The episode started off showing an orchard. Sticks was on a ladder, picking berries.
Knuckles grunted, "Is she going to turn evil in this one?
Spade shrugged. "I could see it. Her insane ramblings and paranoia were evil enough as they were."
Shadow signs. "Let's just hope she doesn't be the main focus like Buster or that weird award one.
"She hasn't been that bad in the last few episodes guys." Sonic tried to defend the badger.
"We didn't say she was bad, we said she was paranoid." Spade said.
"Isn't that the same thing."
Tails thought for a moment. "Not really. Being paranoid only affects your mental health, causing you to lose control of yourself. I would say her health is the problem; not her specifically."
Shadow hmph. "Still, she's a pain."
"No one at the pie festival will guess that beige berries are my secret ingredient!" The badger smiled as she placed her berries in her basket. However, the smile didn't last for long, being replaced by a thoughtful look. "Unless...one of these trees is a spy in disguise!"
"Exactly my points."
Sticks climbed down her ladder and glared at an innocent tree. "I'm onto you, tree! You'll never get the recipe! NEVER!" She pulled out her boomerang, ready to go on the defensive.
Torque really didn't get her choice of weaponry. "Why is she using a wooden boomerang against metal robots?"
Tails tried to come up with an answer but couldn't find anything. "...I got nothing."
Before she could attack however, Tails approached her in his yellow hovercraft. "Hey Sticks! How's tricks?" he greeted with a smile. "I see you're making beige berry pie."
Cory felt worried for the kit. "And I see you're going to get in trouble... or worse."
Carol looked at her sister confused. 'What makes you say that?"
"She's paranoid and doesn't look like she wants to be bothered with."
Sticks blinked in surprise before whispering to her berries. "I don't know what he's talking about! I'm taking you to live on a farm!"
"She my point?"
Carol nodded to her sister. "Now I understand. Sticks talking to berries and having no clue what Tails is talking about? Yeah, she's paranoid."
The badger refocused on the fox. "No, if you will excuse me, I have a few trees left to pick." The badger walked off.
"Looks like you could use some help!" Tails shouted after her. "Be right back!" He zoomed away in his vehicle.
"I don't think that's a good idea, Tails."
Te looked at Silver. "Why?"
"Sticks doesn't seem to like machines."
"And she wouldn't appreciate machines helping her pick berries." Blaze added.
"Not to mention she almost attacked a tree for just existing." Espio joined in.
Shadow rolled his eyes. "Anything that's unnatural would surely be on her hit-list."
The kit was now in his workshop, working on his next invention. He was singing to himself. "Grab-claw's connected to the trap-jaw! Trap-jaw's connected to the scoop-maw! Scoop-maw's connected to the positively-charged resister-cuffing ion-matrix!" Tails stopped singing and went to turn the matrix on. It didn't work.
Sonic smirked at the yellow kit. "Tails, you never told us you sing."
"That's so adorable, Tails!" Milla squealed.
The kit's cheeks are reddened in embarrassment. "I just do it to pass the time!"
Sonic decided to shift gears, turning toward Eggman. "How about you, Eggy? Do you-"
Eggman was quick to cut him off. "Of course not, you blue cactus!"
"Oops," he said when the voltage meter didn't go high enough. "Needs voltage. Lot of trees means lot of V's!"
Chuckles echoed in the air, and Tails sunk into his seat.
He strolled over to a nearby shelf. Sapphires stared at the first matrix. "Nope." Tails went to the next one; it was a little bigger, but still too small. "Nope." There was one more; however, it still wasn't enough. "Nope."
Tails then glanced out of the window to see Sonic playing volleyball by himself. He grinned. "Yep!"
Huh...Tails realized that he could save so much time and effort just using Sonic like his double was. Just imagine the money and energy he would be saving!
Sonic wasn't even surprised. "I am a great source of energy!"
"Too much," Knuckles uttered.
"There's no such thing as too much energy, Knux!"
Shadow coughed.
It wasn't long until Sonic was inside the workshop, standing on a stationary bike connected to Tails' machine. The azure speedster was a little dubious. "Are you sure about this, Tails? You know how Sticks is about machines."
Cory raised her hand. "That's what I said. Clearly even Sonic's twin thinks that this is a bad idea."
"I'm predicting that the kit's invention will somehow cause the badger to turn to the dark side." Gong stated.
"Like she reacts in a way that Eggman appreciates or something?"
Eggman shuddered at what the pink hedgehog said. "I may loathe my twin but there is no way he would have the prospect of working with that erratic badger."
Tails was tinkering with the wires. "But this thing runs on natural energy...yours! It's better than going green..." He raised his arms. "It's going blue!"
"He's not wrong." Amy giggled.
"Except, the crazy badger won't care."
"...Good point, Shadow."
Sonic didn't bother arguing. "Say when!" His feet were a blur as he spun the pedals, quickly charging up one of the bigger matrixes. Apparently, Sonic charged it too fast for it exploded a second later in Tails' face.
The kit was cross-eyed and struggling to keep standing. His fur was charred in some places. "When..." he said, way too late.
"And that is why you should not let Sonic be an energy source, Tails."
"Thank you for your input, Knux."
Back at the orchard, Sticks was still busy picking the beige berries. She then blinked in surprise when the ground began to rumble, falling off her ladder with a shout soon after. The badger glanced up to see Tails' berry picker charging her way. She jumped over the machine and watched it go as Tails approached her side with a remote control.
Tails was controlling the machine, but when it started to mow down whole trees, concern etched into his features.
Knuckles crossed his arms. "Here it comes."
The kit gaped as more and more trees were devoured. "Well..." He regained his composure, acting like nothing had gone wrong. "My work here is done."
Spade scoffed. "Which one?"
Tails took a couple steps away, but Sticks angrily grabbed his arm, keeping him from going anywhere. "Your machine destroyed the orchard!" She gestured at the kit's invention running rampant.
"It could be worse!" Tails tried to argue, a strained smile on his muzzle. "At least you still have the berries!"
His machine then sucked up the berries and shot them out of the back in the form of juice.
Sticks' glare was intense.
Milla frowned. "At least he tried to help."
Carol shook her head. "I don't think she cares."
"You can't really blame her though." Amy began, "He did destroy her orchard."
Amy, Knuckles, and Sonic then jugged over, curious about the ruckus. "What happened here?" the pinkette worriedly asked.
Sonic grinned and crossed his arms. "Looks like Tails got himself into a... jam ."
Even Sonic inwardly winced at that one.
"He is definitely your twin, Faker."
Sonic shook his head vehemently. "I can't be as bad at that! I refuse to think-" He turned to his most trustworthy friend. "Tails! Back me up here!"
Tails stayed silent, acting like he hadn't heard the question.
Knuckles was proud of the fox. "And if you listen carefully, you can hear Sonic's pride hit rock bottom."
Sonic pouted.
He laughed to himself before raising a hand at Knuckles. "Get it?"
"Not at all!" the echidna responded confidently, clapping the high-five. "But I never leave a 'hog hanging!"
Knuckles couldn't sigh loud enough.
"I would love to," Eggman muttered to himself, but he underestimated the hearing of the pests around him.
"Whoa, Eggy!" Sonic couldn't believe his ears. "That's dark!"
"Too dark!" Amy echoed, covering a confused Cream ears.
"They're right, Eggman." Knuckles jumped in.
"Yeah, that's pretty messed up." Vector added.
Tails nodded. "Almost, dare I say it...edgy..."
Lilac crossed her arms. "You should be ashamed of yourself, Eggman."
Eggman just humphed.
Amy approached Sticks and attempted to comfort her. "At least one tree is still standing!"
It turned out that the tree was a costume. The person in it quickly ran away.
Amy's jaw dropped to the floor. "So it was really a spy?!"
"And we all doubted her..." Tails stated.
"So she's not insane?" Neera cocked her head at the screen.
Torque didn't know what to say except. "I would say she's simply observant."
Spade shook his head. "Let's not go that far."
Shadow agreed. "Yeah, she's still crazy."
Still Amy wanted to defend the badger. "But it somehow worked for her this time. She couldn't have possibly known that spy was there! She just making a guess!"
"A paranoid guess."
"A guess nonetheless, Shadow!"
Tails scratched his chin in thought. "Who was he anyway?"
Sonic was the first to guess. "Maybe he's one of Eggy's recruits."
"No." Eggman crossed his arms.
Sonic chuckled. "We just found out that Sticks was right about in one of her wild guesses! Maybe your twin clearly has-"
"Perhaps I didn't make myself clear: No."
The scene switched to the inside of an unknown building. The guy in the tree costume was standing there along with three other people wearing red cloaks. They were all staring at a lone computer on a table, watching a replay of Tails' machine wreaking havoc.
"So Eggman was right. These guys aren't with him." Rouge stated.
Knuckles frowned up at the screen. "And it looks like we're wrong too...the bad guys are gonna go after Tails, not Sticks."
Tails was a little worried about this, but Sonic wasn't concerned at all. "Good luck to that. There's nothing they could do to convince Tails to join them."
Milla completely agreed. "Whatever plan they're thinking of will be shut down immediately."
"Such senseless destruction..." one the cloaked ones uttered deeply. "...Wonderful!"
"Our organization could use the mind that created this!" a second one exclaimed. "Send him a crimson letter..."
Once again returning to the orchard, Tails was busy planting seeds painstakingly row by row.
"I can't believe Sticks is making me replant the entire orchard!" Tails complained, sprinkling the seeds. "Now I'm going to miss the pie festival..."
"He's missing a pie festival?" Lilac questioned.
Milla gasped in shock. "That's just wrong! Let him have his pie!"
Carol gave Milla a weird look. Why was she acting like this?
The kit trailed off and paused in his flying when the three cloaked figures approached him.
The one in the middle held out a red envelope. "This is for you."
Tails hesitatingly took it, trying to open the letter but having some (a lot) of trouble.
Knuckles snickered to himself...
...Only to be slapped in the head by Amy.
One of the cloaked figures suggested, "Uh, maybe it will be easier if we just told you."
"Hey, Shads...he kinda sound like-"
"Faker, shut up if you don't want me to do something I won't regret."
"Like what?"
*BAM*
Sonic lay flat on the floor with a punch mark on his face.
"Like that."
Theo and Lucy could only shake their heads. It's no surprise that Sonic and Shadow don't get along that very well. But now Amy and Neera were going at each other's throats. Who's next?
The stranger who had handed Tails the envelope nodded and regarded the kit, "Your ingenuity just earned you an invitation to the bi-monthly potluck dinner and raffle of the super secret exclusive club known as..."
One of the members played a tune on a kazoo; Tails wasn't amused by it.
The trio then exclaimed, "The Lightning Bolt Society!"
"The...Lightning Bolt Society...?" Sonic stifled a laugh, having been healed by Lucy's magic (again).
Vector flinched. "Weird name."
"I kinda like it."
Espio rolled his eyes. "Of course you do, Charmy."
"Eggy, are you sure your twin doesn't have some-"
"For the last time rodent...no!"
"Well, if it's not your twin," Sonic gave a cheeky smirk, "Then maybe Knuck-"
"I will punch you in your throat, Sonic."
Amy ignored the banter between the hedgehog and echidna as he was sorely disappointed at name. "They could have gone with a better name like Spark Society!"
"Or the Shock Society!" Charmy piped in.
Milla thought for a minute. "How about Lightning Society?"
"What about Thunder Bolt Society?" Tails suggested.
"Hey that's actually kinda good, Tails."
"Hehe, thanks, Milla."
Eggman looked at the group. I'm surrounded by idiots.
"Wow!" Tails gushed, expression brightening. "The Lightning Bolt Society?! Really?! I've never heard of it!"
Knuckles knew what was coming. "Oh no. Don't tell me that Tails is going to join them??"
Amy gasped in shock. "How oblivious can he be!" Amy widened her eyes at what she just said and looked at the kit with an apologetic look. "I'm sorry, Tails!"
"It's okay."
"Still, isn't he suspicious at all of the cloaks??" Blaze questioned.
"C'mon, Blaze! Have a little hope!" Silver chirped, though he had a bad feeling about this too.
The kazoo player scoffed. "That's because it's super secret... duh. "
"Come! We'll take you to our clubhouse."
"As much as I'd love to go off with you strangers..." Tails gestured to the empty field behind him. "My friends left me with an entire orchard to plant."
"Yeah...this is going south..." Tails lowly commented. "But then again, if my twin does join, he should figure out what's going on fast enough! And plus, I really don't think these guys are that evil. They don't look like it."
"...Eggman doesn't look evil." Milla observed the irritated human.
"I see your point."
"Our Eggman is evil. His twin however is a complete goofball."
Eggman didn't know if he should be somewhat grateful or infuriated by the hedgehog's comment.
The quietest third member whipped out a device that looked similar to a blaster. He loaded Tails' seeds into it and fired them all around the field in under a minute.
Tails was awed. "Cool gizmo! How much was it?"
The leader to the side was the one who answered. "Let's just say...it was a steal. "
Neera raised a brow. "So they're nothing but measly thieves?"
Gong nodded. "Yeah, the kit potentially joining them isn't that big of a deal. It'll be resolved by the end of this show anyway."
"Speaking of which..." Eggman looked at Theo and Lucy.
"Seven and a half minutes."
The evil doctor signed. "Time must be moving slower here."
The fox tapped his chin before grinning. "Well, my work here is done! And since I missed the festival, I think I will take you up on that potluck!"
The kazoo player turned to his fellow members. "Notify the membership at once."
Eggman's evil lair was shown next-
The evil doctor signed again.
-and said human was playing a game at his desk. He was shooting water at a small squirrel.
"I've got him now!" The screen Eggman was looking at zoomed in onto the animal. "You've stolen your last Sunder paper, you furry little mutant!"
"Eggy, do you-"
"Shut your mouth, rodent!"
Just as he was going to blast the animal, his target was suddenly blocked by something. "Ah! Pop-up!" Eggman shouted in frustration before leaning forward in curiosity. "Wait, what's this?"
"It appears to be a status update from the Lightning Bolt Society," Orbot uttered.
Eggman snorted. "Pfft! More like Lightning Dolt Society! That clever play on words should indicate that I think they're a bunch of pests."
Eggman was slightly glad that his twin wasn't in charge of the society.
"Wait..." Milla thought for a minute. "If the Society is the enemy of the heroes' enemy, wouldn't that make your twins and the new guys friends?"
"In theory, but I doubt that's going to happen." Neera stated.
Gong huffed. "They don't seem like the 'helping heroes' type."
There was a flashback. Eggman was standing outside of his base, watching cloaked figures search through his trash can.
The human picked up a mop and brandished it like a weapon. "Hey, you bums! Get out of my trash!"
"Run!" one of them yelled out, and they all ran away. A cloaked member had the seed-shooting device in his hands.
"Definitely not the 'helping heroes' type."
After a moment, one invader came back and took a slice of pizza from the bin before running away again.
Eggman couldn't exactly fault them for that.
Eggman glared at them. "Gotta invent some device to keep those losers out of my garbage." He reached down and placed a brick on the closed bin. "There! That oughta do it."
"Only one brick?" Sonic tisked. "Has he not dealt with raiders before?"
Tails shook his head. "Obviously not. There has to be at least two bricks."
"Two? I was thinkin' three, because there were three members."
Back to the present, Eggman was pacing in front of his helper bots. "Why would those wanna-be's initiate Tails into their group? If they're working with Sonic, I'll never get them out of my trash!" He pointed in a random direction. "To the Eggmobile!"
Knuckles rolled his eyes. "Right, because they would really help the society dumpster dive."
Sonic, Knuckles, Sticks – holding a pie – and Amy was then seen walking back to the orchard.
"Tails?" Amy called out. "We're back! Sticks won, and we've got some pie for you!"
The quartet looked around only to find that Tails wasn't there.
"He's gone..." Sonic said.
"And all the seeds are planted!" Sticks frowned. "There's no way he could've done it so fast! Unless he used-"
"One of his inventions," Amy interjected.
Sticks glanced at her. "I was gonna say alien magic, but that was a good guess."
"I was going to comment on the alien magic, but then I remembered that it was actually a thing a while back." Knuckles threw a look over at Shadow, recalling it raining aliens left and right, a tentacled glob leading all of it.
Shadow shrugged. "Not my fault."
Lilac looks between the two. "You guys seem to have history with one another."
Sonic smirk. "You have no idea."
Strange sounds then filled the air, making the heroes look forward and gape in surprise. Giant thorned plants with purple petals were growing quickly out of the ground. They growled at the anthros with their sharp teeth bared.
"Y'know, that does look like the result of alien magic," Sonic admitted.
The heroes took a couple cautious steps back.
"What's going on here?!" Amy was beyond shocked.
Sticks opened her mouth, but then she stepped on something. Peering down, the badger saw a red envelope with a sticker on it. She picked it up and sniffed the paper. "What's this? Some kind of...pulped wood?"
"First the badger doesn't know what an envelope is, and now the rodent's double doesn't know how to read." Eggman began in exasperation. "What's next?"
Charmy raised a finger. "There are endless possibilities..."
"...I'm mad that you're absolutely right."
Amy snatched it out of her hand. "It's an envelope , Sticks!" The pinkette ripped it open and began to read the letter inside. "Tails is invited to join the...Lightning Bolt Society?"
Sonic narrowed his eyes. "Wait, aren't those the crooks who are always stealing from the village fruit stand?"
Knuckles chuckled. "They've clearly mistaken Tails for a lemon. What fools!"
Knuckles' face-palm was audible.
Sonic laughed out loud. "Think of the positives, Knux! He could've-"
*SLAP*
Eggman wished he had a camera.
The growth of more violent flowers gained everyone's attention.
Sonic focused on Knuckles and Sticks. "You two stay here and keep these traps shut. Amy and I are going after Tails." The blue speedster grabbed Amy's arm, and they ran off.
"Ooo!" Amy leaned forward in her seat in anticipation. "They're technically holding hands!"
Sonic slumped. "Arms, there's a difference..."
At the clubhouse, Tails was piling food onto his plate with other members conversating in the background.
"Tails!" The kit turned to see the trio who had invited him. Their hoods were down. A weasel was greeting him with a walrus and Dave quietly looking on. "Welcome! Such an honor! I assume you've met everyone?"
Tails furrowed his brow. "Does he not recognize Dave, or...?"
"Yeah, seeing Dave should have been a red flag!" Amy put her hands on her hips. "What gives?"
Knuckles hated to say this. "Tails is still at the top of my favorite character list, but he just jumped down a bit. Sonic's a close second now."
The fox shook his head. "Actually, no." He gestured off to the side. "Though, that tree looks really familiar."
It was the same person in the tree costume. He was having difficulty getting it off. "The zipper's stuck," he grunted out before holding a hand out to Tails. "Nice to meet ya!" The kit shook his hand. The guy smiled amiably before asking, "Have you tried the shrimp?"
Amy's brain was trying its hardest to process what it was seeing. "These are the friendliest bad guys I've ever seen! How come you've never offered us shrimp, Eggman?"
"Because I hate you all, and do I look like a chef to you?"
Amy imagines Eggman in a chef outfit, giving her and Sonic her order. She decided not to answer that.
Tails instantly ran over to the bowl and dumped the whole thing onto his plate.
"What did you bring to the potluck?" the walrus questioned.
Tails faced him, his expression a bit guilty. "Oh, uh..." He pulled out a filled jar. "All I had was beige berry jelly."
Dave took the jar, opened it, and tasted the jelly. He immediately spat it out, eying the container suspiciously. "It's full of dirt and twigs!"
Sonic tapped his foot on the floor. "Is the other Tails really not going to address Dave? Like at all?"
"It's like he forgot that he almost destroyed the world!" Saying that Tails was confused was an understatement. His twin should have been out of there by now!
The tree guy snickered. "Hah! I told ya he was evil. Do I know how to pick 'em or what?"
"He picked the best friend of the world's fastest hedgehog." Sonic boasted.
Standing on a box outside the clubhouse was Sonic and Amy.
Amy couldn't control her smile.
Sonic didn't hide his frown.
They were peeking in a window, watching Tails interact with the members.
Sonic was the first to speak. "I say we crash through the window."
"I say that we dress up like pizza delivery guys," Amy offered instead.
"My idea has pizzazz," Sonic argue, shifting his gaze onto her.
Amy turned to him too, putting a hand on her hip. "My idea has pizza. "
"Comments about the type of argument aside." Sonic pointedly looked at the smug Knuckles. "I gotta side with Ames on this one. Pizza over pizzazz all day every day!"
"Definitely can't eat pizzazz!" Amy agreed.
"Pizzazz!" Sonic rose his voice.
Amy met his volume. "Pizza!"
Sonic scowled. "Pizzazz!"
Amy clearly wasn't backing down. "Pizza!"
The front door opened behind them. A janitor looked at them, raising a hand while the other gripped a trash bag. "Hey, can you strangers hold this door open while I go-"
"Not now!" the two hedgehogs angrily yelled at him.
Knuckles chuckled loudly. "There's no doubt now."
"They have to be dating!" Amy squealed. "That's like the perfect example of a lover's quarrel! Oh my gosh! I just need to see them on one date!"
Sonic couldn't fight it any more either. All of the hints were there, and his soul had successfully left his body.
The janitor deadpanned at them, threw the trash to the side, and reentered the clubhouse, closing the door behind him.
The pair went back to arguing.
"Pizzazz!"
"Pizza!"
Lilac frowned. "Is it really that serious?"
"No, it isn't!" Amy gushed. "And I love it!"
Inside the building, the walrus was so talking up on a stage. "The Lightning Bolt Society is proud to welcome our newest member! He's a deforestation sensation and a berry bad boy! I give you...Tails!"
Carol didn't understand. "I'm still confused as to why he's still there."
"Are we just gonna ignore that terrible pun?" Sonic asked.
"Yes," was uttered by all in the room.
Two of the members carried the fox to the stage, letting him drop down on it. It was silent, everyone staring at him with a blank face, until the walrus added, "He brought the jam with the dirt in it."
The room erupted with applause.
"He was the only one not wearing a cloak! How did they not-" Knuckles cut himself off. "I'm just not going to ask any more questions."
Tails removed his goggles to make room for the red hat the leader placed on his head. The kit smiled sheepishly. "Oh uh...thanks! It's an honor to be around so many..." His smile slipped a bit as he stared at the members with cloaks over them. Tails pointed to his own hat. "Guys with hats like this one!"
Sonic hummed to himself. "Is that really Tails? Or did he get abducted by aliens or something?"
Tails absently scratched his arm. "I wouldn't mind that plot twist actually..."
"With an evil genius like Tails to lead us," the walrus began. "We could go from two-bit crooks, to four-bit crooks! Or, dare I say it, eight-bit crooks!"
"Nowhere close," Eggman muttered. A group that stole another man's dirty trash wasn't even on the spectrum.
"Yes!" Dave cheered with a malicious smirk. "Combining the warped genius of Tails' deforestation machine and Eggman's mutant seed gun, we can finally launch our master plan! To control all the fruit in the village!" His voice dropped to a devious whisper. "And beyond..."
No one had any words for that.
"Yeah, uh..." Tails scratched the back of his head. "Having understood very little of that-" He brow a brow at the leader. "-did I hear the word evil in there?"
"The word 'crooks' didn't set you off?"
"Or the cloaks?
"Or Dave?"
"Indeed!" The walrus didn't beat around the bush. "With you as our evil leader, we'll be unstoppable...when it comes to fruit."
Tails rubbed the back of his neck this time. "Yeah..." he looked away. "Um, well, this is a little embarrassing, but..." Tails took off his hat. "I'm not evil."
Shocked gasps echoed around the room.
Spade was getting irritated. "These idiots seriously don't know who he is."
This was so confusing that even Shadow couldn't stay quiet about it. "Why are they so surprised? Tails probably stopped one of their stupid fruit raids in the past."
The walrus clenched his fists. "You've betrayed us all!"
The weasel shrugged, looking a little lost. "That sounds pretty evil to me."
Dave scratched his forehead in befuddlement. "Now I'm just confused..."
Knuckles rubbed his temples. "Eggman, never become that incompetent. Please."
It was painful for the doctor to watch. "If I ever do, I have gone senile and I give you permission to put me out of my misery."
It was at that moment when Sonic crashed through the window, landing safely on the floor. Amy ran in a second after him, carrying a pizza box.
"They compromised! The best couple move!"
"Hey Ames, can you calm down a bit-"
"Nope!"
Tails perked up. "Guys?"
"Tails!" Sonic and Amy chirped at the same time.
They began to run over to the kit, but a beam of light crashed through the ceiling. Eggman used it as a pole to slide down, the two hedgehogs crying out, "Eggman?!"
"Wait, isn't the clubhouse supposed to be super secret or something?" Carol scratched her head, befuddled. "How did he find it so fast?"
"He must've heard the other Sonic and Amy arguing outside," Knuckles answered with a taunting chuckle.
Sonic then recovered with an impressed smile on his muzzle. "I gotta admit, that had pizzazz."
"Sonic..." Eggman frowned. "I've seen through your plan to team up with the Lightning Bolts!"
Sonic wasn't expecting that. "What? I thought you teamed up with them! I'm here to rescue Tails!" Beside him, Amy pointedly coughed. Sonic quickly mended his statement. "We! I said we, didn't I?"
"Well, we all know now who wears the pants in that relationship."
"I'm so glad that you're having fun with this, Knux."
Eggman gestured to himself. "Me? Team up with these dolts?"
Dave deflated. "Hey, hey! Words hurt..."
Eggman continued like he hadn't spoken. "I'd never team up with these..." He fumbled for a better insult but came up short. "Dolts! I'm sorry, there's not another word for you."
Gong snorted at that, "I can think of plenty of words."
He placed his hands on his hip. "So, whose side are you on?"
"We're doing our best to be bad!" the walrus explained.
"They...actually may be worse than that dimension's Eggman," Amy observed.
Knuckles nodded. "They've achieved the impossible."
"Then get Sonic!" Eggman shouted in exasperation.
The leader frowned up. "We don't have any weapons!"
"Now what kind of villains are you?" Eggman growled. "Find some!"
Sonic barked out a laugh. "Can we even call them villains? They're obviously just broke fruit lovers."
Milla pursed her lips. "...How exactly do you take over the world using fruit anyway?"
"Two words," Eggman interjected. "Killer pineapples."
All attention was on the human now. Sonic narrowed his eyes, both amused and flabbergasted. "Have you...thought about this before, Eggy?"
"I trash a lot of diabolical plans, rodent."
All of the members silently searched around the clubhouse until they all focused on the food table. They sprinted for the edible ammo threw all that they could get their hands on at Amy and Sonic.
They easily dodged them all.
The attack didn't last long, the Lightning Bolts quickly running out of food.
Carol couldn't help but to laugh at the society. They were too terrible to take seriously. "I give them an A for effort!"
Eggman was not impressed. "Really? That's all you could come up with? I'm not gonna say it, but you know what I'm thinking." He leaned forward. "You dolts. "
Dave just gave him a pointed look.
"It's safe to say that Dave's not going to work with Eggman anytime soon..." Tails uttered.
Sonic glanced at the human. "Looks like it's just you and me." Amy loudly cleared her throat, and the speedster stumbled over his words. "I-I mean you plural as in two of you...and me."
"And if you look to the right, you'll see a female hedgehog threatening her nervous mate." Knuckles grinned as he did a poor imitation of a tour guide. "It is a sight to see, folks; both interesting and hilarious."
Amy laughed at that while Sonic wondered if taping the echidna's mouth shut was worth the black eye.
Eggman was running out of patience. "Hey, hey! Are we going to battle or what?"
"Actually, Dr. Eggman sir?" The tree clad member shyly spoke up. "I was wondering if you could autograph my trunk?"
The rest of the club jumped at the same opportunity, waving around their hats for the doctor to sign.
Sonic smirked. "You seem busy, Mr. Popularity. I'll catch you on the flip-flop."
Eggman was pleasantly surprised. His twin wasn't that bad this episode. But then again, he only had a couple minutes of screen time.
There was a jump-cut to Knuckles punching the dangerous flowers while Stick stomped on them. She paused it what she was doing when she saw Amy and Sonic running back, the former with her hammer out.
Knuckles didn't look too happy. "Uh, it rained while you were gone."
Amy blinked, perplexed. "But when did it...they weren't gone for that long!"
"Maybe the luck balance shifted out of their favor for a moment or something," Tails guessed.
Amy sprinted into the fray and knocked the flowers out of the ground with her hammer. Sonic ran circles around the plants to tie them up before spin dashing their 'heads' off.
The heroes were then distracted by Tails' berry machine, it plowing its way through. Tails walked up, controlling the invention as it mowed down the flowers. Once the orchard was cleaned up, the fox held up his remote in victory.
Milla was happy that Tails' twin's hard work wasn't all for naught, and Tails was glad that he hadn't gotten blown up by Sonic for no reason.
Sonic was impressed. "Nice going, Tails!"
"I guess that machine of yours was good for something after all," Sticks admitted, her tone light.
Tails smirked. "And your paranoid ramblings weren't completely detached from reality."
"This one time," Knuckles reminded.
Sticks rolled her eyes good naturally. "Good talk, now get planting!" Tails could only blink at her. "I'd stay and help, but a very nice tree invited me and my pie to a potluck dinner at some lodge." She walked away with a pep in her step.
"No one's gonna stop her? Alright."
"Maybe because they know the society won't hurt her?" Tails replied to Sonic, going out on a limb here.
At Meh Burger, Dave placed a hamburger on the counter in front of him.
Amy threw her hands up in exasperation. "We could've just ended the episode there! This is like a few extra seconds we'll never get back and will always regret losing!"
Knuckles slowly drifted his gaze over to the pinkette. "Are you alright over there, Amy?"
"I'm upset."
"Oops...almost forgot the sesame seeds." His smile was wicked as he pulled out the seed gun and shot mutated seeds on the bun. He darkly laughed as he picked up the burger and took a bite.
"Welp, there's bad news and good news." Sonic began, clasping her hands together. "Bad news is that Dave is clearly crazy and might need to be institutionalized, and good news is that this episode is over! That's another one down!"
Lucy giggled and already pressed the button to the next episode.