A/N: Hey everyone, I'm so so sorry for the wait. I was writing my tests and studying and I guess I was too tired and busy to update. But I'm on holiday for a week (gotta love the holidays=), so I have more time to update and write. I'll try not to keep you guys waiting for long. Enjoy the chapter.

Disclaimer: Do not own Sonic the hedgehog or any characters used in this chapter (Wish I did tho o). All rights goes to SEGA and Sonic Team.

Sonic's POV

Y'know, anytime I imagined being captured by Eggman, I never thought of this. Isolation. Normal room. Silence. I always thought that he would maybe interrogate me or threaten me or... maybe torture me?. It's so quiet. I haven't ran in ages. And I actually miss somethings I thought I would never. Amy's nagging, Shadow's mocking, getting scolded by Tails and a whole bunch of other stuff. There is absolutely nothing to do here other than sleep, eat, use the bathroom and walk around.

I sigh and get up to drink water. As I pick up the water bottle,I glance at the food at the table. As I said, Eggman did find out I knew about the drug-like whatever and started making me stuff like soup or baked goods. I, of course, knew better than to eat them or touch them but I... I'm getting so hungry. Water isn't even doing anything anymore.

I'm going to sleep. I thought with a frown. I dropped the now empty bottle back on the table and walked back to the bed. I laid on it and closed my eyes, thinking about Tails and the others. I hope they're still looking for me, It's been weeks since I last saw them. I sigh tiredly and began to drift off.

3rd person POV

Light snores began to fill the room as the hedgehog slept, not hearing the buzz and swing of the door. Normally, it would have been the 'cleaner badnik' as Sonic had nicknamed it that would clean and replace the food. But this time it was a robot with a syringe and tranquilizer gun. It slowly made it's way to the blue blur's bed and began to fill the syringe with the same substance that was placed in his food.

The robot began to reach for the hedgehog with the syringe in hand, ready to inject whatever serum that was in it into the hedgehog. Until the hedgehog's eyes snapped open and jumped over the robot and out of the bed. Once he landed, he turned quickly with wide eyes and quills bristled to the robot, who was already making a move towards him and quickly.

Sonic's POV

What the hell?! That was so close. I thought to myself as I made a mad dash to the open door. Once I was out of the room, I dashed down one of the hallways, not caring where it went to as I heard the alarms start blaring. Experiment 289 has escaped. This is not a drill. All bots to area 33. Experiment 289 ha...

I groan and roll my eyes as scrapbots began chasing me. Well, in all honesty, this is better than that room. I grinned to myself as I spindashed the closest badnik and kept on moving, dodging blasts and swerving past corners. I turned around and saw more and more badniks chasing me and shouted "This isn't how you treat guests, Egghead. But I don't blame you since you haven't had anyone to invite over before. And what is with the experiment thing, I'm no lab rat". I spindashed a robot into a few more causing all robots near them to explode. I smirked and turned, continuing to run and throw more remarks.

I turned a corner and saw a door with Eggman's big, ugly logo on it. I kicked it down to see Egghead himself, furiously tapping on his keyboard and sweating buckets. I snickered and said "Oh don't worry, I get it now. You just don't know how to greet guests so you tell your trashbots to do it for you". I grin as he turned with an angry scowl on his face. "Shut up you meddling and insufferable blue pineapple" He yelled as he pointed at him, nostrils flaring. "Jeez, calm down, Egghead. I haven't even done anything yet and here you are already, insulting me with your big words. Why don't we save them for when I defeat you" I smirk as I walked around his workroom, ignoring his angry words and insults.

I turn towards him and started getting ready to fight whatever weird robot he has planned for me. While he turns around to do whatever he's doing, I subtly look around the room to try and find my communicator. Once I get that, I can call, let them know I'm okay and they can track me down. I spot it in the corner of his worktable behind some files.

I begin to walk towards it but he turned at me all of a sudden with a tranquilizer gun in his hands. I raised a brow and said"What is with you and tranquilizer guns, Egghead? I'm not a raccoon or anything". He just grins and begins to shoot at me as I dodge and continue to talk,"Y'know, when I imagined the day you would finally get me, I didn't think it would involve me feeling this relaxed. I thought it'd be more tense. But I guess I overestimated you, didn't I?".

He snarled at me and said "You better keep your mouth shut, hedgehog. Once I'm done with you, you'd wish you never said anything in the first place". I just laughed at him, I didn't take him seriously at all. He kept shooting and I kept dodging. I even got a hold of my communicator, I thought I was gonna escape. Until...

"Ack!" I felt myself fall to the ground, catching myself on my hands and knees. Egghead had turned to refill whatever he was shooting at me, and his clumsy self dropped it on the floor. I was already planning on making a run for it and was going through with it. But I failed to notice that Egghead had been stalling for his robots and I foolishly played along. His robots shot at me, I avoided all of them but completely forgot about Egghead, who shot me in the arm.

I gritted my teeth as I felt my body fall, catching myself on my hands and knees. I heard Egghead cackling as I looked up, glaring at him. "What was in those shots, Egghead" I growled as I struggled to get back up, but it felt like I was being drained. "Oh, nothing but a knockout paralysis drug". He said, smirking as he made his way over to me. I began to growl as I tried to get away, but black dots were already appearing at the corners of my eyes.

My body finally gave up on me and I found myself on the floor, fighting to remain conscious. Egghead saw this and his already wide grin widened, as he finally got to me. He bent down with his hands behind his back, his grin turning to something sinister.

"You're going to regret playing games with me, rodent" That was the last thing I heard before loosing consciousness.

Meanwhile...

Amy's POV

When Rouge brought Tails home, I discovered bruises on his arm. I had left it alone, seeing that Tails didn't want to talk. After making food for the four of us, we all headed back to the living room and began to eat our food.

Tails looked so downcast and tired, I still regret letting him out of the house. I thought he would be happy if I did. He still refuses to tell us what happened. We all ate in silence, sometimes we'd glance at the TV or just think about stuff. Tails didn't look up once though.

"So, we should be heading back out, Rouge" I heard Shadow say as he stood up, placing his plate on the table. He turned to me and said "Thank you, Rose" I nodded, guessing he meant for the food. Rouge sighed and stood up, she went to Tails and put her hands on his shoulders. Tails looked up for the first time since we started eating. "It's going to be okay, alright?" Rouge said , still looking worried. Tails nodded, still looking tired. She turned to me and thanked me for the food as well, I just nodded at her too.

They waved and set off, leaving just me and Tails in the sitting room. Tails looked at me and I looked back at him and smiled. I got up from the armchair I was sitting on and went to join him on the couch. "So... want to tell me what happened to your arm? We're alone now" I said, finally drawing attention to his arm. He had started holding his arm at some point while we were in the kitchen and I'm guessing it was because he didn't want to draw attention to it.

He shuffled and looked away, suddenly looking anxious. "I..." He muttered, still avoiding my eyes. I was seeing his years build up again, I sighed and reached out for his face. I turned his head to make him look me in the eye, he jumped a bit at that. "Tails, I want to know what happened out there. It won't help at all if you keep shut and refuse to talk. Whoever did this probably wanted this to happen, don't let them have their way" I smiled at him, trying to let him fell calm. He bit his lip and sniffled, finally willingly looking me in the eyes.

He opened his mouth and mumbled out "I was heading back from the grocery store and was walking down the side walk... I was on my way... and..." He stopped and looked at his arm. "Someone held my arm, I looked up and it was a monkey. He didn't seem like the type to want to say anything nice, so I asked him to let go...but...I don't know what I did wrong... but". I saw tears spill out of his eyes as he closed them, trying to stop them from falling. I just shook my head and pulled him in for a hug. He started crying all over again and I just tried my best to comfort him. "It's okay if you don't want to talk about it, you can always tell me la-", "No, I w-want to say it n-now" He hiccuped as he pushed away. I waited patiently as he tried to dry his eyes.

"I don't know what I d-did to him, b-but he just started saying stuff that he knew wouldn't help anyone. Saying that h-he was g-gone and he w-was not coming back" I already knew who he was talking about and I began to feel more worried. He just continued saying how he felt so bad, like he was reliving everything that happened. I just kept listening and comforting when the time came. When he was done, all I felt was anger and the urge to search for that cursed monkey. I kept on thinking of all the things I would do to that monkey if I had the opportunity, until I felt some weight on my shoulder. I looked down and saw Tails, asleep and resting on my shoulder. I guess all the tiredness and crying caught up to him.

I picked him up and took him to his room, tucked him in and left the door opened. I went back downstairs to clean all the dishes we had used to eat and to attend to some messages I had gotten. I was In the middle of responding to one of the emails when my phone started ringing. I picked it up to see who was calling. Shadow? I picked up the phone and placed it to my ear. "Hel-" "Rose, you know what we saw on the day we lost Sonic, right?" To say I was shocked to hear such a question so suddenly would be an understatement. "Y-you mean the bod-" "Yeah, that. Well, we just received something from one of our investigators" I heard him shake his head, seemingly not believing what he was about to say. "Someone had been assisting Eggman that day to confuse us or smth. He made a prototype of Sonic and blah blah" I didn't need to hear anything else he said, it all made sense. "Rose?" I heard him call my name, but I ignored as I felt tears fall down my eyes and a smile grow on my face. "S-sonic is...alive?" "Exactly, that was why I couldn't feel any of his chaos energy. Because it was never there, that was just inorganic matter like man-made skin and all those stuff"

I laughed a laugh full of joy, but then I realized. "Then... where is Sonic?" Shadow didn't answer and all I heard were his airshoes as he skated. "My guess is that he's with Eggman and whatever he's planning must not be good" I once again felt the feeling of anger return. I wanted, genuinely wanted, to murder Eggman. I felt my face grow hot. All that suffering and mourning was for some sick plan that was most likely not going to work in the first place. All the little ones who thought their hero was gone. People that were looking depressed. Tails that was caused pain, I that mourned, Rouge that mourned, Knuckles that isn't responding. This is what he wanted.

"I'm going to call Rouge and the investigators, you should call HQ. Tell them to stop the search and tell them the news. Tell Tails that his brother is still out there. I'll try and get to Knuckles" I heard Shadow say before ending the call. I gritted my teeth and growled. You won't escape my wrath, Eggman.

A/N: Soooo, how'd I do? Hope you enjoyed this. They finally discovered Sonic's still alive. Now this is where I'll need to think, so I hope you also enjoy the chapters ahead. Thanks for reading.