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Mind - Body

Tails - Sonic

Sonic - Eggman

Knuckles - Tails

Eggman - Knuckles

Here's another chapter!

I had five out of twelve pieces of the Master Emerald. Seven left. Now that I think about it, I probably had time to just take the Master Emerald. Whatever: what's done is done.

I inserted one of the green shards into my chaos tracker. It didn't fit the small box meant for chaos emeralds, but it should've worked anyway; it was made to use anything with chaos energy. I was disappointed to find that the shards had no chaos energy in them. I tossed it back with the others with disgust.

That means that I won't be able to detect any more shards. No matter, I'll just find some chaos emeralds! Is there anything in this Eggmobile with chaos energy? I doubt it… Rings… Rings are infused with chaos energy… Yes! I snatched a ring from my storage compartment and shoved it into the slot. The tracker immediately activated. To my delight, there was a signal. It was weak, but I followed it.

x-x-x

"Can you hear me?" I stared into Sonic's robotic eyes. He was hooked up to my computer in case I needed to make any improvements.

"Kinda," he answered with a rough, electronic voice.

"Alright, I'll replace your microphones. They must be pretty old. I need to install your voice files, too." I opened a software of my own design: Prower Vocals. I clicked 'detect'. "Sonic the Hedgehog!"

Undertones collected. What would you like to name this file?

I typed 'Sonic(0).voi'.

Would you like to test or export?

I clicked export.

Where would you like to export Sonic(0).voi?

I clicked 'robot002'.

Export complete. Thank you for using Prower Vocals!

"Alright, say something."

"Something," Sonic said in his familiar voice.

"Good. Say something excitedly."

"Something!" It was good.

"Say something sadly."

"Something…" It was a little rough, but it was close enough.

"Ask something."

"Something?" Perfect. Now, movement.

"Touch your nose with your left hand. Right. Okay, now make a fist with both hands. Alright, move your arms like you're swimming." He flailed his arms. "No - stop! Do this… Okay, good. Roll your head around. Now, stand up."

I unhooked Sonic from the computer as he stood up. "Walk around. Good, start accelerating. Perfect. Dance… Oh, no! No! Stop! Stop dancing! Never dance again! Okay, sit down. Read the letters on the poster."

"E, Z, H, M - wait, why don't you just switch me into my own body?"

"I designed that robot to be just like you, except in looks. Knuckles and I would be useless in that robot. I'm going to switch with Knuckles to get my body back, though, and he'll use yours."

"Whatever…" He continued through the letters perfectly.

"Perfect vision. Now I just need to replace your microphones."

x

After I replaced Sonic's microphones, I switched with Knuckles. After a short transfer, I was finally back in my own body! I hugged my tails and spoke in my own voice.

"It's nice to be back in my own body!" Knuckles huffed.

"Must be. I'll have to wait until we catch Eggman."

"Sorry, Knux. We'll catch him soon."

x

I inserted the three chaos emeralds into the Tornado 3's slots and started it up. The chaos map appeared on the console screen. With three chaos emeralds, it had a radius of one hundred twenty-five kilometers. There was a weak signal. I smiled.

"We've already got a signal! It's probably a piece of the Master Emerald - don't they scatter after being smashed?"

"Yeah, but they don't have any chaos energy," Knuckles answered.

"Oh. It's a chaos emerald, then!"

x

We followed the signal for thirty minutes. Soon enough, we were approaching the site of the signal. Once we reached it, we all noticed a familiar round vehicle parked on the ground. There was also a familiar red echidna caring a familiar blue gem.

"Hey, Sonic," I said.

"Yeah?"

"What do you think about testing out your new body?"

"Let's do it!" I opened the windshield and Sonic jumped out. I landed the plane. By the time Knuckles and I make it way to the scene, Sonic was taking some harsh blows.

"Little help, here!" He resorted to dodging and defending Eggman's punches. Knuckles dashed out and delivered a kick to the head. As Sonic, Knuckles, and Eggman were fighting, I ran back to the plane to retrieve my tail sleeves. I heard a loud noise, so I quickly slipped them on and returned to the fight. It was already over, though. Sonic and Knuckles were sitting on the ground, and Knuckles had the chaos emerald in his hand.

"What happened?" Knuckles looked up at me and blinked a few. He rubbed his ears.

"What?"

"What happened?"

"Oh! As soon as I got my hands on the emerald, he used a flashbang. He tried to grab it from me, but I held on. Here." He handed me the blue gem.

"Good job! Let's hurry!" Neither Sonic nor Knuckles moved. "Um… you two coming?"

"Just a minute, bud," Sonic groaned. "That was a nasty flashbang."

I nodded and returned to the plane. Several minutes later, they were in the plane. I started it up. "Alright, are we ready, now?"

"All set," Knuckles answered.

"Cool! Let's find the next chaos emerald!"

x-x-x

I can't believe my flashbang trick didn't work! He's got some grip! Too bad for him, though - I've got his tin foil! I was headed to my mountain base, where the Switcher™ was located.

"Ho ho ho! I'll be the fastest thing alive in a few minutes!"

x-x-x

"Hey, Knuckles!" There was no reply. "Knuckles?"

I looked back to find Knuckles unconscious. I noticed that his tin foil was missing and knew exactly what was happening. I put my tin foil onto his head before the transfer could go on any longer. It would be postponed until it was removed. I directed the flight towards my home.

x

I locked Sonic's body in one of my experiment chambers and explained the situation to Sonic. He nodded and allowed me to switch him with Eggman's body. I removed the consciousless robot from the pod and put Sonic's body in. I snatched the foil from his head and slammed the door. He immediately woke up.

"Looks like I was just in time." I activated the machine. Satisfied with my work, I plopped onto the couch and immediately fell unconscious.

gabage6.2: I know you liked Sonic being the robot - and I do hate to undo that so early - but I may be able to redo it soon ;)

Tails - Tails?

Sonic - Sonic

Knuckles - Knuckles?

Eggman - Eggman?

None - Mecha

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