The scene opened up with Sonic and Tails racing each other on hoverboards in a forest, wind blowing through their fur as they rode along sturdy branches.

Sonic swallowed a mouthful of chips. "Hey, we haven't seen those since the first episode!" He bumped Tails with his shoulder. "Think this one is just gonna be about our doubles?"

"It's way too early to tell," Tails said with chuckle. "But that'll be cool!"

Eggman would hope that his twin didn't make an appearance, but that was a waste of time. He'd been in every episode so far somehow. He would unfortunately be in this one too.

Tails smirked as he watched Sonic go through a natural loop. "You may be faster on foot, but I invented these things!" The kit adjusted his position and shot forward, hopping over the blue blur and taking the lead with a laugh.

Mila ears perked at that. "You invented those?" If Tails had a chance to meet his other self, he totally would. "I mean, I've made a lot of adjustments to Extreme Gear, but I didn't invent them..."

"But you've invented other stuff though!" Sonic grinned at him. "Both of you have good heads on your shoulders!" The hedgehog fluffed one of the fox's namesakes, causing him to giggle.

Sonic wasn't fazed at all. "Not bad. My turn!" He flipped over Tails' head and landed smoothly, throwing the kit a smug grin before promptly crashing into a thick branch. Because of his momentum, he launched up, bounced harshly against too trees, and plummeted to the ground.

Amy flinched. "Ouch." "Hopefully he didn't get hurt too badly." Lilac said.

Sonic was peeling his face from the dirt when Tails approached. "Wow! That was the coolest thing I've ever seen!"

"Does he not know the definition of cool?" Spade questioned.

Shadow drinks his water. "Well, how he hit his face twice before hitting the ground is pretty impressive."

"Really?" The hedgehog sounded hopeful as he got to his feet.

Tails smirked. "You look cool even when you're making a complete fool of yourself!"

Tails tried and failed to swallow his chuckles while Sonic subtly frowned. "Wait, is that a compliment or a burn? I seriously can't tell."

"A definite mixture of both," Eggman provided, appreciating the fox on screen a bit more.

Sonic pointedly ignored that statement before looking for his discarded hoverboard. He pulled two nearby bushes apart and found the device. He went to pick it up but paused when he heard unfamiliar voices.

"All right, load 'em up!" The voice belonged to a weasel bandit, who had two more in his gang. They had sacks so the big-eared and sad looking villagers could drop their items in. "Hurry up and nobody gets hurt!"

Amy cocked her head, nibbling on her lunch. "Don't those villagers look like that guy the other Sonic was watching on TV last episode? Where the guy was buying something?"

"Yeah, it does!" Sonic agreed before remembering exactly what had been said. "Oh man, hopefully they don't run into that guy here. Really don't want to hear about starving children." Though, the name of the episode didn't really bode well for them.

The two heroes watched as the villagers deposited their money.

Sonic came to a decision right then and there. "Whoa! We gotta stop those jerks!" Sonic ran into the village while Tails trailed behind him on the hoverboard. The speedster focused mostly on the bandits. "What's going on here?"

The chief of the village, wearing a grass hat, was the one to answer him.

Tails finished off his hot dog. "And there he is... That hope didn't last long at all."

"Oh, these delightful young men were just ransacking our poor village-" he dropped a bag of money into a sack. "-and taking all of our possessions," he said with an out-of-place smile.

A female villager then spoke up. "They probably need them more than we do, being bandits living on the land and all."

"The entire village is like that?" Amy felt extremely bad for the pair of heroes. "Sonic and Tails need to leave before it's too late!"

Knuckles groaned as he put his empty plate on the ground, knowing that there's about to be around ten minutes of this. "This is about to get painful to watch."

"You say that like it isn't painful already..." Shadow muttered.

"Yeah!" A weasel with a red bandana wrapped around his mouth pointed at Sonic. "So back off, blue guy! This is what we do!"

"Oh yeah?" Sonic scoffed. "Well this is what we do!"

Knuckles chuckled. "Nice comeback." "Shut it, knucklehead."

He spin dashed into the weasel bandits, stunning them. Tails tossed over a vine attached to a tree, and Sonic effortlessly tied the evildoers up. Tails wrapped the end of the vine to a tree branch he had pulled down.

"Ugh, this isn't over!" one of the bandits yelled.

Tails let go of the branch, and the weasels were launched into the sky.

"I spoke to sooooon!" the same one shouted as they soared off.

The chief then addressed them. "Thank you, strange travelers. You have saved us Gogobas from the scourge of the weasel bandits, and scattered our belongings carelessly across the dirt." He finished, glancing at the ground.

"It's not like they meant to do it." Lilac argued, drinking her juice. Carol ate her chips. "At least he got his stuff back."

"At least he's appreciative..." Mila assumed, eating her cookie. "I think?"

"Sorry!" Tails apologized. "I'll help pick them up."

A female Gogoba waved her hands. "Oh no, we wouldn't want to trouble you." She gestured to herself. "I'll do it myself. It probably won't cause my chronic back pain to flare up too much." She bent down a little bit, and her back cracked, making her gasp. "Oh! Ugh!"

Torque cringed at the sound of her cracking bones. "Are they. . . okay?

Cory shook her head, "Nope."

Sonic and Tails shared an awkward look.

"At this point, you guys should just leave," Vector uttered, setting his plate aside. "The thieves are gone and the nice almost-crippled lady offered to help. What other hints does he need to cut and run?"

"Oh don't worry about her." The chief placated. "She'll pass out from the pain soon. In the meantime, the rest of us will throw our valiant heroes a victory feast."

Espio stiffened. "That person is horrible." Silver nodded. "Yeah. How can he just be so nonchalant about it?"

Blaze drummed her fingers on the couch. "Does he not care about the ones he leads?"

Two Gogobas brought out a large table filled with different kinds of delicious food.

Sonic slowly blinked. "Thanks...but we really gotta-"

The chief interrupted him. "It's okay. We know how busy you are. Within a few months, this will turn into compost, and we'll be able to grow new food to eat."

Amy couldn't believe that she was about to compliment the chief but, "He might be horrible, but he's good at it. I feel terrible and he's not even talking to me!"

"And the worst thing is that he could be telling the truth..." Tails pondered aloud. "I mean, it does take a while for things to decompose..." Mila stated.

The two heroes looked uncomfortable, but Sonic agreed anyway. "Um, well I guess we could stay for a quick bite."

"Too nice!" Sonic exclaimed. "Someone seriously needed to slap that out of him." Knuckles said out loud. "First having Eggman spend the night, and now this? This is getting ridiculous."

Amy looked at the echidna. "You would've stayed too."

"...That's not my point."

The chief smiled brightly. "Wonderful!"

After he walked off, two villagers gave Sonic and Tails chairs to sit on. They did so and shared another look before eating some fruit. It wasn't long before they realized that they were being watched by the Gogobas.

The audience felt uncomfortable. "They're creeping me out." "They're creeping us out." "What a bunch of freaks." "Weirdos."

"Uh..." Sonic swallowed a bite of fruit. "Aren't you guys gonna eat?"

The chief shook his head. "Oh no. We'd much rather watch you enjoy your food."

"That's the only nourishment we need." A female Gogoba's stomach growled after she finished talking. She smiled meekly. "That was a growl of joy."

"They need help." Amy couldn't help but to wince. Sonic nodded. "They all do."

Tails leaned a bit closer to Sonic and said, "These Gogobas are so nice..."

"Yeah." Sonic slumped a bit in his chair. "So why do I feel so terrible?"

"We gotta get outta here," the kit stated lowly.

"And Tails is suddenly my favorite," Knuckles said.

"Mine too," Mila concurred.

"My twin still has a chance at redemption!" Amy brought up.

Sonic shook his head without hesitation. "She doesn't."

Three Gogobas walked over with more food. Sonic and Tails stood up before they got to the table. The speedster grinned. "That was really delicious. We loved...loved...loved it! But we...should probably get going."

Sonic strolled away waving goodbye to the sad villagers only to run into the chief. He still had a smile on his face. "Of course, of course! Why would you want to stay with us when we made you this incredible meal?"

Eggman hummed to himself. If using guilt like this got favorable results, then he'd have to use it. Somehow.

Tails approached them two. "No, we do wanna stay! It's just that-"

The chief didn't let him finish. "Wonderful! Allow us to prepare you accommodations."

A couple of Gogobas prepared a bed in the middle of the village for them before tossing the heroes onto it. They then fanned the surprised hedgehog/fox duo with large leafy fans.

The chief looked on proudly. "Fetch our new friends the finest, softest blankets in the village!"

Two Gogobas covered the heroes with a blue blanket; they polity nodded their heads in appreciation.

"Maybe this won't be so bad." Tails laid down, pulling blanket over him more.

Knuckles groaned. "Don't say that right after I name you as favorite."

"Honestly? He still has a pretty far lead." Sonic assured.

"The children in the nursery can huddle together for warmth," the chief had to say.

If she could do it, legally, Neera would stab this man. Repeatedly. "So...moral of the story is that they don't care about themselves. Like, at all."

Sonic's face fell as he leaned back as well. "Aww..." he groaned.

Skipping a few hours ahead, it was nighttime now. Sonic and Tails were awake, glancing around to make sure none of the villagers were up and about.

Sonic nudged the kit. "Hey, the Gogobas are finally gone. Let's sneak out of here."

"You should've been gone, but yes! Finally!" Sonic cheered.

"It can't be this easy though..." Tails fretted.

Knuckles sighed. "It's never this easy." "Plus, we aren't that far into the episode yet. Something is going to rip their hopes away." Carol said

Tails nodded before they slid out of the bed silently, beginning to tip-toe out of the village. However, they soon run into the chief and a couple other Gogobas. "Can we get you something?" the leader asked.

Everyone in the room released an echoing sigh of frustration.

"Use your legs and run!" Sonic pulled on his ears.

The escaping pair forced smiles on their faces. "Whoa, uh...where did you come from?" Sonic questioned. "We thought everyone was asleep."

"How could we sleep when we have guests to take care of?" the chief responded like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"These guys are just the worse!" Amy exclaimed.

The beaver with a red bow tie suddenly appeared on screen, holding up a finger. "Actually, it's 'guests of whom to take care.'" He then disappeared.

Eggman growled. "It got much worse than this."

"If I never see any of those people again, it would be too soon," Knuckles uttered.

"We can't sleep," uttered a Gogoba before he stopped to think. "Of whom."

"We really should be on our way." Tails tried, wanting to get away as soon as possible.

The chief shooed them. "Go, go! We'll be fine."

The audience perked up.

"Until the next inevitable bandit attack," one Gogoba added.

And that positivity left faster than it arrived.

Spade was sick of hearing them talk. "They deserve another bandit attack."

"No, Spade..." Lilac opposed, but it was weak and it was clear that she at least somewhat understood where the panda was coming from.

The one in charge glanced at her. "It's okay." He then regarded Sonic and Tails. "Just promise that you'll come back and visit."

"The smoking crater where our village used to be," provided the other villager.

The duo looked at each other and uneasily shrugged. They then walked past the Gogobas, planning on leaving.

"Yes! Finally!" Amy leaned forward in her seat.

Well, that was until a male Gogoba called out to them. "Wait! I got heirloom tomatoes and some really nice pastrami! I'll pack ya sandwiches!"

The chief and the other two Gogobas left toward their homes.

"Bribed by sandwiches..." Sonic released a puff of air. "Y'know, that's completely possible. Can't be mad."

Sonic looked frazzled. "Tails, these guys are nuts!"

Tails wholeheartedly agreed. "We gotta get out of here!"

The hedgehog frowned. "But how? We're stuck here as long as there is a threat from those bandits."

The fox tapped his chin. "That's it! If we can create a defense system for the village, the Gogobas will be safe and we can leave!"

Mila smiled. "That's smart! Then maybe the Gogobas would stop guilt tripping them for enough time for them to finally get out of there!" Man, Tails' double was really dependable! Except for that sleepover, but that was forgiven. Everyone made mistakes.

"Hopefully." Sonic leaned forward on his knees. "'Cause wow...those villagers are just..." He didn't want to be rude. "Awful."

Sonic put a hand on his hip. "Yeah, but what if I'm right and they're just nuts?"

"That's a chance I'm willing to take."

It was daytime now. The heroes were preparing a defense system for the village, creating rope traps, setting up lasers, camouflaging the ropes with leaves, and finally pulling up a bamboo cage up into the trees. Once done, Sonic wiped the sweat off his brow and gave the kit a thumbs up.

The brothers stood in front of the members of the village. Sonic opened his mouth and gestured to the hanging cages. "Gogoba Village, allow us to present your new state-of-the-art defense system!"

"You no longer need us to protect you from invaders, and the best part is...it's totally fool-proof!" Tails said confidently.

Torque was confused. "Fool-proof??" Gong shook his head. "This won't end well."

"Goodbye friends!" Sonic chirped before he and Tails waved, walking away. Just as they turn their backs, a siren went off. Then there was the sound of ropes pulling and cages hitting the ground. The heroes faced the villagers again only to see that they were the ones trapped in system. Sonic rolled his eyes. "Oh come on!"

"Seriously?" Tails explosively sighed.

Amy puffed out her cheeks in anger. "Those guys are the worst! Sonic and Tails helped them out, and they just ruined it! What in the world is their goal here?"

"They don't have one," Knuckles simply said. "They're just crazy."

The chief was hanging upside down by a rope. "I'm so sorry. I wish I had a better excuse, but it's hard to concentrate while all the blood is rushing to my head."

"We'll just hang here until we go numb," a Gogoba behind him said.

"And our bodies will reflect our emotional state!" another one piped up.

"I would just leave them there to rot without any remorse." Spade grumbled.

After getting them down, Sonic and Tails were strolling around the village.

"We can totally fight Eggman or bandits, but...how do we fight guilt?" the fox asked helplessly.

Sonic thought for a second before snapping his fingers. "With more guilt! Follow my lead!" He grabbed Tails' arm and ran off.

"That actually might work!" Sonic smiled, seeing the light at the end of the guilt-ridden tunnel.

Eggman doubted it. "Do you really believe in your double's guilt-tripping abilities, cactus?"

"I have to!" Sonic scratched his nose. "'Cause if that doesn't work, then they're just stuck there. No hope of escaping."

Amy was going to say that her double could probably track them down, but then she'd be pulled into that horrible trap too. For all of their sakes, let this work!

The heroes approached the chief, who was sitting outside of his home. Sonic raised a hand in greeting. "Hey uh, Chief! It's been great and all, but unfortunately, we have to go now."

"But we haven't finished stitching your friendship quilt!" The Gogoba pointed to the side, revealing a villager working on the quilt with a picture of Sonic, Tails, and the Gogobas prancing under clouds and a smiling sun.

Knuckles clenched a fist. "Just tear it apart! Who cares about a stupid quilt?!"

Rouge rubbed her head. "Man, these pests are annoying."

The smug chief and a serious Sonic then stare each other down, a tumbleweed passing between them.

Amy's ears twitched when a particular sound cue came from the screen. "Was that...old Western music?"

Sonic chuckled. "It does look like a stand-off! There's tumbleweed and everything!"

"Alright." Sonic cleared his throat. "Well, we could stay, but our plants back home...without us to water them..." He shrugged. "Oh well, I suppose it's their own fault for being plants."

"Ooo..." Knuckles leaned forward a bit. "Yeah, it sounds completely stupid, but he might be doing something here."

Carol wasn't so sure. "I don't know...he's comparing the welfare of plants to people..."

The chief wasn't bothered in the slightest. "No, you have to go. Far be it from us to let the wellbeing of our entire society hold you back from watering your precious house plants."

"See!"

It was Tails' turn. "No, your wellbeing is much more important. I mean, if the plants need water so badly, they can walk to the kitchen and get it themselves." He finished with a smirk.

Mila was proud of Tails' double. "Great comebacks!"

The Gogoba just smiled, thinking for a moment. "Oh no, we've just met, but you've known your plants for a long time! Go to them! We'll be fine."

Sonic squinted his eyes in thought. "But in all that time, the plants have never given us anything...except oxygen. "

"And nutrition." Tails added.

"Goin' for the hard hitters!" Sonic's hopes were rising swiftly. But then he wondered about something. "Hey Theo, how long we got?"

"Approximately four minutes."

Sonic blinked. "Four minutes? Hopefully we don't lose before it ends." Sonic and Tails both smirk. The two sides stare each other down again, but this time the chief's smile was gone. Seconds ticked by until the villager finally gave up.

The chief slumped, ears subtly drooping. "Alright, you win. We can't keep you here. You should go."

Most of the room cheered.

Eggman couldn't believe that actually worked. There went his own guilt tripping plan...

Sonic perked up. "Seriously?"

The Gogoba waved them off. "Yeah. Go. Leave us. Goodbye forever."

Sonic was more than relieved. "Thanks for everything, Chief!" He shook the reluctant rodent's hand. A few Gogobas stepped up to the leader's side as the heroes strolled away.

"Call to let us know that you made it home, okay?" The chief shouted at their backs. Sonic rolled his eyes as the other continued, "Otherwise, we'll just sit here and worry."

"If they do that, then I swear I'm going to find a way to punch them both in the face," Knuckles grunted lowly.

Sonic and Tails were now approaching the hedgehog's shack with their hoverboards tucked under their arms. The blue blur had a burger in his other hand, having stopped somewhere to pick it up.

"I'm going to pretend that it isn't a Meh burger so I won't throw up," Amy said with a cringe.

"I thought we'd never get out of there!" Tails exclaimed as they propped the hoverboards against the side of the shack.

Sonic snorted. "Well, at least we're finally back hoooo- " The pair of heroes stared in shock inside of the home, not expecting the Gogobas to be lounging around the place.

"Are you kidding me?!" Vector exclaimed. "How in the heck did they get there so fast?!" Charmy questioned.

"A better question is how did they know where they lived?" Tails was stupefied. Those villagers didn't give up easily, did they?

Amy furrowed her brow. "So they're stalkers now? They've gone too far!"

"Ironic, coming from you."

Her heated jade orbs fell on Eggman. "Hush you! There's no way you can understand the power of true love!"

"No, however I do understand desperation."

"I am not desperate! I can get any boy I'd like because I'm beautiful!" She turned to the blue hedgehog. "Right, Sonic?" Sonic coughed, uncomfortably. "Err. . . Whatever you say, Ames."

Amy squealed and hugged Sonic with all her might.

The chief, sitting at a table, greeted them. "Welcome home!"

Sonic dropped his burger.

The hatted villager spoke on. "We had to let ourselves in, since you don't have a door."

"Or any cold beverages or snacks." One Gogoba grinned.

The chief gestured to their mess. "But don't worry. We made do."

"Every single one of them needs to be drop-kicked," Gong suggested.

Sonic stomped over, emitting rage. "What are you doing here?!"

Sonic was a little shocked. "Whoa...he's finally gettin' angry!"

"We'd figured that if we were here, you could keep protecting us and in exchange, we could water those house plants of yours." The chief glanced around. "Where are those by the way?"

"Those Gogobas needed to be terminated." Eggman retorted.

Sonic attempted to attack him, but Tails stopped the hedgehog.

"No, Tails! Get out of the way!"

"We're heroes, Knux, remember that." "Can you blame me though?" Sonic asked. "You? No." Tails looked at the echidna. "Knuckles? Yes."

The chief peered over his shoulder. "And that's not all we've done for you."

A Gogoba held up pieces of paper. "We've opened all your mall."

Another villager shook opened aluminum cans. "And we uncanned all your food!"

Sonic growled in anger.

Shadow raised a brow at that. If the other threw a punch, he'd be very secretly amused.

The hatted Gogoba went over to the answering machine. "Next, we'll check all your messages." He pressed a button on it.

"Gimme that!" Sonic ordered as he snatched it away from the intruder.

"Well, we learned that the other Sonic has a shorter fuse than ours..." Tails observed.

Sonic shrugged. "Maybe. But I think that anyone would be mad when people barge into their house, especially ones who no one wants to be around ever."

The answering machine beeped. "You have four messages." It beeped again.

Eggman's voice came through.

"Of course." Eggman knew that this was coming, but he still had wishful thinking. He knew better than to have that next time. Every irritating episode he has to show up...

Sonic patted him on his shoulder. "It's okay, Eggy! Now my twin probably has something to take his anger out on!"

The doctor grumbled under his breath.

"Hey Sonic! It's Doctor Eggman! Just so you know, I'm planning to blow up the dam this Sunday. Hope to see you there! Not that you can stop me!" The human laughed.

"Just blow it up! Why would you want to tell him-" Eggman cut himself with a sigh. Why did he even bother? His twin was never going to learn and this experience would never get any better.

Sonic stared at the machine in confusion when that message ended only for another to take its place.

It was still Eggman. "Hey, I'm here at the dam. Just waiting on you now. Gonna blow it up any second now. Bet you don't wanna miss it."

Eggman groaned. "How many are there?"

"Enough for a laugh!" Sonic snickered. "It's needed after what those Gogobas did!"

Sonic looked unamused.

There was yet another message. "Oh! Sorry, wrong dial. Didn't mean to call you."

The speedster leaned at the table, drumming his fingers on the wood in boredom.

"I'm thinking that this happens a lot." Tails chuckled, seeing how the other speedster was so unbothered by this. "Which is weird."

"Extremely so," Eggman muttered.

The last message came through. "Alright! It was a trick! I was gonna ambush you, but you didn't even have the decency to show up! That's really rude, Sonic!" There was another beep.

"Sonic's rude? You're the one who's mean to your robots." Lilac pointed out.

"Wow." The chief had been entertained by that. "That guy can't take a hint."

Cory rolled her eyes. "That's some talk. Coming from the one who guilt tripped two guys into staying in their village after saving their butts and who had broke into someone else's house."

A whistle then came from outside of the shack. Sonic ran out of the door to see Eggman and his robots ready to attack.

Eggman huffed. "Well, well, look who it is! Mr. I-don't-have-time-to-show-up-to-Dr. Eggman's-ambush!"

Sonic groaned as Tails and a few Gogobas exited the shack as well. "Ugh, this is a really bad time, Egghead."

Sonic scoffed. "You know if I'm not amped to see a horde of easily defeated robots, then it's definitely a bad time."

Eggman folded his arms across his chest. "Anytime he shows up is a bad time. He doesn't know when to give up."

The blue blur smirked at him. "And you do?"

"We aren't talking about me here, rodent!"

Eggman blinked. "No problem. I'll come back later when you're ready." He walked off a few steps before running back and pointing. "Just kidding! Robots, attack! "

The robots rushed forward, and Sonic instantly destroyed three of them with his spin dash. Tails was having trouble dodging a Bee bot's lasers because of two scared Gogobas holding his arms.

"They've already done enough!" Mila was worried. "Don't get Tails hurt too!" Lilac raised a brow at this. Why was she worried only about Tails? Did she forget that Sonic was there as well??

"Excuse me!" He side stepped a beam. "It's really hard to-" He dodged again. "Whoa! Would you mind?" The villagers eventually let him go, and he picked up a nearby stick. He smashed two of the flying bots with it.

Carol deadpanned. "The villagers are going to get in the way, aren't they?"

The chief strolled into the battlefield with his cane as Sonic fought in the background. "Oh pardon me. I didn't mean to get in the way of your deranged evil rampage."

"Called it."

Sonic noticed him in the middle of the fray. He took out some Bee bots before pushing the chief out of the battlefield. "Out of the way!"

Tails destroyed a Crab bot as Sonic carried the leader to safety, placing him on a rock.

"This isn't working!" Sonic called to the fox. "We can't keep fighting around these Gogobas!"

"Fight them then. It would be cathartic."

Lilac glanced over at Spade, "Are you okay?"

"I'm never okay."

"Alright." The water dragon left it at that.

"Maybe we should fight over them!" Tails suggested before sprinting over to the hoverboards and throwing Sonic his.

The speedster caught it as Tails hopped on his own. "That's what I'm talking about!"

"Tails is really the star player in this one!" Mila chirped.

"I know!" Amy cheered.

Tails rubbed his head in ensnarement. He was getting a lot of attention.

The fox flew high in the sky, a group of Bee bots following after him. He grinned as he aimed right for another group of hovering robots in front of him. At the right time, he backflipped, causing the two hordes of Bee bots to crash into each other and explode.

The Gogobas cheered as the beach was littered with metallic parts.

"Y'know, they could just go were the fighting isn't." Sonic mused. "They aren't trapped on the beach like how our twins were caught in their mind trap."

"They don't care about themselves, remember?" Neera reminded him.

On his hoverboard, Sonic rushed a few robots, and before they could attack, he bashed into them. They ended up in pieces. "Take that!" Sonic taunted.

The heroes then sped toward each other and held hands, moving quickly in a circle and destroying any robot that came close. All of the bots were out of commission.

"Ugh, you've got to be kidding me!" Eggman cried out in frustration.

Vector just shook his head. "He seriously can't be surprised! That robot horde wasn't even that big!"

"He's just mad that he got stood up." Charmy chortled.

Beside him, the chief was stroking his beard. "I suppose it was our own fault, for being in the way."

Eggman jabbed a finger at him. "Yeah, you know what? It was your fault! I usually win at these things!"

Tails thought to himself. "Either he's really confident in his...subpar tactics, or he has chronic short-term memory loss."

Sonic and Tails approached them, the former asking the human, "Hey, are you trying to steal our new teammates?"

Eggman rose a brow. "New teammates?"

"Yeah!" Tails agreed, him and Sonic clearly up to something. "We couldn't have won this battle without the Gogobas."

Sonic caught onto what was going on. "They're gonna hand the Gogobas over to Eggy!"

Amy grinned. "Now both the villagers and Eggman are going to bother each other!"

The hedgehog nodded. "And if they joined up with you, it'll be like you won this battle. You'd be unstoppable!"

Eggman was buying it. "Yeah...I would, wouldn't I?"

Eggman face-palmed so forcefully that his forehead turned red.

The leader looked slightly concerned for a moment. "We wish to stay with our protector, Sonic." He looked at the blue blur.

"Fine. Let poor Eggman suffer the humiliation of defeat after defeat, even though you could help him," the speedster said, using the Gogoba's trick against him.

"Bet they regret exposing our doubles to that mind trap!" Seeing this made Sonic happy. There would be no more guilt tripping, no more Gogobas, and no more Western stand-offs...wait. Not the last thing. Those could stay.

The chief was hesitant. "Well..."

"Come on, crowny. What's an evil genius gotta do to get you to switch sides?" Eggman bargained.

"We pretty much bend a knee to the nearest tyrant who wants to enslave us." The leader breathed out.

Sonic and Tails shared a victorious look.

Sonic and Tails high-fived even though they technically didn't do anything.

"Done and done! Follow me." Eggman began to walk off with the Gogobas in tow. "So long, losers!" He grinned at the heroes before addressing his new charges. "Um, march in unison please. I like organized followers."

"He's more than an insecure bully than an evil genius." Torque commented.

"He is an insecure bully, actually." Gong mended. "There is no drip of evil or genius in him."

Once they were gone, the brotherly duo fist bumped.

At Eggman's lair, the Gogobas were having breakfast.

"Hey, do you have any unsalted butter?" the leader asked Eggman. "It's not a problem if you don't. I'll just have an allergic reaction that'll make me smell like feet, but don't worry about it."

Eggman was rubbing his temples in anguish before deciding to bang his head against his couch.

Eggman could sympathize with him one hundred percent.

Knuckles stretched his arms over his head. "I'd rather deal with Dave and that beaver multiple times over than see those people again."

Sonic mulled it over. "Dave yeah, the beaver...eh."

"Those Gogobas aside..." Tails started. "I liked this episode because the good guys didn't anything overly stupid."

Shadow scoffed.

Amy played with her quills. "Not hurting people isn't stupid, Shadow."

Knuckles grumbled. "Can we stop talking about this one though? I honestly want to forget about this episode and never think about it again."

Lucy nodded. "I hear ya! We can go to the next episode. Is anyone else still hungry?"