With lacking any better ideas Sonic dove into some bushes. Just as Eggman flew overhead.

"I don't get it the signal is coming from around here but where is it?...How good is the range?" Eggman scratched his head asked his bots on screen.

"Around 200 yards, it's nearby somewhere"

"How the heck am I going, going to get out of this one?" Sonic's eyes follow the doctor flying around and around in the air. Carefully crawling though the leaves he has a idea, one he really hates but it's something

"I wonder if this chip works under water" The hedgehog slowly makes his way over to a small pond, carefully glancing around for any signs off Eggman. Luckily there was no signs, but what wasn't lucky was there was nothing he could use to breath underwater.

And he doesn't have the time to look thoroughly for anything. So he grips his nose and slips into the water.

"Ack! Why did I think this was a good idea? A shiver races though him, he goes under the water "What was I thinking?"

Sonic curses himself while at the same time praising the quick thinking of his, Eggman flew overhead at a lost why the signal pretty much disappeared.

Slowly Sonic becomes more and more frantic as he stays down longer. He still was waiting till he was sure Eggman was gone.

"Is this was getting squeezed by a boa feels like? Come on Eggy give up and go before I drowned here!"

He shivers, darkness of the waters felt like it was starting to close in on him. "It's trying to kill me!"

Sonic's deathly fear of water was quickly waning his resolve to stand hidden. His eyes shot up praying to whoever that the doctor would quickly give up soon and leave.

"Can't...hold my breath much longer"

To his great relief everyone, and since we can't just kill the main character of the story like that, we'd also be making this story really-who wrote this? We're seriously breaking the fourth wall here.

Oh wait I'll just skip to this next bit:

Sonic holds his breath but feels his lungs cry out in pain from the lack of fresh air. They wanted oxygen, and the hero was starting to feel a little light headed from it.

He almost didn't notice Eggman finally flying away off, on his search.

To be sure he was gone and not coming back. Sonic waited as long as he could till he burst out of the water.

~Gasp! Cough, cough~ "Any second later, I would of had drowned!"

He crawls to shore and shakes his fur out "At least the cold water has my gotten the feeling back into my legs, I have to get to Tails before Eggy gets the idea to come back"

He glances down at his feet, oh yea...no shoes this is going to make the run so much fun.

And he was right, the bottom of his feet were so raw and sore by the time he made it to Chris's garage.

Sonic limps over and knocks on the back door till to his luck (And the author's choice) Tails opened the door in shock and surprise "Sonic?" He looks around then behind him "Come inside before anyone sees"

"Thank you Tails" Sonic sighed with exhausted relief and goes inside. "But before we talk or do anything else we got one major problem"

"What's that?"

"Eggman's got a microchip in the back of my neck, he's going to come after me sooner or later"

"I can scramble the signal easily for awhile. Anything else?"

"Nope"

Tails nods and leads on to the upper floor and closes the curtains "I'm glad your alright Sonic, I was real worried"

Sonic plops down on a bean bag "What's that Tails?"

"Guess you can't remember"

"Can't remember what?" Sonic sat up in the bean bag "Did Eggman make me do something?"

"He did, yesterday you almost kidnapped the president till me, Shadow and Rouge were able to lead you off . Then Shadow damaged the collar around your neck. That is how I suspect he was control. Then before we could take it off G.U.N showed up and you ran off, after that I don't know"

The hedgehog rubs his head 'I can't recall a thing of that, but why isn't the collar working now even if Shadow damaged it"

"Well I think the collar was configured to your night form, and when you changed back. What little control he had left disappeared and that's why you can remember now"

"Can we get it off?" Sonic asked his friend.

"I'm going to try Sonic" The fox looks though his tools "I have to be quick before my scrambler stops messing with the microchip's signal. But after I get the collar off we might have to get outside help to get that chip out."

"I thought you were going to say that" "You know I'm not a doctor Sonic"