The scene began in the middle of a canyon. Sonic and Tails were sitting in the fox's yellow hovercraft. "What's so awesome that you had to bring me all the way out here?" The azure speedster asked his companion.

Milla perked up. "This episode looks promising."

"A Sonic and Tails episode?" Knuckles questioned. "This should be interesting.

"It's a little early to be predicting the plot, Knuckles." Tails said.

Sonic nodded. "Yeah, literally anything could happen in eleven minutes."

"Especially in our twin's weird universe..." Amy began.

"Which is annoying, need I remind you." Eggman grumbled.

The echidna sighs. "I just want to live in the moment where nothing insane is happening."

"It's going to hard with Sticks-"

"Don't ruin my moment, Sonic."

Tails smiled excitedly at him. "Check it out." He looked at the dashboard of his vehicle. "Voice...activated...controls. Start engine." He enunciated the last two words so they would be recognized.

The hovercraft promptly started up and lifted up into the air.

Torque smiled. "That's pretty cool, Tails!"

"Let's just hope things won't go bad."

Spade produced a scoff. "Famous words."

"I meant for, Tails!"

Sonic was impressed. "Huh. Let me try! Give me a chocolate shake," he ordered. A compartment on the dashboard opened, and a mechanical arm held out a vanilla shake. Sonic wasn't impressed anymore as he took it. "Vanilla? I asked for chocolate. Fail."

Carol furrowed her eyebrows. "At least it gave you something."

The mechanical arm reappeared with a cup of chocolate. It poured the liquid all over the hedgehog's head, making the hero gasp.

"If I had a remote I could rewatch everyday." Knuckles grinned at the chocolate-covered speedster.

Surprise flashed on Tails' face until he meekly smiled. "Still working out the kinks..." He pointed in a general direction. "Uh, there's a towel back at the workshop."

Somewhat annoyed, Sonic placed the vanilla shake down and hopped out of the hovercraft before sprinting away. Tails then cried out in pain when a sudden loud noise impinged his ears. He covered them until the vehicle seemed to lose control, flying all over the place.

"What was that?" Lilac asked.

"That was Sonic's power coming from his shoes." Theo answered.

"Sonic's power? Coming from his shoes?"

Lucy nodded. "That's correct."

Sonic tapped his chin. "Wow, I'm fast, but I'm not that fast."

"Don't worry, it will be revealed soon."

Sonic ran through the village, and the loud noise he produced caused the villagers to cover their ears in pain. Sonic paid no attention to them as he sprinted in the direction of Tails' workshop. Once inside, the loud sound stopped when he did.

The azure speedster wiped the chocolate with a towel and rushed back out of the building, the noise echoing once more.

Though it didn't hurt him, Eggman was annoyed by the echoing noise. "Your double's living up to his name, monkey."

Sonic grinned. "Thanks, Eggy."

"That wasn't a compliment."

Shadow signed. "At this rate, he's gonna damage everyone's eardrums. Permanently."

Tails was then shown flying uncontrollably in his hovercraft through a canyon. "Um, voice control? I don't mean to be bossy, but...don't crash!" He tried and failed to gain control, and his eyes grew huge at the giant molten hole coming up. "Uh oh..."

To the kit's luck, his vehicle screeched to a halt right before tipping into the active volcano. Tails sighed out in relief. The peace didn't last long however, because Sonic was running through the canyon again, and the harmful noise reached the poor fox.

Tails gasped in shock, covering his ears, and his vehicle beeped before flying right off the cliff. Sonic's expression morphed into surprise seeing this, and Tails screamed for his life as he plummeted to his doom.

Shadow furrowed his brow, "And the reason you're not bailing out because...?"

Tails shrugged, not finding an answer.

"Maybe he's panicking so much that it's causing him to lose his concentration to scatter?" Milla answered.

"In a state of fear? Make common sense." Torque said

Spade scoffed. "I've been in dangerous situations before and have left unharmed."

Sonic sprinted down the ramp of the hole, circling the falling fox until pushing off the rock and spin dashing the hovercraft. The hit launched the vehicle back onto solid ground, and Sonic landed beside it.

The hedgehog smirked at the kit. "I guess voice-activated rocket thrusters are a bad idea when you're screaming."

Tails took off his seatbelt, throwing the other a flat look. "I wouldn't have been screaming if you weren't making that horrible noise!"

Sonic's brow furrowed in confusion. "What noise? I didn't hear any noise."

Tails tapped his chin. "Wait a minute..." He jumped out of the hovercraft, approaching the speedster. "I bet because you're faster than the speed of sound, you don't hear it."

Torque tilts his head in confusion. "But if he's not faster than sound, then he should still hear it while running at his speed, right?"

"Everything is just slow in that universe?" Eggman stated. "Honestly, it shouldn't be a surprised."

Sonic put a hand on his hip. "I'll prove it wasn't me!" He wagged a finger. "When I start running and nothing happens, you are going to feel so dumb." Sonic began running, and Tails instantly screamed with the sound attacked his eardrums. The hedgehog skid to a halt and crossed his arms. "Now...that's just circumstantial evidence."

"Is it really?"

The scene switched to the workshop. Tails was holding a reflex hammer, and Sonic was sitting on a table.

"Sonic," the kit began. "I'm gonna run a few tests to figure out what's wrong with you." Tails tapped Sonic's knee with the hammer, and a montage started while music played.

Disregarding the upbeat tunes for a moment, Tails didn't know why his twin was handling the situation like this. Though he decided not to question it.

Tails waited for Sonic's leg to react. Then, the kit was standing while Sonic was running circles around him. It wasn't long before Tails was protecting his ears from the pain. Next, Sonic was pedaling on an exercise bike, and even that movement caused the unbearable sound. Sonic was then shown dancing; Tails closed his eyes.

Shadow deadpanned. "I would burn my eyes if I saw that blue idiot dancing."

Knuckles smirked. "I don't blame him."

Sonic gave the echidna a cheeky grin. "What? Are you saying that you're better at breakdancing than me?"

Knuckles remained silent.

Lastly, the fox was using a stethoscope to listen to Sonic's chest. The hedgehog's leg suddenly kicked Tails away. Tails peeled himself off the floor and rubbed his head as the montage ended.

Tails inwardly winced. He'd never been kicked by Sonic before, but those legs could dent metal.

"Sorry, Tails."

"It's okay, Sonic."

Now Tails was standing, rubbing his chin. "I just can't figure out what's wrong with you."

Milla blinked at those words but wasn't too worried. "But we all know that he's going to be the one to figure it out eventually," She had faith in Tails in their twin's dimension.

He frowned in thought. "Until we get to the bottom of this, you better not run."

Sonic flinched as if slapped. He couldn't believe that he was hearing those words. "Does he realize that he's talkin' to a variant of Sonic the hedgehog? Sheesh, you might as well tell him to not eat chili dogs or breathe while he's at it."

"I vote for the second one."

"Nobody asked you, Eggfish."

Sonic nodded. "Alright, no problem." He sprinted out of the workshop, making Tails cry out.

Sonic reappeared in the doorway, looking apologetic. "Sorry, old habit," he said before slamming the door.

Later on in the day, Sonic's shack was shown, and the blue hedgehog was walking toward Tails, Knuckles, Amy, and Sticks positioned around a volleyball net.

Amy eyed him and frowned. "Sonic, you were supposed to bring the volleyball!"

"Oh, sorry," Sonic apologized. "I'll just zip home and get it!" He positioned himself to take off, and his friends covered their ears to brace for the pain. Sonic relaxed his stance. "And by zip, I mean walk slowly and deliberately."

Sonic took his time in walking away. With each heavy step, Sonic seemed to sweat and grow more bored. A map appeared on the screen, showing the long and exhausting trek Sonic had to complete to retrieve the ball.

"Ugh, this is what average people do?" Sonic complained, stifling a yawn. "This is nuts!"

Lilac gave a blank look at the blue blur. "...Really??"

Sonic shrugged. "What?! You don't know what it's like to walk without running with the wind!"

"Running with the wind??"

"Yes! Don't you understand?!"

"...Yes?"

Sonic blinked. "Wait, what?"

"I'm a speedster too."

Amy glanced at the water dragon. "You are?"

She nodded.

"Wow that's amazing! What's your specialty?!"

"You mean... my powers?"

"Yes!"

"Oh well, I'm super fast, skilled in hand-to-hand combat, very acrobatic, can roll myself into a ball going super fast, break down walls, and yeah, there's a lot of things I can do similar to Sonic.

Everyone (minus Eggman, Spade, Neera, and Gong) gave Lilac and impressive look. Amy was the first to speak. "That's so amazing. It's like you're an alternate version of my Soniku!"

Lilac scratched her head. "Uh, yeah, sort of."

Sonic then looked at the others. "What about you guys?"

Tails joined in. "Yeah. What can you guys do?"

Milla smiled. "Well, I'm more a genius than a fighter, but I'll do anything to protect my friends."

Tails gave her a big smile. "That's really cool, Milla. You're just like me!"

Milla blushed. "I-I am?"

Carol smirked, and pointed at her and Cory. "Me and my sister are more of the muscles." She points at Knuckles. "Like, knucklehead right here. Isn't that right, sis?"

Cory chuckled. "Yeah, you could say that."

"Seriously?? I name is Knuckles."

Carol snickered. "Nah, Imma stick with knucklehead."

Knuckles groans.

Sonic grinned. "I'm starting to like these guys."

"Of course you would."

Torque laughed nervously. "Well, just like what, Milla, said, I'm really a fighter. I just build things to help my friends."

Tails gave him a reassuring smile. "It's okay. I think you're great, Torque."

"Thanks."

It was Neera and Spade's turn.

"..."

"..."

They refused to say anything.

Sonic smirked. "I can already tell who you guys remind me off."

He points at Shadow.

Shadow growled. "Don't compare them to me me."

Spade scoffed. "Compare yourself to me?" He laughed. "You don't look like much."

"You sure about that?" Shadow got into his stance. "We could go a few rounds."

Spade pulled out his cards. "Game on."

Theo stepped in between the two. "Whoa. Whoa. Whoa! How about we just continue to watch show, alright?"

Shadow hmph. "He's not worth my time."

Spade scoffed. "You just got you butt saved, pal."

Theo breathed in relief.

Sonic finally reached the volleyball. Sonic bent down and picked it up before turning around. In reality, he'd only moved a couple of feet away from his waiting friends.

"Did he have to be that dramatic?" Amy deadpanned. "Walking isn't terrible, Sonic?"

"Yes it is, Ames!"

Sonic began to walk back, but then crab bots appeared on the trees behind the team.

"It was only a matter of time..." Eggman muttered.

Sonic glanced at the doctor. "Hey don't be like that, Eggy. Think about it. Since you know that the plan is going to fail (which always does), you could actually learn from your double's failures than your own."

Eggman could help but agree with the hedgehog. In fact he could actually thank him-

"Though you still won't beat me. So you might as well save your breath."

-thank him by blasting him with his ray gun.

"Guys!" Sonic dropped the ball and pointed. "Robot attack at six o'clock!"

Knuckles was concerned. "I can't do six o'clock. I have tickets to the opera!" He paused. "No wait, that's someone else..."

Knuckles closed his eyes. "Find your happy place. Find your happy place."

"Behind you!" Sonic shouted to clarify.

The robots dropped down and started to attack the heroes, the anthros dodging their attacks. When a crab got too close to Amy, Sonic ran over to her. Amy clenched her teeth, hands over her ears. He immediately stopped when she sent him a glare.

After destroying the crab bot with her hammer, Amy said pointedly, "Sonic, we got this!"

Sonic blinked at her before sitting in a nearby beach chair, dejected.

Sonic felt dejected as well, since he too couldn't do anything as well.

Amy ran away to keep fighting, and now Knuckles was shown trying to throw punches at one of the enemies.

"Way to go, Knux!" Sonic encouraged from where he sat. "A left, then a right, then another left!"

Knuckles looked back at him, confused. "Wait, which one am I on?"

Knuckles exhaled deeply, chanting, "Happy place, happy place, happy place..."

After a few moments, the echidna cleared his throat. "He was distracted in the of a battle thanks to Sonic."

". . .Are you okay, Knuckles?" Silver asked.

"Peachy."

"You sur-"

"Peachy!"

Knuckles proceeded to get punched multiple times in the face by the robot, collapsing to the ground. The echidna rubbed his head. "How come he gets it and I don't?"

"Because you're slow in the head, that's why?" Knuckles thought.

To the side, Sticks was hiding in some bushes from the two bots searching for her.

"Sticks!" Sonic called her. "Your best move here is a spin attack!"

The badger stood up, blowing her cover. "That's your move, not mine!" Multiple crab bots spotted her, and she slumped. "Uh oh..."

Sonic was suddenly embarrassed and guilty.

Tails shook his head. "He's backseat fighting."

In the meantime, Amy destroyed one of the mech with a swing of her hammer. Behind her, another crab bot powered up a laser. The pinkette dodged its blasts, Sonic cheering from the sidelines.

"Yeah! Give them a taste of your secret triple backflip move!" Sonic excitedly advised.

Amy attempted to use said move, but the crab bot plucked her out of the air as she flipped, slamming her to the ground. She was clearly unhappy. "It's not a secret if you tell everyone!"

"Yet, you did it anyway." Cory pointed out.

Again, Sonic looked a bit guilty.

"This ends now!" Sticks yelled with finality.

There was a cut, and now Sonic was tied to a coconut tree, the volleyball net wrapped around him.

"She's earned my respect," Shadow said.

"Shads, we're friends, not mortal enemies."

"The only time I view you as an enemy, most of the time, is when you drive your friends into danger."

"Name one time."

"The Sinister Six."

"Tails didn't warn me in time."

Tails furrowed his eyebrows. "I tried to warn you but you didn't listen, Sonic!"

"Which is exactly why this rodent is a pain in my rear." Eggman retorted.

Sonic frowned at the human. "You used a machine to take away the world's life energy! It was your fault to begin with!"

"In case you haven't noticed, I'm an evil genius."

"Hey!" he complained. "I thought you were talking about them!" Attacks were heard going off, and Sonic deadpanned. "Oh sure, act like you can do this without-" Amy crushed a crab bot with her weapon. Sonic sighed. "...me."

Sonic scoffed. "Of course they can! They're just regular old crab bots!" He snickered. "I like the other me, but man, check out that guy's ego!"

Everyone – even Tails, Amy and Cream – gave the blue hero an unimpressed look.

The team of heroes – except Sonic – were cheering in the middle of destroyed robots.

"Looks like someone else is sitting on the sidelines." Sonic whipped his head to the side at the new voice, finding Eggman sitting on a beach chair.

Vector furrowed his brow. "They seriously didn't notice him sitting there? He's kinda hard to miss."

"Eggman!" Sonic tried to break free, but the other's words sunk in. "Wait. What do you mean 'someone else'?"

"I didn't send out these crab bots." The doctor sat all the way up, expression gloomy. "Orbot and Cubot were dusting and accidentally hit a button in the lair."

"But...technically he did." Torque stated. "He built Orbot and Cubot, so he indirectly sent the other robots."

"Not to agree with my double-" Because that was the last thing Eggman wanted to do. "-but you're basically saying that if a child robbed a bank, then their mother is at fault because she birthed them."

Tails opened and closed his mouth a few times before speaking. "I get what you're saying."

Sonic eyed him. "So...you weren't behind this?"

Eggman pulled his chair closer to the bound hedgehog. "Looks like you don't need to be a genius to be an evil genius anymore."

He laid down with a sigh. "Makes me feel kinda unneeded." Eggman pulled out a box of popcorn and began eating.

"It doesn't matter if you defeat Sonic on purpose or by accident. It's just a defeat." Amy said.

"It does matter." Eggman grunted.

Sonic exhaled harshly. "I guess we have something in common..."

"You eat popcorn when you're depressed too?" Eggman asked as he chewed.

"Uh, no..." Sonic glanced over to his friends. Sticks was taking a picture of Amy, Knuckles, and Tails standing victorious in front of the downed bots.

"Okay, now they're just rubbin' it in," Sonic huffed.

Amy puffed her cheeks. "Yeah! I would never do that to you, Soniku!"

Sonic refocused on the human. "You know, the whole sitting on the sidelines thing?"

Eggman held up his snack. "Here, have some popcorn. You'll feel better."

Sonic wiggled in the net but couldn't get free. Instead, he opened his mouth; Eggman tossed some popcorn into it.

Sonic liked popcorn but accepting it from his arch-nemesis was pushing it a bit too far. "Are they suddenly buddies now?"

"No," Shadow said, remembering a cow and marshmallows. "Remember Cowbot?"

"Yeah, but that was more of Eggman desperately trying and failing to connect than my twin actually being friends with him!" Sonic guessed that being rendered immobile was lower than being fed popcorn by a evil doctor...to his double. "Egghead, don't ever do what he's doin'."

Eggman glared at him. "If I were to share food with you, rodent, I would poison it."

"Which is my I won't accept it."

"Okay," Eggman gestured to himself. "The doctor is in. Talk to me. Just because I'm your sworn enemy doesn't mean we can't be friends."

Milla blinked. "So they're like. . .frenemies?"

"NO!" Sonic and Eggman shouted in unison.

Sonic stared blankly at him until Sticks walked up. "Sonic! Eggman's not your friend. If you listen to him, you're gonna end up tied to something!"

"Yeah, I wouldn't want that to happen." His sarcasm was palpable.

"I wonder if Sticks knows what she's saying sometimes..." Amy mused.

Neera scoffed. "She knows exactly what she's saying. She hasn't said anything annoying yet, but by god does she stress me out."

Tails approached him as well. "I don't think this is a good idea, Sonic."

Sonic glanced at the kit. "Well, you couldn't help me. I'm kinda out of options here!" He sighed and faced Eggman. "Whenever I run, there's...this weird noise."

"He's relying on Eggman now?" Sonic knew this situation could led to desperation, but when has asking Eggy for help ever went well? "What has the world come to?"

"Especially considering that there's an eighty percent chance that Eggman is behind this." Espio needed to know what went through their twins' minds when they made decisions.

Charmy cocked his head at the chameleon. "What's the other twenty percent?"

"Something impossible involving past meteor showers, the luck balance of the universe, and those Gogobas."

"Oh."

The doctor stroked his chin. "You know, that happens to Cubot when he gets into the motor oil. Let's go run some tests." He stood up and boarded his own hovercraft. He motioned for Sonic to follow him, but the speedster couldn't separate himself from the tree no matter how hard he tried.

In response to this, Eggman pressed a button on his wrist, shooting out lasers that vaporized the bottom and top half of the tree. Sonic was still tied to the middle section of it. The hero crew looked on in worry as Sonic hopped along to follow Eggman.

"You could've stopped him!" Amy pulled on her quills. "I agree with Sonic! What is the world coming to?!"

"He could've just broken out of those net." Tails said. "What are they made of anyway?"

Within Eggman's evil lair, Sonic was running circles around the doctor who had on earmuffs. There was a device in his hand, measuring as Sonic emitted the loud noise.

"I see..." Eggman eventually mumbled, and Sonic skidded to a stop beside him. "A classic case of velocity-to-energy ratio incompatibly."

Eggman was right in assuming that his twin had something to do with this, because now the other was just spouting out nonsense. Nonsense too intelligent sounding to cause suspicion.

"Tails, is that a real science thing?" Sonic asked the kit.

Tails shook his head. "No."

Milla sighed. "If only the other Tails was there to tell him that."

Sonic frowned. "Well, why is it happening now? "

The doctor took off his ear muffs. "It comes with age." He gestured to himself. "Like wisdom...or nose hair."

"It's at that point where I would've cut and run, not caring about bursting eardrums along the way," Sonic commented.

"But not to worry." Eggman walked over to a compartment in a wall. "I have what you need right here."

Amy tapped her shoe on the ground. "And it's real convenient that Eggman somehow has the solution to the problem."

Eggman locked the small door with a key to reveal a pair of brightly colored shoes. "These shoes have power-absorbent insoles," he explained as Sonic walked up to the shoes and grabbed one of them. "They'll prevent the sound loop that's causing the noise. And best of all: they're machine washable."

Eggman had been interested until the last sentence.

Sonic smelled the inside of the shoe and gave it a suspicious look. "Well, how do I know this isn't another scheme of yours?"

Shadow facepalmed. "Have you forgotten the last episode, you blue idiot?"

"What, you think I'm planning a secret blister attack?" Eggman asked incredulously. "If you don't want my help, you can always walk out of here." He snatched the shoe back.

Eggman rose a brow at that. The other threatened Sonic with walking? That was basically hook, line, and sinker. Anger then bubbled within the doctor. His twin had it easy in getting the rodents to fall for every one of his tricks, but it was a shame because the plans were always wasted.

Sonic pondered his situation for a moment, and then he was shown wearing the shoes. He shifted his weight around in them. "Okay...here goes nothing." Sonic sprinted around the lair before slowing down with a relieved smile. "Hey, there really was nothing! The noise is gone!" He jogged over to the human. "Thanks, Egghead!"

"Don't mention it..." Eggman smirked as Sonic ran off. "...buddy."

"Nevermind the ominous-but-not-really comment from Eggman." Amy scrunched her nose up at the clash of colors that was Sonic's appearance. "Those shoes are an eye sore! His red shoes were perfect, but the yellow is just hard on the eyes!"

Sonic perked up at that. A change in wardrobe might be in his near future. "Enough to keep you from chasing after m – I mean, looking at him?"

"I'm in love with your personality, Sonic. Your appearance is just a bonus!"

Sonic really didn't know how to respond to that.

Knuckles huffed in amusement. "You two need to get a room to work things out."

Sonic knew exactly how to respond to that.

"How about you save that room for you and Rouge instead, huh Knux?"

Rouge smiled. "I agree."

"What?! I don't – What are you-"

"Yep. You're completely coherent right now."

Knuckles fought to regain his composure. "Sonic, you are the worst sometimes, I hope you know that."

Sonic smiled cheekily at him. "I learned from the best, Knucklehead!"

Back at the beach, Amy, Knuckles, Tails, and Sticks were playing the volleyball until Sonic suddenly showed up. He played volleyball by himself while everyone else moved in slow motion.

"Yeah!" he shouted as he landed by a surprised Amy, catching the ball. Sonic spun the ball on his finger. "Sonic's back, baby!"

Amy put her hands on her hips. "Don't refer to yourself in the third person. It's creepy."

Knuckles nodded. "Yeah, Knuckles hates that."

Knuckles was fighting the hate for all of this twin's thought processes.

Tails held up a finger, smiling. "Wait, no noise! I guess Eggman figured it out."

"Yeah!" Sonic pointed at his new shoes. "Power-absorbent insoles!" He ran a bit around the group. "Eggman actually helped me!" A tremor then unexpectedly shook the ground, and the source of the shaking was a giant robot smacking down trees to get to the heroes. Sonic's happiness drained out of him. "Or...it was part of a trap."

Spade rolled his eyes. "What makes you think that?"

Sonic rushed the huge robot, and static sparked all around the mech. The speedster spin dashed the enemy, but the bot blocked him with an arm shield. It then attempted to shoot Sonic with eye lasers; Sonic managed to dodge all of them, being pushed back to where his friends were.

"So...no team attacks?" Blaze questioned. "They're just going to stand there while Sonic does all the work?"

"Maybe they're...uh..." Silver gave up. "I can't think of any excuses."

Eggman floated above in his hovercraft. "Sonic, I'd like you to meet Giant Robot. I didn't have time to name him because I was too busy planning this trap."

"At least name it something egg related!" Eggman puffed out air.

"Aw, Eggy! You care about your pet robots?" Sonic mockingly cooed. "That's adorable."

"Do you want me to destroy every chili dog stand in existence, cactus?"

All playfulness left Sonic's face.

"Sonic gritted his teeth and charged the robot again. However, the more he ran, the more Giant Robot glowed red. The bot blocked Sonic's attack again and struck a victory pose.

"My turn," Eggman announced just as the robot punched Sonic square on. The hedgehog was launched back until he was caught by Knuckles. Back on his feet, Sonic was joined by Amy as he attacked once more. Though, it didn't seem like the mech was affected.

Carol shook her head. "Yeah, let those two fight by themselves while the guy with the super strength stands on the side-lines and watches."

"He'll join in eventually!" Amy chirped.

"By then, there wouldn't even be a point because the robot would be too powered up!" Knuckles grumbled. "And they still haven't figured that out yet, by the way."

Tails held up a device and scanned the mech. His brow furrowed. "It doesn't have a power source...how is that even possible?!"

Eggman laughed as Sonic ran about his robot, dodging laser. "That's right, Sonic. Run. Run!"

Eggman resisted the urge to face-palm. Sure, he was guilty of giving away his plans, but couldn't his twin be a little less obvious? He needed to learn the concept of inside voices.

Tails pondered Eggman's behavior before focusing on Sonic. The hedgehog circled the bot, and the kit's attention was brought to the new shoes that were subtly lighting up.

Realization sunk in. "Sonic!" Tails raised his hands. "Stop!" Sonic listened to him, glancing back at the kit. "Your shoes are powering the robot! The faster you move, the stronger it gets!" Sonic was dumbfounded, gazing down at his shoes.

"And Tails saves the day again!" Milla cheered.

"And he moves up on my favorite character list even though he was already first," Knuckles uttered, slowly clapping.

"Ooo, sneaky," Eggman snickered. "I wish I had thought of that. Oh wait, I did."

"Oh, well that's easy to fix," Sonic told Tails before sinking to the ground and pulling at his shoes. However, they stayed glued to his feet.

Tails hummed to himself. "Well, that's a twist..."

"He can never take off his shoes?" Lilac asked.

Amy grimaced in disgust. "His feet would be rancid within a week!"

Knuckles stared at her. "There's a violent robot that is steady growing more powerful, and you're worrying about the condition of Sonic's feet."

"Aren't you?"

". . .You know on second thought, you're right."

Eggman raised a finger. "Oh, did I forget to mention? They don't come off!"

Sonic glared up at him. "We'll see about that, Eggy. " He went up to the nearest coconut tree and kicked it. A coconut plummeted down and smacked into his forehead. "Ow!" he hissed, staring at the projectile and then the camera. "...I'm not saying it will be easy..."

Amy, Tails, Knuckles, and Sticks were all busy fighting the huge robot.

"They decide to attack after the robot absorbed all of that power?" Shadow needed to know that his double wasn't anything like the ones on the screen. For the sake of his sanity.

Their attacks did nothing, and all they could do was dodge. Sticks had thrown her boomerang but was harmlessly deflected.

She caught her weapon and asked, "If Sonic's not running, why does the robot still have power?"

"Because the shoes store the energy he generates!" Eggman enthusiastically answered. "You see-"

"Are we really gonna do the thing where you explain how you did it?" Amy questioned, annoyed.

Vector scoffed. "She's wastin' her breath. He's gonna do it anyway."

Eggman muttered inaudibly to himself about taking pride in one's work.

Eggman went on like she hadn't spoken. "The hardest part was getting that sound to play whenever Sonic ran." He dug in the space of the hovercraft and pulled out a holoprojector. "I have actually prepared a brief presentation that explains the whole brilliant scheme."

The device hovered away and began to project a hologram, but Amy smashed it before it could finish its job.

The whole room clapped.

Eggman angrily floated down to her, clenching a fist. "Do you know how long it took me to create that presentation? Here, I've prepared a brief presentation that explains it step-by-step."

"Just stop talking!" Eggman groused, pulling his mustache.

Sonic kept spin attacking the robot, and the bot blocked him without fail.

"If you could only see yourself right now," Eggman boasted, smirking. "I took your greatest strength and made it into a weakness!"

Determined, Sonic went in for another attack only to be deflected. Upon landing on the sand, the speedster glanced down sadly at his feet while Eggman laughed. However, the sadness didn't last long. Sonic grinned to himself and started to run around Giant Robot, going faster and faster.

Tails gasped, leaning forward in his chair. "That's it! He's going to overload the robot!"

Knuckles was somewhat impressed. "Alright, he's redeeming himself now."

"Sonic, this is crazy!" Sticks yelled in alarm.

"No it isn't," Knuckles opposed. "It's stupid!"

Knuckles' mood plummeted. Having his double and Sticks speak separately was one thing, but together... "Happy place. Stay in your happy place."

Sticks turned on him. "Crazy!"

"Stupid!"

"Crazy!"

"Stupid!"

Knuckles made a strangled noise in the back of his throat; Tails patted him encouragingly on his back.

As the echidna and badger argued, Sonic amped up his speed, causing the robot to glow more intensely. Also, its limbs began to twitch prominently.

"Crazy!"

"Stupid!"

"No..." Tails shook his head and smiled. "It's brilliant!"

"Please tell me they're done..."

Tails nodded at the suffering echidna. "Looks like it! My double had another realization, so there's no point in arguing-" If that was even a valid argument. "-anymore!"

Sonic's speed steadily increased, and the robot seemingly couldn't handle all of the power pumped into it.

Eggman was fiddling with the device on his wrist. "Hey, wait. That's too much! Seriously! Slow down! It's overloading!"

Sonic chortled. "Telling a Sonic to slow down? Ha! What a funny joke!" He wiped away an imaginary tear. "What is he gonna say next? Ask the wind to not blow? Ask the sun to not shine? Tell the moon to be gone."

Tails pursed his lips in thought. "Well, he didn't completely vanquish the moon, though he almost did.."

"Yeah, but you catch my point."

Sonic did the complete opposite. He accelerated exponentially, causing Giant Robot's head to explode. The pieces rained down while the body went limp, falling to the ground.

Sonic stopped in front of the downed mech, his smirk wide. "Ah, now that we're done warming up, Sonic's gonna go for a run." He sprinted between the heroes and Eggman before disappearing into the trees.

"...Do you guys think it's creepy when he refers to himself in the third person?" Eggman asked the anthros.

"Yeah," they all chorused.

Tails didn't quite agree. "It's not creepy. It's more...abnormal."

Sonic rose a brow. "Abnormal? Sonic thinks it's pretty hilarious."

The kit grinned at him. "Really? Well, Tails believes-"

"And no more of that. Please and thank you." Eggman cut them off before it got out of hand.

"Aw man, but Amy wants to join in-"

"Stop," Shadow demanded, and Amy puffed out her cheeks in irritation.

Lucy giggled. "Alright everyone, Lucy is starting the next episode."

Half of the audience laugh at that, while the rest groaned in annoyance

Lucy pressed the button to the next episode.