The scene began in Eggman's lair, with Orbot and Cubot sprawled out in the middle of the floor. They were deactivated until Orbot blinked his eyes open. He sat up along with a now aware Cubot.

Eggman groaned into his hand. "Please don't tell me that this episode is going to be about them..."

Lilac raised a brow. "If you look at the screen, it makes sense right?"

"Hopefully they'll get obliterated." Spade mumbled, he was tired of seeing these two.

"What happened last night?" the red robot asked as he struggled to maintain his balance. "My head is spinning..."

Cubot opposed, "That's not spinning. This is!" His head spun in place before he groaned. "Oh, that was a mistake. I hope whatever we did yesterday didn't involve a heavy meal."

Tails was confused. "A heavy meal?" Mila didn't understand it as well. "They're robots. They can't eat anything."

"Maybe Cubot's talking about oil? That's the only thing I can think of," Torque suggested

Eggman snorted. "I sure didn't provide them with any oil or otherwise. If my twin does, he cares too much about them."

"Cares too much?" Knuckles recalled many instances where the other doctor did the complete opposite. "He borderline hates them, so I doubt it."

"Which brings up exactly why they would choose to go searching for him..." Tails brought up.

"So, it's like a detective episode?" Vector asked.

Espio hummed. "Sort of."

Charmy perked up. "Does that mean we're gonna show up."

Lucy shook her head, "Sorry, Charmy. But this episode is just for Orbot and Cubot."

"Aww."

If Eggman had to choose, he would rather watch an episode of The Chaotix over these two dumbots.

"I'll check my memory array." Orbot stood still for a moment, lights in his mouth brightening up. After a minute, he uttered, "Curious. Last night's memory file appears to have been erased. Check yours."

Cubot nodded before attempting to load it. However, he froze once he encountered in error. Orbot got closer to him and closed the yellow one's eyes, seemingly restarting his friend. "Where was I?" Cubot questioned.

"Their flaws constantly grow." Shadow commented.

"Story of my life." Eggman muttered.

"Perhaps Dr. Eggman knows something about this." Orbot suggested before cuffing his mouth and calling out, "Dr. Eggman! Sir?" When they received no response, the duo drifted into another room. "That's odd," the red bot pondered aloud. "Usually by this time he's telling us how inadequate we are. It appears as though he's completely vanished."

Tails, who didn't know exactly what to make of this Metal situation, pushed that to the back of his mind and mused about the priorities of those two helper bots. "They even know that Eggman mistreats them, and still..."

"Maybe whenever Metal shows up, he'll teach them some common sense," Knuckles provided.

Sonic looked at him and said, "He would probably tear them apart, but either would be accepted."

"So wait...Dr. E ain't here? I can do whatever I want?" Cubot sounded hopeful. He held his arms up and glanced around. "I'm gonna kick over that garbage can!" He went over to the nearest one, but no matter hard he tried, he couldn't kick it over for he didn't have any legs or feet.

Orbot slowly floated over before toppling the garbage can with the gentlest of pushes.

Cubot blinked before raising a triumphant fist. "That'll teach you to mess with me, doc!"

Cream giggled. "That was funny."

Carol almost laughed. "They need serious help..."

Neera rolled her eyes. "That whole universe does."

Orbot didn't acknowledge the other's victory tell. "We need to figure out what happened to us last night and find Dr. Eggman." He tapped his chin in thought. "But, where to start?"

"Ugh. What do you two bolt-bags want?"

Orbot and Cubot were now standing on Sonic's porch, in front of the blue hedgehog himself and Knuckles. Sonic looked and sounded exasperated, arms crossed.

Knuckles knew that the absence of his double wouldn't last very long. "Prepare yourselves for something stupid..."

Sonic smirked. "I know i do." He was delivered a punched to the shoulder by the echidna.

Cubot was the one to answer. "Oh, my own talk show, long blond hair-" He pointed to his mechanical mouth. "-taste buds."

Orbot stopped him before he could go on. "But that's not why we're here." He faced the heroes. "We seemed to misplace Dr. Eggman. Did you and him perchance battle yesterday?"

Knuckles smirked. "Oh we battled alright! I remember it like it was yesterday."

"It was yesterday," Sonic said, rolling his eyes.

The echidna furrowed his brow. "What was?"

Knuckles felt like he was about to have a brain aneurism because he just couldn't comprehend. "Why does he get dumber every episode?"

"Like...he can't be doing that on purpose, right?" Amy questioned. "Because that's not...natural stupid, that's advanced stupid." Tails answered.

Rouge chuckled. "I want to say that he's acting, but deep down, I know the other Knuckles is really like that. For some reason."

Knuckles gestured at the screen. "He's even oblivious to the other Sonic's irritation with him! Just what?!"

A flashback started. Eggman was laughing evilly, standing behind a line of his robots. "I've got you now!" The ladybug-like bots revved their engines.

Sonic was basically trembling in his shoes. "Oh no..." He backed up a couple steps, almost bumping into a confident-looking Knuckles. "I guess that we have no other choice but to give up!"

Sonic gave a 'what' look, glancing up at the TV, wishing that he hadn't heard what he did. "What in the world is happening?" Why did his twin look like he had been told to swim several laps around a pool?

Shadow gave a small chuckle. "The idiot echidna is telling this from 'his' point-of-view then."

"What gave it away?" Knuckles was exasperated. "The way Sonic is trembling, or how the airhead look like he owns everything in the frame?"

"Both."

The hedgehog threw his hands up and was about to flee, but then everything froze and greyed out.

Present-Sonic didn't look amused. "Wait. That's not how it-"

Present-Knuckles leaned into the frame and shushed him.

Amy frowned. "I feel sorry for the other Sonic."

"I don't."

"I wasn't asking you, Eggface."

The scene unpaused itself, regaining its color. Sonic ran off in a hurry only to slam right into a tree, causing him to stagger.

Shadow stifled an amused snort.

Knuckles groaned before addressing Eggman in a more regal voice. "I'll handle this!" He rushed the robots as they charged him, effortlessly punching and kicking them out of the way. The echidna slid to a stop in front of Eggman and staring him down.

The human was uneasy. Eggman flinched in fear when Knuckles stepped closer to him. When the echidna did it again, the man cried out in distress and landed weak punches to the hero's torso.

Knuckles had to admit, seeing Eggman like that was satisfying even though he knew none of this happened.

Eggman just wished that when all this was over, he could forget this splotch of torture of his life. That was all he wanted.

Knuckles was frowning at him. "Now, you've made me mad." He gutturally yelled, his hanging quills curling slightly at the ends. The echidna then took off into the sky.

Knuckles stared. "...What?"

The audience was asking themselves the same thing.

When he got high enough, red crackling energy surrounded him, and Knuckles fired a red-hot blast at Eggman. The human escaped injury by producing an umbrella out of nowhere and using it as a shield.

"Excuse me, where's the bathroom?" Knuckles looked at Theo.

Theo blinked. "Uh. . . to the right?"

The echidna wasted no time and went straight towards his location.. "Thank you." He disappeared, and about ten seconds later. . .

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"

. . .a loud shout filled with rage and anger and every negative emotion out there impinged the ears of those listening. Knuckles reappeared and collapsed in his seat. His expression was blank.

Sonic was kinda worried. They were only ten episodes in. "You alright, Knux?"

He didn't say anything as he watched the screen.

Even though he was unhurt, Eggman cried out in anguish.

Knuckles touched down only for Amy and Sticks to run over. "What a dreamboat!" Amy sighed as the girls hugged him.

Amy inched away from Knuckles, shuddering to herself. Wait, if this what the other Knuckles thought happened, did he have...a thing for...?

Amy crashed that train of thought, refusing to dwell on it any longer.

Knuckles remained expressionless.

Sonic had a frown on his face.

Sonic, over his run-in with a tree, clasped his hands together. His voice was full of admiration. "I want to be just like you when I grow up!"

Tails ran on screen. "Knuckles, you've been elected governor!"

"Excuse me??" Gong was in disbelief.

"The rabbit hole just keeps getting deeper, doesn't it?" Sonic didn't like his other self reduced to a weakling, even if it was made up.

"This is so wrong on so many levels." Blaze stated.

The echidna was hugging the girls back. "All in a day's work!" He grinned, teeth sparkling, before letting Sticks and Amy go and blasting off into space.

Knuckles inhaled sharply, 'Deep breaths. Deeeeeep breaths.'

Out of the flashback, Knuckles was pleased while Sonic was the complete opposite, groaning in irritation.

"He's an annoyance to that pincushion." Eggman commented. "That means the echidna is on par with the Gogobas. "I'm not trying to pry into the rodents' business, but why do they work with him again?" Spade wondered, not that he cared.

Amy dug deep in her mind. "Maybe he's like Sticks?"

"Do NOT compare me to that crazy badger."

The robots didn't know what to make of what was just told to them.

"You're not alone there." Tails sympathized.

"That's all very nice..." Orbot started, "...but I believe that we were inquiring as to the whereabouts of Dr. Eggman."

"Yeah, after we as a team-" Sonic shot Knuckles a look. "-defeated Eggman, he retreated towards the marketplace."

"Yeah! My twin's not a coward!" Sonic nodded, having his double's back. Eggman raised a brow. "So running away from water doesn't make you a coward?"

". . .Okay you have a point. But I'm not a coward!"

"How about running away from your girlfriend and refusing to believe that she's your- ACK!"

Knuckles was cut off with a hammer to the head by none other than Amy Rose. "Anything else you want to add, Knuckles?"

". . .No."

"Good. Now zip it!"

Orbot rose a hand in appreciation. "Many thanks." The pair of mechs wandered off, the duo of mammals watching as they left.

Once they were out of sight, Knuckles spoke up. "Now, if you would excuse me, I have to write my acceptance speech!" Concern overtook his features as he focused on an unimpressed Sonic. "What rhymes with governor?"

Silver cringed. "I feel embarrassed for him since I doubt he feels it at all."

"He just needs to stop," Shadow added.

Spade rolled his eyes. "This whole thing needed to stop."

Lilac sighed. "Relax, Spade. Just three more episodes, then we can all take a break."

Knuckles scoffed, his head now heal thanks to Lucy's magic. "Three more episodes of torture.

Sonic smiled. "C'mon, Knucklehead. The episodes (besides the Guilt Tripping one) weren't ALL that bad. C'mon. Name one episode that's your favorite."

"Guilt tripping."

Some of the audience looked at the echidna like he grew two heads.

Carol was the first to speak, "How is watching an episode with annoying Gogobas your favorite???"

"They're not as annoying at my other self. Plus, wasn't in the episode. So that's one episode that doesn't embarrassed myself."

Tails thought about it. "Maybe. But still. Guilt Tripping??"

Sonic agreed with the kit. "Yeah, Knux. Why not My SIdekick?"

The echidna raised a brow. "You mean the episode where you told Tails not be your sidekick? And that you told him to get grandkids?"

Tails blushed heavily. "Let's not talk about that."

Sonic flinched. "Okay. Then what about Translate This?"

"The episode were you confessed you feelings to Amy?"

"I didn't confess! I just told her I cared for her well-being!"

Amy squealed.

"As a friend!"

Amy huffed.

Sonic sighed and tried one more time. "Well then how about-"

"Sonic." Lucy called out causing the blue hedgehog to look at her, "Maybe we should leave it at that and watch the show?"

Sonic huffed. "Fine."

Cubot and Orbot were in the village now, surrounded by mingling people.

"Keep your optical sensors peeled, Cubot." Orbot advised as he searched around. "There as to be a clue around here somewhere."

"Hey, you two!" Started by the harsh address, the robots turned to see an ox standing by some produce. They approached him as he glared. "You got a lot of nerve coming around here after what Eggman pulled last night."

"Here we go..." Eggman muttered to himself. Who knew what nonsense his other self had been up to. He didn't want to know, but it wasn't exactly his choice, was it? He was doomed to suffer.

Orbot gasped. "Dr. Eggman was here?"

"He was," the ox affirmed. "And he tried to make me the victim of his most evil scheme to date!"

There was another flashback. Eggman was talking to the ox, holding out a burnt and unusable umbrella. "I'd like to return this umbrella."

"Wait..." Amy was confused. "So Eggman actually had an umbrella that got burnt to a crisp?

Neera didn't want to believe but she had to ask. "Did Knuckles really-"

Tails shook his head. "I highly doubt it. Something else most likely happened to cause that burn."

"Most likely?" Knuckles repeated in disbelief. "Something else had to cause that burn, Tails.

Sonic nodded. " Yeah. There is no way that Knucklehead can shoot fire blasts from his hands."

Charmy snickered. "Well, we don't know for sure..."

Espio covers the bee's mouth. "Put a pork in it, Charmy."

The store owner frowned. "You can't expect a refund for that. It's broken!"

"What are you talking about?" Eggman argued. "It works fine! See." He lowered and raised the skeleton hood of the umbrella a couple times before one of the charred arms broke off.

The ox clearly wasn't swayed.

Eggman pointed at him. "But you have a thirty day return policy! This is ridiculous!"

Eggman exhaled long and hard, his hatred and loathing building up inside him. Why couldn't his twin just walk away? Why didn't he just avoid this stupid confrontation altogether? Oh right. Because he was incapable of common sense.

The human growled as he focused on a pyramid of sauce cans beside him. He kicked the base of it, but to his surprise, the whole thing didn't fall down.

Sonic was sure that wasn't how the world worked. "How in the...?"

"Maybe glue?" Tails guessed.

"In random places?" Mila questioned

After staring at the structure defying the laws of physics in confusion, Eggman threw his umbrella to the ground and stomped off. "You just lost a customer, pal!"

The flashback ended. The ox put his hands on his hips. "After he ran out, I called the police."

Orbot and Cubot went to find a police officer. It wasn't hard, for they spotted one drinking out of a cup nearby.

Orbot addressed the cop, which happened to be a beaver. "Officer-"

The beaver did a spit take. "Hey! Don't sneak up on a guy! It's not nice," he said as he took another sip of his cup.

Amy scrunched up his nose. "Gross!"

"That's disgusting!" Neera yelled.

"What kind of cop is he?" Knuckles frowned.

"An easily scared cop." Shadow provided.

The bots were contrite. "I do apologize, but have you seen our missing employer? He's a loud stocky fellow with an evil laugh and uh..." Orbot created an imaginary mustache with his hands. "You know."

After doing another spit take – Neera wished that someone would just slap the cup out of the guy's hands – the cop frowned. "Oh no, that guy. He's a dangerous criminal. We caught him last night." The frown then curled into a soft smile. "The streets are much safer with him off the...um...streets." He took yet another sip.

Tails blinked. "Wow...they actually arrested Eggman? That's..."

"Surprising." Eggman finished for him. "Given that everyone in that universe is inept."

Sonic looked at the doctor. "Like y-"

"Don't!"

"Thanks!" Cubot exclaimed.

The cop spat out his drink for a third time. "You're welcome."

Amy glared. "I really want to slap him."

"I agree." Neera added.

The panda and hedgehog look at each other. . . and turned away with a huff.

The robots quickly left the officer.

Once they were far enough away, Orbot turned to his mechanical friend. "We need to raise bail money to get the boss out of jail." He paused for a moment before continuing confidently, "And I know just how to do it."

There was a hard cut into Orbot terribly playing a ukulele in the middle of the street with Cubot beside him 'playing' the drums, if one could even call it that. The horrible music wasn't enough though. Cubot was singing a love song, voice pitchy and bland.

Everyone covered their ears.

Spade hissed annoyance. "Kill me now."

A crowd had gathered around them, looking on in pity. Tails, who was watching as well, cringed at their performance. "Yeesh..." He palmed a few coins and placed them in an open jar beside the mechs.

"Other me, no!" Tails exclaimed.

Shadow signed. "Great job fox. You've encouraged them."

The robots stopped playing and glanced at each other, sighing in defeat.

Well, that was until Orbot came up with another plan. "I've...got a better idea."

"Thanks god." Knuckles said.

They were suddenly in Amy's house, sitting on her sofa. The pinkette was there as well, sharing the couch with them, curiosity etched into her features.

Amy felt conflicted. "It's great that I get to see my twin again, but did she really have to let them in? She should be with Sonic anyway, not them!"

Sonic winced. "It's not so bad that she's havin' a good chat with them! They could talk for as long as they want and I wouldn't be mad!"

Knuckles threw the speedster a smirk. "Sonic, no matter how hard you deny it, there's something going on between your and Amy's twins."

Sonic covered his ears like a child while Amy beamed.

Orbot didn't waste any time, resuming an off-screen conversation. "So, with your donation, we can finally build that oil bath for the old robot's home."

"That's why she let them in." Tails started. "Because they mentioned some made-up charity... She's a real bleeding-heart, isn't she?"

"That's normally okay, but seriously?" Amy frowned, not happy with this. "It's so obvious that they're lying! And why in the world would she care about robots anyway?"

"She is unintelligent just like that echidna," Eggman observed.

Amy immediately defended her twin. "Hey, she hasn't reached that level yet, no way!"

"Yet." Knuckles sighed.

Amy perked up. "Of course!" She hopped off the couch and headed for a basket sitting on a shelf. Behind her back, the robots high-fived each other. When Amy turned around, she had a small red bag in her hand. "I've been collecting for a charity myself." She grabbed a picture and made her way back over to the sofa. "Operation Toasty Beak."

The bots grabbed the picture when she held it out, being shown a penguin bundled up in a thick sweater. "We provide sweaters for baby penguins," Amy explained.

Mila saw one major thing wrong with this. "But...that's...penguins don't..."

Carol patted the dog's shoulder. "Don't worry about it, bud. We all know that it doesn't any sense."

Orbot's nonexistent heart went out to them. "They must be so cold in the frozen tundra..."

Amy slumped a bit. "They are...and we have all these sweaters for them." She gestured to the side, showing multiple pink sweaters folded neatly in an open box. "But we can't afford the jet fuel to deliver the sweaters..." She gave them a pitiful smile.

"Has she been taking lessons from the Gogobas or something?" Cory asked, "Because she's good."

Amy shook her head. "Hopefully not! I don't want her anywhere near those guys!"

Cubot's tone was heavy. "Those poor little fluff balls..."

The pinkette looked at the red bag. "I was saving this money for that." She focused on the mechs. "But your cause seems important too." Amy handed over the money. "Here you go!"

Cubot reluctantly took it, sharing a guilty look with Orbot.

"I can't believe that she is about to give up the money." Amy puffed out her cheeks, ignoring the controlled violence going on in front of them. "Penguins need warmth more than robots need oil!"

Tails held up a finger. "Actually..."

The robots glanced back down at the cozy penguin and wailed in distress.

Amy was thrown aback, not knowing what was going on.

"We can't do it!" Cubot cried out, giving her back the money. "You keep the money! And take ours too!" He offered the change in the jar they got from their street performance. Then they left, still sobbing. "Penguin sweaters!" Cubot yelled out to the world.

Eggman should really stop making robots with personality.

Back in the village, the pair of mechs – over their penguin sadness – were standing by Eggman's hovercraft with a dog in a top hat examining it.

"I don't think that we should sell the Egg-Mobile," Cubot said to his friend. "The boss isn't going to like it..."

"Lucy, how long do we have left?" Eggman's voice was strained, for this episode was wearing him thin.

"Five minutes and four seconds."

In other words, far too long.

The dog gave them his full attention. "Ah, I see what's going on here. You're trying to con me. Well, you're not gonna pull one over on T. W. Barker." He tipped his hat. "No siree!"

"The way he automatically jumps to the conclusion of robots conning him is suspicious..." Lilac mumbled.

Amy huffed. "He looks so shady!"

Orbot waved his hands in a negative. "Oh no! We're not trying-"

Barker patted the hovercraft. "So, how about I take her out for a test drive? If I like the way she runs, you've got yourselves a sale. Just name the price."

Cubot, overjoyed, whispered to Orbot, "He said that we can name the price! This guy must be a real sucker!"

They faced the buyer again. "Mr. Barker," the red bot started. "We have a-" He paused, for the dog had hopped into the mobile and flew away. "-deal..." Barker tipped his hat again before disappearing beyond the trees.

"They're not going to see that hovercraft again, are they?" Carol asked.

"Nope." Cory emphasized the 'p'.

The duo waited multiple hours for the dog to return, standing still as the sun set and eventually rose again.

"That would not have been me." Knuckles scoffed. "I would've left the moment Barker hopped into that thing."

"That's it!" Cubot exploded, startling the other. "We tried doing things your way, now we're gonna to things my way!"

In the next scene, nothing but a stone wall filled the screen. A second passed before an explosion blew a hole into the wall. Orbot and Cubot shielded their faces from any debris, the latter putting away his blaster.

Spade appreciated the switch to a more violent approach.

As the smoke cleared, Cubot waved a hand. "Boss! Over here!"

However, the person who had escaped the wasn't Eggman. Instead, it was a purple walrus. The robots blinked in shock before sirens sounded in the background, coming closer. The trio promptly ran away.

"The police there are almost better than the ones in Station Square," Amy uttered before glancing over to Shadow. "No offense."

The black hedgehog shrugged. "None taken."

They eventually stopped fleeing, resting by a tree on the outskirts of the village. The walrus gave them an appreciative smile. "Thanks for the help, fellas. I always appreciate a good jailbreak." He then introduced himself. "Willy Walrus! Nice to meetcha!"

Rouge hummed. "Despite being a prisoner, he's the best person we've met this episode. He's nice."

Knuckles agreed. "The best citizen of the village we've ever met."

"The definition of irony."

Cubot scratched his head. "We thought you was Eggman!"

Willy laughed. "Oh, I get mistaken for him all the time!"

"I somehow doubt that..." Tails was dubious.

"In fact, I was just talking to him about it last night. I was walking through the marketplace when..."

There was yet another flashback. It picked up from when Eggman was stomping away from the ox at the store. "You just lost a customer, pal!"

The human then rudely bumped into Willy, who was leisurely walking. "Whoa!" The walrus glanced back. "Who's this handsome fella!"

Eggman, flattered, turned around. "Oh you honey-dripper! I'd love to stay and chat, but I have to break into a helium warehouse," he said, jabbing a thumb over his shoulder.

Eggman wasn't even going to ask.

Willy smirked. "Well, you've bumped into the right walrus! Breaking and entering is my speciality."

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Eggman asked, enthusiastic. "After you!"

There was then an explosion, the scene switching to the devious pair breaking into the helium warehouse. Eggman smugly blew the smoke off of his blaster.

"So he blasted a whole in the wall...for helium."

Sonic chuckled, nudging the exasperated doctor. "Maybe he's throwin' a party!"

"He wouldn't-" Eggman groaned, stopping himself. What was he saying? Of course he would.

Willy walked in first with Eggman at his heels. The human examined the containers before leaning on some. "How do we know these are helium?"

"Uh, check the label?" Tails suggested.

"Or remember that you're in a helium warehouse?" Mila added.

After that question, his arm slipped and he knocked a container to the ground. It opened just a bit, and the gas inside began to leak out.

The walrus glanced at it before regarding Eggman with a shrug. "I'm not sure." His voice was multiple octaves higher than normal.

Eggman had a pensive look on his face, his voice also ridiculously high. "If only there were some way to tell..."

"If only."

Cream giggled. "Your voice is funny, Dr. Eggman."

Eggman signed. "Yeah. Yeah."

Sirens broke up their conversation, and the pair ran off in different directions.

Back to the present, Willy finished his story. "And that's the last I saw of him. I spent the rest of the night in the joint. Breaking and entering is my speciality, but I'm not so good at exiting ."

Knuckles mulled it over. "Makes sense."

Orbot and Cubot left the walrus, going back to the village and approaching the helium warehouse. The wall broken by Eggman hadn't been repaired. "Dr. Eggman?" Orbot called out as they entered. "Dr. Eggman!" The duo whipped their heads around, searching. "Are you in here?"

Sonic grinned. "If they didn't see or hear that Eggy immediately after entering, then he's not in there. He's kinda hard to miss."

Eggman refused to respond to obvious bait.

"Here Eggy Eggy!" Cubot shouted before they got closer to the helium container that had been knocked down. The mechs examined the area some more until the yellow bot found something. "Look!" He had spotted Eggman's blaster, laying forgotten on the ground. Cubot picked it up. "It's his disintegrator ray!"

"Finally! A real clue!" Orbot cheered before pondering aloud, "Now all we have to do is follow the path of destruction and-" He cut himself off with a gasp. He picked up a clump of hair that looked like the doctor's mustache. "Dr. Eggman's mustache!" Orbot faced Cubot, solemn. "In his panic...he must have misfired his ray and...and..."

Somehow, both robots had tear ducts for moisture built up in their eyes. Cubot was highly distressed. "And all that's left of him is his glorious mustache!" Tears started to freely fall.

"...they really think that Eggman's dead." Knuckles took what he said earlier back. It was possible to reach his twin's level of stupidity.

"Someone needs to dismember them already."

Shadow nodded to Spade's statement. "Agreed."

Orbot wiped the dampness away with the 'stache. "Come on Cubot, let's go home..."

They sobbed leaving the warehouse and were downcast all the way back to the lair. The robots had an aura of sadness around them as they traversed the hallways of the base, but when they entered a particular room, horns were blown and confetti rained down, surprising the pair.

Eggman couldn't scrape his jaw off the ground. "He seriously threw a party."

Sonic couldn't restrain his laughter. "It looks like your double likes Orbot and Cubot more than you do!"

Eggman held his head in his hands and released a defeated sigh.

In the room were decorations, colorful balloons, and robots wearing party hats. Eggman was standing in front of the crowd. He did a curt wave. "Surprise."

"Dr. Eggman!" Both robots chorused in delight.

They floated forward, jumped up, and hugged the human. Eggman grunted in displeasure. "Ugh, get off me!" He eventually managed to push them off.

"I wonder what the occasion is?" Torque questioned. "Is it the robots' birthday? Or...creation-day or something?"

Knuckles linked his hands behind his head. "We'll find out eventually."

"Can this just end?" Eggman nearly shouted.

"Sorry, Eggman. We have one minute and twenty-six seconds left." Theo said

Eggman grumbled.

"We thought you was toast!" Cubot cried out.

"What are you two clanking oil cans talking about?" Eggman was clearly confused.

Orbot answered. "You were gone this morning when we awoke!"

"Wait, but that's not true...didn't they wait overnight for uh...Barker to come back?" Tails checked his memory and yep, those bots definitely waited all night.

"They did," Knuckles concurred, "but I won't put it past them to forget."

"I went to get a breakfast burrito."

The noise Eggman made sounded like a strangled cat.

Orbot kept going. "We traced your footsteps all over town until we found your mustache in the helium warehouse!"

"That's just part of the pin-the-mustache-on-the-Eggman game I made for your party." The doctor gestured to a cardboard cutout of himself without the facial hair. One of the crab robots attempted to reach the cutout's face with the 'stache, but it only reached Eggman's midsection.

"You gotta admit, that was sorta adorable," Amy smiled before getting to her main point. "So, Eggman did throw this party for them? That's really out of character."

"Tell me about it..." the human grumbled.

"Our..."

"...party?" Cubot finished Orbot's question.

"Yes! You said that it would improve morale if I threw a surprise party!" Eggman reminded them.

Tears welled up again in Orbot's eyes. "You went through all this trouble...for us?"

"Of course not!" Eggman sharply opposed. "I don't care about you nincompoops! I had you do all the work, and then I erased your memories to make sure it was still a surprise! So surprise!"

Eggman exhaled deeply, not expecting that. It didn't increase his respect for his twin, but his hatred of him didn't rise either. He was glad that his double actually didn't prepare this; he had some once of self-respect.

"And what a wonderful surprise it is!" Orbot gushed.

"Eh, hang on a sec..." Cubot cradled his head. "You erased our memories? You can do that?!"

Eggman scoffed. "Oh yeah, I do it all the time. It's real simple. You just press this little button right here..." He reached around pushed in the button on each of the two mechs' backs. The pair tensed up before slumping.

There was a flash of white, and then Orbot and Cubot were laying in the middle of the floor again, very similar to earlier.

"So they couldn't even enjoy their own party?" Lilac huffed.

"That's a bummer." Sonic began. "I wanted to see Eggy pin the mustache on himself!"

Eggman glared. "You just wanted to see him embarrass himself."

"That too!"

They were deactivated until Orbot blinked his eyes open. He sat up along with a now aware Cubot.

"What happened last night?" the red robot asked as he struggled to maintain his balance. "My head is spinning..."

Cubot opposed, "That's not spinning. This is!" His head spun in place before groaning. "Oh, that was a mistake. I hope whatever we did yesterday didn't involve a heavy meal."

Eggman unexpectedly stomped into the room. "Hey, do you two have any idea where the Egg-Mobile is?"

"Long gone." Cory knew that Barker had sold the hovercraft to someone else at an insane price. He seemed the type.

The robots silently blinked multiple times before Cubot responded, "I got no idea, boss."

Eggman relaxed in his seat. "Finally!"

"Despite all the weird things that happened-" for example, the spitting guy and her twin's strange charity, "-this episode wasn't all that bad!" Amy chirped.

"We had to be watching a different episode then," The doctor mumbled.

"Amy's right. My twin was only on screen for a little while – though it would've been better if he hadn't been – and the real Sticks was nowhere to be found." Knuckles snorted. "That makes for a good enough episode."

Spade strongly disagreed. "There are no 'good' episodes. They are all torture, some less torturous than others."

Sonic scratched his nose. "It probably gets better, guys!" He didn't know if he believed himself.