Mind Control Device

"Ah, so this is how Lyric gets people to help him out. Huh, not his charming personality?"

- Q-N-C's Toy Shop, Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal

The Mind Control Device is an object that appears in Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal. It is an advanced piece of technology deployed by Lyric the Last Ancient, which he uses to enslave the minds of his victims.

Description
The Mind Control Device is a head band shaped like a flat and wide grey "M", with a pink circular pad on the middle and the ends, a few yellow stripes, and two blue fins on each end.

As described by Tails, the Mind Control Device is a form of "mini neural bypass switch." When placed on a victims head, the device instantly takes control the wearer's mind and makes them obey Lyric's every whim. Indirectly, it can also reveal the wearers' thoughts, though this process is implied to be very dangerous for the wearers as it rips the information right from their brain. An apparent side-effect of fully controlling the wearers' mind is that they adopt a robotic speech pattern. It is also equipped with holographic projectors for communication.

The Mind Control Device is the thirty-eighth Toy the player obtains from Q-N-C's Toy Shop.

History
The Mind Control Devices was used twice by Lyric the Last Ancient after escaping his imprisonment. The first was used on Shadow the Hedgehog to recruit him into his army when he rejected his offer, and the second was used on Amy Rose to immobilize her and pry out her knowledge of the Crystal Shards' locations when she would not tell him willingly. However, Shadow's Mind Control Device was destroyed by Sonic, which Lyric used to warn Team Sonic not to meddle in his affairs, and Amy's was removed by her team before it could probe her mind.