The scene began inside a darkened cabin, panning until Sonic and Tails were shown, sleeping on separate couches. Sonic was lightly snoring until light knocking was heard. He stirred but didn't actually waken until the knocks increased in intensity.

"And so it begins..." The laying hero muttered, hoping that this version of himself would send Eggman packing. Though, considering that he had tried to replace Tails as his sidekick, the odds weren't in his favor.

"Man..." Sonic groused as he sat up, Tails still sound asleep. He zipped over to the front door and opened it, revealing Eggman in a damp trench coat. It was raining.

Eggman groaned in sorrow, "I should've expected as much."

"What other evil genius could the title be referring to? You're the only one." Amy points out.

"...I'll take that as a compliment."

"Hi!" Eggman greeted with a brief wave.

Annoyed, Sonic asked, "What do you want?"

"Straight to the point. I like that." Spade mumbled, hiding a smirk. "First of all, thank you for answering the door at such a late hour." The human sounded grateful. "I realize what an inconvenience this must be-"

"Get to it, Eggface," Sonic cut him off.

"Did you have an accident?" Tails asked.

"W-Well, I...I uh..." The doctor sighed. "I need your help."

"It's the end of the world." "Shut it, rodent."

Sonic eyed him like he couldn't believe his ears. "You need my help?"

"Yes! My sinister island lair – you know, the ultra-high-tech stronghold where I hatch my diabolical schemes to eliminate you – it was destroyed in the storm."

Knuckles scoffed. "I'm calling bs on that." Cream looked confused, "What does-" "Nothing!" Amy quickly cut off cream as she slapped Knuckles on the wrist.

"If his lair is so technologically advanced, then a simple storm wouldn't be able to damage it." Neera points out.

"It's probably his plan." Lilac said. "Obviously." Shadow said, rolling his eyes.

"I was hoping I could crash with you and Tails for a few days until my robots rebuild it? Please! Don't strand me in this wilderness!" Eggman implored.

"Shut the door on his." Carol said, deadpanned. "Well, you could certainly use a roof over your head," Sonic uttered before sniffing the air and scrunching his nose. "And a bath."

Sonic barked out a laugh, and Eggman sent daggers.

"Not a word."

The blue hedgehog was suspicious however. "But how do I know that you won't just capture me and Tails while we're sleeping?"

Eggman scratched his chin in thought after hearing this, "Hmm." "Don't even think about Eggman!" Tails retorted. Eggman tsk. Eggman put a hand over his heart. "I swear not to harm you or your fox friend during my stay. I didn't even bring any weapons. Here, check my pants." He went to lift his coat.

"Look away!" Amy shouted as most of the audience covered their eyes. Sonic waved a hand and quickly looked away. "No no no. It's okay. I believe you."

Sonic heavily sighed, "That was beyond gross, Eggy. "Tails, please tell me that you're going to be the voice of reason here!" Amy begged.

"I hope so..." The kit was frowning at the TV. Having Eggman in their home was the last thing he needed.

"So it's only for a few days and it's just you?"

"Just me!" Sonic gestured inside with his thumb, and Eggman ambled in...along with Orbot and Cubot. "And Orbot and Cubot. They're family!"

The hedgehog groaned in irritation and slammed his door.

"And you didn't kick him out...why? I would've shoved him and those two bolt bags back out in the storm without any remorse." Knuckles stated.

"You're too nice, Sonic..." Tails added. Sonic slumped down in his chair crossing his arms, "Don't blame me. Blame the other me."

It was now daytime, and Sonic opened his front door with a yawn. Amy, Knuckles, and a female brown badger walked in.

"Who's the badger?" Cory asked. "Her name is Sticks." Lucy answered. "What kind of name is Sticks?" Spade asked. "Don't know. She was raised in the wilderness so maybe she got it from there." Lucy suggested.

"That badger better be a new friend and not a barrier between me and Sonic." Amy hissed.

Everyone felt a shiver down their spine and looked around confused.

The newly arrived trio gasped in shock at the sight of Eggman stretching in pink pajamas.

Shadow wanted to peel his eyes out, "I need to burn my eyes. With bleach."

"I think we all do." Spade said. A smile grew on Sonic's face, "Hey Egghead, do you-"

"I do not own one of those!" Eggman opposed, squeezing his toy.

"But you will." Sonic snickered.

"Eggman?!" Knuckles shouted, getting into a fighting stance along with the girls.

The doctor waved before approaching them. "Oh, hey gang! Didn't know you'd be visiting so early. I'm still in my evil pajamas." He gestured to his rear. "They have a trapdoor in the back."

"We do not want to see that!" Gong retorted. "Disgusting." Neera snarled. Amy resisted the urge to gag. "Just as I thought it couldn't get any worse!"

Eggman shared their sentiments.

The doctor then sat in a swinging chair. Knuckles pointed at him, clearly unhappy. "What's he doing here?"

Knuckles smiled a little, "I haven't said anything stupid, that's one good thing that's happened so far."

"Yet." Sonic said with a smirk. "Shut up."

The blue hedgehog crossed his arms. "We have a truce. Tails is letting him stay here until his lair is rebuilt."

Tails slumped in disappointment, "So much for me being the voice of reason..."

"Ahem." Eggman coughed to gain their attention, raising a finger. "Still waiting on that Salmon Eggs Benedict!"

"Did I cook for him?!" Tails yelled in anguish, throwing his arms up. "What's wrong with me?"

"Coming! Coming!" An exasperated Tails brought over the plate and placed it on the table in front of the doctor.

Eggman leaned over and inspected the meal. He frowned at the fox. "I asked for egg whites. There are yellows. See the yellow? I'm trying to watch my cholesterol. And this salmon is farm-raised! What is this, prison?"

Eggman stressfully rubbed his forehead, "Oh help me." Blaze wasn't amused, "Either you're a complete idiot, or the plan your counterpart has conjured up is so brilliant that you can't even-"

"Don't give Eggman too much now, Blaze." Silver said.

"It's all some evil plot, man!" The badger started, shaking Knuckles. "First he lures us in with some terrible roommate hooey, but then wham! Out comes this fifty-foot obliterator bot that obliterates us all!" She took a deep breath. "We gotta get outta here."

Mila looked at the badger strangely, "Is she okay?" "She's a little... paranoid." Theo said. "Psycho is more like." Carol stated.

"Guys." Amy's voice was calm. "We have to help him. If we don't, we'll be no better than he is."

Eggman felt like his day was terrible, "You can't be serious."

Eggman smiled, talking around the egg and fish in his mouth. "Yeah, you'll be no better than I am."

Amy went up to the doctor's side, patting him compassionately on his arm. "Think about how this is for him." She gazed at the human. "Do you feel scared without a home? Do you feel alone? Are you eating your feelings?"

"Since when was Amy some sort of therapist now? Why help out Eggman of all people?" Rouge questioned. "She herself needed professional help." Shadow said. "I don't need help!" "Sure you do."

Eggman scowled, uncomfortable with this development. "Somebody get her away from me...!"

Tails glanced up from washing the dishes. "Guys, if Eggman needs to stay, he can stay. Who knows? He may not be so bad after all."

Eggman smiled.

"You just jinxed yourself, Tails." Espio said. The kit just gulped audibly.

Tails was now screwing in a bulb in the back of his plane. "Pillow fight!" Eggman came out of nowhere and hit the glass out of the fox's hand, it smashing on the floor. Tails glared at him, namesakes twitching in agitation.

Eggman then was trying to whack Cubot and Orbot with his fluffy weapon while Sonic was constantly cleaning up around them.

That night, Eggman was sleeping on the couch while Sonic and Tails were on the floor. The man was snoring and laughing intermittently, and the anthros angrily covered their ears.

It was the next day. The female badger opened the fridge only to sigh sadly when she saw that the good food had been sealed off by Eggman.

Back to nighttime, Sonic was asleep on the floor until the feeling of feathers on his face woke him up. He barely had time to focus when he heard, "Pillow fight!" Eggman – swinging on a lamp – hurled the pillow at the hero's head. Hard.

The ghost of a smirk appeared on Shadow's muzzle. "Now that was grade A entertainment. If only the pillow had been filled with bricks." He mumbled the last sentence under his breath.

Eggman hummed to himself. "Hm...that was pretty humorous to watch..." He suddenly smirked and looked at Theo and Lucy, "Hey guys, do you-" "No pillows allowed in the theater, Eggman." Lucy said, firmly. Eggman grumbled. While Sonic smiled in relief.

The sun was up once more. A grumpy Sonic and Tails were sitting on a couch in the shack with Amy occupying an empty chair.

"That's it!" the speedster complained loudly, "I've had enough of Eggman! Lair or no lair, he's outta here!"

"Finally!" "It's about time!"

"You can't just throw Eggman out," Amy argued, "Sure, he might be a difficult roommate, but it's only because you guys have a communication problem."

Lilac didn't understand what was happening. "Whose side is she on?"

"Communication problem?" Tails echoed, flabbergasted. "He whacked me with a pillow. Hard! I'm dizzy, and I have serious short-term memory loss." There was a moment of silence. "And I have serious short-term memory loss."

Knuckles couldn't hold his amused snort, and he received a punch to the shoulder by the angry kit.

Amy stood up and suggested, "Why don't we settle this with a roommate meeting?"

"Roommate meeting?" Later that same day, Eggman, Orbot, and Cubot were now sitting in the seat Amy previously had. Said pinkette was beside Sonic and Tails on the couch.

"Now Sonic," Amy regarded the hero, talking slowly, "do you have something to say to Eggman?"

"Yes. How to say this delicately..." Sonic pretended to think, scratching his head. "You're a horrible roommate and nobody in this house likes you."

The azure speedster nodded adamantly. "Couldn't have said it better myself!" Wait...did that phrase even work in this situation? Eh, he made it work.

Amy deadpanned. "Let's frame our statements with 'When you do this, it makes me feel this.'" Carol frowned at the TV. "Amy, don't take this the wrong way, but you're getting pretty annoying."

Amy huffed. "She's – I'm – No, she's getting on my nerves too!"

"Fine." Sonic sighed. "Okay, uh, let's see... 'When you live here, it makes me feel angry.' Because you're a horrible roommate and nobody likes you."

After a quiet moment, Eggman started crying – and another doctor held his head in his hands – before blubbering, "You're right. I am the worst roommate. It...I've never lived with other people before!"

"What about us?" Cubot questioned.

Eggman stopped crying to clarify, "You don't count," before resuming again.

"They don't actually believe this, right?" Torque questioned.

Amy faced Sonic. "Sonic, I think someone here could go for two spoonfuls of forgiveness, washed down with a tall glass of friendship. What do you think?"

Sonic frowned, but thought about her words anyway. "Ugh." He eventually gave in. "Eggman, if we give you a second chance, will you promise to shape up?"

The blue Mobian facepalmed. "This is crazy. Okay, guys." He had to speak his mind before it exploded. "Theo. Lucy. I know you two said that this is an alternate universe, but I'm startin' to doubt that because I refuse to believe-"

"Then what in the heck do you think we're watching?" Spade furrowed his brow.

Eggman ceased his sobbing and snapped his fingers. "You bet!"

Amy stood up and opened her arms wide. "Roommate meeting group hug!"

Group hug? Oh hell no.

Amy was shocked into a disgusted silence, and Eggman was green in the face.

Sonic wished that he hadn't heard that. Now there were images in his head-! "Let's say that she's just overly friendly."

The doctor hugged all of them and when Orbot and Cubot tried to join, he growled, "Not you!" The robots slumped. Torque frowned, "He's really rude to his robots. "That's what happens when you meet an evil villain." Lilac stated.

The next morning, Sonic yawned while he walked by Eggman doing the dishes, but he paused when the man started singing. "Scrubbing all the dishes, with my sponge and soap! Scrubbing all the dishes, it's cleaning up my hope! Cue the horn!" he yelled into the scrubber like a microphone.

Sonic's ears were plastered against his head, "Eggy, please keep your voice to yourself, thank you."

"You don't need to worry about me, cactus."

While Eggman was prettying up a house plant, Tails was on a nearby couch, leaning on a pillow and examining a device. The doctor picked up the pillow and raised it like he was going to hit the kit. Tails threw him a suspicious look, but Eggman just fluffed it and returned it to its place with a smile.

Silver frowned, "Eggman's up to something..."

"Agreed" Blaze nodded. It didn't matter if he was in a different universe; Eggman was still Eggman. He was never that nice.

Nighttime. Eggman, Sonic, Tails, and the small robots were playing a board game.

"Thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine... Triple star bonus kazoo!" The man blew a kazoo, startling the mammalian duo. "I win again!"

A visually tired Sonic yawned. "That's great. Well, it's getting late. Time to hit the hay."

"Aww, just one more game?" Eggman tried to convince the reluctant brothers. "That's what good roomies do. We have fun!"

"If anyone, not just Eggman, bothers me in the middle of the night to play games, they're getting punched in the face," Knuckles muttered.

"I'm all for fun, but aren't you guys exhausted?" Sonic turned to the red and yellow bots. "Orbot? Cubot?"

"They're robots!" Eggman gestured at them. "They don't get tired, because they have no souls."

"Hey. You can't say that to your own robots!" Mila retorted. Sonic scoffed, "Try convincing Metal Sonic that."

"Hey, why isn't Eggman getting tired?" Vector pointed out, "He's the most energetic one there!"

"He must've drank tons of coffee," Charmy mused.

Eggman didn't respond to them. He was starting to see what his other self was planning. Again, he wouldn't have ever done it this way – the man on-screen was thinking unnecessarily way beyond the box – it was somewhat clever nonetheless.

"Hey!" Orbot angrily cried out while Cubot sighed. "He's right..."

Sonic gave a fleeting wave as he headed for the front door. "Whatever. Good night, guys."

Eggman quickly blocked his way. "Wait! Don't leave! Just hang out a little longer. I'm so lonely!" He then begged. "Please, roomie?"

Sonic exhaled deeply before turning around, obvious bags under his eyes.

"Just kick him out already! It's not that complex!" Sonic yelled "You really could've just shut the door on his face when he arrived." Cory suggested. "He didn't ask for your opinion." Amy snarled.

"Yay!" Eggman cheered happily, blowing his kazoo once more.

Late in the night now, the boys were watching television.

"We now return to the Comedy Chimp Show, with your host, Comedy Chimp!"

"Never heard of you."

"I almost didn't make it to the show tonight. I had to go to the doctor. I had a backache!"

Eggman cackled at the 'joke' while Sonic and Tails looked miserable, their bags more prominent.

"I didn't really like that doctor anyway. I think he used to be a mechanic! He tried to fix my problem with a monkey wrench!"

"Boo!"

Another voice chimed in as Eggman basically shook the borderline unconscious duo awake. "Oh ho! You, my friend, are one witty simian!"

A lengthy yawn escaped Sonic's mouth.

Morning came. Knuckles, Amy, and the badger let themselves in.

"You're still hanging with Eggman?" Knuckles questioned, "How many hours of sleep did you get?"

Sonic held his head in his hands, mumbling out, "Zero..."

"Ah ha!" Tails snapped his fingers when a lightbulb went off. "I see what Eggman's scheme is! He wants to make me and Sonic get tired and fall asleep, in order to successfully strike." "Even though he could've gotten the same result by just trapping them..." Espio points out.

"Obviously." Eggman mumbled.

"It's stage two of his evil plot, man!" The badger danced nervously on her toes. "We are minutes away from him summoning his big obliterator bot with its...obliterator legs! And its obliterator teeth!"

"Sticks..." Amy got closer to Sticks, hands on her hips. "Stop being paranoid!" Eggman was leaving the room in the background. "Eggman's lived here for two days, and he hasn't hatched a single evil scheme!"

Tails frowned at that. Had the other him dumbed down too? Why hadn't he spotted Eggman's plan beforehand? Why was this random girl the first to figure it out? Granted, she probably didn't know that she was right, but still...

They all were then distracted when hearty laugh came from outside. Amy, Knuckles, and Sticks filed out quickly while Tails and Sonic were a little slow on the uptake.

"What's so funny...?" Unfocused sapphires trained on Eggman as Tails dragged his feet.

"Remember when I said my island fortress was destroyed by a storm?" Eggman jumped down from the rock he was standing on. "I...uh...may have fibbed." He sneered, walking in front of the group. "You see, I kind of faked the destruction of my fortress as an excuse to live with you and tire you to the point of exhaust-" Seeing that Sonic was falling asleep on his feet, Eggman slapped him awake. "Tire you to the point of exhaustion!" The human ran over to a nearby tree. "So you'd be too tired to stop Obliterator Bot!"

"Well, I guess it doesn't matter what universe you're in." Sonic sends Eggman a jeering smile, "You always love to explain your plans, huh Eggy?"

Eggman glowered, "If I had my robots I would decimate you into microscopic particles!"

"There's a lot of holes in his plan though..." Tails pointed out, "Or at least one big one. He didn't even care about Knuckles, Amy, or Sticks. "Yeah. Amy and I could easily take down some stupid robot." Knuckles jeered.

Sonic shrugged, "So he didn't think things all the way through. What else is new?"

Eggman crossed his arms. "I would say my hatred of you, but that's been there since day one!"

Eggman jumped out of the way when that tree toppled over, revealing a large red robot much bigger than Burnbot.

Amy smirked, "Yeah, we can definitely take it down! We've dealt with worse!"

Eggman smugly giggled while Sticks started to freak out. "I knew it. He did have an Obliterator Bot! Why doesn't anyone ever believe me?!" She grabbed Amy's shoulders and shook her. "It's not like I'm paranoid!" She then glared at her shadow. "Stop following me!"

Tails slowly blinked. "Does she not know how...shadows work, or...?"

"She probably doesn't." Knuckles huffed. "She doesn't know to ever stop yelling. Her voice is harsh enough as is." Carol points out.

"Knuckles, that was rude!" Lilac admonished, "She way be... a little weird, that doesn't mean you could say those things about her." "Tch. As if." Neera said. "She can't hear us, Lilac. Stop being such a drama queen." Spade told her.

"You're too harsh." "I don't care."

"Enough!" Eggman yelled, "Obliterator Bot, destroy Sonic and his four friends!"

"For...tress?" The bot misheard. "Fortress. Destroy fortress. Destroy island fortress."

Eggman began to panic, tinkering with his wrist controller. "What? No! That's not what I said!"

Orbot and Cubot poked their heads out of the door. "We're still working out a few kinks," the former bot said.

Sonic barked out a laugh. "They didn't have to do anything this time for your plan to blow up! Eggster, if you made thwarting your plans that easy, here's a tip, just retire!"

"The minute I retire is the minute I destroy you, rat." Eggman declared. "Which will never happen."

The doctor was clinging onto the huge robot's leg as it walked. "Obliterator Bot! Do not destroy island fortress. Do not destroy island fortress!"

"Affirmative. Playing up-tempo music while destroying fortress." Speakers popped out of the mech's shoulders, producing loud music.

"Why would he even...?"

"Tails, don't question it." Knuckles advised. Cory nodded, "Save your breath, kid."

The robot stepped over a drowsy Sonic, who was watching it go. " No! " Eggman ran over to the hedgehog. "Sonic, you have to help me!"

"Why?" He crossed his arms. "He's your Obliterator Bot."

The doctor swiftly explained, "Because if you don't, I'm truly stuck living with you until I build a new island fortress."

"That... sounds like a good reason." Tails said. Sonic slumped, "Do I have to??" "C'mon Sonic. You're not a murderer are you?"

Sonic instantly perked up and made a fist. "Let's roll."

Sonic hmph, "I guess not." "You guys are so weird." Carol said. Knuckles looked at her angrily, "What." "You would've attacked the thing before it left. You did nothing. Such disappointment." "Hey shut up why don't ya?!" Amy yelled. "I beg your pardon?" Sonic held Amy by the waist while Lilac, Carol and Mila tried to calm Neera down. Something tells them that they weren't going to get along.

Outside Eggman's lair, Tails landed his plane while Eggman parked his hovercraft. Obliterator Bot was brutally attacking the fortress's roof.

They all left their vehicles. "Gotta stop him...but so...tired..." Tails muttered before slumping to the ground and falling asleep.

Knuckles ignored those two, focusing on the bot. "He must have a weak spot!"

"Maybe there's a clue on the ground..." Sonic pointed downwards before sinking to his knees. "This soft...soft...bedlike ground..."

Sticks went over to stomp on Sonic, who woke up at the harsh treatment. "What? What's wrong? Are we under attack?" The hedgehog jumped to his feet as his memory kicked in. He yawned. "Oh...right."

Knuckles turned to the human. "Eggman, you built that thing. How do we take it down?"

The guardian raised an eyebrow, "Alright, I don't get it. Last episode, he was an idiot. But now he's...I wouldn't say smart, but..."

"It had to have been the steroids Sonic was talking about, Knux." Charmy said with a snicker, "They enlarged your muscles but shrunk your brain."

"I told you, he's not-!" Knuckles paused his angered retort. He didn't have to defend the other anymore. He wasn't him, and well, all signs did point to the use of some kind of drug. The other him was so disproportionate that it wasn't natural. "But then again, he might." Sonic burst out laughing. "Roastin' yourself, Knucklehead? That's a new one."

A tick formed on the guardian's forehead and he grumbled under his breath.

"By activating two kill switches at the same time. They're inside the lair." Eggman walked forward and pointed to his right. "There..." Then he pointed to his left. "And there."

"Oh, come on..." Sonic groaned. "Alright, Amy, Knuckles, Sticks, distract that metal monstrosity." He picked up Tails by his arm. "Tails and I are on the kill switches. Eggman, you'll have to show us how to activate them." The human nodded.

Amy stepped forward and opened up her arms. "Pre-mission group hug?"

Sonic rose a hand to stop her. "No." He took off.

Amy was disappointed that there wasn't a hug, but it passed quickly. Both Sonics weren't at that point yet. "You'll get him eventually, other me!"

"Not in this lifetime," Sonic whispered to himself, relieved that the him in the show was on the same wavelength. Though it seemed easier for that Sonic. The other Amy wasn't as uh...direct in her approaches.

The sleepy speedster zoomed through the laser defense system, running on the wall. Lasers shot at and missed him. Tails flew over to a control panel and pressed a power switch, deactivating a laser wall in front of Sonic. The hedgehog then barely dodged two hot beams, losing his footing.

Sleep caught up to him as he slid. The laser wall he was about to collide into disappeared, and he woke back up when he lost his momentum. "Ugh..."

Tails opened up a panel filled with wires, but he was too exhausted to figure them out. Sonic approached a closed door, but he didn't make it in favor of snoring on the ground. Tails pressed a button that revealed the kill switches.

Eggman stomped over to Sonic, the hero startling awake. "Jam the kinetic barrier processor. The kinetic barrier processor!" Sonic threw him a confused look and pulled the lever. The human ran over to Tails, ordering, "Okay, power down the central operating system."

The doctor grabbed a tired Tails' hand and put it around the switch. On the other side, Sonic had slumped to the ground, letting the lever go.

"Why can't Eggman just...hold one of the switches?"

No one answered Mila because they couldn't think of why that Eggman couldn't. Relying on barely conscious heroes wasn't the smartest thing.

Outside, Obliterator Bot cut off a part of the fortress before dropping to the ground. Knuckles, Amy, and Sticks ran up to it.

"I knew you were coming." The badger growled, pointing at the robot. "But you will never obliterate Sticks, because Sticks is unoblit – unoble – unobitababl..." She gave up, stating proudly, "You can't kill me."

Cory snickered, "At least she tried."

Spade was less amused, "Well, she's definitely going to be a reoccurring person."

"She's borderline crazy, sure, but at least she isn't blatantly annoying." Gong said.

"She's got spunk." Sonic grinned.

"Spunk?" Blaze snorted. "She's going to fight the bot with a boomerang! She's insane."

"Jam the kinetic barrier processor!" Eggman frantically shouted to a sleeping Sonic. The hedgehog popped up and yanked the lever, but he almost immediately dozed off again. Tails was out of commission as well. Eggman glanced back and forth between them before taking out and blowing into his kazoo.

Sonic and Tails instantly woke up and pulled the kill switches, which caused Obliterator Bot to shut down. The speedster raced outside with a slab of discarded metal. He jumped up in the air and yelled, "Pillow fight!" before knocking the robot's head off. It promptly exploded.

"It only took one hit?" Torque questioned. Mila tilted her head, "Maybe Eggman doesn't have much experience with his robots?"

"Yes!" Eggman cheered. When his fortress blew up anyway, he slouched. "No...!"

Shadow scoffed, "Wasted your time." "So...that was all for nothing?" Amy asked.

"I'm not even surprised." Knuckles murmured. "Poor Dr. Eggman." Cream said, feeling bad for the evil doctor. "Cream you shouldn't be sorry for your own enemy." Silver said, gently and firmly. "But where will he live?"

Sometime later, Sonic and his crew were peacefully sitting on the beach. Eggman scampered up behind them with suitcases.

"Hey fellas. As you know, my fortress is now a smoking ruin, so I was wondering maybe..." He plopped down into a reclining chair. "If I would stay with you guys for a little while? Just until it's built back?"

Sonic ran back to Eggman's lair, dropping off the doctor, the chair, and the suitcases. He sprinted away without a single word.

"Yes! That was perfect!" Sonic praised, applauding, Tails smiled, "The nice streak is over."

Eggman just shook his head. His double really needed help.

"Now let's just hope that they don't fall for it again." Knuckles reminded them.

"If they do, they're completely helpless," Shadow uttered.

Amy, Orbot, and Cubot sauntered up. The pinkette was holding a balloon. "I can keep you company! Let's explore your feelings about being a roommate. Now, pretend this balloon is your self-esteem."

"Stop, stop!" Eggman jumped to his feet and ran away screaming, "Stooooooooop!"

"Sometimes I really don't get myself." Amy complained. "Me too." Sonic mumbled. "You say something, Sonic?" "N-no!"

"Any questions for the second episode, guys?" Theo asked. "Let's move on so I can get out of here as soon as possible." Eggman answered.

Sonic clicked his tongue, eyes swiveling over to the man. "Leave the impatience to me, Egghead!"

"Oh boy." Theo pressed the button to the next episode.