Tails watched Sonic leave, and felt a tear fall.

"Calm down, lad! Here you go. Don't worry, he'll be back." the geek said, tossing him a treat.

He watched Tails at it, then start pulling at the leash, trying to get away.

"Why're ye so desperate te leave, Lad?" the geek asked.

"Shut-up, and let me go!" Tails yelled.

"Aye, so ye finally gave into the chip, did ye? You must've been fighting pretty hard, just now..." Tails struggled harder and yelled,

"Let me go!"

"No can do."

"You'd better listen to the lad, Doctor." A deep voice said.

The geek saw Tails' face light up at the sight of a large, roundish man and he yelled,

"I thought you'd never come! Sonic kidnapped me!"

"Did he, now? Then we're gonna have to make him pay..."

"Mm-hmm."

The geek laughed, and Robotnik said,

"Release Tails, and I wont kill you."

"Kill me, and Tails is stuck there."

"I'll kill you and pry the keys from your cold, dead, fingers."

"Sounds like fun, but I'll pass."

"Fine, then."

Robotnik punched him in the face, stole the keys, and unlocked the chain's padlock. Tails gave him a hug (A/N: Creepy, huh?), and Robotnik said,

"Come on, we have rodents to kill."

"Right."

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Sonic and Amy went back to where they saw Tails get pwned the first time, and Knuckles went back home to Angel Island. They double- checked and Sonic said,

"Okay, it all looks clear..."

"Looking for something?" somebody asked, and they turned seeing Robotnik.

"What'd you do to my little bro?!" Sonic roared.

"What does it matter? Tails! Now!"

"You got it!" Tails said, and suddenly a cage dropped over Sonic and Amy.

Amy hugged Sonic, and Tails flew to Robotnik giving him a high-5.

"Tails! How did you get off that leash?!" Sonic asked.

"I let him go. It isn't fair to treat your friends like pets, now, is it?" Robotnik said.

Sonic balled his fists, getting pissed and yelled,

"Tails! Fight against this! This isn't what you wanna do!" as some robotic guards tied up Sonic and Amy, and started walking them out of the cage.

"The dungeon!" Robotnik yelled, and watched as Sonic and Amy were dragged there.

He looked at his distressed companion and pet Tails, soothingly.

"Don't listen to him, Tails. He has no say in what you want to do..."

Tails moved closer to Robotnik for support because he felt ready to pass out, and Robotnik put an arm over Tails' shoulders saying,

"What's wrong, m'boy?"

Tails looked at him on the verge of crying, and whimpered out,

"I can't remember anything! A-and he was so... he was–"

"Calm down... Don't let Sonic get to you. He'll be dead in no time."

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Sonic kicked the cage he was in.

"Man, this sucks... Tails is gonna kill me, and Eggman finally has a good plan this time. I'm gonna kill him for turning my best friend against me..." Sonic muttered.

Suddenly he heard a voice say,

"Tails?"

"Huh?" Sonic asked.

"Tails, is that you?"

"Who is this?"

"It's Cream. Who is this?"

"Cream?! It's Sonic. We've been worried sick about you!"

"I'm more worried about Tails. H-he was only trying to save me..."

"Wait, what happened?"

"I was being kidnapped, and he tried to save me, then call for you. But an army of robots got to him and the last thing I heard before I was thrown here was his terrible cry for you. I'm so worried. God only knows what they did to him..."

"They brainwashed him."

"Huh?"

"They stuck a brain controll chip in his brain, so now he acts like Eggo's housepet."

"What?!"

"Yup, and he's gonna try to kill us soon, so... hang tight!"

"Not Tails!"

"You're right... NOT Tails. It's not his fault whatever he says or does. He can only fight the chip for so long... and he has amnesia, so he forgets everything he talks about, and only does what he is told to do."

"Is there any way to free him?"

"First we'd have to find out what's disturbing his brain waves. He can follow orders perfectly, but can't think for himself."

"How sad!"

"Yup." He turned to Amy. "You think you can untie me?"

She nodded, and they turned back-to-back, untying each other. When they were free, Sonic went to the bars and said,

"We need to get out of here..."

Before any other words were said, the door swung open and revealed Robotnik standing in the doorway.

"Where's Tails?" Cream asked.

"He's taking a nap. So the pleasure of destroying you is all mine."

He went to Cream's cage and pulled her out by the wrist.

"You, my dear are going to be the first to go..." he said, cruelly.

She started panicking and Sonic said,

"Don't worry, Cream! You'll be okay!"

"Shut-up, Sonic! You're next." he dragged her out of the dungeon, and Sonic started plotting.