sending him flying through the wall of the building, narrowly missing the Professor who had dived out of the way.

Sonic skidded across the floor, his quills leaving deep gouges in the concrete. He stood up and began walking toward the hole where he had entered, when his robotic arm gave a weird jerk. Sparks began flying from it, as well as his other limbs, and he collapsed on the floor, barely supporting himself with his real arm. He heard footsteps and looked up as Sam and the Professor careful approached him. Sonic tried to move his limbs, but the robotic appendages gave no response and were just dead weight.

"What did you do to me!" Sonic growled.

"Remember the files we had retrieved from base where we found you?" The Professor asked.

"Yeah."

"Sam's computer was finally able to decode them and, although they didn't contain much of your past, they did have schematics on the workings of your cybernetics. With that information, Sam was able to create a device that would temporally shut down your robotic limbs. It was absolutely brilliant."

"It wasn't that impressive Professor," Sam replied.

"Come now!" The Professor said. "It was an excellent design and worked beautifully. You really need to learn to give yourself credit for what you've done."

"What's your big plan now?" Sonic interrupted. "It won't be long before the Ring of Justice find us and I will make sure to help them when they do. Nothing you can do can change my mind."

"Your right, we can't. But this can," the Professor said as he pulled a glowing blue gem. Sonic's eyes widened.

"Where did you get a Chaos Emerald!" Sonic demanded.

"When you were taken by the Ring of Justice, we knew they would brain was you and we knew a Chaos Emerald was the best way to undo what they did. So we used Sam's tracker to find another one of those floating rings and it took us to this really strange maze. I don't know how, but we managed to get through it and retrieve the emerald. Now, to undo the damage..."

The Professor lifted Sonic's hand and placed the emerald in it. It glowed brightly as it's energy flowed into Sonic, filling his head with images. When the emerald dimmed, Sonic's eyes returned to normal before he passed out.

"Let's get him out of here," the Professor said, picking up Sonic, Sam coming over to help. "We don't want to be caught by the Ring of Justice."

The two carried the unconscious hedgehog out the side of the building and down a manhole where they had transportation waiting.

"The city has fallen," Commander Zac reported. "And it's citizens are in our custody."

"Excellent," The Justice Lord replied. "And what of Sonic?"

"He did his job excellently," Commander Zac replied. "He was last seen chasing a fox identified as Professor Fredrick."

"That's strange," the Justice Lord murmured. "Why would he come here? He couldn't hope to beat Sonic. Unless..."

He ran to the nearest computer and began typing furiously.

"No. No. NO!" The Justice Lord shouted, slamming his hands on the desk.

"What is it my Lord?" Commander Zac asked.

"They found a way to break the Mind Control. Sonic is free!"

When Sonic woke up, he felt like he had been hit by a train. He let out a groan and raised his hand to his head, hoping to ease the pounding headache he had. It didn't help, but after a few minutes the pain subsided enough for him to sit up. Sonic looked around. It took him a minute to realize he wasn't with the Ring of Justice, but inside a tent.

With another groan, Sonic pushed himself out of bed and stumbled out the tent. The tent was in a clearing in some forest he didn't recognize with Sam and the Professor sitting around a small fire. The looked at him when he walked over.

"How do you feel?" Sam asked as Sonic sat down.

"Terrible," Sonic replied. "Both physically and about what I've done."

"So you remember being mind controlled?" the Professor asked.

"Most of it," Sonic answered. "I think the mind control program had a backup command to erase the important information. I can't remember much about the Ring of Justice, but I do remember the attack on the city."

"It wasn't your fault," Sam assured.

"I know," Sonic said. "But... thanks to the emerald, I now remember my past."