At Tails workshop, Blaze and Silver had Tails to tie Cyo at a table with strong cuffs.
"So what happened actually?" Tails asked Silver and Blaze.
"Eggman must have twisted Cyo's mind and turned him against us. I am not sure how" Silver said.
"Hmmm. Another case of mind controlling" Tails said. He picked up his scanner and held it over the unconscious cyborg lion.
After a few results, the answer came on the monitor on the scanner.
"Just as I thought, he has been indeed brainwashed, he got a virus in his mechanical implants. We must remove them at once now" Tails said. He gets to the shelf to take the tools out and placed it next to the table where Cyo is on.
"Alright Blaze and Silver, come and help me" Tails said, putting on a surgeon mask. He removed Cyo's mechanical arm and puts it aside.
"Okay, pulse?" Tails asked.
"Stabilized" Blaze said.
"Good, hand me the screwdriver" Tails said. Blaze handed him the screwdriver and he takes it, unlocking the armor on Cyo's torso. He then takes the armor piece off and checks if Cyo is breathing.
"Yep he is breathing but he is still unconscious. I just need to put a fire wall USB into his recharge thing Tails said. Unknown to him, Cyo's left hand began twitching. The pulse on the computer got stronger too.
"Uh Tails, look" Silver saw this. Tails looked up and sees Cyo's left hand turn into a fist.
"URGH!" Tails was punched back at the wall.
"CAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH!" Cyo woke up with a loud roar and tore off the pulse detectors on him. He also put his mechanical hand back in place and adjusted his armor.
"Oh no! Not again!" Blaze gasped. Sonic, Fairy and Amy ran in and heard Cyo roaring.
"What the heck?! Cyo!" Amy gasped. Cyo turns around with an evil look on his face and growls.
"HRRRRRRRRGH!" Cyo turns his hand into a laser gun and fires at Sonic, Amy and Fairy but missed when Silver moved them out of the way with his telekinesis.
"WHAT IS GOING ON!" Fairy screamed.
"Cyo has totally lost it by Eggman's deeds! LOOK OUT!" Tails screamed and saw Cyo targeting Fairy. Fairy tried to avoid him but got shot in the right arm, making her clutch it in pain.
"AARGH!" Fairy grunts in pain. Sonic then came running at Cyo and spindashed at the brainwashed lion hard, causing his chest armor to be damaged. But it wasn't enough, Cyo then ran on all four after Sonic.
"Cyo! SNAP OUT OF IT!" Sonic shouted running backwards avoiding Cyo's claws. Cyo ignored him and then jumps at him, baring his claws at him. He only managed to slash at Sonic's chest and leg.
"OW! AH!" Sonic grunts in pain after the slashes. He then began spinning his legs rapidly and then with a homing attack sends him onto some metal barrels.
It seemed like it was over. Sonic watched in disbelief over the cyborg lion, having been turned to Eggman's side.
"I can't believe he became like this, we must bring Cyo back to us" Sonic said.
"That's not gonna be easy Sonic. He's infected with a virus...LOOK OUT!" Tails saw Cyo getting up and grabs Sonic roughly, holding him hostage with the laser gun at Sonic's head.
"Alright, nobody moves or Sonic dies!" Cyo shouted, but Fairy goes up and held her good arm up with a faint glow.
"Cyo, please...you have to snap out of it...I don't wanna fight you. Please listen to me" Fairy said with tearful eyes. Cyo just stares at Fairy and the others with a cold stare and at Sonic and back at them pointing his laser gun at them instead.
"We are your friends Cyo, don't let Eggman take you away from us. This is not you. Remember what your side is, remember who you really are, you are our friend, a comrade, a family member" Amy said. Then something happened to Cyo, his red eyes began slowy turn back to their normal colors.
"Friend...family...comrade" He said in a calm voice. He let go off Sonic and then fell onto his knees.
"What is going on?" Amy asked.
"He is resisting the virus! Come on Cyo! You can do it!" Sonic said. With a scream Cyo fell onto the floor and twitched around, his armor was turning from purple to blue. It seemed he was in great pain.
"It's working, he is resisting!" Tails smiled. Then Cyo stopped twitching and was now back to his normal colors. He slowly opened his eyes and they were no longer red in color, but the shiny orange of his normal self. Eventually he passed out.
"Good to have you back Cyo" Sonic said.
At Eggman's base, he watched the fight on a video, recorded by his spy robot.
"This is just the beginning Sonic. My virus will be your doom" Eggman grinned evilly.